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The Georgia Music Hall of Fame is finally coming to Athens—in boxes, to be stored in the UGA special collections library basement until the Georgia Music Hall of Fame Authority can figure out what to do next with the the stash of artifacts and memorabilia. The Authority finally pulled the plug on the Hall of Fame, which has been housed in Macon for the last 14 years. The Hall had been unable to make ends meet financially, which some blamed on its location in Macon. Last year, the Authority invited interested cities to submit plans for housing the museum, but none of those interested, including Macon and Athens, could show the Authority convincing proof that they could sustain the Hall of Fame over the long run. David Barbe, head of the music business program in UGA’s Terry College of Business and a member of the Authority, says that group will meet later in the summer to begin figuring out what to do next with the collection of Georgia music history. At this point, just what will be in those boxes in the UGA basement has not been completely determined. Lisa Love, Music Hall of Fame director, points out that some of the materials are on loan and are being returned to the lenders. Music Hall officials are also contacting donors who gave materials to the Hall to see if they want them back now that the Hall will cease to exist for now. Love says that some special collecThe Authority finally tions libraries have asked to borrow some of the materipulled the plug on als for their own exhibits, the Hall of Fame… such as the library at Georgia Southern in Statesboro, which is interested in displaying some of the artifacts associated with blues singer Blind Willie McTell, a Thomson native who later lived in Statesboro and put the town on the musical map with “Statesboro Blues.” Barbe sees the closing and storage of the music museum as a necessary transition, and is optimistic that it will come back in a different form, perhaps set up at a central place from which exhibits are shared with other locations in the state. People in Macon are understandably upset over the loss of the Music Hall of Fame, as any city would be. The group there, NewTown Macon, that had tried to keep the museum in Macon, now says it will concentrate its efforts on restoring the old Capricorn Records studios, according to the Macon Telegraph. The closing, at least for now, of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame may also provide the opportunity to clarify a longstanding confusion between that museum and the process by which musicians and others are inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, which actually has no relation to the museum by the same name. That induction process is overseen by the Senate Music Industry Committee, a committee of the Georgia State Senate, and by its offshoot, Friends of the Georgia Music Festival, Inc. These two entities hold their self-congratulatory awards ceremonies in Atlanta and have nothing to do with the actual Georgia Music Hall in Macon. Perhaps in its new incarnation, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame Authority can come up with a new name for the museum that distances that facility from the political posturings of the Senate committee. Does the presence of this rich trove of Georgia music history in Athens mean our city may get another crack at hosting the museum? Nah. It’s just a storage arrangement for now, facilitated by the happenstance that UGA is completing its new special collections library building. Still, the Authority will be starting over from scratch. Athens and the University of Georgia should both take a fresh look at the possibilities for housing this collection in our music town. Somewhere on campus? In the new downtown parking deck, if the Waffle House doesn’t work out? In the nowhereland beneath the Classic Center’s new expansion along Foundry Street? What a drawing card for the Classic Center—located near downtown and campus as a great addition to the Athens music scene. The Georgia Music Hall of Fame had a good run in an innovative facility in Macon. The economy and other factors have forced the re-thinking of the whole concept. The fact remains that Georgia has a rich music history which is of widespread interest. Here’s hoping that as the Authority ponders the future configuration of the museum, Athens leaders will be figuring out ways to lend our considerable musical expertise and interest to the process. Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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That scenario, which, in fairness, was early this week because alas, won’t come to pass, ACC Manager Alan of the Memorial Day holiday, but we wish her Reddish informed the assembled, because luck in her coming endeavors—if this is an preliminary cost estimates indicate that the indication of what she can expect at FSU, she expansion as currently designed cannot be may need it. built within the project’s ever-dwindling $20 million budget. Beatin’ “Dem” Blues: The June 21 special elecSo, the design team will make some tion to replace Hank Huckaby, the freshman adjustments and come back in a month or Representative who’s leaving his not-yet-warm so—maybe before the M&C’s June 23 agenda113th District post to become chancellor setting session, maybe not—with a reducedof the University System of Georgia, will be cost plan for them to vote on July 5. The fought out among three Republicans—Alan most intriguing possibility for corner-cutting Alexander, Sarah Bell and Chuck Williams—and mentioned by architect Chuck Hall was that a large atrium, originally planned to wrap around three sides of the Fire Hall, could be reduced in size and disconnected from the structure. Commissioner Kelly Girtz took the suggestion a step farther, proposing that a “24/7 keyhole” be left open between the atrium and the theater, preserving unfettered pedestrian access through the middle of the Classic Center campus between Thomas and Foundry streets. The passage would be a roofed but May Doldrums: The North Campus quad was deserted this recent weekday afopen-air walkway following the current stair- ternoon, except for a UGA grounds crew spreading a lot of mulch in front of the library. way along the north wall of the theater, which would require some rethinking of the one underdog Democrat familiar to a lot of atrium’s design, but doesn’t seem too outrafolks in these parts: longtime Athens writer geous a proposition—especially considering, Dan Matthews, who moved to Oconee County once again, that the commission specifically a while back and now serves as the chair of mandated that the expansion’s design facilithe Democratic Committee there. It’s a heavily tate just such a passage when they approved Republican district, and Matthews says he’s the conceptual plan less than two months under no illusions about that, but he points ago. We’ll keep you posted. out a couple of things that could work in his favor. First, he’s got the full support of his Florida State of Mind: The news last week party’s state apparatus behind him—at least that Garnett Stokes, Dean of UGA’s Franklin until a runoff, which most observers expect to College for the past seven years, would leave take place. And second, if he can motivate the to accept the job of provost at Florida State admittedly small Democratic contingent in 113 University immediately brought to mind the to get out to the polls, he might be able to question of whether one of her first duties take advantage of what will probably be relain her new position will be to wade into the tively low voter turnout. controversy over academic freedom at that He’ll get his chances to stir up the base institution. FSU President Eric Barron recently at a pair of candidate forums in the weeks said he will invite faculty leaders to review before the election. The first, organized by the university’s 2008 contract with the Charles Lee Becker, the UGA journalism professor who G. Koch Charitable Foundation, which estabwrites the highly in-depth Oconee County lished a $1.5 million endowment to the FSU Observations news blog, and fellow Oconee economics department. Under the terms of the citizen Russ Page, will be at 7 p.m. June 8 at agreement, the gazillionaire right-wing activthe Oconee County Library in Watkinsville. The ist’s “philanthropic” arm was given the highly second, hosted by the Oconee County Chamber unusual power to approve faculty hires funded of Commerce and moderated by radio newsman by the donation—a flagrant violation of prinTim Bryant, will be at 7 p.m. June 16 at North ciples normally held dear by academic instiOconee High School. If you want to know how tutions regarding outside (and, especially, you can help, contact Matthews at danjmatt@ paid) influence over faculty decisions. bellsouth.net. 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city pages Proposals for Master Plan Await Funding, Final Commitment “What do we want downtown to be?” asks Athens Downtown Development Authority director Kathryn Lookofsky. Almost any decisions about downtown Athens can be controversial, she says. “We’re not going to come up with a plan that makes everybody happy. That’s just not possible.” But downtown still needs a master plan to guide future development, she says; and that plan should come out of a public discussion of “dreams, goals, hopes” for downtown. To that end, the Athens Downtown Development Authority proposes to hire a consultant to conduct a public “visioning” process, then draw up a master plan based on the results. Last year, the ADDA put out a request for proposals, and the results are in: 40 different consultants offered proposals for conducting the visioning process (costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000, Lookofsky said), and for drawing up a downtown master plan based on the results (another $200,000 or so). The visioning phase would involve gathering input on community concerns from various downtown stakeholders, with the actual master planning phase being undertaken by the selected firm’s professional designers, based on that vision. Such master plans have been drawn up for redevelopment of numerous U.S. cities, or parts of cities, including Atlanta and Savannah. The proposals by consulting firms for Athens (remarkably alike in some cases) typically would conduct traffic and marketing

studies for downtown, make suggestions on land uses, likely retailers, and expansion, “wayfinding” for visitors, traffic calming, landscaping, and public art. An ADDA committee has ranked the proposals, Lookofsky says, but the organization’s board so far has not committed to fund any. Money, in fact, has been a primary obstacle to moving forward with the master planning process. Considering the strapped budgets of interested parties—such as the ACC government, the ADDA, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Downtown Athens Business Association—some creativity in identifying potential funding sources may be required. ACC Commissioner Kelly Girtz suggests that one possible source could be downtown parking revenues. Whatever scheme the mayor and commission finally agreed upon for deck and metered parking rates downtown will be designed to raise more revenue than is needed to pay the debt for the under-construction deck at Washington and Lumpkin streets, he says, and “that could be a piece of what finances the master plan.” Girtz is also looking into whether SPLOST 2005 collections for business corridor improvements could legally be used. What might such a plan eventually look like look like? “Everybody has different opinions, and that’s not a bad thing,” Lookofsky says. “There’s a lot of people that complain every time we shut down College Square, and then there’s a whole lot of other people that think we should never open it. There’s opinions on both sides of everything.” But it’s a discussion the community needs to have, she says. “I would like to come up with a plan that the community can get behind.”

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the population in that part of the state has not grown nearly as fast as in North Georgia. Population shifts will require the loss of two seats from that area in the state Senate. In the southwest quadrant, the only white Democrat still left in the Senate is Sen. George Hooks (D-Americus). Hooks’ district is adjacent to three other districts that are underpopulated and predominantly black, which means they will be protected by the federal voting rights act. Hooks’ district could be split up to bring the three majority black districts up to the required population level. In southeast Georgia, the most vulnerable senator could be Sen. Jesse Stone (R-Waynesboro), a first-term lawmaker. Even though Stone is in the majority party, his district may be the one that’s sacrificed in that part of the state. On the House side, population losses require the elimination of four or five South Georgia seats. You could see districts squeezed out in the slow-growth areas of Augusta, Savannah, and Valdosta. At the congressional level, no districts will be lost. Because of the state’s population growth, Georgia gains a U.S. House seat. Where does the new congressional district go? One popular scenario involves the creation of a “Lake Lanier district” centered around Hall, Forsyth and Cherokee counties in Atlanta’s northern suburbs. That district would be enticing to just about every political figure from those counties, a group that includes Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock), former senator Lee Hawkins, Rep. James Mills (R-Gainesville), and Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell. And that’s just a partial list. There’s obviously a long way to go before we see how all this shakes out, but you can be sure of one thing: Georgia’s redistricting process will be a display of raw political power. Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

The Western Judicial Circuit Today and in Bygone Times A Short History of Local Superior Court Judges—Part One H. Patrick Haggard, appointed by Gov. Deal to fill the unexpired term of Judge Steve C. Jones, is the latest in a long line of superior court judges in the Western Judicial Circuit, which includes Athens. In this two–part article, adapted from a speech he gave at the UGA law school, Prof. Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. takes a look at the history of the circuit and the judges who have served it.

jurisdiction to review certain decisions of probate courts and magistrate courts. Superior courts of this state are grouped into 49 circuits with geographical names. The superior courts of Clarke and Oconee counties form the Western Judicial Circuit. The Western Judicial Circuit was created by a 1797 statute, before Clarke County even existed. Along with the Eastern and Middle Circuits, it was one of the first three judicial circuits here are 159 superior courts in established in this state. The Western Judicial Circuit Georgia—one in each county. Of all the originally consisted of the superior courts of eight existing courts of this counties: Elbert, Franklin, state, superior courts are the oldest. They were creGreene, Hancock, Jackson, Lincoln, Oglethorpe and ated 234 years ago by Wilkes. Clarke County joined Georgia’s first state conthe Western Judicial Circuit stitution in 1777. By conwhen the county was cretrast, the Supreme Court of Georgia was not established ated in 1801, and Oconee until 1845, and the Court County has been part of the Circuit since the county’s of Appeals of Georgia was creation in 1875. not created until 1906. At one time or another, Presided over by supethe superior courts in a rior court judges elected by Judge Stephen C. Upson the people, superior courts total of 24 counties have been part of the Western Judicial Circuit. The are the most important trial courts in this state. Superior courts have general jurisdiction most superior courts in the Western Judicial Circuit in any one period was between 1821 to try almost any civil or criminal case, and and 1822, when the Circuit included 11 counare the only courts with authority to exercise ties: Clarke, Fayette, Franklin, Gwinnett, the powers of a court of equity or to try felonies. In addition to this expansive trial jurisHabersham, Hall, Henry, Jackson, Newton, Rabun and Walton. From 1923 until 1972, diction, superior courts even have appellate

the Western Circuit consisted of the superior courts of Clarke, Oconee and Walton counties. In 1972 the superior court of Walton County was removed from the Western Circuit. Until 1976, there was never more than one superior court judge of the Western Judicial Circuit at a time. A 1976 statute raised the number of judges to two, and a 1995 statute further increased the number to three. The current superior court judges of the Circuit are Lawton Stephens, David Sweat and H. Patrick Haggard. Haggard was recently appointed by Governor Deal to fill the vacancy created when Steve C. Jones resigned earlier this year to become a federal judge. Haggard will serve the unexpired portion of Jones’ term and then, as he has announced, seek election for a full term. (Superior court judges are elected to serve four–year terms.)

There have been 28 superior court judges of the Western Judicial Circuit since its creation in 1797. (A list of these judges, with their terms of office, is set forth below in the box appended to this article.) Some of these judges are among the most illustrious jurists in the history of this state. The legendary James Barrow, for example, who died in 2000, was a judge, everyone knew, who strove for justice in every single case he tried. His decisions were hardly ever set aside by appellate courts, who well knew Judge Barrow’s astonishing, proven reputation for wisdom and fairness. Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. Next week: colorful details from the lives of some of these superior court judges.

