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Here’s Looking At You The time is 1940, when Europe was at war but America still slept in isolation, avoiding involvement in foreign wars.

“I stick my neck out for nobody,” in the words of American Rick Blaine. Rick runs a nightclub, Café Americain, the place to be. “Everybody comes to Rick’s.” The café is a kind of United Nations in exile, staffed by people forced to flee their own countries. “The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.” At its tables intrigue abounds, as everybody scrambles to find a way out to the freedom of the Americas.

Then, into Rick’s place walks his lost love, Ilsa, on the arm of her husband, the renowned freedom fighter, Victor Laszlo, and destiny snaps to attention, as does the amiably corrupt préfet de police, Louis Renault. So does Major Heinrich Strasser, the representative of the Third Reich.

“It’s still the same old story, a fight for love and glory: a case of do or die.” Love and glory so inextricably intertwine in Casablanca that the story is driven to its climax by those twin passions, ending with Laszlo welcoming Rick back to the fight, while Rick sends the tearful Ilsa off to freedom with her husband, against her desire to stay “I stick my neck withThehim. cynical Rick, who didn’t out for nobody.” want to get involved, is now noble.

He has killed Major Strasser and heads out of Casablanca to join the Free French, the beginning of a beautiful friendship with Louis Renault. Fog. Music.

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Casablanca is a great reminder of why we fight, and no doubt our president George Bush [Barack Obama]—in that greatest of all perks, the White House movie theater where he can see any film he wants—watches this one and identifies with, whom?

Bush [Obama] can’t identify with Rick. Rick is cynical and uncommitted. Bush [Obama] is a true believer ready to act.

But Bush [Obama] is not Laszlo, either. Victor Laszlo is the underground fighter. He has no armies, just the purity of his conviction and his dedication to the cause of fighting the tyranny which is conquering the world and has pursued him to Casablanca.

In the world reflected in Rick’s place the national community respects Victor Laszlo and pulls for Rick to join Laszlo’s fight. At Rick’s place, the world abhors Major Strasser and the dive bombers and Panzer divisions that have devastated their world.

No doubt President Bush [Obama], hunkered in the White House cinema, sees Major Strasser as Saddam Hussein [Osama bin Laden?] and himself as a kind of High Noon Gary Cooper facing the bully alone while the rest of the world cowers.

The inescapable fact, however, is that the rest of the world sees President Bush [President Obama] as Major Strasser, sowing destruction and death with his dive bombers, without regard to the urgent pleas of the world community.

If Major Strasser represents us now, who, then, is Victor Laszlo? I shudder to follow the logic, but is he not some impassioned young Muslim, newly driven to resistance and martyrdom by the forces that will blast his village, killing his sisters and sending him into exile?

The world has always wondered how the cultured German people could be taken over by a dictatorship that abrogated the rights of minorities and waged war on the world. One answer is that the tyrants took over their cultural symbols and manipulated them for the ends of the all-powerful state and its war machine.

Shall our nation watch Casablanca through new eyes, cheering Major Strasser as he bravely ignores world opinion to fight terrorists like Victor Laszlo? In the fog of war, you’re either for us or against us, even if we are the aggressors and lose the high ground, as time goes by.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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Bridge to Nowhere?: Money keeps rolling in from gasoline taxes, and so—needed or not— more roads keep being built. (Under state law, gas-tax money can go to nothing else.)

The new bridge and exit being constructed over the Loop 10 bypass near Ga. 316 (and the new road that will connect it to the pavement stub beside Lowe’s) seem to have little justification aside from promoting additional retail development in that area; GDOT has funded the project to the tune of $25 million.

Other expensive new bridges are also planned for the bypass; to alleviate Atlanta Highway traffic tie-ups near Publix, a second exit will be built that will access Mitchell Bridge Road. And in order to spare drivers the horrors of a single stoplight along the Loop, $17 million will be spent to build an overpass at the Peter Street/ Olympic Drive crossing.

ACC commissioners are even throwing local money at a questionable new road: Jennings Mill Parkway, which will parallel Atlanta Highway for several blocks on its southern side.

Meanwhile, every April, commissioners agonize over how to split up $250,000 in grant money among numerous vital nonprofit groups that help (for example) homeless families, assault victims, women dealing with addiction and the elderly needing transportation, while government support shrinks every year. The cost of one overpass could match the current funding of public-service grants for decades to come. [John Huie] Wrecking History: Despite the public hearing being held in the basement of an obscure research lab far from main campus, with short notice and booked the day after a long Labor Day weekend, several dozen students, alumni and staff came to speak in defense of Rutherford Hall and hear what UGA had to say about its proposed demolition. They left disappointed, though, as UGA administrators hosting the meeting announced that they were there only to listen, not to explain or defend the demolition plan, invoking frustration from several speakers.

A representative from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation was there, and joined the other, unanimous speakers in calling for Rutherford Hall to be saved. A historic preservation graduate student read a letter from the National Trust for Historic Preservation on behalf of saving Rutherford Hall.

All who spoke drove home the many arguments for saving the historic dormitory: the sense of place and community within the dormitory, environmental and fiscal costs to tear it down, its contributions to the integrity of the historic Myers Hall quadrangle and the importance of the building to the entire University’s legacy. [Kevan Williams] Too Much Too Late: Ken Dious and Rep. Doug McKillip finally delivered their 10-member, no-superdistricts commission plan to the mayor’s local reapportionment committee at its last meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 7, but the committee wasn’t interested. The committee also voted down a plan devised by member Regina Quick that would have put all of Five Points into one district and upped black voting strength in several districts. The committee then voted to recommend to the commission the map drawn by consultant Linda Meggers, which simply equalizes district populations. The committee also recommended that the commission consider a slight realignment of superdistricts to improve African-American voting percentages and that the commission look at changing to 10-member districts.

Rep. McKillip said last week that he has “no intention” of taking his plan to the Legislature over the heads of local government, but some of those heads are adopting a wait-and-see attitude in regard to that.

Some black citizens left the committee meeting feeling disenfranchised. They and other citizens can address the commission at its agenda-setting meeting in City Hall at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22 and again at the commission meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, when the commission will vote on a plan.

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President Obama made a speech Thursday night to announce some bipartisan ideas to steer the country toward higher employment and more solid economic ground. It was so bipartisan, in fact, that Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner immediately said the ideas “merited attention.” It looked like Washington was finally getting serious on our economic troubles. Maybe not all of Washington: Congressman Paul Broun, Jr. refused to attend the speech, saying he would be live-tweeting the speech from his office. Here are some highlights: ☛ The EPA offers “negligible effect[s] but destroy[s] hundreds of thousands to millions of jobs.” I guess labored breathing could be considered a job. ☛ “Federal infrastructure projects are inefficient and never shovel-ready.” Never shovel-ready? How did we build the U.S. Interstate system? Broun’s biggest Twitter fan @Brounfan wondered if maybe the terrorists have taken all the shovels. ☛ Apparently, there was some sort of “Stimulus $ [spent on a] study on food advertising” that Broun recalled from 2009. At this point in the evening Broun was sort of scraping the bottom of the barrel. But he imagined the study somehow destroying “$28.3 billion in sales and 378,000 jobs—just to keep Chester the Cheetah off the air.”

I really want Chester the Cheetah to become a symbol of right-wing resistance to the president, right alongside the Gadsden flags and tricorne hats. ☛ Broun steered followers toward his JOBS Act, which seeks to eliminate capital gains taxes. Those are the taxes that the ultra-rich pay instead of income taxes. The ultrarich don’t get paychecks from a company; they are the company. In addition to punching a massive hole in federal revenue, the JOBS Act would create a sort of aristocratic tax code in which literally nothing is asked of the upper 1 percent. [Matt Pulver]

city pages Scooters Elude UGA Crackdown… So Far Despite several high-profile scooter accidents involving athletes—and debate about whether scooters are “vehicles” that should be barred from some areas of campus—UGA has no plans to limit scooter use, says Tom Jackson, UGA’s VP for public affairs. “In the last couple of years, there’s been a great increase in the number of scooters, and particularly they’re popular among our athletes,” Jackson told Flagpole. “The best we can tell, they’ve proven to be dangerous.”

In 2009, UGA second baseman Chance Veazey was partially paralyzed when a car hit his scooter; others accidents have been less serious. Jackson added, “I think the perception has been raised because of the highprofile athlete accidents… People pay more attention to athletes when they’re involved.”

“We’ve had a number of [scooter] accidents,” UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson told Flagpole. “But we have accidents with automobiles and bicyclists and pedestrians, too,” he said. But because scooters under 50cc don’t require a motorcycle license (just a regular driver’s license), “they see them more as a toy,” Williamson said.

By contrast, motorcycle riders must pass special tests to get their licenses. “You never see a motorcycle rider going from white line to yellow line, going back and forth, because they’re worried about dropping the motorcycle. I think that scooters are small, and people feel they can control them completely, Williamson said. “At 18, we all think that nothing’s going to happen to us.”

But scooters raise other issues, too, VP Jackson said—like parking. “They’re too big

to go into a bike rack. That’s another reason we may have to look at special policies for scooters. People drive them down through the closed parts of campus, but yet that part of campus is closed to vehicles… There’s been some debate about that.” Jackson hears complaints from both sides: “The owners want a place to park, and other people think scooters are a hazard on the road.”

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Lake Chapman Bridge to Traverse Wetlands A long-planned pedestrian bridge over Sandy Creek, which feeds Lake Chapman at Sandy Creek Park, was approved last week by commissioners and will soon allow hikers to walk all the way around the lake.

Existing trails on both sides of the lake will be extended somewhat to reach the new bridge, providing an eight-mile loop trail. An anonymous donor will cover up to $160,000 of the bridge’s cost (estimated at $275,000).

Commissioners unanimously rejected a recommendation by county staffers that no bridge be built until money could be found for a more expensive bridge that would cross a portion of the lake itself (providing a shorter loop trail and, staffers said, a more attractive destination).

But local naturalists favored putting the trail across the creek and its wetlands. So did the anonymous donor, who saw the wetlands as an “educational opportunity” Completion of the bridge could be “measured in months,” according to Deputy Manager Bob Snipes.

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capitol impact Governor Fires the Messenger David Stooksbury, the state climatologist for the past 12 years, is eminently qualified to do the work that he does. I don’t know of anyone who is more qualified. He is an associate professor of engineering and atmospheric sciences at the University of Georgia. He has gathered impressive amounts of research data and analysis of the droughts that have plagued this state for the past decade.

Pam Knox, Stooksbury’s assistant, was the state climatologist of Wisconsin from 1989–1998 and has served on the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Applied Climatology.

“I think we’ve done a pretty good job for the past 12 years of building up an office whose work is well-respected around the country,” Stooksbury says.

Gov. Nathan Deal signed an executive order ordering the appointment of two employees from the Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to replace Stooksbury and Knox. Deal’s office did not make any announcement of the change. When asked by reporters why Deal removed two experts in climatology, the governor’s spokesman kept repeating the same prepared talking point: “EPD is a natural home for this function. It’s a rational consolidation.”

Deal never contacted the climatologists to tell them they had been replaced.

“I have still not heard directly from the governor’s office,” Stooksbury said during an interview more than three days after Deal signed the order to replace him.

Why should anybody care about who the state climatologist is? Because this is a period when droughts and other extreme climate conditions threaten Georgia’s economic health.

Among the activities conducted by Stooksbury’s office is a website that provides information on how farmers—agriculture is the state’s biggest industry—can get better crop yields during the current climate

extremes. He advises coastal communities on how to cope with the rising sea levels caused by the ongoing warming of the earth’s climate.

As we have seen with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Irene, it is also advisable to have an expert climatologist on board who can warn you about when and where a tropical storm may hit your state.

Deal has replaced Stooksbury with Bill Murphey, the chief meteorologist for EPD. Murphey has degrees in physics and atmospheric sciences from Georgia Tech and has worked at an atmospheric research center in New York. His work with EPD has primarily involved the operation of air quality monitoring stations.

Murphey is also a state employee ultimately answerable to the governor. Stooksbury and Knox work at UGA with much of their budget coming from independent research grants.

“You’ve kind of lost that independent voice for informing the public and informing decisionmakers,” Stooksbury says. “I’m not sure that is good for the state in the long term.”

There is also this: the science of climatology has become increasingly politicized in recent years, with many pundits and politicians denying scientific data that indicates our climate is changing as the Earth gets warmer. Perhaps the governor does not want a climatologist who believes in making decisions that are based on facts and data.

As for Stooksbury, he has tenure at UGA and will continue with his teaching and research at the state’s flagship university.

“Next week I’ll be teaching vector analysis and coastal meteorology and grading papers, just like I’ve always done,” he says. “The governor has made his decision. We’ll continue to move forward and serve the people of Georgia that way.”

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athens rising What’s Up in New Development Whoever’s in charge of the river district proposal—it’s hard to tell whether it’s the mayor and commission, the Economic Development Foundation or, more likely, no one at all—seems to feel that they’re off the hook, now that news has surfaced that a private developer is scoping the Armstrong and Dobbs property. The EDF has put the brakes on hiring a project manager and appointing a committee to vet the river district idea. Commissioners, meanwhile, want more answers. They’ll be waiting a long time, though, if someone isn’t willing to put together a team of fact-finders.

Several commissioners at an August work session wondered why a private developer wasn’t out there chomping at the bit to partner with the county on a project like this.

Well, it turns out that there is a private developer out there, and regardless of what that developer has in mind or how closely its group wants to work with the public side, their presence is proof of the merits of the river district concept. It’s where this town is going to grow next, and if we get out in front of it, we can use that momentum to pull this community out of its poverty-stricken rut.

Of course, with no concrete plans on the table, the old adage of expecting the worst and hoping for the best comes to mind. Say that this deal—which right now seems to be somewhat compatible with the river district— falls through, based on the sentiments of the

public officials involved, and the developers go with the safe bet of student housing. Or maybe they’re planning to build student housing right now, anyway; we don’t really know, do we? The developers would be within their zoned rights to build another 909 Broad, twice or three times as big, given the expanded footprint of the A&D site. It would help boost property taxes, and it would get people living downtown, but it wouldn’t do much at all for economic development, and it would be pretty ugly. If this community’s leadership steps back now and decides to wait and see what happens, they’re putting themselves in the same reactionary position as always.

Over the years, many studies and reports have described Athens as ripe for some sort of economic development initiative. We never have, however, conceived a vision and moved on to execution. The news of this latest project should be read as a sign to press on rather than hang back. That developers like this one are out there means that we’re headed in the right direction. The next step is to get the community’s visions for the area on paper and in the codes, so that when projects like these come forward, we can be assured that they’ll fit into what we have in mind, so that their positive contributions will be fully leveraged.

Commissioners have expressed some reasonable skepticism about borrowing money and buying land in times like these, but that

Armstrong and Dobbs: soon to be home to an 8.3 acre… something. doesn’t mean they are out of options. There’s plenty of county-owned land, and if a big project is built, and a tax allocation district is in place, we could even do our downtown economic development strictly on a pay-asyou-go basis.

Two weeks ago, we looked at how various private developments would provide money to a river district TAD; if we apply that same thinking to a project on the scale of Armstrong & Dobbs, we would find that property taxes would increase by over a halfmillion dollars every year. In the initial conception of the river district, that money would go to pay down a bond that was created and spent in the beginning. However, an infrastructure account on that scale could keep us pretty busy, with projects undertaken on a yearly basis as they come up, perhaps resulting in a more nimble strategy for developing the fringes of downtown.

To get that far, we’ll need to identify all the county land that’s ripe for redevelopment in the area and then create a boundary for a TAD that includes both those publicly-held areas and sites like A&D. Then, we’ll need to delegate attracting more businesses to the EDF, and management of that TAD infrastructure account to someone else, perhaps through the Athens Downtown Development Authority or an Urban Design Commission.

News like this means we’re headed in the right direction; now’s the time to figure out which tools we can use to get us to the end goal. Hesitation helps opportunities fall apart, or morph into things we aren’t proud of, like football-themed student apartments. Just about every public official in town is on record as wanting something like this to happen.

What are they willing to do to get us there?

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important part of the story of the peace movement, and the hope for peace itself, is the process by which hawks come to see their own mistakes. A brilliant history/ autobiography in this regard is Dan Ellsberg’s Secrets, about his evolution from defense hawk to historic whistleblower during the Vietnam War. Ellsberg writes movingly about how he was influenced on his journey by contact with young men on their way to prison for draft resistance.

The military occupation of our minds will continue until many more Americans become familiar with the strategies and doctrines in play during the Long War. Not enough Americans in the peace movement are literate about counterinsurgency, counterterrorism and the debates about “the clash of civilizations”—i.e., the West versus the Muslim world.

