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

Looking back at a strange, sad week.

Athens Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 What’s Up in New Development

The dissolution of ACC Leisure Services’ Natural Resources Division has been met with concern.

Arts & Events The Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A History in Verse

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Art Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 LDSOA MFA Exhibition

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart . . . . . . . . 22 Making Pop Louder and Noisier

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LETTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CITY DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CITY FOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 BEHIND THE RAIL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CAPITOL IMPACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ATHENS RISING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 FLEETA MITCHELL & EARL MURPHY. . . 10 THE READER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 HUGH ACHESON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 MISCELLANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ART NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 MOVIE DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 MOVIE PICK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 RECORD REVIEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 MADELINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 E6 HOLIDAY SURPRISE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART. . . 22 UPSTART ROUNDUP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 BEER NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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letters WE’RE LOCAL, TOO Mr. Pete McCommons, your recent characterization of Athens Food & Culture magazine as being “out of Macon” was at best incorrect and at worst misleading. Ours is a small, independent, family-run business. My wife and I run Athens Food & Culture; her parents run M Food & Culture. We live in Athens and they live in Macon… we have an equal partnership in both magazines.

My in-laws were into the local restaurant scene in Macon and were very saddened by the closing of many small independent restaurants. We decided to do something about it and started (over five years ago) M Food & Culture, which rejects advertising from national chain restaurants and retailers. The magazine has helped hundreds of small businesses compete in this recession. In fact, they opened their own restaurant two years ago… and advertise exclusively with Food & Culture.

Meanwhile, we sat by and watched outof-town chains come in and suck up the local business in Athens. The family-owned restaurants that we knew and loved were struggling… and we wanted to help. Despite not having the time or money, our family decided to take the risk to see if we could have the same positive effect here.

Pete, you stated: “Our being local is not enough reason for you to pick up a Flagpole or buy an ad in it. You read Flagpole because it contains information that interests you. You advertise in Flagpole because it gets results. It does not matter to you whether the profit (or the deficit) goes into the pockets of owners Alicia Nickles and Pete McCommons.”

We agree, we TOO are local, and we think the product and results should determine where hard-earned dollars are spent. We’ve learned that putting faces behind local businesses benefits our community and our advertisers. We know that as the public gets to know the business owners as we do, they will support and cheer them to success. We believe our publications share the common goal of sharing what is unique and good within our community.

I personally fell in love with this town long before I moved here, and while the university afforded me the opportunity to come and study, the goal was always “Athens.” I immediately renewed my driver’s license to reflect my new local address. I registered my car in Clarke County and even went to the AthensClarke Public Library and registered to vote.

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CONTACT US AT P.O. BOX 1027, ATHENS, GA 30603, LETTERS@FLAGPOLE.COM OR VIA THE “TALK BACK TO US” LINK AT FLAGPOLE.COM architects did not at the last meeting presI met my wife here and bought a house. I’ve ent a greater focus on the “Citizens’ Plan” been here for 16 years and I plan on being design, which would not cost more money to here for a long, long time. build and would keep Hancock Street open I also got involved. Over the years I’ve for future design/development plans and thus been a volunteer with the AIDS Coalition, preserve Foundry Street for more than just a worked with Hans-Peter to benefit the Mental service alley. Possibly relevant, as well, is that Health Assoc. (Serving on that board and for the Citizens’ Plan—Option Omega—would a time organized the MHB when we lost our create additional inside space for future use, friend to deportation.) I sat on the board of possibly as the Athens Tech Hospitality School the Downtown Development Authority and that most people find desirable. even worked with others on an early iteration That the Citizens’ Plan would create a of the very thing the “We Are Athens” campaign looks to address. When Starbucks moved slightly smaller exhibit hall expansion than requested by the Classic Center Board should two doors down from what was then Blue be the focus of additional discussion and Sky coffee, I was one of the ones behind the investigation by the Commission, before they “Keep It Local” movement. I’ve been involved in local political campaigns as a volunteer, the proceed further—not disqualify that sensible plan from consideration. local art scene as a painter and collector, the I think we need to take a closer look at music scene as a band manager and fan and, the information underlying the Classic Center along the way, embraced every other good thing about this town. To these points, the consultant’s report, which allegedly concludes question has to be asked, exactly when do you that we need at least 55,000 (not, for exambecome a “local?” For ple, only 50,000) feet me, it was the day I of exhibit space to moved to Athens. “step up” to the next BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: So, I’m a little level of conventions surprised to see and trade shows.

Be Nice to America or We’ll Bring you throw down the We should be a Democracy to Your Country “local card,” but bit concerned, moreover, that the current especially puzzled Thanks, Sheridan. Send your sticker sightings to see you throw “front-runner” plan to letters@flagpole.com it in our face! By for adoption, among other issues, will your logic, if Athens create a very large Food & Culture isn’t “local,” then neither is M Food & Culture, since parking area—frequently unused—at the Dougherty/Foundry Street intersection, exactly my wife and I own half of that magazine, too. of the kind that many people, including former In closing, we have no intention of being Mayor O’Looney, complain about surrounding your competitor. We wish to complement your the Federal Building. How much ugliness and publication, help the small businesses, enterwaste do we need to tolerate in the name of tain our readers, support the scene (be it art, functionality? music, theatre or whatever!) and eventually…

We will all benefit if our government “takes maybe… make a little of that profit you wrote a few steps back” and asks, “What are our about.

Brian Dixon community’s imperatives?” Yes, it is imporAthens tant to augment our hospitality industry by expanding the convention center, making possible larger meetings and more visitors. But that expanded space likely would only be used a comparatively few weekends per year. How I want to thank Kevan Williams and local many? How many meeting planners would not architects/designers for creating and presentconsider coming to Athens because our space ing “Option Omega: The Citizens’ Plan,” as is only 50,000 feet, not 55,000 feet? depicted in Flagpole’s Mar. 23 issue, as an Most Athens residents would not be alternative for the expansion of the Classic affected by such an addition of visitors to our Center. community. Others, perhaps, would perceive a As were many people attending the last negative, not a positive, impact—as on “foottwo recent public meetings regarding that ball weekends” in the fall. We are not, after expansion, I was disappointed that the all, primarily a “convention city.”

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So, the goal is to recognize the appropriate balance between the needs of the convention center and hospitality industry—which of course are parts of our community—and the broader goals of the community in general.

Since any decision we make now will affect our grandchildren and the future (tax-base creating) development of the eastern part of downtown, it is important to step outside the pressure, economic and otherwise, now being brought to move ahead quickly by those who will benefit most directly from the larger expansion.

The proper line between diligent and negligent decision-making frequently is blurred in hindsight. If our commissioners do not now take an appropriate amount of time and care, and ask all relevant questions, we all may be kicking ourselves for decades to come, asking, “What was the hurry?”

Jim Ponsoldt Athens

An Illegal Alien Speaks My name is Fernando Briceno, and the reason I am writing this letter is to introduce myself and my book, Memoirs of an Illegal Alien, to you.

The book is about my life in the United States as an illegal alien for 24 years and about 10 of those years when I worked as a contractor for the U.S. government, ironically, the Department of Justice. During those 24 years I had a lot of struggles and triumphs, and in the middle of that process I fell in love with this beautiful country of the United States.

There are a couple of things that you could do if you think my story is of any interest to you or your organization. You can check the video on Youtube, the link is, www.youtube. com/watch?v=15WxevoVHkE, or you can also check the website, www.memoirsofanillegalalien.com.

The reason I decided to write the book is because of the way “illegal aliens” are portrayed in the news, when the truth is that there are millions of undocumented workers contributing to the greatness of this wonderful country of “ours.”

Thank you so much for your attention, and I hope that together we can contribute in a little way to resolve the problem that illegal aliens go through by living in the shadows.

Fernando Briceno Atlanta

city dope Athens News and Views Sad and Strange: Last week, as all of you know, two police officers were shot, one fatally, by a suspect who then eluded law enforcement officials for three-and-a-half days, which contributed to a very tense and scary atmosphere in Athens at a time when many of the city’s residents were also reeling with shock and grief. Thankfully, the surrender and arrest of the alleged killer, Jamie Hood, late Friday night ended the frantic manhunt before it could interfere with or distract from weekend memorial services for Senior Police Officer Elmer “Buddy” Christian.

Those memorial services culminated Sunday afternoon in a funeral procession from the Classic Center to Evergreen Memorial Park via Broad Street and the Atlanta Highway that was the most moving, surreal and heartbreaking event City Dope has witnessed in nearly 20 years in this town, and which it’s certain few who were there will ever forget. Downtown, near the motorcade’s origin, citizens lined the roadway in perfect silence as SPO Christian

Manager Alan Reddish, with the additional request that it be forwarded to the architectural team that is currently working on the expansion’s basic design. The memo contained a list of “concerns and interests” regarding the expansion’s interaction with its surroundings, as well as the suggestion that two plans not presented by the architects be considered, both of which would preserve connectivity between Thomas and Foundry streets via Hancock Avenue: the “Citizens’ Plan” (see “Classic Center Expansion” in the Mar. 23 Flagpole) and Girtz’s own “Hancock Dogleg Plan” (See City Dope, Mar. 16).

Thursday afternoon, the ACC government announced that there would be opportunity for public input at the Tuesday, Mar. 29 special work session at which the M&C were scheduled to choose the final expansion plan following a presentation by the architects.

This appeared for all the world to be Mayor Nancy Denson’s response to concerns raised

by Commissioner Mike Hamby at a meeting the previous week that the planned schedule would allow the public only one opportunity for public input on the exact design to be voted on (at the Apr. 5 voting meeting itself), rather than the customary two—an attempt to modify procedures at the last minute in order to force a vote on one of the architects’ Hancock-closing designs preferred by Classic Center officials.

ACCPD motorcycle officers en route to the Classic Center before the funeral proBut Denson says cession for SPO Buddy Christian. that’s not the case, and acknowledges was carried to his resting place, followed by that the vote may be held another month hundreds of law enforcement vehicles from while last-ditch possibilities for preserving all over the state which idled by for more than Hancock’s connection with Foundry are con30 minutes with flashers rolling, becoming sidered. And since it’s become fully apparent an eerily glittering blue river that snaked up that the commission will vote next week to Broad Street until it disappeared on the far hold the expansion item regardless of whether western horizon. public input is allowed at the work session, Donations to a the Buddy Christian there’s no reason not to take Denson at her Memorial Fund, a trust fund for the benefit of word when she says she made the change SPO Christian’s wife and two children, can be merely because she wants citizens to have as made at any branch of Athens First Bank and many opportunities as possible to communiTrust or online at the Athens-Clarke County cate their feelings on this important issue to Police Department’s website, accessible at their elected representatives. www.athensclarkecounty.com. And a memorial But the mayor’s not optimistic about bike ride to benefit the families of Officers avoiding the closure of Hancock’s eastern end.

Christian and Howard has been organized for “I don’t see any way around it, financially,” Sunday, Apr. 3, leaving Jittery Joe’s at Baxter she says, and furthermore, she’s concerned Street and Alps Road at 1 p.m., with day-ofthat money is being lost with every extra hour ride registration beginning at noon. The sugthe architects remain on the county clock, and gested donation is $25 per rider; those and with every week the expansion’s construction, non-rider donations can be made at Jittery and thus, its opening, are delayed.

Joe’s at any time. Find out more about the It’s not Nancy Denson’s fault that we’re in Fallen Heroes Ride at www.athensgabicycling. a situation that pits easy-to quantify shortcom. term financial concerns against the nebulous, difficult-to-envision future needs of an Meanwhile: It was easy to forget that there expanding downtown. But those are where were other things going on in Athens last the long-term money is, and now it’s incumweek, but indeed there were, and still are. bent on her—and the commissioners, who’ve For one thing, we’re still about to spend $23 had opportunities to shape this process that million in sales-tax money on an expansion they haven’t made the most of—to stop being for the Classic Center, and how that expansion rushed by Classic Center officials’ lobbying will be achieved still hasn’t been decided. campaigns, take a hard look into the crystal Last Wednesday night, Commissioner ball, and then start getting creative in a hurry.

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city fool elite elected officials. “This could address both priorities,” Girtz enthused after the meeting, as ACC Attorney Bill Berryman hurried out the back door of the Planning Department auditorium. “We really need to add some of Athens’ distinctive ‘party’ vibe to the City Hall campus, and if this government foray into the The 1930 Costa Building on Washington capitalist marketplace is successful, we can Street next to City Hall is slated for a SPLOST think about expanding our sphere of influence through the acquisition, perhaps by some 2011-funded renovation, which Athens-Clarke County Manager Alan Reddish had recomvariation on eminent domain, of other, already established businesses downtown. It’s not fasmended begin early in the nine-year cycle of projects paid for by the sales tax in order to cism if it rocks!” prevent the building from falling further into Such stances have earned Girtz the distincdisrepair. But at a recent SPLOST work session, tion of never having had a single one of his ACC commissioners, who ordinarily salivate at decisions or positions criticized in the pages of Flagpole, or even the mere thought of throwing money at a questioned. This brilGirtz has long championed dilapidated old buildliant new initiative ing, were even more both Athens night life and the won’t change that; in fact, the “Colorbearer entranced by a project of Athens’ Prowith the word “Green” consolidation of power in the Government Agenda” in its title which will hands of elite elected officials. is establishing a spend millions of taxpayer dollars on fundraising campaign to help finance the socialization of the local pedestrian and bicycle paths, and pushed the on-site inebriation industry. Send donaCosta renovation to the end of the funding tions to Kelly Girtz c/o McCommunist World cycle. And when District 9 Commissioner Kelly Girtz suggested that the unsafe three-story Headquarters, 112 Foundry St., Athens, GA building might be used during the intervening 30601. eight years as “a really great bar,” the commission, with the exception of its few memDave Marr bers who don’t love to drink and Mayor Nancy Denson, who won’t enter a bar or restaurant without a 1.5-acre parking lot in front of it, erupted in spontaneous applause.

Girtz, an inveterate “townie” whose historic invocation of the seminal New York art/ noise band Sonic Youth during a brief public address system crisis at the mayor and comIn a dramatic, last-minute turnaround, the mission’s Mar. 17 agenda meeting smashed a barrier between local government and hipster architects working for the Classic Center have announced a new configuration for the expanculture some thought never would fall, has sion of that facility which will, after all, avoid long championed both Athens night life and closing Hancock Avenue. the consolidation of power in the hands of Speaking at a hastily called press conference, Gwen O’Looney, Classic Center Board Chair, and Lee Epting, Chief Classic Center Cheerleader, announced, “We heard what the citizens said.

They very clearly said that they didn’t want Hancock closed, but for the longest time, we just didn’t see any alternative that would stay within budget and fulfill Paul Cramer’s dream of covering the entire eastern end of downtown with concrete.”

A spokesman for the project architects allowed himself a brief smile before he launched into the description of his firm’s breakthrough.

“We were up late,” he explained. “All the guys were there, and Mr. Cramer was calling from Athens, pushing us to Commissioner Kelly Girtz wants to “shake up” the City Hall campus downtown. disregard the citizens

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and get this thing ready to present to the commission. We were between a rock and a hard place. I mean, the Classic Center Board is paying us, what, $1.2 million? Something like that. So, we gotta do what they want.”

O’Looney interrupted him. “Then, they had this kind of epiphany. They saw that we could keep Hancock open and please the preservationists, while using other Classic Center land and tying the new exhibition hall right into the parking deck.”

Epting whipped out his iPad and held it up.

“Look at this,” he shouted. “The new exhibition hall starts at the parking deck and comes right across East Broad Street and makes an atrium out of the Flagpole building. We can do it within budget, and the owners of the Flagpole building will be glad to get rid of it and glad to be rid of Flagpole.”

Asked by a reporter whether closing East Broad would cause any problems, O’Looney responded, “Absolutely not. We held all those hearings and gave everybody a chance to state their concerns, and nobody ever mentioned keeping East Broad open. Nobody. We have seen that, except for those few citizens who showed up, nobody cares how many streets we close in Athens.”

The architect added, “And to us, a street is a street. We’d just as soon close Broad as Hancock. So, everybody’s happy. The preservationists get their precious Hancock. Mr. Cramer gets his exhibition hall. We get to close a street, and nobody cares if we do, plus that damned Flagpole gets kicked out. Sweet! It’s the best of all possible worlds!”

Pete McCommons

A Big Sigh of Relief: Mayor Out of Coma and Starting to Act City Hall sounded like a big escape valve Friday, caused by the sighs of relief at the news that Mayor Nancy Denson has come out of her coma.

“We’ve been so worried about her,” said Clerk of Commission Jean Spratlin.

Just prior to her inauguration, Denson underwent a bad bout of laryngitis, and since then she has been in what her doctor described as a “walking coma.”

“Doctors see this occasionally,” Denson’s doctor said, on condition that Flagpole withhold his name for fear that people would want the same health-care plan the mayor gets. “In the Mayor’s case, she showed up for meetings and spoke up when she needed to, but it was like she was just going through the motions: no real decision-making going on in there.”

City Hall observers have noticed that in the three months since she has been in office, Mayor Denson has done little more than show up, taking no active role in the work of the ACC Commission.

District 7 Commissioner Kathy Hoard told Flagpole, “We couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the mayor. We kept expecting her to do something, but she didn’t.”

“It was like she was in a coma, or something,” said District 1 Commissioner Doug Lowry. “Come to find out, she was.”

The sure sign that Mayor Denson had snapped out of her coma came when she took the unprecedented step of moving the commission work session to City Hall and opening it up for public comment in order to ramrod the Classic Center re-design through without the usual opportunities for public comment.

“That’s our mayor,“ said District Two Commissioner Harry Sims. “They were beginning to call her a do-nothing mayor, but here she is doing something, and it didn’t take her but three months to get going.”

District 10 Super Commissioner Mike Hamby, who has had his differences with Mayor Denson, including helping to manage her opponent’s campaign, said he’s as happy as everybody else that the mayor is back in the ball game. “The commission can’t function without a leader,” Hamby said, “even if it’s just for somebody to disagree with. It takes two to tango, you know, or whatever that dance was that I did for the Athens Stars.”

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behind the rail An Inside Take on “Local Issues” The Mayor and Commission will cover a in Atwoodville, CT that prohibits people from lot of ground at our upcoming April voting playing Scrabble while waiting for a politician session. We will be deciding on new SPLOST to speak. contracts, extensions of old SPLOST conConcerned about traffic safety in his distracts, SPLOST project start dates, Community trict, Commissioner Jared Bailey is offering Development Block Grant and HOME fund legislation like an ordinance he read about allocations, and of course, no regular in Alabama that makes it illegal for a driver meeting—or, for that matter, special called to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle. meeting—would be complete without discussI’m not sure we have that problem, but I’m ing the Classic Center expansion. Talk about interested in what Commissioner Bailey has covering some ground! to say on the matter. And, perhaps concerned Now, while those important items, and oth- about gaining the support of future voters, ers, are on the agenda for this voting session, Commissioner Bailey is also proposing an I thought it would be helpful to give a headsordinance like the one in a California town up as to what’s coming down the legislative making it illegal for anyone to try and stop pipeline for future consideration. a child from playfully jumping over puddles In order to bolster support for his languish- of water. I still like jumping over puddles of ing chicken ordinance proposal, Commissioner water, so Commissioner Bailey has my vote on Kelly Girtz is taking a cue from Quitman, GA that issue. that makes it illegal for a chicken to cross the I’m curious about Commissioner Doug road. I suppose Commissioner Girtz is thinking Lowry’s sponsorship of an ordinance similar that this will certainly keep those chickens in to one he learned about while in Canada that the backyard. makes it illegal to ride a streetcar on Saturday Mayor Nancy Denson has heard about a if you have been eating garlic in Toronto. I Massachusetts ordinance that declares goatees really don’t care what you have been eating illegal unless you first pay before riding The Bus on a special license fee for day.

I really don’t care what anyBudget the privilege of wearing discussions one in public, and she sees are about to begin, and you have been eating merit in putting that in our as part of those talks, we before riding The Bus. Athens Code of Ordinances always review our water as well. I will NOT support and sewer service fees. It this, and I suspect Commissioner Girtz won’t wouldn’t surprise me to hear that in order to either. meet our debt service on the water and sewer In an effort to conserve more water for bonds we issued a few years ago, we will have Athens, Commissioner Andy Herod is sugto consider a rate increase. I’m waiting for a gesting an ordinance, which he, incidentally, recommendation resembling the sewer service already abides by, and which is similar to charge that used to be assessed in Belhaven, one in a town located in Indiana, prohibitNC, costing citizens an extra two dollars per ing bathing during the winter months. I month, per stool. They recently changed it to will not support this, but am certain that read “per toilet,” so we should start there.

Commissioner Herod has Commissioner Ed Oftentimes, we get legislative requests Robinson’s full support on this. from constituents looking for some recourse to Commissioner Kathy Hoard has been talkproblems they are experiencing. For example, ing for a few weeks about an ordinance a few hair salon operators in Five Points have somewhere in Alabama that makes it illegal been after Commissioner Hoard and me for to wear a fake moustache that causes laughquite some time now to enact an ordinance ter in a church. I don’t quite understand similar to one in Florida that fines women for why Commissioner Hoard is putting this falling asleep under a hair dryer. We will look idea forward for Athens, and if it comes up, into this.

Commissioner Alice Kinman plans to make a You can learn more about these legislative substitute motion for an ordinance that makes proposals, as I did, from Google. We will be it illegal to smoke a fake cigarette that causes discussing each of these, as well as the possilaughter in a downtown Athens bar. bility of the Classic Center becoming an indoor Since I can never win at a game of stadium able to host UGA football games Scrabble and that causes me great distress, I during inclement weather, at a special called am recommending some self-serving legislameeting on Apr. 1. tion that, hopefully, other commissioners will support. It would emulate a local ordinance Mike Hamby

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capitol impact Data Shows Changing Georgia By any standards, it was an impressive turnout last week for a rally staged by Latino activists near the front steps of the state capitol. Police estimated the crowd size at about 5,000, which was roughly the size of a very different crowd that had gathered at the same location 11 months earlier for a Tea Party rally. Hispanic leaders held the event to protest bills pending in the General Assembly that are intended to target undocumented immigrants and detain them for deportation back to their country of origin. Even though the rally attracted a large and enthusiastic audience, it most likely will not achieve the goal of its organizers. One of those immigration control bills will probably be adopted by the Legislature.

In a larger sense, the Latino rally put a human face on an important demographic trend that was confirmed by the release of data from the U.S. Census for 2010.

Georgia’s population, as of April 2010, was a shade above 9.68 million, an increase of more than 1.5 million people since the 2000 census.

The white share of that population was 59.7 percent—down from 65.1 percent a decade earlier.

Blacks now comprise 30.5 percent of the state’s population, which is a small increase from 28.7 percent in 2000. The Asian population, in raw numbers, grew by 81 percent over the past decade and now makes up 3.2 percent of Georgia’s total population.

The most explosive growth, however, came in the Latino community. The Hispanic population nearly doubled in the 2010 census to 853,689 people, which is almost 9 percent of the state’s total.

That number does not translate into political power, of course. A large portion of the state’s Latino population consists of undocumented immigrants who presumably could be affected by legislative passage of one of those immigration control bills. There are also many

Hispanics who are residing legally in Georgia but have not yet become naturalized citizens.

Even so, the trend in voter registration is something to ponder. In January 2001, there were 1,100 registered voters in Georgia who identified themselves as Hispanic. By January 2011, that number had grown to more than 93,000.

On the whole, Georgia’s Republicans can take some short-term comfort in the latest census numbers. The urban areas that represent Democratic Party strongholds—the cities of Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Columbus and Athens, as well as DeKalb and Clayton counties—registered minimal growth in population over the past decade.

Suburban counties that vote Republican—Gwinnett, Cobb, Forsyth, Hall, Henry and Cherokee— continued to grow at amazing rates.

If you take a closer look at the county numbers, however, you can see that they are also being transformed by Georgia’s movement to a more diverse citizenry. Gwinnett is now the secondlargest county, but also has the largest number of Hispanic residents in the state—they make up 20.1 percent of the county’s population—and has a black population of 23.6 percent.

Cobb is the fourth largest county and has been a center of Republican Party strength for the past two decades. Nearly 42 percent of its 688,000 residents, according to the latest census data, are black, Hispanic or Asian.

Hall County has grown to where it is Georgia’s 11th-largest county and home to our Republican governor and lieutenant governor—but more than a third of the county’s population is now black, Hispanic or Asian.

These numbers show how the face of Georgia is changing, which means there will be political changes in the long run as well.

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Leisure Services Reorganization: The recent reorganization of the Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services—and in particular the dismantling of the Natural Resources Division—has been met with concern by environmental advocates and elected officials alike.

Condensing the six former departmental divisions into four, county management has dissolved the Natural Resources Division, which was seen by many as one of ACC’s bestrun departments—and the unified source of county land stewardship. Division staff members, long an energetic presence at the Sandy Creek Nature Center, have been dispersed to several locations in largely redefined roles.

The quiet, sudden implementation of these major changes by ACC staff without conferring with elected officials or division heads has drawn the attention of several ACC commissioners, who say they were informed of the changes only after the fact via a Mar. 3 memo from ACC Manager Alan Reddish.

While the commission holds the chartered right to reorganize any department, the manager’s office typically deals primarily with such duties. But the absence of wider discussion on such a sweeping restructuring has led commissioners to request further conversation on the issue.

of enhancing quality of life in Athens, both for current residents and in an effort to draw new investment into the community. But the new structure places environmental programming into the arts division, and parks into maintenance, leaving many to wonder where the mandate for environmental stewardship now lies.

The Natural Resources Division has also been the “home” of volunteer citizen groups such as the Oconee Rivers Greenway Commission and the ACC Rails-to-Trails Committee, both of which have helped deliver major assets to the community with the support of staff who served as their link with city departments. ORGC members were particularly dismayed at the removal of the Natural Resources Division administrator position held by Mike Wharton, whose crucial duties in Greenway development and elsewhere were “dispersed” in the reorganization. Greenway advocates wonder how the administrator’s role in every aspect of development, from longterm planning to property acquisition negotiations to coordinating all the groups and agencies involved in implementation, backed up by deep natural resources expertise, can now be filled.

