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pub notes David vs. Goliath It’s good news that Sen. Johnny Isakson is out of the hospital and on the mend. He is apparently a great guy and a hard worker, who is a most effective senator, though far too coddling of corporations and general Georgia know-nothingism for my tastes. Isakson is still relatively young at 65, but just the fact that a U.S. senator should have to be put into the hospital for an irregular heartbeat and a blood clot in his leg and then go back for a bacterial infection makes one realize he is mortal.

With two relatively young Republican U.S. senators safely ensconced at the top of the ticket, Georgia doesn’t seem to be in danger of having an open Senate seat in the near future.

But Isakson’s need to exercise his fine Senate health insurance twice in quick succession is a reminder how swiftly things can change in politics.

One doctor no doubt following the Isakson illness with great interest is our own Dr. Paul Broun, Jr., the 10th District Republican congressman who represents Athens-Clarke and a phalanx of rural counties around us. Broun is running for reelection. (Because of their two-year terms, congressmen are always running for re-election.) Broun is also running for more than re-election. He has used his House seat to turn himself into a national celebrity. His policy of voting “No” on any legislation that comes before the house means that he doesn’t need to study the issues, nor is there any need for any other congressmen to negotiate with him about anything. This leaves him a lot of time to think up Russell Edwards has shenanigans and statements outrageous enough to make nothing to lose…

YouTube, “The Daily Show” and, increasingly, Fox News.

Broun has made himself the go-to guy for off-the-wall remarks, and he always delivers. After years of losing campaigns running for the House and the Senate, Broun finally caught on that attention to legislative detail is not the path to notoriety, media attention is. It does not matter why the media attend you; people remember that you were on TV, and that certifies you. Celebrity is all.

That celebrity, of course, comes in handy. Broun is obviously building up his statewide recognition and identification as a man who will go to any lengths to show his backside to the Nazi-Communist-Muslim illegal Obama shoving the federal government down our throats. That stance resonates throughout our fair state, where our people, loosed from the bounds of effective education, are susceptible to hucksters. All of that helps Broun in the 10th District, too, which is, after all, part of Georgia. So, all Broun has to do is keep up the medicine show, remaining at the forefront of 10th District politics and also staying locked and loaded should anything ever happen, please God, to one of our senators.

The only Achilles heel to Broun’s grandstanding may be that people can’t help but realize that their show horse is no work horse—that their congressman has done absolutely nothing to bring any kind of jobs to his district or do anything else that improves their lot in life except occasionally have one of his staffers straighten out a problem with a Social Security check or something. If a young David stepped in front of this showboating Goliath and hurled common sense at the giant’s bluff, people might understand that the big guy is all show.

Well, a young about-to-graduate UGA law student by the name of Russell Edwards is holding a press conference Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Athens City Hall, where he is expected to announce his candidacy for the 10th District seat presently occupied by Broun, Jr. Edwards, a Democrat, believes that Broun is vulnerable because of the very things that have made him such an icon of outrageousness. Edwards believes that people had rather have somebody in office who can effectively work for their interests than somebody who can grab attention by showing off.

Russell Edwards has nothing to lose: however the election turns out, he will learn about this district and the people who live in it. If at the end of the campaign he’ll be starting out as a lawyer instead of as a congressman, he will have the benefit of a hard-won knowledge and wisdom gained day-by-day on the streets and highways of north Georgia. If he wins, he will have proved that boldness and courage can pay off in politics, and that even a seemingly invincible opponent can turn out to be a joke.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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Pull the Plug: Russell Edwards, a third-year UGA law student set to graduate this spring, is running against Paul Broun, Jr. for the 10th Congressional District seat Broun has held for two terms. If unopposed in the Democratic primary, Edwards will face Broun in the general election in November 2010. Edwards and his supporters are holding a campaign kickoff rally at Athens City Hall Wednesday, Apr. 7 at 5:30 p.m., at which time he will announce his decision, which apparently has already been made.

Russell says he believes Broun is vulnerable and that Broun is not working effectively for the citizens of the 10th District. Edwards says, concerning Broun, that a lot of people in the district are “fed up with his antics.” Russell says he’s running “to bring common sense and jobs to the 10th District.” Stay tuned.

Counting on You: The Census Bureau has devised a great website that tracks census mail-back percentages. Just go to http://2010.census.gov/2010census/ take10map/ and click on “view participation rates.” Then you can check to see how our state is doing so far (50 percent) and Athens-Clarke County (50 percent).

You can even check your neighborhood.

But first, go on and send in your census form, so that you can enjoy checking up on everybody else guiltfree. It only takes a minute.

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Sustainable Mayors: The folks at Common Ground Athens are holding another town hall to help people get to know the candidates who are running for mayor of Athens. This time around the candidates will discuss their views on making Athens more sustainable and other environmental issues. The town hall meeting is Saturday, Apr. 10 at 11 a.m. in the Thomas N. Lay Park gymnasium, including a picnic on the lawn afterward—with sandwiches for sale by Daily Groceries Co-op and coffee by 1000 Faces. All the announced mayoral candidates have been invited: Nancy Denson, Spencer Frye, Charlie Maddox, Brandon Shinholser and Glenn Stegall. There is a suggested donation of $3–$5. The recent boomlet of support for Ben Emanuel has not moved him to declare his candidacy.

For the Globe: The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is a good time to check up on this grassroots environmental movement and find out

Save the Date: Saturday, Apr. 17 the Piedmont Gardeners present their annual opportunity for us to visit some of the Filling out the census form takes less than five minutes. more interesting home gardens around town. They have another great lineup to what it has accomplished on behalf of your sample the unexpected beauty lurking behind world. Earth Day will be celebrated in Athens those garden fences. Details in next week’s with a program entitled, “Earth Day @ 40: Flagpole. Meanwhile, all the information is on Where Do We Stand?” The program begins at their web site: http://piedmontgardeners.org.

6 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 15 in the foyer of the auditorium in the Eugene Odum School of Fresh Approaches: Be sure to go early the Ecology. Athens’ first Earth Day celebration in next time you go to Ciné, because it’s going 1970 was also held in the ecology school. to take you a while to walk in. You’ll be lookFollowing the reception, the movie Earth ing up at René Shoemaker’s beautiful textile Days will be shown in the auditorium, and paintings in her show, “Athens Above,” hung after the film, participants in a roundtable overhead and featuring intriguing views of the discussion will assess environmental progress Athens skyline. On either side you’ll want to over the last four decades. They are well qualiinspect the fanciful renderings of Athens posfied. Allen Stovall is professor emeritus in the sibilities left over from the recent symposium, UGA College of Environment and Design (and “Look at That! Fresh Approaches in Urban presented a paper at the first Earth Day here); Redevelopment for Athens.” The exhibit is up Carol Couch, senior public service associate through Apr. 13. in the College of Environment and Design, is the former director of Georgia’s Environmental Ride It: The new UGA Office of Sustainability Protection Division; Laurie Fowler, associis looking at ways to encourage and increase ate dean of the Odum School of Ecology and bicycle ridership on campus, maybe even co-director of the UGA River Basin Center is going so far as to refurbish abandoned bikes a longtime Athens environmental activist and and making them available for campus trips. If Mark Milby is a UGA senior majoring in ecolyou’ve got ideas for boosting bike use, call the ogy and a leader in the UGA GoGreen Alliance. office at (706) 542-1301.

He was instrumental in the effort that led to passage of a student referendum for a fee to Read It: Janet Geddis is finding creative ways support environmental improvements at UGA, to raise money for the launch of her indepenwhich made possible the university’s Office of dent, community-based Avid Bookshop. Go to Sustainability. the store’s blog to learn more about Avid and find out how you can be a part of her effort Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

city pages Botanical Garden’s Supporters Tout Its Indispensability The possible closing of the State Botanical Garden due to state budget cuts has sparked a number of organized protests, including a Facebook group and an online petition currently showing over 37,000 signatures. The most influential movement, however, may be coming from the garden’s leadership itself, which has organized a survey of university uses of the facility and is conducting an information campaign.

The garden was already planning for a 14 percent cut owing to earlier state budget reductions, says Dr. James Affolter, the botanical garden’s director of research.

The closing of the botanical garden is one of the most severe of the measures suggested among the University System of Georgia’s proposals for the $300 million in cuts requested by the General Assembly. Of the garden’s $2 million operating budget, the University of Georgia pays $875,688 annually. The withdrawal of that block of funding would lead to the garden’s closing and the loss of 29 positions, both state funded and non-state funded.

The recent survey, which began Mar. 16, has found that the garden serves 50 courses in 19 departments in the university, with a total of more than 2,500 students annually. Many of the classes, like those in entomology and horticulture, are obvious sources of usage. But Affolter also cites early childhood education courses and a freshman seminar called “Plants of the Bible” among those that depend upon the garden.

Shirley Berry, the garden’s interim director, developed a fact sheet from records which indicated that an estimated 250,000 people total come to the garden annually, including 21,500 students.

The memo was sent to the garden’s board of advisors, as well as Friends of the Garden (a group numbering about 1,600) and about 50 other organizations. All were urged to write to members of the Legislature in support of the garden. Berry says that given the number of responses she’s received as copies, many have.

In a letter from Daniel Stark, the executive director of the American Public Garden Association, to UGA President Michael Adams and legislators, Stark highlighted the work of the Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance [GPCA], a four-year-old program that works to preserve endangered plant species in Georgia and is based out of the garden.

“If the university is attempting to be a leader in environmental stewardship and sustainability, few programs on campus could match the national reputation and contribution of the [GPCA],” wrote Stark.

The fate of the garden remains uncertain in the wake of a budget proposal made by Gov. Sonny Perdue on Mar. 11, which calls for $113 million in cuts for the university system rather than the $300 million asked for by the General Assembly.

Affolter, who initially intended for the survey’s information to be for the garden’s own use, now says that it must be used in the budget decision-making processes still to come at every level.

“The people who need to hear this message are the chancellor, the regents and the president,” he says. “We are doing so much; we just need to get our message heard.”

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Apr. 26 is what I call “put up or shut up time” in state politics, because it’s the date when candidate qualifying begins for the July 20 primary elections. As the official start of the 2010 election season gets closer, let’s look at questions hanging over Georgia politics.

How badly was gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal hurt by congressional investigation of a lucrative business arrangement between his car salvage company and state government? He probably suffered substantial damage from the report compiled by the Office of Congressional Ethics that reviewed the details of his business transactions and concluded that the recently resigned Gainesville congressman may have violated House ethics rules.

The man from Gainesville keeps saying over and over, “I have done nothing wrong,” and insists that he is not going to be forced out of the governor’s race. I think Deal misses the point here.

It’s true that the House cannot punish him because he’s no longer a member of Congress, and I doubt that anybody is going to jail over this, but the ethics report is still damaging. House investigators confirmed earlier media accounts that Deal used his congressional staffers and his political friendship with Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle to pressure the revenue commissioner to continue sending business to Deal’s car salvage shop. That’s not something members of Congress should be doing, and it leaves Deal open to criticism that he tried to use the influence of his office to benefit himself.

Cagle got dinged a little by the same ethics report, which said he declined a request from congressional investigators to sit down for an interview about the Deal incident. The report recommended that a subpoena be issued for the lieutenant governor.

What about Thurbert Baker? On the Democratic side of the governor’s race, Attorney General Baker got a campaign boost last week from the introduction of an

impeachment resolution against him. The impeachment threat, which stemmed from Baker’s refusal to sue the federal government over the new healthcare reform law, provided valuable TV exposure for Baker and raised his political profile accordingly. It made him a hero to Democratic Party activists, which could help him in the primary election against former governor Roy Barnes.

The attack by Republican lawmakers on Baker, the first African American to be elected attorney general in Georgia, could also generate higher turnout from black voters in November, similar to 2008, when they came to the polls in record numbers to vote for Barack Obama. That could end up hurting GOP candidates in competitive districts.

What will Thurmond do? Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond has toyed with the idea of running for lieutenant governor for several months now but has still not announced whether he will actually run for that office.

Thurmond’s silence has already drawn one Democratic candidate into the race for the state’s second highest office: Carol Porter, a Dublin newspaper executive and the wife of gubernatorial candidate DuBose Porter.

Thurmond is an eloquent campaigner who’s already won three statewide races for labor commissioner and would be a very credible candidate for lieutenant governor. If U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, who’s now been hospitalized twice in a two-week period, turns out to have health issues that prevent him from running for another term, Thurmond would be a strong contender for that seat. The issue with Thurmond, as always, lies in getting him to make a decision.

If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on Thurmond staying home and running for a fourth term as labor commissioner. We’ll find out for sure during the week of Apr. 26.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@capitolimpact.net

athens rising What’s Up in New Development If you missed “Look at That: Fresh Approaches in Urban Redevelopment in Athens” on Mar. 27 at Ciné, you could hardly be blamed. All the other great things going on that weekend, such as the Robert Osborne Film Festival and River Rendezvous, were a testament to just how culturally and socially active our community is. It also points to how much we stand to lose if local character isn’t diligently stewarded.

In case you missed it, consider this a briefing of sorts on the all-day symposium, although, hopefully, the ideas that the 90 or so attendees picked up at the event will have some legs beyond that one Saturday, perhaps even working their way, second-hand, to your ears.

The morning started off with two faculty members from UGA’s College of Environment and Design sharing some of their

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I worked with several fellow design students to produce an exhibit illustrating a possible future Athens, displayed at Ciné in conjunction with the symposium. Several of the concepts shown there are ones I’ve written about in this space before, but the images do a better job of illustrating them than any number of words ever could, and so I encourage you to take a look. They’ll be up until Apr. 13. In case you don’t, if there were four concepts I’d want people to take away from that exhibit, they would be these:

illustration: Kevan Williams

A Green Loop: The potential for a 3.6-mile loop of pedestrian spaces around downtown doesn’t just exist: it’s practically already built. About 2.5 miles of what would constitute the loop—either in ACC Greenways or in the Reed Alley/Georgia Quad area—are already developed as park space or funded for that purpose. One mile to go, with the majority of the land in question owned by Oconee Hills Cemetery, the Athens Housing Authority or the university. The loop defines the hill on which downtown is built, with Pulaski Creek and Tanyard Branch feeding into the North Oconee River to create the majority of its circumference. A four-block gap between the headwaters of those two creeks could be closed with a pedestrian alley through the downtown cluster of music and arts New parks and trails along the CSX rail line (seen here from the western end of Chattooga venues. This is already so far along, it’s Avenue) could connect neighborhoods and spur redevelopment in the Railroad Arts District, such just an issue of branding and closing the as renovation of the Southern Mill complex. gap at this point.

illustration: Kevan Williams

knowledge. Pratt Cassity opened the proceedings, giving folks The Hanson Quarry: Hundreds of feet deep and covering around a primer in how to evaluate neighborhood cohesiveness and 50 acres, this is a big hole. Water issues aren’t going away, determine whether new construction fits in. Judith Wasserman and when this quarry is tapped-out in the next 10–15 years, it discussed various ways in which public spaces can also serve could be a great reservoir. It’s also adjacent to the Firefly railas places for art and expression within the city. Nina Butler, to-trail, and might make a great greenspace. If we want indusa planner with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, try and growth, we’re going to need water. See the Vulcan talked about some local transportation issues. Finally, Quarry along the Beltline in Atlanta.

Ken Reardon of the University of Memphis led symposium participants RXRAD: A rail-with-trail along the in a discussion about possibilities for CSX rail line is the most viable northAthens and also presented some of ern link between the Middle and his work involved with the Memphis North Oconee Greenways. Already, Regional Design Center. several greenspaces exist along the In my mind, one of the most succorridor, allowing for a path that cessful aspects of the event was the spends little time within the CSX film component, with screenings right-of-way. The ability to connect of short segments about innovative and strengthen numerous elements solutions to urban design challenges of a nascent entrepreneurial/arts in various cities around the coundistrict is huge. This one really has try and the world, such as bicycle the potential to put Athens on the sharing programs in Paris and bus map in a big way. rapid transit in Curitaba, Brazil. The opportunity to see these cities as Boroughs: Some may have rolled the dynamic and animated places their eyes at the comparison of they are was a far more effective College Avenue to Times Square, but illustration than even the most well if there’s any idea we could borrow presented powerpoint lecture. from New York, it is that of the borThe usual fault lines were there, ough. Athens could be split into five as always. Cyclists, alleged by some cohesive districts based on existing participants to be fictional creatures divides such as major greenbelts in Athens, were blamed by others for and the bypass. These five districts taking up every traffic lane, all the could be used for planning walktime. College Square is still as vehe- A green loop around downtown Athens, based on existing able services, neighborhood schools, natural streams, rivers and topography, creates a more mently disputed as ever. According transportation, political districts and logical boundary to the district than current zoning. to the pro-plaza party, downtown anything else on a scale that makes Athens will become a Portland-esque sense. urban paradise as that plaza goes in; the anti-pedestrian mall faction suggest that downtown will end up looking more like None of these solutions on its own is necessarily the right the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. answer to this town’s problems. They are simply possibilities What these fissures really illustrate, though, is disagreewhich address some of the issues Athens faces. Without an ment about methods: in the discussion led by Reardon, there overall vision for what Athens could be—perhaps something was real consensus among those involved about what Athens with a little more potential to inspire than the Comprehensive should feel like. Athens ought to remain vital, accessible, Plan’s future land use map—we’re still just treading water. affordable and diverse. It needs to keep its small-town nature even as it embraces big-city ideas. And darnit, we want that Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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As nations go, 234 years is not a terribly long time to exist. We’ve never been conquered, never endured feudalism or religious schism, never had a coup d’etat, only had four heads of state assassinated. We’ve been struck by one plague and one civil war, the latter horrible, to be sure, but only four years long, shorter than most of the civil wars raging today in the world. Relatively speaking, America—the non-indigenous, predominantly white part of it anyway—is a mere infant of a society.

We’re smart babies; there’s no mistaking that. We learned how to play with our toys and improve on them much faster than the other kids, for example. But we’re still learning how to navigate the playground beyond our own sandbox. We get cranky and belligerent when other kids don’t do what we want them to. We have very little patience for the slow deliberations of others. We’re easily amused but get bored quickly. We have a hard time recalling our mistakes. We are terrified of strangers.

And we are incredibly susceptible to suggestion. We follow fads and trends and shiny things with eager mindlessness. Celebrities dance for us like circus bears and fight for our amusement. On the other hand, one has merely to scare us to make us scamper for any idea that will coddle us and ease our fears, and in return we will accept all sorts of compromises just to make the monsters go away. Following the Oklahoma City bombing, polls revealed that 65 percent of Americans would be willing to trade certain civil liberties for security. 9/11 drove that point home—suddenly we found ourselves accepting extraordinary renditions and torture with alacrity. We agreed to suspend the Geneva Conventions for enemy combatants. We allowed our phone companies and libraries to monitor us and started spying on our neighbors for the TIPS program. We gave the NSA the go-ahead for wiretapping and the FBI the OK for black-bag home invasions. In the name of combatting terrorists, we became even more terrorized. They won.

Despite all of our bravado and jingoism, there is a part of us that realizes just how easily most of us would roll over like whipped dogs in the worst-case scenario. It’s why our entertainments and public discourses are chock-full of Terminators and Matrixes (actually, that should be Matrices), asteroid strikes and zombie apocalypses and 2012. Each of us likes to harbor the notion that we’ll be the one who survive the cataclysm, kick some monster ass, rise up against the despotic new order—but let’s be honest, most of us will end up in the long queue to be undead chow or happy drones.

This is the stuff of Laura Bynum’s debut novel, Veracity (Simon & Schuster, 2010), a

taut and frightening vision of a near-future totalitarian America. After a biological catastrophe wipes out most of the population, the remaining citizenry enclaves in the cities, willing subjects to a theocratic police state, called the Confederation of the Willing (sound familiar?), run by an aging, charismatic president who issues daily pronouncements by speaking in tongues. Order is enforced by a national security force empowered to use whatever means they deem necessary (battery, rape, murder) to keep the peace, informed by a network of psychic monitors and, most insidiously, the irretrievable metal plates implanted in every citizen’s neck that detect, record and punish the wearer for any speech deemed dangerous or seditious.

