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Through luck or the accrual of frequent-flyer miles at The Globe, I got a call asking if I would be an extra in a movie scene to be shot at the bar. The movie is Trouble With the Curve, and as you know by now, Clint Eastwood plays an aging baseball scout whose eyesight is failing to the point that he can’t really spot the talent anymore. He takes his daughter (Amy Adams, Junebug) along on a last recruiting trip, and in our scene she gets to know a young man (Justin Timberlake, The Social Network) in a bar. John Goodman (everything) is in the film somewhere, too. I was supposed to sign a confidentiality agreement that I wouldn’t “spoil” the suspense by revealing what happens in that bar in that brief scene. I think I only signed the pay voucher ($8 an hour plus overtime), but I’m not the kind of guy who would ruin your fun, anyway. Suffice it to say that the bar scene involves Justin and Amy (no Clint), a bluegrass band from Atlanta, some cloggers from all over and a bar full of people dressed in plaid and denim, camouflaging almost the entire Globe staff, all of the owner’s family, some longtime Globe customers, a popular ex-mayor, a local investment counselor, a bunch of musicians and perhaps some of The Globe’s creditors.

As the week went on, and shooting progressed at various downtown locations, being on the inside became a much appreciated perk. I guess I have pretty much worked through my guilt at being there instead of Flagpole editor and Film Notebook writer Dave Marr, who would have savored every nuance of what was going on in that room and would have recognized all the famous talent operating behind the camera It is amazing that as well as in front of it.

That Wednesday, an hour an industry as after we got signed in around glamorous as movies 4:30 p.m. and got our plaid shirts, they called “Lunch,” can be so tedious. and fed us a smorgasbord of New York strip, chicken breast, blackened fish, fried jumbo shrimp, andouille-sausage pasta, a medley of vegetables, salads, pie, cake, bread pudding, ice cream. Fortified, we headed up to the holding area in the Georgia Theatre lobby. Eventually, I found myself at my favorite window table in The Globe, sitting across from one of the owner’s sisters. The Globe played its favorite role—a bar full of people. Their waitfolks circulated, replenishing the water in our beer bottles as we mouthed make-believe conversations, and between takes we hung out, discreetly watching the stars.

It is amazing that an industry as glamorous as movies can be so tedious. It is also a pleasure to watch people doing something they know how to do, even if you don’t know what they’re doing or why they’re doing it. What was going on inside The Globe just looked like very assured, competent, low-key people concentrating on their work. And that included Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake. They were working, and they focused on it with zero histrionics: two actors creating characters and hanging out between takes. You could see how much of their working life must involve just waiting with other actors and the occasional hair touchup.

The crew shot the whole scene with one camera. When from time to time they halted proceedings to move the setup, they’d send us back to the Georgia Theatre. As we came out of The Globe, there were crowds on the sidewalk, held back by the hardworking police. Everybody was watching the bar, hoping for a glimpse of one of the stars. I realized that a wiry, hardbitten older guy leaving The Globe could cause some false anticipation, but fortunately nobody mistook me for Clint.

Well, it was a lot of fun and very interesting, being on the inside, especially watching the cameraman dance the Steadicam in amongst the cloggers, which by then included Adams and Timberlake. (She’s a pretty good clogger.) She probably strolled around downtown the next day unnoticed in spite of her incredible acting chops. Poor Justin, unfortunately, got barricaded inside Wuxtry by a pursuing gang of teenage girls.

Inside The Globe, though, everybody was cool.

The crew wrapped it up at The Globe around 11:30 p.m., just before overtime. We turned in our shirts and our pay vouchers and headed out for a real beer, sure that we’d pay more attention to the extras next time we’re at the movies.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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Bad Plan for Prince TSPLOST will be very bad for Prince Avenue. Officially called the Transportation Improvement Act, TSPLOST calls for widening Prince Avenue to provide for two five-foot bike lanes. The number of lanes for cars will stay the same, and the street will be widened by 10 feet. (The budget for Prince Avenue includes a million dollars for right-of-way acquisition.) The grass, trees and on-street parking will have to be removed, except perhaps for a bicycle detour around Normaltown.

Traffic speeds will increase, and crosswalks will be even more treacherous. The same thing will be done to North Avenue and the Lexington Highway.

This cookie-cutter proposal by the Georgia Department of Transportation may very well be done without advice from our local government, which has had no input into the design. Our experience with SPLOST indicates that once we vote for it, we’ve got it, with no modifications allowed. So much for the Prince Avenue Corridor Study!

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packages to prevent the hemorrhaging of government jobs during this crisis, would we be farther along?

Given the fact that steady private sector job growth has been offset by losses in the government sector for nearly two years now, the answer is most likely, yes: we would have been farther along. So, here is to hoping that President Obama and the Democrats finally start to stand up to the GOP and advocates of austerity. Here is to hoping that the Democrats start to use the facts to educate and engage the American working classes to what will happen to our economy if we allow the GOP to take over again.

Sean Gillan Athens

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Please help protect our native fish! A bill to allow the use of non-native, exotic tilapia in lakes to feed trophy fish passed the Senate.

The bill (SB 360) is now in the House (the House Game, Fish and Parks committee).

Tilapia (“kudzu fish”) will escape into our streams and out-compete our bluegills and bream. Please contact the house committee to ask them to say NO to SB 360.

Here’s what the Georgia River Network says: “The rearing of certain species and hybrids of tilapia, a non-native, exotic fish species Austerity is a scary word we only seem to hear in reference to European financial probin Georgia, in aquaculture operations and for use in ponds and lakes as feed for trophy fish, lems. Here in the U.S.A. the champions of such as largemouth austerity use phrases bass. The bill aims like job creators, to declare them as balancing the budget, BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: cutting spending. ‘domestic’ in Georgia.

Scientific studies The GOP is nothing if If You Don’t Talk to Your Cat warn that if tilapia not brilliant when it About Catnip, Who Will? are reared in aquacomes to semantics. culture operations Yet let us call a dog Thanks, Jessica. Send sticker sightings to and/or introduced a dog. Mitt Romney letters@flagpole.com. and the rest of the to Georgia’s ponds or lakes for trophy GOP are in fact chamfish to feed on they pions of austerity.

Even faced with the evidence of what austerity will escape to our natural rivers and streams.

A study at the University of Georgia found measures have done in the European financial markets, they continue to beat this drum. The that these non-native, exotic fish will survive temperatures above mid-50 degrees F, a temEuropean austerity advocates used the same rhetoric we hear in the U.S.A. from the right. perature that assures their survival in eight Cutting spending and reducing deficits would out of 10 South Georgia winters and in any revive slumping economies by restoring faith spring-fed portion of a river or warm-water and confidence in the investment markets and discharge. These fish will adapt and reproduce job creators. So, right wing politicians like and become an invasive species that will outMerkel and Cameron in cahoots with the IMF, compete our native fishes, such as bluegills, slashed spending all across the EU. bream and other panfish.”

Well it turns out when you pull huge sums Liz Conroy of money out of an economy during a major Athens recession businesses end up without customers! Thankfully, in the U.S.A. we ended up with a pragmatic president during this crisis.

While President Obama’s administration did cower in the face of Republican opposition I was driving down historic Lumpkin Street and cut into stimulus packages far more than and noticed young women looking for fourthey should have, at least we did not go the leaf clovers. Those girls weren’t born when GOP path of hardline austerity measures.

Sandra Lee Phipps shot the trestle for R.E.M.’s Compared to the U.K., faring worse than they Murmur album. She says she doesn’t remember did during the Great Depression or God forbid where it is, anymore. Maybe the trestle or the Portugal that followed Merkel’s and the IMF’s steeple can’t be saved. Yet, students still do instructions to the letter only to end up in a things from the past like looking for four-leaf far bigger hole, the U.S.A. has actually expeclovers. Perhaps the trestle and the steeple rienced controlled growth in the last year. verify the notion John Greenleaf Whittier The question now is where would we be if the expressed: “That all the good the past has had Obama administration had shown more spine remains to make our own times glad.” and stood up for working-class Americans in Lois Player the face of the GOP assault. Had they actuAthens ally thrown enough money into the stimulus

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Just Two Cents: The less said here the better Occupy does them a favor by crudely insisting about Jim Thompson’s rough week as Athens on public meetings, that’s why the mayor does Banner-Herald editorial page editor, during them a favor by repeatedly claiming that the which his poor decision not to publish a series developer’s plans meet code and there’s nothof “Doonesbury” comic strips about Texas’ ing the government can do to influence them, mandatory-transvaginal-ultrasounds law for and that’s why the ABH does them a favor fear that readers might think it had something by focusing so much attention on misguided to do with pending anti-abortion legislation protests and letting Selig’s PR flack frame the in Georgia (which, of course, it does) was first issue. lambasted locally, then ridiculed nationally, Fortunately, reality is still on the side of then reversed. Jim has already dwelled on it those who want to see the development propmore than sufficiently in the ABH’s own pages, erly integrated with the rest of the city. The devoting last Saturday’s entire op-ed page to designs we’ve seen are going to have to be his reflections on the subject. But, whenever a heavily altered if Selig wants to avoid going situation arises that so dramatically addresses to the ACC Commission for major zoning varithe responsibilities of the local press, and specifically those pertaining to its editorial/opinion functions, it merits acknowledgment here.

Jim did what he could to make things right in the end and pretty much owned up to his mistake, except for a little hedging that deserves a response before we drop the whole thing into the bin marked “lessons learned.” First, the much-repeated rationalization that access to the strips was provided through a link on the ABH website is fully irrelevant to the issue. The problem was not the degree of difficulty readers would have in seeing the strips because of Jim’s editorial decision; it was the substance of the decision itself, and the fact that it was made at all.

The same goes for the red herring about how allegedly Seen around town… or perhaps in a bizarre, terrifying dream. similar decisions about what to put in the paper and what not to are made every day, without anyone raising ances, no matter what the mayor says. And if a fuss. That’s ludicrous. For all the definition the commissioners can withstand the politiwe need of the difference between editing cal pressure to grant those variances that is and censorship, we may as well turn to Justice the overarching purpose of Selig’s sustained Potter Stewart’s rule of thumb for pornograPR campaign, they’ll be in position to use the phy: we know it when we see it. law to do what’s right for this community.

And Another Thing: The Dope promises this column isn’t turning into a forum for weekly Thompson-bashing—we’re pals, really!—but while we’re quibbling with Jim’s editorials, it’s worth bringing up a point he made recently about the negative effects of Occupy Athens on the local conversation surrounding the proposed Selig development. Jim’s suggestion that the theatrical behavior of about a dozen people with an admittedly limited grasp of the nuances of the situation may have “brought an end to any potential negotiation” on Selig’s part over the specifics of the project seems a little like wishful thinking, given the enthusiasm with which he’s repeatedly tried to “stick a fork in” opposition to the plan in recent months. It also contains the false assumption that there has ever been the potential for negotiation with Selig, or that negotiation with Selig is an avenue worth pursuing to make the development into something compatible with its surroundings.

There is one way for that to happen, and only one: Selig must be held to existing zoning, planning and design standards. To push any other narrative is to assist Selig in its efforts to paint any insistence on compliance as unreasonable and meddling; that’s why

Ride the Rails: One of the public assets that would be most negatively affected by the Selig development as designed is the planned Firefly Trail, a rail-to-trail bicycle and pedestrian path that will begin on East Broad Street (alongside what Selig currently envisions as a whole lot of deck parking) and is eventually supposed to span 39 miles, all the way to Union Point, GA. The Firefly Trail, Inc. is a new nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness and money for the project, which is already partially funded by SPLOST revenues. The group— along with a host of other organizations and public and private entities—is sponsoring its first event Saturday, Mar. 24: a group bike ride along the trail’s proposed route, which follows the historic Georgia Railroad.

Signup for “Ticket to Ride” begins at 8 a.m. at Jittery Joe’s Roasting Co. on East Broad (with free parking in the Classic Center deck), and the ride starts at 9. Participants can choose to ride distances ranging from 13 to 78 miles; it’s free but donations to the nonprofit are much appreciated. Go to www. fireflytrail.com or find the group on Facebook to find out more.

Dave Marr news@flagpole.com

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capitol impact Be Honest About Taxes It’s difficult to be an honest person in today’s General Assembly. One of the lawmakers who has learned that is Rep. Jay Powell (R-Camilla), an attorney who had the radical idea that the Legislature should actually spend the taxpayers’ money as state law says it should be spent. Powell tried to make the General Assembly be honest about the way it spends money when he introduced HB 811.

This bill would have ended the practice of taking funds that are collected to pay for a specific government program and using those dollars for an entirely different purpose.

This has been going on for years with the fees and fines that the state ostensibly collects to pay for such services as disposing of discarded tires, cleaning up hazardous waste sites and providing driver training courses for teenagers.

For the past few years, as legislators have struggled to balance the budget, that money has been diverted from the programs on which state law says it must be spent and instead has been used in other areas.

The cost of these diversionary tactics was detailed last summer in a state audit of “Joshua’s Law,” a statute enacted in 2005 to collect traffic fines intended to pay for driver education programs for teenagers. Of the $57 million collected under Joshua’s Law, auditors found that just $8 million had actually been used for driver training purposes. The other $49 million was diverted into unrelated budget areas. Since 2009, according to the audit, the entire $32 million collected for driver education purposes had been diverted by legislators into the general budget.

This fund diversion has been criticized by several interest groups, notably the city and county governments that get stuck with the job of cleaning up tire dumps and hazardous waste sites because the state money that is supposed to pay for it has been sent elsewhere.

Powell’s bill would have required the General Assembly either to use the fees for their legally stated purpose or reduce the fees accordingly.

“There is no reason to collect a fee for a service you are not providing,” Powell said.

The House of Representatives, to its credit, voted 151-5 to pass Powell’s bill and send it along to the state Senate. Over in the Senate, HB 811 was buried. A Senate subcommittee added an amendment to Powell’s bill that said the General Assembly would only be required to reduce the fees that are being diverted when the money in the state’s reserve fund is equal to at least 7 percent of the yearly tax collections—which is more than $1.1 billion.

The reserve fund is well short of $1.1 billion at this time. In fact, state reserves have exceeded that level just once in the past two decades. What this means is that the Senate revised Powell’s bill to make it nearly impossible to stop the diversion of taxpayer funds.

The senators involved said it was more important for the General Assembly to retain the ability to deal with budget shortfalls.

“In a crisis, we were not going to tie our hands,” said Sen. Greg Goggans (R-Douglas.

In the context of an $18 billion state budget, we are not talking about a lot of money here. The various fees that are being diverted collectively amount to around $40 million a year.

It is a question of doing what is morally right. If lawmakers need help with the budget, they should be honest about it. Either increase state taxes or cut state services until you balance the budget. Don’t sneak around by the back door.

“It is disgraceful how the General Assembly has deceived the citizens of Georgia,” said Rep. Al Williams (D-Midway).

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athens rising What’s Up in New Development Andrés Duany, a founder and champion of New Urbanism, swung into town a couple of weeks back, leading a standing-roomonly crowd of students and faculty, along with some local citizens and dignitaries, on a fairly nuanced and academic exploration of how his thoughts had evolved given the challenges of the recession, as well as other coalescing viewpoints in the urban planning discourse. Duany’s lecture was a snapshot of his thinking, and he let the audience in on stories about his research, his ongoing and invigorating feud with another cohort of urban planners headquartered at Harvard, and his thoughts about what makes political change difficult.

At the end of his talk, he did throw a bone to those concerned one way or the other about the prospects of a downtown Walmart, essentially by acknowledging that it’s more complicated than it appears. Of course, people (and daily newspapers in particular) will jump on quotes like “Walmart can be an asset,” without really recognizing that that is coming from arguably the Father of Form-Based Code, who has done more than anyone else to change urban planning over the last 30 years by arguing that it is the design, not the use, that really matters to creating successful cities. So, yes, that use can be an asset, provided it is designed well, but as many around town have pointed out, this one is not, failing to meet many significant local zoning regulations, despite the Banner-Herald’s dismissal of those laws as trivial issues.

And likewise, reports of New Urbanism’s abandonment by Duany have been greatly exaggerated by the Banner-Herald: what Duany described was not that “he’s abandoned New Urbanism,” but that he’s sought new models on which to base modern Urbanism.

New Urbanism has traditionally relied on the 1920s-era American streetcar suburb as a basis, and Duany suggested that Mormon settlement of the West, which involved sending whole towns of diversely skilled individuals and families to create new communities, was how the West was won, noting that the ghost

towns the region is known for were bad settlements designed to fail from the start. “Fifty miners and two whores,” Duany noted, is not a recipe for a long-lasting community, given that it is predominately males of a single occupation and thus has no way to grow or evolve. On the other hand, those successful 1870s settlements, he implied, could be a new pattern for an ultimately more resilient New Urbanism. Of course, in either case, those historical forms are only inspiration, and must be fused with modern concerns to create new models: new urbanisms.

Shopping and Main Streets were essential components of that 1920s-inspired version of New Urbanism, and what Duany noted the Recession had revealed was that retail consumption was only one of many ways to rebuild a sense of community and place.

Gardening was but one example to which he pointed as another possibility for developing community. It’s arguable that Athens has based itself upon the shared enjoyment of music and art. Perhaps there are many more community-building activities out there that have the potential for environmentally and socially sustainable community creation, and it seems like that’s where Duany’s been headed.

The notion of “resilience” is the emergent successor to “sustainability” in the conversation about responsible design, with natural and economic disasters causing thinkers and communities to look at local models and reevaluate the promises of globalization. While Duany didn’t mention the concept directly, its influence showed through, particularly in his discussion of what he calls “Agrarian Urbanism,” with the mention of solar panels, composting and home production of food as ways to offset the negative impacts of the suburban lifestyle.

New Urbanism is a response to climate change, first and foremost, with sacrifices made in the city that ultimately benefit the rural hinterlands. It ultimately also follows a familiar pattern in the relationship between people and the environment in this country.

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1920s-era streetcar suburbs with pedestrian-scaled and connected commercial streets served as the inspiration for New Urbanist planning and design. Has Selig misrepresented those ideas by using them to sell a sixstory, windowless Walmart and parking garage?

There is a clear demarcation between the orderly, urban and human domain and the wild nature beyond. New Urbanism, with its goals of density in the city to avoid sprawl in the country, to some degree exists within that structure, and ultimately has little to say about the suburban landscape. What his concept of Agrarian Urbanism, and urban-rural transects, what Duany has attempted to do is to bridge that gap, analyzing and proposing more fluid shifts from urban to rural, and social to natural environments.

It is diversity and complexity that Duany finds to be the potential common currency, though, between ecological and social concerns. The best cities are dynamic places, highly integrated and connected, with all kinds of people, places and experiences at a comprehensible scale. More and more frequently, we’ve looked to the language of ecology to describe those interactions, and perhaps that will allow us better to integrate environmental concerns into planning models.

Recognizing the complexity of situations will also be the way to overcome the specialization that Duany sees as the greatest barrier

to change. When groups with similar overall goals—the ultimate health and resilience of their community—define success or failure in very narrow terms, be they bike lanes or dark skies, economic development or parking, it precludes the more holistic discussion necessary actually to address the problem.

All sorts of companies borrow all sorts of language as marketing gimmicks, whether it’s sugary breakfast cereal called “healthy” or bad development called “sustainable”—enough to result in the term “greenwashing” entering into common usage. Do a few apartments sprinkled over a Walmart supercenter or a faux Main Street floating above the city on a massive parking garage really constitute wellintegrated, environmentally sensitive community development?

With complexity, form and resilience as the key concerns in mind, I think we can do a better job of understanding how, exactly, Selig’s development fails to measure up so far, and how it can made into a healthy contributor to the city.

Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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they deserve no credit for their various contributions to our infant republic, but covering up that fact simply clouds our understanding of how slavery managed to hang around so long in a nation ostensibly dedicated to freedom and equality.

The proposed bill’s off-kilter references to slavery barely scratch the surface in revealing its manifold inaccuracies and unsubstantiated generalizations about the often complex and by no means consistently orthodox attitudes of our early leaders toward religion, “free enterprise” and the “democratic process.”

There is also reason for concern in its rigidly prescribed, severely front-loaded version of American history, which leans so heavily on the first six presidential administrations that only two of the documents it stipulates for inclusion in the accepted curriculum appear to bear directly on events that transpired after 1832. There is also the provision that “instruction, activities, and curricula in United States history, particularly in the high school curriculum, shall be taught chronologically…”

History is more than a mere succession of events. It typically happens across broad expanses of time and not necessarily in linear fashion. Students may like the idea of simply memorizing the main events of each year

from 1776 to 1787, but such an approach promises little in the way of a comprehensive understanding of developments such as “growing dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation,” a mandated point of emphasis in SB 426.

The framers came up with a pretty remarkable document in 1787, but surely not even their most ardent admirers could credibly contend that either they or the words they put to page actually anticipated the many roadblocks and circuitous detours that our nation would encounter on its way to where we are now, any more than the most prescient currently among us (Are you listening, Newt?) have the faintest clue about what things will be like in the year 2237. Regardless of whether it best serves the agenda of Glenn Beck or Jesse Jackson, to institutionalize such a one-dimensional and misinformed narrative of the past based on a heavily ideological perspective on the present is to encumber future generations with a version of history that they may hardly recognize, much less find instructive.

James C. Cobb An earlier version of this harangue ran on Maureen Downey’s excellent blog at the AJC. If you go over there, don’t miss the comments. They include such gems as: “Well, at least Cobb had the decency to name his blog appropriately—Cobbloviate indeed.

To say that Cobb is a bit ‘full of himself’ is an understatement. Holy cow.”

New Venture: Downtown shop of wonders Agora has been a hot spot for vintage and designer fashion, accessories, home decor and other miscellaneous knick-knacks for many years, but is now adding a whole other side to its operations. Business owner Airee Hong Edwards, with the assistance of seamstress Lindsey Suminic, is launching a fashion line out of the store that will use vintage fabrics and clothes to reconstruct unique looks. The first opportunity to see the new designs in person will be at the premiere, “Worn in the U.S.A.,” at the 40 Watt Club on Thursday, Mar. 22 at 7 p.m. The fashion show will include four sub-themes: romantic, avantgarde, Aztec and American.

“We hope to highlight the fact that America is made great by the diversity of its people and the incredible variety of threads they contribute to create the tapestry of American culture,” says Edwards.

A suggested contribution of $7 at the door will benefit Freedom University and the Athens Latino Center for Education and Services (ALCES), two local organizations that provide classes for Athens’ Latino community.

The show will be catered by local Latino restaurants and will be followed by a dance party with DJ Z Dog. Bryan Redding

In the 43 years that the Ol’ Bloviator has taught United States history in both state universities and the public schools, he has done his dead-level best to resist the temptation to turn his lectern into a “bully pulpit” for proselytizing his own political gospel according to James. Not surprisingly, the OB also gets his back up when others, with no particular preparation in the field but a truckload of ideological axes to grind, attempt to prescribe both the content of historical curricula and the lessons that are to be drawn from them. A textbook example of such an effort to control the textbooks is Georgia Senate Bill 426, introduced by Sen. William Ligon (R., Brunswick) and others and currently under subcommittee review.

“The Teach Freedom Act” seeks to “modify requirements for instruction” in U.S. history and other related social studies disciplines. In keeping with the spirit of a similar initiative launched with Tea Party backing in Tennessee, this legislation is premised on the belief that “a positive understanding of American history and government is essential to good citizenship.” The problem from the get-go here is that the bill seeks a positive understanding rather than an informed one. Hence, it would require teachers to impart “an understanding of the mandate of the British government that required slavery in the colonies and the actions of various Founders who always opposed slavery, as well as early civic and religious movements to end slavery, and the self-correcting constitutional language the Founders included to allow the nation to end the institution of slavery… ” This item is particularly distressing because it suggests first of all that the sponsors of this bill are themselves poorly informed of the history of their own state.

If there was a British “mandate” requiring slavery in the colonies, how was it that in 1735 the House of Commons passed a resolution affirming the initial decision of Georgia’s Trustees to ban slavery in the colony?

Likewise, the “self-correcting constitutional language” supposedly drafted by the Founders “to allow the nation to end the institution of slavery” actually applied not to slavery itself, but to “the Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit,” i.e., the international slave trade, and even then it prevented Congress from taking action against that trade for the next 20 years. President Thomas Jefferson supported the act of Congress that forbade further international commerce in human property after 1808, but for all his public display of angst over the issue, like several of the other founding fathers who are described in SB 426 as “always opposed to slavery,” he proved extremely reluctant to free more than a few of his own bondsmen.

Ironically, in combination with the rising demand for labor sparked by the introduction of the cotton gin in 1793, the ban on further importation of Africans actually helped to boost slave prices, thereby proving quite the financial boon for Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and other slave-holding presidents and prominent statesmen. The fact that these men held slaves does not mean that

ahead of time at Cheeky Peach or Salon Lux for $8, or at the door the night of for $10. For more information, visit www.cheekypeachathens.com.

Packrat Paradise: Whether you happen to have a lot of plastics piling up in your home or are of the dumpster-diving sort, ATHICA is currently accepting designers and models for a “Trashion Fashion Show” showcasing wearable art and ensembles made from upcycled materials. Upcycling, a process through which waste materials are transformed into creations with higher value, is distinct from recycling in that no energy is expended while converting raw materials into new products. The fashion show is in conjunction with ATHICA’s upcoming exhibition, “Upcycle,” and will take place during the opening reception, which happens to coincide with Earth Day, on Sunday, Apr. 22 at 4:30 p.m. Celebrity judges will award prizes to contestants based not only on the style of their outfits but by the un-recyclable nature of the materials used. Turn your garbage into garb and email trashyfash@athica. org by Sunday, Apr. 15 to participate.

Visit www.athica. org for details.

Chic for Cheap: In case you missed it, the department of textiles, merchandising and interiors of the UGA Flip a Coin. Tails, College of Family You Head Here: and Consumer That same evening, Sciences recently Hope Haven of held its first Northeast Georgia, annual fashion a nonprofit that week, complete provides services with a historic to over 100 adults clothing exhibit, with developmenfashion films, a tal disabilities in seminar with a the area, will hold professional stylist its own annual and three separate fashion show fashion shows. called “Threads UGA Fashion Week Agora will launch its new fashion line a the 40 Watt on Mar. has come and of Hope” at the 22 with its “Worn in the U.S.A.” show.

Athens Country gone, but you can Club. Festivities still get a sample kick off at 6 p.m. with cocktails, heavy hors of emerging trends and handmade items on d’oeuvres, a silent auction and a raffle; the campus at Couture a-la-Cart. The kiosk, a models will take the runway at 7:30 p.m. pop-up retail shop designed, built and operTickets are $50 per person and go towards ated by fashion merchandising students, sells providing day habitation, employment opporclothing and accessories created by young tunities, respite care and support for individudesigners on consignment. The shop plans on als with developmental disabilities. For more setting up every Tuesday and Wednesday from information, visit www.hopehaven.net.

11 a.m.–3 p.m. outside of Dawson Hall until Apr. 24. For more information, email coutureAnd Another: Cheeky Peach (voted Athens’ alacart@gmail.com.

Favorite Local Clothing Boutique by Flagpole readers this year) will host a “Wild Romance Down the Line: The GMOA will present “Dress Fashion Show” on Wednesday, Apr. 4, 6–10 the Part: Fashion in Movies and Magazines p.m., in the Rialto Room of Hotel Indigo.

Film Series” in conjunction with the newSalon Lux will be onsite to style hair and est exhibition, “Pattern and Palette in Print: makeup, and Cheeky Peach’s latest spring and Gentry Magazine and a New Generation of summer trends will be worn by models from Trendsetters.” The series includes a screening UGA’s in-house modeling agency, UGAgency, of Bill Cunningham New York on Thursday, as well as by several ladies in leadership posiApr. 12, Funny Face on Thursday, Apr. 19 and tions from various campus organizations. All The September Issue on Thursday, Apr. 26. All proceeds benefit the Cancer Foundation of films begin at 7 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Northeast Georgia, a local charity that helps Auditorium. For film synopses, visit www.georcancer patients and their families pay medical giamuseum.org. bills and other expenses incurred during the onset of treatment. Tickets can be purchased Jessica Smith misc@flagpole.com

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Open Dialogue or Closed Doors?

Selig’s Private “Community Meetings”

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elig Enterprises, the Atlanta developer proposing a contentious mixed-use development on Oconee Street in downtown Athens, has refused to meet in an open public forum to talk about its plans.

But it’s more than willing to share its details with small, select groups of community members. Those groups have included local pastors and politicians, businesspeople and board members from neighborhood-based organizations, and have ranged in size from seven or eight attendees to a dozen or more.

At many of the meetings, Selig representatives—often Scott Selig, vice president of acquisitions and development, and Jo Ann Chitty, senior vice president—came with a PowerPoint presentation and addressed specific topics relevant to the group gathered before them.

But according to Athens residents who attended the meetings, the focus was different at each one, and sometimes, it appears, the answers to certain questions were inconsistent from meeting to meeting. Some attendees left the meetings with information that wasn’t entirely correct, according to their recollections of meeting details.

Chitty said the small gatherings, held in late January and into February, were simply opportunities to meet with concerned residents and local leaders. “We do that so we can actually have a dialogue with people,” she said, “because we wanted to hear what people had to say.”

But the formats of the meetings and the carefully selected nature of the groups bothered Athens Area Habitat for Humanity Director Spencer Frye, who attended one of the meetings. Frye is a Democratic primary challenger to State Representative Keith Heard, who has publicly supported the project.

“What bothers me about a lot of this stuff is what they’re saying to get the project moving forward [in] the community,” he said, “and there’s no accountability for that. Is it a good business strategy? Yes. Is it right? No, I don’t

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think it’s right. There’s no accountability for anything they say.”

Paying to Park?

In addition to its “anchor” space, which according to Selig representatives’ public statements and published plans will be a 94,000-square-foot big-box retail store, likely a Walmart, the development also includes residential units atop retail and restaurant space, as well as a 1,150-space parking deck. Chitty told Flagpole the design calls for between 200 and 230 apartments. At the meeting Frye attended, Selig representatives told those in attendance that 180 of 200 apartments would be “single family,” and that tenants wouldn’t be allowed to park in the parking garage on UGA football gamedays. At another meeting that included representatives of the East Athens Development Corporation, Selig said 70 percent of the apartments would be one-bedroom and 30 percent would be two-bedroom, rented at “market rates.”

Frye said he was told that anyone who parked in the deck on non-gamedays would get one hour of free parking before they were charged. “They didn’t really define a clear plan for any sort of voucher system for shopping,” said Frye, who said the meeting he attended included a handful of others active in local politics, including his fellow 2010 ACC mayoral candidate Charlie Maddox and former state representative and one-time Georgia Democratic Party Chair Jane Kidd. “They said they would have ‘parking ambassadors’… What happens to all the people of East Athens when all of a sudden they’re forced to pay to shop at this downtown grocery store? They’re not going to go there. And by then, it will be too late.”

Winston Heard, executive director of the East Athens Development Corporation, said Selig representatives told his group in January that there would be “controlled parking” on

gamedays, with time limits on parking on other days. “They may have two-hour parking and they would have… a validation, or vouchers… Now, interestingly enough, that’s why they said there would be a fee, so students couldn’t just park there and walk to campus.”

Chitty said the developer was not yet involved in parking lot issues, and wasn’t ready to commit to a paid parking model.

“That’s going to be an operational issue and we’re not there yet in our planning,” she said.

“We just talked about how other retail centers have worked, and that’s something we’re considering.” But, she said AAA Parking, a Selig subsidiary that operates more than 200 for-profit parking facilities nationwide, will probably manage the development’s two parking decks, one beneath the anchor space and one serving the other tenants of the complex.

“That’s the likely thing that will happen,” she said. “A lot of that depends on the tenants.”

She would not speculate on what tenants Selig is seeking to fill out the development.

She also said she wasn’t aware of another Walmart with paid parking, although she cited the Publix at Atlantic Station in Atlanta, where the store gives vouchers to shoppers to reimburse them after paying for parking.

Along with the multi-story parking deck beneath the anchor, some have expressed concerns to Selig about traffic on Oconee and other surrounding streets, but the results of a traffic study, which Selig has to submit to local and state transportation officials as part of the permitting process for the development, have not been released months after it was ordered. At a meeting attended by Alvin Sheats, executive director of the Hancock Community Development Corporation and a former Athens-Clarke County commissioner, Selig representatives said the study was “being done, but nobody wanted to elaborate on it.”

Rosa Thurmond, an East Athens Development Corporation board member, also left the meeting she attended with unanswered questions about the study.

Chitty said the traffic study is still in progress. “We’re still in the design and planning phase. We’re getting close on it, but we have to have the design pretty much complete before the traffic study is finalized.”

Traffic on Oconee Street is one issue that gnaws at Bob Sleppy, who deals with it every day—and sees it out his window—from his office across the street from the proposed development at Nuçi’s Space, the local nonprofit musicians’ resource center where Sleppy serves as executive director.

Sleppy and several other Athens residents hosted an early-January meeting with Selig representatives, attended by about 40 community members, to express their mounting concerns about the project. The overcrowded Oconee Street, he said, was near the top of the list.

“I can almost tell time [by] how traffic is backed up. It’s a daily occurrence to see traffic backed up from the Loop to downtown at the end of the day,” he said. “You can’t put 1,200 parking spaces there and say you’re not encouraging vehicle traffic… Oconee Street is already over its capacity, so without a solid plan on how to address that, in my opinion, it’s unacceptable.”

Mixed-Use Details While it has never been announced that Walmart has formally agreed to be the development’s anchor tenant, Selig representatives spent time at several meetings explaining what jobs a Walmart might bring. “My understanding is, they would still be open to another tenant,” said Sheats, “but Walmart is the only one willing to play ball right now.”

The development also includes space for other stores and restaurants, though. At the meeting he attended Frye said, Selig representatives stated the tenant mix would include upscale clothing stores such as Banana Republic and Aeropostale. Janice Mathis, an

attorney and activist who attended a January revenue—about $400,000, with $600,000 meeting with Selig at East Friendship Baptist going to the Clarke County School District— Church, said representatives mentioned some wouldn’t be enough to bring down millage possible tenants, but she said she did not rates. recall specifics. “They showed us the stores and the townhouses that will be on top of those particular shops, and the Walmart building—they did say it was not finalized, as far as Walmart coming,” said Mathis, Sheats and Heard said in their line of work, who attended the meeting as part of Athens the key issue for the project is jobs. Both men Community Agenda, a local civil rights group. help people in their neighborhoods to find “They did name some other stores that [they work, and a development that would temposaid] were committed.” Selig has not publicly rarily employ 500 during construction, then confirmed any tenants for the development. bring 300–350 permanent jobs, according to Other residents questioned whether the Selig’s estimates, would be a way to help more mixed-use development would affect their people out of poverty. “There is an opportuproperty taxes. At a February Athens-Clarke nity to do a couple of things,” said Heard.

County Mayor and Commission meeting, two “One, from a job-creation standpoint, and residents spoke about increased county revtwo, from an accessibility standpoint of peoenues from the development possibly reducple in this community to goods and services.” ing property taxes for ACC homeowners. But, He cited the small stores in East Athens’ Thurmond said her main concern about the Triangle Plaza, noting that a mother from the proposed development, along with traffic, was nearby Nellie B housing complex would pay whether it would cause her property taxes half as much for diapers at Walmart as she to go up. “I was interested in whether our would by going to the corner store. property taxes would increase.” she said. In In the short term, Heard and Sheats noted her experience living in Athens, property taxes the initial construction jobs could go to those have a tendency to “scoot up” in areas near in Athens’ poor and minority communities—or major developments. “Their response was that not. “There were some questions that arose it was a different type of tax, that it would (about) minority participation in the construction,” said Heard. “That came up in the meetnot affect our property tax.” ing and I believe the answer to that was there Sheats said in the “two or three” meetings would be a preference to any qualified minorhe attended, Selig representatives “said it ity in [hiring for] the project, to make sure should help to relieve pressure on homeownthere is ample participation. Now, of course, ers, which should be a plus.” And while Selig at the end of the day, it’s who is applying. never promised homeowners’ property taxes But, that’s a concern of this community would go down, he said, “that was my underbecause of the chronic poverty.” standing—that… it would decline property Athens has one of the highest poverty taxes.” rates for a metropolitan area of its size in the In an interview with Flagpole, Chitty nation—39 percent had an income below the declined to comment on what effect the poverty level as of development might 2009, according to the have on property “You can’t put 1,200 parking U.S. Census Bureau— taxes. “I’m not the tax spaces there and say you’re not yet, its unemployment assessor,” she said. In meetings with resiencouraging vehicle traffic… rate, at 7.3 percent, is well below the national dents, she said, Selig Oconee Street is already over average. “I think that representatives made the same claims about its capacity, so without a solid speaks to underemtaxes that the complan on how to address that, in ployment,” said Heard.

“There may be jobs, pany has posted on my opinion, it’s unacceptable.” [but many are] lowits website: that the paying jobs that can’t property, an estimated bring somebody out of poverty… These are $80 million project, will bring in $1 million in annual property tax revenue according to 2010 people who have been in poverty for a long time, so any time a light comes to their tunmileage rates. nel that might be a job or an opportunity for Kirk Dunagan, the county’s chief tax appraiser, said his office hasn’t seen a plan for employment, or a better life or better health, the proposed development, and that there was you’re going to have people gravitate toward that light.” no way he could speculate on how it would Sheats couldn’t recall any details from affect homeowners’ taxes. “It’s too early to the meeting he attended about hiring for even estimate; I really don’t know,” he said, construction or permanent jobs, but was adding that property values vary from neighnot optimistic about using local workers for borhood to neighborhood, though many have construction. “Any development around here fallen in recent years. comes from out of town,” he said.

A state-mandated moratorium on raised Frye said some of his concerns—including assessments of property values expires this his suggestions that the development could year, but with the legislature in session, use locally made solar hot water heaters and Dunagan said, that could still be extended that it could have better access to the North another year. “If we see a property has Oconee Rivers Greenway—were brushed off increased [in value] due to the market, they

by Selig representatives at the meeting he could see an increase” if the moratorium is attended. But, Chitty said the developer has allowed to end, he said. “Of course, we aren’t an entry point planned for the Greenway, and seeing much of that, but someone could legitimately see an increase in their value this they will encourage the general contractor to buy materials locally. “We definitely want to year.” keep as much money in the community as we In the neighborhood near the proposed can,” she said. development, Dunagan said, property values Even so, Frye said the way Selig has tried have been holding steady. “For the most part, to sell its plan to Athens residents has been we haven’t seen it really decreasing… that’s disconcerting. “All these individualized meetone of the few areas where they have some ings; it’s so much like a small child asking his new construction going on,” he said. “If their dad about something, and then getting an property values go up because it becomes answer and going to ask his mom,” he said. more marketable, because the property value “It’s a divide-and-conquer strategy we’ve been is going up, any decline in the millage rate doing since we were six years old.” will be offset by that.”

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theatre notes Fairies, Mummies and Mozart Oh, The Cleverness of You: We cover a lot of professional and community theater in this column, but we often forget that there’s some great drama coming out of our schools as well.