Why?: Asked about the rationale behind the changes, Leisure Services Director Pam A Team and a Mission: Reidy cited the memo The Natural Resources from Reddish citDivision team was ing streamlining and admired by all the consistency as key local nature advocates motivators. But the I have spoken with memo doesn’t shed for its environmental any light on what, expertise, high morale if any, cost savings, and cohesiveness, and increased services, responsiveness to the The Greenway: a strip of concrete simply to be main- greater responsiveness public—it has been, to citizens, etc. the tained? Or part of a growing network of wildlife corby all accounts, a reorganization might ridors, transportation links and outdoor educational top-quality resource help achieve. Former opportunities requiring integrated expertise? citizens have been ACC Commissioner Carl able to rely on through years of environmental Jordan recalls a $150,000 departmental study initiatives. performed by external consultants that has Greenway Commissioner Dan Hope, the not been released; perhaps it contains recomformer ACC parks superintendent who helped mendations to support the restructuring. initiate the Lyndon House Arts Center, Sandy New Park Services Division Administrator Creek Nature Center and the Greenway, says Dan Magee affirms that such reorganizations he has “seen too many good things” from this every so often are good management practice division, including more direct, day-to-day in any enterprise, and that this streamlining contact with citizens than perhaps any other, of divisions will bring greater efficiency and not to look for more reassurance that these savings with no loss in quality of public serservices will continue. vices. He himself brings a holistic view of our As a result of tireless local advocacy over parks providing transportation routes, public the last 35 years, the Natural Resources health and quality of life, and he doubts the Division had developed a strong, holistic public will notice any difference. Despite mission—a unified approach to land managethe dispersal of former Natural Resources ment, environmental education, conservapersonnel, Magee says the same staff will contion and effective coordination with outside tinue to work together on relevant projects. agencies, particularly those that spoke for community interests. This cohesive approach We Haven’t Heard the End of This: With the to natural systems stewardship—everything level of concern these changes have generfrom controlling invasive species to spearated, we need a clearer presentation of how heading outdoor education initiatives—meant the new structure will better serve the public. maximizing resources and minimizing conA careful look at these decisions is in order flicts. Under this approach, for example, the to make sure the county retains its considerGreenway network plan incorporated not just able capacity, developed over decades, for transportation and recreational functions, but wise land stewardship and conservation. wildlife corridors and conservation zones as well. It all fit within an even larger program Katie Goodrum athensrising@flagpole.com

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Fleeta Mitchell and Earl Murphy Athens Loses Two Traditional Music Treasures Nathaniel was ordained as a minister. Fleeta recalled recently that God had tapped her on her right shoulder and whispered in her ear, “You! What kind of a preacher’s wife will you be, playing boop-de-boop-boop?” She quit the blues “like you cut off a washing machine” and never played them again, although one might hear some echoes of the blues in her rocking piano riffs in “Burden Down.” Her vast repertoire of old spirituals, up-beat jubilees, gospel songs like “Jesus Is My Air-o-plane,” as well as her ability to accompany any song a singer “set,” whatever the key, served her well enough.

she might have a wise word of correction for a young person taking the wrong path. She had nicknames for her friends. For some reason she called me “Arkansas.” She did get to sing at the Georgia Grassroots Festival, the National Folk Festival at Wolf Trap Farm, VA and the North Georgia Folk Festival, and was happy to reach people beyond her own community. For several years I took my UGA freshman folk music seminar students to visit Rev. Eberhart and Mother Mitchell. The students would crowd into the small living room and see a feeble and stooped woman helped into the room and seated at the piano.

Art Rosenbaum

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one week, earlier this month, Athens lost two exceptional nonagenarian musicians, treasures of American vernacular music. In many ways, Fleeta Mitchell and Earl Murphy were very different: Fleeta was a blind African American and a lifelong resident of Georgia who used her voice and wonderful piano playing in the service of her Christian faith; Earl Murphy was born a white Missouri farm boy who learned fiddle from his dad and uncle and spent his last years in Athens, playing his old-time repertoire and more swinging Western and bluegrass music with his many musician friends. Neither Fleeta nor Earl ever sought nor found musical careers as many understand that notion today.

Fleeta played and sang in churches and at revivals through most of her 98 years and, in her later years, had the opportunity to perform at folk festivals and have some of her music released on CD. Earl earned a few dollars playing at square dances as a boy, was a radiosinging cowboy for a while in the 1930s and played off and on in various country, old-time, Western swing and bluegrass groups over the years and appeared on a few albums. Although he was never a full-time musician, his love of music was lifelong, and he was jamming with some of his bluegrass friends in his kitchen the day before he died at 93.

Fleeta’s music was sacred, and Earl’s was mostly secular; they left us precious legacies in different ways, not only of fine traditional music, but of their willingness to share memories of life experiences reaching back into a time when music flourished in family, church and community, apart from mass media and commercial endeavors.

Fleeta Mitchell Fleeta was born on Feb. 27, 1913 in Cadwell in Laurens County, GA to Rev. John and Queen Echols. Mostly blind from birth, Fleeta said she could “’scern,” i.e., discern, until an accident left her totally sightless. Nonetheless, she helped with chores, and learned old spirituals in her singing family. As A drawing of Earl Murphy and grandson Andy Carlson by Art Rosenbaum a young child, she sang “Let Me Fly to Mount Zion” as collection was taken at church, standing on a Though raised Methodist, Fleeta became sanctified, table so she could be heard. She learned piano by ear not long Pentecostalist, in 1937. It was about that time that the afterwards.

Mitchells moved to Athens. Nathaniel and Fleeta earned some In 1921 Fleeta entered the Georgia Academy for the Blind of their living caning chairs, but they were active evangelists, in Macon. It would be fair to say that at that time a sightless running revivals locally and as far north as Boston. They saw black child in Georgia who was fortunate enough to attend hard times, such as the death of their only son, Andrew, in that school, segregated though it was, stood to get a better 1971. “That [music] is what carried me through when my son education than many poor, sighted black children who would passed,” she told me. have been lucky to go through a grade or two. Fleeta learned The Mitchells were sought-after musicians and singers, and Braille, formal music and literature, as well as workaday skills.

Fleeta especially was called on to play piano at many churches Among her classmates was a young man later to be known as and with groups like the Belle Hill Singers. Among their the great 12-string guitar player and blues singer, Blind Willie closest musical friends were the late Brady “Doc” and Lucy McTell; and another was to be a singer and slide guitarist of Barnes. In 1991 I helped them record a CD, There’s a Bright some renown, Rev. Pearly Brown. Fleeta’s musical talents were Side Somewhere, with Lucy Barnes, shortly after Doc’s passing. on a par with these schoolmates and might have given her the Another fine singer and loyal friend over the years has been opportunity to record on early 78-rpm records, as McTell did, Rev. Willie Mae Eberhart, who took the couple in when Rev. but she took another path.

Mitchell was in failing health and built an annex to her house At the Academy for the Blind she met Nathaniel Mitchell so the couple would not have to go to a nursing home. First of Wilkes County and helped him train his powerful baritone Nathaniel and then Fleeta spent their last days with the close voice; not long thereafter, they married. In her young adultsupport of Rev. Eberhart and her Bible Outreach Mt. Ararat hood Fleeta played blues as well as religious music. She once Mission church community. had a close call in a juke joint when a man with a knife lunged Fleeta was a generous, bright and loving person. Although between her and her piano, aiming for another person. But she she bore burdens and had tribulations, as the old songs have decided definitively to quit playing and singing the blues when it, she never had a bad word to say about anyone, although

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Fleeta would answer some questions about her life in a barely audible voice. Then Rev. Eberhart took up her tambourine and Mother Mitchell hit the piano keys, they began to sing, and the room rocked—the students almost fell off their chairs with happy astonishment at the energy and power of the music. On hearing of her death, a friend in England, who had heard her voice on a recording, sent me an email, saying, “She must have been a woman of spirit.” He was right.

Earl Murphy Earl Murphy played an unusual fiddle tune that he called “Saline County.” It was one of several that he learned from his father, Walter Murphy, and he had forgotten the name, so his grandson Andy Carlson suggested that he call it after his home county in Missouri. Born on June 21, 1917, he grew up in that county on a farm between Marshall and Sedalia. Rural life was still quite isolated then; Earl recalled that when he was sick once as a child, his father rode horseback to the nearest train stop, leading another horse for the doctor whom he had summoned from town. Neighborhood square dances were a relief from the hard farm work that filled the days, and Earl described

a typical scene where the musicians, often he and his brother, played guitar and fiddle in a doorway between two rooms cleared of furniture, a square dance set in each room.

Earl had started fiddling at about age nine, his first tune being “Prisoner’s Song.” Besides his father, Earl’s early mentor was his uncle Tom Lee. He recalled that his brother Jack, coming in from the fields, heard fiddle music and thought, “Uncle Tom must be visiting.” When he got to the house, he found that the fiddler was young Earl, surely a quick study. To his last day, Earl played a fiddle he had grown up with, an instrument that had belonged to a neighbor who held jam sessions in his grocery store. The fiddle, by the way, had rattlesnake rattles in it; Earl was not sure that this improved the tone, but many old-timers swore that it did.

Earl won his first fiddle contest in 1926, playing the waltz “Shamus O’Brien.” He modestly claimed that he won the crowd’s applause because he was a young kid, displeasing the losing, experienced fiddlers, but he was surely a talent in the making. In the late 1930s, he went out to Idaho to join the New Deal program, the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), but left it to work on an uncle’s cattle ranch and in stockyards. He became a singing cowboy as well as a working cowboy, and had a twice-daily radio program performing the Western music popular at the time. A 1938 publicity photograph shows a good-looking young fellow with a guitar, wearing fancy cowboy garb. At the same time, he was learning Mexican tunes from Hispanic musicians and picking up the Western swing style of fiddling, more elaborate than the sparser Missouri style he had grown up with.

Earl married his boyhood sweetheart, Frances Davenport, and the couple eventually relocated to Moline, IL, where Earl worked as a security guard for International Harvester until his retirement in 1981. He moved back to Missouri for a time, and reconnected with the Missouri old-time fiddling tradition—in Moline he had played only occasionally, in country and Western bars. He was especially proud that he beat the very adept Missouri fiddler Pete McMahan once in a contest. (Earl tended to mix pride with modesty—“I’m no fiddler”—yet showed visitors a room full of contest ribbons.)

In 1989 Earl and Frances moved to Athens to be close to their daughter, Mary, and son-in-law, Ron Carlson, a professor at the UGA School of Law. When asked to name his favorite fiddler, Earl unhesitatingly said, “Andy,” this being his grandson Andy Carlson, whom he had trained on fiddle from an early age. Andy mastered his grandfather’s old-time repertoire, later broadening his fiddling into virtuoso bluegrass, and went on to become a classically trained violinist and professor of music at Denison University in Ohio. Early on, Andy had repaid Earl’s encouragement by inviting him to play with any and all the bands Andy was in, even back when Andy was in Clarke Central High School and Earl and Frances were visiting from Missouri.

Earl was playing at the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society’s “hoots” at Sparky’s café even before moving to Athens. A few years ago, Andy came to Athens and managed to record almost all of his grandfather’s traditional repertoire (Andy accompanying on guitar) in one day—about 40 hoedowns in the morning, 30 waltzes after lunch and a few more tunes with me on banjo and Bill Ashley on guitar in the evening! Many of these were released on a CD called The Kitchen Sessions.

Andy’s encouragement, the Athens music scene and the many musical friends and enthusiasts whom Earl met here invigorated his playing, and he gave back to the musical community many times over. One night he might be playing Western swing or sitting in with the Normaltown Flyers, the next night jamming or playing a gig with bluegrass musicians—his “Wednesday night group”— another evening dusting off his traditional repertoire with friends like Bill Ashley, Pat Shields, myself, Beverly Smith, so many others and Charlie and Nancy Hartness. Charlie and Nancy formed a special bond with Earl and took him out to the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Washington state three years ago, where he was the “hit” of the event. Experienced fiddlers and listeners recognized that his old-time repertoire, his verve and musicianship were exceptional. Paul Bradley’s blog summed it up. He asked Earl, ‘’Don’t you think it s a great privilege to play before such a huge audience of fiddlers at 91 years old?’’ To which Earl replied: “Well, I think it’s a privilege to be playing anyplace!”

(Earl’s daughter, Mary, told me that Earl found it amusing that he became “famous” in his 90s.)

The privilege was ours as well. When he was not playing with friends, in jam sessions or at events like the North Georgia Folk Festival, Earl played by himself, every day, until the end. The day he passed away in his comfortable house in Homewood Hills, where he had chosen to live on his own after the death of his wife, he had been playing his old tunes. His fiddle case was open.

Art Rosenbaum

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It’s said, and said way too often, that critics are people who failed in the fields they criticize. Music critics are supposedly all failed musicians, film critics are frustrated screenwriters and book critics are jealous of those who got that novel published when they did not. These things are usually said when a critic pans something; amazingly, when we like something we’re prescient appreciators of fine art and culture.

Me, I’m not a frustrated anything. I like what I do and I’m not bad at it. In the interest of full disclosure, however, I’ll confess that I am a terrible poet. I mean, I suck at it. People read my poetry aloud at parties to mock it. Drinking games have sprung up around the number of bad allusions and hurl-worthy metaphors I’ve used in my feeble attempts at free verse.

None of this is Kevin Young’s fault. When he was a professor here at UGA, I took his graduate seminar in poetry, where I was surrounded by several good poets and a couple of great ones, and I was exposed to the vast universe of postmodern American poetry to the eternal benefit of my soul and mind. I also learned an important lesson: you can’t acquire talent by osmosis.

Young, a journeyman poet, has since moved on to many adventures and several brilliant books, and his new volume of poetry, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Random House, 2011), is nothing short of brilliant. Told in three parts reflecting the inner lives of principal figures in the saga, Young’s book has all the verisimilitude, empathy and wit of his books on such figures as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jelly Roll Morton. The man does not disappoint.

For those unfamiliar with the story (or the Spielberg movie about it), the Amistad was a Spanish slave ship holding 53 slaves, primarily of the Mendi tribe in Sierra Leone, bound for America from Cuba, where international slavery laws banning the African trade were regularly circumvented by falsifying papers claiming the Mendi were Cuban-born ladinos. The human cargo, dying in the hold and terrorized by their captors, broke free and mutinied, killing the captain and ordering the crew to steer for Africa. As the Africans slept, however, the crew would turn the ship around, and in the summer of 1839, the Amistad was captured off Long Island.

What followed was a celebrated trial between the ownership claims of the Spanish slavers and the United States Navy’s claim to the slaves as salvage, a case that drew national attention and the involvement of former President John Quincy Adams. The Mendi, meanwhile, were tended in jail by Christian abolitionists who taught many of them English and converted them. The U.S. court ruled that the Mendi should be freed and returned to Sierra Leone, where they found their villages and culture decimated.

Where other poets might be tempted to go large with this story, Young keeps his narrative insular and intimate, letting the thoughts of his narrators tell the story in bits and pieces as they experience them. The first part is a poem cycle from the point of view of James Covey, a Mendi brought to America many years

before who serves as interpreter to and for the Amistad rebels, as he reflects on their plight and just how wide the gulf between his heritage and his now-Christianized and “civilized” self has become. The second part is imagined correspondence between the rebels, now learning to speak and write in English, and their sponsors—snapshot views of the days and months spent waiting while one group of whites erases their past and another determines their future.

The third part is the longest and best, an inner journey from beginning to end in the head of Cinque, the leader of the rebels. Here Young employs one of his greatest strengths, introspective verse in staggered couplets that evoke the halting thoughts of a mind stretched to its limits, each word and line

break carefully chosen and arranged like dead flowers. The effect is deeply engrossing, and you’ll find yourself on the fence between stopping to let each piece sink in or moving on to devour the next—yes, it’s a book of poetry that’s a page-turner.

Readers new to Young’s work may find some of his stylistic choices jarring, particularly his use of popular phrases and entertainment jargon that feels anachronistic and even modern.

Just roll with it. Young has a eye for absurdity and a talent for the darkly comic that works well here, both when illustrating the carnival atmosphere that sprang up around the trial and in underscoring the plight of the very real men, women and children who started out as chattel and became a cause célèbre but never quite registered as human beings.

As Howard Zinn and Studs Terkel pointed out to us so forcefully, history is mapped out by the world leaders and military folk who make the big decisions, for good or ill, but it’s lived by people like you and me, and that’s where it matters most. Ardency, speculative and stylized as it is, is historical fiction in verse that feels as immediate and personal as life. It’s a book filled to the brim with what Young does best, and that’s a hell of a lot.

John G. Nettles

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least part of the secret of Hugh Acheson’s success can be explained very simply: under-promise and over-deliver. The once-Canadian, now-American chef and restaurateur (Five & Ten, The National and Gosford Wine locally; Empire State South in Atlanta; and author of a cookbook, A New Turn in the South, due out this fall) has made a career out of lowering his customers’ expectations in advance, then surprising them with something much smarter and more carefully crafted than they anticipated. It’s good advice for any professional, and it explains why, up until now, he hadn’t gone out of his way to do TV. Even a brief appearance can quickly increase business, but it also establishes standards against which you will constantly be judged. Nonetheless, when Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters” comes calling, you don’t close the curtains and pretend you’re not home. The episodes begin Apr. 6 and will show Acheson competing alongside his peers in an environment less designed to embarrass the contestants than is the show’s norm, and while the publicity won’t hurt his restaurants, the cash to be earned is for charity, not business.

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Flagpole recently chatted with a man some call the Hughnibrow, and while he couldn’t reveal anything about the show itself due to the presence of friendly but serious Bravoemployed martinets on the line, he was able to tell us a little about what to expect. He only had nice things to say about his fellow contestants, like a good Ottawan boy, complimenting Alessandro Stratta (Mobil five-star chef in Las Vegas), Traci Des Jardins (James Beard Award winner and a mentor of sorts) and his friend John Currence of City Grocery in Oxford, MS. He did reveal that judge James Oseland “dresses like a 22-yearold Brooklynite” but quickly followed up that comment by praising the judges’ knowledge and reflecting on how difficult their job is.

He also weighed in on new host Curtis Stone.

The star of “Take Home Chef” on the Discovery Channel, he’s a practiced TV guy, but, unlike

Kelly Choi (“not a chef”), “he’s been in the kitchen and understands these things.”

So, if Acheson couldn’t talk about what happens and wasn’t willing to stir the pot by dissing his competition, what could he tell us?

He called it “grueling but exciting” and said that he’d consider doing more TV in the future.

The quickfires in particular, short segments designed to make the chefs think on their feet, are “arduous and fast,” but although everything was challenging, it was also “great fun” and he hopes that he comes off as the “gregarious and happy” person he is.

Where he was able to enthuse at length was in describing his charity, Wholesome Wave. Founded by Michel Nischan, Gus Schumacher and Michael Batterberry with support from Paul Newman, its “initiative is to get really good food choices, healthier choices, on the tables of the less fortunate,” according to Acheson. “If you go to a great farmers’ market, they might have wonderful beets that might be priced out of the realm of possibility for the poor,” but what Wholesome Wave does, through its Double Value Coupons program, is “double WIC and Federal Food Stamps at farmers’ markets.” This makes products half-price at the more than 4,000 markets that have implemented the program and “it makes people more likely to eat their produce.” Why this charity over any other? Acheson emphasizes “whole-cycle impact: local farms support the local economy, and billions of dollars redeemed through this program have a big impact.”

Populism can coexist with organic heirloom tomatoes after all.

So, how do you get folks not only to buy the beets but to eat them, when most of us are more likely to open a cardboard box for dinner?

“Making cooking fun is the next step. Emeril Lagasse has decisively made life easier for me. When I opened Five & Ten, nobody knew what arugula was. Even Guy Fieri is informing people about food on many levels, and it’s these slow little steps that improve food society.” This kind of incrementalism is crucial to Acheson’s outlook, and it also helps explain the understatement that is a hallmark of the menus in his restaurants.

“These people who say ‘no chocolate milk in schools’—that’s a little crazy. I just want kids to eat. And right now there is an interest in food and a reveling in agrarian society,” Acheson says.

He thinks (or hopes) burgers and pizza as food trends are on their way down and an appreciation of “the lower echelon of the vegetable world (celery, cardoons, carrots)” is on the rise. If you’ve ever tasted his roasted beet and carrot salad with a cumin-mint vinaigrette, you know that a beautifully composed, satisfying dish doesn’t have to have bacon in it, and you’re already crossing your fingers that he succeeds on the show with similar elevations of simple ingredients.

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Flowers Galore!: What better way to kick off spring than to attend a free flower show? The Junior Ladies Garden Club of Athens will be sponsoring this pleasant exposition Thursday, Mar. 31, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. at the Bottleworks on Prince. Entitled “Locally Grown,” the show will accentuate Georgia’s native plants. Marvel at more than 20 floral arrangements and 100 species of plant life either grown or produced by the club.

Forty photographs will also be exhibited: images of our community’s farms, markets and one-of-a-kind plants from local gardens. Local artists Jimmy “Capman” Straehla, Margie Spalding, Mary Hardman, Sally Koenan, Mary Anna Terrell and Ashley Perno, among others, will be present. For more information, contact Greta Covington at gretat@mindspring.com.

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in the textiles field. Some of the items may be for sale after the show. Check out www.athensarts.org to purchase tickets and for more info. Then, the evening of Apr. 9 brings Athens Fashion Collective’s spring fashion show to the Tree Room in Chase Street Warehouses at 6 p.m., with doors opening at 5:30. Students from the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art will exhibit an art installation, and Ted Kuhn will display video projections. Support the talented designers who will be featuring their Spring/Summer 2011 collections—included will be Sanni Baumgaertner and Karen Freed’s Community Service line of redesigned vintage clothing, Lips Jeans, a line by erstwhile Athenian Dan Donahue and his NYC design partner Loren Cronk, and Atlanta fashion designer Laurel Wells. Look for ‘em online!

This will also be the Athens (and Georgia, for that matter) runway debut of Amy Flurry and Nikki Salk’s Paper-Cut-Project: exquisite, handmade paper masks and headpieces that have been getting serious play on the international fashion scene from the likes of Italian Glamour and Hermès. The duo will

Are You the Cricket-Spitting Champion?: The H.O. Lund Entomology Club and Entomology Department at UGA are operating the 26th annual Insect Zoo on Apr. 1 from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. at the Biological Sciences Building on campus. Food with insects—mealworms and crickets—will be served, and a number of activities will take place: roach races, a cricketeating contest, a spelling bee, and cricket spitting. That’s right: a spelling bee. The Guinness World Record for cricket spitting is held by Dan Capps of Madison, WI, who spit his cricket 32 feet and one-half inch in June 1998. UGA is trying to break Capps’ record this year. Do you have what it takes? Apparently, you just put a dead cricket in your mouth and spit it as far as possible. It can’t be too different from watermelon seeds. For more information, including an updated schedule of events, visit www.ent. uga.edu/insectzoo or email entomolo@uga.edu.

Lap Around the Landfill: The 10th annual Junk Yard Jog 5K gets going Saturday, Apr. 9 at the Athens-Clarke County Landfill from 8–10 a.m.

Amy Flurry and Nikki Salk’s Paper-Cut-Project will be featured in the Athens Fashion Registration is $15 up until Apr. 2 and $20 Collective’s spring fashion show Apr. 9. from then until the morning of the race. Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful, an affiliate of showcase six new pieces created especially for this show, Keep America Beautiful, is holding the race, and all proceeds which will be in conjunction with Atlanta clothing designer go directly toward prettifying the community and supporting Tian Justman. You can take a look at Flurry and Salk’s designs local environmental education. The pathway will take runners at www.paper-cut-project.com. through the landfill’s apparently beautiful pine forests and pastures. You can register by going to www.active.com and Locally Grown… Zombies?: You may already be familiar with searching for “Junk Yard,” or find more details at www.keepaJordan Reyes and Ben Roberds, who won the Videographers’ thensbeautiful.org.

Hella Big Show with their short films in September 2010.

Now they are asking the Athens community to help them put Another ‘Looza: If the flower show wasn’t enough to satisfy together their no-budget zombie flick, A Plague So Pleasant, your love of plants, three UGA plant sales, known collectively which they plan to enter into the Slamdance Film Festival next as “Plantapalooza,” will be going down on Apr. 9 from 8 year. They need a whole lot of zombies to wear dirty clothes a.m.–2 p.m., drawing gardeners from all over Georgia. There and limp around, and would love those zombies to be some are three different locations—the State Botanical Garden of of you. Luckily, they have a couple of experts donating their Georgia, the Trial Gardens behind Snelling Dining Hall and makeup and digital effects skills to the film. And if you’re the the College Station Greenhouse near the intersection of interested, Reyes and Roberds have started an IndieGoGo Riverbend Road. Whether you have just started practicing your account to raise funds to help complete their film. They’ve set gardening skills or have already developed your green thumb, a goal of $5,000, so if you would like to donate to our latest this will likely be a great event for you because horticulturists, breed of filmmakers—or at least check out their trailer—go volunteers and Master Gardeners will be available to help you to www.indiegogo.com/A-Plague-So-Pleasant. If you want to pick your plants. The Trial Gardens will offer exclusive plant volunteer as a zombie, contact Roberds at (404) 695-5238 or species hard to find elsewhere, while the Botanical Garden email BDGfilms@hotmail.com. will sell Georgia Gold Medal plants that include trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, herbs and vegetables, plus many native Missing Frontier Cat: If you have walked by the windows of species. The Horticulture Club will have a wide range of garden Frontier on East Clayton Street in the past several years, you and landscape varieties. For more information on these giant have most likely noticed the beautiful black and tan torgreen sales, go to www.ugatrialgardens.com. toiseshell cat with yellow eyes who lounges in the store’s winm Fashion! Turn to the Left. Fashion! Turn to the Right: The dows. Unfortunately, this cat, who goes by the name Raffia, is weekend of Apr. 8–9 is a prime time to get your fashion fix. missing and was last seen the night of Wednesday, Mar. 16. If Friday, Apr. 8 is the Athens Area Arts Council’s “Material World you have seen Raffia or know any information about her whereII—FashioNation” fashion show at Hotel Indigo at 7:30 p.m. abouts, call Frontier at (706) 369-8079.

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art notes LDSOA MFA Exhibition The 2011 Master of Fine Arts class presents their thesis projects at the Lamar Dodd School of Art through Apr. 15. Twenty-four candidates, one of the largest graduating classes in the history of the program, are exhibiting a variety of artwork throughout the building. With so many students graduating this year, it was necessary for each to select pieces that best represented his/her work to date. For the most part, this curatorial discipline appears to have presented us with strong examples of each artist’s skills and ideas. As one might expect at an MFA show, the exhibition illustrates the artists’ mastery of the materials with which they chose to make their mark.

Choices of medium, subject and style are quite varied, making for an exciting viewing experience. Beginning with Gallery 101, a few highlights include Sarah Laurentius’ “You Have to See to Believe: Memory Suite,” a video installation presented on three screens.

The images of a woman in a field and another in front of a window bleed into each other across the screens with a voice-over recounting memories from the speaker’s childhood.

Words on the screen play with the title and tell us, “you have to believe to see,” pushing on the point where memory and reality become confused in the stories we tell about (and to) ourselves. Leslie Burns’ platinum palladium photographic prints similarly evoke a time gone by. The black-and-white photos appear antique, the nude subjects are pictured facing away from the camera, reversing the usual stance of the face-forward portrait.

These outdoor nudes are joined by one of a young man with an ecstatic expression as he is drenched in what appears to be motor oil and another man shot in profile, covered in shredded coconut. The tactility of the printing process and the subjects presented make for images filled with visual interest.

Unafraid to tackle difficult materials, sculptors Haru Park and Sarah Heath both approach their work with tenacity and strength. Park’s “Brain Topography” is a gargantuan brain carved from two huge pieces of plywood. The artist has sanded down the wood to breach the surface and reveal a topographic map of concentric waves, a feat that must have taken hours of meditative sanding and shaping. Sarah Heath’s cast iron and bronze telephone chair and rotary phone are pierced through with decorative filigree, showcasing

the sculptor’s skill in executing a complex casting process. Grey Fairchild’s surreal works are also a standout. Three arrangements—one of blond hair woven into golden chains, one of 16 rows of alligator claws with red-painted nails, one of shark teeth dusted with different shades of glitter and arranged in an oval like an open mouth—evoke a peculiar glamour in both senses of the word. First, that beautification practices are at issue here in the way the collections are decorated using braiding, nail lacquer and glitter; second, in that these materials are used as voodoo talismans or ingredients in magical spells. In an alterna-

Upstairs on the third floor are a few large installations. Denton Crawford’s “On the Other Side of the Rainbow” covers floor to ceiling in a nightmarish vision of a sharptoothed, phallic-tailed creature, floating teeth, and an organic mass opened to reveal a worm-riddled heart. The artwork takes over the corner of the gallery and is quite a sight, but the effect is somewhat hindered by the necessity to share the space with other artwork—an H.P. Lovecraftian monster like this needs its own room. On the opposite wall sits David Savino’s “Relief,” two port-o-potties refashioned as confessional boxes. Behind the purple curtains are wood-paneled interiors and computer screens, each side presenting a live two-way camera feed of undisclosed locations.

