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pub notes On Exhibit Mercury Art Works at Hotel Indigo blasted open last Friday evening with a reception for its new exhibit, “Terre Verte.”

Mercury owners Sandi Turner and Chris Wyrick blended art, trapeze, dance, video and music with tasty hors d’oeuvres and wine to attract a mob of scenesters, artists, actors, musicians, mayors, publicists, professors, babies, journalists, lawyers, administrators, commissioners and roofers.

The crowd was naturally enhanced by the number of people exhibiting and by the fact that they are well known, established local artists. The show is a sampler, granting a taste— in some cases just one—of work by a wide variety of local artists: John Ahee, Rinne Allen, Matt Alston, Scott Belville, Chris Bilheimer, John Cleaveland, Mary Engel, Tate Foley, Bob Fernandez, Wendy Hanson, Kristy Knight, Carl Martin, Richard Olsen, Dianne Penny, Margie Spalding, Michael Stipe and Chris Wyrick.

We got there early enough to enjoy a bit of the rapidly consumed food and drink and for a leisurely inspection of the paintings in the wood-trimmed gallery on the College Avenue side of the hotel lobby. As the crowd grew and the noise level rose, exploration became more difficult, and I never did see Rinne Allen’s photographs or find out what Michael Stipe had in the show. All the more reason to go back to the gallery and see it during The spiffy daylight hours when the big windows surroundings provide lots of natural light.

As the Athens hoopdance troupe made us all performed in the hallway and Chris look a bit Cogan’s video played in a side room, audience came in from the Canopy more polished the trapeze performance on the (heated) than usual… outdoor patio,and the hotel lobby filled with art patrons of all stripes clustered around the bar. Anyone checking into the hotel must surely have concluded that a convention of alternative clothing designers was in progress. By this point the hubbub was overwhelming, and several latecomers decided that it was more than they could handle and turned back toward their cars.

The evening was a great success for Mercury and let us hope it will prove to be for the artists, too. Prices I checked ranged from $35,000 for Oley Olsen’s giant and stunning abstract canvas to Margie Spalding’s characteristically lowball $300 each for two little glowing still-life jewels.

The opening has to be considered a triumph, too, for the Hotel Indigo’s efforts to identify itself with its new hometown. A lot of us were seeing the digs for the first time, and although all that most of us saw was the lobby, it is finished out, like the gallery, in warm blond wood that projects an upscale but comfortable welcome. With Mercury and other aspects like the music listening room, Hotel Indigo is off to a good start in making its Athens location say Athens. Of course, it says Atlanta, too, and it was interesting to observe our local crowd in that milieu. The spiffy surroundings made us all look a bit more polished than usual, and we added a funky element that humanized the ultra cool environment. I guess that’s the point.

Hotel Indigo ups the ante on chic decor, raising the bets put down by venues like Ciné, Trappeze and The Melting Point that Athens can adapt to new scenes while still revering oldshoe favorites like the Manhattan, the 40 Watt and the Globe.

In this context it will be even more interesting to see what the new/old Georgia Theatre comes up with for its reconstruction.

Indications are that owner Wilmot Greene will shoot for a new music hall in an old shell, but the success of these newer venues could convince him that Athens arbiters of acceptability are enjoying playing dress-up.

Does the evolution represented by these new spaces mean that we are past the day when any old building can be turned into a bar by slapping on a coat of paint and changing the lock on the door? Too soon to say, but the crowd at Mercury demonstrates that the Athenians who can keep their cool while lounging on a lumpy sofa at the 40 Watt are plenty sophisticated enough to show up well against a blond wood background. The essence of business success is to give the people what they want. Our Athenians are so eclectic in their tastes that they can accommodate the new without abandoning the old. Atlanta can come to Athens, but it has to adapt.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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Maybe if they make the Georgia Theatre bigger, the new downtown parking deck won’t look so huge?

William Orten Carlton = ORT . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 A Return to Writing for Our Special Correspondent And an exhilarating exploration of words!

Arts & Events Big City, Small Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Artist Dana Jo Cooley Shows Her Books in Brooklyn There’s more to her work than designing bus stops.

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After the tragic loss of bandmate and friend Randy Bewley, Supercluster regroups and pushes forward in his memory.

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that from 1998–2005, 1000 people became sick from unpasteurized milk, and two died.

Again, this is at odds with what the CDC’s Rachel West’s letter “Raw Over Raw Milk” website reports. The CDC data for 1998–1999 [Oct. 14], criticizing Annie Kelley’s Comment does not distinguish between raw and pasteur“Why Not Raw Milk?” [Sept. 30], is a fine ized milk. Starting in 2005, the CDC reports example of misinformation through “statis781 cases for 2000–2005 (so 1000 cases tics.” The statistics West provides about the for 1998–2005 seems reasonable), with no dangers of raw milk are essentially worthless, deaths. In fact, the only deaths from the conbecause she neither offers sources nor gives sumption of milk the CDC reports occurred in the comparable statistics for pasteurized milk.

2007: three people died from consuming pasMoreover, they are almost certainly wrong. teurized (not raw!) milk (http://www.cdc.gov/ For example, she foodborneoutbreaks/ claims that California outbreak_data.htm). experienced 200 In fact, the availBUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: cases of salmonella, able evidence, from E. coli, and listthe CDC as well as eria illnesses, all other sources, is attributed to the quite clear on three Thanks, Neal. Send your sticker sightings to consumption of raw points: 1) consumletters@flagpole.com or call 706-549-9523. milk, in the period ing raw milk is more 1993–1997. In fact, dangerous (in terms for that period the of the risk of conCenters for Disease Control (CDC) reports a tracting a food-borne illness) than consuming total for the entire United States of 207 cases pasteurized milk; 2) consuming pasteurized of illness brought on by the consumption of milk is not completely safe either; and 3) milk (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwR/preview/ these dangers are small: overall, dairy (raw or mmwrhtml/ss4901a1.htm). Since the vast pasteurized) carries far fewer health risks than majority of milk consumed in the United some other food products readily available to States is pasteurized, it is reasonable to the U.S. consumer (hamburgers, for example, assume that a large number of these cases are are far worse). actually due to the consumption of pasteurI have no axe to grind in this debate, ized, not raw milk. And it appears implausible apart from my distaste for West’s resorting to that 200 of those 207 cases would have unverifiable and faulty data in an attempt to occurred in California. make her case. Personally, I’m quite happy to Ms. West’s other piece of “evidence” is sim- consume pasteurized milk, and the only times ilarly unreliable. She claims the CDC reported I’ve ever had raw milk were when I visited

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MORE MILK Thanks for enlightening me to the health risks and dangers of drinking milk, Rachel [“Raw Over Raw Milk,” Letters, Oct. 14]. I’ll be skipping the dairy aisle from now on. Here’s a tip: Soy milk, rice milk. Safe to drink in its natural state, no caged cows hooked up to machines, no “safe [withholding] period” from antibiotics required (yikes!), drink it raw, drink it natural, safe and yummy.

Cows belong in the pasture. The choice is clear—soy milk: safe, natural, cruelty-free, healthy, no antibiotics, no hormones; just yummy, healthy, better-for-you!

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TRANSPO INPUT The comment period is currently open [through Oct. 21 —Ed.] for the draft Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), developed by MACORTS. While the MACORTS boundary includes all of Athens-Clarke County and parts of Oconee and Madison counties, neither Watkinsville nor any other municipal governments in the area are represented on either the Policy or the Technical Coordinating committees—bodies responsible

for recommendations and decisions regarding transportation projects such as those included in the long-range transportation plan and draft TIP. It’s no secret that a city like Watkinsville might have a differing opinion about what should be done with transportation funding, as the recent Simonton Bridge Road widening controversy has demonstrated.

And unlike many other Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) across the country, MACORTS has not established a Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee or a Citizens Advisory Committee to obtain the user’s point of view about how the nonmotorized transportation system operates within the MACORTS boundary. Such a committee could suggest low-cost projects such as bike lane transitions at intersections or Safe Routes to School improvements, and also provide regular feedback on how newly-implemented projects are working or not working for the community.

We at BikeAthens are asking that more municipal and citizen input be integrated into the process of selecting projects for the long-range transportation plan and the TIP. It is our belief that the people utilizing sidewalks, multi-use paths and bike lanes should be included in these discussions, as should local officials and retailers in districts whose community and businesses will be affected by infrastructure enhancements or additions. If you support these statements, we encourage you to visit www.bikeathens.com to complete a comment form that will be submitted to MACORTS. BikeAthens Board Athens

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Athens News and Views Look Out Below: The effects of a flagging economy will continue to be felt in Athens-Clarke County during the coming year, a fact that was driven home with unwelcome clarity by ACC Manager Alan Reddish during his SPLOST budget presentation at the mayor and commission’s Oct. 13 work session.

Analysis of projected revenues and expenditures reveals a budget shortfall of $1.4 million in the general fund for fiscal year 2011; this already accounts for a second straight year without pay increases for county employees. With fees and other revenue streams pretty much maxed out, this means one very unpleasant thing, according to both Commissioners David Lynn and Kelly Girtz: reductions in services and personnel. And as difficult as $1.4 million will be to trim from the budget, the wider fiscal picture is further complicated by a million-dollar increase in estimated SPLOST 2005 project costs. [Dave Marr] And Another Heads-Up: Though he won’t offer his office’s recommendations for budget cuts until November, Reddish gave some indication of where the mayor and commission might want to look by pointing out that SPLOST projects that are budgeted but not yet underway are both easier to shelve and offer greater opportunities for savings than projects that need merely to be expanded or sustained. Which brings us to the

showed up at Athens Locally Grown’s weekly food pick-up and impounded a hundred gallons of raw milk from South Carolina.

Locally Grown’s Eric Wagoner has been transporting his members’ unpasteurized milk orders from Carolina-certified producers for years, he says, and thought he was fully within the law.

Needless to say, the state of Georgia appears to disagree. A flash point in the much bigger national discussion of raw milk’s safety, this story was still developing at press time. Flagpole will plan to follow up. [BE] Morris Soldiers On: In a way, City Dope’s tracking of the financial maneuvers of the Athens Banner-Herald’s debt-laden parent company, Augusta-based Morris Publishing Group—just got a lot easier. Why? See www.morrisrestructures.com, a new website that’s more or less as to-the-point as its URL implies.

“More or less,” that is, because there’s a seat at the Flagpole Financial News Analysis Desk (free coffee, occasional donuts) for anyone who can decipher the accountant-speak describing the company’s status. On the other hand, the site’s relatively forthright letter to Morris “stakeholders” from Billy Morris and son Will reads like a microcosmic tale of the American newspaper industry circa 2009, replete with the words “bankruptcy court” (there they are, at last), a wistful glance cast back at

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Do you see ramps? big, juicy plum dangling from that low-hanging branch: a certain proposed tennis center that may have been in the news lately. While Girtz is hesitant to label it a foregone conclusion that the controversial project will be the first to go when the axe falls, Lynn, who has supported the center, is now ready to concede that it “may never be built.” While he still holds that it could be a valuable asset to the community, and far less intrusive than has been argued, Lynn speculates that the tennis center, largely dormant as an issue for years but loudly awakened of late, “may have died a quiet little death.” That’s probably an overly rueful assessment on Lynn’s part—projects mandated by SPLOST referenda are very unlikely to be killed outright by budget tightening—but it seems we may be debating this one for some time to come. [DM] If You Build It: What are the odds that the downtown merchants who for years have chased a new city parking deck are going to have some buyer’s remorse when this Grand Central of the South is finally built? That was another question that came floating out of this month’s mayor and commission work session, where trepidation on several key points seemed still to linger in the air. Signing over the “air rights” to the private partner on the project? If the consultants say so. Jacking up parking prices—both inside the deck and out—within a year or two from now? Whatever it takes to make the deck “work,” in Mayor Davison’s words. The sheer size of the structure?

Depends how much you trust the architects’ drawings. Lastly, in the curt words of the aforementioned David Lynn: “I see ramps… I wasn’t supposed to see ramps.” Not from street level, the project architects say. The perspective shown here is from, say, a few floors up across the street. With commission approval soon, construction on the mixed-use, 575-space parking deck may begin next year. [Ben Emanuel]

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Bootleg Bust: Athens’ locavore community was set on edge late last week when Georgia Department of Agriculture officials

the roaring ’90s and more. And “the bottom line,” according to the Morrises, is that their most recent debt restructuring moves—which involve a billboard-business sale and also, one can only assume, Morris’s creditors eating some pretty heavy losses—“will free up cash flow and allow us to invest in the long-term health of our newspaper business.” Here’s hoping that means good things some day for “stakeholders” like the company’s employees here in Athens. [BE] One Small Step for Transparency: As decided recently, meeting agendas are now online for ACC Mayor and Commission work sessions and meetings of the commission’s standing Government Operations Committee and Legislative Review Committee. It might seem minor, but anyone who’s closely followed any issue at City Hall knows that this move is a big improvement in opening up the workings of our local government. Thumbs up, gang. [BE] Eating Around Town: If on Wednesday, Oct. 14 you found yourself at UGA’s “Dawgtoberfest” health fair—mostly a collection of tables bearing trifolds dedicated to various health issues— you may have been lucky enough to have your blood pressure taken by a machine resting adjacent to a plate of fried chicken.

“We were thinking of having healthy foods, but free Chickfil-A just pulls people in,” said a student staffer at the event.

Upon this writer’s arrival, the chicken nugget supply had been ravaged and several students could be seen hovering at a notso-inconspicuous distance from the desolate platters, waiting for promised reinforcements. In the meantime, those with a sweet tooth whetted their appetites with the various candies downstairs, placed in a bowl not far from similarly-flavored lubricants and condoms. Another pleasure for the free-foodie included the animal crackers by the HPV table, just around the bend from the 75-cent cupcakes near the stairwell. [Jeff Gore] Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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city pages Trash Talk Ramps Up at City Hall A new countywide fee on plastic shopping bags was among the waste reduction strategies discussed at the ACC Mayor and Commission’s monthly work session on Oct. 13. After several months of frequent meetings with a large, widely-composed citizens’ committee on solid waste issues, commissioners Doug Lowry and Kelly Girtz presented that group’s recommendations to their City Hall colleagues.

The plastic bag fee idea mirrored the wider suite of recommendations in that it hinges on “intensive” PR and education efforts, in Girtz’s words. “Obviously, it’s a big step,” he said. The 10-cent fee per bag would be split between retail stores and the county. The state of Georgia might try to block such a fee, Girtz said: “It’s not an area where we want to tread flagrantly into the surf… but it’s an area the committee endorsed.”

Other ideas won’t go down easily, either.

The committee recommends that small businesses and offices be mandated to have on-site recycling. “Now, we know that can’t happen overnight,” Girtz said, “we know that every business operates differently.” So, the county will offer them assistance. And building a county composting facility—taking commercial kitchen scraps and perhaps eventually enabling residents to set three bins (trash, recycling and compost) at curbside—could be complicated by the requirements of state environmental regulators.

But the committee sees much room for improvement in increasing recycling in the county’s multi-family housing. “It’s really, in our minds, some low-hanging fruit that we have not invested energy in,” Girtz said. They propose that new construction include recycling facilities, and that these be phased into older complexes and buildings too. Meanwhile, “single-stream” recycling—with no sorting by residents—may be a winner, too. Simpler for residents and haulers both, the ever-morepopular strategy increases “contamination” of recyclables, but, Girtz said, the committee’s consensus was that “we’d do a better job capturing more material with single-streaming.”

Significantly, the committee recommends asking private haulers to provide uniform information to customers on size options for their curbside trash cans, and setting uniform rate increases by ordinance. Commissioner David Lynn called the dynamics of this pay-asyou-throw system “the heart of the matter,” referencing the “roadblock” that commissioners hit last year when they broached the topic of exclusive franchising for the county’s contracts with private haulers operating in the General Services District (outside the former Athens city limits). Couldn’t all this be achieved by exclusive franchising, Lynn asked?

Although the county “could swing a sledgehammer” at the residential side of things through exclusive franchising, Girtz argued, that would only address a small part of the county’s overall “waste stream” anyway. But Mayor Davison was disappointed to see no report on exclusive franchising too, and when it came to discussion of next steps, the meeting became somewhat diffuse. Commissioners will now compare the recommendations to another document that came before them during last year’s brief franchising debate; that

will happen alongside a comprehensive staff evaluation of the recommendations. Then commissioners will attempt to prioritize the various strategies.

A PowerPoint slide near the end of Girtz and Lowry’s presentation read: “The need exists to clearly detail the economic and environmental costs of the landfill.” Girtz reminded his colleagues that they’d spent $600,000 recently for acreage on which to expand the dump. “That’s property that, if we had behaved differently 40 years ago, we would not have had to purchase,” he said.

“What we want is for people 40 years from now not to have to make that kind of choice.”

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Trying to get different local governments to work together may be like herding cats, but Clarke and Oconee counties are moving toward a coordinated effort to bring more jobs to the area. Efforts to recruit new industry and retail have been “fragmented,” said a task force report last year by local businesspeople; the area “is missing out on hundreds if not thousands of private-sector jobs per year,” said the group (which also included representatives from UGA and Athens Tech).

Such a regional effort should be led by the private sector, the report said—perhaps by the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce—and funded by both private businesses and local governments. But so far, it seems to be the governments that are taking the initiative.

ACC commissioners voted in May to commit $150,000 a year to a joint effort, and last week, Oconee County commissioners discussed joining it. But there were concerns. What if all the new jobs (and the taxes from new industries) go to Clarke County instead of to Oconee? “I don’t want to be a part of something where the jobs are in another location, and all we get are the homebuyers who are coming out here for the school system,” said Commissioner Chuck Horton. Oconee commissioners fear having to raise taxes if they don’t bring in more retail or industries, which require fewer services than homeowners do.

But retail jobs don’t pay much, Commissioner John Daniell said. “You’re getting the low-end [jobs] to the point that it’s bringing down the wages for the whole area.”

And besides, Daniell pointed out, Oconee has no industrially-zoned land, aside from two county-owned tracts. “What can we market?” he asked. “A lot of folks don’t want to have an industrial zone near their home,” added Horton, and farmers don’t usually want their agricultural land rezoned for industry.

The discussion will continue; several task force members were present to cheer the commissioners on. The report “represented the real world,” asserted Georgia Power regional VP Jim Sykes. “Over and over again,” added AT&T district manager Paul Chambers, “announcements of great-paying jobs” have come not from Athens, but from Hartwell or Gainesville.

“We’ve talked about a partnership a long time,” he said. Local businesses will support a regional effort, task force members said, but it must be a credible one.

With the traditional flu season just beginning and the H1N1 pandemic flu—better known as the “swine flu”—still charging through the general population, UGA’s College of Public Health (CPH) is enacting a multipronged public relations campaign to keep as many people from getting sick as possible.

“If you have pandemic flu, please stay home,” says Sarah Neslund, a CPH student.

Neslund and three counterparts have been hammering that message home in presentations to student organizations on campus over the past month. Neslund worries that people have been conducting business as usual— from work to school to tailgate parties—while infected with the pandemic flu, exposing others to the virus and perpetuating the problem.

Yet even if visiting a clinic is not recommended, calling the clinic certainly is, Neslund says, as flu-like symptoms do not always indicate an actual flu, and one can get a better idea of what they’re suffering from after a conversation with a health professional.

If an infected person absolutely cannot stay at home, they should wear a mask to avoid infecting others, Neslund says, adding that any standard clinical mask will do.

Clinical masks seen outside of a medical setting are an almost guaranteed social repellent, however, and Neslund herself admits that “it’s scary to have to wear a mask.” Thus, the CPH is working with the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication to develop a short public service announcement with a “’Project Runway’-type spin” to make mask-wearing look fashionable. The PSA will demonstrate that pandemic flu sufferers can decorate their masks with sequins and glitter, but unfortunately, drawing on them is a no-no, as ink renders masks more permeable to potentially insidious airborne particles.

While the CPH wages a public battle against the virus, its scientists are still grappling with the disease’s other enigmas.

Although there is an H1N1 strain of seasonal flu, the H1N1 pandemic is completely different, says Steven Valeika, an assistant professor of epidemiology. “It’s like a brand new virus and it’s completely unpredictable, and sometimes it just takes time to know the intricacies and specific details about it.” He also notes that labeling the current pandemic as “swine flu” is “scientifically inaccurate.”

Valeika says it is possible that the H1N1 pandemic flu could be simply adding itself to the existing roster of flu strains, and thus will appear year after year, perhaps lengthening the period of time known as “flu season.”

Although the number of pandemic flu deaths in the United States (nearing 850) pales in comparison to seasonal influenza’s average yearly toll of 36,000, Valeika describes the H1N1 pandemic as “similarly dangerous,” noting that the mortality rates—like the symptoms—for both types of flu are roughly the same.

Although the near-hysteria over the pandemic flu has died down considerably, Valeika recommends being on guard, pointing out that the winter peak of traditional flu season is not far off. “We’re probably on the upswing on the number of cases,” he says.

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In the early polling among Georgia Republicans, Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has consistently been leading in the race for governor. The man who calls himself “The Ox” appears to believe that he has the GOP nomination locked up. His recent media statements have focused on the Democratic frontrunner, former governor Roy Barnes.

These attacks include an Internet video that revives the old “King Rat” theme used by Sonny Perdue against Barnes in the 2002 race for governor. You never hear Oxendine mention that the primary elections are still nine months away and that he is facing opposition there from credible candidates like Nathan Deal, Eric Johnson and Karen Handel.

Is Oxendine’s early lead really so strong that he can start concentrating on the general election?

News developments over the past couple of weeks suggest that maybe it isn’t.

For one thing, there was bad news for Oxendine last week at the offices of the State Ethics Commission. The commission for several months has been looking into questionable contributions that Oxendine received from insurance companies his office regulates. The insurance firms sent the money to political action committees (PACs) based in Alabama that in turn made contributions to Oxendine.

Oxendine returned the $120,000 in suspect donations several months ago and had hoped the Ethics Commission would dismiss the case.

Instead, the commissioners voted unanimously last week to expand the investigation by seeking more information from the insurance companies and the PACs. As they discussed the matter, commissioners were openly skeptical of statements that the Oxendine campaign did not know the money contributed by insurance companies had gone through the PACs and then into his campaign coffers.

Here’s the problem for Oxendine: Georgia law prohibits state officials from receiving

political contributions from companies they regulate. Was the transfer of money from the insurance companies to the PACs and then to Oxendine an attempt to circumvent the law?

Commission counsel Tom Plank said the staff had not found “direct evidence” that Oxendine knew the money from the PACs had originally been contributed by insurance companies.

“There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence that perhaps he should have known,” Plank said. He noted that the PACs all shared the same address, were headed by a man who has had a long relationship with Oxendine, and sent checks to the campaign that were all cut on Dec. 31. Oxendine’s attorney, Stefan Passantino, argued that “there are no facts here, there is speculation.” The commissioners were not buying that argument and voted to continue looking into the Oxendine contributions. That means the investigation could continue to the end of the year and possibly longer, with the commission handing down an embarrassing ruling just as Oxendine is trying to shift his primary campaign into top gear.

Oxendine also has some family issues that may cause problems. His father, Jim Oxendine, prematurely retired as a senior Superior Court judge in Gwinnett County after the other judges learned the elder Oxendine had been involved in negotiating a land deal.

The land transaction is one of several under review by a special grand jury that is trying to determine if county tax dollars were used to buy property from politically connected landowners. One of the other players in the controversial Gwinnett land dealings is county Commissioner Shirley Lasseter, who works for John Oxendine’s insurance department.

Add all of this up and it may turn out that John Oxendine’s quest for the highest statewide office is not going to be the easy stroll he thought it would be.

Tom Crawford

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Letty Fitch 1956–2009 An Athens Life Well-Lived, Remembered

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he news is out there: Letty Fitch passed peacefully away at her home the morning of Sept. 30. She lived and died after an 11-year struggle with ALS. She was a vital spirit until the very end. She will be remembered for so many things by a wide range of people. I was there during many of her adventures, as she and I were the naturalists at Sandy Creek Nature Center back in the mid-1980s. We had the amazing privilege to share our love for the natural world with countless visitors and school groups. We lived the life of rock stars as we toured the Clarke County schools with baby loggerhead sea turtles and the Starlab planetarium year after year. We reveled in the annual Haunting of the Nature Center Trails fundraiser and the ongoing tradition that is Snake Day. I got a front-row seat as she developed the nature center’s half of the Sandy Creek Summer Day Camp and Jone Taylor directed the park’s half of the camp. The camp will be the source of fond memories for so many Athenians for years to come.

Letty will always get a special nod from me as she hired my wife (to-be), Sandy, as a member of her summer camp staff. It brought her many smiles that our marriage continues after 18 happy years. The “Mr. Pete and Letty Nature Show” ended after nine years side by side. With Letty’s encouragement I left the nature center to make my art, and she followed suit by getting a masters degree in education to continue teaching at Coile Middle School. She was named Teacher of the Year for Clarke County in 2003.

