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pub notes Read My Lips There was a time—not that long ago—when all it took to get elected to the Georgia Legislature was to promise that black children would never go to school with white children.

The Legislature was all white. The voters were all white, and race was the only issue. Legislators took the pledge: segregation now; segregation forever, and the voters were satisfied.

The corporations were satisfied, too, because they could count on the legislators to keep corporate taxes low, and the state’s wealthy class were satisfied because they could count on the legislators to keep income taxes low.

Our leaders realized this would mean our schools wouldn’t be the best or our health care or our transportation, but they were realists, and they knew that in a poor state like Georgia, taking care of basic needs would cut sharply into profits. And the whole system worked, because the voters, blinded by race, didn’t understand how the legislators were shortchanging them by rigging the tax structure in favor of the rich and paying for it by cutting services directed to the basic needs of all Georgians.

The same thing is happening today, but race has been replaced by a new mantra. All a legislator has to do to get elected is to promise not to raise taxes. That’s all the voters want to hear.

Once they have made that All a legislator has pledge, legislators are free to to do to get elected dismantle the state’s education, health care and protective seris to promise not vices—whatever it takes to cut to raise taxes. programs to the level covered by steadily declining revenues.

The voters are satisfied because their taxes are not raised.

The corporations are happy because their tax loopholes aren’t touched, and the state’s wealthy are delighted, because their taxes are actually cut again.

Because they have pledged not to raise taxes, Georgia legislators have just gone through an excruciatingly difficult session dominated by the necessity of figuring out what essential services to cut in order to balance the shrinking budget.

We have yet to see the results of those cuts here at the University of Georgia, because they first have to be filtered through the Board of Regents before we see the impact here.

But it is coming. Just as cuts are coming to our public schools here in Athens.

Now, the anti-tax creed has shackled the government again, as surely as it was once bound by race. Still, it’s the old shell game. The big contributors to the legislators are fully in tune with the no-tax tirades.

In exchange for having our university and our public schools decimated, you and I avoid a $50 tax increase, while the corporations reap millions. Their investments in our legislators pay off handsomely.

Why can’t the corporations and the legislators understand that investment in our state would pay off even better for them? How can they be in business and not understand the value of stimulating growth instead of stalling our economic engine?

I do not know enough Georgia legislators to be able to figure out whether they are stupid, corrupt or blinded by ideology; I suspect that with the majority in the legislature, it’s a mixture of all three.

At the end of this agonizing budget-cutting session, they took away a small tax rebate from our poorest citizens and then turned around and gave a generous tax cut to our richest citizens—totaling an amount that would have fully funded our state universities.

They have abdicated their responsibility to provide equal government services to all our citizens; they have taken away the means for us to grow and prosper.

In one of their last acts of this session, our legislators passed a law allowing the carrying of concealed weapons into most public places, including bars and churches. No doubt they dimly understand the social chaos that will result from their crippling of essential state services.

They can see the handwriting on the walls of their gated communities and can read it, thanks to their children’s private school educations. The T-word has replaced the N-word, but the results are just the same.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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The Pile, Redux: The giant mound of dirt An Extra Shot: Jittery Joe’s Roaster and behind homes on Price Avenue and Sunset Tasting Room on East Broad Street get another Drive hasn’t gone anywhere (other than to chance before the ACC Planning Commission have been spread a bit more evenly over the Thursday, May 6, when a revised site plan for site) and it doesn’t appear the property ownthe parking lot adjacent to the businesses ers or the developer who had it hauled in have is up for review. This situation merits close any plans to remove it. Nor has opposition watching, because it pits two valid but, in among neighbors of the pile become any less this case, conflicting local interests against entrenched: anti-mound neighborhood activone another: the desire to expand the downists have recently started a website (http:// town commercial district east to the river sites.google.com/site/giantdirtmound/), and the comprehensive plan’s restrictions on printed yard signs (unveiled at a “Dirt Mound House Party” last Saturday) and drafted a letter to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, which they planned to send off early this week.

The letter represents a shift in focus for the neighbors, whose attempts to get the developer, Ashley Hill, to remove at least some of the dirt from the site haven’t gained much traction with county authorities. While ACC commissioners and staff have been responsive to the situation, no one seems to think Hill is in direct violation of any county ordinance, so all they UGA students rang the Chapel bell between classes last Friday afcan do is continue to monitor his ternoon to sound their concern over pending cuts to the university activities on the site. The appeal to system’s budget. the EPD, among other things, seeks enforcement of state regulations on solid stand-alone parking lots. Planners have diswaste based on the claim that Hill is operatplayed a willingness to be flexible, but even ing an inert landfill on the site. Considering if they recommend the new plan for approval, that there are no specific plans to use the the ACC Mayor and Commission will have an dirt for anything—other than Hill’s vaguely interesting decision to make. stated intention to build homes on it, perhaps over a year from now (he currently has neiPanty Hose Power: If you’re looking for ways ther financing nor a detailed site plan)—the to help alleviate the disastrous effects of the neighbors may have a case. The full text of BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast, here’s one the letter is available on the mound’s website; way: bring your old nylons to Honey’s Salon check it out for yourself and we’ll try to keep in the Chase Park Warehouses on Tracy Street. you posted.

Honey’s is working with the San Francisco nonprofit Matter of Trust, Inc., which is colBe a Part of It: The ACC government is acceptlecting hair from salons all over the world to ing applications from citizens interested in be stuffed into nylons and used as “booms” to serving on seven different county boards, prevent oil from washing onto beaches. Hair, authorities and commissions, including the you see, is an incredibly efficient medium Athens Downtown Development Authority, for the absorption of oil. Donated nylons can the Classic Center Authority and the Planning have runs, but no holes. Check out www.matCommission. The application period ends May teroftrust.org for more info.

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Paul Broun, Jr.’s Krazy Korner As his GOP cohorts in Washington were defending their Wall Street buddies against the president’s banking reform legislation, Broun was busy using misfortune as a chance to blame the victims for cheap political points.

Broun seems to agree with those who say that the so-called “jobless” recovery is the fault of the jobless and their families. On his blog, Broun devotes an entire post to a Washington Times editorial which says just that: that unemployment benefits only keep citizens from looking for another job. The kind-hearted geniuses at the paper find that “long and generous [unemployment] benefits are the cause, not the cure, for long-term jobless rates.” The lavish thrill of living on unemployment checks has lured nearly one in 10 Americans from the industrious and creative impulses of their nature to live on the dole.

How are these unemployed Americans going to pull themselves up by their bootstraps if the government gives them money to buy bootstraps? Perhaps next month’s unemployment checks should be replaced by a simple note: “You’re lazy. Get a job.

Signed, The Rest of Us.” To admit that you think so poorly of so many Americans shows you to be of the “let them eat cake” set, and not one who understands the very real hurt and desperation that come with losing your job—especially if you have a family. Maybe somebody can show Broun how unemployment feels come November. [Matthew Pulver]

city pages PALS is the first domestic effort of Women to the World. The nonprofit, which has now seen operations on every continent, has established educational opportunities for women in Afghanistan and has brought Afghan women to Athens Regional Medical Center for midwife training. In Burkina Faso, An Athens-based educational community it has helped the establishment of a farm service program is hoping to expand on both cooperative and a full-degree technical school the regional and national levels. The program, and has campaigned to reduce sex trafficking.

PALS, or Partnering Ambassadors for Life and In Kenya, it has supported an orphanage and Service, has offered computer, life skills and has developed a micro-business project called GED certificate education for Athens women Jewelry for Jobs, which sells jewelry—made with backgrounds of poverty and abuse for

by Kenyan women in the style of the Maasai more than two years. It currently hosts 15 to ethnic group—in the United States to support 20 students every Monday and Wednesday. It more than 40 Kenyan families. is a project of Women to the World, a Christian The nonprofit began developing PALS in nonprofit focusing on the improvement of 2007 as a domestic expansion of its overseas health and dignity for programs. “What you see women and children [here] is what we try to through education and do around the world,” business development. says Aldrich.

Mandy Seigler, The Sparrow’s Nest Resource Director of Mission Church donated PALS, is developing a the use of the second board named “Rescue floor of its building Advocates for PALS” to on Prince Avenue, and raise awareness of the classes began there in program to increase January 2008. Though fundraising and develop micro-businesses and affiliations with local micro-loans are not churches. The board, available in Athens as which met for the they are through other first time on Apr. 27, Women to the World includes Clarke County projects, PALS offers Assistant District some food to its stuDr. Jane Russell, a PALS mentor, aids student Attorney Leslie Jones dents and has assisted Gloria Sewell. and magazine publisher in getting some into Alex Mazeika. local teaching, janitoThe program has also developed a formal rial and security work, though it is not a job curriculum of 10 lessons in four core subjects, placement service. based upon the volunteer mentors’ experiences Seigler estimates that between 150 and with the students. Once donations have been 200 students have come through the prosecured for printing and copyrighting, the gram and 15 have obtained the certificate curriculum will be reproduced to allow expanof completion in the computer class, two of sion. Though calls for duplicate programs have whom are now in college. The GED certificate already come from organizations in Oglethorpe program has seen eight students complete at and Madison counties, Women to the World least one of the five required sections for a will aim for high-need major cities such as GED diploma.

Atlanta, Chicago or the District of Columbia, “There’s a huge need for this kind of proaccording to founder and northeast Georgia gram. Athens Tech is bursting at the seams native Doris Aldrich. because they have so many students in their “Athens is a small town but a perfect enviGED program,” says Dr. Elizabeth Eidson, a forronment for us to develop our manual,” she mer professor at Emmanuel College who is the says.

GED coordinator at PALS.

International Org. Helps Athens Women with GEDs, Life Skills

Mandy Seigler

This program, as well as the computer class and life skills class, has a curriculum built around the experience and backgrounds of the volunteers. A 2009 grant from Jackson Electric Membership Corporation has enabled PALS to assemble a 10-computer lab, where volunteers help students develop computer literacy to improve employment opportunities. The life skills class covers numerous aspects of career development and maintenance, from the job hunting experience to business etiquette and money management. The classes are followed by optional Christian-based devotional sessions.

The students themselves have represented ages from 16 to 63 and educational backgrounds from illiteracy to associate’s degrees. “[They range] from homeless, to middle class and about everything in between,” says Seigler.

Fran Brown, who was a restaurant manager for 35 years, is now on the all-volunteer mentor staff, teaching literacy. She describes the excitement her students showed at their newfound ability to complete tasks like writing checks.

“It’s almost like a child in a candy store,” she says.

Dr. Jane Russell, the former Director of Recreational Sports at UGA’s Ramsey Center, is another volunteer, teaching math and English in the GED program.

“It’s extremely gratifying. Almost to a person, you will hear them say, ‘I’m ready to do this, I want to do this now,’” she says.

Seigler’s new board will seek to increase fundraising beyond Women of the World and existing individual donors. Early expansion efforts will include both the seeking of more volunteers and a building to headquarter PALS and Women of the World, which left its Broad Street office in 2005 to reduce costs, says Seigler.

“If we got more volunteers… we could add more classes. Right now our bottleneck is volunteers,” she says.

To get more information about the PALS and Women to the World programs, you can visit www.palsathens.org and www.womento theworld.org.

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capitol impact Good People Leaving Office Public Service Commissioner Bobby Baker in recent years has been almost the only PSC member who stood up for the consumers who get their electricity and natural gas from the state’s biggest utilities. The PSC is dominated by members who will eagerly vote to approve whatever the utility lobbyists request. This majority also has a tendency to exempt large business and industrial users from the negative effects of their decisions—instead, putting the burden on residential and small business customers. Baker questioned the fairness of this approach to utility regulation.

He also supported efforts to change PSC rules so that utility lobbyists and lawyers could no longer meet privately with commissioners while they are in the process of deciding a rate increase. This pro-consumer stance nearly always resulted in Baker being on the losing end of commission votes.

His lonely stands also brought him verbal abuse and taunts from other PSC members. Not surprisingly, Baker decided he did not want to put up with this for another six years. His retirement from the PSC is a discouraging development for Georgia consumers.

While he doesn’t get the media attention that goes to more powerful legislators, Sen. Don Thomas of Dalton has had more of an impact on the everyday lives of Georgians than just about any other lawmaker. He quietly but firmly worked for the passage of legislation that outlawed smoking in most public places. As a family physician, Thomas knew that cleaning up the air we breathe would be a good public health move. Thomas also tried for years to change the state law that allowed people to ride in pickup trucks without being required to use seat belts. Thomas faced powerful opposition from House speakers like Tom Murphy and Glenn Richardson, but he persevered. The good doctor finally succeeded in getting his seat belt legislation passed during this session. He now will retire from public life

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to look after his wife, who is battling cancer, and spend more time with his grandchildren.

Sen. Jeff Chapman of Brunswick, who’s leaving the Senate to run for governor, was a conservative lawmaker who really believed in conserving. Throughout his Senate tenure, Chapman fought hard to protect the natural beauty of Jekyll Island and the Georgia coast from the encroachments of developers.

Chapman’s efforts angered many of his colleagues, but he never backed down. Georgians who are still able to enjoy the scenic charms of our barrier islands in the years ahead will owe a debt of gratitude to Chapman and the legislators who voted with him.

Two House members who are leaving the Legislature to run for other offices are DuBose Porter of Dublin and Austin Scott of Tifton. Scott was a maverick Republican who often differed with his colleagues on controversial issues. Gov. Sonny Perdue privatized state government’s computer and telecommunications systems two years ago by awarding fat contracts to AT&T and IBM, claiming that this move would save money for the state.

In fact, the privatization cost Georgia millions of dollars at a time when legislators were desperately trying to fill a gaping budget deficit.

Scott was one of the few lawmakers with the courage to speak out against this waste.

As the Legislature cut state funding to K-12 school systems by a combined total of more than $2 billion over the past six years, Porter consistently pushed back against the budget reductions. He argued eloquently that cutbacks in public education would be harmful to the state’s future—a message that was largely ignored.

You can’t blame any of these people for making the decision to leave their elected offices, but it’s too bad for the rest of us that they are. Georgians will miss them very much.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@capitolimpact.net

athens rising What’s Up in New Development Thinking Big: A few weeks back, I took the pessimist’s perspective and considered the possibilities of funding transportation with little to no money. After two years of doing nothing at all on the matter, Georgia finally passed a transportation funding bill. Briefly, each of the state’s 12 planning regions will draft a list of projects and hold a vote on whether or not to fund them with a one-cent sales tax increase. Highways and roads are likely to be the big winners in these T-SPLOST referenda throughout most of our suburban-rural state, the major exception being in Atlanta, where MARTA will factor heavily into the conversation. With the exception of the 10-county Atlanta region, most of the state’s cities are diluted within predominately rural regions, where four-lane highways are the primary vehicle for transportation/economic development solutions. What are other possibilities, especially in our local region?

highway overpasses, making them a little bigger to accommodate future transportation possibilities couldn’t hurt. What an Atlanta-focused strategy would neglect, however, are the needs of rural counties, which in all likelihood ought to remain rural, rather than becoming more suburbs of Atlanta.

Another issue to consider is that while Atlanta has significantly more money to spend from a potential T-SPLOST referendum, projects will likely jump across regional boundaries.

Teaming up with places like Gwinnett County to pool money and leverage resources might make a lot of sense. It’s easy to imagine a scenario in which Northeast Georgia works with eastern counties within the Atlanta Region to lobby for projects to be built in their direction, rather than to, say, Macon.

Adam E. Moreira

The Megaregion: One common thread which may help to orient Northeast Georgia is the Piedmont-Atlantic Megaregion.

Economics, transportation, population and resources are big The Local Region: One thing we may have to get over locally questions, and increasingly it seems as though the horizonis our isolationist sensibility. Athens is a small county, and we tal megalopolis is the lens through which we will view that tend to view ourselves as a unique island in a sea of farms and family of issues in the 21st century. The Piedmont-Atlantic suburbs. Really, though, there are three different distinct idenRegion, of which Athens is a small part, stretches from North Carolina’s research triangle through Charlotte, Greenville and Atlanta to Birmingham, AL. Most of these cities which comprise this 18-millionperson megalopolis fall along Interstate 85. Although the concept of megaregions is somewhat untested, federal funds for high speed rail, which focus on these zones as the primary corridors for that future system, do throw weight behind the idea. The Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor will follow that pattern, largely linking the same cities which comprise the Piedmont Megaregion.

I-85 grazes the northwestern edge of our Northeast Georgia region, and the high speed rail corridor doesn’t enter it at all.

Although Athens’ lack of interstate highway access has been our salvation in some ways, new connections which bring the The Acela Express, Amtrak’s high speed train that serves the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C. economic benefits of such infraand Boston. structure are worth considering.

Our local planning region runs tities for the 12 counties within our region. Four belong to the largely parallel to this major economics and transportation Athens Metropolitan Statistical Area. Four belong to Atlanta’s super-corridor to the north, presenting interesting opportuni(Jackson doesn’t belong to either, but we might as well throw ties for new lateral connections. it into one of those two categories). The remaining counties Perhaps we should begin strategizing now to ensure that are primarily rural. How can a comprehensive transportation Northeast Georgia’s transportation “goes with the grain” of strategy emerge among these competing local interests? We this emerging megalopolis. This conurbation spanning four should be wary of a scattershot approach which might lead to states is quite an intangible concept, with linkages between a highway here and an interchange there, without real cohecommunities being more economic and cultural than physical. sion between projects.

