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T-SPLOST I’m going to vote for this boatload of money. It’s got a lot in it to help traffic flow around here and to fund bike lanes and more frequent bus service, not to mention making some of those dangerous GA-316 crossings safer. What’s the problem? It’s car-heavy? Yes, but it also recognizes alternative transportation more than any other plan we’re likely ever to get and which will be a long time coming. I say this one is a slam dunk. Vote yes.

Sunday Sales Of course. Why not? Vote yes.

The Straw Polls Have fun. They’re non-binding.

ACC District 4 This is a mis-match between a young, new lawyer and an experienced community activist, school board member and working mom. David Ellison, who, if this were not a non-partisan race, would be the Republican candidate, serves on the county hearings board. Other than that, he is a newcomer to politics who is bright, personable and communityminded but is running against Allison Wright, a Democrat who has thoroughly proven her willingness to get out among the people and get involved hands-on with basic issues—most especially public education. Vote for Allison Wright.

ACC District 6 Another mis-match. Ron Winders is a super nice guy who wants to serve his community and is active in environmental matters. He’s no doubt the Republican in this nonpartisan race, though he describes himself as a conservative independent. Ron just doesn’t have the depth of involvement in public life that his opponent, Jerry NeSmith, has amassed.

Jerry is a Democrat, and he has served on the ACC planning commission for nine years, co-founded the Athens Farmers Market and then fought to keep it from being displaced by the tennis center. Jerry probably has a deeper knowledge of how local government works than any new candidate in recent history. Vote for Jerry NeSmith.

House District 117 This is the Georgia House of Representatives district specially crafted to turn Doug McKillip’s formerly Democratic district into a newly Republican district to accommodate his new Republican status. They didn’t count on Regina Quick, the super-conservative local attorney and Republican activist who is running against Doug.

If enough Democrats want to ask for a Republican ballot and join their local Republican friends, they could just make the difference in electing Quick. Either way we’re going to get a Republican, but here’s a chance for Democrats to register a protest against the way the legislature has sliced and diced Athens-Clarke to dilute our vote. Vote for Regina Quick.

House District 118 In the Democratic primary, Rep. Keith Heard is the African-American 20-year incumbent. If Spencer Frye, Heard’s challenger, wins the election, he will be one of the few white Democrats left in the House—a minority within a minority. Frye ran for mayor, is the executive director for Athens Area Habitat for Humanity, and has investments in rental property (some of which he used to share with Rep. Doug McKillip). Vote for Spencer Frye.

But wait, there’s more. There’s also a Republican primary in House District 118. Carter Kessler and Chris Perlera are contending to see who gets to run against the Democrat in the November general election. They’re both young and political newcomers. Perlera gets the nod here. Vote for Chris Perlera.

Senate District 47 The incumbent, Frank Ginn, is no particular friend of Athens or of local government in general, despite a career in local government, but the alternative, Barrow County Commission Chairman Danny Yearwood, is worse. Vote for Frank Ginn.

U.S. Congress District 9 Bunch of hard right-wingers. Take your pick.

U.S. Congress District 10 The payoff for all those voting in the Republican primary: you can vote against Paul Broun! His opponent is a retired U.S. intelligence officer. Vote for Stephen Simpson.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

News & Features Athens News and Views

Tons of cash and a new district mean state Rep. Doug McKillip has the inside track to re-election.

Athens Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 What’s Up in New Development

Our development correspondent is going on hiatus, but first, he ruminates on nature, humanity and the future of Athens.

Arts & Events Film Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 News of Athens’ Cinema Scene

CinÊ’s Summer Comedy Classics series continues with Caddyshack and City Lights.

Grub Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 It’s a Burritoful Life

The opening of Chipotle prompts a survey of local burrito joints.

Music Threats & Promises . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Music News and Gossip

Team Clermont Summer Showcase returns! New Radiolucent and Old Smokey!

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NEVER Say Goodbye . . . . . . . . . . 13 Catch ‘Em Friday or Never Again

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city dope Athens News and Views Round Two: Last week, I wrote about the Democratic primary between state Rep. Keith Heard, D-Athens, and Spencer Frye. But the real one to watch is Rep. Doug McKillip, D-then-R-Athens, and Regina Quick, who also tangled in 2006. This race is so good, the debates ought to have ring girls.

Quick is not one to mince words, and she’s had some strong ones for McKillip. Asked to explain her strong support among Democrats, she said at a recent Oconee County forum: “If they are crossing over to vote for me, it’s because nobody likes a turncoat, and nobody likes a traitor.” McKillip likes to say that Quick uses “Democratic talking points” about his anti-abortion bill and other issues and, in this case, he’s right. Democrats are pissed.

At the same time, she’s reminding GOP voters that a pre-conversion “McFlip,” as she calls him, supported Roy Barnes for governor and Barack Obama for president.

McKillip opens just about every public appearance by talking about his road to Damascus. He was saved and saw the light.

It seems to be working on voters in the parts of the district outside of Clarke County, where voters are meeting him for the first time. He’s gotten a warmer reception at several Oconee County events than Quick, thanks to his abortion bill, family values talk and attack ads painting Quick as a liberal in disguise (literally; in one mailer, she’s wearing a Ronald Reagan mask).

McKillip also has the full force of the Gold Dome GOP establishment behind him. House leaders, headlined by Speaker David Ralston, held a fundraiser for him July 11 in Oconee County. He raised almost $100,000 for his reelection bid in the second quarter alone, an absurd amount for a mere state House race.

Ralston denied drawing a district tailormade for his prize party-switcher at a press conference before the fundraiser. Even if that’s true, he couldn’t have drawn McKillip a better one if he tried. Not everyone is happy about it, though. Some, like former state Rep. Bob Smith, R-Watkinsville, are backing Quick because they want to see Oconee County kept whole. She’s vowed to join Rep. Chuck Williams, R-Watkinsville, who was drawn into more of a swing district as a result, to put the county back together again.

Quick is a staunch fiscal conservative who’s made a career out of taking Athens-Clarke County to the woodshed in property-tax lawsuits, and for that, many Athens Republicans are supporting her. She will need a ridiculously large turnout in Clarke County, including hordes of Democratic crossover votes, to have a chance of winning. With Sunday sales, T-SPLOST and several other local races on the July 31 ballot, she’ll probably get it. Between early voting in the office and by mail, 477 people pulled Republican ballots and 291 pulled Democratic ones as of July 12, according to the Athens-Clarke Board of Elections.

While it’s not unusual for more Republicans to

Sexy and I Know It: House Speaker David Ralston and Rep. Doug McKillip are LMFAO because they’re rolling in dough. request absentee ballots, Democrats tend to favor voting early in person, and Clarke County as a whole is almost two-thirds Democratic. It remains to be seen, though, how many early voters live in the district.

Clarification: State House candidate Spencer Frye asked Flagpole to provide some additional context to his statement at a recent forum, reported in last week’s Dope, criticizing Rep. Keith Heard, D-Athens, for voting to cut pre-K. Frye says he contrasted Heard’s vote in favor a 2008 bill providing tax credits to privateschool students with his vote in favor of a state budget that cut pre-K spending. Heard says he voted in favor of the budget because he gained concessions from Republicans.

Now Hiring: As you’ll read once you’ve flipped the page to Athens Rising, Kevan Williams is starting graduate school in the fall and going on hiatus from Flagpole. We’ll miss him, but we want to continue the column in his absence, so if anyone with expertise and an interest in development would like to start writing it, email news@flagpole.com.

Matt Pulver, unfortunately, is also ending his Google That Sh!t column. Hopefully, his work will continue to appear in some other form, but we’re also looking for new voices and new column ideas, so send those to news@flagpole.com as well. The pay is crap, but trust me, it’s a lot of fun.

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

We cannot afford to keep a representative in our last Democratic seat who is voting with Republicans on everything from cutting education, to restricting abortions, to Voter ID laws, to predatory lending, to the Republican budget, to restricting early voting and to increasing your electric bill.

Vote for Spencer Frye, a REAL Democrat, in the July 31st Democratic primary.

Mark your calendar. Call your friends and family.

Set up a carpool.

Because if we fail to put Spencer Frye, a true Democrat, into this seat in this Democratic primary, we stand to lose much more than just an election.

(Early voting is going on now at the downtown board of elections on Washington Street)

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city pages Progressives Choose Sides in Local Races Rep. Doug McKillip, R-Athens, is prepared to outspend primary challenger Regina Quick four-to-one this month to hang on to his state House seat.

McKillip raised $96,075 from Apr. 1 to June 30, according to a campaign finance disclosure filed with the state Sunday. All but a handful of his contributions came from lobbyists, PACs and fellow legislators, including House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, and Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones, R-Alpharetta, who also headlined a fundraiser for McKillip in Oconee County July 11. McKillip reported spending $21,208 for the quarter. He had a whopping $115,024 on hand to blanket the district with mail and ads before the July 31 election.

