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THIS WEEK’S ISSUE:

Emancipation Proclamation

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Confederate Memorial Day was a momentous event, because for some reason that was the first day in spring when we could start going barefoot. Liberated, we marched on tender feet from school to cemetery, where we laid flowers plucked that morning from our mothers’ gardens at the headstones of the unknown Confederate soldiers buried there. A dignitary selected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy made a few remarks, and E.H. Armour blew taps on his old bugle.

Then we marched back, a new spring in our step. In class we were assured that the war was fought not over slavery but over states’ rights. Thus did our educational system begin to explain our social system with reasoning politically correct to our region. I don’t know what the other half of our separate but equal educational system was telling the descendants of slaves about the causes of the Civil War. Our society was so rigidly segregated that we not only did not go to school or church together, we had no points of contact, except in passing, seen from afar: the other as unknown as those Confederate boys who slept beneath the anonymous markers on the hill.

Our world, like most of the South, was small town and country, clannish and close-knit, stubborn, opinionated, independent, resourceful, humorous, quick to anger, long to forget, loath to confront, And the modern history steadfast in adversity and oblivious to critiof the South has been cism from those who didn’t understand us. the constant coping The white South was with the descendants genuinely shocked and uncomprehending when of our slaves and the the Civil Rights moveresistance to every effort ment began. What was wrong? Wasn’t everyto improve their lot. body happy with the way things were? What was the problem? The notion that the people among us whom we later called African-Americans were not as satisfied as we were with our age-old ways of doing things was incomprehensible. And the idea that somebody from the North would come down to the South and tell us that we were wrong was unacceptable, so we got our backs up about it all over again, and they have stayed up.

The current flaps over celebrating the Confederacy are nothing new down here. We are used to being put down for commemorating our lost cause, and we do understand that in spite of all the mumbo-jumbo about states’ rights, what the states down here wanted the right to do was have slaves. And that is still the defining issue of our region. We as a society condoned people owning other people and working them at a subsistence level to make money for their owners. We built a whole system of life—economic, religious, social— on the dirt-cheap labor of people ripped from another world, set down in the fields of the South and kept illiterate, poor and in bondage until their masters were forced by war to set them free into a society that immediately contrived to cast them into involuntary servitude again.

And the modern history of the South has been the constant coping with the descendants of our slaves and our resistance to every effort to improve their lot. That resistance is infinitely easier when it can be shown that improving the lot of people of color may cost white people and the corporations who own both white and black.

But the war wasn’t about slavery. It was about protecting our homeland at a time when it was an agrarian network of fiefdoms with fierce loyalties. We fought as the Scots fought, with great bravery against a superior force and with devastating results. We fought not to preserve slavery but to preserve the South, which wouldn’t have existed without slavery, just as it wouldn’t exist today without air-conditioning. Slavery was so much a part of the South that we couldn’t see what it did to us: that all our ideals of freedom, justice, equality, honor and dignity had an asterisk by them.

Every Southerner must confront the past that lives on, bedeviling us still today. To deny what made us who we are is to shut away a part of ourselves—to carry our unacknowledged history like an unknown soldier within us, our unexamined hearts as touchy to change as bare feet in spring.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

News & Features Athens News and Views

A Democratic candidate for GA Senate District 47, and the return of Paul Broun, Jr.’s Krazy Korner.

Twilight Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Ready and Set for Another Criterium

Athens prepares to host the world-class bike race—one of its favorite annual events.

Arts & Events Art Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A Logical Response to Idiots

Local art heist leaves us scratching our heads.

The Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Nicholas Sparks Is a Tool

Cormac McCarthy > Nicholas Sparks. Debate ended.

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Ruberto featuring a painting by Otto Lange on display at OCAF

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Music Nymph’s Sonic Melting Pot . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Messy Guitars, Wild Noise

An eclectic meld of punk that draws from the psychedelic and the worldly.

Biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 New Earth Day Festival Greens Athens

New Earth Music Hall presents its first annual eco-conscious music fest.

LETTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CITY DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CITY PAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CAPITOL IMPACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ATHENS RISING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CRAIGSLIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 COMMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 J.J. HARRIS ELEMENTARY. . . . . . . . . . . 10 TWILIGHT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 ART NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 THE READER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 MOVIE DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 MOVIE PICK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

FILM NOTEBOOK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 RECORD REVIEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 NYMPH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 STYRENES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 NEW EARTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 DON’T MISS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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letters OUCH! Rather than condemn fraternities for hazing as has happened of late in Athens, I believe we should encourage this sort of behavior in the Greek community.

Unlike some fraternal practices—the raping of young women and catapulting “brothers” out of the backs of pickup trucks where they become high-speed projectiles potentially dangerous to others—hazing harms only members of the fraternity. The willingness to engage in hazing is a matter of self-selection.

No one is forced to join a society where ritual bloodletting is practiced.

Indeed, who among us cannot appreciate the idea of these fellows beating each other until their backsides bleed? Certainly, if you have dealt with fraternity brothers to any degree you must understand the appeal. As a further enhancement of the bonding opportunities the fraternities might want to consider driving nails through the paddles. Puncture wounds produce more blood and, thus, bring everyone closer together, so I am told.

I see no downside to this enlightened approach, and, if necessary, I can provide the nails.

Leon Terwillerger Athens

SPLOST HELPS ATHENS I am currently a student at Gainesville State College, and I happen to read Flagpole

CONTACT US AT P.O. BOX 1027, ATHENS, GA 30603, LETTERS@FLAGPOLE.COM OR VIA THE “TALK BACK TO US” LINK AT FLAGPOLE.COM often, because I enjoy reading updates and articles that are related to my area. I just got done scrolling the newspaper online and came It isn’t often (unfortunately) that I have across the City Pages with the article, “SPLOST an experience that makes me think, “I need to Committee Gets Set to Whittle Down Long List write this down.” For my sanity and for a variof Projects.” I wanted to write a letter to the ety of other reasons, I’m glad I ate at Ike and editor because living in Athens I am affected Jane for lunch today. by everything that SPLOST does for our city.

I am an often workaholic businesswoman After reading more in depth, I wanted to say who, although I love my job and wake up that using the money from SPLOST is a great actually looking forward to my ritualistic idea, and that the city of Athens is really takmorning drive towards downtown, tend to be ing advantage of what they are given. I don’t so busy and the prothink that Athens is verbial “stressed out” abusing the money during the day that I at all; actually we BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: have all but forgotten are using it wisely I am driving behind someone in a big-ass truck how to appreciate to better the comwho has an Impeach Obama sticker, a UGA Law the little day-to-day munity. Yes, we might sticker, a Christian fish and this: things I used to love be addicted to the Global Warming Means a so much. Caught up SPLOST money, but in the lunch meetat the same time it Longer Golf Season ings that consist of betters the commuThanks, Melinda. Send your sticker sightings to little more than gray nity in a more posiletters@flagpole.com. suits, spinach or tive and active way.

Niçoise salads and Living in the area, I Diet Cokes, I realized have as well noticed by eating lunch at Ike and Jane, and actually a need for more attention in the bicycling taking the time to sit down by myself and area. John Devine is right when he says that (slowly) eat, was what I had been missing. the government has done a poor job of fundIn an unintentional reversion to my childing infrastructure for walking and bicycling. hood, I ordered a peanut butter and Nutella Athens should aim for a happy community, and in order to do this, they will need to meet sandwich and a cup of tomato soup.

Although they have the best tomato soup the needs and satisfactions for the people livin town by far and probably even the best ing in it. SPLOST is doing a great job; keep it up!

I’ve ever had in my life, I found more than Caroline Hamley really good food there. Looking out over Athens Prince Avenue while I ate my gooey sandwich

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and childishly blew on my spoonfuls on soup, I found myself thinking about walking through hot blades of grass in my bare feet; my second grade teacher, Ms. Thompson, who caught me cheating on a multiplication test and taught me about being an honest person while becoming my favorite teacher in the process; the breeze blowing random pieces of hair across my face in the sunlight; my sweet and hippie-ish friend, Alden, who lives in Charleston and whom I don’t get to see much anymore; my high school boyfriends and college buddies; the things I used to want and dream about before the daily mundaneness got in the way.

I wanted it to be a Sunday afternoon with no cars on the street; I wanted people who remembered what it was like to be relaxed and gracious and kind; I wanted a mind that didn’t quite overthink things so much.

As I sat there in the middle of my busy Tuesday afternoon, I found myself wondering what time they closed and trying to make excuses to not leave. I thought not only about myself and my long-lost friends, but also realized what I have overlooked about Athens in recent years: all the wonderful little hidden watering holes and soul food spots and idiosyncrasies that made me fall in love with this town.

As I watched my Blackberry die and polished off the last sip of my tea, I left feeling like a new person, a better person, the person my mom always wanted me to be. And seriously, try the tomato soup.

Helen Pinson Athens

city dope Athens News and Views Why Not?: Dr. Tim Riley, who challenged Ralph Hudgens for the District 47 seat in the Georgia Senate in 2008, is giving it another shot, this time without the burden of having to face an entrenched incumbent (Hudgens is running for state Insurance Commissioner). Riley, an openly gay Democrat in a heavily rural and Republican district, faces an uphill battle. But Riley’s got name recognition and local connections going for him. “I know every inch of this district,” he says. “I have friends on both sides of the aisle… everybody has a seat at the table with me.”

Sounds like a good start.

25 million facelift for the downtown facility is needed at this point, Robinson suggests we consider the “radical effect on the usability of our city” a greatly increased number of conventioneers could have. Robinson conjures up images of football Saturdays every other week, year ‘round. That’s a little hyperbolic, and there’s little question the local economy could use the kick in the pants more visitors would provide. Still, the Dope is wary of the argument that we have to expand now or lose conventions we currently have, which are on a pace to outgrow us. At what point does that cease to be a problem? When we’re Vegas? Are there no conventions that are growing into the size we are now?

Whatever—expansion is still a good idea, but here’s hoping we’re not told in another 10 years that we “have to” grow again.

On the River in Town: For those of you who want to go down the river this season without having to make it an all-day affair, there’s now a convenient option for in-town kayaking. The folks at Big Dog’s On the River have done an impressive clean-up job with Good Stuff to Know: the stretch of the Middle Georgia Cycle Sport, The Oconee between Vaughn Hub Bicycles, Sunshine Road and the Atlanta What’s missing here? That would be Cycles and Ben’s Bikes “Dawgustus,” the imperial fiberglass bullHighway, where Big Dog’s are cooperating on an dog who presides over at the corner of Broad initiative to send bikes Tire and Service has been and College. Don’t worry, dawg-riders: he’s expanded to include to Africa to help disjust in the shop for repairs and will be rethe kayaking business. tribute AIDS drugs to installed shortly.

Paddlers will board a remote villages, among bus there for the put-in other purposes. They’re point off Vaughn, where they’ll begin about a now accepting donations of any kind of bike two-hour float that takes them through Ben in any condition at all—contact any of the Burton Park and back inside the perimeter. four shops for details… Don’t miss worldBig Dog’s owner Terry Stephens assures us renowned UGA Professor of Ecology Dr. James environmental stewardship will be a focus. Call Porter’s lecture “Cries and Whispers: 9/11, (706) 353-6002 for more info.

Climate Change and Georgia” Sunday, Apr. 25 at ATHICA. Porter’s talks on intersections More SPLOST Talk: Commissioner Ed Robinson between geopolitical and natural events are is pushing against the tide on the issue of stirring, to say the least; check out www. getting the Classic Center expansion back athica.org for details. into the 2011 SPLOST package. In questioning whether even a reduced $20Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

Paul Broun, Jr.’s Krazy Korner During the debate and passage of the health care reform act, Congressman Broun issued a series of dire warnings about how the new reforms would destroy our freedoms and bring misery on an almost Biblical scale. This week’s Krazy Korner serves as your handy pocket companion to the End of America that Broun predicts. Simply cut this out and keep it in your pocket to check off each of Broun’s predictions as they come to pass. Remember, no one can take away your freedom to admire Congressman Broun’s prescience and subtlety.

• 114 million Americans lose their current coverage as a result of the reforms.

• The reforms put “millions of people out of work.”

• “Folks are not going to be able to go see a doctor.”

• “That free insurance card is… as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the…

Great War of Yankee Aggression.”

• When your “mama falls and breaks her hip,” she just lies “in her bed in pain until she dies with pneumonia.”

• “The federal government from Washington, DC controls every aspect of our lives.”

By now, Obama’s secret police, the “Gestapo-like security force” that Broun predicted, have probably confiscated this document. But you were wise enough to have committed it to memory. They do not want you to remember a time before mama was getting pneumonia and dying because of a broken hip—and the time before broken hip death syndrome seemed to mysteriously afflict Republican voters. They tell us that our IRS forms always featured the “multiple abortion tax credit.” They’ve taken over!

[Matthew Pulver]

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city pages Mayor & Commission Weigh Options for SPLOST Projects List Having already whittled down the list of proposed Special Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) projects by more than half, representatives of a 22-member citizens committee met with ACC commissioners last week for direction on how to trim it down even more.

But commissioners are so enamored of many of the proposals—which range from new greenway trails to police radios—that they discussed expanding the total collections for the 2011 sales tax cycle from $170 million to as much as $200 million, in order to fund more of them.

And the commissioners—who in July must approve a final list of projects that voters will approve or reject in November—were eager also to include a Classic Center expansion which the citizens committee had reluctantly rejected because of its high price tag. “I think everyone in the group recognized the economic impact of the Classic Center,” citizens committee chair Bill Douglas told the commissioners at last week’s work session. Classic Center director Paul Cramer says the conventions that come here—including state associations of everything from music educators to firefighters—are getting larger, and will go somewhere else if Athens can’t accommodate them. “Everybody in the state right now loves Athens… They want to come, and they want

to meet here in Athens.” Without expanding, the Classic Center could continue to host smaller conventions, Cramer says; but those don’t bring as much money into the local economy. “I’d have to do so many of those to make up for the one group of 3000,” he explains. Commissioners are asking Cramer to come up with a cheaper expansion proposal; he speculates that a planned walkway to the facility’s parking deck might be cut.

Commissioners also asked the citizens committee to consider whether adding the Classic Center project might hurt voters’ enthusiasm for the whole SPLOST package. Like many convention centers, the Classic Center is subsidized by taxes in order to bring money that conventioneers spend to the local economy.

Some citizens have criticized its expenses in the past, but most commissioners support it.

“It is an economic engine that we have all become accustomed to,” said Commissioner Harry Sims last week.

Sims added that, while many communities are happy to use SPLOST money for a fire truck or station, ACC has added popular projects and quality-of-life enhancements. “We put the bells and whistles in so people will like SPLOST,” he said. “If we didn’t have these extra things, we probably wouldn’t get some of the things passed. And communities around the state are just in awe of how we managed to put these kinds of projects together.”

Some commissioners thought plans for a new jail could be downsized, too. Much of the cheaply built existing jail needs to be replaced; a consultant’s study said over 800 jail beds will be needed by 2030, if the jail

Custodial Workforce: Putting a Face on the Budget Cuts We’ve all heard about budget cuts and how they will impact us as students. Some of us have even read articles about all the members of the UGA community who might lose their jobs. But has anyone actually heard about the workers’ reactions to a possible 25 percent cut in the custodial workforce? Like everyone else, we’re concerned about the potential for dirty bathrooms and overflowing trashcans, but the problem is much bigger than that. Real people, not an invisible workforce, face losing their livelihoods. Four of these workers were kind enough to sit down with us and share their stories.

The first injustice that struck us was the severe lack of communication flowing to workers about their own jobs. When asked what they were told about the budget cuts and ensuing job losses, all four workers agreed that they had to hear about it from the student newspaper, a publication their supervisors instruct them to ignore. The workers feel their supervisors know much more than they communicate. As one worker said, “They think we don’t understand, like we’re not educated. We’re not stupid.”

Custodial work at UGA is back-breaking and underpaid, at best. Workers’ duties include vacuuming and shampooing carpets, mopping, removing heavy trash bags, cleaning bathrooms and operating heavy machinery, and they perform most of these tasks multiple times each day. The work is so strenuous, in fact, that two of the four workers we spoke to suffer from labor-induced medical conditions and experience chronic pain. Just as alarming, the pay for their full-time jobs is so low that three out of the four hold secondary part-time jobs with the university to maintain the health and security of their families without outside aid. And yet despite this treatment, the workers were adamant about reassuring us that they are grateful for their positions and proud to be members of the university.

In fact, the pride they take in their jobs was unmistakable throughout our interview.

They sometimes even come in an hour early to ensure that the building they work in looks presentable for faculty and students. As one worker explained, “If we don’t take it upon ourselves to have the pride in the way this building looks, it won’t be done because no one cares. We just take pride in our jobs.” It is this loyalty and dedication that makes these workers truly indispensable.

It is beyond time that the entire university community acknowledged the value of the custodial workforce. We understand the gravity of the financial situation the university faces but it is not these people who should shoulder the devastating burden of unemployment. Cutting their jobs won’t solve the budget crisis. Terminating one-fourth of the custodial workforce is not only problematic, it’s unjust. They have sacrificed enough.

Bryn McDermott, Natalie Hinrichs & Hannah Barfield

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population continues to grow as it has in the past decade (factoring in expanded workrelease alternatives). But during that period, the jail population grew much faster than the city’s population did, even though crime rates were declining. Consultant Bob Goble told the county’s Criminal Justice Task Force in 2008 that more people are going to jail because “you’re catching more”—the worst offenders are already in prison, he said, which “has enabled law enforcement to focus down” and arrest people for less serious crimes. And mandatory-sentencing laws can complicate court cases, he said, because offenders won’t plea-bargain.

“I think we can shave some size and some cost” from the $67 million jail plans, Commissioner Kelly Girtz said; Commissioners Andy Herod and Alice Kinman agreed.

John Huie

Tanyard Creek Project Seeks to Reclaim Blighted Urban Stream When rehabbing a city’s downtown, developers and planners tend to focus on the built environment—on ribbons of roads and sidewalks; on parking; on brick and tan constructions. Progress is measured by poured concrete. But behind a commercial strip that is home to Southern Video, Anchor Tattoo and Ben’s Bikes—where an urban stream cuts through the city, transecting Broad and Pope streets—a different type of development is underway.

Along the steep slopes of Tanyard Creek, practitioners of permaculture, a “wholesystem” organic agricultural method, work to “restore the ecology of the creek while also creating an educational model of food production in an urban setting,” says Evan McGown of Athens Permaculture, the group facilitating the Tanyard Creek community garden project.

He hopes it will become “a site for people to visit and be inspired.”

And the group’s urban revitalization effort could not have come at a better time.

Tanyard Creek needs help, says ACC Senior Planner Bruce Lonnee. Years of illegal dumping trashed it and the city doesn’t “want to make it worse.”

“It’s a water quality issue,” Lonnee says.

City and state codes seek to prevent land disturbance near flowing water, so Athens Permaculture had to get an environmental areas permit from the planning department for the garden. Their organic repair may prove to be a “win-win” situation.

Permaculture stresses design through which “humans and nature interact in ways that are mutually beneficial,” McGown says. Stretching along the southern side of the creek, with hopes that a foot bridge will connect to the north bank, the garden will focus on perennial producers: fruit trees and bushes, herbs and wild self-maintainers like rosemary and blueberries. Nature itself will be the main gardener, says McGown: “Humans are designers here, not laborers.”

But before nature takes over, humans must sweat. A dozen volunteers met one Saturday last month to uproot kudzu and honeysuckle to form a swale to serve as an erosion barrier. They dug a 30-yard ditch and filled it with wood chips and mulch, added compost and planted blueberries. As rain runs off the unpaved parking lot at the top of the creek’s slope, water will slowly release through the swale and into the soil instead of overflowing Tanyard Creek with dirty runoff.

McGown says two forces draw people to community gardens. One is simple and concrete: people want to know where their food comes from.

The second reason, less tangible but “more important in the long run,” according to McGown, is that humans long to reconnect with nature, its cycles and other humans, and to “focus on happiness as well as hardware.”

But to strengthen cities and shift culture in such a way, “we’ve got to throw a better party,” he says. “And community gardens are better than a parking lot.”

Andre Gallant

capitol impact athens rising It is a phrase that UGA football Coach Mark Richt uses often with his players: Finish the drill. In other words, get the job done; do it right, and do it all. That message seems to have been lost on some of the people serving in political office. The trend now is to get elected to something and then resign.

Three candidates in the Republican primary for governor resigned halfway through their terms in elective office: Karen Handel (who was secretary of state), Eric Johnson (a state senator) and Nathan Deal (a congressman).

Since the 2008 election, legislators who have quit midstream include Glenn Richardson, Tom Graves, Lee Hawkins, Robbin Shipp, Celeste Johnson, David Adelman, Ed Tarver, Kasim Reed, Hardie Davis and Buddy Carter. Davis and Carter soon returned to the Capitol, because they won special elections to replace resigned senators. The others have departed the Gold Dome, presumably never to return.

Some lawmakers resigned to campaign for other offices.

Reed was elected mayor of Atlanta.

Hawkins and Graves are running in the May 11 special election to serve out the remainder of Nathan Deal’s congressional term.

The State Transportation Board has become an irresistible magnet for legislators. In the past three years, Johnny Floyd, Bobby Parham and Jay Shaw all quit their House seats to serve on that board. Vance Smith left his House seat after 17 years to become the DOT commissioner.

Other legislators were appointed to federal positions: Adelman is now the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore while Tarver is the U.S. Attorney for the southern district of Georgia. Those are all valid reasons for resigning, and we probably shouldn’t stand in the way of people who are looking for the opportunity to advance their professional careers.

Still, if you’re going to run for political office, it would seem that you owe it to the people

electing you to be honest with them. When a candidate is campaigning, he or she should say: “Vote for me—I’ll only be here for part of the term.” Or: “If you don’t like the way I handle the job, I’ll quit early and you won’t have to throw me out of office.”

These early resignations are an indication of another trend in state politics: it isn’t much fun to serve in the Legislature anymore. The massive cuts in state spending caused by the recession have forced everyone to vote for eliminating popular programs or laying off state employees. That does not sit well with constituents, and they are quick to let legislators know they aren’t happy about it.

There are numerous members of the General Assembly who, while not resigning early, have already announced that they won’t qualify to run for another term in office.

Senators Seth Harp and Ralph Hudgens are running for insurance commissioner; Jeff Chapman is running for governor, and Gail Buckner is running for secretary of state. Don Thomas and Dan Moody decided not to run for another term.

On the House side, Tom Knox is running for insurance commissioner and Melvin Everson is running for labor commissioner.

DuBose Porter and Austin Scott are running for governor. Mike Keown and Clay Cox are running for Congress. Jim Cole, Bob Smith, Burke Day, Jerry Keen and Mark Burkhalter are leaving the General Assembly.

Of the 56 senators who were sworn in for a two-year term in January 2009, at least 11 will have been replaced by January 2011 when the next batch is sworn in. Over in the House, it is already certain that at least 20 of the members who took office in January 2009 will be gone because of retirement or early resignation.

It will be a very different General Assembly next year. We’ll see if it will be a better one.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@capitolimpact.net

What’s Up in New Development Part one of a two-part series considering how downtown public spaces can become real urban amenities for Athens. Next week: City Hall.

been expressly assigned to any particular site.

Rather than bricking five or six blocks with high-quality materials, it might be worth fixing 20 or 30 intersections in the downtown area.

