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Attention Will Be Paid The UGA Student Historic Preservation Organization has copied Flagpole on a letter addressed to students, alumni, faculty, Athens citizens and Georgia taxpayers. If you’re not included in there somewhere, stop reading. The student preservationists neatly point out several fallacies in the university administration’s rationale for demolishing Rutherford Hall and replacing it with a new structure where “attention will be paid to retaining the historic character of the original 72-year-old structure.” That’s the guiding principle of America. Cut down the forest of oaks and name the subdivision Oak Forest.

The students point out that the university says renovation would be cost-prohibitive but gives no comparative figures on renovation versus new construction. The university says the old WPA building is cheaply constructed and would be too expensive and difficult to retrofit with modern services, although the university is doing exactly that across the quadrangle at Mary Lyndon Hall, another old WPA building. The university also ignores a National Trust estimate that new construction will cost about the same as renovation and a Georgia Department of Natural Resources assessment that the building is in good shape and could be rehabilitated and maintained as a landmark. Read the student historic preservation letter online at www.flagpole.com.

Athens News and Views

At least the new Washington Street parking deck provides some fresh aerial views of downtown.

Google That Sh!t . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Search: Ground Zero Mosque

Fear as a profitable industry is proving one of the most lasting legacies of September 11.

Arts & Events Miscellany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Get Your Ath Together

This week’s slate of events will not disappoint those who find art and beer interesting.

Movie Pick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Pure Racing

Senna will please racing fans and fans of good documentaries in general.

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The deadline approaches again for the annual Flagpole Halloween Scary Stories contest. Email your story to editor@ flagpole.com or drop it by 112 Foundry St. The deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17. Write a 750-word story about scary horror in Athens, and Flagpole editors will read it and judge its creativity, scariness and local flavor. We’re not requiring a specific theme or key words this year. We welcome graphic stories in black and white or color at 600 dpi, if you’re doing them digitally. Call Larry for full graphic specs at 706-5499523. Prizes are $75 first place, $50 second place and $25 third place. All three winners will be published in the Oct. 26 Flagpole, just in time for Halloween.

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Coming up fast on the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 22 & 23, AthFest’s Athens, GA Half Marathon hits town running (and walking, if that’s your speed). There’s a Health and Fitness Expo at the Holiday Inn Express on Saturday from noon to 6 p.m., and then on Sunday, the half marathon begins at 7 a.m. It starts on South Thomas and Mitchell streets, rather than downtown, winds through the university campus and runs beside the North Oconee River, then along Milledge Avenue and through several shaded neighborhoods and back to the river, ending up in lovely downtown Athens. The race raises money for AthFest’s music-education programs, so every step furthers the enrichment of some kid’s life. There’s still time to get in on the fun. Go to www.athensgahalf.com for complete information on the Expo and the race, including how to register.

Westminster Will Reunite A succession of Presbyterian campus ministers made Westminster House a center of Christian social awareness during the period leading up to the racial integration of the University of Georgia in the late ’50s and early ‘60s. Too liberal for their supporting downtown church, their tenure proved short, but they provided a beacon to students, faculty and townspeople looking for ways to do the right thing. Beginning at 10 a.m. (coffee beforehand) on Saturday, Oct. 8, three of those ministers—Bill Rogers, Corky King and Roland Perdue— will discuss desegregation at the university during a reunion of Westminster Fellowship participants at the fellowship center on Lumpkin Street across from the UGA track.

Janisse Ray Will Be Here Don’t miss Janisse Ray’s launch of her new book, Drifting into Darien, her personal homage to the Altamaha River (the South Oconee) 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11 at Seney-Stovall Chapel.

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four public downtown parking decks, there is some concern that visitors still don’t know where to park. A 2007 consultant’s study said Authoritative Development: After vetting the four decks aren’t well marked, so visitors proposals from 41 different consultants to may “circle the block” hunting for parking. create a long-range “master plan” for how We don’t mean to rain on the ADDA’s celdowntown should grow, the Athens Downtown ebration of its new parking deck. Downtown Development Authority has done nothing merchants who must compete with outlying more on the project since January. Mostly, retailers offering lots of free parking consider Matt Forshee, president of the ACC Economic that’s because of its cost, ADDA Director the 540-space deck long overdue. Car parkDevelopment Foundation, which had shepKathryn Lookofsky says: a “visioning process” ing rates for no-hassle deck parking are only herded Blue Heron until its abrupt decision to assess public input could cost $100,000, $1.50 an hour; bicycle parking is free. last month to effectively ditch the project. and a nuts-and-bolts plan for implementing But the ADDA is missing a bet if it fails Overend is asking for access to records of all that vision—specifying possible ordinances, to involve itself in downtown’s future. At a communications pertaining to proposed sidewalk widths and the like—could cost recent committee meeting, where ACC comdevelopment at or near the A&D property $250,000. Lookofsky maintains that a master missioners discussed limiting the numbers on the part of any ACC government officials plan may be “even more of a priority” among of bars downtown, ADDA wasn’t represented. or EDF representatives, including “personal” newer ADDA board members, but “trying to Neither were any bar owners—”I don’t think emails. According to indications by anybody knew about it,” says Forshee and Denson, the EDF and downtown attorney Regina Quick, the county will comply. who did attend. That discussion Specifically included in continues; but Quick says, “If they Overend’s request is an audio want to attract retail to downtown, recording of the EDF board’s closed, they need to focus on beautifica90-minute “executive session” of tion of downtown.” She points to Sept. 12, during which Denson deteriorating downtown sidewalks reportedly shared information that as an example of the problem. convinced the board not to hire a Does it really have to cost project manager for Blue Heron—a $100,000 to engage the public in position for which the EDF’s human a discussion about downtown? resources committee, at the full Certainly, consultants are standboard’s request, had already coning in line with offers, but we’ve ducted interviews and chosen already had parking studies, builda candidate to recommend for ing design guidelines, the recent formal approval that day. Denson Blue Heron study… there’s comfort requested the closed session on in hiring consultants, but it can the grounds that it was to discuss also be a substitute for really It’s good for something, right? The newest aerial view of downtown Athens, from “personnel”; Overend contends doing anything. Athens citizens the Washington Street parking deck. that information shared pertaining have always shown themselves to whether or not to hire a consulwilling to do their own studies— tant—particularly when that information has figure out how it would be funded—that’s the the OneAthens antipoverty team made many no bearing on the candidate himself—does big holdup.” recommendations; so did the Charter Overview not meet the standards of sensitivity required Master plans have been drawn up for many commission—and one of the most imaginative to conduct talks in secret.

U.S. cities, including parts of Atlanta and local planning studies has been the homeKeep in mind that it was Denson who Savannah. The proposals for Athens typically grown, zero-cost “Community Approach to publicly aired “legal and ethical issues” with would conduct traffic and marketing studies Planning Prince Avenue.” commissioners’ having conversations outside of downtown, and make suggestions on land Consultants can bring expertise, but they public meetings during the EDF board member- uses, likely retailers, “wayfinding” for visitors, can’t make our decisions for us. The Blue ship dustup earlier this summer, despite the traffic calming, landscaping and public art.

Heron study warned that the Armstrong & fact that those discussions never involved And while the downtown authority celDobbs property near downtown will become public policy decisions being made based on ebrates the opening of its new parking deck, just more student apartments [or, apparently, secret information. Even if the records request some accuse it of caring about nothing but a Walmart] unless a plan is put forward. Once doesn’t yield any useful new information parking. The ADDA’s mission statement tasks again, we’ve paid a consultant to tell us what about A&D, Blue Heron or Walmart, it’s bound it with “revitalization and redevelopment” of to do, and then done nothing. Is there a betto help clear the picture as far as what our downtown, but Lookofsky could point to no ter way? [John Huie] local officials’ priorities are for the immediate activities besides parking (from which the future of downtown development—and what authority derives its revenue). And despite Dave Marr & John Huie news@flagpole.com

Athens News and Views The political terrain surrounding the apparent demise of the Blue Heron river district project and speculation about the possible redevelopment of the Armstrong & Dobbs property just keeps getting rockier.

In the wake of the Athens-Clarke County Commission’s moratorium on development on the outskirts of downtown—a move designed to buy time to deal with the infrastructure demands of impending development, specifically of a reported mixed-use project at A&D that was rumored to include a small, “urban” Walmart—the Athens Banner-Herald reported that a representative of the retail giant denied the company was planning such a move at this time. (In the meantime, the ABH editorial page had bemoaned the “unintended consequences” the moratorium might bring, and pointed out that there had been little vocal concern about “infrastructure” among supporters of the Blue Heron project— ignoring, amazingly, the fact that the entire proposal had hinged on the tailoring of infrastructure improvements to planned development.)

Despite a company spokesman’s statement to the ABH that he’s “not aware of any specific discussions” regarding Walmart’s interest in the A&D development, there remain multiple local sources who say they are. And the one person in the local government who purports to have had substantive discussions with representatives of the developer that’s working on the project, Mayor Nancy Denson, has cited a promise of confidentiality to the developer in declining to reveal what she knows of the specifics of the plan. While Denson says she hasn’t signed a binding confidentiality agreement, as has been widely speculated, she clearly sees some conversations she’s had on the matter as beyond the scope of the public’s right to know.

That view may be put to the test by an open records request by local attorney Bill Overend (who is also the chair of the Clarke County Democratic Committee and a former Flagpole staffer) that was delivered last week to Denson, ACC Manager Alan Reddish and

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The conference’s keynote speaker will be Kim Bobo, the author of Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid and What You Can Do About It. Bobo is also the executive director and founder of Interfaith Worker Justice, a Chicago nonprofit advocacy group, and has been involved in community organizing since

graduating from college with a B.A. in religion and realizing that such a path could exist.

“I wanted to help people,” Bobo says.

After 10 years with a Christian hunger-fighting organization, Bread for the World, she became an instructor at a community organizing training institute in Chicago. A turning point for her came in 1989, when she came in contact with strikers who walked to support retired or disabled coal miners—or their widows— whose health benefits were terminated by the Pittston Coal Company in Pennsylvania. Bobo was startled to find that few, if any, religious organizations had ties with labor groups. Bobo began to organize influential religious figures in Chicago into committees for social justice.

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission began its hearings last week on a request from Southern Co. for a license to build and operate two more nuclear reactors at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle. It appears likely the NRC will grant the licenses for the Vogtle units either later this year or by next January, which would give Georgia the distinction of having the first new nuclear plants to be authorized in this country in more than 30 years.

I’m not sure that is something we should celebrate. This is the most expensive project ever undertaken in this state—Georgia Power now estimates the cost of building the reactors at nearly $15 billion, a total that will most surely go up after the inevitable cost overruns occur.

Consumers and small businesses even now are paying higher rates—six years before the plants even begin operating— just to cover the financing costs of this massive project. These rate hikes are being imposed on the average homeowner in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

There’s nothing to be done about the financial aspects of this project, of course.

The Georgia Public Service Commission voted to authorize the higher rates, and that decision will not be reversed. There is another factor, however, that makes me very nervous about these nuclear reactors, and should make you nervous as well.

Six months ago we saw the horrific meltdown of a nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan, after an earthquake hit that part of the country. Japanese residents will have to deal for years with the high incidence of cancer and other health hazards associated with the release of all that radioactivity.

The vigilant members of our PSC aren’t worried that such a calamity could happen here. I have yet to hear any of them express the slightest concern about the possibility of a meltdown at Plant Vogtle. I’m sure

the commissioners and their good friends at Georgia Power would tell you not to worry, because earthquakes just don’t happen in Georgia. Except that they do.

When an earthquake hit Virginia in August, the tremors were felt in Atlanta and other parts of North Georgia. If you go to the website of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), you will learn that other earthquakes have hit Georgia harder than the Virginia quake.

Georgia felt tremors from the New Madrid series of earthquakes in 1811–12. There was an earthquake in Milledgeville in 1872. An earthquake centered near Tybee Island shook the Savannah area in 1903, an earthquake happened southeast of Atlanta in 1916, and an earthquake was recorded northeast of Macon in 1964.

Here’s some more information from the USGS files: “The great Charleston, SC earthquake of 1886 caused severe shaking experienced in Georgia.

On Aug. 31 at 9:25 p.m., preceded by a low rumble, the shock waves reached Savannah… Ten buildings in Savannah were damaged beyond repair and at least 240 chimneys damaged. People spent the night outside. At Tybee Island light station the 134-foot lighthouse was cracked near the middle where the walls were six feet thick, and the one-ton lens moved an inch and a half to the northeast.

“In Augusta the shaking was the most severe (VIII on the Modified Mercalli scale) in the state. An estimated 1,000 chimneys and many buildings were damaged.”

Keep in mind that the Plant Vogtle reactors will be located not that far from Augusta. It is true that Georgia is not situated on a fault line, so the possibility of a severe earthquake here is a small one. But even if that small possibility doesn’t bother the public servants at the PSC, it makes me very nervous.

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This is the chorus of the art-documentary Rutherford: “I don’t know anyone that’s looked General Orders No. 9, which I had the good at the condition of the property and the finanfortune to catch at Ciné two weekends ago, cials that thinks we’re not doing the right complete with a Q&A with writer/director Bob thing,” UGA President Michael Adams said Persons. The film is most successful when it regarding the demolition of Rutherford Hall at is more humbly exploring the order within a UGA Real Estate Foundation board meeting the small-town Deep South, but it frequently (according to an Athens Banner-Herald story). veers away to more aggressively rant against Of course, with no effort whatsoever from the soulless interstate highway and “the City” the administration to actually show or explain (portrayed by Atlanta). those details, Adams’ comment sounds a little While it’s easy to focus on the beautiful flippant, especially given the near-unanimous images of the film, or dismiss it as pretenopposition from students, alumni and local, tiously artsy, the kernel of an idea which this state and national historic preservation orgasmall town cosmology laid out in the above nizations at a local forum on the issue. quote is fascinating stuff. As the narrator The idea to demolish the dorm was describes Persons’ view of the world, aerial apparently hatched at the UGA Real Estate photographs of an archetypal township lead Foundation, which finances the constructo abstracted diagrams tion of parking decks that are reminiscent and new dorms on of Buddhist mandalas, campus—projects that from which temples like are generally notable the impressively ruined for being horribly out Angkor Wat may derive of scale from the North their arrangement. A Campus flavor UGA city plan representing pushes in its master the values of its foundplan. That plan, accorders and denizens is ing to UGA officials, nothing new, and the stands in for a statedemocratic courthouse mandated preservation square as the literal and plan, which is required figurative heart of the of all similar state county isn’t far off in institutions but which approach from that of UGA has refused to the builders of ancient undertake. Many in the temples. If we earnestly preservation field have acknowledge our own noted that this lack of local cosmology, we a preservation plan is might find a compelling illegal. way to overcome the The Rutherford projfailings of modern citect looks much more ies which General Orders UGA’s track record for new housing includes like the whim of adminmany buildings that tower over their surroundlater harps on. istrators—and a UGA ings. Are they capable of building a well-scaled The film’s countyReal Estate Foundation and detailed replacement for Rutherford Hall? town-courthouse more comfortable system is familiar and with new construction easy to recognize in the local landscape, but than complex renovation—than a well reawhat others define and flesh out our region? soned move. If it is really a solution of last The ridge-road and river pattern is a somewhat resort, then these public servants have some less obvious one, which Persons seems intuiexplaining to do. Of course, it’s worth noting tively aware of but doesn’t fully explore. “Deer that the Foundation is more a private entity trail becomes Indian trail becomes county than a public one, and we should be wary of road,” the narrator intones, but what is left its throwing money around to implement its unsaid is that the paths often chosen follow vision for the campus. At this point, though, flat uplands, with many of the most prominent it looks as if only the Board of Regents routes sitting along major divides. could undo this move—and the board’s new Next time you’re riding down Prince or Chancellor, Hank Huckaby, used to work for Milledge Avenue, consider that the old highAdams, so don’t expect much help there. way they comprise divides the drainage Of course, demolition by neglect is just as basins of the Middle and North Oconee Rivers. much a part of the UGA’s record as its preserThe route that will ultimately become the vation successes, which UGA now seems to be Firefly Trail was once a rail line, the first to relying on as part of a “preserve two, demolish reach Athens, and much of it traces the divide the third for free” deal. Look no further than between the Broad and Oconee Watersheds.

