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pub notes Heard But Not Seen Back when The Varsity was where Five Guys is downtown, our state representative was a lawyer named Chappelle Matthews. We used to kid him that his office was in The Varsity, because it seemed that every time you went in there, Chappelle was there, too. His law office was actually in the Southern Mutual Building up the street (now d.b.a. The Fred), but that gave him ready access to his hangout. You could always find Rep. Hugh Logan behind the counter at Normal Hardware, and Sen. Paul Broun (Sr.!) was usually somewhere to be found around his Firestone store where Redeemer Presbyterian is now on Pulaski. Former legislator Michael Thurmond had his law practice, which required his presence in Athens.

All those guys kept in close touch with their constituents in the course of every day. In the case of Hugh and Chappelle, sometimes it was almost too close. They loved to talk government and politics, sometimes more than you did. But you always knew where to find them, and they always had time to talk.

Chappelle, with his white shirt and bow tie, his coffee and cigar, knew more about what was going on than any of us newspaper people could imagine: he truly had his finger on the pulse of the public—in Athens and Atlanta. Unfortunately, many of the stories he I personally would rather told were too scandalous for us to print. have a representative The Georgia General Assembly was designed who is invested in this for citizen-legislators community… who went to Atlanta for a 40-day session, and the rest of the time were back in their own communities; running for election every two years kept them close to the people.

The modern legislature is different in that there are committee meetings all year long and recesses during the session that drag it out for months. Because of the intensity of the work at the Capitol and the excitement of being in Atlanta with the prestige of being a legislator, it is easy to get pulled into the vortex of the capital city. Working on problems with fellow legislators, courted by lobbyists, entertained by the offerings of Atlanta, who’s going to want to hang around in Athens, much less walk its hot streets asking for votes?

That’s basically what happened to Keith Heard. Keith used to have an insurance agency here, where he worked when he wasn’t in Atlanta at the legislature, but then he married an Atlanta woman, and he just sold his agency and moved to Atlanta. Sure, he owns a home here, and that meets the requirements drafted by the legislators for making themselves street legal, but Keith lives and works in Atlanta, where his children go to school.

Keith is a great guy, a Democrat who votes the way Democrats ought to vote most of the time. He is a friend of education and got the endorsement of the Georgia Association of Educators, which is also more in touch with Atlanta than with Athens. Keith has figured out how to have his cake and eat it, too: re-elected repeatedly in a safe Democratic district where he has enjoyed only token opposition. If this is cool with his constituents, more power to him.

Come to think of it, I am one of his constituents, and I personally would rather have a representative who is invested in this community, like Holly Ward. Holly is a teacher and an educational consultant, and her husband is a high school football coach here. Their children attend our public schools. They all live in Athens. Holly is smart, hard-working and accomplished.

She has to travel with her job, but her home is here in Athens.

Her family is here in Athens. Her heart is here in Athens. That makes a lot of difference to me. You can get Keith on the phone if you need to, but as far as knowing what’s going on in Athens, he’s just phoning that in, too. That is just not the way for a representative to represent.

We need representatives who can effectively speak for us in Atlanta, but they’ve got to be in touch with Athens to do that.

Chappelle Matthews didn’t develop his understanding of Athens by hanging around the Atlanta Varsity.

Just like Chappelle and Hugh and Paul and them, Holly Ward would make a great representative in Atlanta, because she is a great citizen of Athens—because she lives here.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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Is the proposed redirection of Hull Street the latest serious disruption of the downtown street grid?

Arts & Events Tree of Life and Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 A Pair of New Mosaics Enlivens Chase St. Elementary A student legacy project resulted in an inspired public art installation.

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FYI on FY11: The new fiscal year began last Thursday, and the Dope made a few calls to folks at the University of Georgia to see if anybody felt like talking about where those sticky old budget cuts were going to be applied. Since Michael Adams announced a month and a half ago that UGA’s cuts wouldn’t be as bad as initially feared, and that those reductions would be handled by the various deans and department heads, and that there would be no further elaboration on the matter from his office… he’s pretty much been true to that promise.

One of the main worries has been that a disproportionate share of the budget cuts’ impact could be borne by UGA’s ever-vulnerable custodial staff, but that scenario appears to have been avoided. According to Ralph Johnson, the associate vice president in charge of the UGA Physical Plant, under which most custodial staff are employed, his department’s budget was cut by 2 percent, or about $509,000. That will be absorbed through reductions in materials and projects, as well as through attrition: nine open positions won’t

calculated would have to be cut based on the information Adams threw at us during his budget forum in May. What happened? It’s tough to fathom at this point, as this stuff has been all along. We’ll let you know if we figure it out.

Business is Business: Numerous and reliable sources report (and by the time this hits the streets after the holiday weekend, it may have been officially announced) that Bruce Burch, Keith Perissi and Heather Malcom—the director and top staff of UGA’s Music Business Certificate Program—are leaving the university to begin a similar program at Kennesaw State University. A Kennesaw State press release last Monday announced the launching of that university’s “Entertainment and Music Management Certificate Program” through a “significant and undisclosed contribution” from Atlanta entertainment lawyer Joel A. Katz, whose gigantic firm lists among its clients “Michael Jackson/the estate of Michael Jackson.” Damn, Joel A. Katz! Word is, the Terry College will continue the program; let’s hope they see fit to do it in such a way as to avoid losing Burch and Co.’s replacements to a neighboring school half our size.

Redemption Through Art: The charitable organization LandMindz, Inc., based in the Richmond area since 2005, has this year extended its services to Northeast Georgia. Those services consist of assistance to people in “transition,” either from homeless“Road 2 Redempshun,” a theatrical production presented by LandMindz, Inc., will ness or incarceration, and one prominent come to the Morton Theatre Saturday, July 17. component of that assistance is its focus on art therapy: involvbe refilled. But importantly and thankfully, ing clients in drawing and painting, music, according to Johnson, no one working for the writing and theatrical productions. One of Physical Plant will be laid off. those productions, “Road 2 Redempshun,” WUGA, too, appears not only to have suris coming to the Morton Theatre July 17. vived the budget storm, but to have come The play, which “highlights the mental and through it essentially intact. The station emotional effects of shifting from prison to manager, Steve Bell, says they aren’t lossociety,” begins at 1 p.m., preceded by an ing any positions or taking any salary cuts. “empowerment rally” beginning at 11 a.m.

A source in the Franklin College of Arts and Tickets are on sale now at www.mortontheatre.

Sciences reports that it will deal with the same 2 percent reduction as the Physical Plant com; you can learn more there or at www. landmindz.org. (in Franklin’s case, about $1.4 million), and that no one will lose their job.

The Race Is On: With qualifying over, it’s time Senior Associate Vice President for Finance for the Athens mayoral hopefuls to hit the and Administration Ryan Nesbit says that 2 ground running at the third of four candidate percent slice is being taken from all of the forums hosted by Common Ground Athens. university’s resident instruction units— The “town hall”-style forum, devoted to issues those under the “A” budget, which are supof food and food security, will be held at Ciné, ported by tuition. Of about $44.6 million in 234 W. Hancock St., from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, reductions to that budget from FY10, Nesbit July 10. Nancy Denson, Spencer Frye, Charlie says, all but a little over $4 million should Maddox, Gwen O’Looney and Glenn Stegall be mitigated by increased tuition and fees. are all scheduled to participate, with Olivia Units under the “B” budget (those funded Sargeant of Farm 255 serving as moderator. An by line-item appropriations from the state, initial round of questions will come from local like the Agricultural Experiment Stations and nonprofits, businesses and leaders in local Cooperative Extension) can’t use that tuition food organizations, after which the floor will money and will have to absorb $10.7 milbe opened to the audience. You should go. lion in cuts; Nesbit says about 200 faculty For more information, email Johanna Nicol at and staff positions under that budget will be jo@commongroundathens.org. eliminated through attrition.

Still, these numbers are a lot less grave Dave Marr news@flagpole.com than the $40 million or so we at Flagpole

As part of UGA’s development of its “Northwest Precinct,” an area roughly bounded

by Waddell, Lumpkin, Baxter and Newton, a leg of Hull Street is now up for closure. The proposal has been around since 2000, being of the same vintage as the initial ideas to rework Lumpkin from four lanes to three. The big question, though, is whether this street closing is a negligible loss, or part of a “death by 1000 cuts” for the Athens street grid, along with another proposal by the Classic Center to close the easternmost block of Hancock.

The Hull Street section to be closed runs from Waddell Street south to Florida Avenue, forming one leg of the triangle bounding the Special Collections Library construction site.

That route may seem like a rather redundant version of Lumpkin these days, serving only to access commuter parking lots and provide a shortcut to those who would like to beat a few traffic lights. The result of the closing would be a new super-block for UGA, with intra-campus pedestrian connectivity servicing inward-facing buildings rather than public streets.

But both this corridor and the Hancock leg are remnants of a much larger fabric that has been whittled away not only by large-scale postwar urban renewal, but also by a general carelessness over time. Hull once connected to Lumpkin in several other places beyond the single point at Wray Street which is the

for current Athens residents, as the changes to this street ripple out to surrounding neighborhoods. Newton Street is a residential street, lined with one- and two-story structures and already impacted by student parking and speedy traffic; things will likely only get worse in the short term for the street’s residents as more cars are pushed that way. Lumpkin Street will also pick up some of the traffic, and congestion at its intersections with Baldwin and Baxter will likely grow to some extent due to the loss of Hull’s capacity.

Although a new pedestrian path extending west from Baldwin Street’s terminus to the Hull Street deck will probably help to regulate some of the rampant jaywalking in the area, the introduction of even more cars into these crowded intersections should at the least be interesting. Another issue is whether or not the community that would be giving up this street—and the significant land area in the right-of-way—is being adequately compensated. Streets are valuable things and we ought to be sure we don’t give away something for nothing. Pedestrian pathways may be all well and good for getting students to class, and even encouraging biking to take some cars off the road, but they don’t necessarily do much to facilitate the flow of goods and services into and out of our nearby central business district.

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Hull Street will be redirected onto this section of Florida Avenue. Campus greenspace will replace the closed right-of-way. sole surviving link. Lost streets in the area include Becker Street, White Avenue and Baldwin Alley. (Check back to the June 23 edition of Pub Notes to learn about the demise of White Avenue.) This corridor isn’t the only neighborhood to have been hit by an expanding campus: the grid of Bloomfield-Midtown was also significantly compromised with the construction of high-rise dormitories and commuter parking lots.

A new network of wide pedestrian pathways will provide connectivity for cyclists and pedestrians through the super-block, which will one day be occupied by many new buildings, including a new Terry College of Business. The intent is to mimic the character of historic North Campus, though the paths will be quite wide to accommodate fire trucks, and the buildings will be twice as tall as the modest structures like Old College or the Law School from which they draw inspiration.

Regardless of how pleasant a walk through this quad might be for as yet unborn accounting students, its effects will be quite real

Isolated as this area is by a hill to the west and UGA to the east and south, it may be worth conceding it to campus, if only to spare another, more intact portion of downtown, like the area around the Town Spring (UGA’s Northeast Precinct). The bigger question is whether the current model of campus planning at UGA is appropriate or simply uncreative? If the logic behind the street closing is that it is necessary in order to make the area more like North Campus (tenuous as that interpretation is), perhaps we should revisit the conclusion that North Campus is an appropriate model. The significant pieces of that landscape were built for a college of no more than a few hundred students, a hundred years before the car became widespread. Likewise, the current master plan which calls for this street’s closing is over a decade old. New ideas are needed, which address the realities of a modern-day campus in a lively city.

Nostalgia just won’t do any more.

Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

city pages Oconee County has made out well with new through roads to Athens or to Loop 10; Mayor Davison’s repeated requests that some project other than just roadbuilding ones should get funded have been less successful. Part of the problem is a provision in Georgia’s constitution that gas-tax money can go only for roads Just as public hearings sometimes seem and bridges—sidewalks, crosswalks and bike intended to justify or defuse decisions lanes are often included with new road widalready made, so the Georgia Department of enings, but cannot be added as standalone Transportation’s process for involving local projects. officials and citizens (before making deci“Unless you can attach it to a road project, sions that often ignore their wishes) someGDOT is not going to fund it,” Moore says. times seems more of GDOT’s own priorities a diversion than a run to widening truck “As much as we like to keep method. The MACORTS routes like U.S. 441, (Madison Clarke politics out of it, at GDOT it’s U.S. 129 (both recently Oconee Regional widened outside Athens) no-holds-barred on politics.” or U.S. 78 (where a Transportation Study) is the GDOT-sponsored new bypass is planned local board that gives feedback to the state around the towns of Crawford and Lexington). agency about local projects. It includes local To BikeAthens co-chair Amy Johnson, elected officials and citizens (Athens is reprebuilding more access roads in Oconee County sented by Mayor Heidi Davison and one mem(like the Jennings Mill Parkway Extension “flyber of the planning commission). BikeAthens, over” across Loop 10, with more planned) and the most conspicuous (if not the only) a planned new shopping center in the “supercitizens group actually addressing transportasaturated” Lowe’s/Home Depot/GA 316 area tion issues, has been is “bad development, denied a seat without and not smart growth.”

Nearly everyone who deals explanation.

Johnson speculates But MACORTS doesn’t “the existing cuswith GDOT—county staffers, that really decide much anytomer base will now way: it can only offer shop at the next new transportation activists, the advice to the powerselectronics or clothmayor—seems to find the that-be at GDOT, and ing big-box, and the GDOT has its own old ones may become process frustrating and priorities. Nearly everyempty.” Even if that one who deals with doesn’t happen, she inscrutable.

GDOT—county staffers, says—even if the new transportation activists, stores simply attract the mayor—seems to find the process frustrat- more customers from farther away—that’s ing and inscrutable. “I wish it were transparnot the sort of development that tax money ent,” says ACC transportation planner Sherry should be supporting. “It assumes large travel Moore. “I don’t really understand the process distances” and requires more road subsidies, of how those decisions [about which projects creates air pollution, and makes for “unsafe are funded] get made… As much as we like to foot and bike travel for everyone that resides keep politics out of it, at GDOT it’s no-holdsbetween this new outdoor mall and its wouldbarred on politics.” be shoppers.”

GDOT Projects Don’t Reflect Smart or Objective Planning

Roadbuilding is inevitably political—every mayor and legislator has road projects they’d like to see funded—but GDOT has seemed subject to favoritism or whim. Former GDOT director Gena Evans—installed as something of a reformer in 2007 but fired just over a year later—told Flagpole in January that road contractors “are actively engaged with the board members about what happens on dayto-day activities of the department. Never have I seen a lobbying group that is involved as heavily in day-to-day activities in an organization.” GDOT board members have often been road contractors; its current director is a former contractor.

GDOT’s structure is the result of “a reform that [went] awry,” former Governor Roy Barnes told Flagpole when he was in Athens on business as a private attorney in 2005. Trying to

take politics out of roadbuilding, Barnes said, resulted in a system where the transportation department was “accountable to hardly anyone.”

Last year, to gain some control over GDOT decisions, state legislators passed a bill requiring some legislative oversight over projects and adding a high-level “planning director” who works not for GDOT but for the governor.

And GDOT does appear to be changing. “It’s been nothing but change for the last three or four years,” says Moore, the local transportation planner. “They’ve been getting a lot of pressure from the federal agencies to—I hate to use the phrase, ‘clean up their act’—but that’s essentially what it is.”

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It has been a difficult year for politicians trying to raise money for their campaigns, but state Rep. Sean Jerguson (R-Holly Springs) seems to have come up with an idea that’s right on target.

Jerguson is a stocky, amiable person who operates a combination gun shop and shooting range in Cherokee County called “Hi-Caliber.” The two-term legislator, like everyone else running for public office in Georgia, knows that the recession has dried up many of the usual sources for campaign contributions. People who have had their homes foreclosed or lost their businesses to bankruptcy don’t generally have spare money to give to a political candidate—and there a lot of people in that condition these days.

Jerguson tried something different last week. He held a fundraising event at his shooting range that combined elements of a raffle and a marksmanship competition. Entrants paid $50 to shoot at targets denoting the various playing cards in a 52-card deck. Whichever five cards a shooter hit were the five cards that made up his poker hand. The shooter who ended up with the best poker hand won the grand prize: an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle (the weapon upon which the military based the M16 that is standard issue for infantrymen).

