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Celebrating Independents: We Are Athens (AKA Buy Local Athens) reminds us that July 1–7 is “Independents Week.” In conjunction with the American Independent Business Alliance, We Are Athens points out that this designation is intended to emphasize the importance of local, independent businesses in our community and the benefits of supporting them whenever possible.

Even the folks at We Are Athens (Flagpole belongs) know that nobody is going to buy local all the time. The whole idea behind the buy-local initiative and Independents Week is for us all to “think local first.” When you head out to buy that new set of tires you’ve been putting off, just check first with a local tire store; see what they’ve got, at what price. Frequently, you’ll be pleasantly surprised, not only at the price, but with the ease of doing business with somebody who appreciates you as a customer and who is there to remember you when you need some followup: air in the tires, rotation, maybe even road service.

A Nuisance in the House?: Dan Matthews won a place in the runoff election in Georgia House District 113, which includes the southeast portion of Athens-Clarke as well as all of Oconee and some of Oglethorpe County. The race started out with three Republicans and Dan, the Democrat, and now it’s one Republican and Dan. Bettors don’t give Dan much of a chance, but you never can tell in politics. Dan got a good vote out of the Athens-Clarke part of the district, and now he’s mano-a-mano with a man who had the misfortune to head a bank that failed out from under him, which has got to be embarrassing for a Republican running in favor of fiscal responsibility. Dan is not one to hide his feelings or keep his mouth shut, so he could prove to be just what Oconee and Oglethorpe and Clarke need over there in the legislature: somebody who is not afraid to make a nuisance of himself looking out for the needs of his constituents.

It’s Still Friday: Although Robb Holmes is retiring from the university and from WUGA-FM, it now looks like he’ll be back on a part-time basis after a month off, and that he will continue to host his popular radio show, “It’s Friday.” Here’s hoping that does work out—for Robb’s sake and for the sake of his many listeners and the Athens music scene.

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Boom! Boom!: It seems lightning may not have been the only force of nature blowing things up around AthFest this year. Jeffrey Abramsky, a senior VP at UGL Services, which is managing construction at the new Biotest Plasma facility downtown, alleged in a letter to Mayor Nancy Denson dated June 22 that Commissioner Jared Bailey, who is also AthFest director, threatened Abramsky with political retribution against him and his client during a dispute over the use of a parking lot on the Biotest site. The letter, which was also copied to Chamber of Commerce prez Doc Eldridge and Ken Daniel of Athens First Bank & Trust and has since been circulated to ACC Manager Alan Reddish, ACC Attorney Bill Berryman, Bailey and goodness knows who else, states that at the end of a contentious phone conversation during which Abramsky told Bailey that UGL’s liability insurer would not allow the company to let AthFest use the Biotest lot for “servicing the festival,” Bailey “called me something derogatory and then announced ‘I am a city commissioner and I can make your client’s life miserable.’” Abramsky assures the Dope that’s a direct quote: that he wrote it down while on the phone. Abramsky also claims in the letter that at a later, face-to-face meeting with him and two other construction managers, Bailey said, “I am talking to 60,000 people this weekend… remember that.” Abramsky says he and the others took that as a clearly implied threat.

Bailey disputes the substance of the first attribution, and the context of the second.

He says he never threatened Abramsky or his client; that Abramsky was unnecessarily raising his voice over the phone, prompting him to say, “I am a county commissioner and I am not used to being yelled at like this.” Bailey doesn’t deny the second quote, but says he meant that UGL was missing an opportunity for some “positive P.R.” with festival attendees. He admits there was a disagreement over the parking lot, but says, “there was no retribution” against UGL or

Biotest. “I haven’t talked to anyone there or done anything in any way to hurt this company,” he says. Two AthFest interns who were within earshot of Bailey’s side of the phone conversation both tell the Dope they never heard him threaten Abramsky or his client.

Being essentially a “he said/ he said” situation, it doesn’t seem likely this dust-up will go anywhere, except into the grudge files of the participants. But that’s probably bad enough. Abramsky adamantly stands by his story as recounted in the letter, but even if Bailey’s version of the events is completely true, his handling of the situation was less than appropriate for an elected official, which he is (as he admits pointing out to Abramsky) even when he’s conducting the business of his other job. And against a backdrop of commissioners attempting to insert themselves into the mechanism of the Economic Development Foundation in the name of making it operate more effectively, Bailey’s pointless tussle with a representative of a company that’s poised to bring 50 jobs to the community seems especially ill-advised.

Of course, there’s also the fact that both Denson and Eldridge responded by email to Abramsky’s letter on June 27—each assuring him that the episode he described wasn’t representative of the way Athens or its government do business—three days before Bailey says he heard of the letter’s existence. Why in the world the mayor and the president of the Chamber of Commerce would respond to allegations of this seriousness against an elected commissioner without first consulting him is anyone’s guess, but it’s safe to say the fractured politics between progressive commissioners and the more conservative guard represented by Denson and Eldridge weren’t an insignificant factor. Seems like everyone involved in this dysfunctional drama has a bit of growing up to do before any of them can claim the high ground.

Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

Paul Broun, Jr.’s Krazy Korner Conservatives in Washington have begun using the protests in Greece to gin up fear over our own country’s debt problem. We must drastically cut spending, they say, so that we don’t face the scenario that is bringing chaos to Athens’ streets. Congressman Broun’s BFFs over at Freedomworks, an organization begun by the infamous Koch brothers (Google those shits), has made the dire Greece-in-America warning into a mantra.

Ironically, though, it is this same crowd which is all but inviting Greekstyle unrest here in the U.S. The people of Greece are not protesting their fiscal crisis in the abstract, but protesting a particular way of responding to the fiscal crisis—a response which effectively places the burden and the blame on those who had nothing to do with the crisis in the first place. This has been the conventional response of many of the world’s governments, including our own: cuts to schools, hospitals, aid and retirement programs, while the wealthy elite go on accumulating more wealth. The bankers who caused the crisis continue in their unimaginable luxury, and Broun even fights to have their taxes significantly lowered. The corporations who have shipped the jobs overseas continue to enjoy tax breaks and preferential treatment.

In a recent op-ed in The Hill, Broun explains his latest budget-cutting priorities: “Much of what I proposed to cut came from the WIC auxiliary welfare program and foreign food aid.” WIC is a program which feeds the most needy children in our country, those “found to be at nutritional risk.” Instead of raising taxes, even moderately, on the rich or reducing our fantastically bloated and expensive global military, Broun finds the answer to our budget crisis in cutting food aid for the very poorest children. The money saved by these measures would then find its way to the wealthy through the unbelievably generous tax cuts Broun has proposed. It’s not that there isn’t money to go around; it’s that it is being redistributed into the hands of the elite, with the help of Broun and the GOP. [Matthew Pulver]

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In the courtroom, as on the playing field, the rules of competition are the same: you win some, you lose some. We got a reminder of that last week when the attorneys who represent the state of Georgia were slapped down by a federal judge in Atlanta, then received a lot of loving just a day later from another group of federal judges in the same city.

The legal maneuverings began when U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash presided over the lawsuit that had been filed by the ACLU and other civil rights groups against the state’s new immigration control law. Gov. Nathan Deal and the legislative sponsors of the immigration law had assured their constituents that the new statute was painstakingly written so that it would survive any objections that might be raised in court.

“We believe that the provisions of the bill will be vindicated when put to scrutiny in the court system,” said Rep. Matt Ramsey (R-Peachtree City).

Ramsey may have been a little premature. Judge Thrash ruled in favor of the groups challenging the constitutionality of the law and threw out two of the law’s major provisions: authorizing police to detain and question suspects about their immigration status and making it a crime to harbor or transport an illegal immigrant.

“Seventy years ago the United States Supreme Court declared that the federal government had the exclusive right to legislate the general field of foreign affairs, including power over immigration, naturalization and deportation,” Thrash wrote. “That remains the law of the land.”

While Deal was displeased with the judge’s ruling, the attorneys who challenged the immigration law were happy with the result.

“There should be no doubt in the minds of Georgia citizens that this was, from the beginning, a bad law that could never pass constitutional muster,” said Keegan Federal, a

former judge who was part of the legal team representing Georgia’s immigrant community.

It was a bad start for the state’s lawyers, but it was a week that would soon get better.

On the day after the Thrash decision, a panel of judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a ruling that fortified Georgia in its lengthy water dispute with Alabama and Florida. The appellate court judges reversed a decision that would have cut off most of Metro Atlanta’s access to the water in Lake Lanier by 2012. Federal Judge Paul Magnuson ruled two years ago that Congress had supposedly not authorized the use of Lanier as a water source for Atlanta, a decision that threatened the future of the state’s most populous region.

Magnuson was wrong, the appeals court said. The congressional act passed in 1946 to develop the Lanier reservoir “clearly indicates Congress’ intent to include water supply as an authorized purpose,” the judges ruled.

This ruling was seen by the state’s lawyers and elected officials as a major victory. Of course, in our American legal system, it’s never over until it’s over. The states’ attorneys for Alabama and Florida will appeal the latest decision in the water wars to the full Circuit Court of Appeals in the hope that a different set of judges will rule in their favor.

You can also rest assured that both the water litigation and the immigration lawsuit will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court at some point, and no one can predict with any certainty what will happen then.

Who will be the ultimate winners? I say it will be the attorneys. For the water litigation alone, Georgia has been billed for more than $8.5 million in fees and expenses by the private lawyers retained to help argue the state’s case. For that kind of money, I wouldn’t even care if the judge ruled against me.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

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The report also studied accident rates Despite continuing criticism of Georgia along 316; it concluded that they are higher state Route 316 as a dangerous road, little than along other, similar Georgia roads. Most seems likely to change unless voters approve serious accidents have occurred along rural upgrades next year to be funded by a new sections of 316. Fatalities were 32 percent one-cent transportation tax. “T-SPLOST” projhigher on 316 than along similar stretches of ects could include upgrades to as many as 11 Georgia roads, the report said; accidents causintersections along 316, based on suggested ing injuries, but not deaths, were 47 percent projects submitted by the three counties— more frequent. The eastern end of 316, already Oconee, Barrow and Gwinnett—that the a limited-access freeway, has a fatality rate 40-mile road crosses. But the final projects to only 38 percent that of a similar, nearby porbe submitted to voters tion with only “at-grade” haven’t yet been picked Fatalities were 32 percent intersections. from that larger list.

The busiest sections Voters will approve of 316 are in Gwinnett higher on 316 than along or reject the new tax County; accident rates region-by-region, and 316 similar stretches of there are also the highstraddles two regions: est. The Oconee County Georgia roads.

Athens-Clarke County’s end is statistically safer 12-county Northeast (despite the recent Georgia region and the Atlanta region (which double fatality at Jimmie Daniel Road, caused includes Gwinnett County, where 316 meets when an out-of-town driver ran a red light Interstate 85). So, the road could be upgraded at full speed). And while “nowhere near the at one end but not the other. If voters fail to majority of drivers” on 316 drive dangerapprove the new tax, improvements to 316 ously, according to Captain Phillip Gainey of could be a decade or two away. the Oconee Sheriff’s department—most stay So far, persistent concerns by citizens within five miles per hour of the speed limit— and local elected officials—including a joint ”far too many are engaged in other and sundry resolution by commissioners in all three counthings,” he says. ties and a legislative study committee—have “You’re far safer wearing a seat belt,” brought forth from the Georgia Department Gainey says. “You’re far safer, too, if you drive of Transportation only a study of how to the speed limit, or close to it. But if you’re improve the road. The 2003 study (itself costdoing all these other things,”—using phones ing $900,000) recommended upgrading to or Blackberrys; reading—”the laws of nature freeway standards and adding an HOV lane in will find you out.” each direction—improvements that would cost perhaps $800 million, to be funded with tolls.

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driving without a license, and “would do anything to help [her Griselda, a 34-year-old salesperson owners who say they have seen about a 30 percent decrease with two children who came to the family] get papers,” she says. But in the months since HB 87 in business since April, when Governor Nathan Deal signed the was passed, Nancy’s father has left for the Carolinas to look United States as a teenager to be with bill. Another of Espinoza’s businesses, Sammy’s Auto Sales, has her mother, HB 87 seems to affect every moment of her life for work and to explore the possibility of moving the family. taken a more considerable hit: sales are down from 12 or 14 as an undocumented immigrant. She desperately explains how cars to three or four per week. Of course, the broader economic If they do leave, Nancy’s boss might have to close the chicken hard it is for people to understand “waking up every morning house. If the climate continues to become more hostile and situation is at work here, but Espinoza has heard from some and driving 45 minutes to work, not knowing if you are going insecure, more stable immigrants may begin to leave in greater customers looking to pay off their outstanding debts, and othto make it home to your family” for fear of deportation. She ers who are wary of making purchases because of uncertainties numbers, and the damage to the agricultural industry in North calls her husband to say when she is leaving work, and he cauGeorgia could start to follow the trend swimming up from about HB 87. tions her not to speed; not to take certain roads.

South Georgia.

Nearly everyone who does business with the Athens-area Griselda has lived in the United States longer than she did Latino community seems to have heard of families who have ACC police depend on good communication with the Latino as a youth in Mexico. Her children have never lived anywhere community to keep the city safe, but since the law’s pasalready left because of the law. Roberto Arteaga, who runs the but Georgia. She pays tax on her income at work. For more sage, many in that community have been frightened to make Jalisco grocery on Jefferson Highway, has heard of numerous than 10 years, her mother has paid property tax on a home contact with them. Chief Joseph Lumpkin understands HB 87 people leaving, particularly in the last couple of weeks. The that she nearly lost when Griselda’s stepfather was deported as he does any number of other statutes his force must incoreconomic downturn has hurt his business, leaving his sales earlier this year. Griselda doesn’t know what life would be like porate into its work. For Lumpkin, HB 87 does not necessitate down 50 percent from two years ago—but 25 percent of this in Mexico or where she would begin. She speaks any additional training beyond standard shift English very well, but says more than once, “I’m briefings, nor does it allow the police to set still dreaming in Spanish.” She has a driver’s up immigration checkpoints, or in any way to license. To get it, she drove with several cousins target specifically any ethnicity. If the HB 87 in a van to Washington state, where they could provisions Judge Thrash has temporarily blocked acquire driver’s licenses without papers. Turned eventually do go into effect, Lumpkin says the out their epic journey only got them permits, ACC police department will follow the statute and they had to make the trip a second time to “how it is written into law.” At the same time, get the real thing.

Lumpkin explains, “we are going to continue to HB 87 makes Griselda even more worried stress to our officers to enforce the law within about her status than she already was. What the constitution of the State of Georgia and the if she is stopped, and her valid driver’s license United States, as well as the case law and statufrom Washington is not enough to avoid an tory law of those governments… We have never inquiry into her immigration status? She keeps been a carry-your-papers country.” her license hidden unless she absolutely has to But, while the reassurance that the ACCPD use it. She is embarrassed that her children have will not set up checkpoints may be welcomed, had to learn the necessity of lying to the police. it can be of little comfort to someone like “They know,” she says, “even if lying is bad, Griselda, who carries a driver’s license like a talmom will have to lie to the police and say she is isman and a curse—who understands HB 87 to from Washington if the police stop her.” mean, no matter how much she tries to do right, Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas “they don’t want us here.”