However, with Atlanta at the megaregion’s heart, we would seem to be situated fairly well. Recent announcements about The Atlanta Region: It might be worth our while for Northeast new employers in Jackson County seem to point to the viabilGeorgia to embrace its proximity to Atlanta, and try to link ity of those transportation corridors as growth generators, into that region in a way that is most advantageous. Atlanta so it may not be a bad bet. Rather than focusing on connecis a big economic engine, and perhaps strong transportation tions to Atlanta, maybe we should look at how transportation links could bring some growth out here to the eastern frontier could connect through Jefferson and Commerce, across I-85 of the city. Two commuter rail lines will eventually reach into to Gainesville, which is a stop on that planned high-speed rail our region from the big city. Perhaps we should look at designline. ing transportation which feeds into that. Could spur light rail, bus or commuter rail options link more far-flung communiThe Long View: We’re a ways out from even being able to vote ties to the planned rail stops in Winder, Athens, Madison and on this referendum, but we ought to be thinking with a farCovington? reaching vision. T-SPLOST could bring in $72 million a year for We can’t ignore roads, though, and the upgrading of our region. Combined with the federal grants it could leverGA-316 to a limited-access highway would become top priorage, we’re looking at $1 billion per decade for transportation ity under an Atlanta-centric approach. Could upgrades to that solutions. If we take a 30-year outlook, what amazing sort of corridor include future-proofing for alternative transportafuture can $3 billion buy us? 100 miles of light rail maybe? Or tion options? Freedom Parkway in Atlanta includes pedestrian 300 of commuter rail? 2000 miles of bicycle trails? What would paths as part of its design. Likewise, GA-400 was built with life in such a community be like? a MARTA line incorporated into it. We may not have to build those resources right away, but as long as we’re building new Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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“Local produce contains more nutrients because [fruits and vegetables] are picked at peak, travel shorter distances, and [are] sold directly to the consumer,” says Ryan.

The students developed a promotional trifold and a postcard to be mailed to target communities and to the Athens Transit Advertising Program for bus ads. The trifold highlights the nutritional and community benefits of buying local foods and will be distributed at target locations such as food distribution locations, bus stations, housing offices or healthcare offices. All of the advertisements will be translated into Spanish.

Beginning this season the Athens Farmers Market, in addition to its Bishop Park market on Saturdays, will open a weekday evening market at a downtown location. The market obtained the courtyard of Little Kings Shuffle Club rent-free from 4 p.m. until Little Kings’ normal opening hour of 7 p.m. on Tuesdays.

About 10 farmers are expected to sell at the new location, and the evening hours and club setting will provide enhanced opportunities for live music.

Courtesy of Athens Famers Market

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he Athens Farmers Market will see expanded operations in the coming season, both through a federal food assistance program and through a new market day in downtown Athens.

On the season’s opening day, May 8, the market will begin participating in the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) which was known as the Food Stamp Program until 2008. SNAP, which is aimed at reducing food insecurity or hunger for lowincome households, has already been joined by farmers markets in Atlanta and Savannah.

Jay Payne, Athens Farmers Market president, says, “The Board of Directors, myself included, wanted to do this since we got started. The cheapest, least nutritional food is what food stamp recipients buy most of the time. It’s just a desire to provide what we think is good food to as many people as possible.”

After registering with the United States Department of Agriculture as a retailer, the Market is able to accept Electronic Business Transfer (EBT) cards, which document available SNAP funds as a debit card does with money. A grant from the Oconee River Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council has allowed the market to acquire a wireless device that can read the EBT cards.

“We have brought [the program] to this market because this community has such a high percentage of EBT users,” says market manager Jan Kozak.

SNAP had a record 39 million participants nationwide in January, the most recent month of available data, which was a 7.2 million increase over the previous year, according to the Food Research and Action Center, a hunger-prevention nonprofit. In Georgia, an estimated 15.8 percent of the population is on the program, the 13th-highest rank in the nation. This represented a 27.7 percent increase over one year and a 68.3 percent increase over five years.

Following a Georgia Department of Human Services suggestion, the Athens Farmers Market will exchange customers’ EBT dollars for wooden tokens. These have been made by Chris Purcell, an Athens woodworker who also helped Kozak design them. The market will reimburse farmers for the value of the coins they accept as vendors and will itself be reimbursed by SNAP within 48 hours of the market transaction.

The USDA has guidelines for items not eligible for EBT purchases, such as alcohol, tobacco and other nonfood items. For the market, this will primarily prohibit the sale of cut flowers.

“We feel like [EBT users] should at least have the opportunity to buy fresh food, and what better place to buy it than a farmers market?” says Kozak.

The RC&D grant also provides $800 for promoting the EBT program, which the market gave to students in a social marketing class at the University of Georgia’s College of Public Health. Laura Ryan, a graduate student in the program, says that the opportunity was a good fit with the class’ goal of promoting fruit and vegetable consumption among low-income Athens residents.

“We thought that it was a cool spot. It’s just big enough for the whole thing and in a quiet corner of downtown,” says Kozak.

The move could also raise attendance.

Though the Bishop Park market saw more than 34,000 adults over the 2009 season, or about 1,200 people per weekend, Kozak says that a parking shortage may be deterring customers.

He hopes the new location may pull in students or spontaneous downtown traffic.

The move is also related, according to Kozak, to a desire to demonstrate the permanence of the two-year-old market, which this year will feature 27 farmers and a total of 50 vendors on Saturdays. Operations are expanding in other ways as well. The EBT wireless device will eventually allow the market to accept debit and credit cards.

“My vision of the market has always been that it would be an established tradition… an institution in Athens,” says Payne.

“We hope that this year will be a banner year for the market,” says Kozak. “We’re proving to the community that we are here to stay—we aren’t wishy-washy.”

Russell Cox

art notes

film notebook

Water Under the Bridge

News of Athens’ Cinema Scene

“Deluge,” the current show at ATHICA (on view until May 30) is a visual discussion of the highest order, composed of a manageable grouping of intellectually rigorous individuals who bring distinctive voices to a shared table and respond to one another’s statements in a graceful and enlightening manner. The subject at hand, however, is anything but graceful: natural disaster, land (mis)use, flooding and floodwater. It’s a poignant topic for many of us, especially in the southeastern United States and certainly following the recent flooding in Atlanta. The reality of the matter is that there are few among us who have not experienced such natural disaster firsthand, and if we haven’t, we’re closely acquainted with someone who has.

on paper, which utilize oil paint in some truly masterful effects to achieve visual states falling somewhere between painting and photography. Taylor’s oil studies function on a scale much more interior and contemplative than her wall piece; headlights, street signs and entire landscapes disappear gently but utterly in delicate layers of muted grays, punctuated by subtle blue pours that move through the image like a shriek. They may be small, but the emotional impact isn’t at all compromised.

This is great stuff; she’s really good.

Chuck von Schmidt’s admirable commitment to craft is on full display in his handsome installation piece “Antediluvian Memories.” Thirteen blown-glass, hand-turned wood hourglasses sit upon a visually striking

Chuck von Schmidt’s installation, “Antediluvian Memories,” is part of the ATHICA show “Deluge.”

However, “Deluge” is not a show that foregrounds mourning or assigns culpability. In fact, it is, almost by default, a conversation on how we mediate disasters and flooding, frequently employing the media as a primary source of imagery. The most apparent examples of this tactic are Katherine McQueen’s cross-stitched embroideries of emergency weather reports—demure in size but substantial in impact. (See this week’s cover!) “Packaging” disaster into a cinematic drama is most certainly an arresting strategy of news programs; McQueen utilizes these images to create her works, each of which takes months to complete. There’s something psychologically jarring about the labor and craft that goes into the stitching of a media image that appeared on television for only an instant with a primary motivation to inform (of course) but also to agitate a viewer. Oddly enough, McQueen’s work is the only point in the exhibition where a human figure makes an appearance—throughout the remainder of the show, nature itself takes center stage.

Which leads us to Katherine Taylor, whose ability to let nature speak for itself is not to be underestimated. Her large-scale, sitespecific wall painting, “Culvert” is truly a tour de force of paint handling, color and atmosphere. Reaching beyond its hard-edge borders is a 3’-high “waterline” (deftly created by Taylor’s assistant Jeff Lawrence Brown) which envelops the entire gallery space—all 136 feet of it. In fact, by virtue of its scale, it’s probably the closest the show comes to full-on display of operatic bereavement. But despite the piece’s compelling histrionics, I continually found myself drawn to her small paintings

triangular shelf, courtesy of another consummate local craftsman, Jay Nackashi. The extreme angle of the arrangement intends to evoke the prow of a ship cutting through floodwater. Each of Von Schmidt’s hourglass forms contains soil and water from 13 different disaster sites, and each location relates geographically to the type of wood used to create the piece itself. As if that weren’t impressive enough, the sites are from all over the world. Fifteen years in the making, the piece is a quiet and gorgeous record of the unspeakable. I have to admit: having lost my house and almost everything I owned five years ago in Hurricane Katrina, it was hard to see the actual water that ravaged not only that landscape, but myself as well. Von Schmidt’s work relies heavily on this commitment to the authentic and the memories we have of our own relationship to history.

“Deluge” is a smart show. By presenting its viewers with straightforward records, poetic interpretations and emotionally charged remnants of these events, we as viewers are left with a more 3-D understanding of some of the most significant (and unfortunately, ongoing) natural events we have experienced. See it.

Upcoming: Wednesday evening (5/5) this week is the fourth installment of Lauren Fancher’s ongoing multi-media event, 6X6, at the Ciné Lab from 7–8 p.m. This month’s topic is “Nature,” an apt follow-up to the current ATHICA show. Young Athenians’ Kim Kirby serves as guest curator for this round. I recommend it highly. Best part? It’s totally free.

Brian Hitselberger

Looking Back: There are a few Stanley that it failed to catch on with last summer’s Kubrick films I’ve been meaning to re-invesaudiences (even with some amazing selectigate for some time now. The most important tions like Chinatown and East of Eden), and reason for this is a series of conversations I’ve no idea if the downtown cinema plans to I’ve had with several friends who’ve remained give it another try. I would hope so, and a faithful to the director’s canon well beyond good place to start would be with some of the teens-to-twenties infatuation that was as Kubrick’s films, which seem to have retained strong for me as for anyone else, but which their appeal, especially to college-age audiI left behind as my tastes turned to more— ences, over the years: A Clockwork Orange, sniff!—refined things… you know, like screwanyone? I know it’s easy for me to sit at my ball comedies and 1950s Westerns! computer and advise a place like Ciné to take I’d come to think of Kubrick as a cold, risks, but I really believe that part of the basic almost brutally detached filmmaker, and his mission of an alternative cinema should be to unmistakably glaring visual style—matched by function, at least in part, as a revival house. the carefully measured cadences of his actors This may be something Ciné needs to hear and his unusually pointed use of music—as more about from the public. Are you into it? monumental but essentially empty. I’m not as Hint: you can leave comments on the Flagpole much of a hard-liner as I used to be, though, website. and the stuff I wanted another look at was mainly from the middle of his career to the Get on It: The folks who put together the end, starting with 2001: A Space Odyssey— EcoFocus Film Festival will start accepta period during which, that famous style ing submissions of feature-length films for already fully formed, Kubrick made films this fall’s festival in Athens on May 15. with decreasing frequency and ever-mounting Submissions must be a minimum of 50 minobsessiveness.

I re-watched 2001 last year, soon after I got a Blu-ray player, and that was as impressive (if also as, well, alien) as expected. I then forgot about the project for a while, until The Shining was screened at this year’s Robert Osborne Film Festival.

That occasioned a fresh round of conversations, some of those with the participation of Leon Vitali, Kubrick’s longtime assistant and a guest at the festival, who was kind enough to disabuse me of my belief in the oftThe documentary A Village Called Versailles screens at the ACC Library on repeated myth that Thursday, May 6.

Barry Lyndon was shot entirely without the aid of artificial lighting (that is, however, utes in length, and “should in some way relate true of the film’s several candlelit scenes). to the environment.” The festival will also be Vitali spent a lot of time on that set, playing accepting submissions of environmental short the key supporting role of Lord Bullington. films (20 minutes or shorter), but not until I watched Barry Lyndon last night for the June 15. The entire submissions process is first time since the ‘80s, and I’m glad I did. conducted online through www.withoutabox.

Based on a serial novel by William Makepeace com; go to www.ecofocusfilmfest.org for more Thackeray, Kubrick’s film tracks the rising and info… And if you haven’t submitted your falling fortunes of the erstwhile Redmond entries for the various film competitions Barry, an 18th-century Irish mountebank at AthFest, you’re cutting it close: the final whose uncanny talent for self-advancement is deadline for all categories is May 15. Go to offset by his helplessness, at the most crucial www.athfest.com/film to get the skinny. moments, to disobey his tempestuous emom At Least We Ran the Photo: Once again, tions. It’s an engrossing three hours: Kubrick’s I’ve left little room for iFilms, the wonderfully staging is near the peak of its arch formality but is also at its most painterly and filled with curated, ongoing Thursday night film festival at the ACC Library. The May 6 screening is human detail, and the omniscient voice-over A Village Named Versailles, a documentary narration, rather than distancing, is intimate about the series of challenges faced by a and sympathetic. Watching this film reminded group of Vietnamese Americans as they rebuild me that Kubrick’s influence on one of my their New Orleans neighborhood after Katrina. favorite current filmmakers, Wes Anderson, Sharkwater (May 13), presented in conjuncextends beyond a shared taste for symmetrical tion with Athens GreenFest, is a “visually compositions and oddly stilted dialogue. stunning” doc about—you guessed it—sharks.

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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.

BABIES (PG) Shockingly, I found the trailer for this infant doc as cute and endearing as it was intended.

(The Sufjan Stevens song is perfect accompaniment to the two crying babies.) Chronicling a year in the lives of four babies from around the world--Ponijao (Opuwo, Namibia), Bayar (Bayanchandmani, Mongolia), Mari (Tokyo, Japan), and Hattie (San Francisco, California)—Babies appeals to me much more than the animal documentaries of the last few years.

Director Thomas Balmes won a couple of awards for his The Gospel According to the Papuans.

THE BACK-UP PLAN (PG-13) I think I have been too hard on Katherine Heigl. While hating J-Lo throughout this latest romcom, I realized it is really the gross simplification of single women as needy, “comedic” neurotics, doggedly seeking the perfect gent to complete them that I despise in the worst offenders of the genre (Raising Helen, Little Black Book, etc.). Jennifer

Lopez stars as Zoe, a single lady who meets the man of her dreams, cheesemaker Stan, on the same day she conceives twins through artificial insemination. Imagine the laugh riot that ensues. The real riot should be led by women offended by the genre’s casual sexism, but if you still think Lopez retains a marketably funny screen presence, you probably did not notice.

CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY (R) Alex Gibney, the Academy Award-winning documentarian behind Taxi to the Dark Side who also directed the Oscarnominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, returns to reveal the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Casino Jack has already been nominated for the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize; I am sure there are more awards to come. Featuring the voices of Stanley Tucci as Abramoff and Paul Rudd as Michael Scanlon.

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 from the flesh of Hades to defeat the Titans—on their collective asses (via the Greek city-state of Argos).

THE CRAZIES (R) This remake of George A. Romero’s quasi-remake of/ prequel to his own Night of the Living Dead stars Timothy Olyphant (see him soon on FX’s new show, “Justified”) as a local lawman who must save his tiny Iowa town after a contaminated water supply turns everybody loony. Costar Radha Mitchell has become quite the genre vet; The Crazies is her fourth scary movie (Pitch Black, Silent Hill and Rogue). Parts of this flick were filmed in Cordele, Fort Valley, Macon, Montezuma and Perry, GA. 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

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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 grasp for mainstream success from Neil Labute. At the memorial service for the patriarch of an AfricanAmerican family, all sorts of blisslessly transparent, sitcom-y shenanigans

live-action cartoon, Fraser stars as developer Dan Sanders, who uproots his family—wife Tammy (Brooke Shields) and cute teen son Tylor (Matt Prokop)—to the Oregon wilderness in order to start work on a subdivision for a not-so-ecofriendly Neal Lyman (an abysmal Ken Leong). The woodland creatures, led by a maniacal raccoon, fight back. Though none of the animals talk, they do giggle, titter, spray (a lot in the animal equivalent of bathroom humor) and awkwardly dance to Chic’s “Le Freak.” A few kids and one comically malnourished adult in attendance may have laughed, but exercise your parental discretion and do not start your kid down the road of lowest-common-denominator family films. It will be better for both of you in the long run.

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

Wanna see my superhero pose? ensue (wrong coffins, mislabeled pill bottles, incontinent uncles; the list goes on) as sons, disappointingly stalwart Aaron (Chris Rock) and successful writer Ryan (Martin Lawrence), are harried by a small stranger (Peter Dinklage) with devastating fatherly revelations. Meanwhile, a gaggle of black stereotypes are handling the day with indignity and self-centeredness. Most shamefully, the reliably funny James Marsden is wasted—literally—the entire film. Death at a Funeral has the chuckle-less feel of politically correct, culturally vacant, LCD humor.”

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (PG) Greg Heffley (the expressive Zachary Gordon) is just starting middle school, and he is not thrilled. Deeming it “the dumbest idea ever invented,” Greg must navigate the pitfalls of seat selection, the cafeteria, PE and the constant bullying. Diary of a Wimpy Kid reminds me of the days when Hollywood, especially Disney, produced live-action fare that was not dominated by CG-ed talking animals or Home Alone’s slapshtick. They were age-appropriately smart, did not condescend, and were genuine about the highs and lows of being a kid.

FURRY VENGEANCE (PG) Brendan Fraser seems to be a likeable guy, and he has forged a pretty crafty career as a bona fide box office star. Every now and again, he churns out a load of crap so execrable that his success is easily forgotten. (Anyone worried about Fraser’s career should note the movie is pre-sold to foreign markets so he’s still the golden goose.) In this awful

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...