Quick raised $20,527, including contributions from several local doctors and Athens and Atlanta Democrats who are upset about McKillip’s 2010 party switch and a law he sponsored banning abortions after 20 weeks.

Other donors included Republicans like Athens Area Chamber of Commerce President and former Athens Mayor Doc Eldridge, University System of Georgia regent, liquor magnate and Athens resident Don Leeburn and former state Rep. Bob Smith of Watkinsville. Quick spent $15,466 in the second quarter and had $32,979 on hand June 30.

The source of the candidates’ money has become a campaign issue. McKillip says Quick’s Democratic support shows she is a liberal, a four-letter word in a GOP primary.

Quick counters that she has bipartisan support because McKillip is untrustworthy.

Quick, meanwhile, has criticized McKillip for accepting campaign contributions from lobbyists and PACs, as well as free meals and trips like one to watch the Bulldogs play in the Sugar Bowl on the University of Georgia’s dime. McKillip says he’s never voted differently because of a campaign contribution and

describes the bowl trip as a chance to spend time with his children.

Candidates for another Athens House seat didn’t raise nearly as much as Quick and McKillip. Rep. Keith Heard, D-Athens, reported just one contribution, $1,000 from a dentists’ PAC. He spent $400 and had $13,098 on hand.

Primary challenger Spencer Frye raised $7,055, spent $6,883 and had $19,967 on hand. His donors included a number of local progressives, such as Athens-Clarke Commissioner Andy Herod and planning commissioner Lucy Rowland.

In the Athens-Clarke Commission District 4 race, incumbent Alice Kinman, who is not running for re-election, donated to outgoing school board member Allison Wright’s campaign, as did other progressives like Rowland and R.E.M. manager Bertis Downs. Liberal blogger Brett Johns is running her campaign, according to her financial records. Wright reported raising $6,275, including a $2,000 personal loan, and spending $4,095. Wright’s opponent, lawyer David Ellison, out-fundraised her by a wide margin, reporting $17,221 in contributions and expenses of $8,368.

Relatives bankrolled much of his campaign.

The District 6 commission race has been much cheaper so far and mostly self-funded.

Planning commissioner Jerry NeSmith reported just one $200 contribution and loaned his campaign $1,400. He spent $1,192. Business consultant Ron Winders loaned his campaign $2,498 and raised no other money. He spent $1,292.

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

Whatever It Takes Tries for Grant Again Athens’ Whatever It Takes initiative is taking another stab at a $30 million federal grant to fund social services for students from low-income families. The five-year grant would fund “all (students) need to be healthy, safe

and successful in school, and hopefully go on to graduate from some sort of post-secondary education, whether it’s college or technical school or on-the-job training,” WIT director Tim Johnson said.

WIT has focused on students in the Alps Elementary School attendance zone, but it’s proposing expanding to the Fowler Drive Elementary School zone, Johnson said. While both neighborhoods are among the poorest in Athens, they have little else in common: the Alps Road area, which includes the Rocksprings and Pauldoe public housing projects, is urban and primarily African-American, while Fowler Drive in rural northeastern Athens is mainly Hispanic. In those two zones, unemployment is 15 percent, the graduation rate is only 51 percent, and the poverty rate for families with children in public schools

is 90 percent, according to WIT’s grant application.

“In addressing the needs of those two schools, we feel like the lessons learned will apply to any school in the district,” Johnson said.

The application is due next week, and Johnson expects to hear from the U.S. Department of Education in December whether WIT received one of five to seven grants.

WIT, formed by the nonprofit Family Connection-Communities In Schools in 2009, narrowly missed out on a Promise Neighborhood grant last year. The group stayed afloat with other grant money and by working with the Clarke County School District and other partners, Johnson said.

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

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When it comes to small towns, Ailey is about as small as they come. The Montgomery County community is situated a little north of Uvalda and a few miles west of Vidalia in the heart of southeast Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s onion country.

Its population was counted at 432 in the last census. Even with its small size, Ailey was still big enough to have its own hometown bank for more than 85 years: Montgomery Bank & Trust. A couple of weeks ago, however, regulators shut down the financial institution, and Montgomery Bank became the 80th state bank to fail since 2008.

It was the latest of many chapters in a long-running story that seems to have no ending. Montgomery Bank was on the verge of collapse in late 2010, largely because of bad real estate loans, when a deal was brokered for a fresh infusion of capital.

About $10 million was raised from an investment group called PFGBI and another $4 million came from local investors. The rescue deal, announced in January 2011, was the first of its kind in Georgia and was lauded for keeping a small community bank in operation.

The chairman of the bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors was Pete Robinson, an influential lobbyist and political ally of Gov. Nathan Deal. The vice chairman of the board was state Rep. Greg Morris (R-Vidalia), who chairs the House Banking Committee and has a hand in all bank bills that progress through the Legislature. With that expertise, you would think Montgomery Bank could have survived in Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s banking community.

Survival wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in the cards. Also serving on the bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors was an investment adviser named Aubrey Lee Price, who was part of the PFGBI investment group.

Over a period of 18 months, it is alleged by federal prosecutors, Price embezzled an estimated $17 million from the bank. The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a recent complaint that Price made bad

investments, then â&#x20AC;&#x153;created bogus account statements with false account balances and returnsâ&#x20AC;? to cover his losses.

Price disappeared in June, shortly before Montgomery Bank collapsed, and has been sought by federal authorities ever since.

Although many institutions like Montgomery Bank have failed over the past four years, the elected leadership in the General Assembly and the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office has expressed little concern about the situation and has done even less to address it. No legislative study committee has been appointed to review the failures and try to figure out how the state might avoid future collapses. Neither the Senate nor the House banking committee has called a hearing into the ongoing banking crisis. Both committees are chaired by legislators who were formerly the directors of banks that failed.

Morris, the House banking committee chairman, was once fined $5,000 by the FDIC for writing a bad check on his account at Montgomery Bank. Even with that incident and the bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subsequent failure, Morris is in no danger of losing his committee chairmanship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until we know more information about this situation, the speaker is standing solidly behind Greg Morris,â&#x20AC;? said a spokesman for House Speaker David Ralston. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He feels Rep. Morris has done a great job as chairman of the banking committee.â&#x20AC;?

The commissioner of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s banking department throughout the wave of failures has been Rob Braswell. I sent an inquiry to the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office asking if Deal had any plans to bring in a new commissioner, in light of the many bank failures that have occurred.

The governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother to respond.

An important piece of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic infrastructure has collapsed, and it seems that no one wants to do anything about it.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

KEVAN WILLIAMS

athens rising What’s Up in New Development It’s been five years since I started this mission of exploring spaces and places, far and near, and I appreciate all of y’all serving as my sounding board throughout. From a developer’s death threats and heated (sometimes profane) rhetoric with local politicians, to the always kind and thoughtful emails of the little old ladies who seem to constitute the major demographic in my meager fan club, my personal dialog with this community has always been the best part of the job. Athens is truly an exceptional place, and everyone here seems to burn with a passion for it, both as it is, and as it could be.

I’ll be starting graduate school full time in the fall (in town, of course), and it seems as good a moment as any to step aside and let someone else speak for a while. I do intend to give you occasional updates on my spatial and intellectual wanderings, though in the future they will likely be significantly less bounded than my coverage of local architectural and political happenings.

The economy soured just as this column was getting off the ground, and so like an ill-timed condo development, adaptation and reinvention were necessary. The lack of development projects gave me an opportunity to explore so many fascinating angles and ideas, many of which fell outside the scope of the column as it was originally conceived. (The original working title was Local Erections.) To pursue those exciting lines of

inquiry more fully and wholeheartedly, a little creative destruction is necessary.

The thing that I’ve really come to understand and appreciate most, though, in doing this job is that a true, living community is not planned or designed but wrought by many hands. This town is a different kind of place, where we sing our own songs and tell our own stories. In a way, the relationships and social structure that constitute this community seem more like some ancient tribe than a modern city. Something is alive here that isn’t elsewhere.

A lot of dirt has been turned up lately across this town, and it’s made a lot of people nervous, including me. Change is on the way, buildings are rising quickly, and with several positive economic signs, it seems that Athens may finally be moving forward, and in an exciting new direction. We’ll see how that turns out shortly, but there is a thought I’ll offer to those who are especially worried about any particular project.

I once heard someone refer to the quiet and slow strength of plants. Seeds settle into little pockets, and in no time at all trees are heaving up sidewalks. Water wears any opening it will find. If we make unsustainable decisions and build things that don’t respect these facts, eventually those processes will wear down our bad ideas. A ruined chimney in a pine forest says all you need to know about how well the plantation system worked.

