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THURSDAY, APRIL 21 & 28 To celebrate the release of this beer and to kick off the final countdown to the Twilight weekend, Twilight and Terrapin are teaming up with a number of local establishments to host two pint nights featuring the limited supply beer.

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Each of these establishments will also be hosting a cafe area on the downtown course Saturday night at the Twilight, providing food service as well as beer and wine.

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pub notes Favorite Radio Station Melissa Hanna’s resignation as Executive Editor of the Athens Banner-Herald causes another shakeup in our “Athens News Matters” show on WUGA FM 91.7. We lost her predecessor, Jason Winders, to the same Banner-Herald problems. Maybe we should just invite the publisher to join us, since he seems to have the only bullet-proof job over there.

But the radio station is the topic here. If you’re one of the many thousands who eagerly await “Athens News Matters” every week, you have noticed that we’ve been pushed back on Thursdays from our usual 4:30 p.m. spot to 3:30 p.m. Most of the other local programming has suffered a similar shift backwards from drive time to dead time. These changes have occurred because the station is under new management.

The station is under new management because it has been taken over by Georgia Public Broadcasting, the state radio and television network in Atlanta. GPB had long coveted WUGA and finally got control of our radio station as a result of the television station snafu. The University of Georgia bought the Toccoa, GA commercial TV station, WNEG-TV, planning to run it as a commercial station at the university, but it turned out to be a devastating financial failure. To save face, the university asked GPB to take the station off its hands.

Now, the question is Control of the radio stawhether even these tion was the price UGA had to pay GPB. local elements will GPB had for a long survive in the long run. time owned the license to WUGA radio, but the university had enough clout to continue control of the station’s management. Now that control has shifted to Atlanta, the fear over here is that we will lose our local programs such as “Athens News Matters,” “It’s Friday,” “Just Off the Radar,” etc. and become just a “repeater” station for the GPB network, running the same programming as their other stations around the state.

The schedule change at the first of the month is seen as the first shift that will eventuate in the loss of local programming. In that shift, local programming was moved back so that GPB can air “All Things Considered,” the afternoon NPR news/ features show at the same time it’s broadcast on the rest of the network. GPB says listeners need this regularity, so that when they’re driving from one coverage area to another they don’t lose their program. It is also true that the schedule adjustment gives GPB a larger sponsorship package to sell.

WUGA is already but a shell of its former self. Budget cuts over the years have reduced the station to a news director without a staff and a program director without programs except for recorded music and shows cobbled together with unpaid volunteers. Now, the question is whether even these local elements will survive in the long run.

Programming on WUGA is now determined “co-operatively” between GPB and the university, and administrators in both places are quick to point out that they intend more, rather than less, local programming. What is meant by “local” has yet to be determined.

University and GPB administrators talk about developing local programming good enough to be put on the statewide network and perhaps even the national NPR network. They mention concerts originating in the UGA music department, for instance, using the considerable resources of the university to generate programming. They also profess a commitment to continuing and increasing programs aimed at the Athens community. That’s an important programming distinction. As one person close to the station puts it, local programming about Athens holds up a mirror to the community; beaming out programs developed here is like sending postcards from our community to the world.

Time will tell whether we lose the programming that has made WUGA the perennial favorite local radio station among Athens listeners or gain more of it.

WUGA’s broadcast license comes up for renewal at the end of next year, so we may have at least that long before any more drastic changes are made. The real test of GPB’s commitment to local programming will be whether they’re willing and able to invest in the staff it will take to hold up that mirror and mail out those postcards, and which they value more. Stay tuned.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

THIS WEEK’S ISSUE: News & Features City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Athens News and Views

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Athens News and Views Support Local Parking?: The news that one and he thinks the item will be held from of the retail tenants of the ACC/ Batsonthis month’s agenda. He finds it “very hard to Cook downtown parking deck structure will believe” that $2 meters are on the way. “I’m be a Waffle House is surely cause for some not voting for it,” he says, “and I doubt anyambivalence, even among many of those who one else is.” So there you have it. supported the mixed-use deck project from the get-go. The idea that anyone might have Georgiazona… Nice Ring!: Our Republican looked into the crystal ball and embraced Legislature, in its infinite temperance and the vision of our treasured downtown being wisdom, last week passed H.B. 87, the secondenhanced by the epitome of bland, corporate most draconian anti-immigrant bill in the restaurants seems pretty unlikely, especially nation; our Republican Governor, the noted if one reflects on how much of the college cheat and swindler Nathan Deal, has indicated student trade—especially late-night—such a he will sign it in the name of prioritizing “the highly branded entity might stand to siphon rule of law.” The Anti-Defamation League from long-established, locally owned eaterand other such radical left-wing organizaies. Momma Goldberg’s, the Alabama sandwich tions as the Georgia Farm Bureau, the Georgia chain that is the other known retail tenant so Agribusiness Council and the Catholic Church far, presents a similar challenge to local busihad raised alarms at the legislation, over nesses, if not so emblematic of one. both its inhumanity and its certain detriThere’s not much we can do about it, of mental effects on business, but shoot, that course; the deck was approved with SPLOST don’t matter! As long as the Republicans can 2005 and the contract with Batson-Cook, the keep pinning the state’s failing economy on developer that controls the structure’s retail poor brown people (and believe it, they can!) and office components, was finalized last year.

It’s much too late to contemplate imposing restrictions on what kinds of businesses we want to be allowed to lease the retail spaces, even if anyone thought that might be a viable approach. Athens Downtown Development Authority Executive Director Kathryn Lookofsky says she hasn’t heard any complaints yet. But there are bound to be plenty If you’ve wondered whether the manhole covers sticking up two feet from the once the usual cycle of ground in the otherwise beautifully landscaped field in recently renovated gradually germinating Dudley Park are permanent, ACC Public Utilities Director Gary Duck says they public awareness starts are. The elevation brings the manholes above flood level next to the Trail Creek/ to crank up.

North Oconee River confluence, making service access easier and mitigating the Whatever objections possibilities for sewage overflows may be raised, it seems we’ll have to trust the theory held by many supporters of the project instead of the fat-ass tax cuts they keep dolthat any increase in the concentration of retail ing out to ever-more-powerful corporations business downtown is good for downtown while going medieval on schools, transportaretail on the whole. And Lookofsky boils the tion, health care and social programs, everymatter down to some simple, direct advice: thing’s working great for them. Stay classy, “If local businesses are important to you, you Georgia, and keep voting like a bunch of should support them.” Let’s hope 35,000 UGA stupid, backwards racists. It’ll be 1953 again students can hear that message. soon enough, complete with the dirt roads and the sixth grade educations.

This Just In: When the M&C’s tentative agenda for their Apr. 21 Agenda Setting Session Or, We Could Try Something Positive: The was released late this Monday morning, the local nonprofit Whatever It Takes is using a Dope did a double-take: did the item titled federal grant it received last September and “Downtown Parking Rates” really contain a the tremendous energy and dedication of its proposal for a hike in metered parking from staff and volunteers to build an infrastructure fifty cents to $2 per hour? Yup. The increase that will ensure that every child in Athens has been floated before as being necessary is on track to complete a post-secondary to bring on-street rates into step with those education by 2020, beginning with a focus for the downtown decks, but has always been on the Clarke County School District’s Alps dismissed by commissioners, who have been Road attendance zone. WIT has been holdunderstandably reluctant to approve a 400 ing a series of “Community Conversations” at percent increase in one fell swoop. Central which interested families are invited to share Services Director David Fluck says the ADDA their thoughts on how that goal might be ordinarily gives staff a recommendation on accomplished, as well as to hear what’s being such matters, but “they have not given us done already. The next such meeting is 6–8 any yet.” Staff thought it was appropriate, p.m. Thursday, Apr. 21 at the Mount Pleasant he says, “to bring it forward at this time, and Baptist Church, 1931 Old West Broad St. To we’ll see what the Commission does with it.” learn more about WIT, or to donate or volunCommissioner Mike Hamby, who serves teer, visit www.witathens.org. on the ADDA board, confirms that the ADDA “hasn’t weighed in” on metered rates yet, Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

city pages Mayor & Commission Briefed on Bike Trails, Water Rates Could an “under-utilized” eastside park become a destination for local mountain bikers? That’s the plan, driven by the persistence of John Wares of the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA), ACC Leisure Services Director Pam Reidy told county commissioners at a work session last week. Local SORBA members are willing to build threeand-a-half miles of trails in East Athens Park (located just off Loop 10 at Peter Street), so the bike trails will cost taxpayers very little, Reidy said. The 113-acre park has several ballfields but is mostly undeveloped. Some areas are hilly enough to provide beginnerto-intermediate-level bike trails through the woods; the trails will also be open to hikers and joggers, she said.

There are more mountain bikers in the United States than golfers, but—except for UGA’s mile-long trail at Lake Herrick—there are no public trails in ACC, Reidy said. Local bikers must presently drive to Oconee County’s Heritage Park (where SORBA also built the trails) or to Ft. Yargo State Park in Winder (which has 18 miles of trails and has become a regional destination for mountain bikers).

“We want Athens people to be able to stay right here and mountain bike,” she said. “It has become a very family-oriented sport. A lot of kids are getting into it.” East Athens Community Park is “very underutilized,” Reidy said; long-range plans for the park include tennis and basketball courts, a nature building, and a multi-use trail that will connect the park to the Oconee River Greenway.

If commissioners approve the trails plan next month, they could be ridable by late fall.

SORBA would also host bicycling workshops for beginners of all ages.

At the same work session, commissioners heard an upbeat evaluation of the county’s

“tiered” water rates, in place since 2008 to encourage conservation. The rates are a bit complex—basically charging people extra if they use much more water in summer than winter (typically for lawn-watering)—but customers seem to understand them now, consultant Bill Zieburtz said. As intended, citizens are making “wise and efficient decisions” about water use, and that’s reflected in lower peaks of water demand. The rates were carefully designed to discourage peak-level water use: those times when customers are demanding the most water from the system. Peak use is rare, but the entire system must be built to meet it, and that’s very expensive, Zieburtz pointed out.

Commercial users (UGA and the two chicken processing plants are the biggest) are using less water, too, and “that’s pretty encouraging,” Zieburtz said. Because of the threat of water restrictions during the recent drought, commercial users started “managing” their demand even before the rates changed. (There are tiered rates for businesses, too, but they use water more consistently than residences.)

“The drought helped to highlight the urgency of reduced water consumption,” Zieburtz said, but ACC’s tiered water rates were not an emergency measure or a response to the drought. Water supply is a long-term concern, and such rates were being discussed even before the drought. And the public’s reduced water use will enable ACC to accommodate 20 percent more growth without expanding the system, Zieburtz said: “All of this has gained us a lot of capacity.”

In her years on the ACC Commission, commented Alice Kinman, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better success story” than the success of conservation water rates. In her own case, she said, leaking faucets “doubled my bill, and that got my attention.”

Ben Emanuel of Altamaha Riverkeeper agrees that, despite being unusually hardhit by the drought, ACC dealt with it better than most communities. “I suspect we’ve mostly addressed a lot of low-hanging fruit” in conserving water, he told Flagpole. But

he warned against too much “backslapping” complacency.

Emanuel said he’d like to see ACC expand its pilot program of supplying newer, moreefficient toilets to residents. Newer toilets cut water use dramatically from several gallons per flush to just over one (placing a closed half-gallon jug of water in the tank is one way to reduce the water use of an older toilet, he says). Restaurants can be big water users, and a Riverkeeper volunteer has been installing faucet aerators free of charge for local restaurants, Emanuel added. Free kits with sink aerators and low-flow shower heads are available from ACC’s utilities department.

County utilities director Gary Duck told Flagpole he, too, would like to expand ACC’s water-conservation efforts, but right now the county can’t afford to sell any less water.

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ACC is now paying to replace three treatment plants, and water conservation translates into lower revenues, he said: “It’s going to take a while to get our revenue stream back to where we’d like to see it” as the county grows.

Even in hot weather, established lawns don’t need watering more than once a week, landscaping professionals say, and bermuda grass is very drought-tolerant. (Watering in the evening reduces evaporation.) ACC’s water rates are explained on its public utilities webpages; heavy water users pay more than double the base rate for the extra water. And because of the way rates are figured, households with more than two people may want to apply for an adjustment if their normal water use kicks them into the higher rates.

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Former president William Henry Harrison could have been talking about the Georgia General Assembly when he remarked: “All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

It would be hard to argue with Harrison’s statement after reviewing the session that finally adjourned last week. On the last day of the session, the Senate and House passed bills that will give Delta Air Lines a sales tax exemption that will bring the company $20 million next year. Gulfstream Aerospace got a similar tax break worth an estimated $7 million or so. Delta reported more than $30 billion in revenues during 2010 and a net income of $1.4 billion. Gulfstream is part of an aerospace group that pulled in more than $5 billion in revenues and $860 million in operating earnings. You could argue that they don’t really need a helping hand from the state.

Lawmakers also adopted a tax scheme that will funnel sales tax revenues to developers of tourist attractions.

One such group, which includes Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs), is in the process of raising $1 billion to develop a sports complex in Bartow County. Thanks to the General Assembly, the Ehrhart group could potentially be paid as much as $250 million out of sales tax proceeds that normally would go to the state.

There is another aspect of that tax break for developers that did not get much attention in media accounts. Gov. Nathan Deal will have the “sole discretion” to decide which developers will receive these tax breaks for building tourist attractions. You have a governor whose personal financial problems are so severe that he and his wife were trying to sell their home to pay off bank loans. There will be numerous groups of affluent developers asking that same governor to approve a tax break that could mean as much as $250 million to some of

them. I trust that everyone is going to make honest and ethical decisions about this matter. But it really has the potential to create some awkward situations for the state’s chief executive.

Georgians on the lower end of the income scale did not receive quite as much generosity from our lawmakers. Until a couple of years ago, there was a three-day period in the summer when parents received a sales tax exemption on the purchase of clothes, personal computers and educational supplies for kids going back to school. That sales tax holiday cost the state about $12 million in revenue a year and was discontinued, for budgetary reasons, after the great recession hit Georgia.

Rep. Ellis Black (R-Valdosta) introduced legislation this session that would have restored that sales tax holiday. It never even made it to the House floor for a vote.

The General Assembly would not set aside $12 million to provide a sales tax break for the parents of school kids. It did vote to give a $20 million sales tax break to a multi-billion-dollar airline.

Deal and the legislative leadership initially opposed attempts to make a technical change in state law that would bring in $175 million in federal funds to pay extended unemployment benefits to people who haven’t been able to find a job during this economic downturn. Deal did remove his objections and legislators finally approved the tweak that will bring in the federal money, but it was a close call.

Legislators also cut back the Medicaid health insurance program for low-income families, reducing the state payments to physicians who treat Medicaid patients.

It reminds me of the old joke about bankers: they only lend money to people who don’t need it. That could apply to our Legislature.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

athens rising What’s Up in New Development Athens is getting closer and closer to that biomedical future it’s long dreamed of, but it’ll come in the form of research labs arrayed around the new Medical College of Georgia, and not vaccine plants in the industrial park.

In the last few months, we’ve seen a number of medical industry-related projects locate in the vicinity of the greater Prince Avenue corridor, from a blood plasma collection center downtown on Hancock to new medical offices on West Broad, a large cancer care center on Jefferson Highway, and a new nursing home off Kathwood Drive. When you add all these seemingly disparate projects together, the potential is quite exciting. Don’t forget that we’re in a slowly recovering economy, and this already robust growth could speed up even more as the med school opens for business and the economy begins growing.

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communities, extended-stay hospitals and nursing homes in the area. Do those all put even greater pressure on Hawthorne, or do we plan now to integrate them into a successful and attractive urban district?

ACC commissioners have put an upgrading of the street onto the initial T-SPLOST list, and if that project works its way through the review and referendum process, it’ll be a game changer for the community. Even if T-SPLOST fails, we’ll have to deal with the street at some point, and in order to truly capitalize on that investment, the area needs a master plan that proscriptively shapes it. New streets and better connections to existing neighborhoods will help to create a walkable district, rather than an auto-dominated highway.

So, what might the ideal future of this medical corridor look like? Leafy neighborhoods and a leafy campus already define the core of the area, and perhaps those desirable attributes are what we ought to consider extending.

Hawthorne Avenue, if widened to a full four lanes along its entirety, could become a leafy divided boulevard flanked by mid-rise buildings of three to four stories. That might strike the right balance for the area, with a mix of retail, research, office and residential uses. We’ll be glad we kept Bishop Park’s lawns intact, as that green space could be come a Central Park of sorts for the growing area, with a Hawthorne Avenue is currently a congested and even hazardous street for variety of uses and users. motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians. New growth will follow the burgeoning Transportation in and medical field into the area; how will our infrastructure support that? out of the area will be key, and the city and Classes will begin on the med school campus transit systems working together to campus in August of 2012, and when that link the district to the rest of the city will be happens, the dynamic of Normaltown should critical. A free shuttle bus linking Normaltown change considerably. Where will these freshto downtown is certainly an exciting possibilfaced students live? Where will they do their ity. Linking the area to the North Oconee late-night studying and get their caffeine River Greenway is another interesting idea. fixes? An eruption of hundreds of new regulars A portion of the Beech Haven property on the onto the retail scene could spur some new Middle Oconee River, recently acquired by the businesses and possibly diversify the retail county, could provide a trail connection up makeup in unanticipated ways. Consider the to Hawthorne and Oglethorpe Avenue, followlucrative trade in college textbooks, mostly ing a creek in the area. Another possibility centered on Baxter Street these days, and the might be to follow the CSX rail line east to announced intention to find a home for Avid the Greenway. Regardless of those long-range Bookstore somewhere in the Prince Avenue concepts, bike routes along Oglethorpe are area: those doctors-to-be will have to buy already heavily travelled, and Prince has copies Gray’s Anatomy somewhere, right? long been discussed as a potential target for The retail growth that a new engine for cycling amenities as well. this quarter of the city will generate could In the past year or so, hundreds of thouspill over farther afield, perhaps buoying sands of square feet of medical space have sites like the ailing Homewood Hills Shopping been proposed or are under construction in Center, and underdeveloped commercial this area. UGA will begin renovating buildings corridors like Hawthorne Avenue. The on the former Navy School campus shortly.

Beechwood and Alps shopping centers are Whether we like it or not, this area will already packed to the brim, and perhaps that undergo intense pressure as the med school energy will start to extend northward. gets up and running. That can either happen Medical schools typically draw a lot of in a disjointed fashion, ruled by the hodgeancillary businesses to their vicinities, and podge suburban fabric that already exists if the infrastructure is there to support it, there, or it can become a centerpiece for the we’ll see the Hawthorne corridor unify into city and the region. If we can get out in front a great jobs district not only for Athens, but of it, the latter just might end up being the for the region. Already, there are two major outcome. hospitals, countless medical offices, and various large-footprint facilities like retirement Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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kiddie dope Quick, all you parents out there: it’s a kids’ art class (12 and younger; $12 drop-in pop quiz. Head out to your recycling bin and or $10 prepaid) or more specific topics using grab some newspapers before it rains. Or go recycled materials or a lesson linked to a out to your backyard and grab some sticks. story. Older kids (16 and up) can learn basic Then, when your child starts complaining that sewing techniques. Kids’ art classes are 3:45 they’re bored, take these items and use them and 5 p.m. on Tuesdays. to create some super-cool afternoon crafting And tucked into a former recording studio activity that will set your young Bob Ross on next to Big City Bread, Arrow is another spot the path to creative genius. where parents and kids can chill out and have Did you pass the test? Don’t worry, I didn’t some fun with art on Saturday mornings (11 either. For months now, I’ve had this crazy a.m.–noon every other Saturday, including idea that I can convert found objects into Apr. 23). The Saturday art classes, taught wholesome afternoon art activities with my

by Rachel Barnes, an art education student daughter. So far, I’ve failed miserably. at UGA, may include puppets, fingerpaints But luckily, we parents have a cheat sheet, or something inspired by nature. In general, of sorts. In recent months, several kid-friendly Arrow is more of a playspace for younger kids crafting spots have cropped up around Athens, (4 and younger) compared with the other venwith activities that are better thought out ues, which usually aim for ages 2–8. At Arrow, than anything you’re likely to cobble together.

Take some of the projects Hope Hilton puts together at Treehouse Kid and Craft (815 W. Broad St., Athens; www.treehousekidandcraft.tumblr. com). Treehouse sells handmade toys and DIY-themed goodies, and the crafting table is always open.

Hilton and Treehouse owner Kristen Bach scour websites and DIY blogs for kid-appropriate crafts, then organize them into hour-long weekly sessions throughout the week. Drop-in classes (10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tuesdays, 4 p.m. Thursdays, $10) can have a theme, but some afternoon classes are more free-form, when Hilton puts out paper, crayons, sticks, glue and any other odds and ends, and lets the kids go to town. At 10 a.m.

Saturday mornings there is a story, followed by a corresponding craft, and older How much fun is creating something out of nothing? Put to a three-yearkids can create their own old’s test, it turns out it’s pretty darn cool: Four crayons out of five. fairy worlds with workshops at 1 p.m. on Saturdays.

Another children’s store with weekly art parents and their toddlers can drop in for $12 activities is Learning Express (Georgia Square a visit (your first visit is free), and there are Mall; find a calendar of events on the store’s multiple membership levels you can sign up Facebook page). It seems toy companies have for, depending on how often you plan on comlots of samples to share, so the store has ing by to play ($40–$175). started sharing them with customers as part All of these classes come with an added of weekly “playdays” (typically 10:30 a.m. benefit: no clean-up! But parents can learn and 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays, but the schedfrom these classes, too. Both Michelle Vaught ule may vary some weeks). If the activity at Whole and Hilton at Treehouse say it’s the includes a cost to the store—for example, an simplest things that can make for good crafts. upcoming playday involves painting plates for Cardboard cut-outs stuck onto coffee stirrers, Mother’s Day, and it costs the store to glaze for example, can become characters from a the plates—it’s passed on to the participants story. A stick wrapped with yarn can be the in the form of a class fee. But otherwise, most top of a whimsical found-object mobile. events are free and there’s no pressure to buy “They love simple crafts,” Vaught says. “As what you’re crafting with (though, of course, adults, we forget to think like a child. The you can buy the items in the store if you’re so knowledge you can gain by looking through a inclined). child’s eyes—that’s enriched us.”

Then there are the weekly art and crafting And if you can use up more of that newsclasses at Whole: Mind Body Art (160 Tracy paper from the recycling bin, even better.

St. next to ATHICA; www.wholemindbodyart. com). Michelle and Brian Vaught have a space Kristen Morales where they try to enrich the body as a whole, so that means sometimes a yoga class may Kiddie Dope is a monthly column exploring the posend with an art lesson, or maybe a crafting sibilities for families with young children in Athens. class also includes a lesson on, say, Cubism.