Letty will also be remembered for her fearless travel lust. I remember at least two road trips to New Orleans, and waited for news and stories and photos of Scotland or the Middle East or Central America. Many folks of like mind and age (you know who you are) will remember seeing Letty at the 40 Watts (all of them), Uptown Lounge, Rockfish or Georgia Theatre. So many great nights with her musical favorites: Love Tractor, R.E.M., The Chickasaw Mudpuppies, Indigo Girls, The Bar-B-Q Killers, Poi Dog Pondering—the list, too huge, is Athens history. I even got in on a recent private home concert by the Modern Skirts.

Yes, she danced back when it was cool and even when it wasn’t. She was an art collector—a longtime patron of mine and others like Lanier Meaders and Leigh Ellis. She was a coffee hound and fond of fine dark chocolate. She created a beautiful home and life with longtime partner Penny Oldfather. During the last five years of her life she was blessed by the formation of a Share the Care group of friends and family that tended to constant support (Athens never looked so good). She continued to read a wide array of books and news right close to the end.

She is survived by her loving mother, two brothers and the mother of her two worldly nephews. As always, Letty was interested in making Athens and the world at large a better place; she has requested volunteer or financial support for the Athens Boys and Girls Club, Heifer International or the ALS Association of Georgia. A festive memorial service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 11 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens. Athens is better for the life and works of Letty Fitch.

With love for all things Letty, her friend in Hull, Peter Loose

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anguages die out because they are not passed on. The last native speaker of Manx (the speech of The Isle of Man) died in the 1960s; the last native Cornish speakers (from Cornwall in extreme southwestern England) have been gone far longer. A number of old Cornish words remain, such as emmets (“ants”), which the locals use to describe the hordes of tourists who visit in the summer. I’ve heard the word used before (in Kentucky), but surely it is commonly spoken in a remote cranny of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania where the inhabitants are of almost entirely pure Cornish ancestry and English is still spoken with a pronounced, although Americanized, Cornish accent.

David Mack

ometimes creative writing (if you can call my verbiage that) is achieved by the process of elimination: tonight’s work herein is a prime example. Yesterday I finally put down some words about the Potlikker Film Festival (see the Oct. 7 online edition of Flagpole), so writing about that is out. My trip to Winston-Salem, NC, while columnworthy (probably multiply so), doesn’t seem to want to be written up tonight. I’m not quite ready to bare my soul about my hospital stay last month, and I have made no other forays into places known or unknown to me. Thus, like Sherlock Holmes would get, I’m in a state of languor, just waiting for some shoe to drop… but drop it hasn’t, or else it’s someone’s ballet slipper with an inbuilt plop so gentle, so tender that even the most sensitive of floors would hardly realize its presence. So, I’ll write some more about words, wishing that the late Ben Teague were here to bear witness.

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ot long ago, I located a copy of Bill Bryson’s book The Mother Tongue, which I devoured with great enjoyment. It didn’t mention a Grandma Carltonism that I suddenly remembered a while back: “We didn’t go because we weren’t invought,” she told my father matter-offactly. Evidently this is a 16th-century holdover form of “invited,” but I’ve never heard it since… even in Kentucky, where I heard (and recorded) some doozies as far as wonderfully colorful and/or archaic speech is concerned.

Bryson’s wondrous book about language gives us examples of words that other languages have (and use often) that have no parallel in English: the Italian word culacino is for the moist mark a glass leaves on a table. The Italians also give us a pasta (which I have never seen, mind you) named strozzapreti, which means “strangled priests.”

This leads me to believe that would-be poets often eat good helpings of Ferlinghetti for inspiration.

Scots Gaelic gives us the impossible-topronounce sgiomlaireachd, which means “the habit of dropping in at mealtimes.” Hmmm.

I wonder if such a visitor is groaking (wishing to be included)… “groak”—that’s a favorite Ort-word! And the Welsh word for owl is gwdihw (the latter “w” has a circumflex above). Bumfuddling at first, this is pronounced “goody-hoo” in imitation of the bird’s call.

Even more sonically perfect is the Spanish infinitive for “to whisper”: susurrar. I wouldn’t have suspected it, I say hushedly. Germans express a cat’s purr as schnurr, so if the cat is lazy and catches no mice but is endlessly happy, does this make this schnurrer a schnorrer?

Even differences of dialect can be amazing. In Bavaria, a plumber is a spengler, where in Berlin (not Berlin, GA, mind you!), the word used is klempner. Fortunately it is not “Klemperer,” because Otto of that surname was a famed symphony conductor (his dates are May 14, 1885–July 6, 1973, just in case you wondered).

We all have heard someone use the word “yonder,” but few people realize that it, too, is a holdover from Shakespeare’s time: “yon” is farther than “that” and way farther than “this,” so it must be a ways off, and they’s from Colorado.

Utterly unrelated, Bryson writes, is a myoclonic jerk. Hardly used for a person who’s done someone wrong, this term refers to a sudden sensation of falling one may experience as one drifts off to sleep. He mentions other little-used but workable words, such as “muliebrity,” the state of being a woman. (It has nothing to do with female mules, which are sometimes called hinneys; female donkeys are known as jennys, by the way.)

I once referred to myself as a “gruntled” former employee of a business, which is a perfectly good usage, meaning that I left on good terms. It is not an ugsome term to use; that word (loveably archaic but still in many dictionaries) means “loathsome, horrid, disgusting.” Likewise, once I finished an onerous task before taking off to Sylva, NC for some R&R. Upon examination, I found I left a “forelog” of work behind me, since I was caught up. (“Foreleg” may not be substituted, in humans, for “arm,” however, unless the person in question habitually walks on all fours. I used to do this periodically just to mystify our cat, which would shrug its feline shoulders and saunter off… but that’s another story.)

Ah: try walking up to someone of your acquaint (say, a member of the opposite sex whom you’d like to know better) and saying, “You look positively ’sheveled’ today!” This is quite complimentary, connoting tidiness and having nothing to do with spades and dirt. Of course, we all know the word “inept,” but “ept” isn’t its positive counterpart… that word is “adept,” or so I would imagine.

(If anyone out there knows what a state of “eptness” is, I would be glad to hear herein [or, rather, online] from them.) Another great vanished usage is “demit” for “send away,” although I have heard of this being used as a lodge term for someone who was blackballed.

Or is that too “mented” to be crazily usable?

How about praising someone energetic for having plenty of “ert?” Or would that be “outerting” them?

Gee, I hope you’re enjoying this molyplobe as much as I am. How about a few needless words, such as “fictile” for “moldable?”

And since I was just guilty of sternutation (sneezing: all of you say “Gesundheit!” Danke schoen), I also note that an utterly bald Chihuahua is a glabrous beast.

A word with multiple meanings is a polysemic one (from polysemy, the parent term).

Bryson mentions “sound” in this context, which I can ensentance by saying “Puget Sound studios is in a sound building and is in sound financial condition.” Sounds okay?

Zounds!

A contronym is a word that has two oftenopposite meanings. “Fast” is a prime example, because something can be stuck tightly while moving rapidly. If this applies to a person, they might be denying themselves food at the same time, thus fastly fasting fastenedly.

Similarly, winding up a meeting while winding up a watch creates its own contronymic thoughts.

This borders on polysemy, which is something that round old me will get ’round to another go-round; I have to round out this column and round up my remaining thoughts while singing “Row, row, row your boat” (which is a round) around and about, and I’d prefer a round of Scrabble® or some round steak, but not a round of golf, at least not around here.

Besides, why holler “Fore!” when you can say (30.)?

William Orten Carlton

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Big City, Small Things

world view Climate: Losing Control My youngest daughter is 17, so she will have lived most of her life before the worst of the warming hits. But her later years will not be easy, and her kids will have it very hard from the start. As for their kids, I just don’t know.

It is the Met Office’s job to make forecasts, and its forecast for the 2060s is an average global temperature that is as much as 7.2 degrees F warmer. Speaking this week at a conference called “4 degrees and beyond” at Oxford University, Dr. Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Meteorological Office’s Hadley Centre, one of the world’s most important centres for climate research, laid it all out.

“We’ve always talked about these very severe impacts only affecting future generations,” said Dr. Betts, “but people alive today could live to see a 4C (7.2 degrees F) rise.

People will say it’s an extreme scenario, and it is an extreme scenario, but it’s also a plausible scenario.”

All we have to do is go on burning fossil fuels at the rate we do now, and we’ll be there by the 2080s. Keep increasing our carbon dioxide emissions in pace with economic growth, as we have done over the past decade, and we’ll be there by the 2060s. “There” is not a good place to be.

At an average of 4C warmer, 15 percent of the world’s farmland has become useless due to heat and drought, and crop yields have fallen sharply on half of the rest: an overall 30–40 percent fall in global food production.

Since the world’s population has grown by two billion by then, there will be only half the food per person that we have now. Many people will starve.

In western and southern Africa, average temperatures will be up to 10C (18F) higher than now. There will be severe drying in Central America, on both sides of the Mediterranean, and in a broad band across the Middle East, northern India and southeast Asia. With the glaciers gone, Asia’s great rivers will be mostly dry in the summer. Even one metre of sea level rise will take out half the world’s food-rich river deltas, from the Nile to the Mekong.

So, there will be famines and massive waves of refugees and ruthless measures taken to hold borders shut against them. The bitter irony is that the old-rich countries, whose emissions did the most to bring on this disaster, will suffer least from it, at least in the early stages. By and large, the further away

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you are from the equator, the less you are hurt by the changes.

In Britain, at 4C hotter, there would doubtless be severe food rationing, but the country could still just feed itself if it farmed every available piece of land: the heat would not be lethal, and it would still be raining. That’s one advantage of being an island surrounded by sea; the other is that it’s easier to avoid being completely overrun by refugees. Britain would be almost unrecognisable, but it would be seen as one of the luckiest places on the planet.

The trouble is that 4C is not a destination.

It is a way-station on the way to 5C or 6C hotter, where all the ice on the planet melts and the only habitable land is what’s still above sea level around the Arctic Ocean. Once we have passed 2 degrees hotter, we are at ever greater risk of triggering the big “feedbacks” that take control of the warming process out of our hands.

At the moment, we are in control of the situation if we want to be, for it is our excess emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing the warming. But if melting permafrost and warming oceans begin to give up the immense amounts of greenhouse gases that they contain, then we find ourselves on a climate escalator that inexorably takes us up through 3C, 4C, 5C and 6C with no way to get off.

The point where we lose control, most scientists believe, is when the average global temperature reaches between 2C and 3C warmer. After that, it hardly matters whether human beings cut their own emissions, because the natural emissions triggered by the warming will overwhelm all our efforts. If we don’t stop at 2C, our current civilisation is probably doomed.

That is why the leaders of all the world’s big industrial and developing countries, meeting in Italy last summer, adopted 2C as their joint “never-exceed” goal. (Interestingly, they didn’t explain the reasoning behind that goal to the rest of us. Mustn’t frighten the children, I suppose.)

Meanwhile, the people tasked with negotiating a new climate treaty at Copenhagen in December struggle bravely onwards, but show no signs of coming up with a deal that will hold us under 2C. Global emissions must start dropping by 3 percent a year right away, but over the past decade they have been rising at 3 percent annually.

Everybody involved in the process understands the stakes and agrees on the goal.

Almost everybody knows what the treaty will eventually look like, but they don’t believe they can yet sell that deal to the folks back home, so it probably won’t happen this year.

Or next. Tick tock.

Gwynne Dyer Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Artist Dana Jo Cooley Shows Her Books in Brooklyn

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bout a block away from the Central Booking Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Dana Jo Cooley stopped short on the sidewalk.

“I’m nervous, y’all,” she said, lighting a cigarette. Her pronounced Tennessee drawl garnered a few sideways glances from passersby.

Though this was by no means her first exhibition, it was her first in the city known for catapulting many to stardom, and she needed a few minutes to prepare herself mentally.

Moments later she was once again the Dana Jo those close to her in her adopted home of Athens have grown to love—confident and determined in a way that is adventurous and child-like. There is no sense of entitlement about her, not that she wouldn’t have cause to feel the world should sit up

and take notice. The path that she cut—from Whitwell, TN to Savannah, Athens and, now, Aripeka, FL—on her way to the overflowing New York gallery in mid-September is an admirable one. “It’s just so crazy to be here,” she gushed, as if the juried show was the gift of a fairy godmother rather than the product of her own hard work.

Her excitement was understandable.

Brooklyn is a far cry from Athens and even further from her childhood home in “The Pocket,” as she affectionately calls the Appalachian mining town of Whitwell. “It’s what you would consider a depressed area,” she said. “But it’s still one of the most beautiful places on Earth to me, and I’ve been a lot of places.”

It was in one of those many places that Cooley realized exactly how she wanted to express herself as an artist. During a study abroad stint in France, she had the realization that would transform her from an indecisive student at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to the working artist she is today. “I sometimes feel cheesy saying this but, if ever I’ve had an epiphany, that was it,” she said of seeing Henri Matisse’s “Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence,” a small chapel built for Dominican nuns in the town of Vence. “I was blown away that this painter had stepped into the realms

of architecture, sculpture and design. I can still think of that day and remember how strange it was for me. It was like, ‘Okay. This is what I can be happy doing.’”

It was the fact that he’d first built a miniature that really shifted her lifetime obsession with tiny things into perspective. Then, when she saw the assemblages of American artist Joseph Cornell, she remembered all the objects she’d been collecting since childhood, and her vision was born. “I thought, ‘I have stuff like this. I’m a collector of things, and I should use that in my work,’” she said.

Her epiphany on the French Riviera resulted in her largest project to date, “Love Shack.”

Built in her grandfather’s barn in Tennessee with the help of her family, the B52s-inspired installation houses all manner of loverelated memorabilia. Now residing somewhere within the collections of SCAD, it will serve as the model for her winning bus stop submission to the Athens Area Art Council’s 2009 contest. “Doing bigger work is a response to me being really social. I have to be open to other people who I know coming in and helping me do what’s best.

It’s a constant group effort,” she said.

These days Cooley’s focus has been on smaller and more introspective pieces, like the old books she carves out to resemble windows. Within the panes she places objects she’s collected, crafting stories that she said materialize almost by themselves.

Artist Jim Rosenquist stopped in to Cooley’s New York exhibition to show his support. Largely considered one of the founders of the Pop Art movement, he drew attention upon entrance. Cooley met him through his current archivist, Charlotte Lee. Now, along with Lee, she lives in Aripeka, FL in one of the schoolhouse studios on his property. “He’s a hard worker and even when he’s not [in Aripeka] you can feel that energy,” she said of the artist. “He says that it’s almost impossible for people to work hard and not get something positive in return.”

That seems to be a mantra that Cooley has taken to heart since packing up her vintage suitcases with her miniatures and heading to Aripeka in the spring. After six years living the artist’s life in Athens, Cooley felt a change of scenery might be just what she needed to restore her motivation. For now, she’ll continue to work on her series of books, but refuses to limit herself to one artistic form.

As for her future, Cooley is still optimistically uncertain. She knows that she hopes to make her way back to Athens for good at some point. “I want to use Athens as a base and go out there the old-fashioned way, meeting people and connecting on a personal level.”

After her Brooklyn show closed, Cooley got a call that her pieces were on show at the New York Art Book Fair at Long Island’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and that the Central Booking Gallery will be holding on to them until they sell. “I guess that means they represent me,” she said, pleased but a little unsure. “It’s important to make what you don’t know about, what you know about,” she said.

And that, for Cooley, is the gallery world.

Tiffany Rainey

art notes Art Appreciation First Things First: There are times, as I run around town desperately looking for anything that qualifies as art, that I get the feeling that there is an absolute dearth of interest and investment in the visual arts in Athens.

After over a year and a half of writing Art Notes, I am happy to receive one of my first rebuttals. It proves that, at the very least, the artists are reading what I write. In my last column, I wrote about Sarah Jane Airgood’s flora-and-fauna-filled paintings up at Mama’s Boy. I read them as images that seemed relevant to a discussion about genetically modified organisms, and still think there are traces of these issues in her work, though this was not her intent. Read her insight and fact-filled comments at www.flagpole.com. An artist’s willingness to engage in a public dialogue about her work is encouraging.

Of Clones and Caves: Though I may have projected my own opinions onto Sarah Jane’s work at Mama’s Boy, I think I can say for sure that cloning and GMOs are the subjects of John Amoss’ “New, New Dollywood Blues” on view at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) in Watkinsville. It’s not a pretty picture: disconcertingly, a sliced-open sheep reveals that she is made of a tomato, while an egg sprouts wings and flies across a landscape framed by stage curtains. Amoss’ paintings and prints are part of “Profess,” the 2009 Gainesville State College Biennial Exhibition, featuring work of studio art faculty members.

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Other than a mutual place of employment, it’s as hard as it is unnecessary to join together the works in “Profess” with an overarching theme or style. But with Sale and Jacquet’s cave as a conceptual entry point to the show, the array of work—ranging from Judson Duke’s allegory-heavy, old-school (like Old Master old-school) naturalism in “A Simple Form of Contemplation” to Hyoung Soek Kim’s oversize and whimsical “The Toy” to Amoss’ aforementioned painted commentary on cloning—contains traces of the history of art and its inherent multiplicity.

Back in Athens: This past Friday marked the opening of two new art venues. Located in the DOC building on Barber Street is Maria Dondero’s new pottery studio and shop, Marmalade. Inside the Hotel Indigo is an exhibition space headed up by Mercury Art Works. This is the first large-scale, public exhibition space curated by Mercury since it scaled down its gallery space and used it to build artists’ studios in the Tracy Street Warehouse.

Inaugurating their new venue is “Terre Verte,” a show featuring work by 17 mostly local artists (Rinne Allen, Scott Belville and Michael Stipe, to name a few) that will be on display through February 2010.

Weekend Events: Opening this Saturday and Sunday from 1–5 p.m., the “Brick House Studio Exhibition, Fall 2009” presents a variety of works by Tex Crawford, D.M.

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Downtown 546-5014 Beth Sale and Jonathan Jacquet’s installation “A Contemporary Primal Event” is on display at OCAF through Oct. 31.

Now, if you were enrolled in one of these professors’ classes, you might learn that the earliest images we can find date to something like 15,000 years ago, and the first images we decided to term “art” were cave drawings.

Paleolithic people painted bison alongside weird and slightly dirty pictures in France.

The Greeks tell a story of a young girl tracing her boyfriend’s silhouette on a cave wall. If your tastes tend toward the conceptual or the postmodern, there’s Plato and his cave. Former Art Notes writer Beth Sale and Jonathan Jacquet seem to have had all of this in mind when they thought up “A Contemporary Primal Event.” Made of brown paper and tape, the replica of a cave is just big enough to hold two people, and markers are provided for the viewer to draw all over its interior and exterior surfaces. It’s fun, accessible and inviting.

Kirwin, Brian Reade and an ongoing installation by Doug Makemson through Nov. 22 at 1892 Athens Rd. in nearby Crawford, GA. And Sunday, from 3–6 p.m., OCAF will host its 10th Annual Wine Fest fundraiser that will include a silent auction and raffle of local art.

Go to http://myocaf.com for more info.

Athens Academy Exhibitions: In the Bertelsmann Gallery are the crisp, design/ fine-art hybrids of Didi Dunphy (see Bulletin Board image), Lou Kregel and Carol John.

In the Myers Gallery are the more expressive, soft-edged paintings of Erin McIntosh (of Blue Tin Art Studio) and Jennifer Hartley (Athens local and SCAD professor). Both shows are up through Dec. 14.

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

ADDICTED TO PLASTIC (NR) 2007. Plastics may be the most widespread, versatile material ever invented, but at what cost? Director Ian Connacher’s award-winning documentary tries to answer that question.

Winner of awards the Amazonas Film Festival, the Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Festival International du Film d’Environnement. All screenings of Addicted to Plastic are free thanks to the ACC Recycling Division.

A DIOS MOMO (NR) 2006. A bit of the old magical realism, A Dios Momo, or Goodbye Momo, is set at a carnival in Uruguay, where a paper boy, Obdulio (Mathias Acuna), learns to read and write with the help of his newspaper’s night watchman (Jorge Esmoris).

Written and directed by Silver Condor nominee Leonardo Ricagni (El Chevrolé). Part of the Latin American Film Series sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

AMELIA (PG) I have found myself surprisingly moved and excited by the trailers for The Namesake director Mira Nair’s biopic of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937 while attempting a record-breaking flight around the world. As Earhart, Hilary Swank is nearly guaranteed her third Oscar nomination. (She’s presently two for two.) With Richard Gere as Earhart’s husband, publisher George Putnam, and Ewan McGregor as her lover, Gene Vidal.

ASTRO BOY (PG) Osamu Tezuka’s comic series comes to life. In Metro City, young robot Astro Boy (v. Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland), is built by brilliant scientist, Dr. Tenma (v. Nicolas Cage), in the image of his dead son. My only knowledge of Astro Boy comes from a superior Gameboy Advance game. Featuring the voices of Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Eugene Levy and Nathan Lane. From the director of Flushed Away.

BLACK DYNAMITE (R) Another homage to blaxploitation, Black Dynamite stars co-writer Michael Jai White (Spawn) as the titular hero, who must avenge his brother’s murder and right neighborhood wrongs all the way to the White House (James McManus plays Richard Nixon himself). I kind of hope this movie actually makes it to Athens.

Winner of the Seattle International Film Festival’s Golden Space Needle Award for Best Film. With Arsenio Hall and “In Living Color”’s Tommy Davidson.

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (R) Moore compellingly connects the dots between our elected representatives and the greedy bastards on Wall Street without forgetting us the little people that keep losing our houses.

Love him or hate him, Moore is a hell of a documentarian, whose brilliant sense of humor and irony save him from his own self-serving sermonizing. After the refreshingly bipartisan Sicko, Capitalism reverts to the Bushbashing for which Fahrenheit 9/11

was demonized. But just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not true.

The truth of Capitalism may not be as simple as Moore convincingly makes it seem, but it is every bit as frightening.

Keep an eye on the film’s breakout star, Ohio Representative Mary Kaptur, who comes off caring more for the American people than any of her cowardly colleagues.

CHAC: DIOS DE LA LLUVIA (NR) 1974. Chac: Dios de la Lluvia, or Chac: The Rain God, tells the story of a village suffering in the midst of a great drought and the mystical seer who attempts to help. Chac will be introduced by Brent Berlin, emeritus professor of anthropology. Chac is the only film by writer-director Rolando Klein.

Part of the Latin American Film Series sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT (PG-13) Darren Shan’s popular YA series (there is a total of 12, to date) finally hits the big screen, and the trailers look surprisingly entertaining. A teenager named Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia) becomes the assistant of a vampire, Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly), in a traveling freak show. With Salma Hayek and Josh Hutcherson (Journey to the Center of the Earth). Directed by Paul Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy, American Dreamz) from a script he cowrote with Brian Helgeland (WTF?!).

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (PG) When inventor Flint Lockwood (v. Bill Hader) devises a machine that delivers food, on

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Capitalism: A Love Story (R) 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3D (PG) 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 Couples Retreat (PG-13) 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Good Hair (PG-13) 4:20, 9:40 I Can Do Bad All By Myself (PG-13) 7:05 The Invention of Lying (PG-13) 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Law Abiding Citizen (R) 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Stepfather (PG-13) 4:05, 7:35, 10:00 Toy Story 1 and 2 (G) 4:00, 8:00 Where the Wild Things Are (PG) 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 Whip It (PG-13) 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Zombieland (R) 5:15, 7:25, 9:35

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (PG) 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Couples Retreat (PG-13) 1:20, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Fame (PG) 1:45, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Good Hair (PG-13) 12:45, 3:05, 5:20, 7:30, 9:50 I Can Do Bad All By Myself (PG-13) 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Law Abiding Citizen (R) 1:20, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Love Happens (PG-13) 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 Stepfather (PG-13) 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Surrogates (PG-13) 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55 Toy Story 1 and 2 (3D) (G) 12:15, 3:55, 7:35 Where the Wild Things Are (PG) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Zombieland (R) 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50

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It Might Get Loud (NR) 5:15, 7:15, 9:45 (new times Sa. 10/24: 9:30) (add’l times Sa. 10/24–Su. 10/25: 2:15, Sa. 10/24: 12:15, Tu. 10/27–Th. 10/29: 7:00) Room (R) midnight (F. 10/23) Sin Nombre (R) 7:00 (M. 10/24) Thirst (R) 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 (no 9:45 show Su. 10/25) (starts F. 10/23) The Ecofocus Film Festival continues through Oct. 30.