Pentagon officials, private military contractors and an entire Republican Party (except the Ron Paul contingent), all of whom benefit from the politics and economics of the Long War. But consider the progress, however slow. In February of this year, Rep. Barbara Lee passed a unanimous resolution at the Democratic National Committee calling for a rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan and transfer of funds to job creation. The White House approved of the resolution. Then 205 House members, including a majority of Democrats, voted for a resolution that almost passed calling for the same rapid withdrawal. Even the AFL-CIO executive board, despite a long history of militarism, adopted a policy opposing Afghanistan.

A Hope for Peace The writings of Andrew Bacevich, a Vietnam veteran and retired Army lieutenant colonel whose own son was killed in Iraq in 2007, is one place to begin. Bacevich, a professor at Boston University, has written The New American Militarism and edited The Long War, both worth absorbing.

For the military point of view, there is the 2007 ArmyMarine Counterinsurgency Field Manual developed by Gen. Petraeus, with its stunning resurrection of the Phoenix model from Vietnam, in which thousands of Vietnamese were tortured or killed before media outcry and Senate hearings shut it down.

David Kilkullen, Petraeus’ main doctrinal adviser, even calls for a “global Phoenix program” to combat Al Qaeda-style groupings. These are Ivy League calls to war, Kilcullen even endorsing “armed social science” in a New Yorker article in 2007.

For a criticism of counterinsurgency and defense of the “martial spirit,” Bing West’s recent The Wrong War is a mustread. West, a combat Marine and former Pentagon official, worries that counterinsurgency is turning the army into a Peace Corps, when it needs grit and bullets. “America is the last Western nation standing that fights for what it believes,” he roars.

Not enough is being written about how to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but experts with much to say are the University of Michigan’s Scott Atran (Talking to the Enemy) and former UK envoy Sherard Cowper Coles (Cables from Kabul). Also there is my own 2007 book, Ending the War in Iraq, which sketches a strategy of grass-roots pressure against the pillars of the policy (the pillars necessary for the war are public opinion, trillions of dollars, thousands of available troops, and global alliances; as those fall, the war must be resolved by diplomacy).

The more we know about the Long War doctrine, the more we understand the need for a long peace movement. The pillars of the peace movement, in my experience and reading, are the networks of local progressives in hundreds of communities across the United States. Most of them are citizen volunteers, always immersed in the crises of the moment, nowadays the economic recession and unemployment. Look at them from the bottom up, and not the top down, and you will see: • the people who marched in the hundreds of thousands during the Iraq War; • those who became the consumer base for Michael Moore’s documentaries and the Dixie Chicks’ anti-Bush lyrics; • the first to support Howard Dean when he opposed the Iraq war, and the stalwarts who formed the anti-war base for Barack Obama; • the online legions of MoveOn who raised millions of dollars and turned out thousands of focused bloggers; • the voters who dumped a Republican Congress in 2006 on the Iraq issue, when the party experts said it was impossible; • the millions who elected Obama president by an historic flood of voluntary enthusiasm and get-out-the-vote drives.

• the majorities who still oppose the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and want military spending reversed.

This peace bloc deserves more. It won’t happen overnight, but gradually we are wearing down the pillars of the war.

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The president himself is quoted in Obama’s Wars as opposing his military advisors, demanding an exit strategy and musing that he “can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”

At every step of the way, it must be emphasized, public opinion in congressional districts has been a key factor in changing establishment behavior.

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In the end, the president decided to withdraw 33,000 American troops from Afghanistan by next summer and continue “steady” withdrawals of the rest (68,000) from combat roles by 2014. At this writing, it is unclear how many remaining troops Obama will withdraw from Iraq, or when and whether the drone attacks on Pakistan will be forced to an end.

The Arab Spring has demolished key pillars of the Long War alliance, particularly in Egypt, to which the CIA only recently was able to render its detainees for torture.

Obama’s withdrawal decision upset the military but also most peace advocates he presumably wanted to win back. The differences revealed a serious gap in the inside-outside strategy applied by many progressives.

After a week of hard debate over the president’s plan, for example, Sen. John Kerry invited Tim Carpenter, leader of the heavily grass-roots Progressive Democrats of America, into his office for a chat. Kerry had slowly reversed his pro-war position on Afghanistan, and said he thought Carpenter would be pleased with the then-secret Obama decision on troop withdrawals. From Kerry’s insider view, the number 33,000 was a very heavy lift, supported mainly by Vice President Joe Biden but not the national security mandarins.

(Secretary of Defense Gates had called Biden “ridiculous,” and Gen. McChrystal’s later ridicule of Biden helped lose the general his job.)

From Carpenter’s point of view, 33,000 would seem a disappointing too little, too late. While it was definite progress toward a phased withdrawal, bridging the differences between the Democratic liberal establishment and the idealistic progressive networks will remain an ordeal through the 2012 elections.

As for al Qaeda, there is always the threat of another attack, like those attempted by militants aiming at Detroit during Christmas 2009 or Times Square in May 2010. In the event of another such terrorist assault originating from Pakistan, all bets are off: According to Woodward, the United States has a “retribution” plan to bomb 150 separate sites in that country alone, and there are no apparent plans for The Day After.

Assuming that nightmare doesn’t happen, today’s al Qaeda is not the al Qaeda of a decade ago. Osama bin Laden is dead, its organization is damaged, and its strategy of conspiratorial terrorism has been displaced significantly by the people-power democratic uprisings across the Arab world.

It is clear that shadow wars lie ahead, but not expanding ground wars involving greater numbers of American troops. The emerging argument will be over the question of whether special operations and drone attacks are effective, moral and consistent with the standards of a constitutional democracy. And it is clear that the economic crisis finally is enabling more politicians to question the trillion-dollar war spending.

Meanwhile, the 2012 national elections present an historic opportunity to awaken from the blindness inflicted by 9/11.

Diminishing the U.S. combat role by escalating the drone wars and Special Operations could repeat the failure of Richard Nixon in Vietnam. Continued spending on the Long War could repeat the disaster of Lyndon Johnson. A gradual winding down may not reap the budget benefits or political reward Obama needs in time.

With peace voters making a critical difference in numerous electoral battlegrounds, however, Obama might speed up the “ebbing,” plausibly announce a peace dividend in the trillions of dollars, and transfer those funds to energy conservation and America’s state and local crises. His answer to the deficit crisis will have to include a sharp reduction in war funding, and his answer to the Tea Party Republicans will have to be a Peace Party.

Tom Hayden After more than 50 years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden is a leading voice for ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan and reforming politics through a more participatory democracy.

art notes Wood Blocks and Metal Type Letterpress legends. Graphic design gods. Masters of moveable type. The folks at Hatch Show Print have created iconic posters for musicians, wrestlers and county fairs for over 130 years. Located in downtown Nashville, Hatch is the longestrunning print shop in the United States. The Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition of Hatch posters, print blocks and other memorabilia, “American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print,” has stopped in Athens at the Georgia Museum of Art with dozens of examples of art on display now though Nov. 6.

The Hatch brothers, Charles and Herbert, opened their shop in 1879 and printed everything from the show posters they became known for to advertisements, tickets, election ballots and handbills announcing lectures, plays and musical revues.

The exhibition starts with examples of these early prints, including the first: a six-by-nine-inch flyer for Reverend Henry Ward Beecher on the subject of the “Reign of the Common People.” Using wood blocks and metal type, craftspeople at

public, proving there was something about the longevity of Hatch that was valuable and still desirable. UGA graphic design professor Julie Spivey notes, “There has been a resurgence of handwork in graphic design, perhaps in response to ubiquitous digital design. The imperfectness of letterpress can be visually soothing in contrast to all the slick information that bombards us daily.” Eileen Wallace, UGA visiting professor of printmaking, agrees: “One of the timeless elements of Hatch work is that the posters are not slick or perfect: the type is worn or scratched; the colors sometimes don’t register perfectly but it does not matter; there is a spirit of ingenuity and enterprise that comes through that cannot be duplicated digitally.”

In the 1990s, manager Jim Sherredan continued to re-strike historic prints and also developed a new collector’s item in making monoprints. Taking paper that had been used to test the print register, he and others used archival image blocks from the Hatch collection to create new combinations with lots of repetition and layers. The results are wildly imaginative compositions that look both vintage and strikingly contemporary. These art prints, as well as current design from Hatch artists, are also on display, bringing the history of Hatch up to the present day. Local artist and printmaking aficionado Amanda Burke sums up the lasting appeal of the Hatch method: “Letterpress has a vintage look. It is imperfect and hearkens back to a time when the artist was still present in the final product. Gutenberg would appreciate that it’s still around.”

This exhibition is complemented by “Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books,” which presents books printed

by LaNana Creek Press, Press of the Nightowl and Tinhorn Press with several examples from UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Affiliated events include a tour by Todd Rivers, GMOA’s chief preparator, on Sept. 28 at 2 p.m.; Family Day on Oct. 2 from 10 a.m.– noon, where kids can make a Hatch-inspired print; a “High Falutin’ Hootenanny” with BBQ, beer and music on Oct. 14 starting at 6:30 p.m. (tickets required); and a lecture on “The Sacred and the Profane in Nashville’s Mother Church, the Ryman Auditorium” given by GMOA director William Underwood Eiland on Oct. 20 from 4–6 p.m. See the museum’s website for details at www.georgiamuseum.org.

In nearby Augusta, the 2011 Westobou Festival celebrates the life and work of avantgarde filmmaker Maya Deren, “the mother of American underground cinema.” Four of Deren’s films will be screened at the Sacred Heart Cultural Center on Thursday, Sept. 29 with a catered social hour starting at 6 p.m. New musical scores composed by Mac McCaughan Hatch posters from the late 1920s through the 1940s are like portals to another era. (of indie bands Superchunk, Portastatic, Hatch still make their prints the way they were made in the and co-founder of Merge records) will be performed live by late-19th century. Blocks are hand-carved to create images, McCaughan and a small ensemble. Deren, working in the 1940s, with separate blocks carved for each color in the design. Paper won both a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and Grand Prize is pressed onto the inked block with a new pass through the at the Cannes film festival. Her work, which explores the idea press for each layer of the design. The exhibition has several of the persona, dream imagery and the subconscious, is said examples of these woodblocks on display as well as partially to have influenced artists like Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney printed posters to explain the process. and David Lynch. For tickets and more information about Posters from the late 1920s through the 1940s are like “Transfigured Time: Music for the Films of Maya Deren,” see portals to another era. Eye-catching colors and bold typefaces the Westobou Festival website at www.westoboufestival.com. advertised the popular entertainers of the day: Silas Green, Marquis the Magician, and country and bluegrass stars like Eddy ATHICA Wrap-Up: The “last chance” voting night for the Arnold and Bill Monroe provide powerful illustrations of life in “Mystery Triennial” is Thursday, Sept. 15, 7–9 p.m., followed the South during this period. The posters are fascinating as by a 7:30 p.m. performance of “Poi, Poles ‘n’ Pins on the examples of great design and craft, but also as sociohistorical Porch” by Canopy Studio performers Ann Lily-Woodruff, Vince artifacts. The next era for Hatch came during the late 1950s, Walzberg and Safety Third Juggling. On the closing night, when they began to use metal photoplates in their designs.

Sunday, Sept. 18, from 4–6:30 p.m. the artists’ identities will Faster and cheaper to make, these posters have a different look be revealed and the “Who Dunnit?” contest winners, People’s from the prints using hand-carved wood blocks, but are still Choice Award and Board Choice artists will be announced. iconic images of music legends like Elvis and Johnny Cash.

At 5 p.m., “Music to Tabulate By” will be performed by Jerry Hatch Show Print returned to its early roots in the 1980s Hendelberg and Carl Lindberg. under the management of Paul Ritscher. Re-prints of some of its famous old designs were popular items for a nostalgic Caroline Barratt arts@flagpole.com

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he work of five Athens artists will be on permanent display starting this week at one of the most prominent downtown locations: the new parking deck behind the Georgia Theatre. Twenty-four metal panels and eight long, fabric banners are scheduled to be installed on the building this week, as construction wraps up about two weeks after the projected Aug. 31 deadline. When complete, the new parking deck will add 500 spaces for downtown visitors and businesses, six new storefronts and a rooftop office.

“We were trying to open it for the first home game, but that’s not going to happen— but we’re close,” says Ken Crellen, SPLOST project administrator for Athens-Clarke County.

The original plan, Crellen says, was to open the deck to parking while the retail spaces were finished. But that plan changed as work on the retail spaces followed the timeline of the rest of the construction.

“They said, ‘Hey, we can turn it over to you and you can open it,’ but we didn’t want to mix people with construction,” Crellen adds.

The artwork dressing up the outside of the new parking deck was selected by an independent jury after the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission issued a call for art in the spring.

The recently installed commission, which will next work with the Classic Center and county jail expansions to find places for public art, collected a jury of representatives from downtown businesses, a neighboring church, an art professor and other volunteers, says commission chair Marilyn Wolf-Ragatz.

The metal panels and fabric banners were part of the original design submitted by the contractor, and the final designs were selected from 52 metal panel submissions and 67 banners. Wolf-Ragatz says she’s excited to have a part in installing public art on such a large scale for downtown.

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“I am passionate about art in everyone’s life, and giving artists a chance to be a part of the community with art,” she says. “And the fact that the builder and the commission set aside money for it, it’s overwhelming for me…

It’s just the beginning of what’s going to be the start of more public art in Athens.”

The metal panels will be installed in various exterior openings in the parking deck’s stairwells, representing two designs each from artists Chet Thomas and Elizabeth Dennen.

Thomas is a part-time artist and landscape architect who also teaches yoga around Athens. For his panels, he says he was inspired one day while walking through the woods. The resulting images, which will be translated to metal, are half guitar, half leaf.

“Something to do with music just seemed a given,” he says, noting that he focused on the shapes of the objects rather than colors.

“But I also work as a landscape architect, and

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I work with nature… the idea just popped into my head of putting those two things together.”

Dennen is a graduate student at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. She is a mixedmedia artist with a degree in drawing from Georgia Southern, and her images show abstract gingko leaves. Both artists focused their subjects on shapes rather than colors, because the final product will be cut shapes within the panel.

The deck also will feature 2-foot by 40-foot fabric banners hanging from the eight brick columns lining the west side of the building.

Designs from local artists Heidi Hensley, Jared Brown and Robert Clements pulled from the sights and sounds around downtown Athens as inspiration for the odd-shaped pieces.

Hensley, for example, started with the UGA arch and then added cycling (a nod to the annual Twilight Criterium), restaurants and music in her three banner designs. A longtime Athens musician who more recently found a passion for painting, Hensley says she wanted to show what downtown has to offer.

“They are all super bright colors and a real loose style,” says Hensley, whose three banners focus on the University of Georgia and cycling, downtown restaurants and bars and music. “I did that because that’s sort of how I envision Athens—such a funky little town. So, I wanted to show what downtown has to offer.”

Hensley spent 10 years as a musician before having her first child. She now has two with a third on the way, and evenings spent in clubs gave way to getting kids ready for early bedtimes. That’s how she turned to art as a creative outlet.

“My degree is in art and architecture design, and I started painting downtown architecture, and people started to catch on,” she says. “I’ve found out I love painting as much as I love singing, and it’s been well received, and that’s exciting.”

Jared Brown, a course editor with UGA’s Distance Education program, used the call for art and the unique banner size to teach himself how to create art in a vector (digital) format. Although Brown says art is a hobby, his work has been featured in galleries across the country, as well as in Craft magazine and Herochan.com. He says he looked for downtown scenes to inspire his creations.

Of eight pieces submitted, three were selected for banners. He says he thought the digital format lent itself to being sized for a banner.

“Mine are two-dimensional representations of things you might see going downtown,” he says. “It’s people dining, someone gardening—which is more of a community thing— and cycling.”

Brown says the extremely vertical design made the project a challenge, as did another winning artist, Robert Clements. A professor emeritus at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, Clements has created public art for decades.

His work has appeared in more than 100 exhibitions, and his sculptures can be found in corporate art collections and museums, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art. But these skinny banners were a first.

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Elizabeth Dennen “I’ve never designed anything quite like it,” Clements says, adding that in his two designs he wanted to avoid any stereotypical image of downtown Athens—namely, a bulldog. Instead, his paintings represent academics—using a mathematical formula—along with the music scene, merchants and restaurants. Clements’ son Cal also inspired a portion of one banner. “He rides a unicycle around town, and has taught people how to ride unicycles as part of his adventure club,” Clements says.

While details on the exact opening of the new deck

were not available as of press time—Crellen says the schedule is “day by day”—several retail spaces are already leased. Construction on those spaces, which is left to the tenants, will be ongoing through the end of the year. So far, Waffle House, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, Momma Goldberg’s Deli and Yoforia are planned to open on the first floor.

Local company Partner Software is scheduled to move into its new office space on the top floor starting this week.

Crellen says a dedication ceremony for the parking deck is planned for 4 p.m. on Oct. 5.

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

• indicates new review APOLLO 18 (PG-13) Three astronauts embark on a classified mission to the moon and discover something deadly.

