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Last month there was a gathering in the Presbyterian Student Center on Lumpkin Street remembering the role that place played, as Westminster House, during the integration of the University of Georgia 50 years ago.

During that critical period, the overwhelming sentiment among white Georgians in the state and on campus was against the admittance of Negro (African-American) students to the university. There were some students and faculty, however, who felt that it was right not to mention legal, that UGA be open to all Georgia students. With mobs running around campus waving Confederate flags, those who believed integration to be right, had trouble finding any place to get together.

Westminster became one of those places, and not by accident.

Several years before, the Presbyterian Church had sent Bill Rogers as campus minister charged with constructing a new building. Bill Rogers was handicapped in a way he didn’t understand until he moved to Georgia: he was colorblind. He simply didn’t see any differences among people of different races and was motivated by a strong, Christian concern for all.

It is a miracle that he succeeded in getting Westminster House built on campus, because He was the Southern Presbyterian churches that colorblind. sponsored the student ministry were decidedly conservative in their views on race. And in fact, Bill Rogers’ success in building a center that welcomed all people eventually wore out his own welcome, and he was told by Presbyterian leaders that it was time for him to go.

To replace Rogers came a Presbyterian minister named Corky King, a bright, quiet, handsome guy who had been a football star at Davidson College. Corky was here during the integration of the University of Georgia, and he made Westminster House the center for those who welcomed Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes to UGA and worked to keep the university open and its integration peaceful. Corky didn’t just run a hangout; he challenged students with rigorous theological exploration and led them to examine what it meant to be a Christian in a world of conflict and action.

Before long, Corky was asked to leave, and he was replaced by another football player (North Carolina), Roland Perdue.

Roland was bright and observant and did a great job of getting on with sustaining a religious community on campus after integration had become a fact. It is no wonder that during Roland’s tenure, Westminster was one of the few places African-American students felt comfortable on campus, and a kid named Harold Black became a regular there. His friends kept urging him to attend church with them, and he finally did, leading to a division in the church and an invitation not to return. Soon, Rev. Perdue was gone, too.

Well, at the reunion last month, Bill and Corky and Roland were in attendance, along with a lot of students who benefitted from their counsel and support as they struggled through those critical times on campus. The gathering was a stark reminder of the power of quiet determination to pursue what is right without equivocation, without compromise of religious principles or political beliefs.

Looking back 50 years was a reminder of just how tightly bound our society was in legal, social and religious beliefs and institutions based on inequality, and how easily we can slip backward again to endemic racism.

Bill and Corky and Roland—and some of their successors like the late Milner Ball—brought out the best in people just by adhering to the tenets of the faith they professed. Amidst all the temporizing and explaining away basic truth for political gain, these men (and their wives) made it okay to take the Christian message seriously, even when it ran counter to Christian institutions.

Westminster House survived those turbulent times and continues as the Presbyterian Student Center, where the campus minster, Andy Cooke, seems to be a worthy successor to Bill and Corky and Roland and the others who preceded him.

Sitting in the student center or walking across the campus it doesn’t take much to remember the tear gas, the mobs, the media, the hope and fear that arose during that pivotal period a half century ago. That was a long time ago, but it’s not over: we’re still grappling with those tensions, still trying to reconcile ourselves to race, still prone to interpret the law—human and divine—to suit ourselves.

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When the ReNew Athens affordable housing was under my management,” McKillip says, the initiative was launched in November of 2009, complex “was in good shape.” its co-founders—Athens Area Habitat for But by early 2010, after McKillip says Humanity Executive Director Spencer Frye and Lancaster took over, the complex’s managestate Representative Doug McKillip—touted ment had begun to fall behind on its water it as a way to make a dent in Athens-Clarke bills. Several times that year and in 2011, the County’s stubborn poverty cycle by offering bill went unpaid for months, accumulating balpeople in steady but low-paying jobs the posances near or in excess of $20,000. On Sept. sibility of low-cost homeownership, which 15 of this year, with four-and-a-half months of could help stabilize their lives and their comunpaid bills totaling over $22,000, the water munities and, hopefully, point them in the was shut off in the entire complex. direction of the middle class. It was a terrific It was turned back on the next day after nonprofit idea: buy up dilapidated, crime-ridthe bill was partially paid by Frank Samford, den apartment complexes in areas that need a Tucker, GA attorney who had just purhelp, renovate them and sell the individual chased the $3.8 million deed for $500,000 units at subsidized prices in much the same after reaching an agreement with McKillip way Habitat makes its houses affordable, but to take over his interest in Maxwell Thomas quite a bit more cheaply.

Investments. Neither McKillip nor Samford A lot has happened since then, and much would disclose the details of their agreement, of it has been good. Frye points out that but Samford says he is foreclosing on MTI, a ReNew Athens’ initial project, a 16-unit comcorporation of which he is now half owner. plex in East Athens, has been a great sucHe plans to renovate and re-lease the apartcess: though the ownership model was scuttled in favor of an affordable rent plan in order to qualify for a federal grant, many of its residents are now at a point of being strong applicants for Habitat homes, and perhaps more importantly, the renovation of the complex has been positive for a neighborhood that was formerly diminished by its blight.

But there have been complications to McKillip’s purpose of helping Athens’ vast underprivileged population find qualTallassee Club Villas, a 124-unit apartment complex off Tallassee Road just ity, affordable housing, outside the bypass, briefly had its water shut off in September after the bill and some of them were went unpaid for four-and-a-half months. State Rep. Doug McKillip was a well established before partner in the corporation that owned 118 of the units during that time. that first ReNew Athens project was undertaken in February 2010, after the nonprofit was ments at higher rents; he’s done this before awarded over $300,000 in federal grant money and is confident he’ll see a good return on his by the Athens-Clarke County government. In investment. Some of the units, he says, are October 2007, McKillip and Paul Lancaster, his currently “uninhabitable.” law partner at the time, had started buying So, Tallassee Club Villas is once more to up apartments in Tallassee Club Villas, a very be salvaged, just four years after Lancaster run-down, ‘70s-built apartment complex just and McKillip bought it, presumably with the outside the Athens bypass off Tallassee Road, intention of doing just that. McKillip says through a newly formed corporation called there was never any connection between Maxwell Thomas Investments, LLC. By the the affordable housing initiative involving end of 2008, the partners owned 118 of the the reclamation of dilapidated apartment 124 units in the complex, the occupied units complexes he helped organize in 2009 and the of which were mostly rented to low-income dilapidated apartment complex half-filled with African Americans and Hispanics. low-income renters of which he was co-owner Around the end of 2009, McKillip and at the time. There was some discussion back Lancaster’s partnership was disintegratthen, he says, of donating one of the Tallassee ing; their relationship had become so damClub apartments to ReNew Athens, but it never aged that McKillip filed a police report based happened. McKillip isn’t involved with ReNew on a nasty financial dispute. Amid the split, these days; he says he never was, except as a McKillip says he turned over the management participant in its initial organization. of Tallassee Club to Lancaster (who was not As for how you get 118 apartments for available for comment as of press time), and $500,000 less than four years after they were has had nothing to do with the complex since. bought for $2.5 million and given $1 million December, 2009 documents show the worth of improvements, well, only Samford amount of MTI’s deed with Pinnacle Bank in and McKillip know that, along with maybe Elberton, GA as $3,837,372—almost $1.3 milsome folks at Pinnacle Bank… and Lancaster. lion more than the total purchase prices of Maybe this is all his mess, as McKillip sugthe 118 units. “We put a million dollars into gests, but he’s not talking about it. that property,” McKillip says. The complex On a recent Friday at Tallassee Club Villas, was riddled with drugs and prostitution when several work crews were out, mending some he and Lancaster bought it, and he says they of the buildings’ roofs and looking after some cleared out the criminal elements, replaced general repairs. There’s plenty to do. roofs and carpeting, and gutted and renovated apartments that were uninhabitable. “While it Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

city pages Unpaid Stormwater Fees Can Result in Lawsuits from ACC Stormwater fees are charged to property owners to cover the costs of diverting rainwater so it doesn’t flood public streets. Much of that water runs off of private land into the storm sewers, especially from paved areas and building roofs (which cannot absorb it). In 2005, Athens-Clarke County began charging property owners for their stormwater runoff, typically around $40 a year for a single-family home, and higher amounts for businesses with large parking lots.

Most people pay, but some have not, and the county has begun going after them in court—the only means of forcing payment.

“We do have the folks that just plain object and don’t pay,” county stormwater management coordinator Ryan Eaves told Flagpole.

Delinquent accounts have been turned over to a collections agency, which often has resulted in payment agreements. “Our other recourse is the lawsuits,” Eaves said.

“It’s a rain tax, is exactly what it is,” local businessman Howard Scott told ACC commissioners last week. “It’s an illegal rain tax.” The county is suing Scott for failing to pay a large stormwater bill. “Most people don’t complain, really,” Scott said, “because they’re usually small fees. Other people get taxed in greater amounts—shopping centers; all kinds of commercial establishments. Those fees get passed on to the consumer.” Scott has the largest unpaid bill, around $80,000, and the county is suing him in Superior Court.

Lawsuits have been—or will be—brought in municipal court for lesser amounts, and some of those cases have already been decided, ACC Attorney Bill Berryman told Flagpole. “They found for the county.” Some of those cases are being appealed, and “it takes several months once you get into Superior court,” he said.

According to Eaves, Athens is one of some 60 Georgia cities that have stormwater fees; in Athens, they bring in $2.9 million yearly, and property millage rates were dropped by a half-mill to compensate. All properties are billed—even tax-exempt owners like churches and the University of Georgia—unless their land is undeveloped. The fees support 45 staff members who design, build, inspect and clean stormwater drains, including two who handle billing. One person does public outreach, including school programs, to discourage illegal dumping in storm drains. “Whatever goes into that system, it’s going into our waterways,” Eaves said, because stormwater drains are separate from sewer lines and run directly into nearby streams.

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Package Sales Near Churches OKed, Jail Art Decision Pushed Despite a a few objections by citizens, ACC commissioners voted 7-3 last week to allow there to remain a few family-friendly places that are free of that.” Commissioner George beer and wine package sales in close proximity to churches, homes and other beer or wine Maxwell cast a “reluctant” vote in favor of the change in the commission’s Legislative Review retailers, removing a possible obstacle to Committee, but opposed it last week. “Why locating a grocery store in or near downtown.

“We’re just talking about whether the Kwik-Eare we wanting to have the Classic City of Georgia, Athens-Clarke Mart is able to sell a six-pack, and whether “Why are we wanting to have County, be a drunk city?” he asked fellow Whole Foods can sell wine,” Commissioner the Classic City of Georgia… commissioners. “It’s Ed Robinson said. drunk enough with be a drunk city?”

Distance requirements University of Georgia students here.” to churches and homes And commissioners punted on budgeting remain in place for bars, restaurants and liquor public art for the new jail, postponing a decistores.

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Discussion of art at the jail has never ceased to be entertaining. By adding more decorative features to the jail, Robinson suggested, “suddenly we’ve got a nice building which attracts more tourists.” But Robinson’s intent was serious: “What we’re talking about, really, is making sure there is involvement of an arts council in the choice of decorative items and architectural features” at the jail and other county buildings.

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capitol impact Teachers: Watch Pension Funds Every few years the idea circulates at the Capitol that it would be a good idea to start using the state’s pension money to invest in exotic business ventures. During the Roy Barnes administration there was a proposal to amend state law so the money in public pension plans could be steered to such private equity investments as leveraged buyout funds, venture capital funds and timberland. A few years later, during the Sonny Perdue administration, several bills were introduced that would have authorized the retirement systems to put billions of dollars into similar investment alternatives.

None of those proposals made it into law, but the urge to gamble with the state’s pension money never goes away. This year, one of the smaller pension systems— the Georgia Firefighters’ Pension Fund—was allowed to invest in funds that invest in startup business ventures.

Gov. Nathan Deal recently told the Georgia Research Alliance he supports ending the ban on alternative investments for the other pension systems, which is an indication that such legislation will be passed next year.

Supporters of these exotic investments contend they will earn higher returns for the pension plans than the more conservative stocks and bond funds that draw these systems’ investments. They rarely mention that these alternative investments carry much higher risks, as well.

The two largest plans are the Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) and the Teachers Retirement System (TRS). They use their nearly $60 billion in total assets to pay pensions to more than 150,000 retired state employees and teachers. I don’t think these retirees would feel very good about knowing that their future pension checks are being gambled on startup business ventures.

When the diversification of pension funds was first discussed, the chairman of the ERS

board of trustees identified another troublesome possibility. “The main problem is people who start to apply pressure to the governor or other politicians because they’re starting a venture capital fund and they want to get $10 million or $20 million in state money,” said Michael Kennedy.

We have a governor whose track record as an investor is not one that would inspire confidence. Deal lost more than $2 million in a failed business started by one of his daughters and is still trying to pay off the debts associated with that venture. The governor now thinks it’s a good idea to invest state pension funds in startup business ventures. If I were a retiree, I might have some questions about that.

Our retirement systems traveled this high-risk, high-reward path before and lost quite a lot of money. From October 1998 to November 2001, the two largest pension systems spent $166 million to purchase more than 2.5 million shares of stock in the high-flying Texas energy company Enron, thinking they would get better returns on their money than they would from more conservative investments. Unfortunately for our pension plans, Enron’s management ranks included a fair number of con artists and hustlers who ran the company into one of the largest bankruptcy filings in American history in December 2001. The retirement systems ended up with net losses of $127 million from that little attempt at diversification.

That’s essentially what Deal and the other proponents of raiding the pension funds want to do now: allow the systems to make similar high-risk investments in the hope they might be able to earn larger returns on their money.

Perhaps it will work this time. If it doesn’t work out, however, a lot of retired teachers and government employees could be facing a very uncertain financial future.

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ACHF will also work to bring some regional developers in, with the hope that sitting them next to community members to learn and discuss redevelopment will result in a more proactive conversation and less of our usual reactionary dialogue. were quick to note that that concept was Following up on the one-day symposium, a a model that could potentially have been charrette will be held in late February, led by applied anywhere in town, the idea was quite the university’s Center for Community Design fully formed before the and Preservation, that will broader public was invited to explore the possibilities of weigh in. The ACHF is takthe site in a bit more detail. ing the opposite approach.

Regardless of what happens, In discussing the Southern though, ACHF is working the Mill site broadly, by keepState Department of Natural ing programming open and Resources and Department of bringing citizens in early, Community Affairs to create the ACHF hopes to give this and publish online a case concept a lot better shot study of their process. of generating the type of “We want a model,” says broad buy-in necessary to Rosemarie Goodrum, a memmove from hypothetical to ber of the ACHF education concrete. Following on that committee. “We want tools theme, they’ll be holding the to go along with a model. symposium at Chase Street That’s been motivating Elementary, itself a recently us since day one.” Even if renovated historic structure, this particular project does just down the street. remain on paper, by more ACHF’s interest in the thoroughly documenting site—beyond the historic The ACHF’s February symposium will focus on redevelopment of the historic Southern Mill, just the process, this discussion and iconic nature of the across the tracks from Boulevard. can be one which can be mill itself—stems from a built upon, not just locally, past attempt at redevelopment of the site. An have worked on. They will include Andrew Ham but around the state and region.

