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Back during the Observer TV era, we didn’t have much programming, so to avoid a blank screen most of the time, we subscribed to a news service that crawled news briefs and headlines across the screen—a forerunner to what you see at the bottom of your news screen now. There was no sound or background music with the news crawl and no NPR in Athens, so I started scheming about some way to bring in the Atlanta public radio station WABE 90.1 FM. The signal was so close to 90.5 that the UGA student radio station WUOG drowned it out.

I found out about a device that would glom onto the WABE signal and filter out the WUOG interference, and we were in business. For about a year and a half, if you tuned your TV to Observer Television Channel 13, you got NPR. Then, I got out of the TV business, and the university established WUGA 91.7 FM, and we had our own public radio station in Athens.

The station belonged to the Georgia Public Broadcasting network but was very much its own thing, with lots of local programming in addition to the NPR staples like “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” etc. And, of course, a lot of music, mostly classical. Although GPB owned the broadcast license, the clout of the university meant a lot of What also has independence for WUGA. Things rocked along apparently happened… like that for years. In the is that WUGA 91.7 FM flush times, the station had five or six top-notch was thrown in to reporters and writers worksweeten the deal. ing on original stuff that constantly won prizes in the field. As the not-so-flush times came along, that crack reportorial staff was continually scaled back until now, when the thinnest of skeleton crews keeps some local programming going primarily by dint of hard work, dedication, volunteers and a deep well of experience and expertise that enable the staff to sound bigger than they are.

The Georgia Public Broadcasting hierarchy never really liked this arrangement and would have integrated WUGA into conformity with the statewide network years ago but for the aegis of the university.

Now, something has happened that brings the status of WUGA into doubt and raises unanswered questions about its future role in our community. You may be aware that the university bought a commercial television station, WNEG, and set out to integrate it into the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, spent a lot of money and then threw in the towel. Somebody convinced Georgia Public Broadcasting to take the TV station off UGA’s hands, so now the university is touting a brave new future for the station, serving the university community and the state as a part of GPB. What also has apparently happened, although the university hasn’t said anything much about it, is that WUGA 91.7 FM was thrown in to sweeten the deal. The university has apparently reached an agreement with GPB that includes giving them control of WUGA. Nobody is sure what this means. UGA Vice President for Communications Tom Jackson says it only means that the radio station will have more support for more local programming and that the new arrangement is otherwise no big deal. Jackson points out that GPB has always owned the broadcast license for WUGA. He does acknowledge that there is a new operating agreement that puts control over the station into the hands of a new manager, who will also run the TV station and will report directly to GPB in Atlanta. The former station manager, Steve Bell, who led WUGA to become a perennial first-place winner in local ratings, is relieved of responsibility for the station’s operations.

Will WUGA 91.7 FM, under state budget pressures and Atlanta management, gradually go the way of the other stations in the GPB network and lose its local programming? Will our station become indistinguishable from the other units in the system, except for its call letters, and devoid of any programming relating to Athens? If so, it will still have all the familiar and popular NPR news, opinion and entertainment programs—a strong and interesting lineup—but we will lose an independent station with its eye also on Athens.

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RECORD REVIEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 PRUSSIA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 JACE EVERETT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 YO SOYBEAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 TANYARD CREEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 EVERYDAY PEOPLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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letters REPORT TO THE PEOPLE One year ago, 21 citizens of Athens-Clarke County were appointed by the grand jury to examine the Athens Clarke County Unified Government to ensure that it is meeting the goals set forth in our charter and that our government is providing the services our citizens demand in an efficient way. We were charged with the responsibility of assessing (1) the goals and objectives of unified government; (2) the extent to which the unified government has achieved its original objectives in an efficient and responsible manner; the performance and accomplishment of the agencies of the unified government in the preceding fiscal year, budgetary costs incurred, projected activities and budgets; and, (4) the extent to which additional programs are needed.

We have worked diligently, on behalf of all the citizens of our community this year, and on Jan. 4, 2011, we presented our findings to the mayor and commission. The complete review is available on the ACCUG website for computer users (go to auditor-documents), and in print at the Athens Regional Library so that everyone can read and consider the results of our examination. The mayor will assign segments of the review to the commissioners for their perusal and action in the near future.

We hope that every citizen of Athens-Clarke County will take some time to read this review of our government’s operations, and more importantly, that the people of this county will make their feelings known to the mayor

CONTACT US AT P.O. BOX 1027, ATHENS, GA 30603, LETTERS@FLAGPOLE.COM OR VIA THE “TALK BACK TO US” LINK AT FLAGPOLE.COM and commission. This is an opportunity for all citizens of Athens-Clarke County to learn about services being provided for them and to become educated about the scope of our local government.

Jill Jayne Read, Chairman, Overview Commission Martin Matheny, Chairman, Public Input Committee Athens

TO THE MAYOR & COMMISSION We are among a group of citizens who have recently organized in order to follow more closely the SPLOST 2011 Classic Center Expansion project and to try to effect changes to the process. Our coalescing was brought about largely by the news reports of the Nov. 9, 2010 commission work session at which a very aggressive timeline for the project was proposed and Manager Alan Reddish was quoted as saying that the time for comment on the closing of Hancock had passed. As you are aware, concerns about the proposed closing of Hancock Avenue were expressed last spring and summer throughout the review and development of the SPLOST 2011 list. Those concerns have been expressed by citizens, members of the SPLOST citizen’s advisory committee and by then-Mayor Davison and several commissioners as well. After attending the Jan. 6 public meeting, we believe that there is considerable public sentiment against fasttracking this project.

That said, we would like to state that our primary goal is not to delay this project just for the sake of delay. Rather, our concern is

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quite simple. We believe that a public input process needs to be established for this project that allows for broader community input on the architectural as well as programmatic plans of the Classic Center. This could help ensure that they complement, or at least do not preempt, the community’s vision for downtown—especially in light of the recently announced Athens Downtown Development Authority plan for a vision and master plan and the Economic Development Foundation’s plans for the river district.

Our group is not insensitive to the economic advantages associated with the project and the potential cost savings associated with the current aggressive timeline, but we feel that a better, more inclusive process guaranteeing the best possible project overrides the cost of any delay. So, again, our goal is not to simply slow the project down; our goal is to improve the process. With that in mind, we make the following requests: (1) In order to keep the Classic Center expansion project as close to on schedule as possible, we do not object to the hiring of a design firm at the Feb. 1 voting meeting of the ACC commission. We request, however, that the commission add a clearly defined public education and input component to the scope of the project (in addition to, if legally required, or as a substitute for the standard SPLOST public input process) and that this component be developed by a committee made up of county commissioners, representative(s) from the Classic Center and the SPLOST office, and representatives from our group. We also ask that Pratt Cassity (or

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an appointee), UGA faculty and Director of the Center for Community Design and Preservation, be invited to participate. If necessary, this process could take place before the Feb. 1 meeting. And, to be clear, we feel that the following topics should be specified as needing to be included in the public process: —the footprint of the expansion, especially the closing of Hancock Avenue, and the justification for the size of the expansion; —the proposed atrium and how that affects the continuation of the Washington Street corridor; —the Classic Center’s master plan and what it says about future development in downtown; —and, finally, the exterior design of the entire complex.

(2) We request that two at-large community representatives be added to this project’s SPLOST User Group and that those individuals be chosen by the ACC commissioners.

(3) Finally, as a more general recommendation, we request that the Commission undertake, with citizen representation, a review of the SPLOST public input process, in particular with regard to the format of public meetings (such as the one on Jan. 6); the overall timing of public input, especially with large-scale projects such as this one; and the make-up of user groups.

Thank you for your consideration.

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Classic Center Saga Pt. ??: ACC commissioners last week took their most formal step thus far in grappling with issues related to plans for the SPLOST-financed Classic Center expansion. In a memo addressed to County Manager Alan Reddish and Classic Center Director Paul Cramer, as well as their fellow commissioners and Mayor Nancy Denson, Kelly Girtz, Mike Hamby and Andy Herod laid out some of their ideas for how the design phase of the expansion should proceed.

position here, even aside from finding herself at least nominally at odds with many of her close friends and strongest supporters in her recent mayoral campaign. Her instincts and values direct her to conduct public business in an open and participatory way, and she insists that the process of planning for this expansion, which has indeed been underway for years, has lived up to that standard. But Gwen has been a lot closer to that process than you or the guy down the street, and her perspective on its, well, publicness is different from that of even the most civically engaged citizens, to the vast majority of whom this plan has only been on the radar since last summer. In an extensive email exchange after the FODA meeting, Gwen stressed that while the current plan is the result of much careful consideration by people she says have the best interests of Athens at heart, the Classic Center Authority’s participation in the upcoming public input process won’t be merely rote. Furthermore, she wrote, “At this time, we expect to be asking the architect to develop two scenarios—one keeping Hancock open and one not.” Combined with the recent ema-

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A sign of things to come? Don’t worry, construction of the Classic Center expansion across Hancock hasn’t begun; the street was closed briefly last week as part of ACC’s 2011 roadway-icing initiative.

Requiring the architectural firm to hold a charrette “to solicit public input prior to design” is one; constructing user groups “that reflect a broad cross-section of the public” for the vetting of SPLOST projects in general is another. The memo, while not specifying Hancock Avenue, does stress the importance of considering the surrounding street grid, as well as the “experience” of interacting with the design, both from up close and afar. Also included was the suggestion that East Dougherty Street, which terminates at Foundry, “seems a natural passage” for future connection to Hickory and Willow streets and the river, as well as a request that, in the event that the final plan does include the closing of Hancock, “a ‘terminating vista,’ such as a monument or fountain, be considered as part of the design. That last bit was received less than enthusiastically by citizens monitoring the issue, but overall the memo has to be considered a step in the right direction.

A group of the aforementioned citizens, assembled under the banner of “Friends of Downtown Athens,” held a public meeting at Ciné Jan. 13 that was attended by Girtz, as well as Gwen O’Looney, the chair of the Classic Center Authority. Gwen is in a difficult

nations from the commission, again, this has to be regarded as progress.

The consensus in the field of urban design, as pointed out in last week’s meeting by soon-to-be Flagpole columnist Katie Goodrum, is that street closings that contribute to the formation of monolithic “superblocks,” like the one planned for Hancock, are terrible ideas.

This process would benefit from some meaningful engagement with that field, which, we hope, is something citizens can help facilitate and elected officials will see fit to insist upon.

The State of the State Water Crisis: Anyone interested in a concise and well-sourced update on how the state is currently proceeding on the question of whether and how to regulate interbasin transfers of water should head over to Georgia River Network’s Georgia Water Wire blog (www.gawaterwire.wordpress. com), where Ben Emanuel has nicely laid it out in six paragraphs with copious background links. At issue, among other things, is whether proposed DNR rules governing IBTs (in the absence of actual legislation, which fell by the wayside last session) will have any teeth.

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M&C Consider SPLOST Management, FY 2012 County Budget Goals Partly to save money that’s now being paid to a private contractor, Athens-Clarke County could hire its own, in-house employees to administer the 40-odd SPLOST projects that voters approved in November. The upcoming SPLOST projects—including the Classic Center expansion and new jail, upgrades to the public library, new facilities for the Boys’ and Girls’ Club and for county extension services, park and trail improvements, a fire station, and others—have not yet been designed in detail, although their budgets include money for design. And someone—either county employees or an outside contractor—must also oversee the hiring of construction contractors.

In the past, ACC has paid the Jacobs Engineering Group for both the design and contracting services for SPLOST projects. And that arrangement has been criticized, but it has advantages, County Manager Alan Reddish told commissioners at last week’s work session. Those include not having to fire (or find other jobs for) staffers once projects are finished, as well as the ability to get expertise that ACC doesn’t have on staff. Still, ACC might save some money by using its own people to oversee bidding and construction, while retaining Jacobs to design the projects, Reddish said: “We would hate to see all that expertise walk out the door.” About $6.5 million was budgeted for design and administration for the $195 million in SPLOST projects.

Several commissioners said they’d like to see changes to the public input process when SPLOST projects are being designed. “I feel

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like something is missing,” said Mike Hamby.

“The public needs some more input.” But that discussion must come later, said Reddish; meanwhile, some “big decisions” are needed soon from commissioners about the jail and the Classic Center, projects which are “already beginning to unfold,” he said.

And looking ahead to the next budget year (ACC’s fiscal year will begin in July), commissioners revisited goals they’d set earlier, like cutting energy use by 15 percent. “We’re not anywhere near 15 percent. We’re at about 5 percent,” Reddish said, and going higher will require “some pretty drastic changes.”

But a previously set goal of reducing waste going into the landfill by 25 percent has been exceeded: “Today, we’re really at about 33 percent” over 2006 figures, said Reddish.

“Enhancing quality of life” in neighborhoods was another priority—often meaning speed humps, although sidewalks came up, too (money was included in SPLOST to build more)—and some commissioners wondered how the county can better communicate with citizens, especially since many don’t have Internet service, and the county cable channel isn’t available on satellite dish. The possibility of televising work sessions and planning commission meetings, recommended in the recent report by the citizens Overview Commission, was raised as one step toward more open government. Also mentioned were teaching “life skills” to young people, perhaps in part by starting a “youth citizens academy”; expediting criminal cases; and plans for economic development and improved health care.

Commissioners make no formal decisions at work sessions, but often raise questions to the manager or department heads about matters that will appear on upcoming agendas.

Mean Girl Jihad Just four days before Jared Lee Loughner shot Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her supporters and constituents, a similar scene played out in Pakistan. The embattled, moderate governor of the Punjab province, Salman Taseer, a staunch opponent of the Islamic fundamentalists intent on making that fragile democracy an Islamist theocracy, was assassinated by one of his own security staff, shot at close range in the head at a political event. Although that shooting, understandably, did not get nearly the amount of media coverage here in the U.S. as the Arizona massacre, it may be instructive to compare and contrast a little as we try to understand the role language and political discourse play in such events.

Akbar!” whenever committing an act in His name, or at any other time it seems appropriate. Somehow, acts of political violence are placed into context whenever that phrase is added, and everyone knows that, however heinous the act that has just occurred, the intentions are essentially good. Only the best is intended and Allah has pre-approved the deed, so, despite any present carnage and bloodshed, the rest of society should relax and keep the bigger picture in mind.

Sarah Palin and her Girlz, Michele Bachmann and Sharron Angle, and the talkative fat guys who aspire to their brand of tough-girl cred, like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, need to take note. Since they know who the “Real Americans” are, what the Founders

Much has been made of Sarah Palin’s website’s “crosshairs” on Giffords’ congressional district map, Republican congressional candidate Sharron Angle’s comment that “Second Amendment remedies” might be needed for these drastic times, and the widespread use of super-macho, gun-based rhetoric among Republicans, both Tea Partiers and the leaders and talk-show hosts who pander to them.

“Taking them out” seems to be the phrase of choice among these good people.

I would suggest that their appeal might be strengthened if they were to add, “Praise God” to that entreaty, as in “Take them out, Praise God!” Surely, that would really get the message across about who is right and who is damned, in case anyone is in doubt.

Clearly, the folks exhorting everyone to grab their Glocks, hold them close, and carry them around wherever they go have God on their side. They are the ones who go to Churches, after all, and oppose health care, education funding, gun control and taxes. They are the ones who know W J would D, and you can bet He would not be healing the sick or teaching the young, by God. And He would definitely have a gun in His robe, just in case anyone tried to make Him do any of that stuff.

In Pakistan and elsewhere, those who are trying to make their countries conform more closely to God’s true will and the founders’ fundamental intent are always careful to make that goal very clear by politely adding “Allahu

truly intended, and what God wants for our Country, they should take some direction from their righteous pals in Pakistan. Right now, with their Facebook crosshairs and their PowPow manicures, Sarah and them just remind us of the black-eyelinered, stonewashed-jeanswearing mean girls in high school who would threaten to kick your ass if you flirted with their boyfriends. Certainly not worthy of proper Jihadistas.

They need to work that “Praise God” vibe into their schtick. Oh, it’s in there already, but they need to make it more explicit. After all, average Americans might not be smart enough to make the righteousness connection— especially poor liberals, brainwashed by the mainstream media. A little “Allahu Akbar” accompanying that “Pow-Pow” would make things so much clearer. Then, if someone shoots a member of Congress whom Sarah and her crew have put in the crosshairs, the Girlz and the Fat Boys won’t have to scrub their websites and offer embarrassing disclaimers.

They can hold their heads high and join the crowd throwing rose petals on the assassin as he is led away. Just like in Pakistan.

“Take them out, Allahu Akbar!” Yeah! No pesky apologies necessary. But that is a lot of As and Ls, and some pretty weird Ks and Bs. Just remember to write “Praise God” on your hand, Sarah.

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capitol impact Snow and a New Administration Every 15 years or so, winter storms will dump snow and ice all over Metro Atlanta.

State and local government agencies always seem to be caught unprepared when these storms hit, which means that half of Georgia is usually shut down for a week until the ice melts. That was the case last week as one governor was leaving office and a new governor was on the verge of replacing him. A massive snow storm lashed the northern part of the state and made it impossible for most people to get to the state capitol.

Bad weather or not, the Georgia constitution and state law require that a new governor take the oath of office on the second Monday in January as the General Assembly convenes for its yearly session. Legislators had no choice but to show up Monday morning, during the worst of the winter storm, and get ready to hear the new governor take the oath of office. Most of them made it.

Many lawmakers got a room in a downtown hotel so that they would be within walking distance of the capitol. State Patrol officers and Department of Natural Resources employees used their vehicles to provide personal taxi service for legislators who needed a lift. You could call it democracy by four-wheel drive.

Several minutes after 10 a.m. on Monday, 201 of the 236 members of the Senate and House of Representatives were seated in their respective chambers and able to punch the buttons on their antique desks for the first roll call of the session. They got right down to business as the Senate proceeded with something that had been in the works for several months: the parliamentary neutering of Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle. Many of the Senate’s 36 Republicans were miffed at the way Cagle had acted during the emotional debate on a hospital bed tax last session. Cagle’s tactics for keeping senators in line had included stripping two of them of their committee chairmanships.

Senate Republicans took revenge by implementing what they euphemistically called a “power-sharing” agreement. Under this new arrangement, Cagle was stripped of his authority to appoint committee chairmen and members, one of the most significant powers a lieutenant governor has. Cagle was obviously not happy with the new rules, but he and the Senate leaders behaved politely while the vote was taken.

The House and Senate had to complete their organizational business quickly, because Nathan Deal needed the House chambers for his inauguration. The truncated ceremony was a family affair, for the most part. Deal was sworn in by his son, Superior Court Judge Jason Deal, and the governor’s daughter, Katie, provided a nicely done rendition of the song “Georgia on My Mind.”

Deal then delivered an inaugural address that was short and to the point. He thinks government could be a little smaller, schools aren’t performing as well as they should, and the HOPE scholarship program needs to be saved “for future generations.”

Two days later, Deal provided a few more details about his plans in the “state of the state” speech. He promised the budget would be balanced despite the loss of more than $1 billion in federal stimulus money, and he said he would try to avoid making further cuts in K-12 education.

Colleges and technical schools won’t be so lucky: Deal proposed slicing nearly $350 million from their budgets over the next 18 months, with most of the cutbacks in student instruction. You might ask: what good will it do to save HOPE scholarships if there are no instructors to teach the students who get them?