One point that the conversation about College Avenue hasn’t really addressed is the need for flexibility. If our options are either a Modernist-style pedestrian mall or the status quo, that doesn’t leave a lot of room for creativity. Both of those approaches focus on isolating cars and people all the time. What are other options?

What about a flexible space which changes use depending on the time of day or of year?

Perhaps the street could be closed from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., creating a park at a time when

I could barely hear the usual honking and rumbling of engines downtown as I was working on this column, the usual sounds of the space being drowned out by crowd chatter and bluegrass. The UGA International Street Festival was in full swing, one of the many events which temporarily occupy the block of College Avenue between Broad and Clayton streets during the spring. There are a few thousand more people out here than usual, and I can’t help but wonder on days like today what the big problem is with making College Square a permanent pedestrian space. This event could have gone on campus, to Herty Field or Tate Plaza, but it didn’t.

The block was closed off a couple of Fridays back to allow the U.S. Census to put up a table for outreach and education. I got swept up in the spirit of numerical research and decided to do a little counting of my own. I also counted at the same time the next week, with the street open. The census isn’t exactly a huge draw, like a street festival, and the weather was about the same—a sunny afternoon—so we can consider conditions to be pretty much the same. My hypothesis was that pedestrian traffic would be pretty much the same on a day with the street closed to car traffic as on a regular day, with closure having no negative effect on business. The results actually came back with pedestrian traffic increasing substanThe Athens Human Rights Festival is one of many events that take over tially on the day the street College Square each spring. was closed. Additionally, when the street was open, only half the people who parked on the block the most people would be there to take advanactually went to businesses on that block. tage of it, and revert to a through street at Further, those car trips represented around 2 night? Maybe the space could become a park percent of total visitors to the space. in spring and fall, with the coldest and hotNow this is an admittedly rudimentary sam- test parts of the year returning it to a street? ple, and what it points to is a need for greater Athens could adopt the Dutch principles research on the subject. What we especially behind Woonerf streets, where pedestrians, need to consider is a temporary closing, percyclists and cars are mixed together, elimihaps for a week or two, to gain more complete nating signs, lanes and curbs in favor of eye data. Such temporary closings have been contact between users of the space. That successful in many other cities, most notably approach, while seemingly dangerous, is actuin Times Square, where after an initial temally quite successful, with thousands of examporary closing, the majority of business ownples in the Netherlands. Such an approach ers came around to the pedestrian mall idea. might even be useful to extend beyond the Mayor Bloomberg recently announced that the single College Square block, where a pedesexperiment was successful, and Times Square trian-only space would have limited success. will permanently become a pedestrian space.

Until we get better data, though, all of the There are greater structural issues with ideas about College Avenue, be they endorsedowntown which complicate the issues of ments of the status quo or proposals for largeCollege Square. The one-way couplet of scale changes, are just emotional responses.

Washington and Clayton streets is an issue We really ought to consider experimenting that also needs attention. Liberating those with that space on a temporary basis, pertwo streets by restoring two-way traffic haps for a summer or a fall, and really get a would do a lot of good for downtown and handle on how it really functions. The “if it could help allay the problems a closed College ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality isn’t how Square would have on traffic within the great communities are made, and we could use district. some vision on what the heart of downtown This might be a good place to use some Athens could become. of the “Business Corridor Infrastructure Improvement” SPLOST dollars, which haven’t Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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hilip Goo, the 23-year-old UGA law school student who posted this message, still has the bra, and other than this reporter, has had no responses to his posting. Yet this is the nature of “Missed Connections,” shots in the dark of the Internet that can be funny, cathartic, flattering, romantic, creepy or all of the above.

“I figured I would post the ad more as a joke, but maybe she’d see it, and I could give her bra back to her,” Goo wrote in an email. “To tell you the truth, I felt totally used. No note, no phone number, no nothing?”

Those looking to turn “nothing” into “something” visit “Missed Connections.” The most common places to miss a connection are also the most commonplace: grocery stores, gas stations, gyms, parks. These connections are often missed due to a lack of courage. Some of these encounters, like Goo’s, are “missed” due to an overabundance of alcohol. Connections can fall through because there’s not enough time to exchange numbers, reluctance, carelessness or one party’s pre-existing romantic relationship. They are any and all of those “coulda-woulda-shoulda, but didn’t” moments; those times when the regret seems to linger longer than an outright rejection would.

Goo and a friend from Atlanta had gone out for a night of hijinks and, soon after, brought home a pair of girls. He can remember that his missing girl was blonde, around 5’7”, and he “definitely had to work” to get her to go home with him.

“I don’t really remember meeting her, but I remember walking back and thinking ‘I need to get it together if things are going to happen,’” Goo said.

The next morning, she was gone, and Goo’s friend informed him that Goo’s girl’s wing-woman had had a midnight breakdown and the two had bounced, ultimately leaving a key piece of clothing behind. Goo posted at the urging of a friend who had posted before, as he was unfamiliar with the function of “Missed Connections.”

The Craigslist category was established in 2000 after administrators noticed the niche in its “Personals” and separated the messages from the oft-pervy offers of casual sex that darken Craigslist’s reputation. However, anonymous romantic messages are nothing new. The Village Voice once ran these types of messages on the back page, and a recent New York Times column cites the trend stretching back to male suitors of the Victorian age seeking out female acquaintances in newspapers, much to the dismay of traditional society. Yet the Internet’s abundance of free forums has paved the way for a more popular and potentially effective network for making connections.

Since Al Gore invented the Internet, experts and our mothers have warned of its potentially negative effects on face-to-face interpersonal relationships. Flirting now consists of Facebook “pokes” and video chats. The mystery of an unrequited crush has been quashed by explicitly listed relationship statuses. Though we have the ability to patch up our missed connections more than ever, one who adeptly navigates the

Internet to find that hottie from that party is still branded a “stalker.”

Such an attitude colors the reactions I got when I mentioned “Missed Connections” to my peers, who most often described the posts as “funny,” “creepy” and “sad.” Were these posts simply a laughingstock, like other popular web quote repositories like “Postcards from Yo Momma” and “Texts from Last Night”? Or were they phenomena indicative of our changing cultural mores, an updated combination of “Real World” confessional, Valentine’s card and personal ad?

The proof is in the postings, which run the gamut from smutty to sexy to sentimental. Some, like this one posted by a 35-year-old man from Watkinsville, come across as comically earnest but essentially sweet.

“You work at a place I’m in a lot. You’ve been there more lately than usual. You have tattoos on your wrists. You look like an amazing person and are stunningly beautiful! You look like you’d be my Dream Girl! ;) If you have anything special going on you’d like to celebrate, I’d love to take you to dinner. Hit me back if you’re interested!”

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atty Miranda, a UGA undergraduate student, was hanging out with a guy for a few weeks, but then he stopped calling, and she realized he was dating another girl. She did not see him again until a few months later when she was leaving the bars downtown with her friends one night around closing time. After her friends left, her one-time love interest planted a kiss on her right there on the corner of College and Clayton. “Definitely not just a fleeting ‘spin-the-bottle’ kiss,” Miranda said.

Miranda had not been pleased with the way he had left her hanging, but the kiss caught her off guard. She had liked this guy a lot, and the kiss consummated months of angst. When she got home, however, she realized that her anger had not quite gone away. In fact, she realized how presumptuous that kiss was, and then wrote a “Missed Connections” post with the subject line of “God, you’re an idiot.” The body of the post kept the identity of her one-time paramour vague, but Miranda certainly didn’t mince words. The end of the post: “And I know this technically isn’t a ‘missed’ connection because we’ve spent time together (on the odd occasion that I actually got the time of day). But let me assure you that you’ve missed the boat on this connection. And baby, I’m not coming back into harbor.”

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iranda, unlike Goo, has received a number of responses. Some have incorrectly identified themselves as the romantic offender. Others have sent commiserating stories. One guy even asked her out for coffee and attached his picture.

“It’s very interesting seeing what this interaction with the universe brings about,” Miranda said. “I haven’t regretted it.”

She reads the “Missed Connections” all the time, and in the past, even posted a less-lambasting message for the bassist of a band that comes through town from time to time. She does not know what compels her to read them, but thinks that deep down they are something good.

“I think that it’s taking the positive parts of the Internet and what the Internet could be, and harnessing it into what could be something really powerful and meaningful,” Miranda said. “Even if it serves as little function as voyeurism, as looking into someone else’s thoughts, I still think it’s interesting.”

Alison Loughman

comment Dante’s Summer Camp Sign-Up When your kids get out of school for the summer, what do later: volunteers wouldn’t have to strain to read handwriting you do with them for 11 weeks? If you work full-time, the first on the redundant forms, then the person entering data into the priorities are safety, affordability, proximity and time. Next you system days later wouldn’t have to strain reading the voluncan consider activities your kids will teers’ handwriting on the forms they enjoy. If you don’t work full-time, the filled out. priorities are still pretty much the OK, forget the computer idea. Why same. ACC Leisure Services has fandid we have to fill out a new form tastic offerings at reasonable prices, for each activity? They were identical Like running with the bulls: yet there are only a limited number except for the color. How about one of spots per activity. So registering form for all the camps you want your once the doors opened, for the programs is an exercise in kids to go to, with personal info writstrategy and patience. ten once, and checkboxes for camp/ it was chaos until everyone To ACC Leisure Services’ credit, it activity selections and dates? That figured out their destination. seems their guiding principle is fairwould save oodles of paper and printness. There is one day and one time ing costs. Forms could be numbered to register. This year the first person according to submission, and it would in line for the 9 a.m. registration still be fair. If they need a page on arrived at the Classic Center at 5:30 each kid at each activity they could a.m., three-and-a-half hours early. I got there at 8 a.m. and print out a neat page from a single data entry. Time and money was number 195. I was flabbergasted but, with coffee, proper would be saved on both the parents’ and Leisure Services’ ends.

ACCLS forms, birth certifiThese may sound like cate and utility bill in hand, petty points, but when 11 content to do my part in weeks of your family’s life are the name of fairness and my dependent on these forms daughter. There were grumthey become meaningful. The With the writer’s permission, Flagpole made this Comment blings and amazed glances next circle down the inferno available to ACC Leisure Services staff before press time. throughout the line of chilly was the registration room.

Below is the department’s response: parents, which spanned the With forms in hand, we were entire Classic Center courtlined up by number. I’ll admit With complaints last year from parents who were yard perimeter and continued there was some intrigue to tired of “running all over the county” to register for down Foundry Street. When the whole event in that I saw various summer camps, ACC Leisure Services staff they announced the opening a bunch of folks I knew and decided to present a new All-Camp Registration of the doors there was relief, tons I didn’t. There was a Day at the Classic Center. This event allowed parwhich quickly turned to grief fun factor of “I’m part of this ents to register for all camps in the same location as we realized the slow pace community”; the group grope. at the same time. There were definitely pros and we were to endure. Many But that was it. Like running cons to the day. However, our success in promotcommented that they should with the bulls: once the doors ing the event and the popularity of our camps did at least have had us line up opened, it was chaos until lead to long lines that staff handled as efficiently as in the expansive interior of everyone figured out their possible. the building so we wouldn’t destination. Which line was As part of our promotion, parents were strongly have been cold. Another hour longest? Which activities were encouraged to obtain scholarship approval prior to went by until I reached the most important to get into? the All-Camp Registration Day. In addition, staff front door. Then, in bunches I was in the first 195, so I extended the deadline for recently expired scholarof 100, we sat in a waiting didn’t witness much disapships so parents would not have to renew at registraroom where we could fill out pointment beyond that in the tion day. Both initiatives were an effort to decrease any forms we had not yet process itself, but when I left parent time at registration and allow staff to focus printed and completed at the building, knowing there resources on processing visitors that day. The decihome—except for scholarship were 100 people in the regission not to distribute registration numbers until applications. tration room and 100-plus in after all paperwork was in hand, including scholarAnyone filling those out the waiting room, there were ships, was made during the planning process. As was segregated and sent back still more outside in the cold. mentioned earlier, the long lines were longer than to the end of the line. The I’m sure there were disapexpected and resulted in difficulty for those new rest of us were in the waiting pointed and panicked parents. scholarship recipients who did not pre-register as room for an hour and a half A more streamlined system recommended. milling about, coordinating would alleviate a lot of stress.

An online and hard copy evaluation of the event with other parents and filling I have heard for years were made available to all registrants, and staff will out forms. With all this time, about the need for more sumbe tallying those results in the coming week. Staff no one could understand why mer opportunities for kids in will also debrief with all employees who were presthe scholarship applicants Athens through ACCLS. I have ent to evaluate the day and decide whether or not had not been accommodated not researched why this has to improve and repeat the All-Camp registration as well. not been addressed—probably process, or return to the previous system of offering Many people tried to budget problems. But it is my registration on-site at the individual camps. As staff make sense of the system in opinion that this is a massive looks into the future, the hope is to establish an place. Why not have the one concern that deserves direct online registration system that will simplify registrastart date and time, but let and immediate attention. tions for everyone and eliminate all lines. it be a computer sign-up?

This is an educational ACC Leisure Services appreciates the patience Anyone without a home or and socioeconomic issue. and support shown by the approximately 800 paroffice computer could go to Kids need to be in a safe, ents who participated in the registration day. the library or a neighborhood supervised environment in school. Verification of birththe summer with a balance of Kent Kilpatrick dates and addresses could be skill building and free time.

Internal Services Administrator done at neighborhood ACCLS Parents need their children ACC Leisure Services centers before the start dates. to be engaged so that they Or, how about doing the same can work and not worry about line-up system but at several their kids. I’m sure ACCLS is ACCLS locations? If they used computers, they could keep track working hard to make this happen. Let’s encourage them to of how many spots were left in each activity remotely. Even keep looking for solutions. with all registration taking place at the Classic Center, computers could speed things up on-site and save money and mistakes Laura Hoffman

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the school, because there is always an interpreter available if she needs someone to translate her words. (The school employs a full-time family engagement specialist who is fluent; the receptionist is fluent, as are some teachers and parapros.)

Galvan is thankful for Walter Avila’s presence in the classroom, so that if her son is having difficulty with English, someone who speaks Spanish can help. She says that it is comforting to know that teachers and administrators at J.J. Harris work hard to include Mexican culture in the classroom with dances, books and the children’s home journals. The journals are sent home from school daily with questions for the parents about what the class is learning. The questions and answers may be written in Spanish or English.

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here are two signs on the front door of J.J. Harris Elementary School greeting visitors. One warns: “NO Student Check-Out after 2:00 p.m.” The other: “Padres: Ustedes NO deben recoger los estudiantes despues de las 2:00 pm.” Upon opening the door, a mixture of Spanish and English echoes through the halls.

Children begin trickling into Jen McCreight’s kindergarten class around 7:30 a.m. It’s Friday, so instead of their usual uniforms, they get to wear what they want. One little girl is wearing heels. On the smart board at the front of the room, the kids choose what they want for lunch, and then they write in their journals until morning announcements and the Pledge of Allegiance.

At 7:55 the 19 students sit in a circle to hold their daily morning meeting. They sing the “Weekend Song” (“She’s going to dance, dance, dance. He’s going to sleep, sleep, sleep.”) and read out of their home journals.

J.J. Harris has a 69 percent Hispanic population. White kids are the minority. There are only two in this classroom.

The school is still in its infancy. It opened in September of last year on Danielsville Road in response to overpopulation in the county’s elementary schools and a shift toward neighborhood schools. Most of the students are transfers from Howard B. Stroud, Fowler Drive and Winterville elementary schools. Of them, 99 percent are on free and reduced lunch, and many begin at J.J. Harris with little or no knowledge of English.

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Galvan speaks about her children’s elementary school with Most everyone at J.J. Harris has come from somewhere else, brevity and simplicity. Her quick, almost dismissive tone is and Thomas is no exception. She was the principal of Oconee indicative of her comfort there. Are her children happy at J.J. County Middle School until she was recruited in February 2009 Harris? “Sí, sí, son contentos,” she says repeatedly. to begin work on the new elementary school. She talked with parents in the community to get an idea of what they were Harris is a professional development school, looking for in their new school. She met with representatives which means it has an extensive formal of the University of Georgia to organize its involvement in the relationship with the University of Georgia. school. She even picked out the carpet.

Student teachers are in every classroom, practicum students During the morning meeting in her class, McCreight reads from the UGA College of Education frequent the building, and aloud from a book about a Hispanic girl whose family is movup to 40 UGA students volunteer as tutors and help with aftering from Mexico to California. McCreight reads a page first in school programs.

English, and then Walter Avila, a native Spanish speaker from McCreight herself is a doctoral student at UGA. She first Honduras, reads the page in Spanish. worked in the Atlanta public school system, and then at Whit Avila is the paraprofessional in McCreight’s kindergarten Davis Elementary for two years before moving to J.J. Harris. classroom. There are parapros in each kindergarten and first Her main reason for the switch is that the new elementary grade classroom throughout J.J. Harris. They serve as teachers’ school provides her the opportunity to bring her work and assistants who help manage the classroom and work with small school lives together. “The close connection between UGA and groups.

J.J. Harris made this a really exciting move to make,” says A fluent Spanish-speaking teacher is a crucial resource for McCreight. the small children who are learning English. When the students Also, the new elementary school’s dedication to using gifted struggle, Avila is there to ease their frustration. “If the chilstrategies for every student was particularly inspiring to her. dren are more comfortable speaking Spanish at certain points Gifted teaching professional workshops are held for J.J. Harris in time to get their ideas across, that’s totally fine,” says teachers, who are expected to incorporate standards of the McCreight. state with higher-level thinking in a way that makes kids really McCreight makes it a priority to incorporate Hispanic culture want to participate. into her classroom, as do most teachers at J.J. Harris. She Higher-level thinking means encouraging students to apply says it is important for the children to see themselves in what what they are learning to meaningful, demanding tasks, rather they’re learning, so she reads her class literature with pictures than being satisfied with students’ knowledge of a subject at of children who look like them. But it can be a challenge its most basic level. For example, McCreight explains, instead to find books, she says, because there are not many geared of teaching her students the parts of a plant and simply toward Hispanic children. moving on to a new subject, the students have taken that Elena Galvan speaks little English. She has a son in knowledge and applied it by planting trees at the school and McCreight’s kindergarten class and another child in pre-kinderobserving their growth. garten at J.J. Harris. Her children primarily speak Spanish, but And most importantly, at J.J. Harris, Thomas—the head of are learning English at school. She feels very comfortable at the school—encourages such thinking. “She lets you do any

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crazy idea you bring to her. If you can back it up—if you’ve got the rationale for it—she’s like, ‘Go for it,’” says McCreight.

“And that’s huge to have that kind of support. She remembers what the idea was and she wants to know how it went. She is very, very supportive.”

The resources available at J.J. Harris, particularly the involvement with UGA, make those ideas of higher-level thinking possible. It is common to have four or five teachers in a classroom at one time, whether an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) teacher, a special education teacher, or an EIP (Early Intervention Program) teacher, who provides smallgroup instruction and individualized attention to kids not performing at proficiency levels.

In fact, the presence of another adult in Mrs. McCreight’s classroom solicits the question from one young child, “Is she another teacher?” cheer rises from the circle of students when Mrs. McCreight announces that they will work in small groups after the morning meeting. And with four teachers roaming the small classroom, no group or child is left unattended. Such individual attention is really beneficial, Thomas says, so that the students can apply the knowledge they’ve gained in a small group setting.

The amount of one-on-one attention each child receives at J.J. Harris is what kept Natasha Hall from transferring her children back to Winterville Elementary when she was skeptical at first about switching to the new school.

“I had signed the form for them to get transferred back to Winterville at the beginning of the school year,” she says. “But once I got the approval letter that they could get back into Winterville, I changed my mind because they have learned so well at J.J. Harris.”

Her son, Messiah, is a student in Mrs. McCreight’s class, and she has another child at the school as well. She says Mrs. McCreight teaches her son as if he were her own, and Hall couldn’t tear him away from a school where he was getting that kind of education. She gets a great feeling from the school because all the teachers are compassionate and really care about the children.

Hall says that one thing Messiah gets really excited about are enrichment clusters. For one hour each week, teachers and students have the freedom to choose lessons based on their own interests. Kindergarten and first grade students can pick any cluster the teachers are offering, so they move about the building and meet kids from different classrooms. One week, Mrs. McCreight’s class learned about vegetable gardening and built a garden in the classroom. Another week, Hall says she attended a cluster with Messiah where the class learned about musical instruments; Messiah was thrilled to show her the guitar he was playing.

“I just love J.J. Harris,” Hall says. “They get an ‘A+’ from me. I underestimated it at first, but this is an awesome school.

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ot yet a year old, J.J. Harris is certainly moving in the right direction—a fact that Thomas attributes to the teachers, who are strongly committed to their students’ success and their students’ strong commitment to wanting to learn.

“We don’t accept excuses that because we have a high free and reduced lunch rate or we have a high [percentage of minority students], that they can’t ‘do.’ That’s just not an option, and our teachers don’t see it as an option. I think they’ve instilled the belief in our kids that we’re just as capable, just as smart as students are anywhere else in this district, in this city, in this state.”

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The Athens Twilight is one of the oldest and best criterium races in the United States. And this year, on Saturday, Apr. 24, all of Athens will be celebrating the race’s 30th anniversary.

The criterium began in 1980, when Athens was a smaller town than it is now. The event has flourished over its 30 years, right alongside the growth of Athens. Twilight originally consisted of a single bike race for one group of people. The race is now an entire weekend full of music, food and cycling for everyone. “Twilight is unique in that the town created the event. Athens is us,” says Gene Dixon, founder of the race.

He hasn’t been back for his hometown race in 10 years.

And for all the races he’s been to and worked at, he still hasn’t seen anything like the Twilight Criterium.

“What really makes it great is the crowd. There is no other ‘crit’ I have ever been to that has people three-deep all the way around the course,” he says. “There is not a single spot on that course where there is not someone standing there making noise and cheering. It’s impressive. You don’t see that many other places.”

Fields’ service area is a spot Ty Magner hopes to avoid during the race. The 18-year-old Gainesville State College student is the newest racer on the Locos Cycling team, and will be competing in the pro race for the first time this year.

He has made a name for himself after first-place finishes at the Tuscaloosa Criterium, the Union City Criterium and, most recently, the Chattanooga Criterium. Magner is excited about the atmosphere and the fun surrounding the Athens race.

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People flock to the streets to watch the men’s and women’s criterium races on Saturday night. Professional and elite amateur cyclists from all over the world race 80 laps around the one-kilometer course that runs clockwise on Clayton, Lumpkin, Washington and Thomas streets.

Even if the cyclists manage to come out of the first treacherous turn unscathed, they are likely to encounter some kind of mechanical problem during the 80-kilometer race. Whether that is a crash, a flat tire or some other issue, Nate Fields will be there to lend a helping hand.

Fields works for Mavic, a French manufacturer of road and mountain bike wheels and components, which conceived the idea of neutral tech service in races over 30 years ago. If there is a mechanical issue during the race, Mavic’s team of five or six mechanics is there to take care of it.

“They have to get themselves to the pit area where we will be set up. Once they get there we either fix their bike, put a new wheel on if they have a flat tire, or we will even have spare bicycles in case someone’s bike is no longer rideable,” says Fields. “Then, when the race comes back around, they get pushed back in and they’re off racing again.”

Mavic is the best-known outfit for that kind of support.

The company has provided neutral tech support at the Tour de France, the USA Pro Criterium Championship in Chicago and countless other races around the world. They’ve even been at Twilight before, over 10 years ago.

