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THIS WEEK’S ISSUE: News & Features City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Athens News and Views

Vote on Nov. 8 Don’t forget that Tuesday, Nov. 8 is the last day to vote for the Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (E-SPLOST) that has been providing the money needed to build new schools and refurbish existing buildings. This has been a highly successful program that has upgraded our teaching and learning environments and provided new schools in areas of the county that needed them. You can pop by the Board of Elections office the rest of this week or vote next Tuesday (not Monday) at the general election in your usual polling place.

Hamp Was a Hero Hamilton McWhorter, Jr. died last week at the age of 98.

Few people know who he was, and that was okay with him: his family knew, and Georgia leaders knew. Hamp was accustomed to operating behind the scenes and accumulating the vital information that everybody needed. He grew up down the road in Lexington, GA, graduated from UGA and its law school, served his community as a city council member, county attorney and state senator and his state as the longtime Secretary of the Senate, a pivotal position in state government. He also served his country in military intelligence during World War II and after, in ways he never mentioned. Hamilton McWhorter was as much at home in Oglethorpe County as he was in Atlanta, in Washington, D.C. or abroad. He always cheerfully did what needed to be done, usually without publicity. Hamp was a great Georgian, a great Southerner and a great American.

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Google That Sh!t . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Search: Zuccotti direct democracy

With Occupy Wall Street and related protests, the medium is the message.

Arts & Events The Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Stranded in the Jungle

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Doors open at 8 p.m., and Dave will start around 9 p.m., so no excuses for its being too late for a commission listening party. Y’all can park in your new deck and enjoy the beautifully reborn Georgia Theatre.

Happy Birthday to Us! Flagpole, as of last week, has been around town for 24 years. Probably the main reason why this “alternative newsweekly” got started and is still going strong is that the newspaper has always been owned by people who work here just like everybody at Flagpole—people who are a part of the community we cover. We all live here; we work here; we play here.

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We’re 24, But We’re Slack This year, as we did last year, Flagpole is asking our readers to help us put out our year-end issue, when we’ll be trying to slack off and take some time after Christmas. We call our reader-generated section Slackpole, and we’re hoping that again this year, for no pay but the unforgettable thrill of being published in Flagpole, our readers will come to our aid and help us make it through the holidays. Photography (including anything spotted—for our “Spotted” section), short fiction, short non-fiction, graphic stories and comics: we need them all. See the ad on p. 2 that tells you what we’re looking for, and we hope you’ll get to work helping us slack off. There’s a tremendous amount of talent here in Athens, and we want to take full advantage of you while we take full advantage of some time off. The deadline is Nov. 28. Don’t let us down, Athens! Remember the Slackpole motto: “Half the work, twice the fun.”

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PROFESSOR TO PRESIDENT Dear President Adams: The purpose of this letter is to direct your attention to the fact that UGA police chief Jimmy Williamson and his department are violating the First Amendment rights of the Athens Occupy Wall Street protestors who are protesting downtown near the Arch, and to request you to direct UGA police to cease their violations of the First Amendment.

You have, I am sure, observed the Athens OWS demonstrators engaging in their peaceful and respectful protests and displaying their protest signs. If you have seen them lately, you will notice that none of the protestors with a sign is standing on the steps leading from Broad Street to the Arch. The reason the protestors are not standing with their signs on those steps, even though they wish to do so, is that they are afraid that if they stand on the steps they will be arrested. Chief Williamson and his officers have adopted a policy which consists of ordering the protestors not to stand on the steps and of threatening to arrest any protestor who does stand on the steps. This policy is a plain violation of the First Amendment.

On Oct. 18, 2011, the UGA police department gave a document entitled “Notice,” prepared by police, to the protestors. (This document is set forth in the attachment to this email.) The document contains a number of “protocols” prohibiting the protestors from engaging in certain activities, including protesting on the steps of the Arch. Thus, the document announces: “Protestors may not… stand on the steps of the Arch.”

On the morning of Oct. 19, 2011, Chief Williamson visited the protestors at the Arch and issued them orders. During that visit, which was recorded on videotape with audio, he threatened to arrest protestors unless they went to the side of the steps. The video of that visit is on YouTube and may be accessed by following this hotlink: http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=owwnuz_V_Zk A transcript of the audio portion of the video reveals what Williamson told the protestors.

Williamson: “Do not block the steps of chief seems to be under the impression that if the Arch to the university. You need to go to a single person walking through the Arch was each side of the steps, please. Anything that required to walk around a protestor on the you don’t follow instructions or you’re subject steps, that alone would justify barring protesto arrest. We’re giving you ample access to tors from standing on the steps. protest, express all your rights you want to I need hardly remind you, President Adams, express and thoughts. All we’re asking is for that over the years various protest groups the front door of the university to have free have demonstrated at the Arch and that many ingress and egress for all the students and demonstrators often stand on the steps of the other people here have. The same rights that Arch in the course of their demonstrations. you all have.

During my 40 years at this University I have “So, we’re asking you to just step to each with my own eyes seen protest after protest at side of the wall, and line up along the fence the Arch featuring demonstrators standing on and you get to express your rights. This [the the Arch steps. Just last Sept. 21, my wife and Arch] is a door just like any other business I and other protestors against the execution or anything else. Every student, every faculty of Troy Davis stood on the steps of the Arch member has the right to come in and out of holding our protest signs. I have never heard here without trying to snake through people of a single instance in which demonstrators or step over people.” were barred from standing on those steps.

The chief says this between the time markDemonstrators may not, of course, block ers 1:46 and 2:32 on the video. In ordering the pedestrian traffic through the Arch, and the protestors “to go to each side” of the UGA police may legitimately prevent crowds steps and telling from obstructing them that “Anything passage through the that you don’t follow Arch. But the UGA BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: instructions or you’re police have gone way subject to arrest,” he beyond that, and in Driver is carrying no money. clearly was threatdoing so they have He is divorced. ening to arrest the violated the First protestors if they Amendment. UGA Send your stickers to letters@flagpole.com. continued to engage police have prohibin protest activities ited any demonstrator on the steps, and this (including one carryis especially true in light of the “Notice” given ing a protest sign) from standing on the steps the protestors the previous day which prohibof the Arch, even if passage is not blocked. ited them from standing on the steps of the Every day all of us see citizens—faculty, Arch. That the protestors clearly understood administrators, students and nonstudents that they had been ordered to refrain from alike—standing on the steps of the Arch while protesting on the steps of the Arch is evident engaging in conversation, talking on their from the people’s microphone statements that cellphones, waiting for someone to arrive the protestors recited immediately after the or just plain hanging out. Some of them sit chief had issued his directives and walked a on those steps while using their laptops or short distance away. engaging in other activities. They have a right One week ago, on the afternoon of to do so, and it would be ridiculous if UGA Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, I had a telephone police were to threaten these citizens with conversation with Chief Williamson. In the arrest because they were standing (or sitcourse of that conversation, the chief told me ting) on the steps of the Arch. It is, however, in no uncertain terms that if a protestor stood even more ridiculous for the police to permit on the steps of the Arch he would be ordered ordinary citizens to stand on the steps of the to step down, and that if he did not do so he Arch, while at the same time preventing prowould be arrested for criminal trespass. The testors from doing the same thing.

President Adams, I know for a certainty that if UGA police do not cease barring protestors from standing on the steps of the Arch, there will be a civil action filed in court in which the chief, his department, and possibly the University itself will be named as defendants. I am also quite confident that no federal district court judge or state superior court judge will find that the UGA police policies, which forbid protestors from simply standing on the steps of the Arch while carrying a protest sign, comply with the First Amendment.

The filing of such a lawsuit would… embarrass the university and damage its reputation.

For these reasons, President Adams, I request that you direct the UGA police to rescind their prohibition on protestors standing on the steps of the Arch. I further request that you direct UGA police to officially inform the Athens OWS demonstrators that they will no longer be subject to arrest for peaceably holding their signs while standing on the steps of the Arch as long as they do not block traffic through the Arch.

Because we are dealing with First Amendment violations that began over a week ago and that are still continuing, I also request that you handle this matter on an expedited basis, so that the protestors may promptly resume their First Amendmentprotected activities without fear of arrest.

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. Professor of Law, UGA School of Law

PRESIDENT TO PROFESSOR From: Michael F. Adams [mailto:presuga@uga.edu] Sent: Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011 6:58 p.m.

To: Donald Wilkes Cc: Timothy P. Burgess; Jere W. Morehead Subject: Re: UGA Police Violating the First Amendment Mr. Wilkes, the Chief’s interpretation is correct. We will respect and protect your right to protest, but protesters must stay on the sidewalk, not block the Arch, or impede others intent to ingress and egress the campus.

Thank you for your inquiry.

MFA UGA

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Athens News and Views Location, Location, Location: By the time you read this, the mayor and commission will in all likelihood have voted to remove the statutory requirement of a 100-foot distance between establishments selling package beer and wine and residential dwellings, along with a 200-foot buffer from churches. It’s a move intended to make it easier for grocery stores to come to certain in-town corridors where prime potential locations have long been foiled by the buffer—like the available St. Joseph’s Catholic Church property on Prince Avenue, which is right across the street from First Baptist Church.

If you’re looking for low-hanging economic development fruit, this is it. Let’s find more.

Resistance Isn’t Futile: More than twice as many people as expected turned out for a Tate Center forum last week at which undocumented students from Clarke Central and Cedar Shoals high schools gave accounts of how their lives have been affected by HB 87 and Board of Regents policies on immigrants.

These are people who, by no decision of their own, were brought to this country as children and who have since done exactly what our society expects from those who intend to become responsible and productive Americans.

That they have been labeled as “illegal” and marked for exclusion from participation in the society whose tenets they have so eagerly embraced is a grim measure of Jordan Jumping In?: how successfully our Commissioner Ed cynical politicians have Robinson has been shifted the blame for on a roll lately, makour state’s and our ing the most of his nation’s economic evenings behind the woes from the superrail to offer pronouncepowerful interests that ments that have ranged buy policy with their from the informative ever-growing capital to (his demonstration the poor and marginalof an impressively ized, whose practically detailed knowledge of non-existent voices in tree species during a ACC made the switch to single-stream recycling government continue last week, and started accepting a wider range planning discussion) to be shouted down. of materials, too. Rollcarts are available from the to the unfortunate (a As that agenda county Solid Waste Department, if you want ‘em. well-intentioned but grows ever more blaperhaps too impromptu tant, it’s no wonder lesson in African-American history on the we appear to be witnessing the dawn of a occasion of last month’s redistricting vote). new season of activism. Whether you’re an If Robinson is flying his flag a little higher immigrant being overtly targeted, or one of these days (let’s not forget his colorful obserthe rest of the “99 percent” whose interests vation that watching the “dysfunctional” comare simply being ignored, there’s a growing mission’s meetings on cable is “better than probability that you’re losing your faith in the reality TV!”), it may have something to do current system’s ability to guard your freedom with his recent announcement that he won’t and ability to prosper. Those who are actually be seeking re-election next year. And who in power aren’t going to stop trying to turn better to fill Robinson’s seat than the man who us against one another any time soon, so it’s warmed it before him, Carl Jordan? The erstgoing to be up to us to figure out that we while District 6 commish has told Flagpole’s need to stand together to stand a chance. The John Huie that he’ll consider running for his class war isn’t being fomented by anyone; it’s old post in 2012. Since this Dope missed out well underway, and one side’s winning big. on covering the original Jordan era, he’d welcome a new one.

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Paul Broun, Jr.’s Krazy Korner It’s existential crisis time here in the Krazy Korner. Congressman Paul Broun, Jr. will face a primary challenger for next year’s election, Macon veteran and businessman Stephen Simpson.

Considering that Broun shrugs off Democratic opponents in the general election by 20 to 30 points, a primary challenge is the only real threat to the congressman’s seat. A threat to Broun is a threat to the Korner. Broun hasn’t done much to solve the jobs crisis, but he’s created and sustained one: mine.

The Korner has been lucky. Guys like Broun don’t come around very often.

He’s like Halley’s Comet: super-rare and always about a million miles from the needs of Northeast Georgians. Remember when he went to bat for “crush videos,” sexual fetish films that feature women grinding small animals to death with their feet? Something tells me Mr. Simpson won’t be so adamant about permitting the bloody stomping of small animals for sexual pleasure—which will make a “Stephen Simpson’s Relative Sanity Square” column difficult. But Broun is the rare political thinker who will vote pro-kitten death on “constitutional grounds and the First Amendment,” then, faced with a real First Amendment issue—that of Occupy Wall Street protesters exercising their right to assemble peaceably to bring forth grievances—call that exercise “an attack upon freedom.” A smart campaign by Simpson could spell the end of Broun.

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ACC Recycling Goes Single-Stream, Will Take More Materials Keeping trash out of the landfill just got easier in Athens-Clarke County with “singlestream” recycling. Instead of requiring customers to sort paper from cans and bottles, the county is now doing the sorting, so everything (except trash) can go into the same container. That makes pickups more efficient, says Suki Janssen, ACC’s recycling coordinator, who expects customers to recycle more, too.

“I think it’ll increase tonnage [of recyclables] by 20 percent to 25 percent,” Janssen told Flagpole. The county will begin replacing recycle bins with larger recycling rollcarts for customers who want them.

Most of the sorting is done by machine at the county’s recycling facility off Olympic Drive, but the final sorting of plastics is done by hand. Along with the switch to singlestream, the facility now has storage space for additional types of plastics—so now most items other than Styrofoam (#6 plastic) can be recycled (plastic bags, plates and cutlery, paper cups and shredded paper are not accepted). Rigid plastics (toys, buckets, bins) can also be included for single-stream pickup.

Grease, scrap metal, tires and electronics can be dropped off for recycling; see www.athensclarkecounty.com for details on how.

Depending on material prices, ACC usually makes money on recycling—$308,000 last year over sorting costs—but the main reason county commissioners have set ambitious recycling goals is to reduce the amount of material going into the landfill. Landfills are politically unpopular; a multi-county effort to site a new one was abandoned because none

of the counties involved was willing to host it, so ACC is expanding its Lexington Road landfill despite an earlier agreement with nearby neighbors that it never would. Seeing the landfill as a necessary evil, commissioners have set a goal of reducing landfill tonnage by 75 percent over 10 years, and since a big part of what goes into the landfill can be recycled, that means increasing recycling is a top priority.

No one is required to recycle, but the county government (which regulates private waste haulers as well as providing intown trash pickup) does all it can to encourage it.

Recycling is available at no charge to all trash customers—meaning trash bills can be lower if customers recycle—and 11 drop-off recycling dumpsters can be used by anyone (even non-ACC residents). Sewage sludge once went into the landfill, but now ACC composts it with ground-up leaf and limb material to produce a rich landscaping mulch that’s sold at the landfill. It’s been “flying off the shelves” at $20 per pickup load, Janssen says. These recycling efforts produced a “diversion rate” of 35 percent last year: material that might have gone into the landfill, but was recycled instead.

But can the county really reach its goal of 75 percent recycling? “We will get there, but we’re going to have to provide some serious composting infrastructure,” Janssen said: picking up food scraps from schools, restaurants, even from homes. Food scraps account for as much as a quarter of landfill trash. “We’re going to have to get those organics out of the landfill to make that 75 percent,” she said. “It’s the hardest thing to pick up, but we certainly wouldn’t be the first community doing it in the country. We might be the first in Georgia.”

John Huie

capitol impact athens rising On the night of Nov. 8, as ballots are being tallied in local elections around the state, one of the largest political walls in Georgia should finally come tumbling down. The last vestige of the old blue laws prohibiting the transaction of business on Sundays—a ban on the package sales of alcoholic beverages—will be on the ballot in more than 100 cities and counties.

Citizens will have the chance to say yes or no to the question of whether Sunday package sales should be legal. Regardless of what they decide, voters will make that choice for themselves rather than have it dictated by some outside group or religious organization.

It will be quite a milestone for a state where the churches held tremendous political clout for years and kept laws in place that banned gambling or the legal purchase of beverages that include fermented spirits.

The power of the religious groups has been declining, however, as more and more communities voted to indulge in what were once regarded as sinful activities. One of the last major campaigns from the churches was the effort in the early 1990s to defeat the passage of the Georgia Lottery. That move failed as a majority of the voters approved the lottery, which left the ban on Sunday package sales as the last stand of religious conservatives. That prohibition would doubtless have been swept aside several years ago if not for the opposition of Sonny Perdue, a governor who didn’t drink and vowed to veto any Sunday package sales legislation. With Perdue gone and a more accommodating person in the governor’s office, it was only a matter of time before the Sunday sales ban became a quaint part of the state’s history.

There were many people, including me, who expected to see a spirited campaign this fall involving the pro-sales faction and the church groups as we got closer to the date of the Nov. 8 referendums. That has not happened,

however. The grocery and convenience store lobbyists who worked diligently to secure legislative passage of the Sunday sales bill have kept quiet, and so have the churches and religious organizations. The media have spent more time reporting on referendums that won’t happen until next year—the T-SPLOST transportation tax—than on the Sunday sales votes that will take place next week.

