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pub notes air, water & signs In the Sky Well, covering for Dave Marr last week overtaxed my brain, necessitating these follow-ups to last week’s Pub Notes. First of all, I characterized mayoral candidate Spencer Frye’s background, in part, as “managing the Habitat store.” In truth, Spencer is the Executive Director of Athens Area Habitat for Humanity and has had a big hand in the growth of that organization over the last five years. I didn’t mean to downgrade Spencer; I was recounting the ways in which he has developed his “townie persona,” and I saw running the Habitat store as part of that, like his playing in bands. Much more to my chagrin, I wrote erroneously about Greg Kahlstorf, the co-owner and President of Pacific Wings, the company that owns Georgia Skies, the airline that, for now, flies out of Athens. I wrote that Kahlstorf, in a telephone conversation, “loudly threatened” to sue our freelance writer Jeff Gore and everybody he talked to in connection with a story Jeff was researching on Georgia Skies. Jeff says that Kahlstorf did not threaten to sue him: that Kahlstorf only threatened to sue the former Georgia Skies employees that Jeff interviewed. I also wrote that Kahlstorf, in another telephone conversation with Dave Marr, threatened to sue Flagpole. Dave says Kahlstorf attempted to bully him but did not threaten to sue. Finally, I wrote that local lawyer J. Hue Henry called me on the telephone and threatened to sue Flagpole if we wrote anything containing false information about Georgia Skies. That is correct. Hue did threaten to sue us. I apologize to Kahlstorf and hope that my writing that he threatened to sue us does not give him grounds to sue us.
Up the Creek The J&J Chemical Company blew up after midnight Tuesday morning, turning Trail Creek blue with toilet disinfectant giving off a noxious odor. The creek has run blue ever since, dumping directly into the North Oconee River. I’m writing this on Sunday afternoon, and the story is constantly changing. By the time you read this the worst may be over and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division may have lab results on the damage. While this ecological catastrophe ran through the middle of our community, citizens in the area, as well as their elected representatives, were left to fend for themselves. Trained river testers like Ben Emanuel, of Georgia River Network and Jessica Sterling, of the School of Ecology, were out there in the creek running their own tests and arranging for a public meeting, while other citizens posted pictures and put up warning signs in the absence of much local government communication other than a few emails. One of the questions that will linger after the blue water and odor are gone is why was there not a more immediate and in-person response from local government while citizens watched in horror and wondered just how dangerous the spill was to their homes and families.
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The UGA student population is rotating out, and so, soon, is Athens Rising.
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persons not wearing protective equipment and clothing should be restricted from contaminated areas until cleanup has been completed.” Were the levels of contamination in and around Trail Creek (and the North Oconee and Oconee rivers, which receive its flow) high enough to warrant such extreme precautions? Probably not, but that isn’t the point. No one wants to start a panic, but it does seem reasonable to suggest that this information—or at the very least a more strongly worded (not to mention timely) warning that these chemicals can be dangerous, not just stinky—might have been useful to the public. A clearinghouse website—http://sites. google.com/site/trailcreekwitness—for information and communication related to the ongoing environmental disaster has been set up and is being maintained by Peter Norris and other concerned community members. The question of why the most concerted public information campaign associated with this situation is being coordinated by citizen volunteers and not government agencies—along with the ACC police and fire department, the state DNR, EPD and U.S. Homeland Security are all on the scene for this—is just one of many disturbing ones raised by the episode, but for now let’s just be thankful for the efforts of the former—and try to keep after the latter. [Dave Marr]
And in Other Water-Related News: Lee Becker’s Oconee County Observations blog scooped local media last week in reporting that construction on the 2000-acre Hard Labor Creek reservoir near Social Circle is now on hold— because the water demand (and the money to pay for it) isn’t there since the downturn. “The finance directors of both [Oconee and Walton] counties said the counties are not able to service more debt,” Becker quoted Concerned community members have placed these signs in arOconee Commissioner Jim Luke as eas affected by the J&J Chemical Co. spill. saying. Ironically, the reservoir was one of five that a 2003 state DNR There were a lot of people figuring things study said were unnecessary to build, if only out for themselves last week while they waited modest water conservation measures were for someone with thorough and detailed taken instead. But the counties went ahead knowledge of the situation surrounding the buying property and engineering the reservoir spill to tell them what was actually going on. while furious home construction seemed to Until Saturday, the message emanating from point to ballooning future water needs. Now state and county authorities was essentially that bubble has burst (or at least shrunk) and that there was probably nothing to worry it appears the anticipated water users won’t about, but not to fish or swim in the creek be there to pay for it. just to be on the safe side. Amazingly, when It all points to government’s eagerness ACC finally issued a media release “update” on for grand and expensive structural solutions the situation it both identified the “organic to problems that, often, could more sensibly compound with a strong odor often associated be solved in other ways. Reservoirs are just with urinal cakes” that was so strong in and one example: they are a politically popular, around Trail Creek, including at Dudley Park, as knee-jerk “solution” to feared water shortages. dichlorobenzene, and stated that preliminary But if the recent drought proves anything, it testing data “indicated that dichlorobenzene would seem to be that we don’t need a lot of is not detectable at Dudley Park.” We were new reservoirs—since we got through a fairly smelling something, it seemed, that wasn’t extreme rainfall shortage with only modest there. And were these fumes harmful? The restrictions on water use. The fallback on the release didn’t say, but it did helpfully sugreservoir also calls into question the sort of gest that “individuals who may be sensitive population projections on which local planto the odor should… avoid areas by these ning (for roads, jails, sewer lines and other waterways.” projects) is typically based. Clearly, planning The OSHA guidelines for p-dichlorobenzene is an art, not a science; maybe more ques(one of several synonyms for dichlorobenzene) tions, not fewer, should be raised about how it list a litany of ill effects on humans and aniis done. [John Huie] mals exposed to it and advises: “In the event of a spill or leak involving p-dichlorobenzyne, Dave Marr & John Huie
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Take a Breath: Roads that have been clogged and closed all summer are slowly reopening, town is being spruced up, and students are leaving for good or trickling back into Athens. Since Athens runs by the university’s clock and everyone’s leases are up, now’s a good time to stop and reflect on what’s been and what’s coming. Just watching the effects of several thousand apartments being vacated at once is somewhat surreal. Rented moving vans have been blocking quite a few streets around town. Trash and recycling containers have filled and, in some cases, been supplemented with additional rollaway dumpsters at some student apartment complexes. A friend recently relayed to me the momentary uptick in contracting work as large student communities are vacated for a week of intense repair, spackling, shining and polishing. Outside of The Potter’s House thrift store the other day, I saw a mountain of donations that would put Sunset Drive’s meager dirt mound to shame. This gap week in the student apartment complex lease cycle gives the town an “eye of the hurricane” sort of feel. Athenians peer out to survey the damage during the quiet week before the big storm that is fall at the University of Georgia.
to embrace a vision for what downtown is and could be. Momentum seems to be pushing towards some action of late, though, with the Athens Downtown Development Authority slowly plodding forward towards requesting a proposal for that master plan and visions of redevelopment authorities, economic development zones and downtown alliances dancing through heads of politicians, planners and businessfolk. Could meaningful action and the critical mass to achieve something finally be just around the corner here? Write your commissioners and find out. Positive Signs?: As an aside, I recently drove through the Lakewood subdivision, and saw new houses under construction. This project on Barnett Shoals was one of many local attempts at the New Urbanist vision which suffered when the economy crashed. Could local upticks in building activity like these be a sign of a not-a-moment-too-soon eco-
Normaltown Is Changing: Speaking of Sunset Drive, the Bishop Park tennis center saga may finally have wound down. Perhaps the organizational infrastructure that was mobilized both in The building that formerly housed the Phoenix Market and Music Exchange at the neighborhood Broad and Pulaski streets is undergoing a welcome renovation and reorientation. and across the community to stop the park’s changes could be maintained to pronomic recovery? There are plenty of unrealized mote and maintain neighborhood dialogue. town centers around Athens that I profiled It’s one thing for people to get riled up and before the housing collapse which may yet punt the tennis courts across town, but that become brick and mortar (or, as the case may doesn’t mean that Bishop Park’s issues are by be, EIFS). any means solved, or that the areas around the Navy School are in any way prepared for Here Comes Dan: There’s about to be a bit of what’s coming there. UGA’s medical school a lineup change here in the Athens Rising will shortly be operating in the Navy School’s zone, as well. I’ll be heading out of town for place, bringing with it a host of changes to a bit, seeing the wide world—particularly the the area, both good and bad. The word on the well planned cities of the Northwest. I hope street is that efforts are afoot to put together to bring some of those ideas back to y’all, some organizations to represent this diverse while simultaneously civilizing those poor community’s interests and continue the damp souls in the misty Cascades with the momentum from the Protect Bishop Park cam- Gospel of Grits. While I’m gone, I’ll be sharpaign. Stay tuned. ing the column with Dan Lorentz. Dan is a recent transplant to the South, originally So Is Downtown: One downtown renovation from Wisconsin, who has made his home in I’ve been excited to see is the repositioning Boulevard and begun to make his presence of the building which formerly housed Music known as a neighborhood activist over there. Exchange and the Phoenix Market. A new If you haven’t heard all about the Barber facade is turning the building toward Broad Street Park Project, Dan is a driving force Street, giving the space a more urban presbehind organizing that, and has also done a ence. New brickwork is giving the dowdy old bit of blogging with Beyond the Trestle. Dan’s storefront (which is soon to house a deli) a experiences living in Madison, WI, known classy Georgia brick look, in the same way as throughout the world for being a very livable that recently reclad hotel across the street. small city, should be quite relevant and appliWhile little individual tweaks like this are cable here. great to see downtown, we still lack a cohesive master plan for the area, and have yet Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com
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Blue Watergate: By Sunday morning this past weekend, the water in Trail Creek at the entrance to Dudley Park which, for the previous three days, had been running a deep, bright, highly artificial blue had lost enough of its opacity that you could see all the dead fish in it. That ghastly sight brought with it cautious relief, as it suggested that perhaps the seepage of chemicals and dye into the creek from the wetlands adjacent to the site of the J&J Chemical Co. fire was beginning to abate. The powerful disinfectant odor that had accompanied the blue water downstream was less noticeable, too, so it was easy to think that any health risks associated with the sickly sweet, noxious fumes that had permeated neighborhoods along the creek since the water turned blue might now be lessened. But who knew?
city pages compensation for his Humanitad work. The prosecutor, Mick, responded that promoting the organization, even recruiting UGA students on UGA’s campus, was a “textbook example” of conflict of interest. The university has refused to accept course credit for Benedek’s program, and it further For three days last week, a panel of five charged that Benedek misled students into University of Georgia professors came together believing they could lobby to receive credit. under the unusual circumstance of determinIn the case of the independent Budapest proing whether to strip a fellow professor of his gram, UGA accepted transfer credit from the tenure. The proceeding had all the elements of Eltos Lorand University of Budapest until it a trial, taking place in the UGA Law School’s decided to begin rejecting it in January 2009, courtroom, with a police officer on duty and four months before Benedek took a final group Rebecca Mick, a senior assistant Georgia attor- of students on the trip. ney general, laying out the university’s case Numerous students involved in the proagainst Dr. Dezso Benedek. gram testified that they agreed to the trip Tenured professors are entitled to heareven after Benedek informed them that no ings before such panels, appointed by the credit was available. The university, however, University Council, before they can be fired, painted a picture of encouragement being according to Board of Regents policy. given to students to fight the credit decision. Benedek is an associate professor of comStudents testified that at the end of the 2009 parative literature and former director of Asian trip, Benedek collected $100 each from sevlanguages in the Franklin College of Arts and eral of them so that his lawyer, Humphreys, Sciences. The multilingual teacher has been could mount an eventually unsuccessful legal employed by UGA since 1988 and has been challenge to obtain course credit. a visiting professor in Dr. Kasee Laster, direcRomania and Japan. tor of study abroad at The multilingual teacher The university made UGA, quoted students several interrelated as saying, “He told us has been employed by charges against Benedek, you’d say there might be UGA since 1988. including that he had crea problem but you’d work ated a conflict of interest it out.” between his teaching duties and his role at Another Humanitad-sponsored Benedek the Humanitad Foundation—an international creation was the Huangshan study abroad prononprofit with the goal of increasing tolerance gram, a yearlong immersion program in China. among religions and nations—where he serves UGA told Benedek to stop recruiting students as director of education and cultural affairs. for the program in 2006 and extended credit Benedek has created two study abroad for a year so that enrolled students would not programs with Humanitad that both lost be penalized academically. Benedek staged a their UGA affiliation. The first, Maymester in hunger strike on campus in 2007 to protest Budapest, was an abbreviated course created the lack of credit. He had previously engaged in 1999 featuring travel in Eastern Europe, in such a protest in 1998 to get the university where Benedek provided lectures on a bus, to accelerate the acceptance of a grant that and which also featured European governmenwould create a Korean language minor. tal internships. The course, which Dr. Garnett Benedek, according to the university, Stokes, Dean of the Franklin College, testified was insubordinate when he failed to provide has remained popular among students, lost requested information to Stokes, the Franklin UGA sponsorship in 2004 when a financial College dean, about his work with Humanitad audit couldn’t account for approximately on a number of occasions. Stokes described an $180,000. The existence of a travel agency ongoing failure on Benedek’s part to answer Benedek claimed to be using could not be questions about his conduct, which instead proven, according to Stokes. elicited written responses from Humphreys. Stephen Humphreys, Benedek’s lawIn many elements of the hearing, the yer, argued that Benedek received no conflict revolved around the University of
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Georgia’s reputation and questions of its association with unapproved programs. Witnesses echoed UGA officials’ criticisms of Huangshan University, the sponsor of the Huangshan program, made during Benedek’s hunger strike. The school has only 14 professors with doctorates and offers no degrees higher than a bachelor’s, according to Dr. Jane Gatewood, UGA’s associate director of international education at the time of the program’s existence. “It was not of the same level as UGA,” she said. Sam Buckner, a student who had been in the program, disagreed with the assessment in an interview. “I learned more in the Huangshan program than I could have anywhere else,” he said. Former UGA Provost Dr. Arnett Mace described the concerns with Benedek’s external programs as a matter of quality control: the university aims for accountability when taking money from students, when sending students on trips and needing to guarantee their safety, and when needing to ensure academic quality in anything connected with UGA, he said. “Dr. Benedek liked to work on his own,” concluded Dr. Clifton Panell, a former associate
