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This Independence Day, my hero is my old friend Dennis Waters, who exemplifies what is best about our country.

Dennis’ response to such a statement would be unprintable, even in this newspaper: he has no pretensions to grandiose sentiment. His philosophy, if he even considers himself to have one, is probably something like, “You do what you have to [expletive] do.”

Dennis served 18 months on a nuclear submarine, because he joined the Navy for four years to stay out of Vietnam. He got routine medals and, later on, two lymphomas, which the government says have nothing to do with all those submerged patrols bunking next to the nuclear reactor. But the lymphomas certainly caused the amyloidosis that triggered the rogue protein buildup in his vital organs and nearly killed him.

Dennis grew up down Hwy 78 east of here in Thomson and came to the University of Georgia, where he spent more time working than studying and bounced around to other schools, too, before he eked out a degree in education.

He taught a year, married and moved out of state, where they wouldn’t honor his degree, managed convenience stores, came back to Georgia, worked his way up to manager in a manufactured homes business, and after four years of that, got a job teaching history in an inner-city high school in Atlanta, sometimes moonlighting back at the convenience store, where he was held up at gunpoint three times.

After 25 years of teaching, seeing the worst and the best of education, and learning to respect his students as much as he detested the educational bureaucracy, he bought back his military time, threw “If it wasn’t in all the sick days he never took, and for Medicare, retired with 30 years service.

Then Dennis moved back here, livI’d be dead.” ing on his teacher’s retirement, taking care of his absentee friend’s Five Points home, sitting on the great front porch with his lifetime collection of tropical plants, reading history and fuming at the idiocy and selfishness of the Republican Party, consoled by Bob Dylan, Sonny Terry, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and lots of others of their ilk.

By the time the cancers showed up, Dennis was on the way to getting Medicare along with the teacher’s retirement insurance, and, boy, was he going to need it. “If it wasn’t for Medicare, I’d be dead,” he says.

Dennis signed up for several experimental treatments and chemotherapy at University Hospital in Augusta, and the lymphomas were pretty much under control. But then he went through a miserable two years of respiratory problems that nobody could solve. Then the amyloidosis AL was discovered, with its buildup of insoluble protein and fluid in his kidneys, heart and lungs. The doctors realized that only radical measures would save him, and they elected stem-cell replacement.

That’s the operation where they extract the patient’s own stem cells and freeze them, then nuke his system with intensive radiation to wipe out the cancers, the amyloidosis and his immune system. Then they introduce his own stem cells back into his body and wait to see if they can take hold.

Dennis survived the operation, even though his heart stopped beating on the operating table. He got through it, and now, after 70 days in the hospital, is back sitting on the porch among his plants, slowly building his strength with physical therapy, quarantined to home for another six weeks to be sure his immune system can protect him. Through it all, he has had the assistance of friends and most especially the loving care of his son Michael, his two sisters Angie and Claudia, and their husbands, Ronnie and Craig, who now are taking turns providing ‘round-the-clock care until he can make it on his own.

Dennis served our country under the ocean and in the trenches of our education system and is now living on the retirement and health care he earned by hard work. Through it all, he has held onto his irascibly profane good humor, his love of music and reading and his never-flagging interest in the world around him. “What’s happening?” he always asks, and wants to know what he can do to help.

When we celebrate on July 4 “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” we are honoring citizens like Dennis Waters and everybody else who gives to our country through committed service and hard work.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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city dope Athens News and Views When I told Pete on the eve of my last day that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been two years and nine months, we both gaped. It just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem like that long, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true: Ben left Nov. 1, 2009, and I was here, sharing his office for a month before that, poking around the insides of Athens politics for the first time. It was scary and thrilling. The design for the Washington Street parking deck was about to be approved, and there were a bunch of smart, involved Athens people who had gotten organized (too late) to try to stop the local government from going through with a plan that seemed to them like a big mistake that would move downtown in a direction that was at odds with its distinct, well-established butâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the face of half-block high-rise developmentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fragile personality. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what the hell I was doing, but I ran after it and started talking to people and writing about it.

The concerned citizens lost on that one, and it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really closeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the decision had been made a long time before, and re-examining it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really an option. But we had a progressive Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission, and it seemed clear that they had a pretty good handle on downtown planning and the rest of what needed to be dealt with here: crushing poverty, environmental concerns, forward-looking infrastructural decisions, economic development, cultivation of the arts.

And of course, there was an election going on. It was a big one, too. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give much thought to the state legislative racesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of our Democrats, Keith Heard, was basically locked into his seat, and the other, Doug McKillip, was part of the fabric of progressive Athens. Nobody even bothered to run against him. What we were worried about was who our next mayor was going to be, and why in the world the District 5 Commission race was getting so nasty. (That may have been the single most dramatic lesson I learned on this beat: a political campaign on any level can get sleazy at the drop of a hat. The least dramatic one was that local politics is about 75 percent focused on planning issues.)

That fatigue, if I properly perceive it, is a problem that could metastasize as it emboldens those with something to gain from it.

The Democrats, unbelievably, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come up with a candidate to offer even a symbolic challenge to McKillip after he slapped them around, and are now left with no better choice than to muster support for his opponent in the Republican primary, Regina Quickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an honest and honorable person who nonetheless, politically, cannot be mistaken for anything other than a conservative Republican. Want more? A career operative for the

By the time the election was over, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d elected a mayor who looked considerably less progressive than the previous one, but the commission was basically intact. We figured the leaders on the commission would find ways to take the reins of the government a little more than they had before, so that the priorities theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d set over the preceding several years wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be abandoned. We also found out shortly after that election that we had one fewer Democrat in our legislative delegation than we thought. Doug McKillipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s party switch was galling, but not many people thought it would have much of a practical effect around here. What was one more Republican in a legislature already dominated

by Republicans? Sure, Doug was cynically looking out for himself, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like he was going to turn on his own constituents.

We all know how that last thing turned out. As for the first, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to see where the commission has taken much of a leadership role during the first year and a half of Mayor Nancy Densonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s term.

To be fair, the commissioners had their hands full for about six months with McKillipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aggressive redistricting play, which not only accomplished the remaking of Athens-Clarke Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s system of governDave Marr welcomes Blake Aued to Flagpole with the passing of the ment, but also monopolized key. the attention of our elected officials and activist citizens for the protracted duration of Republican Party and big business the controversy. And it left in its wake a prewill run unopposed for our local public school vailing atmosphere of exhaustion in Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; board because no one else could be bothered progressive communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one that may have to qualify for a vacant seat. It seems unthinkbegun before the last election cycle and has able that this could be the reality in a town conspicuously thickened during the current like Athens, so renowned for its unabashed one. liberal activism, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where we are. And the

longer the progressives stand down, the harder itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be for them to get off the deck.

The other side isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t getting tired, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to make moneyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really the flipside to progressivism in our day: the unapologetic elevation of unfettered profitmaking to the highest moral standing, and the denigration of the public interest as the domain of profligacy and sloth, if not outright theft.

This is not an exaggeration, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not confined to national politics. When our state Legislature puts a referendum on the ballot that, if Georgians can be tricked into passing it, will allow an unelected state commission to license for-profit â&#x20AC;&#x153;charterâ&#x20AC;? schools without the consent of local school boards and then support them with tax money that would otherwise go to public schools, that is prioritizing private gain over the public good. And the same opposition is in play when a wealthy and well-connected developer attempts, through an expensive, misleading and divisive PR campaign, to pressure local public officials into altering regulations intended to protect community interests in order to facilitate the construction of an inappropriately scaled and located shopping center.

Money is a much more powerful motivator than civic duty: to perform the latter, you really have to want to. I sincerely hope our beloved, progressive Athens recovers from its bout of lethargy in time to preserve what makes it great, and with enough energy to address the ills that continue to plague it.

So, here I am, using my final column as Flagpole city editor as a platform for yet another longwinded, moralistic rant. Could it have been any other way? Despite all my consternation, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a great pleasure and a greater honor. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in Blakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able hands now, and I expect heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep you better informed than I ever have. But youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to supply the action yourselves.

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city pages constitutionality of the “show me your papers” provision claim it is an invitation for police to racially profile, which sustains a climate of fear in the undocumented community.

Opponents of Georgia’s legislation, HB 87, Last week, the United States Supreme are uncertain what this ruling will mean for Court struck down three provisions of Arizona’s the state’s undocumented population. anti-immigrant legislation (SB 1070), but “I would say the reaction in my community upheld the law’s controversial provision that is fear,” said Beto, an undocumented immiallows police to check the immigration status grant in Athens. “I received a call from my of people they stop for any standard reason. brother and he said, ‘Did you see the news?

The three provisions deemed unconstitutional What’s going to happen now?’ But I could hear were the requirement that legal immigrants the fear on his voice.” carry documentation at all times, the rights The ruling indicates that at least some of of police officers to make arrests without HB 87 could be upheld in later proceedings, warrants and the prohibition of the rights of which would eliminate the injunction that a undocumented immigrants U.S. District Court judge to seek employment.

“Did you see the news? placed on the law’s most Arizona Governor Jan controversial measures, Brewer signed the legisWhat’s going to happen citing that their intent lation into law in April, is to create “a climate of now?”

2010. It was scheduled hostility, fear, mistrust and to go into effect at the insecurity.” end of that July, but a federal judge issued But even in advance of a ruling on the an injunction against its most controversial Georgia law, undocumented immigrants like provisions.

Beto are fearful that the ruling will mean more While the Supreme Court decided to uphold police stops that result in Immigration and the “show me your papers” clause, it also Customs Enforcement holds. made it clear that the provision can still be Others are optimistic about the ruling. Ian subject to more legal action should its impleAltman, an English teacher at Clarke Central mentation lead to racial profiling. In Athens, High School and a proponent of the DREAM opponents of the law are not very comforted Act, is excited. “I think the ruling on Arizona’s by this declaration.

SB 1070 is fantastic,” he said. “It basically “I do not see how the ‘show me your guts the law… I also think it means Georgia’s papers’ section can be enforced without racial HB 87 will be struck down in federal court…” profiling and discrimination,” said Betina Interested parties on both sides are waitKaplan, a University of Georgia professor ing to see how last week’s ruling may affect who also teaches at Freedom University, an the Obama administration’s recent announceorganization that offers college-level classes ment of a policy directive that will give to students free of charge, regardless of their certain undocumented immigrants the opporimmigration status. tunity to apply for deferred action status.

The court’s decision is not sitting well with civil rights groups. Those challenging the Melissa Hovanes

Athenians React to Ruling on Arizona Law

wth? athens Local Mysteries Solved!

Editor’s Note: One of the delights of working at Flagpole is having a new writer show up with an idea so compelling that we’re forced to find room for it. Robin Pratt recently emailed us with her suggestion for a series called “WTH? Athens,” and it starts in this issue as an occasional piece that we think you’ll enjoy. Here’s how it came about.

I’ve lived in Athens for seven years and have spent most of this time driving around wondering, “What the hell?” For example: What the hell is up with the vacant lot next to Mama’s Boy? Is that a homemade tank parked there? What the hell is the story with that house out towards Watkinsville? Why so many

lawn ornaments and windchimes? Do elves live there? Why the hell does that woman who lives over by Chicopee have 27 tiny crosses in her front yard? Has she had really bad luck with a string of pet hamsters, or is it something more sinister? What the hell is the deal with George, that guy downtown who rolls around in his wheelchair and sells stories of Athens’ history? Has he lived here forever?

I got tired of wondering and decided just to ask. Knowing the answers to little mysteries like these makes Athens a richer, more interesting place to live and reveals a community full of quirky passions and untold stories. I thought that perhaps your readers would be interested in these stories, too…

Signs and Wonders You’re sitting at Milledge and Lumpkin, snarled in 7:45 a.m. traffic, wishing you’d left a little earlier so you could pull into Jittery Joe’s for a large dark, and suddenly you see it.

The slightly goofy, totally affable face of that Realtor Guy with the made-up-sounding name.

His fist is raised; his bald head gleams. The light finally changes, and the cars behind you honk, but you don’t care. Because today that Realtor Guy is not trying to convince you to call him so he can sell you a condo. No. Right now that Realtor Guy is selling you one thing and one thing only: the chance to “Be Great Today.”

“I will,” you think, forgetting to swear at the pedestrians ambling across Lumpkin and eating up your green light. “By gum, I WILL be great today.”

OK, so maybe one upbeat billboard won’t change your whole outlook. That’s why Reign

Streiter, local Athens Realtor, has purchased 20 of them. Now, no matter where you go in the Athens area, there’s a good chance you’ll get a dose of Reign’s optimism, like it or not.

I wondered what would motivate a busy professional to spend his own money demanding greatness from strangers, so I called him and asked. It turns out “Be Great Today” is an expression he’s known for among his friends, and one he thought would benefit everyone in Athens.

“I try to stay positive,” explains Streiter, “and remember that our glass is 90 percent full. People in other places have massive problems. If your only complaint is that someone’s not turning right on red, you’ve got it made.”

Bar patrons in particular seem to appreciate the gesture. Reign reports that many drinkers, busy making their days great, raise their fists and ask to pose for pictures when they see him out on the town. His wife and kids are sometimes exasperated by all the attention, but Streiter takes it in stride. “I’m used to it,” he says modestly.

Reign asserts that his one-man campaign is a hit with the public, and that he regularly gets messages from strangers thanking him for the boost. Sadly, though, not everyone appreciates the peppy realtor. “One client fired me when the signs came out. He said, ‘You need to spend less time telling me to be great today and more time selling my house.’”

Reign is undeterred by Athenians who are content with merely passable days, however, and plans to update the signs in the next few months with other supportive messages.

And though some might write Reign off as a delusional, hairless Polyanna, in today’s tough housing market it takes determination for a realtor to look on the bright side. If he can be great today, maybe we all can.

Robin Pratt Next up in WTH? There’s an intense, squinty-eyed man who drives around town in an enormous truck decorated with skating-rink rope lights and three massive, pole-mounted flags—American, POW, Stars and Bars.

Clearly, he’s got something to say. So, I accosted him in the Alps-Kroger parking lot and asked him to tell me his story.

Do you have a question about something or someone in Athens but are too shy or too busy to ask?

Submit your mystery to wthathens@flagpole.com, and we’ll get to the bottom of it for you.

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A Changing America

Why Did They Do It?

The language of a recent Supreme Court decision provides a useful reminder of how America has changed over the past 250 years.

It is something to think about as we celebrate another Fourth of July holiday to mark the founding of our nation.

The Supreme Court justices were considering a challenge to the law Arizona enacted that would enable the state to expel immigrants who crossed the border without legal documentation. That Arizona law was the inspiration for a similar law passed in Georgia, reflecting the belief of some citizens that the federal government isn’t doing enough to stop the influx of undocumented immigrants. The Supreme Court overturned most of the provisions of that Arizona law, ruling that immigration control is a function that has always been the responsibility of the federal government. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative appointee to the court, made an observation in the opinion he wrote for the majority.

“The history of the United States is in part made of the stories, talents and lasting contributions of those who crossed oceans and deserts to come here,” Kennedy said. “The National Government has significant power to regulate immigration,” he added.

“With power comes responsibility, and the sound exercise of national power over immigration depends on the Nation’s meeting its responsibility to base its laws on a political will informed by searching, thoughtful, rational civic discourse.”

Kennedy was noting the fact that our society has been shaped and refined by the successive waves of immigrants who came here from widely differing cultures.

The court’s decision also confirms the reality of the demographic numbers. There are probably more than 12 million immigrants residing illegally in the United States. No matter what states like Arizona or Georgia try to do, there is no plausible way to detain all of

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these people and suddenly deport them back to their country of origin. State Rep. Edward Lindsey (R-Atlanta), one of the GOP leaders of Georgia’s General Assembly, conceded as much in an email to his constituents.

“It is not practical to expect 12 millionplus illegal aliens to be rounded up and sent home—especially children who crossed the border with their parents and know no other country or culture but ours,” Lindsey said.

Immigrants have always come to America, and their movement here in recent years has contributed to a trend in which a majoritywhite population has become more and more diverse. Census officials report that during the past year this country reached a tipping point.

Racial and ethnic minorities for the first time accounted for more than half of the children born in the United States.

According to the 2011 census estimates, 50.4 percent of children below the age of one year were Hispanic, black, Asian or a member of some other minority group. We see this growing diversity in Georgia. It is estimated that people from minority ethnic groups now make up 53 percent of the state’s population that is under the age of 18.

Georgia’s minority youth population grew by more than 14 percent over the last 10 years.

There are political implications as well.

In 2002, whites comprised 71 percent of the state’s registered voters. The number of registered voters who were self-identified as Hispanic was just 12,461. Ten years later, the percentage of white voters has dropped to 60 percent. The number of Hispanic voters is 98,538, according to the most recent data from the secretary of state’s office.

My hope is that all of us will be able to have a “searching, thoughtful, rational civic discourse” about where we go as a nation, as Justice Anthony Kennedy implored.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

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hat if China, flush with its new wealth, opened its doors to mass immigration? It would make sense from an economic and social point of view, because its one-child-per-family policy has produced a young generation far smaller than the one that now does most of the work.

China’s population is “aging” (i.e., its average age is going up) faster than any other country in history, and it could certainly do with some more young people.