You don’t have to be a parent or a sibling to attend; the drama departments of our local schools are happy to entertain the community at large, too.

Clarke Central High School’s Central Players will stage the perennial classic Peter Pan at the school Thursday through Saturday, Mar, 22–24, at 7:30 p.m., with a 2:30 p.m. matinee on Saturday. I feel ridiculous writing this, but for those who may not know the story, it is a timeless tale of three English schoolchildren whisked off to a land of pirates, Indians, mermaids and high adventure

by Peter, a magical boy who’ll never grow up.

People who do know the story—and it was a play before it was a book, a Disney movie or that awful sequel with Robin Williams—will know to assess ahead of time whether they believe in fairies and prepare to clap accordingly. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for children, students and senior citizens and can be purchased from cast members or at the door. Contact Harriet Anderson for details at andersonh@clarke.k12. ga.us or (706) 2075432.

between Mozart, the child prodigy who grew up to be the reigning rock star of 18th-century Vienna, and Antonio Salieri, composer to the court of Emperor Joseph II, who curses God for squandering His gift of musical brilliance on the baroque version of Russell Brand. In reality Mozart and Salieri were friendly rivals, but Shaffer’s play has them as mortal enemies in a complex and masterful meditation on the nature of genius, the tortured logic of hatred and the twisted path of revenge.

Showtimes are 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, and 2 p.m. for both Sunday matinees. Tickets are $15, $8 for students on Thursday, Apr. 19. Call (706) 208-8696 for reservations.

Give It a Shot: As is usual for Town & Gown productions, the Monday and Tuesday between performance weekends is given over to auditions for the next T&G Main Stage show. On Apr. 16 & 17 auditions will be held for Dirty

What the What?: When announcing these upcoming shows, there are some blurbs you just can’t paraphrase.

Here’s the description for UGA Theatre’s upcoming production, Dark Ride: “This interClarke Central High School’s Central Players will stage Peter Pan at the school active performance lab on Mar. 22–24. production features a sideshow huckster who travels with a mummy said to be John Wilkes Rotten Scoundrels, the musical version of Booth, a sinister publisher, a frenzied translathe movie about rival con-artists competing tor, a jeweler and a thief, all of whom wind up for the hand and the money of a wealthy and at an oculist’s convention in Mexico.” naïve young thing. Auditions will consist of “a What can you possibly add to that besides short vocal excerpt [bring sheet music], movewhere and when to show up? Dark Ride plays ment portion and readings from the script” Tuesday through Saturday, Mar. 27–31. at 8 and begin at 7 p.m. at Athens Community p.m., and Sunday, Apr. 1, at 2:30 p.m. and Theatre. again at 8 p.m., in the Fine Arts Building Cellar Theatre. Tickets are $10, $7 for UGA Fresh and Local: No Shame Athens, the openstudents and available at the box office, by mic performance outlet of the Rose of Athens calling (706) 542-4400 or by visiting tickets.

Theatre company, will devote an evening to perfcenter.uga.edu. a staged reading of Donkey, a new original play by local playwright John Patrick Bray, Rock Me, Amadeus: When I first arrived at on Sunday, Apr. 22 at 8 p.m. at Hendershot’s UGA as a snot-nosed freshman in the fall of Coffee Bar. For those unfamiliar with staged 1985, I was in the University Bookstore to buy readings, a group of actors will read the script textbooks and came upon a display of cassette aloud in performance, invoking the feel of tapes, cheapies like you find at the car wash, old-time radio plays. For the playwright, this including one row of tapes with a selection is an important step in the creative process, of classical pieces by “Wolfgang AMADEUS a chance to actually hear out loud the words Mozart.” Evidently that was for the benefit he or she has been staring at on the page and of everyone who’d never heard of Mozart but hearing inside his or her skull. A live reading managed to sit through the recent Oscargives cues for further tweaking of the script winning film Amadeus without actually regisbefore it’s ready for the stage, so what you’ll tering the name of the main character. get is an opportunity to see a play in the last Town & Gown Players will present Peter trimester. It’s fascinating stuff. Admission is Shaffer’s Amadeus Apr. 13–15 & 19–22 at free. Contact noshame@roseofathens.org for the Athens Community Theatre, and for those more details. who don’t know, it’s about Mozart. The composer. More accurately, it is about the rivalry John G. Nettles theatre@flagpole.com

EcoFocus Film Festival film notebook Movies with an Environmental Conscience

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he fourth annual, eight-day EcoFocus Film Festival kicks off this Friday, Mar. 23 at local independent theater Ciné.

Since 2008, the festival, curated by Sara Beresford, has set out to bring some of the finest environmentally conscious feature and short movies to Athens. Movies dealing with the environment and our relationship with it may be a large umbrella category for the festival to deal with, so there’s always a refreshing variety of topics and approaches on display by the filmmakers, and hopefully entertaining ones to boot. The hoary yet accurate cliché is true here: regardless of your politics, class, race or religion, there really is something for everyone throughout the fest. There are plenty of intriguing movies to see, but here are some highlights…

Eastern DR Congo. Director Frank Poulsen’s film is an unflinching look at how factions in the country exploit child labor to mine the minerals and then sell the goods to companies like Nokia who turn a blind eye to war profiteering. A grim subject, but it’s a remarkable journalistic examination of criminal capitalism that we are all in some manner a part of.

For many of us, sushi is the food of the gods. But Japan’s national cuisine has become popular all over the world, and the supply of fish around the country, which is exported to restaurants from Tokyo to… well, here in Athens… to be transformed into the irresistibly addictive meals, is becoming depleted.

What are the ramifications of this, and what can fisherman, restaurateurs, chefs, environmentalists, exporters and foodies do? Mark Hall’s documentary, Sushi: The Global Catch, takes a look at this dilemma and our continuing fascination with this delectable style of food. The movie screens at the GMOA on Mar. 29, with a Q&A with the director.

If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, screening on Mar. 30 at 7 p.m. at Ciné, is a fascinating study of ELF member Daniel If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front screens Mar. 30 at Ciné.

McGowan and his involvement with the Case in point, the excellent opening-night hardline environmental group that waged a showing of award-winning documentary Buck. leaderless though violent campaign in this The movie, a heartfelt and thorough crowdcountry in the 1990s against businesses like pleaser, focuses on the life of real cowboy and logging companies, among others. The FBI “horse whisperer” Buck Brannaman, who grew cracked down hard on the loose-knit organizaup on the rough-and-tumble rodeo circuit as tion as its attacks and influence grew bigger, an expert rider and trick roper. Living the life especially after members of the group torched of a cowboy at that early age is a dream of a multi-million dollar ski lodge in Colorado, many a child, though Brannaman was abused and McGowan was subsequently nabbed. The by his father and spent many years in foster documentary deals with the ethical, political care. The major focus of Buck is Brannaman’s and philosophical issues surrounding ELF’s astonishingly humane, sensitive and progresinsurrection against companies which seem sive yet practical techniques to nurture abused to be waging their own war against the Earth. and damaged horses back to health. The Dr. Chris Cuomo, Dr. Piers Stephens from UGA’s documentary is an eye-opener and a splendid Philosophy department and Occupy Athens choice to inaugurate the fest. Buck screens activist Gretchen Elsner will be in attendance at 7 p.m. at Ciné along with the short Anna, to talk about the movie and take questions.

Emma, and the Condors, about a family’s Chris Paine’s latest movie, Revenge of the crusade to protect the endangered California Electric Car, a sequel to his acclaimed 2006 condors. Buck editors Toby Shimin and Joy documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, Reed will also be in attendance to talk about shows on Mar. 30 at 9:30 p.m. at Ciné. In the the movie and take questions, as will the first movie, Paine examined how the invention director of Anna, Emma, and the Condors, and proliferation of the more environmentally Katja Torneman. Expect music courtesy of DJ friendly electric car was hampered by big U.S. Electrophoria and food by The National. car companies. Here, Paine returns to this subOn Mar. 25, the feature The City Dark ject and shows how those same car companies screens at Ciné at 7:15 p.m. Dealing with light have started to release their own versions of pollution, the movie examines how in our the green automobiles and how independent increasingly overloaded cities of dazzling illuentrepreneurs are still designing and trying to mination, the cosmos above has been crowded commercialize their own models. out, something that has never occurred before The festival winds down on Mar. 31 with a on this scale. Whether we realize it or not, we 7:30 p.m. showing of You’ve Been Trumped at are dislocated from the night sky. How is this Ciné, a scathing documentary about how fat changing us and other species? The film takes cat businessman/property developer, celebrity a stylish and poetic approach and includes blowhard and political huckster Donald Trump interviews with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse bullied his way into building a monstrous golf Tyson and Ann Druyan, among others. course in a coastal area north of Aberdeen, The next evening at UGA’s Miller Learning Scotland. In true Trump fashion, the Donald Center, Room 171, there will be a free screendisregarded environmental concerns and ing at 7 p.m. of Blood in the Mobile, which insisted the economic benefits were more takes a look at how much of the minerals used important to the surrounding community. to make that ubiquitous modern convenience, the cell phone, come from the war-torn Derek Hill

News of Athens’ Cinema Scene Vive la… Oh, You Know: This week is a pretty busy one for film lovers in Athens, with the bulk of the action centered at Ciné (not the rest of downtown—more on that later). First off, the EcoFocus Film Festival begins Friday, Mar. 23 and runs through Mar. 31 (you can read all about that in Derek Hill’s article to the left of this one). But overlapping with EcoFocus will be the very welcome reincarnation of the French Film Festival, begun 10 years ago by Richard Neupert, film studies coordinator at the University Of Georgia. The fest took a year off in 2011, and now it’s returning as the French Film Series in its new location—Ciné—where, hopefully, it will continue for many years hence.

In a departure from the once-a-week format of the festival at UGA, there will be multiple screenings of each of the four films between Monday, Mar. 26 and Thursday, Apr. 5. Neupert will introduce each film several times over the course of the series, and many of the other screenings will be introduced by different hosts. I’m pretty sure none of the films have been screened in Athens before, and a couple of them are current new releases.

And three of them, as Neupert points out, are directed by women. If nothing else about the films’ qualities and sensibilities were sufficient to distinguish them from almost all American movies, that alone would be.

young son became gravely ill. It’s only been in distribution here for a month or so, and the mostly enthusiastic reviews paint it as a counterintuitively energetic and upbeat film about a young couple dealing with their infant son’s brain tumor.

Tomboy, the second film by director Céline Sciamma, has also opened in the U.S. only this year, and has gotten even better press than Donzelli’s film. It’s about a 10-year-old girl whose family has just moved to a new suburb, and who finds herself “passing” as a boy. I recently watched Water Lilies, Sciamma’s 2009 debut; it’s a fully engaging study of post-adolescent female sexuality and body image through a trio of thoroughly believable and sympathetic characters. I’m excited to see this new one.

The series is partially sponsored by the UGA French program, as well as by “fans of French cinema in the community,” according to Neupert. For the complete schedule and more details on the films, visit www.athenscine.com.

And This: The other event of particular note at Ciné this week is a special screening at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 22 of Werner Herzog’s new documentary, Into the Abyss, his typically penetrating inquiry into the ethics of the death penalty—via, of course, a close-up yet semi-scientifically detached personal case study. The Herzog film will be preceded by Athens filmmaker Jeff Reynolds’ short documentary Jerry, a profile of a former executioner on Virginia’s death row. Reynolds will also be in attendance to present a teaser for his current doc project, Corpus: The Case of Justin Wolfe, which explores the death-penalty conviction of its subject, who says he’s innocent.

Reynolds will answer quesCéline Sciamma’s Tomboy, featuring Zoe Héran, opens Mar.26 at Ciné as tions after the screening part of the French Film Series. along with Wolfe’s mother, Terri Steinberg, and both Mia Hansen-Løve’s The Father of My will be on hand for a 6 p.m. reception at The Children is a deeply affecting, highly intimate National. A portion of the evening’s proceeds portrait of a successful film producer and his will go to The Corpus Film Project; see the young family, and a chronicle of the effects of Ciné website for more details. his professional collapse. It won a Special Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes That Happened: How cool was it to have Festival, and Hansen-Løve—who is married downtown Athens taken over by a major film to fellow French director Olivier Assayas— production crew for a couple of days last appears poised for more success: her latest week, when Clint Eastwood, Justin Timberlake, film, Goodbye First Love, has done well on the Amy Adams and about a million other people international festival circuit and will soon be came to town to shoot scenes for Trouble distributed in the U.S. by IFC. with the Curve, the directorial debut of Point Blank (2010) is a terrific, fast-paced Eastwood’s longtime producer and a.d., Robert thriller from director Fred Cavayé about a Lorenz? The folks at Film Athens have been nurse’s assistant in a Paris hospital whose wife talking about bringing serious film production is kidnapped by the associate of a wounded here for years, and ACC Public Information thief he’s saved, with whom he must form a Officer Sandi Turner says it’s a huge priority nerve-wracking alliance as he tries to recover for the city. Turner also says her colleague, her while being pursued by vicious crooks and Jeff Montgomery, worked his tail off last year cops. It has all the urban grit of banlieue cinto get Athens its “Camera Ready Community” ema, but the slickness of a Hollywood action designation, and this is what it looks like film—without the ostentatiously expenwhen that work pays off. More, please. sive set pieces, casual sexism or gratuitous stupidity.

Quick: ICE-Vision is back at the Lamar Dodd Valéri Donzelli’s second feature, School of Art, with screenings of Robert Declaration of War, was screened on opening Downey, Sr.’s Greaser’s Palace Mar. 22 and night of Critics Week at Cannes 2011. Donzelli James Toback’s Fingers Mar. 29. Find ICEco-stars with her real-life partner Jérémie Vision on Facebook for complete info.

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

• indicates new review 21 JUMP STREET (R) Another 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. Understanding the soldiers’ dramatic limitations, the movie tends to focus on the military tasks at which they excel, and it is rare for an action movie to feel as real.

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.

BENVENUTI AL SUD (NR) 2010.

Director Luca Miniero’s award winning comedy, Benvenuti al sud (Welcome to the South), remakes the French film, Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis. A northern Italian postal worker (Claudio Bisio) is assigned to the south, where he soon finds his prejudices may not be all that accurate. Nominated for 10 Davids, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress (the only award the film won) Part of Cinecitta 4, the Italian film series sponsored by UGA Romance Languages.

BLOOD IN THE MOBILE (NR) 2010.

Apparently, the materials used to build that mobile phone in your pocket come from the Eastern Congo, a place ravaged by civil war that has claimed more than five million lives. Filmmaker Frank Piasecki Pouson reveals that there is blood in all our mobiles; now what can we do about it? The screening will be followed by a discussion with professors from the UGA Departments

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of Forestry and Natural Resources, Anthropology, and Geography. Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

BUCK (PG) 2011. Real horse whisperer Buck Brannaman gets the documentary treatment in this film from Cindy Meehl. Even the cinematic horse whisperer, Robert Redford, appears to talk about this Zen cowboy’s way with equine animals. The film has been a hit with festival audiences and opens the fourth annual EcoFocus Film Festival alongside short film, Anna, Emma and the Condors about two sisters and their birds of prey. Filmmakers Toby Shimin and Joy Reed (Buck) and Katja Torneman (Condors) will host a Q&A. THE CITY DARK (NR) 2011. In his award winning documentary, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks the question, “Do we need the dark?” The City Dark competed at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival where it won the prize for Best Score/Music. The screening will be followed by a discussion with local scientists and night sky advocates.

Screening with The City Dark is Our Tomorrow, Sarah Jackson’s partially animated attempt to understand whether or not we are living in “The End Times.” Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

THE CLEAN BIN PROJECT (NR) 2010. The Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division is sponsoring a free screening of Grant Baldwin’s The Clean Bin Project, in which partners Jen and Grant compete to answer the question, “Is it possible to live completely waste free?” Watch the film and see who produces the least garbage in an entire year. Screening alongside The Clean Bin Project is Song of the Spindle, Drew Christie’s animated conversation between a man and a sperm whale. Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

DECLARATION OF WAR (NR) 2011.

A young couple copes with each other and tries to keep hope when their infant son is diagnosed with brain cancer.

Part of the French Film Series.

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 land.

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 is not the year’s best animated feature (imagine what Pixar could do with Seuss), but the childishly funny film does not pander to its audience, young and old, even if it does preach a bit.

ECOKIDS SHORT FILMS (NR) The list of films to screen as part of this year’s EcoKids Short Films include Amazonia, Animal Beatbox, Don’t be a Trashcan!, India Explains Solar Power

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to Rudy, On the Beat—Soata (No Baque—Soata), Papiroflexia, Ride of the Mergansers, Shark Riddle, The Last Sun and Timber. The EcoKids Short Films are appropriate for kids 4 and up.

Stick around for a snack and hands-on EcoKids activities. Kids get in free!

What better way is there to spend a Sunday afternoon? Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

AN EVENING OF BIKE FILMS (NR) Do you like to ride? If so, An Evening of Bike Films is for you. The three films screening are Riding Bikes with the Dutch, The Okra Planter (O Plantador de Quiabos) and With My Own Two Wheels. After the movies, stick around for a discussion with Riding Bikes with the Dutch filmmaker Michael Bauch, Mary Fortson Harwell and Davis Harwell of Bicycles for Humanity, Brent Buice of Georgia Bikes!, Jean Crow Crowther of globalbike and Anna Gore of Bike Athens. Your ticket will also get you in free to an after party at Little Kings featuring Hope for Agoldensummer. Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

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). n THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13) Let the Games begin! Suzanne Collins’ age-defying Young Adult series is poised to be the next Harry Potter (how many times have we said that?), but can Seabiscuit’s Gary Ross deliver? Is Jennifer Lawrence the right gal to play series heroine Katniss Everdeen? Are Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth the right Peeta and Gale to make

She will now belch the alphabet.

THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (NR) 2009. A successful film producer loses the comfort of his safe family life when his career starts to falter. Part of the French Film Series.

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.

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).

HUGO (PG) Oh, to be an orphan living in an early-20th-century clock!

Katniss swoon? This we know; the previews are exciting. If you haven’t read the first book yet, your pre-movie opportunities are growing slim.

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 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 preview on 3/22 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.

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.

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.

MISS REPRESENTATION (NR) 2011. Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary looks at America’s failure to allow women the equal opportunity to attain influential, powerful positions and the media’s misrepresentation of powerful women.

Interviewees include Margaret Cho, Katie Couric, Geena Davis, Rosario Dawson, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Fonda, Lisa Ling, Rachel Maddow, Nancy Pelosi, Condoleezza Rice, Gloria Steinem and Catherine Hardwicke, the director of Twilight. Part of the Women’s History Month film festival sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies at UGA. PARADISE SAVED (NR) 1982.

For the first time, the EcoFocus Film Festival reaches into the George F. Peabody Awards Collection housed at the UGA Special Collections Library to screen this documentary produced by WAGA-TV in Atlanta. Should allowed attendance at the Cumberland Island National Seashore be increased? What could happen as a result? The postscreening discussion with Dr. Gary Green, associate professor of Natural Resources, Recreation, and Tourism in UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, should enlighten audiences as to what has happened since 1982.

POINT BLANK (R) 2010. A nurse’s assistant saves the life of a wounded professional criminal, whose associates kidnap the hospital worker’s pregnant wife to ensure carte blanche for their fallen man. Part of the French Film Series.

PROJECT X (R) I lament how this teen comedy, produced by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips, condones the Internet era’s hedonism as teenage rite of passage. Three unpopular high schoolers—Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper) and JB (Jonathan Daniel Brown)—throw a party so wild (sex, drugs, alcohol, fire, a midget; it’s like the boys go to Bret Easton Ellis High) that not even the cops can stop it, a conceit that play rights into teenagers’ already overinflated egos.