Atlanta development group specializing in loft of Urban Trust, LLC in Jacksonville, FL, an The cost for the event is $35 for residents renovations had planned to redevelop the site expert on the tax credit and real estate sides of Athens-Clarke and surrounding counties, into residences nearly a decade ago, but that of historic preservation; Tom Liebel of Marks, and $75 for all others. You can learn more—or project has been on hold, and at this point Thomas Architects of Baltimore, an architect register early—at www.achfonline.org. the property is for sale. During that previwho has worked on many projects like this ous redevelopment effort, the owners of the one; Myrick Howard, president of Preservation Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation will be holding a one-day symposium on Feb. 4 of next year, the latest big event in its “Preservation Matters” series. The focus of this symposium, a followup to one held in Spring 2010, will be the Southern Mill site on Oneta Street, just off Chase.

The theme of the Preservation Matters series is “Inherently Green,” and one of the big questions the organizers will be exploring is how notions of social sustainability enter into the historic preservation conversation.

Beyond considering the economic development opportunities that the dramatic 18-acre intown site presents, they’ll also be speaking with stakeholders and community members to identify some potential uses that might contribute to a broader community agenda than considerations that are purely economic.

The organizers aren’t coming in with too many preconceptions, though, and are hoping to focus on the educational nature of the event first. “People will be better informed when they understand the full realm of possibilities,” says ACHF president-elect Lisa Dore.

ACHF’s approach to discussion of intown redevelopment, its first major foray into this kind of hands-on advocacy, is interesting to compare to the recent river district conversation. People have reason to be a little skeptical of another big pitch for redevelopment, but this one does feel a little different. While river district proponents (myself included)

property allowed ACHF to place a facade easement on the historic structures. Such an easement allows a third party to ensure that the historic character of a building is protected, while qualifying owners for tax breaks.

Thus, any potential redevelopment of the site will have to be accomplished by working with the ACHF anyway, so it makes sense for them to take an active hand in envisioning what the site could be. Speakers from around the Southeast will focus on varying topics relating to redevelopments like this that they

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ast Wednesday afternoon, a colleague and I each brought three students from Clarke Central and Cedar Shoals to serve as a panel of speakers on the difficulties they face going to college in Georgia as undocumented immigrants. Two hundred or more people turned out to honor and to learn from our students in a small room at the Tate Center, so many that we were in violation of the fire code and had to move to the Tate Theatre. That was a good problem to have.

I’ve long held strong opinions about immigration issues, but hadn’t thought much about it in terms of college admissions and public scholarship funds until last December, when one of my students asked me to call Senators Chambliss and Isakson and tell them to vote for the DREAM Act because it’s probably the only way she can go to college.

A simple, direct, human context was all it took, and the issue hit me. I knew where she was from, but had never made it my business to find out about her residency status. I’ve taught her twice, first in 9th grade literature and then in 11th grade AP English language. Before she spoke to me about this issue, I had never for a moment doubted that she would go on to a top-tier school. She has a transcript full of “A”s, a schedule full of advanced and AP courses, she’s fluent and literate in three languages, plays violin in the Athens Youth Symphony without the benefit of private lessons, and reads complex literature with the subtlety and knowingness of an adult.

Another one of my students on the panel also took my AP language course last year, also has many AP courses to her credit, makes high grades, and is an artist and illustrator. She has great potential as an artist, but she is no less able in languages, literature and history. She is as qualified to be at UGA as any of our students who were accepted there last year.

The third student I brought for the panel has become one of the best writers in my American literature course only four years after having to take an extra year to learn both English and sign language. Her learning curve is so steep, and her progress on it has been so fast, that the inherent intelligence and hard work she demonstrates should by themselves almost guarantee college admission. Her achievements certainly justify it.

All three of these kids’ academic credentials are unimpeachable. It makes me immensely proud to be their teacher. Each student’s story is different, but they share common threads: they were brought here as young children, educated here and made to feel part of this country, developed American identities, and now find themselves cut off. They did not have a choice but to come here, so here they are building their lives, and there is nothing for them to return to elsewhere.

My only regret about bringing them to UGA and about becoming so deeply involved in this issue is that in simply advocating for these kids, I am caught in a political debate.

Party politics inevitably engulf what in my case is just a concern for the well-being of children. That is particularly unfortunate because the Democratic Party, which seems most inclined to help them, has as much power in this state as a nest of weevils.

I’ve long enjoyed boxing and mixed martial arts. The brutality of those sports is awful but honest, and I often prefer that to the horrors and duplicities of civilized behavior. House Bill 87 and the Regents’ policy barring undocumented students from public colleges and universities in Georgia constitute an almost unbelievable savagery, a new form of Jim Crow cruelty.

Were it not for the fact that human history is littered with the detritus of such cruelty, I would say that it’s incomprehensible to me that we would not welcome Latino immigrants here and offer them a clear if conditional path to citizenship.

Instead, we castigate them as criminal Others, cry fear of their cultures and brown skin, and think that somehow they’ll corrupt our English ears by speaking Spanish, God forbid, in public.

The defenders of the White Man’s fortress will claim endlessly that it has nothing to do with race and ethnicity, and say speciously that it’s all about the economy, jobs, taxes and following the law. But they do pay taxes, while receiving

almost none of the benefits, and the point is that the law is unjust. It is hypocritical to invoke the virtues of the American character as individualism and integrity, responsibility and hard work, while denying that those same qualities count in those who were born elsewhere but brought here as young kids and raised here.

The students we brought to the forum are exactly the kind we should want in our best colleges and universities. They’ll work harder than anybody to do well in school because, unlike most undergraduates, they know what they have to lose. We brought them to UGA for the panel precisely to make the point that if they are allowed to, they will contribute to the intellectual life and culture of public, higher institutions of learning to the benefit of us all. We all could learn things from these students.

That leads to a deeper reason for bringing them to UGA. The university is an insulated world within Athens, and, frankly, it’s a world of privilege. Having been a student there for many years, first as an undergraduate in philosophy, then as a graduate student in language and literacy education, I can say in fairness that it is entirely too easy in that insulated world to see issues of social justice solely in terms of abstract categories of people, and to talk earnestly about helping oppressed people without ever actually encountering an oppressed person.

I’ve always loved the theoretical life. But these kids are not just representatives or examples of a category, whether you call that “undocumented persons,” “illegal aliens,” or indeed “oppressed people.” They are, most importantly, flesh and blood, individual human beings with names, dreams, aspirations, despair, fear, parents, siblings, shoes, cell phones, and homework. We wanted them on that panel to show the immediacy of the problem; we wanted the attendees to see them and hear their stories directly from their mouths to ensure it would be understood that these abstractly oppressed persons are concretely suffering at the hands of the state of Georgia.

Try for a minute to imagine what they are going through. We have put them through school; fed them; cared for them; nurtured them; told them how wonderful and smart they are; loved and encouraged them; taught them all about the American Dream and how through hard work, perseverance, honesty, intelligence and some good luck you can create a decent life; I’ve told them they’re each worth a hundred of our state legislators; we’ve even taught them that all people are created equal in the eyes of wise Providence and the Governor; and, that they can’t go to UGA because of who they are. Why not just punch them in the face? Wouldn’t that be more honest?

What we are doing to these kids is nothing less than a betrayal of the fundamental humanist principles this country was founded on. What is lost here is not only the access to power of a marginalized ethnic group. That is only the abstract side of things. Of at least equal importance is that we all individually, that I personally, as man, teacher, father, Jew, Georgian, American, human being, and as their friend, am morally diminished when the state in which I’ve made my home, from which I draw my salary, refuses, out of the sheerest ignorance and meanness, to allow these kids to live their lives like the rest of us.

They are good kids. They honor their fathers and mothers and teachers, and my own life is immeasurably better for knowing them. They cannot help that they were brought here as very young children. Now that they have been raised here, all they really want is to be able to contribute openly to the society that raised them. Academically, they deserve every opportunity I had. Morally, they deserve to be welcomed here because they are, fundamentally, just as human and just as American as you.

Ian Altman This Comment is adapted from a statement delivered at an Oct. 26 event at the UGA Tate Center sponsored by the UGA College of Education Dean’s Office, Faculty Senate and Dean’s Council on Diversity.

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ate-night DJs on WUOG often speak to Athens as if it’s not listening. The lonely radio booth of 4 a.m. requires less selfconsciousness than a midday news update. But someone, in fact, is always listening, and they can hear the true fatigue, boredom or geekiness that’s only intended for an imaginary, sleeping audience. Words that go unheard by most can sometimes be the most intriguing.

This is the fundamental thought behind the National Day of Listening.

The National Day of Listening is a call to storytellers and story recorders everywhere to spend a day letting the ordinary people of their communities tell their stories: to listen to and record them using whatever equipment available. The day is an initiative of StoryCorps, a non-profit organization that traverses the country inviting everyone to tell their stories. The StoryCorps podcast usually features a few short vignettes from people who generally have no impressive credentials—only something to say and a compelling way to say it. Those who do happen to be wellknown personalities tell stories just like the others—simple, recollective narratives about the places their lives have taken them.

Members of the University of Georgia’s WUOG news staff, led by students Morgan Capps and David LoPilato, are inviting anyone in Athens to participate in the National Day of Listening by coming to the station to be interviewed by a news staff member or loved one and record their memories.

“More than just preserving them for the future, a lot of the value of it is just one person going to another and genuinely investing in a conversation about them and about their lives and their story,” says Capps.

The news staff at WUOG has been steadily increasing its involvement in the community over the past few years, attempting to chronicle Athens’ fascinating diversity with interviews and localized stories. “Athens is kind of a reservoir of weirdos,” says LoPilato.

“But we’re not just weirdo-hunting. Those stories [will] disappear after a while. It’s the idea that they need to be preserved so that the weird, bizarre history of Athens will be saved.”

When a StoryCorps office opened in Atlanta, the news staff already had its field trip planned. StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening is officially the day after Thanksgiving, but WUOG will be conducting its interviews on Nov. 11 and 13 to better fit the UGA schedule. The news staff was excited at the opportunity to engage people in Athens in the way StoryCorps engages people all over the nation.

The fundamental mission of StoryCorps is to help reveal the connections and similarities between different kinds of people. Several StoryCorps outreach programs are dedicated to reaching underrepresented parts of communities. StoryCorps Historias gathers stories from Latino families, StoryCorps Legacies records in hospice centers, and “Unheard Voices” works with LGBT outreach programs.

“More than just collecting the stories,” Capps says, “they use the stories to educate people and to connect them and to create a realistic idea of our population.”

In inviting people to record others’ stories, StoryCorps has dedicated a website, www. nationaldayoflistening.org, to provide guidelines for interviewers, including “starter” questions, recording tips and a “wall of listening” to post interviews. “The interesting thing is that you already have the tools; they just sort of show you that you have them,” says LoPilato.

Even with the enthusiasm at WUOG and the opportunity for everyday people to speak about themselves on the radio, initial responses to Capps and LoPilato’s calls for submissions were slow, and diversity within the project was elusive.

Capps “loaded a gun” with emails to organizations he thought might be interested in their efforts.

“The idea was that it’s going to be different [than] if you just send out a listserv email to the journalism school,” said LoPilato.

“We had this idea that there are pockets that we won’t be able to get into unless we find some other avenue.” The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation was the first group to agree to work with the initiative, and WUOG is hoping to connect with groups that work with Athens’ homeless population.

The WUOG News staff plans to spend the two full days in the station recording stories.

Participants are encouraged to interview with a close friend or family member—the usual StoryCorps protocol—to create a more comfortable environment, but solo interviewees are welcomed. Members of the news staff will run the recording equipment, but also interview participants without a partner or step in if an interviewer needs inspiration.

“It’s not just us and WUOG and the news staff; we hope that other people in the community will kind of get involved,” says Capps.

“They can post the stories themselves to the wall of listening, but we’d like to share them with as many people as possible.”

Sydney Slotkin If you have a story, or just memories to preserve, email news@wuog.org to schedule an interview.

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The ancient practice of tattooing has captured an expansive those of Indonesian dancers. In “The Cloud Walker’s Lion” a audience in the modern world. In the U.S., what was once the figure with a Balinese demon-like mask rides a creature that territory of sailors, bikers and prison inmates is now a common looks like a modified gryphon with eagle’s talons, a coat of rite of passage and life-long commitment to developing one’s flames and golden antlers embedded with eyes. Deakins’ beauown skin as an expression of personal aesthetic and beliefs. tiful and captivating artwork and that of her colleagues are not Perhaps because of this wider audience, the art of tattooing is to be missed. Check out the show by contacting Trace Gallery now the subject of coffee table books and gallery exhibitions, at (706) 424-1567 or (706) 424-1016 to arrange a convenient with many tattooists gaining recognition as fine artists in their time for a visit. The exhibition is on view through Nov. 12. own right. Local artist and tattooist Kim Deakins has curated a group show of tattoo artistry at Trace Gallery titled “In the Satanic Seduction: Former Art Notes writer, local artist and art Company of Wolves.” She and 11 fellow artists provide vivid critic Brian Hitselberger has been ensconced in his studio for examples of tattoo design and painting as the subject for our months, working on a new body of artwork that will soon see appreciation.

Much of the work in the exhibition is “flash art,” or paintings and drawings worked out on paper or panel for tattoo designs. These are usually created in-house and presented to patrons as a basis for choosing the tattoo they wish to receive or as bespoke artwork for a client. I asked Deakins about the materials used and the individual practices of each artist and was surprised by her answer: “Everyone uses different media to achieve their desired look, and I cannot disclose that information because it is a secret. If tattoo artists reveal all the tricks of the trade, then any dirtbag on the street can pick up the craft without going through the hard work. You learn how to paint flash and tattoo by working in a shop, and that’s where it should stay.”

The idea of artists working as apprentices to more learned masters—mixing their own inks and developing their craft in the particular space of the tattoo parlor—harkens back to a time when this kind of guild work was common practice among painting, sculpture and craft studios. This cultivation of a special knowledge adds to the mystery of the practice and is surely part of the attraction to become part of the club, either as an artist or as a human canvas.

In this exhibition, veteran tattoo artist Cliff White presents his work for the first time in a fine arts gallery space; his collection of flash art dates back to the 1930s. Well known throughout the tattoo community, White’s work here is a touchstone of classic Americana images, created with paint and brush rather than ink and needle. Dustin Hill’s “Lost at Sea” flash is a masterful depiction of several tattooing tropes, but painted in a way that reveals the artist’s distinct style and strong sense of balance and arrangement. It is a testament to his skill as a designer that he is able to incorpoKim Deakins’ painting “Foxy Lady” is on display at Trace Gallery through Nov. 12. rate a ship, roses, stars, a horseshoe, an eagle and a chain into one painting and make it look like a unified whole. Corey Lambert’s flash sheet shows the an audience at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center at a very artist working through a design: a snake variously entwining special exhibition on Saturday, Nov. 12. “Love Is Like a Devil’s a naked woman, a dagger and a branch of bamboo. His work Handshake” is a one-night event featuring video installations points to the importance of distilling an idea into a recognizby Jonathan Bouknight, books and drawings by Hitselberger, able symbol—a practice that is part Jungian archetype and performance art by Kirstin Mitchell (AKA Kiki Blood) and a part Madison Avenue logo creation. Graham Bradford’s work musical performance by The Back Pockets. Taken from the jiudeparts from the two-dimensional flash sheet in two sculpjitsu move that involves beckoning a greeting before twisting tures: “Bird of Paradise” is ink on wood with what looks like one’s opponent’s arm into a painful hold, a “devil’s handshake” a porthole carved out of a large piece of a roughly hewn tree, is the metaphor for what these artists have planned for their and “Mothra” is a light box with a swallow-tailed moth embedaudience: “The artists operate in a manner more or less in line ded in a transparent green material. Mike Groves’ drawings with the objectives of the devil’s handshake: conscious of their also seem more at home on the gallery’s walls than they might being looked at, the works comprising this exhibition alteron someone’s skin. Finely drawn with lots of detail and delicate nately seize, seduce, disarm and disorient a viewer, operating coloring and shading, “Mermaid” and “Der Sandman” present under the aesthetic premise of a handshake.” The event starts imaginary creatures that are obviously deeply personal visions. at 7 p.m. and will be held in Studio 3. See www.lovelikeadevil.