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Addicted to Plastic (NR) 11:30 a.m. (F. 10/23) 5:15 (Sa. 10/24) 3:15 (Su. 10/25) The Cove (NR) 9:30 (ends Th. 10/21) Homegrown (NR) 5:30 (W. 10/21) No Impact Man (NR) 5:00 (F. 10/23 and Su. 10/25) 7:00 (Sa. 10/24–Su. 10/25) 5:00 (M. 10/26–Th. 10/29) Recipes for Disaster (NR) 7:30 (Th. 10/22) Saving Luna (NR) 7:00 (F. 10/23) 3:14 (Sa. 10/24) 1:15 (Su. 10/25) So Right So Smart (NR) 7:30 (Tu. 10/20–W. 10/21) 5:30 (Th. 10/22)

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A Dios Momo (NR) 7:00 (W. 10/28) Chac: Dios de la Lluvia (NR) 7:00 (W. 10/21)

order, from the heavens, the town of Chewandswallow rejoices. Kids will too, as Judi and Ron Barrett’s 1978 children’s classic comes to life on the big screen. Parents, especially those who had to sit through July’s G-Force, won’t be disappointed either. The animation resembles every other CG feature, but the 3D is top-notch.

COUPLES RETREAT (PG-13) Writers Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Dana Fox also star in this lazily glued-together sitcom collage of misunderstandings about sex, massages, et cetera and platitudes about the hard work it takes to maintain the two-way street of a relationship.

THE COVE (PG-13) Director Louie Psihoyos used state-of-the-art technology to capture the injustice and abuse an activist group led by dolphin trainer Richard O’Barry (he worked on “Flipper” until one of the dolphins, Kathy, died in his arms) find in a hidden cove near Taijii, Japan. The website describes the film as “an intelligent/ action/adventure/Ocean’s 11-like horror film.” Nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, The Cove won the Audience Award for best documentary.

You’ll best remember producer Fisher Stevens from his Short Circuit days.

ECOFOCUS FILM FESTIVAL Running from October 2-30, the second annual Ecofocus Environmental Film Festival sponsored by the UGA Odum School of Ecology and Ciné.

The festival’s lineup features Addicted to Plastic, The End of the Line, Milking the Rhino, Tapped, So Right So Smart, Homegrown, Recipes for Disaster and multi-award winner Saving Luna.

AN EDUCATION (PG-13) Teenaged Jenny (Carey Mulligan) comes of age in the 1960s suburban London upon the arrival of David (Peter Sarsgaard), a playboy nearly twice her age. Mulligan is winning raves and positioning herself on the shortlist of potential Oscar dark horses. Director Lone Scherfig also helmed Italian for Beginners and bestselling novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity and About a Boy) adapted the memoir by Lynn Barber. Winner of the Dramatic World Cinema Audience Award, Cinematography Award, as well as a Grand Jury Prize nomination from the Sundance Film Festival.

FAME (PG) Fame really does live forever. This remake of the popular 1980s musical centers on a new batch of talented students going broke for their dream at the New York City High School of Performing Arts. A bunch of neophytes (including “So You Think You Can Dance” finalist Kherington Payne) are joined by “real” actors (almost all of whom have TV background), Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally, Charles S. Dutton and Debbie Allen, of course.

GOOD HAIR (PG-13) Chris Rock is on a mission to answer his daughter’s innocent query, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” More informative and definitely more fun than Michael Moore’s gloomy and doomy Capitalism: A Love Story, Chris Rock’s documentary about the glories, travails and multibillion-dollar business of African-American hair probably will not be winning the Best Documentary Oscar.

THE HANGOVER (R) When three buddies—married schoolteacher Phil (Bradley Cooper), emasculated dentist Stu (Ed Helms), and strange Alan (Zack

Galifianakis)—take their pal, Doug (Justin Bartha), to Las Vegas for his bachelor party, all hell breaks loose.

The fifth feature from Todd Phillips, The Hangover is a perfect comedic convergence that’s funnier than it deserves to be.

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

HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE (PG) 2001.

The first of the Harry Potter film legacy based on T.K. Rowling’s bespectacled boy wizard. Playing at Ciné on Saturday, Oct. 24 for the Halloween Family Fun Event.

HOCUS POCUS (PG) 1993. Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker are unimaginatively cast as a pair of witchy sisters in this Disney retelling of the Salem Witch Trials. The film, perhaps a cult classic one day, spirals towards terrible when a teenaged transplant from L.A. moves to Salem and gets seriously haunted by some sewer witches.

HOMEGROWN (NR) 2008. Director Robert McFalls documents the story of a family living off the grid in the heart of Pasadena, California. The residents of this modern “Little House on the Prairie” harvest 6000 pounds of produce from less than a quarter of an acre.

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

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (PG) Don’t expect any surprises in the third installment of the mammoth animated franchise that isn’t Shrek or produced by Pixar. Ice Age: DotD is just for the kiddies.

THE INVENTION OF LYING (PG-13) An adult fable, the new film from British “Office” creator and star Ricky Gervais posits a world in which everyone tells the truth. An old-fashioned romantic comedy, The Invention of Lying would not seem like anything new were it not for Gervais. The brilliant Brit makes something honest out of the oldest trick in the book.

IT MIGHT GET LOUD (PG) An Inconvenient Truth Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary tackles the electric guitar through the points of view of three pretty big names in rock and roll: Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, U2’s The Edge (né Dave Evans), and The White Stripes’ Jack White. Any self-respecting rock doc fan is drooling at the thought, whether or not they like any or all of these guitar gods.

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN (R) See Movie Pick.

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.

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.

MILKING THE RHINO (NR) 2008.

Writer-producer-director David E. Simpson travels to Africa to examine the conflict between man and beast in an ever-shrinking world. Winner of Best Documentary at the Pan Africa Film Festival, the Silver Lei at the Honolulu International Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.

NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU (R) Shia LeBeouf, Natalie Portman, The Hangover’s breakout star Bradley Cooper, Blake Lively, Orlando Bloom, Robin Wright Penn, Hayden Christensen, Drea de Matteo, Christina Ricci, John Hurt, Ethan Hawke, James Caan, Justin Bartha, Chris Cooper, Andy Garcia, Julie Christie, Eli Wallach, Cloris Leachman, Irrfan Khan and many more star in an anthology of love stories set in New York City directed by the likes of Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven).

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.

ONG BAK 2 (R) I don’t really remember the first Ong Bak, though I know I saw it. (Rereading my own review of 2005’s The Protector reminded me that I preferred its 2003 predecessor, if that means anything to you.) Tien (Tony Jaa) must use his fighting skills to get revenge on the man who killed his parents. Director and star Jaa reportedly took a two month sabbatical before returning to finish shooting the movie with the help of writer Panna Rittikrai.

RECIPES FOR DISASTER (NR) 2007. Writer-director John Webster documents a family as it goes through “oil detox.” Imagine trying to live an average suburban life without using any fossil fuel? Is it feasible, economical or even possible? The film provides 13 “recipes for disaster” and how to combat them.

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.

SAVING LUNA (NR) 2008. Directors Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit chronicle the true story of a baby killer whale befriended by people after he is separated from his family. This highly acclaimed documentary picked up awards from the Canadian Film and Television Production Association, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Middle East International Film Festival, the Durban International Film Festival, the Environmental Film Festival at Yale and many more.

SAW VI (R) Who knows (or cares) what Saw VI is about? The trailers

aren’t giving anything away. What we do know is Jigsaw’s been dead since Saw III (still Tobin Bell returns), and Saw V sucked big time. Costas Mandylor’s Detective Hoffman is still around and presumably Jiggy’s newest successor. Congratulations to Kevin Greutert, the editor of Saws I-V and The Strangers, upon his graduation to the director’s chair.

A SERIOUS MAN (R) The Oscarwinning Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan, return with a black comedy set in the late 1960s. Midwestern prof Larry Gopnik’s (Michael Stuhlbarg) life starts to fall apart after his brother (Richard Kind) takes up semi-permanent residence in his home. His wife, Judith (Sari Lennick), is preparing to leave him; his son is stealing his money for pot; and his daughter is stealing to finance a nose job. The trailer is a true work of art. I’m really excited about this one.

SIN NOMBRE (R) Writer-director Cary Fukunaga’s feature debut concerns a Honduran teen, Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), who hops an America bound train on which she meets Willy (Edgar Flores), newly recruited to the Mara Salvatrucha gang. Winner of the Dramatic Cinematography and Directing Award at Sundance, Sin Nombre was also nominated for the coveted Grand Jury Prize. Executive producers include Y Tu Mamá También duo, Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal. Could Fukunaga be the next Fernando Meirelles or Alfonso Cuarón?

SO RIGHT SO SMART (NR) Can a business achieve environmental sustainability and profitability? Wal-Mart, Barenaked Ladies, Stonyfield Farm, Herman Miller, Seventh Generation, New Belgium Brewery and Patagonia are trying. Winner of Best Feature at Reel Earth New Zealand and the Best of Festival at the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival.

SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN (G) 2004. The animated film based on Joe Troiano’s children book tells the familiar tale of the ostracized square peg, taking the phrase quite literally.

THE STEPFATHER (PG-13) See Movie Pick.

ST. TRINIAN’S (PG-13) A smash hit in its native Britain, St. Trinian’s stars Gemma Arterton as the ringleader of a gang of private school girls who plan a heist to save their rundown institution.

The cast includes Rupert Everett and Colin Firth so it’s got that going for it.

A sequel to co-directors Oliver Parker (Othello) and Barnaby Thompson’s comedy has already been greenlit.

SURROGATES (PG-13) A revolutionary, anti-robot underclass, called Dreads, has amassed in sovereign reservation under the leadership of a man called the Prophet (Ving Rhames).

A fake future in which people don’t just log on, they jack in, holds a bevy of Big Brother-ish opportunities for the government. For what amounts to the fall version of a blockbuster, Surrogates will not disappoint anyone whose expectations have been lowered.

TAPPED (NR) Do people have a basic right to clean drinking water or is it a commodity to be bought and sold?

Tapped examines the big business that is bottled water. All screenings of Tapped are free thanks to the ACC Public Utilities Department. Winner of the Indie Fest Award of Excellence.

THIRST (R) Celebrated Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park (the triptych Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Old Boy, and Lady Vengeance) returns with an intriguing new take on the immortally popular vampire. A medical experiment turns Priest Sang-hyeon (Kan-ho Song) into a bloodsucker. The horror film is sure to be beautiful, and I’m curious to see how it stacks up to last year’s surprise hit, Let the Right One In.

TRUCKER (R) A carefree trucker, Diane Ford (Michelle Monaghan), looks to settle down after taking in her 11-year-old son (Jimmy Bennett, Star Trek). Then again, Trucker does have Nathan Fillion in it, so it can’t be all bad. Winner of an Excellence in Acting Award (Monaghan) from the Vail Film Festival and the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature Film from the Woods Hole Film Festival.

WHERE THE WILD THING ARE (PG) See Movie Pick.

WHIP IT (PG-13) Every movie does not need to be an agonizingly tragic explication of the human condition.

Sometimes, roller-skating girls in fishnets pounding one another is enough.

YIDDISH THEATER: A LOVE STORY (NR) 2006. Award-winning director Dan Katzir and his cowriter, Ravit Markus, document Holocaust survivor Zypora Spaisman’s attempt to keep America’s oldest running Yiddish Theater from going dark. A week of fundraising leads to miracle after miracle, but can the theater be saved?

The screening, presented by the Athens Jewish Film Festival and the ACC Library, will be introduced by Mira Hirsch, the founding Artistic Director of Genesis Stage and Screen.

ZOMBIELAND (R) It’s hard to complain about Zombieland. It’s funny, surprising, violent, gross; if horrorcomedy fans can name it, Zombieland’s got it. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone, Superbad), and her little sister, Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) are trekking across the a zombie-ravaged country in search of a safe place to call home. Zombieland’s action-packed destination may strike one as rote, but the living dead-cluttered road leading there is as entertaining as any since Shaun of the Dead.

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A MONTH OF ENTERTAINING AND ENGAGING FILMS

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LAST WEEK! Thursday, 10/22, 12:30pm: FREE screening of Milking the Rhino on campus in the

Ecology Building Auditorium.

Friday, 10/23, 11:30am: FREE No-Waste Lunch and Screening of Addicted to Plastic sponsored by Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division at Ciné.

Friday, 10/23, 7pm: Saving Luna with Filmmaker Michael Parfit and Lori Marino with reception sponsored by Farm 255. Ciné, $8.

Sunday, 10/25, 7pm: Final Awards Party with Musical Guest Grogus and reception sponsored by Epting Events. Hotel Indigo, $8.

Feature length films starting on Friday, October 23rd:

No Impact Man

Watch as a Brooklyn, NY family decides to leave behind liberal complacency with a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. That means no more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, and no more material consumption. No problem, right? An entertaining look at an experiment that became a national media sensation.

Saving Luna

A beautiful and unforgettable true story of a lonely young orca whale who seeks companionship from people he comes into contact with after becoming separated from his family. As conflict and tragedy stain the waters, Luna becomes a symbol of the world’s wildest beauty: wonderful to know, but hard to save. Director Michael Parfit will be on-hand at the 10/23 screening for Q & A.

Addicted to Plastic

From styrofoam cups to artificial organs, plastics are perhaps the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. No invention in the past 100 years has had more influence and presence than synthetics. But such progress has had a cost. A global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses.

Check Flagpole movie schedule box and ecofocusfilmfest.org for details about films, schedules, and tickets.

movie pick The Best WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (PG) Perhaps the most impressive display of below-the-line excellence this year, Where the Wild Things Are adds its name to the growing shortlist of 2009’s best films. I doubt I have seen—or will see—10 better pictures. Hopefully, costume designer Casey Storm, production designer K.K. Barrett, and the rest of their unseen crews will receive the recognition they most certainly deserve.

The score by Karen O and Carter Burwell is the perfect accompaniment to this exquisitely beautiful film.

Filmmaker Spike Jonze’s artistic achievement, maybe even his masterpiece, would never have come to such effervescent life without their collaboration.

It is quite impressive what Jonze and cowriter Dave Eggers do with Maurice Sendak’s beloved 339 words.

They expand upon his wild world with the same imaginative recklessness as Sendak.

Rambunctious Max (tremendous little Max Records) angers his single mother (Catherine Keener) while she is trying to entertain a male friend (Mark Ruffalo). Running away from home, Max hops in a boat and travels to a land of wild things where he becomes king. He leads them in the construction of a giant fort and gets a few sessions of free therapy.

Jonze and Eggers do not unnecessarily overplot WTWTA. Boy gets angry; boy runs away to world of monsters. What the writing duo do so memorably is flesh out Max’s monstrous subjects. The fabulous voice cast—James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, etc.—wring the truth from Jonze and Eggers’ words. Each creature represents a different part of Max’s life. Carol (v.

Gandolfini) is the father figure Max is missing, and Max strives to help him win over KW (v. Ambrose). Judith is always attempting to spoil the young boy’s fun, and O’Hara voices her with hilarious matter-of-factness. My favorite may be Douglas (v.

Cooper), the poor bird who supplies endless amusement.

I almost wish Jonze and Eggers had gone one step further and shown us the monsters’ human equivalents from Max’s life. Nothing as obvious as a “You were there, and you,” scene. But a few scenes with the teachers, grandparents, etc. who fueled Max’s creative energies would have been nice. Anything to extend my time with the film would have been appreciated. “Let the wild rumpus start,” Max exclaims. I just wish it never had to end.

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movie pick The Rest THE STEPFATHER (PG-13) LAW ABIDING Susan’s new beau goes missing. Amber Heard CITIZEN (R) Where the Wild Things Are is at (Pineapple Express) supplies some superfluthe head of the most recent class of releases. ous eye candy, since The Stepfather, judging The remainder of the class of 10/16/09, The from the trailers that preceded it and the Stepfather and Law Abiding Citizen, are not as demographic makeup of its audience, is clearly bad as title or trailer might imply, but neither aimed at the teen girl crowd. is exactly worth the price of admission. Still, With teen girls taken care of, Law Abiding I would be falling down on my duty as a local Citizen makes sure the older crowd has an purveyor of cinematic critentertainment option. icism (appreciated or not) Despite a couple of spurts if I didn’t give you a bit of of over-the-top violence, a heads up regarding these Law Abiding Citizen should two moderately enjoyable please those looking for flicks. the latest generic thriller The Stepfather stars that puts a couple of Dylan Walsh as a man willbig-name stars (Jamie ing to kill for the perfect Foxx and Gerard Butler) family. Walsh’s five-season through the predictable body of work on “Nip/ paces. Butler works too Tuck” was a perfect audihard as Clyde Shelton, a tion reel to replace the mild-mannered guy who original stepfather, Terry goes all Death Wish after O’Quinn (“Lost”). The Dylan Walsh of The Stepfather the justice system fails biggest problem with to punish the guys who the new Stepfather is that liking it feels like killed his wife and daughter. Clyde’s elaborate I’m cheating on the old (1987) one, a tense revenge scheme, which crosses from farfetched little thriller that didn’t need to be redone. to patently unbelievable by the big reveal, So, Walsh is a killer who preys on divorced targets the entire municipal government of women with families. He meets Susan Harding Philadelphia. Nonetheless, Law Abiding Citizen (Sela Ward), whose oldest son, Michael (Penn will please the “NCIS”-loving masses.

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News of Athens’ Cinema Scene I Am Still Me: Have I mentioned that I love watching films from the first years of the sound era? Whether it’s an ineffably graceful Lubitsch masterpiece or a forgotten programmer with hopelessly awkward staging and performances that suggest the actors were in fear for their lives, I can’t escape the thrill of knowing that what I see before me, preserved in shimmering light, is the poignant spectacle of seasoned professionals and brash novices pushing at the edges of a stubborn, cranky new medium that will soon bow to some and conquer others. At one in the morning, after a few glasses of wine, it’s been enough to move me to helpless, idiotic weeping. Such was not the case last night, which nonetheless failed to dampen my enjoyment of Raffles, the 1930 incarnation of E.W. Hornung’s much-filmed Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (!) series and play. With Ronald Colman as the gentleman thief of the title and Kay Francis as his

with co-director Michael Parfit and Emory University researcher Lori Marino, as well as a reception sponsored by Farm 255. Finally, the festival wraps with a Closing Night Awards Party at Hotel Indigo Sunday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. Find more information on all of the festival screenings at www.ecofocusfilmfest.org.

Ciné Is Still Ciné: Let’s not forget that Athens’ only arthouse continues to fly the flag for non-mainstream and foreign cinema of all stripes, even amid the bustle of this terrific festival. It Might Get Loud, Davis Guggenheim’s (An Inconvenient Truth) wicked cool documentary that unites guitar freaks Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White, started Oct. 16, and we can only hope it will be extended beyond Thursday, Oct. 22, the end of its scheduled run. Two heavy hitters— Jane Campion’s acclaimed literary romance Bright Star and Thirst, the sexy new vampire

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Musicians Jack White, Jimmy Page and The Edge share the screen in the rock doc It Might Get Loud. lady-love, the dialogue glides by with easy harmony: the stars’ voices are like a knife and butter, respectively. But the film’s greatest virtue is the bold camerawork by George Barnes and Gregg Toland. In addition to some of the creative angles that would, along with his pioneering use of deep focus, come to characterize Toland’s work, the film features a few stunning sync-sound tracking shots that were extremely unusual and daring for their time. Using a mobile “blimped” camera that Barnes and Toland helped innovate to dampen the loud clatter of the mechanism, the duo of cinematographers executed moves like a backwards high-angle dolly through three rooms that follows an ongoing conversation as actors move in and out of the frame, in depth as well as laterally. When I see that in a film from 1930, I can’t help getting a little worked up.

EcoFocus Is Still Here: The second annual EcoFocus Film Festival is in its final week, but there’s still plenty to catch before its Sunday, Oct. 25 finale. Free screenings, for one thing, beginning with Milking the Rhino at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 in the UGA Ecology Auditorium. The Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division sponsors three free screenings of Addicted to Plastic at Ciné beginning Friday, Oct. 23 at 11:30 a.m., with one screening each of the following two days.

Only the Friday screening, though, includes a free, no-waste lunch! The 7 p.m. screening of Saving Luna that same night, also at Ciné, will be followed by a discussion and Q&A

movie from renowned Korean director Park Chan-wook—are both slated to open Oct. 23.

And UGA’s Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration will hold a special screening of Sin Nombre, Cary Fukunaga’s award-winning dramatic thriller, on Monday, Oct. 26. Go to www.athenscine.com.

Sweet Miscellany: ICE-Vision brings the Technicolor magic on Oct. 22 with Alexander Korda’s lavish 1940 production of The Thief of Bagdad (directed by Michael Powell, etc.). On Oct. 29, prepare to be spooked by a special Halloween screening of Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 Danish classic Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, featuring, according to series curator Will Stephenson, “live musical accompaniment courtesy of the enigmatic Athens psychedelic/noise group Geisterkatzen.” ICE-Vision screenings are Thursdays at 8 p.m. in Room S150 of UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art… The ACC Library, in partnership with the Athens Jewish Film Festival, presents a free screening of Yiddish Theater: A Love Story, Dan Katzir’s 2006 documentary about a New York theater company’s dogged fight to preserve an invaluable cultural tradition, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27. The series resumes at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29 with Lake Tahoe, an ethereal drama from Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke. All screenings are in the auditorium of the main library. Go to www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us.

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The Only Good War: OK, first, I can’t stand a “battle of the bands” that takes itself seriously. That said, I love a “battle of the bands” that is completely goofy and for a good cause.

To this end, I’m excited to report that the 40 Watt will once again host the Athens Bar, Restaurant and Business Battle of the Bands. This time the event will take place over four nights.

Each band must be composed of actual employees working at an individual establishment. Each band must play around 20 minutes of material and only cover material is acceptable. No band can already be an established act, and each band must be newly formed for this event. Also, any band that competed in the spring competition must play all new material if they want to play again. The deadline for applying is Nov. 16. The dates for competition are as follows: Nov. 30 features bar bands; Dec. 7 features restaurant bands; Dec. 14 is for other local business bands, and Jan. 6 is the final competition featuring the winners from the first three Christopher Ingham rounds. Only six bands will be accepted into each category, and there is a $50 entry fee per band. To sign up or to ask questions, drop a line to 40wattbenefit@gmail.com.

C’mon, Get Happy: Local musician and head dude at Superfluous Umlaut Records Matt Hudgins is planning and booking a series of happy hour shows at the Caledonia Lounge.

The shows will happen on Thursday evenings, and pretty much any type of music will be considered. That said, your death metal band may not have that great of a time doing it, but your acoustic country act would probably have a total blast. Look, it’s all gonna depend on what Hudgins thinks will work and what won’t. So, why not get in touch and ask him yourself over at hutchbalkins@yahoo.com?

Oh, Dear Lord: Christopher Ingham (Heroic Livers, Christopher’s Liver, et al.) has been playing for the past several months in Liverty, which always seemed to me a fine name that carried on in the tradition started by him several years ago. Admittedly, I’ve not seen him play in several months, but is that any reason for him to change Liverty’s name to, wait for it, Jimmy Kind Bud? Chris, man, you know I love you. I’m sorry for anything I ever did that made you want to rebel this way. I’ll buy you a pony. Please rethink this. Look, I’ll even tell

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people you’ve got a new demo out available for only a couple of bucks at Wuxtry Records and Daily Groceries. I’ll even tell them to go see you play on Nov. 4 at the Flicker Theater & Bar with Necro Hippies and American Cheeseburger, the latter of which is releasing a new LP that day. I’ll even tell them to keep up with your goings on over at www.hangwithliverty.blogspot.com. Now, can we talk?

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It’s been total sickbay around my hacienda, but that won’t stop me from delivering what you’re expecting. Here’s another week’s worth of Athens music news and ephemera to keep you intrigued and inspired. That’s just the way I am. Get sanctified below…

AthFest Education Committee has an opportunity for you. The committee is holding a musical instrument drive for students in the Clarke County School District, and this ongoing effort is now in operation. Instruments may be dropped off at Ciné downtown (234 West Hancock Ave.). While I’m pretty sure this drive is open to instruments of all types, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get in touch via www.athfest.com if you’ve got something particularly unique or are concerned about its usefulness.

Dig: Athens/Augusta band Soapbar finished up some recordings with Martin Brummeler (Mass Solo Revolt) at his M. Cadet studio, and the plan now is a new EP for the band. Oh, it’s such good stuff, too. I swear the band sounds like it was plucked out of 1986 and told to record these songs in the future. While not every song is a winner (hardly any band does that), nothing has so pleasantly surprised me out of the blue for months. Solid old-school college-radio rock, this is. Soapbar recently played WUOG 90.5 FM’s “Live in the Lobby” and next plays locally at Tasty World on Nov. 9. Give them a listen over at www.myspace. com/soapbarking.

Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

A Blaze-Burnt Trail

The Now Sounds of “The Brothers Meat”

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’ve got a sleeveless Meat Puppets Monsters shirt, now severely bloodstained and piebald, that I’ve worn for maybe 65 to 70 percent of my band Dark Meat’s performances. It’s been present since the outset, has outlasted seven or eight members, easy, and has probably played more shows than a third of our current lineup combined. You’ve surely seen me in it, offstage and in daylight hours: it’s my Linus-blankie and my goodtimes-totem, too—I wear it when I’m sick, sleeping, writing songs, Porky-Piggin’-it happily across the cosmos, all that shit.