If it had an immigration policy like that of the United States, China could fill all the gaping holes in the workforce that will open up when the present adult generation retires, and there would be enough people working and paying taxes to support that older generation in its “golden years.” Otherwise, there will be barely one worker for each retiree, and their post-retirement years will be far from golden.

So, let’s suppose China opens the gates.

(Stay with me on this.) The immigrants would come—from all over the world. Probably most would be from south and southeast Asia (India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines), but plenty of Russians would come, too. So would Arabs from the slums of Cairo, and Congolese from the slums of Kinshasa, and Mexicans fleeing the bloody war on drugs.

There would be young Europeans coming, too, fleeing the 25-to-50 percent youth unemployment rates of Spain, Italy and Greece. Some Americans would also come, like former automobile workers from Rust-Belt states, hoping that their skills would find employment in what is now the world’s biggest car-maker.

China’s politics wouldn’t deter them; they have already tried being free and poor, and some of them would be willing to trade.

They would all come, and China would be transformed. In 50 or 60 years it would be one of the world’s most diverse societies. Almost all the new immigrants would learn to speak some Chinese, of course, but their children would be fluent in the language. Indeed, they would think of themselves as Chinese, even though their skins were white, brown or black and their religions Muslim, Christian, Buddhist or Hindu.

Some tens of millions of them would already have intermarried with ethnic Chinese, if only because there are tens of millions of young Chinese men who will otherwise remain unmarried. (The Chinese have been killing too many of their baby girls.) And everybody would live more or less happily ever after.

I know. It’s never going to happen, because the Chinese would never let it happen. But that’s precisely the point. The Americans have let it happen. Why? I’m not saying it is a bad thing. Personally, I like it. But it is an extraordinary thing.

Sixty years ago the United States was a country whose population was overwhelmingly of white European descent. The only really big minority was the black and mixed-race

descendants of African slaves, who accounted for about one-eighth of the population. And then the United States opened the gates very wide.

Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that non-white births in the country narrowly exceeded the number of births to white Americans for the first time. There are some curious kinks in the statistics, such as the fact that Spanish-speaking whites are not counted as white, but the message is clear: the next adult generation in the United States will not be majority white.

So, why did the last two generations of Americans, who were still mostly of European descent, let it happen? Did they welcome and encourage it as a good thing for the country’s future? Or were they just asleep at the wheel?

Some Americans certainly did encourage it, arguing that turning the United States into a microcosm of the whole world was fulfilling its destiny, and that the sheer diversity of its future population would give it a huge

competitive advantage in the world. But there were not many people who made that argument, and there is actually little evidence to show that ethnic diversity makes a country more competitive.

Nor did this immense change happen while the old white population was just not paying attention. There were debates about immigration policy all the time, there was plenty of information about where the current immigration policy was leading, and Americans simply let it happen.

One explanation that sounds plausible is that it was about fairness. As descendants of immigrants themselves, they felt that they could not deny others the same opportunities. Many older white Americans were clearly uneasy about the new social reality that was springing up around them, but most of them remained true to their ideals and never mobilised to stop it.

Maybe the last two generations of Americans were a lot less racist than many people—including many Americans—thought.

Or perhaps they were all silently aware that only 500 years ago, none of the births in North America were white.

Gwynne Dyer Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

athens rising What’s Up in New Development Another week, and another frat house proposed on the outskirts of the historic Reese and Pope neighborhood. This time it’s Phi Kappa Tau, proposing to convert a former restaurant on West Broad into its banquet hall, with long-term plans of renovating the building into a full-fledged fraternity house. Also looming is a proposed Sigma Chi chapter on North Milledge, between Hancock and Meigs on the border of the Cobbham and Reese and Pope neighborhoods.

With space on South Milledge Avenue largely maxed out and the university as a less than reputable landlord on campus— having muscled several fraternities off Lumpkin Street over the last few years—it’s no wonder these organizations are looking for land free and clear off campus. Unfortunately, fraternities have such a negative impact on neighborhoods that no one wants them nearby. Already neighbors complain of noise from Kappa Alpha, the last fraternity to move north of Milledge, and are worried about the precedent the votes on these new requests will set.

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residents would almost certainly be kept up at night). However, there are other things happening on West Broad that suggest a brighter future for the corridor.

Local businesses have begun colonizing that strip, suggesting a larger pattern of reinvestment as downtown fills up and out. Especially now that a master plan seems likely to be undertaken soon, perhaps we should hold off on locking in that site’s use, potentially for generations. The lot it would occupy is nearly a whole block’s worth of frontage on West Broad, and if more walkable retail really is in the cards, then fraternity parking might not be the highest and best use of that site.

What’s really needed, if fraternities are going to continue looking off campus, is a new model that better blends into its context in terms of use and impact, as well as design and footprint. The large party lawn, with massive alumni parking lot, has got to go. They aren’t necessities for Greek life, and there are precedents as near as Georgia Tech that could provide inspiration. Some schools even assign fraternities their own floors in dormitories.

What we need locally is a sense of other ways to contain a Greek residential community besides the Milledge Avenue concept.

If such alternative models were applied, how might they turn out here? The perennially for sale Albon Chase house at Clayton and Hull streets downtown comes to mind as a structure that could easily be adapted for a fraternity use, with a little creativity and flexibility on the part of both the fraternity and county planners. Already located in an entertainment district and well-served by shared parking, a fraternity house conversion there might blend right in. The structure’s residential character (which makes it ill-suited for a retail use) is reminiscent of the character of Milledge Avenue houses, and so could give a fraternity house the architectural branding of that genre.

Beyond that, it’s worth considering whether mixed-use and downtown-style buildings in general might be a better way to go. Already, housing developers are ramping up construction of student housing in the district, and there’s no reason why frat boys wouldn’t be up for loft-style living. A little retail on the ground floor would ameliorate many of the negatives of a fraternity on a commercial strip; even a redesign of Phi Kappa Tau’s proposal could turn that structure into a positive anchor for West Broad, rather than the kind that drags it down. Shared parking could also be more viable than a giant single-use lot.

So, already there are potentials for a mixedThe Albon Chase house would make a suitable fraternity house in an already busy area. use synergy from such a strategy. Likewise, taking the partying that fraternities attract Of course, with reports like the one headlined “Flaming deer and shifting it indoors and off the lawn would do much to head sets off Chi Phi fire alarm” appearing all too frequently address neighbors’ concerns about noise. An urban location in The Red and Black and other crime blotters, it’s not just reduces the need for cars, parking and the potential for drunk parking and partying that neighbors have to worry about. driving, with easier access to cabs and campus buses.

There’s also the frequent visits from siren-blaring local law A more flexible and creative approach to fraternity housing enforcement at all hours of the night. Chi Phi, of course, has a that anticipates the problems that these houses will cause, new house under construction on South Milledge, abutting the and designs with prevention in mind, is sorely needed. The Midtown-Bloomfield neighborhood; county commissioners perquestion is whether alumni funders (perhaps more eager for mitted that development over neighborhood objections, afraid a gameday tailgating spot than to work cooperatively with that something worse might be developed. Fraternities are bad the city) will start listening to neighbors—and the trends in neighbors in Athens, bottom line, and with no real solution housing that apply to this generation of college students—to likely coming from the university on the issue, neighbors are create a truly successful academic community, and not just right to be very upset about the rise of this kind of use. another animal house. The Phi Kappa Tau motto says their These places have the same impact as some of the rowdiest organization’s purpose is “to champion a lifelong combars in town, and residential neighborhoods are inappropriate mitment to brotherhood, learning, ethical leadership places for them. And that’s part of what makes Phi Kappa Tau’s and exemplary character.” Here’s hoping that being good proposal so interesting. At first, the ailing commercial strip of neighbors and good citizens is part of that. Real leadership, West Broad might seem like an excellent place for this land dialogue with the community and a desire for creative comprouse; the building has been vacant, and it’s not quite so embed- mise would be a great place to start. ded in a neighborhood as other locations where such uses have been proposed or executed (though Dearing and Reese Street Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

google that sh!t Search: API membership When two or more employees get together and organize for better conditions, it’s considered a threat. Thirty years of mantrically repeated conservative economic ideology has made “union” a dirty, dangerous word.

The percentage of U.S. workers in unions is barely half what it was at Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, since that president began the modern assault on labor. Unions are now regularly blamed for the recession in conservative media—not bankers, job-off-shorers or their lapdog politicians.

Organized capital, however, is doing about as well as it ever has. Whole consortia of corporations can organize into unions to determine market conditions, push for lower tax rates (for them, not you), lessen environmental regulations and increase capacities to squeeze more value out of workers. Much of that effort is conducted in Congress and state legislatures: lobbyists trade favors with our elected representatives.

But as important as that largely invisible influence-peddling is the outward-facing project of manipulating public opinion.

The perfect crime, these corporations have discovered, is when the victim is convinced that the theft is a legitimate, even desirable outcome. What if the victim begs to be rolled?

Bankrolled by the biggest oil corporations in the world, the American Petroleum Institute has been running a half-centuryplus con job. The API member list includes nearly every entity making money on the sale of oil and its derivatives. It’s a bit like if the biggest meth labs formed a trade group. We know that oil is toxic, dangerous to obtain, and its use is guaranteed eventually to destroy everything around us. The pushers must distract us from these unpleasant realities, but they must encourage us to be complicit in the destructive behavior.

Back in the early 1960s, API duped patriotic Americans into buying absurd amounts of gasoline along the API-charted “Lincoln Heritage Trail,” a serpentine, 2,200-mile hot mess described by Lincoln scholar R. Gerald McMurtry as “a meandering route that goes or ends no place in particular.” The API’s goal back then was to get Americans used to driving all the time, and it worked. Then came modern climate science and the discovery of the effects of atmospheric carbon, and the API backed off its message encouraging Americans to drive around in senseless circles, and took another tack. A leaked API memo from 1998 exposed a vast and expensive campaign by the group to promote the “uncertainties” of climate science to citizens. Climate change skepticism in recent years points to the success of the oil companies’ campaigns.

But as climate scientists further solidify their findings, the API has in recent years pursued a new, apparently desperate angle: oil might kill us all, but it’s completely indispensable.

Complete with free lesson plans, games, comics and videos, the API-funded “Classroom Energy!” project reaches into schools to convince children that they can’t possibly live without oil: that the oil corporations’ power is necessary. It’s a threat, in a way. Available for classrooms is “Fuel-less” (modeled after the 1995 film Clueless—get it?), a “funny and informative 16-minute video” about a “young, pampered” teen from whose life all petroleum-derived things suddenly vanish, prompting the epiphany: “You’re not going to believe this, but everything I have that’s really cool comes from oil!”

I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I can only imagine that at the end, all our hip protagonist’s plastic shit reappears, along with her “cool” cancerous growth. I also hear that in the director’s cut, a million or so Iraqis come back to life during the “oil doesn’t exist” scenes.

API’s ubiquitous “Energy Tomorrow” media campaign tries the same tack with adults, just replacing “cool stuff” with “jobs and security.” As humanity is endeavoring to imagine a post-fossil fuel future, the API is there with a hopeless, nihilistic message: not only must we knowingly participate in the precipitous destruction of our livable environment, but that death march can only proceed with more and more wealth being collected by those leading us on our way.

Matthew Pulver

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Playing Tourist

Laughs, Dances and FOllies

Hotel Restaurant #1: Hotel food gets a bad rap and for good reason. Usually overpriced and underwhelming, it aims at the lowest common denominator and toward the visitor too afraid to venture beyond the familiar. In Athens, however, and especially in downtown Athens, hotels should try a little harder, with so much competition right outside the door.

The Holiday Inn at the corner of Hull and Broad streets thoroughly renovated its eatery last year, rebranding it as Redfearn Grille (706-549-4433) and redoing the decor from scratch. There’s no question the room feels more up to date, and the butter mints on the way out are a nice perk, but the food, at least during the lunch hour, isn’t any different than it ever was. That is to say: it’s an OK Southern buffet offering all-you-can-eat for about $10 a person. The focus changes depending on the day, from BBQ to meat-and-three to fried fish, but it doesn’t change that much. On a Friday, you can expect: fried whitefish (tender and

but served on a good brioche) to the sweet potato fries served as a side (clearly cut from actual sweet potatoes and fried to a perfect texture but dusted with cinnamon sugar in copious amounts). Still, the stuff is well made.

The cheese grits have the cheese on top rather than incorporated, but they’re high quality, and the chicken cordon bleu panini is flavorful and juicy. They don’t appear to be getting their ingredients out of bags, and if they are, they must be nice bags. The restaurant does breakfast and lunch every day, has a full bar and takes credit cards.

Happy Independence Day, everyone. July 4th always puts me in mind of two things: the power of the Declaration of Independence, in which Thomas Jefferson kicked George III and the entire concept of the divine right of kings square in the royal nards, and the words of Benjamin Franklin at the signing: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

If you’re looking for live-performance events at which to hang together (see what I did there?), here’s what’s going on around town this month.

#3: Perhaps the nicest surprise I had in my hotel dining experiences was that of the Georgia Center’s Savannah Room (706-5426341). Also recently renovated to remove the floral explosion that used to bedeck its interior, the space is calmer, albeit still slightly odd with its peaked greenhouse roof in the back room. Don’t worry. If you’re looking for

Cut, Curl and Set: The Circle Ensemble Theatre Company will stage Robert Harling’s 1987 play Steel Magnolias at Ashford Manor the first two weekends in July. For those who have never seen the play, or the 1989 film starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts, or the re-airing of the film on some cable station somewhere every minute of every single day for the past two decades, it is the story of six women who congregate at a beauty parlor in small-town Louisiana to swap stories and lend each other a hand through their individual tri-

humor and titillation unique to burlesque.

Every Beta is different, but the show is always a good time, and the crowd (and yes, I mean crowd—arrives early) is as entertaining as the performers. The show starts at 10 p.m., and admission is $3 at the door.

Seven Veils: On Monday, July 9, Flicker Theatre & Bar plays host to Ishtar 2.0, an evening of bellydance performances featuring Athens troupe Sulukule and special guests Qamar, from Augusta, with solo performances.

I’ve seen several of these dancers perform in the past, and this show promises to incorporate several traditional schools of bellydance as well as infusions of modern technique.

These are top-notch dancers, and this will definitely be a show worth checking out.

Showtime is 8 p.m., and admission is $5.

Mo’ Laughs: It’s interesting to see the proliferation of stand-up comedy nights popping up in our otherwise musically inclined nightclubs.

The Caledonia Lounge takes a break from being a loud, dark, sweaty box to be a funny, dark, sweaty box when it hosts Shameless: A

Redfearn Grille well battered, but too salty), hush puppies, baked tilapia, decent mac and cheese, stuffed tomatoes, black-eyed peas, fried chicken (in case you’re not into fish), a small salad bar, clam chowder, bitter greens and a bit more this and that. The breadth is decently impressive, but most of the offerings aren’t very exciting or particularly well executed.

If you care to pick a dessert from the case at the entrance, it’s included in your total, but the slices of cake didn’t look awesome. The restaurant does expand its options at dinner, and it’s open on many holidays when little else in Athens is. It serves three squares a day, has a full bar and accepts credit cards. #2: On the other side of downtown, The Hoyt House in the Foundry Park Inn & Spa (706549-7020) is a bit fancier, as befits its historic home setting. “Small bites” at the top of the menu isn’t false advertising, and you may feel teased by the two $8 crab and risotto cakes with a red pepper/Tabasco sauce that come on a giant platter emphasizing their miniature dimensions. That said, they are tasty, which is more than can often be said for the giant ones.

Whoever’s in the kitchen seems to have a bit of a sweet tooth, as evidenced by items from the sauce with the crab cakes to the pimento cheese (also too runny in consistency

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your old favorites, the celestial chicken (fried chicken tenders over rice) and the strawberry ice cream pie are still present. But the menu has expanded to include a daily sustainable entree, featuring veggies grown by the UGA College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. Nor is that option lazily thrown together. On a recent Thursday, it was a lovely little roasted quail, covered in crispy bits, paired with a hunk of chorizo and served with delicious mashed potatoes and swiss chard cooked quickly over high heat with a squeeze of citrus. Every element on the plate had been thoughtfully cooked and tasted darn good.

The prices, too, were excellent, averaging less than $8 for a lunch entree, the same price you’d pay for a sandwich at many establishments. Parking can be an issue on campus, but the restaurant also validates for two hours’ worth in the South Campus Deck. The Savannah Room does lunch weekdays and dinner every day but Sunday. It has early-bird specials and a full bar and takes credit cards.

What Up?: Gymnopédie and The Local Jam closed July 1. Chipotle is open near the Alps shopping center. Pulaski Heights BBQ will open in the Leathers Building in a couple of months, sooner if we’re lucky.

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The Circle Ensemble Theatre Company presents Steel Magnolias at Ashford Manor, through July 14. umphs and tragedies. The play and film have become as indispensable to modern women’s mythology as Field of Dreams has for guys.

Helmed by guest director Rick Andosca, Circle Ensemble’s production looks to be very good, with a top-notch cast of seasoned performers, and staging this particular play in the bucolic setting of Ashford Manor is inspired.