South Milledge, where the great Red Barn Peachtree Street in Atlanta marks the subconrots. Patching up the iconic reminder of UGA’s tinental divide, separating that which flows agricultural heritage would only take $20,000, into the Gulf from that which flows into the but Adams and the gang don’t seem interAtlantic. That the South’s biggest city stradested in turning it into anything other than dles the defining hydrological feature of this floorboards. Adams has a long track record of side of the continent is certainly an interestacknowledging the master plans and previous ing fact, and one which could provide the type preservation efforts on campus only when he of intuitive approach for exploring some of the sees fit, and ignoring them when he’s in the ecological issues in the region that Persons mood. The whole scene reeks of old-fashioned has touched on. Imagine how intuitive and good-ole-boyism. familiar organizations of the land, based on history and vernacular understanding, Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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The so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” (which is neither at Ground Zero nor a mosque—it is an Islamic community center in an old Burlington Coat Factory two-anda-half blocks from the World Trade Center site) opened on Sept. 21 to little fanfare or right-wing hyperventilation. Despite the far right’s earlier warnings that the community center would plant the Islam-o-fascist caliphate’s flag in American soil, absolutely nothing of the sort happened, or will happen.

The truth is that, once again, September 11 and the specter of terrorism was used to gin up fear, and, once again, many of us dumbly bit on the bait. In a “moment of hate”-grade fit, our country fought bitterly for a few weeks about a glorified YMCA. Once again, the national tragedy was used to infantilize Americans, adults becoming like scared children, believing terrorists to be under every bed, in every closet, lurking inside harmless community centers. The “Ground Zero Mosque” episode demonstrated how American fear and anger could be turned on and off like a switch.

With its corporate finger on that switch, MSNBC chose to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 by replaying its broadcast from that fateful morning in real time. It could only be described as terror porn. Who needs to see the planes striking the buildings again? Who needs to see the towers shudder ominously, then collapse? Who needs to watch nearly 3,000 Americans lose their lives, again and again and again and again?

A better question might be: who benefits from people being scared? There are groups who do, in fact, benefit from a terrified citizenry (besides the terrorists themselves, of course).

It has become an industry—a sort of 9/11 fear-industrial complex. The cable news networks boost ratings while the Pentagon and the defense industry ensure the maintenance of their expensive robustness due to our fear. Politicians use the tragedy as a wedge issue, à la the “Ground Zero Mosque” episode. Many of the politicians willing to use the tragedy for cheap political points are the very same who owe their success to massive campaign donations from the defense industry. Fear mongering is now a fully incentivized virtuous cycle.

Instead of being the occasion for a frank, adult discussion of terrorism, its legitimate threat and how best to address it, the 10th anniversary of 9/11 played out more like a cheap and dismal holiday where we celebrated our inability to have matured much in 10 years. The terror industry was out in full force. Television commercials co-opted the tragedy to sell everything from car insurance to beer. All manner of September 11 trinkets abounded. Google “9/11 apron” or “9/11 Merlot” for a taste. Even 9/11 smart phone apps hit the market in the lead-up to the anniversary. The primary images for most of these apps were not of heroic police or firemen; no, the apps led off with fiery terror and mass death. I downloaded one (for free) which began with “Tour Stop 1: Impact.” A picture of the impact can be clicked to see video of the attack. Why do I need an app whose entire function is to keep me terrified?

A scared populace is easily manipulable. It is one willing— or eager—to cede power to a father-figure leader, someone who will keep us safe, even from imagined threats. We saw that in 2003, as fear was stoked by the powerful, reason was abandoned, and a criminal war was launched. Google yourself through history’s most awful episodes, and often you’ll find frightened people permitting a strong leader to do awful things.

The Mubarak regime in Egypt existed in a permanent “state of emergency” which allowed the dictator to justify ruthlessness and injustice. Bashar al-Assad in Syria is currently murdering his citizens under the same “emergency” aegis. Hitler, of course, famously rose to power through a manufactured emergency. So, commemorate the heroism of the first responders and the soldiers who sacrifice everything for their fellow citizens, but do not forget that fear is a tool of the powerful.

Never forget that.

Matthew Pulver

Late Night Eats, Pt. 1: No one considers going to Al’s #1 Italian Beef (265 E. Clayton St.) for health food. The whole point of the place, a franchise whose original was founded in 1938 and positively reviewed by road food experts Jan and Michael Stern, is indulgence. Nor is it vegetarian-friendly, as you might guess from the name. It does beef and pork, made into various kinds of sandwiches, and fries topped with stuff that is god-awful for you, and it does them until 3 a.m.

Thursday–Saturday (midnight most other nights, 10 p.m.

Sunday), which suggests a built-in downtown clientele.

The Italian beef is sort of like a cheesesteak, made with thin slices of beef wet-roasted with spices, plus onions, peppers and cheese if you so desire. It’s best served “wet,” however, or dunked in the broth in which it has been cooked, which makes it harder to eat than a cheesesteak. If you’re grabbing some napkins from the dispensers on the wall, you’d better get more than you think you’ll need. Still, while it’s undoubtedly kind of gross, so is much of the world’s great food, from truffles to foie gras. The Italian beef at Al’s isn’t quite on that level (the spices are a bit Christmas-y), but it’s worth feeling greasy up to your elbows, at least occasionally.

At $7.85 for the large, it’s a lot of food for your money, too. …beef wet-roasted The fries are more expensive, with spices… but probably what I would opt for were I stumbling around the streets of Athens late at night, full of beer and suddenly starving. The nacho fries come topped with bright orange “cheese” and jalapenos and do hit the spot in a certain way, but the buffalo bleu fries, which feature blue cheese dressing and hot wings sauce, are kind of a masterpiece of junk food. The fries themselves could be crisper, but they taste like real potatoes and are clearly fairly freshly made.

Al’s also does a number of sausages, including its “legendary char-grilled Italian sausage,” served on a substantial bun with grilled onions and peppers. It’s close to being what J.B. once offered, minus the comeback sauce, but it could use that kind of kick to move it to the next level. The restaurant is new, clean, very fast and friendly. It’s open for lunch and dinner every day, does catering and take-out, has no liquor license and accepts credit cards.

Late Night Eats, Pt. 2: The restaurant on the rooftop of the Georgia Theatre (215 N. Lumpkin St.) hasn’t really settled a name, at least for the moment, and it can be reached from the side entrance on Clayton Street by taking the elevator all the way up. Once there, you reach a space as pleasant in the day as it is late at night, with a large bar that’s comfortable to sit at while you eat or drink and a bunch of tables and chairs scattered around in various combinations.

Order at the bar from the small menu (four items plus some sides) and your food is ready in a jiff to be picked up from the window to the left, with your name called over a speaker to let you know. Really, it’s about as fast as McDonald’s and not a ton more expensive; most offerings are $6. The folks behind it also run White Tiger Gourmet in the Boulevard neighborhood, but this restaurant is less ambitious and not quite as good. It does, however, have a full bar and takes credit cards with ease, so there’s that going for it.

The BBQ seems sweeter and less smoky, although that could have been the sauce more than the meat itself, which was still not bad. The pimento cheese sandwich is a bit heavy on the cheese in its ratio and can be combined with slaw and/or cue, but overpowers the former as an addition, making it not worth the extra dollar. Both are plenty large, and packaged neatly in buns wrapped in waxed paper, making them easy to carry out. Also on offer are a smoked chicken salad sandwich and one made with tofu, some slight consolation to the friendly and recently vegan bartender who took my order. It’s open for lunch and dinner every day, including during shows.

What Up?: Sad times: Wilson’s Soul Food has shuttered after 30 years. It will be missed. Stuffed Burger on Baxter Street will open on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Kelly’s Jamaican opened a second location (same menu) at 145 Epps Bridge Rd. It’s open Tuesday–Thursday from 11:30 a.m.–6 p.m. and Friday & Saturday, 11:30 a.m.–7 p.m., closed Sundays and Mondays.

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miscellany Get Your ATH Together Booze and Bikes: New Belgium Brewing’s traveling beer and film festival, Clips of Faith, will make a stop at Hot Corner (Hull and Washington streets) on Friday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. for a free outdoor screening of several amateur short films focused on New Belgium’s “three main follies”: craft beer, sustainability and whimsy. Tastings of New Belgium’s Lips of Faith microbrew series and food from local vendors will be available, with all proceeds from beer sales benefiting BikeAthens. In each town that tour visits, the festival partners with a local non-profit, almost always exclusively dealing with bicycling advocacy. See a preview at www.clipsoffaith.com.

unlimited 2 oz. samples of over 100 different craft beers, as well as an afternoon full of live music, food and giveaways. For an extra $20, you can attend an exclusive VIP brewmasters’ reception the night before from 7–9 p.m. at the Rialto Room, featuring a panel discussion, Q&A session and meet and greet. Visit www. athensbeerfestival to find out more.

Riverkeeper Recommended: Janisse Ray will have a launch party for her new work, Drifting Into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River at Seney-Stovall chapel on Tuesday, Oct. 11. This event is sponsored by the Oconee River Project of Altamaha Riverkeeper, University of Georgia Press, Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, The Georgia Review, Georgia River Network and University of Georgia Libraries. Ray offers an insightful account of our river, its people and the conservation efforts which have been implemented to save it. Be sure to read John Nettles’ review in The Reader in next week’s Flagpole.

Keep on Pedaling: The Clips of Faith event will kick off the second annual Georgia Bike Summit, a weekend full of workshops, films and bike rides. From 7:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, the Georgia Center for Continuing Education will host a series of seminars and breakout sessions pertaining to the advocacy of bicycling and alternative transIt Takes a Village: portation such The Athens as “Becoming Community Council a Bike Friendly on Aging and the Business: How & Lyndon House Arts Why,” “Effective Center will host Public Relations the 37th Annual for Bicycle Harvest Festival, Advocates” and a free celebration “Low Cost Bicycle of rural life and Improvements.” cultural heritage, Later in the eveon Thursday, Oct. ning at 7 p.m., 13 from 9 a.m.–2 the Southeast p.m. After a twoOff-Road Bicycle year hiatus due to Organization lack of funding, (SORBA) will host the festival’s return a screening of will showcase demMaggie Horacek’s sculpture is part of the Pulaski Street the documentary onstrations of clasArt Crawl on Saturday. Oct. 8 sic 19th-century Pedal-Driven at Ciné, along with crafts and domestic skills, ranging from quilting, butter-churning, several accompanying short bicycle advocacy wood-carving, chair-caning, storytelling and films. For more info about the weekend’s knitting to making brooms, soap, pottery and events, check out www.georgiabikes.org. cornhusk dolls. The festival is envisioned as an m Art Around Town: As mentioned in last intergenerational experience, so children are week’s “Art Notes,” the Georgia Sculptors’ especially encouraged to come out and enrich Society will host the inaugural Pulaski Street their knowledge of Georgia history while Art Crawl on Saturday, Oct. 8, from 5–9 p.m. chomping down on candy apples. To register, Kicking off at ARTini’s Art Lounge, where go to www.accaging.org.

Project Safe will display a collection of artwork by domestic abuse survivors in support of Something for Everyone: Athens PopFest’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month, crawlers first venture into non-music territory will can grab a guide to over a dozen participating be this year’s inclusion of a “Poptoberfair” businesses (including The Grit, Agora, Pain & (much easier on the tongue than Wonder, Ted’s Most Best, Gymnopedie, etc.)

Craftstravaflukeswap), the combination of and the personal studios of Mary Engel and three independently awesome fairs: the Athens Stan Mullins. The final stop and main event Indie Craftstravaganzaa, Fluke Mini-Comics of the Crawl will be at Pints and Paints at 7 and Zine Festival, and the Secret Record Swap. p.m., where the Georgia Sculptors’ Society From 10 a.m.–6 p.m. at the Classic Center the Juried Art Exhibition will be judged by local final day of PopFest (Oct. 15), regional artists, bronze and mixed-media sculptor Mary Engel writers, illustrators, vendors and collectors and figure sculptor Kinzel Branham. See www. will gather together to simultaneously showgeorgiasculpture.org. case 12,000 square feet of handmade crafts, publications, music and more. Entry is $5—or Sunday Funday: The first annual Athens free with a PopFest wristband. Tables are still Craft Beer Festival, a collaboration between available on a first-come, first-served basis, Trappeze Pub and Hotel Indigo, will take and anyone interested in selling should visit place within tents right outside the hotel on www.athenspopfest.com for details.

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• indicates new review • 50/50 (R) Cancer is scary and depressing. It’s even scarier and more depressing when it happens to a young person. So how is Jonathan Levine’s second film so darn funny and uplifting? Joseph Gordon-Levitt (the only young actor who can compete with Ryan Gosling in a battle of control and nuance), Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick (proving her Oscar-nominated performance in Up in the Air was no fluke) and screenwriter Will Reiser are how. Adam Lerner works for NPR; he works out; he doesn’t smoke or drink; he recycles; he has a beautiful artist girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard), a potty-mouthed BFF (Rogen) and an overbearing mother (Angelica Huston) he avoids. He also has cancer. Don’t be fooled by its mild-mannered “Disease of the Week” appearance, this film, loosely based on screenwriter Reiser’s own struggles to beat cancer, is like Terms of Endearment for 20-somethings.

ABDUCTION (PG-13) Taylor Lautner, whose apparent acting idol was Derek Zoolander, has translated his howevermany-pack into a Taylor-made bomb.

Abduction attempts to force moviegoers to recognize Lautner as a superstar at gunpoint, and it’s as terrible a movie as you suspect it to be. Every adult involved with this MTV action movie, from director John Singleton to respected actors Alfred Molina and Sigourney Weaver, should be ashamed for cashing this paycheck.

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

BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (PG) 1989. “Strange things are [certainly] afoot at the Circle K;” hop in the phone booth and

travel back to the late-’80s with Bill S. Preston, Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves). My parents had to buy an overpriced VHS copy of this “Excellent!” comedy after accidentally recording over less than a minute of it.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG-13) Director Joe Johnston smartly gives Captain America: The First Avenger a sort of Saturday matinee serial feel. Ninetypound weakling Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) wants to do his part in WWII, but army doctors keep 4Fing him until Dr. Abraham Erskine (the ever wonderful Stanley Tucci) approaches with his super soldier serum. Soon, Steve Rogers turns into a muscled up superhero called Captain America, who must stop rogue Nazi, the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), from devastating the world.

CARS 2 (G) Cars 2 is an above-average children’s cartoon. Unfortunately, an above-average children’s cartoon is way below Pixar’s capabilities. Any other animation house can make a Cars or a Cars 2; Pixar should leave the kiddie entertainment to DreamWorks/ Sony and concentrate on singular masterpieces like WALL-E and Up. CONAN THE BARBARIAN (R) Conan (Momoa) seeks revenge against the baddie, Khalar Zym (Avatar’s Stephen Lang), that murdered his loving barbarian papa (a heavily hirsute Ron Perlman). Fortunately, Conan gets an assist from his Malcolm JamalWarnerbe pal, a pretty priestess (Rachel Nichols) and a thief (Saïd Taghmaoui).

Conan might be content with living, loving and slaying, but a movie needs more than buckets of CGI blood and topless extras. Howard purists may not love John Milius’ 1982 Conan, but everyone’ll abhor the 2011 version.

CONTAGION (PG-13) Steven Soderbergh’s new “What if…” epidemic chiller is an excellent featurelength “Twilight Zone.” 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

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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?

• COURAGEOUS (PG-13) First, the nice things. The technical skills of director Alex Kendrick and the folks (they are from Albany) behind Sherwood Baptist’s latest evangelical epic have vastly improved since their breakthrough hit, Facing the Giants.