But working this year’s Twilight is more than just another job for Fields. He was born and raised in Athens, and raced in the Twilight Kids Criterium as a kid in 1981. He bought his first bicycle from Gene Dixon and even worked at Dixon’s bike shop years ago.

(Across from Super Wal-Mart)

The Locos Cycling team consists of all local, Athens-based athletes. They are an amateur, Category-1 team, which qualifies them to race with professional teams in all but three races.

Micah Morlock, director and former member of the Locos team, explains that amateurs race and practice like the pros do, but don’t get paid for it. All the guys on the Locos team have day jobs. Two are Ph.D. candidates.

On top of all that work and practice, the Locos racers have made time to give back to their community by creating a high school cycling program. The team was awarded a grant from Specialized Bicycles for 10 bikes and helmets, a donation that was matched by Georgia Cycle Sport. Those bikes and helmets are lent out to high school students in Athens to introduce them to cycling. Twice a week Locos team members hold practices for the participating high school students to teach them the ropes of competitive, criterium cycling.

The program started last November with students at Clarke Central High School, and Morlock hopes it will expand to involve other schools in the area so the students can compete.

He’d like to see cycling become a varsity sport in high schools.

“If lacrosse can do it, we can,” he says with a laugh.

Dixon encourages fans to get involved in all the activities offered during Twilight weekend. It’s a difficult event to pay for, he says, and the best way to support the race is to participate in the rides and races that are open to everyone. There are the 5K run, the Gambler ride, the Twiathalon and the Kids’ Crit to choose from. “The best possible thing you could do,” says Dixon, “is go get some exercise in the morning, then come downtown and be there all afternoon.”

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art notes A Logical Response to Idiots Dumb and Dumber: Several weeks ago, a currently unidentified individual or group of individuals entered the Lamar Dodd School of Art building on UGA’s South Campus and started stealing anything they could get their hands on. Student artworks on display in hallways, tucked away in classrooms or behind closed doors in storage spaces on both wings of all three floors were taken, or (even more baffling) carried a distance of almost 500 feet outside, where they were crammed into a dumpster behind the school.

At the time of my writing this, there have been no leads, no confessions and no recovery of lost works (other than those found shoved in the trash). According to the last article I read, the final head count was 130 pieces of student work lifted—whether this includes the pieces that were tossed into the trash or not is unclear and largely beside the point.

Whether the security of the building itself should be re-examined or re-evaluated is, for the purposes of this article, beside the point. Whether the perpetrators were individuals looking for artwork for their living spaces (unlikely), students looking to pass off others’ work as their own (plausible, albeit hugely idiotic), or college students seeking to wreak havoc on other college students (not even worth discussing) is also beside the point. The point, in this context, is that such a thing would happen at all.

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Full Disclosure: I’m in my last semester of a graduate program at Lamar Dodd—I moved to Athens exclusively for this reason. I was not one of the individuals whose works were stolen or thrown into the trash. I am, however, someone who has come to appreciate enormously the amount of support I’ve seen in the city of Athens towards the arts—and towards the visual arts in particular. When asked if I would be interested in writing Art Notes for this newspaper, I (obviously) said “yes,” as it meant reporting on a culture in a city that has come to be known regionally, not to mention nationally, for that very culture. There’s a lot of great art in Athens. Furthermore, there’s a lot that’s been enacted in Athens as a direct result of those artists. Anyone curious as to what exactly it is that I’m referring to can flip to any page of this magazine, any page of any back issue of this magazine or any page of any other locally published magazine to find an example of just what it is that Athens’ artists contribute to Athens as a whole. And where do they come from?

I can’t speak for all of them, but many have come from the art school. Anyone who follows such statistics with even the barest traces of interest will agree that as far as public collegiate art programs in the South are concerned, the Lamar Dodd School at the University of Georgia is among the best and most cutting-edge. Is it any surprise that, given the abundance of culture, history and national significance that Athens as a

municipality has and will continue to enjoy, it is host to such an institution? Artists are visionaries! It doesn’t matter if you do or don’t prefer whatever it is that they put into the world—the point is that they desire to put it into the world at all! Read the following carefully: artists create culture. To argue otherwise is to turn an exceptionally blind eye to not only our local history, but to history itself. Furthermore, to attack such an institution at such a categorically shitty level is to do this exactly. Thieves, if you’re reading this,

wake up and realize exactly where it is you are living, exactly what it is that it values, exactly who it is you have wronged, and exactly what it is that that represents. Following that brief exercise in critical thinking, I would suggest you find another place to live.

On Another Note: All this ranting about local history and culture serves as a perfect lead-in to the Centennial Exhibition of the downtown Morton Theatre, which (incredibly) turns 100 this coming May 18. The amazing history of the building itself, as well as “Pink” Morton and the Hot Corner will serve as an inspiration for artists looking to participate and submit works for consideration. The deadline for submissions is May 6—so hurry over to the Theatre for some inspiration. For more info on the Centennial Exhibition, as well as the amazing history of “Pink” Morton and the Morton Theatre, visit www.mortontheatre.com.

Additionally, the Professional Practices Seminar led by local artist/designer Didi Dunphy will host an exhibition of works in retail windows throughout downtown Athens from Apr. 20 to May 2, with a special “Art Walk” from 6–7 p.m. on Apr. 25. For more information and a totally sweet interactive map of this project, visit www.athensstreetshow.info.

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authoritatively in a public forum on all the material they’ve been hoarding for the novel.

Everybody wants to be a rock star, especially writers.

The problem is that while writers can be fascinating interviews—they work hard at a craft that often seems like alchemy to the rest of us, they use words well and with a purpose, and they generally have something to say—they should never, ever discuss their own work. The writing process, sure. Their researches into World War I or Navajo shamanism or the mating habits of the manatee that went into the work, absolutely. But never should they discuss who their characters are or what that thing that happened at the end means. At best, they cannot be objective. Worse, the writers risk ruining whatever special meaning the reader may have gleaned from their work during the transaction.

At worst, writers come off looking like a tool. Like Nicholas Sparks.

Sparks, the author of the wildly bestselling Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook and

other books for old ladies, recently gave an interview to USA Today, in connection with the release of the film version of his novel The Last Song (starring master thespian Miley Cyrus), in which he positioned his own work in a lineage that began with the Greek tragedies, wound through Shakespeare and Jane Austen, circled around Hemingway, and ends with him. Sparks claimed that his love stories constituted a separate genre of which he is the only living practitioner. And he dismissed the work of Cormac McCarthy as “pulpy” and “overwrought.”

Most of the subsequent backlash across the Interwebs has been outrage over Sparks’ dissing of a clearly superior writer, but that ire is misguided and misplaced. First of all, it’s merely Sparks’ opinion of an author whose books he doesn’t particularly care for, and he’s entitled to it. Secondly, it’s highly unlikely Cormac McCarthy is losing any sleep—he’s resting comfortably with his National Book Award, his Pulitzer Prize and the sure knowledge that no film version of any of his books will star Miley Cyrus.

Cormac McCarthy > Nicholas Sparks.

Debate ended.

Where Nicholas Sparks screws the pooch is in statements like: “I write in a genre that was not defined by me. The examples were not set out by me. They were set out 2,000 years ago by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides” and “There’s a difference between drama and melodrama—evoking genuine emotion, or manipulating emotion. It’s a very fine eye-of-theneedle to thread. And it’s very rare that it works. That’s why I tend to dominate this particular genre.”

Writing, like Crash Davis said about baseball, is a game to be played with humility. The writer walks in the company of giants every time he or she sets ink to paper (or pixel to screen) and is damned lucky to be able to do it at all, much less successfully. The writer must enter the temple with head bowed every time and work hard for the right turn of phrase, the appropriate conveyance of emotion, le mot juste. The writer is never satisfied, because all art is born of dissatisfaction with the world as it is.

While there is no shortage of ego in the craft, there has never been a writer worth a damn who didn’t know his or her place in the firmament, who didn’t know of a better writer, who stopped striving to be better. Those who can be satisfied will be satisfied with crap.

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Many authors, however, probably don’t look at it that way. The work of writing is solitary and singularly unglamorous. It’s a profession for monks and hermits. That’s why the opportunity to hit the road for a book tour is so appealing (for about the first week or so, then it becomes a grind). Or better yet, the coveted interview that so many writers have been rehearsing, like Jimmy Rabbitte in The Commitments, for years, the chance to wax

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by UGA professor Michael Marshall, and music from Hawk Proof Rooster. Last year’s release party was a blast, albeit a bucolic sort of blast, and this year’s promises to be at least as good. The event is free to the public.

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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.

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. Jake takes control of a Na’vi/ human hybrid, infiltrating the aliens to learn their ways but falls in love with Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), the chief’s daughter. Now Sully must lead the Na’vi against the space marines led by the dastardly General Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang). Cameron is thought of as a filmmaker more obsessed with technology than story and character. At heart, his Avatar is about the spiritual bond between all the creatures of Pandora, as well as the John Smith/ Pocahontas love affair of Sully and Neytiri. Once you visit Pandora, you will never want to leave. At the very least, you will want to visit again very soon. k THE BACK-UP PLAN (PG-13) Women love Alex O’Loughlin; just ask my fiancée. She was heartbroken when CBS cancelled “Moonlight.” So, why can producers not properly use his inherent charms and naturally gifted shirtlessness? This J-Lo romcom does not look any better than O’Loughlin’s last cancelled TV show, “Three Rivers.”

Lopez is a career woman who, after giving up on love, gets pregnant via artificial insemination. Of course, she meets a potential husband, Stan (O’Loughlin), the exact same day. The trailer does not promise much.

THE BAND’S VISIT (PG-13) 2007.

On the way to a concert in Petah Tikva, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, led by stern conductor Tewfiq (Israeli Film Academy Award winner Sasson Gabai), winds up in Bet

Hatikva, where buses rarely run and no hotel exists. Nearly out of Israeli money, Tewfiq and his men must rely on the kindness of Dina (Israeli Film Academy Award winner Ronit Elkabetz), who runs a small restaurant.

Kolirin’s film was good enough for 25 international awards, including eight Awards of the Israeli Film Academy (including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor), but it was just not up to the Academy’s rigorous standards. The Band’s Visit makes no epic pronouncements on the state of mankind. It simply shows us at our best, giving to those in need despite prejudices imposed by culture and religion. A film can still say a lot without bludgeoning the audience into agreement. If The Band’s Visit can remind us of anything, it is that the most well-received messages are often those delivered softly, through subtlety and humor. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series.

THE BOOK OF ELI (R) The Book of Eli made it onto my most wanted list for 2010 based solely on its resemblance to Fallout 3, the greatest videogame I have played in years. In a postapocalyptic wasteland, one man (Denzel Washington) must protect a sacred text with the secret to saving mankind while crossing the dangerous country.

The Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society, From Hell) can be hit or miss.

Hopefully, Eli is a home run. With Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis.

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”).

CHICAGO (PG-13) 2002. Two murderesses—Velma Kelly (Best Supporting Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Roxie Hart (Renee Zelleweger)—vie for fame and fortune on death row in the

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1920s. Richard Gere’s turn as singing, dancing attorney Billy Flynn is a true highlight and was unjustly ignored by the Academy. (He did win a Golden Globe.) The film’s six Academy Awards may have marked the return of the big screen musical, but I would rather watch Moulin Rouge! any day.

CLASH OF THE TITANS (PG-13) 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, who might just be the next Harry Hamlin), 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

the memorial service for the patriarch of an arch British African-American family, all sorts of blisslessly transparent, sitcom-y shenanigans ensue (wrong coffins, mislabeled pill bottles, incontinent uncles; the list goes on) as sons, disappointingly stalwart Daniel Aaron (Matthew Macfadyen Chris Rock) and successful writer Richard Ryan (Rupert Graves Martin Lawrence), are harried by a small stranger (Peter Dinklage) with devastating fatherly revelations. Meanwhile, a gaggle of unlikable Limeys black stereotypes are handling the day with indignity and self-centeredness. Most shamefully, the reliably funny Alan Tudyk James Marsden is wasted—literally—the entire film. Death at a Funeral has the chuckle-less feel of an American attempt at dry British politically correct, culturally vacant, LCD humor.”

You’re an actress… that’s pretty funny! from the flesh of Hades to defeat the Titans—on their collective asses (via the Greek city-state of Argos).

COP OUT (R) For the first time in his career, smutty funnyman Kevin Smith directs a script that is not his own.

Robb and Mark Cullen (“Gary the Rat”) are responsible for the generically zany antics of two cops (Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan) as they track down a stolen baseball card, rescue a woman, and deal with gangsters and their laundered money. I am not amused by the trailer. With Michelle Trachtenberg, Jason Lee, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak and Fred Armisen.

DATE NIGHT (PG-13) 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. At its core, Date Night should be no better than your average rom-action-edy, but Fey, Carell and their inspired support shape a run-of-the-mill, high-concept blockbuster in their comedic image rather than allow it to remove their brainy comic brawn.

DEATH AT A FUNERAL (R) Not much about Death at a Funeral has changed since I reviewed the original film way back in aught-seven. As proof, I have retrofitted my earlier review for the new comedy: “Why should weddings have all the disastrous film fun? We can milk the sacred funereal cow for all its riotous laughs too. Even so, I failed to discover where they buried all the funny in Death at a Funeral, the latest woeful black comedy grasp for mainstream success from Frank Oz Neil Labute. At

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (R) Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s Russell Brand and Jonah Hill reunite for this comedy written and directed by Nicholas Stoller. The future of record company intern Aaron Green’s (Hill) career depends entirely on his ability to safely transport rock star Aldous Snow (Brand) to his gig at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre. Simple enough, were it not for Snow’s own dependency on alcohol and drugs to make it through any given day. The UGA Tate Theatre screens this one-night-only sneak preview of the most recent Judd Apatow production.

THE GHOST WRITER (PG-13) Roman Polanski’s political thriller is taut, mature and twisty enough to keep even the most avid amateur sleuths guessing until its conclusion. Ewan McGregor is a ghost writer. Known for his lightweight, bestselling autobiographies of magicians and the like, the unnamed ghost is surprised when he is tabbed to assist former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) on his long-awaited, secretive memoirs. Spirited away to an isolated island that is a commuter’s hop from New York City, the ghost feels something is off with Lang and his close-knit entourage. Given limited access with the mercurial former politico and the massive manuscript he must mold into a readable bestseller in a month, the ghost must decide how to weave in a scandal involving secret torture flights authorized by Lang.

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.

THE JONESES (R) Steve and Kate Jones (David Duchovny and Demi Moore) move into a gated community.

The perfect couple with their perfect teenagers (Pineapple Express’ Amber Heard and Ben Hollingsworth) soon charm their neighbors, all of whom attempt to keep up with the Joneses, who might not be quite what they seem.

Writer-director Derrick Borte makes his directorial debut with this comedy that sounds more like a new Showtime sitcom. With Gary Cole, Glenne Headly and Lauren Hutton.

KICK-ASS (R) See Movie Pick.

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 LOSERS (PG-13) Another comic book adaptation, The Losers stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Columbus Short and Óscar Jaenada as a crack intelligence team betrayed by their handler, Max (Jason Patric). Naturally, the losers are out for bloody revenge. The Eisner Award-winning comic is written

by Andy Diggle to be an explosive, espionage action flick; the movie sports direction by Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) and a script cowritten by Peter Berg (Hancock). The Losers sounds like a winner.

MACGRUBER (R) Fans of “Saturday Night Live’s” MacGruber (Will Forte) get a chance to see the easily distracted crime-fighter take on a nuclear warhead in this sneak-preview screening of the parody-action film. Co-starring Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe and Maya Rudolph.

MOTHER (R) See Movie Pick.

NINE (PG-13) 2009. Adapted from the Tony award winner based on Fellini’s brilliant 8 1/2, Nine stars a singing, dancing Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido Contini, a critically acclaimed Italian director surrounded by beautiful women—his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his muse (Nicole Kidman) and an American journalist (Kate Hudson) as well as the memories of his mother (Sophia Loren) and a whore (Fergie)—and stuck in a major creative rut. The big numbers by the ladies, especially Fergie, Cruz and Cotillard, are sexy Broadway showstoppers; the rest of the film, directed

by Rob Marshall (an Academy Award nominee for Chicago), is pedestrian and tedious. I’d have much rather spent the afternoon rewatching Fellini’s masterpiece.

NORTH FACE (NR) 2008. Based on the true story of a 1936 Naziencouraged competition to climb Swiss massif, the Eiger, North Face should interest more than just the mountainclimbing set, judging from its appealingly tense trailer. Director-cowriter Philipp Stölzl cut his teeth on music videos for Garbage and Rammstein. No one should be surprised that half of the film’s four awards, including two Film Awards in Gold from the German Film Awards and two German Film Critics Awards, were for Best Cinematography.

OCEANS (G) Disneynature’s second Earth Day release, following last year’s Earth, is being described as “part thriller, part meditation.” Narrated by Pierce Brosnan, Oceans examines the mysteries of what truly lives under the sea. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud were responsible for the awe-inspiring, technological breakthrough Winged Migration. Will the success of television programs like “Planet Earth” and “Life” ever translate to the box office? Disneynature’s already lined up 2011’s Earth Day release: African Cats: Kingdom of Courage.

PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF (PG) Troubled teen Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) discovers he is a demigod, the son of Greek god Poseidon (Kevin McKidd), and must recover his Uncle Zeus’ (Sean Bean) master bolt before an Olympian civil war rocks the entire world.

Accompanied by protective satyr Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) and Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), the daughter of Athena, Percy crisscrosses

the country for silly reasons only a screenwriter would devise.

THE PERFECT GAME (PG) Based on a true story, The Perfect Game inspirationally reports on the 1957 Little League World Series where a team from Monterrey, Mexico, became the first non-U.S. champions. Director William Dear is no stranger to baseball movies; he directed Angels in the Outfield and The Sandlot 3, as well as one of my favorite childhood flicks, Harry and the Hendersons. With Clifton Collins, Jr. (Perry Smith in Capote), Emilie de Ravin (“Lost”) and Cheech Marin.

A PROPHET (R) French filmmaker Jacques Audiard’s mob epic (his Godfather, if you will) follows the path a young Arab man (Tahar Rahim) as he makes his trek from French prisoner to mafia kingpin. A Prophet has been picking up international awards— winning a Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, the Best Film Award at the British Film Festival, Best Foreign Language Film from the National Board of Review— and nominations for Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or, a Golden Globe, numerous European Film Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award.

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (R) 2009. The Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, The Secret in Their Eyes hails from Argentina, where it swept their Academy Awards, winning 13 Awards of the Argentinean Academy. An investigator, Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin), begins a novel of an unsolved rape/murder that has haunted him for 25 years. Interestingly, writer-director Juan José Campanella is an American TV vet, directing such hits as “Law & Order: SVU” (17 episodes), “House” (four episodes), and “Strangers with Candy” (eight episodes).

THE SPY NEXT DOOR (PG) Former CIA agent, Bob Ho (Jackie Chan), must look after his girlfriend’s three kids, a

task complicated by the Russian nemesis who is on the trail of a top secret formula accidentally downloaded by the youngest kid. The Spy Next Door sounds like so many of the other uninspired, family-friendly action comedies that dominated the 1990s and in which director Brian Levant specializes (Are We There Yet?, Jingle All the Way).

With Amber Valletta, Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez.

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.

VALENTINE’S DAY (PG-13) Every young actor and actress in Hollywood looks to be involved with this romantic comedy intertwining a bunch of couples’ make-ups and break-ups due to the pressures of Valentine’s Day. The titanic cast includes Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley Maclaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts and Taylor Swift. After Raising Helen and Georgia Rule, director Garry Marshall could use a good flick.

THE WHITE RIBBON (R) In the year preceding World War I, the isolated German village of Eichwald underwent a series of disturbing “accidents” that shook the strong Lutherans,

led by the strict but not heartless Pastor (Burghart Klaußner), to their very core. First, the doctor (Rainer Bock) was felled by a peculiar riding accident; next, a woman died in the sawmill; eventually, two boys were brutally beaten. By the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, this rash of violence has pocked the beautiful, black and white countryside and led our narrator, a young schoolteacher (Christian Friedel), to begin to suspect a most shocking band of perpetrators. Besides being gorgeous and complex, it tautly persists in a state of constant suspense. Who knows where Haneke’s twisty village road will lead next? Viewers more comfortable with Hollywood’s motherly need to satiatingly spoon feed conclusions will not enjoy the nearly two-and-a-half hours of mesmerizingly perfect cinema.

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 or similar issues as before. Perry fans will find all the humor, shadowy drama and faith they have come to expect and love from his literal, obvious movies (Perry never met subtext he didn’t think should be text).

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movie pick Kicks Ass KICK-ASS (R) Stop! Put the comic book down.

Do not read Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr.’s excellent demythification of the superhero origin story. If you do, you are sure to be disappointed by Layer Cake writer-director Matthew Vaughn’s spirited, well-meaning adaptation. Like the adaptation of Millar’s other superhero deconstruction, Wanted, the movie goes down a lot smoother without knowing how much better and smarter a storyteller Millar is than his cinematic counterparts.

Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson, who looks and sounds a lot like “Sex and the City’s” Steve) is your average nobody teen, masturbating to images of his busty, middle-aged English teacher while dreaming of his school’s Mary Jane, Katie Deauxma (Lyndsy Fonseca).

Aaron Johnson One day, Dave gets the stupid/bright idea of becoming a real live superhero. He orders a green, piped scuba suit, grabs a pair of batons, and hits the streets to fight crime. Faster than a speeding bullet, he’s in the hospital with a knife wound to the gut.

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getting his ass kicked while saving some dude hits YouTube. Soon, his dangerous lifestyle leads him to an honest-to-god dynamic duo, Big Daddy (a bad-stached Nicolas Cage, whose ill-conceived interpretation of the character Vaughn should have nipped in the bud) and Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz). The Batman wannabe and his 11-year-old daughter can clear entire rooms of well-armed thugs with a pistol and a machete.

Hit-Girl is easily the film’s breakout character, but she makes an easy target for the film’s moral legislator enemies. More troubling to this comic fan were the misguided alterations made to Millar’s core idea of a zero turned hero who is really still a zero. Vaughn opts to turn this atypical hero story into the much more typical “hero gets powers, girl, and saves the day” tale. If I had never read Kick-Ass, I would probably be less critical of this energetic, amoral film. Loaded with fanboy “Easter eggs” and comics references galore, it is a blast to behold. But as with fan fave Wolverine, the less known about the origins of Kick-Ass, the better.

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movie pick Talk About Mommy Dearests MOTHER (R) I have excitedly awaited the arrival of the latest film by Bong Joon-ho (2006’s terrific little surprise The Host) in Athens. One of the more critically lauded films of the year, Mother (Madeo) is stunning, hypnotizing, surprising, hilarious, sad, and more. The variety of emotions it evokes and tones through which it shifts easily bests Hollywood’s most multi-layered releases and exemplifies the satisfying challenge offered by an excellent foreign film.

In a small Korean town, a teenage girl is found brutally murdered. The local police set their sights on the mentally deficient Yoon Do-joon (Won Kim Hye-ja Bin). Fortunately, his mother (Kim Hye-ja), an unbalanced woman who makes her meager income from illegal acupuncture and traditional herbal medicine, refuses to accept his guilt and sets out to do anything to prove her son’s innocence.

Mother takes many twists and turns before its case is closed. Anyone familiar with Bong’s previous works knows to expect tonal shifts galore. His supporting characters could hail from Twin Peaks. The cops bumble, the lawyers sing karaoke while cavorting with barely legal

courtesans, and the Mother dances mysteriously in a field while the opening credits roll.