As a former teenager, I wish I’d been invited. The appeal of Project X truly depends on the perspective—adult or teen—from which you view it as the party supplies few surprising acts of debauchery.

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?

SEMPER FI: ALWAYS FAITHFUL (NR) 2011. Jerry was a loyal marine, but when his world was shattered by the death of his nine-year-old daughter, Janey, to a rare form of leukemia, Jerry uncovered a conspiracy to cover up one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history. After the screening, meet Jerry Ensminger and Mike Partain, whose stories are recounted in the movie. Screening with Semper Fi is the animated Russian short, Leonid’s Story, about the Chernobyl disaster from director Rainer Ludwigs. Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

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.

SILENT HOUSE (R) Elizabeth Olsen stars in a thriller remake of a 2010 Uruguayan film about the relationship between psychological and physical spaces.

SOLARTAXI (NR) 2010. In the summer of 2007, Louis Palmer attempted to go around the world in his solartaxi, which is powered completely by the sun. Showing at the same time as the EcoKids Short Films, Erik Schmitt’s Solartaxi—Around the World with the Sun is great for older kids (10 and up). Screening with Solartaxi is Daniel Kuipers’ The Last Sun, in which a Norwegian girl travels by dogsled to witness the last sunset of the year. Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

SOME LIKE IT HOT (NR) 1959. Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe star in Billy Wilder’s classic, cross-dressing comedy. (Unfortunately, it birthed the Wayans Brothers turd, White Chicks.) Curtis and Lemmon must dress as women in an all-girls band to hide from the mob; hilarity and complications ensue. Hollywood really does lack respect for comedy. What is possibly the greatest comedy ever made may have been nominated for six Academy Awards (including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Writing), but Best Picture was not one of them.

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.

THIS WAY OF LIFE (NR) 2009. Amid the mountains and beaches of New Zealand, Peter and Colleen Karena raise six kids and fifty horses. An official selection of several film festivals, This Way of Life won a Crystal Bear from the Berlin International Film Festival. Screening with Sarah Ginsburg and Sarah Berkovich’s This Way of Life is 10,000 Trees about eighty-five-year-old Victor Kaufmann’s dream to plant a new forest in Lyle, Washington. Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

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

Urban Roots is the short film, Chasing Water, where director Pete McBride follows the Colorado River from source to sea. Urban Roots filmmaker Mark MacInnis, Dr. David Berle and a representative from the Athens Land Trust will participate in a post-film discussion. Part of the 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival.

VEGUCATED (NR) 2010. Speak Out for Species at the University of Georgia sponsors a screening of this guerrillastyle documentary. Filmmaker Marisa Miller Wolfson follows three meat (and cheese) loving New Yorkers as they pledge to go vegan for six weeks. It sounds right up his alley. An official selection of the Toronto Independent Film Festival and the Show Me Justice Film Festival, Vegucated won the Chris Award for the Columbus International Film + Video Festival.

THE VOW (PG-13) A young couple, Paige and Leo Collins (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum),

property. Every word Jack speaks leads to a fallen leaf; when the last leaf falls, so does Jack. With Cliff Curtis, Kerry Washington, Allison Janney, Jack McBrayer and Clark Duke.

TOMBOY (NR) 2011. A young girl moves with her family to a new neighborhood, where she is mistaken for a boy and upholds the misconception.

Part of the French Film Series.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN—PART 1 (PG-13) 2011. I really wanted to actively dislike the penultimate Twilight movie. I certainly don’t feel kindly about the book upon which it’s based. Yet somehow, between the page and screen, Stephenie Meyer’s loopy final novel morphed into a bit of a horror movie.

URBAN ROOTS (NR) 2011. Detroit is not dead yet. A group of dedicated citizens, environmentalists and academics have started an urban environmental movement that can revitalize the rusting hulk of the Motor City. Screening with

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.

YERT: YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL ROAD TRIP (NR) 2009. Think you could follow the following three rules in a year-long road trip across all 50 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. This free screening includes pizza and drinks.

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movie pick Paradise Lost THE DESCENDANTS (R) There’s something perversely satisfying about watching George Clooney squirm in The Descendants. In role after role, Clooney always maintains an air of control and effortless suave that precariously balances between genuine confidence and maddening smugness. No doubt about it, the man looks good in an expensive, hand-tailored suit, his arm wrapped around some svelte model, sipping wine while watching the sun-

troubled, headstrong 17-year-old Alexandra (a breakout performance by Shailene Woodley).

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George Clooney and Shailene Woodley set from his Italian villa. But it’s difficult to suppress the urge to ruffle his salt-and-pepper hair and dunk him into the rarefied waters of Lake Como. You just want to shake him up.

Director Alexander Payne (Sideways) puts Clooney through the paces in his latest work, much in the same way Hitchcock liked to test his best leading men Cary Grant and James Stewart, making them sweat and lose their self-control as they plunged down the narrative rabbit hole. In The Descendants, a rich, middle-aged lawyer, Matt King (Clooney), living the good life in Honolulu, is thrown a serious curveball when his wife, Elizabeth (Patricia Hastie), is seriously injured in a boating accident and wastes away comatose in the hospital. King, who refers to himself as “the backup parent,” is propelled into being the lead parental figure to sassy, foul-mouthed 10-year-old Scottie (Amara Miller) and

King then goes in search of the other man with the help of his kids and Alexandra’s dim boyfriend Sid (Nick Krause).

Payne has always viewed humanity and our foibles with clear-eyed intelligence. That insight, though, was usually cut with a large dose of dark humor, and there is an emotional aloofness running through his work, as if a little expressive warmth would capsize the equilibrium. The acidic wryness is missing here, though there are still plenty of humorous moments gently nudging through the otherwise grave drama. The tonal balance is impressive throughout, and Payne steers clear of sentimentality when you think he’ll succumb, never bullying us with schmaltz the way James L. Brooks or Cameron Crowe would. A careerbest for Clooney and Payne.

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Music News And Gossip Out of the Cocoon: Local nonprofit label Mazarine Records will host a free block party on Friday, Mar. 30. With two free shows happening concurrently, the label—founded by Kai Reidl, Suny Lyons and Clay Jordan— hopes to raise its profile in town. Kicking off at 9:30 p.m., Flicker Theatre & Bar will host Emergent Heart, powerkompany, Young Benjamin and Dare Dukes. Starting at 10 p.m., there will be screenings of new videos from pacificUV and Electrophoria at the 40 Watt Club, followed by live performances from each band. Hope for Agoldensummer shares this bill. The concept behind the label is basically, “Why give money and control to a traditional label who is doing a lot of things you can do yourself?” To this end, each artist on the label is responsible for a certain number of label tasks, and any money made is retained by the artists. Mazarine will

Kids Today: Both The Fuzzlers and Green Thrift Grocery released albums online this month. The Fuzzlers’ record, Porch Life, is the last thing the band will do as a purely Athens group now that they’ve scattered to Florida.

It plows through its 11 tracks of 1980s-ish catchy punk in under nine minutes, and sometimes it really sounds like they wrote and recorded the whole thing on the spot. Green Thrift Grocery’s record, Buy It Back!, is more nuanced and arty. Its use of free jazz freakishness, plodding and menacing rhythms and Alice Bag-worthy vocals make for a decent listen. The band has distributed some CDs with these tracks on it, but now it’s all nicely organized online. Check out each album via www. thefuzzlers.bandcamp.com and www. greenthriftgrocery.bandcamp.com.

Flagpole is proud to be the first to announce the lineup for this year’s AthFest compilation album. Although the album seems to lean on the Americana side of things, it does provide a broad cross-section of the Athens music scene, much like the festival itself—from the electronic washes of FLT RSK to the angular pop of Reptar. Details on the official CD release party, slated for May 4 at Little Kings Shuffle Club, will be announced soon.

1. Patterson Hood & The Downtown 13 “After It’s Gone” 2. Ruby Kendrick “Do Me Right” 3. The Corduroy Road “All Around This Town” 4. Hope For Agoldensummer “Stars Shine Down” 5. pacificUV “Float” 6. Tumbleweed Stampede “Lost Boys” 7. FLT RSK “Before Night Falls” 8. Reptar “City Of Habits” 9. Casper & the Cookies “Drug Facts” 10. White Violet “Everyday Is Listening” 11. Futurebirds “Megachills” 12. 40th Street Candid Coal People “Ambivalence In D” 13. Clay Leverett & The Buzzards “Back To You” 14. Yo Soybean “An Old War In The New South” 15. Sam Sniper “Nothing Kills Me” 16. Dodd Ferrelle “Rain Comin’ Over The Mountain” 17. Ken Will Morton “Hitting Ditches” 18. Vespolina “I Don’t Love You 19. Efren “If My Heart Don’t Fail Me”

Slap and Tickle: Athens jazz combo The Odd Trio will release its second album, Birth of the Minotaur, at Hendershot’s Coffee Bar on Thursday, Mar. 29. Composed of Todd Mueller (Asheville Symphony), Brian Smith (Georgia Guitar Quartet) and Marc Gilley (The HEAP), the group explores a mixed bag of groove with some seriously pop underpinnings. That is to say that although the group explores several styles developed since the 1950s, they seem to have a commitment to accessibility and thus are perfect for anyone interested in jazz but perhaps turned off by pure experimentation. I can’t hang with those guitar solos,

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though. Check out The Odd Trio’s first album, Lo-Fi Hi-Jump, over at www.oddtrio.bandcamp. com.

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be distributing sampler CDs at this event, so look for them. For more information, please see www.mazarinerecords.com—which happens to be one of the best looking and well laid out websites for any local project in recent memory.

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Be Alert: Longtime Athens musician Eric Friar (D.A.R.C. Studios) had his entire house cleaned out by burglars recently. Taken in the heist were a 2001 Raw Power Les Paul guitar, a Lenovo laptop, a Macintosh G5, a Roland JX3P synthesizer, several horns and all of his microphones. To add insult to injury, the thieves also took an Xbox game system, several games and even a microwave oven. A list of items is already making its way through area pawn shops, but if you could please keep your eyes open for any of this stuff, Friar would appreciate it mightily. He can provide serial numbers if you drop him a line at eric.l.friar@gmail.com. If you happen across any items at flea markets, shops, etc., you can also contact the Athens-Clarke County Police directly via 706-613-3330 and reference case number 01-12-03-0707. Please be mindful of securing your belongings as best you can, and remember that not every member of the community is as nice as we’d like them to be.

Short Takes: AthFest announced its 2012 headliners: Atlas Sound, The Glands, Reptar and Yacht Rock Revue. All four will play the free outdoor Main Stage June 20–24…

Patterson Hood & the Downtown Rumblers will play a two-night stand at the Melting Point on May 24 & 25. Tickets are on sale now and will run you $15 in advance.

Technically tickets are $18 at the door, but, let’s face it, there’s not going to be any tickets left at the door. So, act now if you want in. Get ‘em at www.meltingpointathens.com…

Ancient Whales will return to town Thursday, Mar. 22 at the Caledonia Lounge. The band, pretty much the founding group of Enoch Bledsoe’s Owlphabet Records label, has been operating out of town for a while but returned to record its latest record, Ancient Whales Birthing, with engineer Joel Hatstat. You can stream the record at www.music.owlphabet. com. What was “alternative” music before that term existed? This is that. Label mates Nuclear Spring share the bill that night as well as Modern Man and Vestibules.

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Changing Together in Changing Times

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trength in numbers is an age-old defense mechanism, and one easily applicable to today’s web and virally driven music industry. While most do it simply in theory, folks like Franklin Jones, co-founder of the Post-Echo music collective, are doing it in practice.

“A million independent artists all scattered out in the ether didn’t make much sense to us.

A basic collective or label didn’t make much more sense either,” says Jones of Post-Echo, which he founded with friend Justin Schmidt 18 months ago. “We felt that in order to succeed—or at least, get to the next level—it made more sense for people to become fans of a concept and allow a group of exclusive artists to define that conceptual brand in their own way. Through this method, fans of the brand become fans of the artists involved.”

Post-Echo isn’t re-inventing the wheel.

That is, music collectives aren’t anything new.

But in the ever-changing music environment, Jones understands the players must adapt along with the game.

“Since art will never be without inspiration, Post-Echo is mainly about streamlining new forms of inspiration from the artists involved to our viewers and listeners,” says Jones. “That said, we have definitely carved out a particular niche in terms of genre and sound—mainly indie rock/electronica, sounds that hopefully leave little in the way of overt traditionalism.”

Modern Man, a four-piece shoegaze, spacerock quartet from Greenville, SC, fits the bill.

The band has worked with the collective to spread the word about its soon-to-be released EP, Eyes No. “Recording is so easy nowadays, and there is so much music out there, so the [Post-Echo] mission is to gather what they’re into and get it to the ears of the rest of the world,” says Modern Man’s Allen Glenn, accepting some of the aforementioned labels his band has been given, but quick to shy away from accepting any single tag as an absolute description.

“All of the bandmembers come from different music backgrounds, as far as what we listen to. So, it makes for an interesting mix,” he continues. “Right now is where our sound is probably changing the most. It’s just evolving constantly, and we’re trying to record it all to get it out there.”

Even Modern Man’s songwriting habits have become more collaborative. What began as Allen’s one-man recording project in 2010 is now a far more complex and communal effort.

“Normally, I compose the music and present it to the band, and they would learn the parts and put their own twist on it,” he says. “[With Eyes No], we also did a lot more ‘jamming’ at practice and also wrote songs that way. The bandmembers enjoy playing parts they write themselves a lot more than parts I might come up with. It’s more satisfying as a whole to come together and create something as a band.”

To Jones, the band’s constant evolution and exploration is what makes it a poster child for the collective itself.

“Modern Man embodies the spirit of PostEcho because they are uncompromisingly alive. As artists, they are constantly refining and revising their sound while still finding new ways to explore. In many ways, they are the opposite of complacent, and that is something we hope people feel about Post-Echo,” he says. “Presentation and relevance goes a long way. People like to say that content is king, and that’s true to a certain extent, but we feel that content should really be only preliminary. If content is king, then context and concept should be the white knights holding down the fort.”

Post-Echo is currently based in South Carolina, but the group is hoping to expand its reach and bring all kinds of artists together through show trades and other collaborations.

In fact, the same night that Modern Man is playing in Athens, Post-Echo will also be hosting Athens band Manray at Columbia’s New Brookland Tavern, along with former Athenians Lazer/Wulf and Post-Echo’s own Pan. Jones and company at Post-Echo don’t pretend to know what’s coming next in the music business, but they feel confident they’re on to something that could place them at the forefront.

“I can tell you that, in regard to today’s music climate, it feels like the way people listen to music is due for another big shift,” he says. “It’s inevitable. Hopefully, Post-Echo can be ahead of the curve when that happens.”

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lagpole magazine helped keep Austin weird last week at the annual South by Southwest Festival and Conference.

Our writers and photographers were embedded amongst, as comedian Mike Birbiglia aptly described, 20,000 “musicians and people who look like musicians” for a whirlwind week of rock, tacos and blatant commercialism. There were over 2,100 officially showcasing bands and at least as many corporate sponsors… so you weren’t just watching Santigold on any old outdoor stage, you were watching Santigold at the “Fader Fort presented by Converse” with complimentary Vitamin Water and mixed drinks by Bushmills whiskey. Even the funky laser lights beaming over 6th Street were sponsored (thanks, Chevy). But once you got past the product placement, and if you were lucky enough to get past the long lines, at the heart of the event was, of course, a wealth of music. No doubt every attendee experienced an entirely unique SXSW, and no matter how many acts you saw there was always the feeling that you were missing out on something else. But, as Team Clermont’s Shil Patel said to me, “there are no bad choices” because whether you are seeing a rising star, a rock icon or an underground cult favorite, you win.

Even amongst the Flagpole staff there was a huge diversity of experiences, and you can read all of our accounts at Flagpole.com. David Fitzgerald raved about up-and-coming hip-hop collective Doomtree, moody songstress Fiona Apple and ‘60s legend Donovan. Gordon Lamb and I were both in awe of Bruce Springsteen’s inspiring keynote address. We got to be up front for a rousing set by ‘80s shoegazers Jesus and Mary Chain (featuring special guest: random naked guy!). I was charmed once again by Irish folksinger Glen Hansard while indie acts like Cults, Bear In Heaven and Sharon Van Etten scored a more prominent place on my radar. As always the Athens music scene was well represented as well, with Futurebirds, of Montreal, Dead Confederate, Reptar and many others performing multiple, Pink Piglets well attended sets, with the 40 Watt Club’s huge Athens in Austin blowout party capping the week.

We’ve got pages and pages of notes to condense and hundreds of photos to sift through, but by the time you read this we’ll have all the details live on the blog. And with that, it’s time for time for a Sleep by Sleep Fest so we can recover before AthFest in June.

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ongwriter Josiah Johnson has some strong musical ideas, but when it comes to leading a band, he’s no tyrant. As one of the founding members and main writers and arrangers of Seattle-based folk-pop band The Head and the Heart, he still cringes a little if you call him a frontman.

“It’s six opinionated people communicating well,” Johnson says of the current state of his group. “There is a downside to having no master or commander in the band, but we’re open-minded. We have a lot of fun discussions about where to go and how to grow.”

The Head and the Heart initially started up in 2009 as an acoustic songwriting project between Johnson, a California native, and singer/guitarist Jonathan Russell, who arrived in Seattle from Virginia. Within a year, the duo expanded into a full-sized band. The current lineup features violinist/vocalist Charity Rose Thielen, bassist Chris Zasche, drummer Tyler Williams and pianist Kenny Hensley.

“It was kind of a fortunate accident,” Johnson remembers. “Jonathan and I started writing and arranging songs mostly on acoustic guitars, so the songs sounded like songs that songwriters sing on acoustic guitar. It was just the two of us, coming up with the words and the songs. Then we kept meeting these people who helped push things away from that. We didn’t envision that we’d have a violinist in the band. The sound happened from clicking with the right people along the way. Fortunately, it grew away from just a straight singer-songwriter sound.”

In early 2010, the group compiled a set of sophisticated, lush and slightly jazzy acousticoriented tunes. Many of the songs relied on gentle melodies, chiming hooks and clever wordplay.

“There is something about the musical language that you speak,” Johnson says. “I never experienced it until this band. It totally is the case. Jonathan and I always had a rotating, open-door policy with friends. As each person came in and added ideas, it felt right.”

While Johnson and Russell were essentially at the helm, composing the main lyrics, chord progressions and melodies, Johnson considers the debut collection a genuine group effort.

In particular, Thielen’s violin flourishes and third-part harmonies added a rich, dramatic touch.

“I have strong ideas, but I’ve learned to trust other people’s instincts and try out other

ideas,” Johnson says. “I think we’d gotten to a place where we know how to write and make decisions with each other.”

Without assistance from a label, The Head and the Heart recorded their self-titled debut collection with engineers Shawn Simmons and Steven Aguilar at Seattle’s Studio Litho and Bearhead Studio. Within a few weeks, they were selling independently produced copies at shows and around town. By the end of the year, they’d sold nearly 10,000 copies.

In the wake of their success, Johnson and his bandmates signed with veteran alternative label Sub Pop Records in November, 2010 and re-released the album in April, 2011.

The strummy, melancholic tune “Lost in My Mind”—the breakout hit of the debut —spent three weeks in the number-one spot on AAA radio last year. The snowy video hit YouTube in May and quickly became a fan favorite.

The year has been a whirlwind of travel and performances for Johnson and his colleagues. The Head and the Heart toured heavily across North America and Europe in late 2010 and most of 2011, sharing stages with an eclectic variety of headliners, including Dr. Dog, Vampire Weekend, The Walkmen, Dave Matthews, The Decemberists, My Morning Jacket and Death Cab for Cutie.