Other individuals may be in these distant places ready to hear your confessions, but more often there will be no one there, leaving you with a sense that your spiritual connection has been short-circuited. Also on the third floor is Helen Farmer’s diamond-shaped

Marie Porterfield’s series “On the Strange Predicament of Being in the World” is on display through Apr. 15. tive reading, note that each piece is titled with lyrics from rap songs including Eminem, Jay-Z and Kanye West. The juxtaposition of hip-hop lyrics and these artful arrangements may be a humorous celebration (or criticism) of the stereotypical trappings of mainstream rap fashion. Also tweaking minimalist practice, here with a different take on the cube, is Craig Hawkins’ “Box No. 11.” One from a series of similar compositions, this large oil on canvas is painted with a bold red background.

Centered in the painting is a couple standing toe-to-toe covered with a bronze and gold cardboard box presented as a luminous rectangular aura protecting and concealing the two people it contains.

“Harlequin,” an arrangement of wonderfully colored and textured mixed-media materials that look something like pillows. Opposite are Julia Allen’s photographs, one of which was chosen for this year’s Lyndon House juried exhibition. Entering Gallery 307 you will find Rebecca Rugg’s “Apples Fall” where she employs cotton, silk and stitching to remake receipts from big box stores like Target and Best Buy, bringing consumerist flotsam to the level of fine art. Marie Porterfield’s series “On the Strange Predicament of Being in the World” is beautifully painted in oil, ink and mica flakes on panel. Porterfield’s style here is reminiscent of Marc Chagall and provides an illustration of a personal mythology depicting

dreams, the afterlife and other imaginary realms. Janie Askew’s delicate graphite and chalk drawings of ethereal uterine interiors are occupied by fetuses with fatal congenital deformities. Though the subject matter is difficult, Askew handles it with a subtlety and tenderness that calls attention to the fragility of life and the precariousness of our complex genetic forms.

Returning to the first floor, Steven Abadie’s video installations explore what we are all doing in the gallery: looking. “In the Garden” is made up of several black boxes, each perched separately on fragile wooden scaffolding. Peeking in the pin hole at one side reveals a small screen with video images of garden flowers, constraining an organic and sensual experience to the box-like gallery space. You will miss his second installation if you aren’t paying very close attention (Hint: you’ll see a peep hole on the wall to the right of Hawkins’ painting. Go ahead and bend down to look—everyone will wonder what you are doing). You will see the LDSOA exhibit spaces on film with you doing the surveillance. This one is called “The Judgement,” and is a clever examination of the gallery practice of looking, judging, and being observed while looking, which recalls the voyeuristic gaze involved in experiencing Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant Donnés.” Although I have not been able to include all 24 artists in this short column, I encourage you to go look (and judge) for yourself (through Apr. 15) and see the artwork the class of 2011 has made.

Also on Campus: The Georgia Museum of Art has a full slate of interesting lectures and events lined up in April, many in conjunction with the presentation of Salvador Dalí’s illustrations of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” which Dalí made in 1957. Over five years, Dalí’s watercolor illustrations were recreated using 3,500 hand-carved printing blocks to make 100 prints. This traveling exhibition will present the complete “Divine Comedy” suite.

To kick things off, join Lynn Boland (GMOA) on Apr. 14, 5:30 p.m. for “Dalí and the Surrealists: An Introduction.” The exhibition is on view Apr. 10–June 19.

Downtown: Photographers and Flagpole contributors Chris McKay and Mike White are joined by local photographer-about-town Daniel Peiken to present their original (and some rarely seen) prints of legendary artists such as members of The Beatles and The Who, as well as local legends, The B-52s, R.E.M., Vic Chesnutt and many more. The opening reception is Apr. 1, at 6:30 p.m. at Dog Ear Books on Clayton Street with the photographs on view throughout most of the month.

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

THE 5TH QUARTER (PG-13) What’s really sad about this Blind Side wannabe is that this real family’s tragedy is so ineptly conveyed that it becomes laughable. When his 15-year-old brother, Luke, is killed in a car accident, Wake Forest football player Jon Abbate (Ryan Merriman), wearing Luke’s number, leads his team to their most successful season ever. Shot through an HD haze, The 5th Quarter gets everything wrong. A terrible script and poor acting (especially from socalled pros like Aidan Quinn and Andie MacDowell) are overseen by cut-rate direction from writer-producer-director Rick Bieber. Big emotions are needed but cannot be given by mediocre cast and schmaltzy direction. A “College Gameday” package turned awful, inspirational, faith-film, The 5th Quarter is the sort of movie you should be able to watch for free in a church fellowship hall, not pay full price to see in a theater.

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG13) The trailers do nothing for the cut of this latest Philip K. Dick adaptation.

Matt Damon and Emily Blunt play starcrossed lovers, David and Elise, being kept apart by the Adjustment Bureau, who resemble a team of Mad Men in suits and hats (one is even played by “Mad Men”’s silver-haired, silvertongued John Slattery). These angels as pencil pushers and bureaucrats make sure The Plan, as envisioned by The Chairman (one of many names for the man upstairs), is adhered to. The love affair between David and Elise is not part of the plan, and the Bureau will stop at nothing, even sending in their heavy hitter (Terence Stamp), to ensure the couple does not end up together. Writer-director George Nolfi meshes romance and sci-fi with more coolly intricate success than you would suspect. Damon and Blunt generate surprisingly easy chemistry, and the men in hats idea works well thanks to Slattery, Stamp and The Hurt Locker’s undervalued Anthony Mackie. The Adjustment Bureau is one of the better films of young 2011.

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (PG-13) I still don’t quite get how Battle: Los Angeles was inspired by true events.

In February 1942, over 1,400 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition were

unleashed over the skies of L.A., at what was thought to be Japanese aircraft. This real-life event somehow led to this science fiction/war movie about the battle fought over Los Angeles during an alien invasion. A group of mixed military personnel (led

by Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez and Ne-Yo) try to get back to the FOB (Forward Operating Base) before bombs are dropped that will hopefully wipe out the invading extraterrestrials. Many of the supporting military cast die, mowed down during shaky cam gunfights with aliens inspired

by District 9. Battle: LA offers nothing new to either the war or science fiction genres it mashes together, but the action movie manages to engage for its near-two-hour running time without being particularly interesting or entertaining.

BEASTLY (PG-13) A literal modern day fairy tale, Beastly stars I Am Number Four’s Alex Pettyfer as vain, misunderstood, rich boy, Kyle. When Kyle runs afoul of a witch (Mary-Kate Olsen) at his ridiculously posh private high school, she turns him into a hideously scarred and tattooed “monster” with a year to find someone who’ll love him. Of course, he chooses scholarship girl with a drug addict dad, Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens). The unforgivably unlikely setup for this limp take on Beauty and the Beast requires Lindy to be sequestered in Kyle’s hideaway due to a threat against her life. Beastly is all pretty much bland teen romance and drama.

THE BIG UNEASY (NR) This documentary goes deep into the causes of the Katrina flooding and includes interviews with several major whistleblowers, who collectively point out that the hurricane’s destruction was a result of shoddy work by the U.S. Corps of Engineers.

BIUTIFUL (R) Critical darling Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel) returns with what sounds like a Spanish-language version of Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter (not a compliment). In Barcelona, Uxbal (Javier Bardem, who won Best Actor at Cannes) 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

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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.

CAT RUN (R) Another decidedly ‘80s-sounding action-comedy, Cat Run asks two bumbling young private detectives, Anthony and Julian (EuroTrip’s Scott Mechlowicz and Glory Road/Pride’s Alphonso McAuley), to protect a high end escort, Catarina (Paz Vega, Spanglish), who is the only witness to a government cover-up. Soon the trio’s on the run from a senator, the mob and an assassin. Director and former ‘80s actor John Stockwell could use a hit after Blue Crush, Into the Blue and Turistas. With Janet McTeer, Christopher McDonald, Tony Curran and D.L. Hughley.

CEDAR RAPIDS (R) A small town lifer, Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), is sent to the annual insurance conference in the big city of Cedar Rapids, IA, where he learns the ropes from some convention veterans, led by John C. Reilly. Hopefully, Miguel Arteta can recover from the disappointing, but funny Youth in Revolt. The best gag given away in the trailer involves Isiah Whitlock, better known to “Wire” fans as Clay “Shee-it” Davis, getting in a “Wire” reference. With Anne Heche, Stephen Root, Kurtwood Smith, Alia Shawkat, Rob Corddry and Sigourney Weaver.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK RULES (PG) I really enjoyed the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie, and its sequel, Rodrick Rules, is no different. Middle schooler Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon, who could be a lost Savage brother) must contend with brotherly abuse from his mean older sibling, Rodrick (Devon Bostick).

Adding to Greg’s middle school misery is the return of Chirag Gupta (Karan Brar) and an unrequited crush on Holly Hills (Peyton List). Fortunately, Greg still has best bud, Rowley (Robert Capron), by his side. It’s a tribute to Jeff Kinney’s fantastic series of books and a terrific ensemble of actors, both child and adult, that a kiddie franchise could be this funny.

DIRTY DANCING (PG-13) 1987.

Even after 20 years, the death of one star and the massive nose job of the other, nobody can put baby in a corner.

At a Catskills resort in the 1960s, Frances “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) learns to love and dance from dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), much to the chagrin of her upper-crust parents.

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.

HALL PASS (R) The Farrelly Brothers peaked in 1998. Their first three comedies: Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin

and There’s Something About Mary held so much promise. Their last six failed to deliver on that promise. Hall Pass is one of their weakest, i.e., least funny, movies yet. Two bumbling suburbanites—Rick (a sorely miscast Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis)—are granted a week off from marriage from their gorgeous wives (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate). Unfortunately, hilarity does not ensue HOP (PG) A slacker (James Marsden) hits the Easter Bunny (voiced by Russell Brand) with his car. Now he has to take care of the holiday figure, who does not turn out to be the best houseguest of all time. Director Tim Hill, nephew of Butch Cassidy and The Sting’s George Roy, gave us sequels to Alvin and the Chipmunks and Garfield, which does not bode well for this intriguing premise. With Kaley Cuoco, Elizabeth Perkins and Chelsea Handler.

INSIDIOUS (PG-13) Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell reteam for a new horror flick, and they’ve recruited Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli as a producer. In this Poltergeist/ Amityville Horror pastiche, a family tries to stop evil spirits from trapping their comatose son in a realm called The Further. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne play the endangered child’s parents, while Barbara Hershey will hopefully bring her Black Swan creepiness to a true genre role. I’m intrigued enough to give the flick a chance.

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. With Helena Bonham Carter as George’s wife Queen Elizabeth, Guy Pearce as Edward VIII, Michael Gambon as King George V and Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill.

THE LAST LIONS (PG) With virtually no protection under government mandate or through international accords, the population of lions in Africa has dropped from half-a-million to only 20,000 in the last fifty years. Husband and wife filmmaking team Dereck and Beverly Joubert document poaching and tourism’s effects on lions.

LIMITLESS (PG-13) Limitless, the new film from Illusionist director Neil Burger, is pretty much about star Bradley Cooper’s career. He goes from being “Alias”’s Will Tippin to “The A-Team’s” Face in the course of two hours. Writer Eddie Morra stumbles upon a designer drug that opens up the limitless potential of the human brain.

(I do mean stumbles; the narrative means by which Eddie first gets the drug, NZT-48, is not the most natural.)

Soon, Eddie is making millions from the stock market and drawing the attention of a Wall Street bigwig (Robert De Niro). Limitless needs a better advertising campaign. It’s a lot better than you think it’s going to be.

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (R) The Lincoln Lawyer seems like the next great drama from TNT. Matthew McConaughey would make many a dreary summer weeknight fly by as slick attorney Mickey Haller, who does business out of the backseat of his roomy town car. As a movie, this legal thriller says all the right things in all the right ways. Too bad courtroom

dramas are a dime a dozen on TV. Why pay exorbitant movie theater ticket prices when you can get the exact story in an hour on “Law & Order: NCIS: Las Vegas?”

MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Mars Needs Moms is a fairly tepid animated kids movie of the most average kind.

Milo (not voiced by credited star, 37-year-old Seth Green, who did the motion capture performance) doesn’t appreciate his mother (v. Joan Cusack).

When aliens in need of mothering take her away, he sets out to save her with the help of an overweight earthling, Gribble (v. Dan Fogler), and a martian rebel, Ki (v. Elizabeth Harnois). Kids might be entertained, but adults will find Rango far more appealing.

THE MATRIX (R) 1999. The film that redefined science fiction for the next decade returns to the big screen.

After being awakened by rebel leader Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Neo (Keanu Reeves) becomes the savior of a humanity kept alive and dreaming to provide energy for evil machines.

NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) Could No Strings Attached be this year’s Valentine’s Day? It does star Ashton Kutcher, is helmed by a washed-up “comedy” director (Ivan Reitman), and is really, really poorly written.

Two friends (so the movie calls them despite their only having met three times), Emma and Adam (Natalie Portman and Kutcher), engage in a strictly sexual relationship that leads to love. I wish comedy writers would learn raunch is not funny for raunch’s sake alone.

PAUL (R) I had high hopes for Paul.

Written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and directed by Greg Mottola (Superbad and Adventureland), this road trip comedy should have been the alien homage equivalent of Pegg and Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead/ Hot Fuzz. Maybe Wright’s guiding hand as director and cowriter was more important than believed because Paul is nowhere near as smart or funny as those two genre love letters. Paul is by no means a bad movie, just a disappointing one.

RANGO (PG) Boasting a cute trailer, this animated feature from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski stars his lead pirate, Johnny Depp, as the voice of a chameleon that wants to be a gunslinging hero. Rango must put his skills, if he has any, to the test to protect a Western town from bandits. Featuring the voices of Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Isla Fisher, Ray Winstone, Harry Dean Stanton, Stephen Root and Ned Beatty.

RED RIDING HOOD (PG-13) Far and away the worst movie of 2011 (so far), Red Riding Hood tries to infect the Grimm fairy tale with some Twilight teen romance and fails miserably. A total bore, Red Riding Hood never establishes a propulsive narrative arc, which then goes unsupported by pitiful acting and not one single genuinely dramatic moment.

THE RITE (PG-13) Based on journalist Matt Baglio’s book, California priest Gary Thomas (Colin O’Donoghue) is sent to Rome by his bishop to be trained as an exorcist. While at the Vatican’s exorcism school, he encounters demonic forces, and his views on the spiritual battle between good and evil change. Director Mikael Håfström

earned good reviews for his last horror movie, 1408. Writer Michael Petroni created the short-lived NBC series, “Miracles.”

SOMEWHERE (R) Hollywood actor Johnny Marco (played by Stephen Dorff) must reconcile his luxurious lifestyle full of parties, drinking and women when his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly drops in for a visit.

THE SONG OF SPARROWS (PG) 2008. What a sweet sounding setup.

A rural Iranian ostrich farmer, Karim (Mohammad Amir Naji, who won the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actor), must travel to the bustling city of Tehran to replace his daughter’s hearing aid before a big exam. Once in the city, Karim faces opportunities never seen and a cultural/economic divide never felt in his tiny village. Writer-director Majid Majidi was nominated for the prestigious Golden Bear from the Berlin International Film Festival.

SOURCE CODE (PG-13) David Bowie’s kid, Duncan Jones, follows up the cool, cold Moon with this sci-fi actioner starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Soldier Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) is sent back in time by a government experiment. Thrust into the body of a commuter, he has eight minutes to stop a bomb from exploding.

SUCKER PUNCH (PG-13) See Movie Pick.

SUPER (NR) Regular guy Frank D’Arbo (Rainn “Dwight Schrute” Wilson) becomes a superhero named the Crimson Bolt after his wife leaves him for a drug dealer, Jacques (Kevin Bacon). Along with his teen sidekick (Ellen Page), the Crimson Bolt vows to take down Jacques’s criminal empire.

Buzz is good for Slither filmmaker and Troma grad James Gunn’s new movie. Then again, maybe my view is skewed by following Gunn’s Twitter feed. Look for appearances from Gunn pals, Michael Rooker, Nathan Fillion and more.

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). Prospero is now a female alchemist named Prospera (Helen Mirren). Banished to an island for witchcraft, she raises her daughter, Miranda (Felicity Jones), and struggles for power with Caliban (Djimon Hounsou). If all else fails, The Tempest should be another dominating visual effort from the interesting mind of Taymor.

TRON: LEGACY (PG) 2010. 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.

The insanely entertaining Tron: Legacy is the best amusement park ride/laser light show you’ll see at the movies.

TRUE GRIT (PG-13) To help distance their new film from the John Wayne classic, Joel and Ethan Coen are calling it a new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis rather than a remake.

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.

YOGI BEAR (PG) Yogi Bear will satisfy the low expectations of children while providing the parents an hour and a half to disengage.

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adapter of other people’s (George Romero, Frank Miller, Alan Moore) work, Snyder falls far short when conceiving his own high-concept explosion of genre tropes. A stylized womenin-prison variation, Sucker Punch lacks any real urgency and bores when it should titillate—being a fetishization of young women and guns, it should, but never does.

In an alternate 1950s, a girl (Emily Browning) loses her mother and, after a

violent rampage, is institutionalized by her creepy stepfather. Baby Doll, as she comes to be known, is scheduled for a lobotomy in five days. To escape her fate, she runs to an alternate reality inside her head, where she and a few of the other girls—Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Rocket (Jena Malone), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens) and Amber (Jamie Chung)—must battle German zombies, orcs, giant samurai, dragons, the works.

It’s like the end of Ghostbusters, and whatever Snyder thinks of comes to life for the girls to fight.

On paper and in trailers, Sucker Punch resembles a fever-addled fanboy’s wet dream. Everything is here. Steampunk meets Bioshock’s Big Daddy meets WWI zombies. But sometimes cool just isn’t enough.

The problem with movies that try to recreate a video game experience is that I’d rather play them than watch them. As a game, Sucker Punch might have totally succeeded. Its strained framing device—Baby Doll’s dancing entrances everyone so they can complete their missions—creates a natural level progression (less appealing games have succeeded on less), and having the option to turn up the difficulty would be nice. The girls never face any real challenges until the final act. The trailers were right. I wasn’t prepared for Sucker Punch… to bore and disappoint so harshly.

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Just Briefly: Although I had some trepidation when I heard about new Athens combo Green Thrift Grocery, my fears were gone after hearing them play. Since their name is basically a joke based on a particularly controversial grocery store idea from Flagpole writer Dan Lorentz, and the band even dresses up like little, I dunno, sprouts and sprites, they deliver a shambly good time: kinda punky and kinda indie but mostly pure Athens. Find ‘em on Facebook or just go see the band on Apr. 7 at Little Kings Shuffle Club. Mouser, Ol’ Blue Heeler and Bloomington, IN’s Apache Dropout are also on the bill.

Fantastic Area: Although barely hanging onto their Athens street cred, courtesy of sole remaining Athenian member Jeff Griggs, Je Suis France would love it if you paid attention to this news. The band’s got a new record coming out the first week of April, titled Let’s Give ‘Em Something to Talk About, which collects the best, in Je Suis France the band’s opinion, songs from the 25 CDR EPs they’ve put out over the past eight years. In other news, member Ryan Martin (AKA Darkness) is finally moving back to Georgia, so the band will start playing out again. You can catch them at Atlanta’s Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, Apr. 2 or you can wait for an upcoming, but as yet unbooked, Athens show. If you want a taste of what the band is up to these days, you can download the new, free EP Warsock Vol. 2 over at www.jesuisfrance.bandcamp.com. These guys… love ‘em!

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One for the Homies: Athens treasure Madeline will celebrate her 10-year anniversary of playing shows on Mar. 31 at the 40 Watt (see story on p. 20). Lifetime friends Nana Grizol open the show. Expect songs from her entire output from Kissing and Dancing to White Flag. Reportedly, former bandmate from her Sugar Shakers days Tim Schreiber (AKA the aforementioned Timmy Tumble) may join her onstage for a few songs. Madeline says of the event, “Basically, I’m throwing myself a big party.” Speaking as one who is fond of throwing himself parties, I endorse this idea fully.

In other news, Madeline’s new album, Black Velvet, is finished and will be released in June.

For more info, see www.madelinesongs.com.

Records and Rumors of Records: Punchy powerhouse Dead Dog is headed out on tour for the month of April. There’s also a new 7” record in the works, but Wuxtry Records is planning on repressing the band’s selftitled debut LP. A planned tour of Japan was scrapped after the major tragedies over there began. Hopefully, this can be rescheduled sometime soon. Check out the tour dates (complete with no venues listed!) over at www.deaddog.yolasite.com. Dead Dog’s latest album, Don’t Touch Me, is available locally at Wuxtry and Lo Yo Yo Stuff.

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Never Stop Working: In early 2010, singer/ songwriter Adam Klein visited the African nation of Mali to record Dugu Wolo, an album of original Malian “Mande” music with topnotch Malian musicians. Filmmaker Jason Miller went along for the ride, recording a “making of the album” documentary which also highlights the colorful Malian music scene and provides an intimate look at the lives of some of Klein’s closest friends there. Klein previously spent two years in Mali as a Peace Corps volunteer. A trailer for the as-of-yet untitled documentary is now up on YouTube.

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tion costs. Klein is currently on a European tour until Apr. 7 and is joined by Chris Cason (Kaitlin Jones & the County Fair), with whom he’ll play as a duo. For info, dates and to help the release of the film, please see www.adamklein.com.

Almost Too Late: The deadline to enter the Sprockets Music Video Competition is Apr. 1. Details are available over at www.filmathens.net. You’ve been told and warned, and if you’ve missed it, well, I don’t know what to say.

Heads Up: The show Saturday, Apr. 2 at the Caledonia Lounge featuring Burns Like Fire, So it Goes, Reeks of Failure and Machismo USA will be a benefit for the family of AthensClarke County Senior Police Officer Elmer “Buddy” Christian. Officer Christian was killed in Athens last week while in the line of duty.

Foldin’ Money: Funky bluesy Athens band Lefty Hathaway has a Kickstarter campaign going to facilitate the band’s release of its debut album. The fundraising ends on Apr. 8; the total sought is $2,000. Interested?

Then visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/ leftyhathaway/be-part-of-lefty-hathawaysdebut-full-length-lp. This would probably be a good time to mention that if you’re going to do a Kickstarter campaign it wouldn’t be a bad idea to spend $10 on a domain name that you can point towards your campaign. It’s a whole lot easier to say, “my awesome band dot com” than “yadda yadda something dot com slash do this thing to help this thing ok great bye.”

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record reviews FIVE EIGHT Your God Is Dead to Me Now Iron Horse Though reunited since 2007, the original lineup of Five Eight hasn’t produced a studio recording together since ‘97. Your God Is Dead to Me Now sees their long delayed return to the studio. Predictably, the result isn’t too far removed from the emo-injected power-pop of their heyday, but the band sounds lively and invigorated.

Catchy guitar riffs maintain a level of casualness throughout, a feat that’s surprising given the years of labor that went into the production of this album.

The title track’s Beach Boysreferencing intro segues into a little Television-style guitar tangling which serves as a clear glimpse into the personal crises that delayed the release of this album. Here singer Mike Mantione lists his grievances with the popular deity in a tone that straddles the line between despairing and resilient in his realization. The cheerfully whistled chorus is a nice touch, and it’s a catchy pop song that’s only slightly too offensive to be recognized as such.

The rest of the disc tends towards more of the “power” side of the powerpop continuum, and when singer Mantione reaches for the falsettos his voice sounds more raw than it once did. “The Ballad of Frankie Jr.” sounds like it could be a cut off of Springsteen’s Nebraska if the famously stark album received full production. In the end, the question posed is: “What Can One Man Change (with a Guitar)?”

My inner cynic scoffs, but it’s a decent tune, and the subject matter isn’t unfamiliar in the history of rock and roll. Mantione refrains from spelling out the answer, but it’s clear through this album that it has changed his life considerably.

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FUTUREBIRDS Via Flamina Independent Release What makes this Athens psychcountry band the real deal is that their game is complete. In terms of sonic treatment, their texturizing is some of the best out there, comparable even to the top shoegazers and psychedelics.

Even so, Futurebirds don’t hide behind it like so many do. You can clearly hear their melodies, and they’re topshelf. And that’s mostly what this EP is about. Besides the opening track, these

quieter songs showcase the band’s pure melodic ability by presenting it in a relatively nude state.

“Millstones” is a more reclined and atmospheric slow dance whose sonics are remarkably pristine. Considering Futurebirds’ penchant for stately spaciousness and haunting beauty, their choice to cover Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” is a natural one, with their ghostly tendrils lending the song a more celestially contemporary feel.

Though the echoing thickness returns on “Wild Heart,” there’s no rock squall in it to disrupt the purity of its hilltop folk grace.

As the lavishly furnished lead cut “Via Flamina” reaffirms so gorgeously, Futurebirds’ full-blown side is the more moving and thrilling. But as a record, this EP plainly demonstrates their undeniable fundamentals as songwriters. And a band this well-built cannot be denied forever.

Bao Le-Huu Futurebirds are playing at the 40 Watt Club on Friday, Apr. 1.

STILL FLYIN’ Neu Ideas Compilation Ernest Jennings Record Co. Sean Rawls co-founded the band Masters of the Hemisphere, one of the pillars of late-’90s Athens pop. When he moved out to San Francisco about a decade ago, word around town was that he was planning to start a reggae band.

Instead, he started a party that’s been jamming for six years straight. That party is called Still Flyin’, and it comes in band form.

Masters of the Hemisphere was indebted to the sunny garage and power-pop of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s; Still Flyin’ has always dug deep into the joyful late 1970s and early ‘80s, when general badassery ruled the airwaves, power chords could thrust their pelvises wherever they liked, and irony had no place. Dig into Neu Ideas—a comp collecting Still Flyin’ 12” and 7” records released over the past year—and you’ll find the influence of Harold Faltermeyer in every note.

Faltermeyer was a bandmate of influential synth guru Giorgio Moroder; Moroder moved into artier directions, while Faltermeyer and songwriting/ producing partner Keith Forsey took the mainstream by storm, essentially defining the sound of the 1980s and the pushing the union of popular film and soundtrack into iconic image/ rockin’ tune combos. Responsible for most of the hit songs from films like Flashdance, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II and Running Man. Neu Ideas’ second track “Bull Riff” nods towards Bob Seger’s “Shakedown” liberally (and owes a little to Tom Petty’s “Breakdown,” too), while the specter of Glenn Frey’s iconic sax riff from “The Heat Is On” is resurrected and toyed with for “Runaway Train II.” Neu Ideas features nine songs with a locked-in beat, grooving bass, a rocksteady undercurrent, blissful

horns and tuneful songwriting. The seven remixes by acts like Love Is All, Papercuts are superfluous and distracting, but maybe indicative of the welcome other musicians have extended to Still Flyin’.

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JE SUIS FRANCE Let’s Give ‘Em Something to Talk About Nokahoma Records Je Suis France makes music like 15-year-old boys amped up on dark chocolate and recording mini-albums in their mom’s basement on a boombox. This is a high compliment. And like artsy adolescents, these guys bounce between heartbreaking earnestness and goofball theatrics. The instrumentation and styles showcased on Let’s Give ‘Em Something to Talk About are accordingly all over the place, and it was hardly a surprise to hear that the album is a compilation of 25—yes, two dozen plus one—CD-Rs the band has put out over the past eight years.

Few pop subgenres are left untouched on this album. The band’s Athens connections are both evident in their style (Neutral Milk Hotel is an influence) and their lyrics (the Caledonia Lounge gets namedropped).

And, while it’s hard to generalize 25 albums’ worth of material, it’s almost all fun and youthful. “Get Liberal” is an anthem of sorts, a lo-fi garage rock screamer that begs to be turned up loud. “Graveyard Party” is a slower jam about jet-skiing through space, babies smelling like roses and helping China break down their walls. Sounds like a hoot, right? This is good stuff and there’s a lot of it. Better yet, the band plans to start playing more shows soon. Get the album, memorize the songs and go hear them in all their weird, dorky splendor.

