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pub notes Tea and Sympathy I had a glass of sweet tea with Charlie Maddox recently and learned that he is not and never has been a Republican—has never voted in a Republican primary, even. You could look it up, or I could. Charlie says that myth got started in the last mayoral race because local Republicans supported him, thinking he would be more receptive to them than the other candidates. Charlie wanted to pick my brain about why some people just don’t get his candidacy. The way he sees it, he would make the perfect mayor for Athens: more an independent than a party-label guy, with a long and impressive record of volunteer public service. Charlie shrugs off the reminder that he’s never been strong on issues by suggesting that he’s good at getting people together to solve problems—that solutions are more important than issues and results better than party labels.

I could have argued that party labels are some kind of indication of what kinds of solutions you might be aiming for, but that’s irrelevant in our non-partisan elections. Early indications are that some local Republicans are supporting Nancy Denson in this mayoral race, and you can’t get more Democratic than Nancy. Do they assume that she will be more receptive to their ideas in spite of her long record as an ardent Democrat?

Is “Common Sense” a code for conservative?

It may be that If one candidate is the comCharlie’s campaign mon-sense candidate, does that imply that the others are liable is not getting to do wild and crazy things? enough traction Could someone win as the “Uncommon Sense Candidate?” because he is too Probably in Athens. nice a guy.

Charlie’s emphasis on getting people together to work out solutions is certainly not out of place in local politics. True believers abound in all political persuasions, but you won’t find many in elective office. Most local political and governmental problems call for some kind of pragmatic compromise that moves things forward without running over people. It’s easy for pundits and other purists to demand 100 percent of what they want, but the people behind the rail see and hear us all, with our competing demands, and they’re the ones who have to come up with a solution that works, even though usually nobody is completely pleased with it. The recent long-simmering tennis center problem is a good example of that. You could characterize it as the people versus a special interest, but within that special interest were a lot of different kinds of people. When politics at the neighborhood level failed to work out a compromise, the commission had to take over and, as my father would have said: do something, dammit, even if it’s wrong. Could Charlie as mayor have got people together and worked out a compromise acceptable to all?

It may be that Charlie’s campaign is not getting enough traction because he is too nice a guy. Voters want a uniter in office, but first they want a candidate to show them he or she can be tough enough to stand up for them. And a mayor behind the rail not only has to face the competing demands of the public but also those of the 10 commissioners, plus the professional management, with their hands on the levers of government.

I just don’t know how Charlie’s “let us reason together” approach will play out if he is elected mayor. He will face a lot of unreasonable people pushing their own agendas, and he won’t have much in the way of power to force them to work things out. To win this thing, Charlie has to convince us that with no more power than setting the agenda, hiring and firing the manager and voting in case of a tie, his nice-guy approach can win for us.

That’s where issues come in. Without the cover of a party label, a candidate has to convince voters that he stands for something, that he or she has a plan, a set of issues to push, rather than being a pushover.

Our mayor has little real power and is forced to do a lot of brokering among competing interests. The conundrum is that the mayor needs Charlie’s kind of inclusiveness to keep people working together but also needs a strong sense of direction to focus the dialogue. I think that’s where Charlie’s campaign needs work, because local government demands more than sweet talk and sweet tea.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

THIS WEEK’S ISSUE: News & Features City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Athens News and Views

Wastewater treatment and Congressman Paul Broun, Jr: is there a connection?

Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Taking Stock of Trail Creek

Why should we care if the life in one of Athens’ many creeks is destroyed?

Arts & Events Art Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Graphic and Sexy

“Re:mark,” an engaging exhibition of drawings at Lamar Dodd, kicks off the season.

Perspectives 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Georgia Pottery Invitational Exhibition

State’s largest annual pottery exhibition, “Perspectives,” will feature the work of 50 Georgia potters.

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Ruberto featuring a painting by Edwyna Arey on display at White Tiger Gourmet

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Music The New Sound of Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The Old Name Is Back with a New Lineup

The electropop act returns for the first time since member Randy Bewley’s passing.

Upstart Roundup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent

This week: The Caste, Bombs Bombs Bombs, Taste Like Good and Hans Darkbolt

LETTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CITY DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 ATHENS RISING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CITY PAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CAPITOL IMPACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 COMMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 SONGSTERS IN THE DARK, PT. 4. . . . . . . 9 LOCAL OPTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 ART NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 POTTERY EXHIBITION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 MOVIE DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 MOVIE PICK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 THE NEW SOUND OF NUMBERS. . . . . . . . 17 GUZIK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 UPSTART ROUNDUP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 RECORD REVIEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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letters HEY, DRUNK JERK! To the drunk jerk who ripped the rearview mirror off my bike Friday night Aug. 15: act like you’ve got a momma. Now I’m less equipped to survive a drive to work. Thanks.

Brent Hedrick Athens

ZEBRA CRUELTY Tonight I went to a show at New Earth where the group “Zircus” was performing.

Shocked was I when I went outside on the patio to see a zebra confined to a tiny pen amidst the loud music and drunken, groping hoards. Apparently, this beautiful creature had been heavily tranquilized and shoved into this cage (where it barely had room to turn around) simply for the amusement of the ignorant. It had been confined to this tiny space for hours and hours; before that it had probably been in a small metal trailer traveling for God knows how long. How this can be possible, I don’t know. Where they acquired this zebra, I also don’t know, but I can only suppose that its life is lived out in this manner of grotesque public display. I would encourage you to not only boycott this group but to seek activism in the life of this animal and any other animal in their possession. Also I would question what venue would host such an event and support such cruelty.

Amber Lawson Athens

FROM BENEDEK’S LAWYER I am writing to respond to the City Pages article on Professor Benedek’s tenure revocation hearing in the Aug. 4 edition of Flagpole.

Since I have always admired Flagpole’s intestinal fortitude in standing up to powers that be, I thought I should call attention to statements in the article that are inaccurate, that repeat little soundbites of negative spin dropped by the Adams administration without questioning them, or that miss the point of the proceedings completely.

Let me just start with the charge that Dr. Benedek had a conflict of interest in turning over a Chinese language study abroad program developed for UGA at Jilin to a nonprofit foundation for which he does volunteer work. The study-abroad program in Jilin was

CONTACT US AT P.O. BOX 1027, ATHENS, GA 30603, LETTERS@FLAGPOLE.COM OR VIA THE “TALK BACK TO US” LINK AT FLAGPOLE.COM created, as former Provost Arnett Mace testisuggest, however, that Flagpole’s heavy relified at the hearing, by Dr. Bendek at Mace’s ance on Gatewood as a source for its article request. Then-provost Mace provided the is misplaced in light of the fact that her tesfunding for the UGA program to be developed. timony was so thoroughly discredited both at The program was later cancelled, contrary to the hearing, which we assume your reporter Mace’s directive, by officials at UGA’s Office of attended, and in the undisclosed communicaInternational Education (OIE), as documented tion from Jilin. by a memorandum produced in evidence at the We also suggest it is a proper avenue of hearing. journalistic inquiry as to why the UGA Office Dr. Benedek is accused in the tenure of Legal Affairs and the Attorney General revocation charges of developing the Jilin of Georgia did not look further behind the program with university resources and then unfounded claims by OIE before bringing tenturning it over to the Humanitad Foundation. ure revocation charges against Dr. Benedek The part of the story the charges omit, and related to the Jilin program. Tenure revocation the part also omitted in the Flagpole story, is is a serious matter that should be founded on that UGA, after asking Dr. Bendek to develop something more substantial than idle office the program and paying for its development, gossip which turns out to be contradicted by then cancelled the the evidence. program and directed And, though I am Dr. Benedek to sure editorial space BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: cease efforts on it will not permit, every on behalf of UGA. single charge against In June of 2007 Dr. Dr. Benedek, upon Benedek received closer examination, an email, presented collapses in similarly Send your sticker sightings to in evidence at the inglorious fashion. letters@flagpole.com. hearing, informing Yet none of these him that UGA’s Office refutations of the of International charges were reported Education had decided to cancel the program in City Pages. We would expect that from other that Provost Mace had ordered Dr. Benedek to publications, but not from Flagpole. The only create. (The head of OIE could not explain at editorial source we have seen that has picked the hearing how or why that could occur, and up on the wrongdoing on the part of UGA in fact disavowed responsibility for the deciitself in this matter is in reader comments sion conflicting with the direct mandate of in the Banner-Herald: www.onlineathens. the provost.) Dr. Benedek only turned the procom/stories/072710/uga_684033583.shtml gram over to the non-profit foundation after and www.onlineathens.com/stories/073010/ UGA dropped it. new_688261920.shtml The tenure revocation charges against Dr. One other matter that I do believe needs Benedek also claim that he destroyed UGA’s to be addressed briefly is an irresponsible relationship with Jilin. In fact, the evidence comment in City Pages concerning $180,000 showed that all Benedek did was to correctly unaccounted for in study abroad programs. inform Jilin that OIE had decided against This is a negative spin dropped by the Adams pursuing the UGA study abroad program at administration which we find very disapJilin. At the hearing, Jane Gatewood of OIE pointing for Flagpole to pick up on so naïvely. testified that Dr. Benedek “torpedoed” UGA’s There is not any question of $180,000 or any relationship with Jilin. When confronted other amount being stolen or missing from with the memo informing Dr. Benedek that any study abroad program Dr. Benedek has OIE had decided to drop the Jilin program, been associated with. The funds were not contrary to the mandate from the Provost, properly accounted for only in the sense of all Gatewood could say was “I had not seen the proper accounting procedures not being that email until two weeks ago [prior to the followed by putting all the funds in agency hearing].” We have since learned that Jane accounts, though there was some confusion Gatewood received an email from her contact about that at the time and the procedures at Jilin University confirming that Gatewood’s used by Dr. Benedek were actually known and characterization of Dr. Benedek’s actions in approved in advance by OIE. That $180,000 her testimony was inaccurate. No one at UGA represented student funds paid for 40 students disclosed this communication from Jilin. We to travel for six weeks through nine countries

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of Europe. There has never been any question whether the funds were actually spent for that purpose. At roughly $4000 a student for six weeks in Europe, there has never been any suggestion that the students were overcharged, either, and certainly no student or parent has ever complained that they did not get what they paid for. More importantly, the actual tenure revocation charges against Dr. Benedek have nothing at all to do with the handling of these funds—it is a proverbial red herring. We therefore believe it was a significant legal error for the committee to even allow any mention of money since none of the tenure revocation charges have anything to do with financial impropriety or misallocation of funds. This little bit of spin was worked in for purely prejudicial purposes unrelated to the actual charges. Thus, this is the one area in which we feel Flagpole should actually make a retraction and detailed correction.

Thank you for your attention to this matter; please let me know if you have questions.

Stephen Humphreys Counsel to Dr. Benedek Athens

In Re: Hans-Peter I was pleased to read in Pub Notes [Aug. 18] (of which I’m a fan, as you know) that Hans-Peter has become a permanent resident.

However, when I read the part about his attorney having given him bad advice, I winced with concern that readers might think it was I who did so. One can imagine how such an inference could be made: H-P lived in Athens at the time he was misinformed, I am one of only two or three local immigration attorneys, and H-P was later a client of mine. I decided to let it pass, thinking I was probably overreacting. However, when Carl Jordan approached me in a restaurant this evening and inquired about the bad advice he presumed I had given H-P, I realized other readers are probably thinking the same… Of course, you know that H-P was misadvised by a lawyer in Atlanta—I only wish you had thought to write as much.

You will recall that after H-P had given up and gone back to Germany, I offered to help and did secure his return, as your Feb. 26, 2003 story kindly detailed. I would appreciate it if you would let readers know in your next Pub Notes that it was not a local attorney who misadvised Hans-Peter.

Blair Dorminey Athens

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens Join us in welcoming our new minister, the Reverend Alison Wilbur Eskildsen.

She leads worship at 11 am on August 29 on the topic “Let’s Worship!” Her message explores the meaning of worship for an open and diverse religious community. Unitarian Universalism, a values-based religion, encourages a free and responsible search for meaning and spiritual growth.

Learn more at our website:

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Waste Not, Want Not: ACC commissioners have been holding the line against the inclusion of a sewer line along Sandy Creek in the county’s public utilities service delivery plan for months now, greeting each staff revision with a fresh round of instructions to find a way to serve existing homes in the area without laying a bunch of waste-carrying pipe alongside the source of our main drinking water intake and simultaneously enabling more sprawl.

Last week, commissioners on the Legislative Review Committee heard a presentation from an EPA Region 4 representative on decentralized wastewater systems, a possible alternative to gravity sewers and lift stations.

How much more likely would individual homeowners be to “tie in” to a cluster system than to a sewer line? But at least, it appears, we now have a good idea on the table.

Charles-Ryan Barber

Paul Broun, Jr.’s Krazy Korner On the heels of news that students across the country were being asked to bring cleaning supplies and toilet paper to their severely underfunded and overcrowded schools, Congress moved to pass a school-funding bill to rehire and retain hundreds of thousands of teachers by shoring up state budgets with federal monies.

Thousands of policemen and firefighters are also kept on the job as a result of the bill.

Congressman Broun, Jr. is upset, calling it “out of control spending.”

Firefighters? Teachers? We can’t afford that! We’ve got a bloated military to shovel hundreds of billions of dollars into! Broun introduced a bill earlier this year to ensure that the military budget always increases, even though we spend more on it than the cost of the Earth’s other militaries combined. But when it comes time to teach children and keep our own streets safe, that spending is somehow wasteful and something only Karl Marx would consider.

But after all the sky-is-falling rhetoric about how the “liberals” are spending the country to death, Broun didn’t even show up for the vote! His spokeswoman cited “previously scheduled commitments.” Huh? Broun was sure enough able to clear his schedule to vote for the legalization of crush videos. What could be more pressing than defending our freedoms against the “steamroller of socialism?” [Matthew Pulver]

Dan Lorentz

A Plea for Sanity: One of the most notable symptoms of Athens’ annual influx of students is the insane traffic congestion that locks up the downtown streets. Given the number of automobiles on the road as folks arrive for fall semester (and before they realize that they don’t have to take their cars everywhere they go), it’s crucially important that drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians alike pay attention to their surroundings and follow traffic laws. Want proof? Last Tuesday afternoon, Flagpole ad rep Anita Aubrey—and doubtless many of you—witnessed the unnerving spectacle of a college-aged young man lying in the middle of Jackson Street, shivering with shock from the compound leg fracture he sustained when he was hit in the crosswalk at Broad Street by an SUV driven by a college-aged young woman.

It wasn’t clear who had been at fault, and as awful as that guy’s injuries were, it obviously could Pulaski resident Lisa Tantillo presides over the flock of sheep her have been even worse. A quick roommate hired to clear away kudzu in their yard. The sheep work for review, then: don’t make left Alternative Landscapes, a company owned by Jennif Chandler, who turns on red lights, don’t walk can be reached at (706) 248-3745. when the signal says “DON’T WALK,” don’t ride your bike Decentralized “cluster” systems transport between lanes of traffic, don’t text while wastewater from individual septic tanks to a driving… you get the picture. shared filter in easy-to-bury, two-inch diameter lines; the treated water is then sent out Commit Yourself: The website for Whatever to a drip irrigation field that can function as It Takes, the local initiative whose ambitious community greenspace. It’s cheaper and less goal is to see to it that every child in Clarke environmentally intrusive than a sewer and, County completes a post-secondary education, as a “green” development tool, could qualify has a new page titled “Commitments,” and it’s for federal grant funding. And decentralized pretty sweet. The page lists the many local systems for existing neighborhoods would organizations, businesses and institutions be less likely than sewer line extensions to that are sharing in that goal and exactly what encourage new development in outlying areas they are contributing to the effort to achieve where we don’t necessarily want it. it (check out the impressive roll at www.witaThere are plenty of questions to be thens.org/commitments). If all those names answered about how this would work: What next to all those commitments inspire you to exactly would be the county’s role in the sysget involved with the initiative, good. You’re tem’s implementation and maintenance? How already on the website; sign up to help. might this be worked into the development of a local septic ordinance?

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Brainstorms: Downtown Athens is not brobar patrons leave between buildings, on sideken. It’s walkably compact, with touches of walks, in gutters.)

Main Street charm, dashes of contemporary pizzazz and enough grit, weirdness and bustle Messing with Success?: That’s all fun and to give it an urban vibe. But, like many other interesting stuff to talk about. Some of it Athenians, I still can’t stop imagining ways to is trivial-sounding and some is big-picture. make it even better.

But why mess with downtown at any scale We improvement enthusiasts got a rare if—as most people agree—it works now? chance to share ideas with one another at a Well, because without some “messing,” brainstorming session held at Ciné in July. downtown Athens is likely—as it grows—to Athens-Clarke County commissioners Mike lose at least some of what currently gives it Hamby, Kelly Girtz and Andy Herod organized charm and character and to miss opportunithe session and invited downtown business ties to become one of the most remarkable owners and advocates, neighborhood activists, small city downtowns in the United States. real estate agents, designers and architects, (For a fascinating articulation of the pospeople representing the University of Georgia, sibilities for that, see Kevan Williams’ design the mayor, fellow commissioners and mayoral presentation “Threads: Stitching Urbanism, and commission candidates, among others.

Ecology and Community Together in Athens, As you’d expect, participants offered lots Georgia” at www.issuu.com/kevan/docs/ of suggestions for particular amenities and threads?viewMode=magazine.) features, preferences about traffic patterns, You can’t easily preserve valued sightopinions about buildings and a host of other lines—like the one down Prince Avenue to specifics. People also brought up more general City Hall that we lost with the Athens First questions. Should we expand the boundaries building—without some “messing.” We’re not of downtown? How can likely to develop an we balance historic attractive riverfront preservation objecfor downtown through tives and the desire piecemeal commercial to preserve view sheds development. And how and sightlines with the are we going to preneed to increase denserve the charm of the sity (and thus building historic part of downheights)? Do we need town if we surround it a set of strong design all with characterless guidelines? How can schlock? we encourage UGA’s campus and facility Time for an Alliance?: plans to more freSo, if you agree we quently embrace rather need to “mess” with than turn away from our downtown’s success downtown? to preserve and extend And, usefully, disit, let’s return to that cussion turned to the key moving-forward question of how to question: What should move forward with a we do?

The view of the downtown skyline from Prince plan for downtown.

One obvious thing Avenue used to include City Hall’s dome; now it’s Should we, like some is to create a master dominated by the Athens First building. other cities have, form plan for downtown. As a downtown alliance to previously reported in spearhead efforts to create a master plan? this column, Kathryn Lookofsky, the executive I’ll get back to that key question soon. But director of the Athens Downtown Development first, let’s get a flavor for some of the conAuthority, has been pushing for precisely crete suggestions people offered for improving that almost since she started in her job four downtown. years ago. Even though her quasi-public organization advocates for downtown interests, Some Suggestions: One participant in the sesorganizing a successful master plan means sion proposed an outdoor concert venue that’s bringing not just business owners to the table, exempt from the county noise ordinance. but also local government, the university and Another suggested that what we really need neighborhood activists. Getting all these is more family-oriented shopping and dining players to work together is no easy task— because downtown shouldn’t just be an enter- especially when it’s unclear, as it currently is, tainment district for college kids. who will pay for the master plan. (Such plans Closing off College Square to create a are aren’t cheap. According to Lookofsky, a pedestrian plaza was—as ever—a controvermaster plan for downtown could cost as much sial suggestion. For some, it’s obvious that as $150,000.) such a plaza would be a vibrant and distincMaybe, as suggested at the July braintive attraction; others are sure it will hurt storming session, it might make sense to form business and disrupt traffic. Converting the a separate downtown alliance composed of all one-way streets to two-way streets seemed to the major players to jumpstart and lead the be a less controversial suggestion. Everybody efforts to generate a master plan. That idea seemed in favor of installing more bike racks. seemed to intrigue many in the room that day, Demolishing the federal building—because including Hamby, Girtz and Herod. it’s so damned ugly—got applause.