Thrash blocked two major components of HB the state Capitol Tuesday, June 28, 87 that were due to go into effect July 1. The amid shouts of “Undocumented, controversial “Arizona-style” immigration law unafraid!” and “They say ‘go back,’ we say ‘fight contains a so-called “show-me-your-papers” proA young protester is arrested after stopping traffic at a demonstration outside the state Capitol June 28. back!’” several undocumented young people vision empowering local and state law enforcefrom Athens were center-stage in a protest ment to investigate the immigration status of against HB 87. Ambitious for Equal Rights—a group that any person suspected of committing a crime who cannot prodrop-off has come in the last month alone. The owner of the began at Cedar Shoals High School—joined the call led by the vide identification indicating legal presence within the United Chavita grocery on Oneta Street said recently that his business Georgia Undocumented Youth Alliance for greater access to States. This and a second provision criminalizing anyone know- is down by half, and that the day before, four families had education for people who come to this country as children and ingly “transporting” or “harboring” an undocumented person in come to tell him they were leaving for Texas. “As we get closer grow up here, no matter what their official immigration staGeorgia were blocked from going into effect, pending the outto the law [going into effect],” says the owner of a salon tus. The rally began with six undocumented youths, who were at the flea market, “there are fewer and fewer customers.” come of a lawsuit brought by the Georgia Latino Alliance for brought to the United States between the ages of two and 10, According to the intentions Judge Thrash surmised, the law is Human Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union, among speaking about the barriers to education they face. More than working even without going into effect: undocumented people others. The judge’s temporary hold on these provisions comes 200 people rallied outside the Capitol after the speeches, then with a temporary sigh of relief for many business owners, farm- are leaving. marched through downtown Atlanta and the Georgia State ers, workers and families living in and around Athens. But it only some of them. It doesn’t seem to be the campus. When the march circled back to the Capitol, the six does little to address what immigrants are most worried about. speakers, still wearing graduation gowns, blocked an intersecpeople who have moved away that have hurt Judge Thrash echoed a concern about the law that’s heard business the most, but rather the fact that people are afraid tion with a banner reading “We will no longer remain in the repeatedly from those it targets: “The apparent legislative to leave their houses: that they are staying home and saving shadows.” Though hundreds of people were blocking the interintent is to create such a climate of hostility, fear, mistrust their money in case of an emergency that could break up a section with them, the six students wearing gowns and sitting and insecurity that all illegal aliens will leave Georgia.” But on the banner were the only ones arrested and removed by the family. The manager of the Pendergrass Flea Market explains what does such a climate actually achieve? police. the situation clearly: “Right now, people are highly concerned Leeidy Solis, an undocumented 16-year-old from Athens, the way to the J&J Flea Market a week before HB about families being split.” He says that there are two types of 87 was due to go into effect, at the Loop 10 exit undocumented immigrants. On the one hand, there are “people was among those risking deportation to make her voice heard. who are transient workers: temporary.” These people are choos- “My mom was really, really nervous; she couldn’t eat, couldn’t onto 441 North, a couple of Athens-Clarke County police offisleep,” she said after being released. “I’ve been risking getting cers were stopping people in their cars. A heavy silence perme- ing to live elsewhere, and it’s having a drastic effect on the deported since I got here, so why be scared now?” When asked labor force in South Georgia. “On the other hand,” he explains, ated one old car as the driver pulled over: three of the four how she felt preparing to take the risks of making such a pubpassengers lacked papers. But they were waved on. It seemed “there are families, who are stable, with children, who have the officers had been checking for licenses and seatbelts, not built their lives here.” These families are going to stay to see lic stand, Solis explained, “I’ve been… ‘out’ as undocumented. what happens. Demoralization of these families—by creating a It doesn’t really change nothing—I’ve been here, and I’m impaired driving, early Sunday morning. At the market, news of the police stopping people on the road spread like wildfire climate of fear, mistrust and insecurity—is the primary way in going to be here. I wasn’t scared at all. I felt powerful… I’m which the law is “working” as intended. among the vendors and customers. No one took the news here, and I’m fighting for my people.” lightly. As people reached for their phones to warn friends and The effects of this demoralization and uncertainty among If the legislative intention of laws like HB 87 is to instill family, the faces and voices were grave, forlorn, wearied. immigrant families with longer-standing ties and stable work fear and insecurity among undocumented Latinos in the United HB 87’s considerable economic impacts on small busimay remain to be seen. A young woman named Nancy cuts hair States, then perhaps the courage of young people like Leeidy in a salon on the weekends, but during the week she works nesses in Athens began before the date it was slated to go Solis is evidence that not everybody is intimidated. at a chicken house in Commerce with her family. The owner into effect. Sammy Espinoza owns Los Amigos, a grocery store of the chicken house once “bonded out” Nancy’s father for off Chase Street. He is among several local Latino business Richard Milligan

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And, Athens, we are living in sin. Now, many of us—the two-thirds of us who live above the poverty line—can escape the realities of living in a community that is soaked in generational poverty by avoiding downtown, looking the other way, or justifying the situation by chalking it up to personal choice rather than admitting any participation in an economic system that values profit over peo“unleashed life” found in Athens, and that is ple (and over land, water, air and animals). poverty.

But, the individuals who hold out their Now, some of you may be recalling the hand, look you in the eye and ask for change last experience you had with a panhandler are the saints in this situation who proclaim downtown; you may be cringing as you relive to us the depths of the issue of poverty and that moment in your head when you looked who, thankfully, will not let us forget the down the street and realized that there was humanity of our impoverished reality. someone up ahead who was going to ask you To address that reality, we will need to for money; you may be cringing as you recall be intentional about caring for our children. the dreaded decision to either engage him or Athens must be intentional about caring for her, or to ignore him or our elderly. Athens must her and continue walkbe intentional about There is another side to the where our money goes— ing on by; you may be cringing as you recall do we value the product/ “unleashed life” found in the persistent individual; service with the lowest Athens, and that is poverty. price or the product/ you may be cringing as you recall your decision service that comes from to move on and perhaps deposit a quarter in someone receiving a living wage? Athens must the “homeless meter.” be intentional about creating more and more That cringing is good. Because at least it affordable housing. Churches must be intenconveys some level of humanity and empathy. tional about justice rather than just charity.

And that humanity and ability to relate to We must all be intentional about resolving the others in our struggles will be essential if we injustice of poverty in our community. are actually to address the problem of poverty So many people are already committed, and in our community. we see this in organizations like Interfaith Actually, poverty is more than a “problem.”

Hospitality Network, Athens Homeless Shelter, A “problem” is when you have a leak in your A Bigger Vision, Habitat for Humanity, kitchen plumbing. Poverty is far worse than Community Connection, Our Daily Bread, that; poverty is a human tragedy due to indiAthens Nurses Clinic, The Ark, etc.—but so far, vidual and collective decisions. Poverty is a it has not been enough. It has not been nearly scar not only on our community, but on our enough. Until the ethos of Athens changes to souls. Poverty is, dare I say, a sin—a result of value the fullness of life over the fullness of our actions and/or inaction. bank accounts, it will not be enough.

Thank You, Panhandlers It has been a beautiful four years in Athens. After our exodus from Ohio eight years ago, Jen and I have never felt more at home than we have here. We have been blessed with amazing neighbors and community; we have eaten so many delicious foods raised by local farmers and prepared by visionary chefs; and we have been enlightened through music and art (and food—it always comes back to food!). This has been a truly special time for us, as Jen taught in the Clarke County School District and I served at the First Christian Church of Athens, downtown, then Bogart Christian Church. So, when I was asked to share a word in Flagpole, the very first message that I thought to share with Athens was “Thank you for your warm hospitality.” The second message that I would like to share is a word of thanks to the men and women I have come to know on the streets downtown who regularly ask for any spare change or for a meal.

That is correct. I would like to say “thank you” to the panhandlers. And while this may seem like a set-up to a tirade worthy of the ABH comment page, I am sincere in my gratitude.

Thank you to the men and women who have the courage to stand up (or sit down) in front of a community and to ask for help, because they remind us that life in our city of Athens is not always about dinners, bars, shows and art. There is another side to the

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To do justice in Athens—to bring our brothers and sisters out of the pain of poverty—we must be intentional about our actions and our desires. We must not only be able to connect the dots between our economic decisions and their societal outcomes, but we must be willing to change our individual and collective behaviors to begin to bring about a more equal and dignified community.

If you’re struggling to become more passionate and intentional about doing justice, just take a walk downtown. Find a brother or sister who is asking for a little help, and see if you can sit down with them over a meal and get to know them. By the end of dinner, I think that you might thank them. Thank him for reminding you of what matters most in life; thank her for reminding you that your wholeness is dependent on hers, too; thank her for reminding you that the presence of justice is an ongoing struggle that requires much from us all, and rewards us all with grace and beauty.

To all of you in Athens, thank you for blessing us with such love and beauty in our lives. To all of you who seek to work for justice in our community and our world, thank you for your work; may you find worth in your efforts each and every day.

To all of you who have extended your hand at one time or another and asked a stranger for help, thank you for not shying away, but drawing our attention to the harsh realities of poverty. I hope that the people of Athens will have the courage and will to always respond in compassion, grace and justice.

Peace, Chris McCreight An unabridged version of this Comment appears at www.flagpole.com.

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art notes Painted Ladies Local Originally from Cordele, GA, Jeremy Hughes moved to Athens to study painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. After a teaching gig at SUNY Oswego and a move to Nashville, he returned to Athens and the LDSOA, where he will be teaching drawing and painting this fall. Hughes is a prolific painter who has focused on re-interpreting images from films (often Hitchcock) and advertisements, a practice that questions notions of authorship and originality. His current project takes the paintings of late-19th-century artist John Singer Sargent as its inspiration. Hughes saw Sargent’s portraits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a couple of years ago and was floored by the “effortlessness” of his brushstrokes, but, of course, creating the appearance of effortlessness takes a lot of practice. What started as an academic exercise in copying Sargent’s paintings has turned into something else.

Jeremy Hughes: My living room is my studio, so art is integrated into my life. My painting is always visible to me. Every morning when I head to the bathroom for a shower to wake up, my painting is the first thing I see when I walk out of the door. The painting I’m working on is the first thing I look at.

I’ve had studios outside my living space before, but that’s too much like going to a job. Painting should be more like play than work; it should be fun!

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FP: Appropriation is a part of your work. What do you take from your environment that shows up in your pictures?

JH: The people around me. The availability of people in this town—the personalities and artists—that is why I moved back to it. If Atlanta is the NYC of the South, then Athens is the Brooklyn. People are approachable here. I can ask local icons to be [in my paintings] and they will do it.

People are ready to participate. It’s a play date; it’s dress-up; it’s community service.

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FP: Do you listen to music when you paint?

JH: Always. I type in “metal” into iTunes and let it run a playlist. I don’t have to skip songs, even if it’s a band I don’t really love. It’s high-energy music. When I have a happy moment while painting, an exclamation moment, it’s always heightened by the music. I’m totally painting to doublekickdrum metal!

FP: Try to explain what it is like for you to make art.

JH: I really love starting. I get very anxious, conscious about finishing. I start fast and paint fast for two or three days and then I slow down for a week. Then I finish in a day. It is like reading a really good book that you don’t want to finish. I paint out of joy and love. I want to paint what I love. When I am painting people, they don’t need to be photorealistic; they just need to be real, like themselves. When I start a painting, I think about specific areas in [the composition] that need addressing. I may make a drink and drink half and then walk away, then I turn on the music and walk away from everything else.

One of Hughes’ paintings inspired by John Singer Sargent.

Hughes works with local artists to decide which of Sargent’s models they should stand in for. His subjects, all women, sometimes choose portraits of women and sometimes men.

With the models dressing the part to pose for photographs, these pictures are the source material from which Hughes makes the paintings. This collaborative process is integral to the creation of the work. Just as his subjects are reprising the role of Gilded Age debutantes or captains of industry, so is Hughes using Sargent as a mask to gain the sense of freedom and “effortlessness” he saw at the Met. Now, at almost mid-point in the series, I see something changing as his own self-assuredness develops. Hughes plans to take a few steps into, as he says, “dangerous waters” with his next paintings in the series to imbue the artwork with a little more of his (and his subjects’) own lives. Sargent said that a portrait is a painting where there is a little something wrong with the mouth; Hughes’ newest artwork just might get more “right” the more he gets “wrong” with Sargent. We spoke at his home in Athens, where he also keeps his studio.

Flagpole: Can you think for a minute about which object in your studio reveals the most about the relationship between life and your art-making?

FP: What is your next project? What is most on your mind right now?

JH: My show in Belgium just got pushed back another year due to lack of funding. I am disappointed about that but also a little relieved that I don’t have to cough up the money for shipping. This [Sargent] series is not even halfway done. I’ve never felt this kind of longevity in my work—ever—and it’s definitely attributable to the people I am working with. I feel pretty limitless.

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On Exhibition Now: Maxine Youngblood began painting about 20 years ago at age 52, immersing herself in the study of art history and painting technique while seeking out the art scene both here (as an MFA student) and in NYC. Upon seeing her works—most are on view for the first time in Athens at ATHICA—it is obvious that she is an ardent painter who wields color and brush with boldness and confidence. While some paintings appear to have a little Van Gogh, others are reminiscent of Ensor or de Kooning. Her expressionistic paintings blend these historical citations with a representation of contemporary subjects from Elvis and Madonna to a portrait of O.J. Simpson’s mother at his trial. Meet the artist in person at the July 9 reception from 7–9 p.m. or at the exhibition “Walk and Talk” on July 14 at 7 p.m. Youngblood’s paintings will be on display at ATHICA through July 24.

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• indicates new review BAD TEACHER (R) Nothing humorously new is said in Bad Teacher, another in a popular line of adults behaving badly around/toward children (a subgenre academically known as a Billy Bob comedy). As very bad teacher Elizabeth Halsey, Cameron Diaz reminds the moviegoing public that there was something about Mary, and she had a lot to do with it. Forced to return to a job she hates at which she is not very good, Elizabeth treats her students and coworkers, including overachiever Amy (Lucy Punch, whom I love), docile Lynn (Phyllis Smith of “The Office”) and laidback gym teacher, Russell (Jason Segel), with equal disdain, until she sets her sights on wooing rich, new sub, Scott (Justin Timberlake), with a boob job she must rather questionably finance. Being a teacher might have skewed my opinions on Bad Teacher. I thought it was the summer’s funniest comedy behind Bridesmaids, especially considering it clocked in at a comedically sound 90 minutes.

BEATS RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST (R) The career of A Tribe Called Quest is charted from their first appearance in the 1980s through their ‘90s peak as alternative hip-hop innovators to the troubled 2006 reunion and beyond. (Where will Tribe go from here?) Would you have guessed this doc was directed by actor Michael Rapaport? I would not have, but he uses his actorly connections to snag interviews with seemingly everybody, including the Beastie Boys, Mary J. Blige, Common, etc.

CARS 2 (G) Cars 2 is an above-average children’s cartoon. Unfortunately, an above-average children’s cartoon is way below Pixar’s capabilities. Any other animation house can make a Cars or a Cars 2; Pixar should leave the kiddie entertainment to DreamWorks/ Sony and concentrate on singular masterpieces like WALL-E and Up. CHOCOLAT (PG-13) 2000. Ciné’s Summer Classic Movie Series kicks off with… Chocolat? Johnny Depp stars alongside Juliette Binoche in this fivetime Academy Award nominee (including Best Picture) from director Lasse Hallstrom. A woman (Binoche) and her young daughter open a chocolate shop in and the tightly bound morals of a

tiny, repressed French town. It’s been over 10 years since I saw this film, and my memories have not grown fonder.

The Summer Classic Movie Series continues with a new film each week until Aug. 18.

FAST FIVE (PG-13) As the “plot” goes, Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker) 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 climaxes the movie. Most of the other stuff is boring, but when the car-based action gets moving, it is a pedal to the metal blast.

GREEN LANTERN (PG-13) The movie version of DC’s second-line superhero, a ring-equipped intergalactic policeman, lacks the nostalgic baggage checked by the big two, Supes and Bats. Test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is chosen to join the Green Lantern Corps just in time to battle Parallax, a world-devouring baddie who uses the yellow power of fear to turn Peter Sarsgaard from a John Carpenter doppelganger into an evil, bloated alien John Carpenter. Lantern’s ring is energized by the green power of will, which allows him/her/it to create any construct imaginable. The movie could use a little more creative pizazz; judging by his constructs, this Lantern is a preteen boy (I kept waiting on the fart construct). The ripped, fast-talking Reynolds like he stepped right from the page of a comic and is as two-dimensional. Uninteresting alter-ego Jordan dominates the movie; Green Lantern only flies during its CGI spacey bits.

THE HANGOVER PART II (R) Sequels to hit comedies mostly suck.

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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

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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.

HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) Could Horrible Bosses be the summer’s funniest movie? The trailer promises a lot of laughs from this Jason BatemanCharlie Day-Jason Sudeikis comedy in which three buddies pledge to kill their bosses, a terrible trio played by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell. Think of it like Strangers on a Train where everyone knows each other and there’s no train. I expect good things from director Seth Gordon, who burst on the scene with the great doc, The King of Kong; I even enjoyed his holiday comedy, Four Christmases.

IN A BETTER WORLD (R) The lives of two Danish families cross when Elias, the ten-year-old son of Anton, a doctor that frequently commutes between his home in Denmark and his work at an African refugee camp, forms a friendship with troubled school mate Christian. When Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge, it becomes ultimately up to their parents to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy.

INCENDIES (R) 2010. Twins Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) travel to the Middle East to fulfill their mother’s final wishes and shed light on her mysterious past. Director Denis Villeneuve’s Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film (it’s Canadian) won eight Genies (including Best Motion Picture, Best Achievement in Direction, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role and Best Screenplay, Adapted), nine (of nine) Jutras (including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Actress and Best Screenplay).

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.

