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Well, the local Democrats roasted Doc last Thursday night. It took three hours, but they got him well done: Judge Lawton Stephens was as usual outrageously funny as MC, skewering each speaker, including Doc. Doc adeptly answered all the insults hurled at him. Gwen O’Looney recalled Doc as a commissioner described by a consultant as a good old boy who still dresses and acts as if he were in a fraternity locker room. Judge Patrick Haggard and Tom Hodgson produced anecdotes from growing up with Doc; Jane Kidd made Doc the butt of political jokes, as did Barbara Dooley (via video). Michael Thurmond, in a rousing finale, told how he and Doc had to resolve the racial tensions on their high school football team, and how that forged their own friendship. In his own remarks, Doc departed from the humorous proceedings long enough to excoriate our legislative delegation (Bill Cowsert, Frank Ginn, Keith Heard and Doug McKillip) for taking it upon themselves to change our form of local government that we worked 40 years to put in place and perfect and which has withstood numerous approvals by the U.S. Justice Department. None of those legislators were there, though Regina Quick, the Republican attorney running against Rep. McKillip, was present and was warmly received among the Democrats. She was shadowed by McKillip’s political operative, Bo Mabry, who videotaped the proceedings for his master. Michael Thurmond told Mabry off from the podium, and he wasn’t kidding. In case you missed it, here’s my own contribution to the affair, a takeoff on Shakespeare’s rendition of Marc Antony’s funeral oration re: his pal Julius Caesar. I took shameful liberties and portrayed Doc as Caesar and local progressives as Brutus, commemorating the time all us progressives turned against Doc and defeated him in his re-election bid for mayor. Fortunately, we can laugh about it now, though Doc’s smile is more of a grimace. The other orators were funnier and more biting, but they basically spoke from notes and extemporaneously—lost to posterity—unless Bo Mabry will sell you a tape. [Actually, the Democrats recorded the whole thing, too.] If Not This, What? Friends, Athenians, Democrats: lend me your ears; I come to roast Eldridge, not to praise him. The nonpartisan elections that men do live after them; the New Urbanism is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with Eldridge. The noble Progressives have told you Eldridge was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault; and grievously hath Eldridge answered it. Here, under leave of the Progressives and the rest,—for the Progressives are honorable folk; so are they all, all honorable folk, come I to speak in Eldridge’s roast. He is my friend, faithful and just to me: but the Progressives say he is ambitious; and the Progressives are honorable folk. He hath brought many Walmarts home to Athens, whose cost did the general coffers empty. Did this in Eldridge seem ambitious? When the rich have cried, Eldridge hath wept: ambition should be made of sterner stuff: …You all did love him once—not without cause: What cause withholds you, then, to laugh with him? Bear with me; my heart is in the barbecue pit there with Eldridge… If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle. Look! In this place ran Flagpole’s dagger through. See what a rent the envious scandalsheet made. Through this the well-beloved Bertis stabbed, and, as he plucked his cursed steel away, mark how the blood of Eldridge followed it… This was the most unkindest cut of all; for when the noble Eldridge saw them stab, ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, quite vanquished him: then burst his mighty heart… and even at the base of Athena’s statue which all the while ran blood, great Eldridge fell. Oh, what a fall was there, my Democrats! …I am no orator, as Edwards is, but as you know me all, a plain blunt man that love my friend, who while a Democrat was also a Republican—and now as a Republican, we can hope, still has some Democrat in him, making him a veritable political hermaphrodite… Here was an Eldridge! When comes such another? If not this, what? Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com
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Athens News and Views Another Fine Mess: So, there’s probably nothdays to approve the redistricting, deny it or ing anybody can do at this point about the ask the county for more information, in which local legislative delegation’s completely case even more time would be required. Given shameless structural reorganization of the extreme and highly contested changes the Athens-Clarke County government. That being made to the local map, that seems a action is being taken in direct defiance of that likely scenario, and that would make it tough government—as well as of two different citito get the map approved before qualifying. zens’ committees appointed by Mayor Nancy Meanwhile, only one non-incumbent—Ron Denson, neither of which was exactly stacked Winders in District 6—has announced for any to preserve the current structure. of the five commission races in July, which It doesn’t seem crazy to think that after could have something to do with the fact that those two groups both recommended no draa lot of people who might consider running matic changes, the matter would have been don’t know what district they’ll live in when considered put to rest. But such sanity would the election rolls around. Two of the incumfail to account for two unlikely bedfellows: bents of those seats, Harry Sims in District 2 Doug McKillip and Keith Heard. and Ed Robinson in 6, won’t seek re-election, McKillip’s craven motivations are well and this uncertainty isn’t helping to bring known: he wants to show the massive forth quality candidates for vetting by the Republican majority in his newly customized voters in those districts. Whose representation district that he’s now seriously hostile to the does that improve? Athens Democrats who once were his friends. That district was crafted at the expense Rush to Judgment: More than 40 national of Oconee voters who liked their loyally companies have pulled their advertising from Republican county to be contained in one disRush Limbaugh’s popular radio show in the trict, as well as of Rep. Chuck Williams, whose wake of the host’s recent controversial comconstituency will now be considerably less ments about women, sex and contraception. Republican than the one that elected him. The conservative talker, whom many regard That cynical, self-serving strategy is no as the intellectual leader of the Republican surprise from McKillip, though it remains to Party, caused a firestorm when he assailed be seen whether it’ll be enough for him to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke on the overcome the blocs of disenfranchised Oconee air following her Capitol Hill testimony in voters and crossing-over Clarke Democrats when he faces Regina Quick in the Republican primary. But he’s only pulling off his redistricting gambit thanks to the cooperation of Keith Heard, the only Democrat in the Athens delegation, who appears to be listening to the contingent of local African-American activists who continue to oppose the superdistricts. That contingent does not include Harry Sims or George The Classic Center is undergoing some highly disruptive renovations— Maxwell, the two current and so is the ACC government. African-American commissioners, or John Jeffreys, the former commissioner who chaired Denson’s advocacy of insurance coverage for female superdistricts committee. But, it does include contraceptives. The rant, which extended the recently re-formed Athens NAACP chapter over three days, became an open attack on and local attorney Ken Dious, who collabobirth control and female sexuality in general. rated with McKillip on an earlier version of the Unmentioned, and thus left innocent, were 10-district map now under consideration— men, whose pure and pious gametes make and it appears Heard considers them to be contraception necessary. more important constituents. If Heard, like AM talk radio station WGAU, the local carWilliams, had adamantly backed the expressed rier of Limbaugh’s show, has even begun to wishes of ACC’s elected officials—again, bear some of the brunt of the advertising exoincluding Sims and Maxwell—it’s likely dus. One local advertiser has moved its spots Senators Bill Cowsert and Frank Ginn would from the Limbaugh time slot, while “a handful have sided with them, leaving McKillip out on of others have expressed dismay,” says WGAU a raft by himself. Heard’s decision to cast his Sales Manager Eric Lauer, who wouldn’t name own lot with McKillip in overriding the decithe sponsor that removed its ads. Program sions of the local government is probably the Director Matt Caesar reports that the station reason why we are where we are now. has received phone calls and emails from lisAll this screwing around with the comteners, but that number is low and includes mission districts will throw a wrench into our form letters provided by organizations. In local electoral process already, whether or fact, Caesar reports that listening is actually not the new map is in place for the July 31 up since the controversy gained attention. election. That could be a tall order, incidenBy the Mar. 9 show, a number of local tally, since it would require the U.S. Justice advertisers had remained loyal to Limbaugh, Department to sign off on the new districts including George Gibson’s Menswear, Bone before qualifying for local races begins May Dry Roofing, Bee’s Knees Bakery & Gifts, AAA 23. Even if Governor Nathan Deal signs it into Sanitation and Bulldog Kia, whose spot fealaw this week, it still has to be returned to tures Barbara Dooley. [Matthew Pulver] ACC and submitted to Justice, which could take a couple of weeks. Justice then has 60 Dave Marr & Matthew Pulver news@flagpole.com
city pages doing so—and that the decision to evict them had been made before the commission meeting. Several Occupiers and others spoke during that meeting, questioning “the big-boxification of Athens,” as one Occupier put it, and the possible impact of a downtown Walmart Medical care for poor people—and those on other businesses. “We have a divided comwithout insurance—is provided more effimunity,” observed Keith Johnson, who is not ciently in Athens-Clarke County than in some affiliated with Occupy but also addressed the other places, says Athens Regional Medical mayor and commission. Center spokeswoman Elaine Cook. Unlike in Commissioner Ed Robinson responded to Atlanta, where citizens are taxed to support the “accusations” of the occupiers. “This isn’t Grady Hospital, citizens in Athens pay no helping the cause,” he said. “There are laws taxes to support ARMC, which is a nonprofit, that define how we run our meetings.” He “quasi-public” hospital. Still, anyone who chastised protesters for demanding meetings comes through the emergency room doors about the Selig development, yet not show(paying or not) gets medical care that’s “a lot ing up when the development’s impact on more than just patching somebody up,” says the county’s Greenway and rail-trail plans was Cook. She recalls a patient last year who had considered at an earlier meeting. no running water at home, yet had successIn a vote at the meeting, commissionful open-heart surgery and followup care. At ers approved construction of a park-and-ride ARMC, “tens of millions” in medical care is lot on Oconee Street—a project which (like given away annually. The smaller St. Mary’s the Multi-Modal Transit Center) represents Hospital provides $7 million yearly in unpaid Washington ideas of alternative transportacare, says its website. tion. Never a local priority, it was funded “It is an expensive venture,” Cook acknowl- with federal “earmark” money by then-Repreedges, costing more each year. Efficient sentative Max Burns in 2003. But free money management—”We’re very conscious of our is rarely turned down by local governments, expenses,” she says— few people can afford to buy the grand houses and commissioners and support from the “I rarely see someone who along Milledge as private homes. have embraced the hospital’s foundation, $2 million parking lot plus a state-mandated goes into bankruptcy because as useful for reducJohn Huie “bed tax” that’s redising downtown and of their medical bills.” tributed to hospitals UGA traffic, allowing for indigent care make Eastside commuters it possible. A patient’s needs can spiral if he to park and catch buses instead. The lot will or she puts off getting medical help, Cook hold 223 cars, will include bicycle lockers, and adds. Unhealthy lifestyles, uninsured patients will allow buses (but no other vehicles) to and unemployment all complicate health care enter directly from the Loop. It could be finthese days, but “I rarely see someone who ished by year’s end. After about five years of inactivity, Athens’ goes into bankruptcy because of their mediAlso approved: the Athens Food Cart chapter of the NAACP has re-established itself cal bills,” she says. “Every case I’ve known of, Festival, to be sponsored by UGA’s College of in the community. And, while the group’s they were able to work out a reasonable payEnvironment and Design, which is intended support for the proposed Selig Enterprises ment plan,” even if it’s only $10 a month. to “demonstrate that there is a strong market development on Oconee Street has gotten Athens has “amazing medical care,” Cook demand for mobile food vending”—a little significant attention of late, the chapter’s believes; ARMC has been rated among the too strong, apparently, for some downtown president says that’s not where the majority of nation’s top-100 hospitals and retains a high restaurants, causing the Mar. 31 event to be the group’s energy is being directed. ratio of nurses to patients. “We have some of moved two blocks up College Avenue, away Going into an election year, Clarke NAACP the finest doctors in the country right here in from College Square. “We believe that bringing President Hope Iglehart says the main push Athens,” she says. Locally grown doctors and mobile food vendors downtown will attract for the recently formed chapter is voter regnurses have returned from schools like Harvard more people… benefiting all of downtown, istration. The chapter has already partnered and Yale to practice in Athens, and UGA’s med- including the business of brick-and-mortar with the Economic ical program—now in its second year—helps restaurants,” organizsupply staff to local hospitals. ers wrote. But those “There are laws that define Justice Coalition to coordinate a massive regisrestaurants, so far how we run our meetings.” tration drive through the John Huie unconvinced, lobbied fall, organizing meetings the Athens Downtown at churches like East Friendship Baptist Church Development Authority (which supports the on the east side of Athens. festival to the tune of $1,000) to move it “We’re doing it all through to the election,” away from College Square, and organizers says Iglehart, noting that a recent college fair agreed to do so. and job-readiness event at the Classic Center And, commissioners approved a “small officially kicked off the voter registration neighborhood restaurant/bar” to be operated drive. But it’s meetings at churches, where by Hilltop Grille owner Chris Lloyd in an existfriends can share fellowship and a spread of Local “Occupy” protesters challenged the ing house on Milledge Avenue at Five Points. home-cooked food, where NAACP members can order of last week’s ACC Mayor and Commission “We have received much more support than also explain the organization’s mission and meeting by chanting during an open comopposition” to the proposal, Commissioner solicit volunteers, she adds. “When you get to ment period. Commissioners looked on glumly Kathy Hoard said, citing Lloyd’s “outstandas a couple of protesters were escorted from sit down in fellowship with one another, it’s ing track record for renovation.” Trees will a great way to find out the needs in the comthe commission chamber by police. They be added rather than removed, and to suit were lectured in the hallway, then allowed munity. So we thought this would be a great concerns of neighbors, the pub will close at to return. Later that night, police demanded way to get the word out and let people know midnight. the Occupiers remove their neat, side-bywhat we’re trying to do, get volunteers, [and Neighbor Susan Field objected that side tents from City Hall grounds, where they let them know] that we’re here in the commuMilledge will soon start to “resemble Baxter had been camped for days; the protesters nity and we’re here for [them].” Street,” but Hoard noted that there are few complied. A county press release said “some Athens had an NAACP chapter until about options along Milledge: neighbors don’t relpersons had set up six tents that blocked five years ago, according to residents Marvin ish living near Greek houses, and also don’t sidewalks”—although they were not obviously Nunnally and Linda Lloyd. Nunnally is now a want retail stores or more apartments—and
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parliamentarian for the re-established chapter, and Lloyd, who recalls her work in the chapter a decade ago, is now executive director of the Economic Justice Coalition. “There’s such a need to be vocal and visible in the Athens-Clarke County community, and that’s why I take this very [seriously],” Nunnally says. “Just telling people to be involved, getting people involved and engaged in the community… that’s what it’s all about… The NAACP is all about making people aware of their surroundings and engaging people in their community.” The chapter formed just a few months ago, Iglehart says, but it already has official positions on several issues. The chapter is against the county commission’s “superdistricts”—a stance that is in accordance with the local legislative delegation’s decision to override the ACC government’s recommendation by producing a new commission map that will eliminate them. Single-member districts, says Iglehart, provide greater opportunities for people’s voices to be heard. And, the chapter supports the proposed Selig Enterprises development on Oconee Street, where plans call for a Walmart to fill the 94,000-square-foot “anchor” space. “We’ve spoken in support of the Selig property because we need jobs,” says Iglehart. “There are individuals who are out there who are not going to be able to compete [for] Caterpillar jobs. People need jobs, so we want [jobs]… and we welcome industry in Athens.” But for the next few months, potential NAACP members will mingle with chapter members in local churches, neighborhoods and shopping centers. And longtime NAACP members like Edith Frazier will be able to reconnect with the organization on a local level. “It’s much better, because if I’m just a member of the [national] chapter, there’s no way for me to connect,” Frazier said after listening to a recent presentation at East Friendship Baptist that also included a rousing speech about education by author and consultant Mychal Wynn. “But this one that’s just started, that’s really good.” Kristen Morales
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capitol impact athens rising There were obviously some very irritated legislators at the golden dome last week. Every time I looked up, it seemed like lawmakers were passing another bill intended to crack down on this group or punish that group for some transgression. While it may have been the Lord who declared that “Vengeance is mine,” vengeance also seemed to be on the minds of our elected representatives at the state capitol. There was scarcely a group anywhere that was not the object of their wrath. Undocumented immigrants? The Senate passed a bill that would require Chancellor Hank Huckaby and the Board of Regents to put the boot to the 300 undocumented students attending the state’s public colleges. This was done despite public statements by both Gov. Nathan Deal and House Speaker David Ralston that they did not want to revisit the immigration issue this year. Unemployed people? Both chambers passed bills that would deny applications for Medicaid, food stamps and welfare benefits unless you pay for and pass a drug test. You might also have to take classes to obtain a general equivalency diploma or participate in “personal growth” activities. Union members? The Senate passed a bill that makes mass picketing in labor disputes punishable by a fine of $1,000 per individual and $10,000 per union if the activity takes place near a private residence. Union members also would be required to give annual written permission for dues to be deducted from their paychecks. Women? The Senate passed a bill that would eliminate health insurance coverage of contraceptives if your employer is a religious organization. Senators then passed another bill to prohibit the state’s health insurance plan from paying for abortions for state employees or school teachers, even if the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. This was after the House had already passed Rep.
