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pub notes Blood on the Table Do not blame State Representative Doug McKillip (Republican—formerly Democrat; Clarke, Oconee, Walton— formerly Athens). Rep. McKillip has endured a great deal of obloquy from people who feel that he betrayed their trust.

Merely because they elected him to serve as a Democrat and he chose, once they had elected him, to become a Republican, they don’t own him.

He had good reasons for what he did. As he explained it at the time, the difference between being a Democrat in the House and a Republican is “the difference between a potted plant and a seat at the table.”

Rep. McKillip’s new Republican friends in the Georgia General Assembly certainly appreciate this difference. At the same time, they know how vindictive people can be when you betray their political trust, so they’re making sure that Rep. McKillip doesn’t have to face those same voters again. His new colleagues appreciate Rep. McKillip’s desire to be one of them, and they are giving his district a re-do. Those old voters who feel so betrayed can just go vote in somebody else’s district; Rep. McKillip will have lots of new Republican voters whom he has not betrayed to assure that he is re-elected.

Everybody understands that this is how politics works. The Republicans were really glad that Rep. McKillip joined them, because, right before he did, he had just been elected the leader of the That Doug!

Democrats in the Georgia House of Always exciting. Representatives. That’s right: he had campaigned for and been elected to And edgy. the office of Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. So it was a big deal for him to turn Republican so quickly that he had to cancel his victory celebration for caucus chairman.

That Doug! Always exciting. And edgy. You would think that a guy who was waiting to see just how his new district is going to shape up would be all focused on his own re-election. But not Rep. McKillip. He wants to go the extra mile and show the Republican hierarchy in Atlanta just how sincere he is with his party-switch and that they can absolutely count on him not to backslide. He is going to show them something they’ve wanted to see for a long time. He is going to singlehandedly re-district his hometown, Athens-Clarke County, so that Republicans can get elected to the ACC Commission, even though they will run, of course, as non-partisans.

Here’s the best part of all, though. Rep. McKillip just might also singlehandedly re-write the Charter of the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County and change the structure of its representation by doing away with the”superdistricts” that provide a backup commissioner for every district.

The supercommissioner structure has always been subject to debate. Do we really need them? Would it be neater just to have single-member districts and let it go at that, or are citizens better served having every commissioner backed up by another commissioner who represents half the county? When our original charter was drawn, the founders believed that the superdistrict idea was good for the county. One would think that this important political and governmental question should be taken up by another charter commission or at least by the Athens-Clarke County Commission, with perhaps another referendum by our citizens as to whether they want to change our form of government in this way.

Instead, because the Georgia Legislature has final authority on the organization of local government—traditionally just approving what local people decide for themselves—Rep. Doug McKillip gets to re-draw the lines and the government.

If he does mess with the superdistricts, he will coincidentally abolish the positions of the two leading members of the commission, unabashed Democrats (in that non-partisan way), who also happen to be thorns in the mayor’s side. So, is it possible that even the mayor of Athens-Clarke County may not protest too much at this dismantling of the charter she is sworn to protect, especially since the Republicans were instrumental in her election?

If we revisit the play Little Shop of Horrors, we can better understand the analogy Rep. McKillip used at the time he flipped. He was the flower of the progressive Democrats, but now he sits at the table with the corporate Republicans—out for blood and demanding, “Feed me.”

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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city dope Athens News and Views Redistricting Redux: At last week’s meeting of local political consultant Bo Mabry, who was the local reapportionment committee, staff, a key advisor on Frye’s campaign last year, commissioners and citizens tinkered with a and who maintains a close affiliation with map proposed by committee member Regina McKillip.

Quick. Two revised versions of the map were Frye is backing away from those erstwhile produced for consideration, both of which connections now. “Doug gave ReNew Athens re-placed most of the portion of the Cobbham a lot of publicity,” he says, but the legislator area that had been moved from District 5 to is not a partner in the initiative or involved District 3. That likely would have turned 5 in its operations. “I am not in association from a liberal to a conservative seat, and may with Bo or McKillip in my campaign.” Asked also have had the effect of making it more whether he’ll take a public stand against difficult for African-American candidates (like McKillip’s redistricting efforts, Frye says, “I incumbent George Maxwell) to get elected in will directly question any Republican’s efforts 3; Quick voiced no objections to the change. to take over our local control.” For whatever But the proposed map would still draw it’s worth, that’s more than Heard has done.

Commissioner Alice Kinman out of her District 4 seat, which makes it a longshot for approval EDF Resolution?: Denson sent a memo last by her colleagues behind the rail.

Friday to the ACC commissioners and the None of that matters, of course, as long members of the Athens Economic Development as state Rep. Doug McKillip still intends to Foundation board, stating that she will suphandle Athens-Clarke County’s local reapport a compromise that releases the EDF’s portionment himself, eliminating the two annual funding and places one commissioner superdistricts in the process. McKillip clearly in a voting seat on the board. Assuming the has no shame when it comes to redesignmayor is able to bring the rest of the board ing this community’s government against its in line with that proposal, which it rejected wishes, but might his fellow Republicans in in a vote at the EDF’s last public meeting July the Legislature, who are normally so outspoken against such ostentatious displays of power by intrusive “big government”? That may be ACC’s only hope— and a slim one, to be sure—for slowing down McKillip’s steamroller.

The only local leader whose voice, if raised, might count for anything on the state level is Mayor Nancy Denson, whose symbolic authority, as well as her reputation as a conservative Democrat, Metro Athens Growth Federation board member Janice Mathis (right) answers a might carry just a bit question from Clarke County School Board member Ovita Thornton (left) at an of weight if her objecevent announcing the federation’s launch last week. tions were made loudly and strongly enough.

“I’d never even contemplated one of our state 11, the agreement will end a standoff that legislators just disregarding the wishes of has become an unwelcome distraction to the the mayor and commission on redistricting,” work the EDF is supposed to be doing—like, Denson says. “I would object to that because, for instance, moving forward with the Blue on principle, Athens-Clarke County needs to be Heron river district project. That will next be self-determining.” That’s a clear enough state- taken up at the mayor and commission’s Aug. ment; the question now is how forcefully she’s 9 work session, when the EDF and M&C will prepared to make it. hear a presentation on a feasibility study for the project by the Bleakly Advisory Group. The Everything’s Connected, See?: Amid all this 5:30 p.m. meeting in the Planning Auditorium comes the reentry into local politics of at 120 W. Dougherty St. is open to the public.

Athens Area Habitat for Humanity director Spencer Frye, who fell just a few hundred New Hands on Deck: Another economic develvotes shy of a runoff with Denson in last opment group announced its arrival on the year’s mayoral race. Frye announced last Athens scene last week: the Metro Athens week that he will explore a run against state Growth Federation, headed up by leaders in District 114 Rep. Keith Heard in the 2012 the local African-American community. At a Democratic primary, and if you ask the Dope, press conference for the group’s launch, board he sounds pretty set on it. member Janice Mathis said MAG is inspired There will be plenty of time to talk about by recent economic development efforts in that potential challenge over the next year cities like Greenville, SC, which has bolstered or so, but for the moment, the most pressmajor intown renewal projects with tax-base ing questions for Frye’s Democratic candidacy improvements from new industrial facilities in involve his relationship with McKillip, who outlying areas, creating lots of jobs in the was a visible participant in the roll-out of process. The foundation will hold a “regional Habitat’s ReNew Athens affordable houseconomic opportunity summit” in November; a ing initiative back in winter of 2009 when website at www.magfederation.org is currently McKillip was still a Democrat and Frye was under construction. preparing to announce his candidacy for mayor. The two also have both worked with Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

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city pages crossing, because it would provide a longer loop trail, better bird-watching and access to the deep woods along the creek. Last week, Jordan and other members of the walking party noted big sourwood trees, wild pawpaws and a beaver dam. “There’s nothing in the park similar to this,” Jordan told the group.

Local hikers, birders, nature lovers and “There’s nothing in the county similar to this.” environmentalists should press commissioners And it could be built with mules, Jordan to finish the long-planned loop trail at Sandy said, causing minimal damage to the wetlands.

Creek Park, former commissioner Carl Jordan Local developer and mule-owner Smith Wilson told a group of about a dozen interested has offered the use of his mules to haul matecitizens last week, as they toured the area rials from nearby Wages Bridge Road (the prowhere Jordan hopes the connecting bridge posed trail bridge/boardwalk could be built at will be built. When the park (and 260-acre the site of the old Wages Bridge, of which only Lake Chapman) were built in the 1970s, seven traces remain). The site’s nearness to the dead miles of trails were built around the lake, but end of Wages Bridge Road could allow public without a connecting bridge access to the trail withacross Sandy Creek at the out using the park’s main “There’s nothing in the entrance—which county lake’s far end, they remain two separate trails. consider a disadcounty similar to this.” staffers In 2010, an anonymous vantage, fearing “security citizen offered to donate issues.” But Jordan thinks it up to $160,000—matching county funds—to could be an advantage for birders or hikers to build a bridge across Sandy Creek and connect access the trail at that relatively remote point. the existing trails. ACC commissioners voted The outcome of the disagreement, Jordan to accept the offer, and county staffers moved fears, could be no bridge at all, unless citizens forward to explore a couple of possible plans: contact their commissioners (Commissioner one spanning the creek and wetlands (as Andy Herod accompanied the group). originally envisioned) and another spanning a “Don’t be totally silent,” Jordan warned. portion of the lake itself at its far end.

Commissioners could decide in September The competing plans have created somewhere—or whether—to build the bridge. thing of a controversy. County staffers (repA significant portion of the county-owned resented by the county manager’s office) are park lies farther upstream of Sandy Creek and recommending the longer, more expensive lake would still remain inaccessible by trail. That bridge; they say it would attract more users area contains several large beaver ponds, and would be easier to maintain and monitor.

Jordan says, but trails cannot be built to But the donor declines to support that plan that area without purchasing additional land, and won’t pay for it; he prefers the educabecause ACC owns only a narrow strip through tional opportunities a wetland bridge would the connecting wetlands. afford. Jordan and longtime trail-building activist Walt Cook also prefer the wetlands John Huie

Former Commissioner Cites Advantages of Sandy Creek Bridge

capitol impact Tea Party Shouldn’t Complain I was sitting at my desk the other day when the latest report from Georgia’s Department of Audits landed in my email inbox. State auditors regularly review the activities of state agencies and assess how effectively they are carrying out their duties.

This report, which involved the Professional Standards Commission (PSC) that handles the licensing of public school teachers, caught my eye because of an interesting trend that auditors discovered. A few years ago, education officials were warning the state would one day face teacher shortages numbering in the thousands because of Georgia’s growing population. That did not happen, auditors learned, and they stated in their report: “In fact, the PSC officials indicate that currently a surplus of new K-12 teachers exists for most subject areas.”

The reason for this turnaround was the great recession that crashed the economy in 2009 and still affects Georgia’s financial well-being. The recession reduced state revenues and forced everyone to cut back. This decreased the number of teaching positions funded by local school systems and prompted legislators to relax class size restrictions, which further reduced the number of teachers needed. The bad economy also motivated many veteran teachers to delay their retirements, which again cut back on the need for new teachers.

The spending cuts that school systems were forced to make also occurred all across state government. In April 2008, the General Assembly adopted a state budget for fiscal year 2009 that totaled $21.2 billion. In the summer of 2008, just as fiscal year 2009 was beginning, the bubble popped for the real estate and construction industries, and financial failures started ripping through Wall Street. That sparked the worst recession this country has endured since the 1930s.

Gov. Sonny Perdue and the General Assembly quickly started hacking away at

that record budget they had enacted just a few months earlier, and the hacking hasn’t stopped yet.

By April 2010, just two years after they passed a state budget of $21.2 billion, Georgia lawmakers adopted a $17.8 million budget. In the span of 24 months, the level of approved state spending had decreased by 19 percent.

Georgia is not alone. Every other state and local government has had to confront similar situations because of reductions in tax revenues. Talk to your county commissioners or local school board members and they will confirm what I’m saying.

For all the bickering that’s going on between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, federal tax payments are at historically low levels as well. One of the best ways to make historic comparisons of tax burdens is to analyze taxes as a percentage of the gross domestic product. Out of all the dollars generated through the sale of goods and services in our economy, what percentage of those dollars has gone to pay federal taxes?

In both 2009 and 2010, according to the Tax Policy Center of the Brookings Institution, the percentage of America’s gross domestic product that went for federal taxes was 14.9 percent. That was the lowest level of tax payments since 1950, when they amounted to 14.4 percent of the gross domestic product.

While the folks in the Tea Party movement complain about government spending and gripe that they’re being “taxed to death,” they’re not. State and local governments today are spending much less than they were a few years ago. The percentage of our economic output eaten up for federal tax purposes is lower than it’s been in more than 60 years.

If I were a Tea Party member, I’d be declaring victory right about now.

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cobbloviate An Embattled Icon After President Dwight D. Eisenhower revealed that one of the four “great Americans” whose pictures hung in his office was none other than Robert E. Lee, a thoroughly perplexed New York dentist reminded him that Lee had devoted “his best efforts to the destruction of the United States government” and confessed that since he could not see “how any American can include Robert E. Lee as a person to be emulated… why the President of the United States of America should do so is certainly beyond me.”

Eisenhower replied personally and without hesitation, explaining that Lee was, “in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation… selfless almost to a fault… noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history… Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities… we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.”

Eisenhower was not the first president of the United States to express such reverence for Lee. With characteristic restraint, Theodore Roosevelt pronounced him “the very greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking peoples have brought forth” and declared that Lee’s dignified acceptance of defeat helped “build the wonderful and mighty triumph of our national life, in which all his countrymen, north and south, share.”

As TR’s reference suggested, when it had finally become inescapably apparent that nothing was to be gained from fighting further, Lee had respectfully rejected Jefferson Davis’ reckless call for continued resistance through guerilla tactics that would reduce his men to “mere bands of marauders” and serve only to inflict further suffering on the civilian population.

He had then advised his fellow Southerners to “unite in honest efforts to obliterate the effects of the war” and endeavor to “promote harmony and good feeling.” Having said his piece, instead of pursuing personal vindication after the fashion of his former commander-inchief, Lee retreated into relative obscurity as president of little Washington College until his death in 1870, at which point propagandists enjoyed full license to cultivate the legend of his infallibility as “a public officer without vices [and] a private citizen without wrong.”

Not only did white Southerners in general desperately need a hero at that point, but leaders of the movement to recruit northern capital with which to construct the foundations of an industrial economy for the “New South” needed a nationally appealing figurehead who, unlike the sour-pussed and antagonistic Davis, could serve as the symbol of their campaign for “reconciliation” with the North, which loosely translated meant, “Send us your ‘bidness’ but stay out of ours, especially how we handle our racial affairs.”

This, northern investors and politicians proved more than willing to do, much to the dismay of African Americans, who found themselves the proverbial lambs on the sacrificial altar of North-South reconciliation. The New York Herald had declared upon Lee’s death that “here in the North we… have claimed him as one of ourselves” and “extolled his virtue

as reflecting upon us.” Understanding the broader and exceedingly dark racial ramifications of this national embrace of Lee, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass complained bitterly that he could scarcely find a northern newspaper “that is not filled with nauseating flatteries of the late Robert E. Lee,” whose military leadership of a “bad cause” seemed somehow to entitle him “to the highest place in heaven.”

Douglass and several generations of his successors were voices in the wilderness until the breakthroughs of the civil rights era finally empowered African-American activists to secure the removal of monuments or the renaming of public streets, parks, buildings and schools commemorating Confederate leaders or prominent slaveholders. In New Orleans, for example, the majority black school board voted to change Robert E. Lee Elementary School to Ronald E. McNair Elementary in honor of the first black astronaut, who died in the Challenger disaster.

Lee’s defenders are quick to point out his dislike of slavery but not always so swift to note that he actually described it as “a greater evil to the white man than to the black race” or that he believed the punishments they suffered were “necessary for their instruction as a race.” His view may have differed but little from the majority of northern whites at the time, but it was Lee, after all, who commanded the massive military effort that, if successful, would surely have extended the life span of slavery. Nor is there any gainsaying that Lee’s installation in first the Southern then the national pantheon owes much to the efforts of those who were also bent on restoring and preserving white supremacy in the South or that, of all his champions today, none sing his praises more lustily than the belligerent representatives of neo-Confederate secessionist groups.

Given his direct connections to the cause of slavery and his posthumous appropriation by those who succeeded in replacing it with Jim Crow, it’s understandable that many African Americans would prefer that Lee’s name not be associated with one of their community institutions. Yet, there is surely polarization enough over the far more substantive and urgent concerns of a needful present without the addition of incessant quarreling over how the past is represented. For example, when an Annapolis councilman called for the former slave port to issue an apology for the “perpetual pain, distrust and bitterness” that slavery inflicted on black people, a constituent allowed that she would prefer “a resolution to atone for the lack of a decent middle school curriculum in Anne Arundel County.”