The show runs Thursday–Saturday, July 5–7 & 12–14, all shows 8 p.m. Tickets are $15, $10 for students and are available at www. circleensembletheatre.com or by calling (706) 362-2175.

Go Bar Girls: The lovely ladies of Effie’s Club Follies, Coolsville’s very own burlesque troupe, present their monthly talent showcase Burlesque Beta at Go Bar on Friday, July 6. For those who have never attended Beta, it’s a variety show featuring singing, dancing and the occasional tossing of dangerous objects, all infused with the mix of raucous

Comedy Show on Monday, July 16. Headlined by touring comic Paul Hooper, who’s been a featured act at a number of comedy festivals, the showcase features seven comics and host Chris Patton. Admission is $5 for folks age 21+ and $7 for those 18–20. Doors open at 9 p.m.

An Evening of Rank Brutality: Several of Athens’ most hardcore comics will gather with knives sharpened for The Athens Comedy Collective Presents the Roast of Ed Burmila on Wednesday, July 18. If you don’t know what a roast is, you’re probably not ready to go to one, but if you’ve ever seen a movie where a guy falls out of a boat into piranhainfested waters and then his skeleton bobs to the surface, it’s like that. With jokes. Upstairs at The Globe, starting at 9 p.m., dressy attire is requested.

John G. Nettles theatre@flagpole.com

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conjunction with Byhalia Books, Flagpole sponsored a “Write Like Faulkner” contest to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death.

The judges agreed on the first and (close) second-place stories but could not agree on a third, and so only these two are published here. The first-place story, “Plowed Fields,” will be read aloud during “The Sound and the Faulkner,” an evening of local people reading from Faulkner’s work. This commemorative gathering takes place at Ciné from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 5, the eve of the 50th anniversary of William Faulkner’s passing.

blending of races was as agreeable as whiskey and water, and the blood of a hundred generations of hunters and farmers and townspeople in Africa, whose time had come and gone and come again. The cracked windowpane above her head was a stylized hieroglyph written on the sky, a cryptic symbol of the macrocosm, a halo.

“We’re going to be late,” she said.

“Yes,” he said, “but it will be all right.”

John Gaither

Plowed Fields

She stood in front of the window, telephone in hand.

“Are you ready?” she asked.

He looked past her, through the big window with its single cracked pane, over the grassy yard, and the yards and houses beyond, where there had been plowed fields not so long ago, stretching to the even older woods on the horizon—a view that telescoped both space and time so that the oldest things were the farthest away, like the light from the most distant stars.

Before the subdivision were the plowed fields, a sea of green with its billows and swells frozen in the summer heat, a sea of money that had sent the sons of its masters to academies and colleges, distant towns and remote cities, finally returning in their dotage to sip coffee in the morning, whiskey in the evening, and to shoot birds on the weekend. For some, the sea of green had financed local investment, mills and feed stores, real estate and banking—men whose interests narrowed as their influence grew, inverted pyramids of power and humanity, an expanding cone whose core became more empty as it widened, until at its farthest reaches there was nothing in the center at all. And the sea of green, of cotton, of money, the ocean of white that washed the boundaries of the woods beyond, had given little more than food and shelter to the men and women and children who worked the land, who were brought across the ocean to work the land, whose ancestors and descendants were at home in Ghana and Pauldoe—in homes with packed-dirt floors, in churches where spirits were raised as earthly hopes were suppressed and who had finally left the land, drifting away to Athens, or Atlanta, or up North.

And before the big, plowed fields, there was the forest where the aboriginal people had hunted and tended their fields and built their towns, guided by the daily and seasonal needs of survival, whose children played at being hunters and prey; and their time had come and gone, leaving the bones of a hundred generations in the soil, under the fields and roads and towns where deer had grazed and bears had walked and bison had gathered.

She spoke again, and she was Africa and Europe and America, a black-white-and-red vessel holding the blood of Granny Yarky, who was listed in the census of 1790 as “Yarico, Indian,” the blood of a Georgia governor for whom the

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He (the boy) stepped down through the lilies and crossed the shoals and found the path—it would not be a path for another 20 years—the oak he had slept beside last night was still a sapling—nascent Cherokee Corner—but a path still to frontier bred (or raised, or if not raised at least begot) and climbed the hill. The motionless unaxed woods static and terrific in their disdain, indifferent to men, red and white (not black: at least not yet), who moved through them like impotent wraithy shades, promised a terrific fecundity. He moved silently uphill, following the small clear stream to its source.

He was the founder, if any one man coming 10,000 years later than the red men he had seen along the line could be said to found anything, or to have found anything. It was one of that

tribe, already lost and blasted but a hundred years away from the Irish president’s final solution, that had told him of the spring, almost at the top of the hill, above the dense cedars and the shoals. He would be the first then; girdle trees grub roots and corn between, wispy beans, and venison, Romulus in buckskins, bear, brother to man sharing his food and he without rancor planting again and more this time; without haste building the cabin on the hill above the spring. He would be a man before a woman came upriver, on the skiff with her brothers, roan Colleen 16 years old, nutbrown with slender forearms work-hard, ropey; he amazed, incredulous at the clear bright smile life and promise her brothers strong and open, not vicious gander-pulling crackers he had left outside Augusta.

Motionless, with ineffable unwinking gaze, he watched the skiff ground below his shoals. The solitude was at an end (solitude leavened, lightened, by the company of the red men whom he shared with—but they were not his tribe). The scars he bore—not visible—the outrage, fight, had departed with the work, sweat, planting.

He looked with a deep and sober astonishment at the uplifted slight breasts, looked now as a man, brave now not false brave but competent to Jason Crosby get in a crop, to doctor himself, to not need to take from another to live. He took no more than he needed. He welcomed them. So he was the first. The corn would grow, then cotton university plantations railroads war cottonmill shinglemill bobbinmill; Waddell, White, Thomas, Cobb, Howell, Welch, Church, boll weevil depression; his shoals dammed, covered over, 16-hour workdays for 14-year-old girl children, mansions rising as the soil washed away, the loam of 100,000 centuries that the boy had not been able to dig to the bottom of, gone, his spring filled with the refuse, flotsam of a growing town, paved over, forgotten, he repudiated by his progeny, they contemptful, even destroying the mansions, exuberant, concupiscent, insatiable. The spring still flowed, invisible almost, refuting the merchants of death, carrying the atoms of the boy long buried with the girl to the shoals below, and on.

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

• indicates new review ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (R) The historically playful Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets most things right until it whiffs on a tremendously silly climax that involves the 16th president personally overseeing a secret mission to save the Union Army at Gettysburg. Unfortunately, Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of the book upon which AL:VH is based, is proving far less resourceful as a screenwriter than as a historical revisionist (see Dark Shadows). A quick perusal of the book’s plot reveals a much more believable retelling of the Lincoln mythology; the movie not so much.

Requiring fewer leaps of stylistic logic than director Timur Bekmambetov’s last movie, Wanted, the Russian helmer of Nightwatch/Daywatch still throws in a smattering of ridiculously unrealistic fight choreography. Little-known Benjamin Walker, who resembles a young Liam Neeson, acquits himself adequately as Lincoln.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG-13) How will a new Spider-Man do in a summer where it faces a massive new Batman and the new king of the superhero box office, The Avengers?

(500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb was a shocking choice to lead this reboot; let’s hope it’s a risk that pays off. Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) should make a fine Peter Parker. Rhys Ifans isn’t a bad choice to play Spidey’s new villain, the heretofore unseen Lizard. This superhero movie is longtime Harry Potter scripter Steve Kloves’ first non-Potter film since 2000’s Wonder Boys. With Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy.

THE AVENGERS (PG-13) The various Avengers—Robert Downey, Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Evans’ Captain America, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, another new Hulk (this time Mark Ruffalo gets to unleash the beast) and the rest—have assembled, and together they are a blast. But before they can battle Thor’s mischievous brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is intent on enslaving the world with his otherdimensional army, Earth’s mightiest heroes have to sort out a few things among themselves. Joss Whedon and Zak Penn capture the bickering essence of a super-group. Every single one of these heroes benefits from Whedon’s trademark snappy banter and his way with ensembles.

BATTLESHIP (PG-13) For a giant, dumb summer movie that could only be called Bay-esque, Battleship doesn’t sink itself. Earth gets more than it bargained for after scientists send signals into space in an attempt to add some extraterrestrial Facebook friends.

The ETs that answer are not friendly, answering with massive Transformer-y ships and personality-less shock troopers. Fortunately, Earth has Taylor Kitsch, Landry from “Friday Night Lights,” Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker to fight the giant peg-bomb launching invaders. FX-laden, wannabe blockbusters based on board games can certainly be worse than this flick.

BERNIE (PG-13) Richard Linklater’s latest film stars Jack Black as Bernie Tiede, a local Texas mortician who strikes up an unlikely friendship with wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). When Bernie kills

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Marjorie, the model citizen (choir member, Sunday School teacher, all around helping hand) goes out of his way to make the townspeople believe she is still alive. Sound like another Bernie you know? I find certain Linklater comedies to require a specific sense of humor; we’ll have to see if Bernie is one of those films. With Matthew McConaughey.

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG-13) No better Avengers counterprogramming could exist than this British dramedy starring Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Oscar winner Maggie Smith and Oscar winner Tom Wilkinson and directed by Shakespeare in Love Oscar nominee John Madden. A bevy of Brits travel to the subcontinent to stay at the posh, newly renovated Marigold Hotel, but the adverts prove misleading.

Still, the hotel does begin to charm its English patrons. Based on the novel by Deborah Moggach.

BRAVE (PG) A good, not great, Pixar film, Brave strays into traditional Disney territory after a tremendously magical first act. Headstrong Scottish Princess Merida (wonderfully voiced by the lovely Kelly Macdonald) wants to choose her own destiny. She does not want to marry the first-born of one of the clans allied with her father, the Bear King, Fergus (v. Billy Connolly), but her mother, Queen Elinor (v. Emma Thompson), will hear none of her complaints. In typical stubborn teenage fashion, Merida short-sightedly asks a wood-carving witch (v. Julie Walters) for a spell to change her mother. The aftermath of the spell leads to some heartwarming and charming derring-do, but the sitcom-ish mix-up is a bit stock for what we’ve come to expect from the studio that gave us Wall-E and Up, two animated features that transcended their cartoonish origins.

Still, Brave is leaps and bounds more impressive than Cars 2 and would have fit nicely in the Disney Renaissance of the 1990s.

CROOKED ARROWS Lacrosse players from different Native American tribes take on a local private high school lacrosse team, pitting indigenous culture and its traditions against the uncompassionate social majority in this family drama directed by Steve Rash.

DARK SHADOWS (PG-13) Sadly, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s reconception of the gothic soap opera merely delivers a pretty-looking, rather dull oddity. (Burton’s output has become increasingly miss-andhit.) Tossing much of the soap’s suds and upping the camp, the big screen Dark Shadows still involves many of the series’s major players—vampire Barnabas Collins (Depp), Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer), Dr. Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), Angelique (Eva Green), Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote) and Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Grace Moretz). That list of names will mean little to the scores of uninitiated young Burton/ Depp fans looking for another Alice in Wonderland, which this horror comedy most certainly is not. Depp produces another entertaining character, a la Jack Sparrow, but as the movie approaches

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the two hour mark, his Barnabas Collins grows as tedious as the blockbuster he is solely supporting.

THE GREY (R) With his filmography filling up with inconsequential paycheck actioners released in late January (Taken 2 is on the way!), formerly acclaimed actor Liam Neeson has almost completed his transformation into an English Denzel Washington. At least Joe Carnahan (Narc, The A-Team) wrote and directed this action-filled tale of an Alaskan drilling team struggling to defeat a pack of wolves hunting them after their plane crashes in the wilderness. With Dermot Mulroney and James Badge Dale (“The Pacific”).

KATY PERRY: ALL OF ME (PG) These 3D concert movies are all the rage. First Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus released one, then the Jonas Brothers, “Glee” and Justin Bieber got in on the action. And it’s not just the whippersnappers; old fogies Michael Jackson (posthumously) and U2 each released one. Katy Perry’s life on and off stage is chronicled a la the Bieb’s Never Say Never, an astonishingly

sounding Madea movie yet. It might not be good, but the curiosity quotient has been raised. As usual, TP writes, directs and stars as Madea, Joe and Brian.

• MAGIC MIKE (R) Judging from Friday’s raucous matinee crowd at Beechwood, I cannot imagine the catcalls unleashed by a late show audience, lubricated by several cocktails at nearby Rusan’s. Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s peek beneath the thong that barely covers the underworld of Florida’s male strippers is a thoroughly entertaining and humanistic slice of life flick; imagine a less polyester-clad Saturday Night Fever. Alabama native Channing Tatum stars as Magic Mike, a nice guy with a rocking bod and killer dance moves who longs to make custom furniture.

After taking a new dancer, Adam (Alex Pettyfer), under his wing, Mike falls for his sister, Brooke (Cody Horn), who shows Mike what he looks like to the rank-and-file. Despite scripter Reid Carolin relying on the same cookie cutter plot that supported ancient

What do you mean I can’t touch my masseur? effective marketing tool. Less documentary and more promotional video (in 3D!), All of Me will hit home with Perry’s fanbase and few others.

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (PG) By now, franchise fans know what to expect from the adventures of Alex the lion (v.

Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (v. Chris Rock), Melman the giraffe (v. David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo (v.

Jada Pinkett Smith). These four former denizens of the New York Zoo team up again with those wacky penguins and some nutty Lemurs (voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer and Andy Richter) in an aborted attempt to return home. This time, the gang is waylaid in Europe by a circus featuring animals voiced by Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad” season five cannot get here fast enough), Jessica Chastain and the reliably funny yet equally annoying Martin Short. But a crazed French animal control officer, Captain Chantel Dubois (v. Frances McDormand), is hot on the animals’ trail. No one should be coming into Madagascar 3 blind.

MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (PG-13) Tyler Perry has needlessly overplotted his latest Madea pic.

According to the jam-packed logline, an investment banker is relocated to Madea’s house. Just the idea of Eugene Levy interacting with Perry’s Madea is entertaining. Toss Denise Richards, Tom Arnold and Doris Roberts into the mix, and you have the most exotic-

Hollywood musicals, All About Eve and Showgirls, Magic Mike has some new moves thanks to Soderbergh’s electric direction and well-selected beefcake.

Tatum’s haters are proven wrong by his extremely charismatic performance, but it’s Matthew McConaughey that delivers the unexpected award-worthy turn as aged stripper-turned-impresario, Dallas. I know the ladies are in; dudes, don’t miss out on Soderbergh’s bestreceived feature since Ocean’s 11 because of all the potential penises (or penis envy).

• MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG-13) Wes Anderson provides summer 2012 with its charmer, a twee coming of age tale about Sam and Suzy (wonderful newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), two tweens that learn about love after running away from their tiny island home. Any moviegoers not already enchanted by Anderson’s previous whimsies will not be won over by his newest, extremely eccentric romance. Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand and Harvey Keitel are among the adults that inhabit Anderson’s isolated, stagy island. Murray is quixotic as ever and Norton is a perfect fit. Willis takes time to adjust to Anderson’s timezone, but the consummate pro rarely gets the credit he deserves (he’s leagues ahead of his former Planet Hollywood cronies). The straight-on tracking shots reinforce the film’s confining staginess (it might make a terrific source for a future high school drama), as does the

sometimes unprofessional acting of the film’s many young performers. I don’t recall enjoying a live action Anderson fancy as much since 2001’s The Royal Tenenbaums. 2012’s best movies, a list exclusively made up of Joss Whedon progeny, Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers, has now been expanded by one.

• PEOPLE LIKE US (PG-13) For most of People Like Us, I wondered “People Like who?” The movie’s as hard not to like as its stars, Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks, who play the separated children of a recently deceased music producer, though neither ever acts like any person I know.

Sharply, stylishly yet uncreatively shot, this drama marks the directorial debut of Transformers scribe Alex Kurtzman, who co-wrote the film with constant writing partner Roberto Orci. The duo’s shared credits include Star Trek and Cowboys & Aliens, all genre entries that are miles away from this heartfelt drama about Sam, a guy trying really hard not to be a douchebag, and Frankie, the sister, who’s trying really hard to be a good mom. If Sam had just given Frankie the money their dad left her son, the movie could have ended a lot sooner, and a lot of silly plot machinations (he fakes being a member of AA; she, being really hot, wonders what he REALLY wants from her) could have been avoided. People Like Us is just another not terrible film you’ll probably never hear from again.

THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) You could do a lot worse than The Pirates! Band of Misfits when choosing animated flicks to see with your kids.

Aardman Animations, the British folks that brought you Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, hit the high seas with the Pirate Captain (v. Hugh Grant) and his oddball crew. While seeking the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, the Pirate Captain runs into Charles Darwin (v. David Tennant, the tenth, and my personal favorite, Doctor), who wants the scurvy rascal’s feathered mascot, a thought-to-be-extinct dodo.

The jokes are funny and often smart, and the stop-motion clay animation refreshingly different. The voice cast could have traded up (Jeremy Piven?

No Ian McShane? Mostly, Jeremy Piven?!). Still, The Pirates! is cute, humorous and well-animated. Kiddie flicks come with a lot less booty than this buccaneer.

