/FP120711

COLORBEARER OF ATHENS LANDING SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE

LOCALLY OWNED SINCE 1987

JULY 11, 2012 · VOL. 26 · NO. 27 · FREE

Easter Island Debut Release! p. 11

Theater

Steel Magnolias Delivers Drama and Comedy p. 7

WTH? Athens What’s Up with That Guy and His Crazy Flag Truck? p. 22

Boulevard Woods p. 6 · Beaver Nelson p. 10 · Aaron Freeman p. 11 · The Pauses p. 15

PUSH PUSH

to get promoted. for special events.

Impress your boss with full-color We’ll design & print your programs, tickets training manuals.

10%OFF

and invitations.

Tattoo or Body Piercing

1035A Baxter St. 706-543-7628 www.americanclassictattoo.net

3 -ILLEDGE !VE s

www.aromaswinebar.com

follow us on facebook & twitter @aromaswinebar

163 E. Broad Street 163 E. Broad Street Downtown Athens Downtown Athens

ATHICA Emerges V:

The Synthetic Mind July 21st – September 9th, 2012

706-548-3648 706-548-3648 www.bel-jean.com

www.bel-jean.com

WWW. FLAGPOLE. COM

CO-CURATORIAL TEAM:

Emily Green Barrera, Kathryn Clark, Natasha Day, Meredith Drury & Bess Gaby Under the Guidance of Artistic Director Emerita, Lizzie Zucker Saltz

Thursdays: 1-9pm Friday - Sunday: 1-6pm and by appointment www.athica.org

Opening Reception: July 21, Saturday 7-9pm FEATURED ARTISTS:

>\SdŠ /MVOM^\SM >_O]NKc] >?/= 4?6C

0/+>?<381 .$<-

@+<3+8> >?/= 4?6C !

0/+>?<381 /7:>C A/66=

.+<8/66 ,9C= =3./ :<94/->

=:/-3+6 =/> ,C :<9.?-/7+8 +8. ><3D

Brian Hitselberger & Ben McKee with Participating Artists: Bob Davis, C.D. Howe, Elizabeth Kleene, Vivian Liddell, Thomas Sanders, Justine Stevens, Dena Zilber

JAPANESE STEAK HOUSE sushi

â&#x20AC;˘

hibachi

â&#x20AC;˘

bar

Join Us For

Your Birthday and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Celebrate with

Cake!

OPEN FOR LUNCH & DINNER 7 Days a Week

3557 Atlanta Hwy.

in Academy Shopping Center

Lunch & Dinner Daily

706-227-0001

2

www.sakuraathens.com

FLAGPOLE.COM â&#x2C6;&#x2122; JULY 11, 2012

AFFILIATED EVENT:

Pickin' On The Greene featuring

PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Friday, July 13 7-10pm

FREE FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT Live Music, Dining & Shopping North Main Street Downtown Greensboro Georgia

Walk Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Talk Thursday, July 26th, 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8pm Curators & area artists lead an informal tour of the exhibit.

FREE!

Downtown Greensboro, GA

Do You Smoke Cigarettes? â&#x20AC;˘ We are conducting a research study on smoking. â&#x20AC;˘ Participation will include two in-person assessments, including one magnetic resonance imaging scan. â&#x20AC;˘ You will be paid up to $65 for ~5 hours of participation.

Call 706-542-6881 for more information

pub notes

THIS WEEK’S ISSUE:

Editors and Candidates

City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Hail and Farewell We’re delighted, as we all keep saying, that Gabe Vodicka was ready to step in to replace Music Editor Michelle Gilzenrat Davis as she leaves Flagpole to begin UGA law school next month, and that Blake Aued vaulted down the hill from the Banner-Herald to take over when News Editor Dave Marr left July 2 for a job at UGA’s prestigious Willson Center. Both Gabe and Blake are already stamping their own moxie onto our music and news coverage in the paper and online. We are really happy to have them among us and, by association, Gabe’s wife Talley and Blake’s wife Merritt: both brainy and friendly—and competent in their own fields.

Gabe has a long immersion in and love of music, and he has that writerly touch that makes words jump. Blake has seven years’ experience covering government and politics here and is already increasing Flagpole’s role as the go-to source to find out what’s happening. Their presence lessens the pain of losing Michelle and Dave, who both contributed so much to Flagpole and to the wider community with their hard work and dedication. We are glad that though the arcs of their lives have taken them away from Flagpole, they are both still here in Athens, nearby on the campus.

News & Features Athens News and Views

Your dope new Dope looks at who’s the real Democrat and who’s the real Athenian in an Athens state House race.

Athens Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What’s Up in New Development

If the ADDA hires UGA professor Jack Crowley to design a downtown master plan, the university itself won’t be involved.

Arts & Events Theatre Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Curling and Drying

Steel Magnolias delivers drama and comedy in equal measure.

Movie Pick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Eternal Comedy

To Rome with Love is the sort of cinematic trifle Woody Allen makes with ease.

Music

Girls Rock

Athens Band Camp Instrument instruction, workshops, band practice, writing original songs, ending with a recording and showcase!

July 30 - August 3rd GIRLS AGES 9-15

CAMPER SPACES STILL REMAIN!

E-mail alison@girlsrockathens.org for an application, or pick one up at the Library on Baxter Street.

Support Girls Rock Athens

Come see our Girls Rock Athens Showcase Georgia Theatre: Saturday August 4th Tickets available now!

Threats & Promises . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Music News & Gossip

Candidates Count

Service Industry roars back to life! New Gypsy Farm comp! Kyle Dawkins scores!

And more…

This political season, you will recall, is the fruition of all that reapportionment and redistricting that began last spring when the Georgia Legislature’s all-Republican committees held a hearing in the Seney-Stovall Chapel to find out what local people wanted and then did just the opposite. Oconee County Commission Chairman Melvin Davis told them how much Oconee liked being all in one House of Representatives district, and they got split up into a multi-county district and into one that is more Athens-Clarke than Oconee. Athenians, including Doc Eldridge, told the committee to just leave us alone, thanks: don’t split us up any more than you have. But they had to jigsaw a district to guarantee the re-election of their new little Republican lapdog, Doug McKillip, so they of course split an Athens-Clarke district into one shared by four counties.

And then we had our local commission redistricting, for which Mayor Denson appointed a committee and hired the best consultant in the state. They came up with a plan that basically tweaked the current districts back into population equality, after rejecting one by committee member Regina Quick that moved things around all over the place to enhance the chances of minorities (blacks and Republicans) getting elected in a couple of districts. After all that, the lapdog roared, and Doug McKillip rewrote our charter, doing away with superdistricts and creating 10 new districts, which he, too, said would increase the chances of minorities getting elected.

Everybody’s assumption was that the only place in AthensClarke County a Republican really had a chance of being elected to the commission would be in District 6, over on the west side of town. As it turned out, District 6 Commissioner Ed Robinson decided not to run for re-election, so the seat was open. Even though the election is non-partisan, the Republican candidate (as featured on the local Republican Party web site) is Ron Winders, though he describes himself as “an Independent, but a conservative.”

Well, little did those who wanted to make District 6 safe for Republicans count on Jerry NeSmith running. Jerry admits to being a Democrat, but more importantly, he is probably the best prepared commission candidate in recent memory. He has served for nine years on the ACC Planning Commission, dealing in intimate detail with the decisions that shape our community. He is one of the founders of the Athens Farmers Market. He is one of the citizen activists who insisted that the new tennis center belonged on the east side, not taking over Bishop Park (and his market). His day job is at UGA, where he manages eight different businesses providing research services.

In short, Jerry NeSmith is a formidable candidate who will make a commissioner with a deep understanding of ACC government and the community it serves. Ron Winders is obviously a nice guy with business experience and a desire to give back to Athens. It’s just too bad for the local Republicans that Ron’s up against Jerry NeSmith.

Beaver Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

2012

Things Come Together

The Texas songwriter returns and releases a multidimensional masterpiece.

CITY DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CITY PAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CAPITOL IMPACT. . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ATHENS RISING . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 GREENWAY CRIME. . . . . . . . . . 7 THEATRE REVIEW. . . . . . . . . . . 7 MOVIE DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 MOVIE PICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . 10 BEAVER NELSON . . . . . . . . . . 10 EASTER ISLAND . . . . . . . . . . . 11

AARON FREEMAN. . . . . . . . . . 11 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . 12 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . 16 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . 17 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . 19 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 CROSSWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 WTH? ATHENS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 EVERYDAY PEOPLE. . . . . . . . . 23

EDITOR & PUBLISHER Pete McCommons ADVERTISING DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Alicia Nickles PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Larry Tenner MANAGING EDITOR Christina Cotter ADVERTISING SALES Anita Aubrey, Melinda Edwards, Jessica Pritchard MUSIC EDITOR Gabe Vodicka CITY EDITOR Blake Aued CLASSIFIEDS, DISTRIBUTION & OFFICE MANAGER Jessica Smith ASSISTANT OFFICE MANAGER Sydney Slotkin AD DESIGNERS Kelly Hart, Cindy Jerrell CARTOONISTS Cameron Bogue, Lee Gatlin, Missy Kulik, David Mack ADOPT ME Special Agent Cindy Jerrell CONTRIBUTORS Rachel Bailey, Tom Crawford, Brian Creech, Derek Hill, Melissa Hovanes, John Huie, Jyl Inov, Gordon Lamb, Bao Le-Huu, T. Ballard Lesemann, Jodi Murphy, John G. Nettles, Drew Wheeler, Robin Whetstone, Kevan Williams CIRCULATION Charles Greenleaf, Ruby Kendrick, Jesse Mangum, John Richardson, Will Donaldson WEB DESIGNER Kelly Hart CALENDAR Jessica Smith ADVERTISING INTERNS Claire Corken, Caroline Schmitz MUSIC INTERNS Carolyn Amanda Dickey

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Hart featuring a photograph

by Jimmy Rowalt of Easter Island.

STREET ADDRESS: 112 Foundry St., Athens, GA 30601 MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1027, Athens, GA 30603 EDITORIAL: (706) 549-9523 · ADVERTISING: (706) 549-0301 · FAX: (706) 548-8981 ADVERTISING: ads@flagpole.com CALENDAR: calendar@flagpole.com COMICS: comics@flagpole.com EDITORIAL: editor@flagpole.com

LETTERS: letters@flagpole.com MUSIC: music@flagpole.com NEWS: news@flagpole.com WEBSITE: web@flagpole.com

Original Aurum Designs

by Coutney Pendergrast %!34 #,!94/. s $/7.4/7.

706-546-8826

Jerry NeSmith D I S T R I C T

Flagpole, Inc. publishes Flagpole Magazine weekly and distributes 14,500 copies free at over 275 locations around Athens, Georgia. Subscriptions cost $70 a year, $40 for six months. © 2012 Flagpole, Inc. All rights reserved.

VOLUME 26 ISSUE NUMBER 27

6

Experience Counts

www.JerryNeSmith.com Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

A t h e n s - C l a r k e Co u n t y Co m m i s s i o n

JULY 11, 2012 · FLAGPOLE.COM

3

city dope Athens News and Views

SALE :( 146 e. clayton st. U 706-354-8631

The distortion was enough to bring Charlie Maddox, a former mayoral candidate and a popular figure in the black and business communities, into the fray. “I’m ready to go to work,” he told Heard.

Turning to the Dope, he added, “I’m not a candidate, so I can say it. [Frye’s] a liar.”

One thing Frye’s not lying about, though, is where he lives. An audience member asked a clever question about where the candidates’ children go to school. Frye’s son attends Chase Street Elementary. Heard named two schools that definitely are not in Clarke County. Although his wife and kids live in Fayette County, Heard owns a house in Athens where his mother lives, and Georgia courts say that’s all he needs to establish residency in the district. Later, Heard called himself “a lifelong resident of Athens-Clarke County” and reminded voters of his long track record of

I’m Housin’: In our two highest-profile local races, Reps. Keith Heard, D-Athens, and Doug McKillip, R-Athens, are facing primary challenges from Spencer Frye and Regina Quick, respectively. In both cases, the challengers are trying to convince voters that the incumbents aren’t (insert name of party here) enough.

This week, let’s focus on the Heard-Frye contest.

Party Purity: Frye aggressively came after Heard at a July 1 From left to right, candidates for two Athens House seats: Spencer Frye, Federation of Neighborhoods Keith Heard, Carter Kessler, Chris Perlera, Regina Quick and the empty forum, accusing him of “votchair formerly known as Doug McKillip. ing along with Republicans’ agenda.” In particular, Frye cited Heard’s community service with the Boys & Girls Club votes in favor of a waiting period for aborand other organizations, tions, raising Georgia Power rates to fund a “It didn’t just start when I wanted to be Plant Vogtle expansion, allowing billboard an elected official,” he said. “It wasn’t a paid owners to clear-cut trees and shortening the position, either.” early-voting period from 45 days to 21.

The comment was a swipe at Frye, the “Those are things we don’t want as executive director of Athens Area Habitat for Democrats,” Frye said.

Humanity and a relative newcomer to the city Heard defended himself by pointing out who ran for mayor two years ago. “I’m on the that those bills won bipartisan support. The streets every day,” Frye replied.

House Democratic Caucus didn’t take a formal position, he said, freeing up members to vote No Woman, No Cry: McKillip skipped the forum their consciences. He also wooed hardcore to celebrate his son’s birthday, but he was Democrats by telling them that a House there in spirit. His signature legislation, a bill subcommittee he chairs will be involved in restricting abortions after 20 weeks, united implementing President Obama’s health care the other candidates. They all oppose the reform. Heard, at times, visibly bristled at new law.

Frye’s attacks.

“I’m against it,” Frye said at the forum.

“I’m about as true as they come,” he said.

“I’m no doctor. I’m no woman. Those are the “Not too many black Republicans up there.” people I think we ought to be listening to on Which brings us to an issue that often this issue.” crops up in subtle ways: Race. Heard is black, Two Republicans running for the right to and Frye is white. challenge Heard in November also came out Heard beat back a challenge from white against McKillip’s signature legislation.

Democrat Holly Ward in 2010 when black vot“We have somebody, again, with a showers rallied around Heard. After redistricting boating bill, a sentiment that’s been expressed last year, though, the northern and eastern here over and over again, trying to make a Clarke County district’s demographics are difname for himself,” Chris Perlera said. ferent. Rather than 60 percent of voters in Libertarian Carter Kessler—who hates govthe Democratic primary being black, it’s now ernment to the point that he’s against public about 50-50. If Frye sweeps liberal enclaves roads—said women and their doctors, not lining Prince Avenue and on the Eastside and politicians, should make decisions about aborwins just a fraction of East Athens, he’s in. tion. But they should be paid for in gold, not Frye may have overreached when he said fiat currency, taking us further down the road Heard voted to cut pre-K. House Minority to financial collapse. (OK, he didn’t really say Leader Stacy Abrams brokered a deal with that, at least not while answering the aborRepublicans on lottery reform last year that tion question.) Also, liberty. Ron Paul! made it more palatable to Democrats, and brought much of the caucus along with her.

Blake Aued

4

FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ JULY 11, 2012

BLAKE AUED

going out of business

Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself: My name is Blake Aued, late of the Athens Banner-Herald, where I covered local and state government for the past seven years. I took over July 1 for Dope Emeritus Dave Marr, who did an admirable job guiding you through the Athens political scene. As good as Dave was, there’ll be some changes around these parts. We’re shifting into high gear at Flagpole. One of the reasons they brought me onboard was to ramp up Flagpole’s news coverage online. No longer will we wait eight days to tell you how the Athens-Clarke Commission voted on a hot-button issue. We’re updating Flagpole.com on a regular basis now, so check in daily. We also plan to get outside City Hall more often to cover the University of Georgia, local schools, crime trends and other community news. And we’ll do it without resorting to ignorant commenters and co-eds in bikinis to draw clicks.

city pages Athens-Clarke Commission Talks Parks A small neighborhood parkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;proposed and designed by nearby residents, but open to the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;could be built next year on vacant land along Barber Street at the end of Boulevard. Athens-Clarke commissioners last week approved the neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan for the passive parkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;trails, playgrounds and, eventually, a small amphitheaterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on about two acres of wooded land that was donated to the county in the 1960s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boulevard Woods would be a very well loved park,â&#x20AC;? Rachel Watkins, a self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boulevard mom,â&#x20AC;? told commissioners before they voted. But Tennie Brookins, who would be its nearest neighbor, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not the happiest person in the world about the park being next door to us.â&#x20AC;? She asked for assurances that a promised fence will indeed be constructed.

Commissioners approved the plan 8-1, with Doug Lowry dissenting and Alice Kinman absent.

Volunteers have initiated other ACC parks and trails in years past, including hiking and bicycle trails, the Five Acre Woods neighborhood park on Northside Drive and the skate park, World of Wonder playground and planned tennis center at Southeast Clarke Park.

More pocket parks could be in Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; future. County staffers are developing evaluation criteria for turning odd bits of countyowned land into neighborhood parks. The well organized efforts of the Boulevard Neighborhood Association won approval on the condition that costs, including a fence to separate play areas from the street and $750 for a crosswalk, will be met by the neighborhood association, not by taxpayers.

Commissioners OKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d the requested crosswalk across Barber Street, even though it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet ACC standards for where crosswalks are

needed. But the county does not have plans to add a shelter at the nearby bus stop, as the association requested.

Officials estimate the park will cost $68,500, likely including donated labor and materials. If the neighborhood can raise money and quickly wrap up negotiations with ACCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leisure Services department, which will oversee construction, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to begin doing some actual construction in January,â&#x20AC;?

Dan Lorenz of the neighborhood group told Flagpole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But this is more of a hope than a prediction.â&#x20AC;?

John Huie

Commissioner Says Preachers Disrupt AthFest AthFest organizer and commissioner Jared Bailey addressed what he called an attempt by â&#x20AC;&#x153;outside agitatorsâ&#x20AC;? to disrupt AthFest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(A) n effective plan was created to deal with this potentially problematic situation,â&#x20AC;? he said at the July 3 meeting.

Police monitored the members of PinPoint Evangelism, which had warned local government in advance that they intended to preach at AthFest and that they were prepared to defend their legal right to do so. The Kentucky group did indeed preach at AthFest for hours, late at night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was quite a spectacle,â&#x20AC;? Bailey told Flagpole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess it added something to the festival.â&#x20AC;? There were no serious incidents.

Speaking through bullhorns, the PinPoint preachers attracted a large but not-verysympathetic crowd of more than 100 people, Bailey said, including a number of local protesters who argued with them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re anti-gay. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re anti-alcohol. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re anti-everything,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were not preaching; they were harassing.â&#x20AC;?