Similarly, Kim Deakins’ paintings illustrate a fascinating per- com for more information. sonal mythology. Her large paintings are knockouts—a quick glimpse through the window from the sidewalk in front of the Mark Your Calendars: On Wednesday, Nov. 16, the Lamar Dodd gallery had me mesmerized—and the layers of images begin School of Art 2012 MFA candidates will host the fourth to reveal themselves the more you look. For example, what annual MFA art auction at Little Kings Shuffle Club at 7 appears to be a pinecone-like textural pattern morphs into a p.m. This fundraising event will showcase work from UGA stuskulk of foxes beneath the billowing ballgown of a pompadourdents, faculty, emeritus faculty, staff, alumni and the Athens wigged woman in “Foxy Lady.” In this painting and others, community. All purchases will benefit the upcoming 2012 MFA Deakins mixes images from different cultures to create surreal Thesis Exhibition to be held Mar. 23–Apr. 13, 2012. and strongly narrative compositions. Here, a Marie Antoinette look-alike with blue skin wears long, curling fingernails like Caroline Barratt arts@flagpole.com

film notebook News of Athens’ Cinema Scene Revolution Vérité: In his “Google That Sh!t” column a couple of weeks ago, Flagpole’s Matthew Pulver mentioned Chicago Black Panther Fred Hampton’s role in the twilight of the Civil Rights Movement (the reference was trimmed from the column in print, but survived in the Web version). That reminded me to seek out a film I’d long been vaguely aware of, which turned out to be Howard Alk and Mike Gray’s 1971 documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton. It’s available on DVD from Facets Multimedia, but I watched a pretty rough version online (not recommended).

Director Alk and producer Gray were already at work on a documentary about Hampton and the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969 when “Chairman Fred”—then just 21—was killed in his bed during a raid by Chicago police working with the state’s attorney and the FBI. There are no “talking head” interviews until the film’s final third, which deals with the investigation of Hampton’s death—properly termed an assassination.

Alk had worked as a cinematographer and editor on D.A. Pennabaker’s Don’t Look Back and Eat the Document, intimate vérité documentaries on Bob Dylan that are good touchstones for the film’s presentation of its subjects

time, and now AFAI is ready to hire an executive director to oversee the management, development and fundraising of the nonprofit and the cinema. There’s a job description on the Ciné website (www.athenscine.com—roll over the “About Ciné” tab and click “Jobs”); the deadline for applications is Nov. 23.

More of This, Please: Speaking of Ciné (as we so often do around here), last week’s panel discussion on film festival programing in the Ciné Lab was outstanding and hugely encouraging for future events in a similar vein. The participants in the panel, assembled and marvelously organized by EcoFocus Film Festival Director Sara Beresford, were uniformly knowledgeable and entertaining, and the impressively large audience was attentive and engaged (the whole thing was videotaped and should be available to watch online soon—I’ll keep you posted). This is what I’m talking about, folks: active film culture in Athens. Well done, all around.

And Speaking of That: Film Athens, one of the sponsors of said panel and supporters of said culture, is holding a networking event at Hotel Indigo Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 6–8:30 p.m. It’s called Get Exposed!, and it’s an opportunity for anybody who’s interested in film production in this community on any level—from screenwriting to setbuilding—to get together with like-minded folks and socialize… with cupcakes.

Should be delicious and fun—look at www.filmathens.net for more info.

River Time Time: Wednesday, Nov. 16 is the Isabelle Adjani in Possession, playing Thursday, Nov. 10 at the Lamar Dodd Ciné book launch party School of Art as part of the ICE Vision series. for John Lane’s My Paddle to the Sea (see Calendar leading up to the murder (when it acquires a Pick, p. 20). That event will include a free new focus). The Panthers are shown privately 7 p.m. screening of River Time, Chris Cogan interacting, but more emphasis is placed on and Tom Byars’ new 36-minute documentary the Panther leaders’ public appeals to live about… well, the same thing the book is audiences and mass-media journalists. about. Cogan and Byers joined Lane on his Apart from the compelling rhetoric and dream-fulfilling 300-mile paddle from his oratorial brilliance of the speakers—notably home in South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean, Hampton, Bobby Rush and Bobby Seale (in an and encountered lots of interesting people opening-scene cameo)—what’s most interestand things along the way, many of which ing about these early scenes is that they docu- (and whom) ended up in the film. Cogan is an ment an era during which a powerful narrative internationally acclaimed experimental filmof resistance was being constructed by the maker based in Athens—where he teaches in American Left, and with considerable success. the Art X unit of the Lamar Dodd School of The Panthers and other black revolutionaries Art—and has an exciting and eccentric visual were openly advocating an armed response to sense. This should be cool—find out more at the political power structures that oppressed www.rivertimefilm.com. not just black people but, pointedly, all poor m ICE Vision Is Go!: Since we’re talking about people—and a specific recourse to socialthe art school now, I might as well mention ism. Trying to imagine that conversation that I happen to have advance information taking place today in churches and over the about the next two screenings in the awenetwork airwaves—not in the way it’s alleged to be happening by the paranoid Right, but for some ICE Vision series at Lamar Dodd. Nov. 10 is Possession, Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 psyreal—makes this documentary feel, in its way, chological horror film featuring multiple and more far-fetched than Transformers. memorable Isabelle Adjani freakouts. Nov. 17 is Chris Petit’s Radio On, a great 1979 British In Case You Missed It: Most of you are cerroad movie with a terrific and very Berlintainly aware that the operations of Ciné are centric New Wave soundtrack. ICE Vision being assumed by the nonprofit Athens Film screenings are Thursdays at 8 p.m. in Rm. Arts Institute at the beginning of 2012, when S150 of the art school. the downtown art house’s founder and director, Brigitta Hangartner, will move to Illinois.

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• indicates new review 11-11-11 (NR) Darren Lynn Bousman escaped the Saw franchise (he helmed entires 2–4) with the ambitious but unsatisfying Repo! The Genetic Opera.

His latest independent horror feature involves an author who travels to Spain after the death of his wife and child.

While visiting his brother and father, the bereaved discovers some numerological significance to the date 11-1111 and the tragic events of his own life.

Another small-time, horror surprise like Insidious would be a swell way for the genre to capitalize on the success of Paranormal Activity 3.

50/50 (R) Cancer is scary and depressing. It’s even scarier and more depressing when it happens to a young person. So how is Jonathan Levine’s second film so darn funny and uplifting? Joseph Gordon-Levitt (the only young actor who can compete with Ryan Gosling in a battle of control and nuance), Seth Rogen (he excels in these sweet, supporting, puerile roles), Anna Kendrick (proving her Oscarnominated performance in Up in the Air was no fluke) and screenwriter Will Reiser are how.

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. 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 BIG YEAR (PG) The Big Year is like that really nice guy you know who’s really boring. You feel bad not wanting to hang out with him, but what a waste

of time he is. Jack Black, Steve Martin (whose putty visage and tiny eyes look more and more strange) and Owen Wilson star as three birders competing to see the most species of North American birds in one year. All three of these actors are likable enough, but none of them have the charisma or screen presence to overcome such an uncompelling script. Black’s awful VO does not help. Thematically, the movie invites comparisons to The Bucket List, which is less complimentary than it sounds.

CITY OF GOD (R) 2002. The film I lauded as the best of the first decade of the new millennium returns to the big screen thanks to the Cinematic Arts division of the University Union.

(Thanks, guys!) If you haven’t seen this film, do so forthwith. A realistic, gripping portrayal of life in the barrios of Rio de Janeiro, City of God introduced filmgoers to a bold new talent, Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener). Also check out the film’s excellent television companion, “City of Men.” Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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

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

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

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

FOOTLOOSE (PG-13) Let’s go ahead and dispel any thoughts that the Kevin Bacon starrer is somehow above being remade. What Hustle & Flow filmmaker Craig Brewer has done in remaking the seminal ‘80s flick is impressive. Brewer relocates the dance banning town of

Michael Reynolds dreamed of a home that could heat itself, provide its own food and water, recycle its own waste, and supply its own power. Director Oliver Hodge documents the incredible story of Reynolds and his green compatriots as they strive to build his selfsufficient dream home. . This screening is sponsored by USGBC, Athens Branch/Emerging Green Builders.

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. n IMMORTALS (R) This movie sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than Clash of the Titans. Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) tackles Greek mythology with this art action film

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Bomont from Oklahoma to Georgia, adding another film to Brewer’s resume of intriguing cinematic stories about the New South. Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald, 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). 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 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.

GARBAGE WARRIOR (NR) 2007.

Thirty years ago, maverick architect

about mortal hero, Theseus (soon-tobe Superman Henry Cavill), chosen

by Zeus (John Hurt) to battle ruthless King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the Epirus Bow, the only weapon capable of unleashing the titans from their imprisonment in Mount Tartaros. With Kellan Lutz (Twilight), Frieda Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Steven Dorff.

IN TIME (PG-13) Gattaca writerdirector Andrew Niccol tweaks the sci-fi genre again with this take on Logan’s Run. In a future world, everyone is genetically engineered to stop aging at 25. To ward off overcrowding, people are also designed to only live to 26. In this ageless new society, a man accused of murder (Justin Timberlake) goes on the lam with a pretty hostage (Amanda Seyfried, Mamma Mia!).

With Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Cillian Murphy, Johnny Galecki and Vincent Kartheiser (“Mad Men”).

THE IRON GIANT (PG) A boy makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

J. EDGAR (R) Clint Eastwood goes for another Oscar with this seemingly surefire awards bait. A biopic about FBI guru and probable homosexual J. Edgar Hoover starring Leonardo DiCaprio and written by Milk’s Oscarwinning scribe Dustin Lance Black?

Vegas has to be giving this film some of the best odds for a Best Picture win. With Naomi Watts, The Social

Network’s digital twin (and soon-tobe Lone Ranger), Armie Hammer, as Hoover’s love interest and Dame Judi Dench as his mother.

JACK AND JILL (PG) In case you hadn’t gotten your fill of Adam Sandler with February’s Just Go with It, you get double the Sand-man in Jack and Jill.

A family man (Sandler) gets an unwelcome houseguest, his twin sister (also Sandler). God, that logline sounds awful. Sandler’s personal director, Dennis Dugan (six movies including his last two, Grown Ups and Just Go with It). With Al Pacino (as a horny, Jill-obsessed version of himself), Katie Holmes, Dana Carvey, Shaq and Regis.

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. I was too old ever to have a desire to watch this family film, though others might recall it with nostalgia.

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).

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.

PUSS IN BOOTS (PG) Shrek’s fairy tale may have moved on to happily ever after, but Puss in Boots (v. Antonio Banderas) is still itching for a fight. His spinoff reveals the swordfighting antics that led up to Puss meeting up with Shrek and company. Naturally, this flick was once slated for a direct-to-DVD release; will the cat be able to match the ogre’s blockbuster results? Director Chris Miller previously helmed Shrek the Third.

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).

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) The best Planet of the Apes movie in nearly 40 years, Rise of the Planet of the Apes tells the origin story for an entirely new Apes saga.

In present day San Francisco, Will Rodman (James Franco), a researcher working on a cure for Alzheimer’s, gains a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee houseguest he names Caesar (the motion capture performance given by Andy “Gollum/King Kong” Serkis is tremendously believable), who eventually goes on to lead the revolution that overthrows humanity and places the apes in charge.

RIVER TIME (NR) The short film, “River Time,” will debut alongside the University of Georgia Press’ book launch party for John Lane’s My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas. Filmmakers Chris Cogan and Tom Byars documented Lane’s 300-mile, 11-day trek from a backyard stream through South Carolina’s Santee River watershed to the Atlantic Ocean.

As the tagline states, “The Ocean is never as far you think.” The premiere screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

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.

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) Hah-vuhd educated Hollywood screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) and his actress wife, Amy (Kate Bosworth), return to her backwoods Mississippi hometown. There, David meets all the local wildlife: Amy’s ex BF/former QB hero, Charlie Venner (Alexander Skarsgard); legendary head coach/town drunk, imaginatively named Coach (James Woods, being ultra-James Woodsy); a low-functioning/implied sexual predator (Dominic Purcell) who provides the spark needed to light the bloody, fiery last act. Peckinpah’s version will always be tops.

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.

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.

This action comedy from oft-maligned Brett Ratner, who really missed his decade (imagine the ‘80s buddy cop movies he could have made), also stars Tea Leoni, Alan Alda and even Judd Hirsch.

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movie pick Enjoy Every Sandwich 50/50 (R) Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a who strikes the perfect balance of being bright non-drinking, non-smoking 27-year-old pubbut not too clever, charismatic but not overlic radio producer, is diagnosed with a rare bearing, slightly peculiar but not alienating. form of cancer and given a 50/50 chance for Seth Rogen continues his ribald Fozzie Bear survival. His relationship with his girlfriend, impression here, but as with his role in Judd Rachel (Bryce Dallas Howard), frays, and Apatow’s underrated Funny People (also a canAdam’s best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen) tries to cer comedy) he’s added a ragged vulnerability keep his spirits up by whisking him to nightto his quick-witted yet scuzzy shtick. The clubs yet doesn’t hesitate to exploit his illness two have distinctly different screen personas, so he can hook up with women. but they click. The supporting cast—Anjelica Loosely based on screenwriter Will Reisner’s Huston as Adam’s overbearing mother and own battle with cancer, 50/50 earns points Philip Baker Hall and Matt Frewer as fellow for its attempts to cancer patients who avoid the clichés of the take Adam under their earnest disease-of-thewings—also shine. week subgenre. What The performances, frustrates, however, though, sadly flatline is Reisner and direcwith the female leads. tor Jonathan Levine’s Bryce Dallas Howard insistence on not grates as Adam’s girlcomplicating—until the friend, overacting in last act—the narrative an attempt to stave off with the messiness of her normal default of cancer. Vomiting, hair glacial remoteness. The loss and fatigue make Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen weedy Anna Kendrick appearances, but other fares better, but she’s problematical aspects of the disease, such relegated to that most loathsome of modern as cognitive disorientation and the stress of cinematic tropes: the woman who guides the navigating through the labyrinthine American stunted boy/man to newfound emotional health care system, are strictly off limits. maturity. It’s disappointing to see a movie It feels contrived and uninterested in movwith such well-drawn male characters do such ing out of its comfort zone, as if fearful of a disservice to their female counterparts. In depressing us with too much reality. the end, I’m 50/50 on 50/50.