The event was clearly a success. “We raised a little over $10,000,” Jerguson said, which is not a bad amount for a House race.

Coincidentally, Jerguson’s shooting match was held on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark “McDonald v. Chicago” decision, which holds that a person’s constitutional right to keep and bear arms applies to states as well as to federal jurisdictions.

Just three days after Jerguson’s event, a new state law (SB 308) took effect that removed most of Georgia’s restrictions on where firearms can legally be carried in public.

Under the new law, Georgia still bans the carrying of guns into churches, school property, nuclear power plants, bars without the owner’s permission, government buildings and mental health facilities, but the Supreme Court ruling could eventually knock out all of those restrictions as well.

Jerguson is a guy who really believes that people should carry guns. When his daughter had her fourth birthday, he gave her a pink,.22-caliber firearm. He said he would give the same weapon, only in blue, to his son when the boy turns four.

Even Jerguson, however, says it’s probably not a bad idea to retain the restriction on carrying weapons into public buildings such as jails, courthouses and the state Capitol.

“Most would agree that’s a reasonable restriction,” he said.

“I don’t foresee that being changed.”

Time may prove him to be wrong about that. Attorneys for the pro-gun group Georgia Carry have already indicated they’ll go to court to challenge the restriction on bringing firearms to churches. Once they’ve knocked down that restriction, as they surely will, they’ll go after the other few restrictions that are still on the books.

Within two or three years, I believe you will see people legally carrying handguns into school buildings where there are kindergarten classrooms, into jailhouses where dangerous criminals are being detained and even into the Fulton County courthouse, where, you will remember, just five years ago a Superior Court judge and his court reporter were gunned down and killed.

Why stop there? One day, if you don’t like the way your legislator voted on a particular bill, you may even be able to walk into the Capitol fully armed and discuss the matter with him.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@capitolimpact.net

Tree of Life and Learning

A Pair of New Mosaics Enlivens Chase Street Elementary

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omething remarkable has come to life at Chase Street Elementary School. On the exterior of the building, amid the school’s “Art Garden,” now exist two peculiar trees. Non-organic, yet very much alive, the trees are rendered in two mosaic creations inspired by the colorful imaginations of students from Chase Street’s fifth-grade class.

The two mosaics portray day and night interpretations of the “tree of life,” an ancient symbol diversely depicted among many cultures throughout history to illustrate the relationships among all living things. With the help of local artist Krysia Haag and art teacher Krista Dean, the students created their own, original renditions of the ubiquitous symbol.

“We live in a world where humanity is so often divided by differences, and this has done [us] few favors,” says Haag, who installed her first public mosaic at the Daily Groceries Co-op on Prince Avenue last February. “The ‘tree of life’ is a great teaching tool to expose children to [because it] symbolizes unity, balance and growth.”

project in her studio. There, she handled the more advanced aspects of the project including making the substrate, filling in the details, grouting and assembling the individual elements, or tesserae, into the design. Most of the students have yet to see the finished products, as they were installed on June 14, after the end of the school year. Haag and Dean say they are anxious to see the students’ reactions when they return to school in the fall.

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first glance it is impossible to take in every individual detail of the intricate mosaics. The grinning “Day” tree swarms with critters and is pregnant with fruit and vegetables. All of its branches morph into human hands grasping for these edible treasures, all of which receive their nourishment from the ventricles of a pulsing heart located in the core of the tree.

In contrast, the ornate “Night” tree features a medley of different animal heads, including a lion, pig, shark, and elephant, springing from the tips of the branches. Meanwhile, a trio of squirrels break it down at an exclusive dance party held in the cavity of the tree (an artful interpretation, perhaps, of Athens’ underground music venue, the Secret Squirrel?

See it on this issue’s cover).

Ultimately, Haag says she was impressed and inspired by the students’ inventive spirit. Dean, who has taught art at the school for nine years, says she loves getting to work with this “collaboration of creative minds” on a regular basis. “I get to help students find their voice using images. New ideas and creations are being born in my presence all day, every day. It’s wonderful.”

One such “creative mind,” is fifth-grader Tiger Lili Villaveces, granddaughter of Cecilia Villaveces.

Tiger Lili says she most appreciates the infinite possibilities provided Artist Krysia Haag puts the finishing touches on one of the “Tree of Life” mosaics she helped create by mosaic art. “When I’m at my with fifth-graders at Chase Street Elementary. grandmother’s office, she has all these stones and pieces of clay around. It’s really cool that all The project took shape when Dean approached mosaic of these things can make some kind of tree or animal. You just maverick Haag with the idea of working with her students as a wouldn’t think that they could make anything like that.” guest artist.

A native Athenian, Haag says after five years of working “I think a lot of what early art education should be about with mosaics that she likes that the medium makes art more is exposure to different methods, forms and ideas,” says Dean. accessible to those who may not be what she calls “natural “Krysia has this incredible passion and enthusiasm for art. I artists.” Yet, Haag says mosaic art has not always received the wanted my students to feed off of her enthusiasm and also to respect it deserves. “It’s kind of the outcast artform. People have the opportunity to work with a local artist.” say, ‘This is a craft, not art,’ but in recent years mosaic has To kick off the project, funded by a $1,000 grant from the made headway as a fine artform.”

Chase St. P.T.O., Dean gave her two fifth-grade classes a brief Haag explains her interest in this particular project as part introduction to the concept of mosaics and the history of of a deep commitment to exposing members of the community the “tree of life.” The introduction involved a visit to see the to public art. “Our society has become so hyper-commercialized mosaic local artist Cecilia Villaveces has installed in the walkwe’ve lost much of our sense of community, and our public way in front of her home, as well as a trip to the nearby Daily space has suffered as a result. Public art is a way to bring Groceries to see Haag’s mural. From there, the students were inspiration back into a visually impoverished public realm. encouraged to draw their own versions of the tree: one class Mosaic is an excellent public art medium, allowing for many was assigned the “Day” tree while the other worked on the possibilities, including community collaboration, and children “Night” rendition. are drawn to it.”

Haag then drew ideas from the students’ depictions and Dean intends for the mosaics to be the first of a series of wove them together to create blueprints for the two mosaics. yearly “legacy projects” marking the graduation of each fifthThe students spent a total of six weeks on the project, crafting grade class. “Because we are a small school, it is very much ceramic creatures to adorn the creations. Two students even like a family. The legacy project allows them to contribute or volunteered to completely take over the task of clear glazing give back to the school that has been such a part of them.” and firing all of the ceramic pieces. To deal with the inevitable In the end, the work of passionate individuals such as Dean, disappointments associated with the creation of artworks, Dean invented the “Garden of Broken Things,” a sort of ceramic Haag and the fifth-grade class of Chase Street Elementary help make the school just one more embellishing gem in the allgraveyard in which students could take comfort in laying their inclusive mosaic of Athens. fallen pieces to rest. It has been well used during this project.

Due to the limited amount of available class time, Haag volDevon Young unteered countless hours of her own effort into completing the

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AMREEKA (PG-13) 2009. An immigrant single mother, Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour, Dubai’s Muhr Award winner for Best Actress), and her teenage son try to carve out a life in small-town Illinois. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival as well as nominations for Best Feature Film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series.

BABETTE’S FEAST (G) 1987.

Ciné’s Summer Classic Movie Series returns with a wonderful slate of films including last week’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, next week’s Days of Heaven, To Kill a Mockingbird, Seven Samurai, The Birds and A Clockwork Orange. This week’s classic, Babette’s Feast, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Two sisters, the daughters of a small village’s very Protestant minister, long deceased, allow their guest, Catholic foreigner Babette, to prepare a feast in honor of what would have been their father’s 100th birthday. Written and directed by Gabriel Axel.

THE BACK-UP PLAN (PG-13) 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. The only movie more excruciating that I have seen even a scene of this year is Valentine’s Day. I don’t care to waste time figuring out which one is worse.

CLASH OF THE TITANS (PG-13) Perhaps one of the most important movies of my childhood years, 1981’s Clash of the Titans informed most of my early knowledge of Greek mythology (for good or bad). More importantly, the camp classic contained some of the first nudity I was able to sneak past my parents. The flick also inspired me to compose my first only rap. (One verse. “The Kraken’s crackin’.” Repeat. I did not say it was any good.) Desmond Davis’ movie introduced a host of budding cinephiles to Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Maggie Smith, Ursula

Andress, Burgess Meredith and, less significantly, Harry Hamlin. And Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion visual effect still rock. I don’t care what any hip CGI supporter says. Nearly 30 years after its release, an entire generation still extols the miniscule virtues of this “crassic.” If I had a kid, I would totally have shown him or her this fantastical little movie. Nobody is going to be talking about the new Clash of the Titans, churched up 3D effects or not, by the end of the month, much less in 2030.

Where is the fun? The first movie never took itself seriously, a lack of hubris from which Clash 2010 could have benefited. Original scripter Beverley Cross’ plot is largely left unchanged.

(It really took three screenwriters to update his work?) Zeus (a shiny, bearded Liam Neeson who has already titled a chapter in his memoir, “2010: The Year I Went Slumming”) impregnates a mortal woman as a shower of gold. From that sexual congress issues Perseus (who grows up to be Avatar’s wooden Sam Worthington, 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 (Ralph Fiennes, whose raspy delivery aurally grates) to defeat the Titans—on their collective asses (via the Greek citystate of Argos). The first act setup is a bore. No magic helmet. No Calibos’ army of evil midgets imprisoning poor winged Pegususes (Pegasus? Pegasi?).

None of this mythological B.S. is any news to veterans of the first Clash, which was actually a lot more accurate than you would think. Yet inaccurate retelling of thousand-year-old myths is not Clash 2010’s greatest flaw. In the words of reality TV’s enlightened despot, Simon Cowell, this new Clash of the Titans is “utterly forgettable.”

Knock Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation for its outdated silliness, but the effects play better today than the new flick’s pitiful CGI. Ten years from now, people will scoff at the new Clash’s FX, especially its hastily converted 3D, and it will not retain even a whiff of the original’s quaint nostalgia. Transporter director Louis Leterrier has a knack for making decent, disposable blockbusters. His Incredible Hulk did little wrong

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besides be extremely unexceptional.

The same goes for his Clash remake.

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 ensue (wrong coffins, mislabeled pill bottles, incontinent uncles; the list

the best person to tell you whether or not you’ll fall for their combined comic powers. I can tell you Grown Ups is not a very good movie, and it’s way below Sandler’s recent output. Five old pals—a Hollywood super-agent (Sandler), lovable loser (James), henpecked househusband (Rock), aging horndog (Spade) and granny-chasing New Ager (Schneider)—get together after their childhood basketball coach’s funeral. Inoffensive enough for easily amused families, the jokes in Grown Ups are composed of friendly, heckling one-upmanship, better known as punchlines minus the work of a setup.

Apparently, The Big Chill was too intellectual; what Lawrence Kasdan’s film lacked were fart/bunion/hairpiece jokes and bunch of Kevin James pratfalls.

How do you make lemonade? 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.”

DESPICABLE ME (PG) The world’s premier supervillain, Gru (v. Steve Carell), is plotting his biggest heist yet—he’s going to steal the moon— when a trio of orphan girls brings the daddy out of Dr. Evil. I cannot get a read on Despicable Me from its trailers or its creators’ sparse feature filmographies. Featuring your usual all-star voice cast that includes Kristen Wiig, Jason Segel, Will Arnett, Ken Jeong, Julie Andrews, Danny McBride, Russell Brand, Mindy Kaling, Jack McBrayer, Jemaine Clement and more.

GREASE (PG) 1978. Thirty years later, Grease remains the word. One of the most popular musicals of all time, the revisionist slice of ‘50s nostalgia returns to theaters as a sing-along.

Join John Travolta and Olivia NewtonJohn as unlikely, golden-throated high schoolers, Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, in belting out classics like “You’re the One That I Want,” “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightning” and “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

GROWN UPS (PG-13) Immune as I am to the charms of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock (the actor, as opposed to the stand-up comedian), David Spade and Rob Schneider (especially Rob Schneider), I am not

THE KARATE KID (PG) The remake of the 1984 classic is definitely not the best around; the somber-toned flick would place third in a tournament with the previous four Karate Kids. Was it really necessary to take two hours and 20 minutes to (re)tell a plot about a kid learning martial arts from a handyman in order to beat up some bullies? No. Xiao Dre (Jaden Smith, son of Karate Kid producer Will; one wonders what came first: Will Smith’s producing or Jaden Smith’s starring?) learns kung fu from the dour Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) and enters a tournament against the really mean Fighting Dragons, led by a teacher who totally took lessons from Martin Kove’s Kreese. The final training montage and the tournament don’t make up for the two previous hours, though they are definitely the movie’s highlights. Where are the loads of fun references to the first film? How cool of a subtitle would “Put him in a body bag, Johnny!” or “Sweep the leg” be?

No William Zabka/Ralph Macchio cameos? Alas, no dice. I’m sure this new flick will do wonders for local martial arts enrollment. m THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (R) Annette Bening’s other family-centric drama (following Mother and Child) centers on a lesbian couple, Nic and Jules (power acting duo Bening and Julianne Moore), both of whom conceived children through artificial insemination. Now their teenager, Laser (Josh Hutcherson, Journey to the Center of the Earth), has convinced his older sister, Joni (Mia Wasikowska, Alice in Wonderland), to investigate their donor dads. Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed Laurel Canyon and High Art. With Mark Ruffalo.

KNIGHT AND DAY (PG-13) Tom Cruise’s star does not shine like it

used to. Twenty years ago on June 29, Cruise’s Days of Thunder roared onto screens. In the interim, summer blockbusters require less star power and fewer original concepts, while favoring bigger effects budgets and more recognizable intellectual properties. Ten years ago, Knight and Day would have ruled the summer roost.

But in 2010, Cruise jumped the couch a few years ago, Cameron Diaz’s box office clout never really materialized, and the under-funded special effects look abysmally dated. Hitchcockian in the Charade sense, Knight and Day pits super-spy Roy Miller (Cruise) and every-girl June Havens (Diaz) against the government, some European arms dealers and their growing affection for each other. After a meet-cute in the airport, Roy and June go on the lam, as Roy claims to have been framed as a rogue agent by his partner, Fitzgerald (Peter Sarsgaard). Roy allegedly stole a battery prototype created by wunderkind Simon Feck (Paul Dano).

That Knight and Day does not work is no fault of Cruise or Diaz. Hollywood’s former golden boy sort of embraces his new crazy persona and fuels Miller’s cock-sure super-heroics with a touch of insanity that leads the viewer to question Roy’s wild conspiracy along with June. Unfortunately, screenwriter Patrick O’Neill cuts the crazy legs off Cruise’s performance with the most predictable of spy games. Diaz lessens June’s annoying density and her star charisma melds well with Cruise’s despite their lack of romantic chemistry. I did not buy their love affair, but Roy and June make a great new Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

THE LAST AIRBENDER (PG) M. Night Shyamalan, the arrogant writerdirector so maligned after a devastating trifecta that concluded with 2008’s The Happening, smartly streamlines the first 20 episodes of Nickelodeon’s Peabody Award-winning cartoon, “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” Airbender Aang (Noah Ringer) is the legendary Avatar, thawed out after a hundred-year deep freeze by Waterbender Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her doofy brother, Sokka (Eclipse’s Jackson Rathbone).

Now he must learn how to bend the other three elements (water, earth and fire) in order to defeat the Fire Nation, which looks to rule the world. M. Night’s grandiose, almost operatic seriousness of purpose actually benefits the transition of the deceptively deep, often silly cartoon to the big screen.

Nonetheless, I miss the childish fun of toon Aang. The Last Airbender lacks the fantastical awe that made the show’s universe like a brilliant little brother to Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, and no one will prefer it to the cartoon. Still, I’m ready for Book Two. LOVE RANCH (R) Ray Academy Award nominee Taylor Hackford directs his Oscar-winning wife, Helen Mirren, for the first time in this drama based on the first legal brothel in Reno, Nevada.

Joe Pesci plays Mirren’s husband.

Hackford had been around a long while before Ray (Have you been lifted up where you belong by An Officer and a Gentleman?), but none of his films are as memorable. Writer Mark Jacobson wrote the article upon which American Gangster was based. With Bryan Cranston, Scout Taylor-Compton, Gina Gershon (can you say typecasting?), Bai Ling and M.C. Gainey.

MOTHER AND CHILD (R) The stories of three women—a 50-yearold healthcare 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.

MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (NR) 1939. Frank Capra’s classic Academy Awardwinning drama made Jimmy Stewart a star, forever memorialized as Jefferson Smith, the last decent man in Washington. Playing at Ciné to kick off the the Summer Classic Movie Series.

OCEANS (G) Disneynature’s second Earth Day release, following last year’s Earth, is being described as “part thriller, part meditation.” Narrated by Pierce Brosnan, Oceans examines the mysteries of what truly lives under the sea. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud were responsible for the awe-inspiring, technological breakthrough Winged Migration.

PLEASE GIVE (R) I presently regret not having taken the time to watch writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s first two films, Walking and Talking and Lovely & Amazing, as I have thoroughly enjoyed her last two releases, 2006’s Friends with Money and Please Give, presently playing at Ciné. Holofcener’s New York, much like Woody Allen’s, is populated by the neurotic, the selfish and the needy.

Unlike Woody, she focuses on the female half of that population. In Please Give, her muse, Catherine Keener, brilliantly crafts another fragile, quirky, 50-something woman and mother. Her Kate is a classed-up scavenger, picking over the furniture carcasses of the recently deceased. Recently, Kate has been having one of those existential crises that are the lifeblood of independent cinema. Kate constantly gives money and leftovers to street people because she cannot give them anything more emotionally meaningful. Not only do Kate and her husband, Alex (Oliver Platt), profit from the death of strangers, they are also waiting for their ancient next-door neighbor, a powerfully blunt 90-year-old weapon named Andra (Ann Guilbert), to die so they can expand their apartment. Andra’s granddaughters, Rebecca (Rebecca Hall) and Mary (Amanda Peet), are no better off than Kate. Rebecca fills her loneliness as the primary caregiver for her grandmother; Mary is a tanned empty shell of a human being. Holofcener’s intelligent deconstruction of the inanity of the post-modern New York yuppie is one of 2010’s best scripts, and casting Hall of Vicky Cristina Barcelona will prove smartly prescient. Hall is certainly poised for a strong Keenerlike career. As funny as Please Give is, the emotional residue resulting from a viewing clings like a depressing funk.

Still, Holofcener’s acerbically talky film charms despite its heavy-duty unhappiness.

PREDATORS (R) A group of elite human warriors—Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo and Topher Grace (?!)—must elude more than one of the universe’s ultimate hunters.

Robert Rodriguez’s name may sit above the title, but he is only exec-producing this reboot of the Predator franchise.

Nimrod Antal is directing; his previous movies were competent, if not stellar genre entries. I look for Predators to satisfy in similar fashion.

R.E.M. LIVE @ ROCKPALAST 1985 (NR) Commemorating 25 years since the band’s release of “Fables of

the Reconstruction,” Ciné screens the 25-song live concert from R.E.M.’s 1985 performance for Germany’s longrunning live music television show, Rockpalast (in English, “Rock Palace”).

Find the complete setlist at www.rockpalastarchiv.de/concert/rem.html.

ROBIN HOOD (PG-13) According to director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Brian Helgeland, Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe in his period element) was a common archer in the Crusader army of King Richard the Lionheart (Danny Huston). Upon Robin’s return to England, he borrowed the nobility of Sir Robert Loxley, thanks to the insistence of his blind father, Walter (Max von Sydow). Lucky Robin also got Sir Robert’s wife, Lady Marion (Cate Blanchett), in the bargain.

Unfortunately, England is in chaos.

Richard’s successor, John (Oscar Isaac), is a ninny, and his kingdom is about to be overrun by the French, thanks to his conniving pal, Godfrey (Mark Strong). Good thing Robin and his merry men—Little John (Kevin Durand), Friar Tuck (Mark Addy), Will Scarlett (Scott Grimes) and Alan A’Dayle (Alan Doyle)—are on John’s

side, since the monarch bestoweth a little power the common man’s way.

Sadly, this new Robin Hood ends where the legend begins. Thanks, Ridley, Russell and Co.; you just spent 140 minutes making Magna Carta Part One. More political intrigue flies around than arrows (what the hell is William Hurt doing here?), and forget robbing the rich to give to the poor.

This flick explains why Braveheart, er, Robin chose the outlaw lifestyle, hiding out in Sherwood Forest. All the pieces are present for the second coming of Gladiator; instead we get the bastard lovechild of Kingdom of Heaven and Coming Home. On paper, a realistic, “historically accurate” version of the Robin Hood myth from the Gladiator team and producer Brian Grazer read like a summer blockbuster, but in reality, a dour, dark, incredibly anachronistic (everyone is a feminist, ecumenical, Enlightenment philosopher) Robin Hood is no Robin Hood at all. I would rather re-watch the 1938 Errol Flynn masterpiece, The Adventures of Robin Hood, than this version.

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (R) 2009. The Academy Award winner for

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

TOY STORY 3 (G) When toy owner Andy grows up and goes to college, he donates his favorite toys, including Woody (v. Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (v. Tim Allen), to a day care center. As excited as I am to meet the new toys, I am even more excited about the script by Little Miss Sunshine Oscar winner, Michael Arndt. Director Lee Unkrich codirected previous Pixar hits Toy Story 2and Finding Nemo. In 3D and IMAX 3D. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG-13) See Movie Pick.

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movie pick Grow Some Fangs Already THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG-13) No matter how many times the director changes for the better, the cast, characters, and story remain the same. Bella (Kristen Stewart) is, like, so in love with Edward (Robert Pattinson), who’s a vampire, but she’s also in love with Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who turns into a giant wolf. And Jacob rarely wears a shirt. (OMG, he is so hot.) Well, a bitchy redheaded vampire named Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) wants to kill Bella so she creates an army of newborn vamps (they’re, like, totally

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Anna Kendrick, the franchise was saddled with an Ashley Greene, Peter “Mr. Jennie Garth” Facinelli, or… shudder… Jackson Rathbone.

New director David Slade uses his previous experience with bloodsuckers (30 Days of Night) to construct some cool blue night scenes for author Stephenie Meyer’s fangless vampires. Unfortunately, nothing can amend for screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg’s atrocious dialogue and the movie’s sheer volume of mope. Everybody from Bella to Edward to Bella’s father, Charlie, frowns and whines. If

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The Twilight Saga is easily the most illprepared blockbuster franchise of all time, and Summit Entertainment’s no-list casting may have finally caught up with it. Neophyte production company/distributor Summit lucked out with the single-star entity that is Stewart/ Pattinson/Lautner. However, their pittance of a budget for the original movie forced some bargain-basement shopping for Twilight’s supporting cast, and for every Billy Burke and

only Bella had stayed longer on the Quileute Indian reservation where folks have better things to do than sulk like teens in a ‘50s melodrama.

Everything in Eclipse builds to the climactic showdown between a united Cullen-Quileute front and Victoria’s newborns, which lives up to its hype. Meyer’s vamps may lack a lot of cool traits, but they shatter awesomely. The big battle may wind up the highlight of the entire series, but it is not worth the emomushy price of admission.

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Bar Food, Part 1: Not only am I a fan of checking out the food options at various bars, but I also really like eating at the bar in restaurants that don’t really emphasize it, like Five and Ten. If you’re only two people, it’s just as easy to chat as it is across a table, and you generally get far more attentive service without too much chattiness. One of the best aspects of Farm 255 (255 W. Washington St.) has always been its beautiful bar, which makes great use of the open space, so the restaurant’s introduction of a new bar-only menu designed to go along with early-evening drink specials was a smart idea. As you’d expect, the prices fall between Farm Cart’s ridiculous cheapness and the regular restaurant’s higher tabs, and the offer of $1 Terrapin drafts between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. if you order something off the bar menu may compensate for any slight flinching from the cheapskates. You’re unlikely to have a great deal of difficulty choosing, as the options are limited to approximately three, although you can still order anything you like off the main menu. The housemade sausage is a mainstay, served in a Luna bun, with a side of perfectly salty rosemary fries, and while the sausage itself could have a better texture (frequently the case with housemade stuff), the bun compensates. A sirloin …perfectly salty and Caesar salad combo may well rosemary fries… disappoint if you’re the type who orders steak to begin with, offering a meager few slices of the stuff, already cooling, even if it is only $8, the standard price for the bar entrees. The best of the trio was an almost smokey tomato soup with a great swirl of oil on the top, served with a buttery grilled cheese sandwich.

Sides from the main menu are a good way to pad out your meal if you’re still hungry, which you may well be, and while the cheese grits were underwhelming, the griddled carrots, which are just as simple, were totally lovely, with their essential carrotiness blossoming due to a quick application of heat. Could I live as a rabbit with such carrots? Indeed. On the whole, the bar isn’t exactly a dining destination on its own, but if your alcohol tolerance is low enough that you could use some solid nutrition to lay a foundation for several hours of drinking, it makes one feel cheerful to have this food as an option.

Bar Food, Part 2: Since it opened, I’ve been meaning to poke my head into the fancy boutique-on-the-cheap Hotel Indigo, at the corner of College and Dougherty streets downtown, and, as it happens, the place has a restaurant, too. Phi Bar and Bistro (500 College Ave.) is easy to find, being just around the corner from the hotel’s entrance, and serves breakfast, dinner and drinks, but not lunch, an odd omission given the presence of your choice of fruit cup or potato chips as a side with entrees. You can sit at the long white bar, which features three flatscreen TVs, grab a shiny white table in the area in front, move to the back of the space for a loungier setting or check out the very cool patio. As far as eats, you’re better off sticking with the more bar-like nibbles. The Tuscan pizza is made with focaccia and has the usual failings of that thick-crust method, being soggy and difficult to eat. The hickory-smoked BBQ pork sliders are cute in presentation but flawed in execution, with hard hunks of meat and an overly sweet sauce. They are, smartly, served up on Luna rolls, as part of the hotel’s ethos is to emphasize and use local products. The Georgia cheese and honey plate, with three selections from the wonderful Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville (a blue, a Gouda and a Camembert-style) and a flowery bit of comb from Savannah’s Honey, is an example of such, and while I could nitpick about its lack of adventurousness, it’s extremely tasty. If you’re just having a beer, you could do a lot worse than to munch on the fresh popped corn dusted with chili powder and served in a huge cornucopia of paper. The staff is attentive and friendly, cheerfully offering to go get more bread for the cheese upon noticing the included pieces had gone quickly, and the bartender mixes a solid dirty gin martini. Much like the Farm Bar, Phi Bar isn’t a destination for its food, and it’s a bit out of the way downtown, but it’s a good step up from the usual hotel bar. The bar serves local wines from Tiger and Wolf Mountain, Terrapin beer and an array of specialty drinks that look to be on the sweet side but do use nice ingredients such as St. Germain. Food is served every day and can, of course, be paid for with a credit card.

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threats & promises record reviews Music News And Gossip Burgers Everywhere: California label Burger Records is bringing its “Caravan of Stars” to Little Kings on Saturday, July 10. The show is free, begins at 3 p.m. and, true to its name, the label will grill up burgers and give them away free while supplies last. The label will showcase the bands Garbo’s Daughter, Bombón (see Calendar Pick on p. 19), Alrighty Do Me a Favor, Trashcans, Barreracudas, Pipsqueak, Apache and Cosmonaut. Local bands fleshing out the bill are The Agenda, The Humms, Vincas and Timmy Tumble. DJ Kurt Wood and others will spin tunes between bands. For more information on Burger Records and the bands, see www.burgerrecords.webs.com.

Two Weekly Opportunities: Two longtime Athens artists, Celest Divine and Montu Miller, have been hosting separate, but similar, events on a weekly basis. Miller hosts Poetic Soul at New Earth Music Hall each Tuesday from 9–11 p.m., and the event is an open-mic with signups between 8 and 9 p.m.

Inspired and driven by the recently formed Live Poet Society, Poetic Soul is open to all poets, singers, songwriters and other performing artists, and each performer gets a full five minutes at the mic. DJ Chief Rocka provides musical ambiance throughout the evening.

Divine hosts Poetic Release Therapy every Wednesday evening at Bulldog Café/ Sky City Lounge located at 468 North Ave. This is also an open mic for spoken-word artists and other

Brian Burton (DJ Danger Mouse) poets, with signup at 8:30 p.m. for the 9 p.m. show. Miller’s events have been successful at bringing together a nice mix of different types of artists, and Divine’s events regularly feature headline performers in addition to the open mic portion of the show. For more information concerning Poetic Soul, please drop a line to Montu Miller via undergroundathens2@yahoo. com. If you’d like to know more about Poetic Release Therapy, please contact Celest Divine via CelestNgeve@gmail.com.

Thanks, Buddy: Although he hasn’t legitimately been considered an “Athens artist” for almost a decade, Brian Burton (DJ Danger Mouse) has never failed to speak volumes about how much he loves Athens music. To wit, he includes no fewer than seven Athens and Athens-related artists (including Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Azure Ray, Elf Power and R.E.M.) in his massive

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170-song “Endless Summer Playlist,” which was commissioned by New York Magazine.

That may not seem like a lot, but considering the list has no restrictions on age and style, I think it’s pretty good. Dig it over at www. nymag.com.

Take a Break: Local rockers Romanenko will go on indefinite hiatus after the band’s show on July 30 at Little Kings. At least, they’re calling it an “indefinite hiatus.” To the rest of us, it looks like they’re breaking up, especially considering that the band is going to literally give away its remaining merchandise. Guitarist Jessie Marston and drummer Erika Rickson have reportedly already begun working on a new project together. I can’t help but be a little saddened over Romanenko’s demise as I think they were one of a handful of bands in Athens operating quite creatively within a solidly rock and roll-oriented, as opposed to some sub genre of it, paradigm. Dead Dog, Soapbar and Charlotte, NC’s Marco Pollo will share the bill with them this night. Go hear what we’ll be missing soon enough over at www.myspace.com/romanenkomusic.

Second Time Around: After last year’s Athens PopFest was postponed until 2010, local dude Derek Wiggs (Daffodil) organized a two-day event at Little Kings named Slopfest, and he’s doing it again this year. Thirty-six bands will play, including Tendaberry, Shithead, Laminated Cat, The Awesomelies, The Hidden Spots, American Cheeseburger, The Sopors, The Jack Burton, Future Virgins and tons more.

Actually, most of the lineup is a really killer mix of some of the best Athens underground rock happening right now.

The event runs on Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24 and features free BBQ starting at 4 p.m., with music beginning at 5 p.m. each day. A two-day wristband is $6, or you can pay $5 each night at the door. Wristbands are on sale now at Little Kings. If you’ve got any questions, please drop a line to Wiggs via thefranklingoldmine@yahoo. com, but be warned, it can take a while for him to get back to you. Other than that, have a ball.

Speaking of Which: Full festival passes are still available for Athens PopFest for $45, and tickets for the individual nights at the 40 Watt will go on sale this Friday (July 9) at noon. Individual tickets will be available for Thursday, Aug. 12–Saturday, Aug. 14 but will only cover the shows at the 40 Watt. Headlining bands those nights are The Wedding Present, Apples in Stereo and Mission of Burma, respectively.

The prices are $12, $12 and $15, also respectively. These are the only shows you may purchase advance tickets for. If you want to see a bunch of bands on the cheap all week, get the wristband. If you want to see one show at the Watt, buy a ticket. Simple as that.

In other news, this year’s Athens PopFest is a completely all-ages event. Every single show is open to everyone. So bring everyone.

This year’s festival runs Aug. 10–14, and in the interest of full disclosure, yes, I am heavily involved with this organization. Purchase tickets and get more info over at www.athenspopfest.com.

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VENICE IS SINKING Sand & Lines: The Georgia Theatre Sessions One Percent Though not quite as acoustically robust, Venice Is Sinking’s third LP is the Athens equivalent of Cowboy Junkies’ The Trinity Sessions. Before a fire claimed the venue last summer, the band recorded the album live using only two mics at the historic Georgia Theatre, at the behest of owner Wilmot Greene. The raw, live capture can sometimes be dreamily distant, but even that can’t contain the majesty of these songs. Turn up the volume, and the atmospheric detail that exists between the lines of their sedate, folklaced chamber pop comes alive. The songs drift by like ghost ships, ethereal and immense.

The stately organ of “Falls City” coaxes the soul while the harrowing desperation of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is punctuated by haunting folk crescendos. In the uncharacteristically upbeat “Bound by Violets,” guitars, church bells and violins rise in constantly upward spires. And the Baroque pop of “Pebble Hill”—the album’s finest moment—rides at a gallop that could keep pace with the Field Mice.