dean in the Franklin College. The testimony of students and former students largely centered on Benedek’s value as a teacher and the strong educational value of his programs. “He is fighting [against] something that he felt was unfair to the students… He was one of the best teachers I ever had,” said UGA graduate Jessie Hyatt in an interview. At the end of the hearing’s third day, the panel heard closing arguments before adjourning to make a non-binding recommendation to UGA President Michael Adams on whether Benedek’s tenure should be revoked. That recommendation had not yet been delivered at press time. Humphreys described a man who wanted to create programs that would benefit both the university and its students. “You won’t ever find him working against the interests of the University of Georgia,” he said. Mick conversely portrayed Benedek as a man without such clear loyalties. “He wanted [Humanitad] to succeed so badly, he gambled with students’ education,” she said. Russell Cox
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capitol impact Running Away From the President When Sarah Palin endorsed Karen Handel prior to the Republican primary, Handel embraced that support and has been attached at the hip to Palin—figuratively speaking— ever since. Getting that endorsement obviously was a factor in Handel’s taking the number-one position among the GOP candidates for governor in the primary. She will try to close the sale when Palin flies to Atlanta on Aug. 9, the day before the runoff election, to appear at a campaign rally with Handel. Contrast Handel’s behavior to the reaction of the Democratic nominee, Roy Barnes, to a Georgia visit by a nationally known political figure. As President Barack Obama prepared to make a quick stopover in Atlanta this week, Barnes was making sure everyone knew he would be far away from the capital city. Handel ran to Palin, the most popular figure in her party, and will be by her side while Palin is in Georgia. Barnes ran away from Obama, the dominant political figure in his party, and planned to be at least 100 miles away while the president was in Atlanta. Which strategy is smarter? Time may prove that Barnes is making the better decision here. Obama is very unpopular in Georgia among moderate and conservative white voters whose support Barnes is trying to get. To have any hopes of hanging on to the votes of Georgia-style independents, Barnes can’t afford to be seen anywhere near Obama. There is growing evidence that Palin, the former governor of Alaska, has that same kind of polarizing influence on independent voters who are not diehard members of her own party. Public Policy Polling conducted a survey recently in New Hampshire after Palin endorsed Republican candidate Kelly Ayotte in the U.S. Senate race and found that Ayotte’s support among independent voters was collapsing. The poll results indicated that among moderate voters, 65 percent said a Palin
endorsement would turn them off compared to 14 percent who said it would make them more supportive. A recent Gallup poll found a similar response to Palin on the national level. Gallup’s survey showed that while Palin enjoyed a 76 percent favorable rating among Republicans, her approval numbers dropped dramatically when independents were added to the mix. This would suggest that while Palin’s endorsement helps Handel among Republicans voting in her party primary, it might not be such a good thing in a general election where a candidate needs to draw support from independent voters in the middle. This scenario assumes that Handel is going to win the Republican runoff, a result that Nathan Deal is working hard to prevent. Deal does not have the endorsement of Palin in the runoff, but he does have the support of most Republican legislators in the General Assembly. Legislators tend to have a wide network of supporters in their districts, so it can be very helpful to have those networks getting the word out to vote for a particular candidate in an upcoming election. That was the case in the 1982 Democratic primary, where Congressman Bo Ginn was the early favorite to win. A lawmaker from Bartow County named Joe Frank Harris had House Speaker Tom Murphy and dozens of legislators beating the bushes for him—and it worked. Harris won the Democratic nomination over Ginn. The upcoming runoff and general elections could well hinge on all of these trends. Can a bunch of Georgia legislators overcome the star power of a Republican celebrity like Sarah Palin? And was it better for Roy Barnes to avoid celebrities like Barack Obama completely? Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com
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Powerless in Athens: The Experiment Begins We turned the power off to our house for the first week of June this year. My wife, Mary, and my two daughters, Maggie and Lois, will say that it was my idea to do this. I do remember that, in 2009, Mary and I were concluding our month of no alcohol (February, the shortest month) when Athens was hit with eight inches of snow and we lost power for three days. Sitting by the fireplace I offhandedly commented on the idea of having an energy fast: turn the electricity off for a week.—Michael Songster
Power fast: To go a for a period of time without electricity. For our family, we spent a week without hot water, the fridge, A/C and the obvious: lighting.—Lois Songster
pretty warm and cool relative to the season. Usually if I shut the house up in the morning and it’s around 70°, by 5 p.m. it’s not any hotter than 77°.—Mary
Honestly, not everyone is excited; Lois just got outvoted in the sort of sham democracy we practice at home, but she’s a great kid and resigned herself to participate.—Michael
I didn’t notice the change the first day. We packed our bags, filled up our car with gas, and drove down to the lake with some family friends to spend the day on a boat. In my mind, I hardly count that as a power fast day!—Lois
The one carrot I could offer our out-of-town friends was that we were finally cashing in a very generous gift certificate to a place we hadn’t eaten before and we had heard that it was always a sumptuous and engaging meal. The downside being it might be a little hotter in the house for sleeping. Being our bravest as well as our best friends, they came up Saturday morning, three kids in tow. So Saturday evening we left the
My father was inspired to do this and tried to get the rest of us to support him. Despite the fact that my phone is attached to my hand like a extra limb, I supported my father in this decision and with the help of him and my sister, we all convinced my mother to try this out as well.—Maggie Songster I was telling everyone I ran into that we were going to turn the power off for a week. It was more like a nervous tic than casual chatting. I was trying to gauge how crazy this was based on the reactions of house painters, bank tellers and gas station attendants. It was scoring pretty high on the crazy side. My monkey brain was wondering why I was worried: I’d backpacked, I’d camped… for God sakes, I was going to be inside, at home, in walking distance of the Normal Bar; really it would be minor inconveniences, not hard. (A confession here: the last time I “camped” it involved a great price on a rental home in the mountains with a hot tub.) It was going to be a fast. I want to be more conscious of energy in my life. More than one person has told me that I need to turn my monkey brain off.—Mary Songster
Although, we weren’t going to go a year without power on our first try; that’s just too insane for us.—Maggie Fueled with the inspiration of another family’s effort, Maggie, I believe, revives the idea of the energy fast. Everyone’s excited, commitments are made, dates set, we are doing it.—Michael We had finally agreed after months of discussion and figuring that Saturday at midnight we’d turn the power off in the house until the next Saturday midnight. The girls and I were to turn in our phones and devices. Michael was to keep his phone in the truck and just use the truck for regular work things. I was going to try not to use the car at all. Our bikes were all serviced and ready to go. The refrigerator would be off but coolers were acceptable. Friends who live in Atlanta called us on Wednesday and said they wanted to come stay with us for the weekend for a muchneeded visit. I said we’d love to have them up but there’s just one thing: we’re turning the power off.—Mary
The parameters of the fast are pretty simple: the electricity in the house is off, with three exceptions. 1) Our basement freezer stays on; we are not going to waste the food or move it for someone else’s freezer to keep cold. 2) Our smoke detectors will stay on: we don’t use candles often in the house; this just seemed prudent. 3) The aquarium filters, but not lights, would stay on: I don’t know if the fish would be harmed in a week without filters, but they go through enough as it is; no need to chance it. Everything else would be turned off. Now, house to house, what turning the electricity off means varies. In our case we still have stovetop gas, but no oven because of the electronic controls, no hot water; electric here, but we do get to keep running water (powered by the city.) If we were on a personal well we would lose the well pump and so running water. During the negotiations Maggie declared batteries would be cheating, and so out went head lamps, flashlights, cell phones, DS and cordless tools. I would use my cell phone during business hours, charging it in the truck. This was so I could continue to communicate with subs, clients and employees; seemingly reasonable when proposed, during the week the exception becomes contentious among those in the family aggrieved by their loss of contact with the outside.—Michael
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My recollection of that first mention and following conversation are vague for sure, but I remember general, noncommittal enthusiasm. This percolates in the family for awhile, or maybe I just don’t let it go, and a year or so later the four of us watch the documentary No Impact Man. If you haven’t seen it, the movies chronicles a Manhattan family that gives up just about everything for a year, culminating with eliminating electricity from their apartment for six months.—Michael
Since we had visitors, I justified that we would fill the car up with gas and drive to Hartwell and fill my Dad’s pontoon boat with gas and spend the day on the boat. This is definitely cheating, I thought, and even though everyone has a good time, this is certainly not what was agreed to and I’ll have to atone.—Mary
kids with pizza from Little Italy, walked downtown and had the most amazing four-course meal paired with all the right wines. Quail and succotash with a sort of meat jam so good we all licked the plate. We walked back about midnight full of good food and conversation and company. This seemed like a good omen for what we about to embark upon. Once home we gathered the bigger kids to the basement with candles and everybody switched off some breakers and went to bed. Windows were open, and we were lucky to have a relatively cool evening for sleeping, no fans on but not really hot yet. Being hot was what most people I talked to worried about. In planning this bourgeois vacation stunt of ours Michael, a voracious student of the weather, had figured the last week of May to be our best bet for cooperative weather. We have always been in the habit, when there is still a temperature differential of at least 20° between day and nighttime temperatures, of opening up all the windows in the evening and closing them all up in the morning before it gets hot. We are fortunate in that our house has a roof with a big overhang, in the Craftsman style, and excellent insulation—so it keeps
Sunday evening we waved goodbye to our friends and I went inside to clean out the rest of the stuff in the fridge. We had eaten most of the perishables but I made up two coolers— one with condiments and pickles and such; things I keep cold but wasn’t sure even had to be cold, like Sriracha. The other cooler had carrots, celery, oranges, butter, eggs, yogurt and half and half. A compromise arose when I realized I had about eight cooler packs in the freezer downstairs and that I could keep rotating a couple out and refreezing them so I wouldn’t have to get a bag of ice every day. I lobbied that as an energyneutral choice and it was accepted.—Mary We came back and, after the guest family had left, we had our first dinner without power and soon the house became pitch black, with only candles illuminating spots here and there. It was surreal and almost spooky (not a good time to read Stephen King’s It, but it was too good of a book to put down.)—Maggie To be continued…
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the reader Fearful Symmetry Sit down and let me tell you about my children. My 15-year-old son is a builder, has been ever since he first learned that blocks had a use beyond making his barefoot father stumble around yowling in pain. He has Legos, K’Nex, Erector sets, sometimes combinations of materials used to build robots and spaceships and skyscrapers. Today he’s learning electronics and robotics and plotting his career as the next Tony Stark—or the first. My 13-year-old daughter is autistic and socially awkward, but she draws manga-style with an adult sophistication, composes electronica with FrootLoops and Audacity, and is teaching herself Japanese online. Give her some cyberimplants and she’s a William Gibson character come to life. This is not just proud-papa talk here. My children are scary brilliant, in ways that I’ll never be. It is the way of new fathers, lacking the equipment or the instincts to care for their babies as they are, to plan for the people they will become. We expect them to be what we are, or what we always wanted to be, and arrange to make it happen. Our kids become a project, and we guys love projects. When my children were born they already had a full library of books on every subject I’d ever found interesting. How was I to know that their talents and interests would deviate so far from mine? Now the only thing they’ll ever get from me is stupid morals and values. Phooey. The compulsion to chart the course of our children’s lives is the engine that drives Billy Lombardo’s terrific debut novel The Man with Two Arms (Penguin Books, 2010). It’s that terribly cliched thing, a novel about fathers and sons and baseball, but it sings with joy and tragedy in clear, uncynical and original tones the way few novels do anymore, and is well worth a return visit to the genre. Henry Granville is a husband, a new father, a biology teacher at an exclusive college-prep high school and a devout worshiper at the altar of baseball—the order is constantly up for grabs. While other expectant dads play Mozart or recite equations to their wives’ swelling bellies, Henry reads Malamud’s The Natural to his unborn child. Within days of his birth, young Danny Granville already has a glove and is exposed to the wonders of Chicago baseball at Comiskey Park. And to his father’s delight, the boy walks early, runs early and throws a ball early—far, and with both hands. Danny’s inordinate strength and ambidexterity ignites a radical idea in his scientist father’s mind, fueled by Henry’s past observations of ambidextrous primates in the wild. Could a lifetime of encouraging a child’s bothhandedness in exactly equal measure result in perfect symmetry and, more importantly, if the
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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week. THE A-TEAM (PG-13) “The A-Team” may hail from one of TV’s cheesier eras, but the only way the movie could work is with respect for the material. Otherwise, the soufflé would deflate into unsuccessful parody à la “The Dukes of Hazzard” movie. Carnahan and his screenwriter pals, actor Brian Bloom and Skip Woods, walk the line perfectly. The A-Team is sublimely ridiculous. But that’s why they’re the A-Team. THE BIRDS (NR) 1963. On a list of my 10 favorite Hitchcock films, this thriller about psychotic feathered killers falls somewhere in the bottom five. Still, this film is terrifying. Part of the Summer Classic Movie Series. CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (PG) Ugh. In this long-unawaited sequel to 2001’s Cats & Dogs, the pets take a timeout from duking it out for domestic dominance to take out a rogue cat, Kitty Galore (v. Bette Midler), bent on conquest. CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG-13) Zac Efron plays a beautiful nutter, who talks to dead people after the deadly car accident that killed his 11-year-old brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan), and almost killed him. Efron is an engaging enough young fellow, even without his trademark singing and dancing, but his career probably would have been benefited more from remaking Footloose than starring in this big screen Hallmark movie. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (NR) 1971. Kubrick received his third Oscar nomination for Best Director and second for Best Picture with this visceral adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ futuristic novel. Malcolm McDowell stars as Alex, “a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.” Thanks to a new government program of “aversion therapy,” Alex finds himself cured of his hooliganism through an experimental form of brainwashing. What used to be an entertaining, intelligent statement about the teenage nihilism facing our society has become nearly prophetic. Part of the Summer Classic Movie Series. DESPICABLE ME (PG) Despicable Me may be no Toy Story 3, but the animated feature is as funny and entertaining as any other kiddie film released this year. Bald Bondian supervillain Gru (v. Eastern European Steve Carell) needs a big score to prove he’s no