Harper Adams is a Sentient, chosen as a teenager for her remarkable empathic abilities to be one of the state’s psychic overseers.

While her position gives her prestige and perks unavailable to most people, she is also tightly controlled by her government masters.

After watching coworkers disappear and get killed outright for the smallest infractions, she gives up her daughter, Veracity (a name Harper can’t even say, because it means “truth” and is a Red-listed word), sending her out of the reach of those who might use her to ensure Harper’s continued compliance.

Because Harper has had enough.

An underground rebellion has reached out to her, and she’s ready to run—but where do you run when the implant in your neck reports your every move and every word?

Readers will find Bynum’s novel familiar, perhaps too familiar in places. The shadows of George Orwell, William Nolan and, especially, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale loom large here. Still, Bynum’s execution is quite good, just the right mix of melancholy, desperation and horror to evoke this future America and all its terrifying implications. We feel Harper’s anguish, her claustrophobia and her endless pain, and, most interestingly, Bynum manages to describe Harper’s psychic abilities in a way that makes sense—something most writers tackling the subject are hard-pressed to do.

As we read about Harper’s flight for freedom (and where could that possibly be?), the society she’s fleeing seems incredibly farfetched, and yet the people in it are depressingly recognizable. They’re us, laboring under the inevitable consequence of our devil’s bargain with those who promise to keep us safe and warm if we only give up a little free speech here and a little vigilance there. It’s merely one of the many poisonous possibilities that can occur the moment we accept the pacifier.

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theatre notes 100 and Wonderful With Some Blues and Some Grit: Beginning in 1910, businessman Monroe Bowers “Pink” Morton opened the first African-Americanbuilt-owned-and-operated vaudeville theater in the United States on Washington Street.

At the center of downtown commerce, the Morton Theatre housed the practices of local black doctors, pharmacists and dentists on the street level and vaudeville, music and movies in the proscenium. Celebrating its centennial, UGA and the Black Theatrical Ensemble present George C. Wolfe’s Spunk.

Adapted from three stories by Harlem Renaissance writer/folklorist/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and featuring an original jazz and blues musical score by Chic Street Man, Spunk animates Hurston’s lyrical vignettes and “the laughin’ kind of lovin’ kind of hurtin’ kind of pain that comes from bein’ human.” Director Dr. Freda Scott Giles heralds that Spunk commemorates “everything that Zora Neale Hurston loved: the people of Eatonville, FL, the birthplace of which she was very proud; ‘the folk’ and their ways, whether from the South or in Harlem; and the ability of African Americans not only to survive, but to thrive against all odds.”

7:30 p.m. and Apr. 10 at 2 & 7:30 p.m. Email youngactorsstudio@gmail.com for reservations or more information.

Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Graduate Acting Ensemble in the Department of Theatre at UGA, with support from a New Georgia Independent Student Production Grant, presents an original play by MFA-candidatein-performance John Plough. The Dance of Hands explores the age-old question: “What happens when the characters at a local news station become embroiled in the mysterious world of competitive Rock-Paper-Scissors?”

Find out for yourself Apr. 11–13 at 8 p.m. at UGA’s Cellar Theatre.

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Great Minds: Did you, too, fall in love with turn-of-the-20th century Montmartre, Paris with the help of Baz Luhrmann’s T. Rex/ The Sound of Music pastiche? Well, luckily, Montmartre truly was a flashy and meretricious haven for artistry, and 1900, a momentous point in history, all of which we can witness in Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Martin’s foremost venture in playwriting, Picasso has been playing major cities and upsetting high school drama clubs since 1993 with its depiction of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meeting at a Parisian café before a special theory of relativity or Les Demoiselles d’Avignon existed.

With a large cast of eclectics, you get it all—from smart, comic debate on art and science to sex jokes. Going up on Town and Gown’s Second Stage, Picasso at the Lapin Agile plays Apr. 9 & 10 and 15–17 at 8 p.m. with matinees Apr. 11 & 18 at 2 p.m. Call (706) 208-8696 for tickets.

Cirque Le Masque: Contemporary circus lovers will be pleased to know a new production in the style of the cirque companies UGA and the Black Theatrical Ensemble present Spunk at the Morton of Europe and Canada will make Theatre Apr. 8–18. its way to Athens. One night only, Cirque Le Masque performs A truly historic moment for Athens culture, Evolution with beautiful acrobatics, trapeze don’t miss Spunk at the Morton Theatre playand aerials that are not to be missed. Playing ing Apr. 8–10 and 14–17 at 8 p.m. and Apr. at the Classic Center, Apr. 27 at 7:30 p.m. Buy 18 at 2:30 p.m. A talk-back with Valerie Boyd, tickets online at www.classiccenter.com.

UGA professor of Journalism and author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Theatre Camp for High School Students: The Hurston, follows the Apr. 14 performance. Visit UGA Department of Theatre and Films Studies www.drama.uga.edu for more information. proudly presents DramaDawgs, a summer theatre camp experience for high school students Some Pig: For one day only, the Classic in grades 10 through 12. Participants will Center will present E.B. White’s 1952 story, have the chance to experience a conservatoryCharlotte’s Web. Nothing welcomes spring like style approach to training in acting on stage this beloved and poignant story of life and and camera. The two-week program consists solidarity. Charlotte’s Web plays Apr. 8 at 9:30 of master classes in performance, scene study, & 11:30 a.m. Buy tickets online at www.clascharacterization and acting on camera, each siccenter.com or call (706) 357-4444. week concluding with a public performance.

This program is a great opportunity to experiA Penny Saved: Young Actors Studio, Inc. ence life on campus and work with a number presents an original production, The Penny of professional directors and actors. Associate Stock Opera, written and directed by company Professor George Contini, specializing in co-founder Ralph Stevens. Borrowing from characterization, solo performance and acting theatrical revolutionary Bertolt Brecht’s The on camera, directs the program. Reservations Three Penny Opera, this production jointly will be taken until June 14. For application parodies the musical and the stock market forms or further information, please contact using karaoke and Ponzi schemes. YAS works the Director of DramaDawgs Summer Theater to provide educational opportunities to chilCamp, Professor George Contini at (706) 542dren and young adults through the promotion 0285, gcontini@uga.edu. of local children’s theatre. The Penny Stock Opera plays at Seney-Stovall Chapel, Apr. 9 at Amy Whisenhunt

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

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG) In Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s young heroine is now an adult. This nearing-20 Alice seeks to escape an arranged engagement to the odious son of her late father’s business partner by again falling into a hole while chasing a tardy white rabbit.

Sadly, this Alice has, like the Hatter astutely announces, lost its muchness.

This return trip feels less like Tim Burton’s adventures in Wonderland than a Disney approximation of the auteur’s vision.

AUX 4 EXPERIMENTAL ARTS FESTIVAL (NR) Event and publication series AUX presents its fourth annual festival. Featuring performances, visual art and sound installations, video screenings and an artists’ market in its return to downtown Athens, AUX 4 will take place at Ciné and Little Kings.

Featuring video screenings from Ash Sechler, Elliott Earls, Ries Straver, Seth Nicholas Stephens, John Crowe, Carlos Casas, Ashley Ohman, Joleen Toner and Chris Cogan.

AVATAR (PG-13) On a remote planet, a paraplegic marine, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is promised the use of his legs if he helps the Corporation relocate a race of blue warriors, the Na’vi, whose home is located atop the planet’s richest supply of unobtanium.

Jake takes control of a Na’vi/ human hybrid, infiltrating the aliens to learn their ways, but falls in love with them, particularly the chief’s daughter, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), instead. Now Sully must lead the Na’vi against the space marines led by General Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), a scarred hulk of a military man.

THE BLIND SIDE (PG-13) A rich white couple, Leigh Anne and Sean Touhy (Sandra Bullock and likable, easygoing Tim McGraw), take in Big Mike, an African-American giant given up on by most of Memphis. They turn his life around; he eventually earns a scholarship to Ole Miss. He doesn’t really do anything to change their lives, although the movie insists that he does.

THE BOUNTY HUNTER (PG-13) Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), the titular

bounty hunter, discovers his latest quarry is his ex-wife, Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston), a reporter who knows too much. Now the constantly arguing duo must run for their lives.

Wow, this high-concept action comedy reeks of the 1980s. Hitch director Andy Tennant did not show a talent for these sorts of flicks with 2008’s Fool’s Gold. With the usually entertaining Christine Baranski and Jason Sudeikis (“Saturday Night Live”).

BOY, INTERRUPTED (NR) Nuci’s Space presents a screening of a film

by Dana Perry, a documentary which chronicles, through home movies, photographs, interviews and more, the life and loss of her fifteen-year-old son Evan who struggled with bipolar disorder.

CHLOE (R) Notable as the shoot Liam Neeson had to leave after wife Natasha Richardson’s eventually fatal skiing accident, Chloe stars Julianne Moore as a doctor who hires an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce her husband (Neeson). Apparently, the good doctor thinks her hubby’s cheating and wants to catch him in the act. The films of director Atom Egoyan often intrigue more than they entertain. Maybe Chloe can do both and grant the Canadian filmmaker his greatest mainstream success since 1996’s The Sweet Hereafter.

LA CIOCIARA (NR) 1960. Get your final Sophia Loren fix as Cinecitta 2, this semester’s Italian film series entitled Sophia Loren: Celebrating 60 Years in Cinema, winds down. For four consecutive Tuesdays, the Department of Romance Languages has screened films starring the irreplaceable, ageless beauty. Cesira (Loren) and her teenage daughter flee Rome during the Allied bombings of World War II. Another collaboration between Loren and director Vittorio De Sica, La Ciociara won the actress her only Academy Award.

CLASH OF THE TITANS (PG-13) See Movie Pick.

CRAZY HEART (R) Crazy Heart stars Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake. Bad—a holdover from the long-gone days when country music meant pedal steel, hurting souls and cowboy boots, not crafted hooks, electric gee-tars and

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ACC LIBRARY (706-613-3650) The Storm (NR) 7:00 (Th. 4/8)

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Boy, Interrupted (NR) 8:00 (M. 4/12) Chloe (R) 5:15, 7:45, 9:45 (ends Th. 4/8) Crazy Heart (R) 9:30 (new times F. 4/9: 5:15 except on W. 4/14) (add’l times F. 4/9, Tu. 4/13 & Th. 4/15: 9:30) The Horse Boy (NR) 5:15 & 7:30 (W. 4/14) The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come (NR) 3:30 & 10:00 (Sa. 4/10) Not Since You (NR) 7:30 (new times F. 4/9: 7:30 except on M. 4/12 & W. ) (add’l times Su. 4/11: 3:30; & M. 4/12 & W. 4/14: 9:45) Police, Adjective (NR) 5:00 (ends W. 4/7) The White Ribbon (R) 5:00, 8:00 (add’l times Sa. 4/10–Su. 4/11: 2:00) (starts F. 4/9)

UGA TATE STUDENT CENTER (706-542-6396) Invictus (R) 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 (F. 4/9–Su. 4/11) Shawshank Redemption (PG-13) 8:00 (Th. 4/8)

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Taylor Swift—has nursed a career built on a single hit still getting occasional radio airplay, through several divorces, his own crippling alcoholism and country’s merger with pop. Hauling his gear across the Southwest, Bad runs into a young reporter, Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who wants an interview. Not surprisingly, Bad falls in love (again) with the single mother of an adorable four-year-old, Buddy (Jack Nation). Suddenly, an inspired Bad is writing songs again. Surely, that pesky old alcoholism, given half the chance, is going to screw this good thing up. A sweet, slow-cooked character

Typical family films are stocked with ironic/hip comics and big-name stars.

Wimpy Kid is all about the kiddies.

Gordon, Capron and Russell are terrific little comedians.Cowriters Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah bring a definite “Freaks and Geeks” vibe to middle school. While the movie never slows down enough to deliver a really serious message, it does impart its share of comic, valuable insights into the middle-school experience. Diary of a Wimpy Kid reminds me of the days when Hollywood, especially Disney, produced live-action fare that was not dominated by CG-ed talking animals or

I wish I had an iPad… study, Crazy Heart sings a familiar Country & Western song—divorce, alcoholism, pickup trucks—that is not quite as memorable as its troubled, charming main character and Bridges’ performance. m DATE NIGHT (PG-13) Despite the presence of director Shawn Levy, who is responsible for Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther and both Night(s) at the Museum, I anticipate lots of laughs from this team-up of two of NBC’s Thursday night stars. Tina Fey and Steve Carell are the Fosters, a married couple trying to liven things up with a night on the town. But a simple case of mistaken identity turns into more than the Fosters bargained for.

The hilarious supporting cast includes Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Ray Liotta, Kristen Wiig and more.

DEAR JOHN (PG-13) More Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) and more Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat) could mean saccharine overload with this tearjerker about a soldier, John Tyree (Channing Tatum), who falls in love with a gal, Savannah Lynn Curtis (the Amanda Seyfried), while home on leave. But the terrorist attacks of 9/11 cause him to reenlist, an act that puts long-distance strain on their relationship. Thank goodness for Richard Jenkins, whose reassuring presence as John’s distant dad just might be enough to make this drivel tolerable.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (PG) Greg Heffley (the expressive Zachary Gordon) is just starting middle school, and he is not thrilled. Deeming it “the dumbest idea ever invented,” Greg must navigate the pitfalls of seat selection, the cafeteria, PE and the constant bullying. His terrorizing older brother, Rodrick (Devon Bostick), bets his little bro will either be “dead or homeschooled by the end of the year.” The most familiar adult faces are those of Rachael Harris and Steve Zahn—Greg’s parents who truly do not understand.

Home Alone’s slap-shtick. They were age-appropriately smart, did not condescend, and were genuine about the highs and lows of being a kid.

FURRY VENGEANCE (PG) An arrogant real estate agent, Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser), runs afoul of some smart critters when he seeks to develop a new subdivision. The supporting cast is the usual cast of familiar TV faces and hit movie bit-parters—Brooke Shields, Ken Jeong, Angela Kinsey, Rob Riggle and Samantha Bee. This family film is a strange change of pace for Cruel Intentions director Roger Kumble. From the writers of Mr. Woodcock, Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert.

THE HORSE BOY (NR) 2009.

Director Michel O. Scott documents the journey of the Isaacson family as they traverse the hills of Mongolia seeking a shaman who they believe can heal their autistic son. Two of the featured interviews are Sacha Baron Cohen’s cousin, Dr. Simon Baron Cohen, and Dr. Temple Grandin, the autistic scientist whose life was recently chronicled in an HBO film. Nominated for the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize.

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (R) Hot Tub Time Machine is so disgustingly, unhygienically raunchy that you worry you might catch something from watching it. Surprisingly, all you will catch is a good case of the laughs.

The premise is simple and silly. Three adult losers—Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson) and Lou (Rob Corddry)—and Adam’s loser nephew, Jacob (Clark Duke) are transported back to 1986 thanks to the titular hot-tub-cum-time-travel device. As technically graceless as this send-up of ‘80s teen sex romps and time travel flicks is, it is equally funny. After Lou accidentally (on purpose?) attempts to kill himself while air drumming to the Crüe’s “Home Sweet Home,” Adam and Nick decide to take him back to

the place of their greatest triumph, Kodiak Valley. A night of wild partying in the aforementioned Jacuzzi sends the guys back to 1986, when they were cool (kind of) and the future looked bright(er).

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (PG) How to Train Your Dragon is a terrific computer-generated animated feature, and the first I recommend you should watch in 3D. As great as it is for families (if I had a kid, I would rush out to see it with him/her), Dragon left me breathless at the animation and kind of bored with the familiar story and tired pop culture jokes. Dragon is the latest from DreamWorks Animation, the home of Shrek, and the family resemblance is strong. Hiccup (v. Jay Baruchel) is a scrawny Viking screw-up who wants to hunt dragons like his gigantic, heroic dad (v. Gerard Butler). But after capturing his own flying firebreather, Hiccup learns there may be more to these creatures than hunting them. The voicework is excellent (especially Baruchel, Butler and Craig Ferguson as blacksmith/ dragon slaying instructor Gobber), and the script is written with humor and heart. Dragon is an excellent film for parents and kids to see together (much better than the family crap peddled in the pre-film trailers…Furry Vengeance and Marmaduke look awful). Without a child’s awe to buoy me, I found my mind wandering when Hiccup was not soaring. Note: the action might be intense for the littlest ones.

INVICTUS (PG-13) 2009. Before setting foot in the theater, you know exactly what to expect from Invictus: a flawless Academy Award nominated performance from Morgan Freeman, stately direction from Clint Eastwood, further diversification from Academy Award nominee Matt Damon, and a strong streak of boring that mars even Eastwood’s best work (save Gran Torino). Recently elected South African President Nelson Mandela (Freeman) encourages unity in his divided nation by enlisting the captain of the national rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Damon), in his quest to win the World Cup. I love Eastwood; his body of work this past decade speaks for itself. Invictus is another tremendous film from a celebrated Hollywood veteran who specializes in just that, tremendous films that tread ever so closely to a grandfatherly dullness.

THE LAST SONG (PG) Bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) wrote this screenplay specifically for Miley Cyrus, who is making her live-action, non-Hannah Montana feature debut. Cyrus plays Ronnie Miller, a rebellious young girl who finds love the summer she is sent to live with her estranged father (Greg Kinnear). Cyrus’s love interest, Liam Hemsworth, should be believable; he’s her real life beau. Television vet Julie Anne Robinson (“Pushing Daisies,” “Weeds,” “Big Love,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and much more) makes her feature debut.

LETTERS TO GOD (PG) More faith-based drama from some of the people behind Fireproof, Letters to God is inspired by the true story of a young boy, Tyler Doherty (Tanner Maguire), who writes letters to the big guy upstairs while fighting cancer. The letters start making a difference for a hurting postman (Jeffrey Johnson).

Another familiar ‘80s face (though not

one near or dear as Mr. Kirk Cameron), Powder Springs, Georgia native Robyn Lively of Teen Witch fame also stars.

Co-director David Nixon coproduced both Facing the Giants and Fireproof.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME (NR) The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle performs songs from the band’s 2009 release “The Life of the World to Come” in this film by Rian Johnson, director of Brick and The Brothers Bloom.

NOT SINCE YOU (NR) 2009. Filmed locally in Athens, Not Since You concerns a group of friends, all NYU grads personally affected by 9/11, reuniting in our small northeast Georgia town for a wedding. Sam (Desmond Harrington, “Dexter”) is “the world traveler, the romantic, the writer.” All-American Amy (Kathleen Robertson) broke Sam’s heart when she left him to marry Ryan (Christian Kane, “Angel”). Billy (Will Estes, “Reunion”) is marrying Victoria (Sunny Mabrey), who dated Howard (Jon Abrahams) throughout college.

Fudge (Elden Henson) dwells on the past, while Southern belle Doogs (Sara Rue, “Popular”) keeps looking for love.

With Barry Corbin.

PECCATO CHE SIA UNA CANAGLIA (NR) 1954. Get your Sophia Loren fix at Cinecitta 2, this semester’s Italian film series entitled Sophia Loren: Celebrating 60 Years in Cinema. For four consecutive Tuesdays, the Department of Romance Languages will screen films starring the irreplaceable, ageless beauty.

The third selection, the romantic farce Peccato che sia una canaglia, stars Loren as Lina Stroppiani, a thief from a family of thieves, who does not expect the consequences of her attempted theft of cabbie Paolo’s (Marcello Mastroianni) taxi. Directed

by Alessandro Blasetti. See Calendar Events Apr. 6.