One thing is clear: there are lots of ideas There were suggestions for a trolley. For out there for downtown and a growing desire creating shade-covered walkways connecting to start moving forward on planning for downnearby residential neighborhoods to downtown’s future. The question now is: Who’s town. And one person hated to bring it up going to move us forward and how? again, but did: We’ve got to do something about the stink. (You know, from what boorish Dan Lorentz athensrising@flagpole.com

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city pages interest. “Many times we find that the pieces all fall into place once the right people get to talking about a shared project. It is our pleasure to put these folks together.” The office is constantly looking simply to discover what is already happening across campus. “A big part of our job is to find out the great things that are going on all across campus, in the classroom, in research, in operations and in outreach. Once we find out what people are doing—and what they want to do—we can try to get the right people together to help with their project,” says Lentini.

UGArden is a fairly recent example of how they accomplished just that. The Athens Area Master Gardener Association was interested in creating an exhibition garden and coincidentally a student group was looking to create a community garden. By coming to the Office of Sustainability for help, the students were put in contact with the Master Gardeners, and then both were connected to the UGA Physical Plant Grounds Department and allowed to secure university land for a garden on South Milledge Avenue. UGArden, the only studentrun, community-supported vegetable garden on the UGA campus, was thus taken from idea to fruition.

The Princeton Review accolade was due in part to various programs and environmental features on campus that had been implemented long before the creation of the Office of Sustainability. In particular, the Every Drop Counts campaign that was initiated during the drought in 2007 was highlighted for its effective campus-wide 30 percent reduction of water usage and the installation of over 50 rain gardens to improve the university’s stormwater management. The UGA campus boasts five LEED certified buildings, and within the last three years the building energy upgrades performed across campus have reduced total energy costs by more than 5 percent. Within the last decade, over 46 acres of previously paved areas have been returned to green space. And the UGA Campus Transit System actually has the highest passenger volume of any university transit system in the country, serving more than 9 million riders between July 2008 and June 2009.

The university is saving $18,000 a month simply through recycling. There is an ongoing initiative to implement waste reduction strategies and further increase recycling rates from the current rate of about 40 percent

UGA Sustainability Office Hopes to Affect Campus, Town Alike After only six months in operation, the University of Georgia Office of Sustainability is already making great strides and helping UGA—and Athens—be recognized on a national level as an environmentally friendly destination. Princeton Review has listed the University of Georgia on its 2011 Green Rating Honor Roll, which surveyed 703 universities and ended up with only 18 making the cut. As the UGA Office of Sustainability enters a new school year, now seems like a great time to find out more about this relatively new office, what it does, and where it hopes to take us.

Kevin Kirsche, director of the Office of Sustainability, bases his interest in sustainability on a combination of reason and faith.

“The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it,” says Kirsche. “Conceptually, sustainability makes sense. The natural resources on which we all depend are finite; they must be restored and conserved for life to continue to thrive.

On a personal level, I believe there is intrinsic value in nature, and I am motivated by a scriptural basis for stewardship.” Kirsche is joined by Andrew Lentini, the recycling coordinator for UGA, as the power duo behind the new sustainability office.

So, what exactly has this new office accomplished so far? It was able to open its doors on Feb. 17, 2010, thanks to funding provided by an annual three-dollar “green fee,” the implementation of which received overwhelming student support. “More people voted for [the green fee] than the Tate II expansion,” says Lentini.

Student support, through the green fee and student groups, is crucial to Kirsche and Lentini’s work as they plan to “coordinate, communicate and advance sustainability initiatives on campus,” says Kirsche. Simply put, “students’ willingness to devote their time and resources to improve sustainability on campus was the driving force behind the creation of the Office of Sustainability,” he says. “Our office exists because of the students.”

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“We have enjoyed positive working relationships with many in ACC government and the community at large,” says Kirsche. “We look forward to enhancing those connections—and developing new ones—to promote a shared quality of life and natural resources.”

Lara Mathes, who was appointed to the Environmental Coordinator position in June but has since left the post, had planned on monthly meetings with Kirsche to find new ways their offices could work together. Already in the works are a shared project on building audit programs to analyze the flow of energy in buildings and reduce energy input, and a study looking at the feasibility of biofuel for both campus and Athens public transit systems. “Regular interaction with the ACC Environmental Coordinator will facilitate towngown collaborations,” Kirsche asserts, and he hopes the position will be filled again soon.

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So, with this new office in place to further the university’s sustainable practices, what can students and other Athens residents expect in the future? Kirsche hopes to see UGA become a restorative and self-sufficient organism. “We can envision a regenerative campus that produces more resources than it consumes, generates more renewable energy than it uses, improves water quality and the quality of life in general in our community.”

Simply being able to envision such ideals is a credit to senior university administration having had “the insight to incorporate sustainability as a foundational priority of the strategic plan,” according to Kirsche.

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Barnes came down four-square against the structure: “It is too painful and divisive to build a mosque there.” Deal assured voters that he also was “absolutely opposed” to the proposed mosque, which he said would be “an insult.”

At the risk of spoiling the party, I feel compelled to point out that the building of a mosque in New York will have no impact on any of the major problems that Georgia’s next governor will confront. We should be paying attention instead to issues that hit a little closer to home, such as the condition of our public education system.

One of the most significant achievements of Gov. Sonny Perdue during his two terms in office has been an unprecedented cutoff in state funding for local school systems. From the time of Carl Sanders until now, a top priority of every governor had been to upgrade the state’s public schools by devoting more financial resources to education.

That trend came to an end under Perdue. The state budget provides money to local school systems through a funding formula developed under Gov. Joe Frank Harris that is known as Quality Based Education (QBE).

Starting with the first budget he signed in 2003, Perdue recommended and the Legislature agreed each year to cut hundreds of millions in QBE funding to local systems.

By the time we reach the end of the current fiscal year, the combined amount of those QBE funding reductions will total more than $4.3 billion.

To be fair, some of those austerity cuts were made during bad economic times. When

Perdue first took office, Georgia was still coming out of the recession that was aggravated by the September 2001 terrorist attacks. The last two years of Perdue’s second term have coincided with the recession triggered by the collapse of the housing and real estate industry. But even during the interlude when the economy was in better shape, Perdue and the Legislature continued to slash formula funding for schools.

What have these funding reductions done for our students? Georgia still ranks in the bottom 10 percent of states in average SAT scores. We have one of the worst dropout rates in the nation. Shortly before she stepped down as state school superintendent, Kathy Cox noted that we now provide state funding for only 147 of the 180 days that make up a school year.

It would be nice if voters knew whether the candidates for governor want to continue these spending reductions or reverse that trend. Deal has said he wants to get rid of the state income tax, a move that would eliminate more than half of the revenue that goes into the state budget. Does he intend to continue cutting funds for education so that he can axe the tax? Barnes has indicated he wants to spend more on public education. How does he intend to get the money to do that in a budget that has already shrunk by more than $3 billion in two years because of the current recession?

We would be better served if the candidates would begin discussing the real issue of education rather than waste time with bogus issues such as a proposal to build a mosque in a faraway city. Is that too much to hope for?

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com Tom Crawford is the editor of The Georgia Report, an Internet news service at gareport.com that covers government and politics in Georgia.

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comment Taking Stock of Trail Creek By now, you’ve seen the reports. Trail Creek turned blue. More than 15,000 fishes died.

The list of chemicals: formaldehyde, dichlorobenzene, methanol, glutaraldehyde, maybe others. More remediation is needed, and residents along Trail Creek and the North Oconee River are still worried about what they’ve been breathing these last four weeks. Meanwhile, our community still has a lot of work to do to sort through the lessons learned from this spill, from proper public notification in an emergency to the effects of budget cuts on our state Environmental Protection Division.

Still, it seems worth pausing now—four weeks after the spill—to take stock specifically of the ecological aspect of this disaster.

It’s evident that Trail Creek is dead, but why does the creek itself matter? It’s only one stream out of dozens in Athens, after all.

Small streams run through the Georgia Piedmont like veins, flowing to the rivers that provide us with water. After the fire at the J&J Chemical Company on July 28, and after all of those chemicals washed into Trail Creek and the North Oconee River, it’s been said that the impact on the river itself has been minimal. While we don’t know what the chemical concentrations have been at all times in the river since then, it’s true that there was no evidence of dead fish in the river, save a few that appeared to float down from the stream.

The reality is that all the effects of small streams also flow downstream. Small streams like Trail Creek, with their resident organisms, impact the quality of a river’s health far down the network. Small streams in the Southeast are hotspots of biodiversity. Before the spill, the Trail Creek watershed—while not pristine—was capable of supporting a healthy aquatic community, now decimated. By eliminating almost all aquatic life in Trail Creek, we’ve probably hindered the stream’s capability to retain nutrients that run off from our roads and lawns, and to transport the organic matter that feeds the fishes and bugs that live in the river—ecosystem services that are almost impossible to replace. The protection of the organisms that live in small streams is essential for the long-term sustainability of clean, healthy rivers.

But Trail Creek is just one stream, right?

Unfortunately, this is not the first time a spill of this magnitude has occurred in Athens.

Seven years ago this month, an estimated 14,000 gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel flowed into Hunnicutt Creek, which rises in Homewood Hills and flows into the Middle Oconee River at Ben Burton Park. Upper Oconee Watershed Network (UOWN) volunteers sampled the stream immediately after the spill and found dead fishes, salamanders and invertebrates. It took a few months for life to return to the stream and two years for it to return to pre-spill diversity. The Hunnicutt Creek contamination event was quick: some of the pollution flushed out in a matter of days, and cleanup crews soon set to removing what

remained with high-powered vacuums.

It’s hard to say when we will see recovery in Trail Creek, because the conditions there are very different. First, most of the chemicals and the blue dye are water-soluble, making removal more complicated than it was in Hunnicutt Creek. Second, the large wetland near the site of the fire has released contaminated water only slowly over time, prolonging the presence of chemicals throughout the stream. It is difficult to predict how long the biotic life in a stream the size of Trail Creek will take to recover from this kind of prolonged exposure to chemical pollution.

Two major toxic spills have occurred on Athens streams in less than 10 years. We think about natural systems as far away and not a part of our daily lives, but every one of us lives in a watershed that sustains life.

To sustain our watersheds in turn, we need to have a common goal of clean, healthy, diverse aquatic systems. We need to be better prepared for spills such as the ones at David Oil Company and J&J Chemical. We need finally to move past the idea that, as the old saying goes, dilution is the solution to water pollution.

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It seems ironic that ecological disasters like these can take place in a community that values its natural environment as much as Athens does. In the case of our local streams, they have become degraded through decades of abuses large and small. It’s a tall order, but there are things you can do to help: (1) Athens Clarke-County has embarked on its first ever watershed improvement plan.

Learn about and support this local government initiative; you can look up the plan’s stream reports in the “Document Center” at www. accstormwater.com. (2) While on that website, find out what watershed you live in using the interactive map. (3) Lastly, come and see the aquatic life that local streams harbor at a UOWN stream-monitoring event. UOWN (www. uown.org) is an all-volunteer organization that could use your help in monitoring the health of our local creeks and rivers—even the little ones. And, yes, they all matter.

Jessica Sterling Jessica Sterling is a graduate student in the Odum School of Ecology at UGA, where she studies Trail Creek and other urban streams in Athens. She serves on the board of the Upper Oconee Watershed Network.

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end of the power fast was like the beginning, except we didn’t go to the lake this time.—Lois Songster

Saturday, a relatively normal day. We rode our bikes to the farmers market and caught up on all the goings on.—Mary Songster Maggie and I invited some friends over to hang out, talking and taking pictures of each other. (The camera wasn’t ours, so it counted as a loophole.)—Lois

As soon as my parents flipped the switch, I had my phone in my hand and was looking at all the texts I had missed, reconnecting with my digital world. But I won’t forget the humbling feeling of being out of the loop, of reconnecting with the area around me and my family.—Maggie

week we used about 30 KWH of electricity; the previous week in May we used about 250 KWH. In 2009 we used 12,300 KWH, so the savings from that week represent less than 2 percent of our yearly usage. It was not a romance about life before electricity, no matter what Mary says.—Michael

In a family conversation after the week had ended, the one thing mentioned most often as missed was hot water and the ability to take a hot shower. This won’t surprise anyone who has been on extended backpacking trips; being able to take a hot shower after a week on the trail is emblematic of a return to civilization.—Michael Songster

The most significant change was communication. My best conservation effort will be to make sure I maintain actual contact with people. Go visit someone today: I’m going to start there. I really enjoyed small errands on the bike.—Mary

By prior planning the girls had arranged for several friends to come over and hang out until we were to go to Classic City Roller Girls bout in the evening (our third use of the car). It was beyond wonderful to have a house full of young ladies hanging out. It was a perfect kind of re-entry over-stimulation to be at the very exciting Roller Girls event—very alter-ego. A good time was had by all, and we will go again.—Mary

I was the most nervous family member heading into this and I kept saying it was because I must have the most to learn. I don’t know which of us learned the most, but it has been a long time since I have had such a core awakening. I can tell I’ll probably need to do this again as a swift reminder of where I really am.—Mary

My sister and I had planned for two friends to come over that day and go see the local Roller Girls at Skate-A-Round USA. With no air conditioning, I didn’t exactly count it as cheating, but I was soon too lost in the excitement to really care.—Maggie Songster

On a deeper level, though, the fast made me realize how much the populace is dependent on oil and electricity. So, go ahead, try the power fast for yourself. It’s going to make you learn a whole bunch about yourself.—Lois

We brought all the girls back to the house so they could have a little nighttime-without-power experience. They sat on the front porch surrounded by candles and did pretty much what they normally do.—Mary

After the last parent picked up, we brought the remaining kids home, by car. About 11:30 we decided it was OK to turn the power back on. After flipping all the breakers back on we turned on lights. Maggie was still outside and I was thinking how amazing she was this whole week and here she is still not rushing back. I go to sit on the steps next to her and realize she has her phone and is catching up on the gazillion texts she’s missed in a week. I love her.—Mary

Partially it served as an adventure within our lives. We did not vacate but instead remained and lived a different way for a week. At its most obvious it was what we called it: a fast. We deprived ourselves of a convenience as a tool to reflect upon electricity’s role in our lives. And it is hard to overstate how completely we are intertwined.—Michael

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Afterwards, we drove back home and for about two hours sat on the front porch in the candlelight and did what teens usually do: gossip, chatter and goof off. At the same time, I was counting down the minutes until the power fast would end, but a small part of me would almost miss it.

Almost.—Maggie

The fast was both fun and infuriating at the same time. It made me more aware of how much energy we use in a day, how nice hot showers are, and how much I love dairy.—Lois

Sunday morning, hot water for whoever wants it. What had I learned? I’m still thinking this one through. I thought I would get some clarity on energy conservation. It was more like the story engineers tell about NASA spending $2 million to develop a pen that would write in space while the USSR used pencils. I want to start doing the simplest thing. I would never have guessed that I would be more sympathetic to the psychology of characters in Jane Austen novels.—Mary Why did we do this? I think I know better the things that the fast was not. It was not a conservation effort. During the

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The girls are mildly suspicious, and I a little guilty about our spike in use, but call a friend and relay the irony. Power is back in less than two hours. We feel ready for anything.—Mary The end.

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hether you’re here for the weekend, a semester, a sabbatical or you’re sticking it out longterm, you’ll more than likely form an Athens memory that’ll stay with you the rest of your life. One of our eccentric watering holes may always save a seat for you. The best hamburger ever may come from a late-night flat top downtown. You may stumble upon the love of your life reading from a dog-eared Flannery O’Connor novel under the Tree That Owns Itself. Or, if shopping is more your thing (and we hope that it is), you’ll never forget the first time a local shopkeep welcomed you into his or her store. Because just like bands and bars, Athens is home to more entrepreneurs than you can shake a dollar at, and, thankfully, they whip up some delicious, useful and eminently salable stuff.

local coffee shops’, bars’ and restaurants’ bean stock in steady supply and, for that matter, our nerves at a steady code-red security alert.

For 17 years, head roaster Charlie Mustard has turned raw green coffee beans into black gold for Jittery Joe’s brand coffee. As he’s moved his operation from its original Washington Street location, to a West Broad tackle shop, to a Boulevard storage space, to a renovated Prince Avenue church, the pungent scent of roasting coffee has tracked Mustard from spot to spot, offering Athenians a familiar aromatic clue that fresh coffee is on its way. From the company’s current digs in a rusty metal East Broad Street warehouse, Mustard roasts around 3000 pounds of coffee each week. Those beans are shipped out to the local branches of Jittery Joe’s cafes,

Slow Coffee, which seeks to make every morning cup a part of a sustainable and responsible coffee culture.

Both roasters’ headquarters are in distinctly Athenian buildings, and deserve the notice even of caffeine abstainers (both of you).

Both roasters host regular “cuppings”—the coffee world’s version of wine tastings—that are palate pleasers worth repeating. So, call ahead or track the Flagpole weekly for upcoming opportunities.

Beer As you may have heard, Athens is a drinking town with a college problem (or a football obsession, or a music hobby, or whatever). So,

Art & Crafts If your tastes tend toward an underground/do-it-yourself style, be sure to check out the many craft fairs occurring year-round and introduce yourself to a local painter, jeweler or fledgling clothier. A bulk of the fairs crop up during the holiday season, most notably the Athens Indie Craftstravaganza, held twice a year at the corner of Pulaski and Clayton Streets. But businesses, non-profits and art studio spaces frequently host craft events, so keep checking the Flagpole calendar for any upcoming sales.

Over the years, UGA’s stellar arts programs have kept Athens in steady supply of innovative craftspeople, especially ceramicists and potters: at times it feels as if you can’t toss a mound of clay in the air without it landing on a kiln. With so much local production, area galleries and stores stock much of the pottery Charlie Mustard pours a batch of coffee beans at Jittery Joe’s Roaster. emerging from those fires.

R. Wood Studio Ceramics is perhaps the it was only a matter of time before we started to franchises in Savannah, Milledgeville and most widely regarded and longest-running producing our own line of suds.

New York, as well as several smaller stops local potter. Owner Rebecca Wood, a UGA While some townies will argue that the in between. Mustard claims to have roasted grad, and her team of artisans have stoked true Athenian beer is a dirt cheap Pabst Blue over one million pounds of coffee since 1994, quite the reputation in the studio’s nearly Ribbon or Miller Genuine Draft, the only and that amount of experience allows him to 20-year history, and their idiosyncratic designs tweak traditional roasts like Ethiopian Harrar locally brewed and bottled beer (we’re not have graced not only the shelves of regional counting your neighbor’s home brew, or the and Tanzanian Peaberry into blends that keep and national boutiques, but also the pages fine product of the Copper Creek Brewing Co., Athens addicted. of major national catalogues. You can find R. which is sold only on tap at the downtown The new kid on the scene is 1000 Faces Wood’s creations at one of downtown’s hip pub) is Terrapin, whose frothy ales are found Coffee, a 4-year-old, ecologically minded home ware retailers, or you get acquainted in most taverns and grocers around town. roaster that has brewed conservationist ideolwith them personally by dropping by the stuThe brewers fermented the maiden batch ogy into its business plan. For 1000 Faces, dio storefront in the Carr’s Hill neighborhood. coffee isn’t just coffee; it’s about relationof their signature Rye Pale Ale in 2002, but the beer was only available, at first, as a ships: between consumer and roaster, roaster and farmer, and farmer and consumer. Working draft in the Athens area. Since then, Terrapin from a model of direct roaster-to-farmer trade has opened a 40,000-square-foot brewery in (no middlemen), 1000 Faces encourages envi2007, pushed distribution into nine states Like any other self-respecting college town, ronmentally sustainable farming practices in and expanded its beer roster to include more our little burgh thrives on coffee. And not just the growing regions from which they source varieties than should be consumed in an eveany coffee: We want locally roasted, shade their beans. ning. Terrapin’s growth seems to be moving grown, organic or fair trade beans served But its not just heady economics. at an unstoppable clip, but the operation is from one of our home-grown coffee shops.