Those are all questions that will be answered in due time. But first, we’ve got to get rid of that snow and ice.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

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athens rising What’s Up in New Development

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Last week I dwelled a bit longer on the past than I usually Instead, the Classic Center should be responsible for develprefer, specifically of the Classic Center and its tribulations on oping that area into a vibrant extension of downtown, and the the way to our present predicament. This week, I’ll get back on first stepping stone towards the river. The idea of locating the proactive track, and explore some possibilities for moving an Athens Tech hospitality program on Foundry is an excellent this project forward in a way that leads to a better result not one, and it supports the notion of a public, active, diverse just for the Classic Center, but for downtown and Athens in street life for the area. The Classic Center should be pursugeneral. ing that and other ideas which set it apart from the broad The first thing we need to do is get specific about the market of competing exhibit halls (including ones in town like design and planning questions that need answering. The the Grand Hall of UGA’s Tate Center). In the same way that a proposal so far pays only the faintest lip service to these diverse downtown that isn’t entirely dependent on UGA stuissues, despite claims to the contrary by Classic Center officials dents and the Classic Center is essential to long-term economic and staff; there have been vague reassurances, but guiding principles must be laid out explicitly and then comprehensively implemented. The process for this must be highly public and collaborative, both in the establishment of principles and goals, and in vetting the proposed solution against the initial goals. Whoever ends up preparing the design for this thing must “show their work.”

Urban connectivity should be a priority, generally, but we have yet to define the parameters of that in a way that works.

In the conversation about Hancock, the community reacting against the project has one definition that is holistic and systemsfocused, the Classic Center another that is more data-driven, focusing on traffic counts.

These conflicting definitions are as big a problem in the conversation as anything.

The economic development angle is another question that we have yet to define in a mutually intelligible way. The Classic Center has touted a figure for economic impact (produced by a consultant they Is the Classic Center really an economic development engine? Consult your local stylist. hired), and that has served as justification for the collateral damage to existing Foundry Street businesses. That figuring also fails to acknowledge stability for Athens, a Classic Center with a diversified and the ramifications of the ripple effects over the long term, unique set of facilities may be the key to its long-term future. hampering the viability of a future river district. In essence, The unique opportunities and constraints that Foundry and the Classic Center has a very good answer to the short-range Hancock create could result in a truly one-of-a-kind conveneconomic impact question. Unfortunately, the public is asking tion destination. Trying to apply the standard model to an about both the immediate and long-range implications, and unsuitable site won’t get us anywhere, though. the Classic Center’s argument falls right through the middle.

What’s more, the question of the mechanism by which we The two conversations just aren’t lining up. have those sorts of conversations is unanswered. So far, comThe Classic Center has also failed to lay out a compelling missioners and ACC bureaucrats alike have seemed hamstrung vision for Foundry Street as an integral piece of downtown. by the process, with all lamenting it but few considering alterWhen connections are lost at Washington and Hancock, the native methods. The mantra of “slowing it down” is gaining street will be so isolated that it will only serve as a back alley support from our elected leaders, but once it is slowed down, for the Classic Center. How long before it, too, is claimed for we need a good plan to move forward, rather than simply higher and better and uses, and the last vestiges of private delaying the decision. In looking at each of these actions, we urban fabric are wiped out? Turning taxable private property in should also consider how they might be applied to the next the area into a liability isn’t neighborly, it isn’t good economic big controversy, be it the jail, T-SPLOST road projects, the raildevelopment, and it isn’t good design. to-trail project’s implementation, or some unforeseen issue.

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The idea of a charrette (an intensive community planning process unfolding over a short time period) is viable, as it presents the opportunity to build common ground among all stakeholders and buy-in on a unified concept, while retaining the initial timeline for the expansion, more or less. Such a process could also be a good kickoff to the Downtown Master Plan we so desperately need and to conversations about the “Project Blue Heron” River District. There are already good resources in town and on campus that could be brought to bear on such an effort, making it a fiscally prudent idea as well.

A new Classic Center master plan is also something we ought to consider. The convention center is a means to an economic end, and once we define our economic development goals, we should take a hard look at how not only this expansion but future phases of the Classic Center’s growth will fit in.

It might also make sense to set six to 12 months aside and appoint a citizens’ committee to explore and review this and other ideas relating to downtown’s growth beyond its current boundaries. Other topics that should be a part of the conversation include the several proposals for student apartments both east and west of downtown, and how the Greenway and other SPLOST projects are reinforcing broad goals for our urban economic engine. The Athens Downtown Development Authority’s board is, by its very structure, overly focused on the day-to-day management of the existing downtown area, at the expense of long-term planning of the peripheries, and may not be the right body for such a task.

We should also talk seriously about bringing management of SPLOST projects in-house, rather than contracting that service out. Such a move might save the county a good deal of money, make the SPLOST process more transparent, and ensure that individual projects align well with our longterm community goals.

As we move from the Classic Center on to the next big issue, we should also be considering how to take the accumulated community interest, momentum and energy and build on it. With so many competing and often conflicting bureaucracies in this town, including ACC and its various boards and authorities, our hospitals, the Housing Authority and state entities like the university, we ought to consider how both to watchdog and integrate all of these competing visions into a unified whole.

A third-party organization that can mediate and remain somewhat objective might go a long way not only toward solving this set of problems, but to moving us forward with an eye towards the long-term. But even a search through the relevant local advocacy and nonprofit organizations like Athens Grow Green, BikeAthens, Athens Land Trust, the Chamber of Commerce and the Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation reveals an equally fractured and specialized landscape.

It’s hard to say which of these strategies (if any) is the best one, but at some point we have to start knitting together this fractured community. The talent is here, but we have yet to find a compelling way to create common ground on community-wide design and planning issues.

Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

The Sludge Report

Is Biosolid Composting “Green” or “Brown”?

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biosolids, that’s taking biosolids directly from the wastewater t’s just a few days shy of Christmas when we visit the to as close to residential standards as possible before reaching treatment plant and placing them directly on the land. A lot of Athens-Clarke County landfill out on Lexington Road. The public wastewater treatment plants. According to Gary Duck, farms do it in the United States, and there have been issues. on/off mist descending from the grey above didn’t quite director of Public Utilities, “if they do not do that, there are We’re talking about composting… Once you compost it, you’re warrant a raincheck, and so we pull into the long driveway surcharges that they pay. They have to meet EPA standards, chemically changing what is in that mix. and turn left towards the windrows: several columns of brown, and we pull samples of their wastewater on a regular basis to “Composting is a chemical reaction. You’ve got chemical earthy material, each one about six-feet wide, up to 14-feet see what they’re discharging to us to see if they’re in compliand biological [processes] occurring in a compost pile. You’re high and nearly 200-feet long. Each one emits plumes of ance with regulations.” changing the components, heating it, cooling it; a lot of steam, a byproduct of the chemical reactions of composting; “As far as the pathogens [in sewage-derived materials] go, microbes take it in, and ‘poop out’ a different mix—that’s what I’m sure a lot of folks would be worried… I would be, too,” this “chimney effect” steam rises and intermingles with the we want them to do. The compost is a soil amendment; it’s not low-hanging, slate-toned clouds. says Bond. “But not in this particular product here. I mean, soil. You don’t just go plant a tree in pure compost; it’s too Each of the windrows appears to consist of what’s referred I make sure the temperatures get up where they need to be rich for that.” to as “yard waste”: the products of the ACC Solid Waste for a good pathogen kill. As far as the heavy metals go, they Jannsen finds comparisons to other communities regardDepartment’s leaf and limb pickup program, all dirt and branch are way, way below [regulatory standards]—you can see our ing biosolids to be inappropriate. “Everybody’s wastewater material. But these massive piles of wood chips conceal a subresults. Some [regulated metals] are not even detected.” is different,” she says. “People in San Francisco have differstance that is the subject of some controversy: biosolids, the When Bond talks about seeing results, he means it literre-branded, friendly-sounding term for sewage sludge. Biosolids ent wastewater constituents than we have here in Athens; ally: all biosolid compost sold in Georgia is required by law are what’s left over after sewage is treated by to be accompanied by a sheet listing its public utilities: a gelatinous, semi-solid mateconstituents. “That’s part of the permit that rial that has traditionally been landfill-bound we have and that’s what’s required,” says Jim after being separated out from its wastewater Corley, director of ACC Solid Waste. “It clearly origins. shows what’s in the material and what the test Gary Bond has run this composting operaresults were.” Since each batch is inevitably tion since it was being done at the county’s different, Bond takes an average of three Bailey Street water treatment plant over 10 tested batches of compost to arrive at what’s years ago; even then, Bond was selling his accounted for on the constituent listing. compost as a soil amendment under the guidelines of Georgia Environmental Protection additional concern voiced by Division’s Watershed Protection Branch. When activists like McElheney is the Public Utilities Department elected to the issue of hazardous liquid rebuild and upgrade its facilities four years runoff coming from the asphalt pad where the ago, Bond’s composting operation moved to windrows are set up. Says landfill assistant the landfill. Prior to that, only about 10 perdirector Brad Rickard: “All the runoff is treated cent of ACC’s biosolids were being composted. as leachate; it’s not allowed to go back into After consolidating the composting with the streams or anything like that. Leachate is the liquid that circulates through trash; it has landfill, Solid Waste is composting nearly 100 percent of the county’s sludge. And beginning to be treated very carefully—you can’t let it go. That’s the whole idea of modern landfills. in 2011, under a new permit from the EPD’s Because we have a leachate collection system Land Protection Branch, Bond will again offer here, all [compost-derived water] is added his product to the public. “When I worked over Steam rises from the windrows at the ACC landfill: piles of compost containing a sewage byproduct known as to that leachate. We also test that water, on Bailey Street, I couldn’t keep it on hand,” “biosolids.” and the last test was perfectly clean. Also, says Bond. “I had a lot of the public, some of Baltimore is gonna have a heck of a lot different wastewater we have additional groundwater testing in that area, too. We the local folks doing landscaping jobs, a lot of the ACC parks components. You’re talking heavy industry in those areas. We test for different constituents, because it is a compost facil[coming to buy the compost]. We couldn’t keep it in stock don’t have heavy industry in Athens.” ity, to ensure that nothing is leaving the site, surface water or over there, and I feel the same thing is going to happen here groundwater, whereas, in the past, runoff was allowed to flow once we get the word out. It’s good material; I’ve been using hich brings us back to the landfill for a look at freely into creeks [and] rivers.” it for years.” He adds with a chuckle: “My yard looks like the how biosolid-based compost is created. Bond, who Now, Rickard insists, “it’s not fairly contained—it is Botanical Gardens, man.” received certification for composting through the contained.” ill McElheney, vice chair of the Northeast Georgia Children’s Solid Waste Association of North America, explains the process The decision to implement the biosolid composting program Environmental Health Coalition, is among a number of local that each load of biosolids goes through. was arrived at following a presentation given by Jim Corley to activists who take issue with the Solid Waste Department’s Immediately upon arrival, the biosolids are laid out over a last year’s Solid Waste Task Force, a city-ordained collective of decision to sell biosolid compost to the public at large. “If representatives from the University of Georgia, local industries six-inch layer of yard waste and then covered with more wood you’ve looked at San Francisco and the protest [over] that sew- chips; to look at the windrows, you would not see much, if any, and businesses, churches, public schools and other organizaage sludge compost—they found endocrine disruptors, flame exposed sludge. From then on, the properties of the mix must tions. The task force, charged with arriving at new innovations retardants… you have all these things that they just don’t test be fastidiously documented via temperature probes. in waste reduction in Athens-Clarke County and co-chaired by for,” she says.

“It’s almost a never-ending paper trail,” says Bond. “We’re county commissioners Kelly Girtz and Doug Lowry (in whose Other cases in places like Baltimore have garnered attenrequired to meet 55 degrees Celsius for 15 consecutive days, districts the landfill resides), was duly convinced that the protion, with activists crying foul that public safety has been and within those 15 days, you’re required to make five ‘turns’ cess produced compost that was safe for public use. potentially jeopardized by the reuse of biosolids. In an article and still maintain that temperature.” The “turns” are accomHowever, for activists like Jill McElheney, leaving the crepublished in Daily Groceries’ monthly newsletter The Radish, plished every five days by a huge piece of machinery aptly ation of standards and regulation up to government bodies on environmental activist and hydroecologist Sydney Bacchus called a windrow turner, which runs over each row of compostthe state and federal levels remains questionable. “The facility pointed out that leaf and limb compost on its own is guaraning material and stirs it up. Each turn increases the porosity is approved by Georgia EPD and is regulated by federal laws; teed to be safe, while the action of combining it with sludge of the mix, allowing the heat to be released in the “chimney that’s where all the loopholes are,” she says. It is certainly has the potential to be harmful. effect” of steam rising, pulling in cool air from the sides. worth noting that there is ample historical precedent for accuMany of the alarms raised by local activists stem from a Following the required number of turns and having mainrate regulation of environmental health lagging behind the lawsuit filed and won by two Augusta dairy farmers in 2008. tained a consistent temperature, the material is put through necessary public need. But in the immediate here and now, Under advice from both the USDA and EPA, Andy McElmurray a massive power screen that sifts out anything larger than a Athens seems satisfactorily convinced that biosolid composting and Bill Boyce directly applied sludge to their farmland, evenhalf-inch in diameter. The remaining compost—by this stage, is an acceptable component of our waste reduction program. tually resulting in massive cattle die-offs. (In conjunction with a crumbly humus-like material—is then left in piles to cure; Commissioner Doug Lowry also points out that the biosolids former EPA scientist David Lewis, McElmurray and Boyce have when it begins to cool, that is a signal that it can’t be broken compost program is only the beginning of waste reduction in also charged the University of Georgia Research Foundation down any further and has become biologically stable. Finally, ACC: a long-term goal of diverting all organics to the windrows with supplying the EPA with faulty information about the a sample is taken and sent off to be tested by the USDA. All has been eyed as well. But it’s just one step among many, safety of land-applying sludge.) Suki Jannsen, the Solid Waste biosolid compost issued by the landfill is certified as Class A, including the upcoming single-stream recycling initiative, says Department’s waste reduction administrator, is eager to dismeaning it has been treated to reduce bacteria.

Suki Jannsen. “We can’t recycle everything; nobody can. No pel some concerns: “We’ve been compared to Augusta, where The individuals at Solid Waste are not unaware of the place in the world can recycle everything, yet! We’re hoping to they’ve land-applied. We’re composting ours before it’s even concerns over biosolids. Local industries such as the Eaton move in that direction, but we’re not there yet.” allowed to leave the premises and [mixing] it with mulch.

Corporation or the Pilgrim’s Pride poultry plant have pre-treatIt’s two different processes,” she says. “When you land-apply ment facilities that are expected to reduce their wastewater Jeff Tobias

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127 HOURS (R) Academy Award winner Danny Boyle’s newest film is based on the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston (the increasingly interesting James Franco), who resorts to doing anything to survive after he is trapped under a boulder. For five days, he lies trapped before summoning the courage and will to scale a 65-foot wall and hike eight miles to be rescued.

ALL GOOD THINGS (R) Director Andrew Jarecki turns to fiction features with this murder mystery based on New York’s most notorious unsolved cases.

A detective (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) investigates a missing persons case involving the heir to a real estate dynasty (Ryan Gosling) and a young woman from the wrong side of the tracks (Kirsten Dunst).

ALPHA AND OMEGA (PG) Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack’s social order find themselves in a foreign land. They must rely on each other in order to find their way home.

ANOTHER YEAR (PG-13) The incredible Mike Leigh (Naked, Secrets & Lies, Topsy Turvy, Vera Drake, HappyGo-Lucky) returns! Spend four seasons in the life of the happily married Tom and Gerri (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen) and their miserable circle of friends and family. Leigh has had more critically welcomed films than Another Year, but the film, starring the usual crew of Leigh regulars (Broadbent, Sheen, Lesley Manville, Peter Wight, Phil Davis, Imelda Staunton, etc.) sounds exactly like what I would expect from the veteran British filmmaker.

ATHENS BURNING (NR) A documentary chronicling the history of the Georgia Theatre up to the 2009 fire and the current efforts to rebuild the music venue.

BARNEY’S VERSION (R) TV producer Barney Panofsky (the typically infallible Paul Giamatti) reflects on his three marriages, battles with the bottle, and the mysterious disappearance of his best friend, Boogie (Scott Speedman, always remembered

for “Felicity”) in this adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s last novel. Director Richard J. Lewis is not the toxic comedian; instead, he is the director of the direct-to-video James Belushi sequel, K-9: P.I. (yeah, it really exists).

BASS ACKWARDS (NR) A young man (writer-director-star Linas Phillips) finds an abandoned van outside a Seattle llama farm and uses it to travel quirkily across the country after the end of a disastrous affair with a married woman. All three of Phillips’ cowriters—Davie-Blue, Jim Fletcher and Paul Lazar—support him on-screen as costars. Phillips’ debut feature was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival’s new NEXT category, created to honor the low-to-no-budget efforts of independent cinema.

BEST OF THE NY INT’L CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL (NR) Each year this festival presents a kaleidoscopic collection of the best new animation, live action and experimental film for children from around the world.

Visit their website (www.gkids.tv/tour) or Ciné’s (www.athenscine.com) for more information.

BIUTIFUL (R) In Barcelona, Uxbal (Javier Bardem) struggles to be a good husband and father, while using his ability to speak to the deceased to eke out a living. Critical reaction has been mixed, with big names like Sean Penn, Werner Herzog, Guillermo del Toro and Julian Schnabel coming to Iñárritu’s defense. Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

BLACK SWAN (R) Great does not begin to describe Black Swan nor does it do this complex film justice. Let’s call Black Swan what it is: stunning, original, another imperfect masterpiece from filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler). Aging ballerina Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) finally lands a lead as the Swan Queen in Swan Lake. But as the pressure mounts, Nina begins to suspect that the pretty new dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis), is out to Single White Female her. Or are her suspicions those

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of a raving lunatic raised by a madwoman, Nina’s mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), on the verge of utter selfdestruction?

BLUE VALENTINE (R) The perfect past and broken present of working class couple Dean and Cindy (Golden Globe nominees Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) is examined in a crosscut fury by writer-director Derek Cianfrance. Early buzz has been strong, though Blue Valentine is supposedly far from a light-hearted romp at the movies.

CASINO JACK (R) This docudrama recounts the rise and fall of superlobbyist Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey, who is sure to garner Oscar buzz) and his business partner, Michael Scanlon (Barry Pepper), who wheeled and dealed with Washington’s most powerful players.

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) Fox’s first entry since snatching up the rights to the popular C.S. Lewis franchise after Walt Disney dropped it, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, hereby known as Narnia 3, continues the series’ downward spiral since the first entry, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER (R) Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney charts the rise and fall of former New York Governor and present CNN anchor Eliot Spitzer. Featuring interviews with the scandal-rocked former politico, Client 9’s poster claims to tell “the real story.”

THE COMPANY MEN (R) TV megaproducer John Wells (“ER,” “The West Wing”) makes his feature film debut with this timely drama. Three men— Bobby Walker, Gene McClary and Phil Woodward (Oscar winners Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones)—deal with losing their jobs in the present recession and the effects on their wives, lives and communities.

COUNTRY STRONG (PG-13) A TV movie with a capital TV, Country Strong boasts some likable individual parts that fail to add up. Country superstar Kelly Canter (Gwyneth Paltrow, doing all her own singin’ and accentin’, y’all) is released from rehab and goes back on the road with a singing beauty queen, Chiles Stanton (Leighton Meester) and a singing cowboy, Beau Hutton (Garret Hedlund). But the pressure of reviving her career and saving her marriage (to a slightly Ricky Gervais-ian Tim McGraw) is too much for the too brightly burning star.

THE DILEMMA (PG-13) The Dilemma delivers its share of actual human drama as Ronny Valentine (Vaughn) agonizes over telling his best friend Nick (Kevin James) that his wife, Geneva (Winona Ryder), is screwing around with a tattooed softie named Zip (Channing Tatum). An overweight plot and characterizations could be pared down to a lighter comedic weight class, yet the movie has its shoddy genre plotting.

FAIR GAME (PG-13) Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) directs this drama based on the government’s outing of CIA Operative Valerie Plame.

Naomi Watts stars as Plame, whose identity was leaked while investigating WMDs in Iraq after her husband, Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece

critical of the Bush administration.

With Ty Burrell (so funny on “Modern Family”), Bruce McGill, Sam Shepard and Brooke Smith.