LARRY CROWNE (PG-13) Tom Hanks steps back behind the camera— and stars in—this comedy about out-of-work Larry Crowne who enrolls at his local college, where he connects a group of outcasts and falls for Mercedes Tainot (Julia Roberts), one of his teachers. This movie sounds a lot like NBC’s hilarious “Community.”

Hanks teamed up with My Big Fat Greek Wedding phenom Nia Vardalos on the screenplay. With Wilmer Valderrama, Bryan Cranston, Pam Grier, Cedric the Entertainer and Hanks’ bosom buddy, Peter Scolari.

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

pay exorbitant movie theater ticket prices when you can get the exact story in an hour on “Law & Order: NCIS: Las Vegas?” True, you’ll have to settle for Chris O’Donnell rather than McConaughey, but Ryan Philippe might guest-star as a pretty boy on trial for beating women. You know the exact ride you’re in for as you soon as you climb in the Lincoln’s roomy backseat. It’s smooth and takes the curves well on the way to an all too familiar destination.

MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG-13) Having written, directed, produced and/or starred in 11 movies since 2005, Tyler Perry has become predictable. The broad, slapstick antics of mad matriarch Madea (Perry) are jarringly meshed with a faith-based melodramatic family drama. The family in Perry’s newest movie belongs to sweet Shirley (Loretta Devine), who is dying of cancer. Not that her awful brood seems to care.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13) This literary romantic comedy easily bests Woody Allen’s last few films, especially his mean-spirited You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Owen Wilson stars as the latest Woody stand-in, Gil, a Hollywood hack trying to finish a novel while on a family business trip to Paris with his fiancee’s (Rachel McAdams) family. On a magical midnight walk, Gil runs into Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill), gets writing advice from Papa Hemingway (Corey Stoll) and Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates) and falls for Picasso’s girlfriend, Adriana (Marion Cotillard). The big names Allen snags to play the even bigger personalities are terrific. Stoll’s wonderfully deadpan Hemingway drops droll lines about courage, love and writing from Allen’s sharpest script since Bullets Over Broadway. This funny, heartwarming charmer should please longtime Allen fans, lit teachers and anyone looking for an intelligent breeze to freshen up the stagnant romcom genre.

MONTE CARLO (PG) While on a not-so-dream vacation to Paris, three young women—Grace, Meg and Emma (Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy)—live the Princess Diaries experience (paparazzi, fancy dresses, fairy tale love) in Monte Carlo after one girl is mistaken for a British heiress. Director Thomas Bezucha’s last film was the OK The Family Stone, released six years ago.

Adapted from Jules Bass’ tween lit hit, Headhunters. With Andie MacDowell, Brett Cullen and the hilarious Catherine Tate (“Doctor Who”).

MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG) Calling Mr. Popper’s Penguins an adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater’s 1938 Newberry Honor Book is a stretch. The main character is named Popper, and there are penguins.

The similarities end there. Tom Popper (Jim Carrey, providing his most satisfying fun for the whole family comedy since 1997’s Liar, Liar) is a ruthless real estate something-or-other, who’s a rather sorry husband (to Carla Gugino) and father (to Swing Vote’s wonderful Madeline Carroll and Maxwell Perry Cotton), that is, until he inherits six penguins from his late absentee father.

Then Popper becomes the best poppa a penguin or progeny could pray for.

Bland, inoffensive family films can come in worse packages, i.e., those

missing Carrey, a rookery of cute penguins or Angela Lansbury. Popper’s most intrusive flaw doesn’t belong to the movie but to the studio. This winter wonderland felt out of place in June.

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.

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. 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. PROJECT NIM (NR) James Marsh, the director of the Academy Award winning documentary, Man on Wire, returns with another tale of the ‘70s.

In order to prove an ape could learn to communicate through language, Nim, a baby chimpanzee, is taken from his mother and raised as a human child by a family in their Upper West Side brownstone. What an extraordinarily interesting true story! Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award from the Sundance Film Festival.

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

SOMETHING BORROWED (PG13) Something Borrowed, something blew. In an in-spirit, if not in-name sequel to Bride Wars, another greater, more appealing actress withers when matched with the poisonous Kate Hudson. I love Ginnifer Goodwin, but she is no match for KHud, whose career continues to spawn entries on my personal worst movies list. Rachel (Goodwin) and Darcy (Hudson) have been friends since they were, like, little girls. Now Darcy is on the verge of getting married to Rachel’s longtime, law school crush, Dex (Colin Egglesfield), forcing Rachel to do something or lose him forever.

SOUL SURFER (PG) The second release from new distributor FilmDistrict, Soul Surfer is based on the true story of teenaged surfer Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb), who lost her arm but not her desire to hang ten to a shark attack. A ludicrously buff Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt appear as Bethany’s father and mother.

SUPER 8 (PG-13) In J.J. Abrams’ new summer crowdpleaser, a group of junior Spielbergs witness a train crash that unleashes some mysterious and destructive events on their small

Ohio town. The film’s dramatic core and primary means of propulsion are its dual mysteries: one fantastical, one tragically mundane. Without giving too much away, but to establish a point of reference, Super 8 is a Close Encounter with Jaws and E.T. THEY CAME TO PLAY (NR) 2008. During the Fifth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs (hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation), a wide range of players descend on Fort Worth, TX for a week of intense competition. Be they 35 or 80, self-taught or classically trained, these amateurs all love their musical art and strive to prove they are the world’s best. Winner of the Audience Award for Documentary from the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival.

• TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG-13) What exactly did Michael Bay think was wrong with the last Transformers movie? Whatever he fixed made Transformers 3 cringingly bad and the worst of the bunch. After defeating the Decepticons, the Autobots help pursue the U.S. government’s global agenda (I guess we missed the part where Optimus and Co. became naturalized citizens), until a lunar discovery brings about a cataclysmic battle that only the Bots and a select group of Americans can win. Sadly, humans still waste valuable screen time as Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) grapples with debilitating penis envy for his hot girlfriend’s McDreamy boss (Patrick Dempsey) and his parents annoyingly return. This two-and-ahalf hour live-action cartoon-cum-car commercial has fallen into parody and makes its animated predecessor look like a deep character study set to the music of Stan Bush.

• THE WARD (R) After a creatively, if not commercially successful run in the 1980s, the 1990s were not so kind to horror master John Carpenter. His only film of the 2000s was Ghosts of Mars, unarguably one of his worst pictures. The weak, sickly horror genre of 2011 needs JC to return strong and fright-filled, and The Ward, the auteur’s most well-rounded film since the late-’80s, delivers. The plot is simple; a young woman (Amber Heard) is institutionalized and must save herself and her wardmates from a vengeful spirit. The filmmaker returns to the film school bag of tricks that made Carpenter a household name (every household I live in counts). The Ward will never compete with Carpenter’s iconic masterpieces, but it’s a nice little ghost story effectively told around the cinematic campfire by one of the genre’s luminaries.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG-13) With Kick-Ass filmmaker Matthew Vaughn in charge, X-Men: First Class is what the third X-movie should have been. A prequel to the preceding cinematic issues, X-Men Zero explains how Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr, AKA Magneto (Michael Fassbender), came to be friends and then mortal enemies. With Hellfire Club members Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) and Emma Frost (January Jones) plotting nuclear war against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Xavier must train his first class of mutants—including series vets Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult)—to control their powers.

ZOOKEEPER (PG) A lovable zookeeper (Kevin James) is assisted by his animals, who decide to break their code of silence, in order to help him win the affection of a girl. At the rate James’ box-office star is rising, this family film seems like a surefire summer hit. Director Frank Coraci is an Adam Sandler regular). I’ve seen the trailer; I’m not impressed.

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film notebook News of Athens’ Cinema Scene Too Real?: Unavoidable renovations to the Film Notebook residence of late—due to imminent spatial demands—have necessitated the purchase of a very fancy new television. Its screen is bigger than any TV I’ve ever had, though not by too much (and it fits in a much smaller space, because it’s flat), and it’s got much higher resolution. Things really look different on it—even from the way they did on my old HDTV, which wasn’t all that old.

You can see the ever-so-slight mushiness of images shot on HD video, like the nonetheless

(“reality”?) to which I’ve grown accustomed?

People have been accustomed to all sorts of things in the brief but phenomenally eventful history of motion pictures: analog projection, effects and cameras; theatrical presentation; lack of color; lack of speech. All those norms have been corrupted, compromised or obliterated, and each time, purists howled, the masses wowed or shrugged, and pretty soon the innovation became the standard. I’m not going all Rudolf Arnheim on my sweet 1080p digital TV—far from it—and this isn’t exactly the dawn of the talkies. I just don’t think I’ve ever had such a clear view of the ongoing revolution, however minor the chapter.

Your Ma, She’s Good Lookin’: The weather’s gotten pretty raunchy, and Ciné’s Summer Classic Movie Series is cranking up to give us all an extra two-hour break from the swelter during each of the next six weeks. First up is Lasse Halstrom’s romantic 2000 hit Chocolat, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, opening Friday, July 8 with a Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche in Lasse Halstrom’s Chocolat, opening this personal introduction weekend at Ciné as part of the Summer Classic Movie Series. by man-about-town Tony Eubanks. Tony beautiful and compelling ones in Last Train was a key organizer of Ciné’s first classics Home, Lixin Fan’s 2009 documentary about series last summer, and he’s leadoff off this year with a real ringer. The following week’s the annual migration of millions of Chinese migrant workers who return home for the entry is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston, New Year, which I started watching the other and introduced July 15 by Drive-By Trucker night but haven’t finished. And in films shot and serious film afficionado Patterson Hood. in 35mm and viewed on Blu-Ray, like Mike Patterson’s been itching to bring John Leigh’s wonderful Another Year, which I did, Huston’s dark but masterfully entertaining at last, watch in its entirety last week, the fable of greed to an Athens screen for years definition is so clear it’s almost distracting: now, so his presentation should be a lot of it’s like the images are hyper-real, their crysfun. Look at www.athenscine.com for full talline sharpness combining with the inherent details. distortions and limitations of motion pictures to produce an effect I can best describe as The Library Is Cool, Too: The ACC Library’s “unnaturally realistic.” iFilms series got the short shrift in this colIt’s even more pronounced in a film like umn last time out because of space limitaHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 tions (not the same ones referenced above); (yes, I watched that, too), where the analogthat’s regrettable, because the folks there based images—all meticulously designed have been bringing in some really well-chosen and art-directed before any camera ever saw movies of late. The next is They Came to Play them—have been so thoroughly processed on July 7, a 2008 doc about the International and refined with digital effects that they’ve Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, become largely artificial, then mastered for which brings together 75 of the world’s the slickest and hardest look possible. It’s best—you guessed it—amateur pianists, very strange—almost unwatchable, oddly— for a musical week in Fort Worth, TX. June when all those layers of stylization are viewed 14 is Silent Light, which I described thusly through a medium so exact in its representain my “Best Films of 2009” list (at position tions that the so-familiar characters in the # 2): “Watching Carlos Reygadas’ strange, film’s “magical” world start to look like actual lovely fable of faithfulness and infidelity in a teenagers in American Apparel walking secluded Mennonite community in Mexico is around on movie sets. like adopting the perspective of an alien, but I’ll get used to it, of course, and I don’t one endowed with a profound empathy for really want to sound like I’m complaining: humanity. It’s a truly majestic film.” I’ll stick technical advances are good, right? But this with that. Screenings are Thursdays at 7 p.m. sudden jolt to my senses has me thinking in the auditorium of the ACC library at 2025 about what, exactly, my expectations are Baxter St. with regard to the most basic aesthetic elements of a film. Do I demand a fundamental Dave Marr film@flagpole.com unreality? Or a specific version of unreality l

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keeps bookstores in business. Yes, it’s the future, but it’s still a shame.

It’s also a shame that Lois Lane is being unceremoniously kicked to the curb. Maybe she’ll find love with Steve Trevor—he’s kind of a douche, but I hear he’s available.

Crossover to the Dark Side: Among the titles DC plans to launch in September is a team comic called Justice League Dark (no word on when Justice League with Almonds will hit the racks). This supernaturally themed comic has created a lot of Internet chatter, as it incorporates a number of characters from DC’s mature-comics line Vertigo into the main continuity of superhero comics. While there is a lot of fan crossover between the two lines, one of Vertigo’s primary selling points has been precisely that its stories are not pantiesand-capes adventures, so this development has been a source of great distress for people who’d rather not see John Constantine breathing the same air as the Penguin.

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Speaking of Bad Versions of John Constantine: Wretched actor/ wretched musician Keanu Reeves has added a new profession to his resumé: wretched poet. According to the New York Daily News, the “Sad Keanu” Internet meme, a series of photos of the actor caught looking depressed, apparently inspired Reeves to start writing deliberately self-effacing poems to poke fun at his perceived melancholia.

The resulting book of poetry, called Ode to Happiness, is now in limited distribution through German publisher Steidl and retails for $55. So, if you have half a C and change to spare on self-deprecating humor from an actor notorious for his lack of same, this is the book for you. Or you could just wait for the rumored third Bill & Ted movie, because you know that is going to be high-larious…

Recommended: Amazon.com has just released its list of the 10 best books of the first six months of 2011, selected by its staff. Top of the list is Mitchell Zuckoff’s memoir Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (HarperCollins).

Other notables on the list include new books by historian Erik Larson and novelist Arthur Phillips (whose last novel, The Song Is You, was phenomenal) and Tina Fey’s Bossypants, which several of my friends have read and told me I have to pick up ASAP. Just because Amazon recommends these books, however, doesn’t mean you have to buy them from Amazon. Go hit the bookstore—it’ll be good for everybody.

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What’cha Ghana Do?: Longtime Athens musician James Wilson (Don Chambers + GOAT, Madeline) has undertaken a fundraising campaign via Indie GoGo to complete an album of international music inspired by his travels to the West African nation of Ghana in 2008, where he met multi-instrumentalist Kofi Anteneng in the city of Accra. Wilson had written some music influenced by that meeting, incorporating rhythms he recorded in Ghana into the songs, but he decided to take the project further and went back to Africa in 2010 to have members of Anteneng’s band lay down some additional tracks. The goal of this fundraising project is to facilitate Wilson’s return to Ghana to finish these now-collaborative recordings and to allow Wilson to pay the Ghanan musicians for their work and handle all associated costs (food, etc.) for them.

For more information and fundraising details, please see www.indiegogo.com/ TaxicabVerses.

Buy the Ticket; Take the Ride: The Georgia Theatre might be officially celebrating its reopening over the course of two weeks, Aug. 1–14, but let’s face it: the celebration is really going to continue through the entire season. (Special note to naysayers: if you think you’re sick of reading news about the Theatre now, well, just wait. You’re going to be absolutely inundated with it from all sides in the coming weeks and months. So, Blaze Foley either deal or, you know, stop reading.) The lineup of upcoming shows keeps expanding, and some newly added shows of special note include The Whigs (Aug. 20), of Montreal (Sept. 1), The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Sept. 2), multiFlagpole Music Award winners Futurebirds (Sept. 9), Yacht Rock Revue (Sept. 30) and Ghostland Observatory (Oct. 6). For you folks out there who really don’t care about this music stuff but still like to lose your mind in public, the Theatre will be showing the UGA vs. Boise State football game on the big screen Sept. 3. For tickets and all other relevant information, please see www.georgiatheatre.com.

Back Down to Texas: Unless news is directly related to the Athens music scene it has to strike me as particularly special to get any space in this column. So, you can trust me when I say that I think your time would be well spent at the Flicker Theatre & Bar on Thursday, July 7. Austin filmmaker Kevin Triplett will screen his documentary, Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah, that evening.

Foley (born Michael David Fuller), while known mainly as an Austin artist, spent time in Georgia off-and-on during the early ‘70s (mainly in Carroll County at the Banning Mills). Although a legend in Austin, Foley is best known elsewhere for other people’s versions of his songs (e.g., “If I Could Only Fly” as sung by Merle Haggard; “Clay Pigeons” covered by John Prine; “Election Day” done

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by Lyle Lovett). Foley died from a gunshot wound in 1989 at age 40 and, depending on whose version of the events you believe, he was either murdered or shot as an act of selfdefense by his killer. Claire Campbell will also perform this night, so there’s a purely local twist to the evening after all. For more information, please see www.blazefoleymovie.com.

Things Change: Athens-based hip-hop artist services company H.E.R Hip-Hop, LLC has cancelled its annual showcase that was scheduled to occur in November of this year.