Superior Court Judges of the Western Judicial Circuit and Their Terms of Office Thomas P. Carnes (1798–1803; 1809–1813) · John Griffin (1803) · Charles Tait (1803– 1809) · Young Gresham (1813–1816) · John Mitchell Dooly (1816–1819) · Augustin Smith Clayton (1819–1825; 1828–1831) ·William H. Underwood (1825–1828) · Charles Dougherty (1831–1837; 1845–1849) · Thomas W. Harris (1837–1841) · Junius Hillyer (1841–1845) · James Jackson (1849–1857) · N.I. Hutchins I (1857–1868) · C.D. Davies (1868–1873) · George D. Rice (1873–1878) · Alex S. Erwin (1878–1883) · N.I. Hutchins II (1883–1899) · Richard B. Russell, Sr. (1899–1906) · Charles Hillyer Brand (1906–1917) · Andrew J. Cobb (1917–1921) · Blanton Fortson (1921–1940) · Stephen C. Upson (1940–1942) · Henry H. West (1942–1953) · Carlisle Cobb (1953–1962) · James Barrow (1962–1990) [Senior Judge (1990–2000)] · Joseph J. Gaines (1976–2002) [Senior Judge (2002–2007)] · Lawton E. Stephens (1991–present) · Steve C. Jones (1995–2011) · David R. Sweat (2002–present) · H. Patrick Haggard (2011–present)

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Engineering Students Address Campus Bike Infrastructure

hen Chris Young and Matt Bland space on campus to accommodate such a walked into Dr. David Gattie’s senior design. engineering class for the first Rather than a greenway specifically for time, they did not know what was in store. bikers, the team went with a more general The course required that the students split plan. They drafted a design for a trail runinto groups to collaborate on a final design ning through Myers Quad off Lumpkin Street, project—an “exit show” incorporating years and a path that would ease traffic flow for of accumulated knowledge in their fields. cyclists at the intersection of Sanford Drive According to the guidelines of the project, and Baldwin Street, which is both notoriously the final product would have to be an impledangerous for cyclists and suffers from a onementable engineering-based solution to a way traffic design that interrupts southbound specific problem on the University of Georgia’s riders on a major route through the heart of campus. campus—a situation sometimes referred to as With such a broad charge, many students the “Sanford snafu.” did not know where to begin or how to idenUsing their individual areas of expertise to tify a challenge that would be worthwhile and enhance their design, the group came up with practical to solve, says Young, a bio-chemical a finished blueprint after 15 weeks of brainengineering student from upstate New York. storming, interviewing and collaborating with Young had difficulty thinking of a project one another. The viability of the design, Young that would incorporate his specific major into says, is attributable to the nature of engineera feasible solution, so he decided he would ing as a discipline. “The greatest help of being focus on a different area of interest: alternaan engineering major was the learned skill of tive transportation. parsing down a large problem into its simplest Bland, originally from Sylvania, GA, had a components and then generating and evaluatsimilar idea. Drawing from his personal expeing solutions to each sub-set in the light of rience as a cyclist on campus, Bland came up with a problem statement. “I ride my bike on campus,” he says, “and there are lots of areas where it’s dangerous for cyclists. My idea was to reduce the number of bikes on the road by providing alternative routes.” After speaking with one another regarding their ideas, Bland and Young, along with five other engineering students, teamed up to tackle the problem. With Bland acting as Cyclists entering Sanford Drive from Baldwin Street must dismount and walk the design team leader, their bikes to Hooper Street, where two-way traffic begins. A bike path around the group began to colthis “snafu” is one of the elements of the engineering students’ plan. laborate on a solution. The first step in crafting a solution was to the big picture of the problem statement,” identify stakeholders in the project. The group he says. “The intense grounding in scientific knew that student cyclists like Bland would principles that engineering requires helped us be interested, but they gradually realized to create solutions that will work in the real their project could affect more people than world.” they anticipated. “There were the bikers, nonThe students have not yet taken the steps bikers, architects, police. We interviewed all to implement their plan in “the real world,” the stakeholders and thought about what they but Kevin Kirsche, director of the UGA Office needed on campus and how they were affected of Sustainability, feels hopeful about their by bike traffic,” he says. solution. “(Their project) underscores both the Once they had interviewed members of need for improvement and the student interest each group, the team agreed the primary in developing viable transportation options,” stakeholders in implementation of a bicycle he says. “Their work will help to form the network were the university architects. “We foundation from which a comprehensive camwanted to address concerns of the students, pus bike plan will be crafted.” the users of our designs, but all concept Though Kirsche admits it is not in the budsolutions would ultimately be decided by the get to implement the plan right now, Young university architects,” Young says. “We did and Bland, who both graduated on May 13, studies of what the students wanted—both hope to see their solution take effect in the cyclists and non-cyclists—to develop our coming years, even if they are not able to problem statement, but we considered the enjoy the benefits themselves. “If any part primary stakeholders as the ones we needed of our suggestions and designs are put into to design for in order to address the problem effect over the next few years, then we will statement.” get that affirmation of the work we did. I The group initially agreed that a bicycle don’t need to be there to appreciate that,” greenway running through campus would be Young says. “Besides, it’s always good to leave the best way to address bike traffic. But once a place better than you found it. You never the group began researching the idea, they know when you might be back.” realized their solution would have to be less ambitious, as they were thwarted by lack of Bryan Barks

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The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any nation on Earth. Seriously: Google that shit. By anyone’s count—the United Nations, the U.S. Department of Justice, academics—the United States keeps a higher percentage of its (otherwise quite free) citizens behind bars than anyone else, and often for a very long time. Not Cuba, not China, not Russia—no one puts so many of its citizens into prisons. In Georgia, one in 13 citizens is in jail, prison, on parole or probation, or otherwise subject to the corrections system. Yet, we’re the wealthiest nation on the planet by any count. It doesn’t seem to make much sense. Anyone with faith in the American people eventually realizes that it is not some sort of criminality specifically endemic to Americans, some sort of inordinate propensity for evil deeds, that necessitates so many prisons. Rather, it is the eagerness with which the system devises means to imprison. To believe otherwise is to assume a criminal defect in the American mind. That’s why it might come as a surprise to many to learn that Georgia prisons erupted in open protest last December. Called by many the largest prison strike in the nation’s history, the peaceful protest was coordinated throughout as many as 10 separate state prisons, and involved tens of thousands of inmates. The typical racial and gang-defined divisions which mark the U.S. prison population were set aside to present a unified call for basic human rights. The prisoners’ primary grievance was the unpaid labor forced upon them. “No more slavery,” demanded the prisoners’ press release, which they managed to disseminate outside the walls. “Part of our purpose for doing this is that Georgia is the only state that does not pay its inmates at all,” said one inmate, requesting anonymity. “Some guys in here work seven days a week and they don’t get a dime.” The 13th Amendment, while permitting the practice, names unpaid prison labor “slavery.” The strikers’ list of demands addressed concerns related to a general deterioration in conditions in prisons. It is simply a case of too many prisoners and too little money. Trying to have it both ways, the state adds more and more prisoners to the rolls while trimming its corrections budgets by, according to the inmates, significantly reducing vegetables in meals and demanding new fees on medicine for those with chronic illnesses, among many other tactics. Of course, it is only penny wise and pound foolish to feed unhealthy food to people for whose health care you are likely liable. One inmate with chronic hypertension feared that the steady diet of cheap starches and fats (instead of healthy, vegetable-rich meals) was exacerbating his condition. With medical care reportedly something of an afterthought in the overfilled and underfunded prisons, this particular inmate’s needs are of lifeand-death importance. Nutritional and medical negligence can become a death penalty by another name. The cake-and-eat-it-too mindset of many state and federal legislators has led to millions of citizens in a system that government revenue cannot support. Last week, in a landmark case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the State of California, which had sought the ultimate cost-saving measure of simply overcrowding its prisons to nearly twice the state facilities’ capacity. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the Court’s majority opinion, called the state’s astounding overcrowding a “serious constitutional violation,” and the ruling demanded that California figure out how to release as many as 37,000 inmates. Regardless of how you view the penal system, it eventually becomes an implacable fact that a nation cannot embark on a project to imprison millions it does not intend to pay for. It is difficult to imagine the “correctional system” correcting much in these circumstances. In fact, the system might be hardening the vast majority of citizens who enter prison very much capable of redemption. An unjust penal system stands the risk of actually creating more crime.

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Multitasking: Usually, trying to give your attention to many things at once leads to failure on all counts. We can’t all spread ourselves as thin as we think we can without quality suffering. So, when Kabana (211 Tallassee Rd.) first put up its sign promising American, Indian and Jamaican food, skepticism was the appropriate reaction. Happily, exceptions exist. The American selections include hot wings, burgers and hot dogs, which is great if you’re dining with children or picky eaters, but I’d skip them and go to the more interesting parts of the menu. Service is enthusiastic and occasionally flaky, but its unpredictability may result in your receiving an unexpected and superlatively wonderful plate of lima beans as an extra side. Flavored with a subtle tang of something that tastes like sumac or za’atar, they have a beautiful texture and marvelous savoriness. Eating something like that, you don’t miss meat at all, and Kabana has a great selection of vegetarian and vegan dishes as well as lamb and pork. The samosas are the best I have had in Athens: large, crisp rather than soggy, fresh, full of tender ground beef, onion and vegetables. They come with two tasty sauces that aren’t even necessary. Like the empanadas at Cali ‘N’ Tito’s, they are the apotheosis of pocket foods. Not everything is awesome. Jerk pork was good but a little tough, and the tandoori chicken is entirely skippable; the bits on the bone are fine, but the rest is dry, even with a well-executed raita. I’ve had better naan. But most things are lovely, rendered with flavors both subtle …a beautiful texture and strong. The Jamaican cabbage is and marvelous gently sweet, not sugary. The savoriness… lamb saag (in spinach sauce) is buttery and silky. I assume that both the chicken tikka masala and the korma incorporate the house-made yogurt, which is thin but wonderful. And while the vegetable biryani isn’t tremendously exciting, it’s still without obvious flaws. If both the large TVs under the overhang are tuned to CNN, you may feel a bit like you’re in an echo chamber, but there’s plenty of umbrellaed seating around the lot. Kabana is open for lunch and dinner daily, plus Sunday brunch, and doesn’t have a liquor license at the moment but does accept credit cards and offers free wi-fi.

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Pleasantly Unusual: It is a strange experience indeed to sit right next to the kitchen of a restaurant and hear the expediter, servers and cookstaff conversing with one another in moderate tones of voice and an ample amount of pleases and thank yous, but it is emblematic of just how darn nice everyone is at Viva Argentine Cuisine (2270 Barnett Shoals Rd.). Viva is operated by Gaby Lindsey, former manager of the Eastside Taco Stand, which used to occupy the same space, and her husband, Jesse, and it has made a nice transition from grungy local burrito joint to sweet family restaurant. The Argentine cheesesteak is a magical thing, a large but light sandwich of grilled ribeye with white American cheese sauce, mayo, caramelized onions and a zippy chimichurri that serves as the abracadabra that binds the whole thing together. Not many sandwiches in town can hold a candle to it (although the tortas at Sr. Sol and Tlaloc can compete), and nothing else has its particular combination of flavors that delight the roof of your mouth as much as your tastebuds. Another great dish is proveleta, an appetizer of grilled, smoky, thick-cut Provolone served with French bread and dressed with sun-dried tomatoes and herbs. Yes, it’s a plate of melted cheese, and it’s hard to go wrong with that, but, like raclette, it somehow transcends its simple composition while remaining wonderfully rustic. The steak Viva offers is nicely seasoned, well cooked, dressed with the same great chimichurri and accompanied by excellent, buttery mashed potatoes. Pastel de papa, a sort of Argentine shepherd’s pie minus the crust and topped with cheese, isn’t quite as thrilling as I had hoped, and the empanadas, while available with a wide array of fillings, can be had better elsewhere in town. On the whole, Viva cares, and you can tell. The house salads have pretty, thin-shaved radishes in them, and the cupcakes are filled with mousses from blueberry to salted peanut and strawberry. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday, with a slight break in between. It does to-go orders rapidly and takes credit cards.

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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week. • indicates new review THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG13) The trailers do nothing for the cut of this latest Philip K. Dick adaptation. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt play starcrossed lovers, David and Elise, being kept apart by the Adjustment Bureau, who resemble a team of Mad Men in suits and hats (one is even played by “Mad Men”’s silver-haired, silvertongued John Slattery). These angels as pencil pushers and bureaucrats make sure The Plan, as envisioned by The Chairman (one of many names for the man upstairs), is adhered to. The love affair between David and Elise is not part of the plan, and the Bureau will stop at nothing, even sending in their heavy hitter (Terence Stamp), to ensure the couple does not end up together. Writer-director George Nolfi meshes romance and sci-fi with more coolly intricate success than you would suspect. Damon and Blunt generate surprisingly easy chemistry, and the men in hats idea works well thanks to Slattery, Stamp and The Hurt Locker’s undervalued Anthony Mackie. A new score from Thomas Newman and gorgeous urban cinematography from Oscar winner John Toll merely ice this romantic cake. The Adjustment Bureau is one of the better films of young 2011. BEGINNERS (R) Thumbsucker writerdirector Mike Mills (not to be confused with the R.E.M. bassist) returns for his first fictional feature since 2005 with this family-dynamic drama about 75-year-old Hal (Christopher Plummer), who decides to confess two secrets to his grown son, Oliver (Ewan McGregor). First, Hal has terminal cancer. Second, he is gay and has a younger lover. Hal sounds like a plum role for Plummer, who is aging wonderfully. With Melanie Laurent and Goran Visnjic. BRIDESMAIDS (R) Considering its competition, calling Bridesmaids the funniest movie of 2011 may be as much an insult as a compliment to this hilarious comedy, written by and starring Kristen Wiig (winner of the year’s It’s About Time Award). This female-driven flick needs to be judged and compared to its raunchy, hearty brothers, all raised under the banner of the House of Apatow. These bridesmaids prove to be just as funny and

dirty as the groomsmen of The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, etc. When Lillian (Maya Rudolph) gets engaged, crazy, broken best friend Annie (Wiig) takes on the task of Maid of Honor and screws it up with uproarious results. Wiig has the awkward build and the instincts of a classic screwball comedienne, and, given choice material (i.e., her own), could have every bit of the success of Tina Fey. As a writer, Wiig’s a little ballsier. Wiig and Rudolph also share that magical comic chemistry once exemplified by Fey and Amy Poehler. Include the terrific supporting turns from the wonderful Melissa McCarthy (“Gilmore Girls”’ beloved Sookie) and Chris O’Dowd of “The IT Crowd,” just to unjustly name two, and Bridesmaids is worth the affirmative RSVP. FAST FIVE (PG-13) Might the fifth model of The Fast and the Furious franchise be its best yet? Dare I inquire if anyone actually cares about the answer to that question? The summer blockbuster arrives earlier than usual, thanks to the modified hot rods preferred by car thief/street racer/ ex-con Dominic “Dom” Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his buddy, former FBI agent Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker). Fans of the non-Diesel editions of F&F will be excited to know Luda, Tyrese and Sung Kang reprise their characters from 2 Fast 2 Furious and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. As the “plot” goes, Dom, Brian and Dom’s sister/ Brian’s squeeze, Mia (Jordana Brewster), are on the lam after a daring, non-fatal prison break. In Rio, the trio runs afoul of super drug lord, Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida, doing what Joaquim de Almeida does best, intimidate in a bespoke suit). They also have to outwit federal bounty hunter Hobbs (a more gigantic than usual Dwayne Johnson). Other stuff goes on to set up the “Ocean’s 11 on wheels” heist that creates the climax. Most of the other stuff—baby drama, potential betrayal, Dom gruffly connecting with a grieving hot Brazilian policewoman (Elsa Pataky)—is boring, and unfortunately, at 130 minutes, Fast Five features a lot of the other stuff. But when the carbased action gets moving, it is a pedalto-the-metal blast. The final setpiece, involving two muscle cars towing a