See, the Brothers Kirkwood—legendary lynchpins of this modern psychedelic force—unequivocally altered my mind and my mission, and you can even tell it by my band’s name; that shirt, as tactile manifestation of this private phenomenon, should be packed in the case with any instrument I plan on playing in front of people. Their first five-or-so records are not only amazing individual listening experiences deep and colorful as roiling seas of liquid acid, precocious and intense in their unqualified movement and progression from one to another in terms of execution and nuance, but also stand as genuine folk artifacts that organically trace the evolution of American independent music. Meat Puppets are a true gravitational genesis point: here squirms the DNA of hardcore, noise-rock, lo-fi, alt-country, cowpunk, alternative, indie and nearly every other halfcocked subgenre concocted by limpdicked rock scribes going back 30-or-so tick-tocks.

Those precious albs are wide, panfried holy things that continually offer new and amazing angles, depending on what you bring to them, and that’s how come they’ll stand forever among the mind-expanding elite.

So, when we got to open for them this past May in Madison, WI, it was, of course, a ruby-slippers-sized dream come true for most of us; our inner 14-year-olds were skipping class, kicking over gravestones and spray painting the walls for weeks after we heard about it. Come the day, though, we were some real cool customers. We’re peers, after all, out on the touring road: we could dig it. But then I actually saw our Spartan-stoic guitarist Kris Deason turn into a gigantic ambulatory “thumbs-up” when ultimo head-shredderof-all-time, Curt Kirkwood, approached him after soundcheck and told him we “sounded killer.” All bets were off for “cool” right then, Elmo.

I went to the van to change my shirt, and came back to the club donning the fragrant beloved shroud. Bassist Cris Kirkwood walked right up to me and, referring to the handdrawn album art on the shirt, said, “Whoa, man, that’s an old one! See, me and my brother used to cram as much art onto any surface as we could. To us, that’s what it was all about.

Just as much expression as we could manage!”

After he introduced himself and complemented me on our soundcheck (psyched!), he continued his stoked diatribe, and dropped some real wisdom in his inspired pith—almost incidentally, it seemed. “See, I got a tattoo of that one on my arm,” he said, pulling up his sleeve, showing a scrappy, almost-impressionistic rendering. “I knew this biker dude who did tats, and he was a big speedfreak. The week that record came out, I took him the promo sticker and told him I wanted it in black and white—with the line-weight and everything, but with none of the color. He was all messed up, and I was pretty wrecked, too, and so it went. When I woke up the next morning and saw this patch of blue right here, I flipped. I was walking around, sayin ‘I’ve ruined my body! I gotta hack off my

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arm! I’ll never get over it!’ It bugged me for like a year, man.

And then my wife died, and I went to prison, and I learned real human suffering. So this ain’t shit, you know?”

I didn’t know; I was hung up on a shirt, some minor league tour-stress, and other matters of that small-beer ilk. What I did know, though, was this was Cris Kirkwood’s first tour after about a decade’s worth of the real shit-end of the stick, as he so plainly explained, and here he stood, proudly and unselfconsciously extolling the variant joys of expression, eating at a buffet with Hüsker Dü and playing music with his brother: “You know, man, we did a radio interview today, and they played some stuff off Up on the Sun, and I realized that we used to have it, man! Like, back then, I would listen to P-Funk or Phil Lesh and think ‘They’ve got it, that’s how you play bass, that’s how you do it.’ But today after listening to us when we were younger, I realized me and my brother were almost there!”

I assured him that, for me and a couple generations’ worth of musicians, the Brothers Meat (as Kurt Cobain once called them) irreversibly and undoubtedly have it. Through the night, as we talked and drank a bit, he would cast his eyes around the room to the hundreds of gathering fans and mutter things like “Man, this is crazy,” and “I can’t believe people still care about this!”

He was truly and mesmerically thrilled to be back on the trail, tearing it up again.

And tear it up, they did; they nuked us, and we were completely transfixed, especially after the pre-show, uh, offerings we burned with them before they went on.

Never did they let it lapse into pitiful retrograde autoerotic backslapping; to set that tone straight off, they opened with the title track off their then-brand-new record, Sewn Together, and when they did play old faves, they reduced or expanded them vastly into revelatory new forms. “Up on the Sun,” at its heart, became a blazeburnt guitar excursion, equal parts Television, Don Rich and Tuareg Salt-Caravan; “Oh, Me” was brought to bear with gentle Everlys harmonies.

“Lake of Fire,” arguably their most famous tune thanks to Kurt Cobain’s advocacy, was heartlessly disfigured into a hardcore jam, too fast for all the lyrics to work. It was rad!

Curt spoke later on the subject, describing an attitudinal attribute that always defined them and would shape their sonic evolution: “I learned to hate punk rock audiences; I hated that violence, the volume. I wanted to make them angry, which is why we ended up playing soft and slow with long guitar solos.”

For this show they intuitively flipped that script, at least for a minute, and it was endemic of something vital. They’ve still got the fire, the vitriol, the open-hearted pith and the spirit, which is why there’s nothing “Touch of Gray” about them (well, maybe a tad in the guitar-tone), and why seeing and experiencing them in the now is just as important and disorienting as bathing full-bore in the great transformative achievements of their strange past. This ain’t no museum visit; forget the artifacts—it’ll screw you up good!

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THE SLITS Trapped Animal Narnack The Slits’ 30-years-young reggaepunk debut, Cut, remains brilliant because its plurality of voices, attitudes and genres is impossible to pin down at any moment. Listening to the album invariably involves backtracking to relive a specific riff or off-kilter rhythm.

Follow Ari Up’s distinctive vocal trills along your spine or determine whether she actually slips “I heard it through the bass line” into a cover of the Marvin Gaye classic.

Trapped Animal, the band’s first full-length release in 28 years, boils away the elements surrounding that catchy section, style or fusion and repeats it ad nauseam. Two of the original members, Up and bassist Tessa Pollitt, add Anna Schulte, Adele Wilson and the daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook, but the absence of Viv Albertine’s scratchy, choked guitar is at least as pronounced as the newcomers’ presence. “Ask Ma” is synth-heavy, “Lazy Slam” features a vocoder à la Damian Marley’s “Hey Girl,” and “Babylon” verges on Ras Trent-style parody, unfortunately.

The Slits have shifted the shape of their sound on each of their three albums, and Trapped Animal’s brand of dub alternates between breezy and club-ready. The band has never made any stylistic compromises, and they are not exactly trailing UUVVWWZ, Love Is All, Lily Allen and the other artists they influenced. The song structures here are straightforward, and Cut’s urgency does not translate onto Trapped Animal. The Slits’ spirit seems intact, however, and they deserve respect (and maybe sales) for not attempting to recapture a feeling inextricably bound to their distant, mud-caked mythology.

Alex Dimitropoulos

LE LOUP Family Hardly Art Though they stunned with a superlative performance at SXSW 2008, this D.C. act’s stirring, otherworldly 2007 debut was a largely misunderstood album. As if to rectify that, they’ve gone full-on Fleet Foxes with a panoramic expansion of sound. Rendered in psychedelic pastels, the experimental folk music in this harmonic sophomore outing is all clouds, echoes and percussive restlessness. Gone is any

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of their former reliance on synthesizers and electronics, resulting in a record with a distinctly more organic feel. What was once a solo project by founder Sam Simkoff is now a fully collaborative affair, and the record sounds like a band effort. While their debut was intensely introspective, this one is ready for communion with the cosmos.

The resplendent gallop of “Grow” is how Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound might play in Wonderland. “Sherpa” is a rapturous sing-along that Port O’Brien would gladly join in on, and the seismic, horizon-flooding beauty of “Forgive Me” is like watching the sunrise on LSD. Though their previous effort was nearly mystical and utterly original, this one is more lush and relatable.

More than anything, though, it’s a more assured work that should finally elevate them above the status of criminally overlooked band.

Bao Le-Huu Le Loup is playing at Lenny’s Bar in Atlanta on Thursday, Nov. 5.

CASTANETS Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts Asthmatic Kitty Ray Raposa and the Castanets crew float through 39 minutes in heady demonstration of what the muses of creativity and sensitivity deem necessary to define a genre in its own right (a genre we’ll call “space blues”) featuring extreme dynamics. This disc is a heavily swinging ride between and above the trees on a glittering black dragon.

That means the music sounds equally influenced by Slayer, Woody Guthrie and N.W.A., when instructed.

And between all of that distance are found tidal waves of distortion, kneebuckling drums and soul-unfolding candor. But (wait), there’s more: for example, 20-odd seconds of beautiful pick scraping on “The Thaw and the Beasts.” Plus, there are tape loops, segues (the album plays like a needle traveling through cloth), gospel organs, computer noise and guitar solos—all tied together with tales of memory and epiphany sung in a molasses-andcigarettes baritone.

I’m not saying this is Pet Sounds 2; one result of the great shift in world culture since 1966 has been (ironically) a simultaneous fragmentation and cluttering of the music industry, leaving innovators struggling for funding while derivative content attracts happy investment. Times are a tad darker in the good ol’ U-S of A it seems, and art cannot help but reflect this. And, as with most art, the redeeming journey moves through varying mystical/inner landscapes to reveal eventually the malleability of Time and the beauty of our predicament. Critical listeners: start with “No Trouble” and try to keep frowning.

Tony Floyd

PORT O’BRIEN Threadbare TBD It’s rare that you can find a laid back and beautiful album that won’t immediately bore you to sleep. The delicate balance between soft and too soft is one that escapes most bands.

Thankfully, Port O’Brien keeps it just interesting enough that you’ll want to stay awake to discover the intricate melodies that lie within.

Threadbare relies heavily on the band’s folk and indie-pop origins. Port O’Brien is named after a small bay on Kodiak Island, and, boy, does it sound like it. On tracks like “Oslo Campfire,” you can almost hear the waves hitting the shore in some lonesome seaside town as the music swells and fades. It makes a lot of sense once you find out that most of the members of O’Brien grew up working in and around the water.

Chiming guitars and very soft percussion are the rule here, along with plenty of references to the sea.

There’s an overwhelming sense of isolation and sadness that permeates Threadbare. Maybe it’s because the ocean and melancholy have always gone pretty well together. The tunes on the album are almost like modern day sea shanties dressed up with orchestral arrangements with a hymnal that permeates throughout. Port O’Brien’s latest offering is mostly slow and elegant, wrapping songs around themselves and occasionally upping the tempo.

Overall, this band is is exactly what you’d want playing in the background as you row your boat through the rain to the shore. These are the songs that you hear in dreams.

Jordan Stepp Port O’Brien is playing The EARL in Atlanta on Friday, Oct. 23.

THE ETTES Do You Want Power Take Root The Ettes’ rising profile ain’t no fluke. This is a band that’s fostered its sound with focus and diligence.

Though still anchored by rock and roll, punk and beat music, the garage-rock trio ventures further out sonically and stylistically on this third album. The production hand of garage legend Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound) maintains The Ettes’ cherished texture and tonnage but gives their sharp melodies

more play, thereby coaxing greater depth and dimension from their sound.

Full-throttle workouts like “I Can’t Be True,” “Blood Red Blood” and “No Home” provide maximum burn while songs like “Take It with You” showcase their increasing melodic confidence.

But other hues are rendered just as effectively in songs like “Love Lies Bleeding,” which pairs country with ‘60s sass, and “Seasons,” a dusty spaghetti Western song riding a nasty low-end that threatens to swallow everything whole.

Poni Silver’s restless, assertive beats and the constant rumble of Jem Cohen’s fuzz bass form a formidable locomotive. But Coco Hames’ voice is getting richer and more forceful, becoming more and more a vehicle of female empowerment. Excellently balanced and more expansive, Do You Want Power is a romping ball of style, stomp and conviction, proving that few give musical tradition a big modern kick like The Ettes.

Bao Le-Huu

VENICE IS SINKING Okay One Percent Press Venice Is Sinking has been a busy band lately. After just releasing the album Azar, the band filmed a new music video and kicked off a successful campaign to get its next album pressed.

Now the group has a maxi-single out called Okay which includes two versions of Venice’s song “Okay,” the first radio single “Ryan’s Song,” and then two songs by the band Okay. Okay?

All kidding aside, the single “Okay” is a pretty decent indicator of Venice Is Sinking’s sound. You’ve got a mix of the typical indie traits like male-female harmonies, assorted stringed instruments and a very basic drum beat, but Venice pulls it off well. There’s really nothing on Okay that you haven’t heard the band do before. The main attractions here are the covers.

The mournful sounding “Compass” is held together by a strong viola part and a very subtle but efficient bass line. It’s not too far off from the original with exception of the vocals. The duet between Daniel Lawson and Karolyn Troupe provides a much less abrasive alternative to Okay’s nasal and howling take.

“Give Up” lends a twangy feel to the single in the vein of “Wetlands Dancehall” from Azar. But all of the sweetness disappears when a heavy guitar enters in about halfway through.

It’s a slower than normal track for Venice, which is saying something.

The alternate versions of “Okay” and “Ryan’s Song,” dubbed the Henslee sessions, are worth a listen if you’re a fan and have heard the versions from Azar. The mix of “Okay” does include a nifty typewriter effect and more prominent guitar-strumming. Otherwise, there’s not much new here, just some odds and ends that really serve as a calling card more than an album.

Jordan Stepp

His Truth Is Marching On Mike Doughty Is Sad/Happy, Man W

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hen I listen to the song “The Truth Is Marching On,” from the album singer-songwriter Mike Doughty put out in 2005 with the very Doughty-esque title of Haughty Melodic, I am summarily zapped back in time roughly 10 years. I’m 16 again, and I’m hearing Soul Coughing for the first time, coming down from a very wholesome Pop Tarts high around five in the morning. You have to understand how crestfallen I had become when I couldn’t discern the appeal in the Pearl Jam album I’d received for my birthday: it’s just guitar music. Who cares? Now: “Super Bon Bon” had upright bass, nails-on-chalkboard noise and that cracking snare drum, all polished by flawless Tchad Blake production. The whole thing was tied together by Doughty’s impressionistic lyrics, and that same über-nonplussing mood has carried on into Doughty’s solo career, now six records deep. Furthermore, said solo career is very much what is up in the man’s life right now, so with that personal anecdote out of the way, I’ll humbly move on to the current, relevant and tangible topics at hand.

His wry, playful, sideways-glancing ease with language is the common thread of his entire career. Yes, he’s still tacking “-uhs” onto the end of his phrases, like an American Mark E. Smith who grew up weaned on the staccato delivery of rap music. (Somewhere, a record store clerk has developed a facial tic from reading that sentence. You’re welcome.)

“I guess the moment it all really crystalized for me was when I was studying with Sekou Sundiata in New York, and that guy really changed my life in a huge way,” Doughty tells Flagpole from a tour van rapidly en route to Cleveland. “I was writing beforehand, but he really changed the way I was working. It’s not easy to describe, but I just became a lot more aware of what words were doing. I became a lot more aware that… my job is working for the words, that the words aren’t working for me, if that makes any sense.”

He’s lucky, then, that he has such an easygoing employeremployee relationship. “It’s become a much more integrated process in my life,” he says. “As I get older, it becomes more and more a part of me, as opposed to something that I just… did. The act of creation itself is just a blast. When you figure something out… when it’s really good, you feel like you found it more than you wrote it.”

Creating has been a two-fold experience for him of late.

Behind the scenes, he has been working on a memoir. (“It’s really mostly drug stories. I’m one of those guys writing a book about how he took a bunch of drugs and then he stopped taking drugs.”) His new album, Sad Man Happy Man, is full of his guitar’s signature percussive snap. “It’s really difficult for me to have a real viewpoint on what I’m doing until several years afterwards,” Doughty defers when pressed for an idea of what listeners can expect from the new jams. “What I’m hearing from people I work with is that they think of it as a summation of what I’ve been doing for the past 10 years. A little bit of Skittish [2000], a little bit of Haughty Melodic; it incorporates a lot of elements of what I’ve been doing for as long as I’ve been making music.” His current tour will be leaving the drum machines and ornamentation behind and will see Doughty accompanied by cellist Andrew Howard “Scrap” Livingston.

Jeff Tobias

WHO: Mike Doughty, Porter Block WHERE: The Melting Point WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 22 HOW MUCH: $15 (adv.), $18 (door)

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Supercluster Local Supergroup Finds Strength in Numbers

Michael Lachowski

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a tightly knit music town like Athens, collaboration between bands is common. Side projects grow like wildflowers and guitarist swapping is just an understood thing. But every once in a while, a group of musicians will really click and become more than just a band. They become a community, a family. And for Supercluster, that is what it’s all about.

Supercluster is an incredibly appropriate moniker for a project that contains musicians from a rough dozen or so other bands from the Athens area. Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon) and Hannah Jones (New Sound of Numbers) gathered up some friends from Olivia Tremor Control, Instruments, Casper & the Cookies, The Squalls, and Deerhunter to create what the members called “just a fun little thing.”

With so many influences and musical leanings, Supercluster could have imploded.

Instead, the band quickly hit upon a sound that it calls “Appalachian wave,” a mix of trance and dance with some pop and experimental touches. Having enough inspiration for songs was not a problem. Having any musicians in town at the time of recording, however, was a different animal.

“Pylon was only doing the occasional show here and there, so I had time for Supercluster,” says Briscoe Hay. “It’s getting everyone in the same room at the same time; that’s the challenge.”

Fortunately, Supercluster leaned more towards a recording project than a touring one, allowing its members to come and go through town with their other bands and not upset the balance. When the band did play live, the collective pulled from its many side projects for members, making each show unique. The band’s songs began to reflect their wide variety of tastes.

“Making the album was like playing with a Ouija board, I guess,” says Jason NeSmith, who acted as both mixer and musician on the record. “We just all put our hands into it and let it go where it wanted.”

By “we” NeSmith also means the numerous family members that helped to create Supercluster’s debut album Waves. Briscoe Hay would often end up humming a tune to herself all day until she could get to her keyboard or phone to record it. The bandmembers would add in their parts, like a cello here and a paper bag there. Briscoe Hay’s daughter Hana Hay contributed a few song additions of her own.

Supercluster somehow manages to steer clear of being compared to any one of the bands it is formed from. Like a musical magnet, pieces from the most Elephant Sixsounding bits to the more pop-oriented song become rearranged and settled in a way that few have before. As for the topics Supercluster

tackles on its first venture out, they range from the seriousness of war to lighthearted tales about mermaids.

As a live band, Supercluster is really something to see, mainly because one can never be sure what the lineup will look like that night.

Joining the Supercluster family in live gigs from time to time are musicians like Heather McIntosh (Instruments) and Brian Poole (Of Montreal), contributing their own talents to the band’s three female vocalists, a nearly full string quartet and good old-fashioned drums and guitar.

The lives of the entire Supercluster family were turned upside down when guitarist Randy Bewley (Pylon, New Sound of Numbers) died in February this year. As a bandmember, Bewley had been stepping outside of his boundaries with his guitar stylings and was beginning to experiment. With their dear friend and bandmate suddenly gone, the project was put on hold for a bit.

“It was a while before I could listen to any of the recordings,” says Briscoe Hay. “Towards the end, he came up with these delicate little guitar parts. They were beautiful.”

With Bewley’s place now vacant, NeSmith and Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox stepped in as guitarists to help Supercluster finish the recording. It was an emotional process for the band, but it was one they were determined to get through together. The final decision to release Waves was something that no one even thought twice about.

“There was never any doubt that we would release it,” says Briscoe Hay. “We felt like the world deserved to hear Randy.”

It is fitting, then, that Supercluster’s debut album was released on Oct. 6, just a bit before Pylon’s reissue of Chomp. Besides featuring Bewley’s guitar work, both albums also have his artwork on their covers: a dinosaur on Chomp and a funky guitar on Waves. It’s a musical family’s memorial to one of their own.

The release party is taking place at Little Kings, the place where Pylon made a triumphant return during a now legendary show a few years back. Time has passed quickly since then, but Bewley’s love of music is carried forward by his bandmates in Supercluster, who continue to press on to new musical horizons.

Says Briscoe Hay, “I can’t wait to see where we go next.”

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onny Wickersham, guitarist for Los Angeles punk group Social Distortion, loves his new kitten. Little thing just wandered into Wickersham’s kitchen last night, he says, and now he’s taken it to the vet to get checked out. The guitarist, 41, figures the cat’s six weeks old. He’s named her Penelope, because the name denotes sweetness and, he says, “that’s very contrary to the way she is. She’s really ornery.”

Hearing Wickersham speak, you would be forgiven for thinking his day job was volunteering at the Humane Society. That couldn’t be further from the truth. You look at Wickersham and his bandmates onstage and you think: “They’re all tattooed… They’re wearing black… They look mean.” You don’t think: “kittens.”

Domestic chores like taking a kitten to the vet stand in stark contrast to the lifestyle Wickersham’s music is most often associated with. He plays punk rock, after all. Social D’s frontman, Mike Ness, has been singing about drug addiction, rebellion and the darker aspects of life as an outcast for 31 years. Hell, the band’s breakthrough single in 1990 (“Ball and Chain”) ended with the lyrics, “Times are hard and getting harder/ I’m born to lose and destined to fail.”

If folks haven’t heard that song, set to a mid-tempo swing with Ness’ trademark whine and ringing guitars, then they’ve likely heard Social D’s cover of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire.” That tune helped establish the band as a central figure in the country-punk pantheon and pretty much guaranteed Ness and his mates a devoted fanbase. Although there are countless younger acts nowadays who cite Cash as a primary influence, Social Distortion was among the first to do it in such a successful fashion.

That has its benefits and drawbacks.

Wickersham, who joined the group in 2000 (Ness is the sole original member), admits that Social Distortion is prone to stay in familiar artistic territory.

“We want to grow and evolve and progress as musicians,” Wickersham says, “but at the same time we’re not going to sacrifice the sound of the band, or fall so outside the box and come back with a new record and try to freak everybody out.”

What’s a band to do, when its success hinges on staying inside the box? In Social Distortion’s case, you take what you do and do it extremely well. Wickersham explains, “There are perimeters we stay within on purpose, but we can grow at the same time. The cool thing about playing in Social D is that we’ve been

through trying to show off, and what it comes down to is just playing your instrument…

We’re thinking about how we can support the song and add to the song, and what Mike’s singing, and what he’s singing about.

That approach has paid off handsomely for the band, which has always been short on technical theatrics while relying heavily on attitude. Social Distortion released Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll in 2004, after an eight-year hiatus, to some of the best reviews of its career. Most notably, Ness’ lyrics had matured, in that he began singing from the perspective of an older rock star who had lived through more than enough hedonism for one person.

The standard punk and country chord progressions were still there; Wickersham, bassist John Maurer and drummer Charlie Quintana weren’t trying to reinvent the wheel.

Playing simple without sounding boring; remaining inside the proverbial box without repeating past successes—how many bands have fallen victim to their own lack of ingenuity? A hell of a lot, apparently, which is likely why there are very few punk bands that have endured longer than many of their fans lived.

Besides, Wickersham says, he has no interest in overplaying a song, trying to add unnecessary bullshit to a tune that calls for three chords and a simple, good hook.

“I couldn’t do that when I was younger,” Wickersham admits. “I was in my own world, playing for myself.”

So growing up, even for a punk rocker, isn’t all that bad after all. Wickersham’s lifestyle has changed as much as his playing, too. He no longer sleeps on floors while on tour. He rides a tour bus to gigs, rather than the prototypical beat-up van that he and countless other punks have taken on the road. And he can allow himself little luxuries now—like pet ownership. Asked about what will happen to Penelope when he goes on tour, Wickersham says he’s a little sad about leaving the kitten.

“I got people to take care of it. I mean, I take care of another cat already… I’m just bummed because I’m going to miss her kittenhood. They grow up pretty fast.”

Mark Sanders

WHO: Social Distortion, The Strangers, Middle Class Rut WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Friday, Oct. 23 HOW MUCH: SOLD OUT!

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American Aquarium: This Raleigh band scored a sweet gig in Athens a few weeks back opening up for a sold-out Corey Smith show at the Classic Center on a home game weekend.

The crowd immediately took to the anthemic spirit of American Aquarium’s heartland rock and alt-country drawl. The vocals are rough and gravelly, but the lyrics are tender and lovelorn: think Springsteen teaming up with Whiskeytown. (Melting Point, Wednesday 21) Middle Class Rut: The Social Distortion show may be sold out, but if you do have tickets, here’s one good reason to get there early.