Unfortunately, although it might make for good political melodrama and perhaps even gladden the departed soul of Frederick Douglass, stripping Robert E. Lee’s name from a school is unlikely to reduce overcrowding in its classrooms, upgrade its computer or science labs, or end drug trafficking in its corridors. If it would, ironically, Lee—at least the one Dwight Eisenhower believed he saw in the portrait on his wall—would likely be the first to join Douglass in endorsing the move.

James C. Cobb

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deck’s primarily chain restaurant tenants, certainly illustrates the shifting nature of that district’s retail makeup.

Downtown is quickly becoming an unaffordable location for some types of businesses, with its role as an entertainment district supplanting its previous collection of music stores, record shops, arts and bookstores and other, more quirky operations. Avid Bookshop, for awhile now primarily an online operation, will soon be opening a brick-andmortar location on Prince Avenue, between Daily Co-op and the historic Fire Hall No. 2.

Janet Geddis, the bookshop’s owner, initially considered locating it in the downtown district. “But then [I] embarked on a market study and realized that the vast majority of my target customers preferred a location not downtown.” Geddis also notes another important consideration: “Unfortunately, many downtown locations have sky-high rents that are prohibitively expensive for certain types of retail.”

How Does It Happen?: If commissioners wanted to support small businesses anchoring areas like these, what would it take? Pam Barker of Athens Art & Frame points out that customers parking in front of her store have to be careful opening their car doors, and that a mirror or two have been sheared off by fast-traveling vehicles on Prince. If it’s hard to drive, let alone bike or walk, to businesses Retail Ramifications: One direction in which Publix is in a similar boat, and one wonders along Prince Avenue, surely it’s time for comcommissioners have been looking in their how much longer before the adjacent strip missioners to solve that corridor’s issues. discussions of our economic future is what anchored by Kroger and K-mart goes for a Economic development has just become one of new and existing small-scale businesses can facelift that brings added infrastructure and their top priorities, after all. do for the community. “Heirloom [Cafe], from traffic. Arterials leading to these major hubs What’s most interesting about where these what I understand, employees 27 people, half are often congested presently, so we may be small businesses have been cropping up is of which are full-time,” says Commissioner at a cusp where we take another look at how that they often seem to do best where there Mike Hamby. “Knowing that, and knowing that people get to and from these places. is some shared infrastructure to rely on. service-industry jobs serve a need for Athens, Suburban locations where each store must it does beg the question of how we can be Changing Character: These regional retail cenbuild and manage its own off-street parking more helpful with… small business growth.” ters are huge boons for the community, and are locations that are unfriendly to small-scale Across scales and locations, the retail and if we can’t capitalize on them in a way that business: it’s in locations with shared infraservice components of Athens have been spins off even more economic success, we may structure that small, local retail operations are shifting significantly, with some interesting be missing a big opportunity. In the case of most likely to thrive. new announcements. We’ll dive into those One half of supporting and encouragfirst, and then look at what it might ing those small businesses is looking at mean to support some of those types of how local retail integrates and connects businesses in a more proactive manner. with its customers—whether that’s new bike lanes or crosswalks, in the case of Coming Attractions: Before going too Prince, or looking at how suburban-styled deep into the world of the small, local, arteries can be retrofitted to include and independent, there are several rumors shared amenities like on-street parking, and plans on the horizon that will or in the case of evolving corridors like could change the community’s retail Baxter or Hawthorne. It also means lookmakeup in fairly visible ways. The Alps ing at our zoning, and asking whether Road Kroger, already one of the most the historic corner stores we praise could successful in the region, is looking to actually be built again, and if not, how expand its footprint from 55,000 to that can be facilitated.

83,000 square feet, supplanting the row Beyond the physical infrastructure, of shops to the right of the store. the other side of helping small businesses Across the street, the Borders bookgrow is looking at the fiscal opportunistore is soon to be gone, but it’s not ties. Are there tax breaks for creating new likely that space will remain empty for jobs through programs like opportunity long, given the success of the Alps area zones? What about revolving loan and as a retail destination. What might go grant funds for entrepreneurs or startups? into such a space, though? According to Are we marketing all our retail districts a July 26 story in MarketWatch, Whole and their establishments as best we Foods’ CEO recently cited empty big box can—through “Buy Local” and neighspaces like those previously occupied borhood-centric campaigns—in order to The Alps Kroger, already packed to the brim and one of the busiest in the region, will be expanding. While retail has been

by Best Buy and Borders as properties bring people from outside or across the a successful component of our local economy, the infrastructure that supports it (in this case corridors like Alps Road) is they’ll be scoping out as they look to community to support particular niche heavily congested in many places. expand. Rumors surrounding that chain enterprises? Should we view creative seem to surface every so often around businesses that contribute to commutown, but could it be that the environment is the Beechwood node, two chain restaurants However, Avid’s addition to the Cobbham nity character and tourism, but aren’t highfinally right for them to move in here? And will redefine the periphery of the area, with neighborhood will help to cement that profit, as “loss leaders” that bring customers of course, there’s the bulk grocer ALDI (parent LongHorn Steakhouse replacing the old state neighborhood’s retail identity. Long-time in to support a wider variety of businesses by company to Trader Joe’s) moving in down the farmers market on West Broad, and Steak ‘n corner store Daily Co-op already anchors providing for a diversity of business types in road on the Atlanta Highway.

Shake coming to a location somewhere along the area. Across the street, the Emmanuel any given location?

As the retail nodes beyond downtown the corridor. On the one hand, this evolving Episcopal Thrift House will one day occupy the Our retail and service industry is a big become more dense, it’s certainly worth asking network of chain stores does mean new jobs, storefront on the northwest corner of Prince chunk of the local economy, and if we apply what the future of those areas might hold. The but it’s also worth questioning whether there’s and Pope, as the store’s renovation and expan- creative planning and economic development Beechwood area has taken on a more urban something to be said for the role that local sion plans play out. A few offices, a violin strategies to this strength, it could pay big character each time its shopping centers have identity and flavor plays in terms of creating repair shop, and Athens Art & Frame round out dividends. been renovated, and parking lots are often at a regional draw. The loss of Schoolkids Records the stretch, and Piedmont College also has a capacity. The Eastside complex that houses downtown, as contrasted with the new parking school bookstore and cafe.

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google that sh!t Search: Alec -Baldwin This super-advanced Googling procedure rids your results of those pertaining to that bleeding heart actor (that’s what the “minus” sign is for), and lands you smack down in the middle of pure evil. Over the past several years, I’ve written a series of articles for Flagpole which outline the ways powerful corporations are targeting Georgia for new sources of profit, with bought politicians preparing the way.

But this corporate invasion is not business as usual, with corporations looking to open new facilities or plants in the state; no, the economic elite have discovered that state functions like public schools and prisons, if sold off to corporations, could open up vast, previously unavailable markets.

This phenomenon typically goes by the name “neoliberalism,” an economic ideology devised by academic zealots in the mid-century United States, incubated in the nations of the Global South (Latin America, most dramatically) and then re-imported back onto American shores. Put most simply, the ideology promotes the replacement of the representative democracy of the state with corporate control. Schools, for instance, currently subject to local and statewide electoral oversight, would become businesses, overseen only by boards of directors and wealthy stockholders. Same with prisons and even police and military entities.

The Tea Party is little more than a welcoming committee for this sort of corporate control. Contemporary cries for “smaller government” seem to imply that, if not publicly administered, education, law enforcement, military operations and all the most expensive functions of government would cease—when in fact, the functions would merely be sold off and carried out by multi-national corporations. When you hear “smaller government,” you should think “bigger corporations.”

In Georgia, the trend is most readily exemplified by conservative Republicans’ alarming efforts to privatize the state’s public school system. A series of bills has been brought before the Georgia Legislature with the intention of incrementally eroding the public school system in favor of corporation-run schools. In previous articles, I have traced some of the ways influence was peddled in Atlanta so that education corporations and their investors would have legislated permission to start replacing public schools with their own corporate education mills. But a recent leaked-document dump by the Center for Media and Democracy exposed what could be called the smoking gun.

The American Legislative Exchange Council—ALEC—is a secretive group of corporate executives and conservative legislators from each state who devise templates for procorporate bills. The template bills—like form letters or evil Mad Libs—are then taken to each state and tailored for use in each statehouse. The Center for Media and Democracy and The Nation revealed that the very anti-public school bills brought before the Georgia Legislature were devised by ALEC, outside of Georgia, in secretive sessions where corporate executives helped write the legislation. Rep. Jan Jones, the Alpharetta Republican who brought a significant (and particularly ALEC-y) charter school bill to the Legislature, later ascended to ALEC’s Education Task Force. It is easy to imagine that it was Jones’ service to her corporate masters that landed her the task force position she advertises so proudly on her website.

The ALEC-created education bills constitute a well planned and concentrated attack on public schools. “Transform the system, don’t tweak it,” ordered a 2010 ALEC report on schools.

“Transform,” in ALEC’s parlance, means ultimately to privatize America’s public schools—turn them into businesses. The school privatization project, combined with ALEC’s other prowealthy, pro-corporation bills—aimed toward more privatization, lower and lower taxes for the rich, lessened regulation, etc.—reveal in a way never quite seen a desire by conservative state legislators to serve corporations at the expense of middle-class and lower-class citizens. Here’s a FREE template you can modify for your response: _____ that.

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art notes Mystery Triennial It has been almost a decade since ATHICA (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art) opened in the Chase Street warehouses on Tracy Street. Since then, we have come to rely on the nonprofit art space to provide provocative exhibitions of contemporary art on social topics by artists from around the world and our own backyard. ATHICA’s director, Lizzie Zucker Saltz, founded the non-commercial gallery in 2002 after moving here with her husband when he joined the theater department at UGA. Rather than become, as she puts it, a victim of “university spouse migratory syndrome,” Lizzie created her own niche by bringing to Athens some of the excitement she experienced visiting contemporary art institutes in big cities like New York, L.A. and Chicago.

“ICAs were where you saw the most intriguing work—art that made you feel alive! I wanted to recreate that experience: where you see something that awakens you to a new way of thinking about your world,” Saltz says.

that while a lot of students want to start collecting art, it is something that is usually out of their price range. This event offers a chance for locals to support this important community resource by purchasing local art.

Artists involved in the exhibition have remarked on the impact ATHICA has had on them and the community. Painter Anthony Wislar points out that “Athens has a pretty great group of artists, and they need places that connect Athens to the national and international art community. Additionally, the community at large greatly benefits from having an art scene.

It’s a pretty well established fact that art communities enliven urban areas and boost local economies.”

The gallery has been a testing ground for new curators and curatorial concepts as well as artists. Didi Dunphy recounts this as being something she experienced when she curated the ATHICA exhibition “The Way Things Work”: “[This experience] provided me personally with a way to explore my creative possibilities as a curator, something much different than being an exhibiting artist, but more towards my design sensibilities.”

Photographer Jason Thrasher recalls when ATHICA started and notes how it was integral to building the arts scene that now flourishes at the Chase Street warehouses: “ATHICA is great. I’ve always loved the chance to show work there. It’s amazing what a huge part of our community that the Chase warehouses have become. I can’t image Athens without ATHICA, Canopy and all the amazing people at that warehouse compound.”

All of the artwork in the “Mystery Triennial” will be on display from Aug. 20–Sept. 18; attend on opening night to witness this incredible display of local art and buy an original artwork (you will discover who made it at the point of purchase). If you are feeling competitive, arrive during “First Dibs Hour” from 7–8 p.m. where, Small works from various anonymous local artists comprise the exhibition and sale at ATHICA. with a $10 donation, you can have the first crack at owning art by Jill Carnes, This passion became embodied in ATHICA as she found volJonathan Jacquet, Judith McWillie, Melissa Harshman, Jon unteers from the community to join her in creating this new Swindler, Nina Barnes, Paul Thomas, Bob Clements and contemporary art space. An army of volunteers (including the Claire Clements and many others. With each artist offering director herself) and a sense of community spirit are the secret one to five works in the fundraiser, there will be plenty to to ATHICA’s longevity. Art lovers, artists, musicians, performers, choose from, and you’ll have the opportunity to get your pick students, professors and local business owners are a part of professionally framed for only $10. Participants can win gift each and every event. ATHICA has put on 40 exhibitions since certificates to local businesses by guessing the identities of it began, highlighting challenging work by national, internathe mystery artists and vote on the People’s Choice Award, tional and local artists and providing a forum for their ideas which will offer a solo show at ATHICA to the winning artist. in Athens. Lizzie describes this approach as one that “lifts all The bidding will continue until all works are sold, but there’s boats” by showing emerging artists alongside those who are yet another reason you may want to make sure you are there more established. Exhibitions are accompanied by a full roson Aug. 20: catering for the opening will be donated by Five ter of events that includes music, films, lectures, dance and & Ten and Ted’s Most Best Pizza. Throughout the exhibition, performance art book-ended, as anyone who has attended an affiliated events include concerts and dance performances opening or closing knows, by convivial parties with excellent before the final closing party where the artists’ identities will catering donated by local restaurants. be revealed and all remaining works will be offered at half-off.

Running on volunteer power, ATHICA has also been This playful fundraising event has a serious reason behind the recipient of grants from the mayor’s office, the Warhol it, however, and it comes at a critical time for this important Foundation and the Puffin Foundation. These grants help pay local resource. Participating artist Don Byram makes this point the bills: rent, utilities, printing and shipping are still part of plain: “It is important for the general population of Athens to the expenses needed to keep the operation afloat but cover understand that the ‘Mystery Triennial,’ in many ways, is one only a portion of what is needed. This year, ATHICA is in a of the most important events to be held at ATHICA. It brings gap period before it can reapply for new grants. To show that together the two human elements needed for an independent the gallery has the community support to be sustainable, it is art space to exist in a community. At its core, ATHICA chalreaching out with an exciting fundraising endeavor: the first lenges artists to be free: free of censor, free to push their “ATHICA Mystery Triennial.” limits, free of stigmas—a safe place to bend rules and push ATHICA has invited artists from the community to create a boundaries. With this event, ATHICA brings in the second elesmall work (5.5”x 8.5”) to be sold for $60 (or two for $100) ment, which is local financial support for the arts. It is easy to at the fundraiser which opens on Saturday, Aug. 20. Over 120 say, as a community, ‘We support the arts’ if someone else, in a artists have answered the call and will have their paintings, far away place, pays for it. The challenge the ‘Mystery Triennial’ photographs, drawings, prints and 3-D constructions available creates and says is: prove it.” for purchase. So, what’s the mystery part? All of the works are That we can “prove it” while having a great time is part of hung anonymously, meaning it’s up to you to guess who the what makes ATHICA such a beloved local institution. If you artists are. Imagine owning your own Art Rosenbaum paintare a longtime supporter or new to the scene, I hope you will ing or collaboration by the members of R.E.M. for $60; guess consider participating in what is sure to be a landmark event in correctly and it could be yours! Though some may try to figure our community’s history. See ATHICA’s website for details and out the big names, ATHICA board member and UGA art history the full list of participating artists at www.athica.org. student Ashley Wespheling encourages people to just buy something they like and find a new artist to love. She notes Caroline Barratt arts@flagpole.com

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• indicates new review BELLFLOWER (R) Two pals, Woodrow (writer-director Evan Glodell, who resembles a gearhead Paul Schneider) and Aiden (Tyler Dawson), bond over a doomsday scenario that has them preparing flamethrowers, weapons of mass destruction and Medusa, a muscle car that emits a smokescreen, blows flames and more.

Things grow darker and even more violent after Woodrow falls for Milly (Jessie Wiseman). This official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Glodell’s first film, looks distinctively cool.

BRIDESMAIDS (R) Considering its competition, calling Bridesmaids the funniest movie of 2011 may be as much an insult as a compliment to this hilarious comedy, written by and starring Kristen Wiig (winner of the year’s It’s About Time Award). This femaledriven flick needs to be judged and compared to its raunchy, hearty brothers, all raised under the banner of the House of Apatow. These bridesmaids prove to be just as funny and dirty as the groomsmen of The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, etc.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG-13) Do you remember The Rocketeer? I do, and so does Captain America director Joe Johnston, who should, seeing as he directed the 1991 throwback. Johnston smartly gives Captain America: The First Avenger (talk about unnecessary subtitles) the same sort of Saturday matinee serial feel. Ninety-pound weakling Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) wants to do his part in WWII, but army doctors keep 4Fing him until Dr. Abraham Erskine (the ever wonderful Stanley Tucci) approaches with his super soldier serum. Soon, Steve Rogers turns into a muscled up superhero called Captain America, who must stop rogue Nazi, the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), from devastating the world.

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. CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (NR) 2010. A lot has been said and written about legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog’s documentary, filmed in France’s Chauvet Cave, where the oldest known pictorial representations

of mankind can be found. Closed to the general public, Herzog had to receive special permission to film inside the cave. Along with footage inside the cave itself, Herzog interviewed expert scientists and historians and snapped pictures of the nearby Pont d’Arc natural bridge.