The band kicked off 2012 with an impressive and emotive six-song set on PBS’ Austin City Limits (British rock band Gomez shared the bill), then embarked on a national tour on Mar. 3 in Colorado.

“There can be some tension,” Johnson says of the band’s constant road work. “But everyone is grown-up enough to know that there’s a bigger mission at work than any one person’s ideas. We were on the road for all of 2011 except for one month. That’s a long time to be around the same group of people. We had our moments, but we learned how to get along well. I’m optimistic about the band, the music and everything that’s happening now.”

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There are also brewery tours, a raffle, a silent auction and an entire section with activities for children. People who are truly dedicated to representing the cause, or who simply enjoy funky hair, can also receive pink hair extensions from City Salon.

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BreastFest, which raised more than $15,000 last year, is poised to be even more successful this year. Among the more exciting new additions to the itinerary is the “Shave to Save” campaign. Rachel Allen, the BreastFest public relations chair, says, “Some brave members of our community have pledged to raise at least $500 each to have their head shaved at BreastFest! Adam Payne, one of our musicians, wrote a pretty incredible letter to his friends and family asking them to give, and Tennis for Life Head Pro Paul Allen—who is also our much beloved emcee at BreastFest—has been growing his hair out for over two years, and will be shaving it onstage this year for the cause [and donating his hair to Locks of Love].”

Betsy Franck, the head of musical booking for the event as well as one of this year’s performers, is thrilled to announce that the UGA Music Business School will be on hand this year to record the musical acts with its new mobile equipment.

“They will turn this into a project where the students are in charge of recording, mastering, designing a CD and ultimately helping us market an album of local musicians that can be sold all year at our events and on the website,” says Franck.

St. Mary’s Women’s Diagnostic and Imaging Center will receive 90 percent of the day’s proceeds, and this money will be used to host a free mammogram day for qualifying women aged 40 and over who otherwise would not have the means to receive these vital tests. The other 10 percent of the funds raised will go to the Tyanna Foundation.

For more information and to buy tickets in advance, visit www.breastfest.org/cities/Athens.

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WHO: BreastFest Athens WHERE: Terrapin Brewery WHEN: Saturday, Mar. 24, 12–7:30 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $30 (adv.), $35 (door), FREE! (kids)

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Tuesday 20 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: Italian Film Series (Miller Learning Center) (Room 148) Gianni di Gregorio’s Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch). 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8057 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 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

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

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Flicker Poker Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) First and third Tuesdays of each month. 8:30 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 PERFORMANCE: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 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 FILM: EcoFocus Pre-Festival Screening (Miller Learning Center) (Room 171) YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip follows three friends traveling to every state in search of environmental innovators. Followed by a Q&A session with director Ben Evans. 7 p.m.

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8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 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: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9 p.m. Facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub 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 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: Full Bloom Storytime (Full Bloom Center) Open to all ages. 4 p.m. $3 (suggested donation). 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters,

hikes and crafts. For parents and children. Every other Wednesday.

3:30–4:30 p.m. $24. 706-613-3515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: 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: Wildcard Wednesday (ACC Library) Up Next: Papel Picado Banners! A traditional Mexican folk art used to decorate for festivals.

Ages 11-18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Race, Class, Place and Outcomes Speaker Series (UGA Memorial Hall) “I Am Forever: Interpreting Black Family Life and Community in Historic Brattonville, South Carolina,” presented by Lisa Bratton, Georgia Perimeter College. 12:15–1:15 p.m.

FREE! sgary@uga.edu LECTURES AND LIT: Genetics Seminar (UGA Davison Life Sciences Complex) “Genomes Without Borders: Mobile DNA, Horizontal Transfer, and the Uncanny Origins of Genetic Novelty,” by Cedric Feschotte, UT-Arlington department of biology. 4–5 p.m. FREE! whites@uga.edu 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 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 MEETINGS: Info Session for Foster and Adoptive Parents (Clarke County DFCS) (Conference Room A) Held the third Wednesday of every month. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-227-7904

Thursday 22 ART: Opening Reception (Ciné Barcafé) For recent artwork by Moon Jung Jang. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com ART: Drawing in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) Open hours for visitors to sketch in the galleries using graphite or colored pencils. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org 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.

Conductor and violinist Leonidas Kavakos performs with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at UGA’s Hodgson Concert Hall on Mar. 25.

Participants must have knowledge of Excel basics. Registration required.

3-4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 EVENTS: Agora’s “Worn in the USA” Fashion Show (40 Watt Club) Featuring fabulous vintage and Agora’s new line of clothes. 7 p.m. $7. www.40watt.com EVENTS: GLOBES Meet and Greet (Hotel Indigo) Stop by for free hors d’oeuvres, a raffle including Boybutante tickets and to learn about GLOBES and its new Outstanding Student Advocate Award. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! rickyrob@uga.edu, www. ugaglobes.wordpress.com EVENTS: Threads of Hope (Athens Country Club) A silent auction and fashion show benefiting Hope Haven. 6 p.m. $50. 706-548-4361, www.hopehaven.net FILM: Into the Abyss (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) New documentary exploring a triple homicide case in Conroe, TX. Prior to the feature presentation, Jerry, a short documentary film on former executioner Jerry Givens, will be shown. Filmmaker Jeff Reynolds will hold a Q&A session after the screenings. 6 p.m. (reception), 7:30 p.m. (screening). $10. www.athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (Gnat’s Landing) Drink and think. Every Thursday.

7–9 p.m. www.gnatslanding.net KIDSTUFF: Teen Cartoon Illustrators Club (Lyndon House Arts Center) Work on your favorite style of cartoon with other young artists and discuss recent drawings and characters. Pizza and soda included!

Every other Thursday. Call for more information. Ages 12 & older. 5:30– 7:30 p.m. $5. 706-613-3623 KIDSTUFF: Gallery Games (Georgia Museum of Art) Special interactive gallery tour. Learn about

works in the museum’s permanent collection through activities designed just for kids ages 7–11.

4:15–5 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.com KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Led by UGA student volunteers from the Department of Language and Literacy Education. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Poetry Reading (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) The VOX Reading Series and UGA Creative Writing Program present a reading by poet and photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES AND LIT: Art Lecture (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: Avid Poetry Series (Avid Bookshop) Ish Klein and Greg Purcell share excerpts from recent works. 6:30 p.m. FREE! avid.athens@gmail.com LECTURES AND LIT: Women’s History Month Keynote Lecture (UGA Special Collections Library Building) (Room 271) “Spiritual Development and the Pursuit of Wisdom in a Cultural Context: A Longitudinal Study of Women Adult Educators for Social Change,” presented by Dr. Elizabeth Tisdell of Pennsylvania State University.

Reception to follow. 3–4 p.m. FREE! www.iws.uga.edu MEETINGS: Clarke County Democratic Committee Meeting (Fire Hall No. 2) All interested persons welcome. 6 p.m.

FREE! 706-202-7515, ccdc.communications@gmail.com THEATRE: Peter Pan (Clarke Central High School) A theatrical production

by Clarke Central High School. Mar. 22–24, 7 p.m., Mar. 24, 2:30 p.m. $5–7. 706-357-5200

Friday 23 ART: Opening Reception (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 ART: Georgia O’Keeffe Painting Night (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) All supplies and instruction provided.

7 p.m. $30–50. www.wholemindbodyart.com ART: Elephant Ocean Art Closing Reception (Floorspace) For Jul and Justin Sexton’s “Psithurism.”

Refreshments and music. All pieces will be 25% off. 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.floorspaceathens.com EVENTS: Sapph.fire Cosmic Bowling (Showtime Bowl) Familyfriendly games of bowling with sapph.fire, a local group for lesbian, bisexual and transexual women. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/sapphfire.athens EVENTS: Contain Hunger (Go Bar) A benefit concert for Campus Kitchen, a UGA student organization that combats hunger in the Athens community. Live music from Suspect Raptor and Immuzikation. 9 p.m. FREE! (w/ tupperware donation), $3. 706546-5609 EVENTS: 43rd Annual Georgia Book Awards and Conference on Children’s Literature (The Georgia Center) 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 EVENTS: Help Get Bridget Back in the Saddle (Healing Arts Centre) A night of drinks, dancing, a silent auction and live music by Coconut Moon. All proceeds benefit the rehabilitation of horse rider Bridget Burke, who was injured in a car accident. 8 p.m. Donations accepted.

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FILM: EcoFocus Film Festival Opening Night Party (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) Screenings of Buck and short film Anna, Emma and the Condors. Followed by a Q&A session with filmmakers Toby Shimin, Joy Reed and Katja Torneman and party with DJ Electrophoria and Free Money. 7 p.m. $15. www. athenscine.com KIDSTUFF: Fantastic Fridays (Bishop Park) Obstacle courses and other activities in an unstructured environment. For ages 10 months to 4 years and their guardians. 9–10 a.m. $5–15. 706-613-3589 KIDSTUFF: Superhero Workshop for Kids (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) George Marston explains the character aspects associated with creating superheros. Siblings are 50% off.

Register. 7–9 p.m. $20–30. www. wholemindbodyart.com LECTURES AND LIT: Lunch with Leaders (UGA Memorial Hall) Featuring Dr. Dawn BennettAlexander, Associate Professor of Employment Law and Legal Studies.

12 p.m. FREE! lgbtcenter.uga.edu LECTURES AND LIT: Willson Center Lecture (Miller Learning Center) (Room 248) “The Past Under Erasure: History, Memory, and the Contemporary,” presented by historian Geoff Eley. 4 p.m. FREE! jdingus@uga.edu LECTURES AND LIT: Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series (Miller Learning Center) (Room 250) “Educators for Everyday Life,” presented by Sharon Nickols and Melissa Wilmarth, Family and Consumer Sciences. 12:20–1:10 p.m. FREE! tlhat@uga.edu LECTURES AND LIT: 24th Annual Red Clay Conference (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 THEATRE: Peter Pan (Clarke Central High School) A theatrical production

by Clarke Central High School. Mar. 22–24, 7 p.m., Mar. 24, 2:30 p.m. $5–7. 706-357-5200 THEATRE: Marvin’s Room (Colleen O. Williams Theater) The tables are turned when straight-laced Bessie, who devotes her life to caring for her chronically ill father, suffers a health catastrophe of her own and must ask her estranged, bohemian sibling for help. Mar. 23, 7 p.m. & Mar. 24, 2 p.m. $7–15. 678-425-6884 THEATRE: Johnny Brooke: A Ghost Story (Athens Little Playhouse) 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

Saturday 24 ART: Acrylic Gel and Digital Image Transfers (The Loft Art Supplies) A lecture and demo explaining how to bring the digital world to your art using Golden Acrylics. 1 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www. loftartsupply.tumblr.com CLASSES: New Moon Dream Board Workshop (Over the Moon Creative Possibilities) Create a vision board with Moon Mama during the new moon. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $10. 706-540-2712 CLASSES: Eight Silken Qigong (Red Lotus Institute) Experience moving meditation to improve your

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health and harmonize your mind, body and spirit. Saturdays, 10 a.m. $10. www.acupunctureathens.com EVENTS: BreastFest Athens (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. See story on p. 18.

12–7:30 p.m. FREE! (kids), $30–35. www.breastfest.org EVENTS: 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. 2 p.m. $10 (dinner), $75 (tournament and dinner). www. extraspecialpeople.com EVENTS: The Cottage 5K Run Walk (Sandy Creek Park) The 4th annual 5K benefits The Cottage Sexual Assault Center & Children’s Advocacy Center. 2:30 p.m. $19–22.

706-546-1133, ext. 4 EVENTS: Tapped into the ‘20s (Tapped) Join Dancing With the Athens Stars, TEAM 6 for a party at Tapped (in the Georgian Hotel) featuring the Half Dozen Brass Band! Music will start at 9 p.m., no cover, donations accepted and appreciated as all proceeds will directly to Project Safe! Raffles, specialty drinks, wear your favorite ‘20s era costume and get ready to party! 9 p.m. FREE! www.project-safe.org EVENTS: Zumba Dinner Night (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Zumba, a catered Mexican dinner and more.

Child care available. 5:30–8:30 p.m. $20. www.wholemindbodyart.com EVENTS: Express Your Inner Child (The Leathers Building) A weekend happy hour featuring kids’ favorites with an adult twist. Activities include a wine tasting, hors d’oeuvres and mural painting. All proceeds benefit the Athens Regional Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 5:30 p.m. $40. www.armc.org/innerchild EVENTS: 43rd Annual Georgia Book Awards and Conference on Children’s Literature (The Georgia Center) 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 EVENTS: Power Dawgz Benefit Show (The Office Lounge) A benefit concert to raise money for Athens’ wheelchair soccer team. Performances by The Flamethrowers, The Athens Band, Thieves Market, Death of the Peanut King and multiple student acts. All ages welcome.

1:30–8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 EVENTS: Book Rally to Benefit Athens Youth (Athens, Ga) Books for Keeps needs 6,000 more children’s books by Mar. 31. Drop off books at Fire & Flavor Warehouse (375 Commerce Blvd.) or the old Gaines Elementary School (280 Gaines School Rd.). 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

FREE! givethembooks@gmail.com EVENTS: Ticket to Ride (Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company) A bike ride to raise awareness of The Firefly Trail, a proposed 39-mile trail running from East Broad Street in Athens to Union Point. 8 a.m. (sign-in), 9 a.m. FREE! (donations accepted). ksherman@gmail.com EVENTS: 15th Annual Williams Crappie Fishing Tournament (Sandy Creek Park) Get a team together for a fishing tournament ben-

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efitting the United Way. 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $80–100 (per team). 706-7835031, www.unitedwaynega.org EVENTS: Senior Adult Trip to the Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival (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 EVENTS: 5K and Tree Frog Trot (Chase Street Elementary School) Chase Steet’s 5K Race for Chase and One Mile Tree Frog Trot. Walkers and strollers welcome. Proceeds benefit Chase Steet Elementary. Call to register by Mar. 22. 8:30 a.m. $10–20. 706-372-5661 EVENTS: Family Fun and Wellness Day (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 FILM: EcoFocus Film Festival (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) Screenings of Urban Roots and Chasing Water, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Mark MacInnis (2 p.m., $5).

Next, screenings of Semper Fi: Always Faithful and Leonid’s Story, followed by a meet and greet with Jerry Ensminger and Mike Partain, whose stories are documented in Semper Fi (5 p.m., $5). Closing up the day, three bike-focused films: Riding Bikes with the Dutch, The Okra Planter (O Plantador de Quiabos) and With My Own Two Wheels (7:30 p.m., $5). www.ecofocusfilmfest.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 KIDSTUFF: Animal Encounters (Memorial Park) Meet some of Bear Hollow’s education ambassadors during a live animal presentation.

1:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616 MEETINGS: Cloth Diapering 101 (Full Bloom Center) Get your questions answered by a local cloth-diapering guru. 1 p.m. $10.

706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com OUTDOORS: Spring Bird Ramble (State Botanical Garden) The Oconee Rivers Audubon Society leads a morning bird walk. 8 a.m. FREE! ckeber@uga.edu THEATRE: Marvin’s Room (Colleen O. Williams Theater) See Mar. 23 Theatre. Mar. 23, 7 p.m. & Mar. 24, 2 p.m. $7–15. 678-425-6884 THEATRE: Peter Pan (Clarke Central High School) A theatrical production

by Clarke Central High School. Mar. 22–24, 7 p.m., Mar. 24, 2:30 p.m. $5–7. 706-357-5200 THEATRE: Johnny Brooke: A Ghost Story (Athens Little Playhouse) See Mar. 23 Theatre.

Mar. 23 & 30, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 24–25, 31 & Apr. 1, 3 p.m. $5–10. www. athenslittleplayhouse.org THEATRE: Fiddler on the Roof (The Classic Center) A timeless classic based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. 8 p.m. $10–65. www.classiccenter.com

Sunday 25 EVENTS: Water Trotter 5K (Stegeman Coliseum) Delta Sigma Pi hosts a 5K benefiting the American Cancer Society. 9–11 a.m. $15-20. www.ugadsp.com/5k-run/ FILM: EcoFocus Film Festival (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) EcoKids Short Films includes 10 short films

Thursday, March 22

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Andy McKee, Antoine Durfour Melting Point Of all the presents he’s ever received, Andy McKee should be able to choose a favorite easily: the nylon-stringed acoustic guitar his dad gave for his 13th birthday.

McKee, who since that day has flourished to become a worldrenowned modern master of his fingerpicking guitar craft, took the rest into his own hands.

“I’m almost entirely self-taught.

I had one year of lessons when I started, learning chords and scales, but the modAndy McKee ern acoustic stuff I was learning all by ear,” says the Kansas native. “I think the advantage of learning that way is that it forces you to think creatively. You have to solve some problems on your own, whereas if you were learning from a teacher, there may be a more regimented [education].”

McKee is anything but regimented, experimenting with unorthodox tunings and techniques for a style rife with melodic beauty (inspired by the likes of Don Ross and Eric Johnson) and a distinct percussive flair (for this, he credits his younger days as a metalhead). This attention to detail has made him a web sensation, with videos of his instrumental originals and a cover of Toto’s “Africa” going viral.

“I don’t really take the time to learn chord shapes or scales in these altered tunings.

I’ll play around in that tuning and start to come up with progressions, riffs and beats, and as I’m repeating those things, I start to get melodic ideas,” he says before laughing.

“Then I’ve got to figure a way to play them at the same time.”

So far, he seems to have figured it out just fine. [Alec Wooden]

appropriate for all ages (1 p.m., $5). In the other screening room, Solartaxi: Around the World with the Sun and The Last Sun (1 p.m., $5). At 3 p.m., free films sponsored by the ACC Recycling Division: The Clean Bin Project and Song of the Spindle. At 5 p.m., This Way of Life and 10,000 Trees. At 7:15 p.m., The City Dark and Our Tomorrow, followed by a discussion with local scientists and night sky advocates ($5). www.ecofocusfilmfest.org GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) “Brewer’s Inquisition,” trivia hosted by Chris Brewer every Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3546655, www.buffaloscafe.com/athens GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! Hosted by Evan Delany (former Wild Wing trivia host). First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m. FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 LECTURES AND LIT: Poetry Reading (Ciné Bar Café Cinema) “Vanished Horses: Encounters in Poetry and Translation” includes readings by Coleman Barks, Idea Steward and A. E. Stallings. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES AND LIT: Meet the Bakers: Cookbook Signing (Avid Bookshop) Cheryl and Griffith Day of Back in the Day Bakery celebrate the bakery’s 10th anniversary with a cookbook signing for The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Hugh Hodgson Hall) Guest conductor and violinist Leonidas Kavakos will

lead the ASO in a program featuring Mozart’s “Symphony No. 34” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 4.” Maestro Kavakos will also perform as soloist in Mozart’s “Violin Concerto No. 3.” 3 p.m. $20–55. www.pac.uga.edu THEATRE: Johnny Brooke: A Ghost Story (Athens Little Playhouse) See Mar. 24 Theatre.