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Hello, everybody. Hopefully everyone remembered to “fall back” this week. If you didn’t, you’re reading this a full hour later than you might have. God only knows what exciting things you missed! Well, actually, you can know for yourself if you just keep reading.

So, keep doing that now…

The World It Is a Sponge: Minnesota organization Rock the Cause will release a tribute album to Vic Chesnutt this week. Titled simply Minnesota Remembers Vic Chesnutt, the album features performances from several Midwestern notables like Haley Bonar, Dave Simonett, Charlie Parr and Dan Wilson.

Proceeds from the album will benefit both the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and Lifeworks Services. The problem is, the album is just not very good. All the artists involved treat the source material with such kid-gloved reverence that they manage to remove all the grit, darkness and deep tenderness of Chesnutt’s music and, instead, deliver recordings that are tiresomely staid and suffer from a marked lack of personality. This is exactly the type of thing people will buy someone else as a Christmas gift and the receiver will listen to it once, forget that it’s playing, and then throw on a shelf to collect dust. But it’s for a good cause, so, you know, whatever. For more information, please see www.irockthecause.org.

Black Friday: Mux Blank (AKA Mr. Blank), freshly back in Athens after spending the last three months on the road, is a chief organizer behind the Karbomb second annual Moonlight Gypsy Market happening at Little Kings Shuffle Club on Friday, Nov. 11. The event starts at sundown and will feature performances by Mr. Blank’s Weird & Wandering Sideshow, Dirty Harriette the Bearded Lady, Madame Surayyah, The Subliminator, Wizard Tree, Captain and the Fatal Farmers, M.E. AKA Jorge, Triangle Fire, Man Will Destroy Himself, Din of Thieves and Shehehe. These performances, of course, augment the main focus of the event, which is an artists’ and vintage dealers’ market dedicated to “outsider, erotic, macabre, weird, dark, odd and all things far from the ordinary.”

To that end, there are several well known vendors participating, and although applications are now closed, you might still be able to get a table if you arrive by 6 p.m. the day of the event and pay a $20 table fee. For all other information, please drop a line to mrblank@ muxproductions.com.

Man and Myth: The mysterious DJ Other Voices, Other Rooms has a new mix out featuring tracks from artists spanning the last four decades. He’s dubbed it Live at the Owl Club Sept. 23, 2011 after the legendary but long-gone Greenville, SC hotspot that helped shape the early days of rock and roll.

As he says, “It only exists in my head now.”

Significantly, he recorded the whole thing live via two turntables, an iPod, a digital fourtrack recorder and a two-channel mixer. All

effects (delays, chopped-n-screwed mayhem, etc.) were recorded as they happened. The project took about two nights, and if you’ve never heard Durutti Column mixed straight into Lil’ B, prepare yourself, because that’s the type of thing you’re in for. Head to www. soundcloud.com/other-voices-other-rooms/ owl-club.

Everything’s Going Their Way: Local punk rockers Karbomb are celebrating the release of their debut record, Nose Before Toes, with a show at RPM on the fortuitous date 11-11-11.

“We wanted a raw, true punk record,” bassist Jay Kellom said in an email. “No Auto-Tune, no processed guitars—just a room, a mic and us.” Their dream was realized with the help of producer Joe King (AKA Joe Queer of acclaimed pop punk act The Queers) and engineer Dan Dixon. The album will be officially released on Nov. 22 via Warbird Records, but you can grab an advance copy at the gig.

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Kellom says the new tunes are “a little more raw and edgy” than their previous efforts.

For streaming links and more info, visit www.

Facebook.com/Karbombmusic. [Michelle Gilzenrat] The Man in the Beard Will See You Now: Nuçi’s Space has a neat thing going via its own Bandcamp site. Currently, the local musicians’ resource center is offering the masterful Only When the Right Side Glows, which is, of course, the album recorded by Nuçi Phillips under the name Koncak in the mid-’90s. It was originally released in 1998 and is now available to download for $5. The idea behind the Nuçi’s Space Bandcamp site, though, is to have it be a sort of open marketplace where musicians who want to help out Nuçi’s Space can donate songs for download, make album previews available, perhaps allow the space to sell out-of-print items, etc. Also, if there are any bands out there who are interested in making their already-booked shows into partial benefits for Nuçi’s Space, Matt Hudgins would be more than happy to assist you. Actually, he’s also the one behind the Bandcamp site, so he’d love to help you with that, too. He’s just such a helpful guy, isn’t he? Drop him a line via matt@nuci.org and check out www.nucisspace.bandcamp.com.

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“I wrote ‘In the Dark’ when I was in Project Safe in 1992,” says Smith. “I brought my guitars with me, my clothes and my kids, and that’s all I had.” The song—the full title of which is “In the Dark (A Song for Battered Women)”—is in a lilting folk-pop style akin to the Indigo Girls; it saw a cassette-only release in the early ‘90s.

Nearly two decades later, the problem hasn’t been solved, and so, Smith, along with backup singer/fellow domestic violence survivor Sherri Tanner, decided the song needed a new life. Smith enlisted producer John Keane’s expertise to record her Conscious Earth EP and included “In the Dark” on the album. Accompanied by an entirely DIY promotion blitz, the song has already begun to reach new audiences and garner the issue of domestic violence a wider berth of awareness.

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When asked if she considers herself a musician or activist first, Smith replies with confidence: “I’d say activist first. It’s who I am now; it’s what I’m all about. I was in Project Safe for five weeks when I got away from my abuser; Project Safe helped me get out of it. They’re awesome; that’s why I work to raise money for them and talk about them as much as I can. They give you food, shelter; they help you find lawyers; they have advocates who come with you to court; they have counseling—even after you get out.”

Proceeds from the Conscious Earth EP will benefit Project Safe, as will “Safe Jam,” an upcoming benefit show to be held at the Office Lounge. Smith insists that the domestic abuse organization needs any and all assistance available. “Right now, this is the truth: they only have 10 adult beds, and they’re turning women and children away. They’re overcrowded right now. And I think Athens needs to know that because we have a lot of big people who live in Athens who could be helping out a bit more.”

While Smith tries to keep up with the new deluge of attention—on the day she was reached by Flagpole, she’d already done interviews with press located in Arizona and the U.K.—she has kept her focus, due to her commitment to her cause. “I do it because I want to inspire other people and to be an inspiration; it’s not about money, it’s not about fame.

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Bittersweet Lullabies powerkompany Celebrates the Release of Comfort

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pon the release of their first record, most bands are lucky to organize a weekend show lineup, let alone a multi-event, album-drop extravaganza.

These sorts of activities are generally restricted to Cristal-popping rap stars or R.E.M. (see Calendar Pick on p. 22).

However, spouses Marie Davon (AKA Karolyn Troupe of Venice Is Sinking) and Andrew Heaton (Packway Handle Band) are already well known locally for their previous projects, and they are celebrating the release of their debut, Comfort, with grand style and flair.

The story of Davon and Heaton is a match made in Bill Nye’s dreams. The two met in the Life Sciences building at the University of Georgia; Heaton was doing postdoctoral research in genetics, and Davon was taking a chemistry course. In addition to both being “science nerds,” as Davon says, they also bonded over the fact that they play the violin and viola. After graduating college and taking a job as a biologist, Davon frequently escaped to the backseat of her car to pen lyrics on her lunch break. Although the songs were originally created to be played as solos, Heaton came in and added an entirely different dimension, and powerkompany was born.

“We’re nearly the same person,” says Davon. “I’m lucky to have found someone that I can work with on many different levels.”

Their few local shows and string collaborations with The Gold Party have been enough to satiate fans over the past year, but all of that is about to change. For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the new hauntingly beautiful tunes Davon calls “bittersweet lullabies,” your patience will be

rewarded munificently with three days of events. On Thursday, the band is hosting a private listening party at the Stan Mullins warehouse art studio, followed by a live performance on WUGA’s “It’s Friday!” show—all leading up to Saturday night’s album-release performance.

In addition to the record itself—which will only be available as a digital download—Davon says she is extremely excited about the artistic collaborations accompanying this release.

“I love finding inspiration in other people’s art,” Davon says. “So, it’s really cool that someone could be inspired by my art at the same time.”

Thursday’s listening party will feature a fashion show organized by Sanni Baumgaertner and Maggie Benoit of the sustainable vintage clothing boutique Community. Saturday’s 40 Watt show will also be brimming with visual goodies as Davon, Heaton and a few of their close artistic friends have planned multiple art installations.

“The thing about this particular record is that it’s very cinematic and atmospheric,” says Davon. “So, we wanted to create a dramatic atmosphere visually as well.” The installations include an artistic representation of the transition from autumn into winter, crafted by Eve Nettles, and a kinetic pedal sculpture designed by Ben McKee, which Davon will be using for various effects. As an added bonus, Jill Noble will guest on keys and vocals.

As is evident by their artistic inspirations and overall sound, powerkompany is by no means a band of the old order. “A lot of what powerkompany is trying to do is break the standards of doing things,” says Davon. “So, we’re exploring right now; we’re exploring the future.”

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on’t we all want things to be exciting? Can things just not be boring, ever, please? Behold the sentient death of all things boring that is Melt-Banana. Once considered something of a novelty, the Japanese noise-punk band is now an institution on the level of a Mötörhead or Melvins in terms of sheer consistency and commitment to its own basic idea. That idea? Extremely intense blastbeats, wildly spastic guitar abuse and truly frantic yelping vocals. There have been variations on that theme and improvements along the way, yes, but at this point, among extreme metal enthusiasts, MeltBanana isn’t just a band, it’s a shorthand term for what lots of weirdo grindcore bands have aspired to but haven’t been able to touch.

Vocalist Yasuko Onuki, guitarist Ichirou Agata and bassist Rika Hamamoto (as well as a rotating array of dizzyingly fast drummers) have been releasing albums since 1994, with no signs of stopping.

“There is not a reason to stop Melt-Banana, and so far I have never thought about quitting my band,” says Onuki via email. “Melt-Banana keep existing for a long time because I don’t feel I spent such a long time already.”

It’s worth noting that the band’s most recent studio album, Bambi’s Dilemma, is possibly the group’s finest moment so far. The element that comes to the forefront on this one, oddly enough, is pop. Songs like “Spider Snipe,” “Blank Page of the Blind” and “Cracked Plaster Cast” feature not only that signature MeltBanana blast-and-skree, but also unimpeachable hooks.

“Basically, our approach to music is always the same,” says Onuki. “We always try to make something new to us. So far, we played with many kinds of bands and we got various influences and effects from them. It made our tastes wider and wider.” The band opts out of genre affiliation entirely, from its perspective. “We have some friends who have so many friends in a particular scene like punk or metal scene, but we are not in such a position,” says Onuki.

In step with that aesthetic freedom, the band has sought to extrapolate the Melt-Banana idea even further, most recently with the live album recorded under the name Melt-Banana Lite.

“It is totally different format from Melt-Banana,” says Onuki.

“Melt-Banana is a normal band format with vocal, guitar, bass and drums. Melt-Banana Lite is a kind of other unit of MeltBanana and plays different songs, using samplers, air-synth, drums, computers and vocal. No guitar and no bass guitar.

Sometimes with a human drummer, sometimes with a drum machine.”

This tour, however, will be straightahead Melt-Banana, featuring a human drummer by the name of Taki from Japan. “He has once played with us about several years ago, and he was with us when we toured with Fantômas in U.S.A.,” says Onuki.

“He is a very hard worker, and he is a good guy.” Following this U.S. tour, the band returns home to finish up a new LP, a couple of singles, and keep the Melt-Banana war on boredom going strong.

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Tuesday 8 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: Drafts & Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Local stand-up comedy. 9:30 p.m. 706-353-2831 EVENTS: UGA HEROs 5K (State Botanical Garden) Run to support children affected by HIV/AIDS. 3–6 p.m. $20. www.ugaheros.org PERFORMANCE: Gleb Ivanov (Performing Arts Center) Awardwinning pianist. 8 p.m. FREE! (UGA students), $25. 706-542-4400, 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. 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 13, 2:30 p.m.

706-542-4400, www.drama.uga.edu 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 9 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com EVENTS: Community 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: 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

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“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) UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Dance presents 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. 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 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 Serano will be informally speaking about her career trajectory. 11:30 a.m. FREE! jmiracle@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: UGA Child Care Information Center (UGA Training and Development Center, Room AB) A brief overview for interested parents of the future child care center by director Wes Zwirn of Prodigies Child Care Management.

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MEETINGS: AARP Monthly Meeting (Athens First Bank and Trust) Speaker Sharon Conley of the Arbor Terrace Assisted Living and Memory Care for Seniors in Athens will discuss and answer questions about dementia. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-340-9418 GAMES: Beer Pong Tournament (Genco Import Co.) The winning team receives a $50 bar tab in the first ever Genco beer pong tournament. 8:30 p.m. $10 per team (adv.), $15 per team (door). www.facebook. com/gencoimportco 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. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Wednesdays, 8 p.m. (Baldwin St. location) 8:30 p.m. (Broad St. location) 706-5483442 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

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Thursday 10 EVENTS: Athens Fashion Collective Fall Fashion Show (Stan Mullins’ Studio) Fashion show and listening party featuring designs by Gretchen Elsner and Community Service by local boutique Community. Live music by Powerkompany. 8–11 p.m. communityathens@gmail.com EVENTS: Blood Drive (Athens First United Methodist Church) Call to schedule an appointment. All donors receive a free t-shirt and Chick-fil-A coupon. Bring photo ID. 1:30–6:30 p.m. 1-800-RedCross EVENTS: Harvest for the Homeless (The Rialto Room) Athens Habitat for Humanity hosts an annual charity with a silent auction, gift drawings and live music

by Kyshona Armstrong, Emily Hearn and Todd Coward. Food will be provided by Last Resort Grill, The National, Farm 255, The Grit, Cali ‘n’ Tito’s and many other local restaurants. 6–10 p.m. $20. www. helpathenshomeless.org EVENTS: Senior Adult Trip to Abbeville, SC (Athens Community Council on Aging) ACC Leisure Services will lead a group of adult seniors on a sightseeing trip to Abbeville, SC. Spend the day touring this quaint town and discover the sights of the Abbeville Opera House, the Burts-Stark Mansion, the historic Trinity Episcopal Church and lunch

Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter and drummer Scott Amendola play the Melting Point on Wednesday, Nov. 16. at Yoder’s, a local Mennonite restaurant (lunch not incl.) Meet at ACC on Aging. Register by Nov. 3. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $12. (706) 613-3580. www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure EVENTS: Trivia (Dos Palmas Restaurant & Cantina) Thursdays. 8 p.m. FREE! 705-353-7771 EVENTS: The UGA Press Dirty Book Sale (UGA Tate Center) Thousands of slightly damaged and lovingly shelf-worn books for sale.

Nov. 10, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. & Nov. 11, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. www.ugapress.org EVENTS: Jon Young (Ciné Bar Cafe) Speaking in association with the film Mother Nature’s Child about the role of nature in childhood development.