THE CHANGE-UP (R) Family man Dave (Jason Bateman) swaps bodies with his slacker best bud Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) so he can woo a pretty coworker (Olivia Wilde). Great. Another body-switching comedy. Coming from Hangover screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and starring Bateman and Reynolds, The Change-Up might be the right pitch for Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin and better than many of its body-switching peers. With Leslie Mann (always a pleasure), Mircea Monroe (Showtime’s “Episodes”) and Alan Arkin.

• COWBOYS & ALIENS (PG-13) Jon Favreau sure knows how to make an above-average blockbuster. The Iron Man director’s latest is a fun mashup of Western and science fiction tropes that should satisfyingly cap the summer proper. A man with no memory (Daniel Craig) assists a wealthy Civil War vet (Harrison Ford) and the other townsfolk tracking the extraterrestrials who ran off with half of their dwindling mining town. Craig makes a dutiful, if uncharismatic gunslinger, but Ford, wonderfully aged and crotchety, still retains roguish charm to spare for his co-stars. Entertaining as Cowboys & Aliens is, nothing particularly jumps out to give the flick any staying power.

• CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG13) Steve Carell stars as Cal Weaver, whose wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), suddenly bombs him with a divorce pronouncement that leads him to a local bar where Cal meets inveterate womanizer Jacob (Ryan Gosling).

While Cal the nice guy is learning to objectify women, Jacob the man-whore is falling for law student Hannah (Emma Stone). So much more is going on—the teenage subplot involving Cal and Emily’s 13-year-old and his unrequited love for his 17-year-old babysitter is equally compelling—that I’d hate to spoil the genuinely pleasing surprises scripter Dan Fogelman has in store. Directors Glenn Ficarra and Jon Requa grew up fast from their directorial debut, I Love You, Phillip Morris. Their sweetly melancholic second movie is an old-fashioned effort brightly lit by its stars, all of whom

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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (R) No, you didn’t like this movie better when it starred Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. Just act like No Strings Attached doesn’t exist, and enjoy the far superior genre stylings of Friends with Benefits.

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

Think about it. Caddyshack II. Fletch Lives. American Pie 2. Major League 2. Arthur 2: On the Rocks. Porky’s II: The Next Day. Blues Brothers 2000.

Weekend at Bernie’s II. The list goes on. The reasons these sequels fail are numerous: failure to comprehend what was funny about the original; loss of the original stars; characters lose likability; sequel mines exact same jokes as the first movie; etc. The Hangover Part II sidesteps the landmines that blow away the humorous limbs from most comedy sequels.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG-13) It’s over. The final battle rages over and through the hallowed halls of Hogwarts as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) attempt to end Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) evil reign.

The last few Horcruxes must be found and destroyed if Harry is ever to truly defeat You-Know-Who. HP7.2 is filled with blood, death and violence yet is still fit for the entire family (besides the littlest ones).

HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) Horrible Bosses is the summer’s funniest movie (since the last time I crowned a film such). Nick (Jason Bateman) works for an evil corporate shark played perfectly by Kevin Spacey (with a wink and a nod to the darkly fun Swimming with Sharks). Dale (Charlie Day of the best sitcom on TV, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) is getting seriously sexually harassed by his seriously hot dentist boss (Jennifer Aniston).

Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) answers to a cokehead douchebag that resembles a balding Colin Farrell (Farrell). With the help of a murder consultant with a very blue name (Jamie Foxx), these three friends decide the solution to their employment problems is to murder each other’s boss.

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.

MAGIC TRIP (NR) This documentary chronicles One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey’s road trip across America, a trip previously described in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In 1964, Kesey and the Merry Prankster traveled from La Honda, CA to New York City for the World’s Fair.

MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG) Tom Popper (Jim Carrey) 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.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) The apes return in this remixed mash-up of Escape from the Planet of the Apes and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. I loved The Planet of the Apes series when I was growing up. Just ask the Ape bust watching over my DVD collection. While Tim Burton’s damned dirty apes disappointed heavily, this new Apes prequel has my inner Dr. Zaius all a flutter.

• THE SMURFS (PG) The live action/ CGI hybrid version of The Smurfs is not as bad as its atrocious trailers would imply, thanks largely to the

smurfish talents of Neil Patrick Harris.

Thanks to the clumsy plotting via Clumsy Smurf (v. Anton Yelchin), Papa Smurf (v. Jonathan Winters), Smurfette (v. Katy Perry), Gutsy Smurf (v. Alan Cumming), Grouchy Smurf (v. George Lopez), Brainy Smurf (v. Fred Armisen) and Clumsy are chased to New York City by Gargamel (Hank Azaria) and his cat, Azrael. Intriguingly, the scripters throw in unnecessary but welcome nods to the Smurfs’ Belgian roots and creator Peyo, a cleverness undercut by their own poor gags THOR (PG-13) After a raid on the Frost Giants goes awry, a petulant Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is put in timeout by his Allfather, Odin (Anthony Hopkins).

Until he learns to use his godlike powers selflessly, he is forced to exist as one seriously cut, regular dude who gets to woo Natalie Portman as astrophysicist Jane Foster. When Odin goes down for the Odinsleep, Thor’s trickster brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), assumes the throne while his banished bro cools off. To connect Thor to its older Marvel siblings, Shield Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) arrives to investigate the mysterious hammer that fell from the sky.

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.

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (NR) 1964. In Jacques Demy’s vibrant, multi-hued musical, young Geneviève (eternal beauty Catherine Deneuve) and auto mechanic Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) fall in love, only to be torn apart by parental disapproval, the military and the need for financial stability. Demy’s film is decidedly off-beat (all the dialogue is sung) but wonderfully on key. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and brought writer-director Demy Cannes’ highly coveted Golden Palm.

THE WHISTLEBLOWER (NR) Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) stars as Kathryn Bolkovac, the Nebraska cop who, during a one-year stint as Bosnian peacekeeper, outed the United Nations’ complicity in the cover up of cases of sex trafficking. Director Larysa Kondracki’s feature debut won Audience Awards at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Whistler Film Festival.

WINNIE THE POOH (G) Disney brings Winnie the Pooh and all the other denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood back to the big screen in the hand-drawn animated tradition of old Walt himself. Five of Pooh creator A.A. Milne’s stories are being retold, and the voice cast is refreshingly nonstarstudded.

ZOOKEEPER (PG) Kevin James is Griffin, a nice guy who nicely takes care of nice animals for a nice living.

A pretty girl, Stephanie (Leslie Bibb), broke his nice heart because he’s a nice zookeeper.

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film notebook News of Athens’ Cinema Scene The Past Is Present: Just about a year ago, I was asked to introduce a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange at Ciné during the Summer Classic Movie Series. Against the sage advice of Mrs. Film Notebook, I made what I immediately judged to be the mistake of including in my analysis of the film some rather half-baked observations about its traffic in themes related to Naziism and the Holocaust (the next time I would undertake such an introduction—at a screening of Ernst Lubitsch’s Cluny Brown two weeks ago—I made the similar and not unrelated mistake of studiously avoiding any mention of the sig-

(Harlan’s wife, Kristina Söderbaum, acted in many of his films, including Jew Süss) complicity in the Nazi project of dehumanizing Jews. Questions about artists’ culpability for the success of propaganda they are “coerced” into producing, as Harlan claims he was (to paraphrase his son Caspar: if he had to do it, did he have to do it so well?), have frequently been posed in relation to the cultural output of the Reich, notably in Ray Müller’s 1993 film The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.

But Moeller’s focus on the most direct inheritors of Harlan’s complex legacy—and the varying manners in which they view their family and themselves— makes his film’s inquiry both more broadly relevant and more identifiably personal.

l Still Summer: This year’s Ciné Summer Classic Movie Series will hit the home stretch just in time for the beginning of fall semester, with two very different kinds of musicals wrapping things up the next couple of weeks. Opening Aug. 5 with a screening introduced by Richard Neupert, director of UGA film studies and a renowned expert on French film, is Jacques Demy’s absolutely sublime The Umbrellas of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy’s 1964 masterpiece, opens Friday at Cherbourg. The film Ciné in a restored 35mm print. features a young nificance of Nazis to the film, though it would and never lovelier Catherine Deneuve, with all Demy’s dialog sung to Michel Legrand’s jazzy certainly have been appropriate and helpful). score. It’s a unique film, and it’s especially not The reason for my unfortunate digression was to be missed in a beautiful 35mm print. The that, coincident with my research on the film, series’ final installment will continue the musiI had happened to read an article that dealt cal theme in about the least similar way posin passing with the fact of Kubrick’s marriage sible, with the phenomenal 1978 hit Grease, to Christiane Harlan, a niece of the German which at that time was the only entertainment filmmaker Veit Harlan, whose films produced capable of distracting my nine-year-old mind under the auspices of the Third Reich included the horrifyingly, infamously anti-Semitic Jew from the previous year’s Star Wars. Let’s all Süss. just agree that it’s impossible—for those of my generation, at least—to be objective about The article, written by Kent Jones in Film Comment, was about Harlan’s legacy and how this film, and get a bunch of candy and enjoy it has been explored in several films both it. The opening night screening Aug. 12 will be introduced by film producer Pam Kohn, the about and by members of Harlan’s family. One co-founder and director of Robert Osborne’s of them is Felix Moeller’s 2008 documentary Classic Film Festival. See you there.

Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss, which I watched last week (it’s available on DVD and Get Eco-Festive: The folks at the EcoFocus streaming online through Netflix). Jones is Film Festival have announced that the 4th somewhat patronizing of Harlan, assigning to annual event will take place Mar. 23–31, it the vaguely disparaging label of “informa2012, and are already ramping up preparational documentary”; he’s far more intrigued tions for it. A call for submissions to the with Wundkanal, a challenging, controversial festival went out July 19, and films will be and uncategorizable 1984 film by Harlan’s accepted through the deadline of Sept. 15. son Thomas that directly confronts the painEnvironmental films of 50 minutes or more or ful (and personal, for its director) subject 20 minutes or less will be considered, along of reclaiming the truth of guilt for those with “family programming” of any length. The involved with Nazi atrocities. I haven’t seen Wundkanal, but I found Harlan totally engross- festival is also seeking interns for the 2011– 2012 season; applications will be accepted ing in its own right. through Aug. 26. Go to www.ecofocusfilmfest.

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Harlan’s descendants, Moeller’s film explores the ways in which the family members have Dave Marr film@flagpole.com internalized the issue of their relatives’

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Let me also state very clearly in the interest of full disclosure that I am deeply involved in the organizing of this festival. So, with that out of the way, allow me to announce this year’s headliners: The Olivia Tremor Control, Bob Mould, Man or Astroman?, The Dead Milkmen and Throwing Muses. Notable 1990s indie-pop groups Kleenex Girl Wonder and Athens’ own Masters of the Hemisphere will also perform. The festival takes place Oct. 11–15, and the full lineup will number approximately 70 bands from the U.S., Canada and overseas. More names will be announced in the coming weeks. New to this year’s festival are an opening night “homecoming” dinner, a craft/record fair and a mini-comic/ zine fair organized in conjunction with the folks behind FLUKE! The non-music events will take place at the Classic Center, and all live music will happen at the 40 Watt Club and Caledonia Lounge. Athens PopFest is an all-ages event organized annually by the nonprofit Athens PopFest Foundation. Full festival passes are available for $70 at www.

illegal downloading, etc. Schoolkids Records began aggressively selling off its remaining stock last week and will continue to do so until it shuts its doors for good on Saturday, Aug. 20.

Road Core: Shaved Christ seems to have barely taken a breath since forming a few months ago. The newly formed, but seriously old-school sounding, hardcore band has already played several dates out of town via weekend mini-tours and is set to spend most of August on the road. Planned dates include Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Quebec, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and North Carolina. Four songs are available as free downloads over at www.shavedchrist.bandcamp.com. Enjoy!

Points of Departure: Decades-long Athens songwriter Bill Mallonee (currently living in Santa Fe, NM) is booking fall dates for a series of concerts and songwriting seminars.

He’s also worked up an outline for an ambitious series of seminars concerning and titled, “Faith, Art, Cultural Relevance & the Christian Artist.” Mallonee’s Christian faith

The Dead Milkmen ticketalternative.com. Tickets for individual shows will go on sale at a later date. For more information and ongoing updates, please see www.Facebook.com/AthensPopFestFoundation or follow @AthensPopFest on Twitter. If you have a specific question regarding any aspect of the festival, you are welcome to email me directly via gordon@athenspopfest.com.

School’s Out: The news traveled quickly last week when the rumored closing of Schoolkids Records (264 E. Clayton St.) was broken publicly via the store’s Facebook page. Schoolkids, which moved seamlessly into the space previously occupied—literally and figuratively—by the defunct Downtown Records in 2001, distinguished itself immediately at that time as the go-to spot for hotly anticipated ticketed concerts in Athens. After the Athens store closes, the only Schoolkids location left will be that in Raleigh, NC. This shuttering also means that for the first time in over 30 years the College Square area of downtown will have only one record store. For the past few weeks the operations at Schoolkids have seemed a little off. The store was sometimes not open for business, even in the middle of the afternoon, and phone calls would go unanswered.

The culprits store employees blame for the closing are the usual suspects: the Internet,

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is the grounding aspect of his work, and longtime fans know that his brand of Christianity is about as far from the popular, right-wing version as one can get. If you’re interested in booking him for your home, church, coffeehouse or other venue, he’s taking inquires right now. Drop him a line at highhorsebooking@hotmail.com. In other news, Mallonee’s newest record, The Power & the Glory, is to be released in September. For all other information, please see www.billmallonee.net.

Dollar Bills, Y’all: Martin Brummeler (M. Cadet Studio) has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his Mass Solo Revolt project.

Specifically seeking to release the project’s fourth album, Soft Power, on vinyl (plus a digital download), he’s ambitiously seeking $3,500 in a campaign that will only last another couple of weeks. Mass Solo Revolt trades in harder edged indie rock with a 1990s aesthetic. This music is way more D.C. than Seattle or even Athens, though, so set your compass in that direction. For more info and to donate to the campaign, please see www. facebook.com/masssolorevolt. You can sample tracks from previous releases over at www. mass-solo-revolt.bandcamp.com.

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Jim Wilson’s Taxicab Verses Bridging the Sounds of Athens and Ghana

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nstage at Flicker in July of 2008, Jim Wilson was jumping out of his skin.

Leading a band of crack local musicians, Wilson was trying to communicate a lot: he wanted the audience to look at the still images being projected on the screen while the band—three bassists, three guitarists, a drummer and two backup vocalists—played a very attention-demanding sort of Afro-rock.

Heroic soul singers Melissa Colbert-Taylor and Trish Scurry slung slogans towards a spellbound crowd; behind them were photos of rural African roads. It was an overwhelming amount of audio/visual information. But this may have been in part due to the fact that Jim Wilson was himself overwhelmed: bursting with the emotional information of a lifechanging experience.

On the invitation of a friend working with Peace Corps, Wilson set out for Ghana in 2008. To keep him occupied while she was on the job, he “went on a mission to find different people that [he] could hang out with, and that was how [he] ended up meeting Kofi.” Kofi Atentenben is a percussionist and bandleader living just outside the city of Accra. When he went to go check out Kofi and Kofi Atentenben and his group The Warriors, Wilson was armed with a Zoom handheld digital recorder. As a drummer and percussionist with Madeline’s White Flag/Black Velvet Bands as well as Don Chambers’ GOAT, Wilson found a great deal of kinship with Atentenben and his band. After Wilson sat in with the group, Atentenben suggested that a collaboration might be possible.

“That was the first time he said, ‘Hey, you’ve got this recording; we should one day mix your Western music with our African music.’”

Upon returning home, Wilson found himself brimming with kinetic energy, memories, photos and recordings. Almost immediately, he assembled a cadre of individuals he felt could help him interpret Atentenben’s traditional music faithfully and creatively. Keeping in mind that anything recorded in the States would later have tons of Ghanaian percussion overdubbed on top of it, he eschewed establishing a drum-heavy group in favor of bass.

“There are killer musicians everywhere in this town, but I had the pleasure of playing with lots of bass players [namely Chuck Bradburn, Chris Herron and Bryan Howard], and that was something in my mind that wouldn’t get too cluttered,” Wilson says. He arranged versions of the Ghanaian music into epic, danceable songs that had a loose popsong format, with many parts quoting or referencing the music he’d recorded on the Zoom.

The lyrics were exclusively taken from quotations Wilson spotted on taxicabs around Accra.

Following another performance at Ciné and some diligent writing and arranging, the group returned to Flicker on a Sunday in January 2010 with Chase Park Transduction engineer Drew Vanderberg to dutifully capture Wilson’s reinventions live.