POLICE, ADJECTIVE (NR) Romanian director Corneliu Poromboiu’s black humor has become even more deadpan with Police, Adjective, his second feature; it’s the comedy of frustration, absurdity and torpor. The story is lean and straightforward: a young police detective in the small Romanian city of Vaslui is assigned to a surveillance detail on three high school students, under pressure to arrest one of them for distribution of hashish. As he follows the teenagers, by turns as a group and individually, the detective, Cristi (Dragos Bucur), becomes convinced that the suspect, who has been “squealed” on by one of his friends, hasn’t done anything harmful enough to merit the punishment that awaits him should Cristi make his arrest. The resulting crisis of duty and conscience is thoroughly worked over in the film’s climactic scene, a 20-minute meeting between Cristi, his partner and their boss that formally echoes an equivalent scene in 12:08 East of Bucharest but takes a far more rigorous approach.

[Dave Marr] REMEMBER ME (PG-13) This dramatic romance is Robert Pattinson’s cinematic excursion from The Twilight Saga. Two young lovers, Tyler (RPattz) and Ally (Emilie de Ravin, “Lost”), find each other in the wake of personal tragedy. Tyler’s brother just committed suicide, and Ally witnessed her mother’s murder. Director Allen Coulter is a TV vet (lots of HBO and a little FX) who directed the feature Hollywoodland. The seasoned cast includes Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Martha Plimpton and Lena Olin.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (R) 1994. Rightfully hailed a new classic by TNT, Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption, based upon a short story by Stephen King, was another one of the films unrightfully passed over in favor of Forrest Gump at the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony. Tim Robbins is Andy Dufresne,

imprisoned after allegedly murdering his wife and her lover. At Shawshank, Andy meets Red (Morgan Freeman), who can acquire anything, and begins plotting his escape. A film ultimately about the eternality of hope, even in the dankest, darkest of circumstances, The Shawshank Redemption will forever be remembered as a grand part of a banner Hollywood year.

SHERLOCK HOLMES (PG-13) Holmes (the never disappointing Robert Downey Jr.) and Dr. Watson (a game Jude Law) must stop evil Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) from taking over the world through some sinister, supernatural means. A criminal love interest (Rachel McAdams) exists for the great private dick, but the real affection is the bromantic bond between Holmes and Watson.

Sparks fly between Downey and Law; they make a great couple. Watching a Guy Ritchie movie (he of the laddish gangster Brit-flicks Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch) is like sitting for someone else’s amusing, exhausting three-to-seven-year-old.

You’re pleasantly worn out from all the running and jumping, yet you’re ready for some peace and quiet when the kid goes home. The same goes for Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes.

SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE (R) If a filmmaker with a real talent for creating raunchy romantic comedies had made She’s Out of My League, this movie could have been something. It could have been a contender, under the guiding hand of Judd Apatow or the Farrelly Brothers. Instead, little-known British comic Jim Field Smith makes an underwhelming directorial debut with another script from the Sex Drive duo of Sean Anders and John Morris.

(These two are also responsible for the upcoming Hot Tub Time Machine.)

THE SQUARE (R) Businessman Raymond Yale’s (David Roberts) life

gets complicated when his mistress (Claire van der Boom, the Aussie girlfriend from Episode 3 of HBO’s terrific series, “The Pacific”) brings him the proceeds from her husband’s latest crime. Experienced stuntman Nash Edgerton makes his directorial debut. His brother, costar/cowriter Joel is currently shooting the unnecessary Thing remake. Nominated for seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor and Best Original Screenplay.

STORM (NR) 2009. The main witness in prosecutor Hannah Maynard’s (Kerry Fox) war crimes trial commits suicide, so the intrepid lawyer travels to Bosnia to save her case. From the plot description, Storm sounds like a run-of-the-mill Hollywood legal thriller if you discount the whole International Criminal Tribunal angle. This Golden Bear nominee won three other prizes (Amnesty International Film Prize, Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas, Reader Jury of the “Berliner Morgenpost”) at the Berlin International Film Festival. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series.

TOOTH FAIRY (PG) The mere presence of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson means Tooth Fairy will not be the worst family flick 2010 will offer (besides, The Spy Next Door is much worse).

Johnson’s powerful magnetism will pull both parent and child through this hour and 40 minutes of silly fluff.

Johnson stars as a minor league hockey enforcer, Derek “Tooth Fairy” Thompson, who is sentenced to perform the duties of his nickname after crushing the dreams of his girlfriend’s daughter.

WHEN IN ROME (PG-13) Kristen Bell is a young, ambitious New Yorker who has not been lucky in love. All of that changes when she steals coins from a magical fountain in Rome. Now she

has more silly suitors—a too tanned, mostly shirtless Dax Shepard; an Italian Will Arnett; Jon Heder the magician; and Danny Devito—than she wants, when all she needs is one, Nick (Josh Duhamel). Romantic comedies that use actual magic as a plot point might be the most insufferable of the romcom sub-genres, and this flick does nothing to sway that long-held belief.

THE WHITE RIBBON (R) Michael Haneke’s dual Oscar nominee (Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography) also picked up the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and the European Film Award for Best Film. In the months prior to World War I, strange events begin occurring in a small German town, and apparently, the children have something to do with it.

With its monochromatic cinematography and creepy towheaded kids, The White Ribbon exudes Village of the Damned vibes.

WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO? (PG-13) Tyler Perry returns with a sequel to the best movie he has made to date, and much to the pleasure of his fanbase, it is more of the same— too much more. The marital jokes battle the marital strife for superiority, and preachiness defeats them all.

The four couples—Terry and Diane (Perry and Sharon Leal), Patricia and Gavin (Janet Jackson and Malik Yoba), walking, yelling stereotypes Angela and Marcus (Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White) and Sharon and new hubby Troy (Jill Scott and Lamman Rucker)—haven’t come far since the last trip. Reconciliations and new children notwithstanding, every couple continues to work through the same issues as before. Perry fans will find all the humor, shadowy drama and faith they have come to expect and love.

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movie pick Merely Mortal CLASH OF THE TITANS (PG-13) Perhaps one of the most important movies of my childhood, 1981’s Clash of the Titans informed most of my early knowledge of Greek mythology (for good or bad). More importantly, the camp classic contained some of the first nudity I was able to sneak past my parents. The flick also inspired me to compose my first rap. (One verse. “The Kraken’s crackin’.” Repeat. I did not say it was good.) Desmond Davis’ movie introduced a host of budding cinephiles to Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Burgess Meredith and, less significantly, Harry Hamlin. And Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion visual effects still rock. I don’t care what any hip CGI supporter says.

hot for a lady with a snake weave (thank you, Natalia Vodianova).

None of this mythological B.S. is any news to veterans of the first Clash, which was actually a lot more accurate than you would think.

Yet inaccurate retelling of thousand-year-old myths is not Clash 2010’s greatest flaw. In the words of reality TV’s enlightened despot, Simon Cowell, this new Clash of the Titans is “utterly forgettable.” Knock Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation for its outdated silliness, but the effects play better today than the new flick’s pitiful CGI. Ten years from now, people will scoff at the new Clash’s FX, especially its hastily converted 3D, and it will not retain even a whiff of the original’s quaint

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Nearly 30 years after its release, an entire generation still extols the miniscule virtues of this “crassic.” If I had a kid, I would totally have shown him or her this fantastical little movie. Nobody is going to be talking about the new Clash of the Titans, churched up 3D effects or not, by the end of the month, much less in 2030. Where is the fun? The first movie never took itself seriously, a lack of hubris from which Clash 2010 could have benefited.

Original scripter Beverley Cross’ plot is largely left unchanged. (It really took three screenwriters to update his work?) Zeus (a shiny, bearded Liam Neeson who has already titled a chapter in his memoir, “2010: The Year I Went Slumming”) impregnates a mortal woman as a shower of gold. From that sexual congress issues Perseus (who grows up to be Avatar’s wooden Sam Worthington), which is a good thing for mankind because it is not long before the Z-man gets fed up with the minions he made and releases the Kraken—a devastating beast created from the flesh of Hades (Ralph Fiennes) to defeat the Titans (via the Greek city-state of Argos).

The first act setup is a bore. No magic helmet. No Calibos’ army of evil midgets imprisoning poor winged Pegususes (Pegasus?

Pegasi?). Finally, on the advice of an eternally beautiful guardian nanny, Io (Gemma Arterton), Perseus accepts his destiny and seeks to defeat the Kraken. First on his to-do list: seek the Stygian witches, a trio of hags sharing one disgusting eyeball among them.

Accompanied by Argos’ least intimidating soldiers, save badass Draco (Mads Mikkelsen) and a Djinn (Why the hell not?), Perseus fights giant scorpions, Acretius (Calibos’ less cool understudy) and Medusa, who remains pretty

nostalgia. Transporter director Louis Leterrier has a knack for making decent, disposable blockbusters. His Incredible Hulk did little wrong besides be extremely unexceptional. The same goes for his Clash remake.

Characterizing Perseus 2010 as an angry, stubborn teen with daddy issues contributes to the film’s lameness. Perseus refuses to accept that he is a demigod and wishes to fulfill his destiny as a man. Thanks, Pers. God, what a boring, overused character device that is. Half the fun of the first film came from Perseus’ gifts from the gods, especially the magic helmet of invisibility. New Perseus only gets one gift, a magic sword, and he refuses to use it. No one goes to a Batman movie to see Bruce Wayne decide he is not going to don the Batsuit (that franchise’s makers still went that ill-thought-out route). No one wants to see Spartan #299 defeat Medusa. You are a demigod, Perseus; start acting like one.

Action-adventure spectacles need to be careful in these days of next-generation gaming. Videogames exist that are every bit as impressive looking and more interactive than your weekly action movie. Clash 2010 simply made me wish I were home on the couch beating God of War III again. Movies meant to exist as mere spectacle have got to step up their game. What used to be enough to sate action junkies and fill theater seats will not cut it nowadays. Clash 2010 will haul in a respectable opening weekend take at the box office, but this too-serious, mythological ass-kicking will be forgotten before you can bellow in stentorian fashion, “Release the Invincible Iron Man!” Drew Wheeler

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Dig It Digitally: Local boot-gazers Gift Horse released their album Mountain of Youth last week, and you can find actual, physical copies in local stores now. If you’re more digitally inclined, then hit up iTunes and www. gifthorse.bandcamp.com. In other news, the band splits town at the end of this month for several dates on the East Coast—a few of which it will share with Twin Tigers. Check out some new tracks over at www.myspace. com/gifthorsetheband.

Three at One: Reptar, Quiet Hooves and Deaf Judges will each release new records Friday, Apr. 16 at the Caledonia Lounge. Local impresario Mercer West and his Party Party Partners label is behind the Quiet Hooves 7-inch. I’m excited to hear it, too, because the Hooves have come a long way since I bashed the band’s first record a couple of years ago. Deaf Judges is releasing an EP,

Chris Ezelle and local jitterbugs Reptar have a 7-inch with their name on it, too. Here’s hoping the Reptar record has the track “Context Clues” on it, because that’s by far its best and most original song. Check each of these combos out via www.myspace.com/reptarathens, www.myspace.com/deafjudges and www.myspace.com/ quiethooves.

Gold Rush: Chris Ezelle, who used to perform under the moniker We Are the Gold Machine, is just going it alone these days. A batch of his clearly-Dylan-inspired tunes are now available for free online. Before downloading, though, you can watch videos, listen to song samples, etc. You know, really get to know the music before you make the commitment it takes to right click and save. Visit www.reverbnation.com/chrisezelle to view and download.

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project soon, and while it’s too soon to tell if it’s a total winner, it sure looks good from here. The group, Matt Hudgins & His Shit-Hot Country Band, will play its first ever “Travelin’ Hot Shit Happy Hour” at the Caledonia on Thursday, Apr. 15 from 5–8 p.m. Austin Darnell (Deaf Judges) will open, and I can speak from experience that his dark, Southern blues is really something to hear. The Country Band’s lineup features Hudgins, B.J. Bracewell (Pride Parade), Erskine McDonald (Pride Parade), T.J. Machado (Mother Jackson), Paul McHugh (Mother Jackson) Jeff Griggs (everybody), Joe McMullen (Vincas) and Cole Causey (ex-Diamond Center). Word is that Hudgins will appear on WUOG’s 90.5 FM the day before to talk the event up, but you heard it here first.

Act Now: Madeline and Ettiene de Rocher will play an intimate show at the home and studio of Slow Records on Sunday, Apr. 25. Tickets are available at Agora (corner of Clayton and Pulaski) and are $10 each. The show is limited to 60 guests. The house is located somewhere on Barber Street, but no way am I going to publish a private address; so if you need directions, please contact studio owner C.K. Koch via slowrecords@me.com.

In other news, Koch is working on launching www.slowrecords. com, at which he plans to feature videos and in-studio performances from the bands he’s worked with and current artists, too, such as Lera Lynn (Birds & Wire), Major Love Event and more.

Short Takes: Eric Bachmann (Crooked Fingers, Archers of Loaf) recently moved to Athens and will be recording bands at Andy Baker’s studio as well as continuing to work in Asheville, NC. Country rapper Colt Ford is confirmed to play Fort Bragg’s July 4th celebration this summer.

Anyone up for a road trip? Michael Lachowski (Pylon) is continuously posting his ongoing photography work over at www.suxsez.com, and I’m continually floored by his ability to capture natural light, his sense of composition and his ability to find the hidden depth of everyday objects.

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eather McIntosh lives in one of those homes marked wonder and experimental alchemy: “We started circuit bending with a half-address that makes visiting tricky for a Furbies and old toy Casios and then we moved on to traditional newcomer. She has bangs, with brown hair that catches instruments that you’d use in a band. And then we experithe yellow florescence of her kitchen light when she mented with psychedelic drugs,” Kennedy says, laughing. turns her head to laugh, which she does a lot. In all, she’d In all, dozens of local bands and one-off combinations will be pretty unassuming if it weren’t for her black Orange Twin perform in short 20-minute mini-sets; but look out for two hoodie—the older one that seems to signify participation in groups of visiting heavyweights, who’ll play longer, headlining an exclusive club of creative types and now slightly old-school shows. Prog-psych-indie-hyphen-hyphen-hyhen Chicago trio wiz-kids. McIntosh is so humble and unassuming, in fact, that Michael Columbia is one of the big guns. In its short life span it wasn’t until our meeting that she realized it was probably the band has already played the well-curated P4K Fest in 2009 she (and a group of dedicated collaborators) who started AUX, while also garnering the title of “Chicago’s Best-Kept Secret.” the experimental music Also playing is the duo festival, which will be in its of Mary Halvorson and fourth iteration this week: Jessica Pavone. These two “It wasn’t just me; we did prolific New York composit.” So, what exactly is AUX? ers and ensemble-grads For its founder, at least, have both recorded with “AUX is a circus-y romp of avant-garde legend Anthony experimentalism—not as a Braxton, while navigating genre but the physical act the academic possibilities of experimentation. Like sciof being musicians. Pavone’s ence… but fun science.” discography spans over AUX started four years 30 records. Together, the ago as a festival, a day of women make chamber wild multi-media experimusic on the fringes of mentation. A compilation pop: “Ideally, experimental CD/ art book was planned, music challenges listeners, too, supplementing the and introduces them to new ephemera with a physical ideas, hopefully encouragartifact (and get excited, ing them to be creative and ‘cause this year’s compilathink outside the box,” say tion includes one of the Pavone and Halvorson. first new Olivia Tremor Of course, since its Control songs in forever). inception, AUX has been Over the years, though, about more than just music.

AUX has become the music To wit, McIntosh promises publication and performing 2010 will bring even more art Live Music: branch of ICE (Ideas for Creative installations and video work.

3:00 p.m. Jeff Fallis (Little Kings) Exploration, in effect, UGA’s You may already be familiar 3:30 p.m. Nutritional Peace (Ciné) interdisciplinary community arts with one of the video artists: 4:00 p.m. Rah as Tempel (Little Kings) fund), often putting together Ray Burg of the local collective 4:30 p.m. The Visitors / Pocket Full of Claptonite (Ciné) experimental shows, including EYEGATE, whose setup includes 5:00 p.m. Magic Tape Research (Little Kings) 5:15 p.m. John Fernandes (Little Kings) last year’s unbelievable Faust the type of projectors you used 5:30 p.m. Denise Posnak, Laura Hoffman, Amanda Martin (Ciné) and Circulatory System concert to watch funky slides on during 6:00 p.m. The Visitations (Little Kings) at the 40 Watt. This year the grade school, paint and found 6:30 p.m. Steven Trimmer (Ciné) day-long AUX Fest will occur at images to make surrealistic 6:45 p.m. Hannah Jones (Ciné) Ciné and Little Kings Shuffle “moving collages of color.”

7:00 p.m. MANS TRASH (Little Kings) Club. It will feature live music, In his near-manifesto, 7:30 p.m. Aman Amun (Ciné) visual art and sound installaBurg says: “Music should be 8:00 p.m. Dream Scene (Little Kings) tions, film screenings and an accompanied by visual forms 8:30 p.m. Case Quarter (Ciné) 9:00 p.m. Geisterkatzen (Little Kings) artists’ market put on by the of art. Sound and light go so 9:30 p.m. The Untanglers (Ciné) same people behind the Indie well together, and the current 10:00 p.m. The Flashcard Orchestra! (Little Kings) Craftstravaganzaa. over-use of computer-generated 10:30 p.m. The Odd Trio (Little Kings) Like the avant-garde postures ‘pre-programmed’ images does 11:00 p.m. Video Program (Ciné) that influence it, experimental not do justice to the freedom of 11:30 p.m. Brave New Citizen (Little Kings) music’s abstract expressionism sound that live music offers.”

12:00 a.m. Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone (Ciné) is just as much fun to philosoHe’s right. The organic flow 1:00 a.m. Michael Columbia (Little Kings) phize over as it is to hear. of EYEGATE’s live projections is Featuring accompanying installations by EyeGate, Dan Hole Pond “Experimental art gets a rap more analogous to the improviand Justin Roberts. for being less attainable or a sational freak-out or the steady bit pretentious, but it is really drone tessellations of experiVideos at Ciné: Screenings at 3 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. a place for improvisation and mental music than the type Featuring work by Ash Sechler, Elliott Earls, Ries Straver, Seth a place where a lot of the best of imagery typically made by Nicholas Stephens, John Crowe, Carlos Casas, Ashley Ohman, new artistic and musical ideas computer-aided projections.

Joleen Toner, Chris Cogan come from. Make some new More than audiovisual, AUX sounds,” McIntosh says. is as much about supporting The Artists’ Market: Open on the patio of Little Kings starting at 3 p.m. and featuring works by Gypsies Tramps & Thieves, Cathy Or listen to Will Kennedy, the creative needs of the artist Dailey, Cameoko, Christy Wooke, Beca Designs, Bacon Neckwear drummer for the local so-called as it is about entertaining an and Laurel Hill. “atonal, serialistic experimenaudience. tal noise band” Geisterkatzen, “Say you always want to do who will be playing AUX: a shredding, thrash-oriented “Experimental music gets down to the fundamentals of what is experimental guitar symphony—why not? Give it a try, even if sound. It pushes the limits of what is considered music… We it’s different from the pop you normally make. It’s an opportuas people classify music in so many ways and we should chalnity to do something divergent from your day-to-day artistic lenge those ideas.” path,” says McIntosh. Because really the two—performer and Even by its name—experimental—the implication is more audience—are auxiliary to each other. of an interest in the means than its own ends. So, naturally, a band like Geisterkatzen started from its own processes of Christopher Joshua Benton

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ne of the first things people mention when discussing Athens is its storied rock music scene. However, three young entrepreneurs from the UGA Music Business Program are out to ensure that in the future when people discuss Athens, they also mention its burgeoning hip-hop scene. Elizabeth Schenck, Stephen Prevost and Rebekah Baldwin are the CEO, CFO and COO, respectively, of H.E.R. Hip-Hop, LLC, an Athens-based, full-service hip-hop entertainment company offering artist promotion, publicity, booking and music publishing and licensing.

“Our company,” says Schenck, “[tries] to cultivate hip-hop that has some sort of palpable quality and substance to it… songs whose lyrics aren’t just thrown together to create some radio-banger hit by an artist who is more in it for the money than for genuine love of hip-hop.”