THE FIGHTER (R) Mark Wahlberg stars as boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, whose brother, Dick Eklund (Christian Bale), helped him train before going pro in the 1980s. Seeking to rehab his image after that awful I Heart Huckabees footage went viral a few years back. David O. Russell took over this project that Darren Aronofsky was prepping prior to The Wrestler. I wonder how welcoming the set was, with the combination of notorious hotheads Russell and Bale. With Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. GHOST BIRD (NR) 2009. In this non-fiction feature film, the hunt is on for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, one of the largest woodpeckers in the world before it was thought to be extinct. After several alleged sightings in a small Arkansas town (the bird was a native to the southeastern United States before its numbers were dwindled by habitat destruction), the world’s top birders have yet to find even one of “Lord God Bird.” Don’t miss the screening plus panel discussion presented by the Oconee Rivers Audobon Society.

THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) See Movie Pick GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (PG) Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, where he towers over the natives.

Directed by Monsters vs. Aliens codirector Rob Letterman. With Emily Blunt and Jason Segel.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG13) I cannot find fault with this flawless penultimate installment of the stalwart franchise. The three young leads have matured tremendously as actors; Emma Watson has improved vastly since the game-changing third film.

Director David Yates continues to bring Rowling’s magical world to life.

HEREAFTER (PG-13) Clint must be feeling mortal. The sturdy old director’s newest film, a supernatural melodrama (it’s not quite his thing), asks and unsuccessfully tries to answer the eternal query: What happens after we die?

HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG-13) An aging (27?!) athlete Lisa Jorgenson (Reese Witherspoon) starts feeling her age and winds up getting involved in a love triangle with her baseball player boyfriend (Owen Wilson) and a crisisridden corporate guy (Paul Rudd).

I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS (R) Scam artist and former police officer Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) plots the big con to escape his second stint in prison and win the heart and freedom of Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor).

Bad Santa scripters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa make their directorial debut with this adaptation of a true story; their comedic presence alone piques my curiosity.

THE ILLUSIONIST (PG) Triplets of Belleville filmmaker Sylvain Chomet returns with this wondrous looking traditionally animated feature. Based on a concept by the late, adored Jacques Tati, The Illusionist is a stage magician struggling against the ebbing tide of vaudeville. Enter a young girl named Alice who changes his life forever.

JACKASS 3 (R) Everything I said four years ago in my Jackass Number Two

review holds true for Jackass 3. It’s disgusting, filthy, violent and fracking hilarious.

THE KING’S SPEECH (R) To combat a nervous stammer, King George VI (Colin Firth), AKA Bertie, works with an unorthodox speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush).

Director Tom Hooper helmed HBO’s excellent “John Adams” and Elizabeth I. This historical picture is shaping up to be Firth’s best Oscar shot yet; the trailer predicts a winner.

LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG-13) When their mutual friends die in a car accident, two singletons (Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel) find themselves thrust into the role of caregiver for their orphaned daughter. Director Greg Berlanti looks to snatch the crown of heartfelt hilarity from Judd Apatow using Apatow’s own Knocked Up queen.

LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13) The Fockers, Greg and Pam (Ben Stiller and Teri Polo), now have a couple of kids, taking a little of grandpa Jack Byrnes’ (Robert De Niro) heat off of Greg. But with the twins’ birthday party on the horizon, old suspicions—and old pals like Teri’s ex Kevin (Owen Wilson)—are returning to haunt male nurse Gaylord Focker.

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS (R) The raunchy romdramedy Love and Other Drugs delivers on its titillating promise to show loads of Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway naked and banging.

MADE IN DAGENHAM (R) Sounds like another satisfying Britcom. In 1968, the female workers at the Ford Dagenham car plant went on strike to protest sexual discrimination. The swell cast includes Sally Hawkins, who probably will not get her first Oscar nomination for this (she should have gotten one for Happy-Go-Lucky) and Bob Hoskins. Director Nigel Cole also helmed A Lot Like Love, Calendar Girls and Saving Grace. Word is good on the script by TV writer William Ivory.

MONSTERS (R) Monsters is easily the most impressive cinematic achievement of the year. British filmmaker Gareth Edwards has outdone scores of lesser moviemakers on a 20th—hell, 40th—of the budget. He has carved a solid genre effort from mumblecore without sacrificing the essence of that American independent-film movement or science fiction.

NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) Two casual friends, Adam and Emma (Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman), try to keep their relationship strictly physical before discovering they’re interested in something more.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (R) What worries me most is how you justify another found footage supernatural thriller without completely ripping off the original or coming off as horribly forced structurally.

RED (PG-13) Retired black ops agent Frank Moses (Willis) is classified RED—Retired, Extremely Dangerous. A good old, lighthearted romp of PG-13 violence and explosions.

SEASON OF THE WITCH (PG-13) Two Crusaders (Nicolas Cage and the welcome Ron Perlman) desert the papal army after being asked to slaughter thousands of innocents. Nothing can redeem this medieval mashup of horror, violence and one-liners.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG-13) By the end of this multi-focused

deposition of founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), a new asshole of an ‘00’s anti-hero has been born to rival the ‘80’s Gordon Gekko and the ‘90’s Hannibal Lecter. And Zuckerberg is real. Acclaimed director Fincher may have crafted his most complete film yet. Understanding he has a razorsharp script from Aaron Sorkin and as many fantastic performances as a group of young actors have given since The Godfather, Fincher lets words and carefully cast actors carry the load, precisely aiming them and hitting bull’seye after bull’s-eye. The Social Network is the best film of the year.

SOMETHING THE LORD MADE (NR) The first in the “Telling the Story: Education and Equality Through The Peabody Lens” series of screenings of Peabody programs in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Desegregation of UGA, Something The Lord Made is the story of two men, Dr. Alfred Blalock, an ambitious white surgeon, and Vivien Thomas, a brilliant black carpenter turned lab technician. Together they defied the racial structures of the Jim Crow south, devised groundbreaking surgical techniques and pioneered the field of heart surgery.

SOMEWHERE (R) Bad boy actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), rocking the Hollywood lifestyle pretty hard at the Chateau Marmont, is visited by his daughter (Elle Fanning, Dakota’s little sister). Oscar winner Sofia Coppola’s new film won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.

TANGLED (PG) Disney’s 50th animated feature entertains like some of the best the House of Mouse has ever offered. Can you imagine how magical this fairy tale could have been had it been traditionally animated and simply titled Rapunzel?

THE TEMPEST (PG-13) Julie Taymor, more acclaimed for Broadway’s The Lion King than any of her film work (Across the Universe) adapts more Shakespeare (she previously filmed a version of Titus).

THE TOURIST (PG-13) Seeing this Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp team-up may be cheaper than a trip to Venice, but anyone wishing to float the canals of that old Italian city would be advised to wait for discount fares..

TRON: LEGACY (PG) Disney’s big budget, 3D sequel to the cult classic picks up right as game designer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) again disappears into the Grid, this time leaving his young son, Sam, behind. When an all growed up Sam (Garrett Hedlund) receives a communication from his estranged dad, the younger Flynn happens upon the Grid and becomes just the revolutionary capable of dethroning the despotic Clu (Bridges, 20 years younger thanks to CGI).

TRUE GRIT (PG-13) A young girl (Hailee Steinfeld) hires gruff U.S. Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to help find the man who killed her father. I am quite thrilled to see Bridges’ take on Wayne’s iconic role as directed by the Coens. With Matt Damon as La Boeuf and Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney.

UNSTOPPABLE (PG-13) The fleet, hour and a half, bullet train that is Unstoppable gets audiences to its destination by the most scenic, suspenseful route.

THE WAY BACK (PG-13) Another POW escape flick à la The Great Escape and Rescue Dawn, The Way Back chronicles the efforts of several soldiers, led by the young (Jim Sturgess, 21), to break out of a gulag in Sovietoccupied Poland.

YOGI BEAR (PG) What can you say about another CGI-live action update of a classic cartoon? Yogi Bear will satisfy the low expectations of children while allowing the parents to disengage.

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movie pick It Stings in a Good Way THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13) More unconventional on paper than Ang Lee’s Hulk, The Green Hornet is an interesting entry in the overpopulated, same-y superhero genre. The original 1930s radio serial created by George W. Trendle begat a 1940s film serial and 1960s television program starring Bruce Lee before spawning this latest, strangest adaptation, directed by French visualist Michel Gondry

(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and written by slacker star Seth Rogen and his Superbad partner Evan Goldberg. What is stranger still is that this unconventional production never really goes beyond convention, and the fun movie is no worse for it.

For those unfamiliar with the Hornet’s M.O., let me brief you. The Green Hornet, AKA newspaper publisher Britt Reid (Rogen), is a masked vigilante who poses as a criminal in order to get close enough to the bad guys to

take them out for the police. By his side is his faithful sidekick, martial arts expert Kato (Jay Chou).

Gondry brings his usually limber visual style to the film. His version of a fight scene—first unveiled when Britt and Kato attempt to foil an assault—is a thrilling bullet-time ballet. Appropriately, Rogen and Goldberg script all the proper markers of a superhero movie before humorously subverting them. Rogen is perfect as their slacking version of the usually dashing Britt Reid, and Chou is not only athletically gifted but slyly, comedically brilliant. However, the star may as well be the car, or cars, Gondry employs to portray the Hornet’s famed Black Beauty, a stunning Chrysler Imperial Crown outfitted with missiles, sidedoor machine guns, ejector seats, you name it.

Yet The Green Hornet suffers from an outdated flaw forged in its creation and magnified by the casting/writing/acting of Rogen.

Ultimately, the Green Hornet isn’t cool because he’s utterly superfluous, a hero in perception only. If Gondry, Rogen and Goldberg intended to critique society through the Hornet’s non-heroicness, they failed. But the movie they made is a blast.

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Douchenozzle Days To riff on the tired old phrase, some of my best friends are conservatives. I know that as an unapologetic leftie writing for a hippie socialist rag like this one, I’m supposed to eschew the company of our brethren on the right, but the fact is that there is nothing wrong with big-C conservatism of the wellconsidered kind. We do need a strong military, government bureaucracy is bloated and wasteful to the point of uselessness in many areas, and the deficit is going to cripple our grandchildren if we don’t get it under control, pronto. My conservative friends make sense, and that’s why they’re my conservative friends.

The Tea Party is nobody’s friend, liberal or conservative. In a nationwide assault on the sense and sensibility of the Republic, the Teabaggers have advanced an agenda of regressive policy, hate mongering and an appeal to all the worst aspects of the human character. The notion that a movement full of white property owners paying some of the lowest taxes per capita in the world can pass themselves off as an oppressed minority should never have passed the Giggle Test on day-one, and yet not only are they thriving, we elected them into office and many of them are sitting down to make public policy even as we speak.

So, we must wait out the next two years of inevitable gridlock as the Teabaggers play obstructionist games within the GOP, the divided Congress stonewalls and lets Obama take the heat for failed or stalled policy, and Sarah Palin plays coy about running for president while cashing in on her baffling cachet. We need something to get us through the douchenozzle days. Here are a few recommendations from my desert-island list (and I’ve never wanted to be on a desert island more than now): The Collected Works of William Shakespeare.

I recommend the Riverside edition or the Arden Shakespeare series. Uncle Will may have been writing for the masses, but you will find a passionate political streak running through his work, particularly on the subject of what makes a good ruler and why bad rulers should be removed. Look at Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and King Lear for examples of this, but you’ll find it everywhere, even in The Tempest.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Perhaps the ugliest aspect of the Tea Party’s ascension—and there are so many to choose from!—is the naked racism the Party allows and condones. It is no accident that the Party coalesced during the current administration and it’s clear that many of the Teabaggers have less of a problem with their taxes than they do with a black president.

Witness the rally with the charming graphic of Obama in witch-doctor drag or the one famous sign calling him a “niggar” (if you can’t even spell the N-bomb correctly, you just may be a redneck—Jeff Foxworthy can send me a check c/o Flagpole). If we’re still having these issues

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on the national stage in the 21st century, then perhaps it would do us all some good to get back to some of the seminal texts on why being a racist asshole is wrong.

I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves. The classicist Graves is never better than in these two books, adapted from The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, about the Roman emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius, told by the last as he grew up dangerously close to the first three. It’s become a weary cliché to compare the U.S. to ancient Rome, but there are lessons to be learned from this historical soap opera of unbridled ambition, treachery and madness, particularly in Augustus’ drive to consolidate his power while claiming it was all for the purpose of restoring the Republic.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein. A Libertarian in the real sense, not whatever Neal Boortz thinks he is, Heinlein didn’t just believe that an armed society is a polite society, he believed that a smart society is a sane society.

He’s taken a lot of flak over the years for his supposed fascism, but it’s hard to argue that a government run by the smartest people beats all hell out of a government run by dumbasses, “populist” though they may claim to be. That’s the central message of Mistress. Time argues, through Heinlein’s immortal alter-ego Lazarus Long, that a free society is one that is run intelligently and with as little interference in the lives of its citizens, including who they can choose to be with, as possible. The latter book is Heinlein’s sweeping manifesto on a wide range of subjects, all of it dedicated to the principle of true common sense.

Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams. This one is a bit hard to find, though it’s worth tracking down. McWilliams makes an eloquent case for the legalization and regulation of drugs, prostitution and gambling, along with the repeal of personal safety laws, as opposed to the Prohibition stance that clogs our legal system, endangers lives and makes those activities profitable for criminals. You may not agree with everything in the book (I don’t) but McWilliams loads his book with so many good arguments and supports that it is a virtual bible for anyone who actually wants to have an intelligent debate on these subjects.

And that’s what we’re going to need in the coming days: books and resources to keep us sharp and inspired until the rest of the country realizes that calling the president a socialist Muslim and telling him to go back to Africa are no substitute for actual governance. Those are my picks; got any suggestions?

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Hopefully, y’all are unfrozen and milling about this week. Yeah, it sucks that you were trapped indoors for a few days last week but, you know what? It’s OK to take a day every now and again and just chill out. Now that you’ve done that, start unchilling out with this week’s news…

Good Show: The Athens Music Collective, a loose grouping of similarly minded artists who play shows together and such, has raised $600 through its last three showcase performances and will use this cash to send one local kid to the Nuçi’s Space 2011 Camp Amped program. Good job, people. For more info on the Athens Music Collective, please see www.facebook.com/pages/Athens-MusicCollective/203845905654.

Turned Off: Even though it shows every sign of going away soon enough—at least in terms of its being the default standard—there’s still enough juice left in myspace.com to make it seem like a good idea for bands. It’s not. In the space of two weeks, I’ve gotten loaded down with no fewer than three viruses simply from trying to listen to bands’ music on the site.

They were particularly nasty ones, too, requiring more than a little effort to get rid of, and my experience is not unique. This is happening to a lot of people. Thus, I’m feeling particularly apprehensive about linking to anyone’s myspace page in this column. There are plenty of good places out there to showcase your music, particularly Bandcamp.com and SoundCloud.com, not to mention Facebook. Bands, African Soul think about your fans. Even though you’re not personally infecting their machines, people tend to remember user experience and, let’s face it, myspace just reeks of 2004.

Coming Around Again: Did you miss the show

by Hope for Agoldensummer a few days ago at Highwire? Well, it’s OK, buddy, because you can catch them again this Friday, Jan. 21 at Flicker Theatre & Bar. They’ll play with World History and Whistling School for Boys.

Recently, Hope for Agoldensummer successfully funded its upcoming album via www. indiegogo.com and is looking toward a springtime release. For more info, please see www. hopeforagoldensummer.com.

Just Up the Hill: Local spoken word (plus music) duo African Soul, composed of Celest Divine Ngeve and “Dren,” will release its newest record, Eclectic Gumbo, at Bulldog Café/ Sky City Lounge (468 North Ave.) on Wednesday, Feb. 2. There’s a new video for the track “Stayin’ In” available for viewing over at www.youtube.com/user/AfricanSoul10, but it’s not much of a video. It’s just a bunch of photos of the duo with the track playing over the top. Generally speaking, I don’t go in much

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for effusively positive proclamations, such as one encounters via African Soul’s regular email missives, but there’s something very genuine and nice about this group. For more info, drop a line to africansoul10@hotmail.com.

Party Like It’s 1990-Something: Someone installed a way-back machine at the 40 Watt.

How else can we explain the upcoming, and pricey, appearances by both Jimmy Eat World (Feb. 7, $26 advance) and The Get Up Kids (Feb. 26, $18 advance)? Luckily for those of you who like to complain that shows start too late and you have to be at work at 8 a.m. and yadda, yadda, yadda, these shows start early.

Doors open at 7 p.m. for Jimmy Eat World and 8 p.m. for The Get Up Kids. That should make it easier for grandpa to get a little shufflin’ in, buy a t-shirt and still report bright and early.

It’s Over: Athens hardcore band American Cheeseburger will play its final show Friday, Feb. 4 at the Caledonia Lounge. Sharing the bill are Primate and Savagist. American Cheeseburger was unique within the Athens hardcore scene in that they managed to gain a sizable and regular following among folks who normally don’t follow hardcore. American Cheeseburger tended to fit seamlessly on bills with bands of many styles, too.

The band formed in 2006 and was initially composed of longtime Athens drummer Jason Griffin (NO!, Divorce, Tres Kids, et al.), vocalist James Greer, guitarist Steve Armstrong and bassist John Andrews (Carrie Nations). Greer would eventually be replaced by Jeff Rapier and Andrews

by Joe Dakin (Hot New Mexicans). While bands come and go all the time, and Griffin is surely already planning his next five projects, this is still a bummer. Thanks for the times, guys.

Hasta Luego, Halo: Athens musician Shauna Greeson has sent word that her band, Hola Halo, has hit the skids. While this particular slice of pop seasoning is gone, Greeson’s other band, Nanny Island, (composed of herself on bass, S.J. Ursrey from Creepy on ukulele and Forrest Leffer [ex-Dark Meat] on drums) is getting back in gear. You can dig through the ashes of Hola Halo over at www.holahalo.com.

Head to the Fred: I’m sure submissions have been pouring in from local bands seeking a spot on the 2011 AthFest compilation CD, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have a chance, too. Submission forms are available at www.athfest.com. Songs should be on a CD and turned in to the AthFest office at 220 College Ave., 3rd Floor (the Fred Building).

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THE RATTLERS Welcome Back to Georgia Independent Release The Rattlers have done so many things right on their debut, Welcome Back to Georgia, recorded locally at John Keane Studios. It’s an absolutely polished Southern rock affair that seemingly leaves no box unchecked on the list of album essentials expected from cocksure rockers.

The stage-tested five-piece delivers strip-joint soundtrack songs about sexy women (see “Walk Away”) and arena-ready, if not unsophisticated, sing-along anthems that’ll be agreeable to crowds in every corner of the state (see “Welcome Back to Georgia”).

Humid, road-weary ballad (and album stand-out track) “Dirtroads” and “Miami Vice”-intense, piano-driven boogie-woogie jam “Travelin’ Man” showcase Tracy Carroll’s vocals—a raspy tenor not unlike a marriage of country-version Kid Rock and an autotuned Eddie Money.

On most tracks Matt Joiner, with a warm, clean tone, exchanges tasteful guitar solos with Michael Moravek’s deft piano and organ work. With obvious skill, their dexterous interplay carries the album. With the recent curiously timed announcement that Joiner is leaving the band, it will be interesting to see if his blues acumen can be replaced.

David Eduardo The Rattlers are playing their last show with Matt Joiner and Kevin Christian at the 40 Watt Club on Saturday, Jan 22.

WISHES YOU A R A E Y W E N Y P P HA The Athens Band would like to sincerely thank all the musicians, club owners and their staff, sound men, writers and press, photographers, music stores and staffs and all our fans who were so supportive of us in 2010. You made it an awesome year for us and may you all have an incredible 2011.

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21-minute-long “Undone” wanders around the universe within your skull with torrents of friction and steel wind bending, all leading to the album’s pinnacle, the anxiously paced, brooding “Cracker Wrist,” with Sollenberger’s howling voice conducting the storm at the top of a molten black-rocked mountain of screeching metal and wire.