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large bank vault, sets a new standard for a series that has always excelled where high-speed action is concerned. Beautiful people (that Paul Walker sure is dreamy), glistening hoods and exotic locales make for an entertaining twoplus hours. Three-time F&F director Justin Lin (rumored to be helming a new Arnold-starring Terminator) knows the limitations of the series but most importantly, knows how to shoot bangup action scenes. If you can stomach a couple of hours of Diesel huffing and gruffing (I’m a fan), Fast Five will get your summer blockbuster blood pumping like your heart’s a 6.1-liter SRT HEMI V8 engine. 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. GROW! (NR) Grow! looks at the sustainable farming movement burgeoning across the state of Georgia. Filmmakers Christine Anthony and Owen Masterson shine a light on the hard work of 20 passionate, young independent farmers laboring on 12 Georgia farms. I’m digging the tagline: “Who knew Georgia farmers were so hot?!” Followed by a panel discussion, this screening will benefit Slow Food Athens, a grassroots movement whose goal is “to bring good, clean and fair food to all.” • THE HANGOVER PART II (R) Sequels to hit comedies mostly suck. Think about it. Caddyshack II. Fletch Lives. American Pie 2. Major League 2. Arthur 2: On the Rocks. Porky’s II: The Next Day. Blues Brothers 2000. Weekend at Bernie’s II. The list goes on. The reasons these sequels fail are numerous: failure to comprehend what was funny about the original; loss of the original stars; characters lose likability; sequel mines exact same jokes as the first movie; etc. The Hangover Part II sidesteps the landmines that blow away the humorous limbs from most comedy sequels. Lobbing critical grenades at the movie’s lack of creativity ignores the ingenuity that fashioned a funny facsimile without simply recycling wholesale gags from the 2009 blockbuster. Anyone who saw the first one can deduce what’s going to happen to Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zack Galifianakis). After a night of partying, the Wolfpack awakens minus one member and any knowledge of what transpired. But one night in Bangkok, the sequel’s exotic locale, is raunchier and nastier than one lost in Las Vegas. This Todd Phillips directed comedy works hard, delivering the laughs necessary to make up for its lack of surprises. JANE EYRE (PG-13) Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel (just ask any high schooler) is brought to the big screen yet again, this time by an intriguing filmmaker, Sin Nombre’s Cary Fukunaga. The titular, mousy governess (Mia Wasikowska, who is everywhere right now) falls for her employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender),

only to discover he harbors a horrible secret. Screenwriter Moira Buffini also wrote last year’s Tamara Drewe. With Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), Imogen Poots (Solitary Man), Sally Hawkins (HappyGo-Lucky) and Dame Judi Dench. JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) Jumping the Broom has all the familial melodrama of a Tyler Perry production without Madea’s tonal aggression. When uptown girl Sabrina (Paula Patton) meets downtown boy Jason (Laz Alonso), they quickly get engaged. The wedding on Martha’s Vineyard highlights the divide between the two families, led by tough-verging-onunlikable matriarchs played by Angela Bassett and Loretta Devine. In his first feature, veteran television director Salim Akil (“Girlfriends,” “The Game”) shows a better understanding of cinematic conventions than Perry did in his 10th. Jumping the Broom isn’t much more than a made-for-TV movie writ large, but the family dramedy goes down smoothly thanks to an appealing cast and a stolid behind-the-camera foundation. • KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) However much I dug the first Kung Fu Panda, the second adventure of Dragon Warrior Po (v. Jack Black, who is better heard than seen) and the Furious Five—Master Tigress (v. Angelina Jolie), Master Crane (v. Cross), Master Viper (v. Lucy Liu), Master Mantis (v. Seth Rogen) and Master Monkey (v. Jackie Chan)—has more visual inventiveness than it does comic or narrative combined. Peacock Shen (v. Gary Oldman) plots to rule China with a gunpowder-based weapon that nullifies the powers of Kung Fu (always spoken of as a capitalized entity). Shen also is responsible for Po’s orphaned status, adding a personal vendetta on top of the world saving. The cute, gravity-less Kung Fu Panda universe renders the drama so light it floats away. With the story no match for KFP2’s furious, fist-flying computer animation (and Po’s lovely hand-drawn memories), the sound effects take on a role of nearheroic importance. Yet the animated feature’s childish target audience will never notice how far back Kung Fu Panda 2 retreats from its stellar predecessor, as the animated bells and auditory whistles are that pleasantly distracting. MEEK’S CUTOFF (PG) Whether you love her or have never heard of her, writer-director Kelly Reichardt returns with a new feature—a period piece at that!—to join her impressive filmography of River of Grass, Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy. In 1845 Oregon, female settler Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams) begins to question whether or not bold guide Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood) has led her astray. Meek’s Cutoff has already picked up a couple of awards from the Independent Spirit Awards. MIA AND THE MIGOO (PG) 2008. Impressively created from 500,000 hand-painted frames of animation, French Animator Jacques-Remy Girerd’s second feature (Raining Cats and Frogs was his first), Mia and the Migoo calls to mind the modern classics of Hayao Miyazaki. Led by a premonition, young Mia goes on a wild adventure to save her father, who is trapped by a mudslide at a construction site. Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew Modine, James Woods and the great

Wallace Shawn lend their voices to this winner of the European Film Award for Best Animated Feature. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG-13) You would think Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow would soar to the surface now that he’s shed of the dead weight that was Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). Instead, the fourth adventure of Captain Jack is terribly unexciting and, worst of all, boring, as he canters frantically about for no reason more dramatically pressing than box office booty. Pirates of the Caribbean is a needlessly extended series; I haven’t cared about since the Black Pearl’s initial outing. Depp does what Depp does as Captain Jack battles the Spanish, Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Blackbeard (Ian McShane, who almost makes it worth watching) and a beautiful lady pirate (Penelope Cruz) for the Fountain of Youth. The cinematic equivalent of stale popcorn and flat soda, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is missing the key component that set the unlikely first blockbuster apart from its peers: fun. PRIEST (PG-13) An aggressively boring movie, Priest doesn’t bring one original idea to its tale of a warrior man of the cloth battling an army of vampires in the cities of Blade Runner and the desert wastelands of Mad Max. The graphic novel series, upon which the second unimpressive movie directed Scott Charles Stewart and starring Paul Bettany is based, may be acclaimed, but I cannot see why from its filmed version. In a world ruled by the Church, man lives in the aftermath of a brutal war fought to extinguish the vampire threat. When the Priest’s (Bettany) family is attacked by the very vampires he helped eradicate, he must break his vows to save his only living relative, an 18-year-old girl named Lucy (Lily Collins). Joining the Priest are a young lawman (Cam Gigandet, continuing his career as punchline to some unfunny joke) and another rogue Priest (Maggie Q). As the Eastwoodian Priest with No Name, the can-be-charismatic Bettany proves yet again to be a plastic action figure. This ugly, murky sci-fi/western/ horror/action hybrid is a soulless second-tier summer “blockbuster” bled of even more color by the pointless addition of 3D. SUPER (NR) 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 reallife 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. 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 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. THOR (PG-13) The summer of second-tier superheroes begins with Marvel’s latest precursor to next summer’s all-star Avengers movie. The mighty Thor, with his magical hammer, Mjolnir, joins the Hulk and Iron Man as Avengers recruits brought to the big screen (only Captain America, coming this July, remains to complete the team), and the God of Thunder’s premiere issue falls squarely between the gold standard of Iron Man and the green giant’s two bronze-medal finishes. After a raid on the Frost Giants goes awry, a petulant Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is put in timeout by his Allfather, Odin (Anthony Hopkins). Until he learns to use his godlike powers selflessly, he is forced to exist as one seriously cut, regular dude who gets to woo Natalie Portman as astrophysicist Jane Foster. When Odin goes down for the Odinsleep, Thor’s trickster brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), assumes the throne while his banished bro cools off. To connect Thor to its older Marvel siblings, Shield Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) arrives to investigate the mysterious hammer that fell from the sky. Kenneth Branagh proves an excellent choice to direct the initial adventure of the banished Norse god. The acclaimed Brit lends a Shakespearean gravitas to the halls of Asgard and the game of thrones orchestrated by Loki. Surprisingly, the film’s best feature is not its wellexecuted, though pedestrian, action sequences but its super-powered humor. Hemsworth is no Robert Downey, Jr., but he imbues Thor’s confident reaction to his god-out-of-realm situation with a hearty conviviality. It’s not hard to understand why Jane falls for Thor, AKA Donald Blake. Portman seems to be having a blast, meshing well with her unlikely entourage, which includes Stellan Skarsgard and Kat Dennings. TWO SPIRITS (NR) At the age of 16, Navajo youth Fred Martinez became one of the youngest hate crime victims in modern history. Born in a male body but with a feminine nature, Fred was a nadleehi, considered a gift amongst the Navajo people. In modern America, it was a death sentence. Director Lydia Nibley reveals Fred’s tragic story through his mother, who broke the Navajo cultural injunction against speaking of the dead to, hopefully, save the lives of other gay teens. X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG-13) The newest X-Men follows the early friendship of a young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr, AKA Magneto (Michael Fassbender), which eventually splinters into Professor X’s X-Men and Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Kick-Ass filmmaker Matthew Vaughn finally joins the X-franchise after skipping the third X-Men movie to make Stardust. I like the cast: “Mad Men”’s January Jones as busty, barely-clad Emma Frost; Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence of Winter’s Bone as Mystique; Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw. Drew Wheeler

the reader Don’t Stop the Presses Smithsonian magazine recently ran a wonderful archive photo of the city room at the old afternoon newspaper the New York Journal-American, circa 1950. It’s a great shot that beautifully captures the taut energy of newspapers at the time. Rewrite men pounding at their typewriters, sleeves rolled up and cigarettes dangling from their mouths. Copyboys rushing furiously around the room. The city editor working the phones. All of them working cheek-to-jowl to find the lede, break the story, get one more edition on the street before the city’s workforce heads for the trains. It’s a glorious memento of the days when the daily newspaper was king.

I found the photo on Smithsonian’s website and linked it to my Facebook page. And that, Alanis, is irony. Granted, what I do hardly qualifies as “news,” “reporting” or “writing,” but I’m proud to be even peripherally connected to print journalism, and it’s a real heartbreaker to watch the old bastions of newsprint fall like dominoes in the face of diminishing ad revenue and the rise of the Internet. Not only is old-school journalism done with a laptop and a smartphone now, but the very model of what constitutes a news source has changed. Now all you need to be a reporter is a blog, and all you need to be a photographer is Photoshop. News outlets used to send their people out to pound the pavement; now anyone can email in a story or an image and get a free T-shirt. This is an inevitable development, I suppose— news travels faster than papers can cover and everyone has web access, so it only makes sense—but it’s still a damn shame. The crumbling edifice of print journalism is the tragedy at the heart of Pete Hamill’s excellent new novel Tabloid City (Little Brown, 2011). Framed in the span of 24 hours, from midnight to midnight, it follows the final day of the New York World, last of the great

afternoon tabloids, on its way to going electronic. From there, it ripples out into the lives of the paper’s old workhorses, to the horrific details of the paper’s last great story and to the city itself. Hamill’s novel is a love song to the great newspapers and to New York, and it is beautifully sung. The novel is set up as a series of revolving vignettes following a host of characters as they make their way through the city and a very bad winter day. Sam Briscoe, editor of the World and a newspaper veteran, receives an ominous memo from the publisher and the news that socialite Cynthia Harding, the love of the last part of his life, and her secretary have been brutally murdered. Ever the newspaperman, Briscoe swallows his grief and sends a young reporter to cover the story, and his best writer to man the phones. Meanwhile, the secretary’s husband, a New York cop, scours the city looking for the man he knows did it. An aging, almost-blind artist who knew Cynthia marks the end of her era. A creepy ex-World reporter gleefully reports the tragedy on his blog. A crippled Iraq vet wheels his way through the city looking for payback with a long list of names. An investment banker leaves his mistress and flees, the Bulgarian mob on his heels. An angry young black Muslim stalks the streets on a murderous, misguided mission. Needless to say, this is nothing like that show with Sarah Jessica Parker, “Vanilla Sex with White Millionaires within a Ten-Block Radius of Central Park West.” Nor is it strictly a thriller, though Hamill’s crime story is tight and suspenseful. What Hamill has done is construct a masterful novel around glimpses into the lives of his characters. New (and often not-so-new) writers often fall into the trap of over-plotting and under-characterizing, when the rock-bottom truth of good fiction is that when you have interesting characters in an interesting setting, plots inevitably write themselves. Tabloid City is a virtual master’s course in characterization. Hamill utilizes over a dozen characters and draws such compelling portraits of all of them that we come to know them, and therefore care for them, and all of the tension of the novel is derived from our compassion. Furthermore, he has set these people in a city he loves so deeply that his adoration for even its ugliest corners comes out. New York is every bit as much a character in the novel as Sam Briscoe and his newspaper, which is as it should be. Pete Hamill has written the best book I’ve read so far this year, and the next six months are going to be filled with contenders who’ll have to fight hard to top it. Tabloid City is filled to the brim with great characters, wonderful writing and a reverence for the heady days of print so strong you’ll want to start buying newspapers again. John G. Nettles

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Can I Get a Witness?: Although Athens has always had an uncomfortable attitude towards artists who work outside the realm of the traditional guitar, bass and drum setup, there are always a few people willing to risk it. Case in point is Witness the Apotheosis. This darkwave duo, composed of Terance Schmidt and Zak Vaudo, rarely plays locally but has steadily kept recording and writing. Most recently the pair released its newest seven-track EP, When the Night Comes, which features five different versions of the title track and a couple of others. Witness the Apotheosis previously released the Monomyth EP in 2009. The band next plays live July 5 at Atlanta venue the Shelter, but you can check them out over at www.witnesstheapotheosis.bandcamp.com and www.facebook.com/ WitnessTheApotheosis. I heartily encourage you to do so. Great Exportations: Whether you love ‘em or not, the meteoric rise of local bands Futurebirds and Reptar cannot be denied. Each will play this fall’s Austin City Limits Festival on Sept. 16. No word yet on who each will actually play alongside. The festival has seven stages. Reptar will also play Chicago’s Lollapalooza Festival in August, but before that the band will do a couple of dates with Brooklyn, NY’s Matt & Kim at the end of May and then a string of dates with

mere $5. You get a poster that you can display in your home to show your loyalty, too. The Fuzzlers have some kind of invented backstory regarding the band and a scientist that I can’t figure out to save my life. Dig ‘em over at www.thefuzzlers.com. Drop a Line: Derek Wiggs is busy organizing his annual Slop Fest, which will run July 21–23 at Little Kings Shuffle Club. A few bands have already locked in to play the largely local bill, and the first night will be mainly a dance party hosted by DJ Mahogany. There are lots of spaces available to play, though, as the event runs for several hours each day. Interested? Then drop a line to Wiggs via wiggsy84@gmail.com or get in touch by searching for “Slop Fest” on Facebook and becoming its friend. Summertime, Summertime: Madeline is gearing up to release her newest full-length album. Titled Black Velvet, the album will be released on LP and CD, each available for special package pre-orders now, and comes courtesy of new Athens label This Will Be Our Summer, which was spearheaded by Len Neighbors (Athens PopFest) and Mike Turner (HHBTM Records). Madeline will play a record release show on Friday, June 3 at the 40 Watt with The Goons and The Plague. She’ll play a free, all-ages in-store performance at

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Wuxtry Records’ downtown Athens location on Saturday, June 4 from 5–6 p.m. and an in-store show at Wuxtry in Decatur on Sunday, June 5 from 3–4 p.m. For more info on all this, please see www.oursummerrecords.com. Something Is Happening: Congratulations to Athens’ Lera Lynn for taking top songwriting honors in the Chris Austin Songwriting Competition at Wilkesboro, NC’s Merlefest. She has recorded a new live video of the song, too. In other news, Lynn made a video for her version of TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me” and has made an MP3 of the track available for free at her website. She’s got several dates planned for the next month or so and on July 27 will play the “Music City Roots” radio show (on Nashville, TN’s WRLT 100.1 FM), which is done live from Nashville’s Loveless Café. For more information, see www.leralynn.com. Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

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funny,” says Consider the Source bassist John Ferrara. “When we first started playing, we were trying to figure out: ‘What are we? What scene are we?’” Valid questions. After all, the band incorporates myriad influences to produce its unique sound. Guitarist Gabriel Marin and drummer Justin Ahiyon studied music in India just before the band officially formed, and that Eastern influence is tremendously present in the band’s music. According to Ferrara, all three members of Consider the Source were “into Middle Eastern and Indian music” before, but Marin and Ahiyon took their adventure to “study it in a more authentic way.” When they first played for a jam-band audience, Consider the Source realized these fans “took to” their music. While the bandmembers like jam bands and their audiences, they prefer not to be labeled one. “We don’t sound like a traditional jam band; we don’t even sound sort of like one,” says Ferrara. “But, I guess, because we do a lot of improvising, no vocals, reacting off each other, we’re put there. But we identify much more with progressive rock and jazz fusion.” To keep its musical options free and open, the band uses the blanket label of “progressive rock.” “It’s a very broad genre,” says Ferrara. “It can be a dude with an acoustic guitar doing some weird, crazy shit, or it could be like King Crimson… who are the kings of it, in my opinion.” One of progressive rock’s key aspects is that it’s more cerebral than traditional jam music―based more on technical planning than “in the moment” bursts of inspiration, according to Ferrara. “Progressive rock is more calculated―it’ll deal with odd times, meters will change somewhat frequently―at least relative to jam music. There’re solos in prog rock, but they’re often more thought-out than in jam music. In jam music, whatever the player’s feeling at the time, they play.” Most Western popular music is in the 4/4 time signature, so most Westerners are accustomed to this meter. Some of our hemisphere’s popular songs are in 3/4, a meter most commonly associated with the waltz. When a band deviates from these two familiar

time signatures, it can be quite challenging for an unaccustomed audience to hit upon the rhythm. Consider the Source exploits its audience’s rhythmic unfamiliarity to “keep the listener on their toes.” “This very often happens,” laughs Ferrara, “and it’s hysterical to watch. Everyone [in the crowd] will be jamming out one way, then seven [beat] comes in, and they don’t know what to do. They’re bobbing on the two and four, and then all of a sudden, their one is now a five, and they don’t know what to make of it. But then, they adjust to it. And they like it. They like that they’ve just been screwed with a little bit.” The band has toured around the U.S. several times, and in October 2010, they performed in Israel and Turkey. “I was a little nervous at first—going to the part of the world where the music that we’ve been playing actually originated from,” says Ferrara. “We didn’t want to come across as phonies [laughs]. But what else can you do? You’ve got to play what you play. So we did, and sure enough, we were very well received.” Far from being perceived as “phonies,” in the Middle East the band found an audience accustomed to its odd rhythms, according to Ferrara. “The coolest thing about Israel and Turkey both, as far as the audience’s response to us, is that every single person has awesome rhythm. When they clap along, they’re dead on.” Besides being eclectic, technically impressive and uniquely innovative, Consider the Source aims to be an interactive band that genuinely connects with its listeners: “What we’re all about is communicating with our audience,” says Ferrara. “That’s what we crave―what we love.”