This newest entry in the found footage subgenre has all the weaknesses of its predecessors—shaky, blurry camerawork; poor lighting; lots of dead air—plus some cardboard American Heroes as potential vics and not a lick of scares.

• BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (R) Even the biggest fans of Nick Swardson, the Adam Sandler supporter finally getting his star on as the titular bucktoothed Midwesterner with dreams of achieving pornographic stardom like his parents (a disgraced Edward Herrman and Miriam Flynn), will have a hard time finding laughs in this porncom. Size does matter when you’re talking about sense of humor. Adam Sandler should be ashamed to have cowritten such a mean-spirited comedy that is as stupid as it is not funny.

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.

COLOMBIANA (PG-13) Gallic actioneer Luc Besson has hit several targets and an occasional bull’s eye—Taken, the Transporters, District B13—as a writer/producer, but he misses completely with Colombiana.

A revenge potboiler about a hottie assassin should be exploitation cake.

Instead, stale dialogue, terrible music cues and perhaps the year’s worst plot device break up the often exhilaratingly stealthy action.

• CONTAGION (PG-13) What if a deadly new, highly communicable virus entered the population? How quickly and effectively would the world’s governments and health agencies (represented by Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston and Marion Cotillard) respond? What sort of wildfire would spread via the blogosphere (thanks, Jude Law)? How would the rest of us (Matt Damon stars as the people’s proxy) respond as loved ones

(like Gwyneth Paltrow) quickly and mysteriously fall ill? Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (The Informant!) answers all these queries as Soderbergh clinically depicts this eerily possible apocalyptic scenario.

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.

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG-13) 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).

• CREATURE (R) You probably haven’t heard of Creature, but horror fans looking for something cheap and slightly above the typically terrible average could do worse than this flick.

“CSI: Miami”/ “Without a Trace” production designer Fred Andrews’ feature writing and directing debut has its priorities straight: nudity in the opening scene and a role for Sid Haig. The creature itself, a local legend named Grimley (Daniel Bernhardt), isn’t terribly inventive; he/it is less effective than the skeezy, inbred Loo-ze-anna hicks THE DEBT (PG-13) An above-average old people action-thriller that could have been so much more, The Debt boasts an Academy Award nominated director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), a script by X-Men: First Class’s Matthew Vaughn, music by Thomas Newman AND a cast of Helen Mirren, “It Girl” Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Ciaran Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. Still, the film didn’t get pushed back to near September for no reason.

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (PG-13) Off-screen mom sends her depressed little girl, Sally (Bailee Madison), to live with daddy (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes), in the old, dark house they’re restoring in Lovecraft’s very own Providence, RI. No shocker here; Sally’s depression does not improve

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DRIVE (R) A Hollywood stuntman (Ryan Gosling) moonlights as a getaway driver. After a botched job, he winds up on the run with his neighbor (Carey Mulligan) and her kid riding shotgun. The tough supporting cast includes Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston and Albert Brooks. The Wings of the Dove Oscar nominee Hossein Amini adapted the novel by James Sallis.

THE GUARD (R) Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle star in Ned Kelly writer John Michael McDonagh’s feature debut, an ‘80s-sounding buddy cop-com. He’s an unorthodox Irish policeman (Gleeson); he’s an uptight FBI agent (Cheadle). International cocaine smugglers better watch out when they begrudgingly team up.

THE HELP (PG-13) This ‘60s Mississippi set melodramedy will draw raves from your mother, grandmother, aunt, the ladies of the church, etc., but the whitewashed world of The Help lacks the proper depth to feel real.

Every black servant is a saint; every white employer a demon.

HOOP DREAMS (PG-13) 1994. The tremendous Oscar nominated documentary tells the diverging stories of two teen basketball prodigies, William Gates and Arthur Agee. Steve James’ 170-minute epic doc follows these two boys for five years, from the beginning of high school at their idol Isiah Thomas’s elite alma mater to the first year of college.

HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) Three friends decide the solution to their employment problems is to murder each other’s boss. This dark, dirty comedy does everything right in the most wrong sort of way, eliciting illicit snorts, giggles and guffaws thanks to a sharp script, cowritten by former “Geek” John Francis Daley, expertly delivered by three deviously likable comic actors.

I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (NR) Sarah Jessica Parker is back in a chick-lit adaptation whose trailer is piled with genre clichés. An overworked breadwinner mommy, Kate Reddy (SJP), gets more piled on her plate and a tempting new business associate (Pierce Brosnan). However will she cope with work and raising her two kids and hubby (Greg Kinnear)?

LIFE IN A DAY (PG-13) The story of a single day—July 24, 2010—on planet Earth, Life in a Day was produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin McDonald (The Last King of Scotland) from more than 80,000 user-submitted videos to YouTube. Over 4500 hours of footage, shot across the globe, was culled down to the best 90 minutes of the beautiful, horrific, humorous human experience.

MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (NR) Ciné brings the largest short film festival in the world to Athens with the 10 best short films selected from 598 entries. Audience members aren’t just passive viewers; they’re judges, too.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13) Owen Wilson stars as the latest Woody stand-in, Gil, a Hollywood hack trying to finish a novel while on a family business trip to Paris with his fiancee’s (Rachel McAdams) family. On a magical midnight walk, Gil runs into Scott

and Zelda Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill), gets writing advice from Papa Hemingway (Corey Stoll) and Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates) and falls for Picasso’s girlfriend, Adriana (Marion Cotillard).

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (R) As beatific, honest and kind to a lawbreaking fault Ned, Paul Rudd beams and “aw, man”’s his way through a twee indiecom from former Lemonhead Jesse Peretz. After being tricked by the douchiest dickhead cop ever, Ned goes to prison. Once he’s released (early for good behavior), his organic girlfriend (Kathryn Hahn) kicks him out and keeps his dog, Willie Nelson. Forced to live with his sisters, he wreaks havoc on their lives with his chronic honesty and guilelessness. You may laugh harder this year, but you won’t smile as broadly.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG-13) You would think Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow would soar to the surface now that he’s shed of the dead weight that was Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley).

Instead, the fourth adventure of Captain Jack is terribly unexciting and, worst of all, boring, as he canters frantically about for no reason more dramatically pressing than box office booty.

RESTLESS (PG-13) Academy Award winner Gus Van Sant follows up the incredible Milk with this tragic tale of a terminally ill girl (Mia Wasikowska), who falls for a boy (Henry “son of

Dennis” Hopper) into funeral hopping.

Together, the two encounter the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot (Ryo Kase). Not many big-time directors can balance personal projects (Elephant, Paranoid Park) and crowd pleasers (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester) like GVS (who I’ve finally forgiven for his Psycho remake). With Schuyler “daughter of Sissy Spacek” Fisk.

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. While Tim Burton’s damned dirty apes disappointed heavily, this new Apes prequel has my inner Dr. Zaius all a flutter. A super smart chimp named Caesar (Andy Serkis) leads a primate revolution. James Franco stars as the human scientist that created and raised him. With Brian Cox, Freida Pinto and John Lithgow.

SHARK NIGHT (PG-13) This killer fish flick is as good as anything you’ll find named Shark Night. It’s certainly better than its inbred Syfy kinfolk, but only by direct comparison to decidedly TV affair. Some Tulane students head to a pretty blonde’s (Sara Paxton) isolated lake house. Too bad the saltwater lake is filled with a variety of sharks!

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.

STRAW DOGS (R) I don’t know how to feel about this remake of the

controversial Sam Peckinpah classic about a milquetoast fish out of water (James Marsden replacing the original’s Dustin Hoffman) running afoul of local toughs after moving to the hometown of his beautiful wife (Kate Bosworth). The American South has replaced the English countryside of Peckinpah’s version.

SUPER 8 (PG-13) Without giving too much away, but to establish a point of reference, Super 8 is a Close Encounter with Jaws and E.T. Stylistically and narratively, Abrams references Spielberg’s greatest hits. The first couple of acts, a perfect Polaroid of a simpler, more innocent time (peopled by some talented child actors and Kyle Chandler), is shelled to death by its tank-filled finale.

• WARRIOR (PG-13) In Warrior, two brothers, Brendan and Tommy (Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy), battle each other, the inner demons born from growing up with an alcoholic father (Nick Nolte) and tough opponents like Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle.

Surprisingly, Warrior never feels invasively manipulative until revelations about Tommy’s service record whip out the patriotism. I didn’t want this multiskilled Rocky to tapout.

WORLD ON A WIRE (NR) 1973.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s three-anda-half hour, unseen television epic sounds like The Matrix meets “The Prisoner,” and that’s one sweet mash up. Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch) uncovers a massive governmental conspiracy that could bring down the elaborate virtual reality created by the computer project known as Simulacron.

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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miscellany Get Your ATH Together How Your Golden Garden Does Grow: If you are tired of investing your time and energy in your garden, only to see it not succeed, the perfect event for you has arrived. Wednesday, Sept. 14 is the Gold Medal Plant Symposium at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia.

This symposium, organized by the nonprofit Georgia Plant Selections Committee, is an indepth look at what expert horticulturists have deemed the gold medal plants of Georgia: those proven to thrive best in our state.

There are two events. The first is the symposium itself, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., featuring speakers, a plant sale, raffle prizes and lunch.

Coach Vince Dooley, a winner in the garden, and Rita Randolph, a nationally known writer, photographer and lecturer, will be part of the entertainment. Tickets are $48–$40 for Friends of the Garden and Master Gardener members.

End Timers, and you will learn the basics of folk dancing. Swing your partner ‘round and ‘round! For a complete schedule, go to www. athensfolk.org.

Spread Your Wings, Southern Butterfly: The State Botanical Garden is hosting its 19th annual Insect-ival Saturday, Sept. 24 at the Visitors Center from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Insect-ival’s goal is to teach kids how to respect bugs and view them in a positive light. This year’s focus involves the foods we eat that are pollinated by insects, and the edibility of insects themselves. A variety of stations will be set up in the conservatory, demonstrating the relationship of insects to our world, including a plant sale, a flower garden walk, a puppet show and an insect olympics where kids use their “insect sensi-

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The other event is a plant sale, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., outside the Visitors Center. The sale is open to the public, and there will be experts on hand to assist in picking out plants that should succeed in your garden, based on your personal needs. To register, go to www. georgiagoldmedalplants.org.

Folk Fest Kickstarts Fall: Check out the North Georgia Folk Festival’s biggest year so far with the 27th annual gathering on Saturday, Sept. 24 at Sandy Creek Park. Activities abound from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., including music, storytelling workshops, arts and crafts. Craft demonstrations encompass the historic arts of basket-making, blacksmithing, broom-making, quilting, hand-spinning and weaving. You’ll be able to purchase native wildflowers, handmade jewelry, pottery, metal sculpture, glass, leather and heirloom seeds, among many other items. Adult tickets are $10, students $5, under 12 free. Park admission is $2 per car. Juan’s Empanadas, Farm 255 and Harry’s Pig Shop will sell food. Bring your own instruments, chairs and blankets. To get in the mood for Saturday, you can begin your folk weekend at the pre-festival contra dance for $7 and attend a free acoustic jam— both on Friday, Sept. 23 at Memorial Park from 7:30 to 11 p.m. The contra dance, which actually takes place in Athens on a regular basis, will feature a caller and a live band, The

bilities” to compete with each other. There will be roach and beetle races as well as an insect café with Chef Daniella Martin of www. girlmeetsbug.com fame, who makes such dishes as Bee-LT sandwiches and cricket stirfrys. The main feature of the event: the fourth annual butterfly release in the International Garden, is at 11 a.m. Jim and Mike Maudsley have locally raised approximately 300 butterflies, which will spread their wings in the wild for the first time. The event is $5 per person or $20/family—free for kids 2 and under.

Hub Cap Halos: The Lyndon House is hosting “The Mystique of the Automobile: A Festival of Cars, Art and Fashion” Saturday, Sept. 24 from noon to 5 p.m.—a free day of events, exhibiting the auto as an art form. Almost 100 cars will be on display, from 1917 to 1971.

These include a 1912 Ford Model T touring car, a 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL gull wing coupe, and a 1964 Lincoln Continental convertible. Criteria for the cars on exhibit are based on rarity, condition and their importance to the history of automobiles. There are activities for kids from noon to 2 p.m., live music that will make you want to dance the jitterbug, and a fashion show from 2 to 3 p.m. So glam! For more information, check out www.mystiqueoftheautomobile.org.

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Everything’s Shufflin’: Pretty Bird, the only all-percussion-and-vocal group in Athens, will play two notable shows this month. The band has taken a position whereby any member can perform as “Pretty Bird” and render his/ her own versions of the songs solo, and by the time you read this, one of these types of shows will have happened, but another one is coming up on Sept. 17 at Go Bar. That solo performance will be augmented by sets from Green Gerry & the Gellyphish and Philadelphia’s great RYAT. A full-band set

by Pretty Bird will happen at the Caledonia Lounge on Sept. 23 and that’s also when— stop the press!—Green Gerry & the Gellyphish will unveil its new name, O O O, which is reportedly supposed to be pronounced as “three circles,” but you and I both know it’s

Melting Point on Sept. 29. Performing that night will be Dan Wentworth, Free Mountain, Save Grand Canyon and Van Halen cover band The Ice Cream Men, all bands featuring at least one Partner Software employee.

While the show is free, ‘natch!, for conference attendees, it’s also open to the public for a mere $5. Swing by and find out what this local company is all about.

I Can’t Believe the Volume: Most of you already know that Masters of the Hemisphere have, yet again, reformed and will play this year’s Athens PopFest. The latest news concerning these grown up roustabouts is that the group’s newest album, Maybe These Are the Breaks, will be a split-release between Athens’ Kindercore Records and long-running

The Warm Fuzzies going to be read as “oh oh oh,” and that’ll be that. Either way, though, it’s a change for the better. Also performing that night will be Bigfoot, who will thus forth be named Figboots, which is also a much better name.

Please see www.thebirdhouse.bandcamp.com.

Isn’t That Special?: The Warm Fuzzies have decided to release a song a month for free as opposed to waiting forever and spending a ton of money to release another album. The ongoing affair, dubbed “Fuzz of the Month,” is structured such that you can download the songs for free or pay what you want. Although I hate to compare bands to other bands when describing a sound, I think it’s pretty fair to describe The Warm Fuzzies as uncomplicated American guitar pop à la The Greg Kihn Band, albeit filtered through the sieve of Weezer.

The band hasn’t played out a lot recently, but the Fuzzies will return to the stage on Sept. 21 at the Flicker Theatre & Bar with The Winter Sounds, Junior Astronomers and Space Ghost. The Warm Fuzzies’ last release, You’re Dang Right It’s Friday!, was recorded live at WUGA (during the “It’s Friday” program) on Sept. 11, 2009, so let’s all take a moment of silence to remember this. OK, good. Now, for more information, please see www.thewarmfuzzies.com and www.thewarmfuzzies.bandcamp.com.

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Portland, OR label Magic Marker, to be released on Oct. 4. The band released a new track, “Jim Belushi,” a few weeks ago, and you can grab it over at www.kindercorerecords. blogspot.com.

Not Dark Yet: Sad news came from Atlanta last week, where Criminal Records owner Eric Levin announced that he plans to close the now-landmark Atlanta store by November.

Expensive retail expansion and the lagging economy seem to be the culprits. While nothing is set in stone, if this goes through, it will be a sizable loss for the Georgia music community as a whole. The store’s support for Athens bands has been consistent through the years. Levin is also the founder of Record Store Day, which has grown in only a few years to an international celebration of independent record stores. As of now the store plans to carry on with scheduled in-store performances. More information can be found at the store-managed site: www. facebook.com/criminalrecordsatl and the community-managed site: www.facebook.com/ savecriminalrecordsatl.

Free As a Blog: Visit www.Flagpole.com this month to keep up with local Americana rockers Futurebirds as the band blogs from the road during its national tour. The boys promise to keep us abreast of any and all shenanigans, with daily reports plus photos and, if we’re lucky, video. [Michelle Gilzenrat] Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

record reviews craving as many times as it takes to get rid of it. The five-song EP is delicious, but in a way that encourages shortlived, intense adoration to be discarded when the listener has absorbed as much as he/she can take. PAPA is so right for right now that overdosing is hard to resist. Don’t stay away though; it’s better to have loved and purged than to have never loved at all.

Sydney Slotkin

CROOKED FINGERS Breaks in the Armor Lovers Label For a guy who launched into the music stratosphere on the blinding rocket of one of the ‘90s’ most revered indie-rock bands, Eric Bachmann has proved one unglamorous star.

Instead of riding the exuberantly noisy contrails of Archers of Loaf, his solo path with Crooked Fingers has largely opted to cultivate emotional nuance.

This album, recorded in his now-native Athens, proves that the increasingly unprolific Bachmann can still captivate through spirit and plain honesty.

Though cast in moody American hues, the genre influences here act as shadows but are never allowed to confine his intimate yet robust melodies.

