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Oh, no, I thought: they’re back—this time at City Hall.

Occupy Athens sent out a release “to all media” that they’ll be camping out at City Hall until their demands are met: basically four “town hall” meetings attended by the mayor, the “city commission” and “at least one representative from Selig Enterprises,” where everybody can discuss the Walmart development and its impact on Athens. They also want an apology from Mayor Denson and the members of the Economic Development Foundation for their “illegal conduct” and closeddoor meetings that “violated the integrity of the city government and the sovereign will of the people of Athens.”

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Local activists rallied at City Hall last weekend, and some of them are still there.

Up Against It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 The ACC Landfill Encroaches on Neighbors Again Despite a 1992 agreement, the county dump is expanding once more.

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As soon as I got the release, I drove to City Hall, and sure enough, the little plaza beneath the Spirit of Athens sculpture was crowded with tents, signs, a bunch of friendly kids and a dog with no tag. The kids were eating pizza and feeling excited about what they were doing. I told them that in my opinion they’d be out of there pretty soon and their demands don’t have a prayer, but they insisted on their right to be there.

I left them thinking, well, hell: it’s not the way I would do it, but I have called in this column for a public meeting with Selig about Walmart to no avail. Why not this direct action?

And Occupy Athens’ naive call for open government is a refreshing contrast to the closed-door machinations in Atlanta, where our elected representatives—Senators Bill Cowsert and Frank Ginn and Representatives Doug McKillip and Keith Heard (but, thankfully, not Rep. Chuck Williams) have undermined our local citizens and local government by willfully subverting the charter of our government, which our people adopted 20 years ago and which has been approved subsequently by successive charter overview commissions, our local government and the U.S. Justice Department.

Thanks to Cowsert, Ginn, McKillip and Heard, the redistricting town hall meetings we held last summer and the work of our local redistricting committee approved by our mayor and commission are all null and void. We have been handed a new form of government that not a single citizen will vote on.

These, our elected representatives, have forced on us a new, radically redrawn Athens-Clarke County Commission map for purely political reasons cloaked in dubious claims for more equality for black people and Republicans. Cowsert, Ginn, McKillip and Heard did this to us behind closed doors—in Atlanta. For sure, they “violated the integrity of the city government and the sovereign will of the people of Athens.”

Compared to the politicians behind their closed doors at the Capitol, the kids in their tents at City Hall are a breath of fresh air.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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city dope Athens News and Views A Reminder: So, about 300 people turned out for Saturday’s Rally for a Better Athens to hear a host of speakers—and singers!—make the case against a downtown Walmart. The event was capped with the announcement by Occupy Athens that the group would set up camp at City Hall until its demands for town hall meetings on the Selig development and an apology from Mayor Nancy Denson and the Economic Development Foundation for holding an improperly closed meeting pertaining to the Blue Heron river district proposal are met.

The utility of such gestures as the rally and the occupation, obviously, is in focusing attention on the public issues they’re called to address—in this case, the Selig development.

But these particular shows of activism seem to have a lot of people wondering whether the attention they’re drawing to the cause is positive or negative, and that question points to a problem that plagues the public discourse in most communities these days, including ours.

in the ABH forum is equivalent to a small fraction of the number who actually moved their bodies into the street Saturday, and if you want an idea of what passes for normal discourse amid that group, just check out any article in the ABH that deals with public education (or Martin Luther King, for that matter). As obvious as it may seem, we (and especially, our leaders) need to remind ourselves now and then that those voices are nothing close to a representative sampling of local opinion.

Not Likely: A couple of supporters of the Selig Enterprises development on the Armstrong & Dobbs property have said publicly that that the new property tax revenues it would generate could lead to a lower tax burden for local homeowners. That has struck the Dope as odd, especially considering how strapped the county budget has been in recent years.

Would an estimated $1 million in added property taxes really make enough of a difference to allow the mayor and commission to lower the millage rate, lessening the tax load for property owners across the board?

“No, I don’t think so,” says Mayor Nancy Denson, who served for 25 years as the ACC tax commissioner before landing her current gig.

Denson points out that county employees have gone three straight years without salary increases, and that the ACC government’s $400,000 share of that $1 million (the rest Courtney Beathea, the owner of the 909 Market on East Broad Street, speaks would go to the school to the crowd at last Saturday’s Rally for a Better Athens as organizer Russell district) “is not likely Edwards looks on. to reduce the millage rate.”

It’s likely that there is a sizable proportion Hope Iglehart, who has raised the posof the Athens population that doesn’t share sibility of the development leading to lower the views of People for a Better Athens or the taxes at least twice while speaking publicly as occupiers. But if you were to read the online a representative of the local NAACP chapter, comments on the Athens Banner-Herald story offers this clarification: “The idea behind the about Saturday’s events, you could be given Clarke NAACP being in support of the proposed the impression not only that the activists are Selig property is to cultivate the kind of culviewed by their fellow Athenians with a hostil- ture that welcomes business to the area… We ity that borders on rage, but that that view is understand completely Selig cannot and will nearly unanimously held. not be able to stimulate the economy alone.

Duh, right? They’re anonymous online comWe feel that Selig, along with Caterpillar and menters, and everyone knows what to make other potential businesses, collectively can of their consensus. Except that the ABH comassist in keeping our property taxes at the ments are the community’s most prominent current rate or potentially lower them.” and constant forum on local issues from Fair enough. But the fact that more than politics to schools to development to crime, one person has cited the “lower property and the people who read them are the people taxes” scenario in connection with this project who are interested in those matters on the in the past month makes the Dope wonder local level. Is it possible that the opinions whether it’s become one of the talking points being voiced in that forum have an outsized for Selig officials at the private meetings with influence on the conversations we have about selected community members the company’s those things? Yes, it is. local PR firm, Jackson Spalding, has been The consensus in that forum seems to be organizing to sway public opinion in the that the the 300 people who showed up at development’s favor. If the Selig folks are putSaturday’s rally represent a destructive, raditing this idea out into the community to cal fringe element of the local populace that build support for their project, for which, still, wants to undermine our cherished way of life. no plans have been submitted to anyone, it’s We shouldn’t need reminding, but it’s crucial worth wondering what else they’re throwing at that we recognize where that “consensus” the wall—and what’s sticking. is coming from and treat it accordingly. The number of people who regularly comment Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

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city pages to mitigate the impact of the larger cuts. The extra money the ACCA is requesting would go to a principal-only payment on the mortgage of its adult day care center, which could lower its monthly expenses. Day care is one of a When the Athens-Clarke County Mayor and broad range of services the ACCA provides to Commission met last week to discuss the govlocal seniors, which also include the Meals on ernment’s budget for Fiscal Year 2013, which Wheels program and transportation to medical begins July 1, Mayor Nancy Denson began appointments for people who can’t drive. An the meeting on a lighthearted note. With increasing number of Athens residents depend representatives of only three of the 13 indeon those services, said Jennie Deese, the ACCA pendent agencies supported by ACC (in whole president and CEO, as the number of local or in part) in attendance to ask for funding seniors grows and more of them are faced with increases, Commissioner Mike Hamby asked the responsibility of raising grandchildren. whether the remaining agencies’ budgets Advantage, which assists residents of a would remain the same as last year.

10-county region—about 29 percent of them “We’re gonna take the money from them in ACC—who suffer from mental illness, develand give it to the ones that came tonight,” opmental disabilities and addiction, is in a replied the mayor. The line similar situation. “As the broke up the room, but it economy goes down, demand “As the economy was probably the last funny for services goes up,” said thing said that night, as a goes down, demand Advantage CEO Cindy Darden. vivid picture emerged of the Only four of the 10 counties for services goes up.” currently contribute amounts savage toll the recession and state and federal budget equivalent to 1 percent of slashing have taken on local service organizathe value of of the services their citizens tions, even as their assistance has become receive from Advantage; Elbert County has cut more desperately in need. funding altogether. The agency will operate at The Athens Community Council on Aging an $80,000 loss this year. asked for a $25,000 increase in ACC’s contribuACC’s fledgeling Cultural Affairs Commission tion to its budget, while Advantage Behavioral requested an increase of just under $5,000 Health Systems requested a bump of $16,000. to its 2012 budget of $12,000 to help fund a The county’s share of the ACCA’s budget is part-time organizational staffer, but commisabout 7 percent; ACC pays for less than 1 persioners seemed inclined to look for assistance cent of the services Advantage provides in the from current employees of the county’s SPLOST county. The rest of the agencies’ budgets are or Leisure Services departments. funded by the state and federal governments, No decisions on the agencies’ budget along with other sources like grants, donarequests were made at the meeting, but with tions and charities for the ACCA and Medicaid, county revenues continuing to decrease, the fees and insurance for Advantage. mayor and commissioners will be hard-pressed But with state and federal money becoming to maintain current levels of funding. more and more scarce, the agencies are turning to ACC for relatively tiny budget increases Dave Marr

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athens rising capitol impact What’s Up in New Development The Cedar Shoals, the large granite outcrop and shoals where Daniel Easley built his mill, and where legend has it he convinced the University founders to stop and build their school, will soon be dynamited away. This fascinating historical and ecological landscape will be destroyed to make way for stormwater ponds and parking lots, with five stories of student housing perched on top.

It doesn’t have to be this way, though.

Some other Piedmont towns have turned the very same kinds of outcrops into world-class amenities. Columbus is blowing out dams for a world-class kayak run through its downtown.

Greenville has a bold, contemporary pedestrian bridge floating above its outcrop, creating an iconic focal point for that community’s redevelopment.

wouldn’t cost much comparatively, but might net all sorts of creative alternatives to improve the projects in unforeseen ways.

Maybe the Mayor and Commission could facilitate such a conversation, with the only prerequisite being that doing nothing is not an option, and we must find some way forward.

Idealistic, perhaps, but what other choice do we have? Clearly, if Caterpillar is any indication, our government can mobilize quickly to put the incentives in place for the right project.

It’d be impressive to see that kind of urgency and enthusiasm for planning on the part of our government, with the need for a downtown master plan only formally recognized by the Mayor and Commission in the last month, despite years of platitudes about the need for such a document.

The Greenway, it seems, is also in need of closer scrutiny, with a design overlay to regulate developments adjacent to it in ways that the zoning currently doesn’t speak to. Besides Selig and the project on Oconee Street, there are also new apartments under construction off Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway on the Greenway, and a large athletic complex adjacent to Cook’s Trail. Each of these is an opportunity to build a stronger community by creating a stronger relationship between public and private investment. How many of these opportunities will we miss due to a continued refusal to recognize that planning is a worthwhile investment?

What we saw with the Blue Heron river district project was that it is possible to link physical planning to economic development. Indeed, much of the broader attention to and enthusiasm for economic development here seems to have arisen out of that conversation. With the county’s newly appointed Economic Development Task Force workMany nearby cities, including Columbus and Greenville, ing to develop a plan for growth and have incorporated iconic landscapes like granite outcrops jobs, perhaps this place-driven strategy and shoals into their planning and economic revitalization could be a part of the conversation. efforts. Athens’ own outcrop will soon be blasted away for To take but one promising example, if student housing. those members identify the medical field as what we need to focus on, “where” Located on the former Boys and Girls and “how” also need to be addressed in their Club property on Oconee Street, just across plan. These folks should get out in front, talk the North Oconee River from downtown, the to people in the neighborhoods and figure out Shoals outcrop could become a real gem for what kind of medical development is approprithe community. It’s a stone’s throw from the ate, and put that vision on paper for potential Armstrong & Dobbs property, another key site, new businesses to see. The notion of creating and another opportunity that will soon be an “ombudsman” to shepherd projects through missed. local permitting is a big buzzword among the In both these cases, the consensus seems economic development crowd, but perhaps the to be that the development projects planned function of that role could be a bit broader. for them are generally the right kinds of uses That kind of position should be about bridgfor their locations, but the details and the ing between community and business—not design are off. It’s unlikely to happen, but I just facilitating permitting, but facilitating wonder about the possibilities if the develmeaningful relationships among businesses opers of each of these projects, Selig in the and the neighbors they’re moving in next to. case of Walmart and Vestcore in the case of Of course, the Greenway, downtown and the student housing, stopped for a moment other places should get the same treatment. and actually reached out to the community, The idea that public investment, be it a mediattempting to incorporate Athenians into the cal school or a greenway, should spur private design process in a sincere way. If someone’s investment is an obvious one. However, goal is to make your project better, what’s the rather than standing back and crossing our harm in actually considering the notion for a fingers that the right private investment will moment? come, good investment, good planning and Selig’s project has been in a holding patgood economic development demand that we tern for months, with Walmart’s hesitations as define and seek out the right kinds of private a rumored reason for the stalling; the Easley investment. project has been held back for years due to the economy. Time to consider alternatives Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

Making Too Many Laws The House of Representatives recently debated a bill that would make it illegal for registered sex offenders to obtain a commercial driver’s license. The author’s intent in sponsoring the measure was to prevent sex offenders from being hired as school bus drivers.

“HB 215 increases security for children by ensuring that bus drivers do not have a proven history of hurting children,” said Rep. Paul Battles (R-Cartersville).

No one really wants to make it easy for a sex offender to have contact with children by getting a job as a bus driver. Battles is obviously doing a good thing for his constituents by passing a law to prevent this. The only problem is, we don’t need a new law to keep sex offenders and other criminals out of school buses. State law already requires local school systems to perform a criminal background check and take fingerprints from all persons they hire as bus drivers. The Georgia code also requires that “all persons employed as school bus drivers by any public school system in this state shall be subject to random testing for evidence of use of illegal drugs.”

Just to make sure I wasn’t misinterpreting what I had read in the state code, I called the person at the Georgia Department of Education who is responsible for pupil transportation matters. He told me that the law applies not only to bus drivers but also to custodians and other non-teaching employees at local school systems.

“They do have to have a criminal background check and fingerprinting,” confirmed Carlton Allen. “The process has been in place for several years. They are not going to be cleared to drive and work for a local school system without this criminal background check.”

HB 215 is an unnecessary piece of law, but Paul Battles sponsored it anyway. Because

he introduced HB 215, taxpayers have had to bear these expenses: paying lawyers to draft the measure, buying paper so that the bill can be printed and providing legislative staffers and committee facilities to review a measure that is already part of state law.

I am not trying to pick on Paul Battles. He seems to be a decent enough fellow who sincerely wants to do a good job of representing the interests of the people living in his legislative district. His actions in bringing forth this bill, however, illustrate a problem that affects many of those in the General Assembly.

They don’t have enough to do.

Most legislators will be running for reelection this year, and they want the folks back home to know that they are “doing something.” The thing that lawmakers usually do is pass a law, but over the decades we have already put thousands of laws and related amendments on the books.

There really is not much new you could add to the laws we have now. People like Paul Battles thus find themselves in a situation where the laws they propose duplicate legislation that was signed years ago. I bring this up because of a complaint I often hear from members of the House and Senate. They tell me that being a state legislator is a full-time job. While the Constitution may say that the General Assembly only convenes for 40 days a year, those who serve contend that the demands of their elected positions amount to a fulltime job.

Here is a suggestion for the men and women who serve in the Legislature. If you would stop spending so much of your time and the taxpayers’ money to pass laws that are already on the books, you could eliminate a lot of the work you do and make your position the part-time job it was truly intended to be.

It’s something to think about, anyway.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

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Another Record-Wants Ramble Through the Dustbin of My Mind

ecently, I produced a column online listing 20 of my most wanted records and snatches about each. Since I’ve thought of more titles that I lack, here I go again. My main goal is trying to keep everyone in spins and needles with my weekly radio program, “Ort.’s Oldies,” on WUOG (90.5 FM) on Saturday nights from 10 p.m. until midnight.

Mint copies of 45s are not what I collect. If a record has writing on the labels, that’s fine (as long as I can discern the information), as is some surface noise and a clickpop or two.

If I wanted everything pristine, I’d have married an heiress who could cater to this whim of mine (as long as I played her everything I acquired!).

These are not in order of wantedness but in order of rememberedness.

1) “Mary on the Beach”/ “Two of a Kind”—Hank Shifter (Steed 708). WRFC played this in the late spring of 1968; concurrently, it reached #6 at WLOF in Orlando. This is Hank’s second Steed single (I have the other one); he also had one on Soul City, and I even have that. “The ‘tamber’ of his voice is remarkable,” my father commented upon hearing the record on the air. It’s an old favorite of mine, and not terribly rare.

2) “Jackie Wilson Said (‘I’m In Heaven When You Smile’)”/ “You’ve Got the Power”—Van Morrison (Warner Brothers 7616). This homage to the great soul singer peaked at #61 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart after its July, 1972 release.

It is the only chart record by Van Morrison (except maybe for some way-later stuff) that I lack. And it’s a masterpiece.