“I cannot find one church that will do anything, even do a bulletin insert, about the upcoming vote, let alone tell the congregation about it,” said Jerry Luquire, president of the Christian Coalition of Georgia and a diehard opponent of Sunday alcohol sales. “We sent out a mass email—we did not hear back from one church.” It is, he said, “perplexing to me.”

The pro-sales factions sat back and said voters in each of the affected communities should make their own decisions.

“We’re letting the local grocers in the area decide whether they want to get involved,” said Kathy Kuzava of the Georgia Food Industry Association, which represents the state’s grocery stores.

“We’ve always said it’s a matter of local control. Let the local communities decide for themselves.”

At last count, there were 109 local elections scheduled on the Sunday sales issue.

Because this is a municipal election year, most of the votes are being held in cities. Most of the county votes on the Sunday sales question will be held next year.

There could well be a few locales where the issue is defeated, but I would guess that a majority of the communities will choose to allow Sunday package sales of alcohol.

“Obviously, there’s a desire to drink, or it wouldn’t be on the ballot,” Luquire acknowledged. “I see it passing. This is just the natural progression of things.”

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

What’s Up in New Development I’d like to go ahead and state, on the pressure off of two existing infrastructures in record, that I am, and have always been, pro one move, while doubly benefiting rivers, chicken. A backyard that feels more like a reducing peak runoff flows and reducing the barnyard is a wonderful notion, and the idea demand for water withdrawals. Net metering of decentralized agriculture is an interesting of electricity is another example of a stratone, especially when it comes to sustainabilegy that gets us closer to a decentralized ity. We might not all become master gardeners approach, while in the meantime reducing the and farm animal whisperers, but opening the burden on existing, overtaxed infrastructure. door to different types of local food producUnfortunately, our local and state regulatory tion will at least allow people to take individrequirements haven’t quite caught up with ual, incremental steps in that direction, based current thinking. on their own interests.

It’s not as if Athens will suddenly resemble The average lot in an older neighborhood a medieval market, with livestock, poultry like Cobbham isn’t that different in size or ori- and the other sights, sounds and, especially, entation from most in some of the older subsmells that go along with these sustainable urbs, like Cedar Creek or Green Acres (although strategies. As individuals embrace one or two you could argue that Cobbham is in fact the of these strategies at a time, we’ll absorb the oldest suburb, given its streetcar-line herieffects gently, learning or relearning how to tage). But while these postwar neighborhoods integrate these things into our lives. It’ll be are the ones filled with “ranches,” a look at one house on the block, and then two or three the areas surrounding the more historic homes in the next decade or so, with critical mass reveals a fascinatingly complex working landscape, with many sheds, barns and, yes, chicken coops enclosing backyard gardens, along with smaller cottages for the workers who tended it all.

While not quite as complex on smaller lots with more modest homes, the more stately the house, the more likely it is to have three or four outbuildings gathered around it.

While there were small groceries in the neighborhood that Intown properties are often home to an array of outbuildings that once contriblikely filled many of uted to a working agricultural landscape. the original residents’ needs, there was certainly enough room to provide for others at likely not coming unless some unforeseen home. Even more importantly, these activicrisis pushes us back towards victory gardens. ties had the potential to interlock with one However, the collected effect might be that another into a system. Chickens pecking at as households met 5 and 10 and 20 percent bugs and weed seeds in the vegetable garden of their needs onsite, the ability of Athens to means less work, and less feed for the chickgrow—and the economics of that—won’t be ens. Is it time to really revisit the antiquated stretched as much as current rates now sugordinances that outlawed these sorts of comgest. With more frequent droughts and fewer mon-sense uses that ultimately match many resources all around, we’ll have to do much community values? more with a lot less if we want to remain an The pro-chicken bumper sticker, proudly economically healthy community. displayed on the rears of local station wagIf we can get over the regulatory hurdles ons, touches on a bigger question, though. In and stop fining folks for keeping a few hens general, we need to explore how we can sucin the backyard, we might see some interestcessfully integrate these decentralized strateing things start to happen. Those accessory gies for food, energy, water and the like. Even buildings which now seem so quaint might from a utilities standpoint, many properties in suddenly become quite useful again. these intown neighborhoods historically had How might neighborhoods that postdate wells, and privies would have been ubiquitous. the time when urban agriculture was common I’m by no means advocating for a return to evolve as people take on these new hobbies? the days before plumbing, but there’s someWould the two-car garage ever become a thing to be said for on-site waste treatment, cowshed? Could swimming pools become fish and new technologies in fields like compostponds or underground cisterns? Would lawns ing may provide a very effective answer. A give way to productive gardens and orchards? huge infrastructure of pipes strung out along The evidence that these things used to exist stream and river banks allows us to avoid is all around us, from cotton terraces upon dealing with the issue at home, but that big which suburban neighborhoods are built to and complex system has many more points of remnant pecan groves that blanket entire failure, with an immensely greater risk. blocks. If we stop pretending that this notion The same goes for issues like grey water is foreign and reintegrate these old patterns and net metering. Turning rainwater falling into our newly built environment, how would on rooftops into potable water, when it would the two merge? otherwise go into the stormwater system as runoff, makes a lot of sense. It takes the Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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google grub notes that sh!t Come What May Search: Zuccotti direct democracy The Occupy Wall Street movement is shaping up to be a potentially epochal moment, a watershed in American political economy. While it is reminiscent of both the rights-based movements of the 1960s and the economic populist one of the 1930s, the new movement is ultimately unlike either in a pretty fundamental way. The Occupy movement is leaderless and horizontal: rhizomatic. It is intensely democratic, with decisions arrived at by consensus rather than majority rule. Unlike the populist movement of the 1930s, which relied on father-figure leaders like Huey Long or Father Coughlin, the Occupy movement eschews single leaders and vertical hierarchies. It’s the process that is prioritized, not any single charismatic or otherwise powerful individual. Power is something to be distributed, not concentrated in an individual to wield as he or she wishes.

The ‘60s Civil Rights Movement, too, relied on charismatic leaders. The soaring rhetoric of Dr. King and the articulate anger of Malcolm X were necessary to the freedom struggle, but the elimination of each leader effectively decapitated the organization each man led. Wisely, then, the single greatest opponent of the movement, the United States government, targeted King, X and others for “neutralization” (their word, not mine), the success of which would effectively end the movement. Google “COINTELPRO” to find the story of Washington’s war on the Civil Rights Movement and the strategic thinking of the FBI, which led to heavy surveillance, harassment and assassinations of key civil rights leaders. By the end of the 1960s, most of the civil rights leaders were assassinated, jailed or in exile.

The leaderlessness of the Occupy movement’s general assemblies not only presents a tactically advantageous asymmetry vis-à-vis the powerful who wish it destroyed; the intensive democracy and equality in decision making serves as a model for how to proceed. It is a demonstration in the truest sense of the word, a working model for how to expand democracy. Occupy Wall Street may have started as something defined only by its opponent—i.e., runaway financial capital and its bought politicians—but it has become something valuable in and of itself.

A thoroughness of democracy never seen in Washington can be found at the twice-daily general assemblies in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. Philosopher Judith Butler, speaking on the eve of Occupy Wall Street, described how similar protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last spring were “incorporating into the very social form of resistance the principles for which they were struggling on the street.” Perhaps the most concrete statement made at Tahrir or Zuccotti is the form of organization itself: the medium is the message.

And without the need for leaders, the movement, which is essentially only an organizational method, spreads with prairiefire speed. While consensus-based democracy—wherein full agreement is sought rather than 50-percent-plus-one majority rule—is incredibly and necessarily slow, the speed with which general assemblies spread to new places is incredibly fast. It merely takes a decision by two or more people to form one.

Growth can happen even more quickly.

Chicago’s occupation started with a small handful of locals inspired by Occupy Wall Street to march in protest. By the time the initial demonstration reached the Chicago Board of Trade, it had grown to dozens, and now Chicago’s general assemblies draw hundreds. Occupy the Hood, an effort to involve inner city residents in the occupation movement, similarly began with only two men in Queens. It now has chapters across the United States. Occupy Athens, GA emerged out of a few conversations and grew to have general assemblies 60 people strong.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is reminding Americans, so weary and suspicious of the state of our corrupted electoral politics, that power originates with the people. That people should gather in equality and free exchange—i.e., true democracy—is still the most radical idea around.

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Fatalism?: I doubt that’s the attitude that Trae Stewart and Renee Hartley entered into business with when they opened Kumquat Mae (18 S. Barnett Shoals Rd., in Watkinsville) earlier this year. Still, the name of their restaurant puns on the phrase “come what may,” implying an inability to change the course of events. Maybe it means they’ve gained in wisdom (this is Stewart’s third time opening a restaurant/bakery under that title; the previous two were derailed by life events rather than a lack of business) and are taking the vagaries of the universe in stride. Maybe it means they can overcome whatever’s thrown at them, or most likely, they think the name is cute.

Kumquat Mae does have some nice attributes for Watkinsville. You can get a beer or a glass of wine with your dinner or lunch. It serves a veggie burger made with nuts, croutons and cheese. It’s open long hours: from 6 a.m. Tuesday through Friday, with a full breakfast, fresh-baked breads and a case of pastries, cookies, fudge, etc., and until 10:30 p.m Thursday through Saturday, when it does tapas for dinner.

Tuesday and Wednesday, it closes at 3 p.m., after lunch, and it’s closed Sunday and Monday.

As a bakery, it’s not as good as The Granary, around the corner, but it is open some evening hours, which may recommend it. I find the sweets a little too sweet and the breads not as substantial as they could be, but they make their own cute doughnuts and mini pies, and the case is always impressively full of an array of stuff.

The lunch menu is mostly sandwiches and salads. A turkey Reuben on special, made on the restaurant’s own bread, as are all the sandwiches, is good, but the chips and salsa provided …three pretty little as a side seem straight out of crab cakes… a bag and a jar. Likewise, a pimento cheese burger is well seasoned and well cooked, if not exactly mind-blowing, but the accompanying mix of french fries and sweet potato fries is anemic and clearly previously frozen. At around $8 each, both are decently but not superlatively priced. The tapas at dinner, on the other hand, at $3 each, enable one to construct an affordable and fairly nice meal. Some aren’t great. The meatballs in a tomato sauce with slices of baguette alongside are unimpressive. A tart with onions and mushrooms is flavorful but on the flat side, and the puff pastry doesn’t taste homemade. On the other hand, three pretty little crab cakes are a bargain at a dollar each, with plenty of crab and a delicate texture. A Spanish tortilla with plenty of vegetables is likewise a good option.

The entrees, coming after the tapas, which are sizable for their price, are a step back, not much larger and not as well executed. The asparagus on the side of a pork loin are cooked just right, but the pork itself comes sliced thin enough for a sandwich, and is therefore rather dry. Dessert is itty-bitty, which is far preferable to the mounds of sugar you receive most places. The restaurant takes credit cards.

Homerism: How does YoDawgs (723 Baxter St.) differ from any of the other million-and-a-half frozen yogurt places? Well, since UGA managed to beat Florida, the store is offering free yogurt in some fashion, so there’s that. YoDawgs is of the self-serve variety, with about 10 flavor options, paired so they can be swirled. Like Menchie’s, it has some vegan offerings, which are among the better ones. Tart fruit flavors tend to work pretty well with frozen yogurt or sorbet, and while pomegranate couldn’t be mistaken for the real thing, it was tasty combined with a mango flavor and topped with fresh fruit. The helpers behind the counter are not exactly Hooters-ed out, despite what the establishment may have implied with its ads featuring “YoDawgs girls.” The patio is large; the yogurt well priced at 44 cents an ounce, and the place clean and neat. It’s open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until midnight Friday and Saturday.

WHAT UP?: Sr. Sol #2 is open on Broad Street in the former El Patron, with fresh paint and a lot more space. Keba #3 is open in Watkinsville, in the Colony Square Shopping Center. It will have grand opening celebrations Nov. 6 from noon to 2 p.m.

A new bar called The Georgian Tap Room opened next to The Capital Room and is serving lunch Monday–Friday.

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Final Judgement

Ramsey Nix

A Scary Fate Awaits in a Hell-Oween House

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he bright red clay was a sign. When it gave way beneath the soles of my shoes, I should have known I was treading toward an abyss.

A wide swath of red dirt is all that separates Highway 441 from the black-and-orange decorated trailer offering “Final Judgement Tours,” a temporary roadside attraction just north of Commerce. Like a mirage shimmering in a desert of outlet malls and fast food chains, the makeshift funhouse lured me off the road. My husband and I thought it might be fun to get spooked in a haunted house in time for Halloween.

Twenty dollars later, we slipped through the front door. In a pitch-black anteroom, a television flickered to life. A narrator asked, “If you died tonight, where would you go?”

The film showed an automobile accident, a young woman on her deathbed and her first

glimpse of her final destination. Not a pretty sight.

When the Grim Reaper arrived to take us on our tour of hell, he didn’t dwell long on pleasantries. “I hate y’all,” was all he said before dragging us through a narrow passageway, padded on both sides to simulate the feeling of suffocation.

On the other side, amateur actors rattled chains and screamed behind bars. Their cages were labeled with signs indicating their sins: drunk, pervert, suicide. “Please let us out,” they begged.

“You wanna see what got them here?” the Reaper asked us, as he pushed a door into a well-lit living room. A man sat in a recliner, basking in the glow of Internet porn on his laptop. He yelled at his wife to get him another beer, as his daughter studied physics at the kitchen table.

“You might think he goes after the big corporations, but no, the devil preys on average American families like this one,” the Reaper explained.

The next portal on our tour was a dimly lit bar, where a redheaded teenager knocked back a shot of booze. “We may not be promised tomorrow, but tonight sure is looking good,” she said, before breezing out the saloon doors with a motorcycle helmet in hand. We found her dead on the side of the road in the next tableau.

Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” blared inside a bedroom, where a girl sat cutting herself. The Reaper handed her a pop-gun and turned off the light. “Some of ‘em make it too easy,” he said, after the shot was fired.

Following one last vignette involving oxycodone, we finally met the man of the hour (and his servant, Igor). With his gruesome mask and Darth Vader voice, Satan made it possible to imagine that we were, for the moment, back inside a haunted house. “Tell me something: Are you scared?” the devil asked, before chasing us out of his lair and into the arms of Jesus, in the most literal interpretation of spiritual warfare imaginable.

Standing in his white robe, Bible in hand, Jesus took advantage of this teaching moment. He reviewed what we’d witnessed and told us not to worry—that he had good news. After reading John 3:16, he asked if he could pray over us. My husband gave me a look and a shrug, as if to say, “Why the hell not?”

So, we bowed our heads.

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his was my first encounter with a “hell house,” but apparently they are nothing new. Fundamentalist Christian churches have been operating them since Jerry Falwell first made the concept popular in the late 1970s.

Deceptive advertising brings in plenty of customers (and potential converts) around Halloween. Hell house depictions of sin can include abortion, pre-marital sex and homosexuality, so I suppose my experience was tame by comparison. All hell houses sell the idea that anyone who does not accept Christ as their personal savior is condemned.

The Final Judgement House set up shop on this patch of dirt for the first time this October. Church member Leland Savage had formerly operated a secular haunted house, but he decided to put his trailer to “better use” this year. Savage guesses that the attraction had lured in approximately 700 visitors, though he can’t say yet just how effective the ministry has been. “People fill out cards after they get through, and we plan to follow up with them by phone later on.”

Does he ever question his methods of church recruitment? “No,” Savage answers.

“People have a lot more things to be scared of,” he says.

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men,” Jesus finished. “Hell’s that way,” he said, pointing; “heaven’s that way. You decide.”

While our evening adventure should have taught us not to trust facades, we chose heaven. Had we known the door to hell simply led outside, we might have taken the easy way out.

The charade ended in heaven, where an evangelical in plain clothes asked us to fill out a recruitment form from Redemption Outreach Ministries, the church Savage belongs to seven miles north of Commerce.

“Well, that was weird,” my husband summed up when we got back to our car.

I tried, in futility, to wipe the red clay off my shoes.

Ramsey Nix

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2046 (R) (2004) A thematic sequel to Wong Kar-Wai’s Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love, 2046 stars Tony Leung (Infernal Affairs) as Chow Mo-wan, whose affairs with several different women span hundreds of years.

Wong Kar-Wai’s fantastical romance was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and won 22 other international awards (it was nominated for 30 more!). The film is screening as part of Ciné’s Fall Director Spotlight Series. Introduction by UGA Film Studies Professor Chris Sieving. k A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS (R) Six years after the doped duo’s adventures in Guantanamo Bay, Harold and Kumar (John Cho and Kal Penn) get into the 3D Christmas spirit after Kumar burns down Harold’s father-in-law’s prized Christmas tree. This tragedy sends them on a night-long search for the perfect tree that involves Neil Patrick Harris and shooting Santa Claus. The trailers are making sure to push the high quotient of sex and violence, especially during Sunday’s NFL games on Fox. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (PG) 1973.