On a completely technical level, you’d never know you were not watching a Hollywood production about four law enforcement officers forced to face themselves as men and fathers after a tragedy. I’ve seen several Hollywood hits that looked worse (direction, cinematography, editing, etc.). Now the

seen a strange man around the house, papa Will (Craig) believes it to be the man who was charged with killing his wife and two daughters before being released for lack of evidence. Cue the mystery. If you thought director Sheridan (My Left Foot) was out of his comfort zone helming Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s biopic, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, you don’t know comfort zones (and you obviously didn’t see the decent rap drama). Dream House slogs through the drifts of discarded plot pieces and stylistic cues from other, better horror movies.

DRIVE (R) Drive slides through the alleys and sidestreets of its criminal Los Angeles with the precision, skill and style of its nameless Driver (Ryan Gosling), called the Kid by his boss/ handler, Shannon (Bryan Cranston;

I told you, we don’t know any R.E.M. songs! bad: The talent in front of the camera still reeks of amateurism. Awkward reaction shots and line deliveries of stilted homilies and forced proverbs mar the professional Hollywood slick production values. At least there’s no “big” name bible beater, a la Kirk Cameron in Sherwood’s previous release, Fireproof, to really show up the down home actors. Judging from the success of Sherwood’s film ministry, evangelical audiences are hungry for a movie that speaks to them in clean, Christian parlance. For them, for now, Courageous is the best movie they can ask for. You might call it an answered prayer.

DOLPHIN TALE (PG) I am not a sucker for sentimental animal movies. Were I, then I am sure Dolphin Tale would have fit the bill. A lonely 12-year-old, Sawyer (Nathan Gamble), rescues a dolphin (real tail-less dolphin, Winter, as herself) caught in a crab trap. With the help of a marine vet (Harry Connick Jr.), his daughter (Cozi Zuehlsdorff) and a doctor who specializes in prosthetics (Morgan Freeman), Sawyer helps save the dolphin by fashioning a fake appendage. Money woes, a hurricane and the fish’s own dislike of potential new tails confound the boy’s attempts.

• DREAM HOUSE (PG-13) I’m not sure how Dream House happened.

It’s hard to imagine this script having attracted so much A-list talent—Oscar winners Jim Sheridan and Rachel Weisz, plus Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts—seeing as the frozen thriller corpse they dumped into the cinematic wasteland of September is DOA. A family (headed by Craig and Weisz) moves into a new home, only to discover the last family was murdered there. When the young daughters claim to have a

BTW why aren’t you watching “Breaking Bad” yet?). Stuntman by day, getaway man for hire by night, the driver slides his leather driving gloves on and gets his bumpers bloody when a cute neighbor (Carey Mulligan) with a little tyke runs afoul of some local toughs.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG-13) By now everyone knows what to expect from the Potter universe as conceived by director David Yates (he’s helmed the final four Potters) and longtime series scribe Steve Kloves (he scripted the entire series save HP5).

In the final journey to this magical world, the entire cast and crew deliver an emotionally impactful, thrillingly magic-filled final installment to one of the biggest blockbuster franchises of all time.

THE HELP (PG-13) An audiencewooer à la The Blind Side, 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.

HIGHER GROUND (R) Actress Vera Farmiga tries her hand at directing with this religious drama based on Carolyn Briggs’ memoir, This Dark World. Corinne’s (Farmiga) crisis of faith throws a tight-knit, evangelical Christian community into turmoil.

Farmiga did good to get “Deadwood”’s John Hawkes, who received a welldeserved Oscar nom for Winter’s Bone, as a costar. Farmiga received a nomination for the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize.

HORRIBLE BOSSES (R) Horrible Bosses is the summer’s funniest movie

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

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

THE IDES OF MARCH (R) Based on a play, George Clooney’s new political drama definitely has some shades of a Redford film. An idealistic staffer, Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling), learns to play dirty politics on the campaign trail of a hot, new presidential candidate (Clooney, pulling double duty).

It remains to be seen whether or not Clooney’s new picture can set the pace for the early Oscar front runners.

With Paul Giamatti, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright and more.

GRANDMA HAS A VIDEO CAMERA 2007. The Hispanic Heritage Month celebration (this year’s theme: Immigration and Transnational Experience) continues at the Georgia Museum of Art. A family of Brazilian immigrants record 20 years of their successes and struggles, joys and sorrows, via video camera. The screening will be introduced by Susan Quinlan and followed by a Skype Q&A with director Tania Cypriano. Nominated for the Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Poll for Best Undistributed Film of 2007.

KILLER ELITE (R) What seems like another kinetic actioner in Jason Statham’s interchangeable (besides the two hits of Crank) is actually a pretty solid exercise in real men (Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro and a bunch of British toughs) playing war.

Danny (Statham) is a retired merc, pulled back into the game to save his mentor, Hunter (De Niro). His latest renegade op places him in direct opposition with former SAS specialist, Spike (Owen). Gary McKendry confidently directs the action and spying in his feature debut THE LION KING (G) Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future king.

MONEYBALL (PG-13) Based on Michael Lewis’ bestseller, director Bennet Miller’s follow-up to the Oscar winning Capote actually makes baseball statistics interesting. Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) attempts to build a championship ballclub through On Base and Slugging Percentage rather than traditional scouting. Does it work? Anyone familiar with Major League Baseball already knows the answer, but the film, adapted by screenwriting superstars Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Moneyball isn’t quite this year’s The Social Network; Miller lacks Fincher’s dangerously pure talent and the story lacks Facebook’s volcanic relevance.

REAL STEEL (PG-13) The trailer for this Hugh Jackman action movie just screams Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Robots: The Movie (which apparently was in

development at one point). Jackman is a struggling promoter of robot boxing, who thinks he has a contender in a discarded bot. He also discovers he has an 11-year-old son. Director Shawn Levy has been on a roll; his last three movies were the high-profile hits, Night at the Museum, its Smithsonianset sequel and Date Night.

SARAH’S KEY (PG-13) A Parisian journalist (Kristin Scott Thomas) investigating the notorious 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup becomes embroiled in the mystery of a young girl whose family ties were severed by the Holocaust.

Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s last movie was a horror film, Walled In, starring Mischa Barton. Sarah’s Key is based on the bestseller Elle s’Appelait Sarah by Tatiana De Rosnay. With Mélusine Mayance as 10-year-old Sarah Starzynski and Niels Arestrup.

SENNA (PG-13) The late Brazilian Formula One racer Ayrton Senna gets the documentary treatment in this film from BAFTA Award winner and Cannes Film Festival nominee Asif Kapadia (The Warrior and the short, The Sheep Thief). The three-time F1 champion, revered as a saint in his native country, died like NASCAR superstar Dale Earnhardt, felled on live television by the sport he loved. I’ve never heard of Senna, but his life story sounds fascinating. Senna won Sundance’s Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary.

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG-13) What exactly did Michael Bay think was wrong with the last Transformers movie? Whatever he fixed made Transformers 3 cringingly bad and the worst of the bunch.

• WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (R) Abandoned to another flimsy romcom, Anna Faris amusingly tumbles from one lame setup to another as Ally, a young woman trying to find love before she sleeps with her 21st guy.

Naturally, her neighbor is a hot stud (Chris “Captain America” Evans) looking for a clumsy, busty, blonde reason to stop the assembly line bringing beautiful women into his bed. Faris is beautiful, funny and deserving of a showy role in a Woody Allen-level romantic comedy (think Mira Sorvino or Scarlett Johannson). It’s high time for Evans to leave these easy paycheck roles behind, else he risk succumbing to Gerard Butler Syndrome, wherein a rising male actor is defined by his crap Katherine Heigl ogling rather than his exciting macho actioning (it’s acting plus action; it’s actioning). Things the world doesn’t need: another “chick” flick to reinforce awful, dated gender stereotypes. Thing the world does need: more Anna Faris.

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

With Monica Belluci and Vanessa Redgrave.

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. The animals, who can talk thanks to the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow, Maya Rudolph, Jon Favreau and Nick Nolte, etc., break their code of silence to help the lovable Griffin win his dream girl.

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movie pick Pure Racing SENNA (PG-13) There’s a common belief that art and athletics don’t mix. Yet, many writers and musicians have made significant work inspired by athletes in motion. Anyone who has watched Pelé, Ali, Jordan or Messi do their thing knows how remarkable their creativity is.

Hollywood regularly churns out sentimental entertainment about dim-witted yet lovable jocks or grizzled coaches looking for one more chance at glory. There’s no mystery as to why.

Boxing, baseball, football and soccer have to varying degrees engaging narrative structures, ready-made melodrama and fistfuls of conflict featuring colorful rogues. The majority of films made, though, aren’t good. To get a rare film like Raging Bull or Bull Durham, you have to risk sitting through brain-freezing junk like Fever Pitch or The Legend of Bagger Ayrton Senna Vance. Most documentaries about sport are just as useless. They’re nothing but hagiographies designed to keep you as far away from the subject as possible.

That’s why, when a great, insightful one comes along (Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings), you pay attention.

British director Asif Kapadia’s Senna, focusing on the life and career of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, is one of the best.

Senna hailed from a wealthy Brazilian family,

but earned his reputation as one of the finest racers alive on his own terms. He was handsome, charming and modest, and approached his sport with an artist’s intuition for taking chances but the intelligence to know when to hold back. Kapadia’s portrait of the man is psychologically uncomplicated (he loved God, country, his family and racing), but the film’s core dramatic conflict comes in the shape of Senna’s contentious rivalry with fellow driver Alain Prost—an intelligent, arrogant, conniving opponent who comes off as Senna’s shadow self—and with the head of the racing federation, Jean-Marie Balestre.

This is documentary filmmaking of the highest order. Eschewing the boring talking-head and reenactment format, Kapadia instead relies on dynamic archival racing footage, home movies and candid interviews with the man himself, investing in the powers of good editing and compelling storytelling to bring his fascinating and ultimately poignant portrait of Senna to life. Fans of Formula One will find much to savor here, but more importantly, so will people who know nothing about racing or have little interest in sport. You just have to love great movies.

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Hope on the Road: Hope for Agoldensummer has a huge tour in the works that will run from the beginning of October through Nov. 20. The band has dates planned for the East Coast, South and Midwest. In other big news for the group, they’ve launched their own record label named Mazarine Records and will release a new album titled Life Inside the Body in January 2012. Other artists on the label are Pacific UV and Electrophoria. You can catch HFAGS locally before they split town if you head to Hendershot’s Coffee Bar on Oct. 8.

For more information, please see www.mazarinerecords.com.

I Need That Record: Kurt Wood is going to open up his record collection for public consumption again this season. He’ll be hosting another session of his famous Front Porch Record Sale Saturday, Oct. 8 (9 a.m.–6 p.m.) and Sunday, Oct. 9 (noon–6 p.m.). As mentioned before in this space, Wood has been an ardent record collector for going on 40 years, and the stuff he has for sale is always top-notch and reasonably priced. The sale takes place literally on his front porch at 1080 Oconee St., so don’t miss it.

If You’re in the Neighborhood: The B-52s will play the inaugural Harvest Moon Festival at Pine Mountain, GA’s Callaway Gardens along with Gin Blossoms, Shawn Mullins, Mat Kearney, David Ryan Harris (Follow for Now), John Hiatt and more. The Brantley Gilbert four-day music and food festival runs Oct. 6–9 and will include “locally-sourced foods, cooking and gardening demonstrations, ecocentric vendors, fun and educational activities for children and, of course, the wonder and beauty of all that Callaway Gardens has to offer.” Sure, that last part sounds like hyperbole but, you know, it ain’t braggin’ if it’s true. Weekend passes are $79, with individual day passes starting at $49. There are VIP packages and other ways to spend money, too; so if you’re interested, please see www.harvestmoonfest.com.

Hits, Baby, Hits: If you’ve been paying attention to modern country radio, you’ve probably heard this cat, Brantley Gilbert— native to Jefferson, GA—land on your radar.

His album, Halfway to Heaven Deluxe, debuted at No. 2 on Billboard magazine’s Country Albums Chart and No. 4 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart. The album sold about 51,000 copies during its first week of release. The album, originally released by Average Joes Entertainment back in early 2010, was tweaked and polished and re-released a couple of weeks ago by Valory Music Group.

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(i.e., longtime Athens engineer Tom Lewis and Newt Carter) were the brains and hands behind the recording of the album, so hats off to them for their success. Lewis is also associate director of the UGA Music Business Program, and something tells me he’s going to be getting a lot more business in the coming months. For more information, please see www.facebook.com/BrantleyGilbertMusic and www.theatombrothers.com.

Job with No Name: Wanna help out newish experimental group Pretty Bird by being part of its newly christened “International Pretty Bird F**k the Man, Wake the Drones, Free Thinking Poster Posting Dissenting Secret Street Teamers”? Well, just ignore all the wearying language in that name and drop a

line to recordsrecordsrecordsrecords@gmail. com. It would probably help if you wrote the email in 18-point, multi-colored type, because that’s the style Pretty Bird seems to understand the best.

Country in the Country: Falling Creek Farms, located about 25 miles southeast of Athens in Stephens, GA, will host Waller in tha Holler on Saturday, Oct. 22. The farm, which raises grass-fed beef without vaccines, hormones, etc., has a lineup featuring Lera Lynn, Radiolucent, The Holman Autry Band, Efren, Clay Leverett, The Darnell Boys, Burning Angels, Jeremy Wells and Betsy Kingston.

Part of the idea behind this event is to feel out how the farm, which encompasses 750 acres, works as a concert venue. If it works, the guys at Falling Creek Farms would like to do this type of thing more regularly. Gates open at 11 a.m., and music starts at noon.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the gate. Kids 10 and under get in free. For more information, please see www.fallingcreekfarms. net.

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upstart roundup Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent WADE BOGGS Punk/Indie/Rock Lineup: Ian McCord, Johnny Watson, Max Talkovich, Derek Wiggs. Shares members with: Hot New Mexicans, Carrie Nations. Influences: Guided By Voices, Superchunk, Sebadoh.

After five years of lineup changes, name changes (adieu, Armpit Farters, we barely knew ye) and woodshedding a lot of material, Wade Boggs has received clearance for go-time.

The brainchild of Ian McCord, former singer/guitarist for Carrie Nations and bassist for Hot New Mexicans, Wade Boggs is at once deliriously hooky and structurally wonky, especially for a punk band. Now that McCord has shored up a solid lineup— drummer Johnny Watson, guitarist Max Talkovich and bassist Derek Wiggs—he can properly showcase a set of songs that are several cuts beyond typical three-chord fare. Fact is, the songs are replete with twisting, unexpected turns and modulations that only a committed core of musicians could do justice.

“I feel like this band, for me, has been around since 2006,” says McCord. “It’s just been a long line of losing somebody and then restarting, but it’s been cool because it’s made the songs so much better.”

A forthcoming album recorded with McCord’s bandmate in Hot New Mexicans, Patrick Jennings, will be released in some form sometime soon. [Jeff Tobias] Next show: Check website for updates.

TATERZANDRAZANDRA Ambient/Raucous Lineup: McKenna Mackie, Matt Tamisin, Wade Gunter, Jon Crandall, Erin Alan Scott Bailey. Shares members with: Flash to Bang Time, Polemic, Candy Maldonado. Influences: Sonic Youth, Unwound, Blonde Redhead.

I got a very ‘90s vibe from TaterZandraZandra at the band’s debut gig at Caledonia Lounge.

TaterZandraZandra Frontwoman McKenna Mackie had a sort of grunge goddess attitude—more Kim Gordon than Courtney Love—all pink hair, funky striped stockings and guitar riffs.

The songs felt raw but tightly constructed, backed by solid, driving rhythms and punctuated by howling guitar.

The band refers to its music as “moody, melodic and angular post-post-punk” and takes pride in the diversity of the bandmembers’ influences. “It’s like fish tank fodder, crying petunias and bloody pillow fights taking over the world!” the group enthuses on a recent press release.

Fans of Mackie’s band Polemic will probably dig this collaboration as well, although TaterZandraZandra doesn’t seem to be quite as aggressive… But this early in the band’s career, it feels like the sound could go any which way. Oh! And there’s saxophone! Sweet.

Check out the band’s song “Demographic Disaster” online at www.reverbnation.com/taterzandrazandra.