over-the-hill baddie after evil new kid on the block, Vector (v. Jason Segel), steals a pyramid. Ever resourceful, Gru plots to steal the moon via shrinkray. To complete his scheme, the evil genius adopts three little girls—Margo (v. Miranda Cosgrove), Edith and Agnes—with whom he falls in fatherly love. This reverse Lemony Snicket (evil dude adopts three orphans) works for its laughs, rarely going for the cheap, kids’ll-laugh-at-anything humor that plagues the majority of animated fare. DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (PG-13) While Dinner for Schmucks is a stupidly funny movie that fulfills its hilarious obligations to the audience, I hope the French film on which it is based had sharper satirical teeth. Nice guy Tim (Paul Rudd) wants to get ahead in business so he agrees to attend a secret monthly dinner, held by his boss (Bruce Greenwood), at which the selfsatisfied businessmen crown the biggest idiot. Tim lucks out when he meets Barry (Steve Carell), an IRS agent that makes dioramas with stuffed mice. I laughed too hard to harshly criticize Austin Powers/Meet the Parents director Jay Roach’s first big screen comedy since 2004. THE EXTRA MAN (R) When eccentric literature professor and failed playwright Henry Harrison (sounds like a role made for Kevin Kline) is not escorting Upper East Side widows to their various events, he is assisting aspiring playwright (and crossdresser) Louis Ives (Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood) to rise in his chosen field. Hopefully, American Splendor directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini can recover from The Nanny Diaries. Based on the novel by Jonathan Ames. FLIPPED (PG) Eighth grader Juli Baker (Madeline Carroll, so very good in Swing Vote) finally gets a shot at Bryce Loski (Callan McAuliffe), the boy she’s liked ever since she saw his blue eyes in elementary school, despite their many differences. She sits in trees and raises chickens; he’s a regular teenage boy. Rob Reiner’s latest directorial effort adapts a work by Wendelin Van Draanen (known for her Sammy Keyes Mysteries). GET LOW (PG-13) Talk about casts. Director Aaron Schneider (an Oscar winner for the short Two Soldiers) convinced two Oscar winners, Robert
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Duvall and Sissy Spacek, and an Oscar nominee, Bill Murray, to grace his feature debut. Felix Bush, a hermit living in the backwoods of 1930s Tennessee (Duvall) throws his own funeral. The festival buzz is huge. Duvall could generate award heat if Murray doesn’t steal his thunder as a funeral parlor owner. GOODBYE SOLO (R) 2008. IranianAmerican filmmaker (and North Carolina native) Ramin Bahrani’s third feature (after Man Push Cart and Chop Shop, for which Bahrani won the Independent Spirit Awards’ Someone to Watch honor) ponders the friendships that can accrue during a
beams, Stark manages to maintain control of his proprietary technology as fears of other iron men become campaign fodder. JONAH HEX (PG-13) Former Civil War veteran Hex, seeks vengeance on the man who murdered his wife and son and left him badly scarred, Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich). The U.S. government wants Turnbull stopped before he can use Eli Whitney’s weapon of mass destruction to wreck the 100th birthday of these here United States. How will Hex and the guv’mint’s marriage of convenience end? The entertaining story cooked up by Crank’s
SPLOST passed! taxi ride. Senegalese cab driver Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane) and grizzled old southerner William (Red West) bond on the roads of Winston-Salem, NC and beyond. GROWN UPS (PG-13) Five old pals get together after their childhood basketball coach’s funeral. Inoffensive enough for easily amused families, the jokes in Grown Ups are primarily 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 TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (PG) How to Train Your Dragon is a terrific computer-generated animated feature, and the first I recommend you should watch in 3D. As great as it is for families (if I had a kid, I would rush out to see it with him/her), Dragon left me breathless at the animation and kind of bored with the familiar story and tired pop culture jokes. INCEPTION (PG-13) Mysterious thief Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a mastermind at stealing from your mind. He and his team will forge your dreamscape, infiltrate it and extract whatever valuable secrets you are trying to hide. A perfect summer blockbuster that is also an Oscar contender (for set design and cinematography), the thrillingly original Inception is the cinematic equivalent of an intelligent, bestselling beach-read, well written enough to aspire higher but entertaining enough for mass appeal. IRON MAN II (PG-13) Iron Man’s second mission picks up right after his last. Tony Stark, having outed himself as the armor-clad superhero, must do battle against a new foe: government bureaucracy. Facing down a congressional committee chaired by a particularly snide Senator played by Garry Shandling with rapid-fire wit as opposed to his trademark repulsor
Neveldine and Taylor is undone by the generic backstory with which they saddle Hex. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (R) See Movie Pick. KILLERS (PG-13) Yay. A Mr. & Mrs. Smith knockoff starring Katherine Heigl (I wonder how unappealing she will be this time) and Ashton Kutcher is just what I wanted to kick off the movie month of June. Heigl’s suburban wife, Jen, discovers her hubby, Spencer (Kutcher), is an assassin, and he is worth millions to some fellow assassins that have been trailing the couple since they met. Director Robert Luketic runs hot (Legally Blonde, 21) and cold (Monster-in-Law, The Ugly Truth). This flick sounds frozen. KNIGHT AND DAY (PG-13) Ten years ago, Knight and Day would have ruled the summer roost. But in 2010, Tom 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. MARMADUKE (PG) So the comic strip canine becomes a live-action movie, and Owen Wilson voices the teenaged Great Dane. I am sure the kiddies will eat this up just as greedily as they did both Alvin and the Chipmunks movies. Lee Pace (“Pushing Daisies”) and Judy Greer star as Marmaduke’s human owners, while a slew of familiar actors—Emma Stone, Ron Perlman, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jeremy Piven, Steve Coogan, Fergie, George Lopez—give voice to the animal kingdom. Directed by Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon, Failure to Launch). MICMACS (R) In Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s first film since 2004’s A Very Long Engagement, the quirky French auteur seems to be returning to the stranger fare of his popular team-ups with Marc Caro. Bazil (Dany Boon), recently recovered from a bullet to the brain, and a group of junk dealers plot vengeful destruction on two major arms
manufacturers. I am excited about seeing a new eccentric vision from Jeunet. Nominated for three Césars (not surprisingly Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and Best Sound). MID-AUGUST LUNCH (NR) Gianni Di Gregorio, one of Gomorrah’s six screenwriters, makes his directorial debut with this award winning dramedy. Gianni (Di Gregorio), barely surviving Roman life with his demanding mother, must keep four Italian mamas happy and well-fed during Italy’s biggest summer holiday. Winner of three awards from the Venice Film Festival, a David (for Best New Director) and the London Film Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award. l MIDDLE MEN (R) Ever wonder how the Internet got filled with pornography? Wonder no more. In 1995, businessman Jack Harris (Luke Wilson) partnered with two guys (Giovanni Ribisi and The Spirit’s Gabriel Macht) to sell adult entertainment over the fledgling World Wide Web. Director George Gallo (he wrote Midnight Run and directed Trapped in Paradise) is sketchy; his cast of familiars—including James Caan, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Pollak, Christopher Macdonald, Robert Forster and Martin “John Kreese” Kove—is better. THE OTHER GUYS (PG-13) Will Ferrell reteams with writer-director Adam McKay for the fourth time (Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Step Brothers). Ferrell stars as half of an ill-matched buddy cop duo with Mark Wahlberg. Hoitz and Gamble (Wahlberg and Ferrell) finally get the chance to act like the city’s top cops they idolize, Highsmith and Danson (Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson). With loads of familiar faces, including Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes, Paris Hilton, Anne Heche and Steve Coogan. RAMONA AND BEEZUS (G) Beverly Cleary’s classic kid, Ramona, comes to the big screen. Ramona Quimby (Joey King) is a grade-schooler that gets in a lot of trouble. Beezus (Selena Gomez) is her older sister, Beatrice. John Corbett and Bridget Moynahan play the Quimby parents, Bob and Dorothy, and Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Duhamel as Aunt Bea and Uncle Hobart. Sandra Oh is Mrs. Meacham. These names will mean something to anyone that grew up reading these terrific books. I am more than a little bit excited about this movie. SALT (PG-13) Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA operative until the day she is fingered as a mole by a Russian defector. On the run, she must save her hubby, clear her name, and avert nuclear war, pretty much in that order. A satisfactory spy thriller unburdened by topical sensitivity, Salt may have fared better as a fall or winter release. The summer release date makes the movie come off a bit cocky. Guessing whether or not Salt is actually a Russian sleeper is fun for a while (though spotting the climactic reveal is pretty easy), and director Phillip Noyce (a Jack Ryan vet) keeps his camera steady during most of the action. Also, who casts Andre Braugher and then only gives him one line of dialogue? SEVEN SAMURAI (NR) 1954. In 16th-century Japan, a band of samurai warriors (including Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune) protect a village from an army of bandits. The most famous of Kurosawa’s revered filmography, Seven Samurai inspired The Magnificent
Seven, Stephen King’s The Wolves of the Calla and so much more. SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) The first two Shreks were highly entertaining and richly creative way back in 2001. In 2010, this fourth and supposedly final chapter is really tired. THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE (PG) Disney hips up its seminal Fantasia sketch with Nic Cage as a curiously coiffed wizard backed up by his National Treasure director, Jon Turteltaub. A master sorcerer, Balthazar Blake (Cage), recruits a regular dude, Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel, How to Train Your Dragon), to help him defeat his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina). STEP UP (3D) (PG-13) The Step Up crew returns, and that might not be a wholly terrible thing. I enjoyed the first two dance movies. In the third, comic relief Moose (Adam G. Sevani) gets left in Paris after an international dance competition. Of course, he enters the underground street scene just in time for their contest, for which he enlists some of his stateside pals. 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 2, Monster’s Inc. and Finding Nemo. In 3D and IMAX 3D. TWELVE (NR) A young drug dealer, White Mike (Chace Crawford, “Gossip Girl”), collapses after his cousin is murdered, and his best friend is accused of the crime. The cast, including Emma Roberts, Ellen Barkin, 50 Cent and Rory Culkin, only partly inspires confidence. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG-13) 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 stronger than older vamps). But the Cullens—that’s Edward’s vampire family—and Jacob’s wolf pack totally put aside their differences to protect Bella. VALHALLA RISING (R) A film from Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, director of the acclaimed Pusher trilogy, Valhalla Rising follows the journey of mystery man One-Eye (Danish hulk Mads Mikkelsen) who transforms from a slave to a warrior in search of redemption. One-Eye, a Norse mute with (spoiler alert) one eye, discovers that his vision dramatically improves in his sleep; he can dream the future. Long imprisoned and routinely pitted against other captive criminals in Gladiator-esque death matches, One-Eye finds his escape in a dream and boards a Viking vessel into the unknown with the Christian Crusade, accompanied by a slave boy, Are (Maarten Stevenson). The big-budget Danish film premiered in 2009 at the Venice Film Festival and was filmed in Scotland. WINTER’S BONE (R) The people living in the Ozark Mountains can be as cold and hard as the land itself. Ree knows this firsthand. The teen is responsible for raising her younger brother and sister on her own; mom’s crazy and dad’s a meth-cooking noshow. When her father, Jessup, puts their house up as bond and does not show for his court date, Ree has to find him before they are evicted. Drew Wheeler
movie pick My Two Moms THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (R) Middle-aged lesbian couple Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) kind of have a midlife crisis when their two kids, Joni (Mia Wasikowska, Alice in Wonderland) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson), meet their biological father, hip Paul (Mark Ruffalo). The last thing
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore this old married couple wants to do is share their kids with their sperm donor, especially with Joni leaving for college at the end of the summer. But the moms do it, for their kids, and while Nic and Jules might not foresee the consequences, the audience will. Despite the groovy family dynamic, The Kids Are All Right gets a little lazy dramatically. Filmmaker Lisa Chodolenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) and her cowriter, Stuart Blumberg (Keeping the Faith and The Girl Next
Door, both underrated), set up such a cool, atypical sitcom premise that it is hard not to notice the subterranean normalcy of their complications. Uptight, controlling Nic cannot handle someone interloping in her family. Good times Jules makes a bad, bad decision. Perfect child Joni starts acting out. And fairly ordinary teen Laser stays pretty grounded (he actually makes the best life decision of the bunch)—all thanks to Paul. The dramedy might be a bit pedestrian (slam a couple of TV actresses in the main roles and LOGO’s got a weekly half-hour program), but the performances by big-time actors sell it. A perfect couple, Bening and Moore elevate the material. The same goes for Ruffalo. I have seen Wasikowska in three films (Defiance, That Evening Sun and Alice) and have yet to warm to her. Hutcherson, who has grown up a lot since Zathura, is always noteworthy; too bad the plot does not require Laser’s full participation. But maybe family-business-as-usual is the point. Why should the drama faced by two lesbians raising teenagers be any different from that faced by your “standard” sitcom crew of put-together mom, doofy dad and two kids— one smart, one wiseacre—so long as the acting and filmmaking are top-notch?
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film notebook threats & promises News of Athens’ Cinema Scene It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling: Out in sunny Santa Barbara for some sweet nuptials a week ago, I hustled Mrs. Film Notebook into the historic Arlington Theatre to check out what I figured would be a deluxe interior. Was I right: a grandly arched and tile-covered courtyard leads to the ornate lobby, which in turn gives way to the 2000-seat auditorium, built in 1931 to resemble a Spanish Colonial town plaza, with quaintly realistic two-story “villas” built out from the side walls and gently twinkling stars on the ceiling. I’d hoped to see a movie there, but when The Last Airbender was replaced on the marquee by Salt, I gave up that dream. We ducked in between screen-
of months. In the meantime, the downtown arthouse’s Summer Classic Movies Series has been picking up steam, with big crowds reported for To Kill a Mockingbird (Seven Samurai opened this past weekend and will play through Thursday, Aug. 5). Next up is Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, which will be introduced at its Friday night premiere by UGA professor of English and Franklin College senior associate dean Hugh Ruppersburg. Not nearly so auspicious is the twerp who’ll introduce A Clockwork Orange the following week: having heeded a perfectly innocent suggestion in these pages that Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 family comedy might make a fine entry
Music News And Gossip OK, folks, this week let’s not talk about the weather. For that matter, let’s not talk about the government. Summer is beating down hard on all of us, so let’s wipe away the sweat and start reading this week’s news below…
fare for the group and features fairly clear and even uplifting tunefulness, for free over at www.deadconfederate.com. For a full list of dates and other info, please see www.myspace.com/deadconfederate.
Jive Talkin’: Those spot-on jokers The ShutUps will release a new album on Saturday, Aug. 28 at the Caledonia Lounge. Titled Imaginary Dancer, the record is a song-by-song response to the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever. Let it never be said that The Shut-Ups ever took the easy road or were finding their world lacking in material to lampoon. Sharing the bill Aug. 28 are Magic Missile and Spirit Hair, who are also releasing albums that night. Three tracks (“Ugly Man,” “It’s the Law” and “Good Music”) from Imaginary Dancer are available for streaming over at www.myspace. com/shutups.
Now or Later: The Half Dozen Brass Band won’t officially release its debut album Easy Street until Sept. 16, when the band plays the Melting Point, but the record is already manufactured and ready to go, so the band started selling it early. The 10-track album of New Orleans-style jazz is available via digital download or physical CD over at www.cdbaby. com/cd/halfdozenbrass. For continuing coverage of what the Half Dozen Brass Band is up to, please see www.halfdozenbrassband.com.
The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: Athens band Futurebirds released its new album, Hampton’s Lullaby, last week via Autumn Tone Records. The band draws from 1970s
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Download, Don’t Think: Maps and Transit, a duo populated by Kyle Dawkins and Julie Phillips, has its track “Sacred Harp” featured on the new compilation Hope’s Not Lost from Montreal’s Camomille Music. The pair’s track has almost a full minute of silence and nearsilence before it begins with Dawkins’ (who has a couple of solo albums of his own and is a member of the Georgia Guitar Quartet)
Reunion: Steve Fitzpatrick (Unus Mundus) is currently promising a one-time reunion show of Radio: Tahiti, the band he carried tirelessly through the 1990s with co-member John Lester (Distaster), sometime in the next year. So, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for that one.
Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange will screen at Ciné as part of the Summer Classic Movies Series. ings—it’s an awkward request to make of a ticket-taker, but one that’s well worth the passing embarrassment for the pleasure of seeing a living piece of film history. I highly recommend, when visiting a city, finding its old movie houses, if it has any, and drinking in their atmosphere. You do it with churches, right? Also recommended—absolutely without reserve—is the actual movie we saw in SB, Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, which opened here last weekend at Beechwood. I’m not making any lists yet, but it’s almost certainly the best American film I’ve seen this year (though, to be fair, I still haven’t seen Hot Tub Time Machine). Cholodenko first made waves in 1998 with High Art—a film about gay women which at that time was barely spoken of in any other terms—and basically hasn’t been heard from since 2002’s Laurel Canyon. Her new film also hinges on a lesbian relationship, and the ease and comfort with which its “alternative” family situation is presented very nearly makes me optimistic about our cultural moment. Aside from that, it’s an insightfully and intelligently written, beautifully acted, funny and heartbreaking movie that you should all go and see. And in case its engagement at Beechwood proves to be fleeting, I’m led to believe that it will probably come to Ciné for a second local run. But It’s Oh, So Nice to Come Home: If anyone was wondering about the status of Ciné’s application for 501(c)3 nonprofit status, it’s still pending, according to executive director Brigitta Hangartner, and we probably won’t hear anything for at least another couple
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in the series, the folks at Ciné have made the potentially tragic mistake of inviting me to address the audience prior to its Friday, Aug. 13 evening screening. You’ve been warned, but check www.athenscine.com if you want to know more. Home Video Alert: Rain, the fine film coproduced by Athens’ own Pamela Kohn and Nate Kohn which made some pretty good noise on the festival circuit last year, has now been released on DVD. You can rent it at Vision Video or, if you really want to show the love, buy it from Amazon. If it does well in its initial video release it should get picked up for wider distribution, which would be cool. Do your part. The Rest: If The Birds isn’t schlocky enough for you—and why would it be?—Ciné has you covered with a special late-night Aug. 6 screening of James Nguyen’s reputedly sublimely awful quasi-tribute Birdemic: Shock and Terror. According to the film’s not uncharmingly amateurish website, “there is a cameo by Ms. Tippi Hedren.” So, there’s that… The ACC Library keeps bringing the free movies with its long-running iFilms series, Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. in the library auditorium at 2025 Baxter St. On tap for Aug. 5 is Ramin Bahrani’s moving drama Goodbye Solo, one of my favorite films of last year. Aug. 12 brings Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox, Sara Lamm’s 2006 documentary about the endlessly intriguing—and useful!—multi-purpose peppermint soap. Go to www.clarke.public.lib. ga.us for even more information. Dave Marr film@flagpole.com
Futurebirds guitar and Phillips’ xylophone. And it’s shockingly gorgeous. Actually, the entire comp is beautiful and thought-provoking, and if there’s any record (OK, download) that’s necessary this week, it’s this one. For more information, please see www.mapsandtransit.com and to download the music and cover art head to www.camomillemusic.com. Keepin’ On: Dead Confederate’s new album, Sugar, will be out Aug. 24, and the band is heads-down on the touring circuit playing an incredible number of shows. They’re booked solid nationwide until October, with only a couple of weeks of breathing space that whole time. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, there’s no denying they’re putting the work in. You can sample the new record by downloading the track “Giving It All Away,” which is much lighter
Southern rock and country as well as old-time, bluegrass, classic country, big noisy guitar effects and even a little surf music. The result is kind of boring and generic (ed. note: Not everyone at Flagpole feels that way. Check out our review of the record at www.flagpole. com) and, when matched with the group’s schizophrenic use of hyper-colorful and trendy graphic design as well as its ridiculous employment of pseudonyms, is pretty much evidence of a band that has no idea what it wants to be. None of this, however, has affected the group’s popularity, which is on the rise and taking them around the country with the aforementioned Dead Confederate. For song samples, news and other nifty bits, please see www.futurebirdsmusic.com. Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com
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one has invented a time machine yet, but at least someone came up with the VHS, that monolith of dated media we can use to transport ourselves back to that beautiful bygone era of neon and Lycra. Lucky, too, that the seven-person collective Everything Is Terrible is committed to parsing the bottom of the garage-sale barrel and carefully mutating their findings to emphasize the absurdity. Mostly, they put together few-minute clips for online consumption, but the low cultural historians are touring on their second full-length video collage, 2Everything2TerribleII: Tokyo Drift, an apocalyptic narrative culled from the darkest corners of the VHS realm. The EIT crew won’t reveal where it finds its source material—though thrift stores and eBay are both good guesses—but the footage comes from the best of made-for-TV mediocrity, clumsy anti-drug PSAs and church basement nonsense. And each of the seven folks involved in the collective has a personal style. One likes crude sexual jokes, while another likes technological illiteracy. One prefers infomercials, while another usually goes for instructional videos. “My thing is, I’ll take terrible movies and pull out the most ridiculous parts,” says Lehr The Intern Thing, the lowest on the EIT totem pole, whose intern duties include driving while on tour and doing phone interviews with altweeklies. “I condense it down so it’s still telling the story, but without all that exposition and feeling and all that crap.” With a grueling pace, 2E2TII: TD highlights the best parts of the ‘80s and ‘90s: the baggy, bright clothes, the fundamental struggles with nascent technology, bad costumes and worse CGI. There are some familiar faces, too, like Collision Course star Jay Leno, Ellen Page downloading a ghost, and the rich and stylish Duane. “We had to make Duane the protagonist,” LTIT says. Though the YouTube videos EIT makes are mostly solo projects, this film was a group effort, with each of the contributors dedicating all of his free time to the project, which involved mashing up hundreds of hours of
footage the crew has accumulated into an epic, end-of-the-world story. EIT watches each VHS it finds all the way through at least twice before beginning to edit it down, and it uses footage from all over. Still, some things are off limits. “If we know we have a nostalgic connection to something, it’s almost like we can’t make fun of it because we’re too attached to it,” LTIT says. “Your own history with a movie can preclude you from actually making fun of it to its fullest potential.” For LTIT, it’s The Neverending Story. “That thing is not only terrible, but it’s frightening,” he says. “It’s hard for me to make fun of a dog that I’m still having nightmares about at the age of 27.” Of course, oversized flying mutts and children’s fantasy sagas notwithstanding, there’s still plenty to choose from. LTIT says that while the ‘80s and ‘90s definitely have a charm all their own, it’s mostly just our distance from them that makes them so ripe for parody. “There’s definitely something unique about that era, but you can find terrible in any era,” he says. “We’re making 3D movies in 2010, for God’s sake. Haven’t we learned our lesson?” While EIT’s editing brings out the worst in the already bad, LTIT maintains it’s not meanspirited. They even heard from the cat massage lady, who was excited to see her labor of love being consumed by a larger audience. But not everyone is so happy about having their work torn to shreds. “For every person like [the cat massage lady], you get a person who doesn’t understand, who takes himself more seriously than he should,” LTIT says. “You just have to take it in stride. Not everybody thinks everything is terrible, even though they should.”
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The festival—which will assemble the likes of classiPocketful of Claptonite cal genius Andrea Centazzo, avant-garde percussionist and mastermind of the improvisational opera I, Norton (more on this later) Gino Robair, vocal layering sorceress Karst, and tribal blues-wailers Them Natives, just to name a few— is all in celebration of The Improvisor magazine’s 30th anniversary. Flagpole spoke with Killick about the future of this seminal publication, his own Appalachian trance-metal trio Pocketful of Claptonite (also scheduled to perform) and what might be in store for those curious and brave enough to attend this one-of-a-kind showcase. “I think on some level it’s considered that this’ll be like the last hurrah,” the softspoken Killick begins, “a kind of going out with a bang. The by 7:30 p.m. with their instruments or dance shoes or paintmagazine hasn’t been in a print edition for many years now. brush or whatever their media might be. No surprises.” It’s been an online presence, and it’ll continue to be there as As Killick reflects on the Athens program, he offers this archives, and this is definitely like a huge celebration showing final word on The Improvisor’s influence on his own develophow far things have come in 30 years. ment. “It started as a Xeroxed ‘zine’ I’m responsible for the programming for 30 years ago and then became like a the Atlanta and Athens nights.” legitimate magazine. All the things that While most people immediately The Improvisor was hoping to do have think of jazz when they hear the word actually come to fruition. It’s really easy Monday, Aug. 9 “improvisation,” The Improvisor worked for people to network now, and if you’re Andrea Centazzo to establish improvisation as a genre a traveling musician it’s so easy to just Pocketful of Claptonite unto itself. “Improvisation is as broad poke around on Facebook. Everything’s Jilly Burton/Claire Barratt as anybody’s specific approach to it,” just completely different now. The Gino Robair Killick explains. “It effectively means impulse is still the same. People want to Chris Cochrane being in the moment and working from communicate, and it’s about sharing and Skryxl your own experience and proclivities and exploring and that really amazing energy Them Natives just always being adaptive and flexible. exchange that takes place between the Cedro Danado There’s not really any stylistic or genreperformers and the audience. It’s really Karst specific approach that is highlighted wonderful. It can’t be qualified. It’s Pony Payroll Bones over any other.” more than the sum of its parts. LaDonna On the experience of booking shows [Smith] and Davy Williams were the two Tuesday, Aug. 10 and finding an audience for what is main founders of the magazine. They I, Norton: An Opera in Real Time often perceived as challenging and even knew intuitively that something needed unfriendly music, “the difficulty,” he to happen to get the word out, to let all notes, “is that there’s not much culthe improvising musicians of the world tural reinforcement. If you’re playing rock music, or whatever know that they weren’t alone—that what you’re doing is not popular form, it’s going to be reinforced all the time in the TV crazy, and it’s not anything to be embarrassed by. Because I shows you watch, and the movies, and people talking about think there’s a lot of people in the far corners of the world just it, whereas with improvised music, a lot of things have to line doing this little thing and saying, ‘I wonder if anybody else up for someone to be discovered. Audiences in the South tend feels like this or does this,’ but it turns out, they do.” to be very supportive and very enthusiastic, but that kind of heavy-handed reinforcement doesn’t really happen. I keep my David Fitzgerald email list to a minimum, and it’s not in a desire for obscurity; it’s just that, I don’t want to bother anybody [laughs].” While the first night will be structured like a traditional WHAT: The Improvisor Festival concert, with nine musical acts and one dance performance, WHERE: Ciné the second night of this event will be a production of the WHEN: Monday, Aug. 9, 8:00 p.m. & aforementioned improvisational opera I, Norton, a creative, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m. collaborative piece based around the life of a San Francisco HOW MUCH: $6 native who unilaterally declared himself Emperor of the United States in the 1800s. “It’s very flexible,” Killick says. “It can
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Tuesday 3 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net 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. 706-546-0015
Wednesday 4 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (vaccinated) dog! This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5–7 p.m. www.athensdowntownhotel.com EVENTS: The People’s Law School (ACC Library) A weekly forum to inform citizens about legal issues people face daily, including divorce, child custody, wills, criminal law and auto insurance. Wednesdays in Aug., 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-549-6111 ART: 6X6: “Disaster” (Ciné Barcafé) Artist and curator Lauren Fancher presents the final 6X6 media arts events featuring video, sound and performance art. In the Ciné Lab. 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.headic.blogspot.com PERFORMANCE: Chris Patton (New Earth Music Hall) Local comedian will do a short, opening standup set before the hard rocking benefit show. Socioconcious Awakening/ Gulf Benefit Show. 9 p.m. $6. www. newearthmusichall.com
KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Read a book together and talk about it. Wednesdays. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 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 KIDSTUFF: Ready Readers Read-A-Thon (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Catch up on that reading list you ignored all summer! Bring your books and a lunch and participate in educational games, crafts and reading time. For ages 6–12. 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $5. 706-613-3602 LECTURES & LIT.: Word of Mouth (The Globe) Monthly open poetry readings every first Wednesday. Amy Neese is this month’s featured reader. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenswordofmouth.com MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended crochet needles. Newcomers welcome. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 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, 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) Sponsored by Vision Video and Flicker. Prizes! Every Wednesday. Trivia starts at 9 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 (Harry’s Pig Shop) Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9219 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) Open your pie-hole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday at all three locations. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com
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Drawings by Ainhoa Bilbao Canup are on display at Five Star Day Café through August.
EVENTS: Everything Is Terrible! Tour (Ciné Barcafé) From the website that consistently brings you found-footage masterpieces comes a full-length film, 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift. 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. $10. www.everythingisterrible.com EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Various Locations) Danny Sniff leads a walking tour of the Navy Supply Corps School. The 1860 campus is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Space is limited; call to reserve spot. 7 p.m. $15. 706-353-1801, www. achfonline.org 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 THEATRE: The Lion in Winter (Athens Community Theatre) The Town & Gown Players present James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter as their final show of the 2009-2010 season. Aging King Henry and his queen Eleanor engage in an icy battle of wits as they endure a particularly uncomfortable Christmas in this famed historical-fiction family drama. Aug. 5–7, 8 p.m. Aug. 8, 2 p.m. $12–$15. 706-208-8696, www. townandgownplayers.org KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–4 read aloud to an aid dog. Trainer always present. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650
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 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) 7:30–9:30 p.m. 706-354-1515
Friday 6 EVENTS: Courteous Mass (Athens City Hall) BikeAthens’ monthly, casual-pace bike ride around town is a reminder that roads are meant for sharing. Bring a helmet and water. 6 p.m. FREE! www.bikeathens.com. EVENTS: First Fridays at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This month, Pam Butts,
the Conservatory and Herb Garden Curator, shares her research about Dr. Lindsey Durham, a pre-Civil War physician who followed the Eclectic school of medicine and used herbal remedies. 9–10:00 a.m. $10. www. uga.edu/botgarden THEATRE: The Lion in Winter (Athens Community Theatre) A Town and Gown Players production. See Calendar Aug. 5 Theatre. Aug. 5–7, 8 p.m. Aug. 8, 2 p.m. $12–$15. 706-208-8696, www.townandgownplayers.org MEETINGS: Athens Mommies Group (Chick Fil A, Barnett Shoals) Consider joining this social group for mothers. Families welcome. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! athensmommies@yahoo.com k continued on next page
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THE CALENDAR! MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Informal, inclusive and progressive social group that gives left-leaning individuals a chance to talk politics. First and third Fridays of every month. 6:30 p.m. athens@drinkingliberally.org 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. FREE! 706-354-7829
Saturday 7 EVENTS: Adoption Day (Pet Supplies Plus) Local animal rescue organizations bring their pups out for a chance at finding a home. Love connections made every Saturday! 11 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-353-0650 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: Folklife Festival and Pottery Sale (Sautee Nacoochee Center, Helen) Celebrate Appalachia and the traditional music, crafts and cooking which, along with the mountains, give shape to this unique region. Check out work by over a dozen potters, craft demonstrations from woodworkers, flintknappers, blacksmiths and more, and performances by 1850s period reenactors and string band Curley Maple. 8 p.m. FREE! (festival admission) $20 (concert). www.snca.org EVENTS: Garden and Weed Walk (Brick House Studio, Crawford) Herbalist Holli Richey shares her tips for identifying edible and medicinal plants, both native and naturalized. Walk culminates in a gourmet vegan lunch. Register online. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $35. www.hollirichey.com EVENTS: Maternity and Baby Fair (The Classic Center) Featuring educational sessions, children’s activities, retailers selling products, exhibitors, a silent auction and more. 9 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www. maternityandbabyfair.com 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 ART: Opening Reception (Flicker Theatre & Bar) For “Modular,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Lucas Jenson which examine the
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“accidental geometry” created from the intermingling of shapes and patterns in nature. 7 p.m. FREE! www. myspace.com/flickerbar THEATRE: The Lion in Winter (Athens Community Theatre) A Town and Gown Players production. See Calendar Aug. 5 Theatre. OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. Call to register. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: End of the Summer Party (ACC Library) Party down with your fellow Summer Reading Program participants. Wear your special t-shirt as your ticket in! You know the one. 12 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Tikes & Trikes on the Greenway (Greenway) Enjoy a quick spin down the lush summer Greenway. Scooters, tricycles and bikes welcome. For ages 2–6 with a parent. Call to register. 10–11:30 a.m. $2. 706-613-3615 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. FREE! 706-354-7829
Sunday 8 THEATRE: The Lion in Winter (Athens Community Theatre) A Town and Gown Players production. See Calendar Aug. 5 Theatre. KIDSTUFF: Open House (Studio Dance Academy, 1100 Jennings Mill Pkwy.) Meet the teachers and take a tour of the dance studio. Shoes and dancewear will be available for fittings and purchase. 1–5 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6454, www.studiodanceacademy.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: Blind Draw Darts (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Double elimination tournaments. 4 p.m. $5. 706-3547829 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
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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 9 EVENTS: Tango Night (Casa Mia) Dance the night away at this benefit for Project Safe. Featuring performances by tango dancers K. Mason and Christie Moody. 7 p.m. Donations welcome. 706-227-4444, www.casamiatapas.com PERFORMANCE: Jill Burton and Claire Barratt (Ciné Barcafé) Burton is a dancer with extensive training and experience ranging in ballet, modern and ethnic dances. Barratt, also a dancer, focuses on collaboration with live music in an improvisational context. “Improvisor Festival.” 8 p.m. $6. www.athenscine.com KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture language skills. 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 GAMES: 20 Questions (Transmetropolitan) Chris Creech hosts general knowledge trivia. Compete for $10 and $25 gift certificates to Transmet! Every Monday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773 GAMES: Blonde Trivia (Alibi) Marilyn hosts this weekly trivia game. Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 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
Tuesday 10 EVENTS: Active Aging Conference (Council on Aging) Dr. Farris Johnson and Dr. Richard Panico are
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Cadillac Sky, Jon Black New Earth Music Hall Perhaps the greatest (or at least most foolproof) measure of where a band may go is where it has been—and by that logic, big things may be on the horizon for the Texas-based newgrass Cadillac Sky quintet Cadillac Sky. This year has already spawned appearances at festival standbys like MerleFest, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Appalachian Uprising Festival. Coming months hold a coveted slot on the Sailing Southern Ground music cruise (hosted by Zac Brown Band) and a tour with British folkbuzz band Mumford & Sons behind the recently released record Letters in the Deep, produced in Akron, OH by Dan Auerbach of Black Keys fame. “The only way I can think to describe it would be something like if Bill Monroe mixed with Wilco,” says mandolin player Ross Holmes, “[and] I suppose having a bluegrass band produced by one of the biggest names in rock music right now just sort of goes to show that the music is a little bit more outside of the box than standard traditional bluegrass.” Make no mistake, emerging from said box has been a laborious work in progress for Cadillac Sky. Letters, much at Auerbach’s urging, may be the first glimpse of the band truly in its element. “We sat around and [recorded] the songs just like we’d rehearsed them—[sitting] sort of knee to knee in someone’s living room,” says Holmes. “But any other studio recordings we had done, we did in the modern way—ProTools, isolation booths—and there’s been this distance between each member of the band. This was the most natural we’d ever felt recording.” The transformation has followed from studio to stage, where much of Auerbach’s influence may show its longest lasting effects. “With our live show, it’s kind of done a one-eighty from where it started,” says Holmes. “Feeding off the crowd and that energy, it draws a lot more of that dynamic range. So, it’s a trip every time we get to play, because I don’t think any of us knows what’s going to happen.” [Alec Wooden]
the speakers at this year’s conference to celebrate fun and fitness after 50. Register by July 30. 6–8:30 p.m. $25. 706-549-4850 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 EVENTS: Women in Business Forum (Ciné Barcafé) Learn about some of the local women-owned businesses in the Athens area. 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com PERFORMANCE: I, Norton: An Opera in Real TIme (Ciné Barcafé) Gino Robair will conduct his creative opera, I, Norton, a collective improvisational workshop where all community musicians,
dancers, and singers of any skill and experience level are invited to participate. 7:30 p.m. $6. www. athenscine.com KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: 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: 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. 706-546-0015
Wednesday 11 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: Movie Night! (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Nesey Gallons hosts a (surprise) midnight movie. Midnight. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar EVENTS: The People’s Law School (ACC Library) A weekly forum to inform citizens about legal issues, including divorce, child custody, wills, criminal law and auto insurance. Wednesdays in Aug., 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-549-6111
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: Wildcard Wednesday For Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Marble magnets. For ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended crochet needles. Newcomers welcome. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 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, 2080 Timothy Rd.) Every Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237, timothy@depalmasitaliancafe.com GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) 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) Prizes! Every Wednesday. Trivia starts at 9 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 (Harry’s Pig Shop) Nerd wars at Classic City Trivia’s “most challenging trivia night in Athens.” Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9219 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) Open your pie-hole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday at all three locations. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com * Advance Tickets Available
Live Music Tuesday 3 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy! Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com 10TH CONCESSION Alternative rock band from Tampa with accessible melodies. THE WORNOUT WELCOME Blending the punk leanings of The Replacements with the alt-country twang of Whiskeytown. Their debut full-length, Small Town Loser, features a guest performance by John Neff of the Drive-By Truckers. 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.