See y’all at the river!

The architect Christopher Alexander has an idea he calls the “nature of order,” and it’s those sorts of ideas that fascinate me currently. Do the glimpses of life in ordinary places and objects he shows reveal similar properties to natural and physical systems?

Do the shared attributes of biologist Richard Dawkins’ memes and genes similarly point towards an understanding of the world based on consistent processes of change? What do ideas like panarchy theory’s complex adaptive cycle add to these thoughts? If we want to build something that really lasts, it seems we must learn to live in and manipulate that kind of world, and abandon our tired dichotomies

of nature and humanity. Somewhere in all of that theoretical murk, is there a recipe for a more resilient and sustainable approach to creating and inhabiting places?

I’ve always abused the question mark in this column, to the chagrin of many an editor, and so I think I’ll leave it hanging that way this last time, too. Those ideas are what will keep my head spinning for the next little while. If I find anything out, I’ll let you know.

Thanks for reading this column over the years and sharing your concerns. I’ll see y’all around town.

Kevan Williams

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5. Tallassee Road Widening Widen to four lanes from Mitchell Bridge to Whitehead Road.

Cost: $18 million Construction date: 2016–2019 6. Prince Avenue Bicycle Lanes Add bike lanes between Pulaski Street and the Loop.

Cost: $3.3 million Construction date: 2016–2019 7. North Avenue Bicycle Lanes Five-foot bike lanes between Willow Street and the Loop.

Cost: $2.8 million Construction date: 2016–2019 8. Oconee Street Park-and-Ride Lot Phase II Build a second park-and-ride lot across the street from one now under construction at the Loop to take commuter traffic off Oconee Street.

Cost: $2.2 million Construction date: 2013–2015 9. Olympic Drive / Indian Hills / Winterville Road Widening Widen the corridor to four lanes to accommodate truck traffic in the industrial area.

Cost: $15 million Construction date: 2020–2022 10. Lexington Road Bicycle Lanes Five-foot bike lanes between Barnett Shoals and Gaines School roads.

Cost: $2 million Construction date: 2013–2015 11. Athens-Ben Epps Airport Five separate projects that include building a security fence, surveying surrounding land for potential takeoff and landing hazards, paving taxiways and aprons to accommodate more private planes, and reinforcing runways so fully fueled jets can take off once a federally funded extension is finished.

Cost: $12.8 million Construction date: 2013–2022 12. Lexington Highway Widening Widens U.S. Highway 78 to four lanes from Whit Davis Road to Crawford. Requested by Oglethorpe County for economic development.

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Tea party groups in metro Atlanta oppose the tax but Georgia legislators woke up to that fact in 2010 when, to for opposite reasons, because the project lists don’t include address woefully inadequate funding for roads, trains, buses enough roads that they believe will ease congestion more than and airports, they put a 1 percent sales tax devoted specifibuses or trains, although most engineers say it’s impossible to cally to transportation on this month’s ballot. Now it’s up to pave your way out of traffic. voters to decide whether they want to pay the extra pennies Many Republican candidates—even incumbents who voted for a goodie bag of regional projects that should make it easier to put the tax on the ballot—are running away from it now. to get there from here.

State Rep. Doug McKillip, R-Athens, and Republican challenger The Transportation Investment Act, commonly known as Regina Quick, for example, are both urging voters to reject it.

TIA or T-SPLOST, divided the state into 12 regions, each with Quick has compared T-SPLOST to The Hunger Games for the way its own set of proposed projects and its own referendum. The it pits regions against each other. If a region passes it and Northeast Georgia region includes Clarke and 11 surroundneighboring ones don’t, that region gets the economic develing counties. Athens-Clarke mayors Heidi Davison and Nancy opment benefits, but retailers might lose business because Denson, Commissioner Alice Kinman and 22 of their countertaxes are higher than competitors’. parts in other counties chose 70 shovel-ready but unfunded Economic development is the main selling point for supprojects for Northeast Georgia with a combined price tag of porters. In Northeast Georgia, the tax will support 26,000 $750 million over 10 years. Another $250 million will be split jobs at construction companies, new businesses moving to the among cities and counties, with Athens-Clarke County getting region, and stores and restaurants where those workers spend about $2 million per year to spend how it wants. their paychecks, according to Connect Georgia, a chamberEven supporters acknowledge the law is flawed. “It’s not sponsored group created to advocate for T-SPLOST. Caterpillar ideal legislation, by any means,” says Athens Area Chamber of executives cited one T-SPLOST project, widening part of U.S. Commerce President Doc Eldridge. “It’s not what I would have Highway 441 in Morgan County, as a reason why they chose passed. But it’s the best option for improving transit and trans- to build a new plant in Bogart. The company has contribportation in our region. Failure to pass it is very punitive for uted to the Georgia Transportation Alliance and Citizens for our local government.”

Transportation Mobility, two other groups promoting T-SPLOST, Some critics, such as Athens-Clarke Commissioner Ed spokeswoman Bridget Young says.

Robinson, have called T-SPLOST blackmail. Local governments “We are also working to communicate with our Georgiausually use property taxes to fund about a fifth of state road based employees about the upcoming vote,” she said in an projects, with state and federal gas taxes making up most email. “Our dealer in the area, Yancey Brothers, has also been of the rest. In regions where T-SPLOST fails, that share will very active in supporting its passage and has contributed to rise to 30 percent. It drops to 10 percent if the tax passes. both the organizations I mentioned above.”

Nevertheless, whether it’s through state sales taxes or local Supporters are fond of saying there’s no Plan B if T-SPLOST property taxes, Athens taxpayers will pay more or roads won’t fails. As House Speaker David Ralston noted during a recent get repaved. visit to Oconee County, it took lawmakers years to come up The plan has come under fire from both the left and right. with that plan, and it will take years to come up with another.

Liberal groups like the Sierra Club and the NAACP oppose it In the meantime, traffic would grow worse and transportabecause they say the project list includes too many sprawltion projects would continue to go unfunded because, at 7.5 inducing roads and not enough transit. Locally, though, it’s cents per gallon, Georgia’s gas tax is the third-lowest in the won the support of the alternative transportation group country, and it spends the second-least per person of any state Bike Athens. President Amy Johnson says she wishes the list on transportation. Most projects slated for T-SPLOST funding included more bicycle and pedestrian projects, but it’s still would otherwise take at least 10 or 15 years to build and more worth a “yes” vote. “There are some good projects specifically likely 30 or 40, says Teri Pope, a spokeswoman for the state related to bicycle infrastructure on the regional list,” she says.

Department of Transportation. “That’s why they were put on r U k s D r be used d Rd her D L N 25 percent local funds owill “WeArcade are hopeful that the the list—because o tc kn le E fo r there’s no money otherwise,” she nsays.

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1. Jennings Mill Parkway A four-lane extension between Commerce Boulevard and Jennings Mill Road to open up land for development and take trucks off Atlanta Highway.

Cost: $10 million Construction date: 2016–2019

Disc Golf: It’s Not Just for Hippies At

kinds: driver, mid-range and putter. There are hundreds of first glance, disc golf, AKA Frisbee golf, can look styles, but beginners are recommended to learn with a single kinda stupid. Instead of hitting golf balls, people mid-range and maybe a putter until you get the hang of it. are just throwing Frisbees at what they call a hole. And this Then it’s up to you. Low may take 40 discs with him, while “hole” is an ugly conglomeration of a pole, chains and a metal Terrapin VP Dustin Watts says, “I play with just a driver and basket topped with a big band of bright yellow that comes putter so I don’t have to carry a bag.” nowhere close to looking as sleek and elegant as the 14th hole of the Masters Tournament in Augusta or the swishing basket of an L.A. Lakers game. Until you find out those hanging chains are positioned like the midriff of a human body, intended to stop the disc so it can fall into the basket. And that yellow at the top is to give you a chance to find your tarThe other thing you hear about are the tournaments, which, get in a distant field or hidden among the trees in the shaded true to disc golf, are not as snobby as that term suggests. woods. And that the original version was designed by the guy They’re more like an all-day summer camp, with people from who designed the Frisbee. surrounding states who have become friends from previous That’s right. Ed Headrick designed the modern Frisbee in tournaments playing each other for fun and prizes. The divi1964, and in the mid-1970s trademarked the term “disc golf,” sions range from fun/recreational to those for serious pros who invented the Disc Pole Hole, designed the first course in earn points toward bigger tournaments and championships. But California and founded what is now the Professional Disc Golf at the end of the day, everyone’s under the same roof, laughing Association (PDGA). He then gave ownership to the players and cheering each other on. once the sport took off. So, these people who look like they’re fooling around aren’t just fooling around.