In May of 2010 , Wilson emailed the recordings to his friend in Ghana who brought them to Atentenben. But the intention was never to have a transatlantic collaboration via email: if Atentenben liked what he heard, Wilson told him, he would get on a plane so they could work together in person.

“By doing it that way, it was the true beginning of the collaboration,” says Wilson.

With Atentenben’s approval, Wilson returned to Ghana in May of 2010 with guitarist Matt Stoessel. Crammed into two taxis with five percussionists and their gear, the musicians would take a 40-minute drive down dirt roads to the studio where Wilson and Stoessel would behold a master class in rhythm.

Jim Wilson “Their work ethic is fucking amazing; I’ve never seen anything like it,” Wilson says. “The producer over there was explaining to me the way of the average Ghanaian musician: this is what they do; this is what they are.” In the tiny, windowless studio, The Warriors pounded out the syncopated, multifaceted overdubs over Wilson’s recordings from Flicker.

“Anytime we walked into the recording room it was just sweltering. They were in it, just going after it—Matt and I were just sitting there blown away,” he says. “The engineer was just on ‘em constantly, rippin’ up the guys in a playful way, just: ‘What are you doing?’ Somebody would start one thing, and to my ears, it sounds amazing, and he’s saying, ‘Hey! You ever heard of music before? You know what I’m saying?’ And they’d say, ‘Yeah!’

And he’d say, ‘OK! GO!’” The final result of these initial recordings is a combination of the vintage-amp gnarl of the Athens musicians along with intense, simmering percussion care of the Ghanaian ringers.

Wilson is planning another trip back to Ghana to do more tracking—including the strictly traditional side of the project, which will make up roughly half of the finished album.

To help supplement the airfare as well as compensate the musicians, he’s launched a fundraising drive at IndieGoGo.com. The results are still being collected, recorded, mixed, re-mixed and developed, but Wilson’s enthusiasm has remained a constant aspect.

“I was so blown away, overwhelmed and just excited about my interactions with people over there in general,” says Wilson.

Jeff Tobias

upstart roundup Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent INDIVIDUATOR Alternative/Electronic/Progressive Lineup: Gary Patrick Garry, Jack Garry. Influences: J Dilla, The Neptunes, Trey Anastasio, Genesis, Grateful Dead.

This surprising father-son duo is immaculately produced by Jack Garry (AKA CultureStarter) and features lead vocals and lyrics from poppa Patrick. Their debut EP, Lie Swatters, features layers of funky beats and half-spoken, half-sung lyrics that alternatively call to mind Moby or, particularly with “Humble Mushroom Teacher,” that Baz Luhrmann track from the ‘90s featuring the famous “Sunscreen” essay written by Mary Schmich (and frequently erroneously credited to Kurt Vonnegut).

Junior Garry says that as a producer, his biggest influences come from hip-hop and R&B. “However,” he adds, “I played guitar growing up before I started producing, and my earlier influences which still inform my production were more in the rock vein and, subsequently, jazz… I also love pop and dig a lot of reggae, electronic and other genres. In the spirit of hip-hop, which is traditionally a genre which samples from many other genres to create a new arrangement, I blend all of my influences across genres into the music I make.”

His father is also a fan of many of those genres, but as a lyricist he cites Kerouac, Burroughs, Bukowski, HST, Ginsberg, Terence McKenna and Jim Carroll as well. In fact, the aforementioned track “Humble Mushroom Teacher,” features Patrick reading a foreword from an out-of-print book that was written by the McKenna brothers.

Patrick and Jack played together in a family band when Jack was a teen, before going their separate ways musically, but ended up collaborating again somewhat unexpectedly. “Without really planning it, we found ourselves working on some songs, and it wound up sounding like music that people may like… because we like it and we are pretty hard critics,” says Patrick. “Jack made the beats, and I created the vocal arrangements. We did our parts independently in our own respective home studios and shared the files along the way. So, we decided to put it out there.”

You can hear songs from Individuator’s debut EP, Lie Swatters, online at www.Individuator.com.

Next show: Friday, Aug. 5 @ Highland Inn Ballroom in Atlanta STAR SLAMMER Pop Rock Lineup: Mary Field, Davy Gibbs, Ryan Matthews, Thomas Wilcox. Shares members with: Shitty Candy, Titans of Filth, Gemini Cricket, Night Nurses, Star Iron Hero and more. Influences: Hüsker Dü, The Beatles, Dinosaur Jr., Joe Jackson, Depeche Mode.

“The fact is,” admits drummer Davy Gibbs, “these are just pop-rock songs played with the usual instruments and what I hope is above-average enthusiasm. I hope it’s danceable… I hope the grooves groove and the hooks hook.”

Between songwriters Ryan Matthews (ex-Wickets) and Thomas Wilcox (ex-Lumus, Iron Hero), Star Slammer presents the full range of post-punk rock: bouncing from synth-driven new wave to more jangly pop.

Gibbs breaks down the bandmembers’ various influences as such: “Mary is the punk one. She gets a lot of her playing cues from jumpy punk bands like The Minutemen and Hüsker Dü. My drumming influences are all over the place: Dave Houghton on those early Joe Jackson records, Levon Helm of The Band, Terry Chambers of XTC. Ryan seems to have found himself a comfortable spot between The Beatles worship of his youth and the Dinosaur Jr. freak-outs of his later-youth. His instrumental superpower is soloing like a bastard. Seriously. There are plenty of guitar players in this town, but there are many fewer guitar soloists. He’s one of them… [Multi-instrumentalist] Thomas learned at least 55 percent of everything he knows about music from Depeche Mode (another 12 percent from Gary Numan).”

Gibbs describes the resulting concoction as both a hardrocking take on The Cars or maybe what The Cure sounds like “when they smile”—or maybe if Pavement were to cover ELO. It may take some time before we get to see Star Slammer onstage or on the road. “We’re a stay-at-home band,” says

Gibbs. But you can find their demo on the net at Starslammer. bandcamp.com.

Next show: Check website for updates.

WHITE VIOLET Folk/Rock/Indie Lineup: Nate Nelson, Matt Nelson, Jeremy Wheatley, Vaughan Lamb. Shares members with: Gift Horse, A. Armada, LeMaster, Crooked Fingers, Tin Cup Prophette. Influences: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, AA Bondy.

In the midst of the sweltering chaos of AthFest, White Violet offered sweet relief with a breezy set at Caledonia Lounge during the Dirty Athens day party. It was the perfect hangover cure: Nate Nelson’s achingly lovely vocals, the gorgeous tone of Matt Nelson’s subtle guitar flourishes, the gentle propulsion of the rhythm section with Jeremy Wheatley on drums and Vaughan Lamb on bass.

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Once White Violet’s debut record, Hiding, Mingling, was complete, Nate says the effort felt much more like a collaborative work than a solo project.

“I knew it needed to be released under a band name because it felt so different than my last two solo records,” says Nate. “When White Violet came together I felt like I was 16 again—in my first rock band.”

Nate says this record is also a departure in that he really strove to create a cohesive body of work rather than a random collection of tracks. There are recurring lyrical themes, mostly inspired by life in Athens, that tie the tracks together. Nate is currently shopping the record around, figuring out the game plan for its release. In the mean time, you can learn more about him and his music at www.natenelsonmusic.com Next show: Thursday, Aug. 4 @ Caledonia Lounge Michelle Gilzenrat music@flagpole.com

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“We have a bunch of new material which we’re just looking at right now,” says vocalist/ songwriter Hunter Morris. “It’s a chance to hash out a couple of those.” Along with guitarist Mike Stokes, bassist Vaughn Lamb and drummer Brad Elliott, Morris will be exploring different modes and possibilities of Gift Horse every Wednesday night in August.

“I think it’s cool how in New York there are bands who will do a residency because there are so many people there that they can play and get that extra exposure,” Morris says. “We obviously don’t have as many people here, but we’re doing stuff a lot different than we did even a year ago, and I think that it’s an opportunity for people who haven’t seen the band in a while to come see us, and it’s a good opportunity for us to work on new material and to do stuff that we don’t normally do.

Probably more than anything, it’s a good reason to have a bunch of our friends play.”

This is another aspect of the residency that appealed to the band: the curatorial aspect of showcasing not only their new material and ideas, but those of their friends as well.

The first night—featuring a full-on Gift Horse set—will include Thayer Sarrano, Co Co Ri Co and Hank Sullivant of Kuroma on the bill. A week later, the band will go it acoustic (something they’ve never attempted in the past) with sets by Philip Brantley of the Modern Skirts and White Violet, the new project of songwriter/producer Nate Nelson.

From there, the plans get more mysterious.

One of the two remaining sets will lean heavily on covers, possibly including a good deal of Gift Horse’s well known My Bloody Valentine cover set. The third week will showcase David Barbe and the Quick Hooks, Ansley Rushing and Eddie the Wheel, whose Eddie Whelan will also be filming much of the four consecutive shows. The fourth and final date of the residency will see sets from Ruby Kendrick,

Futurebirds side project The Interns, and Dead Confederate’s Walker Howle and Hardy Morris (Hunter’s cousin).

“The idea behind it was originally like, ‘Well, what can we do to put on one really big show when school gets back in, and put a bunch of work into promoting it and have a couple cool bands play with us?” says Morris.

“Basically, work really hard for a show that’ll reintroduce the band to some people and let ‘em know that we’re gonna have a new record in the works. And that just broke down to, ‘Why don’t we just remove all the pressure, have a bunch of our friends play with us, and have a blast for a month?’ It seems a lot more fun and a lot more laid back.”

Part of Gift Horse’s new ideas and overall progression, which Morris terms as “a lot more concentrated, a lot more focused, sharper,” will be showcased on three songs that the group recently tracked with local engineers Joel Hatstat and Mike Albanese, to be released as singles or with videos this fall. Their 2010 album, Mountain of Youth, demonstrated that while Gift Horse is a band defined by haze and reverb, they prioritized hooks that could not be obfuscated by the swirl of organ and guitar.

“All that texture and all that kinda mystery, all those elements that were there before, even though they’re still there, there’s just a lot more pop,” says Morris. “It used to be very washy and slow and sludgy, and it’s gotten a lot more upbeat and a lot crisper and a lot more melodic. A lot of the new songs have some pretty strong pop sensibilities, even though it’s still really gritty and loud.”

The group plans to bang out a new record with the material they’ll be showcasing at the residency and will likely have a stronger set to work from due to the trial-by-fire experience of working the songs out week after week in front of an audience. From show to show, the attendees may very well be witnessing the evolution of the material: learning through repetition.

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Tuesday 2 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 PERFORMANCE: Open TOAD Comedy (Flicker Theatre & Bar) A unique open mic experience. The audience gets to pelt the performers who go over their six-minute time limit with foam rocks. Performers get in FREE! but must sign up by 8 p.m. 8 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar KIDSTUFF: 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 3 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: Community Snapshot (ACC Library) Each month, a local baby boomer shares his or her story via live webcast as a part of a new grant program called “The Boomers: Reflecting, Learning, Sharing.” This month: Gail Langer Karwoski presents “From Idea to Picture Book.” 1 p.m. FREE! www.boomersinathens. org ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, in the lobby for a discussion of Gregory Gillespie’s “Wheel of Life.” 2–3 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Songwriting Workshop (Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company) Open forum meetings to express thoughts, explore songwriting techniques and find your voice.

An optional performance will be held at the end of the summer to showcase students’ creative works.

For ages 11–18. 6–7:30 p.m. $10. franck.betsy@gmail.com KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Poker night every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at

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6:30 p.m. Begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Broad St.) Think you know it all?

8:30 p.m. 706-548-3442

Thursday 4 EVENTS: Tomatoes at Terrapin (Terrapin Beer Co.) The Athens Nurses Clinic celebrates 20 years of providing free medical service with a night of live music by five-piece jazz-funk fusion band The Fritz, brewery tours and fresh tomato sandwiches from the farmers market.

5:30 p.m. $12 glass. www.athensnursesclinic.org ART: Opening Reception (Highwire Lounge) For urban landscape paintings by Nash Hogan and mixed-media pieces by Charlie Key. 7–9 p.m.

FREE! www.highwirelounge.com ART: Opening Reception (Town 220) For artwork by Gary Hudson.

Music provided by Mark Maxwell.

6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE!. www.madisonartistsguild.org LECTURES & LIT.: Computer Tutorials (ACC Library) Choose from a list of topics for personalized instruction. Call to register. 9 a.m.

706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Green Drinks Athens (Hotel Indigo) An open, free-form get together for anyone interested in meeting and networking with other eco-minded folks about business, academic or government initiatives.

5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! bartonking@ charter.net

Friday 5 EVENTS: BikeAthens Group Ride (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) BikeAthens’ monthly, casual-pace bike ride around town. Bring a helmet and water. 6 p.m. FREE! www. bikeathens.com EVENTS: BikeAthens Social (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Join BikeAthens after the ride. 7–8 p.m. FREE! bikeathens.com EVENTS: Ecstatic Dance Athens (Whole: Mind. Body. Art., 127 N. Jackson St.) Join Conscious Dance movement. Grammy-winning “Arrested Development” hip-hop drummer DJ Rasadon will be present. 8 p.m. $5. 706-424-0195, www. wholemindbodyart.com EVENTS: Men of the Classic City Bachelor Auction (The Melting Point) The American Cancer Society presents its third annual auction.

Performance by the KC Harmon Band. All proceeds benefit Relay for Life. 6–11 p.m., 7:30 p.m. (Bachelor Parade), 9 p.m. (Auction). $20 (adv.), $25. www.menoftheclassiccity.com ART: Opening Reception (Floorspace) For an exhibit of quilts

by Sarah Hubbard. The evening

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includes a performance by world dance collective Shakti Project, music by Killick, a photography exhibit by Hubbard’s daughter, wine and snacks. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www. thehubb4.blogspot.com THEATRE: An Ideal Husband (Town and Gown Players) Sir Robert, a successful political figure and perfect gentleman, is well-off and living a perfect life until the charming Mrs. Cheveley appears with the intention of revealing a dark secret from his past. Aug. 5–6 & 11–13, 8 p.m.

Aug. 7 & 14, 2 p.m. $12–15.

THEATRE: Do Wop Wed Widing Hood (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Ninteen young performers take a time warp to the 1950s to sing and act their way through a combination of iconic fairytales and Do Wop music. Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m. & Aug. 7, 2 p.m. $5–10. 706-714-3156 OUTDOORS: Nature’s Night Life (Sandy Creek Nature Center) See what the heat of the summer brings out as you search for bats, insects and other nocturnal animals during a night hike. Finish the evening stargazing and making a dream catcher.

Call to register. 8–9:30 p.m. $6 (per family). 706-613-3615, www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter MEETINGS: Friends First Friday (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Gather at a made-from-scratch breakfast to meet other folks and learn about planting to support winter migrants. 9 a.m. $12. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden

Saturday 6 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads.

Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: CrossFit Open House (CrossFit Athens) All fitness levels welcome. Ages 13 & up. 10–11 a.m.

FREE! www.crossfitathens.com EVENTS: Engaging Intuition: An Afternoon of Tarot & Pathwork for Women (Floorspace) Workshop for women designed to cultivate intuition and teach the archetypes of the Tarot. Open to all skill levels.

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: OSHO Meditation (Whole: Mind. Body. Art., 127 N. Jackson St.) Active meditation. 10 a.m. By donation. 706-424-0195, www. wholemindbodyart.com EVENTS: Swap-o-Rama-Rama (Little Kings Shuffle Club) DIY sewing event exploring creative reuse through recycling used clothing.

The Aquarium Rescue Unit, featuring Colonel Bruce Hampton, will play the Georgia Theatre on Monday, Aug. 8.

Bring a bag of clothes to donate, then get ready to transform your finds. 5–9 p.m. $3–5 (suggested donation). www.swaporamarama.org EVENTS: Weekend A’Fair (Charmar Flower and Gift Shop) Rent a table for $10 or come check out what other artists, craftspeople and local farmers have in store. First Saturday of every month. FREE! 10 a.m.–5 p.m. weekendafair@gmail.com 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.

ART: Closing Reception (Lyndon House Arts Center) “Kaunakes: Ghosts of Mesopotamia” includes an installation by Glen Kaufman and performance by Andrea Trombetta.

6:30 p.m. FREE! ART: Date Night (Sips and Strokes) Have a drink and paint a masterpiece with your significant other. 7–10 p.m. $35. www.sipsnstrokes.com ART: Opening Reception (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) For paintings, assemblages and collages by Charley Seagraves. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 THEATRE: An Ideal Husband (Town and Gown Players) Sir Robert, a successful political figure and perfect gentleman, is well-off and living a perfect life until the charming Mrs. Cheveley appears with the intention of revealing a dark secret from his past. Aug. 5–6 & 11–13, 8 p.m.

Aug. 7 & 14, 2 p.m. $12–15.

THEATRE: Do Wop Wed Widing Hood (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Ninteen young performers take a time warp to the 1950s to sing and act their way through a combination of iconic fairytales and Do Wop music. Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m. & Aug. 7, 2 p.m. $5–10. 706-714-3156 OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. All ages. Call to register.