Unassuming gorgeousness abounds in moments like the scruffy majesty of “Typhoon,” the uplifting stomp of “Bad Blood,” the muted briskness of “The Counterfeiter,” the horizon-waking power of “Went to the City” and the dream-ushering Americana shimmer of “Your Apocalypse.”

With work like this, Bachmann shows that indie rock can still exist beyond style and flash. It can be simple, unpretentious and deeply human. And this album is nothing more than that—not because of any lapse of ambition, but simply because that alone is something worth earnest focus. That’s what’s called a small miracle.

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PAPA A Good Woman Is Hard to Find Hit City U.S.A. PAPA is a three-piece formed by Darren Weiss, drummer from Girls (the band that sounds like The Beach Boys and The Cure at the same time, and therefore cannot escape comparison).

Whereas Girls is all twisted beach music and unsteady melancholy, PAPA is a more cathartic, up-front rock and roll construction of rebellion and disappointment. This project borrows from Girls’ toolbox of jangly, California-worthy sounds, turns up the volume, hits the drums a little harder and yells over it. The lead singer has a deep, serious warble that commands attention over the unfocused jangle like an energetic Stephen Merritt.

This indelicate mixture of surf and the haze is so rich that it feels like a passing pleasure, like satiating a food

PAPA is playing at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 14.

KUROMA PsychoPomp Independent Release Though the considerable résumé of Athens son Hank Sullivant includes being an original member of The Whigs and touring guitarist for MGMT, this second LP by solo vehicle Kuroma is far more in line with the dreamy aesthetic of the latter. Moving further away from rock, the arabesque psychedelia here is decidedly pop-minded. Steeped in Euro tendencies, classic rock fantasia and golden glam rays, the songs move moderately in and out of focus, but never so much as to eclipse the clean pop craftsmanship.

Befitting its chosen faith, Kuroma is best when it’s taking you on a voyage. Shimmering journeys like “The Magick Deed,” “The Electrical Host” and especially “Psychic Wandering” coast on sharp sine curves that careen weightlessly across galaxies of kaleidoscopic landscapes. More silvery glides include “Teardrops” and “Get Quick Got It,” an eight-minute odyssey that goes out on a lovely guitar carpet ride.

Though it sometimes lacks the intensity of color or punch that other bright and like-minded revivalists such as MGMT or Smith Westerns have, the precision and craft of Kuroma’s songwriting is undeniable. And as nicely conceived as PsychoPomp is, where this auspicious promise can go with more seasoning is the truly exciting prospect.

Bao Le-Huu

MICK HARVEY Sketches from the Book of the Dead Mute Mick Harvey (The Birthday Party, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) will always be best known for his role as

collaborator and producer, and his previous solo albums were primarily interpretations of other people’s work.

Sketches… is the first album where he is the sole writer, and he has chosen as subject matter people from his life who have passed on. However, these tales aren’t delivered in a way that suggests anything other than quiet contemplation. Harvey often sounds on the verge of tears throughout. Even so, his vocals are deliberate and measured, suggesting that each line represents a task that is neither desirable nor drudgery but, rather, unavoidably necessary.

The music he’s composed for this album is a welcome mix of his varied styles. There’s dark folk in “October Boy,” sleazy neon blues in “Famous Last Words,” minor key piano in “How Would I Leave You?” and, mostly, the rest of the record follows suit. The stunning achievement on Sketches, though, is Harvey’s lyricism. He hasn’t attempted to mask factual information for the sake of a story. He just observes, submits and accepts. With this method he demonstrates there can be a beauty in the cataloguing of facts and memories even if the activity doesn’t bring any peace. Harvey also shows that there’s bravery in yielding to one’s experience and allowing oneself to see—even when it hurts like hell.

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Smother Domino Smother is an odd title for English art-pop quartet Wild Beasts’ third proper album, the sonic textures of which are subdued and unimposing.

Perhaps the name is the band’s little attempt at irony, but the title could also be seen as lending “smothering” new context, in that the record is in fact almost overwhelming in its restraint.

The 10 tracks are uniform in their calm yet insistent electro beats, synth ripples and guitar chimes. But the limelight is on singer Hayden Thorpe’s operatic tenor, which is nakedly exposed in the foreground. A peculiar blend of vibrato-laden falsetto and earthy bellow akin to Dredg frontman Gavin Hayes, Thorpe’s aching vocals dominate the proceedings, the instrumentation serving mainly as accompaniment.

Thorpe’s style remains the group’s most polarizing element, and it can outweigh the album’s bolder instrumental moments: the chilling space in “End Come Too Soon,” the propulsive skitter of “Reach a Bit Further” and the gorgeous synth cascades of “Burning.”

But no tune quite climaxes, opting to drift rather than surge. This eerily soothing ambience proves to be both brilliant and boring at times, as the consistently low-key mood blurs all the songs together.

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he more you think, the more you stink,” is the way famed, half-insane record producer David Briggs once put it. Rock and roll’s mystification is meant to glorify the reptile mind: the idea that intuition, not sophistication, is meant to be music’s Northern Star. And even if that’s already an artist’s modus operandi—the Neil Youngs, the Keith Richardses—that’s fine for them, but there’s no reason why rock music can’t have a thorough thoughtfulness and still deliver the same oomph. The Bronzed Chorus, from Greensboro, NC, is the kind of band that puts a great deal of thought into how to maximize that oomph.

The duo of Adam Joyce on guitar and Hunter Allen on drums and synth is instrumental; so, political theories or emotional treatises are not on their agenda. The music they make is the end-all-be-all, and everything about it, from the neatly recorded songs on their latest EP, The Gleaming, to the Christmas-light-lit live show, belies careful consideration. Joyce, who spends the time he’s not playing music making handcrafted woodwork, talks about his music without flowery elaboration, sticking to the facts. Speaking about Allen—who, prior to The Gleaming, was only a member of the group in a touring capacity—Joyce says, “This is the first record that we wrote songs together on, so it’s definitely a different band now.”

Brennan O’Brien, the band’s original drummer, was not only a percussionist with a skill for propulsive rhythms, he also contributed keyboard bass, which he was able to pull off while drumming one-handed. When O’Brien had to step away from the group, Allen joined not only as a spot-on drummer/keyboardist, but he also came armed with an Atari 2600, the classic game console that can also be used for composing original 8-bit music. This grimy, primitive sonic contribution is immediately apparent on the EP’s masterstroke, the epic “walletkeys/phonesmokes,” where Allen’s live drumming creates a lattice of rhythmic complexity on top of the Atari’s chiptune-style backing tracks. Adapting a tough-guy, dancerock pose similar to the niche Maserati carved out on its recent Pyramid of the Sun LP, the new Bronzed Chorus sound retains much of the post-rock peak-and-volleying that the band is known for, but Allen’s Atari work adds an indelible new element.

“He wrote the first part, and I wrote on top of it, and that’s never happened before;

we wrote that song together,” says Joyce.

“The other pieces just kinda fell together like they used to, but it’s going to be happening a lot more in the future. We’re going to be writing a lot more together. So, I’m excited about that change.” More than anything else, “walleykeys/phonesmokes” is the sound of musicians rocking while having deliberately mapped out an elaborate composition at the same time. It’s a major step up for a band that already prided itself on consistently well executed work.

The Gleaming was recorded with Mike Albanese and Joel Hatstat, both of Cinemechanica, and is currently out on Cinemechanica guitarist Bryant Williamson’s Hello Sir Records label. Following a monthlong tour around the northern half of the United States, “we’re doing two weeks with Manray down South, down to Florida, Alabama and Georgia,” says Joyce. “Sharing their bus again. It’s like the most fun tour ever, the one we did with those guys.” After that, unsurprisingly, it’s back to work. Says Joyce, “We’re going to be leaning more towards the style of music that we’re doing on the EP, and this winter we’re definitely going to take some time and get enough written to start tracking on the LP soon, another full-length.”

Which makes sense: now that the group exists as two active songwriters, they’re naturally going to have more material to get out into the world. “I have songs I’m working on right now, and Hunter has some ideas of his own, and we’re gonna try to get our songs where we want ‘em, and try to pick ‘em apart and tear ‘em to pieces,” says Joyce. “We’re trying a whole different way of writing the fulllength. We’re gonna try to really tear apart the songs, not overanalyze ‘em, but really get ‘em felt out, I guess. In the past, we just kinda wrote songs and said, ‘OK, it’s done,’ instead of really looking back and seeing where we could add or take away. So, I’m really excited about doin’ that.”

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Atmosphere: Athens Draws Slug Out of His Shell S tarting with Snoop Dogg at the 40 Watt Club and adding Chali 2na and Del at New Earth and last month’s raucous Big Boi show at the reborn Georgia Theatre (not to mention upcoming shows with Childish Gambino and Wale), 2011 already has seen more major hip-hop talent come through Athens than any other year in recent memory.

To that impressive roster we can now add Atmosphere, the long-running Minneapolis duo of MC Slug and DJ Ant. Generally referred to as indie-rap or even emo-rap, due to Slug’s deeply personal, introspective lyrical content, these guys have been cutting a swath through the underground hip-hop landscape for over two decades now, and their musical rapport with one another has reached a nearpsychic level. Touring incessantly in support of the new album, The Family Sign, Slug (real name Sean Daley) found a few minutes while stopped in Colorado to talk to Flagpole about the group’s upcoming date at New Earth Music Hall.

“I’m looking forward to coming back to Athens,” he begins, sounding both relaxed and exhausted. “We hadn’t been there in a while, and you don’t really wanna neglect anybody for too long because if you do they start to resent you, and before you know it, they have to go to therapy just to complain about you.

But every time I’ve been there, it’s been quite exciting. Literally, I always have an exciting time, which is hard because I’m a very boring individual. I usually sneak down to the back of the bus and hide and read a book, but for some reason there’s something about that city that kinda makes me come out of my shell and

kinda whoop it up. I don’t know what it is, but I’m lookin’ forward to it.”

Indeed, the pair hasn’t played the Classic City since its 2007 show at the 40 Watt, and while Daley could give no specific reason for the switch to New Earth, he self-deprecatingly mused that “maybe the 40 Watt was too smart to fall for it again [laughs],” before going on to describe the live show. “It’ll be me, Ant, Erick [Anderson, on keyboards] and Nate [Collis, on guitar], the same guys I’ve been touring with for a while now.”

As is evidenced on both The Family Sign and 2008’s brilliant When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold, Ant has

“That’s a good question. I don’t know if I’ve really figured that out yet. I want to say no, but the truth is it probably has and I’ve just been avoiding realizing it, you know what I mean? I don’t know. I mean, to me it’s all the same. ‘Cause you’re still pushing and trying to validate the same parts of your inner, ya know? I guess I’ve been more interested in stories than I am in bragging and boasting about how I’m cool, even though I still find myself just using stories to do it. Maybe I’m gettin’ older. Maybe I know in my heart of hearts I’m really not cool enough to be doing the bragging and boasting. I dunno. You sound like my therapist, man.”

Touring almost nonstop through the end of the year, Daley seems eager to get back to what little free time he enjoys these days, but not before leaving Flagpole readers with these final nuggets of wisdom: “Eat your vegetables,” he begins. “Wear a helmet. Google the term ‘net neutrality’ and learn about what that means and pay attention to what these corporations are trying to do to the Internet.

You know what, don’t just eat your vegetables, grow your fucking vegetables. I dunno… I suck at interviews.”

become much more interested in using live instrumentation in his production work, and with Anderson and Collis onstage, tracks like the fiery, piano-driven “Puppets” and the sinister, guitar-centric “Bad Bad Daddy” will gain a fuller, more textured sound.

The critical consensus on Atmosphere’s recent work seems to be that the diary-entrypersonal, almost confessional quality of Daley’s early lyrics has of late given way to a more observational “storytelling” mode. Daley seems momentarily stumped when considering whether Ant’s forays into instrumental composition have helped affect this shift in his songwriting, pausing briefly before deciding,

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Tuesday 13 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Call for location) David Bryant leads a tour of the Pulaski Heights historic neighborhood. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706353-1801, www.achfonline.org EVENTS: Cooking in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This session: Handmade Pastries.

Learn how to prepare basic pie dough and a lemon custard filling.

Call to register. 6–8 p.m. $36. 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden EVENTS: Tuesday Night Food School (Gymnopedie) Knife skills, bread baking and a coffee tasting with Craig Page (PLACE), Charlie Mustard (Jittery Joe’s Roaster) and Sarah Dunning (Gymnopedie). Class includes a light supper and wine.

Email to reserve space. 6–8 p.m. $60. happydunning@gmail.com, www.gymnopedie.posterous.com ART: Opening Reception (Two Story Coffeehouse, Five Points) For “Here, There, and Home Again,” portraits and travel photography by Charles-Ryan Barber. 6–10 p.m.

FREE! www.charlesryanbarber.com 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 14 EVENTS: “24 Hours of Reality” Viewing Party (Ciné Barcafé) The Georgia Climate Change Coalition hosts a multimedia presentation created by Al Gore. 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.climaterealityproject.org, www. georgiaclimatecoalition.org EVENTS: Coal Country (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 102) The Sierra Student Coalition hosts a kick-off meeting and screening of documentary Coal Country. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 770-842-1880 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: Family Frenzy (Lay Park) Compete against other families in several skills-based relays. 6:30–8 p.m. $1. 706-613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty.com/lay EVENTS: Georgia Gold Medal Plant Sale (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Garden curators and master gardeners will help guide

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you through the selection of annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees, native plants and groundcover vines. Part of the Georgia Gold Medal Plant Symposium. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden EVENTS: Gold in Your Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) All-day Gold Medal plant symposium, including a plant sale, speakers, book signing, raffle and lunch.

8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. $48. www. georgiagoldmedalplants.org 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: DIY Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Detailed projects for ages 6–10 like sewing, printing, bookbinding, jewelry-making and more.

Wednesdays, 4 p.m. $10. 706-8508226, www.treehousekidandcraft. tumblr.com KIDSTUFF: Teen Iron Chef (Oconee County Library) Compete to create dishes with a secret ingredient. A judge’s panel will decide the winning team. 6–7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Fabric beads! Make a unique fabric bead necklace out of scraps. For ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture (UGA Memorial Hall) Esendugue Fonsah presents “Ghana’s Agricultural Policies and Their Impact on the Vegetable Industry.”

12:15 p.m. FREE! fsgiles@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Michel Chikwanine (UGA Tate Center) Former Congolese child soldier Chikwanine presents “From Child Soldier to Activist: The Journey of Hope.” 7:30 p.m. FREE! (students), $10. 706-542-6396 LECTURES & LIT.: Georgia Gold Medal Symposium (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Featured speakers include Rita Randolph, Coach Vince Dooley and Wilf Nicholls. Shop for gold medal plants at the plant sale or walk through the display gardens during the lunch break. 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. $48. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden GAMES: Dart League Tournament (Alibi) Meet up with other sharpshooters. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-5491010 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

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Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Broad St.) Think you know it all?

Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m. 706-5483442 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Test your trivia knowledge for prizes every Wednesday! 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-548-1920

Thursday 15 EVENTS: Friends Book Sale (Oconee County Civic Center) Mysteries, thrillers, romance, politics, biography, children’s books, movies, CDs and more. All proceeds benefit the Oconee County Library.

706-769-3950 EVENTS: Rockin’ the Sustainability Revolution (Stan Mullins’ Studio) Join host Stan Mullins for an event to support two non-profits, Dogwood Alliance and Product Policy Institute with music

by The Josh Phillips Folk Festival.

Event sponsors: R.E.M., Terrapin Beer and more! See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 5:30 p.m. (VIP events), 8 p.m. (music). $5, $35 (VIP). www. dogwoodalliance.org/athens-rsvp EVENTS: Screening: Precious Knowledge (Georgia Museum of Art) A reception with directors Ari Palos and Eren McGinnis before the film, and a Q&A session after. 5:30 p.m. (reception), 6:30 p.m. (screening). FREE! 706-254-3042 EVENTS: Zumba After Dark (40 Watt Club) Zumba, the dance-aerobics craze that’s sweeping the nation, is too good to only be enjoyed in the daytime and sober. This event will rectify that great injustice. 7:30 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com ART: Last Chance Voting Night (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)) “Poi, Poles ‘n’ Pins on the Porch” performed by Canopy Studio members Ann Lily-Woodruff, Vince Walzberg and Safety Third Juggling. Enter the “Who Dunnit?” contest and vote on your favorite pieces of art. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www. athica.org OUTDOORS: Circle of Hikers (State Botanical Garden) Exercise your mind and body every Thursday morning with nature hikes and readings from nature-inspired stories and poems. 8:30 a.m. FREE! 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden KIDSTUFF: Parent/Child Workshops (ACC Library) For children ages 1–3 and their caregivers. Featuring toys, music, art activities and a different community resource guest each week. For firsttime participants only. In-person

Madeline plays Flicker Theatre & Bar on Tuesday, Sept. 20. pre-registration required. Thursdays through Oct. 6, 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Readers in grades K–5 are invited to bring their favorite book and read aloud to a certified therapy dog. Trainer always present.