6:30 p.m. $5–10 (suggested donation). www.athenscine.com ART: Drawing in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) Open hours for visitors to sketch in the galleries using graphite or colored pencils. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Fiber Arts Group (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Bring in your own knitting, crochet or other fiber arts project for assistance. Every Thursday. 6–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-424-0195, www.wholemindbodyart.com ART: Opening Reception (StudiO) For “Breathing Room,” a collection of landscape photography by Brian Cole. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.briancolephotography.com ART: Soap Making Workshop (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Make vegetable-based soap. 6:30–8:30

p.m. $70. 706-424-0195, info@ wholemindbodyart.com PERFORMANCE: Second Thursday Scholarship Concert: La Boheme (UGA Hodgson Hall) Puccini’s beloved opera is performed by UGA Opera Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra under the supervision of Frederick Burchinal and conducted by Mark Cedel. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3331, aflurry@ uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Senior Exit Dance Concert (UGA Dance Building) UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Dance presents 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. 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 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: 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: Teen Book Club (East Athens Community Center) Ages 10-14. 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure LECTURES & LIT.: Strategic Couponing (Athens Housing Authority) Learn how to decrease weekly grocery expenses. 5:30 p.m.

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Friday 11 EVENTS: Make Your Own Rain Barrel (Thyme After Thyme) The ACC Water Conservation Office will lead a class in how to create a rain barrel. Hardware and assembly are provided but BYOB (Bring Your Own Barrel). 4–6 p.m. FREE! (first barrel), $10 (each additional barrel). 706742-7149 EVENTS: Moonlight Gypsy Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Mr. Blank’s Carnivale of Black Hearts presents a market featuring arts and crafts booths, fire tossing, bellydancing, sideshow acts, live music and more. 6 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/moonlightgypsymarket EVENTS: The UGA Press Dirty Book Sale (UGA Tate Center) Thousands of slightly damaged and lovingly shelf-worn books for sale.

Nov. 10, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. & Nov. 11, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. www.ugapress.org ART: Art X BFA Exit Show (Lamar Dodd School of Art) “Not Pipes” features works by Ben Wills, Laura

McCranie, Mark Starling, Peter Russell and Lindsey Klonoski. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu ART: Opening Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art, 270 River Rd.) For “11 Eleven 11,” the BFA drawing and painting exit show and senior art exhibition. 7-9 p.m. FREE! www. art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Senior Exit Dance Concert (UGA Dance Building) UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Dance presents 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. 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 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. 11), 3 p.m. (Nov. 12–13). $8–15. www. uga.edu/pac KIDSTUFF: Books & Bites (ACC Library) Read without interruptions.

Bring your books or come in early to look through the library’s selection.

Comfy chairs, quiet and snacks!

Or bring a pillow and blanket to stretch out on the floor. Ages 11–18.

Registration requested. 5:30–9 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Pottery Night (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Drop off the kids for a workshop with Amanda Jane of Clay Gardens Gallery & Little Cuckoo Chocolates. All supplies included. Siblings half-off. 6:30–8:30 p.m. $25. www.wholemindbodyart. com 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: 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

Saturday 12 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads.

Every Saturday. Cooking demo with Craig Page. 8 a.m.–noon. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Free to Breathe Athens 5K Run/Walk (Sandy Creek Park) Run/Walk to benefit lung cancer charities and research. 7 a.m. (registration), 8:15 a.m. (race). $15–20. www.freetobreathe.org EVENTS: National Gaming Day (Madison County Library) Daylong games like Risk, Dog-Opoly,

Scrabble and Life. Checkers, chess and card games will also be set up with candy prizes for winners. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 EVENTS: Safe Jam 2011 (The Office Lounge) Benefit for Project Safe featuring an auction, raffle (32” flat-screen TV, gift cards, etc.) and live music from The Healers, Rick Fowler, J.D. Smith & Peace of Mind, an all-star jam and more. See story on p. 15. 6 p.m. $5 (donation).

706-546-0840 ART: Holiday Artist Market (Downtown Danielsville, Historic Courthouse) Get a head start on holiday shopping. Locally handmade art and crafts for sale, as well as food from a Cajun jambalaya booth and fried cheesecake booth. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! theholidaymarket@ gmail.com THEATRE: Revenge of the Space Pandas (Athens Little Playhouse) See Nov. 11 Theatre listing. 7:30 p.m. (Nov. 11), 3 p.m. (Nov. 12–13). $8–15. www.uga.edu/pac KIDSTUFF: Saturday Morning Zoo Tours (Memorial Park) Learn the inside story of Bear Hollow Zoo’s residents. Every second and fourth Saturday. 10–11 a.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/bearhollow KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and its resident creatures. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6133615, www.accleisureservices.com KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes and Noble Café) Every Wednesday and Saturday. 11–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706354-1195

Sunday 13 EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Athens, GA) Series sponsored by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation continues with a tour of the Reese Street Historic District led

by Michael Thurmond. Call to reserve a spot. 2 p.m. $12 (members), $15 (non-members). 706-353-1801, www.achfonline.org ART: Art Opening (Kumquat Mae Bakery Café) For a collection of impressionistic and surrealistic paintings by Ann Hamlin. 3–6 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-1105 ART: Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Munich Symphony Orchestra (Performing Arts Center) Internationally renowned conductor and pianist Philippe Entremont will lead the orchestra with the Gloria Dei Cantores Chorus in a program featuring Mozart’s “Requiem.” Lecture from Ph.D. candidate Vanessa Tome. 7:30 p.m. $20-58. Lecture is free. 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. 8-11, 8 p.m. Nov. 13, 2:30 p.m.

706-542-4400, www.drama.uga.edu THEATRE: Revenge of the Space Pandas (Athens Little Playhouse) See Nov. 11 Theatre listing. 7:30 p.m. (Nov. 11), 3 p.m. (Nov. 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,

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Every Sunday. 1–4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3616 LECTURES & LIT.: The Celebration Chronicles of Harris Burdick (Avid Bookshop) Elementary and middle school students from Athens read their submissions for a national writing contest celebrating the release of The Chronicles of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-352-2060 LECTURES & LIT.: Global Day of Jewish Learning (Congregation Children of Israel) Age-appropriate introduction to tenets of Jewish ritual. People of all backgrounds welcome. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-5494192 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 14 EVENTS: Back Where We Belong: R.E.M. CD Release Party (40 Watt Club) R.E.M. release party for Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011. The pre-release party features silent and live auctions, exclusive video footage, raffle and limited-edition merch for sale. Auction items include a donated Rickenbacker guitar signed by all four members of R.E.M. Proceeds benefit Community Connection of Northeast Georgia, Family Connection-Communities in Schools and Whatever It Takes. See Calendar Pick on p. 22. 7 p.m. $15. www.40watt.com EVENTS: Thanksgiving BasketMaking for Senior Adults (Rocksprings Community Center & Park) Senior adults are invited to participate in preparing food baskets for needy senior citizens in preparation for Thanksgiving. Participants are asked to bring donations of baskets and food items. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3603 EVENTS: Toast of Chronic Town (Ciné Bar Cafe) Fifteen Athens restaurants celebrate the release of R.E.M.’s last album with samplings from Weaver D’s, The Grit, Five & Ten, Donderos’, The National, The Four Coursemen, Heirloom Cafe and others. Special screenings of R.E.M. live concert footage from an archival 35mm print and a special 90-minute R.E.M. video retrospective will be shown in each theater.

Proceeds benefit Community Connection of Northeast Georgia, Family Connection-Communities in Schools and Whatever It Takes. 5–7 p.m. $75 (ticket includes admission to other CD release party events). www.athenscine.com OUTDOORS: Tree Identification Class (Lake Herrick) Walk through Oconee Forest Park and learn to identify specific 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: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture language skills.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: A Night with Dewey Bozella (UGA Tate Center, Theatre) Prisoner-turned-boxer Bozella will narrate his triumphant story of fighting his way out of a flawed justice system. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! (w/student ID), $10. www.uga. edu.union

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Tuesday 15 EVENTS: Dance Dance Party Party (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) A ladies-only freestyle dance session.

7:30–8:30 p.m. $6. www.wholemindbodyart.com EVENTS: Operation Safe Drive (UGA Tate Center) A free vehicle and bicycle inspection by trained UGA and Five Star Automotive mechanics. Checks include mechanical issues, fluid level top-offs, wipers, headlights, tire pressure and bicycle chains and structures. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.parking.uga.edu ART: Shouky Shaheen Lecturer (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Anne Litle Poulet, director of the Frick Collection in New York, will deliver a visiting artist and scholar lecture.

5:30 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: David Garibaldi (UGA Tate Center) Garibaldi creates six-foot portraits of pop icons in minutes to music with body movements and brushes in the performance, “Rhythm and Hue.” 7 p.m. FREE! (students), $10. 706542-6396, www.uga.edu/union PERFORMANCE: Open TOAD Comedy (Flicker Theatre & Bar) A unique open mic experience. The audience gets to pelt the performers who go over their six-minute time limit with foam rocks. Performers get in FREE! but must sign up by 8 p.m. 8 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar KIDSTUFF: 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.: 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 Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) After a short business meeting, a program on “Salt and Salt Mines in the USA.” 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8082 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 16 EVENTS: Book Launch and Film Premiere (Ciné Barcafé) Athens filmmaker Chris Cogan screens his 36-minute film, River Time, about author John Lane and his new book My Paddle to the Sea. Lane will read from the book and talk with Cogan about the film. See Calendar Pick on this page. 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! rhuff@ ugapress.uga.edu EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, vaccinated) dog! 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: 4th Annual MFA Art Auction (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Graduating MFA students host a fundraising event showcasing 2D

and 3D artwork from students, faculty, staff, alumni and the local community. Proceeds benefit the upcoming MFA Thesis Exhibition. 7 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu 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: Breaking Dawn Release Party (Oconee County Library) Fans of The Twilight Saga will make Twilight-themed t-shirts and eat snacks while watching Eclipse, just hours before Breaking Dawn is released. Eclipse is rated PG-13. For ages 13–18. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 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 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up Next: Monster Bookmarks! Make a bookmark that looks like a monster chewing on the corner of the book. (No books will be harmed in the creation of the bookmarks). Ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing with Hugh Acheson (Avid Bookshop) Athens’ own “Top Chef” Hugh Acheson will be available to chat and sign his new, bestselling cookbook, A New Turn in the South.

7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-352-2060 LECTURES & LIT.: Intro to Excel (Oconee County Library) Topics include the Excel window, navigating in the worksheet, toolbars, general formulas and more. Registration

Wednesday, November 16

John Lane Book Launch and Film Screening Ciné Poet, essayist, professor and Spartanburg, SC native John Lane had an inspired idea one day: Why not paddle a canoe from his backyard creek all the way to the ocean? The ensuing 11-day, 300-mile journey became the fulfillment of a very personal endeavor, a trip which took him and his companions down the Broad River, into Lake Marion, down the Santee River John Lane and, finally, to the seaside, 40 miles north of Charleston.

Inclement weather, eagle sightings and Indian folklore are only part of the story.

In his literary work, My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas, published this month by the UGA Press, Lane recounts the journey in beautifully descriptive detail and with a reverence for the history, flora and fauna, and people that have had an impact on the South Carolina waterways he travelled. Using literary allusions, poetic candor and the studied lens of a true conservationist, Lane makes the meanderings of his chosen rivers come alive with both romantic sentiment and environmental significance. He likens his work to one of Thoreau’s lesser known classics, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: “an adventure story, a travel narrative and a digressive essay on many topics, including friendship.”

A 30-minute documentary, River Time, which chronicles a portion of Lane’s epic undertaking, was produced, directed and edited by Tom Byars (of Turner Studios in Atlanta) and UGA Art X professor and fellow Spartanburger Chris Cogan. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, Ciné will premiere the film at 7 p.m., and the Press will sponsor Lane’s book launch with readings and a Q&A session after the screening. Visit Lane’s website, kudzutelegraph. com, for more information about the author and athenscine.com for more info about the event. Admission is free. [Christina Cotter]

and acoustic guitar. Morton’s new album, Contenders, is out now on Ghostmeat Records.

JIM WHITE Local singer/songwriter with a rising national profile, noted for his masterful storytelling in the Southern gothic tradition. Think Marc Ribot-era Tom Waits.

Friday, November 11

Kinchafoonee Cowboys, Bobby Compton Georgia Theatre There ain’t nothin’ new about seeing Kinchafoonee Cowboys on the Georgia Theatre marquee before a big home game. But in many ways, consistency is what has set this band apart from the pack. Kinchafoonee Cowboys are celebrating their 20th anniverKinchafoonee Cowboys sary on Friday, and in those two decades the group has never strayed from its MO: slinging classic country covers and a handful of high-energy originals. It’s a niche that’s served them well as they’ve managed to play more sold-out shows at the Georgia Theatre and break more pre-fire bar sales records than any other act.

They’ve reveled in a popularity that never seems to wane, and not many bands in this temperamental town can say that.

“I’ve been making my living playing music in this town since I moved here in ‘95,” says piano player Jason Fuller, who joined Kinchafoonee in ‘98. “And I’ve never seen anything like the Kinchafoonee Cowboys in terms of the rowdiness of the fans—how excited they get, how they just sing the words to every song. I have not been able to duplicate that with any other band I’ve ever played with… When we’re done with certain songs— Alabama or Hank Williams, Jr. or certain originals like ‘Eggs Toast Grits and Bacon’—the crowd response is just second to none. It’s excruciatingly loud and enthusiastic.”

And it’s been like that since the beginning. “Kinchafoonee came right out of the gate and just started hitting it big,” says Fuller. “I think, within even one year they were pulling close to 1,000 people in Athens, and it just never let up since then. It’s almost an anomaly in terms of band speak!”

In celebration of the band’s anniversary and their first show at the Theatre since the fire, Kinchafoonee will be filming its entire first set for a future DVD release, plus a couple of music videos for two new original tunes. The goal is to capture that special feeling that is unique to a Kinchafoonee show at the Theatre. So, if you’re in the mood to get rowdy, head down and help the band break some more records. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is Last Night in a Twisted River by John Irving. Newcomers welcome.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 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) Think you know it all? Wednesdays, 8 p.m. (Baldwin St. location) 8:30 p.m. (Broad St. location) 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 8 Applebee’s 10 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! 706-543-1339 KARAOKE Every Tuesday.

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

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, haunting electronica.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $7. www.georgiatheatre.com KITE TO THE MOON Local band led by Timi Conley and featuring a stimulating live show with jubilant, rowdy pop music.

MARCH FOURTH MARCHING BAND This massive ensemble draws from Eastern European gypsy brass, Latin flavors, Afrobeat, big band, rock and more.

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

Performing originals and some surprising covers including The Beatles, Janis Joplin and Alanis Morissette. The band will be recording a promotional video to support its new album, Ready for a Change.

No Where Bar 8 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE FRITZ Five-piece mellow funk jam with jazz influences including upright bass and smooth organ sounds.

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, reverberating keyboards and swelling transitions.

SPRING TIGERS Led by British expat Kris Barratt, this Athens-based band offers high-energy, anthemic pop and angular rock tunes. Loads of new songs and a new album in the works.

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

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

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

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 five-piece keeps things pure and old school.

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

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. These guys have shared the stage with The Black Keys, The Neville Brothers and more.

STREET, RHYTHM, AND RHYME Local four-piece jams on funk, reggae, jazz and blues.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7–10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Every Wednesday! This week features Cachaca, a local jazz group with a Latin flair performing standards, original compositions and Brazilian gems. Stop by for live jazz and drink specials.

Thursday 10 Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 NEW SNEAKERS Five-piece Southern jam-rock fusion formerly known as The Blekers.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com GRIPE Local grindcore/powerviolence.