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WHO: Consider the Source, Lazer/Wulf, Jungol WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Saturday, June 4, 9:30 p.m. HOW MUCH: $7 (21+), $9 (18–20)

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Jason Stollsteimer Gets Things His Way P hil Collins has accepted death. It sounds like a proclamation, but it’s really just an opinion—a lamentation on the state of pop music today. It comes from the mouth of Jason Stollsteimer, frontman for The Von Bondies and now the creative force behind The Hounds Below. So, where does Phil Collins’ place in the “five stages of grief” fit into that? “Supposedly, he’s retired from music. Basically, he said his pop songwriting ability is no longer relevant. People don’t really care about that anymore. I find that really interesting. Let’s just say he’s accepted death,” Stollsteimer says. “I don’t know any other way to dance around it except that he’s accepted that he has nothing to do now. By doing that, he’s totally accepted death, and it sucks.” The demise of respect for lyrical, vocal and pop sensibility in modern music is subjective. Some people think Lady Gaga is a genius, while others like Stollsteimer find a lot more to admire in the golden days of Roy Orbison and, yes, even in the career of Phil Collins. The Hounds Below exists because Stollsteimer doesn’t believe in the irrelevancy of those types of musicians. “[The Von Bondies] was a garage rock band. I fought so hard to make it not a garage rock band, but it was,” he says. “That was all about playing as fast as we could and, basically, about being teenagers. This is more vocal-centric, more singable and less of just a hit and run.” The band, which is actually Stollsteimer’s solo project, plays the kind of music he wants to hear. The vocals are pronounced, the melodies are strong, and the lyrics have some kind of message, even if only to him. With one EP released so far (streaming at thehoundsbelow. bandcamp.com), he says some have likened it to Orbison backed by the Pixies. It has taken him more than a decade to get to this point, and some people may question why it took him so long to actually make the music he wanted to make. Some may wonder if he stuck it out for commercial reasons. There’s no definitive answer, but the real reason may be that when he first started, he was just a dumb kid. “When The Von Bondies started, it was just a bunch of us getting together and drinking,

and it turned into something. When I was 19, we’d do a whole tour and do nine songs a night, and I wouldn’t have any lyrics. I’d have a chorus and then I’d just rap, basically. I’d sing the chorus and then ramble on about nothing,” he says. “I came into this knowing what I wanted. I didn’t want a democracy. I didn’t want anyone else to have a say.” It’s been a few years since The Hounds Below came into being, and Stollsteimer has kept true to his word. With an oft-changing crew of players, he’s the only constant in the band. It’s his world, a place where he can write the songs he wants and he can atone for any trouble he may have found in the past, including an infamous and bloody 2003 bar brawl with Jack White. “Before, I was the average 20-year-old guy whining about crap—jealousy and bitterness. It’s different now. I’m less vain,” he says. “I made a lot of mistakes, and I’m now realizing what they were and trying to learn from them and avoid them, instead of putting myself in bad situations, which I’m notorious for.” If having a better creative outlet in The Hounds Below coupled with being a few years wiser can help him with that, The Von Bondies deserve to be on the back burner for now. The newfound maturity certainly shows in his songwriting and his vocals, which are quite pretty for a former garage rocker. While not sounding exactly like Orbison, the same kind of appreciation for beauty is there. And while not a dead ringer for the Pixies, the band does offer a similarly fun and melodic brand of pop/ rock and roll. “Can you dance to it? Can you cry to it? Can you make love to it? I don’t know,” Stollsteimer says. “But I like listening to music I can sing along to and have a good time, so I’d like to offer the same thing.” Jennifer Gibson

WHO: The Hounds Below, Cowboy and Indian, TBA WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Tuesday, June 7, 9:30 p.m. HOW MUCH: $5 (21+), $7 (18+)

A panel of local music judges has selected this year’s finalists; just check the box next to your choice or write-in your own candidate in the space provided. You do not need to vote in every category. Please mail form to Flagpole Magazine, PO Box 1027, Athens, GA 30603; drop it off at our office at 112 S. Foundry St., or submit an online ballot at www.Flagpole.com. ElECTRoNIC o Abandon the Earth Mission o Basshunter 64 o FLT RSK o Steven Trimmer o Up Until Now

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upstart roundup Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent STRANGE TORPEDO inventive within the confines of traditional, fast hardcore, and Alternative/ Indie/ Post Punk vocalist Clancy has rekindled the intensity he brought to the Lineup: Pete Hayek, Nate Chasen, Tom Roberts, Nathan altogether-too-brief band Brown Diamond. Each member of the Koskey. Influences: Cake, The Clash, Talking Heads. group has his lifer bona fides and brings functional skills to This collaboration actually dates back to the ‘80s when the project, ranging from booking to screenprinting; the halfTom Roberts and Pete Hayek started a band in Baton Rouge. way mind-blowing information that the band’s first show was Around ‘87, the pair relocated to Athens and formed Sufferin’ with longtime grindcore buttheads A.C. says volumes. Succotash, “a high-energy, pop-punk, quirky, never predictable trio.” After some successful national tours, the band finally called it quits in the mid-’90s. Fast Sam Sniper forward to 2007, when Tom and Pete finally decided to dive back in and formed a new project that would become Strange Torpedo. The group has only logged a handful of shows in Athens so far, having suffered from the usual rotating door of bassists and drummers that plagues so many bands. But at long last, the lineup is cemented and they’re ready to roll. Tom decided to handle bass duties, and Strange Torpedo picked up cellist Nathan Chasen, whose backing vocals add “haunting vibes” to the mix. Nathan Koskey filled in behind the drums, and the band says he’s “the drummer we’ve been looking for… He’s not homeless, has a job, a car, a drum-kit and can keep a mean beat.” You can hear a sample of this band’s jagged, brooding rock over at www.strangetorpedo.com. Look out for some new covers as well, as the group has plans to tackle songs by Talking Heads, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure and The White Stripes. Next show: Thursday, June 2 @ Terrapin Brewery SHAVED CHRIST Street Punk/ Grinder Lineup: Michael Clancy, Al Daglis, Joe Dakin, Jason Griffin. Shares members with: Hot New Mexicans, Witches. Former members of: Dark Meat, American Cheeseburger, 300 Cobras, Divorce. Influences: Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Discharge. Let’s get this out of the way: drummer Jason Griffin and bassist Joe Dakin are former members of American Cheeseburger, and that fact will cast a long shadow over their new band, Shaved Christ—at least initially. Cheeseburger was an undeniable institution for Athens punk rockers, and so this new act has a mighty legacy to live up to. But the fact that guitarist Al Daglis (onetime drummer in power-violencegone-wild act Cop Dope) is responsible for a majority of the songwriting suggests a lateral move coming from a new perspective: this band is a different beast altogether. This is a band of drummers, and it shows: the songs are rhythmically

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After a blitzkrieg of April shows, the quartet is now recording its demo with producer Joel Hatstat, and, once Clancy returns from a European tour with sonorous post-punks Witches, they plan on playing and touring as much and as often as possible. [Jeff Tobias] Next show: Saturday, June 11 @ Go Bar SAM SNIPER Country-Funk Lineup: Chris Barnett, Andrew Klein, Nick Mallis and Ryan Sedgwick. Shares members with: Yo Soybean. Influences: CSNY, The Band, Queen, Wilco, Dr. Dog, MGMT, Blitzen Trapper. In our feature on the Athens Americana Fest back in April, we asked local musicians to define “Americana”—and the answers were just as varied as the Fest’s lineup. That sense of interconnected diversity also permeates Sam Sniper’s debut album, We’re Not Coming Back This Way. Just when you think

you’ve got this band pegged, they nimbly change things up on you, shifting gears with deft grace. Depending on what track you hear first, Sam Sniper might seem like a rootsy folk band—complete with plucked banjo notes and lonesome caterwauling—or maybe a soulful blues act with gospel-inspired organ. And then the pace picks up, the guitars start howling, and Sam Sniper is full-on Southern rock with country-fried twang and big, anthemic choruses. But the biggest surprise comes on songs like “Captain Boughman,” when the red clay seems to fall away as synth and electronic loops descend from outer space… and all of a sudden that MGMT influence becomes strikingly apparent. Yet, in spite of the band’s eclectic nature, somehow it all sounds distinctively and cohesively like Sam Sniper. If there’s one consistent thread running through this album, it’s the band’s undeniably strong sense of melody. The songwriting duo of Chris Barnett and Andrew Klein makes up the core of Sam Sniper, but the group expands to include Yo Soybean’s Nick Mallis on bass and Ryan Sedgwick on drums for its live shows. Soak in all 14 tracks of heartland glory at www.samsniper.bandcamp.com. Next show: Check Facebook for updates. NEVER Psychedelic/ Noisy/ Pop Lineup: Melissa Colbert, Peter Alvanos, Kris Deason, Chris McGarvey, Ryan Vogle. Shares members with: Creepy, Fabulous Bird, Nuclear Spring. Influences: The ‘70s. To see NEVER live is to witness catharsis. Frontwoman Melissa Colbert is absolutely explosive— howling and moaning, thrusting and gyrating, as if exorcising demons. She’s backed by a wall of equally entrancing psychedelic layers created by Kris Deason’s modified pedals and Ryan Vogle’s relentless guitar. “I am just totally engrossed in what’s happening,” says Colbert about the band’s live shows. “I think we all are. We’re just paying attention to each other and getting lost in the music with each other. It’s a good feeling.” Deason put this project together originally, jamming out with Nuclear Spring’s Vogle for about a year and creating the framework for the band. McGarvey, a transplant from Chicago, joined on bass at the beginning of this year, and Colbert was recruited as vocalist not long after with Peter Alvanos recently joining behind the drums. Colbert says she alternates between lyrics and the kind of guttural vocalizations you might remember from her prior psych-dance band Everybody, Everybody. While each song has a sort of “basic structure,” the set is loose and flowing, with lots of improvisation. Colbert also sways between the microphone and an old synthesizer, adding another layer of lush drone. The brand-new band doesn’t have a web page as of press time but does play out often, and live is the best way to experience this enthralling act. Next Show: Saturday, June 25 @ Go Bar (AthFest) Michelle Gilzenrat music@flagpole.com

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Tuesday 31 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Check out the afternoon market in its convenient downtown location! Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net ART: Art and History Lesson (Oglethorpe County Library) Meet at the William H. Crawford Cemetery for a history lesson by Gary Doster, then reconvene for an art lesson in pastels with Nan Demsky. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-743-8817 OUTDOORS: Jogging Group for Moms (St. Gregory the Great) Meet new moms at this weekly jogging session. Tuesdays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. 706-552-8554, athensmotherscenter@gmail.com 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: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Brown Bag Lunch (ACC Library) “You can CAN!” Denise Everson will share research-based recipes and provide step-by-step instructions for food preservation. Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com

Wednesday 1 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: Opening Reception (Artini’s Art Lounge) For paintings by Matt Bahr and Kate Cook. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.artinisartlounge.com ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Join docents for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Feathers, Fur and Scales Pets (Madison County Library) Guinea pigs from South America, snakes from Africa and tarantulas from Mexico! 2–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597

KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (ACC Library) This year’s show is based on the book Animal Crackers Fly the Coop by Kevin O’Malley. June 1 & 7, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., June 2 & 3, 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., June 6, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Nature Writing Group (Athens Land Trust) Examine some great nature writing and take walks outdoors. Every Wednesday. 4:30–5:30 p.m. $5. patricia.priest@ yahoo.com 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

Thursday 2 EVENTS: Grand Opening (Sips and Strokes) Check out the new painting studio and find out how to attend classes or book parties. www.sipsnstrokes.com EVENTS: iFilms: Two Spirits (ACC Library) The tragic story of a Navajo mother’s loss when her transgendered son is brutally murdered at age 16. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 PERFORMANCE: ClamJam Comedy (Flicker Theatre & Bar) All female stand-up comedy with Shalewa Sharpe, Tammy Imig, Natalie Glaser and Amanda Burk and hosted by Andrea Boyd. Proceeds benefit Girls’ Rock Camp Athens and Project Safe. Followed with live music by Hymn for Her. 9 p.m. $3. www.flickertheatreandbar.com PERFORMANCE: Hacks VII (Caledonia Lounge) Stand-up comeday night hosted by Luke Fields and featuring Dan St. Germain, Paul Gallois, Nate Mitchell, Jake Duvall, Chris Patton, Mike Kaiser and Craig Hoelzer. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THEATRE: Something’s Afoot (Piedmont College, Swanson Center) Musical comedy spoof based on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians. Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. FREE! (students and staff), $15. 706-7788500, ext. 1355. KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (ACC Library) This year’s show is based on the book Animal Crackers Fly the Coop by Kevin O’Malley. June 1 & 7, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., June 2 & 3, 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., June 6, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Steampunk Craft Workshop (ACC Library) Make goggles, jewelry and other Victorian items for a steampunk tea party that will be hosted later in the summer. Call to register. 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 329

Friday 3 EVENTS: Aliens in Athens (Native America Gallery) An extraterrestrial extravaganza with UFO door prizes, a costume contest and more. Swap abduction stories with your alien partygoers or speak with trained therapists. 706-543-8425 EVENTS: Crooning for a Cure (Go Bar) An evening of karaoke with Dr. Fred and late night dancing with Twin Powers and Trey Ehart. Proceeds will benefit breast cancer awareness and research. 8 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/gobar ART: Artist Reception (OCAF) For “Portraits from the Burning Ring of Fire” by painter Jonathan Jacquet. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com THEATRE: Something’s Afoot (Piedmont College, Swanson Center) Musical comedy spoof based on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians. Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. FREE! (students and staff), $15. 706-7788500, ext. 1355. KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (ACC Library) This year’s show is based on the book Animal Crackers Fly the Coop by Kevin O’Malley. June 1 & 7, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., June 2 & 3, 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., June 6, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Play Group (St. Gregory the Great) Meet other new moms at this weekly play date. Fridays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-552-8554, athensmotherscenter@gmail.com MEETINGS: Friends First Friday (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Gather at a made-from-scratch breakfast to meet other folks and hear about what determines a plant’s name. 9 a.m. $12. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden

Saturday 4 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: ClamJam Festival (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Shop at the Happy Hour Artists’ Market and trade supplies and ideas at the Supply Swap table. Live music by Incendiaries, Maximum Busy Muscle and Shitty Candy & the Circus Peanuts at 9 p.m. and a dance party with Bitch Switch at 12 a.m. Proceeds benefit Girls’ Rock Camp and Project Safe. 5 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub EVENTS: Harry Potter Movie Screening (ACC Library) In celebration of the “Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine” exhibit, a screening

Geoff and Lisa Pickett are holding their June Open House Pottery Sale, Saturday and Sunday, June 4 & 5 at Farmington Pottery. of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Downtown Watkinsville) Visit the back lawn of the Eagle Tavern Museum for locally grown produce, meats, dairy and handcrafted goods. Every Saturday, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www. oconeefarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Weekend A’Fair (Charmar Flower and Gift Shop) Rent a table for $10 or come check out what other artists, craftspeople and local farmers have in store. First Saturday of every month. FREE! 10 a.m.–5 p.m. weekendafair@gmail.com ART: Beginners’ Relief Printmaking Workshop (The Loft Art Supplies) Local artist Brian Hitselberger will teach a workshop examining a historical technique using linoleum. 1–4:30 p.m. $40 (includes materials). 706-548-5334, theloftartsupply@gmail.com ART: Family Day: Go Figure! (Georgia Museum of Art) View “Horizons” by Icelandic sculptor Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, then create your own figurative sculpture. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Mini Craft Fair (Chappelle Gallery) Pottery, blown glass, fiber, jewelry, paintings, mixed media and more. Demonstrations in wheel throwing, raku, weaving and painting. 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. 706-310-0985 ART: Pottery and Art Show (1790 Salem Road) Join Jeff Bishop and friends for a show and sale. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 678-863-1847

ART: Pottery Open House (Carter Gillies Pottery) Pottery by Carter Gillies, Geoff Pickett, Jeff Bishoff, Julie Greene, Juana Gnecco and Erika Galloway. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www.carterthepotter.etsy.com ART: Pottery Open House (1171 Freeman Creek Road) Geoff and Lisa Pickett showcase a variety of stoneware and porcelain pottery including dinnerware, kitchen and tableware and pots. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. pickettpottery@gmail.com ART: Pottery Sale (Wolf Creek Pottery) Works by Lynne Burke, Isabell Daniel, Michael DeBerry, Juana Gnecco, Jen Graff, Nancy Green and Minsoo Yuh. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. jgnecco@gmail.com PERFORMANCE: American Roots Music (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Concert and dance with Jay Ungar and the Molly Mason Family Band. 7:30 p.m. $5 (students), $25. www.mmcc-arts.org THEATRE: Something’s Afoot (Piedmont College, Swanson Center) Musical comedy spoof based on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians. Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. FREE! (students and staff), $15. 706-7788500, ext. 1355. OUTDOORS: Garden Geology (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Take a morning exploration of the Georgia Piedmont rock types found at the garden. 10 a.m. FREE! 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden KIDSTUFF: Snake Day (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Explore the misunderstood and secret world of

snakes. 12–4 p.m. $2. 706-6133615 KIDSTUFF: Teen Night (Active Climbing) Every first Saturday of the month. Rock climbing, pizza, music and more! 8–11 p.m. $15. www. activeclimbing.com

Sunday 5 EVENTS: Ceremony (The Classic Center) A reception honoring Judge Steve C. Jones for his service to the Western Judicial Circuit and local community. 2–4 p.m. www.oconeecounty.com ART: Mini Craft Fair (Chappelle Gallery) Pottery, blown glass, fiber, jewelry, paintings, mixed media and more on offer. Demonstrations in wheel throwing, raku, weaving and painting. 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. 706310-0985 ART: Pottery and Art Show (1790 Salem Road) Join Jeff Bishop and friends for a show and sale. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 678-863-1847 ART: Pottery Open House (Carter Gillies Pottery) Pottery by Carter Gillies, Geoff Pickett, Jeff Bishoff, Julie Greene, Juana Gnecco and Erika Galloway. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www.carterthepotter.etsy.com ART: Pottery Open House (1171 Freeman Creek Road) Geoff and Lisa Pickett showcase a variety of stoneware and porcelain pottery including dinnerware, kitchen and tableware and pots. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. pickettpottery@gmail.com k continued on next page

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ART: Pottery Sale (Wolf Creek Pottery) Works by Lynne Burke, Isabell Daniel, Michael DeBerry, Juana Gnecco, Jen Graff, Nancy Green and Minsoo Yuh. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. jgnecco@gmail.com THEATRE: Something’s Afoot (Piedmont College, Swanson Center) Musical comedy spoof based on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians. Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. FREE! (students and staff), $15. 706-7788500, ext. 1355.

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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. Now accepting EBT cards. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Screening: Grow! (Ciné BarCafé) Slow Food Athens presents a film looking at the lives of 20 different sustainable farmers on 12 farms throughout Georgia. Filmmakers Christine Anthony and Owen Masterson will give an introduction. 7 p.m. $10. www.growmovie.blogspot.com ART: Art and History Lesson (Oglethorpe County Library) Meet at Howard’s Covered Bridge for a history lesson presented by Jack Howard, then reconvene at the library for an art lesson in printmaking with instructor Nan Demsky. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-743-8817 PERFORMANCE: Open TOAD Comedy (Flicker Theatre & Bar) A unique open mic experience. The audience gets to pelt the performers

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who go over their six-minute time limit with foam rocks. Performers get in FREE! but must sign up by 8 p.m. 8 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar THEATRE: The Taming of the Shrew (Cellar Theatre) Performed by Ray Paolino’s Maymester Shakespeare class. 8 p.m. www. drama.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (ACC Library) This year’s show is based on the book Animal Crackers Fly the Coop by Kevin O’Malley. June 1 & 7, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., June 2 & 3, 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., June 6, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to five years of age. Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706613-3650 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com

Wednesday 8 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: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of “The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Saxophonist Hart Linker (Ciné BarCafé) Originally from Athens, Linker will be returning to present his live debut of contemporary works for solo saxophone and electronics. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.hartlinker.com THEATRE: The Taming of the Shrew (Cellar Theatre) Performed by Ray Paolino’s Maymester Shakespeare class. 8 p.m. www. drama.uga.edu THEATRE: “Shakespeare Under the Stars” (Ashford Manor) Rose of Athens Theatre presents a production of Shakespeare’s fairy tale comedy, As You Like It. June 8–12, 8 p.m. $5–15. 706-340-9181. See www.roseofathens.org for ticket information. KIDSTUFF: Drumming with Dr. Arvin Scott (Madison County Library) Multi-award winning percussion artist and youth program developer, Dr. Arvin Scott, brings the art of drumming to the library’s reading series. FREE! 2 p.m. www. drummingforsuccess.com KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Nature Writing Group (Athens Land Trust) Examine some great nature writing and take walks outdoors. Every Wednesday. 4:30–5:30 p.m. $5. patricia.priest@ yahoo.com MEETINGS: Election Forum (Oconee County Library) Candidates for the special election on June 21 to fill the vacant Georgia House District 113 seat are invited to an election forum. Citizens may ask questions directly of the candidates. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com * Advance Tickets Available

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Jimmy Thackery The Melting Point The R&B circuit features an old guard of savvy veterans who have paid and repaid their dues while crisscrossing the country, for life, with the understanding that some gigs are better than others. Simultaneously, the scene is teeming with prodigious youngsters; the next Stevie Ray Vaughn seemingly always being discovered, waiting to sell millions of records— yet never quite living up to the burden of hype. In 1972, Jimmy Thackery was a 19-year-old founding member of popular D.C.-based roots outfit The Nighthawks—then a young virtuoso and now a card-carrying member of the old school. After more than 30 years, with roughly 300 tour dates annually, it’s safe to say his has been a life dedicated to performing blues music. “I’ve been kind of around the block—you know, Stevie [Ray Vaughn] and I were good friends,” he says. “There was nobody that could touch the guy then, and no one has come along that has been able to touch him since. There are a lot of young kids that emulate him and have been able to recreate a lot of his stylistic approaches and that kind of thing. You know, the fact of the matter is, there was only one Jimi Hendrix, there was only one Stevie Ray and there’s only one Jimmy Thackery… Emulate whoever you want to until you get your chops going, but at some point, you have to figure out what your voice is.” As for life on the seemingly endless road? “We’re generally really just trying to get from one town to the next and set up our tent and have a throw-down. It’s about a good vibe… You are, in a way, kind of a snake-oil salesman in that you’re bringing your product to the people. They can’t get it at a record store; they don’t have one! They have Wal-Mart and Best Buy and Borders,” he sneers, adding with animation, “Ehhhhhh, not everything shows up in those places!” Last month, Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers released Feel the Heat on their own White River Records label. Pick up a copy at the Melting Point gig and put standout instrumental track “Bluphoria” on your lazy summer hammock-time playlist. [David Eduardo]

Down the Line KIDSTUFF: Family Fishing Day 6/9 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Bait, poles and tips provided. Call to register. 6–7:30 p.m. $6/family. 706-613-3615 THEATRE: “Shakespeare Under the Stars” 6/9 (Ashford Manor) Rose of Athens Theatre presents a production of Shakespeare’s fairy tale comedy, As You Like It. June 8–12, 8 p.m. $5–15. 706-340-9181, www.roseofathens.org THEATRE: Twelfth Night 6/10 (Athens Community Theatre) The Town & Gown Players present Shakespeare’s famous crossdressing comedy of mistaken identity. Thursday–Saturday,8 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. $12–15. 706208-8696 ART: Artist Walk 6/11 (State Botanical Garden) Sculptor Andrew T. Crawford will lead a tour around the garden to speak on his gates: “Forged from Nature: An Exhibit of Garden Gates.” 11 a.m. FREE! 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden EVENTS: 4th Annual 10 Year Anniversary 6/11 (Blind Pig Tavern) Music, pig roast, fish fry and drinks. Live music by The Rattlers, Chris Moore, Betsy Franck & the Bareknuckle Band, Carla LeFever & the Rays and the Adam Payne Band. 4 p.m. www.BlindPigTavern. com

KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime 6/11 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and their resident creatures. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615, www.accleisureservices.com ART: Artist Reception 6/12 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A reception and art sale for “Art in the Garden: Plein Air Paint Out,” benefiting the State Botanical Garden’s conservation and education programs. 1–4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden EVENTS: 42nd Annual Preservation Awards 6/13 (UGA Fine Arts Building) Join the AthensClarke Heritage Foundation at this ceremony to present awards for outstanding local makeovers, from DIY rehabs, to LEED-certified new construction, to million-dollar historic restorations. Reception follows. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-1801 * Advance Tickets Available

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thrashy, dissonant alt-rock group featuring ex-Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen. SPRING TIGERS Led by British expat Kris Barratt, this Athens-based band offers high-energy, anthemic pop and angular rock tunes. Loads of new songs and a new album in the works. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY Dark, eclectic solo project of Nick Podgurski, drummer for Baltimorebased noise rock bands Yukon, Extra Life, and others. LES RHINOCEROS D.C. band that jumps from ambient to noise-rock to experimental jazz, splattered together like a Jackson Pollack painting. NUTRITIONAL PEACE Local “vegan ambient” duo featuring Jeff Tobias and Amy Whisenhunt create lush, hypnotizing soundscapes using sax, guitar, keys, autoharp and various percussion.

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

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE MEMORIALS Female vocals add beauty and dramatic eeriness to this

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

The Melting Point Terrapin Bluegrass Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com THE DEFIBULATORS From the thriving roots scene of Brooklyn, this band melds bluegrass, rockabilly, honky-tonk and punk. No Where Bar 9 p.m. $1. 706-546-4742 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. Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens EVAN BARBER Southern rock with an alt-country twang. LANGE EVE Traditional, strippeddown folk paired with gorgeous, forlorn vocals.

Wednesday 1 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy! Blue Sky 5–10 p.m. www.blueskyathens.com VINYL WEDNESDAY Bring your own vinyl and be a DJ for the night. Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Welcoming singer-songwriters every Wednesday. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ANDY D A weird mix of party rock and ‘80s synthed-out hip-hop, held together by the glue of a strong sense of humor and wildly praised high-energy shows.

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George’s Lowcountry Table “Acoustic Wednesdays.” 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3359 KEN WILL MORTON Athens’ own Ken Will Morton has been strumming and singing for over 20 years. With his gritty, soulful rasp, Morton trudges through Americana’s roots with rock and roll swagger and a folk singer’s heart. Recently recognized as a “songwriter of the week” in American Songwriter. Go Bar “John Prine Tribute Night.” 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar PAYTON BRADFORD Member of the Futurebirds plays a solo set. THOMAS HARDY Dead Confederate frontman Hardy Morris performs solo. RUBY KENDRICK Local singersongwriter with a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics. VAUGHN LAMB Gift Horse bassist plays a solo set. JEREMY WHEATLEY You may have seen Wheatley perform as a member of Tin Cup Prophette, The Low Lows and Je Suis France. His solo shows feature warm, endearing ballads accompanied by guitar. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub CHIMNEY CHOIR Mulit-instrument/ synth mellow folk three piece from Denver that is densely layered, but ends up sounding charmingly simple and is easy to enjoy. k continued on next page

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TUESDAY, JUNE 7 Terrapin Tuesday Bluegrass Series featuring

NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND $5 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8

MAC LEAPHART

BRET MOSELY $5 Admission

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

HACK BARTLEY AND SHUFFLE

(ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS) Tickets $8 adv. • $12 at the door

ON THE HORIZON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15

GEOFF ACHISON

& THE SOULDIGGERS with RANDALL BRAMBLETT Tickets $7 adv. • $10 at the door

COMING SOON 6.14 - CLAY LEVERETT & FRIENDS 6.17 - TOTALLY 80’S PARTY WITH THE HIGHBALLS 6.21 - HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND 6.24 - ATHFEST FT. KUROMA, GIFT HORSE, MODERN SKIRTS, GRINGO STAR 6.25 - ATHFEST FT. LOVE TRACTOR, SUPERCLUSTER, MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND, FIVE EIGHT LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF

6.28 - EXCEPTION TO THE RULE 7.1 - HOLMAN AUTRY BAND 7.3 - 3RD ANNUAL CLASSIC CITY AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL 7.5 - BORDERHOP TRIO 7.8 - GRAINS OF SAND 7.12 - THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS 7.19 - MANDOLIN ORANGE 7.29 - PHIL AND THE BLANKS 8.13 - KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS

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Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com (Timothy Rd. Location) NAPOLEON SOLO The multitasking one-man rock band handles it all. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF New band featuring indie rock originals by Second Son bassist Henry Barbe. New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com RENE BRENTON Borrowing from the Surrealists’ “automatic writing” technique, Brenton sets it to a full band (piano, drums, bass, and lead guitar) backed up by three-part harmonies. INTIMATE STRANGER AngloChilean avant-pop making waves in Latin America and in the U.S. underground. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Tonight with your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke! Part of “Gay Night”: a gay-friendly evening, every Wednesday. Omega Bar 9 p.m. $3. dg2003@yahoo.com SPICY SALSA No partner necessary. Every Wednesday! Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens CHRIS CUNDARI Jam, electronica and reggae performed live with a looping technique similar to Keller Williams. TINA SPARKLE Illinois indie-rock with a grungey irreverance across a catalogue that touches all corners of rock, from punk to arena to Southern ballads. Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com THE FRONT PORCH PROJECT Expect a mix of bluegrass, folk and thrash from this trio.