Though understated, the lush hush of Sand & Lines is crafted with enough detail, elegance and sense of gathering scale to prevent it from becoming wallpaper. And though the record is thoroughly an Athens landmark whose context and story is as rich as the musical tapestry itself, the songwriting stands alone.

Bao Le-Huu Venice Is Sinking is celebrating its CD release on Friday, July 9 at the 40 Watt Club.

sophomore album is a dirty, headlong blitzkrieg of sludge, punk and thrash.

Top picks include the flailing destruction of “Embrace the Madness,” the Cro-Magnon stomp of “Red Eyes,” the hard Dixie charge of “Way of Horse and Bow” and the gaping, 10-story riffage of “Twist the Knife.” But the relentlessness and power of Black Tusk’s attack is remarkably consistent throughout, making for a concise record that comes at you good, hard and head-on.

The sickness on Taste the Sin is the kind of swampy nastiness that could give the grisly hatchet men of the Northwest a run for their money.

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RATATAT LP4 (XL) When you establish a brand as functional and identifiable as Ratatat’s, you don’t look to reinvent the wheel.

But while they remain ever-faithful to their typically sleek and sinewy lines, the New York duo has occasionally sought expression beyond simple indie disco, and that continues here.

The arrangements feature a noticeably expanded palette, even working with a full string section for the first time. But this wider brush also means that their normally sharp-etched concept occasionally slips out of focus.

Of the mold-breaking moments, successes include “Bob Gandhi,” a track that features spindly harpsichord and flickering percussive detailing that would be comfortable in The Books’ library. Same goes for the excellently soul-grooving, smooth-gliding “Mandy.” And with its vaguely Middle Eastern flavor, “Bare Feast” is an interesting bit of exotica. But look to the futuristic funkiness of “Drugs” for classic Ratatat.

By now, it’s clear that these cats can crank out tight, intuitive work like LP4 in their sleep. But the limits to their aesthetic are beginning to show.

Bao Le-Huu

BLACK TUSK Taste the Sin Relapse Georgia heavy metal kicks majorleague ass right now, and these leaders of the Savannah school are a big, if slightly unheralded, reason why. While progressive Atlanta cousin Mastodon geeks out on masturbatory mysticism, these three dudes (who all contribute unique singing voices to the mix) just want to rock out in the most primal, noxious way possible. It’s a brand of horned Southern hospitality that’s all about rock and roll revelry delivered with face-breaking brutality. And this

E.W. HARRIS A Waste of Water and Time Independent Athens expatriate E.W. Harris’ music has taken many forms over the past decade. From the pioneer spirit of Luminous, through the breezy jazz of the Eric Harris Group, and the highconcept electronic projects Ghostdad

the Robot, and Resident Patient, his dulcet, classically trained tenor was a constant, if often overlooked presence in the Athens music scene. Whether singing about outlaws hopping trains or outlaws hopping spaceships, Harris has always painted the picture of a hard-luck, drifter troubadour, and with A Waste of Water and Time all of these disparate projects reach their logical conclusion, coalescing into a gorgeous space-jazz-folk hybrid that finally provides the appropriate vessel for his soulful tales of life on the run.

Harris ensconces his acoustic guitar in swaths of robotic effects, found sounds, dark synths and warm harmonies, suggesting by turns a campfire singalong with the crew of Serenity and closing time at the Mos Eisley Cantina.

The folktronica experiments of acts like Tungg and Bobby Birdman could be called stylistic touchstones, but Harris’ vocals are in a class by themselves. Songs like “Supernova” and “Underground” induce chills, giving voice to the kind of love that’s written in the stars, while heartbreakers like “Wind Up Dead” make that love feel planets away. Interspersed among the songs proper are spoken-word sections, which, while occasionally obtuse, act almost as a kind of footnote to Harris’ loose space-outlaw narrative.

In his sound, history and the future collide to create something that feels very of the moment. Maybe this drifter has finally found a place to call home.

David Fitzgerald

PORTUGAL. THE MAN American Ghetto Equal Vision You don’t get called one of today’s most ambitious young bands by sitting still. And on this new, ostensibly, “for the fans” album, P.TM continues to steer further away from the suffocating esoterics that it’s sometimes known for toward clearer, more concise skies.

Though it’s moving in an increasingly programmed and synthesized direction, its expansive rock is still carved deep with humid soul. A lean, forceful economy drives this effort, and the much simpler arrangements provide a welcome breather without sacrificing drama or feeling.

Besides the airy effervescence of “When the War Ends,” the thick swirls of prog, psych and soul in here come down like sweet, heavy, slo-mo drips of buttered honey. Prime selections include the chunky, narcotic soul of “60 Years” and “All My People.” But none surpass the effective simplicity of “1000 Years,” which pairs a crisp electronic beat with deliciously beefy and fuzzed-out guitars.

Even more fluid than the P.TM’s previous album,The Satanic Satanist, American Ghetto is a resounding testament that this daring band doesn’t always have to try so hard to make its point. If you’ve got the groove, sometimes the best thing to do is get out of its way and let it do its thing.

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THE STONE BREAKERS Pop/Rock Lineup: Lauren Osborne, Mike Dwyer, Tim Payne and Asa Leffer. Shares members with: Push!, The Starter Kits, Fuzzy Sprouts and Holy Liars. Influences: Elvis Costello, The Who and The Animals.

This band first came together in February and made its live debut during MaxFest a couple of weeks back, with former Push! lead singer Lauren Osborne handling vocal duties, Holy Liar Asa Leffer on bass, Mikey Dwyer on lead guitar and Tim Payne, formerly of Fuzzy Sprouts, on drums. That’s a strong, eclectic mix of rock pedigree right there, with the members’ former and current side projects spanning everything from Southern rock to shoegaze. The Stone Breakers, says Leffer, are “straight-up, poppy rock.” The group is currently working on its debut EP, and considering the band already has the benefit of producer/engineer Leffer’s expert ear, it’ll no doubt be a topnotch debut. Catch The Stone Breakers in concert when they open for Joe Rowe’s new band, The Goons.

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Free Mountain Husmuk was actually the one to pitch the band, and he got drummer Mark Brill to join. Free Mountain made its live debut at AthFest this year, stomping through a boozy set of originals and a cover of “Another One Bites the Dust,” in honor of Tasty World’s last night. Howard promises that Free Mountain’s debut gig was not a one-off collaboration, and although he doesn’t envision the band hitting the road, he does hope for many more local gigs and possibly a record as well. There’s no website up yet, but stay tuned to Flagpole as shows are confirmed.

Next show: TBA! WOLFCHARGE Thrash/Metal/Crust Lineup: Brandon Gross, Travis Loving, Jay Flanery and DJ. Former members of: Scruff McGruff, 696, Tacos Tacos Tacos Tacos, Facebomb, Nicolas Case, Against the Machine and Slumlord. Influences: Bolt Thrower, Filth, early Slayer, High on Fire, D-Beat and black metal.

Raw, fierce and explosive, Wolfcharge has quickly clawed out a following in the local punk scene. The band says it first

formed in February, “after a hard night’s drinking with Brandon and Jay on a front porch listening to Skitsystem.” The pair had an epiphany, and then it was just a matter of recruiting more members. “The moment DJ got out of jail, Brandon informed him he would be the singer of Athens’ most vile punk band to date,” the band continues via email. “After a few failed attempts at finding a suitable drummer whose head didn’t explode during practice, Travis stepped to the plate with grind to spare.” Take heed: as a listener, your head is still very much at risk for explosion, so proceed with caution. Or, if you prefer, proceed with reckless abandon and prepare for a heart-racing, adrenaline-packed, sweat-pouring good time.

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Wolfcharge will be recording before the end of summer. Stay in the loop by becoming a fan over at www.Facebook.com/ wolfcharge.

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UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS Atmospheric/Rock/Pop Lineup: Nate Nelson, Hunter Morris and Zack “Follow Through” Hosey. Shares members with: Gift Horse, Thayer Sarrano, Maria Taylor and Doomhammer. Influences: Dream Dogs, Gift Horse and Nate Nelson.

“This is mainly a creative exercise for Nate and myself,” explains Gift Horse frontman and Union of Concerned Scientists’ guitarist Hunter Morris.

“We both write a lot, so this is a great way to hash out new material.” UCS came together when Nelson was engineering Gift Horse’s latest record, Mountain of Youth. Nelson is perhaps best known for his charming solo work, and his engaging vocals lead many of this band’s tracks.

“It’s been a great outlet to perform songs that don’t quite fit with Gift Horse or Nate’s band,” says Morris, “but, regardless of whether it’s a new song or an older one, we always try to push the song very far away from what it would sound like if Gift Horse played it or if Nate played it with his band. And it’s really cool to have Zack follow through with his take on some great weird guitar parts that add a whole other element to the songs.” Don’t expect Nelson to give up his solo gig or for Morris to walk away from Gift Horse any time soon. If anything, this side project has served as a motivator and an inspiration for each songwriter’s main focus. “We’re both working on new records, so I think this band gives us both a much broader perspective on the possibilities for our main projects,” says Morris.

If this lineup sounds familiar but the name doesn’t, that’s because their first show was incorrectly billed by as “Union of Socialists.” So, no, this isn’t necessarily a WSLA-endorsed band, but you may see the name mixed up more in the future—on purpose. After the debut show, Morris half-jokingly suggested that they may change the name every gig, replacing “scientists” with some other group. “Maybe the next show will be Union of Concerned…Unicorns.”

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ur world is forever far-flung now; the tyranny of distance is fast becoming a thing of the past. Iranian bands perform via Skype to evade persecution; Ben Folds can be a self-loathing cyber-drunk in Second Life; and so, basically, anything that could be local will now be global. This hyper-personalized/hyper-hyper-connected/ hyper-hyper-hyper-saturated reality of sharing and shattering culture has almost completely obliterated the idea of the communally agreed-upon superstar—so that’s a good thing. But it’s also damaged the idea of the localized scene. It still exists, but rather than being influenced exclusively by taste-making elder statesmen and nearby peers, everyone listens to everyone, making the idea of a local label documenting a unique sound an increasingly rare bird. But that doesn’t mean that indie labels can’t engage in artful curating— ”art” being the key word.

Home Tapes, a record label as well as an artists’ collective, is lovingly organized and carefully managed by Adam Heathcott and Sara Padgett. The label’s history with artistry made them an instant match for Washington, D.C.-based band The Caribbean. “Sara is a wonderful photographer and Adam has been involved in design for years,” says Caribbean vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Michael Kentoff.

“That was different for us; we’d never dealt with that with a label.”

The Caribbean is a collective of artists themselves who, while based out of D.C., work to create ethereal, rhythmic pop from all over the nation via the Internet. “We did it as a way of not having a band, ‘cause we’d all been in bands before and got sick of that,” says Kentoff. The band’s songwriting leader, Kentoff, came up through the D.C. punk scene—he vividly recalls Henry “Rollins” Garfield playing him his first punk rock mixtape—and recruited members of the highly underrated Dischord band Smart Went Crazy for membership in The Caribbean.

“So, it was gonna be kind of a collective—like Steely Dan on a shoestring budget,” Kentoff says. His collaborators—Don Campbell, Tony Denison, Matt Byars and Dave Jones—all contribute parts, manipulated and otherwise, from afar. “Basically, we email each other ideas, use sound clouds, use various elements of getting sounds in,” says Kentoff. “One of the challenges is playing the songs live because we record them first, usually. Three of us live in D.C., Matt lives in Baltimore, and Tony lives in Minneapolis.”

The band will occasionally work in person, despite the risk of bodily harm. “Tony will fly

in for a weekend and do drums and go home before we kill each other,” Kentoff laughs.

The meeting of the minds between band and label from across the coasts—Home Tapes is based out of Portland—came to be due to, duh, the Internet. “We were on Tomlab, which is a German label, and Endearing, which was a Canadian label, and neither one seemed like a very good fit. We seemed too experimental for Endearing and we felt too poppy for Tomlab, and we felt they were all nice people, but they didn’t know what to do with us,” says Kentoff.

“And I saw a little ad for this label that I’d never heard of, and I clicked it on it and I just liked the aesthetic. So, I sent them an email, and they’d heard the band. I don’t know if they were fans, but I sent them the last record that we’d done, and they were like, ‘Oh, we want to put out your next record.’”

The Caribbean was an easy fit for Home Tapes, who trade in the alternately poppy and experimental—names like Bear in Heaven, Pattern Is Movement, and others. Label cohoncho Padgett has even contributed photography for the band’s artwork. “They put out an EP, and we’ve been with them ever since. It was a very simple, friendly email and eventually phone calls; I have to be careful about getting on the phone with them, because we’re usually on the phone for a minimum of two hours. We’re very chatty.”

Although both band and label co-exist via phone and email, they do so happily, and are held together with bonds that supplant provincial unity. “There was an excitement about what we were doing, perhaps because of their background as artists,” says Kentoff. “I think their enthusiasm came from the fact that they were artists and wanted to run their label as artists. So, that was appealing. And also at the time, even when they didn’t really know what they were doing, they were sure of themselves and very aggressive in the sense that they wanted to do great art. We’ve had nice relationships with labels before, but to hear people say: ‘We want to make great art that lasts forever with you,’ that goes a long way.”

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ates of State are living the dream.

Happily married since 2001, Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner have essentially made a career out of serenading each other. While their lyrics dip into darker, more abstract territory than their hyperactive, bubblegum sound initially suggests, their love songs always sound like they’re written by people who are really in love. One is hardpressed to escape the feeling that the couple are not only singing with one another, but to one another. On Crushes: The Covers Mixtape, the Mates’ romantic tendencies are on full display, as they assemble a collection of songs by other artists and stamp them with their own inimitable indie-pop brand.

“It’s just songs that, in the 12 years that we’ve known each other, have meant something to us at some point in our love life together—our band life together—they’re songs that we just love,” says Hammel, taking a few minutes out of his day to chat from the group’s tour stop in Nevada. “We were just trying to explore a different sound; the great song was already written, and we could just explore the concept of recording.”

This marks the first time the band has done all of its own recording, and Mates of State absolutely nailed it. The album has a slick, shimmery quality about it that perfectly compliments the group’s joyful, electric organ and drum arrangements. Although tunes by Genesis, Harry Nilsson and PJ Harvey all ended up on the cutting room floor, the final tracklist is a cohesive unit comprised of indie contemporaries like Belle and Sebastian and Dear Nora, as well as major artists like Nick Cave and Fleetwood Mac. (Their boppin’ take on “Second Hand News” is a highlight.) While the duo sticks pretty close to its stylistic wheelhouse, a couple of the band’s choices came out of left field, particularly The Mars Volta’s “Son et Lumiere” and an almost unrecognizable version of Tom Waits’ “Long Way Home.”

In shedding light on the process of adapting this darker material, Hammel muses that “a lot of people—I don’t know why; I think it’s because of our energy—they’re like ‘Oh, you guys are so upbeat, and fun and confident all the time,’ which I think we are, but I also think that a lot of times people miss some of the darkness in our Mates of State songs.

So, it’s just a way to explore our darker side, choosing songs that were more aggressive and lyrically melancholy.”

For the Summer Crushes Tour, the Mates have put together a carnivalesque stage show that inserts unplugged variety acts in between the bands, all but eliminating any kind of downtime. “So, what the idea was,” says Hammel, “is we’re traveling with a comedian, in addition to Free Energy, an amazing

band—positive and fun—and they go before us. And before them is the comedian. Todd Barry went on for the first half [of the tour], and Nick Thune is doing our second half, and before that we hired a local freakshow variety act kinda guy like a contortionist or a magician; somebody that we could find online and handpick for each city.”

“So,” he continues, with a note of pride in his voice, “we just wanted to make it, rather than a sort of ‘boring, stand in line, listen to this opening band you don’t care about and wait 30 minutes for them to break down their equipment’ standard rock show more of a ‘seamless, three-hour, all-in show’ that’s sort of warm and fun.”