The immensely crowded mise-en-scène of every shot (much love to cinematographer Hong Kyung-Pyo) provides so much visual information to process and digest that the long, slow scenes could last twice as long.

Bong may own the film, but Kim rules it. Were this a Hollywood picture starring a Streep/Sarandonlevel actress, her performance would be on a very short list for every major award. Kim’s Mother is a strange old bird who still allows her grown son to sleep with her (in an uncomfortably close fashion). Later revelations further complicate this fascinating woman, crazed by poverty, Do-joon’s medical condition, and the drive to free him.

Mother mixes the styles and tones of several different filmmakers. One moment it is Hitchcockian, the next nearly Argento-ian, seconds later Coenesque. Yet the film remains singularly Bong-ian, a reference that may mean little now, but give it a few years. It will catch on.

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film notebook News of Athens’ Cinema Scene Back in Action: Much has happened since the last Film Notebook nearly a month ago (I had to leave town unexpectedly, forcing me to miss a column—sorry!). Let’s run it down.

A Classic Festival: The Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival was an amazing success, with bigger crowds at the various screenings of this sixth iteration than I’ve ever seen at the festival. What most impressed me was the obvious increase in the number of young people at the festival, which bodes wonderfully for its future. Congratulations are due to the student festival interns and the folks at CineClub UGA, whose outreach efforts within the university really paid off.

While We’re on the Subject: Another modestly budgeted, (almost) locally produced independent film has been released on DVD—Good Intentions has some solid Athens connections, anyway. Atlanta director Jim Issa shot the “off-beat comedy about blackmail, robbery… and family values!” largely in Rutledge, GA, barely half an hour south of here. Among its stars are Luke Perry (!) and country singer LeAnn Rimes, who also contributed a couple of songs to the soundtrack, as did a few local folks: bluegrass stalwarts Packway Handle Band, the great Bo Bedingfield, and longtime Athens rock star Kitty Snyder, who now lives in Atlanta. Ask for it at your favorite video store, or you can get it from Netflix.

What Ciné Did: I did my first film introduction at Ciné a couple of weeks ago— for Corneliu Poromboiu’s marvelous Police, Adjective—and while the pleasure, such as it was, may have been mostly mine, it seems like that may be a thing I’ll get to try again in the future. Ciné has shown a terrific run of high-profile, high-quality foreign movies of late: aside from the aforementioned Romanian film, there was Claire Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum

Submit!: It’s time for all you filmmakers to get it together for AthFest, which is just around the corner at the end of June. The local music and arts festival is now accepting entries for its three film competitions: Athens Picture Show (short films under 30 minutes), AthFest Music Video Show (music videos and music-related shorts under 10 minutes) and TeenScreen FilmFest (films of any length or genre by filmmakers under 18). The entry fee

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Jacques Audiard’s French gangland thriller A Prophet screens at Ciné. (which, sadly, didn’t get the attention it deserved going against the Osborne festival: it was one of the best things I’ve seen in the past year), as well as The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s gripping and provocative fable about the misbegotten birth of modernity, which is still playing at least through Apr. 22. Also running through that date (and longer, I hope) are Jacques Audiard’s eagerly anticipated French gangland thriller A Prophet and Mother, the new film from Bong Joon-ho, director of the wonderfully entertaining Korean films Memories of Murder and The Host.

You can catch UGA comparative literature and Asian film Professor Hyangsoon Yi lecturing on Bong’s films, incidentally, at the next installment of Ciné’s Director Spotlight Series Wednesday, Apr. 21 at 6 p.m. Please continue to support these kinds of films so that Ciné will continue to bring them here.

What You Did: Finally, it should be noted that this month saw a two-week run of the locally produced film Not Since You, which brought big, supportive crowds to Ciné despite being a low-budget, character-driven independent feature with no movie stars and no flashy trailers on TV. Way to show the love, Athens.

is $10 and the deadline for submissions is May 1 (or May 15 if you shell out an extra 10 bucks), so get on the stick. For more info and entry forms, go to www.athfest.com/film.

Film Series Are Go!: The ICE-Vision film series at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150, will feature Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, one of the Japanese master’s final films, Apr. 22 and Zombi, the 1979 gore classic by Lucio Fulci, Apr. 29. Screenings are Thursdays at 8 p.m.… The iFilms series, 7 p.m. Thursday nights at the ACC Library, 2025 Baxter St., will present The Band’s Visit, the delightful and moving 2007 debut by Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolorin, Apr. 22 and Frontrunners, a 2008 doc about a very serious high school student body election by Caroline Suh Apr. 29… The Apr. 22 screening by the UGA Film Appreciation Society, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 267 of the Miller Learning Center, is Zodiac, David Fincher’s riveting 2007 dramatization of the investigation surrounding the infamous series of killings in San Francisco in the 1970s.

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip And here we are. Things are getting really busy around Athens now that folks have thawed out. Sure, that’s laughable to our friends from elsewhere, but this is Athens and we have our own sense of what cold means.

We also have our own sense of what constitutes hot, so dig in below and see if you can discern what’s what…

Got 10 Bucks?: On Apr. 30, online media delivery people True View Live will present Colt Ford streaming live from his concert in Murray, KY at Murray State University. Access to the high-definition show is $9.95, and the “virtual ticket” must be paid for in advance. This ticket, however, comes with a $10 voucher for Colt Ford merchandise, so it seems to balance out. True View Live says, “We think the highenergy, live performance of Colt Ford is the perfect setting to showcase this new technology.” I’d have just titled this The Internet, Presented by Colt Ford, you know, but no one asked me. More information can be found at www.coltford.com and www.trueviewlive.com.

Please Release Me: The official release show for the 2010 AthFest compilation CD will happen at Tasty World on Friday, Apr. 30.

The free event will feature sets by Ken Will Morton and The Incredible Sandwich. Saving the bill from terminal boredom will be local grunge gods Pride Parade. Specially priced

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Pride Parade copies of the CD will be sold, and AthFest founder Jared Bailey will announce the beginning of an eBay auction for a Gretsch guitar autographed by the Drive-By Truckers. The auction will benefit AthFest’s very worthy educational programs: AthFest InSchool, AthFest AfterSchool and Keys for Kids. The CD is available in stores beginning May 4.

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Road Cookies: Athens band Casper & the Cookies is currently back on the road through May 9 in support of its double LP, Modern Silence. This jaunt marks the first time the band has played these new-ish songs on the West Coast, too. Modern Silence was released in May 2009, but newly added drummer Gregory Sanders gives the songs the heft they need in a live environment. All dates on this tour are with French pop band Aquaserge. For info, see www.casperfandango.com.

Well Lookee There: The good-looking dudes in Misfortune 500 and others will take a humorous look in the mirror on Friday, Apr. 30. Because Friday is UGA’s “reading day,” the organizers have dubbed the event the Reading

Day Festival, or Reading Festival, if you will.

Colloquially around town, though, this night is already known as the “Look at These Fucking Hipsters” party. (The name comes from the enormously popular Tumblr photo blog Look at This Fucking Hipster.) Also on the bill that night are Romaneko and The Gold Party.

Modern Pornography will spin in between bands and close the night with a Hipster Dance Party. Also happening that night is an on-location photo shoot with Michael Lachowski (Pylon; Young, Foxy & Free) and giveaways from the organizers and online party photo site Uhaps.com. Yes, a lot of this is cheesy as hell, but, trust me, the organizers know this and are really just kind of riffing on a theme. Besides, there aren’t any real hipsters in Athens. But, there are nice looking people with good hair and tight clothes.

All a Buzz: Former Athenian and documentary filmmaker Matthew Buzzell will return to Athens to play a show at the 40 Watt on Friday, Apr. 23. Buzzell became much better known via his 2006 documentary Tell Me Do You Miss Me which focused on the final days of New York band Luna. His new band, Night People, includes former Luna guitarist Sean Eden along with Joel Brown and Eric Kinlaw. Although the group is largely focused on recording, it does play the occasional live show. The music is alternately mid-tempo pop focused and ethereally cinematic which, I imagine, is to be expected. Hear it over at www.myspace.com/ nightpeopled.

Such a Lovely Place: The Wayfarer Music Hall recently opened in Monroe, GA’s newly renovated Wayfarer Hotel with a reunion set by 1960s Monroe band Edifice Wrecks, whose members eventually went on to form the core of early 1970s Athens rockers Ravenstone. The venue has a fairly full calendar of events coming up, most notably Col. Bruce Hampton on June 11. See the gorgeous renovations over at www.wayfarerhotel.net.

For Grads and Dads: Many among you have noticed the renovations happening at the former home of nightclub The Ritz on East Broad Street. The new tenants, The Bad Manor, will open their doors on Saturday, May 8. The featured entertainment that night is Birmingham, AL’s Fly-by Radio, which specializes in covers from artists as diverse as Guns N’ Roses, 4 Non Blondes and Rage Against the Machine.

Hosting the event will be Isaac Stout and Cohutta Grindstaff, whom you have forgotten were part of the cast for MTV’s “The Real World: Sydney.” Stout and Grindstaff, along with David Ippisch, are the owners of the new club whose website (www.badmanor. com) promises it’s “destined to become an integeral [sic] part of athens [sic] nightlife and iconic of the Athens music scene.”

Undoubtedly, the best way to do this is to launch it all with a cover band from out of state.

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I’ve been a huge Josh Rouse advocate since I first heard “Directions” off 2000’s Home and have been throughout his far-venturing metamorphosis from soulfully pensive Midwesterner to ‘70s soft-rock revivalist to Nashville sophisticate. Each of these evolutionary seasons confirmed his gathering brilliance, and I’ve long declared him one of the finest popsmiths of his generation. That’s why this one hurts.

Truth is, this kick he’s been on since moving to Spain three albums ago has been increasingly less inspired. But for this desperate fan, El Turista demands an intervention.

Taking the title too far, Rouse just sounds like an awkward tourist here.

And like Jarvis Cocker said: Everybody hates a tourist.

First, singing in Spanish tends to push Rouse’s normally earnest voice into territory that’s too precious and cloying. Second, rather than channel the considerable power of the cultural traditions he’s borrowing, he too often turns them into something dorky and boring, as the goofball dad-bounce of “I Will Live on Islands” attests. But the biggest proof that Spain is killing Rouse’s music is that, despite its romance, El Turista lacks the emotional resonance and melodic precision that has distinguished the career of this nearly peerless songwriter. Please, Josh—for the sake of all that is holy— come back.

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RANDALL BRAMBLETT The Meantime Blue Ceiling When you’ve got as much time invested in creating music as Randall Bramblett has, there are bound to be a few treasures that might have fallen by the wayside. On this self-produced solo album, Bramblett dusts off material from his earliest days in music, shines it up and places it next to some newer compositions to create a careerspanning look at life and love.

Bramblett has stripped away nearly every instrument that has graced his past few jam-tinged solo records in favor of a simple, plaintive piano. He plays to his strengths as a jazzman, roping in Chris Enghauser to play

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an upright bass and Gerry Hansen to brush a drum here and there. The record’s sparse arrangement serves to highlight Bramblett’s vocals, worn smooth but cracking with emotion.

Every song is its own sort of ballad, ranging from the sweet memories of a love life fulfilled to the bitter realizations that you can never really know someone.

As with most collections, The Meantime can sometimes slip into “background music” territory with its consistent sound and lack of dynamic changes across all the songs. “Driving to Montgomery” lends a much needed upbeat song to the collection, keeping the record from dragging too much under its own weight. But it’s Bramblett’s attention to detail and subtle humor in his writing that saves The Meantime from becoming just another record. When you get drawn into the laid-back groove, the lyrics take over your subconscious and draw your attention to Bramblett’s trademark depth and incredible storytelling.

Songs like “End of the Line” plant you firmly in a place and time, sitting in the corner booth of some dark jazz bar while Bramblett and Co. sing about the fallen angels of the human race and the love that redeems them. The Meantime is a subtle flame, but after you let it sit for a while, it scorches the soul.

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GORILLAZ Plastic Beach EMI While they may keep to the shadows (and European tours) for halfdecades at a time, when Gorillaz do get around to releasing a new album, it tends to play like a referendum on every innovation and trend in music from those five preceding years, absorbed and distilled through the centrifuge of Damon Albarn’s borderlinegenius mind. And just as the enigmatic Murdoc leads the animated, simian quartet known as Gorillaz, Albarn masterfully conducts an ever-rotating cast of musicians in giving them voice.

Continuing the basic story from Demon Days—which might be likened to a post-apocalyptic Donkey Kong Country—Plastic Beach opens with a flourish of orchestral strings and shimmering synths, providing Snoop Dogg with the most beautiful introduction to drawl “crackalackin” that he’s ever received. Albarn himself checks in on the hypnotic “Rhinestone Eyes,” a dark, falling groove that feels like it could pull you straight through the dancefloor. Bobby Womack lends some raspy soul to the album’s first single, “Stylo,” and other guest vocalists perform ably, but this is Albarn’s show, and with the lush, romantic “On Melancholy Hill,” he heralds his opera’s final act.

As Gorillaz begin waving goodbye to their island dystopia, Mos Def nearly steals the album with his acrobatic “Sweepstakes,” a complex hip-hop production that pulls the listener away from the metaphorical “Plastic Beach”

just before the Gorillaz leave the literal one in the finale’s titular “Pirate Jet.” The ambling, until-next-time shuffle of that closing number portends the next fantastical stop on Gorillaz’ journey; here’s hoping it doesn’t take another five years to get there.

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FREEWAY & JAKE ONE The Stimulus Package Rhymesayers Entertainment Flying in the face of both the faceless digital surge and the lean economic times to make it a collector’s piece, this album is given the deluxe tactile treatment with packaging designed by Brent Rollins (Ego Trip) that encloses the CD in a simulated billfold stuffed with liner notes as dollar bills and a credit card with a download code for the instrumental version of the album. But the real cash money is on the disc.

G-Unit producer Jake One renders the record’s tapestry with fluid lines, definitive slap beats and tons of ‘70s urban-soul flourishes, striking a balance between opulence and swagger. Giving it East Coast guts is the street-chiseled cadence of hardcore Philadelphia rapper (and former RocA-Fella member) Freeway. Together, it’s a big score that’s stacked with knockouts like the pure flow of “One Foot In,” the summery soul of “She Makes Me Feel Alright” and the street grit of “Sho Nuff.” But unsurprisingly, the best cuts are the toughest, like the beat-smacking rally of “Throw Your Hands Up” and the hard-hustling “Microphone Killa.” Though both these cats have each earned their way onto the big stage, the indie ranks underscore their true credibility. Here, their collective game flourishes in a realized display of classic authority.

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BAMBARA Dog Ear Days Independent Release So it goes in music: sometimes you choose the scene, and sometimes the scene chooses you. Dog Ear Days, the latest release from local rock trio Bambara, is an effectual case study in both causes, as it finds the band embracing a sludgy, atmospheric sound that’s becoming somewhat of a stylede-jour in Athens. Don’t misunderstand:

Bambara didn’t “choose” this scene for the sake of ease or as a cheap attempt to fit in certain circles (nor is the scene in any way cheap). Rather, the band has smartly identified its greatest strengths after giving hints of this direction on its self-titled debut—a wise choice that enables separation from the wallpaper of perfectly average rock bands in Athens.

Days is heavy, with every movement from lead singer and guitarist Reid Bateh soaked in mountains of reverb that speak to the intended aweinspiring effect. The band takes its time through the six tracks, crouching in the brush of said reverb and building the potential energy of each song until it breaks into a frantic, euphoric culmination of face-pounding rock (thanks in no small part to the merciless drum pounding of the twin Bateh brother, Blaze). “Drag Hesitation” and “Stay Gray” are the flagship tunes, embodying the qualities of Bambara’s full-out grunge assault and showcasing a band that, perhaps for the first time, is completely at home within a firm musical identity. Not that they’d let you, but don’t sleep on Bambara.

Alec Wooden Bambara is playing at Caledonia Lounge on Saturday, Apr. 24.

TITUS ANDRONICUS The Monitor XL Recordings I want to have a beer with these guys. Hell, I want to have 800 beers with these guys. With a sound like Conor Oberst fronting for The Dropkick Murhpys, Titus Andronicus has crafted a concept album that, through the lens of the Civil War, acts as a call to arms for today’s youth to rise up and give a fuck about something again, goddammit!

An inspiring monologue from honest Abe himself begins the ferocious “A More Perfect Union,” which roars into its chorus with a shoutout to the band’s Jersey home: “tramps like us, baby we were born to die.” Triumphant, lead singer Patrick Stickles howls this proclamation like he’s driving over a cliff.

On “No Future Part Three” the band mercilessly chants “you will always be a loser,” almost mocking their listeners, shattering the fourth wall with a challenge that can’t be ignored. The album’s centerpiece, however, is “Four Score and Seven,” a rallying cry worthy of Stonewall Jackson that builds to the defiant declaration “I was not born to die like a dog/ I was born to die just like a man.” This album will make you want to learn guitar, or plant a tree, or write your congressman, or generally get off the couch and do something. It practically commands you to. It’s a kick in the ass. Expanding on the rougher sound of its debut, the band employs everything from trombone to bagpipes, but The Monitor is still first and foremost a rock and roll record, and it’s one of the best in years.

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ymph is a futuristic Americana band, in the sense that in the future, America will look a lot like the sum of our globalized parts. The Brooklyn-based band’s nucleus of Matty McDermott and Eri Shoji pull in the outré sounds from the world over to create something uniquely localized and rooted in one of the United States’ last great exports: punk rock.

Shoji’s truly free vocals and McDermott’s fiery guitar playing are the focal points of Nymph’s music. McDermott, however, true to the punk roots of his youth, disavows a shredder’s disposition. “It’s kind of an extension of piano for me; that was my first instrument,” he says. “I was classically trained when I was young and then went away to college [at Temple University in Philadelphia] and didn’t really have access to a piano, so I got into guitar.” The limitations (six strings as opposed to 88 hammers) and benefits (portability and volume) of the instrument led him down myriad paths of inspiration.

“When I first started getting serious, I was obsessed with a few country-blues guys, like Charlie Patton and Blind Willie Johnson,” McDermott says. “It helped me get through the beginning stages from learning to really honing finger-picking styles and helped me figure out my own style of playing. It’s just so raw and dirty. Beyond that, there’s obviously the whole rock ‘n’ roll, punk, noise aspect, which was definitely [me] spending my youth entrenched in punk and then getting into farout psychedelic music.” From there, he was led to Manito de Plata’s legendary flamenco music, Ali Farka Touré’s African blues, and beyond.

In the months before starting Nymph, McDermott had decamped to the West Coast for some unintentional soul-seeking. “I spent some time out in San Francisco for a couple of months; I was trying to move out there but couldn’t find a job. So, I had nothing to do except write music, go to the library and ride to the dunes,” he says. His return to the East Coast precipitated a revelation: “I played in this Glenn Branca symphony of 100 guitars.

I had originally been writing folk versions of stuff and playing in this just melted my mind.

The beautiful composed noise that he was making was just sheerly awesome. I decided to

use the style of messy guitars and wild noise with intricate sort of guitar workings.”

On the topic of wild noise, that is where Shoji enters the framework of the band and plays an integral role. Alongside McDermott’s worldly guitar playing, Shoji’s positively extraterrestrial vocalizations are what solidly affixes the band to avant-garde conventions. Upon returning from his sojourn to San Francisco, McDermott and Shoji met at a Psychic Ills show, where she had silk-screened glow-in-the-dark t-shirts for that band. The pair quickly discovered kindred interests, and Nymph burst from that catalyst. “And we assembled everything aesthetically that we’re doing today—I guess that happened four years ago,” says McDermott. “It’s been me and her with revolving musicians, whoever’s available. I’d like to settle into a lineup, which is slowly happening, but surely. Which is nice.”

That rotating lineup has alternately included members of Athens crew Dark Meat, including Jim McHugh on bass guitar and Jason Robira (who will be joining the band on tour and appearing with them at Farm 255) on the drums. While there’s already a document of the Robira/McHugh rhythm section in the can, before that platter is served up, there’s a prior Nymph release on the way, to be issued

by McDermott and Soji’s imprint label, Dog of Junipers.

“We decided this is a perfect opportunity for us to do it ourselves, the exact way we want to do it, with a very limited run of double-gatefold LPs, so it’s really special. My hope for the future of the label is to put out other friends and musicians we admire so we can create a community of wild, crazy music that a lot of labels aren’t putting out right now because there’s such an indie concentration. I’d like to grasp onto the more eccentric stuff.”

Jeff Tobias

WHO: Nymph, Mouser WHERE: Farm 255 WHEN: Thursday, Apr. 22, 11 p.m.

HOW MUCH: FREE!

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here’s been a lot written about the ‘70s Cleveland scene over the years. Much of it would have you believe that the city that spawned Pere Ubu, The Electric Eels, The Mirrors and this week’s guests in Athens, The Styrenes, was a hotbed of art-rock activity. The reality, though, is that Cleveland was a town that only hired cover bands for its bars and hosted the annual World Series of Rock in its stadium. Founder of The Styrenes Paul Marotta says, “Cleveland, like much of the industrial Midwest, was… already a decade into what would become a multi-generation economic decline. But at the same time, there were pockets of artistic activity, such as a few loft scenes on both the east and west side.

Theater, mostly traditional but some [of it] more cutting edge, was widely available at a half dozen large venues. Big art institutions… remained well funded.” In any case, he says, “I think too much importance is being placed on ‘Cleveland’ as some kind of incubator or nurturer of a scene… Speaking only for myself and not any other member of the band, I never felt that there was a scene. I always felt that we were loners, in our own loft, doing our own thing.”

Formed in 1974 by Marotta, the first lineup of the The Styrenes included Mirrors leader Jamie Klimek and future Golden Palominos legend Anton Fier. Undergoing five name changes before releasing its first single (“Drano in Your Veins”), the band specialized in ferocious, piano-punctuated rock that, in its earliest form, could be accurately described as proto-punk, but such descriptors are nearly meaningless for Marotta.

“I appreciate that we all need to categorize things to make our surroundings and experiences easier to understand. But I’ve always been uncomfortable with the punk moniker simply because the term isn’t precise,” he says. “If by ‘punk,’ you mean an aggressive disregard for authority and convention, perhaps the term fits. Otherwise, the connection between The Styrenes and punk is tangential at best.”

He’s right, too. After several years of intermittent activity (including an ill-fated move to New York, a relative burst in popularity following Scat Records’ lovingly handled, early1990s reissues of early Mirrors, Electric Eels and Styrenes recordings and Klimek leaving the band after the release of 1998’s We Care So You Don’t Have To), The Styrenes reemerged

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in 2002 with a recording of composer Terry Riley’s In C. The band’s attitude was intact, but its creative palette was wider than ever.

Currently on its 35th Anniversary Tour, the band’s lineup numbers six, including original members Marotta and Klimek, Electric Eels founder John Morton, long-time Styrenes members U.K. Rattay, bassist Al Margolis (If, Bwana) and drummer John Dylan Keith. The band’s live set will include songs from several eras of The Styrenes. “[It’ll be] a mix of material, some of it mine, and some of it written

by Jamie Klimek or John Morton. Some of it older and [there are] three new ones,” says Marotta. “Our last album, City of Women, was primarily written by [New York songwriter] Tom Warnick, and we’ll be doing a few of his and perhaps a cover as well. And, of course, there is Terry Riley’s In C.” There are over 60 different records that members of The Styrenes have played on, produced, written for or otherwise touched in some way. That’s a hell of a legacy for a band that barely played live at all during its first few years. When asked about this, Marotta says, “Like any vainglorious artist, I want my work to be remembered. But the only thing in my power to control is the quality of my compositions, recordings and performances.