John Huie

Restaurants and Frat Are Seeking to Move The Athens-Clarke Planning Commission has signed off on new locations for a fraternity house on West Broad Street and the restaurants Five & Ten and Donderosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The planning commission recommended that the county commission approve them Aug. 6.

The Phi Kappa Tau house, slated for a former restaurant between Newton and Finley streets, won approval over objections from nearby residents worried about noise.

Developer Jon Williams said the location is appropriate because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoned commercial and surrounded by motels and apartments.

Plans call for renovating the restaurant building into a banquet hall. A second phase

will add a second story with bedrooms. The whole project is scheduled to be finished in September 2013, Williams said.

The planning commission also voted to allow Five & Ten and Donderosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on North Milledge Avenue to move into bigger buildings nearby. Chef Hugh Acheson wants to move Five & Ten into a building that once housed an antiques store at 1073 S. Milledge Ave., around the corner from his current location.

Planning commissioners were less kind to developers who want to build cottages, a yogurt shop and offices in place of a small strip mall and former mobile home park at 2002-2025 South Milledge Avenue. They told the developers to come back with a plan that includes fewer bedrooms and more trees.

Blake Aued

Daily Groceries Co-op Your Community Grocery Store

* Local Produce, Bread and Dairy * Bulk Herbs and Spices * Organic Groceries * Our Famous Deli Items

Did You Miss the Farmers Market?

Daily has your fresh local fruits & veggies 7 days a week.

Load up on your blueberries in July!

Bringing The Big Easy to Athens! $

9 Daily Lunch Specials

Remember Muffaletta Monday Thursday is Andouille Po Boy Tuesday MARTINI Meatloaf Wednesday NIGHT Chicken Cordon Bleu Thursday Fried Fish Friday

JUST IN TIME FOR SUMMER!

NEW Seasonal Salad featuring Heirloom Tomatoes in a Champagne Herb Vinaigrette

9 New Orleans Po Boys Everyday!

$

0ZTUFST t 4ISJNQ t $SBXmTI t $BUmTI

Locally, cooperatively owned and operated for nearly 20 years 523 Prince Ave. â&#x20AC;˘ Open Daily until 10pm â&#x20AC;˘ 706-548-1732 â&#x20AC;˘ www.dailygroceries.org

& #SPBE 4U t %PXOUPXO 706-353-7065 OFXPSMFBOTOBUIFOT DPN

JULY 11, 2012 ¡ FLAGPOLE.COM

5

capitol impact athens rising The people who run the Georgia Legislature have been wandering off in some strange and contradictory directions over the past few years. When you consider the mood swings that seem to have affected our lawmakers, you might even think that they’ve gone off their medication.

A little more than 15 years ago, legislators passed a law that required Georgians to submit a fingerprint for display on their drivers’ licenses. After the fingerprint law had been in effect for several years, legislators decided they didn’t like it anymore. In 2005, they reversed themselves and passed a bill that eliminated the fingerprints on licenses and required the state to destroy the fingerprint records. At about the same time, another bill was passed that allowed people to renew their drivers’ licenses simply by going online and filling out a form. This made life a lot easier for Georgia drivers. Less than 10 years after making it more convenient to renew a driver’s license, legislative sentiment has swung back again.

The General Assembly has now passed a bill that requires anyone applying for a new or renewed license to produce reams of documentation. This paperwork includes an original or certified copy of a birth certificate, an original Social Security card and two documents attesting to the fact that you really live at your listed address.

When the new law took effect last week, the results were predictable. People trying to get a license suddenly learned they would have to produce paperwork they no longer had. Applicants who weren’t forced to leave the licensing station and return home in search of documents had to wait five or six hours to make it through the long lines of people who were all being asked to show their papers.

In the space of 15 years, then, our lawmakers have forced us to give fingerprints to get

6

FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ JULY 11, 2012

drivers’ licenses, then removed that requirement and made it easier to renew a license, and now have made the process much more difficult and time-consuming.

We’ve seen similar contradictory behavior on the issue of business regulations. House Speaker David Ralston appointed a special legislative committee to figure out how state regulations could be reduced or eliminated to make it easier for business owners to run their enterprises. All these regulations, Ralston said, are “a real and serious problem out there in our economy” that are “causing hardships on our businesses.”

While the speaker called for an end to these regulations, however, he and his colleagues also passed an immigration law that imposed burdensome requirements on businesses by requiring them to verify the citizenship status of their employees.

I run a one-person business that provides political news coverage for a variety of media outlets. I was born in an Atlanta hospital, was educated in Georgia schools and have resided here for more than half a century. There shouldn’t be any question at all about my citizenship.

Because of the immigration law passed by the Legislature, I have to spend many hours filling out forms, tracking down documentation and finding notary publics to attest to my signature so that I can “prove” I’m an American citizen and continue to run my business.

The point is this: our elected leaders should make up their minds and decide whether they’re going to make life easier on the people who elect them, or make things harder. Pick one or the other. Just stop swinging back and forth between the two extremes all the time.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

What’s Up in New Development The University of Georgia College of Environment and Design, home to landscape architecture, historic preservation and professor Jack Crowley’s nascent planning graduate programs, will not be a part of his downtown master plan proposal, as currently pitched.

At a June meeting, Crowley assured Mayor Nancy Denson, a few commissioners, Athens Downtown Development Authority board members and local citizens that his project would be conducted as a fully professional one, rather than an academic service learning project, despite the fact that Crowley would employ graduate students at a relatively small cost to the city. Administrators at CED are worried by the project’s status as a “professional” one and the ethical ramifications of unfairly competing with their alumni, many of whom responded to the ADDA’s original

transparent.” If that’s the case, now is the time to slow down, to at least make sure that there’s a clear understanding—not just among board members and commissioners, but the many citizens who have demanded a master plan for so long—of the roles and expectations for this effort, as well as who is paying whom for what. If this process goes awry for being too quickly or haphazardly conceived, we’re unlikely to get another chance at a downtown master plan. Now is the time to make sure we’ve considered all the possibilities before us.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t retort to Athens Banner-Herald Editorial Page Editor Jim Thompson’s sideways accusation that I don’t count football fans and alumni as real tourists or lovers of Athens. Of course they count, and I have happily advocated on many occasions BLAKE AUED

Our Contradictory Officials

View of West Washington from the parking deck. request for proposals for a downtown master plan. As a result, they’ve decided that no money will come through their department for the project. That means Crowley will have to find another department or institute to route the assistantships through or be paid directly as a consultant. The ADDA still plans to hire Crowley for $30,000 at a meeting Tuesday.

College administrators’ and alumni’s concerns raise some other issues, as well. If Crowley is indeed a professional consultant, then he has effectively bypassed the typical, transparent RFP process. Dozens of firms responded to the ADDA’s initial request for proposals, and this project should be compared to those, if we’re really to know how much of a bargain it is for the community.

Crowley acknowledged at the recent ADDA meeting that several components will be missing from his work, including a detailed market analysis and more comprehensive infrastructure capacity studies. Could it be that if you subtracted those sorts of elements out of other professional consultants’ proposals, and simply asked how much they might charge for a similarly bare-bones visioning exercise, the costs might be the same?

Just over a year ago, we were in a similar situation, with the mayor and commission teaming up with the Athens-Clarke Economic Development Foundation to hire a consultant to vet the riverfront Blue Heron project.

Confusion over the scope and products of the project and miscommunication plagued the process, resulting in frustration all around.

With barely a month between Crowley’s pitch and ADDA’s decision to fund the project, are we about to rush into a similar situation?

Crowley pledged during his presentation that the project would be “absolutely

paving public art-encrusted extensions of the Oconee River Quality-of-Lifeway all over town with their sales tax dollars. No matter why the many repeat visitors to Athens are here, we should do our best to make sure we understand our tourist customers’ concerns, what they like and what they don’t like, so that we can ensure they continue to spend their hardearned out-of-town dollars here for years to come. My gut feeling, though, is whether they come for the music or the football, they don’t stay for the Walmart. Likewise, I doubt North Campus is a popular tailgate location purely for its proximity to Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Starbucks.

The bottom line is that downtown is not simply a collection of private property, and we ought to try to gain insight from the poor stiffs working long hours in often-hostile late-night conditions about how things really work and how we might make them better, regardless of whether we think less of them for playing music in their free time. As one of Thompson’s beloved commenters (the only people whose opinions really count!) put it in response to his piece: “Surely someone’s opinions, suggestions or complaints should not be validated by who they are, where they reside or what they do for a living. Many times those on the outside, those without vast ‘experience,’ those who are sometimes deemed ‘not worthy’ of providing reasoned input, they are marginalized or shunned by those who think mightly [sic] of themselves. Yet, it should be what they say that is measured, and not who they are or what status in life we’ve deemed they belong.”

Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

theatre review Crime on the Greenway Joggers Still Feel Safe in Spite of Attack Tanner Copeland, a 22-year-old University of Georgia student, has run between eight and 16 miles on the North Oconee Greenway, four days a week for the past four months. His route takes him from Dudley Park to Willow Street to the North Avenue bridge and beyond.

“Do I feel safe? As far as from people, yes,” he says. “Honestly, though, from a safety stand point, they need more water fountains along the trail.”

BRIAN CREECH

“For instance, I drive to downtown,” Johnson says. “I don’t walk there alone.”

When Athens-Clarke County built the Greenway years ago, critics believed it would breed crime, according to Mel Cochran, Greenway coordinator for the county’s Leisure Services Department. The criticisms just aren’t true, she says.

People who worry about crime near the Greenway tend to focus on the homeless people that gather under the North Avenue bridge, as well as rumored drug use and prostitution in the area, Cochran says.

“It is very true that Athens is multi-layered with some good, some bad, some ugly,” Athens-Clarke Commissioner Kelly Girtz says. “As you move closer to North Avenue and downtown, there’s more of the crime and social dysphoria that everyone is familiar with.”

Carolyn Kean, a 51-year-old Odd Street resident, has walked her dog along the Greenway four times a week for the past three years. She sticks to the trails around Dudley Park and tends to avoid parts of the trail closer to North Avenue.

“There are all these people hanging around there. Unsavory people,” she says.

Still, in spite of a few high-profile An Athens man walks his dog on the North Oconee River crimes, the Greenway doesn’t attract Greenway, a popular spot for exercise, recreation and, illicit behavior, Girtz says. National occasionally, other, more illicit activities. reports show that public trails tend A career criminal who stands accused of to have lower crime rates than the neighborbeating a woman and hiding in the woods hoods that surround them. City planners in near the North Oconee River Greenway last Raleigh and Charlotte, NC and Minneapolis, month isn’t stopping regular Greenway users MN have found that the more people use such like Copeland from hitting the trails. spaces, the lower the crime rate dropped.

Athens-Clarke police arrested Samuel “If you compare it to any other public Tyrone Evans, 51, on June 21 after a daylong space it stacks up pretty favorably,” Girtz says. search in the woods between Willow Street “In my personal sense, I find it comforting and the North Oconee River. that there are lots of people around, generEvans assaulted a woman in a College ally: families, joggers, people walking their Avenue parking lot after she came upon him dogs, rollerblading, students. That is certainly breaking into her car, then fled to the woods what the research says makes for safe public after a witness pulled a gun on him and space—lots of eyes on the ground.” threatened to shoot, police say.

In Athens, crime and homelessness near Evans is the second person arrested near the North Avenue bridge and Willow Street are the Greenway since it opened in 2003. Gary not just isolated problems near the Greenway, Gaylord Ford, 42, is currently standing trial on Girtz says. charges of sexually assaulting a woman jog“It’s a big, community-wide concern that ging on the Greenway in 2008. needs more attention generally,” he says.

Tyler Brewton, a 20-year-old UGA senior, “The Greenway didn’t bring the issues,” had not heard about Evans or Ford, although Cochran says. “The problems were there when he runs two miles along Greenway twice a the Greenway went through. There were people week. under the North Avenue bridge long before the “It does give me pause,” says the 6-foot, Greenway was built.”

2-inch, 200-pound Brewton. “If I was smaller, Leisure Services employees are still I probably would be a little more worried, if I prepared for a crime or emergency. They’re couldn’t defend myself.” equipped with emergency management kits Odd Street resident Sarah Johnson, 25, and trained to respond, Cochran says. Eleven walks her and her boyfriend’s two dogs along emergency call boxes line the trail, though the Greenway in Dudley Park. She is a bit more people are more likely to use their cell phones cautious. to call police, she says.

“I sometimes run into a few strange peo“We mow back to keep open lines of ple who, I feel, might be creeping or would sight,” she says. “The more people we have say strange stuff to you,” she said. out there, the more eyes there are on the Jesse Kuzy, who lives off North Avenue, ground, the safer it tends to be.” told Athens-Clarke commissioners at a meetCochran urges Greenway users to stay ing last week that he sees homeless people, aware of other people, dogs and children and drug dealers and prostitutes congregating near to avoid getting lost in their iPods or headthe Greenway. He says he worries about being phones while on the trail. mugged when he walks by on his way down“It’s just like anywhere else, be aware of town or to UGA. your surroundings,” she says. “The best advice But Copeland and Johnson, like many to be safe is to know where you are going and other Greenway regulars, say they do not find where you’ll be, and how long you’ll be there.” it any more or less safe than most other parts of Athens.

Brian Creech

Curling and Dying

In my past life as an English teacher, one of my happier chores was teaching Shakespeare, especially watching my students move from apprehension to comprehension.

Most students are terrified of the Bard, with his reputation for intricacy and language so dense you need a machete to cut through it. Therefore, the first step in teaching Shakespeare is to de-mythologize him.

Rather than being the ivory-tower intellectual for whom he is often mistaken, Will wrote plays for popular appeal, plays meant to be seen and understood by largely illiterate audiences, many of whom had just lost money betting on bear-baiting. Will was one of the few producers of theater in his day who actually turned a profit doing so, and he did it by being accessible. No matter how convoluted the plot of any of his plays, it can be understood and appreciated in one viewing, if one simply stops trying to analyze it and just lets it all in.

Astalos-Jones), and M’Lynn (Joelle Re’ ArpDunham), a model wife and mother of Shelby (Maria Moody).

Personally, I have never been able to get past my annoyance with Harling for the names he’s given his characters—it always smacked of a contrived attempt to inject maximum “Southernness” into the play—but that’s neither here nor there. Harling reportedly wrote this play as catharsis after the death of his younger sister from diabetic complications, and the play’s central plot deals with the onset of Shelby’s Type 1 diabetes, her wedding and her portentous decision to have a child despite the risks to her health. Meanwhile, Truvy and Annelle, Clairee and Ouiser, have three years’ worth of side-story that weaves in and out of the ups and downs of Shelby and M’Lynn.

Mende and Astalos-Jones have the most fun in this production, trading barbs with dead-on timing as their unlikely relation-

Maria Moody and Kathleen Hogan star in the Circle Ensemble Theatre’s production of Steel Magnolias at Ashford Manor.

Steel Magnolias is not Shakespeare by any means, but it is a daunting play because there is so much going on in it. Robert Harling’s 1987 play focuses on six women, friends and confidants, who gather in a beauty parlor in small-town Louisiana to share each other’s triumphs and tragedies. As the play takes place over three years, there are a lot of those, and as the six women are the only characters, there’s a lot of telling to be done.

Most people know Steel Magnolias from the 1988 movie with Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine and Julia Roberts, but that is a whole different animal from the play. We never meet the men nor witness the events in these ladies’ lives, and so it takes a seriously talented cast to pull off the incredible amount of exposition, emotional reaction and mercurial dialogue necessary to stage this play, both a drama and a comedy in equal measure. It takes some hardcore plate-spinning, but Circle Ensemble Theatre manages it handily in their new production, now playing at Ashford Manor in Watkinsville.

Truvy (Kathleen Hogan) runs the beauty parlor where the women gather, along with her new hire Annelle (Chelsea Dunham), who goes from wallflower to party girl to bornagain Christian over the course of the play.

Their regular customers include the patrician Clairee (Lisa Mende) and her perpetual foil, the ever-ill-tempered Ouiser (Stephanie

ship evolves. Hogan is appropriately sassy, and Dunham strikes a fine balance between Annelle the hapless newcomer and Annelle the stand-in entrance character for the audience.

Arp-Dunham and Moody have it the hardest.

It seems cruel to criticize a character written specifically to represent a real person who died tragically, but Shelby is a maudlin character—too good, too sweet, too brave in the face of her own fate—and M’Lynn, as Shelby’s rock, is written as shallowly. It’s to the actresses’ credit, therefore, that they are able to reach into the corners and find the nuances that breathe some life and dimension into their characters.

Guest director Rick Andosca has done a good job of facilitating fine work from his cast, and the play is well worth checking out.

Circle Ensemble, the newest theater company in town with a reputation for edgy fare, has put together a Steel Magnolias of which it can be proud. They keep the plates spinning with style.

John G. Nettles [Steel Magnolias continues Thursday–Saturday, July 12–14, at Ashford Manor, Watkinsville.

All showtimes are 8 p.m. Tickets are $15, $10 for students and may be purchased online at www.circleensembletheatre.com or by calling 706-362-2175.]

JULY 11, 2012 · FLAGPOLE.COM

7

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) Were The Amazing SpiderMan the first Spider-Man movie, critics and fans would hail it as spectacular.

Following Sam Raimi’s surprisingly poorly aged films, this fourth film is the unfortunate epitome of unnecessary.

Where Christopher Nolan did us an outstanding service reinterpreting the world of the Dark Knight, (500) Days of Summer’s Marc Webb and his trio of scripters rely on lazy, convenient plotting to rehash Spidey’s origins with a few cosmetically mysterious changes. No longer a simple orphan, Peter Parker’s parents abandoned him as a result of papa Parker’s top secret genetic experiments, which produce the (no longer radioactive) spider that turns Pete into a superhero and Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans) into the film’s villainous Lizard. Ten years ago, mass audiences accepted the idea of a teenaged crime fighter with the powers of an arachnid. Too bad these filmmakers didn’t just jump straight into the webhead’s world as their super-blockbuster excels once it gets the mythology revising out of the way and allows new Spidey Andrew Garfield, who nails the wall-crawler’s smart-alecky, costumed persona, to use those powers to patrol the streets of NYC as your friendly neighborhood web-slinger.

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

8

to add some extraterrestrial Facebook friends. The ETs that answer are not friendly, answering with massive Transformer-y ships and personalityless 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 directed by Peter Berg (with a soundtrack programmed by a classic rock DJ named Mad Dog). A whole lot of seenit-before and just enough something new keep this hulking behemoth afloat.

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.

CHIMPANZEE (G) Disneynature releases their most stunning Earth Day documentary yet. Too bad they did not include an alternate narration to substitute for Tim Allen’s; the sitcom giant is no Morgan Freeman. Nevertheless, the Bambi-like story of chimpanzee Oscar unfolds with some of the most unbelievable footage ever witnessed in a nature doc.