Responsible business makes for quality cofstill relatively small compared to other craft From Prince Avenue through downtown, from fee, and 1000 Faces has the awards to prove breweries. In 2009, Terrapin brewed 14,000 Five Points out to the Eastside and further it. In 2010, the roaster earned a spot on a barrels of beer, which converts roughly into on to Watkinsville, the area boasts so many list of the best new roasters in the country almost 200,000 cases. Compared to, say, New quirky cafes that you need the mind jolt only in Imbibe Magazine, came in second in Roast Belgium’s 585,000 barrels a year, Terrapin’s a double espresso delivers to remember them Magazine’s Micro Roaster of the Year competioutput is a drop in the pint glass. But the all. You can almost map directions using coftion and sent two of its baristas to national brewery’s small size allows for ambitious fee shops as landmarks. competitions. And from its offices in an old experimentation: Terrapin’s seasonal oneOn top of the cafes, Athens is home to two machine shop on Barber Street, the company time-only batches disappear quicker than an high-grade, locally focused roasters who keep has spearheaded an international movement, open happy hour bar stool, but it’s still worth

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asking bartenders and package stores what’s the new brew.

In the short time since its opening in 2007, the craft brewery has turned into the de facto hangout for the bluegrass and black lab set. Tours of the Newton Bridge Road facility, concluding with cold pints of Espresso Stout and impromptu games of Frisbee golf, have become, for many locals, a regular happy hour choice that now draws 3,000 visitors a month.

Sustainable Food The increasing health-consciousness of Americans at large has given rise to a desire to know where our food comes from. Many Athens businesses have formed based on the ideal of closing the gap between farmer and consumer. The re-emergence of the Athens Farmers Market and the maturation of Athens Locally Grown, an online farmers market with a weekly brick-and-mortar pickup point, equally illustrate Athenians’ inclination toward local, health-aware and environmentally focused businesses.

One business indicative of these yearnings is the Full Moon Farm cooperative and its Washington Street extension, the restaurant Farm 255. The operation can be simplified like so: Out at the Full Moon Farm, recently relocated to a Watkinsville plot, farmers harvest veggies in the morning that end up in Farm 255‘s frying pans that evening, creating a menu that shifts daily and seasonally. While they’ve always raised most of the meat served at Farm 255’s tables, the group recently expanded the livestock side of the cooperative, Moonshine Meats, onto acreage out Tallahassee Road. And in another interesting twist on the typical restaurant, many of the farmers and cowhands who tend the animals and crops by day also serve the food at night.

It should also be noted that other Athens restaurants—Big City Bread Cafe, Five & Ten, The National, Donderos’ Kitchen, White Tiger Gourmet and Lindsey’s Culinary Market, to name several—make a serious effort to use locally produced ingredients as much as possible. It’s a trend that’s growing and, hopefully, will continue to gain momentum.

While you could consider the enumeration of all these options a nudge, perhaps, to choose local businesses, Athens really wouldn’t mind giving you a shove in that direction: Buy local—whenever, wherever, however possible. We even have a soon-tobe-launched website devoted to that notion: www.weareathens.org. As Athenians, we consider ourselves lucky to be immersed in such a creative, forward-thinking entrepreneurial culture, and take great pride in our homegrown businesses. We hope you’ll do the same. So, no matter how long your stay in our Southern Gothic metropolis, there’s really no reason to chow at a chain restaurant, drink West Coastroasted coffee, guzzle midwestern beer or buy Wal-Mart’s subpar version of a purified human protein. Give the local choice a shot.

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art notes Graphic and Sexy Drawn Together: Recently opened to the public is “Re:mark, 2010 Drawing Invitational” in the third floor gallery of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The exhibition, co-curated by Gallery Director Jeffrey Whittle and Professor of Printmaking Jon Swindler, seeks to visually elucidate the rapidly shifting ideas and approaches to drawing as an art form, as an activity and as an elemental expression in and of itself. The four artists represented by the show approach the idea of mark-making from a variety of angles, and while all are conceptually high-minded and developed, the visuals run the gamut. However, the show is rich in information and technique, and offers a refreshing sense of discovery through one of our oldest human activities.

Barb Bondy’s process-based works employ repetition, incident and untraditional means of making lines, shapes and marks on paper (to oversimplify, radically!). Surprisingly, one of her obsessive drawings, using an office supply store “Copy” stamp to slowly build a softly undulating field of blue, is one of the most gorgeous and calming moments in the show.

A close second would be her insanely fragile freeform graphite-refill sculpture, perched precariously atop a rounded pedestal.

Phillip Buntin’s glossy black drawings on plexiglass lift imagery and symbols from anonymous charts and diagrams to create abstracted compositions that are literally layered on top of one another. The gallery lighting passing through the plastic sheets casts doubles of the marks on the walls visible behind the work—a presumably not-soaccidental decision on the part of the artist, which adds a ghostly aftereffect to the already mysterious compositions. Sara Schneckloth really delivers in the show, showcasing an epic white-on-black drawing of achingly beautiful line work, bumped up against a jaw-dropping cut-paper composition, which cradles sumptuous yet exacting graphite depictions of unknown bodily organs. Her interactive works, which command the floor of the gallery, bring the same confidence and bravado of skill showcased in the wall pieces. However, the

interactive components of the pieces feel more like experiments than finished statements— which, given the nature of the exhibition, would fall right in line. The weak link in the show is unfortunately Kathleen McShane, whose colored pencil and collage works on paper almost disappear against the more striking works of the remaining artists, particularly Schneckloth.

Her sculptural pieces, like the small grouping of papier-mâché rock forms, begin to assert themselves boldly, but the remaining work recedes from the mind all too quickly.

Regardless, “Re:mark” is an engaging exhibition, certainly worth checking out, and a wonderful way to start the season.

display in his amorous wolf-meets-lady love scene; Lachlan Smith’s embroidered ladies and ta-tas are as charming as they are bizarre (I wasn’t aware that embroidery floss came in so many flesh tones!); Lea Purvis has begun to incorporate not only figures, but bold color to her already considerable list of abilities; and Keith P. Rein (the “P” is for Penis) brings the show home with a small wall installation of drawings and paintings, each incorporating a sophisticated use of line and a barely-there color palette. I recently met Athens artist Joe Havasy, who had mentioned he was working

Bull. Each of the works hangs between a stylist’s booth and chair, and each draws you in further than the last, possibly due to the fact that each image, roughly based on an imagined mask, stares back as intently as you let it. I’d seen Bull’s paintings floating around the art school when I was a student, but somehow their current placement in the salon foregrounds their substantial visual impact and introduces nuances that I hadn’t noticed previously. For one, they look great in the space (although that’s nothing new). Bull’s fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants brushwork and

Leave Grandma at Home: I dropped by the Walk the Line tattoo parlor just before closing time to check out the second annual erotic art show, titled Sara Schneckloth’s drawing “Confluence II” is part of the “Re:mark” drawing invitational at the Lamar Dodd School of Art through Sept. 17.

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Featuring work in various media by about 20 different artists, “Don’t on the grossest painting he’d ever made for mark-making exude equal parts self-consciousTell…” is an engaging exhibition: many of the the exhibition. Joe, if you’re reading this, I do ness and aplomb within the same composiworks on display dispense with the anticipabelieve you’ve succeeded. tions. Bull’s masks pucker, bubble, ooze and tion of sex (a lynchpin of the “erotic”) and re-form before our eyes. Her spidery line jumps venture boldly into the lands of pornography.

A Confession, Readers: I’m not one to reguacross rough patches of paint, evoking scales, This is not meant to disparage the show (it’s larly splurge on salon-style haircuts. That said, then lace and then scales again. Two pairs of awesome, see it and see it again) but rather, ascending the surprisingly steep and numerhungry birds peek from behind hungrier teeth; an adjustment of language that, I think, betous stairways to Republic Salon downtown this is sexy, scary stuff. Jaime Bull is one to ter prepares viewers for what they might find. on East Broad Street was a first for me, to watch.

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Georgia’s largest annual pottery exhibition, “Perspectives” will feature the work of 50 contemporary and folk potters from all corners of the state. Held at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF), the eighth annual “Perspectives 2010: Georgia Pottery Invitational” will kick off on Aug. 27, 6–9 p.m., with an opening reception gala and preview sale. For $5, attendees can meet this year’s “Perspectives” participants, while enjoying complimentary refreshments and live music performed by the Georgia Mudcats, an old-time A.J. Argentina string band with a Southern flair. Patrons will receive first dibs on an extensive selection totaling nearly 5,000 pieces of original, hand-made, functional pottery.

“Perspectives was the brainchild of Bob Marable, who wanted to start an event that would connect pottery enthusiasts with potters,” says planning committee member Nancy Green. With the help of Geoff Pickett and other volunteers, the idea materialized into an event comprised of 40 Georgia potters and 10 collectors selling and displaying their art. Now in its eighth year of operation, the number of contributors has increased and the scope of the event has widened. “There are 16 potters from the Athens, Watkinsville, High Shoals and Farmington areas, and 31 from other areas of Georgia. The event only includes potters that live and work in Georgia,” says Green.

The exhibition and sale will be open for viewing from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. each day between Aug. 28 and Sept. 15. Within OCAF’s Main Gallery will be the “Perspectives 2010: Georgia Pottery Invitational Exhibition,” in which each participating member will feature two original pots and one ceramic piece.

Within the Members’ Gallery will be the “Out of Round” exhibition, which in conjunction with this year’s featured workshop,

will include pieces of pottery that started out round on the wheel but were then altered into another shape.

galleries and shops across the country. During the workshop, held from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. each day, Miller will demonstrate his method of creating his signature wheel-thrown and alteredach Saturday over the course of the exhibition, participottery forms. Techniques covered will include altering cylpating instructors A.J. Argentina (Aug. 28), Glenn Dair inders and bowls, making custom lids, faceting away clay to (Sept. 4) and Ron Myers (Sept. 11) will give free demrefine shapes, and sculpting complex pouring vessels such as onstrations on wheel-thrown pottery and hand-building techteapots and pitchers. niques in the Rocket Hall Courtyard from 1–4 p.m. Additionally, Although this is considered a functional or utilitarian poton Saturday, Aug. 28 and Sept. 4 at 2 p.m. there will be “walktery show, there is no shortage of creativity among the artists participating. “Handbuilt, inventive creations in mud,” Glenn Dair Lora Rust states Bridget Fox when describing her business, Mudventions. “My creations are unique in that they are very organic and textured forms that totally embody the in-, of-, and from-the-earth look.”

Inspiration often extends beyond the natural world into manmade and cultural influences. “My influences come from so many places in my life: ranging from gothic architecture memorized while staring at the ceiling in church as a kid to flipping through a fashion magazine and seeing a luxurious dress draped on a woman’s body,” says Lora Rust, who creates elegantly patterned and textured ceramic art through a stylized sculpting technique about” gallery talks in the two exhibition rooms with host that moves clay around with handmade wooden tools, rather Michael Pitts, a local Georgia potter with over 40 years of expe- than carving or removing pieces. rience, discussing styles, clays, glazes and firing techniques.

Pat McCaffrey of Swampware Pottery is known for brightly For those wishing to get a little more hands-on instruction, painted pieces commonly containing depictions of animals, but “Perspectives” will be holding an “Out of Round” workshop led has recently started incorporating vintage photographs into her

by Sequoia Miller, a nationally recognized studio potter from work. “I like to find interesting photos that say ‘paint me,’ and Olympia, WA, on Sept. 11 and 12 at the School Street Pottery fit them to the pot. I do a lot of wall pieces because of the Studio (34 School St., Watkinsville). With over a decade of snapshot feeling. When they are grouped together, I want it experience as a full-time potter, Miller has been featured in to look like Granny’s hallway. Vintage black and whites are so several publications including Ceramics Monthly, The Studio great because they tell a story, and I like to imagine what that Potter and Clay Times, and exhibits and sells his artwork in story might have been.”

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Rust, who has had two pieces displayed in the exhibit but is participating in the main show for the first time this year, says, “I’m thrilled to be included with this group of potters… quite an honor. What I look forward to is having an opportunity to have so many people view, touch and experience my work.”

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BEST WORST MOVIE (NR) The once-disgraced child star of Troll 2, the cult classic many revere as the worst movie ever made, revisits the creation of this disastrous sequel to what was a pretty bad movie to begin with. See George Hardy, the Alabama dentist-turned-unwitting cult icon, and his Italian director, Claudio Fragasso, come to grips with creating an eternal piece of cinematic trash. Stick around and see the crappy movie that begat the summer’s hottest doc on the big screen, where it doesn’t deserve to be seen.

BLOOD INTO WINE (NR) See Movie Pick. k CENTURION (R) Another genre favorite, Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Doomsday), returns to wield the low-budget sword of social commentary like a modern-day George A. Romero. After the Roman Ninth Legion is attacked, a small band of warriors attempts to stay alive behind enemy lines. As with any Marshall film, the plot sounds absolutely Carpenterian (and hopefully the credit font will still be Albertus Bold). With Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Dominic West (“The Wire”), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Liam Neeson look/soundalike, David Morrissey.

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.

COCO & IGOR (R) 2009. Wow. Another biopic about Coco Chanel— following close on the heels of Coco Before Chanel starring Audrey Tautou and a 2008 TV movie with Shirley Maclaine—Coco & Igor takes a different tack. The film, directed by Jan Kounen from a novel/screenplay by Chris Greenhalgh, examines the famed French designer’s (Anna Mouglalis) love affair with Russian composer,

pianist and conductor Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen, who’s gone big in Casino Royale and Clash of the Titans).

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.

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (PG13) 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. Steve Carell excels at cluelessness, and the guileless, innocent Barry does not have even half a clue to spare. Paul Rudd’s second straight turn as straight man is more successful than I Love You, Man, but I wonder if the movie might have worked better had Tim actually been kind of a douche. Nonetheless, I laughed too hard to harshly criticize Austin Powers/Meet the Parents director Jay Roach’s first big screen comedy since 2004.

EAT PRAY LOVE (PG-13) In this adaptation of the bestseller, Julia Roberts stars as Elizabeth Gilbert, who changes her life after a painful divorce by traveling the world. The involvement of “Nip/Tuck” and “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy, whose only feature credit was the disappointing Running with Scissors, is surprising. Eat Pray Love does not seem like the boundarypushing TV auteur’s thing. With a trio of pretty men (James Franco, Javier Bardem and Billy Crudup), Richard Jenkins and Viola Davis.

ENTER THE DRAGON (R) 1973. The classic martial arts action film which lives on in the National Film Registry is Bruce Lee’s final film; the legendary martial artist died just days before the film’s Hong Kong release. Directed by Robert Clouse, Enter the Dragon is the first Chinese martial arts film ever produced by a major Hollywood studio.

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Swedish sniper Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture).

You know what you’re getting into when you buy a ticket for The Expendables: a maximum meathead experience.

GET LOW (PG-13) Talk about casts.

Director Aaron Schneider (an Oscar winner for the short “Two Soldiers”) convinced two Oscar winners, Robert 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

the previous four Karate Kids. Was it really necessary to take two hours and 20 minutes to (re)tell a plot about a kid learning martial arts from a handyman in order to beat up some bullies? No. Xiao Dre learns kung fu from the dour Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) and enters a tournament against the really mean Fighting Dragons, led by a teacher who totally took lessons from Martin Kove’s Kreese. The final training montage and the tournament don’t make up for the two previous hours, though they are definitely the movie’s highlights.

THE LAST EXORCISM (PG-13) From producer Eli Roth comes this low-budget horror flick cut from the cloth of Paranormal Activity. An

I’m late for the of Montreal video! his thunder as a funeral parlor owner.

With Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney and Crazy Heart filmmaker Scott Cooper.

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (R) 2009. I know I was kind of hard on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I just loved the book so much), but I am super-stoked for the sequel (as well as David Fincher’s in the works English-language Dragon Tattoo).

Considering the books get better and better, I hope the films do the same.

The lead actors—Michael Nyqvist and the excellent Noomi Rapace—are back, while Guldbagge award winner Daniel Alfredson takes over directing duties from Niels Arden Oplev.

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 beams, Stark manages to maintain control of his proprietary technology as fears of other iron men become campaign fodder.

THE KARATE KID (PG) The remake of the 1984 classic is definitely not the best around; the somber-toned flick would place third in a tournament with

evangelical minister, nicely named Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian, lots of TV dating back beyond “Saved by the Bell: The College Years”), allows a documentary crew to film the exorcism of a possessed young woman (Ashley Bell). And it’s no run of the mill demon the unlucky minister is dueling; it’s the devil himself. Director Daniel Stamm’s last film, A Necessary Death, won Audience Awards from the AFI Fest.

LOTTERY TICKET (PG-13) Over the 4th of July weekend, a young man, Kevin Carson (Bow Wow), must protect his new prized possession, a lottery ticket worth $370 million, from all the crazies in his family and the neighborhood. The cast of familiars includes Terry Crews, Keith David, Ice Cube (as an old man), Brandon T. Jackson, Loretta Devine, Mike Epps, Naturi Naughton and Bill Bellamy. The trailer portrays a comedy as broad as they come. Another music video director, Erik White, makes his feature debut.

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.

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), a Silver Ribbon from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (again for Best New Director), two prizes from the Bratislava International Film Festival, and the London Film Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award.

NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (PG) Nanny McPhee is back. Cue the cheers of indifference. The original was a modest hit, so why not cash that check again? Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) uses her magical childrearing powers to assist a young mom (Maggie Gyllenhaal) that is trying to run the family farm while her hubby (Ewan McGregor) is off at war. Director Susanna White has a nice television track record, having helmed multiple eps of BBC’s “Bleak House” and HBO’s “Generation Kill.” With Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith and Rhys Ifans.

OBJECTIFIED (NR) 2009. A documentary on design, Objectified looks at manufactured objects and the people who create them. From your cell phone to your furniture to your alarm clock, some industrial designer thought about everything from how it looks to how it feels. Directed by Gary Hustwit, an Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award nominee for Helvetica, and one of Fast Company’s 10 Most Creative People on Twitter.

THE OTHER GUYS (PG-13) The newest comedy from star Ferrell and his Funny or Die partner, writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers), The Other Guys has a more singular focus than the last successful cop movie parody, 2007’s Hot Fuzz. Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) are two desk jockeys overshadowed by New York City’s movie supercop duo of Danson and Highsmith (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson).

When Danson and Highsmith are suddenly sidelined, Gamble and Hoitz fill the void, going after rogue financier David Ershon (Steve Coogan).

PIRANHA 3D (R) Boobs and blood are the calling cards of Piranha 3D. If that doesn’t get your attention, you should probably skip this horror comedy. The FX are laughable, and the 3D is gimmicky. The results are a bit too jokey for my exploitation tastes; I would have preferred a more frightful dip in the blood-filled waters. Still, I enjoyed Piranha 3D for the entertaining R-rated spectacle it was, not what it was not trying to be.