Well, maybe a little. When Headrick died, his ashes were molded into Frisbees; one of which was thrown by his wife onto the roof of the “Steady” Ed Memorial Disc Golf Museum at the PDGA headquarters outside of Augusta, GA, per his wishes. That’s the spirit of every disc golfer I’ve met, and they encourage every man, woman and child to join in the fun. And their numbers are growing.

“In our lifetime, there will be more disc golfers than ball golfers, which sounds goofy until you look at the math,” says semi-retired professional disc-golf player Doug Porter, who with Rob McMaken designed the disc golf course at Sandy Creek Park. “Disc golf has grown 15 percent a year for 15 years. That means you’re doubling in size every five years.”

“When we have distributors come in from out of town, we’re more likely to take them Frisbee golfing than ball Scott Low of Efren loves disc golf so much, he put his own course on his property. golfing,” says Julia Weckback, director of marketing at Terrapin Brewery, where At the tournament I attended in Blairsville, GA, professional they have two disc-golf baskets set up during their happy hour player Nick Phillips gave me, a beginner, a Blizzard TeeDevil tours. “The other day we had people who’d just been to a golf driver and said, “This will get you 30 extra feet.” He and his tournament, and everyone agreed that when they do their next fellow Chattanooga “Roc Pile” players also signed it as a welconvention, instead of offering golf, they were going to offer come to my first disc-golf tournament souvenir, pointing out Frisbee golf instead, because that’s what more of the crowd is that they left room for the witness signatures when I throw an into.” ace (hole-in-one) with it.

Keith Johnson, the PDGA state coordinator for the state of Georgia and organizer of that tournament, also believes in the power of positive thinking and early recruitment. He registered Scott Low of Efren loves disc golf so much, he put his own his daughter, “future world champion” Lorelei, with the PDGA course on his property. “When I moved in I was thinking, at birth. “I hold the record for being the youngest competithere’s like 20 acres, we could put 37 holes here if we wanted. tor [6 years old] in a doubles tournament,” says 15-year-old It was right when Sandy Creek opened, and I was really into Lorelei, smiling. “I didn’t contribute much.” the idea that this could be a sort of private renegade course.

Perhaps she’ll drop “future” after she participates in this We had a bunch of Athens Disc Golf Club tournaments out here week’s 2012 PDGA Disc Golf World Championships in Charlotte, and we have quite a few events. It’s been a good time.”

NC. It will be the largest disc golf tournament in the history of “I do like it, but I’m not very good,” says player Emily Pitts. the sport, taking place over five days across 14 courses with “I tend to throw way above par. I love that it gives me time 1,125 players from the U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia, South to be outdoors in wooded areas, meadows, urban parks—you Korea and New Zealand. name it.”

“It’s very good for focus and concentration, especially putting,” says Chad Beacham, who has a basket in his yard. “I’ll just focus on the basket and make some throws, and it helps to calm me and get me in a better place to continue doing whatMention Athens to disc golf players at any tournament, and ever it was that I was doing before. It also gets me and my son they’re likely to bring up the hallowed Crucible, our worldOscar outside to walk through the woods, and he likes seeing renowned championship course that appeared only once a the trees and animals.” Seven-year-old Oscar adds, “I like the year for eight years on the backside of Sandy Creek Park, until way that you step and throw at the baskets.”

Porter’s semi-retirement temporarily put it on hold.

For the non-athlete, disc golf is exercise with varying “There are quite a few world-class players who have listed degrees of skill that doesn’t involve running, hitting or catchthe Crucible on their top five courses in the world,” says ing. You don’t need to join a team; you can grab some friends, Porter. “It’s spectacular. For a while, the push was to make meet players on the course, or play alone. Also, it’s cheap: a that the Sandy Creek permanent course, but there are logistical basic disc costs around $10, and most courses are free. problems. So, what we did is put in the course using temporary And note that disc golf isn’t played with a Frisbee; it’s portable baskets, and we ran a tournament. The first tournaplayed with a beveled-edge golf disc, of which there are three ment was 2002, and we did eight of them. We got to the point

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where the last year we had five current or future world champions, and maybe six of the 20 best players in the world at that time, come to Athens for the tournament.”

“That is a beastly course,” says Matt Buley, brewer at Copper Creek Brewing Company. “The amazing thing is watching a pro play it. There was this one hole that wraps around and goes down, and there’s just nothing but these huge trees… And I’m watching where this guy throws, and rather than taking the fairway, he throws down at the base of these trees. And he’s sitting there forever looking around, and I’m like, yeah, what were you thinking, dude? And he just— boop!—tosses it entirely over all the trees. Just vertical. And he must have landed it just 20 feet from the basket. But he was a pro; pros do that.”

“The course has a great reputation, and Athens is a great town for it,” says Porter. “You can make that an event in this town. It’s big enough to get the resources and small enough to get the town’s attention, like the Twilight Criterium. When I said I’d semi-retire, no one stepped up to run it. So, that course hasn’t been set up in two years.

But you go in and cut the grass, and clear the trees that have fallen in the past year, and you’ve got a course.”

Getting Started In addition to finding information and instructional videos on the web, people interested in learning disc golf are encouraged to talk to people who play, as disc golfers are typically happy to help. When Christian Hoadley at the Athens Farmers Market found out I was starting to play, he asked me, “Did they teach you the hammer throw yet?” and then explained the technique and how “it’s helpful throwing through wooded areas and trees.”

Choosing the right course and approach is important for any player.

The two Athens public courses are Sandy Creek Park and the beginner-friendly course at the Herman C. Michael Park in Watkinsville, nicknamed “The Herm.”

Sandy Creek, built by volunteers, currently has 22 holes (eventually 27) with three tees: red (beginner), white (intermediate) and blue (long distance). It’s a favorite course of seasoned players, but even they will throw from the white tee to keep it fun and interesting. If the distance is too challenging, you can get bored before any hope of reaching the basket. The Herm is an 18-hole course with only red and blue tees.

“One of the nice things about The Herm is, a lot of the holes are shorter, so you can compete on a more even keel, because it doesn’t favor somebody who’s just good at driving,” says Buley. “It favors somebody who’s good at navigating around the trees.”

That helps level the playing field between men and women, and beginners and seasoned players, especially when playing doubles. Regardless of whether it’s a drive that sails 345 feet over the field of trees, or a putt tossed from two feet shy of the basket, the prize is the music of the jangling chains when the disc hits its target.

Most locals who play league at The Herm on Mondays are also happy to talk disc golf and give tips before they tee off at 6 p.m. And everyone agrees it takes practice, patience and not expecting to throw like a pro. The most important thing I’ve learned so far is if you cover your face after a really bad throw, it makes it harder to find the disc.

“Remember Othello, the board game?” asks Porter. “Their slogan was ‘A minute to learn, a lifetime to master.’ That’s disc golf. There’s genuine depth to it that you could play every day for 30 years and you’re still learning, you’re still working at it, it’s still a challenge.”

It’s more than throwing Frisbees at a basket.

Marilyn Estes Thanks to the Athens Disc Golf Club for their assistance with this article.

For more info, go to www.athensdiscgolf.com, www.pdga.com and www. dgcoursereview.com. Also: the East Athens Community Center offers free classes in the basic skills of disc golf, beginning Oct. 5, for ages 5–15.

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

• indicates new review 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.

AMERICAN COMMANDO NINJA (NR) 1988. David, a ninja who is not American or commando, as far as can be determined, must rescue the stolen secret formula to a “bacteriological” weapon. He and another ninja, who happens to be a master of the ancient art of “Hocus Pocus” take on the KGB and hook up with two kung-fu sisters, one of whom actually wears a skirt with the Confederate flag on it. Part of Bad Movie Night.

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

CADDYSHACK (R) 1980. Movies don’t come more quotable than Caddyshack. Starring Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and the late genius Ted Knight, no comedy fan’s life is complete until he’s seen this comedy enough times to memorize his

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favorite character’s dialogue by heart.

My pick is Knight’s Judge Smails, who makes the offering of a Fresca seem like the height of disingenuousness.

Quite possibly the funniest film of the 1980s, Caddyshack is a hole in one.

Part of Ciné’s comedy branded Summer Classic Movie Series.

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 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.

DARIUS GOES WEST (NR) 2007.

Ciné hosts the eighth annual Darius Goes West Day. Fifteen-year-old Clarke Central student Darius Weems, confined to a wheelchair by Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, had never left Athens until some local college students, including director Logan Smalley, took the Clarke Central student on a cross-country trip.

Though the ultimate goal was a fly new wheelchair courtesy of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride,” Darius and his companions found so much more on the open road.

Darius and crew will be on hand for a Q&A. k THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG-13) Christopher Nolan’s Battrilogy ends in style as the backbreaking Bane (Tom Hardy) comes to Gotham City and pursues a terrorist agenda that requires Batman (Christian Bale) to come out of hiding after taking the fall for Harvey Dent’s crimes. Throw Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman into the mix, and this flick is going to be gigantic. Series stalwarts Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman are joined by newcomer Joseph GordonLevitt, who plays a cop named John Blake.