10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Botanical Art for Kids (Whole: Mind. Body. Art., 127 N. Jackson St.) Create angular yet impressionistic art inspired by nature.

1:30–4:30 p.m. $30. 706-424-0195, www.wholemindbodyart.com KIDSTUFF: QuickStart Tennis Clinics (Various Locations) Introductory clinics for ages 10 & under. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (Southeast Clarke Park) and 2–3 p.m. (Bishop Park). 706-613-3592, www.tennisforlife.net

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

Sunday 7 EVENTS: Table Tennis Clinic (Oconee County Library) UGA’s table tennis instructor, Stan Talifero, will show basic to advanced skills and training techniques. Rackets and balls provided. Open to all ages and playing levels. 12–4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3650 ART: Community Unveiling (Stan Mullins’ Studio) View the fivefoot-tall Georgia marble sculpture of Saint Mary of the Assumption, a piece By Stan Mullins commissioned by the Catholic Church of Lancaster, OH. 5–9 p.m. FREE! ART: Opening Reception (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) “280 Seasons” is a collection of watermedia paintings by Judy Bolton Jarrett.

A party will be held celebrating her 70th birthday. 1:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! PERFORMANCE: Athens Brass Choir Concert (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 THEATRE: An Ideal Husband (Town and Gown Players) Sir Robert, a successful political figure and perfect gentleman, is well-off and living a perfect life until the charming Mrs. Cheveley appears with the intention of revealing a dark secret from his past. Aug. 5–6 & 11–13, 8 p.m.

Aug. 7 & 14, 2 p.m. $12–15.

Monday 8 GAMES: Adult Trivia (Jack’s Bar) Test your (carnal) knowledge. 9–11 p.m. 706-548-8510 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 485 Baldwin St.) Think you know it all? 8 p.m. 706-548-3442

Tuesday 9 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 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 10 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) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) This week: Game Day! Play one of the library’s games or bring your favorite game from home to share. For ages 11– 18. 4–5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Poker night every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line EVENTS: Athens Showgirl Cabaret Pride Party 8/12 (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A drag show to help sponsor the performers’ trip to the Atlanta Pride Parade. Games, contests and free shots. 10:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime 8/13 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and its resident creatures. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615, www.accleisureservices.com LECTURES & LIT.: Annual Horse Owners Seminar 8/13 (UGA Vet College) Horse enthusiasts of all levels and ages are invited to hear

lectures from veterinary clinicians and residents on the equine gastrointestinal anatomy, colic, colotis and parasites. An afternoon wetlab provides a hands-on opportunity to learn about performing physical exams on horses. 8 a.m.–4 p.m. $25 (adv.), $50. www.vet.uga.edu/ Go/horse ART: Opening Reception 8/19 (Georgia Museum of Art) For “Lamar Dodd: Paintings and Drawings,” celebrating the work of the namesake of UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu EVENTS: Flea Market 8/20 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Find an assortment of treasures: garden decor and tools, linens, jewelry, books, furniture, toys and more.

Call to donate items to help support the Garden. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. 706542-6014 EVENTS: Tri to Beat Cancer 8/21 (Sandy Creek Park) A triathlon to raise money for The Cancer Foundation of Northeast Georgia Financial Assistance Program. 7–10 a.m. www.cfnega.org * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 2 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com FIELD MOUSE Brooklyn four-piece plays sweet, female vocal-led melodic indie rock.

CARA BETH SATALINO Witches lead singer plays a solo set.

ALLISON WEISS Heartfelt singer/ songwriter with quirky charm, sharp pop sensibilities and an avid online following.

8e’s Bar 9 p.m. FREE! facebook.com/tecropolis TECROPOLIS Join your fellow citizens of Tecropolis, capital of the United States of Electronica, and hear your favorite techno, trance, house, drum & bass, dubstep and more. This week feat. DJs andyredrum, xb, D:RC and more.

Georgia Theatre “Georgia Theatre Grand Re-Opening Celebration.” 9 p.m. $25. www.georgiatheatre.com RANDALL BRAMBLETT Longtime Athenian Randall Bramblett will perform his highly acclaimed blend of funky and soulful Southern Americana.

CHUCK LEAVELL AND FRIENDS World-renowned pianist who has played alongside the likes of Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones will perform a mix of classics.

SNAP! Organ-heavy funk/jazz tunes delivered by local all-stars.

Go Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar EASTER ISLAND Lush, post rockinfluenced shoegaze with sweet, pop melodies, tender harmonies and shimmering guitars.

Highwire Lounge 8–11 p.m. www.highwirelounge.com KENOSHA KID Every Tuesday!

Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features Robby Handley (bass) and Marlon Patton (drums). The new originals spark like Booker T & the MGs mixed with 20th-century harmony; the new covers include musical twists of Willie Nelson, The Beach Boys and Radiohead.

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

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net HOLLY BELLE Local singer-songwriter Holly Belle sings smoky, acoustic ballads accompanied by cello.

AJ GRIFFIN Solo set from a member of Vespolina.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com RACHEL O’NEAL Local singer/ songwriter who plays a mix of soulful acoustic originals and an eclectic blend of indie rock, jazz and Southern-tinged Americana covers.

The Loft Dance Lounge 9 p.m. 706-613-7771 ATHENS 2 IBIZA DJ BangRadio presides over a special Girls Night Out, for which he remixes current pop radio hits with fistpumping beach party beats. Every Tuesday.

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

The Melting Point Terrapin Bluegrass Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com HOMESICK ELEPHANT Indie-folk duo with devastatingly charming harmonies over mellow tunes fit for the background of nearly any indie film.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $3. 706-546-4742 TENT CITY This Athens-based fourpiece blends new-age funk with soulful blues. Chuck Leavell After Party!

Wednesday 3 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE An evening with the Singing Cowboy!

Blue Sky 5–10 p.m. www.blueskyathens.com VINYL WEDNESDAY Bring your own vinyl favorites and be a DJ for the night.

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

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. Tonight bassist James Goodhand will sit in for Roberts.

George’s Lowcountry Table 6 p.m. FREE! www.georgeslowcountrytable.net 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 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.

Georgia Theatre “Georgia Theatre Grand Re-Opening Celebration- Open House.” 9 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features Robby Handley (bass) and Marlon Patton (drums).

Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com (Timothy Rd. Location) THE TANGENTS This country-fried rock group from Watkinsville carries Lynyrd Skynyrd licks and John Mellencamp melodies.

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. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com DEF POETS No information available.

Thursday 4 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 SAM SNIPER Southern jungle rock that holds together firmly with big rhythms and harmonies, despite joyful bouncing between genres.

WHEELER BROTHERS Austin indiefolk rock that’s poppy and upbeat with some quirky moments and occasional glockenspiel.

WHITE VIOLET Long singer-songwriter Nate Nelson’s solid new band features the same sweet, heartfelt indie-pop melodies he’s known for.

See Upstart Roundup on p. 13 for more info.

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 ARCFURUS Appalachian country jam fronted by co-ed harmonies.

CONNECTED HOUSES Funky, local blues four-piece.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com MANIC HEAVEN Geoff Weaver and friends play raw, heartfelt, “toegazing” dream folk.

SUBSCRIBER Self-described “rootsy vacuum pop” that borrows elements from garage rock and even some psych pop.

THE WOODWORKS New etherealfolk female trio featuring Jenny Woodward, Mandy Riley (Like Totally!) and Stephanie Davis (Yo Soybean).

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

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

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

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens. com JUSTIN BROGDON Madison Patio regular and rock vet Justin Brogdon puts a lot of Southern soul into his epic songs.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com 90 ACRE FARM This local sevenpiece emphasizes vocal harmonies and lyrical imagery with its soulful, folk-roots Americana.

Recommended for fans of John Hiatt and Steve Earle.

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

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $3. 706-546-4742 WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle, featuring the founder of Ghostmeat Records and members of 6 String Drag, The Burning Angels and The F-Holes.

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.

Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

HOMESICK ELEPHANT $5 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3

RACHEL O’NEAL

FREE SHOW! • Music 7-10pm

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4

BETSY FRANCK

& THE BAREKNUCKLE BAND 90 ACRE FARM

Tickets $5 adv. • $7 at the door

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 American Cancer Society Benefit

MEN OF THE CLASSIC CITY BACHELOR AUCTION Live Music Featuring THE KC HARMON BAND Tickets $18 adv.

MONDAY, AUGUST 8 Athens Folk Music Dance Society present

THE HOOT

Featuring THE ROSIN SISTERS,

THE DARNELL BOYS and US LATELY

FREE! • Music at 8pm

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9

Terrapin Beer Co. “Tomatoes at Terrapin.” 5:30 p.m. $12 glass. Proceeds benefit Athens Nurses Clinic. www.terrapinbeer.com THE FRITZ Five-piece mellow funk jam with jazz influences including upright bass and smooth organ sounds.

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

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

Friday 5

Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

BLUEBILLY GRIT

$5 Admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10

JOSH PERKINS EXPERIMENT

with ADAM PAYNE and ADAM POULIN FREE SHOW! • Music 7-10pm

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12

KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS

Tickets $12 adv. • $15 at the door

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 DWIGHT WILSON & THE CLASSIC CITY SOUL Motown and R&B classics.

HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Tickets $7 adv. • $10 at the door

JUST ANNOUNCED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 18

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 ELASTIC SKYLINE Funky, psychedelic rock and roll from Milledgeville, GA. The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $5 (18+, before 11 p.m.), $10 (18+, after 11 p.m.). www. thebadmanor.com FERAL YOUTH Banging electro house, dubstep, with a dash of top 40 remixes.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com FALCONES Local band that serves up crunchy, stripped down rock and roll in the vein of The Stooges and Dinosaur Jr. THE LOOSE ENDS Local brash pop punk three-piece. k continued on next page

Grammy Award Winner

JIM LAUDERDALE

LERA LYNN

With Special Guest Tickets $10 adv • $13 at the door

UPCOMING EVENTS 8.16 8.18 8.19 8.20 8.23 8.26 8.27 8.27

CURLEY MAPLE JIM LAUDERDALE , LERA LYNN ABBEY ROAD LIVE! RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND, CALLAGHAN VON GREY BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA DEJA VU: TRIBUTE TO CSN&Y @40WATT: KEVN KINNEY BAND, THE HEAP, SOME DARK HOLLER 8.30 NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF

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@TERRAPIN BREWERY: DEL YEAH! Featuring DEL McCOURY BAND, CORNMEAL, DREW EMMITT and DANNY BARNES, DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE, and THE WELFARE LINERS STRING THEORY GRAINS OF SAND SONS OF SAILORS HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND THE HIGHBALLS MEAT PUPPETS, HAYRIDE HOMEGROWN REVIVAL, JONATHAN BYRD GEOFF ACHISON & THE SOULDIGGERS SAINT FRANCIS, VON GREY, JOSH DANIELS 295 E. DOUGHERTY ST., ATHENS, GA

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THE CALENDAR! Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com ASHUTTO MIRRA Alternative rock quartet with a dark and steely sound.

THE FREE ASSOCIATES No info available.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatre.com BOOK CLUB Indie-folk with a wide range of instrumentation, anchored by desperately sad and beautiful coed harmonies.

MADELINE Bell-voiced local songwriter Madeline Adams plays endearing songs of smalltown loves, hopes and other assorted torments and joys.

40 Watt Club “Redneck Riviera.” 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com THE DICTATORTOTS These longtime Athenian chaos-cultivators stomp about and trash the night with postgrunge grooves.

KINKY WAIKIKI Playing modern arrangements of traditional Hawaiian music, with a little Western swing thrown into the mix.

Georgia Theatre “Georgia Theatre Grand Re-Opening Celebration.” 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com BLACKBERRY SMOKE Atlantabased Southern rock band that has shared the stage with legends like ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd and countless others. Filming a live DVD tonight!

See Calendar Pick on this page.

NIC COWAN Atlanta singer-songwriter utilizes funk and ska styles

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to punctuate his inescapably catchy hooks and gruff yet charming voice.

Go Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock. Dance party starts at midnight!

MILTON CROISSANT Folky pop rock painted with a thick coat of psychedelia.

ture on the band in our music blog Homedrone this week.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub DJ Z-DOG Zack “Z-Dog” Hosey spins dance classics, punk, ‘80s and more.

GRAVE ROBBERS Winston Parker spins high-energy electronic, dance and rock music.

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $7. www.hendershotscoffee.com MODERN SKIRTS One of Athens’ most treasured and acclaimed local pop acts, this foursome went from piano-driven darlings to more experimental electronic-inspired dance pop.

The Roadhouse 11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-2324 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS Playing old school funk, sweet pop and sweaty rock covers and originals. The Rays feature Kenny “K.B.” Brawner, Dan Roth, Wade Newbury, Bobby Patrick and Benjamin Scott Whitener.

Las Conchitas Caliente “Benefit Show for Anthony Poynter.” 9 p.m. $5 (donation). 706-353-2500 COLD ONES Local punk band featuring members of Christopher’s Liver, among others. Skuzzy and straightforward, with riffs and rough vocals, but not without melody.

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

RUBRIC Greenville, SC-based poppy, growl/grunt punk rock three-piece outfit.

WADE BOGGS New band featuring Ian McCord (Hot New Mexicans, Carrie Nations). Check out our fea-

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com THE WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle, featuring the founder of Ghostmeat Records and members of 6 String Drag. Their song “Terrapin Beer” was on the AthFest CD this year.

The Winery 10 p.m. 706-613-0095 DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original audio/video productions that focus on pop, with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica. The hits are synced with videos projeccted on a big screen.

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Blackberry Smoke, Nic Cowan Georgia Theatre Blackberry Smoke is a diligent rock group in perpetual motion. Over the last two years, the Atlanta-based group has toured with the likes of ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Shooter Jennings, Cross Canadian Ragweed and the Zac Brown Band. In late 2009, the quintet released its second fulllength album, Little Piece of Dixie, earning rave Blackberry Smoke reviews from critics and drawing attention from the jam rock and Americana scenes.

Guitarist/vocalist Charlie Starr and his longtime bandmates—bassist Richard Turner, drummer Brit Turner, guitarist/singer Paul Jackson—have been writing, recording and touring for a decade. “It’s been a whirlwind,” says Starr. “People wonder if we ever take breaks, and we really only break briefly when someone’s wife has a baby. In the early days, we played so many shows where we had 30-minute slots opening for a headliner.

You can’t really even take a breath during a short set like that. The flip side of the coin was when we played bar gigs where we had to play four sets a night, which was every original Blackberry Smoke song and a shit-ton of covers… Over the years, we’ve been lucky enough to earn our keep and hone a good set.”

Keyboardist Brandon Still is the newest addition to the lineup. His tasteful organ and keyboard work added a classic-rock texture to the band’s riff-heavy songs. “The addition of Brandon on the keys gave me and Paul a chance to stretch out,” says Starr. “There’s another instrument in there that sounds beautiful, so we don’t have to fill as many musical holes.”

Blackberry Smoke brings its Southern-fried, country rock set to the Georgia Theatre this week with support from Nic Cowan and several special guests. A film crew will be on hand to record the show for a forthcoming concert DVD. “We haven’t actually ever played the Georgia Theatre before,” admits Starr. “It’s exciting, knowing what a historic landmark it is in that town and all the bands who’ve played there over the years.” [T. Ballard Lesemann]

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

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $5 (18+, before 11 p.m.), $10 (18+, after 11 p.m.). www. thebadmanor.com DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers original audio/video productions that focus on pop music of this generation, with forays into rock, old school, country and electronica. The hits are synced with videos projeccted on the big screen.

Bishop Park “Athens Farmers Market.” 8 a.m.– noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net THE FOLK SOCIETY BAND An eclectic group of musicians playing banjo, fiddle, harmonica and more.

(10 a.m.)

TRE POWELL This local songwriter sings soulful, acoustic R&B. (8 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HEATHEN TALK Brand new local “jazzy tap math” band, featuring exmembers of Cloudeaters.

MANRAY Local band waves a big middle finger to traditional song structure while playing what Flagpole’s Gordon Lamb has coined “complicated-core.”

ZRUDA Psychedelic metal with members of Powers, Lazer/Wulf and Gaylord making its Athens debut.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAVIS GRIFFIN Local performer who uses guitar pedals to create live loops.

NEW MADRID Echoing, Americana vocals and swift, proficient guitar plucks.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com KARA KILDARE Local pianist and Kill Kill Buffalo front-woman.

PAUL MCHUGH Member of local band Mother Jackson with a soulful, energetic voice and a bluesy guitar style.

ERIC SOMMER Upbeat songs that showcase the D.C. guitarist’s proficiency in slide guitar and Travis picking.