Opening act Middle Class Rut is a dynamic duo that takes the gritty grime of punk and uses it

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on Friday… clothing is required. (40 Watt Club, Friday 23) Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t: It’s been almost a year since this Elephant 6 band was in our Calendar, and this week you’ve got two chances to catch them! The dreamy sweet psychedelic band is headed up by Peter Erchick, who played keyboards in Olivia Tremor Control. The group is providing support at Supercluster’s CD release show at Little Kings and will be on the bill with Fire Zuave, Smoke Dog and more at Caledonia the next night. (Little Kings Shuffle Club, Friday 23) (Caledonia Lounge, Saturday 24).

A PostWar Drama: This time they really mean it: after pushing back the date of their CD release show two or three times, this local band finally has copies of The Fishous Carriage in hand and ready to sell! To prove that this is the real deal, the band is throwing a free party at Flicker featuring the wizardry of Todd Herron (who will saw someone in half), the awkward stand-up comedy stylings of Nate Mitchell (Cars Can Be Blue), balloon animals, Mr. Blank and his freak show, plus other surprises. Of course, headlining the event will

Middle Class Rut to oil the intricate gears of its alternative rock machine. The first single I heard sounded a bit too much like The Offspring for my liking, but when I dug deeper into their recent EP, I was rewarded with snarling, slightly bluesy rock and roll anthems. Yeah, the influences are pretty divergent—from Fugazi to Jane’s Addiction—but the live show should be unified in its blistering energy. To be honest, I was surprised that this band did rock at all, as the band name is often abbreviated as MC Rut, and I wrongly assumed for some time that it was some kind of DJ/electronic/hip-hop act.

The mistake is less likely to be made over in the UK where the band has been getting loads of attention, with slots at the Reading and Leeds festivals and the obligatory drooling adulation from NME, who declared the band “exhilarating, like running naked through a bee storm.” See what the “buzz” is all about

be A PostWar Drama, who are something of a circus themselves, full of spirited sing-alongs, raucous barroom stomps and gypsy swing.

(Flicker, Saturday 24) Cinemechanica: These guys may have been upstaged by their side project, the fantastical Bit Brigade, which plays the soundtrack to classic NES games live. But if you appreciate the power and precision of that performance, you will be equally awed by Cinemechanica.

They’ve got one of the best drummers in Athens in Mike Albanese plus the powerhouse guitar and bass of Andy Pruett, Matt Nelson and Bryant Williamson. Screeching, howling vocals match the intensity and volume of the music for a fierce, massive sound. (Tasty World Uptown, Tuesday 27) Michelle Gilzenrat

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the calendar!

WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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

Tuesday 20 EVENTS: Italian Wine Tasting (Aromas) Join the staff of Aromas for a sampling of their Italian wines.

Call for reservations. 6 p.m. $10.

706-208-0059 EVENTS: The Art of: Music (Stan Mullins’ Studio) The Georgia Museum of Art presents Grammy Award-winner Art Rosenbaum in this oldtime and bluegrass music performance. Part of GMOA’s “The Art of…” series. Call to RSVP. 6–8 p.m. $20. 706-542-0830, www.uga. edu/gamuseum PERFORMANCE: Greek Grind (The Classic Center) A dance competition between sororities. All proceeds benefit Prevent Child Abuse America. Part of the DanceATHENS Dance Festival. 7:30 p.m. $12. www. classiccenter.com* 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 LECTURES & LIT.: Michael Fried (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Rm S151) The poet, art historian and art and literary critic speaks as part of the Visiting Artist/Scholar Series.

5:30 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) Economic geologist and Professor of Geology at UGA, Dr. Gilles Allard will speak on “Mineral Resources, Your Daily Life, and Environmental Concerns.” 7:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-8082 MEETINGS: Coffee Cupping (1000faces Coffee, 585 Barber Street) Taste and learn about coffees from around the world with coffee scholar Erin McCarthy.

10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, www.1000facescoffee.com MEETINGS: French Group (1000faces Coffee, 588 Barber Street) All-level French conversation group. Informal, welcoming and très bon! Every Tuesday.

7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, www.1000facescoffee.com GAMES: Board Game Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Choose from the classic assortment provided or bring your own! 6 p.m. FREE! www. myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside,

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Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

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Wednesday 21 EVENTS: Annual Night Out For Life (Various Locations) Visit any of the bars or restaurants participating in AIDS Athens’ annual Night Out and a portion of your bill will go toward helping people with HIV/AIDS. Go online for a list of participating businesses. 706-542-2437, www. aidsathens.org EVENTS: Benefit for AIDS Athens (New Earth Music Hall) A portion of bar sales tonight will go to AIDS Athens. www.newearthmusichall. com EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

Every Wednesday. 5–7 p.m. www. athensdowntownhotel.com EVENTS: Moroccan Night (The Manhattan Café) Shake your belly or watch others shake theirs for belly dancing in the most exotic lamplit drinking hole in all of Hot Corner.

8:30–11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-9767 THEATRE: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Morton Theatre) Live actors and loveable puppets bring this classic Grimm’s fairytale to life. 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. $10, www.mortontheatre.org THEATRE: An Evening’s Jest with Anton Chekhov (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Classic City Arts presents two short romantically comedic plays, The Bear and The Proposal. 8 p.m. $5. 706-850-1755, www.classiccityarts.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: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Urban Legends. Listen to popular urban legends and share some of your own with Mary Jean Hartel.

Ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 MEETINGS: American Sign Language Study Group (Cups Coffee Café) All skill levels welcome. Come once or come weekly.

Newcomers welcome! 7–8 p.m.

FREE! www.myspace.com/aslstudygroup GAMES: Darts (Broad Street Bar and Grill) Blind draw darts tournament.

Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. 706-5485187 GAMES: Movie Trivia Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Where movie trivia meets performance art. Hosted by “It Boy” Jeff Tobias and sponsored by Vision Video. Prizes! Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m.

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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) Chris Creech hosts general knowledge trivia with different themes each week. Check the Facebook group “Trivia Wars!” for weekly updates and online question of the week.

8:30 p.m. (sign up) 9 p.m. (game starts). FREE! 706-208-1283 GAMES: XBox 360 (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Qualifying round for the upcoming tournament. 6 p.m.

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Thursday 22 EVENTS: Milking the Rhino (UGA Ecology Building) Screening of a film documenting the neverending struggle between man and beast in Africa. Part of the EcoFocus Film Festival. 12:30 p.m. FREE! www. ecofocusfilmfest.org EVENTS: Tapped (East Athens Community Center) The AthensClarke County Recycling and Solid Waste Departments sponsor the screening of this documentary investigating the bottled water industry and its effects on public health. Light refreshments and door prizes! 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 EVENTS: Classic City Professionals Night (Allen’s Bar & Grill) Network with local professionals like yourself! 706-353-6244, www.allensbarandgrill.com EVENTS: Princess Avenue Pageant (Go Bar) 15 contestants compete for the title of Princess Avenue, with evening wear, onstage interview, and talent categories.

All proceeds benefit the Ugandan Orphanage Relief Fund. Music provided by Immuzikation! 9 p.m. $5.

706-546-5609 EVENTS: Rock W/U: Michael Jackson Dance Party (Tasty World Uptown) Pay your respects to The Gloved One at this tribute dance party and fundraiser for the DanceATHENS Dance Festival.

For ages 18 and up. 9:30 p.m. $5 (adults), $3 (students), www. dancefx.org EVENTS: Twilight Toasts in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Featuring a horticultural segment about attracting birds to your garden, a wine tasting by The Healthy Gourmet, light hors d’oeuvres by Trumps Catering and live music. 6:30–8 p.m. $15. 706542-1244* PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Sonia Choy, flute. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-5424400, www.uga.edu/pac

Cellist Lynn Harrell will perform at the UGA Performing Arts Center Saturday, Oct. 24.

PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Shakhida Azimkhodjaeva, violin. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4400, www. uga.edu/pac MEETINGS: Clarke County Democratic Committee (Clarke County Courthouse, Grand Jury Room) Democratic gubernatorial candidate DuBose Porter is the featured speaker at this month’s meeting of the CCDC. All interested persons are invited to attend. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-202-7515 MEETINGS: Coffee Cupping (1000faces Coffee, 585 Barber Street) Join those seeking to move life from commodity to culinary.

Taste and learn about coffees from around the world with Benjamin Myers, Presidente of 1000faces.

10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, www.1000facescoffee.com MEETINGS: Spanish Group (1000faces Coffee, 588 Barber Street) All-level Spanish conversation group. Informal, welcoming and fun! Every Thursday.

7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, www.1000facescoffee.com GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Every Thursday. Prizes! 8 p.m. 706-5492639

Friday 23 EVENTS: Addicted to Plastic (Ciné Barcafé) A screening of a film documenting our obsessive relationship with plastics followed by a waste-

free lunch. Sponsored by Athens Clarke County Recycling. Part of the EcoFocus Film Festival. 11:30 a.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.com, www. ecofocusfilmfest.org EVENTS: Saving Luna (Ciné Barcafé) Directors Suzanne Chisolm and Michael Parfit screen their film chronicling the struggle of an abandoned baby whale befriended by humans in its mother’s absence.

Reception and panel discussion with filmmaker follow. Part of the EcoFocus Film Festival. 7 p.m. $8. www.athenscine.com, www.ecofocusfilmfest.org EVENTS: Horror Games Demonstration Night (Tyche’s Games) Learn how to make your basement even spookier this Halloween! Space is limited. 6 p.m.

FREE! 706-354-4500, www.tychesgames.com EVENTS: JLA Holiday Marketplace (The Classic Center) Get your holiday shopping out of the way at this market sponsored by the Junior League of Athens. Unique gifts from upscale specialty merchants, works by local and regional artists, monogrammed items, custom jewelry and more. Call for more info! FREE! 706-549-8688, www. juniorleagueofathens.org EVENTS: Nuci’s Space 9th Anniversary Party (Nuçi’s Space) Live music from local artists, a silent auction of signed music memorabilia and more! 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.nuci.org See Calendar Pick on p. 26.

EVENTS: UGA Observatory Open House (UGA Observatory) The 24-inch telescope is open for public viewing on the roof of the UGA physics building. 8 p.m. FREE! 706542-2870 PERFORMANCE: The Army Ground Forces Band (Performing Arts Center) World-class music in support of the U.S. Army Forces Command. 8 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu/pac THEATRE: Appointment with Death (Elberton Arts Center) A dysfunctional American family takes a vacation to the deserts of Jerusalem, but not all of them will return home in this Agatha Christie whodunit. Oct. 23–24 & Oct. 30–31, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 2 p.m. $10–$30, 706-283-1049, tking@ cityofelberton.net THEATRE: Camelot (The Classic Center) The Knights of the Round Table descend upon Athens with a musical adaptation of The Once and Future King. 8 p.m. $10–$65, 706357-4506, www.classiccenter.com KIDSTUFF: Japanese Storytime (ACC Library, Storyroom) Led

by Hijiri Hattori, Japan Outreach Coordinator for Asian Studies with UGA. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: October Fright Night Movies (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Come out for a scary movie with your friends!

5:30 p.m. (ages 7–12), 7 p.m. (ages 13–15). $1. 706-613-3603, www.accleisureservices.com/holidayevents. com

KIDSTUFF: “Teach Your Child a Foreign Language” (Earth Fare) Local instructor from the Athens Language Schoolhouse discusses the benefits of teaching your child a second language and provides tips on how to do introduce a second language at home. Space is limited; call to reserve your spot! 5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-227-1717 LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month, members will read and discuss any of Rita Dove’s books. Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: VOX Reading Series (ATHICA) News-themed stories and poems by Matt Forsyth, Andy Srazee and Ida Stewart complement Athica’s “Free Press in Free Fall” exhibit. 6:30 p.m. $3–$6 (suggested donation), www.athica.org

Saturday 24 EVENTS: An American Opera: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever (Retro Cinema & Books) Tom McPhee’s award-winning directorial debut documents the efforts of city officials, rescue organizations, adopters and pet owners to rescue the thousands of animal victims left in Hurricane Katrina’s wake. 7 p.m. $5, www.rescuepartytour.com EVENTS: ACC Surplus Auction (East Side, Jail Road) From tractors and computers to sunglasses and cologne, Athens-Clarke County’s surplus is sure to satisfy your commercial farm/independent film company/baseball team/new fall wardrobe needs. See list of auction items online. 10 a.m. www.athensclarkecounty.com 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 Health and Wellness Day (Bishop Park) Learn how to stay active and healthy throughout the chilly season ahead with free massages, energy sessions and demonstrations by local health and wellness providers. 9 a.m.– noon, FREE! EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Various Locations) Milton Leathers leads a tour through the lovely Cobbham Historic District. Space is limited; call to reserve spot. 10 a.m. $15. 706-353-1801, www. achfonline.org EVENTS: Halloween Costume Party (Boutier Winery, Danielsville) Wine, appetizers and live music!

Prize awarded for best costume.

7 p.m. $15. 769-789-0059, www. boutierwinery.com EVENTS: JLA Holiday Marketplace (The Classic Center) See Oct. 23 Events. FREE! 706-5498688, www.juniorleagueofathens.org EVENTS: Nuci’s 6th Annual SPACE Race (UGA Campus) Run/walk for Suicide Prevention Awareness and Community Education. 9 a.m. $25, $20 (students), 706-227-1515, www.nuci.org See Calendar Pick on p. 26.

EVENTS: Pagan Pride Day (Bishop Park) Performers of magic, magical performers, vendors of wonders, teachers of wisdom and just plain folks are welcome to celebrate at this annual day of education, activism, charity and community. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! http://athenspaganpride. org EVENTS: REEL Rock Film Tour (Active Climbing) This rock climbing film tour comes to Georgia for the first time. Night begins with a

climbing competition and ends with a live performance by Animals That Will Kill Yer Ass or a sleepover. See website for details. 5 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. halfmoonoutfitters.com, www.activeclimbing.com, www.reelrocktour. com* EVENTS: Saturday Stroll (Oconee County Courthouse) Learn about the community’s reliance on the Bear Creek reservoir on this informal, hour-long stroll led by stormwater specialist and UGA professor Dr. Liz Kramer. 9 a.m. $5. oconeedemocrats.org EVENTS: Scare Up a Harvest: Help the Hungry (Lyndon House Arts Center) This year’s entries for the scarecrow competition are on display! 10 a.m.–noon, please donate cans of ravioli, 706-613-3623, www.accleisureservices.com ART: Penumbra Halloween Art Show and Sale (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios, 159 Jackson Street) Halloween art show/sale. Bring your own carved pumpkin for contest.

Costumes are encouraged and Halloween portraiture is available. 7 p.m. FREE! www.mamainthemoon. blogspot.com PERFORMANCE: Live to Dance (East Athens Educational Dance Center, 390 MicKinley Drive) A performance by the G.I.F.T.E.D. (Giving Inspirational Feeling Through Expressive Dance) Performing Ensemble, a 16-member children’s dance company. Oct. 24, 3 & 6 p.m. $8, 706-613-3624, www.accleisureservices.com PERFORMANCE: Comedy Night (The Office Lounge) Featuring live stand-up acts. 9 p.m. $5. 706-546080 PERFORMANCE: DanceATHENS Dance Concert (Morton Theatre) The final night of the DanceATHENS Dance Festival includes performances by the Argentine Tango Club, UGA Tap Dawgs, DanceFX Concert Dance Company, SALSAtlanta and more. 7:30 p.m. $16 (adults), $13 (students). Go to www.dancefx.org for more info.

PERFORMANCE: Lynn Harrell (UGA Hodgson Hall) Award-winning cellist performs as a part of UGA Performing Arts Center’s Music Series II. 8 p.m. $23–$28. 706-5424400, www.uga.edu/pac* THEATRE: Appointment with Death (Elberton Arts Center) An Encore Productions presentation.

See Oct. 23 Theatre. Oct. 23–24 & Oct. 30–31, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 2 p.m. $10–$30, 706-2831049, tking@cityofelberton.net OUTDOORS: Cook’s Trail Hike (Greenway) Explore the lush 4.1 mile trail and all its creatures before they hide away for winter. 1–3:30 p.m.

Register at 706-613-3615 ext. 242 KIDSTUFF: Cauldron for Childcare (Ciné Barcafé) Attend a screening of the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and enter a costume contest to win cool prizes.

Proceeds go to pay for child care vouchers for children living in poverty. 12–3 p.m. $10. 706-546-1065, athenscine.org KIDSTUFF: Freedom to Grow Unschool (Call for location) Holding an informational meeting for parents interested in an innovative, democratic, homeschool-like “unschool” for preschool to upper elementary students. 2 p.m. 478718-1414, www.freedomtogrowunschool.com KIDSTUFF: Ghost Ball (Memorial Park) Decorate your finest sheets to impress as you float across the dance floor, but ask your parents first. Ghosts and goblins ages 3–7 should call to register. 5–7 p.m. $3.

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KIDSTUFF: Scary, Oozy, Slimy Day (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Learn about the slimy and misunderstood creatures of our world. Wear your Halloween costumes for a variety of games, activities and crafts. 4 p.m. $2. 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Spooky Candy Crafts (Madison County Library) Learn how to simultaneously revolt and delight your senses constructing these creepy Halloween treats. For kids ages 9 and up. 10 a.m.–noon. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Touch a Truck Day (Southeast Clarke Park) Kids get the chance to explore trucks of all types. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706613-3580

Sunday 25 EVENTS: EcoFocus Film Festival Closing Night (Hotel Indigo) Awards party and reception with musical performance by Grogus.

Sponsored by the Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology. 7 p.m. $12. 706542-2968, www.ecofocusfilmfest.org EVENTS: Fall Wine Fest (Ashford Manor) Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation fundraiser features food/ wine tasting from local and regional vineyards and restaurants and a silent art auction. 3–6 p.m. $30 (adv.), $35. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com* EVENTS: Jack-O-Lantern Jog & Goblin Fun Run (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Proceeds benefit the SCNC. Prizes awarded for top finishers. All ages. Costume contest at 1:45 p.m. One-mile fun run begins at 2 p.m. and four-mile race follows at 2:30 p.m. 2 p.m. $20. www.active.com EVENTS: JLA Holiday Marketplace (The Classic Center) See Oct. 23 Events. FREE! 706-5498688, www.juniorleagueofathens.org EVENTS: Madison Mays Memorial Disc Golf Tournament (Sandy Creek Park) Who knew that a Professional Disc Golf Association even existed? If you did, then you probably already have your tickets to this fun, moderately competitive charitable event. 1–6 p.m. $20, 706-614-4589, jccutts@ charter.net ART: Opening Reception (Athens Academy) For exhibits in both the Bertelsmann and Myers Galleries, featuring work by Erin McIntosh, Jennifer Hartley, DiDi Dunphy, Lou Kregel and Carol John. 2–4 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-9225 THEATRE: Appointment with Death (Elberton Arts Center) An Encore Productions presentation.

See Oct. 23 Theatre. Oct. 23–24 & Oct. 30–31, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 2 p.m. $10–$30, 706-2831049, tking@cityofelberton.net LECTURES & LIT.: Hank Kilibanoff (ACC Library) Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation speaks as part of the “We the People” program. Book signing and reception follow. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Slow Food Athens (Weaver D’s Fine Foods) Talk about the Slow Food movement, locally or globally, and enjoy delicious food cooked up “automatic for the people.” Newcomers welcome! Call for reservations. Noon, 706-425-3059, showard@athenstech.edu 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. 9 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com

nuçi’s space 9th Anniversary Celebration!

Friday, October 23, 2009 • 5:30–10PM • FREE! Help us celebrate Nuci's Space's 9th anniversary!

Come by for food, refreshments, cake and live music plus a silent auction of signed rock memorabilia!

And More! Free! Please bring friends!

There is extra parking available in the gravel lot on Oconee Street above Nuci's Space and Steeplechase Apartments (and across from Armstrong & Dobbs).

5k Run/Walk

Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 @ 9am Memorial Plaza (UGA Campus)

$20 for students • $25 for non-students Registration fee includes T-shirt and a goody bag!

Register before October 21st at www.nuci.org/spacerace

All proceeds benefit Nuçi's Space Call 706.227.1515 for more info.

AdSmith • AthFest • AthensMusic.net • The Athens Blur Magazine • Buffalos Southwest Cafe • Caledonia Lounge • Chase Park Transduction • Chick Music • Ciné • City Salon and Spa • DePalma’s Italian Cafe • DRee & Co. • Dynamite • East West Bistro • Farm 255 • Frontier • Harold Williams • Harry Bissett’s • Mantooth Music • John Morecraft Northwestern Mutual • Republic Salon • Rocket Salon • Shine Beauty Bar • Square One Fish Co. • Taqueria del Sol • Wal-Mart

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Monday 26 EVENTS: R.E.M. Live at the Olympia in Dublin Pre-Release Listening Party (The Rialto Room) A preview of the the upcoming CD, screening of R.E.M’s Dublin concert footage, live auction of R.E.M. memorbilia, and more! 7 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). 706-363-8616 EVENTS: Southern Circuit Film Series (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Independent film series continues with The Song of Pumpkin Brown, Search and Le Croisment, short films by director Brad Jayne. 7 p.m. $5. www.mmcc-arts.org PERFORMANCE: MunDanish Comedy Showcase (Tasty World Uptown) Featuring the best local and nationally touring comedians. Last Monday of every month. This month: Ronnie Jordan! 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $8 (18+). www.mundanish.com 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: One Spooky Night (ACC Library) Trick-or-treat for nonfood prizes throughout the library and magic show with Keith Karnok!

Costumes welcome. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Infinite Fall (1000faces Coffee, 585 Barber Street) Join Athens’ endurancebibliophiles in reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest this fall. Every Monday with author, educator and jester Spenser Simrill.

6–7 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, www.1000facescoffee.com LECTURES & LIT.: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

Newcomers welcome. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “My Legacy: Mendez v. Westminster” (UGA Center for Continuing Education) Civil Rights leader Sylvia Mendez speaks about equal rights for education and her own role in the landmark desegregation case, which preceded Brown v. Board. 9–10 a.m.

FREE! www.coe.uga.edu 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: 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: Pool Tournament (Alibi) Free food as you shoot pool during Monday Night Football.

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: Trivia (Fat Daddy’s) Every Monday. 9 p.m. 706-353-0241.

GAMES: Trivia (Transmetropolitan) General knowledge trivia. Every Monday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706613-8773

Tuesday 27 PERFORMANCE: UGA Steel Band (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu

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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: Family Night at the (Described) Movies (ACC Library) Showing Beauty and the Beast. Film features a non-intrusive narrative track for visually-impaired viewers. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Brown Bag Lunch (ACC Library) Longtime Athenian Gary Doster speaks about his book A Postcard History of Athens, Georgia. Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program.

12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Athens Green Drinks (Five and Ten) An informal mixer for green-minded folks to discuss building, transportation and sustainability issues in the Athens area. 6–8 p.m. www.athensgreendrinks.org MEETINGS: Coffee Cupping (1000faces Coffee, 585 Barber Street) Taste and learn about coffees from around the world with coffee scholar Erin McCarthy.

10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, www.1000facescoffee.com MEETINGS: French Group (1000faces Coffee, 588 Barber Street) All-level French conversation group. Informal, welcoming and tres bon! Every Tuesday.

7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, www.1000facescoffee.com MEETINGS: Pub Theology (Trappeze Pub) Open conversations revolving around theology. Currently

reading Jacques Ellul’s Anarchy and Christianity. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-5491915, cmccreight@fccathens.org GAMES: Flicker Poker Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Last Tuesday of every month! 8:30 p.m. www. myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com

Wednesday 28 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour and Costume Contest (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Costume contest and drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog! 5–7 p.m. www. athensdowntownhotel.com ART: Opening Reception (Walk the Line Tattoo Co.) For “After dinner…

BRAINS!!!,” zombie glamour shots and more by Keith Rein, Joe Havasy, Radar, John Collins and other artists.

Live tattooing. Cash bar. 8–11 p.m.

FREE! www.joehavasy.com THEATRE: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Seney-Stovall Chapel) For this weekend only, Rose of Athens Theatre welcomes audiences to join them on their journey through enchanted Narnia, where it is always winter, but never Christmas. See your favorite characters from C.S. Lewis’ classic fantasy novel brought to life. Oct. 28–29, 10 a.m. Oct. 30, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Oct. 31, 2 p.m. $15 (adults), $10 (students, children and seniors). 706340-9181, www.roseofathens.org 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: Pumpkin Carving Workshop (Sandy Creek Park) Participants will design their own scary face on the pumpkin of their choice. Pumpkin and tools provided.

Ages 12 & under. Pre-registration required. Oct. 28, 4:30–5:30 p.m. $5. 706-613-3631 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Copycat Art. Decorate a skull with elaborate designs in the LatinAmerican style. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Young Adult Book Discussion (Madison County Library) Currently discussing Vampire Night. Copies at the front desk! 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 LECTURES & LIT.: Oconee Dems Book Group (Five Points Deli & More, Epps Bridge) Communitywide book group hosted by the Oconee County Democrats. This month: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by investigative reporter and essayist Barbara Ehrenreich. Newcomers from any county and of any political affiliation are welcome. 6 p.m. FREE! ppriest@ charter.net, www.oconeedemocrats. org LECTURES & LIT.: Sibley Lecture (UGA Hirsch Hall) The University of Virginia’s Frederick Schauer will deliver the 105th Sibley Lecture: “When and How (If at All) Does Law Constrain Official Action?” 4:30 p.m.