CHRONICLE (PG-13) Three high schoolers (including Michael B. Jordan from “Friday Night Lights” and “Parenthood”) stumble upon a mysterious cave and wind up with telekinetic powers. But, as Spider-Man teaches, “with great power comes great responsibility,” and not everyone can handle it. As the teenagers’ powers grow, one becomes increasingly dangerous. What seems like it’s heading toward Carrie horror territory winds up being more of a supervillain origin story, and it’s brilliant. Chronicle watches like a fantastic comic book miniseries (think something from the Millarverse), telling a

FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ JULY 11, 2012

fresh origin story via intelligent filmmaking tricks from first time feature director Josh Trank and writer Max Landis. Chronicle should find easy entry into the cult classic pantheon.

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-and-hit.) Tossing much of the soap’s suds and upping the camp, the big screen Dark Shadows still involves many of the series’ major players. Depp produces another entertaining character, a la Jack Sparrow, but as the movie approaches the two hour mark, his Barnabas Collins grows as tedious as the blockbuster he is solely supporting.

THE DICTATOR (R) Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles may have left their guerrilla mockumentary tactics behind, but their offensive strategy still elicits massive bombs of laughter, even in this much more conventionally structured comedy.

Cohen’s Admiral General Aladeen, the

(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. No one should be coming into Madagascar 3 blind. This third entry proffers more cute fun in a long first act chase than either of its predecessors, and that’s before any of the appealing new characters are introduced. Madagascar 3 should keep the kiddies happy until Pixar’s Brave on June 22.

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

According to the jam-packed logline,

Who turned our Home Ec room into a meth lab? dictator of the fictional North African nation of Wadiya, is stripped of his beard and power on a trip to speak to the United Nations. With the help of a crunchy feminist (adequately supplied by an atypical Anna Faris) and a should-be-dead nuclear scientist (“The League” MVP Jason Mantzoukas aka El Cuñado), Aladeen must infiltrate a peace summit before his beloved oppressive regime becomes a democracy.

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) In the fourth entry in the massive animated franchise, Manny (v. Ray Romano), Diego (v. Denis Leary) and Sid (v. John Leguizamo) are set adrift on an iceberg when their continent breaks apart. While at sea, the three pals meet new creatures and battle pirates. Horton Hears a Who director Steve Martino and Academy Award nominee Mike Thurmeier (Scrat short, “No Time for Nuts”) take over for Ice Age 1, 2, and 3’s Carlos Saldanha, who now resides in Rio. 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 effective marketing tool. Less documentary and more promotional video

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 exoticsounding Madea movie yet. It might not be good, but the curiosity quotient has been raised.

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

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. 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.

ROMAN HOLIDAY (NR) 1953. Ciné kicks off his Summer 2012’s Classic Comedy Series with William Wyler’s romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn as a bored princess and Gregory Peck as the American newsman with whom she falls in love on the streets of Rome. Hepburn won her first Academy Award; the Best Picture nominee also won Oscars for Best Costume Design (Edith Head, naturally) and Best Writing (once blacklisted Dalton Trumbo). Best enjoyed as a double bill with Woody Allen’s new Eternal City-set feature, To Rome With Love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (PG-13) What to Expect would have been a decent Apatow/ Bridesmaids knockoff had it slimmed down to one main plot—an expectant couple played by Elizabeth Banks and Mr. Melissa McCarthy (Ben Falcone) compete with his race car legend father (Dennis Quaid) and his pregnant trophy wife (Brooklyn Decker)—and shed the extra plot poundage involving Jennifer Lopez adopting an Ethiopian baby, Anna Kendrick and Chace Crawford’s uh-oh moment and Cameron Diaz’s star pregnancy (with that wet blanket from “Glee,” Matthew Morrison).

WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (G) 1971. With Gene Wilder’s creepily cool Wonka seemingly on the verge of violence, those corpulent Oompa Loompas, the horrifying fates of Veruca Salt and Augustus Gloop, and the chill-inducing scenes of Charlie’s four grandparents sharing the same bed (somebody get me a sweater), Mel Stuart’s 1971 picture is innocuously frightening, and the trek through Wonka’s wonderland can provide bullet train-quick transport back to one’s childhood. The Firday screening will be followed by family activities provided

by Treehouse Kid & Craft.

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. Winner of a Grammy for Best Original Score (no surprise there).

Drew Wheeler

movie pick The Eternal Comedy TO ROME WITH LOVE (R) To Rome with (Fabio Armiliato), who’s blessed with natuLove isn’t Midnight in Paris. You wouldn’t be ral singing talent, but with a twist. Another scolded, however, for making that assumption plotline involves a boring, middle-class busiat the beginning. Cinematographer Darius nessman, Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni), who Khondji’s camera captures Rome in much the inexplicably becomes a national celebrity, same way he filmed Paris in the earlier movie. having his most banal activities reported as It’s the well known tourist areas that are on major news. And in the movie’s most complidisplay, romantically alluring and familiar cated and farcical tale, a young married couple to people around the world. But when Allen from the country journeys to Rome to start a deviates from the mundane, the detours lead new life. The wife (Alessandra Mastronardi) to some delightfully gets lost in the city, absurd places. subsequently getting To Rome with Love seduced by a bigis comprised of four headed movie star storylines. In one, a (Antonio Albanese), successful architect, and the meek husJohn (Alec Baldwin), band (Alessandro wanders down a side Tiberi) gets involved street and meets with an overripe an architecture stuprostitute, Anna dent, Jack (Jesse (Penélope Cruz), and Eisenberg), who’s livis forced to pass her Alec Baldwin and Jesse Eisenberg ing in the city with off as his bride. his girlfriend Sally This is the sort (Greta Gerwig). John becomes Jack’s adviof cinematic trifle Allen can make with ease. sor, something the younger man desperately Many of the jokes and insights feel predictneeds when Sally’s attractive yet maddeningly able: In-laws drive you crazy, rural folk are pretentious friend Monica (Ellen Page) comes naïve bumpkins, prostitutes have hearts of to visit. In another one, Hayley (Alison Pill), gold, celebrity culture is vapid, love is blind, an American, falls in love with an Italian and communists are humorless. Nevertheless, man, Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti). Hayley’s Allen and the rest of his cast make it go down parents, Phyllis (Judy Davis) and Jerry (Woody smoothly, like sipping a refreshingly sweet Allen), come to meet Michelangelo and his acqua e menta on a hot summer day. parents. Jerry’s a retired opera director and takes an interest in Michelangelo’s father Derek Hill

flag pole .com

JULY 11, 2012 · FLAGPOLE.COM

9

threats & promises Music News And Gossip OK, Now: Anyone remember that new Supercluster single I told you about? The one that supposedly came out at the band’s AthFest show? Well, that was a filthy lie.

But I came by it honestly. It seems the band didn’t actually have the record in hand when they told me about it, and the physical copies showed up a little late. I don’t imagine the public was really gnashing its teeth over this, but I can imagine it set the band’s anxiety level a bit high. Everyone can breathe a bit easier knowing that the two-track release finally saw the light of day last week via the band’s own Studio Mouse Productions. Limited, for now, to a mere 300 copies, I’d say if you really want one you should plunk down the bucks as soon as you can. For more information, please see www.superclusterband.com.

China and Taiwan was successful and fulfilling. So, that’s nice. In other news, the band is still woodshedding away on a follow-up to Weekends (released this past January) that’s scheduled to emerge in early 2013. They’ll probably keep sneaking out new tracks as they’re developing, though; in fact, a new song called “Faded Love” can be found on the band’s official website (www.pacificuv.com) or at pacificuv.bandcamp.com/track/faded-love.

Bustin’ the Guts: New Earth Music Hall is still undergoing a massive internal facelift whereby, when it’s all said and done, they’ll be operating under the motto “A.S.A.P.: As Sustainable As Possible.” Drop by and give ‘em a hand. As in, applause. Don’t you dare pick up a hammer or anything. It looks like

WJ

Beaver Nelson E

The Rodney Kings Running Riot in ‘12: The mighty street-punks in Service Industry broke their three-year silence when they finally performed again back in May. And now they won’t keep quiet! All of which is to say, bully for us.

The group—composed of Ferris Coplin, Alex McCaffrey, Rob Everett and Alex Ziegler—is largely the legacy of Coplin, although McCaffrey has been in two previous incarnations of the band, too. They’ll roar again at the Caledonia Lounge on Thursday, July 12, as part of an oddball bill that includes Seize Novembre, Octa P.A. and Smokedog. There was a time when street-punk and traditional singalong Oi! had a solid presence in Athens, but really, that was back in the mid-’90s, and is a time no one remembers. So, let me just say this: Service Industry is the only Athens band that ever made me feel like my one-inch haircut was probably still too long. mSunglasses

at Night: The maddeningly cool (yet utterly unpretentious) Gypsy Farm Records just released a new compilation of trashy garage bangers. Titled Gypnosis, it contains 11 tracks and features The Rodney Kings, The Humms, These Magnificent Tapeworms, The Ice Creams, Ghost Lights and Unkle Skunkle. I’ve been spinning this for a few weeks now and haven’t gotten bored even once. It’s available on 12” vinyl and shiny, old-school CDs, and you can stream the entire thing over at www.gypsyfarm.net.

Ocean to Ocean: Dreamscapers pacificUV are reporting that their recent short tour of

10

FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ JULY 11, 2012

the work is going to continue through at least the end of this month. Keep up to date with their progress via www.facebook.com/ NewEarthMusicHall.

Seek Harmony: Longtime Athens musician Kyle Dawkins (of Georgia Guitar Quartet) will perform at Ciné on Friday, July 20. This show will follow what will reportedly be the sole Athens screening of the film The Georgia Guidestones Movie, for which Dawkins composed and performed all the music. The Mike Reser-directed movie concerns, of course, the mysterious upright stone tablets in Elberton, GA. The screening is at 7:30 p.m., and $15 gets you in to see the film, catch Dawkins’ performance and enjoy both a reception catered by Big City Bread and a Q&A with the filmmakers. Please see www.guidestonesmovie.com.

Le Sigh: Chris Ezelle is still steadily and diligently releasing singles from his album, Summertime Bleeding Heart. The newest one from the gently gruff-voiced Ezelle is “Rosary from New Orleans,” and it’s one of those songs you can only really hear at 4 a.m., because the noise of your day will totally obscure the subtle, hollow—which, in this case, is decidedly distinct from empty— sadness and resignation of the tune. I’d have probably missed everything in it if I’d tried to listen while the sun was still up. Stay up late and dig it over at www.vimeo.com/chrisezelle.

Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

Things Come Together

ighteen years ago, Beaver Nelson was rudely dropped from his second major label deal, with not one album to show for his time in the corporate music trenches. In June 2012, Nelson released the self-produced, Kickstarter-funded Macro/Micro, a fiercely independent record that was, as its creator admits, “a long time coming.”

Nelson is an underdog Texas songwriter whose music is characterized by ever-shifting artistic tides and a meticulous, literate brand of lyricism that often straddles the line, if there is one to speak of, between absurdist humor and bleak tragedy.

He is no stranger to prolificness, having once released five full-length albums in a seven-year period. Yet Macro/Micro arrives after a five-year break.

“I decided, for whatever reason—for a host of reasons—to slow down, to get out of a hurry,” Nelson says.

The guitarist began to write songs on piano, which he describes as a welcome challenge. “I would hear something, but I couldn’t play it. Then I would have to learn how to play it, and then I’d have to decide whether it was what I wanted.”

Working in isolation, Nelson recalls “hearing the music in a clearer way, a more complicated way.” The songs he was composing were not the relatively straightforward ones he was used to: “I was writing things I could not play.”

Nelson describes Macro/Micro as having not a narrative but rather a “psychological arc,” and the album’s dense, interwoven tracks indeed reflect the chaos of the mind. Rather than let his studio musicians (a group that included revered Austin sidemen like “Scrappy” Jud Newcomb and drummer Mark Patterson) in on the thought process behind each tune, Nelson chose to leave them to their own devices.

“I didn’t want any sympathetic playing,” he says. “I wanted as much juxtaposition as possible, where things come together and [fall] apart.”

This multidimensional process begat layers of overdubs and improvisational inter-song segments, and resulted in a wide-ranging album that Nelson soon realized would be impossible to recreate in a traditional live setting.

But necessity is the mother, and the plan arose to remaster the record without the lead

vocal and guitar parts—the idea being that Nelson would insert those elements live. The final touch came courtesy filmmaker Stephen Henderson, who assisted in making an albumlength movie to be projected in conjunction with each performance.

“I expect that this live show will change and grow as I [do] it, night after night,” Nelson says.

The man knows growth and change. Behind Macro/Micro and its accompanying live show is a shamanistic mission to uncover the unavoidable hypocrisy endemic to humankind and a call that we all strive for clearer focus.

“It’s the acknowledgment of limitations that eventually frees oneself from self-absorption,” he says sagely. “You can [say], ‘I know I’m not omniscient, I know I will eventually lose virility, I know I eventually will get sick and die.’ But you don’t live like you know that until life forces you [to]. And then you go, ‘God, I knew that was coming. That sucks.’ The more you’re prepared for it, the quicker you can more through it with some sort of grace and dignity, and without the self-absorption that is caused when someone is wholly unprepared to lose something.”

Nelson laughs when asked about his own progress in this area. “It depends on who you ask. I think so… At the same time, this is not like a giving up, or anything. I fight entropy way harder than I did when I was younger…

But now, it’s more out of an appreciation for what opportunities exist, as opposed to the fear that I won’t be important.”

This honesty is at the center of Macro/ Micro, a record that is bold because it must be; Nelson wants to get people talking, because he, too, has something to say.

“I want to be part of a conversation,” he says. “And I don’t mean people talking about me. I mean, I want to be a part of the conversation. It interests me, the great conversation that has always gone on, and always will go on.”

Gabe Vodicka

WHO: Beaver Nelson WHERE: Friday, July 13 WHEN: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar HOW MUCH: $5

paige maitland

AAron Freeman Beat Poetry in Motion

Easter Island To W A Universal Feeling

ith a musical heritage as storied and a scene as saturated and competitive as the Classic City’s, a heavy dose of pretense is to be expected. (I’m reminded of one local musician, the former frontman of a beloved collective, who was overheard more than once discussing something about Sartre and crabs over coffee with young ladies). It’s refreshing, then, to find a local act that takes its music seriously without giving itself—its reputation, its persona—the same treatment.

Post-rock quintet Easter Island does just that.

“We didn’t want pretense,” says Asher Payne, who shares singing and songwriting duties with his brother Ethan. “So, all this happened comfortably, and none of us were doing something that we felt forced to do.”

“All this” refers primarily to Easter Island’s debut album, Frightened, for which the band is holding a release party this Saturday at the 40 Watt. Frightened is an impressive collection of soaring, melancholy tracks that draws on the influences of acts like Explosions in the Sky and Sigur Rós. The record has been in the works for nearly a year, and this slow pace manifests itself in a mature, unhurried sound—also a result, perhaps, of the influence of some experienced Athens musicians: bassist Ryan Monahan, drummer Patrick Ferguson and guitarist Nathan Thompson.

“All five of us are super different, but we all kind of met and agreed on this Easter Island sound,” Asher explains. “Patrick’s a punk drummer, and then Ryan’s a Britpop star, and Nate’s all glassy guitar effects, and I’m just melody and piano, so everything is melodic and poppy for me. And then Ethan’s, like, brooding and mysterious. But we all meet in the middle to make this dreamy rock.

Everything’s very organic.”

And though bandmembers vary in age from 20-something to 40-something, they have found a common thread in the album’s title.

“I think we all feel frightened about what’s next,” Asher says. “For me, it’s like, I have a master’s [degree], I have a band, I live in Athens. Ethan’s been in Athens a long time— he’s making TV shows. None of us knows where we’re going next... We all have dreams, and we still want to have things accomplished, [but]

we just don’t know what’s going to happen next.”

In that sense, Frightened captures the feelings of a generation that grew up with a plan, only to watch the economy falter—and its plans along with it. With visions of the comfortable adult life we’d planned for ourselves fading away, it can be frightening to even confront questions like what, exactly, we should value.

“A lot of the songs on the album are about things that we freak out about, that we put too much value in, or not enough value in,” Ethan says.

Monahan continues: “I think it captures something universal. I feel like there’s something embodied in the music that’s sort of beautiful and terrifying at the same time. It’s sort of overwhelming, and that’s something we all viscerally experience, in the moment of this constant uncertainty. And I think [music is] a way to try to transcend that uncertainty.”

In lieu of traditional ambition, the members of Easter Island have chosen to focus on one thing: making pretty music, communally, from an honest place.

“You should make… an album that you would want to hear,” Ethan says.

If the trickling of press they’ve received over the last few months is any indication, the Payne brothers and company have done more than just make an album that they like—they’ve made one that a lot of other people like, too. Reviewers have alluded to Frightened’s potential to launch Easter Island into the national spotlight.

Whether those predictions pan out remains to be seen. In the meantime, the boys of Easter Island are content to share a cup of good coffee, crack jokes at each other’s expense and keep trying to make music they’re proud of—for its own sake.

Rachel Bailey

WHO: Easter Island, The Viking Progress, John French & The Bastilles WHERE: Saturday, July 14 WHEN: 40 Watt Club HOW MUCH: $5 (18+), $7 (21+)

longtime Ween fans, it might seem strange for co-frontman Gene Ween, a veteran rock musician, to tour the country under a different name, performing soft-pop tunes. But Ween, born Aaron Freeman, doesn’t seem bothered by the reactions to his sudden musical detour.

Earlier this year, he retired his stage name and embraced a new set of music based on the repertoire of beat poet and folk-pop songwriter Rod McKuen. With Marvelous Clouds, his 13-song collection of McKuen renditions, out this past May on the Partisan label, Freeman considers it part of a natural progression.

“When I listen to Marvelous Clouds, I don’t feel like it’s that much of a departure from some of the stuff I did with Ween,” Freeman says. “There are ways that I sing and layer my vocals on this that are very similar to what I’ve done in certain [Ween] songs.”

Odd reworkings are nothing new in popular music: Duke Ellington added swing to a Tchaikovsky ballet in the ‘60s, David Lee Roth gooned up two Louis Prima classics in the ’80s, and Johnny Cash remade a Nine Inch Nails song in the ‘00s. But Freeman’s unusual project might still stand out as a bold move years from now.

“I know it’s pretty bare-bones, and people react to that,” he says. “I try not to pay much attention to what the critics have to say, but I personally love throwing this stuff at my fans. It’s like making them take a little bit of medicine.”

