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pub notes Blogging and Parking Beyond the Trestle @ Flagpole From now through the November elections, Flagpole is partnering with the Beyond the Trestle blog to bring our online readers more news and comment about politics and government. Beyond the Trestle will appear on the Flagpole.com home page with its latest posts visible, and Flagpole readers can click through directly to Beyond the Trestle. And, of course, Beyond the Trestle now contains a lot more than just politics and government, having broadened into sports, books, food, music, religion and, generally, what’s happening around Athens.

This partnership, for the duration of the political season, will benefit Flagpole and our readers with more up-to-date online information and will bring more exposure to Beyond the Trestle.

Johnathan McGinty and Martin Matheny are the guys behind Beyond the Trestle. Johnathan (AKA “J-Mac”) has been blogging about government and politics for several years now (and writing a column in the Banner-Herald), and Martin has gained extensive experience working in and managing political campaigns for a variety of state and regional candidates. Together and with help from their friends they have been covering Athens online with up-to-date, incisive and thoughtful news and commentary. Their take on things fits well with Flagpole’s, so this partnership seems a natural step for both organizations.

Take a look at Beyond the Trestle at Flagpole.com, and you’ll see that Johnathan, Martin and their writers are putting a lot of good, timely information up on their site that should be of interest to Flagpole readers. They’re also in the midst of updating the design and further diversifying the content, with podcasts and video rumored imminent.

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Scare Tactic As opposition to the proposed new parking deck downtown flares for a last hurrah, somebody had the temerity to compare it to an earlier downtown parking garage that was obsolete by the time it was built. That garage now forms the interior structure for University Towers condominiums on Broad Street downtown, but for years it sat abandoned as a monument to bad civic planning—the last of the elevator parking garages.

You drove in and got out of your car. An attendant gave you your ticket and then drove your car onto a huge elevator, which then lifted your ride up, up four, five, six and more stories to a floor with a vacant space. Then the attendant drove your car off the elevator into that space and descended with the elevator to repeat the process for the other drivers awaiting the service. When you went to retrieve your car, the process was repeated in reverse. You waited while the attendant ascended and then descended with your car.

Meanwhile, other more progressive cities had changed to the drive-up system, which eventually eliminated the attendants and greatly speeded up the process by allowing you to park it and retrieve it yourself, the design we’re still using.

It’s hard to argue that there’s no need at present for all this new parking downtown. What you could argue is that we have not done enough to explore alternatives or to use what we’ve got. One thing we’ve got is the mostly empty Classic Center deck (except when the Methodists are in town). A frequent downtown jitney or trolley service could have utilized this vacant space in a useful, fun way that would have saved the expense and expanse of the new deck. Other alternatives not explored—free bus service, greatly improved bicycle access, real taxi service instead of cattle cars—also could increase mobility downtown while lessening the need for parking.

To the extent that we have failed to explore workable alternatives, this new deck could indeed yet stand as another monument to the lack of good civic planning.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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If you’re interested in making a donation to Project Safe, feel free to come by anytime we’re open—Monday through Saturday, 9 to The Project Safe Thrift Store is in the Bell’s 5. You can double park out front and ask for shopping center on Hawthorne Avenue, near assistance unloading; there’s usually someone the corner of Prince and the bypass, in the old around to help. We happily accept donaHancock Fabric space. We’ve been there five tions for the shelter as well, and our clients years, yet some people still wander in lookhave access to the store for what they need. ing to buy a sewing machine or a new zipper There’s a wish list posted on the website, but for their “overhauls.” (Hancock moved to the there are some items we need at the store, Atlanta highway, near Goody’s, by the way.) too: trash bags, toilet paper, cleaning supA lot of people have helped the thrift store plies, bottled water, disposable plastic gloves. grow and evolve over the years: employees We really need an industrial mop bucket and (Awatif, Sabrina, Susi), volunteers (Freddie ringer, also, if anyone has one laying around.

Mae, Ellen, Sue plus too many more to menRemember, you can write off your donations! tion here) and myriad generous donors. We And there are some items that always sell also have great customers and cool stuff at almost immediately upon being donated, terrific prices. Thanks in part to a regular cusso obviously the need in the community is tomer/medievalist/ great: towels, pots voracious reader, we and pans, silverware, have one of the best functioning stereo BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: book sections I’ve equipment and DVD Honk If You Love Jesus. ever seen in a thrift players, socks, bikes, store, lovingly tended women’s plus-size Text and Drive If You by our own librarian, business attire. We volunteer Andrea. Did honor vouchers from Want to Meet Him. I mention our great other charities in prices? Anyone can the area, so we can Thanks, Kim. Send your sticker sightings to afford to be a voraalways use men’s letters@flagpole.com. cious reader if they clothes, shoes, flip shop at Project Safe! flops and back packs.

Perhaps because we’re near so many docAnd don’t forget to just come shopping. tors and the nursing home, we often get All the money we raise goes directly to runanxious family members, waiting while their ning our shelter, and all the other good work people attend appointments, who need to Project Safe does. After you find something talk. I’ve been very moved by this basic amazing that you can’t possibly live without human need, yet wonder how on Earth I got somewhere on our crowded shelves, you could elected therapist/shoulder to cry on. I try have a nice lunch at La Fiesta, too, or pick up hard to honor the faith people have put in some local produce at Bell’s. Who knew that me by telling me their stories. A woman was end of Hawthorne was so happening?! Come in town from San Antonio to see her grandfind out for yourselves. We hope to see y’all baby, who spent her whole short life in natal soon! intensive care. Another lady leaned in to Gwenn Carter whisper to me what a blessing it had been Athens when she found a pair of prosthetic breasts at our store. She told me they are $750 new, so the $730 discount helped her tremendously. I wish I knew the donor who gave them to us.

Yodeling at McDonald’s! Wouldn’t you say I imagine the circumstances under which they that it’s a sign that you are out of your mind were given might be sad, but I’d like to thank when you start yodeling at McDonald’s? They them personally and tell them the story of the should pull that commercial off the air and put woman who wears them now. that guy in the psych ward before it becomes Of course, because we’re anti-domestic a movement and a national security risk. What violence, people often have harrowing tales if everybody starts yodeling at McDonald’s? of their own instances of abuse. It might be It would be worse than zombies, worse than easier for some people to talk in person, but I pass on the hotline number 706-543-3331 and night of the living dead.

I tried to yodel and before I knew it I was want to take this moment to urge anyone who issuing out of control vocal utterances. Think needs help to call it, anytime. Some terrific of the damage I could do if I was good at it. social work major doing her internship might What if the yodeling at McDonald’s commercial pick up the phone, or one of our amazing core was a sinister training tape to teach people staff of women. Anyone on the hotline can how to be insane at fast food restaurants? problem-solve, safety-plan, help negotiate the I think instead of flu shots they should courts—even find a foster home for your pet make everyone go to the gymnasium at the if you need to flee a violent situation. local high school and administer a lie detector Which segues neatly into my new position test. At least two of the questions should be as Thrift Store Volunteer Coordinator! Project did you kill your parents and do you yodel at Safe needs help, too, and we get it from volMcDonald’s. They should have armed guards at unteers—18,613 hours worth of volunteer labor last year alone. We have plenty of chores McDonald’s ready with Thorazine in case someone starts yodeling. around here that need doing, and if any growIn short I think yodeling at McDonald’s ers who work the farmers market have leftover is a new euphemism for insanity. Don’t be food they’d like to donate, I’d be happy to surprised if the next time you visit your deliver it to the shelter or share it with our shrink he says, dude I think you’re yodeling volunteers and customers. Sharing rocks! at McDonald’s and need to make a visit to the Please email me at gcarter@project-safe.org hospital. with ideas and suggestions, or come down to Brian Smarje the store for a volunteer application if you’d Athens like to work with us.

Deck Redux: As Pete mentions in his Pub Notes be appearing at any Tea Party rallies) and cercolumn this week, there’s been a last-minute tainly the least favored among local conservaeffort to call attention to problems Batsontives, to draw on her eight years of experience Cook, the developer partnering with ACC to as mayor and easily emerge as the candidate build a SPLOST 2005-mandated mixed-use with the most authoritative command of the parking deck facility downtown, may be havwide breadth of facts and issues involved in ing securing retail and office tenants for the local politics of any in the field. Whether that structure as the county plans to close on its won her any votes among the Republicans agreement with the developer Sept. 20. That can’t be known, but if they hoped to tilt the date reflects an extension of the previous Sep. scales in favor of the more conservative candi1 deadline for the closing (which itself was dates, it didn’t work at all. an extension of the previous deadline of June 1, which resulted from Batson-Cook’s exercisProgress in Bethel: At a meeting last week to ing a contractual option to extend the initial highlight advances in education, crimefighting April deadline), which the ACC Commission and neighborhood cohesion at Bethel Midtown approved Aug. 19 in light of the developer’s Village since the specter of condemning being unable to close on its loan financing the low-income housing community was until Sept. 15. raised early last year, a couple of impresGot that? So, the county’s been willing sive statistics stood out. First, former Barrow to stick with Batson-Cook because it does Elementary School principal Tad MacMillan now appear to have financing in place, likely (who recently left the school to take the reins resulting from the developer’s claim that it at Clarke Middle) pointed out that after Bethel has signed letters of intent with three retail came into Barrow’s attendance zone with the tenants and two “viable” lease proposals to school district’s implementation of its current prospective office tenants—”at least one” of “neighborhood schools” model last year, parwhich it expects to pan out. ent conference attendance increased to 100 The schematic design of the deck shows percent. And Family Connection/ Communities five street-level retail spaces, so if three are in Schools coordinator Tim Johnson related already essentially leased, that’s probably that during that time, as the school’s lowpretty good for a building that doesn’t yet income population grew from 30 to 50 perexist. As for the office space, the design just shows a big, 24,000-square-foot chunk on the top level that would likely have to be subdivided, so it’s tough to gauge the progress on that front based on the developer’s vague assertions. The fact that a lending institution, in this economic climate, is ready to loan Batson-Cook $6 million for the project is significant, but the company’s ability to pay that back—and be an effective partner to A young volunteer turns some earth at the Pinewoods community garden last ACC—obviously hinges spring. The Athens Land Trust has received a three-year federal grant to fund a on its ability to rent full-time, county-wide community garden coordinator position; the application not some, but all of deadline is Sept. 7. Go to www.athenslandtrust.org for the full announcement. that space. That hasn’t looked like much of a slam dunk over the past 10 months or so; cent, test scores actually went up. New Barrow here’s hoping our county staff and elected principal Ellen Sabatini and Bethel parents officials are looking at this very carefully as are poised to work together to continue the they prepare to close the deal. progress—congratulations and best wishes to all involved.

Nonpartisan Election Follies: The sight of the five Athens mayoral candidates seated Chemical Spill Beat: Trail Creek isn’t blue anyin Georgia Bulldogs rocking chairs beside a more, but it still smells like a Six Flags rest“discreetly” planted Nathan Deal yard sign in room and won’t have any fish in it for a while front of a backdrop of Revolutionary War yet. That, and we still don’t know how state soldiers at a county GOP forum last Saturday and local officials plan to fix the emergency was plenty surreal—and then the questions public information apparatus that failed so began. The mostly loaded, often arcane queconspicuously in the wake of the J&J Chemical ries may have been designed, alternately, to fire and spill over a month ago. The need for corner the candidates on key conservative improvement on that front will be discussed issues like charter schools and illegal immigra- at the next meeting of the Northeast Georgia tion and trip them up with minutiae on such Children’s Environmental Health Coalition at topics as the 1988 Airport Authority Master noon Tuesday, Sept. 7, where Tony Huff, the Plan (sorry, Glenn Stegall!), but the strategy, director of emergency preparedness for the such as it was, likely backfired. The difficulty Northeast Georgia Health District, will be the and specificity of the questions allowed featured guest speaker. So, go.

Gwen O’Looney, probably the most openly “liberal” of the five (none of whom will soon Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

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Welcome to Dreamland: Suppose everything comes together, plans are made, bonds are issued, philanthropic businesses and foundations donate, and Athens gets the glistening downtown and riverfront it deserves. What is life in that world like?

vacant industrial land lies between the South Waterfront and the current end of the city.

While this gap is only a few blocks, it might as well be miles. Who can blame folks for not coming down, though? There really isn’t much to do.

And Now, Back to Reality: I recently visited Portland’s South Waterfront district, a clean slate along the Willamette River, not far from the city’s existing center. While full build-out will take many years still, the heart of this district is mostly built out. The vision of a vibrant urban district, however, is as yet unrealized.

Isolated from Residents: At the other end of the spectrum, there are places like the neighborhood developing around Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. Museums, aquaria, halls of fame and worlds of soft drink are being piled high around the park. The Georgia World Congress Center is in spitting distance, and plans are being shopped around for a streetcar that would link this tourist mecca with the King Center and other downtown Atlanta highlights. I visited the area earlier this summer, and while the space was packed, it still didn’t feel like the type of place actual Atlantans would go and inhabit on any regular basis.

It is a city within a city, specifically built for people from elsewhere.

In the Balance: This isn’t a rant against the design or planning of these neighborhoods, but more of a cautionary tale. I once heard someone describe downtown Athens, particularly the rowdier bar scene concentrated on the eastern end, as the “Buckhead of Northeast Georgia.” The folks who come, drink, and in some cases cause trouble aren’t just rowdy college students, but also people from neighboring counties. As the Classic Center generates a progressively larger percentage of downtown traffic, the big question is who we’re really designing and planning for.

Portland’s gleaming new South Waterfront district is cut off from the Besides our convention center rest of the city by several blocks of undeveloped industrial spaces as a tourism generator, there has (not pictured). been some talk of trying to lure the Georgia music and sports While the rest of Portland’s city center was halls of fame to Athens. Will such a cluster of quite lively and crowded on the Saturday eveamenities create the kind of district that no ning I visited SoWa, this part of town had a local would ever go to? When large properdesolate and dystopian ambiance. The only ties like the one that was formerly home to people using Elizabeth A. Caruthers Park, the Armstrong and Dobbs on the outskirts of central square for the district, were individual downtown eventually get redeveloped, will people escorting individual dogs. I asked a they follow the same process as other selfsecurity guard (with only a so-so command of contained mini-cities like Portland’s South English) if it was always this quiet; he assured Waterfront? me that in fact the district was active, its condo towers fully occupied, and without fore- Organic Growth: Any strategy that relies too closures. A dog-walking resident set the record heavily on one role for a city or district and straight, saying he moved to the area for the only functions well when it’s 100 percent compeace and quiet. Only here and in Pripyat, pleted as drawn misses the greatest fundaUkraine (in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone) does mental opportunity that cities present. These a neighborhood of modern high-rises translate places are shared creations, shaped by resiinto rural isolation. While planners designed dents, planners, visitors and other unintended parks for children, with plenty of splashing actors, and they grow over time, responding interactive fountains, real estate developers to as yet unforeseen circumstances. I’ve have built towers for empty-nesters and young talked a great deal about downtown’s need for professionals. The fountains mostly go unused. a master plan, but there is one caveat to that: what we need even more than a plan is a proIsolated Residents: With unoccupied, unlit cess. The best master plan we can hope for is towers looming above and sleek aerial one that will establish some basic parameters trams and empty streetcars silently drifting and standards, without hindering the city’s through, it was hard to imagine this place natural evolution, getting out of the way to coming to life in the next few years—or at let Athens do its thing. least until the rest of the district is filled in and inhabited. An empty swath of totally Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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city pages MACORTS Members Feeling Bypassed in T-SPLOST Planning With road monies declining in Georgia (because people are driving less—or more efficiently—and less gasoline is being sold), additional transportation funding could come from a one-cent transportation sales tax starting in 2012. Such a tax, authorized by the last General Assembly, must be approved by voters region-by-region, but could provide more money for transportation than the gas tax alone—including for transit, sidewalks and bike lanes (which, by law, can’t generally be funded through the gas tax).

But the list of projects to be approved (or not) by voters in each region will be decided by a “regional roundtable” of elected officials—so they will have to be sold on the benefits of local or alternative transportation projects, as well as regional ones, says ACC transit director Butch McDuffie. Athens-Clarke County, for instance, will have two votes on our 12-county regional roundtable (represented by each county’s commission chair and one mayor from each county, chosen by the other county mayors). The projects they pick must then be approved—or at least prioritized—by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) and then approved by voters in the region. If voters approve the tax and projects list in 2012, the amount of money available for transportation in the region might roughly double. That could be “a big deal” to areas that are still without transit, McDuffie said at a Madison AthensClarke Oconee Regional Transportation Study (MACORTS) transportation committee meeting last week.

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The system, as set up by the state Legislature earlier this year, may need some tweaks, says McDuffie, and there is talk of bringing it up again. Meanwhile, the “regional roundtables” will begin meeting this winter to pick projects. GDOT’s criteria for the projects appear to be aimed at funding each region’s already-planned projects—the projects that GDOT itself would otherwise be funding from the gas tax—according to ACC transportation planner Sherry McDuffie. The agency is now taking public comments on those criteria.

Not everyone is thrilled with the new structure, since it bypasses existing metropolitan planning organizations [MPOs]—the local transportation boards that request GDOT projects in metro areas like Athens. To ACC Transportation and Public Works Director David Clark, “it completely undermines and undercuts the MPOs” and has no technical review staff (which MACORTS, the Athens-area MPO, does have) to make recommendations. That could encourage projects to be picked “based purely on political desires, as opposed to technical merit,” he says. At last week’s meeting of the MACORTS technical committee, ACC Planning Director Brad Griffin also criticized the process: MACORTS, he said, will be forced to approve a project list that it had no hand in creating.

At a June meeting, Clark “expressed his frustration with GDOT’s disregard of the MPO’s decision” regarding the widening of U.S. 78 to Lexington, according to minutes. GDOT had scheduled public hearings on widening the road, even though MACORTS hadn’t approved the project. But at those hearings, according to Sherry McDuffie, “there were a lot of people bringing that up.” She believes GDOT “heard our concerns loud and clear,” and that the U.S. 78 widening will be shelved for now.

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behind the rail An Inside Take on Local Issues There are several items on this month’s of the site soon begin to tip the scale toward agenda that are interesting and challenging to its being an unworkable idea. both the Commission and to the public which If the outcome of this rezoning is negawe serve. The agenda is evidence of what is tive to the applicant, I think it is because so fascinating about local government: this of a failure of the site itself, not a rejection month’s docket includes the yellow curbing of of the mixed use and neighborhood business streets, potential street light removal as a cost concept. Site constraints are still relevant cutting device, expanding animal control to even to a non-traditional land use concept. include cats, as well as a major update to our I realize that our citizens want to be able to public utilities delivery strategy. The variety walk to a variety of commercial uses, but this and magnitude of subjects we consider are specific site failed to provide the basic necesalways surprising. sities that even an intown pedestrian-oriented On the top of my list is a proposed rezonbusiness has to provide. I hope the owners ing at 623 S. Milledge Avenue which is located of Five Star Day find a successful site in the at the intersection of Cobb Street and Milledge area, because I know the neighborhood would Avenue. The proposal is to rezone the property welcome them. from Commercial-Office (CO) to CommercialOne of the issues that the commission has Neighborhood (CN) for the purpose of opentackled for years is the harmony between our ing a restaurant on that site. Five Star Day, a land use goals and values and the stark reality popular and successful downtown restaurant of providing infrastructure to our citizens. The owned and operated most dominant factor

by Diana Fairbairn, is Personally, I have gotten to to the densification of interested in the site land is the availability of be very tolerant of the use sanitary sewer lines. This for a similarly themed establishment. be addressed in the of street parking to support will When the property commission’s vote on the intown businesses… owner approached me public utilities Service about the proposal last Delivery Plan, which spring I was initially very optimistic about will likely be approved without the inclusion the idea: a locally owned restaurant within of a sewer line originally planned near the walking distance of several neighborhoods, Sandy Creek basin north of the perimeter. It Athens Regional Medical Center and other is not logical to place low density developpoints of origin that could potentially repment regulations on areas that have public licate the success of Big City Bread, Mama’s infrastructure in place that can accommodate Boy, White Tiger Gourmet and other similar a higher capacity of land use. Maintaining establishments located in commercial neighthe low-density goal in the area outside the borhood zones close to town. The area is perimeter that the public set forth in the 2000 largely tolerant and welcoming to a mixed-use Future Land Use Plan is challenging when, at environment and has been desirous of walkthe same time, you are expanding the infraable alternatives to the fast food chains that structure to the same area. That will be a dominate our main corridors. difficult balance for the commission for many The difficulty of the site soon became years to come. apparent, however, as staff, neighbors and My time is waning on the commission as the planning commission began to seriously I have chosen not to run for a third time. study the concept at the specific location. The My eight years on the Athens-Clarke County intersection of Cobb and Milledge is a difficult Commission have been challenging, exhilaratone, made more so by the limited off-street ing, at times debilitating, but always interestparking at the site in mind. Personally, I have ing. The experience has definitely changed my gotten to be very tolerant of the use of street life and, I hope, has brought the community parking to support intown businesses, as the some benefit as well. I have had the benbenefits of being able to walk to a grocery efit of serving with a great group of elected store, bakery and restaurants far outweigh the officials, an extremely talented staff and the cost of not being able to park in front of my finest community in the state. Thanks to all of home. The intersection of Cobb and Milledge, you for making Athens the great place it is. unfortunately, is less supportive of off-street parking than other nearby areas, as Milledge David Lynn is very congested at this location and Cobb is very narrow. Throw in employee parking and David Lynn is the Athens-Clarke County commissioner delivery trucks to the mix and the deficiencies for District 5.

capitol impact Raising Graduation Rates One of the criticisms you’ll often hear of Georgia is the low percentage of students who stay the course in high school and graduate with a diploma. Independent estimates put the state’s high school graduation rate at 65 percent or lower, which should be distressing to anyone who’s concerned about Georgia’s future prosperity.