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’s major players—vampire Barnabas Collins (Depp), Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer), Dr. Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), Angelique (Eva Green), Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote) and Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Grace Moretz).

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.

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Cohen’s Admiral General Aladeen, the 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. The brilliant gags far outclass the low-brow misses; the soundtrack— filled by “Wadiyan”-language versions of “Everybody Hurts,” “9 to 5” and “The Next Episode”—is the film’s best running joke. Cohen continues to stake his claim to the chameleonic comic crown left by Peter Sellers, but what should he do with it once he gets it? Outside of the scathing climactic critique of American democracy (all true, of course), The Dictator lacks the witheringly pointed satire of Borat and Bruno.

It surely is hilarious though.

GEORGIA GUIDESTONES MOVIE (NR) Friday, July 20 marks the Athens premiere of the indie documentary, Georgia Guidestones Movie, in which

includes Manny’s wife, Ellie (v. Queen Latifah), and daughter, Peaches (v.

Keke Palmer), and meet a pirate crew led by Captain Gutt (exceptionally voiced by “Games of Thrones” Emmy winner Peter Dinklage). Nothing unpredictable happens (Sid messes things up, but no one cares), and the suspense is even less harrowing than your typical television cartoon. The rest of the celebrity voices are a mixed bag as well. Wanda Sykes brings the funny as Sid’s toothless granny, but Drake and Nicki Minaj are non-starters. Aziz Ansari is wasted, and J-Lo is present.

This kiddie flick is only for children that don’t want to watch Brave or Madagascar 3 again.

• KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Infectious and informative, the concert video promoting Katy Perry’s brand succeeds far better than it should. The concert sequences engage as if the audience is watching from the front row, and the backstage interviews/ behind the scenes footage portrays Perry as a sweet, strange young lady from the quirky, cute vein concurrently being mined by Zooey Deschanel. The disconnect between Perry’s decidedly

Excuse me if my breath smells like Friskies. the history of Elbert County’s one-ofa-kind granite monument is recounted.

Now if you’ve never seen the landmark, featuring 10 precepts for humanity in 12 different languages, you can see the movie. Filmmaker Mike Reser and narrator Paul Floyd will be in attendance at this premiere event, which includes a reception catered by Big City Bread and music by soundtrack performer Kyle Dawkins.

THE GOONIES (PG) 1985. Ciné continues its family-branded part of the Summer Classic Movie series with the Steven Spielberg-produced modern fairy tale about misfit kids trying to save their town from evil developers by finding a pirate’s long-lost booty.

Celebrity kids Josh Brolin (son of Babs’ hubby, James) and Sean Astin (son of John and Patty Duke) are joined

by FFOMJ (former friend of Michael Jackson) Corey Feldman as Goonies trying to escape the clutches of the criminal Fratelli clan (Anne Ramsey, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano). It’s a shame the only sequel came in video game format and involved a mermaid named Annie.

• ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Manny (v. Ray Romano), Diego (v. Denis Leary) and Sid (v. John Leguizamo) return in a fourth adventure, which is good news for the millions not waiting for this fatigued franchise to go extinct. The trio get separated from the herd, which

adult lyrics (just wait for the Tokyo performance of “Peacock”) and her little girl-filled Katy Cat army can disconcert, but the queen of adult Candyland proves harder to hate and more talented than many of her radiodominating, pop music peers. I also would never have learned that “Raising Hope”’s Sabrina, Shannon Woodward, was a close friend of Perry had I not seen this musical diversion. Katy Perry: Part of Me won’t convince the hardhearted, but anyone who didn’t curse themselves for mindlessly singing along to one of her many, catchy hits should enjoy themselves.

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

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

Jada Pinkett Smith). These four former denizens of the New York Zoo team up again with those wacky penguins and some nutty Lemurs (voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer and Andy Richter) in an aborted attempt to return home. This time, the gang is waylaid in Europe by a circus featuring animals voiced by Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad” season five cannot get here fast enough), Jessica Chastain and the reliably funny yet equally annoying Martin Short. But a crazed French animal control officer,

Captain Chantel Dubois (v. Frances McDormand), is hot on the animals’ trail. No one should be coming into Madagascar 3 blind. 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) Perhaps because Madea’s Witness Protection possesses the silliest plot of any previous entry in the franchise, Madea’s latest adventure is a bit less forcefully message-driven than previous movies.

A New York family, headed by Eugene Levy and Denise Richards, move in with Madea (Tyler Perry) and her brother Joe (Perry again) to help Joe’s federal prosecutor son, Brian (Perry a third time). The fish out of water meets the South jokes are not as bad as one might imagine, and the movie focuses on what has always been the series strength: Madea.

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.

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

MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG-13) Wes Anderson provides summer 2012 with its charmer, a twee coming of age tale about Sam and Suzy (wonderful newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), two tweens that learn about love after running away from their tiny island home. Any moviegoers not already enchanted by Anderson’s previous whimsies will not be won over by his newest, extremely eccentric romance.

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

Aardman Animations, the British folks that brought you Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, hit the high seas with the Pirate Captain (v. Hugh Grant) and his oddball crew. While seeking the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, the Pirate Captain runs into Charles

Darwin (v. David Tennant, the tenth, and my personal favorite, Doctor), who wants the scurvy rascal’s feathered mascot, a thought-to-be-extinct dodo.

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

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

THE ROOM (R) 2003. Tommy Wiseau returns to Ciné once again as the unpredictable, inexplicable Johnny in this cult classic. Part of Bad Movie Night.

• SAVAGES (R) When did Oliver Stone become such a boring filmmaker? His ‘80s and ‘90s works were transgressive—stylistically, violently, politically. All Savages, his new crime drama based on the novel by Don Winslow (which is sure to read better than Winslow’s film adaptation), transgresses is patience. The trailers for this tale of two pot dealers, Ben and Chon (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch), and their shared girlfriend, O (Blake Lively, playing a 10 years younger Kate Hudson playing O), running afoul of the Mexican cartel run by a ruthless matriarch (Salma Hayek) and her sleazy muscle (Benicio Del Toro, resembling an evil circus clown Brad Pitt) promises so much more violence, blood and exploitation than the actual film delivers. And it’s not just the initial act establishing the characters’ occupation and odd personal relationship.

The should-be action filled second and third acts do little to alleviate the boredom. John Travolta, bringing his A game in the B-team role of a dirty DEA agent, reminds how much he’s been missed. Despite a few stylish flourishes—the score alternately evokes opera and Spaghetti westerns—this pulpy bromance never gets exploitative enough to be interesting.

SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS (NR) This concert film documents the final concert given by LCD Soundsystem at, appropriately, Madison Square Garden. Find out how musical mastermind James Murphy spent the lead up to the final show and his day after, with wonderful pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman along as your guide. If you don’t know who LCD Soundsystem is, you must immediately go purchase and listen to the eponomously titled first album, to be immediately followed by Sound of Silver and This Is Happening. Then go see this movie.

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.

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. We have six unbelievably mismatched buddies— Hart’s divorced dude, Romany Malco’s “playa,” Michael Ealy’s “dreamer,” Jerry

“Turtle” Ferrara’s noncommittal white dude, Terrence J’s “mama’s boy” and some other white married guy—and the women (Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Meagan Good and Regina Hall) who want them to settle down.

Begin the chapter scenarios. Woody Allen attempted something like this to funnier results when he adapted Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex; a more relevant and even less successful adaptation would be 2009’s He’s Just Not That Into You. If you really want to take romantic advice from Steve Harvey, filtered through Turtle, it’s your love life.

• TO ROME WITH LOVE (R) Woody Allen’s latest love letter to a classic European city is not as magical or well-written as his Oscar winning billet-doux to Paris, but the 76-yearold auteur still knows how to craft a lightweight summer charmer. Several lives intersect in the titular Eternal City.

An American couple (Woody Allen

and Judy Davis) meet their daughter’s (Alison Pill) new Italian beau (Flavio Parenti) and his parents; a newly married, provincial Italian couple (Alessandro Tiberi and Alessandra Mastronardi) are tempted by the sexy wiles of the city (quite literally and lustily embodied by Penelope Cruz in a painted on little red dress); a famous American architect (Alec Baldwin, ready and coiffed for an HBO Christopher Hitchens biopic) gives unheeded dating advice to a younger proxy (Jesse Eisenberg), torn between two women (Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page, likeable but ill-fitted to a role perfect for Woody’s most recent muse, ScarJo); and a middle class Italian nobody (Roberto Benigni) becomes bewilderingly famous for nothing. Overlong by about 15 minutes, this Roman holiday is a lively tour of benignly annoying plots that are saved by Allen’s dual abilities to attract big talents and write zingy dialogue.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (PG-13) Expecting a cinematic extinction level event on par with Garry Marshall’s starwhoring Valentine’s Day/New Year’s Eve, What to Expect When You’re Expecting pleasantly met my vastly lowered expectations. 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). The almost interstitial scenes with the daddy club of Chris Rock, Rob Heubel, Thomas Lennon and Amir Talai amuse, as does Rebel Wilson as Banks’s mostly clueless employee. I expected little, and the romantic dramedy delivered a bundle of tiny, intermittent joy.