VESTIBULES Lyrically driven Americana with a gravelly, emotive frontman and a lively horn section accented by stand-up bass and pedal steel.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10 (adv.) www.40watt.com KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS Vile is a Heartland rocker with a lo-fi aesthetic who twists his indie folk around psychedelia. Recently signed to Matador and formerly of the band War on Drugs.

THOMAS HARDY Dead Confederate frontman Hardy Morris offers a set of lovely, low-key rock featuring harmonies with Thayer Sarrano and Vaughan Lamb (Gift Horse) on bass, Jeremy Wheatley on drums and Matt Stoessel on pedal steel.

TRUE WIDOW Shoegaze meets garage rock via this Dallas band’s noisy guitar, grungy vocals and minimalist drums.

Georgia Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-9884 DODD FERRELLE Former Tinfoil Stars frontman and longtime Athenian Dodd Ferrelle pours heart and soul into his sweeping,

anthemic ballads and alt-country rockers.

STEPHEN SIMMONS Prolific Americana singer-songwriter compared to the likes of Steve Earle and Ryan Adams.

Georgia Theatre “Georgia Theatre Grand Re-Opening Celebration.” 9 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com ARTOFFICIAL Hip-hop band featuring horns, drums, bass and smooth lyrical flow.

GRAMATIK In-demand MC who has done electro/hip-hop remixes for acts as diverse as Muse and DJ Vitamin D, among others. He is also known as one third of hip-hop group 5th Element. Also tonight at New Earth for the after-party!

RJD2 Philly DJ cutting and pasting jazz and hip-hop while a large projector consumes the live show.

Go Bar 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DINNER Jared Gandy (Witches) performing engaging acoustic numbers.

WOODEN SPOON Featuring exmembers of Deaf Judges, now playing country-twinged pop on acoustic guitar.

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock influenced by bands like Guided by Voices.

KING ARTHUR THE BAND Murfreesboro, TN indie pop, fronted by female vocals and specializing in two guitar, power pop rock.

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

Max Movie at 9 p.m. Dance party at 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 DJ MAHOGANY AND EASYRIDER PRESENT BREAK’N 2 DANCE DJ Mahogany and EasyRider present Break’n 2: Electric Boogaloo at dusk.

Dance party afterwards.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $10. www.newearthmusichall. com GRAMATIK RJD2 afterparty! Indemand MC who has done electro/ hip-hop remixes for acts as diverse as Muse and DJ Vitamin D, among others. He is also known as one third of hip-hop group 5th Element.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE ORIGINAL SCREWTOPS Formerly the SOB Blues Band.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com SIX TO THE WHEELS Big radioready alt-metal that draws equally from Southern rock and heavy headlining acts like A Perfect Circle and Chevelle.

Sunday 7 Hendershot’s Coffee Bar “Back to School Kids Dance Party” 1 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com DJ KLON Klon Waldrip spins groovy ‘70s kid hits to get those elementaryaged feet movin’.

7:30 p.m. $3. 706-353-3050 NO SHAME! Open mic hosted by Rose of Athens Theatre. Every Sunday!

Highwire Lounge 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com HEY BROTHER New outfit featuring members of local dream pop band Easter Island.

MONAHAN Ryan Monahan backed

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

YOUNG BENJAMIN Solo project of guitarist/banjoist Matt Whitaker (The Premonitions, Emergent Heart).

Viva! Argentine Cuisine 9 p.m. 706-850-8284 BLOODKIN The long-running Athens quartet plays a bluesy style of roots-rock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics for darkly countrified bar-room rock.

Monday 8 Georgia Theatre “Georgia Theatre Grand Re-Opening Celebration.” 9 p.m. $23. www.georgiatheatre.com AQUARIUM RESCUE UNIT Legendary jam band and live act featuring Col. Bruce Hampton, Jimmy Herring, Oteil Burbridge and Apt. Q-258.

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

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

The Melting Point 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com THE HOOT This month’s installment of the Folk Society’s monthly music variety show will feature Atlanta old-time fiddle group The Rosin Sisters. Also, trio of brothers The Darnell Boys. And chamber rock group Us Lately featuring Diana Torell of the Jolly Beggars & Squalls. Susan Staley opens and hosts.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $3. 706-546-4742 VERTIGO JAZZ PROJECT Soulful, funky jazz fusion from Asheville, NC, featuring Jeff Sipe and Matt Slocum.

Tuesday 9 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ANDROCLES AND THE LION This local band plays airy indie rock with lots of warm acoustic guitar and folk undertones. The new EP, As Far As Blindness Could See, will be out Aug. 15!

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

THE RIVER BREAKS Pop rock loaded with thick bass and synths, topped with edgy Southern vocals.

8e’s Bar 9 p.m. FREE! facebook.com/tecropolis TECROPOLIS Join your fellow citizens of Tecropolis, capital of the United States of Electronica and hear your favorite techno, trance, house, drum & bass, dubstep and more.

This week feat. DJs andyredrum, xb, D:RC and more.

Georgia Theatre “Georgia Theatre Grand Re-Opening Celebration.” 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com DON CHAMBERS + GOAT This local band plays rootsy, Southern gothic

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J Roddy Walston and the Business, Reptar, Don Chambers + GOAT Georgia Theatre

There’s usually a dark but mischievous vibe in the room when Don Chambers Athens-based singer/ guitarist Don Chambers and his band, GOAT, perform. The wide-eyed, side-burned frontman switches from vintage six-strings to banjo, sharing harmonies with his bandmates through a set of clangy work songs, moody travel melodies and dramatically gloomy murder ballads. Chambers’ hollering and singing make sense within the rumble and thump of the GOAT sound.

Chambers and GOAT—currently comprised of drummer Jim Wilson, guitarist Matt Stoessel and bassist Chuck Bradburn—toured extensively through the Southeast last year before entering local studio Chase Park Transduction with veteran engineer David Barbe for a full session. “I kind of left the banjo at home and aimed for a guitar-based rock and roll thing,” says Chambers. “We’d been leaning in that direction in our live shows.

It’s very much a two-guitars-bass-and-drums album, cranked up in the vein of old AC/DC and The Stooges.”

Chambers wanted to create a raw sound with minimal overdubs, so they recorded most of the tracks live with everyone playing simultaneously in one room. “I’ve always wanted to do a ‘Let’s get it all right now’ kind of record, but I’ve never been in the right studio until now,” he says. “I thought it might be difficult, but it went great. We did it in, like, four days, and I really like the sound. David busted ass, and we busted ass and we got it done.”

The group recently rumbled the AthFest stages, and they’re quite excited to take part in the grand-opening week of the Georgia Theatre. Chambers has a long history of performances at the venue, stemming from his days fronting indie-rock trio Vaudeville in the early 1990s, but he hasn’t been inside the building since last year when he filmed a video for his acoustic song “Until the World Runs Outta Dirt” with videographer Jason Thrasher. The quartet celebrates the independent release of its new collection, Punch Drunk, this week at the Georgia Theatre show. Opening for Baltimore-based indie-rock quartet J Roddy Walston and the Business and local act Reptar, Chambers and his crew hit the new stage at 9 p.m. [T. Ballard Lesemann]

rock framed around Chambers’ wry storytelling. See Calendar Pick on this page.

J. RODDY WALSTON AND THE BUSINESS This Baltimore band comes across like an off-kilter version of The Band in the late ‘60s, combining Southern rock, McCartney pop and scruffy piano blues. One of the most energetic live shows you’ll ever see.

REPTAR Recently signed to Vagrant Records, this highly praised local synth-pop band offers fun, irreverent tunes with angular rhythms and danceable beats in the vein of Vampire Weekend and Talking Heads.

Highwire Lounge 8–11 p.m. www.highwirelounge.com KENOSHA KID Every Tuesday!

Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features Robby Handley (bass) and Marlon Patton (drums). The new originals spark like Booker T & the MGs mixed with 20th-century harmony; the new covers include musical twists of Willie Nelson, The Beach Boys and Radiohead.

The Loft Dance Lounge 9 p.m. 706-613-7771 ATHENS 2 IBIZA DJ BangRadio presides over a special Girls Night Out, for which he remixes current pop radio hits with fistpumping beach party beats. Every Tuesday.

The Melting Point Terrapin Bluegrass Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com BLUEBILLY GRIT Live bluegrass.

Performing originals and some surprising covers including The

Beatles, Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin and even Alanis Morissette.

No Where Bar 7–11:30 p.m. 706-546-4742 MARK DURFIELD & JON TONGE Mark Durfield & Jon Tonge (of The Bearfoot Hookers) will play an acoustic set early in the evening and will later be joined by friends.

Wednesday 10 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

Blue Sky 5–10 p.m. www.blueskyathens.com VINYL WEDNESDAY Bring your own vinyl and be a DJ for the night.

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

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com RYAN MOORE Solo set from local musician. Moore also plays bass in theatrical rock band Hans Darkbolt.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com CO CO RI CO Angular, guitar-driven rock that melodically meanders through post-rock soundscapes featuring technical drums, wandering bass and glockenspiel.

DJ Z-DOG Zack “Z-Dog” Hosey spins dance classics, punk, ‘80s and more.

GIFT HORSE Swirling reverb and dark psychedelic textures with an alternative rock edge. Tonight is the band’s

first in a month-long 40 Watt residency. Catch them every Wednesday in August. See story on p. 15.

HANK SULLIVANT Lead singer of rock band Kuroma plays a solo set, plus special guests!

George’s Lowcountry Table 6 p.m. FREE! www.georgeslowcountrytable.net TONGUE & GROOVE The acoustic quartet of Henry Williams, Don Henderson, Jason Peckham and Amy Moon plays lively covers and originals.

Georgia Theatre “Georgia Theatre Grand Re-Opening Celebration” 9 p.m. $30. www.georgiatheatre.com BÉLA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES A special show featuring the original lineup of virtuosos: Béla Fleck on banjo, Jeff Coffin on saxophone, Victor Wooten on bass and pirate percussionist Futureman.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com GUITAR SUMMIT Local guitarist Allen Owens (Pride Parade, Kinky Waikiki) will be joined by other Athens guitar talent for an evening of six-string mayhem every Wednesday this month.

Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com (Timothy Rd. Location) THE ATHENS BAND High-energy teen rockers with classic rock influences, big riffs and anthemic choruses.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com JOSH PERKINS EXPERIMENT IN SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY Longtime local songwriter Josh Perkins leads his group through original country, folk and Americana sounds.

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 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 LIVE JAZZ Steve Key and Friends play jazz standards and Latin-flavored music with Carl Lindberg, Jason Peckham and other special guests. * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line 8/11 Party Night (Alibi) 8/11 Green Thrift Grocery (DePalma’s Italian Cafe) 8/11 Antlered Antlord / Catnaps (Farm 255) 8/11 Adam Klein / Nutria (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 8/11 Amun Ra / Big Boi / Triz (Georgia Theatre) 8/11 Mahjaraja Trio (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 8/11 Milligan (Hilltop Grille) 8/11 Carl Lindberg (Hotel Indigo) 8/11 Franco Funicello / La Armada / Los Meesfits / So It Goes (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 8/11 The Other Brothers Band (No Where Bar) 8/11 Innocent Flannel (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/11 Blues Night (The Office Lounge) 8/12 Chromazone (Amici Italian Café) 8/12 Dead Dog / Fat Shadow / Chip Greene / The K-Macks (Farm 255) 8/12 Mark Cunningham and the Nationals / Nightingale News / Cecil Thompkins (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 8/12 Centromatic / Drive-by Truckers (Georgia Theatre) 8/12 Abby Owens (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 8/12 Doco (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/12 Kinchafoonee Cowboys (The Melting Point) 8/12 Carla Le Fever and The Rays (The Office Lounge) 8/13 DJ Mahogany (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 8/13 Karaoke (Alibi) 8/13 Sunny 100 / Twin Tigers (40 Watt Club) 8/13 Slice Pie (Amici Italian Café) 8/13 Some Sweet Day (Athens Farmers’ Market) 8/13 The For Peace Band (Bishop Park) 8/13 Connor Pledger / Ansley Rushing / Surface of the Deep (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 8/13 The Starter Kits / Tiger!Tiger! / VG Minus (Go Bar) 8/13 Homegrown Revival (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 8/13 Holman Autry Band (The Melting Point) 8/14 Alex Bleeker and the Freaks / Flower Orgy (Farm 255) 8/14 Gillian Welch (Georgia Theatre) 8/14 Brothers / The Viking Progress (Highwire Lounge) 8/16 Athens 2 Ibiza (The Loft Dance Lounge) 8/16 Children / Nesey Gallons / The Neapolitan / Villages (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 8/16 Colt Ford and Friends (Georgia Theatre)

285 W. Washington St. Athens, GA • Call 706-549-7871 for Show Updates

CHEAP DRINK SPECIALS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE 11PM • 18 + UP

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 “REDNECK RIVIERA”

DICTATORTOTS KINKY WAIKIKI

doors open at 10pm

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6

KURT VILE

AND THE VIOLATORS TRUE WIDOW THOMAS HARDY (of Dead Confederate) doors open at 9pm**

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10

GIFT HORSE

RESIDENCY

CO CO RI CO • HANK SULLIVAN DJ Z DOG doors open at 9pm

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12

ZUMBA

AFTER DARK Doors open at 8pm SATURDAY, AUGUST 13

ROCK BLOCK: BACK 2 SCHOOL EVENT

Vintage Sale & Food Trucks All Day! 1-6pm Rock Concert to end the night with

SUNNY 100 • TWIN TIGERS MONAHAN Free Admission! Music at 9pm

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17

GIFT HORSE

RESIDENCY

WHITE VALET PHILIP BRANTLEY (from Modern Skirts) doors open at 9pm

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19

DOG DAYS FEST

A BACK TO SCHOOL EXTRAVAGANZA featuring EYE GATE LIGHT SHOW 2 STAGES NON-STOP MUSIC FROM 9pm-2am ABANDON THE EARTH MISSION WOODFANGS • QURIOUS GREEN GERRY AND THE GELLYPHISH BASSHUNTER 64 • PRETTYBIRD EDDIE THE WHEEL • NEW MADRID

doors open at 8:30pm** All Shows 18 and up • + $2 for Under 21 * Advance Tix Available at Schoolkids Records and Wuxtry Records ** Advance Tix Sold at www.40watt.com

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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 (OCAF) OCAF’s 17th Annual Holiday Market (held Dec. 2–4) is seeking artists and crafters. Visit website for application.

Deadline Aug. 22. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) Seeking dedicated local artists interested in becoming members of the gallery. Contact cheriwra@gmail.com Call for Artists The ACC Library and Lyndon House Arts Center are looking for an artist to design trophies for “The Mystique of the Automobile: A Festival of Cars, Art and Fashion.” 706-255-7039, info@mystiqueoftheautomobile.org, www.boomersinathens.org

AUDITIONS Dracula (Athens Community Theatre) Town & Gown auditions consist of cold readings from the script. Aug. 8 & 9, 7 p.m.

wstevencarroll@gmail.com, www.townandgownplayers.org Disney’s My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale (Memorial Park) Children ages 8–18 needed for an Athens Creative Theatre production. Bring a musical selection with two sets of sheet music. Show dates are Oct. 6–9 & Oct. 13–16. Aug. 8–9, 6:30–9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3628, www.athensclarkecounty.com/act Season Auditions (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Auditions for Rose of Athens Theatre’s productions of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, James and the Giant Peach and A Comedy of Errors. Two one-minute contrasting monologues or a monologue and a song. Open to ages 9 & up. Aug. 29, 6–9 p.m. 706-340-9181, karyn@ roseofathens.org, www.roseofathens. org

CLASSES Advanced Beekeeping (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Completion of the Beekeeping for

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL

399 Beaverdam Rd. • 706-613-3887 Open every day except Wednesday 10am-4pm Very quiet young male has one blue eye and one gold eye. He is all white with a few small grey streaks on his crown. Just a little shy, but happy to play.

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL 27 Dogs Received, 12 Dogs Placed 15 Cats Received, 4 Cats Placed ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY 1 Cat Received, 7 Cats Placed, 0 Healthy Adoptable Cats Euthanized!

Athens’ Only In-Town Kayaking!

$15 weekday $20 weekend

Call for Reservations 706-353-6002 2525 Atlanta Highway

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Cute young Tabby girl greets everyone who walks in and says goodbye, too.

She really wanted some attention and she would knead her blankie lovingly if you even looked at her.

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Beginners required. Register. Aug. 27, 1–3 p.m. $16. 706-542-6156.

Clay Class One on One (Happy Valley Pottery) Learn the basics in clay art. holly.justholly@hotmail. com Concrete Leaf-Casting (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Registration required. Aug. 11, 6–8 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden Dance Classes (Dancefx) Check website for schedule. 706-3553078, www.dancefx.org Earth Skills Series: Friction Fire (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Develop the skill to create fire from materials in the wild. Aug. 20, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $66. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Fall Art Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) Register now. 706-6133623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ lyndonhouse Fall Program Registration (Various Locations) The ACC Department of Leisure Services’ fall/winter programs: register now.