Mark Sanders Je Suis France is playing at the Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, Apr. 2.

THE LUMERIANS Transmalinnia Knitting Factory Transmalinnia, the debut fulllength from Lumerians, is not for everyone. There are no radio singles here, nothing too hummable, and most tracks hover around the five-minute mark with several substantially longer.

However, if hypno-drone space rock

is your thing—say, Can meets Cave meets Black Moth Super Rainbow— then Transmalinnia is a masterpiece.

Nearly half the tracks are instrumental, but each track has a distinct personality with complex texture and intricate layering courtesy of various percussive, electronic and stringed instruments. The swinging opener “Burning Mirrors” skips along hypnotically as octave bass notes and reverbheavy vocals are broken up by sections of organ spazz-outs. “Black Tusk” has an improvised feel and features a mix of organs and percussion that brings to mind Miles Davis’ groundbreaking Bitches Brew. A few tracks later, “Calalini Rises” trudges along as sludge-worthy bass fuzz phases in and out behind lumbering drums and space noises that eventually give way to a tribal drum and percussion outro.

The album comes to a close with the mellow, washed-out “Gaussian Castles,” leaving you feeling as if you’re coming down off an epic, audible, acid trip to a state of dreamy euphoria. The record is clearly meant to be experienced as a whole, and the sonic depth of each individual song rewards repeated listenings. So, go ahead, take the Transmalinnia trip over and over again. We won’t tell.

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FAUST Something Dirty Bureau B This aptly titled release by krautrock pioneers Faust is as aggressively kinetic as anything else in its influential catalog. This incarnation of the band, featuring its founding rhythm section flanked by James Johnston (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) on guitar and Geraldine Swane (Bender) on keys and occasional vocals, seems hell bent on bringing the menacing underbelly of psychedelia to the forefront as frequently as possible. While it’s not without moments of calm, the ambiance is brief and could hardly be considered tranquil.

Just because the record gets foreboding at times doesn’t mean it’s a pleasureless listen, and Faust hasn’t lost its ability to explore the diversity within what, for many bands, would be constricting song structures. The two chords that comprise “Herbststimmung” followed by the single chord of the title track are triumphal and unexpectedly dynamic.

Melodic guitars emerge from layers of dissonance to create atmospheres that, while haunting, are strikingly beautiful.

It’s inspiring to hear a band continue to make compelling music after several waves of acolytes have ceased to be productive or vital. The influence of Faust’s ‘70s catalogue echoes through the past 30-plus years of music in almost all genres. While it’s doubtful that this album will resonate in quite the same way, it’s a strong addition to Faust’s consistently impressive career.

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Madeline Adams Celebrating 10 Years with a Look at 10 Songs

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adeline Adams is a local gem, charming audiences at house shows or onstage at whatever club. This week she celebrates 10 years of live performance with a special commemorative show at the 40 Watt Club.

As Madeline’s been putting her songs out there for almost half of her life, she’s got a ton to pull from, and at this week’s show she’s busting out some old tunes, spanning her career from early releases like Kissing and Dancing to more recent work like 2009’s White Flag. A song or two from Madeline’s teen band The Sugar Shakers may even dance its way into the set. She and her band just wrapped sessions for her upcoming album, Black Velvet, out in June. To help Madeline celebrate, Flagpole asked her to fill in a little of the backstory on 10 of her crafty, tuneful and, ultimately, winning songs. Here’s what she had to say: 1. “I Left the Light On” (Kissing and Dancing) “This is probably the closest I’ve ever gotten to writing a song about nothing. I lifted the whole leaving-the-lighton-for-your-lover concept from the Belle and Sebastian song “Don’t Leave the Light on Baby.” The guitar part was kind of a joke. It’s just the open E and A strings with the other strings muted. You don’t have to know how to play guitar to play ‘I Left the Light On.’”

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2. “Scarred by the Devil” (Kissing and Dancing) “Alexei [Gural] and I had the longest argument over the vocal tremelo effect in ‘Scarred by the Devil.’ He won, and I’m glad. It sounds pretty killer.

I don’t think that most people know what a heavy hand [local artist] Alexei had in both Kissing and Dancing and the Dead Bird split EP. I would show up at Alexei’s house after school and play whatever new song on the guitar and then sing multiple harmonies. He would then spend the next week or two arranging those vocal parts and playing every single other instrument on the record. His collages are hanging up at the Flicker Bar [through March], and everybody should go over there and buy one.”

doesn’t seem to like him very much. He starts to suspect that she’s using him for sex. All of a sudden he’s nervous around this girl and getting down in the dumps when she leaves in the morning. He’s feeling his self-esteem shrinking and mistakenly thinks that he must be falling in love. He’s trying to snap out of it by repeating this “There’s plenty of fish in the sea” mantra in the mirror, the joke being that everyone knows that’s not true. There might be a whole lot of fish in the sea, but most of those fish aren’t going to be able to make you laugh or know what kind of birthday presents you like.”

7. “Good Houses” (The Slow Bang) “When I started to hang out with an older crowd of musicians, my mother told me that I shouldn’t rush through life. I thought she was just being square, but she knew that after a few years your cool friends in their late-20s become your cool friends in their early-30s. You wake up one day to them dealing with extremely complicated problems and you without the wisdom to cope. In the meantime, friends your own age have been steadily growing until your lifestyle seems less enviable and more childish compared to theirs. I realized that when people used to call me “mature” they should have been calling me precocious—not that I have any regrets. I just got sad about it one day. Playing rock and roll and bartending for dough pretty much rules all the time.”

3. “Machina de Bella” (Kissing and Dancing) “’Machina de Bella’ is about waiting for a boy to call. Sometimes it feels like my age group was among the last of the young teenagers to still have to wait around the house because we didn’t quite have cellphones yet. What a terrible feeling.”

4. “Slow Down” (Split EP with The Dead Bird) “I have a habit of talking to myself in songs as well as in real life. In songwriting I call it the buddy voice. The verse might be something like, ‘I’m so lonesome I could die!

Everything is collapsing around me and my self-worth is in the gutter—why didn’t I go to college?’ and the buddy voice enters in during the chorus to say, ‘Shut up, kid. Snap out of it! You’re going to be fine.’ ‘Slow Down’ follows this songwriting model, as do many many of my songs. In real life I like to have pretend interviews with Terry Gross.”

5. “Silver Trucks” (Kissing and Dancing) “When I was around 16 or 17, my brother Carter moved to New York to go to college. We had kind of a little music partnership going. He recorded my first CD-R on Microsoft Sound Recorder by tricking it out to record five minutes instead of one. Every time I finished a song he would give me some really tough critiques. He still remains my go-to for that stuff. I don’t really consider an album done until he hears it. He’s brutally honest. His reviews have made me cry before. So, yeah, I was bummed about my brother going off to New York. It also stressed me out that if you were an artist it seemed like you were expected to move either to San Francisco or New York City. I still get stressed about that sometimes.”

6. “Fish in the Sea” (The Slow Bang) “This is a silly one. This song is in the voice of a kind of jockish, man’s-man guy giving himself a pep-talk in the mirror. Again, the buddy voice. He gets laid easily, and although he hasn’t been single his whole life, he doesn’t tend to get too attached to women. So, he meets this girl and it’s not really that she’s so extraordinary, but she’s very smart and she

8. “Dirty South (Tie One On)” (White Flag) “Oooooh… this song is about a real low down, two-timing bastard. He treated women around town like garbage, and I watched ladies fall for this guy over and over again. It’s a revenge tune. I loved writing it and I love performing it. It cracks me up because I’ve played it to his face in a crowd of those women so many times. God, I love playing that song.”

9. “Dollar Beer” (Unreleased) “’Dollar Beer’ is finally making it onto a studio record in June. The dollar beer refers to the employee pricing of beer in Athens. Almost every serious musician in town works in the service industry in order to tour freely and save most brain cells for creative endeavors—and drinking. We can sometimes have the appearance of an adult that’s failing to progress in life, but we’re really just superheroes: Kinko’s employee by day, shredding guitarist by night.”

10. “You Can’t Break My Heart” (White Flag) “Some dumb kid accused me of being ‘jaded’ after a party. It cracked me up. I wrote this song on the car ride home, and it’s one of the few tunes I’ve ever finished in under five minutes.”

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When I spoke with some of the members of the Elephant Six Collective, who, at the time, were wrapping up weeks of daily practice in anticipation of their Holiday Surprise Tour, one phrase sufficed to answer several of my questions: “Because it’s fun.” And it’s in the spirit of earnest fun that The E6 Collective, playing the songs of Elf Power, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Music Tapes, The Gerbils and many more, will conclude its bi-coastal tour at the 40 Watt on Apr. 2.

The storyline of the E6 Collective has gleefully ignored the trappings and conventions of their peers and predecessors. Its structure (or lack thereof) leaves little room for the egoism that sinks smaller, more defined groups.

Timelines for album releases are broad if existent; the records come out when they’re done. While the artists and projects affiliated with the E6 have ebbed and expanded throughout the years, only a handful of groups were prolific in terms of releasing material— especially in the past decade. This patient and casual approach has kept quality control high.

Meanwhile, the artists and trends they inspire have risen and fallen in between the gaps in the collective’s catalog.

Lately, the E6-ers are riding a new crest in productivity. Elf Power toured recently and released an album last year that sounds better with each successive play. Circulatory System/ Olivia Tremor Control’s Will Hart has also amassed a number of tracks he says are nearly ready for release. Those lucky enough to be shopping at Wuxtry at the right time last year got to hear a sneak preview of some of them.

The Music Tapes have been especially ambitious lately, wrapping up a 200-show tour mere weeks before Julian Koster & co. hit the road again on this outing. They may attempt to tour again before the year is out. If you missed their delightfully beguiling multimedia consortium, some of the as-yet-unreleased material performed during that stint may be included at the 40 Watt gig.

Koster’s project isn’t the only one experimenting with alternative forms of media. In addition to the recently released Major Organ

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Whether they see the light of day now, or on some nebulous date in the future, films of some variety will be a part of their upcoming performances. Their content, I’ve been told, is a surprise, appropriately enough and likely to be one of many this evening. Major Organ… creator Brian Dewan is said to be behind some of these contributions.

Games and a cover song or two may pop up before the night’s through. Again, specifics are left deliberately vague, leaving the results unexpected—sometimes even to the performers themselves. The audience is eventually given the chance to return the favor: with few exceptions, the collective will take requests, playing any song they find themselves to be sufficiently familiar with, even if the song is unrehearsed. Thanks to their considerable knowledge of pop music and proficiency as musicians, the results that have made their way to the Internet have been compelling (e.g., a “Smells Like Teen Spirit” cover posted on YouTube).

Despite a certain degree of abandon exhibited by the members, who number a dozen and probably play twice as many instruments, the performances are tight. Reviews left in the tour’s wake have commended the enthusiasm expressed both on and off the stage. New generations of fans—interest piqued by the gradual ascent in prominence of founding act Neutral Milk Hotel and of Montreal’s commercial success—have resulted in multiple soldout shows. A tour-only 7-inch record of new and old songs sold out long ago.

Hopefully, the success of this cross-country jaunt will help fund wide releases of this and other out-of-print and tentative material.

Many of the old records currently command high prices on the Internet. If the E6-ers continue the path of building upon and reinterpreting their own styles in the same addictive way they simultaneously deconstructed and reassembled ‘60s pop and experimental music, there will be an audience—waiting patiently.

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he Pains of Being Pure at Heart isn’t the first band Kip Berman has been in, and, he says, it might not even be the best.

But certainly since its heralded self-titled debut in 2009, it has been his most popular.

“I’ve been in bands for probably 10 years that never played outside of their zip code and never released anything. I can’t really attribute anything in this band to being extra special or based on talent or anything. It’s just kind of luck—we’ve been very fortunate,” says the frontman who floats easily between youthful confidence and a self-deprecating sense of humor. “The things we believe in musically are probably beyond what we could achieve or maybe what we can still achieve.

We have an idealistic sense of pop music, but we’re not geniuses. We write songs with chords that are probably easy for beginners to play [laughs]. Some bands are too good to be true, and we’re just too true to be good.”

OK, so maybe that’s a little too selfdeprecating. If we’re to trust a grand scope of music criticism (for the sake of this article, we will, though the band doesn’t), Pains is certainly both good and true as the band celebrates the release of its second album, Belong, an aptly titled affirmation of the driving, biting pop songs that packed the debut release.

“I know it’s not cool to say, but it’s pretty much the same ideas [as the first record] just taken a little bit further,” says Berman. “We’ve always taken pop music in general and just tried to make it louder and poppier at the same time. I know that seems kind of contradictory, but that’s what we love. So, hopefully, people continue to take them as noisy pop songs—slightly noisier and poppier this time.”

Needed or not, Pains got a helping hand for the sophomore effort, courtesy of Alan Moulder and Flood, one of the most famous producing/mixing duos of all time (credits include, and are not remotely limited to, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Smashing Pumpkins). Wiping the awestruck stars from his eyes proved easier than Berman expected.

“Once you hang out with them, they’re just like your uncles that come to your barbecue and have funny stories, except their stories are about Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan,” laughs Berman. “There’s this perception that the Pains got ‘super huge’ and started recording with big shot dudes, but from the actual experience it was just a really creative moment for us. It wasn’t too self-serious, where we felt like we had to make the greatest rock record of our generation. There was

definitely a sense of fun in making the record, and I hope it comes through in the songs.”

There are countless reasons why these recording sessions should have been pressure packed: busting the sophomore slump, somehow besting the sparkling debut’s reviews, and knowing that this time there was an audience lying in wait.

“There was no kind of label pressure or expectations that this better sell a lot of copies or we would be in trouble. That’s just not the world we come from. The pressure was from us. We love these songs and we’re really excited about them, so we wanted to record them in a way that didn’t suck,” laughs Berman. “You can’t really control the immediacy of the cultural or commercial moment that you live in, and you can’t control the critical reception. But we can control what our own personal appreciation of the music is, and insofar as that, we worked hard to make music that we absolutely loved and feel emotionally connected to.”

Undoubtedly, this collection feels different for the creators. Though it’s been only two years since the last record, in reality it has been much longer since the band has enjoyed new material. They’re re-energized, incredibly grounded and ready to build on their staggering ‘09 precedent.

“For the first two years of our band we played the songs that eventually became the songs for our first record. For the two years after that, we played those same songs because that was our recorded material, and that’s what people wanted to hear,” says Berman. “So, it’s exciting now to have a set list that’s half-filled with new songs that we believe in. We were sort of able to have our cake and eat it, too; as the old industry crumbles, things that were off limits in our position a long time ago suddenly became realistic. We got to make this record, and one that sounded the way we wanted it to sound without having to change anything about our band and our label. That’s a really positive and exciting thing.”

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Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent ANDRCOLES AND THE LION Alternative/Folk/Indie Lineup: McKendrick Bearden, Austin Harris and Paul Stevens. Shares members with: Woodfangs, Yo Soybean.

Influences: Neil Young, Wilco, Akron/Family, The Beach Boys, Steve Reich and more.

Androcles and the Lion formed in 2009 between Harris and Bearden, who were both studying music at LaGrange College.

The duo moved down to Athens after graduating and met percussionist Paul Stevens (Woodfangs) through their guitar professor Brian Smith (The Georgia Guitar Quartet, Odd Trio).

If you’re a fan of Futurebirds’ reverb-laden Americana, you’ll dig these guys as well. The tunes are dreamy and dynamic, led by Bearden’s warm croon and featuring harmonies and a smart use of effects—not surprising from guys with an education in music composition. The group is currently working on its debut EP at Chase Park Transduction Studio and is soliciting financial support from friends and fans via Kickstarter. You’ll probably want to throw some money their way once you hear the sample tunes up on www.androclesandthelion.com.

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rhythm section with Hay on bass, Marx on drums and angular guitar playing of Donegan. While the sci-fi references were hard to pinpoint, there were a few alien sounds emanating from all the ruckus. It was all a whirlwind of weirdness that I really need and want to see again. Be further confused by visiting www.greenthriftgrocery.com.

Next show: Thursday, Apr. 7 @ Little Kings Shuffle Club SPACE GHOST Electro/Space Rock/Alt-Indie Lineup: Grafton Tanner, Blake Lewis, Hunter Ellis and Justin Belk. Influences: Radiohead, Gyorgy Ligeti, Nolan Thomas.

Tunabunny drummer Chloe Tewksbury takes center stage on lead vocals. She seemed to be in character all night, and that character was schizophrenic. She squealed and squeaked, screamed and sang, using her voice as as percussive instrument more than a melodic device. I think Yoko Ono would approve.

Her banter in between songs was equally engaging and erratic—ranging from unintelligible mumblings to very direct, and pretty hilarious, interaction with the audience where she would, in a creepy stalker whisper, declare her love/obsession with someone in the crowd. She is intense, and even the band’s silly elfin costumes couldn’t compete with her personality for attention.

Musically, I guess Green Thrift Grocery is somewhere between noise rock and punk, but it’s almost more of a performance art thing. Tewksbury used her guitar mostly for ambient drone—scraping the strings more frequently than strumming them. But the songs were still propulsive, thanks to a steady

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“Channelling this lapse of sanity into music with the aspiraThese guys play “hooky, noisy songs about dancing, science tions of starting a band, Grafton called on high school friend fiction and consumer culture,” although the lyrical content and drummer Justin Belk (who he had first seen perform a is often hard to decipher amid the chaos of their live perforBlink-182 cover years before at a talent show and thought his mances. I caught this band at the 40 Watt Club for its second licks were dope).” From there they recruited Belk’s pal Lewis on show, and I was truly riveted. It was bizarre. It was uncomfortguitar and eventually Ellis joined on bass, and Space Ghost was able. The set felt at once volatile and fragile, like everything formed in June of 2010. could just fall apart or explode at any moment, and that tenThe panel of lawyers and publicists who spoke at the sion was exciting.

Protect Athens Music event last week would probably advise against naming your band after a cartoon character (hard to Google, potential copyright violations), but so far it hasn’t held this band back from creating glossy, swirling synthpop that might just draw you to the dancefloor. Visit them coast to coast via www. spaceghostmusic.bandcamp.com.

Next show: Wednesday, Apr. 13 @ Caledonia Lounge

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VINYL VANILLA Ambient Pop Lineup: Joe Perry, Johnny Langford. Influences: Justice, Gorillaz, David Bowie, Yeasayer.

You can imagine my surprise when I got an email from Joe Perry announcing his new electronic duo.

I figured with Steven Tyler busy judging “American Idol,” Aerosmith’s lead guitarist must have been bored and moved to Athens. Alas, this is Joseph R. Perry, a different guitarist all together, who just started playing out with keyboardist Johnny Langford last summer.

Vinyl Vanilla draws from diverse influences that include both electronic pop and rock artists. “We try to not fit into any particular style of music,” says Perry. “Our set has sounds anywhere from disco to punk to waltz.” In terms of their setup, the duo play guitar and synth live over samples which seems to be an increasingly popular trend. The set moves quickly and continuously, with fun segues in between songs that feature “wacky covers” like the soundtrack from Star Wars or Ghostbusters. “Like a DJ, we try and not have a moment of silence in our set,” Perry explains.

These two musicians also have wide-ranging experience in the arts, with Perry coming from a studio recording and visual art background and Langford having worked in theater. Sample their samples over at www.vinylvanilla.com.

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Tuesday 29 EVENTS: Italian Film Screening (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 148) Playing the final installment of Marco Tullio Giordana’s La Meglio Gioventu. 7 p.m. FREE! www.rom. uga.edu ART: Artist’s Talk (Georgia Museum of Art) Icelandic sculptor Steinunn Dorarinsdottir will discuss her installation, “Horizons,” on view in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-5424662 ART: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room 151) Janet Koplos, contributiong editor of Art in America magazine, has been writing about art since 1976. 5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-0116 PERFORMANCE: Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) A performance by Glee Clubs. 8 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Patton Oswalt (40 Watt Club) A vulgar, loathsome, aggravated little man whose foul, bleak musings on his miserable world are painfully, tearfully, unforgettably hilarious. A two-night spectacle not to be missed. Dan Telfer, Chicago comedian whose nerdy, clever insults are disguised as self-deprecation, opens. 8 p.m. $21 (adv.) www.40watt.com PERFORMANCE: Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Hodgson Graduate String Quartet. 6 p.m. 706542-3737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Allison Carroll, Lindsay Welch and Melinda Wenske on flute at 3:30 p.m., Hannah Rudy on flute and Megan Gillis, voice, at 5 p.m. and Rachel Dairymple on violin at 6:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-5423737, www.music.uga.edu THEATRE: Aunt Dan and Lemon (Cellar Theatre) Lemon, a reclusive young woman with an unspecified chronic illness, relives her life story consisting of stories she was told by family friend “Aunt Dan.” Mar. 29–31, 8 p.m. & Apr. 3, 2:30 p.m. $7 (students), $10. 706-542-4400 OUTDOORS: Spring Wildflowers of the Upland Deciduous Forests of Georgia (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Visit the Dunson Native Flora Garden and learn to identify a number of spring ephermals and other early blooming plants. Call to register. 8:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

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LECTURES & LIT.: Brown Bag Lunch (ACC Library) The Jeannette Rankin Foundation Executive Director, Sue Lawrence, will present “The Phonebooth Refugee: Jeannette Rankin Incites a Mob.” Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Ecology Seminar (UGA Ecology Building) Katia Koelle of Duke University presents “Rooting Disease Ecology in Genetic Data Using Viral Phylogenies.” 4 p.m. FREE! www. ecology.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Fiction Book Club (Dog Ear Books) A discussion about The Gospel of Anarchy by Justin Taylor. 7 p.m. FREE! 706818-0976 MEETINGS: Business Networking (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Athens Referral Bulldawgs, an Athens chapter of BNI, meets every Tuesday.

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FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Poker Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Last Tuesday of every month. 8:30 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com

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a.m.–1:30 p.m. $20. 706-354-8191, www.foodbanknega.org EVENTS: GSPHE Vigil and Rally (UGA Arch) Join concerned students and community members in support of better funding for K–12 and higher education in Georgia. 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiastudents.org EVENTS: MeatOut (UGA Tate Center) A celebration of vegetarian living and its benefits for health, animals and the environment. Free samples of vegan food. 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

FREE! www.uga.edu/sos PERFORMANCE: Patton Oswalt (40 Watt Club) See Mar. 29 Performance listing. 8 p.m. $21 (adv.) www.40watt.com PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Seul-ki Kim on piano at 3:35 p.m., Chelsea Hoover on horn at 5 p.m. and Brian Wilmer on clarinet at 6:30 p.m. 3:35 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3737, www.music.uga.edu THEATRE: Aunt Dan and Lemon (Cellar Theatre) Lemon, a reclusive young woman with an unspecified chronic illness, relives her life story consisting of stories she was told by family friend “Aunt Dan.” Mar. 29–31, 8 p.m. & Apr. 3, 2:30 p.m. $7 (students), $10. 706-542-4400 OUTDOORS: Full Moon Hike (Greenway) Experience nature in a different light. Call to register.

8–9:30 p.m. $2. 706-613-3615, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure OUTDOORS: Rocks of the Piedmont (Various Locations) Guided tour through the Oconee Forest to identify major rock types and learn how they affect topography and vegetation. Meet at the Oconee Forest Park boardwalk. 3–5 p.m.

FREE! www.athensgreenfest.com 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: Un-Birthday Party (Oconee County Library) Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the evening will feature classic party games and a gigantic birthday cake.

For ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Mary Jean’s Going Away Party! Light refreshments provided. Ages 11–18.

4–5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: APERO Brown Bag Lecture (UGA Memorial Hall) Njeri Marieka-Cleaveland presents “Exchanges with Maasai Women Leaders.” Feel free to bring a lunch.

12:!5 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/iws LECTURES & LIT.: “Bob Dylan and the Poetry of Blues” (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 101) Michael Gray, published critic, writer and broadcaster, will lecture. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! hruppers@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Genetics Seminar (UGA Life Sciences Building, Room B118) “Genetics

The Felice Brothers play the 40 Watt on Wednesday, Apr. 6. of Reproductive Isolation and Adaptation in the Wild Tomatoes,” presented by Leonie Moyle, department of biology, Indiana University.

4 p.m. FREE! whites@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Israel, Palestine and the Middle East: What’s Next?” (UGA Miller Learning Center) Norman Finkelstein, scholar and author, will lecture on Israel, Palestine and the Middle East. 7 p.m. FREE! ajl1948@ uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Oconee Democrats Book Group (Taco Stand, Watkinsville) Discussing The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. 7 p.m. FREE! patricia.priest@yahoo. com LECTURES & LIT.: Romance Languages Lecture (UGA Chapel) Junot Diaz, author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, speaks. 4 p.m. FREE! loriag@uga. edu LECTURES & LIT.: “This Way Home” (UGA Miller Learning Center, 102) A program about the intersection of multiple identities (gender, race, socioeconomic status, etc.) and how it relates to one’s personal life journey. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5773 MEETINGS: GSPHE Meeting (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 247) Georgia Students for Public Higher Eduction is a coalition of students who believe that affordable, quality education is a right. 8 p.m. FREE! georgiastudents.org

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

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Poker night every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 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 31 EVENTS: 2011 Georgia Small Farm Conference (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Topics include farm planning and marketing and livestock, vegetable and fruit production. Tour of two sustainable small farms to follow. Register online. Scholarships available. Mar. 31 & Apr. 1. $100– 150. www.areg.caes.uga.edu EVENTS: iFilms: The Song of Sparrows (ACC Library) Down on his luck, ostrich farmer Karim leaves for work as a taxi driver in Tehran.

Entangled in a fast-paced world of greed, it’s up to his family to restore the values he once cherished. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650

EVENTS: Jittery Joe’s Tour de Force Espresso Launch Party (Hotel Indigo) Tour de Force espresso tasting, coffee-inspired cocktails, craftmade ice cream and live music

by Carl Lindberg and Jerry Hendleberg. 6–8 p.m. FREE! jitteryjoescoffee.com EVENTS: “Locally Grown” (Bottleworks) Juried flower show featuring floral design inspired by local pieces of art, photography highlighting local plants and farms, horticultural specimens and a conservation exhibition exploring the “farm to table” movement. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. 404-245-0089, gretat@ mindspring.com EVENTS: The Videographers’ Hella-Big Show (Ciné BarCafé) A monthly showcase for amateur, aspiring and professional filmmakers.

9 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com ART: A Funky Little Art Thing (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) AFLAT features selected student artwork from grades K–12 in the Morgan County school system.

Music provided by the Morgan County Middle and High School jazz bands. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www. mmcc-arts.org PERFORMANCE: Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Steve Dancz and the UGA Jazz Band. 8 p.m. 706542-3737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Brandon Michael Taylor on clarinet and Caitlin Delinsky on flute at 3:30 p.m., Jason Boomquist

EVENTS: 2011 Georgia Small Farm Conference (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) See Mar. 31 Event listing.

Mar. 31 & Apr. 1. $100–150. www. areg.caes.uga.edu EVENTS: 26th Annual Insect Zoo (UGA Biological Sciences Building) UGA’s Department of Entomology hosts the annual insect zoo! This year’s itinerary includes roach races, spelling bees, insect recipes and the Guinness World Record Cricket Spitting Contest. 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

FREE! entomolo@uga.edu

Saturday 2 EVENTS: Artists’ Potluck (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Moon Mama and Fringe Collective Artistic Studios invite local artists for a potluck. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-540-2712 EVENTS: Athenaze (UGA Park Hall) Reunion and open house of the classics department for Latin students, teachers and locals. 11 a.m. FREE! nrynears@uga.edu EVENTS: Athens Famers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Now accepting EBT cards.