This heady atmosphere can be both exhilarating and exhausting when the couple is simultaneously doing the work of full-time musicians and full-time parents. Their two young daughters, Hammel quips, have offered some new perspectives on their music. “Yeah, they like our band. They’re immersed in it all the time. They’re different ages, so they view it differently at this point. Maggie’s almost six; she kinda gets it now, and she has her favorite songs. June is a little younger; she’s two-and-a-half, and she likes different songs than Maggie for different reasons. With this covers album, it’s kinda funny because all June wanted to hear was the covers record in the van. She’d be like ‘I wanna hear mommy and daddy’ and we’d play it, and at first it was like ‘OK, cool’ and then she’d be like ‘I wanna listen to that again,’ and we got tired of it, so we’d try to sneak in our other songs and she’s like ‘No! I want that album! I wanna listen to mom and dad on that album!’ over and over again. I guess that’s a good sign.”

A good sign indeed. As Flagpole’s interview wrapped up, Hammel shared the band’s plans for the future, and that future is looking very sunny. “We have like 10 or 11 songs written and half of ‘em recorded,” he reveals. “We’re playing for the rest of this year, to finish up recording them, and release in winter and go on a tour next year.” Yes, Mates of State are going strong, taking their indie-pop traveling circus all over the country. The couple is heading across the country, from San Francisco to Athens, truly spreading the love.

David Fitzgerald

WHO: Mates of State, Free Energy, Christian J. Saslo, Nick Thune WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Monday, July 12, 8 p.m.

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Tuesday 6 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Now accepting EBT cards. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net KIDSTUFF: Teen Fashion Show (Oconee County Library) Design and model your unique line of summer fashions using all recycled materials. Plastic bags, tape and markers will be supplied. Ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 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 (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m.

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Wednesday 7 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5–7 p.m. www.athensdowntownhotel.com EVENTS: GMOA Summer Film Series (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151) Dr. Janice Simon kicks off the summer film series, “Avant-Garde Short Films of the 20th Century,” with a screening of seven shorts, including works by Paul Strand, Hans Richter, Man Ray and more. Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art. 7 p.m. FREE! www. uga.edu/gamuseum ART: 6X6: “Mystery” (Ciné Barcafé) Artist and curator Jeffrey Whittle presents the fifth of six media arts events featuring video, sound and performance art. In the Ciné Lab. See full schedule online. 7–8 p.m.

FREE! www.headic.blogspot.com PERFORMANCE: Bawling Comedy Showcase (Last Call) Local comics will have you laughing and crying.

Atlanta comic Joe Pettis headlines.

8:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com KIDSTUFF: “Animals Around the World” (Oconee County Library) Wake up early for an important meeting… with live animals! Space is limited; call to register. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

KIDSTUFF: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary schoolage homeschoolers gather at the library to read a book together and talk about it. Every Wednesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (Madison County Library) Based on the popular illustrated book The Sign of the Seahorse by Graeme Base. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Word of Mouth (The Globe) Monthly open poetry readings every first Wednesday.

Michelle Estile is this month’s featured reader. 8 p.m. FREE! www. athenswordofmouth.com MEETINGS: ACC Tennis Center Informational Meeting (ACC Planning Department, Auditorium, 120 W. Dougherty St.) The ACC Tennis Center User Group and the Department of Leisure Services host a public information open house.

Citizens will have the opportunity to comment on the master plan for a proposed tennis center at Bishop Park. 5:30–7:30 p.m. 706-613-3625 MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended crochet needles. Newcomers welcome.

1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Sitting Meditation Group (Mind Body Institute) Silent meditation every Wednesday. 1 p.m.

FREE! 706-475-7329 MEETINGS: We Are Athens Discussion Group (Ciné Barcafé) Formerly the Buy Local Athens Book Club, this newly formed collective meets quarterly to explore environmental, neighborhood, civic and sustainability issues. Currently reading The Better World Handbook by Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler and Brett Johnson. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! avid. athens@gmail.com, imanavidreader. blogspot.com/ GAMES: Bocce Ball (DePalma’s Italian Cafe, 2080 Timothy Rd.) Join the league on the lawn every Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706552-1237, timothy@depalmasitaliancafe.com GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) Develop coordination, tolerance and grace through beer pong. Every Wednesday and Saturday with Corey.

FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: Poker Night (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Begins at 7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com GAMES: Quiz Show (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Chris Creech hosts. Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m.

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

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Team Trivia (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Team Trivia every Wednesday night (2 rounds). First

round at 9 p.m. Second round at 11 p.m. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7829 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Five Points and Alps Rd.) Calling all know-italls! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

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Thursday 8 EVENTS: Movie Night: Double Feature (Flicker Theatre & Bar) NYC filmmaker and former Athens musician with the band Ceramic Dvck Jorge Torres returns to town, bringing with him his latest features, FTW, a film following two misanthropic sociopaths and their miserable wanderings, and Pre-Paradise, the story of a self-destructive filmmaker intent on creating the purest independent film. 9 p.m. $5. www. myspace.com/flickerbar EVENTS: Senior Skills Day (Columbus Avenue Senior Center) Stay sharp with a variety of fun activities, including card games, puzzles, board games and computers. Every Thursday! 10 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3603 EVENTS: Town Hall (Holiday Inn, 197 E. Broad St.) U.S. Representative Paul Broun hosts a town hall as part of the America Speaking Out campaign. Dr. Broun will listen, and perhaps respond, to ideas from 10th district residents. All are welcome. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-5499588, www.broun.house.gov ART: Opening Reception (Ciné Barcafé) For an exhibit featuring the explosive, colorful paintings of Carol John. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com, www.caroljohnpaintings.com KIDSTUFF: Camp Out @ the Library (Oconee County Library) Children of all ages are invited to enjoy campfire stories, songs and a “Dutch Auction.” Bring five waterrelated items to participate in the auction. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (ACC Library) Puppets perform the classic fairy tale The Frog Prince. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Thursday Theater for Teens (Oconee County Library) Enjoy popcorn and drinks as you watch popular movies on the big screen. This week: Spider-Man 3.

Thursdays through July, 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: “How to Start a Book Club” (ACC Library) Use the library’s resources to start your own book club. Noon, FREE! 706613-3650 GAMES: Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Poker tournaments every Thursday (2 rounds). First round at 7:30 p.m. Second round at 10:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7829

The Man with a Movie Camera will screen at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Wednesday, July 14, as part of the avant-garde short films series.

GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) For college students, by college students. Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! 7:30–9:30 p.m.

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Friday 9 PERFORMANCE: Drag Show (Go Bar) With DJ Immuzikation on the decks. 9–11 p.m. www.myspace. com/gobar KIDSTUFF: Books & Bites (ACC Library) Read without interruptions.

Bring four books or come in early to look through the library’s selection. Comfy chairs, chips, chocolate and pizza provided. Ages 11–18.

Registration requested. 5:30–10 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Pirate School (ACC Library) Captain Abdul teaches the fine arrrrrt of pirate talk. Costumes encouraged. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. This month’s themes include Independence Day, author Steve Jenkins, island vacations and oceans. Ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Mindfulness Practice Group (Mind Body Institute) Beginners and experienced mindfulness practitioners welcome. July 9, 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329 GAMES: Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Poker tournaments every Friday (2 rounds). First round at 7 p.m. Second round at 10 p.m. 7 p.m.

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Saturday 10 EVENTS: Adoption Day (Pet Supplies Plus) Local animal rescue organizations bring their pups out for a chance at finding a forever home. Love connections made every Saturday! 11 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-3530650 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Now accepting EBT cards.

Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–Noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net

EVENTS: The Gardens at UGA Open House (Gardens at UGA) Guided tour of UGA’s Trial Gardens, which are nationally known for trialing annuals and perennials for the Southeast. Event will also feature a book sale/signing and gardening advice from the UGA Horticulture Club.

8 a.m.–1 p.m. $5. http://ugatrial. hort.uga.edu EVENTS: “Get to Know Your Parks” Tour (Various Locations) This week’s tour, “Where’s the Party?,” departs from Lay Park.

Space is limited. 9 & 11:30 a.m. $1.

706-613-3580 * EVENTS: The Midsummer Night’s Ball (Athens Elks Lodge) Practice your favorite dances including swing, rumba, waltz, tango and more at this semi-formal. 8–11 p.m. $10.

706-548-4976 EVENTS: Oglethorpe Fresh (Downtown Lexington) Pick up some fresh produce and cut flowers at this new outdoor market across from Lexington Antiques and Mama D’s Bakery. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706338-2898 EVENTS: Phi Kappa Debate (UGA Phi Kappa Hall) Should the Superfund tax on oil and chemical companies be reactivated since the BP oil spill? 7 p.m. FREE! phikappals@gmail.com PERFORMANCE: Disney Herpes (Flicker Theatre & Bar) You really never know what Dave Barnes and his comedy vaudeville group, Disney Herpes, will be up to. Improv, music, costumes…it’s always fun and it’s always a surprise. 9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/flickerbar OUTDOORS: Saturday Strolls at Harris Shoals (Harris Shoals Park, Watkinsville) Zoological coordinator Berkeley Boone and program specialist Clint Murphy of Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail at Memorial Park discuss native wildlife on this guided walk. Proceeds benefit a new enclosure for Bear Hollow’s orphaned bear cubs. 9–10 a.m. $5. 706-353-8310, ppriest@charter.net KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and their resident creatures. This month: butterflies, turtles and more! 2:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Led by UGA student volunteers from the Department of

Language and Literacy Education.

4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Athens Area Democrats Breakfast (Brett’s Casual American Restaurant) Democratic state school superintendent candidates will be this month’s featured speakers. Call for reservations. 9 a.m. $10. 706-543-1480, 706-247-3558 GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) Develop coordination, tolerance and grace through beer pong. Every Wednesday and Saturday with Corey.

FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Poker tournaments every Saturday (2 rounds). First round at 5 p.m. Second round at 8 p.m. 5 p.m.

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Sunday 11 EVENTS: Sour Beer Fest (Aromas) A celebration of barrel-aged sour beers, featuring 10 draught beers and three specialty casks. 2 p.m.

706-208-0059, www.aromaswinebar. com KIDSTUFF: Open Paper Arts (Madison County Library) Push the limits of paper craft! Every Sunday.

2–6 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 GAMES: Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Poker tournaments every Sunday (2 rounds). First round at 2 p.m. Second round at 5 p.m. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-354-7829 GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Test your knowledge of ‘00s pop culture every Sunday. 6:30 p.m. (sign in), 7 p.m. (start). 706354-6655

Monday 12 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture language skills.

10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (Madison County Library) Rhymes and songs with your little one! 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Federation of Neighborhood Associations (Fire Hall No. 2, 489 Prince Ave.) This month, discuss Athens-Clarke k continued on next page

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County’s public health system. All interested parties are welcome. 7:30 p.m. FREE! cja@perigen.com GAMES: 20 Questions (Transmetropolitan) Hosted by Chris Creech. Join the “20 Questions at Transmet” Facebook group to receive the online question of the week. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773 GAMES: APA Pool Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Join anytime, any skill level! 7:30 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Game Night (The Pub at Gameday) New games including Wii bowling! 706-353-2831 GAMES: Keno Night (The Office Lounge) Every Monday! 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-0840 GAMES: 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: 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: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Monday night. Bring your friends! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? 8 p.m. 706548-3442 GAMES: Trivia Tournament (Alibi) Every Monday! 9 p.m. FREE! 706549-1010

Tuesday 13 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Now accepting EBT cards. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 GAMES: Dart Tournament (The Pub at Gameday) You can’t spell dart

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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.

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Wednesday 14 EVENTS: The Man with a Movie Camera (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151) Dr. Janice Simon introduces Dizga Vertov’s 1929 film, part of the summer film series, “Avant-Garde Short Films of the 20th Century.” Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art. 7 p.m. FREE! www. uga.edu/gamuseum EVENTS: Bad Movie Night (Ciné Barcafé) Don’t miss this one-nightonly screening of Samurai Cop. 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/badmovienight EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5–7 p.m. www.athensdowntownhotel.com PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Little Kings Shuffle Club) With special guest Heather Daniels. 10 p.m. $3. www.myspace. com/littlekingsshuffleclub KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary schoolage homeschoolers gather at the library to read a book together and talk about it. Every Wednesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Magic Show (Madison County Library) With magician and puppetmaster Keith Karnok. July 14, 2 p.m. FREE! 706-342-4743 KIDSTUFF: Music Jams (ACC Library) Make your own soundtrack

to summer with your friends! Bring an instrument or borrow one from the library. Ages 11–18. 2–3:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Book Club (Sky City Lounge & Bulldog Cafe) Local author Sharday Jones hosts a monthly book club. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.shardayjones.com LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing (ACC Library) Joe Cumming discusses his new book, Bylines, a collection of columns and poems written for Esquire and Atlanta Magazine. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended crochet needles. Newcomers welcome.

1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Sitting Meditation Group (Mind Body Institute) Silent meditation every Wednesday. 1 p.m.

FREE! 706-475-7329 GAMES: Bocce Ball (DePalma’s Italian Cafe) Join the league on the lawn every Wednesday. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-552-1237, timothy@ depalmasitaliancafe.com GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) Develop coordination, tolerance and grace through beer pong. Every Wednesday and Saturday with Corey.

FREE! 706-549-1010 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: Quiz Show (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Chris Creech hosts. Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m.

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

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Team Trivia (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Team Trivia every Wednesday night (2 rounds). First round at 9 p.m. Second round at 11 p.m. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7829 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Five Points and Alps Rd.) Calling all know-italls! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

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Raw Ass Temple Flicker Theatre & Bar Monday night ping-pong just got a lot more interesting. For the month of July, Flicker is following up its table-tennis tournament with experimental wizardry, as all-star collaboration Raw Ass Temple begins its residency. The group (whose name is a play on Heather McIntosh and John Fernandes Kraut-rock group Ash Ra Tempel) debuted at AUX Festival earlier this year and features multi-talented local stalwarts Heather McIntosh (Instruments, Circulatory System), Derek Almstead (Elf Power), Kris Deason (Yaal H’ush) and John Fernandes (Circulatory System).

McIntosh says Raw Ass Temple serves as “an opportunity to prog out a little bit and experiment.” The band hopes to push boundaries and explore structures beyond the usual tendencies you might associate with droney, experimental music. Although the performances will have strong improvisational elements, McIntosh says they have set up certain parameters on how they want the songs to develop. For those of you familiar with compositional jargon, McIntosh says there will be some “through-composed moments” and that she wants to write more “musique concrète bits.” The bottom line is, this is authentically original work that is genuinely interesting and exciting without ever sounding forced.

The bandmembers will be swapping instruments a good bit, with Deason manning both old analog synthesizers and circuit-bent gadgetry that he has modified. After playing guitar in a bunch of local bands, he’s excited to have an outlet for trying out his machines. “Instead of just annoying roommates and neighbors, I want to annoy a live audience!” he jokes.

The group already has hours of recorded material, and the band hopes to eventually cull the best bits out for either live use or for a future release. In the meantime, you can witness their craft in action. In addition to the foursome, Raw Ass Temple will welcome an assortment of special guests throughout the month. “I think our set is going to change pretty dramatically week to week,” says McIntosh. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

Live Music Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

Horror Rock.” Imagine the sunny side of ‘60s garage rock tainted lyrically by a quirky flirtation with evil.

VINCAS Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and a bit of rockabilly blues swagger.

WOVEN BONES Reverb-heavy garage rock for fans of Dum Dum Girls, Reading Rainbow and Box Elders.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE HUMMS Local act plays what’s been described as “Happy Hippie

Doc McGee’s 8 p.m. $5 (musicians FREE!). www. docmcgees.com MUSICIAN ALL JAM Every Tuesday night Doc McGee’s presents

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Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com QURIOUS This Atlanta group creates spacey soundscapes featuring dreamy female vocals, samples, synthesizers and freaky masks.

THICK PAINT New band featuring Graham Ulicny from Reptar.

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 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 AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER Athens four-piece that boasts former members of No!, Divorce and Carrie Nations, delivering rapid-fire, loud, old-school thrash rock.

DAMNESIA Local band playing intense, demonic hardcore fronted by a female vocalist. Mistress Dislexi can scream with the best of them, her ferocity adding weight to the band’s political leanings.

MUTILATION RITES Menancing Brooklyn-based black metal/grind conjuring images of human darkness and infernal entities.

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

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net THE PETER PANCAKES Upbeat songs via acoustic guitar, upright bass and Rhodes piano.

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

The Loft 10 p.m. FREE! www.loftofathens.com DJ DECEPTICRON Mixing today’s hottest house, electro, and club hits.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com CAMP CREEK COMMITTEE Banjopluckin’, mid-tempo bluegrass from Gainesville, GA. New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com POETIC SOUL Mon2 and Buddah host this new open-mic for poets, singers and other soulful types.