First come, first served. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: Computer Tutorials (ACC Library) Choose from a list of topics for personalized instruction. Call to register. 9 a.m.

706-613-3650, ext. 354 LECTURES & LIT.: Embracing Diversity Lecture (UGA Chapel) Keynote speaker Jace Weaver, director of the Institute of Native American Studies and religion professor at UGA, speaks on the educational advantages of diversity.

3 p.m. FREE! 706-548-8195 GAMES: Beer Pong (Alibi) The classic tournament-style game. 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-1010

Friday 16 EVENTS: Athens Got Talent (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Don’t miss your chance to be a star!

Audition for the second annual Athens area amateur talent competition. Proceeds from the October performance at the Classic Center benefit Women to the World. 6 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655 EVENTS: Dawgs After Dark: Welcome to the Jungle (UGA Ramsey Student Center) An evening of activities including kayaking in the Ramsey pool, face painting, candy making, “The Lagoon of Doom,” “Boulder Dash” and free food. 10 p.m. FREE! (students), $5.

706-542-6396 EVENTS: Friends Book Sale (Oconee County Civic Center) Mysteries, thrillers, romance, politics, biography, nonfiction, children’s books, movies, CDs and more. All proceeds benefit the Oconee County Library. 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Family Fishing Day (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Fish in the hidden Claypit Pond. Bait, poles and tips provided. Call to register.

6–7:30 p.m. $6/family. 706-6133615 KIDSTUFF: Home School Science for Older Students (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Home-schooled

students and parents are invited to explore interactive learning stations and go on a guided hike. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $4. 706-613-3615, www.accleisureservices.com LECTURES & LIT.: IWS Friday Speaker Series (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 214) “Lessons Learned: Women of Color’s Spiritual Activism,” presented by Channette Romero. 12:20–1:10 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-2846 LECTURES & LIT.: Romance Langauges Colloquia (UGA Gilbert Hall, Room 115) “Baroque Nature: Rivers and Winds in Andalucia Circa 1605,” presented

by Dana Bultman. 3:30 p.m. FREE! lmarieg@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Roundtable Discussion (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 248) “What Is The 39 Steps?: A Movie, a Book and Now a Play,” sponsored by the department of theatre and film studies. 4 p.m.

FREE! www.cha.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Sociology Lecture (UGA Baldwin Hall, Room 114A) Jamie Palmer presents “Representations of Cuban Masculinity in U.S. News Magazines.” 3:30 p.m. FREE! www. uga.edu/gcph

Saturday 17 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: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) The Athens Folk Music & Dance Society presents live music and George Snyder calling. Free lesson beginning at 7:30 p.m. No experience or partner needed. 8–11 p.m. FREE! (under 18), $7 (adults). www.athensfolk.org EVENTS: Friends Book Sale (Oconee County Civic Center) Mysteries, thrillers, romance, politics, biography, children’s books, movies, CDs and more. All proceeds benefit the Oconee County Library.

706-769-3950 EVENTS: Teardrop Metric Century Bike Ride (Rocket Field) Begin in Watkinsville and roll through Bishop, Fairplay, Greshamville and the Oconee National Forest.

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a.m. $30–40. 706-224-2526, www. athensgabicycling.com/node/66 EVENTS: WMI Farms Produce Market (Doctor’s Car Care) Natural and locally grown organic produce fresh from the Winterville farm. 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. Call to register. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Attracting Birds to Your Backyard (Rock Eagle) Discuss ways to encourage local songbirds to visit your yard, and meet a red tail hawk, great horned owl and eastern screech owl. Plus a trip to the Rock Eagle’s Natural History Museum. 9:30–11:30 a.m. $5. 706-484-2836, beckyg@uga. edu, www.rockeagle4h.org KIDSTUFF: Nature Trading Post (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Trade one or two objects found in nature for points or other nature objects in the center’s collection. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Storytime & Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Make a craft inspired by the book. For ages 2–5. Saturdays, 10–11 a.m. $10.

706-850-8226 www.treehousekidandcraft.com GAMES: Pathfinder Society Event (Tyche’s Games) Bring your imagination. 12 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.com

Sunday 18 EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Call for location) “Walking the Hill” with John Knowlton and Lee Epting.

2 p.m. FREE! 706-353-1801, www. achfonline.org EVENTS: Athens Psychic Fair (Body, Mind & Spirit Ministries) Tarot readings, divinations and other activities in celebration of Athens Pagan Pride Day. 1–5 p.m. FREE! www.athenspaganpride.org EVENTS: Friends Book Sale (Oconee County Civic Center) Mysteries, thrillers, romance, politics, biography, nonfiction, children’s books, movies, CDs and more. All proceeds benefit the Oconee County Library. 706-7693950 EVENTS: A Musical Taste of Athens (George’s Lowcountry Table) A fundraising event to ben-

efit the Circle Ensemble Theatre.

Live music provided by Caroline Aiken, Dodd Ferrelle, Lynn Halverson, Damon Denton and The Hobohemians. 6 p.m. $15.

706-548-3359 EVENTS: WMI Farms Produce Market (Doctor’s Car Care) Natural and locally grown organic produce fresh from the Winterville farm. 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

ART: Closing Reception and Benefit Concert (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)) The artists behind the “Mystery Triennial” will be revealed and “Who Dunnit?” contest winners, People’s Choice Award and Board Choice Award artists will be recognized.

Jerry Hendelberg and Carl Lindberg will perform at 5 p.m. All works half off during the “last dibs hour,” 5:30–6:30 p.m. 4–6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athica.org KIDSTUFF: Yoga & Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) For ages 3–8. Sundays, 2:30 p.m. $10. 706850-8226, www.treehousekidandcraft.tumblr.com KIDSTUFF: Zoo Open Classroom (Memorial Park) Explore the Exhibit Hall and visit with salamanders, pond turtles, snakes and more.

Every Sunday. 1–4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3616 GAMES: Legend of the Five Rings (Tyche’s Games) Before the Dawn release tournament. 2 p.m. $25.

706-354-4500, www.tychesgames. com GAMES: Live Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Every Sunday!

Great prizes and fun—teams of all sizes welcome. 6:30 p.m. (sign-in), 7 p.m. (first question). 706-3546655

Monday 19 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to stories. Every Monday.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Open Playtime (ACC Library) For children ages 1–3 with their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Teen Advisory Board (Oconee County Library) Help plan and organize programs for the Oconee County Library’s Young Adult department that appeal to you.

For ages 11-18. 7 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 GAMES: Adult Trivia (Jack’s Bar) Test your (carnal) knowledge. 9–11 p.m. 706-548-8510 GAMES: Pool Tournament (Alibi) Win prizes every Monday! 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Baldwin St.) Think you know it all?

Mondays, 8 p.m. 706-548-3442

Tuesday 20 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Check out the afternoon market in its convenient downtown location! Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Now accepting EBT cards. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Drafts & Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Five beers, five comics, five bucks. $5. 9:30 p.m.

706-353-2831 EVENTS: Film Screening: A Bird of the Air (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Based on The Loop

by Joe Coomer and starring Rachel Nichols and Jackson Hurst. Part of the Southern Circuit of Independent Filmmakers presented by South Arts.

7 p.m. $5. www.mmcc-arts.org

EVENTS: Tuesday Night Food School (Gymnopedie) Knife skills, bread baking and a coffee tasting with Craig Page (PLACE), Charlie Mustard (Jittery Joe’s Roaster) and Sarah Dunning (Gymnopedie). Class includes a light supper and wine.

Email to reserve space. 6–8 p.m. $60. happydunning@gmail.com, www.gymnopedie.posterous.com THEATRE: The Complete World of Sports (Abridged) (UGA Fine Arts Building) A fast-paced comedy performance by the Reduced Shakespeare Company. 8 p.m. $37.

706-542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac OUTDOORS: Golden Sneakers (Lay Park) Fitness program for senior adults to walk and talk their way around the park. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. $3. 706-613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty.com/lay KIDSTUFF: Exploring Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) For children 2–5. Material exploration and a craft. Tuesdays, 4–5 p.m. $10 706-850-8226, www.treehousekidandcraft.com KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: 2011 Johnstone Lecture: Nature as Inspiration in Art (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Sculpture gate artist Andrew Crawford and UGA Assistant Professor of Jewelry and Metalwork Mary Pearse will discuss finding inspiration in nature. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden LECTURES & LIT.: “Mendez v.

Westminster: Latino Activism and Leadership” (UGA Chapel) Civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez speaks on her role in the case that ended segregation as a matter of law in California. 7 p.m. FREE! 706542-5773 LECTURES & LIT.: Beneficial Insects in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn basic identifications and methods of attracting ladybugs to assassin bugs. 9–11 a.m. $16. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden LECTURES & LIT.: Cafe con Leche Reception (UGA LACSI Building) An informal coffee reception with civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez, who will speak at the Chapel at 7 p.m. 3–5 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5773 LECTURES & LIT.: Forever Young: The Benefits of Music for the Older Brain (Athens Central Presbyterian Church) Pete Jutras and Ellen Ritchey will present current research findings on the health benefits of music therapy followed by a performance by New Horizons Band. 12:30–2 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu/ugacms LECTURES & LIT.: Intro to Excel (Oconee County Library) Topics include the Excel window, navigating in the worksheet, toolbars, general formulas and more. Registration required. 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: When Your Income Drops (Downtown Winterville, Winterville Depot) Learn ways you and your family can minimize the hardship of a reduction in income. 9:30–11 a.m. 706-5494850, www.accaging.org MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) After a short business meeting, everyone can show off their newfound treasures and summer stories in a “Show and Tell.” 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8082 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside,

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Wednesday 21 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: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) Discuss anime and eat ramen noodles. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: DIY Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Wednesdays, 4 p.m. $10.

706-850-8226, www.treehousekidandcraft.tumblr.com KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Game Day! Play one of the library’s games or bring your favorite from home to share. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650.

LECTURES & LIT.: Online Computer Class (ACC Library) Learn how to download free audiobooks and ebooks. 706-613-3650, ext. 354. www.clarke.public.lib. ga.us/services/classes.html#ath LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title

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is Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.

Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “Teaching as Social Justice Work” (UGA Aderhold, Room G23) Ron Butchart speaks on factors that promoted or impeded social justice work in early Southern black schools from 18611876. 12 p.m. FREE! 706-548-8282 GAMES: Dart League Tournament (Alibi) Meet other sharp-shooters. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Poker night every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Broad St.) Think you know it all?

Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m. 706-5483442 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

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Live Music Tuesday 13 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5. www.caledonialounge. com EL HOLLIN This local band plays simple, lo-fi tunes with guitar

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MOUSER Exuberant garage-pop that experiments with noise jams.

THE NEW SOUNDS OF NUMBERS Experimental pop and post-punk project led by Hannah Jones, visual artist and percussionist for Supercluster.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com BETWEEN NAYBORS Local duo Greg Benson and Melanie Morgan play folky acoustic tunes. 10 a.m.)

Go Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 SONGWRITER INVASION Manic Heaven presents a bedazzling array of solo and almost-solo performances by local songwriters with various musical styles. Free CD giveaway from Geoffrey Weaver!

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.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). Every Tuesday.

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

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net HOLLY BELLE Local singersongwriter Holly Belle sings smoky, acoustic ballads accompanied by cello. (5 p.m.)

CLAY LEVERETT AND FRIENDS One of this town’s finest country frontmen, Leverett has a new band featuring members of The Chasers.

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10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3144 PUNK ROCK NIGHT DJ Lozo will spins punk rock hits.

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“STOP MAKING BRILLIANT MUSIC, DAMNIT!!!! Too much of my ego depends on the obscurity of my favorite things,” laments a cyber voice in the YouTube comments under a music video Okkervil River from Austin-based, poetic folk-rock outfit Okkervil River.

The poster uses a privacy-preserving screen name because it’s best to be a little arrogant anonymously, but we can all agree with the sentiment, no?

Flagpole was trolling YouTube because Okkervil River makes great music videos. The feverish pace of “Wake and Be Fine,” from recent release I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar), captures the band’s two drummers, two pianists and everybody else during a frenzied jam session in front of a green-screen flashing frontman Will Sheff’s rapid-fire lyrics. The video for “Ends with a Fall” makes great use of mannequins in cubicles, and the vintage cathode ray tube TV heads in “Lost Coastlines” serve as the measuring stick for indie-rock robots everywhere.

“I’m a big film fan, so I guess I have really high standards—or I like to think that I have high standards for videos,” shares Sheff via cell phone, recently repatriated after a brief tour in Europe, during which he refused to allow his body to acclimate itself to the clock, insisting on remaining Central Standard. “Every single one has been a major attempt at doing something that’s ever so slightly out of our grasp,” he admits.

Sheff is very hands on: operating the camera himself early on, but the production process generally means collaboration with creative personalities, for better or worse. “I’ve come around to the belief that I need to always be really, really closely involved. On this last one, I kind of didn’t do that, and it didn’t go the way that I’d hope. So, I’m pretty much a looming and potentially annoying figure to the director,” he laughs. The “last one” Sheff refers to is the yet-to-be-released video for the band’s latest single, “Your Past Life as a Blast,” a dreamy post-disco tour de force. If it’s five-and-a-half minutes of hipsters doing the hustle, we’re OK with that. [David Eduardo]

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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 JP & THE GILBERTS Brooklynites playing accordion- heavy, Texasplains-at-dusk country.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com FALCONES Local band that serves up crunchy, stripped down rock and roll in the vein of The Stooges and Dinosaur Jr. JEFFERS MORNING Rock trio from Athens.

THE STONE FOXES Big bluesy rock with a bombastic live show featuring big guitars, biggers rhythms and plenty of hand-clap hollerin’.

Wednesday 14 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

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

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

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5. www.caledonialounge.com DREW DAVIS Young female singersongwriter and pianist who has drawn comparisons to acts like Eva Cassidy and Fiona Apple.

THOMAS GALLOWAY Lead singer and guitarist of local, funky jam band Mama’s Love.

Farm 255 “Jazz Night.” 8 p.m. FREE! www. farm255.com DEF POETS Local poetry group joined by African Soul.

RYAN MOORE Solo set from Hans Darkbolt bassist.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com DON CHAMBERS + GOAT This local band plays rootsy, Southern gothic rock framed around Chambers’ wry storytelling.

JEREMY WHEATLEY You may have seen Wheatley during AthFest behind the drums with Thomas Hardy and White Violet, but tonight he’s front and center, sharing his warm ballads accompanied by guitar.

Flight Tapas and Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0200 MARY SIGALAS Visiting standards and not-so-standards from the ‘20s through the ‘50s. Every Wednesday.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv.). www.40watt.com* OKKERVIL RIVER Big, dramatic indie pop rock. See Calendar Pick on this page.

WYE OAK This Baltimore indie band integrates straightforward acoustic instruments such as mandolin and banjo.

George’s Lowcountry Table 6 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3359 KIP JONES Many of Jones’ tunes split between the reflective acoustic terri-

tory of Harvest-era Neil Young and the country-infused rock of ‘80s-era Steve Earle.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com PONDEROSA Quartet fronted by Kalen Nash blasts through bluesinfluenced Texas rock.

ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND An eponymous multicultural funk and soul band fronted by the pedal steel guitarist.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ANTLERED AUNT LORD Fuzz-pop guitar/drums duo featuring featuring local producer Jesse Stinnard.

TOM(B) TELEVISION Hip-hop and indie-rock songs over looped instrumentation from Thomas Valadez, Future Ape Tapes co-founder and bassist for Moths and Superfighter.

TWOSEAEYE Bass-heavy DJ duo bringing the party with dance beats, mashed tracks and ill flavors from deep down South.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com HANK WOJI Singer/songwriter who channels Arlo Guthrie and Cat Stevens with his intimate style.

Locos Grill & Pub 7 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com (Timothy Rd. location) REDNECK GREECE Local artist sings swingin’ hillbilly honky tonk about “folks that grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.”

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com DYRTY BYRDS Rocky mountain rock and roll band from Colorado cools it off a bit with a “songwriters in the round”-style set, tonight featuring Danny Hutchens and Eric Carter of Bloodkin and Sam Holt of Outformation.

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

Omega Bar 9 p.m. $3. www.theomegabar.com SPICY SALSA Lessons at 9:30 p.m. followed by open dancing at 10:30.

Porterhouse Grill 7–10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT This week features Steve Key and Friends with Bill Baker, Jeremy Roberts and Nic Wiles.

Silver Dollar Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 262 College Ave. CONNECTED HOUSES Funky, local blues four-piece.

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Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $3 (21+), $5 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com QURIOUS This Atlanta group creates spacey soundscapes featuring dreamy female vocals, samples, synthesizers and freaky masks.

STREET VIOLENCE High-energy post-punk that attacks on all sides: surfy jangle rock, organ riffage and cutting new-wave female vocals of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs variety.