This week features musical performances by The Vinyl Strangers and Emily Armond. See Calendar Pick on p. 30. 8 a.m.–Noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Jashn India Nite (Clarke Central High School) The Indian Student Association presents an evening of traditional performances and food. 5–9 p.m. $8 (student), $10. www.uga.edu/isa ART: 1st Spring Festifool (Farmington Depot Gallery) See Apr. 1 listing. Apr. 1, 1–8 p.m. & Apr. 2, 10 a.m–6 p.m. FREE! www.farmingtondepotgallery.org PERFORMANCE: Athens Symphony (The Classic Center) Featuring viola soloist Ulisses Silva, the symphony will play selections

by R. Strauss, C. Saint-Saens, F. Hoffmeister and E. Grieg. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-357-4444, www.athenssymphony.org THEATRE: Dearly Departed (Morton Theatre) Despite efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpin Family’s other problems overshadow the occasion in a seldom tidy and always hilarious fashion. Apr. 1 & 2, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 3, 2:30 p.m. $5 (students), $7. 706-542-8468, www.mortontheatre.com THEATRE: The Dixie Swim Club (Memorial Park) Athens Creative Theatre presents the story of five Southern women who met on their college swim team and now set aside a weekend every August to recharge their friendships and meddle in each other’s lives. Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-613-3628, www. athensclarkecounty.com/act KIDSTUFF: Family Day: Make it Shine (Georgia Museum of Art) View GMOA’s collection of silver and then make your own. Young musicians from UGA’s Community Music School will perform at 10:45 a.m. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org

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an Idea That Was Going Nowhere Fast, to a Serendipitous Lunch Engagement, to a More Refined Idea That Yielded a Big and Colorful Book.” 3:30 p.m. FREE! dbultman@ uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Working in the Public Interest Law Conference (The Melting Point) Keynote address

by Atlanta Legal Aid Society’s Steve Gottlieb. 6:30 p.m. www.law.uga. edu/news/9960 MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Informal, inclusive and progressive social group that gives left-leaning individuals a chance to talk politics. First Friday of every month. 6:30 p.m. athens@drinkingliberally.org MEETINGS: Friends First Friday (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Gather at a made-from-scratch breakfast to meet other folks and hear about new plants available at the Spring Plant Sale. 9–10:20 a.m. $12. 706-542-6156

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

THURSDAY - 3/31

Tour de Force Espresso Launch Party 6p in the Hotel Lobby Enjoy coffee inspired cocktails, hand crafted ice cream and the NEW Jittery Joes’s Tour de Force espresso while enjoying live music by Carl Lindberg and guest Jerry Hendleberg

FRIDAY - 4/1

Local Libations The Madison Bar & Bistro Enjoy $5 specialty cocktails

Monday - 4/4

Shag Night 6-10 p in the Rialto Room Free dance instruction from Carolina Shag expert Bonnie Hicks 706-546-0430 | 500 College Avenue Athens, GA 30601 indigoathens.com | T: @indigoathens | F: Hotel Indigo Athens

Spiritual Training: Learning to Listen Tuesday, April 5 Noon UGA Chapel, 109 Herty Dr. Lecturer: Josh Niles Josh was an Airborne Ranger in the 3rd Infantry division and spent a year in Baghdad, Iraq as a combat platoon leader. He is now in the healing ministry as a Christian Science practitioner and member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

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EVENTS: Equal Justice Foundation Auction (The Melting Point) 26th annual benefit including both live and silent auctions.

Proceeds go to EJF summer fellowships. 8 p.m. www.law.uga.edu/ news/9999 ART: 1st Spring Festifool (Farmington Depot Gallery) Celebrate spring and the wide variety of handmade and vintage wonders at this art market. Food provided by Big City Bread Cafe. Tractor-pulled hayride for all. Apr. 1, 1–8 p.m. & Apr. 2, 10 a.m–6 p.m. FREE! www. farmingtondepotgallery.org ART: Opening Reception (Dog Ear Books) Photography by Chris Mckay, Mike White and Daniel Peiken of legendary artists such as The Beatles, The Who, The B-52s, R.E.M. and Vic Chesnutt. 6:30–9:30 p.m.

ART: Reception Gala (OCAF) Opening reception for the 16th Annual Southworks Juried Arts Exhibition, featuring 90 works of art from 69 national artists. 6–9 p.m.

FREE! www.ocaf.com THEATRE: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Cedar Shoals High School) A student-written script adapted from the book. Apr. 1, 7:30 p.m. & Apr. 3, 3 p.m. $4 (students), $6. milsapr@clarke.k12.ga.us THEATRE: Dearly Departed (Morton Theatre) Despite efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpin Family’s other problems overshadow the occasion in a seldom tidy and always hilarious fashion. Apr. 1 & 2, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 3, 2:30 p.m. $5 (students), $7. 706-542-8468, www.mortontheatre.com THEATRE: The Dixie Swim Club (Memorial Park) Athens Creative Theatre presents the story of five Southern women who met on their college swim team and now set aside a weekend every August to recharge their friendships and meddle in each other’s lives. Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-613-3628, www. athensclarkecounty.com/act OUTDOORS: BikeAthens Group Ride (Earth Fare) BikeAthens’ monthly, casual-pace bike ride around town. Formerly called Courteous Mass, this is the first ride of the season. 6 p.m. FREE! OUTDOORS: Sole Mates (Rocksprings Park) Wellness program for senior adults. Take a stroll around the park. Every Friday. Call to register. 12:30 p.m. $7 (one-time fee). 706-613-3603 KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Led by UGA student volunteers from the Department of Language and Literacy Education. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: 17th Annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture (Georgia Museum of Art) Dr. Susan Rankin of Penn State presents “Queering Campus: The State of Higher Education in the LGBT Community.” A reception honoring the Coley family will precede the lecture at 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/iws LECTURES & LIT.: First Friday EATS (Call for location, Joe Frank Harris Commons) “Energy Use at UGA: Strategies for Convervation.”

12 p.m. FREE! www.athensgreenfest. com LECTURES & LIT.: Poetry Reading (Ciné BarCafé) Featuring poet Brian Turner, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq, BosniaHerzegovina and elsewhere. 7 p.m.

FREE! tgrblog.blogspot.com LECTURES & LIT.: Romance Languages Colloquium (UGA Gilbert Hall) Noel Fallows presents “A Tale of Academic Writing: From

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on double bass at 5 p.m. and Hannah Dalrymple on violin at 6:30 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music. uga.edu THEATRE: Aunt Dan and Lemon (Cellar Theatre) Lemon, a reclusive young woman with an unspecified chronic illness, relives her life story consisting of stories she was told by family friend “Aunt Dan.” Mar. 29–31, 8 p.m. & Apr. 3, 2:30 p.m. $7 (students), $10. 706-542-4400 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: Open Craft Hour (Treehouse Kid and Craft) For ages 2–8. Past projects have included puppets, wreaths, mittens and snowflakes. 4 p.m. $10. 706-850-8226 KIDSTUFF: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library) Snuggle in your jammies with your favorite stuffed animal and listen to bedtime stories. Light snack provided. All ages. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Spanish for Kids (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Vocabulary mixed with dance, song, theater, games and other activities.

10 a.m. $10. 706-850-8226 LECTURES & LIT.: “Changing How Society Views Animals and Food” (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 101) Gene Baur will discuss his book “Farm Sanctuary,” which examines the impacts of industrial animal farming on humans and animals. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. uga.edu/sos/baur LECTURES & LIT.: English Lecture (UGA Park Hall, Room 265) Jahan Ramazani of the University of Virginia presents “Postcolonial Poetry among the Discourses.” 5 p.m. FREE! santesso@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Global Education Forum (UGA Tate Center, Grand Hall) “Perspectives on Human Health in Global Societies” addresses emerging issues influencing human populations across the globe. 8 a.m.–7 p.m. 706-308-5368, www.coe.uga.edu/cuspa/conference LECTURES & LIT.: Michael Gray (Dog Ear Books) Music writer Gray will promote his Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and his other books on musicians such as Blind Willie McTell, Frank Zappa and Elvis Presley. 7 p.m. FREE! dogearbooks@gmail.com LECTURES & LIT.: “Nail, Bang, Screw: Reconstructing Sex” (UGA Memorial Hall) A discussion on how the language of sex permeates everyday interactions. 6 p.m.

FREE! rachel.c.uga@gmail.com MEETINGS: Whatever It Takes Community Conversation (Alps Elementary School) Meeting for parents, children and concerned residents in the Alps Road attendance zone. Transportation and child care available. 6 p.m. 706-255-7996, terris.thomas@witathens.org

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THE CALENDAR! Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

DAVID LEINWEBER AND FRIENDS

$4 admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night! • Music 7-10 GA Theatre, Nomad Artists, UGA Music Business Program present

THE CORDUROY ROAD ”Official Avett Bros After Party”

Tickets $7 adv. • $10 at the door • $5 with UGA ID Doors open at 10pm

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 Spring Funkfest Featuring

TENT CITY JAZZCHRONIC THE MANTRAS

$5 at the door

THURSDAY, MARCH 31 Nomad Artists presents

DEAD CONFEDERATE Performing Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night”

THE INTERNS

Tickets $10 adv. • $13 at the door

SATURDAY, APRIL 2

HOLMAN AUTRY BAND

Tickets $7 adv. • $10 at the door

TUESDAY, APRIL 5 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

3 BUCKS SHY

$4 admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

PLAY FOR JAPAN

Featuring Michael Guthrie Band, Chris McKay & the Critical Darlings, Monahan Tickets $7 adv. • $10 at the door

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

THE CHAPIN SISTERS Tickets $6 adv. • $9 at the door

FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Nomad Artists presents

J MASCIS(of Dinosaur Jr.)

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS Tickets $13 adv. • $15 at the door

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

ABBEY ROAD LIVE!

Tickets $10 adv. • $12 at the door •*All Request Show

MONDAY, APRIL 11

SNARKY PUPPY JAZZCHRONIC Tickets $6 adv. • $8 at the door

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KIDSTUFF: Open House (Freedom to Grow UNschool) Learn more about a new educational alternative.

Call or email to register. 1–3 p.m.

FREE! 478-718-1414, freedomtogrowunschool@gmail.com LECTURES & LIT.: Food Tasting and Book Signing (Rolling Pin) Sample recipes from H. Lamar Thomas’ book, Ginger, Lily & Sweet Fire: A Romance with Food. 1–3 p.m. FREE! avid.athens@gmail.com LECTURES & LIT.: Working in the Public Interest Law Conference (UGA Hirsch Hall) Exploring health care reform, juvenile crime and video games, immigraion law and education issues. 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

FREE! (students), $10. www.law.uga. edu/wipi OUTDOORS: FREE Tai Chi in the Park (Talmadge drive) Eight sessions. Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

FREE! Email mbiprograms@armc. org for more info.

Sunday 3 EVENTS: Fallen Heroes Ride (Alp’s Jittery Joe’s) Memorial bike ride to benefit the families of Officers Christian and Howard. Registration at noon. Suggested donation of $25 per rider. 1 p.m. www.athensgabicycling.com. See City Dope.

PERFORMANCE: Millennium Brass Quintet (UGA Hodgson Hall) Honoring the former dean of Franklin College, William Jackson Payne, who established UGA’s chamber music series in 1978. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4400, www. uga.edu/pac THEATRE: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Cedar Shoals High School) A student-written script adapted from the book. Apr. 1, 7:30 p.m. & Apr. 3, 3 p.m. $4 (students), $6. milsapr@clarke.k12.ga.us THEATRE: Aunt Dan and Lemon (Cellar Theatre) See Mar. 29 Theatre listing. Mar. 29–31, 8 p.m. & Apr. 3, 2:30 p.m. $7 (students), $10. 706542-4400 THEATRE: Dearly Departed (Morton Theatre) See Apr. 1 Theatre listing. Apr. 1 & 2, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 3, 2:30 p.m. $5 (students), $7. 706542-8468, www.mortontheatre.com THEATRE: The Dixie Swim Club (Memorial Park) Athens Creative Theatre presents the story of five Southern women who met on their college swim team and now set aside a weekend every August to recharge their friendships. Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-613-3628, www. athensclarkecounty.com/act GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Weekly Trivia! 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655

Monday 4 EVENTS: Health Fair (Athens Technical College) Take advantage of free stress and posture checks, body fat composition and cholesterol level checks, eye exams and more. 8 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! 706-369-5871 EVENTS: Wayne Hoffman (UGA Tate Center) Mentalist and illusionist known for his seeming ability to read minds. 8 p.m. FREE! (students), $10. www.uga.edu/union EVENTS: Shag Night (The Rialto Room) Free dance lessons from Carolina Shag expert Bonnie Hicks.

Every Monday. 6–7 p.m. (lessons), 7–10 p.m. (open dance). FREE! KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every

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Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Survival Day (Rock Eagle) The 4-H Center welcomes kids ages 6–11 to come and explore the outdoors. Survival training includes how to use a compass, build a shelter, make a fire and canoe. 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $40. www. rockeagle4h.org LECTURES & LIT.: CURO Symposium Keynote Address (The Classic Center) Samantha Joyce presents “Doing Science in the Face of a National Tragedy.” 4 p.m. FREE! mejordan@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: IMACS International Conference (Georgia Center) Focusing on computational and theoretical aspects of nonlinear wave phenomena. 8 a.m.–6 p.m. 706-542-3477, www. cs.uga.edu/thiab/waves2011/html LECTURES & LIT.: Poetry Reading (Ciné BarCafé) Slovenian poet Ales Steger will read from his work. 7 p.m. 706-542-3434, zawacki@uga.edu GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Monday night. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? 8 p.m. 706548-3442

Tuesday 5 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Check out the afternoon market in its convenient downtown location!

Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. See Calendar Pick on p. 30. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net ART: Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, S151) Folkert de Jong, an installation and sculpture artist from Amsterdam, speaks.

5:30 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: MatthausPassion (UGA Hodgson Hall) A performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s work. 7 p.m. $5 (students), $10. 706-542-2797, mandaya@ uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Open TOAD Comedy (Flicker Theatre & Bar) A unique open mic experience. The audience gets to pelt the performers who go over their six-minute time limit with foam rocks. Performers get in FREE! but must sign up by 8 p.m. 8 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 18 months to 5 years. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Ecology Seminar (UGA Instructional Plaza, North Conference Room) “Novel Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems: Inputs, Fate and Potential Ecological Effects,” presented by Emma Rosi-Marshall. 4 p.m. FREE! www.ecology.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Let’s Talk About It Discussion (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 267) “We Are Family, Aren’t We?” explores community, solidarity and identity among LGBTQQIA-identified persons. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-5424077, vernon85@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “What Are You Listening To?” (UGA Chapel) Josh Niles leads a spiritual training session in learning how to listen. 12

p.m. FREE! www.georgiaspirituality. com MEETINGS: GLOBES (UGA Center for Continuing Education) Monthly meeting for UGA LGBTQ employees and allies. 6 p.m. cwjohns@uga.edu MEETINGS: Great Decisions Group Discussion (ACC Library) Great Decisions is a national civic education program that informs participants about U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Meets every Tuesday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650, ext. 340 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

Wednesday 6 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 ART: 6x6: “Escape” (Ciné BarCafé) Fast, fun and free! This monthly series of curated video, sound, performance, and multi-media works presents six new media art works, each no longer than six minutes.

This month’s show of video artworks is curated by Lauren Fancher. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.com ART: Reception (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) For brightly colored abstracts and drawings by Brittany Bass. 6–8 p.m. FREE! brittbass.com ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Highlights from the permanent collection. 2–3 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Local drag troupe. 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub THEATRE: Improv Athens (UGA Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre) Troup performs sketch improv for a live audience. 8 p.m. FREE! 706583-0045 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Celebrate Earth Day by making bookends from old magazine holders and VHS cases. For ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Identity Theft: Don’t be a Victim (ACC Library) Presented by Money Matters coordinator Allison Spiers. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Poker night every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102

the pornography industry. Tickets go on sale Mar. 22. 8 p.m. FREE! (students), $10. 706-542-8579, www. uga.edu/union PERFORMANCE: Les Dangers De l’Amour 4/8 (Morton Theatre) A modern day cabaret hosted by The Dancefx Apprentice Company, Charleston Dance Project, Sweet Dreams, Modern Pin Ups and Contact Dance Company. 7:30–9:30 p.m. $12 (students), $16. www. dancefx.org EVENTS: International Street Festival 4/9 (Downtown Athens) Annual festival featuring cultural displays, traditional costumes, dances and international bands. 12–5 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-5867, www.uga. edu/isl EVENTS: Plantapalooza 4/9 (Various Locations) Garden staff help you choose plants for your garden. Plants include herbs, annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs and heirloom vegetables. 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-6156, ugatrialgardens.com KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime 4/9 (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 THEATRE: Hamlet 4/14 (UGA Fine Arts Building) Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, explores treason, incest, murder and revenge. Apr. 14–16 & 20–22, 8 p.m., Apr. 17 & 23, 2:30 p.m. $12 (students), $15. www.drama.uga/edu EVENTS: GreenFest Awards Ceremony 4/15 (UGA Ecology Building) Reception and awards ceremony honoring everyone who has made a positive impact on the environment of Athens-Clarke County.

5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3512 EVENTS: Piedmont Gardeners’ 18th Annual Tour of Gardens 4/16 (Various Locations) Southern charm and innovation delight in five beautifully cultivated private local gardens. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20. www.piedmontgardeners.org LECTURES & LIT.: Earth Day Celebration: “The Writer and Social Responsibility” 4/19 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Barry Lopez, National Book Awardwinning author, gives a lecture. 7 p.m. $4 (students), $8. 706-5423481, www.thegeorgiareview.com EVENTS: The Miss Black A-CC Teen Pageant 4/24 (Morton Theatre) Contestants compete for awards in community service and academia in this 36th annual pageant. 5 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. 706353-3542, www.mortontheatre.com * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 29 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BARE WIRES Garage punk band with smooth melodies.

Down the Line

The Classic Center 9 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.classiccenter. com THE AVETT BROTHERS Celebrated “punkgrass” band who recently performed on The Grammy Awards returns to Athens for a concert benefiting the Georgia Theatre.

EVENTS: The Porn Debate 4/7 (UGA Grand Hall at Tate) Ron Jeremy and Craig Gross discuss aspects of

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BOBBY BE GOOD No info available.

* Advance Tickets Available

Jeff Fusco

Wednesday, March 30

Hymn for Her, Echo Canyon, PD Wilder Flicker Theatre & Bar No one can be blamed for mistaking the stage names Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing for something kinky, or maybe going as far as expecting some Peaches-worthy drama out of them. But all bets are off as soon as the husband-wife duo, AKA Hymn for Her, step out of the 1961 Airstream trailer they live in with their daughHymn for Her ter and dog, break out the banjo and cigar-box guitar and rock a backwoods-tinged Morphine cover.

“People come up and say, ‘Oh, man, I love that song (“Thursday”),’ and we tell them it’s a Morphine song. They say they love that band, but they didn’t recognize it,” Tight says. “We do it very different from Morphine.”

The same can be said of their recently released second record, Lucy & Wayne and the Amairican Stream, which includes “Thursday.” Tight says it’s a huge leap from their folksy debut, The Year of the Golden Pig, and it relies heavily on her instrument, the bluesy cigar-box guitar.

“The first time you hear [the instrument]… you think of old bluesmen like Bo Diddley or Will Kimbrough,” she says. “It just lends itself to that. I don’t think people would hear us and think blues, but they might say it sounds bluesy,” she adds.

The record can sometimes seem all over the place, with delta undercurrents supporting a sort of bluegrass-via-garage-rock sound, but it works, creating an eclectic and heady form of rock and roll that’s probably as much fun to hear live as it must be to wail on a three-stringed cigar box with a broom handle fretboard.

“There’s this whole movement of cigar-box guitar players out there like Johnny Depp and Keith Richards,” Tight says. “It’s just really awesome to play. It’s a lot of fun.”

[Jennifer Gibson]

BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS Local, quirky pop rock.

MICHAEL GUTHRIE Lead singer of local melodic rock outfit Michael Guthrie Band plays a solo set.

THE WAILERS Bob Marley’s legendary reggae ensemble performing Uprising in its entirety.

SPIRIT HAIR Psychedelic rock layered with multiple guitars and eccentric keyboards.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. 706-353-3050 NO SHAME! Open mic hosted by Rose of Athens Theatre. Every Tuesday!

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens CATHERINE KIMBRO Insightful acoustic country music with a heart.

THE RON JONSONS Local progressive rock band that incorporates unique Latin and jazz influences.

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. Every Tuesday!

WUOG 90.5FM “Live in the Lobby.” FREE! 8 p.m. www. wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Pholksinger Josh will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program.

Listen over the air, stream online or drop by the station to watch!

Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 8-10 p.m. FREE! www. farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Background sounds for dinner and cocktails.

This quiet jazz duo features Jeremy Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor sax playing odd covers and familiar themes.

The Melting Point “Terrapin Bluegrass Series.” $4. 7-10 p.m. www.meltingpointathens.com DAVID LEINWEBER AND FRIENDS Talented acoustic musician who recently released an album of songs based on the cult vampire soap opera “Dark Shadows” plays with a backing band.

“Avett Bros. After Party. 11 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com THE CORDUROY ROAD Although rooted in classic Americana, with lots of foot stomping, banjo plucking and pedal steel, The Corduroy Road also has a knack for endearing pop melodies. After a brief hiatus, this local band is making a comeback!

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New Earth Music Hall 10 p.m. $18. www.newearthmusichall. com DUANE STEPHENSON Reggae with a smooth, R&B feel. From Jamaica.

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

Tonight willl be an Alibi Idol Contest.

Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 BOAR’S HEAD OPEN MIC Welcoming sing-songwriters every Wednesday in March!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CHRISSAKES Whether you like your punk with psychedelic guitar solos or with more aggressive guitar riffs, this band offers the perfect mix of both.

THE FUCKING HOTLIGHTS Psychedelic noise four-piece from Buffalo, NY.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Happy Hour! 6-8 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar.com KARA KILDARE Local pianist playing ragtime and old-timey saloon music for a special Happy Hour set.

8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com ECHO CANYON Local trio of Jim Wilson, Chuck Bradburn and Craig Lieske plays experimental music that is playful yet demanding with an otherworldly, delicate feel that evolves into metal power.

HYMN FOR HER A refreshing mix of thrashing country rock, acid blues and fuzzed out Americana. See Calendar Pick on this page.

PD WILDER Ambient experimental drone inspried by existentialism, perception and astro-physics.

Flight Tapas and Bar 8 p.m. 706-549-0200 LATE AS ALWAYS Live jazz music.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 ANDROCLES AND THE LION This local band plays airy indie rock with lots of warm acoustic guitar and folk undertones.

GREY MILK This edgy folk rock outfit recently relocated to the Classic City from New England.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com JAZZCHRONIC Local five-piece explores freaky, funky, psychedelic fusion jazz while incorporating rock, R&B, heavy beats and more. CD release party for Groovathon!

THE MANTRAS Hailing from NC, this funk-rock psych-fusion band is turning heads in and around the Southeast.

TENT CITY This Athens-based fourpiece blends new-age funk with soulful blues.

New Earth Music Hall “Invisible Children Benefit.” 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.newearthmusichall.com JOHN FRENCH Local singersongwriter.

EMILY HEARN Young singersongwriter performs sweet, innocent, melodic acoustic ballads.

THE REGULARS BAND Funk rock from Atlanta.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke! Every Wednesday and on the first Friday of the month.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens COCOON’S REVENGE Electronic dance party featuring French house, progressive and Trance. Hosted by DJs Polargriss, DJ303 and Pulsar.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com AULD LANG SYNE Acoustic folk rock band.

Thursday 31 The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com DJ CHRIS LICK Mixing today’s Top40 hits, rap and rock.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com GOBBLE GOBBLE The hyperactive, futuristic techno-pop project of San Francisco via Canada pop experimentalist Cecil Frena.

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

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

WOWSER BOWSER Blissed-out, bittersweet synth-pop from Atlanta.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS Local band plays summery Americana with a breezy, reverb-drenched aesthetic.

KILL KILL BUFFALO New, grungy hard rock duo featuring Kara Kildare’s powerful pipes and Tyler John on drums. Based in Athens.

STALKING LOUISIANA Poppy, altrock band from North Carolina with guitar and piano-driven melodies.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SONGWRITER SHOWCASE Featuring new songs from almost all performers! Live music from Danny Gorbachev, Patrick Morales, Mark Cunningham, Betsy Franck, Lee Markey, Chris Ingham and Geoff Weaver. k continued on next page

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6 Consecutive Weeks: $60 Drop-In: $14

*NEW* Ashtanga Yoga!

with Farley Harding, Founder of Athens Ashtanga Yoga • Mondays 7:15pm Led Primary Series • Fridays 9am Mysore Style Beginners Egyptian Bellydancing • Wednesdays 7-8:15pm with Murjanah

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• Tuesdays 10:30-11:45am with Meghan Madhavi Burke

Movement Into Stillness (Yoga) • Thursdays 9-10am with Meghan Madhavi Burke

Awareness Through Movement (Feldenkrais TM) • Fridays 12-1pm with Michael Moore

All Levels Pilates

• Mondays 9-10am with Gary Pearce • Wednesdays 9-10am with Cathy Jackson

Beginners Hatha Yoga I/II

(Candlelight!)

• Tuesdays 7-8:30pm with Meghan Madhavi Burke

Power Vinyasa Yoga: All Levels • Mon and Wed 5:30-6:45pm with Cathy Jackson • Fridays 5:30-6:45pm with Meg Williamson*

* Community Class: 6 weeks = $30 All Levels Vinyasa Flow Yoga • Tuesdays 5:15-6:45pm with Nick Rynearson • Saturdays 12-1:30pm with Ruth Allen

*UPCOMING* Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation with Cathy Jackson • Workshop: Saturday, April 30 9:30-11:30am • Weekly Class: Tuesdays 7:15-8:15am begins May 3rd

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DAVID W. GRIFFETH, Attorney

announces the relocation of his law office to Downtown in the Fred Building

220 College Ave. Ste. 612, Athens, Georgia

(706) 353-1360 (former location 957 Baxter St)

Admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court since 1976* *And lesser courts

Specializing in Criminal: DUI, Drug Cases, Under-Age Possession and more.

Civil: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Criminal Defense, Credit Card/Debt Relief and more.

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THE CALENDAR! 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com MADELINE Bell-voiced local songwriter Madeline Adams plays endearing songs of smalltown loves, hopes and other assorted torments and joys. Tonight is her 10th anniversary show! See story on p. 20.

NANA GRIZOL Theo Hilton, formerly the mastermind of DIY punk band Zumm Zumm, performs handmade, enthusiastic and charming rock tunes.

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 ODD TRIO Jazz ensemble featuring Marc Gilley (One Ton Tomato).

Hilltop Grille 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 MILLIGAN Acoustic duo reworks both classic rock and more recent hits from CSNY to Johnny Cash to Jack Johnson to Maroon 5.

Hotel Indigo Tour de France Espresso Launch Party.

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens. com CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles. Tonight with special guest Jerry Hendleberg!

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com DEAD CONFEDERATE With its moody, dark weaving of Southern rock and grunge, Dead Confederate is quickly ascending in popularity across the nation and beyond.

Tonight the band and special guests play Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night in its entirety.

THE INTERNS Local band that shares several members with Futurebirds.

Instead of Americana, this configuration plays dreamy, guitar-driven indie rock with just a hint of altcountry.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $10 (21+), $15 (28+). www. newearthmusichall.com NIGHTLIGHT An all-night electronic dance party/rave in association with the UGA EDM Colab, Feral Youth, DJ Pound Town and DJ

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Decepticron. Presented in conjuction with Girls Gone Wild. There will also be projects by Bill Richards and party photography by Newton Barnes.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $4. 706-546-4742 JOSH ROBERTS AND THE HINGES Formerly playing with Captain Easy and Danielle Howle, twang-meister Josh Roberts and his new band play hearty, Southern rock and roll.