Every Tuesday. Sign up at 8 p.m.

WUOG 90.5FM 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Undus Mundus will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program.

Listen over the air or drop by the station to watch!

Wednesday 7 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Boar’s Head FREE! 706-369-3040 KARAOKE Make new friends.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com ARTURO IN LETTO Backup guitarist and brother of local artist Allison Weiss, AJ Weiss shows off his solo chops under the name Arturo in Letto, singing mostly sweet, melodic songs written in Italy about his time abroad.

DYLAN GILBERT Gilbert writes pop gems with a mastery that is far beyond his years. Big, sweeping melodies bounce along upbeat rhythms.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 12 a.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar SINGER SONGWRITER SHOWCASE Multiple musicians showcase their talent.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE FUZZLERS Goofy punk with a highly interactive live show.

The Melting Point “Stay and Play Summer Concert Series.” 6–10 p.m. on the patio.

FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com MILLIGAN Acoustic duo performing a set of cover songs from CSNY to Johnny Cash to Jack Johnson to Maroon 5, this band reworks both classic rockers and more recent hits.

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com VERNACULUS DUET Instrumental, Latin folk and contempory music played on violin, classical guitar and mandolin.

Thursday 8 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 OPEN MIC Hosted by Wes of Dixie Mafia every Thursday.

Bad Manor 10 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com DJ DANCE PARTY A DJ will be spinning dance music. You will dance.

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Barnette’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0966 KARAOKE Every Thursday.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BACK ROW BAPTISTS With musical roots buried deep in Birmingham, the Baptists play music that is Southern in the purest sense of the word.

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DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Road) THE BROS. MARLER Twin guitar siblings Daniel and Drew Marler perform original compositions and rock, R&B and blues standards as an acoustic duo.

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

Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com SOAPBAR Local group plays shaggy, diverse alt-rock informed by its lo-fi and folk peers.

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

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

Hotel Indigo “Live After Five.” 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athensdowntownhotel.com KENOSHA KID Borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a seamless product glistening with inspiration.

Last Call 10 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com BATTLE OF THE BANDS ROUND 1 Featuring rock groups The Good Doctor, Dr. Squid and Bodega Roja.

The Melting Point $10 (adv.), $14. www.meltingpointathens.com ANDERS OSBORNE Longtime New Orleans resident and Grammywinning songwriter performs soulbaring rock, blues and ballads.

FREE CONCERTS!

Thu. July 8

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

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

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Fri. July 9

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com THE CARIBBEAN Subtle and sparse, this D.C.-based collaborative offers delicate, tender pop with warm atmospherics. See story on p. 13.

VENICE IS SINKING CD Release Show! With boy/girl vocals, a cinematic jangle and a sweeping, emotional punch courtesy of a viola, Venice Is Sinking’s piano-based torch songs burn bright. Admission to tonight’s show includes a copy of Sand & Lines. See Record Reviews on p. 11.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 DIAMONDBACK Hard Southern rock influenced by Lynyrd Skynyrd and AC/DC. Bad Manor 11 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com MOBY DICK Atlanta-based cover band that plays the best of rock, pop and metal.

Sat. July 10

Bailey’s American Tavern 9 p.m.–midnight. FREE! 706-543-7591 KYSHONA ARMSTRONG Her music is soulful, passionate and honest.

Every Friday at Bailey’s!

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 8 p.m. $10. 706-354-6655 POWER PLAY Live band playing country, rock and pop from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com GEMINI CRICKET Sleazy garage stomps that swagger through the reverb and jangle with ‘60s abandon.

THE HOWLIES This Atlanta band combines touches of classic ‘50s rock and roll sounds with sweet, summery ‘60s pop and garage rock.

MUMPSY Fun, ‘60s-inspired pop from Orlando with narrative-driven

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lyrics delivered with an air of whimsy. Of Montreal fans might find a lot to love here.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MELISSA COLBERT You’ve seen Colbert strut her stuff in local bands Creepy and Everybody Everybody.

Don’t miss her always energetic performances and rich, powerful vocals.

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

JESS MARSTON Singer/guitarist from local rock band Romanenko.

NERDKWEEN Atlanta’s Monica Arrington performs as Nerdkween, relying on her versatile voice to swing from sultry and soft to downright fierce.

Gnat’s Landing 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes.

Go Bar 11 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up high-energy electro and rock. Starts spinning after the drag show!

Last Call 10 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com BATTLE OF THE BANDS ROUND 2 Featuring Misfortune 500 and The District Attorneys.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub SHALINI CHATTERJEE Four-piece pop band from NC. The band’s upcoming EP, Magnetic North, was mixed by Mitch Easter.

SUPERCLUSTER This “Appalachian Wave” group features all-stars from such bands as Pylon, Casper & the Cookies and Olivia Tremor Control.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $17.50 (adv.), $22 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE America’s premiere psychedelic cowboy band. The group started in the ‘60s with Jerry Garcia and other original members of the Grateful Dead on board.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5. 706-546-0840 THE BIG DON BAND A catalog of Southern blues covers and originals.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com DUSTY LIGHTSWITCH This revolving cast of local eccentrics delivers rock and roll with epic possibilites.

Saturday 10 40 Watt Club “Whatever It Takes Benefit.” 8 p.m. $6. www.40watt.com GRAPE SODA Lewis brothers Ryan and Mat team up to create soulful, spaced-out pop songs buried in lush reverb.

SECOND SUNS Quartet of young, local talent born at Camp Amped, featuring Phil Carpenter (vocals and guitar), Nick Bradfield (vocals and keys), Nick Brown (drums) and Trent Andrews (bass), playing original songs with rock-and-roll heart!

THE HEAP Funky local indie-soul band based here in Athens with a killer horn section and fronted by Bryan Howard’s low, bass growl.

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

The Bad Manor 11 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com FALLBACK Playing a mix of originals and cover songs from ‘90s greats like Nirvana, Foo Fighters and Incubus.

Bishop Park 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Athens Farmers Market. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net MIKE EUDY The Heathens’ vocalistguitarist plays his unique brand of Southern alternative rock solo. Set starts at 8 a.m.

NATHAN SHEPPARD AND JOHN KEANE Acclaimed producer and rocker John Keane will be joined by acoustic stalwart Nathan Sheppard for a set of rock and Americana numbers. Set starts at 10 a.m.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com 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.

HANS DARKBOLT Brand-new local band performing fiercely melodic pop tunes with swelling vocals and eerie harmonies.

NUCLEAR SPRING This local rock band plays sleazy, freaky psychedelic garage rock with glam swagger.

Club Chrome 9 p.m. $7. 706-543-9009 HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Described as “a little bit of Hank, a little bit of Metallica and a healthy dose of Southern rock.” Fans of bands like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd can’t go wrong here.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE STATE LOTTERY Energetic pop-punk with evocative lyrics and flourishes of saxophone, trumpet and trombone.

WITCHES Influences include The Breeders and Neil Young.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar DISNEY HERPES You really never know what Dave Barnes and his comedy vaudeville group Disney Herpes will be up to. Improv, music, costumes…it’s always fun and it’s always a surprise. The fun starts after the 8 p.m. art opening featuring the work of David and Nina Barnes.

Gnat’s Landing 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net TONGUE & GROOVE The acoustic quartet plays covers and originals.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar HOWL YE An eclectic whirlwind of folk and screaming noise rock.

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

TWIN POWERS & MODERN PORNOGRAPHY Taking turns spinning new wave, rock and dance favorites!

WEREWOLVES Local band featuring quirky lo-fi rock with bright, bouncy

flourishes, unique instrumentation and emotive lyrics.

Last Call 10 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com DJ AND MECHANICAL BULL That’s right. Drink, dance and ride that bull!

Little Kings Shuffle Club “Burger Records Caravan of Stars Tour!” 3 p.m. FREE! www.myspace. com/littlekingsshuffleclub THE AGENDA In-your-face punk rock ensemble that features an energetic show that’s both reckless and wildly entertaining.

ALRIGHTY DO ME A FAVOR Oneman band from Alabama!

APACHE Classic punk/rock and roll fantasy band from San Francisco by way of El Paso.

BARRERACUDAS Punk band from Atlanta featuring Adrian Barrera of Gentlemen Jesse and His Men. BOMBóN All-girl surf rock trio from San Pedro, CA! See Calendar Pick on p. 19.

COSMONAUTS Trancey garage pop a la Thee Oh Sees.

CUM STAIN “Porno pop” from California. Where else would “porno pop” come from?

GARBO’S DAUGHTER Bubblegum party pop from Florida.

THE HUMMS Local three-piece known for its loud and bizarre shows featuring everything from sex toys to strobe lights. The tunes are a grooving blend of raunchy psychedelia.

MATT KURZ ONE One-man rock machine Matt Kurz literally plays drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, by himself, all at the same time.

Expect a mix of garage rock stomps and bluesy croons.

PIPSQUEAK Jangly garage rock influenced by ‘60s girl groups and bands like Monks and Rolling Stones.

TRASHCANS Nate Mitchell of Cars Can Be Blue heads up this garagerock project that’s self-described as “lo-fi, blown-out scuzz punk.”

TIMMY TUMBLE Tim Schreiber (Dark Meat, The Lickity-Splits) howls over pre-recorded beats, literally tumbling across the floor, enraptured by his garage-rock lust.

VINCAS Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and rockabilly blues swagger.

10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub THE KING’S BIRTHDAY DANCE PARTY Little Kings’ favorite DJ gets behind the decks for a celebratory night of dancing.

Meson Park 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.mesonpark.com THE RICK FOWLER BLUES BAND Celebrating the dedication of Meson Park located in downtown Lexington.

Local guitarist Rick Fowler specializes in classic British blues rock.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE COUNTRY RIVER BAND Southern rock and country melodies.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com THE FIVE TONES Blues and rock trio from Nashville with heavy guitar, dynamic harmonica and a freight train rhythm section.

Sunday 11 Borders Books & Music 4 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 MARK WENTHE Member of the local eccentric indie/blues outfit Dusty Lightswitch and musical cohort of Scott Downes, Wenthe will be playing original tunes on acoustic guitar influenced by rock, jazz and classical music.

Shanty Cheryl

Saturday, July 10

Bombón Little Kings Shuffle Club When Flagpole spoke with Bombón’s Angela Ramos, she had just been to the flea market in preparation for going on tour. She was looking for sunglasses. She wound up with a Ventures record. That seems like the way the guitarist for a girl surf band from San Pedro, CA should spend her Sunday.

Not that I’m telling her what to do.

Ramos has never been on tour before; she’s never been interviewed; she’s never put out a record. (Las Chicas del Bombón comes out two days after the band’s stop in Athens on the Burger Records “Caravan of Stars Tour.”) But she has dealt with the stigma of being a cute girl in a band of cute girls plenty of times.

“People will come up and say, ‘Wow, I really wasn’t expecting that. You actually know how to play your instruments,’” says Ramos, a chemistry major at Cal State Los Angeles.

“We try to take it as something positive, but it’s also negative, because everyone automatically thinks ‘I wonder how cute they’ll sound’ instead of ‘I wonder what kind of music they’ll play.’”

For those who do wonder what style they play?

“I just tell them surf-punk,” she says. “I started writing Ventures-style songs and just played them by myself. I’ve always been into surf music but never found the right people to play it with.”

That changed last year after a couple of girls crashed on the floor of the punk house where she used to live (before the punk house where they now all live).

“I started jamming out with Jerico [Campbell] ‘cause she played the drums, and then Paloma [Banuelos] wanted to learn something, so she picked up the bass pretty quickly,” Ramos says. “All of a sudden, it just started.”

And it works; Ramos’ favorite song, “La Playa,” sounds as beachy as a surfboard smells, or as beachy as she imagines it might smell.

“People ask us if we surf,” she laughs. “No, none of us surf. If you can’t surf, play in a surf band. I’m ashamed, but only one of the Beach Boys surfed, or kind of surfed. That’s what I heard.” [Jeremy Henderson]

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 12 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $12. www.40watt.com CHRISTIAN J. SASLO Illusionist!

Performing between live band sets.

FREE ENERGY Summery pop-rock from Philadelphia.

MATES OF STATE Indie-rock duo with great vocal harmonies and quirky song structures full of synthesizers. See story on p. 14.

NICK THUNE Guitar-playing stand-up comedian opening the show with a short set. Thune has had his own Comedy Central Presents special.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com APOCALYTIC VISIONS Nihilistic metal.

DAMNESIA Damnesia is a rare find; the band features demonic hardcore fronted by a female vocalist.

KILL THE SCHOOL Local metal four-piece.

WOLVES & JACKALS Fusing together thrash, death metal and hardcore with driving speed and unrelenting brutality.

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.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar RAW ASS TEMPLE New droney, experimental band featuring Derek Almstead, Heather McIntosh, John Fernandes and Kris Deason. Playing every Monday in July. See Calendar Pick on p. 16.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com CUTMAN Hard rock with a punk aesthetic from Gainesville, FL. THE FUTURE NOW ‘90s grunge rock influenced music driven by fuzzy, distorted guitar.

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

The Melting Point 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com THE HOOT A monthly event sponsored by the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society and hosted by Susan Staley. This week will feature American and Celtic songs from Curley Maple, guitarist and vocalist Ed Kellough doing a set of flat picking and bluegrass standards, and new local bluegrass group The Welfare Liners.

Tuesday 13 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $6. www.40watt.com MASS SOLO REVOLT Martin Brummeler performs a solo, stripped down set of his angular post-rock.

NIGHT NURSES The band formerly known as The Flowers of Evil splits the difference between Joy Division and Johnny Cash with twanginfused guitar atmospherics.

KELLI SCARR Scarr performs swelling lo-fi dreamscapes and has opened for the likes of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and Moby.

THE SHIVERS Soulful indie pop with bursts of keyboards and introspective lyrics.

Doc McGee’s 8 p.m. $5 (musicians FREE!). www. docmcgees.com MUSICIAN ALL JAM Every Tuesday night Doc McGee’s presents Musician All Jam hosted by The Mike Delaney Project. Bring your instrument and sign up when you arrive to play.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar MARRIAGE Truly unclassifiable local Christian sludge-rock trio experiments with every heavy and bizarre sound it can muster.

NUCLEAR POWER PANTS Off-thewall power pop with all manner of mysterious electronic soundmaking devices and costumes.

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

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net BOO RAY & FRIENDS Soulful Southern rock with a bit of outlaw country twang, solid blues riffs and a lot of heart. Boo Ray’s new live band features seasoned Athenians Daniel

Marler, Steve Abercrombie, Nate Hale and Ann Innecken.

The Loft 10 p.m. FREE! www.loftofathens.com DJ DECEPTICRON Mixing today’s hottest house, electro, and club hits.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com POETIC SOUL Mon2 and Buddah host this new open-mic for poets, singers and other soulful types.

Every Tuesday. Sign up at 8 p.m.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia “Sunflower Concert Series.” 7–9 p.m. $15, $10 (Friends of the Garden members), $5 (children 6–12). www. uga.edu/botgarden BLOODKIN The long-running Athens quartet plays a bluesy style of roots-rock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics for darkly countrified bar-room rock.

WINFIELD SMITH Low-country drawlin’ Athens songcraftsman from the roots rock duo Stewart and Winfield.

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

Wednesday 14 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Boar’s Head FREE! 706-369-3040 KARAOKE Make new friends.

Borders Books & Music 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 RYAN HARRIS Emotive, ambient pop with classical and jazz influences.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER Charming and highly praised local neo-folk band delivers the thriftstore gospel featuring the captivating vocal harmonies of the Campbell sisters.

MARIA TAYLOR AND ANDY LEMASTER Taylor, formerly of dream-pop band Azure Ray, and LeMaster of Now It’s Overhead perform sparkling, moody indie-rock.

NATE NELSON Local singersongwriter whose songs offer both mainstream accessibility and more indie-oriented idiosyncrasy.

Go Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/gobar COCO RICO This local post-rock trio performs over experimental samples.

DELETED SCENES Eclectic indie rock that shares a lot with The Shins.

The soaring vocals and swirling guitars are accented by colorful vibraphone, trumpet, organ and piano.

SUNSPOTS Bedroom psych-pop with tropical beats and airy vocals.