Fortunately, we have some legislators who have put a lot of thought into this question and have come up with a solution: we can improve the high school graduation rate by lowering educational standards and making it easier for students to get a diploma.

Rep. Steve Davis (R-McDonough) introduced legislation last year that would move the state toward this goal.

Davis’ bill, known as HB 215, would require the Department of Education to provide alternative diplomas for students to choose as they enter the ninth grade: a college preparation diploma with course requirements similar to what we have now and a career/ vocational/technical diploma that would require fewer courses than for a college prep diploma.

Davis’ bill would also create a “general diploma” for students to choose. This would only require you to pass 18 classroom credits, as opposed to 23 for a college prep diploma.

Students would not have to be bothered with taking so many of those boring courses in math, science, and English. Best of all, students would only have to attend high school for three years rather than four to graduate.

If you make it easier for a teenager to get a diploma by taking fewer courses and only going to school for three years, you’re obviously going to have more kids graduating. Whether they will graduate with a level of knowledge that enables them to get a job making more than the minimum wage is another matter entirely.

Davis insisted he is not trying to “dumb down the system or anything to that effect,”

but he acknowledged that one of his goals is to try to improve the state’s graduation rate. In Davis’ opinion, all this talk about the importance of going to college is really a little bit elitist.

“You cannot have an army with nothing but generals,” he said. “You have to have cooks, drivers, infantrymen, people like that. I don’t think you’re less of a person if you don’t go to college.”

HB 215 is being seriously considered by a legislative committee that began holding hearings on it last week. There was some pushback from education officials, especially those who have been trying to make the state’s graduation requirements more rigorous.

“This is not about trying to send every child through a one-size-fits all college-track diploma,” said Brad Bryant, the interim state school superintendent. “We want to make sure there’s a baseline knowledge.”

Bryant said the “unified” diploma currently offered to high school graduates has numerous options besides college prep that students can choose. “In the current graduation rule, there is the ability to do what you want to accomplish,” he told legislators.

Martha Reichrath, an assistant state superintendent, said representatives of the armed services have often told the Department of Education “to keep our core standards rigorous” so that students with a high school diploma will still be able to qualify for the military.

Who knows? Maybe Davis is right—but maybe he isn’t going far enough. Let’s go ahead and pass a bill that would confer a high school diploma on every student who finishes the 8th grade. That would give Georgia a graduation rate close to 100 percent and make us the envy of every other state in the nation.

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many people, college is the time they people are involved, then the project can live on, even if the realize there is a greater world beyond government loses interest. home, and with that awareness comes “We like to make sure the locals have ownership in what the knowledge of the world’s great probthey are doing,” Kirbo said. “Especially if the kids know how lems. Some may shrug away the guilty feeling that creeps up hard it is to restore reefs, they will protect the natural ones a on them after morning sociology class, and by the third beer little more.” that night have completely forgotten it. Others may keep that Reef Balls are simple in design, so you can teach just about awareness the rest of their lives, making sure they recycle and anyone to make one. The materials are inexpensive and easy to buy fair-trade coffee when they can, but never feeling like they find, even in developing countries. You can buy a mold to make are able to do more. And yet a small number of people see the a volleyball-sized Reef Ball for as little as $20. The largest ball, world’s problems as a challenge to overcome and realize that even a small idea can make a big difference. In the late 1980s, a group of University of Georgia students did just that.

These friends shared a passion for scuba diving and a fear for the future of coral reefs. That passion and fear inspired the creation of The Reef Ball Foundation, which helps seaside communities rebuild reefs, beaches and mangrove swamps through the use of a simple, yet groundbreaking design for an artificial reef.

“This started as sort of a goofy hobby and we really turned it into something,” said Kathy Kirbo, executive director of The Reef Ball Foundation.

The Reef Ball design and concept was created by UGA grad Todd Barber and his father. The balls are essentially hollow, rough concrete, mimicking the kinds of rocks corals thrive on. Reef Balls have inflatable bladders inside to make them buoyant so they can easily be placed and deployed by anyone, even groups of high school students. Kirbo and The foundation has helped deploy more than half a million Reef Balls in more than 59 countries. her team teach people how to make these balls, sometimes even donating the molds for them. Then they teach them how to collect called the Goliath Ball, costs $450 pre-made or $5,000 for the broken coral and propagate it so it can be planted onto the mold. It’s about four feet tall with a six-foot base and weighs Reef Balls to kick-start the reef formation. The balls have holes a whopping 5,000 pounds. Even that ball is easily deployable all over them, and their hollowness allows strong currents from from a boat, thanks to the air bladder inside. The Reef Ball storms and even tsunamis to pass through without knocking Foundation will sometimes donate molds to schools so they them around. The holes also mimic the features of a natural can work on projects, and Kirbo helps the students learn how reef and give fish and other sea critters a cozy hiding place to write grants and proposals to get money from government or from predators. corporate sponsors to fund material costs. The smallest molds can even be used with Plaster of Paris to make mini-Reef Balls 1993, Barber asked Kirbo to help him start the foun- for science class demonstrations, or with concrete to use in dation so they could raise money and manpower to aquaria. deploy the artificial reefs in greater numbers. Kirbo he Reef Ball Foundation does even more than reef rehagraduated from UGA in the late 1980s with a degree in psybilitation. Reef Balls can also be used as breakwaters to chology. She still lives in Athens and is a member of the band help rebuild eroded beaches in a way that does not damHeavy Feather (formerly known as Jackpot City). She’s also age the ocean bed. Tides push sand past the Reef Balls, but working on a new band that, for now, is called Magic Fingers. they slow the water’s return enough to encourage the sand to She met Barber in college in the dive class they took to fulfill stay on the beach side. This builds back the beaches over time. their P.E. requirement. It was her shared love of the water The foundation received help from Dr. Lee Harris of the Florida combined with her nonprofit work experience that led Barber Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL in figuring out how to to recruit her for the project. position the balls to create the effect.

“I’ve been diving since I was 12, so I saw the degradation The balls can also be used to re-create oyster beds and in the reefs,” she said. She also saw the potential in Barber’s idea, even when it was a primitive concept of wrapping chicken mangroves. To re-establish a mangrove swamp, the Reef Balls are filled with soil and burlap and the mangrove trees are wire in concrete. planted directly into them, giving them a stable anchor from Today, the foundation has helped deploy more than half a which to grow. million Reef Balls in more than 59 countries. Part of its genius Once, an executive for American Express was working on a is in the way it solicits the participation of the people who live mangrove swamp project with Kirbo. They were deploying 800 near the reefs. Kirbo said the foundation’s goal in every projmangrove balls, which can weigh 30 to 40 pounds each. They ect is to get the locals involved. This is especially important carried these balls all day in the steamy weather, dredging in developing nations where governments are often unstable. through the muck. Kirbo was worried the executive, a woman Sometimes a government will be friendly to a project, then a in her 50s, would get frustrated and tired of the work. Instead, change in power can bring a change in priorities. If the local

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the woman turned to Kirbo and said, “I would rather do this than my job any day.”

Kirbo understands the sentiment. “It’s very physical work, but very rewarding.”

Reef Balls don’t just heal the ocean ecology; they can also heal people’s hearts. Eternal Reef Inc. was born from the Reef Ball Foundation when Don Brawley, one of the original members of the foundation’s crew, lost his father-in-law to a longterm illness. Shortly before he died, his father-in-law, Carleton Glen Palmer, said in passing that he would love to be buried in one of the reefs: “I can think of nothing better than having all that action going on around me all the time after I am gone—just make sure that the location has lots of red snapper and grouper.”

When he died, his ashes were mixed into the concrete to make a Reef Ball, and a memorial plaque was placed on it. Others heard about this and started requesting Reef Ball memorials, too.

Kirbo herself found some peace by creating a memorial reef when she lost her father in 1996. The reef stretches from Jacksonville to St. Augustine, FL. Her father was an avid outdoorsman and often took his family to that stretch of beach when Kirbo was a kid.

Students from elementary, middle and high schools in the area all teamed together to make it work.

The students learned to write grants, and many of them got corporate sponsors to help buy the molds.

They worked on them over a year, and then the balls were deployed during a ceremony dedicated to her father. World champion free diver Tanya Streeter helped with the ceremony and even rode one of the Reef Balls down 60 feet.

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ne of Kirbo’s favorite things about working with the Reef Ball Foundation is the camaraderie she has developed with others who share her goal of helping the world’s oceans. When you work with someone so closely on a project that is important to you, you often get to know that person better than if you have lived by them for years. It’s this great team of worldwide volunteers that makes the foundation work and have a true global impact.

The foundation has worked all along the U.S. coastline from Florida all the way north to Maryland and beyond. It has also helped across the Caribbean and even as far as Thailand, where the reefs were devastated in the massive 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Although the foundation doesn’t do much fundraising locally, it still maintains a strong support base here. Gwen O’Looney, former Athens mayor and current mayoral candidate, once served on the foundation’s board, and Flagpole staff alum Doug Hollingsworth and local lawyer Eric Krasle are among the current board members.

Working with the foundation has allowed Kirbo to help the environment, meet new people, travel to foreign locations and work with kids around the world. As she teaches the kids to write grants, raise funds and get their hands dirty to accomplish their goals, she also teaches them to think big on their own, too.

“When I work with kids, I always tell them that if you have an idea, even if you think it’s dumb, tell your friends about it and try it out. When we first started, people thought we were crazy.”

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thens’ Worker Friendly Employers repeats. That’s generally how economic recovcampaign, a local effort to increase ery in a consumer-driven capitalist economy wages and benefits for area workoperates. ers, couldn’t have come at a betFollowing the more concrete economic ter time. Nearly one in three Athenians lives benefits are a host of relatively intangible under the federal poverty line. Thousands benefits. But “intangible” doesn’t mean unimmore struggle just above that threshold. portant. It could just as well be argued that Forbes magazine recently named Athens one the intangible benefits are superior to the of the 10 most economically unequal cities in more easily quantifiable results. the United States, with the city’s inequality Well paid and well treated employees tend ratio just beating out the Dominican Republic to be better employees, and better employees (but being bettered by Zimbabwe, sadly). To mean better businesses. The costly plague make things worse, the area’s main source of of employee turnover can be seen to dimineconomic lifeblood, funding for the University ish dramatically when workers feel appreciof Georgia, has been hammered by the recesated and respected at their jobs. Instead of sion, and prevailing political trends suggest being simply a hired hand or a warm body, a that this weakened funding could become the respected employee feels a sense of loyalty new norm. and cooperation. Ray MacNair, one of the The Worker Friendly Employers project group’s founders, points out that “when work(www.workerfriendly.org) is ambitious. Its ers feel the respect coming from their employfounders propose nothing less than the reverers, they are more loyal, more dependable and, sal of 30 years or so of economic orthodoxy, a potentially, more productive.” These intangible rigid doctrine which has demanded lower and assets can be translated into concrete benlower wages and salaries for American workers efits: increased business, customer loyalty and (except those at the very top): in other words, decreased losses. the Wal-Martization of the economy. The The range of family and community benproject hopes to encourage a new economic efits of better pay and economic security are climate in Northeast Georgia, in which family well documented. Families under the duress values, community health and individual wellof economic deprivation suffer a range of being are not sacriproblems. A number ficed in the narrow of studies have shown Economists agree that each pursuit of lower prices that work stress and and higher profits. the stress of econew dollar earned by the The group hopes nomic hardship conworking class goes immediately tribute to ill health, that by recognizing and honoring busiinto the economy, often directly from depressed nesses that “volunimmune systems to into local businesses. tarily offer wages and heart disease and benefits contributing psychological disto individual, family and community wellorders. Athens knows too well how property being” a new culture of commerce can be crime accompanies poverty. Each of these nurtured. The group hopes that potential cusfactors eventually becomes tangibly present tomers will begin to make purchasing decisions in the economy, in the form of social services, according to businesses’ treatment of their health care costs and a bloated penal system. employees. The founders envision a mutually However, all the potential benefits of the beneficial economic environment: the group’s Worker Friendly Employer campaign are conwebsite reminds Athenians that “employers tingent on an initial dilemma: it will be difbenefit when they are located in a prosperous ficult to convince employers of the long-term community.” Ultimately, the program offers benefits of immediately increased expenses. solidarity to mitigate the effects of an econThe fact is, it won’t immediately pay off. omy increasingly based on isolated self-interIt will take some time for the benefits to est. When successful, programs like the Worker become felt, and many employers, especially Friendly campaign might institute a stabilizing local ones, feel they simply cannot take such economic balance without relying on governchances. They are surviving month-to-month, mental means—ideally, liberals and conseror even year-to-year, and they are wary of any vatives are happy. A successful campaign of expense which doesn’t get recouped soon. This this sort promises increased economic equity is likely to be the biggest stumbling block for without the clumsy and expensive bureaucratic the project. apparatuses ordinarily called upon.

But many in Athens are already socially or Will it work? Economists agree that each environmentally conscious shoppers. Whether new dollar earned by the working class goes it’s shopping at Daily Co-op or the farmers immediately into the economy, often directly market for sustainable produce or participatinto local businesses. It is the quickest ecoing in “buy local” campaigns, Athens consumnomic stimulus there is; that’s why the largest ers understand that purchasing decisions often chunks of President Obama’s stimulus bill were have effects outside of the simple acquisition tax cuts for working families. The administraof a good or service. One need not wait until tion concurred with the prevailing economic elections to change the state of things. With wisdom that the best and quickest economic the success of the Worker Friendly Employer stimulus, especially in a recession, is to stimu- campaign, every purchase you make could late demand by putting money in consumers’ become a way to help your neighbor and betpockets: people buy things, more things get ter Athens. made, makers of things hire employees, newly hired employees buy things, and the process Matthew Pulver

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Straight Talk on Health Care If Public Health knows so much, why does 4) We die sooner than folks in other states: the health of the public stink? Maybe everywe are 41st out of 50 states in mortality. We body likes it that way, just a little. LeBron die from diabetes, pulmonary disease, cancer James tells us, “Basketball is a business.” He and, of course, vascular disease. There’s an should know. Why should Public Health, and emotional cost when you see your friends the health of the public, be any different: just die. But the living are paying for the dying a business? If you can accept that, you’ll make as well—which nobody wants to say. Do folks out OK, like LeBron. here want to lead an active life or rest on Some anonymous charmer out there, with their carbohydrated ass? a mouthful of chips and beer, a colon full of 5) So now we have a bigger problem with memories, and a bloodstream full of insuhigh blood pressure, and everything related. lin, will object. “Public Health, my health, Georgia is in the Stroke Belt: higher inciB-ball… I don’t get it.” Buddy, you’re buying dence of strokes, greater mortality. Georgia the tickets, feeding the kitty. started SHAPP—the Stroke and Heart Attack It doesn’t have to be that way. It has to Prevention Program—in 1974 to treat hyperstart with Public Health. tension, but only after a state legislator had Go and visit the local headquarters of our his stroke. Most SHAPP patients are black, Northeast Health District. You can’t find the aged 30–60, and the program has been very office. Look for their address on their websuccessful. (Of course, funding is threatened.) site, www.publichealthathens.

But what about everybody else? com: ain’t there. The office, on How actively are they involved Buddy, you’re Research Drive in an unmarked in their own care? BUT WAIT… building, looks abandoned buying the tickets, THERE’S MORE. from the road. (“We don’t want 6) Georgia teens, like teens feeding the kitty. everywhere, do It without conanyone coming here for medical care.”) Call first to get an traception and protection from appointment. Use the side entrance. Get disease. But Georgia teen birth rates are way buzzed in. Is Athens dangerous? Is their mishigher than the national average. Our local sion a threat, or, rather, shouldn’t it be? birth rates in and around Athens are higher The public health department is at the top still. The Georgia Department of Education, of its game (continuing LeBron’s metaphor). in its “Quality Core Curriculum” materials for Its director, Claude Burnett, MD, MPH, knows secondary schools, assures teachers and chilan awful lot; he was at the Centers for Disease dren that abstinence is “the only sure way.”

Control before coming here. He greeted me, Perhaps there is a role for a Public Health edualong with his epidemiologist, his director of cator in the DOE. public education, and his clinic nurse admin7) So there’s plenty of unprotected sex istrator. For two hours, the first two went tag here. Georgia has the sixth-most chlamydia team while #3 and #4 watched: infections in the U.S., the fifth-most gonorrhea and the third-most syphilis. (According 1) Some 17 public clinics see 50 percent to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, our Health of all patients in this 10-county area. That’s District 10 has the state’s highest rate of FIFTY percent. (Since these are essentially free STDs.) Burnett thinks only 25 percent of HIVclinics, what does that tell you about poverty AIDS patients are being seen in clinics. in this showplace of Georgia? Do we have an “underclass”? Should we worry? Feel guilty?

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Are teen pregnancy and disease and dying 2) The biggest public health problems here our growth industries? Curse Old Jack, but are obesity/ lousy nutrition, hypertension, ARMC shoulders its burden, Burnett tells me, teenage pregnancy and STDs. Let’s field dress and so does St Mary’s. So, who’s left? Cui this moose. bono? Who does this state of affairs benefit?

3) We are really fat: 20 years ago, Georgia Who gets what? ranked only ninth in obesity, and by 2000, Is it “Ain’t-none-of-me”? The Dunningwe ranked 21st. That’s the biggest increase Kruger effect (“I didn’t know enough to in fat out of all states in 20 years: booties, care”)? Or… “We like it like this”? I’ll ask thighs, arms, whatever. Ask “why?” and beg around and get back to you. the question of what is Public Health. Ask “so what?”—and watch us die. Just sit in the ER. David Block

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Good Hunches: The failure rate on setting out for a restaurant that may or may not exist tends to be about 50 percent, possibly higher, but the times when it works out make the effort worth it. I’d had an “El Coquito” on my list of places that exist, according to the health inspection reports the BannerHerald runs, and an address, but I still wasn’t positive until we pulled into the Marathon gas station at 645 Danielsville Rd., just past the Gateway shopping center, that there was really a new business there. Happily, Pupuseria El Coquito (706-3536136) has replaced Taqueria El Ranchito (reviewed in January 2007) and is exceedingly charming.

A wee Salvadoran restaurant, its few tables are well occupied and bedecked with fake flowers. Its servers are sweet and friendly, and they wear T-shirts that say things like “I’m not short. I’m fun-size.” The restaurant even has a Facebook page.

All of these details would conspire to give me a good impression even if the food weren’t tasty, but it is and then some.

The pupusas promised in its name—roughly palm-sized corn cakes stuffed with filings including beans, cheese, chicharrones and loroco (a vine with edible flowers)—come with the traditional smooth hot sauce and container of curtido (mildly fermented cabbage slaw). They aren’t the best I’ve ever had in Athens, but they’re better than many, even if the slaw arrived partially frozen, and the fillings don’t wuss on savoriness.

The standard complimentary chips and salsa, too, are more interesting than normal, with the former super-dark with grease and clearly recently fried and the latter not too spicy, finely chopped and nicely balanced, with a composition that leans away from raw tomatoes. You might want to add some of the salsa to the tacos, which could use some sauce but are otherwise good, with cooked onions underneath the beef and raw onions atop it, heavy with fillings and quite a bar…a complexly meaty gain for three.