Check website for details. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure

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Quilts by Sarah Hubbard are on display at Floorspace in the Chase Street warehouses through August.

The Famous Blogging Workshop (Stylized Portraiture) How to improve appearance, write better content, increase traffic, use social media as a promotional tool and make money through blogging.

Aug. 14, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. $175. www.shockingreallife.com/Athens 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 Gymnastics (Bishop Park) Registration begins July 30 for the fall and winter gymnastics program.

Classes offered for children ages 12 months through adults. 706-6133589, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ bishop

Introduction to Word (ACC Library, Education Technology Center) Registration required. Aug. 9, 10-11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650, ext. 354 Jazz and Rock Studies (UGA School of Music) Lessons and classes offered for guitar, drums, bass, keyboard. Ages 13 & up. See website for details. Registration deadline Aug. 15 for classes beginning Aug. 26. ugacms@uga.edu, www.uga.edu/ugacms Lyengar Yoga (StudiO) Certified lyengar teacher. Every Tuesday, 5:30–6:50 p.m. $10/class, $50/6 classes. www.chetthomasyoga.com Planning and Planting a Fall Vegetable Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Topics include plant selection, crop

rotation, cover crops, planting beneficial natives, composting and drip irrigation set-up. Call to register.

Aug. 18, 6–8 p.m. $22. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Plant Conservation (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This Certificate in Native Plants class will include hands-on activities, group discussions and a tour of the garden’s endangered species collection.

Registration required. Oct. 23, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $100. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Pottery Workshop (OCAF) Jose Luis Yamunaque and Kate Tremel lead students through the stages of the pre-Columbian paddle and anvil technique used in northern Peru.

Aug. 27 & 28, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $135. www.ocaf.com

Tai Chi for Seniors (Rocksprings Park) Increase strength and balance at your own pace! Every Thursday.

11 a.m. $3. 706-613-3603 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 Meals on Wheels (Athens Community Council on Aging) Volunteers needed 1–1.5 hours per week. Must attend an orientation,

commit to six months and use own vehicle for delivery. 706-549-4850, www.accaging.org/hdm.php Soccer Coaches Needed (Southeast Clarke Park) Volunteers needed to coach ages 4–11 for upcoming season. Call for information.

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KIDSTUFF Classic City Tutoring (Classic City Tutoring) Summer programs with flexible scheduling for students pre K–12. 678-661-0600, www.classiccitytutoring.com Summer Reading Program (ACC Library) Read books and earn prizes! Sign up in the Children’s Area. Program ends Aug. 7.

Youth Soccer (Southeast Clarke Park) Co-ed recreational league for children 4–11 years old. Aug. 3–19 (Registration), Sept. 8–Oct. 20 (Games). $65. 706-613-3871, www.accleisureservices.com/soccer

SUPPORT 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 12-

ART AROUND TOWN Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) Manda McKay paints still lives of assembled natural objects as satire of ideals of beauty and sexuality. Through August.

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 Aug. 13.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Midcentury-modern-style paintings by Lou Kregel.

Through August.

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

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.

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.) Paintings by Will Eskridge. Through August.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by James Greer and Chris Parry. Through August.

Floorspace (160 Tracy St.) Quilts by Sarah Hubbard. Opening reception Aug. 5. Through August.

Frontier (193 E. Clayton St.) “Up Front” features hand-blown glass ornaments, photography and canvas prints by the Bryam family.

Georgia Center (1197 S. Lumpkin St.) An exhibit of photographs taken by students. Through Aug. 30.

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. 28.

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step 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 Sapph.Fire Social, support and volunteer organization for lesbian and bisexual women in Athens and surrounding areas. Email for next meeting date. Sapph.fire@yahoo. com, www.facebook.com/sapphfire. athens Survive and Revive (Call for location) Domestic violence support group. Dinner 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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Ave.) Paintings, assemblages and collages by Charley Seagraves. Opening reception Aug. 6. Through August.

Highwire Lounge (269 N. Hull St.) Urban landscape paintings by Nash Hogan and mixed-media pieces by Charlie Key. Jittery Joe’s Coffee (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) “Birds!” is a new collection of 10 birds painted by fiber artist Rene Shoemaker. Through August.

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

by Michele Ladewig. Through September.

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

Last Resort Grill (184 W. Clayton St.) New and recent works by Ainhoa Bilboa Canup. Through Aug. 20.

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.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (Madison) “The Cow Show,” a bovine-inspired exhibition includes new works based on the humble, yet majestic animal. Opening reception Aug. 12. Through Oct. 15.

Mama’s Boy (197 Oak St.) Artwork by Mary Barton.

Through August.

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 S. Milledge Ave.) “280 Seasons” is a collection of watermedia paintings by Judy Bolton Jarrett. Opening reception Aug. 7. Through Sept. 1. • “Forged from Nature” is an outdoor series of sculpted garden gates by artist Andrew T. Crawford.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) New and recent mixed media by Noah McCarthy. Through Aug. 21.

The Local Jam (1650 S. Lumpkin St.) Paintings, drawings and mixed-media works by Kate Lloyd.

Town 220 (Madison) “Gary Hudson: Art Lives, Works from the ‘70s, California and New York.” Through Oct. 30.

Trace Gallery (160 Trace St.) Paintings by Carol John and photographs by Carl Martin. Through August.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) New paintings by Bob Davis.

Through August. • Works by Emily Tatum. Through August.

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Matters Of The Heart And Loins My girlfriend and I have been together for over a year, but she is moving to get her master’s degree. We’ll only be two hours away, but I’ve noticed something strange that makes me nervous. She is always trying to be super independent, which she is, and professional. As a woman, I understand that this is important and I try to do the same, especially in the workplace. But she told me how funny it was that some of her co-workers tried to fix her up with a guy ‘cause they thought she was straight. I laughed about it at the time, but when I asked her why her co-workers didn’t know she was in a relationship, she said she wanted to keep her personal life out of work.

At first I thought this was about space and not being “out” to her co-workers, which I totally understand, but she told me how she told her co-workers that she’s a “ladies-only lady,” just not a lady in a relationship.

Another time I picked her up from work and heard her telling her co-workers that she had to go because her “friend” was coming to get her… We’ve been together for a long time, our friends know we’re together, and she wants us to live together eventually. So, why is it that they can know she’s queer but not in a relationship? I can’t help but think the lack of relationship disclosure is about more than just maintaining her independence and co-worker respect, and I fear that she’s keeping me on the low, so to speak, in case she meets a better woman in grad school. It makes me nervous, like I’ve got to claim her on Facebook and shit, which I’m not so into myself, independence wise. I don’t know, sometimes I forget about it, but other times I can’t get it out of my mind.

Help please.

Green Eyes for My Green-Eyed Is it possible, GEFMGE, that your girlfriend is lying to you about being out at work? Has she ever mentioned a reason why she might not want to be? Is she out in all other aspects of her life?

If not, have you argued about it before? Because it seems to me that this is a full-on cover-up.

Why would she be out but not claim to be attached? Is it somehow less icky (or whatever the issue might be) for her to want to sleep with a woman than to actually sleep with one? And why, if she told her co-workers that she was a “ladies-only lady” would they try to set her up with some dude? She can’t be laying groundwork for a better relationship at a school that’s two hours away. That doesn’t make sense.

I’m calling bullshit on this. I think she is pretending to be straight at work and then lying to you about it because for some reason she thinks you won’t accept that. The only thing for you to do is have an honest conversation about it. If it’s really OK with you, then tell her it’s OK with you that she’s in the closet at work. You don’t seem like you would care if that were the case. What you

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should care about is her lying to you about it.

If she really is out, then why all the secrecy?

You shouldn’t have to resort to “laying claim” to her publicly. There is no reason why you should feel this insecure in a relationship after two years. You have to resolve this before she leaves or you will never feel secure in the relationship when she is away.

My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly two years, he’s moving out of state (not too far) for grad school, and we plan on continuing our relationship. We love each other a lot, and everything is good between us. I’m not so worried about how to continue our relationship long distance (we’ve talked about Skype, texting, phone calls, weekend visits and winter break— maybe we’ll even write each other a letter or two), but I am a little worried about the separation. He takes up a lot of my time (in an awesome way) but in a few weeks, a big chunk of my pattern will be missing. I know I’ll form a new one to keep up with him long distance, but I’m worried about building new friendships and not becoming a lovesick zombie. Any tips on how to keep my social life going smoothly without my guy would be much appreciated.

Wants to Be Separate with Peace You’re going to have to find ways to keep yourself occupied. Surely you have some friends? Start making plans with them. Don’t have any? Make some. Put yourself out there.

Take up a hobby, volunteer, get a second job. Whatever it takes to fill the time doing stuff by and for yourself is going to be really important. Join a gym, take a class, learn a new language—make a list. What are all of the things you’ve been telling yourself you would do if you had time? Now is the time. If you feel like you’re just waiting for him to come back then the time is going to pass very slowly. Ditto time when you’re just looking forward to the next visit/phone call/ letter/message. Then you’ll start worrying when he calls less, or wondering where he is even when he hasn’t missed an appointment with you. Idle hands are the devil’s Chia pet.

DO NOT WATER THE CHIA PET. Just stick it in the kitchen window and let it die like everybody else does.

Confidential to Can’t Decide: I think you should move, too. See above for all of the worry you will save yourself. Hell, it sounds like you’ve already mostly decided anyway. You can always come home if things don’t go well.

If you really think the relationship might be a keeper, then go for it! Just get a stupid job while you decide what you want to do. Living in a new city might spur ideas for you about what’s next.

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1st month rent free! Walk to 5 Pts. On busline, next to Lake Herrick & dog park. 2BR/2.5BA, W/D, DW, FP, outside private terrace, pool. Lots of parking!

Walk to campus, oversized BRs & closets. Quiet, convenient.

Pets OK. $675/mo. Best maintained, most affordable units at Jamestown! Call Vernazza Properties, (706) 338-9018. www. vernazzaproperties.com.

2BR/1BA. Small, quiet apt. complex, perfect for grad students! 225/245 China St., $500–550/mo. incl. water & t r a s h ! Wa l k t o c a m p u s , Dwntn., Mama’s Boy! Avail. n o w. E x t re m e l y e ff i c i e n t w / minimal util. bills, laundry mat on premises (no hook-ups in units), cats OK, no dogs (sorry).

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2BR/1BA 2nd flr. apt., Eastside near shopping centers. Private entrance, outdoor motion lights, W/D, parking. $700/mo. incl. all utils., lawn maintenance, garbage p/u. No pets. (706) 546-0737.

2BR/2BA condo apt. Eastside, on bus line. Lg. rooms, W/D, swimming pool on grounds, no pets. $575/mo. + $250 dep. (706) 207-3427.

2BR/1BA. Basement apartment for rent, lg. living area, private entrance, non-smokers only, quiet Eastside family n’hood, utils. incl. $550/mo. Avail. now. (706) 3698635.

1BR basement apt. on quiet street in Homewood Hills. Big rooms, priv. entrance, W/D, $500/mo. incl. utils. Contact (706) 248-8838.

1BR/1BA. All electric. Nice apartment. Water provided. On busline. Single pref’d. Avail. now!

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2BR/2BA, off College Station near UGA, $575/mo. Nice, spacious, updated unit w/ FP, deck. Ideal for students seeking quiet environment. Avail. now! Call Dan, (706) 248-7475.

1 room efficiency garage apartment. 1.5 blocks from 5 Pts. Water incl. $400/mo. (706) 7148409.

Apt. in Victorian home on Hill St. 3BR/2BA, $950/mo. 4 blocks from Dwntn. CHAC. Lease & dep. req’d. (678) 794-5414.

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3BR/2.5BA townhomes on Eastside. On bus route. Fireplace.

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Avail. now & Fall. 4 at this price!

Only $750/mo. Aaron, (706) 2072957. AtlasRealEstateAdvisors. com.

Basement apt. 5 Pts./Glenwood.

Kitchen, BA, lg. entr y hall, carpeted BR/sitting rm. w/ lg. closet. No pets. N/S. $470/mo. + dep. Utils. incl. (706) 543-8821.

Downtown loft apartment.

144 E. Clayton St. 4BR/4BA, exposed brick wall in LR, avail. immediately. Won’t last! Call Staci, (706) 296-1863 or (706) 425-4048.

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

Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $475/mo. 3BR/2BA & FP, $650.

Call McWaters Realty, (706) 3532700 or cell (706) 540-1529.

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Baldwin Village, across s t re e t f ro m U G A . F re e parking, laundry on premises, on-call maintenance, on-site m g r. M i c ro w a v e & D W. HWflrs. 1, 2, 3BRs. $500 to $1200/mo. Contact (706) 354-4261.

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Garage apartment, fenced back yd., pet friendly, on Oglethorpe Ave., across from UGA Health Science College. $450/mo. Call (770) 725-1555 for an appt.

Half off rent 1st 2 months when you mention this ad!

2BR/2BA apts. a few blocks from Dwntn. off North Ave. Pet friendly & no pet fee! Dep. only $150. Rent from $625-675/mo. incl. trash. (706) 548-2522, www. dovetailmanagement.com.

S. Milledge Duplex - Venita Dr.: 4BR/2BA, W/D, DW, fenced back yd.! Close to everything yet private. $950/mo. negotiable.

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Dwntn. Athens Luxury Condo – The Georgian. 1BR/1BA only 2 blocks from UGA’s N. Campus.

HWflrs., granite countertops, 10 ft. ceilings, stainless steel appls. Secure building, parking. $199,900. (706) 540-1150.

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160 Tracy St. Rent 300 sf. $150/ mo., 400 sf. $200/mo. (706) 5461615 or athenstownproperties. com.

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Retail, bar, or restaurant for lease at Homewood Shopping Center. 3000 sf. Call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039.

Condos for Rent 2BR/2BA condo w/ bonus room/office. 1 block from campus. 6 m o . l e a s e possible! All appls incl.

W/D. Pet friendly. Avail. now. $750/mo. (478) 609-1303.

Avail. now! Whitehall Village townhouses – 4BR/3BA, $1000/mo. 3BR/3BA, $950/mo.

Pool & clubhouse. Windsor Place – 5BR/3BA, total electric, $1250/mo. Penny, Delta Realty: (706) 353-3344 or cell, (706) 255-7911.

Cedar Bluff: 2BR/2.5BA townhouse, $630/mo. 1BR/1.5BA townhouse, $530/mo. Limited time leasing special. Lg. apts., sm. apt. community. Perfect for grad students, young professionals.

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Shoal Creek: 2BR townhouses or flats, $655/mo. W/D, DW, ice-maker, pool. www. joiner management.com, text “shoalcreek” to 41513, or call Joiner Management, (706) 8507727.

Summit & Woodlands of Athens.

Only a few remaining for Fall! As low as $400/BR. Luxury amenities, great location, on-site mgmt. Call Rent Athens for details, (706) 3891700.

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Condos For Sale Just reduced! Investor’s West-side condo. 2BR/2BA, FP, 1500 sf., great investment, lease 12 mo.s at $550. Price in 40s. For more info, call McWaters Realty at (706) 3532700 or (706) 540-1529.

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1BR/1BA duplex, all appl. incl. plus W/D. Convenient Eastside location. $425/mo. Call Carol, Owner/Agent, (706) 540-0472.

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

Normaltown duplex. Convenient to everything. 2BR/1BA, water & garbage incl. in rent. Avail. now. $625/mo. Call Mindy, (706) 7130527.

Westside duplex. Immaculate, friendly, convenient, wooded, 2BR, FP. W/D, $550/mo. (706) 207-9436.

Houses for Rent 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. now. (706) 2029805.

1 or 2BR, recently renovated, private, quiet location near Publix. CHAC, new appls., W/D, DW, HWflrs. All elect., water & garbage paid. $650/ mo.www.boulevard propertymanagement.com or (706) 548-9797.

2BR house, close to Dwntn./ UGA. CHAC, W/D, fenced yd., N/S. $750/mo. Call (706) 3536888.

2 B R / 2 B A . S c re e n e d p o rc h , deck, fenced-in yd., quiet n’hood on Eastside. $850/mo. if you do lawn maint., $900/mo. if I do lawn maint. Call Laura, (229) 672-0152.

245 Robinhood Court.

3BR/2.5BA. CHAC, lg. fenced yd., pets OK, no pet fees! Tons of space, nice quiet area. Other homes avail. $875/mo. (706) 254-2569.

2BR/1BA close to Dwntn./UGA. M a m a ’s B o y a re a . H W f l r s . , sunny, CHAC, W/D, sec. sys., fenced yd. Great for pets. $625/ mo. OBO. Rose, (706) 540-5979.

2BR/2.5BA townhouse across from UGA golf course. 9 ft. ceilings, HWflrs., $790/mo. Call (770) 725-1555 for an appt.

3BR/2BA on Oglethorpe Ave. across from UGA Health Science College. Fenced-in back yd., pet friendly. $975/mo. Call (770) 7251555 for an appt.