GUZIK Titanic sludge metal.

IN THE LURCH Local three-piece that cranks out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines, citing Primus and Tool as influences.

STRONG INTENTION Initially influenced by classic NYHC bands such as Agnostic Front and Cro-Mags, this band has steadily gravitated towards faster, harsher thrash.

The Classic Center 8 p.m. $35-$45. www.classiccenter. com CAROLINA LIAR Swedish alternative rock band.

DAVID COOK Singer-songwriter of “American Idol” fame tours in support of his latest single, “Come Back to Me.” GAVIN DEGRAW This chart-topping blue-eyed soul artist offers soulful, piano-driven pop. DeGraw draws from late-’60s and early-’70s R&B on his new album, Sweeter.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BOMBSBOMBSBOMBS Local, quirky pop rock.

HEAR HUMS Audio/visual experimentation from Gainesville, FL, including a colorful array of clicks, beeps and, yes, hums.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com* BRAINWORLDS Mason Brown provides massive guitar sonics.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 The Terrapin Tuesday Series featuring

BLUEBILLY GRIT

Tickets $5 • $2 Terrapin pints all night

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

JIM WHITE

KEN WILL MORTON ANDREW VICKERY Tickets $10 adv • $13 at the door

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

STEWART & WINFIELD

BETSY KINGSTON & THE CROWNS

Tickets $10 adv • $12 at the door

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AFTER THE GAME

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

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Athens Folk Music & Dance Society presents

THE HOOT

BETWEEN NAYBORS, MrJORDANMrTONKS, RACHEL LYNN

with

FREE! All ages • Music 8-10pm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Athens Folk Music & Dance Society presents a Terrapin Tuesday national spotlight show featuring

KEN PERLMAN, ALAN JABBOUR & ART ROSENBAUM Tickets $10 adv • $13 at the door

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Nomad Artists presents Jazz Guitarist

CHARLIE HUNTER

SCOTT AMENDOLA Tickets $12 adv • $15 at the door

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17

CORDUROY ROAD

BLAIR CRIMMINS & THE HOOKERS Tickets $6 adv • $8 at the door

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 North Georgia Jaycees present

SHAWN MULLINS Tickets $20 adv • $25 at the door

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Nomad Artists presents

JORMA KAUKONEN Tickets $23 adv • $27 at the door

UPCOMING EVENTS 11.19 SONDRE LERCHE, PETER WOLF CRIER @ 40 WATT 11.22 SILVERBIRD DUO 11.23 NORMALTOWN FLYERS 11.25 HOLMAN AUTRY BAND, DANIEL LEE BAND 11.26 RICK FOWLER BAND, GEORGIA HEALERS 12.2 JOHN McCUTCHEON 12.3 JIMMY THACKERY (of The Nighthawks) LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF

12.8 LARRY KEEL & NATURAL BRIDGE 12.9 COL. BRUCE HAMPTON & PHARAOH GUMMITT 12.9 MODERN SKIRTS, LERA LYNN @ GEORGIA THEATRE 12.10 STRAWBERRY FLATS 12.11 THE WOOD BROTHERS 12.16 ABBEY ROAD LIVE! 12.18 THE HIGHBALLS CHRISTMAS SHOW 12.23 RACK OF SPAM 12.30 MOTHER’S FINEST 12.31 MOTHER’S FINEST NYE 1.7 SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS 3.15 COLIN HAY 295 E. DOUGHERTY ST., ATHENS, GA

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THE CALENDAR! his new band is “an experimental terror-ride of power atmospherics.”

NUTRITIONAL PEACE Local “vegan ambient” group creates lush, hypnotizing soundscapes using sax, guitar, keys, autoharp and various percussion.

40 Watt Club Redcoat Benefit Concert. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com* CLEAN BREAK Lo-fi indie-rock trio based here in Athens.

GROOVE TANGENT Playing covers from diverse rock acts like Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and Jet. SPICER Funky, big drums alt-rock.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com PANTYRAID Music producers Martin Folb (AKA Martyparty) and Josh Mayer (AKA Ooah) come together to make melodic, electronic dance music that combines elements of hip-hop, dubstep and more experimental sounds.

T’N’T DJ Triz and fellow beat aficionado T8r(tot) have “joined like Voltron” to form T’n’T and will be “unfolding a beat session before ye the likes of which have ne’er been seen.”

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

Graze Burgers & Salads “Sidewalk Symphony.” 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.nourishinternational.org MARK CUNNINGHAM Soulful Americana. Solo set starting at 6 p.m.

ADAM KLEIN Local singer-songwriter offers a blend of the finest elements of folk, Americana and country with poetic lyricism and striking imagery to create engaging, well-crafted songs. Solo set that starts at 7 p.m.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $4. 706-546-4742 THE GOOD DOCTORS Down-home funk-rock fusion.

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

Omega Bar 6 p.m. FREE! (ladies, 6–7 p.m.), $10. www.theomegabar.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Smooth jazz tunes that provide a casual, relaxing atmosphere. Hosted by DJ Segar. Every Thursday!

Friday 11 Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 DUXEDO New local foursome lets loose on some swamp funk.

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!

Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 JUICE BOX Local band lays down some smooth, funky jams.

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Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com NEVADA GAS TRIO The jazzy funk trio featuring George Davidson, Steve Hunter and Jeramy B. Lamanno made its debut at AUX Festival this year.

NEVER Psychedelic, swirling guitars care of Kris Deason and Ryan Vogle plus Peter Alvanos on drums and Chris McGarvey on bass. Melissa Colbert fronts the band with howling, cathartic vocals.

SPACE TRUCK “A delicious dessert from the Late BP Helium.”

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

RUBY KENDRICK Local singersongwriter with a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com KILL KILL BUFFALO Grungy, hardrock duo based in Athens featuring Kara Kildare’s powerful pipes and Tyler John on drums.

LOVE TRACTOR Athens on-againoff-again alt-rock favorites for 30 years, on-again with a new line-up and a new release.

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

MARK TULK Hauntingly beautiful, piano-driven tunes with gothic influences.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $11 (adv). www.40watt.com JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD Young, edgy musician who approaches country with an alternative, indie perspective.

RICHIE Guitarist Richie Kirkpatrick is part of Jessica Lea Mayfield’s live band.

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

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com BOBBY COMPTON The first Redneck Idol, Bobby Compton sings hard rockin’ country.

KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS This Athens institution has been covering classic country for 20 years. with a handful of twangy originals thrown in the mix. See Calendar Pick on p. 21.

Go Bar WSSO Benefit for Take Back the Night.

9 p.m. FREE! (21+) ,$3 (18+). 706546-5609 DJ BABYTOUPE Of local party band DIP! THE HOTELS Indie folk-rock from Atlanta.

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

SUSPECT RAPTOR Local band plays a mix of ‘90s grunge pop and indie post-punk.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com REVIEN New trio featuring members of the Georgia Guitar Quartet on classical guitar, cello and electronics playing everything from Bach to Radiohead.

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Las Conchitas Caliente 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2500 TIM TAYLOR AND BETO CACAO Playing marimba music!

Little Kings Shuffle Club “2nd Annual Moonlight Gypsy Market,” 6 p.m.–2 a.m. FREE! 706-369-3144 DIN OF THIEVES “This is an eclectic cornucopia of music, style and old/ new world themes mixed in a cauldron of rock and roll.”

M.E. AKA JORGE Spoken word performance artist.

MAN WILL DESTROY HIMSELF Crust, grind metal, punk.

SHEHEHE Vanguards of New American Jet Rock. Punk back beats and indie gang vocals all overlaid with arena leads.

THE SUBLIMINATOR Combining spoken-word poetry with experimental music, this one-man show backs his sometimes heavily processed words with sounds created from AirSynths, effects pedals and loops.

WIZARD TREE Bluesy rock and roll from Atlanta with a splash of funk.

TRIANGLE FIRE Brand-new local crust-punk band.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door) www. meltingpointathens.com BETSY KINGSTON & THE CROWNS Local band balancing “heavy-hitting blues-rock and soulful country-folk.”

STEWART & WINFIELD Low Country drawlin’ Athens songcraftsmen Stewart Marshall and Winfield Smith are vets of the Athens rootsrock scene.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 AVERY DYLAN PROJECT Jaw droppin’ guitar licks and behindthe-back/head tricks by Mr. Dylan.

Tonight the group will showcase new tunes off the upcoming album, Here I Come.

RPM 10 p.m. FREE! 706-543-0428 BURNS LIKE FIRE Stewed, screwed, tattooed punk rock that will leave you flat on your face.

KARBOMB High-speed local punk band celebrates the release of its new full-length, Nose Before Toes.

LOWDIVE Local ska/reggae band.

VFW 8 p.m. 706-546-5978 GRAINS OF SAND This cover band performs classic Motown, soul and R&B hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Whole: Mind. Body. Art. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.wholemindbodyart.com MARY SIGALAS Entertaining jazz aficionados with a cosmopolitan sound that weaves together rootsy and chic influences.

Saturday 12 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.

Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 CONNOR PLEDGER TRIO Pledger’s mostly acoustic sound is influenced by acts like Dave Matthews, John Mayer and Jack Johnson—now with a rhythm section.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (21+). $14 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CINEMECHANICA This intensely voluminous local quartet is the aggro

Sunday, Nov. 13 & Monday, Nov. 14

R.E.M. Release Party for Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage Various Locations R.E.M. decided to call it a day, but Athens won’t let its favorite sons go without a big party. In honor of their final release, the career-spanning “best of” collection appropriately called Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, R.E.M. is throwing one final release celebration. R.E.M. release parties have been a tradition in Athens since Automatic for the People, and once again the band is donating proceeds from the event to charitable causes: Community Connection of Northeast Georgia, Family Connection–Communities in Schools and Whatever It Takes.

The festivities come in three parts. First up is “Welcome to the Reconstruction,” a tribute concert on Sunday night at the Georgia Theatre with Kevn Kinney, David Barbe, Lera Lynn and many others covering R.E.M. songs. If you’ve ever wondered how our local artists might sound performing something off of Monster, this is probably your best bet.

On Monday the fun continues with “Toast of Chronic Town” at Ciné—a meet, greet and eat event; R.E.M. concert footage will be screened while attendees sample food from a variety of local restaurants, many of which share connections with the band.

After you’re done eating all the right things, you can head over to the 40 Watt Club for the official record release party. There will be an auction, screenings and a whole lot of socializing. This year’s prized auction items include a Rickenbacker guitar signed by all four members of R.E.M., autographed and framed guitar picks, archival photographs and more. Past auctions have also included novelty items such as the “Mine Smells Like Honey” honey bear and Accelerate wine; so look out for those types of gems, too. If bidding wars aren’t your thing, you can still enjoy the reel of exclusive videos, which in the past have ranged from unreleased concert footage and music videos to sizzle reels and half-forgotten interviews from years gone by.

While these events are usually geared toward the über-fan, this last hurrah has something for everyone who has ever loved R.E.M.—whether you are a die-hard, an earlyyears fan, a height-of-success supporter or an end-of-the-road admirer. At least we’ve all got one last party before R.E.M. heads into the great beyond. [Jordan Stepp]

math-rock indie outfit that doesn’t know it’s a metal band. Prepare for a ferocious, high-energy live show.

HOT BREATH Intense thrash trio featuring members of Savagist and Rectanglers.

MELT-BANANA Female-fronted noise metal from Japan that’s surprisingly melodic and loads of fun. See story on p. 17.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BOBBY’S SHORTS Gradeful Dead covers done by members of Futurebirds.

FDJ Jay Steele’s DJ set.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com MOUSER Exuberant garage-pop that experiments with noise jams.

SLAW AND ORDER Local drum and keys duo performs tambourine-rich pop tracks.

YOU WON’T Quirky, bouncy indiefolk-rock from Massachusetts.

Forest Lodge 9 p.m. $20 (adv.) $25 (door). 706548-6199 THEODIS EALEY BLUES BAND Traditional Mississippi blues at its best.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com EASTER ISLAND Lush, post rockinfluenced shoegaze with sweet, pop melodies, tender harmonies and shimmering guitars.

THE GOLD PARTY This local band plays danceable new wave originals and synth-driven glam.

POWERKOMPANY Local husband and wife duo playing sincere, bittersweet lullabies with gorgeous vocal harmonies over guitar and viola.

CD release show featuring special guests and visual art showcases.

See story on p. 16.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 CHRIS MCKAY AND 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 lineup!

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffeebar. com CALLAGHAN British singer-songwriter recently relocated to Atlanta.

Expect haunting vocals paired with folk and pop sensibilities.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $2. 706-369-3144 FRANGIPANI MAYO This band’s sound ranges from snarky post-punk to Johnny Cash-inspired tirades sung with Suzanne Vega-esque inflections.

MAXIMUM BUSY MUSCLE Local tech-metal trio.

WADE BOGGS Local punk band featuring Ian McCord (Hot New Mexicans, Carrie Nations) and lots of catchy hooks.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door) www.meltingpointathens.com TIM MILLER BAND Eclectic country act featuring the husky tones of Miller, whose voice has been compared to Dierks Bentley, backed by lonesome fiddle and bluesy, progressive basslines.

The Office Lounge Safe Jam 2011. 6 p.m. $5 (proceeds benefit Project Safe). 706-546-0840 ALL STAR JAM Lots of Athens’ finest musicians come together for the Safe Jam grand finale!

RICK FOWLER Celebrating the dedication of Meson Park, located in downtown Lexington. Local guitarist Rick Fowler specializes in a classic sort of British blues rock. (8 p.m.)

THE HEALERS Local bona fide hardcore blues band recently reformed with its original ‘90s lineup.

(11 p.m.)

J.D. SMITH AND PEACE OF MIND Folk music with a strong message.

(6 p.m.) See story on p. 15.

LARA POLANGCO Of the band Homegrown Revival. (7 p.m.)

THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of blues covers from this Athens five-piece. (9:30 p.m.)

Sunday 13 Georgia Theatre 6 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com WELCOME TO THE RECONSTRUCTION R.E.M. songs performed by The Corduroy Road, David Barbe and the Quick Hooks, Futurebirds, Grogus, Jack Logan and Coventry Climax, John Keane and Nathan Sheppard, Kevn Kinney, Lera Lynn, Nanny Island, Romper Stompers, 706 and Thayer Sarrano.

See Calendar Pick on this page.

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

8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffeebar.com NICE MACHINE Local, instrumental rock with surf undertones. Tonight

the band is bringing older gaming systems for the audience to play during the set.

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com VESPOLINA Baroque pop-rock band featuring lush arrangements and clever wordplay.

Viva Argentine Cuisine 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8284 RALPH RODDENBERY Traditional country music.

Monday 14 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7–10 p.m. $5 (includes practice and lessons). 706-354-6655, www.buffaloscafe.com/athens LINE DANCING Learn to line dance in the Big Back Room! Every 2nd and 4th Monday.

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

The Melting Point 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com THE HOOT This month the Folk Society’s music variety show features Between Naybors performing a set of folky originals, MrJordanMrTonks doing acoustic versions of rock songs on dobro and guitar, and Rachel Lynn doing folk with a touch of roots rock. Susan Staley opens and hosts the event.