Know a good activity or have an issue you’d like to see Weekly art classes include a basic beginning addressed? Email it to kiddiedope@flagpole.com.

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Heck in the Pacific This week we’re talking about the funny pages, so before I begin, I’d like to take a moment to weigh in on one of this paper’s perennial hot-button issues, Missy Kulik’s Tofu Baby. It’s a brilliant strip, a wonderful exercise in minimalism and the artist’s ability to take a single premise and run with it in an endless number of ways. And it really pisses people off, which means it must be doing something right. As I’ve said here before, bad art comforts and good art picks a fight. So bwavo, Tofu Baby. You wule.

Now to the main point. Many of you may not realize this, but once upon a time, before the Internet, before 24-hour cable news, before the nightly network broadcast, before television, the American people got the bulk of their information on global events from the daily newspaper. Major cities would have more than one paper and the competition to attract readers had more to do with depth of coverage than the pop of infographics. It seems crazy, but back then, people took time to read.

An integral part of the daily paper was the funny pages, so called because the comics section occupied more than one page, necessary because comic-strip panels were larger than a postage stamp. The comics were an entertainment rather than a momentary distraction. That’s hard to believe in these postBill Watterson days, I know, but the comics used to be more than just a speed bump.

The one-off humorous strips were actually funny, and the daily serials were followed with the fervor we now devote to all matters Kardashian.

The undisputed king of the adventure comic strip was Roy Crane. In the 1930s Crane created one of the first and generally considered best adventure strips, Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, which began life as a humor strip but evolved into a daily exercise in adventure and derring-do as his fortune-hunter heroes fought and loved their way through exotic lands between the wars.

Crane’s style and storytelling were impeccable, and his imitators, notably Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff, were legion.

Although Crane had a successful strip going, however, he was signed with a comics syndicate with inferior distribution. Smalltown folks in the heartland thrilled to Captain Easy, but the major markets eluded Crane, as did major-market money. Enter publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, who poached Caniff, Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) and Crane for his King Features Syndicate in the early ‘40s. Suddenly faced with a whole new audience and a world newly at war, Crane created a new strip for Hearst, the exploits of a daring Navy pilot named Buz Sawyer, beginning in 1943. The result was one of the greatest adventure strips ever, the first two years of which have been collected in Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific (Fantagraphic Books, 2011).

John Singer “Buz” Sawyer is an all-American boy from the tiny town of Willow Springs, TX, who puts his career as a college football hero aside when World War II breaks out. Now

a bomber pilot stationed in the Pacific theater, Buz flies mission after mission accompanied by his loyal air crewman Roscoe Sweeney, a big lovable lug in the Ernest Borgnine mold.

Of course, being a comic-strip hero, Buz goes on the occasional spy mission, gets shot down and captured by the enemy a lot, and finds romance with pneumatic femmes fatales wherever he goes. But the selling points of the series are the aerial battles, which Crane depicts with a kinetic immediacy that’s just beautiful to read.

The widespread popularity of Buz Sawyer was not lost on the Navy, who granted Crane access to its facilities, bases and carriers to keep him up-to-date on advances in its technology and to give him a grunt’s-eye view of daily life in the service. Crane’s strip, therefore, is packed with verisimilitude, and Crane was an eager propagandist for the Navy. The comic is chock-full of gee-whiz of the kind we haven’t seen since the United States decided that everyone else’s wars were our business and turned us all into cynics. The bright-eyed, steely resolve of Crane’s generation shines in every panel, making it a refreshing bit of nostalgia as well as an exemplar of sequential art.

For all his heroic posturing, Crane does keep his war in its proper perspective.

Men are wounded; men die. Planes crash, and often because their pilots make stupid mistakes. There is collateral damage aplenty, and no death is treated glamorously. Crane’s fighting men are full of bravado, but they’d all rather be home.

There are some sour notes in the strip, of course. Typically for comics of the period, the Japanese are depicted as caricatures—bucktoothed, pidgin-speaking, and thoroughly without redeeming qualities of any kind, straw people easy to kill. And when the atom bomb arrives, boy are we ever happy about it. It’s pointless, however, to judge the strip through the filter of modern political correctness, so just be aware that Buz Sawyer is completely a reflection of its time.

That is, after all, what makes the strip so worthy of revisiting and makes a collection like this one such a great investment, this glimpse into a time when America was united in fighting the good fight, from the front lines to the funny pages. For history buffs and comic fans alike, Roy Crane’s flyboy provides a great escape from 21st-century cynicism.

Local Literary News: Mandala Journal is an annual online student-run multicultural journal for poets, writers, artists and thinkers published under the guidance of the Institute for African-American Studies at UGA. The new issue will be launched on Thursday, Apr. 21, and its overarching theme—which guides this year’s content—is “reconciliation.” Featured contributors include writers Sonia Sanchez, LeAnne Howe and Dahlma Llanos-Figuero and artists Kara Walker and Bettye Saar. Visit www. mandala.uga.edu to learn more.

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It Is What It Is, Pt. 1: East West Bistro (351 E. Broad St.) is the second restaurant at which I ever ate in Athens, after the now long departed Yudy’s, which used to be where Starbucks is now. After Lamar Thomas, the long-time chef there, parted ways with the restaurant he helped to shape, I was curious how much it would change. The answer is: not a ton.

As has been the case for a long time, the former divide between upstairs and downstairs, once reflected in different menus and price points, no longer exists. The food still mixes in Asian influences here and there and focuses mostly on the mildly adventurous—sweet potato fries once indicated something a bit more daring than they do now, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth eating. Plenty of stuff remains the same. You can still get the basil poblano vinaigrette on your salad, and the restaurant still does a good burger, served on a nice onion roll and topped with cheese, slaw and bacon. There …mint chimichurri are also some bright tweaks. sauce…

The mint chimichurri sauce that shows up on the side of the crab cakes is really good stuff, full of flavor and freshness. You might balk at the size of the dish for $10, especially if you’re hungry, but it’s well executed and nicely presented.

The chicken carbonara, on the other hand, is a plate of bland. You wouldn’t think something that features bacon so prominently could be that way, but the mound of linguini with cubes of chicken, bacon and peas stagnates in its cream sauce.

You’d do better to order the Sweet Georgia Brown, which takes its name and composition from the classic hot brown sandwich of Louisville but doesn’t add anything particularly “Georgia.”

Still, it’s substantial, and while it doesn’t wow, it works.

The descriptions often sound a bit ritzier than what arrives from the kitchen, as with the fish tacos (“fresh seasonal fish served on flour tortillas with shredded romaine, sriracha aioli and a sour orange criollo”), which turn out to be executed with tilapia. I have no problem with tilapia as a thoroughly sustainable and economical choice, but it’s not exactly what’s evoked by “fresh seasonal fish.” I’d like to see East West’s new kitchen team push the envelope a little more with their offerings, but for the moment it remains where it has been: a fine place for a slightly upscale experience, marked by generally good and attentive service and a wide variety of choices on the menu, friendly to vegetarians, pescatarians and meat-eaters alike.

East West is open for lunch six days a week, dinner seven and brunch on Sundays, has a full bar and takes credit cards.

It Is What It Is, Pt. 2: The reason franchises succeed is predictability. You can know what you’re going to get every time, and sometimes that’s what you want. There are many restaurants in Athens that I love and that nonetheless frustrate me with their mercurial execution of their menus. Gigi’s Cupcakes (296 W. Broad St., next to Sweet Peppers Deli) is a thoroughly managed experience, but damn if the pictures of the cupcakes on the website don’t match up perfectly to the ones in the store’s case. The cupcakes proffered by the company out of Nashville are baked fresh daily and are of the humongoid variety, with a giant swirl of icing and usually something cute poked into that (a candied lemon slice, a fondant star, chocolate chips).

How anyone is supposed to eat them sans knife and fork is a mystery, but you do get a lot for your $3. Some seem always to be available (a devil’s food cake called Midnight Magic, a very pinkly frosted Birthday Surprise, one called Wedding Cake) while others rotate daily and seasonally.

I found them, on the whole, too sweet, and I don’t care for the crystallized sugar that’s sprinkled on many, but I was surprised by the Kentucky Bourbon Pie, which has a cream cheese frosting that’s better than the more frequently used buttercream. The Lemon Dream Supreme may have a lemon filling, but the idea is better than the implementation, as the frosting goes sweet rather than tart. Still, your kids will be really into these, and so may you if your tooth is sweeter than mine. You can place orders a day in advance through the website, but the people who run the shop are extremely nice so I can’t see why you wouldn’t want to talk to them. Gigi’s is open until 7 p.m.

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ALAMAR (G) 2009. Jorge (Jorge Machado), a young Mexican man of Mayan roots, must part with his five-year-old half-Italian son, Natan (Natan Machado Palombini). Before they part, Jorge desires to teach his child their shared Mayan heritage on the pristine Chinchorro reef. Written and directed by Rotterdam Tiger Award winner Pedro González-Rubio.

Winner of awards from the Miami Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize), the Morelia International Film Festival, the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Toulouse Latin America Film Festival.

ARTHUR (PG-13) Let’s face it. A large chunk of today’s movie watchers, largely the ones who make up British comic Russell Brand’s fanbase, don’t know who Arthur Bach, Dudley Moore or Sir John Gielgud are, and they probably only know Christopher Cross’ Oscar-winning song “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” in passing.

For those unfortunates, the new Arthur will serve its disposable, comedic purpose. Laugh today, forgotten tomorrow.

Brand plays the drunken near billionaire as a man-child, emphasis on child as he barely varies his whiny, highpitched delivery. Helen Mirren is an above adequate stand-in for Gielgud, who won an Academy Award, but that is all she is. Let’s face it. Anyone still harboring nostalgic notions of Moore’s comic genius, Gielgud’s withering stentorian putdowns and Cross’ cheesy, lovable Yacht Rock anthem need merely watch the original.

ATHENS BURNING (NR) This locally produced documentary recounts the history of that once proud downtown landmark, the Georgia Theatre.

Featuring interviews and performances with several artists who played the venue over the years, the film also chronicles the devastating fire and the ongoing efforts to rebuild the Athens institition. Proceeds from this weeklong screening event will benefit the fund for the rebuilding and viability of the Theatre. Keep checking Flagpole for news of the opening night kickoff, which will feature catered reception and live music.

ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART ONE (PG-13) Ayn Rand would be the one shrugging were she able to see the low quality of creative talent brought together to bring her magnum opus of Objectivism to the big screen. Unless the producers have some mighty deep pockets, it’s highly doubtful this piece of cinematic soap (opera) scum will make enough money to pay for its promised second and third parts. The central mystery of Rand’s novel kept me awake long after any other film this boring, poorly acted/written/directed/ scored would have sent me dreaming.

“Who is John Galt?” asks the man on the street in the dystopian United States of 2016 to Rand’s heroes of “ethical egoism” or “rational selfishness,” wealthy industrialists Dagny Taggart (some robotic unknown named Taylor Schilling) and Hank Rearden (Grant Bowler, almost good enough to pull it off), as they fight the evil socialists in Washington. The filmmakers smartly chopped this massive, nigh-unfilmable novel into the book’s three parts, but this film is no better than television quality.

BRINK! (NR) 1998. A Disney Channel Original Movie about inline skating?

How extreme! Andy “Brink” Brinker (Erik Von Detten) must battle his sellout archrival, Val (Sam Horrigan), who captains the sponsored Team X-Bladz. Naturally, the movie climaxes in a big competition between the two skaters. I’m sure this sort of kitschy fare will appeal to anyone nostalgic for the innocence of their Disney Channel viewing days. Give me “H-E Double Hockey Sticks” or “My Date with the President’s Daughter” any day.

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,

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THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13) I would love to say better things about Robert Redford’s new film, an engaging peek into a little aspect of the Abraham Lincoln assassination mythos, especially as Savannah stood in for 19th-century Washington, D.C. However, Redford and his cinematographer have shot one of the ugliest films I’ve seen this year. The Conspirator has the cheap HD appearance of a straight-to-DVD Hallmark movie, and the constantly overexposed windows make many indoor sequences tough to watch. Thanks to Redford’s directorial miscues, a static, playlike staginess of the courtroom sequences and a handful of young actors and actresses (Justin Long, Alexis Bledel) who are distinctly 21st century, a thoroughly riveting and relevant historical precedent for the U.S. government overstepping its constitutional authority is reduced to community theater. My recommendation of The Conspirator is on the merit of its fascinating true story alone because as a film, it fails to measure up on any scale of the cinematic.

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.

THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD (PG-13) Super Size Me documentarian and Oscar nominee Morgan Spurlock returns to explain the process of product placement with a film completely financed by product placement.

I enjoyed his debut but have grown fonder of Spurlock through the three seasons of his FX show, “30 Days.”

His last feature, Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, didn’t seem to get a proper release. Hopefully, we’ll be able to view his latest feature at the local multiplex.

HANNA (PG-13) In a winter wonderland, Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) lives with her father, former CIA operative Erik Heller (Eric Bana). Trained all her life to be the perfect assassin, Hanna is sent into the civilized wilds to kill Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett), Erik’s former CIA handler. But Marissa is wise to Erik’s plan, making every single character both hunter and prey, which sets up one long chase punctuated by a couple of pauses for Hanna, Marissa, Erik, Marissa’s humorously dressed paid thugs (led by the creepy Tom Hollander) and the audience to catch their breath. Wright’s fabulously varied locations—capped off by an abandoned Grimm’s-themed park in Berlin—for his action set pieces are then choreographed to the beats of the Chemical Brothers. It’s part action movie, part rave (so bring a pacifier).

HOP (PG) I’m still a sucker for a grand holiday fantasy factory sequence, and Hop opens with a spectacular one, detailing how all the marshmallow chicks and hollow chocolate bunnies

are produced. Unfortunately, the family film goes creatively downhill from that high point. While the old Easter Bunny (v. Hugh Laurie) prepares to hand the holiday icon reins over to his son, E.B. (v. Russell Brand), the younger bunny runs away to Hollywood to be a drummer in a rock and roll band.

INSIDIOUS (PG-13) A family (headed

by Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) suspect their home is haunted, only to discover it is actually their bedridden, comatose son who is the target of some frightful, malevolent spirits. The best horror movie since Paranormal Activity 2. Not a horror film everyone will appreciate (just ask my wife).

INTO ETERNITY (NR) Danish artist and filmmaker Michael Madsen documents Onkalo, the world’s first permanent underground vault for nuclear detritus. Taking into consideration the practical problems of trying to keep deadly waste buried for hundreds of centuries, far longer than recorded human history, Madsen sees related issues as also philosophical and mystical.

THE KING’S SPEECH (R) After the death of his father, George V (Michael Gambon), and the shocking abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), new King George VI, aka Bertie (newly minted Academy Award winner Colin Firth), must overcome a lifelong speech impediment to deliver a rousing message upon the outbreak of World War II. Bertie’s odd relationship with unconventional Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (the indisputably awesome Geoffrey Rush). While the plot synopsis may sound woefully dry, The King’s Speech is one of the year’s most humorous, albeit delivered with a stiff British carriage, and tremendously well-acted (kudos to Firth, Rush and Helena Bonham Carter as Bertie’s loyal wife and queen) films.

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?”

MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG-13) Uber-hyphenate Tyler Perry’s gun-toting, house-dressed, bewigged alter ego, Madea, returns to wreak faith-based, family-value havoc at the winter box office. The matriarch and Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis, “House of Payne”) must round up her niece Shirley’s (Loretta Devine) three kids— Tammy, Kimberly and Byron (Natalie Desselle, Shannon Kane and Bow Wow)—in order for them to learn of their mother’s medical condition. Perry could use another Madea-sized hit after the disappointing, dramatic stretch that was For Colored Girls.

NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER 3: BLOOD BROTHERS (R) 1990.

As we continue to celebrate the best of bad cinema, Bad Movie Night presents No Retreat, No Surrender 3 : Blood Brothers. Anyone familiar with the NRNS saga will thrill at the early-’90s martial arts melodrama of feuding

brothers, Casey and Will (Keith Vitali and Loren Avedon), who must unite to avenge their father’s death at the hands of Franco (Rion Hunter). Star Vitali will be in the house to answer all your burning Blood Brothers questions.

OF GODS AND MEN (R) In a Muslim community in North Africa, eight French Christian monks (including Lambert Wilson from the latter two Matrixs and Michael Lonsdale aka Moonraker’s Hugo Drax) must decide whether to flee in the face of advancing fundamentalist terrorists. France’s official entry for the 2010 Best Foreign Language Oscar didn’t make the final cut. Some of filmmaker Xavier Beauvois’ previous films were Cannes Award winner Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die and Cesar nominees Le Petit Lieutenant and Nord.

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.

RIO (G) Another week, another average animated children’s movie that won’t quite pain the adults forced to accompany them. After Rango, 2011’s animated output has some minor big, quirky boots to fill. Rio isn’t quirky.

It mashes together several popular cartoon plotlines. A pet out of water— Blu, a domesticated macaw quite well-voiced by Jesse Eisenberg—must negotiate the wide world in order to finds its owner, Linda (perfectly voiced

by Leslie Mann) again. But what will he learn on the way?

SCREAM 4 (R) By no means a disappointment as many wish it to be, Scream 4 (Scre4m) shows Kevin Williamson can still entertainingly tackle the tropes of the horror genre.

After a decade-long absence during which the genre saw nearly all its classics remade, Ghostface’s fourth murderous rampage naturally sends up the remake craze. Original victim Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) returns to Woodsboro while on a promotional book tour. Sid’s visit coincides with the anniversary of the original killings, and no sooner has Sid crossed the city limits when some pretty teens answer the wrong phone call. Logic loopholes abound, and the two generation’s of Scream-ers—1.0: Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette; 2.0: Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, etc.—never seem to inhabit the same world. The all-important opening Scream-quence works well.

SOUL SURFER (PG) The second release from new distributor FilmDistrict, Soul Surfer is based on the true story of teenaged surfer Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb), who lost her arm but not her desire to hang ten to a shark attack.

A ludicrously buff Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt appear as Bethany’s father and mother. Writer-director Sean McNamara has a long history of Nickelodeon/Disney TV movies and shows as well as the feature Bratz.

SOURCE CODE (PG-13) Duncan Jones, the son of David Bowie, tones

down some of his art house-ier inclinations for Source Code, a thrilling sci-fi/ action movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier, Colter Stevens, enlisted in an experimental operation to travel back in time for eight minutes and uncover the mastermind of a terrorist attack on a Chicago commuter train.

If he doesn’t, a dirty bomb will level downtown Chicago. Talk about your dramatic plot devices. And Source Code, smartly written by Ben Ripley, makes the most of its self-imposed narrative limitations, thanks to the nifty leadership of Jones, who really digs existential isolation.

SUPER (R) See Movie Pick.

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?

TRUE GRIT (PG-13) After the killing of her paw, young Mattie Ross (newcomer Hallie Steinfeld, who rustled up an Oscar nomination) intends to get her revenge so she hires U.S. Marshal Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn (Jeff Bridges, who is just getting better with age) to go after the sumbitch named Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin). Joined by dandy Texas Ranger LeBoeuf (Matt Damon, who out-Glen Campbell’s Glen Campbell), Mattie and Rooster track Chaney beyond civilization and into Cherokee country.

UNKNOWN (PG-13) Liam Neeson continues his mid-career crisis with another Taken-type vehicle. In Unknown, the giant Irishman stars as Dr. Martin Harris, who suffers a traumatic brain injury in a car accident while visiting Berlin. He wakes from a four-day coma to find that his wife, Elizabeth (January Jones, “Mad Men”), does not know him and is married to another man (Aidan Quinn), who just so happens to claim he is Dr. Martin Harris. Neeson’s Martin begins to doubt his sanity until a shadowy “they” tries to kill him.

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (NR) During the Great Depression, a vet student, Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson), takes up with a traveling circus after the death of his parents in a car accident. Jacob bonds with one of the more difficult animals and mistakenly falls in love with the star (Reese Witherspoon), who happens to be married to the evil ringmaster (Christoph Waltz). Director Francis Lawrence, whose previous work is merely acceptable bordering on watchable, jumps way out of his comfort zone to adapt Sara Gruen’s bestseller.

WIN WIN (R) What a great little independent movie! Filmmaker Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent and The Visitor) does it again. Through a string of nicely connected events, downon-his-luck attorney Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), who also coaches the local high school wrestling team, winds up discovering a superstar, Kyle (Alex Shaffer). Unfortunately, Mike has done something not so nice with Kyle’s grandfather, Leo (Burt Young), and the return of Kyle’s mother, Cindy (Melanie Lynskey), legally complicates the situation. McCarthy, who wrote and directed, finds the depressing humor of the everyday: money woes, work disappointments, panic attacks. He also populates his small town with a terrific cast.

YOUR HIGHNESS (R) Writing a movie about being stoned is one thing; writing a movie while stoned a quite sad other. Everyone in this talented cast and crew must have signed on based on the admittedly awesome idea and a sense of friendship because the script, by star Danny McBride and Ben Best, may be one of the year’s least-baked.

Drew Wheeler

movie pick Super Mayhem SUPER (R) Could 2011’s best film come from a Troma grad whose only other directorial credit is the fun, gross-out B-movie homage, Slither (starring the oh so wonderful Nathan Fillion, who has a small, albeit hilarious part in Super)? Three-and-a-half months in, the answer is, “Yup.” James Gunn, who learned moviemaking at the feet of Lloyd Kaufman, takes the genius idea of Kick-Ass the comic, not Kick-Ass the movie, and tells the credible story of a regular, probably schizophrenic, guy, Frank D’Arbo (Rainn Wilson), who becomes a real-life superhero, who, the film posits, might be at best, a ruthless psychopath, and at worst, a serial killer.

Slither may be a more polished looking movie, but Super shows Gunn’s growth as a writer and moviemaker. He reins in some of his wilder inclinations without softening the movie’s oddball, cultish appeal.

Rainn Wilson Short-order cook Frank is married to a beautiful recovering drug addict, Sarah (Liv Tyler), who is lured back into addiction by Jacques (Kevin Bacon), a smalltime hood who has kingpin-ish dreams, I guess. Jacques isn’t fleshed out, beyond what Bacon brings to a role that other professionals would deem slumming. Calling himself Crimson

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Bolt, Frank cranks out a homemade costume and, red wrench in hand, awaits crime behind dumpsters in the middle of the sunny afternoon. Joined by a 22-year-old sidekick, Libby (Ellen Page), AKA Boltie, who is slightly loonier than Frank, our “hero” sets out to rescue Sarah from Jacques’ evil clutches.

Anyone familiar with Gunn’s previous work knows to expect the unexpected, something a bit discomforting. He never outgrew his Troma roots, and that is a good thing. Too many movies seek to please a mass audience, thereby pleasing no one. Gunn may only seek approval from a small, loyal, disturbing fanbase (myself included), but he deserves the accolades he receives. His adult Kick-Ass captures Mark Millar’s nihilistic comic better than Matthew Vaughn’s super-heroic adaptation.