George Lucas shot to superstardom, and gained the clout needed to produce Star Wars, with this successful lowbudget tale of ‘60s teen nightlife, which essentially means lots of cruising, drag racing and drive-ins. Lucas’ cast is like a night sky overflowing with future stars. Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams and Suzanne Somers all appear, however brief. Along with Young Frankenstein, this film is one of the few my mother force-fed me during my formative youth, forever forging my cinematic soul in unbreakable stone.

ANOTHER HAPPY DAY (R) This family drama stars Ellen Barkin as

Lynn, who is thrust into some familial dynamics during a weekend wedding at her parents’ Annapolis estate.

Ezra Miller, soon to be seen in We Need to Talk about Kevin, won the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Breakthrough Performer Award. Writerdirector Sam Levinson’s feature debut won the Sundance Film Festival’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and was a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize. With Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy and Ellen Burstyn.

APOLLO 18 (PG-13) Have you ever watched a boring school doc about the moon and thought all that was missing were some scares? That assessment sums up Apollo 18 pretty well. Boring and in need of some scares. Three astronauts embark on a classified mission to the moon and discover something deadly. This newest entry in the found footage subgenre has all the weaknesses of its predecessors— shaky, blurry camerawork; poor lighting; lots of dead air—plus some cardboard American Heroes as potential vics and not a lick of scares.

The found footage genre has never lent itself well to action, but the lazy, glacially paced Apollo 18 makes the Paranormal Activitys and Blair Witch Project look like action-packed sprints.

COLUMBIANA (PG-13) A young woman (Zoe Saldana), after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.

COURAGEOUS (PG-13) 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.

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everyone who doesn’t greenlight studio projects. Steve Carell stars as Cal Weaver, whose wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), suddenly bombs him with a divorce pronouncement that leads him to a local bar where Cal meets inveterate womanizer Jacob (Ryan Gosling).

While Cal the nice guy is learning to objectify women, Jacob the man-whore is falling for law student Hannah (Emma Stone).

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.

DRIVE (R) Drive slides through the alleys and sidestreets of its criminal Los Angeles with the precision, skill

looking like he transferred from Rydell High) migrates south to live with his aunt and uncle (Kim Dickens and scene-stealing Ray McKinnon, an Adel native and Oscar winner). There he runs afoul of Rev. Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid), who instituted the dancing ban after his son died in a car accident, and woos Moore’s beautiful, troubled daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough, “Dancing with the Stars”). Brewer’s movie has a nice rhythm and does the South more justice than any other major Hollywood release.

FRIGHT NIGHT (R) This remake of the 1980s horror comedy classic is good. It’s better than good, even.

Former geek Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin), who is dating lithe hottie, Amy (Imogen Poots), has hit the high school lottery until his old friend “Evil” Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) confides that Charley’s strapping new neighbor, Jerry (Colin Farrell), is a vampire. When Ed disappears, Charley starts investigating. Soon enough, he’s fighting a 400-year-old vamp with the

I am occupying Wall Street! and style of its nameless Driver (Ryan Gosling), called the Kid by his boss/ handler, Shannon (Bryan Cranston; 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. Gosling must hail from an alien world filled with cool because he’s certainly more so than any other actor working today (besides maybe George Clooney… maybe). His near silent Driver says all he needs to with a single look that says whatever the recipient needs to hear. Director Nicholas Winding Refn (The Pusher trilogy, Bronson, Valhalla Rising) creates an L.A. that would make a younger Michael Mann jealous, were it lit a little more bluely; Cliff Martinez’s pulsing electronic score would sound at home in Manhunter. The odd cast mixes well. An against type, eyebrow-less Albert Brooks digs into his straight from Elmore Leonard former B-movie producer turned small time gangster.

Drive’s leading the race for my favorite film of 2011.

FOOTLOOSE (PG-13) What Hustle & Flow filmmaker Craig Brewer has done in remaking the seminal ‘80s flick is impressive. Brewer relocates the dance banning town of Bomont from Oklahoma to Georgia, adding another film to Brewer’s resume of intriguing cinematic stories about the New South.

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help of a Vegas stage magician, Peter Vincent (the oh, so wonderful David Tennant). Practically everything, old and new, works in the updated Fright Night.

FROM THE BACK OF THE ROOM (NR) The Riot Grrrl movement of the mid-’90s didn’t start, nor did it end, female involvement in DIY punk.

This documentary chronicles the part women have played in the musical movement over the past 30 years and boasts interviews with women ages 17–40, including Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Slade of Tribe 8, Cynthia Connolly (the author of Banned in DC), Dyanne from Harum Scarum, Allison of Bratmobile and Party Line and many more.

GARBAGE WARRIOR (NR) The epic story of radical Earthship ecoarchitect Michael Reynolds, and his fight to build off-the-grid self-sufficient communities.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG13) It’s over. The final battle rages over the and through the hallowed halls of Hogwarts as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson), Ron (Rupert Grint) attempt to end Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) evil reign. HP7.2 is filled with blood, death and violence yet is still fit for the entire family (besides the littlest ones).

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.

• IN TIME (PG-13) Based on its incredibly entertaining science-fiction concept, In Time could have rivaled Source Code for the year’s most exciting new sci-fi film. In the near future (that oddly enough looks like the past), time is money. A few people have a lot; most people don’t have near enough. In the ghettoized time zones, poor people run everywhere, never sleep late and are always looking at the clocks, tattooed on their arms in glow-in-the-dark green. The wealthy are ensconced in their high rises in the safety of immortality. When poor guy Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) is gifted a century, he is forced to go on the lam as the world’s law enforcers, the Time Keepers led by Inception’s Cillian Murphy, are hot on his tail. Fortunately, he has the daughter (Amanda Seyfried) of one of the richest men in tow. The flaws in this disappointing film lie not in the high concept but in the poor storytelling. Several massive plot holes and geographic inconsistencies could be overlooked, but the film loses its momentum when writer-director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) decides to make the dead end-ish Bonnie and Clyde/ Time Bandits angle the A-storyline.

LITTLE GIANTS (PG) 1994. Former football star Kevin O’Shea (Ed O’Neill) is the elite coach of a peewee football powerhouse. Kevin’s little brother Danny (Rick Moranis) takes exception when his skilled daughter, Becky “Icebox” O’Shea (Shawna Waldron), is rejected by her uncle solely because she’s a girl. Together, Danny and Becky put together a team to take on Kevin’s Cowboys for the town’s sole spot in the state peewee football playoffs.

THE MIGHTY MACS (G) In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms and the school itself is in danger of being sold, Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their first national championship.

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.

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (R) Is there anyone as charming as Paul Rudd?

(I’m not actually asking; the answer is clearly no.) As beatific, honest and kind to a law-breaking fault Ned, Rudd beams and “aw, man”’s his way through a twee indiecom from former Lemonhead Jesse Peretz (he also directed The Ex). Our Idiot Brother glides lazily along on the heavily hirsute Rudd’s massive charisma and little else.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (R) I cannot think of another horror franchise as chronologically interesting. Oren Peli’s scary 2007 blockbuster occurred last, ending without the typical survivor. Then, rather than have demonic Katie terrorize some unsuspecting family, the series’ creative minds chose to go backwards. Consider PA3 the origin story, revealing the footage, shot in 1988 by their mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, that explains why sisters Katie and Kristy continue to be haunted.

Catfish filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, working from a script

by Paranormal Activity 2’s Christopher Landon, up the action ante. Just plain more happens in PA3, without changing the series’ less-is-more-scary attitude.. If the first and second movies scared you, the third will, too.

PSYCHO (R) 1960. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic chiller, the proto-typical slasher film, set the standard for horror to come, be that good or bad. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) might seem like the mild-mannered, All-American boy, but Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) would tell you otherwise, had Bates’s murderous mother not infamously offed the criminal secretary in a first act shower scene. So long as the real thing is available, do not ever watch Gus Van Sant’s pointless shot-for-shot remake.

• PUSS IN BOOTS (PG) Don’t judge Puss in Boots by the last two entries in the Shrek franchise. Don’t even judge the feline swashbuckler’s solo adventure versus the superior initial two Shreks. Puss in Boots adopts a more relaxed style, more akin to Disney’s revamped fairy tales of old, than Shrek’s gatling gun firing non-stop pop culture references. The voice work could not have been better cast for Puss’ search for the magic beans of legend, alongside old pal, Humpty Alexander Dumpty (v. Zack Galafianakis), and new flame, Kitty Softpaws (v. Salma Hayek). Antonio Banderas does nothing different from his three Shrek adventures, but he’s doing it without the distracting presences of Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy. Galafianakis is the real standout; his Humpty is the series’s first breakout character since Puss.

Sadly, the drug culture even pervades this children’s film with a couple of innocuous, entirely out-of-place, gags.

With Puss in Boots and early summer’s Kung Fu Panda 2, DreamWorks has smartly released two of their best animated features in a rare year when Pixar is vulnerable. Thankfully, none of the main characters are green.

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.

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

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

THE RUM DIARY (R) Johnny Depp stars in his second adaptation of a work by the late Hunter S. Thompson.

An American journalist, Paul Kemp (Depp), attempts to adjust to island life

after taking a job in 1950s Puerto Rico.

Director Bruce Robinson (an Oscar nominee for his script for 1985’s The Killing Fields) may be best (and least) remembered for his cult hit, Withnail & I; he was last seen behind the camera for the underwhelming Andy GarciaUma Thurman serial killer thriller, Jennifer 8. With Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard and Richard Jenkins.

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

STRAW DOGS (R) I have a sneaking suspicion this remake of the violent 1971 Sam Peckinpah classic will play a lot differently in the Deep South than filmmaker Rod Lurie might expect.

Character identification issues might abound, giving this Straw Dogs a level unavailable to the original (to anyone besides small town Northern

Englishmen). Hah-vuhd educated Hollywood screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsdenf) and his actress wife, Amy (Kate Bosworth), return to her backwoods Mississippi hometown. Peckinpah’s version will always be tops, but this closely related remake should strike some manly chords, though whether those chords be David’s or Charlie’s might differ regionally. Me, I side with David every time. I also wish someone would let Hollywood know that small town folk are near as scary as the movies make them out to be.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG13) The latest adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ wonderful adventure novel doesn’t do anything particularly badly.

The cast—including one-time Mr. Darcy, Matthew Macfadyen, as Athos, Ray Stevenson as Porthos and Luke Evans as Aramis—is tons more literate than the 1993 trio of Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Oliver Platt. The

airships are pretty cool, too. Tone is where “Ocean’s Three (Musketeers)” starts to stumble. Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson stages the Musketeers’ exploits to recover the Queen’s diamond necklace from the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom), who’s not as bad as the other guy, Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz, who never takes fiery control of his scenes), like a mod ‘60s heist caper rather than a modern swashbuckler..

TOWER HEIST (PG-13) With the help of a con (Eddie Murphy), a group of working stiffs (including Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena) plan a Danny Ocean-type heist on the high-rise home of the rich guy that took all of their money in a Ponzi scheme.

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God has no body, at least not one that we can discern. Depending on your point of view, either God stands at a remove, beyond matter and tangibility and perception, or God is in everything, existing on the far-flung edges of the expanding universe and in every subatomic particle. Or God has no body because He doesn’t exist except as an object of wishfulfillment and a weapon of control in the hands of ambitious men.

Whatever we may believe, God is not some old guy sitting on a cloud in the sky. The idea that God made man “in His image” is pure metaphor, either a lodestone of hope to inspire us to grow in our knowledge and thus be closer to God, as the alchemists believed, or a rationale to justify the eminent-domain policy of humankind as regards the rest of the planet—i.e., “We are more like God than sloths and parakeets, and, therefore, we get to run things.” It’s a massive rationalization, of course, useful only to ourselves. Sloths and parakeets couldn’t care less what we believe, so we tell it to each other, fill books with it, build temples to it and pay homage to it. Those people who tell the story most convincingly get to be in charge of the others, because of all the people who resemble God, priests and pastors are the resembliest. Occasionally, one or another of them starts feeling his oats and tries to pass himself off as God, so resembly is he, and that’s when real trouble starts.

Much ink has been spilled about the Reverend Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of the nondenominational People’s Temple church, who led almost a thousand followers into the jungles of Guyana and descended into madness, culminating in the assassination of a visiting U.S. Congressman and the mass murder-suicide (via poisoned fruit punch) of almost everyone in the compound in late 1977. There was a horrifying made-for-TV movie starring Powers Boothe as Jones.

The Vapors had a minor hit with a song about him. The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” has entered the vernacular to describe any sort of self-destructive, lemming-like behavior en masse.

While Jones has the same draw as Charles Manson for people seeking to stare into the face of insensate, charismatic evil (you can tell many of these seekers by their dead eyes and Slipknot T-shirts), very little has been said about the people who flocked to Jones’ side and were sacrificed to his apocalyptic visions. Roundly dismissed as dupes and born victims, the people of Jonestown have always been bit players in the Jim Jones story.

But as Julia Scheeres, author of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival at Jonestown (Simon & Schuster, 2011), puts it, “Nobody ever sets out to join a cult.” Scheeres, whose previous book was the wildly popular memoir Jesus Land, delved deep into the 5,000-plus documents released by the FBI following its investigation into the Jonestown massacre and came away with a vital and harrowing grunt-level view of the people of the People’s Temple.

Some knew Jones as a Pentecostal minister on local Kansas TV in the 1950s, some responded to him as an activist leader who

defiantly integrated his congregation, some were touched by him as a potent faith-healer, and some rallied to him as a socialist saint with a vision of a hard-won utopia to be carved by faith out of the South American rainforest. None of them had an inkling that Jones was a closet megalomaniac degenerating into a drug-fueled paranoia until they found themselves as exiles and prisoners, working themselves to death while Jones broke up their families, excoriated them for imagined betrayals and lapses of faith, and proclaimed himself God, a God with a growing fixation on mass suicide.

By wrangling the scant journals and letters of the victims and testimonies of the few survivors of Jonestown, Scheeres has assembled a picture of daily horror that is vivid with detail—you can practically feel every jungle bug on your skin and taste the colonists’ slim rations of rice and green beans—and rife with dread. Every escape attempt and every effort to avoid the pervasive threat of thoughtcrime is cinematic in its depiction. A Thousand Lives

is an indispensable addition to the literature of mass mania, a story that places the focus of the tragedy in Guyana where it rightfully belongs, not with the hypnotic evil of Jim Jones but with the plight of his victims, who had all the best intentions but ended up following the wrong God down the rabbit hole.

Local Lit News: The weekend of Nov. 3–6, Georgia author Joe Samuel Starnes will be reading from his new novel Fall Line (New South Books, 2011) at Barnes & Noble and at the Grady School of Journalism. A novel about the effects of a manmade lake on the residents of a rural Georgia community in the 1950s, Starnes’ book is gaining some serious attention for its authenticity and lyrical evocation of the hinterlands of our state in one of its most volatile times. Check out www.newsouthbooks.com or call Barnes & Noble at (706) 354-1195 for more details.

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip OK, folks, wash off all that goofball adult Halloween makeup and start pulling yourself together. If you thought Halloween on a Monday was hard to pull off, just think about how it’s not going to be on a weekend again until 2014! So, with that in mind, look below for this week’s pile of bits and bobs, news and ephemera. That should take your mind off things for a while. Take your mind off in 1, 2, 3…

Ease on Down the Road: New-to-Athens record store and label Vinyl Rites closed its location inside Southern Vision on West Broad Street last week. The store moved downtown to 297 1/2 E. Broad St., which is better known as the location underneath Jittery Joe’s (the former Espresso Royale Caffe). The shop will be closed while reorganization in the new location takes place and will reopen Nov. 5 with “a crazy amount of new stock!” So, take that to heart. Keep up with Vinyl Rites online via www.vinylrites. tumblr.com.

Ten Years After: Dodd Ferrelle and his band (composed of Tim Adams, Noel Blackmon, David Blackmon and friends) will play the Melting Point on Wednesday, Nov. 2 to herald the release of Ferrelle’s latest album, Hide the World, released Dodd Ferrelle last month on Atlanta’s Two Sheds Music. Advance tickets are $5 (it’s $7 at the door) and doors open at 6:30 p.m. Opening band Josh Daniels and The Dangerous will play at 7 p.m., and Ferrelle and his full band go on at 8 p.m. This is the ninth release overall by Ferrelle since 1991 and signals the 10th anniversary of his solo debut.

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Fast Forward: By the time you read this, Masters of the Hemisphere will have competed its whirlwind reunion tour celebrating the release of its new album, Maybe These Are the Breaks. Those who just can’t contain their excitement over this and have a spare tape player lying around might be interested in the limited edition all-cassette boxed set just released by Modern Country Records. It contains six tapes featuring every MotH fulllength album (including the new one) along with every EP, single and compilation track the band has ever done. In short, it’s everything together in one pretty inconvenient package. The set is limited to 100 copies, and the pre-sale for this item ended about a month ago, but as of this writing it is still available via the label’s website. It’ll run you $35, and you can grab it all over at www.moderncountryrecords.com.