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (NR) For those unfortunate few who have yet to read Stieg Larsson’s novel Men Who Hate Women, as the Swedes know it, it is a fairly typical serial-killer murdermystery with a hint of financial scandal mixed in for variety. I feel ambivalent about Niels Arden Oplev’s film, which has some tremendous moments/performances, but overall is too strippeddown an adaptation to satisfy any fan of the novel.

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.

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. n IRON MAN 2 (PG-13) Robert Downey, Jr. is back as Tony Stark/ Iron Man. Gwyneth Paltrow is back as Pepper Potts. Samuel L. Jackson is back as Nick Fury. Director Jon Favreau is back. Terence Howard is out and Don Cheadle is in as Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes/War Machine.

Scarlett Johannson is in as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow. A villainous Mickey Rourke is in as Ivan Vanko/ Whiplash. I was back/in when the credits of the original Iron Man rolled two years ago.

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. Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) 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). One day, Dave gets the stupid/bright idea of becoming a real live superhero. 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.

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.

THE LOSERS (PG-13) The Losers at your local multiplex look just like the ones on the pages of DC imprint Vertigo’s comic book. The exactness of the depictions of Colonel Clay and company is about all the movie gets right about Andy Diggle and Jock’s espionage caper. Written by Diggle as “a great action movie,” The Losers loses its snap, crackle and its pop, substituting casual violence and bon mot banter for conversation and characterization.

MOTHER AND CHILD (R) The stories of three women—a 50-yearold health care professional (Annette Bening), the daughter (Naomi Watts) she gave up for adoption over 30 years earlier, and an African-American woman looking to adopt—unfold in writer-director Rodrigo García’s new film. García has made quite a career out of helming quality HBO series— “The Sopranos,” “Carnivale,” “Six Feet Under,” “Big Love,” “In Treatment.” His features—Passengers—have not fared as well. With Jimmy Smits and Samuel L. Jackson.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (R) A horribly scarred serial killer named Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) hunts a group of teens while they sleep. If they can’t stay awake, they die a horrible death in their dreams.

This remake of a horror classic has me more excited than any since Rob Zombie’s Halloween, and I might be more pumped for Nightmare. Haley (Watchmen’s Rorshach) is inspired casting, though Robert Englund leaves him a big glove, hat, and sweater to fill.

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” video director Samuel Bayer makes his feature debut.

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.

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.

PLEASE GIVE (R) In Friends with Money, filmmaker Nicole Holofcener’s newest film, a couple, Kate and Alex (Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt), plot to expand their New York City apartment. But things grind to a halt after they befriend their elderly neighbor Andra (Ann Guilbert) and butt heads with her granddaughters (Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet). One can easily imagine this film appealing to the fanbase Holofcener has built through Friends with Money, Walking and Talking, and Lovely & Amazing.

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

THE SECRET OF KELLS (NR) See Movie Pick.

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

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

THE 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.

A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES (NR) The Vietnamese residents of a New Orleans neighborhood known as Versailles worked hard to rebuild their world after Hurricane Katrina. Now a government-imposed toxic landfill threatens all their efforts. Winner of the New Orleans Film Festival’s Audience Award and the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Audience Award. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms.

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movie pick Tell Everyone the Secret THE SECRET OF KELLS (NR) An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature, the hand-drawn Secret of Kells is like a lost classic from another age. Director Tomm Moore has crafted a beautiful illuminated manuscript.

Every opulently detailed still could be framed.

His film is a tremendous little gem that I hope finds its audience.

In the Middle Ages, amid the barbarian invasions from the North, young Brendan lives in a walled city under the guardianship of his stern uncle, the Abbot Cellach (v. Brendan Gleeson). When Father Aidan, a master illuminator, seeks refuge in Kells, Brendan learns the methods behind the scribe’s mysterious art. While seeking berries to make ink, the young boy befriends a fairy named Aisling, who roams the woods surrounding the village.

But the Vikings are quickly approaching. What can a boy do to save the treasured book, as well as the people of Kells?

The Secret of Kells illustrates a sound objection to Roger Ebert’s “videogames are not art” (or “high art,” as he later recanted) argument.

Ebert gave the film three stars; without putting words in his mouth, I safely assume he would consider it artful. Yet anyone who has ever played a Legend of Zelda game since the Nintendo franchise upped the ante to 16-bits in the Super Nintendo entry, A Link to the Past, will recognize familiar imagery in Brendan’s adventures. The scribes and monstrous Vikings resemble the cel-shaded denizens of the Gamecube entry, The Wind Waker, while wolf-girl Aisling and her pack could double for the furry protagonist of the gorgeous, painterly, Zelda-inspired Okami.

None of my comparisons are meant to imply Moore copied his style from these earlier sources. I merely intuit that if his images are art when edited to tell Brendan’s story, they are most certainly art when they are composed to tell the many Hyrulian adventures of Link and Princess Zelda.

The Secret of Kells should be known to everyone, especially parents seeking a superior substitute to Furry Vengeance. Parents, despite the lack of a rating, the film is suitable for all ages, though your youngest may be a wee bit intimidated by the Viking invasions.

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To All Those Entering These Premises: Steve LaBate (Paste Magazine) and filmmaker Scott Sloan, both former Athens residents and pals since high school, are in the throes of producing the documentary 40 Nights of Rock & Roll. The idea is to travel our nation for 40 nights straight, filming bands at each stop, to demonstrate how our beloved music is not at all dead and, indeed, thrives everywhere from major cities to the smallest burgs. Confirmed participants include Ratt (yes, that one), Of Montreal, Reverend Horton Heat, legendary UK hardcore band Subhumans and others. The pair will film in Athens on Sunday, May 9 and shoot footage of locals Reptar and Bubbly Mommy Gun along with the honest-to-gosh good Baltimore band Future Islands. You can debate among yourselves if these bands fit the bill for a doc on rock and roll, but I’m not getting into it. Details, including the “secret” location can be found at 40nights.tumblr.com.

Veggie Tunes: The Athens Farmers Market at Bishop Park has completed the music scheduling for its 2010 season. The market will also host live music at its new downtown location at Little Kings Shuffle Club every Tuesday. The first couple of shows at Bishop Park are Caroline Aiken (8 a.m.) and the Sunny Side Up Band Dr. Arvin Scott (10 a.m.) on Saturday, May 8 and Jake and The Jake Mowrer Quartet (8 a.m.) and Mad Whiskey Grin (10 a.m.) on Saturday, May 15.

The market at Little Kings will run between 4 and 7 p.m. with one featured artist playing for at least an hour and a half during that time.

Carl Lindberg and Evan McGowen will perform at the first Little Kings Farmers Market on Tuesday, May 11. The Music Smiths are booked for May 18, and Justin Evans is set for May 25. A full schedule running all the way to November should be posted soon over at www. athensfarmersmarket.net.

Just Down the Road: A new music hall opened a couple of weeks ago in Winder, GA. Doc McGee’s, located at 14 Carl-Cedar Hill Rd., was designed to be a “musician’s Mecca” and is “all about nurturing the local music scene” and making it easily accessible for patrons.

Notable on its upcoming schedule is the May 7 performance by southeastern blues favorite, and Atlanta resident, Tinsley Ellis. For tickets, info, etc., please see www.docmcgees.com.

Rhythm Shitar: Long-time local rocker Steve Miller (The Ginger Envelope, Urbosleeks) is releasing two new tapes this spring on his cassette label, Hail Shitar. Metal band Savagist has a two-song demo on the label, and the other new one is a split tape between Back Talk and Cop Dope, with each band

doing a full album on its respective side. The tapes are available as we speak at Wuxtry Records, or you could drop a line to Miller at spitesmite@gmail.com and get them that way.

Scootin’ Through Georgia: Tim Sarassa, AKA Captain #1, did a scooter tour of Georgia (with one date in South Carolina) over the last couple of weeks and kicked the whole thing off with a show at the Terrapin brewery. He traveled between cities on his 50cc Yamaha Vino scooter carrying his guitar on his back.

I would have loved to have told y’all about this so you could have seen his tour kick-off show at the brewery, but Sarassa didn’t get me his info in time to go to print with it. This isn’t meant to be a slag on him at all but just a reminder to y’all to please get your news to me in advance of whatever you’re doing.

Luckily Sarassa kept a blog of his journey, which you can find at www.scooter-tour.com.

Plus, perhaps the most exiting aspect of his tour is still yet to come; when Captain #1 returns to Athens on May 8, he’ll celebrate the launch of the Just Me Records Balloon Release series at Clover Haus. That means songs will be released, literally, via balloon. For more information on this, please see www. justmerecords.com.

It’s the Time of the Season: Hope for Agoldensummer is getting back into the swing of playing live and will reemerge from a self-imposed break on Friday, May 7 at the 40 Watt. The band is currently working on completing its fourth full-length album, too.

Also on the bill that night are Venice Is Sinking and Barbez. The Venice kids recently had a song featured in a TV ad for Acura of Augusta and are excited about the June 15 release date of their newest album, Sand & Lines, that was recorded inside the old Georgia Theatre during an exhausting four-day session.

As cool as both of these things are, the band not to miss this night is New York’s Barbez.

The band, known as much for its covers of German composer Kurt Weill and its association with John Zorn as for its music proper, specializes in its own blend of European cabaret and folk styles. Renowned theremin player Pamelia Kurstin (David Byrne, et al.) is touring with Barbez, too. For more info see www. barbez.com and check out our feature story on p. 17.

Nu Beat: Dr. Arvin Scott’s new album, World Beat Nu Jazz, is now available online at, Athensmusic.net, CD Baby, iTunes and www. digstation.com/ArvinScott. This is Scott’s third album in the past 11 years. He’s deeply committed to pushing his musical boundaries, and the 12 tracks on the new album are evidence of this. Scott describes the album as “a masterful blend of acoustic traditions and electronica that appeals to all age groups.”

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upstart roundup Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent TUMBLEWEED STAMPEDE Dance/Jam/Folk Lineup: Benjamin Papillon, Colin Frawley, Stephen Pfannkuche, Daniel Tinsley, Tuna Fortuna and Brian Walter.

Former members of: The Peter Pancakes, Hans Darkbolt.

Influences: Wilco, Pavement, Built to Spill and The National.

for quite some time. In January of this year he got to work recording these songs at his childhood home over winter break, writing, producing and performing all parts of the record.

Lyrically, McFarland tends to write about love, which is a topic well-suited to his warm acoustic compositions. And although McFarland recorded alone, he hopes (Semicircle will grow into an expansive collective, a vision that is actually tied to the inspiration behind his stage name.

“I just really want to have the entire band set up in a semicircle rather than the traditional four-person square,” he says.

“And I want to get as many players as humanly possible: horns, strings… and we’ll all stand around one mic like an a cappella vocal group or like Packway Handle Band.”

McFarland wants to keep the ensemble as open as possible, and has even considered putting up posters around town with chords and lyrics to his songs attached, so anybody could learn the tunes and join him onstage. You can start practicing now with the songs posted at www.myspace.com/ semicircleathens.

Next show: Wednesday, May 5 @ Tasty World Uptown

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BRAVE NEW CITIZEN Experimental/Electron/Pop Rocks Lineup: Jay Nackashi, Jesse Flavin, Larry Tenner, Alex Nackashi. Former members of: Empire State, The Good Ship, Dream Girls, Beef Silence.

Influences: Natural surroundings, environmental hazards, strange perceptions, altered states, scenic overlooks and the tangled webs we weave.

“We learned recently that our music is danceable,” says frontman Jay Nackashi, most likely in reference to a recent Little Kings show that was suddenly overtaken by swaying—if slightly intoxicated—bodies and excited new fans. It shouldn’t really have come as a surprise. Brave New Citizen offers melodic, angular rock punctuated by funky synths and all kinds of understated electronic touches. Nackashi loves to experiment with new and weird instrumentation, and in his arsenal of keys, synth and guitars you’ll also find an autoharp and a malletKAT (a percussive MIDI device), among other surprises.

Perhaps the most striking feature of Tumbleweed Stampede’s breezy folk-rock is Daniel Tinsley’s clarinet, snaking up through the plucked guitars and banjo to add its uniquely whimsical accents. If you don’t have a chance to visit www.myspace.com/ tumbleweedathens to hear the tunes yourself, the band offers this vivid slice of imagery as an approximation of what its music sounds like: “A grainy black and white film clip of two people racing down a two-lane highway in a convertible on a sunny day while playing cards. The cards are flying away in the wind, but they don’t care; they’re just laughing about it. How are they driving the car and playing cards at the same time?

Inexplicable.”

Oh, and yeah, the bassist’s name really is Tuna Fortuna.

“I think even his mom calls him Tuna,” says singer Benjamin Papillon.

Next shows: Friday, May 7 @ Tasty World Uptown

(SEMICIRCLE Folk/Indie/Acoustic Lineup: Andrew McFarland with a rotating cast of players.

Also plays in: Reptar, Coco Rico. Influences: Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, Microphones.

Although best known in town as the propulsive drummer behind synth-pop band Reptar, Andrew McFarland is a multiinstrumentalist who has been composing songs as a solo artist

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FOUR EYES Winsome/Hopeful/Co-Ed Lineup: Erin Lovett and Jace Anselem Bartet. Also associated with: ‘Powers, 300 Cobras, Prizmatic Spray. Influences: Friendship and underdogs and bike rides and each other.

Athens has seen Bartet’s guitar shredding prowess in a number of former projects plus the inventive chiptunes compositions he creates under the name Prizmatic Spray, but this is Lovett’s very first band. They both alternate between guitar and ukulele, with Lovett’s warm vocals leading the way. This project is a charming experiment in collaboration and a compromise between a loving couple. “We became enamored of each other after meeting in October of last year and started making music together shortly thereafter,” says Bartet. “Erin’s musical proclivities are generally on the softer side of things, and since I probably listen to Manowar more than any other band, it’s a fun challenge to make songs that satisfy us both…

We’re trying to find a place where gentle, floating melodies can get along with my tendency toward bombastic riffing and shredding in a way that takes a simple, folksy love song and makes it kinetic.”

Four Eyes haven’t put together a website yet, but you can watch the video for their song “Autobiography” at www.vimeo. com/10684111.

Next show: Ohh, Boy!’s Grand Opening, tentatively scheduled for May.

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This group of scene vets came together for the first time in ‘08, but shows have been fairly sporadic until recently.

Nackashi promises more shows and a debut release in the near future. Sample the goods at www.myspace.com/ bravenewcitizen Next show: Saturday, May 8 @ Caledonia Lounge

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t’s not often that your band gets to play in front of a bunch of music executives in Nashville. Fourteen lucky bands, however, are a few steps closer to being heard by the people who could potentially make their careers take off. Sony Music Nashville, in conjunction with the UGA Music Business Program, is throwing an A&R Southern Talent Expo to showcase these deserving acts. At the end of the night, a panel of judges will offer one band the chance to play a private showcase for the executive staff of Sony Music in the land of the Grand Ole Opry and Kings of Leon.

The competition actually began last November, when Sony Music A&R representa-

Joining Radiolucent at the Expo will be local Athens power-popsters The Orkids, Doctor Squid and Leaving Araby, the countrytinged drunken gospel of Richard Sherfey and All God’s Children, the folk stylings of singer/songwriter Emily Hearn and acoustic rocker James Patrick Morgan. Rockers The Dirty Guv’nuhs are coming all the way from Knoxville, while country songstress Brittany Bennett has a relatively shorter drive from Gainesville, GA to make. The Less have a shorter trip as well, coming from just up the road in Atlanta. Rounding out the final 14 are the talented Fresh, The United States of Atlanta, Lauren Price and Brother, Brother.

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Radiolucent tive Duane Hobson put out the call for demos.

Over 100 artists submitted their work hoping to get selected for the Expo. That batch has been whittled down to 14 diverse acts from across the South that include everything from radio-friendly rock to country-pop to eclectic singer-songwriters. On Thursday these artists will take the stage, each getting just one song to impress the judges. It’s a nerve-wracking proposition, but local hopefuls Radiolucent are up for the challenge.

“Half of us are nervous,” says lead singer Mack Chambers, “but we’ve been doing this for so long. It’s not that it’s just another show, but we tend to take that nervousness and turn it into excitement.”

Chambers admits that the band went back and forth for nearly a month deciding what song to play at the Expo. In the end, they decided the safest bet was to go with the track that they submitted on the original demo, “Save the Drama (for Obama).”

“That’s what they chose us by, so we know that’s what they like,” he says.

Radiolucent certainly has what it takes to bend some ears in Nashville, with its mix of rockin’ electric guitar, soulful keyboards and twangy country vocals. These cowboys sound ready-made for the radio, with members citing influences as diverse as Otis Redding and Hank Williams.

“We’re not as good as those guys,” Chambers laughingly admits. “So, we just turn it up!”

With so many acts to choose from, it’s safe to say that audience response will have a big impact on the judges’ final call. Many of the groups already have well-established fan bases in Athens and Atlanta that they’re depending on to show up for the show. That’s one area where Radiolucent feels totally confident.

“The great thing is our main fanbase has already started showing up to support us,” says Chambers. “We’ve had about 120 people buy tickets… just for one song. Our fanbase is nuts in a great way, die hard… like Mötley Crüe fans minus the cocaine.”

If any of the aforementioned bands float your boat, this might be a good chance for you to help them get their feet off the ground.

Who knows? You may even find a new favorite artist during the night.

“We’re just hoping that more people get to hear us,” says Chambers. “We’re not going to turn down anyone who says, ‘Hey, let’s have a serious conversation about this,’ you know, in terms of a career. We just want more people to hear us and have fun.”