The first H.E.R. Hip-Hop Showcase happened in April 2010. Although revealing few details DANA KOLFLAT

The big news out of Geekville is DC Comics’ announcement that in September it will reboot its entire line of comics, ending runs that have lasted for decades, and begin fresh, publishing 52 titles that will all begin with #1. All past stories will be annulled by the reboot, and continuity will begin fresh across the board. In many cases, this also means radical revisions of certain characters, among them Superman, who will no longer be married to Lois Lane and is instead expected to be romantically involved with an equally revamped Wonder Woman (a move that makes a lot more sense if you think about it). Even more astonishing is the reveal of a new costume for the Man of Steel, one where he at long last wears his underwear inside his pants.

This is huge news for comics fans. It’s good news for those who have felt stymied by the massive multiple-universe sagas and well-publicized but ultimately temporary deaths of major characters that have resulted in convoluted and daunting backstories that require the skills of a Talmudic scholar just to read a funnybook. It’s bad news for longtime readers who have invested so much interest into the vast DC Universe tapestry, especially those laying out big bucks for this year’s major crossover event who’ve just been informed that as soon as the story ends, it will turn out never to have happened.

But what does this mean for people who don’t read comics? Quite a bit, actually. Aside from major changes in the pop iconography of our childhood, the DC reboot is designed to provide fresh, attractive product for DC’s push to dominate the digital comics market. Yes, the comic book companies are competing as fiercely as mainstream publishers to provide downloadable content.

In DC’s case, the company will offer its brandnew comics line as same-day downloads in the hopes of attracting new e-readers with fresh content that will edge out Marvel’s current dominance of the digital market.

What this amounts to is another huge bite taken out of the print market and another blow to brick-and-mortar comics shops and bookstores, who cannot afford to lose any source of revenue at this juncture. We’re all realists here; we understand that online shopping, Internet news, e-books and downloadable content are the inevitable wave of the future. It’s more convenient to purchase and read on our devices than to go to stores and carry printed materials around. On the other hand, electronic shopping and buying tends to be by nature a directed activity. There is little browsing, little chance of happening upon a pleasant surprise or an impulse buy. One of the joys of shopping physically is lost when we shop online, as well as a big part of what

about the cancellation and the immediate suspension of its client-based business, it seems the problem is simply that the three principals involved (Rebekah Baldwin, Elizabeth Schenck and Stephen Prevost) are each moving out of town, and rather than do something halfassed they decided to end things while the solid reputation of H.E.R. was still intact. The company will maintain its blog and website until at least August, and full details regarding the future of H.E.R. are available there.

Please see www.herhiphop.com.

There’s Gold in That Thar Mud: Where’s the intersection of deep woods hip-hop, jacked up, mid-sized pickup trucks and more canned beer than anyone has a right to? Well, honky, it’s on the television, that’s where! The Outdoor Channel has hired Athens countryrapper Colt Ford to co-host the inaugural season of its new show, Mudslingers. The show premiered last week, and 13 episodes will air this season. The centerpiece of the show is exactly what you’d expect: truck-’n’-mud culture and the party scene that surrounds it. The Outdoor Channel says you can expect “thrills, spills and raucous tailgating crowds.” See? You don’t have to be an urban frat boy to create an entirely lowbrow culture! For more information, please see www.coltford.com and www.outdoorchannel.com/Shows/Mudslinger.

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ow interested am I in vintage dresses?

How much time do I have to take off of work? Can I still go on tour all the time and make a store happen? Could my friends—who I’d want to be part of this project with me—think I’m crazy because I’m essentially taking over a vintage dress store and trying to turn it into a more open-ended cool space/store/thing?”

These were some of the thoughts going through Michael Clancy’s head as he sped through Florida via tour van this past January.

He was on the road drumming with his indiepunk trio, Witches, when he received a surprising phone call from Kimberly Drew, at the time the proprietor of Ohh, Boy!, a vintage store located on West Broad Street. Her message for him was simple: she wanted to step

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Michael Clancy away from the store and was offering it up to Clancy to do with it as he wished. As someone who’d never considered himself an entrepreneur on that level, he was a little stunned.

After a week’s worth of consideration, he accepted. This is how things got rolling for Southern Vision.

Having previously done a portion of the booking work at The Hangar, the now-defunct catch-all DIY space for band-practicing, artmaking and punk show-throwing, Clancy has been eyeing this opportunity to both de-ghettoize his community’s events and maintain a location that will act as a store, yes, but hopefully as something bigger as well.

Sounding a little baffled to hear the words coming out of his own mouth, Clancy says, “I own a business now—which is weird—but I can open it to anyone. I don’t want it to be [exclusive]. I mean, I love punk, but I don’t like being part of some secret club with my friends. I like doing these things so as many people can be part of some kind of alternative. There’s commerce involved; it’s still a normal thing in some ways, but it’s also weirder and more open-ended. Making money is in no way the point—I mean, we need to

make rent, but the idea is definitely to incorporate and invite people so that we’re not just this secret thing.”

In addition to many of the consignment items that Ohh, Boy! already has for sale, Clancy will be expanding the store’s scope to include more records, musical equipment and the like. The store will be volunteer-run, with better consignment rates available for those minding the register. The scrappy, potentialfilled nature of Southern Vision provides a much-needed service to kids of all ages in Athens: the vaguely purposed, cool swag-filled hangout, a window into a music community where all too often, ageism reigns on the downtown scene.

It’s apt that the store’s grand opening would see the return of a onetime staple of the Athens punk scene, André Gallant. Gallant established himself as a guitarist and songwriter with Carrie Nations, by now a widely and fondly regarded band influenced by the gusto of Guided by Voices and the pep of Superchunk. As with the journalistic work he’d honed since Carrie Nations broke up in 2005 (including contributions to Flagpole), Gallant used music as a tool to communicate across communities.

“I don’t write political songs at all,” says Gallant. “But they’re emotional, and that’s the kind of journalism I did—very emotional writing in some sense. I’m telling the same types of stories: stories about hardworking people or people trying to get by.”

While walking around AthFest with Patrick Jennings of the recently hiatus-ed Hot New Mexicans, Gallant acquired a sense of urgency to return to the platform of musical performance.

The duo agreed to play the roles of mutual ass-kickers, egging on and encouraging one another’s new musical ventures by going on a joint solo mini-tour, starting in Athens and ending the next day in the punk satellite city of Chattanooga.

“I’m eager to start playing out,” Gallant says; as of late, he’s been fine-tuning a project featuring Clancy on drums. “I have a lot less inhibition than when I was playing in punk bands, where I would be more afraid to play acoustically or by myself.”

The operative theme here, of course, is one of support: bringing the unity-based feel of the DIY circuit out into the world at large and taking chances—chances like opening a business on a lark.

“Once my friends were into it, I was like, ‘OK. As long as I have some people to help me out,’” says Clancy. “I have nothing to lose, you know?”

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ot a whole lot about Grand Rapids, MI band Stepdad was premeditated. The two core members didn’t grow up together, and they weren’t toiling in obscurity for years playing songs they believed in but no one else seemed to care about. Rather, the buzz around Stepdad and their ultra-catchy synth pop tunes started with a chance meeting at a bar and a cursory recording offer.

“I was doing freelance production stuff, and I saw him performing as a solo artist in Mount Pleasant,” says Ryan McCarthy, referring to the other half of Stepdad’s core, a musician who goes by the name ultramark. “He had, like, a pink kitten sweater on; he looked so ridiculous, but he was playing these really catchy pop songs.”

So, McCarthy emailed ultramark and invited him to come out to his bedroom studio in Saginaw, MI to record some tracks for free.

“He was commuting from Chicago to my studio in Saginaw, and, eventually, he just asked if I wanted to come to Chicago,” McCarthy says. “So, I packed up my stuff and moved out there. Then pretty quickly… we just started writing songs together, and it’s kinda been that ever since.”

After the move, the duo recorded and released the Ordinaire EP, a debut featuring eight retro-pop gems. The quality of the record was not up to chance, of course, as McCarthy and ultramark had spent years crafting their songwriting on small stages and in their home studio. What the duo didn’t anticipate was how successful Ordinaire would be.

“We didn’t have a plan when we put it out. It wasn’t like, ‘OK, we’re gonna put it out, and then do all the normal stuff a band does like tour and try to get a record deal,’” says McCarthy. “We sent it out to our friends around the country, and it kind of spread in a really weird way.”

That weirdness included a chance encounter with the now hugely popular web comic Axe Cop. After seeing the webpage soon after it went live, McCarthy and ultramark wrote

a song for it, just for fun, and sent it to the creator. It then filtered down to fans of the comic, who soon became fans of Stepdad.

Suddenly, with little promotion other than the pop muscle of their songs, Ordinaire and Stepdad were getting noticed, with reviews and downloads available on numerous music blogs nationwide. And the reviews were good.

The final, perhaps most important happenstance for Stepdad is the band’s actual sound.

Drawing comparisons to current retro-synth pop bands like Passion Pit and MGMT, Stepdad seems to be riding a wave of appreciation for ‘80s-influenced pop music… only thing is, that was unintentional, too.

“People think, ‘[Stepdad’s music] is totally ‘80s throwback,’ which is cool, but it’s not at all what we were going for,” McCarthy says.

“We were just like, ‘Well, we got some synthesizers, and we like writing catchy pop songs,’ and that’s just what happened to come out.”

McCarthy says that although many of Stepdad’s favorite bands are basically ‘80s bands, most of them aren’t the ones his band is compared to. But he admits that as songwriters, both he and ultramark feel it’s important to study the melodies and structures of their favorite bands; that process helped them create their own powerful hooks.

“Mark and I both are just self-taught songwriters,” McCarthy says. “And I think now we are kind of getting to do it and show people what we’ve been learning for the past seven years in our bedrooms, not having any social lives throughout high school.”

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connoisseurs of the Criterion Collection may recall the ecstatic peroration delivered by tortured TV executive Frank Cross, played by Bill Murray, at the close of the film Scrooged.

Upon invading a live TV broadcast with the aid of crazed gunman Bobcat Goldthwait, our hero explored the addictive quality of doing good work. Joe Terry is familiar with this feeling.

While speaking of the tour that his indie-pop band, The Poison Control Center, is currently on, he strikes a contemplative tone.

“It’s a shame to think that it might end,” he says. “When you do a three- or five-week tour, you start to look forward to the end of it, so you can... get back to your normal routine. But when we kinda gave up everything, we didn’t have those responsibilities in the back of our minds, filling up into a ball of anxiety. It was just kinda like, ‘We’re just a freewheeling, carefree band, and all we have to worry about is driving and getting to the next town so we can rock out again.’”

The Poison Control Center has been on tour since June of 2010. This excludes some time off for Christmas (natch) and the month the bandmembers took to record, mix and master their forthcoming album, Stranger Ballet. Aside from that, the band has been crisscrossing America repeatedly, playing some places three, four, five or—in the case of Athens—six times. Their magnetic pull, time and again, towards the Classic City is no coincidence.

“It’s hard to think that we would even be a touring band if it wasn’t for Athens,” says Terry, speaking to Flagpole from a stop in Austin, TX. “When Mike [Turner] invited us to play that first Popfest [in 2004], that turned us into a touring band. We were like, ‘We’ve gotta get down to Athens. We don’t know how, but we’re gonna make it happen.’”

It’s been over 10 years since bassist/vocalist Terry and vocalist/guitarist Patrick Tape Fleming met vocalist/guitarist Devin Frank at a show in their hometown of Ames, IA; the bill included Masters of the Hemisphere and The Essex Green. Fleming approached Frank and struck up a conversation because the latter was wearing an Elf Power t-shirt.

“It all kinda started at that show—all the bands that night were great; they were kinda role models for a young impressionable band like us,” says Terry. “We were all getting into Elephant Six… so it was pretty exciting for those bands to come to Iowa because a lot of bands like that don’t make a stop in an unknown Midwestern state.”

This show likely made an impression beyond the stylistic: the idea of going to farflung, rock-starved portions of North America has undoubtedly been an important facet of the unbelievably hard-touring quartet, which also includes original drummer/songwriter Donald E. Curtis (currently an absentee member) and current timekeeper David Olson.

The original incarnation of the band was indeed a sort of mistranslated, regionally mutated version of the Elephant Six collective, with ringleader Fleming bringing anyone and everyone into the fold.

“Patrick was always sort of the mastermind of the band; he was always encouraging people to bring forth their own ideas,” says Terry. “He’s not the most trained musician by any means, but he knows what he likes, and he encourages other people to do good stuff.

A part of the band from the beginning was his openness to invite other people in to play and share their talents, be it singing or playing or producing or whatever. That’s why the line-up of the band was fluid for those first few years, because practically everyone Patrick knew played in PCC at one point or another.”

As a recording project, the band was an all-inclusive wall of sound; live, it was a chaotic noisefest. Functioning as a regional party band, they briefly toyed with the gimmick of wearing all green onstage. In 2004 the band whittled down to what would be its core lineup, but for their part, the remaining quartet have retained much of the frenzied exuberance of the band’s early days.

The Poison Control Center shows are a spectacle of leg splits, somersault guitar solos, sweaty audience interaction and the occasional swinging guitar fight. “We’re a little older, and the bruises don’t heal as fast, so we have to be a bit cautious,” says Terry.

“If you have an equipment failure, you break a string or something, you can’t keep rockin’— you gotta do something to kinda vent.”

But beyond the horseplay, listeners will discover a diverse palette on documents such as their 2010 double album, Sad Sour Future.

This is due, in no small part, to the fact that the bandmembers all contribute equally to the band’s staggering output of singles and EPs. Terry, who is responsible for some of the band’s more laid-back, CCR-esque material—a respite from their more typical fare of highspirited power pop—speaks highly of their unconventionally democratic setup.

“We just take equal responsibility, or equal blame, for what we do,” he says, laughing.

“It’s a bonus; it’s nice to share in something that we were all equally invested in.” It’s easy to see that when you’re doing something you believe in, you can get greedy for it; you’ll want it every day of your life. And it can happen to you.

Jeff Tobias

WHO: The Poison Control Center WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Monday, July 11 HOW MUCH: TBA

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EVENTS: Aquatic Aerobics (Memorial Park) A low-impact exercise session to celebrate National Park and Recreation Month. 6–7 p.m. $5. 706-613-3580 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 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: 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 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

EVENTS: iFilms: They Came to Play (ACC Library) This awardwinning documentary focuses on the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Family Fishing Day (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Fish in the hidden Claypit Pond. Bait, poles and tips provided. Call to register.

6–7:30 p.m. $6/family. 706-6133615 KIDSTUFF: “One World, Many Tuneful Tales!” (ACC Library) Storyteller Wendy Bennett brings stories from around the world to life with her musical theater tunes. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Pajama Party (Oconee County Library) Get ready for bed with stories, songs and a bedtime treat. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Readers in grades K–5 are invited to bring their favorite book and read aloud to a certified therapy dog. Trainer always present.

First come, first served. 2–4 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Screening: The Karate Kid (Oconee County Library) This 1984 hit tellls the story of a boy who is bullied at school and the martial arts master who shows him that there is more to karate than fighting.

6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Steampunk Tea Party (ACC Library) Wear your best outfit and bring your Victorian manners.

Outlandish costumes and alternate personas encouraged. 2–3 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Wikki Stix Playday (Georgia Square Mall, Learning Express) Decorate a picture or make a figurine with wax-coated yarn.

10:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. FREE! MEETINGS: Sapph.fire (Nuçi’s Space) Private supportive meeting for lesbian and bisexual women to express themselves. 6:30–8 p.m. sapph.fire@yahoo.com

Wednesday 6 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Join curator Dale Couch for a tour of decorative arts from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: International Cuisine Class (Oconee County Library) Learn how to make a simple dish from Japan. Once the cooking is finished, you get to eat it. 6–7 p.m.

FREE! 706-760-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert (Various Locations) Join Kim James for an interactive program featuring stories and music from around the world. 10:30 a.m. (Oconee County Library) & 2 p.m. (Madison County Library). FREE! 706-769-3950 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.: Armchair Traveler (ACC Library) Tammy Gerson will present a photo journey around Israel, detailing the holy sites. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

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Friday 8 EVENTS: Chocolate Festival (Ciné Lab) Ciné kicks off its summer classic movies series with a screening of Chocolat. After the film, the fest will include music, jugglers, a fortune teller, specialty drinks and lots of chocolate! See the website for showtimes and details. www.athenscine. com. 706-353-3343 PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists.

10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub THEATRE: Once Upon a Mattress (Crawford School) A musical comedy based on The Princess and the

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Pea. July 8–10 & 14–16. $12 (adv.), $15. www.artsoglethorpe.org KIDSTUFF: “Make a Wish!” (ACC Library) Join Barbara Dinnan for stories/songs from around the world.