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his welfare. He’s resourceful and fearless, however, and he engages with Suzy in such a straightforward manner it’s startling. Suzy is intelligent and creative as well, but her petulance sometimes masks her more engaging qualities, at least as far as her parents are concerned. Sam sees her with different eyes, though, and their relationship is free of guile or pretension. They fearlessly plunge into it like little explorers, never really knowing where they’ll end up, trusting that the

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MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG-13) Ex-Khaki Scout and orphan Sam (Jared Gilman) runs away into the wilderness with his sweetheart Suzy (Kara Hayward) on the island of New Penzance. Incompetent Scout Master Randy (Edward Norton) sends his troop to find the boy, while Suzy’s parents (Bill Murray, Frances McDormand) fret waiting for the local cop, Captain Sharp (Bruce Willis), to find their troubled daughter. Meanwhile, a powerful storm rages on toward this idyllic island.

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

Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman Director Wes Anderson is arguably the most distinctive and refined American director of his generation. He’s long filled his movies with damaged characters. Underneath the meticulously designed artifice and eccentric humor, pain and loss have always simmered.

Here, Anderson cranks the emotional dial while maintaining his delicacy and lightness of touch. This isn’t easy considering Anderson and his co-screenwriter Roman Coppola are telling a story of young romance. Emotions are pitched at such an intense level at that age, and the subtlest of gestures is likely to send them into an emotive whirlwind.

Anderson convincingly captures the hurlyburly of young love, but he also conveys the sense of adventure of being a 12-year-old.

Sam and Suzy are introspective kids. Sam is disliked by his fellow scouts, and his guardians at the orphanage have no interest in

destination will be worth it because they have each other.

Anderson’s longtime cinematographer Robert Yeoman casts Moonrise Kingdom in that late afternoon haze that feels like it will never end. But darkness is encroaching, and no love story worth remembering is free from that threat. Anderson is maturing as a filmmaker, and his emotional range has deepened. For all of his attention to surface style (the movie feels like a live-action cartoon), he never loses sight of his characters’ humanity, never fusses over them so much that they become unrecognizable. Anderson may craft Moonrise Kingdom with the fussiness of an illustrator with a gift for fine lines and orderliness, but he knows to color outside the lines when it’s needed the most.

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

AFFILIATED EVENT:

Walk N’ Talk Thursday, July 26th, 7–8pm

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

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film notebook threats & promises News of Athens’ Cinema Scene Bear With Me: The notion that Wes Anderson is the greatest working American filmmaker isn’t the easiest one to defend, though I often try, if only silently, to myself. He’s easily derided as “superficial,” and it’s true that the surfaces of his films are as meticulously fussed-over as any the cinema has seen: just look at the contents and arrangement—which he is more than happy to show you—of any shelf in any room in any of his films. Or at the lovingly accessorized costume of the most minor character, or the minutely calibrated framing of the briefest shot, or, perhaps most famously, the packaging of the often fleetingly glimpsed products, commercial and cultural, that he invents to inhabit his hyper-artificial worlds which, nonetheless, somehow reverberate with an only half-imaginary nostalgia.

Great directors are able to imbue each of their films with an internal set of rules—an elusive code of behavior in some cases, perhaps; an alternate physics in others—that can become the framework for the construction of sturdy truths. Anderson’s films, as shaggily elaborate as they are, ring with piercing truth—not of the aphoristic kind, but which elevates his characters like strange, soulful new archetypes. When you see Moonrise Kingdom, if you haven’t already, try not to smirk at Anderson’s compulsively decorative aesthetic. It’s not empty artifice; it’s his heart on his sleeve.

The Rundown: This is a time of year when there’s not much going on film-wise in Athens other than comic-book blockbusters and, of

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Music News And Gossip I don’t even wanna hear it. Everyone’s using the heat as an excuse these days.

Granted, it’s been off the charts, but there’s still a whole world of activity happening in the Classic City. So, devour this page, and then go see some bands this week. At the very least, you’ll get some exercise, and you might wind up with a new favorite group. Positive reinforcement, people. Work with me…

Read a Book: Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Supercluster) has a short piece of writing included in the newly released e-book The First Time I Heard David Bowie. It’s the third in a series about different people’s first impressions of a specific artist or group (the two previous books were on Joy Division and Cocteau Twins) and was coordinated by author Scott Heim (Mysterious Skin, We Disappear).

For more info, please see heim.etherweave. com.

Should We Talk About the Feather?: Remember local band Misfortune 500? Well, don’t call it that anymore, because it now answers to the name Feather Trade. The band is now a three-piece, after the departure of Pascal Cureton, and it appears that all it’s done thus far is re-brand its existing material with the

Farm Studios to cut them, and the leader of the pack is “Lazy Eye.” It’s a slow-burner—a dark, rootsy thing. Give it the full two minutes and 44 seconds it needs to complete. You’ll be glad you did. Especially when it totally kicks in around 1:32. Yow! Listen to them all over at soundcloud.com/gypsy-farm-records/tracks.

Shinin’ On: The new album from Radiolucent came out a few weeks ago, but the band has been pretty quiet on the promotion tip. So, I’m telling you about it now. It’s titled Turn Me On & Turn Me Loose, and it features 11 tracks of gospel-tinged, rock-and-blues music. That’s a whole lot of descriptors, isn’t it? Go figure out your own adjectives at reverbnation.com/radiolucent.

Triple Play: The Shadow Executives will play five Saturday nights in a row beginning July 28 at The Grotto. Instead of having things be wide-open, where anyone can show up and jam (à la the group’s regular Thursday night event at the Office Lounge), they’ll only be inviting a select few folks to join them. In related news, Shadow Executives member Paul Scales has teamed up with drummer Randy Durham, bassist John Straw and guitarists Dave Herndon and Scott Sanders for a

The great Bill Murray in Caddyshack, playing July 19–22 at Ciné as part of the Summer Comedy Classics series.

Anderson is perhaps our era’s (and thus, history’s) leading progenitor of quirk—not to say twee—in cinema, and that appellation (or epithet) carries with it some highly unstable freight. The fanciful quality of his uniquely developed mise-en-scène—including the arch, disarming directness that uniformly inflects the speech of his characters, particularly children—can have a distancing effect.

The cultivated but shambling charm that Anderson’s fans embrace in his films is offputting to others, and it’s possible that those viewers will never see in these movies what we who love them do.

To me, the painstakingly designed, totemfilled, hermetic nature of the worlds of Anderson’s films serves to amplify the intense emotional lives of his characters, and provides the context and scale necessary to accommodate their outsized quests, and to comfortably ground their minor-key epiphanies. The world of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which includes fey asides like casual samba riffs on Bowie by Seu Jorge and quasi-Seussian CGI fish, also permits the ineffably moving climactic tableau of Bill Murray’s Zissou, confronting the iridescently animated “jaguar shark” against which he has sworn revenge for killing his partner and wondering aloud, his puffed-up lion-heart finally swollen with grief and regret, if it remembers him. And the archaic pop-culture artifacts in Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom—Noye’s Fludde, Françoise Hardy, the Boy Scouts—strewn like talismans among the scenes of comic, poignant, deadly serious childhood romantic drama set up a penultimate sequence that openly quotes the ending of King Kong without being ostentatious, silly or at all cute.

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course, what’s happening at Ciné. But there’s plenty of that: Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love is in its second week, as is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and special events are piling up on top of those two high-profile hits. A Wednesday, July 18 screening of Shut Up and Play the Hits, a doc about LCD Soundsystem’s final show at Madison Square Garden, is closely followed by the Athens premiere of The Georgia Guidestones Movie (See the Calendar Pick on p. 17.) on July 20.

The 8th Annual Darius Goes West Day makes its home at Ciné July 21, with the celebrated Darius and his crew on hand for storytelling and Q&A (see www.dariusgoeswest.com). And Bad Movie Night returns with the self-explanatory American Commando Ninja July 24.