PROMETHEUS (R) A beyond competent, philosophical science fiction film, director Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien universe he helped create in 1979 is good without ever fulfilling its promise to be great. Prometheus, co-written by “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof, is so fueled by mystery that you may want to avoid the Internet and this review until you’ve seen it.

Even with series tropes like androids, corporate shenanigans and body horror, Prometheus is not quite the Alien prequel fans may be expecting/hoping for, but the feature is one of the most thought-provoking, recent science fiction films released by a major studio.

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (PG) A billionaire couple, David and Jackie Siegel, dream to build a mansion based on the French palace at Versailles. But their billions vanish as the real estate market collapses and the worldwide financial crisis strikes. Director Lauren Greenfield won the Directing Award

at Sundance, where the film was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Greenfield also won the Jury Prize for Best Director of a Feature Film (Documentary) at the RiverRun International Film Festival.

ROCK OF AGES (PG-13) Warning: Anyone with a keen knowledge of rock and roll from 1977–1987 will be endlessly sidetracked by this popular jukebox musical’s utter disregard for the chronological progression of the period’s rock music. Early ‘80s Journey hits are supposedly written in 1987; Guns N’ Roses favorites were popularized in the era of KISS’ “Alive II”; songs from 1989 are included as diegetic music.

Yet the musicological stupidity matters little when Tom Cruise takes the stage as Stacie Jaxx, an Axl Rose-ian fallen rock god. Cruise inhabits the insular American idol, generously giving him unexpected extra-dimensionality, and the star can belt out the hits to boot. l SAVAGES (R) Oliver Stone’s back with John Travolta and Uma Thurman in this crime thriller about two pot growers (Kick-Ass’ Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch in his third big 2012 release) fighting the Mexican cartel that kidnapped their girlfriend (Blake Lively). Stone can still assemble a cast; Savages includes John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch, Benecio del Toro and A Better Life Oscar nominee Demian Bichir. Novelist Don Wilson helped adapt his own work. I’m curious to see if Stone, whose last Oscar worthy feature was 1995’s Nixon, still has the goods.

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (R) A pre-apocalyptic, blackly comic romance starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley does not quite scream summer movie, but the directorial debut of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist scripter Lorene Scafaria could possibly turn out to be summer 2012’s overlooked gem. While an asteroid careens fatally toward the planet, Dodge (Carell, who continues to show above average instincts when it comes to picking projects), whose wife has recently and suddenly deserted him, and Penny (Knightley), freshly broken up with yet another boyfriend (Adam Brody), escape the riot-filled city on a mission to reunite Dodge with his high school sweetheart.

On their road trip, this unlikely duo meets some odd cats played by familiar television pals.

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG-13) 2012’s second Snow White movie (she’s also a television star on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”) tweaks the fairy tale with the pale beauty (Kristen Stewart, Twilight) and the huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor), sent by Charlize Theron’s Evil Queen to kill her, instead teaming up to overthrow her majesty. Director Rupert Sanders is an unknown entity; thankfully, the cast includes the familiar faces of Toby Jones, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost and Bob Hoskins.

Written by Drive’s Hossein Amini.

• TED (R) I’m not sure what it says about Ted, the funny feature debut of “Family Guy” creator Seth McFarlane, that I, an admitted “Family Guy” detractor, laughed more than anyone else in the theater. Despite the overflowing gay jokes and some poor setups (the introduction to Giovanni Ribisi’s antagonist was awkwardly random), the fairy tale of 35-year-old John (Mark Wahlberg) and Ted (v. McFarlane), the teddy bear he was given on Christmas Day 1985 that came to life via wish, hits the mark more than it misses so long as the talking teddy is involved. Human leads Wahlberg and the increasingly awesome Mila Kunis are appreciated, as is Patrick “Puddy” Warburton; sadly, Joel McHale is wasted. Any movie in which a central gag revolves around the Queen-scored, cult fave Flash Gordon (star Sam Jones even makes a beefy

cameo) is OK in my book, no matter how many tired pot jokes it tokes.

Being familiar with, but not appreciative of, McFarlane’s oeuvre, I pleasantly left with more laughs than I expected to receive.

THAT’S MY BOY (R) Is That’s My Boy, Adam Sandler’s latest cinematic atrocity, as bad as the trailer lets on?

It’s worse, but in a can’t look away from the accident sort of way that leads a viewer to keep watching until the end, imagining and finally hoping that it doesn’t get any worse. Sandler completely reverts to “SNL”-level character creation as Donny Berger, a guy who ascended to the top of the pop cultural slide after banging (a bit of sexual slang that has never fit better) his hot middle school teacher (Eva Amurri Martino) and getting her pregnant. Now all grown up and flat broke, Donny hopes to hook up to its rising star of a son, Todd (Andy Samberg), and get the money he needs. But Todd wants little to do with his “young” man, what with his impending nuptials to pretty,

uptight Jamie (Leighton Meester).

Expect the expected, but don’t expect to laugh. Every rude, crude, R-rated joke you can imagine Sandler and crew (Allen Covert, Nick Swardson, etc.) had saved up over the years is included.

A gross-out comedy in which no one appears to be trying, That’s My Boy might not be the year’s worst, but it’s close.

THINK LIKE A MAN (PG-13) Anything I wanted to like about Think Like a Man is tainted by the casual homophobia, sexism and racism the movie attempts to pass off as comedy, and that’s a shame for the hilarious Kevin Hart, who is finally, smartly given a showcase role. Based on Steve Harvey’s romantic self-help tome, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, the movie, written by the scripters of Friends with Benefits, sometimes feels like a late night infomercial for Harvey’s patented way to win a man. the women (Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Meagan Good and Regina Hall) who want them to settle down.

TO ROME WITH LOVE (R) Woody Allen’s back and still in Europe. (Since 2005, seven of Allen’s last eight films have been set in Europe; the Larry David-starring Whatever Works is the sole exception.) Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page star as a few of the Americans and Italians that find themselves in romantic adventures and predicaments in the title city. The reviews for the four-time Academy Award winner’s latest have been mixed.

YELLOW SUBMARINE (G) 1968.

Ciné continues its Summer Classic Movie Series’ Family Classics with the Beatles’ animated adventure, Yellow Submarine. John, Paul, George and Ringo (whose real-life counterparts wrote and performed the songs but did not provide the characters’ voices) agree to go to Pepperland with Old Fred and save it from the Blue Meanies, who hate music.

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Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is breezy, witty entertainment filled with one of the best casts you’ll see all year. Dench, Wilkinson and Smith unsurprisingly get the meatiest scenes to work with, but Nighy is a master of droll coolness and he steals every scene he’s in. That’s nothing new for him.

Even when he acts in junk like Underworld, the man stands tall. Wilkinson’s storyline involving his search for an old lover he hasn’t seen in decades is quietly moving, but Madden can’t help but schlock it up with sentimentality. The storyline deserves its own movie,

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Is the idea of suffering through another summer blockbuster season featuring powermad millionaires and geeky teenagers with tastes for spandex and vigilante justice depressing you? Don’t worry, since director John Madden (Mrs. Brown, Shakespeare in Love) has made a movie for you. Based on the novel These Foolish Things by Deborah

instead of being crammed into this one where its emotional power is weakened because it’s forced to share the spotlight.

But those are minor faults. There’s not a lot of joy in contemporary movies and there’s plenty to be found here, even when the storylines get emotionally complicated. It’s just all done with a light touch. Also, thankfully, the portrayal of India is not some idiotic travelogue fetishizing the country. It feels exhilarating, though also difficult. Ultimately, there’s much to savor at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, even if some of the rooms are a bit musty.

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film notebook threats & promises The Pantheon Joined: Until a week ago, I’d Actually Happening: As always, Ciné remains never seen a Mae West movie all the way fully operational despite the summer doldrums through. So, after I watched 1934’s She that tend to take hold around here after Done Him Wrong—her first starring vehicle, AthFest rolls itself up at the end of June—and opposite a young Cary Grant—as the occathis year, there are not one, but two Summer sion demanded, I looked up West’s entry in Classic Film Series to sustain you simultaThe American Cinema: Directors and Directions, neously through the swelters. The Family 1929–1968, Andrew Sarris’ succinct, indisClassics series continues this weekend, July pensable tome of auteurist appraisals. My own 6–8, with the lightly psychedelic 1968 aniassessment had been that West was a magmated Beatles feature Yellow Submarine, netic performer with a polished schtick who followed by the 1971 Gene Wilder version of wasn’t necessarily at home in the cinematic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory July medium, which didn’t seem to be able to 13–15. Also next week, the Comedy Classics accommodate her very comfortably. Sarris, it’s series kicks off Thursday, July 12 with William safe to say, put it a bit more engagingly.

Wyler’s sweetly romantic Roman Holiday His brief essay begins: (1953), which featured an irresistible break“The sad story of Mae West is that she was through performance by then-unknown Audrey done in by the blue-noses. Social historians Hepburn opposite Gregory Peck. The films in have designated 1934 as the censor-ridden the comedy series are all planned to be shown year that marked the transition from Anita in 35mm prints with helpful introductions Loos to Louisa May Alcott, from Big Mama to from local noteworthies. Tie a string around Little Women, from such boisterous nymphs your finger and bookmark www.athenscine. as Mae West and Jean Harlow to such briscom, where you can find much more info. tling nymphets as Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin. Even before 1934, however, the unexFor What It’s Worth: Ciné is touting a couple purgated Mae West was somewhat too salty for of films on the “Coming Soon” page of its the screen…”

That was Sarris, who died June 20 at the age of 83: original, contextual, witty, democratic and, above all, possessed of an uncanny ability to hone in on the exact qualities at the heart of an artist’s or a film’s ability (or failure) to resonate with him—and to communicate those observations with such effortless force that his critical perspectives rang like authoritative history. “He saw each film as bearing witness to the promise of what cinema might be,” writes David Bordwell in his typically Yellow Submarine plays July 6–8 at Ciné as part of the Summer Family incisive tribute at www.

Classics film series. davidbordwell.net/blog, “and he looked in even the tawdriest products for something approximatwebsite—Wes Anderson’s long-awaited ing his dreams.” (Bordwell’s post also includes Moonrise Kingdom and Beasts of the Southern a thoughtful dissection of the polarizing Wild, the highly praised debut feature from dynamic between Sarris and his legendary director Benh Zeitlin—as “worth the wait critical rival Pauline Kael, as well as links to to see [them] at Ciné.” That’s a new tack by several excellent selections from the many the nonprofit art house, and it’s right on the retrospections, reflections and reminiscences money. There are things multiplexes are good that have appeared since Sarris’ death.) for, but screening quirky, quasi-independent The influence of Sarris’ introduction of the films aimed at niche audiences doesn’t leap auteur theory to English-language readers and to the top of that list. Watching a delicate cineastes can’t be calculated, and practically childhood fantasy like Beasts in a neglected anyone who’s written about film in the past side-box at Beechwood (yes, smaller than half-century owes him an enormous debt. He Ciné’s screening rooms) with the not-toomay not be among the best-known to casual muffled Dolby Surround of Batman Explodes film enthusiasts, but he’s without question rattling the walls is not really the experience one of the true immortals of cinema. you’re looking for—plus, it’s more expensive and it doesn’t do anything to support the Like-able: Those of you who miss the ICEfilm culture Ciné exists to facilitate in this Vision film series, which is on summer hiatus community. Wait it out, cinephiles, you’ll be (at least I hope it’s only for the summer), glad you did. should join the series’ group on Facebook.

Curator Will Stephenson and others frequently In Case You Were Wondering: While this is my post interesting and esoteric short films, clips, last week as Flagpole’s city editor, I’ll be contrailers and various links and oddities that tinuing to write this column. It’s what brought should appeal to most people whose sensibilime to Flagpole, and it’ll keep me here, too— ties are engaged by, for instance, this column. hopefully, with a renewed focus on the things Not to mention that it’s the best place to hear we’re talking about here. Thanks for reading. about impromptu, informal, off-season ICEVision screenings. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Music News And Gossip Whoa. It’s a big batch of records and tours this week. So, if you’re not actually making your own record, or heading out on your own tour, just read this and live vicariously. Plug in below…

What’s That on Your Head?: Athens stalwarts The Whigs will release their newest album, Enjoy The Company, on Sept. 18. The New West Records release is already enjoying some pre-game hype, and the band has enjoyed recent press in big glossies like GQ and Rolling Stone. The group will tour heavily throughout the fall in support of the album, even making an appearance at the Austin City Limits

Friends Like These: Although none of this is a competition, and we are all made of stars, and all that stuff, the fact still remains that the coolest Athens album to be born this week is the collaboration between Killick Hinds and the legendary Henry Kaiser. It’s titled Nikola Tesla High School and comes via Hinds’ own H(i)nds(i)ght label. Both Kaiser and Hinds played Tesla guitars on this record (hence its name), with Kaiser playing both six- and seven-string Teuffel Teslas, and Hinds on the quartertone, seven-string Teuffel Tesla.

The album was tracked only four weeks ago during a single-day session in Bonny Doon, CA. The centerpiece of the album is a 30-min-

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Killick Hinds and Henry Kaiser Festival in October. But that’s really nothing new for these guys—they’ve been road dogs since day one. There’s a new track (”Summer Heat”) that you can download by navigating the links on the band’s homepage, so why not surf over there and give your clicker a whirl?

See www.thewhigs.com for details.

ute track named “Lamarck,” and the only proper reaction to it is to draw the shades, put on the headphones and get lost. This is quite possibly the only improvisational album anyone will need for the rest of the year. Go dig it all completely at killick.bandcamp.com/album/nikola-tesla-high-school.

And the Beats Go On: Former member of Athens hip-hop group BlackRose Dynasty Akeem Clarke, AKA Profound Breadth, released his new album this past week. It’s titled Still Breathing, and has thus far had one of its tracks (“I’m Okay”) dominate the number-one position on the charts over at WUOG 90.5 FM’s “Halftime Hip-Hop Show” for five weeks—the amount of time a song can remain at number one before it is retired.

This is the second solo outing for Profound Breadth, but the first under the tutelage of manager Bobby Stamps (who also manages Bubba Sparxxx). You can stream Still Breathing over at profoundbreadth.bandcamp.com and learn more over at www.reverbnation.com/ profoundbreadth.

Driving, Idling: White Violet is out opening for wonder-beards Futurebirds on a short tour of the East Coast. Anchored by the dark and moody songwriting of founder Nate Nelson, the band is getting some good road experience before its debut album, Hiding, Mingling, is released on Aug. 14. (Full disclosure: I wrote a one-sheet for the band that is to be sent out with promotional copies of the record.

Whether it will ever actually see the light of day is anyone’s guess, but I thought I should mention it.) The album will be released under New West’s new Normaltown Records imprint, and was produced by Andy LeMaster—both at home and at Chase Park Transduction.

For more information, please see www.normaltownrecords.com and www.facebook.com/ whitevioletband.

No Idle Hands: Athens’ own Lera Lynn is having her busiest year yet. A couple of months ago, she performed on National Public Radio’s popular “Mountain Stage” program and did a live session for influential blog Daytrotter. In May, she participated in the live broadcast of Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre.

Next up for Lynn and crew is a nine-date tour of the U.K. in July that includes slots at the SummerTyne Americana Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival, and then a monthlong U.S. tour in August with K.D. Lang before sliding into home at the Austin City Limits Festival in October. Whew. Keep on truckin’, y’all. For more information, please see www. leralynn.com.

Rest in Peace: Our deepest sympathies go out this week to the family and friends of musician Killian Dane Merritt Ward, who passed away on June 22. Born in Athens in 1990, Ward played guitar in the Colbert, GA-based band Southern Soul (his father, Mike Ward, is the group’s vocalist). Known simply as Ki to his friends, Ward worked a day job as a carpenter when he wasn’t rocking the night away.

A memorial service was held this past Saturday at Danielsville’s Shiloh Social Club, and a memorial fund has been established in his name at First Citizens Bank & Trust Company, 35 N. 34th St., Colbert, GA, 30628.

Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

upstart roundup Introducing Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Newest Talent RAINBOW GHOST Power-pop/Acoustic/Rock Lineup: Daniel Clark. Infuences: Brendan Benson, Weezer, The Mountain Goats, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, The Pillows, Matthew Sweet.

In the spirit of low-key musical legends past, Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Daniel Clark formed Rainbow Ghost as an unassuming bedroom-pop project, with no explicit aspirations to ever perform the material in a live setting. Clark is a talented and longtime musician. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have been recording music for about 10 years now, alone and with friends,â&#x20AC;? he says.

His experience is apparent on Rainbow Ghostâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut EP, the recently released Tell Us How You Really Feel. Clark has an impeccable ear for melody, and his programming and arranging skills are on par with indiepopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest names. For a one-man band, Rainbow Ghost is rife with energy and ideas; songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brittleâ&#x20AC;? are viciously catchy gems in the millennial, confessional-pop tradition.

Rainbow â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the band name,â&#x20AC;? Clark explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to evoke letting myself out of my own head. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;rainbowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; part is about being creative, and expressing myself a little bit. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ghostâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; part is referring to floating through life mute and unnoticed.â&#x20AC;?

No longer mute nor unnoticed, Clark is streaming Tell Us How You Really Feel in its entirety at www.rainbowghost.com.