FREE! www.law.uga.edu 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 GAMES: Darts (Broad Street Bar and Grill) Blind draw darts tournament.

Every Wednesday. 7 p.m. 706-5485187

Friday, October 23 & Saturday, October 24

Nuçi’s Space 9th Anniversary & S.P.A.C.E. Race Nuçi’s Space Perhaps you’ve received a barrage of emails or Facebook messages recently, asking for some cash. No Nigerian scam, this!

And, perhaps shock2008 S.P.A.C.E. Race ingly, no band looking for outside funding via Kickstarter.com. Nope, it’s October, which means it’s anniversary time for Nuçi’s Space, the local musicians’ resource center. And that means the annual fundraising 5K S.P.A.C.E. Race and accompanying birthday celebration.

The party celebrates nine years of providing assistance and services to the local arts community—from mental health resources to practice space to instruction, among other programs. It’s an early evening affair by Athens standards, taking place 5:30–10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23. Roy Coughlin, of the bands Some Animal and An Epic at Best, will perform a set, and the Latin band One L offers up a hefty portion of Central and South American tunes. One of Nuçi’s Space’s most successful recent programs is Camp Amped, the summer music camp for local kids. Two bands that formed during this summer’s session and have remained together will also perform. The celebration also includes cake, food, drinks and an auction of music miscellany, including memorabilia donated by regular contributors R.E.M., Drive-By Truckers and Widespread Panic, as well as stuff from Dinosaur Jr., Of Montreal and more.

The second component of the annual celebration ties into those emails asking for donations—the 5K S.P.A.C.E. Race that starts on the UGA campus and winds through parts of town on Saturday. Suicide Prevention and Community Education is the acronym’s origin, and individual runners have set goals of sponsorship fundraising, with money going towards the mission of Nuçi’s Space. To register for the race, visit www.nuci.org or just show up bright and early. The race kicks off at 9 a.m. at UGA’s Memorial Hall. [Chris Hassiotis]

GAMES: Movie Trivia Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Where movie trivia meets performance art. Hosted by “It Boy” Jeff Tobias and sponsored by Vision Video. Prizes! Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 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) Chris Creech hosts general knowledge trivia with different themes each week. Check the Facebook group “Trivia Wars!” for weekly updates and online question of the week.

8:30 p.m. (sign up) 9 p.m. (game starts). FREE! 706-208-1283 GAMES: XBox 360 (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Qualifying round for the upcoming tournament. 6 p.m.

706-354-6655 * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line KIDSTUFF: Halloween Carnival 10/29 (Memorial Park) Take a haunted trick-or-treat tour of Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail and then stop by the festive carnival for fun & prizes. Costume contest every hour.

Ages 12 & under. 5–8 p.m. $4. 706613-3580 KIDSTUFF: Family Canoe Day 10/31 (Sandy Creek Park) View Lake Chapman from a canoe. Basic instruction and guidance provided.

Call to register. 10 a.m.–noon, $5.

706-613-3631 PERFORMANCE: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 11/5 (UGA Hodgson Hall) Conductor Robert Spano conducts Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 and Stravinsky’s Nightingale. 8 p.m. $37–42. 706542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac* EVENTS: Observatory Open House 11/16 (UGA Observatory) The UGA Observatory hosts its monthly open house viewing. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2870 EVENTS: Annual Christmas Tour of Homes 12/5 (Monroe) Tour an eclectic mix of homes throughout Monroe. Proceeds benefit the Monroe Art Guild. 12–6 p.m. $10 (advance), $15 (day of). 770-2078937, www.monroeartguild.org* * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 20 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $15 (adv.) www.40watt.com* BUILT TO SPILL Indie-rock giants Built to Spill stop by the 40 Watt to promote their newest release, You in Reverse.

DISCO DOOM Melodic shoegazetextured rock.

VIOLENT SOHO Combine ‘70s punk, Nirvana, a bit of surf rock, and Australia in a blender.

Alibi 9 p.m. 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 6–7 p.m. followed by open dance until 10 p.m. Tonight features swing dancing hosted by Bugg.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com COP DOPE New local band featuring members of Dark Meat and Backtalk playing “power-violent ‘80s hardcore.”

HOLY DIRT Sludge rock!

PIZZA PARTY “True punk rock” group that promises a bass player babe in a pizza bikini…

UTAH Head-banging three-piece featuring Wil “Mantooth” Smith on guitar venturing through rapid tempo changes and monster riffs.

BENEFIT FOR HOPE HOUSE

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com MEAN MIC ENTERTAINMENT Weekly hip-hop event hosted by Elite tha Showstoppa, featuring rap battles, breakdancers, DJs and beatmakers. DJ Tunes will be spinning.

Tasty World Uptown 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. myspace.com/tastyworlduptown DEAD TREES Sparkling, sweet indie folk rock from Portland that calls to mind Ben Kweller at times, backed by lush harmonies.

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS New local rock band featuring members of Futurebirds.

NUCLEAR SPRING Increasingly cohesive local rock band that has found a happy medium between folk and glam with occasional Kinks-like tendencies.

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

Top Dawg Activity Bar & Nightclub 11 p.m. 706-870-6563 CLAIBORNE SHEPHERD Acoustic singer-songwriter from Watkinsville plays melodic, breezy rock. Every Tuesday.

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

Wednesday 21 8e’s Bar 10:30 p.m. 706-613-1764 DJ KILLACUT Spinning ‘80s and early ‘90s hip-hop every Wednesday night.

Agua Linda Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 6:30 p.m. 706-543-0154 (Timothy Road location) MARIACHI BAND Enjoy authentic music from Mexico while you dine. k continued on next page

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SUBRIG DESTROYER RORSHAK • HOT BREATH doors open at 9pm • six dollars

285 W. Washington St. Athens, GA • Call 706-549-7871 for Show Updates

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

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

JAMES McMURTRY

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAN NETTLES Celebrated local jazz musician known for his work fronting Kenosha Kid. The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com* CURLEY MAPLE Fiddler David Blackmon’s progressive old-time project. He’s joined by wife Noel and Christian Lopez on mandolin and guitar, and Chris Enghauser on bass. New album Shawneetown is out now!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

DARK MEAT

AN ALBATROSS • NOOT D’NOOT doors open at 9pm • six dollars

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31

REDNECK GREECE

KRUSH GIRLS

doors open at 9pm • twelve dollars adv.** GEORGIA THEATRE PRESENTS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24

DEAD CONFEDERATE MEAT PUPPETS

GARY’S GOT A BONER (REPLACEMENTS) BLACK FRANCIS (PIXIES) HEAP P-FUNK TRIBUTE doors open at 9pm • six dollars

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

BLACK HEART PROCESSION THE MUMLERS doors open at 9pm • ten dollars adv.**

FEATURING GUY PICCIOTTO (FUGAZI) AND MEMBERS OF THE SILVER MT. ZION, GODSPEED! YOU BLACK EMPEROR AND WITCHES

CLARE AND THE REASONS doors open at 8pm • ten dollars adv.** ** 11/4 ** 11/10 ** 11/11

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

JUNIOR BOYS WOODHANDS

GHOULS GONE WILD!

* 11/12

HEALTH / CHRISSAKES / ABANDON THE EARTH MISSION PETE YORN EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS / LOCAL NATIVES / FAMILY OF THE YEAR MINUS THE BEAR / THE ANTLERS / TWIN TIGERS

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Call 706.475.7329, visit www.armc.org/mbi or email mbiprograms@armc.org for more information.

For a complete listing of our educational programs, visit armc.org/mbi

Halloween TREATS from A La Fera!

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THE CALENDAR! Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com THE HUMMS Local act plays what’s been described as “Happy Hippie Horror Rock.” Imagine the sunny side of ‘60s garage rock tainted by mischievousness and a quirky flirtation with evil. New album out now!

IDIOT SLOWDOWN Local duo squeezes more sound than would seem possible from a single bass and drum kit. Upbeat, grungy rock with melodic vocals.

THE LAST RELAPSE These guys would surely be classified as “indie arena rock” if any such genre existed. Powerful vocals and melodies that approach epic at times without losing the indie feel.

SUNSET SOUNDTRACK Manipulated yet poppy vocals overlay this local indie band’s trancesynth and guitar-driven math-rock sound. This band used to be called That’s What She Said.

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 ALEX BOSKOFF Singer-songwriter performing on acoustic guitar.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE EMOTRON Cheeky new wave synth and low-brow humor.

MUSIC HATES YOU High-energy and higher volume, Music Hates You plays a dirty kind of punk metal.

There’s red clay under the fingernails of this fist raised against authority.

Half Moon Pub 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-9712 KENDRICK No info available.

THE PRIDE Local musician Lon Martin creates experimental melodies using synth, samples and noise.

TED FROM WORK Local musician who mixes hip-hop and house music.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 8 p.m. FREE! www.harrybissetts.net THE SPLITZ Classic Motown, ‘70s funk, R&B, disco hits and more.

Locos Grill & Pub 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Westside) TROY SHADLEY Acoustic singersongwriter.

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Tasty World Uptown 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. myspace.com/tastyworlduptown GROOVE STAIN This alternative rock septet out of Atlanta plays frenzied, groove-filled, hard rockin’ originals incorporating blasts of brass and occasional reggae rhythms.

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

THE WALES Brand-new local band.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-3377 SHE’S THE ANTAGONIST Solo performer from Arkansas with an indie-folk sound inspired by acts like Bright Eyes and Dashboard Confessional.

Thursday 22 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $12. www.40watt.com JAMES MCMURTRY Lyrically grounded heartland rocker and Texas native who has long been known as an astute, clear-eyed observer and concise, no-holds-barred chronicler of the human condition.

REDNECK GREECE Musically, Redneck Greece draws from the old country classics— Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash—and adds his unique brand of humor.

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 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BRETT HARRIS Indie pop with a sunny ‘60s feel.

THE ORKIDS Local electropop group guaranteed to get you dancing.

TRIPP This Chapel Hill band offers melodic rock with a twist of country and blues, big harmonies and electrified guitar solos.

THE WARM FUZZIES Weezerinspired quirky local pop-rock outfit with adorably nerdy tunes.

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

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv), $8 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com AMERICAN AQUARIUM The good times come pouring down with footstomping rhythms, howling organs and a serious Southern twang from this Raleigh band.

GABRIEL KELLEY & THE REINS Alternative folk quartet that blends the honesty and simplicity of country music with the intimacy and earnestness of contemporary folk to create a timeless sound. For fans of Whiskeytown, Wilco or The Jayhawks.

El Paisano 8 p.m. 706-353-0346 KARAOKE Every Thursday with margarita specials.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday (and sometimes Friday!) with Stan.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar SHAUNA GREESON Also currently a member of Nanny Island and Hola Halo, Greeson performs solo on acoustic guitar and piano.

LAUREN OSBORNE Formerly of the band Push.

Rye Bar 8 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens PATRICK GARRY Local musician who recently started a Grateful Dead cover band called Weigh Those Things.

TENT CITY This local four-piece fuses elements of jazz, funk, blues and world music.

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Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DUFUS Quirky, fun experimental antifolk band.

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

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 BROS. MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler bring their brand of Neil Young/Elliot Smith/Allman

Bros.-influenced music to the people as an acoustic duo.

Go Bar Princess Avenue Pageant. 9 p.m. $5.

706-546-5609 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz Jr. mashes up highenergy electro and rock.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub ATHENS BOYS CHOIR Focusing on gender issues and questions of identity, spoken-word and openly transgendered artist/musician Katz delivers rhymes with a musical underpinning.

MAJOR LOVE EVENT With upbeat piano and vocal arrangements, this new pop duo features local singersongwriter Rebecca Van Damm on keys and drummer CK Koch.

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

The Melting Point “The Question Jar Show.” 8 p.m. $15 (adv), $18 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com MIKE DOUGHTY For Mike Doughty, the ‘90s were full of international touring and prominence thanks to his oddball, jazzy band Soul Coughing and his stream-ofconsciousness lyricism. That group split in 2000; since then, Doughty’s been hitting the road with his own songs. Tonight is a special acoustic performance backed by cellist Andrew “Scrap” Livingston. See story on p. 19.

PORTER BLOCK Group from New York featuring singer-songwriter Peter Block. He sings Heartland rock with rousing pop choruses.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $6 (adv), $8 (door). www.newearthmusichall.com ZACH DEPUTY One man band with lots of live looping. He’s got a soulful jam vibe that integrates elements of calypso, hip-hop, gospel and R&B. Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-3377 KYSHONA ARMSTRONG Local songstress Kyshona sings soulful ballads over acoustic guitar.

Top Dawg Activity Bar & Nightclub 10 p.m. $5. 706-870-6563 DJ RICH ROCK Weekly hip-hop dance party.

Wild Wing Café 9 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com CLAY COLEY Acoustic pop-rock in the style of Edwin McCain or Goo Goo Dolls, with an impressive arsenal of ‘90s covers including both.

Friday 23 40 Watt Club 7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.40watt.com MIDDLE CLASS RUT California alt-rockers with influences as farranging as Bob Dylan and Rage Against the Machine.

SOCIAL DISTORTION Legendary Orange County punk rockers have kept strong for over three decades.

See story on p. 22.

STRANGERS Polished, poppy punk rock from Los Angeles with big, bluesy guitar riffs.

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

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FRI. OCT. 30

Bubba Sparxxx New Earth Music Hall The last time Bubba Sparxxx performed in town he played on one of Athens’ oldest stages (the Georgia Theatre). Three years later, he returns to play on one of its newest. The LaGrange-raised, Athens-educated rapper has had a few professional shifts in the past couple of years, notably with regard to his label affiliation. “We had a little label drama. I was signed to Virgin, and we weren’t necessarily satisfied with how ‘Ms. New Boot’ was such a huge single but didn’t really translate into sales,” says Sparxxx. Indeed, in 2006 the track reached number seven on the U.S. charts, and the album, The Charm, received fairly strong praise from the press, albeit not as much as Sparxxx’s sophomore album, the universally admired Deliverance.

With a new distribution deal through Koch Entertainment for his label, New South Entertainment, Sparxxx seems happy to be off the label roller coaster. He says, “I’m pretty pleased with the new situation. This is a pretty pivotal point in my career. This industry is so ‘What have you done for me lately?’ But I’ve got a core following and I’m focused more on those people and me over anything else.”

He is currently working on a new album, The Impolite Gentleman, to be released in the spring, but when asked about the incessant trendiness and train-hopping that flows through the hip-hop scene he remains, indeed, a polite gentleman. He says, “I’m never gonna hate on the youth and what they do. I respect it, but it’s just not what I do.”

When asked if he had anything else to say to preview his upcoming performance, Sparxxx chose to tip his hat. “I just wanna give a shout-out to Wildkard, Tommy Valentine and Profound Breadth. I’m glad they’re gonna be playing with me.” [Gordon Lamb]

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE INTERNS Local band that shares several members with Futurebirds.

Instead of Americana, this configuration plays dreamy, guitar-driven indie rock with just a hint of altcountry.

OR, THE WHALE Extremely catchy and danceable Americana/rock, referencing the other Moby Dick title.

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

King is the brand new album.

Club Chrome 9 p.m. $5. 706-543-9009 BOBBY COMPTON BAND The first Redneck Idol, Bobby Compton, sings hard rockin’ country.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com JACOB MORRIS Acoustic, ‘70sinspired folk rock. Morris also plays in Moths and Ham1.

STILL SMALL VOICE AND THE JOYFUL NOISE A revolving lineup of family and friends pounding out garage-rock spirituals.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/flickerbar JASON BECKHAM’S INNOCENT Blues-influenced rock/Americana featuring Jason Beckham on vocals and guitar plus Jeff Rieter on bass, Brad Sikes on drums and Jack Stirling on keys.

RICHARD SHERFEY AND ALL GOD’S CHILDREN Fronted by local singer Richard Sherfey, All God’s Children includes members of the bands Hey, Revolution! and Modern Skirts. Sherfey trucks in some squarely American, impassioned pop-rock songs.

The Globe 10:30 p.m. $5. 706-353-4721 MELVIN MATHURIN JAZZ QUARTET Essential and original jazz compositions.

Gnat’s Landing 7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 TJ MIMBS This local acoustic singersongwriter plays melodramatic pop in the vein of Dave Matthews.

Go Bar 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers.

11 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar EMILY ARMOND The singer/songwriter behind Sea of Dogs performs her heartfelt folk ballads solo over banjo and guitar.

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

NANA GRIZOL Punk band from here in town that plays songs about shooting stars, fancy cars and red guitars. Tonight you’ll get a preview of the band’s upcoming album Ruth (due out in January).

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 8 p.m. FREE! www.harrybissetts.net DAVID PRINCE This Athens staple and one-time member of The Jesters plays your favorite soul, rock and R&B oldies.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub PIPES YOU SEE, PIPES YOU DON’T The delightfully warped psychedelic pop project headed by Peter Erchick (Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System) and featuring other Elephant 6 members.

SUPERCLUSTER More of a collective than a band, this local group features all-stars from such bands as Pylon, Casper & the Cookies, Olivia Tremor Control, Deerhunter and more! See story on p. 21.

The Melting Point 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com BUTTERMILK REVIVAL Traditional bluegrass tribute, including songs

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WED. OCT. 21 THU. OCT. 22

Zach Deputy

$6 adv. / $8 day of show

FRI. OCT. 23

SAT. OCT. 24

MON. OCT. 26

Bubba Sparxxx Boom Foundry and Mean Mic present

The Official Promogia Afterparty Open DJ Night Bring your laptop or turntables and make the dance party!

FREE!

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by the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and many others.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com BUBBA SPARXXX Native Athens rapper who has collaborated with the likes of Timbaland, Ray-J and many others. See Calendar Pick on this page.

Benefit for AIDS Athens

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson with Warpaint $8 adv. / $10 day of show

THU. OCT. 29

Wrong Way Sublime Tribute Band

$6 adv. / $8 day of show

FRI. NOV. 6 SAT. NOV. 7

Cosmic Charlie 10 Year Anniversary Show

Halloween Sin Ball

presented by Phungus Group • Only $5

Today the Moon Tomorrow the Sun Indie/Electro/Rock

Triz CD Release Party w/ Drizno and T8R(tot) Last Comic Standing Final Round with Aman Amun and Nautilus performing afterward • $5

Hip Hop Homecoming Party with DJ Rich Rock and DJ Dark Knight • $5

WED. NOV. 11

Raquy Danziger

THU. NOV. 12

Dark Party w/ Eliot Lipp

FRI. NOV. 13

Pink Floyd Tribute Band featuring members of Maserati, David Murphy of STS9 and Fuzzy Sprouts

SAT. NOV. 21

Kyle Hollingsworth

FRI. NOV. 27

Kaitlin Jones and County Fair

$10 adv. / $12 day of show

presented by Music Matters

Pigs on the Wing

• $15

of String Cheese Incident with Birds and Wire Western Swing

THU. DEC. 3

Toubab Krewe $10 adv. / $12 day of show

THU. DEC. 17

Rusko UK Dubstep 706.543.8283

227 W Dougherty St. Downtown Athens Open Mon-Sat 5pm-2am All Shows 18+ Advance Tix available at Schoolkids Records 706-353-1666 and online at www.newearthmusichall.com

Nuçi’s Space Nuçi’s Space 9th Anniversary. 5:30–10 p.m. FREE! www.nuci.org ROY COUGHLIN Local musician plays heartfelt, upbeat melodic numbers over acoustic guitar.

DODD FERRELLE Former Tinfoil Stars frontman and longtime Athenian Dodd Ferrelle pours heart and soul into his sweeping, anthemic ballads and alt-country rockers.

ONE L Afro-Cuban-inspired music that blends rock, funk and soul with clave patterns and electric guitar.

Featuring Afro-Cuban percussion, a searing horn section and authentic Cuban instruments.

OUTLIER New band featuring Camp Amped alums.

SECOND SUNS New band featuring Camp Amped alums.

The Office Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE BORDER LIONS Rock and roll trio that plays ‘70s-inspired songs, with styles ranging from beachy to bluesy.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SACRED HOLLOW Athens/Atlanta hard rock band naming Tool, Chevelle and Sevendust among its many influences.

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Square One Fish Co. 8 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco. com SUEX EFFECT The trio of guitarist Ricky Barrett, drummer Jonathan Daniels and bassist Miles Karp plays psychedelicized funk-rock instrumentals, relying on spacey harmonies.

Tasty World Uptown UGA Vet School Benefit. 10 p.m. $8. www.myspace.com/tastyworlduptown GIMME HENDRIX Jimi Hendrix tribute band.

VELVET RUNWAY Local five-piece band playing ‘80s rock covers. Wear your smoothest 80’s duds for this retro-themed event.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-3377 ASHUTTO MIRRA This alternative rock quartet features members of alterna-soul group The Revival.

Wild Wing Café 9 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com JEFF MILLER Skilled guitarist who utilizes a pedal to trigger looping and samples as he croons delicate pop ballads.

WUGA 91.7 FM 4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org “IT’S FRIDAY!” Jason Beckham’s Innocent will perform on the local radio station’s weekly program.

University Cable Channel 15 will also broadcast the show.

Saturday 24 159 Oneta Street 10 p.m. $6 (before midnight), $7 (after). 159 Oneta St. (next to Pig Pen in the Chase Park warehouses).

“WTCHKRFT” Halloween dance party featuring sets by DJ List Christee (Kevin Barnes), Immuzikation, Dan Donahue (Krush Girls), Black Dominoes, Twin Powers, Grave Robbers and Nate Nelson.

40 Watt Club Georgia Theatre Presents. 9 p.m. $10 (adv.) $15 (door). www.40watt.com* DEAD CONFEDERATE With its moody, dark weaving of Southern rock and grunge, Dead Confederate is quickly ascending in popularity across the nation and beyond.

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

MEAT PUPPETS Classic alternative/ punk band that inspired the likes of Nirvana, Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. See story on p. 17.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 90 Acre Farm This acoustic trio plays original Americana and covers.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com TANGENTS This country-fried rock group from Watkinsville carries Lynyrd Skynyrd licks and John Mellencamp melodies.

Athens Farmers Market 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net FIDDLE-DW Bluegrass! (10 a.m.)

RYAN MONAHAN Local musician who performs Brit-pop influenced indie-folk-rock, with impressive vocal prowess (think Jimmy Gnecco of Ours in his lower range). (8 a.m.)

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Borders Books & Music 7 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 RICKY FITZPATRICK This area singer/songwriter plays solo acoustic numbers in the James Taylor vein, working in several country, pop and classic rock covers.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 8 p.m. $30 (includes buffet). 706354-6655 UNDEAD ELVIS COSTUME PARTY Dancing before and after the King with party band Milligan. Special prize for best Elvis costume!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com FIRE ZUAVE The lead singer of this Athens-by-way-of-West-Palm-Beach trio is the cousin of Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, but he sings a scratchier pop that veers toward Americana. His voice can channel Conor Oberst and Jeff Tweedy, and the bassist and drummer buoy his melodies with clean backing vocals.

OCTA PA Side solo project from Mark Opel of The Savoir Faire and Golden Gates.

PIPES YOU SEE, PIPES YOU DON’T The delightfully warped psychedelic pop project headed by Peter Erchick (The Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System) and featuring other Elephant 6 members.

SMOKE DOG 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.”

Club Chrome 8 p.m. $15. 706-543-9009 THE GENTEELS Relaxing you with a slew of oldies and beach music.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BLACK BELT PATRIOTS Athens rock trio that plays original music and covers ranging from the Rolling Stones to Band of Horses.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar A POSTWAR DRAMA Local act plays folk-rock with an occasional Eastern European bent. Dramatic tales of loss and hardship are mixed with driving, upbeat stomps. CD Release show! The band will be joined by a magician, comedian, and more! See Don’t Miss on p. 23.

Gnat’s Landing 7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 BLOSSOM CREEK BREEZE This duo plays relaxed, upbeat guitar tunes.

Go Bar WSLA Canned Food Drive. 9:30 p.m.

FREE! www.myspace.com/gobar “STEAMROLLER OF SOCIALISM” DANCE PARTY Members of The Agenda! will DJ after tonight’s live music. Remember to bring nonperishable food items for the drive!

These items will be distrubted by the WSLA to area people in need.

BAMBARA Local power trio has a sound that draws from both the atmospherics of bands like Slowdive and the ferocity of bands like Fugazi.

BUBBLE ANATOMY New supergroup featuring employees of The Grit!

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.