3a) “Times with You”/ “It’s a Lonely Life”—The Celtics (Dante 2291); 3b) “For Your Love”/ “Looking for You”—The Celtics (Dante 2295). The Celtics were the rage of Macon in 1967 and 1968. Both these records—the former from early 1968 and the latter from midyear—were on a small, independent label that extolled itself as “a division of bushmen enterprises–-–-– atlanta–georgia.” (It’s exactly like that on the label, folks!)

BTW, The Bushmen were a popular South Georgia band: I have their 45 “Friends and Lovers Forever.” Years ago, I bought both of these at The Record Shop in downtown Macon. Sure wish I had either or, better yet, both now, because they’re worth airing and sharing. Oh—“For Your Love” is the Yardbirds song.

4) “Dark Clouds Rolling”/ “I’m In Love with You Baby”—Silas Hogan (Excello 2251). One of the several great bluesmen of Scotlandville, an exurb of Baton Rouge, Mr. Hogan was a consistent seller: all eight of his singles did well. I have a couple of others, but this, from 1964, is my all-time favorite of his. Some years after the singles were released, Excello issued an LP containing all 16 sides.

I used to have it, but I don’t think I do now. Just imagine: this was being played on WLAC out of Nashville when the rest of the world was going Beatle.

Silas Hogan deserved to die a rich man.

5) “City Lights”/ “No Song to Sing”—Bill Anderson (T-N-T 9015). Whispering Bill released three singles on this San Antonio imprint (Tanner-N-Texas) before signing with Decca in 1959. He wrote the song while sitting on the roof of the Imperial House Hotel in Commerce, GA. The B-side is a semi-rocker. (Dexter Romweber could tear it up if he felt so inclined.) Bill’s previous single, “Take Me”/ “Empty Room” (released April, 1957) was on T-N-T 146 and was reissued on T-N-T 165 after his first Decca success. “Take Me” is quite the rocker, and I don’t have it, but the last eBay copy I took note of went for $52. Naah, I don’t need it that badly, folks.

6) “Salt Lick”/ “Miller’s Farm”—Z Z Top (Scat 500).

This is their first single. It reached #11 on Houston’s KNUZ in September of 1969. I have the reissue on London 131, but to have a copy on Scat would be divine. (They’re not uncommon in Houston.) Take a look at the label (above), and you’ll see how groovy it is.

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7) “I’ll Come Running”/ “Here Comes the Night”—Lulu (Parrot 9714). I already have her first U.S. release, “Shout,” on both its issues, but this shouter has eluded me. It was released in December, 1964, and Bubbled up to #105 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart. Again, this is one record I want to play on the radio, just for y’all’s amazement. Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Laurie, is one bonny wee Scots lassie who does not sound at all like she looks like she would!

8) “If I Didn’t Have a Dime (To Play the Jukebox)”/ “The New Breed”—Ron Moody & The Centaurs (Columbia 44908). Moody walked away with Virginia’s 1969 hit version of this song synchronous to a Greensboro, NC version on Jokers Three Productions by Bob Collins & The Fabulous Five.

(I have that one.) The Moody disc also made some noise in the New Haven market. Moody’s group had a later single on ABC records, which is far scarcer and which I have. They’re still playing today with several original members remaining in the lineup. BTW, the initial version of this song was by Gene Pitney on Musicor. (I have that as well.)

9) “Lonesome”/ “Done You Wrong”—Danny Mote (Opal 001; reissued as Vee-Jay 381). Danny named his record label for his mother. He had a few hundred copies of this single pressed up by National Recording Co. in Atlanta and sold them primarily from his car trunk in the early spring of 1961.

Along in late March, Mac Davis (he of singing fame), who was then Vee-Jay’s Atlanta talent scout, leased the master and flipped the sides. Today, Danny sells insurance over west of Atlanta; his Opal discs have been long gone since the likes of 1963. I’d gladly settle for a Vee-Jay copy of this bonafide homegrown rocker.

10) “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”/ “The Waiting”—Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (MCA 54732). Go on and laugh. This is one of the highest charting (#14 on Billboard) still-commonly-played 45s that I lack. It came out at the end of 1993 and—wonder of wonders—I’ve never even seen a copy. Where are they all hiding? Did someone toss them into a sinkhole down by Gainesville, FL to have them eaten by alligators? It had a nice picture sleeve, too… I think. Chomp, chomp.

11) “Gabriel”/ “Movies in My Mind”—Billy Joe Royal (Columbia 44677). This was released in late 1968 and was a sizable hit in Atlanta, even if it didn’t dent the national charts.

I’ve got all manner of obscure singles by this Valdosta native, many of them on odd labels like Player’s and Fairlane… but this one, aired for six or seven weeks on WQXI, still eludes me.

12) “Hard Lovin’ Loser”/ “I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today”—Judy Collins (Elektra 45610). This was her first chart single: it trotted up to #97 on Billboard in 1966. I’ve never seen a copy in all the years I’ve been collecting 45s, but there have to be some out there someplace. I’ve managed to score many of her others, including several non-hits: why not this?

13) “Cheaters Never Win”/ “Where Will It End”—Love Committee (Gold Mind 4003). This 1976 soulful artifact, by a group once known as The Ethics (I have several of their 45s on the Vent label), was a Southern Beach favorite. It was also reissued on a 12” as Gold Mind 12G-4003 (with longer versions) in 1977. Well, cheaters never DO win. (Get me to write about THAT sometime!) I just want to own the record.

14) “Sheila”/ “Pretty Girl”—Tommy Roe and the Satins with the Flamingos (Judd 1022). This late 1960 disc was Tommy’s fourth record. (His first, “I Got A Girl”/ ”Caveman,” was issued thrice: first on Trumpet 1401 in the Fall of 1959,

then on Mark IV M4-001 in March, 1960, and then on Judd 1018 in May, 1960… I think I have the Mark IV issue.) As opposed to his later Buddy Hollyesque version on ABC from 1962 (it was a HUGE hit), this is much slower. This was on a label out of Muscle Shoals run by Sun Records maven Sam C. Phillips’ brother Judd. The Trumpet issue never made it much farther than Mayo’s Radio Shop on Cascade Avenue near the Beecher Street crossing in Southwest Atlanta. (You should’ve seen their snazzy neon sign!)

15) “My World Fell Down”/ “Libra”—Sagittarius (Columbia 44163). This studio group cut seven singles for Columbia and at least two for the Together label, plus sundry albums under that monicker. This disc reached #70 in 1967 and was included in the album “Present Tense” (Columbia CS 9644), which saw the light of day in 1968. It’s a nice, psychedelic artifact, it is… and I lack it.

16) “I’m a Boy”/ “In the City”—The Who (Decca 32058). An absolute non-chart single (in the U.S., anyway).

I once found a store-stock copy in a thrift store and traded it to Kurt Wood.

Subsequently he ran across a deejay copy and, forgetting that I still needed it, traded that one to Ray, a fellow collector up Greenville way. Someday I’m going to talk Ray into selling it to me.

I hope.

17) “The Circle”/ “Merry-GoRound”—Wild Man Fischer (Bizarre/ Reprise 0781). The record company issued this on Oct. 9, 1968: it was taken from the double LP An Evening with Wild Man Fischer (Bizarre/Reprise 2XS 6332), which is an “outsider music” classic and has not been reissued on CD (I have the vinyl). Larry Fischer was a former mental patient who sold his songs for pocket change along Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. Frank Zappa found him and recorded him. The material is (ahem) not commercial, but this 45 merited some play in such markets as Tucson and Sarasota.

And, as if that wasn’t enough, progressive outlet WGOE in Richmond regularly aired cuts from his LP on AM radio in the 1970s. I’m probably the only person who is whacked enough to play this and call it an oldie!

18a) “I’ll Call You Mine”/ “Time of the Season”—The Zombies (Date 1604); 18b) “This Will Be Our Year”/ “Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914)”—The Zombies (Date 1612). The former is the March, 1968 first issue of the song that later became a hit: I cannot document it, but I think it was issued here as the B-side. The latter disc made its debut in January, 1969, as the group’s album Odessey and Oracle was garnering airplay. I have all the Parrot singles by the group (at least I think I do), and I also own the rest of the Date ones (except for a super-scarce reissue with a deluxe silver-colored sleeve).

Call me a completist, but I like the music, and it would be a joy to have and share it.

19) “Fast Car”/ “For You”—Tracy Chapman (Elektra 69412). OK, laugh again. I missed this one, and although it reached #6, I’ve never found one in a thrift store, either! It’s from 1988 and is deservedly still being played… I just don’t have it.

20) “Minstrel And Queen”/ “You’ve Come Home”—The Impressions (ABC-Paramount 10357). This flight of fantasy from the great Curtis Mayfield, following on the heels of the group’s smash “Gypsy Woman,” stalled out at #113 on Billboard’s Bubbling-Under chart in late 1962. It’s fortunately on the group’s common Greatest Hits LP, which I own, but it sure would be groovy to have the 45 to play so I don’t have to squint to cue up an album.

OK, I’ve put another major dent in my want list. Trouble is, while I was writing this, I thought of at least three more discs that I want. Groan. Well, the likes of The Jamestown Massacre and Pretty Purdie and The Belfast Gypsies will just have to wait for another ramble… I’m rambled out. Wish me happy radio daze, folks. And when you listen… be forewarned. (30.)

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google that sh!t Search: Drug shortages Speaking of searching, good luck finding tetracycline—a generic antibiotic—in Athens. Recently prescribed for my wife’s debilitating toothache, the drug could not be found in the Athens area, owing to a nationwide shortage. While waiting in line to be told of the shortage, my wife overheard another patient receive news that a prescription for ADD medication could not be filled, either. This is part of a disturbing trend of unprecedented shortages of pharmaceuticals, ranging from antibiotics and nutrition-related treatments to some of the most common chemotherapy drugs and anesthetics for surgery. The FDA finds that “[t]he number of drug shortages annually has tripled from 61 in 2005 to 178 in 2010.” That number rose above 230 last November.

While active ingredient shortages and unexpected increases in demand account for some of the trend, the unavailability of generic drugs is increasingly seen to be due to the lower profit margins on those drugs. It is where the nebulous, arcane realm of intellectual property becomes all too real. Pharmaceutical corporations’ non-generic drugs under patent are where the money is, and artificial scarcities of the generics mean that patients and their doctors must scramble to find alternative means of treatment. Market manipulation of this sort is nothing new in economics, but the life-and-death severity of this case casts the pharmaceutical corporations as cynical overlords who determine the value of life by the crude calculus of profit.

The New England Journal of Medicine cites the case of leucovorin, a chemotherapy drug widely available since 1952. A 2008 FDA approval of a proprietary derivative of the drug— which is, according to the journal, “no more effective than leucovorin and 58 times as expensive”—has resulted in a “widespread shortage” of the generic cancer drug. The phenomenon can be seen across the industry, wherever generic drugs are eclipsed by patented modifications. Russell Williams, president of a Canadian pharmaceutical manufacturers association, admits that the industry-wide shortages “affect mostly generic products, and in many cases the brand-name product is still available even though a generic version is on the market.”

In addition, “just-in-time” production scheduling and inventory management means that spikes in demand quickly deplete the existing stores. The “just-in-time” model came to prominence after Japanese automotive manufacturers perfected the technique in their supply chains. But carburetors aren’t cancer medication.

Big Pharma’s close attention to thrift when it comes to generics stands in stark contrast to the industry’s advertising profligacy. The Pew Research Center finds that the industry spends as much as $57 billion annually on advertising, and some estimates show industry expenditures on advertising as roughly equal to research and development budgets. Industry defenders claim that the profit maximization achieved by manufactured shortages is essential to fund the research for new and better drugs when, in fact, what’s called the “arms race” of industry advertising is what’s taking dollars away from research and production of less profitable generics.

During the health care debate, Sarah Palin and others warned of “death panels”: number-crunching administrators rationing life. But, we are already subject to rationing, and people have already died because of the unavailability of drugs. Rightly, much is made of the profit-boosting motivations for the new shortages, but it is the billions shunted away to fantastically expensive marketing that may be the real crime.

Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (only permitted in the United States and New Zealand) is almost pure waste.

Every dollar spent is redundant, as your doctor already knows what to prescribe. A 30-second advertisement dripping with cheap emotionalism does nothing better to inform that process. Adding insult to injury, we’re made to witness the unconscionable waste every time we turn on the television or open a magazine. And increasingly, we’re not only paying for those advertisements with higher health care costs, but with lives.

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“I wanted to produce James and the Giant Peach because it is a story of a little boy overcoming loneliness. It is about unexpected tragedy and how we survive those kinds of tragedies. These are themes that any age can relate to,” says Rose of Athens Theatre Director Lisa Cesnik Ferguson. Roald Dahl’s peculiar novel, on which Richard R. George’s adaptation is based, tells the triumphs of a lonely orphaned boy who, after spilling a bag of magic, finds himself voyaging trans-Atlantic inside of a giant peach suspended by a flock of seagulls, leaving his grim past far behind and finally finding true friendship in a group of large, talking bugs.

In the first act, James (played by Jack McCoy and Nathan Lee on different nights) takes the stage to explain how he has come to live with his two terrible aunts after his parents were randomly killed by a rampaging rhinoceros. He stands before a grand backdrop of swirling turquoise and peach clouds rising above a row of melon- and tangerine-tinted hibiscuses hand-painted by scenic artist Emily Hogan. In alarming contrast sits a very angular and jarring structure with thorny black vines crawling up its sides: the bleak dwelling in which James must reside.

the center space. Here, James encounters the group of giant insects that soon will become his new comrades.

Surely, finding pre-made insect costumes wouldn’t have been an impossible task for costume designer Tessa Turk Baxter, yet she opted for a more organic approach to styling the actors. By selecting articles of clothing and accessories that are largely common to everyday people (minus the antennae and extra appendages, that is), Baxter is able to humanize James’ creepy-crawly companions into a cohort of respectable friends.

Most notably, every character’s attire can be interpreted as a significant reflection or extension of his or her personality. Friendly and well-mannered Ladybug appears put together in her polka-dotted red dress, black evening gloves, pearl necklace and fluttering feather eyelashes, and Spider, lively despite being fundamentally misunderstood, is enigmatic in her glittering black drape. Perpetually worried Earthworm slinks around in all beige with sunglasses signifying blindness, and Grasshopper, in his cowboy boots and flannel, seems to have jumped onstage straight from a country field. The “pest” of the gang, Centipede, suitably sports a leather jacket,

James and the Giant Peach “We wanted to make sure that we had a peach hue to the set in every aspect but the aunts’ house, which would be grey. I wanted it to be magical and visually arresting. I wanted it to leave room for the imagination to play a large part in the visuals,” explains Ferguson. Witnessing the dreary hopelessness of James’ situation makes watching him escape into the colorful world beyond even more rewarding.

While the play is largely targeted towards children—utilizing the aisles as additional performance space to engage audience members directly—adults will likely find humor in the two tyrannical aunts. After a period of tormenting James and breaking out into shrill songs, Spiker, a vain and merciless mess on high heels, and Sponge, her voluptuous (read: morbidly obese) and greedy sister, ultimately get what’s coming to them.

After the aunts send James to collect trash that roadside tourists have left behind on the site of the mysteriously enormous peach growing in their tree, he stumbles into a passageway that leads straight through to the pit. The giant peach finally makes its debut onstage as a large fruit-shaped frame with a shimmering, iridescent fabric screen representing

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blue jeans and a pair of Chuck Taylors. Even James, in his understated match of plain brown shorts and a slightly frayed buttondown shirt, couldn’t have been more appropriately dressed considering his disadvantaged childhood.

Local musician Marty Winkler, who has worked on past Rose of Athens productions including Alice in Wonderland, Charlotte’s Web and Winnie the Pooh, composed the musical score for James and the Giant Peach and can be heard not only accompanying the actors live on vocals and synthesizer during songs, but also creating miscellaneous sounds such as those of seagulls and sharks. The odd plot and quirky style of Dahl’s writing lent itself well to the creation of the show’s whimsical songs.

The play will have been performed about a dozen times for school field-trips by the time the weekend rolls around, guaranteeing that the cast will be in tip-top shape for the public performances on Friday, Mar. 9 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Mar. 10 at 2 & 7 p.m. at the SeneyStovall Chapel. For tickets, call the Rose of Athens box office at (706) 340-9181 or visit www.roseofathens.org.

Jessica Smith

Being a firm believer in the adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” I try to avoid prequels wherever possible. I believe that any writer who’s worth a damn has a reason for beginning and ending a story where he or she does. If a character needs a backstory, then the writer provides one, enough to inform the reader and make that character’s actions make sense in the here and now. No matter who does it, the original author or other parties, monkeying around with backstory after the fact alters the integrity of the initial work, or do we honestly believe that 35 years ago George Lucas intended Star Wars to be the story of the bad guy?

Nine times out of 10, a prequel serves no purpose other than to wring some more mileage and product out of a popular story, usually someone else’s, and to the detriment of other creators producing original work. There are only so many publishing dollars to go around, after all, and only so much shelf space.