During the brainstorming and recording sessions for Marvelous Clouds, Freeman collaborated with studio engineer and producer Ben Vaughn. The two had previously worked together on Ween’s classic 12 Golden Country Greats, and Freeman trusted Vaughn’s judgment. In fact, the idea of covering obscure ballads and sentimental pop songs by an once-popular flower-power poet came about after Vaughn sparked Freeman’s fascination last year.

“I was looking to do some sort of solo record, something outside of Ween, and this presented itself through Ben,” Freeman says.

“He told me the story of Rod McKuen, who I hadn’t heard of before. I wound up listening to McKuen’s music, getting into his writing, and really enjoying it. It clicked musically with me. So, this was the perfect way to do a solo record without really making a solo record. It was making a record where I could be a performer, as opposed to being a singersongwriter.”

It’s a drastic change for Freeman, who spent nearly 25 years writing and recording a variety of weird rock, funk and punkish-

pop songs with Ween bandmate Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo).

“As long as you love the music you’re covering, it all works out in the end,” Freeman says. “People can see that you really appreciate it. Ultimately, you want to create a sense of honesty and vulnerability with music, and I think we accomplished that with this one.”

Marvelous Clouds is a strange trip. Songs jump from style to style, and the mood goes up and down. The album kicks off with the effervescent pop song “As I Love My Own,” but things quickly mellow out with the acoustic ballad “Jean” and the jazzy, waltzy title track.

“A Man Alone” shuffles casually to a brushy drum beat. The banjo-driven “One by One” could easily work as a singalong on “Sesame Street.”

One of McKuen’s best known tunes, the melancholic “Doesn’t Anybody Know My Name,” sounds strangely cheerful here. The harmony-laden “Love’s Been Good to Me” resembles some of the most sugary Mellow Gold of yore. Album closer “The World I Used to Know” bounces more happily than the lonesome-sounding original.

“I did contribute, writing-wise, in a very strange way,” Freeman says. “When we first started working on it, I rerecorded some of it without really knowing all of the chords and arrangements, so I dumbed it down a bit. It made it more within my way of thinking. There’s no need to duplicate the original recordings because, as far as I’m concerned, they’re perfect the way they are. So, I definitely wanted to put my mark on it and have it be true and genuine.

“It’s a fine line between making it a little bit different and really changing it up,” he adds. “Some people take things too far when they do this, and they put too much of their own flavor into a song.”

Freeman will tour this summer, backed by scaled-down combos. At the Athens concert, he’ll handle guitars, with backing from two Ween bandmates, bassist Dave Dreiwitz and keyboardist Mitch Marcus.

“It’s not going to be the full Marvelous Clouds thing,” Freeman says. “It’ll be something more sparse. We’ll do four or five songs from the new album, plus a big mixture of old Ween songs and a whole bunch of other stuff.

I look forward to picking up my old guitar and taking people through an evening.”

T. Ballard Lesemann Editor’s note: Aaron Freeman’s show at The Melting Point on Friday, July 13 has been canceled. There will be no rescheduled date. Seek ticket refunds at your point of purchase.

JULY 11, 2012 · FLAGPOLE.COM

11

the calendar!

WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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.

Tuesday 10 EVENTS: Drafts and Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Local stand-up comedy. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-3532831 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 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

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

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706-354-1515 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: 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

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 Chapman’s “Via Appia.” 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: Community HU Song (Lay Park) People of all faiths are invited to sing together with the Eckankar community. 7–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-310-9499, www. eckankar-ga.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (City Hall/ College Avenue) An afternoon market featuring local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods and

12

crafts. Live music at every market.

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 EVENTS: Rabbit Box 3 (The Globe) Rabbit Box 3 is live! Come out for eight true-life stories told in the theme for the night: “Origins.” Hear from Noel Holston, Audey Lee, Dale Hoyt, Charlotte Lee, Agatha Coggins, Noah Saunders, Linda Russell and Rebecca McCarthy. 7 p.m. $2–5. www.facebook.com/rabbitboxstories 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 (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

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

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For parents and children. Every other Wednesday.

3:30–4:30 p.m. $24. 706-613-3515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (Madison County Library) The children’s staff of the library performs its puppet show, “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon,” based on the children’s book by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel. All ages. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597

FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ JULY 11, 2012

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 13–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (Oconee County Library) The children’s staff of the library performs its puppet show, “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon,” based on the children’s book by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel. All ages. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES AND LIT: Seat in the Shade: Poetry Reading Series (Trappeze) 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. 6 p.m. FREE! www.teachersactup.com LECTURES AND LIT: Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-351-6024.

LECTURES AND LIT: Clueless: Book Discussion (Oconee County Library) Mystery book discussion group. This month’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 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 12 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 EVENTS: Museum Mix (Georgia Museum of Art) A late night summer party in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden featuring art, refreshments and music from DJ Winston Parker. The exhibitions “John Baeder” and “Southern Folk Art from the Permanent Collection” will be open until 12 a.m. All other galleries will be open from 8–9 p.m.

8–12 a.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706-354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300

The Half Dozen Brass Band plays the Melting Point on Wednesday, July 11.

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 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (Clarke Central High School) The children’s staff of the library performs its puppet show, “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon,” based on the children’s book by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel. All ages.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-357-5200 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 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.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721, www. teachersactup.com LECTURES AND LIT: CYA (Madison County Library) Local attorney Victor Johnson discusses the best way to protect assets and with specific legal documents. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706795-5597 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: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Awardwinning musical. Rated PG. July 12-14, 7:30 p.m. $12–15. 706-3541339, 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 12–14, 8 p.m. $10–15. 706-362-2175

Friday 13 EVENTS: Drafts and Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Local stand-up comedy. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-3532831

EVENTS: Summer Evening in the Garden (State Botanical Garden) Join horticulturist Dr. Allan Armitage for a tour around the garden, wine, snacks and see plants for sale. 7–9 p.m. $5. www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Pickin’ on the Greene (Downtown Greensboro) Familyfriendly event with live music from the Packway Handle Band, plus dining and shopping. 7–10 p.m. FREE! For more info, see the Downtown, Greensboro, GA facebook page.

KIDSTUFF: Books & Bites (ACC Library) Teens can read for a long time without being interrupted.

Snacks provided. Ages 11-18.

5:30–9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721, www. teachersactup.com OUTDOORS: Friday Night Paddles (Sandy Creek Park) Experience nighttime on Lake Chapman and its moonlit waters. Participants may bring or rent a boat. For ages 12 & up. Register. 9–11 p.m. $5–12/ family. 706-613-3631, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreekpark PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists. 10 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 PERFORMANCE: An American Celebration (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Julie Coucheron and Elizabeth Pridgen perform Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” for two pianos, as well as Schickele’s Quartet No. 1, “American Dreams.”

7:30 p.m. $10. www.mmcc-arts.org THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Awardwinning musical. Rated PG. July 12-14, 7:30 p.m. $12–15. 706-3541339, 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 12–14, 8 p.m. $10–15. 706-362-2175

Saturday 14 CLASSES: Manga Workshop (The Loft Art Supplies) Zack Wood teaches how to make a Mangastyle comic from sketching and half-tones. For teens and adults.

Preregistration required. 12:30–4 p.m. $35. www.loftartsupply.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market.

This Saturday is Mater Day, featuring tomato taste testing, ugly tomato contest, squash car races with squash or tomato and a cooking demonstration by Craig Page. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: 3rd Annual Funky Fest (Aromas) Featuring sours, lambics and Berliner Weisses. 4 p.m.–2 a.m.

706-208-0059 EVENTS: Really Really Free Market (Reese & Pope Park) No money, no barter, no trade.

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

12–2 p.m. FREE! daizelsmom@ gmail.com EVENTS: Athens Canine Rescue Adopt-A-Pet Day (Pawtropolis) Meet ACR’s adorable, adoptable dogs in the flesh. Second Saturday of each month. 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscaninerescue.com EVENTS: Trial Gardens Annual Open House (State Botanical Garden) Allan Armitage and the staff of the Trial Gardens at UGA lead a tour of the gardens and to give their reviews of the new varieties of plants they grew this year. 8 a.m.–2 p.m.

FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu 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 EVENTS: Sapph.fire Second Anniversary Party (Georgia Museum of Art) Sapph.fire celebrates two years of creating a space for lesbians, bisexual and transsexual women with dinner and a tour of the museum. Newcomers welcome.

Ages 18 & up. 3:15 p.m. FREE! facebook.com/sapphfire.athens

KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Hear a nature story and learn about the woods, turtles and more.

2:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 LECTURES AND LIT: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New World of E-Books and SelfPublishingâ&#x20AC;? (OCAF) Presented by Shelli Wells, author of Untraceable and On the Bright Side. After the program, Ms. Wells will sign copies of her books at Avid Bookstore on Prince Avenue. 1-3 p.m. FREE! www. ocaf.com LECTURES AND LIT: Young Adult Book Signing (Avid Bookshop) Meet young adult author S.R. Johannes, author of the award-winning teen thriller Untraceable. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Go Bar) A unique drag show featuring performances by local artists. 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 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 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;14, 8 p.m. $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. 706-362-2175

Sunday 15 ART: Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org 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 (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: Trivia (Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southwest CafĂŠ) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inquisition,â&#x20AC;? 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

Monday 16 COMEDY: Shameless Comedy Showcase (Caledonia Lounge) Headlined by touring comic Paul Hopper and hosted by Chris Patton.

9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com FILM: The Muppets (Oconee County Library) PG-rated movie, 103 minutes. 1 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706543-8997 GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Win house cash and prizes!

Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to stories. Every Monday.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: I Love You, Beth Cooper (Oconee County Library) Chill out on a hot day with popcorn and snacks while watching Hayden Panettiere in I Love You, Beth Cooper, rated PG-13. Ages 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18.

6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Open Playtime (ACC Library) For children ages 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3 with their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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 17 COMEDY: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 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: Happy Birthday, David Hasselhoff (Treppenhaus) Show some love for the Hoff with a whole day of David Hasselhoff music and drink specials. Wear some Hoff attire, do the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Baywatchâ&#x20AC;? run, hum the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knight Riderâ&#x20AC;? theme song and bring a talking car, chest hair or even a cheeseburger. 3 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 a.m. FREE! 706-355-3060 EVENTS: Monthly Shape Note Singing (Athens First United Methodist Church) Informal community singing in the shape-note tradition from the Sacred Harp songbook.

No musical experience required. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. FREE! www.fasola.org GAMES: Trivia (Changoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (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: Trivia (Shaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 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 and math.

All ages; under 6 accompanied by an adult. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 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. Every Tuesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8079 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

Wednesday 18 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Genealogy 101: The Basics (Oconee County Library) Learn how to begin your family history research! Registration required.

3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 COMEDY: Comedy Night (The Melting Point) With comedians Danette Flint, Bobby Manhiem, Sean Van Meter and host Matt Chastain.

7:30 p.m. $8. www.meltingpointathens.com COMEDY: The Roast of Ed Burmila (The Globe) The Athens Comedy Collective presents a roast of local comedian Ed Burmila. Fancy dress attire requested. 9 p.m. 706353-4721 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.

4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net 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 (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Willyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 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 (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: 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: 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: Ferdinand Por Ferruca (Madison County Library) Flamenco dancer and instructor Julie Galle Baggenstoss presents a flamenco dance performance based on the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic, The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Flamenco Fun (Oconee County Library) Flamenco dancer/ instructor Julie Galle Baggenstoss performs the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic, The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf.

The program includes flamenco and other Spain-related activities.

All ages. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Cuisine Class: Midnight Snacks (Oconee County Library) Learn how to make the perfect snacks for late-night cravings.

Sign up required at YA desk or front desk. Ages 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 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.

MEETINGS: Info Session for Foster and Adoptive Parents (Clarke County DFCS) (Conference Room A) Held the third Wednesday of every month. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! 706-227-7904 MEETINGS: PFLAG Athens Meeting (Aloha Counseling Center) A support, education and advocacy

The 2012 Athens Flagpole Music Awards Show is available for viewing ONLINE! Re-live your favorite parts!

285 W. Washington St. Athens, GA â&#x20AC;˘ Call 706-549-7871 for Show Updates

CHEAP DRINK SPECIALS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE 11PM â&#x20AC;˘ 18 + UP

7+856'$< -8/<

JK & THE LOST BOYS

HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL DAMION SUOMI & THE MINOR PROPHETS

GRRUV RSHQ DW SP

)5,'$< -8/<

matt hudgins & his shit hot country band

BONNIE WHITMORE AND SOME DARK HOLLER

GRRUV RSHQ DW SP

6$785'$< -8/<

%ASTER )SLAND CD RELEASE PARTY

THE VIKING PROGRESS JOHN FRENCH & THE BASTILLES

GRRUV RSHQ DW SP

7+856'$< -8/<

7 ,9 3(/

%!2

www.

music

'0/ # 02/.' s ,)/.):%

GRRUV RSHQ DW SP

)5,'$< -8/<

ATHENS BAND SHOWTIME

GRRUV RSHQ DW SP

awards

$0.*/( 400/ AUG 23 - COMEDY NIGHT W/ TODD BARRY / NEIL HAMBURGER

.flagpole.com

!LL 3HOWS AND UP s FOR 5NDER

!DVANCE 4IX !VAILABLE AT 7UXTRY 2ECORDS

!DVANCE 4IX 3OLD AT HTTP WWW WATT COM

NOW THROUGH AUGUST 19, 2012!

STRANGER IN PARADISE:

The Works of Reverend Howard Finster

Folk Art Family Day -FREE July 14, 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 pm

Telfair will present demonstrations by local self-taught artists and live old-time music by Joe Nelson. Kids can make different art projects using recycled items from the Chatham Country Recycling Center. Grown ups will want to hear a fascinating talk by Jordan Poole, preservation advocate for Howard Finsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paradise Gardens. ď?¤ď?Ľď?°ď?Ąď?˛ď?´ď?­ď?Ľď?Žď?´ ď?Żď?Ś ď?Łď?ľď?Źď?´ď?ľď?˛ď?Ąď?Ź ď?Ąď?Śď?Śď?Ąď?Šď?˛ď?ł

jepson center

TELFAIR.ORG / 912.790.8800 / Savannah, GA

k continued on next page

JULY 11, 2012 ¡ FLAGPOLE.COM

13

group for families, friends and supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-756-5428, pflagathga@ gmail.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 months. All ages are welcome to join. 7 p.m. FREE! capoeira@uga.edu

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 10 Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com THE SCARRED Punk rock band from Anaheim, CA delivers the hardhitting goods.

THE PINKERTON THUGS Punk rock band from Maine influenced by Crass, Sham 69, The Clash and even the protest songs of folkster Woody Guthrie.

BURNS LIKE FIRE Iron-livered pretty boys who play stewed ‘n’ screwed punk rock.

EXPECT RESISTANCE Another flavor of high-energy punk rock rising out of Atlanta.

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

Wednesday, July 18 continued from p. 13

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 electro and rock.

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!

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 Athens 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 shop all summer every Tuesday night.

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.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia Sunflower Music Series. 7 p.m. $15, $10 (Friends of the Garden Members), $5 (ages 6-12). 706542-1244 ROMPER STOMPERS William Tonks, Danny Hutchens, Jon Mills and Todd Nance play rock songs from children’s perspectives with a sound that adults will enjoy.

DANIELLE HOWLE A punk rocker at heart with the voice of a honkeytonk angel, this folk singer has shared the stage with the Indigo Girls, Elliott Smith and Bob Dylan.

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

Wednesday 11 Athens City Hall Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net DREW MARLER Warbly-voiced Opelika, AL native plays folkinspired acoustic rock.

Friday, July 13

Bonnie Whitmore, Some Dark Holler, Matt Hudgins and His Shit-Hot Country Band 40 Watt Club Self-sufficiency finds new meaning in Bonnie Whitmore.

The woman can write her own songs, fly her own plane and even knock off her own embittered lovers—or at least pose a convincing threat.

Whitmore’s music career began at the impressionable Bonnie Whitmore age of eight, when she joined her father’s folk band, the aptly named Daddy & the Divas. Daddy, a licensed pilot, flew the family around its home state of Texas to showcase his genetic musical wonders. Bonnie played bass and cello, while her sister Eleanor learned violin.

Whitmore began writing songs of her own in her early teenage years. “I’d like to say that being an independent artist is completely different than playing with my family,” she says, “but it’s not, really, [except] that I don’t tend to argue with myself, and I sing lead on all my songs.”

Indeed, even as a solo performer, Whitmore maintains her familial ties. She collaborates frequently with Eleanor; her brother-in-law, former Son Volt guitarist Chris Masterson, produces her music; and she tours with her boyfriend, guitarist Chris Porter of Some Dark Holler. Meanwhile, at least once a year, the Whitmores have a family band reunion.

Although her sultry Southern voice and country sound pay rightful homage to her roots, her music reflects an angst all her own. Rather than give in to self-pity or sorrow, her album, Embers to Ashes, is vengeful, even murderous. While Whitmore may not have actually committed any of the capital offenses she alludes to in her music, she attributes her lyrical violence to the depth of her affection, saying, “If you’ve never had any type of homicidal tendencies, then you’ve never really been in love.”

This seasoned veteran’s experience both in love and music—two things not always independent of one another—is sure to make for a rowdy show. [Jodi Murphy]

14

FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ JULY 11, 2012

James Wilkins www.itsajamesfest.com

THE CALENDAR!

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HOLIDAY AWAY Young, emotive punk band from Thomson.

COME DOWN DENVER Five-piece pop-punk band.

ALL HANDS ON DECK Rock outfit out of Connecticut touring behind its debut EP, It’s All We Know.

A CITYSCAPE Punk-pop group hails from Boston.

Farm 255 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Local act featuring 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 so convincingly you’ll swear you’re there. Every Wednesday in July!

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 rockin’ Americana.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features bassist Neal Fountain and drummer Marlon Patton.

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.

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

Thursday 12 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www.40watt.com JK & THE LOST BOYS Atlanta band with a style strongly reflective of acoustic-tinged folk and blues rock bands.

DAMION SUOMI & THE MINOR PROPHETS This singer-songwriter’s heartfelt ballads provide a warm soundrack for drowning your sorrows down at the pub.

Recommended for fans of R.E.M. and Pete Yorn.

HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL Infectious singalong choruses are the signature of this poppy Americana act. Recommended for fans of The Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com SERVICE INDUSTRY Local streetpunk outfit returned this year after a lengthy hiatus.

SEIZE NOVEMBRE Local supergroup featuring Jon Lester, David Barbe, Patrick Ferguson, Steve Fitzpatrick and Kevin Sweeney.

OCTA P.A. Side solo project from Mark Opel of The Savoir Faire and Golden Gates.

SMOKEDOG Thom Strickland and guests play “noisy lo-fi boogie smeared over mechanical backpocket beats.”