I wrote this review with two goals in mind: inform the moviegoing public about the awesomeness of Super and warn said public that it’s not for all tastes.

If you think Super is the right movie for you, catch it through IFC In Theaters via Charter On Demand. Coming soon to Ciné…

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The Latest “Old” and Newest “New”: A few months ago, I wrote about Olivier Assayas’ marathon made-for-French-TV event Carlos, which, despite being only ambiguously categorizable as a film, wound up highly placed on numerous “best films of 2010” lists. I (and a few million other people) just finished watching something that may easily be considered an American analogue to it: the fivepart HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet and directed by Todd Haynes.

The series—Haynes (I’m Not There, Far from Heaven, Velvet Goldmine) regards it as a film—adapts James M. Cain’s 1941 novel, famously filmed in 1945 with Barbara Stanwyck, about a divorced woman who must fight to reconcile her strength and ambition with her sexual and (especially) maternal desires in a society that constantly pits those sides of her character against each other.

It revisits its director’s favorite territory: iconic cultural expressions of the mid- and late mid-20th century, whose socio-political contexts (and comments) are re-examined through Haynes’ decidedly postmodern but

Do It!: Speaking of the divide between truly independent film and the Hollywood machine (were we doing that?), you probably want to attend the kickoff event to this year’s Athens Americana music festival at Little Kings at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 27 for a screening of the documentary Do it for Johnny, which recounts the highly dedicated efforts of a small group of independent filmmakers to deliver a script about the checkered life of an acclaimed luthier to Johnny Depp—via a special compartment on the back of an electric guitar custom-built by the luthier himself. It’s a heedless, fun and revealing dive into the business of making movies, where those who’ve made it are hermetically protected from those who haven’t. And the luthier, of course, is our own Scott Baxendale, who co-produced and appears in the film, and who will attend the screening.

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quite intelligent and reasonably sober sensibilities. That also happens to be well-trodden ground in cable series like “Mad Men” and “Boardwalk Empire,” whose meticulous period design, classy production values and quality writing mark them as arguably Mildred Pierce’s (if not Carlos’) equal in “cinematic” merit.

With traditional divisions between television and film thus breaking down amid the ongoing technological shift that is changing the way all fixed-medium entertainment is consumed and produced, it’s nice to have the opportunity to feel good about a particular example of that blurring. Mildred Pierce offers one: Haynes’ co-screenwriter is Jon Raymond, whose only film credits (he’s never done television before) are for his collaborations with director Kelly Reichardt on the scripts of her Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy and Meek’s Cutoff (the last of which we should be welcoming to Ciné fairly soon). He’s a strong but only recently emerged voice in American independent film; if HBO wants to hire him to write for Kate Winslet, maybe the new paradigm won’t be so bad. Pass the soma and an iPhone.

the screening of No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers will be graced by none other than the august personage of Keith Vitali, one of the film’s stars and a true legend in the world of competitive martial arts. You know he was in Revenge of the Ninja and American Kickboxer I, right? Shut up—you’re going.

More at Ciné: In other news, if you’ve been waiting to see The King’s Speech until all instances but one of the word “fuck” have been excised and replaced with the word “shit” against the objections of the Oscarwinning film’s Oscar-winning director and Oscar-winning star, then you’re in luck: the recut, PG-13-rated version is all the assholes at The Weinstein Company are offering in the current theatrical rerelease. If not, then you might consider seeing Of Gods and Men or Into Eternity at the downtown art house instead, since those highly regarded films, as far as I know, haven’t been molested in any such way. Google that sh!t.

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Hey, What Have I Found?: Ruby Isle, the band that manages to be local to Athens by the skin of its teeth and only then because of member Dan Geller’s years of service to the scene, has good news and bad news. The bad news is that the group’s commissioned new version of Christopher Cross’ “Arthur’s Theme” wasn’t chosen for inclusion in the new remake of the classic Dudley Moore film.

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Getting the Spins: Athens landmark Kurt Wood will host his famous Front Porch Record Sale this weekend. It will run Saturday, Apr. 23 from 9 a.m.–6 p.m. and Sunday, Apr. 24 from noon–6 p.m. Yes, that’s Easter Sunday, but you don’t have to dress up or anything.

Wood’s sales attract buyers from all over and with good reason: he’s got thousands of LPs, 78s, and 7” singles available, and he’s been enthusiastically collecting and acquiring for almost 40 years. Don’t get the wrong idea, though. He’s no collector scum, and his prices are totally reasonable. The sale is located, literally, on Wood’s front porch at 1080 Oconee St. For more information on this sale, you can call (706) 546-9602, and to get a general feel for Wood’s demeanor and dedication, please see www.kurtsfrontporchrecords.com.

Make Your Plans: A very special reunion show featuring Arnold Bean will happen Saturday, May 14 at RPM (235 West Washington St.).

Core members Gary Burnette, Michael Guthrie and Herb Guthrie will play along with as many other members as they’re able to rustle up. Arnold Bean released one album of its light-psych folk rock (1970’s Cosmic Bean) before morphing into the group we know as

the Michael Guthrie Band. The band plans to play two full sets this night, and you’d do well to catch them both. The guys have built an impressive Arnold Bean archive on Facebook (just do a search for “Arnold Bean”), and the photos alone tell a great story of this slice of the Georgia music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

Whatcha Gonna Do, Bonnaroo?: A relative handful of local bands are in the running for slots to play this year’s Bonnaroo festival. Among the contenders are BombsBombsBombs, Shallow Palace, Crane and 3 Foot Swagger. The festival narrowed the field by choosing eight acts from hundreds of submissions from Sonicbids.com. From those eight, Bonnaroo’s music supervisors will book two to play the festival. The contest ended last week, so keep an eye on www. bonnaroo.com to see if any Athenians made the cut.

Built Ford Tough: Colt Ford (born Jason Farris Brown) will release his third album, Every Chance I Get, on May 3, but fans can preorder it now over at www. coltford.com. A true Athens native, Ford’s previous albums (Ride Through the Country and Chicken & Biscuits) have sold very well, and each features his practically trademarked blend of country-rap and goofball lyricism. If that blows your skirt up, then you might consider joining the Colt Ford Fan Club, which has all kinds of bells and whistles and exclusive stuff. Throw your dollars down over at www. coltford.crowdtwist.com.

8-Bit’s the Charm: The debut album by video game-inspired Bit Brigade, the same folks who brought you Megaband, Contraband and Ninjaband, is now available. Titled Castlebandia and released on member Bryant Williamson’s Hello Sir record label, the album is now streaming at engineer Joel Hatstat’s website (www.joelhatstataudio.com) and can be purchased at www.hellosirrecords.com. As one might expect from its title, the new album contains Bit Brigade’s versions of music from the games Castlevania 1–3, as formatted for Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

On the Wing: Hot on the heels of their new EP release, Futurebirds have been invited back to open a few more shows for Drive-By Truckers. The band last played with the Truckers in January. Those shows will take place in June in Norfolk, VA, Wilkes-Barre, PA and Asheville, NC. Futurebirds are always on the road, though, and will play Bonnaroo before returning home to take on the main stage of AthFest on June 24, right before Centro-Matic. To hear and purchase the new EP, Via Flamina, please see www.futurebirdsmusic.bandcamp.com. For all other information, please see www.futurebirdsmusic.com.

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Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent THE SUNLIGHT ALCHEMISTS this group of mostly UGA Music Business Program students has Indie/Alt/Rock quickly found its niche in the jam and dance scene.

Lineup: Hannah Zale, Derek Terry, Christian Gerdershmit, There’s a good bit of synth, care of Matt Lewis (not to be Joe Shanoltz. Influences: Nirvana, Coldplay, Powderfinger, Ella confused with Mat Lewis of Grape Soda fame), plus some real Fitzgerald, Alanis Morisette, Sublime, U2, The Verve, Kira and funky bass grooves from Ben Consuegra which even venture the Kindred Spirits.

Derek and Christian originally collaborated as part of Atlanta rock band Revo before joining forces with Joe and Hannah last August. Hannah’s roaring vocals are certainly the spotlight on these alt-rock tunes; she’s got the kind of pipes you might expect to dominate on “American Idol”: soulful, rich and suited for the mainstream.

The band identifies itself as indie, and maybe it embodies something of a DIY spirit, but musically this is very straightahead stuff—like many of the listed influences might suggest. There are demos up on www.myspace.com/the_sunlight_alchemists, but I think the best is yet to come from this group. The tracks online feel sort of hesitant and restrained, without any really strong hooks. But with time and focus, and more of the fiery confidence I’ve seen in footage of its live shows, this band could successfully ride on the ‘90s resurgence wave.

The Sunlight Alchemists Next show: Wednesday, Apr. 20 @ Rye Bar VESPOLINA Pop/Rock/Post-Country Lineup: Daniel Aaron, Chris Ellenburg, Kaitlin Jones, Holly Belle, AJ Griffin, Daniel Ray, Eric Johnson. Shares members with: Mikey Dwyer & the Starter Kits, Tony Tidwell, Southern Bitch, Laminated Cat, Poncho Magic, Justin Evans, Kaitlin Jones and the County Fair, f/stop, Timber and Andros. Influences: Late ‘60s Beach Boys, Guided by Voices, Pernice Brothers, Tindersticks, Palace, Leonard Cohen, Big Star, James Hunter.

A new band featuring many familiar faces, one Vespolina show is almost like an Athens Americana Fest unto itself.

Timber frontman Daniel Aaron takes the lead here, backed by a lush assortment of strings, pedal steel and keys.

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Vespolina is currently recording its debut LP, which should be released later this year. In the meantime, the band has a few festivals lined up, including appearances at the actual Athens Americana Fest plus AthFest, Slopfest and maybe the Marigold Festival in Winterville. If you are looking for a sweet mix of twangy pop and rock for your event, the band says it’s available for private parties and weddings, too. You can find out more online at www.cowboyangelmusic.com or find Vespolina on Facebook.

Next show: The Athens Americana Fest, Thursday, Apr. 28 @ Little Kings Shuffle Club CHROMAZONE Electronic-fused Funk Rock Lineup: Jordan White, Ben Consuegra, Matt Lewis, Danny Zagoria. Influences: STS9, Disco Biscuits, Pearl Jam, Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Depeche Mode This band first made a blip on Flagpole’s radar during the Spring Showdown at the 40 Watt Club earlier this month, which was immediately followed by three more gigs in town, including a couple benefit shows at New Earth. It seems like

in disco territory on tracks like “And the Days Turn to Weeks” before swirling out into more psychedelic waters. Jordan White’s vocals are sort of thin and quirky, giving the tunes a more indie vibe than you’d expect, and his guitar adds an alternative rock edge on tracks like “Fandango.” Adding depth and an organic pulse behind the samples is drummer Danny Zagoria. If that sounds like your kind of groove, check out the demos up at reverbnation.com/chromazone.

Next show: Thursday, May 5 @ Nowhere Bar pretty bird Ambient/Experimental Lineup: david (he’s a little extreme), jared (he’s the quiet one), jacob (he’s the one that wants to have fun) and val (she’s the brains). Shares members with: Green Gerry and the Gellyphish, Tree Spirit, Valerie and the Vaginas. Lowercase names: intentional.

The crazy kids behind pretty bird really, really want you know that they are unconventional. They advertised a show at Go Bar by chalking up Flagpole’s sidewalk with childlike images and phrases (Ed. request: please include a hopscotch board next time), and when we sent them our Upstart questions, they submitted their answers in the form of a spiral notebook filled with National Geographic photo collages, frantic doodles and scrawled text… like the manic creation of a middle schooler with severe A.D.D. “The story of… pretty bird” says the cover in neon green paint, and, as it turns out, if you squint hard enough through all the jagged lines and gibberish, there is some content to be gleaned from these pages—most importantly, the band’s website: thebirdhouse.bandcamp.com. Here, finally, we get a sense of what pretty bird is all about, and, truth be told, the chaotic nature of the notebook is a fitting representation of the group’s twisted sound collages. Haunting chants interrupted by nonsensical yelps explode into a fury of percussion on “treehouse,” and the other tracks similarly offer a strange mix of sloppy and tribal. Seemingly random text from the notebook, like a page that features an image of Jesus with the words “(God isn’t real)” written in pink, makes as little sense… as the repeated lyrics in “beally you’cn be be.” One page of the notebook reads: “pretty bird started as a sort of three-dimensional poetry. Now it’s become something so much more… terrifying.” And these songs are a bit dizzying after awhile… a fever dream in a bad drug trip…

But if the band comes off sounding a little looney, they also sound like they’re having a damn good time, and I imagine that wild abandon would be contagious at a live show. Check it out, if you dare. And, so you get the full experience, I’ve scanned some excerpts from the journal and posted them up on Flagpole.com.

Next show: Check Facebook for updates.

Michelle Gilzenrat music@flagpole.com

mixtape wars April Showers: Morris vs. Gispert Welcome to Flagpole’s first Mixtape Wars battle! The idea for this new monthly feature came to us from Hardy Morris of Dead Confederate, and we think you’re gonna dig it.

The premise is simple: two local music scene folks (musicians, writers, promoters, etc.) create and swap mixtapes inspired by a theme of our choosing, and then comment on each other’s mixes.

Since this is Hardy’s brainchild, we let him step up to the plate first and show us how it’s done. His challenger? Tour-mate and friend Parker Gispert of The Whigs. “Man! Hardy and I love to fight!” Gispert joked via email when we pitched the idea to him. “The Dead Confed/Whigs European tour was listed as a VS. bill. Now we are at war!”

We hope Mixtape Wars will give you a little insight into the minds and musical tastes of the mixtape makers as well as expand your musical horizons. Our first theme is April Showers. Hardy and Parker give us their perfect rainy day soundtracks…

Hardy Morris’ Mixtape

4. “No Name #3” by Elliott Smith HM: A beautiful song from Roman Candle.

To be honest, this entire album is perfect for a rainy day, but this song sounds especially liquid to me. Perhaps it’s just the rhythm or maybe it’s the word “oblivion” that’s repeated in the choruses. I dunno, but it’s pretty stuff.

PG: The master of rainy days! I used to think he was singing “whole new oblivion” in this song which I thought was brilliant. Not long ago I realized it was “home to oblivion” which is probably a better lyric. Dang it. Don’t you hate when that happens?

5. “Paint a Rainbow” by My Bloody Valentine HM: Rainy days aren’t all bad/sad. After all, there are no rainbows without rain. This is some lo-fi, pop-ness from Shields and Co. that hints towards the fuzz-to-come from the band.

This track hails from the Sunny Sundae Smile 12-inch.

PG: Never been a huge My Bloody Valentine fan. Sorry for the sacrilege. Any other drum fills we could paste in instead of that one?

Yeah, THAT one. THAT one… it won’t stop… dear God. I like the words.

1. “Rain” (Beatles cover) by Todd Rundgren Hardy Morris on why he picked the tune: I know this seems a bit obvious, but it’s an amazing version of an amazing song. Pure proof of Todd’s studio chops. This is from his 1976 album Faithful, the A-side of which is all awesome cover songs. Why he did this, who knows? Who knows why Todd Rundgren does anything he does? Who cares? It’s great.

Parker Gispert’s reaction: Got to love a faithful cover. Especially with someone like The Beatles.

I’d be willing to bet they’ve already figured out the best way to present their song. No need to get fancy with this one. One of my favorite bass lines from my favorite all-time bass player and least favorite Beatle. Good start to your mix, Hardy.

Hardy Morris 2. “See the Sky About to Rain” by Neil Young HM: Again. Obvious. But there aren’t many things more obvious than rain. A killer track from On the Beach. I’ve been telling myself that I am going to learn to play it on the piano for years, but of course I still haven’t. I love this song.

PG: Way to go, Neil. A nice rhyme of “rain” with “rain.” Let’s eat some Honey Slides and jam this thing.

3. “Lightning Strikes the Postman” by The Flaming Lips HM: This is a ripper from Clouds Taste Metallic, and it actually sounds like a lightning storm. Just when you think this fuzz-ball couldn’t be any more awesome, the outro sweeps in and hushes… kind of like when the hard rain stops.

PG: Yes!!! Good call. I wanted “Trains, Brains, and Rain” as my mix closer but wimped out with Cat Power at the last second.

6. “Red Sleeping Beauty” by McCarthy HM: Who doesn’t want to be “sound asleep for 20 years” (or even “1000 years”) when it’s raining outside? The jangly dual guitars and rolling tom patterns sound just like April showers. I’m pretty sure he’s singing about Communism, but whatever, rain makes me tired… and so do politics… zzz…

PG: I’ve never heard this song! It is cool.

Makes me feel like getting crazy and doing something like jogging on a rainy day.

Sometimes I feel like rainy days are my chance to get ahead on outdoor activities because everyone else is inside. Kind of like working late at night while everyone is asleep. Then it occurs to me that everyone is inside for good reason and that I should have simply exercised the day before when it was sunny. Now I’m wet and running for no reason.

What happened?

7. “Pulvarized” by Calla HM: Sparse yet calculated rain-rock (?!) from their 2005 LP Collisions. It reminds me of raindrops hitting hot desert sand and drying immediately on impact. They don’t get a whole lot of rain down in Texas, but when they do, it probably sounds like this.

PG: Calla. Haven’t listened to these guys in forever. Don’t remember this song. Very pretty.

Strong words in the chorus.

8. “The Sad Sun” by Deer Tick HM: The sun must get a little sad when it’s covered by the clouds. One of my favorite tunes from The Black Dirt Sessions. The girl/guy harmonies are the silver lining here.

PG: I love this Deer Tick album. Beautiful singing.

9. “Hold on Hope” by Guided by Voices HM: As much of a downer as rain can be, there is also something very hopeful about it. You know it will clear up, and beautiful things will result. As sappy as that sounds, it’s not half as sappy as this song!

PG: We both put the most hopeful tracks of our respective mixes in the pitcher’s spot. Numbah nine?

Numbah nine.

10. “Another Beautiful Day in the Pacific Northwest”

by Big Business HM: You can see the dark clouds rolling in on this one. There is a storm a comin’, and it ain’t letting up!

Perfect closer for this mix because it rules AND is the last jam on the appropriately titled Here Come the Waterworks.

PG: I think Dead Confederate should cover this song. And I should sing it. What do you think?

Parker Gispert’s Mixtape

like to eat dessert food every day, and a rainy day is a day. Originally Ween made two contributions to my mix. It was between this song and “Pollo Asado” off The Pod. Maybe I’m just getting hungry.

HM: I am not a Ween fan, and this tune does not convince me that I have been missing anything by avoiding their music at all costs. I’m sorry, but I am going to stop right here and listen to “Little Green Apples” again… and maybe again.

5. “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again” by The Fortunes PG: I can’t remember why I thought this song was a good fit for this mix.

HM: Now this is what I’m talking about! Start with the chorus. Strings. Xylophone! And the bridge is slamming! This song rules…

6. “Days” by Television PG: Richard Lloyd steps up with my favorite song off Adventure. I bought this album on a rainy day and have distinct memories of drivParker Gispert ing The Loop in circles listening to this jam.

HM: There’s definitely something about Television that fits with dreary weather. It must be in those drippy guitars. Make it rain, Verlaine…

1. “The Secret of Her Smile” by Green Pajamas PG: Mark Opel gifted me this Green Pajamas album in 2005, and I’ve been jamming it with growing frequency ever since. I chose this song as my mix opener because it has an appropriately relative lyrical concept and an overall pleasant and positive vibe.

HM: I like how this song seems to be inviting me to step inside and listen to some strange secret story. The mix sounds rad.

Especially the panning of the guitar and keyboards on the walk-downs. And, of course, the blown-out drums. Always a plus.

2. “Gold Day” by Sparklehorse PG: If I have a bunch of errands and things to accomplish on a rainy day, I often conclude “there’s no particular reason for me to do those things. Guess I’m not going to the post office today. Yes, ma’am, count today as an unexcused absence.” This song reminds me that I’ve got no where to be, and that I should probably stay put, stay home, procrastinate and enjoy the rain.

HM: This track has that extra-intimate Sparklehorse sound which makes for a fantastic fit here. Strangely beautiful. Like rain when the sun is shining.

3. “Little Green Apples” (Single Version)

by Roger Miller PG: This song sounds like a distant paradise.

Where do I find this babe? When I first heard this song I thought they were messing with tape speed during the second verse of his vocal track. I was wrong. Good story.

HM: There are really not enough good things I can say about this choice. Roger Miller’s voice, the amazing lyrics, the stand-up bass… it all sits perfect and you just kind of sink into this one. Yesss…

4. “Chocolate Town” by Ween PG: I’d like to sail to Chocolate Town. I love the Ween so much. I love the chocolate, too. I

7. “Coming Down Again” by Rolling Stones PG: Go Keith! The song I’ve listened to more than any other in the past two years. I’d been under the impression the song was about Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg. Bummer Keith’s new book denounced that theory. Whatevers…

A terrific rainy day song.

HM: The fact that it’s a Keith song makes me think that “coming down” might not refer to rain. It is a killer song, however, and the sax solo takes it all to the next level. I dig!

8. “That’s That” by Cass McCombs PG: The album I’m looking forward to most this year is the new Cass McCombs. A pure singer and talent.

HM: I absolutely love Cass McCombs. I do not own the record that this song is on, but I am going to get it immediately. The drum and bass thing they have going here is right on time, and I love his voice on this track… very nice.

9. “Over the Rainbow” by Sarah Vaughan PG: I’ve been racking my brain as to which version of this song to throw into my mix. This version comes from Get Happy: The Harold Arlen Centennial Celebration compilation. The ultimate song of hope for a rainy day.

HM: I’m pretty sure that this is the first song that I remember ever hearing. My mom has a tape of me singing this at age three…

My three-year-old version isn’t quite as jazzy.

As well as I remember, I did it in 6/4 and in a counter-tenor voice rather than her 5/7 time in mezzo-soprano… But seriously. What an amazing song… This kind of stuff just doesn’t seem to happen anymore.

10. “Could We” by Cat Power PG: After the rain stops we’re going to have to get out and go do something. This sounds like a nice plan.

HM: Ending with a walk through the rain…

I like it. The horn melody is crucial here, and I love how Chan Marshall does her own back-up vocals. f

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The ocean/beach/escapist references are aplenty here, as are appropriate instrumentation: layered trumpets (or are they French horns?), exquisite harmony vocals and slow, ska-esque guitar accents.

Take these elements, feed them some prescription-strength cough syrup, and you begin to get an idea of what Loud Valley’s dreamy, druggy aesthetic is all about. This is good stuff.

Listen to it at the beach.