Tuesday 15 Applebee’s 10 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! 706-543-1339 KARAOKE Every Tuesday.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BLACK SKIES Heavy, scruffy rock and roll out of Chapel Hill, conjuring thoughts of Sabbath.

MAKE Sludgy psychedelic metal trio from Chapel Hill.

UTAH Explosively loud metal and hardcore duo.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MANY MANSIONS Spacey, atmospheric, ambient performance project of Shane Donnelly and featuring members of Quiet Hooves.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv). www.40watt.com DR. DOG Symphonic, psychedelicinfused rock and roll with big, blissed-out harmonies.

QUIET LIFE Like a modern take on The Band, this Americana group offers jubilant harmonies and feelgood twang.

DAVID VANDERVELDE Pop songs with fuzzy guitars, glammy vocal acrobatics and a sort of Rolling Stones swagger.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com MATTHEW MAYFIELD Hard rock with country-tinged vocals.

NEEDTOBREATHE Alternative rock with a subtle Christian message‚ for fans of Switchfoot and the like.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 EVAN P.DONOHUE Eccentric singersongwriter who delivers “sardonic

portraits of decidedly earnest characters” over crunchy rock and roll.

FALCONES Local band that serves up stripped down rock and roll.

JEFFERS MORNING Fun, danceable power-chord pop/punk.

NATALIE PRASS Songwriter whose impressive pipes and sense of melody have garnered comparisons to Rilo Kiley, Feist and Karen Carpenter.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3144 DJ LOZO Spinning punk rock!

EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock.

SLAW AND ORDER Local drum and keys duo performs tambourine-rich pop tracks.

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

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The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* KEN PERLMAN AND ALAN JABBOUR Perlman and Jabbour will be joined by special guest Art Rosenbaum to play traditional bluegrass/folk tunes.

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No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 ERIC DODD BAND Acoustic rock accompanied by soulful saxophone.

RICHIE • WHITE VIOLET doors open at 9pm

WUOG 90.5FM “Live in the Lobby.” 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock.

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Wednesday 16 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com GHOST LIGHTS Local psych-rock trio that likes to get loud.

SIDE BY SIDE North Carolina-based pop rock trio with upbeat, catchy melodies with soaring female vocals.

SUSPECT RAPTOR Local band plays a mix of ‘90s grunge and punk.

Farm 255 Jazz Night. 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255. com DIAL INDICATORS This jazz duo features George Davidson on tenor sax.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com SCOTT SPILLANE Former Neutral Milk Hotel horn player and current Gerbils frontman plays a solo set.

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.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffeebar.com TIJUANA HERCULES Sleazy, fun garage rock with a brassy horn section.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door) www. meltingpointathens.com CHARLIE HUNTER AND SCOTT AMENDOLA DUO Guitarist Charlie Hunter and drummer Scott Amendola were founding members of the seminal ‘90s jazz/funk band T.J. Kirk.

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

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ART Call for Submissions (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)) Seeking works that strip away layers of convention attached to the trope “Southern.” Deadline Nov. 10. Exhibit dates Jan. 21–Mar. 3. www.athica.org/callforentries.php Handmade Hollyday Market Crafter Applications (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Treehouse Kid & Craft is taking applications for craft boths for the Handmade Hollyday Market on Dec. 10, with a prize for the best booth design.

Apply by email by Nov. 15. $35 per booth. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (Dec. 10). Send details and three photos of your crafts to treehousekidandcraft@gmail.com with the subject “Hollyday.”

CLASSES 4-Week Clay Class (Good Dirt) Topics include cups and mugs on the wheel, bowls and plates, sculp-

tural 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 bellydance for people of all ages, sizes and fitness levels. Wednesdays, 7:30–8:30 p.m. $10. 706-424-0195, www.wholemindbodyart.com Bellydance for Fitness (YWCO) Have fun and exercise at the same time. Mondays & Wednesdays, 6–7 p.m. susiefaye@hotmail.com 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 of Georgia) Develop the skill to create fire from materials found in the wild. Methods

include flint and steel, bow drills and hand drills. Nov. 19, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $66. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Fall Classes (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 Family Try Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Try out Good Dirt with individual classes for adults and children to make pieces using hand-building methods. Sundays, 2–4 p.m. 706355-3161, www.gooddirt.net.

Figure Drawing Sessions (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Weekly drop-in sessions for artists wishing to draw the human figure.

Must be over age 18. Sundays, 2–4 p.m. $10. 706-540-2727, fringe collective@live.com Health and Wellness Classes (Athens Community Council on Aging) Athens Community Council on Aging hosts senior-friendly Ballroom Dancing, Line Dancing, Yoga, Tai Chi and

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Ann Hamlin’s paintings are on display at Kumquat Mae in Watkinsville through November. more! Go online for a complete schedule. 706-549-4850, www.acc aging.org Holiday Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Be productive and creative this season! Complete schedule online.

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Italian Lessons and Tutoring (Call for location) Personalized Italian lessons and tutoring for any level of Italian from Jeff Kilpatrick, Italian Instructor at UGA with a Ph.D. in Linguistics.

805-448-1657, kilpatrickjeff@ hotmail.com Online Computer Class (ACC Library) Instruction on how to check out free audiobooks and e-books.

Nov. 15. 10–11:30 a.m. 706-6133650, ext. 354. www.clarke.public. lib.ga.us/services/classes.html#ath 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 fundamental basketball skills. 5:30–6:30 p.m. $1 (ACC residents), $2 (nonACC residents). 706-613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty.com/lay Thistle and Kudzu Scottish Country Dancers (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) No partner or experience necessary.

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by donating a meal or volunteering at the thrift store. Help someone start a new life! cngraff@project-safe.org, www.project-safe.org Seeking Volunteers (Oconee County Library) The children’s department is seeking volunteers to create book displays and assist in making bulletin boards. 706-7693950, jjohnson@athenslibrary.org

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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 BikeAthens Bike Recycling (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicylces for local service agencies. 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 Blood Drive (Red Cross Donor Center) Give the gift of life! Call to make an appointment today. 706546-0681, 1-800-RED-CROSS, www.redcrossblood.org 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

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.

706-613-3515, www.athensclarke county.com/sandycreeknaturecenter Library Crew (Oconee County Library) The Oconee County Library is seeking volunteers ages 9-12 to 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,

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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

WE LOVE YOU LONG TIME 706-369-7418 • 175 E. Clayton St. 11-8pm Mon-Sat • 12-6pm Sun

Hair ServiceS • Men & WoMen 5 PointS • Mon-Sat • 706.549.8074

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 Alzheimers Support Group (Athens Community Council on Aging) Fellowship with caregivers of those with Alzheimer’s Disease or related dementias. Lunch served. Third Tuesdays. Noon. FREE! RSVP 706549-4850, mlopp@accaging.org 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 (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Informal and supportive 12step 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.emotions anonymous.org Sapph.Fire (Nuçi’s Space) Social, support and volunteer organization for lesbian and bisexual women.

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. Childcare is provided during group. Second and fourth Tuesday of the month in Clarke County. First and third Monday of the month in Madison County. 6:30–8 p.m. Project Safe: 706-543-3331

ON THE STREET Athens Land Trust Design Competition (Athens Land Trust) The Competition for the Cottages at Cannontown competition aims to create architectural designs for four

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.

Art on the Side Gallery and Gifts (1011B Industrial Blvd., Watkinsville) A gallery featuring works by various artists in media including ceramics, paintings and fused glass.

Artini’s Art Lounge (296 W. Broad St.) Oil and acrylic paintings by Whitestone and encaustic works

by Elganoby. Through November.

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.

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 Leigh Ellis, Suzanna Antonez, Matt Alston, Michael Pierce and more.

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

Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) “Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond” features 50 examples of the artist’s career. Through Dec. 4. • “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 “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.

housing types that would be affordable and energy-efficient. 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 Xmas parade on Dec. 1. This year’s theme is “Winter Wonderland.” Register

by Nov. 17. 706-613-3620, robinstevens@athensclarkecounty.com, www.accleisureservices.com Free to Breathe Run/Walk (Sandy Creek Park) Raise funding for lung cancer research when you register for this 5K run or one-mile walk. Nov. 13, 7 a.m. $15–$20. 608316-3786, www.freetobreathe.org Reiki (Over the Moon Creative Possibilities) Drop in for a 10-minute therapy that helps the body to heal and relax. Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. and Thursdays, 4–6 p.m. $10. 706-540-2712 Senior Adult Holiday Tour of Homes (Athens Community Council on Aging) ACC Leisure Services will lead a group of adult seniors on a holiday tour of antebellum homes in Madison. Participants will also go holiday shopping and have lunch. Register by Nov. 21.

Dec. 2. 9:15 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $28.

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The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) New mixed media by Toby Cole. Through Dec. 11.

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. • Black-and-white prints by Will Jacques. Through Nov. 15.

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

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

by Leslie Litt. Through November.

Kumquat Mae Bakery Café (18 Barnett Shoals Rd., Watkinsville) Impressionistic and surrealistic paintings by Ann Hamlin. Through November.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) “11 Eleven 11,” a BFA drawing and painting exit show and senior art exhibition. Opening reception Nov. 11.

Through Nov. 29.

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) “Community,” features works of art by by students of the Clarke County School District, emphasizing the theme of community and connection.

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.

StudiO (675 Pulaski St.) “Breathing Room” is a collection of landscape photography by Brian Cole.

Opening reception Nov. 10. Through January.

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.

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Matters Of The Heart And Loins I have been an avid cross-dresser for most of my adult life. I have never felt as good in a shirt and tie as I do in a little black dress and a sexy pair of heels. When I was young, I found it confusing, but eventually I just got used to it. I have lost a few girlfriends because of it. I am well into my middle age now, and I work in an environment full of open-minded and highly diverse individuals; however, I have never felt safe coming out to them.

People at work vary in age from teenagers to people who are about to retire. Our group boasts people of many backgrounds and various sexual orientations, and we have very strict policies regarding discrimination, so I know that I would be protected.

But, somehow, I just can’t pull the proverbial trigger.

Some of my coworkers know my secret, and they have been encouraging me to be who I am at work. They say they will support me and that because of the nature of our business, I have nothing to be afraid of. These are people in positions of power, so they know of what they speak. I am really excited by the idea, but when I was young and first exploring this side of myself I was rejected by the community I was in because I identify as straight. I know things are different now, but somehow I can’t shake the fear. What should I do?

No Woman, Oh God Everything you have said leads me to believe that you would be totally safe coming out, NWOG. Is that the case? I mean, not just “we have a policy” safe, but do you feel like you won’t be attacked (physically or verbally) by anyone, regardless of the policy?

If so, then I think you should give it a shot.

If you think going whole hog might be too much, have you considered baby steps? You know, start with androgyny and work your way into fullbore ladythings? There are so many guys wearing makeup and flashy jewelry these days that they hardly get noticed, at least where I live. And with skinny jeans being all the rage (not that I recommend them for you, mind, just pointing out their existence), who doesn’t love leg warmers? I realize it’s easy for me to say, NWOG, but I think you should just kick the doors off of that closet and come on out. Think of how much more room you’ll have for shoes!

I have been with my girlfriend for a couple of years. We have talked marriage (as much as two women in a state that doesn’t recognize gay marriage can talk about it), kids and have lived together for over a year already. Things are lovely, or at least they were until a couple months ago.

My girlfriend’s parents live in another state.

They are fine with our relationship and have always been welcoming to me, but they are pretty uptight people otherwise. A couple months ago, her mom got really sick. The

outlook is not great, so my girlfriend decided to move home to help out and basically do whatever she can.

At the time, we were both in a rut and had just decided to move from where we were and try something new. She went home to assess the situation and figure out what to do, and I put most of our stuff in storage and came back here where we both met. I have been staying with friends and my family, and I was going to go where she is for the time being. The thing is, I haven’t been able to find a job that I want where she is. I am very specialized, and there just aren’t opportunities for me to grow there. In the meantime, another friend of mine is moving, and she wants me to come with her somewhere else. (Sorry I am being so vague, but I would prefer to be anonymous.) Her mom is in my field and has a couple of leads already on potential jobs for me, but she lives in the opposite direction from my girlfriend and her parents.

I really want to be there for my girlfriend, Jyl, but I can’t imagine going back to waiting tables or working retail again. Her parents are nice enough, but they are very intense, and I don’t think I can be around them that much, especially under the circumstances. In the meantime, this long-distance thing is very hard on our relationship. What should I do?

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You can’t imagine working a crappy job again—really? You know what I can’t imagine (thank the gods)? Taking care of my mom while she dies, and having my significant other back at home hemming and hawing while every day is more and more difficult for me—having to rely on the phone to talk to them, rather than having their shoulder to cry on, not because they have a career or because they are taking care of our kids and our house, but because they aren’t sure that they want to deal with my awful situation.

Surely your girlfriend doesn’t expect you to spend your days at her mother’s bedside. If you intend to marry someone, then I assume that means the whole exchanging of rings and vows (you may have to go to another state, but it can be done). You are perhaps familiar with “in sickness and in health”? Do you think maybe that might extend to family? Don’t be such a selfish twunt, NoFlo. If you really love her, then shut your mouth, pack your stuff and get your ass there. Take a crappy job and be there for her. Not for her mom, or her dad, or the rest of her family. Be there so that at the end of each day, when she is through dealing with what will hopefully be the most painful thing she ever has to do, she can come home to you and you can give her some comfort. If you don’t think you can do that, NoFlo, then I don’t think you are ready for marriage, and I don’t think you deserve it.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent 1BR/1BA avail. Jan. 1. CHAC. Located in The Bluss, S. Finley, near campus & Dwntn. No pets. $495/mo., water & trash incl.

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1 BR across the st. from UGA at Baldwin Village Apts. 475 Baldwin St. No pets. Avail. now. Free parking. Water and pest incl. $450/mo. (706) 3544261.

Affordable, in-town 1BR apt., just $400/mo. Very basic, but clean & quiet. Convenient ARMC/Nor maltown area, low $99 sec. dep., move in now or pre-lease, (706) 788-2152 or GaAveApts@aol.com.

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College Station 2BR/2BA on bus line. All appls. + W/D, FP, extra closet space, water/garbage incl. $550/mo. Owner/Agent, (706) 340-2450.

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Dwntn. Athens Luxury Condo – The Georgian. 1BR/1BA only 2 blocks from UGA’s N. Campus. HWflrs., granite countertops, 10 ft. ceilings, stainless steel appls. Secure building, parking. $199,900. (706) 540-1150.

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Beautiful condo, 3BR/2BA. Call the realtor and let’s meet there again.

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Duplexes For Rent 5 Pts., 2BR/1BA duplex. $600/ mo. Beautiful HWflrs., W/D, CHAC, ceiling fans, across street from Memorial Park. No dogs, cats OK. Avail now. Call (706) 202-9805.

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175 Sylvan Dr. 3BR/1BA home w/ great location near ARMC. $900/ mo. Avail. now! Pls. call (706) 5401810, (706) 433-2072, or email cbolen@upchurchrealty.com. One owner is a licensed realtor in the state of GA.

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Sunny LR, new BA, W/D, DW, CHAC. 477 Whitehall. $600/mo.

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2BR/2.5BA townhouse across from UGA golf course. 9 ft. ceilings, HWflrs., $790/mo. Call (770) 7251555 for an appt.