DC Comics has announced a line of miniseries called Before Watchmen, dealing with the adventures of the characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ acclaimed 1985 graphic novel about the real-world implications of super-powered beings in our midst. The various books are staffed by some of the company’s top talent, and Internet buzz about the project is heavy with both anticipation and dread.

Moore is not pleased by this development and has been vocal about it. This comes as a surprise to no one, as Moore has been railing for years about every one of his projects that has been translated to film or otherwise dabbled with. For those who don’t know Alan Moore or comics, besides Watchmen other books of his that have been filmed are V for Vendetta, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Constantine (Moore created the title character), so you’ve been exposed to his work. Moore hates all of them.

In the case of Before Watchmen, he may have a point. Given that the original comic is 27 years old and the movie is ancient history in Hollywood time, it seems odd to do the prequels now. Besides, Watchmen already has a backstory—hell, half the book is backstory, literally. And just like with authors who write novels with Jane Austen characters in them, it’s presumptuous to co-opt Alan Moore’s work; it only invites harsh comparison.

On the other hand, Moore wrote Watchmen for DC, as work-for-hire. He never owned the characters or the book, nor created them from whole cloth (the characters were thinly disguised versions of characters DC had acquired from the defunct Charlton Comics), and the rewards in money and reputation (in America) for having written what many have called the best graphic novel ever produced ought to be enough. Furthermore, frankly, no matter how talented the man is—and I am second to none in my admiration for the man’s gifts—listening to Alan Moore or anyone else bleat about his own genius is tiresome.

The only viable explanation is that the prequels are a money grab in a comics market

that has been ‘roided up by e-readers and downloadable content. With the appearance this past Christmas of the Kindle Fire and DC’s exclusive electronic distribution deal with Amazon, the pressure to produce bright and shiny new digital comics downloads is high, and these comics in particular would be aimed at the right demographic: older comics readers with disposable income looking for a familiar point of entry in the digital comicsverse.

No doubt Before Watchmen will sell like hotcakes, but rather than paying for DC’s old wine in new bottles, readers should go looking

for something else, like an original story and creators who have better things to do than throw star tantrums.

Or… if you must buy into the prequel idea, allow me to recommend something exciting, unexpected and deeply disturbing in the best possible way. A new publishing venture called TwinStar Media has announced the upcoming release of Before Plan 9: Plans 1–8 from Outer Space. Take a moment to let those words sink in. I’ll wait.

Plan 9 from Outer Space, Ed Wood’s 1959 landmark of cinematic ineptitude about aliens who come to Earth (in flying saucers that look suspiciously like pie pans on strings) in order to attack us with reanimated corpses, begs for backstory in its very title. Edited

by Tony Schaap, this forthcoming anthology by a variety of authors seeks to answer the questions that somebody obviously asked.

Apparently we’ve been under baffling periodic attack throughout history, from the Mesozoic Era through today. What fiendish plots did the aliens visit upon us in previous eras to keep us from acquiring the bomb that destroys everything touched by the sun? I don’t know, but I intend to be first in line to find out.

Don’t say it. True, I just went off for several paragraphs about how prequels ruin the integrity of a work, but let’s face it: it’s Plan 9 from Outer Space. How much integrity is there to ruin?

John G. Nettles

film notebook News of Athens’ Cinema Scene Going Finland: There are a lot of films I’ve regretted missing since a change in my family circumstances has rendered my opportunities to partake of extra-household activities during cinema hours temporarily, at least, severely curtailed. Having to wait for movies to become available for home viewing isn’t the worst thing in the world, of course, especially considering the benefits in the tradeoff, but sometimes it’s just a drag not to see something on the big screen when it comes through. I’ll be sorry if I don’t make it out to Hugo while it’s in its second local run at Ciné, and I definitely felt that way about missing Le Havre a few weeks ago.

Aki Kaurismäki, for whatever reason, had never been a director in whom I was particularly interested; maybe it’s because his breakthrough film, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, appeared to me at the time of its release (1989) to be an exercise in the kind of eccentric but detached hipsterism I’d begun to find so wearying in the films of Jim Jarmusch, who had a cameo role in it. I still haven’t seen any of the Leningrad Cowboys films, but I’ve been swayed enough by what I’ve read about Le Havre over the past year to have decided that it’s clearly appropriate to give Kaurismäki’s work a serious look. After watching The Man Without a Past on DVD last week, I see that I’ve been missing out on something important.

Read This Now: Tino Balio is an emeritus professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin whose innovative study of the industrial history of the American cinema made him one of the most notable film scholars of recent decades. Balio will visit the University of Georgia to deliver a special lecture entitled “Hollywood in the New Millennium” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 7 in the North Auditorium of the Psychology/ Journalism Plaza. The lecture, I’m told, “will discuss the relationship of the major studios to the larger media marketplace, tentpoles and movie franchises, Internet-driven marketing, new distribution strategies, digital cinema, and the indie film scene.” Balio’s most recent book is The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973 (2010), and his lecture should be one of the most interesting events to Athens film freaks this semester. It’s free, of course, and open to the public. See you there.

Quick—This, Too: Cinecitta 4, the UGA Romance Languages Department’s fourth annual Italian film series, is currently underway. If you’re picking this issue up as it hits the streets Tuesday, Mar. 6, there may be time for you to catch Big Deal on Madonna Street, Mario Monicelli’s phenomenal 1958 heist comedy, at 7 p.m. in Room 148 of the Miller Learning Center. If not, go to the same place at the same time Mar. 20 for Gianni Di Gregorio’s 2008 hit Mid-August Lunch, and Mar. 27 for Welcome to the South, Luca Miniero’s charming 2010 comedy. The screenings are free.

Soon at Ciné: The 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival is coming up Mar. 23, so be ready to see a bunch of really well-selected, environmentally focused films when that rolls around.

Right about the same Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, which won the Academy Award for Best time, Mar. 26, Richard Adapted Screenplay, is playing at Ciné.

Neupert’s always great French Film Festival will make its first-ever The 2002 film is a stunner. The images, appearance at Ciné, with exclusive bookings of for one thing, are soaked in a rich, deeply major recent French imports like Tomboy and saturated palette that reminds me far more of Declaration of War. Watch for more on both the ‘50s Technicolor of All That Heaven Allows festivals as they approach… At 10 p.m. this than the also striking digital color correction Friday, Mar. 9, you can enjoy Doggie Woggiez! of contemporary films like Amélie. But this Poochie Woochiez!, the new video compilastylized yet warm and organic feel extends to tion feature from the indescribable Everything other elements of the film, too. The oddball Is Terrible! collective. Their website, www. formality of Kaurismäki’s compositions, which everythingisterrible.com, can tell you far indeed has much in common with Jarmusch more than I can… The arthouse’s screens are and even the younger Wes Anderson, is made filled with Oscar winners right now, and good endearing by the thoroughly unpretentious, ones: The Artist, The Descendants and Hugo homemade qualities of his milieu. And the film’s unflinching focus on the denizens of the are all playing at least through Mar. 8, and on Mar. 9 we’ll finally have a chance to see A very margins of society in the director’s native Separation, the Best Foreign Language Film Helsinki, Finland is tempered by a poignantly winner by Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, optimistic conviction that people, despite whose acceptance speech was the most comeven the most challenging circumstances, are pelling moment of this year’s awards show willing and able to reach out to one another that didn’t involve a dog or someone’s leg. Get in nearly effortless kinship.

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

• indicates new review ACT OF VALOR (R) At times, Act of Valor betrays its humble origins as a military recruiting tool (think of the National Guard/Three Doors Down video for “Citizen Soldier” expanded to feature length), but at its high-octane best, this action experiment rivals its bigger-budgeted, star-laden competitors. Act of Valor cannot deliver the emotional payoff of The Hurt Locker, but it does not dishonor our fighting men and women.

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Come on, Fox! If you’re going to keep releasing new Chipmunks entries each holiday season, the least you can do is make a Christmas-themed movie featuring the furry trio’s classic holiday tunes.

Instead, Alvin, Simon, Theodore, the Chipettes and Dave (poor, paycheckcashing 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.

THE ARTIST (PG-13) Films today do not come as precious or charming as Michel Hazanavicius’ Best Picture winner. A silent film that is all about talking, The Artist of title refers to matinee idol George Valentin (Academy Award winner 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?

A SEPARATION (PG-13) This year’s Academy Award winner for Best Picture is also the first Academy Award winner from Iran. A married couple faces one of life’s toughest decisions. Should they leave the country to improve life for their child or should they stay in Iran to care for a parent suffering from Alzheimer’s? Writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s film won the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film. k A THOUSAND WORDS (PG-13) An Eddie Murphy family comedy, directed by Brian Robbins (Meet Dave and Norbit), that’s been in the can since 2008? Nothing in this sentence implies anything good (or funny). A literary agent, Jack McCall (Murphy), is taught a lesson on truth by a spiritual guru via the Bodhi tree that appears on his property. Every word Jack speaks leads to a fallen leaf; when the last leaf falls, so does Jack. With Cliff Curtis, Kerry Washington, Allison Janney, Jack McBrayer and Clark Duke.

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

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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. Chronicle watches like a fantastic comic book miniseries (think something from the Millarverse), telling a fresh origin story via intelligent filmmaking tricks. First time feature director Josh Trank does some fun cinematic tricks with the overdone found footage gambit, and Max “Son of John” Landis provides a crackerjack script that never gets too clever with its high concept. Genre surprises, especially ones released in the dead of winter, are getting rarer. I can’t wait to see what Trank and Landis do for a follow-up.

THE DESCENDANTS (R) Is The Descendants the best film of last year?

If not, the bittersweet dramedy starring Academy Award nominee George Clooney is among the top two or three.

Filmmaker Alexander Payne sure took his time following up his 2004 Oscar winning smash, but the delay was worth it. After a tragic accident leaves his wife in a coma, lawyer and owner of the last parcel of virgin land in Hawaii, Matt King (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, often punctuated by his terrific reaction shots, Payne again proves himself a master of tone, perfectly balancing the humor of an incredibly bleak, emotionally complex situation.

• DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (PG) Released on Dr. Seuss’ 108th birthday, this pleasant animated adaptation of the beloved children’s author’s environmental fable fails to utterly charm like the filmmakers’ previous animated smash, Despicable Me. The Lorax may visually stun you, and Danny DeVito’s brief time as voice of the Lorax could stand as his greatest role, one that will go unrecognized by any professional awards outside of the Annies.

Unfortunately, the movie spends a lot less time with the fascinating, entertaining forest fighter than it does with Ed Helms’ The Once-ler (I’m usually a big Helms fan but his zany naïf felt incongruously calculated here) and bland Zac Efron’s bland protagonist, Ted. On the bright side, the film excels as a traditional movie musical, where characters naturally transition into songs that deepen their character or advance the plot without some silly justification via subjective dream sequences or glee club memberships.

The songs they sing could be more memorable; I cannot recall a single one a day later. The Lorax is not the year’s best animated feature (imagine what Pixar could do with Seuss), but the childishly funny film does not pander to its audience, young and old, even if it does preach a bit.

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EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE (PG-13) This adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel could have devolved into Stage 4 Pay It Forward-level emotional manipulation. Instead, the 9/11 tearjerker, directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours and The Reader), only reaches Stage 2. Young Oskar Schell (“Jeopardy”’s Kids Week Champion Thomas Horn, making a striking acting debut) tries to make sense of his father’s death on 9/11. His dad, Thomas (Tom Hanks, in quite possibly his most saintly role to date), used to send Oskar on city-wide expeditions to help the boy conquer his social inhibitions. The final quest requires Oskar to traipse around NYC in search of a lock to fit a mysterious key. Of course, the journey to solving this mystery is more important than the solution itself. Impressive performances from the young Horn and the older Max von Sydow keep the film from drowning in its own sorrows. Appearances from Viola Davis, John Goodman and Jeffrey Wright are welcome, but Sandra

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 GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R) Stieg Larsson may have created Lisbeth Salander, but David Fincher and the bold Rooney Mara have made her a big-screen icon. (No offense to Noomi Rapace’s Lisbeth, but Mara’s movie is loads better.)

Fincher dangerously retains Larsson’s wicked, violent, European sexuality for Hollywood’s adaptation of the first book in the Millennium Trilogy. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) enlists the help of the titular tattooed (and multiply pierced) girl, a ward of the state who might be a psychopath but is certainly a genius, to solve a decades old murder. Readers of the novel will marvel at how smartly screenwriter Steven Zaillian jettisons the novel’s clunky points to streamline the central mystery (who killed Harriet Vanger?) and posit a new one (who is Lisbeth Salander?).

You developers sure are impatient.

Bullock merely gets her tears on as Oskar’s grief-ridden mom. Everything should be fine so long as audiences simply expect the good movie Extremely Loud is, as opposed to the awards bait it fails to be.

FRIENDS WITH KIDS (R) Jessica Stein herself, Kissing Jessica Stein star and writer Jennifer Westfeldt, heads back to the big screen in her directorial debut. Two besties, Julie Keller and Jason Fryman (Westfeldt and the increasingly awesome Adam Scott), decide to have a baby together, thinking their platonic relationship will suffer less from childrearing than a romantic one would. The cast is tough and filled with Bridesmaids (Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm and Chris O’Dowd) and Edward Burns.

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 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

GONE (PG-13) Gone, a serial killer thriller starring large-eyed beauty Amanda Seyfried, is not even bad enough to be fun. Seyfried stars as Jill Conway, who was abducted and placed in a hole in the woods surrounding Portland, Oregon. (Note: Portland’s tourism bureau needs to step it up; television, books and movies imply the city is ground zero for serial killing.)

Somehow, she escapes, but a year later, her sister, Molly, disappears. Jill suspects her abductor is behind her sister’s disappearance, but the cops (including cold-eyed Wes Bentley, who just screams red herring at this point in his career) don’t believe her, due to her stint in a mental hospital following her alleged abduction. Don’t be fooled by my description; it’s much more entertaining than the actual movie.

GOOD DEEDS (PG-13) Good Deeds is another average melodrama from the entertainment juggernaut that is Atlanta’s Tyler Perry. Perry stars as Wesley Deeds, the uptight CEO of a software company who befriends a struggling widowed mother, Lindsey Wakefield (Thandie Newton), on the virtual eve of his wedding. Naturally, his relationship with Lindsey and her cute daughter, Ariel, awaken the spark of life that’s been lying dormant in Deeds for the bulk of his adult life, a course charted by his domineering mother (Phylicia Rashad). Perry has two tonal modes: the headspinning comic/dramatic combo of his Madea

movies and the grindingly humorless melodrama of his non-Madea flicks.

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).

JOHN CARTER (PG-13) Civil War veteran John Carter (“Friday Night Lights”’ alum Taylor Kitsch, whose career is poised to blow up or implode in 2012) is transported to Mars, where 12-foot-tall barbarians rule. WALL-E director Andrew Stanton becomes the latest Pixar filmmaker to make the jump from animation to live action. I’d love to see his film be as successful as Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol. With Bryan Cranston, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Willem Dafoe and Thomas Haden Church.

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.

• PROJECT X (R) This teen “greatest party ever filmed” flick could use a more descriptive title, preferably one that doesn’t get as many children of the ‘80s’ hearts racing at the thought of a remake of the Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt and a monkey movie.

As a responsible adult, I lament how this teen comedy, produced by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips, condones the Internet era’s hedonism as teenage rite of passage. Three unpopular high schoolers—Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper) and JB (Jonathan Daniel Brown)—throw a party so wild (sex, drugs, alcohol, fire, a midget; it’s like the boys go to Bret Easton Ellis High) that not even the cops can stop it, a conceit that play rights into teenagers’ already overinflated egos. As a former teenager, I wish I’d been invited. The appeal of Project X truly depends on the perspective—adult or teen—from which you view it as the party supplies few surprising acts of debauchery. It does add a novel running gag about two overzealous, overmatched teen security guards. Their misadventures had a sense of freshness from which the rest of this slightly tired party flick could have benefited.

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? You can tell which CIA bigwig (the suspects being Sam Shepard, Vera Farmiga and Brendan Gleeson) Weston shouldn’t trust from the trailers, and try as they might to imply otherwise, one can easily presume Washington’s Frost hasn’t gone rogue for sheer psychopathic thrills or mere greed. The predictable action is delivered with the workmanlike craftsmanship (quick edits, handheld camerawork, etc.) one expects from a production that is clearly influenced by Washington’s work with Tony Scott, but lacks his more artful eye. Safe House should make enough money to keep Washington’s rep as a box office draw undiminished, but won’t make much of an impression in his increasingly inconsequential filmography.

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (PG-13) A fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) attempts to fulfill a sheik’s dream of bringing fly fishing to Yemen.

The newest film from multiple Academy Award nominee Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog and The Cider House Rules) sounds like the sort of feel good, crowd pleaser at which he excels (think Chocolat). A script by Slumdog Millionaire’s Academy Award winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy should not hurt. With Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked.