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Angles is an elusive little record that finds The Strokes experimenting with their tried-and-true formula while expanding their sonic palette.

Unfortunately, after years of re-writes and a completely scrapped record, what we are left to contend with is a bit of a grab bag.

While some songs, like first single “Undercover of Darkness” and “Gratisfaction,” bounce with the same back-to-basics garage-pep of The Strokes’ first two albums, most of the record has the band trying something new—with mixed results.

Album opener “Machu Picchu” is all tropical pop with bongos with a faux dub riddim. And oddities like The Cars sound-a-like “Two Kinds of Happiness” and the labyrinthine “Games” successfully explore ‘80s synthpop territory.

Still, while lead singer Casablancas’ bored-cool vibrato has never sounded better, it can’t save the meaningless Castilian-sounding suites of “Call Me Back” or the meandering “You’re So Right.”

With 10 songs that feel much longer than the album’s 34-minute run-time, the real problem is a lack of focus. As the first Strokes record where every member is credited in each song—and perhaps most significantly, without the creative direction of Julian Casablancas—Angles is the sound of a band looking for its voice outside of the well-defined aesthetic that it established with 2001’s watershed Is This It. However, considering the undeniable strengths of at least half of this very disjointed record, it seems that while Angles is sure to please some, The Strokes are certainly capable of better.

Christopher Joshua Benton

CRYSTAL STILTS In Love with Oblivion Slumberland Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts have shifted away from the relatively atonal bleakness of their debut, Alight of Night, and settled comfortably into the tuneful darkness of psychedelic blues.

Although never reducing their sound to noisy minimalism à la Spacemen 3, there’s still a heavy debt owed to that band as well as The Creation, primitive Pink Floyd, et al.

Opening track “Sycamore Tree” sets the tempo quickly with its carnival atmosphere. “Through the Floor” features a nice doo-wop melody. “Silver Sun” would place nicely next to any early paisley underground record, as would “Flying Into the Sun.” It’s all just so predictable and, basically, faceless.

If there’s such a thing as being too well schooled in one’s influences, Crystal Stilts are guilty. I throw this record on and forget which band it is in the space of 10 minutes. On one hand, pop music requires a measure of disposability. Without it we’d have never gotten “Sugar, Sugar”, “Louie, Louie” or “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy”; each of which has, ironically, endured.

On the other hand, it also needs a certain amount of personality, which Crystal Stilts seemed to have on their debut but lost somewhere on the road to this album.

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LOUD VALLEY Loud Valley Independent Release Orlando’s Loud Valley sounds more suited to the currents of California than its Florida homeland.

This self-titled debut sticks to a strict diet of slow, breezy, lo-fi rock that has more reverb in it than a Benedictine monastery. No surprise that half of it was recorded with the Futurebirds’ Thomas Johnson here in Athens.

Opening track “Pensacola” starts with the line “It’s why I’m headed for the coast/ It’s the only place I know.”

OTT Mir Independent Release OTT may be the best dubstep producer you’ve never heard of. Hell, he may be the best dubstep producer working today, period. Only the third in a series of studio releases that have

grown exponentially more complex since his 2003 debut, Mir feels like a culmination of the myriad electronic ideas that he has been exploring throughout the past decade. His compositions have taken on a life of their own. They are the musical equivalent of Chinese parade dragons propelled by a hundred different motions—twisting and weaving in a hundred different directions but always moving forward with a singular purpose.

Drawing from traditional dub, jamtronica, IDM, new age and even traditional Eastern and Bollywood music (“Mouse Eating Cheese”), OTT can begin to feel a bit maximalist, not unlike his ADD contemporary Flying Lotus, but by always keeping one pedal firmly planted in his dubstep roots, his songs never abandon their danceability, no matter how exquisitely complicated they get.

With a maestro’s touch on the fader and a bigger bag of digital tricks than Joker and edIT combined, OTT unquestionably delivers a lush, cosmic voyage of spacey effects, squelchy bass and beats that’ll have you grindin’ your bones to make his bread. But ultimately, what he has created with Mir is a much rarer artifact in a field that’s quickly becoming overcrowded: a dubstep album that is just as rewarding in the headphones as it is on the dancefloor.

David Fitzgerald

GIOVONNI PRATT The Beautiful Mind Umbrella Coded Music That hip-hop is no longer an intensely regional art form is detrimental to its development. As it continues its journey towards the center of the mainstream, it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate Dirty South bombast from New York City backpackrap and Cali swagger; as such, the music loses some of what always made it so significant: its sense of self.

Bronx-bred Marietta dweller Giovonni Pratt seems stuck in a specific time and place; specifically, his is a distinctly mid-‘90s East Coast style of hip-hop that calls to mind Digable Planets or the superb early work of The Roots (before they were a late-night TV house band; after all, they could really get down on some shit).

His backing tracks, courtesy of DJ Fu Beats, are fluid and soul-centric.

But The Beautiful Mind falls short, for though Pratt’s heart and ears are in an inspired place, there isn’t much inspiring lyricism to be found. Among the requisite posi-rap epistles and toofrequent guest spots, the record fails to find a memorable foothold.

But the dude is on the right track.

The Beautiful Mind is enjoyable, if not totally remarkable, and at the least, he’s head and shoulders above most modern rap stars in the personality department. That’s personality, not persona: Giovonni Pratt is quite honestly someone.

Gabe Vodicka

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Folk-Rock Commune T im Perry could see it all around him— that dreadful, six-letter word that’s able to kill a musician, a band, or even a whole scene: apathy. It was brewing in his native Portland music scene, and he was ready to call it quits.

“I looked around me and saw a lot of shoulder shrugging. Very little wholehearted, enthusiastic commitment to a feeling. That creates a not-very-safe environment to state

your feelings outright,” he says. “I came out of [past bands] a little jaded on music and the experience of working with other people, just because people work together so differently and commitment means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I decided that if I was going to do it again, I was going to do it with people who were very wholehearted about it and as enthusiastic as I was to play music.”

Perry’s willingness to return to the music game with AgesandAges, a seven-piece folkrock band, was contingent on a nearly perfect lineup of like-minded others. With that lineup in place, the bandmembers (figuratively) retreated from the negativity they saw around them to create a community where their songwriting process could creatively flourish.

“These songs and this music and the way I went about writing it thematically and lyrically were pulling out of some imagery of a collective or a commune or a cult of sorts,” says Perry. “I envisioned this group of people who willfully removed themselves from what they considered to be a very negative place.

They put themselves far away from this and built their own community and, essentially, wrote a bunch of songs reaffirming their beliefs.”

AgesandAges is, in many ways, an exemplary commune. Each member takes great care in even the smallest of tasks to serve the greater good in their tightly wound, soulful folk-rock sing-alongs.

“Every hand clap, every shaker, every percussive offbeat is an addition to the overall idea. Every harmony, every background vocal part and every voice that adds to the epic choral moments is absolutely necessary,” he says. “We don’t have seven members just because one of them hums towards the end of one song. There’s energy coming from all those different people, constantly doing something different to create the song and create the moment.”

The potential energy of a moment was the driving force for the recording process of the band’s debut, Alright You Restless, which focused less on high-tech equipment and accepted method and more on serving the song as the band would in a live setting.

“We live in a time where we can go in and overdub myself 24 times and sound like

a room full of people, but when it comes to playing live, that doesn’t come across,” says Perry. “That means when we went into the studio, we made a definite decision that we were going to blast through the songs live. Just set up a mic in the middle and do it. We didn’t even use headphones.”

Perry took his time deciding to form a band again in the first place, and more time in assembling the crew around him. So, it’s no surprise that he preaches patience in what that group produces as it moves forward.

“It’s like fishing or something. You can wait and wait and wait, and it just takes a while… It may take a month to write a song, but at the end of the month you’ve got a song, and it really doesn’t matter anymore how hard it was and what you had to go through to get it. At the end of the struggle, it exists.”

And it now exists for the first time on the road, a place Perry is certain his high-energy collective can captivate the audiences soon to see them for the first time.

“My first and foremost hope is that this will all be a productive conversation,” he says.

“We’re just gonna go and play our hearts out wherever we can, playing and establishing that connection and taking part in that conversation. We’re excited to meet people and let good times prevail.”

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EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Check out the afternoon market in its convenient downtown location! Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Documentary Film Screening (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop follows the journey of two filmmakers as they travel 13,000 miles through 32 states in search of independent businesses. A We Are Athens sponsored event with an introduction by Chris Blackmon. 7–9 p.m. athensbuylocal@gmail.com PERFORMANCE: Performance (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) UGA Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.

8 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recital (Edge Recital Hall) Kelsey Fredriksen, voice, and Daniel Forknre, piano, at 3:30 p.m., Jack Walker on saxophone at 5 p.m., Trombone Studio at 6:30 p.m. and Meghan Louise Taylor, voice, at 8 p.m. 706-5423737, www.music.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Beginning Art (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Children are exposed to basic techiniques and encouraged to explore their own creative ideas. Materials provided.

Tuesdays, 5–6 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in). 706-410-0283 LECTURES & LIT.: Earth Day Celebration: “The Writer and Social Responsibility” (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Barry Lopez, National Book Award-winning author, gives a lecture. 7 p.m. $4 (students), $8. 706-542-3481, www. thegeorgiareview.com LECTURES & LIT.: PLACE Book Club (Dog Ear Books) A talk about Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness

by Lisa M. Hamilton. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-818-0976 MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) After a short business meeting, Dan Williams of the Warnell School of Forestry will present “Rocks of the Piedmont.” 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706549-8082 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.

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EVENTS: Bad Movie Night (Ciné BarCafé) In No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers, two feuding brothers must join forces to avenge their father’s death. Star Keith Vitali will be in attendance for this screening. 8 p.m. FREE! facebook.com/ badmovienight EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com EVENTS: Car Free Day (Various Locations) Particpants are invited to use alternative transportation to get around town. Stop by Memorial Hall on the UGA campus between 7:30–11 a.m. for free food and a chance to win prizes. www.athensgreenfest.com EVENTS: Conscious Movement, Conscious Food (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Join Sangha Yoga Studio for all levels of Hatha yoga in a twinkle-lit ballroom followed by a vegetarian or vegan meal with produce supplied by Roots Farm. Call to make reservations. 6 p.m. $16.

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706-542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu EVENTS: Wine Dinner (Flight Tapas and Bar) An Italian five-course meal paired with wines. Call to reserve space. 706-549-0200 EVENTS: Women’s Self Defense Workshop (UGA Memorial Hall) Certified defensive tactics instructors lead students through the most common situations women encounter when being attacked. 10:10 a.m.–2:30 p.m. 706-549-1671, www.athensjiujitsu.com ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Join docents for a tour of “The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Performance (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Amy Marinello, basson. 8 p.m. $5. 706542-3737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Graduate Saxophone Quartet. 6 p.m. 706-5423737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Sean Thrower and Lonny Walker on guitars at 3:35 p.m., Eric Antepenko on clarinet at 5 p.m., Corey Flowers on guitar at 6:30 p.m. and David Burrell on trumpet at 8 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music.uga.edu THEATRE: Hamlet (UGA Fine Arts Building) Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, explores treason, incest, murder and revenge. Apr. 20–22, 8 p.m., Apr. 23, 2:30 p.m. $12 (students), $15. www.drama.uga/edu 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: Sip & See Children’s Fashion Show (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Hosted by Phaedra Parks of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”

Proceeds benefit Bundles of Joy, a multi-state effort to support premature infants and their families. 11 a.m. $40. www.athensfashionweek. com KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Game Day! It’s a free-for-all so bring whatever it is you want to play! For ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing (ACC Library) D.J. Peterman signs copies of her new poetry book, Clouds of Change. 5–8 p.m. FREE! LECTURES & LIT.: Dante Presentation (Georgia Museum of Art) “From Bertran de Born to Casella: The Role of Poetry in the Passage from Hell to Purgatory”

Greg Benson’s series of landscape paintings, “Open Spaces,” is on display at Hendershot’s Coffee Bar through May. is a dramatized reading of Dante’s Commedia, “Inferno” and “Purgatorio.” 2 p.m. FREE! collardj@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Guest Speaker (UGA Chapel) Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, will discuss the role of lawyers, courts and community-based activism during the civil rights era. 4 p.m. FREE! www.law. uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Newcomers welcome.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Urban and Economic Geography Symposium (UGA GeographyGeology Building, Room 200C) Annual event in honor of James O. Wheeler. 2:30–5 p.m. FREE 706542-1058 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. 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

Thursday 21 EVENTS: 4Ever Green Expo (Athens Technical College) Environmental awareness fair with

booths, films, speakers and info about how to support a sustainable future. 8 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! www. athensgreenfest.org EVENTS: AFW Cocktails & Couture for a Cause (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Don’t be tardy for the party with Kim Zolciak of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”!

Entertainment will be provided by the Infinity Show Band. Proceeds will benefit the Georgia 4-H Foundation.

7 p.m. $30 (single), $50 (couple). www.athensfashionweek.com EVENTS: iFilms: Alamar (ACC Library) Jorge has only a few weeks before his son leaves for Italy to find a way to bond with him and share his Mayan heritage. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 EVENTS: Keepin’ It Surreal: Student Night (Georgia Museum of Art) Students are invited for an evening of live music, DIY crafting, photo booth and Exquisite Corpse.

Live music by Circulatory System and Never with a DJ set by Stay at Home Dad. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: The Videographers’ Hella-Big Show (Ciné BarCafé) A monthly showcase for amateur, aspiring and professional filmmakers.

9 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com EVENTS: We’re hEAR for You Spring Fundraiser (Amici Italian Café) Live music provided by Brock Butler of Perpetual Groove and a silent auction featuring items from local bands, venues and artists.

Admission includes a Terrapin pint glass. 6 p.m. $10. www.werehearforyou.org ART: Art Lecture (Georgia Museum of Art) Arielle Saliber will present “Hyperdimensionality in Salvador

Dali’s Illustrations of Dante’s Paradiso.” 4 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Post Natyam Collective Performance (UGA Dance Building) SUNOH! Tell Me Sister is a contemporary Indian dance with multimedia storytelling. 8 p.m. $5. 706-542-8579, www.dance. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Nathan Tingler, percussion. 6 p.m. 706-5423737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Harry Thompson on clarinet at 3:30 p.m., Liz Han on piano and Madison McDonald on piano at 5 p.m., Benjamin Dawkins, voice, at 6:30 p.m. and Kate Mulligan-Ferry on flute at 8 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Sharkwing Comedy Troupe (The Pub at Gameday) Featuring live sketches, short film, live music and stand-up from the local comedy troupe. 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2831 PERFORMANCE: Lizz Winstead (The Melting Point) Co-creator and former head writer of “The Daily Show” and Air America Radio cofounder Lizz performs “My State of the Union.” 6 p.m. $17 (adv.), $20.

THEATRE: Hamlet (UGA Fine Arts Building) Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, explores treason, incest, murder and revenge. Apr. 20–22, 8 p.m., Apr. 23, 2:30 p.m. $12 (students), $15. www.drama.uga/edu KIDSTUFF: Open Playtime (ACC Library) For kids 1–3 with caregivers. 10:30 a.m. 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Readers in grades 1–4 are invited to bring their favorite

book and read aloud to a certified therapy dog. Trainer always present.

First come, first served. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Advocacy Training (Athens Community Council on Aging) Learn how to contact legislators. 10–11 a.m. 706549-4850, www.accaging.org LECTURES & LIT.: AGAS Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150) “Incorrect and Incomplete Histories: Two Films by Ross McElwee and a Memoir by Samuel Delany,” presented by Jane Blocker.

5 p.m. FREE! 706-542-1511 LECTURES & LIT.: Comparative Literature Lecture (UGA Joe Brown Hall, Room 220) Wenwei Du presents “A Comedy of Two Tales: Humor as Satire in China’s Public Forum.” 3 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2140 LECTURES & LIT.: Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard Lecture (UGA Chapel) Jenna Sanford, Standford University, will discuss her work in the global effort to provide clean water and basic sanitation to the world’s poor.

5:30 p.m. FREE! murrayd@uga.edu MEETINGS: Linux Users Group meeting (UGA Educational Technology Center) Mark Heiges will present on OpenID, an open standard for single-identify authentication to websites and services. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.uga.edu/chugalug MEETINGS: Volunteer Orientation (Children First Pope Street Cottage) CASA will he holding a meeting for all community members interested in becoming advocates for abused and neglected children. Ages 21 & up. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-1922, www.childrenfirst-inc.org MEETINGS: Whatever It Takes Community Conversation (Mount Pleasant Baptist Church) 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

Friday 22 EVENTS: Mandala Journal Launch & Open Mic (UGA Tate Center) Mandala Journal is an online student-run multicultural journal for poets, writers, artists and thinkers. Celebrate the new issue, “Reconciliation,” with sweet treats and poetry readings. 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

FREE! mandala.uga.edu EVENTS: Allegreen Music Festival (Durhamtown) Over 45 bands perform on three stages for a weekend of music, comedy, hot dog eating contests, kids’ activities, art and sports. $34 (1 day), $50 (3 days). 706-486-4603, www.durhamtown.com EVENTS: Bling Out Breast Cancer (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) An evening of live music, a pink dress fashion show and a silent auction.

Proceeds benefit Bikers Battling Breast Cancer. 7:30 p.m. $40. www. athensfashionweek.com EVENTS: Grand Opening Party (Sexy Suz Adult Emporium, 4124 Atlanta Hwy, Bogart) Sexy Suz’s couples boutique celebrates the opening of a second location with door prizes, hors d’oeuvres and a live remote with Power 100.1. 10 a.m.–12 a.m. 678-661-0700 EVENTS: The Organic Fashion Show (The Classic Center) Displaying completely organic dresses of the latest spring trends in celebration of Earth Day. www. athensfashionweek.com EVENTS: Sexy Suz After Party (The Bad Manor) Celebrating the grand opening of Sexy Suz’s second loca-

tion with The Screamin O Scream Team, Tony Batman, contests and giveaways. 10 p.m. 706-850-8500 ART: BFA Exit Show (Lamar Dodd School of Art) For senior exit students in jewelry, printmaking and photography. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www. art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Yu-Yin Wang on piano at 3:35 p.m. and Kristen Blanton, voice, at 6 p.m. 706-5423737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Hillary Kingsley on violin at 3:35 p.m., Milton Masciadri Double Bass Ensemble at 5 p.m. and Emily Laminack on violin at 6:30 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music. uga.edu THEATRE: Hamlet (UGA Fine Arts Building) Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, explores treason, incest, murder and revenge. Apr. 20–22, 8 p.m., Apr. 23, 2:30 p.m. $12 (students), $15. www.drama.uga/edu THEATRE: Honk! (Oconee County Civic Center) Honk! is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story, “The Ugly Duckling.” Presented by Oconee Youth Playhouse. Friday & Saturday, 7 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. $12–16. www.oypoysp.com/ playhouse OUTDOORS: Medlife 5K: Run for Global Health (Sandy Creek Park) All proceeds go to building hospitals and providing health care in Latin America. 5–7:30 p.m. $25. smodi@ uga.edu 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 OUTDOORS: UGA Observatory Open House (UGA Observatory) The 24-inch telescope is open for public viewing on the roof of the UGA physics building. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2860 KIDSTUFF: Earth Day Celebration (ACC Library) Join ACC Stormwater Management for a puppet show and make crafts from recycled materials.

3:30–5:30 p.m. 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Going Green (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) An Earth Day celebration! Make a rainbarrel, learn about composting and make some art out of “trash.”

For ages 6–12. 4 p.m. $2.

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. This week’s theme is “Earth Day.” 10:30–11 a.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Geography Colloquium Series (UGA Geography-Geology Building, Room 220C) Pradeep Srivastava presents “Himalayan Rivers: Responses to Past Climatic Change.” 3:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-1058 LECTURES & LIT.: Green Lines (ATHICA) Enivornmentally inspired readings of original works by local writers Ashley David, Lily Brown, Jeff Fallis, Michael Ford, Heidi Lynn Staples and Donna Stonecipher.

Curated by Susan Rosenbaum. 7–9 p.m. $3–6 (suggested donation). www.athica.org LECTURES & LIT.: IWS Friday Speaker Series (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 245) This week: speaker Diana Edison, art.

12:20 p.m. FREE! tlhat@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Writing in a Hothouse: The Journalism of Climate Change” (UGA Chapel) Lecture by New York Times environmental reporter and UGA Alum Justin Gillis. 12:30 p.m. FREE! gogreenuga.org

Saturday 23 EVENTS: 20th Annual Run/Walk for Home 5K (The Classic Center) Course runs through downtown and up MLK Blvd. Proceeds benefit Athens Area Habitat for Humanity and the Athens Area Homeless Shelter. 6:30 a.m. $15 (adv.), $25.

706-208-1001, www.athenshabitat. com EVENTS: Adoption Day (Pawtropolis) Athens Canine Rescue brings their pups out for a chance at finding a new home. 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscaninerescue.com EVENTS: Allegreen Music Festival (Durhamtown) Over 45 bands perform on three stages for a weekend of music, comedy, hot dog eating contests, kids’ activities, art and sports. $34 (1 day), $50 (3 days). 706-486-4603, www.durhamtown.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads.

Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Bioblitz (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Bring your camera and USB cord to take photos of plants and animals as you take a hike through nature. Photos will be posted on the DiscoverLife website, a photo-documented database on worldwide biodiversity. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. kkellett09@gmail.com EVENTS: Breakfast with the Bunny (Memorial Park) Breakfast, crafts and kids’ activities with an opportunity to have your picture taken with the Easter Bunny. Register by Apr. 20. 9–9:45 a.m. or 10–10:45 a.m. $8. 706-613-3580, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure EVENTS: Filipino Culture Show (UGA Tate Center, Grand Hall) An array of traditional folk dances, Filipino cuisine and various prize giveaways throughout the night.

7–10 p.m. www.uga.edu/fasa EVENTS: Fluke Mini-Comics Festival (40 Watt Club) Annual mini-comic festival organized by Athens-area comic artists, underground publishers and their enthusiasts, and conceived as a venue for the exchange of ideas related to mini-comics, zines and other independent publications. Tables and spaces will be provided for mini-comic artists and distributors on a first-come, first-served basis.

See story on p. 11. 11 a.m.–6 p.m. $2, $8 for exhibit space. www.flukeisawesome.blogspot.com EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Downtown Watkinsville) Visit the back lawn of the Eagle Tavern Museum for locally grown produce and handcrafted goods. 8 a.m.–2 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Spring Plant Sale (2152 W. Broad St.) Athens Area Master Gardeners present a wide assortment of plants including perennials, vegetables, hellebores, herbs and more.

8 a.m.–1 p.m.

EVENTS: Tasty Tour (Jittery Joe’s Coffee) Slow Food Athens hosts a tour of Jittery Joe’s Roasting House with coffee tastings and a light brunch. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $3–5. 706549-8901 ART: Pottery Sale (R.Wood Studio) Handmade pottery ranging in styles, functions and colors. 9 a.m.–4 p.m.