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3BR/2BA house. Univ. Cir., 1 mi. from UGA. All appls., W/D, lg. fenced yd., carport. $1100/mo., $800 dep. 2 mo. rent free! (404) 983-7063.

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3BR/2BA, 2 car garage, f e n c e d i n y d . , F P. A l l appliances incl. W/D. $1100/ mo. + $1100 dep. Avail. Dec. 1. (706) 247-4137.

3BR/2BA house on cul-de-sac for rent. On Eastside off Barnett Shoals Rd. $850/mo. w/ yr. lease.

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3BR/1.5 BA. Lg. washroom with W/D. deck, front porch. Rent to own. $650/mo. + $1500 down payment. (706) 254-2936.

3BR/2BA on Oglethorpe Ave. across from old Navy School.

Fenced-in back yd., pet friendly. $850/mo. Call (770) 725-1555 for an appt.

170 N. Church St. 1-2BR/1BA. 4 blocks to 40 Watt/UGA. Pets OK, no fees. Fenced yd., deck, screened porch, W/D, stove, fridge. $799/mo. Dan, (516) 5078654.

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P a i n t a r t i s t s t u d i o s -160 Tracy St. Historic Boulevard area artist community. Rent 300 sf., $150/mo. 400 sf., $200/mo. athenstownproper ties.com or (706) 546-1615.

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Avail. immediately! 3BR/1BA house. $875/mo. + utils. 1 mi. f ro m D w n t n . H W f l r s . , C H A C , W/D, covered porch, lg. closets, built-in bookcases.

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

Athens. $900/mo. + dep. Avail. now. Contact Brian, (706) 6137242.

194 Childs Street, 2BR/2BA. One of the best houses and locations in Boulevard, $950.

2BR/2BA in Five Points. HWflrs, tile BA, W/D. Great price! $650/ mo. (706) 548-9797 or boulevard propertymanagement.com.

Tw o - s t o r y 3 B R / 3 B A i n T h e Wo o d l a n d s f o r re n t . $ 4 5 0 / mo. OBO. Gated community w/ clubhouse, pools, workout facility & more! Ample parking & on busline. Contact ashleycleary@ gmail.com.

2BR/1BA. Near UGA, LR, DR, den, HWflrs., all appl., fenced yd., garbage p/u, carport, elec. A/C, gas heat, no pets. $550/mo. 117 Johnson Dr. Owner/Agent, Stan, (706) 543-5352.

Heart of Normaltown. 2BR/1BA, $675/mo. Full of brand new renovations/upgrades. 1350 sf.

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Priced to go fast. A must see!

Office space for rent/sale on Huntington Rd. Convenient location, up to 1300 sq. ft. avail.

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4BR/2BA house on Eastside for rent. 120 Evergreen Terrace, Winterville, 30683. 10 min. from Dwntn. & UGA. HWflrs., carport, lg. yard. $1K/mo. Avail. now. Call (706) 369-9679, cell (706) 2070935, or call Pam, (706) 540-3809, lv. msg.

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R e d u c e d ! 4 B R / 2 B A , 8 4 5 W. Hancock, HWflrs., CHAC, avail. now. Pets OK! 4 blocks to Dwntn. $1050/mo. Call (864) 784-3049.

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

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Rooms for Rent BR w/ private bath/entrance, $375/mo. incl. all utils. Avail. Dec. 1. Mature, quiet adult preferred.

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For Sale Miscellaneous Bidders Buy Auction. New & used items, collectables, & antiques. Auctions ever y Fri. & S a t . 1 4 5 9 H a r g ro v e L a k e Rd. in Winterville. Visit www. biddersbuyauctions.com or call (706) 742-2205 for more info.

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Sony 60 in. big screen HDTV, $600. Sansung 42 in. big screen HDTV, $250. Call (706) 3720535.

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Music Services Amp repair! McNeece Music, 149 Oneta, Ste. 6C-7. Next to BikeAthens. Years of experience.

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Eady Guitars, Guitar Building & Repair. Qualified repairman offering professional set ups, fret work, wiring, finishing & restorations. Exp. incl. Gibson & Benedetto Guitars. Appt. o n l y ( 6 1 5 ) 7 1 4 - 9 7 2 2 , w w w. eadycustomfinishing.com.

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

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Kitchen Table Stereo since 1989, electronic technical services. Vacuum tube & transistor amplifier repair, effects, pedals, keyboards. Sound system sales, service & installation. (706) 3553071.

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Car provided. Must have valid license/good record. $440/wk.

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Classes Yogaful Day Shala in Athens announces a RYT 200 hr. Yoga Teacher Training Program meeting Yoga Alliance standards beginning in Jan. 2012. Bill Cottrell, E-RYT, IAYT; (706) 850-0364, www. yogafulday.com.

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Demythologizing the Lost Cause Many Misconceptions Have Grown Up Around the Civil War

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he term Lost Cause originated in 1866 when a Virginia journalist published a book with that title which blamed Jefferson Davis for the defeat of the Confederate States of America. For many years now, the term has referred to and embodied a romanticized, mythical view of the Old South in regard to the Civil War. As Georgia history professor David Williams notes, the Lost Cause projects an image “of an idyllic South, populated by a chivalric race of cavaliers who were kind masters to happy slaves—a utopian South, beaten and broken by superior northern numbers and industry…”

Although the Lost Cause is mythology, it is still viewed as historical truth by many credulous persons and even defended as an accurate account of the past by various pro-South groups (as well as by racist demagogues). This year marks the 150th anniversary of the bombardment of Ft. Sumter and the outbreak of the Civil War. What better time to demythologize the Lost Cause? Therefore, I will now expose the dubiousness of nine of the most important myths of the Lost Cause. I rely on an impressive, growing body of Civil War literature by history professors and other scholars that step by step, again and again, usually without any serious contradiction, has demonstrated that the Lost Cause is a false cause.

The prevailing ideas entertained by [Thomas Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away… Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the ‘storm came and the wind blew.’

Myth No. 3: After Ft. Sumter was fired on there was no significant opposition to secession in the South.

Although the South was electrified and the secession cause hugely strengthened during what David Williams calls “the passionate post-Sumter excitement,” nonetheless, “there were large cracks in the facade of Southern unity.” Williams gives examples: in eastern Tennessee, two-thirds of the voters voted against approving the legislature’s secession ordinance; in North Carolina, nearly one-third of the delegates at the state’s secession convention were unionists; and in Virginia, the election which ratified secession “was rife with fraud and intimidation [against opponents of secession].”

Myth No. 1: The principal reason the Southern states seceded was states’ rights, not slavery.

Although no one denies that the issue of states’ rights was of vital importance in the Old South, the overwhelming consensus among modern historians is that slavery was the single most important reason the Southern states seceded. Secession occurred principally because the South dearly loved and passionately desired to vindicate the institution of black slavery.

South Carolina was the first state to secede. On Dec. 24, 1860, four days after approving the Ordinance of Secession, the state’s Secession Convention approved a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.” This weird document—passed by godfearing white Southerners who believed that God is a proslavery deity, that the Bible is a proslavery book and that no true Christian could be opposed to slavery—proves beyond a reasonable doubt that slavery was the main impetus for that state’s decision to secede. Almost all the grievances listed to justify splitting the Union involve slavery, slavery, slavery. The bizarre document even states: “Those [Northern, free] States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions [slavery]; and have denied the rights of property [slavery] established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of [antislavery] societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the [slave] property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.” (My italics.)

Alexander Stephens, a Georgian who was Vice President of the Confederate States of America, delivered a speech in Savannah on Mar. 21, 1861. This speech, known as the “Cornerstone Speech,” is powerful evidence that it was mainly the issue of slavery that led to the dissolution of the Union and the consequent formation of the Confederacy. In the course of his infamous speech, Stephens said: “The new [Confederate] constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution…

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secessionist leaders over the possibility of secession being voted down that they used intimidation and violence in their efforts to control the ballot box wherever they could.”

The current historical consensus that there was broadbased opposition to secession throughout the Old South in the months immediately preceding April 1861 is summarized by David Potter in his book, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (1995): “At no time during the winter of 1860–1861 was secession desired by a majority of the people in the slave states…

Furthermore, secession was not basically desired even by a majority in the lower South, and the secessionists succeeded less because of the intrinsic popularity of their program than because of the extreme skill with which they utilized an emergency psychology… ”

Myth No. 4: Unlike the North, the South during the Civil War respected civil liberties, did not abuse its arrest powers and did not imprison supposedly disloyal citizens.

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.” (My italics.)

Myth No. 2: In the winter of 1860-1861, prior to the firing on Ft. Sumter, there was overwhelming Southern support for secession.

In the months before Ft. Sumter was bombarded on Apr. 12, 1861, the South was, as Georgia history professor David Williams explains in his book, Deeply Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War (2008), “badly divided” on the issue of secession, as the elections for members of the various state secession conventions demonstrated. “Throughout the Deep South, official returns gave secession’s opponents about 40 percent of the popular vote.” Opponents of secession (known as unionists or co-operationists) “ran neck and neck with secessionists in Alabama and Louisiana… In Texas, two-thirds of voters opposed secession.” Additionally, pro-secession elements committed so much widespread fraud at the ballot box and in the vote-counting that “the returns cannot be trusted as a gauge of popular opinion. Most likely, anti-secession sentiment was considerably stronger than the final vote would suggest.” Here in Georgia, Williams points out, secessionist Governor Joe Brown “falsely claimed that secessionist delegates had carried the state by over thirteen thousand votes. In fact, existing records from the time suggest that secession was probably defeated by just over a thousand votes.”

Throughout the Southern states, secessionists used coercion and subterfuge to discourage or prevent opponents of secession from voting against secession. “So worried were

This myth has been exploded by historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., in two books: Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties (1993) and Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999). Neely points out that “the Confederate government curtailed many civil liberties and imprisoned troublesome citizens. Moreover, many white Confederate citizens submitted docilely to being treated as only slaves could have been treated in the antebellum South.”

Passports were required, for example, for civilians who traveled by train, and Confederate citizens attempting to board trains “were likely to have irritating encounters with military officials who asked them nosy questions about their identity and destination. Guards and inquisitors confronted citizens on every railroad and at many crossroads.”

After arduous research, Neely discovered records proving that at least “4,108 civilian prisoners [were] held by military authority in the Confederacy. There were many more political prisoners than these, but I was able to locate records by name for only 4,108 in some five years of searching.” Neely also discovered that “the Confederate Army’s first arrest of a citizen occurred on Apr. 14, 1861, even before President Abraham Lincoln called out troops to suppress the rebellion.” Finally, Neely discovered that “the number of civilians arrested by military authority in the Confederacy, when adjusted for population differences, appears to be about the same as the number arrested in the North.”

Neely concludes: “Knowledge of the existence of thousands of political prisoners now reverses our basic understanding of the Confederate Cause… [T]he Confederate government restricted civil liberties as modern democratic nations did in war.”

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. The complete version of this article can be found at www.flagpole.com.

everyday people David Iduate, Actor David Iduate has always wanted to be an actor, and he’s finding ways to make his passion productive. When he’s not shooting television ads or performing in short films, he plays guitar downtown as an outlet for his creative energy—and as a means to pay off his parking tickets.

A mass media arts student in UGA’s Grady College, David acknowledges that acting might not be the most effective way to pay the bills for the long term. For practical purposes, he hopes to get a job where he can work around cameras, even if he isn’t being filmed by them.

Flagpole: What year are you in school?

David Iduate: I’m a sophomore. [He notices a parking services worker walking nearby.] And I play [guitar] downtown to pay of my parking tickets. They’re all my fault, though.

FP: Do you play on the street often?

DI: I come out as often as I need to just to pay off parking tickets. I try to come out every other day. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my best days to come out. Sometimes Saturdays.

And I play a lot. I see a lot of the stuff going down downtown.

A lot of the gossip. I meet a lot of the homeless people here, and I get to know them.

FP: How did you decide to start playing out here?

DI: To be honest, as an actor, I got really restless being inside the dorms my freshman year. I just wasn’t getting a lot of jobs and a lot of auditions from my agent, and I decided to say, “Why not?”—I just thought I’d sit up here and start playing guitar. I started doing it at 6 p.m., and people would come out of bars and stuff like that, and they’d be like, “Holy shit.

That kid is playing a guitar. Let me throw money at him.” That was really cool. And since then I’ve been doing it. It’s been a lot of good practice.

FP: Do you attract a lot of attention?

DI: The best is when I get a semi-circle. I won’t necessarily get a lot of money that day, but people will stop, and I really do appreciate that. That’s probably the best feeling.

FP: What kind of acting do you do?

DI: I’ve done a few things. I’ve done some short films. I mainly do TV. I used to do a lot of theater in high school. But going into film, I do a lot of short films in Grady. Also, I’ve done a Coca-Cola commercial for the Coke Freestyle, which is like this vending machine.

FP: Do you plan to do something else when you finish school?

DI: Music is something that I’ve always liked, so I don’t think I’ll ever stop that, and the same thing goes for acting.

Those are probably my two passions right now. And although I don’t know if either of those will necessarily give me a steady income, I think that would be fun to do on the side and make a little extra money with what I do. You know, you have to be confident in yourself, and I feel like I know what I’m doing, and I can always get better. But as long as I keep trying and loving it, I should never stop.

FP: How did you first become interested in acting?

DI: I fell in love from the beginning. My friends, actually, from Norcross High School—that’s my hometown, “the ‘cross”—my friend is an actor. My other friend is a director.

Just hanging out with them and making movies and stuff like

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FP: Does it add up?

DI: Well, we’ve added up to quite a few things. We recently got a boom mic out of it. I don’t know how much is in the bank now, but I know that with the income we made from Google, we bought a mic.

FP: So, you said you’re from Norcross. How do you like living in Athens?

DI: Athens is very friendly for me. I will say some of the homeless people do not like me.

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DI: I don’t know if they… think I’m taking their money or something along those lines. There are a few homeless [street musicians] that are really hostile. [Some] had a huge fight yesterday. It’s like [one guy] is playing his music too loud, and [the other guy] can’t make his money.

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FP: Do you feel like you’re encroaching on some of the other street musicians who have been here longer?

DI: Not necessarily.

Originally, I felt bad, but I don’t think that if people give me money, that’s less money for them… People will always choose where their money goes.

FP: Do you think it’s unusual for a student to be involved with Athens’ street culture?

DI: You know what’s weird?

People don’t necessarily want to get involved with that type of people. I just finished meeting this one guy; I took him out to lunch. I really like getting to know the people here, but with any people, you just need to meet the right ones.

FP: Has talking to the other street musicians changed your perspective at all?

DI: I think it’s at least influenced me. As long as I can have a good conversation with someone for an hour and enjoy my lunch and have a good time, they’re fine by me.

FP: If you make it as an actor, do you think you’ll be more inclined to help others because of your time spent downtown?

DI: I actually do. I really hope to be famous because I know that in this world, you’re either famous or you’re a politician to actually be able to do something to change this world.

I’m hoping that if I become popular enough, I can actually do great things. Not just buy a big house like everyone else does… Before I come out here, I’ll try making a lunch for someone. Normally, I’ll make like a PB&J, three cigarettes, a banana and a Coke and just drop it off. So, you know, the first person I see.

FP: How do people respond to that gesture?

DI: They’ll eat it. I don’t know. Sometimes I’ll get a “thank you.” I don’t actually know why I do it. I just feel like everyone deserves a lunch.

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