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In the fall of 1979 while visiting friends in Burlington, Vermont, I went into a McDonald’s to eat breakfast and bought a copy of the Burlington Free Press. The front page carried a story about IBM, which had a plant in Burlington. IBM, according to the story, had purchased a large tract of land on the outskirts of Athens, Georgia, for the purpose of building a plant there to manufacture semiconductors—components of electronic circuits. I found a pay phone and called John Toon, one of The Athens Observer’s ace reporters, and we had a scoop. As you know, IBM never did anything with the property—probably just as well in a way, because the semiconductor manufacturing process used millions of gallons of water. IBM sold to the Orkin family, and now they’ve sold some of it to Athens-Clarke County and Oconee County, who will sell it to Caterpillar. Thus, over 30 years later, we have finally hit the jobs jackpot. As Kevan Williams points out in this issue’s Athens Rising, the deal flies in the face of all the nay-saying that pictures our area as unfriendly to business with an unattractive workforce and uncooperative local governments. Caterpillar likes us for who we are, loves us, apparently, and is ready to break ground. Once that happens, lots of suppliers are expected to buy up the rest of the IBM/Orkin property and create even more jobs supportThat’s just the ing Caterpillar’s needs. Still, dare I say it? You knew I facts. That’s just would. There is something disturbsmart business. ing to me in that photograph of our mayor and commission and staff all posing together wearing CAT caps—the one where they’re all looking straight ahead, except for the mayor, who cuts her eyes at the camera. I certainly don’t begrudge them this moment of glory, brought about by heroic efforts from our staff, led by the manager and never-before-seen cooperation between our government and Oconee County’s. The deal is sealed, and now we’ll see how it works out. We’ll see how Caterpillar fits into our community and how we accept Caterpillar. Up until now, everything has been top secret, as these matters always are—no press, no public meetings, no citizen involvement: the perfect business transaction, everything behind closed doors, every tax abatement, every expense for water and sewer and transportation, land purchase, workforce training—all worked out away from the prying eyes and questioning minds of our citizens: all done for us by the experts who know what we need and want and have finally figured out a way to get it for us and certainly don’t need any help from the Athens music community lamenting the trees that will be cut down. We are welcoming a company that is on the cutting edge of adapting to modern economic realities, a highly profitable American company that is bringing jobs back home by negotiating pay cuts with unions, avoiding unions by moving to “right-to-work” states and leaving states where it deems corporate taxes too high. We welcome Caterpillar gladly, as we would welcome any other corporation that brought us jobs, because we are desperate. If they decide to retreat from their promise to pay above the median wage in Athens and Oconee, that will be okay, too. Like the rest of America, we are in no position to bargain. Caterpillar, like the automobile manufacturers, has caught on to the fact that our long-running recession has finally made it unnecessary to go to third-world countries for cheap labor when they can get it right here at home. That’s just the facts. That’s just smart business. The “union bosses” are dead, and they never lived in Georgia, anyway. It’s a Walmart world, and Caterpillar employees, like their counterparts in the new GM jobs, will shop at Walmart to make ends meet if necessary. They’ll need the new Walmart downtown and probably a few more nearer the site. Yeah, yeah, I know. What’s the dif? We’ve got Caterpillar and the jobs we have lacked for so long, and that’s the main thing we had to have. I’m just sayin’: we don’t know what else we’ve got, because we weren’t behind those closed doors. For this gigantic windfall to work out in the best interests of Athens-Clarke County citizens and Oconee County citizens, we are totally dependent on our elected governments and their staffs to look out for us—and they’re all wearing CAT hats. Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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city dope Athens News and Views Gamechanger: The Athens-Clarke County accommodate workers who can’t drive to the Mayor, commissioners and senior staff were in plant, which will help. high spirits last Friday after voting to approve But what we’re talking about is the need financial and partnership arrangements related for a massive mobilization of local resources, to the freshly announced agreement with starting immediately with a refocusing of the heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar to attentions of ACC’s government, nonprofits, locate a major new factory on the border of churches and anyone else here who sees this Clarke and Oconee counties. And who could as an opportunity not just to boost the overall blame them? The plant and its suppliers will economy, but finally to do something serious bring thousands of jobs and millions of about our disgraceful economic inequality. annual tax dollars to ACC within a few short It’s going to be a busy year. years, putting a huge, desperately needed jolt in the troubled local economy. But the Turd in the Punchbowl: Speaking of local news came as a great symbolic victory, too, disgraces, ACC’s delegation to the Georgia for a government that has sometimes been Legislature continues to flaunt its absolute accused of being backwards on economic disinterest in even pretending to be responissues. When the question of what this develsive to its constituents in any ways that don’t opment says about the idea that ACC isn’t reflect the most unprincipled partisanship “business-friendly” was posed to Mayor Nancy imaginable. When Rep. Chuck Williams, a Denson, ACC Manager Alan Reddish and several Republican from Watkinsville, stated his intencommissioners following a festive photo-op tion to support the local reapportionment outside City Hall, Commissioner Andy Herod map overwhelmingly supported by the ACC quickly summed up the day’s consensus: government and citizens’ committees—despite “It says it’s nonsense.” the fact that such support would fail to take There are certainly more than a few other advantage of an opportunity to reorganize communities in the United States that will said government against its wishes, just vouch for that this week, after they were because its current elected officials are mostly beaten out for an industrial boon so signifiDemocrats—there was briefly hope that the cant that we can probably set the over-under rest of the delegation might be shamed into on days before a presidential visit just as some semblance of legitimate representasoon as a groundbreaking date is announced. tion of this community. This, despite a regulatory approach that What a joke. It now appears likely, as robustly protects irreplaceable local character anyone in touch with current political realand the natural environity should have expected ment (Commissioner Kelly all along, that the This great good fortune Republicans and Keith Girtz made the point that Caterpillar is well aware of has come to a city that Heard will go ahead and ACC’s strict environmental blow up Athens’ system of has been shaped by requirements, including government just because those governing stream they can. One possible many years of careful buffers, and chose to scenario has them waiving policymaking and spend its money here anythe delegation’s long-held way). Commissioner Alice rule and submitdeliberately set priorities. unanimity Kinman observed that the ting to the full Legislature groundwork for this winda completely re-drawn map fall was laid by the work of past mayors and that divides ACC into 10 geographical districts commissions, and that’s certainly true. To put and eliminates “superdistricts.” The problem, a finer point on it, we should take note that of course, is Doug McKillip—the desperate this great good fortune has come, through an creep and former “progressive Democrat” exceedingly selective process, to a city that whose Facebook page now assures us he will has been shaped by many years of careful “stand up for states’ rights by opposing policymaking and deliberately set priorities; the Obama Agenda”—and it’s indicative of the Dope will refer you to Kevan Williams’ the larger problem that has rendered today’s Athens Rising column for a detailed exploraRepublican Party incapable of governing at all. tion of how that should inform other ongoing Just as Republicans in Washington are economic development conversations in this precluded from proposing or supporting policommunity. cies that are remotely sane for fear of being As for this one, though, the talk—and rejected by the party’s increasingly extremist the work—has barely begun. The whole base—and risk being defeated in a primary Caterpillar deal came together in less than two by the next Christine O’Donnell or Sharron months; the plant, we’re told, should open Angle—the flamboyantly conservative poses in less than a year. In the meantime, there’s now being struck by McKillip, including his plenty to be done to ensure that it has the cynically calculated hostility to relatively maximum positive impact on the community. liberal ACC, must now be aped by the likes of The sputtering local economic development the once-reasonable Bill Cowsert. That may be mechanism will be required to spring into inconvenient news for the citizens of Clarke high gear immediately in order to attract as County, who would just as soon remain in many of Caterpillar’s suppliers as possible control of their own local government, but in to this county, as opposed to neighboring the long run, we’ll be fine (see above item). ones. Reddish confirmed that the plant’s It’s seriously bad news for the Republicans production jobs will all be filled locally, themselves, who will continue to decline in and Athens Tech and the Athens Community legitimacy and influence so long as they keep Career Academy will begin training for those embracing aberrant freaks like their repellent positions as soon as possible. That’s great, gang of presidential candidates and sinister but it’s going to take more to ensure that the clowns like McKillip. For now, wish ‘em luck benefits of this enormous new asset can reach sleeping at night—and regaining their credthose who are deeply mired in Athens’ gnawibility with the spherical-Earth crowd. ing poverty. Denson says Caterpillar has been assured the county’s public transit system will Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

city pages the county’s Department of Human and Economic Development. Looking to relocate to downtown Athens? Talk to the Downtown Development Authority. If you are a larger business looking to relocate, you can turn to bonds issued through the ACC Industrial Development Authority and the Economic Finding resources to help grow your busiDevelopment Authority. Or, you can contact ness in Athens is a bit like trying to untangle the Economic Development Foundation (a spaghetti. There are about a dozen foundanonprofit supported by various public entities) tions, boards, authorities and organizations or the recently formed Metro Athens Growth in Clarke County that are ready and willing to Federation (an organization of community help a business, no matter its size—whether leaders). Then there are smaller neighborhoodit wants to hire another employee or bring its centric organizations that focus on microloans entire operation to Northeast Georgia. But the and grants for businesses, construction and problem is, without one central voice guidgeneral economic improvements to specific ing businesses to help find the right resource, areas within Athens; these include the East it’s as if you’re eating that bowl of spaghetti Athens Development Corporation and the without a fork. And that can get pretty messy. Hancock Community Development Corporation. That topic came up at last week’s meetAnd then, there are the resources offered ing of Mayor Nancy Denson’s Economic through the University of Georgia. Looking Development Task Force, which has been to craft a business plan? Talk to the Small charged with developing a strategic economic Business Development Center. Looking for development plan for Athens-Clarke County. studies in specific areas? The Selig Center Through monthly meetings and a series of for Economic Growth or the Center for public forums, the group, made up of members Agribusiness and Economic Development can of the local business comhelp set you on the right munity, has until October to “If a business wants path. And, if you still haven’t put together a strategic plan found what you’re looking for approval by the Mayor and to come to Athens, for, the Office of Economic Commission. The task force’s Development will help comwho do you call?” first public forum is 7–9 p.m. panies, governments and Wednesday, Feb. 22 at the nonprofits work out the right Classic Center Fire Hall. Anyone with ideas plan. Even Georgia Tech has offices in Athens about how Athens’ economy should look in the to help economic growth—one helps businext 20 years—and on how to get there—is nesses looking to work with federal agencies, welcome to attend and add their input. and another helps businesses evaluate their There are plenty of impediments to ecoefficiency, whether it’s using less energy or nomic growth in ACC (infrastructure and managing a manufacturer’s production. education challenges or the perception of the Marketing is one of the specific jobs the county as “anti-business,” for example). But Economic Development Foundation does, said while there also are engines for economic Dr. Virginia Patel, who chairs its board. The growth, because they lack a centralized conEDF reaches out on a state and national level tact point, it can be very difficult to navigate to market Athens and attract larger businesses the sea of services available. willing to relocate, she said, adding that there “Right now, if a business wants to come to are 11 projects in the works for Athens. Athens, who do you call?” asked local attorney One of those is the recently announced Mike Morris, a member of the task force. “If Caterpillar manufacturing plant relocating I’m coming to Athens to start a business, what to a large tract of land on the Clarke-Oconee do I do?… I think right now, people comcounty line, bringing 1,400 jobs on its own, ing to Athens don’t know who’s speaking for and many more with its suppliers. “This is Athens.” fantastic, because the two counties have If you’re looking for capital to hire worked together,” Patel told Flagpole. “Mac more employees or expand your building, Brown, who is the acting vice president and there are grants you can apply for through CEO for the EDF, has worked very hard on this

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project, as well as [Oconee County Economic Development Director] Rusty Haygood.” The project, which came onto the EDF’s radar in December, had everyone at the EDF, as well as the mayor and county commissioners, sworn to secrecy. “That was something the company was so firm about,” said Patel, “and if a leak happened, that could have killed it.” This is one example of how the EDF works specifically with the state Economic Development Office to attract large employers to the area, said Patel. “In Georgia, there is a state level of economic development,” she told the task force. “So, a lot of these large organizations contact the state.” Patel said she thinks the EDF’s process is working—but she did acknowledge there is overlap between various economic development groups. “All of these interplay with each other,” she said. “It would be nice for these to be all together in one location.” Many of the ideas for economic development—and impediments to it in Athens— discussed by the task force echoed a 2011 report by Janus Economics, funded by Georgia Power for the EDF. The report noted there

was no shared vision or long-term plan for economic development in the county, and suggested coming up with a strategic plan for economic development—something the task force is now working on. On the task force, members discussed the relationships ACC, as well as private entities, have with UGA, and also how services might be combined by an “ombudsman” to advocate for businesses within the government. Just having someone to help with permitting or deciphering local ordinances would be a valuable asset, they said. And while each entity serving businesses does have a specific role, a well-defined partnership between them all would help, added Janice Mathis, founder of the Metro Athens Growth Federation. The organization’s goal is to “bring good jobs to Athens and the surrounding region,” according to its website. “It’s a very specialized kind of partnership,” Mathis said. “Everyone who works on economic development knows what their role is.”

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Once in a while, you’ll see an inspiring idea emerge from under the Golden Dome of our state Capitol. For every good idea, of course, you will see hundreds of proposals that are misguided, ill-conceived, or just plain awful. One of those ideas surfaced the other day in a House subcommittee that was discussing a piece of legislation designated as HB 887. This bill would authorize employees of the Department of Natural Resources, from Commissioner Mark Williams down to the newest game ranger or clerk, to solicit private donations that could be “used in the furtherance of the purposes, objectives, powers, duties, or responsibilities of the department.” It’s unsettling to think that state employees would be out on the streets pleading with CEOs and other business people to donate money to run their government agency. As Rep. Judy Manning (R-Marietta) put it, “I don’t want to start a state employees’ kettle brigade.” There is a much more disturbing aspect of this bill. One of the minority party members on the subcommittee noted that employees of DNR, which includes the environmental protection division that issues air and water quality permits, could be placed in a position where they ask for money from one of the companies that their agency regulates. “We don’t want a quid pro quo where someone says, ‘I’ll give you this now and I’ll be asking for a permit later,’” said Rep. Debbie Buckner (D-Junction City). Rep. Chuck Williams (R-Watkinsville) pointed out that some of these requests for money could be made by DNR rangers who are armed law enforcement officials, thus raising the specter of shakedowns by state employees. “I’m a little uneasy about DNR employees, some of whom carry firearms and have a ticket book, asking for donations,” Williams said. The author of this particular measure,

Rep. Chad Nimmer (R-Blackshear), had an understandable motivation for introducing HB 887. The Department of Natural Resources has been hit probably harder than any other state agency during the last four years of the economic downturn. DNR’s budget has been whacked by 33 percent, and its workforce has been reduced by 26 percent—while the department is still expected to maintain the 1.1 million acres that make up our state parks, golf courses and wildlife management areas. DNR was authorized by the Legislature to set up a foundation two years ago that can legally accept corporate donations to help pay for the department’s various activities. “This simply enables them to ask for funds as well,” Nimmer said. This is no way to finance or operate a department of state government. If our legislators believe that Georgia should be involved in operating state parks and wildlife areas, along with enforcing environmental regulations, then they should put the money in the budget for these functions. If our elected officials don’t think that state government should be doing these things, then let’s shut down DNR, put the parks up for sale, and let the federal EPA take over the issuance of environmental permits. It is not a wise idea to have state employees begging for contributions to run a public government agency—or to have these employees put in a position where they could be shaking down private citizens or accepting bribes from corporate polluters. As she closed out the hearing on HB 887, Manning commented, “We’re not quite ready to have this put in the book yet. We need to do a little work on it.” That work should consist of digging a deep hole and burying this misguided piece of legislation so deeply that it never sees the light of day again. Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

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you that in our discussions with the company the thing that they kept coming back to was the great quality of life they can expect here in our community for their senior executives and managers who will be working at the plant.” Commissioner Mike Hamby seconded the notion, saying “The quality of life we have here was a big part in making this happen.” A county press release announcing the project also echoed the sentiment. The way Oconee County, ACC and the state came together to make the deal happen so quickly also seems to run counter to previous characterizations of this community’s relationships with its neighbors. Hamby noted that the collaboration with Oconee “went off very smoothly.” How does this line up with previous attempts at regional collaboration on economic development? Caterpillar is a gamechanger for Athens and the region economically, no doubt. But what does it say about our efforts to date, given how far off the local discourse about economic development seems to have been from the actualities of bringing a major employer to the community? Perhaps now is the time to start talking about economic development with a clean slate. Our preconceptions about our own strengths and weaknesses don’t seem to hold, and members of a newly formed economic development task force might do well to steer clear of the conventional wisdom. If we abandon our previous baggage and start framing the issue with our newly acquired assets, not only locally but in surrounding counties, things start to look quite a bit different: Athens, GA is America’s quintessential college town, home to one of the South’s premier universities. That university includes a medical school which, along with two hospitals, forms the heart of a burgeoning health sciences industry. Throughout the region are a number of manufacturing operations, most notably including a major Caterpillar plant, which serve as proving grounds for graduates of the University of Georgia’s new undergraduate and graduate engineering programs, and students