Don’t Know Much: Nutria is promising a new album soon that currently has the working title Dissidents of the Dissonance. The band’s last album, A Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Emotion, was released in 2010 via Adam Klein’s Cowboy Angel Music. This is literally all the information available at this point and thus constitutes a real-life threat and/or promise situation, and for that this

column thanks Nutria. If you head over to www.nutriaworldforever.blogspot.com, you’ll find two photos of nutria, the animal, not Nutria, the band, and a single audio clip… and this will have to hold you over for a while.

Some Men Are an Island: Long-dormant improvisational rock messiahs Garbage Island will play again Thursday, Nov. 3 at Little Kings Shuffle Club. In existence since the late ‘90s, the band was formerly quite active but took a big hit when member Mark Kaczmarek split town to go live in France several years ago. Since that time, the Island has pretty much only played when Kaczmarek occasionally popped up in Athens. For this show Garbage Island will be composed of Craig Lieske(guitar), Chris Herron (bass) Jeramy Lamanno (drums), Kris Deason (guitar/keyboards) and Brian Head (drums). Yes, that’s two drummers. Deal with it.

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The Last One Left: The annual WUOG Fest is happening this week, and, actually, we’re already knee deep in it. Each day of the event is brought to its audience by a particular WUOG specialty show. The Fest started on Monday, and the remaining events and their respective sponsoring programs are as follows: Tuesday, “Bluegrass Junction” (Farm 255); Wednesday, “Philosophy Rock” (Caledonia Lounge); Thursday, “A Matter of Jazz” (the Georgia Theatre); Friday, “WUOG Bands Live” (Go Bar); Saturday, “Halftime Hip-Hop Show” (40 Watt Club) and Sunday, “Friendly Folk” (Ciné). The complete schedule of bands playing and door prices are available over at www.wuogfest. wordpress.com, and you can always visit WUOG 90.5 FM on Facebook at www.facebook. com/wuog.org.

Something Old, Something New: Fred Schneider’s band The Superions is reportedly “being considered for three Grammy nominations,” which should be read as distinct from actually being nominated, but this year’s nominees haven’t been announced yet, so I’m sitting here with fingers crossed wishing the band the best of luck. The selections being considered are the band’s Christmas album Destination… Christmas! (for both comedy album and record packaging categories) and the video clip for the track “Fruitcake” in the short-form video category. In other Superions news, the band has a new video out for its Halloween single “Bat Baby,” and you can catch that over at www.youtube.com/user/ TheSuperions. In other Fred Schneider news, his much better known outfit, The B-52s, released its album, With the Wild Crowd: Live in Athens, GA, last week. The album was recorded at The Classic Center earlier this year when the band played to a packed house and pumped out a string of classic songs. The final album features 18 tracks with nary a dud among them.

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the robust turnouts to DIY house concerts and venues like Hendershot’s Coffee Bar have taught us anything, it’s that downtown clubs aren’t the only places to find great live music in this city. In fact, venturing beyond the downtown bubble can be quite an adventure, and the Athens VFW’s show schedule makes for some fine exploration.

No matter how one feels about the U.S. military, every civilian ought to agree that war veterans deserve our support.

The unique, interesting and far-too-often tragic experiences that these folks share can be discussed and imagined by nonvets, but only those who have been there can truly understand them. VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) posts give these likeexperienced people places to congregate all over the country.

However, while the experiences that bring vets together may be exclusive to them, the VFW is far from exclusionary. The Athens post on Sunset Drive welcomes “all 21-plus locals and out-of-towners,” says member and Vietnam veteran Bob McWaters.

Some may mistakenly think of the VFW as a place for old men to swap war stories and participate in retirement-homestyle activities, but the Athens post is taking steps to change that perception. “We’ve recently remodeled from a bingo hall to one of Athens’ largest dance floors, with seating for approximately 400,” McWaters says. This overhaul is part of an effort to raise community awareness and involvement, highlighting the demographic shift that the organization hopes to see.

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The Sounds of Motown As one might expect, the VFW has trouble attracting younger crowds. “I didn’t join the VFW until 18 years after Vietnam,” says member Mike Ginn. “I got drafted, and when I finished my tour, I was out of the military. These [younger] guys who have done four or five deployments… hell, they’re probably burned out, and the last thing they want to do is join a veterans organization. The other thing is—and I’ve heard this for several years—they think all we do is sit around and tell war stories. That couldn’t be further from the truth, because here, you’re preaching to the choir.”

According to Ginn, the VFW’s main purpose is community service (as if its members haven’t contributed enough). For instance, before selling some neighboring land to Landmark Hospital, the Athens VFW post leased it to the city for $1 a year, providing land for senior and little league baseball fields.

Everything else, say both Ginn and McWaters, is a means to aid similar services.

The Athens post isn’t merely a place to support veterans and their continued contributions to society. It’s a place to support and enjoy the type of classic music that never goes stale.

“We at the VFW have been hosting live music since the ‘50s,” says McWaters. “The music varies from country to Southern rock to Motown to beach music.”

There’s a reason that we call this music “classic” and continue to listen to it today; even the hippest of modern artists take cues from the greats, and listeners who are deterred by “oldies” would be surprised at just how timeless the sounds coming from the VFW are. Even so, the Athens post isn’t content with just the older styles.

“I wanted to reach out [to other local artists] because I wanted to hear the different kinds of music out there. I wanted to hear stuff that I might like,” says Ginn.

Like the audiences they hope to bring in, the VFW organizers are open-minded, and even McWaters’ succinct thoughts on what show-goers can expect evoke unity and diversity: “a good time had by one and all.” The folks at the Athens VFW don’t plan to stop serving any time soon.

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KEN WILL MORTON Contenders Ghostmeat Records Contenders is one of Ken Will Morton’s stronger albums; the Athensbased singer/songwriter’s at his best when he keeps things simple. His stray-dog vocals are better suited to wistful, rustic, folk-blues songs sung the morning after; past releases that’ve focused more on the sound of a rockin’ barroom have felt less authentic and less interesting. His 2008 album, Kickin’ Out the Rungs, has a similar acoustic quality, and succeeded more than his albums with his sometimes backing band, The Wholly Ghosts.

Small touches, though, keep things from being too bare-bones, like subtle piano and backing vocals on “Broken Windows” or the Spanish-style guitar of “Que Lastima.”

Morton’s reedy voice is an instrument best used to convey personal songs of yearning, and “Powder Keg” is one of Contenders’ highlights. Its to-the-point acoustic guitar, accompanied by the occasional violin, lets Morton’s lyrics shine. On this one, he veers into confessional territory without sounding maudlin or hackneyed (a trap he’s fallen into in the past). It’s taken Morton a while—a long while—to grow into his own, and a few of the tunes on Contenders are as generic as they come, but with every release he’s tipping the scales more in his favor.

Chris Hassiotis Ken Will Morton plays Little Kings Shuffle Club on Saturday, Nov. 5.

sustained organ chords. “The End” is an unapologetic country tune with prominent pedal steel and barroom piano, and the finale, “Wrecking Ball,” is a classic, ‘70s Americana, closingtime anthem in the mold of Tom Petty.

To show such versatility in such a limited space is undoubtedly a neat trick, but I came away feeling that this band does a lot of things well, but nothing particularly great. Waiting on the Calm Down doesn’t offer enough continuity or distinctiveness to make The District Attorneys stand out from the pack.

David Fitzgerald The District Attorneys play the Melting Point on Saturday, Nov. 5.

ATHENS The Athens Band EP Independent Release Soaring over bombastic power chords and pummeling drum fills, a voice offers a battle cry of sorts: “I’m a loaded gun/ a silhouette in the setting sun.” Athens does not ease into things on this four-song EP; here, it’s thundering tom-toms and blazing whammy bars from the outset.

The band has an average age of 15, which is a factor only in so far as it means that, absent sympathetic older siblings or patient parents, the band’s peers will likely have to wait a year to blast the record from their car stereos.

The music calls for a listening environment that matches its high intensity level.

Heavier ‘70s and ‘80s rock sets the tone throughout. A Southern influence creeps in on “Rainbow,” which is just a few BPM too fast for power-ballad status. “She’ll Wait” features a pretty bad-ass half-time pre-chorus and is about the need for freedom from clingy women—something I had plenty of at 15, but then this was before ProTools.

There’s plenty here to be impressed with, and the players’ enthusiasm is apparent throughout. Just think how good they’ll be once they’re jaded.

Marshall Yarbrough

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS Waiting on the Calm Down Independent Release The District Attorneys seem to be coming at their music from a lot of different directions. On their Waiting on the Calm Down EP, they manage to cover four distinct styles over the course of six songs, which, while not unimpressive, can leave the listener unsure of the band’s identity.

The chimey guitars and waves of reverb, combined with washed-out, sun-baked vocals, define the opener “California Fire,” a blurry pop-rocker that sounds like Real Estate as fronted

by Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle. “Worry About Your Health” is an R.E.M.style wailer, all baleful laments and

TUNABUNNY Minima Moralia Happy Happy Birthday to Me “Lo-fi” is just about the most dangerous musical moniker in the books. At its core, it’s simply an aural description, but too often the word brings with it hints of an unwanted

“scenester” label. With Tunabunny’s Minima Moralia—and its homemade, very lightly dressed, plug-in-and-play basement pop/rock aesthetic—take more of the former and leave the latter for someone who cares.

The model comparison at work here, and one that knowingly seems too easy a label for any Athens band, is Pylon. Mary Jane Hassell and Brigette Herron aren’t quite Vanessa Briscoe Hay on the yelping, frantic, grit-rock numbers (“Hurry Up,” “Fake It, Faker”), but they’re not far behind. The guitar-driven, dance-pop rock (“Only at Night,” “Cross Wire Technique,” “[Song for My] Solar Sister”) isn’t as yet of Randy Bewley caliber—but he’s undoubtedly in their fabric. Two albums in, the maturation to complete this inevitable cycle doesn’t seem far off.

The gripes with Minima are of placement rather than substance.

Twice, the band’s track order selection becomes its own worst enemy—first when “Perfect Time, Every Time” seems to halt the breakneck pace of the album’s opening four tracks and again (perhaps more unfortunately) when “Electric Beach” limps the album to a somewhat unsatisfying end not befitting the rest of the bill.

These slights aside (and fidelity be damned), this is a comfortable, intelligent, party-driven sound that doesn’t need (or care for) your labels.

Tunabunny is chock full of antics without the gimmicks; they’re an incredible inside joke without need for a punch line. Do yourself a favor and just follow the band’s lead: join the party.

Alec Wooden

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FOUR EYES Summer Songs Independent Release Erin Lovett’s voice will carry you away. The six slight, breezy tunes on her home-recorded, hand-packaged Summer Songs EP paint a hazy, impressionist picture of young life in the slow-’n’-easy South. These pretty, meandering country walks flutter out of Lovett’s gentle alto and solo ukulele with an unencumbered sincerity reminiscent of local acts like Sea of Dogs.

The opener, “Tiny Love Song,” is an adorable, rambling love note— short enough to have been scrawled on the back of a napkin—that ambles along with honest, simple declarations like “I don’t have to see you every day/ though it feels so good to live that way.” “Feel Blue” is a more lovelorn affair, structurally reminiscent of The Smiths or The Cure as Lovett laments “When I feel blue/ I think of you.”

“Our Insides” is a plainspoken ode to the service industry—the daily toil in the hopes of something better on the horizon.

Summer Songs is perfect for dipping your toes in a creek, kissing your sweetheart behind a haystack or driving down a country dirt road with no destination in mind. No matter where you’re going, Four Eyes is great company.

David Fitzgerald

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH • 4-6pM Schedule: 5:00 pm: A Deejay performance by D:RC , aka exhibiting artist Darcy Reenis

1:00 – 3:00 pm: Children’s Art Appreciation Event Secrets & Mysteries For children of all ages, led by ATHICA Education Coordinator Sage Rogers.

Suggested donation of $6 per family, but no one turned away.

5:30 pm: Reception with refreshments by White Tiger Gourmet

4:00 pm: A Who Dunnit Award Presentation and Recognition of the work of arts writer Julie Phillips.

Followed by a panel discussion with exhibit artists: Rebecca Brantley, Jorie Berman, Will Eskridge, Cindy Jerrell, Missy Kulik and Darcy Reenis, moderated

by ATHICA Artistic Director Lizzie Zucker Saltz.

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ronted by studio-guy-turned-lead-guy Michael “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, L.A.’s Fitz and the Tantrums don’t know when to stop sweating. Since the band formed in 2008 and released its impressive debut album, Pickin’ Up the Pieces, the band has maintained a nonstop schedule. The energy necessary to tour constantly is reflected in the group’s sound: an invigoratingly polished take on Motown R&B informed by croony new wave and slick ‘80s pop. Delivering impassioned tunes of heartbreak, the band is able to bridge genres without getting gimmicky.

Noelle Scaggs is the band’s backup vocalist, if you want to get technical about it, but she’s a whole lot more than just some shoopshoops and sha-la-la-la-las (though she does a fine job with those, too). Her powerful voice and chemistry with Fitz are why the act’s charisma registers so high in a live setting, and she can act as Greek chorus, voice of reason, scolder, challenger and flirt.

“It’s interesting because we’ve been very close since the inception of the band,” she says. “We’ve always had that passion and energy there that I’ve never experienced with any other individual. We click; we get each other; we balance each other. And of course there’s the male-and-female dynamic, where the songs come from his point of view, and then there’s me basically coming in and being this secondary voice.”

Scaggs says the band—Fitz, Scaggs, Joe Karnes (bass), James King (sax, flute, trumpet, harmonica, etc.), Jeremy Ruzumna (keys) and John Wicks (drums)—puts a lot of preparatory work into its performances, and knowing their tunes, routines (and each other’s personalities) is what allows for onstage vitality.

“When you’re onstage, you let loose, and when you’re rehearsing you’re focusing on being tight so you can be loose later on,” she says. “In a rehearsal setting, we keep it light and relaxed and talk through opinions to try to achieve balance through communicating with each other.”

It’s maybe no surprise that onstage rapport is essential to delivering a solid live show; any band could tell you as much. But the Tantrums make a particular point of it and work hard at maintaining that level of performance rather than hoping it develops.

“The minute you start thinking of it like a job, it’s not fun. It is exhausting being on

tour,” says Scaggs, “but to keep things in perspective you have to support each other.

We aim for positivity in this band, and we’re blessed with it. We’re making a conscious effort to never be on autopilot, to [always] challenge each other. We keep things fun in our performance, keep it engaging and try to make the audience a part of the show.”

Fitz and the Tantrums’ support doesn’t exist in a fans-only sphere, and the band has found open arms among some of music’s more established names. In October of 2010, for instance, members of the band appeared on “Live from Daryl’s House,” an online series curated by Daryl Hall, the legendary, blonder half of duo Hall & Oates, to whose combination of R&B and pop Fitz and the Tantrums owe a good debt.

“That was really great! And it was on my birthday!” says Scaggs. “A few months prior [to the show] I had emailed our management about how I wish we could be on that show, and I wrote a letter to Daryl Hall. Turns out our manager had already been in the process of putting it together, and we got the call. It was so fun!”

Members of Fitz and the Tantrums jammed with Hall and members of his backing band, ripping through lively versions of some Tantrums numbers and some of Hall’s tunes, including “Sara Smile” and “Girl I Love You.” “The worst thing to do is think too highly of a person you admire and build up those hero expectations, and they turn out to be a dick,” says Scaggs. “But the minute we walked in there we felt so welcome… everything was loose and yet professional. He made it very clear that it was a jam and it would be OK to mess up, and that’s the character of [the show]. When we did that session we maybe went over those songs once, maybe twice… but hearing our songs being sung by Daryl Hall? Amazing!”

Chris Hassiotis

WHO: Fitz and the Tantrums, Walk the Moon WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $18

Benga: Dubstep for the Masses

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“It opened the wave charts, but we never changed what we were doing, Skream and I. It was still very much an independent record. We made the music we wanted and had complete control,” Benga says.

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enga makes future music. The 25-year-old Croydon, London native makes what most call dubstep, but what you really hear is the sound of bass against junk, pushing entropically against even the most mundane of frequencies. This is to say, in most Benga songs, bass is the melody, and sometimes that’s it. Moreover, what you need to know about Benga, né Adegbenga Adejumo, is that he pioneered the genre that, along with electrohouse, is helping electronic dance music cross over in the United States.

One of the first producers heralding the new South London sound, Benga mixed grime, 2 step and ragga dub to make dark, post-garage hybrids. He was hardly alone, or exactly the first, but the minimal, post-apocalyptic and off-kilter sounds that Benga was making were being played and blowing minds on (influential pirate radio station) RINSE FM and at (underground club nights like) FORWARD>>>, which together served as a sort of Cabaret Voltaire for the burgeoning dub scene. Over time, this sound would be called “dubstep,” and Benga would emerge as one of its central characters.

Fast-forward a bit to 2010, and Benga started turning heads with the announcement of what would be known as Magnetic Man: a triple collaboration with fellow dub originators Artwork and Skream. But what really ignited the message boards and amassed the ire of cognoscenti was the bombshell that the record would be released on a major label. The hugely successful Magnetic Man project, released on Columbia Records, would be another first for an artist known for them. Becoming the first dubstep artists to sign a major label contract, Magnetic Man provided a sign that the underground genre was ready for its close-up—ready to make major bucks at major venues to even more major crowds. Unsurprisingly, Benga is dismissive about the whole Columbia deal.