And though he has given no indication that he will, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping Clark eventually makes the transition to performing live. I can envision these songs being real crowd-pleasers if turned up to 11.

Next Show: TBA SHEHEHE New American Jet-Rock Lineup: Nicole Bechill, Ben Bone, Jason Fusco, Jeff Hannan, Noelle Shuck. Featuring Members Of: Phoenix Pharaoh, Shackler, Skull Spiders, Vestibules, Fire Zuave, Thunderchief, Texas Death Machine. Influences: The Sex Pistols, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Kinks, The Ramones, The Runaways, Black Flag, The Cramps, X, Stooges, The MC5,

The Dictators, The Dead Boys, Generation X, The Donnas, L7, The Bangles, Lita Ford, Motorhead, The Buzzcocks, The Misfits.

For this local and loud new five-piece outfit (which came together, bandmembers explain, after they â&#x20AC;&#x153;serendipitously met poolside at the Bulldog Innâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;an undeniably interesting, if slightly terrifying, origin story), rock and roll is not just an artistic style; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lifestyle. You can hear it in every fiber of SheHeHeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music, which takes the tinny, confrontational punk of that genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earliest days and clothes it in a snot-sequined, glam-denim jacket.

SheHeHeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tunes are irresistible, infectious even while they drown in an ecstatic sort of nothingnessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the nihilistic void that is the hallmark of all good punk music. Tough, terse songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going to New York,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chuckieâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outta My Headâ&#x20AC;? (all

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Expectedly, SheHeHe is the kind of band that especially thrives in a live setting. Each member of the group contributes vocals, which lends the music a booze-soaked, arm-aroundyour-neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-shoulder kind of quality. Chug a beer (or three)! Put your fists in the air! And also, um, make sure to visit www.facebook.com/sheheheband. Even punk rockers need to be Liked.

Next Show: July 31st @ Nowhere Bar GEAR JAMMER Classic Rock/Heavy Metal Lineup: Elliot Brown, Davey MacGregor, Evan Posey, Owen Staley. Featuring Members Of: Manger, Kill the School.

Influences: Thin Lizzy, MotĂśrhead, Saxon.

When so many modern bands rely on gimmickry and trendhopping in the quest to make a name for themselves (only to inevitably fizzle out when whatever theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re aping is no longer in vogue), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SheHeHe refreshing to discover a group that pays no attention to the flavor of the week.

Gear Jammer is a loud, proud anachronism: two guitarists, one bass player and a drummer. Hot riffs. Yelping, stadium-ready vocals. Deathly serious fouron-the-floor rhythms. Rock. And. Roll.

The band explains its mission: â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Our] music aims to evoke the freedom of the endless highwayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the limitless adventure of the open road.â&#x20AC;? The group employs a strict reading of this theme; even the name itself is highwayinspired (a â&#x20AC;&#x153;gear jammer,â&#x20AC;? in CB-speak, is a truck driver). Indeed, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s propulsive, often pummeling jams inspire mental images of wide-open asphalt: vintage visions of Highway 66 in the heat-soaked summertime, sepiatoned snapshots of plains, drifters and all that cinematic stuff.

Gear Jammer wears its â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s heart on its sleeve, drawing easy comparisons to groups like Thin Lizzy and ZZ Top at their hardest-rocking. But there is a distinctly modern edge at work, an intangible hint of irony buried among the unabashedly earnest hero worship.

In a potential homage to its pre-Internet musical icons (or, more likely, because the project is so new), Gear Jammer is all but invisible online. Visit www.facebook.com/wearegearjammer for updates.

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With that in mind, Flagpole reached out to a few members of our local scene to ask how they would plan their ideal Fourth of July barbecues. Their responses provide not only new insight into the melted minds that keep us grooving, but also a party map for all you straight-laced so-and-sos out there who have been itching for an excuse to get real weird.

So, think of this as a guidebook for your Fourth—or not.

Actually, don’t think about it at all. Start up the grill. Relish the heat. Catch up with friends. This day was tailor-made for sittin’ on your buns with a wiener in your mouth, a cold one in your hand—and early-’90s Otis Nixon by your side.

We asked: What music/band/song(s) do you want to hear?

What food do you want to eat?

What beverage do you want to consume?

Who do you want to invite?

What entertainment will you provide?

How awesome is it gonna be?

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Listen: Since they didn’t make their annual AthFest appearance this year, we want to have ‘Powers headline our barbecue. With Das Racist. And Flagpole’s own McCommunists, to keep it subversive.

Eat: Beer-battered bratwursts, pulled-pork pancakes, fried fish filets. And salad.

Drink: Whiskey.

Guests: Little people. Atheists. Andrew Prater.

Fun: Pinball and dominoes, with a splash of Nintendo and lawn darts. Maybe some cockfighting for the adults—in the basement, after the sun goes down.

How awesome? Pretty damn awesome.

Matt Hudgins

(Matt Hudgins & His Shit-Hot Country Band)

Listen: “Peaches,” by The Presidents of the United States of America. On repeat.

Eat: We would wrap some actual peaches in bacon and grill them.

Drink: Peachietinis and peacharitas.

Guests: [Former Atlanta Braves outfielder] Otis Nixon from the early ‘90s would have swung by the mid-’90s in his time machine to pick up Chipper Jones and Whatizit.

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Fun: We would all eat the wings Chipper brought, and play pin the dawg-tail on the peach-dawg until “True Blood” came on. After it was over, we’d all talk about our favorite parts of the episode and paint our toenails.

How awesome? The neatest, awesomest summertime unicorn party EVER.

Caleb Synan (local comedian)

Listen: Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band. With a holographic Clarence Clemons on saxophone.

Eat: Grilled cheese.

Drink: Yoo-Hoo. Guests: Matt Damon, Woody Allen, Ludacris and Ernest Hemingway.

Fun: Mud wrestling. (I’d be the referee.)

How awesome? It’s gonna be like the first season of “Dawson’s Creek.”

Max Wang (The Rodney Kings)

Listen: “Can’t Catch a Break” by Quiet Hooves, The Modern Lovers, U*S*A. Eat: All the big meats—and Wang dogs.

Drink: Beer.

Guests: Girls and “women.”

Fun: Rock and roll. And jokes.

How awesome? Pretty goddamn awesome.

Tim Schreiber (Timmy Tumble)

Listen: “Bar-B-Q,” by Wendy Rene, because she sounds hungry for some serious, messy barbecue. “Waddlin’ Around” and “Shake Real Low” by King Khan & BBQ Show, because you can dance real good to those tunes and the ladies will be gettin’ down… “Greasy Chicken”

by Andre Williams, because it makes you feel greasy in every way. “I Got It” by Little Richard, because you can tell from listening to the song that he’s a barbecue expert. And “High Blood Pressure” by Huey “Piano” Smith and The Clowns, because too many barbecues could easily bring that pressure right on up.

Eat: Wings, burgers, corn on the cob, tacos and shish kabobs: hells yeah. Maybe some blackened fish. And Italian sausages, of course.

Really, this happens all the time on my street.

Drink: Beers, preferably: Dos Equis lager, Bell’s Oberon and Schlitz for the hangers-on. But if it’s a real hot day, then you need gin and tonic. Or, just take all of the above and put it in a big beer bong that everyone can swig off of.

Guests: I would invite my close friends, and then they would invite their close friends, and then they would invite their close friends. That’s how a rock and roll dance party happens.

Fun: Bonfires are entertainment enough. Some rascal is bound to light off a firecracker, though, I’m sure.

How awesome? Gonna suck.

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When we finally reconnect, a few hours later, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still bemused. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, they caught me on camera,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got guys in the control booth looking for people charging up.â&#x20AC;?

(Apparently, Brooklyn malls have a strict no-no policy about using their electricity to charge your cell phone.)

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel too sorry for Young, though; the altercation with Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paul Blart is about the worst thing that has happened to him since he moved there. A former Athens musician, Young put down the drumsticks in 2007 and decided to give comedy a try. Within a year, he was putting together showcases, hosting open-mic nights and bringing nationally known acts like Patton Oswalt and Aziz Ansari to town.

But Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group, The Beards of Comedy, was born out of his first love: performing onstage. One night, after a performance in Atlanta, he recalls sitting around with show-mates Andy Sandford, Dave Stone and Joe Zimmerman, when someone mentioned Oswaltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s touring group The Comedians of Comedy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joe looked around at the rest of us and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We should be The Beards of Comedy,â&#x20AC;? Young recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did a show with that name at Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olde Bar in Atlanta on December 14, 2008. We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really planning to keep going, butâ&#x20AC;Ś we thought the chemistry really worked, so we were like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s do it!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

The Beards are a well balanced team. Stone and Sandford lean towards character-based humor and pithy punch lines, while Zimmerman and Young operate more in the observational tradition. Their complementary styles have worked so well, in fact, that The Beards have released two albums on Comedy Central Records. And last year, armed with their mounting success, the guys decided to make the move to the big city, or rather, cities; Stone left for Los Angeles, while the other three Beards moved to New York.

Within a few months of the move, Young was already entrenched in the local comedy scene. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a night in March when I did an open mic in Brooklyn at 8 p.m., took the subway to Queens to host a show I was co-producing at 10 p.m., thenâ&#x20AC;Ś hailed a cab into Manhattan to perform a comedy sketch on a midnight showâ&#x20AC;Ś That felt pretty â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;New York comedianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to me.â&#x20AC;?

Still, Young is proud of the Athens comedy scene he helped to create, and he maintains that his time here prepared him well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Athens audiences are definitely on the more comedy-savvy end of the spectrum,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That has certainly influenced my material and prepared me for the smart NYC crowds. Also, having to make my own opportunitiesâ&#x20AC;Ś trained me for all the networking and hustling you have to do in a big cityâ&#x20AC;Ś And Athens comedy shows, since thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no comedy club, are all very DIY and are usually done in venues where people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t used to seeing comedy. [Likewise], a lot of the best shows in NYC are in restaurants and bars, with crowds packed into back rooms, most of them wearing skinny jeans. Feels like home.â&#x20AC;?

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Deadline for getting listed in the Calendar is every FRIDAY at 5 p.m. for the issue that comes out the following Wednesday. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

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Wednesday 4

COMEDY: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Voted by Flagpole’s readers as Athens’ “favorite comedy night” in 2011 and 2012, this comedy show allows locals to watch quality comedy or perform themselves. Email to perform. First and third Tuesday of every month! 9 p.m. FREE! (performers), $5. calebsynan@yahoo.com, www.flickertheatreandbar.com EVENTS: Annual Independence Day Concert and Picnic (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Presentation of the colors followed by a patriotic concert on the lawn.

Participants welcome to bring a picnic, tables and chairs. 7 p.m. FREE! www.mmcc-arts.org GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia 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 (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 KIDSTUFF: Little STEM Scientists (Madison County Library) Conduct fun experiments and learn how real-world scientists, engineers and farmers use technology and math.

All ages; under 6 accompanied by an adult. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 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: Gamer Haven (Madison County Library) Learn some tips and tricks from a game programmer. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: Special Collections Library Tour (UGA Russell Library) Explore interactive kiosks with access to oral history interviews, historical film, video and sound recordings. Look for familiar faces from the state’s political history in Art Rosenbaum’s mural, “Doors.”

Every Tuesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706542-8079 SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail.com

ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Star-Spangled Classic (Bishop Park) Kids ages 3–12 are invited to decorate their wagons, strollers, tricycles and bicycles and join the Patriotic Parade through the park. Music, food, family-friendly activities and a fabulous fireworks display continue throughout the evening. See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

5-10 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3620 EVENTS: Word of Mouth Open Poetry Reading (The Globe) Sign up, mouth off, pay attention. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-4721, www.athenswordofmouth.com EVENTS: Beachfest America Patio Party (Max) Celebrate the 4th of July with super soakers, a wading pool and frozen drinks. Food provided by PBR Ray’s Famous BBQ. Beach attire strongly encouraged.

4–9 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (City Hall/ College Avenue) An afternoon market featuring local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market.

Every Wednesday through the end of October. This week, buy four different fruits or veggies and bring them to the market info booth for a chance to win $50 in market tokens.

4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

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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 LECTURES AND LIT: Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-351-6024.

SPORTS: Capoeira (UGA New Dance Theatre) (Room 274) The UGA Capoeira Club invites the Athens community to try capoeira, a type of Brazilian martial arts. Mondays and Wednesdays during the summer. 7 p.m. FREE! capoeira@uga.edu

Thursday 5 ART: Opening Reception (Engine Room) For “Four Places,” works

by Keith P. Rein, Ruth Allen, Cindy Jerrell, Tyrus Lytton, Emmanuel Taati, Chris Hobe, Lauren Howard, Amanda Louise Jones, Jeremy Hughes, Kelly Doyle-Mace and Dan Smith. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3800 EVENTS: Reiki Circle (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese massage technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday. 7–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-3386843 GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Every Thursday. Check the restaurant’s Facebook page for weekly updated categories. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. tinyurl.com/d5dp2qq 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 (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 KIDSTUFF: Library Crew (Oconee County Library) The library is seeking volunteers ages 9-12 to assist with craft projects, help take care of the library and have a good time!

Thursdays in July. 10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Enter Portentia (Madison County Library) Learn how to interpret dreams, read palms, tell fortunes and become open to the secret messages around and within us. Ages 12–18. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert (Clarke Central High School) (Auditorium) The children’s area staff of the ACC library presents a storytelling trip around the world. Part of the Summer Reading Performance Series. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally Athens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Talk politics and drink with fellow liberals. First Thursday of every month. 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub

Bobby Compton plays the Georgia Theatre on Friday, July 6.

SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail.com THEATRE: Steel Magnolias (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. July 5–7 & 12–14, 8 p.m. $10–15. 706-362-2175

Friday 6 EVENTS: BikeAthens Monthly Group Bike Ride (Earth Fare Café) A casually paced ride and parade around town followed by a cookout at Earth Fare. Wear a costume and dress up your bike for the ride.

Bring a helmet and water. 6 p.m. (ride), 7 p.m. (cookout). FREE! www. bikeathens.com KIDSTUFF: Own Your Media (Madison County Library) Film and edit a movie with Windows Movie Maker. Create, print and mail a zine.

Learn basic video filming, editing, sound technology, typesetting, layout and more. Ages 12–18. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: Poetry Reading (Avid Bookshop) Poet Liza Wieland reads selections from her seven books and short stories from The Georgia Review. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.avidbookshop.com THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Awardwinning musical. Rated PG. July 6–7 & 12-14, 7:30 p.m. & July 8, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-354-1339, www. artsoglethorpe.org THEATRE: Steel Magnolias (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. July 5–7 & 12–14, 8 p.m. $10–15. 706-362-2175

Saturday 7 EVENTS: Pet Care Clinic (Pet Supplies Plus) The Athens Area Humane Society hosts a monthly pet care clinic where pets can receive low-cost services such as a rabies vaccination, flea treatment, microchip identification and more. 1–4 p.m. www.athenshumanesociety.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked

goods, prepared foods and crafts.

Live music at every market. Every Saturday through mid-December.

This week Farm to School presents gourd painting and a recipe handout.

Cooking demonstration by Lisa Slater. Also today, buy four different fruits or veggies and bring them to the market info booth and enter to win $50 in market tokens. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse) Fresh produce, meats and other farm products. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeecountyobservations. blogspot.com FILM: Described Film: To Kill a Mockingbird (Oconee County Library) View a movie augmented with a narration track to make it accessible to the visually impaired.

Open to the visually impaired and anyone who wants to experience a described film. Popcorn provided.

All ages. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Compete to win. 5 p.m. $5 (per person), $10 (per team). www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Go Bar) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists. 10 p.m. 706546-5609 THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Awardwinning musical. Rated PG. July 6–7 & 12-14, 7:30 p.m. & July 8, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-354-1339, www. artsoglethorpe.org THEATRE: Steel Magnolias (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. July 5–7 & 12–14, 8 p.m. $10–15. 706-362-2175

Sunday 8 GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! Hosted by Evan Delany. First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Amici) Every Sunday. First place receives $50 and second place receives $25.

9 p.m. www.amici-cafe.com GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) “Brewer’s Inquisition,” trivia hosted by Chris Brewer every

Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3546655, www.buffaloscafe.com/athens GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Readers in grades K–5 are invited to bring their favorite book and read aloud to a certified therapy dog. Trainer always present. First come, first served. 3:30–4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Awardwinning musical. Rated PG. July 6–7 & 12-14, 7:30 p.m. & July 8, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-354-1339, www. artsoglethorpe.org

Monday 9 CLASSES: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workshop (Athens Regional Mind Body Institute) Learn how to reduce stress, change your relationship to physical or emotional pain and cope better with everyday demands. Includes guided instruction in mindfulness meditation, body-scan, yoga and more. 6–8 p.m. $75. 706-475-7329 COMEDY: The Beards of Comedy (The Rialto Room) Tour featuring Dave Stone, Andy Sandford, TJ Young and Joe Zimmerman, four of the freshest faces in bearded comedy. See story on p. 15. 8 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). 706-363-8616 EVENTS: Restaurant to the Rescue Fundraiser (Barberitos Southwestern Grille & Cantina) (Barnett Shoals Rd.) Simply present a voucher and a portion of proceeds will benefit the Athens Canine Rescue. 4–9 p.m. www.athenscaninerescue.com GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes!

Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706543-8997 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Lego Lovers (Oconee County Library) Bring your favorites Legos from home and share the fun with other Lego lovers. Ages 5–11.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Night at the Museum (Oconee County Library) Chill out on a hot day with popcorn and other

snacks while watching Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum, rated PG. Ages 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 LECTURES AND LIT: Seat in the Shade: Poetry Reading Series (The Globe) Summer poetry reading series hosted by the Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, in conjunction with her summer poetry workshop.

Featuring readings by Ida Stewart, Ginger Murchison, Ayodele Heath, Alice Friman and a number of UGA students. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3534721, www.teachersactup.com PERFORMANCE: Ishtar Vintage Bellydance Band (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Female-led group Ishtar performs traditional songs on clarinet, bass, darbuka (hand drum) and riq (tambourine). Bellydancing with local troupe Sulukule and Augusta guests Qamar. 7 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar.com PERFORMANCE: Burlesque Beta (Go Bar) What a tease! Open-mic variety show hosted by Miss Effie.

10 p.m. $3. 706-546-5609 SPORTS: Capoeira (UGA New Dance Theatre) (Room 274) The UGA Capoeira Club invites the Athens community to try capoeira, a type of Brazilian martial arts. Mondays and Wednesdays during the summer. 7 p.m. FREE! capoeira@uga.edu

Tuesday 10 EVENTS: Featured Farm Dinner (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Four-course vegetarian meal with farmer Ed Janosik of Sundance Farms. Reservations required. 6:30 p.m. $30. www.heirloomathens.com EVENTS: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Between the Coversâ&#x20AC;?

(Earth Fare CafĂŠ) Dinner followed by a presentation on the benefits of aromatherapy. Part of the ACC Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adult summer reading program. 6:30 p.m. $9 (meal). 706-613-3650 EVENTS: Drafts and Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Local stand-up comedy. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-3532831 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Shaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 GAMES: Trivia (Changoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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: Little STEM Scientists (Madison County Library) Conduct fun experiments and learn how real-world scientists, engineers and farmers use technology. All ages; under 6 accompanied by an adult.

6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Gamer Haven (Madison County Library) Learn some tips and tricks from a game programmer. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: Seat in the Shade: Poetry Reading Series (The Globe) Summer poetry reading series hosted by the Poetry

for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, in conjunction with her summer poetry workshop.

Featuring readings by Ida Stewart, Ginger Murchison, Ayodele Heath, Alice Friman and a number of UGA students. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3534721, www.teachersactup.com LECTURES AND LIT: Special Collections Library Tour (UGA Russell Library) Explore interactive kiosks with access to oral history interviews, historical film, video and sound recordings. Look for familiar faces from the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political history in Art Rosenbaumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mural, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doors.â&#x20AC;?

Every Tuesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706542-8079 SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Come play street hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday evening. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@ gmail.com

Wednesday 11 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Join Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, in the galleries for an in-depth discussion of John Linton Chapmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Via Appia.â&#x20AC;? 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.com ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (City Hall/ College Avenue) An afternoon market featuring local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market. (See Live Music listings.)

Every Wednesday through the end of October. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Community HU Song (Lay Park) People of all faiths are invited to sing together with the Eckankar community. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-310-9499, www. eckankar-ga.org GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 GAMES: Trivia (Willyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for exciting prizes! Every Wednesday night. 9 p.m. FREE! 706546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday night.

7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. Every other Wednesday. 3:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:30 p.m. $24.

706-613-3515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for

literacy-based fun. For ages 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Anime Night (Oconee County Library) Teens are invited to experience Anime for a night, find out what the sensation is all about and meet Anime fans. Includes art, games, free Manga, movies and more. T-shirts for the first 10 people.

Ages 13â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Clueless: Book Discussion (Oconee County Library) Mystery book discussion group. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s featured book is Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo.

Stop by the library before the discussion group to check out a copy. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES AND LIT: Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-351-6024.

LECTURES AND LIT: Seat in the Shade: Poetry Reading Series (The Globe) Summer poetry reading series hosted by the Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, in conjunction with her summer poetry workshop.

Featuring readings by Ida Stewart, Ginger Murchison, Ayodele Heath, Alice Friman and a number of UGA students. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3534721, www.teachersactup.com SPORTS: Capoeira (UGA New Dance Theatre) (Room 274) The UGA Capoeira Club invites the Athens community to try capoeira, a type of Brazilian martial arts. Mondays and Wednesdays during the summer. 7 p.m. FREE! capoeira@uga.edu

Down the Line EVENTS: Reiki Circle 7/12 (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese massage technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday.

7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706338-6843 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show 7/12 (Clarke Central High School) The childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff performs its puppet show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon,â&#x20AC;? based on the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel. Join Cat, Dog and Cow on their fairytale adventure as they search for their missing friends.

All ages. 10:30 a.m. (Oconee County Library), 2 p.m. (Madison County Library). FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: CYA 7/12 (Madison County Library) Local attorney Victor Johnson discusses the best way to protect assets and with specific legal documents. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: Seat in the Shade: Poetry Reading Series 7/12 (The Globe) Summer poetry reading series hosted by the Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, in conjunction with her summer poetry workshop.

Featuring readings by Ida Stewart, Ginger Murchison, Ayodele Heath, Alice Friman and a number of UGA students. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3534721, www.teachersactup.com SPORTS: Street Hockey 7/12 (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail. com THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 7/12 (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical. Rated PG. July 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 & 12-14, 7:30 p.m.

& July 8, 3 p.m. $12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. 706-3541339, www.artsoglethorpe.org THEATRE: Steel Magnolias 7/12 (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. July 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 & 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;14, 8 p.m. $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. 706-362-2175 EVENTS: Summer Evening in the Garden 7/13 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Join horticulturist Dr. Allan Armitage for a tour around the garden, wine, snacks and the first pick of plants for sale. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. $5. www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Drafts and Laughs 7/13 (The Pub at Gameday) Local stand-up comedy. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2831 LECTURES AND LIT: Seat in the Shade: Poetry Reading Series 7/13 (The Globe) Summer poetry reading series hosted by the Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, in conjunction with her summer poetry workshop.

Featuring readings by Ida Stewart, Ginger Murchison, Ayodele Heath, Alice Friman and a number of UGA students. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3534721, www.teachersactup.com OUTDOORS: Friday Night Paddles 7/13 (Sandy Creek Park) Experience nighttime on Lake Chapman and paddle around the moonlit waters.

Every other Friday night through summer. Participants may bring or rent a canoe or kayak. For ages 12 & up. Call to pre-register. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12/family. 706-613-3631, www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreekpark PERFORMANCE: An American Celebration 7/13 (MadisonMorgan Cultural Center) Julie Coucheron and Elizabeth Pridgen perform Gershwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rhapsody in Blueâ&#x20AC;? for two pianos, as well as Schickeleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Quartet No. 1, â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Dreams.â&#x20AC;? 7:30 p.m. $10. www. mmcc-arts.org THEATRE: Steel Magnolias 7/13 (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. July 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 & 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;14, 8 p.m. $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. 706-362-2175 THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 7/13 (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical. Rated PG. July 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 & 12-14, 7:30 p.m. & July 8, 3 p.m. $12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. 706-3541339, www.artsoglethorpe.org CLASSES: Manga Workshop 7/14 (The Loft Art Supplies) Zack Wood teaches how to make a Mangastyle comic from sketching and half-tones. For teens and adults.

Preregistration required. 12:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $35. www.loftartsupply.com EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market 7/14 (Oconee County Courthouse) Fresh produce, meats and other farm products. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. www.oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com EVENTS: Really Really Free Market 7/14 (Reese & Pope Park) No money, no barter, no trade.

Everything is free! Bring what you have to share and take what you like.

12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m. FREE! daizelsmom@ gmail.com EVENTS: Athens Canine Rescue Adopt-A-Pet Day 7/14 (Pawtropolis) Meet ACRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adorable, adoptable dogs in the flesh. Second Saturday of each month. 10:30 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 p.m. FREE! www.athenscaninerescue.com EVENTS: 3rd Annual Funky Fest 7/14 (Aromas) Featuring sours, lambics and berliners. 4 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 a.m.

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THE CALENDAR! EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market 7/14 (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market. Every Saturday through mid-December. This week features squash car races with Squash or Tomato. Cooking demonstration by Craig Page. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime 7/14 (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Hear a nature story and learn about the woods, butterflies, turtles and more. 2:30–3 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3615 LECTURES AND LIT: Young Adult Book Signing 7/14 (Avid Bookshop) Meet young adult author S.R. Johannes, author of the awardwinning thriller Untraceable. 4–5 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com OUTDOORS: 30th Annual Open House 7/14 (UGA Trial Gardens) Walk-abouts with Dr. Armitage, combination planters for sale, heirloom tomato tasting and a book signing.

8 a.m.–2 p.m. $5 (requested donation). www.ugatrialgardens.com THEATRE: Steel Magnolias 7/14 (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. July 5–7 & 12–14, 8 p.m. $10–15. 706-362-2175

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 3 Ashford Manor 6 p.m. FREE! (ages 6 & under), $5–15.

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Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ARGONAUTS Local band plays moody alternative-rock.

OF THE VINE Post-rock from Atlanta.

ZVOOV Brooklyn-based instrumental rock trio.

NURTURE Local post-hardcore trio.

Georgia Theatre Rooftop Rendezvous! 7 p.m. $30. www. georgiatheatre.com DJ SEGAR WXAG radio’s DJ Segar specializes in smooth jazz tunes that provide a casual, relaxing atmosphere.

JOHN DUNN AND THE JAZZMAN BAND Local jazz group.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ CHAMPALE Also known as Will Stephenson, this WUOG DJ brings the booth to the bar.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com IKE STUBBLEFIELD AND FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye.

Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums. Every Tuesday!

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com THE WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle, featuring the founder of Ghostmeat Records and members of 6 String Drag.

MRJORDANMRTONKS Collaboration between longtime

Athens musicians Tommy Jordan and William Tonks.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TRIZ Local electro mainstay sets up to “show people how eclectic electric music really is.”

DJ KEIS Local DJ spins energetic dance music sure to get the party going.

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

Wednesday 4 Athens City Hall Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net THE SKIPPERDEES Charming local acoustic duo with rich, folky vocal harmonies and a sense of humor.

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

Thursday 5 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www.40watt.com FOREST TOURIST Trash-pop quartet from Charleston with an energetic stage presence, catchy melodies, humor and drunken lust.

KOKO BEWARE Surf-rock outfit from Augusta.

K I D S Local band playing “slow, saggy, too-far-from-the-beach surfbreakup pop.” Featuring members of Pretty Bird and Basshunter64.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com THICK PAINT Graham Ulicny (Reptar) experiments with loops, lights and

Wednesday, July 4

The Star-Spangled Classic Bishop Park Last year, Athens’ increasing economic woes created a fundraising shortage of $4,500 from the $10,000 needed for our annnual Fourth of July fireworks show, The Star-Spangled Classic. The resulting cancellation was a surprise; the Classic was a tradition Athens didn’t know it was ever in danger of losing. Still, like Whos without presents, we celebrated the Fourth with appropriate gusto and moved on.

Let’s all thank goodness that we weren’t asked to be so understanding for a second year. Thanks to new and returning sponsors, this year, ACC Leisure Services raised more than $18,000—enough for fireworks, live music and inflatable bounce-houses to fill Bishop Park.

The return is the result of a grassroots effort. Fireworks were cut from the ACC’s budget in 2008, and sponsorships waned in the ensuing years. After last year’s cancellation, local community leader Joyce Riefsteck contacted Mayor Denson and asserted that the Fourth with no fireworks was “unacceptable, embarrassing and unpatriotic.” In response, the mayor appointed Reifsteck to co-chair a committee tasked with bringing the sparkle back.

In addition to the committee’s work, Robin Stevens, chief fireworks fundraiser of ACC Leisure, attributes this year’s fundraising success to the shock of the cancellation itself.

“I think the community quickly realized what a tradition this event was,” she says. “It [had] been around for about 30 years, [and] it was missed. Within two months of the cancellation, we had a presenting sponsor, Athens First Bank & Trust.”

More than 10 other sponsors signed on, making it possible for the Classic to add music (courtesy of The Highballs and The Athens Classic City Band), face painting, cupcakes and a Children’s Patriotic Parade, where kids will ride decorated bikes through the park. The parade begins at 6 p.m., and fireworks, once again, go off at dark.

Reifsteck, for one, is pleased. “I’m glad to see patriotism… in full force to make The Star-Spangled Classic possible.” [Sydney Slotkin]

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his voice for this dancey, ambientpsych solo project.

QURIOUS Atlanta group featuring spacey soundscapes, dreamy female vocals, samples, synthesizers and freaky masks.

SPIRIT TRAMP Gainseville, FL’s JT Bringardner plays pretty, atmospheric dream-pop.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MONKEYGRASS JUG BAND Featuring Brandon Nelson McCoy, Don Auber, Adam Poulin and more.

SCOTT LOW Local indie-folkster frontman for Efren plays a solo set.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar. com ROB VEAL Local songwriter whose casual performance style can sometimes mask a pointed lyrical focus.

BO BEDDINGFIELD Singersongwriter whose smooth, warm vocals are steeped in all the soul of country music without the twang.

ERIC GREGORY Guitarist and vocalist for local country-rockers The Starlite DeVilles.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. $2. www.georgiatheatre.com LINGO Blending soul, profound lyrics and Latin grooves in an original set.

CICADA RHYTHM Athens/Atlanta acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie folk.

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

Hotel Indigo 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens.com Live music on the patio, every other Thursday.

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 LOWDIVE This local band explores ska, reggae and rock and roll.

SHOWTIME Elite tha Showstoppa’s band plays eclectic hip-hop mixed with rockin’ funky soul.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $6 (adv. or w/ UGA ID), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com ERICK BAKER Rhythmic, souful acoustic ballads.

ELENOWEN Nashville duo plays folk laden with haunting harmonies and elegiac lyrics.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 LEFTY HATHAWAY Lefty Hathaway plays rock and roll soul with turbulent piano jams reminiscent of the late, great Lowell George and fellow Okies JJ Cale & Leon Russell.

The Office Lounge Open Blues Jam. 8:30 p.m. 706-5460840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece. This is an open jam!

Friday 6 40 Watt Club “Metal Night.” 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-21). www.40watt.com 10 FINGERS STRONG Local band recently released an album titled Pork Chop’s Bedroom.

THE FALLOW Local “Southern metal” trio.

CITY OF COLOSSE Metal from Danielsville, GA.

ANATOMY OF SHADOWS Metal from Elberton, GA influenced by Mastodon, Tool and Cryptopsy.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com THAYER SARRANO Local singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist with lovely, airy vocals and dark, gentle melodies.

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

PILGRIM Local rock band featuring Paul McHugh on vocals, guitar and keyboards along with Matt Stoessel on guitar, TJ Machado on bass, Thayer Sarrano on keyboards and Brad Morgan on drums.

RED RAVINE Alternative group featuring guitar, bass and accordion.

Engine Room Grand Opening Show. 10 p.m. FREE! DJ Z-DOG Loveable local DJ spins top-40 hits, old-school hip-hop, high-energy rock and other danceable favorites.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com GRAPE SODA This local duo (sometimes trio) plays soulful, psychedelic synth pop driven by organ and drums.

MOTHS Featuring Jacob Morris of Ham1, Moths plays a mostly acoustic sort of ‘70s folk-rock with a pop sensibility and an inevitable psychedelic tinge.

THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed out punk.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 11 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SUPERCLUSTER Athens supergroup featuring members of Pylon and The Olivia Tremor Control. The band’s sound is as diverse as its lineup, with elements of psychedelic experimentation and angular rock. Seveninch release show!

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com BOBBY COMPTON The first Redneck Idol, Bobby Compton sings hardrockin’ country.

JORDON RAGER 18-year-old country singer/songwriter.

5TH WHEEL Country meets Southern rock.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ Mahogany Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Highwire Lounge “Friday Night Jazz.” 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com RAND LINES Original compositions of pianist Rand Lines with drummer Ben Williams and bassist Carl Lindberg.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub THE KNOCKOUTS This local group of all-star musicians plays original tunes that pack all the punch of punk rock with diverse, worldly melodies.

RANCH Local “heavy torch” band featuring Jasey Jones, AKA Rev. Hector (guitar, vocals); Kevin Sims, AKA Jerome (bass) and Laura Morgan, AKA Dawn Lilypond (drums).

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5 (adv. or w/ UGA ID), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com EFREN Local indie-folk band with dark, brooding melodies and the husky, warm vocals of Scott Low.

JOSH PERKINS EXPERIMENT IN SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY Playing originals and covers, influenced by bands from Willie Nelson to Jeff Buckley, Drivin N’ Cryin to Cat Stevens, Johnny Cash to Radiohead.

THE WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul featuring three vocalists and charismatic harmonies.

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

Saturday 7 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com JOMPSON BROTHERS Old-school classic rock and roll band. See Calendar Pick on p. 19.