Jordan Stepp

WHAT: A&R Southern Talent Expo WHERE: The Melting Point WHEN: Thursday, May 6, 7 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $5

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait Two New Projects in the Works from Barbez

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took Brooklyn-based experimental ensemble Barbez three years to put together its last album, Force of Light, and it’s been three years since its release. Luckily, we don’t have to wait any longer to hear what composer Dan Kaufman and his band are crafting next.

“We’re incredibly slow,” Kaufman admits of Barbez’s writing and recording processes, but once you dig into the band’s back catalog you can understand why. Since forming in 1997, Barbez has consistently defied convention. Woven within its painstakingly crafted arrangements—drawing from Eastern European folk, contemporary classical, rock and jazz—are weighty stories that impress on the listener a sense of depth and beauty.

Insignificance, released in 2005, features a Brecht cabaret cover and the sultry vocals of Russian dancer-turned-alto Ksenia Vidyaykina.

The 2007 limited-run vinyl, Somebody Get Rid of the King, offers an instrumental homage to Mexico City and an anti-war track underscored by cello. And Force of Light, released by John Zorn’s experimental label TzadiK for its Radical Jewish Culture series, features the powerful poetry of Romanian Holocaust survivor Paul Celan. This is serious stuff… and we haven’t even gotten to the virtuoso theremin player yet.

Kaufman says that Barbez is actually working on two projects right now, and the subject matter is very much in the same spirit as the group’s earlier work.

“One of the records is based on the ancient Jewish melodies from the city of Rome, which has the oldest Jewish community in Europe,” he says. “It has this unique music that is neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardic. It’s hard to explain, but basically it’s older than any Jewish music most people are familiar with.

We reinterpreted, somewhat radically, some of these vocal melodies.”

Barbez presents these tunes as modern instrumental pieces with a “vaguely spaghettiWestern feel,” featuring a lush arrangement of strings, woodwind and percussion. And, as Kaufman says, “it kind of rocks,” with a delivery that’s heavier and louder than the muted soundscapes found on the last record.

If and when this record is completed, it will serve as another entry in Zorn’s series.

“Zorn had wanted us to make another record, and I thought this would fit into his Jewish music series in a way that would be both true to ourselves and true to what he wanted to do with his series—a re-imagining of Jewish music.”

The other project simultaneously in the works is a sort of political collage. “My day job is in journalism. I am a fact-checker at The New Yorker, and I worked really intensely on the Abu Ghraib story, and I’ve always had

a passion and sort of outrage about politics, particularly what’s been going on since 9/11.

I just felt like maybe making a commentary.

It’s fairly subtle, a lot of the stuff so far, but again the record is not done.”

From what Flagpole has recently ascertained, this record actually recalls elements of Force of Light in its weaving of spoken-word pieces with the music. Kaufman is particularly enthusiastic about a track which uses a YouTube fragment from the Iranian protests last year. The highly circulated video features a woman filming the protests from her rooftop, narrating poetically as shouts of “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) are heard in the streets.

Cut off from the rest of world, with no access to cell phones or traditional media outlets, the volume of their cries was her only insight into the progress of the protest. “It is a really powerful video,” says Kaufman.

Like several of Barbez’s previous releases and its enchanting live show, a highlight of these two projects will surely be Pamelia Kurstin’s unparalleled theremin performance.

She has transformed what was once considered a sort of horror-flick novelty into an expressive instrument whose intricate tones and melodies go far beyond “Good Vibrations.”

Kurstin plays the theremin with immaculate precision, pinching and plucking the air to create the illusion of separate notes along the instrument’s electromagnetic continuum of pitch and volume. It’s like watching someone play an invisible violin—or cello or bass depending on the pitch she selects. As Kurstin describes during a TEDtalk online (www. ted.com), this is extraordinarily challenging because the theremin is very sensitive to even the most subtle body movements. Even breathing heavily can effect the tone. “It’s a yoga instrument,” she says, “because it makes you so aware of every crazy little thing your body is doing.” With the steadiness of a Zen master, Kurstin coaxes out the kind of evocative tones usually reserved for strings.

Kaufman says that Athens will be treated to a preview of both of the band’s upcoming works plus a few of its older compositions.

“I have a soft spot for Athens,” Kaufman says, “I never feel that anybody pigeon-holes you… people just care about good music— whatever that falls into.”

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Tuesday 4 KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Family Afternoon at the (Described) Movies (ACC Library) Showing Pocohontas. Film features a non-intrusive narrative track for visually impaired viewers. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Hooray for Worms Storytime (ACC Library) This week’s storytime includes a visit from some recycling worms, a wormy craft and a screening of The Diary of a Worm! Ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? 8 p.m. 706548-3442

Wednesday 5 EVENTS: Compost Bin Sale (ACC Solid Waste Department) Take waste reduction to the next level by purchasing a compost bin. All proceeds benefit Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful. 5–7 p.m. 706-613-3501 EVENTS: Girls Night Out (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Cocktail Hour starts at 5 p.m. Featuring karaoke in the atrium. Wednesday is also oyster night! 5 p.m. 706-354-6655 ART: 6X6: “Nature” (Ciné Barcafé) Artist and curator Kim Kirby presents the third of six media arts events featuring video, sound and performance art. See full schedule online. 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.headic. blogspot.com PERFORMANCE: Word of Mouth (The Globe) Open poetry reading held on the first Wednesday of every month. Tonight’s featured reader is Bellah Sparxxx. 8 p.m. www. athenswordofmouth.com KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18

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months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Hooray for Worms Storytime (ACC Library) This week’s storytime includes a visit from some recycling worms, a wormy craft and a screening of The Diary of a Worm! Ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 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: Tikes, Trikes and Strollers: Cinco de Mayo (Greenway) Bring a stroller, tricycle, bike or scooter and take a quick spin down the Greenway. Enjoy crafts and refreshments following the ride. 10 a.m. $2. 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday For Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Homemade Books. Bind and decorate your own books! For ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Word of Mouth (The Globe) Monthly poetry readings every first Wednesday. The featured reader this week is Bellah Sparxxx. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenswordofmouth.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 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.

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 (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).

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Thursday 6 PERFORMANCE: Caberet at Cine (Ciné Barcafé) Formerly an invitation-only living room concert series, this First Sundays Caberet features an eclectic lineup of performers, including musicians Marty Winkler, Michael C. Steele, Mitch Rothstein and Rick Fowler, comediennes Lisa Mende and Stephanie Astalos-Jones, poet Aralee Strange and writer/storyteller Noel Wesley Holston. 7 p.m. 706-353-3343, www.athenscine.com PERFORMANCE: Lowdown Comedy Showcase of Champions (New Earth Music Hall) Lowdown Comedy is back with its first ever “Showcase of Champions” headlined by “Atlanta’s Best Comedian” Jarrod Harris. Featuring past winners such as Tammy Imig, TJ Young and Jeff Dineen. 9 p.m. $6. www.newearthmusichall.com KIDSTUFF: Frog Club (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Hop around and explore nature! 3:30–5:30 p.m. 706613-3615 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: 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 MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (Sandy Creek Nature Center, ENSAT building) Conservation Botanist at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia Linda Chafin discusses the Memorial Park Weed Warriors’ efforts to rid the park of exotic invasive plants. Come early for a plant swap! New members welcome! Ages 13 and up. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615, www. oconeeriversaudubon.org 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

Friday 7 EVENTS: Courteous Mass (Athens City Hall) BikeAthens’ monthly, casual-pace bike ride of 5–6 miles around town. A good opportunity for less-experienced cyclists to ride safely on the streets, and a demonstration in support of balanced transportation choices. Bring a helmet and water. 6 p.m. FREE! www. bikeathens.com.

EVENTS: Grady Fest (Morton Theatre) Showcase honoring the best in student video production at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Brief awards

The late Georgia artist Annie Wellborn’s painting, “Where Annie’s Children Were Raised,” is part of “The Mother Show III: Art on the Theme of Motherhood” at the Visionary Growth Gallery through June 27. ceremony follows. 7–9:30 p.m.

FREE! www.grady.uga.edu EVENTS: Sacred Earth Farmers Market (Flora Hydroponics, 195 Paradise Blvd.) The Sacred Earth Growers Co-Op sets up their yearround farmers’ market. Organic meat and dairy vendors, produce vendors, local artisans and more help to make this an exciting new addition to your weekend. 3–7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2223 EVENTS: Ultimate Ladies Night (Alibi) Enter a “Hot Mama Contest” or a raffle for your chance to win great prizes including an entire year of flowers! Proceeds benefit Greater Works Outreach. Call for more information. 706-549-1010 ART: Reception (Good Dirt, 510 N. Thomas St.) For an exhibit featuring the work of emerging clay artists Todd Runkle, Julie Green, Carrie and Gabe Sealey-Morris and Eduardo de la Torre. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www. gooddirt.net ART: Reception (Lyndon House Arts Center) For “Beyond the Fig Leaf: Clothing as Wearable Art,” an exhibit featuring the artwork of seniors from the Athens-Clarke County Senior Center and students from Chase Street Elementary School. Reception runs 10:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706613-3623 ART: Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Galleries 101 & 307) For Lamar Dodd School of Art’s BFA exit show, featuring work by students in fabric design, interior design, art X and ceramics. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www. art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Athens Symphony Pops Concert (The Classic Center) You’re welcome to bring a picnic basket to this free concert by the Athens Symphony!

Tickets are required for entry. May 7 & 8, 8 p.m. FREE! 706-357-4444 PERFORMANCE: Oconee Youth School of Performance Spring Showcase (The Classic Center) OYSP, named “Best Studio” five years in a row at the Access Broadway regional talent competition, presents its annual showcase.

The studio’s dance and musical theatre classes and companies perform. May 7–8, 7 p.m. May 9, 3:30 p.m. $16. 706-769-2667, www. oypoysp.com OUTDOORS: First Fridays at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Get to know the Garden’s staff at this casual breakfast social and discover staff members’ favorite parts of the Garden on a guided tour.

9–10:20 a.m. $10. www.uga.edu/ botgarden MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Informal, inclusive and progressive social group that gives left-leaning individuals a chance to talk politics.

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

Saturday 8 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Don’t miss the 2010 premiere of the local market!

Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–Noon. Athens Farmers Market. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Diggin’ for Deals (Homewood Village Shopping Center) The Junior Ladies’ Garden Club hosts an upscale rummage

sale. Find furniture, garden items, housewares and more! 7:30 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! www.juniorladiesgc.org/ home.html EVENTS: Grand Opening (The Bad Manor) The Bad Manor will celebrate its grand opening with a concert from Fly By Radio. The event will be hosted by Isaac Stout and Cohutta Grindstaff from MTV’s “The Real World.” 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com EVENTS: Rock N Relief (Oconee High School Football Field) This allday carnival event serves as benefit for the relief efforts in Haiti. There will be live music by local bands all day, including Charlie Garrett Band, The Warm Fuzzies, Dusty Lightswitch and more! Check live music listings for details. 1:30 p.m.–10 p.m. $10. www.oconee.k12. ga.us/ochs EVENTS: Sacred Earth Farmers Market (Flora Hydroponics, 195 Paradise Blvd.) The Sacred Earth Growers Co-Op sets up their yearround farmers’ market. See Calendar May 7 Events. 3–7 p.m. FREE! 706353-2223 PERFORMANCE: Athens Symphony Pops Concert (The Classic Center) You’re welcome to bring a picnic basket to this free concert by the Athens Symphony!

Tickets are required for entry. May 7 & 8, 8 p.m. FREE! 706-357-4444 PERFORMANCE: Movement Arts Performance (Floorspace) Check out a performance by regional bellydancers followed by fire dance and poi. 8 p.m. $7. 706-372-1833 PERFORMANCE: Oconee Youth School of Performance Spring Showcase (The Classic Center) The studio’s dance and musical theatre classes and companies perform.

See Calendar May 7 Performance.

May 7–8, 7 p.m. May 9, 3:30 p.m. $16. 706-769-2667, www.oypoysp. com OUTDOORS: Saturday Strolls at Harris Shoals (Harris Shoals Park, Watkinsville) Explore nature next door with this series of walks led by local naturalists and artists. Dr. Robert Wyatt, a retired professor of Botany and Ecology at UGA, leads the second stroll of this three-month series sponsored by the Oconee County Democrats. From 9–10 a.m. $5. 706-353-8310, ppriest@ charter.net KIDSTUFF: Fun in Bobby’s Learning Garden (Sandy Creek Park) Register your junior gardeners for a morning of planting, crafts, storytime and games! 9–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3631 KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join Center staff for nature stories. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6133615

Sunday 9 ART: Mother’s Day Art Reception (Visionary Growth Gallery) Celebrate Mother’s Day with an art exhibit devoted to her! “The Mother Show III: Art on the Theme of Motherhood” features work by dozens of artists including Cindy Jerrell, Peter Loose, Annie Wellborn and C. Keen Zero.

Artist and gallery owner Robert Lowery will also be creating special mother portraits between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. by appointment only. 4–7 p.m. FREE! 706-363-0393, www. visgrow.com ART: Opening Reception (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) For “Linda Fraser Returns to the Garden,” an exhibit featuring watercolors by Linda Fraser. 2 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/botgarden PERFORMANCE: Oconee Youth School of Performance Spring Showcase (The Classic Center) The studio’s dance and musical theatre classes and companies perform.

See Calendar May 7 Performance.

May 7–8, 7 p.m. May 9, 3:30 p.m. $16. 706-769-2667, www.oypoysp. com OUTDOORS: Mother’s Day at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A bouquet is always appreciated, but why not spend the day with Mom in a floral wonderland?

The Garden offers dining at the Gardenside Cafe, professional portraiture and live music by the local Classic City Band. 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/botgarden GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Test your trivia! 6:30 p.m. (sign in), 7 p.m. (start). 706-3546655

Monday 10 EVENTS: Community Town Hall Meeting (ACC Library) Representatives Keith Heard and Doug McKillip host this town hall to discuss the 2010 Georgia Legislative Session. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-5491142 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Classic City Media Group (ACC Library) Learn about Athens’ newest media outlet and lend your voice to this informational meeting and discussion. Space is limited; call to RSVP. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-352-0677, brian.smith.ccmg@ gmail.com GAMES: Game Night (The Pub at Gameday) New games including Wii bowling! 706-353-2831

GAMES: Ping Pong (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Get your paddle ready for a riveting round of table tennis. 4–8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar 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 GAMES: Trivia and Karaoke and Pool (Alibi) Handsome Ken has his hands full hosting various bar games to keep you happy. 9 p.m.

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Tuesday 11 EVENTS: Senior Picnic (Call for location) Athens-Clarke County celebrates Older Americans Month with a picnic. Share your favorite picnic staples with some good company!

10 a.m.–2 p.m. $2 706-613-3800 PERFORMANCE: Georgia Children’s Chorus (UGA Hodgson Hall) The chorus presents “Voices Raised in Song…How Sweet The Sound.” Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 7 p.m. $5. www.uga.edu/pac, www.georgiachildrenschorus.org KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is Jessica Baptiste’s Shopping for Shoes: A Collection of Short Stories.

Newcomers welcome. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Athens Area Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) Meet up with other fibercraft enthusiasts the second Tuesday of each month. 12:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3623 MEETINGS: Genealogy Society (The Peoples Financial Center, Winder) Hank Segars, this month’s featured speaker, discusses the importance of family stories. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.rootsweb.com/~gaeggs MEETINGS: Great Decisions Discussion Group (ACC Library) Group meets every Tuesday through May 25 to discuss U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Space is limited. Contact Jeff Tate to sign up.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, jtate@ athenslibrary.org GAMES: Blind Draw Poker (Fat Daddy’s) Bring your poker face. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 GAMES: Dart Tournament (The Pub at Gameday) Compete against other bar game extraordinaires. 706353-2831 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? 8 p.m. 706548-3442

Wednesday 12 EVENTS: Girls Night Out (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 5 p.m. 706-3546655

PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Local drag troupe. 10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub THEATRE: Charlotte’s Web (SeneyStovall Chapel) Kids will delight in this musical adaptation of E.B. White’s classic tale of Wilbur and his talented, spindly friend, Charlotte.

May 12 & 13, 9 & 11 a.m. www. roseofathens.org KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Mar. 3–May 12, Wednesdays, $13. 706613-3515, www.sandycreeknaturecenter.com KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Game Day. Don’t worry–no football prowess necessary. Play board games with your inside friends! Ages 11-18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended crochet needles. Newcomers welcome.

1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 GAMES: Dart 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.

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 (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 LECTURES & LIT.: VOX Reading Series 5/14 (ATHICA) 7–9 p.m. $3–$6 (suggested donation), www. athica.org MEETINGS: Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art Annual Meeting 5/14 (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151) The Friends of the Museum celebrate the past year’s achievements and announce the 2010 recipient of the “Smitty,” the M. Smith Griffith Volunteer of the Year Award. A reception and hard-hat tours of the new GMOA will follow. Open to the public. 5:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-542-0437 MEETINGS: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 5/14 (Trumps on Milledge) 9 a.m. 706-549-7350, www.olli.uga.edu EVENTS: Annual Book Sale 5/15 (Front Porch Bookstore) Stock up on summer reading material and listen to readings from local authors! 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market 5/15 (Bishop Park) 8 a.m.–Noon.