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It may be hard to imagine now, with Skrillex on the cover of Spin and with Britney Spears’ dubstep breakdown on her old/ new single “Hold It Against Me” on mainstream radio, but just two years ago, dubstep was more or less an obscure microgenre mostly unknown to Stateside audiences. After Magnetic Man, Benga again stirred controversy, this time working with polarizing “pop star” Katy B, producing much of her Mercury Prize-nominated debut. The music was good, but the excessive radio play and chart success gave way to more calls of “selling out.”

This brings us to now. Benga remains at the forefront of the still-evolving dubstep movement. Finishing a follow-up to the now classic LP Diary of an Afro-Warrior, slated for April 2012, Benga is in the United States playing to some of the largest audiences of his career.

“Honestly, it’s the best reaction I’ve ever seen. It’s like a rock concert. It’s mosh music. And then there’s so many girls— beautiful, fit ones—that come out to shows now,” Benga says.

Like a proud botanist, Benga appears to simply be happy that the genre he helped cultivate is still growing, and at an ever-rapid pace. Ask him about the so-called tension between arty “post-dubstep” and the crowd-pleasing rockist tendencies of the pejorative “bro-step,” and he’s dodgy at best—and disinterested at worst.

“There’s always another term,” Benga sneers. “Make whatever you want. Look, in two years, a lot has changed.

While the U.K. is still very drug-esque, the music’s a lot harder. And in the U.S., the music is even more hard.”

Looking to the future, Benga sees a lot of room for growth and is especially excited for two newer acts that have been holding down the U.K. dub scene as of late.

“Dismantle has the newest sound. He’s like me but different. And another group, Taiki & NuLight, are doing it, too, pushing their own style with a good variation of beats, especially on this new 144 BPM track. It pushes me to go in new directions, too. I got a new style on the raga-step tip,” Benga says, with a glance to the next level.

Always on the bleeding edge of the avant-garde, it seems that for Benga, new is always the new black. And lucky for you, he wants everyone to be in on it.

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Christopher Benton

WHO: Benga, Herobust, Isness, Trogdor WHERE: New Earth Music Hall WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $20 (adv.), $22 (door)

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Tuesday 1 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Cooking demo by the UGA Peer Nutrition students. Last Little Kings Market Day. 4–7 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Tuesday Night Food School (Gymnopedie) Three cooking classes with a Thanksgiving theme. “Old School,” “Avant Guard,” and “Pie Lab.” Class includes a light supper and wine. Register in person at the restaurant. Nov. 1, 8 & 15, 6–8 p.m. $60. happydunning@ gmail.com, www.gymnopedie.posterous.com PERFORMANCE: University Chorus Concert (First Presbyterian Church) “Passages.” 8 p.m. www. music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: The Wham City Comedy Tour (40 Watt Club) Baltimore’s Wham City collective is out on the road to change the face of comedy. This two-hour “bat-shit variety show” covers experimental theater, performance art, video and stand-up. Featuring Wham City staple and synth-pop king Dan Deacon. 8 p.m. $6 (adv.). www.40watt.com LECTURES & LIT.: Panel Discussion (Ciné Bar Cafe) Get the inside scoop on how festivals work and how programming decisions are made during this panel discussion with area film festival programmers and organizers. Panel includes Sara Beresford, Charles Judson, Pam Kohn, Harry Musselwhite, Terrell Sandfur and Ken Sherman.

Moderated by Dave Marr. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.com 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: GLOBES (Georgia Center) Monthly meeting for UGA LGBTQ employees and allies. 6 p.m.

FREE! ugaglobes@gmail.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack, College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050.

Wednesday 2 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved,

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This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com EVENTS: Mooseyard Farmers Market (Locos Grill & Pub, Harris St. location) Buy fresh local veggies, meats, honey, eggs, crafts, candles and soaps. 5–8 p.m. 706-548-7803 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Movies for Teens (Oconee County Library) Ages 13-18 are invited to watch the Thanksgiving movie, Pieces of April. Rated PG-13.

6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950, www.facebook.com/OCLYA 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 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) This week: Game Day! Play one of the library’s games or bring your favorite game from home to share. For ages 11– 18. 4–5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Clueless: Book Discussion (Oconee County Library) This month’s featured book is The Dangerous Edge of Things

by Tina Whittle. 7 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: Nature Writing Group (Athens Land Trust) Examine some great nature writing, write and read in a collegial environment and explore outdoors. First Wednesday of every month. 4:15–5:30 p.m. $5 (suggested donation). sgc45@ hotmail.com 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

Thursday 3 EVENTS: After Hours (Georgia Museum of Art) The Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art invite you to celebrate the museum’s fall exhibitions. 5:30–8:30 p.m. $5.

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EVENTS: Athenaeum Club Historic Pub Crawl (Ted’s Most Best) Sponsored by the Terrapin Beer Company, the pub crawl will begin at Ted’s Most Best. At each stop participants will sample different Terrapin craft beers and hear about the creation and process behind each one. Food provided!

Register online. 6–10 p.m. $40 (ACHF members), $50. (706) 3531801. www.athensheritagefoundation.com PERFORMANCE: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Performing Arts Center) Music Director Robert Spano leads the ASO and Metropolitan Opera with guest pianist Garrick Ohlsson. 8 p.m. $5 (w/ student ID), $20-$55. www.uga.edu/ pac/mastercalendar.html THEATRE: All My Sons (UGA Fine Arts Building) Arthur Miller’s first major play about the American dream and father-son relationships, featuring Broadway actor Brian Reddy. $15, $12 (students). Nov. 3 & 4, 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 6 & 13, 2:30 p.m. 706-542-4400, www.drama. uga.edu OUTDOORS: Circle of Hikers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Exercise your mind and body every Thursday morning with nature hikes and readings from nature-inspired stories and poems. 9 a.m. FREE! 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden KIDSTUFF: Baby Music Jam (ACC Library) Children ages 1-3 and their caregivers play instruments, sing and dance together! 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary schoolage homeschoolers gather at the library to read and discuss a book together. Every Thursday. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Readers in grades K–5 are invited to bring their favorite book and read aloud to a certified therapy dog. Trainer always present.

First come, first served. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Teen Book Club (East Athens Community Center) Ages 10-14. Every Thursday. 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing (Kelly’s Jamaican Food, Lumpkin) Kathleen Wright will sign copies of her new book, At Full Bloom. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! bilbobooks@ comcast.net LECTURES & LIT.: Gender Transcender: Finding Your Inner Gender (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 207) A discussion-based program focusing on gender through our own lens, exploring what gender means to every individual. 6:30 p.m. FREE! jmiracle@uga.edu

Beat poet, performer and cultural activist Anne Waldman will speak at ATHICA on Friday, Nov. 4 and the GMOA on Monday, Nov. 7.

MEETINGS: Athens Art Association Meeting (Lyndon House Arts Center) Presentation from woodcarver Cal Logue, followed by a business meeting. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.athensart.org MEETINGS: Green Drinks Athens (Hotel Indigo) An informal mixer for green-minded folks to discuss building, transportation and sustainability issues in the Athens area.

5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensgreendrinks.org GAMES: “Drink While You Think” (Gnat’s Landing) Trivia every Thursday! 7–9 p.m. www.gnatslanding.net

Friday 4 EVENTS: 1940s Radio Mystery Theater (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Dinner theater in the Big Back Room.

Come dressed in your favorite 1940s attire. 7–10 p.m. $39. 706-3546655, www.buffaloscafe.com/athens EVENTS: 8th Annual Intuit Financial Services Chili Cookoff (The Arch Bar) Proceeds benefit the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia.

11 a.m.–2 p.m. $10 (all you can eat). 706-548-0300 EVENTS: Free Speech and Hearing Screenings (UGA Speech and Hearing Clinic) A screening of speech, language, voice, resonance, fluency and hearing is available for adults and children 3 & older. Call for an appointment. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4559 EVENTS: Screening: American Graffiti (Ciné Bar Cafe) After the 5:30 screening, attend a reception catered by The National and served by the Classic City Rollergirls. Fall membership drive kickoff. 5:30 & 8 p.m. (screenings), 7 p.m. (reception). $10. www.athenscine.com EVENTS: Watkinsville Ghost Tours (Eagle Tavern) Spooky tours guided by host Melissa Piche, who shares ghoulish tales from the past and present. Through Nov. 5., 8 p.m. $12. www.northgeorgiatours.net ART: Opening Reception (Flicker Theatre & Bar) For “Bugs and Candy,” macrophotography featuring local insects on candy landscapes

by Abel Klainbaum. Music provided

by Klezmer Local 42. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-0039 PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring

performances by local drag artists.

10 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 PERFORMANCE: Brian Posehn (New Earth Music Hall) Comedian who has guest starred on programs such as “Mr. Show,” “Seinfeld,” and “Friends.” Also featuring Luke Fields, Ed Burmila, Caleb Synan and The Secret Five. 8 p.m. $18 (adv.), $20 (door). www.newearthmusichall. com * THEATRE: All My Sons (UGA Fine Arts Building) Arthur Miller’s first major play about the American dream and father-son relationships, featuring Broadway actor Brian Reddy. $15, $12 (students). Nov. 3 & 4, 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 6 & 13, 2:30 p.m. 706-542-4400, www.drama. uga.edu THEATRE: Revenge of the Space Pandas (Athens Little Playhouse) Revenge of the Space Pandas tells the story of three friends and thier pet sheep who accidentally fall off Earth and land on a distant planet where they are pursued by George Topax, the supreme ruler of the planet and his army of Space Pandas.

Family friendly! 7:30 p.m. (Nov. 4, 11), 3 p.m. (Nov. 5–6 & 12–13). $8–15. www.uga.edu/pac KIDSTUFF: Noise-Making and Skit-Writing (Treehouse Kid and Craft) UGA’s WUOG 90.5 FM is teaming up with Treehouse Kid and Craft to produce a radio play project. Interested kids are invited to come and bring any noise making/ musical instruments. Practices will be held on Nov. 4 & 11. The live performance will be broadcast on Nov. 18. 3–4 p.m. FREE! egretion@ gmail.com KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Superhero Workshop (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Local artist George Marston leads kids through drawing their own superhero. 6:30–8:30 p.m. $25. 706-4240195, 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 for Kids (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.: Socratic Rap (ATHICA) Renowned Beat-era feminist poet and performance artist Anne Waldman will read from her works. Followed by a Q&A and reception with refreshments from Little Cuckoo and Jittery Joe’s. 7:30–9:30 p.m. $6 (suggested donation). www. athica.org

Saturday 5 EVENTS: 2nd Annual Chili CookOff (Terrapin Beer Co.) Attendees will sample over 20 chilis and Terrapin Beer. Proceeds benefit the Athens Area Humane Society and PAWS of Athens. 5:30–7:30 p.m.

FREE! (ages 12 & under), $10 (under 21). $20 (adv.), $22 (21+). www. athenshumanesociety.org EVENTS: Annual Community Tree Fair (Bishop Park) Tree sale, tree climbing, exhibit booths, tree care demonstrations and more. Proceeds benefit the ACC Community Tree Council. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www. athenstrees.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Every Saturday. In conjuction with the 2011 Tree Fair, there will be kids activities and planting tips for adults. Cooking demo with Heirloom Cafe. 8 a.m.–noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Contra Dance (Lay Park) The Athens Folk Music & Dance Society presents live music by Dale Wechsler. Janet Shephard calling.

Free lesson beginning at 7:15 p.m.

No experience or partner needed.

7:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! (under 18), $7 (adults). www.contradanceathens. com EVENTS: Fall Festival (Athens Montessori School) Magic shows, a book fair, bake sale, cake walks, kids’ crafts and activities, pony rides, moon bounces, vendors and more. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! 706549-8490 EVENTS: Rock and Gem Show (Sandy Creek Nature Center) The Athens Rock and Gem Club hosts its annual show. Learn about the rocks, minerals and fossils in our area and from around the world. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.

com/sandycreeknaturecenter, 706549-8082 EVENTS: Watkinsville Ghost Tours (Eagle Tavern) Spooky tours guided by host Melissa Piche, who shares ghoulish tales from the past and present. Through Nov. 5., 8 p.m. $12. www.northgeorgiatours.net EVENTS: Weekend A’Fair (Charmar Flower and Gift Shop) Rent a table for $10 or come check out what other artists, craftspeople and local farmers have in store. First Saturday of every month. FREE! 10 a.m.–5 p.m. weekendafair@gmail.com EVENTS: West African Drum and Dance Workshop with Samba Diallo (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A drum and dance workshop with Samba Diallo, drummer and dancer from Cote d’Ivoire. 10–11:30 a.m. (drum class), 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (dance class). $20 (drumming), $10 (dancing), $25 (both). 706-5467914, www.uuathensga.org EVENTS: Yard Sale (Town and Gown Players) Benefitting the Town and Gown Players. 8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! 706-548-3854 THEATRE: Revenge of the Space Pandas (Athens Little Playhouse) See Nov. 4 Theatre listing. 7:30 p.m.

(Nov. 4, 11), 3 p.m. (Nov. 5–6 & 12–13). $8–15. www.uga.edu/pac KIDSTUFF: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Oconee County Library) Enjoy your holiday “dinner” of popcorn, pretzels and jellybeans and watch this holiday classic. For all ages. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Watkinsville Ghost Tours for Kids (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

Sunday 6 EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Athens, GA) Series sponsored by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation continues with a tour of the Milledge Avenue Historic District led by Fran Thomas and Gilbert Milner. Call to reserve a spot.

2 p.m. $12 (members), $15 (nonmembers). 706-353-1801, www. achfonline.org EVENTS: Autumn Harvest Feast (The Hill) Come share a family-style Sunday dinner and silent auction to celebrate the Autumn harvest.

Dinner will be prepared by the Classic City Chefs with ingredients from the Athens Farmers Market.

Proceeds benefit Wholesome Wave Georgia and the Classic City Chefs Association. 4 p.m. $50. www. brownpapertickets/event/206111 EVENTS: Jewish Foods and Crafts Festival (Congregation Children of Israel) Enjoy New York-style corned beef sandwiches, knishes, kugel, baked goods, Jittery Joe’s coffee and more while shopping for locally made arts and crafts. 11 a.m.–3 p.m.

FREE! 706-255-6943 EVENTS: Open House and Charity Raffle (Athens Interiors Market) A raffle including baskets with gift certificates from Athens businesses.

Proceeds benefit the Athens Area Habitat for Humanity. 11 a.m. $5. www.athensinteriorsmarket.com ART: “Mystery Selections” Closing Day (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)) All-ages children’s art appreciation event: “Secrets & Mysteries” (1-3 p.m.) Awards presentation, followed by a panel discussion with the artists. DJ performance by D:RC and refreshments by White Tiger Gourmet. (4–6 p.m.) 1-3 p.m. ($6

suggested donation).4-6 p.m. FREE! www.athica.org PERFORMANCE: Athens Symphony Winter Concert (The Classic Center) Featuring works by Aurthur Foote, Aaron Copeland and George Gershwin. 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.athenssymphony.org THEATRE: All My Sons (UGA Fine Arts Building) Arthur Miller’s first major play about the American dream and father-son relationships, featuring Broadway actor Brian Reddy. $15, $12 (students). Nov. 3 & 4, 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 6 & 13, 2:30 p.m. 706-542-4400, www.drama. uga.edu THEATRE: Revenge of the Space Pandas (Athens Little Playhouse) See Nov. 4 Theatre listing. 7:30 p.m.

(Nov. 4, 11), 3 p.m. (Nov. 5–6 & 12–13). $8–15. www.uga.edu/pac KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 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 LECTURES & LIT.: Genealogy in Historical Perspective (Oconee County Library) Speaker Rebecca Homan will discuss the process of writing her family history and give advice for those interested in writing their own. Light refreshments served afterwards. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! Hosted by Evan Delany (former Wild Wings trivia host). First place wins $50 and $25 for second place. 8 p.m. www. thecapitalroom.com

Monday 7 EVENTS: Eat Out for the Animals (East West Bistro) A percentage night to benefit the Athens Area Humane Society. 4–10 p.m. www. athenshumanesociety.com PERFORMANCE: Derek Sheen (Caledonia Lounge) Seattle-based comedian, writer and actor and host of the popular “Delicious Mediocrity” podcast. Nationally known comedian Rory Skovel also performs. Tonight’s show is hosted by Natalie Glaser and features sets by local comedians Matt Gilbert, Jesse Rosoff and Jonathan Lowder. 9 p.m. $7 (adv). www.caledonialounge.com OUTDOORS: Tree Identification Class (Lake Herrick) Walk through Oconee Forest Park and learn to identify trees and other plants. Meet at the boardwalk next to the tennis courts at Lake Herrick Pavilion.