On Friday, Apr. 9 at New Earth Music Hall, H.E.R. Hip-Hop is hosting the first annual Hip-Hop Showcase, featuring national acts like Dead Prez, Kidz in the Hall and WrittenHouse, Atlanta-based artists Donnis and Stanza, and Athens natives Fresh and WildKard. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. with a panel of artists and music industry professionals discussing various aspects of the business. The panel is followed by a mixer where panelists, performers and attendees can network (RSVP required at www. herhiphop.com). The music performance portion of the event begins at 9 p.m.

“I think we all got tired of driving to Atlanta every time we wanted to see a hiphop show,” says Prevost. “We wanted to put Athens on the map as a place where hip-hop can flourish.”

Fortunately for the Athens hip-hop scene, H.E.R. Hip-Hop is planning more than just a one-off showcase. H.E.R. is an acronym standing for “Hip-Hop in its Essence and Real,” and comes from a song called “I Used to Love H.E.R.” by Common. In the song, Common bemoans the loss of a woman who was once soulful, but who has now sold out. The woman is, of course, a metaphor for hip-hop, and the song’s message was part of the inspiration behind H.E.R. Hip-Hop. To that end, H.E.R. has brought several prominent hip-hop artists to Athens. Dead Prez in particular is nationally known and respected for its uncompromising music, as well as for the group’s subversive views. Kidz in the Hall, on the other hand, is equally intelligent in its lyrics, but gentler in its subject matter. Nearly every act performing at

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the Hip-Hop Showcase can be characterized as performing “socially conscious” hip-hop, following the tradition of the Native Tongue movement of the early ‘90s.

Athens native Fresh describes “socially conscious” hip-hop as “being very emotion-driven and opinionated.” Atlanta-based artist Stanza, on the other hand, rejects the phrase: “I think cats got caught up in attempting to create an excuse for why people don’t listen to preachy music.”

One thing the performers at the hip-hop showcase can agree upon is the ability of music to inspire change in people and, therefore, society.

“Music is a universal language,” says Stanza. “I attempt to inspire people to change, simply by changing myself. I’m really not concerned about telling anyone what to do.”

In an age when popular hip-hop seems dominated more by pop than Big Poppa, H.E.R. Hip-Hop and the artists they support strive to promote the kind of smart, relevant hip-hop that got them interested in the genre in the first place—the kind of music that rarely receives radio play.

“I couldn’t tell you what they play on the radio because I don’t listen to it,” says Fresh.

“I’m too busy trying to stay on top of the upcoming underground artists because they have tenacity and hunger.”

As for the founders of H.E.R. Hip-Hop, they’re trying to change the way Athens is perceived and, in the process, promote some of the underground hip-hop music they love.

“With our event and company,” says Schenck, “we want to push hip-hop from the background to the forefront of the music scene. Athens has to become known as a place where the genre of hip-hop can thrive, where artists can cultivate and maintain strong, loyal fan bases.” Stanza, for one, is hopeful.

“This showcase is only going to grow and make more noise each year. It’ll give Atlanta a reason to stay on its toes. Mark my words.”

John Seay

WHAT: H.E.R. Hip-Hop Showcase w/ Dead Prez, Kidz in the Hall, WrittenHouse, Donnis, Stanza, WildKard, Fresh WHERE: New Earth Music Hall WHEN: Friday, Apr. 9, 7:30 p.m.

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eviews of The Whigs’ In the Dark have pinned the “bigger” sound of the album to the Athens trio’s substantial time on the road, playing larger venues (particularly with Kings of Leon). That’s probably the intersection of easy Googling and lazy reasoning—bloggers seeing a relationship that’s correlative and inferring causation.

Logical fallacies aside, frontman Parket Gispert says the album’s ambitious, arena-sized sound was indeed pointed, but it was more a reaction to past songwriting styles and recording approaches.

“There was definitely an effort to expand the sonic range of this album, intentionally,” says Gispert, “because on previous albums the bass is what usually carried the melody in a higher register, but everything was fighting for the same space. So, this time we decided to spread it out and not have competition for space in the register. That was the intent.”

Gispert swings his vocals between conversational delivery and yelped exclamations, less the raw Malkmus of previous efforts, more deadpan Frank Black. Julian Dorio’s drums steer the action like rarely before, and there’s a sense of continuity and stability with new steady bassist, Tim Deaux, on board.

Even more influential than the recording process, Gispert’s flipped writing process this time around exerted the most influence on In the Dark’s sound. Past Whigs songs were written as guitar tunes, with drumming and bass melodies built around Gispert’s vocals and six-string. All of the new album’s songs, save one, were created initially as bass-anddrums demos. After Dorio and Deaux had the rhythm section locked down, Gispert would write his lyrics and vocal melodies. The final step in the process involved guitar lines, and Gispert based his guitar melodies on the vocals he devised. “I guess it’s a more proper way to arrange things,” he says, “so maybe that’s why it sounds like we’re becoming more professional.”

This approach shines through on “Kill Me Carolyne,” the album’s third track. On the album’s most propulsive number, Dorio’s drums dominate, clear drivers of the song—no disrespect to Gispert’s soaring guitar melodies, naturally. The only track that didn’t hew to this approach was the slow-build jam “Dying,” a decidedly mystic tune that dips into psychedelic sonic layers.

“That’s one of the songs we’re proudest of,” says Gispert. “We’re really nerdy in how we write. We’ll make a home demo, and then we’ll go record a demo with Kyle Spence or Asa Leffer, and then we’ll record in our practice space, so there end up being a lot of demos floating around. And then when we’re in the studio, we just knock it out.”

But back to those Kings of Leon. Gispert allows a little room for the Whigs’ unique relationship with the band’s road pals. “Three of the four tours we did in 2009 were with them—and we’re obviously musicians—and I think it’d be pretty stupid to walk around with plugs in your ears,” he says. “We definitely probably absorbed some of that, but I think that’s good! I think it’s good to open your ears to what’s being played in front of you.”

That could sound like an easy in for Whigs detractors, but the band’s always been particularly plugged into its surroundings. Like R.E.M. on its tours in the ‘80s and ‘90s, The Whigs have used their stature to promote fellow Athens musicians.

They’ve toured with Dead Confederate and frequently cite Athens in interviews with national press. The band recently served as “guest editors” for the venerable indie-music magazine Magnet, trumpeting the 40 Watt, SchoolKids and little-known-even-intown artists like Thayer Sarrano—and, naturally, Gispert’s longtime favorites The Glands.

Being tied into the local music community has always been important to a band that’s been around for the majority of the past decade. That translated into the studio sessions for recording In the Dark, with former Athenian Ben Allen. Allen, now based out of Atlanta, occasionally plays guitar for Atlanta band Trances Arc—that band’s guitarist and vocalist, Michael Dorio, is The Whigs’ drummer Julian Dorio’s younger brother.

“We were dealing with people who knew the band really well,” says Gispert, “but also knew us as people well, and that’s important— knowing how you’ll play as a musician, but also knowing how you are in the morning—when you’re going to spend two months with people in a small room together.”

The same goes for spending time together in a small-town music scene, and, at this point, The Whigs have been around long enough that Athens knows them. But with In the Dark the band embraces growth and new angles of approach—more to learn, more to know.

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Tuesday 6 EVENTS: Athenaeum Club Tour and Social (UGA Russell Library) The recently formed club for young professionals interested in historic preservation tours the Digital Library of Georgia, followed by drinks at Magnolia’s downtown. Rescheduled from Mar. 30. 6 p.m. $7 (includes drink), FREE! (members). 706-5425788, athenaeumclub@gmail.com EVENTS: Lolonis Wine Dinner (Square One Fish Co.) Sample different Lolonis wines at this allinclusive dinner. Space is limited; call to RSVP. $40. 706-353-8862 EVENTS: “Sophia Loren: Celebrating 60 Years in Cinema” (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 150) The Department of Romance Languages screens Blasetti’s 1954 film Peccato che sia una canaglia for this Italian film series celebrating Loren. 7 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu MEETINGS: Great Decisions Discussion Group (ACC Library) Group meets every Tuesday through May 25 to discuss U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Space is limited. Contact Jeff Tate to sign up.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, jtate@ athenslibrary.org GAMES: Blind Draw Poker (Fat Daddy’s) Bring your poker face. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 GAMES: Poker Tour (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Trivia (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) Every Tuesday with drink and food specials! 8:30–10:30 p.m.

FREE! www.doccheys.com

Wednesday 7 EVENTS: Adult Swim Block Party (40 Watt Club) Late-night animation collective swings through Athens, bringing games, prizes, free loot and live music by Modern Skirts and Here We Go Magic to the parking lot. 6 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com ART: 6X6: “Play” (Ciné Barcafé) Artist and curator Didi Dunphy presents the second of six media arts events featuring video, sound and performance art. See full schedule online. 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.headic. blogspot.com PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Local drag troupe. 10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub PERFORMANCE: Hypnobro (UGA Tate Center) Fall under the spell of the popular hypnotist. Part of UGA’s Week of Soul celebration. 7:30 p.m.

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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: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary schoolage homeschoolers gather at the library to read a book together and talk about it. Every Thursday. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Mother Goose Rocks (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Weekly storytime for toddlers and preschoolers. 10 a.m. $2. 706-6133603 KIDSTUFF: Teen Movie (Oconee County Library) Teens can come watch 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. Snacks provided! 6–8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Spring Pop-Up Cards: Signs of spring are popping up all around you! Celebrate by making cool “springy” cards. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 LECTURES & LIT.: “Federal Public Service: Opportunities” (UGA School of Law, Room A) Frank Trinity, an attorney with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and General Counsel for The Corporation for National and Community Service, speaks about federal public service opportunities.

12:30–1:30 p.m. FREE! www.law. uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Film Talk: Police, Adjective (Ciné Barcafé) Flagpole’s Film Notebook writer, Dave Marr, leads a discussion about Corneliu Porumboiu’s critically acclaimed film to mark its local release. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT.: Intellectual Property Talk (UGA School of Law, Dean Rusk Center) Martin Kretschmer, an expert in the field of intellectual property law, delivers a talk entitled “American, Danish and Australian Idols? International Franchising of Television Formats in the Absence of Copyright.” 1:30 p.m. FREE! www.law.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Word of Mouth (The Globe) Monthly open poetry readings have begun! Every first Wednesday. The featured reader this week is Ed Pavlic, the Director of UGA’s Creative Writing Department.

8 p.m. FREE! www.athenswordofmouth.com MEETINGS: Athens Human Rights Festival (Nuçi’s Space) Committee planning meeting. Any volunteers who want to help organize this year’s festival are welcome. Parking is available across the street in the old Dial America lot. 7 p.m. 770-7252652, www.athenshumanrightsfest. org

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MEETINGS: Bike Ride for Kenya (Little Kings Shuffle Club) An information session for those interested in participating in a Vancouver to San Diego two-wheel trek. 7:30– 9:30 p.m. FREE! 407-443-5612, www.kourageride.org MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended crochet needles. Newcomers welcome.

1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 GAMES: Dart League (Alibi) Meet up with other sharp-shooters. FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: Dart Night (Fat Daddy’s) Because you’re a different kind of athlete. FREE! 706-355-3030 GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) Develop coordination, tolerance and grace through beer pong. Every Wednesday with Corey. FREE! 706549-1010 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: Poker Tour (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Harry’s Pig Shop) Nerd wars at Classic City Trivia’s “most challenging Trivia Night in Athens.” Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9219 GAMES: Trivia Wars (283 Bar) Check the Fan Page group “Trivia Wars!” for weekly updates and the online question of the week. 8:30 p.m. (sign up) 9 p.m. (game starts).

FREE! 706-208-1283

Thursday 8 EVENTS: “blvd’s House of Fashion” (Stan Mullins’ Studio, 650 Pulaski St.) Join blvd. Magazine for the opening night of this spring fling with fashion which includes a trunk sale, drinks and snacks from local restaurants and live music by The Big Fundamentals and Winston Parker. Part of “A Weekend Fashion Affair.” 6 p.m. $8. www.athensblvd.com EVENTS: Live After Five (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar and Bistro) Get a headstart on your weekend with live music from Caroline Aiken (FREE!) and wine tastings. 6–8 p.m. $15 (wine tastings). 706-546-0430, www.athensdowntownhotel.com EVENTS: Sexual Assault Awareness Week Benefit (Various Locations) A portion of the evening’s proceeds support The

The Parisii Quartet will perform at the UGA Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Apr. 14.

Cottage, a sexual assault center and children’s advocacy center, when you dine at Beef O Brady’s, Gnat’s Landing, Mama’s Boy and other local restaurants. Go online for full list of participating businesses. 706-5461133, www.northgeorgiacottage.org EVENTS: UGA Living Wage Vigil (UGA Arch) Come out and show your support for a living wage! Every Thursday. 5–6 p.m. FREE! www. livingwageaction.org EVENTS: Wine Tasting (La Dolce Vita) Sample a wide range of Athens Imports’ excellent wines from Chile and Argentina and enjoy appetizers from La Dolce Vita’s kitchen. Call for reservations. 5:30 p.m. $15. 706353-3911 THEATRE: Charlotte’s Web (The Classic Center) Kids will delight in this musical adaptation of E.B. White’s classic tale of Wilbur and his talented, spindly friend, Charlotte.

9:30 & 11:30 a.m. www.theclassiccenter.com THEATRE: Junie B. Jones (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) First grade is tough. Take it from Junie B. Jones, the spunky protagonist of this children’s musical. 9:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. $5. 706-342-4743, performance@mmcc-arts.org THEATRE: Spunk (Morton Theatre) In celebration of the Morton Theatre’s centennial, the UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies presents a new stage musical adapted from three short stories by Southern black feminist and acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston. Apr. 8–10, 14–17, 8 p.m. Apr. 18, 2:30 p.m. $12–$15.

706-613-3771, www.mortontheatre. com KIDSTUFF: Book Discussion for Home-School Students (ACC Library) Come and discuss any of the 20 books nominated for the Georgia Children’s Book Awards.

For home-school students in grades 1–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Shake, Rattle and Rhyme (ACC Library) Now molding lifetime readers in this program promoting early literacy skills! Space is limited, and registration is required.

5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “Sargent’s Bodies and the Unmaking of History” (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Rm S150) Dr. Susan Sidlauskas,

Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, discusses the intersections between art and architecture, interiority in representation, gender studies and contemporary art. 5 p.m.

FREE! www.uga.edu/news LECTURES & LIT.: Cornel West (UGA Tate Center) The visionary philosopher, author, critic and civil rights activist speaks as a part of the University of Georgia’s annual Week of Soul Celebration. 7:30 p.m. FREE! (UGA students), $5 (non-students). www.uga.edu GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Bring your poker face for a game of Hold ‘Em. Turbo game at 9 p.m. 6 p.m. 706-353-0241 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Downtown) Every Thursday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com

Friday 9 EVENTS: Not Since You Reception (Ciné Barcafé) Epting Events and Harry’s Pig Shop cater a dinner reception following the screening of the locally filmed independent movie. 6 p.m. www.athenscine.com * EVENTS: Farmers’ Market (Flora Hydroponics, 195 Paradise Blvd.)

The Sacred Earth Growers Co-Op sets up their year-round farmers’ market. Organic meat and dairy vendors, produce vendors, local artisans and more help to make this an exciting new addition to your weekend. 2–6 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2223 EVENTS: “Material World” (Hotel Indigo) Art meets the runway at this fashionable fundraiser for the Athens Area Arts Council. Whether it’s designer duds or glitter makeup, make up your mind to dazzle and be dazzled when you attend this evening of wearable and textile art with live music by Sonny Got Blue.

Part of “A Weekend Fashion Affair.”

7–11 p.m. FREE! $40 (runway seating). www.athensarts.org, www. athensdowntownhotel.com EVENTS: Milonga Atenas: Tango Dance Party (Athens Elks Lodge) Classic City Tango, a local collective of Argentine tango dancers, hosts its first spring milonga, or dance party.

Beginners are encouraged to come early for a lesson at 8 p.m. 9 p.m. $10. 706-613-8178, cvunderwood@ charter.net

ART: Opening Reception (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries, William J. Thompson Gallery, S. Thomas St.) For the Annual Georgia Sculptors’ Society Members Show.

Check out the work of local sculptors and contribute your own talents by making a relief sculpture to be poured in iron the following day.

6–9 p.m. FREE! $15 (to create sculpture). www.art.uga.edu ART: Opening Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art, 3rd Floor) For “Revealing the Invisible,” an exhibit featuring the work of students in the UGA Art Education department. 5 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu THEATRE: Junie B. Jones (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) A children’s musical based on the books by Barbara Park. See Calendar Apr. 8 Theatre. 9:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. $5. 706-342-4743, performance@mmcc-arts.org THEATRE: The Penny Stock Opera (Seney-Stovall Chapel) The Young Actors Studio presents a karaoke-musical-comedy parodying Broadway musicals and the stock market in this production of an original script by YAS founder Ralph Stephens. Apr. 9, 7:30 p.m., Apr. 10, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $10 (adults), $8 (children). youngactorsstudio@ gmail.com THEATRE: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Athens Community Theatre) “Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso walk into a bar,” begins the joke/ premise in this Town and Gown Players’ production of Steve Martin’s full-length play. Apr. 9 & 10 & Apr. 15–17, 8 p.m., Apr. 11 & 18, 2 p.m., 706-208-8696, www.townandgownplayers.org.

THEATRE: Spunk (Morton Theatre) A UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies production. See Apr. 8 Theatre. Apr. 8–10, 14–17, 8 p.m.

Apr. 18, 2:30 p.m. $12–$15. 706613-3771, www.mortontheatre.com KIDSTUFF: Froggie Spring Fling (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Learn about all of the different amphibious residents of the park and search with the nature center staff for newts, salamanders and frogs. Call to register. $6. 706-613-3615, www. accleisureservices.com KIDSTUFF: Movie Madness (Oconee County Library) Kids of all ages are invited to share popcorn,

drinks and fun at this screening of Where the Wild Things Are. 11 a.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950

Saturday 10 EVENTS: “1st Annual Doggie Parade” (Front Porch Bookstore) Your dog throws you a parade every day when you walk through that door; show your appreciation by bringing your furriest friend out to participate in a parade for the dogs!

Costume contest, photos, treats and more. 10 a.m. $5/pet. 706-372-1236 EVENTS: AUX 4 Artists’ Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Featuring works by Gypsies Tramps & Thieves, Cathy Dailey, Cameoko, Christy Wooke, Beca Designs, Bacon neckwear and Laurel Hill. Part of the AUX experimental arts festival. 3 p.m.–2 a.m. $5. http://auxfestival.com EVENTS: “AUX 4 Experimental Arts Festival” (Downtown Athens) Today’s multimedia, multimodal, multi-everything experimental arts festival, featuring live music, video screenings and an artists’ market, goes down at various venues throughout the day. See Little Kings and Ciné listings for more info. Full schedule available online. 3 p.m.–2 a.m. $5. www.auxfestival.com.

EVENTS: AUX 4 Video Screenings (Ciné Barcafé) Catch one of several video screenings today at the AUX Experimental Arts Festival. 3 p.m., 9:30 p.m. & 11 p.m. $5. www.auxfestival.com EVENTS: Classic City Rollergirls Bout (Skate-A-Round USA) The Classic City Rollergirls take on the Tragic City Rollers of Birmingham, AL in their first home bout of the season. A portion of the proceeds will help support Hands On Northeast Georgia. 7 p.m. $10 (adults), $5 (ages 6–10), FREE! (ages 6 & under). www.classiccityrollergirls.com EVENTS: The Collectors Hard-Hat Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Your patience has paid off! Be one of the first to lay eyes on the new Georgia Museum of Art. Call to register. $40, 706-542-0437 EVENTS: Evening at the Station (Council on Aging) Enjoy a New Orleans-style dinner, cocktail hour, an auction and more at this evening of music, dancing and fun. Live music provided by The Half Dozen Brass Band. 6–10 p.m. $50. 706549-4850 EVENTS: Farmers’ Market (Flora Hydroponics, 195 Paradise Blvd.)