THE WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul featuring three vocalists and charismatic harmonies.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Blues night hosted by The Shadow Executives. Come join the jam every Thursday!

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens THE FORTUNATE FEW Led Zeppelin-lovin’ rock trio from Temple, GA. VINCENT THE DOG Athens rock power trio informed by classic rock, blues, funk, jazz, hard rock and progressive rock.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com CONNOR PLEDGER Pledger’s mostly acoustic sound is influenced by acts like Dave Matthews.

WUOG 90.5FM “Live in the Lobby.” 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Nutritional Peace will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program.

Listen over the air, stream online or drop by the station to watch!

Friday 1 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! Facebook.com/AlibiBar JOHN MARTIN Little is known about ol’ John Martin. My girlfriend thought he was from them deepest woods of these parts. My other friends didn’t know if he was or not. Whittle while you enter for free admittance.

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 STOKESWOOD Twelve-piece UGA woodblock ensemble performs

selections from Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com DJ SIFI Medeival-themed dance music from DJ Sireless Fidelity, spinning cuts from his latest mix, “The King Is Dead.”

Borders Books & Music 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 EMMA COOKE This UGA student has been singing since she was three, and she loves inspiring people through music. She names artists like Aretha Franklin, Christina Aguliera and Stevie Ray Vaughan as inspirations.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com DO IT TO JULIA Objectivitydemolishing must-see band. One thousand thumbs up. From Atlanta.

LITTLE TYBEE The show at Caledonia is a benefit for the secession of a neighborhood on the outskirts of Tybee Island. This nine-year-old rap prodigy, formerly known as Li’l Tybee, will be repping for the radical secession of Little Tybee from Tybee Island.

VENICE IS SINKING Local Italian drama theatre troupe. Performing neo-baroque covers and some originals.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Hip-hop performed with the intensity of rap.

Think Big Trouble in Little China, except take out “China” and add more “Trouble.”

MOUSER Ska band from Snellville.

SLEEPING FRIENDS April Fool’s— this band hasn’t been told they’re playing! Local no-shows perpetually blow off their own performances.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com FRANGIPANI MAYO Rival local Italian drama theatre troupe.

MONAHAN Dan Monahan of Woodstock, GA plays all of his blues favorites with, like, a smoothed-out reggae-style/vibe.

NEVER “North Eastern Virginia EcoRavers.” Environmentally conscious electronica, or, as the group puts it, “environmentronica.”

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com DEXTER ROMWEBER DUO James Dexter and Will Romweber, local dentists performing their crowdpleasing piano duets.

Friday, April 1

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer Hodgson Concert Hall Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer are what you’d call “go-to guys” in their particular fields. It’s difficult to conjure the name of a more well-known banjo player than Béla Fleck (besides, perhaps, Steve Martin); his contributions to the crossover success of modern bluegrass are manifold.

Double bassist Edgar Meyer is a genius with bona fides: winner of the prestigious MacArthur Prize, he is a peer and contemporary of the likes of Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell.

When Fleck and Meyer were commissioned by the Nashville Symphony to compose a triple concerto, they sought out a third collaborator. Their go-to guy was Zakir Hussain, the Indian musician whose mastery of the tabla bears several decades of experience and experimentation.

“I knew about them; they had been to my shows,” says Hussain. “I had done some work with Béla Fleck’s other band, The Flecktones; Future Man, the drummer from his group, was someone I’d done some workshops and master classes with, teaching together at different rhythm festivals.” This was not the first time Hussain was called upon for a multi-genre collaboration; over the years his skills have been employed by George Harrison, John McLaughlin and Mickey Hart.

The resulting music, captured on the album The Melody of Rhythm–Triple Concerto and Music for Trio, has a breezy quality that will be familiar to fans of any of the musicians, but remains hard to put your finger on. “For us, it’s not just jazz; it’s a form of music, or a statement if you will, that we feel is unique,” says Hussain. “Because, first of all, these three instruments have never really come together before this, and all the three instruments are not only melodic instruments but rhythmic instruments. And so we complement each other not only rhythmically but melodically.” The juxtaposition of tabla and banjo certainly comes off as an unlikely but perfectly matched marriage, as Fleck and Hussain speed alongside one another sounding like a singular, propulsive rhythmic unit.

Meyer’s rich upright bass comfortably rides a line between sonorous chamber music and quasi-jaunty jazz, pulling the trio together even further. [Jeff Tobias]

FUTUREBIRDS Using predictive text to write their lyrics, these rambunctious junksters will be debuting their “5-D” rock opera, chopped and screwed. Not for the faint of stomach. Via Flamina CD release party tonight!

WOODFANGS Twilight-themed light jazz. Show up in Twilight-themed costume for a free boxed set of the Twilight DVD series signed by Gordon Lamb, an actual werewolf.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar TAKE BACK THE NIGHT BENEFIT A seriously good cause. With music

by Goldilocks, Baby Baby, Curio Museum and DJs Chance & Goochway (members of DIP).

Michelle Gilzenrat

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 DANIEL CLAY Solo ska artist from Winterville.

ETIENNE DE ROCHER French Rage Against the Machine cover band, performing in their signature Franco-Juggalo shoe-gaze fashion.

Johnny’s New York Style Pizza 8 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1515 LEAVING COUNTRIES This perpetually on-the-go world music collective performs via satellite feed from their next show.

Futurebirds celebrate the release of their new EP, Via Flamina, at the 40 Watt Club on Friday, Apr. 1.

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Lit 10 p.m. Grand Opening! (formerly Bailey’s American Tavern). www. litathens.com DJRX DJRX is not the same old DJ. DJRX is not boring. DJRX is not sketchy. DJRX does not enforce a dress code. DJRX is not arrogant.

DJRX is unlike anything you’ve ex-

perienced in Athens. Featuring 400 flavors of Long Island Ice Tea. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Reverse Karaoke! Dr. Fred sings your favorites. Walk-ins welcome (ed. note: no walk-ins).

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke! (Not drag queen) Every Wednesday and on the first Friday of the month.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens LAISSEZ FUNK Atlas Shruggedthemed “free-market rap.” These guys put the bounce back in the revolution.

UGA Hodgson Hall 8 p.m. $20–$37. www.uga.edu/pac BÉLA FLECK, ZAKIR HUSSAIN AND EDGAR MEYER Three top musicians join forces to deliver a mix of bluegrass, classical and world music. See Calendar Pick on this page.

Saturday 2 Allen’s Bar & Grill 8:30 p.m. www.allensbarandgrill.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock from here in Athens, featuring tender violin, aching harmonica and melodic acoustic guitars.

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 THE STUMBLIN’ TOADS Expect an easy mix of blues and rock and roll tonight.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com EXCEPTION TO THE RULE This rebellious group spells all their lyrics with the “E” before “I” except after “C.”

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original audio/video productions that focus on pop music of this generation, with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica.

Twin Lakes 6 p.m. RSVP and donate at www.goodhopemusic.com FOOLS FEST AT TWIN LAKES Bring food, coolers and equipment to Twin Lakes for live music from Joshua Daniels, Lefty Hathaway Band, Tent City, Suex Effect, Burning Angels, Bros. Marler, 3 Foot Swagger and Ashutto Mirra. Proceeds benefit disaster relief in Japan and “Drumming for Success” with Dr. Arvin Scott.

Bishop Park “Athens Farmers Market.” 8-10 a.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net THE VINYL STRANGERS Timelessly charming classic-sounding pop rock reminiscent of early Beatles and Byrds. (8 a.m.)

“Athens Farmers Market.” 10 a.m.– noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EMILY ARMOND The singer/songwriter behind Sea of Dogs performs her heartfelt folk ballads solo over banjo and guitar. (10 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BENEFIT FOR THE FAMILY OF BUDDY CHRISTIAN Featuring punk and rock from local bands Burns Like Fire, So It Goes, Reeks of Failure and Machismo USA. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com NEVER Local trio featuring Melissa Colbert (Creepy), Kris Deason (Yaal H’ush) and Ryan Vogel (Nuclear Spring).

TIMMY TUMBLE Tim Schreiber (Dark Meat, The Lickity-Splits) howls and spasms over garage rockanthems and pop songs. His new backing band features members of Mouser, Bubbly Mommy Gun, All City Cannonballers and The Humms.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $11. www.40watt.com ELEPHANT 6 HOLIDAY SURPRISE TOUR Members of luminary Athens bands The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, Circulatory System, The Gerbils, Nana Grizol, Major Organ and Adding Machine, Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t, The Instruments and The Late B.P. Helium play each other’s songs. Plus! Games, multimedia and other surprises. See story on p. 21.

psychedelic noodling behind choreographed dancers. At least, that’s what the first show was like; expect the unexpected.

PATTERSON HOOD A special solo set from the Drive-By Truckers frontman.

NATIVE KID Local indie band whose lo-fi sound and country undertones are reminiscent of Silver Jews.

NEW MADRID That calming mix of echoing, Americana vocals and swift, proficient guitar plucks that add up to a reassuring nod that the world is still turning.

REDNECK GREECE Local artist sings swingin’ hillbilly honky tonk about “folks that grew up on the wrong side of the tracks” with a biting sense of humor.

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

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Described as “a little bit of Hank, a little bit of Metallica and a healthy dose of Southern rock.” Fans of bands like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd can’t go wrong here.

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

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $5. 706-546-4742 HEROBUST DJ-ing in between sets.

MACHINE FUNK Widespread Panic tribute band recreating and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the legendary WSP show on Apr. 2, 1991 at the Georgia Theatre.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and friends spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop.

The Office Lounge “The Office Lounge’s Second Anniversary Party!” 6 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 DWIGHT WILSON AND THE CLASSIC CITY SOUL Motown and R&B classics. There will also be food and party favors as The Office Lounge celebrates its anniversary.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. 706-353-3050 HOMEGROWN REVIVAL Sweet folk and bluegrass quartet from Dahlonega. CD release party!

Hilltop Grille 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 JAZZ NIGHT Every Saturday!

Featuring The Chris Enghauser Trio and a rotation of top jazz musicians.

Little Kings Shuffle Club “DJ Mahogany’s Birthday Dance Party.”

10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub DJ MAHOGANY Come celebrate the birth of a legend with DJ Mahogany’s birthday dance party. Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Max “2nd Annual Haiti Benefit.” Noon–10 p.m. $6 (to benefit Doctors Without Borders). 706-254-3392 JOSH DANIELS Local acoustic singer who works real emotion into classic bluegrass songs.

DAVID BARBE & THE QUICK HOOKS Acclaimed local producer and former member of Sugar and Mercyland, David Barbe has played with members of The Glands, Harvey Milk and more to create that special brand of full-throttle rock that ventures from indie psychedelia to twangy blues.

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

NATALIE HINKLE Masked local performance art group playing trippy

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens ACTUAL PROOF Funk/jazz fusion from Charlotte, NC. Think Parliament and Herbie Hancock with a little Pink Floyd thrown in.

TRIBAL ZINE Local jam band with classic rock influences and laid back melodies.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com THE WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul.

Twin Lakes 6 p.m. RSVP and donate at www.goodhopemusic.com FOOLS FEST AT TWIN LAKES Bring food, coolers and equipment to Twin Lakes for live music from Joshua Daniels, Lefty Hathaway Band, Tent City, Suex Effect, Burning Angels, Bros. Marler, 3 Foot Swagger and Ashutto Mirra. Proceeds benefit disaster relief in Japan and “Drumming for Success” with Dr. Arvin Scott.

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THE CALENDAR! Farm 255 “Industry Night.” 9 p.m. FREE! www. farm255.com DJ THE DREAM SCENE Javier Morales of The Dream Scene and Quiet Hooves spins mutant dance music and other interesting listens.

MAN’S TRASH Mercer West fronts this new project featuring improvisation, controlled chaos and a muted pop spirit. Featuring a video from Julian Bozeman (of local band Quiet Hooves).

Locos Grill & Pub “I Know ICAN Family Jam.” 1-6 p.m. $10 per adult, $18 per family, FREE! for kids under 12. www.iknowicanathens.com KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This engaging local songwriter performs a unique fusion of acoustic folk and soul.

CLAIRE CAMPBELL Smoky voiced songstress and multi-instrumentalist from the group Hope for Agoldensummer plays a solo set.

PATRICK CAREY The Ginger Envelope frontman plays slow-rolling countryish pop marked by breezy sounds with chiming acoustic and electric sounds and vocal melodies.

CLOVER STREET SINGERS Featuring Brian Nuse and Jesslyn Shields.

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

HEIDI HENSLEY Modern rock and roll with country elements and a bit of ‘80s nostalgia.

KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s songwriting style is literate and sincere.

Timothy Baptist Church “Weaver D’s Automatic Anniversary.” 5 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7797 THE CALVIN STATHAM SINGERS Family gospel band who has been performing together for nearly 40 years.

CANDI STATON Gospel and soul singer who has worked with songwriting legends and released several Grammy-nominated hits. Staton draws from the intimate sorrow of blues, the funk of soul and the uplifiting spirit of gospel.

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Monday 4 Barnette’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0966.

TRE POWELL Solo blues and R&B guitarist. Playing every Monday night!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ABBY GOGO Psychedelic shoegaze from Atlanta.

THE AGENDA In-your-face local punk rock ensemble that features an exciting show that’s reckless and entertaining.

SURF CITY Impressive noise-pop band from New Zealand that’s equal parts psychedelic haze and driving, off-kilter melodies.

TURF WAR This band takes the lo-fi garage aesthetic of the Black Lips and turns it into something more than just another sound-alike.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $13. www.40watt.com GOLD BEARS Atlanta twee punk band with noisy pop tunes full of dense fuzz and jangle.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART Addictive and critically acclaimed noisy pop band influenced by shoegaze. See feature story on p. 22.

TWIN SHADOW Expect cinematic, shimmering, synth-driven rock and roll.

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

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

Max 9 p.m. $10 for a plate of food. 706254-3392 WEAVER D’S KARAOKE Weaver D’s 25th anniversary party featuring a buffet.

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

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Tuesday 5 Allgood Lounge 9 p.m. $10 (a plate). 706-549-0166 WEAVER D’S COCKTAIL BUFFET NIGHT A DJ will be spinning as Weaver D’s celebrates its 25th anniversary with yet another night of food and fun.

40 Watt Club Spring Showdown Roud 1. 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com DOC ELLIS Good time rock and roll.

JOHN KING BAND This young local band plays country and Southern rock.

JUICE BOX No info available.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. 706-353-3050 NO SHAME! Open mic hosted by Rose of Athens Theatre. Every Tuesday!

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.

Little Kings Shuffle Club “Athens Farmers Market.” 4:30-6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor.

Max 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 MACHISMO USA Happy-go-lucky tinkering surrounded by a warm, acoustic blanket found right here in Athens.

MULETIDE PERKINS Slide guitar, reverb-drenched vocals, and lyrics with a down-home Southern sound despite featuring such topics as The Beastie Boys and Run DMC. SHALLOW PALACE Riff-heavy, bluesy rock and roll with sheer punk-rock energy.

RYAN SHEFFIELD Mostly acoustic indie rock with clever, story-telling lyrics.

Saturday, April 2

Athens Farmers Market Bishop Park Buying produce locally not only cuts down on transportation-based pollution and packaging costs for growers, but ensures for consumers fresher, more flavorful food that hasn’t been nutrient-depleted by age.

The Athens Farmers Market continues to provide the comEmily Armond munity with a way to purchase food and crafts directly from producers while simultaneously fostering improved business conditions for local farmers, gardeners and artists through its bi-weekly markets. Get ready; the new season kicks off this weekend.

Every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon at Bishop Park and Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Little Kings, local farmers will gather, bringing their latest crops. In addition to the array of seasonal vegetables and fruits, the market also offers handmade pasta and empanadas, all-natural granola, freshly baked breads and vibrant cut flowers. Athensbased coffee roaster 1000 Faces sells a variety of international and blended flavors of beans, while local microjuicery Righteous Juice offers cool, freshly squeezed juices and smoothies.

Like all the market’s locally grown produce, the art and craft-work represented reflect a strong interest in locally sourced materials. In the past, crafts have included handpainted gourd birdhouses from Gatherings Garden, eco-chic jewelry made from recycled glass bottles by Beca Designs, felted items made from recycled cloth by mother-daughter team The Green Griffin and Terrapin Hoppy Lips beer lip balm by Verdae Skin Therapy.

And because musicians are also recognized as an integral part of local culture, at 8 a.m. the Vinyl Strangers will wake everyone up with a handful of their sunny, classicsounding melodies reminiscent of ‘60s pop rock. Taking the stage two hours later at 10 a.m., Emily Armond, the singer/songwriter behind Sea of Dogs, will play heartfelt folk tunes on banjo and guitar. For a schedule and information on how to perform, visit www. athensfarmersmarket.net/calendar. [Jessica Smith]

The Melting Point “Terrapin Bluegrass Series.” $4. 7-10 p.m. www.meltingpointathens.com 3 BUCKS SHY This local ensemble plays “bluegrass PLUS…” As they are fond of saying, bluegrass “plus any music we dadburn feel like playing.”

WUOG 90.5FM “Live in the Lobby.” FREE! 8 p.m. www. wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Basshunter64 will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air, stream the show online or drop by the station to watch them live!

Wednesday 6 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

Tonight willl be an Alibi Idol Contest.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com KHANN High-energy hardcore full of intense screams and driving rhythms influenced by Dillinger Escape Plan.

KEN MODE Hardcore and grunge metal from Winnipeg.

SAVAGIST Athens metal band featuring folks from The Dumps.

Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 8-10 p.m. FREE! www. farm255.com CALEB DARNELL Member of The Darnell Boys and Bellyache plays a solo set.

9:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE CURIOUS MYSTERY Indie folk from Seattle with jazz and classic country influences.

EL HOLLIN This local band plays simple, lo-fi tunes with guitar and what sounds like a melodica.

Featuring members of Werewolves.

FAMILY BAND Formerly of S.T.R.E.E.T.S. and Warpaint’s East Coast tour, Family Band has named its sound “heavy mellow” with dark

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and unrelenting instrumentation and soaring, melancholic vocals.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Happy Hour! 6-8 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar.com KARA KILDARE Ethereal piano folk.

8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com JESS MARSTON Singer/guitarist from local rock band Romanenko.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $12. www.40watt.com DIAMOND DOVES Formerly the band for Elvis Perkins in Dearland, the trio from New York builds geometric, hazy pop and hip-hop.

THE FELICE BROTHERS This Americana group gets adventurous on its latest release, Celebration, Florida, working in “horn sections… ambient synth lines… rave beats” and other surprising twists behind their lyrical Southern gothic themes.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar RYAN HOUCHENS Drummer and backing vocalist for local Jimi Hendrix cover band, Gimme Hendrix, plays a solo set.

The Melting Point “Play for Japan” Benefit. 8 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com CHRIS MCKAY AND THE CRITICAL DARLINGS Drawing equally on ‘80s power-pop like The Cars and earlier stuff like The Kinks, frontman Chris McKay has a sharp lyrical turn for every melodic offering of his bandmates.

MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND For nearly 40 years, Athenian Michael Guthrie (also of The ‘60s and Disraeli Gears) and his various bandmates have delved into the world of melodic, jangly Britishsounding throwback rock.

MONAHAN Ryan Monahan backed

by Josh McMichael on bass and Lemuel Hayes on drums. Ryan has a gorgeous, expressive Jeff Buckleyesque voice that soars and sighs with equal grace.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com DUSTIN BURLEY Acoustic folkrock with a dose of reggae, from Pennsylvania.

Down the Line 4/7 Ashutto Mirra / Mouser / Reptar / Valentine and West (40 Watt Club) 4/7 Eureka, California / Hot Pals / Matt Hudgins / Hug Abuse / Matt Hudgins & His Shit-Hot Country Band / Tunabunny (Caledonia Lounge) 4/7 KyKy Knight / The Skipperdees / Street Rhythm & Rhyme / Greg Windle (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/7 Apache Dropout / Green Thrift Grocery / Mouser / Ol’ Blue Heeler (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/7 Break Science (New Earth Music Hall) 4/7 Good Doctors / Mojo Flo (No Where Bar) 4/7 Justin Kennedy (Terrapin Beer) 4/7 The Chapin Sisters / Wilderness of Manitoba (The Melting Point) 4/8 Citizen Cope (40 Watt Club) 4/8 Balkans / Bambara / DIP / Green Gerry and the Gelly Phish (Caledonia Lounge) 4/8 Common Ground Benefit (Farm 255) 4/8 Drunken Barrels / The Mattoid / Moths (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

4/8 The Darnell Brothers / Little Francis / Ol’ Blue Heeler (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/8 Tomorrow People (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/8 J Mascis / Kurt Vile & The Violators (The Melting Point) 4/9 Cinemechanica / Manray / Pride Parade (40 Watt Club) 4/9 Leaving Countries (Allen’s Bar & Grill) 4/9 Mad Whiskey Grin / Kate Morrissey (Bishop Park) 4/9 Baby Baby / Hans Darkbolt / Kill Kill Buffalo (Caledonia Lounge) 4/9 Melissa Colbert (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/9 Stephen Simmons (Front Porch Bookstore) 4/9 Bukkake Boys / Defect Defect / Gripe / Shaved Christ (Go Bar) 4/9 Jazz Night (Hilltop Grille) 4/9 Athens Human Rights Festival Battle of the Bands (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/9 Rubblebucket / Toubab Krewe (New Earth Music Hall) 4/9 Buttermilk Revival (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/9 Abbey Road Live (The Melting Point) 4/10 Alexis Gideon / Nutritional Beast (Farm 255) 4/11 Open Mic (Rye Bar) 4/11 Dr. Dog (40 Watt Club) 4/11 Tre Powell (Barnette’s) 4/11 Retric (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/11 Open Mic (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 4/11 The Books / Thick Paint (New Earth Music Hall) 4/11 Jazzchronic / Snarky Puppy (The Melting Point) 4/12 NO SHAME! (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 4/12 Karaoke & Drag Search (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/12 Dierz Eve / Eagle Claw / Kill the School / Manger (Caledonia Lounge) 4/12 Diet Cokeheads (Farm 255) 4/12 Hot New Mexicans / Sleeping in the Aviary / The Visitations (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/12 Caroline Aiken (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/13 Arcturus / Qurious / Space Ghost (Caledonia Lounge) 4/13 Senryu (Farm 255) 4/13 Kara Kildare (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/13 Innocent Flannel (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/14 Baby Baby / The Orkids / Tealvox (40 Watt Club) 4/14 Power Company (Caledonia Lounge) 4/14 Wade Boggs / Neon Piss / Shaved Christ (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/14 Bodega Roja / Easy Star All-Stars / Cas Haley (New Earth Music Hall) 4/14 Mike Killeen / Sweet Knievel (No Where Bar) 4/14 Groove Moose (Rye Bar) 4/14 Don Wier (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/15 Ween (40 Watt Club) 4/15 Sam Sniper (Caledonia Lounge) 4/15 Kate Morrissey (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/15 Beats Antique / Eskmko (New Earth Music Hall) 4/15 The Hypsys / Vertigo Jazz Project (No Where Bar) 4/15 Connor Pledger (Terrapin Beer) 4/15 Todd Snider / The Trishas (The Melting Point) 4/15 Carla Le Fever and the Rays (The Office Lounge) 4/16 Elastic Skyline (Amici Italian Café) 4/16 Burn Barrel / Magic Missile / The Shut Ups (Caledonia Lounge) 4/16 The Dinner Mints (Front Porch Bookstore) 4/16 FLT RSK / Lotus (New Earth Music Hall)

4/16 Lubriphonic (No Where Bar) 4/16 Jeff Vaughn Band (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/19 Bobby Be Good / Street, Rhythm and Rhyme / The Wynettes (Caledonia Lounge) 4/19 Old Time String Band (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/20 Miles Benson / Dusty Lightswitch / Oh No Oh My / TurnUps (Caledonia Lounge) 4/20 PANTyRAid (New Earth Music Hall) 4/20 Flight Risk (No Where Bar) 4/20 Noise Org (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/20 STS9 (The Classic Center) 4/21 The Atom Age / The K-Macks / So It Goes / Taj Motel Trio (Caledonia Lounge) 4/21 Dank Sinatra (Farm 255) 4/21 Betsy Franck / Kaitlin Jones / Vestibules (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/21 Zoogma (New Earth Music Hall) 4/21 Concrete Jumpsuit / Suex Effect (No Where Bar) 4/21 Noel Goff (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/22 Colour Revolt / Dead Confederate (40 Watt Club) 4/22 Chrissakes / Powers / Shannon Wright (Caledonia Lounge) 4/22 Agesandages / Lake (Farm 255) 4/22 Ye Olde Sub Shoppe (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/22 Sumilan (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/23 Mikey Erg / Ian Graham / Dave Hause (Caledonia Lounge) 4/23 Black Girls / Tumbleweed Stampede (Farm 255) 4/23 Kill Kill Buffalo / Love Tractor (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/23 Calico Jig (Front Porch Bookstore) 4/23 Illicitizen (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/25 Iron & Wine / The Low Anthem (40 Watt Club) 4/25 Days of Hysteria (Rye Bar) 4/26 Basshunter64 / Bigfoot / Bubbly Mommy Gun / Woodfangs (Caledonia Lounge) 4/27 The Blushin’ Roulettes / Tim Brantley / Leaving Countries / Matthew Mayfield (Caledonia Lounge) 4/27 Hope For Agoldensummer / Jesse Payne (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/27 Heritage (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/27 Lera Lynn / The Watson Twins (The Melting Point) 4/28 Barracudas / Davila 666 (40 Watt Club) 4/28 BombsBombsBombs / Bros b4 Hos (Caledonia Lounge) 4/28 Nat Baldwin (Farm 255) 4/28 David Barbe / Ruby Kendrick / Hardy Morris (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/28 Emmit Nershi (New Earth Music Hall) 4/28 JazzChronic / The Soundmen (No Where Bar) 4/29 Manray / Maserati / Wizard Smoke (40 Watt Club) 4/29 (Caledonia Lounge) 4/29 Bubbly Mommy Gun / Love Tractor (Farm 255) 4/29 Liars and Lovers / The Stereofidelics (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/30 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (40 Watt Club) 4/30 Glennard Skynnard / Redneck GReece (Front Porch Bookstore)

Béla Fleck BANJO

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Zakir Hussain TABLA

Three masterful genre-benders and the leading virtuosos on their respective instruments, Fleck, Hussain, and Meyer move easily among the realms of classical, bluegrass, and world music.

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In the ATL 4/8 Destroyer / The War on Drugs (The EARL) 4/8 Scissor Sisters (The Tabernacle) 4/9 Lil’ Wayne (Philips Arena) 4/18 Lady Gaga (Gwinnett Center) 4/22 Pete Yorn (Center Stage) * 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 Call for Artists Iris Place, an independent retirement living facility, is seeking artists for an Apr. 16 art show. Any medium welcome. Must have 3–7 pieces. Email for information. mattcremeens@gmail.com Call for Artists Applications for the AthFest Artists’ Market are now available. All submissions must be postmarked by Apr. 1. arts@athfest. com, athfest.com/music-festival/ artists-market Call for Artists (Downtown Athens) Athens Indie Craftstrava­ ganzaa will be accepting applications through Apr. 1 for the spring market on May 7. Artwork must be handmade. $15 (application), $75 (booth rental). www.athensindiecraft stravaganzaa.com Call for Artists (Floorspace) FloorSpace is seeking artists for month-long exhibitions. 706-3721833, www.floorspaceathens.com Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) Now taking handmade and vintage submissions for upcoming country market “1st Spring Festifool.” Email with two photos of wares. $30. peterlooseart@gmail.com, www.farmingtondepotgallery.org Call for Entries Film Athens is currently accepting submissions for the 6th Sprockets Music Video Competition. Early deadline Apr. 1. filmathens.net/sprockets Call for Entries (Sautee Nacoochee Center) The 2nd Annual 12 Rivers Art Festival is currently seeking artists to participate at an outdoor exhibit on June 11. Register online by May 14. 706-878-3300, www.snac.org Call for Submissions (Amici Italian Café) Amici’s is seeking

artists for monthly exhibitions. 706353-0000, athens@amici-cafe.com Seeking Submissions (Highwire) Highwire Lounge is seeking submissions for monthly exhibitions: large paintings or prints preferred.