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Doug McKillip’s bill criminalizing abortions performed after the 20th week of pregnancy. A doctor who wants to ease the pain of a dying patient? The House passed a bill that could lock you away in prison for as long as 10 years if you’re charged with an assisted suicide. Public Service Commission chairman? The House and Senate both passed bills that would enable the other four members of the PSC to remove Tim Echols as chairman of that regulatory agency. Muslims? There’s still legislation pending in the Legislature that would make it illegal for judges to apply the principles of Sharia law in issuing a court decision—even though there’s never been a recorded instance of a Sharia decision ever being handed down in the state’s judicial system. If you’re a white male who also wants to carry a deadly weapon, so much the better. The Senate passed a bill that will lower the minimum age for obtaining a firearms license from 21 to 18. If you’re 18 years old, you still would not be allowed to drink, but you would be allowed to carry a concealed weapon, which no doubt will be reassuring to high school teachers everywhere. For good measure, the Senate also passed a bill that would prohibit cities and counties from placing additional restrictions on the carrying of knives. Politics is always a factor. It’s an election year with a presidential race on the horizon; lawmakers will also be running in new districts that have been redrawn through the reapportionment process. The bills passed by the Republican majority are the kinds of red-meat issues that will keep their conservative supporters fired up for the election this fall. If some people’s feelings get hurt in the process, well, that’s politics. Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com
What’s Up in New Development Rolling on In: Food carts may be coming downtown soon, if only for an afternoon. The Athens Food Cart Festival will be held from 12–6 p.m. Mar. 31 on College Avenue between Washington and Hancock. The idea sprang from a graduate course in UGA’s College of Environment and Design, and is now moving into a practical phase, with vendors from Atlanta and Athens attending the gastronomic gathering. Although the event’s primary priority may be to build support for more permanent hosting of food carts in the downtown area, it also contributes to a growing recognition of Athens’ culinary scene as an integral part of the community’s arts reputation. With several nationally recognized restaurants, pubs and chefs already, and a growing organic farming industry in the region supporting thriving local markets, food carts seem like an obvious fit. The next question might be how to integrate all of these efforts into something as significant as AthFest.
the regional T-SPLOST is approved by voters in July, but it will still be a five-lane highway for most of its length, with a confusing application of on-street parking and dangerous crosswalks. The area will soon be hit by the kinds of tear-downs and infill that have so concerned other neighborhoods closer to the main UGA campus. King Avenue has seen several new houses go up in the past year. Likewise, permits have been applied for to demolish a house which occupies a rather large lot on Talmadge Drive. Much of the area around the hospital is zoned to houses on lots as small 8,000 square feet. With many of the lots in the neighborhood more than twice that size, subdivision and infill seem pretty likely to become big issues for the area. These same concerns prompted a rezoning of Boulevard back in 2008. Rising Seniors: Barnett Shoals Road is looking quite a bit different right now, with two new residential complexes—one geared toward seniors and one marketed to sophomores and juniors—popping up quite quickly out of the
It’s No GOP Primary, But…: The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation is looking for nominees for its annual Preservation Awards. Nominations are due by Apr. 20, with the awards presented June 4 at the Morton Theatre. Categories include Outstanding Historic Rehabilitation, Publications & Programs, Outstanding New Construction in a Historic Area and others. Past recipients have included not only diligent restorations of historic homes and mansions, but quirky adaptive reuses like Transmetropolitan The renovation of Sips Espresso Cafe at Prince and Satula might be worthy of a and Hendershot’s on Oglethorpe Avenue, and nomination for this year’s ACHF Preservation Awards. the community garden behind Hill First Baptist on Hancock. Visit ground. The senior development comes as an www.achfonline.org/awards for more informaalteration of the Lakewood project, a New Urbanist-styled master-planned develoption or to make your nomination. ment that came along right as the housing m Normaltown Rising: One contender for market was stalling. Many projects have been those awards might be the recently renovated retooled as housing for seniors before, but former service station at the corner of Satula interestingly, none of these have occurred in and Prince in Normaltown. Now home to Sips walkable parts of the community. As often as Espresso Cafe, the space had been underAthens is recognized as a great place to retire, utilized for years. But now it stands as an it’s surprising that more upscale housing for iconic anchor for the neighborhood, its canopy aging baby-boomers hasn’t cropped up in enclosed into a porch looking out across the Normaltown, along the river or elsewhere. street to the UGA Health Sciences campus. It’s unfortunate that the student housing Normaltown has been undergoing a renaissance model is still dominant in Athens, even after over the last few years, with new businesses the recession. The introduction of a project in like Ike & Jane moving in alongside venerthe downtown area, scaled similarly to the one able institutions like Normal Hardware. Athens at Lakewood and filled with empty-nesters, Regional Medical Center’s new signs, along would certainly have an interesting effect on with UGA’s polishing up of the former Navy the retail and business makeup of the district. School campus and renovations to its buildAs we consider whether to alter the allowable ings, are also brightening up the area. And, residential density downtown, it’s worth conI’m sure everyone is waiting for that 9/11-era sidering what other kinds of housing could black fence around the campus to come down, be incentivized, rather than simply trying finally reintegrating it with the neighborhood. to discourage student apartments. The need There’s still much work to be done on for age-specific housing will only grow as the Prince Avenue. While Sips will be populated, baby-boomers reach retirement; siting it in in a few short months, by determined new areas that are walkable and easily served by doctors-in-training poring over anatomy notes transit will benefit those citizens as they grow on laptops, broader questions about the future older and less able to drive. It may also have of Normaltown in terms of housing, new devel- all sorts of beneficial side effects. opment and traffic are all unanswered. Bike lanes may one day extend down the street if Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com
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arents of Clarke County pre-kindergarten grants). Finally, we were turned down by Wells students have been in limbo since the Fargo and we said, ‘OK, that’s it.’ And with start of the school year, uncertain how [the Striving Readers grant], we’re told it can the school district planned to pay for be used for the days, but we’ve been told we about a dozen school days left unfunded might not be able to receive the money until by the Georgia Lottery. Now, there is a posJune, so we’re waiting to see if we can get an sibility that those unfunded last 13 days of exception.” school, in some places, may be paid for out of Goodman acknowledged many parents of parents’ pockets. pre-K students can’t afford to pay for the final The pre-K cuts came last year, when Gov. few weeks. She said her office had been willNathan Deal removed about $300 million from ing to partner with organizations such as the HOPE Scholarship and pre-K programs funded Boys & Girls Clubs, the YMCA and YWCO, but by the lottery. As a result, 20 days were cut because the University of Georgia is still in from the pre-K school year, and it was left session and it’s such a short amount of time, up to local districts to come up with ways to the nonprofits weren’t able to accommodate make them up—if they opted to do so. Some the district’s 786 four- and five-year-olds. counties trimmed costs in other places to Until the district works out a final plan, parfill the gap, while others split the difference ents who rely on CCSD pre-K programs will by starting the year later and ending earlier. have to wait for the answer. Clarke County decided to start all students, from pre-K through grade 12, at the same time and then apply for grants to pay for the days at the end of the year. But as of Monday, Mar. 12, the start of spring break, pre-K will end for most schools on Apr. 27. Shelley Goodman, director of the Clarke County School District’s Office of Early Learning, said the pre-K program got seven days back by trimming teachers’ Anthony Benitez-Vaca, left, and Marcus Hughes, both 5, work as part of a professional learning small group in a pre-kindergarten class at Chase Street Elementary. days and creating a few furlough days, and went into the final months of school still needing Director Amy Kay of the Child Development to pay for 13 days, at a cost of $154,552 for Lab at the UGA McPhaul Center said the school 36 classrooms. But then, the grants never made plans at the start of the year to extend panned out. the year for its own lottery-funded pre-K class. “We tried to pursue grant funding, and Kay said parents could pay $175 a week for those didn’t pan out,” she said, except for the final month, ending classes at the same one: a U.S. Department of Education grant time as UGA’s. called the Striving Readers Comprehensive About half the students will be coming Literacy Grant. But its $2.4 million could only back, she said, although the students who opt go to a few schools, and needed to apply to out of the “extended pre-K” won’t be misschildren from birth through the 12th grade. ing any state standards, since teachers in “You had to look at what schools had the all Clarke County pre-K classes worked those greatest need, and that was the feeder pattern into the shorter academic year. The optional for Coile Middle School and Cedar Shoals High program corresponds more with the daycare School.” classes already offered at the center. That meant pre-K classes at Fowler Drive, “The whole 10 months to nine months J.J. Harris, Howard B. Stroud and Winterville [threw] everyone into a quandary, and we elementary schools will continue through didn’t want to leave our parents hanging,” Kay May 16. Parents at other elementary schools said. “So, we told our parents at the beginreceived a questionnaire the first week of ning of the year that the last day would be March, asking what they would be willing to April 18, and then (for the next four weeks) pay, per week, to extend their children’s pre-K we’d have available to them what’s called classes another 13 days: $50, $75 or $100. extended pre-K.” Goodman said her office was tabulating Parents of students starting pre-K in the the results of those surveys in the days leadfall can breathe a little easier, Goodman said, ing up to spring break, and planned to let since Deal has restored money to bring back parents know the results when students return 10 days of instruction. “People need to keep to school. The survey, which was requested by writing (to lawmakers),” Goodman said. “It the district office, is meant to gauge parents’ did make a difference: we got 10 more days… willingness to pay for the program, she said. They’re our earliest learners; they need as “We know it’s not perfect. We can’t pay for much instruction as they can get.” everyone,” she said. “Everybody knew it was coming, and we kept waiting and waiting (for Kristen Morales
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Stark Shadows and Stillness A Different Time: Before the flurry of animal and vegetable activity that marks the start of spring, there is the mineral quiet of winter. Hushed snowfalls, frozen and crystallized water, silent wisps of clouds in the sky create a landscape that is marked by absence of noise and activity. A new exhibition at the GMOA of paintings by George Ault and other notable artists who worked during the WWII era seems to hold this sense of a fullness of nothingness. The artwork in “To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” forms a meditative and thoughtful environment.