The Sacred Earth Growers Co-Op sets up their year-round farmesrs’ market. See Apr. 9 Events. 2–6 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-2223 EVENTS: Rollergirls After Party (Alibi) Head to the Eastside after the first Classic City Rollergirls bout of the season for a party hosted by Stan! 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 EVENTS: Spring Plant Sale (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Garden staff help you choose plants for your garden. Plants include herbs, annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs and heirloom vegetables. 8 a.m.–2 p.m.

706-542-6156 EVENTS: UGA International Street Festival (Downtown Athens, College Square) Annual festival of cultural displays, traditional costumes, dances and international bands. This year’s theme is “Bringing the World to Athens.” Noon–5 p.m. FREE! www. uga.edu/isl.

ART: The Annual Georgia Sculptors’ Society Iron Pour (Lamar Dodd School of Art, William J. Thompson Gallery, S. Thomas St.) Works created by artists and attendees of the Society’s opening night

reception will be poured in iron.

Open to the public! 9–5 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Pamoja2K: iDance (Oconee County Civic Center) UGA’s performing dance company presents its spring semester show.

Dance along in your seat to popular hits of the past decade. 7–9 p.m. $5 (non-students), $3 (students). mwpierce@uga.edu THEATRE: Flowers for Algernon (Cedar Shoals High School) The Cedar Shoals High School Players present their spring production, a play adapted from Daniel Keyes’ widely read science-fiction novel. Apr. 10, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 11, 2:30 p.m. $5 (adults), $3 (students).706-546-5375 THEATRE: The Penny Stock Opera (Seney-Stovall Chapel) The Young Actors Studio presents a karaoke-musical-comedy parodying Broadway musicals and the stock market. See Calendar Apr. 9 Theatre. Apr. 9, 7:30 p.m., Apr. 10, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $10 (adults), $8 (children). youngactorsstudio@ gmail.com THEATRE: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Athens Community Theatre) A Town and Gown production. See Calendar Apr. 9 Theatre. Apr. 9 & 10 & Apr. 15–17, 8 p.m., Apr. 11 & 18, 2 p.m., 706-208-8696, www. townandgownplayers.org.

THEATRE: Spunk (Morton Theatre) A UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies production. See Apr. 8 Theatre. Apr. 8–10, 14–17, 8 p.m.

Apr. 18, 2:30 p.m. $12–$15. 706613-3771, www.mortontheatre.com OUTDOORS: Farm and Forest Easement Walk (Athens Land Trust) Athens Land Trust leads a tour of several local farms and forests which are permanently protected by easements. Call to RSVP. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. $15. 706-613-0122 OUTDOORS: Junk Yard Jog 5K (ACC Landfill) An annual event in support of Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful. Proceeds are used to purchase environmental educational materials and trees for beautification efforts. 9 a.m. $20, www.active.com, www.keepathensbeautiful.org OUTDOORS: Spring Bird Hike (Whitehall Forest) Join the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society for a morning bird walk. All birding levels are welcome. Ages 13 & up. 8 a.m.

FREE! fieldtrip@oconeeriversaudubon.org OUTDOORS: Spring Wildflower Ramble (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) See what’s in bloom and get ideas for your garden when you take a tour of the Native Flora Garden! 10 a.m. FREE! 706-5426156 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture language skills.

10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Clinic at Lowe’s (Lowe’s, Old Epps Bridge Rd.) Learn how to construct birdfeeders, book ends, bat houses and more! Every second Saturday of the month. 10 a.m.–noon. 706-613-1100 MEETINGS: Athens Area Democrats Breakfast (Trumps on Milledge) The featured speakers, H. Lane Dennard, Jr. and Billy Olson, discuss the collateral consequences of incarceration. Call for reservations. 9 a.m. $14. 706-543-1480, 706-247-3558

Sunday 11 EVENTS: Classic City Brew Fest (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Sample from almost 200 beers, from across the seas to across the street, at one

of the Southeast’s favorite beer festivals. Tickets are sold out. 2:30–6 p.m. www.classiccitybrewfest.html EVENTS: The Cottage 5K Run/ Walk (Sandy Creek Park) Register online to raise your voice and your heart rate for Sexual Assault Awareness Week. Proceeds benefit The Cottage, a sexual assault and children’s advocacy center. 3 p.m. www.northgeorgiacottage.com EVENTS: “Sophia Loren: Celebrating 60 Years in Cinema” (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 150) The Department of Romance Languages screens the 1963 film La Ciociara, the final film in the Italian film series celebrating Loren. 7 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu ART: Opening Reception (Lumpkin Cafe, 1700 S. Lumpkin St.) For “Coast to Coast,” an exhibit featuring handmade jewelry and recent paintings from artist Ann Hamlin’s travels to Florida and California. 1–7 p.m. FREE! 706-543-3122 PERFORMANCE: Athens Chamber Singers (Friendship Presbyterian Church) Joined by instrumentalists from Kennesaw State University, the Singers perform music by New York composer Elliot Levine. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-2712 PERFORMANCE: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (UGA Hodgson Hall) Vasily Petrenko conducts the orchestra in a program showcasing Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony and Piano Concert No. 1. 3 p.m. $21–$42. 706-542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac PERFORMANCE: Gati Dance Ensemble (The Shisha Lounge) The dance troupe performs “WISH.” 7:30 p.m. $10. 706-353-6966 THEATRE: The Dance of Hands (UGA Fine Arts Theatre) The University of Georgia’s Graduate Acting Ensemble performs an original play by MFA candidate John Plough. Apr. 11–13, 8 p.m. www. drama.uga.edu/news.php THEATRE: Flowers for Algernon (Cedar Shoals High School) The Cedar Shoals High School Players present their spring production, a play adapted from Daniel Keyes’ widely read science-fiction novel. Apr. 10, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 11, 2:30 p.m. $5 (adults), $3 (students).706-546-5375 THEATRE: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Athens Community Theatre) A Town and Gown production. See Calendar Apr. 9 Theatre. Apr. 9 & 10 & Apr. 15–17, 8 p.m., Apr. 11 & 18, 2 p.m., 706-208-8696, www. townandgownplayers.org.

GAMES: Collaborative Games Day (UGA Catholic Center) Players must work together to beat the games in this fundraiser for The Georgia Conflict Center. 12:30–3 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7838 GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Allen’s Bar & Grill) Sports-themed rules with diverse categories. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.allensbarandgrill.com GAMES: Trippin’ Through the 2000s Pop Culture Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Test your knowledge of pop culture in the ‘00s every Sunday. 6:30 p.m. (sign in), 7 p.m. (start). 706-354-6655

Monday 12 THEATRE: The Dance of Hands (UGA Fine Arts Theatre) A Graduate Acting Ensemble production. See Calendar Apr. 11 Theatre. Apr. 11–13, 8 p.m. www.drama.uga.edu/ news.php KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Keno Night (The Office Lounge) Every Monday! 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-0840 GAMES: Poker Night: Texas Hold’em (Last Call) Every Monday Night Last Call hosts Poker Night, Texas Hold’em Style. Sign up between 9 and 10 p.m. 9 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com GAMES: Pool Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) Sharks and minnows compete. 8 p.m. 706-353-0241 GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes!

8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Team Trivia (The Shisha Lounge) Every Monday. 8:30 p.m. $10. 706-353-6966 GAMES: Trivia and Karaoke and Pool (Alibi) Handsome Ken has his hands full hosting various bar games to keep you happy. 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-1010

Tuesday 13 EVENTS: Athens Swing Night (Dancefx) No partner or experience necessary! Advanced lesson at 8 p.m. Beginners’ lesson at 8:30 p.m.

Dancing from 9–11 p.m. www.athensswingnight.com EVENTS: “Sophia Loren: Celebrating 60 Years in Cinema” (UGA Miller Learning Center) 7 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu THEATRE: The Dance of Hands (UGA Fine Arts Theatre) A Graduate Acting Ensemble production. See Calendar Apr. 11 Theatre. Apr. 11–13, 8 p.m. www.drama.uga.edu/ news.php 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.: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is Robin Givens’ Grace Will Lead Me Home.

Newcomers welcome. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard” (UGA Chapel) Stanford University’s Jenna Davis, the final speaker of the lecture series, will discuss her work in water, sanitation and health. Reception follows. Open to the public. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706542-5038.

MEETINGS: Athens Area Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) Meet up with other fibercraft enthusiasts the second Tuesday of each month. 12:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3623 MEETINGS: Genealogy Society (The Peoples Financial Center, Winder) Eve and Rick Mayes, this month’s featured speakers, present “Reading the Fine Print: Using Legal Notices from Newspapers in Your Genealogy Research.” 7 p.m. FREE! www.rootsweb.com/~gaeggs MEETINGS: Great Decisions Discussion Group (ACC Library) Group meets every Tuesday through May 25 to discuss U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Space is limited. Contact Jeff Tate to sign up.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, jtate@ athenslibrary.org GAMES: Blind Draw Poker (Fat Daddy’s) Bring your poker face. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 GAMES: Drag Bingo (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Sophia LoRent hosts a lively evening of fun and prizes as part of the Boybutante week celebration. 8 p.m. $5–$10, www. boybutante.org

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GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (The Shisha Lounge) Sign-in starts at 7 p.m. First deal at 8 p.m. 8 p.m. $10.

706-353-6966 GAMES: Trivia (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) 8:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.doccheys.com

Wednesday 14 EVENTS: APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture (UGA Memorial Hall, Room 407) Cecile Dosilane, a Fulbright Scholar at Emory University from the Republic of Cameroon, speaks on “Writing Roots and Multiculturalism in Works by Werewere Liking and Tony Morrison.” 12:15 p.m. FREE! fsgiles@uga.edu EVENTS: Karaoke and Drag Search (Go Bar) Give your karaoke requests to DJ Fred and bear witness to some fantastic amateur drag performances by Drag Search contestants. Part of the Boybutante week celebration. 8 p.m. FREE! (donations welcome) www.boybutante.org PERFORMANCE: Parisii Quartet (UGA Hodgson Hall) The internationally acclaimed quartet devotes an evening to the works of Beethoven.

8 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4400, www. uga.edu/pac THEATRE: Spunk (Morton Theatre) A UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies production. See Apr. 8 Theatre. Apr. 8–10, 14–17, 8 p.m.

Apr. 18, 2:30 p.m. $12–$15. 706613-3771, www.mortontheatre.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: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary schoolage homeschoolers gather at the library to read a book together and talk about it. Every Thursday. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Mar. 3–May 12, Wednesdays, $13. 706613-3515, www.sandycreeknaturecenter.com KIDSTUFF: Mother Goose Rocks (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Weekly storytime for toddlers and preschoolers. 10 a.m. $2. 706-6133603 KIDSTUFF: Wee Read (Oconee County Library) Storytelling for kids ages 5 & under. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Taboo Jr. This game day may be more challenging (and, naturally, more fun) than you expect. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended crochet needles. Newcomers welcome.

1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 GAMES: Dart League (Alibi) Meet up with other sharp-shooters. FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: Dart Night (Fat Daddy’s) Because you’re a different kind of athlete. FREE! 706-355-3030 GAMES: Movie Trivia Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Prizes! Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Poker Tour (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em every Wednesday. Sign in at 6:30 p.m.

Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win

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house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Harry’s Pig Shop) Nerd wars at Classic City Trivia’s “most challenging Trivia Night in Athens.” Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9219 GAMES: Trivia Wars (283 Bar) Choose your teammates wisely, and check the Fan Page group “Trivia Wars!” for weekly updates and the online question of the week. 8:30 p.m. (sign up) 9 p.m. (game starts).

FREE! 706-208-1283 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 6 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Caledonia Lounge 8:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com DOPE JOHN PAUL Members Danny Davis, Alex Scarborough and John Holsenbeck play alternative rock with psychedelic tendencies.

JULIET WHISKEY Local rock band with Cherry Lane, Chris Martin (no, not that Chris Martin) and Josh Cartmill.

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.

SHIP HIGH IN TRANSIT This lineup features Thaxton Shepard, Dave Hooper and Ryan Cattie playing melodic alternative rock with rootsy vocals and a mix of ambient guitars.

El Centro 11 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5700 TWISTED ROOTS Acoustic covers on guitar and conga drum.

Go Bar 9:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar COCO RICO This local post-rock trio performs over experimental samples and beats.

FREE TICKET Jangly guitars and chaos from Atlanta.

GEISTERKATZEN Featuring guitar, keyboards, bass, drums and saxophone, this Athens-based ensemble creates experimental soundcapes.

THE MOON LADDER New band featuring folks from Werewolves.

WHITE LIGHT FOREST CHOIR Psychedelic rock sextet from Atlanta.

performance. Her music is soulful, passionate and honest.

MICAH DALTON Alternative soul singer from Atlanta whose vocal style was influenced by such diverse acts as Marvin Gaye and Paul Simon.

TYLER LYLE Folk musician who proudly claims “Music isn’t fashion or politics or fortune. Music is a sacrament of human connection, not a trade or calling.”

Wednesday 7 40 Watt Club “Adult Swim Block Party.” 6 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com HERE WE GO MAGIC Brooklynbased indie pop with sleepy vocals.

MODERN SKIRTS This piano-driven foursome has become one of Athens’ most treasured and acclaimed local pop acts.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 5 p.m. 706-354-6655 KARAOKE Girls Night Out! Cocktail Hour starts at 5 p.m. Karaoke in the auditorium. Wednesday is also oyster night!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com ABANNA LEBON New female-fronted local band.

EL RODEO Crunchy psych garage with an occasional jam session.

HOT AND COLD Local duo featuring Chase Prince (Spring Tigers) and Joseph Campbell playing raw, blues rock.

SHITHEAD This band wants you to pronounce its name “shy-theed.”

The tunes are laid back with a jam band sort of vibe.

El Centro 11 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5700 DWIGHT WILSON AND CLASSIC CITY SOUL Powerful soul covers with extra funk.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 11:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar SONGWRITER SHOWCASE Featuring local musicians.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com BORDERHOP TRIO Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring an Open Bluegrass Jam hosted by BorderHop Trio.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar FINN RIGGINS This Idaho group tacks artily experimental, jamming out on Casios, synths and guitars for a vaguely proggy sound.

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

JEREMY WHEATLEY Wam, endearing ballads accompanied by guitar.

THE WINTER SOUNDS Local band that infuses elements of new wave, punk and synth-pop into its carefully crafted and lyrically inspiring songs.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens TWIN BIRDS Acoustic folk act from Marietta, GA.

La Fiesta #1 Noon–2 p.m. FREE! 706-548-4261 KEVIN FLEMING Spanish and Latin guitar, every Wednesday during lunch.

Tasty World Uptown 9 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.com KYSHONA ARMSTRONG After working as a music therapist in a prison system and terminal hospital, Armstrong learned how to best express herself through music

Last Call 9 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! For more info contact dg2003@yahoo.com SALSA DANCING Lessons begin at 9 p.m. and dancing starts at 10 p.m. No partner or experience are required.

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The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $17.50 (adv.), $20 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com JUNIOR BROWN The multidimensional Americana/honkytonk musician mixes the best of country, blues and rock.

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

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $8 (adv), $10 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com FLIGHT RISK New side project from members of DubConscious.

SATORI SOCIAL New project from Evan Bluetech, this group features jazz-trained vocalist Katrina Blackstone; multi-instrumentalist Russell Scott on horns, flute, synth and more; percussionist Jason ‘Cedar’ Miller; and Bluetech himself running the live mix and playing keys and synth.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday with Lynn!

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens JEFF JONES This musician uses looping and percussion to emulate a full band as he covers acts like

Phish, String Cheese Incident and ‘90s alternative acts.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.com THE ACTIVITY Indie-rock band from Charlotte with expressive, literate lyrics and sonic influences that range from Neil Young to the Pixies.

JOSH GURLEY Local Christian rock performer who uses his music as a medium for communicating his messages of worship and praise.

JUSTIN KENNEDY Local singersongwriter with a country drawl who sings earnest, radio-ready ballads about the trials and tribulations of daily life.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com LOST CITY Having played together for almost 10 years, Lost City has built a strong repetoire of rock songs influenced by Wilco and Tom Waits.

Thursday 8 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $15 (adv). www.40watt.com 22-20S This British band mixes blues, rock, folk and country into a distinct sound.

BAND OF SKULLS UK band featuring dual vocals wavering between 70s blues-folk and 90s garage rock.

THE WHIGS Celebrating the release of their third and finest record, In the Dark. See story on p. 17.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE BURNING ANGELS Local act that plays Americana soul.

LIONZ CD Release Show! Southern jam-rock from Athens.

Farm 255 10 p.m.–1 a.m. www.farm255.com JASON AJEMIAN & THE HIGH LIFE Jazz greats from NYC hit Athens for a night of blaring horns and noodling guitars.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MAPS AND TRANSIT Featuring Kyle Dawkins of Georgia Guitar Quartet, this local instrumental duo creates diverse soundscapes using a wide range of instrumentation.

ODD TRIO Jazz ensemble featuring Marc Gilley (One Ton Tomato).

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 MILLIGAN Acoustic duo performing a set of cover songs from CSNY to Johnny Cash to Jack Johnson to Maroon 5, this band reworks both classic rockers and more recent hits.

Thursday, April 8

National Songwriters in the Round w/ David Mead, Michael Tolcher, Bill Mallonee, Chris Trapper and Bain Mattox The Rialto Room Have you ever watched an episode of VH1’s “Storytellers”? That program, with its intimate stage, casual atmosphere and time spent equally on talking and performing, allows musicians to peel back the glossy layers of their radio hits to expose the heart and stories that inspired their songwriting.

That’s kind of what a Songwriters in the Round show is like, just with more Chris Trapper than one musician onstage at once. The Rialto Room has proven to be an ideal setting for this type of show, with the artists placed literally in the middle of the audience.

Event promoter Troy Aubrey (Nomad Artists) was drawn to the in-the-round format because of the special connection it allows between performer and fan.

“More times than not, the artists tend to let loose in this format, and they end up cracking up the audience with jokes and funny stories about their lives as songwriters,” he says. “I can’t wait for this show, personally, as these are, in my mind, five of the best songwriters in the country.”

Those songwriters include Athens stalwart Bill Mallonee, whose poetic folk musings in Vigilantes of Love have garnered comparisons to Dylan and endless critical accolades.

Boston-based musician Chris Trapper is known for his onstage charisma and acoustic take on alternative pop. His chart-topping hit “This Time” was the featured song on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack August Rush. Nashville’s David Mead approaches songwriting with a more classic pop ear, turning to artists like Paul Anka and Harry Belafonte for inspiration. Michael Tolcher will be driving up from Atlanta and has previously shared the stage with artists like Dave Matthews, Maroon 5, Blues Traveler and more. And local artist Bain Mattox rounds out this bill, with his love for unique tunings, eclectic instrumentation and warm melodies.

But whether you’re familiar with the songs really doesn’t matter; a strong songwriter is a strong storyteller, and that’s always entertaining. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

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Saturday, April 10

The Black Lips, Box Elders, Gay Africa 40 Watt Club “Fun” isn’t a very sophisticated concept because “fun” usually means primitive urges are being satiated.

Fortunately, Athens is finally getting a visit from the Box Elders, a funny little trio from Omaha, NE, who decided not to saddle themselves with creaky Conor Oberstisms and, instead, to Box Elders get buck-nutty with catchy pop tunes.

To clarify, Box Elders are named after the ugly, infesting bug, not the Pavement song.

They call their sound “cave pop,” a fitting descriptive device, as these crazy kids bring the ruckus, keep the energy high and the tunes simple-yet-infectious. They also manage to effortlessly include bonus features like a stand-up-drummer who plays drums with one hand, while the other hand is banging out keyboard riffs on a jerry-rigged organ/ Leslie speaker contraption. You gotta see this drummer, man… he looks like the sweating lovechild of Peter Lorre and Serge Gainsbourg while working overtime on two instruments simultaneously. Add in more bonuses like Troma-esque, green, frothing mouth action and a longhaired bass player comfortable in just a fringe vest and scant loincloth and, well, you can probably start to see why Box Elders captured the hearts of a notoriously rowdy bunch like The Black Lips.