Next show: Friday, Oct. 14 @ Caledonia Lounge (PopFest) SLAW & ORDER BillyJoel/ReplacesJackWhiteIn/TheWhiteStripes Lineup: AJ Griffin, Steve Hendriksen. Shares members with: Laminated Cat, Poncho Magic, Vespolina, Olivia Tremor Control. Influences: The Beatles, The White Stripes, Billy Joel, inner bitterness.

“Slaw & Order was initially conceived as a one-off thing for SlopFest—hence the jokey barbeque-themed moniker,” explains keyboardist AJ Griffin. “But we had too much fun and got offered more shows, so we had no choice but to tread onward.”

Despite the sloppy beginnings, the awesomely named Slaw & Order is surprisingly tight and seriously good. I know, the name says twangy punk, but the tunes are anything but. Slaw & Order is sweet and soulful, with AJ crooning in a sort of Lennon-esque tenor over jazzy keyboard riffs while Hendriksen gently keeps the rhythm, sprinkling the tunes with tambourine.

It sounds, as the band aptly phrased in its, er, “three word”

description above: like Billy Joel stepping in for Jack White in the White Stripes.

The pair also marks a new musical direction for Hendriksen, who was previously accustomed to playing guitar. “When I moved to Athens, I was instantly blown away by some of this town’s killer drummers,” he says. “I made the switch partially out of a desire to join the ranks of these Athens drummers, so I definitely owe them for that.”

Griffin meanwhile has been seen all over the local music scene—including all the “shares members with” credits above.

Most recently, he trekked across the nation as a touring member of Olivia Tremor Control. And now that the OTC tour has wound back home, we can expect a few more shows from this delicious duo.

Search for “Slaw & Order” on Facebook to find their fan page with more information.

Next show: Oct. 10 @ Caledonia Lounge KATËR MASS Punk/Rock Lineup: Tim Gill, Phil Lewin, Nick Gomez, Andrew Epstein.

Shares members with: Reeks of Failure. Influences: Propagandhi, The Replacements, Jawbreaker, Fugazi, The Broadways, Minor Threat.

A punk band of intellectuals, the members of Katër Mass all attend grad school at UGA for different disciples (sociology, history and math education).

As you can imagine, after all that studying, you need to blow off a little steam, and these guys do it right.

It’s loud, triumphant punk rock with catchy hooks, wailing solos and a classic, anthemic feel.

The boys got together for the first time in July of this year, and their debut show was in August. But just three months into their career, the guys in Katër Mass are already making plans to record this month, with hopes of releasing a 7-inch EP soon after.

You can find the band online at www.facebook.com/katermass. There are no studio recordings up yet, of course, but you can hear a few of their live jams on YouTube.

Next show: Tuesday, Oct. 4 @ Go Bar. HELEN SCOTT Dark/Folk/Pop Lineup: Emileigh Ireland, Lindsey Jane Haddad, Hannah Weyandt, Dena Zilber, Jason Granfield. Shares members with: Laminated Cat, Hug Abuse, El Hollin, Werewolves, Ye Olde Sub Shoppe. Influences: The Zombies, Camera Obscura, Syd Barrett, Velvet Underground.

First things first: Helen Scott is not an individual but rather the name of a new ensemble which features playful instrumentation, including several ukuleles plus melodica, banjo, accordion, clarinet and something referred to as a “pseudo bass.”

“I guess I would describe the music as folk-ish pop tunes with a hint of psychedelic rock,” says Haddad.

Haddad says she met Ireland in Athens in the spring of 2009, and by fall they were “entertaining themselves by making up songs on the spot with a guitar and a synth.” Over the next couple of years and “many bottles of scotch,” the beginnings of full songs emerged. Once mutual friend/drummer Weyandt joined in early 2011, Helen Scott became a fullfledged band. The band’s first live performance was at Flicker preceding Ireland and Haddad’s own art show. Zilber also hopped on board to “add an extra element to a few songs.”

The group is currently working on recording demos that will hopefully become their debut album. They also promise to post those tunes online at helenscott.bandcamp.com very soon.

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eremy Greenspan, half of Canadian experimental dance/synth pop outfit Junior Boys, has written enough songs in his time to know that inspiration often comes from the most unexpected places. But for the duo’s newest release, It’s All True, his search for a muse led him a little farther from home than even he expected: to Shanghai, China.

“You’re talking about a place where the vast majority of people don’t listen to anything that we do, so that was exciting. Being there was good for gaining a little bit of perspective on how insignificant popular music can be,” he says of his experience. “They’re not cynical just because things are happening at such great speeds. Things are growing and happening at such an exponential and incredible rate. There’s such positive stuff going on, it seems like, and it was infectious to me.”

The globe-spanning trek is, in many ways, a perfect representation of Junior Boys.

Greenspan and partner Matt Didemus have long been musical explorers of sorts, writing songs by combing through the sonic spheres of any equipment they can find in search of new sounds.

“The drive to want to play with new equipment and listening to new sounds is what motivates us,” says Greenspan. “We play around with a piece of equipment enough that you start getting a loop that sounds interesting. And then you keep building and adding parts before we translate that into a song and lose the parts you don’t want, building choruses and verses. But it just begins with tinkering around on some piece of equipment looking for something new.”

It’s that search that often presents the unfair paradox and generalization of much electronic music: when you’re relying on computers and machines to create your sound, how do you keep things from sounding too, well, computerized and machine-like?

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things that sound like demos. You can hear things that sound like they were written by software developers in Japan rather than musicians,” laughs Greenspan. “For me, I find synthesizers to be these incredibly soulful things. I don’t overly concern myself with how a song is made; I’m more concerned with how the final product affects me.”

Much of Junior Boys’ effect comes in a matured live show—one that’s been carefully developed and molded over time. “Matt has control of the sequencer and has about five synthesizers onstage that are either being triggered by the sequencer or that he’s playing directly, and then he has an array of effects,” says Greenspan of the live setup. “I’m playing a lot of keyboards these days, and never used to. I’m playing a lot of electric keyboards and those sort of things. And then we have a drummer on an electric drum kit, so everything he plays is triggered and takes samples from our record and other places.”

It’s All True is a logical step for Junior Boys’ discography, reflecting a now veteran sound without losing the sense of exploration for which they’ve become known. For Greenspan, the sound seems a logical step for music in general.

“Electronic dance music has taken over the world now,” he says. “Every indie-rock band has some sort of dance element now; even modern hip-hop is starting to have some of the sounds. It’s kind of weird that it seems like a lot of the dance music scene itself died, but the remnants of it are very pervasive.”

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Calling from Atlanta, surrounded by her dogs, Saliers is upbeat and completely at ease, chatting about the new album that was recently released on the Girls’ own IG Recordings label.

“It’s been liberating. We’re not wasting money; we don’t have to ask permission; we can do whatever we wanna do. I feel like we’re flourishing creatively, and we’re more productive because of that. It’s a little more stressful in terms of budgets, but that’s OK, because you can make a record in two-and-ahalf weeks. All your focus is on putting everything into every minute in the studio. You’re exhausted when it’s over, but it’s a great way to make a record. All that is a result of being independent.”

Of course, the Indigo Girls are nearly as well known for their political activism as their music, and Saliers is eager to discuss the band’s many causes as well as the 2010 return of Lilith Fair, a festival that once humbly billed itself as “a celebration of women in music,” but ultimately grew into a landmark event in the modern feminist movement.

“I thought it was very successful,” she says. “It didn’t have the same bang that the first one did, but the spirit of Lilith was the same: that camaraderie of people sharing the stage and giving money to community groups that needed it. Sarah McLachlan does an excellent job with that. It was a different experience because we were 10 years older.

The first time we played Lilith it was sort of mindblowing. I’ll never forget it. Never ever ever. Chrissie Hynde came up and sang part of ‘Closer to Fine’ and I thought I would just die and go to heaven.”

As for the band’s current passions, Saliers says, “We work primarily with an indigenousrun group called Honor the Earth that focuses on issues of energy justice. It’s about bringing alternative energy projects to communities to try to help shift the U.S. energy paradigm. We

are still involved with lots of other causes— queer community activism and anti-death penalty. We just had a horrific execution here in Georgia, Troy Davis, and I’m just devastated by that outcome. Honestly, I feel disheartened [with politics in general]. There’s so much backstabbing and partisanship. I’m still a big Obama supporter, for different reasons, but obviously the alternative is just unthinkable to me. It’s a big mess. We’ve just passed terrible immigration laws in Georgia. There’s a lot of racism and hatefulness going on, and the media’s not helping, and I don’t think Americans are taking time to educate themselves about the issues without just reacting. We’re so bombarded that no one’s really reading through these issues to get to what’s really going on behind all the hype. I’m gonna vote for Obama, but I’ve been disappointed by his policies as well. It’s a hard time to be an American. I love this country, but it’s not easy.”

Wrapping up on a lighter note, Saliers offered many kind words to R.E.M., with whom the Indigo Girls have shared a warm, professional relationship dating back to Stipe’s stirring guest vocals on 1989’s “Kid Fears.”

“You can’t even put words to it really,” she says. “They were unique and exciting and different, and they had such a long career and they produced incredible music and true artistry. Job well done. The influence they’ve had on American music and their place in history is indelible now. I wish them well in their future projects. Each one of those guys is a tremendous artist in his own right. It’s truly the end of an era.”

And so, as we wave goodbye to R.E.M., let us welcome back their home-state sisters with open arms, because they are certainly looking forward to seeing us. Saliers was not shy about that as she signed off, giddily sharing: “Just can’t wait to get back to Athens. Totally psyched!”

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thens has had a hard time knowing what to do with its heavy metal. Many can attest to the poor attendance of several of Harvey Milk’s early liturgical explosions, and that band is the finest the Classic City has ever offered in terms of aggressive music. In a town more well-regarded for its forays into psychedelia, pop and college rock—not to mention a tightly packed downtown where volume travels with impunity—where are metalheads to go to get their fix of the loud stuff?

Although his venue is popularly regarded as the local haven for dubstep and the like, New Earth Music Hall talent buyer Ryan Hetrick wants people to know that his room is open for heavy business.

“It was branded as a mostly electronic music venue, but since [then] Adrian [Zelski, owner] and I [have] chatted and had very long discussions about where we’d like to take it and be more of a full-service music venue, where we embrace a lot of counterculture types of things,” says Hetrick.

“That’s part of what metal music and what loud, heavier music is; it’s counterculture. I feel like there needed to be a place for those kids and those types of music listeners to feel comfortable in… There’s been some stigma; there’s been some things that I’ve battled against. I had to get people into the room and have them see and listen to it and see that it can be some place that isn’t just electronic and raver kids running around.”

Since Hetrick joined the New Earth team in March of this year, his “Metal Earth” series has done great guns, kicking off with a headlining set from Atlanta grindcore quintet Primate (featuring moonlighting Mastadon guitarist Bill Kelliher), “party doom” act Demonaut and Athens’ own Savagist. This was followed in quick succession by a show including ex-Athenians/ Flagpole Band of the Year Award recipients Lazer/Wulf, doom-bearers Guzik, power trio Hot Breath and newer band By

out and focuses them towards music and gives them an outlet. There’s so many great bands and so many phenomenal musicians in that realm, and I felt in some ways that it never got represented in the way that it needed to. And that’s no shot at the 40 Watt or Tasty World or to anybody else; I just felt like I had an opportunity to put that sort of music back in the forefront and give the metal kids and the musicians and the people in town who play in heavier bands a chance to take their thing higher and farther than what they could have gone previously.”

In the immediate future, there are three more “Metal Earth” shows are on the horizon. The next The Black Dahlia Murder event features Weedeater, the 10-years-strong Southern metal pioneers who debuted in 2001 with the Sword. Beyond mere decibels, a common bond between the amazingly titled …and Justice for Y’all. Following that, these two shows is Clem Adams, whom Hetrick describes as his the venue will be host to the most legitimately huge band “right-hand person” throughout the process of bringing metal of this series, The Black Dahlia Murder, a Detroit band that to New Earth: helping to bring in bands, designing the first represents the vanguard of extreme metal’s more melodic side. flier and performing with Savagist and Hot Breath.

Finally, the CD release by Music Hates You is around the corIt makes sense that New Earth would want to expand ner; Hetrick says that “they’re a long-standing Athens institubeyond a niche audience; in a music community as small and tion, and for them to want to do their CD release party under somewhat segregated as Athens, strict genre lines hurt more the [banner] of Metal Earth and New Earth Music Hall was a than help local venues. But for Hetrick, including metal in the complete honor for me. I’m tickled by it.” venue’s purview was essential to his joining on to book shows Beyond all that, Hetrick makes ominous reference to someat New Earth. thing called “New Year’s Eve Evil,” but can’t divulge much “I just felt like in the times that I lived here, I saw so many other than general enthusiasm. “Whether it be math rock, punk great bands that had heavier influences, whether it be metal or rock, sludge rock, stoner rock, weed metal, thrash metal, black whether it be math rock or what have you,” says Hetrick. “And metal, what have you. I don’t care,” he says. “If it’s turned up up to that point, before I moved down here, I listened to a and it’s loud and it’s somewhat aggressive, I’d like it to be repdecent amount of it when I was younger, but when I got here, resented under Metal Earth.” it re-energized me as to the power of a great heavy music show and how it transcends things and takes people’s aggressions Jeff Tobias

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who go over their six-minute time limit with foam rocks. Performers get in FREE! but must sign up by 8 p.m. 8 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack, Eastside) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m.

706-543-0050. College Station location.

EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Cooking demo by Chuck Ramsey at 5 p.m. 4–7 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Dance Dance Party Party (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) A ladies-only freestyle dance session.

Every Tuesday. 7:30–8:30 p.m. $6. www.wholemindbodyart.com EVENTS: Peace Place 11th Annual Candlelight Vigil (Old Barrow County Court House) Join Peace Place Inc. in honoring the victims and survivors of domestic violence. 7 p.m. FREE! www.peaceplaceinc.org PERFORMANCE: Open TOAD Comedy (Flicker Theatre & Bar) A unique open mic experience. The audience gets to pelt the performers

Wednesday 5 EVENTS: Fall Treats (Oconee County Library) Participants will make their own candied apples with delicious toppings such as caramel, M&M’s, Oreos, nuts and more. Hot apple cider will be served. Ages 11– 18. 6–7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950

EVENTS: Great Values from France and Spain (The Winery) Ten French and Spanish wines and light appetizers from ABC Package and The Winery. 7-10 p.m. $15.

706-613-0095 EVENTS: Minute to Win It Challenge (Lay Park) Compete against others in a variety of oneminute challenges. 6:30–8 p.m. $1.

706-613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty.com/lay EVENTS: Women Who Own It (The Melting Point) Kicking off Breast Cancer Awareness month with an evening full of performances and demonstrations featuring the Athens Vertical Pole Dance Academy, Sulukule Bellydance Company and the Modern Pin-Ups. 6:30–9 p.m.

Ladies only. FREE! 706-347-3708 ART: 6x6: “Tresor Trove: Lost and Found, Flotsom and Jetsom” (Ciné Barcafé) Fast, fun and free!

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The Glenn Miller Orchestra performs in UGA’s Hodgson Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 11. no longer than six minutes. This may be the last 6X6; don’t miss it!

Curated by Lauren Fancher. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.com ART: Art Reception (Heirloom Cafe & Fresh Market) Meet artists Michael Davis and Amanda Price. 5 p.m. www.heirloomathens.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

PERFORMANCE: Magical Talent Show (Go Bar) An old-school talent show with a healthy dose of newschool Athens weirdness hosted by Jeff Tobias and Marie Uhler. Sign up on the Facebook page (search “Magical Athens Talent Show”) for a chance at the prizes, or just go check it out. Proceeds benefit Nuçi’s Space.

9 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THEATRE: Auditions for Legally Blonde (Oconee Youth Playhouse) High school, college students and

adults will sign up for a time slot, prepare a Broadway-style song no longer than one minute and bring sheet music. Group auditions for sixth grade and up will be held on Oct. 9, from 3-4 p.m. Oct. 5, adult auditions, Oct. 9, sixth grade and up, 3-4 p.m. 706-769-2677 www. oypoysp.com/playhouse.

KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–4 read aloud to an aid dog. 3:30– 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

KIDSTUFF: Shadow Visits (Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School) Potential students are invited to scope out the school. 706433-0223, www.mdchs.org KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: ICE Seminar: Eco Design (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 250) Projects and trends that span the disciplines of art, ecology, horticulture and design.

5:15 p.m. FREE! www.ice.uga.edu MEETINGS: GLOBES (Georgia Center) Monthly meeting for UGA LGBTQ employees and allies. 6 p.m. cwjohns@uga.edu 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.

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.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m.

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Thursday 6 EVENTS: Hispanic Heritage Month Film (Georgia Museum of Art) A screening of Grandma Has a Video Camera. Introduction by Susan Quinlan and Q&A with director Tania Cypriano via Skype. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.rom.uga.edu EVENTS: Wine Tasting (Jack’s Bar) Sample three red and three white wines. 6–8 p.m. $15. 706-548-8510 ART: Fiber Arts Group (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Every Thursday.

6–8 p.m. 706-424-0195, www. wholemindbodyart.com ART: Opening Reception (Highwire Lounge) For recent work by painter Jeremy Hughes. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com THEATRE: My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale (Morton Theatre) The classic tale of an aging toymaker and his puppet, Pinocchio, takes on timely issues in this family-friendly musical. Oct. 6–8 & 12–15, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 & 16, 3 p.m.$10–15. 706-613-3771, www. mortontheatre.com OUTDOORS: Circle of Hikers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Nature hikes and readings from nature-inspired stories and poems.

8:30 a.m. FREE! 706-542-6156, 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. Thursdays through Oct. 6, 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 LECTURES & LIT.: Gender Transcender: The Life and Times of Joe Calderone (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 207) A discussion-based program focusing

on gender through different lenses.

6:30–8 p.m. FREE! lgbt@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Visual Culture Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150) “Nostalgia for the Future: Proleptic Representation in Nazi Art,” presented by Dr. Gregory Maertz. 5 p.m. FREE! pettik@uga. edu MEETINGS: Green Drinks Athens (Hotel Indigo) An informal mixer for green-minded folks to discuss building, transportation and sustainability issues in the Athens area. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensgreendrinks. org

Friday 7 EVENTS: Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour (Hot Corner) A showcase of independent films, including comedic shorts, adventure documentaries and music animation, made by New Belgium Brewing’s filmmaking friends. Proceeds benefit Bike Athens. 7 p.m. FREE! www. newbelgium.com EVENTS: Costa Rica Coffee Talk (UGA Main Library) A screening of Finca la Bella: The Beautiful Farm, a photo docmentary. 11 a.m. FREE! jms309@uga.edu EVENTS: Nuci’s Space 11th Anniversary (Nuçi’s Space) An open house celebration featuring a silent auction, complimentary refreshments and live music from Monahan, Ruby Kendrick, Thayer Sarrano and more. 5:30– 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.nuci.org ART: Artist Reception (OCAF) For paintings by Virginia Parker. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com ART: Opening Reception (OCAF) For OCAF’s juried Georgia “Small Works” exhibition, featuring 2D and 3D pieces under 14”x14”. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! www.ocaf.com THEATRE: Dracula (Athens Community Theatre) Grab your garlic and pray for sunrise! An ancient evil is unleashed on an unsuspecting world in this fresh, yet faithful take on the gothic horror classic.

Thursday–Saturday, 8 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. Oct. 8 & Oct. 14, 12 a.m. $12–15. 706-208-8696, www. townandgownplayers.org THEATRE: My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale (Morton Theatre) The classic tale of an aging toymaker and his puppet, Pinocchio, takes on timely issues in this family-friendly musical. Oct. 6–8 & 12–15, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 & 16, 3 p.m.$10–15. 706-613-3771, www. mortontheatre.com OUTDOORS: Group Ride (Athens City Hall) Casually paced bike ride around town, ending downtown at Clips of Faith. Meet at City Hall and bring helmet and water. 6-7 p.m.

FREE! www.bikeathens.com KIDSTUFF: Junior Cupcake Designer Program (Rocksprings Community Center & Park) Design winnning gourmet cupcakes just like on Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars.”

First Friday of every month. 4 p.m. $2. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ rocksprings KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Game Night (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Drop-off the kiddies for an evening of exciting games. 6:30–9:30 p.m. $25 (2 hrs.)

706-424-0195, www.wholemindbodyart.com KIDSTUFF: Sweet Pea Club Story Hour (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Stories and crafts for young nature lovers (ages 3–5) and their parents. Fridays, 9:30–10:30 a.m. $22. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden KIDSTUFF: Watkinsville Ghost Tours (Eagle Tavern) Kid-friendly tours guided by host Melissa Piche,

who will share ghoulish tales from the past and present. 7 p.m. Through Nov. 5. $7–12. www.northgeorgiatours.net LECTURES & LIT.: Terry Leadership Speaker Series (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 101) Shirley Franklin, chairman and CEO of Purpose Built Communities.

10:10 a.m. FREE! leadership@terry. uga.edu MEETINGS: Friends First Friday (State Botanical Garden) Gather at a made-from-scratch breakfast to meet other folks and listen to Jennifer Ceska present “Lessons from the Lorax: Latest Adventures in Plant Conservation at the State Botanical Garden.” 9 a.m. $12. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden GAMES: Grown Up Game Night (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Featuring advanced, genre-based board games. 7 p.m. 706-424-0195, www. wholemindbodyart.com

Saturday 8 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Every Saturday. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walks (Athens, GA) Series sponsored by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation continues with a tour of the Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery led by Al Hester. Call to reserve a spot. $12 (members), $15 (non-members).

706-353-1801, www.achfonline.org EVENTS: Brewmasters’ Reception (The Rialto Room) The 1st annual Athens Craft Beer Festival presents a VIP panel discussion, Q&A session and Meet and Greet with several brewmasters of regional beers. 7–10 p.m. $65 (incl. Sunday events). www.athensbeerfestival.com EVENTS: Georgia Bike Summit Movie Night (Ciné Barcafé) A screening of Pedal Driven and several short bicycle advocacy films

by Streetfilms. 7:15 p.m. www.athenscine.com ART: Fall Sale (R.Wood Studio) Celebrating the studio’s 20th anniversary. View a wide selection of handmade goods, particpate in a raffle and grab a cupcake. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. 706-613-8525 ART: Family Day (Georgia Museum of Art) View the exhibit and visit the Erlanger Studio Classroom to make a Hatch-inspired show print. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Georgia Sculptors’ Society’s Juried Art Exhibition (Pints and Paints) Following the Pulaski Street Art Crawl, drop in for an exhibition judged by mixed media sculptor Mary Engel and local figure sculptor Kinzey Branham. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiasculpture.org ART: Pulaski Street Art Crawl (Artini’s Art Lounge) Participating Pulaski Street artists are opening their art studios to the public, and Pulaski Street businesses will showcase artwork from Athens-area artists. The crawl begins as ARTini’s Art Lounge on Broad and Pulaski, with the final stop and main event at Pints & Paints in the Leathers Building. 5–9 p.m. FREE! www.georgiasculpture.org THEATRE: Dracula (Athens Community Theatre) Grab your garlic and pray for sunrise! An ancient evil is unleashed on an unsuspecting world in this fresh, yet faithful take on the gothic horror classic.

Thursday–Saturday, 8 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. Oct. 8 & Oct. 14, 12 a.m. $12–15. 706-208-8696, www. townandgownplayers.org

THEATRE: My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale (Morton Theatre) The classic tale of an aging toymaker and his puppet, Pinocchio, takes on timely issues in this family-friendly musical. Oct. 6–8 & 12–15, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 & 16, 3 p.m.$10–15. 706-613-3771, www. mortontheatre.com OUTDOORS: Draconid Meteor Shower (Sandy Creek Park) Stargaze as hundreds of meteors come into view. 7–9 p.m. $2. 706613-3631, www.athensclarkecounty. com/sandycreekpark OUTDOORS: Salamander and Stream Ecology Ramble (State Botanical Garden) Take a ramble along the streams of the Botanical Garden to learn about the habitat conditions salamanders need to survive and thrive. 10–11 a.m. 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden KIDSTUFF: Kids Optical Art Workshop (Whole: Mind. Body.

Art.) Create optically challenging works of art. Supplies included.

1:30–4:30 p.m. $30. 706-424-0195, www.wholemindbodyart.com KIDSTUFF: National Costume Swap Day (Full Bloom Center) Swap a gently used costume for a new-to-you one. For ages 0–5. 12–2 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8900 KIDSTUFF: Saturday Morning Zoo Tours (Memorial Park) Learn the inside story of Bear Hollow Zoo’s residents. Every second and fourth Saturday. 10–11 a.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/bearhollow KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and its resident creatures. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6133615, www.accleisureservices.com KIDSTUFF: Touch a Truck Day (Southeast Clarke Park) Kids get the chance to explore trucks of all types. Try your hand at touching an assortment of vehicles to include ACC Police, ACC Solid Waste, ACC Transportation and Public Works, Athens Transit and more. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3580 KIDSTUFF: Watkinsville Ghost Tours (Eagle Tavern) Kid-friendly tours guided by host Melissa Piche, who will share ghoulish tales from the past and present. 7 p.m. Through Nov. 5. $7–12. www.northgeorgiatours.net LECTURES & LIT.: 4th Annual Women and Girls in Georgia Conference (UGA Miller Learning Center) This year’s theme: “Women and the Economic Crisis: Responding to Tough Times.”

Keynote speaker Kim Bobo.

Registration required. 8:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m. $10–25. 706-542-2846, www.uga.edu/iws LECTURES & LIT.: “A Day with Expert Bob Davis” (Oconee County Library) Seminar and Q&A session on records to begin your Civil War research. 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. $15–20. 706-769-3950, cogsgenealogy@gmail.com GAMES: Dungeons and Dragons Encounters (Tyche’s Games) Bring your imagination. Space is limited.

5:30 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames. com GAMES: Shadowrun RPG Demo (Tyche’s Games) Come play where magic meets machines. 12 p.m.

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THE CALENDAR! Skate Park. Participants can also opt for a 38- or 52-mile skate. Ages 8-80. 7:30 a.m. $85-$100. Proceeds benefit Whittemore Peterson Institute for neuro-immune diseases. www. a2a.net EVENTS: Afterparty (Trappeze Pub) The Athens Craft Beer Festival keeps the good times rolling with an afterparty. 5 p.m.–12 a.m. www. athensbeerfestival.com EVENTS: The Athens Craft Beer Festival (Hotel Indigo) First annual festival featuring over 100 different craft beers and cask-conditioned ales, live music, brewery give-aways and more. 12–1 p.m. (VIP), 1–5 p.m. (General Admission). $45, $65 (VIP). www.athensbeerfestival.com EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walks (Athens, GA) Series sponsored by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation continues with a tour of the “FootPrince” on Historic Prince Avenue with Amy Andrews. Call to reserve a spot. $12 (members), $15 (non-members). 706-353-1801, www.achfonline.org EVENTS: Community Dance Day Celebration (UGA Dance Building) The UGA department of dance presents an afternoon of free activities including classes for both children and adults, a discussion, outdoor reception and family-oriented dance performance. 1:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www.dance.uga.edu EVENTS: Pedal for Paws Adoption Day (Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company) Adopt a furry friend, in conjunction with the Pedal for Paws ride. 11:30-1:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenscaninerescue.com ART: Gourd Mask Workshop (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Transform a clean and cut gourd into a decorated mask. 2-4 p.m. $20. www. wholemindbodyart.com THEATRE: Dracula (Athens Community Theatre) Grab your garlic and pray for sunrise! An ancient evil is unleashed on an unsuspecting world in this fresh, yet faithful take on the gothic horror classic.

Thursday–Saturday, 8 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m. Oct. 8 & Oct. 14, 12 a.m. $12–15. 706-208-8696, www. townandgownplayers.org THEATRE: My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale (Morton Theatre) The classic tale of an aging toymaker and his puppet, Pinocchio, takes on timely issues in this family-friendly musical. Oct. 6–8 & 12–15, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 & 16, 3 p.m.$10–15. 706-613-3771, www. mortontheatre.com THEATRE: Auditions for Legally Blonde (Oconee Youth Playhouse) Oct. 5, adult auditions, Oct. 9, sixth grade and up, 3-4 p.m. 706-7692677 www.oypoysp.com/playhouse.

OUTDOORS: Pedal for Paws (Various Locations) A benefit bike ride beginning at Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company and traveling along the historic Watson Mill Bridge loop. Choose from a 60 or 38-mile course, both of which feature rest stops with food and drinks and beer at the finish. Call for more details. 9 a.m. $25 (adv.) $35 (after Sept. 28). 706-206-7127, www. truelovecaninerescue.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: 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

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Monday 10 EVENTS: Scrabble and Sandwiches (Rocksprings Park) Senior adults are invited to bring a brown bag lunch for the center’s first scrabble players group. Every Monday. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $2. 706613-3603 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to stories. Every Monday.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Play & Lunch Bunch (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) A mixture of puppets, playtime and bringyour-own lunches for babies and toddlers. Mondays, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Donations accepted. www. wholemindbodyart.com KIDSTUFF: Zumbatomic for Kids (Floorspace) Fun latin-inspired dance workout including Salsa, Reggaeton and Hip-Hop. Every Monday. 4 p.m. 706-410-5229, www.floorspaceathens.com 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: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Monday night. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916

Tuesday 11 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 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: Dance Dance Party Party (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) A ladies-only freestyle dance session.

7:30–8:30 p.m. $6. www.wholemindbodyart.com EVENTS: Network Athens (Georgia Theatre) Meet with local business owners, community leaders, professionals, academics, musicians and artists. Catering provided by the Georgia Theatre Rooftop Restaurant.

6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-363-0415, networkathens.com PERFORMANCE: Glenn Miller Orchestra (UGA Hodgson Hall) Big band-style orchestra with a history that stretches back to the days when the style was just coming into its own. 8 p.m. $39-$29, discount for UGA students. www.uga.edu/pac PERFORMANCE: The Fabulous Franceschini (Ted’s Most Best) Magician extraordinaire Rick Franceschini. 7 p.m. FREE! 706543-1523 THEATRE: Life Is a Dream (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents an adaptation of Calderon De La Barca’s romantic story of the Spanish golden age. 8 p.m. $7 (students), $10. 706-542-4400 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: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Survival Bracelets (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Traci Matthews will demonstrate how to use survival bracelets that can untie into 20 feet of paracord. 6–8

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p.m. $20. 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden 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.: Book Launch (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Author Janisse Ray releases her book, Drifting Into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River. 7 p.m. FREE! www.janisseray. weebly.com LECTURES & LIT.: Let’s Talk About It! (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 213) National Coming Out Day. This LTAI program will raise awareness about the anti-bullying legislation that has recently passed in parts of GA and how communities can help people feel safe to come out. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! LECTURES & LIT.: Online Computer Class (ACC Library) Introduction to Excel 2007.

10–11:30 a.m. 706-613-3650, ext.

354. www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/ services/classes.html#ath LECTURES & LIT.: Steeples and Sidewalks Lecture Series (Emmanuel Episcopal Church) Dr. David Williams presents “Snapshots: An Overview of Religion in Georgia.”

7 p.m. FREE! 706-207-1849 LECTURES & LIT.: Women Writing Their Lives (Chase Street Warehouses) Our Circle focuses on narrative therapy and memoir. Every Tuesday through November. 6–7:15 p.m. $60 (4 weeks), $100 (8 weeks). thektp@gmail.com, www.holdingwomanspace.com MEETINGS: University Women’s Club (Central Presbyterian Church) Dr. Clifton Pannell, Professor Emeritus of Geography, will give a presentation titled “A Look at Some Political, Economic and Urban Trends of China.” 10 a.m. FREE! jmn101@charter.net GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-5430050. College Station location. * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 4 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com CONNECTED HOUSES Local sixpiece funk rock band with infectious grooves.

DRINKYPOO Athens locals play originals and primitive blues ranging from Albert King to Tom Waits.