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. Little Kings Shuffle Club Athens Farmers Market. 4-7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net FABULOUS BIRD Local troubadour Peter Alvanos plays bright, ‘60sinspired pop. (4-5:15 p.m.) WHISPER KISS Local acoustic project featuring multi-instrumentalist Michael Wegner (Abbey Road LIVE!, Fuzzy Sprouts, SunnySide Up Band) and Shelley Olin (DubConscious, Grogus). (5:30–7 p.m.) 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. Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SID HOLMES Debuting acoustic songs about retired serial killers and religious marketing. WUOG 90.5FM 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Hola Halo will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air or drop by the station to watch!
Wednesday 4 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE 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 MANRAY Local foursome that plays high-energy, “off-timed” rock and roll with “threads of improvisation.” SMILEY WITH A KNIFE Gentle, melodic post-rock instrumentals. See Calendar Pick on p. 18. Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 9–11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DECAMERON DUO No info available. Flicker Theatre & Bar 12 a.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar SINGER SONGWRITER SHOWCASE Multiple musicians showcase their talent. This week features Joe Orr, Brett Vaughn, Kayla Cox and Will Chamberlain. Johnny’s New York Style Pizza 7:30–10 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1515 KARAOKE Low-impact karaoke for rising stars. New Earth Music Hall Socioconcious Awakening/Gulf Benefit Show. 9 p.m. $6. www.newearthmusichall.com CIRCLE IN FLIGHT Local metal act inspired by Mastodon.
CLASSIC BASTARDS Light metal about such pressing social issues as “pwning n00bs in Call of Duty” and lovable serial killer Dexter. GUZIK Southern rock meets death metal. OF LEGEND This local hardcore band has changed up its sound, heading in a more experimental, introspective direction informed by acts like Neurosis, Isis and Jesu. No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706–546–4742 THE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS Featuring Chris Steiner of Mayhem String Band. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday with Lynn! Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens FOUR PEOPLE Thick funk anthems and bouncing jam grooves. GREAT DECEIVERS Indie pop rock with vocal harmonies from Orlando. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com SPEAK EASY THREE Alternative music with clever lyrics, catchy melodies and an upbeat groove.
Thursday 5 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 OPEN MIC Hosted by Wes of Dixie Mafia every Thursday. The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com THE AARON THOMPSON BAND Cover band from Atlanta that tackles country, blues, pop and ‘80s hits. Barnette’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0966 KARAOKE Every Thursday. Borders Books & Music 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706–583–8647 THE FRESH WATER MUSSELS Local musicians whose ages cover a span of sixty years blend the music of the mountains and the west with a mix of bluegrass and blues. Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE GOONS New indie-poprock featuring members of The Glands, Casper & the Cookies and Marshmallow Coast. THE INSTRUMENTS Artfully arranged swirling, orchestral rock numbers with unexpected compositional twists and turns. THE STONEBREAKERS New local act playing straight up poppy rock with influences like Elvis Costello and The Who. DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Road) THE SOLSTICE SISTERS Performing a variety of old-time country ballads, ‘40s swing and traditional folk. El Paisano 8 p.m. 706-353-0346 KARAOKE Every Thursday with margarita specials. Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s music borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a
seamless product glistening with inspiration. Tonight’s show will feature Jeff Stipe on drums. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MOTHS Featuring Jacob Morris of Ham1, Moths plays a mostly acoustic sort of ‘70s folk-rock with a pop sensibility and an inevitable psychedelic tinge. SEA OF DOGS Songwriter and banjopicker Emily Armond leads this endearing folk group with disarming honesty, candid lyrics and warm harmonies. TITANS OF FILTH This local band combines droll Southern voices with easy-rolling, efficient and uncomplicated indie-pop rock about the ups and downs of young love. Gnat’s Landing 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock featuring tender violin, aching harmonica and melodic acoustic guitars. Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers, every Thursday. Last Call 10 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com 3 FOOT SWAGGER Local jam rockers who blend high-energy rock with myriad original sounds. BROCK BUTLER Perpetual Groove frontman weaves complex, inspired, loop-based soul jams. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub ALLIGATOR Angular and loose punk rock from St. Augustine. HOT NEW MEXICANS Catchy, boozy punk-influenced power-pop group. Their new, self-titled record is out now! TUBERS Three-piece punk band from St. Augustine heavily influenced by mid-’80s DC bands such as Rites of Spring, Gray Matter and Dag Nasty. WITCHES Edgy, melodic rock led by the rich vocals of Cara Beth Satalino. The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com BRAD DOWNS AND THE POOR BASTARD SOULS Local singersongwriter performs roots rock with his all-star band. JOSH PERKINS EXPERIMENT IN SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY Local songwriter Josh Perkins leads his group through original country, folk and Americana sounds. WILLIAM TONKS Local folk rocker William Tonks performs on guitar and dobro. His earnest delivery recalls the tender vocals of James Taylor. No Where Bar 11 p.m. 706-546-4742 JUNK Keys, bass, and drums trio with an emphasis on jazz fusion and group improvisation. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 OFFICE IDOL KARAOKE CONTEST Every Thursday with The Singing Cowboy. The Rialto Room 8:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! (21+). www. therialtoclub.com ANGELA EASTERLING Tender, intelligent country with a folk heart, backed by swooning mandolin, dobro, pedal steel and fiddle. k continued on next page
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THE CALENDAR! Roadhouse 11 p.m. $1. 706-613-2324 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS Old school funk, classic rock and pop covers and originals. Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens KNOCK KNOCK DANCE PARTY With Wonky Kong. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com FOUR PEOPLE THE BAND Jam band playing thick funk anthems.
Friday 6 283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706–208–1283 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up highenergy electro and rock. 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $6. www.40watt.com BLAIR CRIMMINS & THE HOOKERS Songs jump with a 1920s gaudiness reminiscent of tawdry, dangerous jazz with devilish lyrics. There’s jangling banjo, a lively horn section and relentless energy. JASON CHILDS BAND Singer/ songwriter and pianist from Atlanta influenced by blues, jazz and rock. KEN WILL MORTON BAND Bluesy rock and roll with a hint of Americana and pop is Morton’s speciality. Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 DALTON GANG Blend of country and Southern rock. The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com THE BRANDON PERRY BAND Featuring Atlanta-based songwriter Brandon Perry who draws from pop, acoustic rock, country and reggae. 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! Boar’s Head 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 BRENNAN JOHNSON Local singersongwriter with heartfelt tunes influenced by Bob Dylan. Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com DARE DUKES AND THE BLACKSTOCK COLLECTION Acoustic folk singer-songwriter from Savannah. THE GINGER ENVELOPE Slowrolling countryish pop marked by breezy melodies. KAITLIN JONES AND THE COUNTY FAIR Local folk guitarist/ vocalist Kaitlin Jones’ five-piece electric band performs a set of Americana-tinged country originals.
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blues-influenced rock punctuated by dueling trumpets. NIGHTINGALE NEWS The musical vehicle of local songwriter Coy King (formerly of Sleepy Horses), playing tender, rootsy acoustic ballads. TUMBLEWEED STAMPEDE Adventurous and energetic dancejam-folk sextet play party music with folksy and surf touches. Gnat’s Landing 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style. Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. Last Call 11 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com DJ DECEPTICRON Mixing today’s hottest house, electro and club hits. The Melting Point 9 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com AMAZING RHYTHM ACES Grammy award winning American roots band incoporating touches of country, blues, R&B, folk and Latin music. New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10. www.newearthmusichall.com JON BLACK Birmingham singer/ songwriter whose charismatic, warm vocals would feel at home tucked in your record collection between Ryan Adams and Wilco. CADILLAC SKY The next generation of bluegrass music. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Karaoke with Lynn! Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens THE BLOODTHIRSTY HIPPIES No info available. Sideways 10 p.m. 706–319–1919 DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original mixes of mainly current pop with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com TROPICAL BREEZE This local band plays spicy, tropical tunes featuring steel drum and drawing from jazz, reggae and salsa influences.
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Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE DARNELL BOYS Brothers Austin and Caleb Darnell are joined by brother Gus for a set of raw blues numbers. TOY SOLDIERS No info available.
40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com CHRIS HURT Best known for his collaboration with Colt Ford. Tonight, Hurt celebrates the release of his new album, featuring country rock songs led by his narrative lyrics. DANIEL LEE BAND Four Georiga boys churning out country and Southern rock. RADIOLUCENT Local band falling somewhere between bluesy Southern rock and the poppier side of alt-country.
Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar DUSTY LIGHTSWITCH Quirky, high-energy local band featuring
Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!
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The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com THE SCOTT LITTLE BAND Country rock full of Southern pride. Bailey’s American Tavern 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-7591 JOHN KEANE AND NATHAN SHEPPARD DUO Rock and Americana numbers. Bishop Park 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Athens Farmers Market. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net MIKE EUDY The Heathens’ vocalist plays a solo set of his unique brand of Southern alternative rock. KATE MORRISSEY Best known throughout this corridor for her dark velvet voice that stands on its own, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere. (10 a.m.). Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HEAVY PETTY Former members of Masters of the Hemisphere and The Possibilities rock through the back catalog of Tom Petty. POWERLOAD AC/DC tribute band. Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Local experimental pop band that belts out raucous, psychedelic tunes. ICE CREAM SOCIALISTS The beloved, quirky pop band is back for a special reunion show! JANE JANE POLLOCK No info available. 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. BRIAN CONNELL Local musician whose original songs are in the classic spirit of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. PETE ERCHICK Local musician known for playing in Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t, Olivia Tremor Control, The Instruments and Circulatory System. Front Porch Bookstore 6–7 p.m. FREE! 706–372–1236 GREEN FLAG BAND Celtic and Irish music. The Globe 9–11 p.m. 706–353–4721 KATE MORRISSEY Best known throughout this corridor for her dark velvet voice that stands on its own, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor. Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and a rotating cast spin late-night glam rock, new wave, punk and Britpop. Last Call 10 p.m. www.lastcallathens.com DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original mixes of mainly current pop with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica. The Melting Point “Rockers for Knockers Benefit.” 8:30 p.m. $10. www.meltingpointathens. com COUNTY LINE Classic rock, Southern rock and country from Loganville, GA.
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Smiley with a Knife, Manray Caledonia Lounge Spend a half hour with New Orleans-based instrumental rock quartet Smiley with a Knife and you’ll still be hard-pressed to clearly articulate even a first impression. And those are generally easy to rush to, stumble into or arrive at lazily. 2008’s self-released How a Reign Comes to an End (clocking in at 34 minutes and 38 seconds) introduced a band that finds itself at home riding a progressive and jammy undercurrent but unafraid to wander the neighborhood on occasion—sometimes sleepwalking with a Smiley with a Knife smile (see “And There Was a Pig Involved”), sometimes vandalizing with a similar grin (see “Heads Will Roll”). Flagpole caught up with guitarist Patrick Bailey before the band set off on summer tour. The obvious question comes first: Has Smiley with a Knife always been an instrumental band or did it simply have an impossible time finding a lead singer? “When we started out—before our current drummer Jared [Marcell], we were not instrumental, but we kind of went on hiatus after Katrina and then reformed, consciously, as an instrumental band.” Can all the genre-hopping and shape-shifting showcased throughout Reign be attributed to the band having to satisfy the disparate influences and personalities of the players? “Oh, definitely—we’re schizophrenic people,” says Bailey with a chuckle. “It comes out in our music. We definitely don’t want to be boring.” Blade imagery abounds. There’s the macabre moniker and the song titles…Naturally, someone in the band is a fan of Showtime’s forensic expert/ serial killer Dexter—a knife enthusiast—right? “Our drummer is obsessed with it. He thinks he’s Dexter, without the serial killing aspect,” admits Bailey. “His girlfriend is scared how similar they are, personality-wise.” This will be the band’s first time in Athens. Expect material from its forthcoming (and as of press time unavailable) full-length, Long Now, available on iTunes and BandCamp Aug. 21. [David Eduardo]
New Earth Music Hall 7:30 p.m. $3 (w/ donated school supplies), $5. www.newearthmusichall. com THE PRELUDE Featuring performances by The Swank, Richelle L. Brown, Jermiside, Mic Audio, Molly B., Nobody Famous, The Dolldaze, Giovonni Pratt, Qurious, IOracle Fire & DJ 557 and GP Mafia. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5. 706-549-0840 AVERY DYLAN PROJECT Southern, rockin’ Texas-syle blues. Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens ARCHERS VS GUNMEN Rootssoaked pop rock full of boy-meetsgirl/boy-loses-girl yearning. THE BORDER LIONS Local band performing simple pop songs in the vein of The Beatles. Sautee Nacoochee Center Folklife Festival. 8 p.m. $20. www. snca.org CURLEY MAPLE Fiddler David Blackmon’s progressive old-time project. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com HWH Guitar, keyboard and drum trio performing covers and original songs based on improvisational rock and funk.