Every Monday through Nov. 28. 4–6 p.m. williams@warnell.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Teen Advisory Board (Oconee County Library) Help plan and organize programs for the Oconee County Library’s Young Adult department that appeal to you and suggest new titles. For ages 1118. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: Anne Waldman (Georgia Museum of Art) Beat poet Anne Waldman talks about the role of the poet, drawing on her investigative studies, performative poetry and creative work in public spaces.

She will also speak about her work with the Manatee/Humanity project.

4 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org LECTURES & LIT.: Genealogy 101: The Basics (Oconee County Library) Learn how to begin your family history research! Registration

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DODD FERRELLE CD RELEASE PARTY FOR HIDE THE WORLD with JOSHUA DANIELS Early show at 7:30pm Tickets $5 adv • $7 at the door

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JARON & THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE JOE FIRSTMAN

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TIM MILLER BAND Tickets $5 adv • $8 at the door

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required. 4-5:30 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 MEETINGS: Federation of Neighborhoods (Fire Hall No. 2, 489 Prince Ave.) This month, a discussion on crime in Athens.

Panelists include representatives from the ACC police and UGA police departments. All interested parties are welcome. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-2912, contact@accneighborhoods.org GAMES: Movie Trivia (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Every Monday!

Hosted by Marie Uhler and Sam Grindstaff. There are prizes! 9:30 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com

Tuesday 8 EVENTS: Drafts & Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Local stand-up comedy. 9:30 p.m. 706-353-2831 PERFORMANCE: Gleb Ivanov (Performing Arts Center) Awardwinning pianist Gleb Ivanov. 8 p.m.

FREE! (UGA students), $25. 706542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac THEATRE: All My Sons (UGA Fine Arts Building) Arthur Miller’s first major play about the American dream and father-son relationships, featuring Broadway actor Brian Reddy. $15, $12 (students). Nov. 3 & 4, 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 6 & 13, 2:30 p.m. 706-542-4400, www.drama. uga.edu 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.: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library) This month’s title is The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

Newcomers welcome. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Understand Me to Understand You: Gender Experiences and Perceptions (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 213) A discussion-based program focusing on gender through our own lens, exploring what gender means to every individual. 6:30 p.m. FREE! jmiracle@uga.edu 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: Athens Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) The Guild welcomes all amateur and professional fiber artists. Margaret Agner will hold a mini-workshop on creating polymer buttons. Every second Tuesday. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-543-4319 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.

Wednesday 9 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved,

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This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com EVENTS: Community HU song (Lay Park) People of all faiths are invited to sing together with the Eckankar community. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-310-9499 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: Mooseyard Farmers Market (Locos Grill & Pub, Harris St. location) Buy fresh local veggies, meats, honey, eggs, crafts, candles and soaps. 5–8 p.m. 706-548-7803 ART: Gallery Talk (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, in the lobby for an in-depth discussion of Philip Evergood’s “My Forebears Were Pioneers.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Stephanie Astolos-Jones (The Globe) A one-woman, 13-character tonguein-cheek salute to the poetry slam. 8 p.m. $10. 706-353-4721 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 PERFORMANCE: Senior Exit Dance Concert (UGA Dance Building) The 2011 Young Choreographers Series Senior Exit Concert. 8 p.m. $8 (students), $12. www.dance.uga.edu THEATRE: All My Sons (UGA Fine Arts Building) Arthur Miller’s first major play about the American

dream and father-son relationships, featuring Broadway actor Brian Reddy. $15, $12 (students). Nov. 3 & 4, 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 6 & 13, 2:30 p.m. 706-542-4400, www.drama. uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) Discuss anime and eat ramen noodles. Includes previews of anime, manga, J-Pop music, fan art and fan fiction. Ages 13–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–4 read aloud to an aid dog. Trainer always present. 3:30–4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes and Noble Café) Every Wednesday and Saturday. 11–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706354-1195 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.: Community Snapshot: There and Back Again (ACC Library) Free webcast on internationl travel from seasoned world traveler Frances Arnold. Tips on how to pack, travel and enjoy your time in other parts of the world.

12:30 p.m. FREE! www.boomersinathens.org LECTURES & LIT.: Georgia Poetry Circuit (Ciné Bar Cafe) Poetry reading by the father and son duo Willis and Tony Barnstone. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT.: Lunch With Leaders: Julia Serano (UGA Reed Quad, Reed Hall Programming Room) With a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from Columbia University, guest speaker and transgender woman Julia

Wednesday, November 2

Homecoming Concert w/ The Cool Kids, Chiddy Bang, Hoodie Allen,

Serano will be informally speaking about her career trajectory. 11:30 a.m. FREE! jmiracle@uga.edu MEETINGS: AARP Monthly Meeting (Athens First Bank and Trust) Speaker Sharon Conley of the Arbor Terrace Assistant Living and Memory Care for Seniors in Athens will discuss and answer questions about dementia. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-340-9418 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 & up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Broad St.) Think you know it all?

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

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 1 Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MOON KING Spacey, electronic punkpop duo from Canada.

ODONIS ODONIS Experimental pop influenced by the likes of The Cure, The Pixies, The Jesus & Mary Chain and Big Black.

Little Kings Shuffle Club Athens Farmers Market. 4–7 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net BETSY FRANCK This local songwriter offers soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in

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Legion Field Chicago/Detroit-based duo The Cool Kids is hip-hop for the cool kids. Hipster tastemaker Pitchfork was an early The Cool Kids fan, but Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks rode into the scene on a huge wave of hype, garnering attention in Rolling Stone, Spin, The New Yorker, Fader and the cover of URB before ever putting out a single. Flagpole hopped onboard the praise train, too; we were drawn to the nerdy charm of the band’s 2008 EP debut, The Bake Sale, with its songs about playing Sega and eating Fruity Pebbles.

On their new album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, The Cool Kids venture in bolder directions, filling out their sound with help from a slew of big name musicians while never being totally overshadowed by the guests’ star power. Travis Barker adds uncomplicated but resonant depth behind the drums on “Sour Apples,” rapper Bun B is featured on “Gas Station,” and Wu-Tang Clansman Ghostface Killah makes an appearance on “Penny Hardaway.” While most of the record is self-produced, they did manage to recruit Pharrell Williams (N.E.R.D., Neptunes) to work his knob-twiddling magic on “Summer Jam.” Lyrically, The Cool Kids pay tribute to Chicago summers and looking fly all year long.

The fashion-conscious pair offers hook-heavy rhymes that go down smoothly, backed by booming 808s and surprising electronic elements. So, while the guys may have parted ways with their prior minimalist tendencies, they haven’t totally abandoned their oldschool influences. When Fish Ride Bicycles has just put The Cool Kids in an even better position for mass consumption with a more polished product and some celebrity credibility.

The duo’s upcoming appearance in Athens is part of UGA’s homecoming celebration, so admission is totally free for students with a valid UGA ID. Non-students are welcome as well, and tickets are $10 in advance or $20 at the gate. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

Saturday, November 5

Ken Will Morton, Kaitlin Jones, Holly Belle Little Kings Shuffle Club Ken Will Morton made his sixth solo album, Contenders, slated for a Nov. 1 release, in an unconventionally organic way. “[Russ Hallauer from Ghostmeat Records] ended up giving me some studio time at his place,” says Morton, “and I went there one or two nights and just laid down a bunch of songs, sitting there, acoustic, and that’s it. I’m done. He played on a bunch of them and got some friends to play, but as far as labor, it was the easiest record I’ve ever made… I brought in around 20 songs and would never do more than one or two takes. If I messed it up, we figured it wasn’t going to happen.”

Ken Will Morton It’s no surprise that Morton took a more organic route this time around; he reveres the natural songwriting process and even cites prerecord-industry folk music as one of his primary influences: “The Smithsonian Folkways recordings—I got those several years ago and was just blown away by people making music for music’s sake. There were no record contracts, no radio play… It’s like they came home from working a hard day and played music as a kind of catharsis. And I’ve always worked that way, too.”

Early Americana may inspire Morton’s attitude and style, but when he writes lyrics, he prefers to go at his own pace. “I listen to a lot of rap music, and I love the wordplay,” he says. “I know some of my songs are verbose… I just like little, clever phrases. I’m fascinated with expressions.”

Morton says he’s “still trying to find that magic record,” and he very well may have found it in Contenders; he manages to showcase the “rhythm cadence” of his self-proclaimed verbosity, as well as his “philosophical notes on the frailties of life,” like never before. [Kevin Craig]

tradition, but with a modern sensibility. (4 p.m.)

KLEZMER LOCAL 42 A local sevenpiece Klezmer band specializing in Jewish and Gypsy music and featuring Dan Horowitz of Five Eight.

(6 p.m.)

JACOB MORRIS Acoustic, ‘70sinspired folk rock. Morris also plays in Moths and Ham1. (5 p.m.)

The Melting Point WUOGFest: Bluegrass Junction. 7 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* NEXT IN LINE A perfect mix of traditional and contemporary bluegrass.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com GRAHAM COLTON Best known for his hit song “Best Day,” Colton is a pop singer-songwriter who has toured with such big names as John Mayer and Dave Matthews Band.

MATTHEW MAYFIELD Hard rock with country-tinged vocals.

Farm 255 Jazz Night. 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255. com DIAL INDICATORS 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 SOBOTKA No info available.

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

TINY VICTORIES Electronic dance party pop from Brooklyn.

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.

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Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $7. www.georgiatheatre.com CLAY LEVERETT & KIMBERLY MORGAN Performing George Jones and Tammy Wynette hits.

DAVE MARR The former Star Room Boys singer with a resonant country twang leads an all-star band.

Caledonia Lounge WUOGFest: Philosophy Rock. 10 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com AYATOLLAH Brand new local punk band featuring members of Grinnin Bear.

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

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

Go Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 BABY DUBZ Benjamin Davis, 21-year-old producer, actor, musician and DJ, creates a unique blend of dubstep, hip-house, glitch, hip-hop and tribal under the name Baby Dubz.

FLEET MACHINE Understated synth beats leave room for quiet vocals and careful sampling. So local they have a song called “Go Bar Guy.”

LOW UFO Ambient acoustic sounds from Atlanta.

SENSUAL PREDATOR Noisy, experimental local rock band.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com DODD FERRELLE Former Tinfoil Stars frontman and longtime Athenian Dodd Ferrelle pours heart and soul into his sweeping, anthemic ballads and alt-country rockers. He’ll be joined by his backing band for this special show celebrating the release of his excellent new album, Hide the World.

JOSHUA DANIELS & THE DANGEROUS Local singer/songwriter plays acoustic folk/Americana tunes that are both eclectic and accessable.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $20 (adv.), $22 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com* BENGA Dubstep producer and DJ from South London. See story on p. 17.

HEROBUST Heavily twisted samples and digi-beats.

ISNESS Live electro three-piece from Atlanta that dips its toes into various musical bodies of water, including dub, metal, industrial, trance and hip-hop.

TROGDOR Local trance DJ named after the cartoon Burninator.

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

UGA Legion Field Homecoming Concert. 8 p.m. FREE! (UGA students), $10 (non-students adv.), $20 (non-student door). www. uga.edu/union CHIDDY BANG Alternative hip-hop duo from Philly.

THE COOL KIDS Tagged early as “hipster rap,” these smooth, trendsetting MCs offer boastful rhymes about being fly over subtle synth and drum machines. See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

HOODIE ALLEN New York-based rapper and songwriter with witty punchlines and a genre-bending sound.

Thursday 3 Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 PLANET RAWK Hip-hop and rock meet to create a heavy alternative sound behind rapper Charlie Ahanotu.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com BIT BRIGADE These guys play the soundtrack to your favorite Nintendo games live while a master player beats the game! Tonight’s challenge: “Megaband.”

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

NATIVE Calculated and complicated prog-rock from Indiana.

TERA MELOS Experimental rock trio incorporating ambient electronics, quick-changing time signatures and unconventional song structures.

DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Rd. location) FINAL OPEN MIC NIGHT Contact Ben to sign up! Email timothy@ depalmasitaliancafe.com or call.

Accepting family-friendly entertainment acts. Advance sign-up required. Last open mic of the year!

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com KOKO BEWARE Surf rock outfit from Augusta.

Flight Tapas and Bar 9 & 11 p.m. FREE! www.flighttapasathens.com SCOTT LOW Local indie-folkster frontman for Efren plays two solo sets.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $18 (adv). www.40watt.com FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Fun, danceable alternative indie pop with soulful melodies. See story on p. 16.

WALK THE MOON Expect big harmonies, athemic choruses and energy to spare from this Cincinatti pop band.

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

Georgia Theatre WUOGFest: Matter of Jazz. 8 p.m. $5 (w/UGA ID) $8 (w/o UGA ID). www. georgiatheatre.com GROGUS The local and long-running ensemble plays jazz and salsa accentuated with reggae, hip-hop and Afro-Cuban styles.

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

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THE CALENDAR! Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltinpointathens.com JOE FIRSTMAN Alternative rock with an upbeat Southern attitude.

JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE Tucker, GA-born songwriter made his debut recording with his twin brother in pop duo Evan and Jaron.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $8 (adv.). www.newearthmusichall.com GARBAGE ISLAND Loud, metallic and edgy, the band dips into krautrock and progressive thought, earning it the “experimental” tag.

JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY Virtuosic ensemble that transcends musical boundries with its innovative jazz compositions.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $4. 706-546-4742 EDDIE AND THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS Local blues-funk trio.

LE BLORR Fuzzed-out bluesy soul duo.

THOSE CATS With influences ranging from James Brown to Curtis Mayfield, this Statesboro band plays smooth, funky jazz.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer.com MIKE ARMSTRONG Vocalist, acoustic guitarist and harmonica player from local easy-listening cover band Blossom Creek Breeze.

Friday 4 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. Join him every week for Feral Fridays!

Caledonia Lounge 6 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com MATT HUDGINS & HIS SHIT-HOT COUNTRY BAND Two sets tonight from the outlaw country singer with a heart of gold. Good times and hot licks. CD release show! Proceeds benefit Nuçi’s Space.

PILGRIM New local rock and roll band featuring Paul McHugh on vocals, guitar and keyboards along with Matt Stoessel on guitar, TJ Machado on bass and Brad Morgan on drums.

REPTILE DYSFUNCTION Led by luthier Scott Baxendale, this band plays a wailing mix of bluesy covers and originals.

THAYER SARRANO Local singersongwriter with lovely, airy vocals singing dark, gentle melodies.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com GRASS GIRAFFES Featuring Eddie “the Wheel” Whelan, this Athens band crafts minimalist bedroom pop.

Flicker Theatre & Bar “Bugs and Candy” Reception. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com KLEZMER LOCAL 42 A local sevenpiece Klezmer band specializing in Jewish and Gypsy music.

11 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com COWTOWN RAMBLERS Newly formed folkgrass band.

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40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $12 (adv.). www.40watt.com YACHT ROCK REVUE This Atlantabased septet offers spot-on covers of soft rock hits from the ‘70s and ‘80s delivered with kitschy flair.

Georgia Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-9884 REID STRIPLING BAND Southern blues band.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $8. www.georgiatheatre.com DANK SINATRA Coted as best local jam band in the 2011 Flagpole Athens Music Awards, these dudes play improvisation-heavy electronica mixed with elements of jazz, rock and reggae.

MAMA’S LOVE Young, funky jam band from right here in Athens. The band’s slogan says it all: “Bringin’ it back to the roots while goin’ beyond the bounds.”

MOON TAXI Progressive, psychedelic rock band from Nashville. Expect a good dose of improvisational folk, jazz and jam.

Go Bar WUOGFest: Bands Live. 10 p.m. 706546-5609 BASSHUNTER 64 Matt Goodlett, guitarist for Atlanta blues/Americana band Ben Chapman & the Accents, and Lloyd Handy offer chilled-out music that’s heavy on the bass.

FIGBOOTS This group plays howling indie classic rock that mixes Tom Petty guitar solos with Captain Beefheart strangeness.

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

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com BETWEEN NAYBORS Local duo Greg Benson and Melanie Morgan play folky acoustic tunes.

Las Conchitas Caliente 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-252-2500 LATINO LIVE Live Latin music every Friday!

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $9 (adv.) $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com DEJA VU John Keane, Nathan Sheppard and friends play a tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Whole: Mind. Body. Art. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.wholemindbodyart.com RAHASYA Traditional call and response sanskrit chanting meets trance/electronica with a little funky gospel tossed into the mix.

WUOG 90.5FM Halftime Hip-Hop Homecoming Concert. 9 p.m. FREE! www.wuog. org .DOTGATSBY “Columbian rebelutionary sent from the future.”

RICHELLE L.BROWN The selfproclaimed new queen of electro funk dance music.

DJ BURN ONE Critically acclaimed producer and DJ from Atlanta offers smooth basslines and dynamic synths backed by chilled out hiphop/reggae beats.

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FREE TOMORROW Sophisticated, high-energy live hip-hop band utilizing multiple genre styles to create a party vibe. The band is driven by keys, synths, bass and drums accented by the unique sound of a five-string electric violin.

MIC-AUDIO & W.L. BISHOP Hiphop from Atlanta featuring freestyle battle champ MC Lamonte Micah Brown.

GIOVANNI PRATT Georgia-based rapper with a sound rooted in mid’90s East Coast style like Digable Planets.