PREDATORS (R) A group of elite human warriors—including Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo and Topher Grace (?!)—must elude more than one of the universe’s ultimate hunters. Robert Rodriguez’s name may sit above the title, but he is only exec-producing this reboot of the Predator franchise. Nimrod Antal is directing; his previous movies (Vacancy, Armored) were competent, if not stellar genre entries. I look for Predators to satisfy in similar fashion.

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG-13) Calling Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time a great videogame movie is sort of misleading. Sure, the plot kind of comes from Jordan Mechner’s groundbreaking game and the subsequent, superior sequels, but Mechner’s creation borrowed from the Middle Eastern magic carpet rides Hollywood used to love.

Fans of the game will lament that the movie is not a parkour fest à la District 13; casual moviegoers will find a movie to satisfyingly waste their two hours.

SALT (PG-13) Where Bourne was a spy who had come in from the Cold War, Salt revels in the old world

politics of us versus Russia. 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.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG-13) Scott Pilgrim (MVP Michael Cera) is a 22-year-old slacker who will have to defeat his girlfriend’s seven evil exes, including an action star (Chris Evans), a vegan telekinetic (Brandon Routh) and the mysterious Gideon Graves (Jason Schwartzman). Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz filmmaker Edgar Wright really cuts loose with Scott Pilgrim. He releases every crazy idea in his comic/video game/cult movie/ pop culture-obsessed brain into the cinematic wild, while staying as true as possible to what seems to be the heart of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series 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.

SOLITARY MAN (R) 2009. Every time I see this title, I start humming/singing the Neil Diamond hit in my head. That song has little to do with this small film with a big cast. Michael Douglas stars as Ben Kalman, an auto magnate who lost his business but not his voracious appetite for women, especially younger women. The second effort

by Knockaround Guys directors Brian Koppelman and David Levien also stars Susan Sarandon, Danny Devito, Jenna Fischer and Jesse Eisenberg.

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.

THE SWITCH (PG-13) Talk about a successful bait and switch. From the trailers, The Switch implies another attempt to make Jennifer Aniston a movie star, which has not actually happened yet, when the real star is, thankfully, Jason Bateman. The romantic comedy (its default genre) casts Aniston and Bateman as two adult friends, Kassie and Wally, who tried the dating thing but eventually settled nicely into BFFs. At 40, Kassie decides to get pregnant. Wally improbably substitutes his own.

TAKERS (PG-13) A theft of multiple millions of dollars and Matt Dillon sounds a lot like Armored. This crime around, Dillon is a detective in the way of a group of bank robbers and the $20 million they stole. The odd, recognizable cast also includes Zoe Saldana, Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, Idris Elba (I would say he’s slumming but this flick seems no worse than Obsessed), Johnathon Schaech, Jay Hernandez, Michael Ealy, Chris Brown and Tip “T.I.” Harris.

VAMPIRES SUCK (PG-13) I don’t care how much you hate Twilight.

Dumbass, uninspired spoofs by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (three entries in IMDB’s Bottom 100: Disaster Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans) are much worse. Now imagine a dumbass, uninspired spoof of The Twilight Saga by Friedberg and Seltzer. Vampires Suck is gunning for Worst Movie of the Year honors based on pedigree alone, not to mention the woefully unfunny trailers. With some people you might recognize.

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Don’t Ask When: Timi Conley’s band Kite to the Moon will release its debut album, Pounce, sometime this fall. Compromised of 12 tracks, the band promises the album will feature pretty much what you’d expect. That is, its version of rowdy and colorful rock music. It was recorded at Full Moon Studio by engineer Jay Roger and mixed by Matt Yelton at The Bakery. The band has not yet determined a release date, but I’ll let you know when they do. In other news, Kite to the Moon shot a video for the track “Slavery” from the album back in January of this year. Director Brennan Clarke shot the piece at various local locations including New Earth Music Hall. As with the album itself, the band plans to release this video in the near future. Kite to the Moon was also recently confirmed as tour openers for Perpetual Groove, so if you see them any-

program is $100, and while some may take slight umbrage, myself included, at the idea of someone being a “senior citizen” at age 50, everything else about this program seems very cool. And the community outreach aspect of it is exactly the type of thing all departments at UGA should be doing. The UGA program is a partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Athens Central Presbyterian Church. For more information about registration, please contact Kristin Jutras via phone at 706-542-2894 or email ugacms@uga.edu.

To learn about the partner organizations, please see www.osherfoundation.org, www. newhorizonsmusic.org and www.uga.edu/ ugacms.

In Good Company: The debut album by Tired Pony is already out in the UK but won’t have its official U.S. release until Sept. 28. I’m constantly surprised that records which will likely sell most copies digitally having staggered release dates. Blame the system. Oh, Mike White · deadlydesigns.com

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Los Meesfits where out there and you really want to know when the album will be out then, I guess, hold up a sign or paint the question on your top hat or drop ‘em an inquiry from a hot air balloon or something. For all others, please see www.kitetothemoon.com.

Adam Bomb: Local Rocker Adam Hebert (Los Meesfits, Maximum Busy Muscle) now has the distinction of being the first male member to be accepted into the fold of Shitty Candy & the Circus Peanuts. His debut show with the noisy, heavily decorated and exuberant combo will be Friday, Aug. 27 at the Caledonia Lounge. The Bearfoot Hookers and Dangfly share the bill this night.

Mama’s Got a Squeezebox: The University of Georgia Community Music School has always offered musical instruction to Athens folks of all ages but will begin to offer ensemble performance opportunities to local senior citizens beginning Sept. 1. The New Horizons program focuses exclusively on teaching music to those 50 and older and is open to all skilllevels, especially to those who have never played an instrument before. The cost of the

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yeah, you should care because Tired Pony is the easy-on-the-ears but still not a halfbad project from Gary Lightbody and Iain Archer (Snow Patrol), Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey (R.E.M.), and Richard Colburn (Belle & Sebastian), and its debut album, The Place We Ran From, was produced by Jacknife Lee. It is far and away the best non-R.E.M. work Buck and McCaughey have done in years.

Lightbody keeps referring to the album as “country,” but it’s really just kind of pleasant, middle-of-the-road pop of the dad-rock variety. For more information, check it out over at www.tiredpony.com.

How Hard Is It to Record an Acoustic Cover Band?: You know, since I already mentioned them once this week, how about let’s all have a consciousness-raising session (ask a hippie) and mentally force Los Meesfits to finish its debut 7” so we can actually give it to people at Christmas/Hanukkah time? Oh, I won’t be participating in this activity. I’m not part of the act. Bug ‘em over at www.myspace.com/ losmeesfits.

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The band’s first album, Liberty Seeds, was released on Cloud Recordings in 2006, and Jones is thrilled about the impending release of her sophomore effort. “We’re working on a new album,” she begins. “I’ve been recording and mixing everything here. A lot of the stuff I’ve already finished features Randy, and the older lineup, but most of the newer songs will have everybody that plays with us currently.

For this show, we’ll probably play about half old stuff, and half new stuff. We’re charging $3 at the door, but everyone who comes will also get a free CD.” While the personnel may have changed, Jones says that the band’s musical direction is still much the same. “The new stuff may be a little bit more driving, a little bolder,” she notes, “but otherwise, we’re pretty much the same.” Since it has drawn comparisons to experimental acts like Sun Ra, Can, This Heat and The Raincoats, one can safely assume that any stylistic explorations the band pursues will bloom into a cornucopia of further possibilities. The kaleidoscopic diversity of these influences may sound daunting, but Jones couches her eclecticism in accessible pop structures, creating music that is both challenging and a hell of a lot of fun.

Despite her success with Supercluster, and many of her bandmates’ equally full hoppers, Jones insists that The New Sound of Numbers has returned for good. “I’m back at this fulltime now,” she proclaims. “Everything’s going great, and I’m really happy to be doing it again.” Though the equation may be different, the end product is still the same, and with the versatile Jones at the helm, The Numbers will likely always Sound New. David Fitzgerald

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annah Jones, leader of local avant-garde, electropop act The New Sound of Numbers, is just finishing practice. Bandmates Jeff Tobias (Nutritional Peace, ex-We Vs. the Shark) and Greg O’Connell (Quiet Hooves, Bubbly Mommy Gun) offer warm greetings on their way out of her cozy home practice space/ recording studio, which is bedecked with examples of her own original artwork.

Needless to say, Jones, who also plays in the workaholic band Supercluster, is a busy woman, even on her day off.

“We just finished up a two-hour practice,” she says, taking a seat between a drum set and a complex array of production equipment.

“It went pretty well. I’m really excited to be playing again.”

It’s been quite some time since The New Sound of Numbers reared its quirky head for a show, having been on hiatus since the tragic loss of original member Randy Bewley (Pylon) last year. In that time the band has also seen core players Suzanne Allison and Charlie Johnston move away, and thus the lineup is somewhat different now from what many folks may remember. “I still sing and play 12-string guitar,” Jones explains, “and now we’ve got Greg on drums, Jeff on bass, John Fernandes (Olivia Tremor Control, The Instruments, Raw Ass Temple, seemingly hundreds more) on violin and clarinet, and Jessica Hay on percussion and backup vocals. William Kennedy (Reptar) will also be adding some extra percussion, and I’m hoping to get Jessica on some synths in the future, too.”

In addition to the shakeup in membership, the band briefly flirted with a name change, going so far as to set up a new MySpace page under the moniker Sound Houses. “Yeah, I’m not sure why I did that,” Jones says, laughing at herself, “it was just a whim I guess. I saw it in a passage by Francis Bacon and liked it.

But we’re back to the original name now. As for that, I think the way it came about was, I had a song called ‘The Sound of Numbers,’ and when I saved it, it was a ‘new’ file, so it popped up as ‘New Sound of Numbers,’ and I liked the way that sounded, so it became the band name.”

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Monday Night Metal If only these walls could talk. And they do, seemingly, if you’re standing outside on the Pulaski Street sidewalk sandwiched somewhere between Sunshine Cycles and Snow Tire; the brick wall vibrates and a laminated steel padlock shivers on a white wood door. Inside there must be bulldozers hooked up to amplifiers giving weapons of mass destruction a pep talk before a mission of annihilation. Or maybe that’s just Guzik rehearsing. So, the walls, as it were, are now deaf.

Occupying the space that once housed Elixir Recording studio, the local psych-sludge metal quartet features bassist (and famed body piercer) Randy Smyre, guitarist-vocalistgraphic designer Chris Parry (ex-Damad), guitarist Wil Smith (Utah) and drummer Chris Holcombe (Subrig Destroyer). Named for an Atlanta-based tattoo artist, Guzik’s brief history has been marked with several line-up changes, some tragic.

“It started out with Randy and I—I was playing drums and another guitarist was on vocals. He was plagued with equipment problems and busy with school,” shares Parry.

Eventually, Holcombe came aboard, and Parry switched instruments and grabbed a mic.

“We went through a couple guitarists—the second guitarist, Edward [Jones who played with Thunder King] played with us for a while, but he was really sick with cancer and passed away last year…We buried him,” says Parry.

“Chris [Holcombe] and I were pallbearers at his funeral.”

Flagpole bore witness as the high-decibel ferocity of Guzik’s rehearsal crashed PopFest a couple of weeks ago; “Blackened Torture” served as an unexpected soundtrack for those fired up in the 40 Watt smoking foyer, half a block away. The plodding dirge sounded like what breaking every bone in one’s body feels like, finally finding release in a Parry guitar solo that bled the radiator with a wry wiggle.

Then, it was back to the pummeling. When it ended, Holcombe said he couldn’t hear the bass tone. Smyre said he’s trying out something new. Holcombe admired his new drum heads. The beer was High Life. The music was thick and after-life affirming, and it’s now ready to be unleashed on the public.

Monday night’s show should draw fans from across the metal spectrum with New Orleans’ savage black-metal band Goatwhore—fresh off of Ozzfest—taking the headlining slot.

“Goatwhore is a definite favorite,” says Guzik guitarist Wil Smith. “It includes guys that were in Soilent Green and Acid Breath, two bands that are kings of the Southern metal scene.” When asked about Guzik’s major influences, Smith lists a host of stoner doom-metal and sludge acts, including Sleep, Eyehategod and Grief.

Although Athens might not have a national reputation as a metal town, Smith feels like Guzik has found a comfortable niche. “There is an onslaught of talented bands and a supportive fan base,” he says of Athens. “That is a strong scene.”

Guzik doesn’t have any recorded material out yet, but that should change soon. The band hopes to make its debut album available in time for the Devilneck Metal Fest, which will take place at the Caledonia Lounge Oct. 1 & 2.

In the meantime, grab an set of earplugs and enjoy a mini Monday night metal fest with some of the South’s more ferocious acts.

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upstart roundup Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent this particular lineup of musicians. “The best thing about this project is the chemistry between the band,” says Welsh. “We all work wildly different schedules and have different musical backgrounds and tastes, but when we come together to play, it’s on. We really work well and genuinely just love playing

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THE CASTE Indie/Garage/Pop Lineup: Bren Bailey, Dane Crawford, Ethan Smith and Jeffrey Bowman. Influences: Buddy Holly, The Boggs, The Strokes, The Clash and Velvet Underground.

You can definitely hear this band’s influences in its guitar lines: most obviously, the simplistic yet melodic staccato of The Strokes, but The Caste Hans delivers its rock with rounded edges, forgoing angular post-punk rhythms in favor of bouncy pop. Guitarist/vocalist Bren Bailey describes the band’s music as “easy to get into” but with “many complexities behind its catchy riffs… a modern indie-rock take on old-school, soulful rock and roll.”

The Caste came together with the help of Craig and his List. Bailey moved up from the South Georgia town of Tifton and posted a search for bandmembers. He quickly found drummer Jeffrey Bowman, who brought his friends Dane Crawford and Ethan Smith to fill out the lineup.

“We immediately knew there was some good musical chemistry going, and all the songs started to come together really well,” says Bailey. “That was the end of March, and since then we’ve been practicing our asses off and playing our steadily growing set at any place that will have us.”

You can grab a free copy of their demo at their shows or preview the tunes at www.myspace.com/ thecasterocks.

Next show: Friday, Aug. 27 @ New Earth Music Hall TASTE LIKE GOOD Rock Lineup: Carey Welsh, Geary Smith, Patrick Garrity and Riley Sissons. Former members of: Finley St. Project, Lip Service and Renegade Soundsystem. Influences: Led Zeppelin, 311, Wilco, The Boss, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, AC/DC, Radiohead and many more.

So, I guess we know what the band tastes like, but what does it sound like? “Bruce Springsteen meets KISS meets space rock meets a two-guitar onslaught,” says the band. Taste Like Good came together just over a year ago, although its members continue to be active in other bands as well. Lead vocalist Carey Welsh says that perusing multiple projects has actually proved beneficial to the band’s creative output. “Since all of us play with other bands, we constantly find new sounds and rhythms,” he says. But there is something special about

music together.” The band is heading to the studio soon with plans to release its debut full-length this fall. “Now we are actively looking for a label and management,” says Welsh. “We want to take this thing as far as it can go.”

You can find the band’s online presence by searching for Taste Like Good on Facebook. There are also some very loud, distorted clips of the band playing on YouTube if you want a rough idea of what the live experience is like. (Record directly from the soundboard next time, guys!)

Next show: Thursday, Sept. 30 @ Calendaonia Lounge BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS Alliterative Alt Indie Lineup: Adam Underwood, Lewis Jones, Daniel DeSimone and Kevin Spicer. Former members of: Sailor Dawn, SecondSuns and Ad Lucem. Influences: Death Cab for Cutie, Motion City Soundtrack and The Who. It took a good bit of effort to track down this elusive new band, but Adam Underwood promises that it won’t be like

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that for long. The group is brand new, with only a handful of shows under its belt, but Bombs Bombs Bombs has been busy.

The quirky quartet is currently recording its debut EP, which Underwood describes as sounding like the love child of Spencer Krug and Ben Gibbard. Once that EP comes out in September, it’ll be bombs away.

“After [the EP is released] we’re going to start really playing a lot more shows around Georgia. We’re in no rush, though; Lewis and Daniel are Athenians and just about to start their freshman years at UGA, so we’ve got time to grow.” Bookmark bombscubed.tumblr.com and check back in about a month for an update. Right now all you’ll find is a cute little poem dedicated to the group and a brief introduction.

Next show: Wednesday, Sept. 10 @ Flicker Theatre HANS DARKBOLT Theatrical Progressive Rock Lineup: Peter Dovey, Ryan Moore, Michael Gonzalez and Stephen Pfannkuche. Shares members with: Soapbar and Tumbleweed Stampede.

Influences: Comic books, personality disorders and fantasy rock.

You’ve gotta love a band with a good back story. Hans Darkbolt purports to have formed in January of this year, “after a great burning rock fell from the sky, with divine instructions etched in its side by unknown forces.” Yes, this band loves a bit of drama, and sonically its theatrics are most evident in Dovey’s trembling, Muse-like vocal acrobatics. But if it sounds a tad over-thetop at first listen, it all makes sense when you learn that these songs are meant to serve as a soundtrack of sorts to a comic book. The band explains: “Peter is slowly working on a comic book that centers around a supervillain (traveling the world to steal powers), and many of the Hans Darkbolt songs are meant to eventually go together on an album that would serve as a prologue and a glimpse into the character/motivation of the supervillain.

However, contrary to popular belief, Hans Darkbolt is not the villain’s name.

The real Hans Darkbolt is a legendary figure shrouded by myth and intrigue, the likes of which may rock this world and the next.”

Even sans animation or illustration, Hans Darkbolt is a band to watch. The members swap instruments frequently onstage, and each song is packed with energy and enthusiasm, often meandering into exploratory jams. Although Hans Darkbolt lacks the cohesion of a more seasoned group, the songs are uniquely divergent and inventive, and it’s exciting to hear a new group taking risks early on.

You can find the group online at www.myspace.com/ hansdarkbolt.

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record reviews MODERN SKIRTS Happy 81 Independent Release This Athens indie-pop band has always had a flair for big, easy melodies. But in polishing their sound, Modern Skirts rubbed off their character to the point of dullness.

This experimental release, however, reverses all that. Urged by the bolder creative spark found in the four-track home recordings for the upcoming new full-length, the band decided to release Happy 81 as a peek at some of those songs in embryo.

This new blocky, lo-fi setting actually frames the Skirts’ sharp songwriting with more brightness and economy.

But most prominent is its sheer weirdness, venturing down odd paths like synth-pop beat science (“DUI”) and analog hillbilly bloops (“Blips”). Top picks include the chunky breathlessness of “Happy 81,” which pumps like the Beta Band on uppers. The impossibly fetching “Rebecca St. Claire” is a twist on the great Georgia psych-folk tradition that’s simultaneously twangier and more bubblegum. And the stately “Thomas Wolfe” rolls out a tapestry that’s more Digital Leather or Xiu Xiu than Modern Skirts.

It remains to be seen what studio finishing will do to these gems.

Hopefully, the Skirts will apply the same intelligence that allowed them to recognize the wild brilliance of these tracks and not lacquer them into submission. It’d be a waste to mute the freshness, guts and personality shown here.

Bao Le-Huu Modern Skirts are playing at the 40 Watt Club on Friday, Aug. 27.

GIFT HORSE Mountain of Youth Head Down, Eyes Closed Oof, right in the gut. Gift Horse doesn’t waste any time hitting you where it counts; just barely a minute in, and the music slowly fades away, leaving Hunter Morris’ aching vocals reverberating off what sounds like hallowed walls, as if he were kneeling alone in an abandoned cathedral. It’s absolutely gorgeous, and it’s enough to knock the wind out of you.