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CLASSES Adult Wing Chun Kung Fu (Floorspace) Wing Chun is a system of Kung Fu that specializes in developing dynamic and practical self-defense. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45 p.m. $12 per class, $60 for 6 classes. floorspacestudio@gmail. com, www.floorspaceathens.com 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 Ashtanga Sun Salutations (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) Taught at “The Magic Mountain” by Cal Clements.

Mon.–Fri. through March, 9–10:30 a.m. $5 (suggested donation). www.rubbersoulyoga.com Ballroom Dancing (Athens Community Council on Aging) Stay active while perfecting the Cha Cha, Foxtrot and more. Mondays, 2:30– 3:30 p.m. $5. www.accaging.org Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) 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 the Internet. Call to

Huge and magnificent 80 pound Rottie needs someone not easily dominated. He loves attention and stands close and leans against you.

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL 45 Beaverdam Rd. • 706-613-3540

Open every day except Wednesday 10am-4pm Usually the ears of this 32380 young Jack Russell mix are pointed out to the side in a relaxed manner, but this was his “what the squeak?” reaction to a funny noise. He is a little guy, about 9 pounds, and full of love for every person 32356 and dog he meets.

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reserve a spot. 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 354 Computer Class: Mouse and Keyboard Skills (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to using a computer mouse and keyboard for adults.

Call to register. Apr. 7, 7–8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 ext. 354 Creative Exploration Classes (Wildeye Creative Exploration Studio) Tap into your creative process! Classes for kids and adults. 706-410-0250, www.wildeyecreative.com Donation Based Spanish (Athens Language Schoolhouse) Guided conversation class with native Spanish speakers. Wednesdays, 2–3 p.m. & Fridays, 7–8 p.m. $5 (suggested donation). 706-5495002, www.athensprofessional services.com English as a Second Language (Pinewoods Hispanic Community Library) Classes every week! Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3708 ESL Class (Athens Urban Ministries) Free sessions. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30–3 p.m. FREE! 706-353-6647 Express Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Create peace in the middle of your day by doing yoga during your lunch break! Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 12:15–1 p.m. $5. www.athensfivepointsyoga.com Flower Arranging (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Taught by a National Garden Club Master Flower Show judge. Focus will be on designs that incorporate fruits and vegetables. Call to register. Apr. 13, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Forest Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Deepen your breath, work your core, strengthen your body and connect

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Yorkie and Miniature Pinscher mix is off-thecharts cute. She’s two years old, weighs about 8 pounds and moves like a tiny deer.

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Howard Cook’s etching “Country Store” is part of the group show “The American Scene on Paper,” on display at the GMOA until May 3. with your spirit. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. $10/class. 706-355-3114 GED Classes (Athens Urban Ministries, 717 Oconee St.) Get your GED for free, free, free! Mondays & Thursdays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-353-6647.

Hatha Yoga (Floorspace) Relax, restore and renew. All levels welcome.

Tuesdays, 8:45 a.m. & Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. $8–15. thebodyeclectic @rocketmail.com Health and Wellness Classes (Athens Community Council on Aging) Athens Community Council on Aging hosts senior-friendly Zumba, Line Dancing, Yoga, Tai Chi and more!

Go online for a complete schedule.

706-549-4850, www.accaging.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. Tuesdays, 2–3 p.m. or 7–8 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.706-795-5597.

Intro to Word (ACC Library) Learn the basics of word processing. Registration required. Apr. 15, 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Iyengar Yoga Classes (StudiO) A classical approach with attention to alignment and adapting poses to meet individual ability. Tuesdays, 6:45–8:15 p.m. $10. www.chet thomasyoga.com Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away!

Fourth Friday of each month. 5:30– 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@armc.org Line Dancing (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Lessons with Ron Putman.

Alternate Thursdays through July 21.

6 p.m. $5. www.ronputman.com Line Dancing for Seniors (Council on Aging, Harris Room) Keep your health in line and have fun at the same time! Tuesdays, 4 p.m. $5. 706-549-4850 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) Fussy babies and tired mamas welcome! 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

New Horizons Music Classes (UGA School of Music) Beginning band, intermediate band, beginning orchestra and piano classes for adults age 50+. No prior music experience needed! Call 706-542-2894 to register. www.uga.edu/ugacms Nia (Various Locations) Gain muscle definition and strength in this dance class delivering cardiovascular, whole-body conditioning. Offered four days a week; check online schedule. 706-424-9873, www.TheBodyEclectic.com Parkinson’s Exercise (Athens Community Council on Aging) Healthy moves catered to those living with Parkinson’s Disease.

Tuesdays, 10–11 a.m. FREE! www.accaging.org Postpartum Mat Class (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Learn how to reconnect and gain strength in the abdominals and pelvic floor. Wednesdays, 9:15– 10:15 a.m. $10. www.balancepilates athens.com Pre-Natal Mat Class (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Prepare for labor, delivery and recovery through emphasizing core stabilization, pelvic floor strengthening, better posture and flexibility. Saturdays, 1–2 p.m. $10. www.balancepilates athens.com Qigong for Health & Relaxation (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Visitor Center, Great Room) Certified Qigong instructor Carl Lindberg leads class on the ancient Chinese art of selfcultivation. Mondays, through Apr. 25, 12–1 p.m. $12 (per class), $80 (8 weeks). 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden 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 Secrets to a Sensational Room (Athens Technical College) Learn how to stage and redesign a home with items you already have.

Three-part seminar. Apr. 8, 15 & 22, 1–3 p.m. $75. 706-369-5763, bmoody@athenstech.

Sexual Assault Fundamental Escapes (American Black Belt Academy) Learn self-defense techniques in a four-week SAFE course. Saturdays, through Apr. 23, 12–1 p.m. www.athensjiujitsu.com Shag Dancing (Athens Technical College) Students must bring partner. Call to register. Apr. 18–May 23,

7:30–8:30 p.m. $60. 706-369-5763, bmoody@athenstech.edu 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).706-613-8178, cvunderwood@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 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 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 through March, 7–8:15 p.m. $50/month. thektp@gmail.com, holdingwoman space.com Women’s Self Defense Classes (American Black Belt Academy) One rape or sexual assault occurs every two minutes in the U.S. Learn what you can do to protect yourself. Go online or call to register.

706-549-1671, www.americanblack belt.org Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) Offering yoga, meditation and gentle yoga classes every day of the week. For full schedule, go online. Daily, $5 (donation). www. rubbersoulyoga.com 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: 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) 706-207-5881 Yoshukai Karate (AKF Itto Martial Arts) Learn Yoshukai Karate, a traditional hard Okinawan style. FREE! www.athensy.com Yoshukai Karate (East Athens Community Center) Must be at least 13 years old. Every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Monday and Thursday, 7:30–8:30 p.m., Saturday, 2–3 p.m. FREE! www.clarkecounty yk.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 Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves comprise this dynamic fitness program. Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/class, $80/session. www.uga. edu/botgarden

HELP OUT! The Battery A newly formed social empowerment organization is launching their “GA’s Trail of Tears 2.0” campaign to stop HB 87. Call 706-206-9237 to volunteer.

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. 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 Cans for Critters (Various Locations) Donate collected aluminum cans to benefit the critters at Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail. Accepting donations through Apr. 18. Register by calling. 706-613-3512 Georgia Museum of Art Volunteers (Georgia Museum of Art) Volunteers needed to help staff the newly renovated GMOA shop. Assist in creating store displays, ringing up sales and basic customer service. 706-542-0450, millera@uga.edu, georgiamuseum. org Global Youth Service Day (Various Locations) This year’s theme: “Planting Unity in the Community.” Check website for volunteer opportunities. Apr. 15–17. handsonnortheastgeorgia.org Great American Clean-up Challenge (Various Locations) Organize a litter clean-up and/ or beautification project during GreenFest. Call to organize an activity or borrow supplies. All volunteers receive coupons to local businesses while supplies last. Apr.1–30. 706613-3501, ext. 312 HandsOn Athens (Various Locations) Join with community volunteers as HandsOn Athens helps homeowners repair their historic homes. Apr. 8–10, 8:30–5 p.m. 706353-1801, hoathens@bellsouth.net

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 Adventure Travel Camp (Georgia Center) Spend your days playing paintball, shooting laser tag, climbing walls, racing go-karts and going on high-tech scavenger hunts. For ages 11–15. Register for summer camp by calling. May 31–June 3, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. $375. 800-811-6640, questions@ georgiacenter.uga.edu Girls’ Rock Camp Athens Now taking applications through Apr. 15 for this summer’s camp, to take place July 25–29 with a showcase concert on July 30. No musical experience necessary. Scholarships available. For girls ages 9–15. $25 (application fee), $300 (tuition). girlsrockathens.org 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 Kids Camp (The Elbert Theatre) Children in Kindergarten through 5th grade can learn about the stage and how a theatre works by participating in games, crafts, skits and exercises.

Now accepting registration. May 23–27. $45. 706-283-1049, www.elberttheatre.org Mommy and Me Spanish (Email for Location) Learn Spanish with your preschooler through songs, stories and games! New session starting soon. sehlers@uga.edu Musikgarten Early Childhood Classes (UGA School of Music) Music classes for toddlers ages 2–4. This session’s theme is “The Rhythm and Music of Nature.” Check website for details.

Register by Apr. 25. May 3–June 23. $70. 706-542-2894, ugacms@uga. edu, www.uga.edu/ugacms/early childhood.html 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. Get them all to yourself! For ages 6 and up. Daily, 3:30–5:30 p.m., FREE! 706-613-3593 Summer Camps (Various Locations) ACC Leisure Services has a total of 35 summer camps for children and teens, ranging from traditional day camps to arts, sports, theatre and even a zoo camp. Check online for complete list of camps and registration info. 706-613-3625, www.athensclarkecounty.com/camps Theater Academy (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Summer camps for children in grades 3–12. Register online.

June 6–10 & 11–17. 706-340-9181, roseofathens.wordpress.com/ education/academy Theatre Camp (The Elbert Theatre) Middle and high school students learn the inner-working knowledge

of a theatrical production through hands-on involvement in Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Jr. Now accepting registration. June 6–17. $60.

706-283-1049, www.elberttheatre. org Wild Intelligence Nature Programs Nature-based learning and character development while your child enjoys storytelling, games and curiosity-based adventure on the land. After-school and day-long programs. Mondays, 3:30–6 p.m. & Tuesdays 10 a.m.–2 p.m. tommy@ wildintelligence.org Yoga Sprouts (Whole: Mind.

Body. Art.) Fun, playful yoga and crafts for kids ages 2 and up. 3–4:30 p.m. $15. www.wholemindbodyart. com ZumbAtomic for Kids (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Fast-foward fusion of Zumba moves designed to let kids max out on fun and fitness at the same time! Mondays, 5:15–6:15 p.m. $6 (for first child), $3 (for each additional sibling). www.wholemind bodyart.com

SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Various Locations) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-5430436, www.athensaa.com Alzheimer’s Caregiver Luncheon Program (Bentley Center) The Athens Area Alzheimer’s Support Group meets the third Tuesday of every month. Noon-1 p.m. FREE! 706-549-4850, eanthony@accaging.org Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is provided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

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

Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org 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 Grief Support Group (Council on Aging) Meeting every third Thursday each month. 2-3:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-4850 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 Parkinson’s Support Group (Council on Aging) Meet up every fourth Monday for an open support group for those living with Parkinson’s Disease. 2:30-4 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-4850 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 in Athens and surrounding areas.

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St.) Paintings by Lisa Weaver. Through April. • Visual storytelling artwork by teens and adults. Through March. • Wood carvings by the Classic City Woodturners. Through April.

Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) New works by Bob Davis. Through April. • New works by Charley Seagraves. Through March.

Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Rd.) A comic arts show featuring Eleanor Davis, Drew Weing, Robert Brown, David Mack and Joey Weiser. Through Apr. 11. • Landscape paintings by Greg Benson, Robert Clements and Joe Ruiz. Through Apr. 20.

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

Bob Snipes Water Resources Center (780 Barber St.) In the spirit of the Parisian Salon Des Refusés, “Refusés” is a show of works by Athens artists not accepted into the 36th Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House. Through April.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design (Caldwell Hall) “Windows to Charlie’s World” includes works by landscape architect Charlie Godfrey. Opening reception Apr. 15. Through April.

Community (119 Jackson St.) Works by Lea Purvis.

Dawg Gone Good BBQ (224 W. Hancock Ave.) Photographs of the Athens Business Rocks competition by Barbara Hutson. Through March.

Dog Ear Books (162 W. Clayton St.) Photography

by Chris Mckay, Mike White and Daniel Peiken of legendary artists such as The Beatles, The Who, The B-52’s, R.E.M. and Vic Chesnutt. Opening reception Apr. 1. Through April.

Espresso Royale Caffe (297 E. Broad St.) Abstract photographs of urban decay by Atlanta artist Stephanie Howard. Through Apr. 11.

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.

Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) Abstractexpressionist acrylics with deep textures and bright blending of colors by Frances Jemini. Through March.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Works by Jackie Slayton. Through April.

Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) Works

by Anthony Goicolea, UGA alumnus and Brooklynbased artist. • “Horizons” includes 12 androgynous, life-sized cast-iron figures by Icelandic artist Steinunn Dorarinsdottir. • “The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection” addresses the plight of the American farm laborer in the development of industry and the growth of the urban environment. Through May 3.

Join Sapph.fire on Facebook. 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 Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage (Various Locations) A 100-mile trek through seven communities. Visit historic homes, experience authentic battle sites, view impressive architecture and tour museums. Tickets can be purchased at the Athens Welcome Center or online. Apr. 27–May 1, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $25. www.atpilgrimage.com Call for Entries (Ciné BarCafé) The AthFest Film Committee is currently accepting submissions for local independent films, music documentaries and student projects to be screened during AthFest 2011 (June

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) Works by Cameron Hampton, Lisa Hampton-Pepe, Thomas Pepe and Raindance.

Jittery Joe’s Coffee (1230 S. Millledge Ave.) Handpainted silks by René Shoemaker. Through March.

Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) Silk paintings by Margaret Agner. Through April. • New work

by Virginia Nazarea. Through March.

Krimson Kafe (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Paintings, drawings and collages by 7th grader Audrey Hinkle. Through March.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) 2011 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition features a wide range of two and three dimensional artworks from each of 24 graduating students. Through Apr. 15.

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) 36th Annual Juried Exhibition, featuring work by area artists in a variety of media. Through May 10.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (434 S. Main St., Madison) A collection of images of the high desert plains of the American Southwest. Through March.

Mama’s Boy (197 Oak St.) “Organic Surrealism” by Carrie Climer. Through April. • Representational and abstract paintings by Hoke Johnston. Through March.

OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) The 16th Annual Southworks Exhibition presents 90s works of art from 69 artists. Reception Apr. 1. Through May 7.

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

State Botanical Garden of Georgia (2450 Milledge Ave.) “Forged from Nature” is an outdoor series of sculpted garden gates by artist Andrew T. Crawford.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) New and recent paintings

by Ruth Allen. Through Apr. 17.

Town 220 (220 W. Washington St., Madison) “Large Format Wall Paintings” presents the works of painter Richard Olsen and works in clay by Rick Berman.

Through April.

Trace Gallery (160 Tracy St.) New works by Atlanta ceramic sculptor Christina West. West addresses the idea of the human object as a toy by creating nearly life-size porcelain and fabric dolls.

Through Apr. 8.

Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) Photographs by Jessica Schramm. Through March.

UGA Miller Learning Center “Fragmented Light,” a composition of brightly colored adhesive tapes created by Patricia Van Dalen.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) An exhibit featuring work by over 50 young artists from Chase Street Elementary School. Through March.

22–26). Entries must be produced in Georgia or by a Georgia-based filmmaker or band. First deadline May 1; final deadline May 15. $10 (May 1), $20 (May 15). athfest.com/musicfestival/film, film@athfest.com Call for Zombies Be an extra in a locally made zombie movie named A Plague So Pleasant. Email for information. BDGfilm@hotmail.com, www.indiegogo.com/A-Plague-SoPleasant Clean for Class Program (Dancefx) Help clean the studio space in exchange for free dance classes. 706-355-3078, allison@ dancefx.org Dance Instructor Recruitment (East Athens Educational Dance Center) The ACC Leisure Services Department is currently recruiting dance instructors to teach summer classes, May 23–July 22, at the East Athens Educational Dance Center. Call for information.

706-613-2624 Film Athens Filmakers, crew members and production support services: Get listed in Film Athens’ new searchable Production Directory at http://filmathens.net.

FREE! Tax Preparation Assistance (Various Locations) Now scheduling appointments for

low- to middle-income families at the Epps Bridge Parkway Kroger and Oconee County Library. 706543-9511 Tax Assistance (Oconee County Library) The AARP offers free help to all adults regardless of age or AARP affiliation. Mondays, 1–4:30 p.m.

706-769-3950 UGA Alcohol Study UGA is conducting a study on a medication for treating alcohol problems.

Participation includes five in-person assessments. No cost for treatment.

Call for more information. 706542-8350 Wee Read Preliminaries (Various Locations) High school and college students are invited to compete in Wii sports including boxing, baseball, tennis and Rock Band.

Winners of each sport will compete Apr. 30 at the Classic Center. All proceeds benefit the Wee Read program, providing local children with free books. Register online. $15. weeolympics.weebly.com Zoo Atlanta Family Passes (Various Locations) Zoo Atlanta and the Athens Regional Library System have partnered up to grant family passes to patrons with library cards.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins So, I’d been in a relationship with this woman for two years. We were both in our 30s, we both had decent jobs, we both seemed to want the same things. Things were not easy.

We both had difficult childhoods, and we had opened up to each other a lot, but we’d also had difficulty communicating and had often been at odds because we’re both kind of messed up. But, we both went to therapy, and mostly managed to get through the tough spots.

So, after a six-month period where things seemed to be going increasingly well, she decided to leave. She told me that she loved me, that she felt close to me, and that she probably would have stayed with me were it not for one thing: she could not deal with my cross-dressing. I was a bit surprised, to be honest, because once I finally told her, she seemed almost excited by it. She would often pick out outfits for me to wear, and we shopped together all the time. I was crushed, but I eventually got over it. She left town, I left town, and I have built a life for myself in another state. I have mostly sworn off of relationships at this point.

Over the last couple of years, though, I have found myself wondering what she’s up to.

Recently, I did a Google search, and I found a website run by a collective of artists that she belongs to. It turns out that she managed to turn her photography hobby into a bona fide career, and she has had several gallery shows featuring her work with—wait for it—drag queens. Or, more specifically, drag queens, drag kings and, basically, all kinds of androgyny. And all I can think is: What the hell?

I’m hurt, I’m confused and, honestly, I’m pissed off. I don’t understand how she could throw away our relationship because she “couldn’t handle” my cross-dressing, and now she’s making a living and building her life around that very lifestyle. I am tempted to contact her, not to try and rekindle our relationship, but simply to ask why. I guess my question to you is: Am I crazy to want to speak to her? To want answers? Is there something I’m missing here? Please help me.

Frog Princess There is a difference, FP, between being accepting of a lifestyle and supportive of people who participate in that lifestyle, and being sexually attracted to them. I myself have no trouble at all helping a man shop for a dress, or drawing a mustache on one of my female friends for drag ball, but I’m not sure I would be comfortable dating a guy with whom I shared everything, including my cosmetics and my fancy undergarments. I don’t know what you want from her, so I can’t advocate trying to contact her. I had to edit your letter for space, but your tone seems very angry, and unless there’s something you’re not telling me, I don’t think she deserves your rage. My advice to you is to go back to therapy, and try

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hanging around in circles with other people who are into your lifestyle. You’re much more likely to find a woman who accepts you for who you are if you can accept yourself.

I was dating this guy (“Joe”) mostly casually, for about six months. We were both, to my knowledge, seeing other people. It was agreed on from the start after a very honest and long conversation about “what we both want.” We didn’t really have enough time to see each other that often, and we don’t live in the same town, but we really liked each other. If we were living in the same town, we would probably be more serious. We met through some mutual friends and we hit it off very well, but until I finish school (in a couple months) there was no way we could be very serious.

We saw each other when we could, and we always had a lot of fun—great sex, lots to talk about, etc. Our friends were really happy and thought for sure we would get together after I graduate. I was starting to think the same thing, but then he kind of freaked out on me and broke things off. I thought it was about the other girl he was seeing, but I still don’t know for sure.

Anyway, after that, he called me a few times, and he kept starting fights with me about the other guy that I was (very casually) dating. Then, I finally hung out with our mutual friend “Cindy” two weeks ago. She told me that he was not seeing anybody, and that she didn’t know if he ever was, but that he broke it off with me because he found some text messages in my phone the last time he was here and he got really pissed. After that, I found out that he had taken the other guy’s number out of my phone and was sending him text messages about what a whore I was and how he shouldn’t trust me. Needless to say, my Casual Date already knew that I had been seeing somebody else, so he didn’t care, but he was not happy that the guy had gotten his number.

So now, apparently, “Joe” wants to get back together. He has sent me a couple text messages and seems like he is trying to flirt. I kind of want to kill him. The whole thing is just too embarrassing and childish to deal with. But I worry about how this will affect my relationship with Cindy and the rest of our group of mutual friends. I definitely don’t want to date him anymore, but should I at least call him and try to make peace?

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1BR apar tment for $475/ mo. 2BR apartment starting at $700/mo.

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

1BR/1BA in the Boulevard n’hood & overlooking Dwntn., freshly renovated, a l l e l e c t r i c , g re a t p l a c e s to live. $490-$695/ mo. www.boulevard p ro p e r t y m a n a g e m e n t . c o m or call (706) 548-9797.

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Sophisticated, private, beautiful pool, woodland creek. Near UGA/town. Pets fine. $900/mo. (706) 714-7600, madelinevandyck@gmail.com.

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2BR/2BA at The Lodge.

Kitchen, LR,screened-in porch. $800/mo. + utils.

Internet incl. Avail. now or Fall! Call Alice (404) 376-0987.

2BR/2BA Dwntn! LR, k i t c h e n w / D W, W / D , l g .

BRs & closets, patio. $675/ mo. (706) 546-6900, valerioproperties.com.

2BR/1BA apts. Great in–town n’hood. Walk ever ywhere.

Water & garbage paid. $655– $ 7 9 5 / m o . w w w. b o u l e v a r d propertymanagement.com or call (706) 548-9797.

3 B R / 3 B A l u x u r y townhouse avail. 8/1 at The Woodlands.

Student mecca. Beautiful clubhouse, sportsplex.

Near UGA & Dwntn. Pets fine. Great landlady! $1350/ mo. Call (706) 714-7600, madelinevandyck@gmail. com.

4BR loft 2 blocks from Milledge, avail. 8/1! 2nd story of commercial bldg., 999 Baxter St., huge den, custom kitchen & BAs, huge closets, $1600/mo. No dogs, cats OK. Chris: chris@ petersonproperties.org, (706) 202-5156.

Available now. Barnett Ridge, 2BR/2BA flats. Eastside. $625/mo. Lots of room for the price. W/D, DW incl. www. joinermanagement.com, text “barnett” to 41513, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

ARMC/Normaltown Area. Only $400/mo.! Just $99 deposit!

1BR/1BA. Next door to hospital & Navy School. 1 mi. to Dwntn.

Avail. immediately or pre–lease for Fall. (706) 788-2152 or email thomas2785@aol.com.

Avail. now & pre-leasing for Fall! Total electric.

Eastside. Must see. 5BR/3BA townhouse. Trash & lawn paid for. Modern/huge rooms. Approx. 2800 sf. $995/mo. (706) 621-0077.

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For rent: 1 room efficiency apt. in 5 Pts. $410/mo., incl. water.

Email emilycolson@yahoo.com.

Downtown. University Tower, across from N. campus, corner of Lumpkin & Broad. Lg. 1BR/1BA, LR, kitchen. Avail.

June 1, 2011. $750/mo. Call (706) 255-3743.

2 bedroom, 1 bath, awesome location! $595 non-renovated / $650 renovated units. Rent includes water, garbage & pets control. Pre-leasing!

Morton Square

149 Morton Ave. 2 bedroom / 2 bath located in 5 Points! $775/month. Rent includes water, garbage & pest control.

Pre-leasing!

706-613-9001

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www.athens-ga-rental.com 345 Research Dr. 2 & 3 bedroom apartments with a sunroom. $750-2 bedrooms / $1000-3 bedrooms.

Spacious washer/dryer, walk-in closets, pool and on-site security.

Pre-leasing for Fall!

G re a t E a s t s i d e l o c a t i o n .

Large 1BR unit w/ kitchen, LR, BR & full BA. $405/mo. valerioproper ties.com, (706) 546-6900.

Huge studio apartment.

1100 sf. open space apartment w/ 14 ft. ceilings. Zoned business or residential, tons of possibilities. A steal at $400. Dwntn. Comer, (706) 6146126.

Very nice 2BRs Dwntn., across from campus. W/D incl. Avail. for Fall. Call (404) 557-5203.

Westside condos, 2BR/2BA, $550/mo. Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/mo. Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $475/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 3532700 or cell (706) 540-1529.

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1400 sf. Beautiful space near Dwntn. Originally Cantrell’s Grocery, this turn of the century building has high ceilings & lg. windows.

Near the Leathers Building & the Railroad Arts District but w/ very high traffic volume & visibility. Excellent space for law office, architect, professional or production. Zoned E-I. Add’l 1200 sf. avail. (706) 614-3557.

Artist studio for rent in dwntn.

Watkinsville. 11.5 x 18 ft.

Slanted 9-12 ft. ceiling, sink, concrete flr., heat, A/C, small bathroom, free pkg., $200/mo.

(706) 247-5927.

Athens executive suites.

Offices available in historic Dwntn. bldg. w/ on–site parking. All utils., internet & janitorial incl. Single or multiple offices avail. Call Stacy, (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

140 Springdale St.

706-613-9001

1 bedroom, 1 bath, $520/month rent. includes water, garbage, pest control & 706-613-9001 heat. Close to UGA, on UGA & city bus www.athens-ga-rental.com route, hardwood floors. Pre-leasing!

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Studios, 1 & 2BR apts. All electric, utils. incl. on some.

Carports, close to 5 Pts. Pet friendly. Rent ranging from $450–$550/mo. (706) 4240770.

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C. Hamilton & Associates, Inc.

Free rent 1st month! No pet fee! 2BR/2BA apartments close to Dwntn., 3BR/2BA duplexes in wooded n’hood avail. W/D, DW in all units. Easy access to loop. (706) 548-2522. www. dovetailmanagement.com.

Loft, 640 sf. Chase Park artist complex. Granite, ceiling fans, washer, storage. Nice!

Nathan (478) 290-6283, (478) 274-8141. Was $600, now $549. Pictures on Facebook “Bracewell Lofts.”

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Downtown loft apartment.

144 E. Clayton St. 2BR/1 lg. BA, exposed brick wall in LR, avail. immediately. Won’t last! Call Staci, (706) 296-1863 or (706) 425-4048.

Dwntn., 1BR/1BA flat, $465/mo. Units avail. for immediate move-in & pre-leasing for Aug. 2011.

Water, gas, trash pick-up incl. On-site laundry. Joiner Management, (706) 3536868.

Bloomfield Terrace 180 Bloomfield St.

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R e d u c e d re n t ! $ 6 0 0 / m o .