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com TUMBLEWEED STAMPEDE Uplifting, melodic indie-pop with influences ranging from AfroCaribbean pop to old-school Southern soul.

STEPHEN PFANNKUCHE Tumbleweed Stampede guitarist plays a solo set.

HAPPY TIME COMPLETE PARTY SUPPLY DJ set featuring disco, R&B and hip-hop selections.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar. com MR. MUSTACHE High-energy rock band with loud guitars and lots of crowd interaction.

NEW WIVES Local trio plays indieinfluenced rock.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $3. www.georgiatheatre.com CLAY LEVERETT AND FRIENDS Some of Athens’ finest country music!

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

JIG BONE Three-piece rock band that focuses on old-school hard-rock originals and covers (AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc.).

BETSY FRANCK This local songwriter offers soulful, brassy Southern rock and country rooted in tradition but with a modern sensibility.

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.

Max ‘80s Hair Metal Party! 8 p.m. 706254-3392 STRAIGHT NO CHASER This group reinvents the idea of a cappella in the modern pop landscape.

SETH WINTERS Local songwriter offers “mainstream songwriting with a guitar-driven sound.”

The Melting Point Motown Downtown! 8 p.m. FREE! www. meltingpointathens.com THE SPLITZ BAND This band’s impressively wide range encompasses classic Motown, funk, disco and contemporary R&B. No Where Bar 10 p.m. $5. 706-546-4742 THE SHACK BAND Classic rock from Richmond, VA. The Office Lounge Open Blues Jam. 8:30 p.m. 706-5460840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers!

Friday 13 111 North Main Street, Greensboro, GA 7–10 p.m. FREE! 706-453-7674 PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Packway’s “gather around the mic” approach to bluegrass provides sly,

hearty original songs and renditions of classic tunes.

PULLIN’ STRINGS Features a span of music genres including folk, bluegrass, country, rock and gospel.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www.40watt.com MATT HUDGINS & HIS SHIT-HOT COUNTRY BAND Local band playing “songs about drinking, jail, love and death, all done in the popular ‘country and western’ musical style.”

BONNIE WHITMORE Singer/songwriter from Texas playing Americana mixed with indie-rock. See Calendar Pick on this page.

SOME DARK HOLLER “Handmade American music” duo from Birmingham, AL, formerly known as Back Row Baptists.

Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 STRAIGHT NO CHASER This group reinvents the idea of a cappella in the modern pop landscape.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7 p.m. $10. www.buffaloscafe.com/ athens BIG DADDYS BAND Dance to your favorite tunes from the ‘70s and ‘80s!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com FIVE EIGHT Near-legendary Athens rock trio that consistently pumps out boisterous rock and roll.

THE PAUSES Electronic-tinged Florida outfit plays melodic, angular indie rock. See Calendar Pick on p. 15.

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

CARA SATALINO Outer Spaces singer plays a solo set of her shimmering folk.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com TITANS OF FILTH This local band combines droll Southern voices with uncomplicated indie-pop rock.

WEREWYATT Featuring members of Werewolves playing their unique brand of quirky folk pop.

YOUNGER SIBLINGS Featuring members of PS Eliot straddling the indie-pop/punk line.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS This Athens institution has been covering classic country for 20 years.

BRENT COBB Folk and rock-influenced singer/songwriter.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ROBERTA & CHARLENE These Southern “ladies” sing tongue-incheek country songs about being proud lipstick Republicans, while backed by synth beats.

PUSSY HOLLER New project from local musician Catherine Rush.

DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com BEAVER NELSON Veteran Austin singer-songwriter performs his new album Macro/Micro in its entirety while an album-length film is projected behind him. See story on p. 10.

SHADE New local trio featuring Phelan Lavelle, Will Donaldson and Adam Bewley.

Friday, July 13

Five Eight, The Pauses Caledonia Lounge The Pauses have always done things the old-fashioned wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if those The Pauses things take a little more time to gestate.

The Orlando-based trio has been one of its regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most consistently honored indie-rock groups in recent years, and for good reason. While many wannabe artists litter the web each time they put a musical masturbation to tape with the hope that some trendsetting blog will notice, the members of The Pauses gigged hard, developed their sound and raised enough dough to hire their hero, J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines), to produce their 2011 debut, A Cautionary Tale.

Released by tasteful Tampa indie label New Granada, the album is a sterling work of mature, intelligent music. With an expansive instrumental palette that contains rock, electronic and even orchestral hues, the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s-influenced sound deftly marries airy indie-pop with angular post-hardcore in ways that are fluid yet complex, sweet but moody.

Thanks largely to the adhesion provided by the disarmingly smooth voice of Tierney Tough (a longtime scene supporter and founder of Orlandoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasingly notable Orange You Glad Music Festival), A Cautionary Tale is a dance of seeming opposites that results in a record of dynamic intrigueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rather than the confused mess it couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in lesser hands. And ironically, tastemaking blogs like My Old Kentucky Blog and Three Imaginary Girls ended up noticing the recordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s craftsmanship and showering it with high praise.

Weird how that works, innit?

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, The Pausesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerts are known to be highly different and engaging. This time, the group is touring with its trademark â&#x20AC;&#x153;Interact-O-Visionâ&#x20AC;? show, wherein audience members are allowed to live-edit the visuals during the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance, via a simple keyboard pre-stocked with video clips and effects. [Bao Le-Huu]

Highwire Lounge â&#x20AC;&#x153;Friday Night Jazz.â&#x20AC;? 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com RAND LINES Original compositions of pianist Rand Lines with drummer Ben Williams and bassist Carl Lindberg.

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 DJ TAYROCKS New local DJ drops soul/funk/hip hop and R&B cuts to get your booty bouncinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

The Melting Point Motown Downtown! 8 p.m. FREE! www. meltingpointathens.com COMMON PEOPLE BAND Local group pays tribute to Motownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest hits.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. $10 (glass). www.terrapinbeer.com KATE AND COREY This couple performs acoustic indie, alternative and country music.

Saturday 14 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com EASTER ISLAND Lush, post-rockinfluenced shoegaze with sweet, pop melodies, tender harmonies and shimmering guitars. CD release party! See story on p. 11.

THE VIKING PROGRESS Patrick Morales has a lovely, tender voice that sings gentle, indie/folk ballads about love, death and isolation inspired by his time at sea.

JOHN FRENCH AND THE BASTILLES Songwriter John Frenchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sincere acoustic compositions are backed by musicians with country and rock influences.

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net TRE POWELL Bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals. (8 a.m.)

DALE WECHSLER String Theory fiddler plays a solo set. (10 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com SAVE GRAND CANYON Emotional and dynamic, this tenderfoot local band plays what it calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;organic alt-rock.â&#x20AC;?

TINMAN Finely crafted folk pop ballads from Mark Bailey.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DUENDE MOUNTAIN DUO Electro duo from Asheville, NC. TECHNICULT Deep electronic dance grooves from Atlanta.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar. com CASPER AND THE COOKIES Increasingly experimental but always rooted in pop sensibilities, this local act presents a danceable mix of quirky fun driven by keyboard and guitar.

YOUR FUZZY FRIENDS Selfproclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hipster Godâ&#x20AC;? Mono the Unicorn leads â&#x20AC;&#x153;the hottest new-wave puppet band of the American indie scene.â&#x20AC;? So, yeah.

EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock influenced by bands like Guided by Voices.

Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 TRE POWELL This local songwriter sings soulful, acoustic R&B.

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

DJ MODERN PORNOGRAPHY DJs spinning new wave, rock and dance.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com DANGFLY Local rock band featuring an all-star lineup.

DAVE GRIFFIN Country-influenced singer-songwriter from Waycross pulls from a rich personal history in crafting his narrative-driven tunes.

TRE BOYER Singer-songwriter from Atlanta.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

The Melting Point Motown Downtown! 8 p.m. FREE! www. meltingpointathens.com THE HANDS OF TIME Soul, funk, pop, R&B, Motown and classic oldschool hits.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ OfficeAthens BREATHLANES Athens musical collective playing organic, atmospheric improv.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com PERPETUAL GROOVE This group has been stirring crowds into a frenzy around the Southeast with its exciting jams and spirited cover tunes.

STOKESWOOD Mellow, modern altrock band from Atlanta that experiments with atmospheric sounds.

Monday 16

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET A unique show featuring performances by local drag artists.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com ED SCHRADERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MUSIC BEAT Lo-fi, high-energy garage punk from Baltimore.

The Grotto 6 p.m. FREE! 140 E. Clayton St. THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Smooth jazz played by DJ Segar.

Tuesday 17

Georgia Theatre Rooftop Dance Party. 11 p.m. $2. www. georgiatheatre.com THE FALCONES Local alternative rock with anthemic choruses and layered vocal harmonies.

SANS ABRI New band featuring members of Packway Handle Band.

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

Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

UVFTĂ KVMZĂ 5FSSBQJO 5VFTEBZ GFBUVSJOH EOLN NBIG;M 5*9 5FSSBQJO 1JOUT

XFEĂ KVMZĂ

B;F@ >IT?H <L;MM <;H> 5*9 BEW EPPS BU EPPS XJUI 6(" *%

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

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 like the Four Tops!

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday Series. 7:30 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com NEXT IN LINE A perfect mix of traditional and contemporary bluegrass.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 TRIZ Local electro mainstay sets up shop all summer every Tuesday at Nowhere Bar, collaborating live with other acts to â&#x20AC;&#x153;show people how eclectic electric music really is.â&#x20AC;?

EMPTY WELLS Darnell Boys side project.

PRODUCEMAN AND TRIZ Darnell Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Austin Darnell resurrects his hip-hop persona for a special set with DJ Triz.

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

Wednesday 18 Athens City Hall Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net RED OAK SOUTHERN STRING BAND This Watkinsville-based band plays rootsy Americana.

Farm 255 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CALEB DARNELL Member of The Darnell Boys and Bellyache sings the blues.

Georgia Theatre At Sunset on the Roof. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com KINKY WAIKIKI Local supergroup plays smooth, beachy Hawaiian music so convincingly youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll swear youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there. Every Wednesday in July!

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features bassist Neal Fountain and drummer Marlon Patton. The group offers a sound that serves noise-rock fans and jam band listeners equally. Every Wednesday in July!

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

2&0## $-0 $0##

GINIQH >IQHNIQH M?LC?M !312-+#0 ..0#!' 2'-, 5##)

UIVSTĂ KVMZĂ

NB? MJFCNT <;H> GSJÂ&#x2026;KVMZÂ&#x2026;

=IGGIH J?IJF?_M <;H> TBUÂ&#x2026;KVMZÂ&#x2026;

B;H>M I@ NCG? TBUĂ KVMZĂ ?P?HCHA QCNB NB? EPPST PQFO GPS EJOOFS ESJOLT ! QN ;NB?HM ; NL;CH <;H> NVTJD ! QN FBDI OJHIU $0## 1&-51 )BMG 1SJDF #PUUMFT PG 8JOF

5*9 BEW EPPS BU EPPS XJUI 6(" *%

UVFTĂ KVMZĂ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

MNLCHA NB?ILS NB ;HHCP?LM;LS NIOL QCNB D;G?M AL?AILS \@OHHC?MN G;H CH ;G?LC=;] H?RN CH FCH? M?;H G==IHH?FF ;>;G BII> FIO>IH Q;CHQLCABN ''' ;<<?S LI;> *'4# SIO QIH_N ?GCFS B?;LH LI>H?S =LIQ?FF MQCHACH_ G?>;FFCIHM HILNB A?ILAC; <FO?AL;MM <;H> PCHR Q NB? &# .

MIHM I@ M;CFILM DI? LI<CHMIH D;G?M G=GOLNS LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF

$-0 2'!)#21 1&-52'+#1

555 +#*2',%.-',2 2&#,1 !-+ CALL THE BOX OFFICE 706.254.6909 295 E. DOUGHERTY ST., ATHENS, GA

!IG? NLS IOL

,#5 +#,3

WWW.FLAGPOLE.COM

The Summer of Ms. Content

Complimentary use of our pool and fitness center with any spa service!

Spa Gift Cards available online or in person

706.425.9700

Spa

THE facebook.com/FoundryParkInn www.9BHA7ELC4E><AA.com

At Foundry Park Inn

JULY 11, 2012 ¡ FLAGPOLE.COM

15

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

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

ART Call for Artists (Amici) Seeking artists for monthly exhibits. Email samples to 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, 706316-2067 Bellydance & Bollywood Classes (Floorspace) Basic and advanced bellydance for women of all ages and sizes. 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) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7-9 p.m.

“Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2-4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www. gooddirt.net Computer Tutorials (ACC Library) Choose from a list of topics for personalized, one-onone instruction. The library also offers online computer classes in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and eBooks. Call for times and to register. 706-613-3650

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 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.mindfuliving.org High-flying Trapeze Class (Leap High-Flying Trapeze School) All levels welcome. www.leaptrapeze. com Lori’s Boot Camp (Fitness at Five) Get in shape in time for summer and bikini season. Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 706-353-6030, 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.healingartscentre.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 BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program (Chase Street Warehouses) BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program (BRP) needs

Athens Area Humane Society

ADOPTION CENTER

Inside Pet Supplies Plus at Alps Shopping Ctr. • 706.353.2287

Minga turns her head in an attentive puppy-like way, when listening to you. She likes to join in whatever is going on, is fine with kids, and is a fun and friendly girl.

6/28 to 7/4

MINGA

16

Gentle, golden-eyed Rosie has blossomed during her time at AAHS from a shy girl to an affectionate, content lady who loves to be brushed and doted on.

ROSIE

bicycle repair help of all degrees.

Bicycles are donated to social service agencies for individuals in need of a safe ride to work and underserved by public transportation. Wednesdays, 6-8:30 p.m. (beginners), Mondays, 6-8:30 p.m. & Sundays, 2-4:30 p.m. bikeathens. com/brp Costume Donations (Athens Little Playhouse) Looking for superhero, animal, doctor/nurse and cowboy/cowgirl costumes. No plastic masks. Costumes will be used 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 and times. 1-800-RED CROSS, www. redcross.org Foster Dog Parent Program (The Athens Area Humane Society) The Athens Area Humane Society offers the opportunity to foster a dog, taking it from a euthanization center before placing it in a permanent home. All supplies for the dogs are provided. Email or visit website for more information. dogs@ athenshumanesociety.org, www. athenshumanesociety.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.

KIDSTUFF Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts

The special cats below have adoption fees of only $50 because they captured the hearts of sponsors.

This price includes vaccinations, spay, etc. and is an amazing deal!

Moon has a glowing locket of white fur on her throat and a sleek black coat. She is a calm, loving girl with a sweet melodic mew. Loves people.

MOON

ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY 3 Animals Received, 10 Animals Placed, 0 Healthy Adoptable Animals Euthanized more pets can be seen online at ACC ANIMAL CONTROL athenshumanesociety.org 30 Dogs Received, 27 Dogs Placed 23 Cats Received, 4 Cats Placed

FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ JULY 11, 2012

Gerald L. Brockhurst’s prints and drawings are on display at the GMOA through Sept. 16. and crafts and allows children to express themselves through the creation of original artwork. 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. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter 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. 706613-3603 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.dreamteamtriathlon.com Expressive Arts Workshop (1 Huntington Rd. Suite 105) Use art for healthy emotional expression by creating masks, storybooks and mandalas. For ages 9–11. July 18–20, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $150 (incl. materials). htyates@gmail.com, 888-307-2780 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.pintsandpaints.com Park Scavenger Hunt (Athens, Ga) Athens’ public parks participate in a city-wide scavenger hunt. Visit the parks’ Facebook and Twitter pages for clues and prizes through the month of August. FREE! www. tinyurl.com/7opdk5w, www.twitter. com/accleisure Summer Art Camp (MadisonMorgan Cultural Center) “Things with Wings” art camp led by Julie Noland offers sessions for kids in grades 1-12. July 16–26. $75. dlamar@mmcc-arts.org Summer Camps (Good Dirt) Now registering for week-long clay camps for ages 4–18. Each week has a different theme. Check website for program descriptions. Call to register. $125-165. 706-555-3161, www. gooddirt.net Summer Camps (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Now registering for camps offered in natural crafting, DIY, 2D art, 3D art, weaving, stop-motion animation, creative play, knitting and more. Check website for more info: dates, age requirements and costs. $125 (ages 3–5), $165 (ages 6–12). www.treehousekidandcraft. tumblr.com

Summer Reading Program (Clarke Central High School) Students and families 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! 706613-3650 Tween Time (Madison County Library) Funky arts and crafts for tweens ages 8–12. Call to preregister and for schedule. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 Where’s Waldo in the ATH? (Avid Bookshop) City-wide scavenger hunt! For the entire month of July, customers can search for Waldo at 20 participating local businesses, including Avid Bookshop.

Each Waldo sighting receives a ticket from Avid. When participants collect eight tickets, they can return them to Avid for a prize. Participants who find 16 out of the 20 Waldos can be entered into a raffle to win a boxed set of Where’s Waldo? books and other Waldo prizes! Rules of game and list of businesses available at Avid Bookshop. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com 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.

FREE! 706-613-3616, ext. 22.

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. 706425-9700 Friends of the Garden Flea Market (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Accepting donated items Aug. 13-17. No clothing. Sale Aug. 18, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. 706-542-6138 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.athenshumanesociety.org Open Table Tennis (Oconee Veterans Park) Equipment provided.

Wednesdays, 6–9 p.m. FREE! (Oconee Co. residents), $5. 706769-3965

Primp Your Pit(bull) (The Athens Area Humane Society) The Athens Area Humane Society is offering a limited number of discounted spays to bully-breed dogs in August, including pit bulls, pit bull terriers or distinct pit bull mixes. Call to make an appointment. $20. 706-769-9155, www.athenshumanesociety.org Tomcat Tuesdays and Puppy Packages (The Athens Area Humane Society) Athens Area Humane Society offers discounted male cat neuters and discounted puppy neuters. Through the month of July. www.athenshumanesociety. org

SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, Ga) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.com Athens Mothers’ Center Support Group (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Mothers’ support

ART AROUND TOWN A. LAFERA SALON (2440 W. Broad St.) New artwork

by Perry McCrackin. Through August.

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 Justin and Jul Sexton. Through July.

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

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 16 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics, fine furniture and more. Permanent collection artists include Nick Joslyn, Peter Loose, PM Goulding, Anna Marino and more.

FIVE STAR DAY CAFÉ (229 E. Broad St.) Paintings on tin and wood and drawings by Rick Littlefield.

Through July.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Mixed-media works using found objects by Jessica Smith and vibrant, heavily textured abstract paintings

by Ben Rouse. Through July.