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).

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”). Assisted as always by Dr. John Watson (Jude Law, again a game companion to Downey), Holmes is also joined by his brother, Mycroft (Stephen Fry), Watson’s new wife (Kelly Reilly) and a gypsy fortune teller (Noomi Rapace, best known as the original Lisbeth Salander).

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. Director McG, whose career hasn’t really gone anywhere since the first Charlie’s Angels (his

entry in the Terminator franchise has blissfully been forgotten), gets the unnecessary action right; the required rom and com could use some work.

This Means War would be an early pick for worst of 2012, but no one will remember it come year’s end.

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. The Vow climbs out of the romantic drama pits mostly due to its two charming leads, McAdams and Tatum, who must overcome some

spotty dialogue, obvious plot developments and weak supporting players (not a lot of recognizable faces outside of those five already mentioned).

WANDERLUST (R) Easily 2012’s funniest movie to date, Wanderlust smartly plays to its stars’ comedic strengths.

George and Linda (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) must trade New York City for Georgia after George loses his job in high finance, but working for his douchebag brother, expertly played by cowriter Ken Marino (if you don’t know him, you should), is not the solution.

Having mistakenly wound up on an “intentional community” their first night in the state, George and Linda choose to become permanent residents of Elysium. But Linda takes more to the company, especially that of lead hippie Seth (Justin Theroux), than George does. Wanderlust may not be groundbreaking comedy, but its riff-filled script, written by Marino and director David Wain, two alums of MTV’s much

beloved “The State,” perfectly matches its assembled comedic ensemble.

Much like Elysium itself, this comedy succeeds based on the very funny actors (Rudd, Aniston and Theroux are assisted by Alan Alda, Malin Ackerman, Lauren Ambrose, the Stella trio and more) that populate it.

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 Devil Wears Prada scripter Aline Brosh McKenna and Crowe relocate Benjamin Mee’s memoir from England to SoCal. Some say a similar move didn’t affect High Fidelity; I’m not one of those folks.

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Viewers Like You: Fresh on the heels of the band’s 35th anniversary show at the Classic Center, Georgia Public Broadcasting will premiere The B-52s: With the Wild Crowd! Live in

information, please see www.facebook.com/ theshadowexecutives.

Saddle Up: The Athens Horse Party label has been steadily releasing CDs over the past few months including Pleasure Puncher by El Hollín, Serf City by Titans of Filth and Reach Out by Seattle, WA’s Cowlick. The label is preparing to release the new full-length

by Werewolves titled Georgia. Although that record won’t come out until May 1, there are two tracks available for streaming now at www.werewolves.bandcamp.com. In related news, label coordinator Wyatt Strother of Werewolves is on a solo tour this month.

Sample everything over at www.athenshorseparty.bandcamp.com.

A Decade of Defeat: Since we’ve already spoken of Titans of Filth, now would be a good time to let you know that the band has placed all of its recordings from the past 10 years online at www.titansoffilth.bandcamp. com. Everything is being sold at the level of “name your price,” but you’d have to be a big bully to not pay anything. Although I’ve enjoyed pretty much all of the band’s output

Adam Payne Athens, GA on Thursday, Mar. 8. The film, shot in 2011 at the Classic Center, will be released for purchase on Mar. 20. Audio downloads of the individual songs have been available since last October.

Happy Birthday: The weekly “Blues Night” at the Office Lounge celebrated its oneyear anniversary last week. Hosted by The Shadow Executives, the event happens every Thursday, and a tip of the hat is due them for their tenacity in keeping this weekly event going. In a scene where so many ambitious moves seem to just fizzle out after a few months, it’s certainly an achievement to keep something going this long. The shows start at 9 p.m. with The Shadow Executives playing some classic blues numbers, and then the band is joined by a rolling cast of guests.

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to varying degrees, including the indie-pop sugar of the new Serf City, I’d have to say I like the tracks on Wake Me Up If You Can from 2002 the best. That record is 99 percent Sam Grindstaff by himself, and it’s sad, funny and touching in a way that the band-format Titans haven’t really ever replicated.

Full-Length Debut: Local sunny dream pop band The District Attorneys recently released the first single off their upcoming album, Slowburner. The song, “Confusion of Trust,” is streaming now on Flagpole’s music blog Homedrone at Flagpole.com. Slowburner was recorded at Chase Park Transduction with Drew Vandenberg, and it will be released Apr. 24 via This Is American Music. The District Attorneys are off to SXSW in a couple weeks, but they’ll be back on stage in Athens Apr. 9 opening for Centro-Matic at The Georgia Theatre. [Michelle Gilzenrat] Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

Unambiguously Aging Alternative Icon ow to describe a man like Henry Rollins? His résumé must span no less than 15 cubits of papyrus, and throughout his three-decade-long career, the self-described “aging alternative icon” has never shown any indications of slowing down. Rollins joined Black Flag in 1981, and two years later, he did his first “talking show.”

“There was a promoter in L.A. who would do these interesting shows,” says Rollins, “where he would put 20 people on a bill, and everyone did five or seven minutes [of spoken word] each.”

One fateful night, the promoter suggested that Rollins give it a go. The young punk rocker was apprehensive, claiming that he didn’t “really have anything to say.” However, when the promoter informed Rollins that each performer would receive a hefty pay-out of $10, he responded, “Oh, well, then I’ve got something to say. I say I need 10 bucks.”

So, he marched onstage one night and decided to share a few stories from Black Flag practice. “Some white-power enthusiasts tried to run over our guitar player because we were having non-white people come to band practice,” says Rollins. “They apparently had a problem with that. It’s a hell of a thing to hear from someone. So, people said, ‘Tell more stories.’”

That storied night began Rollins’ lifelong struggle with multifaceted workaholism. In 1985 Rollins did a cross-country spoken-word tour, visiting Athens along the way. For an outsider, he’s surprisingly familiar with the Athenian turf—he gave eerily specific directions to the presumably now-defunct venue he played some 27 years back, referencing “that record store on the corner, the famous one where R.E.M. used to hang out 800 years ago.”

From 1983 on, Rollins apparently resolved to never take a break. Ever.

“By ’86,” he says, “I was doing shows in Europe. By ’87, I was doing quite a bit of them. I would just go on tour on my own as soon as the band tour would end, turn right around and go back out again on my own, doing these kind of double-laps around the world.”

Since the Black Flag era, Rollins has successfully pursued countless artistic endeavors.

A Grammy win for his 1994 audio book Get in the Van, over two dozen spoken-word albums/ videos, seven Rollins Band studio albums, several acting credits… the list goes on. All this success and acclaim has produced what appears to be an extraordinarily confident performer. However, there is one thing that makes the artist a little anxious.

“Any title scares me,” says Rollins, “because I just don’t think I really have it.

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I’ve written, like, 27 books… but someone says, ‘You’re a prolific writer,’ and I say, ‘I’m just someone who puts a lot of books out.’

And someone says, ‘You’re a comedian,’ and I go, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no—now I’m on the hook to make you laugh all the time.’ It’s an art and a discipline I greatly admire—I just don’t think that I’ve got it. So, I’ve always called these ‘talking shows’—at least that much is true. I get up there and talk. I can’t guarantee that it’s going to be funny. You know, a visit to Walter Reed, looking at blown-up young men—there’s really no humor there… so I’ve always tried to steer away from anything that would paint me into a corner. Not in any effort to say, ‘Oh, I’m so unique’—not at all. It’s me not wanting to make some guy mad at some club in New Jersey where he wants to give me a beating because I didn’t do any dick jokes.”

Rollins feels privileged to have the means to constantly travel the world; his expeditions not only give him fascinating stories to tell onstage, but also a constantly evolving perspective. When he recounts his experiences, Rollins’ main goal is clarity—to deliver his stories, observations and opinions “ambiguityfree.”

“That’s my aim,” he says. “For you and I to be on the same page. Even if you disagree with everything I said—which is fine—at least we’re clear. Early on, the aim was not as articulated as it is now. Now, I go all over the world looking for topics, looking for stories, putting myself in pretty interesting environments, like all over Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, [etc.].”

Rollins makes a point to create substantive, captivating material, expressing a deep sense of obligation and respect toward his audience.

“I would never presume to think that I’m making an audience think,” he says. “I want the audience to know that I’m doing my homework—that I’m coming with something that’s not just some sideways ramble. I go for real precision, and, basically, once the first couple sentences have come out of my mouth, we are strapped in and down the highway…

If I can’t add something to the conversational stew-pot, I try and stay away from the topic.

When I’m onstage, the thing that may never happen—the big no-no—would be me wasting your time.”

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The Mad Punk In two-plus years of this musicwriting gig, never before have I encountered a mind quite like that of Patrick Stickles. The beardally gifted frontman for literary-minded indie-punk-metal act Titus Andronicus is a living news ticker, rolling out miles of sentences into acres of paragraphs about everything from the band’s predicted (but not promised) third record, to a beautiful woman he passes in the street. Both animated and anguished, snide and achingly sincere, this is clearly an artist who takes his work very seriously and would burn it all to the ground in a second rather than see it compromised.

Having stated his reverence for Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in the past (calling it “the greatest record of all time”), Stickles begins by speaking fondly of his previous trips to Athens, saying, “The last time we were in town we opened for Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at the 40 Watt Club.

Another time we played with No Age, and then in December of 2008 we played at Secret Squirrel. It’s a pretty memorable town in the history of this band, somewhat, and in the history of American indie-rock, certainly. It looms large in a lot of people’s imaginations… even my own!”

As for that much-anticipated third album, Stickles sounds like a man against the world.

“A lot of stuff might go wrong,” he begins.

“It’ll be different from the last album in that there won’t be much of a story. There’ll be a theme, but it won’t be catalogs of images like last time. It won’t be tied to any one time or place. It’s all about modern stuff. The contemporary struggle. I’m not going to promise anything, though. Big promises don’t matter when dealing with a bureaucracy as large as the record industry. I’m just one tiny pea in this giant machine. It’s a big, shadowy, mysterious thing for a brain like mine to comprehend, but, like it or not, it’s bearing down on me. Hopefully, we’ll emerge from that contest victorious. The new record will be the prize.

Who knows, man? It’s just a wild, wild West.

Past is prologue. 2012, ya know. Very exciting stuff. Very terrifying stuff.”

Without a breath, Stickles launches into an aside, exclaiming, “Man, I’m paying a big price to talk to you right now! This girl just walked by, and she had on a patch of the band Crass.

That’s my favorite band. I’ve got a tattoo of them myself. So, if I had one more chance, I could tell her about the Crass tattoo. She would be all about it. She just walked by, but I couldn’t talk to her because I was talking to you. Jerk [laughs]. No, it’s not your fault. It

just makes my point about how life is sometimes cruel. The universe doesn’t want me to be too happy. It’s reminding me, ‘Hey, Patrick, pick up those songs. Get on with your life of guitar and turn your back on the world of girls and nice-smelling things and warm security.

Forget all that stuff and pick up your guitar and be dirty and bitter and chug it.’”

While not overtly political, Stickles clearly writes with an eye to history and philosophy, and was happy to offer his thoughts on the current state of the Union in this alreadytumultuous election year. “I think there’s a real feel in the air about people being disenfranchised,” he explains, “and how we’re consolidating power and wealth in a smaller and smaller group of people. It’s a serious crisis, but it’s fortuitous for these politicians that there’s gonna be an election, ‘cause they’re gonna make the whole thing about people being fed up with them, and they’re gonna turn it into a football game. And then somebody’s gonna win, and somebody’s gonna lose, and they’re gonna clap, and the people will take it to be resolved. People are fired up, but it’s not a football game. It’s about abandoning the status quo or allowing for different options to be acceptable in the status quo.

Hopefully, we’ll fight back: keep demanding more of the whole system. Hopefully, in the future it’ll look less like a football game, but that’s what it is, and they think that the team that wins gets all the money in the end, which is coming imminently. Except it’s not! 2012 is just a consciousness shift. Just a new rebirth for humans. And it’s kind of an excuse to do your best… at whatever! Don’tcha think?”

And with that it’s over. Like a whirlwind had blown through my phone and ping-ponged around my house for 15 minutes. Stickles thanks me for my time, and sprints off to fight his next battle. To speak to a man who bleeds so clearly in service to his art—who likely takes weeks off his life every day in the name of some higher or better ideal—is a truly remarkable experience. To see that man perform will be a show for the ages.

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upstart roundup Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent MUUY BIIEN Punk/Noise/Junk Lineup: Joshua Evans, Gerry Green, Jon Crandall, Xander Witt. Shares members with: O O O, Green Gerry, TaterZandra, Gyps. Influences: The Fall, Bill Hicks, Burzum, Black Flag, Black Sabbath.

Joshua Evans has his high school math teacher to thank for inspiring Muuy Biien.

Although Evans dropped out of school in 2010 due to “unforeseen circumstances,” before he left his teacher gave him a fourtrack… and Evans has been recording ever since. Muuy Biien began as a solo, ambient/noise project, and all the sounds you hear on the record were written, performed, recorded and mixed by Evans. The problem, says Evans, is that the experience didn’t translate live. He found performing “shitty ambient sets with pedals and samplers” to be a bore, so he got together a band and decided to draw on his punk rock roots for inspiration instead.

“When I was in the fourth grade, I bought Static Age by the Misfits,” says Evans, “which to me is the greatest record Living with of all time… I remember my dad hating it.

He was really into Pantera, as was I, but the fact that he hated it made me so proud. I’d found my shit, you know? So, punk rock just stuck. I have learned everything I know from punk rock.”

So, if you saw a solo Muuy Biien set, it’s time to revisit the band because Evans has taken things into an entirely new direction. The new Muuy Biien offers propulsive, classicsounding punk rock with a sort of lo-fi garage aesthetic that’s rebellious, raw and as far form boring as you can get.

Later this spring or early summer, Muuy Biien will release 300 vinyl pressings of its new EP, Knife Fights. If you need a preview, you can download the album for free at muuybiien. bandcamp.com. You can also find “videos, downloads and random shit” at muuybiien.blogspot.com.

Next show: Mar. 8 @ Caledonia Lounge.

FREE TOMORROW “No Genre Unconquered” Lineup: Taylor Griffith, Robert “Freestyle” Martinez, Nick Price, Bain Griffith, Ryan Harris, Chris Gustin.

This six-piece has two frontmen of sorts, the melodic vocals of Taylor Griffith mingling with what Freestyle refers to

as his own “high-concept, intellectual hip-hop-style vocals.”

Free Tomorrow also offers unique instrumentation, with keys and guitar weaving between Gustin’s five-string electric violin.

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Strangers When asked to sum up the band’s sound in three words, “no genre unconquered” is what Freestyle offers up. He says, “In just a single set, songs will range from dance-pop to harder rock. You’ll hear some old-school hip-hop flows and even some pronounced melodic indie jams.”

He also insists this band is best appreciated live. He promises a high-energy set that, unlike many other hip-hop-oriented groups, also features a live drummer and full-band setup.

Free Tomorrow has studio tracks, photos, live videos and a full bio available for perusal over at www.free-tomorrow.com.

Next show: Check Flagpole Calendar for listings.

SANS ABRI Americana/Alternative/Acoustic Lineup: Josh Erwin, Michael Paynter. Shares members with: The Packway Handle Band, Lily of the Suburbs.

Influences: Talking Heads, Pixies, ‘80s/’90s radio pop, Elvis Perkins, Elliott Smith.

Erwin and Paynter of Packway Handle Band started this side project as a means to explore songs outside Packway Handle Band’s bluegrass sound. Although the instrumentation is

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LIVING WITH STRANGERS Post-hardcore/Hard Rock/Metalcore Lineup: David Price, Blake Miller, Mikey Page, Joey Kegel.

Shares members with: Plott. Influences: Of Mice & Men, Woe Is Me, Motionless in White, Periphery, Escape the Fate, Asking Alexandria, A Day to Remember.

Plott drummer Joey Kegel first started collaborating with rhythm guitarist Mikey Page after finding each other through a bulletin board post in June 2011. Mikey brought along lead guitarist Blake Miller, and before long, Kegel recruited David Price as lead vocalist. A few rehearsals and a noise complaint later, Living with Strangers was formed.

The band just started booking shows around Georgia, but the members are working on releasing a debut EP later this year.

If you like riff-oriented hard rock and a mix of howling, guttural hardcore vocals and anthemic choruses, visit www. facebook.com/livingwithstrangers to hear what this metalcore band has to offer.

Next show: Mar. 31 @ The 7 Venue in Douglasville, GA.

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perhaps similar to classic bluegrass—mandolin, acoustic guitar, vocal harmonies, etc.—the arrangements are a little more diverse. Sans Abri tends to stick with upbeat tempos, playfully exploring folk-, alternative rock- and Americana-inspired melodies, all featuring the duo’s crisp vocal harmonies. Although this project is brand new, Erwin and Paynter have shared the stage for over a decade, so there is an undeniable chemistry and cohesion here, even as the group explores new territory.