Pennsylvania,” a dreamlike industrial setting of stark shadows and stillness that reminded me of the eerie paintings Giorgio de Chirico created a couple of decades earlier. In Hopper’s painting, vacant windows and darkened doorways present us with the abyss, a sparseness that speaks volumes about the people who are absent. Andrew Wyeth’s “Public Sale” is a beautiful tempera painting on panel depicting the sale of a destitute farmer’s household goods. Although this painting is populated by figures (neighbors hoping for a deal), the sense of impending absence and loss is palpable. The exhibition, which is as much about American art in the years preceding and during WWII as it is about Ault, contains many scenes of spareness and quiet, but with some exceptions. In “New Haven Green,” Dede Plummer painted a busy street scene with a flattened perspective to show a variety of people walking the crisscrossed grids of sidewalks in a rush of activity. Production design drawings and stills from the 1945 film Mildred Pierce by art director Anton Grot create a noir-ish setting in one gallery. Life magazine correspondents Peter Hurd (who was Andrew Wyeth’s brother-inlaw) and Paul Sample contribute wartime perspectives with paintings of flares and searchlights on the battlefield (Hurd) and soldiers watching a film with rifles at the ready (Sample). In the last gallery of the exhibition, I saw Ault’s “Russell’s Corners” series as his rural version of Monet’s Rouen Cathedral paintings. Four paintings, painted just a few years apart, show the same view down a street with just a few clapboard buildings and no sign of those who might live within them. George Ault’s “Nude and Torso” is on view at the GMOA through In each, the streetlights radiate Apr. 16. in the darkness like a beacon. In the last picture, “August Night,” The show begins with Ault’s “Artist at painted in the year of his death, one can see Work,” which depicts his spare cottage home almost nothing in the composition but this with the artist’s face hidden behind the canlight, radiating like a star in this lonely place. vas he paints. The walls of Ault’s home are the Here, as in many of his other paintings, it is same color chosen by the GMOA to highlight the sky that holds the emotional information. the gallery walls, unifying our space with his Ault’s pictures, for all their stillness, resonate domestic interior. From this entry into his with expression. In 1948, Ault committed suiworld, we are drawn into the particular time cide by drowning himself in one of the streams and place of Ault’s universe. by his house. Knowing this, the calm settings Ault moved from New York City to of his paintings seem all the more poignant. Woodstock in 1937, retreating from personal The exhibition runs through Apr. 16. loss and hoping to escape the impending chaos of WWII. Others sought refuge in While You’re There: Celebrating the work this quiet town, too, and an artists’ enclave of local master craftsman, collector and developed, which continues to this day. The restorer Henry Eugene Thomas (1883–1965), exhibition, on loan from the Smithsonian “Georgia Bellflowers” is another exhibition American Art Museum, includes photographs currently at the GMOA and not to be missed. of Woodstock’s residents, as well as followThis show is the first of its kind and includes up stories about those who enlisted in the 17 examples of Thomas’ Colonial Revival war and who did not return. The absence of furniture—with his signature gold bellflower these individuals is reflected in the sparsely inlay—as well as ephemera about his life in populated landscapes Ault and others painted Athens. Curator Ashley Callahan’s catalog of the area in works like “Brook in the describes Thomas as an important figure in Mountains.” the history of decorative arts in the South; In other works, Ault painted a “portrait” this unique exhibition provides a portrait of of the same barn—once in sunlight and again the artist as well as the town in which he in moonlight—distilling the angled planes lived and worked. On view through Apr. 15. of the building into a simplified geometry. Next to these is Edward Hopper’s “Dawn in Caroline Barratt arts@flagpole.com
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update of an ‘80s TV show, 21 Jump Street stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as two cops assigned to go undercover at a high school to break up a synthetic drug ring. Series star Johnny Depp allegedly drops by for a cameo. Directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord previously wowed audiences with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, but Hill, who cowrote (with Scott Pilgrim’s Michael Bacall) and produced, is the driving creative force. With Ice Cube. 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. What really sets Act of Valor apart from its action brethren is its non-professional acting troupe, an elite team of active duty Navy SEALs playing an elite team of Navy SEALs. 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. 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. CASA DE MI PADRE (R) Will Ferrell in a Spanish language comedy? I’m there. Ferrell goofs as Armando Alvarez, who seeks to save his father’s ranch, but trouble arrives in the form of his successful younger brother, Raul (Diego Luna), and his fiancée, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). Armando’s feelings for Sonia complicate matters, but it’s the feud with Mexico’s biggest drug lord (Gael Garcia Bernal) that really sets off fireworks. Director Matt Piedmont is a longtime Ferrell collaborator on “SNL” and “Funny or Die Presents….” THE DESCENDANTS (R) Is The Descendants the best film of 2011? 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
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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. 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. e. 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. 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. 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
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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). HAYWIRE (R) A revenge thriller from Steven Soderbergh starring a former “American Gladiator?” I never thought I’d type that description. Gina
was executed eight days after Herzog conducted his interviews; his accomplice, Jason Burkett, who was treated to the lesser sentence of life in prison, is also interviewed. A festival hit, Into the Abyss won awards from the British Film Institute and the National Society of Film Critics. The sneak preview on 3/22 also features Athens native Jeff Reynolds’ short documentary, Jerry, and a teaser trailer for his upcoming feature, Corpus: The Case of Justin Wolfe. 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.
It’s nothing like a Ponzi scheme, but yes, I’m on the top. “Crush” Carano stars as Mallory Kane, a former black ops super soldier, seeking to pay back those who betrayed her on a previous mission. A bevy of beefcake—Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano, Bill Paxton and Mathieu Kassovitz—stands in her way. Writer Lem Dobbs wrote the screenplay for Soderbergh’s excellent The Limey. I love when Soderbergh gets sidetracked by genre. 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). INTO THE ABYSS (PG-13) In the legendary Werner Herzog’s newest film, his 25th documentary, the German filmmaker interviews death row inmate Michael Perry to understand why people and the government chooses to kill. Convicted of triple homicide, Perry
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. JOYFUL NOISE (PG-13) You can almost hear the studio executive wheels turning for this godly “Glee” knockoff. A church choir from Small Town, GA heads to a national competition with new director, Vi Rose Hill (Queen Latifah), squaring off against G.G. Sparrow (Dolly Parton), the widow of the recently deceased former director (briefly and poorly played by Kris Kristofferson). Plenty of other minor melodramas engulf the group as they prepare some new numbers in order to win the national crown. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13) Mission: Impossible is that rare franchise that has actually gotten better with each new installment and in inverse proportion to its megastar’s popularity. Tom Cruise had few peers in 1996 when the weak, original M:I opened; now he’s more often a punchline, albeit a badass punchline who does many of his own death-defying stunts, like climbing the outside of the world’s tallest building. PRANZO DI FERRAGOSTA (NR) 2008. Gianni Di Gregorio, one of Gomorrah’s six screenwriters, makes his directorial debut with this award winning dramedy you might know
better as Mid-August Lunch. Gianni (Di Gregorio), barely surviving Roman life with his demanding mother, must keep four Italian mamas happy and well-fed during Italy’s biggest summer holiday. Winner of three awards from the Venice Film Festival, a David and the London Film Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award. Part of Cinecitta 4, the Italian film series sponsored by UGA Romance Languages. 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. 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? 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. 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). SILENT HOUSE (R) Elizabeth Olsen stars in a thriller remake of a 2010 Uruguayan film about the relationship between psychological and physical spaces. TAKING ROOT—THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI (NR) 2008. Lisa Merton and Alan Dater’s documentary profiles Kenyan Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, who passed away in 2011. She founded the Green Belt Movement, which encouraged rural women to plant trees. This humble plan grew into a national movement to protect the environment, human rights and democracy. Winner of the Audience Award at HOTDOCS and the Full Frame Women in Leadership Award. Film is part of the Women’s History Month film festival sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies at UGA. 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. 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. Also starring: Cliff Curtis, Kerry Washington, Allison Janney, Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock”) and Clark Duke. THE VOW (PG-13) Nicholas Sparks has to be kicking himself for not coming up with this plot first. A young couple, Paige and Leo Collins (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum), struggle to fall in love again after a car accident erases all of Paige’s memories of Leo and their marriage. As these plots are wont to do, Paige’s rich parents (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange) and her ex-lover (Scott Speedman) use her tabula rasa to rewrite their past wrongs, while Leo must cope with the realization that his wife might never remember him. WANDERLUST (R) 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. Much like Elysium itself, this comedy succeeds based on the very funny actors (Rudd, Aniston and Theroux are assisted by Alan Alda, Malin Ackerman, Kathryn Hahn, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Lauren Ambrose, the Stella trio and more) that populate it. Beware; this R-rated gem from Apatow Productions has a deliciously dirty mouth and a great deal of penises, all in the name of good, not-so-clean fun, of course. YERT: YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL ROAD TRIP (NR) 2009. Think you could follow three simple rules in a year-long road trip across all fifty states? 1. Create less than one shoebox of garbage each month. That includes recyclables. 2. Never turn on an incandescent light (except car lights). 3. Use approximately 25 gallons of water per person per day. Three friends did it, in this award-winning documentary that kicks off EcoFocus 2012. Bring your appetite; this free screening includes pizza and drinks. Drew Wheeler
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threats & promises Music News And Gossip There’s lots of news this week, so read closely and follow along… Go West: We’re in Austin, TX this week for South by Southwest, and if you are, too, then there is lots of Athens-related stuff you can sink your teeth into. First, Peter Buck and Mike Mills will join Chris Stamey (dBs, Sneakers), Mitch Easter (Sneakers, Let’s Active), Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow (The Posies) and Big Star’s Jody Stephens and perform Big Star’s album Third—often alternately referred to as Third/Sister Lovers—at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday, Mar. 15. See www.austintheatre.org for more info. of Montreal will play at least five times this week, including a complete performance of the band’s 2005 album The Sunlandic Twins at the Under the Radar party at Flamingo Cantina on Friday, Mar. 16 at 4:50 p.m. More info and additional dates and times can be found at www.polyvinylrecords.com. Finally, the 40 Watt Club will host its annual Athens
Jason Gridley in Austin party at The Side Bar on Saturday, Mar. 17. The 13-band throw-down starts at 1 p.m., and curiosity seekers can see Athens bands such as Reptar, Dead Confederate, White Violet, Futurebirds and Velveteen Pink, as well as still-honorary Athenians Bambara. Athens promo company Team Clermont will host its showcase at the Beale Street Tavern on Thursday, Mar. 15 and feather its cap with performances from Cardinal and Howe Gelb (Giant Sand). Speaking of Which: You can follow the adventures, trials, tribulations and exaltations of the Flagpole music staff during SXSW via our blog: Homedrone at www.flagpole.com. I’ll be weighing in daily, and you can expect contributions from music editor Michelle Gilzenrat and writers David Fitzgerald, John Seay and Christopher Benton, as well as images from photographer Mike White. Have you checked out the new website yet? Get on that. Do you Twitter? If so, follow @FlagpoleMusic. Clean, Shaven: The new-to-town, but notnew-to-Georgia, Jason Gridley will release his six-song EP at the Melting Point on Monday, Mar. 26. Eric Dodd will open the show. Doors are at an early 6 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m., and it’s $7 at the door and $5 in