Thursday 2 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 COUNTRY NIGHT A whole evening of country karaoke and line dancing to help work the red into your neck. DePalma’s Italian Cafe 7 p.m. Timothy Rd. 706-552-1237 OPEN MIC NITE Contact Ben to sign up! Email timothy@depalmasitaliancafe.com or call. Accepting family friendly entertainment acts. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com GREEN GERRY Particularly dreamlike and subtly electronic local artist. YVETTE Psychedelic noise-rock, guitar/drums duo from Brooklyn. Thundering drums, lots of scary effects and vocals, tied together with a sense of nervous energy. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $3 (proceeds benefit Girls’ Rock Camp Athens & Project Safe). www. flickertheatreandbar.com HYMN FOR HER A refreshing mix of thrashing country rock, acid blues and fuzzed out Americana.

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40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www.40watt.com BLOODKIN The long-running Athens quartet plays a bluesy style of roots-rock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics for darkly countrified bar-room rock. Acoustic set tonight. JERRY JOSEPH Soulful singer/ songwriter from Portland with achingly emotional lyrics and a sort of heartland rocker persona. NEW SNEAKERS Rockin’ local band. Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features Robby Handley (bass) and Marlon Patton (drums). Hotel Indigo 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensdowntownhotel.com TODD COWART Souther roots rocker and Hushpuppies Band vocalist performs tonight with Michael C. Steele. The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com DELTA MOON Atlanta’s Delta Moon plays dusty, rusty blues rock laden with slide guitar and fancy fingerwork. New Earth Music Hall 10 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com BANGRADIO Self-styled slinger of “Athens Euro,” this DJ offers a mix of Eurotrash, dirty South, hip-hop, dubstep, classic rock, rock and pop remixes. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 BLUES NIGHT Fight off the Thursday night blues in the good company of blues jams. Rye Bar 10 p.m. $2. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens ATOMIC BOOGIE Rockabilly, boogiewoogie and scorching hot blues from Atlanta. GRAHAM’S NUMBER This band plays a progressive style of rock and roll/blues/bluegrass/funk with a reggae feel. Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com STRANGE TORPEDO This local band offers moody harmonies and an alt rock meets post-punk sound.

Friday 3 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ alibibar DWIGHT WILSON AND THE CLASSIC CITY SOUL Motown and R&B classics. There will also be food and party favors as the Office Lounge celebrates its anniversary. Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is

known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan and Neil Young to Van Morrison. Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BLACK SKIES Heavy, scruffy rock and roll out of Chapel Hill, conjuring thoughts of Sabbath and its countless offspring. CALTROP This Chapel Hill band offers heavy, riff-based rock that takes its cues from Sabbath but presents them in a series of very modern arrangements. HOT BREATH Intense thrash trio featuring members of Savagist and Rectanglers. SHARKHEART Local progressive metal band. Formerly known as Cancerstick. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com TENT CITY This Athens-based fourpiece blends new-age funk with soulful blues. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. www.40watt.com THE GOONS New indie-poprock featuring members of The Glands, Casper & the Cookies and Marshmallow Coast. MADELINE AND THE BLACK VELVET BAND One of Athens’ most beloved singer-songwriters, Madeline’s poignant, witty folk songs can break and mend hearts in one fell swoop. Tonight she celebrates the release Black Velvet with the help of her top-notch backing band. THE PLAGUE Original ‘80s Athens punk band revitalized in 2005 and continuing to tear it up with dark, angular rock. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com HEATHER LUTTRELL Georgian singer/songwriter with a seductive, soulful, Margo Timmins voice and Indigo Girls-style folk. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub ANTLERED ANT LORD Featuring local producer and songwriter Jesse Stinnard. WADE BOGGS New band featuring Ian McCord (Hot New Mexicans, Carrie Nations). The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS The new generation of ‘60s beach music group perhaps best known for the hit song “Double Shot (of My Baby’s Love).” Mostly made up of children or relatives of the original lineup, the Medallions bill themselves as “the party band of the South.” New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $8. www.newearthmusichall. com DINNER AT THE THOMPSONS French/American electro-soul-hiphop duo promoting new album, Off the Grid. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 KARAOKE Be the rock star you always dreamed of… at least until your song is over. Rye Bar 10 p.m. $2. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens AFRO AMERICA Mixing elements of progressive rock, electronica, psy-

chedelic rock, funk and bluegrass into seamless compositions. SWIRLY TEMPLE Three-piece progressive rock from ATL adds a dose of funky to blues and rock. Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com JASON AND THE PUNKNECKS L.A.-based cowpunk duo that blends punk, country, folk and bluegrass.

Saturday 4 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy! Bishop Park “Athens Farmers Market.” 8 a.m.– noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net HOBOHEMIANS Local four-piece playing a mix of proto-jazz, blues and folk music of the 1910s, ‘20s and ‘30s. (10 a.m.) TRE POWELL Solo blues and R&B guitarist. (8 a.m.) Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CONSIDER THE SOURCE Brooklyn trio influenced by travels to India and the Middle East and the fundamental styles of traditional Eastern music. See story on p. 12. GEMNEYE Live electronic and dub, mixed into what Nick Stewart, “or on Planet Rage, gemNeye,” calls “ragestep.” JUNGOL Experimental electronic rock from Atlanta that ranges from ethereal to aggressive with operatic pop vocals. LAZER/WULF This avant-metal instrumental trio mixes in prog, thrash as well as more eclectic influences for a high-energy and highly entertaining live show. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BURN BARREL Mostly acoustic pop with a slight touch of Americana twang. Featuring members of Ham1. DAVIS GRIFFIN Local performer who uses guitar pedals to create live loops. JEREMY WHEATLEY You may have seen Wheatley perform as a member of Tin Cup Prophette, The Low Lows and Je Suis France. His solo shows feature warm, endearing ballads accompanied by guitar. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com HANS DARKBOLT Local band performing fiercely melodic pop tunes with swelling vocals and eerie harmonies. TIMMY TUMBLE AND THE TUMBLERS Tim Schreiber (Dark Meat, The Lickity-Splits) howls and spasms and literally tumbles over garagey rock-anthems and retroinspired pop songs. The Tumblers consist of members of Bubbly Mommy Gun and The Humms. Front Porch Bookstore 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND An eclectic blend of traditional and contemporary acoustic music. Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. TOM EISENBRAUN From-the-heart acoustic ballads from this local artist call to mind the works of Nick Drake, M. Ward or Andrew Bird.

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Monday, June 6

The Hoot AthFest Sampler/ AthFest CD Release Party The Melting Point AthFest has been around for a decade and a half, and for the vast majority of its lifespan, the annual music and arts festival has issued an accompanying compilation CD to promote the event. This year finds two more traditions combining forces, with the annual Hoot AthFest Sampler—a version of the monthly folk-music get-together featuring bands who’ll play at AthFest—also serving as the CD release party for the AthFest comp. Acts on this year’s 13-song AthFest comp include Spirit Hair, Adam Klein, The Spinoffs, Betsy Franck & the Bareknuckle Band, BombsBombsBombs and other younger local acts. Monday’s CD release party at the Melting Point features performances from three of the more acoustic-leaning acts: The Knockouts are a group of longtime local visual artists, musicians and scene vets who play an impassioned, punky folk mélange, like if The Pogues leaned into bluegrass, ska and zydeco. More folk comes via The Welfare Liners, a five-piece string-and-vocal-harmony band which includes Russ Hallauer, head of the AthFest comp’s record label Ghostmeat Records, on mandolin. The duo Powerkompany wraps it up as Andrew Heaton marries electronic effects to the vocals, ukulele and keys of Venice Is Sinking’s Karolyn Troupe. Local folk stalwart Susan Staley opens and hosts the evening, as she does for every Hoot. The show begins at 8 p.m. sharp, admission is free, and the CDs will be on sale for a special price. This year’s AthFest festival takes place between June 22 & 26. For more information about performers, artists, events and admission, visit www.athfest.com or keep picking up Flagpole every week until then. [Chris Hassiotis]

MILKTOOTH Indie rock from the hills of Tennessee that lives in the tension between sparse, melancholic pop music and big, high-energy rock and roll. The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $12.50 (adv.), $16 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com JIMMY THACKERY Nighthawks member performing his blues guitardriven roots rock. See Calendar Pick on p. 17. Norm Grayson’s Farm 9 a.m. $15. 706-206-1824 GRAND SLAM BAND JAM Day-long performances to benefit the Jordan Ellis Memorial. Chris Hampton (10 a.m.), Emily McCannon and the Smokin’ Hot Band (11 a.m.), Tempted Vibe (1 p.m.), Bobby Compton (3 p.m.), Grains of Sand (6 p.m.) and Saint Francis (9 p.m.). A live auction will begin at 5 p.m. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE VINYL STRANGERS Timelessly charming classic-sounding pop rock reminiscent of early Beatles and Byrds. Rye Bar 10 p.m. $2. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens JEREMY AGGERS This Atlantabased singer-songwriter plays finger-picked folk tunes with a backing band. JK AND THE LOST BOYS Atlanta band with a style strongly reflective of acoustic-tinged folk and blues rock bands such as Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews Band and Counting Crows. SKELLY This group delivers dulcet tones and gentle twang from Lawrenceville, GA. Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com LI$TPRICE Expect a load of grungy alt-rock.

Sunday 5 ACC Library 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LIVE! AT THE LIBRARY This month: Klezmer Local 42 plays a blend of old-time Jewish jazz and gypsy scales, Turkish melodies and Yiddish lyrics.

Monday 6 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com AREN BLAKE N.C. progressive folk, mixing a variety of styles with a socially conscious tone. CASUAL CURIOUS Nu-jazz powerpop from NC that is a dangerous mix of cerebral and dance-ready fun. SUNSPOTS Bedroom psych-pop with tropical beats and airy vocals. WE THE LION Alt folk-pop ‘n’ roll seven-piece from Atlanta. Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW Darren Keen plays chaotic, one-man band electro, rapping and spazzing out in a flurry of blips and riffs. 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 OPEN MIC Every Monday! Sign up between 8:30 & 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday 7 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com COWBOY AND INDIAN A haunting mix of driving post-punk and elec-

tro-roots Americana R&B, fronted by wrenching female vocals. THE HOUNDS BELOW Members of The Von Bondies playing western shuffles and surfy two-steps in a sort of ‘50s rock revival, under the intoxicating influence of Roy Orbison. See story on p. 13. THE STONEBREAKERS Local act playing straight-up rock and roll with influences like Elvis Costello and The Who. Fronted by Lauren Osborne (Push!), and featuring Mikey Dwyer (The Starter Kits), Tim Payne (The Fuzzy Sprouts) and Asa Leffer (Holy Liars). Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s music borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a seamless product glistening with inspiration. Every Tuesday! The Melting Point “Terrapin Bluegrass Series.” 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND An eclectic blend of traditional and contemporary acoustic music. Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens SPICER Funky, big drums alt-rock.

Wednesday 8 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy! Blue Sky 5–10 p.m. www.blueskyathens.com VINYL WEDNESDAY Bring your own vinyl and be a DJ for the night. Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Welcoming singer-songwriters every Wednesday.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com GREEN GERRY Particularly dreamlike and subtly electronic local artist. JOEL HAMILTON Minimalist robot chirps and echoes that swirl into nothingness. Influences include the “end of days” and “entropy.” OCTOPUS JONES Bright, beach-y indie pop from South Carolina. Charmingly quirky while still easily danceable. THE WINTER SOUNDS New wave, punk and synth-pop melded into well crafted and lyrically inspiring songs. George’s Lowcountry Table 6 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3359 RACHEL O’NEAL Local singer/songwriter who plays a mix of soulful acoustic originals and throws in an eclectic blend of indie rock, jazz and Southern-tinged Americana covers for variety. NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan and Neil Young to Van Morrison. Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE SEDIMENT CLUB Brooklynbased atonal calling over racing guitars and intuitive drumming, Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub C.J. AND THE DOLLS A “tranny pop sensation” from Portland. Beatheavy electro-pop originals, with the occasional Madonna or Britney cover. NICKY CLICK Sneer while you dance to Nicky Click’s brand of electronic pop. Charged and campy at the same time, the act is no stranger to Peaches. Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com (Timothy Rd. Location) NORMALTOWN FLYERS This Athens roots-rock institution plays a set of good-time rock and roll with a Southern leaning. The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com MAC LEAPHART Americana singer/ songwriter stylings, highlighted by Leaphart’s gentle, dusty vocals. BRET MOSELY Clever and calm country artist with stripped-down instrumentation. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke! Omega Bar 9 p.m. $3. dg2003@yahoo.com SPICY SALSA No partner necessary. Every Wednesday!

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THURSDAY, JUNE 2

JERRY JOSEPH

BLOODKIN ACOUSTIC NEW SNEAKERS doors open at 9pm CD RELEASE PARTY

FRIDAY, JUNE 3

Madeline

and the Black Velvet Band THE GOONS THE PLAGUE doors open at 8pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

CLAY LEVERETT AND THE CHASERS

BEARFOOT HOOKERS THE BUZZARDS doors open at 9pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 11

DICTATORTOTS THUNDERCHIEF doors open at 9pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 18

SPROCKETS mUSIC vIDEO SHOw Conor oberst • DeaD ConfeDerate DoDD ferrelle • Jay Gonzalez Jenny lewis • lera lynn JzP feat elite tha showstoPPa MisfortUne 5oo • Mona • rePtar sea wolf • the athens banD • the orkiDs

doors open at 9pm All Shows 18 and up • + $2 for Under 21 * Advance Tix Available at Schoolkids Records and Wuxtry Records ** Advance Tix Sold at www.40watt.com

DANCIN’ SUSHI FINGER TENTACLES BACON TIES VENUS FLY TRAPS

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens MAX EVE Lawrenceville act whose songs consist of ambient, cinematic tones. LANGE EVE Traditional, strippeddown folk paired with gorgeous, forlorn vocals. Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com CATHERINE KIMBRO Insightful acoustic country music with heart. * Advance Tickets Available

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bulletin board DO SOMETHING; GET INVOLVED! Deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board and Art Around Town is every THURSDAY at 12 p.m. Email calendar@flagpole.com. Listings are printed based on available space; more listings are online.

ART Call for Artists (Highwire) Seeking new art for the summer months. Large paintings/prints preferred. Send submissions to trappezebooking@gmail.com. Plying the Arts (Lyndon House Arts Center) Peachtree Handspinners Guild hosts three days of fiber arts workshops. Registration deadline July 5. Aug. 5–8. www.peachtree handspinnersguild.org, www.world inaspin.com Poster Competition (Lyndon House Arts Center) Seeking artists to design a poster for an upcoming car show. Deadline June 16. Pick up guidelines in person or call 706-613-3623, ext. 224.