After Gay Africa is done with their drone-a-doodle-doo, Box Elders are the band that’s gonna kick the 40 Watt into high gear this Saturday night. Sounds like fun, right?

Advance tickets are on sale now at Schoolkids Records and online at www.40watt.com.

[Nate Mitchell]

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar VINYL Throwback classic-rock sounds shooting for something along the lines of AC/DC, Skynyrd or Van Halen.

11 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar “DR. FRED’S KARAOKE” Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers, every Thursday.

Hotel Indigo “Live After Five.” 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athensdowntownhotel.com CAROLINE AIKEN Renowned acoustic folk artist who shared the stage with the Indigo Girls for some time.

Her soulful voice purrs the blues over bright finger-picking.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub BRAVE NEW CITIZEN This local band plays experimental electro-pop with lots of synth and uncoventional instrumentation.

FLASH TO BANG TIME Local new wave group finds a marriage between fun and somber.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com DUMPSTAPHUNK This New Orleans ensemble is possibly one of the finest funk bands around today.

New Earth Music Hall “L.F.Oh Yeah!!!” 9 p.m. $10. www.newearthmusichall.com ANA SIA Female dubstep artist from San Francisco who incorporates elements like psychedelic hip-hop, grimy glitch and more.

BEAT BABY Shannon Chubon, AKA Beat Baby, has teamed up with Heather B to form a strong feminine

force in the Atlanta dance community.

D:RC The latest in global club sounds ranging from dubstep, UK funky to electro and bassline.

SEADUB Local DJ Colin Williams spins and mixes dubstep.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 ACTUAL PROOF Funk/jazz fusion from Charlotte, NC. Think Parliament and Herbie Hancock with a little Pink Floyd thrown in.

JAZZCHRONIC Local five-piece explores freaky, funky, psychedelic fusion jazz.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 DIVA KARAOKE CONTEST Karaoke!

Every Thursday with The Singing Cowboy. Contest finales!

The Rialto Room 9 p.m. $10. 706-286-1700 (box office) NATIONAL SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

Roadhouse 11 p.m. $1. 706-613-2324 ASHUTTO MIRRA Local alternative rock quartet features members of alterna-soul group The Revival.

Tasty World Uptown “Spring Phoenix Benefit.” 9:30 p.m. $5. www.tastyworlduptown.com DJ BLACKWELL Stan Walker of of Velveteen Pink and Very Disco fame gets the dance party started.

This event benefits the women of the Kendene Street house fire on Mar. 18.

IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz Jr. mashes up highenergy electro and rock.

NUCLEAR SPRING Increasingly cohesive local rock band that has found a happy medium between folk and glam.

THE PLAGUE The Plague was revitalized in 2005 and continues to tear it up with dark, angular rock.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com TIM MCNARY Sincere lyrics and soul-baring melodies.

Friday 9 283 Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez digs deep into the DJRX vault, liberating vintage mixes to blend with his current productions.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens DREW DIXON Local musician who plays blues licks with a lot of soul.

STILL TIME Groove rock with an electric mix of harmonica, mandolin, slide guitar and upright bass.

40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $10 (21+), $12 (18+). www.40watt.com DJ GRAVEROBBERS Winston Parker spins high-energy electronic, dance and rock music.

VERY DISCO High-intensity Daft Punk tribute led by Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. (AKA Immuzikation).

Sky City Lounge & Bulldog Cafe 706-380-7699 KARAOKE (468 North Ave.) Join Lady B every Thursday night for karaoke.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 MIKE WILLIS Now based in Nashville, this Georgia-born singer plays pop-oriented country. He de-

scribes himself as “Bon Jovi meets Allison Krauss meets John Mayer meets...”

Boar’s Head 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 KIP JONES Many of Jones’ tunes split between the reflective acoustic territory of Harvest-era Neil Young and the country-infused rock of ‘80s-era Steve Earle.

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Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7 p.m. $7. 706-354-6655 DWIGHT WILSON AND THE CLASSIC CITY SOUL AKA Grains of Sand. Expect Motown rhythm and blues!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com 50:50 SHOT Big-band ska like you haven’t heard in years.

DEAD LIKE LINCOLN Ska-core from Atlanta.

GROOVE STAIN This alternative rock septet out of Atlanta plays frenzied, groove-filled, hard rockin’ originals.

THE TAJ MOTEL TRIO Ironically named eight-membered aggro-ska outift from Cornelia, GA that sounds like a SoCal transplant and features a funky horn section.

Ciné Barcafé “WUOG Benefit Prom.” 9 p.m. www. athenscine.com BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Raucous psychedelic explorations led by members of Sleeping Friends and Ice Cream Socialists.

DJ DADDY’S MONEY Spinning indie electro dance beats!

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

MANS TRASH Side project of Mercer West.

QUIET HOOVES High-energy, idiosyncratic pop music that’s loose and full of fun.

SLEEPING FRIENDS Garage pop featuring Joe Kubler (Bubbly Mommy Gun) and friends.

Club Chrome 9 p.m. $5. 706-543-9009 GEORGIA WHISKEY BAND Athens locals know their way around bluesy Southern rock.

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Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE HEAP Funky local indie-soul band based here in Athens.

SVENSSON Mixing French pop with moody, dark, post-punk, SvenSson is a combination of Serge Gainsbourg, The Cure and Nick Cave. Featuring frontman Steve Axel B.

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Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 SUGARCOAT This foursome plays high-energy rock influenced by Goo Goo Dolls and 3 Doors Down.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar BRER PALADIN Melodic stories from Corey Loomis accompanied by Roy Coughlin on guitar, bass and more.

SHAUNA GREESON Also currently a member of Nanny Island and Hola Halo, Greeson performs solo on acoustic guitar and piano.

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THE CALENDAR! Go Bar Benefit for The Cottage-Sexual Assault and Childrens Advocacy Center. 9 p.m. $5 (suggested donation). www. myspace.com/gobar GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING Upbeat, melodic rock band named Augusta’s best band by the Augusta Chronicle.

SPRING TIGERS Taking cues from bands like XTC and Blur, local band Spring Tigers offers up angular pop rock.

TWIN POWERS A rotating cast of partners spin top-40/hip-hop mixed with indie, synthpop, new wave and Britpop.

ZAKA Local singer-songwriter Kate Powell plays guitar and piano and loves Bowie.

Last Call 9 p.m. $5. www.lastcallathens.com COSMIC CHARLIE Performing “Darkside of the Dead,” a hybrid show featuring the music of both the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 5:30-9:30 p.m. Athens Council of the Blind Fundraiser. $5. 706-461-1013 MIKE BLAKE Originals with a twist.

CHI Acoustic power pop.

THE GRAND FRIENDLIES Folk, contemporary and country.

JOY NELLANS AND DIANA TORELL “Contemporary, old, and used” music with acoustic guitar, fiddle, percussion and vocals.

THE VINYL STRANGERS Timelessly charming classic-sounding pop rock reminiscent of early Beatles and Byrds.

THE WOMEN’S SINGING CIRCLE Folky and traditional songs.

9:30 p.m. Benefit for the Cancer Foundation of Northeast Georgia. www.myspace.com/littlekingshuffleclub BROS. MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler bring their brand of gypsy-Americana. Tonight the duo is expanding into full ensemble with Adam Funk on drums and Adam Poulin on violin.

SURSIEVISION Emotive vocals, atmospheric keys, funky bass, tribal drumming and a tight horn section all compliment each other in this dynamic live experience.

THIEVES MARKET Local alternative rock band who will also be hosting a benefit raffle featuring a Widespread Panic guitar.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS Georgia four-piece playing country and Southern rock that has kept mostly the same lineup since the members were in high school nearly 20 years ago.

New Earth Music Hall “H.E.R. Hip-Hop Festival.” 9 p.m. $20. www.newearthmusichall.com DEAD PREZ Political hip-hop duo composed of stic.man and M-1 and known for its confrontational style as well as pan-Africanist lyrics.

DONNIS Upbeat hip-hop from Atlanta with a cool, party vibe.

FRESH Local rapper who looks to the underground scene for inspiration.

KIDZ IN THE HALL Hip-hop duo from Chicago with a sound that’s genuine, nostalgic and soulful. They name De La Soul, Jay-Z and A Tribe Called Quest among their influences.

STANZA Eloquent Atlanta-based hiphop artist.

WILDKARD This Athens hip-hop group boasts a guitar player and melodic, danceable tracks.

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WRITTENHOUSE Smooth, literate hip-hop trio from Philly featuring Charlie K. on the mic, drummer Chris Conway and DJ Kush Shalimar.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 FORWARD MOTION Rock covers and originals.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens ROLLIN HOME This band jams on originals with a Grateful Dead kind of groove and a Southern rock leaning.

The Shisha Lounge $10. 706-353-6966 DOPE JOHN PAUL Members Danny Davis, Alex Scarborough and John Holsenbeck play alternative rock with psychedelic tendencies.

Tasty World Uptown “UGA Tumornators present ‘What the NF?’” 9:30 p.m. $4. www.athensmusic.net* THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS Poppy Americana influenced by acts like Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac and The Replacements.

DREW DIXON Local musician who plays blues licks with a lot of soul.

TJ MIMBS Joined by members of Futurebirds and District Attorneys, Mimbs will be playing material off his solo EP which features a mix of Americana sounds and alternative pop.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com THE RAGBIRDS Complex musical roots including gypsy, MiddleEastern, Americana, and Latin influences.

Saturday 10 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $11 (adv.). www.40watt.com BLACK LIPS This Atlanta band bridges the underground garage freakbeat of the ‘60s and 21st-century postpunk playfulness. The live show is notoriously brash and rowdy.

BOX ELDERS Blissful, fuzzy pop with a psych-garage aesthetic. See Calendar Pick on p. 21.

GAY AFRICA Jim McHugh (ex- Dark Meat) and friends play heavily psychedelic drone.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Athens Community Council on Aging 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. accaging.org HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND Louisiana-style jazz with loads of horns and a wild percussive frenzy.

Boar’s Head 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 JUSTIN BROGDON Rock vet Justin Brogdon puts a lot of Southern soul into his epic songs, drawing from artists like The Black Crowes and Tom Petty.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com BURNS LIKE FIRE Local punk band featuring members of Karbomb, Wristbandits and Celerity. A quartet of musical disarray!

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CONSULT THE BONES Local punk outfit featuring John Edwards of Community Chaos.

THE JACK BURTON Local “posi post-punk” group with melodic guitar lines and empathic vocals.

KARBOMB Local quartet (Nick Skillman, Jay Kellom, Rory Riley, David Brown) plays high-velocity, erratic and angry punk not dissimilar to early-’90s Orange County stuff.

Ciné Barcafé 3 p.m.–2 a.m. $5. http://www.auxfestival.com AUX 4 Experimental arts festival featuring live music, video installations, artists market and more!

Music acts include local acts Aman Amun, Video Program and more, including headlining act Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone from New York City. See story on p.

15 for full lineup.

Club Chrome 9 p.m. $5 (UGA ID), $7. 706-543-9009 HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Southern rock.

Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MAD WHISKEY GRIN Local duo featuring masterful guitarist Frank Williams, who slides and fingerpicks his way through bluesy and decidedly American sounds.

Fat Daddy’s www.fatdaddys.com NATURAL 9 Cover band performing anything from Keith Urban to Kanye West. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar TAYLOR HOLLINGSWORTH Snarling Hollingsworth’s distinctive vocals lead his three-piece through bluesy garage rock taking cues from The Replacements, Neil Young and the Stones along the way.

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.

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 ASHUTTO MIRRA This alternative rock quartet features members of alterna-soul group The Revival.

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 TONGUE AND GROOVE The acoustic quartet of Henry Williams, Don Henderson, Jason Peckham and Amy Moon plays lively covers and originals.

Go Bar 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $3 (18+). www. myspace.com/gobar SOAPBAR Local group plays shaggy, diverse alt-rock informed by its lo-fi and folk peers.

TUMBLEWEED STAMPEDE Adventurous and energetic dancejam-folk sextet play party music with folksy and surfy touches.

TWIN POWERS A rotating cast of partners spin top-40/hip-hop mixed with indie, synthpop, new wave and Britpop.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 3 p.m.–2 a.m. $5. http://auxfestival. com AUX 4 Experimental arts festival featuring live music, video installations, artists market and more! Music acts include local acts Dream Scene, Geisterkatzen, The Odd Trio and more, including headlining act Michael Columbia from Chicago.

See feature on p. 15 for full lineup.

Saturday, April 10

Bonobo, Emancipator, Gravity A, The Invisible, Chris Grass New Earth Music Hall Electronica has always been the redheaded stepchild of the greater musical environment. This is due largely to most folks’ narrow perception of what it really is: when it comes to the genre, images of blissed-out ravers moving their buzzing, dehydrated bodies all night long and shiftless, couch-chilling layabouts perBonobo vade the collective consciousness. These stereotypes persist for a reason; these people exist. But in recent years, thanks largely to influential media outlets like Pitchfork and the broadening reach of magazines like FADER, electronica has begun to shed its druggy image. With the rise of a new crop of DJs, not to mention the “chillwave” phenomenon and its anyone-can-play-sampler approach, electronica has become indie-viable, respected, finally, by its erstwhile detractors.

Simon Green, AKA Bonobo, is old school. For the last 10 years, the British DJ has churned out some of the most enduring electronica around. Bonobo’s music is slow, meandering, but too busy for downtempo, too interesting for trip-hop. Green’s new album, Black Sands, is a course in electronic history—some dubstep here, some ambient there—all coated with a proficiently jazzy patina. But rather than coming off as cluttered or erudite, it’s an easy, enjoyable listen. The addition of vocals (courtesy of fellow Ninja Tune artist Andreya Triana) on many of Black Sands’ tracks is a potentially dodgy but ultimately enlivening move from a guy who has built his career on such musical risks.

Green is unique among most of his peers in that much of his recorded sound comes from real live instruments, which he plays himself. He often tours with a full band; unlike those myriad beat purveyors who stand motionless behind a laptop, Bonobo wants you to feel the music on an organic level. The intersection of humanity and computerization is one that has been explored by artists for years; few travel so seamlessly between the two as this dude. [Gabe Vodicka]

The Max Canada 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 SPRING SCENE DANCE PARTY Come dressed to impress as DJ Graverobbers and DJ Dream Dogz provide the tuneage.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12. www.meltingpointathens.com ABBEY ROAD LIVE The local cover band delivers a start-to-finish performance of The Beatles’ Abbey Road.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $18 (adv.), $20 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com BONOBO English DJ Simon Green presents his inventive electronica.

See Calendar Pick on this page.

EMANCIPATOR Adventurous downtempo electronica.

CHRIS GRASS A special set dedicated to the memory of Japanese hip-hop producer Nujabes.

GRAVITY A Dynamic quartet from New Orleans whose dance and electronica is infused with soulful jazz.

THE INVISIBLE This British trio plays rock informed by funk influences.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $5. 706-546-4742 GEORGE MCCONNELL & THE NONCHALANTS McConnell’s new band features a bold, straight-ahead rock sound with just a touch of Southern twang.

Nuçi’s Space 8 p.m. $5. www.nuci.org 3 FOOT SWAGGER Local jam rockers who blend high-energy rock with myriad original sounds.

DJ BANGKOK AFTERPARTY Dance party follows the live music.

CATAWBA Local four-piece playing mellow indie rock informed by windswept Americana.

TREES LEAVE Nashville duo offers alt-folk originals and re-woven traditionals.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. $5. 706-546-0840 THE RATTLERS Relay for Life fundraiser featuring Athens’ own energetic Southern rockers.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens RHYME OR TREASON Local band that plays a mix of hip-hop, rock and reggae.

Sideways 11 p.m. FREE! 706-319-1919 DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers rock, old school, country and electronica.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.com THE BOHANNONS Rootsy alt-rock with a jangly blues vibe.

DOPE JOHN PAUL Members Danny Davis, Alex Scarborough and John Holsenbeck play alternative rock with psychedelic tendencies.

SAVE GRAND CANYON Emotional and dynamic, this tenderfoot local band plays what it calls “organic alt-rock.”

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com ROLLING NOWHERE Southern roots with a country twang.

Transmetropolitan 10 p.m. FREE! 706-549-5112 THE BROTHERS GORE Upbeat power-pop songs.

Sunday 11 Square One Fish Co. Noon-3 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco.com SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Rotating local jazz artists.

Monday 12 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www.40watt.com MC FRONTALOT San Francisco hiphop artist.

BRANDON PATTON Patton’s songwriting features thoughtful rock.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9–12 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar KENOSHA KID Jazz centered around the instru-improv compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles.

The Melting Point “The Hoot.” 8–10 p.m. FREE! www. meltingpointathens.com BALLYBEG Playing a wide variety of Irish and Celtic music ranging from slow waltzes to cracking hot jigs.

THE BURNING ANGELS Local act that plays Americana soul.

JULIA VEREEN & FRIENDS Opening the evening with a set in honor of her son Forrest Vereen.

JACK SCHATZ Playing countrytinged originals with special guest William Tonks.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com OPEN DJ NIGHT TRYOUTS A weekly event every Monday.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens TONY BENN Clare, Ireland based singer-songwriter Tony Benn writes captivating Celtic melodies.

DREW DIXON Local musician who plays blues licks with a lot of soul.

THE K-MACKS Danceable, highenergy, country-fried punk rock for fans of acts like The Avett Bros.

Tuesday 13 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com GREY HAIRED ALEXANDER Alternative rock reminiscent of bands like Saosin and Bright Eyes.

SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing jam rock.

El Centro 11 p.m. 706-548-5700 MOSES GUNN Super-high-energy take on bluegrass and folk.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar WILL ESKRIDGE Member of The Ones and Hola Halo, Eskridge plays a solo set tonight.

SHAUNA GREESON Greeson performs solo on guitar and piano.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar SHALLOW PALACE Riff-heavy, bluesy rock and roll.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com STRING THEORY Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring an Open Bluegrass Jam hosted by String Theory.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens AYURVEDA Ayurveda music represents an interconnected art of being and progressive thought.

Tasty World Uptown “Benefit for Habitat for Humanity.” www.tastyworld.net THE BLEKERS Piano-driven jazz and woeful blues.

Wednesday 14 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $6. www.40watt.com MAX LEVINE ENSEMBLE DIY punk band from D.C. with pop influences and politically conscious lyrics.

NANA GRIZOL Handmade, enthusiastic and charming rock tunes.

SCOTT SPILLANE EXP New project from former member of The Gerbils and Neutral Milk Hotel.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 5 p.m. 706-354-6655 KARAOKE Come on over and test your pipes!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com MR. FALCON High-energy, indie garage rock influenced equally by The Kinks and Pixies.

NUCLEAR SPRING Increasingly cohesive local rock band that has found a happy medium between folk and glam.

TENDABERRY Think Rick James sitting in with Gang of Four.

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El Centro 11 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5700 THE PLAINFIELD PROJECT Charleston groove-rock combo with light reggae leanings.

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Last Call 9 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! For more info contact dg2003@yahoo.com SALSA DANCING Lessons begin at 9 p.m. and dancing starts at 10 p.m.

No partner or experience required.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub PUNK ROCK NIGHT A mix of punk bands and DJ-led dance parties.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com AMERICAN AQUARIUM Footstomping rhythms, howling organs and a serious Southern twang.

TIM BRANTLEY Atlanta folk-rock musician.

SHAWN FISHER This 21-year-old singer-songwriter mixes influences of both into his alternative rock.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $20. www.newearthmusichall. com PROMETHEUS Psychedelic trance and electronica.

SHPONGLE Combining their computer geekdom with pseudo-mysticism, this UK electronica group cranks out strange ambient and trance music.

TIPPER Tipper experiments with extreme bass frequencies as he explores elements of electro, IDM and other dance sub-genres.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday with Lynn!