Drifting between the lingering ethereal and cathartic noise and split into seven lengthy tracks of celestial sound exploration that could only be contained on double vinyl, Bardo Pond suspends you from your physical state on Earth, cuts the silver-stringed umbilical cord and exalts you into the inexorable light of the next life.

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BEAR HANDS Burning Bush Supper Club Cantora Bursting with astounding freshness and vim, Bear Hands’ sparkling indierock channels the raw, physical snap of Les Savy Fav and stretches across it crisp, taut melodies. The result is a sinewy dance between immediacy and tension, one that pops with natural ease and preternatural perfection.

With stellar opener “Crime Pays,” the album grabs instantly with the perfect stomp and throb. Also single-worthy are the jaunty “High Society” and especially the irrepressible “Belongings,” a steady kicker that pounds the floor as it dizzies the head.

Even in their most meditative, moody moments like the Pinback-esque “What a Drag” and the whispery, sonorous “Tall Trees,” there’s still a highly rhythmic sense of kinesis that ripples throughout.

Angular but liquid, moody but active—there are many feats Bear Hands achieve here. But the best is making an economical yet dazzling debut album that positively pumps with the style, mood and movement of today.

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BARDO POND Bardo Pond Fire A term borrowed from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, “bardo” is the gap between death and re-birth. Fifteen years after their first release, Philly’s six-piece pioneers of “psychdelphia” have finally recorded their eponymous album, Bardo Pond, an eternal hourlong voyage into the void.

The album rises gently like the sun at dawn and ends with a solemn instrumental requiem at dusk. “Just Once” unfurls with Isobel Sollenberger’s soft and stoned wispy drawl washing over guitar-picking and warbling steel and launches into “I Don’t Know About You,” a densely thick stoner-rock jam hailing the apocalypse. The nebulous

FLASH TO BANG TIME Lead Balloon Happy Happy Birthday to Me Perhaps the best comparison one can make to the title track of Lead Balloon, the new 7-inch single from Flash to Bang Time, is The Dismemberment Plan’s classic song

“The Ice of Boston.” In “The Ice of Boston,” Travis Morrison delivers a line that initially seems inconsequential— “Hey! The ice of Boston is muddy”—in a way that is goosebump-inducing.

Likewise, Flash to Bang Time’s Lynda Stipe and Ritchie Williams must strain to hit the high notes in “Lead Balloon” when they sing, “Helium doesn’t help it/ Pinpricks are even more ridiculous.” Yet their delivery makes an oddball line like this one sound goddamn triumphant. The members of Flash to Bang Time have been a band for around 10 years now, and clearly even this rough-around-the-edges sound of their new wave indie-rock is calculated and intentional.

The second track, “Lemon Meringue,” is cleverly split between sides A and B of the record. The psychedelic dissonances and subject matter of the vocals are akin to walking through the remnants of a party at dawn with the feeling that something went horribly wrong the previous night. The third and final song, “Shapeshifters,” is livelier in tempo, yet somehow just as sinister: strings creep in and out, and the way Stipe draws out the word “shapeshifters” in the chorus, you can almost hear her sneering. The song ends abruptly, and so with it the record. Hopefully, Flash to Bang Time will pick up soon where it left off; if this record is only the “flash,” then you can bet the imminent “bang” is going to be a blast.

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JAMES BLAKE James Blake Atlas Recordings The first record I listened to in the New Year turned out to be an (unsurprising) doozy. After the slow build release of three fantastic EPs over the course of 2010, James Blake, one of Britain’s most unceasingly brilliant young producers, has graced the world with a self-titled, full-length album.

The opening track, “Unluck,” serves as an initial reminder of where this artist is coming from, sounding like a lost fifth cut from his CMYK EP, as well as a step through the looking glass, transporting the listener from the known sounds of Blake’s previous work into the transcendent world of his newest ideas. No other piece on the album sounds familiar, and no piece could make this point more strongly than the second.

“Wilhelm’s Scream,” a heartbreaking tune in which a repeated, mournful vocal sample builds into and then is slowly crushed under a dull electronic roar, is a dolefully gorgeous reminder that we are entering new territory. In this piece, and throughout the album, it’s clear that Blake is utilizing fractured beats, exquisite production and his own master touch on the fader to further explicate resonant passages of R&B and gospel vocals, allowing electronics to express levels of emotion that voices alone cannot.

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Built around a foundation of airtight harmonies, dizzying, almost Afrobeat-like percussion and jangling guitars, the band feels like a sporty and foreign alternative to the gas-guzzling rock of Detroit’s past.

“There isn’t a lot of that stuff going on anymore. Bands aren’t using that as the foundation as much as they used to be,” says Adam Pressley, a multi-instrumentalist for Prussia.

Pressley and his cohorts may not be the typical barre chord churning rockers from times past, but the band finds itself among a group of local musicians who are changing perceptions of what bands and artists from Detroit sound like.

“There’s a great DIY scene going on here. A place called Scrummage University brings a lot of great artists and bands into the area,” says Pressley.

While a venue owned by a collective hardly brings to mind the dark-and-dingy-room-with-a-single-light-bulb-swingingfrom-the-ceiling image made popular in 8 Mile, the reality isn’t that far off.

“It’s an old toy factory that was abandoned that has been turned into a music venue. I guess in a way it’s like that scene from 8 Mile,” says Pressley with a laugh.

But the sound of the scene and the validity of the venue hardly matter unless the band is worthwhile. What Prussia excels at is less straightahead rock and roll and more of a jangly and psychedelic take on pop music. Harmonies pop up, instruments drop out, and throughout are off-kilter melodies that feature hooks so big that lead singer Ryan Spencer could land Moby Dick. Imagine Flowers-era Rolling Stones colliding with Animal Collective while hanging out at Vampire Weekend’s house and you’re on the right track.

“Our songs seem to dodge the typical verse-chorus-versebridge-chorus structure and repetition of a typical pop song, but we consider ourselves a typical pop band. We are big fans of pop music; we just try to put our own spin on what we think pop music is,” says Pressley.

The basic ingredients for Prussia’s brand of anti-pop are similar to the more traditionally minded groups, but it’s what the chefs do with those ingredients that sets the band apart.

“It starts with Ryan on the guitar or another instrument. He writes the chords or a vocal melody and then he sends that to the band, and we pick it apart, add parts, subtract parts and rearrange things. In the end, it’s something completely different than what was sent to us,” says Pressley.

“The sound of young America” may have packed up and left for Los Angeles 40 years ago, but the sound of what remains is every bit as exciting, and that sound is coming from Prussia in Detroit.

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I Wanna Do Bad Things with You

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ans of the HBO series “True Blood” are a species apart.

The mere mention of the show is enough to send the zealots of the vampire-drama program into an impassioned conversation about the finer details of the show’s characters and myriad subplots. Mention that you’re interviewing Jace Everett, the Nashville songwriter behind the show’s theme song (“Bad Things”), and Truebies’ eyes light up in astonishment. For this select few, Everett might as well be Mick Jagger, Elvis and the Pope. Combined.

Everett laughs at the attention. “I generally take it in stride and recognize that the majority of people who love the song really love it because they love ‘True Blood,’” he says. “I can’t resent that. I might, on a bad day, but that’d be immature…

I’ve never understood famous people complaining about fame.”

The 38-year-old former construction worker has been through enough ups and downs to have gained a healthy perspective. Growing up in the Dallas area, Everett says he always considered himself a songwriter. A couple decades or so back, you could find Everett playing bass in cover bands, paying his proverbial dues. (“I can play the hell out of ‘Mustang Sally,’” Everett jokes). A few years later, after moving to Nashville, Everett scored a coup by co-writing the title track on Josh Turner’s Grammy Award-nominated album, Your Man. The next week, however, his recording contract with Epic was nixed. It was a simple matter of record labels merging and letting go of artists. So, Everett has no wild-eyed delusions of grandeur when it comes to “Bad Things.”

“I have a great opportunity to become a one-hit wonder here,” he notes. “I fully recognize that. But conversely, I could be a no-hit wonder.”

“True Blood” came about haphazardly. Everett has a friend who works at iTunes who believed very strongly in the song.

Every week, iTunes has a Song of the Week. And in January 2006, thanks in part to Everett knowing someone on the inside, “Bad Things” was chosen. Coincidentally, Alan Ball was working on “True Blood”’s opening sequence and needed a song as a placeholder while putting the imagery together. “Bad

Things” just happened to be the song Ball picked. It worked so well with the credits, however, that it stayed. And that, Everett says, is why he can now sit in his home studio and write songs all day, rather than working odd jobs. “We wouldn’t be talking right now if not for that song,” Everett points out.

Currently, Everett is playing gigs in support of his newest album, Red Revelations, which was co-produced by bluescountry icon Chuck Prophet. Everett and Prophet occupy similar musical territory, as Red Revelations, uh, reveals. Everett’s talent as a crooning, deep baritone is unmistakably spooky, as is his talent for putting together quirky, highly literate lyrics. You could call it high-falutin’, intellectual twang.

Red Revelations puts Everett outside the bounds of traditional Nashville country, however, with its cross-pollination of rockabilly and old-time folk.

Everett feels at home playing a style that can’t easily be categorized. And, referring back to his recording contract falling through, he looks back to that time as being a blessing.

Everett says, “If I had been successful as a mainstream country act,” which he was on his way towards after his hit with Josh Turner, “I would be very unhappy right now.” He would not have had the artistic freedom to do what he enjoys most, such as writing songs that defy easy categorization.

With “Bad Things,” Everett notes, “that put me in a situation where I don’t have to deliver pizzas. I can actually spend the day in my home studio working on the next song. That’s the real freedom I have. And I don’t take it for granted.”

Mark Sanders

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“We’ve been living in Athens since March,” Mallis begins. “Before that we were living in Atlanta. We played in Athens about once a month at Go Bar, and the shows were always a great time. I’d always loved Athens when I was younger, but it really started to make sense to me in the last couple of years.”

Yo Soybean’s lineup is somewhat dynamic, changing form as the group performs. “When we tour it’s just the trio: Andrew Klein on banjo, Ryan Sedgwick on djembe, and myself,” says Mallis. “There are a lot of different instrumentalists who sit in with us around the Southeast, though. We have a new bass player who lives in Athens; his name is Matt Kabus.

Stephanie Jean Davis is still our violinist.

Chris Barnett is playing electric guitar with us now, and he just moved here from Charlotte.

We try to get as many people in on the live show as possible. When I started the band down in Tallahassee a couple years ago, that idea of community music was always the general mentality.”

Though the new album is entitled Manifest Blasphemy, the song with that title appears on Yo Soybean’s first album, Feathers of Aluminum. Explaining the connection, Mallis says, “That song was kind of this philosophical rambling. I was in school at Florida State, and I wrote it as I was watching a street preacher yell at everybody in the middle of campus and saw everybody yell back at him. It was just like a rambling about wanting to get out and travel in response to this philosophical crisis.

And this new ‘Manifest Blasphemy Part II’ was kind of a travel anthem—answering the call of the first song.”

Throughout his songwriting career, Mallis has often displayed a strong voice of dissent against organized religion. “I guess with a lot of the music that I write and a lot of the lyrics, part of it kinda haunts back to growing up in Georgia. I wasn’t raised in a super-intense religious family or anything, but a lot of what was around me was very much like that, and the more you grow up, the more you realize that there’s so much more out there. I wrote

“Revelation$,” from The Townie Sessions, for example, when I was biking around my hometown and stumbled into an old church that my family used to attend when I was a teenager. It got me thinking about a whole wave of bullshit I encountered from the church at a young age… There was this one Sunday school teacher who would always want to talk about the book of Revelation and the end times. Crazy, I know. A 50-year-old man telling a bunch of kids that the sky is going to open up. I just think about that stuff holding humans back from reaching their full potential. I mean, in many ways it does promote love, but there’s so much baggage to it, too.”

Despite making the switch from home recording to the palatial accommodations of Chase Park Transduction, Mallis claims the band still aimed for a warm, intimate feel with its new release. “We actually kinda went for lo-fi at Chase Park, and we recorded a lot of it live. There’s only one song on the record when I’m not playing my guitar and vocals live—just in front of a few mics. It was a really different experience. I’m glad we did it, and I think we got a really cool live sound out of it. Working with Drew [Vandenberg] was great, too. He kind of specializes in that type of recording, and he knew how to get what we wanted out of it.”

As for the future, it sounds like Yo Soybean will be keeping to its busy schedule. “We’ve got about 20 shows booked for right after the CD comes out, all across the Southeast… We have another project called Sam Sniper that involves a lot of the same people, and we’re doing Sam Sniper shows on this tour, too.

We’re basically just trying to tour as much as we can and get this album out. It’ll be available on Bandcamp for a pay-what-you-want fee, and we’ll be selling CDs at the shows for like $2—something really cheap. We basically just want as many people to walk away with copies of the music as possible.”

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Tuesday 18 EVENTS: Bad Movie Night: Aerobicide (Ciné BarCafé) A killer workout, quite literally. 8 p.m. FREE! facebook.com/badmovienight EVENTS: Cary Grant’s Birthday!

(Flicker Theatre & Bar) Come celebrate the ol’ charmer and disarmer with a showing of His Girl Friday. 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar EVENTS: Open House (Children First Pope Street Cottage) Join Children First for a tour of the newly renovated home and learn more about CASA, Family Time and SPARC programs. 5–7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-1922 EVENTS: Paying Tribute to Charlayne Hunter-Gault (UGA Tate Center, Room 142) Highlighting integration at UGA. Part of the 50th Anniversary of Desegregation. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-425-3099, desegregation.uga.edu EVENTS: Stegeman Coliseum Dedication (UGA Stegeman Coliseum) Renovations dedication ceremony. 4 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu PERFORMANCE: Aleksandr Haskin (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Recital from the award-winning flutist. 8 p.m. FREE! (With UGA Student I.D.), $25. 706-542-4400 KIDSTUFF: Anime Night (Oconee County Library) Teens ages 11–17 are invited to enjoy popcorn, beverages and an anime movie on the big screen! 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Exploring Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) For children 6 & under. Accompanied by a story or puppet show. 10 a.m. $10 706-850-8226 www.treehousekidandcraft.com KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Beginning Art (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Children are exposed to basic techiniques and encouraged to explore thier own creative ideas. Materials provided.

Tuesdays, 5–6 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in). 706-410-0283 KIDSTUFF: Recycled Arts (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Kids are invited to explore thier creativity through art projects where found objects are transformed into art pieces.

Tuesdays, 3:45–4:45 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in).

MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) Members and visitors are asked to bring in their treasures and stories about how they were acquired. Unidentified rocks or materials can be brought to this meeting for identification. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8082 MEETINGS: Sitting Meditation Group (Mind Body Institute) Silent meditation. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706475-7329 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations

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Wednesday 19 EVENTS: Boybutante Percentage Night (East West Bistro) All you have to do is eat, drink and be merry and a percentage of your bill will be donated to the Boybutante AIDS Foundation. 5-11 p.m. boybutante. org EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison 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.indigoathens.com PERFORMANCE: Julie Kang Harvey (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Student recital from the pianist. 3:35 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Paul Pollard (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Recital from the guest bass trombone player.

6 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/pac KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: APERO Brown Bag Lecture (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 481) Valerie Babb presents “African American Literature in the Post-Racial (?)

Age.” 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-5425157, desegregation.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Buy What I Say” (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Poetry night feauring local poets. Call for more info. 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0039 LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is Olive Kitteredge by Elizabeth Strout. Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: American Sign Language Study Group (Two Story Coffeehouse) All skill-levels welcome. Come once or come weekly. 7 p.m. FREE! www.myspace. com/aslstudygroup MEETINGS: Daughters for Change Interest Meeting (UGA Tate Center, Room 482) Come to learn about the creation of Daughters for Change and meet the founders.

7:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 404-7516838 GAMES: Dart League and Pool Tournament (Alibi) Meet up with other sharp-shooters. FREE! 706549-1010 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

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6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com 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

Thursday 20 EVENTS: iFilms: Bass Ackwards (ACC Library) After being spurned by his lover and kicked off his friend’s couch, Linas Phillips hits the road with nothing to lose. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 EVENTS: Winterville Senior Programs Kickoff (Downtown Winterville, Winterville Depot) The Winterville Depot holds an Open House event to celebrate its new partnership with Athens Community Council on Aging. The depot will begin holding new senior programming at the end of the month. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-742-8600 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: Art Show (Jack’s Bar) Ceramics, mixed media and sculptural work

by Taylor Robenalt. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 912-604-8560 KIDSTUFF: Baby Music Jam (ACC Library) Children ages 1-3 and their caregivers get to play instruments, sing and dance together! 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 Thursday. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Origami Workshop (Oconee County Library) Learn how to make zany animals and objects from paper! For children in second grade and up. 4 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Puzzle Making (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Make a puzzle using wooden blocks. 4 p.m. $10. 706-850-8226 www.treehousekidandcraft.com GAMES: Beer Pong (Alibi) The classic tournament-style game. 9 p.m.

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Friday 21 EVENTS: Dawgs After Dark: Things That Go BUMP in the Night (UGA Tate Center) Late-night activities for students including blacklight ping pong, air hockey, putt putt golf and laser tag. 10 p.m.

FREE! (students), $5. 706-5426396, www.uga.edu/union

“A Year on the Hill,” a collaborative photography exhibition of work by Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer is at the Lamar Dodd School of Art through Feb. 11.

PERFORMANCE: Body Language (New Earth Music Hall) Dancefx spring studio concert featuring jazz, tap, hip-hop, ballroom and more. 9 p.m. $15. www.newearthmusichall. com OUTDOORS: Nature Skills Adventure Weekend (Orange Twin Conservation Community) Connect with nature while learning wilderness survival skills. Weekend includes all food and camping. Jan 21–23, 5 p.m. $125 (adult), $225 (Family of 2), $300 (Family of 3), $350 (Family of 4, $50 per additional family member). 706-224-2490, www.wildintelligence.org KIDSTUFF: Afterhours @ The Library (ACC Library) Teen coffeehouse and open mic. Come sing, dance, play an instrument, read poetry or juggle. Refreshments provided. Ages 11–18. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: IWS Friday Speaker Series (UGA Miller Learning Center) The Institute for Women’s Studies and speaker Elizabeth Whittenburg Osment present “Constructing Southern White Masculinity: The Columbia Flying Artillery Recruitment Video.” 12:20 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2846, tlhat@ uga.edu

Saturday 22 EVENTS: Adoption Day (Pawtropolis) Athens Canine Rescue brings their pups out for a chance at finding a new home. Come check out the cute offerings from 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athenscaninerescue.com EVENTS: Beekeeping Fair (Oglethorpe County Library) Learn about honeybees, beekeeping equipment, honey production and using beeswax. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! ocbeeclub.org

EVENTS: Fitness Festival (American Black Belt Academy) Free fitness assessment and consultations, training classes and workshops on fitness, nutrition and goal-setting. From 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

FREE! www.americanblackbelt.org/ fit-fest.html EVENTS: Open House (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Look into the past and visit the 1800s Log House.