Sunday 8 Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com HANS DARKBOLT Brand-new local band performing fiercely melodic pop tunes with swelling vocals and eerie harmonies. Square One Fish Co. Noon-3 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco.com SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Rotating local jazz artists play on the patio.
Monday 9 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 ELEPHANT Instrumental trio from Atlanta jams on dreamy soundcapes and ambient sounds. MR. FALCON High-energy, indie garage rock influenced equally by The Kinks and Pixies. Ciné Barcafé “Improvisor Festival.” 8 p.m. $6. www. athenscine.com ANDREA CENTAZZO Italian avant-garde percussionist and musicologist dedicated to creating multi-media experiences by unit-
ing traditional instrumentation with modern technology. CHRIS COCHRANE Inventive NYC guitarist known for his collaboration with other musicians, artists and writers including John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Dennis Cooper. CEDRO DANADO New experimental music from Georgia. The tracks on Cedro Danado’s MySpace page are similar to the music added to Maya Deren’s film Meshes of the Afternoon. KARST Kathleen Hairston of Montevallo, AL playing violin, tape loops and percussion using found objects. POCKETFUL OF CLAPTONITE Pulling the power trio into a wide open stream of consciousness, this new local group features Darrin Cook on bass, Jamie DeRevere on drums and acclaimed experimental artist Killick on guitar. No, it is neither an Eric Clapton tribute nor a Spin Doctors cover act. See story on p. 14. PONY PAYROLL BONES Free-form and minimalist death blues. GINO ROBAIR Improvisational composer and drummer from San Francisco who plays percussive instruments plus an analog synthesizer, EBow, prepared piano, theremin and bowed objects such as polystyrene, faux daxophone and metal. SKRYXL Free improv trio from Montgomery, AL performing jazzy experimental music.
THEM NATIVES Communal family band playing cross-cultural and ritualistic music sounding very similar to field recording with the added incorporation of electronic devices. 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 a set of fingerpicking on guitar from Chris Hampton, blues piano from David Leinweber, and Old Time & Bluegrass Music. New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com SUBSONIK New weekly series bringing the freshest electronic music to Athens! Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SID HOLMES Debuting acoustic songs about retired serial killers and religious marketing.
Tuesday 10 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy! Caledonia Lounge “Athens Popfest.” 10 p.m. FREE! (21+), $2 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com KEVIN DUNN Progressive rock from Atlanta. MITCH EASTER The noted producer and former member of Let’s Active released Dynamico, his first solo record in 18 years, in 2007. His solo material is diverse, featuring throbbing power chords, pop-psychedelia and acoustic solos. MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND For nearly 40 years, Athenian Michael Guthrie has delved into the world of melodic, jangly British-sounding throwback rock. QUIET HOOVES High-energy, idiosyncratic pop that’s loose and full of fun. Doc McGee’s 8 p.m. $5 (musicians FREE!). www. docmcgees.com MUSICIAN ALL JAM Bring your instrument and sign up when you arrive to play. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar EXSOMNIUM VARIETY SHOW Acts from singers, comedians, performance artists and talents of all kinds. Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE BORDER LIONS Local band performing simple pop songs in the vein of The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground. THE CARSON MCCULLERS Named after the author of The Heart Is a Loney Hunter. Expect songs exploring the human condition. HURRICANE FIGHTER PLANE Alternative rock switching between poppy beats and bluesy melodies. NIGHT NURSES Twang-infused guitar atmospherics, throbbing, hypnotic basslines and ominous baritone vocals. Little Kings Shuffle Club Athens Farmers Market. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net DAVE HOWARD Local singersongwriter plays mellow acoustic guitar tunes.
The Loft 10 p.m. FREE! www.loftofathens.com DJ DECEPTICRON Mixing today’s hottest house, electro, and club hits.
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The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND This local act offers three-part harmonies and ramblin’, upbeat bluegrass on acoustic guitar, banjo and mandolin. 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.
Wednesday 11 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy! Boar’s Head FREE! 706-369-3040 KARAOKE Make new friends. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com NOVANAUTS Local electro alt-rock band formerly known as Kalvinova. SATELLITE DISTRICT Moody, indie dance-rock influenced by electronic music and dark wave. TAXICAB RACERS Electro indie-rock. THE CASTE Danceable and jangly pop rock. Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 9–11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com AARON GENTRY AND PATRICK MORALES Gentry is a multi-instrumentalist known for his work with Broken Bits and Quiet Hooves, and Morales is a local singer-songwriter. Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar FINISHER Heavy sludge metal from Massachusetts akin to Isis. RAT BABIES Local trio Rat Babies plays hit-you-in-the-gut post-dirt metalcore. UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES Politically minded band featuring members of metal/punk acts Damnesia, Social Awareness and Jesus Christler. Johnny’s New York Style Pizza 7:30–10 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1515 KARAOKE Low-impact karaoke for rising stars. The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com DR. SQUID Jangly, frenetic rock and roll at its best when emphasizing its British Invasion sounds. GROOVE TANGENT Playing covers from diverse rock acts like Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and Jet.
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The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday with Lynn! Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens DJ KILLACUT Spinning an eclectic mix of music and mashing it up DJ Shadow-style. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com EVELYNN ROSE Southern rock. * Advance Tickets Available
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(non-refundable entrance fee). www. athensgottalent.com Rose of Athens Theatre’s 2010/2011 Season (SeneyStovall Chapel) Now holding auditions for As You Like It, Alice in Wonderland, Frankenstein Lives and Christmas Spirits Holiday Tour. Prepare two one-minute monologues, one classical and one contemporary, and call to schedule audition. Ages 9 to adult. Aug. 25, 6–9 p.m. www.roseofathens.org, danielle@roseofathens.org, 706340-9181.
Call for Artists (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Seeking artists for the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation’s Members’ Gallery. View proposal requirements online. www. ocaf.com Call for Artists (ATHICA) Seeking submissions from artists who request the participation of others as a key element of their work. Go online for submission guidelines. Deadline Oct. 6. www.athica.org 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 and Musicians Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa is currently seeking artists and crafters for the event in November. www.athensindiecraft stravaganzaa.com
CLASSES ACC Leisure Services Fall Program Registration (Various Locations) Register yourself and your family for adult and youth art and dance classes, youth basketball and many other programs to keep busy this fall and winter. See full program online! www.accleisure services.com Advanced Beekeeping (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Perform a 24-hour Varroa mite count and apply a variety of fall treatments for varroa and other pests. Completion of the Beekeeping for Beginners Series required. Registration required. Aug. 14, 1–3 p.m. $16. 706-542-6156. 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. Aug. 10 & 24, 6–8:30 p.m. $5. 706-613-8178, cvunderwood@charter.net Basic Computer Skills and Introduction to Computers (Oconee County Library) Learn the basic compo-
AUDITIONS The Haunted Honeymoon (Memorial Park Quinn Hall) Athens Creative Theatre holds auditions for the next Reader’s Theatre show to premiere in September. Prepare to read from the script as a group. Aug. 4, 6:30–9 p.m. FREE! 706-6133628, www.athenscreativetheatre. com 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. Aug. 19 & 20, $10
nents of your computer or master Microsoft Windows XP. Registration required. Go online for list of upcoming classes. 706-769-3950, FREE! www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/ oconee.html Bellydancing (Healing Arts Centre) Learn basic technique, postures and movements fundamental to all styles of bellydance in “Beginners Egyptian Bellydancing” (Wednesdays, 7–8:15 p.m.). Learn intermediate-level movements in “Intermediate/Advanced Bellydancing” (Wednesdays, 8:30–9:45 p.m.). 706-613-1143, www.healingartscentre.net Chen Style Taijiquan (Floorspace) Effortless power. Authentic Chinese martial lineage. Register for ongoing instruction. Sundays and Mondays, 706-6143342, telihu@gmail.com Chicken Butchering Class (Nature’s Harmony Farm) Learn to cut, bleed, scald, pluck and clean the interior cavity of a chicken! Chickens supplied; bring a cooler. Go online to register. Aug. 6, 1–4 p.m. $60 (includes two chickens). www.natures harmonyfarm.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. and “Family Try Clay” every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. ($20/ person). 706-355-3161, www.good dirt.net Computer Class (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to Word. Call to register. Aug. 12, 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Computer Class (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Mouse and Keyboard Skills. Call to register. Aug. 5, 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Computer Class (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center)
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Yup, that’s right–a DOG. AAHS also fosters dogs such as Baxter, the cute terrier puppy below. Inside Pet Supplies Plus at Alps Shopping Center • 706.353.2287 He’s very sweet and sleeps nicely in a crate at night. He has a lot of puppy enThough you can’t see the kneading going Sampson is a on here that has earned him the nickcute and quiet ergy and endless love to give. Please contact name Big Biscuit Bob, you can see Bob kitten. He’s a Andrea if you are interested. 678-699-7500 or dogs@athenshumanesociety.org is a lover. He is an outgoing staff favorite little shy and and has a reduced adoption fee because would like a one of his fans is sponsoring him! quiet lifestyle. Other cats ok.
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Paintings by Dan Smith are part of the “Full House 2010” exhibit on display at Lyndon House Arts Center through Sept 18. Introduction to the internet. Call to register. Aug. 26, 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Computer Class (Oconee County Library) Introduction to PowerPoint. Learn how to make a digital slideshow. Call to register. Aug. 11, 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Concrete Leaf-Casting (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn how to use large leaves to cast concrete forms that can be used for bird baths or creative garden accents. Registration required. Aug. 31, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden “Courting the Inner Artist” (Chase Street Warehouses, Womanspace) Therapist/writer/guru Baraka Elihu of the Wise Woman Circle seeks to court your inner artist or to encourage you to woo your own! Come find out what it all means at this day-long retreat for female writers which aims to find a balance between your “unique challenges” and your “specific gifts.” Aug. 7, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. www.holdingwoman space.com 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 Studio Open House and Registration (Alice DePass Studio of Dance) Register now for both adult and youth dance classes. Offerings include lyrical dance, hip-hop, stretch, tap, ballet and more. Aug. 8, 1–5 p.m. 706769-1177, www.depassstudio ofdance.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 Dancing Pals Dance Lessons (Freedom of Movement Dance Academy, 8081 Macon Hwy) Be prepared for any social occasion with alternating ballroom and country-western dance lessons every Thursday. 6:30–7:30 p.m. $10. jean. guard@yahoo.com Etching for Beginners and Intermediates (Lyndon House Arts Center) An introduction to intaglio/etching processes using printmaking methods to inscribe images onto metal plates. Learn Xerox transfer, soft ground and aquatint techniques! Call for info. 706-6133623, www.accleisureservices.com Figure Drawing Studio (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Bring any supplies/equipment that you may require. Ages 18 and up. Call to reserve a space. Sundays, 2–4 p.m. $10, $7 (members) 706-540-2727 Gardening Classes (Athens Technical College) Register for one or all of the seven classes taught by the Athens Area Master Gardeners. Learn how to save and start seeds, how to transplant seedlings and prepare soil for success and how to control insects, disease and weeds. $15/class, $79/7 classes. 706-3695763, bmoody@athenstech.edu GED Classes (Athens Urban Ministries, 717 Oconee St.) Get your GED for free, free, free! Mondays & Thursdays 9:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-353-6647.
Genealogy on the Internet (ACC Library) A brief intro to Internet resources for genealogy. Databases in Galileo will be introduced. Registration required. Aug. 19, 6–8:45 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 Gentle Yoga for Seniors (Council on Aging) Regain flexibility, stamina and muscle tone with gentle stretches and breathing techniques. Tuesdays, 8–9:15 a.m. Wednesdays, 3–4:15 p.m. Fridays, 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-549-4850 Hammered-Wire Leaf Jewelry (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Artist Susan Cooper teaches participants how to create jewelry inspired by leaves from native trees. Aug. 17, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $15. www.uga.edu/botgarden Jewelry and Metalsmithing (Lyndon House Arts Center) Learn how to create unique pieces of jewelry while learning about various metalsmithing techniques, including piercing, soldering, stone setting, appliqué and inlay. Call for more information! 706-613-3623, www. accleisureservices.com Microsoft Word 2007 (Athens Technical College) Learn how to include text, graphics, tables and formatting in your business documents. Aug. 17, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $125. 706-369-5876 Money Matters (ACC Library) Teri Hanna will share some helpful tips for budgeting, maintaining a checking account and improving your credit score in this program sponsored by Smart Investing @ Your Library. Aug. 26, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650
New Canopy Classes (Canopy Studio) Fall classes begin Sept. 7! Register for beginner or intermediate trapeze classes for adults or children. New this fall: Beginner Fabrics Trapeze. Full schedule online. 706549-8501, www.canopystudio.com Nia (Various Locations) Register for a session or drop in to try out this blend of dance arts, martial arts and healing arts. For all ages and fitness levels. Go online for class offerings. $12/drop-in, 706-424-9873, www. thebodyeclectic.net Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Classes (Trumps on Milledge, 2026 S. Milledge Ave.) OLLI, formerly Learning in Retirement, will hold registration for fall courses and activities. Come out and learn about the various classes, travel opportunities and social events offered. Sept. 13, 9:30 a.m. 706-542-5011, www.olli.uga.edu 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 Painting with Charles (Lyndon House Arts Center) Bring in your oil or acrylic masterpieces-in-progress to receive easel-side assistance from instructor Charles. 706-613-3623, www.accleisureservices.com Pilates Booty Camp (Sangha Yoga Studio) A low-impact core fitness course led by Mary Imes. Tuesdays, 5:30–6:45 p.m. $75/session. 706-613-1143, www.healing artscentre.net Tai Chi in the Park on Talmadge Drive (Mind Body Institute, Athens Regional Medical Center) Offering Tai Chi instruction. Call for more information. Saturdays, 9:30–10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@ armc.org Tech Tips: Photo Editing (ACC Library) Learn how to optimize your vacation photos using Picnik, a free photo-editing website. Aug. 24, 12:15–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Yangola (Floorspace) A blend of Capoeira Angola and Hatha Yoga. Wednesdays, 6:15–7:15 p.m. 727433-6449
Yoga Classes (Sangha Yoga Studio) Choose from morning, afternoon or evening classes. For all skill levels. See full schedule online. $14/ drop-in, $60/6-class punch card. 706-613-1143, www.healingarts centre.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 Yoga, Tai Chi and Pilates (Five Points Yoga) Classes in Mama-Baby Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Power Vinyasa Flow, Tai Chi Qui Gong, Tai Chi Kung Fu and Pilates for all levels. Full schedule online. $5/class, $10/ drop-in. www.athensfivepointsyoga. com Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves comprise this dynamic fitness program. Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/class, $72/session. www.uga. edu/botgarden
HELP OUT! Bike Recycling Program (BikeAthens, Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicycles for local service agencies. Bike repair skills a plus, but not necessary. Sunday, 2–4:30 p.m. Monday & Wednesday, 6–8:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com Blood Drive (Red Cross Donor Center) Give the gift of life! Call to make an appointment today. 706546-0681, 1-800-GIVE-LIFE Book Donations (Oconee County Library) Collecting gently used books for the library’s annual fundraising book sale in September. Drop items at the library or call to arrange pick-up. 706-769-4077, 678-753-1471 I Art Athens Supply Drive Donate your art supplies to a local organization committed to enriching Athens teens with opportunities for artistic expression. Visit the wishlist online and contact Jillian to
ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St., Top of the Stairs Gallery) Paintings of flowers by artist and gardener Marshall Reddoch. Through August. Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Photography by Justin Evans. Through August. Brick House Studio (1892 Athens Rd., Crawford) Featuring artwork by Tim Adams, Andy Casey, Andy Cherewick, Tex Crawford, Rene Guerin, David Jenkins, Doug Makemson, Brian Reade, Marshall Reddock, Eric Simmons and Lamar Wood. Through August (by appointment only). Chase Street Warehouses (Be Here Now Gallery) “Locals Only,” featuring the work of over a dozen Athens artists, including Michael Lachowski, Nash Hogan, Laurin Ramsey, Cindy Jerrell, Jeff Owens and Dana Jones. Saturdays through August 21. Ciné Barcafé (234 W. Hancock Ave.) An exhibit featuring the explosive, colorful paintings of Carol John. Through August 15. Espresso Royale Caffe (297 E. Broad St.) Landscape photography by Tom Nix. Through August. Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) Drawings by Aihoa Bilbao Canup. Through August. Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) “Modular,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Lucas Jenson, examines the “accidental geometry” created from the intermingling of shapes and patterns in nature. Through August. Reception Aug. 7. Good Dirt (510 B North Thomas St.) Funtional pottery and sculpture by Allya Macdonald, Crisha Yantis and Al Pellenberg. Through mid-August. The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) Works by Hannah Jones. Through Aug. 15.