Flight Tapas and Bar 8 p.m. 706-549-0200 TJ MIMBS This local acoustic singersongwriter plays everything from hip-hop covers to alternative rock on acoustic guitar backed by loops and samples.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $18. www.georgiatheatre.com* BRETT DENNEN Young West Coast singer/songwriter with a cool, easy groove and soulful phrasing. His heartwarming tunes are part acoustic pop, part folk and part reggae.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 GRIPE Local grindcore/powerviolence.

Thursday, October 6

Butch Walker & the Black Widows, Shovels & Rope 40 Watt Club Butch Walker has been a fixture on the Atlanta and L.A. rock scenes for years, delivering mainstream-radio rock with his band, Marvelous 3, and then going a little more idiosyncratic after that, both solo and with rotating Butch Walker & the Black Widows crews of backing bands.

He’s arguably equally well known for his studio work, producing music for acts including Weezer, Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At the Disco and many, many more.

The upcoming memoir, Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt, co-written with music writer Matt Diehl and set for an Oct. 25 release, mines more than two decades of Walker’s career.

“Harper Collins called and said, ‘We really love your blog,’” Walker says of the book’s genesis, “and wanted to know if I wanted to do a book. I didn’t want it to be narcissistic. I tried to act like my story isn’t anything special, so they said just ramble and talk about your experiences in music and the music business, and growing up in a religious conservative town, and have some funny back history and influences. Somehow, it made for two or three hundred pages of, maybe, good bathroom reading.”

Walker’s most recent album, The Spade, was released in August. It’s louder and more varied than his recent solo releases, but it retains his trademark glossy guitar sound.

That’s due to the full-band process behind the album’s writing and recording, according to Walker. “We just went in to make a record that was going to be a live record,” he says, “that we could play front to back, that’d be very fun, that’d keep people’s attention. I didn’t want it to get too cerebral. I’ve made records that are a little closer to that, but a lot of times those songs may not translate to the party we’re having onstage for two hours. These were written together, and it was very much a collaborative effort.”

[Chris Hassiotis]

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. 4–7 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net DANIEL AARON Frontman for local Americana band Timber performs a solo set. (5:30 p.m.)

ANDY DIXON Singer-songwriter.

The Melting Point “Terrapin Bluegrass Series.” 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com THE HOBOHEMIANS The Hobohemians are a six-piece group playing American and European roots music: a mix of proto-jazz, blues and folk music of the 1910s, ‘20s and ‘30s.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com THE CHAOTIC GOOD Electronic dubstep that mixes in a bunch of chart-topping hits.

SKYLER MENDOZA Skilled DJ who has toured with the likes of Girl Talk, Matt & Kim and Deadmau5.

Mendoza spins techno, electro house and more.

Wednesday 5 Ashford Manor 7 p.m. $15, $12 (w/student or military ID), $5 (kids under 12), FREE! (kids under 6). www.amconcerts.com A TRIBUTE TO SANTANA Featuring a who’s who of the Athens music scene, this tribute performance will cover a wide range of Santana’s hit songs.

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 THE FALCONES Local Athens alternative rock. Anthemic choruses with layered vocal harmonies.

THE GLORIOUS VEINS Indie-rock band from New York. Self described as “bluesy, post-punk dance rock from Mars.”

JEFFERS MORNING Rock trio from Athens. Fun, danceable power-chord pop/punk.

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 KILL KILL BUFFALO Grungy hard rock duo based in Athens featuring Kara Kildare’s powerful pipes and Tyler John on drums.

LAME DRIVERS Former members of Get Him Eat Him play dark, psychedelic rock.

POLYPS Warped, experimental soundscapes filled with feedback and drone.

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

Flight Tapas and Bar 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0200 MARY SIGALAS Visiting standards and not-so-standards from the ‘20s through the ‘50s. Every Wednesday night.

George’s Lowcountry Table 6 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3359 SHANNON Soulful sounds out on the patio featuring the owner of neighboring business Shannon’s Spa. 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.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com KEN WILL MORTON BAND Bluesy rock and roll with a hint of Americana and pop is Morton’s speciality.

Thursday 6 Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 NEW SNEAKERS Five-piece Southern jam-rock fusion formerly known as The Blekers.

Blind Pig Tavern 8 p.m. (West Broad St. location). 706548-3442.

40TH STREET CANDID COAL PEOPLE Derick Thompson plays an acoustic set full of originals.

Blue Sky “Back Porch Thursdays.” 10 p.m.

THE GLORIOUS DEAD Debut performance by this new Athens band.

Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 MILLER AND COLBY Acoustic covers and originals.

The Classic Center 8 p.m. $40-$25 (adv.). www.classiccenter.com* INDIGO GIRLS Grammy-winning acoustic rock duo from Decatur with beautiful vocal harmonies, politically charged lyrics and stirring melodies.

See story on p. 15.

ROXIE WATSON Five-piece “alternagrass” string band from Decatur, GA. DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Rd. location) OPEN MIC Contact Ben to sign up!

Email timothy@depalmasitaliancafe. com or call.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar.com KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This local songwriter performs a unique fusion of acoustic folk and soul.

HANNAH MILLER Sultry folk and rockabilly from a North Carolina singer-songwriter.

LARA OSHON Oshon’s soulful, provocative vocals sway over piano.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $21 (adv.). www.40watt.com* BUTCH WALKER AND THE BLACK WIDOWS The former Marvelous 3 frontman and current big-name producer presents his ambitious new collaboration. See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

SHOVELS AND ROPE Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent playing “sloppy tonk” music.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com CONSPIRATOR Rave electronic music from Philadelphia.

GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY Duo delivering danceable electro beats and a unique, high-energy stage presence.

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffeebar.com THE SOUNDMEN Funky jazz group from Atlanta.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. 706-369-3144 KAITLIN JONES Local folk guitarist/ vocalist Kaitlin Jones performs a solo set of Americana-tinged country originals.

NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING Junkyard cabaret from Brooklyn.

Max 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 SHALLOW PALACE Riff-heavy, bluesy rock and roll with sheer punk-rock energy.

SLEEPY EYE GIANT Indie pop from Charleston with some shoegaze tendencies.

SPRING TIGERS Led by British expat Kris Barratt, this Athens-based band offers high-energy, anthemic pop and angular rock tunes.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* JOHN FRENCH Local singer-songwriter playing acoustic folk tunes.

EMILY HEARN Young singersongwriter performs sweet, melodic acoustic ballads.

THE LESS Pop/rock band from Atlanta with anthemic choruses and

an emotional delivery. For fans of acts like All Time Low or Cartel.

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

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Omega Bar 5 p.m. $5 (before 7 p.m.), $10 (after 7 p.m.). www.theomegabar.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Two sets of live jazz every Thursday (one at 7:15 p.m. and the other at 9:15 p.m.). After 10 p.m. enjoy dancing to old school R&B with WXAG DJ Mellow Myers.

Located in Homewood Hills Shopping Center

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Ted’s Most Best 7 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1523 JACK JIGGLES The gregarious host spins vintage R&B, soul and jazz for your enjoyment on the patio. Every other Thursday!

BODY PIERCING

Provided by Virtue & Vice, Inc. Athens’ Own Randy Smyre & Bethra Szumski Association Professional Piercers Board Member

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com.

RED OAK SOUTHERN STRING BAND Acoustic string band playing a mix of originals, traditional bluegrass and folk/blues tunes.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates “Sidewalk Symphony.” 6–8 p.m.

CAPTAIN #1 This band spins grand tales of death, love and life through low-key acoustic pop.

GREY MILK This edgy folk-rock outfit recently relocated to the Classic City.

Friday 7 Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 JUICE BOX Local band lays down some smooth, funky jams.

You have enjoyed our food for years...

Now know us as an Athens original...

(706) 208-9588

285 W. Washington St. • Athens, GA 30601

www.painandwonder.com

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 top40 remixes.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE BUZZARDS All-star lineup of Scott Baxendale, Clay Leverett, Bo Bedingfield and Jon Mills play blues-peppered Americana.

DIRTY HOTEL SUNSHINE New band featuring Steve LaBate playing Stones-inspired rock and roll.

CHUCK TAYLOR Acoustic folk with flair from Toccoa, GA. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CANNERY ROW Folk rock from Richmond, VA. LIARS AND LOVERS Local quintent offers Southern ‘70s-rock revival.

SWANK MOTEL Lo-fi rock with British influences that range “from The Kinks to Stone Roses.”

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Terrapin Tuesday featuring

THE HOBOHEMIANS

$5 admission • $2 Terrapin Pints all night!

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 Athens Vertical Pole Dance Academy presents Kickoff to Breastfest Fundraiser

WOMEN WHO OWN IT

FREE! • This event is for Women Only

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6

EMILY HEARN THE LESS JOHN FRENCH

Tickets $5 adv • $8 at the door

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

TIM REYNOLDS & TR3

JEFF ABELES

$13 admission • $15 at the door

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 Southern Ground Recording Artist

SONIA LEIGH SOL JUNKY

Tickets $8 adv • $12 at the door

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 Athens Folk Music & Dance Society present

THE HOOT featuring DRIFTWOOD, JD SMITH TODD LISTER & FRIENDS

FREE • All ages

ON THE HORIZON:

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

CHICKASAW MUDD PUPPIES BURNING ANGELS Tickets $10 adv • $15 at the door

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18

TYLER RAMSEY (of Band of Horses)

GREG HUMPHREYS Tickets $9 adv • $12 at the door

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29

RICH ROBINSON DYLAN LeBLANC

Tickets $12 adv • $15 at the door

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Southern Gentleman Tour featuring

ED ROLAND (of Collective Soul) & KEVIN GRIFFIN (of Better Than Ezra)

Tickets $22.50 adv • $27 at the door

UPCOMING EVENTS 11.3 10.11 BUTTERMILK REVIVAL 10.12 ALL OUT COMEDY 10.15 50’s Dance Party and Sock Hop with BUTCH AND THE BUCKHEADS 10.19 FRONTIER RUCKUS 10.20 OTHER BROTHERS BAND (Allman Brothers Tribute) 10.21 CHARLIE GARRETT CD Release, EFREN, ABBEY OWENS 10.22 MATT JOINER BAND, EMILY McCANNON 10.23 OCTOBER SOUPFEST 10.25 DANGERMUFFIN 10.27 MADSEN (from GERMANY) LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF

11.4 11.5 11.11 11.12 11.15 11.16 11.17 11.17 11.18 11.19 11.26 12.2 12.9 12.23 1.14

JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE, JOE FIRSTMAN DEJA VU - Tribute to CSN&Y HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND, DISTRICT ATTORNEYS STEWART & WINFIELD TIM MILLER BAND KEN PEARLMAN, ALAN JABBOUR, ART ROSENBAUM CHARLIE HUNTER CORDUROY ROAD, BLAIR CRIMMINS & THE HOOKERS SONDRE LERCHE @ 40 WATT SHAWN MULLINS JORMA KAUKONEN RICK FOWLER BAND, GEORGIA HEALERS JOHN McCUTCHEON COL. BRUCE HAMPTON & PHARAOH GUMMITT RACK OF SPAM SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS

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JEFF FOX Local singer-songwriter.

THE HEAP Funky local indie-soul band based here in Athens with a killer horn section.

TIM REYNOLDS AND TR3 Famed Dave Matthews collaborator and guitarist performs his original bluesrock material.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com ELEVATION Atlanta’s epic, sweeping alternative pop band.

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

THE WELL REDS An alternative take on pop rock with big hooks and anthemic vocals.

New Earth Music Hall www.newearthmusichall.com ALCHEMY DECOMPRESSION PARTY Hosted by Alchemy Camps.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com* CHILDISH GAMBINO Expect a variety of smooth hip-hop originals and fun, danceable rap remixes from the star of the popular show “Community.”

DJ SIIK DJ from Los Angeles offering fresh remixes of artists like N.E.R.D., Jade, Brandy, Erykah Badu and many more.

Go Bar 9 p.m. www.wuog.org DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

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

WUOG SEIZE THE MIC Open mic night put on in association with “Seize the Airwaves.”

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com THE GRANFALLOONS Georgians playing sunny Americana with twangy guitars, the occasional accordion and lots of pop melodies.

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 Chris Enghauser. Every Friday!

Las Conchitas Caliente 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2500 TIM TAYLOR AND BETO CACAO Marimba music and more! Join Las Conchitas every Friday night for live Latin music.

Little Kings Shuffle Club DIY Skateboard Park Fundraiser. 10 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 BLUE HEELER Locally brewed folk rock bubbling with melancholy and reflection.

DEAD IN THE DIRT Savage wrecking crew from Atlanta merging blinding hardcore fury with metallic might.

KILL THE SCHOOL Local hard-rock band with a thrashy feel.

Nuçi’s Space “Nuçi’s Space is 11!” 5:30–9:30 p.m.

FREE! www.nuci.org RUBY KENDRICK Local singersongwriter with a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics. Acoustic set!

MONAHAN Ryan Monahan backed

by Josh McMichael on bass and Lemuel Hayes on drums. Ryan has a gorgeous, expressive Jeff Buckley-esque voice that soars and sighs with equal grace. Performing a special acoustic set.

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

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com ALBATROSS Local band jams out with bluesy funk and classic rockinspired originals.

Saturday 8 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 CAROLINE AIKEN Her soulful voice purrs and growls the blues over bright finger-picking. (10 a.m.)

LARRY FORTE Local artist performs a solo set. (8 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com MOTHS Featuring Jacob Morris of Ham1, Moths plays a mostly acoustic sort of ‘70s folk-rock with a pop sensibility and an inevitable psychedelic tinge.

OLD SMOKEY New band featuring members of Ham1 doing spaghetti western-style numbers.

SERYN Denton, TX five-piece that offers epic, multi-part harmonies and brisk melodies layered with guitars, ukulele, accordion, banjo and more.

Max 9:30 p.m. (movie), 11 p.m. (dancing).

706-254-3392 FOOTLOOSE DANCE PARTY Patio viewing of the movie, followed by reinterpretations of Kevin Bacon’s barn dance montage, facilitated by DJs Mahogany and EasyRider.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com FREE TOMORROW Sophisticated, high-energy live hip-hop band utilizing multiple genre styles to create a party vibe.

SHOWTIME Elite tha Showstoppa’s new band plays eclectic hip-hop mixed with rockin’ funky soul!

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $13 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com JEFF ABELES Atlanta-based guitarist mixing classical and progressive finger-picking styles.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com LORKALAR No info available.

TIMMY TUMBLE Tim Schreiber (Dark Meat, The Lickity-Splits)

howls and spasms over garage rockanthems and pop songs.

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

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

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $12 (adv.). www.40watt.com EGYPTRIXX Toronto-based producer creates rhythmic electronic tunes rooted in UK funky and featuring woozy, warped melodies.

JUNIOR BOYS Hailing from those untamed lands north of the U.S., this duo produces cool, danceable electro-pop. See story on p. 14.

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

Front Porch Bookstore 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 THE WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com* MARC BROUSSARD Singersongwriter with a rich, soulful who adds elements of R&B into his acoustic rock numbers.

CHIC GAMINE All female a cappella group with sultry, smoky vocals and influences from all around the world including French chanson, doo-wop and forró.

SCARS ON 45 Melodic, radio-ready rock band.

Gnat’s Landing 8 pm. $7 (general admission), $5 (with student ID). www.gnatslanding.net THE LEFTY HATHAWAY BAND Lefty Hathaway plays rock and roll soul with turbulent piano jams reminiscent of the late, great Lowell George and fellow Okies JJ Cale & Leon Russell.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ GRAVEROBBERS Winston Parker spins high-energy electronic, dance and rock music.

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

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and friends spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER Charming neo-folk band delivers the thriftstore gospel featuring the captivating vocal harmonies of the Campbell sisters.

MODERN SKIRTS One of Athens’ favorite pop acts, this foursome went from piano-driven darlings to more electronic-inspired dance pop.

Little Kings Shuffle Club Movie and Dance Party. 706-369-3144 DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves,.