2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Mindfulness Practice Group (Mind Body Institute) Beginners welcome. Meets the second Friday of each month. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@armc.org

Saturday 9 EVENTS: Athens Dawg Derby (The Classic Center) Flyball is a relay race between two teams or four dogs each. This tournament features 275 dogs from eight states competing on 55 teams. July 9–10, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. $2. flyballdogs.com/ddare EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads.

Blueberry Daze! Blueberry ice cream and blueberry-related activities for the kids. 8 a.m.–noon. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Big Gay Cookout (Memorial Park) Meet at shelter #3 for free hot dogs, hamburgers and soft drinks. Bring a dish to share.

Friends and kids welcome. 5–7 p.m.

FREE! sapph.fire@yahoo.com, facebook.com/sapphfire.athens EVENTS: Grand Opening/ P.L.A.C.E. Benefit (Heirloom Cafe) The grand opening of the new restaurant will help raise money for P.L.A.C.E. There will be small plates, hors d’ouevres and a cash bar. 6–8:30 p.m. $10. www.localplace.org 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: Taste Your P.L.A.C.E. Kick-Off (Athens Farmers’ Market) Launch of the annual two-week awareness-raising event hosted by P.L.A.C.E. (Promoting Local Agriculture and Cultural Experiences) that reaches out to people through their taste buds.

Events include cooking demonstrations and blueberry-themed activities for kids. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.localplace.org EVENTS: WMI Farms Produce Market (Mama’s Boy) Natural and locally grown organic produce fresh from the Winterville farm. Located at the lot next to Mama’s Boy. 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

James Justin & Co. play No Where Bar on Tuesday, July 12.

ART: Opening Reception (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Catered reception celebrating Teh Reaver, Jr.’s art exhibition. Acoustic performance by The Dictatortots. 6–9 p.m.

FREE! reavis.stephanie@gmail.com THEATRE: Once Upon a Mattress (Crawford School) A musical comedy based on The Princess and the Pea. July 8–10 & 14–16. $12 (adv.), $15. www.artsoglethorpe.org THEATRE: “When God Calls, Will You Answer?” (Morton Theatre) An inspirational gospel stage play presented by One Dollar Enterprises.

7 p.m. $20. www.mortontheatre.com, www.onedollaratime.com KIDSTUFF: Popsicles and Playgrounds (East Athens Community Center) Free popsicles to celebrate National Park and Recreation Month. 10–11 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3625 KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and its resident creatures. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6133615, www.accleisureservices.com LECTURES & LIT.: An Afternoon with Terry Kay (Oconee County Library) Join Kay for a discussion about his recently published book, Bogmeadow’s Wish. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950

Sunday 10 EVENTS: Athens Dawg Derby (The Classic Center) Flyball is a relay race between two teams or four dogs each. This tournament features 275 dogs from eight states competing on 55 teams. July 9–10, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. $2. flyballdogs.com/ddare THEATRE: Once Upon a Mattress (Crawford School) A musical comedy based on The Princess and the Pea. July 8–10 & 14–16. $12 (adv.), $15. www.artsoglethorpe.org MEETINGS: Grower Cooperative Interest Meeting (UGA Livestock Arena) P.L.A.C.E. will host an Athens Food Activist Networking Session (A.F.A.N.S.) for all interested people from 2–4 p.m. FREE! www.localplace.org

GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Weekly Trivia! 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655, www.buffalos.com/ athens

Monday 11 EVENTS: Community Snapshots (ACC Library) Each month, a local baby boomer will share his or her story via live webcast as a part of a new grant program called “The Boomers: Reflecting, Learning, Sharing.” This month: Lou Judon presents “Sex, Flies and Too Much Weight.” 12:30 p.m. FREE! boomersinathens.org KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture baby’s language skills. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Screening: How to Train Your Dragon (Oconee County Library) In this movie, a hapless viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon. 1 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 GAMES: Adult Trivia (Jack’s Bar) Test your knowledge. 9–11 p.m.

706-548-8510 GAMES: Dart League and Pool Tournament (Alibi) Meet up with other sharp-shooters. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Monday night. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

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Tuesday 12 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: Drafts & Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Five beers, five comics, five bucks. $5. 9:30 p.m.

706-353-2831 EVENTS: Under the Rainbow Drag Show (Max) A drag show to raise money for Athens Pride Weekend.

10 p.m. $5. undertherainbow706@ yahoo.com EVENTS: Under the Rainbow Speed Dating (Max) For men seeking men and women seeking women. 8–9:30 p.m. $3. undertherainbow706@yahoo.com KIDSTUFF: Felt Mascots Workshop (Oconee County Library) Create Japanese-inspired characters out of felt. For teens 11–18. All materials supplied. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: 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 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 13 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com EVENTS: Taste Your P.L.A.C.E. Supper (Roots Farm CSA) Bring a potluck dish or vegetable and join your neighbors to share a pot of stone soup, stories and good times.

7:30 p.m. FREE! www.localplace.org PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists.

* Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line EVENTS: Taste Your P.L.A.C.E. Pie Contest 7/16 (Athens Farmers’ Market) Best sweet and savory pies will win prizes. If you want to enter a pie into the contest ($5 per entry), try to use as many local ingredients as possible and bring it to the Athens Farmers Market by 10 a.m.

10 a.m. $5 (to taste all pies). www. localplace.org EVENTS: Farm Tour 7/17 (Various Locations) Take a driving tour of three local farms. Space is limited; email to reserve spot. Part of Taste Your P.L.A.C.E. 1–8 p.m. $30. atedrow@uga.edu, www.localplace.org EVENTS: 4th Annual Athens Local Food Awards 7/21 (Ciné Barcafé) P.L.A.C.E. presents awards for educators, businesses, advocates and excellence on the farm. 8 p.m. www. localplace.org EVENTS: Taste Your Tapas and Silent Auction 7/21 (Ciné Barcafé) Taste and vote on your favorite local foods from participating restaurants.

Part of Taste Your P.L.A.C.E. 7–8:30 p.m. $20. www.localplace.org PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret 7/27 (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists.

10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub PERFORMANCE: Athens Brass Choir Concert 8/7 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Come inside the air-conditioned Conservatory for marches, popular tunes and classical pieces during this instrumental brass concert. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime 8/13 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615, www. accleisureservices.com * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 5 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (18+) $5 (21+). www. caledonialounge.com DELETED SCENES Eclectic indie rock that shares a lot with The Shins

and a little with Vampire Weekend.

The soaring vocals and swirling guitars are accented by colorful vibraphone, trumpet, organ and piano.

NUTRITIONAL PEACE Local “vegan ambient” duo featuring Jeff Tobias and Amy Whisenhunt creating lush, hypnotizing soundscapes using sax, guitar, keys, autoharp and various percussion.

Little Kings Shuffle Club “Athens Farmers Market.” 4:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net BETWEEN NAYBORS Local duo Greg Benson and Melanie Morgan play folky acoustic tunes.

The Melting Point Terrapin Bluegrass Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com BORDERHOP FIVE Formerly a bluegrass trio, the group has added fiddle and banjo into the mix for a more rounded- out, high, lonesome sound.

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

Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Welcoming singer-songwriters every Wednesday.

Farm 255 Primals Night. 9 p.m. FREE! www. farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Background sounds for dinner and cocktails.

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

11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com R. STEVIE MOORE Legendary 40year veteran/godfather of DIY music whose extremely prolific recordings range from country to metal while always experimenting on the creative edge. Backed on his first extended tour by Brooklyn’s Tropical Ooze.

See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

QUIET HOOVES High-energy, idiosyncratic pop that’s loose and full of fun. Expect some fun covers thrown into the mix.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5 www.flickertheatreandbar. com ITCHY HEARTS Brooklyn-based folk/ rock and roll/pop band that’s both earnest and playful.

MITCHELL THUNDERBOLT Mellow Americana country from Vaugan Lamb of Gift Horse.

MR. FALCON High-energy, indie garage-rock influenced equally by The Kinks and Pixies.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $8. www.40watt.com BABY BABY This charismatic Atlanta band can be described simply as “fun-rock.” The tunes are upbeat and super danceable, and the banter is cheeky.

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

SPACE GHOST Expect keyboard-driven pop from this local four-piece.

STEPDAD High-energy pop trio leaning heavily on percussive dance beats and retro-electro melodies.

Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com (Timothy Rd. Location) KIP JONES AND JAY RING Local musician Jay Ring is joined by fellow Athenian and country folk artist

Kip Jones. The duo plays covers of contemporary and classic hits.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7–10 p.m. 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Every Wednesday! Stop by for live jazz bands and drink specials.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com TRE POWELL Solo blues and R&B guitarist.

Thursday 7 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 PARTY NIGHT Dance to the music of ‘80s and ‘90s.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BITTER RESOLVE Prog rock with dystopian imagery and a metal edge out of Chapel Hill, NC. SAVAGIST Impressive Athens metal band featuring fine folks from punk/ metal bands 300 Cobras, Hot Breath and The Dumps.

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 familyfriendly entertainment acts. Advance sign-up required.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE DECORATIONS Synth-infused, marching band dance music with extra drums and featuring members of The Awesomelies and The Buddy System.

LIKE TOTALLY! After being on hiatus for a few years, Jenny Woodward has gotten the cartoony band back together with Jeff Weber on bass, Danny Gorbachev on drums, Mandy Riley on lead vocals, Nick Mallis on guitar, Zack Jones on viola and mandolin and David Fitzgerald on tenor saxophone, along with a revolving cast of backup dancers.

Playing tunes for both for kids and twee-minded adults.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com CLAIRE CAMPBELL Gorgeous folk tunes from half of Hope for Agoldensummer. Claire will perform following the Blaze Foley documentary screening.

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Song Writers in the Round, live from the Rialto Room July 15th at 8pm!

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40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com BALKANS Angular riffs and lo-fi production give this Atlanta band a sound that’s something like a dirtier, more garage-fueled version of The Walkmen.

CARNIVORES Fun grunge-pop from Atlanta.

THE CLAP Nasty, grungy garage meets experimental noise rock from Atlanta.

MOOD RINGS Reverb heavy surf/ shoe gaze rock from Atlanta.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com DAVE D’ANGELO QUARTET D’Angelo’s sax leads this jazz fourpiece, featuring Rand Lines on the

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10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub PERFORMANCE: Comedy Night (40 Watt Club) Feautring comedians Rory Scovel, Gilbert Lawand, Chris Patton, Harold Kizzapps, Jonathan Lowder, and David McDaniel. 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com KIDSTUFF: Amelia Bedelia Show (Oconee County Library) Amy Beauchamp brings this storybook character to life in a high-energy, interactive show as she acts out the outrageous antics of Amelia Bedelia.

3 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Magic Show (Various Locations) With magician and ventriloquist Keith Karnok. 10:30 a.m.

(Oconee County Library), 2 p.m.

(Madison County Library). FREE! 706-342-4743 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 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916

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Hotel Indigo “Live After 5 on the Madison Patio.”

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens. com BETSY FRANCK This local songwriter offers soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

ADAM PAYNE This local musician’s impressively versatile tenor is somewhat reminiscent of Neil Young’s. He writes songs with a lot of heart.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 BLUES NIGHT The Shadow Executives host an open, all-night blues jam, kicking it off with a set of their own originals. Sign up at 8 p.m.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com SHEA’S GIN Metro-Atlanta indie-folk band with Athens roots and a leftleaning political message.

Friday 8 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 THE HANDS OF TIME Rock covers featuring Charles Burgess (The Common Peoples Band) on vocals and keys, Amy Pritchett (Forward Motion) on keys and vocals, JC Plant (Blue Flame) on guitar and vocals, Kenny Brawner (The Grains

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of Sand) on bass, Danny Anthony (The Grains of Sand) on sax, Jeff Hammond (The Soul Pleasers) on trombone, Bill Oglesby (The Soul Pleasers) on sax and Larry Freeman (The Soul Pleasers) on drums.

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.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BARONS OF TANG This self described “gypsy death-core” sevenpiece is here in Athens all the way from Melbourne Australia. They play innovative klezmer music with distorted freakouts akin to Man Man. FALCONES Local band that serves up crunchy, stripped down rock and roll in the vein of The Stooges and Dinosaur Jr. JEFFERS MORNING Rock trio from Athens.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DANK SINATRA Recently voted as the best local jam band in the Flagpole Athens Music Awards, these dudes play improv-heavy electronica mixed with jazz, rock and reggae.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com PIPES YOU SEE Local indie psychpop septet keeps it pretty mellow,

focusing on melody-craft and subtle nuance. CD release show!

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com DO IT TO JULIA Brooding folk rock band from the mountains of North Carolina. The group cites Dave Matthews, Phish and Bright Eyes as influences.

EASTER ISLAND Lush, post rockinfluenced shoegaze with sweet, pop melodies, tender harmonies and shimmering guitars.

LITTLE TYBEE Dreamy soundscapes with lush violin and tropical indiefolk melodies. See Calendar Pick on p. 19.

Go Bar 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar SUPERDRUNK The Eureka California gang performs a set of Superchunk covers. Plus! A bunch of friends will be doing covers, too. Daniel Powell will be playing Modern Lovers, Sam Grandstaff has got some covers, and there are plenty of other fun surprises in store.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com NANNY ISLAND Local band featuring SJ Ursrey (The Ones, Creepy) and Shauna Greeson (Hola Halo) playing dreamy, tropical melodies.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $12. www.meltingpointathens.com GRAINS OF SAND This cover band performs classic Motown, soul and R&B hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s.

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R. Stevie Moore, Quiet Hooves Farm 255 There are about a billion places that you could start to unravel the nearly four decades of madness that is the musical career of R. Stevie Moore, but let’s start with a number: 400.

R. Stevie Moore + Tropical Ooze That’s approximately how many albums he has recorded since he started in the ‘60s, and that’s actually a low estimate. And here’s where it starts to get really nuts: he did most of the recording entirely on his own.

Moore has been called a lot of things: the Godfather of DIY recording, this country’s greatest undiscovered talent, a creative genius, etc. His legacy dates back to 1952, when he was born in Nashville—the eldest son of Bob Moore, famous Nashville session bassist for the likes of Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. Very early on, Moore had access to both instruments and recording gear. According to the extremely detailed timeline on Moore’s website, he made his first home recordings at age 16.

While continually recording, learning music and doing some session work in studios around Nashville, Moore also delved into the blossoming post-punk scene of the ‘70s and ‘80s in the New York/ New Jersey area.

By 1982 Moore had launched the R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club, through which he distributed his home-recorded, hand-labeled records via subscription to what would become a loving, dedicated fanbase. Over those hundreds of releases he has covered a lot of ground—from post punk to metal to experimental noise to comedy to pop, all the way back to the Grand Ole Opry country of Nashville… not to mention plenty of deranged, homemade videos.

Luckily for us, Moore has enough ego and eccentricity to share that creativity which has already inspired numerous artists—from experimental L.A. freak folk-er Ariel Pink to local act The Apples in Stereo and countless others. And in this digital age, Moore now has many more channels through which to funnel his music, including YouTube and numerous MySpace accounts. He has even taken advantage of Kickstarter, creating an account there to fund this, his first-ever extended tour.

If you’ve gone this long without hearing of Moore, do yourself a favor and head to this show. You only get to see genius every so often. [Chris Miller]

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The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE TANGENTS This country-fried rock group from Watkinsville carries Lynyrd Skynyrd licks and John Mellencamp melodies.

Southern Vision 8:30 p.m. FREE! 766 W. Broad St. PATRICK JENNINGS & ANDRÉ GALLANT Local punk rockers debut brand new solo sets. See story p. 13.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com 40 NOTCHES Conyers rock quartet playing covers and originals ranging in style from classic Southern rock to nu-punk.

Saturday 9 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 CAROLINE AIKEN Funky rock originals and covers! (10 a.m.)

EMILY CHENEY Local singer-songwriter. (8 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com CHRIS MCKAY AND THE CRITICAL DARLINGS Back in action with a new lineup and new tunes! Drawing equally on ‘80s power-pop and earlier stuff like The Kinks.

THE ORKIDS Polished local electropop with catchy refrains.

TEALVOX Alternative rock band with a hint of classic British rock.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com STRANGE TORPEDO Bouncy, angular, alternative rock meets post-punk sound, driven by melodic bass lines.

MATT WHITAKER Solo set from member of The Premonitions.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com DODD FERRELLE Former Tinfoil Stars frontman and longtime Athenian Dodd Ferrelle plays sweeping, anthemic ballads and altcountry rockers.

KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor.