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SOL DRIVEN TRAIN Six-piece act from South Carolina jamming out on soul, reggae, jazz and folk, weaving strands pulled from Stevie Wonder, The Wailers and The Band into a swampy, smooth Southern stew.

SPIRITUAL REZ Reggae, horn, funk dance band that puts a mordern spin on classic influences like Toots & the Maytals and The Wailers.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.com SWIFT ROBINSON After forming in late 2005 at Clemson University, this band of friends have continued their music by branching out along the eastern seaboard.

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outdoor stage in front of 40 Watt

doors open at 6pm • FREE

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

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BAND OF SKULLS 22-20s

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MONDAY, APRIL 26

BAND OF HORSES JOSH ROBERTS AND THE HINGES doors open at 8pm • twenty six dollars adv. *

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28

DIERKS BENTLEY & THE TRAVELIN McCOURYS HAYES CARLL doors open at 8pm • twenty six dollars adv. *

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DJ GRAVEROBBERS

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FRIDAY, APRIL 9

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SATURDAY, APRIL 10

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Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com BUTTERMILK REVIVAL Traditional bluegrass tribute, including songs by the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and many others. * Advance Tickets Available

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

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

ART Call for Art (Morton Theatre) Now accepting submissions of work celebrating the Morton Theatre, Hot Corner or the culture, heritage and community which comprise Hot Corner for the Morton Theatre Centennial Art Show and Sale.

Deadline is May 13. $20/submission, 706-613-3770, centennial@ mortontheatre.com Call for Artists (Call for location) Seeking artists/musicians/ citizens to participate in a commemorative art quilt celebrating the Georgia Theatre, to be auctioned off on behalf of the theatre. No sewing required. Deadline extended to Apr. 30. 706-540-2712, www.

MamaInTheMoon.blogspot.com Call for Artists (Hoschton, GA) Now accepting entries for the Hoschton Arts and Folk Life Festival, a two-day celebration of history and the arts featuring live demonstrations, fine art and historical exhibits.

404-202-3044 Call for Artists (Visionary Growth Gallery) Now accepting submissions for visual artists for upcoming exhibit, “The Mother Show III.” Work should address the theme of motherhood in some way.

Deadline for submissions is Apr. 24.

More info online. 706-363-0393, www.visgrow.com FilmFest Call for Entries The AthFest Film Committee is currently seeking submissions for local independent films, music videos and student projects to be screened during AthFest 2010. Entries must be produced in Georgia or by a Georgia-based filmmaker or band.

Go online for submission categories.

Deadline May 1 ($10 entry), May 15 ($20 entry). www.athfest.com/film

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Georgia in Bloom Art Fest (Downtown Madison) This community-wide arts festival celebrating artists from Georgia’s Piedmont Region is ongoing through May 8.

Swing by the Old Piggly Wiggly building, United Bank or Dog Ear Books for a chance to see one of the over 100 works of art exhibited throughout Madison. Learn more online. www.madisonartistsguild.org

CLASSES “The ABCs of Writing for Young Readers” (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Awardwinning children’s author Gail Langer Karwoski instructs a threepart writing workshop. Apr. 17 & 18, $110 (two sessions), $160 (three sessions). 706-769-4565, www. ocaf.com Acrylic Transfers Workshop (The Loft Art Supplies) Learn how to use acrylic media for making image transfers, collaging skins and printing digitally. Apr. 23 & 24, $150 (includes all materials). 706-548-5334 Athens Hip-Hop DanceFest (East Athens Educational Dance Center) Now registering for highenergy dance workshops for children and adults. Gary “G-Money” Watson, Korey “Koolrey” Fitzhugh and friends teach you how to crank with rhythm and style. Apr. 9 & 10, $5–$7/workshop, www.accleisureservices/dance.shtml Basic Computer Skills and Introduction to Computers (Oconee County Library) Learn the basic components of your computer or master Microsoft Windows XP. Registration required. Go online for list of upcoming classes. 706-769-3950,

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FREE! www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/ oconee.html Basics of Drawing (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Sign up for drawing classes! Tuesdays, 10 a.m.–noon or Saturdays, 2–4 p.m. $20/session (plus a one-time supply fee of $20). 706-540-2712, moonmama61@aol.com Beginning Bellydance for Fitness (YWCO) Have fun and exercise at the same time. Tuesdays, noon–1 p.m. Wednesdays, 6–7 p.m.

706-354-7880, natakiya@gmail.com Car Care Basics (Athens Technical College) Instructors teach you some small steps to save you from expensive repairs. Apr. 19 & 21, 6:30–8:30, $39. 706-369-5763, bmoody@athenstech.edu Chen Style Taijiquan (Floorspace) Effortless power.

Authentic Chinese martial lineage.

Register for ongoing instruction.

Sundays and Mondays, 706-6143342, telihu@gmail.com Classical Pilates (StudiO) Private instruction and group classes offered daily! Schedule online. 678-596-2956, www.studioinathens.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. and “Family Try Clay” every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. ($20/ person). 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Class (ACC Library, Education Technology Center) Introduction to Power Point. Call to register. Apr. 22, 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Computer Classes (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to the internet. Call to register. Apr. 15, 10–11:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 Computer Classes (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center)

Ann Hamlin’s paintings are on display at the Lumpkin Café Apr. 11 through the end of May. Introduction to Word. Call to register. Apr. 20, 7–8:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Creative Kids (Blue Tin Art Studio) Help your little artist grow this spring and summer with classes in drawing, painting, printmaking and more! Call to register. 828-2750451, www.bluetinstudio.com Dance Classes (Floorspace) Now registering for adult and children’s dance classes, featuring Open Dancing, Creative Movement, Zumba and more! See the full class schedule online. www.floorspaceathens.com Digital Photography (Oconee County Library) Make digital cameras work for you. Learn about memory cards, photo editing, transferring images and more in this lecture class. No camera required.

Apr. 8 & 15, 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950.

Digital Photography Classes (Athens Technical College) McGinnis Leathers teaches several classes this month familiarizing photograpers with the nuances of digital photography. $75/ class, $199/series. 706-369-5763, bmoody@athenstech.edu Dream Wheel Circle (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Join Moon Mama before the Full Pink Moon to play with images and words in this morning of creative collage.

For ages 8 and up. Apr. 24, 10 a.m.– noon. $5. 706-540-2712, moommama61@aol.com Emergency Roadside Tips (Athens Technical College) Know what to do in any situation!

Teenagers and new drivers are highly encouraged to attend. For ages 16 & up. Apr. 24, 10 a.m.–noon, $25.

706-369-5763, bmoody@athenstech.edu Encaustic Painting with Beeswax (Blue Tin Art Studio) Learn how to melt and mix colors, create a variety of surface techniques and incorporate collage and more.

Registration required. Apr. 17, 9:30 a.m.–noon. $45 (includes materials). 404-556-6884, www. bluetinstudio.com FREE! Self Defense Classes (UGA Tate Center, Room 311) The American Black Belt Academy offers free classes throughout the day in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Week. Apr. 7, www.northgeorgiacottage.org Genealogy 102: Census Records Online (Oconee County Library) Research family history online using Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online.

Genealogy 101 is a prerequisite for this class. Call to register. Apr.

9, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 Genealogy on the Internet (ACC Library) A brief intro to Internet resources for genealogy. Databases in Galileo will be introduced. Registration required.

Apr. 15, 6–8:45 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 Gentle Pilates/Yoga (Sangha Yoga Studio) A therapeutic mind/ body workout to help create balance and wellness. Mondays & Wednesdays, 706-613-1143 Gentle Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Ease into your evening with stretching and breathing exercises. 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 Greening Your Home (Athens Technical College) Instructor Jeremy Field teaches you how to go green at your house! May 10, 17 & 24, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $79, 706-369-5763, bmoody@athenstech.edu Intro to Flyball (Lucky Dog Agility, Winterville) A competitive dog sport involving jumping and retrieving in relay-style racing with other dogs. Open enrollment for weekly classes. Apr. 13, 7:30 p.m.

706-367-9813 www.flyballdogs. com/dddare.

Introduction to Life Drawing (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Instructed classes for artists 18 and up. Call to reserve a space. Sundays, 2–4 p.m. 706540-2727 Life Drawing Figure Studio (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Bring any supplies/equipment that you may require. Ages 18 and up.

Call to reserve a space. Thursdays, 6–8 p.m. $10, $7 (members) 706540-2727 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 Managing Your Credit Score (ACC Library) Money Matters coordinator Teri Hanna will share some helpful tips in this program sponsored by Smart Investing @ Your Library. Apr. 8, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Meditation Classes (Bliss Yoga) Calm your heart, strengthen your thyroid, boost your immune system or overcome addictions, anxiety or depression. 706-310-0015, www. blissyoga.me

Meditative Yoga (YWCO) Easy meditative yoga for every body.

Mondays and Thursdays, noon; Wednesdays, 7 p.m. FREE! (members) $7 (non-members). 706-3547880, www.iriseabove.com Mind Your Muscles (Council on Aging) Bring your muscles into focus with a combination of tai chi, yoga and Pilates! Fridays, 3–4 p.m. $5/class. 706-549-4850 Money Matters: Investing II (ACC Library) Learn about common investment problems including Exchange Traded Funds and Real Estate Investment Trusts. Call or go online to learn about other scheduled Money Matter classes! Apr. 19.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Nature Dojo (Greenway) Nurture your original animal intelligence and “re-wild” your body and mind through fun exercises in nature.

Meet at Greenway parking lot behind Mama’s Boy. For ages 18 & up.

Tuesdays–Thursdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $10/drop-in, $40/month. www.wildintelligence.org Outdoor Fitness Boot Camps (Various Locations) Now registering men and women of all fitness levels for weekday morning and evening programs. Learn more and register online! www.wowbootcamp.net Postpartum Yoga (Full Bloom Center) An 8-week class focusing on reconnecting with yourself following the transformation into motherhood.

Saturdays, 2–3:15 p.m. $90. 706353-3373, www.fullbloomparent. com Prenatal Yoga (Full Bloom Center) Get ready for birth and beyond. Thursdays, 5:30 p.m., Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. $14/class or $60/6 classes. 706-353-3373, www. fullbloomparent.com Prenatal Yoga (Sangha Yoga Studio) Twice a week with instructor Alexa Shea. Tuesdays, noon–1 p.m.

Thursdays, 10:30–11:45 a.m. 706613-1143 Sivananda and Vinyasa (Bliss Yoga, Watkinsville) Now offering classes in Hatha Yoga and Flow Yoga. Monday–Friday, 8:15–10:15 a.m. $10. 706-310-0015, www.blissyoga.me Staying Healthy with the Seasons (Nature’s Alternatives, Watkinsville) Local wellness coach Molly Swan helps you spring clean your body through detox options including local herbs and tonic beverages. Apr. 10, 9–10 a.m. FREE! 706-769-7600 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 Tribal Bellydance (Floorspace) Now registering for intermediate and beginners’ classes. Thursdays, $60/6 classes, $12/session. 706372-1833, christyfricks@gmail.com Upholstery for Beginners (Sterling Coverings) Sterling Gardner introduces students to this useful craft. Space is limited; registration required. Apr. 20 & 22, 5–7 p.m. $99 (tools included). 706-3695763, bmoody@athenstech.edu Wholesome Weight Loss Clinic (Earth Fare) Learn how to lose weight the healthy way. Limited space available; email to reserve your spot. Apr. 17, 2–3:30 p.m. rebecca@rebeccavandamm.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 (Five Points Yoga) Classes in Mama-Baby Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Forrest Yoga. Full schedule online. $10–$14/class.

706-355-3114, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com Yoga Classes (Bliss Yoga, Watkinsville) Now offering classes and workshops in Kundalini Yoga, Integral Hatha Yoga, Nia Movement and more. See complete schedule online. 706-310-0015, www.blissyoga.me Yoga for Moms (Bliss Yoga) Whether you’re prenatal, postnatal or

looking to reconnect with your child, Bliss has you covered. Go online for full schedule. 706-310-0015, www. blissyoga.me Yoga, Tai Chi and Mindfulness Classes (Mind Body Institute) Experienced and highly educated instructors offer a wide variety of basic and specialty classes throughout the day. 706475-7329, www.armc.org/mbi Zen Meditation and Book Discussion (Email for Location) For both new and experienced meditators. Reading Cheri Huber’s The Key. Meets every Monday. 7:15 p.m.

FREE! 706-714-1202, meditateathens@gmail.com, thezencenter. livingcompassion.org Zumba (Lay Park) Program fusing Latin rhythms and simple steps.

Mondays, 6–7 p.m. $6. 706-6133596 Zumba (Dancefx) This calorie-burning workout combines interval training techniques with Latin rhythms.

Your first class is free! Wednesdays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. www.dancefx.org

HELP OUT! 15th Annual Record-A-Thon (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic) Lend your voice and support during National Volunteer Week, Apr. 19–23. Celebrity readers join the regular volunteers during the Record-A-Thon. Contact RFB&D for more info. 706-549-1313, www. rfbd.org Athens Mothers’ Center (Tuckston United Methodist Church) Now accepting donations of furniture, baby gear, toys, appliances and other gently used items for the

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St., Top of the Stairs Gallery) Photography by Joshua Dudley Greer.

Through April.

Anchor Gallery (660 W. Broad St.) Featuring work by new gallery owners David Hale, Dustin Hill and Nash Hogan along with local artist Jeff Wood of Drowning Creek Studio. Through Apr. 23.

ATHICA (160 Tracy St.) “Deluge,” a timely exploration of our relationship to floods and the often tragic aftermath, features paintings, photography, embroidery and sculpture to address concerns about global warming, land use issues and the social impact of floods. Through May 30.

Ciné Barcafé (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Athens Above,” an exhibit featuring René Shoemaker’s textile paintings on silk of the Classic City’s skyline. Through Apr. 13.

(234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Threads: Stitching Urbanism, Ecology and Community Together in Athens, GA,” an exhibit featuring works by a landscape architect, an interior designer, a graphic designer and a comedian.

Curated by Kevan Williams. Through Apr. 13.

Doc Chey’s Noodle House (320 E. Clayton St.) Paintings and mixed media by Amanda Trader and Liz Williams. Through April.

Espresso Royale Caffe (297 E. Broad St.) Woodstained drawings by local artist and tatooist Graham Bradford. Through April.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 Washington St.) Work by Matt Boland and John Stedham. Through May 2.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) Works by students of David C. Barrow Elementary in celebration of Youth Art Month. Through Apr. 11. (199 Prince Ave.) Works

by Tatiana Venerusa. Through May 2.

Jittery Joe’s Eastside (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Cartoonish monsters spring to life in paintings by Dan Smith. Through April.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) “Exeunt Omnes,” the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s BFA Exit Show, featuring work by students in Graphic Design, Jewelry and Metals, Photography and Printmaking. Through Apr. 20. Reception Apr. 16.

(270 River Rd.) 2010 Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition. Through Apr. 7. (270 River Rd., 3rd Floor) “Revealing the Invisible,” an exhibit featuring the work of students in the UGA Art

Buy It, Veggie and Seed Collection (Athens Land Trust, 685 N. Pope St.) Help your neighbors start community gardens byReal donatingest seeds, vegetable plants, herbs and edible A 706-613rt en shrubs. Monday–Friday. or rent 0122

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins Perhaps you can give me some advice in my situation. I am living in a shared house with a few other people. We get along pretty well, and most of us have healthy lives. All of us sometimes hang out together, but we all also have separate lives and different interests and different friends with which we share our time away from home.

During the New Year’s period there was a death in my family which deeply affected my well-being and left me crushed. For a few weeks, I spoke with no one about this, but eventually it came out. One of my flat-mates (female) in particular was very consoling and considerate of me. I care for her very much and her help was greatly appreciated. However, lately things are not so comfortable.

She has been bothering me to sleep together and is always angry at me for being “an emotional failure.”

I tried to explain that I don’t have sex with coworkers or house-mates. That’s my rule, always had it, always will. Life needs to be broader, or so I think. However, she’s emailing me all night blaming me for all her troubles (employment, no friends, etc…). I don’t know. She’s been a great friend, but I can’t help her with her problems (job, academics), and she’s become a real wet blanket at parties, too. I’m dating other girls, she knows this, and I have explained how I feel. Every time I talk to her, an hour later there’s an awkward knock on the door or strange emails. She’s even opened my door when I was in bed with another girl and yelled at me.

Uncomfortable. When she does go out, she writes mocking emails about how much fun she’s having, that I’m not welcome to her party, and then on the way home, texts me about how inept of a person I am and how life sucks because she’s talking to me.

I admit, there’s much of life I don’t understand, but this behavior to me is bizarre and difficult to appreciate.

Sometimes she’s very kind and then not so.

Now I feel like a jerk because I wish she would move away. I think she’s on medication, also.

My life is broad, but the walls are closing in.

Does this woman suffocate your other housemates as well? I mean, is she crazy overall or is it a specific you-related illness? Never mind that she was a good friend to you. She isn’t now. She is abusive and vindictive and she needs help. She obviously has expectations that you have no intention of meeting, and you can’t continue to cohabitate. You should start looking for another place to live ASAP and encourage her to seek professional counseling. In the end, though, remember that she is not your responsibility. You can try to help her, but don’t get sucked in because she will probably get the wrong message if you do. Don’t let her get hopeful or things will get worse. Bottom line: if the shit doesn’t stop, block her calls and emails and move on.

I am in my 30s, single, childless. I’m not necessarily happy about this, but I do what I can. My parents, ever worried about the impending doom of my spinsterhood, keep trying to “help me out.” Their most recent attempt involved a son of some friends of theirs, whose parents are obviously also desperately wanting a grandchild. The thing is, he seems really into it. We went out on a date to shut our parents up, and we laughed about how silly and obvious they were, but I felt absolutely no spark at all. Nothing. He is a nice enough guy, and not ugly or anything, but there was just nothing there. Apparently the feeling is not mutual, and despite the fact that I have tried to make it very clear that I wasn’t interested, my parents continue to encourage him, inviting him around when I am coming to their house, etc. I am ready to snap.

I don’t fear commitment exactly, but I have been in long-term relationships; I have been engaged, and it didn’t go well. I felt weird and trapped, and I have no desire to get back to that place. I’m at the point now where I can’t bear to turn on the TV for fear of what awaits: “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” match.com commercials and an endless stream of romcoms that make me feel inadequate as a woman because I don’t laugh and they make my skin crawl. What is my problem? I never like the nice guys that I meet. I always end up with guys that are no good to me or for me, and the relationships drag on too long while I put up with their crap until they dump me. Help!

Future Cat Lady Time to tell your parents to back the hell off, FCL. Don’t bother being diplomatic or trying to approach them gently, either. Tell them they are not helping. The pressure you’re feeling from them constantly shoving Suitably Nice Young Men in your direction is going to put you off of Suitably Nice Young Men forever. Sheesh. Don’t they know that 30 is the new 20? There is no hurry! How many people do you know who are already divorced at your age? Because I know plenty.

As for the TV problem, you’re preaching to the choir. Nothing but crap. But that’s probably for the best. Maybe if you spend less time getting unrealistic expectations put upon you by your parents and what passes for our entertainment industry, you’ll spend more time meeting date-able men and I don’t know, reading?

As far as your Bad Boy issues are concerned, maybe you can do a George Costanza and “do the opposite” of what you would normally do in the dating realm. Or let one of your friends set you up, rather than your parents. Whatever you do, just quit over-thinking it and relax.

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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, www.gojoiner.com.

Downtown 1BR/1BA F l a t . $ 4 6 5 / m o . Wa t e r, gas, trash p/u incl., fitness room, on–site laundry. Text “Columns” to 41513. www. joinermanagement.com.

Joiner Management (706) 353-6868.

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Campus & busline within half a block. Near Milledge Ave. 2BR units. Pre–lease for Fall 2010. These units are always 100% leased so act now for low rental rates.

Call Stacy at (706) 4254048 or (706) 296-1863.