Now, if you need hooks to reel you into a record, you should probably look elsewhere, but what Mountain of Youth does have is an ocean of mood,

texture and atmosphere. Morris’ cool vocals serve as a tranquil anchor as the songs swell from dreamlike serenity to ominous intensity. And that delicate balance between sparse minimalism and wall-of-sound ferocity is what Gift Horse does best. “All the Rage” is the perfect example; its impossibly long intro builds tension through long pauses of silence before gradually sprawling into a My Bloody Valentinelike fuzzy roar.

While that lush shoegaze sound dominates the record, tracks like “Missionaries” and “Plastic People” fall more on the grungy side of ‘90s college rock. There’s even a touch of brooding Pink Floyd in haunting tracks like “October House.” In terms of local peers, there is certainly a parallel between Gift Horse’s aesthetic and that of Dead Confederate. Figuratively, it’d be easy to consider them cousin bands—that singer Hunter is actually (Dead Confederate frontman) Hardy Morris’ real-life cousin is a happy coincidence.

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melodic incisiveness with Burton’s weird instrumental bent. Each song has its own personality but weaves seamlessly into an eerily hopeful whole.

That’s the point, right? Considering all the obstacles the DNOTS project faced, it emerged a triumphant art piece in the end. They say the night is always darkest just before the dawn.

Julia Reidy

Gift Horse is playing at the 40 Watt Club on Friday, Aug. 27.

From the opening chimes and beeps of “Bug Eyes” to the synth-beats of the closing tracks, Spirit Hair’s StarDon rarely allows a moment to get by without filling it with gleeful psychpop with a dance twist. These happy hipsters know how to make a killer groove last for an entire album.

The band claims that the record was meant to be one of “skeptical hesitation,” but hesitate to listen to this album and you’re more likely to miss something great. In a single song, you can pick out bits of psychedelic rock, power-pop, blues, jam and Americana.

“When the Moon Began to Fall” is an instant ear-worm with an incredibly catchy guitar riff that melts into a full-on jam-fest complete with noodley guitars and pulsing, tap-worthy beats.

“Oblique” is the odd track out here, throwing a slow groove into the middle of the dance party with special guest John Fernandes on violin. With a very quiet arrangement and introspective lyrics, it is reminiscent of mid-career Leonard Cohen. Thankfully, the transition to and from “Oblique” is as smooth as the sultry whispered vocals that mark the song. The vocals morph with each track but strike true every time. It never feels like you’re listening to a different band; each song makes its statement. Next time you hold a party, throw on some Spirit Hair and you’ll be guaranteed to have a great time.

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DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE Dark Night of the Soul Capitol Dark Night of the Soul almost never saw the light of day. The release of the collaborative record between late Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous and former Athens resident Danger Mouse (AKA Brian Burton) was delayed more than a year by Burton’s legal battle with EMI and Linkous’ untimely death. In 2009, the extensive David Lynch-furnished accompanying picture book was put out along with a blank CD, but July 14 marked the first time the record itself saw proper release.

DNOTS proves as cinematic in form and concept as the deliberately theatrical posters and album artwork would suggest. Though all 13 tracks were written and produced by Burton and Linkous, the record features 11 luminous guest stars, from Jason Lytle and The Flaming Lips to Susanne Vega, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, James Mercer of The Shins, Vic Chesnutt (the record is dedicated to Chesnutt and Linkous), Julian Casablancas, Black Francis, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans and Lynch himself. It bears all the markings of a Danger Mouse record: the songs end up a touch creepier than they otherwise would, and it’s replete with the weird whirs and clicks we’ve come to expect him, unobtrusively, to provide.

But at its core, DNOTS is just an impressive collection of pop songs.

Standouts include Chesnutt’s gutwrenching “Grim Augury”; “Pain,” the driving Iggy Pop collaboration; and Mercer’s “Insane Lullaby,” which like their later Broken Bells collaboration, combines Mercer’s gift for lyrical and

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Spirit Hair is playing Caledonia Lounge on Saturday, Aug. 28.

AUTOLUX Transit Transit TBD Records Because of the deep impact they left with their stunning debut Future Perfect and the subsequent six-year lull in productivity, the near-mythical notion of a follow-up by the L.A.

gaze-rockers had become indie rock’s Chinese Democracy. Though all is absolved with the delivery of a great record, it’s a pressure-stacked, all-ornothing circumstance.

The mysterious Autolux allure that originally seduced so many sprung from the dance between the band’s dream-state drift and restless, throbbing life-force. But that critical latter element is largely muted here.

Interesting new developments include the title track’s flitting Books-esque tapestry and the electronic minimalism of “High Chair.” However, the nuance comes at the cost of the torque and rock bellow that set Autolux’s pulse before. When not directly channeling Sonic Youth’s somnambulant side (“Census”), its ethereal moments can play like shuffles of half-conviction (“Spots”). Aside from the driving nocturnal elegance of “Supertoys,” Autolux’s commanding rhythm doesn’t fully awaken and sprout a pair until the seventh track. The album’s convincing home stretch is finally carried by powerfully carved songs like “Audience No. 2,” “Kissproof” and “The Science of Imaginary Solutions.”

This record’s a grower. But coming from a band that emerged so definitively, it feels like a concession.

Hopefully, this is just a band out of practice and not out of step.

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DEAD CONFEDERATE Sugar TAO Recordings/Old Flame On its anticipated follow-up, Dead Confederate has eased the burning, suffocating clench that defined its mammoth debut. Proving that the group is more than just eternally doomed Southern grunge, Dead Confederate’s psych-rock expression has unfurled into something with more discernible strata and melody. Though still emotionally brawny, its heaviness here is more sky-parting and gorgeous than depth-dwelling and soul-ravaging, like in the moody and massive “In the Dark” and the huge, twilit crescendo of “Father Figure.” Further expansion is found in the Secret Machines-esque “Semi-Thought” and standout song “Run from the Gun,” which pairs a thick drawl with plaintive, golden breezes to beautiful results. Other illustrative highlights include the hard-stomping junkyard boogie of “Mob Scene” and “Giving It All Away,” which features J Mascis and floats among the clouds alongside The Helio Sequence. Only the seething “Quiet Kid” approaches Dead Confederate’s original fury.

It’s indeed hard not to miss the single-minded fire of the band’s devastating debut. But Sugar is a hit, not just on its own merits as a remarkably rendered work, but also because of what it promises. Like Kings of Leon before them, Dead Confederate is already expanding convincingly and proving to be a band with possibly limitless horizon.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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

Tuesday 24 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 EVENTS: Full Moon Party (Square One Fish Co.) An island-style buffet, cool mojitos and live music

by Kinky Waikiki. Reservations suggested. 8 p.m. www.squareonefishco.com EVENTS: The Melting Point: From Foundry to Performance Space (The Melting Point) Join John Gilleland and the Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation’s Athenaeum Club for a tour of the Melting Point. On-site happy hour with live bluegrass follows. 6–7 p.m. FREE! (ACHF members) $10. athenaeumclub@gmail.com PERFORMANCE: The Bawling Comedy Showcase (Last Call) Stand-up comedy showcase produced by Harold Kizzapps and featuring several professional comedians from out of town. 8:30–10:30 p.m. $3. www.lastcallathens.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m.

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Wednesday 25 EVENTS: Afterschool Program Ice Cream Social (Lay Park) Join in on the fun at this kick-off event for the Thomas N. Lay Park Afterschool Program. In this mentor program, UGA Honor’s Program students offer their time to provide elementary and middle school children with tutoring, snacks and recreational activities Monday through Friday. Call or attend for more more information.

5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3596 EVENTS: The People’s Law School (ACC Library) The Georgia Civil Justice Foundation presents a weekly forum to inform citizens about legal issues people face daily.

Wednesdays in Aug., 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-549-6111 EVENTS: Plotluck Night (Ciné BarCafé) Come with a true short story from your life to share at this monthly event. The audience votes for the best story and prize recipient.

7–9 p.m. FREE! (donations welcome), www.athenscine.com EVENTS: Pup Strut Dog Benefit (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Clear the runway for Athens’ most adorable adoptables.

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ww-struck on the patio. 5:30–7:30 p.m. www.athensdowntownhotel. com EVENTS: Wine Dinner (Speakeasy) Six courses paired with wine. Call for reservations. 7 p.m. $60/person (gratuity included). 706-546-5556 OUTDOORS: Full Moon Hike (Greenway) Experience nature in a different light. Call to register.

8:30–9:30 p.m. $2. 706-613-3615, www.athensgreenway.com KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary schoolage homeschoolers gather at the library to read a book together and talk about it. Every Wednesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Shrinking plastic charms! Create your own jewelry from plastic and shrink it down to the perfect fit. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Oconee Dems Book Group (Five Points Deli & More, Epps Bridge) Communitywide book group hosted by the Oconee County Democrats. This month’s title is Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

by David Blight. Newcomers from any county and of any political affiliation are welcome. 6 p.m. FREE! patricia.priest@yahoo.com, www. oconeedemocrats.org LECTURES & LIT.: “In Search of Value” (UGA Dawson Hall, Room 208) Velma Zahirovic-Herbert delivers a lecture entitled “In Search of Value: Do Subdivision Names Influence House Prices and Marketing Duration?” 10:10 a.m.

FREE! ymimura@fcs.uga.edu 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. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com

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GAMES: Quiz Show (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Host Chris Creech keeps the townie crowd sharp with general knowledge trivia. 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) 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

Thursday 26 EVENTS: Blood into Wine: Screening & Tasting (Ciné BarCafé) Sample wines by Shiraz and Village Wine & Spirits and catch a screening of Blood Into Wine, the documentary following Maynard James Keenan, former front-man of Tool, on his mission to pioneer a vineyard in Arizona. Aug. 26, 6 p.m. (wine tasting), 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. (film screenings), Aug. 29, 6 p.m. (wine tasting), 7:30 p.m. (screening). $20. www.athenscine.com EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Various Locations) Milton Leathers leads a walking tour of the historic Cobbham neighborhood. Call to reserve a spot. 7 p.m. $15. 706-3531801, 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 EVENTS: “Toast of the Town” (Hardeman-Sams House) Make it a “Southern Proper” evening and join the Athens Area Cancer Auxiliary for music, drinks, appetizers, a silent auction and a raffle for diamond jewelry donated by JWR Jewelers.

6:30 p.m. $25. www.athensareacancerauxiliary.org * EVENTS: Yappy Hour for (WellBehaved) Dogs (283 Bar) Happy hour is all the more happy when your dog is by your side. Come out for drink specials for humans and endless bowls of water and treats for the furries. 5–8 p.m. 706-208-1283 EVENTS: Zoo Volunteers Ice Cream Social (Memorial Park) Learn about various opportunities for volunteering with the zoo’s residents in the interest of conservation

Kathleen McShane’s mixed media work “Rock Flaneur” is on display at the Lamar Dodd School of Art through Sept. 17. and environmental education at this informational meeting and ice cream social. 6:30 p.m. 706-613-3615, leslieboby@co.clarke.ga.us KIDSTUFF: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Light snack provided. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing (Borders Books & Music) Meet DK Bhaskar, the explorer, photojournalist and author of The Fragile Forest: Inside Brazilian Amazonia. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-583-8647 MEETINGS: Clarke County Democratic Committee (Clarke County Courthouse, Grand Jury Room) All interested persons are invited to attend this month’s meeting of the CCDC. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-202-7515 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) Throw a lime in your Coor’s Light and compete! 7:30–9:30 p.m. 706354-1515

Friday 27 EVENTS: “A Nice Place to Live: Creating Communities, Fighting Sprawl” (UGA Russell Library) Lend your voice to this informal forum on strengthening

communities to survive the everincreasing challenges brought about by congestion and explosive growth.

3–5 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5788 ART: Gala Reception (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF)) For the 8th Annual Perspectives Pottery Invitational. Meet this year’s potters and enjoy refreshments and live music from old-time string band The Georgia Mudcats. 6–9 p.m. $5. www.ocaf.com PERFORMANCE: Colors (SeneyStovall Chapel) 22-voice choral ensemble performing familiar pop, jazz and blues based colorful songs.

7:30–9:30 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10. www. lyricleague.org THEATRE: The Big Bad Musical (Athens Little Playhouse) The Big Bad Wolf goes to trial, facing the charge of crimes against storybook characters in this Athens Little Playhouse production. Aug. 27, 7:30 p.m. Aug 28, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29, 2 p.m. $10 (adults) $8 (seniors & students) $5 (children).

706-208-1036, www.athenslittleplayhouse.org KIDSTUFF: Books & Bites (Madison County Library) Reading program for teens ages 13-19. Bring something to read or study or drawing materials for quiet entertainment.

Refreshments will be provided. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. This month’s

themes include the Letter H, author Jon Sciezska and birthdays. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: “Approaches to Latin American Cyberculture” (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 148) The University of Liverpool’s Claire Taylor, an expert in cyberculture, cyberliterature, feminist theory and Latin American studies, delivers a talk. 1:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: IWS Friday Speaker Series (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 213) The Institute for Women’s Studies’ Friday Speaker Series presents “Early Modern Marriage as a Relationship and Controversies Regarding Marriage as a Relationship and Institution” with Dana Bultman.

12:20–1:10 p.m. FREE! tlhat@uga. edu 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 28 EVENTS: 4th Annual Black Dog Blues & BBQ (The Office Lounge) Fundraiser to benefit the Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter. BBQ from Nadine’s BBQ, on-site adoptables, door prizes and live music with Short Bus All Stars Band. 4–9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840

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: Alibi’s Rally for the Troops (Alibi) Bike show, dunking tanks, food, games and raffles! 2 p.m. 706-549-1010 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: Athens Heritage Walk (Various Locations) Maxine Easom, a fourth-generation resident of Carr’s Hill, leads this tour of the riverside neighborhood which once served as a bustling railroad terminus freckled with textile mills. Space is limited; call to reserve spot. 10 a.m. $15.

706-353-1801, www.achfonline.org EVENTS: Cedar Creek Celebration (Cedar Creek) Register for a 5K or a one-mile fun run or just cheer on the participants and enjoy the music, games and swimming at the pool.

Proceeds benefit the Cedar Creek Pool. 8:30 a.m. $8 (5K) $5 (onemile fun run). 706-850-1486 EVENTS: Dancefx Open House (Dancefx, 1260 S. Milledge Ave.) Open House for dancers 18 & up.

Meet the teachers for the upcoming year. Snacks will be provided. 10 a.m–3 p.m. FREE! www.dancefx.com EVENTS: Dog Days of Summer (Memorial Park) Learn about animal behavior, pet nutrition, care and first aid. Demonstrations, pet contests, (dog) cupcake walks, a low-cost microchip clinic and nail trims are planned. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706613-3580

EVENTS: Groovy Nights Benefit for Project Safe (The Classic Center) Dust off your polyester and boogie on down to this Project Safe benefit, where you’ll hear your favorite disco tunes. Ticket price includes dinner. Enter the costume contest for a chance to win prizes. 7–11 p.m. $50. www.projectsafe.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 EVENTS: Psychic Fair (Body, Mind & Spirit Ministries) Readings, treatment demos and more! We know you want to come. We just know it.

11 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-351-6024 EVENTS: Dr. Joye J.Pugh (Borders Books & Music) Author and recording artist Dr. Joye performs selections from her debut album and signs copies of her book Eden. 1 p.m. FREE! www.drjoye.com THEATRE: The Big Bad Musical (Athens Little Playhouse) An Athens Little Playhouse production. See Calendar Theatre Aug. 27. Aug. 27, 7:30 p.m. Aug 28, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29, 2 p.m. $10 (adults) $8 (seniors & students) $5 (children).

706-208-1036, www.athenslittleplayhouse.org THEATRE: Faggot (Balcony Theatre) Controversial one-man, multicharacter stage play. The play follows Bernard on a homoerotic rite of passage, tackling difficult issues such as rape, drug addiction, homelessness and prostitution. Aug. 28, 7 p.m. & Aug. 29, 2:30 p.m. $5.

706-583-0045 KIDSTUFF: “Super Saturday” (Oconee Youth School of Performance) Free classes and a

dance party! New and returning students can also register for classes and be fitted for dancewear. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.oypoysp. com/school 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. 9–10 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3615 MEETINGS: Athens Fair Tax (Ryan’s Family Steakhouse) The Americans for Fair Tax group representing District 10 will meet for breakfast. 9:30 a.m. $4.99/person (breakfast buffet purchase mandatory!). 706-424-3751, sylvianovak@ yahoo.com, www.fairtax.org 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 29 EVENTS: Blood into Wine: Screening & Tasting (Ciné BarCafé) Sample wines by Shiraz and Village Wine & Spirits and catch a screening of Blood Into Wine. See Calendar Events Aug. 26.

EVENTS: Brewhaha (Aromas) Featuring 10 distinctive draught beers, including Founders Black Biscuit, Terrapin Hopzilla and Southern Tier Creme Brulee. 4 p.m.

706-208-0059, www.aromaswinebar. com EVENTS: Gospel Variety Show (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Bring the whole family out for an evening of comedy, singing and spiritual dance.

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EVENTS: Wild Intelligence Nature Programs Open House (Orange Twin Conservation Community) Parents and their nature-loving kids are invited to join in the fun of nature connection programs beginning in October. Call or email to RSVP. 5–7 p.m. 706-614-2612, evan@wildintelligence.org THEATRE: The Big Bad Musical (Athens Little Playhouse) An Athens Little Playhouse production. See Calendar Theatre Aug. 27. Aug. 27, 7:30 p.m. Aug 28, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29, 2 p.m. $10 (adults) $8 (seniors & students) $5 (children).

706-208-1036, www.athenslittleplayhouse.org THEATRE: Faggot (Balcony Theatre) See Calendar Theatre Aug. 28. Aug. 28, 7 p.m. & Aug. 29, 2:30 p.m. $5.

706-583-0045 KIDSTUFF: Open Paper Arts (Madison County Library) Push the limits of paper craft! Every Sunday.

2–6 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing (Borders Books & Music) Atlanta author Violette L. Reid talks about sorcery, slaughter and inner conflicts in her science fiction/fantasy novel, The First Chronicle of Zayashariya: Out of Night. 1 p.m. FREE! 706583-8647 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 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 30 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 LECTURES & LIT.: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is Vladimir Nabakov’s Lolita.

Newcomers welcome. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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: APA Pool Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Join anytime, any skill level! 7:30 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Blonde Trivia (Alibi) Marilyn hosts this weekly trivia game. Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 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 31 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Check out the afternoon market in its convenient downtown location! 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: Coming Out (UGA Memorial Hall) The UGA LGBT Center and Dr. Kelly Case-Simonson of the University Health Center invite the community to come explore self-discovery in a safe and affirming environment. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! vernon85@uga.edu EVENTS: Spanish Wine Tasting (Flight Tapas and Bar) Sample a variety of Spanish wines from major regions such as Rioja, Ribera del Duero and Penedes. 6–8 p.m. $15.

706-549-0200 ART: Opening Reception (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar, 1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) “And Now for Something Different,” new paintings an assemblages by Charley Seagraves. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 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 LECTURES & LIT.: Brown Bag Lunch (ACC Library) Kroger pharmacist Karen McCall offers some savvy shopping tips for procuring your over-the-counter meds. Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m.

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Wednesday 1 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: UGA Fall Activities Fair (UGA Tate Center) Over 150 student organizations will be represented at the Department of Campus Life’s annual event. Open to students, faculty and staff and members of the Athens community. 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-8584, www.uga.edu/ stuorgs/ 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 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. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Quiz Show (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Host Chris Creech keeps the townie crowd sharp with general knowledge trivia. Sponsored by Vision Video and Flicker. Prizes!