Mar. 23 & 30, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 24–25, 31 & Apr. 1, 3 p.m. $5–10. www. athenslittleplayhouse.org

Monday 26 CLASSES: Intro Digital Media Class (Free IT Athens) (2092 Prince Ave.) An introductory class covering digital media applications. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.freeitathens.org EVENTS: Great American Meatout (UGA Tate Center) (Plaza) A celebration of vegetarian living and its benefits for health, animals and the environment. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! sos.uga.edu FILM: Miss Representation (Miller Learning Center) (Room 214) A look at the underrepresentation of women in influential positions in America that challenges the media’s portrayals of women. Part of the Women’s History Month Film Festival. 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! tlhat@uga.edu FILM: Vegucated (Miller Learning Center) (Rm 101) A guerrilla-style documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet. 7:30 p.m. FREE! sos.uga.edu 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) Every Monday! Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub KIDSTUFF: Open Playtime (ACC Library) For children ages 1–3 with their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to stories. Every Monday.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library) This month’s title is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank. Newcomers welcome. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Keynote Presentation (UGA Chapel) A. E. Stallings, poet and graduate of UGA, speaks about receiving the MacArthur Fellowship. Reception to follow. 2:30 p.m. FREE! nrynears@ uga.edu 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 PERFORMANCE: Joke-a-Go-Go (Go Bar) Come see local yuksters sharpening their skills at this comedy open mic hosted by Nate Mitchell. 8 p.m. FREE! (performers), $5. 706-546-5609

Tuesday 27 ART: Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art) (Room S151) Katrin Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic

artist, examines distance and memory and their embodiments in architecture, urbanism, cartography and landscape representations. 5:30 p.m. FREE! artinfo@uga.edu CLASSES: Spring Wildflowers of the Upland Deciduous Forests of Georgia (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn basic botanical terminology used in identifying and describing plants and the basics of using a dichotomous key. Certificate in Native Plants Elective Course.

8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $50. www. botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Guided Underground Railroad Tour (UGA Reed Hall) “Glory Bound: A Voyage Through the Underground Railroad” is a guided interactive tour and re-enactment of the Underground Railroad. Attendees will experience the event as if they were slaves in search of freedom. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3753 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: EcoFocus Film Festival (Miller Learning Center) (Room 171) A screening of Blood in the Mobile, followed by a discussion with professors from the UGA Departments of Forestry and Natural Resources, Anthropology and Geography. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.ecofocusfilmfest.org FILM: Italian Film Series (Miller Learning Center) (Room 148) Benventuli al Sud (Welcome to the South)by director Luca Miniero. 7 p.m. FREE! pizzuti@uga.edu GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your beer and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:309:30 p.m. 706-354-1515 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. Every Tuesday.

9–11 p.m. 706-353-0305 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: 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: 27th Annual Odum Lecture (UGA Ecology Building) “Evolution + Ecology = EvoEco: The Interplay of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics,” presented by Thomas W. Schoener. 4 p.m. FREE! www.ecology.uga.edu/events LECTURES AND LIT: Lunchtime Learning: Download Free Audiobooks and eBooks (ACC Library) Learn how to download free audiobooks and eBooks for iPad or eReader. Feel free to bring a lunch.

12:15–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Let’s Talk About It!: Gay: A Gift from God? (Miller Learning Center) (Room 214) A discussion about the intersection of queer identity and spirituality.

6:30 p.m. FREE! lgbtcenter.uga.edu OUTDOORS: Golden Sneakers Walking Club (Lay Park) A fitness program for senior adults to get

active, stay fit and have fun. Call to register. 10 a.m. $3–5. 706-6133596 PERFORMANCE: “Shameless” Kickoff Show (Farm 255) Comedian Landry and local acts Caleb Synan, Ed Burmila, JD Williams, Liza Larson, Ben Lamm and host Chris Patton kickoff a new comedy showcase. 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com PERFORMANCE: Dark Ride (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Theatre Notes on p. 10. Mar. 27-Apr. 1, 8 p.m. & Apr. 1, 2:30 p.m. $7–10.

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LIVE MUSIC Wednesday 21 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $8 (adv.) www.caledonialounge. com POLICA Poliça offers dark, dreamy digitized R&B with washes of electronica and pop sensibilities.

THE FALCONES Local Athens alternative rock. Anthemic choruses with layered vocal harmonies.

JEFFERS MORNING Rock trio from Athens. Fun, danceable power-chord pop/punk.

Farm 255 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS An eclectic selection of standards from Tin Pan Alley to Tom Waits.

10:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MIRACLES OF MODERN SCIENCE Using mandolin, violin, cello, standup bass and drums, this quintet creates explosive pop music.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com KIMBERLY MORGAN Sunny-day country music from Athens with a clear and sassy voice.

LANCE WHALEN Singer-songwriter.

AQUARIUMSAn indie, laid-back mix blending earthy tones.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com MAMA’S LOVE Young, funky jam band from right here in Athens.

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 some country undertones.

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

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

Featuring Taj.

40 Watt Club Agora’s “Worn in the USA” Fashion Show. 7 p.m. $7. www.40watt.com DJ Z-Dog Spinning pop and rock hits after the fashion show!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com NUCLEAR SPRING This local rock band plays sleazy, freaky psychedelic garage rock with glam swagger.

ANCIENT WHALES Trancy, lo-fi indie-rock tunes with layers of psychedelic vocal harmonies.

MODERN MAN A shoegaze/no wave ensemble from South Carolina. See story on p. 14.

VESTIBULES Warm keys and guitar are punctuated by saxophone in this lyrically-driven Americana group.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com LES RACUQET Impressive indie rock trio from Brooklyn with Fleet Foxesinspired harmonies and big hooks.

IN THE LURCH Local three-piece that cranks out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines.

Farm 255 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE VANDELLES Fuzzed out surf rock from Brooklyn.

TWIN TIGERS Loud and lush at the same time, this local rock band combines jarring guitar with sweeping melodies and heavy percussion.

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

ROBERTA & CHARLENE Tonguein-cheek country vocals backed by synth beats.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com FOUR TET Abstract post-rock and electronica. See Calendar Pick on p. 23.

TEEBS Avid skater Mtendere Mandowa “peaces” out rampaging funky sounds into blissfully engaging configurations.

SONNYMOON Psychedelic and experimental duo from Allston, MA. TIME WHARP Crunk from Atlanta.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com CARL LINDBERG TRIO Beloved local latin-jazz bassist performs a mix of standards and originals.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $14 (adv.), $17 (door.) www. meltingpointathens.com ANDY MCKEE Internationally recognized acoustic guitarist. See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

ANTOINE DURFOUR Critically acclaimed star of finger-style acoustic guitar.

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New Earth Music Hall 8 p.m. $8. www.newearthmusichall. com ROOFTOP SOCIETY Atlanta band playing progressive jam fusion.

J2K Florida-based band blending elements of disco with progressive fusion and rock as well as an array of other genres.

T8R TOT Local beatmaster mixes trippy electronic laptop creations featuring dubstep, drum ‘n’ bass and funk.

HERBERT SUMMER Live band featuring heady rock and electronic influences.

No Where Bar 11 p.m. $3. 706-546-4742 VERTIGO JAZZ PROJECT Soulful, funky jazz fusion from Asheville, NC featuring Jeff Sipe and Matt Slocum.

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

THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece.

WUOG 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Powerkompany and Young Benjamin will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program.

Friday 23 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.40watt.com THE HEAD AND THE HEART Indie/ folk/pop band on the rise from Seattle. See story on p. 17.

DREW GROW & THE PASTORS’ WIVES Gritty, gospel-influenced folk music.

BLACK GIRLS This Richmond, VA band plays a silky smooth mix of psychedelic glam rock.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 8 p.m. $10. www.buffaloscafe.com/ athens BIG DADDY’S BAND Good-time Southern rock and covers from the ‘70s and ‘80s.

The Bad Manor 11 p.m. www.thebadmanor.com DJ DECEPTICRON Mixing today’s hottest house, electro and club hits.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com ANTLERED AUNTLORD Fuzz-pop guitar/drums duo featuring featuring local producer and songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

SMOKEDOG Says drummer Jason Jones of their sound, “noisy lo-fi boogie smeared over mechanical back-pocket beats.”

TOM TELEVISION Hip-hop and indie-rock songs over looped instrumentation from Thomas Valadez, Future Ape Tapes co-founder and bassist for Moths and Superfighter.

Farm 255 11:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BROTHERS Local trio plays swirling folky tunes that are rich with strings, twisted overdubs and haunting vocals. CD release party.

ANDROCLES AND THE LION Local folk-rock trio.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com TEA LEAF GREEN Pop-rock quintet playing rock’s adventurous, playfully outlaw spirit.

THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS Improvised string band music with country and bluegrass underpinnings.

Go Bar WSSO Benefit for Campus Kitchen. 9 p.m. 706-546-5609 SUSPECT RAPTOR Local band plays a mix of ‘90s grunge pop and indie post-punk.C IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com CARL LINDBERG AND ROB MCMAKEN Lindberg (Grogus) on bass and McMaken (Dromedary) on mandolin/guitar.

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.

Half-Moon Outfitters 5 p.m. FREE! www.halfmoonoutfitters. com THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS An acoustic preview of the band’s country and bluegrass sound tonight.

Little Kings Shuffle Club “Council for the Blind Benefit.” 6–9 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub VINYL STRANGERS Timelessly charming classic-sounding pop rock reminiscent of early Beatles.

10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub 90 ACRE FARM This local sevenpiece emphasizes vocal harmonies with its soulful Americana.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $15 (adv.) $20 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com BEAUSOLEIL AVEC MICHAEL DOUCET Grammy award-winning band playing authentic Cajun music.

THE HOBOHEMIANS This six-piece, acoustic band performs popular American and European roots music from the ‘20s and ‘30s.

New Earth Music Hall 8 p.m. $8. www.newearthmusichall. com SAMPLES Ben Samples of duo Fresh2Death spins his crunk glitchhop.

DISTAL This already established 28-year-old veteran of electronic music produces a wide array of moods, tempos and rhythms.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS Playing old-school funk, pop and sweaty rock covers and originals.

Saturday 24 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5 (adv.). www.40watt.com RADIOLUCENT Popular local band falling somewhere between bluesy Southern rock and alt-country.

JOSH ROBERTS & THE HINGES Twang-meister Josh Roberts and his band play hearty, Southern rock.

TEDDY No info available.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $5 (18+ before 11 p.m.), $10 (18+ after 11 p.m.). www. thebadmanor.com FERAL YOUTH Banging electro house, dubstep, with a dash of top-

40 remixes backed by video projections. Now spinning every Saturday.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com FREE TOMORROW Sophisticated, high-energy live hip-hop band.

AWESOME NEW REPUBLIC Twopiece indie rock/dance pop band.

THE BREAKS Feel-good local rock band with alt and jam influences.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere.

STEPH FURNESS An indie-folk mix.

SOUTHERN FOLK COALITION The upbeat twang of a country sound.

Farm 255 11:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com QUIET HOOVES High-energy, idiosyncratic pop that’s full of fun.

TALKING HEADS Playing covers of the ‘80s new wave band.

SLEEPING FRIENDS Garage pop featuring Joe Kubler (Bubbly Mommy Gun) and friends.

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

ARGONAUTS Moody, alternativeinspired rock based in Athens.

YOU ME & US Grungy and jangly pop rock with sweet female vocals that’s simultaneously fresh and charmingly ‘90s retro.

PLACE TO HIDE No info available.

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller and friends spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop.

Tapped 9 p.m. FREE! www.project-safe.org TAPPED INTO THE ‘20S Join Dancing With the Athens Stars, TEAM 6 for a party at Tapped featuring the Half Dozen Brass Band!

Proceeds will go directly to Project Safe! Raffles, specialty drinks. Wear your favorite ‘20s-era costume!

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com NORTH HOLLYWOOD MODEL SEARCH This Athens-based band plays ‘80s-inspired bubblegum pop.

Little Kings Shuffle Club “EcoFocus Film Fest After Party.” 9 p.m. FREE! (w/ EcoFocus ticket stub), $5. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER Charming local neo-folk band delivers the thriftstore gospel. EcoFocus film fest after-party.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE ORIGINAL SCREWTOPS Formerly the SOB Blues Band.

The Office Lounge Power Dogz Benefit Concert. 1:30–8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE ATHENS BAND High-energy teen rockers with classic rock influences.

THE FLAMETHROWERS Local surf rock-style rock band featuring young phenom Tyler Roberston on guitar.

THIEVES MARKET Local alternative rock band.

DEATH OF THE PEANUT KING Local classic rock band.

The Roadhouse 11 p.m. $1. (706) 613-2324 THE RATTLERS Local guys playing Southern rock.

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Four Tet, Sonnymoon, Time Wharp, Teebs Georgia Theatre Although often mistaken for a quartet by the uninitiated, Four Tet is actually the work of one inspired man, Kieran Hebden (also Fridge), and his Santa-sized bag of samples, loops and sundry pieces of electronic wizardry.

Though critics tried to pigeonhole him as a folktronica artist early on, Hebden has battled categorization by constantly challenging himself to explore new ideas and methods of making music. What was once a DIY side project has morphed over the past decade-and-a-half into his primary artistic vehicle.

While a vein of organic and acoustic sounds did run through his earliest releases, Kieran Hebden like 2001’s Pause and 2003’s Rounds, Hebden has never been a true folktronica artist, and has since branched out into various tributaries of ambient, sway-friendly electronica.

Beyond tinkering with his own sound, Hebden has also kept busy remixing a host of other artists, curating the most recent installment in the Fabriclive series, producing albums for the experimental psych outfit The Sunburned Hand of the Man, and collaborating with a diverse cadre of like-minded musicians, from late jazz drummer Steve Reid to reclusive dubstep genius Burial to Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. Perhaps the name Four Tet was inspired by Hebden’s seeming ability to be in four places at once.

In much the same way, Four Tet’s music has a way of surrounding the listener from all sides. It’s not music you move to so much as music that moves through you, hugging you tight in a warm comforter of rhythm and sonic patchwork. With up-and-coming producer Teebs also on the bill, rest assured you’ll have plenty of opportunity to dance your ass off, but by night’s end, Four Tet will have woven a dreamscape that will carry you home and keep you snug until morning. Even though Hebden’s work may be misleading, it doesn’t mean it’s not leading you somewhere great. [David Fitzgerald]

Terrapin Beer Co. BreastFest Athens. Noon–7:20 p.m. $30 (adv.), $35 (door). www.breastfest.org BETSY KINGSTON & THE CROWNS Local band balancing “heavy-hitting blues-rock and soulful country-folk.” (noon, inside stage) CLAY LEVERETT One of this town’s finest country frontmen, Leverett has led both The Chasers and Lona. (noon, outside stage) CHRIS MOORE Chris Moore performs a solo acoustic set of original Southern soul. (12:30 p.m., inside) DEJA VU John Keane, Nathan Sheppard and friends play a tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

(12:40 p.m., outside) KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This engaging local songwriter performs a unique fusion of acoustic folk and soul. (1:10 p.m., inside) 90 ACRE FARM This local sevenpiece emphasizes vocal harmonies and lyrical imagery with its soulful, folk-roots Americana. Recommended for fans of John Hiatt and Steve Earle. (1:30 p.m., outside) ADAM PAYNE This local musician’s impressively versatile tenor is somewhat reminiscent of Neil Young.

(1:45 p.m., inside) DODD FERRELLE Former Tinfoil Stars frontman and longtime Athenian Dodd Ferrelle pours heart and soul into his sweeping, anthemic ballads and alt-country rockers. (2:10 p.m., outside) CHARLIE GARRETT BAND Expect classic, country-tinged Southern rock and roll from this local band.

(2:20 p.m., inside)

BETSY FRANCK AND THE BAREKNUCKLE BAND Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country.

(2:50 p.m., outside) MARK CUNNINGHAM AND THE NATIONALS Local band plays soulful, heartfelt Americana. (2:55 p.m., inside) EFREN Efren has electrified their indie-folk sound into a new Americana rock show with thick guitars and reminiscences of long nights in bars. (3:30 p.m., outside) GRANFALLOONS Georgians playing sunny Americana with twangy guitars, the occasional accordion and lots of pop melodies. (5:25 p.m, outside) BLOODKIN The long-running Athens quartet plays a bluesy style of rootsrock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics. (6:20 p.m., outside) See story on p. 18.

Sunday 25 Highwire Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com CICADA RHYTHM Athens/Atlanta acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie folk.

END TIMES SPASM BAND Reviving the spirit of 1920s and 30s dance music, classic female blues singers and New Orleans jazz.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $12 (adv.), $16 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com TR3 FEATURING TIM REYNOLDS Electric power trio known for their fusion of funk, rock and jazz.

Monday 26 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7–10 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens LINE DANCING Learn to line dance in the Big Back Room! Every 2nd and 4th Monday.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com ERYN WOODS With her signature red mohawk, vintage-shop style and school-girl voice, early 20s singer Eryn Woods is ready to dominate the world with her eclectic brand of pop-punk.

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS FROM LAST YEAR An innovative quartet of producers/songwriters based in Atlanta that has somehow created a sound that sits between Morris Day and the Time and TV on the Radio.

KONTRABAND MUSIC High energy fusion of rock and hip-hop.

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

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $5 (adv. or w/UGA ID). $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com JASON GRIDLEY Local pop singer and songwriter, celebrating the release of his six song EP!

ERIC DODD Local singer and songwriter of country and Southern rock songs.

Tuesday 27 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BLACK SKIES Heavy, scruffy rock and roll out of Chapel Hill, conjuring thoughts of Sabbath.

UTAH Explosively loud metal and hardcore duo.

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Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT Lo-fi, high-energy garage punk from Baltimore.

PARTY PARTY PARTNERS VARIETY SHOW Members of Bubbly Mommy Gun, Quiet Hooves and other Party Party Partnersassociated acts play each other’s songs!

CHEAP DRINK SPECIALS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE 11PM • 18 + UP

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com SBTRKT Pronounced “Subtract,” SBTRKT is the stagename for Aaron Jerome, a London-based DJ and producer who wears a mask to represent his belief in maintaining anonymity to let his music speak for itself.

MACHINEDRUM The alias of New York electronic musician, Travis Stewart, whose fanbase is extending internationally.

11 p.m. $2. www.georgiatheatre.com REPTAR Members of this highly praised local synth-pop band spin some of their favorite dance jams on the rooftop! In case of inclement weather, the event will be moved to the balcony or main room of the Georgia Theatre.

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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, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye.

Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums. Every Tuesday!

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

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com WELFARE LINERS This local bluegrass band is complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle, featuring the founder of Ghostmeat Records and members of 6 String Drag.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 JUSTIN KENNEDY Local singersongwriter with a Southern drawl who sings earnest, radio-ready country ballads.

The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Come out and get on the mic. Every Tuesday!

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Fashion Show featuring Fabulous Vintage and Agora’s New Line

DJ Z-Dog Dance Party doors open at 7pm • show at 8pm

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Josh roberts & the hinges teDDy doors open at 9pm

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Nic Cowan gareth asher brian coLLins doors open at 8pm**

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Electrophoria

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kimya dawson Monday, apRIl 2

PaLeFace yoUr heart breaKs doors open at 8pm*

THURSday, apRIl 5

Music Business Rock n Roll Revue JK & the Lost boys the Desarios sLow taLK (cd release) booMFoX doors open at 8pm

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REAL ESTATE

TWERPS • FOLKLORE doors open at 7pm*

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

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

ART AthFest Call for Artists (Athens, Ga) Applications for inclusion in the AthFest Artist Market are now being accepted. Work may include ceramics, drawings and watercolor, paintings, folk art, furniture, photography, glasswork, handmade musical instruments, jewelry, mixed media, prints, woodwork or sculpture. Apply by Apr. 1. $20 application fee. 706-363-0530, 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.

Call for Entries (ATHICA) Accepting applications for the upcoming exhibitions schedule. New media, installations and traditional media welcome. Apply by May 3.

See website for details. www.athica. org/callforentries.php 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 information.

Apply by Mar. 24. Festival, May 5, 11 a.m.–7 p.m. (festival). $75 (booth fee). 5pointsartfest@gmail.com Seeking Artists (Oconee County Library) Seeking framed or readyto-hang artwork. 706-769-3950, scolombo@athenslibrary.com

CLASSES Adult Literacy Teacher Workshop (Northeast Georgia Regional Commission Office) Teacher/tutor workshop focusing on

strengthening reading comprehension, fluency and vocabulary knowledge. Sponsored by the AthensClarke Literacy Council. RSVP by Mar. 21. Mar. 24 & 31. 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m. $10. 706-254-9877, info@athensliteracy.org, www.athensliteracy. org/workshops 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.