The question of a legacy can only be answered long after my work is done.” He’s right on that point, too, and it’s evidence of an artist who is still in the thick of his creativity. As far as his continued motivation is concerned, Marotta says, “As a bandleader, primarily from the piano, I want to play serious and intense rock music—loud or soft, fast or slow, sincere or snotty, while avoiding mid-tempo rock conventions.”

Marotta says the six-piece live band “won’t be overly loud” but assures us that “everyone should get a big, dark, intense, funny, scary and, with luck, pleasantly overwhelming blast of rock and roll.” Who could ask for more?

Gordon Lamb

WHO: The Styrenes, Grape Soda, Tunabunny WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Wednesday, Apr. 21 HOW MUCH: $6 (21+), $8 (18+)

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iny bits of buzzing information sounding like Girl Talk plundertronics or the dewy particles of flotsam that sometimes catch sunlight; sampled into a collage cut-up or a Tzarist sound poem; and remixed to match the BPM of a calm Wednesday afternoon, is the music that soundtracks Adrian Zelski and his raspy timbre. You can hear it pixilated with an iPod playing downtempo and maybe make out the sound guys installing new speakers, the bar manager complaining about late well-vodka shipments or a street teamer requesting 75 flyers.

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Running New Earth Music Hall is serious business, and the place is busy, noisy. Still, Zelski, of DubConscious and part owner of the new-ish venue, is just as rosy and energetic as when I met him back in August, weeks before the club first opened—but this time he’s wearing a t-shirt, instead of a suit.

There is a show tonight (Satori Social) and arrangements must be made, but there’s even more looming. Projectors must be erected, and there’s talk of the new deck/outdoor second stage which will be built soon. You see, there’s a three-day fest coming, and it’s gonna to be a party!

It’s called the New Earth Day Festival, and it falls on national Earth Day and the Twilight Criterium. The event will span both the inside and outside of New Earth Music Hall and the parking lot at Athens First Bank. There’ll be a full light show and multimedia screening. Beyond music, look for dancers, both instructional and performative. Says Zelski: “We’re going to have break dancers, yoga, hula-hooping, a tai chi class, a drum circle…”

And like any festival lineup worth its weight, New Earth Day has something for all tastes: “Just like nature, we want this event to be biodiverse. We don’t want this club branded because we want to do everything,” Zelski says. True. South Carolina “chillwave” it-guy and Washed Out style-influencer Toro Y Moi should do it for the hipster set. Turntablist and postmodern intellectualist and author DJ Spooky will do it for the academics. (And Spooky’s kinda out of this world, too—he’s mixed classic recordings of William S. Burroughs and John Cage with live collaborations featuring David Byrne, Thurston Moore and Patti Smith; published at least two book/ CD mash-ups for academic presses; and curated a few extensive compilations of deep-roots reggae for Trojan Records.) For the dreadheads/Deadheads: Oxum brings dancehall from Tel Aviv, with more permutations of reggae from Midnite and locals DubConscious. And on-the-money Pink Floyd tributeers Pigs on the Wing, David Murphy of STS9 and L.A. electro legend-in-themaking Elliot Lipp should do it for the post-Georgia Theatre crew. Just kidding—music is for everyone, and that’s the point of the festival: good music across genre lines, undivided by the subcultures and sartorial pretension that surround them. As Zelski says, “We want to have an eclectic group of people and be diverse in our audience and performers. We’re bringing acts from Africa, St. Croix, England, Israel, New York and California to incorporate a worldly element into the festival.”

And then there’s the green element. “We want to promote eco-consciousness while having a big music festival. We’re shooting for a zero-waste element for the outdoor area,” Zelski says. To achieve this, Athens Recycle will be “greening” the venue. All promotional flyers will use 100 percent postconsumer recycled paper with soy-based inks. Much of the food will be local, and many of the distributors will be Georgiabased. There will be activists distributing info, and Spencer Frye will be announcing his green initiative for his mayoral candidacy. Plus there are ticket price cuts for those who bike.

Hopefully, the venue will be switching to corn cups, too—its biggest waste item. ”Let’s not use the cheapest thing possible just because it’s what SYSCO provides,” says Zelski.

Of course, looking back, it’s easy to assess Zelski against his optimistic goals for New Earth Music Hall since Flagpole first talked to him nine months ago to when he met with us again today.

“I want the bar moved and graffiti walls.” Check. “I want international DJs and lights.” He’s brought them, Bonobo, Rusko, et al. “I want this place to mold to whatever Athens needs… and support local DJs.” Yep. “Remove the hedge and mix the Greek west side of downtown and the cool, hip side past the [Georgia] Theatre.” Hmm… “I want solar panels and energy efficiency.” Not yet.

Thing is, a lot of his “wants” have come true in little time, and the New Earth Day Festival should be an amping up of all of Zelski’s stated efforts: “New Earth Day will be the coming-of-age for our eco-message. We’ll be putting on multi-dimensional shows from here on out.” And mark his words: “New Earth Day Festival will be an annual event.”

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Friday, Apr. 23

6:00 p.m. Sumilan (outdoor stage) 7:00 p.m. Cornmeal (outdoor stage) 8:00 p.m. Priceless the Kid (indoor stage) 8:45 p.m. Wonky Kong (outdoor stage) 9:30 p.m. D:RC w/ Remote Kontrol (indoor stage) 10:15 p.m. Toro y Moi (indoor stage) 11:15 p.m. Immuzikation (outdoor stage) 11:45 p.m. DubConscious w/ Axum (indoor stage) 1:00 a.m. Eliot Lipp (indoor stage)

Saturday, Apr. 24

4:00 p.m. Part Bear (outdoor stage) 5:15 p.m. Bodega Roja (outdoor stage) 6:15 p.m. Lewis B. (of LSDJ) (outdoor stage) 7:00 p.m. NUDE Fashion Show (indoor stage) 9:00 p.m. Tokimonsta (outdoor stage) 10:15 p.m. Party City (indoor stage) 11:00 p.m. Kap10 (outdoor stage) 11:30 p.m. Pigs on the Wing (indoor stage) Tickets are $15 for single-day entry and $40 for a three-day pass.

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don’t miss OUR MUSIC EDITOR’S WEEKLY PICKS After wracking my brain trying to figure out how Twilight Criterium can celebrate “30 years” two years in a row, the math finally made sense: last year was the 30th race, but this year marks the 30th anniversary since the first race. And while there is sadly no “Twilight Delirium” on the calendar this year, (perhaps the Je Suis France boys are reserving party energy for the Masters of the Hemisphere show next week?), the bike race will still serve as one of the most fun “pre-game” parties in town. Head downtown early, enjoy the beer tents, funnel cake and sport, and then head to the clubs where a lively and diverse assortment of entertainment awaits you. Here are my picks for Twilight weekend and the rest of the week. Sorry, no vampire jokes here.

(Although I have always wondered why these bicyclists wait for the sun to set before racing…Suspicious…)

the band ripped through all of Animals and threw in hits from Meddle, Wish You Were Here and The Wall as well, with a mind-bending light show behind it all. If you are feeling even a little skeptical, head over to YouTube. com and search for “Pigs on the Wing Georgia Theatre” for clips of the group’s April 2009 performance. I was particularly impressed with Timi Conley’s snarling vocal delivery on “Have a Cigar.” Is there any band that guy can’t cover? (New Earth Music Hall, Saturday 24) Band of Horses: When I ran into Flagpole writer Michael Gerber at SXSW in Austin, he had just emerged from a Band of Horses performance at the Central Presbyterian Church, and I can honestly say he was beaming. He

The Agenda!: Do they make you nervous? Do you feel the danger?

When The Agenda debuted in 2002 in the midst of rock and roll’s garage revival, the band members were all matching outfits and armbands— a sort of tongue-in-cheek nod to buzz bands of the time (The Hives, International Noise Conspiracy, et al.) that blurred the lines between sincerity and parody. Since last year’s AthFest reunion, the revised lineup has toned down the pretension and the spectacle, but the energy still remains intact, with singer Justin Robinson still rushing the crowd and rolling all over the floor. When bassist Dan Geller is on stage, he can’t stop smiling long enough to seem punk, but that just makes the show all the more charming. Plus, I can’t think of a more appropriate song for Twilight’s more bloodthirsty spectators (again, no vampire jokes intended) than The Agenda’s “Crash! Crash!” Tonight’s show also serves as a “rally” for may- Collin Herring oral candidate Spencer Frye who will be on hand to meet, greet and answer queshad the special glow of a fan who just expetions. Rounding out the bill is the very loud rienced the rare, transcendental rock show— and very awesome power trio Bambara (new and he’s not the first to feel that way about EP out now! check out the review on p. 20) Band of Horses’ shimmering anthems. It’ll be and Atlanta’s Trances Arc. (Caledonia Lounge, a special treat to see these guys in a venue Saturday 24) as intimate at the 40 Watt Club, and of course the show sold out quickly. But if you have The Curl: With the weather warning up and a friend with an extra ticket, or maybe you summer just around the corner, I am so bought one but are considering selling it, I excited to see The Curl booking more and would strongly advise you head to the show more shows. Athens’ very own surf rockers and just absorb the moment. Plus, you’ll be have resurfaced, playing classic ‘60s surf one of the lucky few to get a preview of the tunes penned by the pioneers of the genre band’s upcoming May release, Infinite Arms.

(Dick Dale, The Ventures and the like), plus Only a couple tracks have been posted online some surprise “surfed up” covers. Of course so far, and they seem to suggest a particularly the band’s gig at the scooter rally in Madison bouncy, more pop direction for the group. (40 makes perfect sense with guitarist and scooter Watt Club, Monday 26) enthusiastic Brian Smith on board, but for those surf fans who are sticking around Athens m Collin Herring: Welcome to alt-county perfection. Backed by yearning pedal steel, for Twilight, you’ll get a chance to enjoy The Texan Collin Herring presents an endearing Curl next week at WUOG’s Spring Banquet at blend of country-flavored melancholy and the Caledonia Lounge. (Dubble Bubble Acres, smoky voiced, tender indie rock. He’s on tour Saturday 24), (Caledonia Lounge, Wednesday now supporting his fourth full-length release, 28) Ocho, which was produced by Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson. It’s kind of like Ryan Adams Pigs on the Wing: More than just a tribwithout the diva complex. (Caledonia Lounge, ute act, Pigs on the Wing is an all-star Tuesday 27) collaboration featuring members of STS9, Cinemechanica, Maserati, Velveteen Pink, Michelle Gilzenrat music@flagpole.com Collective Efforts and more. During past sets,

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the calendar!

WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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

Tuesday 20 EVENTS: Passport Wine Tasting (Ciné Barcafé) Taste five different varietals of wines from South Africa and learn about the culture of South African vineyards at this wine presentation and tasting. Light refreshments provided by The National.

7 & 9 p.m. $17. www.athenscine. com * PERFORMANCE: Creditland Comedy Tuesday (Rye Bar) Featuring local comedian Tobin Brongunier, the night features suggested themes of “identity theft, credit cards, living in debt, American absurdities” and other topics that aren’t usually funny but should be made fun of. 9 p.m. www.myspace. com/ryebarathens 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 MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) José Santamaria of the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville shares fine specimens of calcite from the museum collection.

All interested parties are welcome to attend. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706549-8082 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: Dart Tournament (The Pub at Gameday) You can’t spell dart without the art. Compete against other bar game extraordinaires. 706353-2831 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 21 EVENTS: Campus Sustainability Walking Tours (UGA Tate Center) The UGA Office of Sustainability and Go Green Alliance host interactive student-led tours of campus focusing on green building and other sustainability initiatives to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. A reception with live music and refreshments follows. 3 p.m. FREE! www.ugagogreen.org EVENTS: Earth Week Film Screening and Discussion (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 171) Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with a screening of the first episode in the new Discovery

Channel documentary series “Life.”

UGA professors Drs. Ron Carroll and Samantha Joye lead a Q&A discussion following the screening.

6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.ugagogreen.org EVENTS: Girls Night Out (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Cocktail Hour starts at 5 p.m. Featuring karaoke in the auditorium. Wednesday is also oyster night! 5 p.m. 706-354-6655 EVENTS: Jackson County Courthouse Restoration Tour (Call for location) Take a step back in time on this tour of the 1879 historic courthouse. The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation leads this tour discussing the process of restoring the building to its 1908 appearance.

Call to register. 10 a.m.–noon. $15.

706-353-1801 EVENTS: Wine Dinner (Five and Ten) This five-course meal pairs Napa and Sonoma Valley wines from Robert Sinskey Vineyards with manila clams, spring lamb loin with mint sauce, morels with parmesan crema and more. 6:30 p.m. $100/ person. 706-546-7300 * PERFORMANCE: Lowdown Comedy Open-Mic (New Earth Music Hall) Local comedian Chris Patton hosts this stand-up open mic night the third Wednesday of every month. Only 12 slots are available. Email LowdownComedy@ gmail.com to sign up. Special headlining performance by local comic Patton Smith. Comedy followed by live music. 8 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall.com KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For parents and children.

Mar. 3–May 12, Wednesdays, $13.

706-613-3515, www.sandycreeknaturecenter.com KIDSTUFF: Mother Goose Rocks (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Weekly storytime for toddlers and preschoolers. 10 a.m. $2. 706-6133603 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday For Teens (ACC Library) It’s never too early to reduce, reuse and recycle. Start the celebration early by transforming old bottles into works of art. For ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Director Spotlight Series (Ciné Barcafé) This month: “Along and Beyond Genres: The Monstrous World of Bong Joon-Ho’s Films” with UGA Comparative Literature Professor Hyangsoon Yi. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month,

members are encouraged to bring three favorite poems to share with the group. Newcomers welcome.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: VOX Reading Series (Ciné Barcafé) Readings from novelist Don Pollock and poet Erica Dawson. Presented by the UGA Creative Writing Program. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.com 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) 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 Night (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 (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 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 22 EVENTS: 4Ever Green Expo (Athens Technical College) Environmental awareness fair with booths, films, speakers and info about how to support a sustainable future. 9 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! www. athensgreenfest.org EVENTS: Lorena Weeks, Trailblazer for Equal Opportunity (UGA Main Library, Auditorium) Lorena Weeks, a Georgia woman who played a key role in overturning unfair labor practices towards women in the 1960s, will be the special guest in attendance during this screening of the oral history film. 2–3 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/russell EVENTS: Book Signing (Gosford Wine) Ari Weinzweig, author of Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon

Gary Allan will perform at the Classic Center on Thursday, Apr. 22. and ardent bacon advocate, talks about the rich history of bacon, the “olive oil of North America.” Bacon appetizers provided by Five and Ten. 7 p.m. FREE! http://hughacheson. blogspot.com EVENTS: Earth Day 2010 (UGA Tate Center) Students for Environmental Action and the Go Green Alliance host this Earth Day celebration on campus by inspiring students to work toward sustainability with educational tables, recyclable crafts, demonstrations, food, speakers, giveaways and more. 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

FREE! www.uga.edu/sea/ EVENTS: Earth Day Celebration and Spring Issue Release Party (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The Georgia Review unveils its spring issue while the Garden is in full bloom. Celebrate literature, flora and Earth Day with readings from acclaimed writers Judith Ortiz Cofer and George Singleton. A patio reception with live music provided

by Hawk Proof Rooster follows.

5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.thegeorgiareview.com EVENTS: Habitat Spring Cleaning (Athens Area Habitat for Humanity) Come out for Habitat’s spring cleaning frenzy and enjoy refreshing sun tea, t-shirt dyeing, recycling incentives and mark-downs on all store items! 9 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! $5 (t-shirt dying). 706-208-1001 EVENTS: Live After Five (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar and Bistro) Get a headstart on your weekend with live music from Clay Leverett and Friends (FREE!) and wine tastings.

6–8 p.m. $15 (wine tastings). 706546-0430, www.athensdowntownhotel.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Symphony Orchestra (UGA Hodgson Hall) A concert featuring Ferde Grofé’s “Grand Canyon Suite” and Samuel

Barber’s Violin Concerto, Op. 14 will be recorded for video broadcast. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu THEATRE: “That Silly Silverstein!” (ACC Library) The Athens Academy Players perform your favorite Shel Silverstein poems in this play commemorating National Poetry Month. 9:45 a.m. FREE! 706613-3650 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: Tikes, Trikes and Strollers: Earth Day (Greenway) Bring in the spring and celebrate staying green as you take a quick spin down the Greenway. Enjoy crafts and refreshments following the ride. 10 a.m. $2. 706-613-3615 MEETINGS: Clarke County Democratic Committee (Clarke County Courthouse, Grand Jury Room) Democratic Secretary of State candidate Michael Mills is this month’s featured speaker. All interested persons are invited to attend this month’s meeting of the CCDC. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-202-7515 MEETINGS: Oglethorpe County Democratic Committee (Oglethorpe County Library) Sandy Untermyer and Russell Edwards, the Democratic candidates opposing Paul Broun for the 10th Congressional District seat, take questions from the public. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.oglethorpdemocrats.org GAMES: Charity Game Night (The Max Canada) Help raise money for Georgians in Aid of Peru when you compete in tournament games and raffles for prizes all night long. 8 p.m.–2 a.m. $10. 706-254-3392, http://tinyurl.com/maxperu

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) Calling all know-it-alls! Every Thursday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. yourpie.com

Friday 23 EVENTS: Ghostbusters (Ciné Barcafé) Who you gonna call to join you for a screening of the 1984 classic sci-fi comedy? Now playing in conjunction with “Ectoplasmic Residue,” the Ghostbusters-themed art exhibit currently on display. Apr. 23–24, midnight, Apr. 24–25, 3 p.m. $5. www.athenscine.com EVENTS: Death Rally 2010 (Dubble Bubble Acres, 2950 Eatonton Rd., Madison) Pack up your camping gear and call in sick Monday for the South’s most dangerous scooter rally—an entire weekend of races, slow rides, fireworks, live music and Southern cooking. See Calendar Pick on p. 27. Apr. 23–25. For more inf, 706-613-1135, www.recyclescooters.com/deathrally.html 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: Habitat Spring Cleaning (Athens Area Habitat for Humanity) Improve your own habitat when you scoop up deals at the Habitat ReStore all weekend! Today’s festivities include ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s, hot dogs, hamburgers and k continued on next page

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FREE! $4 (ice cream). 706-208-1001 EVENTS: Twilight Criterium 2010 (Downtown Athens) The 31st annual professional cycling event and festival rolls through town. Full schedule of events online. See story on pg. 11. Apr. 23 & 24. FREE! www. athenstwilight.com ART: Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Galleries 101 & 307) For “Emergence,” the BFA drawing/ painting exit show. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu ART: Reception (Anchor Gallery) For “Live Free or Drive,” a bike-themed group show featuring prints, drawings and paintings by local artists and bike enthusiasts. Arrive on a bike and take home a FREE! print!

2–10 p.m. FREE! 706-354-8433 PERFORMANCE: Recital (First Presbyterian Church) Composer and organist Adrian Foster performs 20th and 21st century organ music.

Expect works by Vierne, Olivier Messiaen’s “L’Ascension” and an original composition by Foster.

3:35–4:35 p.m. FREE! afos516@ gmail.com PERFORMANCE: “TEN” (Morton Theatre) The Dancefx Performance Companies and Charleston Dance Project present a recital showcasing their work over the past decade.

Apr. 23, 8 p.m., Apr. 24, 1 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. 706-355-3078, www. dancefx.org THEATRE: Tape (Athens Creative Theatre) The Town & Gown Players present the premiere of the one-act play written by Stephen Belber.

Marisa Castengera directs this “compelling examination of human relationships” following an aspiring filmmaker on a weekend trip with his best friend from high school. Apr. 23 & 24, 8 p.m., Apr. 25, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org LECTURES & LIT.: IWS Friday Speaker Series (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 214) The Institute for Women’s Studies’ Friday Speaker Series presents “Among Mad Men—Recovering the Professional Culture of Women Working in Advertising” with Peggy Kreshel. 12:20–1:10 p.m. FREE! tlhat@uga.edu

Saturday 24 EVENTS: 13th Annual Seed Swap (Grove Creek Farm, Crawford) Outdoor heirloom seed festival hosted by the Southern Seed Legacy with music, crafts and stories. BBQ dinner is $5, or free if you bring a side dish for potluck. 3–8 p.m.

FREE! www.uga.edu/ebl/ssl EVENTS: Ghostbusters (Ciné Barcafé) Who you gonna call to join you for a screening of the 1984 classic sci-fi comedy? See Apr. 23 Calendar Events. Apr. 23–24, midnight, Apr. 24–25, 3 p.m. $5. www. athenscine.com EVENTS: Death Rally 2010 (Dubble Bubble Acres) The South’s most dangerous scooter rally.

See Calendar Apr. 23 Events. See Calendar Pick on p. 27. Apr. 23–25.

706-613-1135, www.recyclescooters.com/deathrally.html EVENTS: Farmers’ Market (Flora Hydroponics, 195 Paradise Blvd.)

The Sacred Earth Growers Co-Op sets up their year-round farmers’ market. See Apr. 23 Events. 2–6 p.m.

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sexy, urban and green fashion to the runway. 7–10 p.m. “New Earth Day Festival.” $15 (day pass), $40 (weekend pass). www.newearthmusichall.com EVENTS: A Small Green Footprint Earth Day Open House (A Small Green Footprint, 264 Georgia Avenue) Bring your environmentally conscious brood out for FREE! photo mini-sessions, courtesy of Whitney Misch Photography and EarlyGirl Photography, and a wonderful selection of natural toys and organic products. Apr. 24, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Apr. 25, noon–5 p.m. FREE! www. asmallgreenfootprint.com EVENTS: Spring Fling Auction (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Help raise money for St. Gregory’s community outreach programs when you bid on vacations, art and more in a live and silent auction. Reservations encouraged. 5:30–8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $8 (door). 706-546-7553 * EVENTS: Twilight Criterium 2010 (Downtown Athens) 31st annual professional cycling event. See Calendar Apr. 23 Events. See story on p. 11. Apr. 23 & 24. FREE! www. athenstwilight.com PERFORMANCE: “TEN” (Morton Theatre) Apr. 23, 8 p.m., Apr. 24, 1 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. 706-355-3078, www.dancefx.org THEATRE: Tape (Athens Creative Theatre) A Town & Gown Players production. See Calendar Apr. 23 Theatre. Apr. 23 & 24, 8 p.m., Apr. 25, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org KIDSTUFF: Athens Water Festival (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Learn what you and your family can do to help preserve drinking water for future generations. This year’s event celebrates “The Journey of a Rain Drop” and features music, science experiments, a bouncy castle, carnival games and more! 1–4 p.m.

FREE! www.athenswaterfest.com MEETINGS: African-American Family History Research Group (ACC Library) Group for those who would like to research their AfricanAmerican roots. Co-sponsored by the Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society. 1 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650, maeeloutome@aol.com GAMES: Shadowfist Tournament (Tyche’s Games) Take Feng Shui to the street and compete. Noon, $1.