GALLERY @ HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “The Board Room,” part of the 2012 Summer of SPOA (Skatepark of Athens), includes skateboard decks designed by 56 artists. • In The Glasscube, an installation by Deanna Kamal, “Collosphaera,” is a hybrid of interior design and marine biology. Through Sept. 9.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “John Baeder’s American Roadside” contains photographs of street signs, diners and off-interstate structures.

Through July 22. • “A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings.” Through July 29. • “Victory Lap: Time-Based Winners of the Kress Project.”

Through Sept. 7. • “Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Booker” consists of large-scale sculptures created from tires. Through Apr. 30. • An exhibition of 41 prints and drawings by Gerald L. Brockhurst.

Through Sept. 16.

group. Children are welcome, too.

Dads welcome on Friday mornings.

Tuesdays and Fridays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! athensga.motherscenter. org Emotional Abuse Support Group (Athens, Ga) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare provided. Call for location. Every Wednesday. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771.

Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org Survive and Revive (Athens, Ga) Support, healing and dinner for survivors of domestic violence. Second and fourth Tuesdays in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays in Madison County. Childcare is also provided. 6 p.m. (dinner), 6:30–8 p.m. (meeting). Call for locations: 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-6133357, ext. 771. f

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (East Campus Rd.) A collection of mounted game animals featuring lynxes, African leopards, Alaskan bears, water buffalo and elk, as well as live corn snakes, tarantulas, and other live animals.

GEORGIA THEATRE (215 N. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Walker Howle (of Dead Confederate) and his father, William Howle. Through July.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Drawings by Cara Beth Satalino and mixed media by Josh McCauley.

Through July 14. • Drawings by Andrew Barger and Erin Lovett. Opening July 15. Through Aug. 4.

HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Modern paintings and mixed media works

by Will L. Through July.

JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE EASTSIDE (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Photography and integrated media by Jillian Carnes and Jamie DeRevere. Through July.

JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE FIVE POINTS (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) “Reflection” features sustainable art by Justin and Jul Sexton.

JUST PHO...AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Photography by Robert Lowery.

KUMQUAT MAE CAFE (18 S. Barnett Shoals Rd., Watkinsvile) “In the Woods There Grew a Tree” features six pieces of mixed photography and metalwork

by Elizebeth Tong, highlighting symbolism from the poetry of “The Maypole Song,” which tells the story of the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth. Through July.

LAST RESORT GRILL (184 W. Clayton St.) Paintings

by Bob Davis. Through July.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) “Float,” a wide variety of art in many forms of media, including photography, pottery, textiles and glass works from 85 area artists.

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

by Terry Brown and hand-blown glass vases by Paul Bendzunas.

OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) Annual Members’ Exhibit featuring sculpture, paintings, drawings, textiles, jewelry, pottery and photos by OCAF members.

Through July 20. • “From a Woman’s Hand” includes sculptures by Annie Evans, Cynthia Schoner and Dinah Stonis. Opening reception June 29. Through July 27.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Paintings by Manda McKay. Through July.

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.

STRAND HAIR SALON (1625 S. Lumpkin St.) “The Smoke Series” features new photography by Blake Smith.

TRANSMETROPOLITAN (145 E. Clayton St.) Prints

by Eric Simmons. Through July.

WHITE TIGER GOURMET (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Paintings by Ainhoa Canup.

.COM ENSALON IZ IT C L E D MO E AVENUE 497 PRINC

656

706.543.3

ANIE

STEPH D N A A L A AYNE, CH H S , H T E B RRIS! O ELIZA M N I R HE NOW WIT

Do You Want to Change Your Drinking?

O We are conducting a study on a medication for treating alcohol problems.

O Participation will include 5 in-person assessments, including 4 sessions of individual outpatient treatment for alcohol problems.

O You will be asked to take a medication or placebo on two occasions.

O There is no cost for the treatment.

O You will receive up to $395 for participating.

O Call 706-542-8350 for more information.

ʻʱʷʴʧʣʮʮʻ

ʥʣʰ ʪʣʸʧʫʶʣʮʮʂ ʩˑˑˆ ˃˖ ˏˑ˔ˇ ˖ˊ˃ː ʙʗ ˔ˇ˖˃ˋˎ ˃ːˆ ˆˋːˋːˉ ˎˑ˅˃˖ˋˑː˕ʂ ʙʒʘʎʕʗʕʎʓʖʔʓ

The Best Sign of an Effective

Résumé?

Your phone rings.

GET MORE INTERVIEWS

Sean Cook, Certified Professional Résumé Writer & Career Coach AthensGACareerCoach.com 191 East Broad St., Suite 217, Athens /\ÊÇäÈ°ÎÈΰäxÎ ÊUÊ/Ü ÌÌiÀ\ÊJÃi> V > ÊÃi> J>Ì i Ã}>V>ÀiiÀV >V °V

READER PICKS

RUNNER-UP RUNNER-UP

JULY 11, 2012 · FLAGPOLE.COM

17

40% OFF any one item

FEED KIDSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

at regular price

CREATIVITY WITH SUMMER CLAY CAMPS

DcZ Xdjedc eZg XjhidbZg eZg YVn# D[[Zg ^h cdi kVa^Y l^i] Vcn di]Zg Xdjedc!

Y^hXdjci dg egZk^djh ejgX]VhZ# KVa^Y dcan ?jan && " ?jan &-! '%&'#

SCHEDULE ONLINE!

>cXajYZh BViZg^Vah H><C JE HDDC 8A6HH:H 6G: H:AA>C< DJI

HVijgYVn! ?jan &) &'/(%")eb B6C<6 8DB>8 LDG@H=DE

(*

Try Clay Fridays 7-9pm & Family Try Clay Sundays 2-4pm www.gooddirt.net â&#x20AC;¢706.355.3161

ADVERTISING

INTERN POSITIONS KJ KQN L =P U P N

EK

L=

AVAILABLE FOR FALL

Vgi hjeea^Zh &%(* 7VmiZg Hi# ,%+"*)-"*(() lll#ad[iVgihjeean#Xdb

WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 P.M. or TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 P.M. * MUST HAVE CAR * * ADVERTISING OR MARKETING MAJORS PREFERRED* SEND RESUMÃ&#x2030; TO ALICIA NICKLES AT

ADS@FLAGPOLE.COM

bands on the patio EVERY thursday ALL summer!

A=NHU ODKS LI thur july 12 1#2& 5',2#01 H=PA ODKS LI O D=EN IAP=H L=NPU SEPD

L

>N =H

S = U O

243 w. washington st.

18

120 '%&2 ,- !& 1#0 dance party EVERY friday in july fri july 13 "( 2 70-66

FLAGPOLE.COM â&#x2C6;&#x2122; JULY 11, 2012

=HH REJUH =HH JECDP

comics

reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins OK, here’s the deal. I’m a nearly 30-year-old male with severe social awkwardness caused by a neurological disorder. Effectively, I don’t pick up on facial expressions, body language, subtle verbal hints or clues, which in dating function as red and green lights. I push forward when it’s hopeless; I shy away when the person behind me is blaring their horn telling me it’s green. As you can imagine, I don’t have much (heh) success. Girls tend to immediately avoid me, or if they spend time around me, come to view me as a brother or cousin. I’m never “dating material.” The problem is, I often don’t catch onto this, and I push forward thinking that they are spending time with me because they are interested. I then tend to get accused of being a creep... or being too forward, and I lose out on what could have at least been a friend, even if nothing else. This has happened several times in the last six months, to the point where it is now beginning to tell on me emotionally.

Getting rejected is part of life, but when you are accused of something that you aren’t doing, or aren’t aware that you are doing... it hurts a lot more. I don’t think my standards are too high. I don’t have a problem with a lady with a few extra pounds, and I try to keep in the best shape I can. I drive, I have income, I’m a student, but because most of my interests are introverted and geeky, it’s really difficult to meet women. I’ve tried the whole online dating thing, and I’ve found that it’s such a loaded game (average 10-1 male-to-female ratio) that you hardly get any replies, and when you do, they always seem to only want you to be “new friends.” So, at this point I’m just not sure what to do anymore. Obviously, if I’m low enough to be writing this, I’ve got a serious problem. But I think I need a new perspective in order to try and see my way clear of it.

Anonymous The only thing a guy in your position can do is be totally honest with women that you interact with and hope for the best.

The good news is is that nerdy is pretty cool at the moment, and a lot more girls are into gaming and whatnot than ever before. Since you said that you have had several problems in the past six months, I gather that you have no trouble finding women to hang out with.

Great, that’s the first big hurdle.

Now you’re going to have to find a way to tell them about your problem. I think bringing it up in conversation early on is the best way.

When you get to the stage of getting to know somebody where you start talking about your family dynamics and your past relationships, that would be the time to bring it up.

Explain it the way you explained it to me in your letter, and be honest about the toll it has taken on your personal life in the past.

Tell the women you meet that you know it sounds weird but that telling them up front is easier than letting things actually get weird.

And then just tell them that you need to have things spelled out. Easier said than done?

Sure. But what else are you going to do? You may scare a few of them off right away, but those ones wouldn’t have worked out anyway.

The ones that are willing to work a bit harder are the ones that are worth your time.

Good luck.

So… my boyfriend and I have moved to a new city.

Things are great, we are having fun and making friends, and our relationship is better than ever. We still keep in touch with old friends, but the life we are building here is more about “us” than about “me” and “him,” if you know what I mean. Things are great.

But I just got a Facebook message from an old friend of mine who is coming through town. His band is playing, and I would love to go see them. My boyfriend doesn’t really know this friend very well. He knows ABOUT him, but they have only met once, at another show, back when we lived there.

The thing is that this friend and I have had a couple of flings. We never got serious, and we have always stayed friends, but over the years, at different times when we were both single, we hooked up. It was not a big deal, and neither of us ever felt weird about it or anything. But now I feel like I maybe should have told my boyfriend. I don’t know why, but I just feel guilty about it. And I really want to let my friend and his band stay with us, and my boyfriend already offered to let them. But something in the back of my mind makes me feel bad. I don’t want our new awesome life to be based on a lie. I don’t want to hide anything from him. But I also don’t want to make things awkward. What should I do?

Guilty Conscience Don’t say ANYTHING. Do you hear me, GC? Keep your fool mouth shut. Unless your boyfriend at some point demanded to know every person you ever slept with and you lied and left this guy off the list, you have nothing to feel guilty about. And even if you did lie, there is no reason to say anything now. Let it go. The only person who will feel better about it is you, and that is just stupid and selfish. There is nothing between you and the guy, and everything between you and your boyfriend, and it seems like your boyfriend is willing to be friends with the guy. So, why ruin it? See the show, let them crash, and wish them well on their journey.

Jyl Inov Got a question for Jyl? Submit your anonymous inquiry via Reality Check at flagpole.com.

Join Our Team Plasma Donors Needed Now

Please help us help those coping with rare, chronic, genetic diseases.

New donors can receive $30 today and $70 this week!

Ask about our Specialty Programs!

Must be 18 years or older, have valid I.D. along with proof of SS# and local residency.

Walk-ins Welcome.

Wireless Internet Available.

LINE E NT O N OINTM P P A M R O OU ASM A .C BO O K Y T E ST P L AT: BIO

Join_Our_Team_4.875x6.375_V2.indd 1

Biotest Plasma Center 233 West Hancock Ave. Athens, GA 30601 706-354-3898 www.biotestplasma.com

3/8/12 10:50 AM

JULY 11, 2012 · FLAGPOLE.COM

19

classifieds

Buy It, Sell It, Rent It, Use It! Place an ad anytime at flagpole.com  Indicates images available at flagpole.com

Real Estate Apartments for Rent $850/mo. 2BR/2BA, kitchen, open dining/living area, laundry w/ W/D, fully furnished in westside established n’hood.

Parking at front door. Prorated utility incl. sec., internet, cable, electricity, water. This is an apt. behind main house ideal for couple or roommates. Phone (706) 206-3345.

1, 2 & 3BR units avail. all in 5 Pts. area. Rent beginning for 1BR units at $500/mo. 2BR units begin at $700/mo. Call (706) 546-0300 for additional info or to schedule a time to view.

1BR apts. starting $450, 2BR $565! 1st mo. free on all 2BR flats. Sec. dep. starts at $99.

Pets welcome, new off-leash dog park now open! On busline.

Call us today, (706) 549-6254.

Restrictions apply.

1BR/1BA. All elec. Nice apt.

Water provided. On bus line.

Single pref. Avail now! (706) 5434271.

1434 E. Broad St. 1BR/1BA duplex. $525/mo. Walk to UGA. Renovated bungalow. W/D, new appls. & yd. maint. incl. Pets OK. 1 yr. lease. (770) 841-7090.

2BR/1BA & 1BR/1BA apts. on great in–town streets. Grady & Boulevard Street.

Wa l k e v e r y w h e r e ! Wa t e r & garbage paid. $495–$750/mo.

Check out www.boulevard propertymanagement. com or call(706) 5489797.

Avail. now! $ 6 5 0 /mo.

Fantastic 2BR/2BA. Walk-in closets. Laundry room incl.

W/D. Kitchen w/ pantry & most appls. new. Vaulted ceiling in the dining/living room. Attached deck. Pool.

Photos at milledgeplace. blogspot.com. Contact milledgeplace10@ gmail.com.

Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/ mo. Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $475/mo. 3BR/2BA & FP, $650/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700 or cell, (706) 540-1529.

flagpole classifieds Reach Over 30,000 Readers Every Week!

Business Services Real Estate Music For Sale

Employment Vehicles Messages Personals

BASIC RATES* Individual Real Estate Business (RTS) Run-‘Til-Sold** Online Only***

$10 per week $14 per week $16 per week $40 per 12 weeks $5 per week

* Ad enhancement prices are viewable at flagpole.com ** Run-‘Til-Sold rates are for MERCHANDISE ONLY *** Available for individual rate categories only

PLACE AN AD • At flagpole.com, pay with credit card or PayPal account • Call our Classifieds Dept. (706) 549-0301 • Email us at class@flagpole.com

Half off rent 1st 2 mos. when you mention this ad!

2BR/2BA apts. a few blocks from Dwntn. off North Ave. Pet friendly & no pet fee! Dep. only $150. Rent from $625-675/mo. incl. trash. (706) 548-2522, www. dovetailmanagement.com.

Prince Ave. near Daily Grocery, 2nd floor, 4 huge offices w/ lobby & kitchen. Super nice. $1600/mo. Call Cole, (706) 202-2733. www.boulevard propertymanagement.com.

Mature student for apartment suite. Furnished 1BR/1BA, study, kitchenette, private entrance/ deck, personal parking space.

Includes everything! Utils., DISH, Tivo, WiFi. Quiet, safe, near Dwntn./UGA. (706) 2966956.

2BRs across from campus for Fall semester. Also, 4BR at Urban Lofts. Call (404) 5575203.

Next to campus. 189 Talmadge St. Remodeled 2BR apt. HWflrs., all appls., large porch. $800/mo. Avail.

Aug. 4. Call Owner/Broker Herbert Bond Realty, (706) 224-8002.

Why park Dwntn. when you can walk? Great location just off Prince/Milledge. 1 BR/1BA. Sublet $450/mo. Aug. move-in.

DW. Call (904) 248-1282 to view or apply.

Commercial Property Avail. sublease. 1059 Baxter St. #3. 1241 sf. Great visibility from street. 3 sides, storefront windows, perfect for retail. $1400/mo. (706) 346-4146.

Chase Park Paint Artist Studios. Historic Blvd. artist community. 160 Tracy St. Rent 300 sf., $150 mo. 400 sf., $200/ mo. (706) 546-1615 or www. athenstownproperties.com.

Eastside offices, 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent 500 sf. $625/mo., 400 sf. $600/mo. (706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties.com.

-?L;H9H;IJ

3 BR / 3 BA Available August

Quiet Wooded Setting on the Oconee River Granite Countertops - Some with Unfinished Basements and Garages Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

+ ' 3 + + 1 & 2 BR IN 5 POINTS

GREAT BANG FOR YOUR BUCK! Coming Soon... On-Site Laundry

Hamilton & Associates

706-613-9001 www.athens-ga-rental.com

Woodlake Scarborogh Townhomes Place 2BR/2BA Upscale Living $1,000/mo.

Available Now

3BR/2BA $975/mo.

Available Fall

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

• Deadline to place ads is 11:00 a.m. every Monday for the following Wednesday issue • All ads must be prepaid • Set up an account to review your placement history or replace old ads at flagpole.com

20

FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ JULY 11, 2012

HOUSES FOR LEASE IN CLARKE COUNTY

Call for Location and Availability.

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

Condos for Rent

2 BR /2 BA co n d o a t Ba xte r/ Milledge Courtyard condos. Walk to campus, city bus, or university bus. Newly redecorated, new carpet, pergo kitchen. Available 8/10. Can see in advance, pool on site. W/D in condo. $850/mo.

Call (706) 401-1259.

Condo in gated community, walking distance to Dwntn. & campus! Community has pool, clubhouse, fitness center. 2/1 water & trash incl. $650/mo. Call (352) 638-2730.

Just reduced! Investor’s Westside condo. 2BR/2BA, FP, 1500 sf., great investment, lease 12 mos. at $550/mo. Price in $40s.

For more info, call McWaters Realty at (706) 353-2700 or (706) 540-1529.

Pre-leasing for Fall. Reduced rent! $600/mo. 1BR/1BA, LR, study, modern kitchen, pool, gym, gated, ground floor corner unit.

Stadium Village close to UGA. Ideal for single/couple. Rob, (706) 338-4984, wimberlyme@ bellsouth.net.

Quiet 2BR/2.5BA condo.

Milledge, next to family housing bus, 1300 sf., W/D, FP, free wireless, cable, pool, yard, pets OK. Avail. Aug. $790/mo. (706) 461-4351.

Duplexes For Rent 2BR/2BA duplex w/ FP in Sleepy Hollow. Great location near 5 Pts. $700/mo. (706) 224-9358.

JAMESTOWN 2BR/2.5BA Townhouse In Five Points

6(" #64-*/&t48*..*/( 100PET FRIENDLY Available August

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

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

750-$1000

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

DUPLEXES AVAILABLE

CLARKE & OCONEE COUNTIES

Call for Availability

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

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

Pets OK. $500/mo. + dep. Call Sharon, (706) 201-9093.

Houses for Rent 120 Park Ave. Perfect house for 2 people @ $1000 or 3 people @ $1250. HWflrs., private yard, full basement, in Boulevard, walking distance to everything. (706) 548-9797.www.boulevard propertymanagement.com.

1 or 2BR, recently renovated, private, quiet location near Publix. All elec., CHAC, new appls., W/D, DW, HWflrs. Water & garbage paid. $650-680/ mo.www.boulevard propertymanagement.com, (706) 548-9797.

2BR/1BA house in Cobbham.