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com MAJOR MAGICK Performing a mixture of rock, funk and soul. * Advance Tickets Available

Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

TUESDAY, JULY 6 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

CAMP CREEK COMMITTEE $3 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7 Stay and Play Summer Concert Series featuring

MILLIGAN FREE! Music 6-10 on the patio THURSDAY, JULY 8

ANDERS OSBORNE

Tickets $10 adv. • $14 at the door

FRIDAY, JULY 9

NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE Tickets $17.50 adv. • $22 at the door

THURSDAY, JULY 15

BEATLES FOR SALE Tickets $5 adv. • $7 at the door

FRIDAY, JULY 16 Totally ‘80s Party with

THE HIGHBALLS Tickets $8 adv. • $10 at the door

SATURDAY, JULY 17 Nomad Artists presents

BOMBER CITY

(Featuring Murray Attaway & Jeff Walls of Guadalcanal Diary)

CARS CAN BE BLUE

Tickets $8 adv. • $12 at the door

THURSDAY, JULY 22 An Evening of Zydeco and Dancing featuring

LIL’ MALCOM

& THE HOUSE ROCKERS Tickets $9 adv. • $12 at the door

FRIDAY, JULY 23 Grammy Nominated Singer/Songwriter

TIFT MERRITT Tickets $14 adv. • $16 at the door

THURSDAY, JULY 29

THE NEW FAMILIARS

Tickets $5 adv. • $7 at the door

ON THE HORIZON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13

AMAZING RHYTHM SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS ACES Tickets $18 adv. • $22 at the door

Tickets $15 adv. • $20 at the door

COMING SOON 8/19 - THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH, THE GOOD DOCTOR 8/20 - ABBEY ROAD LIVE! LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF

8/26 - SAM BUSH 9/3 - KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS 295 E. DOUGHERTY ST., ATHENS, GA

706.254.6909

WWW.MELTINGPOINTATHENS.COM

FOR TICKETS & SHOWTIMES OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE 706.254.6909

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bulletin board DO SOMETHING; GET INVOLVED! JULY 4th Deadline: The deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board is WEDNEsday, June 30 at 5 p.m. for the issue that comes out the following Wednesday. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

ART

CLASSES

Call for Artists (Georgia Piedmont Arts Center, Auburn) Seeking artists to participate in upcoming art festival, “Harvest of Art,” in September. Register or learn more online. 404-202-3044, www. georgiapiedmontartscenter.com Call for Artists Seeking submissions of digital video, film, performance and sound art of six minutes or less for “6X6,” a media arts event taking place at 7 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month from March to August in the Ciné Lab. New theme and curator every month. August’s theme: Disaster.

Learn more and make submissions at http://hexadic.blogspot.com Call for Artists (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Now seeking artisans to facilitate classes/ workshops. 706-540-2712, moonmama61@aol.com Call for Submissions The EcoFocus Film Festival is now accepting submissions of short films for the local fall festival celebrating environmentally concerned films. Go online for requirements. Deadline: Aug. 1. www.withoutabox.com, ecofocusfilmfest.org

Advance Directives Workshop (Two Story Coffeehouse, Second Floor Conference Room) Learn the basics of living wills and find better ways to discuss them with loved ones. July 10, 9–10 a.m. $10. 706-850-7838, www.halowdr.com Argentine Tango Essentials (Athens Elks Lodge, 3155 Atlanta Hwy.) Workshop taught by Clint Rauscher and Shelly Brooks of Atlanta’s Tango Evolution. No experience or partner necessary. July 13 & 27, 6–9 p.m. $5. 706-613-8178, cvunderwood@charter.net Art Classes (Blue Tin Art Studio) Now registering for an assortment of creative art classes for youth and adults. Learn to work in charcoal or acrylic; try painting with beeswax in encaustic painting; create 3-D sculpture from metal, wire or plaster; or learn various approaches to creating your own abstract art. 404-5566884, www.bluetinstudio.com Art Journaling Workshops (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios, 159 N. Jackson St.) Four-week workshops available for adults, kids and teens. Call to register. $75 (supplies included). 706-540-2712, moonmama61@aol.com Back Care Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Don’t submit to chronic back pain. Call to register. 706-4757329, www.armc.org/mbi Bellydancing Workshop (Council on Aging) Egyptian-style bellydancing for seniors! Call to register. July 13, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $20.

706-549-4850, www.accaging.org Canning the Summer Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Brenda Beckham and BJ Garrett lead an intro to the pressure

AUDITIONS Athens’ Got Talent (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Don’t miss your chance to be a star! Audition for the first annual Athens area amateur talent competition. Proceeds from the October performance at the Classic Center benefit Women to the World.

Register online. July 29 & 30 and Aug. 19 & 20, $10 (non-refundable entrance fee). www.athensgottalent. com

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Registration required. July 17, 2–4 p.m. $14. 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden Computer Class (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Two-part introduction to computers. Call to register. July 14–15, 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Cooking in the Garden: Tomatoes! (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Make delicious sauces with your garden’s bounty.

Try a simple marinara, a spicy cream sauce with shrimp or a zesty salsa.

Registration required. July 21, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Dance Classes (Jadespring Wellness Center, Comer) Now offering classes in Nia, a blend of dance arts, martial arts and healing arts.

Fridays, 5:15–6:15 p.m. $12, 706614-6126 Dance Classes (Studio Dance Academy) Now registering for a wide range of youth and adult classes, from ballet and tap to swing and Nia. 706-354-6454, www.studiodance academy.com Dance Classes, Martial Arts and Yoga (Floorspace) Now registering for adult and children’s classes, featuring Open Dancing, Fusion Bellydance, Creative Movement, Zumba, Nia, Martial Arts, Poi, Yoga and more! See full schedule online. www.floorspace athens.com Dancefx Fitness Classes (Dancefx) Stay in shape all summer with Pilates, zumba, body sculpting, floor barre, stretch and more. See full schedule online. $6/class. 706355-3078, www.dancefx.org GED Classes (Athens Urban Ministries) Need a new lease on life? Get your GED for free, free, free! Wednesdays, 9:30–11:30 a.m.,

William Itter’s watercolor paintings are on exhibit at the Lamar Dodd School of Art through July 25.

Thursdays, 1:30–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-6647.

Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Genealogy for beginners. In the Heritage Room. July 15, 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Lawncare 101 (Bob Snipes Water Resources Center, 780 Barber St.) Learn how to use water efficiently and keep your lawn healthy. Door prizes and refreshments! July 12, 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6133729, savewater@athensclarke county.com, www.thinkatthesink.com 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 Modern Dance Classes (Floorspace) Rebecca Enghauser leads a 6-week mixed-level modern dance class. Email to register. $60/6 classes, $12/drop ins. www.floor space.com Natural History of Georgia Plants (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Callaway Building) This course will introduce students to the diverse natural vegetation of Georgia. July 17, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $100. 706-542-6156, www. uga.edu/botgarden 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 Yangola (Floorspace) A blend of Capoeira Angola and Hatha Yoga.

Wednesdays, 6:15–7:15 p.m. 727433-6449 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 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

HELP OUT! 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 Blood Drive (Red Cross Donor Center) Give the gift of life! Call to make an appointment today. 706546-0681, 1-800-GIVE-LIFE Seeking Donations and Volunteers (Front Porch Bookstore, 102 Marigold Ln., Winterville) The bookstore operated by the Friends of the Winterville Library is seeking volunteers and book donations. No more textbooks, please! 706-372-1236, ronwetherbee @windstream.net Volunteers Needed (Council on Aging) The Meals on Wheels Program seeks dedicated volunteers to deliver hot meals to homebound seniors in Clarke County. Training is provided. Volunteers must use own vehicles and are asked to commit to one day a week between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. 706-549-4850, meals@accaging.org

KIDSTUFF Babies & Beasties Series (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Help your toddler discover nature. Ages 18 months–2 years, with adult.

Registration required. Thursdays in August, 10 a.m. $7. 706-613-3615 Beads and Hemp (ACC Library) Two-day workshop for teens to make jewelry with beads created from polymer clay and strung on hemp.

July 21–22, 2–3 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 “Caring for the Community All Around” (Sky City Lounge & Bulldog Cafe, 486 North Ave.) A dual basketball and writing clinic presented by Jessica Lonen and Sharday Jones. For ages 8–18. July 12–15, $50. www.jshotconnection. com 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, springs, creeks and waterfalls.

The five-day sessions run through July. $49–$199. 706-769-1000, www.ecocamp.org Family Fishing Day (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Fish in the hidden Claypit Pond. Bait, poles and tips provided. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Call to register. July 15, 6–7:30 p.m. $6/ family. 706-613-3615 Henna Workshop (ACC Library) Learn how to apply temporary henna body art. Ages 11–18. Call to register. July 15, 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Kids Summer Day Camp (Silverthorn Farm) Register your junior equestrian for week-long sessions at this day camp just outside of Athens. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. $300/week.

706-548-8561, www.silverthorn farm.com Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts.

For parents and children. Alternating Wednesdays, 3:30–4:30 p.m. $13.

706-613-3515, www.sandycreek naturecenter.com 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. July 12–16, 19–23, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. $150/ week. 706-338-2892, newmoon preschool@gmail.com Pysanky Eggs (ACC Library) Learn the ancient Ukrainian art of Pysanky from Melody Ransom, an apprentice Pysanky artist. Students will decorate eggs using wax and colorful dyes. Ages 11–18. Must attend both days. Pre-registration required. July 7–8, 2–3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–4 read aloud to an aid dog.

Trainer always present. Registration required. 15 minute sessions, FREE! 706-769-3950

SUPPORT Alzheimer’s Caregiver Luncheon Program (Bentley Center) The Athens Area Alzheimer’s Support Group meets the third Tuesday of every month. Registration required and care will be provided

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Noon–1 p.m. FREE! Eve Anthony, 706-549-4850 Athens Mothers’ Center (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Parenting is a demanding and important job. Meet with other supportive moms and dads. Tuesdays & Fridays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. 706-5528554, www.athensga.mothercenter. org 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.

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Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior can be just as harmful as punches and kicks.

Childcare provided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331.

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

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

Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. 706-7835706, www.athensmentalhealth.org Parkinson’s Support Group (Council on Aging) Meet up every fourth Monday for an open support group for those living with Parkinson’s Disease. 2:30–4 p.m.

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ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St., Top of the Stairs Gallery) Paintings by Marshall Reddoch. Through July.

Amici Italian Café (223 E. Clayton St.) Photography by Evan Leavitt. Through July.

ATHICA (160 Tracy St.) “Emerges IV: Uncertainty,” an exhibit showcasing four artists’ renderings of uncertain times, featuring a sculptural video installation by Casey McGuire and works by Melissa Dickenson, Jon Swindler and Patrick Triggs. Through July 25.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) A group show featuring the work of Erin McIntosh, Sarah Seabolt and their students next door at Blue Tin Studio. Through July 30.

Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) “Fire Dance,” an exhibit featuring original photographs by Dena Maxwell. Through July 13.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Work by Nina and Dave Barnes. Through July.

Reception July 10.

Georgia Center (Hill Atrium, 1197 S. Lumpkin St.) “The 2010 Student Photography Exhibition,” featuring a collection of works by students completing the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Photography Certificate. Through July.

The Globe (199 N. Lumpkin St.) Paintings by Greg Benson. Through July.

Good Dirt (510 B North Thomas St.) Funtional pottery and sculpture by Allya Macdonald, Crisha Yantis and Al Pellenberg. Through July.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) Paintings by Jeremy Hughes. Through July 25.

Highwire Lounge (254 W. Clayton St.) “Big Cocks,” featuring fowl paintings by local outsider artist Cap Man. Through July.

Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company (780 E. Broad St.) “Cool for Cats,” an exhibit featuring acrylic paintings of cats and kittens by Chloe Tewksbury and Brigette Herron. Through July.

local organization fighting for immigrant rights. Wednesdays through July. 5:30–7 p.m. 928-814-3377, proinm.10@gmail.com Native Sun Farmstand Open (Native Sun Farm, 1560 Jimmy Daniel Rd., Bogart) The local, allnatural family-run farm will be open every weekend through September.

Stop by for fresh produce, a farm tour and a chance to make friends with a baby goat! Fridays, noon–6 p.m. Saturdays, 8 a.m.–noon. www. nativesunfarm.blogspot.com Powerspeak Languages (ACC Library) Now available through the Athens-Clarke County Library, Powerspeak Languages is a new online language-learning product which teaches words and phrases in context rather than through repetition. Call or go online to learn more.

706-613-3650, www.clarke.public. lib.ga.us Summer Photo Contest July is Parks and Recreation Month!

Celebrate summer outdoors by entering your best digital photos of summertime fun in this contest sponsored by the ACC Department of Leisure. Email photos to mylaneal@co.clarke.ga.us. Entries accepted through July 30. 706-6133580, www.accleisureservices.com/ july.shtml Teeth Whitening for Charity (Various Locations) All summer long, Mercy Health Centre is partnering with local dentists to raise money for low-income, uninsured citizens in need of medical treatment. Your donation will benefit this fund and your smile. Call or go online for a list of participating dentists. $250 donation, 706-254-9586, www.mercyhealthcenter.net “Tri to Beat Cancer” (Sandy Creek Park) The Cancer Foundation of Northeast Georgia hosts a sprint triathalon in Sandy Creek Park to raise money for local cancer patients. Aug. 29, 7–11 a.m. $50. 706353-4354, www.cfnega.org f

Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) Work by Sam Mach. Through July.

Krimson Kafe (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) “Old McDonald’s Farm,” a collection of paintings by Perry McCrackin. Through July.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd., Gallery 307) “Found in Nature: Paintings and Drawings,” featuring the work of Philip Ayers and William Itter. Through July 25.

Last Resort Grill (184 W. Clayton St.) “The Art of Collage,” an exhibit featuring the work of Susan T. Pelham. Through July.

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) “Full House 2010” features over a hundred works in a variety of media by local artists and members of the organizations that meet regularly at the Lyndon House. Through Sept. 18.

Madison County Library (1315 Hwy. 98 W., Danielsville) Oil and watercolor paintings by Caroline Carey. Through July.

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.) New works by Art Rosenbaum and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum. Through August 27.

Monroe Art Guild (205 S. Broad St., Monroe) “Summer Members’ Show.” Through Aug. 25.

Reception July 16.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) “Dancing Naked Under Palm Trees,” an exhibit featuring watercolors of nature by Par Ramey. Through August.

Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) New paintings by Joe Havasy. Through July.

UGA Aderhold (110 Carlton St., Room 232) “Home and Away,” an exhibit of photographs of Georgia and abroad by Sally Hudson Ross. Through September.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) Pop-up books, art quilts and other textile art by Gretchen Elsner. Through July.

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Pre-school and parent/tot classes also offered. Through July 23, $33.

706-613-3589 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. Through July 29, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6–9 p.m. $10. 706-613-3871, www.acc leisureservices.com Waseca School Biome Camp (Waseca Learning Environment) Campers explore the forest and learn about sustainability through art projects, community building and gardening. Discounts available.

Through July, 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. $140–$170/week. 706543-4473, wasecaschool.org 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.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins My ex and I broke up a few months ago. It wasn’t ugly, really. We had been together for several years, we moved in together, realized that we were kind of drifting apart, and broke up without a lot of fanfare. We have many of the same friends, and so it wasn’t practical that we would try to avoid one another. We stayed in touch to some degree, but we didn’t talk regularly and mostly only saw each other at large gatherings of our whole group, like for birthdays and stuff.

This was all fine, of course, until the inevitable happened and he started seeing somebody else. Then he actually did start to avoid me.

He asked our friends if I was going to be places before he decided whether or not he would be there. He stopped taking my (very infrequent) calls or replying to my (slightly more frequent) emails. OK, I get it. But then I was going on a trip, to a place where he had been often (including fairly recently) and I wrote him an email asking him for advice. He sent me a reply that was less than two sentences and was no help at all. And again, I will say, “OK, I get it! It’s over!” But was it really too much to ask? I have started dating somebody else and I have totally moved on, and all of our mutual friends know this. Is it too much to ask that this guy be a little more courteous?

How can I get him to stop being such a freak? It’s not like I want us to be best buddies, but I think he’s being unreasonable.

Or is it me?

She Ex

a year or so, we share the bills, we make meals together or for each other, and it just seemed like we were on track to get married. We had talked about it before, but never in very specific terms of dates or whatever. We like each other’s families and we both want two kids.