TEALVOX Alternative rock band with a hint of classic British rock.

A THOUSAND HORSES Rock influenced by traditional American flavors of the Southeastern U.S. Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net THE WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle, featuring the founder of Ghostmeat Records and members of 6 String Drag.

CHRIS HAMPTON Fingerpicking singer-songwriter.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com GEAR JAMMER Dual-lead, riff-heavy rock with classic metal influences.

Music for the open road.

PONY KILLER Garage-psych from New Orleans.

THUNDERCHIEF Local act with a West Coast punk sound influenced by classic rock.

BRAINS Is this the legendary ‘80s Atlanta act? Probably not. But maybe!

Engine Room Grand Opening Show. 10 p.m. FREE! DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul featuring three vocalists and charismatic harmonies.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com DREW KOHL Original singer/songwriter plays bluegrass-inspired folk.

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

DYLAN SHEPPARD AND THE STRAYS Americana, folk and blues from Monroe, GA. Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This engaging local songwriter and music therapist performs a unique fusion of acoustic folk and soul.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ CHAMPALE Also known as Will Stephenson, this WUOG DJ brings the booth to the bar.

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The Jompson Brothers, Tealvox, A Thousand Horses 40 Watt Club â&#x20AC;&#x153;Only in a country music song can you get laid and saved in three minutes. It was a lot about my history. It was bluegrass. It was Southern rock. It was a lot of things,â&#x20AC;?

Kenny Chesney told CMT during a party celebrating the Billboard chart-topping success of his single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never Wanted Nothing Moreâ&#x20AC;? in 2007.

Nashville-based songwriter Chris Stapleton is a lot of things, too, including coThe Jompson Brothers author of the aforementioned smash hit (along with others he has penned for George Strait and Brad Paisley) and three-time Grammy nominee (for his vocal and guitar work with bluegrass powerhouse The Steel Drivers). Thankfully for us, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a muscle-rock revivalist who currently fronts a fierce four-piece called The Jompson Brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a group that features former Athenian Greg McKee on guitar, along with J.T. Cure on bass and Bard McNamee on drums.

While names like Chesney and Paisley lack a certain dirty Southern (hipster redneck?) credibility, Jompson is one of those hard-nosed fictional surnames that might be found in a Larry Brown novel; indeed, the Brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; music could soundtrack his gritty tales of humid backwoods.

Stapleton has been a salaried songwriter in Nashville for over a decade. Yet, he explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not particularly emotionally invested in every song I writeâ&#x20AC;Ś probably, most songs I write. Which is maybe not what people like to hear. I go in and do my job, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t love my job, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best job in the worldâ&#x20AC;Ś [but] I like to play rock and roll, too. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that carnal, caveman need. The great thing about playing rock and roll [is] thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no rule to itâ&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a completely selfish indulgenceâ&#x20AC;Ś a musical self-indulgence that has no rules. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how music winds up evolving. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always kinda hunting for something, not knowing what it is.â&#x20AC;?

Find your trucker hat, and bring a lighter to the 40 Watt. This is music worthy of a sea of saluting Bics. [David Eduardo]

DJ FOG JUICE Spinning Euro/Italo/ space-disco, new-wave, old school R&B and classic dance hits.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJS AFRODITE, KEN SWEAT AND THE COLONEL Spinning selections from the First Ladies of R&B, hiphop, and soul.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center 7:30 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$25. www.mmcc-arts.org APRIL VERCH Verch, the first woman to win both of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prestigious fiddle championships, plays with her bluegrass band.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS Playing old-school funk, sweet pop and sweaty rock covers.

Sideways 9 p.m. FREE! 706-319-1919.

W.A.L.D.O. Local band plays funk and alternative rock.

Suburban Lounge 8 p.m. $5. www.celestngeve.com OPEN MIC NIGHT For poets, singers and spoken-word artists.

Monday 9 Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southwest CafĂŠ 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;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 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com DANA SWIMMER A montage of garage rock with sweet, soulful undertones.

FOLK IS PEOPLE Indie-folk rockers from Jacksonville feature a multitude of stringed instruments.

NANCY KAYE Shimmering, breezy acoustic folk featuring rich, honeycoated vocals.

BURNS LIKE FIRE Iron-livered pretty boys who play stewed â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; screwed punk rock.

EXPECT RESISTANCE Punk rock from Atlanta.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrisseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songwriting is literate and sincere.

LAURELIN KRUSE Folk singer from Connecticut via Colorado.

Georgia Theatre Rooftop Dance Party! 11 p.m. $2. www. georgiatheatre.com THE BREAKS Feel-good local rock band with alternative and jam influences.

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

The Grotto 6 p.m. FREE! 140 E. Clayton St. THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Every Monday. Smooth jazz played by DJ Segar from WXAG 1470, the light radio station.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com THE ORIGINAL WAILERS Roots reggae outfit fronted by Al Anderson, Bob Marleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original guitarist.

Tuesday 10 Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com THE SCARRED Punk rock band from Anaheim, CA. THE PINKERTON THUGS Punk rock band from Maine influenced

by Crass, Sham 69, The Clash and Woody Guthrie.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com LOWER CALLING Local band mixes dusty desert-country with synths and understated vocals.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE BREAKS Feel-good local rock band with jam influences.

RUGBY Experimental duo uses Casio and drums to craft its skewed pop.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub HELEN SCOTT Lindsey Haddad (exLaminated Cat), Emileigh Ireland, Hannah Weyandt and Dena Zilber (El

Hollin, Werewolves) play folky pop with a hint of psychedelic rock.

EL HOLLIN This band plays haunting pop music with minimal instrumentation and ethereal female vocals.

SLOW MOTION COWBOYS San Francisco band combines original songwriting with traditional arrangements and harmonies.

DJ LOZO Spinning punk rock!

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com KURT THOMAS Singer-songwriter and Dahlonega native plays country favorites and originals.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TRIZ Local electro mainstay sets up to â&#x20AC;&#x153;show people how eclectic electric music really is.â&#x20AC;?

D:RC The latest in global club sounds ranging from dubstep and U.K. funky to electro and bassline.

VARIANT Chris Thompson fuses deeper sounds with harder, more smashing grooves.

The Volstead 9 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!

Wednesday 11 Farm 255 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Jeremiah Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor saxophone playing cool jazz.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com SCHWERVON! NYC duo plays melodic indie rock with male-female harmonies.

FOUR EYES Ukulele strummer Erin Lovett plays sweet, poppy folk.

Georgia Theatre At Sunset on the Roof. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com KINKY WAIKIKI Local supergroup plays smooth, beachy Hawaiian music.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARA KILDARE Local pianist and Kill Kill Buffalo front-woman.

TINMAN Finely crafted folk pop ballads from Mark Bailey.

THE LAST TYCOON Local act plays rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Americana.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5 (adv. or w/ UGA ID), $8 (door) www.meltingpointathens.com HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND This local, Louisiana-style brass band gets the crowd all riled up with loads of horns and a percussive frenzy.

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ART Call for Artists (Amici) Seeking artists for monthly exhibits. Email ryan.myers@amici-cafe.com Call for Artists (ARTini’s Open Art Studio, Gallery & Lounge) Email images and background information to kate@artinisartlounge.com. www.artinisartlounge.com

CLASSES Beginners Sewing Course (Community) A six-week beginner class that covers how to thread and use sewing machines and make simple projects. Sewing machine required. Wednesdays, July 11–Aug. 18, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $120, 706-316-2067 Bellydance & Bollywood Classes (Floorspace) Basic and advanced bellydance for women of all ages. Thursdays, 5:45 p.m. & 7 p.m. Bollywood class. Sundays, 3 p.m. $12 (drop-in), $60 (6 classes). www.floorspaceathens.com

Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) every Friday from 7-9 p.m. “Family Try Clay” classes every Sunday from 2-4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Dance Classes (Dancefx) Ballet, tap, hip-hop, Zumba, contemporary, foxtrot, Western dancing, strip aerobics, pilates and more. Check website for schedule. 706-355-3078, www.dancefx.org Facebook Timeline for Pages Workshop with Jami Howard (Community) Learn how to best use Facebook Timeline to promote your business or product with instructor Jami Howard.

Gentle Hatha Integral Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) All levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. $9/class. 706-543-0162, mfhealy@bellsouth.net, www.mind fuliving.org High-flying Trapeze Class (Leap High-Flying Trapeze School) All levels. www.leaptrapeze.com Lori’s Boot Camp (Fitness at Five) Get in shape in time for summer. Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. &

Saturdays, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 706353-6030, www.fitnessatfive.com SALSAthens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes. Every Wednesday, 6:307:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30 p.m. (beginners). $8 (incl. $3.50 drink). 706-338-6613 Therapeutic Yoga (Healing Arts Centre) Led by Rhett Crowe.

Mondays, 7:15–8:45 p.m. $60/6 weeks. or $14/class. www.healing artscentre.net Turn Conflict into Opportunity (H.T. Edwards Building #1) Georgia Conflict Center teaches how to handle disagreements in a way that solves problems and builds relationships. July 9–11, 5–9 p.m. $250. 706-340-3439, georgiaconflictcenter@gmail.com

HELP OUT Costume Donations (Athens Little Playhouse) Looking for superhero, animal, doctor/nurse and cowboy/cowgirl costumes. No plastic masks. Costumes will be used

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Manda McKay’s paintings are on display at the Oconee County Library through July. by 4 to 12-year-olds during theatre camps and classes.

Donate Blood (Red Cross Donor Center) Give the gift of blood! Check website for donor locations. 1-800RED CROSS, www.redcross.org Foster Dog Parent Program (The Athens Area Humane Society) Foster a dog, taking it from a euthanization center before placing it in a permanent home. All supplies for the dogs are provided. Visit website for more information. www.athens humanesociety.org Georgia Museum of Art Shop Volunteers (Georgia Museum of Art) Volunteers are needed to help staff the GMOA gift shop. Activities include creating and maintaining store displays, ringing up sales and basic customer service. Weekday and weekend shifts available. 706542-0450, millera@uga.edu, www. uga.edu/gamuseum/info/shop.html.

Litter Index Survey (Athens, Ga) Keep Athens Beautiful invites ACC residents to complete a litter index survey to inform educational programs in the community. Print a survey and map of roads to be rated, and walk, bike or drive through the

city. Send by July 6. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/index.aspx?

KIDSTUFF Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts and crafts. Ages 6–15. Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 Babies and Beasties (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Toddlers ages 18 months to two years and their parents are invited to discover nature with hands-on activities, hikes and crafts. Registration required.

Thursdays in August. 10–10:45 a.m. $12–18. 706-613-3615, www.athens clarkecounty.com/sandycreeknature center Back to School Bingo (Parkview Community Center) Play bingo and win school supplies! Ages 6–13. Call to register by July 20.

July 24, 10–11:30 a.m. $2.

706-613-3603 Creative Art Summer Camp (Chase Street Warehouses) Sign up for week-long sessions. Ages

6–12. June 4–July 16, 12–3 p.m. $100. 828-577-4125, lostdogbob@ gmail.com Dream Team Youth Triathlon Club (Athens, Ga) Meets weekly for running and cycling sessions with a certified coaching staff. For ages 5 to mid-teens. Group and individual training available. www.dreamteam triathlon.com Fashion Design Summer Camp (Community) Learn fashion design, illustration, basic sewing skills and how to put on a runway show. For fashion lovers ages 13–17. Lunch provided. July 16-20, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $375. 706-3162067 Half-Pint Summer Art Camp (Pints and Paints) Week-long camps for ages 5-8 and 9-13. Participants will learn basic painting techniques and show off their masterpieces on the last day of the session. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $45 (day), $255 (week). www.pintsand paints.com Summer Art Camp (MadisonMorgan Cultural Center) “Things with Wings” art camp led by Julie Noland offers sessions for kids in

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Call to register. $125-165. 706-5553161, www.gooddirt.net Summer Reading Program (Clarke Central High School) Students can sign up for the summer reading program to read books and earn prizes. Meetings held in CCHS auditorium due to construction.

Thursdays, May 24–Jul. 26. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Tween Time (Madison County Library) Funky arts and crafts for tweens ages 8–12. Call to pre-register. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 Zoo Exhibit Hall (Memorial Park) The community can explore Bear Hollow’s exhibit hall and visit some of the animals used in programs,

such as amphibians, reptiles, fish and more. Saturdays, 1–4 p.m.

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ON THE STREET Family Fishing (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Bait, poles and tips provided for fishing on Claypit Pond.

All ages. Pre-registration required one day in advance. Jun. 21 & July 12, 6–7:30 p.m. $7–$10. 706-6133615, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ sandycreeknaturecenter Free Chair Massages (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Sit down for a midweek massage break at The Spa. Call to reserve spot. Every Wednesday in June and July, 12-2 p.m.

706-425-9700 Humane Society Pet Calendar Photo Contest (The Athens Area Humane Society) Submit a photo of your pet to be voted on for inclusion in the 2013 calendar. Each submission is $10.

All proceeds benefit the AAHS. Submit by July 31. www.athens humanesociety.org Open Table Tennis (Oconee Veterans Park) Equipment provided.

Wednesdays, 6–9 p.m. FREE!

ART AROUND TOWN AMICI ITALIAN CAFÉ (233 E. Clayton St.) New illustrations by Matt Bahr. Through July.

ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings by Mary Porter, Christine Shockley, Dorthea Jacksen, Lana Mitchell, John Gholson, Greg Benson and Ainhoa Bilbao Canup. Art quilt by Elizabeth Barton and handmade jewelry by various artists.

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.

ARTLAND LOFT GALLERY (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) “Through the Red Door,” colorful narratives, self-portraits and imaginary worlds by Lisa Freeman. Through July.

AURUM STUDIOS (125 E. Clayton St.) Two- and three-dimensional artwork created by MFA students from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Through July.

THE BRANDED BUTCHER (225 N. Lumpkin St.) Paintings and drawings by Sanithna Phansavanh.

CINÉ BARCAFÉ (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Concrete Culture: Part of the Endless Summer of SPOA” features photography by Bob Brussack, Jason Thrasher, Chad Osburn, Kent Pearson, Ian McFarlane and David Franklin. Through July 18.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Jul Sexton. Through July.

ETIENNE BRASSERIE (311 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Andy Cherewick. Through July.

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LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) Georgia Artists with Disabilities presents over 50 pieces of art. Through July 7.

MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Hwy. 98 W.) A wooden bowl created by Jack Hudson, leather goods

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SEWCIAL STUDIO (160 Tracy St.) Hand-dyed art quilts by Anita Heady and rust and over-dyed fabric on canvas by Bill Heady. Through July.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDENS (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) The Madison Artists Guild presents “Art Naturale Park 2,” an exhibit of 23 artists interpreting the natural world. Reception July 15. Through July 29.

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art notes All Things Great and Small Where Intimacy Flowers: “Tiny Universe” is of locals as their key players. In Terry’s world, my favorite kind of group show: unexpected, the man from the bike shop becomes “King of concise and conspicuously rowdy in its tonal the Swimming Hole” (see the May 30 Flagpole shifts. Currently on display in the Main Gallery cover), a local actress plays the role of a saint. of UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, the exhi“The Pilgrim’s Progress,” a newer work, sets bition brings together a handsome handful of its lone, elderly traveler with a trio of dogs diminutive, wall-based works with a formal against a backdrop of a curiously manicured emphasis on drawing and a loose ideological desert landscape, fringed at its edges with thread with its landscape-based theme. Rarely lush greenery—an oasis in reverse. “The Holy have I seen such a reductive use of the space: Family,” one of the largest works, is an ingeone’s immediate impression upon entering the niously reversible diptych that shifts its own gallery is shock at the large expanses of blank story through subtle reorganization of form. walls, punctuated by tight clusters of each of the six artists’ work. It’s a bold move by guest On the Horizon: If you’ve ever received a curator Elliot Walters, whose spare installaletter-pressed invitation or handled a book tion would diminish tremendously the impact printed and bound by hand, you may be familof work less impeccably chosen. Mercifully, iar with the unique type of love that Smokey this is far from the case, as “Tiny Universe” Road Press brings to each of its projects. affords much needed breathing room for intiFronted by former UGA professor and artist macy to flower.

Margot Ecke (whose work is collected nationI was immediately drawn to the dense ally and has been featured by Martha Stewart), abstractions of South Dakota-based artist Smokey Road is one of the newest additions to Diana Behl, whose lyrical pair of drawings a thriving and growing print community right straddle gesture and precision. “March,” a here in Athens. In January of 2013, Ecke will handsome panel piece, hinges upon a galloprelocate her top-notch shop into the Leathers ing movement of transparent acrylic washes building on Pulaski Street, where Smokey that politely lead viewers from left to right Road will begin operations as a print and through a haze of hatched graphite, cut paper and (deceptively) haphazard ink stains. It’s like looking at smoke like a boyfriend. It’s like ordering tapas and receiving oblivion in a silver dish. It’s the kind of piece you want to snatch off the wall, shove in your bag and walk quickly towards the door with, hoping nobody notices.