Learn crafts and games perfect for cold winter months. 1–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure EVENTS: Unity Ball 2011 (UGA Tate Center, Grand Hall) Presented by UGA Black Affairs Council. Formal attire encouraged. 7–11 p.m. $6 (student), $10. 706-542-5197, desegregation.uga.edu ART: Opening Reception (ATHICA) For “Taking Part,” an exhibit of participatory art projects by six artists who incorporate input from the public. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.athica.org ART: Walk with Me: Athens (ATHICA) Join local artist Hope Hilton as she leads a participatory walk around the Chase Park neighborhood. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www. athica.org OUTDOORS: Nature Skills Adventure Weekend (Orange Twin Conservation Community) See Jan. 21 Outdoor Listing Jan 21–23, 5 p.m. $125 (adult), $225 (Family of 2), $300 (Family of 3), $350 (Family of 4, $50 per additional family member). 706-224-2490, www. wildintelligence.org KIDSTUFF: Story & Craft: The Little Engine that Could (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Make a craft inspired by the book. 10 a.m. $10. 706-850-8226 www.treehousekidandcraft.com GAMES: Star Trek 2E Tournament (Tyche’s Games) Open tournament format. Noon. $1. 706-354-4500, www.tychesgames.com

Sunday 23 PERFORMANCE: Opole Philharmonic (UGA Hodgson Hall) The Opole Philharmonic of Poland performs works by Mozart, Strauss and Paderewski. Introductory lecture by doctoral student Vanessa Tome at 6:45 p.m. 7:30 p.m. $20-47 (Discounts for UGA students and groups of 15 or more). 706-5424400 OUTDOORS: Nature Skills Adventure Weekend (Orange Twin Conservation Community) See Jan. 21 Outdoor Listing Jan 21–23, 5 p.m. $125 (adult), $225 (Family of 2), $300 (Family of 3), $350 (Family of 4, $50 per additional family member). 706-224-2490, www. wildintelligence.org GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Amici Italian Café) Come test your knowledge! 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Weekly Trivia! 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655

Monday 24 EVENTS: “The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics” (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 248) Lecture presented by Paul B. Thompson, a Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer. 4 p.m. FREE! www.cha.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: HACKS III: Stand-up Comedy (Caledonia Lounge) Featuring sets by Karen Hilton, Gordon Lamb, Chris Patton, Andy Hollingsworth, Jeff Dineen, John O’Loughlin, Craig Hoelzer, Stephen Cramer, Will Kiser and Luke Fields. 9 p.m. $3 (21+), $5 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies

Tuesday 25 KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Exploring Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) 10 a.m. $10 706-850-8226 www.treehousekidandcraft.com KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Beginning Art (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Children are exposed to basic techiniques and encouraged to explore thier own creative ideas. Materials provided.

Tuesdays, 5–6 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in). 706-410-0283 KIDSTUFF: Recycled Arts (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Kids are invited to explore thier creativity through art projects where found objects are transformed into art pieces.

Tuesdays, 3:45–4:45 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in).

LECTURES & LIT.: Brown Bag Lunch (ACC Library) Join local naturalist and photographer Chuck Murphey for a discussion on mason bees. Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program. 12:15 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “Building Bridges in Times of Crisis” (UGA Chapel) Join Sylvia Earl, National Geographic explorerin-residence and former chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-1830, hpy@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Malnutrition: Genes, Vaccines and Means to Intervene” (UGA Chapel) Physician researcher William Petri will discuss how individual genetic differences influence susceptibility to malnutrition. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5038, murrayd@uga.edu

Wednesday 26 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison 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.indigoathens.com EVENTS: Network Athens (The Rialto Room) Celebrating local business through networking, hors d’oeuvres, special guests and live music. 7–9 p.m. RSVP at www. indigoathens.com/bizparty KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: American Sign Language Study Group (Two Story Coffeehouse) All skill-levels welcome. Come once or come weekly. 7 p.m. FREE! www.myspace. com/aslstudygroup MEETINGS: Daughters for Change Interest Meeting (UGA Tate Center, Room 482) Come to learn about the creation of the Daughters for Change and meet the founders.

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Moderated by Dr. Richard Neupert. 4 p.m. FREE! www.cha.uga.edu EVENTS: 3rd Annual Chilly Dawg 5K 1/29 (Sandy Creek Park) Run or walk your way to the finish on paved paths throughout the park.

Proceeds benefit the College of Family and Consumer Sciences Alumni Association and the ARCH Foundation of UGA. 9 a.m. $20.

706-542-3386, www.active.com EVENTS: Elegant Salute XII: Metamorphosis 1/29 (Georgia Museum of Art) Official reopening celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony. Explore the new museum and enjoy a night of cocktails, dinner and dancing. 7 p.m. $250. 706-5420437, www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Third Annual Green Life Expo 1/29 (The Classic Center) Exhibits, educational seminars, recycling opportunities and kids’ activities focused on green living. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! 706-208-0900 www.classiccenter.com EVENTS: The Ultimate Bridal Show 1/30 (Georgia Center) Hosted by the Athens Wedding Professionals. 12–5 p.m. $8. 706542-2134, www.athensweddingprofessionals.com ART: “Drawing from the Soul” 1/31 (UGA Tate Center, Grand Hall) Exhibition featuring pieces from Dawud Anyabwile’s graphic novel series “Brother Man.” Light refreshments will be served. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8468, www.uga.edu/aacc MEETINGS: Mindfulness Practice Group 2/11 (Mind Body Institute) Beginners and experienced mindfulness practitioners welcome. Meets the second Friday of each month.

5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329 KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime 2/12 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and their resident creatures. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615, www.accleisureservices.com KIDSTUFF: Nature Trading Post 2/19 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Program intended to encourage personal nature exploration and raise awareness about ecological connections among young collectors. Participants earn points for their collected items. The points can be banked or used to trade for another object from the Nature Center’s Trading Post. Kids, bring an adult to participate! 11 a.m.–noon. FREE! 706-613-3615 OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk 2/19 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706613-3615 EVENTS: 17th Annual OCAF Thrift Sale 3/13 (OCAF) Over 10,000 items for sale. Find antiques, furniture, trinkets, tools, toys, electronics, lawn and garden supplies, pottery, clothing and so much more. Benefits the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation.

8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com * Advance Tickets Available

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THEATRE: Fuddy Meers 1/27 (UGA Fine Arts Building) UGA’s Department of Theatre Studies presents this comic mystery. Jan. 27–29 & Feb. 2–5, 8 p.m. Feb. 6, 2:30 p.m. $12–$15. 706-542-4400, www. drama.uga.edu/events/boxoffice LECTURES & LIT.: I Love Lucy Panel Discussion 1/28 (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 148)

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

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com FALCONES Local band that serves up crunchy, stripped down rock and k continued on next page

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LECTURES & LIT.: Women to the World (Trumps on Milledge) This month’s theme is “Celebrating Afgan Women” with keynote speaker Doris Aldrich. Program includes lunch, live music and hard-hitting information. Call for reservations. 12 p.m. $18. 706-548-0000 MEETINGS: Sitting Meditation Group (Mind Body Institute) Silent meditation. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706475-7329 MEETINGS: Upper Oconee Watershed Network Annual Meeting (Ciné BarCafé) With food and drinks, plus updates on Trail Creek and other local water news.

7–9 p.m. FREE! www.uown.org 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: Poker Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Last Tuesday of every month. 8:30 p.m. www.myspace. com/flickerbar

Weekly Events

and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture language skills.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing (UGA Bookstore) Laura Spinella will be signing copies of Beautiful Disaster, a novel set in Athens. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3171 LECTURES & LIT.: Goodbye Blue Monday Poetry Open Mic (Dog Ear Books) Every 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. For musicians’ open mic, drop by on the 1st or 3rd Mondays. 8 p.m. FREE! 706818-0976 LECTURES & LIT.: Poetry Reading (Ciné BarCafé) Rick Campbell, Pushcart Prize and Walt McDonald Prize winner, reads from his newest book, Dixmont. 7 p.m.

706-542-3481, davidi@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Paul B.Thompson (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 248) The Willson Center presents “The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics.” 4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu GAMES: Board Game Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Choose from the classic assortment provided or bring your own! 6 p.m. FREE! www. myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge every Monday! 8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Monday night. Bring your friends! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? 8 p.m. 706548-3442

Canine Cocktail Hour 5-7p on The Madison Patio Pet-friendly $3 Salty-Dogs & Greyhounds

THURSDAY - 1/20

Live After Five 6p in The Madison Bar & Bistro Artist: Dan Nettles

FRIDAY - 1/21

Local Libations The Madison Bar & Bistro Enjoy $5 specialty cocktails Now featuring $6 “S’Mores for 2” by the fire

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roll in the vein of The Stooges and Dinosaur Jr. WHAT’S GOING ON? No info available.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 1560 Oglethorpe Ave. NO SHAME! Open mic hosted by Rose of Athens Theatre.

a benefit for Nuçi’s Space What would happen if you and your co-workers formed a band and were given a chance to perform in front of a sold-out crowd at the world-famous 40 Watt Club in downtown Athens, GA?

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 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. Every Tuesday!

The Max Canada 9 p.m. $2. 706-254-3392 GHOST LIGHTS Local grunge: lo-fi, slowed down and with a hint of hope.

GRINNIN’ BEAR Expect fast-paced country and bluegrass tunes from this local band.

The Melting Point “Terrapin Bluegrass Series.” 9 p.m. $4. www.meltingpointathens.com DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE With vocals that are at once heartbreaking and hopeful, Mayfield pays homage to early rock and roll and soul with a good dose of country twang.

Bands currently registered: Static Pressure - D&D Heating and Air Conditioning Inc. The One Hitters – Volo Trading, Inc. The Fret Dressers – Baxendale Guitars The McCommunists – Flagpole Magazine Clusterphunk – Hendershot’s Coffee & Jittery Joes Tasting Room Depeche Motorhead – Partner Software Boy George Clinton – Partner Software The Wilfred Brimley Extravaganza Family Band Project – Transmetropolitan Çicago – Nuçi’s Space Brian Jones Eno Town Massacre - Thrasher Photo & Design 80# Cougar – Bel Jean Copy & Print Center Hot Breath Glass Studio/ L Marie Adams Inc./Ware Tutoring Waffle House Caledonia Lounge Mama’s Boy Athens Banner Herald Epting Events

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• Register online by noon on January 20th and receive free rehearsal time at Nuçi’s Space • You only need to prepare 15 minutes of cover songs (about 3 songs) to participate • Have fun playing music while helping to raise funds for a great local nonprofit organization Performances start February 2nd, 3rd and 4th at the 40 Watt Club Grand Finale Event on Saturday, February 19th, 2011 visit our website for details

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Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens TIM FAST Acoustic folk from Minnesota.

GHETTO MEZRAB Local experimental jazz jams with an extra dose of funk.

bad backing tracks that tend to mention the word “dip” a lot.

GUN PARTY Local band featuring members of Fashion Knee High.

Playing anthemic, soulful rock.

MODERN PARANOIA Employing clean guitars over dancey drum beats and bouncy bass, this Atlanta band recalls early Red Hot Chili Peppers.

MUD SCHOLAR Alec McKelvey’s (ex-Crumbling Arches) “douchebag-alter-ego-obnoxious-satiremusic-act.”

Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Local jazz duo featuring Jeremy Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor saxophone. Dial Indicators play standards from the ‘20s through the ‘50s plus original compositions.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 MARY SIGALAS Talented local jazz vocalist Mary Sigalas performs with her new classic jazz, swing and blues band.

The Manhattan Café 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-9767 A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE An evening of Jamaican bluebeat, rock-steady and dancehall music circa 1960-70.

Hosted by DJ Jack Jiggles & Mr. Strayhorn.

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The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com JACKSON COUNTY LINE This Atlanta group plays gentle country songs with harmonized vocals accentuated by mandolin, pedal steel, trumpet and cello.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com DIP Young guys cracking themselves up with silly, nonsense songs with

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $3. blog.newearthmusichall.com SPICY SALSA DANCING Learn how to salsa dance. No partner or experience necessary.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday and Friday with Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

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

THE GOOD DOCTOR Since starting out as a trio of Berklee College of Music graduates, the band has expanded into a five-piece funk-rock band.

SING SING ‘76 Melodic, emotive pop-rock from (believe it or not) Spartanburg, SC. Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer.com JASON & THE PUNKNECKS L.A.based cowpunk duo that blends punk, country, folk and bluegrass.

283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DJ Z-DOG Zack “Z-Dog” Hosey spins dance classics, punk, ‘80s and more.

Tonight, he focuses on metal.

PASTOR OF MUPPETS Local Metallica tribute band.

Thursday 20 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ADAM KLEIN AND FRIENDS Local singer-songwriter and collaborators offer a blend of the finest elements of folk, Americana and mainstream country with poetic lyricism and striking imagery to create engaging, well-crafted songs.

SAILORS & SHIP New band fronted by local songwriter Jeremy Wheatley along with Matt Stoessel and Thayer Sarrano.

THAYER SARRANO Local singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist with lovely, airy vocals singing dark, gentle melodies over guitar while backed by Zack Hosey and friends.

Friday, January 21

Young Goodman Brown and the Workingman’s Union, Matt Butcher Little Kings Shuffle Club Goodman Brown’s roots weave through a not-so-distant Southern landscape that nourished itself on a steady diet of gambling, rambling and the Piedmont blues. “You know, Goodman Brown I was fresh out of college; I was playing poker a lot, professionally or semi-professionally, however you want to call it. I just learned to play guitar when I was 18, so it took about three years before I felt comfortable enough to play in front of a crowd,” Brown says.

He began touring the “Triple-A Triangle,” as he calls it (Athens, Atlanta and Augusta), in the winter of 2008 and has been compared to the likes of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Mississippi John Hurt. When he’s playing solo these associations are valid, but when he’s with the Workingman’s Union his sound transcends his folksy beginnings with what Brown calls a more “country soul” feel.

Brown is celebrating the release of his debut EP, Songs from the Great Small World, at the show on Friday. “It’s five songs, with me on the guitar and my buddy, Josh Thane.

So, it’s just me, a little banjo, some mandolin and some slide guitar here and there, pretty stripped down for the most part,” Brown says. He also hopes this release will serve as a launching pad for his publishing company, Workingman’s Music Publishing. Songs from the Great Small World is the first half of a two-part CD, featuring live songs with Workingman’s Union. A music video featuring footage from this show is also in the works.

Keep an eye on wistful Matt Butcher and his live band, The Revolvers, as they team up with Brown for their upcoming Florida tour. [Patrick McGinn]

rock reminiscent of early Beatles and Byrds.

Friday, January 21

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Dead Confederate, Kuroma, Bambara, Ruby

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 TANGENTS This country-fried rock group from Watkinsville carries Lynyrd Skynyrd licks and John Mellencamp melodies.

40 Watt Club Ruby Kendrick has been holding out on us.

Up until recently, she was a landscape architecture major at UGA, but she had a well of gently sung folk songs that had been accumulating since her days in middle school. Recording, releasing or performing them live simply hadn’t been something she had ample opportunity to do until she moved here from Milledgeville.

“Athens has so many musicians and people Ruby Kendrick who want to collaborate, but when you live other places you’re kinda forced into Hermitville,” she says. After meeting local musician/producer Nate Nelson through mutual friends, she made a commitment: “It was just kind of a New Year’s resolution for 2010 to record some stuff.”

The resulting forthcoming album, No Weight No Chain, was tracked at Nelson’s downtown studio and then mastered at Chase Park Transduction by Drew Vandenberg. But “forthcoming” might not be the most accurate way to describe it: “It’s finished… I’m just kinda sitting on it,” Ruby laughs. “But it’s done… they’re here, in boxes, on my floor. I might not sell them at this show; I might hold off and kind of make one special show for the first time I sell them. Who knows?”

Ruby’s unrushed demeanor neatly corresponds to her breezy musical sensibility and honeyed voice. With her album finished, she took her songs to the stage this past October, backed by Nelson, Vandenberg and percussionist Jeremy Wheatley. “It was kind of a long time coming, really. I didn’t know how I would like it, but of course I loved it.

I was very honored to have Jeremy and Drew and Nate; it was a blessing and too good to be true, really.” Besides her upcoming performance opening for Dead Confederate, you can also enjoy her songs as set to florid psychedelic videos by local polymath Steven Trimmer on YouTube. For everything else, we’ll just have to wait. [Jeff Tobias]

Farm 255 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE GOONS New indie-poprock featuring members of The Glands, Casper & the Cookies and Marshmallow Coast.

THE NEW SOUND OF NUMBERS Experimental pop and post-punk project led by Hannah Jones, percussionist for Supercluster.

DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MOTHS Featuring Jacob Morris of Ham1, Moths plays a mostly acoustic sort of ‘70s folk-rock with a pop sensibility and an inevitable psychedelic tinge.

TOM(B) TELEVISION Hip-hop and indie-rock songs over looped instrumentation from Thomas Valadez, Future Ape Tapes co-founder and bassist for Moths and Superfighter.

CHRISTOPHER TOWE Local singersongwriter.

Hilltop Grille 8-11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 MILLIGAN Acoustic duo performing a set of cover songs from CSNY to Johnny Cash to Jack Johnson to Maroon 5, this band reworks both classic rockers and some more recent hits.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com THE ATHENS BAND Young local rockers ranging in age from 11-15, with classic rock influences.

BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS Local, quirky pop rock.

DR. SQUID Jangly, frenetic rock and roll at its best when emphasizing its British Invasion sounds.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar ATTACHED HANDS Experimental noise soundscapes.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 BORDERHOP TRIO This bluegrass trio sums up its sound in two words: “high” and “lonesome.”

Hotel Indigo 6–8 p.m. www.indigoathens.com DAN NETTLES Jazz compositions from guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s frontman.

The Max Canada 9 p.m. $2. 706-254-3392 ODIST This local three-piece weaves layers of dark, reverb-laden guitars for a sound that’s somewhere between prog and shoegaze. Odist names Mars Volta and At the DriveIn as key influences.

SLEEPING FRIENDS Unpredictable yet structured, experimental garage pop featuring members from local bands Bubbly Mommy Gun and Quiet Hooves.

WOODFANGS Expect grungy, lo-fi psychedelic pop from this local outfit.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com JACE EVERETT Original Americana singer/songwriter from Nashville best-known for his song “Bad Things,” which scores the intro to each sexy, blood-sucking epsiode of “True Blood.” See story on p. 16.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $8. www.newearthmusichall. com PAPADOSIO A combination of eclectic musical traditions with modern electronica.

UP UNTIL NOW Local duo plays electronic dance music with driving uptempo beats and catchy melodies.

The Office Lounge 7-11 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 BLUEGRASS PICKIN’ NIGHT Hosted by John Boggin and the Rockinwood Mountain Boys.

Every 1st and 3rd Thursday.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens CONNECTED HOUSES Funky blues four-piece from Athens.

TASTES LIKE GOOD Rock with improvisational leanings plus covers.

THIEVES MARKET Local alternative rock band.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5–7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com THE VINYL STRANGERS Timelessly charming classic-sounding pop

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 LUTHER’S BOOT The original members of Luther’s Boot are getting back together for a special night of Outlaw Country debauchery.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $5 (18+). www. thebadmanor.com DJ ANTHONY D Dance party!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5. www.caledonialounge.com MR. FALCON High-energy, indie garage rock influenced equally by The Kinks and Pixies.

NOW YOU SEE THEM Asheville band promises “super fun acoustic indie-folk!”

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

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. See story on p. 17.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DARNELL BOYS The three Darnell brothers play and sing country blues originals backed by upright bass, singing saw and junkyard percussion.

WITCHES Local oufit plays edgy, melodic rock led by the rich vocals of Cara Beth Satalino with touchstones that include The Breeders and Neil Young.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER Charming and highly praised local neo-folk band delivers the thriftstore gospel featuring the captivating vocal harmonies of the Campbell sisters.

WHISTLING SCHOOL FOR BOYS Experimental performance artist whose sets are often interactive and always unpredictable. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

WORLD HISTORY Folk duo sings ecstatic lyrics and corrals wayward instruments into tiny sound armies with an orchestrated abandon.

40 Watt Club “Georgia Theatre Presents.” 9 p.m. $8 (adv.) www.40watt.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.

DEAD CONFEDERATE With its moody, dark weaving of Southern rock and grunge, Dead Confederate is quickly ascending in popularity across the nation and beyond.

RUBY KENDRICK Local singersongwriter with a sweet voice and piercing lyrics. See Calendar Pick on this page.

KUROMA Hank Sullivant’s (exWhigs, MGMT) band has a big rock sound, fueled by Queen-esque guitar solos, dreamy vocals and an affinity for stage theatrics. k continued on next page

Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE

$4 admission • Terrapin Draft Specials All Night!