Front Porch Bookstore 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 NEAL CANUP & ADAM POULIN With Canup on acoustic guitar and Poulin on fiddle, this pair performs heartfelt rootsy ballads. Bring blankets and a picnic for a fun, familyfriendly evening.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Stephanie Reavis’ Art Reception. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com THE DICTATORTOTS These longtime Athenian chaos-cultivators stomp about and trash the night with post-grunge grooves. Performing a special acoustic set.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DJ OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS DJ OVOR presents “Dub Housing,” with music progressing

from rocksteady and dub to hip-hop, Miami bass and electronica as the night goes on.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 DOMINO EFFECT Smooth reggae from Savannah infused with cool funk and soul.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE BROS. MARLER Twin guitar siblings Daniel and Drew Marler perform original compositions of rock, R&B and blues standards as an acoustic duo.

Rye Bar 9 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SHEA’S GIN Metro Atlanta indie-folk band with Athens roots and a leftleaning political message.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com HWH Guitar, keyboard and drum trio performing covers and original songs based on improvisational rock and funk.

Sunday 10 Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CRUN PUN New crunk punk from Christopher Ingham, Dain Marx, Patrick Goral and Brian Veysey. Says the band of its sound, “kinda punk, kinda jammy, kinda weird, kinda silly, kinda fun.”

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

Highwire Lounge “The Evening Service.” 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com THE DIAMOND CENTER This group formed in Athens in 2008 with ex-members of Sleepy Horses and Brown Frown, but then relocated to Virginia. Expect psychedelic folk and haunting, gauzy vocals.

MATT HUDGINS Performing sans his Shit Hot Band, but still providing those sweet, oak barrel-aged, burns-so-sweet-on-the-way-down country tunes.

VINCAS Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and a bit of rockabilly blues swagger.

Monday 11 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com THE POISON CONTROL CENTER Iowa-based outfit weaving between lo-fi fuzz pop and ‘60s garage rock.

The band has been touring non-stop for a year! See feature story on p. 15.

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

OPEN MIC Mondays! Hosted by local soul and R&B singer Kyshona Armstrong.

Tuesday 12 The Melting Point Terrapin Bluegrass Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS Rootsy Americana featuring shimmering vocal harmonies, honest, personal songwriting and a lineup that includes guitar, mandolin, fiddle and upright bass.

No Where Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 JAMES JUSTIN & CO. Captivating Americana roots-rock band from Charleston that draws from bands like My Morning Jacket, The Avett Bros. and Band of Horses.

Wednesday 13 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

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 BOMBSBOMBSBOMBS Local, quirky pop rock.

HUMAN LIKE ME Dynamic, angular indie rock with a vast array of breakdowns and abrupt, catchy choruses plus the occasional free jazz trumpet solo.

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

Farm 255 Primals Night. 9 p.m. FREE! www. farm255.com RYAN MOORE Solo set from local musician. Moore also plays bass in theatrical rock band Hans Darkbolt.

11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DEAD DOG Local band delivers frenetic, spunky lo-fi punk with a pop smile.

GREEN THRIFT GROCERY New band featuring Ryan Donegan, Chloe Tewksbury, Hana Hay and Dain Marx. Playing “noisy, hooky songs about dancing, science fiction and consumer culture.”

NUCULAR ANIMALS Grungy folkpop four-piece from Portland touring behind a new self-titled release.

George’s Lowcountry Table 6 p.m. FREE! www.georgeslowcountrytable.net KIP JONES Many of Jones’ tunes split between the reflective acoustic territory of Harvest-era Neil Young and the rock of ‘80s-era Steve Earle.

Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com (Timothy Rd. Location) THE VIBRATONES Local scene vets perform an original take on swing and jump-style blues.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com SHOVELS AND ROPE Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent playing “sloppy tonk” music.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7–10 p.m. 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Every Wednesday! Stop by for live jazz bands and drink specials. * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line 7/14 Hans Darkbolt / Young Empires (Caledonia Lounge) 7/14 Brothers / Major Love Event (Farm 255) 7/14 Carl Lindberg Trio (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar)

Friday, July 8

Little Tybee, Easter Island, Do It to Julia 40 Watt Club Little Tybee frontman Brock Scott says he considers Venice Is Sinking and Reptar his “Athens buddies,” having shared the stage with both here in town. And it’s funny that they found each other, Little Tybee because stylistically this Atlanta-based ensemble falls right in between the two—bridging the former’s delicate string arrangements with the latter’s Paul Simon-influenced songwriting.

“I’m really inspired by bands that can reinterpret the ideas of pop music,” says Scott, and innovation is something Little Tybee does well. Between Scott’s intuitive ear and the theoretical knowledge of his classically trained bandmates, Little Tybee crafts lush, lovely ballads that are both unpredictable and underscored by irresistible hooks.

Scott says there is a pool of about 12 musicians who lend their talent to Little Tybee on record and live when available, but the core of the band is Scott on vocals, keys and guitar, backed by Nirvana Kelly on violin, Ryan Donald on bass, Pat Brooks on percussion and Josh Marton on the eight-(count ‘em!) string electric guitar. The latter instrument certainly turns heads at their shows, and Marton’s technical skill is something of a reinterpretation of pop in itself.

“Usually, if you see eight strings you think of Animals as Leaders or the metal scene, but he takes those same ideas and [turns them into] a kind of tasteful jazz,” says Scott.

And while Scott is certainly drawn to melodic earworms, he’s also lyrically inspired by the resilience of a melody and its power as a mnemonic device.

“I find it really fascinating… that you can hear a song you haven’t heard in 13 years and you’ll instantly know all the words to it. Your mind can remember things associated with music or a melody,” he says. In fact, sometimes Scott writes songs simply because there’s something he wants to learn and remember. “I did a whole album on Greek mythology just because I was interested in Greek mythology,” he says. “I had a song about Paul Revere’s ride that Palin should probably hear.” So, who knows, you might just learn something at this show, and if not… at the very least you’ll have a few great tunes stuck in your head. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

7/14 Lera Lynn (Hotel Indigo) 7/14 Blues Night (The Office Lounge) 7/15 Carla Lefever & the Rays / The Georgia Healers (40 Watt Club) 7/15 The Atom Age / Burns Like Fire / Karbomb / So It Goes (Caledonia Lounge) 7/15 Bo Bedingfield / The Buzzards (Farm 255) 7/15 David Dondero / Emily Lynch / Mark Cunningham and the Nationals / Nightingale News (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 7/15 The Decorations / Desert Cult Ritual / DJ Mahogany / Nutritional Peace / Tunabunny (Go Bar) 7/15 Brian Connell (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 7/15 Songwriters in the Round (Hotel Indigo) 7/15 DJ Dreamdawg / Save Grand Canyon / The HEAP (New Earth Music Hall) 7/15 Graham’s Number (Rye Bar) 7/16 Karaoke (Alibi) 7/16 Half Stitched / Kate Morrissey (Bishop Park) 7/16 Collosus / Lazer Wulf (Caledonia Lounge) 7/16 Gray Young / Incendiaries / Wade Boggs (Farm 255) 7/16 Star Slammer / Werewolves / Xtramedium (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 7/16 Revien (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 7/17 David Barbe / Dodd Ferrelle (Highwire Lounge) 7/18 Open Mic (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 7/18 BADMAN (New Earth Music Hall) 7/19 Mandolin Orange (The Melting Point)

7/20 Open Mic (Boar’s Head Lounge) 7/20 Karaoke (The Office Lounge) 7/20 Normaltown Flyers (Locos Grill & Pub) 7/20 The Artifacts / Cesar Commanche (New Earth Music Hall) 7/20 McNary (Terrapin Beer Co.) 7/21 The K-Macks / Zoo (Farm 255) 7/21 Megaphone Man (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 7/21 Graduate Guitar Quartet (Hotel Indigo) 7/21 Drew Carmen / Austin Darnell / The Hawkeyes / Matt Hudgins / Scott Low (New Earth Music Hall) 7/22 Casper & the Cookies / Chris McKay and the Critical Darlings / The Shut-Ups (40 Watt Club) 7/22 Jane Lane Pollack / Loud Valley (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 7/22 8-track Gorilla / Jazy Gonzalas and Friends (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 7/22 Free Mountain (New Earth Music Hall) 7/22 The Shack Band (No Where Bar) 7/23 Bubba Sparxxx / Darius Weems / Elite tha Showstoppa / The Georgia Gurlz / The Nappy Roots (40 Watt Club) 7/23 Kyshona Armstrong / Repent at Leisure (Bishop Park) 7/23 Bit Brigade / The Bronzed Chorus / Eszett / Prismatic Spray (Caledonia Lounge) 7/23 D. Charles Speer (Farm 255) 7/23 Daddy Lion / Shmouser / Timmy Tumble (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 7/23 Camp Amped Session Two Grand Finale (Nuçi’s Space)

7/24 Jesse Owen (Farm 255) 7/24 Bang Radio (New Earth Music Hall) 7/26 Ed Shrader’s Music Beat (Farm 255) 7/26 Sunflower Music Series (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) 7/26 The Barker Brothers (The Melting Point) 7/27 Neal Cannup and Adam Poulin (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 7/27 Rachel O’Neal (Locos Grill & Pub) 7/27 Pick Your Switch (Rye Bar) 7/27 Harvey Milk (The Melting Point) 7/28 Whatever Brains (Farm 255) 7/28 Odd Trio (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 7/28 Dodd Ferrelle (Hotel Indigo) 7/28 Nick Cowan (The Melting Point) 7/29 Dex Romweber Duo / Fire / Lee Bains and the Glory (Caledonia Lounge) 7/29 Ken Vandermark and Tim Daisy / Pocketful of Claptonite (Ciné Barcafé) 7/29 Individuator / The Swank (New Earth Music Hall) 7/29 Phil and the Blanks (The Melting Point) 7/30 Sons of Sailors (Ashford Manor) 7/30 Athens School of Music Student Ensemble Showcase (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 7/30 Mason Douglas (Terrapin Beer Co.) 7/30 Bomber City / Klezmer Local 42 (The Melting Point) 7/31 Live! at the Library (ACC Library) 8/1 The Glands (Georgia Theatre) 8/2 Chuck Leavell and Friends / SNAP! (Georgia Theatre) 8/3 Kenosha Kid (Georgia Theatre)

8/3 Tangents (Locos Grill & Pub) 8/3 Listen2three (Rye Bar) 8/4 Open Mic Nite (DePalma’s Italian Cafe) 8/5 Blackberry Smoke (Georgia Theatre) 8/6 Kurt Vile and The Violators (40 Watt Club) 8/6 The Folk Society Band / The For Peace Band (Bishop Park) 8/6 RJD2 (Georgia Theatre) 8/8 Aquarium Resque Unit (Georgia Theatre) 8/9 Don Chambers and GOAT / J. Roddy Walston and the Business (Georgia Theatre) 8/10 Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Georgia Theatre) 8/11 Big Boi (Georgia Theatre) 8/12 Drive-by Truckers (Georgia Theatre) 8/13 The For Peace Band (Bishop Park) 8/13 Kinchafoonee Cowboys (The Melting Point) 8/14 Gillian Welch (Georgia Theatre) 8/17 Stockholm Syndrome (Georgia Theatre) 8/20 Old Time String Band / Michael Wegner (Bishop Park) 8/20 Johnny Corndog / Those Darlins / The Whigs (Georgia Theatre) 8/20 Randall Bramblett / Callaghan (The Melting Point) 8/23 Sunflower Music Series (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) 8/25 Kuroma / Thayer Sarrano (Georgia Theatre) 8/25 Carl Lindberg / Carl Lindberg (Hotel Indigo) 8/26 Excalibrah / Swamp Thang (40 Watt Club) 8/26 Allgood / Indecision (Georgia Theatre) 8/26 Blind Boys of Alabama (The Melting Point) 8/27 Kevn Kinney Band (40 Watt Club) 8/27 High Strung String Band (Bishop Park) 8/27 REHAB / Rittz / Space Capone (Georgia Theatre) 9/1 Gold Party / of Montreal / Yip Deceiver (Georgia Theatre) 9/2 The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Georgia Theatre) 9/3 Matrimony Play / Modern Skirts (40 Watt Club) 9/3 Calico Jig (Bishop Park) 9/3 The Corduroy Road (Georgia Theatre) 9/4 Grogus / Vieux Farka Toure (Georgia Theatre) 9/5 Half Dozen Brass Band (Ashford Manor) 9/9 Bass Drum of Death / Toro y Moi / Unknown Mortal Orchestra (40 Watt Club) 9/9 Velveteen Pink (Farm 255) 9/9 Futurebirds (Georgia Theatre) 9/10 Heavy Petty (Farm 255) 9/14 Okkervil River (40 Watt Club) 9/14 Robert Randolph and the Family Band (Georgia Theatre) 9/20 Caroline Aiken (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 9/21 The Low Anthem (40 Watt Club) 9/21 Randall Bramblett Band (Ashford Manor) 9/22 Daniel Francis Doyle (Farm 255) 9/23 Matt Pond / Rocky Votolato (40 Watt Club) 9/24 Old Time String Band (Bishop Park) 9/25 Tiesto (Classic City Arts) 9/25 Gaelic Storm (Georgia Theatre) 9/27 Sunflower Music Series (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) 10/1 Michael Wegner (Bishop Park) 10/5 A Tribute To Santana (Ashford Manor) 10/6 Ghostland Observatory (Georgia Theatre) 10/8 Caroline Aiken (Bishop Park) * Advance Tickets Available

Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

TUESDAY, JULY 5 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

BORDERHOP 5

$5 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

FRIDAY, JULY 8 A night of Soul, R&B and Beach music with

GRAINS OF SAND Tickets $12

TUESDAY, JULY 12 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS

$5 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

TUESDAY, JULY 19 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

MANDOLIN ORANGE

$5 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 An Evening of

CONSCIOUS FOOD AND CONSCIOUS MOvEMENT

Enjoy a three course vegan meal prepared by Foundry Park Inn & Spa’s Executive Chef, Martin Smetana and a Bellydancing class taught by Maggie Moore! Call 706.549.7020

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27

HARvEY MILK vINCAS

Tickets $9 adv. • $12 at the door

THURSDAY, JULY 28 Southern Ground Recording Artist

NIC COWAN

Tickets $5 adv. • $8 at the door

FRIDAY, JULY 29 30th Anniversary Reunion of

PHIL AND THE BLANKS

Tickets $12.50 adv. • $16 at the door

SATURDAY, JULY 30 Nomad Artists presents

BOMBER CITY

LOCAL KLEZMER 42 Tickets $10 adv. • $12 at the door

JUST ANNOUNCED: SATURDAY, AUGUST 20

RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND with special guest

CALLAGHAN

Tickets $15 adv • $18 at the door

COMING SOON 8.5 - MEN OF THE CLASSIC CITY BACHELOR AUCTION 8.13 - KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS 8.20 - RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND, CALLAGHAN

8.26 - BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA 9.25 - MEAT PUPPETS, HAYRIDE 11.16 - CHARLIE HUNTER 11.19 - JORMA KAUKONEN

LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF

295 E. DOUGHERTY ST., ATHENS, GA

706.254.6909

WWW.MELTINGPOINTATHENS.COM

FOR TICKETS & SHOWTIMES OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE 706.254.6909

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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 (Hotel Indigo) First Annual Artist Market Holiday Showcase is seeking artists.

Deadline July 9. Showcase is Dec. 11. $20 (application), $90 (booth). www.athensartistmarket.com/ application Call for Artists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) The Sandy Creek Nature Center is seeking artists for a commissioned mural outside the new planetarium. Must attend an artist meeting on July 9 at 3 p.m. or July 14 at 5 p.m. 706-613-3615, ext.

235, edith.hollander@athensclarke county.com, www.athensclarke county.com/sandycreeknaturecenter 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.worldin aspin.com

CLASSES 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 Classes for Seniors (Various Locations) The City of Winterville in cooperation with the Athens Community Council on Aging offer classes in social networking, scrapbooking, computers, Zumba, ballroom dancing, line dancing, quilting, gardening, yoga, tai chi

and more. Check website for details. www.accaging.org/winterville.php Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7-9 p.m.

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

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Cooking in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This session: Summer Salads and Pickling. Learn how to make delicious and healthy dishes with the help of Dean Neff, sous chef of Five and Ten. Call to register. Aug. 2, 6–7:30 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Dance Classes (Dancefx) Ballet, tap, hip-hop, contemporary, ballroom, Latin, swing, karate, clogging and exercise classes like pilates and

There are LESS volunteers available in the summertime so if you would like to walk the dogs or groom the kitties, come on by!

ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ADOPTION CENTER (Cats, Rabbits, Gerbils, etc.)