Classes start Apr. 14–15 and June 9–10. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $95. www. uga.edu/botgarden 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 Continuing Diabetes Education (Hodgson’s Pharmacy) A four-week class for diabetes patients and their families. Preregistration requested. Saturdays, Mar. 31–Apr. 21, 2–4 p.m. 706-5437368, rabun.hodgsons@gmail.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7-9 p.m.

“Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2-4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www. gooddirt.net Divinity Unleashed Intuitive Painting Course (Over the Moon Creative Possibilities) A four-week course beginning Apr. 10. No experience necessary. Preregistration required. Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. or Thursdays, 6:30–9:30 p.m. 706-540-2712

Intermediate Fantasy Illustration Class (Lyndon House) Mark Helwig takes adult students through the process of producing a monochromatic fantasy illustration. The introduction class is a prerequisite. Thursdays, Mar. 22–Apr. 26. 6:30–8:30 p.m. $83.

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

Sundays, 9–10 a.m. (meditation) & 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. (yoga). $8/ class. www.wellnesscooperative.com Ladies’ Non-Contact Cardio Boxing (Lay Park) Build muscle strength, endurance, balance, agility and coordination. Call for more information. BYOGloves. Wednesdays through Apr. 23, 7–8 p.m. $10. 706613-3596, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lay Monologues and More!

(Memorial Park) (Quinn Hall) This program uses simple monologues, skits and improvisational scenarios to explore the benefits of drama, discover different emotional responses and build self-esteem. For teens and adults with cognitive disabilities and their caregivers. Call to register for six classes. Tuesdays, Apr. 10–May 15, 1–2 p.m. $30-40. 706-6133628, www.athensclarkecounty. com/act Mama-Baby Yoga (Full Bloom Center) Work core muscles with Super Mama Squats. For babies 0–9 months. Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. $14 (one class), $60 (six classes).

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Elizabeth Kleene’s painting is on display at the Lyndon House Arts Center through Apr. 21.

7:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30 p.m. (beginners). $8 (incl. $3.50 drink). 706-338-6613 Watercolor Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) Learn watercolor techniques such as cover wash methods, glazes and brushstrokes.

For beginners and intermediates.

Thursdays, Mar. 22–Apr. 26. 1–3 p.m. $83 (ACC residents), $125.

706-613-3623 Yoga Workshop (5 Points Yoga) With instructor Christina Sell. Apr. 13–15. $150. shannon@5pointsyoga.com, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com Yoga: Gentle Hatha Drop-In (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) From certified instructor Mike Healy.

Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9. 706-5430162, www.mindfuliving.org Zumba (Fitness at Five) Latin rhythm fitness program. Mondays, 7:15 p.m. $5. www.georgiazumba.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

HELP OUT 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 Environmental Service Project (Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities) Volunteers will help eradicate invasive plants along the Greenway. Bring gardening gloves. Sign up by Mar. 21. Mar. 24, 8:45 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8487 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 of Georgia) Artwork must portray Georgia nongame (not legally hunted, trapped or fished) wildlife and plants. Any student in grades K-5 is eligible to participate. Call for more info.

Entries due by Mar. 28. 706-5426156, www.georgiawildlife.com, www.uga.edu/botgarden 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 Exploring the Art of Georgia O’Keeffe (Lyndon House Arts Center) Explore the beautiful flowers and stark desert scenes of Georgia O’Keeffe. Students will paint flowers and other O’Keeffeinspired subjects. Ages 7–10.

Thursdays, Mar. 22–Apr. 26, 4-5 p.m. $41 (ACC residents), $59.

706-613-3623 Playgroups (Full Bloom Center) Playtime for crawlers (Wednesdays), toddlers (Tuesdays) and all ages (Saturdays). 10 a.m. $3. 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com 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 (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 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 Break Camp (Good Dirt) Now Registering for Spring Break Camps at Good Dirt. Each day’s projects are self contained so that participants sign up for one or more

days. Apr. 9-13. $55/day. www. gooddirt.com Teen Girls Club (East Athens Community Center) This program encourages cooperation, teamwork, good behavior and self-esteem in young women ages 10–18.

Wednesdays, 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593, www.athensclarke county.com/eastathens

ON THE STREET Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage (Athens, Ga) Visit historic homes, experience authentic battle sites, view impressive architecture and tour museums. Tickets can be purchased at the Athens Welcome Center or online. Apr. 19–22. $25. www.atpilgrimage.com 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 fit and active. Some proceeds also benefit UNICEF. Pre-registration required. Mar. 31, 8 a.m. (5K), 8:45 a.m. (10K). $15-50. www.athens montessori.com 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. sprockets@filmathens.net, www.filmathens.net/sprockets Seeking Film Submissions (Athens, Ga) New Belgium Brewing, maker of Fat Tire Amber Ale, is calling for filmmakers and videographers for its Clips of Faith tour.

Upload your film to www.clipsoffaith. com by Apr. 16.

St. Catrick’s Day (The Athens Area Humane Society) Offering $30 male cat neuters until Mar. 22 in honor of St. Catrick’s Day. 706-7699155, www.athenshumanesociety. org

Summer Jobs (Athens, Ga) ACC Leisure Services is hiring for 120 summer positions including camp counselors, lifeguards, park assistants, pool staff and more. 706613-3090, www.athensclarkecounty. com/jobs 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 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 Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, Ga) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.com Athens Mothers’ Center Support Group (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Mothers’ support

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 Peter Loose, PM Goulding, Anna Marino, Tom Phillips and more.

FIVE STAR DAY CAFÉ (229 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Lisa Tantillo.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Cricket Burwell. Through March.

GAINESVILLE STATE COLLEGE OCONEE CAMPUS (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy.) A selection of artwork by seniors at Athens Academy in honor of Youth Art Appreciation Month. Closing reception Mar. 29. Through March.

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

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

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 and get non-judgmental support and reassurance. Babies welcome.

Thursdays, 10 a.m. FREE! 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com Wonderful Wednesdays (Athens, Ga) Adults with cognitive disabilities can learn leisure skills, community inclusion and exploration. Call for location and more info.

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HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Photography by Holly Brown. Through March.

HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (1560 Oglethorope Ave.) Abstract paintings by Lauren Williamson.

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HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (269 N. Hull St.) Works by Brock Gordon and Beth Kleene. Through March.

JITTERY JOE’SS COFFEE ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Oils on paper and acrylic on canvas by Stuart McCall Libby. Through April.

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 and abstract paintings by Daego Ulloa.

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.

• The 2012 MFA Exhibition showcases the works of 19 graduate students. Opening reception Mar. 23.

Through Apr. 13.

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.

WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Colorful paintings

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins So, my girlfriend and I are in high school.

We get along great, and we have been together for six months. This is the longest relationship I’ve ever had. The thing is, she keeps talking about the future. I like her a lot. I might even love her. But I am not in any way ready to get married or have kids or anything like that. I don’t want to hurt her feelings, but when she says stuff like that I can’t just go along with it, either. Usually I just kind of sit there and don’t say anything, but I wonder if I should tell her how I really feel?

I’m confused.

Silent Treatment Ah, young love. I remember when I was that girl, and I used to think that I was going to marry my high school boyfriend.

In retrospect, of course, it seems completely ridiculous to me, but at the time I was very serious and very (as much as I could be at the time) in love with him. I don’t think you should worry too much about your girlfriend’s talk of the future, unless she is talking about getting married and having kids soon. I think most people who are in an exclusive relationship think that there is a real future in it, or else why would they be in it?

This doesn’t mean she is picking out a wedding dress or paint for the nursery, but it also doesn’t preclude a serious conversation. If you are that uncomfortable, her talking about it may eventually drive you apart.

Before you allow yourself time to get resentful, it would be helpful for you to just tell her how you really feel. Tell her that you are more concerned with enjoying the present, and that while you have very strong feelings for her, talk of “The Future” makes you uncomfortable. I’m pretty sure she can handle your honesty, and if she can’t, then you’re probably not as compatible as you think you are. And not to be presumptuous, but I would be remiss if I did not remind you that one sure way to make sure that you don’t seal yourself to her forever is to practice safe sex. Please, for the love of Elvis and everything holy, be careful. That is all.

I am a 24-year-old gay guy. My brother is four years older than me and straight. We are great friends and hang out all the time. He is not afraid to go with me to gay bars like a lot of my friends are, but I am going crazy because he gets hit on by guys all the time and I almost never do. We look a lot alike, but he is and has always been skinny, and I’m not.

The worst part is that he doesn’t even realize it most of the time, because guys are just not on his radar; so I’m always standing on the sidelines waiting for him to finish talking to some hottie, and then when I tell him the guy was hitting on him he’s like, “Really?! I’m sorry!”

I am about to scream. I don’t know what to do, because I love hanging out with him but I am tired of getting cock-blocked! This has happened, like, three times this year already. I am starting to get a complex. Help!

Oh, Brother You’re going to have to learn to be more assertive. When a guy sidles up to your brother, just stay in the conversation, make some eye contact and mention your brother’s girlfriend (whether he has one or not). You can’t be any clearer than that. If you both look similar, then you should have a pretty good shot unless you’re talking to a guy who is into a particular body type, and I wouldn’t worry about that too much.

If you don’t want to be that obvious, you could buy him a fake wedding band, or what about a nice frat sweatshirt?

Those guys almost never come out until after they graduate, right? And nobody would be silly enough to wear their letters in public if they were out of college!

Also, hang out in places that are not exclusively gay. That way, you guys could both shop at the same time, and his hitting on a girl might signal to the other boys that he isn’t playing on their team. In fact, hanging out in straighter places will give you better odds, since you won’t be competing with and for every other guy in the room. Then all you have to do is hone your gaydar and find the right ones out of the bunch. Use the force, my friend. Good luck.

Confidential to Surfer Girl: Perhaps you missed last week’s column? If so, do go back and check it out. You can either just come out and tell him what you want or you can start hinting at it, maybe leave a book laying around or leave something open on your computer. First, stop apologizing for what you want. It’s not weird, and it’s not your “fault.” There is no fault here, see? There are only likes and dislikes, and what people are and are not willing to do.

You have been together a long time.

You trust him. What you’re talking about is not so kinky that it will send the average man running. (Well, not away from you, anyway.)

Being direct is probably the best bet. Just have a nice outfit planned and a few tools at the ready the next time you know you’re going to have a romantic evening together. (A healthy cocktail wouldn’t hurt, either. I’m just sayin’.)

I think you’ll probably find that your guy will be ready and willing to accommodate your needs. Once he sees your getup, I’m sure you’ll have his full attention.

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Gigantic 5BR/3BA. End of Lumpkin.

2500 sf. 2 LRs, huge laundry rm., DR, FP, big deck. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1500/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Condos For Sale

Take over my lease through July.

Comfortable Eastside 1BR/1BA. 10 min. from campus. Close to shopping & countr yside. $425/mo. Contact Valerio Properties (706) 546-6900, valerioproperties@gmail.com.

Just reduced! Investor’s West-side condo. 2BR/2BA, FP, 1500 sf., great investment, lease 12 mos. at $550/ mo. Price in $40s. For more info, call McWaters Realty at (706) 353-2700 or (706) 540-1529.

Commercial Property

Duplexes For Rent

Creative workspace. $600/mo. 680 sf.

New BR w/ shower, HVAC, concrete floors. 6 mo. min. lease. Sec. dep. req. If interested, contact Matt, (323) 304-0720, mfpproductions@gmail.com.

Brick duplex, 2BR/2BA, very clean, all extras. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens. 2 units avail. Pets OK. $500/mo. + dep. Call Sharon at (706) 201-9093.

Eastside offices, 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent 750 sf. $900/mo., 400 sf. $600/mo.

(706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties. com.

UGA Med. School/Normaltown area.

Located on corner of Holman Ave. 1BR, spacious LR, kitchen w/ all appl. incl.

W/D. $550/mo. Avail. Apr. 1. Carol Moon, (706) 540-0472.

Condos for Rent Houses for Rent 2BR/2.5BA condo on Peabody St. near UGA bus stops. Appls. included. $750/ mo. mlynnorr@gmail.com.

HOUSES FOR LEASE IN CLARKE COUNTY

Call for Location and Availability.

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

New 4BR/3BA cottages Dwntn. Walk to campus, hardwood & tile flrs., walk-in closets, sec. & sound systems, covered porches & parking, Avail Aug. 1. $2000/ mo. (706)713-0626. $1100. Spacious 3BR/2.5BA. Quiet wooded fenced yd., close to campus & Dwntn. (East Athens/Winterville). Roomy house w/ eat-in kitchen: new counters, paint, appls., flrs. Rocking chair front porch, huge yd., deck, sitting area. (706) 742-2477, 180bentwood@gmail.com, www.180bentwood.weebly.com.

$1500/mo. 3BR/2BA. Spacious BRs, LR & DR, full size kitchen & W/D. Hardwoods throughout.

Lots of storage space. Detached covered parking & covered patio w/ lg. backyd. perfect for grilling/ tailgating. Off Milledge Ave. near Fraternity/Sorority Row & close to campus. Rent incl. lawn maint. & pest control. Most pets OK w/ dep.

Call/email for info or appt. Avail.

8/2012. Christy, (706) 355-9961, christy@retreatpartners.com.

$675/mo. 2BR/1BA. Spacious LR/DR & kitchen, stack W/D. Hardwoods throughout. Near Normaltown & close to campus.

Most pets OK w/ dep. Rent incl. lawn maint. & pest control. Call/ email for info or appt. Avail. 8/2012.

Christy, (706) 355-9961, christy@ retreatpartners.com.

145 Woodcrest Dr. 3BR/2BA. Avail. now! CHAC, fenced yd., pets OK, no pet fees! Nice, quiet area. $795/mo.

(706) 372-6813.

2BR/1BA, Normaltown & ARMC area.

Convenient to everything! Hardwoods.

Storage building. Pets welcome. Avail.

Aug. 1. Water, trash & lawn care incl. $800/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

2BR/1BA w/ utility room. W/D hookup, CHAC, 5 mi. north of Dwntn. Avail. now! (706) 424-1571.

2BR/1BA close to Dwntn./UGA. HWflrs., sunny, CHAC, W/D, sec. sys., fenced yd. Great for pets. Mama’s Boy area. $650/mo. Avail. 8/1 or sooner.

Liz, (706) 540-5979.

2 B R / 1 B A W o o d y D r. W e s t s i d e newly renovated duplexes, beautifully landscaped, quiet dead end street, per fect for ever yone.

Timothy school zone & close to every shopping need, 316 & t h e l o o p . ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 8 - 9 7 9 7 , w w w. boulevardproper tymanagement. com.

2BR/1BA, 129 Riverdale (June 1), 20 Milledge Ct., 230 O’Farrell (Aug. 1). All have HWflrs., tile BA, W/D. Great locations in Five Points! $650/mo. (706) 548-9797 or www. boulevardpropertymanagement.com.

Prelease Now for Fall

2BR/1BA w/ utility room. W/D hookup, fenced yd., CHAC, 5 mi. nor th of Dwntn. Avail. May 1. (706) 424-1571.

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2 tenants needed, Milledge Place. 2 BR, $350/mo., avail. May. No utils. Close to campus & UGA/Athens busline. No smoking/pets. Swimming pool. (909) 957-7058, williamsreza@gmail.com.

3BR/2BA house for rent. Oglethorpe Ave. across from the old Navy School. $850/mo. Avail. now! Call (706) 725-1555.

IN 5 POINTS, EAST SIDE AND WEST SIDE Call today Prices range from $ to view!

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Gated community of Epps Bridge, upscale living, 2br/2.5ba $1,000/mo. • Available Now www.athens-ga-rental.com • 706-613-9001

3BR/2BA completely remodeled house Dwntn. Walk to campus, Dwntn. & Greenway. W/D incl. Avail. Aug. 1. Preleasing for Fall. Only $1400/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

3BR/1BA. Blvd. area, 686 Barber St. Front porch, sm. fenced yd., W/D, DW, high ceilings, HWflrs., some pets OK. Avail. 8/1. Lease, dep., refs. req’d. $825/ mo. Call (706) 540-4752.

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.

3BR/2BA. Normaltown/ARMC area.

Convenient to everything! Front porch.

Storage building. Pets welcome. Avail.

Aug. 1. Water, trash & lawn care incl. $1200/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

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) 713-0626 & newagepropertiesathens.com.

4BR/4BA new Dwntn. Private baths, double porches, walk-in closets, hardwoods. Walk everywhere! W/D & lawn maint. incl. Pre-leasing for Fall.

Only $1900/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

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.

4BR/2BA. Nice brick house (2200 sf.), deck & fenced yd. looking for the right tenants. Convenient, safe location w/ quick access to UGA/Dwntn. Refinished throughout. 2 floors., 2 kitchens, 2 offices, HWflrs., DW, W/D, CHAC. Carport, plent of storage, room for gardening. Excellent balance of home amenities & location. $1100/mo. Avail. now or pre-leasing for Fall. Move-in terms neg. Text/call (404) 849-6572.

4BR/3BA Dwntn. off Oconee. Walk to campus/Dwntn. Newly renovated.

2 living spaces. Front/back porches.

Hardwoods. Pets welcome. W/D incl.

Avail. Aug. 1. $1600/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

5 Pts. 3BR/3BA. CHAC, HWflrs., decks, FP, new granite & stainless kitchen, family room. 5 min. to UGA. Big yard, quiet street, no dogs. Professionals preferred. $1250/mo. (706) 202-9805.

Available Fall. 2, 3, 4 & 5 BR houses.

235 Hill St., 1 or 2BR now & Aug., beautiful apt. in Victorian house.340 Barber St., 3BR/2BA amazing house.

668 Pulaski, 3BR/1BA. 580 Kathwood, 4/5BR. 136 Grove St, 3/4BR. (706) 5489797, boulevardpropertymanagement. com.

Awesome 3BR/2BA, close to campus.

New master BA w/ double sink. HWflrs., fenced backyard. W/D, DW, CHAC. Avail. 8/1. $1200/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Beautiful country home! 2BR/2BA on 22 acres. Trails, creek, fish pond.

Artist designed sunny house. CHAC, W/D, free well water. Neighbors organic farm. Pets welcome. Avail. 8/1. $700/mo.

Call Rose (706) 540-5979.

Boulevard n’hood, 3BR/2BA. HWflrs., central air, modern kitchen, big closets, laundry hookups, stunning view, Avail. now! $1200/mo. Call to see, (706) 3529491.

DUPLEXES AVAILABLE

CLARKE & OCONEE COUNTIES

Call for Availability

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

Coolest house in Athens. Pre-leasing for Fall 2012: http://185poplar.tumblr. com. 3BR/1.5BA across from Dudley Park, walk Dwntn. Totally renovated 1900s home on fenced-in acre. $1400.

(706)255.5645.

Blvd. n’hood avail. Apr. 1. 2BR/2BA + dining rm. & office. 1700 sf.

HWflrs., ceiling fans, CHAC, W/D, porch, large yd., lawn maint. incl.

Walk/bike/bus Dwntn. $1100/mo.

Humans & vegetables only, sorry no pets. (706) 351-4098.

Cedar Creek: 4BR/2BA, lg. fenced yd., $950/mo. 5 Pts.: Off Baxter St., 4BR/2BA, $1200/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Entrepreneurs! Avail. now. Close to town/ busline. 2BR/2BA + 2 office/studio. W/D, CHAC, big kitchen & LR. $900/mo. 395 Oak St. Call Josh at (706) 613-8525.