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19

JACKSON COUNTY LINE Tickets $5 adv.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20

JACE EVERETT

Tickets $7 adv. • $10 at the door

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21

MOTHER’S FINEST

Tickets $20 adv. • $25 at the door

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22

BLACK OAK ARKANSAS featuring JIM DANDY Tickets $15 adv. • $20 at the door

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

SEVEN HANDLE CIRCUS $4 admission • Terrapin Draft Specials All Night!

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26

EFREN

MATRIMONY Tickets $5 adv.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

TERRY ADAMS (NRBQ) ROCK AND ROLL QUARTET BLUE DOGS

Tickets $10 adv. • $15 at the door

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS

Tickets $12 adv. • $15 at the door

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 Nomad Artists presents

DAVE BARNES Tickets $15 adv. • $20 at the door

JUST ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

JIM WHITE

Tickets $10 adv. • $15 at the door

COMING SOON 2/1 - UGLY COUSIN 2/3 - DAVE BERN 2/4 - HOLMAN AUTRY BAND 2/5 - DEJA VU - CSN&Y Tribute 2/7 - THE CIVIL WARS 2/9 - JIM WHITE 2/11 - ABBEY ROAD LIVE! 2/12 - FRANCINE REED 2/18 - THE HIGHBALLS 2/22 - CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS 2/24 - SATISFACTION - Rolling Stones Show 2/25 - RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND 3/5 - DIRK HOWELL BAND LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF 3/10 - COLIN HAY Solo Show

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THE CALENDAR! Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE CREEPER New band featuring Thomas Johnson from The Interns.

DJS DANGERZONE Z-Dog and Rachel Barnes team up for a dance night of hip-hop, pop and cheesy ‘80s rock.

Hilltop Grille 8-11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 THE BACUPS Local cover band plays fun ‘60s tunes from The Beatles to The Temptations.

Jack’s Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE! 912-604-8560 DREW DAVIS Soulful female vocalist and pianist all the way from Columbus, OH. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub MATT BUTCHER AND THE REVOLVERS Music for late night drives, Butcher’s aching Americana is stark and soulful.

WORKINGMAN’S UNION Young Goodman Brown leads this band through gospel grooves and oldtime Appalachia melodies with charming lyrics. Celebrating the release of their new EP, Songs from the Great Small World. See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

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SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing progressive jam rock.

Sideways 10 p.m. 706-319-1919 DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original mixes of mainly current pop with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica.

283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 FERAL YOUTH & DJ GRAVEROBBERS Local DJs Chris Howe and Winston Parker spin high-energy electronic, rock and pop mashups backed by big house beats.

Saturday 22 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. $10. 706-850-8500.

ZACH DEPTY Solo guitarist who plays uptempo reggae/rock and croons funkily over the beats.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com MOTHER’S FINEST Hit-making funk band from Atlanta that’s been tearing it up since the ‘70s with a genre-defying sound that’s dipped into R&B, hip-hop, rock and even metal.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE GOLD PARTY This local band plays danceable new wave and synth-driven glam.

SUGAR AND GOLD Sharing members with Yip Deceiver, Sugar and Gold plays a danceable pop mix of electro, new wave and psychedelia.

YIP DECEIVER An infectiously fun blend of feel-good radio pop and noise-bending electro.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $15. www.newearthmusichall. com MELO-X Progressive DJ, emcee and producer whose diverse projects explore hip-hop, soul, electronica and reggae.

SAMIYAM This DJ/producer offers an unconventional mix of beats, samples and electronica swirling along at unpredictable rhythms.

TWO FRESH Electronic hip-hop meets jazz.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE KICKBACK Melodic indie band with big hooks infused with elements of alternative rock and electronica.

UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS Melodic new rock project featuring Nate Nelson and Hunter Morris (Gift Horse)!

THE WINTER SOUNDS New wave, punk and synth-pop melded into lyrically inspiring songs.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE GEORGIA WHISKEY BAND Seasoned musicians playing an array of Southern rock, country, R&B and soul.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar (SEMICIRCLE Local project featuring dreamy vocals, sweeping strings and gently plucked acoustic guitar.

BROTHERS Classical-leaning side project from Soapbar’s Ryan Moore.

ORYX & CRAKE Indie rock that mixes in elements of psych pop, electronica and R&B. Recommended for fans of Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver and Arcade Fire.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens ACTUAL PROOF Funk/jazz fusion. Think Parliament and Herbie Hancock mixed with Pink Floyd.

Flight Tapas and Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flighttapasathens. com PETER ALVANOS AKA Fabulous Bird, local troubadour Peter Alvanos plays bright, ‘60s-inspired pop.

Friday, January 21

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com FREE MOUNTAIN Locl rock supergroup featuring guitarist Kevin Sweeney (Hayride), vocalist Jared Hasmuk (Dictatortots), bassist Bryan Howard (The HEAP) and drummer Mark Brill (Hayride). Playing straight-up, loud rock and roll!

MATT JOINER TRIO Bluesy classic rock featuring The Rattlers’ former lead guitarist.

THE RATTLERS Athens’ own energetic Southern rockers with a guitar-driven sound and an exciting show. Tonight is the last show with guitarist Matt Joiner and bassist Kevin Christian. Celebrating the release of their new album, Welcome Back to Georgia.

Flicker Theatre & Bar

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar GRAVEROBBERZ Winston Parker spins high-energy electronic, dance and rock music.

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and friends spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 2 p.m. $5. 1560 Oglethorpe Ave. CONCERT FOR KIDS Featuring 706 Band, Athens, Tealvox and more. A benefit for ASP Music Program.

Hilltop Grille 8-11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 JAZZ NIGHT Every Saturday!

Featuring The Chris Enghauser Trio and a rotation of musicians.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $2. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub INCENDIARIES Ladies of pedigree enforcing angular sensibilities.

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

MONAHAN Ryan Monahan backed by Josh McMichael on bass. Ryan has a gorgeous, expressive Jeff Buckleyesque voice that soars and sighs with equal grace.

SHARKS AND MINNOWS Tuneful alt-pop from Atlanta.

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

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com BLACK OAK ARKANSAS Grizzled Southern rock with 10 charted

Whistling School for Boys, Hope for Agoldensummer, World History Sabrina Cuadra founded Whistling School for Boys in 2006 as a solo musical project while a resident of Miami. Two years later, Sabrina had moved to Athens and Sabrina Cuadra was throwing stuffed animals and sugar-and-butter sandwiches at an audience at PopFest. It’s safe to say that the Whistling School had made a sharp left turn into the world of performance art. “I start with a template of what I want to achieve overall—what kind of feelings I want to transmit,” she says. “At Athens PopFest, I wanted people to feel uncomfortable and challenged, to have art and performance in a rock club. And so I wanted to kind of insult and throw stuff at people, but cute things, like candy. Fun things, so it’s not mean, more fun.”

This whimsical art-school approach to the catch-all Whistling School is what makes Sabrina’s project one of the most unpredictable acts in Athens. It’s also one of the most imperceptible, as you may have seen Sabrina’s work without being aware of it. “In Athens, I’ve taken a break from performing with music to just perform with video,” she says. In the past few years, she’s been responsible for glimmering, hypnotic video and light shows for Flash to Bang Time, Everybody Everybody, Gemini Cricket, 63 Crayons, and Nate Mitchell’s Soul Spectacular dance parties. Additionally, an unofficial video for Animal Collective’s “Purple Bottle” by Sabrina (which features Merce Cunningham-style choreography) has also garnered over 300,000 plays. This year sees a return to Whistling School for Boys’ roots of music but with the added arsenal of video and performance art aspects needed to achieve Sabrina’s desired transmissions. [Jeff Tobias]

albums released in the ‘70s. Tonight featuring Jim Dandy.

New Earth Music Hall “Winter Heat.” 9 p.m. $10. www.newearthmusichall.com RICH ROCK This DJ spins primarily hip-hop mixes with a party vibe.

BEN SAMPLES Ben Samples of duo Fresh2Death spins crunk glitch-hop with bass-heavy remixes.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5. 706-546-0840 THE BIG DON BAND Don Spurlin’s band delivers “workingman’s blues from a country perspective” with a catalog of Southern blues covers and originals.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens DANK SINATRA Improvisation-heavy electronica mixed with elements of jazz, rock and reggae.

DEEP FRIED 5 Satiasifed, synthy party music with funky riffs, from Spring Hill, TN. Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30–7:30 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer.com DOMINO EFFECT Smooth reggae from Savannah infused with cool funk and soul.

283 Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. mashes up high-energy electro and rock. Dance contest tonight with a $50 first prize and a Best Booty bonus round!

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Sugar and Gold is playing at the Caledonia Lounge on Saturday, Jan. 22.

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Farm 255 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com GREEN GERRY Particularly dreamlike and subtly electronic local artist featuring lots of looping.

PRUSSIA These Detroit boys have a sound that is part melodious pop, part Afro-beat and filled with beautiful harmonies. See story on p. 15.

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

Monday 24 Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE!, $3 to play. 706-3533050.

OPEN MIC Mondays! Hosted by local soulful singer Kyshona Armstrong.

The Max Canada 9 p.m. $5. 706-254-3392 THE K-MACKS Danceable, highenergy country-fried punk rock for fans of acts like The Avett Bros.

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

THE TENANT Led by the dreamy vocals of Brad Register (ex-Summerbirds in the Cellar), The Tenant offers moody pop melodies featuring warm layers of guitar, organ and intricate percussion.

THOMAS HARDY Dead Confederate frontman Hardy Morris performing original songs solo.

Rye Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens OPEN MIC Every Monday! Sign up between 8:30 & 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday 25 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE Fun with the Singing Cowboy!

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 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.

The Melting Point “Terrapin Bluegrass Series.” 7 p.m. $4. www.meltingpointathens.com SEVEN HANDLE CIRCUS Layered and lush bluegrass with modernsounding vocals and lyrics.

Rye Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens GHETTO MEZRAB Local experimental jazz jams with an extra dose of funk.

Wednesday 26 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com ALIEN NATION Local band that plays a mix of alt-rock and heavy punk.

ASHUTTO MIRA Alternative rock quartet with a dark and steely sound.

THE SWANK Backed by alternative guitars and drums, Curtison Jones, AKA Son1, lays down his original rhymes that connect with rap and rock fans alike.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar BOB HAY AND THE JOLLY BEGGARS This local batch of talent lays down old-time folk inspired by poet and bard Robert Burns.

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar “Robert Burns Night.” 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 THE DICTATORTOTS Outrageously crude, the longtime Athenian chaos cultivators stomp about and trash the night with their beery postgrunge sounds.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DAMIAN CHURCHWELL & THE OMENS Local songwriter whose soothingly mellow acoustic rock is tricked out with electro bells and whistles.

GREELAND IS MELTING No info available.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 HALF STITCHED Country-covered Delta blues of local origin.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com EFREN Local indie-folksters along the lines of Iron and Wine and Bonnie “Prince” Billy play selections from the release Always Been a Bleeder.

MATRIMONY Indie folk from Charlottte, NC whose captivating arrangment of propulsive strings (banjo, violin, mandolin, bouzouki), keen lyrical prowess and big choruses has earned comparisons to acts like Bowerbirds and Arcade Fire.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $3. www.newearthmusichall. com DAIKAIJU Hard rocking psycho-surf.

LAZER/WULF This avant-metal instrumental trio mixes in prog, thrash as well as more eclectic influences for a high-energy and highly entertaining live show.

SORRY NO FERRARI Instrumental math rock from Atlanta. For fans of Cinemechanica, Manray, etc.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday and Friday with Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30–7:30 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer.com LOUISE WARREN Emotionally honest songs from 20-year old singer-songwriter from Macon. Her performance will include originals and a few surprise covers.

283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DJ Z-DOG Zack “Z-Dog” Hosey spins dance classics, punk, ‘80s and more. * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line 1/27 Immuzikation (283 Bar) 1/27 Old Skool DJ (Alibi) 1/27 John French / Leaving Araby (40 Watt Club) 1/27 Subscriber (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 1/27 Odd Trio (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 1/27 Milligan (Hilltop Grille) 1/27 Laissez Funk / Plott / Sapphire Rebellion (Rye Bar) 1/27 Elite tha Showstoppa / NOAH / Thick Paint / Weapons of Audio (The Max Canada) 1/27 Terry Adams (The Melting Point) 1/28 Best Coast / No Joy / Wavves (40 Watt Club) 1/28 Stokeswood (Amici Italian Café) 1/28 Homegrown Revival (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 1/28 Steve Shiver (Hilltop Grille) 1/28 The Knockouts / Lokshen Kugel Klezmer Band (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 1/28 Lingo / The Mantras (New Earth Music Hall) 1/28 Eddie & the Public Speakers / Jahman Brahman (Rye Bar) 1/28 Illicitizen (Terrapin Beer Co.) 1/28 Kinchafoonee Cowboys (The Melting Point)

1/29 Karaoke (Alibi) 1/29 Excali Brah and Swamp Thang / Yacht Rock Revue (40 Watt Club) 1/29 Elastic Skyline (Amici Italian Café) 1/29 The Burning Angels / The Buzzards / Matt Hudgins & His Shit-Hot Country Band (Caledonia Lounge) 1/29 Emily French / Emily Hearn / John Lynch (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 1/29 Mary Ellen Klein (Flight Tapas and Bar) 1/29 Hobohemians (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 1/29 Jazz Night (Hilltop Grille) 1/29 Justin Evans (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 1/29 Bizkaia / FLT RSK / Zoogma (New Earth Music Hall) 1/29 Plum Nelle Moon (Rye Bar) 1/29 Dave Barnes (The Melting Point) 1/31 Goodbye Blue Monday Open Mic (Dog Ear Books) 1/31 Open Mic (Rye Bar) 1/31 The Humms / Smith Westerns / Yuck (40 Watt Club) 1/31 Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters / Tom Eisenbraun / Junker (Farm 255) 1/31 Jesse Payne / Steven Trimmer (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 1/31 Open MIc (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 2/1 Cody Canada & The Departed (40 Watt Club) 2/1 Kenosha Kid (Highwire) 2/2 Spicy Salsa Dancing (New Earth Music Hall) 2/2 Athens Business Rocks (40 Watt Club) 2/2 African Soul (Sky City Lounge & Bulldog Cafe) 2/3 Blockhead / Emancipator (New Earth Music Hall) 2/3 (The Max Canada) 2/3 Bluegrass Pickin’ Night (The Office Lounge) 2/3 The Graveyard Rebels (The Pub at Gameday) 2/4 American Cheeseburger / Gripe / Primate / Savagist (Caledonia Lounge) 2/4 “Close Enough to Fine.” / Whisper Kiss (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 2/4 Tongue and Groove (Hilltop Grille) 2/5 Ben Butler & The Mousepad / Deerhoof / Nervous Cop (40 Watt Club) 2/7 David Bazan & Band / Jimmy Eat World (40 Watt Club) 2/7 The Civil Wars (The Melting Point) 2/9 Jim White (The Melting Point) 2/10 Bubbly Mommy Gun / Green Gerry / Night Moves Gold (The Max Canada) 2/11 Kip Jones (Hilltop Grille) 2/11 RJD2 (New Earth Music Hall) 2/11 Abbey Road LIVE! (The Melting Point) 2/12 Kenny Rogers (The Classic Center) 2/15 Backseat Dreamer / Rainbo Video / Wowser Bowser (Go Bar) 2/18 The Bacups (Hilltop Grille) 2/19 Athens Business Rocks (40 Watt Club) 2/19 Howler / Liars & Lovers (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 29

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21

GEORGIA THEATRE PRESENTS

YACHT ROCK REVUE

EXCALI BRAH AND SWAMP THANG doors open at 9:30pm*

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MONDAY, JANUARY 31

SMITH CONFEDERATE WESTERNS

KUROMA • BAMBARA • RUBY doors open at 9pm*

YUCK • THE HUMMS

SATURDAY, JANUARY 22

FAREWELL SHOW!

THE RATTLERS

FREE MOUNTAIN MATT JOINER BAND doors open at 9pm

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

LEAVING ARABY

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

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THE LESS doors open at 9pm

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In the ATL 1/21 Girl Talk (The Tabernacle) 1/21 No Age (Drunken Unicorn) 1/28 Yo La Tengo (Variety Playhouse) 2/4 Dr. Dog (The Masquerade) 2/4 Guster (The Tabernacle) 2/5 Robert Plant (Fox Theatre) * Advance Tickets Available

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

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

ART 36th Juried Exhibition: Call for Artists (Lyndon House Arts Center) Professionally oriented art competition seeks submissions from Athens area artists working in visual media. Please submit 1-3 works of art to the Lyndon House on Jan. 27 between 12:30–8:30 p.m. or Jan. 28 between 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $20 (entry fee). 706-613-3623 Call for Artists (Floorspace) FloorSpace is seeking artists for month-long exhibitions. 706-3721833, www.floorspaceathens.com Call for Artists (Hampton Fine Art Gallery) Seeking submissions from artists all over the world to participate in the 2011 Grandeur Juried Artists International Exhibition.

Go online for a prospectus form.

Deadline: Jan. 31, 706-454-2161, www.hamptonfineartgallery.com/ files/Granduerexhibition2011.pdf Call for Entries (Ciné BarCafé) “6X6” is seeking submissions in video, sound, performance or a combination for its next exhibition “Time,” on Feb. 2. Deadline Jan. 21. hexadic.blogspot.com Call for Entries (Georgia Piedmont Arts Center) Now inviting artists of all skill levels to participate in the gallery exhibition “Shades of White,” on Jan. 22 & 23. $15. 404202-3044, www.georgiapiedmont artscenter.com Call for Entries (ATHICA) Currently seeking work that investigates, reveals or deconstructs the nature of systems. See a full description and instructions online.

No calls please. Deadline: Feb. 11.

Show runs Apr. 9–May 29. www. athica.org/callforentries.php Call for Submissions (Amici Italian Café) Amici’s is seeking art-

ists for monthly exhibitions in 2011.

706-353-0000, athens@amici-cafe. com Call for Submissions (White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates) White Tiger Gourmet is seeking artists to be showcased in monthly exhibitions in 2011. Please email all inquiries to Jasey at jaseyjones@ gmail.com.

Seeking Submissions (Highwire) Highwire Lounge is seeking submissions for monthly exhibitions: large paintings or prints preferred.

478-986-8681, trappezebooking@ gmail.com StoryTubes Contest (Various Locations) Join kids from across the country by making a short video about your favorite book. Winners receive $250 worth of books for themselves and an additional $250 worth of books for the library.

Submissions are accepted Jan. 19 through Feb. 28. Go online to enter and check out last year’s winners. www.storytubes.info/drupal

AUDITIONS Long Day’s Journey into Night (Elberton Arts Center) Come prepared to read from the script. No teen or children’s roles are available.

Jan. 24, 25 & 27, 5:30–8 p.m. 706283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net, www.elberttheatre.org Rose of Athens Theatre’s 2010/2011 Season (SeneyStovall Chapel) Now holding auditions for As You Like It and Alice in Wonderland. Prepare two one-minute monologues, one classical and one contemporary. Call to schedule audition. Ages 9 to adult.

Feb. 2, 6–9 p.m. www.roseofathens. org, 706-340-9181, danielle@ roseofathens.org

CLASSES Adult Wing Chun Kung Fu (Floorspace) Wing Chun is a Chinese system of Kung Fu that specializes in developing dynamic, explosive and street-oriented practical self-defense. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45 p.m. $12 per class, $60 for 6 classes. floorspacestudio@gmail. com, www.floorspaceathens.com Adventure Club: Yoga Teacher Training (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) A four-month workshop in yoga and life. Develop your own voice and methodology. Jan. 22–May 2. 706461-0262, calclements@yahoo. com, www.rubbersoulyoga.com/ adventure.html Advocacy Training (Athens Community Council on Aging) Learn about local and state legislators and how to contact them about your cause or issue! Jan. 25, 12–2 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-4850, www.acc aging.og/nasi Art Classes (Lyndon House) Sign up for winter and spring art classes!

For adults, teens and children. Go online for full list of programs. Now registering! 706-613-3623, www. accleisureservices.com Capoeira (Floorspace) Learn this form of Afro-Brazilian martial art!