arrange pickup or drop-off. jillian@ iartathens.org, http://iartathens.org/ help-out 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
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 Gymnastics Team Tryouts (Oconee Gymnastics Center) For kids ages 3 and up. An informational meeting for parents begins at 9:30 a.m. on the big day. Aug. 7, 9–11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-1239, www. oconeegymnastics.com Henna Workshop (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Learn how to apply temporary henna body art. Ages 11–15. Aug. 27, 5 p.m. $2. 706-613-3650 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 Project Athens Music Workshop (New Earth Music Hall) Aspiring teen producers, engineers and songwriters are encouraged to register for this one-day workshop. Aug. 21, 1–5 p.m. FREE! 678-480-4851, www.project generationd.com 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 Wee Toddle (Memorial Park) Register your toddler for an exploration of Memorial Park’s lake, trails
Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) Work by Nancy Hart. Through August. Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) “Art for Athens Kids,” an exhibit featuring illustrated ceramic tiles by nine young artists from Pinewoods Learning Center. Through Aug. 28. “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-Morgan Cultural Center (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Mapping the Present Just Went By,” a collaborative multimedia project presented by the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center and the Morgan County African-American Museum which combines stories, documents, sculpture and other historical relics with photography by Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier. Through Sept. 24. Monroe Art Guild (205 S. Broad St., Monroe) “Summer Members’ Show.” Through Aug. 25. Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (120 Florida Ave.) Drawings and paintings by Elizabeth Bishop-Martin. Through August. Republic Salon (312 E. Broad St.) Large, vibrant acrylic paintings by Jaime Bull. Through August. 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. UGA Aderhold (110 Carlton St., Room 232) “Home and Away,” an exhibit featuring photographs of Georgia and abroad by Sally Hudson Ross. Through September. White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) New work by Edwyna Arey. Through August.
and zoo. For kids ages 2 -3 and a parent/chaperone. Aug. 3, 10, 17 & 24, 10:30–11:15 a.m. $10. 706613-3616 Wee Walk (Memorial Park) Register your pre-schooler for an exploration of Memorial Park’s lake, trails and zoo. For kids ages 4–5 and a parent/ chaperone. Aug. 3, 10, 17 & 24, 11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. $10. 706613-3616
SUPPORT 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. 6–8 p.m. Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is provided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Wednesdays, 6:30– 8 p.m. 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 of the hospital. Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. 706-783-5706, www.athensmental health.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. FREE! 706-549-4850 Sapph Fire (Email for Location) The newly formed social and support group for lesbian and bisexual women of color meets the first and third Saturday of every month. Ages 21 & up. Email for more information. Find Sapph Fire on Facebook, sapph.fire@yahoo.com
ON THE STREET Cedar Creek 5K Run/Walk (Cedar Creek, 410 Cedar Creek) Register for this 5K for a chance to win gift cards and other giveaways. Music, goodies, games and swimming follow. Proceeds benefit the Cedar Creek pool. Aug. 28, 8:30 a.m. $8 (5K) $5 (one-mile fun run). 706-850-1486 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 “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
Eat. Drink. Listen Closely. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5
BRAD DOWNS
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 6
AMAZING RHYTHM ACES Tickets $15 adv. • $20 at the door
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 Rockers for Knockers Benefit Show featuring
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring
HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND
$3 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11
DR. SQUID
GROOVE TANGENT
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12
THE SUEX EFFECT ADAM PAYNE
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SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS
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KEVN KINNEY Tickets $10 adv. • $12 at the door $10 with Student ID
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THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH
THE GOOD DOCTOR
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ABBEY ROAD LIVE! Tickets $10 adv. • $12 at the door
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SAM BUSH Tickets $27.50 adv. • $32 at the door
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EMMITT-NERSHI BAND featuring Drew Emmitt of Leftover Salmon and Bill Nershi of String Cheese Incident
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If I were with a guy for almost a year and I hadn’t met any of his friends, I would certainly be worried. Do you know the nature of this “bad spot” he was in? Are we talking drug addiction? Jail? Prostitution? Was he following Nickelback around on tour? If you do know, then I assume you know what it is that he has to be ashamed and/or embarrassed about, and to what degree he should be. If you don’t, I would start demanding some answers right away, because he’s either overreacting or he’s hiding a deep, dark secret that you should probably be aware of before you get involved with him any further. I have been with my girl off and on for a few years. We now have a beautiful baby who is, as to any parent, very dear to me. Well, since she got pregnant the pressure has been on to get married from both sides of the family. I have tried to reason with this and just can’t make it make sense because I’m hung up on another girl who happens to be my girlfriend’s brother’s wife! Doesn’t that just sound so Georgia? Until this last weekend I almost proposed to my baby’s mama, and there I was drinking with friends and it got late. I was ready to tell Ms. Wife how I felt just to get it off my chest, and she came at me two-fold. It turns out the feelings are mutual. But, we have everything to lose. If things came out it would rip a family apart and a small group of friends. I think you can see the impossibleness to this story, and now I kinda wish it never happened. Now the tension really grows between us, and I know that I will feel more distant from my girlfriend. What two people want from each other will probably never happen. How are we going to be able to live our lives with this new sexual tension? Hopeful Isn’t that so Georgia? No, Hopeful, it’s not. But it is SO reality TV. I’m hopeful that you
will get a vasectomy as soon as humanly possible, because in all likelihood the next time I hear from you it will be about how you and “Ms. Wife” wound up fucking around and how nobody else understands you and blah, blah, blah. And then you’ll wind up knocking her up and making the whole situation infinitely more ridiculous. If you aren’t in love with the mother of your child, then don’t marry her. But keep in mind that your infatuation with her brother’s wife, whether mutual or not, has got to stop or it will end very badly and you will probably never see your baby again. Walk away, man. Just because you aren’t ready for marriage doesn’t give you the right to ruin somebody else’s. I just moved in with my boyfriend a couple of months ago. We have been together for two years. Two things I have noticed since we moved in together that I didn’t realize before are how much he drinks (a lot) and how little money he has (none). I don’t want to start telling him what to do, but I can’t afford to cover his half of the bills (I already did once), and this is definitely not going to work. He makes plenty of money, but he always goes out and spends it and he doesn’t seem to understand that now that he only has one roommate instead of living in a big house with a bunch of dudes, things are going to cost more. How do I approach the conversation? Not His Sugar Momma
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I’ve been dating a guy for almost a year, let’s call him Dave, and I don’t really have any complaints, save one. He has met all of MY friends, gone to parties with me and MY friends, and hangs out with me and MY friends (can you see a trend?). I like that we can spend time with the same people and get along with them, but the problem for me would be that I have never met his friends on purpose. I met one of them, a girl, by accident downtown during AthFest, and Dave got really uncomfortable. He practically rushed me out of there. We ended up going for dinner, and it was forgotten. He used to be in a bad spot, and his friends helped him clean his act up. Is it strange for me to not have met them or am I overreacting? Not So Sure Sally
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If it were me, NHSM, I would just ask him for money for half of each bill as it comes in. If he doesn’t have it, tell him you need it ASAP, and then talk about making a budget. This is how shit works in the adult world: you pay your half. Figure out what the bills average per month and when they are due, and then have a discussion about it. Figure out when you both get paid and when each bill is due, and make sure that money gets put aside (or the bill gets paid immediately) before he starts spending it. Did you talk about how much rent was before you moved in together? Does he understand basic math (like one half is bigger than one fifth)? Who took care of this stuff in the house full of dudes? Is he a grownup in other ways? You should also tell him you’re worried about how much he drinks, and that you can’t afford to float him for bills. Tell him you want to take care of it now so it doesn’t become a bigger issue. If he’s not willing to deal with this stuff, you need to find a different roommate and, possibly, a different boyfriend. Right now you’re not only Sugar Momma, but pretty much Mommy. And it doesn’t seem like that’s what you signed up for. Jyl Inov Got a question for Jyl? Submit your anonymous inquiry via the Reality Check button at www.flagpole.com
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$395/mo. Studio garage apar tment for 1 very private. Own entrance, kitchen, bath, terrace. Quiet location off Oglethorpe Ave. Pets OK. Available now. Lease/Ref. (706) 206-9237. 1BR/2BA w/ W/D connections for $450/mo. Security deposit $225. Call Tivoli (706) 548-1400. 1&2 bedroom apartments available! 1BRs starting at $492/ m o . , 2BRs star ting at $575/mo.! Also receive a free move–in prorate for your move–in month! Pet friendly, on busline. Call (706) 549-6254. Restrictions apply.
2BR/2BA apartments. For $525/mo. Security deposit is $250/mo. Total electric, W/D connections. Call Tivoli (706) 548-1400. 2BR/1BA renovated apartments walking distance to Mama’s Boy & Dwntn! Available now! Only$495/ mo. incl. water/trash. 225 China St. Small/quiet complex, perfect for grad students. No dogs. Laundry on premises. Call Chris (706) 202-5156 or chris@ petersonproperties.org. 2BR/2BA furnished. Includes W/D, Internet, cable. Private entrance. Quiet n’hood off Epps Bridge. No pets. Info/pics. (706) 206-3345. $760/mo. Available now. Spacious 2BR Dwntn apts. 3 blocks from N. campus. Out of bar scene. Close to everything. Call George (706) 340-0987.
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5BR/3BA. $750/mo. 117 Jolly Lane Athens, GA 30606. 1589 sq. ft., CHAC, DW, W/D. Near 5 Pts. & Memorial Park off of S. Lumpkin in Sleepy Creek (706) 850-6593.
Downtown. Luxury apartments in Victorian Bldg. Great views. Townhouse. 1BR w/ office $975/mo, 2BR $1095– $1195/mo. Graham (706) 546-6616.
Eastside offices. 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent: 1200 sq. ft. $1200/mo. 450 sq. ft. $600/mo. 170 sq. ft. $375/mo. (706) 546-1615 or www.athenstownproperties. com.
Blvd Area Historic. 1BR/1BA apt. in rear half of victorian home. Private fenced yd. w/ deck. W/D. HWflrs. High ceilings. Available 8/1. Some pets OK. Lease, deposit, references req’d. $575/mo. (706) 227-6000.
Located off S. Lumpkin, on Sleepy Creek Dr., near 5 Pts. 1 yr. old carpet, tile & paint. 2BR/2BA w/ FP, storage & backyd. Sm. pets OK. $675/mo. Call (404) 281-6273.
For Sale. 4700 sq. ft. office. 485 Newton Bridge Rd. Possible owner financing to qualified, credit worthy b u y e r. T h i s i s g r e a t opportunity! Call Don at Sumner Properties (706) 353-1039.
Best deal in town! El Dorado 2BR/1BA & studio apts. in Normaltown. Free water, gas, basic cable & wireless Internet. W/D in 2BR units. Dog runs. $420–$675/mo. Joiner & Associates (706) 549-7371, www.gojoiner.com. Basement apartment for quiet individual. 5 Pts. area (Glenwood). Kitchen, bath, bed/sit. Private entrance. N/S. No pets. Utils included. Deposit & references req’d. $470/mo. (706) 543-8821. FTX Apartments. Campus & busline within half a block. Near Milledge Ave. 2BR units. Pre–lease for Fall 2010. These units are always 100% leased so act now for low rental rates. Call Stacy at (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.
Mature student for apartment suite in 3BR home. BR/BA, study, kitchenette, private entrance/deck. Furnished. Includes everything! Utils., DISH, Tivo, WiFi. Quiet, safe, near UGA. (706) 296-6956.
Unbelievable Deal! $750/mo.! 3BR/2.5BA townhouse on Milledge. Pool, sand volleyball, basketball. W/D, all appls incl. On busline. Don’t wait, won’t last! (678) 462-0824. Walk to 5 Pts. On busline, next to Lake Herrick & dog park. 2BR/2.5BA, W/D, DW, FP, outside private terrace, pool. Lots of parking! Walk to campus, oversized BRs & closets. Quiet, convenient. Pets OK. $675/mo. Call George (706) 207-0383. Westside condos. 2BR/2BA, $600/mo. Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/mo. 2BR/1BA, $490/mo. Eastside Duplex 2BR/1BA, 475/mo. Eastside basement a p a r t m e n t 2BR/1BA. W/D, nice yard. $550/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 3532700 or cell (706) 540-1529. West Athens, just off Prince. $600/mo. 2BR/2BA apt. Living room w/ FP, eat–in kitchen, deck. High speed Internet avail. Avail. now. (706) 433-2712.
Commercial Property Athens Executive Suites. Offices available in historic Dwntn bldg. w/ on–site parking. All utils., Internet, & janitorial incl. Single or multiple offices avail. Call Stacy (706) 4254048 or (706) 296-1863.
Historic Downtown Building. 3200 sq. ft. Ample onsite parking. Office/Commercial. Contact Stacy (706) 425-4048. Paint Artist Studios. Historic Blvd area. Artist C o m m u n i t y. 1 6 0 Tr a c y St. Rent: 300 sq. ft. $150/ mo. 400 sq. ft. $200/mo. (706) 546-1615 or www. athenstownproperties.com. Retail Suites for lease at Homewood Village. 1K–12,500 sq. ft. available. For more info call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039 or visit www.sumnerproperties. net. Retail, Bar, or Restaurant for lease at Homewood Shopping Center. 3000 sq. ft. Call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039.