With the news that Caterpillar will build a factory here, bringing 1,400 direct jobs and an estimated 2,800 more throughout the region for a network of two dozen or so suppliers, the conversation about growth in Athens has changed significantly. The arguments so long made about why things like this can’t happen here have been turned on their heads. Some local leaders have continually made claims that Athens-Clarke County is “businessunfriendly”—that development regulation here is too tough. Mayor Nancy Denson even campaigned on the issue by talking about onerous zoning requirements, like those for bike racks, as a hindrance to economic development. Those regulations seem not to have deterred Caterpillar, though. Our undereducated workforce has also been frequently cited as preventing us from attracting high-quality jobs; the lack of an interstate highway has been noted equally often. A recent study of Athens’ economic development efforts, conducted by the Janus consulting firm and funded by Georgia Power, summarized many of these claims. And yet, here is Caterpillar. According to company VP Mary Bell, quoted in the Athens Banner-Herald, Athens was selected for, among other reasons, “a positive and pro-active business climate and a good pool of potential employees with manufacturing experience.” Hasn’t she read the Janus report? Likewise, “quality of life” has taken on a pejorative connotation, with some questioning the role it has to play in serious economic development. Quality of life has been set up in a false dichotomy with economic growth, and there have been suggestions that there must be balance between the two. The battle over Selig’s Walmart proposal bears this out, with the implication that those protesting the development for its potential negative impacts on Athens’ livability are out of touch and antibusiness. Apparently, though, Athens’ unique character was a big factor in Caterpillar’s choice. In an email to constituents, ACC Commissioner Andy Herod noted this, writing “I can tell

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The shaded area straddling the Clarke-Oconee county line in the above map is the Orkin property, where Caterpillar will locate a new manufacturing plant. from a highly regarded local technical college. Athens has a terrific local airport, is well-served by rail, and is at the crossroads of a network of federal and state highways that provide quick access to the world’s largest passenger airport in Atlanta and the nation’s fourth-largest port in Savannah. The local school system has undergone a rapid transformation, renovating all of its facilities and developing innovative new partnerships, such as those with the university’s education college and the local nonprofit Whatever it Takes, while significantly increasing graduation rates. Athens has accomplished all of this while diligently protecting its natural resources, cultivating an international reputation for music and the arts and retaining an excellent balance between classic and quirky, small-town and big-city, country and rock and roll. This is our story, and we need to begin the next chapter of our community’s evolution on this sort of positive note. Of course, there is still work to be done. The economic downturn has turned many discourses in a pessimistic direction, and that has divided the town, particularly in regard to the Selig development in downtown Athens. Any job is a good job, some have claimed, and that justifies risking the things that others now claim were such a major asset in attracting Caterpillar to Athens. I’d argue that, while compromising our standards and our identity may be unfriendly to one type of business, holding on to our

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priorities is apparently attractive to another kind of business. That kind of business is apparently a more desirable one anyway, though, paying salaries not just barely above minimum wage, but above the community’s median income, and providing an order of magnitude more of them. We’ve got to move away from an adversarial relationship between business and community interests and toward a mutually reinforcing one. Hopefully, the economic development task force’s members will move beyond the board room in which they meet, and make a serious attempt to understand what it is about Athens that is so infectious to so many, and how we can craft a strategy that not only acknowledges that, but grows organically from it. Athens has been needing a win for a long time now, and it looks like we’ve hit the jackpot. However, we mustn’t consider our work done. We still have alarming intergenerational poverty in this community, and we are in many ways deeply divided. Let’s take this moment as a chance to really understand why those adversarial relationships exist, and attempt to overcome them. Athens is a place like nowhere else, and if we can start crafting a newer, more inclusive narrative for our community and sharing it with the world, perhaps Caterpillar will represent the first of many bright moments in our future. Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week. • indicates new review ACT OF VALOR (R) I am intrigued by the concept—active duty Navy SEALs recreating real events—more than the actual story: kidnapped CIA agent, deadly new terrorist threat, yada yada yada, worldwide manhunt. The directing duo of Mike McCoy (“Hot Wheels: Madness at the 500”) and Scott Waugh, a stunt specialist who worked on Showtime’s terrorist series “Sleeper Cell,” don’t provide a lot to go on, but writer Kurt Johnstad helped Zack Snyder with 300. The non-professional stars can definitely handle the action, but can they survive the drama? A DANGEROUS METHOD (R) Young psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud (Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen, respectively) are working together to create a theory for what will become modern psychoanalysis. A young patient (Keira Knightly) with a crippling mental disorder pulls Jung further from the influence of his mentor in this true, romantic thriller. THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) Herge’s Belgian globetrotter, Tintin, and Captain Haddock are in search of sunken ship in this MoCap’d CGI adventure. The directing of Steven Spielberg and producing of Peter Jackson (who has signed on to direct a sequel) is nearly as exciting as a script by Stephen Moffat (“Doctor Who”), Edgar Wright and hot newcomer Joe Cornish, whose Attack the Block was one of my favorite surprises of 2011. ALBERT NOBBS (R) 2011. Glenn Close stars as a woman in late 19th century Ireland posing as a man so that she can work in an upscale hotel in Dublin and live an independent life, despite her gender’s expectation to do otherwise. ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Alvin, Simon, Theodore, the Chipettes and Dave (poor, paycheck-cashing Jason Lee) start out on a cruise ship and wind up on a deserted island. Judging by the boffo box office of the previous two features plus the young audience’s reaction to the new pic’s trailer, Chipwrecked should provide its studio with some holiday cheer. ANNIE HALL (PG) 1977. Tate is celebrating the Academy Awards with an Oscar Weekend celebration that includes Woody Allen’s charmer. The Wood-man stars as Alvy Singer, who recounts his woeful search for love in New York City. Alvy thinks the freespirited Annie Hall (Oscar winner Diane Keaton) is the one, but love doesn’t always go as planned. THE ARTIST (PG-13) Films today do not come as precious or charming as Michel Hazanavicius’ silent, Golden Globe winning Oscar frontrunner. A silent film that is all about talking, The Artist of title refers to matinee idol George Valentin (Academy Award nominee Jean Dujardin, who absolutely must be a silent film star Hazanivicius recently thawed from ice), who finds it difficult to transition from silent films to talkies, unlike rising star Peppy Miller (Academy Award nominee Bérénice Bejo). But Miller has a crush on Valentin that predates her stardom and will do everything she can to help the despondent, one-time star. Like an unearthed gem, a long-lost silent relic, The Artist is at once wholly familiar yet

completely foreign. Who knew a trifling eccentricity would wind up 2011’s most daring film? BIG MIRACLE (PG-13) Do you like whales? What about Drew Barrymore? Are sitcoms right up your alley? If you answered yes to any one of these queries, Big Miracle is for you! Based on a true story, this lighthearted family film recounts the time humanity combined to free a family of three gray whales from their Arctic ice prison. CHRONICLE (PG-13) An out of nowhere genre success, Chronicle should find easy entry into the cult classic pantheon. Three high schoolers (Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and “Friday Night Lights”’ Michael B. Jordan) stumble upon a mysterious cave and wind up with telekinetic powers. But, as Spider-Man teaches, “with great power comes great responsibility,” and not everyone can handle it. As the teenagers’ powers grow, one becomes increasingly dangerous. What seems to be heading toward Carrie horror territory winds up being more of a supervillain origin story, and it’s brilliant. CONTRABAND (R) How much cooler would this flick have been had it recounted the tale of Bill and Lance, two lonely, shirtless soldiers blasting their way to the Alien’s lair to the sounds of Cinemechanica? Much, much cooler. Alas, Contraband is merely a standard, occasionally thrilling heist flick starring the “always reliable for this sort of action” Mark Wahlberg. As Chris Farraday, a former master smuggler gone legit, Wahlberg calmly muscles his way from New Orleans to Panama in order to get his brother-in-law (X-Men: First Class’s Caleb Landry Jones) out of trouble with a small-time crook (Giovanni Ribisi). THE DESCENDANTS (R) After a tragic accident leaves his wife in a coma, lawyer and owner of the last parcel of virgin land in Hawaii, Matt King (George Clooney), struggles to raise his two daughters, come to peace with revelations about his dying wife and decide what to do with his important land. Clooney is this generation’s Paul Newman, a cool cat who can pull off anything he’s asked to do on screen. Here, in his tucked-in Hawaiian shirts, he epitomizes the suburban dad. Still, he drops comic gems and dramatic bombs with ease. DOUBLE VICTORY: THE STORY OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN (NR) Produced by George Lucas as a companion piece to his recently released, Red Tails, Double Victory: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen previously aired on The History Channel. Narrated by Red Tails star Cuba Gooding, Jr., Double Victory refers to the Airmen’s conquering Jim Crow and the segregation of the military. The documentary will be introduced by John Morrow, who appeared in the film and will lead the post-film discussion. • GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (PG-13) Marvel’s Neveldine/Taylor experiment might have gone better had the company had the guts to release another R-rated flick a la their two Punisher flops. The Crank duo brings their frenetic, non-stop visual style, but those wicked paeans to hedonism had a narrative need to never

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slow down (its lead character would die). Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance must pump the brakes occasionally to let the “story” catch up, and Neveldine/ Taylor never seem as comfortable when the movie’s not rocketing along at 100 miles an hour. They also don’t keep a tight enough rein on their star; Nic Cage is allowed to unleash every one of his worst acting instincts as Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider, tasked with saving a young boy from the Devil (Ciaran Hinds). A handful of my favorite actors (Hinds, Idris Elba, Anthony Head) cannot save this merrily daft movie. THE GODFATHER (R) 1972. Tate is celebrating the Academy Awards with an Oscar Weekend celebration that includes Francis Ford Coppola’s gangland epic that is arguably acclaimed as the greatest American film of all time. Whether or not it’s the greatest, second greatest or lower, the quality of Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s purely pulpy novel is not up for debate. Brando was good, but Al Pacino got robbed of an Academy Award.

wilderness. With Dermot Mulroney and James Badge Dale (“The Pacific”). HUGO (PG) Oh, to be an orphan living in an early-20th-century clock! Despite its near perfection, this 3D family film—Martin Scorsese’s first— may be the loveliest wide release to struggle to find its audience this year. Yet it’s no wonder Scorsese, himself a film historian as well as a film lover, decided to adapt Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, whose central mystery revolves around an early cinematic master. Parisian orphan Hugo (Asa Butterfield), who lives inside the clocktower of the train station, seeks the answer to a mysterious automaton, left unsolved by his late father and clockmaker (Jude Law), with the help of a toymaker named Georges (Ben Kingsley) and his charge, Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz). THE IRON LADY (PG-13) As a fan of all things British, The Iron Lady should have been more appealing to me, but the clumsy construction by director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) and writer Abi Morgan sink it. Meryl Streep

Why can’t we live in a van down by the river? GOOD DEEDS (PG-13) Tyler Perry returns without Madea for another faithful, romantic dramedy. Perry writes, directs and stars in the story of high-powered executive Wesley Deeds, who, on the eve of his wedding, begins to support a lovely single mother (Thandie Newton) that works in his office. You can imagine this complicated new relationship does not please his fiancée (Gabrielle Union) or controlling mother (Phylicia Rashad, the inimitable Clair Huxtable). m GONE (PG-13) Where’s Liam Neeson when you need him? Amanda Seyfried’s Jill could totally use his Taken skills when her sister disappears. Jill suspects the serial killer who kidnapped her a couple of years earlier has returned, and she vows to hunt him down. I don’t know much about director Heitor Dhalia, for whom Gone is his fourth movie, but writer Allison Burnett has a weak track record (Autumn in New York, Untraceable, Fame, Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight). With Jennifer Carpenter (“Dexter”). THE GREY (R) February is ending; it must be time for another Liam Neeson actioner. The formerly acclaimed actor has almost completed his transformation into an Irish Denzel Washington, whose filmography is filling up with inconsequential paychecks jobs. At least Joe Carnahan (Narc, The A-Team) is writing and directing this tale of an Alaskan drilling team struggling to defeat a pack of wolves hunting them after their plane crashes in the

may not be a revelation (she cannot be; the highest level of acting is expected of her), but her Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated portrayal of Margaret Thatcher goes beyond mere impression. JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’s biggest problem might be time. Many of the young people who enjoyed its 2008 forebear, Journey to the Center of the Earth, might have outgrown the Brendan Fraser/Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson brand of family adventure movie. MADONNA OF THE MILLS (NR) Part of the seventh annual Animal Voices Festival sponsored by Speak Out for Species, Madonna of the Mills refers to Laura, who saves 2,000 dogs from puppy mills located in Amish Country, and four of the rescued pups. Christy Champagne, Supervisor of Athens-Clarke County Animal Control, and Michelle Rabold, Outreach Coordinator for Athens Canine Rescue, will lead the discussion. This film is screening as part of World Spay Day. OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) All 15 of the short films nominated for 2012 Oscars can be seen in one sitting, featuring selections of animated, live action and documentary films. RED TAILS (PG-13) Red Tails, created by George Lucas, succeeds everywhere it should and fails nowhere that should surprise anyone. The valor of the Tuskegee Airmen is every

bit as worthy of patriotic, big screen fanfare as the flyers of Pearl Harbor and the WWI-era Lafayette Escadrille in Flyboys, and their movie is every bit the equal of dramatic lightweight and action heavyweight. These three aviation-centered war movies are near interchangeable, besides their single major hooks (Pearl Harbor, World War I and African-American pilots). A crew of attractive young black men (including Nate Parker, David Oleyowo, Tristan Wilds and Ne-Yo) are led into combat by stalwart veterans Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Terrence Howard and must battle racism on the ground and in the air. SAFE HOUSE (R) For Safe House’s target fans of Denzel Washington, whizzing bullets and car chases, the action flick is critically bulletproof; for me, it was competently boring. Former CIA operative turned rogue asset, Tobin Frost (Washington), goes on the run with green agent Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds, in the thankless role anyone could have filled) hot on his heels. Washington remains the laziest talent in Hollywood. What draws him to waste his chops on these action-filled scripts with such obvious plot trajectories? • THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G) In an era when most animated features are brash, loud commercials for action figures with fast food tie-ins, Studio Ghibli releases a quiet, thoughtful, humorous cartoon adaptation of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers. A young boy, Shawn (v. David Henrie), is sent to recuperate in the solitude of his aunt’s home. There he meets a tiny family of “Borrowers”—father Pod (v. Will Arnett, who does surprisingly well in a non-comedic role), mother Homily (v. Amy Poehler) and Arrietty (v. Bridgit Mendler)—and protects them from the nosy housekeeper, Hara (v. Carol Burnett). How refreshing it was to hear the few children in the theater laugh at an animated film that did not feature jokes about bodily functions, silly voices (I’m looking at you, Mater) or cute, talking animals! The Secret World of Arrietty may not have been directed by Hayao Miyazaki (he is credited as writer and executive producer), yet it retains the creative and artistic hallmarks of his greatest works. The attention to detail paid to Arrietty’s miniature world simply stuns. The illchosen musical interludes are the film’s single misstep. SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13) Much like its 2009 predecessor, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a perfectly forgettable crowdpleaser. Robert Downey, Jr. revisits his hyper-bordering-on-manic, streetfighting master sleuth, this time tasked with defeating his literary archnemesis, Professor James Moriarty (the appropriate Jared Harris of AMC’s “Mad Men”). STAR WARS: EPISODE I—THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (PG) At nearly 13 years old, George Lucas’ return to that galaxy far, far away has not gotten better with age. Adding more dimensions has not helped either. The bad far outweighs the good as the prequels begin amid a trade dispute between the greedy Trade Federation and the tiny planet of Naboo. I dozed off just typing that synopsis. • THIS MEANS WAR (PG-13) They might as well have ponied up for the “Spy vs. Spy” license and made a

truly misguided adaptation of the old “Mad” comic strip. Two of the CIA’s top agents/besties, FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy), wind up dating the same girl, Lauren Scott (Reese Witherspoon). You know the drill. FDR and Tuck’s friendship is tested, as both fall for Lauren, but it’s more important that the player of the duo falls in love than the already sensitive one with a kid. Poorly edited early on—not much makes sense in what should be a pretty straightforward first act—This Means War never really finds a groove. This action romcom hybrid has a few fleeting moments, thanks to the bromantic chemistry between beefcake stars Pine and Hardy. Unfortunately, neither man shares that same spark with third lead, Witherspoon. UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (R) I’ve never understood why the Underworld movies are so underwhelming. Vampires versus werewolves, Kate Beckinsale in skin-tight black leather, Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen all should add up to a crazy awesome movie. Instead, the three previous Underworlds make great cures for insomnia. They’re some of the most soporific action movies I’ve ever seen. UNFORGIVEN (R) 1992. Tate is celebrating the Academy Awards with an Oscar Weekend celebration that includes Clint Eastwood’s brooding oater about William Munny, an aging gunfighter who takes one last job to help his dying family farm. The job leads him directly into the path of evil sheriff Little Bill (Gene Hackman). Eastwood is terrific as Munny and Morgan Freeman is better as partner Ned Logan, yet it’s Eastwood’s sure hand behind the camera that rules the day. One of the truly phenomenal films of the 1990s, Unforgiven rejuvenated Clint’s rather potent career as a filmmaker, not just an acting icon. THE VOW (PG-13) Nicholas Sparks has to be kicking himself for not coming up with this plot first. A young couple, Paige and Leo Collins (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum), struggle to fall in love again after a car accident erases all of Paige’s memories of Leo and their marriage. As these plots are wont to do, Paige’s rich parents (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange) and her ex-lover (Scott Speedman) use her tabula rasa to rewrite their past wrongs, while Leo must cope with the realization that his wife might never remember him. WANDERLUST (R) I feel like it’s been years since I first read about this highly anticipated new comedy from Paul Rudd and his Role Models director David Wain. Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star as a thoroughly modern Manhattan couple who wind up experiencing the free love lifestyle of a rural commune. MTV “State” alums Wain and the awesome Ken Marino wrote the script; don’t be surprised when other “State” members pop up sans clothing. WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) This movie just generates some odd feelings. A movie directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church sounds like a serious winner, but then there’s the title. A dad (Damon) moves his family to Southern California to renovate a struggling zoo. THE WOMAN IN BLACK (PG-13) Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, returns to the big screen for his first role since the epic story of the famed Boy Who Lived ended. Sporting tremendously manicured sideburns, Radcliffe stars as lawyer Arthur Kipps, a widower struggling to raise his young son. Kipps must travel to an isolated village and tidy up the affairs at an abandoned old house. Like something out of Lovecraft, the locals aren’t very welcoming to this strange newcomer. Drew Wheeler