Every Wednesday. Trivia starts at 9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar 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 24 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

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Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com CRAIG WATERS & THE SECTION Blues rock four-piece from Augusta influenced by classic rockers like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

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

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

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.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com HARP UNSTRUNG Alternative rock with a funky, jam-band twist. Lush harmonies and guitar-driven songs will invite you to the dance floor.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar MR. BLANK AND THE New experimental noise project, featuring improv artists from all over.

Go Bar 9 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/gobar CONTROLLED STORMS Experimental indie-rock trio from Philadelphia blending elements of ambient, shoegaze and progressive music.

DAMON MOON & THE WHISPERING DRIFTERS This band from “the hills of Georgia” plays ‘70s-sounding folk rock.

FF GREEN This trippy local band mixes electronica and hip-hop beats.

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

FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub BO BEDINGFIELD Bedingfield’s smooth, warm vocals are steeped in all the soul of country music without the twang. (5:30-7 p.m.)

KAITLIN JONES Local folk guitarist/ vocalist Kaitlin Jones performs a solo set of Americana-tinged country originals. (4–5:15 p.m.)

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

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com EXCEPTION TO THE RULE Progressive, young bluegrass band from Northeast Georgia.

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.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 NATHAN SHEPPARD & JOHN KEANE Acclaimed producer and rocker John Keane will be joined by local acoustic stalwart Nathan Sheppard for a set of rock and Americana numbers.

Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing progressive jam rock.

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Square One Fish Co. “Full Moon Party.” 8 p.m. FREE! www. squareonefishco.com KINKY WAIKIKI Playing modern arrangements of traditional Hawaiian music, with a little Western swing thrown into the mix.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia Sunflower Music Series. 7–9 p.m. $10 (members), $15 (non-members), $5 (children 6–12). www.uga.edu/ botgarden GROGUS Playing two sets! The local and long-running ensemble plays jazz and salsa accentuated with reggae, hip-hop and Afro-Cuban styles.

Peforming in the Flower Garden.

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

Wednesday 25 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

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

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BRIGHTER THAN 1,000 SUNS Screamo hardcore with intricate rhythms, soaring melodies and fierce female screams.

COME WHAT MAY Local posthardcore band.

OH, MANHATTAN Local six-piece melodic hardcore band.

SET APART Modern hardcore akin to Have Heart, Sinking Ships and Verse.

Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 9–11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DECAMERON DUO Classical guitar.

11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com ARMCHAIRS Loose, rhythm-led rock ranging from spazzy shoutalong songs to downright dreamy melodies.

COCO RICO Angular, guitar-driven rock that melodically meanders through post-rock soundscapes featuring bass and glockenspiel.

EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock influenced by bands like Guided by Voices.

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

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE AWESOMELIES Silly, irreverent pop songs that are also awesome.

THE HORROR THE HORROR Band from Stockholm, Sweden with a classic sound influenced by ‘77 punk and new wave.

STEVEN TRIMMER Acoustic psychfolk.

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 MATT JOINER AND ALBATROSS Funk band Albatross joins local up-and-coming guitarist Matt Joiner (The Rattlers) who draws inspiration from blues and classic rock. See Calendar Pick on this page.

New Earth Music Hall 9:30 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com WELCOME TO ATHENS…A CLASSIC CITY SHOWCASE H.E.R. Hip-Hop presents the best and brightest of Athens hip-hop including Deaf Judges, Son1, Fresh, RedKlay, WildKard and HaZiQ aLi. Special apperance by Atlantan (and former Da BackWudz member) Aleon Craft.

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

Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens DJ KILLACUT Spins an eclectic mix and mashes it up DJ Shadow-style.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com MIKE ARMSTRONG Vocalist, acoustic guitarist, and harmonica player of Blossom Creek Breeze.

Thursday 26 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 OPEN MIC Every Thursday.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com THE SCOTTY CRAM BAND Atlanta based singer-songwriter whose tunes draw from R&B, soul and rock.

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

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com LOS MEESFITS The music of The Misfits done in Spanish/Cuban salsa style.

MANGER Punk rock four-piece with screaming guitars and vocals.

WOLFCHARGE Grown folks’ thrash music.

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

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

Farm 255 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BRIAN CONNELL Local musician whose original songs are in the classic spirit of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.

SWEET KNIEVEL New local experimental rock band incorporates elements of jazz, twang and soul.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar Happy Hour. 6 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/flickerbar BILL MALLONEE The engine behind seminal Athens outfit Vigilantes of Love, Bill Mallonee takes his love of twangy, soulful pop to nearperfection on his numerous recent releases. This is one of his two LAST SHOWS in Athens before moving to Santa Fe! Come wish him farewell.

8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar CLOUDEATERS Progressive rock with screaming vocals self-described as sounding like the kind of music James Joyce might have written.

MANRAY Local foursome that plays high-energy, “off-timed” rock and

roll with “threads of improvisation.”

Touchstones include Pixies and Fugazi.

Gnat’s Landing 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net TONGUE & GROOVE The acoustic quartet of Henry Williams, Don Henderson, Jason Peckham and Amy Moon plays lively covers and originals.

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

Hotel Indigo “Live after 5 on the Phi Bar Patio.” 6 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens.com 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.

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

While he spins, take a ride on the mechanical bull!

Little Kings Shuffle Club 5:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DAVE HOWARD Local singer-songwriter plays mellow acoustic guitar tunes during happy hour.

11 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub THE BORDER LIONS Local band performing simple pop songs influenced by The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Velvet Underground.

THE VINYL STRANGERS Timelessly charming classic-sounding pop

Wednesday, August 25

Matt Joiner and Albatross The Melting Point The blues is dead; long live the blues. While less than resolute, it’s completely true. You can spend time effectively attacking or defending either half of that indecisive declaration, but as long as our highways, strip malls and dusty The Matt Joiner Trio back roads are dotted with dive bars filled with folks looking for solace in a bottle or a song—and as long as heat, haze and humidity remain Southern burdens to bear—nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

Matt Joiner has embraced this.

Recently, Joiner, best known for his guitar work in Southern rock outfit The Rattlers, decided to make music, namely the blues, an even bigger priority. Matt Joiner is debuting his trio Wednesday night.

The obvious question about the new trio is what its existence means for the future of The Rattlers. Given the fact that both bands primarily showcase Joiner’s exceptional playing and one features his name in the moniker, his involvement is, uh, essential.

“I’m really not sure at this point. I’m doing both projects, and they haven’t interfered with each other so far,” shares Joiner while occasionally picking at his guitar. “It depends on the direction of The Rattlers after this CD [recorded with John Keane and presently untitled], I guess. Whether they want to keep on pushing hard or go back to a part-time thing. It depends on how we work it after the CD is released—that’s been a long time coming. Hopefully, we’ll be able to wrap that up soon. I’m just kind of playing it by ear until then.”

Had Joiner envisioned fronting a band (bassist Clay Henson and drummer Woody Hughes round out the trio) that bore his name? “I have. A three-piece is the way I’ve always wanted to do it,” he admits. “Everyone wants a cool name, something witty. I decided to go with the artist name, that’s it.” [David Eduardo]

rock reminiscent of early Beatles and Byrds.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $27.50 (adv.), $32. www.meltingpointathens.com SAM BUSH Newgrass innovator and mandolin player.

New Earth Music Hall “STS9 ATL Kick-off Party.” 10:30 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall.com AMAN AMUN Local artist Brian McGraw combines elements of triphop, electronic and rock music into a truly unique live experience featuring interactive media.

SERKATREE Utilizing an arsenal of computers, synthesizers, midi controllers and an electronic drum kit, this group creates electronic music influenced by hip-hop.

UP UNTIL NOW Local duo plays electronic dance music with driving uptempo beats and catchy, unforgetable melodies. The debut album Gresham’s Disco will be released on 1320 records in September.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 BRAD DOWNS & THE POOR BASTARD SOULS Local singersongwriter performs roots rock with his all-star band. His debut record includes guest appearances by members of R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Drive-By Truckers, Bloodkin and more!

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

The Rialto Room Emerging Artist Music Series. 8 p.m.

FREE! (21+). www.therialtoclub.com JUSTIN BROGDON Rock vet Justin Brogdon puts a lot of Southern soul into his epic songs, drawing from artists like Tom Petty.

Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens THE HYPSYS Prog-rock jam band from Tuscaloosa.

JUNK Keys, bass and drums trio with an emphasis on jazz fusion and group improvisation.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com GIMME HENDRIX Local Jimi Hendrix tribute band complete with authentic look and instruments.

WUOG 90.5FM 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Ham1 will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air or drop by the station to watch!

Friday 27 106 West Performing Arts Venue 7:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. www.106west.com CLAY COOK AND LEVI LOWREY (Winder) Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cook and fiddle player Lowrey.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 DIAMONDBACK Hard Southern rock influenced by Lynyrd Skynyrd and AC/DC. NIGHT OWL Reunion show.

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 DOC ELLIS Good time rock and roll.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com NIC COWAN Eclectic infusion of soul, rock, blues and country.

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Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 GIMME HENDRIX Locally based Jimi Hendrix tribute band featuring authentic look and gear.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7:30 p.m. $10. (adv.), $12. 706-3546655 ELVIS! A night with The King. Backed by a live band, you won’t see a better impersonator than this!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE BEARFOOT HOOKERS This rowdy local band performs funky, good-humored country. It’s beerdrinkin’ gospel.

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

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MR. FALCON High-energy, indie garage rock influenced equally by The Kinks and Pixies.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 6 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MAD WHISKEY GRIN Local duo featuring masterful guitarist Frank Williams, who slides and fingerpicks his way through bluesy and decidedly American sounds, plus the smoky vocals of Nancy Byron.

THE STEREOFIDELICS With passionate vocals, organic harmonies and spontaneous instrumental creativity, the Stereofidelics draw on bluegrass, Latin and jazz.

10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar JOHN FERNANDES Multiinstrumentalist and member of The Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System and many others.

THE NEW SOUND OF NUMBERS Experimental pop and post-punk project by Hannah Jones. See story on p. 17.

40 Watt Club 9:30 p.m. $8 (adv.). www.40watt.com GIFT HORSE Swirling reverb and dark psychedelic textures pervade this local band’s alternative rock edge that’s equal parts shoegaze and Sonic Youth. See Record Reviews on p. 21.

MODERN SKIRTS CD Release Show!

This piano-driven foursome has become one of Athens’ most treasured and acclaimed local pop acts. See Calendar Pick on p. 26.

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

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Gnat’s Landing “GNAThfest.” 4 p.m. 706-850-5858 ATHENS Young local rockers ranging in age from 11-15, with classic rock influences. (6-7 p.m.).

BEATLES FOR SALE The lads will perform pre-’67 Beatles tunes on authentic instruments and dressed in authentic mod garb. (7:30-10:45 p.m.)

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THE CALENDAR! Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE GOONS New indie-poprock featuring members of The Glands, Casper & the Cookies and Marshmallow Coast.

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

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

PINCHE GRINGO Stomping oneman garage band featuring itinerant Mexico City badass Josh Johnson.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7–9 p.m. FREE! 1560 Oglethorpe Ave. BILL MALLONEE The engine behind seminal Athens outfit Vigilantes of Love, Bill Mallonee takes his love of twangy, soulful pop to nearperfection on his numerous recent releases. This is his LAST SHOW in Athens before moving to Santa Fe! Hotel Indigo “1 Year Anniversary.” 7–9 p.m. www. indigoathens.com CARL LINDBERG AND FRIENDS Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

Legion Field ugaMiracle Benefit Concert. 7 p.m. $17 (adv.), $20 (door). 770–851–5118 PAT GREEN Celebrated country musician. See our feature story at www. flagpole.com.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

The Melting Point $10 (adv.), $14. www.meltingpointathens.com SONS OF SAILORS Jimmy Buffett tribute act.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com THE PREMONITIONS Local band The Premonitions are back with an all new lineup featuring Kara McKenney on lead vocals/keyboard/ guitar and Matt Whittaker on guitar.

The tunes are still melodic rock but perhaps a bit edgier than before.

THE CASTE Danceable and jangly pop rock with a style similar to The Strokes or Wolf Parade.

THE ORKIDS Polished local electropop group with alternating male/ female vocals and super-hooky refrains.

VENICE IS SINKING With boy/girl vocals, a cinematic jangle and a sweeping, emotional punch courtesy of a viola, Venice Is Sinking’s pianobased torch songs burn bright. The critically acclaimed EP Sand & Lines is out now.

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) 6–9 p.m. $5. www.ocaf.org THE GEORGIA MUDCATS An oldtime string band playing music with Southern flair.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebar BROS. MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler play gypsyAmericana.

DOC BROWN & THE DELOREANS Progressive psych-rock inspired by

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everything from Kool & the Gang to Béla Fleck.

Sideways 10 p.m. FREE! 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 JUNK Local musician Patrick Atwater’s funk project.

283 Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 WONKY KONG DJ producing various styles of dance music including bassline, tropical, tech and micro.

UGA Legion Field UGAMiracle Benefit Concert. 7 p.m. $17 (adv.), $20 (door). 770–851– 5118 STEWART AND WINFIELD Low country drawlin’ Athens songcraftsmen turn out easy-going hits.

WUGA 91.7 FM 4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org IT’S FRIDAY Mad Whiskey Grin and The Stereofidelics will perform on the local radio station’s weekly program. University Cable Channel 15 will broadcast the show.

Saturday 28 106 West Performing Arts Venue 7:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. www.106west.com LEVI LOWREY AND THE COMMUNITY HOUSE BAND Whiskey-soaked Dacula-dweller Levi Lowrey and his band churn out

bluesy electric stomps, harmonicawailing ballads and fiddle-bouncing campfire country. (Winder, GA) Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 SAINT FRANCIS Scott Baston reunites former Moonshine Still members in a fiery, spirit-filled musical hootenanny—like a down-home gospel church on revival Sunday.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com WRONG WAY Sublime tribute band.

Bishop Park 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Athens Farmers Market. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net STEVE ABERCROMBIE Local musician who crafts hypnotic experimental folk. (10 a.m.)

CATHERINE KIMBRO & THE NO NAME BAND Wholesome country with bell-like vocals influenced by Lorretta Lynn, Carrie Underwood and Allison Moreno. (8 a.m.).

Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 BRENNAN JOHNSON Singersongwriter with heartfelt tunes influenced by Bob Dylan.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com MAGIC MISSILE Jake Mosely’s main songwriting vehicle for pop songs about the periodic table of the elements and other quirky topics. Musically influenced by acts like Guided by Voices and Teenage Fanclub.

SPIRIT HAIR Psychedelic rock layered with multiple guitars and eccentric keyboards. See Record Reviews on p. 21.

THE SHUT-UPS The Shut-Ups produce sounds reminiscent of The Joe Jackson Band, The Paul Collins Beat and The Brains.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com TURBINE These Bonnaroo vets jam on rock and funk with impressive three-part harmonies and inventive arrangements.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 7 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar THE MCMAKEN BROS. Duo delivering Scottish tunes, Southern ballads, Cajun waltzes and Appalachian breakdowns on dulcimer, mandolin, dobro, fiddle and guitars.

10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar ADAM KLEIN Singer-songwriter who blends the finest elements of folk, Americana and country with poetic lyricism and striking imagery to create engaging, well-crafted songs.

GABRIEL MINTZ Rattling indie rock with carefree and poetic lyrics.

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

40 Watt Club “Studio 40 Four Back to School Dance Party.” 10:30 p.m. $3. www.40watt. com DREAMDOGS Zack Hosey and Nate Nelson tag-team behind the decks spinning indie, electro, rock and more.

IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up high-energy electro and rock. Starts spinning after the drag show!

Friday, August 27

Modern Skirts, Gift Horse, Nate Nelson 40 Watt Club Jan. 31, 2009 was supposed to be a celebration for JoJo Glidewell, as his band (local princes Modern Skirts) celebrated Modern Skirts the release of its second full-length record, All of Us in Our Night, at the hometown 40 Watt. But when the stage lights went off, it was obvious to him that something was missing.

“I was riding home from the show with my girlfriend and told her that I didn’t know if I wanted to be in the band anymore,” he says, those feelings now long gone. “I realized I wouldn’t really like our music anymore if I weren’t in the band. When you get to that point, something has to change.”

To put it lightly, something has changed in the process of creating the upcoming album, Gramahawk (the Happy 81 EP release this weekend is a sampling of that record).

Glidewell’s epiphany was the vocalization of a band-wide attitude that had been brewing for a while. A new direction was needed, and as it turned out, that direction had been staring them in the face via the eccentric and eclectic “bedroom demos” of lead singer Jay Gulley.

“The major difference is that the songs have more depth and are more challenging; the structure, especially the percussion, is deconstructed and rebuilt. It’s a lot more minimal, but all the parts fit together seamlessly,” says Glidewell. “The sounds aren’t clean and sparkly; it’s got some rough edges. And the drums are LOUD.” Modern Skirts was an exceptional pop band. Can the new direction sniff the former’s success? The difference this time around is obvious: the band’s comfortably indifferent to that question’s answer.

“You just get to a point where you stop giving a fuck and [start] doing what entertains you, and that’s fun,” says Glidewell, “and I really think that always makes better music than you would otherwise. It’s, at the very least, more interesting.” [Alec Wooden]

Front Porch Bookstore 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 DODD FERRELLE Former Tinfoil Stars frontman and longtime Athenian Dodd Ferrelle pours heart and soul into his sweeping, anthemic ballads and alt-country rockers.

MAMIE SIMONDS Keyboard and violinist of local rock group Heavy Feather.

The Globe 9–11 p.m. $5 (suggested donation).

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.

Gnat’s Landing “GNAThfest.” 3 p.m. 706-850-5858 BROS. MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler play gypsy-Americana. (3-5 p.m.)

NORMALTOWN FLYERS This Athens roots-rock institution plays a set of good-time rock and roll with a Southern leaning. (8–10:45 p.m.)

RACHEL O’NEAL Local singer/ songwriter who plays a mix of soulful acoustic originals and an eclectic blend of indie rock, jazz and Southern-tinged Americana covers.

(5:30-7:30 p.m.)

RPM 10 p.m. 706-543-0428 GUFF This non-stop local punk quartet’s style hearkens back to the Lookout Records sound from more than a decade ago with a sense of fun amid the noise.

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

MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND For nearly 40 years, Athenian Michael Guthrie and his various bandmates have delved into the world of melodic, jangly British-sounding throwback rock.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com BROTHERLAND Fusion of soulful blues, jazzy instrumentation and some funk to keep you dancing.

Sunday 29 Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com LOKSHEN KUGEL KLEZMER BAND A local seven-piece Klezmer band specializing in Jewish and Gypsy music. Featuring Dan Horowitz of Five Eight.

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

While he spins, take a ride on the mechanical bull!

Gnat’s Landing “GNAThfest.” 4 p.m. 706-850-5858 KINKY WAIKIKI Playing modern arrangements of traditional Hawaiian music, with a little Western swing thrown into the mix. (6:30-8:30 p.m.)

NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan and Neil Young to Van Morrison. (4-6 p.m.)

TRUCE Eclectic four-piece featuring Brennan Bennett (bass), Tony Delgado (drums), Harmon Hanson (guitar) and Ryan Horn (guitar). (9 p.m.)

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub THE BACK ROW BAPTISTS Alternative country from Birmingham, AL with traditional roots and harmonica, upright bass guitar and fiddle.

MOSES GUNN Featuring members of the recently dismantled local Americana act The Corduroy Road, this new group plays old country and rock with explosive energy.