Next door, seven of Atlanta-based Andy Moon Wilson’s tightly wound works on paper form networks of Diana Behl’s drawings are on display at the Lamar Dodd School of Art through varying continuity, Aug. 3. exposing the word “drawing” as the noun and the verb that it truly is. Haptic, manic design studio, as well as a community cenand far from easy, Wilson’s marks vibrate on ter for letterpress and bookbinding courses. their respective pages like chords on a pair Ecke’s ambitious business model includes the of strings. Across the way, Atlanta-based production and editioning of artist prints, a Scott Ingram’s reductive architectural paintresidency program with an international scope, ings ease up the tension, but by only slight and a rotating cast of local and visiting artists degrees. Ingram’s rigorous elimination of who will serve as instructors in the studio. extraneous fact yields precisely constructed A fine art press based in Georgia is a gap scenarios of form that somehow feel both in great need of filling since the unfortunate specific and universal at the same time. Look, closing of Nexus Press in 2003, and Margot— this is a great show; get yourself out there. On who comes to the project with a wealth of view through Aug. 3. experience and infectious enthusiasm—is just the lady to pull it off. Smokey Road is Same Song, Different Instrument: Terry currently in the process of some guerrilla Rowlett’s paintings do not disappoint. “Terra fundraising through Kickstarter, and I highly Infirma,” his last exhibition in Athens, recommend any and all interested parties (this brought together some old favorites with more means you!) to check out her project and dig recent gems. I’m a big fan of Rowlett, whose deep for support. A paltry $125 gets you one paintings do much to humanize and localize of the first six of Smokey Road Press’ gorgeous some of the oldest stories around. The six gen- letter-pressed works on paper, contributed erously scaled narrative works recently on view by an all-star cast of Shelley DiCello, Libby at Ciné were quick to grab one’s attention, Black, Ian Hagarty, Erika Adams, Moon Jang and stay with the viewer long after the show Jung and Kelli Sinner. For more information, was over. As usual, Rowlett’s handling of his and to make a donation of any size, visit www. medium is in top form, bordering on the surgi- kickstarter.com/projects/539840752/sixcal in its honed precision. Rowlett’s project letterpress-printed-artist-editions-by-smokey. updates biblical themes and parables by composing subtly theatrical scenes with portraits Brian Hitselberger

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One of my daughters is in the military, and the other is a student.)

I should be able to meet a guy, right? I just don’t know how! I’m too shy to go to bars by myself (much less start a conversation with a stranger), not really into church, and I have had no luck with the dating sites (three first dates with three married men). A co-worker has suggested volunteering on weekends or signing up for some sort of evening class (photography, yoga, etc).

He is convinced that I just need to make myself available and the rest will fall into place. Again, how?

Where can I volunteer and find other volunteers over the age of 25? Forgive my ignorance, but how and where do I sign up for an evening class? Which dating sites aren’t just married men trolling for cheap thrills? Any suggestions?

Thanks, The Lonely Lady Classes of all kinds are available in Athens.

The Georgia Center for Continuing Education at UGA is a great resource. So is the Lyndon House Arts Center. As for volunteering, there are lots of organizations that need help all the time: Nuçi’s Space, The Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity, the list goes on and on. Also check Flagpole’s Bulletin Board. If you need a big list, or maybe some more specific information, you may want to talk to the folks over at Community Connection (http://handsonnortheastgeorgia.com/). They are a veritable clearinghouse for all of your charity and volunteer needs.

I think rather than worrying about the potential age gap, you should just pick something you’re really passionate about and go for it.

I have cut off contact with a friend at my boyfriend’s request. We had a strange but meaningless make-out one night after work; everyone was very drunk, and he made out with my female co-worker as well. He does not understand that I have no feelings other than platonic for my male work friend even though he has clearly been interested in me romantically in the past. I do not feel like I should have to stop emailing or texting him as long as the two of us do not hang out. Also, we work in totally different departments and never see each other; we were friends before he started working here.

My boyfriend can’t let this go, and it is causing us a lot of problems. I have agreed not to communicate with my friend, but my boyfriend doesn’t understand that I’ll be missing my friend and that I am sad about this. He thinks that I must be attracted to him if I can’t

let our great, albeit short, friendship go. My boyfriend would do anything for me, but I’ve always considered friends to be more important than relationships. I don’t want to break up.

Is it possible for me to maintain my friendship and my relationship even if my friend hates my boyfriend and my boyfriend hates my friend?

Also, my boyfriend keeps nagging me about this and can’t let it go. I just want everything to stop. How can I make all of us happy?

Drunk Work Make-Out Gone Wrong No, it’s not possible to maintain both relationships, and no you can’t make everybody happy. First, I think you need to rethink the “friendships are more important than relationships” thing. I mean, I agree that you don’t want every new flame to get between you and your friends, but isn’t your significant other your friend, too? And ideally, aren’t they really your best friend? There are two things that I think you need to consider about this situation.

Your friend is not somebody who has been in your life for that long and is not somebody that you want to date. You like him a lot, but not in the way that you said he likes you. This means that you are probably leading him on (make-outs, no matter how drunk, do not happen out of the blue. You participated, meaningless though it may have been on your end) and definitely making him miserable.

How great can this friendship be?

At the same time, you are pissing off your boyfriend, whom you supposedly love, who would do anything for you. Seriously, how do you think your boyfriend is supposed to feel? What would you do if he came home and told you he had made out with a new woman whom he works with and that, oh, by the way, they are buddies now and regularly exchange texts and messages?

My guess is you wouldn’t stand for it, and neither should he. You haven’t said how long you have been with your boyfriend or what your long-term plans and goals are with him, but you might want to consider that if you can’t even grant him this seemingly simple and definitely reasonable request, maybe the relationship isn’t really that important to you after all. Either way you need to make a decision and cut at least one of these guys loose before they both get smart and beat you to it.

Confidential to PFM: I think yours is a kink that is best spelled right out. Trying to allude to it may be confusing, and this is not an arena in which you want mixed messages. This is not to say that you bring it up over dinner on your first date, mind you, but you may want to go ahead and spell it out once the going seems smooth enough but before you’re inviting her to meet the parents. And believe me, it isn’t as rare or as weird as you think. It just isn’t something that comes up around the water cooler.

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ADD Drug: 50 Years in Five Points

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istening to Jim and Lorene Horton talk about their 50 “It was the kind that had two strings on it and when you were on vacation when Lorene’s sister called with the news. years of running ADD Drug Store in Five Points is like pulled it, it goes pop,” explains Jim. “I’d taken a box, worked When Lorene told Jim what had happened, “He turned about as sitting at their soda fountain and enjoying an ice cream it from the inside, glued one end to the bottom and the other white as he could and laid back on the bed. Lightning went in float. end to the top, so when she’d rip it open, it’d go pop-pop.” the meter of the store, which went into the electrical panel. It “Used to, when the kids got out of high school, they’d come Lorene graduated high school and left Horton’s to attend exploded in the stock room and just burned everything except up to ADD to the soda fountain,” says Jim. “Most of the time, Athens Business College. She and Jim married in 1967, and the front end, but there was so much smoke and water damage it’s fine, but kids are going to be kids, and they called me she worked in a law office until the birth of their first child, they had to gut everything.” She smiled and added, “Except over from the pharmacy one day because they had these three Angela, in 1969 (followed by Cathy in 1971). Jim managed the soda fountain.” young kids up there who were just being totally unruly. So, I the “add”itional store, which the family didn’t name Horton’s Since their daughter Angela was also on vacation in Florida said to one, ‘How would you like it if I were to tell your mother to avoid confusion with Hodgson’s Pharmacy that was already with her fiancé’s family, their younger daughter, Cathy, was left how you were acting?’ He said, ‘You don’t know who my mother in the neighborhood (still there and also recently under new to mind the store. She’d taken the back-up computer disc of is.’ And I said, ‘I tell you what, you live on such and such ownership). According to Lorene, “As far as having a salary, the their customers’ records with her before leaving the store that street, in such and such a house.’ And the other two looked money went back into the business more than in Jim’s pocket, evening, so they were able to set up temporary shop at the at him and said [in a worried voice], ‘I think he knows your and over the years he’s just done an excellent job building up downtown Horton’s store. mother.’” Jim laughs. “I know his mother would have been all the drugstore and clientele.” When the girls went to school, “We worked off of a card table down there using computers over him. Nowadays, they would have told me to take a hike.”

Lorene began working at ADD. and their stock,” says Jim. This past May, Jim and Lorene decided it was time to step “We’ve always worked together,” says Jim. “We left each Despite a delay in delivery of their cash registers, ADD was away from their family business, which has been a successful other alone. She did what she needed to do, and I did what I back in business at Five Points the first week of December. “We and cherished part of the did not put one announceAthens community for a ment in the paper to say half century. that we were opening,” “I can’t tell you how says Lorene. “People rode much it means to me to by and saw the doors be greeted by name when open…” She shakes her I come in to fill prescriphead in amazement. tions as so much of the “People were lined out the business that we do elsedoor to eat at the snack where is so impersonal,” bar, and it stayed that way reads one of the cards the until after February.”

Hortons have received “You had everybody from their customers. “I sitting on the counter just wanted to thank you stools,” adds Jim. “And in both for all your kindness that whole area between and helpfulness over these the soda fountain and the years.” fixtures in the middle of “It’s been a fun 50 the store, they were standyears getting to know the ing in there all deep, just customers and them getwaiting, waiting, waiting.” ting to know us,” says “That first day, we Lorene. “It’s all about still didn’t have the cash embracing. Embrace your registers. When Charlotte customers and embrace Marshall came in and saw your employees and your us working out of a box, business will thrive.” she went home and came Fortunately for the back with a couple of cigar Hortons and Athens, the boxes, and we were making new owner, Lafayette, GA change out of a cigar box,” native Kevin Florence, Lorene laughs. “It was knows the value of familyfun, but it was chaos for a owned business, having long time there. That was grown up in his parents’ December of ‘97.” Then she pharmacy. gets quiet. “And then it “Kevin met his wife was March of ‘98 when we here at Georgia, and they lost our oldest daughter.

Jim and Lorene Horton retell stories from their family business—a successful and cherished part of the Athens community. wanted to stay in Athens A tractor trailer truck hit and raise their one-yearher. Jim had thought losold son,” says Lorene. “He’s been working as a pharmacist, and needed to do. I think as long as you don’t decide that both of ing that business in the fire was devastating, having to work he’d talked to us about buying the store, but that was before you have got to be in control of the same thing, it works.” downtown at the drugstore filling prescriptions and sitting in we knew Jim was having health problems. Then in March last “A lot of people don’t understand us being together 24/7,” a chair at that table. You could just see how stressful that had year, we found out Jim had Wegener’s Disease.” Between his says Lorene. “We have always enjoyed each other’s company, been on him and how it was… It just didn’t seem like he was Wegener’s treatment and triple bypass heart surgery last fall, and not felt like we’ve had to have someone with us or be going to make it. He’d thought, oh, this is just terrible. I’d Jim couldn’t stay in the store. “We really wanted to have some- entertaining or be entertained. We enjoy just sitting and said, ‘Well, this is not the worst thing that could ever happen one who owned it to be there like Jim was,” says Lorene. “The watching TV or just riding around in the car or whatever.” to you.’ And then in March we lost our daughter, and I said, customers had really depended on knowing when they walked The favorite place of enjoyment at ADD is the lunch coun‘Now this is the worst thing.’ in the door that they were going to see him and talk to him. ter and soda fountain. “It’s more of a family snack bar than “The community certainly supported us through the fire, Kevin’s young, he’s 29, but Jim was 24 [when he started].” just students or people who patronize,” says Lorene. “We have but when we lost our daughter…” Lorene’s voice becomes Jim’s father began the family business with Horton’s people who come in every morning for breakfast who call very soft. “When Angela passed away, you just cannot express drugstore in downtown Athens in 1947. “We grew up in the themselves The Coffee Club.” how much those people meant to us. They loved us through drugstore,” says Jim. “My brother stayed downtown, and Dad The counter has also hosted birthday parties and even a the fire, and they loved us through losing her, and now this sent me out to Five Points when I got out of school. So, that’s bridal shower. The Hortons also love Christmas, when they treat last year with Jim’s health. I mean, they’re more than family. where I’ve been since 1960, and my brother’s been running the their employees and morning regulars to an annual holiday And it’s not just the Five Points people, it’s the community as one downtown.” breakfast cooked by Jim and Lorene before the store opens. a whole. All over Clarke County, Watkinsville, Oconee County, Horton’s downtown is where Jim met Lorene, who began “We’ll fill up the stools with the employees and have a some in Madison County. I mean it’s just… It’s a business you working there when she was in high school and Jim was in good time and give them what we’re going to for Christmas,” enjoy and you love being there, and yet you know it’s time pharmacy school at UGA. Lorene gets tickled remembering the says Lorene. “The Coffee Club will come in at 9 o’clock and you’ve got to give it up.” She smiles. “It’s been a nice advenfun that the young Horton’s crowd had playing pranks on each we’ll have enough left to feed them breakfast. And then Sherry ture there.” other. “They had these little sticks that you could put in cigaWhite is a minister and she will bring her keyboard, and Jones “Thanks to the patients and the customers for their loyalty rettes, and Jim—I don’t know where he got them—but we’d Drewry—he’s in his 90s now—he will sit on that stool and play and support,” says Jim. “And for their friendship for all the put those in our coworker’s cigarettes, and when she’d light the keyboard from memory, and we will sing Christmas carols. number of years.” the cigarette, it would explode,” she laughs. “He wrapped up And we’ve been doing that for I don’t know how many years.”

Fifty years. a gift one time and he gave it to me, and I opened it, and it In August of 1997, things turned tough for the Hortons exploded!” when lightning hit the store and burned it. Jim and Lorene Marilyn Estes

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everyday people Nora Blankenship, Social Worker I went to Classic City Detail hoping to talk with a mechanic for Everyday People. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always impressed by their extensive knowledge of cars, mostly because I barely know how to change a tire. I entered the office, stepping over a napping dog to reach the counter and talk to Nora Blankenship. Nora immediately seemed like a fun person to be around, so I gave up on my mechanic.

Flagpole: So, you work here at CCD? Nora Blankenship: My husband owns this place; I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually work here. I just help out.

FP: Oh, OK. So, do you work anywhere else around town?

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NB: My husband has owned this for about seven years, actually. I think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in his seventh year. And we moved to this location in December of 2009, right before we got married, actually, yeah, because we got married in the spring of 2010.

He used to be up at the corner of Alps and Broad, and then he moved here and then, I think, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually planning on moving again to another location, a smaller location. We just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where yet.

FP: So, what was that like? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure you were planning for a wedding and movingâ&#x20AC;Ś NB: Yeah, and moving. It was hectic.

It was very, very hectic. Because I was working for DFACS at the time, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving the shop, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re planning a wedding; it was, yeah, a lot.

FP: What other interests do you have?

NB: I like running, or, well, jogging.

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NB: Yeah, yeah, I almost passed out.

We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really train for it [laughs]. I seriously almost passed out afterwards.

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They refer folks to us for family counseling, individual counseling; mostly kids. I mostly work with younger kids.

FP: And what do you do there?

NB: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a counselor. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an individual and family counselor.

FP: So, this is your dog, then? [I gesture to the Doberman sniffing around the parking lot where we are talking.]

NB: This is my dog, Dieselâ&#x20AC;Ś He will be two in November, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had him for a year and a half, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good boyâ&#x20AC;Ś Yeah, he just hangs out in the shop.

FP: He was so cute just lying on the floor when I came in.

NB: Yeah, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our guard dog [laughs].

FP: Did you do anything else between school and working at Pathways?

NB: I worked for DFACS for a bunch of years, and then transitioned from that to being a counselor.

FP: Were you interested in working for family and child services?

NB: Yeah, when I went to social work school, they have a program called the Title IV-E program, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for people who are interested in doing family and children services. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a deal where they help pay for your school and you agree to work for them for two years. I actually worked for them for three years. It was good experience.

FP: When I think of that service, it seems very hard to deal withâ&#x20AC;Ś NB: It is. Yeah, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very stressful, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rewarding, too.

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NB: But we made it, yes.

FP: So, you have two other dogs. What kind of dogs are they?

NB: Jessie and Sammy. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re mutts. I rescued them. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had them for years. So, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re my dogs, and then Diesel is Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dog.

FP: Are they big, too?

NB: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re big, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re smaller than him.

FP: Oh, OK. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cause heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge.

NB: Yes, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100 pounds, Jessie is 60 pounds, Sammy is 40 pounds. So, compared to him, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re little, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re big, yeah. We kind of live out in the woods where they can run aroundâ&#x20AC;Ś We live, like, on the edge of Clarke and Oconee counties, and the river goes through there, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a little swimming hole that we go play in.

FP: Do you have any other interests?

NB: I like gardening. I like to make tomato sauce from scratch from my garden and be all domesticâ&#x20AC;Ś Yeah, we have a vegetable garden.

FP: So, do you cook a lot, then?

NB: Not a lot [laughs], but more in the summertime when I have fresh vegetables to cook withâ&#x20AC;Ś But my tomato sauce is completely, 100 percent from my gardenâ&#x20AC;Ś itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best.

The only place that could rival it would be The Gritâ&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our favorite restaurant.

FP: Are you a vegetarian?

NB: No, no, I like my steaks. I could be a vegetarian if I ate at The Grit every day.

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