movie pick Darker Differences A DANGEROUS METHOD (R) Director David movies. It feels inevitable that he’d deal with Cronenberg has been one of cinema’s most them straight-forwardly. daring filmmakers. He’s not an aggressive On its surface, A Dangerous Method appears visual stylist like Lynch or Scorsese, although like a more respectable, well-behaved proover the years his films have exhibited a duction than the earlier The Brood or Naked stronger classically formal quality. He’s come Lunch. You’ll find no murderous mutant a long way since his early days making bloody children or talking giant cockroaches here. though provocative exploitation movies. In Cronenberg hasn’t entirely abandoned his the realm of ideas, however, Cronenberg has transgressive instincts, though. He may not always stood apart. His work has consistently bare his teeth so savagely, but his obsessions explored themes of body transfiguration as are nevertheless firmly present, as is his abilpersonal revolution, the ity to extract strong perspreading of venereal formances from his leads. disease as an act of Fassbender is magnetic as rebellion and the frightthe repressed Jung, while ening though liberating Mortensen has a bit more possibilities connected fun as Freud, injecting with the breaking of a subtle sardonic elesexual norms. Despite the ment into the otherwise consistency of his preocdry proceedings. Where cupations, he’s proven to things go astray is with be one of our most proKnightley’s fractured tean filmmakers. Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley performance; it is assured It may surprise and perceptive for long some that the man who gave us Videodrome periods, jarringly over-the-top at other times. and The Fly would make a full-on historical It’s unfortunate that Cronenberg has abanpiece with A Dangerous Method, especially a doned the monstrous metaphors he usually straight dramatic movie about the contenemploys. The richness of fantastical storytelltious relationship between Sigmund Freud ing is that it can illuminate ideas and emo(Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael tions regarding the human condition that Fassbender) and the latter’s relationship straight naturalism sometimes can’t. And yet with his troubled patient and later colleague even with Cronenberg on his best behavior Sabina Spielrein (Kiera Knightley). But these here, a radicalness hides between the cracks. two pioneers of inner space, specifically Freud, have always filtered through Cronenberg’s Derek Hill

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Give a Hoot: The Athens office of The American Red Cross is seeking solo and duo acts to play its monthly “Happy Hour Hootenanny.” Before you ask, yes, you should be an acoustic act—or at least be able to perform acoustically. The commitment is simply two half-hour sets over the course of a couple of evening hours at the Red Cross’ Athens Donor Center. All interested parties should contact coordinator Stephen Cramer via cramerse@usa.redcross.org. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go: Local rockers Vincas will release their album Blood Bleeds Friday, Feb. 24 at the Caledonia Lounge. The bill this night is shared with The Darnell Boys and Gentleman Jesse & His Men. Drummer Joe McMullen recorded the album via a fourtrack recorder in the band’s practice space between 2010 and 2011. Kyle Spence handled mixing and mastering. Matt Cherry (Maserati)

Thayer Sarrano did the spooky pink-and-red cover art, and the first 100 copies of the vinyl are nicely screenprinted. The darkly psychedelic album is reminiscent of The Gun Club, Halo of Flies and that heavy-lidded sensation of just-administered sedation before tooth extraction. Consider it recommended. Sample it all over at www.vincas.bandcamp.com. Flip on Over: Tickets are on sale now for a pancake breakfast at Fatz Cafe (4115 Lexington Rd. ) on Saturday, Mar. 3. The proceeds will benefit The Cedar Shoals High School Concert Choir and will help finance their trip to sing at New York’s Carnegie Hall this April. Tickets are $7, and kids under 6 eat free. For tickets and more information, please contact choral director Linda Moon at moonli@clarke.k12.ga.us or choral booster club parent Angela Johnson at ang_johnson @bellsouth.net. They Got Something to Say: Athens premier salsa-infused Misfits tribute band, Los Meesfits, finally laid down some tracks after threatening to record for a couple of years. The band recorded and mixed nine songs with Matt Tamisin (Japanski Studios) and had them mastered by Daniel Collins (PigPen Studios). Now the plan is to release the whole shebang on a limited 100-copy run through Florida’s Whirling Cloud cassette label. There are loose plans to throw them all on CD, 7-inch and/or LP, but nothing is solid in that

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area yet. Los Meesfits have upcoming shows around Georgia and South Carolina in the near future and hope to tour Florida in April. ¡Olé! One Thing at a Time: Nicklaus Andersen has sorta revived his now-semi-dormant Whiff Trophy project. It’s not clear if the lack of action on his part has been a crisis of confidence or just a pure case of the blahs, but, either way, he didn’t really do much music last year. At any rate, he’s clearing the decks of old Whiff Trophy tracks that have been sitting around, and this latest collection is titled End of End. It has the honor of being the 28th release from Whiff Trophy since 2008. With that track record, I think it’s OK he took a break. As expected, End of End is a bit more subdued—and perhaps slightly less inspired—than previous titles, but it still occupies the same guitar-’n’-electronics landscape as Andersen’s previous work. I once spent a whole day listening through his entire catalog. Take a baby step and check out End of End over at www. whifftrophy.com. Then work your way backward. Pack a Lunch: If you dig punk, ska and hardcore and have a solid 10 hours to spare on Saturday, Feb. 25, then head down to the Caledonia Lounge for the Dirty South Gnar Fest. Doors open at 4:30 p.m., and the event will feature sets from Lowdive, Karbomb, Bastard Suns, Hermits of Suburbia, Taj Motel Trio, Burns Like Fire, Soul Radics, Blame Sydney, Triangle Fire, El Chupaskabra, the aforementioned Los Meesfits and Stuck Lucky. Admission is hella cheap ($5 for over 21 and $7 for ages 18–20). The whole thing was organized by Brett James from Hermits of Suburbia, so if you need more information, go ask him whatever over at www.facebook.com/hermitsofsuburbia. Every Little Counts: Thayer Sarrano is running a combined album pre-order and Camp Amped at Nuçi’s Space benefit through the fundraising website Indie Go-Go. Her new album, Lift Your Eyes to the Hills, is slated for release on Mar. 20, but you can only pre-order it through the site. When you do, you’ll have several options to purchase ranging in price from $5–$1,500, and the rewards you get with purchase are commensurate with the amount you spend. Sarrano is really donating a lot of stuff to bigger spenders, and the profit from every package sold goes straight to Camp Amped. She is only retaining the production costs for each rewards package. The more packages sold, the more raw costs go down and the margin for Nuçi’s increases. At the very basic purchase level of $10, $9 will go to Nuçi’s. And it goes up from there. Sarrano has worked with Camp Amped as an instructor for the past four years, and this project is pretty special to her. You can preview the new album over at www.thayersarrano.com, and the fundraising site is www.indiegogo.com/ thayersarrano.

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thens-based duo pacificUV’s work has been drooled over by everyone from Spin to Pitchfork to NPR, even garnering the honor of “masterpiece” from Rolling Stone, but no one could blame you if you still hadn’t heard of them. In these days of Internet-fueled frenzied hype and turn-andburn releases, the dreampoppers’ pace of three albums in eight years has made them easy to miss. This is not lost on frontman and primary songwriter Clay Jordan. “I think with the first two records, I tended to be more of a slow person,” he says. “Some people like stimulants and some people like depressants, and I’m certainly a depressants person—if that’s an analogy for personality.” This sentiment is reflected beautifully on pacificUV’s latest release, Weekends, a fuzzy musing on the end of a relationship filtered through the experience of self-medicating on those lonely Friday and Saturday nights when, as Jordan says, “you have free time and you’re more introspective and you’re more alone.” What the band lacks in prolific output it consistently makes up for in thoughtfulness and quality. Weekends offers up chewy themes of loss and cognitive dissonance made accessible by a patina of pop sensibility provided by co-writer, bassist and knob-fiddler Suny Lyons. “Initially, my contribution to pacificUV was the studio,” Lyons says. “Clay had a bunch of songs that he’d started writing when he moved back from Portland, and he booked a bunch of studio time to work on them.” That collaboration in the studio soon began to grow, with Lyons contributing by playing more and more instruments on the record and soon, doing some of the songwriting as well. “Maybe a really good example is the song that’s sort of like our single: ‘Funny Girl,’” says Lyons. “That was one of the first songs that we really co-wrote, that I ended up singing. It’s basically about being in love with someone who’s hopelessly and fatally aloof and blasé, and the state of feeling unable to change the way that you’re in love with that person. Clay and I each had our own experiences with that to bring to the story, so we started writing that song together.” Lyons leaves his fingerprint on the record in other ways as well—such as the existential quandary “I’m Here (But It’s Not Me)” and

the touches of ‘70s and ‘80s pop in his ode to My Bloody Valentine: “Be My Only Shallow Love”—but the bulk of the songwriting and the overarching theme are decidedly Jordan’s. “I do [see this record as a concept album] to a certain degree,” says Jordan. “I like the idea of suggesting a narrative and then having the audience fill in the blanks.” While Weekends is indeed a mournful record, it’s not so melancholy as to be reserved for sad-day playlists or shelved until you need a good cry after a break-up. This is thanks in part to the vein of warm electropop that runs through it and in part to Jordan’s shift toward a more optimistic perspective. “I think I’m moving more toward the stimulants side, in terms of more upbeat music,” Jordan confides. “So, whatever, if this record’s average is 80 bpm, the next record’s like 100 or 120 bpm.” Also changing for pacificUV is the slow pace of the band’s output. Lyons and Jordan are already working on a new album which they hope to release by this time next year, and they’re planning to tour more extensively to support this record than they have done for any of their previous releases. They’re also managing, along with a small group of fellow musicians, a new record label called Mazarine (which released Weekends), a nonprofit they hope will empower musicians to make more money from their projects, rather than frittering it away on middle men. “We want to have this group of people who are all on the same page about quality of work and quantity of work and trying to create something that’s special,” says Lyons. With a fresh wave of warm praise for their latest record, a label that supports the interests of its docket of artists, and Jordan’s newfound “stimulant personality,” pacificUV seems poised at last to reach the level of success and notoriety their work and its attending press have long suggested they deserve. Rachel Bailey

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may be a cliché to say someone’s got music in his blood, but in the case of Zeke Sayer, it’s entirely true. Sayer, guitarist for and founder of garage-rockers The Humms, was raised on the Lavonia, GA property that’s home to Clem’s Shoal Creek Music Park. By the time his father, Clem Sayer, acquired the park in 1989, the land was already legendary. The park was founded in 1961 and was host to Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Loretta Lynn, among many others. The Georgia State Bluegrass Festival was an annual event that drew fans from all over the world. When the indoor auditorium was built in 1971, the inaugural performance was by Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner. Legend has it that Tammy Wynette finally left George Jones for the final time at Shoal Creek, too. Although times changed for the park in the 1980s, and things weren’t quite as rowdy, the park became more of a hobby for the late Clem Sayer than a business venture. This was the legacy that surrounded the young Sayer. The Gypsy Farm recording studio is located in a room at the front of the auditorium. Sayer’s first recording experiments began when his father bought him a used Fostex four-track recorder at a Pickens, SC flea market circa 2000. His hardware is more modern now, but the live room is as homey as ever, with wood paneling on the walls and braided rugs on the floor. “Everything goes straight to hard disc [now],” Zeke says. His recording style is traditional. “I like to get everyone in the room playing live and then handle overdubs and vocals later,” he says. “I like to have bands do a lot of songs quickly while they have the energy. Some bands come in and labor over one song forever… I’m a big fan of the Sam Phillips-Sun Studios way of recording. Just play the song and record it.” Listen to anything done at Gypsy Farm, especially tracks from the bands that Sayer has put out on his Gypsy Farm Records label, and the immediacy and urgency are palpable. While the bills always need to be paid, Sayer is in no hurry to bring in acts to record that he flat out doesn’t dig. “There’s a slight luxury of being able to turn down clients, but I do want people to record here,” he says. “When a band gets in touch and I like them, I want to get them in here as soon as possible. My main thing is authenticity—whether it’s garage, old-time bluegrass, country or gospel.” The label and the studio are closely related but separate operations. He doesn’t release records by everyone he records but enthusiastically promotes those he does. “There’s no contracts with anyone,” he says. “The idea is to push stuff out there and get people to hear it.” There’s a distinct feeling of being someplace truly special when walking the grounds at Shoal Creek. This is, after all, family land with a huge legacy. Celebrity tales and lore haunt every dirt pathway and stage. Sayer operates Gypsy Farm with immense respect for this past, but with an eye on the future. He knows that along with all the ghosts, there is also a lot of living to do.

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van Dando and Georgia haven’t had the best relationship in the past— at least not when it comes to the performer/audience dynamic. At a 2007 show at the 40 Watt Club here in Athens, Dando played a few songs best described as halfhearted and distant. He was listless, stopped and started songs erratically, and about half the crowd—a crowd that had started out excited and hopeful to see one of the seminal ‘90s college-rock songwriters perform after years of not touring through Athens and after a decade-long album gap—ended up leaving the club before the show was even over. And then last fall at Atlanta’s EARL, with a packed house ready and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, after the show’s start time was postponed several times, Dando came out, announced he was feeling sick, tried performing one song, then backed out by claiming he had to save his voice for a big show in D.C. the next day, then got into a brief verbal tiff with a crowd member. He was sick, so OK, but he handled his relationship with and obligation to his audience clumsily; nobody there was happy to hear that D.C. mattered more than Atlanta. So, what’s up, Evan? Instead of talking about Dando, let’s talk with Dando. Currently on tour playing his landmark 1992 album, It’s a Shame About Ray, in its entirety, Dando acknowledges that, these days, he has to focus more on maintaining his vocal health. “Yeah, I remember those shows. I was sick. The Atlanta show, the D.C. show, but that’s it last year; those were the only two we didn’t play,” he says, calling from the back of his tour van, on the way to Indianapolis. “Playing is pretty much the same [as it was years ago]. The only difference now is I gotta be careful with my voice.” Dando and a rotating cast of backing musicians have performed under the name The Lemonheads for a quarter century. Tons of press came his way in the ‘90s as part of the “alternative” boom, and he’s certainly not the only rocker to struggle with drug-use

fiascos amid rapid swings—both ways—in fame, acclaim and recognizability. The current tour coincides with a U.K. release of a careerspanning 47-track double-CD compilation, Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners: The Best of The Lemonheads. It’s available digitally for those of us on this side of the Atlantic. The comp covers 25 years and a number of Lemonheads lineups. “One of the songs, ‘Mad,’ is from the day after we graduated high school. It was fun to pick the songs. And ‘Mrs. Robinson’ is on there, too. I’d rather it not be, but they said, ‘Yeah, it’s gotta be on there,’” says Dando, who famously bristled at all the attention his band received due to its cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic. “At this point, this is the kind of thing that only fans would buy; so if it’s just a fan thing, you’d think fans would understand if I didn’t want the song on there. And they’d probably already have that song anyway. But it’s on there.” The guy can play a good show, and reports from this current Lemonheads lineup— Dando’s backed by tour pro Chuck Treece (Urge Overkill, Bad Brains) on drums and Fred Mascherino (Taking Back Sunday, The Color Fred) on bass—have been positive. They’re performing It’s a Shame About Ray from start to finish on this tour, though Dando’s spending the downtime working on new tunes and a new album. “Any show I’d play, I’d play a bunch of these songs anyway,” he says. “It’s more of an academic thing to play an album all in a row. Basically, I’m doing this because I’m not ready with my new album yet. But you can’t tour it forever. I mean, I guess I have.” Chris Hassiotis

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dam Klein first went to the West African country Mali in 2002 for his two-year assignment in the Peace Corps. He researched the culture before arriving, and he learned that the three main castes under which family names were categorized were as nobles, blacksmiths and griots (those who are storytellers, advisers of royalty, musicians, praise singers and keepers of the history of Mali). He hoped to be with a griot family. Sure enough, his host family had the premier griot name: Kouyate. Malian custom dictates that all visitors receive a Malian name. Klein says, “Nobody’s gonna call you by any name but a Malian name.” He would be known there as Lassine Kouyate.