TATERZANDRAZANDRA New local band playing angular, often dissonant but catchy grunge that maintains a distinct sense of melody.

TUMBLEWEED STAMPEDE Acoustic set from the adventurous local folk-rock band. New album coming soon!

DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Rd. location) THE WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com SCREAMIN EAGLE Swampedelic, bluesy Southern rock.

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

YO SOYBEAN Local “party-folk” trio featuring upbeat, sing-along numbers with guests on guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin and more.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com ERIN LOVETT Half of Four Eyes plays a solo set.

RYAN MOORE Solo set from Hans Darkbolt bassist.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $21 (adv.), $25 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com* AMERICAN AQUARIUM The good times come pouring down with footstomping rhythms, howling organs and a serious Southern twang from this Raleigh band.

COREY SMITH Georgia native and UGA grad Corey Smith is a celebrated singer-songwriter with a gift for storytelling.

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 9 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffeebar.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).

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 JONATHAN SUMMERS Singer and guitarist.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. 706-369-3144 THE PLAGUE Songs of depravity and despair with equal parts pathos and humor. Dark and visceral rock and roll: raw, bilious, rough and hideous.

SHEHEHE This new Athens band offers ‘70s-style rock in the vein of The Ramones, The Clash and the Sex Pistols.

ST. EEL Experimental melodic rock trio with a MySpace claim of being “the oldest Athens band still with its original members.”

Blind Pig Tavern 8 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3442 (Broad St. location) JIM COOK Electric and acoustic blues songs with Charles Sewell on bass.

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 DJ JUSTIN LEGEND Spinning oldschool hip-hop from Eazy E to Biz Markie to Public Enemy.

Bolton Dining Hall “Five Star Special Event!” 4:30 p.m.

FREE! UGA Campus.

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

Thursday, September 15

Rockin’ the Sustainability Revolution

“Music has always been at the forefront of social change. Bands use the power of their lyrics and The Josh Phillips Folk Festival their fan-base to affect a real change towards sustainability,” explains Dogwood Alliance Event Promoter, Jenni Laporte. Recognizing the magnitude of music’s capacity to communicate messages of social, political and environmental activism, the organizers behind Rockin’ the Sustainability Revolution have created an event to showcase live entertainment while simultaneously raising awareness about issues confronting the community.

Guests are invited to arrive early at 5:30 p.m. for an intimate VIP cocktail reception with a light dinner of locally sourced hors d’oeuvres catered by A Divine Event, in exchange for a $35 suggested donation. The Josh Phillips Folk Festival will perform a short set during a silent auction which will feature an R.E.M. poster signed by all bandmembers and a skateboard hand-carved by Circle Factory artist George Peterson. Later in the evening, at 8 p.m. host Stan Mullins’ studio will open to the general public for a full concert by the Josh Phillips Folk Festival, a band that blends folk, soul, R&B and rock.

Proceeds will benefit two organizations: Product Policy Institute, a non-partisan research and educational organization that promotes state-level policies driving green product designs and advancing sustainable production and consumption, and the Dogwood Alliance, a network of 70 groups working to end unsustainable forestry practices in the South and whose three primary campaigns include “Fast Food Paper Packaging,” “Combating Climate Change” and “Saying No to Burning Forests as Fuel.”

Event sponsor R.E.M., who is interested in raising the visibility of regional sustainability and environmental issues in Athens, has been a supporter of both Dogwood Alliance and Product Policy Institute for several years.

Advance tickets can be reserved online at www.dogwoodalliance.org/athens-rsvp and by contacting Amanda Rodriguez at Amanda@dogwoodalliance.org or (828) 251-2525, ext. 13. [Jessica Smith]

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

Stan Mullins’ Studio “Rockin’ the Sustainability Revolution.”

Music at 8 p.m. $5, $35 (VIP). www. dogwoodalliance.org. See Calendar Pick on this page.

THE JOSH PHILLIPS FOLK FESTIVAL Asheville, NC six-piece that’s all about the roots: folk, soul, rock, R&B and reggae.

40 remixes. Following the MMA Fight Night!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HOTCHACHA Infectious, danceable punk/new wave. See Calendar Pick on p. 23.

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

SPRING TIGERS Led by British expat Kris Barratt, this Athens-based band offers high-energy, anthemic pop and angular rock tunes. Loads of new songs and a new album in the works. Tonight’s set will be filmed for an upcoming music video! There will be (fake) blood.

SUMMER PEOPLE Big radio-hit pop rock that’s totally willing to get weird with melodies and structure in a Modest Mouse kind of way.

Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 BABY BABY This charismatic Atlanta band can be described as “fun-rock.”

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BIGFOOT Howling indie classic rock as intriguing as it is difficult to pin down. This Athens group mixes Tom Petty guitar solos with Captain Beefheart strangeness.

EDDIE THE WHEEL Moody, melodic indie rock.

GRINNIN BEAR Rockabilly, Americana, blues and country, brewed with equal parts fiddle, three-part harmonies, crunchy guitar and a funky rhythm section.

VELOCIRAPTURE Loud and brash local rock duo that names Velvet Underground among its influences.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com LITTLE TYBEE Dreamy soundscapes with lush violin and tropical indiefolk melodies.

Friday 16 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 WILD CARD Local four-piece rock and roll band.

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Stan Mullins’ Warehouse Art Studio (650 Pulaski St.)

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $25 (adv.), $30 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com* ATMOSPHERE Hip-hop from Minneapolis with thick blues, rock and R&B roots. See story on p. 17.

BLUEPRINT Hip-hop artist with a new record that expands his artistic world to include rock and electronica.

EVIDENCE L.A. rapper who was in Dilated Peoples and has served as producer for Kanye West.

WED. SEPT. 21

RIVER WHYLESS Brooding folk rock band from the mountains of North Carolina formerly known as Do It to Julia.

THAYER SARRANO Local singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist with lovely, airy vocals singing dark, gentle melodies.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $13 (adv.). www.40watt.com NATHAN ANGELO Soulful pop rock from Atlanta influenced by artists like Ray Charles and The Jackson 5.

DREW HOLCOMB AND THE NEIGHBORS Folk-rock with a Nashville vibe.

MIKE KINNEBREW Fans of artists like John Mayer will cling to Mike’s romantic whisper as he shares his poetic tales of faith, love and loss over acoustic guitar with great passion and conviction.

George’s Lowcountry Table 7 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3359 DIRK HOWELL Beachy ‘60s-style R&B. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com* BUCKETHEAD A masked vigilante who travels the world distributing guitar shreddage to the starving masses. A master of many styles, he auditioned for Sabbath and would’ve had the part if he would’ve taken that bucket off his head.

LYNX Electronic beats back soulful female vocals and rapping. From Oakland, CA. Gnat’s Landing 8 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net STRAWBERRY FLATS A heavy dose of psychedelia, covering classics from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

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THE CALENDAR! Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

JP & THE GILBERTS

$5 admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

DYRTY BYRDS SAM HOLT

featuring of Outformation with Special Guests DANNY HUTCHENS and ERIC CARTER (of Bloodkin) Tickets $5 adv • $8 at the door

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Jimmy Buffett Tribute featuring

SONS OF SAILORS Tickets $10 adv • $13 at the door

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

LIARS & LOVERS THE BEAUVILLES

Tickets $5 adv • $7 at the door

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Tim White’s Burning Down The House Party featuring

STRAWBERRY FLATS with Special Guests RANDALL BRAMBLETT & DAVIS CAUSEY MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND, RICK FOWLER BAND, and NATHAN SHEPPARD BAND ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE WHITE FAMILY Tickets $10 adv • $13 at the door EARLY SHOW! Doors open at 5pm

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND $5 admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

EVENING OF CONSCIOUS FOOD & CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT

Join us for All-Levels Hatha Yoga followed by a 3-course vegan/vegetarian dinner $25.95 plus tax and gratuity Call 706.410.1968 for reservations

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

ADAM KLEIN

and THE WILD FIRES

LITTLE COUNTRY GIANTS Tickets $5 adv • $7 at the door

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 A Totally 80’s Party featuring

THE HIGHBALLS Tickets $10 adv • $13 at the door

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AMERICAN AQUARIUM $21 adv. • $25 at the door

UPCOMING EVENTS 9.25 9.26 9.27 9.28 9.30

MEAT PUPPETS, HAYRIDE SNARKY PUPPY HOMEGROWN REVIVAL, JONATHAN BYRD GEOFF ACHISON & THE SOULDIGGERS SAINT FRANCIS, VON GREY, BETSY KINGSTON 10.1 DARNELL BOYS, MAC LEAPHART & GUILT RIDDEN TROUBADOR, OLD MEMPHIS KINGS 10.2 MARTIN SEXTON, CHRIS TRAPPER 10.4 THE HOBOHEMIANS 10.7 TIM REYNOLDS & TR3 10.8 SONIA LEIGH 10.14 CHICKASAW MUDD PUPPIES, BURNING ANGELS LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF

10.18 TYLER RAMSEY (of Band of Horses) 10.19 FRONTIER RUCKUS 10.21 CHARLIE GARRETT CD Release 10.22 MATT JOINER BAND, EMILY McCANNON 10.25 DANGERMUFFIN 10.27 MADSEN (from GERMANY) 10.29 RICH ROBINSON, DYLAN LeBLANC 11.3 JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE, JOE FIRSTMAN 11.4 DEJA VU - Tribute to CSN&Y 11.6 SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN TOUR WITH ED ROLAND AND KEVIN GRIFFIN 11.11 STEWART & WINFIELD 11.12 TIM MILLER BAND 11.16 CHARLIE HUNTER 11.18 SHAWN MULLINS 11.19 JORMA KAUKONEN 12.23 RACK OF SPAM 1.14 SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS 295 E. DOUGHERTY ST., ATHENS, GA

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Go Bar 8–10 p.m. $5 (suggested donation). www.facebook.com/athensgapride ONE WORLD OPEN MIC Hosted by hip-hop artist Elite the Showstoppa, Under the Rainbow presents an open mic session for LGBTQ and straight artists.

10 p.m. $5. 706-546-5609 CHAMBER MUSIC Loca DJ spinning “trance-inducing beats from the edges of the solar system and the newest styles in orbit delivered with reckless sensuality.”

VOCKAH REDU Booty bounce hiphop four-piece from New Orleans.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com ADAM KLEIN Local singer-songwriter offers a blend of the finest elements of folk, Americana and country.

Performing tonight as part of a duo with guitarist Crash Cason.

ADAM LEVY NYC-based singersongwriter.

Highwire Lounge 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com RAND LINES TRIO Pianist Rand Lines performs original compositions with the help of drummer Ben Williams and bassist Mike Beshara.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 THE KNOCKOUTS This local group plays worldly melodies that draw on polka, bluegrass, Cajun and Irish folk music.

MIKEY DWYER AND THE STARTER KITS There’s a touch of Elvis Costello in Dwyer’s vocals. The multi-instrumentalist is joined by Jamie Coulter and Dan Orchik.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com* SONS OF SAILORS A Margaritavillebound train of Jimmy Buffett hits.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $10. www.newearthmusichall. com HEROBUST Heavily twisted samples and digi-beats.

ISNESS Live electro Atlanta threepiece that dips toes into various musical bodies, including dub, metal, industrial, trance and hip-hop.

NIT GRIT “One of the most prolific and hardworking” members of the dub/grime circuit.

TROGDOR Local trance DJ named after the cartoon Burninator.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 SEVEN 7 This cover band plays ‘60s soul, ‘70s disco and ‘80s pop with contemporary and classic rock.

Sideways 9 p.m. 706-319-1919 DJRX DJ-remixer Brian Gonzalez delivers forays into rock, old school, country and electronica.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeerco.com BUTTERMILK REVIVAL Traditional bluegrass tribute, including songs

by Bill Monroe and many others.

WUGA 91.7 FM 3 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org “IT’S FRIDAY!” Adam Levy and River Whyless will perform on the local radio station’s weekly program.

Tune in at 91.7 FM or University Cable Channel 15.

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Saturday 17 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

Athens Montessori School 3 p.m. $3. www.athensmontessori.org DANIELLE ATE THE SANDWICH Danielle “Ate the Sandwich” Anderson is a solid young songwriter dubbed “Joni Mitchell meets Sarah Silverman.” Come out to see Danielle with opening songs by AMS students on ukulele.

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.

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.)

THE FOR PEACE BAND Todd Lister and his wife Dale Wechsler (String Theory, Garnet River Gals) playing rootsy Americana. (8 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE BRONZED CHORUS Hello Sir Records’ instrumental guitar-anddrum duo plays trotting, acrobatic indie post-rock. See story on p. 16.

CINEMECHANICA This intensely voluminous local quartet is the aggro math-rock indie outfit that doesn’t know it’s a metal band.

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

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CLAY LEVERETT AND THE CHASERS Old-school, original country music that ranges from barroom stomps to heartfelt ballads.

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

THE VIKING PROGRESS Patrick Morales has a lovely, tender voice that sings gentle, indie/folk ballads about love, death and isolation.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS This Atlanta/Athens group plays breezy, beachy Americana.

EDDIE AND THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS Local blues-funk trio.

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

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $17. www.georgiatheatre.com MATT KEARNEY Equal parts acoustic singer- songwriter and bouncy electro dance beats, brought to a ruggedly handsome boil.

LEAGUES Sweet, poppy rock for fans of bands like The Fray.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves, tonight including a slew of hoedown tunes.

GREEN GERRY Weird and wonderful washes of psychedelic sound.

PRETTY BIRD Heavy on percussion and tribal-style hollering/chanting/ panting, expect an avant-garde performance.

PRETZLCOAT Erratic, lush soundscapes.

RYAT This duo from Philly uses live electronics, pedals, software and instruments to create avant compositional pop tunes with danceable, bass-heavy rhythms.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com HEATHER LUTTRELL Georgian singer/songwriter with a seductive, soulful, Margo Timmins voice and Indigo Girls-style folk.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. 706-369-3144 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring electro and rock.

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

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 BURNS LIKE FIRE Stewed, screwed, tattooed punk rock that will leave you flat on your face.

EL CHUPASKABRA Driven Latino punk-ska. The vocals are Spanish, but the guitars are Orange County.

LOS MEESFITS Cuban salsa Misfits cover band includes locals Geoff Terry and Selana. Translated by Eric H. MOTASONIKA Latin-flavored punk rock!

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

The Melting Point 10 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com THE BEAUVILLES Trio from Tampa inspired by ‘70s rock and Britpop that results in noisy, open-ended sensitivity.

LIARS & LOVERS Local quintent offers Southern ‘70s-rock revival.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com RICH ROCK This DJ spins primarily hip-hop mixes with a party vibe.

“Verdict” post step-show party.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE ADAMS FAMILY Performing country classics.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeerco.com THE K-MACKS Danceable, highenergy country-fried punk rock.

TAJ MOTEL TRIO Horn-heavy punk that leans more towards grungy metal than ska.

Sunday 18 Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) “Mystery Triennial Closing Reception and Benefit.” 5 p.m. FREE! www. athica.org JERRY HENDELBERG Local musician perhaps best known as the keyboardist for Sweet Knievel.

CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha

Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com AARON CHILDREE Acousti-pop singer songwriter.

DAVIS GRIFFIN Local performer who uses guitar pedals to create live loops.

CONNOR PLEDGER Pledger’s mostly acoustic sound is influenced by acts like Dave Matthews, John Mayer and Jack Johnson.

George’s Lowcountry Table Circle Ensemble Theatre Benefit. 6 p.m. $15. 706-548-3359 CAROLINE AIKEN Funky rock originals and covers!

DAMON DENTON The acclaimed pianist performs works by Glass, Scarlatti, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt and Ginastera.

DODD FERRELLE Ferrelle pours heart and soul into his sweeping, anthemic ballads and alt-country rockers.

LYNN HALVERSON Sultry, smooth lounge-style vocals.

THE HOBOHEMIANS Local fourpiece playing a mix of proto-jazz, blues and folk music of the 1910s, ‘20s and ‘30s.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7-8 p.m. FREE! 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 BOMBSBOMBSBOMBS Local, quirky pop rock.

FLEET MACHINE Understated synth beats leave room for quiet vocals and careful sampling. So local they have a song called “Go Bar Guy.” The Melting Point “Tim White’s Burning Down the House Party: Benefit for the White Family.”

5 p.m. $10 (adv)., $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND Longrunning local mix of melodic, jangly British-sounding throwback rock.

NATHAN SHEPPARD BAND The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style.

RICK FOWLER BAND Local guitarist Rick Fowler specializes in a classic sort of British blues rock.

STRAWBERRY FLATS A heavy dose of psychedelia, covering classic songs from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Tonight with special guests Randall Bramblett and Davis Causey.