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Sunday 25 EVENTS: Ghostbusters (Ciné Barcafé) A screening of the 1984 classic sci-fi comedy. See Apr. 23 Calendar Events. Apr. 23–24, midnight, Apr. 24–25, 3 p.m. $5. www. athenscine.com EVENTS: Athens Community Service Awards (Foundry Park Inn & Spa, Ballroom) The Junior League of Athens and Athens First Bank & Trust present the Junior League Mini Grant Awards. Honor the nominated and award-winning volunteers of your community. 2 p.m. FREE! 706549-8688 EVENTS: Charity Photo Event (ZoomWorks) ZoomWorks celebrates its 10th anniversary by giving back to the community. Photo sessions today benefit Food 2 Kids. Call to schedule your shoot! 9 a.m–4 p.m. $50/session. 706-227-3777, www.zoomworks.com EVENTS: Death Rally 2010 (Dubble Bubble Acres) See Calendar Apr. 23 Events. See Calendar Pick on p. 27.

Apr. 23–25. 706-613-1135, www. recyclescooters.com/deathrally.html

EVENTS: The Miss Black A-CC Teen Pageant (Morton Theatre) Contestants compete for awards in community service and academia in this 35th annual pageant. 5 p.m.

706-613-3771, www.mortontheatre. com EVENTS: “She’s Crafty!”

(Transmetropolitan, Downtown, Upstairs) Check out some local talent at this artists market hosted by the ladies of Transmet. Discover your new favorite necklace, sweet printed greeting cards, fashionable home decor or find unique gifts to melt moms’ hearts. Noon–5 p.m.

706-613-8773, www.transmetonline. com EVENTS: A Small Green Footprint Earth Day Open House (A Small Green Footprint) FREE! photo minisessions and fun. See Calendar Apr. 24 Events. Apr. 24, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Apr. 25, noon–5 p.m. FREE! www. asmallgreenfootprint.com ART: Athens Street Show Art Walk (Downtown Athens) Artists from UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art have installed their work, from photography and sculpture to mixed media and performance art, in the windows of various retailers and landmark sites throughout downtown Athens. Meet at the UGA Arch to join Visiting Artist and Assistant Professor of Art Didi Dunphy and the curators of the Athens Street Show for this stroll through downtown Athens’ public artscape. 6–7 p.m. dididunphy@gmail.com ART: Reception (Athens Academy, Myers Gallery) For “Apophatic Paintings,” an exhibit featuring paintings by Judy McWillie. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-549-9225 THEATRE: Tape (Athens Creative Theatre) A Town & Gown Players production. See Calendar Apr. 23 Theatre. Apr. 23 & 24, 8 p.m., Apr. 25, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org LECTURES & LIT.: “Cries and Whispers: 9/11, Climate Change and Georgia” (ATHICA) In conjunction with Athica’s spring exhibition, “Deluge,” Dr. James Porter, Meigs Professor of Ecology at UGA, presents his predictions for climate change over the next 50 to 100 years in a lecture accompanied by animated graphics. 4–5:30 p.m. $3 (suggested donation). www. athica.org GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Allen’s Bar & Grill) Sports-themed rules with diverse categories. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.allensbarandgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Test your trivia! 6:30 p.m. (sign in), 7 p.m. (start). 706-3546655

Monday 26 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Game Night (The Pub at Gameday) New games including Wii bowling! 706-353-2831 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: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge every Monday! 8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub

Friday April 23– Sunday, April 25

Death Rally 2010 Dubble Bubble Acres If your thirst for blood isn’t quite quenched by the gnarly bike pileups that inevitably occur each year on the Twilight track, head down to Madison that same weekend for reCycle Scooters’ annual Death Rally.

“We used to have a different name for the rally every time, but people started getting hurt a lot,” explains reCycle manager and Rally organizer Leon Ward. “Like, really getting hurt.”

But scooter rally injuries aren’t limited to the usual broken bones and such; Ward details a recent incident in which an inebriated rallygoer decided to try his hand at bonfire-walking to disastrous, emergency room-worthy effect.

Such are the tales from Death Rally, a debauched assembly of crazed madmen (and madwomen) who enjoy a yearly weekend of scooter games and races, bands, booze, grub and camping. This year’s event takes place at the enigmatic Dubble Bubble Acres in Madison (2950 Eatonton Rd.), a scant scoot from the ACC. Ward estimates that the average Rally crowd numbers around 100; that includes both hardcore scooter fanatics and fresh-faced newbies looking to baptize themselves in the waters of scooter culture.

“There are people in their 20s who just got their first scooter and are all excited about it, and people in their 60s who have been riding for 30 years,” says an enthusiastic Ward of the Rally attendees.

And there’s music! Knoxville lady-rockers Dirty Knees play Friday—according to Ward, that band’s members are scooter buffs themselves. On Saturday, it’s Athens surf rock dudes The Curl. To be sure, Death Rally is a mighty fine time. “It’s one big party,” says Ward. He makes sure to note that all are welcome. “You don’t need to have a scooter,” though; he adds that extras will be available for those looking to borrow one. “You can bring your dog, you can bring kids if you want,” Ward continues; then he pauses. “I don’t recommend kids.” [Gabe Vodicka]

GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes!

8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 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 27 EVENTS: Athenaeum Club Tour and Social (Call for location) The recently formed club for young professionals interested in historic preservation tours the ThurmondBarks-Knowlton House on Crescent Lane. Current property owner John Knowlton will lead the tour and discuss the renovation process. 6 p.m. $7 (includes drink at on-site happy hour), FREE! (members). 706-5425788, athenaeumclub@gmail.com 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 PERFORMANCE: Bellydance Show (40 Watt Club) Bellydancers promise to “Rak” the 40 Watt. 7 p.m. $5 (adv.) $8 (door). www.40watt.com PERFORMANCE: Cirque Le Masque (The Classic Center) An international cast of aerialists, contortionists, acrobats, jugglers and musicians come together to pay tribute to European cirque troupes.

The theatrical, acrobatic and musical spectacular promises gravity-defying feats to stun all ages. 7:30 p.m. $10–$55. www.classiccenter.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: 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.: Brown Bag Lunch (ACC Library) Tony Purcell explains how solar water heating can help benefit you as a homeowner or a business. Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Athens Green Drinks (Hotel Indigo) An informal mixer for green-minded folks to discuss building, transportation and sustainability issues in the Athens area. 6–8 p.m. www.athensgreendrinks.org MEETINGS: Great Decisions Discussion Group (ACC Library) Group meets every Tuesday through May 25 to discuss U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Contact Jeff Tate. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650, jtate@athenslibrary.org MEETINGS: Pub Theology (Trappeze Pub) Open conversations revolving around theology. Question of the evening: “What the heck is the ‘holy spirit?’” 8 p.m. FREE! 706-5491915, cmccreight@fccathens.org GAMES: Blind Draw Poker (Fat Daddy’s) Bring your poker face. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 GAMES: Dart Tournament (The Pub at Gameday) You can’t spell dart without the art. Compete against other bar game extraordinaires. 706353-2831 GAMES: Dungeons and Dragons Encounters (Tyche’s Games) Bring your own 5th level 4e character.

Space is limited. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com GAMES: Trivia (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) Every Tuesday with drink and food specials! 8:30–10:30 p.m.

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Wednesday 28 EVENTS: Girls Night Out (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 5 p.m. 706-3546655

EVENTS: Wine Dinner (The National) Sit down for a familystyle wine dinner with five Spanish wines and three courses, including suckling pig. 6:30 p.m. $55/person.

706-549-3450 * OUTDOORS: Full Moon Hike (Greenway) Experience nature in a different light. Call to register.

8–9:30 p.m. $2. 706-613-3631 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: 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: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Artist Trading Cards. Ages 11–18.

Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 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) Where movie trivia meets performance art. Hosted by “It Boy” Jeff Tobias and sponsored by Vision Video. Prizes! Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m.

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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 (Copper Creek Brewing Company) 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 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).

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Down the Line ART: Curator Walk & Talk 4/29 (ATHICA) Curator and Athica Director Lizzie Zucker Saltz leads an informal talk about the gallery’s spring exhibition, “Deluge,” which explores climate change and the politics of land management. 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.athica.org EVENTS: Hot Corner Street Festival 4/30 (Hot Corner, Washington and Hull St.) 10th annual festival to commemorate the history and heritage of the AfricanAmerican community in Athens.

Apr. 30–May 1, 12–8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3770 PERFORMANCE: “Fractured Fairytales” 4/30 (Canopy Studio) Apr. 30, 8 p.m., May 1, 4 p.m. & 8 p.m., May 2, 4 p.m. $6–$16. www. canopystudio.com ART: Southworks Artist Market and Arts Festival 5/1 (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) 65 of the region’s top artists and crafters sell their original works. May 1–2, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com EVENTS: 32nd Annual Athens Human Rights Festival 5/1 (Downtown Athens, College Square) Annual festival that brings together political activists, musicians and artists in a call for action on human rights issues. May 1, 10 a.m.–11 p.m., May 2, 2–9 p.m. FREE! www. athenshumanrightsfest.org EVENTS: Annual Charity Barbeque 5/1 (Fast Signs of Athens) Stop by and see what’s cookin’ and enter a raffle for the chance to win your own Trager grill.

Live music provided by JazzChronic and The High Strung String Band.

11 a.m.–2 p.m. (lunch), 4–8 p.m. (dinner). $10. 404-895-0659, www. fastsigns.com/440/charity-BBQ EVENTS: Family Vaudeville Night 5/1 (Morton Theatre) The National Endowment for the Arts and the Georgia Council for the Arts showcase Vaudeville’s finest with tap dancing, storytelling, live music from Taslimah Bey Ragtime Show and the magic and illusion of Rocky Clement’s “Show of Wonders.” 8 p.m. $5 (adults), $3 (kids). 706613-3770 EVENTS: Jam for Justice 5/1 (Little Kings Shuffle Club) The Athens Justice Project hosts a benefit concert and silent auction to help fund its mission to stop the cycle of crime and poverty. 3–6 p.m. Donations welcome. 706-613-2026 OUTDOORS: Spring Bird Hike 5/1 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Join the Oconee Rivers Audubon

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Society for a morning bird walk. All birding levels are welcome. Ages 13 & up. 8 a.m. FREE! fieldtrip@ oconeeriversaudubon.org EVENTS: Marigold Festival 5/15 (Downtown Winterville) All-day event featuring juried arts and craft vendors, games, demonstrations, food, music, an author’s corner, a children’s area and more. All proceeds go toward improvement projects in Winterville. 9 a.m.–8 p.m. FREE! www.cityofwinterville. com/marigold * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 20 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $16 (adv.). www.40watt.com A ROCKET TO THE MOON Like other bands on the Fueled by Ramen label such as Paramore, Cobra Starship and The Academy Is…, this band creates catchy and youthful melodies.

FUN Songwriters Nate Ruess (The Format), Andrew Dost (Anathallo) and Jack Antonoff (Steel Train) make up this act that blends Queen, ELO and Jellyfish into an intricate, theatrical mix.

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK Blend of pop punk and indie rock identifiable by its utilization of the Moog synthesizer. MCS recently released its fourth album, My Dinosaur Life, on Columbia Records.

SING IT LOUD Pop rock Minnesotans who have built a major following through the Vans Warped Tour.

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

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING SERVICE Local six-piece ensemble playing dark, melodically driven songs with dueling male and female vocals, punctuated by guitar solos and back-up screams.

DEAD RITES This Atlanta band combines the energy of punk with the intensity of old-school heavy metal.

INCENDIARIES Local indie-prog outfit featuring ex-Cinemechanica bassist and Shitty Candy member Erica Strout.

KILL THE SCHOOL Local metal four-piece.

El Centro 11 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5700 SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing progressive jam rock.

Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE DEAR HUNTER Progressive rock band with intense melodies with theatrical, emphatic vocals and harmonies.

DANIEL FRANCIS DOYLE Austin experimentalist with vocals that recall Jesus Lizard, Doyle constructs fractured, silly guitar lines through a Line6 delay and then plays drums along while triggering loops with his left foot. High-speed and highenergy.

MANS TRASH Mercer West fronts this new project featuring improvisation, controlled chaos and a muted

pop spirit. Expect 11 (!) CD-RW releases from the group soon.

NATALIE HINKLE Masked local performance art group playing trippy psychedelic noodling behind choreographed dancers. At least, that’s what the first show was like.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DANA FALCONBERRY Formerly of Peter and the Wolf, Falconberry plays sweet, gorgeous folk songs backed by Gina Dvorak on drums/ banjo and Lauren McMurray on keys.

GIANT LION This low-key experimental band from Atlanta strips the psychedelic aspects of Beat Happening and the Pixies down to somber vocals and almost no instrumentation.

NUCLEAR SPRING This local rock band plays a sleazy, freaky mix of glam and folk, drawing from T Rex and The Kinks.

Last Call “420 Festival.” FREE! www.lastcallathens.com EDDIE & THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS Local blues-funk trio led by frontman Eddie Speaker.

FREE LUNCH TRIO Local band consisting of three guys and a passion for music. Jazzy, funky rock with grunge roots.

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Mars Hill Baptist Church 7 p.m. FREE! 706-548-6962 “JOYFUL VOICES” Friedemann Stihler directs this concert performance from a visiting choir from Germany.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com CROOKED STILL This band’s genrebending sound is the combination of five distinct talents, including fiddler Brittany Haas, cellist Tristan Clarridge and folky lead vocalist Aoife O’Donovan.

CURLEY MAPLE Fiddler David Blackmon’s progressive old-time project. He’s joined by wife Noel and Christian Lopez on mandolin and guitar, and Chris Enghauser on bass.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.com DANK SINATRA Low-fi electro pop with a jazzy R&B vibe.

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UGA Reed Quad 8 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/sea ECOTONES Performing during ReedFest, a day of green activities designed to educate attendees on the importance of sustainable alternatives to waste and consumption.

NEMO Young up-and-comers play originals and covers.

WUOG 90.5FM 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org “LIVE IN THE LOBBY” Pretty Bird will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air or drop by the station to watch!

Wednesday 21 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10 (21+), $12 (18+). www.40watt.com COREY CROWDER Performing Southern rock and alternative country songs, Crowder is influenced by roots rock and ‘60s soul.

DREW HOLCOMB & THE NEIGHBORS Folk-rock with a Nashville vibe.

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

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com GRAPE SODA Lewis brothers Ryan and Mat team up to create soulful, spaced-out pop songs buried in lush reverb.

THE STYRENES Formed in 1975 and considered to be a germ cell to the proto punk scene, The Styrenes play idiosyncratic punk and new wave.

See story on p.22.

TUNABUNNY Experimental local act featuring hazy and warped experimental psychedelia. Dual female guitarist/vocalists are backed by synthesized percussion and a wall of noise.

El Centro 11 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5700 JOHN BOYLE 40-year music vet playing country standards. He’ll be backed by Daniel Marler.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar ARTURO IN LETTO Backup guitarist and brother of local artist Allison Weiss, AJ Weiss shows off his solo chops under the name Arturo in Letto, singing mostly sweet, melodic songs written in Italy about his time abroad. CD release show!

BEN ROUSE Local acoustic songwriter.

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 8 & 11 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub CLAY LEVERETT AND FRIENDS One of this town’s finest country frontmen, Leverett has a new band featuring members of The Chasers.

Tonight begins his “tour of Athens,” with the next stop being Hotel indigo on Thursday followed by The Office Lounge on Friday.

REDNECK GREECE Local artist sings swingin’ hillbilly honky tonk about “folks that grew up on the wrong side of tracks” with both an earnest conviction and a biting sense of humor.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10 (adv.). www.meltingpointathens.com ZOSO Expect typical Led Zeppelin covers as well as a trip into relative Zep obscurity during the California band’s traditional two-set performance.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com AUTUMNATTICS Dark, moody folk rock from Atlanta.

BLACK BELT PATRIOTS Local alternative rock trio.

FUTURE Five-piece band from D.C. that combines bluesy rock and hiphop with socially conscious lyrics and a deep groove.

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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.

Grill, Lanes & Lounge 706-KINGPIN • www.KINGPINS.us

Tasty World Uptown 9 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.com THE BREAKDOWN Family rock band from Atlanta inspired by punk-pop and alternative bands like The All-American Rejects, Cartel and Relient K. JONAS SEES IN COLOR Spirited pop rock aiming to connect with listeners through heartfelt lyrics.

LAST NOVEMBER North Georgia band Last November plays a highstrung kind of cock rock with a nod towards pop-punk.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com NAMESAKE Alternative rock band from Atlanta.

Thursday 22 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.40watt. com DEXATEENS Southern pop/rock straight from the garage with psychedelic flair.

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

TAYLOR HOLLINGSWORTH Hollingsworth’s distinctive snarl leads a mix of bluesy garage rock taking cues from The Replacements, Neil Young, etc. Performing with special guest Jonny Corndawg!

See Calendar Pick on this page.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HONOR BY AUGUST Alternative rock band notable for winning the Grand Prize in Billboard’s World Song Contest.

THE RUSE Indie-rock band with the pop gleam of early U2. The Ruse has been played on MTV’s “The Hills” and “The Buried Life” as well as HBO’s “Entourage.”

The Classic Center 8 p.m. $30–$40. www.classiccenter. com GARY ALLAN Country rock artist with gravelly vocals and a sound heavily influenced by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MOUSER Colby Carter (vocals, guitar) and his expanding gang of backing musicians play garage-pop songs that suggest a willingness to experiment, working through noise jams to find the aggressive pop behind.

NYMPH Noisy, eclectic avant-garde punk that’s inspired by psychedelia, flamenco, African blues and beyond.

See story on p. 21.

Go Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar THE EXTRAORDINARY CONTRACEPTIONS Atlanta band that combines a rock and roll aesthetic and a steampunk DIY ethic to produce its own quirky, guitar-driven vision of the retro-future.

WITNESS THE APOTHEOSIS Athens-based New Wave-Industrial two piece. Heavy and rapid electronic dance beats fused with Depeche

Mode-esque vocals and dark, moving cello.

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 CLAY LEVERETT AND FRIENDS Leverett has a new band featuring members of The Chasers. This show is part of his “tour of Athens,” with the next stop being The Office Lounge on Friday.

Last Call 9 p.m. www.lastcallathens.com THE BLEKERS Young Andrew Bleke’s band plays piano-driven jazz and woeful blues. He lists Ben Folds as a major influence.

ELASTIC SKYLINE Funky, psychedelic rock from Milledgeville, GA. GIMME HENDRIX Jimi Hendrix tribute band.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 6–8 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DAVE HOWARD Local singer-songwriter plays mellow acoustic guitar tunes for the happy hour set.

Magnolia’s at Tasty World Uptown Midnight. 706-543-0797 DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original mixes of mainly current pop with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica.

The Melting Point “Stephen Clayton Memorial Foundation Benefit.” 8 p.m. $10. www.meltingpointathens.com PART BEAR Local songwriter Gray Griggs fronts this classic-rock-lean-

Thursday, April 22

Taylor Hollingsworth, Dexateens, Futurebirds 40 Watt Club Most fans of Taylor Hollingsworth know him either as the frontman of his own three-piece rock and roll band or the guitarist for Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band. But Hollingsworth’s folksier side Taylor Hollingsworth is on display on his most recent album, Life with a Slow Ear. The album was released late last year by Team Love, a New York-based independent record label that was co-founded by Oberst and which features The Felice Brothers and Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins. Life with a Slow Ear was recorded by Andy LeMaster at Chase Park Transduction, right here in Athens.

“I guess you could say the album is a departure from some of the stuff I used to play,” says Hollingsworth. “But to me it seemed natural. In a lot of ways, I feel much more comfortable playing without a full band and without an electric guitar.”

Although some fans might miss his signature performances on the electric guitar, Hollingsworth proves himself equally adept at the acoustic guitar, which he picks and strums at a driving rhythm. In many ways, Life with a Slow Ear fits right in with Hollingsworth’s eccentric personality. Compositionally and lyrically, the new songs sound as if Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets had collaborated with John Prine to produce folksy, idiosyncratic ballads.

“I’ve always liked musicians who just went out and played whatever music they wanted to, regardless of how they felt like it was going to be received,” says Hollingsworth.

These days Hollingsworth’s live performances are more subdued than they were two years ago, when blistering guitar solos ruled the day. However, attentive listeners will find in Hollingsworth a gifted lyricist capable of stringing together casual profundities with ease.

“I do feel like my music is now maybe a clearer expression of who I am,” he says.

“But that doesn’t mean I don’t still sometimes want to rock out like ZZ Top.” [John Seay]

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THE WEATHERMEN Featuring former members of funky reggaeinfluenced rock band Groove Stain.

New Earth Music Hall “New Earth Day Festival.” 6 p.m. $15 (day pass), $40 (weekend pass). www.newearthmusichall.com BEAT THE DRUM As a community drumming performance, anyone attending who brings a drum along can participate! Featuring Dr. Arvin Scott. (6 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

THE BRIDGE Bluesy Baltimore rock band incorporating folk, funk and bluegrass into its sound. (7 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

GROGUS The local and long-running ensemble plays jazz and salsa accentuated with reggae, hip-hop and Afro-Cuban styles. (8 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

MIDNITE Rastafarian reggae featuring strong lyrical content and smooth melodies, with a heavy use of drum and bass patterns reminiscent of the ‘70s classic period. (10:30 p.m., Indoor Stage).

MURPH David Murphy from the instrumental electronic collective Sound Tribe Sector 9, blends funk, jazz and drum and bass into a psychedelic soundcape. Playing two sets. (10 p.m. & Midnight, Outdoor Stage).

DJ SPOOKY Moniker of Paul D. Miller, who has remixed and recorded with a panoply of artists ranging from Metallica to Steve Reich to Killah Priest. (12:30 a.m., Indoor Stage).

VIEUX FARKA TOURé Son of the great Malian guitarist and Grammy award winner Ali Farka Touré, Vieux proves that traditional western Saharan roots can be blended into indie rock and Jamaican dub. (8:45 p.m., Indoor Stage).

No Where Bar 9 p.m. $3. 706-546-4742 BRAD DOWNS AND THE POOR BASTARD SOULS Local singersongwriter performs roots rock with his all-star band. His recently released debut record includes guest appearances by members of R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Drive-By Truckers, Bloodkin and more!

COUNT KELLAM Former Athenian Count Kellam sings Jeff Buckleyesque breezy, sweeping ballads.

Acoustic set.

ADAM PAYNE This local musician’s impressively versatile tenor is somewhat reminiscent of Neil Young’s. He writes songs with a lot of heart–the kind of tunes that can either make you tear up or laugh out loud.

Acoustic set.

WILLIAM TONKS Local folk rocker William Tonks (Workhorses, Barbara Cue, etc.) performs on guitar and dobro. His earnest delivery recalls the tender vocals of James Taylor and the subtle Southern tones of Gram Parsons.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE Karaoke! Every Thursday with The Singing Cowboy.

Roadhouse 11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-2324 HOLY LIARS This local four-piece tends towards blue-collar rock, not unlike more polished early Uncle Tupelo or the cow-punkier moments of Social Distortion.

LEFTY HATHAWAY BAND Local singer-songwriter Lefty Hathaway plays rock and roll soul with turbulent piano jams reminiscent of the late, great Lowell George and fellow Tulsan JJ Cale. Tonight’s set will include Allman Brothers covers.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens DJ KEIS KEIS Hip-hop dance party!

JULIAN YAZ Youthful rap from Atlanta.

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State Botanical Garden of Georgia 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-1244 HAWK PROOF ROOSTER Local duo performing for The Georgia Review’s Second Annual Earth Day Celebration and Spring Issue Release Party.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.com DAVIN MCCOY BAND Soulful roots performer in the vein of Cat Stevens, Van Morrison and Otis Redding.

LINGO Funky, soulful jam band from Marietta that recorded its debut album with John Keane (R.E.M., Widespread Panic) here in town.