Thus began the journey that led to Klein releasing his album of Mande music this week. Titled Dugu Wolo—a variation of the spelling of Dougouolo, the village where he lived—the album’s 12 tracks approach the music from a traditionalist point of view and are mostly sung in the Bambara language. There are some structural differences between Mande and Klein’s typically country-and-folk output. “I’m definitely not a technical player,” says Klein, “but more interested in the feel of a song or performance… Mande music tends to have a main melodic line that recurs throughout the song. On acoustic guitar, which is played in a style to echo the sound of the [West African harp-like instrument] kora, the player picks strings at fifths and octaves followed by rapid-fire ornamental melodic lines. Minor key sounds, mainly, with a lot of call-and-response vocals. [There’s] more in common with the blues than straightforward country music.” Klein wanted to write songs that would “speak to Malians in a meaningful way.” He met djembe master Breman Kouyate in 2009 and visited him a few weeks later. Kouyate invited a griot from the Traoré clan to assist Klein in writing “poignant Bambara lyrics to [his] unfinished songs.” Although dressed in rags upon their first meeting, the griot returned in fine traditional bogolan (“mud cloth”) for this important task. They

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fri·feb·24 An Acoustic Evening with composed lyrics in a wooded area near the southern bank of the Niger River. “As with most Mande music, the songs speak of social issues and are meant to encourage and inspire the people in their efforts to develop the nation and fight poverty,” says Klein. “[There’s] a song praising all types of work as a noble cause… [one dealing with] the importance of community for mutual support around life-cycle events, plus a song featuring proper djeliya—griot performance—about the founder and warrior king of the Mande empire, Sundiata Keita.” The lyrics are full of Malian proverbs. Some are particularly universal, such as “Yiri kurun meme ji la o te ke bamba ye” (“No matter how long a log remains in the water it will never become a crocodile”), “Nyagame nyinina te baden ye” (“He who seeks a camel will not see a goat”) and, perhaps most universal of all, “Diaraby i kana waa ka n to” (“My love, do not leave me here alone”). Klein recorded Dugu Wolo in Mali in 2010, taking along filmmaker Jason Miller to document the process. In all, 11 Malians appear on the record, and the sessions for the album typically had Klein record his guitar and vocals first with the others adding their parts later. The release event for Dugu Wolo at the Avid Bookshop will feature a reading from Klein from his writings done in Mali, a screening of the trailer for the aforementioned documentary and an album-listening reception complete with Malian food. A portion of the CD sales this night will benefit the nonprofit African Sky, which works on sustainable development projects in Mali. Dugu Wolo is a passionate and mutually respectful document of cultural exchange and immersion. Klein says, “Malians are wonderful people. They’re playful, gracious, kind, welcoming, hospitable and a lot of fun to be around. These are all inherent cultural values. Malians tend to be proud and have a positive outlook in the face of dire poverty… I find a stark beauty to the land and the patterns of life there, and feel connected to the natural order of things in a deep and powerful way. Most importantly, I have close friends there whom I hope and expect to remain involved with throughout our lives.” Gordon Lamb

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Tuesday 21 EVENTS: Contra Dance and Acoustic Jam (Memorial Park) Old-time contra dance with live music by Free Association and calling by George Snyder. Presented by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society. Free lesson at 7:30 p.m. No partner needed. 8-11 p.m. $7, FREE! (under 18). www.athensfolk.org PERFORMANCE: Canadian Brass (UGA Hodgson Hall) Brass quintet famous for appearances on “The Tonight Show,” “Sesame Street” and “The Today Show.” 8 p.m. $20–42. www.pac.uga.edu 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. 8 p.m. FREE! (performers), $5. www.myspace. com/flickerbar 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.: The World Is My Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Monthly lecture with Dr. Allen Armitage covering some of the most spectacular gardens from around the world. 7 p.m. $10. 706542-6138 MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) “Amazonite and Smoky Quartz, Pikes Peak and Other Locations,”

presented by Casey Gordon and Jim Maudsley. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706549-8082 GAMES: CineClub Oscar Trivia (Ciné Bar Cafe) Get your team together for a night of competition and prizes with host John David Williams. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack, College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles. Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515

Wednesday 22 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved) dog! This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com EVENTS: Festival for Life Dinner (Ciné Bar Cafe) Guests are asked to donate the money they would

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normally pay for a night out on the town to raise money for AIDS Athens Guests who donate $20 or more will receive a ticket to the AIDS Athens Dessert Reception at the Georgia Museum of Art on Feb. 25. 6–8 p.m. rickyrob@uga.edu EVENTS: Occupy the Debate 2 (New Earth Music Hall) Atlanta comedians Jake Head and Ben Owen join local jokesters Ed Burmila and Chris Patton in adding live commentary over the televised GOP Debate. 8 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall.com EVENTS: “Styling: Inspiration to Success” (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 171) Erica Benoit of benoitENSTYLE shares her experiences of writing for Elle and Essense and professionally styling Usher. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4307 ART: Life Drawing Open Studio (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Rms. S370 and S380) Ages 18 & up. 5:30–8:30 p.m. scientificillustrationclub@gmail.com ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Faculty Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Joshua Bynum, trombone. 8 p.m. FREE! (students), $5. 706-542-3737, www. music.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Crawlers’ Playgroup (Full Bloom Center) For sitting and scooting babies and their parents. 10 a.m. $3. 706-353-3373, www. fullbloomparent.com

Violinist Bella Hristova performs at UGA’s Ramsey Concert Hall on Monday, Feb. 27. KIDSTUFF: Full Bloom Storytime (Full Bloom Center) Interactive storytime led by local storytellers. Open to all ages. 4 p.m. $3 (suggested donation). 706-353-3373, www. fullbloomparent.com KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, finger-

puppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun for the kiddies. For ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 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

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THE CALENDAR! or bring your favorite from home to share. Ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Zine Release Party (Oconee County Library) See the first ever Oconee County Library Teen Zine, featuring art, comics and more from teens in Watkinsville. Everyone who attends the event will receive a free zine. Snacks will be provided. Ages 11–18. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: Apero Brown Bag Lecture (UGA Memorial Hall, Room 481) “A Mediator’s Work,” by Raye M. Rawls of the Fanning Institute. Part of Black History Month. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-5422102 LECTURES & LIT.: “Black Women Faculty in Educational Leadership” (UGA Aderhold) “Unpacking Their Silence in Research,” looks at the experiences of four African-American female scholars in programs of educational leadership and administration. 12 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8282 LECTURES & LIT.: Genealogy Class (ACC Library) Center for Active Learning presents “Searching for Your Family Members Class One: The Basics.” 1–2:30 p.m. $25 (CAL membership fee). 706-613-3650. LECTURES & LIT.: Genetics Seminar (UGA Life Sciences Building, Room B118) “Methanol Metabolism in Plants: the More We Know The Less We Understand,” by Manuel Lerdau from the University of Virginia. 4 p.m. FREE! whites@ uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: GLOBES Lecture (Georgia Center) “What Can the Gay Rights Movement Learn from the Civil Rights Movement in Order to Create a More Just and Equitable Society?” Presented by Rev. Renee Dubose. 12 p.m. FREE! rickyrob@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Mayor Evelyn Dixon (UGA Chapel) Riverdale, GA Mayor Evelyn Dixon will share her path to elected office as well as the obstacles women face in the political arena. Part of Black History Month. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8468 LECTURES & LIT.: Money Matters: The Basics of Credit Scores and Loans (UGA Sanford Hall) Students in Free Enterprise discuss steps to improve your credit score as well as the basics of car loans and mortgages. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-294-4079 LECTURES & LIT.: Willson Center Science for Humanists Lecture (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 140) “On the Social Dimensions of Climate Change,” by Chris Cuomo, philosophy and Women’s Studies Institute. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-5423966, www.cha.uga.edu GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Wednesdays, 8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, 5 Points) Open your pie-hole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com

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Thursday 23 EVENTS: Adam Klein CD Release Party (Avid Bookshop) Local Americana singer/songwriter Adam Klein releases a CD of original Malian music performed in the Bambara language and featuring West African instruments. Featuring a performance and Malian food. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-352-2060 EVENTS: Fashion Show (UGA Tate Center, Grand Hall) “Destination: Spring Break” features sportswear by Alta Gracia. Part of UGA Fashion Week. 8 p.m. $7. 706-542-4307 EVENTS: Protect Athens Music Panel (The Melting Point) Panelists including David Barbe, Bertis Downs, Steve Lopez, Scott Orvold and others discuss law and music business. See Calendar Pick on p. 17. 3–6 p.m. FREE! protectathensmusic@gmail.com EVENTS: Ride America for Safe Routes (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Four women are biking across the country to raise $50,000 for the bicycle safety advocacy efforts of the League of American Bicyclists and the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. Join the team for a meet-n-greet. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www. rideforsaferoutes.blogspot.com EVENTS: Screening: Re:Generation (Carmike Cinemas) A film exploring the history, songwriting and studio process of different musical genres through the eyes of Skrillex, The Crystal Method, Pretty Lights, DJ Premier and Mark Ronson. 7:45 p.m. www.regenerationmusicproject.com ART: Art Demonstration (OCAF) Mark Williams of Other Brother Pottery shows how he makes his unique clay pieces. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-4565 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: Lecture with Carol Crown (Georgia Museum of Art) “Will the Real Howard Finster Come on Down?” Presented in conjunction with the UGA production of Hidden Man. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-5424662 PERFORMANCE: UGA Wind Ensemble (UGA Hodgson Hall) “neXt Festival of Contemporary Music,” includes works by three rising stars in contemporary music: Michael Ippolito, Jess Turner and John Leszczynski, and pieces by two icons in contemporary music, Karel Husa and John Harbison. 8 p.m. $5–10. 706-542-3737 THEATRE: Hidden Man (UGA Fine Arts Building) A Southern Gothic coming-of-age story about artist Robert Sherer and his relationship with Reverend Howard Finster, whose Paradise Gardens are located on three acres in Chattooga County, GA. Feb. 23–25, 29 & Mar. 1–3, 8 p.m. Mar. 4, 2:30 p.m. $12–25. 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. 8:30 a.m. FREE! 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden KIDSTUFF: Babies and Beasties Series (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Discover nature through hands-on activities, hikes and crafts. For children 18 months to 2 years old who are accompanied by adults.

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Thursdays, 10–10:45 a.m. $12. 706613-3615, www.athensclarkecounty. com/sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library) Snuggle in your jammies with your favorite stuffed animal and listen to bedtime stories. Light snack provided. All ages. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Readers in grades K–5 are invited to bring their favorite book and read aloud to a certified therapy dog. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Avid Bookshop) All-ages storytime with a diverse selection of books. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. & Saturdays, 1 p.m. FREE! 706-352-2060 KIDSTUFF: Teen Cartoon Illustrators Club (Lyndon House Arts Center) Work on your favorite style of cartoon with other young artists. Pizza and soda included! Every other Thursday. Call for more information. Ages 12 & older. 5:30–7:30 p.m. $5. 706-613-3623 KIDSTUFF: Yoga Bonding: Crawlers (Full Bloom Center) For crawling babies until they begin walking (about 8–18 months age) and their parent. Thursdays, 12:30 p.m. $60 (6 classes). 706-4757329, www.fullbloomparent.com LECTURES & LIT.: Art Lecture (UGA Fine Arts Building) Carol Crown, professor of art history at the University of Memphis, presents “Will the Real Howard Finster Come on Down?” in conjunction with the production Hidden Man. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.drama.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Demosthenian Debate (UGA Demosthenian Hall) A discussion of “Be It Resolved: Build the Walmart downtown.” The meeting and debate are open to all. 7 p.m. FREE! sam610@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: GLOBES Lecture (Georgia Center) 12 p.m. FREE! rickyrob@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Risky Business…What If Downtown Athens Was a Thing of the Past?” (UGA Miller Learning Center) A panel of local business owners, community leaders, activists and concerned citizens discuss the effects of rapid downtown development as proposed by Selig Enterprises on the Armstrong-Dobbs property on the Oconee River. Hear reasons for and against the proposal, and question the panel on their concerns and visions for the future of Athens. Pizza provided. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! rgray@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “The Emerging Black Church” (UGA Miller Learning Center) Community members, pastors and students will discuss the role of the black church in the community. Part of Black History Month. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8468 MEETINGS: Clarke County Democratic Committee (Fire Hall No. 2, 489 Prince Ave.) All interested persons are invited to attend this month’s meeting of the CCDC. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-202-7515 MEETINGS: New Mamas Group (Full Bloom Center) Meet other new moms and get non-judgmental support and reassurance. Babies welcome. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com GAMES: “Drink While You Think” (Gnat’s Landing) Trivia every Thursday! 7–9 p.m. www.gnatslanding.net GAMES: Senior Bingo (East Athens Community Center) Enjoy refreshments and play for prizes in this monthly game for players 50 and older. 10 a.m. $4. 706-613-3603 GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30–9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300

GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515

Friday 24 EVENTS: The Aria Benefit (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) An evening of music with Revien, Don Chambers, Ellen Ritchey and the Arasmus Percussion Group. Proceeds benefit The Aria Fund, an organization promoting music therapy for people in need of cognitive, emotional and expressive outlets. 8 p.m. $5 (students), $15. www.music. uga.edu/newsblog EVENTS: Dawgs After Dark (UGA Tate Center) “Up All Night!” includes Blitz Ball, a pillow fight arena, photo pillow cases, sleep masks, massages, giant board games, video games and more. 10 p.m.–2 a.m. FREE! (students), $5. 706-542-6396 EVENTS: Fashion Show (State Botanical Garden) “Where the Wild Things Are,” presented by the UGA Fashion Design Student Association. 8 p.m. $7. 706-542-4307 EVENTS: I Will Survive Disco Party (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Team 6 of Project Safe’s “Dancing with the Athens Stars” hosts a night of disco with music provided by the Dr. of Fun from Music Master’s DJ. Proceeds benefit Project Safe. 7:30 p.m. $6. 706-354-6655 EVENTS: Protect Athens Music (Nuçi’s Space) Musicians’ clinic featuring consultations with experienced entertainment attorneys available. Email to make appointment. See Calendar Pick on p. 17. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-548-8668, protectathensmusic@gmail.com EVENTS: Screening: Double Victory (UGA Miller Learning Center) The documentary by George Lucas, made as a companion to his feature film, Red Tails, includes historical footage and interviews of the Tuskegee Airmen. Guest speaker, historian Dr. John Morrow. 6 p.m. FREE! fsgiles@uga.edu ART: Opening Reception (OCAF) For “Sapelo Glow” a selection of art in various media by artists who spent a weekend on Sapelo Island. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com ART: “Put a Bird on it” Painting Night (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Spruce up different objects with a tried and true method: putting a bird on it. 7 p.m. $20, $35 (pair). www. wholemindbodyart.com THEATRE: The Call of Cthulhu (Town and Gown Players) Written by H.P. Lovecraft and directed by Cord Sibilsky, this story follows a shadowy cult attempting to awaken its elder gods. Feb. 24 & 25, 8 p.m. & Feb. 26, 2 p.m. $5. www. townandgownplayers.org THEATRE: Hidden Man (UGA Fine Arts Building) A Southern Gothic coming-of-age story about artist Robert Sherer and his relationship with Reverend Howard Finster, whose Paradise Gardens are located on three acres in Chattooga County, GA. Feb. 23–25, 29 & Mar. 1–3, 8 p.m. Mar. 4, 2:30 p.m. $12–25. www.drama.uga.edu THEATRE: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Dinner Theatre (UGA Baptist Collegiate Ministries) The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to life over dinner or dessert. Feb. 24 & 25, 6 pm. Feb. 25, 1 p.m., Feb 26, 2 p.m. $15-25. 706-549-2747 OUTDOORS: UGA Observatory Open House (UGA Observatory) The 24-inch telescope is open for

public viewing and discussion on the roof of the UGA physics building. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2485 KIDSTUFF: Japanese Storytime (ACC Library, Storyroom) Learn about Japanese culture through literacy-based fun. Led by volunteers from UGA’s Japan Outreach Program. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Parent and Child Puzzle Day (East Athens Community Center) Last Friday of the month. All ages. 6–7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 KIDSTUFF: Spooky Movie Night (Madison County Library) Teens only. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Southern Mill Design Charrette (Old Fire Hall #2, 489 Prince Ave.) Day one of a threeday public input session for the Southern Mill collaborative design workshop with the UGA College of Environment and Design. 9–10:30 a.m. www.achfonline.org