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Jot ‘Em Down Country Store & BBQ Fest o’ Fall of Cholesterol. 2 p.m. 706549-2110 BETSY FRANCK & THE BAREKNUCKLE BAND Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

KEN WILL MORTON Athens’ own Ken Will Morton is an engaging and prolific songwriter with several fulllengths under his belt. His soulful rasp and sharp lyrics encompass both the heart of folk and the rough and tumble vitality of rock.

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. Musically Redneck Greece draws from the old country classics– Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and the like.

THE RICK FOWLERS Soulful bluesrock guitarst Rick Fowler (the one and only) leads this group.

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

The Melting Point Double CD Release! 9 p.m. $13 (adv), $15 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com TINSLEY ELLIS Electrifying Southern blues-rock.

THE GEORGIA HEALERS Athens’ premier blues band for over 20 years.

New Earth Music Hall 11 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com THE OFFICIAL PROMOGIA AFTER PARTY BoomFoundry and Mean Mic Entertainment present you with a place to dance long into the night.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens BLACKLIST ROYALS “Punk ‘n’ roll anthems” from a Nashville group that has opened for punk acts like The Queers, Circle Jerks and Pennywise.

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

Shooters Cocktails & Dancing 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0003 THE DANIEL LEE BAND Countrytinged Southern rock based just outside of Athens in Bethlehem, GA. Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/tastyworlduptown JACOB AND THE GOOD PEOPLE Soft, cozy acoustic pop rock in the vein of Shawn Mullins.

SAVE THE GRAND CANYON Local rock group featuring heartfelt vocals, technical drumming, warm acoustic rhythm guitar and electric lead.

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

Sunday 25 Borders Books & Music 3 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 BRETT SCHIEBER Orchestralsounding pop from Atlanta.

The Melting Point 11 a.m.–1 p.m. $22. www.meltingpointathens.com GOSPEL BRUNCH Friends of Advantage, Inc. and the Melting Point host a traditional and contemporary gospel brunch to help spread awareness about Advantage Behavioral Health Systems’ services for people who are dealing with mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, and alcohol and substance abuse issues.

centrating on bringing their brand of Neil Young/Elliot Smith/Allman Bros.-influenced music to the people as an acoustic duo.

Ciné Barcafé 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine. com OPEN JAZZ JAM Calling all jazz musicians. Now you can join local jazz group Sonny Got Blue every Monday for an open mic jam.

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.

New Earth Music Hall 10 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com OPEN DJ NIGHT The dance party where you are in control! Bring your laptop or turntables and take a turn spinning.

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Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com THE BURNING ANGELS New local act that plays Americana soul!

Featuring Natalie Garcia on vocals and guitar, Mark Cunningham on vocals, guitar and dolbro (Helen Dodge, Liberty Challenged, Pedro Weed), Josh Westbrook on percussion (Lifehouse, Evanston Street) and appearances by Adam Poulin on fiddle (Bros. Marler, Helen Dodge) and Matt Dyson on dolbro & banjo (Natalie & Matt).

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

RALLY FOR ONE Light pop band whose appeal extends to “kids and parents of all ages.”

THE BROS. MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler are currently con-

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10 (adv.) www.40watt.com* THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION California band that manages to provide dark, emotionally gutting music without sinking to the depths of “emo.” See Calendar Pick on this page.

THE MUMLERS Indie pop/Americana with an old-timey feel and a consistently entertaining horn section.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com THE BROS. MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler are currently concentrating on bringing their brand of Neil Young/Elliot Smith/Allman Bros.-influenced music to the people as an acoustic duo.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha

Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub GUITARBOMB One-man blues punk band with gravelly Tom Waits vocals, the urgency of The Stooges and a drum machine to keep things barreling forward.

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

THE SWEET ONES Jangly garage punk from Brooklyn.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com* BUCK & NELSON This dynamic rootsy duo has been strumming “mountain music” since the mid1970s. They play acoustic guitars using both flatpick and fingerstyle techniques, often adding in mandolin, fiddle, banjos, harmonica and washboard.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $8 (adv), $10 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON Brooklyn musician singing soulful hymns for modern times.

WARPAINT Low-key folky music with a psychedelic bend.

No Where Bar 11 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 THE SUEX EFFECT The trio of guitarist Ricky Barrett, drummer Jonathan Daniels and bassist Miles Karp

Tuesday, October 27

The Black Heart Procession, The Mumlers 40 Watt Club Despite the name of their band and the tone of the music they write, Tobias Nathaniel and Pall Jenkins of The Black Heart Procession are not unhappy guys. In fact, the former actually sounded quite perky when Flagpole spoke with him on the phone.

“I think a lot of people have the wrong impression of us—like we’re these totally depressed, gloomy, bummer, morose guys,” Nathaniel says.

“The reality is, we play this kind of music, and it really helps us to get [those feelings] out of our system.”

Born roughly 10 years ago out of San Diego band Three Mile Pilot’s ridiculously lengthy hiatus, BHP has crafted a sound far different from its source. Often described as dark and, The Black Heart Procession sometimes, even creepy, the band’s goth rock tendencies suggest an adolescence spent listening to early Cure in a poorly lit room. And according to publicity information, the lyrical themes on the band’s new record, Six, will do nothing if not usher in the next generation of Cash, Cohen and Waits.

Those comparisons, deserved or not, sit just fine with Nathaniel, even though he would rather be appreciated as The Black Heart Procession and not as an heir to earlier despairing prophets.

“They are legendary to me, but I think we’ve established our own sound, the type of thing we do. I think we both try not to be too concerned with people’s perceptions of us,” he says. “We just do what we do, and if it happens to resonate with other people, we’re grateful for that. We’re not really concerned about comparisons and parallels that people draw.”

The band will shower its doom and gloom on the 40 Watt Club on Oct. 27 along with apparent ‘60s/ragtime/Velvet Underground worshippers The Mumlers. Bring eyeliner and flowers. [Jennifer Gibson]

Chris Woo

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plays psychedelicized funk-rock instrumentals, relying on spacey harmonies.

Tasty World Uptown 9:30 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www. myspace.com/tastyworlduptown CINEMECHANICA This intensely voluminous local quartet is the aggro math-rock indie outfit that doesn’t know it’s a metal band. Or perhaps vice versa.

MARRIAGE Truly unclassifiable local Christian sludge-rock trio experiments with every heavy and bizarre sound it can muster.

SO MANY DYNAMOS Driving, innovative rock that has deservedly earned its share of comparisons to Q and Not U and Les Savy Fav. Top Dawg Activity Bar & Nightclub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-870-6563 KARAOKE Every Tuesday.

11 p.m. 706-870-6563 CLAIBORNE SHEPHERD Acoustic singer-songwriter from Watkinsville plays melodic, breezy rock. Every Tuesday.

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

Wednesday 28 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10 (adv.) www.40watt.com* JUNIOR BOYS Hailing from those untamed lands north of the U.S., this duo produces cool, danceable electro-pop.

WOODHANDS Very danceable synth pop with psychedelic and even hiphop elements.

8e’s Bar 10:30 p.m. 706-613-1764 DJ KILLACUT Spinning ‘80s and early ‘90s hip-hop every Wednesday.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com DEAD DOG Local band delivers frenetic, spunky lo-fi punk delivered with a pop smile.

ROOFTOP VIGILANTES Delightfully lo-fi pop/punk from Kansas.

WITCHES Local rock band featuring Cara Beth Satalino on lead vocals backed by a drummer and bassist.

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Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar EUREKA CALIFORNIA Recently expanded from the solo project of Jake Ward to a full band, Eureka California is a local indie band influenced by American indie that sounds like British indie influenced

by American indie. Also, it rocks.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 8 p.m. FREE! www.harrybissetts.net AVERY DYLAN PROJECT Guitarist Avery Dylan turns out electric blues backed by Clint Swords and Mike Strickland.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub CHEAP GIRLS Three dudes from Lansing, MI with an affinity for powerpop and alternative rock, naming bands like The Replacements and Superchunk as influences.

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

The Melting Point Power 100.1’s Monster Bash. 9 p.m. $12 (adv), $10 (w/ UGA ID), $15 (door). www.meltingpointathens. com* COWBOY MOUTH Raucous party rock band from New Orleans that’s been going strong for nearly two decades.

THE ELMS Visceral, blue-collar rock and roll that’s loud, proud and full of soul.

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

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.

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ART Call for Artists (Call for location) Seeking artists/bands to participate in Phoenix Rising, a commemorative art quilt celebrating the Georgia Theatre, to be auctioned off on behalf of the theatre. No sewing required. Deadline Oct. 23. 706540-2712, www.MamaInTheMoon. blogspot.com or on Facebook.

Call for Artists (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Seeking artists for Halloween art show and sale. $15 entry fee. Deadline is Oct. 21. 706-540-2712, www.mamainthemoon.blogspot.com Call for Artists (Downtown Athens) The 2009 Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa Holiday Market is now accepting applications for artists and crafters for their up coming market. Musicians, performance artists and DJs also welcome. www. athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com Call for Artists (Georgia Piedmont Arts Center, Winder) Seeking artists of varying skill levels for an upcoming show “Harvest of Art” in November. Register or learn more online. 404-202-3044, www. georgiapiedmontartscenter.com

AUDITIONS Spunk (UGA Fine Arts Building, Room 201) UGA’s Black Theatrical Ensemble and The Morton Theatre host a community audition for a musical adaptation of three short stories

by Zora Neale Hurston. 2 p.m. 706542-2102, fsgiles@uga.edu Vagina Monologues (Family Protection Center) Your vagina has something to say about violence against women, or maybe it just has a really killer standup act. Call

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CLASSES African-American Genealogical Research (ACC Library) The Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society explores African-American family history research experiences and methodology. Oct. 24, 1 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650, loutome@aol.com Beginner Trapeze Workshops (Canopy Studio) Learn the basics of trapeze technique, work with a partner and swiiiiiiing! Nov. 21 & Dec. 5, 3–4:30 p.m. $25. info@canopystudio.com 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 Basics (Athens YMCA) Wednesday mornings. 10:45 a.m. www.athensymca.org Booty Camp (Sangha Yoga Studio) A low-impact core fitness course led

by Mary Imes. Tuesdays, 5:30–6:45 p.m. Fridays, 10:30–11:45 a.m. $60/6 weeks. 706-613-1143 Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. and “Family Try Clay” Sundays, 2–4 p.m. ($20/person).

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Contemporary Dance Workshop (Dancefx) Master choreographer Cherrise Wakeham instructs this workshop for advanced dancers ages 15 and up. Oct. 22, 8–10 p.m. $15. 706-355-3078, www.dancefx.org Dance Center Winter Classes (East Athens Educational Dance Center) Registering for adult

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and children’s classes including Beginning Jazz, Ballet, Tap, HipHop, Praise Dancing and more. $18–$25. www.accleisureservices. com/dance.shtml DanceATHENS Workshops (Dancefx) Aaron Talbert hosts three ballroom dance workshops as a part of the DanceATHENS Dance Festival.

Oct. 24, 1:30 p.m. $15. Oct. 25, noon–1:30 p.m. and 1:30–3 p.m. $20/session, $35/both. 706-3553078, www.dancefx.org Deep Relaxation Workshop (Five Points Yoga) Verbally guided relaxation with Carla Jennings, RYT. Pre-register. Oct. 24, 4–5:30 p.m. $15. 706-355-3114, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com 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 Freeing the Natural Voice Workshop (Healing Arts Centre) Music and creative arts therapist and “sound healer,” Asheville’s Susan Hale wants to help you free your natural voice. Unlike the possibilities of sound healing, space is limited.

Call to register. Oct. 24, 1–5 p.m. $45–$55. 706-613-1143 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 Gentle Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Bring your own mat or towel and wear loose

Didi Dunphy’s “Inside Skates” are on exhibit in the Bertelsmann Gallery of Athens Academy through Dec. 14. clothing. Julie Horne, instructor.

Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9/class.

706-354-1996 Gentle Yoga for Seniors (Council on Aging) Regain flexibility, stamina and muscle tone with gentle stretches and breathing techniques.

Tuesdays, 8–9:15 a.m. Wednesdays, 3–4:15 p.m. Fridays, 10–11 a.m.

FREE! 706-548-3910 Glass Fusing and Slumping (Good Dirt) Slumping is sure to be more fun than it sounds: Learn how to make a colorful glass bowl in this one-day workshop. Call to register. Oct. 25, 2–4 p.m. $60. 706355-3161 Hatha Yoga (Sangha Yoga Studio) Candlelight traditional Hatha Yoga.

Beginners welcome. 706-613-1143, www.healingartscentre.net Hoop Class (Canopy Studio) This guided hoop dance class helps develop fitness, balance, strength and flow. All skill levels welcome, but completion of basic hooping workshop encouraged. Fridays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. $15. 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.

Life Drawing Sessions (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios, 159 Jackson St.) Bring any supplies/ equipment that you may require.

Ages 18 and up. Call to reserve a space. Thursdays, 6–8:15 p.m. $7/ session, $20/month. 706-540-2727 Line Dancing for Seniors (Council on Aging, Harris Room) Keep your health in line and have fun at the same time! Tuesdays, 4–5 p.m. $5/class. 706-549-4850 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 Mama-Baby Yoga Bonding: Weekend Edition (Full Bloom Center) For babies 1–8 months old. Fussy babies and tired parents welcome! Oct. 24, 11:15 a.m.–12:15

p.m. $14, 706-353-3373, fullbloomparent@gmail.com Mindbody Bootcamp (Five Points Yoga) Chant, breathe, sweat and meditate in this two-week session of daily, early-morning yoga.

Pre-registration required. Through Oct. 23, weekdays, 6–7 a.m. $135/2 weeks, $75/1 week. 706-355-3113, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com 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 Pilates Classes (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Schedule and details online. Private lessons also available. 706-546-1061, www. balancepilatesathens.com Prenatal Yoga (Full Bloom Center) Get ready for birth and beyond. Every Thursday. 5:30 p.m. $14/class or $60/6 classes. 706353-3373, www.fullbloomparent. com Scottish Country Dancing (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Introductory classes. No partner necessary! Thursdays, 7–9 p.m. $25/12 weeks, $3/class. 706255-1010, info@thistleandkudzu.net Spanish Mommy or Daddy and Me Classes (Email for Location) Learn Spanish with your preschooler through songs, stories and games! New session starting soon. $75/6-week session. sehlers@uga.edu “Sustainability: Bring It Home!” (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Weekend workshop for people interested in learning about home energy alternatives, home orchards and forest gardens, natural building, raising animals at home and creative erosion control.

Nov. 13–15. $155. www.uga.edu/ botgarden Swing Dancing (Dancefx) Social swing dancing, with advanced and beginner lessons preceding the fun.

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

Mondays–Thursdays, 3:30-8:30 p.m. 706-548-0077, www.liveoakmartialarts.com Tai Chi for Seniors (Council on Aging) Increase strength and

balance at your own pace! Every Tuesday. 2–3 p.m. $15/semester.

706-549-4850 UGA Swing Club (UGA Memorial Hall) Learn the Lindy Hop or the Charleston. No partner necessary.

Every Monday, 7–8 p.m. www.uga. edu/ugaswingclub Veil Dancing (Five Points Yoga) Open to all! 1:30–3:30 p.m. www. fivepointsyoga.com 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.

Multi-class discounts. Mondays, 6:15 p.m. Wednesdays, 5:45 p.m. $10/drop-in. www.athensomtownyoga.com Yoga Crawlers (Full Bloom Center) For active babies 8–18 months. Every Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. $14. 706-353-3373, www. fullbloomparent.com Yoga Crawlers: Weekend Edition (Full Bloom Center) For active babies 8–18 months. Oct. 24, 10:15–11 a.m. $14. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves 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 Donor Center, 3525 Atlanta Hwy.) Seeking donors for all blood types.

706-546-0681, www.redcrossblood. org 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 Become a Mentor (Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens) Volunteer one hour per week to make a differ-

ence in the life of a child. Training provided. 706-546-4910, mentor@ athensbgca.com, www.fflife.net Bike Recycling Program (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicycles for local service agencies. Sunday, 2–4:30 p.m. Monday & Wednesday, 6–8:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com Rivers Alive (Call for location) Come out and give back to our rivers for Athens’ annual river cleanup.

Nov. 8, 2–6 p.m. 706-613-3615, www.handsonnortheastgeorgia.org

KIDSTUFF Active Youth Hip-Hop Dance Party (Dancefx) Get your 6 to 14-year-old bodies moving at this hip-hop workshop for kids. Part of the DanceATHENS Dance Festival.

Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-3553078, www.dancefx.org Athens Language Schoolhouse (Athens Language Schoolhouse) Italian immersion classes for infants through Pre-K. Schedule free trial classes! www. athenslanguageschoolhouse.com Creative Movement (Floorspace) Ongoing class for ages 3–5. Call to register! Tuesdays, 10 a.m. and Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. (ages 3-4), Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. (age 5). 706247-4513, lisayaconelli@yahoo.com Dream Dance Workshop (Dancefx) Have fun while learning fantastic choreography in this Dream Girls-themed dance workshop for dancers ages 6–15. Part of the DanceATHENS Dance Festival. Oct. 24, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. 706-3553078, www.dancefx.org Family Yoga Sprouts (Full Bloom Center) Come enjoy yoga as a family! Third Sunday of every month. 1:30–2:30 p.m. Call for fees.

706-353-3373, www.yogasprouts. com Freedom to Grow UNschool (Call for location) New and innovative “unschool” forming in Eastside Athens. For preschool to upper

elementary students. 478-718-1414, www.freedomtogrowunschool.com Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison Baptist Church) Read a book together and talk about it. Every Thursday. 1 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 One-to-One Reading Program (East Athens Community Center) Read with the librarian & other volunteers. Ages 6 and up. Monday–Thursday, 3:30– 5:30 p.m., FREE! 706-613-3657 Stories, Songs & S’mores (Sandy Creek Park) Gather around the campfire for some hot cider, s’mores, songs, stories and more.

6–7:30 p.m. $2. 706-613-3631 Yoga Sprouts (Full Bloom Center) Fun, playful yoga for kids ages 2 and up. Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. $14/ single class, $60/6 classes. 706353-3373

SUPPORT Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is provided. Call Project Safe hotline at 706-543-3331 for location.

Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Informal and supportive 12step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally.

Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org Mental Health Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the lobby conference room.

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

ON THE STREET ACC Leisure Services Winter Programs (Various Locations) Registration for adult and youth art and dance classes, youth basketball and many other programs. See

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (Top of the Stairs Gallery) Paintings by Craig Hawkins. Through October.

Athens Academy (Myers Gallery) Paintings by Erin McIntosh and Jennifer Hartley. (Bertelsmann Gallery) Work by Didi Dunphy, Lou Kregel and Carol John.

Through Dec. 14. Reception Oct. 25.

ATHICA “Free Press in Free Fall” features the work of 13 artists addressing the current state of the American news media. Lectures and receptions on Nov. 8.

Brick House Studio The fall 2009 exhibition features works by Tex Crawford, D.M. Kirwin and Brian Reade. Ongoing sculpture installation by Doug Makemson. Oct. 24–25 (open to the public) Oct. 26– Nov. 22 (by appointment only). Reception Nov. 22.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design “We Are So Lightly Here: Putting Contemporary Musicians in Their Place,” a photographic exploration of musicians within their landscapes by Michael Wilson. Through Oct. 30.

Custom Styles (698 Baxter Street) “Athens from a Different Angle,” a collection of black and white photographs by Alan H. Icard.

Earth Fare Work by Lisa Freeman. Through October.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Shadowboxes and paintings by Cindy Jerrell and Jeff Owens. Through October.

Good Dirt Halloween-themed pottery by Mike Klapthor, Sarah Visser and Jeff Williams. Through October.

The Grit Paintings by Mary Moses. Through Nov. 15.

Hair Therapy Studio Work by Pain & Wonder’s Graham Bradford. Through Nov. 14.

Healing Arts Centre “The Divine Beloved” features Charlie Gard’ner’s paintings and drawings of self-proclaimed “Avatar of the Age” Meher Baba.

Through November.

complete program online. www.accleisureservices.com Athfest Educational Instrument Drive (Email for Location) Donate a viable instrument for students in the Clarke County School District and receive reduced admission and a free concession coupon to the rockumentary It Might Get Loud. Through Oct. 22, education@athfest.com Call for Tree People (Downtown Athens) Now seeking qualified candidates to join the Community Tree Council. Apply before Nov. 1. 706-613-3561, www. athensclarkecounty.com/landscape Downtown Parade of Lights (Downtown Athens) Now accepting entries for Athens’ annual parade.

This year’s theme is “A Gift from the Heart.” Register by Nov. 13. 706613-3589, markmccoy@co.clarke. ga.us, www.accleisureservices.com Jack-O-Lantern Jog & Goblin Fun Run (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Register for road race and fun run to benefit SCNC on Oct. 25 at 2 p.m. Forms available at the center or online. $15 early registration. www.active.com Nuci’s SPACE Race (Nuçi’s Space) Now registering for a 5k run/walk to benefit Nuci’s Space on Oct. 24. $25, $20 (students), 706-227-1515, www.nuci.org Nutritional Study for Children (Email for Location) Seeking children ages 9–13 to participate in dietary research.

Qualifiers will receive compensation, a free body composition test and helpful dietary and growth information. 706-542-4918, bone@uga.edu Opening Event (Bowers House Literary Center) The Georgia Review sponsors the opening of the new Bowers House Literary Center with readings and editorial programs by writers Alice Friman and George Singleton and talks by Review editor Stephen Corey. Pre-register. Space is limited. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $75 (adults), $50 (students), $5–$10 (readings only) 425-890-4191, laura.foreman@gmail.com f

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

Lamar Dodd School of Art “Making Masters” features selected MFA works from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Through Dec. 1.

Lyndon House Arts Center “Lamar Dodd: A Tribute Exhibition 100 Years After His Birth” features work from the collections of C.L. Morehead, Jr. and Annie Laurie Dodd. Through Oct. 24. “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.

Mercury Art Works “Terre Verte,” the debut exhibition for Mercury Art Works at Hotel Indigo, features photographs by Rinne Allen and work by various local artists, including Art Rosenbaum, Chris Bilheimer, Mary Engel, Scott Belville and Michael Stipe. Through Feb. 15.

Oconee County Library Paintings by Jacob Wenzka. Through October.

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation “Profess,” an exhibit featuring the work of Gainesville State College’s art faculty. Through Oct. 31. “Table d’Art: Place Matters,” an exhibition of textile works by the Athens Fibercraft Guild. Through Oct. 31.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia “Southern Tableau,” featuring paintings of lush landscapes by Joe M. Ruiz. Reception Nov. 1.

Walk the Line Tattoo Co. “After dinner…

BRAINS!!!,” an exhibit featuring zombie glamour shots and more by Keith Rein, Joe Havasy, Radar, John Collins and other local artists. Through November 15. Reception Oct. 28.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates An exhibition by local Latina pottery collective Casa de Cultura. Through October.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I dated a guy, let’s call him Law Boy, for four years, and we both thought we’d marry each other. The passion in the relationship was like no other, and we both were highly ambitious, education-oriented people. However, the last 18 months of the relationship he let his education and his pride create a huge distance between us (geographically and metaphorically), and because of school pressure, treated me like crap or just ignored me altogether.

Believing I could find someone who would treat me better, I broke up with him and ultimately think I did the right thing by doing so. That was in January.

Between then and now, I graduated from undergrad and was accepted to a few grad schools. In the end, I naturally chose to go to the one offering me the most money, which just so happens to be the same school that LB goes to (we’re in different programs).

Also, in moving to this new location I met a guy, let’s call him Sweetie Pie, who is not so much a looker but we get along great and he treats me so well that I can easily overlook the lack of physical attraction. Though SP and I have been dating for a few months, I still think about LB… A LOT. Which brings us to now.

LB and I got back in touch a couple months ago and he has apologized profusely for being the complete dick that he was. He says he knows what he did wrong (which he did list) and he knows how bad he hurt me and swears he’d never do it again. I’ve hung out with him a few times and the changes he says he’s made seem to be legitimate.

Here’s the issue: SP and LB can’t coexist in my life. I tried it and, due to the fact LB wants me back, it just didn’t work (i.e., SP has forbidden communication with LB). So, now I’m forced into choosing.

Should I stay with SP who, even though I’ll never have the passion with him that I had with LB, will always treat me well? Or should I break SP’s heart and try to start over with LB (beginning on a STRICTLY friendship basis) to see if there is a glimmer of hope for what we thought for years was true love?

The Gambler Afraid to Take Risks First, you need to ask yourself if you are with Sweetie Pie because you actually love him (despite a lack of passion) or because you are comfortable with him and you don’t want to be alone. It strikes me that you are very young to have relegated yourself to a passionless (unless I read that wrong) relationship.

Think about this strictly in terms of SP, as if Law Boy were in another country, married with kids and totally out of the picture. Do you really want to be in a relationship with somebody that you aren’t attracted to? And do you think it’s fair to him?