Best of all was the carne taste and a beautiful desebrada, a dish that unctuousness. somewhat resembles ropa vieja sans tomato sauce but was far more tender than ropa. Slow-cooked beef can end up stringy, watery and/or tough, but this was closer to short ribs than anything else, with a complexly meaty taste and a beautiful unctuousness. Served with a big pile of rice, a side salad that included radishes and a couple of Salvadoran-style, thick, handmade tortillas (like the pupusas but unstuffed), it was the kind of dish you’d travel far for. Pupuseria El Coquito is open every day for lunch and dinner except Tuesday, when it is frustratingly closed, and takes credit cards.

Breakfast Wanderings: After weeks, nay months, of missing out on Farm Cart’s offerings at the farmers market in Bishop Park, I finally managed to get out of the house sans breakfast, with cash in hand, on a Saturday morning. I may have to plan ahead like that more often.

Breakfast burritos are in short supply in this town, and Farm Cart’s not only exist, but are insanely delicious. Assembled with a smile by the two dudes working the cart, they wrap chorizo (spicy but not so spicy it overpowered everything else), potatoes (what potatoes!), eggs and caramelized onions into a tortilla, where the flavors meld in each transcendent bite. Is $5 too much to pay for such? Philistines, I swear it is worth it, and while I didn’t sample the one that keeps it veggie, I bet it’s nearly as tasty. If you’re looking for something less expensive, the coffee cake is pretty marvelous, too, a huge hunk of the stuff that’s not tooth-suckingly sweet, and the Limonata, while $2 a can, goes perfectly with both of them.

I also hit both Mama’s Boy and Five Star Day Café recently in the a.m., and while both breakfast plates (the mill town breakfast plate at the former, with two eggs, cheese grits, bacon and buttermilk biscuit, and the sunshine biscuit at the latter, with egg, tomato, onion and cheese on the biscuit plus a side of bacon) were satisfying, I couldn’t help thinking that the biscuits at both weren’t quite what I was hoping for. A big biscuit often ends up low on flavor, and while neither of these was heavy or too too starchy, they seemed to be missing something, perhaps the bacon grease that shows up in the one Five & Ten serves at brunch. Who has the best biscuits in town, both considering what they sandwich and in isolation?

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theatre notes

Stray Productions was created in 2007 by three local theatre folks—Steve Elliott-Gower, Rex Totty and Catherine Clayton—to produce original and cutting-edge plays they felt were not being done in the area. They have performed plays, some of them original, at various venues, including ART in Highlands, NC and, most recently, Totty’s Honest Pleasure at the Quinn Theatre in Memorial Park.

The granddaddy of local garage band theatres, JV Productions, was created by John Vance (an actual grandMany of you know Speedy Arnold, who performed for Athens Little Playhouse (ALP) formed in 2001 and also daddy!) and friends back in 1995. John, a recently retired UGA several years in Athens and moved to Thailand with his wife, provides performance opportunities and instruction to children English professor, started writing plays in 1989. JVP’s recent Savie, in ‘06. Speedy has been doing voice-over and film work and adults. production, No Degrees of Separation, was the 30th play of in Thailand—five different voices for four episodes of a carYoung Actors Studio, Inc. (YAS) has produced seven plays his they’ve staged. John had been active in Town and Gown toon series produced by Anya Animation and voiceover work since 2007, using children and adults, and offers theatre Players for several years, and in 1995 wanted to stage a couple for Echo Communications. Local boy goes global! classes and workshops for children. These companies formed of plays he had written, so he produced them during free T&G weekends as JV Productions. “I Correction: Athens Academy, not ACT, adored the fact that I could do them will be doing Anatomy of Gray, Once Upon a without going through an applicaMattress and Cotton Patch Gospel this comtion and acceptance process,” John ing year. says. “Quickly got spoiled—and the rest is history.”

As described in the last Theatre Notes, One of the newest garage-band our community is filled with theatrical expetheatres, The Circle Ensemble riences for every taste and age. Here are a Theatre, is a professional company few additional offerings: recently formed by theatre veterans The Prince Avenue Christian School: Lisa Mende, Kathleen Hogan and Fine Arts Night, Oct. 19; O What a Tangled Joelle Ré Arp-Dunham. They created Web, Nov. 19 & 20; A Christmas Carol, Dec. 3 CET because they have a lot of mate& 4; Christmas Concert, Dec. 6. Check their rial they want to share with Athens website at www.princeave.org or contact audiences; want to work with othlmorris@princeave.org for more info. ers interested in theatre, especially Oconee County High School: Proof, Nov. young people, on play writing and 4 & 5 at the Oconee County Civic Center. productions; and hope to create North Oconee High School: The 25th more professional theatre opportuniAnnual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Oct. ties for people in Athens. Their first 15–17 and Broadway Breaks Boundaries: A production will be in November.

Musical Revue, Nov. 17 & 18. For more info, These dynamic theatre groups contact Drew Doss at adoss@oconeeschools. exemplify the incredible creative org. energy in our area. And you who Winder-Barrow Community Theatre: The attend these performances are very Haunting of Hill House, in October. See www. much a part of this energy, for you winderbarrowtheatre.org. do much more than simply watch people perform… you are a necesMost of you are familiar with established sary part of the creative process.

Jeremy Miller as Homer Zuckerman and Shannon McCoy as Fern Arabel were in Rose of Athens’ production of Charlotte’s Web theatres in the area such as ACC’s Athens Actors respond to live audiences last May in the Seney-Stovall Chapel.

Creative Theatre, Town and Gown Players, and that shapes the performance.

UGA’s performing groups, and touring proMusic can be recorded, dance can ductions at the Morton Theatre and Classic Center. Over the in response to community requests for more performance and be filmed, but live theatre must have a live audience to be past two decades, however, several independent theatre groups training opportunities for children. They are all non-profit complete. Without an audience it’s a rehearsal. Filmed and it’s, have sprung up. Many, like garage bands, have done a few gigs organizations and rely on grants and donations, as well as box well, a film. If you feel creative and want to collaborate with and then disbanded, but a number of them are still active even office revenue, to exist. others to create a performance, go see a play! as new groups appear. Here are just a few of them…

In 2006, Lisa Cesnik Ferguson started Rose of Athens One of the longest-running companies is Oconee Youth Theatre, a professional theatre company. RoA produced its first Rick Rose theatre@flagpole.com Playhouse (OYP) founded in 1998 by Shane and Terra Hannon. play at Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company and has since produced OYP creates musical theatre productions with actors from firstclassical and original works for schoolchildren and adults at Rick Rose has been part of the area theatre scene for more than 20 years graders to adults and offers classes and workshops for children. venues throughout area, as well as offering classes and theatre and has retired recently as Chair of the Theatre Department at Piedmont OYP has presented 36 shows over the past 12 years. camps for young people.

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everyday people Scott Bailey, Salvation Army Kitchen Manager Imagine building a house with wood, nails, but no hammer, or writing a story with paper, pen, but no ink—and no matter what, you’ve got to produce. For Scott Bailey, kitchen manager at the Salvation Army on Hawthorne Avenue in Athens, it can be a nightly reality as he fills multi-colored plastic dinner trays with food made from donated, and sometimes disparate, ingredients.

Following a childhood growing up outside of Rome, GA and brief stints in cities across the Southeast, Bailey moved to Athens a year ago to settle down, in a way, with his four-yearold daughter as her mother, his girlfriend, begins her Ph.D. in sociology. He’s an avant-garde music lover (who cooks to Waylon Jennings), an ex-music rag editor and a teenage skate rat who used to drive down to Athens to thrash the UGA campus. He should fit right into our little burgh.

Army]; before that, we were in Family Housing, so that is a big change. A cramped little apartment with no yard at all.

FP: Tell me about the newspaper you and your friends published in Rome, GA, Rome Unscene.

SB: Well, it was kind of like the Flagpole, but I don’t think I’d seen the Flagpole at that time. Just arts and entertainment, except in Rome there’s only about eight pages of arts and entertainment every week. And sometimes we struggled just to fill that.

FP: What were your first impressions of Athens?

SB: Being a musician, I may have been a little intimidated by what I’d heard. I didn’t know anyone as far as musicians and artists, just a few people from Rome who went to college here.

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Scott Bailey: They were advertising for cooks on Craigslist.

They didn’t give me the job at first. Three or four months later they emailed me.

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FP: How long have you been cooking here?

SB: Nine weeks. Not long at all. So, I’m still getting used to things. This place is weird; it’s not like a restaurant at all.

FP: How so?

SB: Well, first of all, you only work with donated food. We have a lot of precooked food that comes in from the campus and hospitals and just different restaurants. You’re not serving people who are paying, people are eating for free and you can’t believe how much people complain about free food.

FP: What do they complain about?

SB: If it’s something that they don’t like that day, or if there isn’t enough salt to put on their food, just weird stuff.

You know… somebody will take the tea urns back to wash too early and somebody will complain about it to the office. I’ve overheard, “That boy can’t cook worth a shit” or “I’m not eating that shit.” People like to bitch. But people staying here might not have a lot of power in their everyday lives, so they get to complain and have their complaint heard… but that just happens occasionally.

FP: What’s cooking at the Salvation Army like?

SB: It’s really a challenge as far as my creativity goes, only having to work with donated food. I’ll just have three things to make this one dish but I won’t have the fourth thing. Everyday I’m making up new stuff, new recipes. It’s fun. It’s kind of like a cooking competition—a mystery basket of ingredients—”let’s make it work; I’ve got to get it done.”

FP: How would you describe the people you serve?

SB: A lot of them are down and out, trying to get on their feet. I was talking about people complaining, but most people are really appreciative. It’s a huge variety of people that come through here. There are ex-crackheads and alcoholics, but then there are people with children. Most people are appreciative of this place, and if they are coming here they are trying to get on their feet… anybody can come eat here, not just people staying here; you just have to sign your name on a list.

FP: I first met you at the Farmers Market buying food for your family. Do you want to connect what you do here to the local food thing?

SB: Definitely, that’s what I would like to do. The impression of this place, and it’s true, is that the food isn’t the best quality, it’s canned food, and I want to change that, definitely.

I want to start working with local farmers. I get stuff from Roots Farm every week. The people who come and eat here deserve the same quality of food that everyone else does. The farmers market gets criticized for just being for people who can afford it as an ideal, but there seems to be a lot of people trying to change that, with the EBT [food stamps] acceptance.

Everybody deserves healthy, good quality food.

FP: What do you do outside of work?

SB: I play my saxophone. I hang out with my daughter; we play music together. We spend a lot of time outside. We just moved into a house on Clover Street [near the Salvation

Over time, I’ve gotten over that. In Rome, it’s easy to be in the spotlight, to be what’s going on. You come here and you blend in, but in Rome if you are doing something, it gets noticed because no one else is doing much.

FP: What’s it like to raise a child in Athens?

SB: It’s cool. I’ve only been here for a year, so we are finally meeting all these people with kids. At first I didn’t think so.

I’m trying to get into the music scene and not many musicians have children. I do recommend everyone [have] one, though, just for some humility.

FP: What about the school system? Are you excited about that?

SB: I hear that the schools in Oconee County are much better. I hear that a lot of people who care about their kids’ education move to Oconee County, but that’s just what I’ve heard.

I hear a lot of UGA professors live in Oconee so they can send their tax dollars to those schools, but that doesn’t help Clarke County very much. Honestly, I’d like to keep her out of school forever. Not even home schooling, but un-schooling. But that requires a lot of organization on the parents’ part. I’m kind of an anarchist when it comes to schooling and politics.

FP: Anything else?

SB: Come on in, any night of the week. You’d be surprised how good the food might be.

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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week.

THE AMERICAN (R) Assassin Jack (George Clooney) hides out in an Italian village and befriends a priest (Paolo Bonacelli) and a local woman (Violante Placido). Like the title character, Clooney is the lone Yank amid a cast of Europeans. After a successful career in music videos, director Anton Corbijn made a splash with 2007’s Control; hopefully, he can avoid the dreaded sophomore slump. 28 Weeks Later screenwriter Rowan Joffe adapted the Martin Booth novel. With In Bruges’s Thekla Reuten.

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.

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.

CHILDREN OF MEN (R) 2007.

Prophetic filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón conjures the immensely sad weight of a hopeless world without children in his nightmarish yet agile Children of Men. The breathtaking Children adds several intelligent counterpoints to the postapocalyptic filmic conversation.

We could be creating Children’s recognizable futureworld with our present carelessness. Their dead, polluted planet is not so alien, yet hope breathes anew even in such desolation, a moral we should cling to.

THE COVE (PG-13) 2009. Director Louie Psihoyos used state-of-the-art technology to capture the injustice and abuse an activist group led by dolphin trainer Richard O’Barry (he worked on “Flipper” until one of the dolphins, Kathy, died in his arms) finds in a hidden cove near Taijii, Japan.

The website describes the film as “an intelligent/action/adventure/Ocean’s Eleven-like horror film.” Nominated for

the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, The Cove won the Audience Award for best documentary.

CYRUS (R) DIY filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass, the team of siblings behind the 2008 comedy-horror Baghead, escape the financial trappings of low-budget mumblecore (a movement founded by Mark Duplass among others) for the star-studded comedy drama featuring John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener and Jonah Hill (as Cyrus). Six years divorced from his wife (Keener), maladjusted John (Reilly) may have finally found the perfect partner in Molly (Tomei), but she seems to already be involved an intense doting mother-grown son relationship with Cyrus.

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.

THE EXPENDABLES (R) The Expendables are a group of mercenaries led by Barney Ross (Stallone, wearing the multiple hats of director, writer, producer and star). You know what you’re getting into when you buy a ticket for The Expendables: a maximum meathead experience for which you get your money’s worth. Just don’t expect anything more.

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 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

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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.

GOING THE DISTANCE (R) Acclaimed documentarian Nanette Burnstein (American Teen, The Kid Stays in the Picture) tries her hand at feature filmmaking with this romantic comedy starring on-again off-again couple Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. Erin (Barrymore) and Garrett

and Jules (power acting duo Bening and Julianne Moore), both of whom conceived children through artificial insemination. Now their teenager, Laser (Josh Hutcherson, Journey to the Center of the Earth), has convinced his older sister, Joni (Mia Wasikowska, Alice in Wonderland), to investigate their donor dads. Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed Laurel Canyon and High Art. With Mark Ruffalo.

THE LAST AIRBENDER (PG) M. Night Shyamalan, the arrogant writerdirector so maligned after a devastating trifecta that concluded with 2008’s The Happening, smartly streamlines the first 20 episodes of Nickelodeon’s

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(Long) try to keep their love alive while jetting back and forth between Chicago and L.A. The cast (including Christina Applegate, Ron Livingston, Kelli Garner, Charlie “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Day, Jason Sudeikis and Jim Gaffigan) is a good one.

I AM LOVE (R) I Am Love, or Io Sono l’Amore, is set in turn of the century of Milan, where the Recchi dynasty is thrown into chaos after Emma (Tilda Swinton, who learned both Russian and Italian for the role) embarks on an affair with her brother-in-law’s friend/ business partner, Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini). Director and Swinton pal Luca Guadagnino last directed the scandalous Melissa P. Winner of the Boulder International Film Festival’s Best Feature Film Award and the Dublin Film Critics Award for Best Actress (Swinton).

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.

THE KARATE KID (PG) The remake of the 1984 classic is definitely not the best around; the somber-toned flick would place third in a tournament with the previous four Karate Kids. Was it really necessary to take two hours and 20 minutes to (re)tell a plot about a kid learning martial arts from a handyman in order to beat up some bullies? No. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (R) Annette Bening’s other family-centric drama (following Mother and Child) centers on a lesbian couple, Nic

Peabody Award-winning cartoon, “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” The Last Airbender lacks the fantastical awe that made the show’s universe like a brilliant little brother to Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, and no one will prefer it to the cartoon. Still, I’m ready for Book Two. THE LAST EXORCISM (PG-13) See Movie Pick.

LOTTERY TICKET (PG-13) Bow Wow stars as Kevin Carson, a high school graduate from the projects who just won a $370 million lottery. With government offices closed for the 4th of July weekend, Kevin must survive his neighbors’ begging, pleading and stealing if he is ever going to pick up his money. Complicating matters is a local thug (Gbenga Akinnagbe) out for Kevin’s head. m MACHETE (R) Robert Rodriguez expounds on his Grindhouse trailer (not my favorite, the perfect retro awfulness of Thanksgiving takes the cake).

Danny Trejo stars as an ex-Federale looking to take brutal revenge on the organization that betrayed him. The cast is ever so friendly on the eyes and to the genre, with Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson and Rose McGowan returning as machine gunlegged Cherry Darling.

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.”

THE OTHER GUYS (PG-13) The newest comedy from star Ferrell and his Funny or Die partner, writer-director Adam McKay, 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. Still, Haute Tension director Alexandre Aja (still one of my faves even after Mirrors) skillfully delivers what’s important to folks interested in a three-dimensional movie about killer fish.

PLEASE GIVE (R) Nicole Holofcener’s New York, much like Woody Allen’s, is populated by the neurotic, the selfish and the needy. Unlike Woody, she focuses on the female half of that population. In Please Give, her muse, Catherine Keener, brilliantly crafts another fragile, quirky, 50-something woman and mother. Her Kate is a classed-up scavenger, picking over the furniture carcasses of the recently deceased. As funny as Please Give is, the emotional residue resulting from a viewing clings like a depressing funk.

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

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.

RAMONA AND BEEZUS (G) Beverly Cleary’s classic kid, Ramona, comes to the big screen. Ramona Quimby (Joey King) is a grade-schooler that gets in a lot of trouble. Beezus (Selena Gomez) is her older sister, Beatrice. John Corbett and Bridget Moynahan play the Quimby parents, Bob and Dorothy, and Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Duhamel as Aunt Bea and Uncle Hobart. Sandra Oh is Mrs. Meacham. These names will mean something to anyone that grew up reading these terrific books.

THE ROAD (R) 2009. As universally acclaimed as Cormac McCarthy’s postapocalyptic novel is (even Oprah loved it!), a certain amount of critical disappointment in its cinematic adaptation is to be expected. Director John Hillcoat’s film looks and sounds authentic in its oppressive grey skies and cracking, dying world. What is lacking is the intense emotional resonance of McCarthy’s sparse prose.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG-13) Scott Pilgrim (MVP Michael Cera) is a 22-year-old slacker who realizes that to date Ramona, he will have to defeat her 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.

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) The first two Shreks were highly entertaining and richly creative way back in 2001. In 2010, this fourth and supposedly final chapter is really tired.

THE SWITCH (PG-13) 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 ruins her donor’s sperm and substitutes his own.

TAKERS (PG-13) A group of highconcept bank robbers—brothers Jake and Jesse (Michael Ealy and Chris Brown), A.J. (Hayden “Ugh” Christensen), Gordon (Idris Elba, proving he’s actually British) and John (Paul Walker)—take on a multimilliondollar heist, masterminded by their recently paroled pal, Ghost (Tip “T.I.” Harris, who has more charisma than actual acting talent). Too bad grizzled detective Jack Welles (Matt Dillon) and his partner Eddie (Jay Hernandez) interrupt their well-oiled plan. Takers is just another unoriginal glorification of the criminal lifestyle, propped up by a familiar, mostly incompetent cast.

THE TILLMAN STORY (R) Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev (My Kid Could Paint That) explores the propaganda, the mystery and the coverup surrounding the death of NFL playerturned-soldier Pat Tillman. Giving up a multimillion-dollar contract to serve in the armed forces after 9/11, Tillman’s tragic death leads to numerous posthumous honors, including a Purple Heart, and a lot of questions for his family.

Already nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, The Tillman Story is abuzz with Oscar talk.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG-13) What can I say about this movie that will change anyone’s mind?

The third entry in Stephenie Meyer’s demonically popular vampire series (I cringe calling these tame not-quitebloodsuckers that) has an intriguing new director. David Slade knows some vampires, having directed the adaptation of Steve Niles’ 30 Days of Night; he also helmed the sharp, Hard Candy. The Cullens (represented by RPattz) and the Quileute werewolves (repped by T-Laut) must unite to defeat a common foe, an army of vamps led

by Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard), who has sworn to avenge her lover’s death by killing Bella (Kristen Stewart).

VAMPIRES SUCK (PG-13) Vampires don’t suck; Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer spoofs (Date/Epic/Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans) do, and they’ve got their sights set on Twilight.