706-613-8525 THEATRE: Hamlet (UGA Fine Arts Building) Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Hamlet, explores treason, incest, murder and revenge. Apr. 20–22, 8 p.m., Apr. 23, 2:30 p.m. $12 (students), $15. www.drama. uga/edu

THEATRE: Honk! (Oconee County Civic Center) Honk! is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story, “The Ugly Duckling.” Presented by Oconee Youth Playhouse. Friday & Saturday, 7 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. $12–16. www.oypoysp.com/ playhouse OUTDOORS: Nature Journaling (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn to make your own nature journal, draw accurately from nature and write observations. No experience necessary. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $66. 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden KIDSTUFF: Friends of Five Points Easter Egg Hunt (Memorial Park) Hunting area will be divided into four sections by age group: 0–2, 3–4, 5–7 and 8–10. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.friendsoffivepoints. org

Sunday 24 EVENTS: Allegreen Music Festival (Durhamtown) Over 45 bands perform on three stages for a weekend of music, comedy, hot dog eating contests, kids’ activities, art and sports. $34 (1 day), $50 (3 days). 706-486-4603, www.durhamtown.com EVENTS: The Miss Black A-CC Teen Pageant (Morton Theatre) Contestants compete for awards in community service and academia in this 36th annual pageant. 5 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. 706-353-3542, www. mortontheatre.com GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Weekly Trivia! 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655

Monday 25 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! 706363-8616 PERFORMANCE: Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) The UGA Wind Symphony and Half Dozen Brass Band. 8 p.m. 706-542-4400, www. uga.edu/pac PERFORMANCE: Recitals (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Student String Chamber Ensembles at 3:35 p.m. and Luther Enloe on guitar at 6 p.m.

706-542-3737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Ayaka Sano on violin at 3:35 p.m., Kimberly Peterson, Joshua Milam and Jessie Matthews on trumpet at 5 p.m. and Kellie McHugh, voice, at 6:30 p.m. 706542-3737, www.music.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture language skills.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Stillpoint Launch (UGA Demosthenian Hall) UGA’s undergrad literary magazine hosts a launch party for contributors of the 2011 issue. Free food, readings and displayed art. 7:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! uga.edu/stillpoint LECTURES & LIT.: Comparative Literature Lecture (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 213) “Readings as Embodied Performance: Miracles of Text and Flesh in Medieval Japan,” presented

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Curator: Didi Dunphy • Assistant Curator: Megan Kluttz

April 9 - May 29

Fri., April 22, 2011 • 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Green Lines:

Environmentally-Inspired Readings of Original Works

by Local Writers Curated by Dr. Susan Rosenbaum, UGA English Dept.

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THE CALENDAR! Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

MANDOLIN ORANGE

$4 admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 An evening of Conscious Movement & Conscious Food

YOGA AND VEGETARIAN/ VEGAN DINNER Please call 706.549.7020 for more info & reservations

THURSDAY, APRIL 21 An evening of Political Satire with co-creator of the Daily Show

LIZZ WINSTEAD “MY STATE OF THE UNION”

Tickets $17 adv. • $22 at the door

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS Tickets $12 adv. • $15 at the door

SATURDAY, APRIL 23

EARLFEST!

A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF EARL MURPHY

featuring CHARLIE AND NANCY HARTNESS, ART ROSENBAUM, THE ANDY CARLSON BAND (CASEY COOK, GREG EARNEST, MICHAEL SMITH AND KEITH MORRIS), BRIAN BURKE, DAVID BLACKMON AND CAL HALE (THE NORMALTOWN FLYERS), BILL ASHLEY AND EARL’S KITCHEN BAND, INCAHOOTS (MIKE HARRISON, ALLAN HUGHES AND PHIL WHITE) AND JOEL CORDLE FREE Admission!

MONDAY, APRIL 25 TSPLOST presents

“REBUILD GA RAILROADS” featuring

JIM HIGHTOWER “AMERICA’S #1 POPULIST” FREE and Open to the Public RSVP at http://tsplost.org

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

SEVEN HANDLE CIRCUS

$4 admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 Nomad Artists presents

THE WATSON TWINS

LERA LYNN & HER LADY FRIENDS Tickets $10 adv. • $13 at the door

THURSDAY, APRIL 28

THE WOODGRAINS

HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND Tickets $5 adv.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30

CHICKASAW MUDD PUPPIES BEGGARS WEED

Tickets $10 adv. • $15 at the door

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5/7 - SHAWN MULLINS BAND 5/14 - MOTHER’S FINEST 5/19 - DAWES 5/21 - CRASH TEST DUMMIES, BAIN MATTOX 6/3 - SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS 6/4 - JIMMY THACKERY of THE NIGHTHAWKS 6/11 - MATT JOINER BAND 295 E. DOUGHERTY ST., ATHENS, GA

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cians’ open mic, drop by on the 1st or 3rd Mondays. 8 p.m. FREE! 706818-0976 LECTURES & LIT.: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) For national Poetry Month, the group will discuss poetry brought by members. Bring your favorites with copies to share.

Newcomers welcome. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Preventing Money Loss in Your Small Business (ACC Planning Department) Learn from a panel of representatives from Regions Bank, AIC Insuring America and Savvy Accounting. 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com LECTURES & LIT.: “Rebuild GA Railroads” (The Melting Point) TSPLOST mixer and volunteer work session at 5 p.m. followed by a public forum directed by Russell Edwards at 6 p.m. and speaker Jim Hightower, “America’s #1 Populist,” at 7 p.m. See Calendar Pick on this page. RSVP at www.tsplost.org 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 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire) Every Monday! 8–10 p.m. www.highwirelounge.com

Tuesday 26 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Check out the afternoon market in its convenient downtown location! Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Now accepting EBT cards. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net PERFORMANCE: Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) University Philharmonia and University Band.

8 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Student String Chamber Ensembles at 3:30 p.m. and Richard Knepp on guitar at 6 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Daniel Johnson, voice, and Addison Hamilton, soprano, at 3:30 p.m., Bradley Trammell, voice, at 5 p.m., Ryan Moore on guitar at 6:30 p.m. and Anna Buckley on piano at 8 p.m. 706-542-3737, www. music.uga.edu OUTDOORS: Full Moon Hike (Greenway) Experience nature in a different light. Call to register. 8:15 p.m. $2. 706-613-3615, www.accleisureservices.com KIDSTUFF: Drawing in Nature (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Join artist Toni Carlucci to learn the secrets of drawing plants, flowers and other natural wonders. Open to children ages 8 & up. 4–6 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Beginning Art (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Children are exposed to basic techiniques and encouraged to explore their own creative ideas. Materials provided.

Tuesdays, 5–6 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in). 706-410-0283 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

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KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Summer Job Resume Workshop (Oconee County Library) Get a head start looking for summer jobs. For teens. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: African Studies Lecture (UGA Memorial Hall, Room 407) “Personal Name Construction as a Reflection of African Worldview: A Study of Edo and Yoruba Personal Names,” presented by Harrison Adeniyi. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-5420506 LECTURES & LIT.: Annual Exhibition of the Confederate Constitution (UGA Main Library) The original Confederate Constitution will be on display along with Civil War letters, documents, artifacts and images from 1861. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. 706-542-7123 LECTURES & LIT.: Brown Bag Lunch (ACC Library) Jenny Williams will talk about the Georgia Museum of Art’s recent renovations and expansion. Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program.

12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Comparative Literature Lecture (UGA Joe Brown Hall, Room 220) In “SadoMasochism, Steamy Sex and Shanghai Glitter: What’s Love Got to Do with It?” Jon Eugene von Kowallis examines Ang Lee’s film Se/Jie and textual editions leading up to it. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2140 LECTURES & LIT.: Ecology Seminar (UGA Ecology Building) Tyra Byers presents “Campus Climate Action Planning at UGA: From Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Inventory through Mitigation Strategies.” 4 p.m. FREE! www.ecology.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Getzen Lecture in Government Accountability (UGA Chapel) Admiral Thad Allen, former 23rd commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, speaks on his experience in directing federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 3 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-7849 MEETINGS: Great Decisions Group Discussion (ACC Library) Great Decisions is a national civic education program that informs participants about U.S. foreign policy.

Meets every Tuesday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 340 MEETINGS: Neighborhood Watch (Athens Technical College) ACC Police Department will teach on how to form a successful neighborhood watch program. Registration requested. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-3695763, awhite@athenstech.edu GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday 27 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: Jewelry Sale (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Phi Beata Heata presents a selection of student-

designed jewelry and metalworks for sale. Proceeds provide for lectures, visiting artists and traveling to conferences. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www. art.uga.edu ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Join Lynn Boland for a tour of 100 illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy by Salvador Dali. 2 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) Symphonic Band. 8 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Ensemble Performances (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Student String Chamber Ensembles at 3:35 p.m. and the Bulldog Brass Society Student Ensemble at 6 p.m. 706542-3737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recitals (Edge Recital Hall) Sue Yeon Kim on piano and Laura Camacho on double bass at 3:35 p.m., Joanna Reeseman and Kaitlin Adams, voice, at 5 p.m. and Nikki Hill on clarinet at 6:30 p.m.

706-542-3737, www.music.uga.edu 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: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Steampunk Charm Bracelets. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Exit Seminar (UGA Life Sciences Building, Room B118) Ginny Bain presents “Sonic Hedgehog’s Role as a Regular of Third Pharyngeal Pouch Fate.” 4 p.m. whites@uga.edu

Monday, April 25

Jim Hightower The Melting Point Tired of being slapped around by the Radical Right? Mad as hell that you had to pay more taxes while GE paid none? Doubting whether it’s even worth getting so upset because the big bastards have enough money to control everything anyway, and what’s the use?

Wondering why the Tea Party is more colorful than the drab, disorganized Democrats? Depressed over being a constituent of Congressman Paul Broun, Junior?

Despair no longer. Get yo’ yellow-dog ass down to the Melting Point at 7 p.m. Monday, Apr. 25 for a surefire inoculation against Republican hoof and mouth disease, delivered by former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Jim Hightower.

For decades Hightower has been mixing his acerbic populism with down-home humor to skewer the privileged classes and stand up for working families, small businesses and the 80 percent of Americans who find themselves shut out of an economic and political process dominated by big money.

Hightower has the fiery populist zeal to confront the Big Lie promulgated by the right wing and financed by big bucks. He hurls truth into the teeth of power and has fun doing it. He knows government, and he knows how to highlight what’s going on behind the scenes to pump up the rich and powerful at the out-of-pocket expense of everyday Americans.

You’ve read his newspaper columns (in Flagpole, too, back in the day). You’ve heard him on the radio, seen him on TV, read some of his seven books (Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and It’s Time to Take It Back). You are guaranteed to laugh a lot and have a good time and come away reinvigorated and energized by “America’s Most Popular Populist.” [Pete McCommons]

LECTURES & LIT.: Oconee Democrats Book Group (Barberitos Southwestern Grille & Cantina) Discussing April 1865: The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik. 6:30 p.m. FREE! patricia. priest@yahoo.com 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 * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line OUTDOORS: Georgia Mountain BirdFest 4/28 (Unicoi State Park and Lodge) A four-day festival including more than 60 field trips, seminars and hands-on activities for all levels of birders. Apr. 28–May 1. $110 (4 days). 706-878-2201, ext.

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GaStateParks.org/Unicoi EVENTS: Twilight Criterium 2011 4/29 (Downtown Athens) Give up the streets to bicycles and cycling enthusiasts this weekend when the 32nd annual professional cycling event and festival rolls through town.

Apr. 29 & 30. FREE! www.athenstwilight.com EVENTS: 14th Annual Seed Swap 4/30 (Grove Creek Farm, Crawford) Outdoor heirloom seed festival with music, crafts and stories. BBQ dinner is $5, or free if you bring a side dish for potluck. 1 p.m. FREE! www. uga.edu/ebl/ssl EVENTS: Cruisin’ for a Cure Car & Bike Show 4/30 (The Varsity) Trophies and plaques will be awarded for best in show as well as for most “Pinked Out” car. Show benefits Breast Cancer Awareness.

5–8:30 p.m. $10 donation per car.

706-548-6325 EVENTS: Bout Against Breast Cancer 5/1 (Athens Arena) Join the Classic City Rollergirls for an afternoon of derby fundraising as they take on the Savanah Derby Devils. Thirteen plaster breast castings customized by local artists will be auctioned off at halftime to raise money for the Cancer Foundation of Northeast Georgia. 1 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12. www.classiccityrollergirls.com ART: 6X6: “The Way Things Go” 5/4 (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 co-curated by Lauren Fancher and DIdi Dunphy. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3343 EVENTS: Taste of the Americas 5/5 (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with music, dancing and food from all over Latin America. All proceeds support the Athens Latino Center for Education and Services. 5–9 p.m. $7–15. beccara606@gmail.com ART: BFA Exit Show 5/6 (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Closing reception for the work of 13 emerging artists in painting and drawing, art education, ceramics and Art X. 7–9 p.m. FREE! LECTURES & LIT.: Exhibit Opening 5/6 (UGA Main Library) “In a Weak Moment I Wrote a Book” contains letters, manuscripts, pho-

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THE CALENDAR! Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 BOAR’S HEAD OPEN MIC Welcoming singer-songwriters every Wednesday.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com MILES BENSON Local artist inspired by the lite world beats and acoustic noodling of Jack Johnson.

DUSTY LIGHTSWITCH Quirky, highenergy local band featuring bluesinfluenced rock.

OH NO OH MY Elegantly orchestrated, bouncy pop from Austin with warm, acoustic finish that E6 fans will appreciate.

TURNUPS A group of “super MCs” from here in town spinning hip-hop and dance.

The Classic Center 9 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.classiccenter. com ECLECTIC METHOD The trio’s audiovisual mash-ups feature television, film, music and video game footage sliced and diced into blistering, post-modern dance-floor events.

STS9 An ambient mix of trance, dub and samples paired with live instruments in a jam band from the future.

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 improvising on familiar themes.

10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com NUDE BEACH This Brooklyn-based plays scrappy, melodic rock that lands somewhere between The Ramones and The Replacements.

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

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

8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com GREY MILK This edgy folk rock outfit recently relocated to the Classic City from New England.

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ADAM POULIN Local, acoustic folk compositions.

TO ALL MY DEAR FRIENDS Instrumental songs featuring lush violins, electronic guitar and various sound effects. See Calendar Pick on this page.

Flight Tapas and Bar 8 p.m. www.flighttapasathens.com LATE AS ALWAYS Live jazz music every Wednesday.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.40watt. com BOYS WHO ROCK FOR GIRLS In this special benefit show for the Girls Rock Camp-Athens, the following local, male-fronted acts will take on two or three covers originally performed by female artists: Athens, Bambara, Eureka California, Free Mountain, Maximum Busy Muscle, Dave Martin, Vinyl Strangers, Ken McLain and Wedge. Check out Homedrone at www.flagpole.com for more info.

George’s Lowcountry Table 6 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3359 KIP JONES AND JAY RING DUO The duo plays covers of contemporary and classic hits.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar FOUR EYES Jace Bartet and Erin Lovett lovingly mingle gentle melodies with bombastic shredding.

LET ME CRAZY Thrash punk with frantic surf guitars and vocals.

LOS MEESFITS The music of The Misfits done in Spanish/Cuban salsa style.

MATT KURZ ONE One-man rock machine Matt Kurz literally plays drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, by himself, all at the same time.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 SCOTT BAXENDALE Guitar dynamicism from the owner of Baxendale Guitars. Classic bluesy riffs and a lot of soul.

Iron Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-543-9955 THE BACUPS Local cover band plays fun ‘60s tunes from The Beatles to The Temptations.

La Fiesta #1 6 p.m. FREE! 706-548-4261 LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock from here in Athens featuring tender violin, aching harmonica and melodic acoustic guitars.

Legion Field Anchor Jam. 6:30 p.m. $10. www.

AthensMusic.net DAVE MATHEWS TRIBUTE BAND Playing all your favorite DMB tunes.

GROOVESHIRE This band from Cincinnati jams on bluesy rock.

ZOSO Expect typical Led Zeppelin covers as well as a trip into relative Zep obscurity performed with stunning accuracy.

New Earth Music Hall 10 p.m. $17. www.newearthmusichall. com PANTYRAID Music producers Martin Folb (AKA Martyparty) and Josh Mayer (AKA Ooah) come together to make melodic, electronic dance music that combines elements of hiphop, dubstep and more experimental sounds. After party for STS9 show.

TROGDOR Local trance DJ named after the cartoon Burninator.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $4. 706-546-4742 FLT RSK A funky blend of electronica and space rock featuring members of DubConscious. Tonight they play the STS9 after-party.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Karaoke contest tonight with your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Rye Bar “STS9 After Party.” 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens EARPHUNK Psychedelic funk from New Orleans with plenty of jazzy solos.

SUNLIGHT ALCHEMISTS New local rock band featuring members of Revo.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com NOISE ORG Lush electronic soundscapes. STS9 pre-show!

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To All My Dear Friends, Grey Milk, John French and the Bastilles, Adam Poulin Flicker Theatre & Bar Marc Hennessey lives a somewhat solipsistic existence. He is the sole touring member of To All My Dear Friends, the band for which he is also the sole creative force. He is his own record label, promoter, tour manager, booking agent and personal manager. For a guy with the word “friends” in his band name, you would hope he’d get a little more help from them. Hennessey, though, doesn’t mind singlehandedly shouldering the Marc Hennessey workload.

“I love handling everything,” Hennessey says. “It’s very empowering. Plus, I get to create shows with unique bands at unique venues, like Flicker Theatre. A record label might happen in the future, but currently, it’s an unnecessary hassle.”

Hennessey is currently on a three-month tour—which he booked himself, of course— in support of his third album, entitled Transparent Voyages. Hennessey describes his own music as “Bach meets Talking Heads,” but a more accurate comparison might be Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy. Like Pallett, Hennessey employs copious amounts of violin in his music and performs with the help of loops which he creates himself onstage.

“Nothing is prerecorded,” Hennessey says. “Everything is done right in front of the audience without the use of a laptop. I create a very big orchestra of sound as one person.”

For Hennessey, the songwriting process is similar to the way he performs his songs live.

“Writing a new piece of music happens all in one moment,” he says. “I usually create a complex layer of sound in one sitting and then I quickly transcribe all the notes onto manuscript paper. Next, I carefully arrange the layering to complete the final piece.”

The result is soothing, trance-inducing music, driven by Hennessey’s shape-shifting violin. Hennessey—as To All My Dear Friends—truly is a band of one, comprised of multitudes.

“I’m now feeling really comfortable with my defining sound, and you can see it in the fact that over two-thirds of the album is instrumental music,” says Hennessey. “At times post-rock. At times pop. Always beautiful.” [John Seay]

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $5–10 (18–20) www.thebadmanor.com DJ CHRIS WARE Audio/visual DJ mixing rock, rap, and Top-40 hits.

Caledonia Lounge “Happy Hour.” 5 p.m. FREE! (21+), $2 (18+) www.caledonialounge.com MATT HUDGINS & HIS SHIT-HOT COUNTRY BAND The local band plays classic country and honky tonk that goes down well with a shot of whisky or an ice cold beer. Hudgins will also be performing a solo set.

9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com THE ATOM AGE Punk rock and roll from Berkeley, CA with a blaring

horn section. Members include The Queers’ drummer, Ryan Perras.

THE K-MACKS Danceable, highenergy country-fried punk rock.

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

THE TAJ MOTEL TRIO Ironically named eight-membered aggro-ska outift from Cornelia, GA that sounds like a SoCal transplant.

The Classic Center 9 p.m. $30. www.classiccenter.com STS9 An ambient mix of trance, dub and samples paired with live instruments in a jam band from the future.

UP UNTIL NOW Local duo plays electronic dance music with driving

uptempo beats and catchy, unforgettable melodies.

DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6:30–8:30 p.m. (weather permitting).

FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Rd.) NANNY ISLAND Local band featuring SJ Ursrey (The Ones, Creepy) and Shauna Greeson (Hola Halo) playing dreamy, tropical melodies.

Farm 255 “Africa Volunteer Corp Show.” 11 p.m.

FREE! www.farm255.com THE DECORATIONS Synth-infused, marching band dance music with extra drums and featuring members of The Awesomelies and The Buddy System.

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

SLEEPING FRIENDS Unpredictable experimental garage pop featuring members from Bubbly Mommy Gun and Quiet Hooves.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com BETSY FRANCK This local songwriter offers soulful Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

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

VESTIBULES Lyrically driven Americana featuring Coy Campbell King (Nightingale News), William Chamberlain (ex-A PostWar Drama), Jason Fusco (ex-Fire Zuave) plus a horn section and pedal steel.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com THE BOHANNONS Rootsy alt-rock from Chattanooga with a jangly blues vibe.

MISFORTUNE 500 Moody and melodic local band with soaring anthemic moments influenced by post-punk and ‘80s new wave.

NUTRIA This rootsy local powerpop band features former members of The Eskimos and The Possibilities.

Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Emotion is out now on Cowboy Angel Music.

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 TREMBLING EARTH Local Americana- and blues-infused rock band playing its first home show in six years.

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 MARY SIGALAS Talented local jazz vocalist Mary Sigalas performs with her new classic jazz, swing and blues band.

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com FREE MONK TRIO Live jazz music.

Little Kings Shuffle Club “Bryan Howard’s Birthday Party!” 7 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This engaging local songwriter performs a unique fusion of acoustic folk and soul.

DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

THE HEAP Funky local indie-soul band based here in Athens with a killer horn section and fronted by Bryan Howard’s low, bass growl.

JUBEE AND THE MORNING AFTER Smooth, soulful hip-hop featuring MC JuBee and his band of electric rockers from Macon, GA. New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $10. www.newearthmusichall. com JABLES Bass-heavy hip-hop and electronica.

ZOOGMA This Oxford, MS group lays down electro-driven funk and rock jams that feature smooth improvization and sampling. After party for STS9 show.

No Where Bar “STS9 After Party.” 10 p.m. $4. 706546-4742 CONCRETE JUMPSUIT Jam rock band with a good dose of funk and soul.

SUEX EFFECT Alternative/progressive rock featuring a fusion of funk, reggae, metal and blues with plenty of harmonies and improvisation.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Blues night! Come join the jam.

Omega Bar 5 p.m.–2 a.m.www.theomegabar.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Smooth jazz with a candlelit atmosphere.

Hosted by DJ Segar (WXAG), and special guest DJ Mellow Meyers also spins old school R&B late night.

Rye Bar “STS9 After Party.” 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens EARPHUNK Psychedelic funk from New Orleans with plenty of jazzy solos.