Saturday 25 EVENTS: African-American History Tour (Athens Welcome Center) Rosa Thurmond will cover poignant moments in the transition of schools during the Civil Rights movement and share stories about the teachers and leaders who anchored neighborhoods and shaped Athens. Call to register. 2 p.m. $10. 706-353-1820 EVENTS: The Aria Benefit (Nuçi’s Space) Demonstrations and performances as well as a master class with members from the Georgia Guitar Quartet and Revien. Kyshona Armstrong, a music therapist, will sing. 2–5 p.m. FREE! (donations accepted). www.music.uga.edu/ newsblog EVENTS: Athens Home and Garden Show (The Classic Center) Featuring displays and seminars on the latest in home decor, landscaping, lighting, cabinetry, construction and more. The kids’ corner features family activities. Presented by the Athens Area Home Builders Association. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $5-7. www.classiccenter.com EVENTS: Athens People First Chili Cook-Off (Multiple Choices Center for Independent Living) Nonprofit People First is an organization of individuals with disabilities who advocate for change to improve their lives and the lives of others with disabilities. Proceeds will help send members to the statewide People First conference on Jekyll Island. 12–3 p.m. $5. 706-5407734, dragon31@uga.edu EVENTS: Festival for Life (Georgia Museum of Art) AIDS Athens Dessert Reception with music by DJ Mahogany. 8–11 p.m. $20. www. aidsathens.org EVENTS: Fight Fusion (The Bad Manor) MMA Fight Night! Come see the next stars of mixed martial arts battle it out in the ring. 7–11 p.m. $15 (GA), $30 (VIP Standing), $50 (VIP seated), $400 (VIP table for 6). www.thebadmanor.com EVENTS: Filipino Knife Fighting Clinic (Classic Martial Arts Club) Taught by Rob Zellner. 2 p.m. 706353-3616, www.classic-mac.com EVENTS: Journey Through the Stars (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Learn about the night sky in the new SkyCenter. All ages. 2–3 p.m. $7. 706-613-3615 EVENTS: Short Stacks for Big Change (Fatz Café) Pancake breakfast that benefits the American Cancer Society. Eat pancakes, beat cancer. 7:30–10:30 am. $7. 770-307-7956, victoria.patrick@ cancer.org

EVENTS: Summer Job Fair (Lyndon House) ACC Leisure Services will fill 100 seasonal positions including camp counselors, lifeguards, park assistants and pool staff. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/jobs ART: Pottery Painting Night (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Work on small or large projects. 6 p.m. $15. www.wholemindbodyart.com PERFORMANCE: A Silver Anniversary Celebration of Dance (Morton Theatre) More than 65 students of the East Athens Educational Dance Center show their talents in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, tap, modern, praise and African dance. Feb. 25, 7 p.m. & Feb. 26, 3 p.m. $12–15. www.mortontheatre.com THEATRE: The Call of Cthulhu (Town and Gown Players) Written by H.P. Lovecraft and directed by Cord Sibilsky, this story follows a shadowy cult attempting to awaken its elder gods. Feb. 24 & 25, 8 p.m. & Feb. 26, 2 p.m. $5. www. townandgownplayers.org THEATRE: Hidden Man (UGA Fine Arts Building) A Southern Gothic coming-of-age story about artist Robert Sherer and his relationship with Reverend Howard Finster, whose Paradise Gardens are located on three acres in Chattooga County, GA. Feb. 23–25, 29 & Mar. 1–3, 8 p.m. Mar. 4, 2:30 p.m. $12–25. www.drama.uga.edu THEATRE: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Dinner Theatre (UGA Baptist Collegiate Ministries) The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to life over dinner or dessert. Feb. 24 & 25, 6 pm. Feb. 25, 1 p.m., Feb 26, 2 p.m. $15-25. 706-549-2747 THEATRE: Menopause: The Musical (The Classic Center) The all-female cast makes fun of their woeful hot flashes, forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats and chocolate binges. Feb. 25, 4 & 8 p.m. Feb. 26, 2 p.m. $28–45. www. classiccenter.com. OUTDOORS: Animal Encounters (Memorial Park) Meet some of Bear Hollow’s education ambasadors during a live animal presentation. 1:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616 KIDSTUFF: Horton Hears a Who (Madison County Library) Come listen to Horton listen. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Family Movie Night (Athens Vineyard Church) Snack on popcorn as you watch Rio on the big screen. 6 p.m. FREE! arterystudios@ gmail.com KIDSTUFF: Special Storytime (Avid Bookshop) A special edition of Storytime with characters from James and the Giant Peach from the Rose of Athens theatrical production. 1 p.m. FREE! 706-352-2060 KIDSTUFF: Storytime & Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Make a craft inspired by the book. For ages 2–5. Saturdays, 10–11 a.m. $10. 706-850-8226 www.treehousekidandcraft.com LECTURES & LIT.: Architecture Lecture (UGA Chapel) Speaker Stephen T. Ayers, Capitol architect, keynote speech of the Preservation South Conference. 5 p.m. FREE! preservationsouth@gmail.com MEETINGS: Southern Mill Design Charrette (225 W. Broad St.) Day two of a three-day public input session for the Southern Mill collaborative design workshop with the UGA College of Environment and Design. Alternative concepts pin-up and review. 2–3 p.m. www.achfonline.org GAMES: Shadowfist Tournament (Tyche’s Games) Final Brawl format. Prizes for all. 12 p.m. $1. 706-3544500, www.tychesgames.com

GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge every Monday! Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub

Thursday, Feb. 23 & Friday, Feb. 24

Protect Athens Music Conference and Clinic

Tuesday 28

Melting Point, Nuçi’s Space Time to lawyer up, Athens bands! If you are even thinking about making money with your music, signing a record deal or any other contract where your art is on the line, you need a lawyer in your corner. Thanks to the joint efforts of the UGA Music Business Program and the UGA School of Law’s Sports and Entertainment Law Society, you can get that legal advice for free this weekend. The second annual Protect Athens Music is a two-day event loaded with information for musicians and others interested in learning about the inner workings of the entertainment industry. On Thursday, there will be two informative panels. The first will focus on booking, contract issues and tour strategies. The second panel will focus on copyright and collaboration issues—from licensing your music to collecting royalty checks. Eric Garber and Jessi Samford, both third-year UGA law students and co-chairs of the event, say that their goal was to book a diverse group of experts and to keep the schedule flexible. “If you can only come for a little, don’t feel bad coming in and coming out,” says Garber. The panels will run from 3–6 p.m. followed by a performance by Emily Hearn and John French at the Melting Point—a great opportunity for continued networking. Confirmed panelists include David Barbe (UGA Music Business Program), Bertis Downs (R.E.M.), Steve Lopez (Widespread Panic), Nikki Marshall (Red Clay Clearances), Lisa Moore (Georgia Lawyers for the Arts), Scott Orvold (Georgia Theatre) David Prasse (Slushfund Recordings) and David Shipley (UGA law professor). And for those who have specific legal questions or concerns, you can also sign-up for a free, one-on-one, 30-minute consultation with a local entertainment lawyer on Friday. To register for an appointment, or to submit questions for the panelists in advance, email protectathensmusic@gmail.com. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

Sunday 26 EVENTS: Athens Home and Garden Show (The Classic Center) Featuring displays and seminars on the latest in home decor, landscaping, lighting, cabinetry, construction and more. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $5-7. www. classiccenter.com EVENTS: Bridal Show and Tasting (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Featuring wedding professionals, photographers, florists, event planners, entertainers, a bridal fashion show and more. 2–5 p.m. $8 (adv.), $12. 706549-7020, www.foundryparkinn.com EVENTS: Shape Note Singing (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Come sing from shape note hymnals, The Social Harp and The Sacred Harp, by Georgia composers. Potluck lunch to follow. 10:30 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-679-8782, www. atlantasacredharp.org ART: Get Crafty Athens! (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Crafts, demos and friendship. 3–5 p.m. Donations accepted. www.facebook.com/groups/ getcraftyathens PERFORMANCE: A Silver Anniversary Celebration of Dance (Morton Theatre) More than 65 students and alumni of the East Athens Educational Dance Center show their talents in ballet, jazz, hiphop, tap, modern, praise and African dance. Feb. 25, 7 p.m. & Feb. 26, 3 p.m. $12–15. www.mortontheatre. com THEATRE: The Call of Cthulhu (Town and Gown Players) Written by H.P. Lovecraft and directed by Cord Sibilsky, this story follows a shadowy cult attempting to awaken its elder gods. Feb. 24 & 25, 8 p.m. & Feb. 26, 2 p.m. $5. www. townandgownplayers.org THEATRE: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Dinner Theatre (UGA Baptist Collegiate Ministries) The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to life

over dinner or dessert. Feb. 24 & 25, 6 pm. Feb. 25, 1 p.m., Feb 26, 2 p.m. $15-25. 706-549-2747 THEATRE: Menopause: The Musical (The Classic Center) The all-female cast makes fun of their woeful hot flashes, forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats and chocolate binges. Feb. 25, 4 & 8 p.m. Feb. 26, 2 p.m. $28–45. www. classiccenter.com. LECTURES & LIT.: Community Snapshot (Winterville Depot) Learn about schools, the Country Doctor’s Museum, Victorian homes and events in Winterville. 4 p.m. FREE! www.boomersinathens.org LECTURES & LIT.: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Meet Walton Young, author of A Gathering of Eagles. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-3522060 MEETINGS: Southern Mill Design Charrette (Old Fire Hall #2, 489 Prince Ave.) Day three of a threeday public input session for the Southern Mill collaborative design workshop with the UGA College of Environment and Design. Final presentation and Q&A. 4–5:30 p.m. www.achfonline.org GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) “Brewer’s Inquisition,” trivia hosted by Chris Brewer every Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3546655, www.buffaloscafe.com/athens GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! Hosted by Evan Delany (former Wild Wing trivia host). First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m. FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979

Monday 27 EVENTS: Intro Class (Free IT Athens, 2092 Prince Ave.) An introductory class covering digital media applications. 7 p.m. FREE! www. freeitathens.org

EVENTS: Screening: Madonna of the Mills (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 102) An uplifting tale of 2,000 dogs rescued from the Amish Country puppy mills. 7:30 p.m. FREE! sos.uga.edu ART: Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, S151) Artist Katrin Sigurdardottir speaks. 5:30 p.m. FREE! artinfo@uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Bella Hristova (Ramsey Concert Hall in the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center) First-prize winning violinist in the 2008-2009 Young Concert Artist International Auditions plays for American Public Media’s “Performance Today.” 8 p.m. FREE! (w/ student ID), $25. pac.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Open Playtime (ACC Library) For children ages 1–3 with their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Landscape Design (Oconee County Library) Jane Bath, owner of Land Arts, Inc., offers insight into landscape design. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library) This month’s title TBA. Newcomers welcome. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Terry Career Boot Camp: Evaluating the Job Offer (UGA Miller Learning Center) Learn about communication strategies for the hiring process. Salary negotiation, questions to ask, etc. 3:35 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3375 MEETINGS: 34th Annual Athens Human Rights Festival Planning Meeting (Nuçi’s Space) Open to anyone who would like to participate in planning the May event. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenshumanrightsfest.org MEETINGS: Lupulin Ladies (Highwire Lounge) Terrapin Beer Co. women’s beer tasting group. 6:30 p.m. $16.95. 706-543-8997

EVENTS: Couture A-La-Cart (UGA Dawson Hall) A store created by students with a pop-up retail concept featuring locally designed women’s apparel and accessories. 757-8976292, www.facebook.com/pages/ couture-a-la-cart EVENTS: Italian Film Series (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 148) A screening of Federico Fellini’s Lo Sceicoo Bianco (1952). First of four films in the Italian Film Series. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8057 PERFORMANCE: God Save the Queens and Kings (UGA Tate Center) Drag show put on by UGA Lambda Alliance. 7 p.m. $3–6. uga. lambda@gmail.com 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.: Josefina Baez (UGA Miller Learning Center) Josefina Báez is performer-writer-educator-director whose work explores the present and its encounters with the past and future from the personal perspective of a black, working-class migrant woman living in New York. 4 p.m. FREE! lorgiag@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: ICE Seminar: Art and Social Practice (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 214) An interdisciplinary panel of faculty from anthropology, psychology, social work and sociology share their reactions to some “classic” examples of relational art. 5:30–7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-7270 LECTURES & LIT.: Lunchtime Learning (ACC Library) “Important Meidcare Updates and Senior/ Disbaility Resources in Your Community,” presented by Jessica Bankston of GeorgiaCares and Alan Densen of NE GA Area Agency on Aging. Feel free to bring a lunch. 12:15–1 p.m. FREE! LECTURES & LIT.: Panel Discussion (UGA Memorial Hall) “We Have Issues: Representations of African-American Women in Contemporary Media.” A look at contemporary images of African Diaspora women in entertainment including music videos, reality TV and films. Part of Black History Month. 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! cymoon@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Race, Class, Place and Outcomes Speaker Series (UGA Aderhold) “Racialized Identities: Conceptualizing Race, Learning & Schooling,” by Na’ilah Nasir of University of CaliforniaBerkley. 1 p.m. FREE! sgary@uga. edu LECTURES & LIT.: Workshop: Library 101 (UGA Miller Learning Center) Learn about GIL and GALILEO and how to find articles and books available through the UGA libraries. 4:30 p.m. FREE! ccason@uga.edu GAMES: Flicker Poker Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Last Tuesday of every month! 8:30 p.m. www. flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside,

Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack, College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0015 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 21 The Bad Manor 9 p.m. $3 (21+), $10 (18+). www.thebadmanor.com MARDI GRAS MASQUERADE PARTY Featuring DJ Decepticron, and tons of free gear for the first 500 people in the door! 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com UGA LAW SCHOOL TALENT REVUE Watch enterprising law students demonstrate their talents in areas other than the law. From singing and dancing to acting, for at least one night these students will drop the books and pick up the microphone… and if you’re not entertained, well, sue them! Georgia Theatre “Parti Gras.” 7:30 p.m. $8. www.georgiatheatre.com HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND This local, Louisiana-style brass band gets the crowd all riled up with loads of horns and a percussive frenzy. STEPHANIE NILES Jazz-inspired folk artist from NYC. Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes from Dylan to Neil Young. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com IKE STUBBLEFIELD AND FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com TAB BENOIT Louisiana-born guitarist Benoit practically lives on the road, playing his masterful blend of Cajun-flavored rock and roll blues more than 250 nights a year. SOL DRIVEN TRAIN Six-piece act from South Carolina jamming out on soul, reggae, jazz and folk, weaving strands pulled from Stevie Wonder, The Wailers and The Band into a swampy, smooth Southern stew. New Earth Music Hall 8 p.m. $10. 706-543-8283 MOCHIPET Eclectic sounds influenced by metal, mainstream hip-hop and avant-garde jazz.

RUN DMT Lo-fi psychedelic tunes accompanied by experimental visual art. The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!

Wednesday 22 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com RIAN ADKINSON Atlanta native multi-instrumentalist with an alternative/electro sound. SEAN WATERMAN Indie rock with smooth vocals and acoustic guitar. Farm 255 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Background sounds for dinner and cocktails. This quiet jazz duo features Jeremy Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor sax playing odd covers and improvising on familiar themes. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN Vestibules and A PostWar Drama frontman plays a stripped-down set featuring special guests! CURTIS ELLER Formerly self-described as “New York City’s angriest yodeling banjo player,” Eller now resides in North Carolina. He’s still about the wildest banjo player you could hope to see. THE HEAP Funky indie-soul band based here in Athens with a killer horn section and fronted by Bryan Howard’s low, bass growl. Playing Flicker every Wednesday in February! The Globe 9 p.m.–Midnight. $3. 706-353-4721 COLD ONES Local punk band featuring members of Christopher’s Liver, among others. Scuzzy and straightforward, with riffs and rough vocals, but not without melody. NURTURE New, local post-hardcore trio. VERNAL PIKE Skate-influenced hardcore punk from Bloomington, IN. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 WILL MCCRANIE This Georgia-bred troubadour offers his indie rock/ blues hybrid drenched in singalongs and blistering jams that feel both classic and modern. JIM PERKINS Acoustic singer/songwriter from Augusta. He combines folk, jazz and blues. CONNOR PLEDGER Singersongwriter whose mostly acoustic sound is influenced by acts like John Mayer and Jack Johnson. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. www.hendershotscoffee.com HUMPDAY HOOKERS Ty Manning and Mark Durfield, both of The Bearfoot Hookers, will play an acoustic set at Hendershot’s every Wednesday night in February. Each week the duo will be joined by different special guests. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub JACOB MORRIS AND THE LIBRARY Acoustic, ‘70s-inspired folk rock. Morris also plays in Moths and Ham1. JPHONO1 Chapel Hill songwriter John Harrison finger picks guitar and banjo. k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv), $7 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com DASH RIP ROCK Legendary New Orleans band full of raw energy with a party rock feel. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 KARAOKE NIGHT Karaoke in a friendly bar setting. Porterhouse Grill 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 STEVE KEY AND FRIENDS Jazz. Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer.com WILL MCCRANIE This Georgia-bred troubadour offers his indie rock/ blues hybrid drenched in singalongs and blistering jams that feel both classic and modern. 10 p.m. 706-549-3377 CONNOR PLEDGER Singersongwriter whose mostly acoustic sound is influenced by acts like John Mayer and Jack Johnson. Walker’s Coffee & Pub 706-543-1433 LIVE JAZZ Featuring The Downstairs Jazz Quartet.