Over the course of five awful “comedies,” Friedberg/Seltzer have developed no sense of comic pacing. They constantly throw jokes at the audience with the hope that a small amount will elicit immature giggles.

WILD GRASS (PG) 2009. The latest film from 88-year-old, acclaimed French filmmaker Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and won the director two special awards.

A seemingly happily married husband and father, Georges (André Dussollier), finds a wallet and begins fantasizing about its owner, Marguerite (Resnais’s wife, Sabine Azéma), a dentist’s wife and aviator. Wild Grass was also nominated for four Césars.

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Director Daniel Stamm’s film, written by Huck Botko and Andrew Garland, may be horror’s most successful example of how to fake a documentary. The hook is ingenious. Former child minister and exorcist Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) wishes to prove exorcism to be a sham. Enlisting a pair of documentarians,

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After Marcus runs his scam and fake-orcises Nell, the scary situation escalates in the typical demonpossession fashion until it’s capped off by a wild, wonderful, B-movie left turn and an underwhelming final scene, oh so typical for the horror subgenre pioneered by Blair Witch.

I have high hopes for Stamm’s future films. He has made a truly compelling, new horror film that is actually scary. The first act falsely offers intriguing insight into the world of exorcism, which the second and third toss on its psychological head before skillfully inserting a doozy of a twist.

Judging only from a plot synopsis and the docu-quality of The Last Exorcism, it’s a shame no one (including me) got to see Stamm’s first film, A Necessary Death. May this surprising sophomore effort be Stamm’s last exorcism; let it not be his last horror film.

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The luckless character of the title is Leo (a deeply vulnerable Dominic Guard), a fatherless boy of modest means on the cusp of his 13th birthday in the very early-20th century, who is spending a very hot summer at the Norfolk estate of a schoolmate’s aristocratic family. Leo quickly becomes enamored of his friend’s older sister (Julie Christie, who bestows on him an envy-green summer suit to replace his stifling brown tweeds), and is just as immediately embroiled in the young woman’s secret affair with a neighboring farmer (the almost hilariously virile Alan Bates) when the couple enlist him to serve as their clandestine “postman.” Leo’s sexual awakening plays out amid this tense transaction between classes (the film’s invocation of the cross-caste relations at a similarly palatial and isolated estate in Renoir’s Rules of the Game is acknowledged in a brief, wry rabbit-hunting

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films, each a 2000s remake of an early-’70s horror-schlock classic: Willard and Wizard of Gore. There’s beer, liquor and pizza there, so it sounds like a pretty good time. You can track the club down on Facebook.

More Free Movies: The ACC Library’s iFilms series moves forward Sept. 2 with The Cove, a thrilling, harrowing and heartbreaking 2009 scene), and he is unwillingly implicated in its documentary by Louie Psihoyos about a quest unhappy denouement, an event that scars all by a group of activists, scientists and highinvolved, it is implied, quite permanently. tech filmmakers to expose the ongoing slaughThe film’s dialogue is sharp, ter of dolphins by fishermen near terse and sometimes darkly funny Taijii, Japan. Next up on Sept. 9 (this was the last of Losey’s is I Bring What I Love, Elizabeth three collaborations with Harold Chai Vasarhelyi’s 2008 documenPinter as screenwriter), and tary about the Senegalese pop Michel Legrand’s spare yet bomsinger Youssou N’Dour and the bastic score infuses the atmocontroversy ignited in his homesphere, appropriately, with dread. land by the release of his 2004 Appropriate, because what Leo album Egypt, which espoused a is taught about love will finally tolerant version of his Muslim protect him far less than the faith. Weekly iFilms screenings lesson he should have learned are Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the instead: not to get drafted into auditorium of the ACC Library the personal wars of the leisure at 2025 Baxter St.… The Sept. class.

2 screening in the ICE-Vision TCM’s website says The series at UGA (8 p.m. Thursdays Go-Between isn’t available on in Room S150 of the Lamar Dodd home video, but Netflix offers School of Art) is Wim Wenders’ it both on DVD and streaming.

Luca Guadagnino’s film I Am Love is slated to open at Ciné on Friday, Sept. 3.

1977 Patricia Highsmith adaptaMaybe you can get it at your tion, The American Friend, starlocal video store, too. If you can, you should. ring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz (and also release. It’s scheduled to open at Ciné Sept.

17—more on that next column. featuring, significantly, the director Nicholas Speaking of Local: Our own Ciné is ramping Ray, with whom Wenders would collaborate up its autumn schedule in the coming weeks Don’t Look—It’s Too Scary!: Some folks calling far more closely on Lightning Over Water, (though we can agree it doesn’t feel much like themselves the Horror Film Club of Athens made while Ray was dying of cancer in 1979). autumn in this sweaty burg), with a bunch of have been presenting “foreign, obscure, indie Sept. 9 is Ilé Aiyé, a 1989 documentary about great-looking stuff on the docket. Get Low, and B-grade” horror double-features upstairs Candomblé, a “spirit cult” from Brazil’s Bahia which I haven’t seen but looks very good, and at the downtown Transmetropolitan every region, by the musician David Byrne.

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Love, the Italian family drama with a heralded, tour-de-force performance by Tilda Swinton, opens this Friday, Sept. 3., and the Global Lens Film Series, scheduled for every Tuesday through mid-November, begins Sep. 14 (check www.athenscine.com for details). The Girl Who Played with Fire, Animal Kingdom, Cyrus and Race to Nowhere are all “coming soon.” And the most exciting news of all is that Sony Pictures Classics has finally seen fit to give Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass, which I’ve been harping about for about a year, its U.S.

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This is bad news for two reasons: 1) it leaves the upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit in the air for a while, and 2) it means the end, at least for now, of the James Bond films.

Dammit, just when they finally cast a Bond I like.

As huge a Bond fan as I am, however, he is far down on the list of spies I’ll reach for when looking for my cloak-and-dagger fix.

First of all, if you’ve ever read the Ian Fleming books, it becomes obvious that Bond is the luckiest spy alive. Not only does it seem that all the villains know who he is, but if

Of the high-profile authors at work here, Gayle Lynds (collaborator with the late Robert Ludlum) and Lee Child (author of the Jack Reacher novels) turn in weak entries, but these are more than made up for by strong capers by James Grady, Robert Wilson and David Morrell, who serves up a harrowing story about rival interrogators and the real effectiveness of torture. The best entries in the collection belong to Charles McCarry, ex-spy and author of the Paul Christopher novels, who writes of an American agent called to bear witness to the overthrow of a brutal African dictator, and John Lawton, who gives us a sad and funny story of a lowly British Army bureaucrat mistakenly blackmailed for secrets in the pre-Profumo-scandal ‘50s.

Like I said, I prefer to write about books that fly beneath the popular radar, but think of Agents of Treachery as a surprise hit from deep, deep cover.

W. S. Merwin has been named Poet Laureate of the United States and will replace Kay Ryan in October. Merwin is a Pulitzer Prize recipient twice over, in 1971 and in 2009. He’s known primarily for the volumes of work he devoted to protest against the Vietnam War, and turned his first Pulitzer money over to support the draft-resistance movement. His later works reflect a deep interest in Zen Buddhism and a love for his adopted state of Hawaii, where he campaigns tirelessly for rainforest preservation.

In other words, Merwin is the kind of activist-poet we like to see in such a high-profile position. He’s damn good, too.

you or I tried to eat, drink, smoke and screw like Fleming has Bond do, we’d be dead long before SMERSH ever caught up to us. Secondly, Bond’s job is to battle megalomaniacs with preposterous schemes for world domination, thus skipping the tedium, ambiguous morality and sheer ugliness of espionage as it plays out in the rest of the world. No, give me one of John Le Carre’s or Graham Greene’s worldweary agents, players in the dark, absurd game of secrets with no clear moral objectives beyond doing the job and staying alive. Give him a drinking problem and a weakness for hookers and all the other dysfunctions that come from fighting shadow wars to lose, and I’m there.

I’m breaking one of my own rules for this column, which is to avoid works by established big-box authors, in order to say nice things about a new anthology of short spy fiction—Agents of Treachery, edited by Otto Penzler (Random House, 2010)—because few people buy short-story collections, and because there are virtually no anthologies of spy stories out there. Because of the intricacies and intrigues necessary for the genre, it’s hard to tell a good espionage yarn in less than 400 pages, but the authors in Penzler’s collection have done it, and most have done it well.

A few weeks ago I posted a column in which I extolled the virtues of comics as an almost-perfect medium for realizing artistic vision. This prompted a lively debate in the readers’ comments section online between parties on both sides of the comics-as-legitimate-art question. While I have a pretty firm policy on not responding to reader criticism—it’s not aloofness on my part; I just believe that if I have to explain or defend what I meant, then I haven’t done my job—I would point interested parties in the direction of the work of Harvey Pekar, author of the comic American Splendor, who passed away last month at age 70.

Pekar’s long-running autobiographical comic, which he wrote with a variety of artists, reflected the life of an ordinary guy with an ordinary life. His job was boring, his interests eclectic, his manner somewhat cranky (the word used most often with Pekar is “curmudgeon”), and the events of his life were banal, and yet Pekar managed to turn his everyman existence into fascinating and brutally honest art. Even when his comic became a critical favorite and they made a movie from the comic, starring Paul Giamatti as Pekar, the man himself remained unaffected and his art never suffered. Simply put, Harvey Pekar took the humblest materials and created a comic that was art in spite of itself. He will be missed.

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its web store, but you’re gonna have to wait for the LP or digital download options. The first single is “Ghost Loop,” which is simultaneously new and familiar. The main melody reminds me distinctly of a song which I can’t remember, yet is on the tip of my tongue. I’m looking forward to hearing the whole album.

Orange Twin is also taking pre-orders for the new album by Elf Power coming out Sept. 14.

Check it all out over at www.orangetwin.com.

Gotta Catch ‘Em All: By now you’ve likely seen, or at least heard about, of Montreal’s new video for the track “Coquet Coquette” from its forthcoming album, False Priest. Directed by the talented Jason Miller (Eikon Productions), the video was shot on Jekyll Island and features a veritable cast of thousands (OK, tens) of Athens scenesters, townies and hangerson as well as the band itself. Everyone is On Fire: Local rockers Incendiaries (Mary dressed like barbarians, and there’s some Joyce, Erica Strout, Erika Richardson and violence (via fists and medieval spiked clubs Mandy Branch) are currently recording with and such), zombie-styled neck biting, a little Ex-DARC studio owner Eric Friar in his basemagic and other visual treats. There may be a ment, but are giving themselves no time limit storyline to it, but I can’t make heads or tails of it. But it looks good. Polyvinyl Records will release False Priest Sept. 14 via CD/double-LP and a limited-edition (500 copies) cassette-tape version will happen courtesy of Joyful Noise Records. The band is playing at the 40 Watt club on Sept. 11 before heading off on a two-month tour, returning to Georgia Nov. 6 for two shows at Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse.

Collaborator Janelle Monáe A still from of Montreal’s new video will join of Montreal for its U.S. dates. All other pertinent info can be found at to complete the project. The band will play www.ofmontreal.net. with the always-pleasing Hot Cha Cha from Ohio at the Caledonia Lounge on Sept. 8. Mary Remember Y2K?: Widespread Panic will release Joyce’s other band, Maximum Busy Muscle, Live in the Classic City II (double CD/triple has released its album, Kill the Cow, Beat the LP) on Sept. 28. The record is the second Horse, and it only costs $5. Presumably, it’s in document concerning the band’s three-night local stores now, but if that doesn’t work out stand at Athens’ Classic Center in April 2000. for you then just ask the band about it over at The first album was released in 2002. Notable www.myspace.com/maximumbusymuscle. guests on the recording are Anne Richmond Boston (Swimming Pool Q’s), Mike Mills Get in the Van: Athens’ serrated-edge pop(R.E.M.), John Keane and Dr. Arvin Scott. In punk bands Guff and Burns Like Fire will other news, Widespread Panic drummer Sunny tour together through September throughout Ortiz will perform his tribute to Santana Florida and some of the Southeast. Guff has at the Melting Point on Saturday, Sept. 4. been holding strong for over a decade now, Widespread Panic returns to the road in the but Burns Like Fire has exceeded all reasonmiddle of next month and will play a sold-out able expectations for such a short-lived band. show at Atlanta’s Center Stage on Sept. 23, They’ve got upcoming gigs with quarter-cenfollowed by two nights at Alpharetta’s Verizon tury-old New York hardcore legends Sick of It Amphitheatre Sept. 24 & 25. Tickets and more All (Atlanta’s Masquerade, Sept. 14) and NYC information are available over at www.wideska kings The Toasters (Masquerade again, spreadpanic.com.

Oct. 24). Burns Like Fire and Guff kick the tour off with a show at the Caledonia Lounge No, Mom, You See…: Most of the time when on Sept. 16 and will be joined that night by a local band has a troublesome moniker, its Treephort and Wristbandits. For more info, music is just as bad, and no one needs to please see www.myspace.com/burnslikefire worry about it any further. Unfortunately for music and www.myspace.com/guff. us, we’re in the position of having to explain to parents, friends and others that the ShitSecond from the End: The Next to Last Fest Hot Country Band is actually not a joke and is currently on the lips of lots of folks and worth hearing. The band is currently recording with good reason, too, considering that its heavily authentic C&W with engineer Drew journeyman collaborator, and quite accomVandenberg (Chase Park Transduction) via a plished songwriter in his own right, Van Dyke mobile recording unit. There are loose plans to Parks (Melting Point, Oct. 31) and South record at other local facilities and even looser Bronx rhythm legends ESG (New Earth Music plans about what to do with the material once Hall, Oct. 30) are the main headlining acts. it’s completed. Bandleader Matt Hudgins has Individual tickets will be available soon for alluded to the band either doing a full-length approximately $20 and $15, respectively. The LP or an EP with a bonus 7-inch. In order to festival will be spread out across town, and a concentrate on recording, the band only has limited number of full-festival wristbands will plans to do a couple of shows in the combe available online this week for $35, and by ing months, so watch for those. Visit www. sometime next week they should be in Wuxtry myspace.com/hutchbalkins and sample for and Schoolkids record shops for $40. The yourself. organizers promise over 65 total bands, and a short list of them is available over at www.

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Toubab Krewe Where East Meets West these United States, it’s not often that an individual has the chance to hear, let alone witness, a fellow citizen ripping the 21-stringed Malian luteharp known as a kora—which is a shame. But perk up for nearing opportunities: Asheville-based quintet Toubab Krewe will be stopping by New Earth Music Hall on Sept. 2 to play some tracks from its soon-to-be-released sophomore record, TK2, and the kora player in that group does rip.

Toubab Krewe first caught my attention as I was being pulled like a moth to a flame from sodden Tennessee pastures into a tiny, overcrowded tent on a June evening during Bonnaroo 2005; rapid-fire string-picking threading through seriously groovy rhythms captured me. Percussionist Luke Quaranta remembers the show fondly: “That was one of our first shows—we started the band in January of that year… at the beginning of the set, there were about 10 to 12 people, but before long the place was overflowing with people dancing, so we felt like we were getting across what we wanted.”

Also in 2005, the group released its first studio recording, simply titled Toubab Krewe. It’s an ambitious and inspired collection of instrumental tracks based predominantly upon West African rhythm and melody, with an extra bit of upstroke.

This all makes sense since the “Krewe” (New Orleans spelling; “Toubab” means “foreigner” in several African dialects) may as well call the region its second home as the bandmembers have spent so much time living and studying in Mali, Ivory Coast and Guinea—countries with intimate and venerable musical traditions.

When asked to contrast West African musical culture with that of the States, Quaranta notes how prevalent and important music is to daily life on the Mother Continent. “There’s always a blend of the new and the traditional there,” he says.

“Music is passed down through families over many generations, so you will have teachers from two or three generations ago… during the Malian Empire musicians would play for the royalty, and those skills keep getting passed on… though there is innovation, the line of tradition is intact through hundreds of years… from Thursday to Sunday there is music in the streets for weddings and baptisms, and it’s very much a part of community life which is a bit less common here… Here, we’re more about radio and video, and though there is that there, music is

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“We try to remove the veil between the audience and performers to get in that place where the separation falls away, and in the jam scene here that seems to happen pretty well,” Quaranta continues. But, really, that isn’t just their approach to the live show, as guitarist Drew Heller points out regarding the TK2 sessions: “We had a month and a half in the studio, and we were able to relax and play, almost a smudging process, getting the energy in the right place… conducive to not worrying about anything and just having fun, playing and getting into the creative process.” A “rootsy” approach, and with Heller’s Grammy-winning father, Steven Heller, at the mixing boards, the results are charming. In predominantly six-minute, all-instrumental intervals, the Krewe touches the thrill of the live show while daring to challenge and outdo themselves with more elaborate song structures, instrumentation (pianos!), and larger improvisational sections. In the end, the band emerges with a collection that’s fresher than fabric softener.

The disc also follows its predecessor in its heavy African influence, but unlike its predecessor, the new recordings revel more in Western influences: Pink Floyd-esque guitar delay and sustained psychedelia meet that space where blues mutated into rock and roll. And in slightly punkish fashion, a bit of funk and jam bump together as well. These are music devotees conjuring profound thanks from within that paradoxical medium called Time, and they’ve gotten better at it—over an hour of coherent, celebratory songs that slink between the speakeasy and the ether. It’s really interesting when contemplated, but enjoyment of the thing doesn’t demand rumination. Hear for yourself! TK2 is out via Nat Geo Music on Sept. 7.

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Reconnecting with friends. Perhaps working a shift or two, waiting tables at local institution The Grit. Doing laundry, cleaning house—the usual.

Compare Rain’s domestic duties in Athens with his other, less-vanilla life: fronting his band, Twin Tigers, in front of thousands of fans, night after night, opening for the likes of Interpol and The Hold Steady. The threepiece rock group just completed a five-week tour that took it through the Northeast and Canada, back through the Midwest and down the Atlantic coast. To huge crowds, no less; these are the biggest gigs Twin Tigers have played. The newfound notoriety has placed them on the precipice of fame. For Rain, it’s a shift in lifestyles worthy of Clark Kent.

What’s so special about these guys that they get to live out their rock and roll fantasies? Well, before anything else, there is the music itself. Twin Tigers released their latest album, Gray Waves, in March. It is a collection of, first and foremost, epochal electric guitar songs. They are multilayered, nuanced tunes with endless reverb and massive buildups, reminiscent of The Jesus and Mary Chain. Yet Gray Waves, despite its stadium-rock ambitions, is not a “heavy” record, and it is not all that different from other records that fans of dreamy, psychedelic modern music have heard before. It is durable, classic music without pretense. Simply put, Rain focuses on melody without worrying about trying to make something weird or new or unique.

“I don’t think good music comes necessarily from a unique sound,” Rain says. “Good music, at the core, is the song. If the song is good—if it has a good meaning—then that right there is what it all comes back to. You can push the envelope on what the sound is going to be and try to blend all these different things, but if the song’s not there, the record won’t be a classic.”

Then there is the fact that Rain has paid his dues, having gigged with a total of eight bands over the last decade or so. Rain notes that Twin Tigers, in true Spinal Tap fashion, have had 10 different drummers—none exploding, fortunately. Some are Athens

notables, including Dead Confederate’s Jason Scarboro, Bambara’s Blaze Bateh and Southern Bitch’s Chris Ellenberg.

And Rain has paid his dues in other ways, too. He grew up in a town synonymous with desolation, the small north Texas city of Paris.

(Yes, the same town of Harry Dean Stanton film fame.) Growing up, Rain was not exposed to the groups his music would later be favorably compared with, such as Sonic Youth and The Verve. Worse yet, Rain’s father, who preferred Southern Baptist gospel music, threw away his son’s records when the singer was a teen. Nirvana’s Nevermind was trashed; so was Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine and AC/ DC’s The Razor’s Edge.

A small setback, really, as Rain subsequently rebought those records. Now, 15 years later, he does not get much time to listen to them, anyway, for all that is going on with Twin Tigers. The band has a couple of local shows coming up before going out on another tour in November. The hectic schedule is a reminder that time is one of the biggest challenges facing the group now. Bandmates have come and subsequently gone, because Twin Tigers’ tour schedule is such a huge time commitment. The band is getting more popular and, while that is most groups’ measure of success, it also means Rain and bandmates Aimee Morris and Forrest Hall have less time to make money waiting tables, which helps support their on-the-road lifestyle. Something is going to have to give soon. Either the band will have to become a full-time endeavor, or else Rain will have to put the dream on hold to make money in Athens.