Condos for Rent 2BR/2BA, Eastside. Available now. 1300 sq. ft., CHAC, W/D, new DW. No pets. $575/mo. (706) 769-0757. 3BR/2.5BA. 3 floors. 2 patios. New kitchen, completely updated unit. Pool. $900/mo. Call Michelle (706) 433-2712.
3BR/2BA Westside condo. 10 min. to UGA. HWflrs, granite, tile. Pool use, gated, trash included in rent. $1100/mo. Geoff (706) 206-3560 for more. Owner is lic. Ga. RE agent, #302489. S t u d i o 5 1 . Luxury studios adjoining UGA campus. On U G A b u s l i n e . We l l apportioned. Stainless appls. Tile & bamboo floors. On–site laundry. P l e a s e v i s i t w w w. studio51condos.com.
Condos For Sale Sexy like you. Colorful like you. Go to www.460barnettshoalsrd5c. com. Donna Smith Fee, Keller Williams Realty Greater Athens, (706) 296-5717 cell (706) 319-2900 office.
Duplexes For Rent $750/mo. 4BR/3 Full BA. 10 min. to UGA. 137 Westchester Circle. All appls incl. W/D, excellent condition. New carpet & paint. Lg. lv. rm., sec. system. Avail. 6/1. Owner/ Agent, call Robin (770) 265-6509 or email at robintdubois@gmail.com. 1BR/BA. Near campus & busline. Close to shopping & eating.No pets, lg. rooms. Quiet area, lease & deposit. $400/mo. (706) 255-8277. E a s t A t h e n s . G re a t 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. Oconee Co. Ver y nice townhouse duplex. 3BR/1.5BA. Fenced yd. Nice n’hood. Great schools. $795/mo. (706) 338-8864. Pineview Dr. off S. Milledge. W/D, ceiling fans, DW, microwave, total electric, fresh paint, up-to-date a ppls . 2 B R /1 B A $ 5 9 5 / mo., 2BR/2BA $650/ mo., 3BR/2BA $750/mo., 4BR/2BA $850/mo. (706) 207-6361.
Houses for Rent $680/mo. 2BR/2BA. 115 E. Carver Dr. 1.5 mi. from U G A A rc h . F e n c e d – i n yd. Tile & HWflrs. CHAC, W/D hookups, DW. Pets welcome. Avail. 8/1. (706) 614-8335. 181 Holman Ave. Available immediately! 3BR/2BA in Normaltown. HWflrs, CHAC, quiet street. Grad students pref’d. (706) 372-1505. 1BR apt. for $475/mo. 2BR apt. starting at $700/ mo. 3BR apt. starting at $1000/mo. All close to campus! Howard Properties (706) 546-0300.
1085A Macon Hwy. 3BR/1BA $795/ mo., huge rooms, storage. 1085B Macon Hwy. 2BR/1BA, $595/mo. 1045 Macon Hwy. 4BR/2BA + extra rooms, sunroom, lots of parking. All on busline. All homes have HWflrs, CHAC, W/D, & pet friendly. Available now! (Pics in order). (706) 546-7946, Flowersnancy@ bellsouth.net. See vir tual tours www. nancyflowers.com. 1BR/1BA house located on Prince Ave. Available 8/1. Lg. bedroom w/ 2 closets. Living rm. w/ more storage space. HWflrs. throughout. Tiled kitchen w/ oven, fridge. Entrance has wooden patio. Call (706) 202-9905.
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 propertymanagement.com. 2, 3, 4BR houses. 5 Pts. close to campus & o t h e r a re a s . C h e c k out our website at www. athenslease.com, or call (706) 410-6122. 2BR/1BA. 2895 Danielsville Rd. Wooded. Wide porch. CHAC, W/D hookup. Wood flrs., fenced yd., lawncare incl. $600/mo. + dep. (706) 546-5390, lv. msg. 2BR/1BA. $650/mo. 190 Grove St. house & an art studio for creative people w/ an open floor plan off Oconee St. Walking distance to UGA, Dwntn, 1000 sq. ft., porch, screened porch, garden area, yard art, claw foot tub, concrete floors. Pets are welcome. (706) 548-9797, www. b o u l e v a r d p r o p e r t y management.com. 2BR/2.5BA spacious townhouse. Avail. 8/1. The Summit of Athens. All appls. W/D, clubhouse, pool, workout rm. Gated, safe. Close to campus. $950/mo. Call (770) 8918255, gpreteroti@aol.com. 260 Nor th Rockspring. 3BR/2BA for lease by owner. Completely remodeled in-town home. New everything! Pets are welcome. $840/mo. Call Lance, (706) 714-4603. Av a i l a b l e i m m e d i a t e l y in Five Points 2BR/1BA, $650/mo., pets OK, W/D connections, call Tom 706540-2432.
3BR/1BA house. CHAC, DW, W/D included. No gas bill, fenced yd. Pets OK. Bonus room or 4th BR. Available 8/1. Only $575/mo. Call/text (706) 255-2552, OffCampusRealty.com.
Available now. Attention students & small families. 3BR/2.5BA split lvl. in quiet cul–de–sac. Close to campus! HWflrs., FP, sec. sys., kitchen appls., W/D. $1275/mo. (770) 596-6234.
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.
Close to Dwntn/UGA. 1692 E. Broad: 3BR/1BA. HVAC, DW, cats OK. Rent $750/ mo. Available now. (706) 338-3097.
3BR/2BA. Cedar creek. Fenced backyd., gas grill, FP, wooded lot. Quiet family n’hood. Swimming community. 360 Sandstone Dr. $1025/mo. & dep. (706) 319-1846, (706) 548-4819. GA. R. E. lic. 300830. 3BR/2BA. 5 yr. old house, 15 minute walk or 5 minute bike from campus, near Greenway, W/D, D/W, alarm, $1050/mo. Available now. (706) 353-3893. 3BR. W/D, DW, gas logs. Dwntn. Walk to class. Porch swing w/ rockers. CHAC. $895/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. $1400/mo. (706) 5489797, boulevardproperty management.com. 3BR/2BA houses for rent. Bonus room, basement, HVAC, fridge, W/D, 2 miles from Dwntn. 145 Conrad Dr. ($900/mo.), 320 Conrad Dr. ($1000/mo.). (706) 6137242 or (678) 232-7228. 3BR/1.5BA. 460 Whitehead Rd. HWflrs, carpet, CHAC, attic fan, tiled kitchen, garbage disposal, DW, fenced yd., pecan trees. $750/mo. & $500/dep. Call (706) 254-2936. 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 in The Retreat. Less than 1 mile from The Arch. Pool. Pets welcome. $200 discount per month. Only $1700/mo. Aaron (706) 207-2957. 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. $960/mo. (706) 549-5006, www. AthensCondoSales.com.
East Athens. 3BR/2.5BA. Fenced backyard. Small pets OK. $900/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 carpor t, $750/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529. Eastside 4BR/2BA home. $800/mo. incl. trash & lawn care. All appls incl. Fenced in backyd, pets OK. Free rent 1st mo. w/ $800/dep. Call (706) 201-2121. Historic Blvd/ARMC/ Normaltown area. Wonderful 1910 cottage. Spacious 2BR/1BA claw–foot tub. HWflrs. 10 ft. ceilings. CHAC. Lg. eat–in kitchen, W/D, garden. Available now! $800/mo. lease/dep. (706) 207-4636. Lease today! 3 to 5BR luxur y cottages & townhouses star ting at only $325/BR. Various locations incl. downtown, campus, and Eastside. Call (706) 543-1910 or Leasing@ LandmarkAthens.com. Move in now & pay no rent until Sept. 1st! 2 or 3BRs. W/D, DW, Secluded Patios. Easy Access to Loop & Dwntn. Best Deals in Town. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 8 - 2 5 2 2 , w w w. dovetailmanagement.com. Normaltown area. 3BR/1.5BA. $800/mo. CHAC, W/D, HWflrs., fenced backyd, deck, gas heat/ stove, FP. Pets OK. Available in Aug. (706) 247-1536.
Navy School area. Close to Dwntn & campus. 3BR/2BA. 7 yrs. old. Split BR floorplan. Vaulted ceilings in living rm. 2–car garage, deck, lg. backyd. Great location! $1050/mo. Herbert Bond Realty, owner/ agent (706) 540-0472.
Preleasing for fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-0066.
Houses for Sale Charming & Fun in 5 Pts. www.465springdalestreet. com. Or be cool in the Country w/ garden space to grow your own! www.170ElderStreet. com. Donna Smith Fee, Keller Williams Realty Greater Athens, (706) 296-5717 cell (706) 319-2900 office. Duplex FSBO. $93K. Eastside 2BR/1BA. 205 & 207 Parkridge Dr. 30605. C o m p l e t e l y re m o d e l e d i n s i d e & o u t . C u r re n t upstairs tenant. Monthly rent covers mortgage. Chris (706) 614-9716. FSBO. 520 Sunset Dr. Nor maltown classic. $189K. HWflrs, completely renovated, lg. fenced yd., gas fireplace, finished attic space. Close to Navy School, Bishop Park, easy commute to Dwntn. Contact (706) 424-0167. Normaltown under $100,000! www.115KnottinghamDrive. com. Or 3.6 acres w/ home in Oconee www. 2011PeteDickensRoad.com under $150,000. Donna Fee, Keller Williams Realty, Cell: (706) 296-5171, Office: (706) 316-2900.
Roommates Browse 100s of online listings w/ photos & maps. Find your roommate w/ a click of the mouse! Visit: www. Roommates.com. (AAN CAN). Female to share 3BR/2BA house Eastside. $425/mo. & 1/2 utils. Cable, Internet, kitchen privileges, W/D. Student or grad student pref’d. (706) 614-5238. Female Roommate needed ASAP for a 2BR/2.5BA fully furnished condo. 5 mins from downtown. $375 + 1/2 utilities, pest control included in rent. Contact Jesse anytime 706-202-1989 or sel_jess@yahoo.com. Quiet Male N/S roommate needed for 2BR/2BA on Eastside. $325/mo. Nice location. Call or email (706) 224-4208 or email bonjour@ uga.edu.
Rooms for Rent Dashiell Cottages Inc. Move–in $75! (706) 8500491. All amenities, Wifi. Enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy the wildlife observation. Furnished room for rent in quiet Winder home. Female only. Must love cats. $350/ mo. negotiable. Call (706) 410-7644. Spacious, furnished BR. Quiet, close to campus, kitchen, laundry privileges. Shared BA, priv. entrance. No pets. M students only. $275/mo. incl. utils. (706) 353-0227. Avail. now!
Sub-lease Baldwin Village apartments, 475 Baldwin St. Apartment 27, Athens. 1BD/1BA, 2nd floor, great location near UGA north campus, $510/ mo. + utilities. Stephanie 404-374-1430
For Sale Furniture Elegant living room set! Carved dark wood detailing. Couch, love seat, pillows, coffee table, end tables, chair. $625. Negotiable! See during yard sale. 346 Carlton Terrace. Sat. 8/7. 7am–Ipm. Questions at (843) 214-0023. 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. Ta b l e s , c h a i r s , s o f a s , antiques, clothes, records & players, retro goods, & more! Cool, affordable furniture every day. Go to Agora! Your favorite everything store! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.
Sporting Goods Bowflex for sale. Like new. Bought at Academy Sports. Barely used. Cheap! Call Michael at (706) 540-7538.
Yard Sales Huge yard sale 346 Carlton Terrace. This Saturday (Aug. 7) 7am1pm. Furniture, china, clothes, books, home goods, etc. Items in great condition!
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 G u i t a r, B a s s , D r u m s , P i a n o , Vo i c e , B r a s s , Woodwinds, Strings, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument repairs avail. Visit www. AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.
Music Services Wedding Bands. Quality, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, Jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment. com. Featuring The Magictones—Athens’ premiere wedding & p a r t y b a n d . w w w. themagictones.com. Fret Shop. Professional guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread P a n i c , C r a c k e r, B o b Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567. ➤ continued on next page
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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.
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Services Cleaning Good cleaning is an art. Green cleaning is smart! Summer specials. Call or text Nick (706) 206-0381. Local, independant. 7 days a week.
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Home and Garden Dependable Property Service. Maintenance, repair, installation, custom design, & much more. We tackle jobs both small & large. Excellent references, unbeatable rates. Call Stephen (706) 614-6083. Woodland Craftsmen. Trellises, Arbors, Rustic Furniture. Beautiful design. Curved wood capability. Custom furniture to fit your needs! By appointment call (706) 202-1847.
Misc. Services More than $10,000 in credit card debt? Reduce payments! Alternative to bankruptcy! Free quote, no obligation. Settle your debts in 12–48 Months. Free Consultation (800) 964-0593 (AAN CAN).
Jobs Full-time Now hiring! Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500/wk. potential. Info at (985) 6461700 dept. GA–3058. PT or FT experienced cook & floors staff wanted. Apply in person at 1550 Oglethorpe Ave.
Shenanigans Salon. Accepting applications for Stylist w/ Clientele. Send resume to shenanigans. salon@yahoo.com or visit us at 1037A Baxter St., Athens. We are open & hiring experienced cooks, really good cooks. Love of cuisine & of the work it takes to p ro d u c e g re a t d i s h e s req’d. Apply in person at Chef Lamar’s Iron Grill, 1155 Mitchell Bridge Road, Athens, GA 30306.
Opportunities As part of our expansion program, Millennium Magic Procurement LLC is in need of people to work as PT Account Managers, Payment & Sales representatives. Pays a minimum of $3000/ mo. + benefits. Takes only little of your time. Please contact us for more details. R e q u i re m e n t s : S h o u l d be computer literate. 2–3 hours access to the Internet weekly. Must be honest & loyal. Must be efficient & dedicated. If interested & need more info, contact Mike Sloan, mprocurellc@aol.com.
Be Your Own Boss & work w/ former UGA Football All American David Pollack. Join our Georgia Nuriche team today!! Please call us at (888) 420-8283 or email at teamnuricheusa@ gmail.com...Go Dawgs! Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from home. No experience necessary. Call our Live Operators Now! (800) 405-7619 Ext. 2450 www.eastwork-greatpay. com (AAN CAN). High School Diploma! Graduate in just 4 weeks! Free brochure. Call now! (800) 532-6546 Ext. 97 www.continentalacademy. com (AAN CAN).
Part-time Cook’s assistant needed i n re s i d e n t i a l s e t t i n g . Must have car. Kitchen experience pref’d. $250/wk., approx. 32 hrs./wk, Mon–Fri. Call Jay (706) 353-3239. Clocked needs part time cooks & part time counter people. Resumes only. 259 W. Washington St. Director for education related non-profit organization in Athens responsible for all phases of the program including grant writing. Bachelors degree req’d. Send resumes via email to mentor@athensga.com. FT or PT experienced cook & floors staff wanted. Apply in person at 145 E. Clayton. Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to j u d g e re t a i l & d i n i n g establishments. No exp. req’d. (800) 743-8535.
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Pets Dog Foster Homes Needed! Athens Area Humane Society will provide everything you need (food, l e a s h , t o y s , e t c ) . Yo u provide a loving home. If interested e-mail dogs@ athenshumanesociety.org. Kitty Cams project n e e d s f e l i n e participants in Athens! Help UGA & National Geographic study behavior of cats outdoors by placing a small Kitty Cam video camera on your pet. Volunteers receive total health screening & vaccines for the participating pet. kittycams@warnell.uga.edu.
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