Find the band on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/sansabriband) for more information or listen to a couple of tunes at Reverb Nation.

Next show: Athens Americana Festival, Apr. 21.

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Tuesday 6 CLASSES: Conifer Reference Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The State Botanical Garden of Georgia was the first garden in the Southeast to be awarded Reference Garden status to educate the public about the use of conifers in landscaping. Join the garden in learning about conifers and how these concepts work in a home garden. 9–11 a.m. $20. 706-542-1244 EVENTS: Italian Film Screening (Miller Learning Center) (Room 148) Mario Monicelli’s I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street). 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-8057 EVENTS: Boybutante Percentage Day (Athens, Ga) Eat at The Grit or Ted’s Most Best and a portion of all proceeds for the day go to the Boybutante AIDS Foundation. 7 a.m.–11 p.m. www.facebook.com/ boybutante EVENTS: Wine and Cheese Tasting (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) With cheese from Nature’s Harmony Farm. Stay for dinner and receive 10% off. Call for reservations. 6–7 p.m. $15. 706-354-7901 EVENTS: Jam in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Musicians are welcome to come together to play their instruments.

Tuesdays, 5:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-1244 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 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 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 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Time Playgroup (Full Bloom Center) Time for toddlers to play and parents to connect. 10 a.m. $3. 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950

KIDSTUFF: Teen Painting Club (Lyndon House Arts Center) An informal gathering of teens meets twice a month to paint. No instruction provided. Bring your own project and materials. Ages 14-19.

5:30–7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 LECTURES AND LIT: “Let’s Talk About It!: This Land Is My Land” (Miller Learning Center) (Room 214) Discussion of how policies regarding immigration affect LGBT individuals. 6:30–8 p.m.

FREE! jmiracle@uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Christina and Michelle Naughton (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Twin sisters and duo piano players whose performance is being recorded for American Public Media’s “Performance Today.” 8 p.m.

FREE! (students), $25. 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. 9 p.m. FREE! (performers), $5. www.myspace. com/flickerbar THEATRE: A Conversation with Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Eavesdrop on a conversation between two great minds and founding fathers of our country, taking place in The President’s House (later known as The White House) in 1810.

7:30 p.m. $20. www.mmcc-arts.org

Wednesday 7 ART: Spring Pottery Sale (Lamar Dodd School of Art) This two-day sale, hosted by the Ceramic Student Organization, features small sculptures, flower pots, jewelry, housewares and more, made by ceramic students or faculty. Proceeds benefit student educational field trips and visiting artist lectures. 9 a.m–5 p.m.

Tsaupe@uga.edu ART: “6X6” Ayers Occupies Cine (Ciné Barcafé) Jeremy Ayers will share slides from his photos and talk about the Occupy movement in NYC. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, leads an in-depth discussion of Elaine de Kooning’s “Bacchus #81.” 2 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Genealogy Class (ACC Library) Class on types of government records and how to use and where to find them at local, state and federal levels. Participants may sign up for one or all classes. 1–2:30 p.m. FREE! (CAL members), $25 (CAL membership fee). 706-6133650 EVENTS: Word of Mouth Open Poetry Reading (The Globe) Sign up, mouth off, pay attention. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-4721

EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo) (Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, vaccinated) dog! Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 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: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9 p.m. Facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: YouTube Night (Oconee County Library) Choose videos to share with each other. Popcorn and other snacks provided. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For parents and children. Every other Wednesday.

3:30–4:30 p.m. $24. 706-613-3515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up Next: Game Day! Play one of the library’s or bring your favorite from home to share. Ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: 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 AND LIT: HunterHolmes Lecture (UGA Chapel) Lecture by Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed. 2 p.m. FREE! mwinston@ uga.edu

Nordwest Deutsche Philharmonic performs at UGA’s Hodgson Concert Hall on Wednesday, Mar 7.

LECTURES AND LIT: Poetry Reading (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) The UGA Creative Writing Program presents a reading by award-winning poet David Wojhan. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES AND LIT: “Hollywood in the New Millenium” (Psychology and Journalism Plaza) Tino Balio, emeritus professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin, discusses Internetdriven marketing, new distribution strategies, digital cinema and more.

4 p.m. FREE! www.drama.uga.edu LECTURES AND LIT: Clueless: Book Discussion (Oconee County Library) Mystery book discussion group. This month’s featured book is Die a Little by Megan Abbott. Stop by the library before the discussion group to check out a copy. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES AND LIT: Understanding the Difference Between Islam and Muslims (Miller Learning Center) Lecture covering questions about Muslim and Islamic identities. 7 p.m. FREE! mesa@yopmail.com MEETINGS: Public Information and Input Session (ACC Planning Auditorium) (120 W. Dougherty St.) A public meeting to discuss the Southeast Athens Bike Route Plan, including a summary of the ACC bike route survey. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.accplanning.com MEETINGS: Contigo Peru Information Session (UGA LACSI Building) Learn Spanish and volunteer to work in Trujillo City, Peru.

6:30 p.m. FREE! contigoperuspanish@hotmail.com PERFORMANCE: Henry Rollins (40 Watt Club) Part motivational speaker, part armchair political scientist, part comedian, part punk rock Renaissance man, Henry Rollins performs his one-man politically motivated spoken word show. See story on p. 12. 7 p.m. $21 (adv). www.40watt.com PERFORMANCE: Nordwest Deutsche Philharmonic (Hugh Hodgson Hall) One of Germany’s leading orchestras will perform Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite No. 1,” Brahms’ “Symphony No. 1” and Victor Herbert’s “Cello Concerto No. 2” with cellist Amit Peled under principal conductor Eugene Tzigane.

8 p.m. $20–44. www.pac.uga.edu

Thursday 8 ART: Spring Pottery Sale (Lamar Dodd School of Art) This two-day sale, hosted by the Ceramic Student

Organization, features small sculptures, flower pots, jewelry, housewares and more, made by ceramic students or faculty. Proceeds benefit student educational field trips and visiting artist lectures. 9 a.m–5 p.m.

Tsaupe@uga.edu ART: Closing Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art) For “The 21 Days Show,” by Kristen Morgin. 7–9 p.m. FREE! art.uga.edu ART: Alfred Heber Holbrook Memorial Lecture (Georgia Museum of Art) “To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America,” Alexander Nemerov of Yale University will share insights about Ault’s meticulously rendered paintings. Book signing and reception to follow. 6 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.com ART: “Knumb Chucks” (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) “Knumb Chucks” is a series of poems by Andrew Cole interpreted as drawings by Chris Cogan and further re-processed into “imagetext” poems. There will be a live performance during the evening consisting of an Electronic Reading of Cole’s poetry. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com CLASSES: Fold3 Demonstration (ACC Library) Log in for an online class, or webinar, on Fold3, a subscription database that features digitized National Archives records.

Fold3, formerly Footnote.com, is available for free to Athens Regional Library cardholders through the library’s website. Non-ARLS patrons may sign up for the webinar. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 352.

CLASSES: Genealogy 101: The Basics (Oconee County Library) Learn how to begin your family history research! Register. 11 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 EVENTS: CCDC Doc Eldridge Roast (UGA Tate Center) The Clarke County Democratic Committee hosts a roast of former Athens mayor Doc Eldridge. Roasters include Jane Kidd, Patrick Haggard, Tom Hodgson, Gwen O’Looney, Barbara Dooley, Pete McCommons and Michael Thurmond with judge Lawton Stephens as emcee.

Proceeds support the Clarke County Mentoring Program and the operation of the CCDC heaquarters. 6:30 p.m. $50. ccdc.communications@ gmail.com, www.clarkedemocrats. com GAMES: Trivia (Gnat’s Landing) Drink while you think. Every Thursday. 7–9 p.m. www.gnatslanding.net 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 KIDSTUFF: Teen Cartoon Illustrators Club (Lyndon House Arts Center) Work on your favorite style of cartoon with other young artists and discuss recent drawings and characters. 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: Big Kids Only!

Storytime (ACC Library) Children in primary grades and their families are invited to join us for stories.

Promotes literacy through the art of listening and helps to lengthen attention spans. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Climate and Society/Georgia Oceans and Health Seminar (UGA Ecology Building) Kristie Ebi of the IPCC Working Group II discusses the impacts of climate change and variability on human health. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8138 LECTURES AND LIT: Sociology Research Discussion (UGA Baldwin Hall) “It Was the Ultimate Embodiment of Actuality: The Concert as a Validating Ritual,” a discussion on Philip Lewin’s research on concert experiences.

Lewin is a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology. 3:30–5 p.m. FREE! www.gcph.uga.edu LECTURES AND LIT: Andrés Duany (Miller Learning Center) (Room 171) Andrés Duany, creator of Seaside, FL, lectures on the challenges of urban design and planning. Sponsored by the UGA College of Environment and Design.

Followed by a reception at the Founders Memorial Garden. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. 5:30 p.m.

FREE! www.mlc.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Second Thursday Scholarship Concert: ARCO Chamber Orchestra (Hugh Hodgson Hall) The UGA Percussion Ensemble performs Latin compositions of Dizzy Gillespie, the swinging sounds of Count Basie and more. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3331, aflurry@ uga.edu

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FREE! 706-369-5876, bmoody@ athenstech.edu EVENTS: Everything Is Terrible (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) The video collective responsible for finding some of the most intriguing and horrifying viral videos returns with DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!, a collection of weird clips salvaged from thrift stores across America and edited into one mind-melting feature-length movie. 10 p.m. $10. www.athenscine.com EVENTS: Zumbathon (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) A benefit for Project Safe with Team 6 of Dancing with the Athens Stars. 7 p.m. $10 (suggested donation). www.buffaloscafe.com/ athens EVENTS: Zumba After Dark (40 Watt Club) Get into shape with fun Latin rhythms. 6:30 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com KIDSTUFF: Fantastic Fridays (Bishop Park) Obstacle courses and other activities in an unstructured environment. For ages 10 months to 4 years and their guardians. 9–10 a.m. $5–15. 706-613-3589 LECTURES AND LIT: Digital Humanities Lecture (UGA Special Collections Library Building) Amanda French, THATCamp coordinator at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, will speak on digital humanities and examine how the humanities might be changed by computers and the Internet. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-8708 THEATRE: A Few Good Men (The Elbert Theatre) The first show of the new year at the Elbert Theatre, A Few Good Men tells the story of two Marines on trial for their actions at Guantanamo Bay. Mar. 9, 10, 16, & 17, 7:30 p.m, Mar. 11 & 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net THEATRE: James & the Giant Peach (Rose of Athens Theatre) Enjoy Roald Dahl’s whimsical story of an orphan who escapes his terrible aunts and befriends bugs while living in a giant peach. Mar 9, 7 p.m. & Mar. 10, 2 & 7 p.m. $8–16. www. roseofathens.org

Saturday 10 CLASSES: Clay Extruder Class (OCAF) Learn to use a clay extruder and make several functional pieces.

Mar. 3 & 10, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $80.

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CLASSES: West African Drum and Dance Workshop (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A drum and dance workshop with Samba Diallo, drummer and dancer from the Cote d’Ivoire. 2–3:30 p.m. (drum class), 3:30–5 p.m. (dance class). $15–25. 706-546-7914, www.uuathensga.org CLASSES: Eight Silken Qigong (Red Lotus Institute) Experience moving meditation to improve your health and harmonize your mind, body and spirit. Saturdays, 10 a.m. $10. www.acupunctureathens.com EVENTS: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (SkateAround USA) Some of Athens’ favorite drag stars perform at this family-friendly location. Proceeds benefit the Boybutante AIDS Foundation. 7 p.m.–12:30 a.m. $5. www.boybutante.org EVENTS: Really Really Free Market (Reese & Pope Park) No bartering, no trading. Simply bring unwanted items to give away or take what you want from others. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3144

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EVENTS: Open “Log” House (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Explore the past in a circa 1810 log house.

Warm up by the fire and participate in activities from long ago. 1-4 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3615 EVENTS: Railroad Days (Athens Community Council on Aging) Featuring model trains, food, music, cake walks, inflatable slides and more. Sponsored by the Council on Aging and the Athens Bend Track Club. 11 a.m. $5. 706-549-4850, www.accaging.org EVENTS: March for Meals 5K (Athens Community Council on Aging) Join the ACCA to help end senior hunger in Northeast Georgia and to support Meals on Wheels.

Register online. 9 a.m. $20–25. www.accaging.org/m4m5k EVENTS: Family Festival: Exotic Birds and Reptiles on Planet Earth (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn about the forests of the world with hands-on activities, crafts and a menagerie of exotic forest animals including cockatoos, exotic parrots, spectacled owls, monitor lizards, anacondas, boa constrictors and more. 10–11:30 a.m. $5, $20 (family). www.botgarden.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Build-a-Racetrack (Oconee County Library) Use everyday items to build a racetrack. The library will provide cars to decorate and race. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and its resident creatures. 2:30–3 p.m. FREE! 706613-3615, www.athensclarkecounty. com/sandycreeknaturecenter 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 KIDSTUFF: Animal Encounters (Memorial Park) Meet some of Bear Hollow’s education ambassadors during a live animal presentation.

1:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616 SPORTS: Table Tennis Tournament (Oconee Veterans Park) All levels welcome. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. $10. 706-769-3965.

THEATRE: James & the Giant Peach (Rose of Athens Theatre) Enjoy Roald Dahl’s whimsical story of an orphan who escapes his terrible aunts and befriends bugs while living in a giant peach. Mar 9, 7 p.m. & Mar. 10, 2 & 7 p.m. $8–16. www. roseofathens.org THEATRE: A Few Good Men (The Elbert Theatre) The first show of the new year at the Elbert Theatre, A Few Good Men tells the story of two Marines on trial for their actions at Guantanamo Bay. Mar. 9, 10, 16, & 17, 7:30 p.m, Mar. 11 & 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net

Sunday 11 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 (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 Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979

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KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Readers in grades K–5 are invited to bring their favorite book and read aloud to a certified therapy dog. Trainer always present. First come, first served. 3:30–4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 THEATRE: A Few Good Men (The Elbert Theatre) The first show of the new year at the Elbert Theatre, A Few Good Men tells the story of two Marines on trial for their actions at Guantanamo Bay. Mar. 9, 10, 16, & 17, 7:30 p.m, Mar. 11 & 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net

Monday 12 CLASSES: Intro Digital Media Class (Free IT Athens) (2092 Prince Ave.) An introductory class covering digital media applications. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.freeitathens.org GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes!

Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 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.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 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. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenshumanrightsfest.org

Thursday, March 8

Andrés Duany UGA Miller Learning Center In the movie, The Truman Show, Jim Carrey lives an idyllic life in a white-picket-fenced community that’s so perfect, his life is worthy of being broadcast around the world.

But, that neighborhood is a real place—Seaside, FL—and when it was built, it set a new standard for livable, walkable communities. Today, that standard is called New Urbanism, and one of the creators of Seaside, and the urban planing it spawned, will be speaking at 5:30 p.m. on Mar. 8 in Room 171 of the UGA Miller Learning Center. Andrés Duany will lecture on the challenges of urban design and planning, specifically focusing on sprawl, at an event sponsored by the UGA College of Environment and Design. Duany and his wife, Elizabeth Plater-Zybek, are founders of DPZ, a planning company in Miami, who worked together on Seaside and also founded the Congress for New Urbanism, a nonprofit organization that promotes walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development and sustainable communities.

Duany’s arrival is timely, says the college’s dean, Daniel Nadenicek, because Duany’s experience with urban planning can help refocus the discussion swirling around the proposed development on the Armstrong & Dobbs land on Oconee Street in downtown Athens.

“We’re a design college, so to us,” Nadenicek says, “it’s really easy for the conversation to go astray when, in fact, what we’re all looking for is the best physical environment possible. So, I think, given Duany’s expertise and his long involvement in communities around the country, we’re hoping that will get us back to a discussion of what is good design.”

The lecture will be followed by a reception at the Founders Memorial Garden—a short walk away from the Miller Learning Center—where Duany will have a chance to answer individual questions. The lecture is free and open to the public. [Kristen Morales]

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THE CALENDAR!

Tuesday 13 EVENTS: Jam in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Musicians are welcome to come together to play their instruments.

Tuesdays, 5:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-1244 EVENTS: Drafts and Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Local stand-up comedy. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-3532831 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 (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 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 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 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Time Playgroup (Full Bloom Center) Time for toddlers to play and parents to connect. 10 a.m. $3. 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Every

Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES AND LIT: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library) This month’s title is Till You Hear From Me, by Pearl Cleage. Newcomers welcome. 5 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Athens Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House) The Guild welcomes all amateur and professional fiber artists. For the March program Bonnie Montgomery will demonstrate five-strand braiding.

12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-543-4319

Wednesday 14 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 CLASSES: Intro to PowerPoint (Oconee County Library) Topics include parts of a PowerPoint window, creating a presentation, inserting pictures and spreadsheets and more.

Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 EVENTS: Community HU Song (Lay Park) People of all faiths are invited to sing together with the Eckankar community. 7–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-310-9499, www. eckankar-ga.org EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo) (Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www. indigoathens.com EVENTS: Empty Bowls Luncheon (The Classic Center) A simple lunch of soup and sandwiches to raise

awareness of hunger in the local community. Proceeds benefit the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia.

11:30–1:30 p.m. $20. www.foodbanknega.org GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) Share anime while eating ramen noodles. Includes previews of anime, manga, J-Pop music, fan art and fiction. Ages 13–18.

6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday (ACC Library) Up next: Athens Library Lego Club! Bring your own legos or play with the library’s collection. Ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Home Safety and Home Modifications for Seniors (Athens First Bank and Trust) Ronnie Ogletree with the Athens Senior Resources Network speaks about changes to the home that can help seniors with mobility, safety and convenience. Non-AARP members welcome. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-340-9418

Down the Line KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover 3/15 (Oconee County Library) Develop reading skills and build confidence by telling stories to Becca Van Schoik’s golden retriever, Kringle.

3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Baby Music Jam 3/15 (ACC Library) Children ages 1-3 and their caregivers play instruments, sing and dance together! 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Fantastic Fridays 3/16 (Bishop Park) Obstacle courses and other activities in an unstructured environment. For ages 10 months to 4 years and their guardians. 9–10 a.m. $5–15. 706-613-3589 THEATRE: A Few Good Men 3/16 (The Elbert Theatre) The first show of the new year at the Elbert Theatre, A Few Good Men tells the story of two

Marines on trial for their actions at Guantanamo Bay. Mar. 9, 10, 16, & 17, 7:30 p.m, Mar. 11 & 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net CLASSES: Intermediate Excel Class 3/17 (Oconee County Library) Learn to use Excel more effectively.

Subjects include advanced formulas, creating charts, conditional formatting, removing duplicates and more.

Participants must have knowledge of Excel basics. Registration required.

1–2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 CLASSES: Eight Silken Qigong 3/17 (Red Lotus Institute) Experience moving meditation to improve your health and harmonize your mind, body and spirit. Saturdays, 10 a.m. $10. www.acupunctureathens.com KIDSTUFF: Storytime & Craft 3/17 (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 THEATRE: A Few Good Men 3/17 (The Elbert Theatre) The first show of the new year at the Elbert Theatre, A Few Good Men tells the story of two Marines on trial for their actions at Guantanamo Bay. Mar. 9, 10, 16, & 17, 7:30 p.m, Mar. 11 & 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net ART: Spotlight Tour 3/18 (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org THEATRE: A Few Good Men 3/18 (The Elbert Theatre) The first show of the new year at the Elbert Theatre, A Few Good Men tells the story of two Marines on trial for their actions at Guantanamo Bay. Mar. 9, 10, 16, & 17, 7:30 p.m, Mar. 11 & 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net CLASSES: Carolina Shag Dancing 3/19 (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Learn how to dance with Classic City Shag. Every first and third Monday.

6 p.m. $5. www.buffaloscafe.com/ athens KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories 3/19 (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories.

Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Toddlerobics 3/19 (Oconee County Library) Participate in an active storytime full of music, dancing, jumping and stretching.

For children ages 12–36 months.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime 3/19 (ACC Library) Nurture language skills. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 MEETINGS: 34th Annual Athens Human Rights Festival Planning Meeting 3/19 (Nuçi’s Space) Open to anyone who would like to participate in planning the May event. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenshumanrightsfest.org CLASSES: Design Basics for Edible Landscaping Series 3/20 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Three-part series instruction on how to make the most of your edible garden. 5–7 p.m. $50. www.uga. edu/botgarden EVENTS: Jam in the Garden 3/20 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Musicians are welcome to come together to play their instruments.

Tuesdays, 5:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-1244 KIDSTUFF: Storytime 3/20 (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Teen Painting Club 3/20 (Lyndon House Arts Center) An informal gathering of teens

meets twice a month to paint. No instruction provided. Bring your own project and materials. Ages 14-19.

5:30–7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Time Playgroup 3/20 (Full Bloom Center) Time for toddlers to play and parents to connect. 10 a.m. $3.

706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime 3/20 (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: The World Is My Garden 3/20 (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. 706-542-6138 LECTURES AND LIT: Revolution Under the Revolution: Reconstruction in the South 3/20 (LeConte Hall) (Room 101) Lecture from acclaimed historian Noel Ignatiev, author of How the Irish Became White. Organized by the Graduate Reading Group in the History of Capitalism at UGA. 12:30 p.m. FREE! www.history.uga.edu OUTDOORS: Golden Sneakers Walking Club 3/20 (Lay Park) A fitness program for senior adults to get active, stay fit and have fun.

Participants can set their own speed and walk and talk with other seniors during an invigorating stroll around the park and other designated routes. Call to register. 10 a.m. $3–5. 706-613-3596 ART: Tour at Two 3/21 (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 CLASSES: Genealogy Class 3/21 (ACC Library) Class on types of gov’t records and how to use and where to find them at local, state and federal levels. Sign up for one or all classes. 1–2:30 p.m. FREE! (CAL members), $25 (CAL membership fee). 706-613-3650 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour 3/21 (Hotel Indigo) (Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog! Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime 3/21 (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime 3/21 (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytime 3/21 (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday 3/21 (ACC Library) Up Next: Papel Picado Banners! A traditional Mexican folk art used to decorate for festivals. Learn how to make your own for any occasion. Ages 11-18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists 3/21 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For parents and children. Every other Wednesday.

3:30–4:30 p.m. $24. 706-613-3515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter LECTURES AND LIT: Talking about Books 3/21 (ACC Library) (Small Conference Room) This month’s title is “State of Wonder” by

Ann Patchett. Newcomers welcome.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 6 40 Watt Club 8:30 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com J RODDY WALSTON & THE BUSINESS This Baltimore band comes across like an off-kilter version of The Band in the late ‘60s, combining Southern rock, McCartney pop and scruffy piano blues. One of the most energetic live shows you’ll ever see.

THE FEATURES Tennessee band that ignores its Southern roots in favor of a British-invasion-meets-synthpop sound.

THE KINGSTON SPRINGS Poppy alt-rock from Nashville that is at turns ragged and raw and blissfully sweet. The group has been compared to a “young Black Keys.”

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com DINOSAUR FEATHERS Solo bedroom pop project turned rock band, this Brooklyn-based quartet offers layers of vocals and a jumble of genres tinged with ‘60s nostalgia.

The band names The Soft Boys, The Olivia Tremor Control, XTC and Wings as influences.

GRANDCHILDREN Songwriter Aleks Martray draws on his nomadic past for electrco-acoustic inspiration.

COTTONMOUTH New local band featuring members of Pretty Bird.

Expect lots of fuzzy, heavy drums and bass.

TREE SPIRIT Another Pretty Bird offshoot. This band features looped vocals and what the group calls “functional, three-dimensional poetry.”

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Georgia Theatre Aura Music Festival Pre-Party. 9 p.m. $8. www.georgiatheatre.com THE WERKS Psychedelic dance rock.

BROCK BUTLER Perpetual Groove frontman weaves complex, inspired, loop-based soul jams.

CONSIDER THE SOURCE Brooklyn trio influenced by travels to India and the Middle East and the fundamental styles of traditional Eastern music.

KUNG FU This sextet from Connecticut plays a fusion of jazz and funk-rock.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 PREE Spacey indie folk from D.C. with quirky, captivating vocals.

BOYCYCLE Brand-new local band featuring Andre Ducote, Ashley Floyd, Austin Williams and Bryson Blumenstock playing dreamy, inventive tunes driven by various percussive instruments and synth.

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

Featuring swirling, looping guitars and lush layers of moody melodies.

Highwire Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com MATT HUDGINS AND HIS SHITHOT COUNTRY BAND Local band playing “songs about drinking, jail, love and death, all done in the popular ‘country and western’ musical style.” Also, the band is saving up money to release an album in April, so throw a few bucks in the donation jar or buy a shit-hot shirt or poster. k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! 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!

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. Facebook.com/lkshuffleclub ENTS Punk band from Asheville, NC. Very weird, very fun.

COLD ONES Local punk band.

DJ LOZO Spinning punk rock!

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 HOLY LIARS Gritty, whiskey poundin’, law breakin’, Southern rock band.

NAKED GODS From the mountains of Boone, NC, Naked Gods bring a warm, hook-laden blend of indie altcountry and rock and roll.

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com ROXIE WATSON Five-piece “alternagrass” string band from Decatur, GA. Look for their new album due out this month!

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 NICK JOHNSON AND THE WORLD CLASS EGGS New side project from Atlanta guitarist Nick Johnson.

You’ve seen him play with Col. Bruce Hampton, Atlanta Funk Society and, most recently, Lingo. The World Class Eggs play a mix of funk, blues and soul jazz.

The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!

WUOG 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Killick! will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air, stream online or drop by the station to watch!

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center, sharing his warm, endearing ballads accompanied by guitar.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed-out local punk band celebrates the release of its new EP tonight!

FIGBOOTS Local band formerly known as Bigfoot, this group plays howling indie classic rock that mixes Tom Petty guitar solos with Captain Beefheart strangeness.

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

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop! 9 p.m. $7. www.georgiatheatre.com CAVEMAN Dark, dreamy pop with soaring four-part harmonies, spaced-out guitars, synthesizers, and booming drums.

TUMBLEWEED STAMPEDE Local band plays uplifting, melodic indie pop with influences ranging from Afro-Caribbean pop to old-school Southern soul.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KOKO BEWARE Surf rock outfit from Augusta.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles. Kenosha Kid also features Robby Handley (bass) and Marlon Patton (drums). Playing Hendershot’s every Wednesday in March! Mar. 7 features Bryan Lopes on sax and Neal Fountain on bass.

The Melting Point “We’re hEAR for You Fundraiser “ 6 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com BROCK BUTLER Perpetual Groove frontman weaves complex, inspired, loop-based soul jams. We’re hEAR for You is a local charitable organization whose mission is to increase the awareness of noise-induced hearing loss, hearing loss prevention and the use of earplugs among the community.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com VINCAS Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and a bit of rockabilly blues swagger. Check out our record review of Blood Bleeds.

DIAMOND CENTER Shoegaze band originally from Richmond, VA whose horizons have been expanded by the adoption of members from Lubbock, TX and Athens, GA. As the band has grown, so has their following.

MATT HUDGINS Performing sans his Shit-Hot Band, but still providing those sweet, oak barrel-aged, burns-so-sweet-on-the-way-down country tunes.

New Earth Music Hall 9:30 p.m. $1. www.newearthmusichall. com OPEN DJ NIGHT Bring your laptop or turntables and take a turn spinning.

Featuring dubstep, house, glitch, trance, drum&bass and electro.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com DAVE MARR The former Star Room Boys singer with a deep and resonant country twang plays a solo set.

THE MASTERSONS This Austin duo plays rootsy, melodic, twangy pop songs.

JEREMY WHEATLEY You may have seen Wheatley behind the drums with Thomas Hardy and White Violet, but tonight he’s front and

Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 LIVE JAZZ Every Wednesday!

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

Porterhouse Grill 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.porterhouseathens.com LIVE JAZZ Every Wednesday at Porterhouse! This week features Steve Key and Friends.

Thursday 8 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com HOTCHACHA Infectious, danceable punk/new wave.

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TATERZANDRA Cohesive and melodic noise rock/ moody post-post punk.

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

MUUY BIIEN This one-time bedroom pop project has morphed from ambient sounds to driving, old school punk with a full backing band.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com ERIC SOMMER Upbeat songs that showcase the D.C. guitarist’s proficiency in slide guitar and Travis picking.

KARA KILDARE Local pianist and Kill Kill Buffalo front-woman.

ADRIAN KYRGOWSKI Acoustic folkrock singer/songwriter hailing from Washington, DC. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com PRETTY BIRD Heavy on percussion and tribal-style hollering/chanting/ panting, expect an avant-garde performance that’s equal parts weird and fun.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OLD SKOOL TRIO Jazz jams featuring Carl Lindberg, Seth Hendershot on drums and Jason Fuller on keys.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $13 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com STEPHEN KELLOGG AND THE SIXERS Heartland rock with a good bit of twang. These songs are driven by narrative lyrics that are at turns personal and political.

KATRINA Upcoming alternative pop singer with upbeat originals.

NATIVE RUN Lyrical, acousticalternative trio with sweet, sweeping harmonies.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $8. www.newearthmusichall. com DOPAPOD Over the past few years, this band has grown from an organand-drum duo to a four-piece funkjam sensation.

FORMER CHAMPIONS Live electronic rock often accompanied by an impressive light show.

SONIC SPANK The pioneers of “sextronica” include live guitar, keys and drums behind charismatic DJ-led sets.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840.

THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece. Playing at “Blues Night” every Thursday at The Office Lounge.

The Roadhouse 11 p.m. $1. 706-613-2324 STARLITE DEVILLES Straightforward, country-inflected rock from here in Athens.

WUOG 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Nomen Novum will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air, stream online or drop by the station to watch!

Saturday, March 10

Leslie and the Ly’s, Pennyhawk, Ramona & the Swimsuits Caledonia Lounge Midwestern diva Leslie Hall redefines “bling” with her satirical hip-hop outfit Leslie and the Lys. Decked out in her trademark gold stretchy pants, oversized grandma glasses and blonde bouffant, Hall has been bedazzling audiences across the country with songs about crafting, dancing and staying hydrated.

“Hand me my glow sticks,” she purrs on “Hydrate Jirate” off her latest album, Destination Leslie and the Ly’s Friendship, “Mama wants to jiggle.”

Since her debut song, “Gold Pants,” became an Internet sensation in 2005, Hall has built a multi-faceted empire around her signature look and style. Want to dress like Leslie and the Lys? She’ll make you a custom pair of stretchy pants (made out of “high-performance spandex and designed with high-frequency dance and lady bouncing in mind”), available exclusively at www.leslieandthelys.com. The celebrated gem sweater collector also opened up her famous mobile Gem Sweater Museum—which doubles as The Ly’s tour bus—as a wedding destination in her home state of Iowa.

“From the third state that allows gay marriages comes a wonderful opportunity from the maker of Leslie & the Ly’s and Midwest Diva Stretchy Pants,” she writes online. “Why not seal the deal with your special person in Iowa with Leslie and one of her unique wedding packages?”

And while fans in Athens may not have the opportunity to get hitched at the Caledonia, rest assured this entrepreneur is still bringing the original goods. Expect a hilarious set of jams that’ll strip away your insecurities so you can wear it tight and shake it hard.

Opening acts Pennyhawk and Ramona & the Swimsuits share members with Leslie and the Lys (Hall herself drums for Pennyhawk), and all acts share a love for costuming and comedy. Feel free to join in on the fun: spandex and gem sweaters are highly encouraged. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

Friday 9 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!

Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $15. www.caledonialounge.com TITUS ANDRONICUS Reckless, spirited punk rock stomps with grungy undertones. See story on p. 13.

DIARRHEA PLANET Anthemic rock from Nashville with a sense of humor.

SCREAMING FEMALES Blistering, gritty punk energy paired with accessible, classic rock rhythms and DIY aesthetic. Featuring Marissa Paternoster on lead guitar and vocals, one of the most mind-blowing, ferocious shredders you’ll ever see.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE KAMIKAZE DALI Jeremy Wells leads this bluesy folk band with his rich, soulful vocals. Featuring Darrin Cook on bass and Jamie DeRevere on drums.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 6 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com KATE MORRISSEYBest known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s

songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com MOTHS Featuring Jacob Morris of Ham1, Moths plays a mostly acoustic sort of ‘70s folk-rock with a pop sensibility and an inevitable psychedelic tinge.

MOUSER Exuberant garage-pop that experiments with noise jams.

VISITATIONS Electronic folk featuring Davey Wrathgabar and a rotating cast of local musicians and a heavy touring schedule.

YOU WON’T A punk folk blend with edgy lyrical dynamics.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 HELEN SCOTT Lindsey Haddad (exLaminated Cat), Emileigh Ireland, Hannah Weyandt and sometimes Dena Zilber (Werewolves) play folky pop with a hint of psychedelic rock.

BATTLE AVE. Heavy indie rock band with aching, emotive lead vocals.

VISUALIZATIONS Experimental psychedelic rock.

ANTLERED AUNT LORD Fuzz-pop guitar/drums duo featuring featuring local producer and songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. Dance party begins after the bands.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $8. www.georgiatheatre.com HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Described as “a little bit of Hank, a little bit of Metallica and a healthy dose of Southern rock.” Fans of bands like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd can’t go wrong here.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5-10. www.hendershotscoffee.com CAROLINE AIKEN One of Atlanta’s most talented and respected performing songwriters. She will play alongside John ‘JP Blues’ Pagano on guitar and Eddie Gliken playing percussion, as well as a few special guests.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $3–$5. ww.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub LOTUS FUCKER Fast, crusty hardcore punk.