THIEVES MARKET Local alternative rock band.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com NOEL GOFF Member of alternative rock band Lost City.

WUOG 90.5FM “Live in the Lobby.” FREE! 8 p.m. www. wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Witches, Tumbleweed Stampede, Reign and Brothers 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 22 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! Facebook.com/AlibiBar RALPH RODDENBERY Traditional country music with a pleasing honkytonk swagger accentuated by the singer’s raspy voice.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $5–10 (18–20) www.thebadmanor.com DJ SIFI This DJ’s selection runs the gamut from rap and hip-hop to rock and country.

Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 KIP JONES Many of Jones’ tunes split between the reflective acoustic territory of Harvest-era Neil Young and the country-infused rock of ‘80s-era Steve Earle.

Borders Books & Music 6 p.m. FREE! 706-548-8647 EMMA COOKE This UGA student has been singing since she was three years old.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door), $80 (VIP table of 10). 706-354-6655 ELVIS! Impersonator Chris Shupe is backed by his TCB Band.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (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. Celebrating the release of 12inch album The Convocation!

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POWERS Four shredding, math/metal guitarists set up in the corners of the venue for a unique, quadrophonic rock experience with the audience and one amazing drummer in the middle of it all.

SHANNON WRIGHT Singersongwriter from Atlanta focusing on eerie tension, aggressive thrashing and muted calmness. See Calendar Pick on this page.

Ciné BarCafé Athens Burning screening (showtimes TBA). www.athenscine.com BLOODKIN Bluesy roots-rock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics for darkly countrified bar-room rock.

Email for Location 9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. wbkennedy1@gmail.com AGESANDAGES Bright, optimistic folky rock with big group harmonies.

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CASPER AND THE COOKIES Increasingly experimental but always rooted in pop sensibilities, this local act presents a danceable mix of quirky fun driven by keyboard and guitar.

LAKE Sing-song folk with aptly selfcategorized bossa nova and jazz percussion.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com FREE TOMORROW High-energy, intellectual hip-hop with a unique dance blend of violin, cello, keys, bass and drums.

HANS DARKBOLT Local band performing fiercely melodic pop tunes with swelling vocals and eerie harmonies. Debuting new songs tonight that further the Supervillian’s mythology! With added keys, horns and more.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com DARNELL BOYS The three Darnell brothers play and sing country blues originals backed by upright bass, singing saw and junkyard percussion.

OL’ BLUE HEELER Wistful, percussive folk from good ol’ Athens.

YE OLDE SUB SHOPPE Big-hearted pop music played on tiny instruments.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m $10 (adv.) www.40watt.com COLOUR REVOLT With a revamped touring lineup and an impressive new release produced by Hank Sullivant, this melodic band from Mississippi offers intricate, moody alternative rock.

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

TWIN TIGERS Loud and lush at the same time, this local rock band combines jarring guitar riffs with sweeping melodies and heavy percussion.

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 THREE FOOT SWAGGER Local band that plays dynamic, high-energy rock and roll with a lot of funk.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar CCBB Cars Can Be Blue, the sweetly sarcastic lo-fi pop duo of Becky Brooks and Nate Mitchell, recently acquired a bassist (Jeremy Dyson) and an abbreviated moniker. “Our

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songs are catchier than genital warts,” says the band.

THE FUZZLERS Goofy punk with a highly interactive live show and a brand-new album!

GNARX The latest project from Christopher Ingham (Christopher’s Liver, Liverty) plays bluesy bar punk.

IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock.

ROBERTA & CHARLENE Tonguein-cheek country vocals backed by synth beats.

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub KITE TO THE MOON Local band led by Timi Conley and featuring a stimulating live show with jubilant, rowdy pop music accompanied by spontaneous video mixing, trapeze girls and more.

THE KNOCKOUTS This local group of all-star musicians plays original tunes that pack all the punch of punk rock with diverse, worldly melodies that draw on polka, bluegrass, Cajun and Irish folk music.

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

New Earth Music Hall “New Earth Day.” 6 p.m. $7. www.newearthmusichall.com COSMIC CHARLIE Grateful Dead covers like you’ve never heard before.

GROGUS The local and long-running ensemble plays jazz and salsa accentuated with reggae, hip-hop and Afro-Cuban styles.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE COMMON PEOPLE BAND Local group pays tribute to Motown’s greatest hits.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens.com TASTE Classic rock combined with synth-driven funk and pop for an energetic live show.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing jam rock.

Saturday 23 Allen’s Bar & Grill 8:30 p.m. www.allensbarandgrill.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock featuring tender violin, aching harmonica and melodic acoustic guitars.

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 STUMBLIN’ TOADS Bluesy rock and roll.

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The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $5–10 (18–20) 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.

Bishop Park “Athens Farmers Market.” 8 a.m.– noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock from here in Athens featuring tender violin, aching harmonica and melodic acoustic guitars. Also playing tonight at Allen’s. (10 a.m.)

MICHAEL WEGNER Layered but sparse guitar folk with a wonderful wistful feeling. (8 a.m.)

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 6 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 GRAINS OF SAND This cover band performs classic Motown, soul and R&B hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com MIKEY ERG Punk rock drummer, guitarist and vocalist that has played with The Ergs, Star Fucking Hipsters and The Dopamines.

IAN GRAHAM Singer and bassist of guitar-driven, pop rock band Cheap Girls.

DAVE HAUSE Lead vocalist and guitarist of Philly punk band The Loved Ones.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DR. SQUID Jangly, frenetic rock and roll at its best when emphasizing its British Invasion sounds.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com KILL KILL BUFFALO Grungy hard rock duo based in Athens featuring Kara Kildare’s powerful pipes and Tyler John on drums.

LOVE TRACTOR Original Love Tractor member Mike Richmond recruited Nathan Collins on drums, Kevin Fleming on guitar, and Jarred Forrester on bass to round out his new lineup. The album Black Hole features spacey and compelling prog-influenced guitar epics.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com CLAY LEVERETT & THE CHASERS Old-school, original country music that ranges from bar room stomps to heartfelt ballads.

KAITLIN JONES AND THE COUNTY FAIR Local folk guitarist/ vocalist Kaitlin Jones’ five-piece electric band performs a popular set of Americana-tinged country originals.

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

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Shannon Wright, ‘Powers and Chrissakes (CD release) Caledonia Lounge Any Pitchforkobsessed college kids who think they know indie music should sit down with Atlanta’s Shannon Wright. She could tell some stories to get their panties in a major wad. Her Shannon Wright first band, Crowsdell, recorded with Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus. As a solo artist, she has toured with Sleater-Kinney. And she once swam in the ocean with local legend Dexter Romweber of Flat Duo Jets.

She could probably spend hours imparting some fascinating, envy-inducing tales. But she’d rather let her music speak for her.

“I have the mindset that when I’m playing a show, everybody in the room is involved.

When I go see shows and they really move me, those are the best moments in life. Maybe it’s only 45 minutes out of your day, but you always remember it,” she says. “And if the whole room can experience it together with the people playing music, that’s something very special. I don’t take it for granted.”

Since 1999, Wright has released eight solo records, some with superstar producer Steve Albini, and recorded and toured with “it” French composer Yann Tiersen. Musically, she’s been all over the map, but her most recent record, 2010’s Secret Blood, finds her returning to her first love: guitar.

“I just backed off of [guitar] for a while because I wanted to try new things, but I love playing guitar,” she says. “On the new record, I go back to guitar and play the way I usually play live.”

While she has toured Europe extensively, locals haven’t witnessed her live show in almost seven years. That’s partly because foreign audiences have ultimately been kinder.

“There’s a much higher regard for artists, especially if you’re slightly different. Here it’s like music is for young people,” she says. “But rock and roll is American music. It’s very exciting.” [Jennifer Gibson]

Go Bar 8 p.m.–Midnight. FREE! www.myspace. com/gobar DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers.

Midnight. FREE! 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.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar “First Annual BLUAU.” 5–10:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-3050 BIG C AND THE RINGERS Local bluesman and UGA grad Clarence Cameron takes inspiration from artists like B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. KINKY WAIKIKI Playing modern arrangements of traditional Hawaiian music, with a little Western swing thrown into the mix.

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com SWEET DEAT AND THE REVIVALIST QUINTET Live jazz every Saturday!

Front Porch Bookstore 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 CALICO JIG Celtic and traditional Irish music.

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.

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 CAROLINE AIKEN Funky rock originals and covers! With special guests Carly Gibson (singer/songwriter/ guitarist C), Rev. Paul Scales (keys/ harmonica) and Eddie Glikin (percussion).

Little Kings Shuffle Club 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub EFREN Local indie-folksters along the lines of Iron and Wine and Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

THE RESTORATION Merging backgrounds in classical, rock and fiddle

music, The Restoration channels storytelling and Southern regional history through layers of banjo, voice, violin, piano, organ and percussion that fluctuate between tradition and modernity.

WHISKEY GENTRY Toe-tapping Americana ranging from bluegrass picking to punk-inspired songs.

SUZY SKARULIS Competitive surfer infuses her singer/songwriter rock with beach music.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com EARLFEST A celebration of the life of Earl Murphy. Performances by Charlie and Nancy Hartness, Art Rosenbaum, The Andy Carlson Band, Brian Burke, David Blackmon and Cal Hale, Bill Ashley and Earl’s Kitchen Band, Incahoots and Joel Cordle.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer.com ILLICITIZEN Originally the solo project of singer-songwriter Eric Cavanaugh, Illicitizen has fleshed out its sound with a programmed rhythm section and Maria Zaccaro on bass. Performing music inspired by post-punk and rock.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $10. www.newearthmusichall. com FUTEXTURE Lounge beats from Asheville.

PLAYLOW Clean, airy, trance from Asheville.

TIPPER Mostly known in the breakbeat scene, Tipper experiments with extreme bass frequencies as he explores elements of electro, IDM and other dance sub-genres.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens.com JUNK Keys, bass and drums trio with an emphasis on jazz fusion and group improvisation.

Speakeasy 12 a.m. FREE! 706-546-5556 INCATEPEC A combination of traditional tunes from South America and Cuba with a unique jazz twist.

Wayfarer Music Hall 8 p.m. $5. 114 N. Broad (Downtown Monroe) THE RAMBLERS A rootsy Americana rock sound dominates the music of The Ramblers, whose influences reach across the country.

Celebrating their first anniversary.

Sunday 24 Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CRYSTAL STILTS Featuring moody, stripped down garage pop from Brooklyn.

GERMAN MEASLES Expect psychedelic melancholic pop from New York.

MAN’S TRASH Local DIY promoter and mutli-instrumentalist Mercer West fronts this new project featuring improvisation, controlled chaos and a muted pop spirit. Celebrating the release of a new 100-song CD-RW!

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar “Video Game Battle.” 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 THE NICE MACHINE Local, instrumental rock with surf undertones.

Tonight the band is bringing older gaming systems (Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Atari) for the audience ot play during the set. There will also be an Easter egg hunt and prizes.

Highwire Noon–3 p.m. Sunday Jazz Brunch. www.trappezepub.com JEREMY ROBERTS Solo jazz guitarist.

Monday 25 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com RETRIC Local band featuring an allstar lineup that includes Colin Carey (The Ginger Envelope), Ryan Hetric, Mikey Dwyer (Starter Kits), Jeff Reiter (Diet Rockstar), Craig Lieske (Garbage Island) and Charlie Estes (Dark Meat).

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. Sold out. www.40watt.com IRON & WINE Singer-songwriter Samuel Beam crafts inspiring, intimate folk songs. While his earlier recordings were wistful and sparse, Kiss Each Other Clean offers brighter, more layered sounds inspired by retro pop and rock.

THE LOW ANTHEM Theis sweeping Americana act offers goosebumpraising harmonies, lonesome lap steel and lush arrangents.

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

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

Rye Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens DAYS OF HYSTERIA Local metal band formerly known as Stereo Gun. OPEN MIC Every Monday! Sign up between 8:30 & 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday 26 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BASSHUNTER64 Matt Goodlett, guitarist for Atlanta blues/Americana band Ben Chapman & the Accents, and Lloyd Handy offer chilled-out dance music heavy on the bass.

BIGFOOT Howling indie classic rock as intriguing as it is difficult to pin down. This Athens group mixes Tom Petty guitar solos with Captain Beefheart strangeness.

BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Local experimental pop band that plays idiosyncratic, psychedelic tunes.

WOODFANGS Grungy, lo-fi psychedelic pop. CD release party!

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $10 (adv.). www.40watt.com NATHAN ANGELO Soulful pop rock from Atlanta influenced by artists like Ray Charles and Jackson 5.

JUSTIN KENNEDY Local singersongwriter with a country drawl who sings earnest, radio-ready ballads.

THE WELL REDS An alternative take on pop rock with clean vocal melodies and punctuating guitar.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar MACHISMO USA Local gutter pop group who want nothing more than

for you to give in to the white fire and destroy yourself.

NEW MADRID Echoing, Americana vocals and proficient guitar plucks.

SAM SNIPER Local guys Chris Bennett and Andrew Klein play “Southern jungle rock.”

LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock from here in Athens featuring tender violin, aching harmonica and melodic acoustic guitars.

MATTHEW MAYFIELD Hard rock with country-tinged vocals.

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

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.

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s music borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a seamless product glistening with inspiration. Every Tuesday!

Flicker Theatre & Bar Happy Hour! 6-8 p.m. FREE! www. flickertheatreandbar.com KARA KILDARE Local ethereal piano folk.

9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER Charming and highly praised local neo-folk band delivers the thriftstore gospel featuring the captivating vocal harmonies of the Campbell sisters.

JESSE PAYNE Minimalist chamber folk similar to Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes–from Birmingham, AL.

Lit 10 p.m. www.litathens.com KARAOKE Every Tuesday! With over 30,000 songs to choose from.

The Melting Point Terrapin Bluegrass Series. 7 p.m. $4. www.meltingpointathens.com SEVEN HANDLE CIRCUS A rowdy and fun modern interpretation of traditional bluegrass and folk.

40 Watt Club 7:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com EMILY HEARN Young singersongwriter performs sweet, innocent, melodic acoustic ballads.

THE LESS Pop/rock band from Atlanta with anthemic choruses and an emotional delivery. For fans of acts like All Time Low or Cartel. CD release show tonight!

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens.com GHOST BOX ORCHESTRA Southern jam rock (from Boston) put through the prog-rock wringer.

VINCENT THE DOG Athens rock power trio informed by classic rock, blues, funk, jazz, hard rock and progressive rock.

Iron Grill 6:30 p.m. 706-543-2418 RACHEL O’NEAL Local singer/ songwriter who plays a mix of soulful acoustic originals and an eclectic blend of indie rock, jazz and Southern-tinged Americana covers.

Wednesday 27 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 singer-songwriters every Wednesday.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE BLUSHIN’ ROULETTES Country folk from California whose pensive sound would feel right at home in Appalachia.

TIM BRANTLEY Atlanta folk-rock musician.

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Flight Tapas and Bar 8 p.m. www.flighttapasathens.com LATE AS ALWAYS Live jazz music every Wednesday.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com AZ IZ Adrian Zelski of DubConscious spins roots/dub reggae. Kicking off the spring reggae series at New Earth with ticket giveaways to The Wailers, Easy Star All-Stars and more.

CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO Remix artist putting tropical, airy beats to a wide range of music.

EL G Spinning electro, tropical and more!

PIPER ST. CLOUD Atlanta producer Matt Gregg Mansfield creates mixes and remixes with a focus on dub and reggae.

WUOG 90.5FM “Live in the Lobby.” 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Front Porch Project will perform their bluegrass-inspired pop on the college radio station’s twice weekly program.

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

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George’s Lowcountry Table 6 p.m. 706-548-3359 SHANNON & KENNY Soulful sounds out on the patio.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com LERA LYNN & HER LADY FRIENDS This local songwriter has a haunting, smoky voice that glides over tender, original Americana tunes.

THE WATSON TWINS Identical L.A. twins Chandra and Leigh Watson offer an elegant brand of pop-folk and alt-country. The duo is widely known for its collaboration with Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis.

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 CLOUDEATER A blend of alternative, indie rock, electronic, shoegaze with soulful, sweeping vocals that glide into upper registers.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com HERITAGE Folk-pop with tropical instrumentation, from Florida.

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

ART Call for Artists (Floorspace) FloorSpace is seeking artists for month-long exhibitions. 706-3721833, www.floorspaceathens.com Call for Artists (ARTini’s Art Lounge) ARTini’s Open Art Studio, Gallery & Lounge is seeking artists for bi-monthly exhibitions and guest instruction. Email photos and info. kate@artinisartlounge.com 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

AUDITIONS Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Elberton Arts Center) Come prepared to sing a one-minute a cappella piece. This show is performed entirely in song. Men, women and children of all ages are welcome.

Show runs on weekends Aug. 19–28. May 16 or 19, 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-283-1049

CLASSES Adult Wing Chun Kung Fu (Floorspace) Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45 p.m. $12 per class, $60 for 6 classes. floorspacestudio@gmail. com, www.floorspaceathens.com Ashtanga Yoga (Red Lotus Institute) On-going classes in traditional vinyasa yoga for all levels.

Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7–8:45 p.m. 706-210-1287, theyogashala.athens@gmail.com

Ashtanga Yoga (Healing Arts Centre) Led primary series on Mondays at 7:15 p.m., mysore classes Friday mornings at 9 a.m. and classes for beginners Thursdays at 7:15 p.m. farley@athensashtanga yoga.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 Capoeira Angole & Maculele (Floorspace) Learn this form of Afro-Brazilian martial art! Tuesdays, 8:15 p.m., Thursdays, 7 p.m. & Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. $12, $60 (6 classes). www.floorspaceathens.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) every Friday from 7-9 p.m. “Family Try Clay” classes every Sunday from 2-4 p.m. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Creative Exploration Classes (Wildeye Creative Exploration Studio) Tap into your creative process! Classes for kids and adults. 706-410-0250, www.wildeyecreative.com Creative Miniature Design (State Botanical Garden) Participants will be provided with a list of materials to bring to class. Space is limited; call to register. May 11, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156 Dance Lessons (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Intermediate twostep at 3 p.m., beginner Cha-Cha or two-step at 4 p.m. and open practice at 5 p.m. $10. www.rotputman.com Donation-Based Yoga Classes (Red Lotus Institute) On-going classes in ashtanga, flow, hatha, kundalini, sivananda, triyoga, yin and more. 18 classes a week, Sunday through Friday. 706-2483910, theyogashala.athens@gmail. com, www.rahasya.org/theyogashala

English Classes (Athens Latino Center) Three levels offered to teachers with international students.

Offered 4 days a week. Call for information. 706-549-5002, jaimeumana79@gmail.com, athensprofessionalservices.com ESL Class (Athens Urban Ministries) Free sessions. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30–3 p.m. FREE! 706-353-6647 Forest Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Deepen your breath, work your core, strengthen your body and connect with your spirit. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. $10/class. 706-355-3114 Free Tai Chi (Mind Body Institute) Spend a spring morning outside in the park on Talmadge Drive.

Saturdays, 9:30–10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@ armc.org Garden Photography (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A hands-on workshop focusing on light, composition and critique. Apr. 30. 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $45. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden 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.

Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Genealogy for beginners. In the Heritage Room. 2–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Guitar and Piano Classes (UGA School of Music) Now registering for piano classes for students or adults under 50. Classes run May 26–July 28. $115. www.uga.edu/ ugacms/summer.html Internet Scavenger Hunt (Madison County Library) Call to register. Apr. 26, 2–3 p.m. or 7–8 p.m. & Apr. 27, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597

Athens Area Humane Society

Noodle knows all about her sister Wicky’s bossiness. Noodle likes attention too, but she is a laidback, gentle girl who wants to be a lap kitty.

Sweet young Tortie.

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Wicky is a young, beautiful girl who loves to be the center of attention.

She has three sisters and she will push past them to be in the front of the line if there is a visitor. She’s alert, curious, attentive and responsive.

All white and petite. Would be a great family cat.

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NOODLE Miss Ridley is a little shy

and though she has a soft longhair coat, large light green eyes, and a cute bobtail-she has so far been overlooked. She’d love to snuggle with you on the couch and lead a quiet life.

Marcy is a Ticked Torbie Tux - which just means she’s pretty. She’s a fun and nutty girl. VERY playful and kittenish, has a funny bobtail, loves to chat, and loves chin rubs.

more pets can be seen online at

athenshumanesociety.org

Albert Gold’s watercolor “Lunch Break at the World’s Fair” is on display at the GMOA through May 3.

Introduction to Computers (Oconee County Library) Learn the basic components of your computer or master Microsoft Windows XP. Registration required. Apr. 21 & 22., 3–4:30 p.m. 706-769-3950 Introduction to the Internet (ACC Library) Class that covers Internet service providers, web browsers, useful sites and Internet safety. Call to register. Apr. 28, 7 p.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 Kundalini Yoga (Red Lotus Institute) Highly energizing yoga practice taught by Ande Burke.

Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. 706-2483910, theyogashala.athens@gmail. com Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away!

Meets the fourth Friday of every month. 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! 706475-7329, 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 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 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 Pheonix Rising Yoga Therapy (Earthsong) Six-week program meeting every Saturday. No experience necessary. Pre-registration required.

Apr. 30–June 4. 10–11:30 a.m. $65 (6 weeks). 706-613-1143, www.healingartscentre.net Postpartum Mat Class (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Wednesdays, 9:15–10:15

a.m. $10. www.balancepilatesathens. com Pre-Natal Mat Class (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Saturdays, 1–2 p.m. $10. www.balancepilatesathens.com Qigong for Health & Relaxation (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Visitor Center, Great Room) 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. Thursdays, 5:45–6:45 a.m. $10 (Drop-In).

706-355-3114, www.athensfive pointsyoga.com Sending and Receiving Attachments (Madison County Library) Call to register. Apr. 20, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 Sivananda Yoga (Red Lotus Institute) Uplifting Hatha yoga Sundays at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. By donation. 706-2483910, theyogashala.athens@gmail. com Spanish Classes (Athens Latino Center) Learn to speak and connect with the local Latino community.

Mondays and Wednesdays.

1–2 p.m. and 7–8 p.m. $10. jaimeumana79@gmail.com, athensprofessionalservices.com Summer Programs (East Athens Educational Dance Center) Classes for beginners and advanced students in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, hip-hop, line dance, praise and African dance.

706-613-3624, www.athensclarke county.com/dance 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 Teaching English as a Second Language Certification course held every Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.–6 p.m. between May 28 and June 12. 800-779-1779, www.oxfordseminars.com Tech Tips (ACC Library) Learn how to create and send surveys through Survey Monkey. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 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 Wetland Plants: Ecology and Identification (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Students will identify and describe wetland plant species. Call to register. May 14, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156 Wild Foods (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn about wild foods and uses of plants for medicinal and craft purposes. Call to register. May 15, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $66. 706542-6156 Women’s Self Defense Classes (American Black Belt Academy) Learn what you can do to protect yourself. Go online or call to register. 706-549-1671, www.americanblackbelt.org Yoga & The 7 Sacred Centers (Five Points Yoga) Move more fully into your power & health through asana, journaling and meditation.