Thursday 23 Avid Bookshop 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-352-2060 ADAM KLEIN Local Americana singer/songwriter Adam Klein releases an album of original Malian music performed in the Bambara language and featuring traditional West African instrumentation. See story on p. 13. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+) www. caledonialounge.com BITTER RESOLVE Prog rock with dystopian imagery and a metal edge out of Chapel Hill, NC. IN THE LURCH Local three-piece that cranks out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines, citing Primus and Tool as influences. THORLOCK Stoner/sludge rock. UTAH Explosively loud metal and hardcore duo. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com VINCENT THE DOG Athens rock power trio informed by classic rock, blues, funk, jazz, hard rock and progressive rock. YOUNG BENJAMIN Solo project of guitarist/banjoist Matt Whitaker (The Premonitions, Emergent Heart). Featuring swirling, looping guitars and lush layers of moody melodies. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. (donations suggested). www. flickertheatreandbar.com CULT OF RIGGONIA Experimental soundscapes with tribal, world music beats and ornate instrumentation. HUNTER MORRIS Frontman for Gift Horse plays a stripped down set of moody, melodic originals. SLAW AND ORDER Local drum and keys duo performs tambourine-rich pop tracks. WOODFANGS The grungy, lo-fi psychedelic pop Athens band continues its residency at Flicker. 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www.40watt.com. DAZED AND CONFUSED Members of the Yacht Rock Revue perform Led Zeppelin IV and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in their entirety.

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Georgia Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 SCOTT LOW Local indie-folkster frontman for Efren plays two solo sets. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Nashville, TN act offering twangy rock and roll with the full country band experience. RANDY ROGERS BAND Buzzworthy country act with a gritty, Southern rock approach. This band recently appeared on both “Letterman” and “Leno” and scored an ACM nomination among other prestigious accolades. The Globe 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 OPEN MIC NIGHT Welcoming acoustic musicians the last Thursday of each month. Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 9 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com ODD TRIO Quirky jazz ensemble that incorporates looped audio. Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com BORDERHOP FIVE Formerly a bluegrass trio, the group has added fiddle and banjo into the mix for a more rounded-out, high, lonesome sound. Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub UNDER THE RAINBOW NIGHT Hosted by DJs Ricky Simone and Apple Paul. The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com JOHN FRENCH Local singer-songwriter playing acoustic Americana folk tunes. EMILY HEARN Young singer-songwriter offers sweet, melodic acoustic ballads. Live music follows the Protect Athens Music panels. No Where Bar 10 p.m. $3. 706-546-4742 KALEIGH BAKER Jazzy, blues-rock powerhouse. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 BLUES NIGHT The Shadow Executives host an open blues jam, kicking it off with a set of their own originals. Sign up at 8 p.m. Your Pie 8 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! 706-850-5675 LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT The guitarist/vocalist from local folk rock group Leaving Countries plays a solo set. Every Thursday at the Downtown Your Pie!

Friday 24 The Bad Manor “Feral Friday.” 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 backed by video projections. Every Friday at Bad Manor!

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Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE DARNELL BOYS The three Darnell brothers play and sing country blues originals backed by upright bass, singing saw and junkyard percussion. GENTLEMEN JESSE & HIS MEN Acclaimed bouncy, uptempo rockpop from Atlanta influenced by “The Beatles and Bruce Springsteen.” VINCAS Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and a bit of rockabilly blues swagger. CD release show! The Classic Center 8 p.m. $45–85. www.pac.uga.edu THE CHIEFTAINS Ireland’s official Musical Ambassadors and six-time Grammy winners celebrate their 50th anniversary in Athens. See Calendar Pick on this page Farm 255 11:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CICADA RHYTHM Athens/Atlanta acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie folk. VESTIBULES Warm keys and guitar are punctuated by saxophone in this lyrically-driven local Americana group. Vestibules are led by a fervent frontman whose impassioned delivery underscores the songs with a sense of urgency. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com RUBY KENDRICK Local singersongwriter with a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics. NOW YOU SEE THEM Asheville band promises “super fun acoustic indie-folk!” YO SOYBEAN Local “party-folk” trio featuring upbeat, sing-along numbers with guests on guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin and more. For fans of Bright Eyes and the like. 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com ELECTROPHORIA Kai Reidl (Macha) recorded traditional music in Java, Indonesia, and now he is giving those sounds a fresh, modern twist with help from such collaborators as Kate Pierson (The B-52s), Graham Ulicny (Reptar) and many more. Debut show! PACIFICUV Based once again in Athens after some time in Portland, pacificUV is back with a new album of atmospheric dream pop. CD release show. See story on p. 10. POWERKOMPANY Local husband and wife duo playing sincere, bittersweet lullabies with gorgeous vocal harmonies over guitar and viola. Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com* SAM BUSH Newgrass innovator and mandolin player. STRING THEORY Traditional, oldtime Appalachian music. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. STAR SLAMMER New rock band dishes out the good vibes with drums and wires, keys and croons. Features ex-members of Wickets, Iron Hero, Casper & the Cookies and Shitty Candy. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com BIG C AND THE VELVET DELTA The local blues/R&B/rock band formerly known as Big C and the Ringers

Friday, February 24

The Chieftains Classic Center To commemorate 50 years together as the world’s preeminent Irish folk band, this week The Chieftains released a collaborative album that highlights both the international appeal and provincial specificity of traditional Irish tunes. More than any other act, The Chieftains are responsible for global familiarity with the sounds of the Emerald Isle, and on Voice of Ages the band enlists modern folk, Americana and indie-rock acts to spread the word. The impressive roster of collaborators includes The Civil Wars, Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Decemberists, Paolo Nutini, Imelda May and the newly ubiquitous Bon Iver. “There seems to be a great interest in the fact that we’ve gone down this road,” says bandleader Paddy Moloney, who plays traditional pipes and whistles. “It’s sort of like when we joined up with people of our own generation—Sting, Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones—who have been on our albums in the past. But this time, it’s newer groups. We met up, and we had a great time.” Produced by T Bone Burnett, Voice of Ages reunites Moloney and Matt Molloy (flute), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán) and Seán Keane (fiddle) with original Chieftains Seán Potts and Michael Tubridy. Of the band’s longevity and desire to maintain old and build new traditions, “It just keeps on going,” says Moloney. “I’m already looking ahead at 2013. Now that I have the recording bug again, I’m mad for it. Retirement is something I should be thinking of, but I think it’s going to be a ‘boots on’ job with me: I’ll go out with my boots on.” [Chris Hassiotis]

debuts with a new, more riff-oriented sound and a set that’s heavier on originals. Featuring Clarence “Big C” Cameron, AJ Adams, Carlton Owens and Allen Owens. Highwire Lounge “Friday Night Jazz.” 8 p.m. FREE! www. highwirelounge.com RAND LINES Original compositions of pianist Rand Lines with drummer Ben Williams and bassist Mike Beshara. Little Kings Shuffle Club Gypsy Farm Presents. 10 p.m. $5. www.gypsyfarm.net CCBB Local purveyors of “trashy pervert pop.” THE HUMMS Local three-piece known for its loud and bizarre shows and a raunchy, grooving blend of psychedelic garage rock. KOKO BEWARE Surf rock outfit from Augusta. THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed out punk. TIMMY TUMBLE AND THE TUMBLERS Tim Schreiber (Dark Meat, The Lickity-Splits) howls and spasms and literally tumbles over garage-y rock-anthems and retroinspired pop songs. The Tumblers consist of members of Bubbly Mommy Gun and The Humms. The Melting Point 9 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.meltingpointathens.com MIKE COOLEY An acoustic evening with the guitarist of the Drive-By Truckers. No Where Bar 10 p.m. $4. 706-546-4742 KITE TO THE MOON Local band led by Timi Conley and featuring a stimulating live show with jubilant, rowdy pop music. THE WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul featuring three vocalists and charismatic harmonies. CD Release Party.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE TANGENTS This country-fried rock group from Watkinsville carries Lynyrd Skynyrd licks and John Mellencamp melodies. Omega Bar 6 p.m. $5–10. www.theomegabar.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Two sets of smooth jazz tunes that provide a casual, relaxing atmosphere. Hosted by DJ Segar. Every Friday! The Roadhouse 11 p.m. $1. 706-613-2324 CLAY LEVERETT One of this town’s finest country frontmen, Leverett has led both The Chasers and Lona. Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 (Glass). www.terrapinbeer.com ZACH DUBOIS This good ol’ boy from Indiana plays country rock. UGA Ramsey Concert Hall The Aria Benefit. 8 p.m. $15, $5 (students). www.music.uga.edu/ newsblog REVIEN Local trio featuring members of the Georgia Guitar Quartet on classical guitar, cello and electronics playing everything from Bach to Radiohead. Tonight’s performance will feature special guests Don Chambers, Ellen Ritchey (music therapy instructor) and Arasmus Percussion Group. The Volstead 11 p.m.– 2 a.m. FREE! 706-614-9596 DJ SIFI Rap and hip-hop to rock and country.

Saturday 25 Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 JUICE BOX Local band lays down some smooth, funky jams.

The Bad Manor 11 p.m.–2 a.m. www.thebadmanor.com DJRX Mixing rock, rap, dubstep and top hits synced to music videos on the big screen. Caledonia Lounge “Dirty South Gnar Fest.” 4:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BASTARD SUNS Atlanta-based “drunk-punk” that sounds as if Sublime and Dropkick Murphys had… well, a bastard son. BLAME SYDNEY Members of this band met as students in Auburn University’s theatre program and developed a funky punk-with-horns sound that is perfect for dancing and flailing about. BURNS LIKE FIRE Stewed, screwed, tattooed punk rock that will leave you flat on your face. EL CHUPASKABRA Driven Latino punk-ska. The vocals are Spanish, but the guitars are Orange County. HERMITS OF SUBURBIA Selfdescribed as “post-post modern semi-melodic folk-ska-musical humor-core.” KARBOMB High-speed local punk band. LOS MEESFITS Local band offers Cuban salsa covers of Misfits tunes. LOWDIVE Local ska/reggae band. SOUL RADICS Traditional reggae/ska with a hard-hitting rock influence. STUCK LUCKY This six-piece punk/ska/thrash band hails from Nashville, and is managed by their dog, Brody. TAJ MOTEL TRIO Horn-heavy punk that leans more towards grungy metal than ska. TRIANGLE FIRE Local crust-punk band. Farm 255 11:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com EDDIE AND THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS Power trio featuring vocalist/bassist Eddie Speaker, guitarist Stephen Taylor and drummer

Nic Wiles, this local act delivers an energetic show with a hitting rhythm section, funky riffs and soaring guitar solos filled with catchy hooks and harmonies. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com BLACK MOON Psychedelic experimentations. EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock influenced by bands like Guided by Voices. KATER MASS Local melodic punk band influenced by acts like Propagandhi and Fugazi. TOTAL WAR Melodic rock band from Sylva, NC. 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com GOLDEN BROWN New side project featuring Spirit Hair’s Neil Golden. THE LANES New project featuring brothers Kevin and Matt Lane with Richard Mikulka on guitar and Chuck Bradburn on bass playing powerpop in the vein of The Possibilities. STILL, SMALL VOICE & THE JOYFUL NOISE Local band plays garage-rock spirituals. CD release party. Georgia Museum of Art “Festival for Life” AIDS Athens Dessert Reception. 8–11 p.m. $20. www. aidsathens.org DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. The Globe 9 p.m. $5. 706-353-4721 WESLEY COOK Pop/blues singer who is quickly gaining national media attention. NICK MALLOY A strong country voice with high-energy lyrics. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and friends spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop. Late night dance party! DJ URBN TRBN Putting the desi in desire, DJ Shil Patel selects subcontinental dance from golden-age Bollywood blowouts. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com CHARLIE GARRETT BAND Countrytinged Southern rock. HEATHER LUTTRELL Georgia-based artist who plays bluesy, homegrown Americana. You may have seen her on TV as one of the top 15 contestents on “Rock Star: INXS.” Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3144 TURN OF THE CENTURY DANCE PARTY Hosted by DJs Dan and Dusty. The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com THE HIGHBALLS Put on your bangle bracelets and tuck in those shoulder pads! Athens music vets The Highballs will perform a totally awesome set of ‘70s and ‘80s dance hits. No Where Bar “Pink Drink Day: Breastfest Athens Benefit.” 9 p.m. $5. 706-546-4742 THE HEAP Funky indie-soul band with a killer horn section and fronted by Bryan Howard’s low, bass growl. CHRIS MOORE Chris Moore (exSpins) performs a solo acoustic set of original Southern soul.

ADAM PAYNE This local musician’s impressively versatile tenor is somewhat reminiscent of Neil Young. Nuçi’s Space The Aria Benefit. 2–5 p.m. FREE! (donations accepted). www.music.uga. edu/newsblog KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This engaging local songwriter performs a unique fusion of folk and soul. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE RATTLERS Athens’ own energetic Southern rockers with a guitardriven sound and an exciting show that often features special guests. The Roadhouse 11 p.m. $1. 706-613-2324 TRAINWRECK RALLY Gritty local Southern alternative rock. The Volstead 11 p.m.– 2 a.m. FREE! 706-614-9596 DJ SIFI This DJ’s selection runs the gamut from hip-hop to country.

Sunday 26 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 5 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655 THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Two sets of smooth jazz tunes that provide a casual, relaxing atmosphere. Hosted by DJ Segar. Every Sunday! Farm 255 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul and righteous R&B. Every Sunday at Farm is “DJ Night!” The Globe 4–7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 ATHENS CEILI BAND Weekly Irish folk session covering a host of traditions from pub songs to ship songs. Featuring members of The Ballybeg Band and The Hobohemians. Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com CICADA RHYTHM Athens/Atlanta acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie folk. RUBY KENDRICK Local singersongwriter with a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics.

Monday 27 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 9 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Mondays! Hosted by local soulful singer Kyshona Armstrong. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com TIM BRANTLEY Atlanta folk-rock musician. CARBON LEAF This Virginia band draws from folk rock, Americana, bluegrass and Celtic influences.

Tuesday 28 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CATHERINE KIMBRO Insightful acoustic country music with heart.

CASEY WOOD Rustic, acoustic country from Nashville. YOUNG AMERICA Upbeat, bouncy alt-country accented by strings. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv). www.40watt.com THE LEMONHEADS A punk-rock band that has seen radical changes since its creation in 1986. Tonight Evan Dando and friends perform their album, It’s a Shame About Ray, in its entirety. See story on p. 12. MEREDITH SHELDON Former member of the Ben Taylor Band and Family of the Year plays dreamy, layered alternative rock. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com IKE STUBBLEFIELD AND FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums. Every Tuesday! The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com SMOKEY’S FARMLAND BAND This Atlanta band plays a fun mixture of bluegrass, funk, reggae, Eastern European tunes and acoustic jazz. No Where Bar 8 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 THE REAL NASTY Funky rock band from San Fran featuring upright bass, guitar and cajon (an Afrocuban box drum). Musical touchstones include Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash and Pixies. The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!

Wednesday 29 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ANDROCLES AND THE LION This local band plays airy indie-rock with lots of warm acoustic guitar, melodic harmonies and folk undertones. SLEEPY EYE GIANT Indie pop from Charleston with some shoegaze tendencies. THE WINTER SOUNDS New wave, punk and synth-pop melded into well crafted and lyrically inspiring songs. Farm 255 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CALEB DARNELL Member of The Darnell Boys and Bellyache sings the blues. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com BIG C AND THE RINGERS Local bluesman and UGA grad Clarence Cameron takes inspiration from artists like B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. THE HEAP Funky local indie-soul band based here in Athens with a killer horn section and fronted by Bryan Howard’s low, bass growl. Playing Flicker every Wednesday in February! 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $14 (adv). www.40watt.com BLIND PILOT An indie/folk group on the rise from Portland, OR. COTTON JONES Indie folk-pop band from Maryland playing charming lofi with vivid imagery and a gorgeous vocal harmony.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $8. www.georgiatheatre.com BADFISH Three-piece band plays tribute to Sublime. SCOTTY DON’T The veteran musicians behind Badfish play a set of their reggae-tinged, alt-rock originals. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 BOBBY BE GOOD Local acoustic group. TOM EISENBRAUN From-the-heart acoustic ballads from this local artist call to mind the works of Nick Drake, M. Ward or Andrew Bird. THE SKIPPERDEES Charming local acoustic duo with rich, folky vocal harmonies and a sense of humor. TIGERBIRD New local band. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. www.hendershotscoffee.com HUMPDAY HOOKERS Ty Manning and Mark Durfield, both of The Bearfoot Hookers, will play an acoustic set at Hendershot’s every Wednesday night in February. Each week the duo will be joined by different special guests. Little Kings Shuffle Club 8 p.m. $5 (21+). www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub ADAM PAYNE This local musician’s impressively versatile tenor is somewhat reminiscent of Neil Young. 9 p.m. $3. Facebook.com/lkshuffleclub DANGFLY Local rock band featuring an all-star lineup including Americana notables Adam Payne, Shawn Johnson, Jay Rodgers, Scotty Nicholson, Adam Poulin and more. NOT A PLANET Rock and roll trio channeling the sounds of Led Zeppelin and The Who with their high energy originals. SWEET KNIEVEL This band’s brand of melodic, psychedelic rock showscases an appreciation of Syd Barrett and The Beatles. The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $15 (adv), $17 (door). $10 (door w/student ID). www.meltingpointathens.com CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Virtuosic instrumental band that fuses classical, rock, blues, jazz, world music, progressive, as well as the quintessential California musical genre: surf music.