GRIPE This Athens thrash, grind and powerviolent band is known for its live show intensity.

THE SKUDS This Augusta, GA band is equal parts punk, metal and thrash.

NUCLEAR BLAST SUNTAN Noisy punk from Georgia with screaming female lead vocals.

The Melting Point 9:30 p.m. $15 (adv.), $17 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com WET WILLIE Southern rock band influenced by the Allman Brothers and

Booker T. & the MG’s. CD release party tonight!

DIANE DURRETT Blue-eyed soul songstress with a sultry tone. Durrett has performed with Sting, The Indigo Girls, Gregg Allman, Chuck Leavell (Rolling Stones) and Peter Stroud (Sheryl Crow).

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 THE HANDS OF TIME Soul, funk, pop, R&B, Motown and classic oldschool hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s that will get you on the dance floor.

Saturday 10 Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 BORDERHOP FIVE Lively local bluegrass band with a modern twist.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $10. www.caledonialounge.com LESLIE & THE LY’S Wrapped in stretchy gold pants and decked out in gem sweaters, this Internet sensation will get your booty moving to raps and rhymes about crafting and clubbing. See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

Pennyhawk Witty and wry folk artist from Iowa.

Ramona & the Swimsuits Quirky, costumed indie-pop act with songs about things like juggling babies.

Farm 255 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com AMERICAN SNAKESKIN This rock band from Gainesville, FL sounds a bit like Sonic Youth.

OUTER SPACES New band led by Carla Beth Satalino with Jacob Morris (bass) and Ben Salie (drums) playing lovely, lyrically driven indie rock.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com WOODWORKS Jenny Woodward and Mandy Riley of Like Totally! sing sweet, ethereal folk songs that will knock you on your knees. They are joined by Will Taylor on cello and Zack Jones on viola.

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

FOUR EYES Jace Bartet and Erin Lovett lovingly mingle gentle melodies with bombastic shredding.

BELLE HISTOIRE Indie alternative from Cincinnati featuring powerhouse vocalist Jane Smith. The band has supported Cold War Kids, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Parachute.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 JAMES HUSBAND Side project from multi-instrumentalist Jamey Huggins (ex-of Montreal). Expect a set of eclectic sounds, sweetly sung with a generally warm, ‘60s pop-rock vibe that’s been compared to Guided

by Voices.

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

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $4. www.georgiatheatre.com GROGUS The local and long-running ensemble plays jazz and salsa accentuated with reggae, hip-hop and Afro-Cuban styles.

IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a postshow after party on the rooftop featuring high-energy electro and rock. Dancing should start around 12:30 a.m.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 3 p.m. $5 (per family). www.hendershotscoffee.com HEIDI HENSLEY AND THE GOOGLY SMOOGLY BAND Bring your kids out for a rockin’ good time.

This high-energy pop show will have the whole family dancin!

8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE DARNELL BOYS The three Darnell brothers play and sing country blues originals backed by upright bass, singing saw and junkyard percussion.

HOLY LIARS Gritty, whiskey poundin’, law breakin’, Southern rock band.

TASTE LIKE GOOD Local band mixes alt and classic rock into a loud and rhythmic soundscape.

DAMIAN CHURCHWELL Atlanta songwriter whose soothingly mellow acoustic rock is tricked out with electro bells and whistles.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. Facebook.com/lkshuffleclub THE GINGER ENVELOPE Patrick Carey’s slow-rolling countryish pop is marked by breezy, melodic sounds with chiming acoustic and electric notes and vocal melodies, JEREMY WHEATLEY You may have seen Wheatley behind the drums with Thomas Hardy and White Violet, but tonight he’s front and center, sharing his warm, endearing ballads accompanied by guitar.

OL SMOKEY Local band featuring members of Ham1 doing spaghetti western-style numbers.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $8 (adv.), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com BACK IN TIME An evening of beach and soul music from the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

DJ JUSTIN LEGEND Spinning oldschool hip-hop from Eazy E to Biz Markie to Public Enemy.

The Office Lounge Human Rights Festival Fundraiser. 9:30 p.m. $5. 706-546-0840 MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND Longrunning local mix of melodic, jangly British-sounding rock. Champagne toast tonight plus plenty of food and “a ride home if you need it.”

ROLLIN’ HOME This local group jams on originals with a Grateful Dead kind of groove and a Southern rock leaning.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 (glass). www.terrapinbeer.com COPPERMOUTH New rock/ Americana band featuring Christopher Henderson, Ron Winders (Dusty Lightswitch), Mike Gavrieldes (Splinterbelly, Sweet Knievel) and Ethan Davis.

Monday 12 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7–10 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens LINE DANCING Learn to line dance in the Big Back Room! Every 2nd and 4th Monday.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE MILKSTAINS This power trio plays a dirty mix of surf and psychedelic rock.

MUUY BIIEN Bedroom pop turned noisy, old-school punk rock.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Local songstress Kyshona Armstrong hosts this open mic night every Monday!

The Melting Point 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com THE HOOT The Athens Folk Music and Dance Society presents its monthly showcase. Tonight features the Celtic, old-world sounds of Kiss Your Darling, local singersongwriters Natalie Garcia and Dave Dowless, driving bluegrass band Borderhop 5 featuring flat picker Johnny Fabulous and closing the set will be traditional blues act The Darnell Boys. Joe Willey will host.

Tuesday 13 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com 10 FINGERS STRONG Local metal band celebrating its CD release, Pork Chop’s Bedroom.

GRADE A Junebug and Southpaw are the MCs behind this lyrical hip-hop duo from Atlanta.

CITY OF COLOSSE Metal band from Danielsville that lists Slipknot, ICP, Korn and Rob Zombie among its influences.

JOEZY DA GRINCHY MAN Southern hip-hop based right here in Athens.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com GEORGIA PO’ BOYS Half Dozen Brass Band members Josh Cutchin (sousaphone) and Brent Hedrick (drums) join keys guru Rand Lines.

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!

Highwire Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com MATT HUDGINS AND HIS SHITHOT COUNTRY BAND Local band playing “songs about drinking, jail, love and death, all done in the popular ‘country and western’ musical style.” Playing every Tuesday in March! Also, the band is saving up money to release an album in April, so throw a few bucks in the donation jar or buy a shit-hot shirt or poster.

The Melting Point “Terrapin Tuesday Bluegrass Series.” 7 p.m. $5(adv.), $7(door.) www.meltingpointathens.com BUTTERMILK REVIVAL A blending of traditional and non-traditional bluegrass in three-part harmony with a hint of comedy.

The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!

Wednesday 14 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com THUNDERCHIEF Local act with a West Coast punk sound influenced by classic rock.

STRAIGHTLACE High-octane, highpower rock and roll featuring covers

by Metallica, Judas Priest, Velvet Revolver and more.

WITNESS THE APOTHEOSIS Athens-based darkwave-industrial duo blending dark vocals and moving cello with electronic music.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! (donations appreciated). www.flickertheatre.com HURRICANES OF LOVE Quirky psychedelic hip-hop.

INVISIBLE CIRCLE Psychedelic drone with some Middle Eastern influences.

CULT OF RIGGONIA Experimental soundscapes with tribal, world music beats and ornate instrumentation.

FUTURE APE TAPES Local two-piece creating psychedelic, experimental music driven by loops, beats, guitars and synths.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 BRANDON MCCOY Local singersongwriter who also performs with the Monkeygrass Jug Band.

MICHAEL BOWMAN Melodic acoustic rock with a narrative vocal style and some blues/country undertones.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles. Kenosha Kid also features Robby Handley (bass) and Marlon Patton (drums). The new originals spark like Booker T & the MG’s mixed with 20th-century harmony. Playing Hendershot’s every Wednesday in March!

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

Porterhouse Grill 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.porterhouseathens.com LIVE JAZZ Every Wednesday at Porterhouse! This week features Jake Mowrer Quartet.

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Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 LIVE JAZZ Every Wednesday!

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Down the Line 3/15 COLIN HAY (The Melting Point) 3/15 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES (The Office Lounge) 3/15 THE DICTATORTOTS (The Roadhouse) 3/16 FERAL YOUTH (The Bad Manor) 3/16 SPLITZ BAND (The Melting Point) 3/17 CURLEY MAPLE / THE GREEN FLAG / RED OAK SOUTHERN STRINGS / CRYSTAL RIVER / BILL LONG / JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL SYMPHONIC BAND (Jefferson City Park) 3/17 ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION FEAT. MUSIC OF THE POGUES / THE KNOCKOUTS / THE WELFARE LINERS / THE DONNER PARTY (The Melting Point) 3/17 BACHELORS OF SCIENCE / MEDISIN / CRISTAL ARCADE / SUGAR KAYNE / XB (New Earth Music Hall) 3/20 NEON INDIAN / PURITY RING (40 Watt Club) 3/20 MATT HUDGINS AND HIS SHIT-HOT COUNTRY BAND (Highwire Lounge) 3/20 IKE STUBBLEFIELD AND FRIENDS (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar)

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bulletin board DO SOMETHING; GET INVOLVED! Deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board and Art Around Town is every THURSDAY at 12 p.m.

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

ART Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) The 2nd Annual Festifool is accepting applications for artists to set up booths and sell original art and wares on Mar. 31.

Email farmingtongallery@gmail.com for an application.

Seeking Artist Vendors (Athens, Ga) 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.

CLASSES Advanced Digital Photography (Lyndon House) Get 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 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 Continuing Diabetes Education (Hodgson’s Pharmacy) A four-week class for diabetes patients and their families. Preregistration requested. Saturdays, Mar. 31–Apr. 21, 2–4 p.m. 706-5437368, rabun.hodgsons@gmail.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) every Friday from 7-9 p.m. “Family Try Clay” classes every Sunday from 2-4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Face Jug and Sculpting Techniques (OCAF) Four-week class with Mark Williams on how to sculpt face jugs. Call to RSVP. Thursdays, Mar. 8–29, 6–8 p.m. $40–50. 706-769-4565 Intermediate Fantasy Illustration Class (Lyndon House Arts Center) Mark Helwig takes adult students through the process of producing a monochromatic

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125 Buddy Christian Way • 706-613-3540 Open every day except Wednesday 10am-4pm Large and gentle Retriever/ Border Collie mix is a smart girl who knows basic commands.

Black mostly with white on her chest. Very good girl only about two years old.

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fantasy illustration using traditional materials. The introduction class is a prerequisite. Thursdays, Mar. 22–Apr. 26. 6:30–8:30 p.m. $83.

706-613-3623, www.accleisure services.com/lyndonhouse Kundalini Meditation & Yoga (Red Lotus Institute) Kundalini meditation for depression, frustration, addiction and more, and Kundalini yoga weight reduction for beginners.

Sundays, 9–10 a.m. (meditation) & 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. (yoga). $8/ class. www.wellnesscooperative.com Ladies’ Non-Contact Cardio Boxing (Lay Park) Build muscle strength, endurance, balance, agility and coordination. BYOGloves.

Wednesdays through Apr. 23, 7–8 p.m. $10. 706-613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty.com/lay Monologues and More!

(Memorial Park) (Quinn Hall) This program uses simple monologues, skits and improvisational scenarios to explore the benefits of drama, discover different emotional responses and build self-esteem. For teens and adults with cognitive disabilities and their caregivers. Call to register for

Hearty and fun English Bulldog mix would make a BFF for any lucky kid. He’s smart and affectionate and seems to be already housetrained.

He’s a little smaller than a Boxer, white and gray brindle, with a seriously awsesome underbite.

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13 Cats Received, 4 Cats Placed ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY 1 Animal Received, 6 Animals Placed, 0 Healthy, Adoptable Animals Euthanized

It was a cold and windy day and this little six pounder was shivering until a kind soul put him in a toasty warm sweater.

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George Ault’s painting “Bright Light at Russell’s Corners” is on display at the GMOA through Apr. 16. six classes. Tuesdays, Apr. 10–May 15, 1–2 p.m. $30-40. 706-6133628, www.athensclarkecounty. com/act 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 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 Classes (Good Dirt) Now registering for clay classes including wheel throwing, handbuilding and sculpture. Classes begin Mar. 18.

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net 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. 3. 6–8 p.m. $60 (three classes). happydunning@ gmail.com 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: 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 Zumba (Fitness at Five) Latin rhythm fitness program. Mondays, 7:15 p.m. $5. www.georgiazumba.com

HELP OUT AIDS Walk (UGA Tate Center) The UGA College of Public Health and AIDS Athens host an AIDS awareness walk which starts at the UGA Tate Center and goes through downtown. Individuals or teams may register by 8:30 a.m. the day of.

Apr. 7, 9:30 a.m.. $10–15. www.aidsathens.org Call for Donations (OCAF) OCAF is seeking new or used items for its annual thrift sale Mar. 16 & 17. Proceeds benefit art programs and art education at OCAF. Check website for drop-off times. www.ocaf.com March for Meals 5K (Athens Community 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.acc aging.org/m4m5k

Red Cross Month (Red Cross Center) March is Red Cross Month.

Visit website to learn about activities throughout the month. Donations to help with storm season relief can be made on www.redcross.org

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 Crawlers’ Playgroup (Full Bloom Center) For sitting and scooting babies and their parents.

Wednesdays, 10 a.m. $3. 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com Exploring the Art of Georgia O’Keeffe (Lyndon House Arts Center) Explore the beautiful flowers and stark desert

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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 Full Bloom Storytime (Full Bloom Center) Interactive storytime led by local storytellers who love reading to children. Open to all ages.

Wednesdays, 4 p.m. $3 (suggested donation). 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com Hunger Games LARP (ACC Library) Only one teen will survive; will it be you? Combat will be determined by a roll of the dice, but you’ll have to use your own ability to sneak and strategize. Ages 11-18.

Volunteers needed to moderate and document game. Register by Mar. 14. Mar. 16, 7-9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 329 Mini-Puppetry Theatre Boot Camp (Memorial Park) This minitheatre boot camp teaches basic principles of acting, theatre etiquette,

puppet-building and theatre games.

Ages 8–12. Mar. 12–16, 8:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. $125. 706-613-3580 March Madness Spring Break Mini Camp (Lay Park) Participate in recreational activities, arts and crafts, cooking, games, music and more. Registration required.

Ages 6-12. Mar. 12–16. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $9–14. 706-613-3596 Plein Air Painting (Lyndon House Arts Center) Drawing and painting outside. For ages 7–10.

Tuesdays, Mar. 20–Apr. 24. 4–5 p.m. $41 (ACC residents), $58.

706-613-3623 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 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

ART AROUND TOWN Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) Paintings

by Lauren Dellaria. Through March.

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. Broad St.) “Peculiar Children” features children’s portraits on canvas by Lisa Freeman. Through March.

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 Dr.) Artwork by landscape painters David Dunlop and Frank Walker in the Myers Gallery. In the Bertelsmann Gallery, an Academy photography exhibit. Through Apr. 20.

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.) Artwork by local elementary school students. Through March.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Matthew Scott displays his abstract paintings. Through March.

Ciné Bar Cafe (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Knumb Chucks” is a series of collaborative works by Andrew Cole and Chris Cogan. Cole’s poems were rendered into drawings by Cogan, then further re-processed into “imagetext” poems. Opening reception Mar. 8.

Through Mar. 21.

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 Cindy Jerrell, Matt Alston, Michael Pierce, Nick Joslyn and more.

Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Lisa Tantillo.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Cricket Burwell. Through March.

Gainesville State College Oconee Campus (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy.) A selection of artwork by seniors at Athens Academy in honor of Youth Art Appreciation Month. Closing reception Mar. 29. Through March.

Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) Pastel drawings by Will Henry Stevens, who used naturalism and geometric abstraction. Through Mar. 25. • “Georgia Bellflowers” is devoted to antique dealer and furniture maker Henry Eugene Thomas. Through Apr. 15. • “To Make a World” includes 47 paintings

by George Ault and his contemporaries. Through Apr. 16. • “All Creatures Great and Small” features works depicting animals created by self-taught American artists. Through Apr. 20.

Georgia Museum of Natural History (East Campus Road) A collection of mounted game animals featuring lynxes, African leopards, Alaskan bears,

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 (Rocksprings Community Center) Participants will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, make crafts, play on an obstacle course and go on field trips. Ages 6–12.

Call to register. Mar. 12–16, 9 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. $20–28. 706-613-3602 Spring Break Camp (Good Dirt) Now Registering for Spring Break Camps at Good Dirt. Each day’s projects are self contained so that participants sign up for one or more days. Mar. 12-16 & Apr. 9-13. $55/ day. www.gooddirt.com Spring Break Camp (East Athens Community Center) Arts and crafts, field trips, sports and games. Ages 6-12. Mar. 12–16. 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $20–30. 706-613-3593 Spring Break Mini-Camp (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Each day participants will explore nature, make crafts and share a snack.