UGA Memorial Hall 6 p.m. (beginner), 7 p.m. (intermediate), 8 p.m. (open dance). $3. www. sites.google.com/site/bdcuga2 BALLROOM DANCING Lessons in tango, swing, salsa, rumba and waltzing.

Monday 19 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 6–9 p.m. $5. 706-613-5386, www.buffaloscafe.com/athens SHAG NIGHT Bring your dancing shoes for shagging. Every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month.

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

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

Friday, September 16

HotChaCha, Spring Tigers, Spirit Hair, Summer People Caledonia Lounge You know a band has the tour jones when it could be mistaken for a local band. One could easily make this error HotChaCha regarding HotChaCha, who in fact hail from the rock and roll wasteland of Cleveland, OH. “We tour a lot, but we always make sure we go down to Georgia because we really like it a lot in Athens. It’s one of our favorite places to play,” says Jovana Batkovic, vocalist for the art-punk-pop quartet, speaking to Flagpole as the band speeds through a westward drive from Chicago to Des Moines.

Athens audiences last saw HotChaCha at the Caledonia Lounge’s “Dirty Athens” AthFest day party, but lest we start to really feel special, it’s worth noting that they are a very hard-touring group.

“We went for a month and a half, and now we’re on tour for 48 days again that started a week ago,” says Batkovic. “I think we would have done even more, but we had a member quit in February, so we had to kind of figure that out. It’s going to be about three months [total] this year that we’ve toured.”

At the moment, the bandmembers are out promoting Do It, their new split LP with Summer People, who will be appearing with them at this week’s show. Musically, HotChaCha is consistently driving itself, employing steady-rocking, delayed-out punk moves. Batkovic’s personal boldness works in the same vein as Future Island’s Samuel Herring, unafraid of skirting the edge of melodrama. In February the group welcomed new member Greg Gebhard, who represents a first for HotChaCha, being the only male musician to have joined their ranks. Has it changed the dynamic at all? “Not really, because Greg’s kind of like a girl,” says Batkovic, eliciting snickers from the van. [Jeff Tobias]

Tuesday 20 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com ADAM ARCURAGI & THE LCS Folk rock group with a bohemian street performer quality.

BRASS BED A charming marriage of late-era Beatles and pedal-steel country: big, effervescent pop melodies, wooing backing vocals and lighter-than-air choruses.

KATE MORRISSEY BAND Best known for her dark velvet voice that stands on its own, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com MADELINE Bell-voiced local songwriter Madeline Adams plays endearing songs of smalltown loves, hopes and other torments and joys.

YOUR HEART BREAKS Indie rock, folk, queercore and punk collaborative music project that includes regular members Clyde Petersen, Karl Blau and Steve Moore, as well as around 50 other participating musicians scattered across the country.

Flight Tapas and Bar 8 p.m. 706-549-0200 HUNTER MORRIS Frontman for Gift Horse plays a set of originals.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 CONFUSED LITTLE GIRL Loud, angry Southern rock from Orlando.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com RUSTY BELLE “Junk-folk” duo out of Amherst, MA. Siblings Matt and

Kate Lorenz offer strong harmonies and raw, original tunes that can either “hand you your a** or make you miss your Mom.” Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.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).

Little Kings Shuffle Club “Athens Farmers Market.” 4:30-6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net CAROLINE AIKEN Funky rock originals and 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 beach party beats.

The Melting Point “Terrapin Bluegrass Series.” 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND This local act offers three-part harmonies and ramblin’, upbeat bluegrass.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MAC LEAPHART & THE GUILD RIDDEN TROUBADOURS Rowdy Southern rock and country blues.

Wednesday 21 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE With the Singing Cowboy!

Ashford Manor 7 p.m. $15, $12 (w/student or military ID), $5 (kids under 12), FREE! (kids under 6). www.amconcerts.com RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND Longtime Athenian Randall Bramblett presents a simplified slab

of Southern music. Either blowing the sax or delivering his gruff ‘n’ grumbly vocals, Bramblett can toss out direct, Southern R&B kickers.

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

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

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com JURASSIC HEAT Columbia, SC three-piece refers to “filthy blues” in its origin story, to which they’ve added strong female post-punk vocals, grungy riffage and primal pounding to get a mix of Joan Jett, Blondie and Pixies.

THE NICE MACHINE Local, instrumental rock with surf undertones.

THIEVES MARKET Local alternative rock band.

Farm 255 Jazz Night. 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255. com DIAL INDICATORS Background sounds for dinner and cocktails.

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

11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BIRD NAMES A somewhat maniacally twisted menagerie of psychedelic, often distorted sounds and childlike melodies. The former duo recently expanded into a six-piece.

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

LE BLORR Fuzzed-out bluesy soul two-piece.

SUNBEARS Synthy pop rock influenced by to The Flaming Lips circa Yoshimi.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com JUNIOR ASTRONOMERS Dancey rock band that describes its sound as “akin to hearing Ted Leo being played by lads years younger than The Black Lips.”

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

THE WARM FUZZIES Weezerinspired quirky local pop-rock outfit with adorably nerdy tunes.

THE WINTER SOUNDS New wave, punk and synth-pop melded into lyrically inspiring songs.

Flight Tapas and Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0200 MARY SIGALAS Visiting standards and not-so-standards from the ‘20s through the ‘50s. Every Wednesday.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $13 (adv.). www.40watt.com* THE LOW ANTHEM Theis sweeping Americana act offers goosebumpraising harmonies, lonesome lap steel and lush arrangents.

SLEEPY SUN Blissed out psychfolk with dreamy vocals and fuzzy basslines.

George’s Lowcountry Table 7 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3359 NAPOLEON SOLO The multitasking one-man rock band handles it all.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $12. www.georgiatheatre.com THE ANTLERS Beginning as the solo project of Peter Silberman, right after he moved to Brooklyn, The Antlers have become an indie-rock sensation featuring heartfelt lyrics and lush atmospherics.

YELLOW OSTRICH Ethereal space pop with deeply layered vocals pulsing like a dying star.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com SONS OF DAUGHTERS Young drums/bass/sax jazz trio with major credentials, including big-name collaborations, study at top schools and international experience. See how it’s paid off in hot originals and new takes on standards.

Locos Grill & Pub 7 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com (Timothy Rd. location) VIOLENT UNCONTROLLABLE LAUGHTER No info available.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com BONOBO English DJ Simon Green presents his inventive electronica with a live band, featuring sampler, sax, a three-piece string section, a vocalist and more.

PHAELEH With a classical music education and a fascination with the world of electronic music, Phaelah (pronounced Fella) mixes a variety of styles, from Nordic electronica to cinematic breakbeat.

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

Omega Bar 9 p.m. $3. www.theomegabar.com SPICY SALSA Lessons at 9:30 p.m. followed by open dancing at 10:30.

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

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

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

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

OKKERVIL RIVER WYE OAK

doors open at 8pm*

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

ZUMBA AFTER DARK doors open at 7:30pm

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

DREW HOLCOMB & THE NEIGHBORS

MIKE KINNEBREW • NATHAN ANGELO

doors open at 8pm*

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS

EDDIE AND THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS • MR. FALCON

doors open at 9pm

AthFest

Wristband WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Required

LOW ANTHEM for Entry!

SLEEPY SUN

doors open at 9pm

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

STREET RYTHYM & RHYME STALKING LOUISIANA

doors open at 9pm

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Matt Pond PA ROCKY VOTALATO

doors open at 9pm

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Will Hoge

NIC COWAN • THE JOHN KING BAND

doors open at 8pm

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

TEALVOX

CHRIS McKAY & THE CRITICAL DARLINGS • LOWDIVE

doors open at 8pm

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

LERA LYNN

SHOVELS AND ROPE • RUBY KENDRICK

doors open at 9pm

All Shows 18 and up • + $2 for Under 21 * Advance Tix Available at Wuxtry Records ** Advance Tix Sold at http://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 3rd Annual Penumbra Halloween Art Show (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Drop off Halloween-themed pieces by Oct. 10. Opening reception Oct. 22. $15 (for three pieces). 706-540-2712, jenniferschildknecht@gmail.com Call for Art Submissions (Old Barrow County Court House) Peace Place, Inc. is seeking domestic violence-themed art to display in October. Email for application. afaircloth@peaceplaceinc.org Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) Seeking artists and food vendors for Festiboo (Oct. 29–30) and a Holiday Market (Dec. 2–3). Email for application. peterlooseart@gmail.com Call for Entries (OCAF) OCAF’s Georgia Small Works Juried Exhibition is seeking artists working in small 2D or 3D formats (14”x14” or under). Deadline Sept. 30. Exhibit runs Oct. 7–Nov. 12. www.ocaf.com Call for Submissions (Ciné Barcafé) The next “6X6,” Tresor

Trove, calls for reclaimed and repurposed film, video, photographs and sound. Submissions can be either framentary or completed performance, media works or found materials. Deadline Sept. 20. Event is Oct. 5. hexadic.media@gmail. com, hexadic.blogspot.com Call for Submissions (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)) Seeking works that strip away layers of convention attached to the trope “Southern.” Deadline Nov. 10. Exhibit dates Jan. 21–Mar. 3. www.athica.org/callforentries.php Indie Craftstravaganzaa Holiday Market (Downtown Athens) Seeking artist vendors for craft fair on Dec. 3, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Application deadline Oct. 24. $110. athensindiecraftstravaganzaa@ gmail.com, www.athensindiecraft stravaganzaa.com Lickskillet Artists Market (Lyndon House Arts Center) Call for artist vendors for market on Oct. 22, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Applications due Oct. 8. $25 (indoor), $15 (outdoor).

706-613-3623, ihartsfoundation@ gmail.com, www.lyndonhouse.org

Popstravaganzaa (The Classic Center) Seeking artists for a craft fair at Athens Popfest, Oct. 15, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Applications due Sept.

15 and must include three.jpegs of your work. $50. popstravaganzaa@ gmail.com, www.athensindiecraft stravaganzaa.com

CLASSES Basic Botany (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A certificate course on general plant anatomy, morphology and physiology with an emphasis on relating form to function. Registration required. Oct. 8, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $100. 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Beginning Bellydance (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Egyptian-style bellydance for people of all ages, sizes and fitness levels. Wednesdays, 7:30–8:30 p.m. $10. 706-424-0195, www.wholemindbodyart.com Bellydance for Fitness (YWCO) Have fun and exercise at the same time. Mondays & Wednesdays, 6–7 p.m. susiefaye@hotmail.com

Really hoping this older gentle giant is reclaimed or finds a peaceful and loving new home to live her final years. She is spayed, 45 Beaverdam Rd. • 706-613-3540 housebroken, and so gentle on a leash that Open every day except Wednesday 10am-4pm little girls were leading her around.

Small dog, big Any of these 3 would be great family dogs! Calm, easygoing and well socialized. attitude. Great Small girl, big Beagle mixed with Affectionate Husky mix is a young longwith people but ears, huge heart. something sturdy. legged girl with small, cute flop-overhe’s certain he’s Total jewel of a Very sweet girl front ears. Loves people and other dogs. in charge of all personality in a who gave me her 33877 the other dogs. small brown body. “say cheese” Cute, bossy and Don’t pass her by! face when she bouncy Jack saw the camera!

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Mary Porter’s paintings are on display at White Tiger Gourmet through Sept. 29.

Bellydancing (Sangha Yoga Studio) Beginner (7 p.m.) and Intermediate (8:30 p.m.) bellydancing every Wednesday. $14. 706552-2660, belllydancebody@gmail. com, www.healingartscentre.net Certificate in Native Plants Orientation (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Introduction to the overall CNP program led by Anne Shenk and Cora Keber. Sept.

15, 9–10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Classes at Floorspace (Floorspace) Contemporary lyrical dance, Capoeira Angola & Maculele, performance theatre, hoop dance, Nia dance, creative movement and improv dance, bellydancing and yoga. Check website for schedule. www.floorspaceathens.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7-9 p.m.

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

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Donation-Based Yoga Classes (Red Lotus Institute) Ongoing classes in ashtanga, flow, hatha, kundalini, sivananda, triyoga, yin and more. 18 classes a week, Sunday through Friday. 706-2483910, theyogashala.athens@gmail. com, www.rahasya.org/theyogashala Fall Classes & Workshops (OCAF) Adult classes and workshops include watercolor, oil painting, drawing, writing and editing, journal and papermaking, clay arts and bagpipes. Check website for details. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com Health and Wellness Classes (Athens Community Council on Aging) Athens Community Council on Aging hosts

senior-friendly Ballroom Dancing, Line Dancing, Yoga, Tai Chi and more! Go online for a complete schedule. 706-549-4850, www.acc aging.org High Flying Trapeze Classes (Leap Trapeze) Flying trapeze classes for all ages and abilities.

Check website for schedule. www.leaptrapeze.com Illustration (Athens Technical College) Seven-week class starting Oct. 7. Learn about illustration using various media with instructor Bettie Miller. 12:30–3:30 p.m. $129. 706369-5763, bmoody@athenstech.edu Infant Massage Classes (Full Bloom Center) Bring your baby and learn massage techniques developed to help aid common baby discomforts. Four-week series held on Sept.

17, 24 and Oct. 1, 8. Register by Sept. 15. 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Iyengar Yoga (StudiO) Certified Iyengar teacher leads a class focusing on strength, flexibility, stamina and balance. Every Tuesday, 5:30– 6:50 p.m. $10/class, $50/6 classes. www.chetthomasyoga.com Ladies’ Non-Contact Cardio Boxing (Lay Park) Build muscle strength, endurance, balance, agility and coordination. Wednesdays through Oct. 24, 7–8 p.m. $10. 706613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lay Metalsmithing (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) “Forged from Nature” artist Andrew Crawford demonstrates techniques on forming, hammering and finishing.

No experience necessary. Call to register. Sept. 17, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $85. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Pencil Drawing (Athens Community Council on Aging) Learn the basics of drawing techniques in-

cluding shape, perspective, shadow and contrast. Sept. 16 & 23, 2–3:30 p.m. $20/series. 706-549-4850, www.accaging.org Plant Families (State Botanical Garden) Study flower structure and other diagnostic characters of 10 of the most common plant families in Georgia. For people who have taken Plant Taxonomy. Sept. 24, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $45. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Safety Third Circus Classes (Canopy Studio) Weekly juggling workshops covering the basics of juggling, balancing, unicycling and more. Sundays, 5–6 p.m. $5 (donation). www.safetythirdjuggling.com Soap Making (Athens Technical College) Learn about ingredients, blending, saponification and molds and cutters. Oct. 6, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $45. 706-369-5876, bmoody@ athenstech.edu Thistle and Kudzu Scottish Country Dancers (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Bring your dancing shoes. Every Tuesday, 7–9 p.m. $3. www.thistle andkudzu.net Watercolor Painting (Athens Community Council on Aging) Learn to mix water and paint, use lighting techniques and create texture. Sept.

30 & Oct. 7, 2–3:30 p.m. $20/series.

706-549-4850, www.accaging.org Wisdom of Body (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Achieve bodymind-spirit alignment with Carl Lindberg, certified Qigong instructor.

Mondays through Oct. 31, 1–2 p.m. $80 (8 weeks), $12 (per class). 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Yoga Classes (Sangha Yoga Studio) Choose from morning, afternoon or evening classes. For all skill levels. 706-613-1143, www.healingartscentre.net

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To sign up or for more information about volunteering for the 2nd Annual Athens, GA Half Marathon October 22-23, 2011, please visit the HandsOn Northeast Georgia website at http://volunteer.truist.com/hng/volunteer/home/.

You can CAN (State Botanical Garden) Step-by-step instructions on safe methods for food preservation. Oct. 6, 2–4 p.m. $17. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden) Latin moves comprise this dynamic fitness program.

Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/ class, $80/session. www.uga.edu/ botgarden

HELP OUT! Athens, GA Half Marathon (Athens, GA) Seeking volunteers to assist with runner packet distribution, expo operations, course directing, hospitality and race day operations. Race is on Oct. 22–23.

Sign up online. www.volunteer.truist. com/hng/volunteer/home Volunteer Readers (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic) Learning Ally (120 Florida Ave.) is seeking readers to record audio textbooks.

706-549-1313, www.learningally.org

KIDSTUFF Craft Club (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Four-week printmaking course

for ages 8–14. Thursdays, Sept.

15–Oct. 6, 4–6 p.m. $90. 706-8508226, www.treehousekidandcraft. tumblr.com Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts.

For parents and children. Alternating Wednesdays, 3:30–4:30 p.m. $24.

706-613-3515, www.athensclarke county.com/sandycreeknaturecenter Mommy/Daddy and Me Spanish (Email for Location) Learn Spanish with your preschooler through songs, stories and games!

New session starting soon. sehlers@uga.edu

SUPPORT PTSD Support Group (Call for location) Ongoing support group for family and friends of veterans and soldiers who have PTSD. Meets third Wednesday of each month.