AUDITIONS An Ideal Husband (Town and Gown Players) Written by Oscar Wilde and directed by Marisa Castengera. Auditions consist of cold readings. Show runs Aug. 5-14. June 13 & 14, 6 p.m. www.townandgownplayers.org

CLASSES Aquatic Aerobics (Memorial Park) Low-impact exercise sessions with Kim Saxton on Saturdays (10 a.m.), and Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (6 p.m.). No preregistration necessary. $5/session. 706-613-3580, www.athensclarke county.com/aquatics 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 Beginning Sewing (Athens Technical College) Students must bring machine to class. Class size limited; call to register. July 25–29, 5–7:30 p.m. $159 (materials included). 706-369-5763, bmoody@ athenstech.edu Bellydancing and Yoga at Sangha (Sangha Yoga Studio) Beginner (7 p.m.) and Intermediate (8:30 p.m.) bellydancing every Wednesday. Yoga classes for all skill levels. 706-613-1143, www.healing artscentre.net Classes at Floorspace (Floorspace) Contemporary lyrical dance, Capoeira Angola & Maculele, performance theatre, Nia dance, creative movement and improv dance, bellydancing and yoga. Check website for schedule. www.floorspaceathens.com Classes for Seniors (Various Locations) The City of Winterville in cooperation with the Athens Community Council on Aging offer classes in computers, Zumba, ballroom dancing, line dancing, quilting, gardening, yoga, tai chi and more. Check website for details. www.accaging.org/winterville.php Cool-Season Grasses (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Students will learn to recognize grass parts that are useful in field identification. June 4, 8:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Digital Plant Photography: Flower Portraits and Plants in the Landscape (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Led by nature photographers Hugh and Carol Nourse. Registration required. June 11, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $45. 706-542-6014, www.uga. edu/botgarden

Dog Obedience Training (Memorial Park) 7-week programs offered in both basic and advanced obedience. Teach your dog basic skills such as stay, sit, heel, come, down and sit-stay. Begins June 28. $100. 706-613-3580, www.athens clarkecounty.com/memorial Donation-Based Yoga Classes (Red Lotus Institute) Ongoing 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 and Spanish Classes (Athens Latino Center) Learn to speak and connect with the local Latino community. Check webiste for more information. jaimeumana79 @gmail.com, athensprofessional services.com Figure Drawing Studio (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Bring your own supplies. For ages 18 & up. Call ahead. Sundays, 2–4 p.m. $10. fringecollective@live.com, 706-540-2727 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 Explorer’s Camp (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Activities include plant collecting, journaling and exploring natural history and plant lore. For rising 4th– 7th graders. July 18–22, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $155. 706-542-6156 Invasive Non-Native Plants of the Southeast (State Botanical Garden) An introduction to the problem of invasive, non-native plants in GA. Register. June 25, 8:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL

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ACC Animal control is now experiencing their second wave of almost FORTY kittens within one month. Some are so small they are still with Mama, like the four little fellas below. (Please tell your neighbors and friends and family to spay and neuter!) Come out to take your pick of the most heart-meltingly-cute little buggers you could ever imagine.

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This cute young guy really wanted attention, and was reaching out as far as he could through the bars of his kennel and sweet-talking all the while. When the door was finally opened, he took a step or two back in happy disbelief (that’s when the photo was taken) then rushed forward purring and wanting to be held. Supersweet, affectionate and very social.

Pietro Antonio de’ Pietri’s print “The Visitation” is on display at the Georgia Museum of Art through Aug. 7. Line Dancing (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Lessons with Ron Putman. Alternate Thursdays through July 21. 6 p.m. $5. www.ronputman.com Mason Bee House Building Extravaganza (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn about the various types of mason bee homes and then create one of your own. Call to register. June 7, 6–8 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Natural Childbirth Class (The Banyan Tree Center) 4-week, 1-day intensive and private sessions available. June 6, 6–9 p.m. 706338-5090, confidentchildbirth.us Plants, Pollinators and People (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Hike through the Flower Garden to observe, photograph and identify pollinators. June 20, 2–4 p.m. or 6–8 p.m. $18. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Pre-Natal and Postpartum Pilates (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Pre-natal mat class, Saturdays, 1 p.m. & postpartum class, Wednesdays, 9:15 a.m. $10. www.balancepilatesathens.com Summer Dance Classes (Dancefx) Classes offered in a variety of styles. Check website for schedule. Sessions begin June 12. www.dancefx.org Summer Tree Identification (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn the basics of identifying common (yet extraordinary!) trees of the Georgia Piedmont. June 18, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $45. 706-5426014, www.uga.edu/botgarden Tai Chi for Seniors (Rocksprings Park) Increase strength and balance at your own pace! Every Thursday. 11 a.m. $3. 706-613-3603

Tennis Registration (Bishop Park) Currently registering for tennis classes! Youth and adult classes available. Through Sept. 2 (kids), June 6–July 7 (adults). 706-6133592, www.tennisforlife.net Yoga & The 7 Sacred Centers (Five Points Yoga) Move more fully inro your power & health through asana, journaling and meditation. June 18, 2–4 p.m. $30. 706-2540200 Yoga Classes (Total Training Gym & Yoga Center) Classes offered in tai chi, vinyasa flow, yoga for athletes, integral hatha yoga, power flow, power lunch Pilates and power lunch yoga. Check website for dates and times. On-going. 706-316-9000, www.totaltrainingcenter.com Yoga in Five Points (Five Points) Check website for schedule. 706355-3114, www.athensfivepoints yoga.com Yoshukai Karate (East Athens Community Center) Every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Monday and Thursday, 7:30–8:30 p.m., Saturday, 2–3 p.m. FREE! www.clarkecounty yk.com Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves comprise this dynamic fitness program. Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/class, $80/session. www.uga. edu/botgarden

HELP OUT! BikeAthens Bike Recycling (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicylces for local service agencies. Bike repair skills a

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Dorarinsdottir. •14 small works in stone and steel by sculptor Beverly Pepper. Through July 29. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar (1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) Paintings by Stanley Bermudez. Through June 15. Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) An exhibit celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Studio Group. Through July 30. 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.) Artwork by Rachel Barnes. Through June. Mercury Art Works at Hotel Indigo (500 College Ave.) “Fascination” features artists Amanda Burk, Anthony Stanislaw Wislar, Christopher Wyrick, Gretchen Elsner, Leslie Snipes and Rusy Wallace. Through July 8. OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) “Portraits from the Burning Ring of Fire,” paintings by Jonathan Jacquet. Reception June 3. Through June 10. State Botanical Garden of Georgia (2450 Milledge Ave.) 70 artists will paint live outdoors during “Art in the Garden: Plein Air Paint Out,” June 4–9. A selected 144 paintings will be on display June 11–12. Reception and sale June 12. •“Forged from Nature” is an outdoor series of sculpted garden gates by artist Andrew T. Crawford. • Photographs by Kathryn Kolb. Through June 19. The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) Annual Grit Employee Group Show featuring mixed media by The Grit’s employees. Through June 19. Town 220 (Madison) “Two Women of Substance” features art by Katie Bacon and Maggie Mize. Through July 31. Trace Gallery (160 Trace St.) Paintings by Carol John and photographs by Carl Martin. Through August. Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) Paintings and drawings by James Greer and Sarah T. World of Futons (2041 W. Broad St.) Vibrant folk art by the late Earle Carson.

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SUPPORT Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is provided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m. Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Informal and supportive 12step program. Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org Project Safe An online support group for male survivors of domestic violence. Call the hotline for more information. Mondays, 8–9 p.m. 706-543-3331 PTSD Support Group Ongoing support group for family and friends of veterans and soldiers who have PTSD/TBI. 770-725-4527, www.georgiapeacegivers.org 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: 706543-3331

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Matters Of The Heart And Loins So, I met this girl whom I really like. We have great chemistry, etc. To be honest, I’ve fallen pretty hard for her, and I know she likes me. The only problem is that she’s pretty wealthy, as are all of her friends. Every time she invites me to do something, it’s super expensive; I can’t keep this up much longer, as I’m going broke. She’s a great girl and I don’t think she won’t date me because I’m broke; it’s just that it’s hard when she’d want to do something and I can’t just because I can’t afford it. Should I just come clean? Loman Gods, man, have you ever heard of an apostrophe? It just took me five minutes to make your letter suitable for publishing. I know you’re broke and everything, but this isn’t “Wheel of Fortune.” Get it together, man! In answer to your question, yes, you should tell this girl you can’t afford her lifestyle. She will probably understand, and if for some reason she doesn’t, then you shouldn’t be dating her anyway. Maybe you can teach her how regular people live. I just read CBNBC’s letter (Reality Check, May 18) and Jyl’s reply, and I have something I’d like to add to the discussion. It sounds like CBNBC may have encountered the Thai kathoey, or ladyboy. Thailand doesn’t have the same stigma on transgenderism that most of the world does; there, kathoeys are viewed as something of a third gender. While they are marginalized in some critical ways (work discrimination, etc.), kathoeys are still much more visible and accepted in Thailand than transgender people are in almost any other part of the world. Whether CBNBC even slept with a man on that occasion is a very thorny topic. Your column may or may not be a proper forum for an all-out discussion of transgender issues, but suffice it to say that the person CBNBC spent the night with may not have been male at all, regardless of what genitalia she was born with… or even still had. As a final note, if any of you were reading CBNBC’s letter and thinking something like that could never happen to you, do a Google image search on the name “Nong Poy.” Neither Straight Nor Narrow NSNN, I appreciate your response. I have some experience with gender issues, and I like to think I am open-minded about it all. I realize this is not a regular topic in my column, but that’s only because not many people write in with questions related to these issues. Basically, I try hard not to get too politically correct. If somebody wants to be identified as a guy, I refer to them that way. Same with girls—regardless of plumbing. I don’t care if you’re pre- or post-op, change your identity on the weekends or at home or in Vegas— whatever. Just tell me what to say. (Though

you should always, always refer to the Ladies of Boybutante as “Miss” or “Ma’am,” unless you want a size-12 pump upside your head). I don’t think this needs to be a thorny topic. You just need to be upfront with people about how you want to be referred to. Otherwise, it makes an odd situation (by “odd” I don’t mean “weird,” I mean “not currently the norm/average/whatever,” so save your outrage for somebody who really is an asshole) just plain awkward. In my opinion, and especially in my column, gender is not a taboo subject. The more we talk about this stuff the more acceptable it becomes, and eventually perhaps we can all just go about our business. [The following letter has been edited for bragging and general stupidity (also for space).—Jyl] Over the past year and half I have been hanging out with a former coworker a couple of times a month. We usually meet for drinks after work. I really enjoy her company, and so far our relationship has been friendship only. True, I find her attractive. Under different circumstances I would more than likely be pursuing a deeper relationship with her. But as it stands, we both have our own families and significant others. We flirted a little. On occasion she loosened my neck tie. And we cuddled on the sofa. But that was it. Most of the time we are together we talk about books and movies and such. Sometimes she shares her poetry with me. Well, last month we were drinking at a local bar. The usual banter back and forth: work, kids, tales from our pasts, and so on. Then she mentioned her upcoming birthday. She told me that her significant other asked her what she wanted for her birthday. I was expecting her to announce she’s getting a new car, or big-screen TV, a trip to the Bahamas, or jewelry. So, I asked her, “What did you tell him?” She leaned in close to me and said, “I told him I want to have a threesome.” [Blah blah blah we did; blah blah blah it effed up her relationship; blah blah blah now she has a “crazy idea” that we should do it again! What should I do?] Numbers Add Up to Nothing Nowhere in the second part of this probably fake letter do you mention your significant other. Did you forget about that part of the story? Were you drunk when you wrote this? We’re not Penthouse Forum, you twit. I am actually trying to help real people with real problems. If you aren’t smart enough to at least get the story straight (never mind the atrocious grammar), then please don’t bother. In the unlikely event that this is a real letter, then my advice is for you to leave your wife (I mean, your “significant other”) and kids—they will be much better off without you—and stay away from this crazy woman and her (now) jealous husband. Seriously. Quit your job and run away and join the circus. Idiot. Jyl Inov

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Sign up now before rent increases. River Mill. 2BR/1.5BA. Total electric. Rent incl. W/D, water, cable, pest control, trash & parking. Walking distance to campus. Avail. 6/1. $600/mo. total. Call (229) 416-5757. Studio apt. in lovely Victorian house on Hill St., near Daily Groceries, Dwntn, UGA. Quiet, responsible tenant desired. N/S, no pets, avail. 8/1. $485/ mo. Leave message: (706) 2245273. Very nice 2BRs Dwntn., across from campus. W/D incl. Avail. for Fall. Call (404) 557-5203. Walk to 5 Pts. On busline, next to Lake Herrick & dog park. 2BR/2.5BA, W/D, DW, FP, outside private terrace, pool. Lots of parking! Walk to campus, oversized BRs & closets. Quiet, convenient. Pets OK. $675/mo. Best maintained, m o s t a ff o rd a b l e u n i t s a t Jamestown! Call Vernazza Properties, (706) 338-9018. www.vernazzaproperties.com. Walk to UGA. 2BR/2.5BA w/ pool, laundry facilities & W/D hook-ups in Appleby Mews. $ 3 7 5 / m o . p e r ro o m m a t e . Excellent condition. See photos & more at www.AthensApt.com. (678) 887-4599.

Commercial Property 4500 sf. residence/office/ shop. 1.5BA, 3 12 ft. overhead doors. 2+ ac. fenced. Lexington, GA. $500/ mo+. Partial property rental available. Avail. July 1. Call (706) 549-9456. Athens executive suites. O ff i c e s a v a i l . i n h i s t o r i c Dwntn. bldg. w/ on–site parking. All utils., internet & janitorial incl. Single or multiple offices avail. Call S t a c y, ( 7 0 6 ) 4 2 5 - 4 0 4 8 o r (706) 296-1863. 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. Historic Leathers Building office condo available 7/1. Amazing location on Pulaski, h i g h l y t r a ff i c k e d . S h a re d kitchen, conference room & bathrooms. Exposed brick & timber. $1150/mo. (706) 4611009. Office space in 5 Pts. on S. Milledge Ave. $1000/mo., utils. incl. except phone. 575 sf. Private entry. Handicap accessible. (706) 353-7272 or hill.law@bellsouth.net.

Paint artist studios. Historic Boulevard area artist community. 160 Tracy St. Rent: 300 sf. $150/mo., 400 sf. $200/mo. (706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties.com Retail, bar, or restaurant for lease at Homewood Shopping Center. 3000 sf. Call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039.

Condos for Rent $ 1 1 0 0 / m o . Wo o d l a n d s o f Athens. Cottage, 3BR/3 private BA, lg. BRs & closets, HWflrs., lg. kit., W/D, front porch & patio, gated community, tremendous amenities: lg. pool, fitness center & much more! 490 Barnett Shoals Rd., Unit 109. Avail. 8/1. Call Robin, (770) 265-6509. 2BR/2BA condo w/ bonus room/ office. 1 block from campus. All appls incl. W/D. Pet friendly. Avail. 8/1. $775/mo. (478) 6091303. 2BR/2BA condo, 2165 Milledge Ave. Granite, tile, new fridge & range, new flrs. Pics at milledgeplaceapt.blogspot. com. On bus line, convenient to UGA. $750/mo. Michael, (404) 514-2575. 4BR/3BA Urban Lofts condo. Granite counters, HW & tile flrs., all appl., 2 car garage. Pics at RealEstateChristina.com. Dwntn., convenient to UGA. $1900/mo. Christina, (706) 3722257. Townhouse, 2BR/1.5BA, fenced yd., W/D conn., patio. 812 College Ave., walk to Dwntn. & the Greenway. Check it out! $575/mo. Call (404) 255-8915.

Condos For Sale Investor’s West-side condo. 2BR/2BA, FP, 1500 sf., great investment, lease 12 mo.s at $550. Price in upper 40s. For more info, call McWaters Realty at (706) 353-2700 or (706) 5401529.