191 Alps Rd. (inside Pet Supplies Plus) 706.353.2287 athenshumanesociety.com Mon.-Fri. 1PM-7PM, Sat. and Sun. 12PM-6PM

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL DOG SHELTER 45 Beaverdam Rd. 706.613.3540 athenspets.net (to see available dogs) Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri. 10AM-4PM Wed. Closed Sat., Sun. 10AM-4PM

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL CAT SHELTER 399 Beaverdam Rd. 706.613.3887 Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri. 10AM-4PM Wed. Closed Sat., Sun. 10AM-4PM

Jasper Francis Cropsey’s watercolor “The Palisades, Hudson River” is on display at the Georgia Museum of Art through Aug. 7. body sculpting. Check website for schedule. 706-355-3078, www.dancefx.org Earthenware Pottery-Soda Firing (OCAF) A 6-week course focusing on red clay, wheel and hand-built methods, surface treatment, kiln design and firing.

Thursdays, July 7–Aug. 18, 6–8 p.m. $190. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com 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 Genealogy 101: The Basics (Oconee County Library) Learn how to begin your family history research! Registration required. July 8, 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Genealogy for beginners. In the Heritage Room. 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Line Dancing (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Lessons with Ron Putman.

Alternate Thursdays through July 21.

6 p.m. $5. www.ronputman.com Tai Chi for Seniors (Rocksprings Park) Increase strength and balance at your own pace! Every Thursday.

11 a.m. $3. 706-613-3603 Watercolor Painting (Lyndon House Arts Center) Class for beginners and intermediates covering wash methods, glazes, wet-into-wet, brushstrokes and

correcting mistakes. Register by calling. Thursdays, July 14–Aug. 18, 5:30–7:30 p.m. 706-613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ lyndonhouse Yoga & The 7 Sacred Centers (Five Points Yoga) Move more fully into your power & health through asana, journaling and meditation.

July 23, 2–4 p.m. $30. 706-2540200 Yoga and More (Whole: Mind.

Body. Art.) Classes offered in yoga, meditation, Pilates, Zumba and toning, turbo kick and photography.

Check website for details and schedule. www.wholemindbodyart.com 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 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! American Red Cross (Red Cross Donor Center, 3525 Atlanta Hwy.) Seeking donors for all blood types.

706-546-0681, www.redcrossblood. org BikeAthens Bike Recycling (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicylces for local service agencies. Bike repair skills a plus but not necessary. BikeAthens

is also seeking donations of used kids’ and adult bikes in any condition. Mondays & Wednesdays, 6–8 p.m. and Sundays, 2–4:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com Drivers for Veterans Volunteers needed to drive veterans to Athens and Augusta hospitals.

Background check required. VA furnishes vehicles. Call Roger at 706-202-0587.

Girls’ Rock Camp (Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens) Volunteers needed to be band coaches, instrument instructors, workshop leaders and gear donors. July 24–30. volunteer@ girlsrockathens.org, www.girlsrock athens.org Meals on Wheels (Athens Community Council on Aging) Volunteers needed 1–1.5 hours per week. Must attend an orientation, pass a criminal background check, commit to six months and use own vehicle for delivery. 706-549-4850, www.accaging.org/hdm.php Summer Food Service Program (Various Locations) Now recruiting day camps, church camps and summer tutoring programs to host service sites that provide healthy food for children in neighborhoods. www.athens housing.org

KIDSTUFF Classic City Tutoring (Classic City Tutoring) Summer programs with flexible scheduling for students pre K–12. 678-661-0600, www.classiccitytutoring.com Girls’ Rock Camp (Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens) Learn an instrument, form a band, write/ record a song and find your voice.

Celebrate IndependenTS Week by supporting our

lOCal INDePeNDeNt busINesses IN atheNs! Just make conscious decisions to buY lOCal FIrst: from food to footwear to flowers, there is almost always a local option.

learn more by visiting the We are athens facebook page (search “buy local athens”)

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ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St.) A Community Art Project in honor of Global Youth Service Day. Through July 9. • Paintings by Liza Roger. Through July 9.

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

by Matt Bahr. Through July.

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

Artini’s Art Lounge (296 W. Broad St.) Paintings

by Matt Bahr. Through July.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Smallscale works on paper by Emmanuel Taati.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design (Caldwell Hall) A display of exemplary student work from the past academic year. Through Aug. 5.

Dawg Gone Good BBQ (224 W. Hancock Ave.) “Jewish, Gypsy, Irish Music” Photography by Barbara Hutson. Through July 15.

Espresso Royale Caffe (297 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Lea Purvis.

Etienne Brasserie (311 E. Broad St.) “Across the Pond” is a collection of photographs taken in France and Italy by Ian McFarlane. Through July.

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

Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) Works by Alice Serres, Tess Strickland and Jared Collins.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Works by Chelsea Lea. Through July.

Floorspace (160 Tracy St.) “Alien Still Lifes” is a series of oil paintings by Manda McKay. Through July.

Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) American watercolors from the mid-19th century to the 1970s. Through Aug. 7. • “The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings” is a selection of 53 works on paper produced in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Through Aug. 8. • 100 paintings and drawings

by Lamar Dodd. Reception Aug. 19. Through Aug.

No experience necessary. Open to girls ages 9–15. July 25–30. $325. camp@girlsrockathens.org, www.girlsrockathens.org Mermaid Days (Lay Park) Proficient young swimmers are invited to experience life under the sea at this four-day aquatics program. For ages 8–12. July 18–22, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $40. 706-613-3580, myla. neal@athensclarkecounty.com New Moon Summer Camp (New Moon Learning Environment) Activities include hiking, swimming, boating and a ropes course. For ages 6–12. July 11–15, 18–22. 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. $150/week.

706-310-0013 Pirate Days (Bishop Park) A fourday aquatics program with piratethemed activities including diving for treasure, foam sword fighting and pirate crafts. Ages 8–12. Call to register. July 11–15, 9 a.m.–noon. $40. 706-613-3580 Summer Dance Camps (Dancefx) Now registering. Deadline is one week before camp starts. Check website for details. Through July 15. $125–175. 706-355-3078, dancefx.org Summer Reading Program (ACC Library) Read books and earn prizes! Sign up in the Children’s Area. Program ends Aug. 7.

SUPPORT Athens Mothers’ Center (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Parenting is a demanding and important job. Activities include beginner yoga, toddler play group, discussion groups and crafts. Tuesdays

28. • 14 small works in stone and steel by sculptor Beverly Pepper. Through July 29.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar (1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) Artwork by Stephanie Grey Reavis. Reception July 9. Through Aug. 1.

Jittery Joe’s Coffee (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) “Birds!” is a new collection of 10 birds painted by fiber artist Rene Shoemaker. Through July.

Jittery Joe’s Eastside (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Functional fiber artwork by Mary Ann Mauney.

Through July.

Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) Artwork

by Michele Ladewig. Through July.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) “Continental Drift,” new works by Matt King. Through Aug. 4.

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) “Kaunakes: Ghosts of Mesopotamia” includes an installation by Glen Kaufman and performance by Andrea Trombetta. Closing reception Aug. 6. • “Memories of Home” celebrates the art and stories of seniors from the Athens-Clarke County Senior Center.

Through July 7. • An exhibit celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Studio Group. Through July 30.

Mama’s Boy (197 Oak St.) Photography by Ryan Myers. Through July.

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) “Paper Moon” features paintings by Claire Clements. Through July 15.

Oconee County Library (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Artwork from Robin Fay (mixed-media paintings with handmade paper), Sarah Hubbard (quilts) and Rene Shoemaker (fabric paintings).

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

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) New works by Andy Giannakakis and Ashlee Walters. Through July 10.

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.

Walker’s Coffee & Pub (128 College Ave.) Paintings by Lainey Dorsey.

& Fridays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. athens motherscenter@gmail.com Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is provided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

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

Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org 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 Survive and Revive (Call for location) Domestic violence support group. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. Children are welcome for supper and childcare is provided during group. Second and fourth Tuesday of the month in Clarke County. First and third Monday of the month in Madison County. 6–8 p.m. Project Safe: 706-543-3331

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Firefly Festival The Oglethorpe County Chamber of Commerce is seeking vendors and parade entries for its first annual Firefly Festival, held on Oct. 15. Call for information.

706-207-9319 “Harry Potter’s World” (ACC Library) Using materials from the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine collection, “Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine” explores the series’ roots in Renaissance science and medicine.

Exhibit on display through July 9.

Lemonade Stand for Loan (Treehouse Kid and Craft, 815 W. Broad St.) Treehouse Kid and Craft will open up their lemonade stand for your school, organization or individual fundraising needs. Reserve your dates today. 706-850-8226, treehousekidandcraft@gmail.com Summer Reading Program (Oconee County Library) Events and reading incentives for all ages! Stop by for reading logs and program materials. Program ends Aug. 9.

Zoo Atlanta Family Passes (Various Locations) Zoo Atlanta and the Athens Regional Library System have partnered up to grant family passes to patrons with library cards.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I live with two roommates; last year I lived with one of them and introduced my new friend (one of the current roommates) to the roommate whom I was living with. The three of us became a perfect little trio, and the new friend would occasionally sleep over (in my roommate’s room—she had a queen bed; I had a twin) after nights of fun, drunken dance parties.

As the year went on, I realized that the two of them were hanging out more and more, which was fine with me because we are all students. They do not have jobs, and I do. Our schedules are different, and I’m not a jealous friend. It wasn’t until I went to pee in the middle of the night that I heard them having sex.

No big deal. I love sex; I love when people find one another and they are gratified. I figured it was only a matter of time before they told me that they were together; after all, we were best friends. I’m bi, and many of my friends aren’t in heterosexual relationships. But time went on, and no one said a thing.

Cut to the three of us moving in together.

I asked them each privately if they were sure that this was a good idea since they already spent so much time together (they also are on the same sports team) and both of them said that it wouldn’t be a problem since the three of us were such good friends.

We all went on pretending their relationship didn’t exist (I know not everyone is ready to be out and loving it), and things were fine until one roommate’s mom was all, “You’re not gay, are you? ‘Cause I know you’re not and you just haven’t found a guy good enough for you and that you’re not gross, and that you and [insert roommate’s name] are just friends.”

That, combined with the insane jealously of one due to the other’s many friends, sent their relationship into obvious mayhem, and then it ended. Stuff was broken, food/dogs were messed with, gossip was said, and all under the guise of a friendship ending. (One said the other was a bad friend; one said the other was crazy and jealous.) And, of course, they got the sports team to take sides.

Now, one of them is dating a guy incredibly loudly: PDA galore and that kind of thing. (I feel like it’s both to please her family and hurt the other roommate.) It’s been a weird year.

Luckily, the lease is ending soon, and we’ll all be living with new people next year. (Though I am on good terms with both of them, I decided to live with a friend from class for a drama-free change.) The thing that is actually bugging me is that I’ve known about their relationship the whole time, I’ve comforted both of them, and neither of them even hints at the fact that they were together. I’m not an idiot, but I feel I’m being treated as one. I want them to know I’m not a total dumb ass before we move out. Is it wrong to want to address this situation, and, if so, how would I do it? I love and support them both, and, hey, I date women, too; it all seems a little ridiculous.

Bi Roommate with Zero Hate It does seem curious that these women would choose to hide the extent of their

relationship from you, of all people, but they obviously had their reasons. If you love and support them both, and you continue to do so, and you are getting into a different living situation (smart move, by the way), then I don’t really see what the point of confronting them is.

This isn’t about you, and it isn’t about whether they trusted you enough or thought you were stupid. This is about them, and it is about privacy, and they chose not to share when things were good so they obviously aren’t going to share now that things are bad, and you shouldn’t take it personally.

If you really intend to remain friends with them, and they have both consistently lied to you about the situation, then you need to drop it and accept the fact that they chose not to share this with you.

Now, if your feelings are hurt and you want to tell them that you’re disappointed, that’s fine and dandy. But be careful how you go about it.

“I’m not stupid” is maybe not the best approach. “I don’t understand why you don’t feel like you can really be honest with me about this” might be more reasonable and more fruitful. Remember, you didn’t lose anything here, and they both did.

A friend of mine, let’s call him Steve, broke up with his girlfriend about six months ago. He has a new girlfriend, “Anne,” and his ex is dating someone else, too, I think.

The problem is Steve still completely freaks out whenever he runs into his ex, and God knows in this town that’s hard to avoid. I know Anne and he have fought about this a bit, and it just makes me so angry because I can see that he is hurting his new lady. If they run into his ex at a bar or a show, he immediately runs away or gets very drunk/depressed, and says they have to go home.

Is there any way his friends can help say, “Dude, get over her!” or, at least, “Love the one you’re with!”? When we’ve talked about this before, Steve just blames his ex, saying it’s her fault for always hanging out at the same bars and with mutual friends. Thing is, she has moved on and he most definitely has not. He can’t avoid his ex forever, and every time he gets emotional about seeing her he makes Anne feel like she isn’t good enough.

Small Town Blues Yes, there is a way. You tell him exactly what you just told me. He isn’t over the ex, he needs to figure it out, and in the meantime he’s blowing a perfectly good opportunity with the new lady.

If he were writing me this letter, I would tell him to ask the new lady very nicely for some patience and possibly a little time, and then maybe go talk to a therapist about the situation. His unresolved issues with the ex need some attention, but not at the expense of the new girl. If you don’t tell him, he probably won’t even see it until she’s already gone.

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Houses for Rent $1050/mo. 3BR/1BA. Amazing location in Normaltown. Fullfenced yd., pet friendly. Near new Med School & bus line.

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Screened porch, deck, privacy fence in back yd. (706) 6211543. $100 off dep.! 4 & 5BR pads completely renovated. All new inside & out! Next to 100 acres of woods in 5 Pts. On Jolly Lane off S. Lumpkin. $1100/mo. (706) 764-6854, leaseathens.com. $ 1 2 5 0 / m o . G re a t f o r entertaining! Avail. 8/1.

3BR/2BA, ‘04 gut renov. ¼ mi. to Dwntn./campus. Front porch, private fenced-in back yd. w/ 2 decks. House & yards wired for sound. Unique details, alarm, W/D, D/W, ceiling fans, screen doors/ windows, CHAC. Pets OK. Contact for photos. (917) 671-8158 or 135oakridge@ gmail.com. $185 per BR! South Lumpkin 3 to 5BR/2BA. $900/mo. Yd. maint. & W/D incl. On bus line, band space, fire pit. Avail.

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4BR/2BA. CHAC, sun room, deck, creek! Fenced yd., pets OK, no pet fees! Other homes avail. $950/mo. (706) 2542569.

137 Virginia Ave. Boulevard area. 2BR/1BA house for rent. HWflrs., fireplace, A/C, W/D hook-ups, cats OK, no dogs. Grad students or professionals pref'd. $750/ mo. Avail. July 10. (706) 202-9805.

1.5BR/1BA. 5 mi. north of Dwntn. Fenced yd., good closet space, W/D avail. $530/mo. + 1 mo. dep.

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8/1. $1200/mo. Pets w/ dep.

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1 a c r e , p e t f r i e n d l y, 3BR/1.5BA, wood flrs., high ceilings, CHAC. Consider lease/purchase. $695/mo.

715 Whitehead Rd. Call Tom, (706) 254-1634.

140 Janice Dr. 3BR/1.5BA. CHAC, HWflrs., fenced yd., pets OK, no pet fees! Other homes avail. $795/mo. (706) 372-6813.

2 master BRs, walk to Dwntn. & campus, tiled kitchen & laundry room, offstreet parking. W/D, DW, all electric. Avail. 8/1. $950/ mo. Call Jeff, (706) 7141807.

223.5 Hiawassee Ave. Small house on bus line, 2 mi. from town. 1BR/1BA. Avail. to be seen now! Move in July 1. Call (706) 255-5174 or (706) 5430682.

4BR/4BA house. East Athens, Big Oak Subdivision. W/D, fridge, DW, new carpet & paint.

Lawn service incl. $900/mo. + dep. Rob, (404) 421-4276, or Tim, (678) 431-1218.

2BR/1BA cash rebate w/ Aug. 1 move-in. Renovated cottage. CHAC, W/D hookup, DW, fridge, stove, HWflrs., great yd., covered porches, sec. sys. Lots of charm! $775/ mo. To view photos & flr. plan, call (770) 363-0187.

4BR/4BA, 5 Pts. Free iPad w/ signed lease before 6/30!

Stainless, HWflrs., whole house audio, covered porch.

W / D . Av a i l . F a l l . $ 1 7 0 0 / mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

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2BR/1BA, 2790 Danielsville Rd. 5 mi. north of Dwntn.

Walk-in closet, W/D hook-up in separate laundry room. $570/ mo. + 1 mo. sec. dep. Avail. now. (706) 424-1571.