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advance and/or with a UGA student ID. The Fayetteville, GA native moved to town last September from Colorado specifically to pursue his music. And what about his music? It’s kinda like John Mayer, but with none of the douche-baggage. It might also be a little like James Taylor, but that might only be because he’s got an acoustic guitar and a nice voice. I dunno. How do you describe inoffensive, utterly accessible, clean-cut, acoustic music anyone could take home to mom? I guess that’s how. Give him a listen over at www. facebook.com/jasongridleymusic. If you dig, go to the show and welcome him to town. High Performance: Maserati will head to Louisville, KY at the end of March to record its next full-length album with engineer Kevin Ratterman (Wax Fang). After tracking, the band plans to have the album mixed by Steve Moore of Pittsburgh, PA’s Zombi. Mike Albanese (Cinemechanica) will fill the drummer’s throne for this time around, and label Temporary Residence plans to release the record in the fall. Guitarist Coley Dennis says, “This is probably the toughest and most danceable record we’ve ever worked on. [We’re] definitely excited.” The band has no plans to tour for this record, so cue the collective moan now. Keep up over at www. ihaveadagger.net. Electric Boogaloo: The guys in Mad Axes have lost zero time since splitting up their former combo Deaf Judges. The hip-hop trio formed the new group immediately and are already set to release their first fulllength album. The CD release show for Debut Smash is set for Little Kings Shuffle Club on Saturday, Mar. 31, and Mad Axes will perform that night with The Incendiaries, Pilgrim and Ye Olde Sub Shoppe. But you can download the 14-track album now for a mere $5. Go stream it first at www.madaxes.bandcamp. com, and then vote with your dollars. I Mean Love L-U-V: Nuçi’s Space is a finalist in the Southwest Airlines LUV Grants for Good contest through which the airline will dedicate $25,000 to six nonprofits across Georgia. There are 14 other finalists, too. This opportunity has the local musicians’ resource center in a unique position because it’s the first time it has truly been within the winners’ realm after participating in several contests of this sort. In other contests, Nuçi’s was up against hundreds of other nominees, but this time, they’re actually finalists. So, basically, your vote for them will go a long way. Everyone is eligible to vote twice a day until Mar. 18, and each vote will get you a separate entry into a sweepstakes through which you can win a trip for two to Las Vegas via Southwest Airlines. So, show some love to our locals over at www.southwest.com/luvgrants. Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com
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A Man Who Survived Death and Lived to Sing About It E very morning, Billy Wilkerson starts his day with a family dance party. He cooks breakfast for his two children and wife, Jill, and then spends some time on his latest hobbies, which include CrossFit exercise and online brain puzzles. Sometimes he reads books—recently, he tackled Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha—and every once in awhile he holds jam sessions at his home in Auburn, GA with a few good friends. A few months ago, Wilkerson penned and performed a song that brought nearly everyone he knows to tears. It’s not just because the song is beautiful or emotionally moving—although it’s certainly both—but the song was written by a man who, against all logic and reason, survived certain death. It happened around 1 a.m. on a Sunday morning in late July of 2011. Billy and his best friend of 20 years, Ron Bailey, Jr., were leaving a friend’s house near Decatur when they were struck by a drunk driver. The collision sent their truck barrel-rolling about eight times, and the vehicle was stopped only by a telephone pole that nearly sliced it in half. The impact of the accident caused both men to be ejected from the truck, battering their bodies and shattering Wilkerson’s face. Immediately following the accident, the victims were transported to Grady Hospital in Atlanta, where Wilkerson remained in a coma for nearly two weeks. Bailey, however, remains in a vegetative state to this day. The fact that he came so close to death has altered Wilkerson’s entire world. “I’m alive because of the love of my wife, my family and my faith,” he says. “My whole perception has been shifted. My paradigm has changed.” When Wilkerson recounts the story of the accident today, it’s from the fragments he has pieced together from the stories of friends and family. He doesn’t remember the accident at all. In fact, he doesn’t remember the entire month of July. “I’m starting to remember things now as my brain heals,” Wilkerson says. “But not really things from the accident or the hospital—just things from life.” The last thing Wilkerson does remember
is going to lunch with friend Nick Kirk on the Wednesday before the accident. The two compose songs for the boutique film company Whitestone Motion Pictures under the moniker The Brothers Bright, and that particular lunch meeting was centered around a project for upcoming film Jack and the Dustbowl. However, upon waking up from his coma, Wilkerson didn’t even recall the fact that he had an eight-month-old son, much less his ability to write music. After numerous facial reconstruction surgeries and a tracheotomy, Wilkerson returned home and eventually faced an even bigger challenge: returning to his music. “My wife encouraged me to write music again, but I was terrified and I didn’t think I could do it,” Wilkerson says. “Nick came over to my house and recorded the guitar riff and shot me a melody, and he was like, ‘Alright, let’s start writing the lyrics,’ and I was like, ‘OK, can you just leave now?’” After several hours, Wilkerson emerged with the lyrics to “Around the Bend,” which did in fact end up as a featured track in Jack and the Dustbowl. But this wasn’t the end to Wilkerson’s triumphs in the face of tragedy. “I did some research, and I’m pretty sure that I’m the first musician to have a tracheotomy and severe brain injury to actually put a song on iTunes,” Wilkerson says. “Plus, I did lead vocal and six harmonies—the most harmonies I’ve ever done on a song.” After seven months of rehabilitation and surgeries, Wilkerson is finally rid of his trach, and his brain is still healing a little bit every day. Since proving to himself that he hasn’t lost his talent for music, his next project is to hold a fundraiser for the Shepherd Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta, which he credits with bringing his brain back to life. “I also want to figure out a way to encourage musicians and songwriters who have gone through similar things like I have, or things like depression,” Wilkerson says. “Just to let them know that they’re not stuck.” Mostly, though, he’s content just to be alive. Carrie Dagenhard
mixtape wars Last Ones on Earth: Jordan vs. Riedl Think of this as a sort of “desert island mix”—except that the island you are stranded on is planet Earth, floating all alone in space. If Armageddon comes and everyone splits except you, what tunes will you seek to keep you company? That’s the question posed to Mazarine Records founders Clay Jordan (pacificUV) and Kai Riedl (Electrophoria, ex-Macha), with Riedl offering additional philosophical insight as a former religion instructor at UGA. Considering the supposed Mayan predictions for December, this may soon be a very real quandary for some unfortunate (fortunate?) soul. And as the folks on television’s new series “Doomsday Preppers” will tell ya, it’s never too early to start making your apocalypse mix. Here are some recommended tunes to throw in the bunker with your canned food and batteries.
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6. “Fake Empire” by The National CJ: In a forsaken future America, I would listen to this antiimperialistic critique of American hegemony and imagine how we could improve upon the model if we were to rebuild: no cars, no suburbs, free health care, texting and smart phone use only on Sundays… KR: It’s hard to imagine the majority of things seeming more fake than they already do.
3. “Stevie Smith” by Vic Chesnutt KR: With nobody around, one would think a heightened sense of loneliness sets in, but you quickly realize it’s identical to the pang of loneliness that struck when millions were here on Earth. Here, Vic and crew do a musical rendition of Stevie Smith’s poem “Not Waving but Drowning,” and I know this one can stand repeated listens, because when Vic died I listened to this song about 130 times! CJ: Lovely, enigmatic tune infused with a beautiful melancholy as are many of Chesnutt’s tunes.
7. “Omgyjya Switch 7” by Aphex Twin: CJ: Being completely alone, I am going to get bored. To placate this isolation, I would break into a pharmacy, indulge in some choice goods, and converse with some imaginary friends which this psychedelic jam would aid me in dreaming up. KR: This song would be a fantastic accompaniment to a post-civilization graffiti spree. Imagine tagging large pink hearts on an abandoned Pentagon, or letting loose on Washington’s architectural sacred cows!
4. “Deeper Into Movies” by Yo La Tengo KR: I imagine looking out over a nighttime ocean from a desolate beach, playing a fucking rocking air guitar to this song while singing these timeless lyrics to the stars as loud as possible, while wearing a Speedo. Normally this scene would put people off, but NOBODY IS HERE! CJ: Chaotic, fuzzy tune. I could picture making friends with Zombies while listening to this. Perhaps we could start a co-op garden together?
8. “Knives Out” by Radiohead CJ: Much of Radiohead’s output since the millennium suggests a dystopian future. I would listen to “Knives Out” while foraging for food, and pray I don’t have to resort to eating a mouse like the narrator in this song.
5. “Oh Superman” by Laurie Anderson KR: Inevitably, you cut your damn foot, and you stumble into an abandoned hospital in an attempt to stitch yourself up. The surrounding medical robotics and equipment are oddly comforting, and you find yourself having in-depth conversations with inanimate objects. CJ: What a creepy, beautiful tune. Great use of vocoder. Might creep me out too much to listen to on an isolated Earth, though.
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1. “Unloveable” by The Smiths Why Clay Jordan picked this track: Smiths fans like to believe Morrissey is singing to them and them alone. Being the only living one left on Earth, I would know for certainty not only that Morrissey is singing just to me, but that I am indeed unlovable as there is not another soul alive. Kai Riedl’s reaction: With everyone gone, I would abandon old national holidays and make up new ones, such as the “Day of the Unloveables,” with Morrissey flags waving. I would also vow that if I were ever to see another human being again, the first words out of my mouth would be lyrics from this song: “If I seem a little strange, that’s because I am.” 2. “Raw Power” by The Stooges CJ: Like in the opening scenes from 28 Days Later, I often fantasize what it would be like to walk around a large city that is completely deserted. I would like to listen to this song while ransacking an abandoned Walmart and then burn it to the ground. KR: I think working out and rocking out to this song—say doing push-ups, with nobody else on the planet—would be a transcendent experience. Iggy, that last album you did kinda sucked, but the image of you looking lean and mean would inspire me to keep fit long after the rest of mankind is gone! 3. “Collapsing at Your Doorstep” by Air France CJ: In 12 Monkeys, director Terry Gilliam imagines a nuclear war-ravaged Philadelphia in which tigers roam freely. If this were the case, I would domesticate a tiger and ride it around the city while listening to this magical number by Air France. KR: This song makes me want to create a signature t-shirt for my solo stay that would simply say “Life Is a One-Person Rave.” 4. “Young Folks” by Peter Bjorn and John CJ: Waking up each morning in complete isolation, I need a sunny, upbeat ditty to keep my spirits up. I would listen to this while jogging through the empty landscape. KR: I imagine, with nothing but time, I would wire together the most enormous speakers on the planet, and have the whistling line in this song blasting out into space. I love the image of Earth spiraling through space with that line as its soundtrack. 5. “Tommib” by Square Pusher CJ: At night before going to bed, I would gaze out over the uninhabited landscape to this wistful instrumental track which is melancholy yet hopeful. KR: Being that you’re the only one around, eventually animals wouldn’t be afraid of you, which would be so fabulous. With this song as a soundtrack, I would ride large deer down abandoned city streets, while birds, resting on my shoulders, whistled the theme from Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks.”
was, when the planet had people. And now with everyone gone, you become addicted to the vast spaciousness of everything. Take your clothes off! CJ: Even listening to this with the Earth fully inhabited I get a bit anxious, but this is a suicide recipe for me alone on an abandoned Earth.
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KR: Nobody is ever coming back, ever, and every time my delusional mind imagined people were coming back to Earth, I would put this song on as a stark reminder that I’m alone from here on out. I would also remember what Sartre said: “God is absence. God is the solitude of man.” 9. “We Are the Pigs” by Suede CJ: Another song with apocalyptic overtones. I love the line “Let the nuclear wind blow away my sins, and I will stay at home in my house.” KR: Anytime I can anthemically sing lyrics such as “We are the pigs, we are the swine,“ with nobody around, great. When I can do it while freeing a bunch of farm animals, even better!