Plus, Ciné’s twin Summer Classic Movie Series is continuing, with multiple screenings of two new classic films each week. In the Family Classics series, The Goonies plays July 20–22, and the series ends with a bang July 27–29 with The Wizard of Oz, featuring a special trapeze performance by the folks at Canopy after the Friday show. The next installment in the Comedy Classics series is Caddyshack July 19, 21 & 22, which will be a treat to watch with an audience for what, in most cases, will be the first time since its release more than 30 years ago. The following week may be the highlight of the series: a 35mm print of Charles Chaplin’s City Lights, which will screen on July 26, 28 & 29 with Manny Lage, host of WUOG’s “The Film Thing,” introducing the Thursday evening screening.

That’s the pick of the month—I’m not going to miss it, and I hope you don’t, either.

Dave Marr film@flagpole.com

Akron/Family Feather Trade tag. No local gigs are slated at this time. Probably a good thing, too, because there’s no way frontman Chisolm Thompson could handle wearing all his scarves in this weather. See facebook.com/FeatherTrade and twitter.com/feathertrade.

Yo, DJ…: After lying fallow for several years, Team Clermont’s annual Summer Showcase & Prom returns, celebrating the group’s 15 years in the business. Normaltown Records is the presenting sponsor of this year’s event, and it all takes place next week, July 26–28. Featured live acts include The Olivia Tremor Control, Akron/Family, Dent May, Wild Moccasins, Pattern Is Movement, Astronautalis, Crooked Fingers, Bear in Heaven, DJ Mahogany and Yacht Rock Revue.

Three-day passes, which include admission to the Back to the Future-themed prom, are $25.

For more information, please see teamclermont.com.

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Summer Stream: Old Smokey has a pile of new tracks available. The band went into Gypsy

series of Sunday performances at Ten Pins Tavern. The event itself is named “Sunday Night Bowling and Blues,” and the group will perform as the Sunday Night at the Bowling Alley Blues Band. This free weekly event is already underway and begins at 7:30 p.m.

So, what have we learned here? That there are some musicians who just love to play for the mere joy of it. Kinda makes complaining about having practice twice a week and a show once a month seem pretty pitiful, doesn’t it?

We’re Wired In!: For those who haven’t been to our website, Flagpole.com, in a while, we’re in the process of revamping our online coverage something fierce. You can follow all the haps on our music blog, Homedrone.

Plus, check out our frequently updated record reviews. That’s not all! We’re @FlagpoleMusic on Twitter, and FlagpoleMagazine on the ol’ Facebook. Follow and like us. You know you wanna. [Gabe Vodicka] Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

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here is a power in Melissa Colbert-Taylor that is otherworldly. Her voice bellows with such bravado, such unbridled passion, that it seems to warp the room around her into an inescapable vortex, drawing the audience in. She is a force of nature, a rare talent, and Athens only has one more chance to see her in action before she leaves us.

In just a few short weeks, Colbert-Taylor and her five-month-old baby boy, Sebastian, will follow husband and father Alex up to Ann Arbor, MI, where he will begin law school this fall.

But, thankfully, we get one last hurrah with her explosive psych-rock band NEVER. (Rumor has it we may also be privy to a reunion of her former band, whose name rhymes with â&#x20AC;&#x153;sleepyâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;Ś wink, wink.)

The brainchild of guitarist and circuitbender Kris Deason (Dark Meat), NEVER was conceived as an improvisational platform for his homemade guitar pedals and noisy experimentation. Shortly after he recruited Ryan Vogle to lay down some riff-heavy guitar, Colbert-Taylor came onboard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One night at Flicker, I drunkenly went up to him and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I need to make music with you,â&#x20AC;? laughs Colbert-Taylor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then I just did my thing.â&#x20AC;?

Her thing, as it turns out, is unlike any other vocalist in town. While the band (now with Peter Alvanos behind the kit and Chris McGarvey on bass) unleashes propulsive, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70sinspired rock, Colbert-Taylor goes into a sort of gyrating trance. There are a few lyrics here and there, but for the most part, her delivery is all about energy. She howls to the heavens, groans in frustration, moans in ecstasy and generally captivates audiences with her raw emotion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been inspired by [Pylonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] Vanessa Briscoe Hay,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been a huge influence on me, as far as just really letting go and being cathartic and just seeing what happens when you get up there.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all abstract and improvisational, however. Colbert-Taylor says that each NEVER song has a theme behind it, and she draws inspiration from those specific ideas for each track. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The song we always start with is about seizures I used to have,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, I kind of go there in my head. Other songs are critiques of scene climbing, stuff like that. Some of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of social; some of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political. A lot of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s angry and expresses frustration.â&#x20AC;?

That release has been more important to Colbert-Taylor this year than ever before.

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The Baltimore-via-Jersey producer, songwriter and musician is a self-professed pop fiend whose deepest musical loves bear familiar names like Michael Jackson and The Beatles. Shroud, Gwazdaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent release, is pop pushed to its hemispheric limits, a categorically gorgeous effort that is at once familiar and appealingly alien.

It is also Gwazdaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut into solo-project society, a fact thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe given his history. A go-to producer who has helmed albums by Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Ecstatic Sunshine and more (including Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own Cara Beth Satalino), as well as a player in Deaconâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s touring ensemble and the band Nuclear Power Pants, Shroud marks the first time Gwazda has taken center stage with a collection of his own material.

It began a couple of years ago when, in the gaps between recording projects, he began writing and recording his own songs, one at a time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I [fell] into a groove,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got more used to making my own music. It was therapeutic to be working on that stuff, because when you start doing music as a jobâ&#x20AC;Ś it takes the fun out of it a little bit.â&#x20AC;?

Initially, in crafting his own music, Gwazda says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt like I had to take myself seriously.â&#x20AC;? But needed inspiration soon came in the form of the King of Pop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would listen to some of my favorite tracks, like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Man in the Mirror,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and think, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;That song is so intensely cheesy.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But then I realized I [could] kind of step into that realm a little bit, and not be so hard on myself.â&#x20AC;?

In its manifest looseness, Shroud is deliriously funâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;though Gwazda also boasts stunning depth for a first-timer. Beautifully arranged tunes like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sun Burnerâ&#x20AC;? unravel effortlessly, governed by melodic magic. Others, like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skewed,â&#x20AC;? feel more familiarly Baltimorean, full of bubbly synths and vaguely life-affirming lyricism.

Indeed, if there is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Baltimore sound,â&#x20AC;? as exemplified by the synth-heavy sonics of acts like Deacon and Future Islands, it is one that Gwazda has had no small hand in crafting. (He helmed the boards for Bromst, widely cited as the indie-rock pied piper Deaconâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to date.)

Yet Shroud belongs to no region, no scene, no movement. It is simply a solid pop record, a promising debut from a person making a (hesitant) move into the spotlight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard singing in front of people. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played with Dan Deaconâ&#x20AC;Ś and that never really fazed me, because I was always sort of on the side. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get offstage, and people would be like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Did you see the show?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? [And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say], â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yeah, I was onstage.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Wilding out on a synth in the midst of a flurry of activity is different from strumming and singing front-and-center, and Gwazda admits that he has to put a little more concentration into his new gig. For his first solo tour, he will be accompanied by a drummer, but the focus will be on him: Chester Endersby Gwazda, Baltimoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emerging pop princeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if not quite yet its BeyoncĂŠ.

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SlopFest 2012 Collaborative Chaos T he irreverently named SlopFest, which began in 2009 after the cancellation of Athens PopFest, returns for its fourth iteration this Thursday through Saturday, July 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;21. Founder Derek Wiggs will once again hold the event at Little Kings Shuffle Club, where the idea was first conceived and quickly found support among owners and staff.

SlopFest distinguishes itself from other local festivals both by the bands who play (mostly small, scrappy local acts) and

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Friday, July 20 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:00 12:45 1:30

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Danger Bucket (outside) Monkeygrass Jug Band (outside) The Nice Machine (inside) Triangle Fire (outside) Koko Beware (inside) Slaw nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Order (outside) Daffodil (inside) Helen Scott (outside) Eureka California (inside) Muuy Biien (outside) DJ von Florer & DJ Dusty (outside) Fâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n Heartbreaks (inside) ccbb (inside) Dead Dog (inside)

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Sea of Dogs (outside) SheHeHe (outside) K I D S (inside) Zebra Mussels (outside) Boycycle (inside) TaterZandra (outside) Life Coach (inside) Shepherds (outside) Incendiaries (inside) Mad Axes (outside) DJ Mahogany & Jon Thompson (outside) Bambara (inside) Manray (inside) Savagist (inside)

by the degree to which it is truly a community event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a festival for other people to come enjoy Athens,â&#x20AC;?

Wiggs says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Although it is a great opportunity [for that], itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more for the people [who are] already here, to appreciate the town and our friends, and celebrate.â&#x20AC;?

Putting it all together is a collaborative effort among a bunch of friends who help with art and food (Wiggs promises â&#x20AC;&#x153;a guy with excellent credentialsâ&#x20AC;? handling eats this year), and who also, in many cases, play in the bands.