POSSUM JENKINS Americana with its roots embedded firmly in a country-western style.

Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens EVAN BARBER Southern rock with alt-country twang.

ZACH BROOCKE An old soul with a contemporary twist, Broocke is influenced by Simon and Garfunkel, George Jones and Willie Nelson.

SHANE TUTMARC Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of United State of Electronica and Seattle band Dolour. Trivia: he is the greatgrandson of Paul Tutmarc, who has been credited as the inventor of the electric bass.

The Max Canada 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 JUSTIN EVANS Local musician with rich, deep voice who sings about hard drinkin’, fast women and country roads.

THE STARTER KITS This local band sounds a bit like a Southern Elvis Costello with a slight punk snarl.

TIMBER Frontman Daniel Aaron serves up his brand of hangover country rock.

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

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DJ MAHOGANY & DJ KLAUS Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com ORQUESTA MACUBA Eddie and Mayi Lopez with a 13-piece orchestra, consisting of full brass, percussion and rhythm sections, bring you the sounds of Latin America.

The Office Lounge 4–9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 SHORT BUS ALL STARS The guys in this local mob play blues-rock, incorporating standard numbers into their set of original tunes.

Monday 30 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7. www.caledonialounge. com GOATWHORE Black death-metal from the swamplands of New Orleans with gritty, thrash-based riffs, machinegun blast beats and terrorizing vocals.

GRAVES OF VALOR Razor sharp death-metal with a traditional spirit and 21st-century extremity.

GUZIK Southern rock meets deathmetal. See story on p. 19.

STRONG INTENTION Initially influenced by classic NYHC bands such as Agnostic Front and Cro-Mags, this band has steadily gravitated towards faster, harsher thrash.

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar HANS DARKBOLT Brand-new local band performing fiercely melodic pop tunes with swelling vocals and eerie harmonies.

PALEO Hyper-prolific songwriter David Strackany (AKA Paleo) is credited with writing and recording a song every day for 365 days between Apr. 16, 2006 and Apr. 15, 2007. His wiry folk experimentation would appeal to fans of Destroyer.

VINYL VANILLA New local electronic rock duo influenced by electropop and folk.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens EVAN BARBER Southern rock with an alt-country twang.

Tuesday 31 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 DIS-TASTE-R “A new punk band that the kids like,” says the group.

THE SUBLIMINATOR Combining spoken-word poetry with experimental music.

UNUS MUNDUS Local experimental rock/blues band.

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.

Little Kings Shuffle Club “Athens Farmers Market.” 4-7 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net THE DUSTERS Rootsy Americana covers and originals. Featuring Joe Bennett (90 Acre Farm) and Drew Bowen. (5:30 p.m.–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 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 CHRIS CUNDARI Jam, electronica and reggae performed live with a looping technique.

SUMILAN Progressive jam rock.

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

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

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

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medium. Entry forms available online. www.ocaf.com

Call for Artists Fringe Collective and Moon Mama seek artists for Penumbra Halloween art show. Email for information. 706540-2712, moonmama61@aol.com Call for Artists Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa is accepting applications for this year’s Holiday Craftstravaganzaa, held Nov. 13.

Applications available online. www. athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com Call for Artists (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF)) 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 is 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 (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Now seeking artisans to facilitate classes/ workshops. 706-540-2712, moon mama61@aol.com Call for Artists and Musicians Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa is currently seeking artists and crafters for the event in November. www.athensindiecraft stravaganzaa.com Call for Entries (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF)) For Georgia Small Works juried exhibit including artwork in every

AUDITIONS 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.

CLASSES Bachata (Athens Wellness Cooperative) Dance combinations and techniques for beginners and intermediate dancers. Music CD and refreshments included. Aug. 29, 12–4 p.m. $47 (adv.), $50 (door).

706-369-8855, www.bachatadance workshop.com Basic Computer Skills and Introduction to Computers (Oconee County Library) Learn the basic components of your computer or master Microsoft Windows XP. Registration required. Go online for list of upcoming classes. 706-769-3950, FREE! www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/ oconee.html Beginning to Intermediate Pottery (Lyndon House Arts Center) Develop wheelthrowing, glazing and decorating techniques while you make your own unique stoneware! Now registering. 706613-3623, www.accleisureservices. com

Bellydancing (Healing Arts Centre) Learn basic technique, postures and movements 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 Burlesque Workshop (The Hardcore Gym) Learn exotic dance techniques for fun, fitness and body confidence. Sat. 8/28, 3 p.m. $13. www.bobbisburlesque.webs.com Chen Style Taijiquan (Floorspace) Effortless power.

Authentic Chinese martial lineage.

Register for ongoing instruction.

Sundays and Mondays, 706-6143342, telihu@gmail.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. and “Family Try Clay” every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. ($20/ person). 706-355-3161, www.good dirt.net Computer Class (Madison County Library) Introduction to hardware, files & folders and fun with Publisher. Space is limited; call to register. Tues. 2–3 p.m. & 7–8 p.m, Wed. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-795-0830 Computer Class (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to the internet. Call to register. Aug. 26, 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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 Dance Classes (Studio Dance Academy) Now registering for a wide

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SWEET! Very affectionate and good-natured year-old mutt.

He is blue brindle with white on his chest. He loves kids and is submissive to other dogs. He is Lab-sized and nicely, he does not jump up on you.

These two little brothers were in the arms of two young volunteer dog walkers, and they were happy to be there. Thank you volunteers! They are less than six months old, have wire hair, short legs and long bodies - mystery Terriers. Happy and fun guys.

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This gray and white fellow could be a Shih Tzu mix though he weighs not quite 20 lbs.

He’s interested in everything going on and likes to explore. more dogs can be seen online at

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Didi Dunphy’s installation “Rush Ride to Linkland” is at Ciné through Sept. 15. range of youth and adult classes, from ballet and tap to swing and Nia. 706-354-6454, www.studiodance academy.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 countrywestern dance lessons every Sunday afternoon and Tuesday evening.

6:30–7:30 p.m. $10. jean.guard@ yahoo.com ESL Teacher Training (Goodwill Career Center, 10 Hunington Rd.) The Athens-Clarke Literacy Council will host a free training on teaching ESL to adults in the community.

The topic will be teaching multilevel classes and incorporating grammar instruction. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! Valerie Pflug, 404-242-7789, vpflug@archatl.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 more info. 706613-3623, www.accleisureservices. com Fall Clay and Glass Classes (Good Dirt) Now registering for classes in wheel-thrown pottery, glass fusing and slumping, and other special projects. All levels for youth and adults. See complete schedule online. 706-355-3161. www.gooddirt.net Figure Drawing Studio (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Bring any supplies/equipment that you may require. Ages 18 and up. Sundays, 2–4 p.m. $8. 706-540-2727 Figure Photography Studio (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Focus on the human figure. Model, lighting equipment and props are supplied, but bring your own camera equipment. Ages 18 and up. Call to reserve a space. Sundays, 4-6 p.m. $20. 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.

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 Introduction to the Internet (Oconee County Library) Two-part class that covers Internet service providers, web browsers, useful sites and Internet safety. Space is limited; call to register. Aug. 25 & 26, 3-4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 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 Money Matters (ACC Library) Money Matters coordinator 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 New Horizon Music Classes (UGA School of Music) Beginning band, intermediate band, beginning orchestra and piano classes for adults age 50+. No prior music experience needed! FREE! Call 706542-2894 to register.

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 OCAF Classes (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF)) Now registering for fall classes. Offerings include drawing, watercolor, oil and acrylic painting, bagpipe making, ceramic arts, book making and poetry. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com 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 painting instructor Charles. 706613-3623, 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 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 Yoshukai Karate (AKF Itto Martial Arts) Learn Yoshukai Karate, a traditional hard Okinawan style. www. athensy.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! AthLatinoFest The Latino Fest in Athens is looking for volunteers, bands and artists to participate in this year’s festival. Deadline is Aug. 27. AthLatinoFest@gmail.com. 706425-9883 Become a Mentor (Project Safe) Become a mentor for a child, teen or adult who has experienced violence in the home. www.project-safe.org, volunteer coordinator Marla Taylor at projectvolunteer@yahoo.com, 706-549-0922 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-RED-CROSS, www.redcrossblood.org 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 Free IT Athens (Free IT Athens, 594 Oconee St.) Orientation for volunteeers. Generally lasts half an hour and is required for volunteer-

ing. Visit www.freeitathens.org for more information. Aug. 26, 6 p.m.

706-621-6157, freeitathens@gmail. com 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 Trail Guide Training (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Help lead discovery hikes with small groups of elementary school students. Only need to attend one of the sessions. Ages 18 & up. Pre-registration required.

Aug. 26–28, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

706-613-3615 Volunteer ESL Teachers Catholic Charities seeks volunteers to teach English as a Second Language to adults in the community Monday through Thursday evenings this fall. No experience necessary.

Margaret Prickett, 770–790–3118, mprickett@archatl.com

to apply temporary henna body art.

Ages 11–15. Aug. 27, 5 p.m. $2.

706-613-3650 Hot Wheels (Southeast Clarke Park) Co-ed BMX and skateboarding program designed for children ages 6-10 years old, teaching the basic tricks, manuevers, skate etiquette and equipment check. Registration accepted at Bishop Park. Saturdays Aug. 28–Sept. 18. 9–11 a.m. $42.

706-613-3871, www.accleisure services.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 Youth Theater Workshop (Various Locations) Innovative, creative after-school theater workshops for ages 6-12. Fun & skills in voice, movement, improvisation and storytelling. Sept. 13–Dec. 15.

Mondays at Athens Montessori School, Tuesdays at Waseca Leaning Environment). 3:15 & 4:15 p.m. $120. www.smallhousecreative.com

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SUPPORT

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 Henna Workshop (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Learn how

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

ART AROUND TOWN 283 Bar (283 E. Broad St.) Paintings by local artist Nash Hogan. Through September.

ACC Library (2025 Baxter St., Top of the Stairs Gallery) Paintings of flowers by artist and gardener Marshall Reddoch. Through August.

Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) Paintings

by Sophie Howell. Through August.

ATHICA (160 Tracy St.) “Mission Accomplished,” an exhibit reflecting on the Iraq War and coinciding with President Obama’s promised date of withdrawal from Iraq, features video and sound art, glass, photography, prints, embroidery and sculpture by artists Cecelia Kane, James Buonaccorsi and Blaine Whisenhunt. Through Sept. 26.

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).

Cillies (175 East Clayton St.) New paintings on display by Kristen Ashley. Through August.

Ciné BarCafé (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Rush Ride to Linkland,” features new works by Didi Dunphy, including skate sculpture, vinyl installation, embroidery and video. Through Sept. 15.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design (Caldwell Hall) Using map visualization as a primary method, “Mapping Athens” indentifies Athens’ unique physical, environmental and social characteristics. Through Sept. 24.

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.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar (1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) “And Now for Something Completely Different,” a display of paintings and assemblages by Charley Seagraves. Through September. Reception Aug. 31.

Jittery Joe’s Eastside (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) New works by Peter Loose. Through August.

Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) Work by Nancy Hart. Through August.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.,

Gallery 101) “The Other Side of the Mask” is a 1400-square-foot, site-specific installation by Thom Houser employing still and video images, built environments, performance and sound. Closing reception Sept. 24. “Re: Mark” features drawings and mixedmedia works by Sara Schneckloth, Barb Bondy, Phillip Buntin and Kathleen McShane. Through Sept.

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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 County Library (1315 Hwy. 98 W., Danielsville) Guard art by Karol Patterson and scrapbook collages of Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter dogs by Brittany Morton on display. Through August.

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.

Mercury Art Works at Hotel Indigo (Hotel Indigo, 500 College Ave.) New works by Art Rosenbaum and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum.

Through August 27.

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

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) 8th Annual Perspectives Pottery Exhibition features the work of over 50 Georgian potters. Through Sept. 15.

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.

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 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Group meets Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org Mental Health Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the hospital’s lobby conference room. Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. 706783-5706, www.athensmentalhealth. org Parkinson’s Support Group (Council on Aging) Meet up every fourth Monday for an open support group for those living with Parkinson’s Disease. 2:30–4 p.m.

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 or look for Sapph Fire on Facebook, sapph.fire@yahoo.com

ON THE STREET Athens, GA Half-Marathon (Various Locations) Explore Athens in autumn on this run winding through campus, downtown and alongside the North Oconee River.

Proceeds benefit AthFest. Now registering. Oct. 24, 7 a.m. $60. www. athensgahalf.com Benefit Golf Tournament (Lane Creek Golf Club) The registration fee includes entry in the tournament, lunch, on-course beverages and a scoring party. Proceeds will benefit the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation. Sept. 13, registration begins at 10:30 a.m. $75 fee. Call 706-353-1126 or see www.realtors athens.com 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 Nuci’s SPACE Race (Nuçi’s Space) Now registering for a 5k run/walk to benefit Nuci’s Space on Oct. 2nd. www.nuci.org/space-race-2010registration Tickets on Sale (Performing Arts Center) Single tickets for the UGA Performing Arts Center’s 2010-2011 season will go on sale to the public beginning Aug. 30. Performances include Diavolo, Tony Bennett, Guitar Orchestra of Barceloa, an off-Broadway series and more. 706542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac.

“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

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

EXCEPTION TO THE RULE

$3 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25

MATT JOINER and ALBATROSS Tickets $5

THURSDAY, AUGUST 26

SAM BUSH Tickets $27.50 adv. • $32 at the door

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27

SONS OF SAILORS (Jimmy Buffett Tribute)

Tickets $10 adv. • $14 at the door

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

EMMITT-NERSHI BAND

featuring Drew Emmitt of Leftover Salmon and Bill Nershi of String Cheese Incident Tickets $15 adv.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

OLA MOON featuring CINDY WILSON of The B-52s Tickets $10 adv. • $15 at the door

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS

Tickets $12 adv. • $15 at the door

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

SANTANA TRIBUTE Tickets $9 adv. • $12 at the door

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

ZOSO

The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience Tickets $10 adv.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

JOHN KEANE & NATHAN SHEPPARD present “Déjà Vu”, a Tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Tickets $10 adv.

ON THE HORIZON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19 Nomad Artists and the Melting Point present

RAILROAD EARTH Tickets $18 adv. • $22 at the door • $15 with UGA ID at door

COMING SOON 9/11 - HOLMAN AUTRY BAND 9/12 - HARVEY MILK 9/15 - GEOFF ACHISON & THE SOULDIGGERS 9/16 - HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND CD Release Party 9/17 - THE JESTERS 9/18 - THE HIGHBALLS 9/22 - BENJY DAVIS PROJECT, INGRAM HILL 9/24 - THE RATTLERS, HOLDCELL 9/25 - THE HUSHPUPPIES 9/30 - TONY JOE WHITE 10/1 - GRAINS OF SAND 10/2 - GROGUS 10/9 - TIM MILLER BAND 10/15 - BREAKFAST CLUB 10/16 - ALLGOOD 10/19 - RAILROAD EARTH 10/21 - DONNA THE BUFFALO 10/22 - LOVE & THEFT 10/23 - ZACH DEPUTY 11/6 - BOMBER CITY LOCATED ON 11/26 - STRAWBERRY FLATS THE GROUNDS OF

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins

So, here is the problem. A longtime buddy of mine is seeing this girl, and, at first, we were all willing to give her a shot. We invited her to our parties, made her feel welcome and really gave her the whole nine yards. Now, my friend starting seeing this girl about a month prior to his divorce in March. By June, this girl was moved into his place. That was when the sweet, red-haired angel turned into, well, the psychotic cat lady. She moved in seven cats (turns out she had close to 30 before moving and lovingly gave them up to the first pound available) and day by day the true girl came out: paranoid, hyper-jealous of anyone, regardless of gender, who would come over to hang with her man.

A few weeks later, our weekly hang out was terminated when she went on a screaming, crying tirade about how our buddy wouldn’t buy her a new phone after she dropped hers in the toilet. As it stands, we haven’t seen our friend in about two weeks; he won’t/can’t come out with us. Some of us have dropped by the house but the place smells like a cat box and looks

First, I would like to thank you for using the word harridan in your letter. I love learning new and useful words. I have a Yiddish word-a-day calendar for just this reason.

Second, I advise you to call the guy’s landlord.

There is no way anybody wants seven cats living in their house. You may be able to get rid of her without even having to talk to him about it. If, however, he owns his own place, then you need to meet up with him and have a serious talk. Call him at work, or stop by one day (either work or home) and tell him you need to see him alone. You may want to take another close friend or two, depending on his personality. (Don’t do that if you think he might feel like you’re ganging up on him.) Then tell him what you’re thinking.

It’s not like he doesn’t know the woman is crazy. Hell, he’s the one who has to live there. And never mind the cats. Or at least don’t focus on the cats. You can ask him about it. He may like them just fine, and he’s probably already gotten used to the smell. Plus, he may be attached to them already, and unlike his lady love, they probably aren’t pushing him around and trying to control his every move. Tell him you’re concerned. Tell him you want to see more of him. Tell him that you’re worried that he is only settling for this woman out of fear and loneliness. If he says he really loves her, then let it go. But do tell him that you and your other friends would like him to come out again, and that letting her control him is weird and unhealthy. After that, there’s not a whole lot you can do. He will either come around or he won’t, and you can’t help it either way.

Continue to invite him out when you can, leave the door open, and hope for the best.

at Hotel Indigo-Athens

When you say “he does it so much it doesn’t even interest (you) anymore,” do you mean that you aren’t interested in his masturbation, or you’re not interested in sex?

Because I would think that if your otherwise healthy sex life is being affected, he would notice. I assume you just mean that he does it so often that it’s like eating, breathing, or playing video games, and you aren’t even surprised to find him doing it anymore, regardless of the circumstances. So, obviously, you need to talk to him about this. Tell him that you would like it if he would masturbate less often, or at least do it in private.

This reminds me of something that happened to my friend Ross. Ross was in residency at a big hospital in a big city, and during his OB/GYN rotation, he delivered (or was present for the delivery of—I’m not sure how that works) something like 15 babies in one day.

The rotation went on for a couple weeks, after which he said that looking at women’s junk had sort of lost its allure. He decided right then that he would never pursue a career as an OB/ GYN, because “I never want to get sick of looking at it, and I never want it to be like just another day at work.” Tell your husband to think about that next time he wants to whip it out while he’s paying bills online.

like a dump. We’ve tried talking to him about it, but he’s turned into a brick wall. It’s a slap in the face since a lot of us have been friends with him for six, eight and even 10 years. In less than six months, she has ripped us out of the equation. Now, I want my friend to be happy and have a good life but she’s—forgive the overly dramatic wording—sucking the life and soul right out of the poor bastard.

So, what do we do? Do we stick by our buddy in case the animal hoarder splits, or cut our losses and get the hell out of Dodge? After two failed marriages, we are worried he thinks this is his last chance to make good with a relationship. We don’t want to see him settle, let alone marry some harridan.

Not one to leave a man behind, Dazed and Confused

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My husband and I have a wonderful marriage. So much so, if this is all I have to complain about, then I should probably just be thankful. We have been married over five years and are in our 30s. Our sex life is great. My husband is the love of my life, and I know he feels the same about me. So, what’s the problem? He masturbates too much! Seriously. He does it so much it doesn’t even interest me anymore. How do I get him to stop? Please help.

WEDNESDAY - 8/25

Pup-Strut Dog Benefit 5:30-7:30p on the Phi Bar Patio Come see adoptable canines strut their stuff.