Tuesdays, 8:15-9:15 p.m. $12, $60 (6 classes). jewaters@gmail.com, www.floorspaceathens.com Classic City Rollergirls Boot Camp (Skate-A-Round USA) So you wanna be a Rollergirl? Learn all the basic derby skills like falls, stops and crossovers! Through Jan. 31, 7–9 p.m. $3 (for skate rental). recruitment@classiccityrollergirls. com, www.classiccityrollergirls.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person)

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Open every day except Wednesday 10am-4pm This mama dog has four pups that she’s taken wonderful care of though they have all obviously missed some meals. She is gentle and very good with strangers handling her and her little guys. She is a Pitbull Terrier mix and her pups are cute, curious and playful.

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She’s a fluffy SWEETHEART of a Labrador mix.

Excellent on a leash, not a jumper-upper, and very snuggly.

Wonderful companion material!

Gorgeous Border Collie has clearly been lovingly pampered and trained. She’s a jewel for someone lucky.

Quiet Miniature Pinscher is a good girl who’s been through a hard time.

She’s malnourished 32023 and has had puppies recently. Very calm and friendly. more cats online at

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Cindy Farley’s ceramic art is on display at Athens Academy (Myers Gallery) through Feb. 11. introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7–9 p.m.

“Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2–4 p.m.

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Class (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint. Call to register. Jan, 20, 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Creative Exploration Classes (Wildeye Creative Exploration Studio) Tap into your creative process! Classes for kids and adults. 706-410-0250, www. wildeyecreative.com Digital Media Grounds Demo (The Loft Art Supplies) A representative will demonstrate how to apply computer printed images onto any project surface. Registration required. Feb. 17, 6–7 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5334 English as a Second Language (Pinewoods Hispanic Community Library) Classes every week! Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3708 Forest Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Deepen your breath, work your core, strengthen your body and connect with your spirit. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. $10/class. 706-355-3114 Genealogy on the Internet (ACC Library) A brief intro to Internet resources for genealogy. Databases in Galileo will be introduced. Registration required.

Jan. 20, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 Health and Wellness Classes (Athens Community Council on Aging) Senior-friendly Zumba, Line Dancing, Yoga, Tai Chi and more! Go online for a complete schedule. 706-549-4850, www.acc aging.org Intro to Computers (Madison County Library) Alisa Claytor, computer specialist, offers an Introduction to Computers series.

Three weekly meetings, and you may attend one per week or all three. Preregistration required. 706-795-5597.

Tuesdays, 2–3 p.m. or 7–8 p.m.

Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.

Iyengar Yoga (StudiO) Certified Iyengar teacher leads a class focusing on strength, flexibility, stamina and balance. Tuesdays, 6:45–8:15 p.m. $10/class, $56/series. www. athensomtownyoga.com Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away.

Fourth Friday, 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@ armc.org Maintain, Prevent and Transform (Athens Yoga Therapeutics) On-going Hatha style

Yoga class with instructor Kerry Fulford. 706-207-5881, kerry@ athensyogatherapeutics.com, www.athensyogatherapeutics.com Mama-Baby Yoga Bonding (Full Bloom Center) 10 a.m. class for babies 8–18 months old and 11 a.m. class for babies 1–8 months old. Fridays, 10 a.m. $14, $60 (6 weeks). 706-353-3373 Mindbody Yoga Bootcamp (Five Points Yoga) Strengthen your body and delight your spirit. Jan. 24-28, 5:45–6:45 a.m. $75. 706355-3114 Musikgarten Early Childhood Classes (UGA School of Music) Music classes for toddlers ages 2–4. Check website for details. Jan. 24–Mar. 7. $70.

706-542-2894, ugacms@uga.edu, www.uga.edu/ugacms/earlychild hood.html New Horizon Music Classes (UGA School of Music) Beginning band, intermediate band, beginning orchestra and piano classes for adults age 50+. No prior music experience needed! FREE! Call 706542-2894 to register.

Nia (Sangha Yoga Studio) Gain muscle definition and strength in this dance class with Valerie Beard.

Mondays, 7:15–8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, 9–10 a.m. Thursdays, 10:30–11:30 a.m. www.healingartscentre.net Prenatal Yoga (Full Bloom Center) Thursdays, 5:45 p.m., Fridays, 12:15 p.m. $14, $60 (6 classes). 706-353-3373, www.full bloomparent.com Rise & Shine Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Get your shine on with early morning flow yoga. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45–6:45 a.m. $10 (Drop-In). 706-355-3114 Senior Leadership Academy (Athens Community Council on Aging) This Athens Community Council on Aging initiative provides older adults with an opportunity to build relationships with fellow participants and explore the current issues in our community. Course topics include business, human services, government, health care and more. The program will run for eight consecutive Thursdays, Feb. 3–Mar. 24. Registration ends Jan. 28. $80. 706-549-4850 ext. 2030. www.accaging.com Small Business Workshop (Oconee County Civic Center) Presented by Jeff Rorabaugh of SEOteric, this workshop will focus on improving website visibility through search engine optimization and online marketing campaigns.

Jan. 24, 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3155, teri.evans@athensclarke county.com

Tango Lessons (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Every Tuesday with Clint and Shelly. 4–6 p.m. (Private Lessons), 6–7 p.m. (Intermediate Class) 7–8 p.m. (Beginner Class), $10 (group class). cvunderwood@ charter.net, praticiabellscott@ charter.net Tribal Basics Bellydance (Floorspace, 160 Tracy St.) Bellydance for every belly! Learn graceful moves in a fun and supportive environment with a focus on Egyptian style and rhythms.

Wednesdays, 7–8 p.m. www.floor spaceathens.com Turkish Tribal Bellydance (Floorspace, 160 Tracy St.) A 6-week session for experienced dancers.

Thursdays, $12 (drop-in), $60 (6 classes). 706-372-1833, christyfricks@gmail.com UGA Tango Club (UGA Tate Center, Room 311) Meet up every week to wax the floor with your new moves.

Evening classes for beginners and advanced students. Thursdays, Beginning 6:10 p.m., Intermediate/ Advanced 7:10 p.m.$30 (per semester), $20 (UGA Community). athenstangoclub@gmail.com Vinyasa Flow Yoga (Floorspace) Daytime flow classes. Tuesdays, 8:45 a.m. Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. $6–$12 (suggested donation). thebodyeclectic@rocketmail.com, www.floorspaceathens.com Weekly Meditation (Athens Insights, 179 Woodward St. #7) Providing a calm and open environment in which people can relax and experience new cultural and religious ideas. Wednesdays, 8 p.m.–9 p.m. FREE! athensinsights@ gmail.com Winter Clay and Glass Classes (Good Dirt) Now registering for classes in wheel-thrown pottery, glass fusing and slumping, and other special projects. All levels for youth and adults. See complete schedule online. 706-355-3161. www.gooddirt.net Women Writing Their Lives (160 Tracy Street) A 12-week course designed to motivate and inspire women to tell their unique stories. Appropriate for beginners and those who would like the support of a group. Every Thursday, January–March, 7–8:15 p.m. $50/ month. thektp@gmail.com, holdingwomanspace.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.americanblackbelt.org

Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) For full schedule, go online.

Daily, $5 (donation). www.rubber soulyoga.com Yoga & The 7 Sacred Centers (Five Points Yoga) Learn how the 7 main chakras affect the body. Jan. 29, 2–4 p.m. $30. 706-254-0200 Yoga Classes (Mind Body Institute) Specialty classes throughout the day. 706-475-7329, www.armc.org/mbi Yoga Crawlers (Full Bloom Center) For active babies 8–18 months. Every Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. $14. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com Yoga Teacher Training (Vastu School of Yoga) Vastu School of Yoga is accepting applications for its winter/spring training session. Apply before the first session on Jan. 29.

561-723-6172, lconglose@hotmail. com, globalvastuyoga.com Yoga: Maintain, Prevent, Transform (Leathers Building) Hatha-style yoga in a small, comfortable setting with instructor Kerry Fulford. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45–7:45 p.m. $60 (6 classes) 706207-5881 Yoshukai Karate (AKF Itto Martial Arts) Learn Yoshukai Karate, a traditional hard Okinawan style. FREE! www.athensy.com Youth and Parents Drum Circle (Floorspace) Percussion class! Bring a drum if you have one!

Every second Friday of the month.

4–4:45 p.m. $5–$10 (suggested donation). christyfricks@gmail.com, www.floorspaceathens.com ZumbAtomic for Toddlers (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Wednesdays, 10 a.m. $6 (for first child), $3 (for each additional sibling). 706-410-0134, www. wholemindbodyart.com

HELP OUT! Become a Mentor (Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens) Volunteer one hour per week to make a difference in the life of a child. Training provided. mentor@athensbgca.com BikeAthens Bike Recycling (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicylces for local service agencies. Bike repair skills a plus but not necessary. BikeAthens is also seeking donations of used kids and adult bikes in any condition. Sundays (2–4:30 p.m.), Mondays & Wednesdays (6–8:30 p.m.) FREE! 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 Donate a Book (Oconee County Library) Children under 10 are encouraged to donate a book from the Oconee Library wish list to the permanent children’s collection in honor of the Oconee Library’s birthday. 706-769-3950

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New Mentor Training (Goodwill Career Center) Make a difference in the life of a youth 12-17 years old.

Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. FREE! 706433-0737, goodguides@ging.org Preparing Dinner for the Residents (Athens Area Homeless Shelter) Volunteer to make a meal for the women and children living at Athens Area Homeless Shelter. Call to reserve a night! Daily, 5:30–6:30 p.m. 706-354-0423 Project Safe Volunteers (Various Locations) Take part in the movement to end domestic violence by becoming a mentor, donating a meal or volunteering at the thrift store. 706-542-0922, www.projectsafe.org

KIDSTUFF Homework Helpers (East Athens Community Center) UGA students tutor your children and help them get assignments finished. Open to any child or teen who needs help with homework. Daily, 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3657, www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts.

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

706-613-3515, www.sandycreek naturecenter.com One-to-One Learning (Lay Park) Pratice reading, writing and math with the librarian and UGA student volunteers. For ages 6 and up.

Daily, 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3667 One-to-One Reading Program (East Athens Community Center) Read with the librarian and other volunteers. For ages 6 and up. Daily, 3:30–5:30 p.m., FREE! 706-613-3593 Sweet Pea Club (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A club for young nature lovers featuring learning games, nature crafts and garden explorations. Ages 3–5.

Registration required. Through Feb. 3, Thursdays, 9:45–11 a.m. $22. www.uga.edu/botgarden Yoga Sprouts (Memorial Park) Now registering! Call for information on sessions, fees and scholarships.

Tuesdays. 706-353-3373 ZumbAtomic for Kids (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Mondays, 5:15– 6:15 p.m. $6 (for first child), $3 (for each additional sibling). www.wholemindbodyart.com

SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-543-0436, www.athensaa.com Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful

words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is provided. Call the hotline: 706-5433331. 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 Gender Mix (UGA Memorial Hall, Room 414) A male and female discussion and support group established to promote unity within interpersonal relationships. Last Monday of every month. 6 p.m. FREE! 706542-8468, cymoon@uga.edu 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 Overeaters Anonymous (Various Locations) 12-step meetings for compulsive eaters. All ages and sizes welcome. Mondays, 5:30 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space. Thursdays, 7 p.m. at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church.

FREE! 404-771-8971, www.oa.org PTSD Support Group Local support group now forming for family members of soldiers and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

770-725-4527 Sapph.Fire The newly formed social, support and volunteer organization for lesbian and bisexual women of color. Ages 21 & up. Join Sapph. fire on Downelink. Email sapph. fire@yahoo.com to learn about the next meeting.

Survive and Revive (Call for location) Domestic violence support group. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. Children are welcome for supper and childcare is provided during group. Second and fourth Tuesday of the month in Clarke County. First and third Monday of the month in Madison County. 6–8 p.m. Project Safe: 706543-3331

ON THE STREET 3rd Annual Chilly Dawg 5K (Sandy Creek Park) Get a healthy start to 2010 when you register for this 5K run/walk. Proceeds benefit the College of Family and Consumer Sciences Alumni Association and the ARCH Foundation of UGA. Race starts at 9 a.m. on Jan. 29. $19 (before Jan. 21). $25 (after Jan. 22).

706-542-3386, www.active.com Frankenstein Lives! Rose of Athens Theatre chronicles the life of young gothic novelist Mary Shelley in this performance which explores some uncanny similarities between the artist and her literary creation.

The show is available for booking through March. 706-340-9181, www.roseofathens.org AthFest Compilation CD Accepting submissions for 2011

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St.) Paintings by Kate Windley. Through January.

Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) Paintings of downtown Athens by Jamie Calkin. Through January.

Antiques and Jewels (290 N. MIlledge Ave.) New work by Jim StipeMaas, Mary Porter, Lana Mitchell, Greg Benson, Taylor Dubeau and Judy Dudley O’Donnell and other Georgia artists. Through January.

Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Dr.) Group show featuring work by the School Street Studio Potters, Scott Belville, Cindy Farley, O.C. Carlisle, Alice Pruitt, Leslie Moody and Larry McDougald. Through Feb. 11.

ATHICA (160 Tracy St. Unit 4) “Taking Part” is an exhibit of participatory art projects featuring six artists with varied approaches. While all of the artists, Michael Lease, Lori Hepner, Heather Freeman, Rosemary Kate Jesionowski, Hope Hilton and Brian Hitselberger, incorporate public input in their artmaking process, the final outcome relies on the artist’s involvment. Opening reception Jan. 22. Through Mar. 6.

Aurum Studio (125 E. Clayton St.) Group show featuring paintings by Gwen Nagel, Scott Pope and Karen Kanemasu and sculptures by Noah Saunders.

Through February.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Acrylic and enamel works by Charley Seagraves. Through February.

Dawg Gone Good BBQ (224 W. Hancock Ave.) “Musicians Emoting” features emotional and expressive photographs by Barbara Hutson. Through January.

Espresso Royale Caffe (297 E. Broad St.) Mixed media works by Leah Purvis and Sarah T. Through January.

Farmington Depot Gallery (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 16 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics, fine furniture and more. Permanent collection artists include Phillip Goulding, Leigh Ellis, Peter Loose, Susan Nees and more.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Paintings by Emmanuel Taati. Through January.

Flight Tapas and Bar (225 N. Lumpkin St.) New works by Mandy Elias.

Good Dirt (510 B Thomas st.) The gallery features hand-built and wheel-thrown pieces by various ceramic artists and potters including Rob Sutherland, Caryn Van Wagtendonk, Crisha Yantis and Mike Klapthor.

Hampton Fine Art Gallery (115 E. Broad St., Greensboro) Electic collection of work from master pastel artist Cameron Hampton. Through February.

Hotel Indigo (500 College Ave.) Group show featuring Nash Hogan, Dena Zilber, Charlie Key and Margaret Schreiber.

Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) New work by artist Nina Barnes. Through January.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (Gallery 307) Group show featuring the Cortona faculty. Through Jan. 28. • (Gallery 101) “A Year on the Hill” features photography by Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer.

Through Feb. 11.

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) Brush paintings from Chinese artist I-Hsiung Ju,

AthFest compilation CD. Open only to Athens-based bands. Must complete submission form available at www.athfest.com. Only one song is allowed per submission form.

Music must be on standard audio

whose unique style seamlessly blends modern and traditional aesthetics. Other brush paintings and caligraphy from Virginia Lloyd-Davies and Egbert Ennulat. Through Jan. 19. • “Floating Fetching Fowling,” paintings, drawings, mixed media and 3D art by Ouida Williams, Nancy Lloyd and Caroline Montague. Through Jan. 19. •“Hands That Can Do: African-American Quilters of Northeast Georgia,” is an exhibition of quilts which celebrates the tradition of quilting in the African-American community.

Through Jan. 19.

Madison County Library (1315 Highway 98 West, Danielsville) Face jugs and other folk-style pottery by Jerry “yardbird” Yarbrough. On display through January.

Mama’s Boy (197 Oak St.) New acrylics by Brian Brookes. Through January.

Monroe Art Guild (205 S. Broad St., Monroe) Winter art show featuring work by contestant winners from all over Georgia. Through February.

OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) Exhibition of black and white photography by Dr. Roy Ward. Through Feb. 9.

Republic Salon (312 E. Broad St.) An exhibit featuring your favorite animals in embroidery and print mixed-media works by Lea Purvis. Through January.

Speakeasy (269 E. Broad St.) New paintings by Sarah Nguyen. Through February.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia (2450 Millege Ave.) “Art Naturale” features natural-themed paintings, photographs, pottery, textiles and jewelry by 29 artists from the Madison Artists Guild. Through Feb. 27.

Ten Pins Tavern (2451 Jefferson Rd.) Screen prints, etchings, monoprints and drawings from young artist Gregory Stone, and mixed media works

by Clarke County Middle School teacher Luke Durkish. Through January.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) Handmade recycled clothing and wearable art for men, women and children by Gretchen Elsner. Through January.

This-Way-Out (T-W-O) (680 W. Broad St.) New works by John Schweppe and Ainhoa Bilbao Canup.

Through January. • AHA! (Athens Has Art!) features works by local independent artists including Ainhoa Bilboa Canup, Jennie Evans, John Schweppe, Meghan Morris, Audra Rich and more! Open by appointment, 10th–20th of each month, 6–8 p.m.

Town 220 (Madison) “Aislin’s Bouquet from the Garden of the Fall,” an exhibit of various works inspired by gardens. Featuring more than a dozen local artists, including Greg Benson, Andy Cherewick, Dana Downs, Robert Lowery, Melin Foscue Miller, Masakatsu Nakagawa, Marshall Reddoch and Lamar Wood. Through January.

Trace Gallery (160 Tracy St., 2A) New mixed media works by Stephanie Dotson. Through Feb. 4.

Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) New drawings, paintings and collage by Emmanuel Taati.

Through January. • Vibrant, mixed media shadowboxes by Sophie Howell. Through January. • Photography by Tom Nicks. Through January.

Visionary Growth Gallery (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) “Psycollagraphica” features photography and collage by artists J. Phillip White, John Santerineross, Alexei Gural and Jillian Guarco.

Through Jan. 31.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) New watercolors by Celia Brooks. Through January.

CD or CD-R format and must be delivered in person to the AthFest office on the third floor of the Fred Building, located at 220 College Ave., downtown. Deadline for all entries is Feb 1.

Mardi Gras 10K (Terrapin) After completing the 10K, enjoy some brews. Proceeds benefit Bigger Vision Community Shelter and the Stable Foundation. Mar. 5, 10 a.m. www.mardigras10kathens.org f

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If the situation is driving you crazy right now, then you should probably take a break. You said that you’re afraid of losing touch with her for good based on your past experiences, but this girl is different than your past experiences, right? You should just tell her that you can’t handle being in touch right now, but that you’d like to stay friends. And maybe make a promise to yourself to try to touch base with her every once in a while. If you find somebody else that is so much better that you forget about her, well great. Maybe you could truly be friends then.

And if you don’t, then you’ve still left the door open. But you can’t keep going on like you are right now.

I was out with my girlfriends talking about girl stuff at a bar, and these four guys walked in. I had just been describing to my friends the kind of guy that I’m attracted to, and one of them fit the bill exactly. So, we all hung out for a while, and eventually they wound up coming over to our table. I chatted up Mr. Just My (Physical) Type and he told me that

he worked at a bar in Atlanta. As it turns out, this is a bar that I frequent, and after asking him a few questions, I realized that he was lying about working there. Of course, I didn’t really care, because I didn’t think I was going to see him again anyway, and I have played the “make yourself sound more interesting to a total stranger” game before. We ended up moving on to a different bar, but before we left he asked for my number and told me he would call me. I kind of laughed it off at the time, because I figured he was just trying to pick me up, but secretly I hoped he really would call.