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.

WUOG 90.5FM 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org “LIVE IN THE LOBBY” Packway Handle Band will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air or drop by the station to watch!

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Alibi 4–7 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 PETEY WHEATSTRAW Members Avery Dylan and David Whitehead perform classic Southern rock, originals and covers.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 THE BIG DON BAND Don Spurlin’s band delivers “workingman’s blues from a country perspective” with a catalog of Southern blues covers and originals.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 8 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 JARRYD, BECCA AND FRIENDS Acoustic guitar covers in the Big Back Room.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $12 (21+), $14 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com MODERN SKIRTS This piano-driven foursome has become one of Athens’ most treasured and acclaimed local pop acts, with its songwriting growing more adventurous with each record.

THE SPECS Dark, moody and melodic indie rock from Charleston.

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Friday 23 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10 (adv.). www.40watt.com LERA LYNN The tender, jazzy folk voice behind Birds & Wire.

NIGHT PEOPLE The recording project of Los Angeles-based filmmaker (and former Athenian) Matthew Buzzell, with contributions made by Lee Wall of Luna and Nikki Monniger of Silversun Pickups.

PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Beloved local bluegrass band that has an energetic blend of Americana and bluegrass appealing to a large audience.

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THE CALENDAR! Dubble Bubble Acres Death Rally. 706-613-1135 DIRTY KNEES Female fronted pop/ punk band from Knoxville.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DJ MAHOGANY Spinning your favorite soul, disco and funk songs!

Also appearing at Little Kings on Saturday night.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! www.fatdaddys.com LOVE HATERS Pennsylvanian cover band performing hits originally done

by Kool & the Gang, Cameo, Talking Heads and others.

The Globe 11:30 p.m. $5. 706-353-4721 HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND Featuring the new addition of David Daly on trombone! The New Orleans-flavored local ensemble will debut some new tracks tonight as they help kick off the bike race festivities.

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

Midnight. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) spins goth, new wave and ‘80s favorites.

Last Call 9 p.m. $5. www.lastcallathens.com THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH Athens-based instrumental jam band with some tropical leanings.

KEANE AND SHEPPARD PROJECT Acclaimed producer and rocker John Keane will be joined by local acoustic stalwart Nathan Sheppard for a set of rock and Americana numbers.

Tom Ryan and Dean Quinter round out the band’s lineup.

THE MANTAS No info available.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DEAF JUDGES High energy local hiphop crew that draws from modern underground rap as well as a classic New York hip-hop style.

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

MIKEY DWYER AND THE STARTER KITS There’s a touch of Elvis Costello in Athenian Mikey Dwyer’s distinctive vocals. The multi-instrumentalist is joined by Jamie Coulter and Dan Orchik.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com TODD SNIDER Alt-country singersongwriter who takes on old-time traditional songs and more contemporary tunes.

New Earth Music Hall “New Earth Day Festival.” 6 p.m. $15 (day pass), $40 (weekend pass). www.newearthmusichall.com CORNMEAL Progressive bluegrass from Chicago featuring a highenergy mix of rock, blues, jazz and funk. (7 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

D:RC The latest in global club sounds ranging from dubstep, UK funky to electro and bassline. (9:30 p.m., Indoor Stage).

DUBCONSCIOUS Athens’ politically minded reggae heavy hitters travel the bass-heavy reggae path while borrowing the best from dub, funk

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and jazz. Performing with Axum!

(11:45 p.m., Indoor Stage).

IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up highenergy electro and rock. (11:15 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

ELIOT LIPP Eliot Lipp continues his impressive retooling of analog-infused electro-funk with his latest album, The Outside, his first for Mush Records. (1 a.m., Indoor Stage).

PRICELESS THE KID Experimental hip-hop. (8 p.m., Indoor Stage).

SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing progressive jam rock. (6 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

TORO Y MOI South Carolina native and frontman of The Heist and The Accomplice, Chaz Bundick plays deeply layered electropop tunes with understated vocals. (10:15 p.m., Indoor Stage). See story on p. 23.

WONKY KONG DJ producing various styles of dance music including bassline, tropical, fidget, tech and micro. (8:45 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

tion’s weekly program. University Cable Channel 15 will also broadcast the show.

Saturday 24 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $15 (adv.). www.40watt.com PERPETUAL GROOVE This group has been stirring crowds into a frenzy around the Southeast with its high-energy jams and spirited cover tunes.

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

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com MC BLUEZ Made up of the founding members of Sea of Storms, this blues-based band is influenced by classics such as Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Duane Allman.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. $5. 706-546-0840 CLAY LEVERETT & FRIENDS One of this town’s finest country frontmen, Leverett has a new band featuring members of The Chasers.

Boar’s Head 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 VELVET RUNWAY Local five-piece band playing ‘80s hits and classic rock covers. From AC/DC and Guns ‘N Roses to Journey and Bon Jovi.

RPM 10 p.m. FREE! 706-543-0428 MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND For nearly 40 years, Athenian Michael Guthrie (also of The ‘60s and Disraeli Gears) and his various bandmates have delved into the world of melodic, jangly Britishsounding throwback rock.

Caledonia Lounge “Spencer Frye for Mayor Twilight Rally.” 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www.caledonialounge.com THE AGENDA In-your-face punk rock ensemble that features a high-energy show that’s both reckless and wildly entertaining. The lineup features Dan Geller (Ruby Isle, Gold Party), Mat Lewis and Ryan Lewis (both of Grape Soda) and Justin Robinson on lead vocals.

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

TRANCES ARC Highly polished, tight, alt-rock quartet currently based in Atlanta, but featuring several UGA alums.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SWEET KNIEVEL New local experimental rock band incorporates elements of jazz, twang and soul.

The group features songwriter Jonathan Brill, Jerry Hendelberg (of Dubconscious), Michael Gavrielides and Eric Cosby.

TASTE Classic rock combined with synth-driven funk and pop for an energetic live show.

Sideways 10 p.m. 706-319-1919 DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original mixes of mainly current pop with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica.

Square One Fish Co. 8 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco. com FREE LUNCH TRIO Dynamic jazzoriented jam band with lots of funky slap bass, saxophone and fun singalong melodies.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $3. www.tastyworlduptown. com NEMO Young up-and-comers play original rock tunes with a jammy Southern rock vibe.

UNIFIED SOUL THEORY Local reggae group with strong funk undertones.

Dubble Bubble Acres Death Rally. 706-613-1135 THE CURL The original Athens surf rock act featuring guitarists Brian Smith and Peter Keane. Expect a mix of old school surf tunes as well as a few surfed up populars. Backed by Dean Johnston on drums and Jason Lansing on bass.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com PART BEAR Local songwriter Gray Griggs fronts this classic-rock-leaning band featuring a fun, energetic live show.

9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE WHOM Matt Kurz One’s tribute to The Who. Playing two sets.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! www.fatdaddys.com EVELYN’S ASHES Heavy alternative rock for fans of Sevendust and Taproot.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com CAPTAIN NUMBER 1 Athens indiefolk duo combines uplifting harmonies with beautiful instrumentation from a variety of lesser-heard instruments. Debuting lots of new songs and kicking off their Scooter Tour!

The Globe 8 p.m. $5. 706-353-4721 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.

ZAIB KHAN BAND Bluesy soul band featuring Ike Stubblefield, Grant Green and Drew Dixon.

WUGA 91.7 FM 4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org “IT’S FRIDAY” Sonny Got Blue will perform on the local radio sta-

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar NUCLEAR SPRING This local rock band plays a sleazy, freaky mix of

glam and folk, drawing from T Rex and The Kinks.

THE PLAGUE One of the original Athens punk bands formed in the ‘80s, The Plague was revitalized in 2005 and continues to tear it up with dark, angular rock.

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and a rotating cast of partners: Winston Parker (ATEM), Tom Hedger (owner of Go Bar) and Eddie Russell (of Farm 255) spin top-40/hip-hop mixed with indie, synthpop, new wave and Britpop.

WILD HAREM Lo-fi ‘60s inspired psych-pop from Austin.

Grove Creek Farm 3–8 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/ebl/ssl JULIANA FINCH Playing warm and mellow acoustic pop out of Atlanta, Juliana Finch should appeal to fans of Sarah McLachlan or Mary Chapin Carpenter.

THE ROUGHBARK CANDY ROASTERS UGA Anthropology Department bluegrass band.

Last Call 10 p.m. www.lastcallathens.com DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original mixes of mainly current pop with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DJ MAHOGANY Spinning your favorite soul, disco and funk songs!

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $15 (adv.), $18 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com MOUNTAIN HEART This Nashvillebased sextet is at the forefront of modern bluegrass.

New Earth Music Hall 12–4 p.m. www.newearthmusichall. com BATTLE OF THE BANDS Kicking off New Earth Day Festival, this benefit battle was organized by Conscious Alliance UGA. The band that sells the most tickets and collects the most cans of food in their name will win a headlining show at New Earth.

4 p.m. “New Earth Day Festival.” $15 (day pass), $40 (weekend pass). www.newearthmusichall.com BODEGA ROJA Progressive jam rock.

(5:15 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

KAP10 Atlanta native recently relocated into the San Francisco scene who likes to play Southern rap and “hyphy.” (11 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

LEWIS B. Down-tempo electronica from this member of LSDJ. (6:15 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

PART BEAR Local songwriter Gray Griggs fronts this classic-rockleaning band featuring a fun, energetic live show. Also playing later tonight at Farm 255. (4 p.m., Outdoor Stage).

PARTY CITY Local duo that combines a heavily electronic sound with traditional instrumentation. (10:15 p.m., Indoor Stage).

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catalog of Southern blues covers and originals.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens BRYAN BLAYLOCK This Dallas troubadour serenades audiences with his acoustic stylings.

PIERCE SAXON Texan rock with harmonica and acoustics.

Square One Fish Co. 8 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco. com DIRK QUINN BAND Philadelphia jazz-funk sextet.

THE HYPSYS Prog-rock jam band from Tuscaloosa.

Tasty World Uptown 6 p.m. $5. www.tastyworlduptown.com ARGUS Early Show! Acoustic rock band from North Carolina whose name was inspired by Greek mythology. Argus is here to “rock your face off!”

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

TREEDOM Funky, local four-piece with some psychedelic tendencies.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com KELLY HART Hart digs into her Georgia roots for a distinctively Southern brand of pop rock.

Sunday 25 Square One Fish Co. Noon-3 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco.com SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Rotating local jazz artists play Sunday afternoons on the patio.

Monday 26 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.40watt.com BAND OF HORSES Internationally acclaimed American rock band with lush arrangements and an emphasis on big, soaring ballads and sweeping emotion. “Funeral,” off Everything All the Time, was the first big hit for the group back in 2006.

JOSH ROBERTS AND THE HINGES Formerly playing with Captain Easy and Danielle Howle, twang-meister Josh Roberts and his new band play hearty, Southern rock and roll.

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

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $2 (21+), $4 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER Athens four-piece that boasts former members of No!, Divorce and Carrie Nations, delivering rapid-fire, loud and aggressive old-school thrash rock. Jeff Rapier (ex-The Dumps) handles lead vocals.

BAD SHIT San Francisco punk trio who met through skating and claim “Our shit is short and sour and to the point [with] no epic feelings of triumph.”

CARS CAN BE BLUE Quirky and sometimes naughty local duo that sounds like “Sarah Silverman fronting Dressy Bessy: bubblegum pop with raunchy, satirical lyrics.”

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THE GOAT Out on their East Coast Skate Rock tour, this band is reminiscent of ‘80s Austin hardcore leaders Big Boys and The Dicks.

LOS MEESFITS The music of The Misfits done in Spanish/Cuban salsa style.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9–12 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s music borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a seamless product glistening with inspiration. If you like jazz, you might like this; if you hate jazz, you still might like this.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar AUSTIN SISK Worship leader who plays primarily in church service environments, but occasionally travels out to spread messages of Christianity.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com OPEN DJ NIGHT TRYOUTS A weekly event every Monday. Bring your computer or turntables to try out or just come down to enjoy live tunes from local DJs. Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens BOBBY LEE RODGERS Berklee instructor influenced by gospel, bluegrass, rock and jazz.

Tuesday 27 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m.$5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com COLLIN HERRING Alt-country singer-songwriter Herring infuses both traditional and contemporary influences.

WARREN JACKSON HEARNE Blending folklore and traditional ballads into evocative death-folk Americana arrangements.

MATT HUDGINS AND THE HALFFAST COUNTY BAND Featuring members of Hudgin’s new “Shit-Hot Country Band.”

PAUL MCHUGH Member of local band Mother Jackson with a soulful, energetic voice and a bluesy guitar style.

El Centro 11 p.m. 706-548-5700 MOSES GUNN Super-high-energy local band featuring members of Corduroy Road plays old country and rock.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar COCO RICO This local post-rock trio performs over experimental samples and beats.

PRETTY BIRD Lo-fi psych and experimental tunes.

WOWSER BOWSER Blissed out bittersweet synth pop.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com KORT MCCUMBER This singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist

breaks out the guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, piano, bouzouki, cello, bass and who knows what else.

Wednesday 28 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $26 (adv.). www.40watt.com HAYES CARLL Country-rock crooner with honky-tonk lamentations and banjo-plucking balladry.

DIERKS BENTLEY & THE TRAVELIN MCCOURYS Arizonanative Bentley grew up on honkytonk, bluegrass, classic country, and modern rock and roll. With this array of influences he’ll transport you to the scenic soundscapes of the Old Southwest.

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

Caledonia Lounge WUOG Spring Banquet. 9 p.m. $3 (21+), $5 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE CURL Surf guitar classics and surf interpretations of modern tunes.

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

SOAPBAR Local group plays shaggy, diverse alt-rock informed by its lo-fi and folk peers.

THIEVES & PASTORS Newly formed, local indie shoegaze with post-rock guitar and soaring vocals.

El Centro 11 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5700 THE JOHN SOSEBEE BAND These Georgia natives play hill country/ Mississippi blues and the occasional Hendrix cover.

Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com RAND LINES TRIO Rand Lines and fellow trio members, drummer Carlton Owens and bassist Dennis Baraw, play modern and original jazz compositions.

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.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10. www.meltingpointathens.com JOSHUA JAMES Breathy and broken, 24-year-old Joshua James’ delicate vocals bring out the beauty of even life’s most somber moments.

MATTHEW PERRYMAN JONES Singer-songwriter who’s garnered comparisons to Jeff Buckley and Leonard Cohen as he brings poetry to life with a rock sensibility and crossover pop appeal.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 LIVE JAZZ MUSIC Every Wednesday!

Rye Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens FUZZ & MAC Fuzz Jaxx, a hip-hop artist rooted in soul, funk, and ‘80s rock, teams up with McClain Sullivan, a woman with vocal stylings influenced by Seattle alt-rock and jazz.

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The Specs, Modern Skirts Caledonia Lounge Fresh from a recent road trip to the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Modern Skirts—JoJo Glidewell, John Swint, Jay Gulley and Phillip Brantley— make a celebrated return to the Caledonia The Specs Lounge this Friday.

It’s their first time on the cozy stage in five years, and they plan to deliver a double-set of gems from their studio collection All of Us in Our Night, along with a pile of new tunes from a forthcoming studio album.

Veteran indie band The Specs opens the show. Handling an elegant blend of orchestrated guitar-rock and upbeat mod-pop, the Charleston-based quartet has been finetuning its dense sound for years. Eric Galloway switches between guitar and keys while handling lead vocals. Guitarist and main songwriter Steve Tirozzi, drummer Shawn Krauss and bassist Tripp Wrenn complete the lineup.

“We’ve played with the Skirts a few times, but never at a gig like this in their hometown,” says Krauss. “This is one of those gratitude gigs, and we’re looking forward to it.”

The Specs’ most recent release is a self-titled album produced by studio producer and guitarist Les Hall (of Crossfade and Trey Anastasio’s touring band). Released in 2008, some of the tunes touch on the pastoral sounds of Brian Eno, U2, Elliot Smith and Echo & the Bunnymen. Some of the heavier moments bounce off the bombast of Queen, Sonic Youth and Guided by Voices. Things either get bright and shiny or anthemic, dark and creepy.

“All of the songs are totally different,” says Tirozzi. “We like to say it’s a concept album, but it wasn’t written intentionally to be a concept album. We wrote it when we were drinking hard late at night. The song ‘I Can’t Sleep’ sums up the theme of most of the album.”

Les Hall tracked some brand-new material by The Specs in his Columbia, SC recording studio earlier this year. The band wraps the sessions this summer. [T. Ballard Lesemann]

JULIAN YAZ Youthful rap from Atlanta.

Square One Fish Co. “Full Moon Party on the Patio!” 8 p.m.

FREE! www.squareonefishco.com KINKY WAIKIKI Featuring members of Kenosha Kid, Birds+Wire, Big C and the Ringers, Vigilantes of Love and Pride Parade, this group plays modern arrangements of traditional Hawaiian music, with a little Western swing thrown into the mix.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.com SUB CAM Snellville’s Jacob Lehman (guitars, vocals), Michael Ely (bass), Isaac Fletcher (guitars, vocals) and Eric Hodges (drums) all contribute percussion as they play mainstream hard rock with sincerity and energy.

TRAIN WRECK RALLY Gritty local Southern alternative rock.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com EVAN BARBER Southern rock with an alt-country twang. * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line 4/29 Helmsman / Adam Newman / TJ Young (40 Watt Club) 4/29 Reptar (Caledonia Lounge) 4/29 Gus D / Produce Man / T8tor Mix Tape Release / Triz (Farm 255) 4/29 Kinky Waikiki (Hotel Indigo) 4/29 The Fustics / Ken Will Morton (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/29 Lotus (New Earth Music Hall) 4/29 John Sosebee Band (Roadhouse)

4/29 Jimi Cravity / Rye / Paul Smith (Tasty World Uptown) 4/29 Bunny Carlos (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/29 Loudon Wainright III (The Melting Point) 4/30 Modern Pornography / Romanenko Misfortune 500 / Werewolves (40 Watt Club) 4/30 Nate Nelson / Pharmacy Spirits / Thayer Sarrano / Kate Taylor (Caledonia Lounge) 4/30 Aman Amun / Jeremiah Cymerman / Electavillain (Ciné Barcafé) 4/30 Southfire / Swingin Medallions (Club Chrome) 4/30 Marriage / The Darnell Boys (Farm 255) 4/30 I C U (Fat Daddy’s) 4/30 Funklefinger (Rye Bar) 4/30 Ken Will Morton Band / Pride Parade / The Incredible Sandwich (Tasty World Uptown) 4/30 Kyshona Armstrong (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/30 Stewart and Winfield (The Melting Point) 4/30 Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans / Jonny Corndawg (The Rialto Room) 5/1 Brooks Ain’t Done (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 5/1 Masters of the Hemisphere (Caledonia Lounge) 5/1 Matt Stillwell (Club Chrome) 5/1 The Dream Scene / Mans Trash / Quiet Hooves (Farm 255) 5/1 Brave Combo (Go Bar) 5/1 Boo Ray & the Bad Beat Kings / Ken Will Morton Band (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 5/1 Taslimah Bey Ragtime Show (Morton Theatre) 5/1 Telepath (New Earth Music Hall) 5/1 Doc Brown & the DeLoreans (Rye Bar)

5/1 Rachel O’Neal (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/1 John Berry (The Melting Point) 5/2 Nuci’s Space Camp Amped Finale (The Melting Point) 5/4 North Georgia Bluegrass Band (The Melting Point) 5/5 Old Crow Medicine Show (40 Watt Club) 5/5 Los Meesfits / So It Goes (Caledonia Lounge) 5/5 Sweet Knievel (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/5 The Big Daddy Band (The Melting Point) 5/6 Derrick Southerland (Hotel Indigo) 5/6 Carla LeFever (Roadhouse) 5/6 Ashutto Mirra (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/6 Brittany Bennett / Brother, Brother / Doctor Squid / Fresh / Emily Hearn / Leaving Araby / James Patrick Morgan / Lauren Price / Radiolucent / Richard Sherfey and All God’s Children / The Dirty Guv’nahs / The Less / The Orkids / United Streets of Atlanta (The Melting Point) 5/7 Barbez / Hope for Agoldensummer / Venice Is Sinking (40 Watt Club) 5/7 Screen Door Porch (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/7 Dirty Guv’nahs / Lera Lynn (The Melting Point) 5/8 Brave New Citizen (Caledonia Lounge) 5/8 Operation Experimenation (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/8 Fly By Radio (The Bad Manor) 5/8 Richie Havens (The Melting Point) 5/12 Tracer Metula (Caledonia Lounge) 5/12 Woodgrains (Terrapin Beer Co.) * 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 Phoenix Rising, 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 (ATHICA) Now seeking local artists with significant bodies of work for annual summer exhibit, “Emerges.” Go online for submission guidelines. Deadline: May 3. www.athica.org/callfor entries.php Call for Artists Now accepting entries for the third annual Five Points Art Fest in June. Go online to register by May 15. $50/booth, www.5pointsartfest.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.

May 1 ($10 entry), May 15 ($20 entry). www.athfest.com/film Georgia in Bloom Art Fest (Downtown Madison) This community-wide arts festival celebrating artists from Georgia’s Piedmont

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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 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 Argentine Tango Essentials (Athens Elks Lodge, 3155 Atlanta Hwy.) Workshop taught by Clint Rauscher of Atlanta’s Tango Evolution. No experience or partner necessary. Apr. 27, 6–9:30 p.m. $5. 706-613-8178, cvunderwood@ charter.net 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, FREE! www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/ oconee.html Basics of Drawing (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Sign up for four weeks of 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.

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Car Care Basics (Athens Technical College) Instructors teach you some small steps to save you from expensive repairs. Apr. 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.studioin athens.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. and “Family Try Clay” every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. ($20/ person). 706-355-3161, www.good dirt.net Computer Class (ACC Library, Education Technology Center) Introduction to PowerPoint. Call to register. Apr. 22, 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Crafting Classes (Hobby Lobby) Now offering classes in papermaking, soapmaking, crocheting, collage/decoupage and more! Call for details. $5–$25. 478-718-5180, www.nataliebush.com 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 full schedule online. www.floorspaceathens.com Digital Photography Classes (Athens Technical College) McGinnis Leathers teaches

Joshua Dudley Greer’s photography is at the ACC Library’s Top of the Stairs Gallery through April. 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@athens tech.edu 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 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

Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away.

Apr. 23, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $5. 706475-7329, mbiprograms@armc.org 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 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) Tai chi, yoga and Pilates!

Fridays, 3–4 p.m. $5/class. 706549-4850 Nature Dojo (Greenway) “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 Boot Camps (St. Mary’s Wellness Center) Twomonth-long high-intensity fitness bootcamps for adults. Sign up by Apr. 30. Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 7–8 a.m. $100/month.

706-389-3355, cwoodall@stmarys athens.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.bliss yoga.me 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.liveoak martialarts.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 Tai Chi in the Park on Talmadge Drive (Mind Body Institute, Athens Regional Medical Center) Offering Tai Chi instruction. Call ahead to reserve a spot.

Saturdays, 9:30–10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@ armc.org Upholstery for Beginners (Sterling Coverings) Sterling Gardner introduces students to this

useful and creative skill. Space is limited; registration required. Apr. 22, 5–7 p.m. $99 (tools included).