FREE PS3 upon move–in when you sign a lease 3/15 thru 3/21! We have 2, 3, & 4BRs all on Riverbend Pkwy.

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Great location! Spacious 2BR/2BA. Fully equipped kitchen, laundry rm. w/ W/D, walk–in closets & relaxing deck. $780/mo. For info & pics visit milledgeplace.blogspot.com.

Ideal 5 Pts. location. 1BR/1BA. Heat, H/C water, trash service incl. $780/mo. Avail. now, preleasing Fall. 1660 S. Lumpkin St. Visit www.stilesproperties. com. Stiles Properties (706) 549-9600.

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4BR/2BA. Fully updated. New kitchen. W/D, Deck. Won’t last long, rents fast! Call Stacy at (706) 425-4048.

South Milledge Area. Newly renovated. 4BR/2BA, W/D, DW, private fenced backyd. $975/mo. negotiable. Call Pamela, Property Manager (706) 247-1805. Go to www. azevedoproperties.com for listings. Bruce Azevedo, Inc. Westside condos.

2BR/2BA, $600/mo. Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/ mo. 2 B R / 1 B A , $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.

Commercial Property Athens Executive Suites.

Offices avail. in historic Dwntn bldg. w/ on–site parking. All utils., Internet, & janitorial incl. Single or multiple offices avail. Call Stacy (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

Executive Office Park. 2500 West Broad.175 sq. ft. $125/mo, 600 sq. ft. $700/mo, 2000 sq. ft. $1850/mo. Full service office park. Rent incl. CAM charges.

Contact (706) 713-0039.

Historic Downtown Building. 3200 sq. ft.

Ample onsite parking.

Office/Commercial. Contact Stacy (706) 425-4048.

Leathers Building. Retail/ Office/Commercial. 1100 sq. ft.

Front & rear entrance. $1400/ mo. All inclusive. Call Stacy at (706) 425-4048.

Retail Suites for lease at Homewood Village.

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

Warehouse space avail. Atl. Hwy. at Oconee River. Finished, HVAC, garage door, fenced 1/2 acre, 1500–3200 sq. ft. $3–$3.50 per sq. ft. Call Cole (706) 202-2733.

Condos for Rent 1775 S. Milledge. 2BR/2BA on campus. Fireplace, all appls.

Front & backyd., 2 parking spots. Perfect location. On city/ campus bus line. $650/mo. Call (706) 540-2094.

2BR/2.5BA condo in Stones Creek. Barnett Shoals Rd. Avail.

June 1. $750/mo. (706) 2241400, (706) 743-3111.

3BR/2.5BA w/ finished basement.

Townhome off Riverbend. Pool & tennis. W/D incl. Avail. now for discounted short–term lease thru July for only $750/mo. Aaron (706) 207-2957.

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Next to Campus/ D o w n t o w n .

4BR/ 2BA condo. W / D, DW, HVAC. Wood balcony overlooks small creek.

Minute walk to Dwntn/UGA. 4 parking spaces incl! $1100/mo. (706) 546-5659.

Duplexes For Rent 2BR/1.5BA East Athens Duplex.

Fresh paint, W/D, DW, range, fridge, trash & yard service incl.

Pets OK. Avail. now! $550/mo.

Call Mike toll free (877) 740-1514.

2BR Duplexes in 5 Pts on Hampton Ct. & Highland Ave. $695-$750/mo. Avail. Aug. Call (706) 546-6900 or visit www.

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2BR/1BA. $500/mo, Duplex w/ fireplace. Avail. June 1st. 172 Laurie Dr. Off Cedar Shoals on Eastside.

On busline, walkable to shopping.

Call Dave (706) 201-9222.

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

Timothy school zone & close to every shopping need. 316 & the loop. $680/mo. (706) 5489797 or boulevard​property​ management.com.

Five Points.177 Southview Dr. 1BR/1BA. 900 sq. ft., HWflrs, FP, W/D, $800/mo. Avail. May or June. (706) 546-1615 or www. athenstownproperties.com.

2BR/1BA. $650/mo.,Milledge Court #20, 127 Riverdale. Avail.

Aug. 1st. Great 5 Pts. duplex, tile BA, HWflrs., great location!

Visit boulevard​p roper ty​ management.com. Call today (706) 548-9797.

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Central location, shopping. $675/mo. Avail. now! 2BR/1BA. 510 & 512 Sunset Dr. Lawn maintenance incl. Visit www. stilesproperties.com. Stiles Properties (706) 549-9600.

Houses for Rent $750–$1100/mo. 3BR walk to UGA updated houses. Old world charm, modern amenities.

Pets OK. Avail. Fall. Email for list: luckydawg96@yahoo.com. $675/mo. 2BR/1BA cottage. 610 Sunset Dr. Normaltown area.

HWflrs, DW, W/D, micro. Pets OK. Close to campus & Dwntn.

Avail. 8/1. Call for Appt. (706) 355-9961. $625/mo., blocks from campus & UGA, 2BR/1BA, Tall Ceilings, HWflrs., Very Lg. BRs, W/D, Sm. Fenced–In Yd. Avail. Now. 145 Elizabeth St. Owner/Agent, Call Mike (706) 207-7400. $525/mo., blocks from campus, 2BR/1BA, W/D, Lg. Living Rm., Flat Rear Yard, Avail. Now. 505 Willow St., Owner/Agent, Call Mike (706) 207-7400. $575/mo., 1.5 mi. to campus, 2BR/2 Priv. BA, Great Condition, W/D, FP, Bus Line, Rent incl.

Water, Trash & Lawn Maint., Safe Neighborhood, 145 C Sandburg St., Avail. Now, Owner/ Agent, Call Mike (706) 207-7400.

110 Whitehall Road, 2BR/1BA w/ lg. extra room. New Paint, HWflrs., HVAC, Pets OK w/ dep. $750/mo. Sec. dep. req’d.

Dorian (706) 340-7136.

1BR/1BA historic house. Walking distance to Dwntn, UGA, 5 Pts. Screened porch, walled patio, high ceilings, vegetable garden, all appls, more! (706) 546-8093, clarkecountyline@gmail.com.

1/2 mi. from Downtown. 1, 2, 3, 4BR houses & apts. located in the historic Blvd n’hood.

Please check out boulevard​ p ro p e r t y ​m a n a g e m e n t . com or call (706) 548-9797.

1080 Oglethorpe. Upscale 2-3BR/1BA. Patio, lg. laundry.

Great locale/condition, on bus line. Lawn maintenance possible. CHAC, computer wired. 1st mo. utils paid. Short term OK. $695–$795/mo. (706) 353-0708.

2BR/1BA Apts avail. 125 Honeysuckle Lane off Broad St. across from King Ave. On busline. GRFA welcomed. Water & trash incl. Central location.

Lease, deposit, references req’d. $450/mo. (706) 227-6000 or (706) 461-2349.

1–3BR houses in Blvd & Nor maltown. Avail. Aug. $585-$895/mo. Call (706) 5 4 6 - 6 9 0 0 o r v i s i t w w w.

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2BR/1BA “A” frame on Freeman Dr. Huge loft, CHAC, total electric. Move–in now, rest of mo. free. $525/mo. No pets.

(706) 202-0147.

2–4BRs. 180 O’ Farrell, 734 Barber, 2535 Barnett Shoals, 1331 Dowdy Rd., 144 Hardin, 340 Barber, 195A Barrow St. Check out these great houses online a t b o u l e v a r d ​p r o p e r t y​ management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

2BR/1BA. 1 block from Greenway.

Extra clean. $525/mo. W/D hookups, fridge. Lg. backyd. & garden area. Small pets OK. Seeking responsible tenants.

Avail. now! (706) 713-1184.

2BR/2BA on 22 ac., 35 mins from Athens. Trails, creek, fish pond. Artist designed sunny house. CHAC, W/D, free well water. Neighbors organic farm. Pets welcome.

Ogelthorpe Co. Avail. immediately or 8/1. $650/mo.

Call Rose (706) 540-5979.

3BR/2.5BA Cape Cod on Eastside. Beautiful wooded lot, rocking chair front porch, shady fenced backyd. Newly updated kitchen. New roof May 2009. (706) 742-7594 or 180bentwood@gmail.com or http://180bentwood.weebly.com.

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

Swimming community. 360 Sandstone Dr. $1025/mo. & dep. (706) 319-1846, (706) 5484819. GA. R. E. lic. 300830.

3BR/2BA house. CHAC, W/D, fridge, carport. Close to Dwntn.

340 Lexington Heights. $750/ mo. (706) 613-7242, (678) 232-7228.

3BR/2BA. Lots of living space.

Garage. Central HVAC. Refrig.

Range. W/D hookups. On Hwy 106, 15 min. from UGA. NS. $750/mo. + $750 dep. More info, pics at www.PinebushNursery. com or (706) 614-8875.

4BR/2BA brick house w/ screen porch. 2 blocks from campus & busline.

Great yard. 360 Peabody Street. $1700/mo. Call Stacy at (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

4BR/2BA. CHAC, FP, HWflrs, DW, fridge w/ ice/water in–door, W/D. Lg. porch & yd. Must have ref’s. 116 Whitehead Rd. $998/ mo. (706) 714-1100.

A close–in cabin in the woods.

3BR/2BA. Open living, dining, kitchen. $900/mo. NS. Call Rose (706) 255-0472.

WELCH PLACE

4BR/2BA. Big house, deck, fenced yard. 2 living areas, 2 kitchens, 2 offices. CHAC, DW, W/D, carport, lawn/pest incl.

Pets welcome. Close to UGA/ Dwntn. Recently remodeled.

Avail July. Great Deal. $1250/ mo. & deposit. (706) 202-0858.

4BR/4BA house. $900 special! W/D, sec. sys., 24 hr. maintenance service, pets welcome, lawn & pest incl.

(706) 552-3500. Go to www. hancockpropertiesinc.com.

Av a i l A u g . 3 B R / 2 B A . L g . vaulted kitchen & lv. r m.

Beautiful HWflrs. All appls., W/D. Off–street parking, lawn maintenance. Some pets OK. Close to Dwntn/UGA. 430 Cleveland Ave. $1200/mo. Call (706) 338-6716.

Boulevard Area Houses.

1, 2, 3 and 4BRs avail. for Aug. 1st. Starting at $575/mo. Lease, dep. References required.

Some fenced yards. Pets OK. Call (706) 227-6000.

Best rentals in Athens!

1–5BR houses, apts., condos.

In the heart of UGA/Dwntn/5 Pts. Avail. Aug. Going fast, call today! (706) 369-2908 for more info.

Blvd & ARMC area! 1, 2, 3BRs avail. Great locations, off–street parking, pet friendly, HWflrs.

Call Sean (706) 425-9026.

Dwntn Athens historic renovated. Occupancy Aug. 1st. Busline in front. 3 huge BRs/1 lg. BA. Lg. shower stall.

4 FPs, HWflrs. W/D. DW, stove, fridge, CHAC, din. rm., lv. rm.

Long hallway. 1600 sq. ft. Front wrap–around porch. Back screen porch. No pets. $1050/ mo. 225 N. Ave. Storage shed, parking spaces. (706) 2969873. See bulldogrent.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! (706) 548-2522, www.dovetailmanagement.com.

Great homes with hardwood floors! 4930 Mars Hill Rd. Oconee Co. 3BR/2BA, $895/mo. 597 Dearing B St. off Milledge.

4BR/2BA, $1295/mo. 5 9 7 D e a r i n g A St. 2BR/1BA, $625/mo. 606 Whitehall Rd. 3BR/1BA, $795/mo. 155 Henry Myer Rd. 3BR/2BA, $995/mo.

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

G re a t f u r n i s h e d 2 B R / 1 B A cottage in Normaltown. Avail.

May 15, 2010–Aug. 15, 2011.

Completely renovated, HWflrs., CHAC, W/D, fully equipped kitchen, big, low-maintenance yard. Ideal for 1 person/couple.

Responsible tenant(s) only. $850/mo. + utils. Contact (706) 546-4096.

Northside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/mo. Hospital area 2BR/1BA, carport, fenced–in yard, $700/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 Creek 4BR/2BA $950/mo. Oconee County 3BR/2BA. Lv. rm. w/ FP, din. rm., double garage, $975/mo.

Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

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Oconee Co. Fully furnished, 3BR/2BA, remodeled home on 4 +/- acres. New carpet, tile, remodeled BAs. Avail. now. $1200/ mo. Call Christina Hammond, Realtor (706) 255-4731.

Preleasing for fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-0066.

We m a k e h o u s e h u n t i n g easy!Classically simple 1, 2, 3, or 4BR homes avail. now! $595–$1313/mo. Lawn maintenance. Pet friendly. Visit www.stilesproperties.com. Stiles Properties (706) 549-9600.

Wonderful 2BR/1BA private cottage. Lg. fenced yd. Organic gardens. Bike to Dwntn. On busline. Perfect for responsible single or couple who would be willing to feed resident cat. Pets OK. Avail. now! $650/mo. (706) 224-8773.

Houses for Sale $124,950. 3BR/2BA totally renovated early 1900s farmhouse.

Only 15 min. from Dwntn Athens.

Perfect for musicians & artists.

Call Chard Rader at Keller Williams Realty (706) 338-7058, (706) 316-2900. See photos at www.chardrader.com. $134,900. 3BR/3BA nice home on corner lot in Bridge Water subdivision. Very close to Dwntn. Call Chard Rader at Keller Williams Realty (706) 338-7058, (706) 316-2900. See photos at www.chardrader.com.

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220 Bentwood. $129,900.

Reduced! 3BR/2BA in Winterville. Motivated Sellers!

Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty, www.ReignSold.com, (706) 543-4000, (706) 372-4166.

Call Reign!

Pre-Leasing 1BR Apt. in house on Boulevard, $605/mo. Avail. August. Call (706) 546-6900 or visit www.

ValerioProperties.com.

1BR/1BA duplex. Half mi. to campus. HWflrs., high ceilings, W/D, DW, CHAC. Pets OK. $525/ mo. Avail. 8/1. (706) 369-2908.

2BR/1BA in 5 Pts. Great for Grad Students. Close to campus. W/D, DW, CHAC, Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $700/mo. (706) 396-2908.

2, 3, 4BR houses. 5 Pts. close to campus & other areas.

Check out our website at www. athenslease.com, or call (706) 410-6122.

2 rooms in 3BR house in 5 Pts avail. for May-July sublease. $350/mo +1/3 power. Call (229) 403-2968. Entire house avail. in Aug. Amazing house/location.

Amazing renovated 5BR/3BA. 1/2 mi. from campus. 2 lv. rms., 2 kitchens, big BRs, huge deck, plenty of parking. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1950/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Dashiell Cottages Inc. Student rates. Move–in $75! (706) 8500491. All amenities, Wifi. Enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy the wildlife observation. $75/wk.

Five Points Fall Rentals. 1, 2, 3, 4 bedroom houses & apts.

See at www.bondrealestate.org.

Herbert Bond Realty, Owner/ Broker. (706) 224-8002.

Great 4BR/4BA house. 1/2 mi. from campus.Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1.

Special! $1500/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Gigantic 5BR/3BA condo.

End of Lumpkin St. 2500 sq. ft. 2 lv. rms, huge laundry rm., din. rm., FP, big deck. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1500/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Tired of spending too much rent? 1, 2, 3, 4BR homes avail. in the Fall. $595–$1313/mo. Lawn maintenance. Pet friendly. Visit www.stilesproperties.com. Stiles Properties (706) 549-9600.

Roommates 2 roommates needed.

3BR/2.5BA at Milledge Place.

UGA Athens busline. $350/mo utils incl. Close to campus. No smoking/pets. Swimming pool.

Avail. now! (909) 957-7058.

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

Room avail. immediately for student. Renovated house right behind ARMC. Biking distance to UGA. Fenced yd. Pets OK w/ dep. $300/mo. + 1/3 utils. (404) 713-0655.

Rooms for Rent $275/mo. + 1/3 utils. 1BR in 3BR/2BA Eastside. 2 M roommates. Pets OK. Musicians welcome. Lease ends Aug 1.

Call (706) 215-9017.

Avail. June 1st. 5 rms in Historic Cobbham house. CHAC, 2 kitchens, 2 BAs, W/D, multiple entrances, side decks, huge front porch. High ceilings, HWflrs, spacious rms. Graduate students only, pets by approval.

Fenced yd. 1 yr. lease, deposit, walk to town. (706) 424-0901.

Sub-lease Beautiful, quiet, spacious, sunny 2BR. W/D, DW. Walk to Dwntn/ UGA. Sublet June, or June & July. Perfect for Grad students, professionals. $900/mo. Visit http://oppidanrealty.com/170Bpoplar.htm, (706) 549-6861.

For Sale Businesses Downtown clothing store. New & used clothing. Avg. sales over the last 7 years is $358K. 50% + gross margin business.

Owner financing avail. $65K. (770) 426-7527.

Computers Get 2 computers for the price of 1. Bad Credit? No problem! Starting at $29.99/wk.

Guaranteed Approval. Call now (888) 510-9008 (AAN CAN).

Furniture New 5 piece cherry BR set, $399. Queen Pillowtop mattress set, $170. (706) 612-8004.

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.

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

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

Miscellaneous Come to B e t t y for Louis Vuittons. Just in time for Spring!

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Tickets Comedy Stand-Up: Bill Burr at The Punchline in ATL. April 9-10.

Perfect Seats: Front & Center tables of 4 avail. for all 5 shows (706) 255-5817.

Yard Sales Yard sale containing restaurant equip., dishes & glasses from Thai of Athens and Peking restaurant. Also yard sale items.

Sat. 4/10 9am—4pm. 1951 Commerce Rd. going North toward Sandy Creek Park. (706) 338-5050.

Music Instruction Athens Piano School.

Premium Piano Lessons Guaranteed. All ages & levels w e l c o m e f ro m b e g i n n e r s to advanced. Discounts for families & UGA students. Visit www.AthensPianoSchool.com or call (706) 549-0707.

Music Services A Sharp Turn. Athens hot new jazz trio available for private parties, weddings, & any event seeking tight, straight–ahead jazz standards. Contact (480) 600-9187.

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 www. squatme.com/weddings.

(706) 548-0457.

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

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

Services

FT or PT experienced pizza cook/cook wanted. Apply in person at 1550 Oglethorpe Ave.

Health

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

Free Diabetic Supplies. Free home delivery, free Glucose meter. Must have Medicare.

Shipping paid. Call (800) 9651715 (AAN CAN).

Home and Garden Perennial Lawn & L a n d s c a p e . Full service maintenance, installation, sanding/topdressing, aeration, overseeding, hedge trimming, pine straw, mulch, cleanups.

Call (706) 255-6405.

Tutors Winston Stephens Tutoring, for children having difficulty reading, visit http:// mswinstonstephens.com.

Jobs Full-time Got the Gift of Gab? Immediate openings available for sales reps! Pay ranges from $500–$2K/wkly.

Sales experience a + but not a must! Call Chris (770) 560-5650.

Web Designer needed. Must have 2+ yrs of experience in designing/coding websites/ familiarity w/ using CSS grid framework, experience Photoshop & Dreamweaver++. Email kate@ jhousemedia.com for info.

Opportunities All Cash Vending! Be the boss of your own local route w/ 25 new machines & candy for $9995. Call today (800) 920-9563. Multivend, LLC. BO#200003 (AAN CAN).

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

Researchers at the University of Georgia Psychology Clinic are conducting a treatment study for teens w/ symptoms of bulimia nervosa & deliberate self harm. Open to teenage girls age 16–18. Receive $300 upon completion of study!

For more info, pls email the Eating, Drinking, & Personality Research lab at the University of Georgia at bnstudy@uga. edu, or call (706) 542-3827.

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

2006 Volkswagen Jetta GLI. 47K miles. Red w/ black leather interior. 6 CD disk changer, sunroof. $14,500. Call (478) 279-1090.

Earn extra income assembling CD cases from home. No experience necessary. Call our live operators now. (800) 4057619 ext. 2450. http://www. easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN).

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