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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 EVENTS: Mule Day 5/15 (Shields Ethridge Heritage Farm) 10 a.m.–3 p.m. $5 (adults), FREE! (kids). 706367-2949 KIDSTUFF: Nature Trading Post 5/15 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) 11 a.m.–noon. FREE! 706-613-3615 OUTDOORS: Arborist’s Walk 5/15 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) The County Arborist leads a hike down Cook’s Trail. Bring insect repellant and some water and get familiar with Georgia’s native trees. All ages. 10 a.m.–noon, FREE! 706-613-3800 OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk 5/15 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Search for signs of spring when you join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706613-3615 EVENTS: Birchmore Trail Day 5/16 (Memorial Park) 10th annual event includes games and activities for children, scavenger hunts on the trail and a chance to meet legendary Athenian Fred Birchmore. 2–4 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3512 PERFORMANCE: Athens Youth Symphony 5/16 (UGA Hodgson Hall) Co-sponsored by the UGA Office of Performing Arts. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-543-1907 OUTDOORS: Spring Bird Hike 5/18 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Join the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society for a morning bird walk. All birding levels are welcome. Ages 13 & up. 8 a.m. FREE! fieldtrip@ oconeeriversaudubon.org LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books 5/19 (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist. Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 EVENTS: Bike to Work Day 5/21 (Downtown Athens) FREE! www. bikeathens.com ART: Closing Reception and Gala 5/22 (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, 34 School St., Watkinsville) For “Let’s Go Postal,” an exhibit featuring postcard dabblings and masterpieces by artists from all over the country. Bid on select works in a silent auction and reward your palate in The Ultimate Taste Showdown, a competition between chefs and their celebrity assistants. Proceeds benefit the Sculpture Garden. 6–8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (after May 15). 706-769-4565, www. ocaf.com KIDSTUFF: Taps for Tots 5/22 (ACC Library) 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 OUTDOORS: Pool Open House 5/22 (Green Acres Pool) Start swim season right with FREE! admission to the pool for two weekends! May 22 & 29, 10 a.m.–7 p.m. May 23 & 30, 1–7 p.m. FREE! www.greenacrespool.org ART: Closing Reception 5/30 (ATHICA) For “Deluge,” the spring exhibition featuring paintings, photography, embroidery and sculpture to address concerns about global warming, land use issues and the social impact of floods. 3:30–6 p.m.

FREE! www.athica.org EVENTS: Memorial Day in Memorial Park 5/31 (Memorial Park) An afternoon of music, crafts and activities to celebrate Memorial Day weekend. Noon–3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3580

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OUTDOORS: First Fridays at the Garden 6/4 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Get to know the Garden’s staff at this casual breakfast social and discover staff members’ favorite parts of the Garden on a guided tour.

9–10:20 a.m. $10. www.uga.edu/ botgarden EVENTS: Opening Reception 6/6 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) For “Spirit of the Land.” The exhibit and affiliated events are meant to increase awareness about shrinking greenspace. All work is for sale and benefits the Athens Land Trust and the Oconee River Land Trust. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6156, www. uga.edu/botgarden MEETINGS: Athens Area Fibercraft Guild 6/8 (Lyndon House Arts Center) 12:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3623 ART: Five Points Art Fest 6/12 (Five Points) Paintings, hand-crafted jewelry, ceramics, drawings and more are on display on the lawns of Five Points boutiques. Also featuring a KidZone area with games and crafts this year. Light refreshments.

Noon–7 p.m. FREE! www.visit5points.com ART: Athens Sculpture Festival 6/24 (The Classic Center) The first annual juried exhibition and sale features the work of over 20 local artists including Beverly Babb, Matt Boland, Jaclyn Enck, Will Eskridge and Stan Mullins. June 24–26, 706-208-0900, www.athenssculpturefestival.com * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 4 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.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.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar OPEN TOAD COMEDY A unique open mic experience. The audience gets to pelt the performers who go over their six-minute time limit with foam rocks. Performers get in free but must sign up by 8 p.m.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar MARK BAILY Local singer/songwriter with down home Americana roots.

LEAVING ARABY Pop-rock quartet with a style akin to yesteryear radio sweethearts Goo Goo Dolls, Gin Blossoms and the like.

AUSTIN SISK Melodic local songwriter who often infuses his work with a Christian message.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND An eclectic blend of traditional and contemporary acoustic music. Part of Melting Point’s weekly bluegrass series, the Terrapin Tuesday Bluegrass Series.

Wednesday 5 283 Bar 10 p.m. 706-208-1283 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up highenergy electro and rock.

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

Caledonia Lounge Cinco de Mayo Party! 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com LA SUEGRA This high-energy ska band from Atlanta features Spanish lead vocals and a lively horn section.

LOS MEESFITS The music of The Misfits done in Spanish/Cuban salsa style. See Calendar Pick on p. 21.

SHITTY CANDY AND THE CIRCUS PEANUTS Local femme punk crew Shitty Candy “throws some bitch punk in your face.” The Circus Peanuts are the crew of backup dancers costumed in quirky burlesque-like attire.

SO IT GOES CD Release! Socially conscious punk rock band that infuses elements of Spanish rock, folk and ska.

El Centro 11 p.m. $1. 706-548-5700 ASHUTTO MIRRA This alternative rock quartet features members of alterna-soul group The Revival.

Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MAPS AND TRANSIT Featuring Kyle Dawkins of Georgia Guitar Quartet, this local instrumental duo creates diverse soundscapes using a wide range of instrumentation–from the more traditional guitar and mandolin to experimental sounds made by radios or kitchen implements.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 11:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar A POSTWAR DRAMA Local act plays folk-rock with an occasional Eastern European bent. Dramatic tales of loss and hardship are mixed with driving, upbeat stomps.

SHALLOW PALACE Riff-heavy, bluesy rock and roll with sheer punk-rock energy.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar BRUTAL CLOTH Featuring Mercer West and his cousin in from out of town to play “d-beat punk.”

DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. Dance party starts at midnight.

MUCHOS GRACIAS Mercer West and David Specht play lead guitar and bass guitar, respectively. Drum/ singing tryouts to those willing, tonight and perpetually!

TRUNK DRUIDS Will Donaldson, Adam Bewley and John Richardson play effects-laden, dreamy noise rock.

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.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub BEN BEDFORD Solo musician performing Americana-infused folk.

His latest album, Lincoln’s Man, was released on his own label, Hopeful Sky Records.

ADAM KLEIN Singer-songwriter who blends the finest elements of folk, Americana and country with poetic lyricism and striking imagery to create engaging, well-crafted songs.

NUTRIA This rootsy local powerpop band features former members of The Eskimos and The Possibilities.

The Melting Point 6–10 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com BIG DADDY’S BAND Clarence Young (Rack of Spam, The Jesters) teams up with Bill Pappas, Kenny Head (The Georgia Satellites), Tim Pritchett and Chris Hillsman to turn out some good-time Southern rock and covers from the ‘70s and ‘80s, including the Allman Bros., Steely Dan and Michael McDonald.

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

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

Roadhouse 11 p.m. $1. 706-613-2324 JOHN SOSEBEE BAND These Georgia natives play hill country/ Mississippi blues and the occasional Hendrix cover.

Tasty World Uptown 9:30 p.m. $5. www.tastyworlduptown. com (SEMICIRCLE Brand-new local project featuring dreamy vocals, sweeping strings and gently plucked acoustic guitar.

BEN PAPILLON Frontman for Tumbleweed Stampede performs a solo acoustic set.

QURIOUS This Atlanta group creates spacey soundscapes featuring dreamy female vocals, samples and synthesizers.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com 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.

Thursday 6 40 Watt Club Georgia Theatre Presents. 8 p.m. $30 (adv.) www.40watt.com MATT ANDERSEN Musical hybrid of blues, roots and rock paired with an enigmatic personality and largerthan-life showmanship.

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Nashville-based group plays oldtime rootsy Americana including bluegrass and folk with heartwarming passion.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com COUNT KELLAM Former Athenian Count Kellam sings Jeff Buckleyesque breezy, sweeping ballads.

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

SEA OF DOGS Songwriter and banjopicker Emily Armond leads this endearing folk group with disarming honesty, candid lyrics and warm harmonies.

DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 MAGGIE HUNTER Local folk rocker.

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DePalma’s on Timothy Road every Thursday!

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND This local act offers three-part harmonies and ramblin’, upbeat bluegrass on acoustic guitar, banjo and mandolin.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar TWO CALEYS DIVDED Caley Smith and Caley Ross from quirky folk duo A Tale of Two Caleys each play a solo set tonight!

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Gnat’s Landing 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net TJ MIMBS This local acoustic singersongwriter plays everything from hip-hop covers to alternative rock backed by loops and samples.

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

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Hotel Indigo “Live After Five.” 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athensdowntownhotel.com DERRICK SOUTHERLAND Local singer-songwriter sings sweetly about young love, timeless heartbreak and text messages.

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Little Kings Shuffle Club 8 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub JUSTIN EVANS Local musician with rich, deep voice who sings about hard drinkin’, fast women and country roads. Evans brings in old school fiddle, New Orleans jazz, blues and Americana.

KATE MORRISSEY Best known throughout this corridor for her dark velvet voice that stands on its own, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor.

The Melting Point “A&R Southern Talent Expo.” 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com “A&R SOUTHERN TALENT EXPO.” CHILDREN Selected out of over 100 entries, these 14 finalists will have one song to impress a panel of judges for their chance to perform a private showcase for the exec staff of Sony Music in Nashville. Showcasing acts include Radiolucent, Leaving Araby, Richard Sherfey and All God’s Children, Dirty Guv’nahs, The Orkids and more! See story on p. 14.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $10. www.newearthmusichall. com DA BLOCK IS HOT SUMMER BASH Hosted by Miss CEO and Majah Ent. Featuring DJ King Lee, Fubu, and DJ Rich Rock with Microphone Beat Down Set featuring Lil Nard, Dirt Reynolds, Most Wanted, Beans w/ M.O.E and many more!

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 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS LeFever and her band play groovable dance tunes, sweet pop, classic rock and originals. Bobby Mobley from Atlanta recently joined the band on keyboards.

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Live, the two achieve a thick, layered sound through sound modules, sampling boxes and an array of pedals.

TANGENTS This country-fried rock group from Watkinsville carries Lynyrd Skynyrd licks and John Mellencamp melodies.

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.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com ASHUTTO MIRRA This alternative rock quartet features members of alterna-soul group The Revival.

Friday 7 283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! (until 11 p.m), $2 (after 11 p.m.). 706-208-1283 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up high-energy electro and rock for this Friday Night Dance Party!

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.40watt. com BARBEZ Performing with worldrenowned theremin player Pamelia Kurstin, this experimental ensemble from Brooklyn plays mostly instrumental arrangements influenced by cabaret, Middle Eastern rhythms, jazz and rock, which are sometimes woven with spoken word pieces. See story on p. 15.

HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER Charming and highly praised local neo-folk band delivers the thriftstore gospel featuring the captivating vocal harmonies of the Campbell sisters.

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

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 AFTERSHOCK Rock covers.

Boar’s Head 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 JUSTIN BROGDON Rock vet Justin Brogdon puts a lot of Southern soul into his epic songs, drawing from artists like The Black Crowes and Tom Petty.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CALEB CAUDLE & THE BAYONETS Offering a blend of alt-country and indie rock, this band’s latest album was recorded at Asheville’s Echo Mountain Studios with engineer Jon Ashley (Avett Brothers, Band of Horses).

EASTER ISLAND Self-described as Pedro the Lion meets Stars without the female vocalist, this local act features John Cable (drums), Asher Payne (keys), Ethan Payne (guitar), Andrew Terrell (bass) and Nathan Thompson.

BENJI HUGHES Charlotte singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose blend of styles defies convention, but touches on quirky pop ballads. Performing as a trio tonight featuring slightly stripped-down, in-

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timate renditions of Hughes’ staples, along with some new material and other surprises.

PART BEAR Local songwriter Gray Griggs fronts this classic-rock-leaning band featuring a fun, energetic live show.

Club Chrome 8 p.m. 706-543-9009 GEORGIA WHISKEY Athens locals know their way around bluesy Southern rock.

Doc McGee’s 9 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20. www.docmcgees.com MIKE DELANEY Owner of custom electric guitars shop Delaney Guitars, Delaney plays an array of blues, soul, rock and funk songs.

TINSLEY ELLIS Electrifying Southern blues-rock.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original mixes of mainly current pop with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar BRER PALADIN Melodic stories from Corey Loomis accompanied by Roy Coughlin on guitar, bass and more.

ROY COUGHLIN Local musician plays heartfelt, upbeat melodic numbers over acoustic guitar.

SUGAR DICKS The tastfully named Sugar Dicks churn out garage rock the way it’s meant to be played: dirty, greasy and raw.

GABE VODICKA Says Expat Recordings: “Subtly Southern, darkly melodic and effortlessly intuitive, Vodicka sings his way around death like a dance prizefighter.”

The Globe 10 p.m. 706-353-4721 BREATHLANES Led by guitarist/ composer John Miley, Breathlanes features atmospheric, organic tones built around guitar, drums and stand-up bass. Tonight’s lineup includes Dave Spivey (keys), Steve Abercrombie (bass) and Nathan Hale (drums).

Gnat’s Landing 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 NATHAN SHEPPARD Emotive singing style and modern reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan and Neil Young to Van Morrison.

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING SERVICE Local six-piece ensemble plays loud and loose straight-ahead rock with dueling vocals.

DJ GRAVEROBBERS Winston Parker spins high-energy electronic, dance and rock music. Dance party begins at midnight.

THIEVES MARKET Local alternative rock band.

XAVII Moody, dark, progressive rock from Macon, GA. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub “DR. FRED’S KARAOKE” Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $6 (adv.), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com DEATH ON TWO WHEELS Atlanta band that doesn’t restrict itself to a

single genre; expect sounds ranging from indie pop to heavy alternative, delivered with a Southern drawl.

DIRTY GUV’NAHS Knoxville natives play roots-rock with a wailing Hammond organ and ‘60s-style soul vocals.

New Earth Music Hall 8 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com FINAL-LY End-of-the-school-year bash featuring bands, DJs and a slideshow of clips. Posters, tickets, memorabilia and other prizes will be given away throughout the night.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With The Singing Cowboy.

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

THE TORCH SINGERS Danceable, straightahead rock and roll duo based here in town.

Tasty World Uptown 9:30 p.m. $5. www.tastyworlduptown. com DAN THE JUGGLER Having recently formed among students who met through the Music Business Program, this band is known for getting crowds hyped with covers.

RICHARD SHERFEY AND ALL GOD’S CHILDREN Fronted by singer Richard Sherfey, All God’s Children includes members of Hey, Revolution! and Modern Skirts.

TUMBLEWEED STAMPEDE Adventurous and energetic dancejam-folk sextet play party music with folksy and surfy touches. Check out the Upstart Roundup profile on p.13.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com SCREEN DOOR PORCH Groove injected alt-folk and soulful Americana combining ambient textures, dirty slide guitar and country-sweet harmonies.

VFW 7 p.m. $7. 706-543-5940 POWER PLAY Live band playing country, rock and pop from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s!

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

Saturday 8 283 Bar 10 p.m. 706-208-1283 KUROMA Hank Sullivant’s (exWhigs, MGMT) band has a big rock sound, fueled by Queen-esque guitar solos, dreamy vocals and an affinity for stage theatrics.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 THE ANTIDOTE Local band plays bluesy rock covers and originals.

KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

The Bad Manor Grand Opening! 9 p.m. FREE! www. badmanor.com FLY BY RADIO High-energy ‘80s, hair metal and hard rock cover band from Birmingham.

Cinco de Mayo

Los Meesfits, So It Goes, Shitty Candy and the Circus Peanuts, La Suegra Caledonia Lounge As summer approaches, it’s brainstorming season.

Perfect weather for hours spent on front porches, drinking up great ideas.

So many great ideas, most of which are destined never to grow beyond their embryonic stages of development. But take heed: sometimes they might rise from their boozy graves to bear fruit. Eric Hernandez hatched the concept years ago: a mariachi-style take on punk legends Los Meesfits The Misfits. It wasn’t to be—until Wuxtry/Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records grand poobah Mike Turner forced Eric’s hand. It’s true: Los Meesfits were booked before they even existed, proper. “I said, ‘I don’t have a band,’” says Hernandez. “He said, ‘Well, you will. You have a month. Get started.’”

Hernandez consequently suited up with some bongos and recruited New Orleans transplant Adam Hebert on acoustic guitar and notorious sidewalk bagpipe player Jeff Terry on upright bass. The trio set about not only setting The Misfits’ horror-show punk anthems to Latin rhythms, but also translating their cartoonishly grisly lyrics into Spanish. “I have a knack for using a lot of slang,” says Hernandez. “My dad helps me out some. He’ll call me up and say, ‘I don’t know what the hell you’re trying to say. What’s this about raping babies?’ I’m just like, ‘Trust me, Dad, it works in the song.’” Suffice it to say, many of the translations are unprintable in either language.

Having recently added Celeste Josephine on “the big bad drum” (a custom-made djembe from Africa), the group has evolved from a brilliant yet unlikely concept into a bona fide party. It speaks volumes that many dancers in the audience respond less to the gimmick and more to the rhythms—leading, sometimes, to alarmed confusion.

“I’ve heard stories about people having friends who speak fluent Spanish who say to them, ‘Why are these guys so revolutionary and angry and talking about demons? These guys are really militant!’” The band’s upcoming show on Wednesday, May 5—Cinco de Mayo—is a total no-duh grand slam. [Jeff Tobias]

Bishop Park 8 a.m.–Noon. Athens Farmers Market.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net CAROLINE AIKEN Renowned acoustic folk artist Caroline Aiken shared the stage with The Indigo Girls for some time. Her soulful voice purrs and growls the blues over bright finger-picking. Her solo set starts at 8 a.m.

CAROLINE AIKEN AND THE YUMMY HORS D’OEUVRES This collective features Wilma, Pam Blanchard, Jamie Cook, John Miley and Eddie Glicken. Set begins at 11:15 a.m.

SUNNY-SIDE UP BAND Pam Blanchard and her group of goodspirited musicians perform pop music for kids and the entire family.

Set starts at 10 a.m.