706-369-5763, bmoody@athens tech.edu 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.athensfive pointsyoga.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.bliss yoga.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 through Apr. 23. Volunteer readers commit extra hours to finish critical textbooks for students, raise funds to support the studios and raise public awareness of their services. Also, celebrity readers join the regular volunteers during the Record-A-Thon. 706-549-1313, www.rfbd.org Become a Mentor (Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens) Volunteer one hour per week to make a difference in the life of a child. Training provided. 706-546-4910, mentor@ athensbgca.com, www.fflife.net Bike Recycling Program (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicycles for local service agencies. Bike repair skills a plus, but not necessary. Sunday, 2–4:30 p.m. Monday & Wednesday, 6–8:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com

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. (660 W. Broad St.) “Live Free or Drive,” a bike-themed group show featuring prints, drawings and paintings by local artists and bike enthusiasts. Reception 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.

Aurum Studio (125 E. Clayton St.) Paintings by Bill Paul and jewelry designed by Susan N. Blake.

Through May 30.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) An exhibit featuring work by local art-car artists Cap Man (driver of the familiar bottlecap truck) and Chub (the artist behind the wheel of the Heaven and Hell car).

Through April.

Ciné Barcafé (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Ectoplasmic Residue,” featuring Ghostbusters-inspired works from Ghostbusters-inspired artists Mike Groves, Keith Rein and Joe Havasy. Through Apr. 24.

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

Downtown Athens Artists from UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art install their work, from photography and sculpture to mixed media and performance art, in the windows of various retailers and landmark sites throughout downtown Athens. Art Walk Apr. 25.

Visit www.athensstreetshow.info for curators, artists and locations.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) “Zigzagland,” a show featuring paintings by John Stidham. Through Apr. 30. Reception Apr. 30.

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., Galleries 101 & 307) “Emergence,” the drawing/ painting exit show. Through April. Reception Apr.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I’m in a bit of an ideal situation, to be honest. I’ve been seeing this really amazing girl for the past few months, and it’s going great.

We communicate well, enjoy being together, get along with each other’s friends, maintain our individual independence, meet our work/ school commitments, and talk about our relationship with realistic long-term goals. The sex is frequent and really good, but therein lies the problem.

Our sex life seems to be taking time and ambition away from other parts of our lives. Dirty dishes and clothes are starting to pile up, we languish in bed most mornings until well past 9, and I’m too behind on “Lost” to ever catch up.

My single housemates have told me they miss seeing me every day, though I suspect what they really miss is my undivided attention to their self-absorbed stories about getting high or chasing tail. I’m really happy, feeling healthier than ever, albeit a bit less ambitious than before. Should I be worried if my love life is getting in the way of the rest of my life, or should I keep going with the flow?

First of all, the fact that “Lost” has (if you’ll forgive the phrasing) lost you may or may not be due to the great sex. That show has sucked since season two. You are not missing out. And second, you are not the first person to suffer from the creative drain of bliss. I have a good friend who is a songwriter, and he has a much easier time writing miserable songs about his miserable life after a miserable breakup with a beautiful woman than he does writing happy songs about how nice it is to sleep with her. But he’s married now, and he’s happy as hell, and he is learning. Or rather, re-learning.

You will eventually come down (hopefully not too much) from the honeymoon phase and get back to whatever your business is, but right now you should enjoy what you have while you have it. The loser single roommates will get over it, possibly eventually finding their own happiness, or at least letting you be happy. If they don’t, then they really aren’t your friends anyway, so to hell with ‘em. Life is short, man! Enjoy this while it lasts. Kudos.

My girlfriend and I are totally in love. We have been together for several years. The sex is great, we get along famously, our families know and like each other, etc. We’re going to get married and have kids. We own a house together. It’s great. The thing is, she travels a lot for work and often with co-workers of the opposite sex. Again, this is no problem. We are madly in love, and I trust her 100 percent.

So, the other night I was getting ready for bed, and I called her (like I always do) before I turned in. She was in her hotel room, she

said, having just gotten back from dinner with her co-worker Brad. I thought nothing of it. We chatted for a minute, and then I heard another voice. It was Brad, and he was in her room.

This made me feel weird. I don’t really know why, and I didn’t immediately react, except to ask who it was. She responded very casually, we exchanged a few more words, and then I told her I loved her and wished her goodnight.

I did not sleep well. I was not comfortable. I need to talk to her about this, but first I was wondering what you thought. Am I overreacting? I really and truly do not think she is cheating on me or would cheat on me, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to have this guy in her room.

Am I wrong? I am seriously OK with them going to din ner, for drinks, whatever. But there are limits, and I think I found mine. Is it too much to ask that she stay in the damned hotel bar with him? I worry that he might get the wrong idea, or that her colleagues might think something is up, too. I just don’t think it’s cool to do to me or professional. I am trying to wait until I cool down a bit before I talk to her, but having your opinion would be helpful (she respects you).

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Wow, NJIS, you are one reasonable guy. I applaud your restraint in not freaking out at your girl, and I am sure she appreciates it, too, since there’s nothing shittier than a longdistance fight over the phone with your significant other (unless it’s a long-distance fight over the phone in front of your co-worker).

I’m guessing that it probably hasn’t occurred to your lady that there might be a problem with having this guy in her room because it would never occur to her to cheat on you with him. You are right that it isn’t a cool thing to do to you, and I wholeheartedly agree that it’s professionally weird, but for the sake of argument, let’s stick to the issue of your comfort rather than her lack of professionalism. Tell her she’s pushing the bounds of your comfort and that you trust her completely but you would rather that she stick to the hotel lounge. She will, if she respects you, probably realize that she was asking a lot of you and change her ways. (If she doesn’t, then ask her to think about how she would feel if your roles were reversed and you had a woman in your hotel room when she called you to say goodnight. I think she will get the picture). But if you tell her that it’s unprofessional, she is more likely to go on the defensive and get angry. Besides, other people’s perceptions of her are not the issue. What’s important is how she’s making you feel.

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Available Now. Spacious 2BR Dwntn apts. 3 blocks from N. campus. Out of bar scene.

Close to ever ything. Call George (706) 340-0987.

8/1 pre-lease. 3BR/3BA avail.

8/1. Luxur y townhouse at The Woodlands. Student mecca. Beautiful clubhouse, sportsplex. Near UGA & Dwntn. Pets fine. Great landlady! $1350/mo. Call (706) 714-7600.

Ask about $100 signing bonus! Located off S. Lumpkin, on Sleepy Creek Dr., near 5 Pts. 1 yr. old carpet, tile & paint.

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

Call (404) 281-6273.

Avail. May 1. 1BR barn loft in 115 wooded acres. 35 min. east of Athens. Wood/gas heat, organic garden. NS, Pets OK. (706) 338-1859, bro@ athens.net.

Apts. in Victorian home on Hill St. 3BR/2BA, $950/mo.

2BR/1BA, $750/mo. 2BR/1BA, $650/mo. 4 blocks from Dwntn.

W/D, CHAC. Lease & dep. req’d. (678) 794-5414.

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 Apartments.

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

Downtown Apartment.

1BR/1BA. Clayton St. above Helix. $575/mo. Won't last so call Stacy today!

(706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

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.

Boulevard & Normaltown. 1BRs from $605-$750. Avail. June & Aug. Call (706) 546-6900 or visit www.ValerioProperties.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.

FTX Apartments.

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) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

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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Location, Location.

1BR/1BA. Close to UGA, Dwntn, UGA busline. Lg lv. rm., din. rm. & BR. Walk–in closet. Priv. parking. Complete Kit. $500/mo. (706) 546-0600, parkerandassociates.com Shoal Creek. Eastside.

2BR/2.5BA townhouse, $675–$695/mo. 1BR/1.5BA deluxe, $575/mo. W/D, DW incl. Joiner Management (706) 850-7727, www.joiner management.com.

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., cor ner 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.

Office/Warehouse space avail.

Atl. Hwy. at Oconee River.

Finished, HVAC, garage door, fenced 1/2 acre, 1500–3200 sq. ft. $600–$1200/mo. Call Cole (706) 202-2733.

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.

Condos for Rent $675/mo. Adorable, efficient, contemporary condo. Perfect for 1 student. Walk to UGA, 5 Pts., & intramural fields. NS. On UGA busline. Studio 40 complex.

Avail. now! (706) 296-9260.

2BR/2BA In–town luxury!

Unique & huge! 1500 sq. ft.

W/D, lg. private patio. Quick, beautiful walk to Dwntn & UGA Arch. Must see! Lease/ buy $1100/mo. (706) 372-3957. www.athensloft.com.

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

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

Duplexes For Rent 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/1.5BA duplexes in Sleepy Hollow. Fenced yards, W/D, DW, FP, lawn maintenance, pest control. Some pets OK. Close to UGA, 5 Pts & Memorial Park. $700/mo. Call April for appt. (706) 549-5006, www.

AthensCondoSales.com.

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-$725/mo. Avail. Aug. Call (706) 546-6900 or visit www.

ValerioProperties.com.

2BR/1BA. $650/ mo.,Milledge Court #20, 127 & 179 Riverdale. Avail.

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

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

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 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.

2–4BRs. 180 O’ Farrell, 734 Barber, 2535 Barnett Shoals, 1321 & 1331 Dowdy Rd., 144 Hardin, 340 Barber, 195A Barrow St. Check out these great houses online at boulevard​ p ro p e r t y ​m a n a g e m e n t . com or call (706) 548-9797.

Let us welcome you home!

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.

2BR/1BA Victorian. CHAC, fish pond, extra sunrm., new kitchen. Walk to campus.

Avail 8/1. $840/mo. 735 Little Oconee St. Drive by & call (352) 672-5193.

Houses for Rent $625/mo. Blocks from UGA campus, 2BR/1BA, Tall Ceilings, HWflrs., Very Lg. BRs, W/D, Sm. Fenced–In Yd. Avail. Now. 145 Elizabeth St. Owner/Agent, Call Robin Dubios (770) 265-6509. $1250/mo. Historic Blvd n’hood. Very nice updated 3BR. CHAC, W/D, DW, fridge. Huge screened front porch. Walk/bike to UGA campus. Busline. Incl. lawn & cleaning service. Avail.

July 1st. (706) 255-0488 or email blvdchris@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. $525/mo., blocks from campus, 2BR/1BA, W/D, Lg. Living Rm., Flat Rear Yard, Avail. Now. 505 Willow St., Owner/Agent, Call Robin Dubios (770) 265-6509.

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.

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.

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3BR/2BA home for rent. Convenient location w/ Dwntn & campus less than 2 mi. away. Huge fenced backyd., W/D hookup. HWflrs. Want to start rental mid May–July w/ option of continued renting Aug. 2010 to Aug. 2011. $925/mo. Contact: martijanene@aol.com for more info.

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

Pets OK. Avail. Fall. Email for list: luckydawg96@yahoo.com.

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.

107 White St. Watkinsville, Ga. Oconee Co. 3BR/2BA, eating kitchen, separate liv. rm., den, fenced backyard, CHAC, 12x16 shed. Pet OK. Nice home. $875/mo. (706) 372-6813.

3BR/1BA located in Historic Blvd. Area/Walking distance to campus. High ceilings, fenced yard, HVAC, W/D, etc. $1100/ mo. Avail. August. Call (706) 254-1273.

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.

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.

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.

Pls. 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.

1BR cottage. Historic Blvd district. 15 min. walk to UGA/ Arches/Dwntn. Avail. 8/1.

Beautiful interior. HWflrs. New kitchen. Stainless steel appls.

Access to W/D. $650/mo. + utils.

(706) 296-5287 for more info.

3BR/1.5BA fabulous renovated 1900s house on Poplar St. near Mama’s Boy. Huge privacy f e n c e . C H A C , D W, W / D , working gas FP, HWflrs., kitchen w/ granite & marble. $1500/mo.

Alissa (706) 255-5645.

4BR/2BA houses for rent. 1023 Oconee St. & 198 Little St. Avail.

8/1. $1500/mo. FC Development (706) 247-6834.

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4BR/4BA house.

Beaverdam Rd.Covered front porch, W/D, sec. sys., 24 hr. maintenance service, pets welcome, lawn & pest incl. $1060/mo. (706) 552-3500.

WELCH PLACE

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/3.5BA. Townhouse. 3K sq. ft. Excellent condition. Must see!

Avail. Aug. Great price $825/ mo. Eastside busline. (706) 7693433 or email sjbc33@aol.com.

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

6BR/3BA house, multi–family zoned. 2620 Riverbend Rd. Fully renovated, new everything, HWflrs., custom kitchen & BAs. $350/BR. Avail. 8/1. Chris (706) 202-5156 or chris@ petersonproperties.org.

8/1 pre-lease. 3BR/2.5BA near GA Sq. Mall. Great family house. Gas FP. Priv. & peaceful. woodland creek, generous deck, spacious flr. plan, 2–car garage. Storage plus. Pets fine. $1200/mo. (706) 714-7600.

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.

A close–in cabin in the woods.

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

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.

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.

Blvd & ARMC area! 1, 2, 3BRs avail. Great locations, off–street parking, pet friendly, HWflrs. Call Sean (706) 425-9626.

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.

Flagpole Classifieds! $10/ wk. for your merchandise, $14/ wk. for your house, $16/wk. for your business! Go to www. flagpole.com or call (706) 549-0301. Deadlines every Monday at 11am.

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

Great homes with hardwood floors! 4225 Bob Godfrey Rd.2BR/1BA, $650/mo. 105 Whitehall Rd. 2BR/1BA, $595/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.

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.

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.

Houses for Sale 3BR/2.5BA Eastside. Beautiful wooded lot, rocking chair front porch, shady fenced backyd.

Newly updated kitchen, roof May 2009. $139,900 or $1,100/mo. (706) 742-7594 or 180bentwood@gmail.com.

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370 Cleveland. 1BR/1BA. Convenient to everything. $97K. Go to www.ReignSold. com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

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434 Meigs. 3BR/2BA. 1 Block from Big City Bread. $249,900. Go to www.

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

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461 Waddell “Dearing Oaks Condo Awesome In town Location $284K. Go to www.ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 3724166, (706) 543-4000.

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553 Castalia. 5 Pts. 100 yards from Jittery Joe’s. $235K. Go towww.ReignSold. com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

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Studio 40. Walk everywhere 1/1 on busline adjacent to Intermural Fields $89,900. Go to www.ReignSold. com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

Pre-Leasing 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 house. 1/2 mi. to campus. Bonus rm. HWflrs.

W / D , D W, C H A C , f e n c e d backyd. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $850/mo. (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.

3BR/1.5BA. Normaltown/ ARMC/Navy School. House has external studio, lg. fenced–in yd. $1075/mo. Pets OK w/ fee.

Avail. 8/1. (706) 363-0046.

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.

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.

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 1 roommate 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.

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.

Roommate needed. 2BR/2BA. S. Lumpkin near Macon Hwy. W/D, DW, fridge. Backyd. & FP. $375/mo. + 1/2 utils. On bus route. Call (478) 361-4999.

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.

Two roommates needed. Brand new townhome, 3BR/2.5BA. HWflrs., vaulted ceilings, pool.

No pets. $375/mo. + 1/3 utils.

Dep. neg. Avail. now. (706) 714-8072.

Rooms for Rent 3BR/2.5BA house. CHAC, W/D. $1125/mo. (706) 769-4155.

8/1 pre-lease. Student/Grad student to share luxury condo at The Woodlands. Beautiful grounds, sports mecca, pets OK. Conscientious land lady. $450/mo. (706) 714-7600.

Avail. June 1st. 5 r ms 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.

Dashiell Cottages Inc. Move–in $75! (706) 850-0491. All amenities, Wifi. Enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy the wildlife observation.

Spacious, furnished BR. Quiet, close to campus, kitchen, laundry privileges. Shared BA, priv. entrance. No pets.

M students only. $275/mo. incl. utils. (706) 353-0227.

Avail. May!

Sub-lease 2BR/2.5BA. Very quiet, on Milledge Ave. Next to family housing. 1300 sq. ft. W/D, FP, wireless, cable. UGA busline.

Pool, yard, pets. Avail. now– 7/31. $700/mo. (706) 461-5102.

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.

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

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

Go to Agora! Your favorite e v e r y t h i n g s t o re ! 2 6 0 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Miscellaneous C e r t i f i e d n a t u r a l l y – g ro w n , grass-fed Angus beef for sale by half or side. $4.25/ lb (hanging weight) Special promotion $3.50/lb. during April. 30 miles from Athens. indiancreekangus.com. (706) 384-2648.

TV and Video DirecTV Free standard installation. Free Showtime + Starz (3 mo.!) Ends 7/4/10. New customers only. Qual. Pkgs. from $29.99/mo. DirectStar TV (888) 650-7714 (AAN CAN).

Free 6 room Dish Network Satellite System! Free HD-DVR. $19.99/mo. $400 Signup Bonus. Call now (877) 415-8163 (AAN CAN).

Music Instruction

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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.

Certified naturally– grown, grass-fed Angus beef for sale by half or side. $4.25/lb (hanging weight) Special promotion $3.50/lb. during April.

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Music Services

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

On the cor ner of Pulaski & Clayton, next to Agora.

Open 1pm–4pm daily. (706) 424-0566.

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 Health Pregnant? Considering a d o p t i o n ? Ta l k w / c a r i n g agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide. Living expenses paid. Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

Home and Garden Borders! Print version of the Classifieds. Pictures! Check them out on the Flagpole website. New Categories!

And still the lowest rates in town! Place your ad today at www.flagpole.com.

Backyard Solutions. Get started on your Spring project!

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

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.

Misc. Services Athens Ipod Repair & Salvage.

Contact (706) 372-8635 or (706) 296-1555. Drop off at Agora. We do Iphones too!

Jobs Full-time Athens restaurant seeks experienced Chef-de-Cuisine/ Kitchen Mgr. FT availability only. Knowledgeable of health code implementation, ordering, scheduling, equip. maint., & line cooking. Email foxes69@gmail. com w/ resume.

Experienced line cook needed w/ night & wkend availability.

Please apply in person to East West Bistro.

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10th Annual Hot Corner Celebration & Soul Food Feast Saturday, May 1, Noon-8pm FREE festival on the corner of West Washington and Hull Streets.

Food, music, kids’ events, dance, storytelling, and art to commemorate the history and heritage of the African-American community in Athens.

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Roadshow Starts Today in Athens!

By Jason Delong

Treasure Hunters Roadshow STAFF WRITER Clean out your attics, closets and lock boxes, because the Roadshow starts today in Athens. Roadshow experts will be in town examining antiques, collectibles, gold and silver.

While the Roadshow will accept anything that’s old, they will be focusing on gold and silver coins made before 1964, military items, toys and trains, musical instruments, pocket and wrist watches. Scrap gold is expected to be a popular category this week due to soaring gold prices.

“U.S. coins made before 1964 are most sought after by collectors. Coins made before 1964 are 90% silver and valuable because of the silver content or could be worth even more if one happens to be a rare date.”

Expert buyers for the Roadshow have noticed a tremendous increase in the amount of gold coming to the Roadshow and for good reason.

Got Gold? This week, visitors can cash in on antiques, collectibles, gold, silver, coins or just about anything that is old.

Record gold prices have Roadshow guests cashing in on broken jewelry or jewelry they don’t wear anymore with our “fair and honest” purchase offers.

The Roadshow encourages anyone planning a visit to take a minute and examine their jewelry box or their lock box at the bank and gather anything that’s gold. If a guest is not sure if something is gold, bring it anyway and the Roadshow staff will test it for free.

Other gold items of interest include gold coins, gold ounces, gold proof sets and dental gold.

Other types of items Roadshow experts hope to see include old toys and train sets. Archie Davis, roadshow toy expert spoke about some of the top toys getting great offers. “Old tin windup toys from the late 1800’s through the 1960’s are in great demand now.” said Davis, “Especially those that are character related. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the Flintstones or any character toys are sought. Old Buddy L toys from the 1920’s to 1960’s are in demand.”

Basically any toys made before 1965 are wanted. Train sets made by Lionel, American Flyer, Marklin and others

have the potential to fetch high prices.

Davis also stressed, “Toys with boxes and in mint condition bring sensational prices. Most of the toys that come to the Roadshow are not in perfect shape but can still bring good prices from collectors.”

Our International Collectors Association members are looking for the following types of items.

parents grocery store looking for rare dates and errors. Once, I found a silver quarter that I sold for $300.00. Not bad for an 8 year old.”

Fuller went on to explain that any U.S. coins made before 1964 are most sought after by collectors. Coins made before 1964 are 90% silver and valuable because of the silver content or could be worth even more if one happens to be a rare date. “We help people sort through their coins for unique dates. We buy all types of coins at the Roadshow from wheat pennies to buffalo nickels, which are valuable from one coin to an entire

When expert Tom Fuller was asked what he enjoyed most about working at the Roadshow, he was quick to answer “Old coins and paper currency.

For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with collecting coins.

I would go through the change in my

“If you go to the Roadshow, you can cash-in your items for top dollar. Roadshow representatives will be available to assess and purchase your items at the Courtyard, Wednesday through Sunday in Athens.”

Above • A couple waits with anticipation while Roadshow expert examines their antiques and gold items. The Roadshow is at the Courtyard this week.

truckload. See you at the Roadshow.” said Fuller.

www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

• COINS Any and all coins made before 1964 This includes all silver and gold coins, dollars, half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies All conditions wanted!

The Roadshow starts today in Athens, So Don’t Miss Out on Cashing In!

• GOLD, SILVER & JEWELRY PRICES AT 40 YEAR HIGHS! for platinum, gold and silver during this event Broken Jewelry, dental gold, old coins, pocket watches, Kruggerands, Gold Bars Canadian Maple Leafs, Gold, Silver, Platinum, diamonds, rubies, sapphires and all types of stones, metals, etc Rings, bracelets, necklaces, all others including broken jewelry Early costume jewelry wanted

Wednesday - Saturday 9 AM - 6 PM and Sunday 9AM - 4PM

• WATCHES & POCKET WATCHES Rolex, Tiffany, Hublot, Omega, Chopard, Cartier, Philippe, Ebel, Waltham, Swatch, Chopard, Elgin, Bunn Special, Railroad, Hamilton, all others

• ADVERTISING ITEMS Metal and Porcelain signs, gas companies, beer and liquor makers, automobile, implements, etc.

FREE ADMISSION

“It’s a modern day gold rush,” said Treasure Hunters Roadshow Jeff Parsons.

Courtyard

166 N. Finley Ave., Athens, GA 30601

Directions: (706) 369-7000 Show Info: (866) 306-6655

• TOYS, TRAINS & DOLLS All types of toys made before 1965 including: Hot Wheels, Tonka, Buddy L, Smith Miller, Nylint, Robots, battery toys, Mickey Mouse, all other toys - Train sets, all gauges, accessories, individual cars, Marklin, American Flyer, Lionel, Hafner, all other trains - Barbie Dolls, GI Joe, Shirley Temple, Characters,German, all makers accepted • MILITARY ITEMS & SWORDS Civil, Revolutionary, WWI, WWII, etc Items of interest include swords, badges, clothes, photos, medals, knives, gear, letters, etc

April 21st-25th

Gold and Coin Prices High, Cash In Now

WE BUY 10¢ & 12¢ COMIC BOOKS!

Silver and Gold Prices Up During Poor Economy.

All are welcome to this event.

Admission is free.

Quality Prices paid for 1950’s and 1960’s Era Electric and Acoustic Guitars

Gold is now trading near 40 year highs, and you can cash in at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow All types of gold are wanted, including gold coins, Krugerrands, Maple Leafs, and other gold bars, etc All gold jewelry, including broken jewelry is accepted Anything gold and silver is wanted

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