Avail. now! 3BR/2BA house. All kitchen appl. incl., W/D conn. & security system. 1.2 mi. to campus & Dwntn. $1175/mo.

Call (706) 788-7348.

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. Stephanie, (770) 633-8159.

Area of Whitehead Rd. school.

Quality 5BR/2BA, landline for cable/computer access. Short or long-term lease. $995/mo.

(706) 353-0708.

3BR/1.5BA close to UGA in great area near 5 Pts. off Milledge. Avail. now. Huge porch/fenced back yd., HWflrs., CHAC units. Flexible lease options! (706) 338-7031.

3BR/2BA remodeled house w/ bonus room. 320 Conrad Dr., DW, W/D, all electric, 1 mi. from Dwntn.

Athens. $1000/mo. + dep. Avail. now. Contact Brian, (706) 6137242.

3BR/2BA: Nice house in Snapfinger Villas on Eastside.

Vaulted ceilings, fresh paint, DW, FP, W/D, 1 car garage, sm. fenced area, some pets OK. Must see! $800/mo. + dep. (706) 338-0133.

3BR/2BA great house w/ lg. lot, 2 mins. to UGA Arch. Lg. studio/ bonus room, LR w/ vaulted ceilings, multiple closets, DW, W/D. Floors/walls featured in DIY Magazine. Beautiful. 120 Northside Dr. $950/mo. + dep.

Winston, (404) 822-5798.

3BR/1BA, 385 Cleveland Ave. Avail now. $800/mo. CHAC, DW, lawn maint. included, pets OK. Call Paul, (706) 714-9607.

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/2BA high-end house 1 mi. to Dwntn. New HVAC, W/D, deck, fenced back yd., garage, HWflrs., ceiling fans, glass-top stove, 2 huge BRs. For sale or rent, Owner/Agent. $800/mo. Call (706) 372-7300.

4BR/2.5BA. Elegant home in Oak Grove subdivision. 2600 sf., carpet, tile, wood flrs. Beautiful fenced side yd. Stove, fridge, W/D incl. N/S. $1750/mo. (706) 248-7158.

4BR/2BA, 493 Ruth St. Avail now. $1200/mo. CHAC, DW, lawn maint. included, pets OK. Call Paul, (706) 714-9607.

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.

4BR/2BA, 845 W Hancock, HWflrs., CHAC, avail. Aug. Pets OK! 4 blocks to Dwntn. $1150/ mo. Call (864) 784-3049.

4BR, Five Points. 207 Gran Ellen. Avail. now. Over 2600 sf. $1500/mo. Owner/Broker Herbert Bond Realty & Inv. (706) 2248002. See at bondrealestate.org.

4BR/4BA house Dwntn. Just reduced! Walk to everything!

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

W / D i n c l . $ 1 6 0 0 / m o . Av a i l . now. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

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6BR/3.5BA off Prince Ave. on King Ave. Avail. now, fully renovated, 2 custom kitchens w/ granite, custom BAs, 2 dens, huge yd.! $1800/mo., no dogs, cats OK. Chris: chris@petersonproperties. org, (706) 202-5156.

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

Cute 2BR/1BA cottage near UGA. Front porch, CHAC, stove & fridge. $725/mo. Avail. now.

227 Hillside. Approx. 1 mi. to UGA. Call (706) 354-1276.

Call Nancy Flowers & Co. Real Estate, (706) 546-7946. Or visit nancyflowers.com for vir tual tour of 2, 3, 4BR homes. You will love them!

C e d a r C re e k : 4 B R / 2 B A , l g . fenced yd., $950/mo. 5 Pts.: Off Baxter St., 4BR/2BA, $1200/ mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Cherokee Rd. 2BR/1BA. HWflrs., ceramic tile in kitchen & bath, c u s t o m c a b i n e t s , s c re e n e d p o rc h . R e c e n t l y c o m p l e t e l y remodeled. $725/mo. Call Carol, Owner/Agent, (706) 540-0472.

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For rent or sale: Forest Heights, 4BR/2.5BA, FP, LR, DR, eat-in kitchen, laundry. $150K or $1000/mo. (after monthly on-time discount). Chris Wagoner, (706) 207-7746.

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Great little house near Dwntn. 3BR/1BA. LR, DR, study. HWflrs. Quiet n’hood.

Eastside near Weaver D’s. $650/ mo. Call Dan, (678) 643-5851.

House for sale or lease by o w n e r. 3 B R b r i c k h o m e i n Green Acres subdivision.

Convenient to shopping, schools, restaurants. Sale price $117,000, lease price $825/mo.

(706) 248-7338.

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Multiple in-town properties for rent. 1, 2 & 3BR, $475–900/ mo. Pets OK, fenced-in yds., CHAC, W/D conn. Avail. now!

Call Lance, (706) 714-4603.

Residential or commercial: very lg. older home on 1.5 acres, 10 rooms, 2 kitchens, 2BAs, lg. porch & deck. On busline. $1300/mo. David, (706) 2471398.

Student special! Near bus line.

4BR/2BA, ample parking, fenced yd. w/ storage bldg., $800/mo. + $800 dep. Call Rose, (706) 255-0472, Prudential Blanton Properties.

Westside: Sr.Sol & Hendershots!

3BR/2BA + bonus room that could be used as office or 4th BR. LR, den, oversized deck, huge & sunny fenced-in back yd., shady & pretty front yd. $1050/mo. (706) 340-5799.

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 Anita for more info, (706) 338-4054.

Beautiful Cape Cod on 2 acres!

3BR/1.5BA. Fenced yd., 2 car garage, porch & deck, creek. $119,900. East Athens. (706) 2541634 or athenstownproperties. com.

Char ming, classic, updated cottage in Normaltown. 2BR/2BA w/ sunroom. $188,000, 248 Georgia Ave. Antique heart pine, high ceilings. (706) 850-1175 or (678) 358-5181. By appt. only.

Manufactured homes. Rent to buy. 2BR/2BA, some 3BR. 5 mi. to UGA. Owner financing. Call Bob, (706) 543-4883 or (706) 2018051.

Parking & Storage Private parking, Thomas St. across from Tanner bldg. Easy walk to N. campus, main library, Tate Center. $200/semester, no game days.

(706) 548-9137.

UGA parking spaces. Across the street from campus, law & library. $25/mo. 6 mo. minimum. Contact Susan, (706) 354-4261.

Pre-Leasing Rent your properties in Flagpole Classifieds! Call (706) 549-0301!

Roommates F undergrad. majoring in liberal arts looking for cool, laidback roommate to rent room in 3BR/2BA house. Peaceful Winterville n’hood. $250/mo. incl. utilis. Contact becky.snyder88@yahoo.com.

Roommate wanted. Needed 8/10/11. Eastside Athens duplex.

BR w/ private ½BA. $300/mo. All utils. Contact Amanda, (706) 5407734 or dragon31@uga.edu.

Rooms for Rent $350/mo. incl. utils. 3BR/2BA Eastside house. Share w/ owner & sweet dog. Close to stores, 5 min. to campus, 15 to Dwntn.

DSL, W/D, fireplace. No cable. tdoggog@yahoo.com.

Room in historic 3BR/1BA mill house. $300/mo. + utils. 1 mi. from Dwntn., HWflrs., CHAC, W/D, covered porch, lg. closets, built-in bookcases. (706) 224-2472.

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Furniture A little of this, a little of that is what Weekend A'fair is all about. Antique & flea market emporium. Vintage finds, furniture & more. 30+ vendors have something for you. See us at 790 Gaines School Rd. Wed. – Sat., 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

All new pillow-top mattress set from $139. Sofa & love-seat, $499.

5-pc. bedroom set, $399. Pub table w/ chairs, $350. (706) 6128004.

Miscellaneous Bidders Buy Auction. New & used items, collectables, & antiques.

Auctions every Fri. & Sat. 1459 Hargrove Lake Rd. in Winterville.

Visit www.biddersbuyauctions. com or call (706) 742-2205 for more info.

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Affordable! The ultimate store! Specializing in retro everything: antiques, furniture, clothes, bikes, records & players!

260 W. Clayton St., (706) 3160130.

Music Equipment For sale. Crate Vintage Club Series dual 12” speaker 50W tube amp.

Texas tan. Made in St. Louis, MO. Rarely used, never professionally. $325. (706) 614-0721.

Looking for a pianist, saxophone player, violinist?

Looking for a band? Find your music mate w/ Flagpole Classifieds! Call (706) 549-0301.

Nuçi’s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible. Call (706) 227-1515 or come by Nuçi’s Space, 396 Oconee St.

Instruction Athens School of Music.

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

Instrument repairs avail. Visit www.

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Cleaning Move out cleaning help? Pick & choose what you want cleaned.

J u s t t h e b a t h ro o m s , or only the kitchen!

P e t f r i e n d l y, e a r t h friendly & very budget conscious.

Local references on request.

Text or call Nick: (706) 851-9087. Email: Nick@ goodworld.biz.

Health Pregnant? Considering adoption?

Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide. Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

Misc. Services H.S. diploma! Graduate in just 4 wks.! Free brochure. Call now!

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Pawn Need cash, get it here. Top dollar for scrap gold, firearms, & other items. GA Dawg Pawn, (706) 3530799. 4390B Atlanta Hwy, across from Sam’s Club.

Pets Boulevard Animal Hospital August Specials: 1/2 price exam w/ vaccines w/ UGA ID. Advantage Multi: buy 6/get 2 free! On Prince Ave. across from Bottleworks. www.DowntownAthensVet.com, (706) 425-5099.

Jobs Full-time

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

Previous clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

Call center 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.

McNeece Music: amplification repairs & service, strings & accessories, buy-sell-trade, new & used. 149 Oneta St., Suite 6C-7, (706) 548-9666.

Tues.–Sat., 12–8 p.m.

Match your booth rent to the e c o n o m y ! S h a n n o n ’s H a i r Salon & Spa is hiring FT & PT positions. Call (706) 255-1969.

W e d d i n g b a n d s . Q u a l i t y, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment.com.

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

Services Child Care Mature, dependable woman will care for your children, FT or PT. Experienced in child care.

References avail. Call Ellen, (954) 591-3475.

Opportunities Actors/movie extras needed immediately for upcoming roles. $150-300/day depending on job reqs. No exp., all looks.

(800) 560-8672, A-109 for casting times/locations (AAN CAN).

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Ear n up to $100 by participating in UGA research!

Currently seeking 3 groups of participants. If you meet ANY of these criteria, please contact the EDP Lab at (706) 542-3827 or ugafMRI@gmail.com. 1. Are you age 18 or above & eligible to have MRIs? 2. Are you age 18 or above & have a BMI of 30 or higher? 3. Are you a female age 18 or above who binge eats & induces vomiting/uses laxatives at least 4 times/mo.?

Help wanted. Extra income!

Assembling CD cases from home! No exp. necessary! Call our live operators now! (800) 4057619, ext. 2450, www.easyworkgreatpay.com (AAN CAN).

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

(800) 743-8535.

Paid in advance! Make $1K/wk. mailing brochures from home!

Guar. income! Free supplies! No exp. req’d. Start immediately! www.homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN).

Part-time J i t t e r y J o e ’s Wa t k i n s v i l l e i s hiring for a barista position.

Apply in person at the Watkinsville location. Must have great personality & strong work ethic.

L o c a l d e s i g n / a p p a re l s h o p looking for PT salespeople. Work around your schedule. Perfect for students! Commission based + perks. Award-winning design team. Call Paul, (706) 202-0805.

Project Safe, a progressive nonprofit organization, is seeking a PT (up to 20 hrs./wk.) sales a s s o c i a t e f o r P. S . To o , a n Eastside re-sale boutique.

Applicants should have some flexibility in scheduling & be avail. to work some Saturdays.

To apply send cover letter & resume to: Associate Director, P.O. Box 7532, Athens, GA. 30604. No phone calls please.

Vehicles Misc. Vehicles AAAA Donation. Donate your car, boat, real estate. IRS tax deductible. Free p/u, tow. Any model/condition. Help under privileged children outreach center. (800) 419-7474 (AAN CAN).

Trucks Ride your bike! Sell your auto w/ Flagpole Classifieds. Now w/ online pics! Go to www. flagpole.com today!

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everyday people Clint Murphy, Zoo Program Specialist Clint Murphy is serious about play. As program specialist at Bear Hollow Zoo, he works with people and animals to infuse whimsy into educational programing. His goal is to create a lasting experience for patrons, rather than an animal-themed spectacle. When he discussed his work with Flagpole, it was with his own brand of vigorous enthusiasm for the outdoors.

In Murphy’s view, fun is not just for the birds; playfulness is a part of his entire worldview. He believes human beings have a deep-set need to interact with nature, and at work and at play, Murphy does just that. Outside of the zoo, his interests include canoeing, sword fighting and disc golf. He is pictured with his puppet and educational tool, Sam the Salamander.

Flagpole: So, how did you wind up with this job?

CM: Oh! Long, long, long, long story. I was born in the swamps, pretty much—well, actually, as swampy as Miami gets—back in 1968. And at that time, I was very privileged— well, not quite privileged, because it was both good and

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“They’re in the creek! But there’s alligators in the creek!” Yeah, yeah. I have a theory that people are too big and ugly to eat—especially your kids. No, no… But, truly, they’d rather go after a turtle or a frog or something rather than something our size. So, if someone should have ever been eaten by an alligator because alligators eat people, it should have been me and my brother.

Of course, growing up in that time, I wanted to be in the military; so, after high school, I went off to the military, spent about nine years as a artillery man—cannon crew man—in the U.S. Army. Got married. Couple kids. That kind of changed my philosophy a little bit. Instead of traveling all over the world, I wanted to stay in one place. So, I started looking at things that I liked to do, and that goes back to my childhood. I love being in the woods, and I love talking to people about it. So, I did some exploration. I did some volunteering, and in that, I met a wildlife biologist, actually, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

As soon as he walked in the door, I knew that was my job field.

You know, crooked name tag, mud boots on, clipboard, and mud up to his eyebrows. “Let’s talk.” Found out his major field of study was biology.

FP: Where did you go to school?

CM: Darton College, which is in Albany, Georgia. It’s a two-year school. I got an associate’s in biology and then went to Albany State, which is another local school there in Albany, and finished out my bachelor’s in biology. From there, I knew that Albany had a zoo—and I didn’t know what kind of zoo—which meant, “zoo equals animals, which equals biology.” Let’s go shadow. Let’s volunteer to see what’s out there, and I actually got a job there, not through the volunteering… Haven’t looked back since. I got pulled in part-time. Did a good enough job they created a slot for me and served nine more years, basically as their lead education specialist, which is developing programs, camps—everything I’m doing here.

FP: What brought you to Athens?

CM: They changed, and they moved me from education to guest services supervisor, and I spent nine years doing biology, four years studying biology, and they moved me to marketing and sales… Now, I can tell you everything about an alligator besides what you need to sell him with; how much to sell him for. So, I was in charge of concessions, gift shop, training, ticket booth. Liked it. It was a challenge. I was making good changes, but this job came open.

bad—to see the ecological impact of humans on wildlife. I was always either at the beach… not near the beach kids, but out in the swamps and the flats, tidal marshes, in the Everglades.

So, I’ve seen human impact.

FP: Is there a particular example of human impact that stands out to you?

CM: Alligators. Alligators, big time. There was a huge decline in the ‘50s and ‘60s with alligators just because, you know, the habitat. They just thought it was a swamp, “It was useless. We’ll drain it. We’ll make it good for crops…” So, the loss of habitat really played a part in [the decline of] alligators and other species in the swamps, and I was able to watch that.

Where humans weren’t there, the alligators kind of flourished.

And throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, that passing-along of laws and regulations brought the alligator back from the extinction point.

FP: So, you weren’t afraid to get close to alligators?

CM: No. In my previous zoo that I worked at, we were on the Kinchafoonee Creek and Muckalee Creek, and we taught canoeing. And I’d get calls from camp moms all the time like,

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FP: Was it a big move for you and your family from Albany to Athens?

CM: Huge. I’ve been up here now for 15 to 16 months now.

Just over a year. And I still have a house in Albany. You know, the housing market, especially about the time that move was happening, was really tanking. I’m very fortunate that everything hit just right. It’s a job I love. Absolutely love. There’s no amount of money that you can place on a job that you really love.

FP: Do you consider yourself lucky to be someone who can have a job that you love, or do you think that satisfaction is something everyone can achieve?

CM: [I’m] extremely fortunate. Now, let’s put it this way.

Now, within the United States, there’s a lot of good zoos, but let’s use the mark [of] the American Zoological and Aquarium Association. There’s only 186 of them, and within their education departments, even the big zoos probably only have about five people within their departments. So, if you’re looking at an environmental education field, I’m in an extremely competitive field… So, there’s a bit of luck in it. Somebody upstairs was watching out for us, I think.

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