Apr. 23, 2–4 p.m. $30. 706-2540200 Yoga Classes (Sangha Yoga Studio) See full schedule online. $14/drop-in, $60/6-class punch card. 706-613-1143, www.healing artscentre.net Yoga Classes (Total Training Gym & Yoga Center) Check website for dates and times. On-going. 706316-9000, www.totaltrainingcenter. 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) 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. No experience or athletic ability required. 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 and Toning (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Routines featuring interval training session in which rhythms and resistance training are combined. Mondays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. $6. 706-410-0134, www. wholemindbodyart.com Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/ class, $80/session. www.uga.edu/ botgarden

HELP OUT! Adopt-A-Highway Challenge (Various Locations) In honor of GreenFest, Keep Athens Clarke County Beautiful (KACCB) is challenging all Adopt-A-Highway groups to complete a roadside cleanup. New groups welcome. 706-613-3501, www.keepathensbeautiful.org The Battery A newly formed social empowerment organization is launching its “GA’s Trail of Tears 2.0” campaign to stop HB 87. Call 706206-9237 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. 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 Georgia Museum of Art Volunteers (Georgia Museum of Art) Volunteers needed to help staff the newly renovated shop.

Assist in creating store displays, ringing up sales and basic customer service. 706-542-0450, millera@ uga.edu, georgiamuseum.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.

706-613-3501, ext. 312 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 Soccer Coaches Needed (Southeast Clarke Park) Volunteers needed to coach ages 4–11 for upcoming season. Call for information.

706-613-3871, www.athensclarke county.com/leisure Volunteers Needed (Town and Gown Players) Work in the box office, sell concessions and usher for

shows in return for a complimentary ticket. www.townandgownplayers. org/volunteers

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 Classic City Tutoring (Call for location) Summer activities and programs with flexible scheduling for students pre K–12. 678-661-0600, www.classiccitytutoring.com CSI Academy (Georgia Center) Experience laboratory work, collect evidence at a scene, analyze hair and blood samples in the microscope, and identify tool marks. For ages 11–15. Register for summer camp by calling. June 13–17, 8:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m. $340. 800-811-6640, questions@georgiacenter.uga.edu The Heroes and Champions Camp (UGA Ramsey Student Center) An overnight camp for ages 7–18 offering sports training in football, boys’ basketball, girls’ basketball and cheerleading. Register

by June 1. July 7–10. $325–375.

404-213-1178, info@handc.org, www.handc.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 June Mini Camps (Sandy Creek Nature Center) “Swamp Creatures,” June 15–17, will teach kids about their local swamp inside and out.

“Critters in Disguise,” June 29–July 1, will explore animal adaptations through games and crafts. 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $16. www.athens clarkecounty.com/camps 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 Mini Medical School (Georgia Center) Hear from the experts in the field including doctors, vet techs, researchers, EMTs and professors at the Medical College of Georgia.

For ages 11–15. June 20–24, 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $350. 800-8116640, questions@georgiacenter. uga.edu 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. Check website for details. Register by Apr. 25. May 3–June 23. $70. 706-542-2894, ugacms@uga.edu, www.uga.edu/ ugacms/earlychildhood.html New Moon Summer Camp (Various Locations) Activities include hiking, swimming, boating and a ropes course. For ages 6–12.

June 6–10, 13–17, July 11–15, 18–22. 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. $150/ week. 706-310-0013 One-to-One Learning (Lay Park) Pratice reading, writing and math with UGA student volunteers. For ages 6 and up. Daily, 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3667

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 Summer Day Camp (Memorial Park) Now registering. Activities include various games, arts and crafts, team sports, music, swimming basics, field trips and more. For ages 6–12. June 6–July 29, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $35 (per week). 706-613-3580, www.athensclarkecounty.com/camps Swim School (Bishop Park) Swim lessons for tots 6 mo.–3 years old and kids ages 3 & up. Meets Tuesdays, Wednesays and Fridays.

June 14–July 1 or July 5–July 22. $33. 706-613-3801, accaquatics@ athensclarkecounty.com Teens in Action (Various Locations) Now registering. A camp for 13–15 year-olds involving volunteer service, enrichment opportunities and recreational activities.

One-week programs June 13–July 29, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $58. 706-6133625, 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 (Athens Creative Theatre) Now registering for theatre camps. Camps include Teen Encore Camp, The Knights of the Rad Table Theatre Camp and Hansel and Gretel Theatre Camp. Check website for dates and costs. www.athensclarke county.com/camps 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 Youth Summer Visual Art Camps (OCAF) Now registering for summer art camps. This year’s theme is “Outer Space and the Limits of Imagination” for a final show of artwork in July. Two-week camps for ages 5–16. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com, www.ocaf.com ZumbAtomic for Kids (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Mondays, 5:15– 6:15 p.m. $6 (for first child), $3 (for each additional sibling). www.wholemindbodyart.com

SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Various Locations) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-5430436, www.athensaa.com

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St.) Paintings by Lisa Weaver. Through April. • Wood carvings by the Classic City Woodturners. Through April.

Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) New works

by Bob Davis. Through April.

Art on the Side Gallery and Gifts (1101B Industrial Blvd., Watkinsville) A gallery featuring works by various artists in media including ceramics, paintings, fused glass, jewelry and mosaic belt buckles.

Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Rd.) Landscape paintings by Greg Benson, Robert Clements and Joe Ruiz. Through Apr. 22.

ATHICA (160 Tracy St.) “The Way Things Work” addresses the nature of systems through a variety of media. Featuring artists Will Pergl, Dan Grayber, Atanas Bozdarov, Robert Ladislas Derr, Andrea Flamini, Ernesto R. Gomez, John O’Connor, Julia Oldham, Andrew Sunderland, Cody Vanderkaay and Andy Moon Wilson. Through May 29.

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.

Ciné BarCafé (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “On & Off Pulaski Street,” photography by Mark Steinmetz.

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

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. Through April.

Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) Works

by Alice Serres, Tess Strickland and Jared Collins.

Through April.

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

Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) 100 watercolors by Salvador Dali illustrating Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Through June 19. • “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.

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 over 100 local artists.

Reception and awards presentation Apr. 28. • Works

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar (1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) “Open Spaces” is a series of landscapes by

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 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.

Grief Support Group (Council on Aging) Meeting every third Thursday each month. 2-3:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-4850 Overeaters Anonymous (Various Locations) 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

Greg Benson. Through May. Jittery Joe’s Coffee (1230 S. Milledge St.) Barbara Hutson’s exhibit “Rest Awhile” includes photos of chairs and benches from around town.

Through April.

Jittery Joe’s Eastside (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Acrylic and enamel works by Charley Seagraves.

Through April.

Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) “Hanging Gardens” is a series of silk paintings by Margaret Agner. Through April.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) Showcase of works by senior exit students in jewelry, printmatking and photography. Through Apr. 28.

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) “Ten” includes mixed-media show of 10 contemporary Georgia artists. Curated by Thomas Prochnow. Through June 11.

Mama’s Boy (197 Oak St.) “Organic Surrealism” by Carrie Climer. Through April.

Mercury Art Works at Hotel Indigo (500 College Ave.) “Fascination” features artists Amanda Burk, Anthony Stanislaw Wislar, Christopher Wyrick, Gretchen Elsner and Leslie Snipes. Through April.

Monroe Art Guild (205 S. Broad St., Monroe) Works from Walton County middle and high school students. Through Apr. 27.

OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) The 16th Annual Southworks Exhibition presents 90 works of art from 69 artists. 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.

Speakeasy (296 E. Broad St.) Abstract-expressionist original acrylics by Frances Jemini featuring deep textures, bright blending of colors and strong architectural themes. Through May. 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 Lance Moses. Through May 8.

This-Way-Out (T-W-O) (680 West Broad St.) AthensHasArt! presents site-specific installations

by Audra Rich and drawings by Margaret Schreiber.

T-W-O is open 6–8 p.m. the 10th–20th of each month.

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.) “The Beast Within” features wood-fired ceramics by Ron Meyers and pastels by Rich Panico. Through May 3.

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.) Photographs of the Athens Farmers Market by Barbara Hutson. Through April.

PTSD Support Group Ongoing support group for family and friends of veterans and soldiers who have PTSD/TBI. 770-725-4527, www.georgiapeacegivers.org Sapph.Fire The newly formed social, support and volunteer organization for lesbian and bisexual women.

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. 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: 706-543-3331

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 Be a Camp Counselor (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The State Botanical Garden is looking for people ages 15–18 to be counselors. Contact Cora Keber at 706-5426156 for an application.

Call for Entries (Ciné BarCafé) The AthFest Film Committee is currently accepting submissions for local independent films to be screened during AthFest 2011 (June 22–26).

First deadline May 1; final deadline May 15. $10 (May 1), $20 (May 15). athfest.com/music-festival/film, film@athfest.com Dance Instructor Recruitment (East Athens Educational Dance Center) The ACC Leisure Services Department is currently recruiting dance instructors, May 23–July 22, at the East Athens Educational Dance Center. Call for information. 706-613-2624 Zoo Atlanta Family Passes (Various Locations) Family passes to patrons with library cards. For details, visit zooatlanta.org. f

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins So, I have a crush on a girl, but here’s the kicker: it’s a total friend-crush thing. It’s not that she’s unattractive to me, but cool, on the contrary. She’s actually very cute, but I just don’t think of here in “that” way. Don’t know why. I just want to know how to go about this without her thinking I want to get it on.

Thanks, wannabeBFF Ask her to hang out. Maybe have other friends in the mix so it doesn’t feel like a date. Don’t tell her you’re not interested “in that way,” because I suspect that you may find yourself interested eventually. But for the moment be neutral and natural. You have other female friends, right? Treat her the way you treat them. Don’t be confusing. If you are concerned that something you do might be confusing, consult one of your other female friends and make sure. Don’t be a dick. If she seems like she might be getting the wrong idea, be honest. That’s what a friend would do.

I love my boyfriend. A lot. I think he is The One. We get along like gangbusters, and the sex is fabulous, and he’s funny and smart and adorable, but there is one thing, one difficult, annoying, possibly ridiculous thing, that is driving me crazy, and I don’t know what to do about it. I hate the way he eats. I am super happy that he loves food, and he isn’t picky and he even cooks sometimes.

He loves my cooking and he likes to go out to eat and he is adventurous and he will try new things. But his table manners are terrifying.

I don’t even know how to bring it up, because it has gone on so long that I think I might hurt his feelings if I said something, but he is very difficult to eat with—especially in public. He scarfs his food; he licks his fingers more loudly than anyone I have ever met. He doesn’t know anything about what fork to use, which water glass is his, or how to use his cutlery properly.

He has elbows all over the table, he eats with his hands, he occasionally talks with his mouth full. He loves food, but perhaps a bit too much.

He isn’t fat, nor do I think he will ever be.

The problem is that I was raised in a very proper Southern way, with strict rules of etiquette whether we were at home or the nicest restaurant in town. It is difficult for me to stand by and watch him behave in this way, but since I love him so much I have just ignored it.

Recently he met my parents, and they took us out to a nice restaurant, and the whole thing was fairly mortifying. My parents acted amused, but I know them well enough to know that it will become an issue down the line. How can I broach the subject with him without sounding like a total bitch? I will love him whether he can get it right or not, but I know that it will be stressful for me down the line. Help!

Not Mrs. Manners, But STILL The best thing you can do is fess up. Tell him that you adore him and enjoy his enthusiasm for food, but that having been raised by the Etiquette Police, you have certain needs in the manners department. In other words,

blame your parents. Ask him if he would (at very least) mind brushing up on his etiquette for the next time you eat with them. Explain to him what rules were instilled in you and how, and then see if you can’t get him to go along with the program. Also tell him that this has been on your mind for awhile but that you were afraid to bring it up. He should know that this isn’t easy for you, and that you aren’t being judgmental. In a way, you are asking for his help. It will be difficult, but most things that are worth doing are.

Hopefully, he will realize that you are actually helping him. Keep in mind that you probably won’t be able to fix it all, so you should focus on the most important things. In other words, prioritize. And remember: baby steps.

I have a co-worker whom I see socially on a fairly regular basis. We aren’t really friends, but we have a mutual friend whom we are both fairly close to. So, this woman and her husband and their kid are often around my wife and me.

I actually like her husband a lot, and we often end up talking at these social functions for a long time. I recently noticed that my co-worker has a completely inappropriate relationship with another guy at work. They often slip off alone together to get high, and knowing her husband and her kid I am starting to feel weird and a little guilty about knowing this. Should I say something to him? Should I say something to my co-worker? I don’t know for sure what is going on, but I know it isn’t good either way.

In the Know In a word, no. The husband is a nice guy, but he isn’t really your friend. You don’t seem to particularly like your co-worker, but there is no reason to stir anything up at this point. You will only end up making things uncomfortable with your mutual friends, and it might be over nothing. What you might do, though, is make sure that your co-worker knows that you have noticed. I’m sure she knows you’re chatting up her husband at these gatherings. Subtly letting her know you see what’s up might head off a bad situation at the pass.

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Confidential to the Eff word: Are you sure you don’t want me to print this? Sounds to me like maybe your idiot “best friend” needs a wake up call. You aren’t cleaning up shit, by the way. Her messes keep getting messier, and no matter what kind of maid costume you imagine yourself in, it’s completely useless. Since your help isn’t helping, the only other answer I have for you is to run, not walk, away. Do not pass go. Do not interfere. Do not bail her out. You have done your best for 20 years to no avail, and at this point all she can do is drag you down. She can’t be bothered to do the right thing, even with a kid on the way, so why should you worry? Follow the lead of your other, real friends. This is no longer your problem. If you keep going like you are, you aren’t only enabling her, you are basically becoming codependent.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent

2BR/1BA basement apt. W/D conn., separate entrance, utils. incl., in quiet Eastside n’hood.

Ideal for grad students. $575/ mo. Avail. May 1. (706) 3698635.

$460/mo. Huge 1BR apt., walk-in closet, on-site laundry facilities, 18-unit complex off N. Milledge. Avail. now or pre-lease for August. (706) 764-6854, Lease Athens, LLC.

2BR/2BA luxury flat, avail.

8/1 at Brookewood Mill.

Sophisticated, private, beautiful pool, woodland c re e k . N e a r U G A / t o w n . P e t s fine. $850/mo. (706) 714-7600, madelinevandyck@gmail.com.

1BR/1BA. All electric. Nice apartment. Water provided. On busline. Single pref’d. Available now! (706) 543-4271.

1BR apartment for $475/mo.

2BR apartment starting at $700/ mo. 3BR apartment starting at $1000/mo. All close to campus!

Howard Properties (706) 546-0300.

2BR/1BA apts. Great in–town n ’ h o o d . Wa l k e v e r y w h e re .

Water & garbage paid. $655– $ 7 9 5 / m o . w w w. b o u l e v a rd p ro p e r t y m a n a g e m e n t . c o m o r call (706) 548-9797.

1BR/1BA in the Boulevard n’hood & overlooking Dwntn., freshly renovated, all electric, great places to live. $490-$695/mo. www. boulevard propertymanagement. com or call (706) 548-9797.

2BR/2BA Dwntn! LR, kitchen w/ DW, W/D, lg. BRs & closets, patio. $ 6 7 5 / m o . (706) 5466900, valerioproperties. com.

1BRs $495, 2BRs $545 & 3BR apartments $695! 1st mo. free for 2 & 3BRs! Pre-leasing for summer & fall. Come check out our open house from April 1st to 30th!

Specials & giveaways! On bus line, pet friendly! (706) 549-6254.

Restrictions apply.

2BR/2BA at The Lodge.

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

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

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3BR/3BA luxury townhouse avail. 8/1 at The Woodlands.

Student mecca. Beautiful clubhouse, sportsplex. Near UGA & Dwntn. Pets fine. Great landlady! $1275/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@ petersonproper ties.org, (706) 202-5156.

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) 7882152 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.

Available now. Bar nett Ridge, 2BR/2BA flats. Eastside. $625/mo. Lots of room for the p r i c e . W / D , D W i n c l . w w w. joinermanagement.com, text “barnett” to 41513, Joiner Management, (706) 3536868.

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2br/2.5ba Townhouse located off Milledge!

725/month

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Has washer & dryer.

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

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Scarborough Place

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!

706-613-9001

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

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

Contact (706) 354-4261.

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.

Downtown. $690/mo. Large 1BR/1BA in University Tower.

Avail. June 1, 2011. Call (706) 255-3743.

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.

Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/mo.

Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $475/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700 or cell (706) 5401529.

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 l o o p . ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 8 - 2 5 2 2 . w w w. dovetailmanagement.com.

Great Eastside location. Large 1BR unit w/ kitchen, LR, BR & full BA. $405/mo. valerioproperties. com, (706) 546-6900.

Reduced rent! $600/mo. 1BR/1BA, LR, study, modern kitchen, pool, gym, gated, ground floor corner unit. Stadium Village close to UGA. Ideal for single/couple. Rob, (706) 338-4984, wimberlyme@ bellsouth.net.

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BLOOMFIELD TERRACE

2br/1ba with hardwood floors located extremely close to campus! $595/month.

Rent includes water, garbage & pest control.

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

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1br/1ba with hardwood floors located off Milledge. $520/month.

Rent includes water, garbage & pest control.

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

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Warehouse/office/studio. 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.

To w n h o u s e s , 2 B R / 1 . 5 B A , fenced yd., W/D conn., patio or deck. 812 College Ave., $595/ mo. or 892 College Ave., $650/ mo. Call (404) 255-8915.

Westside offices behind GA. Square Mall. 1000 sf., $750/mo. or single office space, $250–350/mo.

Power, gas & water incl. Call (770) 845-5247.

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

Condos for Rent

Commercial Property $500. Office space w/ receptionist. Ideal for chiropractors, massage therapists, OGBYN, psychologist, wellness practitioners, etc. Prince A v e . ( 7 0 6 ) 3 6 9 - 8 8 5 5 , w w w. redlotusinstitute.com.

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1400 sf. Beautiful space near Dwntn. $1200/mo.

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/ ver y high traffic volume & visibility. Excellent space for law office, architect, professional or production. Zoned E-I. Add’l 1200 sf. avail. (706) 614-3557.

Athens executive suites.

O ff i c e s a v a i l a b l e i n h i s t o r i c Dwntn. bldg. w/ on–site parking.

All utils., inter net & janitorial incl. Single or multiple offices avail. Call Stacy, (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

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. 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent 1200 sf. $1200/mo., 750 sf. $900/ mo., 450 sf. $600/mo. & 150 sf. $300/mo. (706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties.com.

Office space in 5 Pts. on S. Milledge Ave. $1000/mo., utils. incl. except phone. 575 s f . P r i v a t e e n t r y. H a n d i c a p accessible. (706) 353-7272 or hill.law@bellsouth.net.

Pet-Friendly Close to Campus

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2 B R / 2 B A c o n d o f o r re n t i n Brookewood Mill. Gated, pool on site, on bus line, close to UGA. Pets OK. Avail. mid May. $900/mo.

Contact Jennifer, (770) 595-3395.

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

All appls incl. W/D. Pet friendly.

Avail. 8/1. $800/mo. (478) 6091303.

2 tenants needed. 3BR/2.5BA at Milledge Place. UGA Athens busline. $350/mo. No utils. Close to campus. No smoking/pets.

Swimming pool. Avail. this summer!

(909) 957-7058, williamsreza@ gmail.com.

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/2BA condo, 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.

Condo for rent. 1054 Baxter St. Wellington Ridge. 2BR/2BA, 2nd flr. W/D. $750/mo. + deposit. (229) 869-4140. Avail. now.

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 5 Pts. duplex. 2BR/1BA, W/D incl., CHAC, fresh & clean. Across the street from Memorial Park. $600/mo. Call (706) 202-9805.

Retail, bar, or restaurant for lease at Homewood Shopping C e n t e r. 3 0 0 0 s f . C a l l B r y a n Austin at (706) 353-1039.

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Apartments, Condos, Duplexes, Townhouses and Houses to Choose From C. Hamilton & Associates, Inc.

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

Carpor ts, close to 5 Pts. Pet f r i e n d l y. R e n t r a n g i n g f r o m $450–$550/mo. (706) 4240770.

706-613-9001

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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) 7401514 toll free.

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2br/2ba located in 5 Points!

PRE775/month. Has washer & dryer. LEASING Rent includes water, garbage FOR FALL! & pest control.

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

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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.

Normaltown/Med. School area.

Willow Run. Brick townhouse. 1st floor apt. 2BR/1BA. Lg fenced yd, CHAC, Pets OK. Quiet, private.

Off-street parking. $550/mo. Lease dep. (706) 207-4636.

Houses for Rent $ 6 0 0 / m o . 3 B R / 1 B A . 121 E. Carver Dr. Fenced–in yd. Tile & HWflrs. CHAC, W/D hookups, DW. Pets welcome. Avail. now!

(706) 614-8335. $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, housetrained pet friendly. Call Re/Max Realtor Helen Martin at (706) 540-2010. $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, Robin, (770) 265-6509. $1000/mo. Blocks from UGA & Dwtn., 3BR/1.5BA, 12’ ceilings & HWflrs., front porch, utility room, W/D, CHAC. Avail. May 15. 127 Elizabeth Street, Owner/Agent.

Call Robin, (770) 265-6509.

1, 2, 3 & 4BR houses & apartments, avail. Fall, historic Boulevard n’hood. (706) 5 4 8 - 9 7 9 7 , w w w. b o u l e v a r d propertymanagement.com.

135 Garden Ct. 3BR close to UGA campus, HWflrs., huge porch, plenty of parking, $795/mo. boulevard propertymanagement.com, (706) 548-9797.

1BR/1BA House on S. Church S t . 1 8 m i n . w a l k t o a rc h e s .

New appl., HWflrs., patio & s c r e e n e d - i n p o r c h . Wa l k - i n closet. Community garden. $700/ mo. jubarnes@gmail.com.

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

8 / 1 . ( 7 0 6 ) 7 1 3 - 0 6 2 6 , w w w. newagepropertiesathens. com.

2BR/1BA close to Dwntn./UGA. 4 blocks to Mama’s Boy. HWflrs., sunny, CHAC, W/D, fenced yd.

Great for pets. $650/mo. Avail.

8/1. Rose (706) 540-5979.

2BR/2BA. 1.5 mi. from UGA. Kitchen, DR, LR, laundry rm., fenced back yd., deck, W/D, f r i d g e . P e t s O K . Av a i l . 8 / 1 . $800/mo. (706) 342-2788, (706) 461-5541.