Asked about this, Rain replies with a question he may as well be asking himself. “At a certain point in life, you have to make a choice; do you go down the rabbit hole?”

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would say that the six individuals who are Blood Feathers are a veritable library of musical knowledge and appreciation,” says vocalist/guitarist Ben Dickey. “We teach one another, and there is always more to learn.”

Dickey is referring to his band’s musical influences, but the back catalog of bands that the members of Blood Feathers have themselves played in is a veritable library unto itself. This breezy rock band features past and current members of Bardo Pond, Benjy Ferree, Pink Skull, Matt Pond PA, The A-Sides and more. But the heart of the group is the songwriting duo of Dickey and Drew Mills, who have known each other since the ‘90s but just started collaborating in 2005 after their former bands (Amen Booze Rooster and Aspera, respectively) called it quits. Dickey says he writes most of the songs with Mills, but the project is evolving into more of a group-wide effort.

“Drew and I find roots of songs; sometimes those roots will be the breadth of a notion of a song, sometimes they will be finished from top to bottom and only need the other instruments to fill ‘em out,” he says via email. “As we get tighter and play more, the band is now beginning to kinda organically situate songs together, and it is good that way ‘cause it happens mighty fast and it makes it… more true I suppose.”

Blood Feathers’ sophomore effort, Goodness Gracious, was released in December of 2009 on the Philebrity label, and it features a summery mix of feel-good rock and roll. Punctuated occasionally by brass and led by Mills’ lilting vocals, Goodness Gracious sounds alternatively like T-Rex (“Great Gold Almighty,” particularly), early Rolling Stones (“Sugar in Bed”), Donovan (“The Same Mad Part”) and Sloan (“Caterpillar”). The album is full of warmth and brightness, so it’s not surprising to learn that the band was having an absolute ball while tracking the

record. Blood Feathers had the unique opportunity to record up in Nova Scotia on tiny Hawke Island, a 3.6-hectacre piece of land that is, in fact, the private property of actor Ethan Hawke.

“We chose to [record there] because it became an option that we all were in love with,” says Dickey. “The vibe was pure rock and roll summer camp: canoes, camp fires, hikes, smoking, drinking, smoking, knife throwing, fishing, barn jams, train track walkin’, swimmin’ and general hilarious, riotous sweet times.”

If that sounds like a party, just wait for the fun that Blood Feathers promises to bring to Athens. “You can expect to be throttled pretty sweetly with love and loud guitar,” writes Dickey. “The band live on a stage is the way it is meant to be taken. A proper dose of Blood Feathers is the six of us full tilt in front of a crowd doin’ what we do. You can expect to dance, even if you wasn’t plannin’ on it. You can expect a feelin’ of

healin’ and a particular buzz in your head and in your pants.

The songs are shaped like a six-story train chooglin’ towards an unknown but beautiful oasis where anything can happen.”

This will be Blood Feathers’ first appearance in town, and Dickey says the band is excited about heading below the MasonDixon line: “Some of us are Southerners, and we miss it with a mightiness that is tough sometimes,” he says. “We’ve got friends in Athens who we love, and the folks I’ve met from Athens in the past have been D-lite-ful.”

Apparently Dickey has some pals out in Atlanta as well, as he recalls the last time he was in Georgia.

“I went to Kenny Rogers’ house one time, right round Athens to see and meet Michael Jordan.

True.”

There are no high-profile house calls on the agenda this time around, but Dickey does have ulterior motives beyond bringin’ that feelin’ of healin’. “[I’m] hoping to do some good eatin’ there. I know there’s some sweet spots.”

Lucky for him the band is set to rock out at one of the tastier spots in town, restaurant and music venue Farm 255. Of course, the sugary pop of Blood Feathers will make the night all the sweeter.

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Local power-trio Bambara is known for its blaring, intense live shows, but this EP showcases the band’s deft handling of both volume and quiet.

Not that there is a softer side to Bambara. Even on this album’s most gentle numbers, like “Drag Hesitation” and “Feed the Pigs,” there is tension and anxiety. The latter song is particularly haunting, as Reid Bateh’s hushed vocals fade into a horrific din filled with piercing tones and a low, ominous drone that sounds both like zombie moans and an encroaching swarm of killer bees. “Swim with Trees” is mellow in its pace, but the warped guitars are relentlessly abrasive; Bateh’s soft voice all but drowns in his guitar’s distortion, and the result is like a disorienting, slow motion, drug-addled meltdown.

And then there are the loud songs.

Bambara’s attack will cut you like shards of glass. The ear-shattering guitar on “Stay Green,” the album’s most propulsive track, suggests the band learned a few tricks from tour buddies HEALTH. Unfortunately, the low-end is lost in the mix here. In fact, it’s a challenge to pick out the bass lines on most of the EP, but on this song even the drums are reduced to the crash crash crash of cymbals and snare. It’s unfortunate that the track is so tightly compressed, as the ferocity of Bambara, when given the space to really sprawl, can pack an incredible punch. Even so, Dog Ear Days is not for the faint of heart.

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THE NATIONAL High Violet 4AD The Brooklyn-based band’s fifth studio album, High Violet, has succeeded in bringing a musically dynamic and emotionally complex follow-up to The National’s two previously well-received records. Fans who admired the band’s strong rhythms and introspective songs will not be disappointed in one of the year’s best indie releases. Matt Berninger’s songs, delivered in his distinctive baritone and backed by an excellent ensemble of players, show that thoughtful indie

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High Violet is filled with beautiful pop songs with enigmatic lyrics and the band’s familiar themes of loneliness, dark relationships, insecurity and paranoia. The opening song, “Terrible Love,” sets the tone with Berninger’s cryptic singing about “walking with spiders.” While some critics complain about his opaque lyrics and vocals, Athenians may remember that Michael Stipe got the same critique when Murmur was first released. Berninger likes images that are “blurry” and “suggestive,” and his song narrators are riddled with ironic ambiguity. The lead single “Blood Buzz Ohio” shows the band’s characteristic charms as Berninger’s baritone belts that “I’m on a bloodbuzz.” “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks” concludes with a singalong and memorable refrain of “Swans are a swimming/ I’ll explain everything to the geeks.”

While The National’s lyrics are often depressing, the music is energetic. These songs are like a symphony unfolding. Berninger’s numerous shades of morose lead the tempo, countered by the rhythmic drumming of Bryan Dessner, the soft guitars of Bryce Dessner, orchestral flourishes, and background singing. This is producer Peter Katis’ third straight album with the band, and he almost functions as a bandmember by providing layers of horns, strings and backing harmonies from guests like Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. These accomplished musicians craft songs that unfold in a subtle way, as opposed to musical overdoses in bands like Arcade Fire. This is one of the most energetic and thrilling pop statements of the year.

Branimir Rieger

Once upon a time, garage rock had seemingly run its course. Everyone and their mother had an unoriginal, scruffy, slacker band, each one worse than the last. Then Athenians the Sugar Dicks came along with their lone effort, Everybody’s Dead, to remind us all how much fun music can be when indie is more of an ethic than a genre. And the funny thing is that it’s alarmingly simple. You really don’t need some heavy point to make. You just need a good sense of what fun, unpretentious music sounds and feels like, which means those making the music must possess those qualities within, too.

And the Sugar Dicks seem to have them in spades. While down-to-earth tunes can sometimes be hard to come by in today’s world of woe-is-me songwriting, this band has managed to string together eight songs worth of fuzzy guitars and molten energy, bearing earnest comparisons to early ‘90s DIY heroes like Superchunk.

It really is a shame this album is a one-off. In a music-drenched town like Athens, it must be hard for a band to truly distinguish itself. The Sugar Dicks just might have had what it takes.

Jennifer Gibson

ZOROASTER Matador E1 Music Although they’re not the household name that their game-changing brethren Mastodon are, this Atlanta trio is doing just as much to further not only the fertile Georgia metal scene but heavy music at large. Known by the cognoscenti as one of the form’s most convincingly intrepid bands, the horizon of their ever-expanding psych metal broadens each time they emerge from the studio, always testing the genre’s elasticity. And though Matador continues on their laudably mind-expanding path, it’s also more accessible. Considering the tar pits of doomed-out stoner sludge from which they emerged, their sound here is more noticeably kaleidoscopic, with heavier touches of psychedelic rock, hypnotic metal-gaze and gothic undertones.

Some of this album’s most definitive moments—“Odyssey,” “Old World” and “Matador”—play like dark ceremonies, pairing thick psych-rock sensuality with aboriginal groans.

Equally heady is “D.N.R.,” whose nasty metal slither winds down swirling corridors of echoing gothic moans.

And while the more conventional “Trident” proves that the band can still torch a hot-licking burnout, the ravaged “Firewater” features a vexed hive of fried noise effects swarming atop a muscular, narcotic groove. All told, Matador is a bold illustration that Zoroaster’s genius is in its ability to, thus far, provide listeners with the thrill of discovery without the fear of disappointment.

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EFREN Always Been a Bleeder Slo Pro In a quiet eddy where gothic Americana, psychedelia and straightup country swirl together, Scott LeonO’Day of local band Efren sits holding a guitar. Armed with only his breathy voice, he sings of the hand he’s been dealt (“Check It Down”) and watches the brackish waters, at times assisted by a trio of instrumentalists.

But Always Been a Bleeder, the band’s new five-song EP, strays far from brooding rumination, proving more often celebratory than sober.

Alternately stark and moving (“Rapids,” with its beautiful female backing vocals) or upbeat and kinetic (the pop-folk romp of “Potholes”), this is roots music unadulterated but without all the heaviness of a whole history’s weight—its roots grow in the here and now.

Accordingly, Leon-O’Day’s lyrics seem gleaned from the very fabric of his present-day North Georgia life.

Equally strong are tactile descriptions like “Creeping thick like the August heat…” (“Potholes”) and emotion- or actions-based verses like “Cut the grass until I’m blue” (“Next Tuesday”) or “Small-town fame, let me see all of the sights” (“Check It Down”).

They read like vivid snapshots, little moments imbued with information for all of the senses.

So, maybe Always Been a Bleeder explores nothing sonically new, but it’s earnest and bare-breasted and true.

It’s a glassy pond that reflects LeonO’Day’s expressive face back at us. As “Rapids” refrains, “Believe in these dreams/ They may be what they seem.”

Julia Reidy Efren is playing Saturday, Sept. 18 at Farm 255.

THE DANDY WARHOLS The Best of the Capitol Years 1995-2007 Capitol “Best-of” releases are a tricky affair. Does a group like The Dandy Warhols —which had maybe one or two hit songs in the U.S. (and that’s being generous)—front-load such an album with the couple of songs that folks best remember them for, then follow up with 10 other forgettable, filler tunes? Or does a group like The Dandy Warhols play to its fanbase of yesteryear, which is now making babies and going to high school reunions, and attempt to remind those 30-somethings of why the Dandys were such a cool group in the first place—hit songs be damned?

The Best of the Capitol Years 1995-2007 goes for the latter approach. The result is a welcome dose of nostalgia for those of us in high school and college in the mid-’90s, and there are thankfully enough odd, seldom-heard tracks from the later part of the band’s career to make the thing well worth buying. The Portland-based quartet has never made particularly challenging music, but the last time I checked, not too many bands were writing psychedelic bubblegum-pop tunes to any great degree either (Blur excepted). That was the Dandy Warhols’ niche, their lair, and, boy, did they guard it well.

Mark Sanders The Dandy Warhols are playing Center Stage in Atlanta on Nov. 11.

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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. 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.) For “And Now for Something Different,” an exhibit featuring new paintings and 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 LECTURES & LIT.: VOX Reading Series (Ciné BarCafé) Readings from graduates students in the UGA Creative Writing Program. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.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 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 are the specialty drinks.

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: 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 great book together and talk about it. Every Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 LECTURES & LIT.: Word of Mouth (The Globe) Monthly open poetry readings every first Wednesday.

Andrew Mandelbaum is this month’s featured reader. 8 p.m. FREE! www. athenswordofmouth.com MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended crochet needles. Newcomers are always welcome. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Sitting Meditation Group (Mind Body Institute) Silent meditation. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706475-7329 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 your host Corey. FREE! Call 706-5491010.

GAMES: Poker Night (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Team Trivia (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Join Team Trivia every Wednesday night (2 rounds). First round at 9 p.m. Stick around for the 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! Call 706-612-9219 for more info.

GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) Open your pie-hole every week for a chance to win! Every Wednesday at all three locations. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. yourpie.com

Thursday 2 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: “Terrapin Taste Against Trash” (Terrapin Beer Co.) Be there when local non-profit Keep AthensClarke County Beautiful unveils their new campaign to, well, keep ACC beautiful through litter prevention, waste reduction and beautification.

Enjoy Terrapin beer, Farm Cart snacks and live music by 3 Foot Swagger. 5:30–7:30 p.m. $10.

706-613-3501, www.keepathensbeautiful.org EVENTS: UGA Relay for Life Kickoff (UGA Arch) Athens band Velvet Runway takes over College Square for UGA Relay for Life’s largest kickoff event to date. Join in on the fight against cancer and discover new ways to contribute your time and energy to Relay for Life. 8 p.m.

Donations welcome. www.ugarelay. 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 ART: Reception (Athens Academy, Myers Gallery, 1281 Spartan Dr.) For “The Farmington Depot Gallery Showcase” and an exhibit featuring work by seniors in Athens Academy’s Senior Portfolio class. 7–9 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-9225 ART: Walk and Talk (ATHICA) Hear the thoughts of the curators and artists behind ATHICA’s current exhibit, “Mission Accomplished.” 7 p.m.

FREE! www.athica.org LECTURES & LIT.: “The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery” (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150) Dr. Anne Leader, Professor of Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design, will discuss the frescoes of the “Orange Cloister” in the Florentine Badia, a 15th-century monastery notable for its murals depicting St. Benedict’s life. Part of the LDSoA’s Visual Culture Colloquium.

5 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2121, www. art.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Willson Center Lecture: Terry Kay (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 171) The award-winning writer delivers a lecture entitled “Southern Literature Is Alive and Well and Resides in New York City.” 4 p.m. FREE! 706-5423966, jdingus@uga.edu MEETINGS: Athens Art Association (Lyndon House Arts Center, Children’s Studio) Meet up with other artists for a business

Textile art by Terri McGhee Jarrett on display at the Lyndon House through Sept. 18. meeting, refreshments and a screening of the film Painters Painting.

Newcomers ages 18 and up welcome. 6:30–9 p.m. FREE! www. athensart.org MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (Sandy Creek Nature Center, ENSAT) Ben Emanuel, the Oconee River Project Director for Altamaha Riverkeeper and Jess Sterling, an Odum School of Ecology graduate student, provide an update on the chemical pollution of Trail Creek at this week’s meeting.

Newcomers welcome. 7 p.m. FREE! president@oconeeriversaudubon. org GAMES: Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Poker tournaments every Thursday (2 rounds). First round at 7:30 p.m. Stay for the second round at 10:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7829

Friday 3 EVENTS: Courteous Mass (Athens City Hall) BikeAthens’ monthly, casual-pace bike ride around town is a reminder that roads are meant for sharing. Bring a helmet and a water bottle. 6 p.m. FREE! www. bikeathens.com.

EVENTS: First Fridays at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Get to know the Garden’s staff at this casual breakfast social and discover staff members’ favorite parts of the Garden on a guided tour. Flower Garden Curator Shelley Prescott will talk about late blooms and late season plant maintenance.

9–10:20 a.m. $10. www.uga.edu/ botgarden

ART: Opening Reception (Trace Gallery, 160 Tracy St.) For “Summer Ghosts,” an exhibit featuring paintings by former Athenian Sam Seawright. 8–10 p.m. FREE! www. tracegalleryathens.com, www.samseawright.com PERFORMANCE: “Celebrating Eudora” (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Southern folksingers and songwriters Caroline Herring, Claire Holley and Kate Campbell unite to honor acclaimed Southern writer Eudora Welty with a unique storytelling concert. This kick-off performance for the 201011 Singer Songwriter Series pulls inspiration from Southern Gothic greats including Welty, Flannery O’Conner and William Faulkner. 8 p.m. $25. Call 706-342-4743 for more info.* 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! Call 706-795-5597 for more info.

MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Informal, inclusive and progressive social group that gives left-leaning individuals a chance to talk politics.

First and third Fridays of every month. 6:30 p.m. athens@drinkingliberally.org GAMES: Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Poker tournaments every Friday (two rounds). First round at 7 p.m. Stick around for the second round at 10 p.m. 7 p.m. FREE! 706354-7829

Saturday 4 EVENTS: Adoption Day (Pet Supplies Plus) Local animal rescue organizations bring their pups out for a chance at finding a forever home. Love connections made every Saturday! 11 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-3530650 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Now accepting EBT cards.

Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–Noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net OUTDOORS: Audubon Society Bird Ramble (State Botanical Garden) Join the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society for a morning bird walk. All birding levels are welcome.

Meet at the upper parking lot between the Garden Club Headquarters and the Chapel. 8 a.m. FREE! www. oconeeriversaudubon.org OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. Call to register. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Geocaching Adventures (Call for location) Learn the basics of geocaching and use your skills to find a hidden cache. Under 16 accompanied by an adult. Space is limited; call to register. 1-3 p.m. $2, 706-613-3615 GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) Develop coordination, tolerance and grace through beer pong. Every Wednesday and Saturday with Corey.

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Special Guest The Daniel Lee Band

Friday, September 17, 2010 at 8:30 p.m.

Merle Haggard Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

Tony Bennett Wednesday, October 6, 2010 8pm at at 7:30 p.m.

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Legally Blonde – Nov. 11 • Lyle Lovett – Nov. 17 The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller – Nov. 23 CATS – December 14 Call, click or stop by the Box Office 706.357.4444 • www.ClassicCenter.com 300 N. Thomas St. • Downtown Athens Performances in The Classic Center Entertainment Season are made possible by the generous support of our sponsors

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GAMES: Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Poker tournaments every Saturday (2 rounds). First round at 5 p.m. Second round at 8 p.m. 5 p.m.

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Sunday 5 ART: Opening Reception (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) For “Serene Nature,” an exhibit featuring large-scale landscapes by painter Ken McLeskey. 1–3 p.m. www.uga. edu/botgarden/ GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Amici Italian Café) Come test your knowledge! 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 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 6 OUTDOORS: Race for the Dream 5K (Milledge Avenue Baptist Church) Find the finish line at lovely Memorial Park Lake. Proceeds benefit the Athens Area Habitat for Humanity. 8 a.m. $20. www.active. com, www.athenshabitat.com, 706208-1001 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: Keno Night (The Office Lounge) Every Monday! 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-0840 GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Monday night. Bring your friends! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? 8 p.m. 706548-3442 GAMES: Trivia (Alibi) Marilyn hosts this weekly trivia game. Mondays. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010

Tuesday 7 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: Banff Mountain Film Festival (Ciné BarCafé) The Radical Reels Tour showcases extreme outdoor sports footage gathered from cliff divers, whitewater adventurers, mountain bikers and more. Hosted

by Half-Moon Outfitters. 7 p.m. www.athenscine.com KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Family Afternoon at the (Described) Movies (ACC Library) Showing Disney’s newest film from deep in the bayou, The Princess and the Frog. Film features a non-intrusive narrative track for visually impaired viewers. 3 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650

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KIDSTUFF: “Grin and Bear it” (Memorial Park) Play bear games, make bear crafts, have a “bear-sized” snack and learn about Bear Hollow’s resident black bears. Call to register.

9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $15–23. 706– 613–3580. www.accleisureservices. com/kids/shtml GAMES: Trivia (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m.

706-546-0015

Wednesday 8 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 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: School Supplies Bingo Bonanza (Lay Park) Compete to win a backpack loaded with school supplies at a community center near you! Ages 6–12. 6–7:30 p.m. $3. 706-613-3596 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. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706475-7329 GAMES: Bocce Ball (DePalma’s Italian Cafe, 2080 Timothy Rd.) Join the league on the lawn every Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706552-1237, timothy@depalmasitaliancafe.com GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) Develop coordination, tolerance and grace through beer pong. Every Wednesday and Saturday with Corey.

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

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

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Team Trivia (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Team Trivia every Wednesday night (2 rounds). First round at 9 p.m. Second round at 11 p.m. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7829 GAMES: Trivia (Harry’s Pig Shop) Nerd wars at Classic City Trivia’s “most challenging trivia night in Athens.” Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9219 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) Open your pie-hole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday at all three locations.

7:30 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line MEETINGS: Mindfulness Practice Group 9/10 (Mind Body Institute) Beginners and experienced mindfulness practitioners welcome. Meets the second Friday of each month.