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THURSday, FEBRUaRy 23 Foundry Entertainment presents:

Dazed & Confused

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON & LED ZEPPELIN IV performed in their entirety by

YACHT ROCK REVUE doors open at 8pm

Cd RELEaSE PaRTy

FRIday, FEBRUaRy 24

pacificUV ELECTROPHORIA POWERKOMPANY doors open at 9pm

SaTURday, FEBRUaRy 25

still, small voice and the joyful noise GOLDEN BROWN THE LANES doors open at 9pm

TUESday, FEBRUaRy 28

The

Lemonheads PLAYING “IT’S A SHAME ABOUT RAY” IN ITS ENTIRETY!

MEREDITH SHELDON doors open at 8pm**

WEdNESday, FEBRUaRy 29

BLIND PILOT

COTTON JONES doors open at 8pm**

Porterhouse Grill 9 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAKE MOWRER QUARTET Premier jazz-guitarist and his quartet. Walker’s Coffee & Pub 706-543-1433 LIVE JAZZ Every Wednesday! Featuring The Downstairs Jazz Quartet.

Down the Line 3/1 David Lowery & Johnny Hickman / Jonny Corndawg / Ponderosa (40 Watt Club) 3/1 Chelsea Crowell / Moths / Old Smokey (Caledonia Lounge) 3/1 Four Thieves (Farm 255) 3/1 Don Auber (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/1 Apache Relay / Moon Taxi / Tealvox (Georgia Theatre) 3/1 Evan Barber & the Dead Gamblers (No Where Bar) 3/1 Louis Phillip Pelot (Your Pie) 3/2 Camper Van Beethoven / Matt Hudgins & His Shit-Hot Country Band / Ponderosa / Thomas Hardy Morris and The Outfit (40 Watt Club)

Cd RELEaSE PaRTy

THURSday, MaRCH 1 CAMP-IN NIGHT 1 DAVID LOWERY & JOHNNY HICKMAN (CRACKER DUO)

PONDEROSA JONNY CORNDAWG

CAMP-IN NIGHT 2

doors open at 8pm**

FRIday, MaRCH 2

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN

MATT HUDGINS AND HIS SH*T HOT COUNTRY BAND T. HARDY MORRIS AND THE OUTFIT

doors open at 8pm**

SaTURday, MaRCH 3

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ART Seeking Artist Vendors (Five Points) The Five Points Art Fest is accepting applications for artists to set up booths and sell original art and wares. Email for application and more information. Apply by Mar. 24. May 5, 11 a.m.–7 p.m. (festival). $75 (booth fee). 5pointsartfest@ gmail.com Seeking Artists (Athens, GA) The Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa is now taking applications for vendors for the Apr. 28 & 29 craft fair. Apply by Mar. 5. www.athensindiecraft stravaganzaa.com/

CLASSES Advanced Digital Photography (Lyndon House) Grab your camera and get in-depth tips on shooting great photos. Tuesdays, Mar. 20–Apr. 24, 6:30– 8:30 p.m. $93 (ACC residents), $135. (706) 613-3623, www.athens clarkecounty.com/lyndonhouse

Amphibian Monitoring Workshop (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join Georgia Adopt-AStream to learn about volunteer salamander and frog monitoring, as well as how to identify the diversity of amphibians in the state. Participants should bring a flashlight or head lamp and shoes or boots for wading. Register by Feb. 25. Mar. 2. 6:30–9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 Beekeeping for Beginners (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The second half of a six-part series that covers every aspect of backyard beekeeping. Attendance at first unit is not required. Call to register. Mar. 17–18, Apr. 14–15 and June 9–10. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $95. www.uga.edu/ botgarden 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 Clay Extruder Class (OCAF) Learn to use a clay extruder and

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“Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas” is on display at the GMOA through Apr. 15. Flower Arranging (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Taught by a National Garden Club Master Flower Show judge. Focus will be on dining table arrangements. Bring a lunch. Call to register. Feb. 29, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Fly Tying (Sandy Creek Park, Conference Room) A weekend course offering the basics of tying fly fishing lures. Call to register! Mar. 3 & 4, 12–5 p.m. $30 (ACC residents), $45. 706-613-3631, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure Genealogy 102: Census Records Online (Oconee County Library) Research family history online using Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online. Must have previous genealogy experience and basic computer skills. Call to register. Feb. 25, 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950

Intermediate Fantasy Illustration Class (Lyndon House Arts Center) Mark Helwig takes adult students through the process of producing a fantasy illustration using traditional materials. The intro class is a prerequisite. Thursdays, Mar. 22–Apr. 26, 6:30– 8:30 p.m. $83. 706-613-3623, www. accleisureservices.com/lyndonhouse Intro to Computers (Madison County Library) Led by computer specialist Alisa Claytor. Preregistration required. Tuesdays, 2–3 p.m. or 7–8 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. 706-795-5597 Investing for Retirement Seminar (UGA Tate Center) Advice about insurance, investing and taxes, taught by a registered investment advisor. Pre-registration required. Feb. 16 & 23 or Feb. 21 & 28, 6:30–9:30 p.m. $49. 706247-7033

Kundalini Meditation & Yoga (Red Lotus Institute) Meditate to relieve stress and then hang around for a special beginner level weightreduction course in yoga. Sundays, 9–10 a.m. (meditation) & 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. (yoga). $7–14 (sliding scale). www.wellnesscooperative. com Ladies’ Non-Contact Cardio Boxing (Lay Park) Build muscle strength, endurance, balance, agility and coordination. Call for more information. BYOGloves. Wednesdays through Apr. 23, 7–8 p.m. $10. 706613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lay Oil Painting Workshop (OCAF) This three-session workshop focuses on accurately depicting a photograph in oils. Students of all levels welcome. Call for details. Mar. 10, 17 & 24, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. $175. 706-769-4565

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Oil Portrait Workshop (OCAF) This weekend workshop focuses on the essential principles for achieving a convincing portrait in oils. Students of all skill levels welcome. Call for details. Feb. 25 & 26, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $150. 706-768-4565 One-on-One Computer Tutorials (Madison County Library) Call to set up an appointment with computer specialist Alisa Claytor. 706-795-5597 Painting with Charles (Lyndon House Arts Center) Bring in your oil or acrylic masterpieces-in-progress to receive easel-side assistance from instructor Charles. Call to register. Tuesdays, Mar. 20–May 8, 3:30–5:30 p.m. or 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-613-3623, www.accleisure services.com/leisure SALSAthens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes. Every Wednesday. 6:307:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30 p.m. (beginners). $8 (incl. $3.50 drink). 706-338-6613 Spring Break Classes (Good Dirt) Now registering for separate, self-contained classes. Pick which days to attend. Full schedule online. Mar. 12–16, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $55. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.com Spring Classes (OCAF) Now registering for classes in oil painting, watercolor, writing, pottery, papermaking and more. View website for details. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com Tuesday Night Food School (Gymnopedie) Learn how to use a chef’s knife, bake bread and brew good coffee. Pre-register in person. Mar. 20, 27 & Apr. 4, 6–8 p.m. $60 (three classes). happydunning@ gmail.com Vegetative Plant Propagation (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Will focus primarily on methods applicable to native plants. Feb. 23, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $50. 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden Watercolor Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) Learn watercolor techniques such as cover wash methods, glazes and brushstrokes. For beginners and intermediates. Thursdays, Mar. 22–Apr. 26. 1–3 p.m. $83 (ACC residents), $125. 706-613-3623 Yoga Classes (Total Training Gym & Yoga Center) Classes offered in power lunch yoga, fluid power, yoga for health, yoga for athletes, gentle yoga and more. Check website for dates and times. On-going. 706316-9000, www.totaltrainingcenter. com Yoga: Gentle Hatha Drop-In (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) From certified instructor Mike Healy. Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9. 706-5430162, www.mindfuliving.org Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves comprise this dynamic fitness program. Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/class, $80/session. www.uga. edu/botgarden

HELP OUT! 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 Call for Donations (OCAF) OCAF is seeking new or used items for its annual thrift sale on March 16–17. Accepting anything usable. Proceeds benefit art programs and art education at OCAF. Check website for drop-off times. www.ocaf.com

FoodBank Volunteers Needed (Email for Location) Volunteers and local groups are needed to help the FoodBank of NEGA facilitate a monthly mobile food pantry in Oconee County. www.yourcp.org/calendar, debysorensen@yahoo.com March for Meals 5K (Council on Aging) Join the ACCA to help end senior hunger in Northeast Georgia and to support Meals on Wheels. Register online. Mar. 10, 9 a.m. $20–25. www.accaging.org/ m4m5k Record-a-Thon (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, 120 Florida Ave.) Volunteers are invited to come read a story aloud during National Read Across America Week to make a recording for Learning Ally, a program for blind and dyslexic readers. 706-549-1313, www.learningally. com

KIDSTUFF 22nd annual “Give Wildlife a Chance” Poster Contest (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Artwork must portray Georgia nongame (not legally hunted, trapped or fished) wildlife and plants. Any student in grades K-5 is eligible to participate. Call for more info. Entries due by Mar. 28. 706-5426156, www.georgiawildlife.com, www.uga.edu/botgarden. Art Time (Lyndon House Arts Center) Students will explore art techniques, creativity, color and texture using books, images and other artists as inspiration. Ages 4–6. Session 1: Tuesdays, Mar. 20–Apr. 24. 4–5 p.m. Session 2: Thursdays, Mar. 22–Apr. 26. 3:30–4:30 p.m. $41 (ACC residents), $59. 706-613-3623 Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts and crafts and allows children to create original artwork. Ages 6–15. Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30– 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 Baton Twirling (Bishop Park) Dance-twirling, strutting, marching techniques and more, taught by the Classic City Majorettes for ages 5 & up. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in community performances. Tuesdays, Mar. 6–May 15, 5:45–6:45 p.m. $65. 706-613-3589, www.athens clarkecounty.com/bishop Exploring the Art of Georgia O’Keeffe (Lyndon House Arts Center) Explore the beautiful flower and stark desert scenes of Georgia O’Keeffe. Students will paint flowers and other O’Keeffeinspired subjects. Ages 7–10. Thursdays, Mar. 22–Apr. 26. 4-5 p.m. $41 (ACC residents), $59. 706-613-3623 Field Trip: Down on the Farm (Memorial Park) Travel to Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm to see how a working farm operated in the 1800s. Elementary school kids only. Register by Mar. 2. Mar. 16, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $15. 706-613-3580 Field Trip: Friday Funday! (Memorial Park) Finish the week with bowling, pizza and an afternoon movie. Elementary school kids only. Register by Mar. 2. Mar. 16, 9 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. $20. 706-613-3580 Kids’ Sewing (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Ages 6 & up. Call for more information. Fridays, Mar. 2–30. $80. 706-850-8226 Lucky Looking Leprechaun (Rocksprings Community Center & Park) A day of St. Patrick’s Day activities including making green cookies, crafts and searching for hidden leprechauns. Register by

Feb. 22. Mar. 16, 4:30–6:30- p.m. $2/ 706-613-3603 Plein Air Painting (Lyndon House Arts Center) Drawing and painting outside. Ages 7–10. Tuesdays, Mar. 20–Apr. 24. 4–5 p.m. $41 (ACC residents), $58. 706-613-3623 Spring Break Art Break (Lyndon House Arts Center) Children ages 6-12 will enjoy art activities, including art exploration with a guest artist and the creation of their own artwork. Call to register. Mar. 13 or 15, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $50 (materials included). 706-613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure Spring Break Camp (East Athens Community Center) Arts and crafts, field trips, sports and much more for kids ages 6–12. Register by Feb. 29 at 12 p.m. Mar. 12–16, 9 a.m.3:30 p.m. $20. 706-613-3593, www.athensclarkecounty.com/camps Spring Break Mini-Camp (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Each day participants will explore nature, make crafts and share a snack. Call to register. Mar. 14–16, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $20. 706-6133615, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ camps Spring Programs (East Athens Community Center) Sports, homework help, teen groups and more are going on now and throughout the spring. Call for more information. 706-613-3593 Summer Camps (Various Locations) ACC Leisure Services has a total of 45 summer camps for children and teens, ranging from traditional day camps to arts, sports, theater and even a zoo camp. Check online for complete list of camps and registration info. 706-613-3625, www.athensclarkecounty.com/camps Summer Camps (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Now registering for Garden Earth Nature Camp, Garden Explorers’ Camp and Sweet Pea Club Camp. Visit website for more details. www.botgarden.uga. edu Teen Girls Club (East Athens Community Center) This program encourages cooperation, teamwork, good behavior and self-esteem in young women ages 10–18. Wednesdays, 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593, www.athensclarke county.com/eastathens Wildlife Art Contest (Memorial Park) All students are invited to submit original, hand-drawn wildlife art for annual spring contest. Call for more information. Deadline Mar. 9, 5 p.m. $5 (ACC resident), $8. 706-613-3580, www.athens clarkecounty.com/bearhollow Yoga Sprouts (Memorial Park) Fun, playful yoga and crafts for kids ages 2 & up. Call for more information. Register by Mar. 14. Tuesdays, Mar 22–May 17. 706-613-3580

SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Various Locations) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-3894164, www.athensaa.com ANAD Support Group (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) New support group for individuals suffering from various eating disorders. First and third Saturday of each month. 10 a.m. 678-612-2697, www.anad. org/get-help/support-groups/ georgia Wonderful Wednesdays (Call for location) Adults with cognitive disabilities can learn leisure skills, community inclusion and exploration. Call to register. Every other Wednesday, Jan. 11–Apr. 18, 10:30 a.m. $14. 706-613-3580

ART AROUND TOWN Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) Metaphoric and exaggerated portraits by Ainhoa Canup. Through February. Antiques and Jewels (290 N. Milledge) Paintings by Elizabeth Barton, Greg Benson, Ainhoa Canup and others. 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. Borad. St.) A selection of oil paintings entitled “Ripe,” by Manda McKay. Through February. ArtLand Gallery (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) Tiny representational paintings by Meredith Lachin on recycled New York subway cards. Through March. Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Rd.) “Keeping Watch” includes recent work by Georgia Sea Grant artists. Through Feb. 24. Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) “Southern” features work from Rodrecas Davis, Hope Hilton, Michael Lachowski, Sam Seawright, James Perry Walker and more. Through April 1. Aurum Studios (125 E. Clayton St.) Paintings, pastels and silk hangings by Margaret Agner. Through February. Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Matthew Scott displays his abstract paintings. Through February. Ciné Bar Cafe (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Jeremy Ayers’ “OCCUPY!” is a collection of photos taken during the first six weeks of Occupy Wall Street. Through Mar. 6. Congregation Children of Israel (115 Dudley Dr.) “A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910–1965” uses images from broadway musicals, classic films and personal collections. Through Feb. 24. Etienne Brasserie (311 E. Broad St.) Paintings by UGA art professor and LDSOA curator Jeffrey Whittle. Through March. 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 Anna Marino, Tom Phillips, Larry Hamilton, Cheri Wranosky and more. Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Lisa Tantillo. Through February. Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Emmanuel Taati and Chris Denny. Through February. Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) “All Creatures Great and Small” features works depicting animals created by self-taught American artists. Through Apr. 20. • “Georgia Bellflowers” is devoted to antique dealer and furniture maker Henry Eugene Thomas. Through Apr. 15. • Temporary display complementing “Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism,” featuring images of the Midwest by American artists from the permanent collection of the GMOA as well as objects on extended loan from the collection of Jason Schoen, Princeton, NJ. Through Feb. 27. • “Introduction to the Centers” is a small, daily exhibition introducing the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, one of the four new units of the museum. Through Mar. 4. • “Lycett China” contains 30 painted porcelain pieces

ON THE STREET Athens Human Rights Logo Competition (Athens, GA) Submit designs for a logo for the 34th annual Athens Human Rights Festival by email by Mar. 12. Visit website for more details. jeff@ rubysuegraphics.com, athenshuman rightsfest.org Beat the Heat (Athens Area Humane Society) Spay your cat for a special rate before her heat cycle to prevent unwanted litters during kitten season. Through Feb. 29. $20. 706-769-9155, www.athenshumane society.org Heroes’ Breakfast (Red Cross Donor Center) The Red Cross seeks to recognize local heroes who have made a difference in other people’s lives in the past year. Nominate a friend, family member or anyone else

by Edward Lycett. Through Mar. 4. • “To Make a World” includes 47 paintings by George Ault and his contemporaries. Through Apr. 16. • Pastel drawings by Will Henry Stevens, who used naturalism and geometric abstraction. Through Mar. 25. Georgia Museum of Natural History (East Campus Road) A collection of mounted game animals featuring lynxes, African leopards, Alaskan bears, water buffalo and elk, as well as live corn snakes, tarantulas, and other live animals. The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) New mixed-media work by Mimms Cross. Through Mar. 10. Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market (815 N. Chase St.) Artwork by Tatiana Veneruso. Through February. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar (1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) Hand-dyed fabric arts by Bill Heady. Through February. Highwire Lounge (269 N. Hull St.) Photographs by BFA candidate Jimmy Rowalt. Through February. Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) Artwork by Robert Lowery. Through March. Kumquat Mae Bakery Café (18 Barnett Shoals Rd., Watkinsville) Paintings by Greg Benson. Through February. Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) “Works on Paper” by Thomas Dozol. Through Feb. 23. Last Resort Grill (184 W. Clayton St.) Abstract expressionist paintings with symbolic imagery by Claudia Campbell. Through February. Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) The 37th Annual Juried Exhibition of 175 original works by local artists. Through April 21. Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (434 S. Main St., Madison) “A Funky Little Art Thing” is the fourth annual art show featuring selected student works from grades K–12 in the Morgan County school system. Through Mar. 3. Mama’s Boy (197 Oak St.) New artwork from the Convergence Artist Collection by Anthony “Garbo” Garan and Frank Registrato. Through February. OCAF (34 School St.) An exhibit for Black History Month that includes artwork reflecting the journey of life as it pertains to African-American artists. Through Feb. 24. • “Sapelo Glow” is a collection of art by local artists in various media based on a weekend spent on Sapelo Island. Through Mar. 23. Oconee County Library (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Jewelry by Sylvia Dawe. Through February. State Botanical Garden of Georgia “NatureInspired Quilts” features handmade quilts from the Mountain Laurel Quilters Guild of Clarkesville, GA. Through Feb. 26. Trace Gallery (160 Tracy St.) “Codex,” new work by Laura Foster based on scientific and philosophical drawings. Through Feb. 26. Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) “Heart You” includes works by Mike Groves, Keith P. Rein, Lea Purvis, Laurin Ramsey, David Mack, Ashley Wills, Graham Bradford and Joe Havasy. Through February. UGA Tate Center (45 Baxter St.) Black History Month display on the wall space between Tate I and Tate II. Through February. Visionary Growth Gallery (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) “Drawing Pretty Pictures Is a Way to Meet God in the World Like It Is” features works by Lois Curtis, Carter Wellborn, Peter Loose, Alpha Andrews, Betty Wansley and Annie Wellborn. Through April.