1BR/1BA, LR, study, modern kitchen, pool, gym, gated, ground floor cor ner unit.

Stadium Village close to UGA. Ideal for single/couple. Rob, (706) 338-4984, wimberlyme@ bellsouth.net.

Baldwin Village, across street from UGA. Free parking, laundr y on premises, on-call maintenance, on-site mgr.

Microwave & DW. HWflrs. 1, 2, 3BRs. $500 to $1200/mo.

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Jamestown Condos

1905 S. Milledge Ave. 2 Bedroom / 2 1/2 Bath Townhouses. $725/month.

Spacious, close to campus, on UGA & city bus route.

Pre-Leasing!

706-613-9001

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Downtown business space w/ 2 covered parking spots in Game Day Condos. 250 W Broad St #108, zoned C-D, across from UGA. Asking $239K. Call Jim Paine, (706) 372-7300.

Eastside offices at 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent 1200 sf. for $1200/mo., 450 sf. for $600/mo. & 150 sf. for $300/mo. (706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties.com.

Retail, bar, or restaurant for lease at Homewood Shopping Center. 3000 sq. ft.

Call Bryan Austin at (706) 3531039.

Unique 40’ x 80’ space at Chase Park artist complex.

Open space ready for talented entrepreneur. Zoned E-O. Live/work optional. (478) 2906283. $129,000. Pictures on Facebook “Bracewell Lofts.”

Wa r e h o u s e / o f f i c e / s t u d i o .

Fenced yd., A/C, great light, roll-up door, view of river, perfect for service industry.

Rent 25% to 100% of 3500 sf. bldg. $200-1250/mo. Cole, (706) 202-2733.

Brick duplex, 2BR/2BA, very clean, all extras. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens.

Grad students, professionals welcome, pets OK. Call Sharon at (706) 201-9093 or email moss.properties@yahoo. com for photos.

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

Houses for Rent $1200/mo. 4BR/2BA, avail.

May 1. Tim Lane, Winterville.

Minutes from Eastside. Newer home on 1.5 acres, wooded cul-de-sac lot, FP, HWflrs., high ceilings, lg. rooms, open kitchen & LR, tile BAs, nice back deck, house-trained pet friendly. Call Re/Max Realtor Helen Martin at (706) 5402010.

Condos for Rent

$900/mo. Blocks from UGA & Dwntn. Athens. 3BR/1BA, CHAC, totally remodeled, tall ceilings, HWflrs., tile, W/D, front porch. 500 Willow St. Avail. now. Owner/Agent, call Robin (770) 265-6509.

2BR/2.5BA townhome less than 1 mile to campus. $650/mo.

W/D downstairs. Pool on site.

Avail. Aug. 1. Pets OK w/ fee.

(706) 207-4953.

$650/mo. 3BR/1BA. 121 E. Carver Dr. Fenced–in yd.

Tile & HWflrs. CHAC, W/D hookups, DW. Pets welcome.

Avail. now! (706) 614-8335.

2BR/2.5BA, 2-story townhome.

HWflrs. Private deck, wooded area. Quiet secluded location close to busline. N/S. Small pets ok. $850/mo. Call (706) 614-1389.

2BR/1.5BA w/ office/guest room. In quadraplex 2 blocks from campus. 5 Pts. area.

W/D, CHAC, nice patio. Very cool layout. $900/mo. Avail.

8/1. Pets ok. Call (706) 3692908.

2BR/2B condo w/ bonus room/office. 1 block from campus. All appls incl.

W/D. Pet friendly. Avail. 8/1. $800/mo. (478) 609-1303.

2BR/2BA condo at 2165 Milledge Ave. Granite, tile, new fridge & range, new flrs. Pics at http:// milledgeplaceapt.blogspot. com/. On bus line, convenient to UGA. $780/mo. Michael, (404) 514-2575.

3BR/3BA townhouse for rent in the Woodlands. $460/mo. per rm. Incl. utils. All rooms avail. LR & kitchen furnished.

Avail. Aug. 1. (404) 3149318.

Unbelievable deal! $900/ mo.! 3BR/2.5BA townhouse on Milledge. Pool, sand volleyball, basketball. W/D, all appls incl. On busline.

Don't wait, won't last! (678) 462-0824.

Condos For Sale Downtown. University Tower on Broad across from N. Campus. Lg. 1BR/1BA, $84,500. Agents welcome 3%. Call (706) 255-3743.

Duplexes For Rent 2BR/1BA. Eastside. W/D, fireplace, new carpet, everything nice! $500/mo. + utils. & dep. Avail. now! Call Mike (706) 540-7574.

5 Pts. duplex. 2BR/1BA, W / D i n c l . , C H A C , f re s h & clean. Across the street from Memorial Park. $600/ mo. Call (706) 202-9805.

2BR/1BA close to Dwntn./ UGA. HWflrs., sunny, CHAC, W/D, sec. sys., fenced yd.

Great for pets. 236 N. Peter. $650/mo. Avail. 8/1. Rose (706) 540-5979.

2BR/1BA house, 2 min. to Athens Tech, $650/mo.

3BR/2BA house, Winterville city limits, lg. deck & yd. $950/mo. Call (706) 247-1398.

2 & 3BR super nice houses in the Boulevard n’hood. Walk to town & campus. 535 and 545 Satula, 255 Boulevard Heights, 135 Glencrest. www.boulevard propertymanagement.com or call (706) 548-9797.

2BR/1BA, 2795 Danielsville Rd. 5 mi. nor th of Dwntn.

Fenced yd., good closet space, W/D avail., pets OK! $535/mo. + dep. Avail. now.

(706) 424-1571.

2BR/2BA Lyndon Ave.!

FP, HWflrs., high ceilings, lg. rooms, open kitchen & LR, tile BAs, nice back deck, blocks from Dwntn! $1060/mo. (706) 546-6900, valerioproperties. com.

2BR/1BA, 340 Ruth St. Cool old house w/ HWflrs., all appliances, pet-friendly, $800/mo., avail.

8/1. (706) 713-0626, www. newagepropertiesathens.com.

250 Laurel Drive.

3BR/1.5BA. Avail. now! CHAC, HWflrs., storage areas, fence yd. Pets OK. No pet fees! $835/mo. (706) 254-2569.

2BR/1BA 5 Pts. HW & tile flrs., LR, kitchen, spacious BRs w/ good closets, W/D incl., quiet area on Highland Ave. $695/mo. (706) 546-6900, valerioproperties.com.

2BR/1BA, Woody Dr. $680/ mo. Great duplex beautifully renovated, all electric, HWflrs., nice quiet street. boulevard p ro p e r t y m a n a g e m e n t . com or (706) 548-9797.

3BR/2BA house in Normaltown.

Fenced yd. Pets ok. $1000/mo.

Call Ryan, (706) 254-7678.

4BRs, 5 Pts. Fall lease.

Approved for 4 unrelated. $1640/mo.

See at bondrealestate.org. Owner/ broker Herbert Bond Realty & Investment. (706) 224-8002.

4BR/3BA historic home approx.

2 miles to campus/Dwntn., HWflrs, new kitchen & BAs, $2000/mo. Call Valerio, (706) 546-6900, valerioproperties. com.

4BR/4BA houses! Great Dwntn. location! Lg. BRs, tile, HWflrs., $1800/ m o . , a v a i l . 8 / 1 . w w w. newagepropertiesathens.com, (706) 713-0626.

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

Avail. Fall. $1900/mo. Aaron (706) 207-2957.

5BR/2.5BA house w/ huge yd. on Milledge. Lg. BRs, 2 min. f ro m c a m p u s ! $ 1 8 0 0 / m o . $1000 off Aug. rent w/ signed lease. Call (706) 936-6598 or athensarearentals@gmail.com.

5 Pts. area, $1500/ mo. 3BR/2BA cottagestyle house w/ HWflrs. throughout. LR, DR, kitchen. W/D incl. Avail.

Aug. Call (706) 355-9961.

685 King Ave. 3BR/2BA, Huge den, tons of space! CHAC, pets OK, no pet fees! Other homes avail. $865/mo. (706) 254-2569.

6BR/3.5BA off Prince Ave. on King Ave. Avail. 8/1, fully renovated, 2 custom kitchens w/ granite, custom BAs, 2 dens, huge yd.! $2700/mo., no dogs, cats OK. Chris: chris@ petersonproperties.org, (706) 202-5156.

Adorable 2BR/1BA in-town property. HVAC, remodeled, new roof/installation, pets welcome, fenced-in yd., 190 Indale St. Avail. now! $650/mo.

Call (706) 714-4603.

Beautiful 3BR/2BA brick house in quiet, well established n’hood near Georgia Square Mall. New carpets, brand new tile in BAs. Lg. corner lot w/ lots of old oak trees. New back deck for grilling & relaxing. $925/mo. No pets. Security dep. required.

Call (706) 546-3314.

Beautiful country home!

2BR/2BA on 22 acres. Trails, creek, fish pond. Ar tist designed sunny house. CHAC, W/D, free well water. Neighbors organic farm. Pets welcome.

Avail. 8/1. $690/mo. Call Rose (706) 540-5979.

Boulevard n’hood. 3BR/2BA, newish house w/ HWflrs., modern kitchen, CHAC. Avail. now! (706) 543-6368.

Eastside 2BR/1BA split level.

Lg. LR splits BRs. Lg. kitchen.

Private drive. Big back yd.

Storage bldg. Appls. incl. $625/ mo. + dep. Pet negotiable.

(706) 248-7338.

Great live/work space. 1BR/1BA, sunny, open floor plan, HWflrs., high ceilings, CHAC, W/D, DW, screened porch, lg. yd., small pets OK, $600/mo. (706) 3531750, ext. 204/205.

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Milledge/Springdale area.

Pre-leasing for August.

2BR/1BA renovated home built in 1913. All new heat pump, kitchen, metal roof & off-street parking w/ double carport. All appls provided incl. W/D. $825/ mo. Bob, (706) 215-6848.

GAREL#269394.

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.

New 5BR/3BA house off S. Milledge. On bus line, front porch, back deck, ample parking. $450/rm. Avail. Aug. 1.

(770) 356-1274 or col30044@ yahoo.com.

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Pre-leasing for July/ August. 3BR/2BA in great n’hood. Close to Medical School campus/Normaltown. HW/tile flrs. Fresh paint inside/outside.

Huge landscaped/fenced yd.

All new appls. Must-see! $795/ mo. Call Helen, (706) 540-2010.

Students welcome. North Ave. 5BR/4BA. 4 car garage, 5 min. walk to Dwntn, on busline. All appls. HWflrs. $450/BR. Call Lynette, (706) 202-4648.

Summer lease available!

Brand new house in Dwntn. area. $495/BR, utils. & internet incl. (706) 296-9546, www. cityblockonline.com.

Students welcome. Corner of Madison Heights/North Ave. 4BR/4BA. HW/tile flrs. All appls. 5 min. walk to Dwntn, on busline. $425/BR + one mo.’s rent dep. Call Lynette, (706) 202-4648.

Westside 3BR/2BA & Eastside 3BR/3BA. Totally renovated incl. granite breakfast bars & wd. flrs. 2 yr. lease discount.

(706) 540-0336 or see pictures & video: www.kampropertiesllc. com.

Houses for Sale Artist inspired 3BR/2BA home w / w r a p - a ro u n d p o rc h & studio on Dearing St. just off of Milledge. $439,900. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty, (706) 372-4166.

3BR/2BA, Athens. $125,000.

Single-level, 1564 sqft.

Gorgeous hardwood floors t h ro u g h o u t . Z o n e d h e a t , combo kitchen/dining, carport, laundry, attic storage, crawlspace, appliances. Open house info/photos: www.jones. centerpath.net. Listing: www. sellectrealtyofgeorgia.com, (678) 694-7937.

3BR/1.5BA brick ranch.

585 Camelot Dr. Excellent condition. $109,000. 1 car garage, fenced yd., shed.

Nicely landscaped, zoysia lawn. Appls. incl. Pls. call (706) 549-4050 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Awesome in-town 2BR/1BA. Fenced back yd. w/ cool deck in historic Cobbham. Between Milledge & King. $150,000.

Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty, (706) 3724166.

Charming, classic, updated cottage in Normaltown.

2BR/2BA w/ sunroom. $188,000, 248 Georgia Ave. Antique heart pine, high ceilings. (706) 850-1175 or (678) 358-5181. By appt. only.

Land for Sale Big beautiful AZ land, $99/ mo. $0 down, $0 interest. Golf course, national parks, 1 hr. from Tucson Int’l Airport. Guar. financing, no credit checks.

P re - re c o rd e d m s g . ( 8 0 0 ) 631-8164, code 4057, www. sunsiteslandrush.com (AAN CAN).

Parking & Storage UGA parking spaces.

Across the street from campus, law & library. $30/mo. 6 mo. minimum.

Contact Susan, (706) 3544261.

Pre-Leasing 1BR/1BA Hillside Apt. $475/ mo. $550/mo. w/ W/D. Water incl. Blocks from campus.

Joiner Management: (706) 353-6868, or text “ h i l l s i d e ” t o 4 1 5 1 3 . w w w. joinermanagement.com.

1, 2, 3 & 4BR houses & apartments, avail.

Fall, historic Boulevard n’hood.

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1BR/1BA, LynnRock Apts. $490/mo. w/ DW, water incl.

Blocks from campus off Baxter St. Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868, or text “lynnrock” to 41513. www. joinermanagement.com.

2BR/1BA 5 Pts. HW & tile flrs., LR, kitchen, spacious BRs w/ good closets, W/D incl., quiet area on Highland Ave. $695/mo. (706) 5466900, valerioproperties. com.

2BR/2BA flats & town homes.

Patriot Park, $625 w/ W/D, DW, quiet, small 7 unit bldg. Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868 or text “patriot” to 41513. www.joinermanagement.com.

2BR/2BA on College Station.

H u g e a p t . , F P, d e c k , l o t s o f c l o s e t s , D W, W/D, CHAC. Avail. 8/1. Pre– leasing. Pets OK. $575/mo.

(706) 369-2908.

2BR/2.5BA townhome, Cedar Bluff, Eastside. $670/mo. w/ W/D, DW, lg. rooms. www. joinermanagement.com, text “cedar” to 41513, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

4BR/4BA, $1956/mo. CHAC, all appliances incl., access to community pool & pool house, convenient to Dwntn.

Athens, UGA campus, house is on busline. 2020 Lakeside Dr. Avail. 8/1/11. Call (706) 207-9295.

Adorable 3BR/2BA, close to campus. New master BA w/ double sink. HWflrs., fenced back yd. W/D, DW, CHAC. Avail. 8/1. $1200/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Arbor Creek: 1 & 2 BRs, $520 to $655/mo. W/D, DW, pool. www.joinermanagement.com, text “arbor” to 41513, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

Dearing Garden, 1 & 2BR flats. $550 to $650/ mo. W/D, DW. Block from campus off Baxter St. Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727, text “dearing” to 41513. www. joinermanagement.com.

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

R o y a l O a k s To w n h o m e s .

2BR/2BA, $685/mo., W/D incl., pool & volleyball. Joiner Management: (706) 353-6868, www.joinermanagement.com, or text “royal” to 41513.

Stonecrest, 2 & 3 BRs, $800 to $1050/mo. W/D, DW, microwave, pool. www. joinermanagement.com, text “stonecrest” to 41513, or call Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727.

S h o a l C re e k : 1 & 2 B R s , $ 5 7 5 t o $ 6 7 5 . W / D , D W, i c e - m a k e r, p o o l . w w w . joinermanagement.com, text “shoalcreek” to 41513, or call Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727.

Rooms for Rent $450/mo. + 1/2 util. Room in 3BR/2BA home 5 min. to campus. Barnett Shoals/ College Station. Prefer grad student/young professional.

Dog OK. W/D, HVAC. Call (864) 650-2375. $300/mo. + 1/3 util. for room in 3BR/2BA home 10 min. from Dwntn., the mall, campus. High speed internet, DISH network w/ starz & sports pkg., W/D, HVAC. Call (706) 201-3878.

2BR/1BA or BR + office in new house. 16x15, 12x12. $400350/mo. or $700/mo. for both.

Negotiable! Furnished DR, LR, KT, W/D. Pool, tennis, gated.

Split utils. Worth seeing! (706) 340-4430.

Huge room for rent w/ private entry. $450/mo. Pay weekly or monthly. W/D, utils. incl. Bigger than master BR. (678) 698-4260.

Music Announcements I want to buy a used bass & amp. Doug, (706) 614-2077.

Instruction Athens School of Music.

Instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument re p a i r s a v a i l . Vi s i t w w w.

AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

Music Services

Mature student to share luxury condo at The Woodlands.

Avail. 8/1. Beautiful grounds, spor ts mecca, pets fine.

C o n s c i e n t i o u s l a n d l a d y. $450/mo. (706) 714-7600, madelinevandyck@gmail.com.

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.

Room in 3BR/1BA house. $300/ mo. + utils. 1 mi. from Dwntn. via Pulaski St., HWflrs., CHAC, W/D incl., covered porch, lg. closets, built-in bookcases.

Wyatt, (706) 224-2472.

F re t S h o p . P ro f e s s i o n a l guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision f re t w o r k . P re v i o u s c l i e n t s i n c l . R . E . M . , W i d e s p re a d Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, J o h n B e r r y, A b b e y R o a d Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

For Sale Antiques Antiques & jewels sale! Antique furniture, estate jewelry, fine oil paintings, Persian rugs, silver, china, stained glass & more.

Open 12-5 daily except Sun. & Mon. by chance or appt. (706) 340-3717. 290 N. Milledge Ave. Athens. Antiques-jewels.com.

Businesses Exhausted bar owner looking to sell a great bar. Call (706) 207-0086.

Furniture All new queen pillow-top mattress set from $139. Sofa & love-seat, $549. 5-piece bedroom set, $399. (706) 612-8004.

Go to Agora! Cool & a ff o rd a b l e ! Yo u r f a v o r i t e everything store! Specializing in retro goods, antiques, furniture, clothes, records & players plus more! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Yard Sales Yard sale! Timothy Estates. 130 St. James Dr. 6 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Apr. 2. Household items, good prices.

Specials on S. Milledge Ave.!

Only 9 left to prelease! Hunter’s Run. 2BR/2BA, $700/mo.

3BR/2BA, $800/mo.

4BR/4BA, $1100/mo.

W/D, alarm system, pets welcome. hancockpropertiesinc. com. (706) 552-3500.

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Multi-family sale Sat. 4/2, 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., Hampton Park, 115 Hampton P a r k D r. , o f f O g l e t h o r p e A v e . F u r n i t u r e , w o m e n ’s designer clothes, children’s clothes & toys, household items, electronics.

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Spiritualist & love advisor Maria. Reunites lovers, h e l p s i n a n y l i f e m a t t e r.

Spiritual healer & aura cleanser. Removes negative influences. Free sample reading, (678) 934-2604.

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Home and Garden B e s t p r i c e d , licensed plumber!

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If you’re interested in saving money, call Andrew, (706) 352-0891.

Misc. Services

Wedding bands. Quality, professional bands.

We d d i n g s , p a r t i e s . R o c k , jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment. com. Featuring The Magictones - Athens’ premiere wedding & par ty band. www.themagictones. com.

Ready to revamp your resume? Renew your career? Certified coach now meeting clients Dwntn. at WorkSpace Athens. 1-on-1 coaching, assistance w/ resumes/cover letters/grad. s c h o o l a p p l i c a t i o n s . Vi s i t www.higheredcareercoach. com or call Sean, (706) 3630539.

Studios

Pawn

SmallHouseCreative.

Seriously high-end analog gear! Seriously affordable! Mix, master & track in ProTools HD2 Accel-based recording studio on Athens’ Eastside. Feel the love! www.roomfiftythree.com.

Need cash, get it here.

Top dollar for scrap gold, firearms, & other items. GA Dawg Pawn, (706) 3530799. 4390B Atlanta Hwy, across from Sam’s Club.

Jobs Full-time UberPrints is hiring!

We’re looking for people to join our production department. Positions are FT. To apply, email your resume to productionjobs@uberprints. com.

Republic Salon seeks FT f ro n t d e s k e x t r a o rd i n a i re .

Ideal candidate has upscale f ro n t d e s k e x p e r i e n c e , i s client service oriented, a peopl e person, fri endl y & outgoing. Drop off resume at 312 E Broad Street, 3rd floor (entrance on Jackson St.). No calls, please.

For more regarding our award-winning salon, www. republicsalon.com.

Opportunities Help wanted. Extra income!

Assembling CD cases from home! No experience necessary! Call our live operators now! (800) 405-7619, ext. 2450. www.easyworkgreatpay.com (AAN CAN).

C a l l c e n t e r re p re s e n t a t i v e . J o i n established Athens c o m p a n y c a l l i n g C E O ’s & C F O ’s o f m a j o r corporations generating sales leads for technology c o m p a n i e s . $ 9 / h r. B O S Staffing, www.bostemps. com, (706) 353-3030.

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Hairstylist/Designer. Are you a talented hairstylist/ designer looking for a friendly, professional, laid– back studio space? Strand has an opening for a selfmotivated designer. We offer rent control, no contract, in a friendly, established, high traffic studio in 5 Pts. Contact Michael at (706) 549-8074.

All inquiries confidential.

Paid in advance! Make $1000/ wk. mailing brochures from home! Guar. income! Free supplies! No experience required. Start immediately! www.homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN).

Live & work on a private island. We are seeking a FT kitchen assistant to clean, serve & assist chefs as requested. Housing & meals provided. Email resume to Bonnie@LittleSSI.com. www.

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Massage Therapist.

Opening for Urban Sanctuary Day Spa. FT position avail. for licensed massage therapist. Wonderful career oppor tuni ty. Pl s . appl y i n person. (706) 613-3947.

Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments. No exp. req’d.

(800) 743-8535.

Vehicles Autos 1992 Mark III edition Chevy Van. 119,500 miles. Extended roof. New transmission, brakes, radiator, water pump, front tires & recent tune-up. $2600. (706) 589-5568.

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

Professional stylist wanted at new upscale salon in downtown Watkinsville. Call DiLusso, (706) 338-1872.

Services Cleaning How great would it be to have someone clean your home who actually cares about it? I clean green, I am child & pet friendly & care about your special needs. Phone or text (706) 851-9087. Email Nick@goodworld.biz.

Curator: Didi Dunphy • Assistant Curator: Megan Kluttz

April 9 - May 29, 2011

Featured Artists: Will Pergl (Milwaukee, WI) and Dan Grayber (San Francisco, CA)

Opening Reception:

Saturday, April 9, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Free!

With Foto Pixx by Michael Lachowski next door at Whole; Come get your picture taken!

Participating Artists:

Atanas Bozdarov (Brampton, ON), Robert Ladislas Derr (Columbus, OH), Andrea Flamini (Kansas City, MO), Ernesto R. Gómez (Athens, GA), John O’Connor (Queens, NY), Julia Oldham (Eugene, OR), Andrew Sunderland (London, UK), Cody Vanderkaay (Detroit, MI), Andy Moon Wilson (Atlanta, GA) sponsored by:

beer notes What Would Mississip?

Thursday, Mar. 10. was the rollout of Lazy Magnolia products in Athens; Trappeze hosted the event. There were five brews to be tasted; here are my squiggles.

1) Lazy Magnolia Southern Gold. 4.4 percent. No hop character, but clean and smooth with nice body… a pretty girl who isn’t brilliant, but who is abled enough to make a success of herself. (That is not intentionally sexist.) Not bad at all, but sort of like downtown Moss Point, MS at rush hour… th’ain’ no hurry. I prefer Terrapin Golden. And that’s my one negative note.

2) Lazy Magnolia Indian Summer. 4.8 percent. “Oh, YEAH!” I blurted. Not intense, but bursting with flavor. Really nice. Good orange-peel-and-coriander spicing. Even better as it warms up a bit. Most alluring.

3) Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan. 4.5 percent. Instant quiet Ort.-gasm (“Yes! Yes!!

Yes!!!” followed by banging hands together.)!

This is likely the best Nut Brown Ale I’ve ever

and Pinstripe Stout (8.0 percent). With nine accounts, they are mighty small.

3) Yellowhammer Brewing brews Belgian White Ale and American IPA. They have but four accounts listed on their website. Gad. Even smaller!

4) Straight to Ale Brewing produces Monkeynaut IPA (70 IBU, 7.25 percent), Wernher von Braun Ale (5.0 percent), Lily Flagg Milk Stout (5.0 percent) and Brother Joseph’s Belgian Dubbel (7.0 percent).

Seasonally, they’re offering Gorillanaut Imperial IPA, which staggers in at 9 percent ABV and reportedly possesses 275 IBU. This “special batch” brew would surely delight our friend the 8-Track Gorilla! (And me!!)

5) Back Forty Beer Co., elsewhere in Alabama, is waist-deep in creating a brewery out of an old building in downtown Gadsden.

Their brews, currently produced by Lazy Magnolia in Mississippi, are Naked Pig Pale Ale (6 percent; 34 IBU) and Truck Stop Honey

had. It lingers, but oh—so gently… my old friend Carol would flip over this. (I’ll just have to take her some, won’t I?) This is the world’s first commercial beer produced with roasted pecans: Mississippi grown!

4) Lazy Magnolia Reb Ale. 5.4 percent. A very nice Pale Ale. I didn’t expect this! Crisp and clean… I could drink this on an ongoing basis. Toned down, but not “dumbed down.”— This was originally brewed for the Oxford, MS market, hence the name. This brew has a 30 IBU (bitterness) kick.

5) Lazy Magnolia Jefferson Stout. 5 percent. “OOOOOH, that’s nice!!!!!” I wrote.

Lovely ‘burnt’ flavor—not much body for a Stout, but not short on taste. A great session Stout. This is a Milk Stout (containing lactic solids). Has a tenderly sweet edge.

Mississippi-grown sweet potatoes are an adjunct. REAL nice.

Lazy Magnolia is located in Kiln, MS, began in 2003, and is that state’s first brewery since dirt. Brett Favre grew up right down the road.

Athens is their initial Georgia market, and we need to spread the good word statewide.

Brown Ale (also 6 percent). The latter won a Silver medal at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival. You can find bottles of these at, among other places, the Cedar Bluff Quick Mart at 3845 Alabama 9 in Cedar Bluff, 28 miles west of Rome. Back Forty’s brewer is Jamie Ray, who has brewed at Montgomery and Auburn and has garnered 6 GABF awards since 1999.

New kids on the Alabama brewing block include Avondale Brewing in Birmingham, Chattahoochee Brewing in Phenix City, Southern Farmhouse Ales of Auburn and Perdido Farm Cider & Ale (down by Bay Minette someplace; they don’t have a website).

I tell you all this to school you: if Alabama can have this many breweries up and running or fixing to run, Georgia should have at least 10! Imagine going to Macon and finding Acme Brewing operating in its 1890s quarters down on Second Street! Dream of visiting Augusta and finding fresh local beer there tapped from some relic building off D’Antignac Street! Think of Savannah Brewing & Malting Works reborn out on Old Louisville Road! And then there would be the teensy locals, like Taliaferro County Brewing Assn. in a glorified tool shed built out over a chalky-sandy spring in downtown Robinson, GA. 30661! We’re still stumbling blindly toward local-option Sunday sales. Words fail me. It’s 2011, not 1937, and Godot and I are not waiting for the last box of Brantley County election returns. (30.)

Now we find news in Alabama. Huntsville, Rocket City, U.S.A. is blessed with FOUR draftonly microbreweries: 1) Olde Towne Brewing makes Olde Towne Amber Ale, Pale Ale, Hefeweizen and several seasonals. Their bottling line went Leaksville awhile back, so if you find any of their bottles out there, they’re approaching outdatedness.

2) Blue Pants Brewing sells their Knickerbocker Red Ale, Corduroy Rye IPA

William Orten Carlton = ORT.

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