5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329

EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market 9/11 (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Vendors are now accepting EBT cards. Every Saturday morning.

8 a.m.–Noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk 9/18 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Insectival! 9/25 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Family festival with discovery stations, roach and beetle races, puppet show and lots of live insects. Butterfly release at 11 a.m. 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $5/person, $20 (family max), FREE! ages 2 & under. 706-5426156 OUTDOORS: Audubon Society Bird Ramble 9/25 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Join the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society for a morning bird walk. All birding levels are welcome. Meet at the upper parking lot between the Garden Club Headquarters and the Chapel. 8 a.m.

FREE! www.oconeeriversaudubon. org * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music 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 AMAN AMUN Local artist Brian McGraw combines elements of triphop, electronic and rock music into a truly unique live experience featuring interactive media.

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

THE SUBLIMINATOR Combining spoken-word poetry with experimental music, this one-man show from Atlanta backs his sometimes heavily processed words with sounds created from AirSynths, effects pedals and loops.

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 danceclub hits.

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

Every Tuesday. Sign up at 8 p.m.

Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens CHRIS CUNDARI Jam, electronica and reggae performed live with a looping technique similar to Keller Williams.

SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing 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!

Wednesday 1 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 BATTLEHOOCH Playful, quirky rock from San Fran with eclectic instrumentation.

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

GEISTERKATZEN Featuring guitar, keyboards, bass, drums and saxophone, this Athens-based ensemble creates experimental soundcapes.

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

11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BLOOD FEATHERS Melodic rock with ‘60s/early ‘70s influences, fourpart harmonies, horns and keys. See story on p. 22.

HUNTER MORRIS Frontman for Gift Horse plays a stripped down set of moody, melodic originals.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $15 (adv.). www.40watt.com HEAVY PETS Critically acclaimed jam band from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH Athens-based jam band with some tropical leanings. Winners of the 2010 Flagpole Athens Music Award for best jam band!

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME Rock band featuring an all-star cast including Dave Schools (Widespread Panic), Jerry Joseph (Jackmorons), Danny Louis (Gov’t Mule), Eric McFadden (Les Claypool) and Wally Ingram (Sheryl Crow).

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar CHRISSAKES Whether you like your punk with psychedelic guitar solos or with more aggressive guitar riffs, this band offers the perfect mix of both.

MAXIMUM BUSY MUSCLE Local tech-metal trio featuring Jay Roach on guitar, Mary Joyce on drums and Kris Deason on bass.

YUKON Textural, raucous and frenzied rock threesome from Baltimore that offers technically challenging material influenced by angsty ‘90s indie.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub BARE WIRES Garage punk band with smooth melodies.

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

Thursday, September 2

Ola Moon, Casper and the Cookies The Melting Point When Ryan Monahan’s band, Beatles for Sale, was asked to play a party thrown by Cindy Wilson, he never imagined that it would lead to his actually being in a band with the B-52s star. Wilson and her friends were impressed by the tribute band. A few casual conversations led to a half-serious suggestion that they Ola Moon ought to play together sometime, and the first opportunity presented itself soon after. Wilson was asked to perform at “R.E.M. 30” at the Melting Point in April (a show celebrating the 30th anniversary of R.E.M.’s first live performance), and she was quick to recruit Dana Downs (VieTNam), Paul Scales (The Cindy Wilson Band) and Beatles for Sale (members of Monahan and Misfortune500) as her backing band. Billed under the unwieldy name Cindy Wilson, Dana Downs & the Debauchelors, the group performed a unique mix of cover tunes ranging from underground ‘70s punk to ‘60s psychedelia. Thus Ola Moon was born.

For Monahan, one of the highlights of being in Ola Moon is the opportunity to get an insider’s peek at The B-52s’ many influences. “I grew up on Brit rock, classic rock, some Radiohead, so I’d never heard of most of these songs before we did this,” says Monahan.

“We learned a lot more songs than we needed to, but there were all these obscure songs from the ‘60s that we’d never heard before, so it was a bit of a challenge.” The name Ola Moon came from Wilson, says Monahan. “It was something that I think she’s been carrying around a long time, and it just didn’t seem to fit anything else. ‘Ola’ sorta means ‘movement’ in Spanish, so Ola Moon could mean ‘movement of the moon.’ We changed the name to Ola Moon because […the Debauchelors] was kinda long and didn’t really say much about the music.” Local popsters Casper and the Cookies, who played at “R.E.M. 30” as well, will be opening. [Jordan Stepp]

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

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $15 (adv.). www.meltingpointathens.com EMMITT-NERSHI BAND Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon) and Bill Nershi (String Cheese Incident) offer a forward-thinking, modern take bluegrass.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com CO CO RI CO Angular, guitar-driven rock that melodically meanders through post-rock soundscapes featuring technical drums, wandering bass and glockenspiel.

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

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

WOODFANGS Grungy, lo-fi psychedelic pop.

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

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com THE WELFARE LINERS BLUEGRASS BAND Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle, featuring the founder of Ghostmeat Records and members of 6 String Drag, The Burning Angels and The F-Holes.

Thursday 2 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 OPEN MIC Hosted by Wes of Dixie Mafia every Thursday.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com BRENNAN JOHNSON & AUDIOPHILE Local singer-songwriter Brennan Johnson debuts his new band tonight. Audiophile plays mostly acoustic alternative 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 THE BINARY MARKETING SHOW Dreamy pop influenced by folk music with electronic flourishes and harmonies.

SAVE GRAND CANYON Emotional and dynamic, this tenderfoot local band plays what it calls “organic alt-rock.”

YO SOYBEAN Local “party-folk” trio featuring upbeat, sing-a-long numbers with guests on guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin and more. For fans of Bright Eyes and the like.

DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Road) THE SOLSTICE SISTERS Threepart vocal harmonies from Maggie Hunter, Susan Staley and Anna Durden. Performing a variety of oldtime country ballads, ‘40s swing and traditional folk.

Downtown Athens “Relay for Life Kickoff.” 8–11 p.m.

FREE! UGArelay.org VELVET RUNWAY Local five-piece band playing ‘80s hits and classic rock covers. From AC/DC and Guns N’ Roses to Journey and Bon Jovi.

Playing across from the Arch.

El Centro 11 p.m. 706-548-5700 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS LeFever and her band play oldschool funk, classic rock and pop covers and originals.

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

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com TRUCE Eclectic local four-piece featuring Brennan Bennett (bass), Tony Delgado (drums), Harmon Hanson (guitar) and Ryan Horn (guitar).

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar ANTLER ANTLORD Featuring local producer and songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Local experimental pop-rock band that belts out raucous, psychedelic tunes for the kids.

MARRIAGE Local envelope-pushing hard rock band with metal influences. Marriage recently added the technically proficient, lightning-fast wizardry of guitarist Bryan Aiken (Lazer/Wülf, ‘Powers), taking the band to a new level of awesome.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $6. www.40watt.com SAM HEILIG Acoustic-driven rock songs with pop and folk music influences.

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

TYLER LYLE Silver-tongued folk rocker from Atlanta with rootsy, spirtual undertones.

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8–10:30 p.m. FREE! 1560 Oglethorpe Ave. KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s music borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a seamless product glistening with inspiration.

Hotel Indigo “Live after 5 on the Phi Bar Patio.” 6 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens.com JASON FULLER Local piano man plays blues, jazz and country.

Last Call 10 p.m. www.lastcallathens.com THE DIPLOMATICS No info available.

KONTRABAND Hailing from Atlanta, GA, this band is a fusion of rock, hip-hop and funk. Not to be confused with video game soundtrack rockers Contraband (AKA Bit Brigade).

LORD T AND ELOISE Tennessee’s rap duo Lord T & Eloise has developed a style the members call Aristocrunk, a WASPy approach to an urban genre (and the name of its debut album). It’s a little gimmicky and a lot Beastie Boys-influenced.

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub 90 ACRE FARM This acoustic trio from Watkinsville plays original Americana and covers.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. www.meltingpointathens.com CASPER & THE COOKIES Increasingly experimental but always rooted in pop sensibilities, this local act presents a danceable mix of quirky fun driven by keyboard and guitar. Expect a particularly colorful live show, often accented by fake eyelashes.

OLA MOON The B-52s’ Cindy Wilson leads this band through a set of rockin’ underground covers from the ‘60s and ‘70s. See Calendar Pick on this page.

Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

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

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

CAMP CREEK COMMITTEE

$3 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

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.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Tickets $7 adv. • $10 at the door

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

HARVEY MILK

Tickets $8 adv. • $10 at the door

ON THE HORIZON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $12 (adv. ), $15 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com PIMPS OF JOYTIME Brooklyn-based funk band.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $3. 706–546–4742 MAMA’S LOVE Young, funky jam band from right here in Athens. The band’s slogan says it all: “Bringin’ it back to the roots while goin’ beyond the bounds.”

The Office Lounge 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 GERIAOKE Early bird karaoke every Thursday with The Singing Cowboy.

Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens KNOCK KNOCK DANCE PARTY Hosted by DJ Wonky Kong who spins bassline, tropical, tech, micro and other subgenres of dance music.

Terrapin Beer Co. “Terrapin Taste Against Trash” 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com 3 FOOT SWAGGER Local jam rockers who blend high-energy rock with myriad original sounds. k continued on next page

ALLGOOD

Tickets $12 adv. • $17 at the door

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 9/15 - 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 9/23 - PAUL THORN 9/24 - THE RATTLERS, HOLDCELL 9/25 - THE HUSHPUPPIES 9/29 - THE MANTRAS, CAPSULE CORP, SPECIALS GUESTS 9/30 - TONY JOE WHITE 10/1 - GRAINS OF SAND 10/2 - GROGUS 10/8 - ERIC CULBERTSON 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 LOCATED ON 11/6 - BOMBER CITY THE GROUNDS OF

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

Friday 3 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706–549–1010 THE HANDS OF TIME Rock covers featuring Charles Burgess (The Common Peoples Band) on vocals and keys, Amy Pritchett (Forward Motion) on keys and vocals, JC Plant (Blue Flame) on guitar and vocals, Kenny Brawner (The Grains of Sand) on bass, Danny Anthony (The Grains of Sand) on sax, Jeff Hammond (The Soul Pleasers) on trombone, Bill Oglesby (The Soul Pleasers) on sax and Larry Freeman (The Soul Pleasers) on drums.

The Bad Manor 10 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com STOKESWOOD A mellow, modern alt-rock band from Atlanta that experiments a bit with atmospheric sounds.

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

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 8 p.m. $10. 706–354–6655 DAVID PRINCE This Athens staple and one-time member of The Jesters plays your favorite soul, rock and R&B oldies.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BAMBARA Local power trio that draws from both the atmospherics of bands like Slowdive and the ferocity of bands like Fugazi with mindmelting volume. The new EP Dog Ear Days is out now.

CO CO RI CO Angular, guitar-driven rock that melodically meanders through post-rock soundscapes featuring technical drums, wandering bass and glockenspiel.

TWIN TIGERS Loud and lush at the same time, this local rock band combines jarring guitar riffs with sweeping melodies and heavy percussion. The band just returned from a cross-country tour supporting bands like Interpol and The Hold Steady. See story on p. 21.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE DARNELL BOYS Brothers Austin and Caleb Darnell (both of Bellyache) are joined by brother Gus for a set of raw blues numbers.

POLICY ROCKET Funky, Afro-jazz trio.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar HOLLY BELLE Local singer-songwriter Holly Belle sings smoky, acoustic ballads accompanied by cello.

BETSY FRANCK Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

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KAITLIN JONES Local folk guitarist/ vocalist Kaitlin Jones performs a solo set of Americana-tinged country originals.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $2 (21+), $3 (18+). www.40watt. com EAT LIGHTNING DIY garage-rock trio from Augusta, featuring dreamy arrangements and layered, distant vocals.

GEMINI CRICKET Sleazy garage stomps that swagger through the reverb and jangle with ‘60s-era abandon.

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

Go Bar “WUOG Back to School Dance.” 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up highenergy electro and rock.

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

WOWSER BOWSER Blissed-out, bittersweet synth-pop.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8–10:30 p.m. FREE! 1560 Oglethorpe Ave. COWTOWN STRING BAND Bluegrass from Carollton, GA featuring Matthew Williams from The Granfalloons.

Last Call 10 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com BREAK ON THROUGH The Doors cover band.

JUST PEACHY Jazz fusion jam band that draws on The Allman Brothers and Led Zeppelin.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub IJI Charismatic, quirky pop from Seattle.

MEGA BOG Sweet pop harmonies with bell-like vocals and a folk music feel.

WEREWOLVES Local band featuring quirky lo-fi rock with bright, bouncy flourishes, unique instrumentation and emotive lyrics.

THEO ZUMM An endearing pop handshake from the Nana Grizol frontman.

11:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub DJ BABY PANDAS Genre goes out the window tonight as former Flagpole music editor Chris Hassiotis selects a wide-ranging array of gleeful dance favorites and obscurities, from garage rock to funk to pop plus some surprise favorites. Dance party will follow the live music.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15. www.meltingpointathens.com KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS Georgia six-piece playing country and Southern rock that has kept mostly the same lineup since the members were in high school nearly 20 years ago. They’ve since been a favorite around the state and have shared bills with such well known acts as the Dave Matthews Band and Widespread Panic.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Come hang out and karaoke with Lynn!

The Rialto Room Fabulous Football Friday. 8:30 p.m $25. www.indigoathens.com THE EMBERS Beach music with a bit of rhythm and blues and a lot of heart and soul.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com TROPICAL BREEZE Newly formed local outfit that is exactly what it claims to be: a spicy, tropical band whose melodic emphasis is entirely on its proficient steel drum section.

Expect jazz and reggae influences, dipped in their own brand of salsa.

283 Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706–208–1283 MP3J VINAL Richard Vinal brings the absolute jams to the party tonight.

Captain of the infamous barn parties a few years back, Vinal knows how to get the dance floor crackin’.

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

The Bad Manor 10 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com FALLBACK Playing a mix of originals and cover songs from ‘90s greats like Nirvana, Foo Fighters and Incubus, this band has played all over the Southeast.

Bishop Park 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Athens Farmers Market. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net LARRY FORTE Local artist performs a solo set. (8 a.m.)

JOHN STANEK Former lead vocalist of The Mule Thieves and God’s Green Earth, Stanek now performs solo acoustic rock with a contemporary folk leaning. (10 a.m.).

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

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

STONE MOUNTAIN FREEWAY Heavy rock and roll influenced by AC/DC and Motörhead.

THUNDERCHIEF Local act with a West Coast punk sound influenced by classic rock.

TRIPLE OVERHEAD CAM Threepiece punk band from Alamance County, NC influenced by Green Day, Blink-182, The Minutemen and The Police.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DANK SINATRA Low-fi electro pop with a jazzy R&B vibe.

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.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar PATRICK CAREY The Ginger Envelope frontman plays slowrolling countryish pop marked by breezy, melodic sounds with chim-

ing acoustic and electric sounds and vocal melodies.

JUSTIN EVANS Local musician with a rich, deep voice who sings about hard drinkin’, fast women and country roads. Evans incorporates elements of old-time fiddle, New Orleans jazz, blues and some Americana.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $6. www.40watt.com ATHENS Young local rockers ranging in age from 11-15, with classic rock influences. Oh, yeah, and they ROCK!!!

EL CAMINO LOCO Traditional rock with funky Southern flair. Just the way you like it.

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

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. Live music begins after the game!

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up high-energy electro and rock for the late-night crowd.

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and a rotating cast spin late-night glam rock, new wave, punk and Britpop.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8–10:30 p.m. FREE! 1560 Oglethorpe Ave. STILL SMALL VOICE AND THE JOYFUL NOISE Local band plays garage-rock spirituals.

Hotel Indigo 4–6 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens.com CLAY LEVERETT AND FRIENDS One of this town’s finest country frontmen, Leverett and his new band, featuring members of The Chasers, have opened for such legends as Loretta Lynn. Join them every game day at Hotel Indigo to cheer on the Dawgs!

Last Call 10 p.m. FREE! www.lastcallathens.com DJ C-NOTE Spinning club hits for all the mechanical bull riders and dancers.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.om/littlekingsshuffleclub 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.

REBECCA VAN DAMM Local singer/ songwriter performs original songs over piano.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $9 (adv.), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SANTANA TRIBUTE An epic tribute to rock legend, Santana, with an allstart lineup that includes Domingo “Sunny” Ortiz, Jason Fuller, Wade Hester, Deane Quinter, Carlton Owens, Stephen Spivey, Eddie Glikin and Clarence “Big C” Cameron.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 JOHN SOSEBEE Eclectic mix of traditional blues and pop.

Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens BOMBTRACK Rage Against the Machine cover band.

EDDIE & THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS Local blues-funk trio.

RYE Originals that have a Sister Hazel, Black Crowes feel.

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.

Square One Fish Co. 9 p.m. FREE! 706–353–8862 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS LeFever and her band play old school funk, classic rock and pop covers and originals. Bobby Mobley from Atlanta recently joined the band on keyboards.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com SCARLET STITCH A solid blend of Southern, stadium, metal and grunge rock. The band formerly known as Soul Shaker packs a hefty musical punch of classic covers and originals.

283 Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706–208–1283 MP3J VINAL Richard Vinal brings the absolute jams to the party tonight.

Captain of the infamous barn parties a few years back, Vinal knows how to get the dance floor crackin’.

Sunday 5 ACC Library 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LIVE! AT THE LIBRARY This week: The New Hots Jazz Orchestra (HOTS) performs dance tunes from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s.

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

Monday 6 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with the Singing Cowboy!

Ashford Manor 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $12 (students), $5 (ages 12 & under), FREE! (ages 5 & under). www.amconcerts.com COMMON PEOPLE BAND Local band pays tribute to Motown’s greatest hits.

MATT KABUS This Atlanta-based singer-songwriter has a sweet pop voice and delivers heartfelt acoustic ballads.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar FUNTIME FREEDOM SINGERS Adult contemporary.

Go Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/gobar AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER Athens four-piece that boasts former members of No!, Divorce and Carrie Nations, delivering rapid-fire, loud and aggressive old-school thrash rock. Fronted by Jeff Rapier.

SAVAGIST Athens metal band featuring fine folks from punk/metal bands 300 Cobras, Hot Breath and The Dumps.

SHITSTORM Fast grindcore from Miami, sharing members with Torche!

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

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7. www.caledonialounge.com MAC-N-CHZ These Southern rockers play a mix of originals and classic covers.

THE SERENADERS Rockabilly fused with classic country influenced by Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Lucinda Williams.

STARLITE DEVILLES New local band featuring Eric Gregory and Bear from Twain playing a mix of alternative country and power-pop.

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.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BLACK CONGO, NC World music meets psychedelic indie. See Calendar Pick on p. 30.

CO CO RI CO Angular, guitar-driven rock that melodically meanders through post-rock soundscapes featuring technical drums, wandering bass and glockenspiel.

GRAPE SODA Lewis brothers Ryan and Mat team up to create soulful, spaced-out pop songs buried in lush reverb. Debut album is coming out very soon!

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar OPEN TOAD COMEDY A unique open mic experience. The audience gets to pelt the performers who go over their six-minute time limit with foam rocks. Performers get in FREE! but must sign up by 8 p.m.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DADFAG This San Francisco trio plays dark, angular no wave punk.

Featuring one-time Athenian Eva Hannan.

WITCHES With touchstones that include The Breeders and Neil Young, this local band plays edgy, melodic rock led by the rich vocals of Cara Beth Satalino.

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FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net CATHERINE KIMBRO & SHOAL CREEK Wholesome country with bell-like vocals influenced by Loretta Lynn, Carrie Underwood and Allison Moreno.

TRENT MAYO Country rock influenced by contemporary artists such as Travis Tritt and Garth Brooks.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com CAMP CREEK COMMITTEE Part of the weekly Terrapin bluegrass series.

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Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens ATHENS SONGWRITER SHOWCASE Featuring local musicians.

PHIL WISEMAN Alternative rock from Austin, TX.

Wednesday 8 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. www.caledonialounge.com HOT CHA CHA Infectious, danceable punk/new wave.

INCENDIARIES Ladies of pedigree enforcing angular sensibilities.

Featuring local musicians Mandy Branch-Friar, Mary Joyce, Erika Rickson and Erica Strout.

Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 9–11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com JAKE MOWRER QUARTET Classic jazz.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv.). www.40watt.com HILL COUNTRY REVUE Modern Southern rock and blues band led

by Cody Dickinson of The North Mississippi Allstars.

TEA LEAF GREEN Like a number of other notorious jam bands, Tea Leaf Green is made up of road warriors whose relentless touring has won over dedicated fans across the nation.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door).com THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS Four-piece funk band from Northern England.

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

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

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Down the Line 9/9 Geriaoke (The Office Lounge) 9/9 The Beat Geeks / The Mercury Veil / Slow Claw (Caledonia Lounge) 9/9 Breathlanes (DePalma’s Italian Cafe) 9/9 Easter Island / The Premonitions (Farm 255) 9/9 Kinky Waikiki (Hotel Indigo) 9/9 Boombox (New Earth Music Hall) 9/9 Bearfoot Hookers (No Where Bar) 9/9 The On Fires (Rye Bar) 9/9 I’m Chinese (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/9 Tim Miller Band / Zoso (The Melting Point) 9/9 “Live in the Lobby” (WUOG 90.5FM) 9/10 American Aquarium / Bloodkin / Holy Liars (40 Watt Club) 9/10 David Prince (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 9/10 Free Mountain / Girls Own Love / The Neverending Pasta Bowl (Caledonia Lounge) 9/10 Orange Magnolia / Saltwater Grass (Rye Bar) 9/10 Workingman’s Union (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/10 Deja Vu (The Melting Point) 9/11 of Montreal / The Goons (40 Watt Club) 9/11 Dave Howard / Mad Whiskey Grin (Bishop Park) 9/11 Cinemechanica / Manray / Pride Parade (Caledonia Lounge) 9/11 Pogo (New Earth Music Hall) 9/11 Saltwater Grass (Rye Bar) 9/11 Robin Hazen and the Riot (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/11 Holman Autry Band (The Melting Point)

9/12 All Tiny Creatures / Daniel Lawson / Jeremy Wheatley (Farm 255) 9/12 Sunday Jazz Brunch (Square One Fish Co.) 9/12 Harvey Milk (The Melting Point) 9/13 Mike Dunn / John Lefler / Nate Nelson / Richard Sherfey and All God’s Children (Caledonia Lounge) 9/13 Phil Wiseman (Rye Bar) 9/14 Musician All Jam (Doc McGee’s) 9/14 Poetic Soul (New Earth Music Hall) 9/14 Kyshona Armstrong and the Guys (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 9/14 Holy Fuck / Indian Jewelry (New Earth Music Hall) 9/14 Chris Cundari / Sumilan (Rye Bar) 9/14 “Live in the Lobby” (WUOG 90.5FM) 9/15 DJ Killacut (Rye Bar) 9/15 Lowdown Comedy Open Mic (New Earth Music Hall) 9/15 Easter Island / Night Driving in Small Towns / The Viking Progress (Caledonia Lounge) 9/15 Christmas / Coco Rico (Farm 255) 9/15 Junker (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/15 Geoff Achison & The Souldiggers (The Melting Point) 9/16 Redneck GReece Deluxe (DePalma’s Italian Cafe) 9/16 Now You See Them / Yo Soy Bean (Farm 255) 9/16 Now You See Them / Ye Olde Sub Shoppe (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 9/16 Whisper Kiss (Hotel Indigo) 9/16 Telepath (New Earth Music Hall) 9/16 The Hypsys (Rye Bar) 9/16 Dave Howard (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/16 Half Dozen Brass Band (The Melting Point) 9/16 “Live in the Lobby” (WUOG 90.5FM) 9/17 John Martin and Southern Drive (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 9/17 Efren / Hola Halo (Farm 255) 9/17 Dank Sinatra (New Earth Music Hall) 9/17 Glasgow / The Left Hathaway Band / Lullwater (Rye Bar) 9/17 BlueBilly Grit (Terra Ken Herbals) 9/17 BlueBilly Grit (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/17 The Jesters (The Melting Point) 9/18 Jake and the Jake Mowrer Trio / Lera Lynn (Bishop Park)

Tuesday, September 7

Black Congo, NC, Co Co Ri Co, Grape Soda Farm 255 Typically, it’s not hard to figure out where a band is coming from.

That said, you’d be hard pressed to find Black Congo, NC Black Congo, NC on a map, geographically or stylistically. The band formed and developed in Charlotte, NC, a cross-section of musicians from psychedelic, art-punk, free jazz and folk disciplines. But BCNC can’t even call Charlotte its home, since bandleader Eric Deines returned to his native Bloomington, IN for a job in 2009.

“Everybody who plays with us had a great chemistry from day one. Even now that I live here, I’ve gone back three or four times for one-off shows—we’ll practice for four hours in the morning, play the show and then I’ll drive back—and even six months could go by between when we’ll do that, and it’d feel like I hadn’t been gone,” he says. “I’m having trouble finding that here in Bloomington—people I can play with as naturally as I do with these gentlemen.”

The band’s name somehow makes sense when considering the title of its forthcoming double vinyl LP, Live in Miami, 1984, 14 cuts of the band’s signature world-music indie-pop. Think Fear of Music meets Graceland. “Because nobody knows anything about our band, I thought, your friends make a record, and you know they’re a bunch of knuckleheads from Charlotte and that they recorded it in 2008, and you’re gonna hear it a certain way. But if you listen to it as some tropical garage band from 1984, you’ll hear it differently.”

Using this slight-of-hand recontextualization allows the listener to focus on the positive, personal messages in the songs. “More than anything, I feel like it’s about being kind of heartbroken a little bit but falling in love with the world at the same time. So, it references both of these places in the title: you have Miami, and Africa and North Carolina, and to me it’s sort of like how it feels to fall so hard for the world.” [Jeff Tobias]

9/18 Secret Army (Farm 255) 9/18 Zoogma (New Earth Music Hall) 9/18 Rollin’ Home (Rye Bar) 9/18 Juliet Whiskey (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/18 The Highballs (The Melting Point) 9/20 Stewart & Winfield (Ashford Manor) 9/21 Charlotte (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 9/21 Garnet River Gals / The Green Flag Band / Incatepec / The Lokshen Kugel Klezmer Band (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 9/21 “Live in the Lobby” (WUOG 90.5FM) 9/22 Benjy Davis Project / Ingram

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9/24 Dexter Romweber (New Earth Music Hall) 9/24 Ashutto Mirra (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/25 The Jason Childs Band / The Jompson Brothers (40 Watt Club) 9/25 Athens Folk Society Band (Bishop Park) 9/25 Kite to the Moon (Farm 255) 9/25 The Welfare Liners (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/25 The Hushpuppies (The Melting Point) 9/26 Bears of Blue River / Madeline (Farm 255) 9/28 Jeremy Aggers / Channing and Quinn / Tyler Lyle / Chelsea Lynn-Labate (Farm 255)

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9/28 Justin Evans (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 9/29 Sumilan (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/30 Five Eight (DePalma’s Italian Cafe) 9/30 Buxton / Hans Darkbolt (Farm 255) 9/30 Ken Will Morton (Hotel Indigo) 9/30 Mike Armstrong (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/1 Elvis! (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 10/1 American Cheeseburger / Armazilla / Holy Dirt / In the Lurch / Music Hates You / Royal Thunder / Sons of Tonatiuh / Telestrion / Utah (Caledonia Lounge) 10/1 Peter Alvanos / Claire Campbell / Shauna Greeson / Marissa Mustard / Jim White (Nuçi’s Space) 10/1 Dreamworld Conspiracy (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/1 The Grains of Sand (The Melting Point) 10/2 Holly Belle / Stereofidelics (Bishop Park) 10/2 Cat Meat / Colossus / Death of Kings / Demonaut / Guzik / Helmsman / Indian / Let the Night Roar / Noble Rust / Rat Babies / Rwake / Stone Mountain Freeway / Whores / Wizard Smoke (Caledonia Lounge) 10/2 Clap for Daylight (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/2 Grogus (The Melting Point) 10/4 Packway Handle Band (Ashford Manor) 10/5 Catherine Kimbro & Shoal Creek / Trent Mayo (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 10/6 Elephant (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/7 The Solstice Sisters (DePalma’s Italian Cafe) 10/7 Lara Oshon (Hotel Indigo) 10/7 The Eric Tessmer Band (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/8 Bambara / Kuroma / The Whigs (40 Watt Club) 10/8 Kelly Hart (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/8 Stewart and Winfield (The Melting Point) 10/9 Lavon Smith and Nancy Heiges / Repent at Leisure (Bishop Park) 10/9 Colour Revolt (Caledonia Lounge) 10/9 Joe Leone (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 10/9 Li$tprice (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/11 The Fleshtones / The Humms / The Nairobi Trio / The Trashcans (Caledonia Lounge) 10/12 Caroline Aiken (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 10/13 Colt Landon Baker (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/14 The Burning Angels (DePalma’s Italian Cafe) 10/14 Mike Armstrong (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/15 Power Play (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 10/15 Timi Conley (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/15 Corey Smith (The Classic Center) 10/15 Breakfast Club (The Melting Point) 10/16 Mike Eudy / Jim and the Beanstalks (Bishop Park) 10/16 Justin Kennedy (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/16 Allgood (The Melting Point) 10/18 Half Dozen Brass Band (Ashford Manor) 10/19 Sean Arington / Greg Benson (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 10/19 Railroad Earth (The Melting Point) 10/20 Bunny Carlos (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/21 JazzChronic (No Where Bar) 10/21 Dave Howard (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/21 Donna the Buffalo (The Melting Point)

10/22 Buttermilk Revival (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/22 Love & Theft (The Melting Point) 10/23 High Strung String Band / Solstice Sisters (Bishop Park) 10/23 MellowDownEasy (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/23 Zach Deputy (The Melting Point) 10/26 Joe Leone (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 10/28 Guard the Van Band (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/29 Eli Truett (Terrapin Beer Co.) 10/30 Leaving Countries / Without Pearls (Bishop Park) 10/30 Albatross (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/2 Dave Howard (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 11/4 Turbine (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/5 Blue Billy Grit (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/6 Whisper Kiss (Bishop Park) 11/6 The Last Call Band (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/11 Future (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/13 Caroline Aiken (Bishop Park) 11/13 Bridges out of Eden (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/18 Dave Howard (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/19 Azure Ray (40 Watt Club) 11/19 New Terminus (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/20 The Welfare Liners (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/25 Daniel Lee (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/26 Grains of Sand (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 11/26 Tropical Breeze (Terrapin Beer Co.) 11/26 Strawberry Flats (The Melting Point) 11/27 Keith Moody & My Band (Terrapin Beer Co.) 12/3 Efren (Terrapin Beer Co.) 12/4 Pseudo Blue The Majestics (Terrapin Beer Co.) 12/11 Vernaculus Duet (Terrapin Beer Co.) 12/17 Illicitizen (Terrapin Beer Co.)

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Email for information. 706-5402712, 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 (ATHICA) Seeking submissions from artists who request the participation of others as a key element of their work.

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Deadline Oct. 6. www.athica.org Call for Artists (Downtown Washington) The Washington Wilkes Arts Foundation seeks submissions for ArtFest, taking place Nov. 5, 6 & 7. www.washingtonwilkesarts.org Call for Artists (Fringe Collective) Now seeking artisans to facilitate classes/workshops. 706540-2712, moonmama61@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 (OCAF) Artists are invited to enter up to 3 works to the Georgia Small Works juried exhibition. All work must be handdelivered on Oct. 1 or 2. $20/entry. www.ocaf.com

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ers that includes individual and group instruction in yoga, teaching methodology, philosophy, literature, diet and nutrition, health and activism. Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.–7 p.m.

Tuesdays, 6–11 p.m. $180/month. www.rubbersoulyoga.com/ adventure.html 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 Beginners Salsa & Merengue (Floorspace, 160 Tracy St.) Local mover and shaker Mumbi teaches Latin dance basics, including steps, turns and combinations. No partner required. Wednesdays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. $12/drop-in, $60/6-classes. mumbiokundaye@yahoo.com 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 fundamental to all styles of bellydance in “Beginners Egyptian Bellydancing” (Wednesdays, 7–8:15 p.m.).

Learn intermediate-level movements in “Intermediate/Advanced Bellydancing” (Wednesdays, 8:30–9:45 p.m.). 706-613-1143, www.healingartscentre.net Burlesque Workshops (The Hardcore Gym, Bogart) Learn exotic dance techniques for fun, fitness and body confidence. 18 & up. See

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Sundays and Mondays, 706-6143342, telihu@gmail.com Childbirth Support Classes (Call for location, Watkinsville) Learn the Bradley Method of Husband-Coached Childbirth from certified instructors. Call to register.

12-week course begins Sept. 13, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $350. 706-4744126, www.bradleybirth.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 “Color for Dummies: Oil & Acrylic Painting” (OCAF) Master basic color theory and explore mixing, hue, value, intensity and composition of color using acrylics, oils, pastels or watercolors.

Sept. 20–Oct. 18, Mondays, 1–3 p.m. $115. www.ocaf.com Computer Class (Oconee County Library) Introduction to Microsoft Word. Space is limited to four participants; call to register. Sept. 8, 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Computer Classes (Madison County Library) Learn to navigate the internet with the library’s computer specialist, Alicia Clayton.

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Emmanuel Taati’s paintings are on display at Transmetropolitan (downtown).

Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-795-0830 Continuing Education Classes (Various Locations) Register for a class to expand your job opportunities, enhance your garden, learn a new language or more! Go online to learn about the many opportunities open to all. www.georgiacenter.uga.edu Dance Classes (Studio Dance Academy) Now registering for a wide range of youth and adult classes, from ballet and tap to swing and Nia. 706-354-6454, www.studiodance academy.com Dancing Pals Dance Lessons (Freedom of Movement Dance Academy, 8081 Macon Hwy) Alternating ballroom and countrywestern dance lessons every Sunday afternoon and Tuesday evening.

6:30–7:30 p.m. $10. jean.guard@ yahoo.com Etching for Beginners and Intermediates (Lyndon House) 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. 706-613-3623, www. accleisureservices.com Evening Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away. 5:30–6:30 p.m. $5. 706-4757329, mbiprograms@armc.org 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) Ages 18 and up.

Call to reserve a space. Sundays, 4-6 p.m. $20. 706-540-2727 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 Hoopdance Workshops (Canopy Studio) Space is limited; sign-up to reserve a spot. Sept. 4, 5–6 p.m. $25/workshop, 706-5498501, www.canopystudio.com 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 Lunchtime Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away. Noon–12:45 p.m. $5.

706-475-7329, mbiprograms@ armc.org 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.

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 Painting with Charles (Lyndon House Arts Center) Bring in your oil or acrylic masterpieces-in-progress to receive easel-side assistance from instructor Charles. 706-613-3623, www.accleisureservices.com Pilates Booty Camp (Sangha Yoga Studio) A low-impact core fitness course. Tuesdays, 5:30–6:45 p.m. $75/session. 706-613-1143, www.healingartscentre.net Turkish Tribal Bellydance (Floorspace, 160 Tracy St.) A 6-week session for experienced dancers.

Thursdays beginning Sept. 16. 706372-1833, christyfricks@gmail.com Women’s Self Defense Classes (American Black Belt Academy) One rape or sexual assault occurs every two minutes in the U.S. Learn what you can do to protect yourself. Go online or call to register.

706-549-1671, www.americanblack belt.org 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.

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Yoga Classes (Mind Body Institute) Experienced and highly educated instructors offer a wide variety of basic and specialty classes throughout the day. 706-475-7329, www.armc.org/mbi Yoga, Tai Chi and Pilates (Five Points Yoga) 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! Athens Volunteer Fair (UGA Tate Center) Volunteer opportunities for people of all ages. Find out how to use your talents to help others and get involved with local volunteer-based organizations. Sept.

21, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensvolunteer.org 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 Docent Training (Memorial Park) Bear Hollow Zoo is seeking volunteers interested in conservation and environmental education. Call for more information or to register. Sept.

14–Nov. 3, FREE! 706-613-3615, leslieboby@co.clarke.ga.us 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 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 Volunteers Needed (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic) Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic is desperately seeking volunteer readers to help record audio textbooks. 706-549-1313, www.rfbdga. org, gaunit@rfbd.org

KIDSTUFF Parent/Child Workshops (ACC Library) For children ages 1–3, plus their caregivers. Featuring toys, music, art activities and a different community resource guest

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

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

by Sophie Howell.

Anchor Gallery (660 W. Broad St.) “Short Stacks,” featuring works by Kim Deakins and David Hale. Through September.

Athens Academy (Myers Gallery, 1281 Spartan Dr.) “The Farmington Depot Gallery Showcase” features the work of 16 artist-members from the newly opened art space in Farmington. Through Oct. 8. Reception Sept. 2. (Student Gallery, 1281 Spartan Dr.) A student art show featuring the work of members of Athens Academy’s Senior Portfolio class. Through Oct. 8.

Reception Sept. 2.

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 September.

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

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.) Photographs of local scene-scapes by Eddie Whelan.

Through mid-September.

Farmington Depot Gallery (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) The opening exhibit for the newest local gallery features fine art, folk art and crafts by the artist-members of a cooperative art collective which has made a home for itself inside a renovated train depot. Sept. 3–6.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Paintings by James Greer. Through October 1.

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each week. For first-time participants only. In-person pre-registration required. Sept. 30–Oct. 14, Thursdays, 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–4 read aloud to an aid dog.

Trainer always present. Registration required. 15-minute sessions, FREE! 706-769-3950 Red Cross Babysitting Course (Memorial Park) A Red Cross certified instructor will guide participants through the basic leadership, safety and supervisory skills needed to babysit. Ages 11–15.

Sept. 25, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $30. 706613-3580 Sponge Ball Tennis Clinic (Lay Park) Tennis lessons! Kids will learn basic strokes, drills, shots, rules and other fundamentals. For kids ages 6–12 years. Sept. 7–Oct. 12, 4–5 p.m. $1/class. 706-6133596, www.accleisureservices.com Storytime in the Park (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Parents and children are invited to attend a new program featuring literature and the outdoors! Stories will be accompanied by dancing, singing, plays, crafts, snacks and musical instruments. For children ages 18 months to 4 years and their guardians. Every second Wednesday from Sept. 8–Dec. 8. 10:30 a.m. $2.

706-613-3603, www.accleisure services.com 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.

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

Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) New work

by Clift Probst. Through September.

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. (270 River Rd., Gallery 307) “Re: Mark” features drawings and mixed-media works by Sara Schneckloth, Barb Bondy, Phillip Buntin and Kathleen McShane. Through Sept. 17.

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

Madison County Library (1315 Hwy. 98 W., Danielsville) Handmade baskets by Ginni Edwards and photographs of local farms by Visionary Growth Gallery’s Robert Lowery.

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 Sept. 19.

Monroe Art Guild (205 S. Broad St., Monroe) “Papermakers,” an exhibit featuring paper sculpture and other paper arts by over 20 local artists. Through Sept. 29. Reception Sept. 12.

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.

Republic Salon (312 E. Broad St.) Large, vibrant acrylic paintings by Jaime Bull. Through November.

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

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

SUPPORT Domestic Violence Support Group (Call for location) Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. 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 can be just as harmful as punches and kicks.

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

Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

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

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

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

FREE! 706-549-4850 Sapph Fire (Email for Location) The newly formed social and support group for lesbian and bisexual women of color meets the first and third Saturday of every month. Ages 21 & up. Email for more information. Find Sapph Fire on Facebook, sapph.fire@yahoo.com

ON THE STREET Adult Kickball Now registering for the summer season! Create your own team or join as a free agent. Equipment, team t-shirts and certified referees and field supervisors provided. Games are played Sundays in local parks. For ages 21 and up. Register by Sept. 2. www. gokickball.com Athens, GA Half-Marathon (Various Locations) Explore Athens in autumn on this run winding through campus, downtown and alongside the North Oconee River.

Start training today! 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. 706-3531126, www.realtorsathens.com Library Fine Forgiveness (Various Locations) For a limited time, all branches of the Athens Regional Library System will waive overdue book fees! No need to sheepishly slink through the doors; just return your books by Sept. 6. www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us 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 Soccer for Beginners No one is too old, too slow or too uncoordinated to learn how to play the world’s most popular sport. Email for more information. Weeknights, 7–8 p.m. velzygirl@yahoo.com f

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My question is: How should I handle further contact? I’m tempted to just cut him off completely, but that seems cruel. At the same time it also seems impossible to talk to him without sacrificing my sanity. Any happy medium you can think of?