by Mar. 15. Breakfast will be held on May 16. Email for nomination form. roundsl@usa.redcross.org Jam in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Musicians are welcome to come together to play their instruments. Tuesday evenings. FREE! 706-5421244 March Moving for Montessori 5K/10K (Athens Montessori School) The races benefit the expansion of the school’s fitness path to encourage students to stay fit and active. Some proceeds also benefit UNICEF. Pre-registration required. Mar. 31, 8 a.m. (5K), 8:45 a.m. (10K). $15-50. www.athens montessori.com National Democratic Convention Delegates Election Info Sessions (Athens, GA) Information sessions about candidacy for convention del-

egate will provide forms and further information about the election. The formal election will be Apr. 21. Call for details. Feb. 23–26. 706-3421011, patsydudney@yahoo.com Seeking Vendor Applications for Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) The first Athens Farmers Market of the season is Apr. 7. Apply to be a vendor at the market by applying online by Feb. 28. www.athensfarmersmarket. net Summer Jobs (Athens, GA) ACC Leisure Services is hiring for 120 summer positions including camp counselors, lifeguards, park assistants and pool staff. 706-613-3090, www.athensclarkecounty.com/jobs Tax Assistance (Oconee County Library) The AARP offers free help to all adults regardless of age or AARP affiliation. Mondays through Apr. 9, 1–4:30 p.m. 706-769-3950 f

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kiddie dope NEWS FROM THE JUICE BOX SET Every so often, while on this grand journey called parenting, you find yourself in a situation that at once amazes and inspires you. For all the horrid diapers and temper tantrums, this one experience can somehow make it all seem OK, even if just for a few hours. That, my friends, is the kiddie dance party. They are not frequent, but whenever you hear murmurs of one, jump on it. The first time we took Sofia to a dance party— at Flicker on Washington Street, with DJ Mahogany spinning retro Michael Jackson—it was this funny mix of outgoing, rambunctious dancers and self-conscious wallflowers. But without all that teen angst. Even though it was a bit like a school dance, it was a whole lot more carefree. Again, kiddie dance parties aren’t a common occurrence. Usually one crops up around a holiday—think Halloween, usually—and I’ve seen them show up at Kristen Morales

The family trio that is Laughing Pizza can be seen in musical interludes on GPB during kids’ programming, and a new documentary about their story may end up at some film festivals before its DVD release. It’s OK if you haven’t perfected your own version of The Pizza Dance (put your hands up, spin around, clap your hands to the music, slide to the left, slide to the right…yeah, you got it. The song is pretty darn catchy.) The trio—mother and lead singer Lisa Schlosser, husband and guitarist Billy Schlosser and daughter Emily, 15—sing sugary sweet pop songs about doing the laundry or how much a little girl loves her daddy. It’s pretty easy to get started dancing once the music starts. “Most of the ideas either come from our lives of Emily’s friends’ experiences… We really write pop songs, but we write about our lives,” says Lisa, who started writing music for Emily with her husband when Emily reached that awkward age of being too old for Barney the Dinosaur but too young for mainstream pop music. “We used to say [we were] filling the void between Barney and Britney,” she says. “Once kids get to be four or five, they are over Barney and all of a sudden they are singing Rhianna or Ke$ha. There’s nothing wrong with those songs— they’re great and wellmarketed—but why not give kids a choice? So, as time went on, Emily really started to enjoy songwriting. She’s a full one-third Jacob Cona and William Kissane perform during Love Notes for Lukas, a recent member of the group.” fundraising concert featuring local student musicians. Watching kids of all ages And, the Melting park themselves in the front row and watch or dance the afternoon away? Five Point show will be guitar riffs out of five. more than watching a trio sing and dance Flicker, Hendershot’s Coffee Bar and the downonstage. They take turns interacting with the town Transmetropolitan. A recent event at crowd, even doing a lesson in writing a song Hendershot’s—a fundraiser concert for the that involves a Mad Libs-type game in which Lukas Fund (a nonprofit that helps support the microphone gets passed around and kids and educate parents in the neonatal intensive put their own twist on the lyrics. After the care units at Athens Regional Medical Center show, the band stays for a meet-and-greet. and Grady Memorial Hospital)—featured local “Our mission is to expose kids to music,” student musicians in a family-friendly show says Billy. “A million studies have shown that that was a great way to inspire younger kids arts and music help develop children’s brains, to pick up an instrument. helps them develop self-respect, all kinds On Mar. 3, an entirely different type of attributes that they don’t always get in of show comes to Athens in the form of school. So, it’s really important for kids to Laughing Pizza, the Atlanta-based, familysee, number one, that there is such a thing friendly pop-group sensation that tours across as music, and I think another thing is that the country (see www.meltingpointathens.com we have our daughter in the band… They get for complete show details). The concert at the to see another kid doing something that she Melting Point will hopefully kick off more allis good at, that she enjoys with her family. ages shows there, says Troy Aubrey, the bookAnd I think that’s really important for them to ing agent for venue, because he sees a need in have a role model like that.” this town for more all-ages (and kid-friendly) Sure, Athens is known for its music. But shows. unless you’re older than 18, your choices are “As the talent buyer for the Melting Point, often limited. Which means it’s often up to a and a father of two children, I have realized kiddie dance party or an outdoor festival to that there certainly is a void for children’s bring music to the next generation of musientertainment in Athens, especially live music cians and dancers. So, show up for Laughing performances,” he says. “I’ve been seeking out Pizza or any other all-ages, afternoon dance the types of acts that I would want to bring party with your kids, and keep that musical my daughter to see. Laughing Pizza’s songs momentum going. are fun, catchy and contain a lot of positive messages.” Kristen Morales kiddiedope@flagpole.com

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Condos for Rent Gigantic 5BR/3BA. End of Lumpkin. 2500 sf. 2 LRs, huge laundry rm., DR, FP, big deck. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1500/mo. (706) 369-2908.

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Duplexes For Rent 2BR Westside duplex. Immaculate, friendly, convenient, wooded, FP. W/D, $550/mo. (706) 207-9436. 4BR/2BA duplex off S. Milledge. Avail. now or pre-lease, full size W/D, ceiling fans in all rooms, DW, microwave, total electric. $850/mo. Hank, (706) 207-6361. Brick duplex, 2BR/2BA, very clean, all extras. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens. 1 unit avail. Pets OK. $500/mo. + dep. Call Sharon at (706) 201-9093.

Houses for Rent 2BR/1BA. Classic bead board interior, CHAC, W/D connect., stove/ fridge. 1 mi. to Dwntn. 227 Hillside St. (706) 354-1276. 2BR/1BA house avail. Mar.1stAug. 1st in Blvd. district. Shorter leases acceptable, price negotiable. Ideal before fall lease begins. (404) 488-5638 for info.

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4BR/4BA new Dwntn. Private baths, double porches, walk-in closets, hardwoods. Walk everywhere! W/D & lawn maint. incl. Pre-leasing for Fall. Only $1900/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957. AtlasRealEstateAdvisors. com. 5 Pts. 2BR/1BA. Great location. Great for grad student. Walk to campus. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. Pets OK. $650-$700/mo. Avail 8/1. Call (706) 369-2908. 5 Pts. 3BR/3BA. CHAC, HWflrs., decks, FP, new granite & stainless kitchen, family room. 5 min. to UGA. Big yard, quiet street, no dogs. Professionals preferred. $1250/mo. (706) 202-9805. 6BR/4BA. Complete renovation for Aug. 2 full, new kitchens. Closest location in Athens to heart of Normaltown. Lg. private BRs. (706) 546-6900. View at ValerioProperties. com. $3000/mo.

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Lovely new house. 4BR/3BA. Half mi. to campus. Big rms., HWflrs., DW, W/D, CHAC, pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1750/mo. Call (706) 3692908. Micro farm in Athens. 2BR/1BA, CHAC, HWflrs., W/D. 1100 sf. on 2.5 acres, all fenced. 7 min. to town. $900/mo. Pets welcome! Contact Adam, (276) 920-7228. Short-term lease on newer 4BR/4BA for only $1000/mo.! Dwntn. W/D & lawn maint. incl. Pets OK. Avail. now! Super cheap! Aaron, (706) 207-2957, AtlasRealEstateAdvisors. com. Westside 3BR/1.5BA, nearly 1700 sf. w/ screened porch & tons of updates. $900/mo. Owner/Agent, (706) 206-5282, (706) 613-6040, HeatherMcElroy.com.

Parking & Storage Parking places for rent across from UGA. $30/mo. (706) 3544261.

Pre-Leasing 2BR/1BA, 129 Riverdale (June 1), 20 Milledge Ct., 230 O’Farrell (Aug. 1). All have HWflrs., tile BA, W/D. Great locations in Five Points! $650/ mo. (706) 548-9797 or boulevard propertymanagement.com. Best rentals in Athens! 1–5BR houses, apts., condos. In the heart of UGA/Dwntn./5 Pts. Avail. Aug. 1. Going fast, call today! (706) 369-2908 for more info.

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Roommates 1 roommate needed. 4BR/2BA a t U n i v e r s i t y A p t s . C u r re n t l y 2 guys, 1 girl. $395/mo. covers everything. Individual lease. Bike or ride #12 to campus. Amenities. (704) 779-2432. 2 roommates needed. 2 stor y 3 B R / 3 B A i n T h e Wo o d l a n d s , $425/mo./renter OR $375/each/ mo. if 2 renters sign together! Gated community + amenities near UGA. Email: ashleycleary@ gmail.com.

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Instruction Athens School of Music . Instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument repairs avail. Visit http:// www.AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

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Music Services Eady Guitars, Guitar Building & Repair. Qualified repair man offering professional set ups, fret work, wiring, finishing & restorations. Exp. incl. Gibson & Benedetto Guitars. Appt. only. (615) 714-9722, www.eadyguitars. com. Fret Shop. Professional guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

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For Sale Miscellaneous Bidders Buy Auction. New & used items, collectables, & antiques. Auctions every Fri. & Sat. 1459 Hargrove Lake Rd. in Winterville. Visit www.biddersbuyauctions.com or call (706) 742-2205 for more info. Go to Agora! Awesome! Affordable! The ultimate store! Specializing in retro everything: antiques, furniture, clothes, bikes, records & players! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130. Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College downtown. (706) 369-9428.

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

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Opportunities Are you currently receiving mental health treatment? If so, call (706) 341-3765 for information about a UGA research study. Earn $30 for 3 hrs. of participation. Actors/movie extras needed immediately for upcoming rules. $150–300/day depending on job requirements. No exp., all looks. (800) 560-8672, A-109 for casting times/locations. Disclaimer! Flagpole does its best to scout out scams but we cannot guarantee. Be careful giving out personal information. Call to report scams, (706) 549-0301. Do you or someone you know have a strange addiction? A Major TV Network is offering professional help for all participants. Call (312) 4678679 or email 20wcasting@gmail. com. Dependable person needed during the evening hrs. helping a young man confined to a wheelchair. In exchange for free rent in apt., food, utils. & other amenities. Call (706) 316-2798 or (706) 549-9456. Earn $500/day. Airbrush & media makeup artists for ads, TV, film, fashion. Train & build portfolio in 1 wk. Lower tuition for 2012. http://www. AwardMakeupSchool.com (AAN CAN). Help wanted. Earn extra income assembling CD cases from home. No experience necessary. Call our live operators now. (800) 405-7619 ext. 2450 www.easyworkjobs.com (AAN CAN). Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments. No exp. req’d. (888) 729-6151. Paid in adv.! Make $1K/wk. mailing bro c h u re s f ro m h o m e ! G u a r. income! Free supplies! No exp. req’d. Start immediately! www. homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN).

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Light-bulb gas Like 4-down Train for a bout Clothing embroidery Like carbon or nitrogen Stir up Teen's woe Sasquatch kin Mr. Pitt New driver, often Blue-pencil Handel contemporary Memory unit Engine component Widespread outbreak False teeth One of two evils Unearth Hunt illegally Renegade Met production Sandwich cookie Tapestry thread Fluctuate Auspices Start to sink

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theatre notes Gods and Monsters, and Boobs A conspiracy theory I recently discovered surrounds the author H.P. Lovecraft. For those who don’t know Lovecraft, he was a writer for the pulp magazines in the 1920s and ‘30s, notably the popular Weird Tales, wherein he produced a loosely connected series of stories about a race of cosmic gods who have spanned the stars for eons and now lie dormant, waiting for the right and inevitable moment to awaken and enslave and devour us all. Lovecraft dealt in the same feverish mastery of growing horror and dread as Poe, and suffered the same frail and tenuous grip on sanity in real life, so his stories of these Elder Gods, particularly the one called Cthulhu, are shot through with terror and violent madness. Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu mythos” resonated with his readers so much that several of his peers wrote their own stories set in the same tortured universe, and contemporary authors such as horror master Brian Lumley continue to plumb that well today. The theory—and there are books about this—posits that what Lovecraft wrote was not fiction but an attempt to relate visions of an actual extra-dimensional pantheon of ancient, colossal monsters waiting on the threshold between their world and ours, visions that his particular mind could receive but of such enormity that, like his characters, the attempt to understand them stretched his reason to the breaking point. The only way Lovecraft’s frail psyche could wrap itself around such overwhelming horror was to frame

it as fiction, the theory goes, and then convince itself that Cthulhu and his brethren were in fact mere products of the imagination. Like most conspiracy theories, this one takes the long and winding bypass around logic: if the stories of the Elder Gods are simply stories, then why is it that only freaky horror authors write them, hmm? Real or not, Cthulhu is poised to descend upon Athens—tentacles, batwings and all—when the Town & Gown Players present The Call of Cthulhu Feb. 24–26. It is one of the company’s most ambitious projects to date, an attempt to awaken the sleeping god of eldritch insanity on the community-theatre stage, The Call of Cthulhu and on a Second Stage budget, no less. Lovecraft’s story of the same name sible forms from the depths of the ocean: was adapted by Ron N. Butler as a radio play the resting-place of the dreaming god now and presented at DragonCon in 2009 by the awakened… Atlanta Radio Theatre Company. T&G director Strange stuff, to be sure, but what is even Cord Sibilsky has taken the radio play and more unusual is the second half of the bill. further adapted it for the stage, begging the Being the adaptation of a radio play, The Call question of how to take something that can of Cthulhu is presented in one act about 45 only be described and bring it to life. minutes long. For Friday and Saturday’s shows, Lovecraft’s story relates a series of isothe other act is given over to Effie’s Club lated but connected incidents that reveal a Follies, Athens’ long-running “slap-strip” worldwide epidemic of madness—the rise of burlesque troupe. The Effie’s girls have been

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laying low for the last couple of years, as several of the core members spun off into the Atlanta-based troupe The Yes Girls. Though they’ve certainly kept their hand in the local scene with the popular monthly Burlesque Beta shows, this will be the first full-on Effie’s show we’ve seen in awhile. For the uninitiated, the Effie’s girls go beyond the traditional bumpand-grind with a distinctly vaudevillian emphasis on musical comedy that often pushes the envelope of good taste, with hilarious results. An Effie’s show plays with the audience’s comfort zone. You shouldn’t be watching as the costumes come off or laughing at the sick humor, and yet you are. Their combination of inventive musical numbers and classic striptease is that good. It’s an odd double-bill but one that may work well, the light comedy of Effie’s Club Follies serving as a counterpoint to the heavy doings of The Call of Cthulhu. One thing is certain, however—successful or not, it’s good to see this kind of artistic collaboration in practice, and it’d be nice to see more cross-pollination from the various segments of Athens’ art and performance communities, coming together to hatch the right kind of conspiracy. John G. Nettles Athens Community Theatre, 115 Grady Ave. Friday– Saturday, Feb. 24–25, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 26, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5, general admission (no reservations taken).

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