A couple of days later, he sent me a text message and asked if I wanted to go to a show. I already had plans for the night in question, but I told him we should try to hook up another time. So, a few days went by and I didn’t hear from him. I was planning on being in Atlanta, so I texted him to see if he was going to be around. I told him I might stop by the bar, just to see what he would say. Well, he didn’t text back. I didn’t hear from him again, and I pretty much just blew it off.

So, cut to nearly a year later. I was in a different bar with different friends, when who walked in but Mr. Not Actually A Bartender.

And wouldn’t you know it, he made his way over to me and said that he’s certain we have met before. I told him that we had in fact met before, that he had lied to me about working at that bar, and that he had blown me off when I called him on it. He laughed a little, and seemed kind of embarrassed, but he was definitely not put off. He stuck around for a few more minutes and bought me a drink. Knowing better this time, I mostly ignored him, and when I was leaving he told me he was going to call me. I told him I wasn’t counting on it.

The problem is, I really hope he does. I mean, I know better than this, but he is very, very attractive and I am very, very bored.

And lonely. And I could really stand to get some.

So, he texted me like, three days later, and I very judiciously waited four hours to text him back. But text him back I did, and he asked me out. So, now we have a plan for next weekend. I am really looking forward to it, and I’m not sure if I’m being a total idiot. Am I? What do you think?

Fool for Lust I think it’s kind of weird that he lied to you about something so completely random, but I also think that if you aren’t necessarily looking for something serious than maybe it’s not a big deal. If you go out with him and you end up really liking him, then you should be careful. Trust but verify. Also, see if anybody you know at the bar in question knows this guy. He must have picked that bar for a reason, right? Maybe the real bartender can help you out.

IKE& JANE normaltown

About a month ago, my girlfriend of about two-and-a-half years and I broke up after she moved abroad. This decision was after three months’ worth of Skype-dating, if you will, and the eventual conclusion on both our parts that it just wasn’t working out, especially since she’s there for at least another year with the possibility of a second one beyond that, and I’m wrapping up my education and about to begin my career elsewhere.

Now, seeing as how the breakup was on good terms (an admission of a logistical and temporal problem and nothing more), we still talk rather regularly.

The problem is that with all of this continued communication, I think I’m having a harder time coping.

Since it’s so fresh, every time I catch wind of anything that’s even slightly suggestive of another love/lust interest in her life, my mind begins to spiral and I’m suddenly hyperventilating into a paper bag.

I hate having this kind of situation emerge as I’m afraid it’s starting to cause me to build resentment towards her, which I really want to avoid. It’s one thing to resent a truly terrible ex, but things were really amazing with this girl, and I’m hoping to pick things back up with her one day… So, I’m thinking it might be worthwhile to take a break. However, I’ve got my reservations. On the one hand, I really do love talking to her (aside from the crazy, mind-spiraling bit), while on the other hand, I’m afraid of losing touch with her for good, which based on past experiences, I think I must have a tendency towards doing.

So, what do you think: out of sight, out of mind?

Or should I just suck it up in the name of love??

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March 1. $900/mo. Contact Jared at (706) 338-9019 or athfest08@gmail.com.

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3BR/1BA in Winterville.

HWflrs. Front yd., small screened-in porch, wooded lot. Quiet n’hood. Avail. Jan. 1. Pets OK. $750/mo. Tenant pays utils. (706) 410-5239.

3BR/2BA house close to campus. Quiet street off College Cir., lg. yd. w/ deck, garage. HWflrs., appliances, W/D, CHAC. 1 mi. from campus. Avail. Aug 1. $865/ mo. Call (706) 247-3708.

49 Gail Dr. 3-4BR/1.5BA. HWflrs! CHAC. Fenced yd.

Pets OK. No pet fees! Other homes avail. $850/mo. (706) 254-2569.

4BR/4BA. New, Dwntn. 1 mi. from Arch. Stainless, HWflrs., tile, covered porches. Choose from multiple homes. W/D incl.

Avail. Fall. $1950/mo. Aaron (706) 207-2957.

4BR/4.5BA cottage at The Station avail. Jan.! HWflrs., private baths, huge walk-in closets, all appliances incl.

Floorplan is a must see! (706) 543-1910.

Artist studio/garden cottage.

Very private, quiet, lovely setting. Dwntn Watkinsville, walk 1 block to Jittery Joe’s.

Great restaurants, music on the lawn, lg. open main rm. w/ great windows. 2BR/1BA, screen porch, 1200 sq. ft.

Professional/grad student.

N/S, no candles, pets neg. $740/mo. incl. water & all appl.

Avail. March 15! Pls. call (706) 769-0205 evening, (706) 2075175. Lv. msg.

Completely renovated 2BR/1BA craftsman cottage w/ separate sunroom located on peaceful woodland lot off Tallassee Rd. $750/mo. + dep.

Jim, (706) 247-3386.

Cute 3BR/1BA house.

Fenced-in back yd. Pets OK. Walk to campus & Dwntn.

Perfect for students or couple. $1000/mo. Avail. now. Call Paige, (706) 202-7890.

Eastside: 3BR/2BA, lg. yd., on dead–end street, $1000/ mo. 4BR/2BA, lg. yd., $1200/ mo. Five Pts.: 3BR/1BA, single carport, $750/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 3532700, (706) 540-1529.

Great house. 2BR/1BA. $695/mo. 75% off 1st mo. rent!

Great location & rent. HWflrs., big sun deck, W/D, micro, fridge/freezer. (404) 3688043, p@mba.ms. http://www. rentals.com/Georgia/Athens/ r1125042/ Homewood Hills brick ranch.

3BR/2BA, LR, DR, den, gas FP, fenced back yd. All appliances incl. W/D. $950/ mo. Call Teri, (706) 717-0479.

House on Lexington Rd. Located on bus line. 3BR/2BA, unfinished garage apt., small yd., W/D hookup. $595/mo.

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New 4BR/4BA houses!

Great Dwntn. location! Lg. BRs, tile, HWflrs., $1900/ mo., avail. 8/1. w w w. newagepropertiesathens.com, (706) 713-0626.

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Now leasing 3 & 4 BR brick homes w/ private baths for Fall 2011. Pet friendly student community close to Dwntn. www.deklerealty.com, (706) 548-0580.

Private cottage 10-15 min. to campus, 2BR/1BA, CHAC, W/D, big screen porch, large organic garden space w/ conditioned soil, good well. $650/mo. (706) 540-4022, lwnow1@windstream.net.

P re - l e a s i n g houses for UGA students. 4BR, 3BR, 2BR, 1BR. Close to UGA & Dwntn. Lowest rent. hathawaypropertiesathens. com. (706) 714-4486.

Rent/sale. $550/mo., $99,999.

Adorable 2BR cottage.

Recently renovated. New kitchen. LR, DR, front porch, dog pen. New heat pump.

Great location, busline, UGA, Dwntn. (706) 543-5604.

Houses for Sale Beautiful Athens Victorian on historic Dearing St. 3BR/2BA, separate studio/ office bldg. Wrap-around porch w/ swing. $399,900.

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Pre-Leasing 5 Pts. 2BR/1BA. Great l o c a t i o n . G re a t f o r g r a d student. Walk to campus.

W/D, CHAC, nice patio.

Pets OK. $650-$700/mo.

Avail. 8/1. Call (706) 3692908.

Adorable 3BR/2BA, close to campus. New master BA w/ double sink. HWflrs., fenced back yd. W/D, DW, CHAC. Avail. 8/1. $1250/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Awesome Victorian 4BR/2.5BA house. 1/2 mi. from campus. Huge rooms, HWflrs., 2 LRs., patio, high ceilings, DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1850/ mo. (706) 369-2908.

Best rentals in Athens! 1–5BR houses, apts., condos. In the heart of UGA/Dwntn./5 Pts. Avail. Aug. Going fast, call today! (706) 3692908 for more info.

Great 4BR/4BA house. 1/2 mi. from campus. Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1.

Special! $1500/mo. (706) 3692908.

Rooms for Rent $300/mo. rent for room in 3BR/2BA home. 1 exit north of mall, 5-10 min. to campus. Quiet n'hood, big yd., W/D. Call (706) 2013878.

Dashiell Cottages Inc. Move–in $85/wk.! (706) 850-0491. All amenities, WiFi. Enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy the wildlife observation.

Roommate needed for 2BR/1BA cottage off Grady Ave. Big kitchen, W/D. $450/ mo + gas & elect. Water included. No pets. Call Marty (706) 254-5014.

Sub-lease $475/mo. 1BR/1BA. Super tiny house in Addieville n’hood off Barber St. near Dwntn. Avail. now for long term sublease.

Pets welcome. Call (336) 4601297.

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Music Announcements Looking for a drummer, guitarist, bass player, violinist? Looking for a band? Find your music mate w/ Flagpole Classifieds! Call (706) 549-0301.

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Pillowtop queen mattress set.

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Athens’ best old school band.

For weddings, reunions, frat. parties, etc. Playing classic mo-town, R & B, soul, & beach music. Call (706) 612-8842 or www.classiccitysoul.com.

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1BR for rent in 3BR house. Lg. front porch, plenty of parking, 10 min. walk from campus.

S. Campus deck parking pass incl. $425/mo. (very neg.). (404) 290-0009.

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The Weekend Wellness Workshop is a 12 wk. course star ting Feb. 13.

Lose weight, find balance in your life, & learn to cook healthy food. http://www. weekendwellnessgroup.com/.

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My name is Nick. I am local to Athens. I specialize in cleaning w/ “Earth Friendly” products. My cleaning is pet & child friendly. I am thorough & efficient, therefore very easy on the budget!

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UberPrints.com is hiring! We’re looking for bright, outgoing people to join our customer service team. Located near Dwntn. Athens. Great work environment. Visit uberprints.com/jobs to learn more about the position & to apply.

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Vehicles Autos 2009 Toyota Prius, excellent condition, new tires, 31K, navigation, JBL Sound $19,800. Contact (706) 7834665 or snpathens@gmail.com.

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Notices Pets Needs good home: 3 year-old neutered M Beagle up for adoption. Needs plenty of room & fenced yd. Beautiful dog w/ sweet disposition. (Too) well fed. Call (706) 548-3505.

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aren Witten’s green thumbs never, ever twiddle. embedded erosion-mitigating berms and planted fruit trees The urban gardener, a retired doctor, has spent the along the privately owned southern slope of Tanyard Creek. past few years nurturing one of the city’s most vibrant, Athens Permaculture, with the help of UGA students via service verdant green spaces—dubbed the Handmade Garden learning classes in the landscape architecture department, then by neighbors—behind Hill First Baptist Church at the corner of began trash removal on the opposite, publicly owned slope Reese and Pope streets. of the creek. Those students also produced a master plan, of Witten, along with a few assistants, including Tommy sorts, that may be used to guide further improvements to the Chester, transformed what was once a garbage and kudzupark and creek. covered former creek bed (The Branch) into a thriving produce Witten’s work, along with the city’s involvement, seems to garden that feeds a number of the neighborhood’s elderly have rekindled interest in a Tanyard Creek community garden residents. project that would include a number of neighborhood players During the spring and fall, the workload at her commuand hopefully draw attention to the ecological importance of nity garden is quite heavy. But as frigid winter temperatures water sources like Tanyard. solidify both soil and fingertips, tasks like pruning, raking Magee, ACC’s Park Services Division administrator, is a “big and reaping become less pressing. Luckily for Witten, another fan” of community gardens because of the “wide swath” of kudzu and junk-filled streambed lay just on the other side of demographics they attract. The first step to a complete Tanyard the newly renovated Reese and Pope Park, located blocks from Creek community garden, Magee says, is assembling all the downtown. stakeholders in the same Witten considers the new room—Hill First Baptist, city-built park, which has Athens Permaculture, Athens attracted consistent pickLand Trust, nearby residents up basketball players to its and business owners—to reconstructed court, a special plan out what he hopes will place in the community. She be another amenity for the thought it would be wonderneighborhood and draw out ful if the park extended down more families to the park. toward Tanyard Creek, an With much of the scut urban stream long used as a work out of the way, Witten dumping ground. So, around says she’s ready to pass off the middle of December, she the project to others and enlisted Chester, her longget back to the Handmade time ally, to help drag out Garden, an almost-threemattresses, bottles, unmenyear-old venture that won tionables and a not-unimthe 2010 Athens-Clarke pressive collection of boots Heritage Foundation’s from under the tall masses of Excellence in Community privet, brush and dead trees.

Revitalization award.

Witten says their efforts As idyllic as all this urban caught the attention of renewal sounds—one water patrolling police officers advocate likens the cleanup who were concerned about to a miniature riverfront the duo messing around on restoration—another, bleaker public land. Soon after, city reality hovers still around employees arrived not to the park. Well before the city hamper the cleanup, but to began its almost-$300,000 quicken its pace. park renovation, groups of “You can’t ask for anymen, called vagrants by some thing more,” says Leisure and transitional by others, Services’ Dan Magee in praise spent their days hanging out of Witten and Chester’s on the park’s benches. Some “amazing” and “fantastic” neighbors have long comKaren Witten pauses in her work below Reese and Pope Park and Hill First scouring of the creek bed. plained about their presence, Baptist Church.

Urban streams like which continues to this day Tanyard wind through many under the newly constructed of Athens’ densely populated neighborhoods, but often go pavilion and stone tables decorated with chessboards. But unnoticed and unappreciated until they fall victim to human Chester, who is homeless, is among this group, and many of blunder. Trail Creek’s damage from the J&J Chemical Co. fire his cohorts have lent their hands to Witten’s neighborhood last summer is a prime example. Tanyard Creek, it should be cleanups. Another frequenter of the park was Samuel Thomas noted, runs famously through the UGA campus, under Sanford Cunningham III, a 53-year-old who helped Witten plant and Stadium, and has found itself repeatedly on the nasty end water the Handmade Garden over the summer and through of human error. In 2009, according to Athens Banner-Herald the fall until he was shot and killed by an ACC police officer reports, Tanyard flowed pink following a flush of paint down a last October during a violent argument in Parkview Homes. A campus drain, and earlier this month, fertilizer and dye turned remembrance wreath for Cunningham—who was not homeless, the creek “an unnatural blue-green.” lived nearby and was a close friend to Chester—still hangs on In the first few days of the new year, Leisure Services staff the fence that surrounds the park. hauled off over 2,000 pounds of recyclables that Witten and While police often scatter the group for loitering, Leisure Chester piled onto the Pope Street curb. Workers filled 24 barServices’ Magee says there are no plans to ban anyone from rels with old beer and liquor bottles, and that total excludes the park. The Reese and Pope Park is “trying to be welcoming three previous weeks of neighbors and others—motivated by to a diverse community,” he says, adding that there are certhe possible redemption value—who stopped by with trucks tain behaviors they don’t accept: everyone has to “follow the to take away trash and other recyclable spoils that Witten and guidelines.”

Chester had excavated from under mounds of dormant kudzu.

However awkwardly the future development of this demoLeisure Services added inmate labor to the effort; the fresh graphically diverse area may shake out, the positive effects of muscle came in handy for the job of cutting off the dead grassroots, community-initiated revitalization are obvious: it’s limbs of a wide oak that fell, by some accounts, two decades the dead of winter, nothing’s in bloom, but the place is clean ago. Now that it’s fully exposed, the tree looks like a natural and inviting. And to think, all this sprouted as a way for Karen (though dangerous) foot bridge across Tanyard’s banks.

Witten to exercise between warmer seasons.

Witten and Chester’s winter toils conclude a cleanup effort kicked off last spring by Athens Permaculture volunteers who André Gallant

everyday people Kevin Dixon, Computer Technician

Flagpole: How did you get into this job?

Kevin Dixon: I’ve been a big fan of Macs for about five years, since I was 15. When I found out about a position over there [at PeachMac], I thought it was kind of awesome. I was working in a hotel before this, so…

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FP: Were you going to school?

KD: No school. I just graduated high school and just decided that it wasn’t really for me, so I’m trying to see what I can do from there.

FP: How did you get into the technical side of computers?

KD: I’ve always enjoyed how streamlined Apple is, so fixing computers just kind of started a couple years ago when I opened up my old MacBook and was like, “This is both beautiful inside and out.”

I just kind of started selfeducating myself. Ever since I was a little kid I always enjoyed taking things apart and putting them back together, so, it kind of pushed from that.

I’ve always enjoyed computers.

FP: Where do you see yourself in a couple of years?

KD: To be honest, I couldn’t tell you. I’ve already gone through a couple different changes already: buying a house.

So, it’s been… never really saw myself buying a house at 20, so it’s hard to say where I’ll be in a couple of years.

FP: So, the house is back in Lawrenceville, where you grew up. Are you commuting to Athens every day?

KD: Sometimes. I do have a couple of places to stay here, just with friends, but other than that it’s a commute to Athens… which is good, except when it snows. I don’t mind commuting, and especially at this age, finding a job where it’s something you love, it’s definitely worth the commute.

FP: You dealt with people in your hotel job. How is customer service different as a technician?

KD: There definitely is a difference. With the hotel it’s just this nightly thing; they use the building for a time. With technology, it’s more than likely their entire life. You could connect it to being a doctor and letting them know their child is sick. Kind of like the same thing… and it’s not something you train yourself for. It just comes naturally when you are just as

FP: What could Athens do to attract you to move here?

KD: It pretty much has already. If I hadn’t have just bought a house… everything seems just like the place I would want to live, but it’s one of those things where I just got settled into the house, then the job randomly popped up for me to jump on.

FP: Tell me about your tattoos.

KD: I’m just a big nerd at heart. It’s kind of cool having something that represents what I’m about on the outside as well.

FP: What does it say about you?

KD: Most people look at me and are like, “What the hell is this kid doing?”

Most people, when they are getting tattoos, are looking at a more traditional representation of themselves; most people aren’t looking at technology or computers as being a huge part of [their] life… However, me on the other hand, I couldn’t live without them.

FP: How so?

KD: Ever since I got my iPhone… I store all of my things in a one-stop shop, basically. Of course, computers, everybody uses them every day, whether it’s in a sense of being at work or personal. Apple is such a huge part of my life.

FP: What all tattoos do you have?

KD: I have the Firewire and usb port symbols on my wrist; the old “Picasso” Macintosh on my forearm; a little rocket ship that I drew up that says, “Here’s to the crazy ones” underneath it—that is from the old “Think Different” campaign; then I have the Command symbol plus the letter R, which is the command to refresh the browser in Safari…

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FP: What was growing up in Lawrenceville like?

KD: Pretty boring. But it was nice because it was halfway between Athens and Atlanta, so either way you get to experience one city.

engulfed in the technology you are talking about, as well. So, it’s one of those things where you can come in and relate so easily to someone else, because I would hate it if my computer were sick. [The customer] can be frustrated, you know; you have to work that day, but you still have to take your kid in because you love ‘em.

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Kevin Dixon is a big nerd.

To this 20-year-old PeachMac service technician, nerd is not a four-letter word, but a tag he wears proudly and owns to its core. Standing in PeachMac’s Epps Bridge Road storefront, the phalanxes of LED screens and plastic gadgetry overtake this writer, but Dixon thrives here. He turns the screws on Apple products daily, fixing the technology many of us have grown dependent on, and personifies his inanimate, factory-made “patients” by engraving their icons into his skin with ink. Does that make him part man, part machine? Nope. He’s just a regular dude who races hovercrafts on his days off.

Wait a second. Hovercrafts?

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FP: What kind of response do you get from people?

KD: A lot of people look confused. Some think it’s really cool. Some people flat out question me on what they [are]: “What is that? That looks so familiar.”

FP: So, what does being a big nerd mean to you?

KD: I love computers; I talk about them all day, every day, at work or at home. Basically, looking at a good night at home is eating a bowl of Lucky Charms and playing Mindcraft. That’s a great night for me. It’s just kind of consuming: games, computers, talking about it, enjoying just being a part of it.

FP: What do you do outside of computers?

KD: I race hovercrafts. Chillicothe, Ohio is one of the places that we go—they have a national hover rally every year. It’s a pretty fun sport. I got involved in high school in an engineering class. We built a 13- by six-foot, 15-horsepower craft. It’s been so much fun.

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