Signed, Off the Hook There is no happy medium in your situation. You have already tried all of the things I would have suggested (talking it out, taking some time off) to no avail. The only thing left is to stop talking to him at all. It isn’t cruel; it’s logical. He obviously can’t or won’t accept where things are right now, so you have to get him out of your life. My only concern is that you used the phrase “scary and stalkerish.” I’m not sure how serious you were. I know you said he’s long distance, but exactly how long is that distance? Is there any possibility he might show up at your house one day? Make sure you stay calm, tell him clearly that you don’t want to hear from him anymore (you can set a time limit if you think that might help, but I would make sure it’s at least six months), and tell him that if things keep going the way they are you will not be able to remain friends. Then stop taking his calls. If you have to, you can block his number from your phone. If he continues to harass you, don’t be afraid to tell somebody. Talk to your friends, talk to your family, and if it keeps up, talk to the police. They deal with stuff like this all the time and will be happy to help you.

I have been out with this woman on three dates. Each time, we seem to have a good time, we talk a lot, and things are pretty good, all of which would be kind of encouraging, but I don’t feel like she’s really attracted to me.

Don’t get me wrong; I don’t expect sex, or anything even resembling sex, this soon. But when I have had successful first dates and second dates before, generally there is at least

arm touching or hand holding, and I at least get a hug. Also, she hasn’t offered to pay for anything. Not once. Again, I don’t mind, necessarily. I am a little bit old fashioned and I like paying, at least on the first date. But I have paid for all three dates, and she hasn’t even bought me a drink. The last time I was out with her, it was because she texted me while I was out with friends and asked me to meet her at work. She was getting off early from her restaurant job, so I met her there and we had a few drinks, and I paid again. I would like to stress that I don’t mind paying for stuff, but I don’t understand why she keeps calling me because she doesn’t really seem interested. She did the same texting to meet her at work routine last weekend, and I told her I was out with my roommate and where we were and that she was welcome to join us, and I didn’t hear from her again. So, what gives? Is she still testing the water? Is she holding out for me to do something? I am not really a pushy guy, and I haven’t made any “moves” other than asking her to come over after dinner. She said no both times, and I let it go, assuming that was another sign that she wasn’t interested. But then she keeps contacting me, and I don’t know what to think. Does she like me or not? Am I an idiot?

Serial Dater You aren’t an idiot, SD, but you do make a very nice ATM. She is obviously using you for whatever she can get. I’m sorry, but if there is no spark after a couple of dates, you don’t keep at it. Even though she has no intention of actually dating you, she obviously feels very comfortable letting you buy her meals and drinks. You seem like a stand-up guy. Stand up for yourself and walk away from this situation.

Confidential to Mrs. Bewildered: How recently was your wedding? Is it possible that this will be out of everyone’s system in a month or so? In a way, these proclamations seem kind of sweet, but I can see where it would be pretty awkward. I think what you are experiencing is other people’s realization that time (and life, and opportunities) are passing them by. Not sure what they hope to gain from these conversations, if they have visions of a Hollywood ending or if the confession is the catharsis. Rather than the callous response, you might try “Wow. I had no idea,” followed by “I know you’ll find someone and be just as ridiculously happy as I am.” Take it as a compliment and then let it be over, rather than viewing it as something that’s hanging out there unable to be retracted. Your husband is taking this well, which is a great indication that you’ve found the right guy. Hopefully, everybody else will eventually fall in line and things will be normal again.

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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 $60 0/mo.

(706) 546 -1615 or www. athenstownproper ties. com.

F o r S a l e. 470 0 sq. f t . office. 485 Newton Bridge Rd. Possible owner f i n a n c i n g to q u a li f i e d, credit worthy buyer. This is great opportunity! Call Don at Sumner Properties (706) 353-1039.

H i s t o r i c D ow n t ow n B u il d i n g . 320 0 sq. f t.

A m p l e o n s i te p a r k i n g.

Office/Commercial.

Contact Stacy (706) 4254048.

Paint Artist Studios.

Historic Boulevard area ar tist c o m m unit y 16 0 Tracy S treet. Rent 3 0 0 sq. f t. fo r $15 0 / m o. & 40 0 sq. ft. for $20 0/mo.

(706) 546 -1615 or www. athenstownproper ties. com.

Retail Suites for lease at Homewood Village. 1K–12,50 0 sq. ft. available. For more info call Bryan Austin at (706) 3 5 3 -10 3 9 or visit w w w. sumnerproperties.net.

Retail, B a r, or R e s t a u r a n t for lease at Homewood Shopping Center. 3000 sq. ft. Call Bryan Austin at (706) 3531039.

Condos for Rent $750/mo. 4BR /3 Full BA. 10 min. to UGA. 137 Westchester Circle. All appls incl. W/D, excellent c o nditio n. N ew c a rp et & p a i n t . L g . l v. r m . , sec. system. Available immediately. Owner/Agent, call Robin (770) 265-6509 or email at robintdubois@ gmail.com.

S t u d i o 51. L u xu r y studios adjoining UGA campus. On UG A busline. Well apportioned. Stainless appls. Tile & bamboo floors. On–site laundry.

Please visit w w w. s t u d i o 51c o n d o s . com. $ 8 50/mo. 2BR /2.5BA .

1200 sqft, 385 Old Epps Bridge. Near campus, bus, shops. W/D inc. HW & tile flrs. River view patio. Avail.

Immediately. (706) 380 1288.

Updated, upsale unit in E. Athens off Riverbend.

3BR/2.5BA. New kitchen w/ all appls, LR/DR combo, deck, master w/ FP & deck, laundry room, patio. Pool. $900/mo. (706) 433-2712.

Westside condo. Available 9/1. 1500 sq. ft. 2BR/2BA. W/D, CHAC, DW. Good l o c at i o n, n o p e t s . O n busline. Se habla Espanol. $690/mo. Ana (678) 8487987.

Condos For Sale To w n h o m e l o c ate d o n river for sale; includes 2BR/2.5BA, HWflrs, central HVAC, DW, W/D, private deck, much more.

Motivated seller. Call Matt at (706) 248-9088.

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Duplexes For Rent

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 at 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, D W, S e c l u d e d P a t i o s , l a rg e ya rd s i n w o o d e d area. Easy Access to Lo op & D wntn. (70 6) 5 4 8 - 2 5 2 2 , h t t p: / / w w w. dovetailmanagement. com

Normaltown/Navy School area. Unique, brick townhouse. Cool, private 2BR/1BA. CHAC, HWflrs, l g . fe n c e d ya rd . P e t s OK. Upstairs $70 0/mo., downstairs $600/mo. Off street parking. Lease/dep.

(706) 207-4636.

S p a c i o u s 1B R / 1B A i n Normaltown, HWflrs, FP, C H A C, W/ D I n c l u d e d . $ 6 9 5/mo.

C a l l ( 7 0 6) 546 - 69 0 0 or visit w w w.

ValerioProperties.com.

Westside Duplex.

I m m a c u l a t e , f r i e n d l y, convenient, wooded, 2BR, FP. W/D, $550/mo. (706) 207-9436.

LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LIVE? Tu r n t o F L A G P O L E CLASSIFIE D S to find roommates, apartments, houses, etc. To place an ad call 706-549-0301.

Houses for Rent $680/mo. 2BR/2BA. 115 E. Carver Dr. 1.5 mi. from U G A A rch. Fenced – in yd. Tile & HWflrs. CHAC, W/D hookups, DW. Pets welco me. Avail. now!

(706) 614-8335. $675/mo. Walk to Dwntn and U G A , 2 B R /1BA .

H u g e B e d ro o m s , 12 ’ c e i l i n g s , H W f l r s , W / D, front porch, pet friendly, sm. fenced area, ava i l a b l e 10 /1. O w n e r/ Agent, call Robin (770) 265- 6509, or email robintdubois@gmail. com.

1.5BR /1BA . Danielsville Rd. Private wooded setting. CHAC, W/D hookup. Wood flrs., large fenced yd., lawncare i n c l . $ 5 2 5 / m o . + d e p.

(706) 424-1571, lv. msg.

14 5 Woodcrest Drive. 3BR/2BA. CHAC. Fenced yd. Pets OK. No p e t fe e s! O p e n H o u s e to d ay! $ 8 2 5 / m o. ( 7 0 6) 372-6813.

1BR /1BA w/ of fice 1277 W. H a n c o c k . S c re e n porch, rear parking, pets OK, DW, HVAC, HWflrs, walk to ARMC, campus, & New town. $ 6 0 0/mo.

C a l l P a u l ( 7 0 6) 714 9607.

2BR/1BA with refinished HWflrs, all new tiled bath, separate tiled laundr y room with W/ D. M odern appliances. In 5 P ts on Highland Ave. $ 675/mo. Call (70 6) 5 4 6 - 6 9 0 0 or visit w w w.

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10 8 5A M a c o n Hwy. 3BR/1BA $795/ mo., huge rooms, storage.

10 8 5 B M a c o n Hw y.

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). (70 6) 546 -7946, Flowersnancy@bellsouth. net. See virtual tours w w w. n a n cy f l owe r s . com..

167 Tibbetts St., 2BR/1BA Normaltown house. $650/ mo. Pls. call (706) 549 6070.

2BR/2BA Walk to Class/ Dwntn. Circa 1890's, CHAC, high ceilings, H W f l r s , F P, fe n c e d yrd, gas log fireplace.

Pets OK. $795/mo. 140 Inglewood Ave. (706) 714-1100. Low deposit.

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

3BR/2BA home on Lexington Rd. Located on bus line. Garage apartment & s m all yd. W/ D, DW, C H AC. $ 5 9 5/m o. (70 6) 549-9456.

3BR /2BA . Cedar creek.

Fenced backyd., gas grill, F P, wo o d e d l o t . Q u i et family n’hood. Swimming community. 360 Sandstone Dr. $1025/mo. & dep. (706) 319-1846, (706) 548-4819.

GA. R. E. lic. 300830.

3BR/1.5BA. 460 W hite he ad Rd. H W flrs, carpet, CHAC, attic fan, t i l e d k i tc h e n , g a r b ag e disposal, DW, fenced yd., pecan trees. $750/mo. & $500/dep. Call (706) 2542936.

3BR/1.5BA located at 2002 Milledge Ave. 2 mins from campus. Recently updated house w/ 12 f t. ceilings and HWflrs. Lg bedrooms. $ 8 0 0/month. Call (70 6) 202-9905.

4BR /4BA house in The Retreat. Less than 1 mile from The Arch. Pool. Pets w e l c o m e . G re a t p r i c e $1200/mo. Aaron (706) 2072957.

4BR/4BA home & 4BR/3BA townhome for rent in Deer Park. $ 8 0 0/mo. Huge f l o o r p l a n! W / D, a l a r m system, pets welcome. $ 4 0 0/dep. Eastside.

Visit w w w. h a n c o c k propertiesinc.com.

(706) 552-3500.

Available now! Brick homes starting at just $250/BR. Close to Dwntn/UGA & pet friendly. Dekle Realty (706) 5 4 8 - 0 5 8 0. Please visit www.deklerealty.com.

Available immediately!

3BR/2BA in Normaltown.

HWflrs, CHAC, quiet street.

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

B e a u t i f u l l y re m o d e l e d 3BR/1BA home located just minutes to Dwntn Athens.

HWflrs, granite countertops, screened in porch, huge b a c k yd, & b a s e m e nt storage. Dekle Realty (706) 548-0580.

Charming Country Home.3BR/2BA. 10 mi. fro m D w ntn. 16 acres.

S uit a bl e fo r 2 h o rs e s.

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. $850/mo. (70 6) 207-1234.

Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $ 9 5 0 / m o. 4 B R / 2 B A w/ lg. yd. $120 0/mo. Five Points 3BR/1BA, single carpor t, $75 0/m o. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

EARLY DEADLINE FOR CLASSIFIED ADS! We will be closed on Monday September 6th for Labor D ay. A ll Clas sified ad placements or changes must be submitted before 11am on Friday September 3rd.

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) 2327228.

Historic Blvd/AR M C/ Normaltown area.

Wonderful 1910 cottage.

Spacious 2BR/1BA. Claw– foot tub. H W flrs. 10 f t. ceilings. CHAC. Lg. eat–in k i tc h e n , W/ D, g a rd e n .

Available now! $800/mo. l e a s e /d e p. ( 7 0 6) 2 0 74636.

3BR/2BA house on campus. Available now.

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

Tu r n t o F L A G P O L E CLAS S IFIE D S to find roommates, apartments, houses, etc. To place an ad call 706-549-0301.

Rent /Sale. $550/mo.

Sale: $99,999. Adorable 2 B R cot tage. R ecently renovated. LV, DR, kitchen, front porch, nice yd. Lg. dog pen. Great location, busline, UGA, Dwntn. (706) 543-5604.

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S p a c i o u s 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., sunro o m, dining rm., s c r e e n p o rc h . W / D i n lau n d r y r m ., H VAC. Features cozy stone FP in liv ing ro o m, H W flrs, w ra p – a ro u n d p o rc h e s , walking trails, fenced garden spot & more.

E xcellent Clarke Co. s c h o o l s , ye t p e a c e f u l, secluded setting w/ room to roam. $1250/mo. furnished or unfurnished.

Call (706) 353-2058.

Houses for Sale 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. w w w. 465 springdalestreet. co m. Or be cool in the C o untr y w/ garden space to grow your own! www.170ElderStreet. com. Donna Smith Fee, Ke l l e r W i l l i a m s R e a l t y G re a te r A t h e n s , ( 7 0 6) 296-5717 cell (706) 3192900 office.

Normaltown under $10 0,0 0 0! w w w .115 KnottinghamDrive. c o m . Or 3.6 acres w/ home in Oconee w w w . 2 0 1 1 PeteDickensRoad. c o m u n d e r $15 0 , 0 0 0 .

Donna Fee, Keller Williams Realt y, Cell: (70 6) 2 9 6 5717, Office: (70 6) 316 2900.

Rooms for Rent D a s h i e ll C o t t ag e s I n c.

Move–in $75! (706) 8500 4 91. A l l a m e n i t i e s , Wifi. Enjoy our river communit y, 5 blocks to UG A . Enjoy the wildlife observation.

Room in 3BR/2.5BA house on Eastside. Close to campus & quiet, large deck, WiFi avail. $ 4 0 0/ mo. (706) 340-3616.

Sub-lease

Music Services

Great downtown studio apar tment! Lof ted B R above kitchen, large BA, DW & microwave. Close to North Campus (Wall St. btw E. Clayton & Broad) Water included in rent, $640/mo. Available 9 - 8 10. Partial credit for Sept.

Call M o llye (4 0 4) 275 3937.

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.

For Sale Businesses Playball franchise for sale. Work Athens area earn 3 0 K P T. T his is a working business, just s te p i n , g e t t ra i n e d & start earning. Work with kids age 3 - 8. All training & equipment incl. 6 schools in Athens area are my clients. Only $ 50 0 0. Call Dane (70 6) 254-1205.

Furniture Pillowtop Queen Mattress set. Never used. Still in factory plastic. $260. Full size mattress set. Never used. Still in factory plastic. $160. (706) 7691959. Delivery available.

Ta b l e s , c h a i r s , s o f a s , antiques, clothes, records & players, retro g o o d s , & m o re! C o o l , affordable furniture every day. Go to Agora! Your favorite everything store!

260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Sell Your Car, Bike, Van, Truck, Bus, Motorcycle, Boat, Camper, Scooter, etc — $28 — Run ‘ til Sold (M erchandise O nly, Up To 12 Weeks). Call 706 549 - 03 01 to place your ad!

Music Instruction Athens School of M u s i c. Instruction in G u i t a r, B a s s , D r u m s , Pian o, Voice, B ras s, Woodwinds, Strings, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, & more. From beginner to exper t. Instrument repairs avail. Visit www.

AthensSchoolofMusic. com, (706) 543-5800.

Wedding Bands.

Q u a l i t y, p r o f e s s i o n a l bands. Weddings, parties.

R o c k , J a z z , e tc. C a l l Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6) 5 4 9 -15 6 7. w w w. classiccityentertainment. com. Featuring The Magictones - Athens’ premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones. com.

D o yo u wa nt to m a ke $ $ $ with your m u s i c related business? Are you advertising in Flagpole?

Call 70 6 - 5 4 9 - 0 3 01 fo r details.

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

I n f l u e n c e s : Replacements, Boys, Husker Du, Cheap Tr i c k , P l i m s o u l s , S t a r Spangles, 70s punk, 80s p owe r- p o p. B rad (70 6) 5 37-2 6 8 6, or bradv7 7@ gmail.com.

Are you a talented musician looking to fo r m (o r j o i n) a b a n d ?

Adver tise your skills in the “Musicians Wanted” section of the Flagpole Classifieds. Only $8 for 1 week!

Studios R o o m Fi f t yT h r e e. Mix r o o m & P r oTo o l s H D 2 Ac c e l - ba s e d re c o rding s t u di o o n t h e E a s t s id e of Athens. Seriously high – e nd a nal o g g e a r!

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Services Cleaning Good cleaning is an art. Green cleaning is smart! Fall specials.

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Massage Come relax at Revolutionar y M assage & Wellness in September & receive your first m as s ag e fo r $ 4 5 . C all (706) 255 -4443 or book your appt. online at: w w w. r e v o l u t i o n a r y massage.com. ➤ continued on next page

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Walk / bike. 5 mi. to Dwntn/campus. Looking for responsible M/ F nonsmoker to share 2BR /2BA house. New bathrooms/kitchen. WiFi, W/D. No dogs pls. $385/ mo + utils. Call Tony (478) 397-4696.

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Teacher needs experience in childcare and positive attititude! Email resume to littleprodigieschildcare@ gmail.com with “RESUME” in subject line.

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Accepting applications for Stylist w/ Clientele. Send resume to shenanigans. salon @ yahoo.com or visit us at 1037A Baxter St., Athens.

Opportunities Dependable person needed during the evening hrs. helping a young man confined to a wheelchair.

In exchange for free rent in apt., food, utils. & other amenities. Call (706) 3162798 or (706) 549-9456.

Do you want to use a logo, graphic or border in your classified ad? You can with Classified Display Ad ve r t i s i n g ! ! ! Call 70 6 - 549 - 03 01 for more information.

As part of our expansion program, Millennium Magic Procurement LLC is in need of people to work as PT Account M a n ag e r s , Pay m e nt & S a l e s re p re s e n t a t i ve s .

Pays a minimum of $3000/ mo. + benefits. Takes only little of your time. Please contact us for more details.

R e q u i re m e n t s: S h o u l d be computer literate. 2–3 hours access to the Internet weekly. Must be honest & loyal. Must be efficient & dedicated. If interested & need more info, contact Mike Sloan, mprocurellc@ aol.com.

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

Earn extra income a s s e m b li n g C D c a s e s from home. No experience necessary. Call our live operators now. (800) 4057619 ex t. 24 5 0. w w w. easy work- greatpay.co m (AAN CAN).

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Part-time Dondero’s kitchen is looking for P T cooks Mon.– Fri. mornings. (706) 389-7955.

FT or PT Prep. Cook (min.

1 yr exp.) and Dishwasher needed for Mexicali Grill.

PLease apply at Eastside location between 11am 5pm Mon.-Fri. E A R LY D E A D LI N E FOR CLASSIFIED ADS! We will be closed on Monday September 6th for Labor Day. All Classified ad placements or change s must be submitted before 11am on Friday September 3rd.

Grill cook needed for fast paced restaurant. $10/hr w/ room for advancement.

Self-motivation a plus. A pply at 2 5 9 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.

Now Hiring. Eastside Taco Stand is now hiring. All shifts available. Call (706) 549-5481.

NEED A JOB? FullT i m e a n d P a r t -T i m e oppor tunities are listed weekly in the Flagpole Classifieds.

Vehicles

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Autos

19 6 9 Ca m aro S S , pe r fe ct c o nditio n, original, unrestored, 396 Cubic Inch 350 Horsepower asking $5500, details at carb74v@msn. com (678) 278-9287.

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@ hey wardallentoyota. c o m , o r v i s i t w w w. heywardallentoyota.com.

Sell your car with Flagpole Classifieds.

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Motorcycles 19 82 GS 4 5 0. Great restored condition. Many new parts. Very reliable and fun. Please call for more details and to see the bike. (70 6) 3 6 3 7650. Eastside. Thanks.

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Pets Dog Foster Homes Needed! Athens Area Humane Society will provide everything you need (food, leash, toys, etc). You provide a loving home. If interested e-mail dogs@ athenshumanesociety.org.

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