Kai Riedl’s Mixtape 1. “Accidentals” by Broadcast KR: Ahhh, the magically ephemeral quality everything in the world has is now magnified by all the stilled cityscapes. Here, among pillowy organs, Trish Keenan’s voice (R.I.P., Trish!) softly reminds us what we already knew, and what we find oddly comforting: the fact there is no guarantee… of anything. CJ: Dreamy tune that, when played together with the right prescription, might make me indifferent to whether I am the last person on Earth. 2. “In a Landscape” (1948) by John Cage KR: With nothing but time you can finally come to grips with the simultaneous perfection and imperfection of everything that
6. “Stories of the Street” by Leonard Cohen KR: You realize all the things you took for granted, even the myriad tensions with your fellow man. Somehow, you miss the drama. Robert Frost’s famous quote echoes in your head: “I had a lovers quarrel with the world.” CJ: Lovely song from a classic Cohen album. Vaguely apocalyptic lyrics: “I know you’ve heard it’s over now, and war must surely come.” 7. “Time After Time” by R.E.M. KR: After everyone is gone, every single moment in memory is a precious gem, especially moments with dear friends. A desolate Earth paired with an overactive memory highlights what the early Hindus said about the deceased, and how one would feel about past friends—that they are “not here, not gone.” CJ: Perfect song in which to peruse old photo albums and think of deceased loved ones. 8. “Sangkala” by Degung Music of West Java KR: Now, with all other humans out of the picture, the interlocking and cyclic course of everything can finally emerge, and this song sublimely captures that realization. Your inner-hippie begins to blossom. CJ: On a solitary Earth, I no longer fear paisley or tie-dye! 9. “Calming Passengers” by Macha KR: This is a song I wrote with Suny Lyons years ago, and I always pictured it as a soundtrack to a desolate Earth, or airplane in turbulence 50 years from now (I know that’s random). If you turn it up loud enough, it may obliterate any lingering sense of self, something that is now laughably useless. (Notice the Laurie Anderson vocal reference from “Oh Superman.”) CJ: Aural mediation. 10. “Tirol Concerto Movement II” (Philip Glass) by Dennis Russell KR: With absolutely nobody around, the temptation just to walk into the ocean will surely set in every now and then. This song gives you that sensation without having to do it, so you can carry on as the only human circling the sun! CJ: Perfect music to dream to. If I do grow tired of my isolated existence, I might actually walk into the ocean while listening to this song. Not a bad way to go…
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dimensions. This time, it’s purposely different. “I think that my hope is that when people listen to it they will realize that, yes, it comes from a place of pain but, in that way, other people who are in that state of mind can feel comforted and know they aren’t alone in their craziness and know that there is something universal and we all go through it,” Barnes says. “I think that of Montreal, you know, we’re freaks
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hen a band like of Montreal announces they’re doing something different, it’s not easy to imagine what they could possibly have up their sleeves. For the past 16 years, frontman Kevin Barnes has made an entire career out of doing something different. From onstage battles between performers in animal masks to ballads about the mythical post-op transgender Georgie Fruit to a fully nude performance in Las Vegas, anything further into the realm of “different” could mean a show of holograms beamed in from Mars. (That’s not the case, but if anyone were going to make that happen it would be these guys.) The songs Barnes pens deal with the sorts of dark themes and out-there concepts that aren’t typically associated with pop music. Yet, fans of all ages and genre preferences gobble up records and live show tickets like frenzied addicts chasing a fix. Trying to stop listening to this band is like trying to look away from a train wreck. However, instead of mangled metal, imagine psychedelic cartoons, neon feathers and lots and lots of glitter. Now enters the dark and highly intense Paralytic Stalks, of Montreal’s 11th full-length album that was released last month. It’s not electronic dance music, and it certainly isn’t twee pop, but it’s still unmistakably of Montreal. “I was just going through a very dark period, and I was sort of relying on music to help me navigate through it,” Barnes says. “I wanted to use that negative energy to inspire something that maybe is sort of hateful and terrible, but at least it represents where my head was at.” While Barnes isn’t a stranger to autobiographical music, it’s been a while since he bared his soul quite so candidly. of Montreal’s first record, 1997’s Cherry Peel, was fully drawn from Barnes’ life experiences, but most albums since have concealed all personal feelings behind his own made-up characters and
ourselves.” Although Barnes generally writes songs alone, Paralytic Stalks also features collaborations with musical virtuosos K Ishibashi and Zac Colwell of Brooklyn new wave revival outfit Jupiter One. “At the time [of writing the album] I was getting really into 20th-century avant-garde classical music and certain compositional techniques they were using, and I wanted to incorporate that into my sound,” Barnes says. Translating Paralytic Stalks into a live show, however, proved to be a much more difficult task. To achieve this feat, Barnes employed the artistic assistance of his wife Nina and brother
David. The resulting animations are projected onto multiple screens, as well as every other available onstage surface, similar to the psychedelic artwork 1960s acts like Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground used to enhance their own audiences’ experiences. “What we’re doing is really complex—especially on the budget that we have,” Barnes says. “There aren’t that many people attempting this sort of thing with nothing to work with. It’s a real labor of love trying to realize this vision.” The first performance of the tour, which took place at the Georgia Theatre in February, met with mixed reviews. While some were thrilled with the change in sound, others were disappointed by a lack of the band’s signature upbeat, dance-y material. “It’s a really diverse record. There are certain moments where I can see that it wouldn’t be that commercial,” Barnes says. “But when I was creating the record, I wasn’t really thinking about a listener, and I wasn’t worried about an audience. I think that’s the way you have to create art anyway. Otherwise, it’s sort of paralyzing.” While his band’s new incarnation is certainly different, it’s not necessarily a conscious change aimed to shake listeners’ perceptions of the group. According to Barnes, from inception to delivery, the impact of the music is not fully within his control, and it’s hard to predict what will come next. “It’s like this organic spirit that is just evolving and changing,” Barnes says. “And I’m just sort of chasing after it.” Flagpole will be chasing of Montreal to Austin this week at SXSW, and fans in Georgia can catch the band again at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on Apr. 7: their last Stateside show before touring Europe. Carrie Dagenhard
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istening to psychedelic folk act Hurricanes of Love, one wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Frank Hurricane (né Frank Copenhaver), main man and sole consistent bandmember, is truly inspired by the natural world. “Well, [when] I lived in Johnson Shitty [sic], TN; there isn’t really much to do there besides go hiking,” says Hurricane. “So, I went hiking every day for three years or something like that. The music that I play is inspired by the mountains, the sound that I hear in the mountains. And that was that period, and now the music that I play is from the mountains and also from the holy city.” The Mecca that Hurricane is referring to— stop the magnifying glass—is Queens, NY. Hurricane has been itinerant for much of his life, so his brand of “New American Primitive” finger-picking folk guitar seems an unlikely fit for urban environs, but it is so. “It’s opened my eyes to so much more beauty in life, of every sort. I think it makes the music much more diverse and even more spiritual.” The songs of Hurricanes of Love are a great deal like the conversational speech of Hurricane himself, he of the gregarious and endlessly positive character. They are peppered with praise for the spiritual qualities of his surroundings and embody the flowing, in-the-moment mind’s eye of the truly psychedelic. Hurricane is embarking on a two-month tour with Invisible Circle, the drone-heavy solo project of oboist Dave Kadden. Invisible Circle serves to offer musical tribute to the early days of modern drone (most significantly minimalist godhead La Monte Young), although Kadden’s studies in the style are true-blue; he began the project following an observant voyage through Southeast Asia. “I’d just come back to New York from my travels, and I was on my buddy’s couch for a few weeks,” he says. “I started drinking lots and lots of coffee in the morning when I woke up, and playing music. I had a little keyboard, a Casio SK-1, [and] I had this amp that I’d had since high school. I started messing around with it, and I found this one setting that got super-crazy rich tone using the octave double with delay and certain distortion, and I was getting these crazy patterns. So, I started turning up really loud to really hear those patterns.”
Kadden will be taking a break from his near-constant gigging as a key member of Brooklyn’s burgeoning hippie-punk community for the tour. The two-man trip marks the release of a split LP between the two acts. “It was Dave’s idea,” says Hurricane. “He knew that I was gonna put out this record, and he said, ‘I want to do the same thing. Why don’t we get together and put out a record together, and go on the most holy journey of all time together?’ And I said, ‘Are you kidding me? That sounds like the best idea I’ve ever heard.’” Hurricane, who was living in Marietta, GA at the time, was extended an invitation he couldn’t pass on. “[Kadden] said, ‘You can come and stay with me at my house for a month and record this album, and see how you like New York City and just chill.’ And about three days after I got here, I realized I never want to leave this place ever again other than to go on tour. This is the coolest place in the world right here. I owe a lot to my holy bro for introducing me to it.” While Kadden’s music is loud—often stunningly so—and Hurricane’s is living roomintimate, the two find commonalities beyond their friendship. “We both play folk music,” insists Kadden. “In my mind, I feel like I play folk music. My influences are far and wide, but certainly Indian folk music and all of that is drone music, and I just turn up a little louder than Frank does. Also, the mountains. We’re both really heavily influenced by mountains.” Jeff Tobias
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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 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 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 (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles. Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 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 MEETINGS: ADDA Board Meeting (Athens Area Chamber of Commerce) Meeting of the Athens Downtown Development Authority. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-353-1421
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nent 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 CLASSES: Salsa Lessons (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Learn some Latin moves. 6:30–8:30 p.m. $8. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub 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 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 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 (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: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 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: 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: 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
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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: 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 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
Thursday 15 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: 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 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (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 (ACC Library) Children ages 1-3 and their caregivers play instruments, sing and dance together! 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Transportation Policy Committee (Athens, Ga) Participate in a monthly committee of BikeAthens that researches and advocates for a more complete street network for all road users using both motorized and human-powered transportation. Email for location. Third Thursday of every month, 6 p.m. policy@bikeathens.com
Friday 16 EVENTS: Thrift Sale (OCAF) Proceeds benefit art and art education at OCAF. Prices doubled on first day, prices as marked second day. Mar. 16, 7–9 p.m., $5. Mar. 17, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com 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
“Pattern and Palette in Print: Gentry magazine and a New Generation of Trendsetters” is on display at the GMOA Mar. 17 through June 17. 4 years and their guardians. 9–10 a.m. $5–15. 706-613-3589 PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Go Bar) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists. 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 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. 16–17, 7:30 p.m & Mar. 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-2831049, tking@cityofelberton.net
Saturday 17 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 CLASSES: Intermediate Excel Class (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. 3-4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 EVENTS: Fifth Annual Dawg Trot 5K (Stegeman Coliseum) The course will start at Stegeman Coliseum beside the Rankin Smith Athletic Academic Center and end in the Coliseum parking lot near the Carlton Street parking deck. Course map will be available the day of the race. 8–10 a.m. $10–25. 706-5422251, wdarden@uga.edu EVENTS: Contra Dance and Acoustic Jam (Memorial Park) Old-time contra dance with live music by Beverly Smith and Friends
and calling by Andrea Nettleton. Presented by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society. Free lesson at 7:30 p.m. No partner needed. 8-11 p.m. FREE! (under 18), $7. www. athensfolk.org EVENTS: Thrift Sale (OCAF) Proceeds benefit art and art education at OCAF. Prices doubled on first day, prices as marked second day. Mar. 16, 7–9 p.m., $5. Mar. 17, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com EVENTS: St. Patrick’s Day Open House & Celebration (University Garden Apartments) Stop by for free BBQ, door prizes and a chance to win an iPad. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! 706-549-4884 KIDSTUFF: Skill Toy Demonstration (Madison County Library) Teens from Camp Kiwanis will show off their talents with flower sticks, kendamas, diabolos and juggling balls, then then let participants play with them. Ages 10 & up. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Saturday at the Rock (Rock Eagle 4H Center) Observe the sun with the Atlanta Astronomy Club. Observations will be subject to weather conditions. 9:30–11:30 a.m. $5. 706-484-2862, www.rockeagle4h.org 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 PERFORMANCE: Beta Burlesque (Go Bar) What a tease! Open-mic variety show hosted by Miss Effie. 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 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. 16–17, 7:30 p.m & Mar. 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-2831049, tking@cityofelberton.net
Sunday 18 ART: Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby of the museum for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org 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 night. 7 p.m. FREE! 706354-6655, www.buffaloscafe.com/ athens GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 MEETINGS: Northeast Georgia Orchid Society March Meeting (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Jim Drake, President of the Georgia Botanical Society, discusses many of Georgia’s native wild orchids in their natural settings and rare native orchids from south Florida. Orchid experts will be on hand to answer any questions. 2–4 p.m. $15 (membership dues). www.botgarden. uga.edu 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. 16–17, 7:30 p.m & Mar. 18, 2 p.m. $8. 706-2831049, tking@cityofelberton.net
Monday 19 CLASSES: Carolina Shag Dancing (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 FILM: Invisible Victims Series (UGA Tate Center) (Theatre) Taken is a film exploring the sex trade and enslaved children. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5773 FILM: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (Miller Learning Center) (Room 148) The story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai, whose planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights and defend democracy. Part of the Women’s History Month film festival. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2846 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 KIDSTUFF: Toddlerobics (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 (ACC Library) Nurture language skills. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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
Tuesday 20 ART: Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art) (Room S151) Walter Spink is professor emeritus, history of art, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has published widely on Indian Art. 5:30 p.m. FREE! artinfo@uga.edu CLASSES: Design Basics for Edible Landscaping Series (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 (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 FILM: Invisible Victims Series (Miller Learning Center) (Room 101) In Risky Business, Esmilda Abreau of Montclair State University speaks about the objectification of individuals in popular media and issues surrounding human trafficking. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5773 FILM: Bad Movie Night (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) Rambu loves justice, hates crime and is always looking for trouble in Indonesia’s answer to the Rambo movies: Rambu: The Intruder. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com FILM: A Gift for the Village (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) The story of a long collaboration