SCOTTY Fun, unique, Atlanta-based rapper who takes cues from acts like OutKast and 8-Ball. Scotty also runs his own label, Presidential Music.

SUNI SOLOMON Female rap artist from Atlanta.

WEAREINDEED Inventive, soulful duo Ricky Fontaine and Walt Live blend funk, hip-hop and more into their smooth mix.

Saturday 5 The Bad Manor 9 p.m. www.thebadmanor.com DJRX Mixing rock, rap, dubstep and top hits synced to music videos on the big screen.

Bishop Park “Athens Farmers Market.” 8 a.m.– noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net WHISPER KISS Acoustic project featuring multi-instrumentalist Michael Wegner (Abbey Road LIVE!, Fuzzy Sprouts, Sunny-Side Up Band) and Shelley Olin (DubConscious, Grogus). (10:30 a.m.).

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www. caledoniallounge.com CHRIS MCKAY & THE CRITICAL DARLINGS Drawing equally on ‘80s power-pop like The Cars and earlier stuff like The Kinks, frontman Chris McKay has a sharp lyrical turn for every melodic offering of his bandmates. New songs and a new lineup!

THE JOMPSON BROTHERS Big, classic rock licks from Nashville with even bigger, powerful Southern pipes for a sound that lands between Skynyrd and AC/DC. JOSH ROBERTS AND THE HINGES Formerly of Captain Easy and Danielle Howle, twang-meister Josh Roberts and his new band play hearty, Southern rock and roll.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE QUAILDOGS Alt-country and Southern rock from Atlanta.

SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing progressive jam rock.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $10 (includes copy of 7”).

Portion of the proceeds go to Nuçi’s Space. www.flickertheatreandbar. com BLOODKIN The long-running Athens quartet plays a bluesy style of roots-rock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics for darkly countrified bar-room rock.

Guests include: David Barbe, Bo Bedingfield, The HEAP, Mike Mantione, Kaitlin Jones, Michael Guthrie, Thayer Sarrano, Caroline Aiken and more!

40 Watt Club WUOGFest: The Elementz Project.

8 p.m. $5 (students), $7 (nonstudents). www.40watt.com DIP Members of Gun Party play silly songs that tend to mention the word

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It’s the day after the release of their third full-length record, Let the Poison Out, and The Beets’ bassist, Jose Garcia, seems wholly unfazed.

“It just seems like another day,” he says.

Maybe it’s the fact that The Beets he was interrupted from an afternoon nap to chat about the band’s upcoming Athens show—or maybe it’s the fact that he’s the type of guy who actually takes naps—either way, The Beets do not seem like a band that is affected by… much of anything—other than Howard Stern, oddly enough. Their goodnatured passivity is especially evident in their sound, which is the perfect marriage of laid-back, ‘60s-hippie surf rock and Ramones-esque catchy punk.

Although the press surrounding the band’s new record and updated sound is mostly warm, several outlets are criticizing The Beets for shedding their lo-fi exterior in favor of a more polished construction. According to Garcia, the improved production quality was a natural progression. “We never really meant to sound lo-fi,” Garcia says. “We recorded our first album on an 8-track. If we’d had access to a studio at that time, it would have sounded different.”

In addition to the fresh sound, both the record release and the current tour feature a new band lineup. After a steady rotation of drummers, Queens, NY natives Garcia and guitarist/vocalist Juan Wauters brought Chie Morie onboard. “If something happens with Chie, then I don’t know if we’ll even bother with looking for another drummer,” Garcia says. “Starting over with someone else, at this point, wouldn’t really work.”

The Beets are looking forward to their Athens show and promise a worthwhile performance. “The thing is, people see lots of bands at the same venue,” Garcia says. “We like to make the place look different and give people a unique experience, sort of like we’re playing in our apartment to some friends.” The experience this time includes an acoustic bass, banners and possibly a few homemade sculptures of monsters. With props like that, this show is kind of hard to pass up. [Carrie Dagenhard]

“dip” a lot and really get the kids dancing.

FREE TOMORROW Sophisticated, high-energy live hip-hop band utilizing multiple genre styles to create a party vibe. The band is driven by keys, synths, bass and drums accented by the unique sound of a five-string electric violin.

RICHELLE L. BROWN The selfproclaimed new queen of electro funk dance music.

THE LUNCH BREAK Alternative hiphop/indie pop.

MIC-AUDIO & W.L. BISHOP Hiphop from Atlanta featuring freestyle champ MC Lamonte Micah Brown.

GIOVONNI PRATT Georgia-based rapper with a sound rooted in mid’90s East Coast style like Digable Planets.

PROFOUND BREADTH Solo hiphop artist from Atlanta spits clubfriendly verses.

SCOTTY Fun, unique, Atlanta-based rapper who takes cues from acts like OutKast and 8-Ball. Scotty also runs his own label, Presidential Music.

YUNG’N RESTLESS Raised here in Athens, Damien Xavier Ellison is a versatile young hip-hop artist who has shared the stage with artists like 8 Ball & MJG, Shawty Lo, Bobby Valentino and many more.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com KELLER WILLIAMS Williams blends alternative rock, folk and jazz to create a funky sort of acoustic rock.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ANDROCLES & THE LION This local band plays airy indie-rock with lots of warm acoustic guitar, melodic harmonies and folk undertones.

HELLO HUGO Progressive math rock with a surf vibe from Asheville.

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

WE THE LION Alt folk-pop ‘n’ roll seven-piece from Atlanta.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock from here in Athens.

MOONTOWER The band jams and improvises over Southern rock.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com SCARLET STITCH Rock and blues topped off with a shot of “Southern Rockspitality.”

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Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 HOLLY BELLE Local singer-songwriter Holly Belle sings smoky, acoustic ballads accompanied by cello.

KAITLIN JONES Local folk guitarist/ vocalist Kaitlin Jones performs a solo set of Americana-tinged country originals.

KEN WILL MORTON BAND Bluesy rock and roll with a hint of Americana and pop is Morton’s speciality. See Calendar Pick on p. 21.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS This Atlanta/Athens group plays breezy, beachy Americana.

HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND This local act offers three-part harmonies and ramblin’, upbeat bluegrass!

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 BREATHLANES Led by guitarist/ composer John Miley, Breathlanes features atmospheric, organic tones built around guitar, drums and stand-up bass.

Ciné Bar Cafe WUOGFest: Friendly Folk. 5:30 p.m. $8. www.athenscine.com HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER Charming local neo-folk band delivers the thriftstore gospel.

NANCY KAYE Shimmering, breezy acoustic folk featuring Kaye’s rich, honey-coated vocals.

RUBY KENDRICK Local singersongwriter with poignant lyrics.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE BEETS Jangly lo-fi garage rock with playful co-ed vocals. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

CHRISTMAS Gritty noise band with pop underpinnings.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com DEEP DARK WOODS Powerful alt rock tunes with dark themes.

ROBERT EARL KEEN Texas folkcountry songwriter balances storytelling with rowdy drinking tunes.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7-8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 NO SHAME! Open mic hosted by Rose of Athens Theatre.

8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com MARK MANDEVILLE & OLD CONSTITUTION Folk songs, ranging in sound from jumpy swing

tracks to lonely bluegrass and country.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $22.50 (adv.) $27 (door) www. meltingpointathens.com ED ROLAND & KEVIN GRIFFIN Performing under the name Southern Gentlemen, the duo of Ed Roland (Collective Soul) and Kevin Griffin (Better Than Ezra) play an intimate, acoustic set.

Monday 7 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 6–10 p.m. $5. 706-613-5386, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens SHAG NIGHT Bring your dancing shoes for shag dancing in the BBR. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com KATER MASS Local melodic punk band influenced by acts like Minor Threat and Fugazi.

VACATION Cincinnati pop punk band featuring members of The Read and Till Plains.

WHITE WALLS Cincinatti punk rock.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv). www.40watt.com MAZES This Manchester, England band references late-’80s and early’90s bands with a lo-fi aesthetic like Guided by Voices and Eric’s Trip.

SEBADOH Lo-fi, indie-rock pioneers, this band was formed in 1986 by Eric Gaffney and Dinosaur Jr. bassist Lou Barlow.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.om* BEAT THE DRUM This audience participation show will be hosted

by Dr. Arvin Scott and Sunny Ortiz. Hand drums will be provided, but bringing your own is encouraged. There will be prizes including CDs and a djembe hand drum. All proceeds benefit the Drumming for Success youth program.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE LUMINEERS Tender folk rock trio from Denver.

SHENANDOAH DAVIS Melodic pop rock accompanied by unique vocal harmonies.

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

Tuesday 8 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE Dynamic post-hardcore that mixes progressive experimentation with DIY metal and noise.

CITY OF SHIPS Post-rock band that’s been described as a “mellower, more melodic” take on Isis.

COME WHAT MAY Melodic hardcore band with a positive message.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MICHAEL COLLINS Of tribal psychedelic rock band Prince Rama.

TOOTHACHE Swirling electronica.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $7. www.georgiatheatre.com MARCH FOURTH MARCHING BAND This massive ensemble of horns, percussion and electric

bass takes audiences on a musical journey around the globe, drawing from Eastern European gypsy brass, Latin flavors, Afrobeat, big band, rock and more.

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The Melting Point “Terrapin Tuesday.” 7 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com BLUEBILLY GRIT Live bluegrass.

Performing originals and some surprising covers. The band will be recording a video for its new album, Ready for a Change.

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No Where Bar 8 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE FRITZ Five-piece mellow funk jam with jazz influences.

WUOG 90.5FM “Live in the Lobby.” 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org THE FOUR THIEVES This energetic acoustic folk band is sure to get your boots stompin’.

Wednesday 9 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com THE HEAD Energetic powerpop trio from Atlanta.

ROCKETBOYS Texan indie band with smooth vocals, pinging guitars and swelling transitions.

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

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

Farm 255 Jazz Night. 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255. com DIAL INDICATORS This quiet jazz duo features Jeremy Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor sax playing odd covers and improvising on familiar themes.

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.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com MICKY AND THE MOTORCARS Catchy alt-country tunes with driving rhythms and memorable choruses.

RECKLESS KELLY Straddling the fence between country and rock and roll for 15 years, this Texan fivepiece keeps things old school.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com KEN WILL MORTON & ANDREW VICKERY Engaging, seasoned local songwriter Morton performs his American stomps as part of a duo with Andrew Vickery on harmonies, dobro, mandolin and acoustic guitar.

JIM WHITE Local singer/songwriter noted for his masterful storytelling in the Southern gothic tradition.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $7. www.newearthmusichall. com RYAN MONTBLEAU This Boston artist plays neo-folk, classic soul and “kick-out-the-jams Americana.”

SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS A seductive blend of soul and blues rock.

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Email calendar@flagpole.com. Listings are printed based on available space; more listings are online.

ART 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 Submissions (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

AUDITIONS James & the Giant Peach (Rose of Athens Theatre) Roald Dahl’s

whimsical story of an orphan who escapes his terrible aunts and befriends bugs living in a giant peach.

Email for a time slot and more information. Nov. 2, 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! danielle@roseofathens.org

CLASSES 4-Week Clay Class (Good Dirt) Topics include cups and mugs on the wheel, bowls and plates, sculptural candy trees and embellished pottery. Call to register. 706-3553161, www.gooddirt.net Athens Vertical Pole Dance Academy (Canopy Studio) Ongoing pole dance classes for beginners and intermediate students.

706-347-3708, www.avpda.com Beginning Bellydance (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Egyptian-style bel-

lydance for people of all ages, sizes and fitness levels. Wednesdays, 7:30–8:30 p.m. $10. 706-424-0195, www.wholemindbodyart.com Bellydance for Fitness (YWCO) Have fun and exercise at the same time. Mondays & Wednesdays, 6–7 p.m. susiefaye@hotmail.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7-9 p.m.

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

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Earth Skills Series: Shelter (State Botanical Garden) Develop the skill to make fire. Methods include flint and steel, bow drills and hand drills. Nov. 19, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $66.

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Abel Klainbaum’s macrophotography show “Bugs and Candy” is on display at Flicker Theatre & Bar through November.

Fall Classes (Good Dirt) Now registering for clay classes, fused-glass workshops, kids’ out-of-school workshops and afternoon Raku firing classes. Classes begin the second week of November. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Health and Wellness Classes (Athens Community Council on Aging) Athens Community Council on Aging hosts senior-friendly Ballroom Dancing, Line Dancing, Yoga, Tai Chi and more! Go online for a complete schedule. 706-549-4850, www.acc aging.org How to Manage Your Memories: Digital Picture Storage (Madison County Library) Two-part class on how to store and share digital pictures.

Please bring your digital camera, your camera’s USB cord and a flash drive. Flash drives may be purchased from the library for $10.

Laptops welcome for class. Call for class times and to register. Part 1: Nov. 8 or 9. Part 2: Nov. 15 or 16.

FREE! 706-795-5597 Mindful Eating Workshop (Mind Body Institute) Develop a healthier relationship with food through mindful practices. Mondays, Nov. 7–Dec. 5, 6–8 p.m. $75. 706475-7329, www.armc.org/mbi Power Yoga (Active Climbing) Vinyasa flow yoga. All levels welcome. Every Sunday. 11:45 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! (first class), $5–8. www.activeclimbing.com The Practice (Healing Arts Centre) A blend of the origins of Power Yoga with Dr. Clare-Lynn Royce. 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. 706-613-1143, www.healingartscentre.net

Reclaiming Our Natural Connections (Orange Twin Conservation Community) A weekend workshop with Jon Young and Wild Intelligence staff. Nov. 12, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. & Nov. 13, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $150–175. evan@wild intelligence.org, 706-614-2612 Sharpshooter’s Basketball Clinic (Lay Park) Focus on proper shooting techniques and other fundamental basketball skills.

5:30–6:30 p.m. $1 (ACC residents), $2 (non-ACC residents). 706-6133596, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lay 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 Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves comprise this dynamic fitness program. Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/class, $80/session. www.uga. edu/botgarden

HELP OUT! American Red Cross (Red Cross Donor Center, 3525 Atlanta Hwy.) Seeking donors for all blood types.

706-546-0681, www.redcrossblood. org Become a Mentor (Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens) Volunteer one hour per week to make a difference in the life of a child. Training provided. 706-546-5910, www.athensbgca.com

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BikeAthens Bike Recycling (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicylces for local service agencies. Bike repair skills a plus but not necessary. BikeAthens is also seeking donations of used kids’ and adult bikes in any condition. Mondays & Wednesdays, 6–8 p.m. and Sundays, 2–4:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com Drivers for Veterans Volunteers needed to drive veterans to Athens and Augusta hospitals.

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

Project Safe Volunteers (Various Locations) Take part in the movement to end domestic violence by donating a meal or volunteering at the thrift store. Help someone start a new life! cngraff@project-safe.org, www.project-safe.org

KIDSTUFF 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 Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts.

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

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assist with craft projects, help take care of the library and have a good time! 4–5 p.m. First Thursday of the month. FREE! 706-769-3950, www.facebook.com/OCLCS Mama-Baby Yoga for Crawlers (Mind Body Institute) For crawling babes until they begin walking (about 8 months to 18 months age) and their mamas.

Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. $60 (10 classes). 706-475-7329, www.armc. org/mbi ZumbAtomic for Kids (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Fast-foward fusion of Zumba moves designed to let kids max out on fun and fitness at the same time! Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. $6. 706-424-0195, www.wholemindbodyart.com

SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Various Locations) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-3894164, www.athensaa.com ANAD Support Group (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) New support group from the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders for individuals suffering from eating disorders.

Saturdays, 10 a.m. 678-612-2697, www.anad.org/get-help/supportgroups/georgia Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is provided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

Emotions Anonymous (Various Locations) Informal and supportive 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Fridays, 3:30–4:30 p.m. at Aloha Counseling. Sundays, 4–5 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org Sapph.Fire (Nuçi’s Space) Social, support and volunteer organization for lesbian and bisexual women in Athens and surrounding areas. Email for next meeting date. 6:30–8 p.m.

FREE! Sapph.fire@yahoo.com, www.facebook.com/sapphfire.athens Survive and Revive (Call for location) Domestic violence support group. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. Children are welcome for supper and childcare is provided during group. Second and fourth Tuesday of the month in Clarke County. First and third

ART AROUND TOWN Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) Musically inspired paintings by Christine Davidson. Through November.

Antiques and Jewels (290 N. Milledge) New paintings by Mary Porter, Lana Mitchell, Taylor Dubeau and others. Through December.

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.

Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Dr.) Original art

by Kate Sherrill, illustrator of Jack the Cat, a recently published children’s book about Charleston and Fort Sumter through the eyes of a gray tabby cat. Through Dec. 9. • Works by Stuart McCall Libby, LeeAnn Mitchell and Susan Nees. Through Dec. 9.

Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) “Mystery Selections” showcases interactive sculptures, installations and two site-specific wall paintings by six local artists selected from the 124 “Mystery Triennial” participating artists. Through Nov. 6.