Anyway, he got laid off at his job last month. I have no problem paying for everything right now, and I have been trying to be supportive without being pushy. But he has been going out a lot, and I think he may have met somebody because he has been very different. I don’t want to be paranoid, but he has been getting text messages at weird hours and he texts back and forth with I-don’t-know-who when he thinks I am not awake.

He has started coming home later and later, when I know his friends have gone home because they have to go to work in the morning. He got a ride from a woman I had never seen before the other night, and he was evasive the next day when I asked him how he got home.

I know he is super-depressed about losing his job. I know he is actually looking for another one because I helped him update his resume and I saw the ads he answered on Craigslist. I am sympathetic, but I don’t want to be a sucker. I don’t know if anything has happened or not, but I would be an idiot not to know there is another woman at least sniffing around. Should I confront him? Throw him out?

Ignore it and hope it goes away? I really love this guy, but I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to talk to my friends about this because they’ll just tell me I’m crazy, but a woman knows. Doesn’t she? Help!

Going Crazy

I’m not sure what the deal is, SE, but it seems like there was a lot of contact (or attempted contact) on your part after the breakup. I know you use the word “infrequent” in reference to your attempted calls and emails, but these were multiple, and you only broke up a couple of months ago, right? So, perhaps they were more frequent than you remember? Either way, they were more frequent than he was comfortable with, for whatever reason, and you need to respect that. It doesn’t matter why he doesn’t want to see or talk to you, and you shouldn’t bother wondering. What you need to do is continue moving on and continue being friends with your mutual friends and give the man some space. Maybe if you hadn’t continued to try to reach him after he was obviously backing away he could have given you some travel advice, but obviously it was too much for him. It is entirely possible that things will be normal between you two in the future, but only if you respect his wishes and back off now. Otherwise you’re the freak, you know?

Are you paranoid? I don’t know. But if my live-in significant other got a ride home from a strange member of the opposite sex and then lied to me about it, I would certainly have some doubts.

I don’t think you can ignore his behavior, and I don’t think throwing him out without talking about this is a logical next step.

Which leaves confrontation.

You should talk to him about this, but don’t jump right into an accusation. Wait until you are both sober, and you have plenty of time to talk it out. Tell him you think he’s been acting weird; explain your reasoning. Tell him that you know he’s unhappy about the layoff, but that things are going to be OK, etc.

Tell him you’re worried that he’s drifting. Ask him if he is happy with your relationship. Tell him you want to spend more time together.

Listen and be open-minded, but don’t be a fool. If he apologizes and promises to be less weird, ask him who the woman is. Tell him you are worried and that you want to see him more. Maybe stay up late and go out with him sometimes. And keep your eyes open. But, if he gets defensive or shouty, you know you’re right. Tell him to pack his shit and kick his ass to the curb. Maybe that nice lady who gave him a ride will pay for his drinks and put him up in her house for awhile, too.

My boyfriend is acting really weird. We live together, we’ve been together for a few years, and things were normal and pretty happy until very recently. I have a regular job with nineto-five hours, and his schedule changes all the time. This has never really been that much of a problem in the past. We have lived together for

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HWflrs., huge ceilings, fireplace, separate laundry room. 167 Oglethorpe Ave. $695/mo. Move in mid– August. Call Valerio Properties (706) 546-6900. Visit www. valerioproperties.com.

East Athens. Great 2BR/1BA duplex. On city busline. Fresh paint, W/D, DW, range, fridge, trash & yd. service incl. Pets OK. Available now! $550/mo. Call Mike (877) 740-1514 toll free.

Newly renovated 2BR/1BA duplex off Peter St. New everything! $550/mo, includes water. (706) 718-1159.

Quiet 5 Points Location!!

2BR/1BA, HWflrs., CHAC, W/D incl. $675/mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or visit w w w.

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Westside upscale townhouse duplex w/ 2BR/2.5BA. Call owner/agent, Barbara Loyd at (706) 540-4111.

Houses for Rent $825/mo. 3BR/2BA, lg. house. 5 min. to campus.

Popular Eastside, safe n’hood, excellent condition, no pets.

(706) 207-7400 $770/mo. 2BR/3BA, W/D, DW, CHAC, deck, quiet cottage.

1672 1/2 S. Milledge Ave. 2 blocks to 5 Pts. Low deposit.

(706) 714-1100.

$1000/mo. 3BR/2BA house w/ organic garden about 1 mi. from UGA & Dwntn.

Spacious in the Carrs Hill n'hood. Available 8/1. Call (706) 613-8525. $1100/mo. Great location!

3BR/2BA house. Walk to Dwntn, UGA. HWflrs, 10’ ceilings, DW, W/D, fenced lg. backyd., storage shed.

Pets welcome. Drew (770) 826-2450. $1250/m o . H istoric B l v d 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. $660/mo. 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.

135 Glencrest. $900/mo.

3BR/2BA. Great traditional house w/ a beautifully landscaped yd.!Call today (706) 548-9797 boulevard​ property​management.com.

1BR cottage. 1/4 miles from campus. 100 yrs old. HWflrs.

Big kitchen. All appls incl.

Front/back porch. No pets. No smokers. $700/mo. Available now. (770) 995-6788.

1331 Dowdy Rd. 3-6BR/2BA. $1200–$1400/ mo. 100 yr. old farmhouse located ½ mile from civilization. High ceilings, HWflrs., & good dogs welcome. A spacious house w/ 2 lg. porches. Located close to great schools & all of your shopping needs in a serene setting, which is great for family friends & nature lovers, or anyone else who is looking for a great house to live for the upcoming year!Avail. 8/1. Pls. call (706) 548-9797, boulevard​ property​management.com.

2BR. W/D, DW, CHAC. Deck w/ swings. Dwntn. Walk to class. $595/mo. 185B S. Finley. (706) 714-1100.

2BR/2BA upstairs over horse barn, vaulted living room/ kitchen, large screened porch, lots of windows & view. 5 mi. of trails on 180 acres. 10 mi. from UGA. $750/mo., some work credit possible. (706) 207-4607, www.hawkescreekfarm.com.

3 B R / 2 B A . C e d a r c re e k .

Fenced backyd., gas grill, FP, wooded lot. Quiet family n’hood. Swimming community.

360 Sandstone Dr. $1025/ mo. & dep. (706) 319-1846, (706) 548-4819. GA. R. E. lic.

300830.

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. $1100/mo. Call (706) 338-6716.

2BR/1BA “A-Frame” house on Fowler Dr. 2 mi. from campus.

Huge loft area, on bus route, total electric, CHAC. $525/mo.

Special: Move in now, no rent until Aug. 1. $525/dep. (706) 202-0147.

3BR/1BA house off Baxter St. CHAC, DW, W/D incl. No gas bill, fenced yd., pets OK. Bonus rm. 4th BR. Avail. 8/1.

Only $695/mo. (706) 255-2552 text OffCampusRealty.com.

ARMC area. 3BR/2BA, band rm., fenced yd. $765/mo.

Watkinsville. 3BR/2BA, all amenities, double garage, deck, woods w/ creek. $950/ mo. Mall area, 3BR/1BA. $550/mo. Call (706) 549-4580.

2BR/2BA townhouse. Very nice, clean, quiet, & safe.

Beautifully landscaped. Great for family/grads. 15 mins from UGA. In Oconee School District. Available 8/1. $900/ mo. (404) 401-8369.

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

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

2BR/1BA cottage on Johnson Dr. 2 mi. from campus. CHAC, HWflrs, fenced pet area. $550/ mo. No inside pets. $400 dep.

(706) 202-0147.

3BR/2BA. Quiet cul–de–sac.

Private fenced backyd. 2–car garage. DW, W/D hookups, HC accessible. Close to Navy School & bus line. Pets OK. $1350/mo. Call (706) 248-7692.

3BR/2BA secluded country house. 12 miles from Dwntn. $1100/mo. Or, If the surrounding 76 acres are not needed, then only $900/mo. New CHAC. Call (706) 340-7531.

3BR. W/D, DW, gas logs.

Dwntn. Walk to class. Porch swing w/ rockers. CHAC. $385/BR, $1155/mo. 185A S. Finley. (706) 714-1100.

340 Barber Street. The only one like it. This is the best 3BR/2BA in town. This 2–story newly renovated house has beautiful skylights in the 25 ft. high living room ceiling w/ exposed brick give the house an urban feel. 340 Barber St. is in walking distance to campus & Dwntn. $1600/mo. (706) 5489797, boulevard​p roperty​ management.com.

3BR/2.5BA house. CHAC, W/D. $1050/mo. (706) 769-4155.

2BR/1.5BA + office. 5 Pts. Lg. master w/ BA. Great for Grad Students. Close to campus. W/D, DW, CHAC, Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $800/ mo. (706) 369-2908.

3BR/2BA old country house. 10 mi. from Dwntn. 16 acres. Suitable for 2 horses. Fenced pasture w/ shelter. CHAC, all appls. 1BR & 2BAs completely renovated. $950/mo. (706) 340-7531.

2BR/1BA. 349 Oak St. Less than a mi. to campus. Fenced backyd. Window A/C, gas heat. HWflrs. $700/mo. + dep.

Ralph Bryant (706) 207-6071.

3BR/2BA. Close to Dwntn.

CHAC, W/D, HWflrs, fenced yd., screened porch. Available 8/1. Pets OK. $800/mo + dep.

Call Mark (706) 202-5110.

3BR on Pulaski. New BA, CHAC, W/D, DW, ceiling fans, security system, $950/mo. incl. water. Deposit + yr. lease req’d. Cats OK. Avail. now!

(706) 546-0348.

3 to 5BR cottages & townhomes available. Starting at $325/BR. Convenient locations near Dwntn & Eastside. Ask about leasing specials! Call (706) 5431910 or email Leasing@ LandmarkAthens.com for info.

3BR/2BA near Pulaski/ Cleveland beautiful remodel w/ high ceilings & HWflrs. W/D, lg. kitchen, front porch, walk to Dwntn. Near Greenway. $1100/mo. (706) 614-3557.

4BR/3BA townhome. $850/mo.

Huge floorplan! W/D, alarm system, pets welcome. $425/ dep. Eastside, Deer Park. Visit www.hancockpropertiesinc. com(706) 552-3500.

4BR/4BA house. On UGA busline. Community pool w/ pool house. $1800/mo. W/D, & appls. Pets OK w/ dep. Avail.

8/1. Call (706) 207-9295.

6BR/3BA house, multi–family zoned. 2620 Riverbend Rd. Fully renovated, new everything, HWflrs., custom kitchen & BAs. $1800/ mo. Avail. 8/1. Chris (706) 202-5156 or chris@ petersonproperties.org.

Attention students & small families. 3BR/2.5BA split lvl. in quiet cul–de–sac. Avail. 8/1!

Close to campus! HWflrs., FP, sec. sys., all kitchen appls. $1275/mo. (770) 596-6234.

Adorable 3BR/2.5BA house in Winterville. Lots of storage, lg rooms, 1700 sq. ft., 1-car garage, fenced yd, 1/2 acre lot, W/D, DW, CHAC. Some pets OK. 6 mi. to UGA. $1000/mo. (706) 549-5006, www.AthensCondoSales. com.

East Athens. 3BR/2.5BA. Fenced backyard. Small pets OK. $925/mo. (706) 207-3677.

Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $1000/ mo. 4BR/2BA w/ lg. yd. $1200/ mo. Five Points 3BR/1BA, single carport, $750/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

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Peaceful brick home on cul–de–sac. 125 Edward Circle. ARMC/Normaltown.

3BR/1BA. Updates kitchen/ BA, finished HWflrs., fenced backyard, brick patio, 2–slot covered parking. $143K. Call (864) 710-4484.

Roommates Full 4BR/3BA available now!

Quiet n’hood, responsive landlord! Less than 1 mile to campus! About $350/mo. utils incl. Call (706) 254-1166 now if interested!

Rooms for Rent $315/mo! 4000 sq. ft. home.

Full music studio. Pets OK. Eastside. 2 miles from shopping. 7 mi. from Dwntn/ UGA. (770) 561-1054.

Eastside Athens. Several nice clean 2BR/1BA houses in quiet n’hood. CHAC, deck, ceiling fans. Available Aug. 1st. $500/mo. $650/mo. Call (706) 340-4619.

Full 4BR/3BA. Available now!

Quiet n’hood, responsive landlord! Less than 1 mile to campus! About $350/mo. utilities incl. Call (706) 2541166 now if interested!

First month free! No pet fee!

2 or 3BRs close to Dwntn.

W/D, DW, private patios, large yards. (706) 548-2522, www. dovetailmanagement.com.

House w/ 2 extra rooms for rent. $350/mo each + utils.

1st month free w/ only $100 deposit. 10 min. from UGA! Call (912) 552-0522.

Huge house in N o r m a l t o w n ! 2 – s t o r y, 4BR/2BA, HWflrs, CHAC, D/W, W/D hookups. On busline at Prince/Oglethorpe. $1350/mo.

(706) 546-6900 or go to www.

ValerioProperties.com/.

For Sale

Only a few left for Fall! Brick homes starting at just $275/ BR. Close to Dwntn/UGA & pet friendly. Dekle Realty (706) 548-0580. Please visit www. deklerealty.com.

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

Houses for Sale Elber ton, Ga. Char ming, restored home w/ guest house. 3BR/2.5BA w/ 1BR/1BA in guest house.

Historic district, near Lake Russell & Athens. $132,500. ( 7 0 6 ) 4 9 8 - 8 3 5 0 , w w w. savannahvalleylandcompany. com//listing.php?id=138.

Enjoy your new home located in a peaceful setting. Close to shopping/UGA. 3BR/2.5BA home on 2.28 acres. Price reduced $144,900. Contact Becky Smith (706) 201-2121.

Furniture Pillowtop Queen Mattress set. Never used. Still in factory plastic. $260. Full size mattress set. Never used. Still in factory plastic. $160. (706) 769-1959. Delivery available.

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

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

Miscellaneous Ask about our Run–til–Sold rate. Lowest classified ad rate in town! 12 weeks for only $40! Call (706) 549-0301 or place an ad at www.flagpole. com. Merchandise only. ➤ continued on next page

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$680/mo. 2BR/2BA. 115 E. Carver Dr. 1.5 mi. from UGA Arch. Fenced–in yd. Tile & HWflrs. CHAC, W/D hookups, DW. Pets welcome. Avail. 8/1.

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Music Equipment Fender American Standard Jazz Bass w/ molded case, color–blizzard, new condition, $950. Call Charles at (706) 613-6166.

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.

Music Services Do you want to place a Classified but don’t see a suitable category? Suggest one to us! Email Flagpole Classifieds at class@flagpole.com.

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.

Wedding Bands. Quality, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, Jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment.

(706) 549-1567. www.classiccity entertainment.com. Featuring The Magictones—Athens’ premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones.com.

Pregnant? Considering adoption? Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide.

Living expenses paid. Call 24/7. Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

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Piano players wanted for dueling piano showcase in Macon, GA. Must have extensive repertoire of popular music. Charisma to work crowd.

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Services Child Care Nanny & pet services available.

21 yr. old female graduating in May 2012 from UGA in Early Childhood Education.

References. Contact (404) 405-9464 or syj@uga.edu.

Cleaning Grungy Bathroom? I Only Clean Bathrooms. Summer special! 1st BA $25, 2nd BA $10. Call or Text Nick: (706) 206-0381. Professional service, 7 days a week!

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Chief Executive Officer; Athens Community C a re e r A c a d e m y . The Governance Board for the Athens Community Career Academy (Career Academy) under the Clarke County School District invites applications & nominations for the position of Chief Executive Officer.

The CEO will provide the visionary leadership necessar y for program planning, development, & implementation of the Career A c a d e m y. T h e M i s s i o n o f t h e C a re e r A c a d e m y i s t o p ro v i d e e x p a n s i v e opportunities for students to achieve educational & career goals while meeting local & regional workforce needs.

For a complete position description, deadlines, & contact information please visit our website at: http:// w w w. h r. u g a . e d u / c e o acca.pdf or call Adrianna Creech, Primary Executive Search Consultant at (706) 542-3588.

Great cooks, bartenders & servers for Chef Lamar’s Iron Grill. 1155 Mitchell Bridge Rd., Athens, GA 30606. Please bring resume & experience.

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