And as far as LB goes, do you really think that he has changed so much in less than a

year? Will it matter if he hasn’t? I know you say you would start things off on a strictly friendship-only basis, but do you really believe that? If you can, then more power to you. If you can’t (and I suspect you won’t), at least you’ll find out whether he really is the one for you. Good luck.

I need help. I am 19 and am taking a semester off from school because I need to save some money. I work a lot, I make good money, and I don’t rely on my parents for anything anymore. They are divorced, and though I technically live with my dad, I almost never stay there because I usually stay with my boyfriend.

My boyfriend and I have been dating for a year. He hasn’t had a legit job in that time.

He does work, but it’s usually like part-time, one-off construction jobs and stuff. I am not thrilled about this, and he knows it. I do not pay for anything for my boyfriend, though, and he has never asked me for money. I have been trying to be a good influence and make him get a real job.

Anyway, the problem is that my parents hate him. I know it, he knows it, and they make no secret about it. My mom came into where I work and lectured me about him the other day for like 20 minutes in front of my friends and co-workers. It was totally embarrassing and annoying. I don’t know what to do because I feel like they are trying to control me. I have no intention of getting married right now or anything. I am serious about finishing school and I would not have taken a break if they could afford to help me, but they can’t. I know my boyfriend isn’t perfect, but I really like him and he makes me happy. Why can’t they understand that and just leave me alone?

Doing Fine Try to look at this from your parents’ perspective, DF. You were in school, and then you started dating this guy. He has no job and no prospects, and you clearly like him a lot. Now you are “taking some time off.”

He still has no job, and you are spending more and more time with him. They are worried, DF, and the best thing you can do is sit down with them and tell them that you have every intention of getting back to school next semester. Tell them how much money you have in your savings account, and how much more you need to get back into school. Tell them that you appreciate their concern, but that you are not planning on marrying the guy or anything. Tell them you are using two forms of birth control, that you never have to give him money, and that he makes you happy right now and that they should stop worrying because you still have goals and dreams and you are doing your best to pursue them. Then, use two forms of birth control, save your money and get back into school. Everything will be fine.

Jyl Inov Got a question for Jyl? Submit your anonymous inquiry via the Reality Check button at www.flagpole.com.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent 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.

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

Westside condos.

2BR/2BA,$600/mo.Hospital Area, garage apt., totally updated, 2BR/1BA, $525/ mo. & $550/mo. Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/mo. 2BR/1BA, $490/ mo. Eastside duplex 2BR/1BA, FP, $490/mo.

3BR/2BA, FP, $650/mo., corner lot. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700 or cell (706) 540-1529.

2BR/1BA, Deville 136 G r a d y Av e . $695/mo.

Great place to live, upstairs, HWflrs, pool, courtyard. Call for showing (706) 548-9797, w w w. b o u l e v a rd ​p ro p e r t y​ management.com.

Newly renovated 2BR/2.5BA townhome. Eastside. Near UGA. All new appls incl.

W/D, DW. Off–street parking.

NS, no pets. $650/mo. + utils. Sec. dep $650. (949) 463-3068.

3BR/2.5BA. Incl. W/D & fridge. Great condition. At bus stop on S. Lumpkin. $900/mo.

Call (404) 644-7983.

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

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

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.

1BR w/ priv. BA w/ kitchen & study. In upscale n’hood.

Westside, near Mall. All utilities included.

Extremely nice. $390/mo.

(706) 543-2112, lv. msg pls.

2 bedrooms, 1 bath.

Fireplace, dishwasher.

Cedar Shoals Rd. Eastside. Rent $525/ mo., $525/dep. Call (706) 769-8781. $475–525/mo. 1BR/1BA, 2 Blocks to town & campus. Lg. BR, CHVAC, great view of city, ceiling fans, some screen porches. Owner pays water & garbage. Avail. for January 1st move–in. Go to boulevard​p roperty​ management.com, (706) 548-9797.

1BR starting at $510/mo., 2BRs starting at $540.84/ mo., 3BRs starting at $705/mo. Sec. dep. starts at $150. Pet friendly, on busline! (706) 549-6254.

Restrictions apply.

2 rm. apt. w/ full kit. & BA. W/D. incl. $400/mo. + $400/ sec dep. Avail. 11/1. Won’t last! (706) 254-2936.

3BR/2.5BA Eastside townhome. Spacious & convenient, on bus route.

Pets allowed. Incl. W/D. Only $700/mo. Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

3BR/2BR avail. immediately for rent or sale. $695/mo + $695/sec. dep. or $59K. Rivers Edge Condominiums.

DW, micro, fridge, stove. New CHAC, carpet, HWflrs. On bus route. (706) 614-4827.

Beautiful 2BR/1BA apt. in historic house. ARMC area. high ceilings. HWflrs. Huge backyd. W/D. CHAC. Quiet neighbors. $820/mo. Water/ trash incl. Avail. 12/1. (706) 254-3619.

Best proper ty in town!

Woodlands of Athens.

3BR/3BA full of amenities.

Gated community, great specials. Reduced to only $1050/mo. Call Pete (706) 372-3319.

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2BR/1BA condo. Campus close. Security gate, pool, fitness center. Located at Stadium Village. Excellent condition. $600/mo. or $200/ wk. (706) 206-2347.

Huge duplex in 5 Pts for rent. 11/1. 2BR/1BA. CHAC, FP, HWflrs. $775/mo. We’ll pay 1/2 of Nov. rent. Call (706) 254-8572 or email racheltownes@gmail.com.

2BR/1.5BA condo at Eaglewood, off Lumpkin.

Pool, on lake, completely remodeled. $675/mo. Call (706) 353-7826 anytime.

Pre–leasing for January.

Units on Riverbend Pkwy starting at $575/mo.

Roommate matching avail. $285/mo. On busline. Incl.

W/D, DW. (706) 543-8505.

White Columns Hall.

1BR/1BA, 1 block from Dwntn. Water, gas incl., laundry onsite. $465/mo.

Call Joiner Management (706) 353-6868.

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Apartments for Sale Downtown Condo.

1BR/1BA in University Tower.

Approx 720 sq. ft. Across Broad St. from north campus, great view. $94,000. Call (706) 255-3743.

Commercial Property Amazing Office Spaces for lease above Dwntn Five Guy s res t aurant . S i g n a 1 Year Lease and Receive the 1st Month Free or 12% off!! 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 f o r re n t . 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 $1050/mo. 3BR/2BA house in countr y. 9 mi. from Dwntn. W/D hookup, D W , F P. C a l l ( 7 0 6 ) 540-8461.

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.

Commercial/Residential.

Lg. house on North Ave. $1300/mo. Approved for shelter, group home, or possibly even restaurant or office. Call David (706) 247-1398.

4BR/2BA quaint house in country. 9 mi. from Dwntn Athens. Avail. now! $950/ mo. (706) 540-8461.

3BR/1BA home close to Dwntn. HWflrs., lv. rm., eat–in kitchen, laundry rm., screened–in porch, covered parking. Dekle Realty (706) 548-0580.

3BR/1BA attractive brick house in quiet residential n’hood. CHAC, DW, W/D, & carport. Nice condition. $650/mo. Call (706) 548-5869.

Northside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/mo. Hospital area 2BR/1BA, carport, f e n c e d – i n y a rd , $ 7 5 0 / mo. Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $950/mo. 4BR/2BA w/ lg. yd. $1200/mo. 2 or 3BR/1BA w/ screened front porch, $700/mo. Cedar C re e k 4BR/2BA $950/ mo. O c o n e e C o u n t y 3BR/2BA. Lv. rm. w/ FP, din. rm., double garage, $1000/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

3BR/2BA. Off Milledge.

CHAC, W/D, HWflrs. $750/ mo. + dep. Call Mark (706) 202-5110.

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 house w/ fireplace & fenced yd. In a nice subdivision in West Athens.

Call (706) 549-7371. Joiner & Associates Realtors.

1, 2, 3, & 4BR homes for lease starting at just $600/ mo. Flexible lease terms & well maintained properties.

Looking for a home? Call us today. Dekle Realty Inc. (706) 548-0580.

323 Cleveland Ave. $550/mo. Lg. 1BR/1BA live in art studio. Located 2 blocks from town! Avail. now. Go to boulevard​ property​m anagement. com, (706) 548-9797. $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/1.5BA near UGA. Avail. now. Fenced yd, DW, CHAC, W/D, basement, tile flrs. $600/mo. (706) 254-2936.

1BR/1BA. 153B Barrow Street. $640/mo. Block from town, great place, excellent front porch, HWflrs, W/D, CHAC. Call for showing (706) 548-9797, w w w. b o u l e v a rd ​p ro p e r t y​ management.com.

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

CHAC, DW, laundry rm. w/ W/D, back deck, carport.

Call (706) 255-0066.

1BR/1BA available now!

HWflrs, all new appls. 133 1/2 Chattooga Ave. Call (706) 546-6900.

3BR/3BA new home w/ all appls. Off–street parking, nice balcony, corner location.

5 mins from campus. Great n’hood. $950/mo. Special through October: Get one month free! Call (404) 512-7431.

3–4BR cottages. Now Leasing! Close to campus, HWflrs, private baths, W/D, & micros included. Call (706) 543-1910 or email becky@ landmarkathens.com.

3 B R / 2 B A re n o v a t e d Victorian. Price reduced. 1/2 mi. to UGA. Lg. rms., high ceilings, HWflrs, front porch, back d e c k , n ic e y d . lo t s o f parking. W/D, DW, CHAC. Pets OK. $1000/mo. (706) 369-2908.

3BR/2BA house for rent.

Forest Heights. $875/mo. 1 yr. lease. W/D, lg. wooded lot. Very nice. Avail. 12/1.

Ron (828) 275-3447.

3BR/2BA renovated home.

Priced like a 2BR! 1 street mi. from Dwntn. in C h i c o p e e / D u d l e y a re a . $695/mo. Pest control, yard maint. incl. Photos & info www.1596eastbroad. blogspot.com, (706) 255-0659.

4BR/2.5BA beautiful plantation house on 3 acres.

High ceilings, HWflrs., lg. kitchen & rooms w/ a country setting. Front porch, screen porch & rear sunroom.

Pets welcome. 3–sided fence. 990 Double Bridges Rd. Avail. now! $1200/mo. + dep. (706) 319-1846, or (706) 548-4819. GA. R, E, lic. 300830.

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Cute 2BR/1BA. All electric, CHAC, W/D, nice yd. $550/ mo. + dep. Call Mark (706) 202-5110.

Country living in Athens!

3BR/1BA house at East Meadow, near UGA. HWflrs, patio, central heat, window A C , D W, W / D , f e n c e d backyd., yd. care incl. $750/ mo. Call (706) 354-4663.

Free Rent. 640 Tallassee Rd. 2BR/1BA home for rent at $600/mo. w/ 1st. mo. free! FP, CHAC, W/D conn.

Quiet. Private location. Just off the bypass. Call Bill at Thornton Realty (706) 353-7700.

First month free!

2–3BRs in quiet setting, off the beaten path. Sec. sys. incl. W/D, DW, priv. deck. Mention this ad & pay no pet fee! (706) 548-2522, www.dovetail management.com.

First month free! 2–3BRs in quiet setting, off the beaten path. Sec. sys. incl. W/D, DW, priv. deck, mention this ad & pay no pet fee!

Five mins. from campus, Dwntn. 3BR/1BA home.

CHAC, W/D, N/S. Fenced backyd., oak flrs. $750/mo. + deposit. (706) 338-1859.

Email bro@athens.net.

Navy School/ARMC area.

Lg. 1BR/1BA. All appls. incl.

W/D, HWflrs., nice side yd.

Perfect for grad students/ professionals. $550/ mo. Avail. 12/1. Call (706) 540-0472.

New 3BR/2.5BA house.

Near UGA. All appls incl.

W/D. Wood flrs., lg. BRs, big backyd. Open flr. plan.

NS. $975/mo. + utils. (949) 463-3068.

Now Pre-leasing for January! 5BR + bonus room. HWflrs, ceiling fans, W / D , D W, m i c ro , b a c k deck! 1 mi. to Dwntn. Ask about our leasing specials!

(706) 543-1910 or becky@ landmarkathens.com.

Unique small house. Clear story, open concept, 3–level cedar center post. W/D, AC, DW, huge yd. $650/mo.

769 Whitehall. Jason (706) 353-1750.

1BR in 2BR/1BA Eastside duplex. Grad student or professional pref’d. W/D, DW, CHAC. $263/mo. + 1/2 utils. + dep. Avail. now!

(706) 254-1534. Lv. msg.

Houses for Sale

Rooms for Rent

115 Hight Drive. $128,900. 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.

To w n / U G A , N . O c o n e e River. Band/storage neg.

Rms. $75/wk. Unlimited long distance, Internet, cable, computer/TV provided. No drugs, no cigarettes. (706) 850-0491, 957 MLK.

2BR Cottage on 3.5 priv. wooded acres. Trails, river, 2 lots. CHAC, WD, FP. By Kenney Ridge Conservation Community. $99,000. (706) 543-1170, www.zubbo.com.

3BR/2BA country house.

9 mi . fro m Dwn tn . FP. $138,000. (706) 540-8461.

4BR/2.5BA Brick Ranch on 1.3 acres. 2 lots, .88 acre open. CHAC, W/D, 2 FPs. Full basement w/ workshop. $130,000. (706) 543-1170, www.zubbo.com.

8000 Hog Mountain Rd. $100K. 3BR/2BA. Lg. lot Oconee Co. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 5434000, or (706) 372-4166.

Perfect artist home/retreat.

Studio & sunroom, office, re f i n i s h e d , H W f l r s . A l l brick. 206 Briarcliff Rd., Athens. $139K. Video at ScottNicholsRealEstate. com, (706) 202-2232. ReMax Associates Athens.

Roommates $900/mo house. Share residence w/ another professional. 20 min. 78–83 Hwy. from Athens campus. Great deal for single graduate student, writer, or teacher.

Fur nished. Private BR, BA, backyd., sidewalks, streetlamps, nearby cheap gym & space for guest.

Extras! Email judiethcarol@ rocketmail.com.

1BR in 4BR/3BA on S. Milledge. Lg. BR, $275/mo. + 1/4 utils. + dep. Dogs OK. On City & UGA bus route.

(770) 851-3701.

Roommate needed to share 3BR/2BA house on Eastside.

Minutes from Dwntn, Walmart & dog park. $350/mo + utils.

Call Eddie at (302) 354-8548.

Sub-lease 1BR avail. anytime. Dec. lease through July 2010. $300/mo. 5 min. walk to campus/Dwntn. M or F. W/D, DW, safe area. Kelly (706) 410-0387, email kvwphoto@ gmail.com.

S. Milledge Jamestown condo. $675/mo. Lg. 2BR/2.5BA. Bath, W/D, DW, woodburning FP, CHAC, pool. (706) 549-3096, (706) 202-7437. Avail. immediately.

For Sale Antiques Lg. Victorian house full of French/English/American antique furniture, oriental rugs, stain glass windows, huge collection of local art, oil paintings, water colors, art quilts, fine estate jewelry.

Antiques & Jewels. 290 N. Milledge Ave. Always open Tue–Sat, 12pm–5pm & chance/appt. (706) 340-3717, www.antiquesjewels.com.

Appliances 24 cubic ft. Hotpoint refrigerator for sale. White, side–by–side doors. Only 4 yrs. old! $375 OBO. Call (706) 338-1661.

Furniture Ta b l e s , c h a i r s , s o f a s , antiques, clothes, records & players, retro goods, & more!

Cool, affordable furniture every day. Go to Agora!

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

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 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.

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

Music Equipment Two high quality flutes.

Bundy & Geminheardt in cases. Like new condition. $85 each. Archipelago Antiques. (706) 354-4297.

Ask about our Run– til–Sold rate. 12 weeks for only $36! Call (706) 549-0301 or submit your ad through flagpole.com.

Restrictions may apply.

Recording Studio for sale.

Fully wired audio, acoustic design, & sound proofing.

1300 sq. ft., control room, isolation booths, live room.

Take over lease. $10K OBO. Downtown! (706) 552-0745.

Roland TD–10 V Drums. $1400, price negotiable.

Comes w/ extras: sound proofing tiles, drumming DVDs, teaching workbooks.

Contact (706) 202-7316 or email redhubcap@gmail.com.

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.

Love Guitar Hero? Quit playing the game & learn the real thing. Teachers w/ decades of experience.

1 – o n – 1 a ff o rd a b l e , f u n lessons. All styles & skill levels welcome. Music Exchange (706) 549-6199.

Music Services Guitar Repair, setups, electronics & fretwork by 20 yr. pro. Thousands of previous clients. Proceeds help benefit Nuçi’s Space. Contact 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 alternative to the typical wedding band? If you are looking for “YMCA” then Squat is not your band. If you want Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, & salsa, then visit w w w. s q u a t m e . c o m / 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 & p a r t y b a n d . w w w. themagictones.com.

Musicians Wanted 24 yr. old male guitarist seeks to join/start a band. Just moved to Athens to pursue a music career. Been playing for 12 yrs. (678) 977-5850 or Benrasmussen11@gmail.com.

Services Cleaning G e o r g ia D o g C le a n in g Services. Cleaning homes, apts., & townhouses.

Specializing in moveouts & foreclosures. Offering green cleaning. 1 time clean, weekly, or monthly. (404) 406-1796. ➤ continued on next page

Own your own rental proper ty!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.

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Computer Computer Repair Tech avail.

Virus removal, software support, networking solutions, etc. Free assessment. Free p/u & delivery. Honest & dependable. Pls. call (706) 248-2086.

Health P re g n a n t ? C o n s i d e r i n g 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).

Recruiting now! UGA Nutrition Study needs 9–13 yr. old participants.

Up to $140 & free health screening. (706) 542-4918 or bone@uga.edu.

Home and Garden

Sports

Backyard Solutions.

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

Legal Services 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.

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Massage Revolutionar y Massage & Wellness. Intro 60 min.

Massage: $40. Book O n l i n e ! G o t o w w w. revolutionarymassage. com.

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.

Jobs Full-time Custom Surveillance is looking for an installer.

Knowledge of surveillance equip., networking, & professional customer service a +. Email res. to sales@ customsurveillanceinc.com or call (706) 316-0210.

Hardcore Sales Reps Needed. Hourly + commission. PT & FT positions avail. I need the best & forget the rest!

Call Chris (770) 560-5653.

Busy Collection Agency looking for Fronters. Must have good phone voice.

Salary, bonus, & commission.

Call Eric (706) 552-2666.

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

Front help needed for fast paced cafe & catering co. Pls. send resume to chas06ton@yahoo.com.

M a r k e t i n g Communication Specialist. Join an est.

Athens company calling CEO’s & CFO’s of major corporations generating sales leads for technology companies. $9/hr. BOS Staffing www.bostemps. com, (706) 353-3030.

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.

Opportunities

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Are you tired of working for someone else? Have your own business inside of nice salon in Athens. Call Shannon for more details.

(706) 255-1969.

Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments.

No exp. req’d. (800) 743-8535.

Earn extra income assembling CD cases from home. No experience necessary. Call our live operators now. (800) 405-7619 ext. 2450. http:// www.easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN).

High School diploma! Fast, affordable & accredited. Free brochure. Call now! (800) 532-6546 ext. 97. Go to http:// www.continentalacademy. com (AAN CAN).

Dependable person needed during the evening hrs. helping a young man confined to a wheelchair.

In exchange for free rent in apt., food, utils. & other amenities. Call (706) 3162798 or (706) 549-9456.

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SCOOTER! ($1700 value)

Tickets are $10 a piece, and only 200 tickets will be sold.

Winner will get to choose between 3 50cc scooter models.

Winning ticket will be drawn on October 24th at the Nuçi’s S.P.A.C.E. Race 5K run/walk on the UGA Campus.

You do not have to be present to win.

All proceeds will benefit Nuçi’s Space.

You may buy tickets in person at Nuçi’s Space or online at www.nuci.org For more information, go to www.nuci.org or www.owlscooters.com

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Front help needed for fast paced cafe & catering co. Pls. send resume to chas06ton@yahoo.com.

Vehicles Autos 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.

2001 Isuzu Rodeo. Good condition, runs great. 92K mi.

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Messages Reach over 5 million readers for only $995 by advertising in 110 weekly newspapers like this one. Call Jason (202) 289-8484 (AAN CAN).

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everyday people Voted Athens' Best Sushi 2 Years in a Row

CANDACE STANCIEL, EVENT COORDINATOR To be sure, Candace Stanciel was born into interesting circumstances—as one of nine children, she grew up in Greenwood, MS, where the term “black power” was first coined—but really, most of her life’s unique texture comes from the path she’s forged for herself. Candace has never had, nor wanted, a nine-to-five job, so I was not surprised when she called herself the “black sheep” of her family. As an undergrad at UGA at the turn of the century, Candace helped bring bands like Outkast, Ludacris and 112 to campus. As a 20-something in Los Angeles, she unfurled red carpets and directed press toward celebrities at the Academy Awards. (Ask her about the time she lost a foot-race with comedian Katt Williams.) While living in L.A., she also found the time to get a master’s degree in counseling and student affairs from UCLA. Candace’s current job as an event coordinator at UGA combines her two skill sets into a satisfying hybrid of pandemonium and predictability, of education and event planning. But don’t think she has quit the glitz and glamour of her 20s; Candace planned to work the BET Awards in Atlanta the weekend after we spoke.

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sets of twins… so we weren’t all in the house at the same time. [My siblings and I] have different interests. My sister’s interested in the environment and water; she does clean water research and it totally bores me to death. She worked for NASA in graduate school and studied how we could grow peanuts on another planet.

FP: What was it like growing up in Greenwood, Mississippi?

CS: I found it to be great… so when I moved to Atlanta, I actually didn’t like [it] at first… I just missed my hometown.

But I’m very appreciative to my parents for bringing me here, because I understand opportunity now. And there just wasn’t a lot in my hometown…

Charles-Ryan Barber

FP: And what was it like having a cop for a dad?

CS: My father was the first African-American chief of police the city ever had, and so I think I grew up very much aware of policemen and safety, and I always felt very, very safe. So, when I hear people talk about policemen in a bad way, it’s very different from how I grew up. [But] it’s scary sometimes… I remember my dad getting shot one time when I was young, and he had on a vest, but he still has a scar from where the bullet hit him… My dad has had every job you can imagine.

He used to be a shoeshiner; he drove a bus; he picked cotton in the fields with my grandmothers, you know, when they were sharecroppers. So, he’s seen a lot. He doesn’t have a college diploma; he barely has a high school degree. But he’s wise, he’s so wise.

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FP: You mentioned that you’re an avid reader.

What’s your favorite book?

CS: Lion Woman’s Legacy. Nobody’ll ever have heard of it.

FP: Sweet. That’s what I want. Now for a more serious question: as a white male, I wonder whether it’s more appropriate to use the term “black” or “African-American.” Is there a more sensitive, appropriate term for us to use?

CS: I think it’s a really personal choice for each person… It’s not just a challenge for people who are not of color, but I think, for people of color— ‘cause we don’t even agree… before it was “black” because we were kind of in a color space; it was like there’s strength in blackness, and it was during a time when James Brown [said] “I’m black, and I’m proud,” so we latched onto defining ourselves via color because the world was, at the time, black and white. Well, the world is no longer just black and just white. But I think also there was a progressive movement to connect to our African heritage, and so then “African-American” became a standard term… I have traced my history back to Africa; my great-grandparents generations ago were owned by a French family. And that’s where the name “Stanciel” comes from.

Flagpole: For the tape: Your name?

Candace Stanciel: Candace Marie Stanciel.

FP: What do you have to do to set up your average campus event?

CS: Oh, gosh, well, it really depends on the event… but there are some parts that are pretty similar for all events. We have marketing and promotions: you know, how are we advertising this event? Is it something that’s open to the public, or are we managing a guest list? What’s the theme? What’s the décor… are we going to have entertainment? Are we going to manage transportation? So, it’s a lot of logistical questions.

FP: You mentioned you are one of nine kids. What was that like, growing up?

CS: Well, the interesting thing is we’re pretty far apart.

There’s about seven years between all of us. And there’s two

FP: Do you know where exactly in Africa your family comes from?

CS: I don’t know. That’s what we’ve been trying to figure out… we haven’t been able to pinpoint a tribe, and that’s really what it boils down to. I know it’s either northern or eastern Africa. But there’s so many countries and so many tribes… you can find a lot of generic information [cheaply], but now it’s becoming costly.

FP: Back to the fluff. What do you like to eat?

CS: I’m a very simple eater. My favorite thing to eat: grapes.

If somebody said “That’s all you can have for the rest of your life,” I’d be happy. I don’t like salad—I don’t know why. And being in special events, it’s kinda weird, because there’s always the salad, the entrée, the dessert, and I’m always like pushing my salad around because it’s impolite to just sit there with your salad. So, you want to kind of move it around, then put [the] fork and knife down. Done.

Jeff Gore

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