Great 4BR/4BA house. 1/2 mi. from campus. Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail.

8/1. Special! $1500/mo. (706) 369-2908.

New elec. heat pump & water heater, nice kitchen, many cabinets. Lg. laundry rm., sun porch, very clean, close to ARMC & UGA Med. School. No pets. $750/mo. $500 dep. 320 Clover St. Call (706) 549-2830.

Parking & Storage Comer Storage. Climate controlled avail. 1st mo. free w/ 1 yr. lease. Best rates around! 100 E. South Ave., 25 min. from Athens, (706) 380-5945.

Pre-Leasing 1BR/1BA, LynnRock Apts. $490/mo. w/ DW, water incl. Blocks from campus off Baxter St. Pre-leasing for Aug. Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868. www. joinermanagement.com.

1BR/1BA Hillside Apt. $475/mo. $550/ mo. w/ W/D. Water incl. Blocks from campus. Pre-leasing for Aug. Joiner Management: (706) 353-6868. www. joinermanagement.com.

2BR/2BA flats & town homes. Patriot Park, $625 w/ W/D, DW, quiet, small 7 unit bldg. Pre-leasing for Aug. Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868. www. joinermanagement.com.

2BR/2.5BA townhome, Cedar Bluff, Eastside. $670/mo. w/ W/D, DW, lg. rooms. Perfect for grad. student/ young prof. Pre-leasing for Aug. www.joinermanagement.com. Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

Arbor Creek: 1 & 2 BRs, $520 to $655/mo. W/D, DW, pool. Pre-leasing for Aug. 2012. www.joinermanagement. com, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

Dwntn., 1BR/1BA flat, $465/mo.

Pre-leasing for Aug. 2012. Water, gas, trash pick-up incl. Free on-site laundry.

Joiner Management, (706) 3536868.

Dashiell Cottages. Move–in, $75/wk.!

(706) 850-0491. Separate building, all amenities, WiFi, A/C, long distance.

Enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy the wildlife observation.

Mature students only. Spacious, furnished BR. Quiet, near campus, kitchen, laundry privileges. Shared BA, priv. entrance, Internet access. No pets. $275/mo. incl. utils. (706) 353-0227.

Sub-lease

Services

For Sale

Think you can’t afford house keeping help? I know you’ll be surprised. Just text me what you want cleaned & i’ll give you a price. Quality Earth friendly, botanically germ killing cleaning products.

Pets, kids, students: no problem. Nick, (706) 8519087. Local references on request. Email: Nick@ goodworld.biz.

Miscellaneous Bidders Buy Auction. New & used items, collectables, & antiques. Auctions ever y Fri. & Sat. 1459 Hargrove Lake Rd. in Winterville. Visit www. biddersbuyauctions.com or call (706) 742-2205 for more info.

Go to Agora! Awesome! Affordable!

The ultimate store! Specializing in retro everything: antiques, furniture, clothes, bikes, records & players! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College downtown. (706) 369-9428.

Women’s UGA Ph.D. regalia: Cap, gown, hood (royal blue). Dry cleaned. Worn once. Fits 5’4”-5” med. frame. Paid $800. $500 OBO. Call/text (706) 296-0361.

Pets Blue heeler female, free to good home, needs fenced in yard or rural setting.

Shots current, 6 yrs. old, good dog. 706401-0880.

Yard Sales 780 Timothy Rd. at Rambling Rd. UUFA Congregation-wide thrift sale. Furniture, housewares, books, toys, clothes. Fri. 3/23, 8-3 & Sat. 3/24, 8-2 inside.

Huge n’hood garage sale in Forest Heights, Sat., Mar. 24, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. (rain day Sun.). Items include furniture, antiques, retro & vintage, children & baby items, men & women’s clothing, appls., kitchenware, outdoor items & much more! Maps of all participating houses, avail. at Hendershots Coffee (Oglethorpe & 10 Loop) beginning Wed. “Forest Heights – Multi Family Garage Sale” on Facebook for more info.

Music Equipment N u ç i ’s S p a c e n e e d s y o u r o l d instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible. Call (706) 227-1515 or come by Nuçi’s Space, 396 Oconee St.

Live in town! Sought after Blvd., Normaltown, 5 Pts., Cobbham & Dwntn. locations. Lease for Fall, starting now. Call (706) 546-6900 or email valerioproperties@gmail.com.

We b u y m u s i c a l i n s t r u m e n t s & equipment every day! Guitars, drums, pro-sound & more. (770) 931-9190, www.musicgoroundlilburn.com. Huge, online inventory. We love trades! Come visit Music Go Round soon...

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) 779-2432.

Rooms for Rent 1BR/1BA suite in 2BR/2BA flat, corner of College & Willow in the historic Art Mill District near UGA & town. Gated courtyd., on Greenway, bamboo woods, pets OK. Avail. now! $350/mo. (706) 714-7600.

Huge room for rent w/ private entry. $400/mo. Pay weekly or monthly. W/D, utils. incl. Bigger than master BR. (678) 698-4260.

Wedding bands. Quality, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. (706) 549-1567. www.classiccityentertainment. com. Featuring The Magictones Athens’ premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones.com.

Stuck in a lease you’re trying to end? Sublease your house or apartment with Flagpole classifieds! Visit flagpole.com or call (706) 549-0301.

Fall leasing: 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR houses & apts. 5 Pts. & Dwntn. See at www. bondrealestate.org. Owner Broker Herbert Bond Realty & Investment. Lic. #H13552.

Now pre-leasing for Fall 2012. Baldwin Village, across street from UGA, 2 blocks from Dwntn. Summer move in. 1 & 2 BR apts., water incl., on-site laundry, on-call maint., free parking, no pets. $475-700/mo. On-site mgr., 8-12 M-F or by appt. (706) 3544261.

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

R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

Cleaning

Health Pregnant? Considering adoption? Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide.

Living expenses paid. Call 24/7. Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions, (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

Pets 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.

Jobs Full-time C a l l c e n t e r re p re s e n t a t i v e .

Join established Athens company calling CEOs & CFOs of major corporations generating sales leads f o r t e c h c o m p a n i e s . $ 9 / h r. B O S Staffing, www.bostemps.com, (706) 353-3030.

House/server staff: Greyfield Inn, Cumberland Island. Come join our house staff & live/work on a beautiful Georgia island! Some dining & wine service experience helpful. In-residence position. $25,500/annum. Hiring immediately.

Send letter of interest & application request to seashore@greyfieldinn. com.

Hairstylists! Stand Hair Studio is offering chair rental for motivated stylists w/ clientele. Fixed rent, no contract. (706) 549-8074.

Opportunities Are you char ming, aggressive & carefree? Are you sometimes impulsive & irresponsible, but also good at handling people & looking after your own best interests? Earn up to $30 for 3-hr. study. Men & women between 18–65 needed. Call Personality Studies at UGA for initial phone screening: (706) 5830819. Reference Code A.

Instruction

Are you currently receiving mental health treatment? If so, call (706) 341-3765 for information about a UGA research study.

Earn $30 for 3 hrs. of participation.

Take 1 on 1 saxophone lessons this spring from an experienced teacher & conservatory trained saxophonist.

Please visit www.hartlinker.com for more information.

Do you or someone you know have a strange addiction? A Major TV Network is offering professional help for all participants. Call (312) 467-8145 or email chicagocasting20@gmail.com.

Athens School of Music.

Instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & m o re . F ro m b e g i n n e r t o e x p e r t .

Instrument repairs avail. Visit http:// www.AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

Boulevard Piano Studio.

Piano lessons taught by local jazz musician Rand Lines. $40/hr. boulevardpianostudio@gmail.com or (706) 363-0328.

Music Services Eady Guitars, Guitar Building & Repair. Qualified repairman offering professional set ups, fret work, wiring, finishing & restorations. Exp. incl. Gibson & Benedetto Guitars. Appt. only. (615) 714-9722, www.eadyguitars.com.

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.

Dependable person needed during the evening hrs. helping a young man confined to a wheelchair. In exchange for free rent in apt., food, utils. & other amenities. Call (706) 316-2798 or (706) 549-9456.

RIVERS EDGE

LARGE 2BR/2BA TOWNHOUSES AND FLATS

Some units include fireplaces and Washer & Dryers. $550-$600/mo. Call Today to view.

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Do you want to stop drinking alcohol? We are conducting a study on a medication for treating alcohol problems. Par ticipation incl. 5 in-person assessments, incl.

4 sessions of individual outpatient t re a t m e n t . T h e re i s n o c o s t f o r treatment. You will be asked to take a medication or placebo on 2 occasions.

Call (706) 542-8350 for more info.

ATHENS LOCAL BUSINESSES:

Earn $500/day. Airbrush & media makeup ar tists for ads, TV, film, fashion. Train & build portfolio in 1 wk. Lower tuition for 2012. http://www.

AwardMakeupSchool.com (AAN CAN).

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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.?

When you buy from local independent businesses, you are helping keep your favorite Local Athens establishments open and are contributing to the vitality of the Athens economy.

Georgia Options Inc. is seeking a candidate that is interested in suppor ting an individual w/ a developmental disability. All shifts open. Please email hr@georgiaoptions. org for an application.

Help wanted! Make money mailing brochures from home! Free supplies!

Helping home workers since 2001.

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Follow Buy Local Athens on Facebook and email us at athensbuylocal@gmail.com to join the We Are Athens organization.

Help wanted. Ear n extra income assembling CD cases from home. No experience necessary. Call our live operators now. (800) 405-7619 ext.

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Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/ day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments.

No exp. req’d. (888) 729-6151.

Part-time Child care business needs loving caring person. Infant & toddler experience helpful. Will train. Great PT job for students! Go to www.creativekidsite. com.

Now hiring discreet private lingerie models. Flexible schedules, no exp. needed, good working environment, upscale clientele. Unlimited earning potential. Call for info, (706) 613-8986

Vehicles Misc. Vehicles 2001 Chevrolet G3500 15 passenger bus w/ wheelchair lift & 2 wheelchair tie-down areas. Diesel engine, A/C, automatic, white. No CDL license needed. $13,500 or OBO. (706) 549-9456.

Cash for cars: any car/truck.

R u n n i n g o r n o t ! To p $ p a i d . We come to you! Call for instant offer, (888) 420-3808, www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN).

Notices Lost and Found Lost backpack Dwntn. Call Matt, (678) 200-2077.

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brunch or lunch at those places before investing in a nice meal for a kid.

NEWS FROM THE JUICE BOX SET

They Gotta Eat: Spring does seem to have come early this year, and with it comes the desire to unlock our children from the confines of our kitchens at dinnertime. Yes, every so often, parents want to join the masses and eat out in public—but we must do so with a little bit of research, because taking a child to

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eat at the wrong restaurant is a bit like being forced to watch a really bad movie all the way to the end… and you’re the star. Fortunately, Athens has several great places that are not only kid-friendly, but also serve really good food. Just because I have kids doesn’t mean I’ve lost my sense of taste.

Kristen Morales

A Quick Roundup: Before I go into my monthly diatribe, I want to shout out to some upcoming events. For one, with Easter around the corner, you can sign up now for meet-andgreets with the Easter Bunny. Breakfast with the Bunny (9 & 10 a.m., Apr. 7 at Memorial Park, $8; 706-613-3800) is always a hoot, and I think pictures of kids with a smiling rabbit are much better than what you get with Santa Claus.

Canopy Studio’s 10th anniversary show, “Evolve” (Apr. 13–15 at Canopy Studio, $8–$15, 706-549-8051) is the type of performance that makes Athens a unique place to live, and it’s the type of thing every kid should see at least once.

There’s also a 10th anniversary carnival at Terrapin Beer Co. (see www.terrapinbeer. com for details) and the 13th annual UGA International Street Festival (see isl.uga. edu/events), both on Apr. 14. And if you’re into sports, take your kids to any of the upcoming softball, baseball or track events at UGA (see www.georgiadogs.com for schedule info).

Destination Dining: Some restaurants are in interesting places, which makes the overall dining experience more like a fun adventure.

At White Tiger Gourmet (217 Hiawassee Ave.), you can eat indoors in the historic building or outside on the picnic tables, and there are lots of places to explore (and, it’s great for lunch, dinner or weekend brunch, when kids eat free!). White Tiger’s sister res-

‘N’ Tito’s (1427 S. Lumpkin St.), where the line won’t seem nearly as long when your kids are playing in the old boat for, say, the entire time you’re there (or watching the exotic birds, or poking at the fish, or sliding down the pink elephant slide).

Still More: Your Pie (three locations) lets kids get creative with toppings, and the Five Points location has a patio. Jason’s Deli (140 Alps Rd.) has lots of fresh options that are kid-friendly and won’t break the bank, and Chango’s Noodle House (320 E. Clayton St.) will also substitute for favorite veggies in an echoey atmosphere that drowns out even the most obnoxious kid (and, really, you can’t go wrong with noodles).

Jump Around: One consistent factor among the kid-friendly Chime In: We’re fortunate to have restaurants in this town is access plenty of other restaurants in town to the outdoors. This is crucial. I with inspired kids’ menus or lots feel pretty strongly that kids who of great sides that make up a nice, misbehave in restaurants need to small meal. And kudos to the wait be removed—immediately—and staffs of our local eateries—I have can only return when they stop yet to run across someone who isn’t crying and moaning. (And yes, if at the ready with some crayons or they don’t stop, the parents need isn’t willing to bring out certain to suck it up, take their meals to foods first. I’m sure I’ve missed a go and leave. Nobody else should few places, so comment on this have to put up with your screamcolumn online to help me fill in ing child.) This means my short list the gaps. of places for a kid-friendly dinner Katherine Queen, 5, climbs aboard the boat at Cali ‘N’ Tito’s on Lumpkin Street.

But remember, parents, with (that doesn’t consist of chicken fin- The playground is a blend of vintage fantasy and fanciful playthings. Enjoying great restaurants comes great gers) includes places like Clocked warm weather at an outdoor, kid-friendly restaurant? Five pink elephant slides responsibility. It’s not out of the (259 W. Washington St.) and Ted’s out of five. question to ask that a child— Most Best (254 W. Washington toddler age and up—sit quietly at St.), where kids can run around in a courtyard taurant atop the Georgia Theatre has a lima table surrounded by strangers. If they can’t (and also get a little loud) without being seriited menu, making it tricky for picky eaters. do that, enjoy a table outside where they can ously annoying. Big City Bread (393 N. Finley But if your kid’s cool with a pimento cheese run around. Or, stay in your backyard.

St.) falls into this category, too, as does Farm sandwich, he or she can eat one and enjoy 255 (255 W. Washington St.), but I’d opt for Kristen Morales kiddiedope@flagpole.com the view at the same time. Or, head to Cali

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everyday people Jessica Ross, Hair Stylist

215 North Lumpkin St. • Athens, GA

To me, there’s nothing more everyday than the mall. So, after hunting for a belt and grabbing one of those sugary pretzels, I decided to stop by the MasterCuts with the hope of talking to a stylist.

I had the pleasure of chatting with 24-year-old Jessica Ross, who has been cutting hair in Athens for the past three years. After growing up in Madison County, Jessica is happy to be living in the city, working at MasterCuts and hanging out at the pool hall with her husband. She is not afraid to look a little different and is pretty much willing to try any new hairstyle, as long as it’s not the ‘80s poof.

FP: Where do you hang out?

JR: If I go out, usually it’s at the Rail, or Brass Rail. It used to be called Brass Rail, but it’s like shooting pool and stuff like that. That’s pretty much my hangout spot.

Flagpole: How did you get started in cosmetology?

Jessica Ross: I kinda always wanted to do it my whole life.

Just kinda went to school a couple years ago and been doing it ever since.

FP: So, you’re high school sweethearts?

JR: Uh, kind of. We got married after school. We were friends in school.

FP: Did you go to school here in Athens?

JR: Yeah, I went to Georgia Institute of Cosmetology over there beside Academy [Sports].

FP: Did you ever mess up anyone’s hair?

JR: I haven’t yet. Knock on wood.

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FP: What was that like?

JR: Um, it was different. I mean, It’s only a year of schooling, but it was definitely stressful. People’s hair is easily damaged, so learning the different techniques, whether to, you know, use certain volumes with color, stuff like that. It was kind of a lot.

FP: And how long have you been doing this?

JR: I’ve been doing it with my license for about three years, but I was doing it at home like kinda, you know, family and stuff before I got my license. So, in all, I’ve been doing it about five years.

FP: Are you from around here?

JR: I’m from Madison County, but I live in Athens now.

FP: What was it like growing up in Madison County?

JR: Well, it was different, very different from the city. It’s kind of super country and, I don’t know, people aren’t so understanding about different people, you know what I mean? Like, if you had differences like tattoos and piercings and liked different color in your hair and stuff like that, it was kind of not so [well] looked upon… like, in the city, it’s kind of like the normal, everyday thing.

FP: I see you have piercings. Do you feel more comfortable in Athens?

JR: Yeah, I do. Yeah, definitely.

FP: So, where do you live around town?

JR: I live off of Cedar Shoals, on the Eastside.

FP: How long have you lived in Athens?

JR: In Athens, probably about three years.

FP: How do you like Athens?

JR: I love Athens, period. I mean, I love it a lot more than, you know, of course, Madison County, but it has its diversities, you know. It’s more accepting, so I like it more, but it’s still… of course, like anywhere else, you have your frustrating times.

FP: How do you feel about the dynamic here with the university?

JR: It’s sometimes frustrating, with, you know… I don’t know, you get a lot of college kids… Nothing wrong with college kids, but…

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FP: Are you good at pool?

JR: No [laughs]. I’m terrible. My husband’s good at pool, but not so much me.

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JR: In high school.

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FP: How long have you been married?

JR: I got married when I was 18, so I’ve been married for five years.

FP: What kind of person were you in high school?

JR: I was always, I don’t know, I wouldn’t say different, but I was more of the person that talked to everybody and didn’t really have a set people that I talked to. I was kind of really outgoing.

FP: Is this the first place you’ve worked with your cosmetology degree?

JR: No, I used to work at Kids Doos off of Jefferson Rd. It was only for 11 months. I was there the whole time it was open, and then it closed. And then this is my second place.

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FP: What’s the weirdest haircut that someone has come in asking for?

JR: Mullets are definitely, sadly, still in. And those are, you know, the short in the front, long in the back. And when guys come in and ask for those, you just kind of want to, like, accidentally buzz up the side. But those are definitely the one cut I find very, very weird, that’s still around. That and the ‘80s “poof.” Nothing wrong with the ‘80s poof, but it should just die now.

FP: Have you ever tried to talk someone out of a bad haircut?

JR: Oh, gosh, yes. My sister, I love her to death, but she still has the ‘80s poof. And it’s terrible. I mean, I’m like, “Let’s do the side bang, or let’s do, like, little fringy bangs,” but no.

People that have the ‘80s poof are stuck with the ‘80s poof.

FP: How many different hairstyles have you had?

JR: My hair has been long, it’s been short, it’s been really short. This is the shortest I’ve ever had it, my little Elvis Presley hair. I don’t know, I don’t like being the same. You know what I mean? I don’t like the norm, so I always strive to be a little different with my hair because, I mean, it’s hair. It will always grow back. Some people don’t realize that. Some people are so anal about their hair.

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FP: So, it was all kids’ haircuts?

JR: Um, we did adults, too, but mostly kids.

FP: Were there any interesting experiences there?

JR: Kids are kind of different to do. We had, like, screamers, we had biters, we had kids that spit at you and kids that would bite at you and, like, draw blood. So, kids are definitely different, but I mean, sometimes I prefer kids… ‘cause you can be different, sweet and… I don’t know, some adults are kind of… [laughs]. Yeah…

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