Avail. July 1st. CHAC, HWflrs., ceiling fans, rocking chair porch. $600/mo. + dep. Call Mark, (706) 202-5110.

2/3BR house avail. now! Also pre-leasing for Fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-0066.

3BR/1BA house. HWflrs., stove, fridge, furnished. 415 Davis Place. Near UGA med school. $700/mo. Call (706) 354-1276.

3BR/2BA. Normaltown/ARMC area. Convenient to everything!

Front porch. Storage building.

Pets welcome. Avail. Aug. 1.

Water, trash & lawn care incl. $900/mo. Aaron, (706) 2072957.

3BR/2BA, 2077 S. Lumpkin, $1200/mo. W/D., DW, sec. sys. & ceiling fans. 3BR/2BA, 2071 Lumpkin, $1000/mo. incl. water, lawn maint. & garbage. W/D, DW. (706) 546-0300.

3BR/2BA house in Green Acres.

Woodburning stove, fenced yd., pets OK. W/D incl. Walk to shopping, busline, close to UGA. $100 off 1st mo. $1000/mo. Avail.

Aug. 1! (706) 201-7004.

3BR/2BA brick house, 4 mi. to UGA. large living room, family room w/ FP, separate dining room, lg. fenced yd., separate workshop. $950. (706) 549-4580.

3BR/2BA house, $800/mo.

Eastside. W/D incl., alarm system, pets welcome. $400 dep. www. hancockproper tiesinc. com. (706) 552-3500.

3BR/2BA in Normaltown.

Available July 15! HWflrs., CHAC, quiet street. Grad students pref’d. Rent negotiable.

(706) 372-1505.

RIVERS EDGE

LARGE 2BR/2BA TOWNHOUSES AND FLATS

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

Hamilton & Associates 706-613-9001

4BR/4BA, $1600/mo. CHAC, all appls. incl., community pool, convenient to Dwntn. Near busline & next to UGA golf course. 2020 Lakeside Dr. Avail.

8/1/12. (706) 207-9295.

4BR/3BA Victorian home, renovated. 1/2 mi. from campus. Pre-leasing. $500 off 1st mo.’s rent. New kitchen, W/D, DW, fenced yd., HW. $1500/⁣mo. Huge rms.!

Lots of character. Avail. 8/1.

Pets OK. (706) 338-9173.

4BR/3BA huge Victorian house in heart of Milledge Ave. CHAC, W/D, HWflrs., tall ceilings.

Historic house. Avail. Aug. 1st. $2000/mo. + dep. Call Mark, (706) 202-5110.

4 or 5BR/3.5BA. LR, den, breakfast nook, screened porch, CHAC, W/D. All electric, offstreet parking, quiet n’hood 1 mi. to UGA/ARMC. Avail. 8/1/12. $1400/mo. (706) 369-9999.

Avail. now! 3BR/2BA, 5-10 min. Dwntn./UGA. Beautiful landscaping, deck, shed, 2 car carport additional 2 car parking pad. Appls. incl. $900/mo. + $500 dep. Pets welcome. Call (770) 846-2060, (770) 846-2047.

Cedar Creek: 4BR/2BA, lg. fenced yd., $950/mo. 5 Pts.: Off Baxter St., 4BR/2BA, $1200/ mo. Hospital area, 2BR/1BA, carport, fenced-in yd., $775/mo.

Call McWaters Realty, (706) 3532700, (706) 540-1529.

Entrepreneurs! Avail. now. Close to town/busline. 3BR/2BA + 2 office/ studio. W/D, CHAC, big kitchen & LR. $900/mo. 395 Oak St. Call Amanda at (706) 613-8525.

Eastside location. 2655 Cherokee Rd. 2BR/1BA. Completely updated w/ all appls. incl. W/D, HWflrs., screened porch. Avail. now! $700/mo. (706) 540-0472.

Half house to share. $500/mo., 1 mo. dep., 1/2 utils. Fully furnished, W/D, carport, deck, private BA, no pets, smoker OK. Near Ga. Square Mall. (706) 870-9281.

Must see! 2BR/2BA Normaltown renov., 35 Holman Ave. HWflrs., XL new kitchen, granite countertops, IKEA cabinets, new tile BAs, new appls., DW, W/D, yard maint., $950/mo., Michael, (706) 255-0659, www.35holmanavenue.blogspot.com.



Spacious 3BR/2.5BA house, 15 min. to UGA. Woodburning FP, very private huge fenced yard, deck, 2-car garage. W/D, D/W, F/S. Park-like setting, quiet safe n’hood. Pets OK. $1100/mo. (706) 224-9445.

Spacious 4BR/2BA brick home on Milledge Ave. Close to everything. HW & tile flrs., CHAC, W/D, lg. LR, den, screened porch, fenced yd., lots of storage.

Just reduced to $900/mo. (404) 808-2351.

Houses for Sale Excellent condition brick ranch home w/ 3BR/1.5BA. HWflrs., solid wood stained kitchen cabinets w/ appls., fenced backyard w/ storage shed, 1 car garage. $79,000. (706) 461-6235.

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

Storage Mart. We offer units from 5x5 to 20x35 in climate control & regular! Our facility is well lit, gated entry w/ sec. cameras & site managers on property!

Located at 3985 Atlanta Hwy., (706) 548-2252, ext. 2 & 251 Collins Industrial Blvd., (706) 548-2611, ext. 2. Ask about military, federal & state employee discounts. Mention this ad for 20% off your 1st & 2nd mo. rent.

Pre-Leasing 1 & 2 BR apts. All elec., near 5 Pts. area, $450-550/mo.

3BR/1BA house off Milledge, near park & busline, $1100. Both pet friendly. (706) 424-0770.

2 & 3BR, in-town & 5Pts. Super location. (706) 2070539 or vlow@prodigy.net for pics & info.

Brand new 1BR/1BA. $595/mo.

Water, trash/pest incl. Pet friendly.

Jittery Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift card for touring.

Archer on North, (706) 208-8888. www.archeronnorth.com.

Dwntn., 1BR/1BA flat, $465/ mo. Avail. now or pre-leasing for Aug. 2012. Water, gas, trash pick-up incl. Free on-site laundry.

Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

Pre-leasing for Fall. Take the bus to campus from Macon Hwy.: 5BR/2BA, 1055 Macon Hwy., $1495/mo. 3BR/1BA, 1085 Macon Hwy., W/D incl., $795/mo.

2BR/1BA, 1095 Macon Hwy., W/D incl., $695/mo. 2BR/2BA, 625 Whitehall Rd., $695/mo.

3BR/2BA, 1182 Whit Davis, $725/mo. Visual tour online. nancyflowers.com. Call, text or email Nancy, (706) 540-1608. flowersnancy@bellsouth.net.

Roommates 2BR/1BA duplex in Bogart. Your rm. beautifully and completely furnished w/ TV. 6 mo. lease. $300/mo. + 1/2 utils. Deposit req.

(678) 879-9772.

Looking for roommate to be part of a 4BR/3BA house behind Mamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boy. Rent is $375/ person, utils. not included. W/D, microwave, HWflrs., spacious kitchen & wrap-around porch.

Room is 13X13 & has personal sink. Call (678) 982-2703.

Male seeking roommate. $275/ mo. incl. utils. for policeman or public servant. $375/mo. otherwise. Nice 3BR home w/ deck in Winterville. No smokers.

Bob, (706) 347-8889.

Roommate needed! $250/mo., 1/3 utils. in 3BR/2BA home. 5-10 min. to campus/mall/grocery store. High speed WiFi. HD Dish Network, CHAC, W/D. Quiet nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;hood. Students preferred. Avail. now! Call (706) 351-2708.

Wanting to rent Sublease your house or apartment with Flagpole Classifieds! Visit flagpole. com or call (706) 549-0301.

For Sale

Services

Miscellaneous

Cleaning

Archipelago Antiques. 23 years of fine antiques, art & retro.

Underneath Homeplace. At 1676 S. Lumpkin St. (706) 3544297.

Come to Cillies, 175 E. Clayton St. for vintage Louis Vuitton. 20% off single purchase of clothing, sandals and jewelry (excl. J. Crew). 1/person.

Go to A g o r a ! Awesome!

Affordable! The ultimate store! Specializing in retro everything: antiques, furniture, clothes, bikes, records & players!

260 W. Clayton St., (706) 3160130.

Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College downtown. (706) 3699428.

Music Equipment Nuçiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible.

Call (706) 227-1515 or come by Nuçiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space, 396 Oconee St.

Instruction Athens School of Music.

Instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, wo o d wi n d s , s t r i n g s , b a n jo , mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument repairs avail. Visit http://www.

AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

Guitar lessons! College instructor w/ doctorate in music. All styles, beginners too. Bass, theory & composition too. 1st lesson free.

Call David, (706) 546-7082. davidguitar4109@hotmail.com. www.mitchellmusicguitar.com.

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

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

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

We d d i n g b a n d s . Quality, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment.com.

Featuring The Magictones - Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones. com.

Wedding DJ, clown, balloon artist, face painter, magician, caricature artist, stilt walker & more! Over 15 yrs. exp. www. ziggytc.com. (706) 248-0844.

Musicians Wanted Looking for a band? Find a drummer, guitarist, bass player, violinist, cowbeller and more with Flagpole Classifieds!

Call (706) 549-0301.

House Cleaning.. She said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have cleaning down to a science!â&#x20AC;?

I use the best earthfriendly products. Pets & family welcome.

Reliable & very budgetf r i e n d l y. L o c a l & independent. Tell me how many BR/BA & Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give you a quote. Text/ email (706) 851-9087, Nick@goodworld.biz.

Health Pregnant? Considering adoption?

Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ fa m ilie s n a tio n w id e . L iv in g expenses paid. Call 24/7. Abbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s One True Gift Adoptions, (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

Pets Boulevard Animal Hospital.

August special: $15 off spay/ neuter. Pet must be current on vaccines. (706) 4255099. 298 Prince Ave. www. downtownathensvet.com.

Psychics International psychic Charley Castex. In-person sessions.

Athens, summer 2012. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The real deal!â&#x20AC;? -New York TImes. Appt. requests & info, (828) 251-5043, Charleycastex.com.

Spa The location of Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; best massage therapists, estheticians & nail technicians is not classified. Call The Spa at Foundry Park Inn now at (706) 425-9700.

Tutors English tutor: assistance w/ writing, reading comprehension, literary analysis, test prep for middle school through college students. Email ldjones@uga. edu.

Experienced tennis & math teacher offering cheap lessons & tutoring. Name your price & time.

Contact me at claudiusguynn@ hotmail.com.

Need help in Biology? Anderson Tutoring offers private tutoring & editorial services for your a s s i g n m e n t s . V i s i t w w w. anderson-tutoring.org for rates and details!

Jobs

Opportunities Earn up to $750 by participating in research in the Department of Kinesiology at UGA. Women 25-45 years of age are needed for a study examining the effects of a nutritional product on how many calories you burn at rest.

Contact the BCM Lab at (706) 688-9297 or ugaprojectwasabi@ gmail.com.

Help wanted! Make money mailing brochures from home!

Free supplies! Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine opportunity. No exp. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Start immediately! www.theworkhub. net (AAN CAN).

Help wanted. Earn extra income assembling CD cases from home. No experience necessary.

Call our live operators now.

(800) 405-7619 ext. 2450, www. easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN).

Maintenance person needed w/ skill sets for carpentry, light electrical & plumbing, sheetrock & roof repair, painting & everything else to maintain houses/apts. FT/PT avail.

Please fax resume to (706) 3162007.

NEED A JOB? Full-Time and Part-Time opportunities are listed weekly in the Flagpole Classifieds.

USE US or LOS E US

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

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

Part-time AT H I C A s e e k s P T G a l l e r y Operations Manager. Start date Aug. 13, 2012. For application & info, please visit www.athica.org/ more.php?code=AGOM. No calls please.

Week of 7/9/12 - 7/15/12 Week of 7/9/12 - 7/15/12

Advertise for help wanted with Flagpole Classifieds. www.classifieds.flagpole.com or (706) 549-0301.

P r o g r a m D i r e c t o r. 1 8 h r s . / w k . , $ 1 0 / h r. U s e GeorgiaConflictCenter@gmail. com to request full job description & to submit resume, cover letter & writing samples before July 16th.

Sakura is now hiring experienced servers & bartenders. Bring resume to 3557 Atlanta Hwy.

Vehicles Misc. Vehicles Cash for cars: any car/truck.

Running or not! Top $ paid. We come to you! Call for instant offer, (888) 420-3808, www.cash4car. com (AAN CAN).

Notices Lost and Found Lost and found pets can be advertised in Flagpole classifieds. Call (706) 5490301 or visit www.classifieds. flagpole.com to return them home.

Full-time C a l l c e n t e r representative. Join established Athens company calling CEOs & CFOs of major corporations generating sales leads for tech companies. $ 9 / h r. B O S S t a ff i n g , w w w. bostemps.com, (706) 3533030.

ATHENS LOCAL BUSINESSES:

Live ln-Town with Parking and Amenities

#MPDLT UP $BNQVT %PXOUPXO 4UVEJPT #3 -FBTJOH /PX

909 Market /08 01&/ & #SPBE 4USFFU "UIFOT ("

The Weekly Crossword The Crossword 2 Weekly 3 4 5 6 7 8

1

1 14

2

3

4

5 15

14 17

6

7

8

by Margie E. Burke

by10Margie 11 E. 12Burke 13

9 9

10 16

15 18

17 20

21

20

21

24

26

27

28

26 33

27

28

18 25

24

29 34

33 36

37

22

23

22

23

29

35

34

39 42

40 43

44

42

43

44

48

49

47 54

48

49

37

41

46

45

50 55

56

54 58

55 59

56

58 61

59 62

61

62

ACROSS 1 Markdown event ACROSS gearevent 51 Diving Markdown 105 Cover Diving up gear 14 10 Wheedle Cover up rapidly 15 14 Beat Wheedle 16 Beatopposed rapidly 15 One group 17 16 Military One opposed 18 Military group 17 Tease 19 18 Outer Teasegarment 20 Outer garment 19 Antihistamine, one 20 for Antihistamine, 22 Citrus for onefruit 24 CitrusFinn's fruit 22 Huck 24 conveyance Huck Finn's 25 Intensified conveyance 26 taste 25 Small Intensified 29 prey 26 Hunter's Small taste 30 29 Color Hunter's prey event 33 30 Courtroom Color 34 Courtroom event 33 Experimental 34 tests Experimental 36 Music tests character 37 trim 36 Clothing Music character 38 37 Discharge Clothing trim 39 38 Honor Discharge 41 39 Affect Honor sharply 42 Affect sharply 41 Remunerate and 43 42 Majors Remunerate Majors and 43 Horsley 44 Engineless Horsley 44 aircraft Engineless 45 Money aircraft reserve 45 Money reserve

13

30

31

32

30

31

32

51

52

53

51

52

53

35 38

40

47

12

19

25

36 39

45

11

16 19

50

38

41

46 57 57 60 60 63 63

Copyright 2012 by The Puzzle Syndicate

Copyright 2012 by The Puzzle Syndicate 46 Chinese dynasty 21 Summon summary 47 46 Job Chinese dynasty 23 21 Fishing Summon 50 Job summary Fishing 47 Sully 23 apparatus 54 25 In a joyful 50 Declare Sully firmly apparatus 55 54 Adolescent Declare firmly 25 manner In a joyful 26 Damage Adolescent manner screw 55 years 57 Unaccompanied years 26 threads Damage screw 58 remark 27 Sports Unaccompanied threadsstadium 57 Taunting angry 28 59 58 Extremely Taunting remark 27 Drizzly Sports stadium 60 product grain Extremely angry 29 Drizzly 59 Mine 28 Corn 61 branch 30 60 Military Mine product 29 Muggy Corn grain weight 62 31 61 Gem Military branch 30 Stand Muggytogether 63 current 32 Gem weight Standcompound together 62 Counter 31 Ether 63 Counter current 34 32 Thoroughly Ether compound DOWN Thoroughly 34 tested 1 Layer of 35 Look DOWN testedback 37 control 1 impurities Layer of 35 Out Lookofback 2 First-rate 40 impurities 37 Morose Out of control all tricks 32 Sheldon 41 First-ratenovel, 40 Win Morose Bestnovel, ___ 44 insert Sheldon Win all tricks 3 "The 41 Garment Plans" 45 "The Best ___ 44 Hairy Garment insert 4 Remove 46 Hairy woman Plans" by the 45 Gossipy prince 4 roots Remove by the 47 46 Hindu Gossipy woman 5 Bitter 48 ___ roots conflict 47 Happily Hindu prince 65 Crowd's call Bitter conflict 48 after Happily ___ desire 76 Strong 49 Appear Crowd's call after 87 Startling shout 50 Strong desire Appear for one 49 Kodiak, 98 Deviant 51 Startling shout 50 Crude Kodiak,wooden for one 109 Large parrot Deviant Crude wooden 51 cross 11 52 Dressed 10 After Largeawhile parrot cross 12 53 11 Male After deer awhile 52 Consecrated Dressed 13 56 of time 12 Light Male sail deer 53 Period Consecrated 13 Light sail 56 Period of time

Crossword puzzle answers are available at www.flagpole.com/news/crossword

XXX CSPBE DPN

JULY 11, 2012 ¡ FLAGPOLE.COM

21

wth? athens The Militant Next Door

><+8=7/><9:963>+8 .9A8>9A8 n

/ -6+C>98 => n !

"!!

A/=>=3./ n

916/>29<:/ +@/ n ! #

The

s tair

Ups

w

o t n w

Do is no Servw

Thu.

ing P

-Sat.

READER PICKS

ar B n

10pmizza S -2am lice ! s

VOTED ATHENSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; FAVORITE LOCAL PIZZA

2012

SATURDAY, JULY 14

MATER DAY

:\c\YiXk\ KfdXkf J\Xjfe n`k_ Lj @eZcl[`e^ KfdXkf KXjk\ K\jk`e^# Xe L^cp KfdXkf :fek\jk Xe[ X :ffb`e^ ;\df

SATURDAY, JULY 21

PIE TASTINGS EVERY SATURDAY 8am-Noon at Bishop Park .', Jlej\k ;i`m\

EVERY WEDNESDAY 4pm-7pm at City Hall *'( :fcc\^\ 8m\el\

22

FLAGPOLE.COM â&#x2C6;&#x2122; JULY 11, 2012

Pro life. Pro choice. Pro Obama. Pro Romney. Pro chicken.

Pro zombie: people with something to say usually paste stickers to their bumpers and leave it at that. Not Matthew Barrick.

He needs more than the back of a car for his message. He needs an entire truck.