Enjoy dog-themed drink specials

THURSDAY - 8/26 Live after 5 6p on the Phi Bar Patio Artist: Kate Morrissey

Emerging Artist Music Series 8p in the Rialto Room Artist: Justin Brogdon

FRIDAY - 8/27

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2BR apt. starting at $700/ mo. 3BR apt. starting at $1000/mo. All close to campus! Howard Properties (706) 546-0300.

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5BR/3BA $650/mo.

117 Jolly Lane Athens, GA 30606. CHAC, DW, W/D. Near 5 Pts. Memorial Park off of S. Lumpkin in Sleepy Creek. (706) 338-1619.

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.

No Roommates? No Problem! River Oaks has you covered. Now leasing 2,3, & 4BRs w/ by-the-bed leasing option. Prices start at $287.50/ BR. Ask about $200 signing bonus! (706) 543-1910.

Tweedell Properties (706) 207-6361.

Convenient to campus.

2BR/1BA, 2BR/2BA, 3BR/2BA, 4BR/2BA starting at $595/mo. For more information www. tweedellproperties.com.

W/D, ceiling fans, DW, microwave, total electric, fresh paint, up-to-date appls.

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STUDIO 40. 655 East Campus Rd, (2) units available for 2010/2011 $650/mo. Contact Shannon Mar tin with Cindy Karp Realty, Inc. at 706-424-1889 or shannon@cindykarp. com.

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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.

Westside condos.

2BR/2BA, $600/mo.

Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/mo.

2BR/1BA, $490/mo.

Eastside Duplex 2BR/1BA, 475/mo.

Eastside basement apartment 2BR/1BA. W/D, nice yard. $550/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700 or cell (706) 540-1529.

West Athens, just off Prince.

Mins to Dwntn. $550/mo.

2BR/2BA apt. Living room w/ FP, eat–in kitchen, deck.

Internet avail. Pets OK. Avail. now. Call (706) 4332712.

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.

Eastside Offices. 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent 1200 sq. ft. for $1200/mo., 750 sq. ft. for $900/mo., 450 sq. ft. for $600/mo.

(706) 546-1615 or www. athenstownproperties.com 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.

Paint Artist Studios.

Historic Boulevard area artist community 160 Tr a c y S t re e t . R e n t 3 0 0 sq. ft. for $150/mo. & 400 sq. ft. for $200/mo.

(706) 546-1615 or www. athenstownproperties. com.

Historic Downtown Building. 3200 sq. ft.

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

Retail, Bar, or Restaurantfor lease at Homewood Shopping Center.

3000 sq. ft. Call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039.

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.

Condos 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. Available immediately. Owner/Agent, call Robin (770) 265-6509 or email at robintdubois@gmail. com.

2BR/2BA, Eastside. Available now. 1300 sq. ft., CHAC, W/D, new DW. No pets. $575/mo. (706) 769-0757.

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. $850/mo.

(706) 549-5006, www.

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Studio 51. 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.

Please visit w w w. studio51condos.com.

Westside condo. Available 9/1. 1500 sq. ft. 2BR/2BA. W/D, CHAC, DW. Good location, no pets. On busline.

Se habla Espanol. $690/mo.

Ana (678) 848-7987.

Duplexes For Rent Spacious 1BR/1BA in Normaltown, HWflrs, FP, CHAC, W/D Included. $695/ mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or visit www.ValerioProperties. com.

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1BR/1BA available now. Large. HWflrs. throughout, built–in bookshelves, FP, laundry, tall ceilings, private. Walk to restaurants, minutes from Dwntn. 167 Oglethorpe. $695/mo. Pets welcome.

(706) 546-6900.

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.

F i r s t m o n t h f re e ! 2 o r 3BR duplexes. W/D, DW, Secluded Patios, large yards in wooded area. Easy Access to Loop & Dwntn.

(706) 548-2522, http://www. dovetailmanagement.com Normaltown/Navy School Area. Unique, brick townhouse. Cool, private 2BR/1BA. CHAC, HWflrs, lg. fenced yard. Pets OK. $600/mo. Off street parking.

Lease/dep. (706) 207-4636.

We s t s i d e D u p l e x .

Immaculate, friendly, convenient, wooded, 2BR, FP. W/D, $550/mo.

(706) 207-9436.

Houses for Rent $680/mo. 2BR/2BA. 115 E. Carver Dr. 1.5 mi. from UGA Arch. Fenced–in yd. Tile & HWflrs. CHAC, W/D hookups, DW. Pets welcome. Avail. now! (706) 614-8335.

1BR/1BA w/ office 1277 W. H a n c o c k . S c r e e n porch, rear parking, pets OK, DW, HVAC, HWflrs, walk to ARMC, campus, & Newtown. $600/mo. Call Paul (706) 714-9607.

145 Woodcrest Drive.

3BR/2BA. CHAC. Fenced yd. Pets OK. No pet fees!

Open House today! $825/ mo. (706) 372-6813.

167 Tibbetts St., 2BR/1BA Normaltown house. $650/ mo. Pls. call (706) 5496070.

1.5BR/1BA. Danielsville Rd. Private wooded setting.

CHAC, W/D hookup. Wood flrs., large fenced yd., lawncare incl. $525/mo. + dep. (706) 424-1571, lv. msg.

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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 v i r t u a l t o u r s w w w. nancyflowers.com.

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

2BR/2BA Quiet Eastside n’hood. Screened porch, backyd, deck, garage, all appls. $1K/mo. Call Laura (229) 672-0152.

2BR/1BA with refinished HWflrs, all new tiled bath, separate tiled laundry room with W/D. Modern appliances. In 5 Pts on Highland Ave. $675/mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or visit www.

ValerioProperties.com.

2BR/1BA house. 15 miles from Dwntn Athens. Newly remodeled. New appls.

W/D hook–up. Very nice. $500/dep & $550/mo. (706) 255-9993.

2BR/2BA Walk to Class/ Dwntn. Circa 1890's, CHAC, high ceilings, HWflrs, FP, fenced yrd, gas log fireplace. Pets OK. $795/mo. 140 Inglewood Ave. (706) 714-1100. Low deposit.

3BR/2BA house for rent.

Large wooded backyd., HVAC, W/D, fridge. Close to Dwntn. 340 Lexington Heights. $800/mo. (706) 613-7242 or (678) 232-7228.

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.

3 to 5BR townhomes & cottages available now!

Private baths, large closets, major appliances incl, pet friendly! Starting at $325/ BR. Call (706) 543-1910 for tour.

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.

3BR/2BA home on Lexington Rd. Located on bus line.

Garage apartment & small yd. W/D, DW, CHAC. $595/ mo. (706) 549-9456.

3BR/2BA house on campus.

Available now. Lg. yd., DW, W/D, CHAC, HWflrs. $1200/ mo. (706) 255-0066.

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.

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.

Available immediately!

3BR/2BA in Normaltown.

HWflrs, CHAC, quiet street.

Grad students pref’d. Rent negotiable. (706) 372-1505.

Available immediately in Five Points 2BR/1BA, $650/mo., pets OK, W/D connections, call Tom 706540-2432.

Beautifully remodeled 3BR/1BA home located just minutes to Dwntn Athens.

HWflrs, granite countertops, screened in porch, huge back yd, & basement storage. Dekle Realty (706) 548-0580.

Charming Country Home.3BR/2BA. 10 mi. f ro m D w n t n . 1 6 a c re s .

Suitable for 2 horses.

Fenced pasture w/ shelter. CHAC, all appls.

1BR & 2BAs completely renovated. $900/mo. (706) 340-7531.

Close in. Eastside (Univ.

Hgts.) Brick, HWfrs, Satellite hook-up, all appliances, low utils. (water/yard maint. incl.), large fenced backyd (pets OK). 1st month free w/ dep. $950/mo. (706) 207-1234.

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

East Athens. 3BR/2.5BA. Fenced backyard. Small pets OK. $900/mo. (706) 207-3677.

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) 2074636.

Only a few left for Fall!

Brick homes star ting at j u st $ 2 7 5 /B R . Cl o se t o Dwntn/UGA & pet friendly.

Dekle Realty (706) 5480580. Please visit www. deklerealty.com.

Rent/Sale. $550/mo. Sale: $99,999. Adorable 2BR cottage. Recently renovated.

LV, DR, kitchen, front porch, nice yd. Lg. dog pen. Great location, busline, UGA, Dwntn. (706) 543-5604.

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Spacious House for Rent. 4BR/3.5BA Lovely stone & brick cottage–style home (>3K sq. ft.) on 17 acres (woods & pasture). Eastside of Athens, about 10 mi. from UGA. Lg. kitchen, living rm., sunroom, dining rm., screen porch.

W/D in laundry rm., HVAC. Features cozy stone FP in living room, HWflrs, wrap– around porches, walking trails, fenced garden spot & more. Excellent Clarke Co. schools, yet peaceful, secluded setting w/ room to roam. $1250/mo. furnished or unfurnished. Call Janice (706) 614-6959.

Houses for Sale 3BR/2BA, 2000 Chandelier model mobile home for sale.

CHAC, Gas appliances.

Located 5 min. from Dwntn.

Close to UGA. 3BR house & 3 lots. Close to UGA & Dwntn Athens.

Great investment, rental property or starter home. All for $154,900. Contact Jamie (706)-215-7078.

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.

Normaltown under $100,000! www.115KnottinghamDrive. com. Or 3.6 acres w/ home in Oconee www.2011Pete DickensRoad.com under $150,000. Donna Fee, Keller Williams Realty, Cell: (706) 296-5171, Office: (706) 3162900.

Roommates Quiet Male N/S roommate needed for 2BR/2BA on Eastside. $325/mo. $325/ deposit. Nice location. Call or email (706) 224-4208 or email bonjour@uga.edu.

Rooms for Rent $450/mo. + utils. Private bathroom & entrance. $350/ mo. + utils. Shared bathroom.

3200 sq. ft. home on Westside. Newly renovated in 2007 w/ state–of–the–art kitchen. Cable/Internet ready. Prefer grad student or young professional. Pets negotiable. Available now.

Call (404) 660-3219.

2BR/1BA Furnished apartment. $750/mo.

Beautiful historic home on Cobb St. just off Prince Ave. Like a bed & breakfast, FP, kitchenette, W/D, CHAC. (404) 749-6722.

Awesome house!

3BR/2BA. W/D, DW, deck, fenced yds., garage. $325/ person if 2 or $550 if one person. 10 minute drive to Dwntn. (352) 215-0056.

Dashiell Cottages Inc. Move–in $75! (706) 8500491. All amenities, Wifi.

Enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy the wildlife observation.

Room in 3BR/2.5BA house on Eastside. Close to campus & quiet, large deck, WiFi avail. $400/mo. (706) 340-3616.

Walk/Bike .5 mi to Dwntn/ campus. Looking for responsible M/F N/S to share 2BR/2BA house. Wifi, W/D. Pets neg., no dogs pls. $395/mo+1/2 utilities.

Call Tony at (478) 3974696.

Sub-lease 2BR/2BA Duplex, $650. No security or pet deposit! 2 miles from downtown. Includes W / D , D W, m i c r o w a v e , security monitoring, lawn maintenance. Lease ends 12/31/10, but renewable.

Call (360) 259-2721.

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

Delivery available.

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.

Miscellaneous

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2 0 0 5 To r o Groundmaster 3280-D Diesel Mower. Asking $2900, nice, clean, low hours, contact me at add04md@ msn.com or (404) 393-6725.

Dynamite Clothing back to school. Guys, girls, vintage and new clothing and tons of housewares. Open Daily 12:30-6pm. 143 N. Jackson St. Downtown White upright Kenmore Freezer. Excellent condition. $100. Call Chris at (706) 340-6296.

Music Instruction Athens School of Music.

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

From beginner to expert.

Instrument repairs avail. Visit www.AthensSchoolofMusic. com, (706) 543-5800.

Music Services Fret Shop. Professional guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous clients incl.

R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

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.

Musicians Wanted Experienced lead guitarist, bassist & drummer 18-25yrs.

Influences: Replacements, Boys, Husker Du, Cheap Trick, Plimsouls, Star Spangles, 70s punk, 80s power-pop. Brad (706) 537-2686, or bradv77@ gmail.com.

Studios RoomFiftyThree. Mix room & ProTools HD2 Accelbased recording studio on the Eastside of Athens.

Seriously high–end analog gear! Seriously affordable!

Feel the love! Visit www. roomfiftythree.com.

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.

Health Lose 10 lbs. in 9 Days, S a f e l y, O r g a n i c a l l y, Permanently through Nutritional cleansing and Replenishing program.

Call for wholesale prices (770) 979-8376.

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

Living expenses paid.

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Penis enlargement.

FDA medical vacuum pumps.

Gain 1-3 i n c h e s p e r m a n e n t l y.

Te s t o s t e r o n e , V i a g r a , Cialis. Free pills! (619) 2 9 4 - 7 7 7 7 c o d e A LT w w w. d r j o e l k a p l a n . c o m discounts available.

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Viagra 100 mg & Cialis 20 mg! 40 pills + 4 free for only $99. #1 Male enhancement, discreet shipping, save $500. Buy the blue pill now! (800) 558-1272 (AAN CAN).

Viagra. Save $500! 40 x 100mg pills for only $99. No prescription needed! (866) 9788 1 7 0 . Ta t t o o N u m b .

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Misc. Services Broken iPhone? iPhone mobile repair service. We fix all broken iPhones. Cracked Screen? Water Damage?

Call us (706) 352-9334.

Sports Awesome Martial Arts. Men/ Women. Only 8 spots left!

Eastside Athens. Kenpo, Kali, Silat, Self-Defense.

Tuedays 6:30 pm. 2 weeks free! Email steve@karatefire. com Call (706) 410-0951.

Jobs Full-time Community Garden Coordinator. Athens Land Trust, an equal opportunity employer, has received a 3 year grant from the National Institute for Food & Agriculture to establish a network of community gardens in Athens. Please see our website for complete job description. No phone c a l l s o r f a x e s . w w w. athenslandtrust.org Mexicali Grille now hiring experienced servers.

Day or night, FT/PT. Pls. call (706) 546-9200 or inquire at Eastside location from 10:30– 12:00 or 2:00–5:00.

Now hiring Hair Stylists— chair rental or commission available in Athens premiere salon. Great in salon education, photo shoots, positive & fun environment, easy access & great parking. Email resume to info@citysalonandspa. com.

Now hiring! Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500/wk. potential.

Info at (985) 646-1700 dept.

GA–3058.

Planters, Inc., a Landscape Design, Installation & Garden Maintenance Company serving high-end residential clients in Atlanta, is seeking one f u l l - t i m e Te a m L e a d e rGardener for Garden Maintenance Division. Must have B.S. in Horticulture & min. 3 yrs experience in the field. Must have clean driving record & reliable transportation to work. Must pass drug-test. Benefits include health, dental & life insurance, paid vacation/ sick time & 401k plan.

Send resume via fax to (404) 233-8691 or email to kfox@plantersgarden.com.

Shenanigans Salon.

Accepting applications for Stylist w/ Clientele. Send resume to shenanigans. s a l o n @ y a h o o . c o m or visit us at 1037A Baxter St., Athens.

UberPrints.com is hiring!

We are looking for bright, outgoing individuals to join our customer service team. Great work environment. To learn more about the position & to apply, please visit uberprints. com/jobs.

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.

Requirements: Should 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.

Earn extra income assembling CD cases from home. No experience necessary. Call our live operators now. (800) 405-7619 ext. 2450. www. easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN).

High School diploma!

Graduate in just 4 weeks!

Free brochure. Call now!

(800) 532-6546 ext. 97. Go to www.continentalacademy. com (AAN CAN).

Movie extras. Earn up to $150/ day to stand in backgrounds of major films. Experience not required. Call now! (888) 6644621 (AAN CAN).

Part-time Big City Bread Cafe.

Experienced, early morning cook & experienced counter/ food runner needed. Apply in person. No phone calls please.

Dondero’s kitchen is looking for PT cooks Mon.–Fri. mornings. (706) 389-7955.

Grill cook needed for fast paced restaurant. $10/hr w/ room for advancement. Selfmotivation a plus. Apply at 259 W. Washington St. Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments. No exp. req’d. (800) 743-8535.

Vehicles

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Autos

2007 Jeep Wrangler Sahara 4X4.

Automatic, low miles, black/ gray. Price $5750, details & pics at vej78sr@msn.com.

(678) 278-9142.

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Heyward Allen Toyota is having a great summer.

Looking for new or pre– owned vehicles? Come see me. Chris Koopmans, Sales & Leasing Consultant, (706) 369-5020 ext.123.

Email ckoopmans@ heywardallentoyota. c o m , o r v i s i t w w w. heywardallentoyota.com.

Motorcycles 1982 GS450. Great restored condition. Many new parts.

Very reliable and fun. Please call for more details and to see the bike. (706) 3637650. Eastside. Thanks.

Notices Messages Be yourself. Be an individual and don’t follow the crowd.

Don’t get a tattoo.

Looking for a place for your group to meet? 283 Bar is available for weekly meetings, socials & more.

Cozy, relaxed atmosphere.

Email the283bar@gmail.com for more info.

Organizations Kickball referees needed for Fall season. Referee experience pref’d. Games held on Sunday afternoons.

Please contact athens@ gokickball.com for more info.

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CHICKENSTRIPS TUESDAY SPECIAL

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ORDER ONLINE @ PAPAJOHNS.COM

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CHEESESTICKS

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(706) $ 354-4444 99 Only

1

1 Large 1-Topping Pizza PAPA SIZE YOUR PIZZA TUESDAY SPECIAL

4 TUESDAY

$EVERY 99

Offer good for a limited time at participating Papa John’s restaurants only.

Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 12/31/10. Coupon required.

LATE NIGHT SPECIAL

30% MORE 1 Large PIZZA 1-Topping Only Pizza

CARRYOUT ONLY

Online Promo Code: TUE499

1 Large 1-Topping Pizza Campus & Downtown

Offer good for a limited time at participating Papa John’s restaurants only.

Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 12/31/10. Coupon required.

1

99 99 5

$ $

10PM-CLOSE

Offer good for a limited time at participating Papa John’s restaurants only.

Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 12/31/10. Coupon required.

Offer good for a limited time at participating Papa John’s restaurants only.

Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 8/31/10. Coupon required.

Cheesesticks Only

(706)$ 613-7272 99

3

Offer good for a limited time at participating Papa John’s restaurants only.

Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 9/30/10. Coupon required.

CHEESESTICKS LUNCH SPECIAL Add an Order of Cheesesticks Only 50% OFF Entire Order

3

$ 99

Between 9am & 4pm Offer good for a limited time at participating Papa John’s restaurants only.

Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 9/30/10. Coupon required.

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Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 9/30/10.

LUNCH SPECIAL

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION

50% 2 LargeOFF 1-Topping 10 or $ Entire 1-Topping 6 2 MediumOrder

$

CARRYOUT

Between 9am & 4pm

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Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 9/2/10. Coupon required.

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Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts. Additional toppings extra. Not valid with any other coupons or discounts.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Customer responsible for all applicable taxes.

Expires 8/31/10. Coupon required.

Expires 8/31/10. Coupon required.

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1 Large 1-Topping Pizza

Any Large Specialty Pizza Only

One Extra Large 35 1-Topping Pizza

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30 Different Types of

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LIVE MUSIC

100+ Whiskies 200+ Craft Beers

Gimme Hendrix

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POOL TABLES DARTS • Wii FOOSBALL CORNHOLE

Friday 8/27

Saturday 8/28

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Taco Stand Downtown

260 EAST WASHINGTON STREET DOWNTOWN • 706-369-3040 TOP OF JACKSON ST. 12 STEPS FROM THE CORNER

Happy Hour Mon-Fri 4-9

Expanded

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Front and Back

Patios

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