STRAWBERRY JULIUS Spinning music from the ‘50s and ‘60s including early soul, R&B, garage-rock, rockabilly and more.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $8 (adv.), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com* SONIA LEIGH Edgy folk-rock musician from Atlanta with a lot of

soulful, raw energy in her smoky, powerful vocals. Fans of Melissa Etheridge will find a lot to love here.

See Calendar Pick on p. 23.

SOL JUNKY Southern rock that’s a bluesy good time.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com D:RC The latest in global club sounds ranging from dubstep, UK funky to electro and bassline.

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.

QUANTIC British DJ/producer known for house and broken beat electronic music.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 SCARLET STITCH Rock and blues topped off with a shot of “Southern Rockspitality.”

RPM 10 p.m. FREE! 706-543-0428 DJ LEGEND138 Spins the best in old/new school and underground hip-hop.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 glass. www.terrapinbeer. com.

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

Wayfarer Music Hall 8 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). 114 North Broad St. Monroe, GA SMOKEY’S FARMLAND BAND This Atlanta band plays a fun mixture of bluegrass, funk, reggae, Eastern European tunes and acoustic jazz.

Sunday 9 Flight Tapas and Bar 5:30 p.m. 706-549-0200 RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Drummer for Tent City and on-hiatus local jazz/rock outfit Free Lunch Trio.

Late show after Widespread Panic.

706-549-0200 TENT CITY This Athens-based fourpiece blends new-age funk with soulful blues.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com* WIDESPREAD PANIC The seminal Athens jam band performs tonight as part of a benefit for Tunes for Tots, which supports music education.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 3 p.m. $2. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com NEW HOPE BENEFIT SHOW For Tim White and family whose house recently burned down. Featuring live music from Second Sons, Red Ravine, Velocirapture, The Habitual Bunglers, Marisa Mustard and more.

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. No partner necessary.

Monday 10 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com EDDIE THE WHEEL Moody, melodic indie rock.

Saturday, October 8

Sonia Leigh, Sol Junky Melting Point It wasn’t too long ago that country singer/songwriter Sonia Leigh played less-than-ideal nights at Tasty World to a small, yet loyal, group of fans. She frequented Athens clubs, bringing more and more fans along to each show. As her fanbase grew, Leigh started playing bigger and bigger venues.

Sonia Leigh Soon, she was a regular opener for country music superstars the Zac Brown Band. Not bad for a girl with a guitar and something to prove.

Now Leigh has a large, loyal fanbase following her every move. The sharp-tongued siren is equal parts Loretta Lynn and Amy Ray, balancing out the more country aspects of her songs with a rock sensibility. It helps that Leigh comes from a line of musicians steeped in the songwriting craft, but she has a unique style that has drawn the attention of the Atlanta music community and led to her friendship with Brown.

Brown recently signed her to his Southern Ground Artists label, where she is releasing her new album, 1978 December. It features a collection of heart-driven songs, from the rabble-rousing “Bar” to the thoughtful, yet fun “Money.” Leigh is determined to keep her work embedded as locally as possible, despite her newfound national success.

The music video for “Money,” now in rotation on CMT, was filmed in Little Five Points between shows. She continues to play the Atlanta-Athens circuit when not with the Zac Brown Band and its traveling group of musician friends. Moreover, it’s evident that Leigh just wants to keep her music as startlingly real and down to earth as she is. Fame comes quickly, but it’s the music and the friendships that last. [Jordan Stepp]

LEBLORR Fuzzed-out bluesy soul two-piece.

SLAW & ORDER Local drum and keys duo performs tambourine-rich pop tracks. See Upstart Roundup on p. 13.

SUNDRESS Dreamy, psychedelic pop.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv.) www.40watt.com* MATTHEW SWEET AND BAND Power pop/alternative rock artist Sweet has a long history with Athens, having collaborated with Michael Stipe under the Community Trolls and performed in the band Oh-OK. Tonight he’ll play his 1991 album, Girlfriend, in its entirety.

MILES ZUNIGA Grammy-nominated recording artist and songwriter and founding member of the band Fastball.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 COLD ONES Local punk band featuring members of Christopher’s Liver, among others. Skuzzy and straightforward, with riffs and rough vocals, but not without melody.

PATRICK JENNINGS Ex-Hot New Mexicans guitarist.

TEENAGE SOFTIES Catchy, fun pop punk from Orlando.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE!, $3 to play. 706-3533050 OPEN MIC Mondays! Hosted by local soulful singer Kyshona Armstrong.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com THE HOOT This month’s installment features the blues, rock, Americana band Driftwood, indie/pop songwriter J.D. Smith (who recently

recorded with John Keane), plus farmer Todd Lister & Friends doing folk favorites and more.

Susan Staley opens and hosts the evening.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $13 (adv.), $15 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com BISON B.C. Doom/sludge/stone metal from B.C., Canada.

FIGHT AMP Grungy metal band from New Jersey.

SAVIOURS Stoner rock from Oakland, CA. WEEDEATER Sludge metal that’s been going strong since 1997.

Tuesday 11 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ENTROPIC CONSTANT Lo-fi dischordance and sprightly melodies with constant clanging thrown in.

NATIVE KID Local indie band with a lo-fi sound and country undertones.

THE SKIPPERDEES Charming local acoustic duo with rich, folky vocal harmonies and a sense of humor.

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

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 AYATOLLAH New local punk band featuring members of Grinnin Bear.

DUDE MAGNETS Noisy chaos.

GHOST COKE Haunted, creepy “spook tunes” will get you in the mood for Halloween.

SCOTT SAPP No info available.

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).

Little Kings Shuffle Club 4-7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3144 CURLEY MAPLE Fiddler David Blackmon joined by wife Noel and Christian Lopez on mandolin and guitar, and Chris Enghauser on bass.

10 p.m. 706-369-3144 GUZIK Titanic sludge metal.

THE SKELETONS Sounds like High on Fire and Spazz had a baby.

THOU New Orleans metal signed to Southern Lord Records.

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com BUTTERMILK REVIVAL Traditional bluegrass tribute, including songs by the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and many others.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 THE REAL NASTY Funky rock band from San Fran featuring upright bass, guitar and cajon (an Afrocuban box drum).

Ted’s Most Best 7 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1523 OLD SMOKEY Members of Ham1 doing spaghetti western-style numbers.

Wednesday 12 Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Welcoming singer-songwriters every Wednesday.

Caledonia Lounge “Athens PopFest” early show. 1 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BOMBSBOMBSBOMBS Local, quirky pop rock.

EL HOLLIN This local band plays simple, lo-fi tunes with guitar and what sounds like a melodica.

Featuring members of Werewolves.

SEA OF DOGS Songwriter and banjopicker Emily Armond leads this endearing folk group.

YOUNGER SIBLINGS Featuring members of PS Eliot stradling the indie-pop/punk line.

“Athens PopFest” late show. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BURNS LIKE FIRE Stewed, screwed, tattooed punk rock that will leave you flat on your face.

MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND Longrunning local mix of melodic, jangly British-sounding throwback rock.

SHAVED CHRIST Local grinder/punk band featuring members of American Cheeseburger and Witches.

THE WILD Folk/punk/indie-rock band from Atlanta with rebellious songs.

Farm 255 Jazz Night. 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255. com DIAL INDICATORS This jazz duo features Jeremy Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor sax.

40 Watt Club “Athens PopFest.” 7 p.m. $12, $70 (full festival pass). www.40watt.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.

FLASH TO BANG TIME This local band has been playing its odd, pensive, new wave rock soundscapes since 2000.

GRAPE SODA Local band featuring the brothers Lewis on vocals, organ and drums, playing reverb-heavy garage psych-rock.

ORCA TEAM Seattle/Portland area minimalist indie-rock with a beachy sound, assuming the beach is in the ever-overcast Seattle/Portland area.

SWEATER GIRLS Energetic fivepiece indie-pop band from Los Angeles with sugary songwriting and a crisp sound.

THROWING MUSES Alternative rock pioneers formed in the early ‘80s.

Their unique sound blends postpunk, folk and rock.

TUNABUNNY Local act featuring hazy and warped experimental psychedelia. Dual vocalists are backed by synthesized percussion.

WITCHES Local rock band featuring Cara Beth Satalino on lead vocals backed by a drummer and bassist.

George’s Lowcountry Table 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3359 KEN WILL MORTON With his gritty, soulful rasp, Morton trudges through Americana’s roots with rock and roll swagger.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $6. www.newearthmusichall. com CRANE Bluesy rock band.

THE OTHER KINGS Reggaeton from the Dominican Republic.

VILLANOVA Soulful rock band with technical jazz-fusion percision, funky roots and guitar licks inspired

by Jimi Hendrix.

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.

No partner or experience necessary.

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

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

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6

BUTCH WALKER & THE BLACK WidoWs SHOVELS AND ROPE doors open at 8pm *

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

ELEVATION

JUSTIN KENNEDY • THE WELL REDS doors open at 9pm

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8

junior boys EgyPtRixx TWIN TIgERS

doors open at 9pm**

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10

MATTHEW SWEET AND BAND PERFORMING THE GIRLFRIEND ALBUM IN ITS ENTIRETY!

MiLES ZUNigA (FROM FAST BALL)

POPFEST

doors open at 8pm**

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12

THROWING MUSES

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doors open at 7pm

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

BOB MOULD

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doors open at 7pm

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

THE DEAD MILKMEN

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doors open at 7pm MON. 10/17 • EARLY SHOW: MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK • DOORS 6pM 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 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 Artists (Little Kings Shuffle Club) The Moonlight Gypsy Market (Nov. 11) is accepting vendor applications for artists, crafters and junk collectors. Fill out online application. $15. moonlightgypsymarket@gmail.com, www.facebook. com/moonlightgypsymarket Call for Artists (Highwire Lounge) Seeking painters, printmakers and photographers to hang large-scale works for 1-2-monthlong exhibitions. lkchse@gmail. com, www.highwirelounge.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

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 Bellydance for Fitness (YWCO) Have fun and exercise at the same time. Mondays & Wednesdays, 6–7 p.m. susiefaye@hotmail.com Computer Tutorials (ACC Library) Choose from a list of topics for personalized instruction. Call to register. Thursdays, 9 a.m. 706-6133650, ext. 354 Earth Skills Series: Shelter (State Botanical Garden) Develop the skill to create a fire! Methods include flint and steel, bow drills and hand drills. Nov. 19, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $66. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden 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

Dan Smith’s paintings are on display at Flicker through Nov. 4.

I have four black cats of my own who cross my path multiple times a day, so I can personally vouch that they do not bring bad luck and DO Inside Pet Supplies Plus at Alps Shopping Ctr. • 706.353.2287 bring lots of love and fun to your life.

This pretty young Hokey has a surDmitri is a big, confident Gentle Miss Amy has had a adult adores getting prised look because and handsome fellow hard year of medical issues but attention and loves his buddy Pokey just who likes to be where thanks to AAHS, she has been meeting folks and got adopted and now the action is, nor does he tenderly nursed back to a full during her down he’s alone! Whah? mind being the center of recovery. Now this long-haired time she hides under Playful and sweet and attention. Front paws are beauty needs a loving home her blankets. about 4 months old. declawed. where she can enjoy her health.

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ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY 2 Cats Received, 2 Cats Placed, 0 Healthy Adoptable Cats Euthanized ACC ANIMAL CONTROL 42 Dogs and 25 Cats Received, 37 Dogs and 5 Cats Placed

MISS AMY more pets can be seen online at

athenshumanesociety.org

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.accaging.org 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 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 Medicinal Plant Symposium (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Introduction to the medical botany of our region with an emphasis on the traditional and current uses of native plants. Call to register. Oct. 18, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $65. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Propagating Native Plants from Seeds (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A discussion

on how to collect, clean and store different types of native plant seeds.

Oct. 19, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Sharpshooter’s Basketball Clinic (Lay Park) Focus on proper shooting techniques and other basketball skills. 5:30–6:30 p.m. $1 (ACC residents), $2 (non-ACC residents). 706-613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty.com/lay 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 Tennis for Life (Various Locations) Accelerated six-lesson course for novice tennis players.

Oct. 6–Nov. 17, 10–11:15 a.m. $75.

706-613-3592, www.tennisforlife.net Thistle and Kudzu Scottish Country Dancers (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) No partner or experience necessary.

Bring your dancing shoes. Every Tuesday, 7–9 p.m. $3. www.thistle andkudzu.net

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 (Total Training Gym & Yoga Center) Classes offered in tai chi, vinyasa flow, yoga for athletes, integral hatha yoga, power flow, power lunch Pilates and power lunch yoga. Check website for dates and times. On-going. 706-316-9000, www.totaltrainingcenter.com Yoga in Five Points (Five Points) Offering classes in flow, fluid, power, prenatal, hatha, anusara and vinyasa yoga for all levels. Check website for schedule. 706-355-3114, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com You can CAN (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Step-by-step instructions on safe methods for food preservation. Oct. 6, 2–4 p.m. $17. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden “Your Google Presence” (Georgia Center) A half-day course for businesses to claim their online

NEEDs YOU! Now Offering

…for Expo operations, course directing, race-day operations, runner hospitality and other projects.

To sign up for the Athens, GA Half Marathon October 22-23, 2011, please visit the HandsOn Northeast Georgia website at

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listings, customize them and establish an online marketing presence.

Oct. 14, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $149. www.georgiacenter.uga.edu Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms 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) Currently 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 Drivers for Veterans Volunteers needed to drive veterans to Athens and Augusta hospitals.

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

Economic Justice Coalition Yard Sale (Call for location) Donated items accepted Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m at 2092 Prince Ave. 706-549-1142, www.econjustice.org Volunteer Readers (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic) Learning Ally (120 Florida Ave.) is seeking readers to record audio textbooks for disabled students. 706-549-1313, www.learningally.org Volunteers and Demonstrators Needed (Lyndon House Arts Center) The 37th Annual Harvest Festival (Oct. 13) is seeking volunteers to help out and demonstrators to share their 1800s-themed skills, crafts and art.

706-613-3623

KIDSTUFF

SUPPORT

Craft Club (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Four-week printmaking course for ages 8–14. Thursdays, Oct. 6–Oct. 27, 4–6 p.m. $90. 706-8508226, www.treehousekidandcraft. tumblr.com Creative Dynamics (Athens Little Playhouse) A beginning level drama class for ages 5–9. Thursdays, 5–6 p.m. $65 (per month). phillipbaumgarner@msn.com Family Creative Movement (Floorspace) Explore creative movement, yoga, dance improv and music for parents and children of all ages.

Wednesdays, 10 a.m. $6–12. www.floorspaceathens.com Karate Classes (East Athens Community Center) Free karate classes for ages 7–14. Monday– Thursday, 5–6 p.m. 706-613-3593, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ eastathens Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts.

Alternating Wednesdays, 3:30–4:30 p.m. $24. 706-613-3515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandy creeknaturecenter Mama-Baby Yoga for Crawlers (Mind Body Institute) For crawling babes and their mamas.

Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. $60 (10 classes). 706-475-7329, www.armc. org/mbi Teen Read Week Art Contest (ACC Library) Art contest with categories Original Characters, Fan Art Characters and Manga Self-Portrait.

One submission per category. Online voting Oct. 26-31. Ages 11-18. Oct. 1–25. FREE! 706-613-3650, www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us

Athens Adoption Parents and Children Together New group for families with adopted children. Email for monthly meetings. Stacy, 770-601-3042, athensadoptivepact@gmail.com Sapph.Fire (Nuçi’s Space) Social, support and volunteer org for lesbian and bisexual women. Email for next meeting date. Sapph.fire@ yahoo.com, www.facebook.com/ sapphfire.athens

ART AROUND TOWN Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) Art by Brooke Davidson. Through October.

Artini’s Art Lounge (296 W. Broad St.) In support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, an exhibit of work done by survivors, surviving families, Project Safe employees and other supporters. Through Nov. 6.

Ashford Manor (5 Harden Hill Rd., Watkinsville) “Shona on the Lawn,” a self-guided garden tour featuring contemporary Zimbabwean sculptors. Through October.

Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Dr.) Photography

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

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Abstract oil paintings by Elana Munroe-Gregory. Through October.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design (Caldwell Hall) “Learning from the Land,” works by Edward Daugherty. Through Oct. 25.

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 Alice Pruitt, Leigh Ellis, Suzanna Antonez, Matt Alston and more.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Cindy Jerrell and friends. Through October.

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.

Georgia Theatre (215 N. Lumpkin St.) Photographs of Athens musicians by Jason Thrasher.

Opening reception Oct. 12. Through November.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) New acrylic and watercolor

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ON THE STREET 27th Annual Birdseed Sale (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Order birdseed by phone, mail, email or online through Oct. 28. Pick up dates are Nov. 4 & 5. 706-613-3615, ext. 0, scncinc@gmail.com, www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreek naturecenter Downtown Parade of Lights (Downtown Athens) Now accepting entries for Athens’ annual parade. This year’s theme is “Winter Wonderland.” Register by Nov. 17.

706-613-3620, robinstevens@ athensclarkecounty.com, www.acc leisureservices.com 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 Fright Night Trilogy Haunted House (Old Craven Pottery Building) Multiple warehouses, a haunted trail of fears and haunted camping! Dusk–11 p.m.

(M.-Th.), dusk–2 a.m. (F.-Sun.) 678-622-2675 f

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OCTOBER 31 • 7:30PM CLASSIC CENTER FOR TICKETS:

Call 706-357-4444 Visit ClassicCenter.com or Visit the Classic Center Box Office

portraits by Lea Purvis. Through Nov. 6. • New paintings by R. Land. Through Oct. 9.

Highwire Lounge Recent work by painter Jeremy Hughes. Opening reception Oct. 6. Through October.

Hotel Indigo (500 College Ave.) “Dawgs and Dogs: The Works of Wingate Downs and Mary Engel.”

Jennifer Jangles Studio and Gallery (10 Barnett Shoals Rd.) A studio and gallery of jewelry, pottery, fabrics, ribbon and more.

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

by Leslie Litt. Through November.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) “Framed Events” includes works by Alison Crocetta.

Through Oct. 17.

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) 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) The Georgia Small Works Exhibition, juried by Margaret Morrison and Ted Saupe. Opening reception Oct. 7. Through Nov. 12. • Paintings by Virginia Parker detailing the relationship between environment and heredity. Reception Oct. 7. Through Oct. 21.

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.

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

Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) Paintings by Lisa Tantillo. Through October.

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

Through October.

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

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I am a lesbian in my early 20s. I have been out for many years now and have had two serious girlfriends. Both of those relationships were long-term, and I have been single now for about a year. I wanted to be alone for awhile because a) I wanted to see what it would be like; and b) I knew that getting into another relationship too soon after my last breakup would be a bad idea.

So, I waited. And now I have started to foray into dating, which is weird (I never “dated” before because I found girls that I really liked and stuck with them). So, I went out with a couple different ladies I met on the Internet, and they were nice enough, but I wasn’t really interested.

Then, I got set up by a friend of mine with a friend of his who is a bartender. She is very, very cute and very much my type. She had a break-up about three months ago and has been dating around ever since. My friend told me that he thinks she is looking for a relationship, and he told her about me, and then he introduced us.

Things are interesting. I definitely think she’s hot, and I definitely think we are compatible, but there are things that make me wonder.

She talks about her ex a lot, for one thing. Not in a bad way, mind you, but the subject comes up pretty often. Also, I know she has been on dates with other people, but I don’t know how many people or how often. More than once we have been together—and she will recall a situation or a conversation that we supposedly had—and I have to say “that wasn’t me.” She gets very embarrassed by it, and I generally blow it off, but it does make me kind of uncomfortable. I mean, when I meet somebody that I am interested in, I generally stop dating other people. Is this not the way it works? I don’t know how to handle this. I don’t want to fall for her if she’s not really looking for a girlfriend, and I don’t really want a casual relationship. What should I do?

Unskilled Dater What you should do, UD, is have a very frank conversation with her. It sounds to me like she is on the rebound and on the prowl, and if you don’t figure out exactly where you stand, then you are going to get hurt. She obviously still has feelings for her ex, which is natural, given how recent their break-up was.

Your friend who set the two of you up only thinks that she is looking for a relationship.

That has no real meaning or relevance in this situation. Hell, even if she is looking for a relationship it would be a bad idea right now.

My advice is to tell her that you really like her and that you would like to see her again, but not until she is actually over her ex and potentially interested in and ready for another serious relationship. Let her rebound with other people who are actually interested in something casual. Maybe this thing can work

further down the road, but right now you’re heading for disaster.

I have been seeing this woman for a few months. We know each other through friends.

She is married, has three kids and is in an open relationship. Her husband knows me, likes me and approves of our spending time together. He also sees other people. They have the situation worked out so that the kids never know what’s going on and one of them will always be there with the kids if the other is out with a special friend.

At first, I thought this was the perfect situation. When I met her I didn’t know she was married and I liked her right away, and she flirted with me, and we would have lunch together and stuff.

Next, we started talking on the phone and sending text messages. Eventually, I asked her out and she told me the situation. She asked me if I was OK with it, and I told her I wanted to hear it from her husband that he was OK with it. She introduced us, and he said that yes, this was the situation and that they had been living this way, happily, for seven years. OK, then. I can have somebody to hang out with, spend time with and sleep with and I don’t have to worry that she will get too serious or screw me over or have some kind of hidden agenda. I have had some trouble in the past, and I was engaged once to a woman who cheated on me and I have never been able to trust anybody after that.

So, I thought this was perfect. But now, I’m sure you can guess where this is going, I have developed very serious feelings for her. I know that I can’t have her to myself, but I find myself wanting to see her more and more and getting jealous of her husband. I know it’s stupid and wrong and that I knew what I was getting into and all that, but I don’t know what to do. Part of me wants to just confess everything, but then I’m scared she will walk away from me. I can’t help it if I want to spend a night, just one whole night, and wake up with her still here.

What should I do?

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What you should do is tell her exactly how you feel, and then end this relationship. You did everything right, TW. You were honest, you made sure she was being honest, and you went ahead. Now you’re going to have to be honest again, and you two are going to have to end this thing, because she is not going to leave her husband and her kids, and you are not going to be happy sharing her anymore.

And that’s OK. At least one good thing came out of this: Now you know you’re ready for a relationship again. Now go find a woman who’s looking for the same thing.

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Cell, (706) 206-3350.

Dwntn. Athens Luxury Condo – The Georgian. 1BR/1BA only 2 blocks from UGA’s N. Campus. HWflrs., granite countertops, 10 ft. ceilings, stainless steel appls. Secure building, parking. $199,900.

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Reduced! 4BR/2BA, 845 W. Hancock, HWflrs., CHAC, avail. now. Pets OK! 4 blocks to Dwntn. $1050/mo. Call (864) 784-3049.

Residential or commercial: very lg. older home on 1.5 acres, 10 rms., 2 kitchens, 2BAs, lg. porch & deck. On busline. $1200/mo. David, (706) 2471398.

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

Houses for Sale 3BR/1BA brick home in Green Acres subdivision.

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Roommates 2BR/1BR duplex. Beautiful & fully furnished. 4 mi. from GA Square Mall in Bogart area.

Retiree wants roommate to share expenses. $385/mo. covers everything. (678) 8799772.

Rooms for Rent 2 rms. for rent in 4BR house in Normaltown. 1BR/1BA, $500/ mo. + utils. Avail. now & spring.

N/S. Contact Taylor, (214) 5023005 or Sofi, (423) 280-9262.

Sub-lease 1 rm. avail. for sublease on S. Milledge Ave. $300/mo.

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2001 Chevrolet G3500 15 passenger bus w/ wheelchair lift & 2 wheelchair tie-down areas. Diesel engine, A/C, automatic, white. No CDL license needed. $15,900 or OBO. (706) 549-9456.

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beer notes Craft Beer Fest and New Brew Welcome to a truncated, quickly written edition of Beer Notes. More beer news (of a less absolutely local sort) will appear in my regular online peckings. Be forewarned.

Athens is seeing a significant influx of quality craft beers reaching our shelves and tap handles. Cigar City Brewing from Tampa made its official debut here recently: you’ll look long and hard before you find a line as inventive as comes from their “tin shed” in West Tampa. Brewer Wayne Wambles is widely known for his stick-the-neck-out recipes, and the resulting products are always top-notch— sorta like a Southern rendition of Dogfish Head or Bell’s. This line is worth seeking out, especially the Humidor series, aged in cigar box wood!

“There are not many boundaries,” Wayne extols. “Besides, I like to make beer that I like to drink, and I like really ‘experimental’ brews.”

The man is a genius, and his beers are all totally original. (I can only wish I had tasted his Cucumber Saison, which he made from local Florida [Hardee County?] produce. Sigh.)

Check Beer Advocate’s website to learn more.

Lots more. Whew!!

The product line of Jailhouse Brewing (down in Hampton, GA), heretofore only available spottily in and around Atlanta, will be in Athens soon, if it isn’t already. Their three main products are Slammer Wheat, Mugshot IPA and Breakout Stout. Recently, a series

of one-offs began making their appearance thereabouts: Smokey Smoked Wheat was only on draft (I missed it!), and three others were also bottled. I’ll review these elsewhere, but suffice to say that this tiny brewery is turning out some mighty good brews. My favorite is the Stout, by the way.

Two new breweries have debuted their drafts in Atlanta: Monday Night Brewing and Red Hare Brewing Co. I’ve done my fieldwork and tasted all four of their offerings (two from each) and will report on them in my upcoming combination road-trip-and-food-and-beer column.

Now the big news. Trappeze Pub and Hotel Indigo are teaming up to bring us Athens Craft Beer Festival on Saturday, Oct. 8. and Sunday, Oct. 9. The Saturday part is open only to those folks who buy VIP passes ($65). It features rare beers and keg brews that will likely be gonesies by Sunday, plus a brewmasters’ reception and Q&A session at 7 p.m. in Hotel Indigo’s Rialto Room, with at least seven brewers from this part of the country. (I only hope I can attend at least in part: my radio show runs from 10 p.m. to midnight Saturday nights, and I’m not gonna miss it. Not even for beer!)

On Sunday, the doors open for general admission ($45) at 1 p.m. (VIPs get in an hour earlier.) There will be over 100 beers available for tasting, plus entertainment and food to be enjoyed and/or tasted. The

available beery offerings are entirely craft brews and quality imports; not even good old PBR will make an appearance. A number of newly released seasonals will also be available for your tasting pleasure.

I can only hope that Moon River Brewing in Savannah will bring up some of its justhatched Tater Ale, a sweet potato Harvest Beer. (Please, won’tcha?) And Jailhouse Brewing is plumb apt to bring something special… brewer Glenn Golden is mum. This is gonna be fun, folks. Oh. And ya gotta be 21 or over. I qualify.

This comes right after Kurt Wood’s Front Porch Record Sale, which will be Saturday, Oct. 8. beginning at 9 a.m. and Sunday, Oct. 9, starting at noon. This has nothing to do with beer, you understand, but Your Writer is gonna be a busy boy on those two daze.

Surely, more beer news will be forthcoming, especially with 14 new breweries open, under construction or past the initial planning stages in Georgia. It’s a hard job, folks, but somebody’s gotta do it. Prosit! (30.)

William Orten Carlton = ORT.

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everyday people Cleveland “Boo Boo” Lawrence, Trash Collector When Cleveland Lawrence was a child, his parents began calling him “Boo Boo” after the cartoon cub on “Yogi Bear.”

Fifty-three years later, Cleveland still goes by “Boo Boo,” and while he is no longer a cub, he has certainly grown into a bear at 6’6”. Despite his impressive height, Boo Boo is extremely down-to-earth. He works for the Athens-Clarke County Solid Waste Department picking up the trash, and while some of his coworkers are repulsed by the work, Boo Boo finds it strangely gratifying.

Flagpole: How did you get your nickname?

Cleveland “Boo Boo” Lawrence: My mom and dad gave it to me. When I was a little boy, I used to stand in front of the TV and watch “Yogi Bear.” Every time Yogi said “Boo Boo,” I said, “Hey! Boo Boo!” And that’s how my mom and dad gave me my nickname, “Boo Boo.”

FP: Do people ever think your job is gross?

CL: Some people come to me… “How do y’all do that, get all the juice and stuff splashed all over you?” Some guys down here don’t like to get dirty. I’m one of the main ones; I don’t mind getting dirty. That’s just a part of the job. We got quite a few down here, they jump like little girls when they get the juice on them. They don’t want to get dirty… That’s why they call it a shower, and you take one when you get out of here.

FP: You’ve been in Athens your whole life. How have you seen it change?

CL: Oh, I’ve seen dirt roads turned into paved roads. I’ve seen… bushes knocked down and became apartments. I’ve seen Athens from the rock gravel road up here coming to concrete, asphalt.

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FP: And you stuck by it your whole life?

CL: Yeah, I stuck by it since I was three years old, my entire life. So, it’s been 50 years since I’ve been Boo Boo.

and everybody respects me, and I like that. I really have a great bit of respect for that because they like me and they like what I do.

FP: Is there anything that you miss?

CL: That I was a child. I wish I could do it all over again. But other than that, not really. It’s progress, and it’s supposed to happen. It’s a good thing that it’s happening. People change. Everything changes. You know, downtown has changed from when I was a kid. I’ve worked down there for 10 years. Before I worked down there, I used to go down there as a teenager. Everything’s totally different. I’ve seen the trash man totally different from when I was a kid.

FP: Could you tell me a bit about what you do here at the solid waste department?

CL: Well, I’m a driver/collector. I drive the smallest trash truck that the county owns right now. Basically, I run all of Clarke County bus stop cans, also residential. I also run businesses. I do a lot of different things.

FP: Do you go to the same places every day?

CL: I have a schedule that I have to follow Monday through Friday… It consists of a lot of different areas in the county, so I could be on this side of town one day and then on the other side of the county the next day. I could be all over Athens in one day.

FP: So, you must know Athens pretty well.

CL: Pretty good. Pretty good. I’ve been here all my life.

FP: How long have you worked here?

CL: I’ve been with the county… this will be 10 years, two weeks.

FP: Do you like working here?

CL: I enjoy working here. I really do.

FP: Do you see a lot of interesting things out driving around?

CL: I see a lot of interesting things—things you wouldn’t believe… I’ve been downtown working for 10 years. I have seen sororities host little things they’re supposed to be pledged on, people running through town with no clothes on.

I’ve seen a lot of things.

FP: What about in the trash?

CL: A lot of times, I’ve see a lot of weird things in trash… some of the things you just really don’t want to know.

FP: Has this job given you a new perspective on the trash?

CL: Yeah, you know, it makes me feel—how can I say this?—well, needed to do something for the community, because if I didn’t do it, no one else would do it.

FP: So, is it gratifying in that way?

CL: In a sense, in a sense. I have a lot of people that know me in the county, especially downtown. I’m well known in the downtown area from just about every business downtown— restaurants, clothing stores. Everybody down there knows me,

FP: Do you ever think about traveling or leaving Athens?

CL: No, I had thought about that one time… I lived in Atlanta for about a year and a half. It wasn’t for me. There was too much going on in Atlanta at the time. Too much crime. Every time I thought about it, I said I like just being at home in Athens, because Athens is my home. That’s where I came from; that’s where I’m going to stay at. That’s where I’m going to leave this world at: in Athens.

FP: What does the idea of home mean to you?

CL: When I think of home, all I can think of is Athens.

FP: Is there anything you would change about Athens if you could?

CL: Not really. To be honest, I can’t think of anything.

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FP: Well, what are your hopes for the future of Athens as it continues to grow?

CL: I’m looking for that train to come through here they’ve been talking about for the last… supposed to have been here in 2011, but… The train to commute from Atlanta to Athens…

It was supposed to get started in 2011, and I guess they’re going to talk about it until 2012.

FP: What would the train change for you?

CL: It would bring more businesses, more trash, more everything. It would make downtown an even bigger job for me to clean up because it would bring more people from Atlanta, and the restaurants are going to have more stuff to do, and all the football games are going to get even bigger. It’s more trash.

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