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.) Photography by Holly Brown. Through March.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar (1560 Oglethorope Ave.) The rust-dyed art of Russ Heady. Through March.

Jittery Joe’s Coffee (297 E. Broad St.) Large portraits by Lea Purvis and a collection of works by several local potters.

Jittery Joe’s Coffee (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) Hand-dyed silk paintings by Rene Shoemaker.

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

by Robert Lowery. Through March.

Kumquat Mae Bakery Café (18 Barnett Shoals Rd., Watkinsville) Vibrant paintings by Johnny Gordon. Closing reception Apr. 1. Through March.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) “The 21 Days Show,” by Kristen Morgin. Closing reception Mar. 8. Through Mar. 9. • “Drawing Across Borders” by Diane Edison and Ekaterina Russinova.

Closing reception Mar. 8. Through Mar. 9. A collection of artwork by over 180 students from the Clarke County school district. Through March.

Last Resort Grill (184 W. Clayton St.) Landscapes, portraits and still lifes by Lauren Nossett. Through March.

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) The 37th Annual Juried Exhibition of 175 original works by local artists. Through Apr. 21.

Mama’s Boy (197 Oak St.) New artwork from the Convergence Artist Collection. Through March.

OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) “Sapelo Glow” is a collection of art by local artists in various media based on a weekend spent on Sapelo Island. Through Mar. 23. • “Youth Art Appreciation Month” is a collection of artwork by over 180 students from the Oconee County school district. Through March.

Oconee County Library (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Artwork made from picture framing mats by Norman Betts and a display by the Athens Lacemakers. Through March.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) Various works from members of the Athens Art Association exhibited in the garden.

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Strand Hair Salon (1625 S. Lumpkin St.) Paintings by Peter Thompson. Through March.

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.

UGA Tate Center (45 Baxter St.) The IDEA Society presents a historical exhibition of photos commemorating 700 years of Jewish-Turkish history. Through Mar. 24.

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

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Walker’s Coffee & Pub (128 College Ave.) Photographs of acrylic paintings on skin by Lydia Hunt. Through March.

Register. Mar. 14–16, 9:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. $20. 706-613-3615, www.athensclarkecounty.com/camps Teen Girls Club (East Athens Community Center) This program encourages cooperation, teamwork, good behavior and self-esteem in young women ages 10–18.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins Ed. note: Jyl Inov has been away on vacation for a few weeks. While she’s gone, we’ve decided to reprint some of her more memorable columns from the past few years… Enjoy.

I’m sub-letting an apartment for the summer that I share with three roommates who I don’t really know very well. They are friends of my buddy who left for the summer. I get along with all of them fine, but I noticed that one of their girlfriends maybe gets along with me a bit too well. She is a very flirty girl in general, but with me it seems worse. She always asks me personal questions about how big my equipment is and how I like my blowjobs, etc.

She has drunkenly done this in front of her boyfriend, and he only laughs. The other guys don’t seem to notice it either, but I never hear her say stuff like that to them, and one of them is single, too.

So, the other night I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and when I got back in my room she was sitting on my bed. I asked her politely to get out, and we argued a bit and were mostly laughing, but she did threaten to stay and started to get loud and jumped under my blanket and told me “we should just do it and get it over with.” Now, understand, I am only a man, and I have needs, and my reptile brain was shouting at me to lock the door and go for it.

I did manage to get her out of there without so much as a kiss, but I can’t be sure what would have happened if I had been drinking or was otherwise messed up. Will I say “no” the next time?

I can’t say for sure. I know it’s wrong, and I am really trying to be a good guy, but how can I nip this thing in the bud? Do you think her boyfriend is really that clueless, or do you think he just doesn’t care? How can I make her back off without being an asshole? Should I tell her boyfriend about what happened?

Anonymous Sounds to me like simple avoidance isn’t cutting it, A, so you’re going to have to play a little more defense. Next time she makes a sexual remark to you in front of everybody else, ask her why she’s so interested. Don’t continue to laugh and play along or you will only encourage her. I’m not saying you have to flip out on her, but make it clear to her that she is crossing a line. You might also ask her boyfriend how he feels about it. Tell him that you’re uncomfortable about the way she acts and see if he will talk to her about it.

At least then he will be forced to acknowledge her behavior. He may not notice, and it is possible that he notices and he doesn’t care. Whatever you do, you better continue to avoid her like the plague. Even if it means bolting your bedroom door and peeing out the window, you do not want to face the wrath of three roommates you barely know. It could get very ugly.

I just moved into a new place with my boyfriend. I love having space that we don’t have to share, having only our stuff, being able to do it whenever and wherever we please. We get along well, and so far, all of that is good. The

thing is, our place is loaded with windows, and we live right near an apartment complex that a lot of college students are in. I know some of the neighbors are able to hear us, and we aren’t rude about it or anything, but we’re not going to be super quiet as long as we’re not waking anybody up either.

So, the other day I noticed that one neighbor in particular was looking at me when I was leaving the house. I can’t explain why, but I just knew that he knew something. He had a smirk on his face and an expression that I can’t quite describe. At first I had no idea what it was about, so I smiled and waved at him and he waved back.

Then, a few nights later my boyfriend and I were going at it in the bedroom, and when I looked toward the window I realized that the guy—that guy, from the other day—was just across the way and he could see us. At first it freaked me out a little bit, but then I thought it was kind of hot, so I kept going. I even looked over at him and waved behind my boyfriend’s back at the guy. He laughed and gave me a thumbs up and just stood there and kept watching.

I really, really got off on it and I swear that was some of the best sex I have had. And when we were done, I got up with no clothes on and walked to the kitchen and got a glass of water, knowing that this guy was watching me. I have no interest in anything physical with this guy at all, and I have no intention of even talking to him. I love my boyfriend and things are great.

My question is: Is there anything inherently wrong with me or with what I am doing? And do I have to tell my boyfriend that I know we are being watched? It doesn’t happen every time, obviously, but I am sure it will happen again and I even want it to.

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There is nothing “inherently wrong” with what you are doing, EK. What you are is a budding exhibitionist, and as long as you and your voyeur are consenting adults, then there is no real harm. Your boyfriend, on the other hand, is not consenting— yet. And even though he may freak out, you absolutely have to tell him. Think about how you would feel if you were being watched doing something intensely personal without your knowledge and he didn’t tell you. Wouldn’t you feel violated and betrayed? I mean, I know you are getting off on this particular situation, but imagine that you found out you were being watched on the toilet and your boyfriend knew and didn’t tell you. Not very nice, huh?

So, sit him down in a non-sexual situation and in a different room, tell him what happened, and tell him how much you got off on it. Tell him everything you just told me: don’t know the guy, don’t want to meet him, not interested, blah, blah, blah. And then ask him how he feels about it. It is entirely possible that he may get off on it as well, or that he will at least live with it because you get off on it. But you have to give him the choice.

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Brick duplex, 2BR/2BA, very clean, all extras. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens.

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W/D incl. Avail. Aug. 1. Preleasing for Fall. Only $1400/ mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957, AtlasRealEstateAdvisors.com.

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esidents and officials in Clarke and Oglethorpe counties something around here. The older generations just feel dishave been talking trash. The ACC Solid Waste Department heartened by the whole thing. They don’t have a lot of faith in has just wrapped up a series of three public meetings, the process.” called Facilities Issues Negotiations, wherein residents in the Unfortunately for the residents, agreements resulting from area were called upon to voice their concerns about the prothe FIN process are non-binding. According to Georgia law, a posed expansion of the Athens-Clarke County landfill, which current municipal commission cannot bind itself or a future sits on the Oglethorpe County line at ACC’s eastern edge. commission to any such agreement in perpetuity, meaning the The county-owned and -operated landfill is running out agreements made during the negotiations are not enforceable of room. Its remaining storage capacity is lower than that by law. As a result, there was nothing preventing the county of almost any other landfill in the state. “The county had from going back on its 1992 promise—which is exactly what two options,” says Jim Corley, ACC’s solid waste director. “We ACC is doing with the current expansion. could either build a transfer station and transfer our waste to “What was done back then probably wasn’t the wisest another county, or we could keep doing it here and manage our thing,” says Corley, the solid waste director. “It was done with own waste.” good intent, but it was done with certain conditions in place…

We’re not exactly “doing it here,” however. In 1976, Athens- they thought there was going to be a regional landfill.” When Clarke County purchased about 400 acres located off Lexington plans for the regional landfill fell through in 1998, it became Road to be used as the municipal landfill. Forty of these acres, difficult for the county to keep its promise. located in Oglethorpe County, were not permitted as a landFleeman was in disbelief when he first heard of the permit fill site until 1992, when the two governments contracted to proposal. “It feels like the politicians at the time just said expand the existing landfill into the property in Oglethorpe. So, several thousand tons of ACC waste is already spilling over into a neighboring community. All of ACC’s construction and demolition waste goes to Oglethorpe County’s landfill a few miles farther down Highway 78.

The counties voted to expand the landfill again in early 2008. That summer, Oglethorpe County acquired 79 new acres of land, which was sold to Clarke County in 2009 to be used for the expansion. ACC then began the process of applying for a permit from the Environmental Protection Division of the state Department of Natural Resources to expand the site onto the newly acquired land.

A 1990 Georgia law requires no fewer than three Facilities Issues Negotiation (FIN) meetings take place as a part of the permitting process for any landfill construction or expansion. At the recent FIN discussions, residents expressed a number of concerns with the expansion, including possible contaminaThe property purchased by Athens-Clarke County for the Landfill expansion, viewed from Chris tion of their well-water supplies, decreasing Fleeman’s porch. property values, long-term health consequences and nuisances that could arise with the construction what they had to say to appease the citizens,” says Fleeman, and operation of the enlarged landfill. who was 15 when the agreement was made. “Twenty years “Water is always a concern because, well, you’ve got to later, it’s here again and we’re doing the same thing and havhave water to live,” says Oglethorpe County resident Chris ing the same feelings again.”

Fleeman. “There’s also the concern of noise and odor.”

Needless to say, the county is trying not to make the same Fleeman, who has lived near the landfill his entire life mistake twice. Still, awareness of history is leaving the resiand whose family has owned property there since 1955, also dents unsatisfied with the concessions being offered this time expressed concern about the possibility of fires at the landfill around. “One thing I do appreciate about the current governsite because of the proximity of the new site to his home. “As ment is that they’re not telling us any lies,” says Fleeman. of now, there’s 80 acres between the landfill and us. That’s the “They’re just not really telling us anything.”

80 acres that they purchased. So, at that point, there’s going In addition to the non-binding nature of the agreements, to be 500 feet between it and our home.” the Gratuities Clause of the Georgia Constitution, which prohibAthens-Clarke County and the residents of the two counits state, city and county governments from granting anything ties that will be affected by the expansion have come to an “freely or without recompense,” also limits the FIN process. As agreement with the help of the FIN process. As part of the a result Athens-Clarke County cannot compensate neighboring negotiations, ACC will limit access to the landfill to the curhomeowners for potential decreases in property values or any rent entrance on Lexington Road, pave the road that abuts other concessions for potential harm. the expansion site and continue to monitor the system of test Ironically, this is not the case for privately owned landfills, wells surrounding the landfill, in addition to adding 17 new which must go through the FIN process, but are not tied to the wells and monitoring some of the neighbors’ wells.

Gratuities Clause and can offer to residents whatever compensaResidents near the landfill are no strangers to the FIN protion is deemed appropriate, typically documented in a binding cess. They last participated in these meetings in 1992, when contract. So, state law and EPD policy make it more difficult for the landfill first expanded into Oglethorpe County. But resilocally administered facilities to deal with many concerns. dents are wary of the negotiations, and with good reason.

Fleeman and other residents are frustrated with the FIN proOne of the concessions to come out of the 1992 FIN meetcess because of its narrow scope and non-binding nature. “The ings was that ACC agreed not to expand again, but rather to FIN process is just a mutual agreement. There’s nothing that’s close the landfill when it reached capacity. But, less than two enforcing it,” Fleeman explains. “So, the process should either decades later, the county began investigating how to expand be done away with, or have some meat on the bones to give the landfill despite the agreement. it some kind of standing for the future.” Until then, residents Residents were predictably unhappy with the change in and officials can only agree to a few concessions, signed and plans, and many felt they had been deceived. “The people sealed with a handshake. around here have lived here for quite a long time, and take people for their word,” says Fleeman. “A handshake still means Melissa Hovanes

everyday people Hope Hilton, Art Teacher Hope Hilton spends her days apron-clad and elbow deep in finger paint or vegetable dye or paper scraps, the materials of the art projects that she leads at Treehouse Kid & Craft. She’s sure to be immersed in the work and surrounded by a group of children. She says she’s always been a teacher of some sort.

It’s in her blood: there have been teachers in her family for generations.

In her own studio, Hope’s artwork is much darker. She bases her work on her family history, which includes a period spent as slave owners before the Civil War. She also explores the identity of the South, a place she has complicated feelings about.

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HH: It influences me to loosen up. In fact, that’s really hard for me to do, loosen up. I work very graphically and very flat, or I do a lot of projects that involve writing and history, and [teaching kids] has sort of added a playful element to my life.

My artwork is very serious, and [teaching] has really helped me look on the brighter side of things. Kids are so amazing.

They’re really intimidating, and when you get used to it—it helped me in terms of confidence.

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FP: Maybe you just grow out of that sensitivity at some point.

HH: Yeah, I like to think that working with kids helps me keep that sensitivity.

FP: You must be very patient.

HH: I guess I am. You know, I don’t ever get angry.

I don’t easily get angry or upset, and I think I’m pretty easygoing. So, that’s patience, right?… I think it’s very natural for me to practice patience because I don’t realize I’m patient until somebody says it… My art projects—I work on projects that take, like, 10 years to finish.

FP: Will you tell me a little more about those?

HH: Well, mainly I do a lot of work about exploring the history of my family owning slaves, and whiteness— like, being white in that context. So, it’s like a life’s work in a way. Right now, I’m trying to write a book about it, but you can’t write a book without an accumulation of experience, so I can only do so much until I do more out in the field or more research and come back to it… See how different it is from working with kids?

mamas, papas and babies, for two-to-five-year-olds, and then, we do some adult classes and classes on Wednesdays for older kids. I spend a lot of time coordinating those on the calendar and coming up with them, looking at lots of blogs for inspiration. And, I also do a lot of styling on the website and keep the website maintained, and on Saturday I mostly do customer service and make sure everything’s tidy.

FP: What kinds of projects do you plan?

HH: Today we made our own finger paint, and then, we gave them the recipe to take home so they can make it at home. So, we do a lot of stuff where it’s something inspiring but you can also do it at home. But here, we clean up the mess, so I think that’s an advantage. We do everything from mask-making to—we’ve had a class on thank-you cards… We provide them sort of the outline of what to do, and then everybody does something different. We’re not trying to keep them in the lines, so to speak.

FP: Have you always been an art teacher?

HH: Yeah. I’m the oldest of four kids, and we’re from creative parents, and I also have a master’s degree in art, and I spent a lot of time at Boys and Girls Clubs and working with kids. I just spent two weeks this summer doing art classes with kids in the Dominican Republic. And I was, like, the world’s best baby sitter in high school because I always did creative projects. I would show up with a box of art materials, and we’d cover the table in paper, and we’d just go. I think I spent a good part of my 20s avoiding teaching because my mom’s a teacher and my grandma’s a teacher and my great-grandma’s a teacher. It’s just… a long line of teachers, and I resisted it for a long time because that’s what was expected of me in a way. And then, I guess when I was about 27, I realized: I’m a teacher.

FP: How did you figure out that this project was what you wanted to do?

HH: In my art career? When I was in graduate school in New York, I was given a book of my family history that my granny made, and I had never considered that my family had had wealth or had had land or slaves. And [the book] was full of documents about slaves as property, and it really, really just stuck with me, and I had to do something about it.

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HH: It was a Christmas present.

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HH: Well, I called her, and I said, “Granny, this book is full of slaves.” And she said, “No, it’s not!” It was almost like she just didn’t read—I mean, she read it. She put it together. But she didn’t pay attention to those parts, so I felt responsible to… recognize that and pay attention to those parts… But, I can get really depressed about it, and I balance that out by working with kids. And it’s really good because it’s a joy.

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FP: So, you must be from the South, originally.

HH: Mm-hmm, I was born in Atlanta.

FP: Would you say you have a strong connection to the South?

HH: I was always ashamed of being Southern [growing up], and when I was in high school, I was like, “But, I am Southern. Why should I be ashamed of this?” And then, it all sort of hit me when I moved to New York City to go to graduate school, and I realized how much of my work had to do with the land here and the climate here and the stories here.

So then, I accepted that I was Southern and realized that I needed to move back here for my work… I know that when I moved back here, I just took a deep breath, and I felt like I was home.

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