between American artist Jane Lillian Vance and a Buddhist Lama from Nepal named Amchi Tsampa Ngawang Lama. A discussion with the directors/producers Tom Landon and Jenna Swann will follow. Part of the Southern Circuit of Independent Filmmakers. 7 p.m. $5. www.mmccarts.org FILM: Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic? (UGA Rooker Hall) A film that explores the number of plastic bags Americans use and the impact on the environment. Part of the Sustainability Film Series. 7 p.m. FREE! www.housing.uga.edu/about/ sustainability FILM: Italian Film Series (Miller Learning Center) (Room 148) Gianni di Gregorio’s Pranzo di Ferragosto. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8057 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: 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: 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 (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways. Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 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 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: 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 LECTURES AND LIT: The World Is My Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Monthly lecture with Dr. Allen Armitage covering some of the most spectacular gardens from around the world. 7 p.m. $10. 706542-6138 LECTURES AND LIT: Revolution Under the Revolution: Reconstruction in the South (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 MEETINGS: Meet the Doulas (Full Bloom Center) Are you doulacurious? Spend an evening with the center’s registered doulas. 6:30 p.m. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com MEETINGS: Athens League of Extraordinary Zymurgists (ALEZ) (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Homebrewers or craft beer lovers meet for discussions and drinks. Bring a glass and labeled home brews if you have them. Ages 21 & up. 6 p.m. www. athenshomebrewers.com
OUTDOORS: Golden Sneakers Walking Club (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 PERFORMANCE: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Voted by Flagpole’s readers as Athens’ “favorite comedy night” in 2011 and 2012, this comedy show allows locals to watch quality comedy or perform themselves! Signup begins at 7:45 p.m. and the show begins at 9 p.m. First and third Tuesday of every month! 9 p.m. FREE! (performers), $5. www. flickertheatreandbar.com
Wednesday 21 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: Salsa Lessons (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Learn some Latin moves. 6:30–8:30 p.m. $8. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub CLASSES: Genealogy Class (ACC Library) Center for Active Learning presents a 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). 706613-3650 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 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 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 (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 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 (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 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: Wildcard Wednesday (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: Hunger Games Craft Night (Oconee County Library) Prepare for The Hunger Games movie premiere by making t-shirts, magnets, buttons and more. Materials
and snacks provided. No sewing skills necessary. Ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: 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: 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 LECTURES AND LIT: Talking about Books (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 LECTURES AND LIT: Leslie Turner of Coca-Cola North America (UGA Dean Rusk Center) This year’s Edith House lecturer presents “Winning or Winning with Integrity? A Lawyer’s Role in the Corporate World.” 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.law. uga.edu/news/13319
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THE CALENDAR! Tisdell of Pennsylvania State University. Reception to follow. 3–4 p.m. FREE! www.iws.uga.edu LECTURES AND LIT: Art Lecture 3/22 (Georgia Museum of Art) Leslie Harrington, executive director of the Color Association of the United States, will deliver a lecture on color forecasting in conjunction with the exhibition “Pattern and Palette in Print: Gentry magazine and a New Generation of Trendsetters.” 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.com LECTURES AND LIT: Poetry Reading 3/22 (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) The UGA Creative Writing Program presents a reading by poet and photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine. com LECTURES AND LIT: Avid Poetry Series 3/22 (Avid Bookshop) Ish Klein and Greg Purcell share excerpts from recent works. 6:30 p.m. FREE! avid.athens@gmail.com THEATRE: Peter Pan 3/22 (Clarke Central High School) A theatrical production by Clarke Central High School. Mar. 22 & 23, 7 p.m., Mar. 24, 2:30 & 7 p.m. $5–7. 706-3575200 ART: Opening Reception 3/23 (Lamar Dodd School of Art) For the 2012 MFA Exhibition featuring the works of 19 graduate students. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu EVENTS: 43rd Annual Georgia Book Awards and Conference on Children’s Literature 3/23 (The Georgia Center) A celebration of children’s literature and the culmination of the Georgia Book Award programs. Winners of the Georgia Children’s Book Award and the Georgia Children’s Picture Storybook Award are invited each year to the conference to speak and accept their awards. Mar. 23–24. $145. www.gcbac.com/index.php KIDSTUFF: Fantastic Fridays 3/23 (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: 24th Annual Red Clay Conference 3/23 (UGA Dean Rusk Center) UGA Law School addresses how to balance the longterm sustainability of Georgia’s ecosystems with efforts to stabilize and improve the state’s economy. 8:30 a.m. FREE! (UGA affiliates), $10–20. www.law.uga.edu/ela LECTURES AND LIT: Women’s Studies’ Friday Speaker Series 3/23 (Miller Learning Center) (Rm. 250) “Educators for Everyday Life,” presented by Dr. Sharon Nickols, Family and Consumer Sciences. 12:20–1:10 p.m. FREE! www.iws. uga.edu THEATRE: Johnny Brooke: A Ghost Story 3/23 (Athens Little Playhouse) The clean, little house that Eliza Manning and her three teenagers have just rented comes with a story, but the landlady and the ditzy neighbor aren’t telling. The Mannings may have wondered why the rent is so low, but they certainly never considered that the house is haunted. Mar. 23 & 30, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 24–25, 31 & Apr. 1, 3 p.m. $5– 10. www.athenslittleplayhouse.org THEATRE: Peter Pan 3/23 (Clarke Central High School) A theatrical production by Clarke Central High School. Mar. 22 & 23, 7 p.m., Mar. 24, 2:30 & 7 p.m. $5–7. 706-3575200 ART: Digital Image Transfers 3/24 (The Loft Art Supplies) A lecture and demo explaining how to bring the digital world to your art using
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Golden Acrylics. Open to artists of all skill levels. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! CLASSES: Eight Silken Qigong 3/24 (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: BreastFest Athens 3/24 (Terrapin Beer Co.) Support breast cancer awareness and breast health while enjoying a full day of live music, food from local restaurants, kids’ activities, brewery tours and beer samplings, a silent auction and pink hair extensions. 12–7:30 p.m. FREE! (kids), $30–35. www.breastfest.org/ cities/athens EVENTS: Family Fun and Wellness Day 3/24 (East Athens Community Center) Aerobic dance, free health screenings, golf, healthy snacks, inflatable games, tennis and 3-on-3 basketball tournaments. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ eastathens EVENTS: Senior Adult Trip to the Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival 3/24 (Lay Park) Meet at Lay Park for a day-long trip to the Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival celebrating food, family and traditional live music. Ages 55 & up. 10 a.m. $5-8. 706-613-3596 KIDSTUFF: Storytime & Craft 3/24 (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 3/24 (Memorial Park) Meet some of Bear Hollow’s education ambassadors during a live animal presentation. 1:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616 MEETINGS: Cloth Diapering 101 3/24 (Full Bloom Center) Get your questions answered by a local cloth-diapering guru. 1 p.m. $10. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com
LIVE MUSIC 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. JOEZY DA GRINCHY MAN Southern hip-hop based right here in Athens. YUNG CASH GETTAZ Smooth hiphop based 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. 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 help them by throwing a few bucks in the donation jar or buy a shit-hot shirt or poster.
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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, and Marvin Gaye. Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums.
CULT OF RIGGONIA Experimental soundscapes with tribal, world music beats and ornate instrumentation. FUTURE APE TAPES Psychedelic, experimental music driven by loops, beats, guitars and synths.
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.
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Wednesday 14 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com 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 hard-hitting electronic music. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! (donations appreciated). www.flickertheatre.com HURRICANES OF LOVE Quirky psychedelic hip-hop. See story on p. 15. 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 9 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 The new originals spark like Booker T & the MG’s mixed with 20th-century harmony, and will appeal to indie noise rockers and jam-band fans alike. 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. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia 5 p.m. FREE! (donations appreciated). botgarden.uga.edu HURRICANES OF LOVE Quirky psychedelic hip-hop. See story on p. 15. INVISIBLE CIRCLE Psychedelic drone with some Middle Eastern influences.
Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 LIVE JAZZ Every Wednesday! Featuring Taj.
Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (18+), $7 (21+). www. caledonialounge.com HOLY GHOST TENT REVIVAL Melding brass with banjo, guitar, bass and drums, this five-piece ensemble boasts an eclectic mash of instruments and styles. THE BURNING ANGELS Local act that plays Americana soul. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com NEAL CANUP A strong acoustic guitar mix with alternative, smooth rock vocals. NATALIE GARCIA Caramelized vocals in an Americana soul guitar blend. ADAM POULIN Local fiddler accompanies Canup with a sweet twist of sound. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring an assortment of pop, rock and more. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com MARY SIGALAS Visiting standards and not-so-standards from the ‘20s
through the ‘50s. Sigalas will be joined by Stuart Pittman. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.Facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub GRAVEYARD REBEL Local fourpiece cow punk band. FISTY Punk band from New York. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $23 (adv.), $28 (door.) www. meltingpointathens.com COLIN HAY From ‘80s hit-making Australian group Men at Work, Hay now plays mellow, nostalgic folk. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840. THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece. The Roadhouse 8–10 p.m. 706-613-2324 THE DICTATORTOTS These longtime Athenian chaos-cultivators trash the night with post-grunge grooves.
Friday 16 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com CLAY LEVERETT & THE CHASERS Athens’ finest country music! Latenight set. WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle, featuring the founder of Ghostmeat Records. 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
top-40 remixes backed by video projections. Every Friday night at Bad Manor! Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CASPER & THE COOKIES Increasingly experimental but always rooted in pop, this local act presents a danceable mix of quirky fun driven by keyboard and guitar. MYTHICAL MOTORS A powerpop, garage band featuring the songs of its prolificaly pop-minded creator, Matt Addison. GRAPE SODA Local band featuring the brothers Lewis playing reverbheavy garage psych-rock. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com MAD WHISKEY GRIN Local duo featuring masterful guitarist Frank Williams, who slides and fingerpicks his way through bluesy and decidedly American sounds, plus the killer pipes of Chelsea Toledo. TWO CALEYS Caley Smith and Caley Ross sound “like a science-fiction folk musical.” The quirky lyrics address meta- and astrophysical concerns. YE OLDE SUB SHOPPE Big-hearted pop music played on tiny instruments. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com NAMING THE TWINS Folk duo from Nova Scotia.
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Neon Indian, Purity Ring 40 Watt Club “Neon Indian really was just intended to be a creative exercise, a reaction to the more tedious production of my other project, VEGA,” says Neon Indian frontman and founder Alan Palomo. But that side project Alan Palomo soon became the focal point as debut album Psychic Chasms catapulted Palomo to the top of many “hot new artists” lists, with accolades coming from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, SPIN and more as they heralded the birth of “chillwave.” Palomo has been busy ever since, touring across the globe with his band on and off since 2010, including stops at Bonnaroo and Sasquatch festivals. Most recently, Neon Indian trekked across Australia in February supporting its third album, Era Extraña, and now the band is back in the States to bring the new tunes to us. Era Extraña is an joyful amalgam of everything that made Psychic Chasms the indie darling of 2010. The album often vacillates between frenetic electro-dance anthems and lush post-rock ambience. Songs like “Hex Girlfriend” and “Polish Girl” are packed with the same upbeat kineticism that had fans dancing in the aisles the first go-round. For a band that’s constantly expanding and solidifying its place in the indie dance/electronica scene, Era Extraña is proof positive Neon Indian is not only succeeding, but dominating. Aside from sonic explorations, fans will also notice one stark difference between Era Extraña and its predecessor: this is the first album Neon Indian actually recorded in a studio. “As far as being able to work in that environment and enjoy it, it was a weird rite of passage,” says Palomo. It seems this bedroom-pop side project is all grown up. Paloma says he would like to return to the studio to continue working on Neon Indian material in the near future, but come summertime, he’s actually returning to VEGA and hoping to make some headway on that initial project. Only time will tell which band will leave the bigger legacy, but anything from Paloma is sure to be satisfying. [Charley Lee]
Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.Facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub KARAOKE Hosted by Jon Lester. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $6 (adv.), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com SPLITZ BAND This band’s impressively wide range encompasses classic Motown, funk, disco and both old-school and contemporary R&B. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 JIM PERKINS Acoustic singer/songwriter from Augusta. He combines folk, jazz and blues.
Saturday 17 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $5(21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com THE BUZZARDS All-star lineup of Scott Baxendale, Clay Leverett, Bo Bedingfield and Jon Mills play blues-peppered Americana. JIG BONE Three-piece rock band from Buford, GA that focuses on oldschool hard-rock originals and solid rock covers (AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc). Amici Italian Café 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 ROOT SPIRITS These newcomers will be performing their first show in Athens. Expect to hear everything from rockin’ original tunes to distinctive takes of classic songs from the ‘50s–’70s. Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com SAVE GRAND CANYON Emotional and dynamic, this tenderfoot local band plays what it calls “organic alt-rock.” 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. Farm 255 11:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com ITCHY HEARTS Brooklyn-based folk/ rock and roll/pop band that’s both earnest and playful. CANNERY ROW Country rock with pop and R&B influences. GRINNIN BEAR Rockabilly, Americana, blues and country, brewed with equal parts fiddle, three-part harmonies, crunchy guitar and a funky rhythm section. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com MOIRA NELLIGAN AND THE DIXIE JIGS An Irish moor sound jigging with fiddle, accordion and harmonica, accompanied by a stepdancer. Gnat’s Landing 6–9 p.m. 706-850-5858 JIM PERKINS Celebrate St. Gnatty’s Day with this acoustic singer/songwriter from Augusta. He combines folk, jazz and blues elements. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and friends
spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop. Late night dance party! Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $8. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE BALLY BEG BAND True Celtic music at its finest! Playing a range of traditional and modern Irish pub songs. Featuring Sam d’Entremont. THE GREEN FLAG BAND Athens, GA-based acoustic band that stays close to the heart of traditional Irish music. Jefferson City Park “Foliage Fest”. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.jeffersontreecouncil.org CURLEY MAPLE Fiddle-driven old time folk and celtic music. CENTER STAGE Featuring Georgia Hall of Fame fiddler Clyde Beck. THE GREEN FLAG BAND Traditional Irish music. The Drake School of Irish Dance will perform as the band plays! RED OAK SOUTHERN STRINGS Foot-tapping fun from Athens. CRYSTAL RIVER Hometown bluegrass and gospel. BILL LONG Acoustic singersongwriter. JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL SYMPHONIC BAND These young musicians will kick off the festival, which also double as a tree fair. Look for local nurseries on site with trees for sale. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Jefferson Heritage Tree Council for tree planting, maintenance and environmental education. Little Kings Shuffle Club 7 p.m. FREE! www.Facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub REPENT AT LEISURE Traditional Celtic tunes. 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. The Melting Point 7 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION FEAT. MUSIC OF THE POGUES For this special St. Patty’s show, local bands THE KNOCKOUTS, THE WELFARE LINERS and THE DONNER PARTY will each play a set of their favorite songs by Celtic punk rockers The Pogues. The evening will kick off with a performance by the Drake School of Irish Dancing, and the set will end with a big singalong. Plus, check out the Irish-themed menu in the kitchen! Normal Bar 5 p.m. & 9 p.m. 706-548-6186 TIN CUP PROPHETTE Playing two special sets tonight for St. Patrick’s Day! First, a family-friendly early show featuring Irish-inspired fiddle tunes. Then, a late-night jam that anyone can join in. So bring your guitars, fiddles and harps. New Earth Music Hall Convene for Green: A St. Patrick’s Day Burnraiser. 8:30 p.m. $10. www. newearthmusichall.com BACHELORS OF SCIENCE Drum and bass and disco house from California. MEDISIN This group has been the featured party act at many festivals with its unique mix of psydub, dubstep, glitchhop and other psychedelic twists on dance music. CRISTAL ARCADE “A high-energy sonic journey” through electro house, fidget and more. SUGAR KAYNE Cutting-edge innovators in dance music. XB Psy-breaks from Athens, GA.