2 & 3BR super nice houses in the Boulevard n’hood. Walk to town & campus. 535 and 545 Satula, 255 Boulevard Heights, 135 Glencrest. b o u l e v a rd propertymanagement.com or call (706) 548-9797.

2 B R / 1 B A , W o o d y D r. $ 6 8 0 / mo. Great duplex beautifully renovated, all electric, HWflrs., n i c e q u i e t s t re e t . b o u l e v a rd p ro p e r t y m a n a g e m e n t . c o m o r (706) 548-9797.

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.

2 B R / 2 B A Ly n d o n Av e . !

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

2 B R / 1 B A 5 P t s . 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.

3–4BR/3.5BA townhouse. 3K sf.

Excellent condition. Must see!

Avail. Aug. Great price, $835/ mo. Eastside busline. (706) 7693433 or email sjbc33@aol.com.

3-6BRs, Oconee far m house, big front porch, 2 decks, lg. y d . , c l o s e t o Tr a d e r J o e ’s . $1160/mo. boulevard propertymanagement.com.

(706) 548-9797.

3BR/2BA Brookstone Subdivision located in Eastside Athens. Lg. spacious rooms, fenced back yd., FP, tons of storage. Pets OK. $1000/mo. Call Rachel, (770) 401-3936 or (770) 3311851. Avail. 5/1.

3BR/2BA house in Normaltown.

Fenced yd. Pets ok. $1000/mo.

Call Ryan, (706) 254-7678.

4BR/approved zoning. $ 1 5 0 0 / m o . 1 3 0 A p p l e b y D r.

See at www,bondrealestate.org.

O w n e r / B ro k e r H e r b e r t B o n d Realty & Investment. (706) 2248002.

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.

4BR/4BA houses! Great Dwntn. location! Lg. BRs, tile, HWflrs., $1800/ mo., avail. 8/1. ww w. newagepropertiesathens. com, (706) 713-0626.

4BR/4BA, $1800/mo. CHAC, all appls. 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.

Beautiful country home!

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

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

Beautiful 3BR/2BA brick house in quiet, well established n ’ h o o d n e a r G e o r g i a S q u a re Mall. New carpets, brand new tile in BAs. Lg. cor ner lot w/ lots of old oak trees. New back d e c k f o r g r i l l i n g & re l a x i n g . $925/mo. No pets. Security dep. required. Call (706) 5463314.

Boulevard area: 686 1/2 Barber St. 4BR/3BA, screened porch, W/D, DW, lg. rooms. Renovated church. Pets OK. Avail. Aug. 1. $1295/mo. Lease. Dep. Ref. req’d. (706) 227-6000.

Cedar Creek: 4BR/2BA, lg. fenced yd., $950/mo. 5 Pts.: Off Baxter St., 4BR/2BA, $1200/mo. Normaltown area: 2BR/1BA, single carport, fenced back yd., $775/mo. Call M c Wa t e r s R e a l t y, ( 7 0 6 ) 3 5 3 2700, (706) 540-1529.

Cute 2BR/1BA cottage near UGA. Front porch, CHAC, stove & fridge. $800/mo. Avail. now. 227 Hillside. Call (706) 354-1276 or (706) 540-7812.

Eastside 2BR/1BA split level. Lg. LR splits BRs. Lg. kitchen. Private drive. Big back yd. Storage bldg. Appls. incl. $600/mo. + dep. Pet negotiable. (706) 248-7338.

Historic Blvd. area. 180 Lenoir.

Walk to Normaltown. Charming cottage. 1BR/1BA. Lg. high ceilings, HWflrs, CHAC, pretty back yd. Pets OK. $600/mo.

(706) 207-4636.

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5BR/3BA house. $1500/mo.

4 yrs. old. Walk to campus & Dwntn. Lots of off-street parking.

Call Jeff, (706) 714-1807.

Newer 5BR/3BA house off S. Milledge. On bus line, 7/10 m i l e f ro m c a m p u s , s p a c i o u s rooms, front porch, back deck.

Owner willing to partially fur nish. $450/BR. col30044@ yahoo.com, (770) 356-1274.

5BR/2.5BA house w/ huge yd. on Milledge. Lg. BRs, 2 min. from campus! $1800/mo. $1000 off Aug. rent w/ signed lease. Call (706) 936-6598 or athensarearentals@gmail. com.

Private cottage 10-15 min. to campus, 2BR/1BA, CHAC, W / D , D W, b i g s c re e n p o rc h , lg. organic garden space w/ conditioned soil, good well. $650/mo. (706) 540-4022, lwnow1@windstream.net.

5 Pts. area, $1500/mo.

3BR/2BA cottage-style house w/ HWflrs. throughout. LR, DR, kitchen. W/D incl. Avail. Aug. Call (706) 355-9961.

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@ petersonproper ties.org, (706) 202-5156.

Adorable 2BR/1BA brick home just min. from Dwntn. Athens/ UGA. Beautiful park-like setting w/ a 10x12 workshop. LR, eat-in kitchen, laundry room w/ W/D hook-ups, enclosed garage.

Dekle Realty, (706) 548-0580.

Boulevard area: 265 Blvd Hts. Historic home. 1BR/1BA. High ceilings, HWflrs., lg. rooms, s t a i n e d g l a s s , w r a p - a ro u n d porch, W/D, pets OK. Avail Aug. 1. $650/mo. Lease. Dep. Ref. req’d. (706) 227-6000.

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

Boulevard area: 135 Cohen St. 2BR/1BA, high ceilings, HWflrs., 2 porches, fenced yd., W/D, DW, pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $795/mo.

Lease. Dep. Ref. req’d. (706) 227-6000.

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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.

Renovated Forest Heights: 3BR/2BA, lg. yd., fenced area, W/D incl., $1000/mo. (706) 296-1200.

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

Summer lease available!

Brand new house in Dwntn. area. $495/BR, utils. & internet i n c l . ( 7 0 6 ) 2 9 6 - 9 5 4 6 , w w w. cityblockonline.com.

Students welcome. Cor ner of M a d i s o n H e i g h t s / N o r t h Av e .

4BR/4BA. HW/tile flrs. All appls. 5 min. walk to Dwntn, on busline. $425/BR + one mo.’s rent dep. Lynette, (706) 202-4648.

Houses for Sale Charming, classic, updated cottage in Normaltown. 2BR/2BA w / s u n ro o m . $ 1 8 8 , 0 0 0 , 2 4 8 Georgia Ave. Antique heart pine, high ceilings. (706) 850-1175 or (678) 358-5181. By appt. only.

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

Single-level, 1564 sqft.

Gorgeous hardwood floors throughout. Zoned heat, combo kitchen/dining, carport, laundry, attic storage, crawlspace, appliances. Open house info/photos: www.jones. centerpath.net. Listing: www. sellectrealtyofgeorgia.com, (678) 694-7937.

Land for Sale Big beautiful AZ land. $99/ mo. $0 down, $0 interest, golf course, nat’l parks. 1 hr. from Tu c s o n I n t ’ l A i r p o r t . G u a r. f i n a n c i n g , n o c re d i t c h e c k s , pre-recorded msg. (800) 6 3 1 - 8 1 6 4 , c o d e 4 0 5 7 . w w w. sunsiteslandrush.com (AAN CAN).

Parking & Storage UGA parking spaces. Across the street from campus, law & library. $30/mo. 6 mo. minimum. Contact Susan, (706) 354-4261.

Pre-Leasing 1 B R / 1 B A , Ly n n R o c k A p t s . $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.

1BR/1BA Hillside Apt. $475/mo. $550/mo. w/ W/D. Water incl.

B l o c k s f ro m c a m p u s . J o i n e r Management: (706) 353-6868, or text “hillside” to 41513. www. joinermanagement.com.

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.

2BR/2BA on College Station.

Huge apt., FP, deck, lots of closets, DW, W/D, CHAC. Avail. 8/1. Pre–leasing. Pets OK. $575/mo. (706) 369-2908.

2BR/1.5BA w/ office/guest room. In quadraplex 2 blocks from campus. 5 Pts. area. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. Very cool layout. $850/mo. Avail. 8/1.

Pets ok. Call (706) 369-2908.

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/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.

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NOW LEASING 1 & 2 BEDROOMS

Advertise your real estate w/ Flagpole Classifieds!

Special business rates and bulk ad discounts! 5 ads/wk. for $50, 10 ads/wk. for $90. class@flagpole.com, (706) 549-0301.

Arbor Creek: 1 & 2 BRs, $520 to $655/mo. W/D, DW, pool. w w w. j o i n e r m a n a g e m e n t . c o m , text “arbor” to 41513, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

Awesome 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) 3692908.

Bridgewater– highly desirable location. 3BR/3BA, new home w/ all appl., off-street parking, nice balcony, 5 min. from campus, great n’hood. $1200/mo.

(770) 512-7431.

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.

New granite countertops and ceramic tile floors! S. M i l l e d g e A v e . H u n t e r ’s Run. 2BR/2BA, $700. 3BR/2BA, $800. 4BR/4BA, $1100. W/D, sec. sys., pets welcome. hancockpropertiesinc.com, (706) 552-3500.

Pre-leasing for Fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn.

Call (706) 255-0066.

Royal Oaks Townhomes. 2BR/2BA, $685/mo., W/D incl., pool & volleyball. Joiner Management: (706) 353-6868, w w w. joinermanagement.com, or text “royal” to 41513.

Shoal Creek: 1 & 2 BRs, $575 to $675. W/D, DW, ice-maker, pool. www.joinermanagement.com, text “shoalcreek” to 41513, or call Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727.

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) 8507727.

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.

$417/mo. + util. 1BR avail. in 3BR/1BA Historic Blvd n’hood.

W / D , C H A C , D W, s c r e e n e d front porch, back yd., wireless internet, sorry no pets! Lawn/ cleaning service incl. Avail. now or 7/1. Live with relaxed gradstudent! (703) 943-8442.

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.5 mi. to Dwntn./campus/ G r e e n w a y. 1 B R i n 2BR/2BA house. Private BA, W/D, shared office, wi-fi. Grad student pref’d. N/S. Avail. 8/1. $505/mo., incl. utils. Tony, (478) 397-4696.

Half house to share. $380/mo. & dep. 1/2 utils. Fully furnished, W/D, carport, deck, private BA, no pets, smoker OK. Next to Ga. Square Mall. (706) 296-5764.

Huge room for rent w/ private entry. $450/mo. Pay weekly or monthly. W/D, utils. incl. Bigger than master BR. (678) 6984260.

Lg. BR & BA avail. now!

Historic house, Pulaski St./ Dwntn. $500/mo., incl. utils.

Lg. kitchen, private entrance, fenced in backyard, small dog OK. Call (706) 850-5972.

Mature student to share luxury condo at The Woodlands.

Avail. 8/1. Beautiful grounds, sports mecca, pets fine. Great landlady. $425/mo. (706) 714-7600, madelinevandyck@gmail.com.

Nice apartment in gated community, The Lodge. 2BRs & 2BAs for rent, $425/mo. per room + share of utils. Contact Halene, (229) 854-0173.

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.

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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.

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Green Starts Here

Great American Clean-up Challenge

Wednesday, April 20

Car Free Day

Try Another Form of Transportation Bike • Bus • Walk • Carpool

Thursday, April 21 8am-3pm

I DREAM GREEN:

Celebrating 20 Years of Greenfest

A Community Wide Celebration providing citizens with the opportunity to increase their awareness of and interest in improving the environment of their home, yard, business, and community.

For more info, visit us at www.athensgreenfest.com

4-Ever Green Earth Day Expo Athens Tech

Friday, April 22 3:30-5:30pm

Celebrate Earth Day at the Library ACC Library

Saturday, April 23 8am-1pm

Athens Area Master Gardener

Spring Plant Sale Extension Office

Saturday, April 23 10am-4pm

Nature Journaling Botanical Garden Visitor Center, Room 2

Tuesday, April 26 4-6pm

Drawing in Nature Illustration in the Garden with Toni Carlucci

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Miscellaneous

Health

Go to Agora! Cool & affordable!

Your favorite everything store!

Specializing in retro goods, antiques, furniture, clothes, records & players plus more! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Pregnant? Considering adoption?

Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide. Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions.

(866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

Professional hair designer wanted at new upscale salon in downtown Watkinsville. Very busy.

Booth rentals available. Be your own boss. Call DiLusso, (706) 3381872.

Sporting Goods

Pawn

Internships

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.

Go to www.flagpole.com to place your Classified Ad today!

Better than Ebay! Sell your goods locally w/ out shipping fees! Place your ads in Flagpole Classifieds.

Awesome run–till–sold rate!

12 wks. only the price of 4! Go to www.flagpole.com or call (706) 549-0301.

Music Equipment Flagpole subscriptions!

Delivered straight to the mailbox! Perfect present for your buddy who moved out of town! $35 for 6 mo.s, $55 for 1 yr.! Call (706) 549-9523.

Instruction Athens School of Music.

Instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert.

Instrument repairs avail. Visit www.

AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

Music Services 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.

Fret Shop. Professional guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork.

Previous clients incl. R.E.M., W i d e s p re a d P a n i c , C r a c k e r, Bob Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 5491567.

W e d d i n g b a n d s . Q u a l i t y, professional bands. Weddings, par ties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment.

(706) 549-1567. www. classiccityenter tainment.com.

Featuring The Magictones Athens’ premiere wedding & party band. www. themagictones.com.

Studios 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.

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.

Financial Stuck in a lease you're trying to end? Sublease your house or apartment w/ Flagpole Classifieds! Visit flagpole.com or call (706) 549-0301.

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Pizza manager/cook needed for new pizzeria/spor ts bar.

Excellent opportunity for highly motivated individual. Send resume to baustin@sumnerproperties.net.

Psychics Spiritualist & love advisor Maria.

Reunites lovers, helps in any life matter. Spiritual healer & aura cleanser. Removes negative influences. Free sample reading, (678) 934-2604.

Tutors High school diploma! Graduate in just 4 wks.! Free brochure. Call now! (800) 532-6546, ext. 97, www. continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN).

Jobs Full-time Call center representative.

Join established Athens company calling CEOs & CFOs of major corporations generating sales leads for technology companies. $9/hr.

BOS Staffing, www.bostemps.com, (706) 353-3030.

Experienced kitchen help: local catering company seeks experienced kitchen help. Min. 3 yrs. experience in full service restaurant, club or catering. Only dedicated, hard workers need apply. Nights & wknds. req’d. experiencedkitchenhelp@gmail. com.

Experienced servers & bartenders wanted for PT & FT positions in a busy Dwntn. Athens restaurant.

Email resume to yogini910@aol. com.

Experienced cooks, busy Dwntn. restaurant, dinner only. Min. 2 years exp. FT pref’d. Qualified candidates may submit resumes to yogini910@aol.com.

Hairstylist/Designer. Are you a talented hairstylist/designer looking for a friendly, professional, laid–back studio space? Strand has an opening for a self-motivated 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.

Heirloom Cafe & Fresh Market seeks all positions to start early June. Must be highly serviceoriented and passionate about sustainable food. Email resume to Jessica@heirloomathens.com.

Local data entry/typists needed immediately. $400 PT - $800 FT wkly. Flexible schedule, work from own PC. (800) 310-0154 (AAN CAN).

Massage Therapist. Opening for Urban Sanctuary Day Spa. FT position avail. for licensed massage therapist. Wonderful career opportunity. Pls. apply in person. (706) 613-3947.

Non-profit committed to social justice seeks coordinator connected to Athens-Clarke to match people w/ disabilities w/ ordinary citizens for long term relationships. Must be able to network & have strong writing, speaking & computer skills, & car. See www.ca-ac.org for more details. Salary in 30’s, some travel & evenings, training, holidays, health ins. Resume & cover letter to caac_2011@yahoo.com by 5/7.

Opportunities Reynolds Plantation is currently seeking qualified candidates for the following positions: server, service assistant, foodrunner, bartender, pool bartender, cocktail server, banquet houseperson, banquet server, banquet captain, line cook, lead line cook, wellness specialist, lifeguard, chef de cuisine, assistant food & beverage mgr. & recreation director. For more info & to apply, visit www. reynoldsplantation.com.

Earn $75-200/hr. Media makeup ar tist training. Ads, TV, film, fashion. 1 wk. class. Stable job in weak economy. Details at www.

AwardMakeUpSchool.com. (310) 364-0665 (AAN CAN).

Help wanted. Extra income!

Assembling CD cases from home!

No experience necessary! Call our live operators now! (800) 405-7619, ext. 2450. www.easywork-greatpay. com (AAN CAN).

Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments. No exp. req’d.

(800) 743-8535.

Paid in advance! Make $1000/ wk. mailing brochures from home!

Guar. income! Free supplies! No experience req’d. Start immediately! www.homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN).

Part-time Sexy Suz Couples’ Boutique, west side location. PT help wanted.

Retail exp. a must. Serious longterm inquiries only. Bring resume to Eastside, 50 Gaines School Rd. No Calls.

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.

Notices Pets Lost M German Shepherd. Last seen near Hobby Lobby Sat., Apr. 16. Sable colored. 85 lbs.

Black collar, no tags. Afraid of strangers. 1 yr. old. (678) 4784291.

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Puggle needs home! 25 lb.

M, 1 yr. Loves to snuggle, play, well-socialized, neutered, shots up-to-date, crate-trained, flea-treated. $100 re-homing fee (puppies are $400+). Joelle Freeman, (678) 233-8268, joelle@ uga.edu.

Cycling on Campus

As UGA Bikes, So Bikes Athens

As

Kevin Kirsche steps into Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company for an interview, the bicycles hanging from the rafters of the building seem to move with him. They sway in the wind as he walks past. Their wheels turn softly as he speaks. They hang, motionless, as he sits down.

Kirsche is, after all, a bike man—and not just a cyclist.

Building on the work of the local alternative transportation organization BikeAthens in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Kirsche has been cooking up big plans for the Athens cycling scene over the past 12 years.

In May 2008, Kirsche’s ideas for a more bikeable Athens were still two-dimensional. He, along with University of Georgia Campus Planning Coordinator Ben Liverman and Materials Manager Al Jeffers, had just published a 39-page report detailing strategies and recommendations to increase bicycle use on UGA’s main campus. But Kirsche, then a campus planning coordinator himself, knew the report alone was not going to create change. “There’s been an ongoing discussion for years about the need to update and improve the bicycle network on campus and in the community going to and from campus,” says Kirsche. “It’s really hard to make progress when it comes to infrastructure.”

Carlo Nasisse

Nearly three years later, the ideas in the report have not come to fruition; rather, they’ve taken new form. In 2010, just two years after the report was published, Kirsche took the position of director in the newly established UGA Office of Sustainability.

“It was overwhelming. It’s a tall order: increase sustainability on campus. But I would say bicycles have been a priority.

One of many priorities!” he laughs.

Liverman, who still works as a campus planner, believes there is even more need for improvement in bicycle routes than when the report was published. “There’s been more expansion, and the town has gotten denser since then,” he says. “This is something the public should be attuned to.”

The new approach, Kirsche says, relies on that type of community attunement. But specifically, it involves student input.

If it weren’t for student involvement, Kirsche points out, the Office of Sustainability would not exist. UGA’s Green Fee, which totals $3 per student per semester, funds over two-thirds of the office’s budget. “[The Green Fee] was totally initiated by students. It received high voter turnout; it passed at a time when there was a moratorium on student fees,” he says.

“Students want this, and they’re starting to be vocal about it.”

For Amal Stapleton, co-owner of Ben’s Bikes on Broad Street, it’s refreshing to watch students rally behind something as progressive as improving the cycling network in Athens.

Stapleton, who previously lived in Santa Cruz, CA, which has a sizeable cycling community, feels Athens has all the equipment to emulate the culture of such a city. “I think there’s a huge alternative transportation scene here already,” he says. “But the cycling community could really grow. We need co-ops, we

need to refurbish old bikes, and we need to get more people on bikes. That’s basically the mission [of Ben’s Bikes].”

Initially, refurbishing old bikes for common use seemed like a good plan, says Kirsche. “We thought about just fixing up bikes for public use, just leaving them around campus without really a home base.” But once he started doing more research, he reconsidered. Finding old bikes to restore would be easy, he says. But without the resources to repair the bicycles, find them when students were finished with them or make sure they were returned, not stolen, Kirsche feared the plan would not be successful. “Managing the bikes was the main concern. We were scared we’d have to go find all the bikes at the bottom of every hill,” he says.

So, Kirsche came up with a new, but similar, plan. Inspired by cities like Denver and Boston, Kirsche came up with what he affectionately calls the “Departmental Bike Fleet,” a bike-share program that will allow students to “check out” bikes at specific stations and return them at the end of the day. The pilot program, which will begin this summer and be in full operation by fall 2011, will equip the ecology department and two residence halls with bikes for transportation around campus.

If the program is successful, Kirsche hopes to provide bicycles for every department on campus, as well as all residence halls.

“We’re shooting for places that students will return to a lot.

This program can’t be successful if it’s not convenient,” he says.

Even if the pilot program is successful, Kirsche admits, the problem of transportation to campus—as opposed to merely on campus—remains. But he hopes the Departmental Bike Fleet will help create a culture of cycling at UGA that will influence both the university and Athens-Clarke County to be more accommodating of cyclists. “We need to simultaneously work to improve bike networks, but infrastructure is costly,” he says. “I think we need to prove that accommodating bicycles is a worthwhile investment before we can expect action.”

Lara Mathes, the university’s assistant administrative director of facilities planning, believes a shift toward a culture of cycling at UGA can help pave the way for a changed approach to transportation in the community at large. “There are so many amenities [in Athens] that are not accessible by bicycle.

Grocery stores are a good example. Earth Fare is bikeable, but challenging for student budgets,” she says. “Making the university bikeable is the easiest place to start. The university is a perfect place to influence behavioral change. It offers an amazing catalyst.”

A changing mindset and corresponding activism among university students are the catalysts it will take to replace expensive parking decks with bike racks, clouds of exhaust with breathable air, gas money with money to fund the Office of Sustainability. “Gas is getting expensive,” Kirsche murmurs, looking absentmindedly down Broad Street from the porch at Jittery Joe’s. “Maybe that will help. I just know if we wait ‘til the circumstances are perfect, it’s not going to happen.”

Progress takes time. And Kirsche is interested in both the progress of the university and the progress of Athens as a town. “The university is an incredible tool,” he says. It is a coalition of thousands of young people shaping their own lives, and in the process, changing how Athens operates. A revolution has to begin somewhere, and 34,000 students isn’t a bad place to start.

Kirsche is turning the wheels. Little by little, fleet by fleet, the bicycles are rolling off of his desk, down the hallway and into our town. Be prepared to share the road.

Bryan Barks

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