Boar’s Head 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan and Neil Young to Van Morrison.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BRAVE NEW CITIZEN This local band plays experimental electro-pop with lots of synth and uncoventional instrumentation. Featuring Jay Nackashi (ex-Empire State), Alex Nackashi, Jesse Flavin and Larry Tenner.

GUAM HIGH Simple and straightforward guitar riffs with vocals similar to The Hives.

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

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

Club Chrome 8 p.m. 706-543-9009 JAMI GROOMS Country influenced Southern rock influenced by Jim Croce, John Prine and Merle Haggard.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MAD WHISKEY GRIN Local duo featuring masterful guitarist Frank Williams, who slides and fingerpicks his way through bluesy and decidedly American sounds, plus the smoky vocals of Nancy Byron.

STEREOFIDELICS This Asheville duo has “the energy of bluegrass, the seduction of Latin, the freedom of jazz and the raw passion of hard rock driven by instinctive musicianship.”

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar NESEY GALLONS AND FRIENDS E6 collaborator whose mostly acoustic numbers feature whimsical lyrics sung with quavering sincerity over acoustic guitar with flourishes of xylophone and organ.

Floorspace 8:30 p.m. $7. floorspaceathens.com DISCORDIA Billed as “a guy, a bunch of instruments and a dancer,” this duo from Greenville, SC draws inspiration from the across the globe—from cabaret to Klezmer— with plenty of theatrical flourishes.

Gnat’s Landing 7–9 p.m. 706-850-5858 MY NEXT FRIEND No info available.

Go Bar 12 a.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta faves. Dance party at midnight.

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

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

O MELLO CELLO TREE Acoustic, near neo-folk duo comprised of Darby Tollison and Sarah Clanton.

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Oconee High School Football Field Rock N Relief Haiti Benefit. 1:30 p.m.–10 p.m. $10. www.oconee.k12. ga.us/ochs ATHENS Young local rockers ranging in age from 11-15, with classic rock influences. (2:30 p.m.)

CHARLIE GARRETT BAND Local guys Charlie Garrett (vocals, guitar), Jay Rodgers (bass), Andrew Hammer (drums) and Matt “Pistol” Stoessel (pedal steel) play countrytinged Southern rock. (5 p.m.)

DUSTY LIGHTSWITCH Described as “one of the most exciting and satisfying live bands in town” by our own Gordon Lamb, this revolving cast of local eccentrics delivers rock and roll with epic possibilites. (6 p.m.)

THE RATTLERS Relay for Life fundraiser featuring Athens’ own energetic Southern rockers with a guitar-driven sound and an exciting show that often features surprise special guests. (9 p.m.)

SECOND SUNS New band featuring Camp Amped alumni. (4 p.m.)

TEALVOX Local teenage indie-rock band that draws inspiration from acts such as Coldplay, U2 and The Beatles. (7 p.m.)

THE WARM FUZZIES Weezerinspired quirky local pop-rock outfit with adorably nerdy tunes. (3 p.m.)

ZAKA Local singer-songwriter Kate Powell plays guitar and piano and loves Bowie She does a killer Lady GaGa impersonation. (8 p.m.)

The Office Lounge 7 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 COUNTRY RIVER BAND No info available.

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.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com OPERATION EXPERIMENATION Modern rock and blues band combining jazz, progressive and Southern influences.

VFW 7 p.m. $7. 706-543-5940 MIKE WATSON A solo artist from Georgia, Mike Watson sings and plays the blues.

Sunday 9 Farm 255 10 p.m. $3. www.farm255.com FUTURE ISLANDS Minimalist elecro-pop from Baltimore. See Calendar Pick on this page.

REPTAR Angular, highly danceable rock punctuated by electronics and taking cues from from Talking Heads and Animal Collective.

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 10 283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DAVE SPIVEY Member of George W. Bush Cover Band and Olympus

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Mans performs a solo set of new original tunes.

Ciné Barcafé 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com JAZZ JAM SESSION Athens jazz ensemble Sonny Got Blue hosts a standing jam session on Mondays joined by a rotating cast of regulars on various instruments.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar AQUASERGE The lead singer from French psych band Aquaserge (and ex-member of Stereolab) performs a solo set with accompaniment by members of local pop band Casper and the Cookies.

SHMOUSER Colby Carter of Mouser performs solo acoustic.

THE VISITATIONS Electronic folk featuring Davey Wrathgabar and a rotating cast of local musicians and a heavy touring schedule.

The Melting Point “Athens Folk Music and Dance Society Present.” FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com THE KIDS HOOT! All ages show!

Featuring kid musicians between the ages of 7 and 16!

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com NOURISH INTERNATIONAL BENEFIT SHOW Nourish International and WUOG 90.5FM team up to bring you an art auction and benefit show featuring Molly’s Easy, White Light Choir and Theo Zumm, followed by sets from DJ Mahogany and DJ Señor Love Daddy. All proceeds will go towards building a greenhouse in Ecuador.

Tuesday 11 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com DEAD RABBITS Bluesy duo from Atlanta inspired by ‘60s garage-rock soul.

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

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com LITTLE FRANCIS Local group plays raw, rowdy rock and roll from the garages of the ‘50s and ‘60s.

PHYSICS OF MEANING Chamberrock band from Durham, NC, led by multi-instrumentalist Daniel Hart, contributor to records from The Polyphonic Spree, The Rosebuds and Pattern in Movement.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 4–7 p.m. Athens Farmers Market.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net CARL LINDBERG AND EVAN MCGOWEN Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub PUNK ROCK NIGHT Every Tuesday at Little Kings! Featuring a mix of punk rock bands and DJ-led dance parties.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com EXCEPTION TO THE RULE A young, progressive bluegrass band from northeast Georgia with members ranging in age from 16-23. Fueled by a hard-driving banjo style, sultry violin and mandolin, this group

infuses elements of classical, jazz, blues and rock.

UGA Hodgson Hall 7 p.m. $15. 706-613-3800, www.accleisureservices.com MOONLIGHT MADNESS TRIP In honor of Older Americans Month, ACC sponsors a concert by the Georgia Children’s Chorus. Departs from Memorial Park at 6 p.m. Call for more info.

Wednesday 12 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com COCO RICO This local post-rock trio performs over experimental samples.

Reptar’s William Kennedy takes on keyboard duties.

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

TODAY THE MOON, TOMORROW THE SUN Endearing electro-rock from Atlanta featuring sweet and strong female vocals backed by fierce guitars.

TRACER METULA Local powerpop quartet.

Calvary Chapel 7:30 p.m. $10. 706-543-0901 THE LOST DOGS Collaboration between Nashville songwriters Terry Taylor (DA, the Swirling Eddies), Gene Eugene (Adam Again), Derri Daugherty (The Choir) and Michael Roe (The 77s) playing a tender mix of alt-country and roots. CD release show!

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Future Islands, Reptar Farm 255 For those who have witnessed the feverishly cathartic performances of his synth-pop band Future Islands, it should be known that vocalist Samuel T. Herring can be Future Islands propelled to even greater heights of kinetic frenzy. “I just drank so much coffee in the last hour,” he confides to Flagpole via telephone from his native Baltimore (as sirens blare in the background). Herring’s soulman theatrics, in conjunction with bandmates J. Gerrit Welmers (keyboards) and William Cashion (bass), have kept the kids dancing steadily since 2003, with relative little wear, save for a minor speed bump: “We did about 150 dates last year, which was awesome and wonderful, and mid-summer last year I was injured at a show and hurt my knee,” he says in one rapid, caffeinated breath.

Very much in step with his band’s aesthetic, Herring busted his knee in style: onstage at a European music festival. Future Islands were abroad as part of the Dan Deacon Ensemble, and Herring found himself onstage with the Ensemble in some form of costume, when, as he puts it, he “got tackled by a drunken Frenchman.” Cancel the tour?

Nope: “We did another three months of touring after that. My knee was popping out of socket every month, and then more than every month, so I decided maybe there was something really wrong with it.” After an elaborate procedure for ACL reconstruction, the band finished up work on its debut LP for Thrill Jockey records, In Evening Air. This album looks to reinforce all of Future Islands’ strong points: synthetic dance beats, washing keyboards and Herring’s truly distinct voice, which is raw and truthful beyond mere lyrics. “I hope that it’s really powerful—we wanted to make an album that would affect people, not just physically but emotionally,” he says. “We’ve always loved to make music that can make people dance, but at the same time we want to make something that hits deeper. Hopefully, we can get people crying with it, honestly.” [Jeff Tobias]

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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 6–10 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com THE HANDS OF TIME Featuring Charles Burgess (The Common Peoples Band) on vocals and keys, Amy Pritchett (Forward Motion) on keys and vocals, JC Plant (Blue Flame) on guitar and vocals, Kenny Brawner (The Grains of Sand) on bass, Danny Anthony (The Grains of Sand) on sax, Jeff Hammond (The Soul Pleasers) on trombone, Bill Oglesby (The Soul Pleasers) on sax and Larry Freeman (The Soul Pleasers) on drums.

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!

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com THE WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul featuring three vocalists and charismatic harmonies.

Down the Line 5/13 The Cubists / Union of Socialists / Wages (Caledonia Lounge) 5/13 Kenosha Kid (Farm 255) 5/13 Ken WIll Morton (Hotel Indigo) 5/13 Damien Churchwell / Fire Zuave / The Omens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 5/13 Free Lunch / Heavy Pets / Tent City (New Earth Music Hall) 5/13 Ashutto Mirra (Roadhouse) 5/13 Dave Howard (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/13 Chris McKay and the Critical Darlings / Michael Guthrie Band (The Melting Point) 5/14 Immuzikation (283 Bar) 5/14 John Sosebee Band (Boar’s Head) 5/14 Confederate Railroad / The Big Don Band (Club Chrome) 5/14 Matt Kurz One (Farm 255) 5/14 Borderhop Trio / Farmland Band (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 5/14 Chronicles of the Landsquid / Papadosio (New Earth Music Hall) 5/14 The Agenda / Battle for Peace / WildKard (Nuçi’s Space) 5/14 Come On Go With Us / The District Attorneys / Glossary (Tasty World Uptown) 5/14 Exception to the Rule (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/14 Loretta Lynn (The Classic Center) 5/14 The Pritchett Brothers Band (The Melting Point) 5/14 Crane (The Rialto Room) 5/14 David Prince (VFW) 5/15 Mad Whiskey Grin (Bishop Park) 5/15 Dr. Ian Johnson (Borders Books & Music) 5/15 Karbomb / Shark Heart / Thunderchief / Triple Overhead Cam (Caledonia Lounge) 5/15 Diamondback / Super V (Club Chrome)

5/15 Marigold Festival (Downtown Winterville) 5/15 Abandon the Earth Mission / Lyonnais (Farm 255) 5/15 American Cheeseburger / Savagist / Worlds (Go Bar) 5/15 Barrel Seamstress / The Takers (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 5/15 Deru / Free the Robots / Glitch Mob (New Earth Music Hall) 5/15 Buttermilk Revival (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/16 Nancy Heiges and Lavon Smith (Borders Books & Music) 5/17 Arbouretum / Pontiak / Yaal Hush (Caledonia Lounge) 5/17 Jazz Jam Session (Ciné Barcafé) 5/18 Burning Angels / Geisha Hit Squad / The Border Lions (Caledonia Lounge) 5/18 River Wheel (The Melting Point) 5/19 Salsa Dancing (Last Call) 5/19 All That Talk / Burns Like Fire / Hey, Bastard / Shark Heart / So It Goes (Caledonia Lounge) 5/19 Rand Lines (Farm 255) 5/19 Drew Kohl (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/19 The Splitz (The Melting Point) 5/20 Holopaw / Bobby Long / Matt Pond PA (40 Watt Club) 5/20 Elvis! (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 5/20 Gentleman Jesse & His Men / Vincas (Caledonia Lounge) 5/20 Megachurch / Utah (Farm 255) 5/20 Wilma (Hotel Indigo) 5/20 Jazzchronic (No Where Bar) 5/20 Pumpkin City (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/20 The HEAP (The Melting Point) 5/21 Cinemechanica / SelfEvident / The Bronzed Chorus (Caledonia Lounge) 5/21 Hogjaw (Club Chrome) 5/21 Suex Effect (Farm 255) 5/21 Ziggy Stardust (New Earth Music Hall) 5/21 Kyshona Armstrong (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/21 Randall Bramblett (The Melting Point) 5/21 Power Play (VFW) 5/22 Stereofidelics / Whisper Kiss (Bishop Park) 5/22 Oh, Manhattan / Places and Numbers (Caledonia Lounge) 5/22 Southfire (Club Chrome) 5/22 Produce Man / Quiet Hooves (Farm 255) 5/22 The Burning Angels (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/22 Sounds of Motown (VFW) 5/23 Heavy Cream / Jeff the Brotherhood (Farm 255) 5/24 Ashutto Mirra / Dusty Lightswitch / Megafauna / Mercury Veil (Caledonia Lounge) 5/25 Silverbird Duo (The Melting Point) 5/26 The Hold Steady / Twin Tigers (40 Watt Club) 5/26 Kinky Waikiki (Farm 255) 5/26 Elephant (Terrapin Beer Co.) 5/26 Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses (The Melting Point) 5/27 Love Tractor / Michael Guthrie Band / Romanenko (Caledonia Lounge) 5/27 Kenosha Kid (Farm 255) 5/27 Brian Ashley Jones (Hotel Indigo)

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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 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 Call for Submissions The EcoFocus Film Festival is now accepting film submissions for the local fall festival celebrating environmentally concerned films. Go online for requirements. Deadlines: Aug. 1 (short films), Jul. 1 (feature-length films). www.withoutabox.com, eco focusfilmfest.org FilmFest Call for Entries The AthFest Film Committee is currently seeking submissions for local independent films, music videos and student projects to be screened during AthFest 2010. Entries must be produced in Georgia or by a Georgia-based filmmaker or band.

Go online for more information and submission categories. 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 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

Adult Beginner Trapeze Workshop (Canopy Studio) Intro to aerial dance on the trapeze.

Register for June/July session now!

Mondays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $135/9 weeks. 706-549-8501, www.canopy studio.com Advance Directives Workshop (UGA Catholic Center, Georgia Conflict Center) Learn how living wills and health care POAs can prevent future family conflict.

May 11, 1:30–3:30 p.m. & May 25, 6–8:30 p.m. $10. 706-850-7838, www.halowdr.com Apologies: Why, When and How (UGA Catholic Center, Georgia Conflict Center) Learn how to give and receive dignified apologies.

May 11, 1–3:30 p.m. $10. 706-3403439, lizloescher.gcc@gmail.com 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 Beginner Bellydance (Sangha Yoga Studio) New instructor Murjanah teaches this multilevel class in the basic technique, postures and choreography. Six-week session begins May 5. Wednesdays, 7:00–8:15 p.m. $60/6 weeks, $14/ class. 706-613-1143, bellydancebody@gmail.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

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Computer Class (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Two-part introduction to computers. Call to register. May 12–13, 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Computer Classes (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to Word. Call to register. May 18, 7–8:30 a.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, Martial Arts and Yoga (Floorspace) Now registering for adult and children’s classes, featuring Open Dancing, Creative Movement, Zumba, Nia, Martial Arts, Yoga and more! See full schedule online. www.floorspace athens.com “Drawing in Nature” (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Artist Toni Carlucci shares some techniques for drawing plants and other objects in nature. For kids ages 8 & up. Registration required. May 11, 4–6 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6156 Extreme Couponing (Family Counseling Service, Inc.) Leigh Ellen Magness, Athens BannerHerald coupon columnist, explains how clipping coupons can clip grocery costs by up to 50 percent! May 15, 2–3:30 p.m. $10 (suggested donation). 706-549-7755, www. fcsathens.com Fire, Poi and Bellydancing Workshops (Floorspace) Call or email to register for one of these

Kate Clarke’s ceramic sculptures are part of the BFA Exit Show at the Lamar Dodd School of Art through May 11. exciting movement arts workshops.

May 8, Noon–8 p.m. $25/workshop.

706-372-1833, www.fireandpoi dancing.eventbrite.com Gentle Pilates/Yoga (Sangha Yoga Studio) A therapeutic mind/ body workout to help create balance and wellness. Mondays & Wednesdays, 706-613-1143 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 Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Genealogy for beginners. In the Heritage Room. May 20, 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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 Japanese Origami (ACC Library) Transform a piece of paper into an elaborate sculpture with this Japanese folk art technique. Space is limited; call to reserve your spot.

May 8, 2–3 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 Japanese Stab Binding (ACC Library) Try your hand at Watoji, the Japanese process of sewing papers together in bookmaking. Space is limited; call to reserve your spot.

May 8, 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away.

May 21, 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 Meditative Yoga (YWCO) Easy meditative yoga for every body.

Mondays and Thursdays, noon; Wednesdays, 7 p.m. FREE! (members) $7 (non-members). 706-3547880, www.iriseabove.com Mind Your Muscles (Council on Aging) Bring your muscles into focus with a combination of tai chi, yoga and Pilates! Fridays, 3–4 p.m. $5/class. 706-549-4850 Nature Dojo (Greenway) Nurture your original animal intelligence and “re-wild” your body and mind

through fun exercises in nature.

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

Tuesdays–Thursdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $10/drop-in, $40/month. www.wild intelligence.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 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 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 for Teens (Floorspace) Build strength and flexibility, improve your posture and coordination and reduce daily stess! Mondays, 5–6 p.m. $12/class, 706-424-9873, www.thebodyeclectic.net 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 (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! Athens-Oconee CASA (CASA, 220 College Ave.) Now recruiting volunteers! CASA volunteers provide legal advocacy for abused and neglected children. Male and Spanish-speaking volunteers are especially needed. 706-613-1922, www.childrenfirst-inc.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 (BikeAthens) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicycles for local service agencies. Sunday, 2–4:30 p.m.