The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 HARP UNSTRUNG This local act gives melodic, alternative rock a bluesy, Southern twist. Performing as an acoustic duo. FESTER HAGOOD This local songwriter sings in a soft drawl that accents his simple, plucked country songs. Red Cross Donor Center 1:30–3 p.m. FREE! eastgeorgia.redcross.org MAD WHISKEY GRIN Be serenaded while donating blood with an acoustic set from Frank Williams and Chelsea Toledo.
Monday 19 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 6–10 p.m. $5. 706-613-5386, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens SHAG NIGHT Bring your dancing shoes for shag dancing in the BBR. Every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com COWBOY MALOGNA Acoustic project from Paul Maloney. SWEET LOU & A PACK OF SMOKES New band featuring Nick Mallis and Andrew Michael of Yo Soybean. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 COURTESY TIER This rock duo from Brooklyn synthesizes the soul of rock with melodic blues. OLD GOD SHEARING Local band playing its first full-band show with a new lineup. BEN CRAMER Atlanta-based singer/ songwriter playing rock and folk. THE WICKED TOMORROW Brooklyn duo make jagged rock and roll with plenty of edge and harmony. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Local songstress Kyshona Armstrong hosts open mic night.
Tuesday 20 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $12 (adv). www.40watt.com NEON INDIAN Electronic chillwave wonderkids provide echoing headbopping beats and chirping melodies. See Calendar Pick on p. 18. PURITY RING Future pop duo. Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door), $12 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com JUKEBOX THE GHOST A dynamic, catchy Indie band from Savannah. See Calendar Pick on this page. SPEAK Quartet from Austin influenced by The Shins, Talking Heads, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and The Flaming Lips. THE ELWINS Quartet from Ontario playing jolly indie pop rock. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com IKE STUBBLEFIELD AND FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums. Every Tuesday!
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Highwire Lounge “Friday Night Jazz.” 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com RAND LINES Original compositions of pianist Rand Lines with drummer Ben Williams and bassist Carl Lindberg.
Jukebox the Ghost, SPEAK, The Elwins Caledonia Lounge
Philadelphia’s Jukebox the Ghost—Tommy Siegel (guitars, vocals), Ben Thornewill (piano, vocals), Jesse Kristin (drums)—released its Jukebox the Ghost refreshingly lighthearted debut album, Let Live and Let Ghosts, in 2008, and in the years since, have been spreading sunny pop love around the country, going about the business of making band life into a career and touring heavily. So heavily, in fact, that Siegel had to undergo vocal cord surgery to repair damage received due to too much singing, too often. That time on the road influenced the songs on 2010’s followup Everything Under the Sun. “Sometimes, in the past, we were received as being this bubbly and jumpy and happy group,” says Ben Thornewill, Jukebox’s pianist and other vocalist. “But [that record seems] like we’re sounding more thoughtful and personal. Besides, you’re going to think and write differently after 300 shows. People change, different things happen to you, you get some new influences, and the way you do your songwriting and arranging is going to be different.” Adds Siegel, “There was never a lull in songwriting, even when we were touring. We went into the studio with 25 nearly finished and arranged songs, and we put a lot of time into crafting each one. It was a conscious effort on all of our parts to mature as a band.” Everything Under the Sun caught on, and the band continued its non-stop touring, playing late-night talk shows and massive music festivals, and worked its music into an iPad ad. Jukebox the Ghost has its third album, Safe Travels, prepped and ready to master before it hits stores both real and virtual this summer; Yep Roc Records releases the disc on June 12. For a preview of the tunes, though, find yourself at the Caledonia. [Chris Hassiotis]
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. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY Drawing from ‘80s punk and hardcore, Jeff Rosenstock and a rotating cast of “self-deprecating punks” play “smart-ass pop songs” and give ‘em all away for free on the Internet. Vacation, the new full-length, was inspired by a trip to Belize and offers a departure from the dark introspection of the band’s previous release. COLD ONES Local punk band featuring members of Christopher’s Liver, among others. Scuzzy and straightforward, with riffs and rough vocals, but not without melody. DJ LOZO Spinning punk rock! The Melting Point 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com THE FOUR THIEVES This local, energetic bluegrass band has been busking on the streets for about six months, and now all their hard work is really starting to pay off. Check out their rowdy live set with twangy harmonies tonight, and then take home a copy of their debut EP. New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $7. www.newearthmusichall. com PEARL AND THE BEARD Trio playing folk, pop, gospel and Americana. Featuring cello, guitar, glockenspiel, melodica, drums and accordion.
The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!
Wednesday 21 Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com MAMA’S LOVE Young, funky jam band from right here in Athens. The band’s slogan says it all: “Bringin’ it back to the roots while goin’ beyond the bounds.” THE REVIVALISTS This New Orleans band plays a vibrant mix of funk, jazz and rock accented by warm pedal steel and sax. BEAR LEFT Local jam rock band that wants to make you dance. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ARGONAUTS No info available. NATIVE KID Local indie band with a lo-fi sound and country undertones. JUNIOR ASTRONOMERS Dancey rock band that describes its sound as “akin to hearing Ted Leo being played by lads years younger than The Black Lips.” 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, and will appeal to indie noise rockers and jam-band fans alike. Playing Hendershot’s every Wednesday in March! The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SIMPLIFIED Quartet known for its raucous guitar riffs, velvety vocals
and hook-laden melodies, fusing elements of rock, reggae, funk and roots. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke! Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 LIVE JAZZ Every Wednesday! Featuring Taj.
Down the Line 3/22 CARL LINDBERG TRIO (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/22 ANDY MCKEE / ANTOINE DURFOUR (The Melting Point) 3/22 VERTIGO JAZZ PROJECT (No Where Bar) 3/22 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES (The Office Lounge) 3/23 FERAL YOUTH (The Bad Manor) 3/23 BIG DADDY’S BAND (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 3/23 CARL LINDBERG AND ROB MCMAKEN (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/23 RAND LINES (Highwire Lounge) 3/23 SAMPLES / DISTAL (New Earth Music Hall) 3/23 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS (The Office Lounge) 3/24 KATE MORRISSEY / STEPH FURNESS / SOUTHERN FOLK COALITION (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/24 NORTH HOLLYWOOD MODEL SEARCH (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/24 THE RATTLERS (The Roadhouse) 3/26 LINE DANCING (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 3/26 ERYN WOODS / GRAND PRIZE WINNERS FROM LAST YEAR / KONTRABAND MUSIC / 33 (Caledonia Lounge) 3/26 OPEN MIC (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/26 JASON GRIDLEY / ERIC DODD (The Melting Point)
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ART AthFest Call for Artists (Athens, Ga) Applications for inclusion in the Artist Market are being accepted. Exhibited work may include ceramics, drawings and watercolor, paintings, folk art, furniture, photography, glasswork, handmade musical instruments, jewelry, mixed media, prints, woodwork or sculpture. No factory-made items or found objects will be accepted. Apply by Apr. 1. $20 application fee. 706-3630530, art@athfest.com 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. Opening Reception (Georgia Museum of Art) For the exhibitions “To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America,” “A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery” and “Pattern and Palette in Print: Gentry Magazine and a New Generation of Trendsetters.” Catered by Five & Ten. ‘40s and ‘50s period dress encouraged. RSVP by Mar. 17. Mar. 23, 5:30–8:30 p.m. $5-15. 706-5420830, sgeorge1@uga.edu, www.georgiamusuem.com Seeking Artists (Oconee County Library) Seeking framed or ready-tohang artwork for month-long exhibitions. 706-769-3950, scolombo@ athenslibrary.com 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.
Seeking Artists (Athens, Ga) Renewal Art Show is seeking fine art and craft vendors for an art show benefiting art education in ACC elementary schools on Apr. 21 & 22. Email for application. Apply by Mar. 20. athensart4schools@gmail.com
CLASSES Advanced Digital Photography (Lyndon House Arts Center) Grab your camera and get ready for in-depth tips on shooting great photos. Tuesdays, Mar. 20–Apr. 24. 6:30–8:30 p.m. $93 (ACC residents), $135. 706-6133623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ lyndonhouse Brewing Lessons (Blockader Home Brew Supply) A hands-on crash course in all-grain recipe formulation, mashing, evaluating and trouble-shooting. Call to register. Saturdays, Apr. 14-May. 19, 3–6:30 p.m. 706-548-5035, www.blockader homebrewsupply.com 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 Computer Classes (Oconee County Library) Classes offered in wireless terminology, Windows 7 and more. Register. 706-769-3950, watkinsville@athenslibrary.org 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
ACC ANIMAL CONTROL
150 Buddy Christian Way • 706-613-3887 JUST A FEW MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN
Open every day 10am-4pm except Wednesday
This lonely little Tabby/ Calico kitten is a little nervous about her new surroundings, but she responds with purrs to petting and sweet talk. She would love to find a friend in this world to keep her safe and tell her everything’s ok.
Computer Tutorials (ACC Library) Choose from a list of topics for personalized, one-onone instruction. The library also offers online computer classes in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and eBooks. Call for times and to register. 706-613-3650 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 Dance Classes (Dancefx) Ballet, tap, hip-hop, Zumba, contemporary, ballroom, hip-hop, strip aerobics, exercise classes and more. Check website for schedule. 706-3553078, www.dancefx.org Intermediate Fantasy Illustration Class (Lyndon House Arts Center) Mark Helwig takes adult students through the process of producing a monochromatic 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, balance and coordination. Call for more info. 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,
Bailey is a big orange Tabby. He weighs nearly 15 pounds, but he’s not a couch potato. He likes to stay active and part of the action.
The kittens below are part of a small family that was being shot at with BB guns! Three of four were rescued, all girls, friendly and outgoing. Dixie is black with a white spot on her chest. Pearl is a little silver and white monkey, ready to explore and have fun.
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Greg Harmon’s digital artwork is on display at Earth Fare through March. 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 six classes. Tuesdays, Apr. 10–May 15, 1–2 p.m. $30-40. 706-6133628, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ act One-on-One Computer Tutorials (Madison County Library) Call to set up an appointment with computer specialist Alisa Claytor. 706-795-5597 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 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 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 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) 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 Yoga Classes (Total Training Center) Ongoing classes offered in power lunch yoga, fluid power, yoga for health, yoga for athletes, gentle yoga and more. Check website for dates and times. 706-316-9000, www.totaltrainingcenter.com 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 6th Annual Nicholas Pope Memorial Golf Tournament (Lane Creek Golf Club) Tournament benefiting Extra Special People and Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes. BBQ, live bluegrass music and a silent auction to follow. Register online. Mar. 24, 2 p.m. $10 (dinner), $75 (tournament and dinner). www.extraspecialpeople.com Call for Volunteers (Athens, Ga) Volunteers, artists, food and drink vendors, musicians and silent auction donations needed for Renewal Art Show on Apr. 21 & 22. athensart4schools@gmail.com Call for Donations (OCAF) Seeking new or used items for its annual thrift sale Mar. 16 & 17. Benefit art programs and art education at OCAF. Check website for drop-off times. www.ocaf.com 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 Volunteer Bike Repair (Chase Street Warehouses) Help repair bikes at the Bike Recycling Program of BikeAthens. No experience necessary. Mondays and Wednesdays, 6-8:30 p.m. and Sundays, 2-4:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com
KIDSTUFF 22nd Annual “Give Wildlife a Chance” Poster Contest (State Botanical Garden) Artwork must portray Georgia nongame wildlife and plants. Any student in grades K-5 is eligible to participate. Call for more info. Entries due by Mar. 28. 706-542-6156, www. georgiawildlife.com, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Art Time (Lyndon House) 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) 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 Introduction to Disc Golf (East Athens Community Center) Participants will learn the basic skills, rules and strategies of disc golf. Ages 8-15. Register by Mar. 14. Thursdays beginning Mar. 22, 4–5 p.m. 706-613-3593, www.athens clarkecounty.com/eastathens 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 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 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 Ram Jam (Athens, Ga) A Battle of the Bands for local middle and high school students. Ten bands will battle for a top prize that includes cash, eight hours of studio time at Chase Park Transduction and a spot at AthFest. Bands can pick up an application at Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School or online at www.mdchs.org. Summer Camps (State Botanical Garden) Now registering for Garden Earth Nature Camp, Garden Explorers’ Camp and Sweet Pea Club Camp. Visit website for more details. www.botgarden.uga.edu Spring Programs (East Athens Community Center) Sports, homework help, teen groups and more are going on now and throughout the
spring. Call for more information. 706-613-3593 Summer Camps (Athens, Ga) ACC Leisure Services has a total of 45 summer camps for children and teens, ranging from traditional day camps to arts, sports, theater and even a zoo camp. Check online for complete list and registration info. 706-613-3625, www.athensclarke county.com/camps Spring Sports (Lay Park) Now registering for youth spring sports at Lay Park, including basketball, baseball and tennis. Ages 6–12. Call to register. 706-613-3596 Summer Camps (Good Dirt) Now registering for week-long clay camps for ages 4–18. Each week has a different theme. Check website for program descriptions. Call to regis-
ter. May 12–Aug. 6. $125-165. 706555-3161, www.gooddirt.net Spring Break Mini-Camp (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Each day participants will explore nature, make crafts and share a snack. Call to register. Mar. 14–16, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $20. 706-6133615, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ camps Spring 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 Teen Girls Club (East Athens Community Center) This program encourages cooperation, teamwork, good behavior and self-esteem in young women ages 10–18. Wednesdays, 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE!