Matthew and his green pickup are impossible to miss, thanks to the three regulation-sized flags on poles welded to his truckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bed. When he gets up to 30 mph, the flags stream out behind him, and then heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the vanguard of his own parade: the Stars and Bars, the black POW/MIA and, of course, Old Glory. The edges of the truckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bed are rimmed with the rope lights youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d see at the skating rink, and this gives the outfit a disorienting sense of whimsy, as though youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d encountered a hardcore militia member who also loves disco.

When I met Matthew in the parking lot of the Alps Kroger and asked him to tell me his story, he hitched up his camouflage britches, ran his hand through his curly red hair and bashfully looked at the ground. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to tell momma,â&#x20AC;? said this 40-something man, â&#x20AC;&#x153;sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be tickled.â&#x20AC;?

Matthew lives with his elderly mother in the Five Points house he grew up in. A disability prevents him from working, so he spends his days tinkering with his truck, setting up a large army tent in the backyard and running to the store for his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medications. He is a gentle, unassuming person with watery blue eyes and an aversion to looking straight at you. I was expecting an angry man full of grievances about the state of this country and the federal government and mandated health care and welfare recipients. I was not expecting Matthew. But he surely was expecting me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I laid out all my flags for you,â&#x20AC;? he said excitedly, pointing at the dining room table.

Twenty-four carefully rolled-up flags were arranged in a mandala around a burning candle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are the ones that are too worn to fly anymore. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re retired. Would you like to sit down? Would you like a drink of water?â&#x20AC;?

We sat on a sunny screened porch and began our conversation. Outside, five giant flags fluttered on poles in the yard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are those the branches of the military?â&#x20AC;? I asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yep. The Coast Guard needs to be replaced.â&#x20AC;?

I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure if he meant the flag or the actual Coast Guard itself, so I hurried on, asking him why he decided to turn his truck into a mobile color guard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was 9-11,â&#x20AC;? he said simply, then sat back, satisfied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;9-11 upset you?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It sure did. Something needs to change in this country.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like what?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well. Like the schools. I went to school,â&#x20AC;? he shook his head. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard. I had to quit. Kids need a safe haven. And then the alcohol sales.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You think they need more or fewer alcohol sales?â&#x20AC;? I asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way they serve it, it needs to be contained. You go to one store, drink too much and get thrown out, then you go to another store and drink too much there. College kids just running all over the place.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK,â&#x20AC;? I said,â&#x20AC;?But back to these flags. What do your neighbors think about all this? They ever say anything to you about it?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Naw. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived here all my life. They know me. The town people, too. They just come up and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I wish there were more like you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You never get any negative feedback at all from anyone?â&#x20AC;?

Matthew squinted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe once in a while someone will say something. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saying. I think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just drunk or something. You just gotta take it as you see it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK, well, you know, you can be a patriotic American and support the troops and all that and still have a problem with the Southern flag. For instance, a lot of black people get reminded of slavery when they see it, and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like that.

A lot of white people, too. It upsets a lot of people.â&#x20AC;?

Matthew tilted his head and looked up at me out of the corner of his eye, like surely I was joshing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, I got these colored neighbors; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always going

to the hospital. They got no car, so I always carry them.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They ride with you in your truck? With the flags? What do they say?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They just laugh and pat me and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all right, Matthew, you just fly those flags. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all right.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;And what do you think this means?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it means itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the worst war this country ever fought. The worst war ever.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, I meanâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;?

Remembering one of the main reasons I dropped out of journalism school, I jumped in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe the fact that your neighbors are OK with it is because when you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know a person up close, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to say that they are crazy or racist or something. But when you get to know people as individuals, you see that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more complicated than you thought. You know the real person.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yep,â&#x20AC;? Matthew nodded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what it means.â&#x20AC;?

ROBIN WHETSTONE

706-548-1115

1037 Baxter Street, Suite A Open Monday through Saturday

â&#x20AC;&#x153;What do you do besides take care of your mom and drive your truck?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knit.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You knit?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yep. I can show you, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to go down into the basement.â&#x20AC;?

Matthew disappeared, and while he was gone I looked around the living room of the tidy house. On the mantelpiece were dozens of framed photos of family members: brothers and uncles and grandsons with smiling wives and happy children.

Nearly all of the men were in uniform. There were no pictures of Matthew. I wondered whether, if every male member of Matthewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family were an accountant, Matthew would be driving a truck plastered with Excel spreadsheets and IRS tax forms.

Matthew came back upstairs toting a huge box. Inside was a partially knitted Confederate flag the size of a large living room rug. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What will you do with this when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re done?â&#x20AC;? I asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. I guess start on another one.â&#x20AC;?

We walked out in the front yard so I could photograph Matthew next to his truck. He was adamant that his dog, a graying German Shepherd, be included in the shot and worried over whether or not to remove his hat. He displayed the flags proudly and from every angle, always asking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can you see the dog? Should I take off my hat?â&#x20AC;? He was polite and accommodating and overjoyed that someone finally took an interest in his lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion. I realized with a sort of dread that this article would not be an easy one to write.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like nationalism or patriotism or racism or gratuitous displays of anything. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like symbols that divide us and make other people feel bad. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like people who put America first and their neighbors second. But I did like Matthew. And so, Matthew, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reading this, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just going to tell you to keep flying your flags. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all right, Matthew. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all right.

Robin Whetstone

everyday people Brent Haley, Carpenter I went to The Office Lounge off Jefferson Road for the first time a few months ago. I left the bar, which is located in the Homewood Village Shopping Center alongside a drug store and a Mexican restaurant, and made a mental note to return for an interview. This week, I chatted with Brent Haley, a carpenter who has lived in Athens since high school and has built or renovated some familiar downtown locales.

Flagpole: Have you always lived in Athens?

Brent Haley: Almost all my life, since high school. [I went to] Madison County High School.

FP: So, what do you do for a living?

BH: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m actually a handyman/carpenter. I got laid off in 2008 and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find a regular job, so now I pretty much self-contract out myself.

)(, Efik_ Cldgb`e Jk% Â&#x203A; 8k_\ej# >8

Hispanic, or whatever, you deserve the same job everybody else does, you just have to be legal. And I say that with my own son-in-law just getting legal in Arizona, and my grandchild is half Mexican, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no bias coming from that. You need to be legal, even my own son-in-law [laughs]. So, yeah.

FP: So. your son-in-law is from Mexico.

BH: Yes.

melissa hovanes

FP: And, so it was kind of a reasonable change to go intoâ&#x20AC;Ś BH: Because of my background history and working around houses, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hard to pick up. My latest remodel downtown wasâ&#x20AC;Ś Helix on Clayton Street. Then they just put in fabâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rik the dress store next door. I had to prepare some stuff so they could come in and get ready to open their store.

FP: OK, so you have done some renovations around town.

BH: Yes, maâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;am. The Navy School back in 2004. I was a foreman on that job for two-and-a-half years redoing the fitness center thereâ&#x20AC;Ś The transit center downtown, I was also the foreman on that one, and that was a pretty good job also.

FP: As foreman on a job, what all are you involved in?

BH: You oversee different laborers. Athens, they do use a lot of day laborers, such as Labor Finders and stuff. So, you oversee, depending on the size of the job, I was overseeing 15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;20 laborers at a time, your sub-contractors, local builders, you know, you got your plumbers, electricians, stuff like that.

FP: So, you generally oversee the project.

BH: Oversee them, do daily reports on the progress, stuff like that. SPLOST was the fund director of the transit center, so there they really wanted to keep account of everything, so the man-hours and stuff was all kept track of. The Navy School certified payroll, so actually everybody there got paid through Labor Finders, even though they worked for different companies on the project, it had to be certified labor.

FP: Immigration issues have been in the news a lot, and when you think of construction and you think of day laborers, you also think of people who maybe donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have papersâ&#x20AC;Ś BH: My main concern on that is: have papers. If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got papers, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be insured. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not fair to the other workers that are paying taxes. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re

(/ fm\i & @; i\h[% K`Zb\kj XmX`cXYc\ fec`e\ Xe[ Xk >\fi^`X K_\Xki\ 9fo F]Ă&#x201D;Z\

N<;E<J;8P# ALCP ((

B@EBP N8@B@B@ N<;E<J;8PJ

?8N8@@8E DLJ@: 8K JLEJ<K FE K?< IFF=

JG<:@8CJ FE G@E8 :FC8;8J N8K<ID<CFE DFA@KFJ

DLJ@: 9<>@EJ 8K /1*'gd Â&#x203A; =I<< FP: And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just gotten legal status?

BH: Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been fighting for it. Because of all the laws and stuff, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been very hard. He just now has got a pass for one year, as long as he keeps his nose clean and continues to work.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always worked; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been a good provider. He can do it legally, in one year, if he can become legal.

FP: And so he lives in Arizonaâ&#x20AC;Ś BH: Yes, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the hot-point for all this anyway, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really great that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting that. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hard-working man; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been great to my grandchild; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to my daughter. [I have] no complaints.

FP: So, now since 2008 when you transitioned to [self]contractingâ&#x20AC;Ś BH: Right. I mean, the other day down at the Delta house, I went over for the guy thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moving into the dorms. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got small dorms and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got, like, loft beds. This one wanted a flat-screen [TV] mounted on his wall and his loft modified and that, so I do a little bit of everything. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatever the needâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there for. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough carpenter work for somebody to work for a full day every day of the week, so youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be able to diversifyâ&#x20AC;Ś Word of mouth keeps me busy. Once somebody finds out you do work, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re honest, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to give a good dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work for a dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pay, it donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take much to stay busy. I have stayed busy [by] word of mouth.

FP: Were you working for a company in 2008?

BH: Yes, I was: Keith Porter Fireplace. I was the manager at Lake Oconeeâ&#x20AC;Ś I sold, installed and serviced fireplaces.

nnn%^\fi^`Xk_\Xki\%Zfd

FP: When you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t out doing carpentry, what are you doing?

BH: Normally, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got my dog, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at the river [laughs]â&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a little Boston terrier. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three years old and she loves going out to The Sandbar in Madison; [I] let her run and play.

FP: What do you like about this spot [The Office Lounge]?

BH: People know me [laughs]. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small enough people know who you are.

FP: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of got that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cheersâ&#x20AC;? feeling.

BH: Right, sort of, yeah. The rest of Athens, like the bars downtown, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all right, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some great music. But, really, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to meet people or talkâ&#x20AC;Ś or make a friend or something. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just overwhelmingâ&#x20AC;Ś I prefer having one or two beers, talk to a few friends and come home.

K?LIJ;8P# ALCP ()

:C8P C<M<I<KK 8E; =I@<E;J n`k_ IFCC@EĂ&#x2039; ?FD< Xe[ A@> 9FE<

;FFIJ 01''gd Â&#x203A; J?FN ('1''gd

=I@;8P# ALCP (*

B@E:?8=FFE<< :FN9FPJ 9I<EK :F99

n`k_

;FFIJ /1''gd Â&#x203A; J?FN 01''gd

J8KLI;8P# ALCP (+

G<IG<KL8C >IFFM< JKFB<JNFF;

n`k_

;FFIJ 01''gd Â&#x203A; J?FN ('1''gd

KL<J;8P# ALCP (.

K?< ><K LG ><K ;FNE ) IFF=KFG ;8E:< G8IKP =<8KLI@E>

K?< =8C:FE<J# J8EJ 89I@ @DDLQ@B8K@FE

;FFIJ ((1''gd Â&#x203A; )(" Â&#x203A; ) ?@>? C@=<J

N<;E<J;8P# ALCP (/

B@EBP N8@B@B@ N<;E<J;8PJ

?8N8@@8E DLJ@: 8K JLEJ<K FE K?< IFF=

JG<:@8CJ FE G@E8 :FC8;8J N8K<ID<CFE DFA@KFJ

DLJ@: 9<>@EJ 8K /1*'gd Â&#x203A; =I<<

K?LIJ;8P# ALCP (0

FP: What happened? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve actually never heard about that.

BH: One of them actually come down Prince right here. And one of them tore up; it used to be Sand City trailer park right off of Commerce, but it donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even exist anymore. It tore up a couple trailer parks and come through town and tore up lots of stuff. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s houses on Prince Avenue that were just picked up and set back down.

Melissa Hovanes

J8D JE@G<I

IF8;B@CC >?FJK :?F@I

n`k_

FP: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been living in Athens for a few years nowâ&#x20AC;Ś BH: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m almost 44 years old, so [laughs] 25 years.

FP: So, 25 years. How has Athens changed over the years?

BH: Athens has changed a lot, downtown especially. The biggest thing I miss about Athens: [it] used to be closer-knit.

And now, downtown, it seems like someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always fighting over this and that for some reason down there. I remember in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s, as a kid, on the end of Broad Street watching three tornados come across Athens. And the little shedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually still thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was my grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garage. Between the new transit center and the condos thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little blue building, metal building, that was my grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building. I was sitting in that shop watching the tornadoes come across Athens.

=I<< FE K?< IFF=KFG ;FFIJ 01''gd Â&#x203A; J?FN ('1''gd

:FD@E> JFFE /&)) I@M<I :@KP <OK<EJ@FE IFF=KFG /&)* /&)+ ;I@M<$9P KIL:B<IJ n& A8P >FEQ8C<Q 8E; K?< >L@CKP GC<8JLI<J .&)( 9<E<=@K =FI ;8I@LJ >F<J N<JK /&), G8:BN8P ?8E;C< 98E;#:FI;LIFP IFF=KFG IF8; :@:8;8 I?PK?D .&)( >8K? GI<J<EKJ K?< >IFNC<IJ /&*( DF;<IE JB@IKJ# K?< ;8IE<CC 9FPJ

8K :8C<;FE@8 CFLE>< 0&, 9<E I<:KFI .&)+ ?8EB K?< :LG:8B<J IFF=KFG 0&(( 9C8:B K8O@ IFF=KFG .&), B@EB@ N8@B@B@ IFF=KFG .&)- K?< FC@M@8 KI<DFI :FEKIFC# ;<EK D8P 0&)( K?< N?@>J 0&)) >8C8:K@: =<8KLI@E> :FI<P >CFM<I :IFFB<; =@E><IJ F= C@M@E> :FCFLI .&). 9<8I @E ?<8M<E# G8KK<IE @J DFM<D<EK 0&)- 9<8KJ 8EK@HL< .&)/ A<IIP >8I:@8 9@IK?;8P 98J? 0&). :?I@J BE@>?K n& :FJD@: :?8IC@< 0&)/ ;@IKP >LMĂ&#x2039;E8?J .&*( I<GK8I ;A J<K n& C< 9CFII IFF=KFG 0&)0 P8:?K IF:B I<ML< /&. ;A D8?F>8EP IFF=KFG ('&( A@D =CFI<EK@E< /&0 8K?<EJ 8I<8 :8E:<I 8LO@C@8IP ('&, 8E;I<N 9@I; n& ?<I< N< >F D8>@: GI<J<EKJ KF8JK F= K?< KFNE n& P8:?K IF:B I<ML< ('&0 C<=KFM<I J8CDFE /&(' N< D@JJ PFL D@B<P ('&() AA >I<P DF=IF# E@: :FN8E /&(* FC; JBFFC KI@F IFF=KFG ('&(/ GLE:? 9IFK?<IJ /&(+ ;@JKI@:K 8KKFIE<PJ IFF=KFG ('&)' C<I8 CPEE /&(, QFJF ('&). N@C; ILDGLJ /&(- :LII<E P ('&*( :?I@J IF9@EJFE 9IFK?<I?FF; /&)( ;FL> JK8E?FG< ((&) A@DDP ?<II@E> M@:KFI NFFK<E .&)' EFID8CKFNE I<:FI;J J?FN:8J< IFF=KFG

JULY 11, 2012 ¡ FLAGPOLE.COM

23

BAR SOUTH

-J?H ;N JG @IL &;JJS &IOL Y 5CH? #P?LS +IH>;S *I=;N?> IH NB? !ILH?L I@ *OGJECH ;H> 5;MBCHANIH =LIMM @LIG %?ILAC; 2B?;NL?

P;CF;<F? @IL .LCP;N? .;LNC?M !;FF

*µ. 065%0034: */ 5)"5 * -*,& (&55*/( %36/, 0/ 1"5*04

Õ `Ê9 ÕÀÊ"Ü Ê `ÞÊ >ÀÞÊ >À

ÓäÊ- /Ê , /Ê ,-

Óää³Ê ÌÌ i`Ê iiÀÃÊUÊ Ý«> `i`Ê7 iÊ ÃÌÊUÊ Õ}iÊ-VÀii Ê/6à * Ê/>L iÃÊUÊ- }Ê7i V iÊ Ê"ÕÀÊ*>Ì Ã

256 E. CLAYTON ST. • (706) 549-0166 Open Mon-Sat Noon-2am • www.allgoodlounge.com Please Drink Responsibly.

53&11&/)"64 Purveyors of Craft Beer & Fine Wine

200+ Craft Beers

100+ Whiskies

COME TRY OUR NEW SUMMER BEERS & COCKTAILS

5VFTEBZ +VMZ UI $&-&#3"5& 5)& )0''µ4 8& ♥ 5 )& )0'' #*35)%":

&OKPZ :PVS 'BWPSJUF

%BWJE )BTTFMIPGG 5VOFT

%SJOLT "MM %BZ

BOE TQFDJBM %BWJE )BTTFMIPGG $PDLUBJMT

8FBS ZPVS GBWPSJUF )PGG BUUJSF EP UIF #BZXBUDI SVO IVN UIF /JHIUSJEFS UIFNF TPOH CSJOH B UBMLJOH DBS PS B DIFFTFCVSHFS

MONDAY - 20% OFF ALL LARGE BEERS TUESDAY - 20% OFF ALL BOTTLES OF WINE AMAZING HAPPY HOUR 5-9PM CMVFTLZBUIFOT DPN PQFO BU QN DERYH WDFR VWDQG GRZQWRZQ

4)08 :063 -07& '03 5)& )0'' (Chest hair, anyone?)

(&3."/ #&&34 0/ 5"1

#&&34 0/ 5"1

$"-- 50 #00, 13*7"5& 1"35*&4

$0--&(& "7&

=

" (&3."/ 45:-& #3&8)064&

T U G M N C

)QHHGG

6WD

'6-- #"3 t $0''&& 5&"

Happy Hour Special

NEW!

6 16 oz.

$

FROZEN DRINKS SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH SEVEN DAYS A WEEK

NOW SERVING ALCOHOL ON SUNDAY! 11AM to MIDNIGHT CALL TO BOOK PRIVATE PARTIES

e %QNNGIG #XG

,)6% -53)# /. 4(% 0!4)/ %6%29 7%%+%.$ %!34 7!3().'4/. 342%%4 $/7.4/7. 4/0 /& *!#+3/. 34 34%03 &2/- 4(% #/2.%2