Duplexes For Rent $675/mo. Blocks from UGA & Dwntn. 2BR/1BA, patio, kit. w/ DW, W/D. Lg. LR w/ FP, water & garbage incl. in rent, 167A Elizabeth St. Avail. 8/1. Call Robin, (770) 265-6509. 5 Pts. duplex. 2BR/1BA, W/D incl., CHAC, fresh & clean. Across the street from Memorial Park. $600/ mo. Call (706) 202-9805. Brick duplex, 2BR/2BA, very clean, all extras. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens. Pets OK. $500/mo. + deposit. Call Sharon at (706) 201-9093. S. Milledge Duplex - Venita Dr.: 4BR/2BA, W/D, DW, fenced back yd.! Close to everything yet private. $950/mo. negotiable. (706) 310-0096, (404) 558-3218, or bagley_w@ bellsouth.net. Electronic flyers avail.

Houses for Rent 3BR/2.5BA great simple house near GA Sq. Mall. Private & peaceful, woodland creek, generous deck, spacious flr. plan, gas FP, 2–car garage. Storage plus. Pets fine. Flex. lease. $1200/ mo. (706) 714-7600.

$550/mo. 3BR/1BA. 121 E. Carver Dr. Fenced–in yd. Tile & HWflrs. CHAC, W/D hookups, DW. Pets welcome. Avail. now! (706) 614-8335. $975/mo. Blocks from UGA & Dwntn., 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. $875/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. 135 Garden Ct. 3BR close to UGA campus, HWflrs., huge porch, plenty of parking, $795/mo. boulevard proper tymanagement.com, (706) 548-9797.

3BR/3BA house, huge LR & kitchen w/ bar area. 1 acre lot! Fenced back yd. Pets welcome! Lawn maint. & W/D incl. $990/mo., $495 deposit. (770) 633-8159, Stephanie.

5BR/2.5BA house w/ huge yd. on Milledge. Lg. BRs, 2 min. f ro m c a m p u s ! $ 2 0 0 0 / m o . $1000 off Aug. rent w/ signed lease. Call (706) 202-9905 or athensarearentals@gmail.com.

3BR/2BA on Oglethorpe Ave. across from the UGA Health Science College. Avail. 7/1. $1100/mo. Call Dahl Cochran at (770) 725-1555.

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

3-6BRs, Oconee farm house, big front porch, 2 decks, l g . y d . , c l o s e t o Tr a d e r Joe’s. $1160/mo. boulevar dpropertymanagement.com. (706) 548-9797. 3BR/1BA very cool home in Blvd. area. Washing machine, DW, CHAC, ver y efficient, pets OK. $1050/mo. + $1050 dep. (706) 254-1273.

1, 2, 3 & 4BR houses & apartments, avail. Fall, historic B o u l e v a rd n ’ h o o d . ( 7 0 6 ) 548-9797, www.boulevard propertymanagement.com.

4 B R / 4 B A i n T h e R e t re a t . Free iPad w/ signed l e a s e b e f o re 6 / 3 0 ! P o o l , clubhouse, HWflrs., W/D. Avail. Fall. $1700/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957. AtlasRealEstateAdvisors. com.

1 to 5BR rentals avail. in locations in & around Dwntn. Athens. Affordable student re n t a l s , f a m i l y h o m e s & high-end condos. CJ&L, www. cjandl.com, or (706) 559-4520.

4BR/4BA house! 189 Ruth Dr. Great Dwntn. location! Lg. BRs, tile, HWflrs., $1700/mo., avail. 8/1. www. newageproper tiesathens. com, (706) 713-0626.

2BR/1BA, 340 Ruth St. Cool house w/ HWflrs., all appls, pet-friendly, $750/mo., avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626, www. newagepropertiesathens.com.

4BR, great n’hood. Full basement, HWflrs., tile BA’s. Appls. incl. On busline, near UGA. Lg. private fenced back yd. Pets OK. $1500/mo. Call for great details! Cory (706) 202-3784.

2BR/1BA. Near UGA, LR, DR, den, HWflrs., all appl., fenced yd., garbage p/u, carport, electric AC, gas heat, no pets. $550/mo. Avail. 8/1. 117 Johnson Dr. Owner/Agent. Stan, (706) 543-5352. 2BR/2BA. 1.5 mi. from UGA. Kitchen, DR, LR, laundry rm., fenced back yd., deck, W/D, fridge. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $800/mo. Cell: (706) 461-5541. Evenings: (706) 342-2788. 2BR/1BA, Woody Dr. $680/ mo. Great duplex beautifully renovated, all electric, HWflrs., nice quiet street. boulevard propertymanagement.com or (706) 548-9797. 2 & 3BR super nice houses in the Boulevard n’hood. Walk to town & campus. 535 and 545 Satula, 255 Boulevard Heights, 135 Glencrest. boulevard propertymanagement.com or call (706) 548-9797. 2BR/1BA newly updated historic cottage on Eastside. Quiet, relaxed setting. Front porch & sun room w/ lg. hot tub. Beautiful fenced 2 acre lot. Pets welcome. $800/mo. Ann, (706) 206-5105 or (706) 552-0450. 3BR/2BA in newer Dwntn. n’hood. Stainless, eat-in kitchen, fenced back yd. Pets OK. W/D incl. Avail. 7/1. $1100/ mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957. AtlasRealEstateAdvisors.com. 3–4BR/3.5BA townhouse. 3K sf. Excellent condition. Must see! Avail. Aug. Great price, $835/ mo. Eastside busline. (706) 769-3433 or email sjbc33@aol. com. 3BR/2BA in awesome 5 Points n’hood. Walk everywhere! 2 LRs, HWflrs., fenced back yd. Pets OK. W/D incl. Avail. 6/1. $1100/ mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957. AtlasRealEstateAdvisors.com.

4BR/4BA, 5 Pts. Free iPad w/ signed lease before 6/30! Stainless, HWflrs., whole house audio, covered porch. W/D. Avail. Fall. $1700/ mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957. AtlasRealEstateAdvisors. com. 4BR/3BA historic home approx. 2 miles to campus/ Dwntn., HWflrs., new kitchen & BAs, $2000/mo. Call Va l e r i o , ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 6 - 6 9 0 0 , valerioproperties.com. 4 B R / a p p ro v e d z o n i n g . $1500/mo. 130 Appleby Dr. See at www,bondrealestate. org. Owner/Broker Herbert Bond Realty & Investment. (706) 224-8002. 5 Pts. Prime location on Mell St. 2BR/1BA, $740/ mo, all electric. W/D, DW, off-street parking, 1 block from Milledge, Lumpkin, 5 Pts., UGA bus stops! http:// valerioproper ties.com/ for more details. (706) 546-6900.

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Adorable 2BR/1BA brick home min. from Dwntn. Athens/UGA. Beautiful park-like setting w/ 10x12 workshop. LR, eat-in kitchen, laundry room, W/D hook-ups, enclosed garage. Dekle Realty, deklerealty.com, (706) 548-0580. Boulevard area: 4BR/3BA, screened porch, W/D, DW, HWflrs., lg. rooms, fenced yd. 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.: O ff B a x t e r S t . , 4 B R / 2 B A , $1200/mo. Nor maltown area: 2BR/1BA, single carpor t, fenced back yd., $ 7 7 5 / m o . C a l l M c Wa t e r s Realty, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529. Call Nancy Flowers & Co. Real Estate: (706) 546-7946. Or visit nancyflowers.com for virtual tour of 2, 3, 4, 5 BR homes. You will love them! Deluxe 1BR on Oglethorpe, HWflrs., separate LR & study w/ built-ins & FP, laundr y room, full kitchen, lg. BR & BA, covered porch, $710/ mo. valerioproperties.com for more details. (706) 546-6900. Dearing Garden, 1 & 2BR flats. $550 to $650/ m o . W / D , D W. B l o c k from campus off Baxter St. Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727, text “dearing” to 41513. www. joinermanagement.com. I heart Flagpole Classifieds! Newer 5BR/3BA house off S. Milledge. On bus line, 7/10 mile from campus, spacious rooms, front porch, back deck. Willing to partially furnish. $400/BR. col30044@ yahoo.com, (770) 356-1274. Ride your bike! Sell your auto w/ Flagpole Classifieds. Now w/ online pics! Go to www.flagpole. com today!

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Houses for Sale 3BR/2BA, Athens. $125,000. Single-level, 1564 sqft. Gorgeous hardwood f l o o r s t h ro u g h o u t . Z o n e d heat, combo kitchen/ d i n i n g , c a r p o r t , l a u n d r y, attic storage, crawlspace, appliances. Open house i n f o / p h o t o s : w w w. j o n e s . centerpath.net. Listing: www.sellectrealtyofgeorgia. com, (678) 694-7937. 3BR/2BA ranch house on Eastside. Fenced back yd., laundry room, eat-in kitchen, vaulted ceilings, fireplace, sidewalks, lg. living room. Call Daniel for more info, (706) 2962941. Charming, classic, updated cottage in Normaltown. 2BR/2BA w/ sunroom. $188,000, 248 Georgia Ave. Antique heart pine, high ceilings. (706) 850-1175 or (678) 358-5181. By appt. only. Manufactured home. 3BR/2BA. 5 miles to UGA. Owner financing. Call (706) 543-4883 or (706) 201-8051. Very nice trailer, only $14,000. Community in Athens w/ 2 pools & security on site. 2BR/2BA. Call Kari at (912) 409-4746 for more info.

Parking & Storage UGA parking spaces. Across the street from campus, law & library. $25/mo. 6 mo. minimum. Contact Susan, (706) 3544261.

Pre-Leasing 2BR/2BA. BRs w/ full priv. BA. Walk–in closets. W/D hookups. Rent star ting at $525/mo. Water & trash incl. Small pets allowed. (706) 245-8435 or cell (706) 498-6013 or go to www. hendrixapartments.com.

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/ o ff i c e / guest room. In quadraplex 2 blocks from campus. 5 Pts. area. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. Very cool layout. $795/mo. Avail. 8/1. Pets ok. Call (706) 369-2908. Awesome 3BR/2BA, close to campus. New master BA w/ double sink. HWflrs., fenced back yd. W/D, DW, CHAC. Avail. 8/1. $1125/mo. (706) 369-2908. Pre-leasing for Fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-0066. Shoal Creek: 1 & 2BRs, $575 to $675. W/D, DW, ice-maker, pool. www.joinermanagement. com, text “shoalcreek” to 41513, or call Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727. 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) 2024648. Students welcome. Corner of Madison Heights/Nor th Ave. 4BR/4BA. HW/tile flrs. All appls. 5 min. walk to Dwntn., on busline. $450/BR + one mo.’s rent dep. Lynette, (706) 202-4648.

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Looking for bands to play at Kabana, a restaurant at 211 Tallassee Rd. For more info call Tamika, (706) 850-7711 or (706) 461-2207.

All new pillow-top mattress set from $139. Sofa & love-seat, $549. 5-pc. bedroom set, $399. Pub table w/ chairs, $350. (706) 612-8004.

Miscellaneous Bidders Buy Auction. New & used items, collectables, & antiques. Auctions every Fri. & Sat. 1459 Hargrove Lake Rd. in Winterville. Visit www. biddersbuyauctions.com or call (706) 742-2205 for more info.

Wedding bands. Quality, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment.com. Featuring The Magictones Athens’ premiere wedding & p a r t y b a n d . w w w. themagictones.com.

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F re t S h o p . P ro f e s s i o n a l guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berr y, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

Equipment N u ç i ’s S p a c e n e e d s y o u r old instruments & music gear! All donations are taxdeductible. Call (706) 2271 5 1 5 o r c o m e b y N u ç i ’s Space, 396 Oconee St.

Instruction Athens School of Music. Instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument re p a i r s a v a i l . Vi s i t w w w. AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

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.

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Cleaning My cleaning clients a re s p e c i a l . T h e y a re discer ning women and men. They know they can trust me & that I care about them & their families... and they get great cleaning value f o r t h e i r m o n e y. I ' m looking for a few more special homes to clean. Earth & pet friendly, always on time. Text Nick at (706) 851-9087. Email: Nick@ goodworld.biz. Local references on request.

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Pawn Need cash, get it here. Top dollar for scrap gold, firearms, & other items. GA Dawg Pawn, (706) 353-0799. 4390B Atlanta H w y, a c r o s s f r o m S a m ’s Club.

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Flagpole: So, how did you first wind up in Athens? Stan Shaw: I got to Georgia in the fast food business. I was in Tennessee, and we had a really bad winter… a guy wanted me to work for him; he wanted me to buy into his restaurant. I asked him which one was the farthest one south, and he said, “Elberton, Georgia… do you know where that is?” And I said,

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FP: Do you have any interesting stories from the Athens pest control scene that you can talk about? SS: Not that interesting. There’s a lot of misconceptions out there about insects. You get people who think that you can control every insect in the world, but there are no insects that I know of that we’ve eradicated. There’s carpenter bees buzzing around outside somebody’s door, and they think you ought to go kill them, which is ridiculous. A lot of people, it’s kind of funny, a lot of students in general, at least say they’re environmentally sensitive and friendly and all that, but they want you to come spray everything. In Europe, the trend with pest control is mostly traps and baits. They don’t spray over there at all. Here, people have a tendency to think you’re not doing the job if you don’t spray. If you go in with baits and traps, they think you’re not doing anything. Probably the main thing with a pest control business, particularly in a college town, is everybody thinks it should have immediate results. Typically, baits don’t work that way. FP: What do you like to do when you’re not working? SS: I teach scuba diving. I like to scuba dive. I’d rather be diving than doing anything else. FP: Was there anything in particular that made you want to start diving? SS: Just for fun. There was a guy who was working for me that needed a buddy, and he said, “Let’s take scuba lessons,” and I said OK, and it just went from there. And then I started diving so much, and I was spending so much money on it, that I tried to [offset] part of my cost by teaching.

“No, but I’ll be there in the morning to look at it.” So, I went to Elberton, and then I came over here, and a friend of mine in Elberton, when I got tired of the food business, got me interested in the pest control business, so I came to Athens. FP: Is pest control a business that changes a lot? SS: Yes, it’s changed a whole lot lately. Of course, the emphasis right now, like everything, is going green. Some of that’s good; some of that isn’t. The EPA keeps taking more and more chemicals off of the market. We used to ride around with all kinds of jugs and stuff in our truck that had skull and crossbones on them and all that, and you never see that anymore. That being the trend, we’ve tried to go about as green as possible. So, I drive a small car… it’s real fuel-efficient. Everybody used to drive big pick-up trucks, but we drive a small car. We try to cut down on the paperwork as much as possible, and we use mostly green products, and they’re made out of different oils, like wintergreen and peppermint, and rosemary, and thyme, and that kind of thing. And there’s boric acid. We use traps, baits. FP: Do you find that the new, greener methods of pest control work just as well as the old skull-and-crossbones stuff?

FP: What kind of places have you been diving? SS: I love to go to the Bahamas, Bimini and the barrier islands, St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, Grenada, the Dominican Republic, Florida, the Florida Keys. It’s addictive. It’s seriously addictive. It’s not that hard, and there’s a few things that you need to know to keep from hurting yourself or somebody else, but that’s it. Some safety stuff. You don’t have to be an epic swimmer. In the right circumstances, it’s one of the more peaceful things you can do. It’s kind of like, you get in the current, and it’s just kind of like flying. You get your buoyancy right, and you can just hang anywhere in the water column. It’s cool; it really is. It’s fun.

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FP: What’s your favorite thing to see when you’re diving? SS: I love doing wrecks, because you have the fish plus the structure itself. And any kind of fish. FP: So, you were telling me about your chickens. When did you first start raising them? SS: I had chickens years ago when I lived in Oklahoma, but then I hadn’t had them for years and years. I got these last year. I got tired of eating eggs that didn’t taste like anything. They’re a lot of fun, like watching a bunch of kids run around the yard. FP: How many do you have? SS: I’ve got nine now. I had eight, and I just bought one this weekend. I got a new one. FP: Do you name them? SS: Only one, the one I didn’t like. I called him “Dinner.” Emily Patrick

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