2BR/1BA, Woody Dr. $680/ mo. Great house, beautifully renovated, all electric, HWflrs., nice quiet street zoned for Timothy Elementary. Perfect location for working in town or out, located in middle of everything you need. boulevard propertymanagement.comor (706) 548-9797.

3 houses: 3BR/1BA, in natural paradise, vesta w/ separate workshop, huge fenced yd.

- $550. 3BR/1BA, near mall, wooded back yd., $550.

3BR/2BA, w/ all amenities, fenced yd., near Prince - $825.

(706) 549-4580.

3BR/2BA. Fenced yd., detached workshop/shed, bamboo floors. Lots of natural light. Great n’hood! $1000/mo. plus utils. Pets negotiable w/ add’l dep. (678) 596-9427.

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. $1100/mo.

(706) 714-7600.

3BR/2BA remodeled house w/ bonus room. 320 Conrad Dr., DW, W/D, all electric, 1 mi. from Dwntn. Athens. $1000/ mo. plus dep., avail. Aug. 1.

Contact Brian, (706) 613-7242.

3 to 4BR house, Carrs Hill n'hood, 1 mi. from Dwntn. & UGA. Organic garden on property next to Rwood studio. $1000/mo., lease starts in Aug. (706) 613-8525.

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.

3BR/1BA, split level, wooded lot, small creek. 280 Midway Dr. On Eastside near Walmart. $650/mo. (706) 248-7338.

4BR/4BA units avail. 8/1.

Several to choose from.

Newer construction w/ HW & stained concrete flrs., granite counters, vaulted ceilings & i-Pod docking station. Shor t stroll to shopping, food & spirits.

Plenty of parking, covered front porch, rear patio & sodded yds. 2 mi. to UGA. W/D incl. On bus line. $400–$450/mo. Call for showing. (706) 215-6848 or Bob@CallBobAllen.com.

4BR/2BA big house, big deck, big fenced yd. 2 flrs., 2 living areas, 2 kitchens, office, CHAC, W/D, carport & HWflrs.

214 Springtree Rd. $1200/mo.

(706) 202-0858.

4BR/4BA in The Retreat.

Drastically reduced! Newer house w/ pool, clubhouse, HWflrs., W/D incl. Only $1500/mo! Just $375/BR! Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

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4BR/approved zoning. $1500/mo. 130 Appleby Dr. See at www,bondrealestate. org. Owner/Broker Herbert Bond Realty & Investment.

(706) 224-8002.

5BR/3BA house 1/2 mi. to UGA & Dwntn. $1250/mo.

Avail. 8/1. Only 3 yrs. old. Incl.

W/D, DW, electric CHAC. Pet friendly. (706) 254-2172, www. classiccityproperty.com.

5 Pts. Prime location on Mell St. 2BR/1BA, $720/mo, all electric. W/D, DW, off-street parking, 1 block from Milledge, Lumpkin, 5 Pts., UGA bus stops! valerioproperties. com for more details. (706) 546-6900.

5BR/2.5BA house w/ huge yd. on Milledge. Lg. BRs, 2 min. from campus! $2000/mo. $1000 off Aug. rent w/ signed lease. Call (706) 202-9905 or athensarearentals@gmail.com.

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.! $2100/mo., no dogs, cats OK. Chris: chris@ petersonproperties.org, (706) 202-5156.

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Amazing loft house. Old candy store beside the railroad tracks. 1 block from Dwntn. 2BR/1BA. $925/mo., W/D, CHAC. (706) 540-8461.

Cedar Creek: 4BR/2BA, lg. fenced yd., $950/mo. 5 Pts.: Off Baxter St., 4BR/2BA, $1200/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Deluxe 1BR on Oglethorpe, HWflrs., separate LR & study w/ built-ins & FP, laundry room, full kitchen, lg. BR & BA, covered porch, $710/mo. valerioproperties.com for more details. (706) 546-6900.

Great Eastside location.

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

Home for rent. 640 Tallassee Rd. Located in private setting. This 2BR/1BA has fireplace, CHAC, W/D conn., nice front porch. $635/ mo. w/ dep. on 1 yr. lease. Call Bill at Thornton Realty, (706) 353-7700.

I heart Flagpole Classifieds!

Live in high style next to Dwntn.! Walk to class/ restaurants/river trails.

4 B R / 4 B A , W / D , D W, in-house stereo system, huge bedrooms, walk-in closets & huge decks! (706) 363-0637.

Pre-leasing for Fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-0066.

Residential or commercial: very lg. older home on 1.5 acres, 10 rooms, 2 kitchens, 2BAs, lg. porch & deck. On busline. $1500/mo. David, (706) 247-1398.

Student special! Near bus line. 4BR/2BA, ample parking, fenced yd. w/ storage bldg., $950/mo. + $950 dep. Call Rose, (706) 255-0472, Prudential Blanton Properties.

Houses for Sale 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) 296-2941.

Charming, classic, updated cottage in Normaltown.

2BR/2BA w/ sunroom. $188,000, 248 Georgia Ave. Antique hear t pine, high ceilings. (706) 850-1175 or (678) 358-5181. By appt. only.

Manufactured homes. Rent to buy. 2BR/2BA, some 3BR. 5 mi. to UGA. Owner financing.

Call Bob, (706) 543-4883 or (706) 201-8051.

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 on College Station. Huge apt., FP, deck, lots of closets, DW, W/D, CHAC. Avail. 7/1 or 8/1. Pre–leasing. Pets OK. $575/mo. (706) 3692908.

Aw e s o m e 3BR/2BA, close to campus. New master BA w/ double sink.

HWflrs., fenced back yd.

W/D, DW, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1125/mo. (706) 369-2908.

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

Students welcome. 1st mo. rent free! North Ave. 5BR/4BA. 4 car garage, 5 min. walk to Dwntn., on bus line. All appls. HWflrs. $400/BR. Call Lynette, (706) 202-4648.

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

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$450 includes all utils., even DirecTV & WiFi in room. 1BR in 3BR/2.5BA, great house in quiet, safe n’hood.

Tons of ammenities. (706) 3470483.

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$500/mo. on Eastside.

Incl. utils. Personal kitchen, BR/BA, den, entrance. Share laundr y, storage. Free application. 2 person limit. Damage dep.

Avail. furnished. Cable & wireless negotiable. (706) 202-1541.

Rooms for Rent $375/mo. to share nice 2BR/2.5BA townhouse w/ M PH.D. student in Appleby Mews. 1 mi. from UGA. Pool & laundr y facilities.

Excellent condition. More info, www.AthensApt.com.

(678) 887-4599. $450/mo. & $450/dep. All u t i l s . i n c l . w a t e r, p o w e r, cable, trash, N/S, no pets.

(706) 248-2615.

Seeking 1 to 2 mature house mates. 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. $400/mo.

(706) 714-7600.

For Sale Appliances Yes, it's true! We have the lowest classified ad rate in town! Ask about our Run–til–Sold rate. 12 wks. for only $40! Call (706) 5490301 or place an ad at w w w. f l a g p o l e . c o m .

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Businesses J B ’s P o l i s h S a u s a g e Business is up for sale.

Incl. food bags, truck, grills, polish sausage & world famous Comeback Sauce recipe. Call JB, (706) 6173948.

Furniture All new pillow-top mattress set from $139. Sofa & loveseat, $499. 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.bidde rsbuya uctions. com or call (706) 742-2205 for more info.

Go to A g o r a ! Awesome!

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Peace Place Thrift Store, Hwy 129 & 82S in Jefferson. Over 9,000 sf. of gently used clothes, toys, furniture, household & more! Daily sales.

Music Equipment Nuçi’s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible.

Call (706) 227-1515 or come

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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.

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Looking for a pianist, saxophone player, violinist?

Looking for a band? Find your music mate w/ Flagpole Classifieds!

Call (706) 549-0301.

Music Services Fret Shop . Professional 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.

Wedding bands. Quality, professional bands.

Weddings, par ties. 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 & party band. www.themagictones. com. ➤ continued on next page

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Services Cleaning Summer specials. Tell me what you want cleaned & I will clean it. Pricing examples: bathroom only $15, floors only $20. C a l l for other specials.

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Jobs Full-time C a l l c e n t e r representative. Join established Athens company calling CEOs & CFOs of major corporations generating sales leads for tech companies. $9/hr. BOS Staffing, www. bostemps.com, (706) 3533030.

House/server staff: Greyfield Inn, Cumberland Island. Come join our house staff & live/ work on a beautiful Georgia island! Some dining & wine service experience helpful.

In-residence position. $25,500/ annum. Send letter of interest & application request to seashore@greyfieldinn.com.

Daily Groceries is now hiring a general manager. Please bring resume to the store or email dailygroceriescoop@ gmail.com.

KEBA Spitfire Grill is coming soon to Epps Bridge!

Seeking experienced FT/PT staff members. Fill out our online application & email it to eppsbridge@kebagrill. com.

Town Center Salon & Spa in dwntn. Watkinsville is looking for two stylists, commission or booth rental; massage therapist; nail technician. FT or PT opportunities avail. To apply call (706) 769-0501 or stop by the salon at 2 S. Main St., Watkinsville.

Yes, it's true! We have the lowest classified ad rate in town! Ask about our Run–til–Sold rate. 12 wks. for only $40! Call (706) 5490301 or place an ad at w w w. f l a g p o l e . c o m .

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Opportunities Actors/movie extras needed immediately for upcoming roles. $150300/day depending on job req.s. No exp., all looks.

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Earn up to $100 by participating in UGA research! Currently seeking 3 groups of par ticipants.

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Little Prodigies is looking for an experienced music teacher for infants – 5 yrs. old.

Experience teaching music to this age range, upbeat attitude, professional appearance & passion to introduce children to music a must. Send cover letter & resume to Wes at owner.littleprodigieschildcare@ gmail.com. No phone calls please!

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Vehicles Autos For sale: 2005 Ford Focus SE. 119K miles. A/C, power windows & locks, CD player. $2500 OBO. (706) 4613919.

For sale: 1996 Acura Integra.

153K miles. A/C, 6-disc changer, moon roof. $2200 OBO. (404) 276-1446.

Bicycles Curry Electric Bike. Used 5 times. Prime condition.

Listed on link below at $500 +. Selling for $400 fir m.

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Pets Lost Cocker Spaniel. All black M named BeBe. Last seen Sat., 6/25 at Willow St./ College Ave. Has a limp in L front leg. Please call (706) 255-6065.

everyday people “K,” Undocumented Person She lives in a crowded Latino neighborhood with winding streets and no stop signs. The homes are very small and in need of repair, but the yards are tidy, and the streets are clean.

Spectacular flower beds surround some dwellings, and, occasionally, a few stalks of corn rise from among the day lilies and hollyhocks.

“K” has lived in Athens since she walked across the border from Mexico 16 years ago. She and her husband have three children who were born in the United States. While “K” spoke with Flagpole, her two sons said “hello” politely and then played quietly nearby for almost an hour.

When “K” talked about herself, she was reserved. She didn’t seem to find her own experiences particularly remarkable. When she spoke about her hopes for her children and the Latino community in America, she became much more expressive, even on the verge of tears. She expressed a drive to work hard and a resolve to find love for whatever she does.

Flagpole: Where are you from originally?

K: Mexico. Acapulco.

FP: How long did you live there?

K: Until I was 22.

FP: How long have you been in Athens?

K: Sixteen years.

FP: Do you still miss Mexico?

K: The thing is, what you do is, you end up adapting to what’s here and to new things.

FP: If you went back to Mexico now, are there things you would miss about living here?

K: Yes, I think so. For one thing, I have kids here now. If I went back, they would be missing their mother.

FP: Your children are American citizens?

K: Yes. FP: Could you explain what kinds of problems Mexico was having when you left?

K: Explaining why, I’m not sure I’d know how to say. But what I do know is that there was just a lot of poverty. A lot of people out of work and people going hungry because there was no work.

FP: Do you think there is anything Americans could learn from Mexico?

K: For one thing, I think there’s a lot of culture in Mexico…

Any little corner of any place that you go to in any village or town, there’s lots of culture. There’s lots of crafts. And also, during the time I did live in Mexico, I didn’t see… well, here, I think there’s a lot of racism. When people who were different would come to Mexico, like tourists, everyone was very friendly to them. So, the Mexicans treat them very nicely. Here, I don’t want to generalize to everyone, but there’s lots of racism here.

FP: What kind of racism do you see?

K: It’s been more African Americans against Hispanics, but, of course, here and there, white people against Hispanics.

FP: In what kinds of situations do you see racism against Hispanics?

K: One example: there’s some people, when they’re looking at you, they’re discriminating. Maybe you go to a business, and after they attend to you, they just look at you as if you’re… it’s the look on their face.

FP: Is that the greatest challenge you face as a Hispanic in America?

K: Well, I think the biggest challenge is acceptance of the Latin-American community here in the United States. It seems whether it’s Anglo-Saxons or it’s black people, they need to accept that we are part of this country as well. We’re here

contributing with everyone else, and, in fact, on the other hand, we actually have less benefits than they do. They can apply for unemployment. They can apply for Social Security.

In our case, it we get sick, we have to pay for everything. We don’t have access to those things.

FP: What kind of changes do you think there will be in America if undocumented Hispanics have to leave?

K: Well, I think that this is a country of immigrants, and it’s not just about Latinos. There’s people who come here from all over the world. The economy is dependent on all of us, citizens as well as immigrants. I don’t think a Latino takes jobs away from citizens. Citizens, they don’t want to go to the country to do farm work. They don’t want to do construction. If we didn’t do that work, what would they do? Would they stop building things? Would they stop harvesting? [Poor Americans] have an advantage in the sense that they can apply for unemployment.

We have to go to work.

FP: Is there anything you would like to do that’s not an option for you as someone who is undocumented?

K: When I first came, yeah. I had wanted to follow a course of study in Mexico to be a lawyer. But when I came here, I found that you had to pay for everything. If you don’t work, you don’t eat; so with the passing of the years, my aspirations fell by the wayside, but what I do hope is that my children will have a chance to go to a university.

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K: Yes.

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FP: Have you found ways to feel passionately about the work you’ve done in America?

K: In my case, I try to stand out in whatever it is I do. I try to be the best worker. It’s not only because it’s what I live from; it’s because I want to feel love for what I do.

FP: What kind of work do you do now?

K: Actually, I’m not working right now. The only person working is my husband, and I’m dedicating myself to my kids.

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FP: Does your family have any plans for the future?

K: Well, I don’t really think very long-term about the future.

As you know, this new law… we don’t know if it’s going to go into effect or not. Obviously, if it says that I can’t be here, then we won’t be able to keep on living here.

FP: If the law is [upheld], will you move to a different state?

K: I might go back to Mexico, because if I went to another state, maybe right now there’s no law, but if they end up passing a law like this one, it would be like fleeing from state to state.

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FP: What about your children?

K: I’d have to take them with me.

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FP: Would going back to Mexico feel like leaving home or going home?

K: I think it would be like leaving home—especially for my kids. Initially, they would have to start learning the language.

They would have to learn how to write; all of that, they would have to catch up with. For them, it would be like going backwards. They don’t have the same level as a child that’s grown up its whole life there.

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Build Your Own Bloody Mary Bar 200+ Bottled Beers Expanded Wine List Huge Screen TVs • Pool Tables Smoking Welcome on Our Patios Please Drink Responsibly.

Spacious Patio!

Best View of North Campus!

Happy Hour 5-9pm VINYL WEDNESDAYS 5-10pm

Bring Your Own Vinyl!

100+ Whiskies 200+ Craft Beers

Delicious Tapas

delivered from Speakeasy & Taco Stand!

Check us out on the web at

blueskyathens.com Located Above

Taco Stand Downtown

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DRAFTS & LAUGHS

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Tuesday, July 12 • 9:30pm

Comics Beers Bucks

Friday, July 29

Drafts & Laughs presents

SUPER FANCY

COMEDY SHOWCASE

5 Comics, 5 Bucks, 5 Shooters Laugh because they are funny, get the shooters to take the pain away!

HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY FROM 3:30 till 9:30 DOLLAR OFF EVERYTHING

NOW SERVING ALLAGASH WHITE PUB AT GAMEDAY ClAYTon ST • nExT To ShokiTini

706-353-2831

FULL BAR!

Happy Hour Mon-Fri 4-9

NOW SERVING

BREAKFAST & LUNCH! MON-FRI 7am-2pm

Pastries • Croissants Breakfast Sandwiches Drunken Waffles • Fresh Fruit Veggie Breakfast Burrito Lunch Sandwiches • Pesto Pizza

30 Different Types of

Loose Organic Teas Local Roaster 1,000 Faces Coffee Dancing Goats Coffee

128 College Ave.