Aurum Studios (125 E. Clayton St.) 24 recent paintings by Greg Benson and wire sculptures by Noah Saunders. Through Nov. 12.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) An exhibit featuring work by local art-car artist Cap Man (driver of the familiar bottlecap truck). Through November.

Ciné Bar Cafe (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “In Trees” an installation by Wendy Hanson. Through Nov. 16.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design (Caldwell Hall) An exhibit of works by BLA students from the past five years, highlighting projects demonstrating CED’s methodology. Through Dec. 2.

Farmington Depot Gallery (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 16 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics, fine furniture and more. Permanent collection artists include Cheri Wranosky, John Weber, John Cleaveland, Alice Pruett and more.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) “Bugs and Candy,” macrophotography of local insects on candy landscapes by Abel Klainbaum. Opening reception Nov. 4. Through November.

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. • Anthony Goicolea’s

Monday of the month in Madison County. 6:30–8 p.m. Project Safe: 706-543-3331

ON THE STREET Athens Land Trust Design Competition (Athens Land Trust) The Athens Land Trust Design Competition for the Cottages at Cannontown competition aims to create architectural designs for four housing types that would be affordable and energy-efficient while working within the site’s existing contruction constraints. Submit initial design proposals by Nov. 14.

FREE! www.athenslandtrust.org/ cannontown.htm Downtown Parade of Lights (Downtown Athens) Now accepting entries for Athens’ annual parade. This year’s theme is “Winter Wonderland.” Register by Nov. 17.

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“Snowscape” includes a large photographic mural on Plexiglas and a video installation. Through Nov. 30.

Georgia Museum of Natural History (East Campus Road) “Lost Species: Visions of Landscapes Past,” looks at historic, Southern landscapes and the species that inhabited them. Through Dec. 9.

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

Through November.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) New acrylic and watercolor portraits by Lea Purvis. Through Nov. 6.

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

Through December.

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

Jittery Joe’s Coffee (1230 S. Millledge Ave.) Paintings of Athens and UGA landmarks by Heidi Hensley. Through November.

Jittery Joe’s Eastside (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Original handmade and recycled works by Georgeanne Olive and Robin Wreikley. Through November.

Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company (780 E. Broad St.) Black-and-white prints by Will Jacques.

Through Nov. 15.

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

by Leslie Litt. Through November.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) Third Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Through Nov. 8.

Last Resort Grill (184 W. Clayton St.) Achitectural illustrations by Jill Leite. Through Nov. 1.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (434 S. Main St.) “Scapes” is an exhibition of landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes by Steffen Thomas.

Through Feb. 18.

OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) The Georgia Small Works Exhibition, juried by Margaret Morrison and Ted Saupe. Through Nov. 12.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) “From the Land” features work by pastel artist and architectural illustrator Lorraine Plaxico. Through Nov. 27. • “Forged from Nature” is an outdoor series of sculpted garden gates by artist Andrew T. Crawford. Through Dec. 23.

Trace Gallery (160 Tracy St.) “In the Company of Wolves” features works by 11 tattoo artists. Through Nov. 12.

Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) New artwork by Joel Rosenburg. Through November.

UGA Science Library (210 DW Brooks Dr.) Scientific illustrations by Sam Davidson from Monteverde, Costa Rica in pen and ink, carbon dust and watercolor. Through December.

Walker’s Coffee & Pub (128 College Ave.) Artwork by Samantha Hudson. Through November.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) Works by Emily Tatum. Through November.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins Readers, I am sorry to inform you that I can’t be bothered to answer any questions this week, as I have just been notified that I have been made the beneficiary of a stranger’s will.

That’s right, people: somewhere in England, some old guy just croaked and left 30 million, one hundred thousand dollars to a person who doesn’t exist. So, unless this is some kind of scam, so long, suckers!

My boyfriend lives in another state. We met a year ago, fell head over heels for each other and have had a great relationship ever since.

We visit as often as we can, talk on the phone every day and generally get along very well. There is one problem, though.

I have a co-worker who is a very good friend of mine, and my boyfriend hates him. Granted, this co-worker has said that he really likes me and that if I were single he would ask me out, etc. But I told him I wouldn’t date him because he’s not my type. This is not meant in an insulting way at all, but I want him to understand that I don’t go for jocks as boyfriends. He and I have a great time together in the same way that I have fun with all of my other friends, and I am not in the least bit attracted to him. He knows some of my exes, and he knows I am not kidding. I just don’t date guys like him, end of story.

So, he stopped flirting and telling me he wishes I was single and all that. But my boyfriend still has an irrational jealousy of this guy. They have met before, and my co-worker was nice to him, and it didn’t matter. He gets furious whenever I tell him I am hanging out with my co-worker. I don’t understand why he feels so threatened, and I tell him all the time that he’s being silly. We still end up in an argument about it every time, and I am just getting sick of it.

My boyfriend will be moving here in a few months, and in the meantime I have started lying to him when I go out with this co-worker. I know it’s wrong, but I hate being treated with so much suspicion, and I don’t want to fight with him anymore. We don’t get to see each other often enough as it is, and I don’t want to waste time when we do by fighting with him or feeling like I have to justify my choice of friends. I am also worried about what will happen when he is here. I do not intend to end this friendship, but I think if my boyfriend were here he wouldn’t worry so much. What do you think?

Sneaky Well, since the lawyer who sent me the notice of my inheritance hasn’t gotten back to me yet (I sent him my bank account information a week ago!), I guess I’ll deign to answer your question. The problem here, Sneaky, is that you’re lying. I know you think this is a little white lie, repeatedly told in order to keep the peace, but how exactly do you see

this playing out once your boyfriend is actually here? Will you ditch your good friend because you have better things to do/ stricter rules to live by? Or will you allow your boyfriend to move in with you under the guise that everything is great between you and you have nothing to hide, and attempt to deal with the fallout when he finds out you’ve been lying to him? Either way, you are going to have to ruin somebody’s day.

You have to deal with the reality of this situation now, before things get any more convoluted. One option is that you cut loose your co-worker. Question: do you really think he’s over it and he has gotten the message that yours is a platonic relationship, end of story? Is he OK with this, or are you leading him on? Is he waiting for your boyfriend to blow it so he can make his move and win you over? Would it be more humane to just walk away? Are you sure you’re not fooling yourself into thinking things are fine the way they are?

The other option is that you come clean with your boyfriend and tell him that you are friends with this guy and that he can either deal with that reality and trust you and accept it even though he doesn’t approve, or he can end your relationship and save both of you the time and trouble of moving in together and then breaking up in a spectacularly painful and expensive fashion. I guess the bottom line is that you have to prioritize the relationships and then decide.

I have to tell you that I read your advice to Bride to Be and I think you’re wrong. Strip clubs are full of bad behavior and women willing to “bend the rules” for the right amount of money. If the BTB doesn’t want to end up with an STD, she should tell her man he can’t go.

Jyl, are you crazy or just naïve? What were you thinking?

Been There, Done That What I was thinking, BTDT, is that this is a woman in a good relationship with a guy she trusts. She is uncomfortable about the Big City Strip Club idea because, in all likelihood, she has never been to a strip club. I’m not saying bad things never happen at strip clubs; I’m just saying that it isn’t probable. I have seen more strippers than the average guy. I can almost guarantee you that I have been to more bachelor parties than the next five guys you know combined. I have seen some nasty, scary, disgusting shit, BTDT. The kind of shit that would make a lesser woman lose all faith in men, in relationships—hell, in humanity.

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AT Large: Occupy Wall Street On Oct. 25, Flagpole spent the afternoon in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street protests are centered. The park is surrounded by skyscrapers—the air was chillier than on the sidewalks—and is the size of a small city block, with the ground covered by grey stone pavers. It was difficult to discern what the park might have been like before the protests began on Sept. 17, as the entire area was covered in tents, tables, tarps, cardboard and people. The large crowd gathered there was only about 50 percent protesters: the place was swarming with tourists and, in particular, journalists of all kinds. Flagpole wandered along the thin footpaths carved out through the encampment and spoke with several of the people gathered there.

FP: Do you feel like returning the books is an essential part of what this protest means?

SA: No. What People’s Library is doing is getting valuable literature into the hands of people who are unable to afford it or perhaps would not normally read something.

FP: What do you hope that will accomplish?

SA: Educate people.

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FP: Will that make the protest stronger?

SA: This library is part of an occupation, yes. It certainly is.

But also, we’re about literature here. We’re about free education here. That’s kind of an issue in this country. That’s more what we like to focus on here.

This is an organic, literary body. It is a part of an occupation, yes, of course it is.

But this is not solely for the occupiers. It’s for everybody.

FP: What do you see yourself doing after the protest is over, and are you going to stay here until it ends?

SA: I don’t really know about ending. This is probably years in the making short of tear gas coming in here tomorrow or something like that. I’m definitely committed to what happens here and [will] continue that from abroad or whatnot. I’m definitely here for the long haul.

FP: And years down the line? Have you considered what you’ll do then?

SA: Oh, certainly. I’m applying to university in Toronto and things like that right now. It’s a program that would allow me to spend half of a week here and half in Toronto, so I would probably divide my time between the occupations and going to school and continuing the betterment of my own education.

FP: What would you study?

SA: I’m a writer, so I would study creative writing, literature, poetry. I would continue my East Asian studies. I speak Mandarin, so I’m interested in those kinds of things.

Emily Patrick

everyday people

I haven’t really been associated with the types of corporate greed that you’re referring to. Of course, I’m aware of what has been going on—or, what goes on in the world and what continues to go on. As an individual situation, I haven’t really allowed that to affect me. My state of mind and the way that I live has been off the grid and not really associated with that.

FP: Do you spend most of your time here in the library?

SA: Yes. FP: So, you’re not usually out there holding up signs?

SA: No. Well, I attend meetings that are pertinent to this occupation. I’m a nonviolent communicator. I work with direct action, and I work in the library.

FP: Where are you from originally?

SA: I’m from Canada, actually.

Sean Allingham was working at “The People’s Library,” an assortment of books set up in tupperware containers on a table. He encouraged visitors and protesters to borrow a book.

He had just finished creating an Allen Ginsberg section.

FP: What do you do for a living?

SA: I am a poet, writer, student, autodidact, laborer, whatever happens to be you.

FP: How did you get involved with the library?

SA: I showed up at the occupation, and I love libraries, and I love books, and I just sort of said, “Hello, here I am.”

FP: So, this wasn’t your idea?

SA: No, it was no one’s idea. It happened very organically.

Like, it’s a city. We’re making a little community here, and someone thought this community should have books to read.

So, one day books showed up, and then more books showed up, and then someone organized the books. It’s all very organic.

FP: So, how does the library work?

SA: All the books are donated from publishers, individuals and celebrities monetary and literary, and it’s all based on the honor system, so we encourage you to bring the books back when [you’re] finished with them. But if you feel that this book needs to remain on your shelf for forever and ever, then you’re welcome to keep it.

FP: So, do a lot of people bring the books back?

SA: Yes. Fewer than we would like, but yes, they do.

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FP: So, why did you decide to come down to the protest?

SA: I was doing a poetry reading in Massachusetts when the occupation started, and I said, “Finally!”— something that I could get behind was starting. There’s lots of reasons why we’re down here. I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count them all. I mean, ending the coercion between corporations and government would probably be the first one.

FP: So, have you been down here since day one?

SA: No, no. I’ve been down here for about 10 or 11 days.

FP: And you sleep in a tent?

SA: Tents are illegal in Zuccotti Park, actually. As you can see, we’re slowly pushing the envelope as that goes. We make a bivouac with tarps here.

FP: What are the conditions like?

SA: In the rain, it’s very, very difficult because concrete doesn’t really allow the rain to seep through. It’s not comfortable, but we’re taking steps to winterize our operation and continue the occupation.

FP: As a Canadian—obviously, Wall Street is an American place—do you see this as an American movement or an international movement?

SA: Wall Street affects the world economy. I mean, I could be in Occupy Vancouver, Occupy Toronto or Occupy Montreal right now, but those occupations hadn’t blossomed by the time I was down here. And this is also kind of where it began, and I feel like I’m more help down here than I would be up there.

FP: So, have you had a personal experience with corporate greed that is part of why you’re here?

SA: Up until now, my protesting has been sort of individual, and I’ve kept my money out of banks, and I’ve lived simply.

Maryann Baker was standing next to some tents. After speaking with Flagpole on the record, she revealed that a live cat had been concealed in her jacket during the entire conversation.

FP: Where are you from?

MB: I’m from Queens, New York.

FP: And how long have you been down here?

MB: For like a little over three weeks.

FP: Do you sleep here at night?

MB: Yes. FP: What’s that like?

MB: Well, with the drums sometimes, it’s hard to sleep.

[Note: During Flagpole’s entire time at Zuccotti Park, a group of protesters played drums and cymbals on the western edge of the encampment.] I get on average at least three or four hours.

With the tents, now I can sleep good, but sometimes it’s hard, especially when it’s cold.

FP: So, the drums go all night long?

MB: No. Sometimes it goes for an extended time. It’s supposed to be only two hours, but sometimes the noise wakes me up, especially early in the morning. I go to bed at like 4 o’clock because I’m always, like, chillin’ or something.

FP: What drew you to the protest?

MB: Well, I’m practically fed up. Like, I’ve been dealing with poverty since I was a child, and being 19 and not being able to get a job. It’s—it’s hard, because I’m trying to find ways to survive, so I guess I’m part of the 99 percent.

FP: Have you ever had a job before?

MB: Yeah.

FP: What did you do?

MB: Piercing. Like, a counter girl position at a tattoo shop.

FP: Are you here with your friends?

MB: Yeah, I’m with a lot of friends… I have friends that I’ve met at parks and around the city, so I’m not here by myself. I’m with a lot of comrades.

FP: Have you ever been political before, or is this your first experience?

MB: I’ve been political before to go to, like, marches and stuff.

FP: What do you want to do after the protest is over?

MB: Try to see if I could sustain a proper living. Hopefully, this brings about change, so I could feed my family and take care of my own life. I guess I’m still young, so I have awhile to get my shit together.

FP: Do you have any career aspirations?

MB: I was planning on going to college for embalming.

FP: Like a mortician?

MB: No, mortician, that’s like, I think, eight years college, but embalming is only two years community college and a sixyear internship.

FP: Are you a feminist?

A: No. FP: What are you?

A: I’m a person.

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FP: So, how long have you been down here?

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FP: Do you sleep down here?

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FP: What is it like?

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FP: What was it about this protest that attracted you?

A: Well, I’m a photographer, and I initially came down here, and I was going to take a few pictures, and I was going to leave. And I got here, and I was just like: “I need to be here. I need to go home and put my camera down and live this instead of documenting it. There are plenty of people here documenting it. I need to help live it.”

FP: Why do you think living it is important?

A: Because this is history. This is going to change the world.

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FP: What kind of things would you like to change?

A: Just make people aware. Aware that reform is not the only option. Everybody seems to be decided on reform here.

That seems to be the general consensus of Occupy Wall Street, is that we need reform. And I disagree. I think we need revolution. And my group here, Class War Camp, is dedicated to informing people that revolution is a viable answer.

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FP: Do you mean violent revolution?

A: No, no. By no means it’s violent. I just mean that if enough people say that they’re fed up, the world will have to change. The government can’t keep working the way it is if enough people say we’re fed up with it; we need a new system.

It doesn’t have to be a violent revolution.

FP: What did you say the name of your group was?

A: Class War Camp. We’re a group of Communists, anarchists and socialists.

FP: I see you’re reading Karl Marx here.

A: Yeah, we’re actually collectively reading it. I just started on it yesterday, actually, so I don’t have much to say.

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FP: Have you been active politically before?

A: No, no, I’ve been involved with different campaigns, different protests. I’ve canvassed a lot for different organizations.

So, giving my time to this is not that huge of a leap from stuff I’ve already been doing.

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FP: What are your goals for yourself after this protest is over?

A: After this protest, I’m going to have to go back to living.

I’ve got to go to college… I’m taking a year off, so I have to apply.

FP: Has this protest changed your outlook on life?

A: No, I’d say my outlook is pretty much the same. I’m learning more, but my outlook is pretty much the same. If anything, it’s gotten stronger just from being here.

Angie was sitting by a table for Class War Camp, a group she supports. She preferred not to reveal her surname.

FP: I’m having a hard time finding women protesters to talk to. Do you think that women are in the minority of the protesters?

A: No, I don’t think so at all. There are a lot of women here.

They’re just not as vocal as this movement needs to be in certain cases. I honestly don’t know. They’re, I guess… I’m sorry.

You caught me at a—I’ve only just woken up like 20 minutes ago. There are a lot of feminists here, but non-feminists I don’t think are as involved in the movement. They’re just kind of here.

FP: Will it be an adjustment for you to have to go back to your old life?

A: Oh, without a doubt. Most definitely it will be. But I feel that once this is over, we’ll have accomplished something major, and I’ll be able to sleep at night, as opposed to a bunch of people out there who ignored us who went to their nine to five who didn’t have any part in this huge information session, is what I’ve grown to see it as.

FP: As opposed to a protest?

A: Well, it’s both. It’s both a protest and an information session.

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