770-725-4527, www.georgiapeace givers.org Tuesday Night Debtors Anonymous Meeting (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Weekly 12-step meeting for compulsive debtors, over-spenders

ART AROUND TOWN Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) Abstract paintings by Corey Wall. Through September.

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

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

by Christine Bush Roman. Through September.

Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Dr.) Photography

by Bill Zorn and Alan Olansky. Through Oct. 7.

Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) ATHICA’s “Mystery Triennial” includes 245 different works by local artists displayed anonymously. Closing reception Sept. 18.

Ben’s Bikes (670 W. Broad St.) Permanent mural by Ainhoa Bilbao Canup on the back wall of the building.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Paintings

by Ruth Allen. Through September.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design (Caldwell Hall) “The Art of Unbuilding: Material Re-Use in the Crescent City.” Through Sept. 16.

Earth Fare (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Photography by Patrick Denker, a UGA Robert Park Fellow. Through September.

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 Cheri Wranosky, John Weber, John Cleaveland, Lawrence Stueck and more.

Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Will Eskridge.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Lindsey Jane Haddad and Emileigh Ireland. Through September.

Floorspace (160 Tracy St.) Nature studies in watercolor and acrylic by Bill Pierson. Through September.

Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) “American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print” contains 120 original posters and 20 hand-carved wooden printing blocks. Through Nov. 6. • “Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond” features 50 examples of the artist’s career. Through Dec. 4. • “Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books” presents works by private presses. Through Nov. 6. • “Introduction to the Centers” features prints, drawings, letters and photos relating to Pierre Daura and Alfred Heber Holbrook (founder and first director of GMOA). Through Nov. 20.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) New paintings by R. Land.

Through Oct. 2.

Healing Arts Centre (834 Prince Ave.) “Life” includes paintings by artist Ainhoa Bilbao Canup.

Reception Sept. 23. Through September.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar (1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) Works by Thayer Sarrano and installations by Dana Jo Cooley. Through September.

and underearners. 7 p.m. FREE! www.debtorsanonymous.org

ON THE STREET Call for Film Submissions The 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival, being held Mar. 23–31, is now accepting submissions in Features, Short Films and Family Programming. Deadline Sept. 15, 2011. www.ecofocusfilmfest.org Free to Breathe Run/Walk (Sandy Creek Park) Raise funding for lung cancer research when you register for this 5K run or one-mile walk. Nov. 13, 7 a.m. $15–$20. 608316-3786, www.freetobreathe.org Madison Historic Tour of Homes (Athens Community Council on Aging) Guided tour of the Antebellum home, Rogers House and the Little Cottage. Depart and return to ACCA. Register by Sept.

16. Sept. 23, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $20.

706-549-4850, www.accaging.org Open Call for Writers and Poets A new literary publication, Stray Dog Almanac, is seeking local or Athens-affiliated authors for a limited-print-run, handmade chapbook. Deadline Sept. 28. www. straydogalmanac.com/submit f

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

Jittery Joe’s Eastside (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Twenty abstract and landscape paintings by Harold C. Powell. Through September.

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

by Michele Ladewig. Through September.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) “MMXI: Faculty Exhibition.” Through Sept. 14.

Last Resort Grill (184 W. Clayton St.) “Revelation,” large-scale paintings by David Barron.

Through Oct. 2.

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

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) “Emeritus,” works by former UGA professors.

Through Sept. 14. • The Georgia Watercolor Society Members Juried Exhibition, judged by Stan Miller.

Through Oct. 14.

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

OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) “Perspectives” showcases the best works of 50 Georgia potters in the Main Gallery, and a special exhibition of the works of Jose Luis Yamunaque and his former student Kate Tremel in the Members Gallery. Through Sept. 14.

Republic Salon (312 E. Broad St.) Vibrant and surreal paintings by Jessica McVey. Through October.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia (2450 Milledge Ave.) “Forged from Nature” is an outdoor series of sculpted garden gates by artist Andrew T. Crawford. • Photographer Diane Kirkland’s exhibit “Georgia Natural” features a series of landscapes.

Through Oct. 16.

This-Way-Out (T-W-O) (680 W. Broad St.) AthensHasArt! presents “Arguing with the Inevitable,” a collection of photographs and zines by Stacey-Marie Piotrowski and Patrick Denker. Through Sept. 20.

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

Trace Gallery (160 Tracy St.) “Surprise in the Sky,” paintings by Erin McIntosh, Lauren Gallaspy and Zuzka Vaclavik. Through Sept. 23.

Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) Large, bedazzled, psychedelic spaceship stools and sofa paintings by Jaime Bull.

Two Story Coffeehouse (Five Points) “Here, There, and Home Again,” portraits and travel photography by Charles-Ryan Barber. Opening reception Sept. 13. Through Sept. 26.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) “Dinner and a Show” includes paintings of the Boulevard area by Mary Porter.

Through September.

Whole: Mind. Body. Art. (127 N. Jackson St.) “Electricity Encouraged,” lightbox works and wood pieces by Matty Goldstein. Reception Sept. 24.

GLOBES Fall Reception & Silent Auction Thursday, September 22, 2011 5:30pm - 8:00pm Free!

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Tell your former BFF/current BF that you don’t want to stay exclusive. If neither of you has the time to fully participate in the relationship, then it is never going to come to real fruition anyway. If you are frustrated, then he probably is, too. It seems to me that if you were really into it, you might have moved there before you started a new job rather than remaining long distance? Or, if you were both more into it you might make more time for the relationship. I don’t know. Maybe there are extenuating circumstances. All I can say is that you seem like you’ve already made up your mind. You are interested in this other guy, you are unsure about it based (mostly) on the age difference, and you are looking for my permission to pursue him.

I think you should explore the option, but only after you talk to your boyfriend.

A dear friend called me as soon as she read the letter by An Old-fashioned Dater saying she had found the perfect man for me…

When I was 19, I got into a committed relationship that lasted 10 years—we broke up about two years ago, and I find myself also at a loss when it comes to dating. The last date I was on was in 1999! So much has changed!

So, when this letter found me, I knew I had to write. In a fun impulse, I thought one way to get a date is to have your need published in Flagpole. Do you play matchmaker?

Old Fashioned Dater (2) Well, OFD2, I can’t make any promises, but I would be happy to make an introduction if you and OFD1 are amenable. I will wait for him to respond, and, in the meantime, you can send me a message at jylinov@yahoo.com

so I know how to reach you. What the hell, right? So long as you promise not to hold me responsible for whatever happens next, I have no qualms about putting you in touch. Which means, of course, that the ball is in the Old Fashioned Dater’s court. If you’re out there, OFD, this is your chance.

I am fairly certain that my son’s best friend is gay. They have been friends since they were children, and my husband and I have always kind of suspected it. I won’t go into any potentially insulting generalizations, but suffice it to say that we are both very liberal and have plenty of gay friends and are active in the drag community, etc.

Anyway, this boy’s parents are very conservative and very religious, and even though the boys are now almost 20, we don’t feel that he would ever feel safe coming out. We both feel bad about it because we really like him and he is like a second son to us and we want him to have a good life and be fulfilled, etc. We are wondering how to let this boy know that he has support and people he can talk to without embarrassing him or outing him before he is ready. We are also trying to figure out how to make sure our son won’t react poorly. Any advice?

Anonymous Your son is 19. You can’t “make sure” he does anything anymore, really. But if you are open-minded and understanding people, you have probably raised an open-minded and understanding kid. I assume that since you have gay friends your son already knows gay people and is OK with them? You should try to introduce his friend to some of your gay friends, too. And maybe invite them both to Boybutante Bingo or some such activity? Don’t get all preachy and do-gooder on anybody, just make it part of normal stuff that you do, and then they are more likely to see it as normal.

This kid may or may not be gay, and he may or may not choose to come out if he is, but you can’t control that. If he is like a son to you, then hopefully he sees you as extended family as well. Just let him know that you care about him and that if he ever needs anything you’re there for him, etc. And then let it go. If you’re right and he does come out, then you can deal with it. But if not, you just have to let him live his life.

Random Update, In Case You’re Interested: Hey, Jyl, Usual Hag here. Yes, you read that right.

The guy was met through an email on Craigslist by my gay best friend. He’d never done anything with men before, and GBF was his first.

I guess the revision would be to say that this guy was a later-in-life bisexual, as he was very much wanting to do this “do GBF AND his best friend” thing. It’s putting the “fun” in dysfunction, I know. I can promise that I have excellent gay-dar and I am not Michelle Bachmann ratting out Mitch or anything. Your help is very much appreciated!

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Guitar Lessons: beginner through advanced, all styles avail. Musician’s Warehouse.

NTSU alumni, 20 yrs. pro experience. Call Darrell to schedule, (770) 256-9629.

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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.

Amp repair! McNeece Music, 149 Oneta, Ste. 6C-7. Next t o B i k e A t h e n s . Ye a r s o f experience. Buy-sell-trade, custom builds, strings & acc., electric amps. (706) 548-9666, Tues.–Fri., 12–8 p.m.

Eady Custom Finishing offers everything from basic instrument set-ups & fret work to full restorations. Experience incl. working for Gibson Custom Shop. Appointment only. (615) 714-9722. www. eadycustomfinishing.com.

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.

Wedding bands. Quality, professional bands.

Weddings, par ties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment. com. Featuring The Magictones - Athens’ premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones. com.

Musicians Wanted ISO female drummer. Mo Tucker, Jesus and Mary Chain, Spiritualized. For signed band w/ new album out early 2012. Minimal playing/small kit preferred.

Contact clayjay@uga.edu.

Services Classes Real Martial Arts! Kenpo, Kali, Silat, Muay Thai, Wing Chun, only 12 students accepted. 4th degree black belt instructor. Beginners/ advanced. Call (706) 3697045. steve@karatefire. com.

Cleaning My house cleaning clients say I am reliable, good & easy on their budget.

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Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

Pawn Need cash, get it here. Top dollar for scrap gold, firearms, & other items. GA Dawg Pawn, (706) 353-0799. 4390B Atlanta Hwy, across from Sam’s Club.

Pets “A Lost Pet’s Best Chance.”

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Dwntn. on Prince Ave. www. downtownathensvet.com, (706) 425-5099.

Jobs Full-time Bellwether Salon is seeking 2 licensed hair stylists for booth rental. Great working environment in the Leathers Building, 675 Pulaski St. Please contact Stephanie at (706) 850-7550 or email Bellwether Salon.com.

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

Call center representatives needed to do lead generated business inquiry calls for technology companies. FT, Mon. – Fri., 8 – 5 p . m . $ 9 / h r. P l e a s e e m a i l M a n d y w / E x p re s s Employment Professionals at m a n d y. w h i t l o w @ expresspros.com for more info.

Dos Palmas is seeking FT experienced chef in Latin & Mexican cuisine. Send resume to mojammoul@gmail.com. No phone calls.

FT or PT experienced pizza cook/cook wanted. Apply in person at 1550 Oglethorpe Ave. Looking for licensed, experienced hair stylist to work 32-40 hrs./wk. Clientele a plus.

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Now hiring - Changos FT & PT front & back of house. Apply at restaurant. 320 E. Clayton St. next to Mellow Mushroom. Will hire by Aug. 28.

Stuffed Burger is Athens’ soon-to-be newest & best burger joint. Will offer high quality food, friendly & efficient staff, & a true Athens environment. Hiring cooks, food preps, shift mgrs. & GM. All w/ competitive wages.

Contact Brittain, (404) 9217077 to set interview.

Shenanigans Salon is now accepting applications for experienced hair stylists, clientele pref’d. Email resume to admin@shenaniganssalon. com or present in person.

1037A Baxter St. (706) 5481115.

UberPrints.com is looking for experienced Embroidery Operators to join our team. Great work environment. Positions are FT w/ benefits. To apply, please send your cover letter & resume to embjobs@ uberprints.com.

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Wa n t e d : E x p e r i e n c e d breakfast cooks, catering cooks, kitchen stewards, breakfast counter help, catering servers, banquet captains & catering warehouse mgrs.

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Artist needed: Must be able to create finishes such as rosewood, tortoise shell & faux bois. Contact Mimi at mimih@ hollandandcompany.com.

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Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments.

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Paid in advance! Make $1K/ wk. mailing brochures from home! Guar. income! Free supplies! No exp. req’d.

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Part-time KEBA Spitfire Grill is coming soon to Watkinsville! Seeking experienced shift leaders & PT staff. Fill out our online application & email it to delan. ent@gmail.com.

Vehicles Autos ‘93 Integra 2-door, manual transmission, 240k mi., runs g re a t , A / C n e e d s f i x i n g , needs radio fixed, clean Carfax! 30 mpg. (706) 3409507. $1900.

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When Julia isn’t working, she might be playing tennis, scrapbooking, publishing organizing tips on her website or traveling the world. She has lived in Texas, New Mexico, Tennessee, Virginia and Lesotho in Africa, and she recently traveled to Churchill, Manitoba, to see polar bears and to England to visit friends and family. Julia is also a member of the Athens-Clarke County Community Tree Council.

Flagpole: How did you become a professional organizer?

Julia Marlowe: Well, I was a professor at the university, and I loved my job, and I had thought that I would probably work at the university until I was 70. And then my husband

undergraduate degree was in home economics education, and my specialty within that was home management, so it’s really like going back to my home management roots to be a professional organizer, and I do feel like my formal training has given me a lot of skills that I use in my current profession.

FP: What was your experience with the home economics major like? That’s kind of a controversial degree. I don’t suppose it’s still offered?

JM: That’s true. They don’t. They do still offer family and consumer sciences education, and it’s run through the college of education here at Georgia, and the students take some classes in the various areas of family and consumer sciences, but there’s not a huge demand for that in the public schools like there used to be. However, some of the specialties are still offered. You know, it’s not cooking and sewing and cleaning anymore.

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FP: What else do you like to do besides organizing?

JM: Well, I do scrapbooks. That’s my inside hobby, and so, today being a rainy day, I did a little of that this morning, and that’s fun to do. I started doing those when I was in second grade… It’s pretty, you know, basic—not very good. I have one I did in high school. I have one I did my first year in college, and then I just did some photo albums. But I did—my husband had a Fulbright to go to Lesotho in southern Africa one year, and our two youngest sons were with us that year. The three older ones were in college. So, the two younger ones went with us, and they went to school in Africa, and I did a scrapbook that year. And then, it wasn’t until ‘97 that I started doing them pretty intensely.

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FP: Was that your first time living out of the country?

JM: Yes. FP: What was that experience like?

JM: It was very good. Very, very positive. Lesotho’s a nice place. It looks a lot like New Mexico, so it’s very dry, and it’s very high elevation. The people were all very nice. It’s all one tribe, so they don’t have any ethnic disagreements.

retired, and we have grandchildren, and I was envious that I couldn’t go see the grandchildren or take care of them and was tied to a schedule. So, I started thinking, “All right, I like this job, but what else could I do that would give me a flexible schedule?” And somebody from out of town said, “Oh, I just had to hire a professional organizer…” And everyone had always told me that I’m really organized ever since I was really little, you know, and I loved organizing. So, I started doing some research, and I found the National Organization of Professional Organizers, and I saw that they had a Georgia chapter… I started researching it, and I worked on a website, and I did things so that when I retired, I would be ready to go.

And I retired January of ‘07, so I’ve been retired for four full years, almost five.

FP: So, what had you been teaching?

JM: I was teaching consumer economics and family resource management.

FP: That’s not too much of a jump, then.

JM: No, it’s actually not a jump at all, because a lot of people hire me to work on their home offices and financial records, and “What should I keep?” and that sort of thing in respect to their paperwork, so that’s real closely associated. And my

FP: Did living in Africa change your perspective on living in America?

JM: I’m sure it must have changed me a little bit, just the idea of living abroad. It actually has given me some insights that help me as an organizer, because when we lived in Lesotho, we hired a housekeeper. Any ex-patriot working there is kind of expected to hire a housekeeper, because it creates a job… The interesting thing about that is that these housekeepers would ride the little taxi to work, because nobody had cars—at least, very few people had cars. And they would dress up like they’re going to a corporation to work. And when they got to the place, they would take their clothes off and put on a white housecoat… and when they got ready to leave, they’d put their nice clothes on to go home. And they were so proud that they had a job. And it’s considered a good job. For one thing, you had to speak good English to work for an English-speaking ex-patriot, and I’ll tell you, the one we hired was just excellent. She was fabulous. So anyway, the way it helps with organizing today is that I have clients who are afraid to get rid of things or they’re sentimentally attached to them… They’ll say, “Well, these suits cost a lot. I don’t want to just give them away and have them wind up with just anybody.” One person even said to me, “The things that don’t sell down at the Salvation Army, they just ship them to Africa,” like that was a bad thing, like they didn’t want their clothes to end up in Africa. And I said, “You have no idea how much pleasure and prestige it may bring to somebody in Africa who could buy this suit.” So, I’ve seen that happen. I’ve seen people who actually appreciate things that someone here wouldn’t think they would. So, that’s helped a little.

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