Monday & Wednesday, 6–8:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com Blood Drive (Red Cross Donor Center) Give the gift of life! Call to make an appointment today. 706546-0681, 1-800-GIVE-LIFE Cameras for Peru (Email for Location) Consider donating your old digital camera to children in a Peruvian orphanage! 706-254-9061, jennlee@pdx.edu, www.venperu.org Free IT Athens (Free IT Athens, 594 Oconee St.) Donate your old laptop or desktop to be refurbished and supplied to low-income members of the community. Now accepting computers with Pentium III or better processors. Drop off on Sundays from 1–5 p.m. or

Wednesdays from 6–8 p.m. at the Action, Inc. building. 706-621-6157, freeitathens@gmail.com Volunteer Gallery Sitters (ATHICA) ATHICA needs gallery sitters now through mid-summer. Visit www.athica.org/volunteer.php for info and email volunteers@athica. org to start.

KIDSTUFF ACC Summer Camps (Various Locations) Registration for Athens Creative Theatre Camp, Sandy Creek Teen Camp, Teens in Tennis Camps! Call or go online for more information. 706-613-3625, www. accleisureservices.com Babies & Beasties Series (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Help your toddler discover nature. Ages 18 months–2 years, with adult.

Registration required. Thursdays, 10 a.m. $7. 706-613-3615 Belly Dancing Class (ACC Library) Clara Smith teaches the basics of belly dance. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a scarf to tie around your hips. Ages 11–18. Call to register. May 25, 2–3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 EcoCamp (Georgia Nature Center, Watkinsville) Summer day camp for ages 4–16. Kids learn about solar power, organic farming, carnivorous plants and green building while exploring over 100 acres of fern grottos, creeks and waterfalls. Fiveday sessions begin in May and run through July. $49–$199. 706-7691000, www.ecocamp.org

Girls’ Rock Camp Athens (Pigpen Studios) Girls learn an instrument, form a band, write a song and participate in various empowering workshops. Showcase scheduled for July 31. Ages 9–15.

Now registering! July 26–30, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $300 (scholarships available). 706-498-2507, www. girlsrockathens.org New Moon Summer Adventure Camps (Various Locations) Now accepting registration for summer camp that travels to different state parks and natural areas daily. Activities include hiking, swimming, boating and more. Fee includes all activities and travel expenses. For ages 6–12. June 14–18, 21–25 & July 12–16, 19–23, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. $150/week. 706338-2892, newmoonpreschool@ gmail.com Summer Art Camp (Good Dirt) Limited space available in kids’ clay classes. Ages 4–6, 7–10, and 11 & up. Schedule and registration forms online. 706-355-3161, www. gooddirt.net Summer Reading Program (ACC Library) Stop by to pick up your reading log and a list of summer events. For readers 18 and under. FREE! 706-613-3650 Teen Bowling Nights (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Gather your friends and head to the bowling alley! ACC Leisure Services Teen Programs now hosts bowling nights through May for teens ages 13–15. Call to register. May 28, 706-613-3603, www.accleisure services.com

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St., Top of the Stairs Gallery) Paintings by Gail Vogels. Through May. Anchor Gallery (660 W. Broad St.) “Live Free or Drive,” a bike-themed group show featuring prints, drawings and paintings by local artists and bike enthusiasts.

Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Ln., Myers Gallery) “Apophatic Paintings,” an exhibit featuring paintings

by Judy McWillie. Through May 28.

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.) Paintings

by Kathy Berry. Through May. Ciné Barcafé (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Frisky Box,” Michael Lachowski’s most recent project, features large standing images on display and pre-show screenings of a short film starring a box, a boy and five gold balloons. Through May 20.

Espresso Royale Caffe (297 E. Broad St.) An exhibit featuring your favorite animals in embroidery and print mixed-media works by Lea Purvis. Through May. Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Featuring artwork by local musician and visual artist Mike Dwyer. Through May. Good Dirt (510 N. Thomas St.) An exhibit featuring the work of emerging clay artists Todd Runkle, Julie Green, Carrie and Gabe Sealey-Morris and Eduardo de la Torre. Through May. Reception May 7.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) Paintings, drawings, jewelry and sculpture by various Grit workers/artists.

Through May 23.

Healing Arts Centre (834 Prince Ave.) Unique art quilts by Sarah Hubbard. Through May. Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd., Galleries 101 & 307) BFA graphic design exit show.

Through May 8. BFA fabric design, interior design, art X and ceramics exit show. Through May 11.

Reception May 7.

Last Resort Grill (184 W. Clayton St.) “As I Went Out One Morning,” a photography exhibit featuring vividly colored landscapes and curious portraiture by

Teen Night Live (Various Locations) Register your teen for a summer of field trips, music, dancing and fun in a safe environment!

For ages 11–14. June 1–24, July 6–29, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6–9 p.m. $10. 706-613-3871, www.acc leisureservices.com Theatre Camp (Elberton Arts Center) Nurture your child’s flair for theatrics with this summer camp dedicated to their craft. The Kids Camp is designed for kids in kindergarten through 5th grade, while middle and high school students may register for the Theatre Camp.

706-283-1049, tking@cityof elberton.net Yoga Sprouts (Full Bloom Center) Now registering. Learn fun, playful yoga poses and breathing exercises while enhancing relaxation and confidence. For kids ages 2–6.

Wednesdays, 3:30–4:30 p.m. $14/ drop-in, $60/6 classes. 706-3721757, www.yogasprouts.com Youth Summer Art Camps (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Now registering for sessions beginning in June. Children will explore a wide range of art media in each session. This year’s theme is “Georgia Wildlife,” and the children’s work will be showcased in the members’ gallery in July. Schedule online.

706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com.

SUPPORT Alzheimer’s Caregiver Luncheon Program (Bentley Center) The Athens Area Alzheimer’s

Andrew Graham. Through June 1.

Lumpkin Cafe (1700 S. Lumpkin St.) “Coast to Coast,” an exhibit featuring handmade jewelry and recent paintings from artist Ann Hamlin’s travels to Florida and California. Through May. Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, featuring work by area artists in a variety of media. Through May 8.

“Beyond the Fig Leaf: Clothing as Wearable Art,” an exhibit featuring the artwork of seniors from the Athens-Clarke County Senior Center and students from Chase Street Elementary School. Through May 8. Reception May 7.

Madison County Library (1315 Hwy. 98 W., Danielsville) Porcelain vases and paintings share a flower motif in this exhibit featuring works by Sally Hollifield. Through May. Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (434 S. Main St.) “Gary Hudson: A Memorial Retrospective,” an exhibit celebrating the life and work of the Abstract Expressionist painter. Through July 9.

Mercury Art Works (Hotel Indigo, 500 College Ave.) Vibrantly colorful figurative oil paintings by John Ahee. Through mid-May. Monroe Art Guild (205 S. Broad St., Monroe) Silk Paintings by René Shoemaker. Through May. Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (34 School St., Watkinsville) “Let’s Go Postal,” an exhibit featuring postcard dabblings and masterpieces by artists from all over the country. Through May 22.

Reception May 22. 15th Annual Southworks Juried Art Exhibition features selected works in a variety of media produced by artists from around the country.

Through May 8.

Speakeasy (269 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Will Eskridge. Through June.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens (780 Timothy Rd.) An exhibit featuring Margaret Agner’s silk paintings on banners. Through May. Visionary Growth Gallery (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) “The Mother Show III: Art on the Theme of Motherhood,” featuring work by dozens of artists including Ruth Allen, Lucy Calhoun, Jeremy Hughes, Jasey Jones, Cindy Jerrell, Peter Loose, Robert Lowery, Annie Wellborn and C. Keen Zero.

Through June 27. Reception May 9.

Walker’s Coffee & Pub (128 College Ave.) Recent work by Colin Tom. Through May 9.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) “New Landscapes,” paintings by Mary Porter. Through May.

Support Group meets the third Tuesday of every month. Registration required and care will be provided for your loved one free of charge.

Noon–1 p.m. FREE! Eve Anthony, 706-549-4850 Domestic Violence Support Group (Call for location) Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. Children are welcome for supper and childcare is provided during group. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Second and fourth Thursday of the month in Clarke County. First and third Thursday of the month in Madison County.

6–8 p.m.

Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is provided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

Grief Support Group (Council on Aging) Meeting every third Thursday each month. 2–3:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-4850 Mental Health Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the lobby conference room.

Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. Call 706783-5706 or visit www.athensmental health.org for more info.

Nar Anon Family Meeting (Call for location) Meet every Thursday to learn about drug addiction and to speak with others whose lives are affected by it. Identity is protected, no dues, no fees. 7 p.m. FREE! 770725-5719 Overeaters Anonymous (Various Locations) 12-step meetings for compulsive eating disorders. All ages and sizes are welcome. Mondays, 5:30 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space. Thursdays, 7 p.m. at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church.

Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church. FREE! 706-552-3194 Parkinson’s Support Group (Council on Aging) Meet up every fourth Monday for an open support group for those living with Parkinson’s Disease. Meeings are held between 2:30–4 p.m. FREE! 706-549-4850

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Ages 21 and up. athensdnd@ hotmail.com Call for Musicians (ACC Library) The ACC Library is seeking performers for the 2010 Live! at the Library concert series. Accepting applications through May 7. www. clarke.public.lib.ga.us/arls/support/ liveatthelibrary.html Missions Possible 5K (First Baptist Church of Athens, 1610 Simonton Bridge Rd.) A 5K walk with proceeds benefitting the St. James United Methodist Church’s international mission projects. Door prizes and pottery awards for top finishers! Register online. May 8, 6 p.m. $15. www.sjumc.org, www. active.com Rent-A-Club Fundraiser Are you cultivating a meadow on your cul de sac? Is your shed in shambles? Rent a club to help get the job done! Students working with Habitat for Humanity building houses in New Orleans this summer are accepting bids to complete basic chores and services to help raise money for the project. Email rparish@gsc.edu to set up an appointment. f

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins What’s the best way to act after a breakup?

I just broke up with my boyfriend of two years.

The breakup was mutual—we wanted different things, had no foreseeable future together— but I am still slightly bitter about it. I know the mature thing to do is to act like we’re friends and wish each other the best, but really all I want is for him to be just as miserable as I am.

He still wants to talk and stay friends, but I feel like he shouldn’t get the benefit of being my friend if he doesn’t want to be my boyfriend. He’ll just take whatever opinions on music or politics I have and use that to try to impress some other girl. So, part of me wants to tell him to bugger off.

But no one misses a bitter ex, right? Whenever we would talk about other couples breaking up and about how one ex cut off all communication with the other, he would say that was immature. Is it? Or is he being selfish? Should I try to be friends with him or tell him how I really feel?

Bitter and Alone

issues that were very difficult for both of us.

I can’t go into details because I don’t want to give myself away, but basically I feel like I stuck with her through some pretty serious shit that most people would never have put up with. Anyway, things seemed to be going well, and then they weren’t. I started to get suspicious that she was up to some of her old tricks. I called her out on it, and she disappeared. I talked to her family and some friends, and they didn’t know what was up but they said they had their suspicions, too.

I tried to get back in touch with her and see what was up, but now she won’t answer my calls or emails or anything. I don’t know what to do because I really care about her, but she won’t let me help her. It has been two weeks since I heard from her now and I don’t know what to do. I am afraid of what might have happened and I want to know she is OK. I really love this girl and I want to help, but she has totally shut me out. Now I found out that she is back at her parents’ house. She still won’t talk to me. What should I do?

Anonymous

If you aren’t able to be friends right now, BaA, then don’t try to be. The wound is still fresh, and you can’t be expected to act like nothing has happened. There is a difference between immaturity and self-preservation.

Eventually you will probably be friends again, but for now, do what you have to do.

If you want to know how she is, then call her family and ask. She obviously can’t or won’t have anything to do with you, but it sounds like they know about her history and they know you care, and they also thought she might be backsliding, so it’s likely that they have done something about it. So find out for sure. If they don’t know, then tell them your suspicions and urge them to do something about it. Then maybe you can compose a letter telling her how you feel about everything.

Send it to her at their house. Leave the door open for communication. Then just back off. Something is obviously going on, and she doesn’t want you involved.

Either because she wants to screw up without you around judging, or because she doesn’t want to drag you through it again, or because she is afraid of what you’ll think. It doesn’t matter. She is an adult and you have to let her handle this her own way.

It would be different if her parents were oblivious and she was going there to get away with whatever it is she’s doing. But they aren’t and she’s not, so you’re just going to have to let it go for now.

I started hanging out with a guy, and everything was going amazing until last weekend. Before then he was very respectful of my boundaries, if I moved his hand from where it was he would never put it back. Then I went to his place just to hang out, and he was really angry when I did not have sex with him. I immediately left, and now he is sending me apologetic text messages. My friends say give him a chance. I think he acted like a scum bag. Should I kick him to the curb?

Ill and Confused Hey IaC: STAY AWAY from this guy. It isn’t right for somebody to get really angry with you for not wanting to sleep with them.

The fact that you left immediately is great.

That was the smart thing to do. But what if you hadn’t? Would he have forced you into something? Guilted you into it? You should never feel pressured into doing anything you don’t want to do, and it doesn’t matter that he was apologetic afterward. Serious abusers are often apologetic afterward. It’s how they keep the people they abuse coming back. I am not saying that this guy is an abuser, but he definitely has the potential to be. And if you aren’t attached to him now, what’s the point of possibly getting attached? Do you really want to give him another chance to act like a scum bag?

I was with my girlfriend for three years.

During that time, she had some pretty serious

Confidential to BB: Having not been there, I can’t say how I would have seen it. It is presumptuous to some degree, but if he did it right, it’s also hilarious. It’s for you to decide which way it fell. On the surface, it isn’t something I would write him off for. On the other hand, if he’s a pompous douchebag, you don’t want to waste any more time. Go with your gut.

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

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2BR/1BA Apts avail. 125 Honeysuckle Lane off Broad St. across from King Ave. On busline.

GRFA welcomed. Water & trash incl. Central, private, secluded, park-like location. Lease, deposit, references req’d. $450/mo. (706) 227-6000 or (706) 461-2349.

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1BR basement apt. All utilities, cable TV, NS. No pets. $550/mo.

(706) 340-9547.

2BR/1BA off King Ave. Normaltown area. In quiet, safe neighborhood. Water & garbage paid. Total electric, central heat/AC. W/D hookups. $550/mo.

Avail. now. (706) 543-4556.

1BR/1BA. Nothing needed, completely furnished including all essential appls. Mature student preferred. No smoking, drinking, pets. CHAC. Quiet & safe. $525/ mo. Utils./cable incl. (706) 2966957, (706) 549-7590.

2BR/2.5BA. 254/256 Appleby Mews. Poolside, W/D, DW, porch, lg. BR’s, on Oconee Hill close to Mama’s Boy & the Greenway!Lots of room for little money. Now & August. $695/mo. (706) 548-9797.

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2BR $549/mo. 2231 S. Milledge Ave. Athens, GA 30605. Duplex 812 sq. ft., CHAC, W/D. (706) 338-1619.

2BR/2BA on College Station.

Huge apartment, FP, deck, lots of closets, DW, W/D, CHAC. Avail.

Aug. 1st. Pets OK. $575/mo.

(706) 369-2908.

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2BR/2.5BA $375/ person, 3BR/3BA $350/person, 4BR/4BA $285/ person, 4BR/4.5BA $287.50/ person. To w n h o m e s & Flats for rent. Near S. Millege & S. Lumpkin. HWflrs, private BAs, DW, W/D, micro. Pets OK. www.riveroaksathens. com or (706) 543-1910.

2BR/1BA renovated apts walking distance to Mama’s Boy & Dwntn! Avail. 8/1. Only$550600/mo. incl. water/trash. 225 China St. Small/quiet complex, perfect for grad students. No dogs. Laundry on premises.

Call Chris (706) 202-5156 or chris@petersonproperties.org.

2BR/1BA & 1BR/1BA apts. Great in–town n’hood. Walk everywhere.

Water & garbage paid. $490– $695/mo. Check out boulevard​ property​management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

2BR/2BA Harris Place Apts. Close to Dwntn & bus stop. Incl. DW & W/D! Avail. August $650/mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or visit www.

ValerioProperties.com.

4BR/2BA apt. in house on Barber St. 2 blocks from Dwntn. W/D, CHAC, front porch & rear deck. $1400/mo. Lease & deposit req’d.

(678) 794-5414.

5BR/3BA. $950/mo. 117 Jolly Lane Athens, GA 30606. 1589 sq. ft., CHAC, DW, W/D. Memorial Park is within walking distance of the property. (706) 850-6593.

8/1 pre-lease 2BR/2BA luxury Flat at Brookewood Mill. Sophisticated, private, beautiful pool, woodland creek. Near UGA/town. Pets fine. $900/mo. (706) 714-7600.

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

8/1. Luxury 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.

Apts. in Victorian home on Hill St. 3BR/2BA, $950/mo. 2BR/1BA, $750/mo. 4 blocks from Dwntn.

W/D, CHAC. Lease & dep. req’d.

(678) 794-5414.

Avail. May 1. 1BR barn loft in 115 wooded acres. 35 min. east of Athens. Wood/gas heat, organic garden. NS, Pets OK. (706) 3381859, bro@athens.net.

3BR/2.5BA. 1st month free! Great location. Townhouse on Milledge.

Pool, sand volleyball, basketball.

Incl. W/D, on bus line. Call Paul (678) 462-0824.

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) 5497371, www.gojoiner.com.

4BR/2BA apt. in house on Barber St. 2 blocks from Dwntn. W/D, CHAC, front porch & rear deck. $1400/mo. Lease & deposit req’d. (678) 794-5414.