ART AROUND TOWN AMICI ITALIAN CAFÉ (233 E. Clayton St.) Paintings by Lauren Dellaria. Through March. ANTIQUES AND JEWELS (290 N. Milledge Ave.) 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 unusual portraits 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 Athens 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 Apr. 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. Through Mar. 21. EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Digital artwork by Greg Harmon. Through March. 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.) “Responses in Time: Video Submissions to the Kress Project.” Through Mar. 18. • 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. • “A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery.” Through June 17. • “Pattern and Palette in Print: Gentry Magazine and a New Generation of Trendsetters” is a collaboration with undergraduate fabric design students at UGA that takes
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as its inspiration from Gentry magazine. Through June 17. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (East Campus Rd.) A collection of mounted game animals featuring lynxes, African leopards, Alaskan bears, water buffalo and elk, as well as live corn snakes, tarantulas, and other live animals. 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. HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (269 N. Hull St.) Works by Brock Gordon and Beth Kleene. Through March. JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) Large portraits by Lea Purvis and a collection of works by several local potters. JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE EASTSIDE (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) “Spontaneous Art Show” with works by Dan Smith aka See Dan Paint. Through April. JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE FIVE POINTS (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.) 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.) Convergence Artist Productions presents “Athfest Artist Market Preview,” including samples from Bob Davis, Frank Registrato, Ryan Myers and Caitlin Glennon. Through April. 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. Through Apr. 29. STRAND HAIR SALON (1625 S. Lumpkin St.) Paintings by Peter Thompson. Through March. TRANSMETROPOLITAN (145 E. Clayton St.) Wax encaustic paintings on pine board by Regina McCormick. Through March. 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 by Lois Curtis, Carter Wellborn, Peter Loose, Alpha Andrews, Betty Wansley and Annie Wellborn. Through April. WALKER’S COFFEE AND PUB (128 College Ave.) Photographs of acrylic paintings on skin by Lydia Hunt. Through March.
can be purchased at the Athens Welcome Center or online. Apr. 19–22. $25. www.atpilgrimage.com Heroes’ Breakfast (Red Cross Center) The Red Cross seeks to recognize local heroes who have made a difference in other people’s lives in the past year. Nominate someone by Mar. 15. Breakfast will be held on May 16. Email for nomination form. 706-353-4701, mrward@uga.edu Logo Competition (Athens, Ga) Submit designs for a logo for the 34th annual Athens Human Rights Festival. Visit website for more details. jeff@rubysuegraphics.com, athenshumanrightsfest.org March Moving for Montessori 5K/10K (Athens Montessori School) The races benefit the expansion of the school’s fitness path to encourage students to stay active. Register. Mar. 31, 8 a.m. (5K), 8:45 a.m. (10K). $15-50. www.athensmontessori.com Seeking Film Submissions (Athens, Ga) New Belgium Brewing is calling for filmmakers and videographers for its Clips of Faith tour. Upload your film to www.clipsoffaith. com by Apr. 16. Summer Jobs (Athens, Ga) ACC Leisure Services is hiring for 120 summer positions including camp counselors, lifeguards, park assistants and pool staff. 706-613-3090, www.athensclarkecounty.com/jobs Sprockets Music Video Competition (Athens, Ga) Film Athens is currently accepting submissions. The early deadline is Apr. 15, and the final deadline is Apr. 30. All accepted videos will be screened on June 16 at the 40 Watt Club, and the winners will be awarded at the Flagpole Music Awards Show on June 21. Visit website for details. sprockets@filmathens.net, www.filmathens.net/sprockets St. Catrick’s Day (The Athens Area Humane Society) Offering $30 male cat neuters from Mar. 12–22 for St. Catrick’s Day. 706-769-9155, www.athenshumanesociety.org Silhouette Cutouts (Avid Bookshop) Email to make an appointment with silhouette cutout artist, Keith Donaldson. Mar. 21, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. avid.athens.rachel@ gmail.com Tax Assistance (Oconee County Library) The AARP offers free help to all adults regardless of age or AARP affiliation. Mondays through Apr. 9, 1–4:30 p.m. 706-769-3950
SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, Ga) If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.com ANAD Support Group (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) New support group for individuals suffering from eating disorders. First and third Saturday of each month. 10 a.m. 678-612-2697, www.anad.org/ get-help/support-groups/georgia Athens Mothers’ Center Support Group (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Mothers’ support group. Children welcome. Dads welcome on Fridays. Tuesdays and Fridays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! athensga.motherscenter.org New Mamas Group (Full Bloom Center) Meet other new moms. Babies welcome. Thursdays, 10 a.m. FREE! 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com Wonderful Wednesdays (Athens, Ga) Adults with cognitive disabilities can learn leisure skills, community inclusion and exploration. Call for location. Every other Wednesday through Apr. 18, 10:30 a.m. $14. 706-613-3580 f
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3BR/1BA. Great remodeled brick home. HWflrs., tiled bath, yard, HVAC, laundry hookups, carport. Tons of storage. Safe, convenient subdivision. $635/mo. Eastside. Pets OK! Chris, (706) 338-3345. 305 Conrad Dr. 4BR/3BA, open kitchen & LR, lg. BRs, walk-in closets, covered porches, nice yd. Avail. Aug. 1. (706) 713-0626, newagepropertiesathens.com. 340 B Ruth St. 2BR/1BA, Hardwood & tile flrs., covered porch, sm. fenced yd., 1/2 mi. to Dwntn., $800/mo. Avail. Aug. 1, (706) 7130626 & newagepropertiesathens. com. 3BR/2BA completely remodeled house Dwntn. Walk to campus, Dwntn. & Greenway. W/D incl. Avail. Aug. 1. Pre-leasing for Fall. Only $1400/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957, AtlasRealEstateAdvisors.com. 4BR/4BA new Dwntn. Private baths, double porches, walk-in c l o s e t s , h a rd w o o d s . Wa l k everywhere! W/D & lawn maint. incl. Pre-leasing for Fall. Only $1900/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957. AtlasRealEstateAdvisors.com. 4BR/2BA Victorian home, renovated. 1/2 mi. from campus. Pre-leasing. W/D, DW, fenced yd., HW. $1700/mo. Huge rms.! Lots of character. Avail. 8/1. Pets OK. (706) 369-2908.
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Roommates 1 roommate needed. 4BR/2BA at University Apts. Currently 2 guys, 1 girl. $395/mo. covers everything. Individual lease. Bike or ride #12 to campus. Amenities. (704) 7792432.
Rooms for Rent Huge room for rent w/ private entry. $400/mo. Pay weekly or monthly. W/D, utils. incl. Bigger than master BR. (678) 698-4260. Mature students only. Spacious, fur nished BR. Quiet, near campus, kitchen, laundry privileges. Shared BA, priv. entrance, Internet access. No pets. $275/mo. incl. utils. (706) 353-0227.
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Pets Blue heeler female, free to good home, needs fenced in yard or rural setting. Shots current, 6 yrs. old, good dog. 706-401-0880 Boulevard Animal Hospital, Prince Ave. March special: free puppy or kitten exam w/ purchase of vaccines. Contact your favorite Athens Ga vet at (706) 425-5099 or www.downtownathensvet.com. $30 male cat neuters through Thursday, March 22, 2012. Make your appointment at Athens Area Humane Society’s Spay and Neuter Center by calling (706) 769-9155..
Equipment Nuçi’s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible. Call (706) 227-1515 or come by Nuçi’s Space, 396 Oconee St. We buy musical instruments & equipment every day! Guitars, drums, pro-sound & more. ( 7 7 0 ) 9 3 1 - 9 1 9 0 , w w w. m u s i c goroundlilburn.com. Huge, online inventory. We love trades! Come visit Music Go Round soon...
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Disclaimer! Flagpole does its best to scout out scams but we cannot guarantee. Be careful giving out personal information. Call to report scams, (706) 549-0301. Do you want to stop drinking alcohol? We are conducting a study on a medication for treating alcohol problems. Participation incl. 5 in-person assessments, incl. 4 sessions of individual outpatient treatment. There is no cost for treatment. You will be asked to take a medication or placebo on 2 occasions. Call (706) 542-8350 for more info. Earn up to $100 for research at UGA! If you meet either of these criteria, contact the EDP Lab (706) 542-3827 or ugafMRI@gmail.com. 1. Are you age 18 or above & have a BMI of 30 or higher? 2. Are you a female age 18 or above who binge eats & induces vomiting/uses laxatives at least 4 times/mo.? Earn up to $30 for completing 3 hr. study. Men & women between ages 18–65 needed. Call Personality Studies at UGA for initial phone screening (706) 583-0819, Reference Code B. Help wanted! Make money mailing b ro c h u re s f ro m h o m e ! F re e supplies! Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine opportunity. No exp. req’d. Start immediately! www.theworkhub.net (AAN CAN).
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Behind the Writer’s Desk
Parting Thoughts on Flagpole’s “Everyday People”
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uite possibly, Everyday People is important. Sure, it’s the light, closing feature of each week’s Flagpole, a goodnatured farewell until next week, an invitation to please come again. No matter how contentious the other columnists might have been in a particular issue, Everyday People seeks to please on some level. But that’s not all it does: behind the gentle facade of the Q&A format, Everyday People strikes right to the heart of our age and the people who live in it. I’ve been lucky enough to write the column over the past year. The experience has been a gift from Athens, and by describing my time with the column, it’s a gift that I hope to share. Everyday People is both new and old. It is rooted deeply in the career of the monumental Studs Terkel. While all of his work is relevant to this enterprise on some level, the 1974 Working is closest to the column. A prostitute, a stone mason, a baseball player and many others: on every level, as the book’s subtitle suggests, people talk about what they do. That’s it. The hand of Terkel, as an editor, is noticeable on every page, but his voice is nearly absent. Instead, each everyday person speaks for him- or herself. It’s a magic book that has a strange way of picking at stereotypes and showing that their truth and falsity are all rolled into one in a strange and variable bundle. Read it. The world will look different afterwards.
Even as it is grounded in the influence of attention makes life real, if self-consciousness Terkel, Everyday People is fresh. It is a small about experience enriches us as we pass member of a vast family tree of new media. It through it, then the centripetal structures of has its cousins in Youtube, the blogosphere modern fame should make us equally vexed.” and reality television. It is a part of a great Everyday People helps even the score. It wave of formats that seek to inspire personal focuses the collective eye of Athens on a gem connection between distant individuals. In the it might never have noticed otherwise. In its case of Everyday People, the scope is simply way, Everyday People makes the world a better much smaller. The idea is to connect Athens, place. to envelop the community in a vast web of But perhaps I am making too much of my fellow-feeling. humble column. While I can only offer conI recently perused Richard Lanham’s The jecture as to its greater sociocultural impact, Economics of Attention, and I was thrilled I can say definitively how transformative it to be able to conhas been for me. I have clude that, viewed both a reader I began to joke that Flagpole been on Lanham’s terms, and writer of Everyday Everyday People is a People. When I moved readers could trace the substantial source of to Athens three years column back to me simply positive social change. ago, I knew no one. In Lanham’s basic premise through the interviews I had my initial isolation, I is that attention—the began to notice how set up. focus of the public much brief moments of eye—is beginning to genuine communication take the place of capital in contemporary meant to me, no matter how small. Some light society. That is, money and stuff are less banter with a friendly store clerk could change important than having others pay attention to my day for the better. us (and our money and stuff). He laments the I also looked forward to reading Everyday uneven distribution of the scarce commodity People. It reminded me that life was rich and of attention: “Concentrating all the attention that all it would take for me to meet someone in a few hands, a world of celebrities, brings interesting was to leave the house. Two years the same misfortunes of maldistributed wealth later, I jumped at the chance to write the colwe know so well from good economics… If umn that had meant so much to me.
Within weeks of beginning, however, I began to notice some very unflattering things—things about myself. Searching for interview candidates, I realized how limited my scope of interaction was. I always shopped at the same places, walked or drove the same routes, went to the same bars, talked to the same friends. To make matters worse, everyone I knew was just like me on some level, and there were large swathes of Athens in which I had never spent any time. I began to joke that Flagpole readers could trace the column back to me simply through the interviews I had set up. I realized I had to expand my experience if I wanted not just to write a good column but to really get to know Athens. Everyday People has shown me, most importantly, that I have a tendency to limit myself. It’s not just me, though; everyone who has ever been busy or tired or preoccupied does the same thing. It seems easier to live habitually than to make the simple maneuvers necessary to have a richer life. I am the first to admit that I have no shortage of self-love, but Everyday People has shown me that being myself is not enough for me. I want to be my community, too. Emily Patrick Everyday People returns in next week’s Flagpole with its new writer, Melissa Hovanes, at the helm.
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TUESDAYS DRAFT NIGHT
Wells, Shooters, Wine chers & Miller Lite Drafts $2 Pints & $7 Pit
WEDNESDAYS BOMB NIGHT $3 Bombs
260 EAST WASHINGTON STREET • DOWNTOWN • 706-369-3040 • TOP OF JACKSON ST. • 12 STEPS FROM THE CORNER