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

ValerioProperties.com.

Completely furnished. $700/mo. incl. utils.. 1400 sq. ft. 1BR/1 full BA daylight basement apt. Overlooks lake, Dish TV, VCR, business size desk, carpet, new kitchen, private entrance, quiet n’hood. No pets, no smokers. See to appreciate! Evening (706) 769-6208, Day (706) 338-7727.

Downtown Apartment.

1BR/1BA. Clayton St. above Helix. $575/mo. Won't last so call Stacy today! (706) 4254048 or (706) 296-1863.

Bowling Center Space F o r L e a s e . Homewood Village Shopping Center.

Call Bryan Austin at Sumner Properties (706) 353-1039.

Downtown 1BR/1BA Flat. $465/mo. Water, gas, trash p/u incl., fitness room, on–site laundry.

Text “Columns” to 41513. www. joinermanagement.com.

Joiner Management (706) 353-6868.

Eastside Offices 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent: 1200 sq. ft. $1200/mo. 450 sq. ft. $600/mo. 170 sq. ft. $375/mo. (706) 546-1615 or www.athenstownproperties.com.

Downtown Apartments.

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

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.

Giant 1BR/1BA loft at historic Whitehall Mill Lofts.

Stainless appls, W/D, brick walls. Avail. immediately. $850/ mo. Pets welcome. Andrea (706) 3 7 2 - 1 2 3 0 , o r a n d re a n e h e r @ gmail.com.

G re a t l o c a t i o n ! Spacious 2BR/2BA. Fully equipped kitchen, laundr y r m. w/ W/D, walk–in closets & relaxing deck. $780/mo.

For info & pics visit milledgeplace. blogspot.com.

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

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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) 5460600, parkerandassociates.com Quiet duplex apt. 1BR/1BA Eastside. Lg. priv. lot. Convenient location. Ideal for grad student. $375/mo. (770) 725-2758.

Shoal Creek. Eastside.

2BR/2.5BA townhouse, $675–$695/mo. 1BR/1.5BA deluxe, $575/mo. W/D, DW incl. J o i n e r M a n a g e m e n t (706) 850-7727, www.joiner management.com.

Westside condos. 2BR/2BA, $600/mo. Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/mo. 2BR/1BA, $490/mo. Eastside duplex 2BR/1BA, FP, $490/mo.3BR/2BA, FP, $650/mo., corner lot. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 5493222, (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.

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.

Paint Artist Studio. Historic Blvd area artist community. 160 Tracy St. Rent: 400 sq. ft. $200/mo.

300 sq. ft. $150/mo. (706) 546-1615 or www.athenstownproperties.com.

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

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.

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2BR/2.5BA. Windaway Townhomes, Barnett Shoals Rd., DW, W/D, HWflrs., CHAC. $550/mo. or $650/mo. renovated.

Call (714) 270-8281.

Cloverhurst Condo. $850/ mo. 2BR/2.5BA. New carpet.

New W/D, DW, & fridge.

Across from UGA track.

Walk to campus. Avail. Aug. (706) 540-1245.

Freshly painted 2BR/2.5BA condo.

All appls, lv. rm. w/ FP, din. rm., private patio. Walking distance to grocery/shopping. $750/mo. Dekle Realty (706) 548-0580.

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

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

Pets OK. Avail. now! $550/mo. Call Mike toll free (877) 740-1514.

2BR/1BA. $650/mo., Milledge Court #18/#20, 127/179 Riverdale. Avail. Aug. Great 5 Pts. duplex, tile BA, HWflrs., great location! Visit boulevard​ property​m anagement.com.

Call today (706) 548-9797.

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.

222 Glencrest Dr. 3BR/1BA near ARMC. HWflrs., updated kitchen, huge patio, fenced yd. Great location, near everything! $1K/mo.

Avail. now. Katie w/ Full Circle Real Estate, (706) 255-9235 or www. fullcircleathens.com.

2BR Duplexes in 5 Pts on Hampton Ct. & Highland Ave. $695-$725/ mo. Avail. Aug. Call (706) 5466900 or visit w w w. Va l e r i o Properties.com.

2, 3, 4BR houses. 5 Pts. close to campus & other areas. Check out our website at www.athenslease. com, or call (706) 410-6122.

Boulevard Area Duplex. 672 1/2 Barber St. 2BR/1BA. Recently remodeled. Super energy efficient.

Total electric. W/D, DW, small fenced yard. Some pets OK. Avail. July. $650/mo. Lease deposit. References req’d. Call (706) 227-6000.

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.

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.

Houses for Rent $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. $ 6 2 5 / m o . B l o c k s f ro m U G A 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. $ 6 8 0/ m o . 3BR/1BA. 121 E. Carver Dr. 1.5 mi. from UGA Arch.

Fenced–in yd. HW & tile flrs., CHAC, W/D hookups, DW, micro.

Pets welcome. Avail. 5/1. Call (706) 614-8335.

1/2 mi. from Downtown. 1, 2, 3, 4BR houses & apts. located in the historic Blvd n’hood. Pls. check out boulevard​p roperty​ management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

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.

1321 & 1331 Dowdy Rd. 3BR/2BA &/or 4–6BR/2BA. $900– $1400/mo. Spacious houses w/ large decks, w/ huge grassy lots & gardens, which is great for pet lovers, band members or anyone else who is looking for a great house to live! Check out these great houses online at boulevard​ property​management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

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.

2BR/1BA “A” frame on Freeman D r. H u g e l o f t , C H A C , t o t a l electric. Move–in now, rest of mo. free. $525/mo. No pets. (706) 202-0147.

2BR/2BA In–town luxury! Unique &huge! 1500 sq. ft. W/D, lg. private patio. Quick, beautiful walkto Dwntn & UGA Arch. Must see! $1100/mo. (706) 372-3957. www. athensloft.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. Boulevard Property Management (706) 5489797 or boulevard​p roperty​ management.com.

3BR/2BA. Cedar creek. Fenced backyd., gas grill, FP, wooded lot.

Quiet family n’hood. Swimming community. 360 Sandstone Dr. $1025/mo. & dep. (706) 3191846, (706) 548-4819. GA. R. E. lic. 300830.

3BR/1BA located in Historic Blvd.

Area/Walking distance to campus.

High ceilings, fenced yd., HVAC, W/D, etc. $1100/mo. Avail. Aug. Call (706) 254-1273.

340 Barber Street. 3BR/2.5BA. $1800/mo. House has beautiful skylights in the 25 ft. high living room, ceiling w/ exposed brick gives the house a modern urban feel, walking distance to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 5489797, boulevard​p roper ty​ management.com.

3BR/2BA house in Normaltown.

Fenced yd. Pets welcome. $1K/ mo. Call (706) 254-7683.

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

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

4BR/3.5BA. Townhouse. 3K sq. ft. Excellent condition. Must see!

Avail. Aug. Great price $825/mo.

Eastside busline. (706) 769-3433 or email sjbc33@aol.com.

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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.

4BR/2BA brick house w/ s c re e n p o rc h . 2 b l o c k s f ro m c a m p u s & b u s l i n e .

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

4BR/2BA. CHAC, FP, HWflrs, DW, fridge w/ ice/water in–door, W/D. Lg. porch & yd. Must have refs.

116 Whitehead Rd. $998/mo. (706) 714-1100.

WELCH PLACE

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.

Avail. May 15th. 2BR/1BA house.

1285 Blvd. CHAC, great n’hood., great backyd. Some pets OK. lease length neg. $800/mo. (706) 372-2834.

Avail Aug. 3BR/2BA. Lg. vaulted kitchen & lv. rm. 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.

Best rentals in Athens! 1–5BR houses, apts., condos. In the heart of UGA/Dwntn/5 Pts. Avail. Aug. Going fast, call today! (706) 369-2908 for more info.

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

Four blocks from UGA. 3BR built in 2004. 145 Inglewood Ave. tin roof, extra Lg front porch. HWflrs.

Complete appliance pkg. Avail.

8/1. $1175/mo. Owner/Broker Herbert Bond Realty at (706) 2248002, http://bondrealestate.org.

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.

Half off 1st month rent on Fall leases. 2 or 3BRs close to downtown. W/D, DW, private patio. Mention this ad and pay no pet fee! (706) 548-2522,www. dovetailmanagement.com.

Nor thside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/mo. Hospital area 2BR/1BA, carpor t, fenced–in yard, $700/mo. E a s t s i d e 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. O c o n e e C o u n t y 3BR/2BA. Lv. rm. w/ FP, din. rm., double garage, $975/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 5493222, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Preleasing for fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn.

Call (706) 255-0066.

Students! Perfect 4BR/2BA. Eastside. Near park & bus stop. Fenced yd., decks, lots of parking. $900/mo. Call Rose (706) 255-0472 or email rose@ prudentialblanton.com.

We make house hunting easy!Classically simple 1, 2, 3, or 4BR homes avail. now! $595– $1313/mo. Lawn maintenance. Pet friendly. Visit www.stilesproperties. com. Stiles Proper ties (706) 549-9600.

Houses for Sale

Pre-Leasing

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.

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

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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.

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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. $1800/mo.

(706) 369-2908.

461 Waddell “Dearing Oaks Condo Awesome In town Location $284K. Go to www.

ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty.

(706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

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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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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Cute house on large wooded lot. Downtown Area. 146 Madison, quiet street in New Town Commons. Newly painted 2BR/1BA, W/D, all appls. Lv. rm/ kitchen combination w/ vaulted ceiling, newly refinished HWflrs. throughout, tiled laundry rm. New water & sewer.

Back deck for grilling, lg. fenced–in yd. w/ old pecan trees. Will paint inside to suit if under contract by this weekend. Open house, Saturday May 8, 2-5 pm. $125,000, rent $650/mo.

(706) 714-8992.

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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.

Roommates Male to share 2BR/1BA. Walk Dwntn. $255/mo. Electric, cable extra. (865) 705-1897.

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.

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.

Roommate needed ASAP. 3BR/2BA house. Eastside. 10 mins. from campus. Dogs OK w/ dep. $350/mo. incl. utils. W/D. No smokers. Grad students pref’d. (706) 549-3728.

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.

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.

Young couple seeks roommate(s) to find house w/. Would like to have fenced yd. near campus/Dwntn.

2 nice dogs. We are easy–going, respectful, quiet. Email csjordan@ uga.edu.

Great homes with hardwood floors! 619 Whitehall Rd.4BR/1BA, $795/mo. 335 N. Pope St. 2BR/1BA, $675/mo. 597 Dearing St. off Milledge. 4BR/2BA, $1495/mo. 606 Whitehall Rd. 3BR/1BA, $795/mo. 1060 Macon Hwy. 3BR/2BA, $895/mo. 1045 Macon Hwy. 4BR/2BA, $1395/mo.

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

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! $1400/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.

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

Leaving town? Don’t know how to get your weekly Flagpole fix? Subscribe! $35 for 6 months, $55 for a yr.! Call (706) 549-9523.

Sublease for the summer. 2BR/1BA apt. Located in the Milledge Ave. Columns. W/D, DW, & HWflrs.

Close to campus. $800/mo.

Willing to negotiate! Email jaezell4@uga.edu, call (205) 6575555 if interested.

Summer Sublease. 1–2 rooms open in a 4BR/2BA beautiful Bo u le va rd house. Close to Dwntn. Lease starts June 1st. (770) 547-6195.

Summer Sub–lease! 1 room open in a 2BR/2BA spacious apt. near the SLC & Dwntn. Lease begins as soon as possible, ends Aug. 14th.

Great if you are taking classes!

(770) 547-6195.

Wanting to rent 2 or 3BR furnished house/apt. needed from mid–Aug. to early Nov. 2010 for visiting professor & family (non–smoking, clean, & tidy). Email katemtodd@ hotmail.com.

For Sale Electronics Free 6 room Dish Network Satellite System! Free HD-DVR. $19.99/mo.

120+ digital channels (for 1 yr). $400 Signup Bonus. Call now (877) 415-8163 (AAN CAN).

Furniture

8 / 1 pre - l e a s e . S tu de n t / G r a d student to share luxury condo at The Woodlands. Beautiful grounds, sports mecca, pets OK. Conscientious land lady. $450/mo.

(706) 714-7600.

Ask about our Run–til–Sold rate. Lowest classified ad rate in town! 12 weeks for only $40!

Call (706) 549-0301 or submit your ad through www.flagpole.com.

Restrictions may apply.

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

Graduate students only, pets by approval. Fenced yd. 1 yr. lease, deposit, walk to town. (706) 424-0901.

New 5 piece cherry BR set, $399.

Queen Pillowtop mattress set, $170. (706) 612-8004.

Spacious, furnished BR. Quiet, close to campus, kitchen, laundry privileges. Shared BA, priv. entrance. No pets. M students only. $275/mo. incl. utils. (706) 3530227. Avail. May! Two spaces for rent. $370/mo.

Right in the middle of downtown.

University students pref’d. Call (678) 410-9012.

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.

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

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

TV and Video DirecTV Free standard installation.

Free Showtime + Starz (3 mo.!)

Free HD/DVR upgrade. Ends 7/4/10. New customers only. Qual.

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Music Instruction Athens School of Music.

Instruction in Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Voice, Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, & more. From beginner to expert.

Instrument repairs avail. Visit www.

AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

Athens Piano School. Premium Piano Lessons Guaranteed.

All ages & levels welcome from beginners to advanced. Discounts for families & UGA students. Visit www.AthensPianoSchool.com or call (706) 549-0707.

Music Services 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.

W e d d i n g B a n d s . Q u a l i t y, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, Jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment.

(706) 549-1567. w w w. classiccityenter tainment.com.

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

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.

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.

Musicians Wanted Artists interested in participating in a themed outside exhibition leading to a reception/concert at the end of May. Those interested should inquire at recordsrecords recordsrecords@gmail.com soon.

Attention Bands! Use your music to help raise the spirits of military troops injured in the line of duty. Go to www.trooptunes.org.

Services Cleaning Come Clean Services. Your whole house's carpet cleaned for just $80. Call today for appt. (706) 340-2254.

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!

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

Perennial Lawn & Landscape. Full service maintenance, installation, sanding/ topdressing, aeration, overseeding, hedge trimming, pine straw, mulch, cleanups. Call (706) 255-6405.

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.

Got the Gift of Gab? Immediate openings available for sales reps!

Pay ranges from $500–$2K/wkly.

Sales experience a + but not a must! Call Debbie, toll-free (888) 201-4595 ext. 212.

Home Foreclosure Inspectors Wanted. You must have great communication skills. Must be willing to work from sun up to sun down between the 15th & 30th of every month. Our inspectors average between $2K to $4K/mo. Only highly motivated people need apply.

Fax resume to (616) 5327300 or email to hic.ga.bac@ gmail.com.

Local catering company seeks experienced kitchen help & service staff. Must be hard worker willing to work wkends.

Please send resume & contact info to experiencedkitchenhelp@ gmail.com.

Maintenance person needed w/ skill sets for carpentry, light electrical & plumbing, sheetrock repair, painting, roof repair, & everything else to maintain houses/apts. FT/PT avail.

P l e a s e f a x re s u m e t o ( 7 0 6 ) 316-2007.

Owner Operators Needed. Home Daily! At least 1 yr. Verifiable Tractor Trailer experience. Clean MVR & criminal background. (866) 730-8725 www.comtrakinc.com.

UberPrints.com is hiring!

UberPrints.com, an online retailer of custom apparel based in Athens, is looking for bright, enthusiastic individuals to join our customer service team. Position is FT. To apply, email your cover letter & resume to csjobs@uberprints. com. Learn more at uberprints. com/jobs.

Opportunities Bartenders in demand. No experience necessar y. Meet new ppl, take home $ tips. Up to $200/shift. Training, placement & certification provided. Call (877) 435-2230.

Come and Get Your Love!

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Are you tired of working for someone else? Have your own business inside of nice salon in Athens. Call Shannon for more details. (706) 255-1969.

All Cash Vending. Be the boss of your own local route w/ 25 new machines & candy for $9,995.

(800) 920-9563. Multivend, LLC. BO#200003 (AAN CAN).

Does your daughter have symptoms of bulimia nervosa?

Has your daughter injured herself on purpose? Researchers at the University of Georgia Psychology Clinic are conducting a treatment study for teens w/ symptoms of bulimia nervosa & deliberate self harm. Open to teenage girls age 16–18. Receive $300 upon completion of study! For more info, pls email the Eating, Drinking, & Personality Research lab at the University of Georgia at bnstudy@ uga.edu, or call (706) 542-3827.

Earn $75-$200/hr. Media Makeup Artist Training for ads, TV, film, fashion. 1 wk. class. Stable job in weak economy. Details at http:// www.Awardmakeupschool.com, (310) 364-0665 (AAN CAN).

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

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Free Advice! We’ll help you choose a program or degree to get your career & your life on track. Call Collegebound Network (877) 8922642 (AAN CAN).

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Part-time As part of our expansion p r o g r a m m e r ’s , S y s c a n I D Inc. is looking for PT Work from home. Payroll, Account Managers, Accountants Payment Representatives & Sales Representatives. $2K–$3K/mo. + benefits & takes only little of your time contact syscanresume@hotmail. com or syscanresume@yahoo.com.

Lifeguard needed for apartment complex, must be certified! Hourly pay, job starts in May. Fax info to (706) 546-5188.

Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/ day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments.

No exp. req’d. (800) 743-8535.

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Hey Mexico I don’t know what all the celebration is about.

You only beat the French.

Come enjoy Margaritas on our Patio!

Live Music on the Patio: Frid ay, M a y 7 : JUSTIN BROGDON Satu rd ay, Ma y 8 : NATHAN SHEPPARD

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