Many of these are hardBambara rock, punk and metal groups, though the balance has shifted this year to include everything from indie-pop (Cars Can Be Blue) to hiphop (Mad Axes). According to Wiggs, neither the original focus nor the shift was intentional. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The lightening in mood may be just from meeting new people over the years,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just easier to fill up a new festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lineup with all of your friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; garage bands.â&#x20AC;?

But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the audience to consider. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think as the show grew, more people wanted to be involved [who] saw it as a good time for everyone, not just tattoo guy and couch surfer. Having Nana Grizol play a few years ago also opened my mind a bit as to what works really well.â&#x20AC;?

Half of the bands playing SlopFest are festival newcomersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; like the Athens expats in Bambara, whom Wiggs tried to book for three years before they were able to commit (ironically, shortly after they all moved to Brooklyn).

The half that is returning from previous years includes Wiggsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own band, the raucous Daffodil, which recently reconvened and is set to play Friday night. Self-effacingly, he explains the reason for the reunion: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daffodil got back to playing this year mostly because [singer and guitarist] Max Talkovich and I missed it, I think, and [we] had some new ideas again. It certainly wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for the money, or by popular demand of any sort. I can tell you that much.â&#x20AC;?

SlopFest operates with a similar mindset. Wiggs doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep track of how many people attend, although he describes it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;pretty packed and chaotic, which is all you can hope for.â&#x20AC;? And he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t looking to profit; all proceeds will go to the Athens Girls Rock Camp.

But even at a paltry $8 for the whole weekend (the Thursday show is free), the end sum is enough to cover costs and distribute some gas money to the touring bands, thanks partially to the involvement of Pabst Blue Ribbon, which sponsored the fest in 2010, and will return this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what they get out of it,â&#x20AC;? Wiggs says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like Athens is hurting from lack of PBR awareness. It just adds to the funâ&#x20AC;Ś any time they want to join the party, they can.â&#x20AC;?

This is the first year that SlopFest wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be growing significantly (its biggest addition is a free compilation CD)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;mostly because it has grown about as much as it can. In both 2010 and 2011, Slopfest added another day to the lineup, including the continuing Thursday night kickoff party.

That night, and both that follow, will be capped by DJsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sunslinger, von Florer, and Mahogany, respectivelyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hosting dance parties outside. Friday and Saturday will also see some of the highest-profile bands playing inside simultaneously, ensuring divided loyalties (or notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I might be one of the few attendees who actually has trouble choosing between dancing and Savagist), but no shortage of ways to have a sloppy good time.

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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.

3–4:30 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. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net FILM: Shut Up and Play the Hits (Ciné) Documentary of LCD Soundsystem’s final show at Madison Square Garden before disbanding. 7:30 p.m. $10. www. athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

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

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Backyard Zoofari (Memorial Park) See the animals that live all around us and learn why they’re important. Featuring crafts, games, zookeeper talks, binoculars and a bird walk with a U.S. fish and wildlife ornithologist. 4-7 p.m.

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KIDSTUFF: Flamenco Fun (Oconee County Library) Flamenco dancer/ instructor Julie Galle Baggenstoss performs the children’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: 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 children’s classic, The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 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: Cuisine Class: Midnight Snacks (Oconee County Library) Learn how to make the perfect snacks for late-night cravings with easy-to-prepare foods and several alternatives to common snacks.

Sign up required at YA desk or front desk. Ages 11–18 6–8 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: PFLAG Athens Meeting (Aloha Counseling Center) A support, education and advocacy group for families, friends and supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-756-5428, pflagathga@ gmail.com MEETINGS: Info Session for Foster and Adoptive Parents (Clarke County DFCS) (Conference Room A) Held the third Wednesday of every month. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-227-7904 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 19 ART: Reception (Georgia Museum of Art) For the exhibitions “John Baeder,” “Southern Folk Art from the Permanent Collection,” “Dürer and His Legacy,” “Prints and Drawings by Gerald L. Brockhurst from the Daniel and Rosalyn Jacobs Collection,” “Remixing History: Manolo Valdés” and “Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Booker.”

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lead tours of the exhibitions. Light refreshments. 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4662 EVENTS: Dealing for Darius/ Casino for a Cure (The Rail Athens) The top finisher in this Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament wins a casino package. Second and third place win cool stuff, too. 6 p.m. (sign-in), 7 p.m. $30 (requested donation). www.dariusgoeswest.com EVENTS: Reiki Circle (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese massage technique for stress reduction. Every Thursday. 7–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-338-6843 FILM: Rock Doc Movie Night (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Fearless Freaks, a documentary by the Flaming Lips. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www. hendershotscoffee.com GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Every Thursday. Check the restaurant’s Facebook page for weekly updated categories. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. tinyurl.com/d5dp2qq GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 KIDSTUFF: Ferdinand Por Ferruca (Clarke Central High School Auditorium) Flamenco dancer and instructor Julie Galle Baggenstoss presents a bilingual flamenco dance performance based on the children’s classic The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf. 10:30 am. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Enter Portentia (Madison County Library) Learn how to interpret dreams, read palms, tell fortunes and become open to the secret messages around and within us. Ages 12–18. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Book Jammers (ACC Library) Children and their families are invited for stories, trivia and crafts. This month’s theme is Harry Potter trivia. Ages 8–11. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 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: Uncovered (Madison County Library) Local history buff Barbara McCay shares methods, tips and websites to help participants uncover family history.

6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: Book Signing (Avid Bookshop) Molly Read Woo is the author of The Red and Black Breed, a Southern murder mystery set at UGA. Woo will sign books, speak about regional history and display vintage issues of The Red &

ATHICA’s new exhibition “Emerges V: The Synthetic Mind” opens on Saturday, July 21.

Black. 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com LECTURES AND LIT: Nathalie Dupree (Georgia Museum of Art) Join Southern chef and author Nathalie Dupree for a lecture and book signing. Held in conjunction with the exhibition “John Baeder.”

5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org MEETINGS: Athens PRIDE Planning Meeting (Highwire Lounge) Seeking volunteers to help plan the second annual Athens PRIDE Weekend (Sept. 6–9). 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athensgapride PERFORMANCE: BOA Drag Revue (Diverse Universe) Athens’ newest drag revue hosted by Sasha Stephens and featuring performances by Lacie, Yasmine Alexander, Dae Tripper and Desiray Below. 9 p.m. $5. 706-613-8332 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

Friday 20 EVENTS: Family Fun Night and Carnival (The Body Shop of Athens) Ride a mechanical bull, zip down a huge water slide, shoot some hoops, feed animals in the petting zoo, dunk a DGW crew member, get an airbrush tattoo and star in your own music video. Harry’s Pig Shop will provide the BBQ as DJ David Compton spins tunes. 5–9 p.m. FREE! www.dariusgoeswest.org FILM: The Georgia Guidestones Movie (Ciné) Documentary on Elberton’s mysterious Guidestones, a granite monument bearing inscriptions of commandments in 12 languages. Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Mike Reser and live

music performance by sountrack artist Kyle Dawkins. See Calendar Pick on p. 17. 7:30 p.m. $15. www. athenscine.com KIDSTUFF: Own Your Media (Madison County Library) Film and edit a movie with Windows Movie Maker. Create, print and mail a zine.

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

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Splashdown 2012 (Bishop Park) Celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the historic moon landing with a nighttime swim in the pool, arts and crafts and astronomy activities. All ages. 7-8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3589 PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Go Bar) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists. 10 p.m. 706-5465609

Saturday 21 ART: Opening Reception (ATHICA) For the new exhibition, “Emerges V: The Synthetic Mind.” Nine artists synthesize perception and awareness using a variety of approaches, from the neurobiological to sociological.

In so doing, they capture and recreate the many ways we perceive and experience the world around us. 7-9 p.m. FREE! www.athica.org CLASSES: SAFE Course (American Black Belt Academy) Sexual Assault Fundamental Escapes is a workshop designed to help you develop skills to evade danger and defend yourself against physical assault. 10 a.m.

FREE! 706-549-1671, www.americanblackbelt.org CLASSES: Bellydancing Workshops (Floorspace) Drumming with Marcus (11 a.m.–1 p.m.), Romany style bellydancing with Christy of Sulukule (1:15–3

p.m.) and Basket ATS with Jaki of Jahara Pheonix (3:15–5 p.m.). $30, $75 (all three classes). www. floorspace.com/wp/events/midsummerdanc EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts.

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

This week, the Taste Your Pie Contest. Bring two pies per recipe and $5 to enter or to taste both sweet and savory pies. 8 a.m.–12 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Nuçi’s Space Percentage Day at Menchies (Menchie’s, Barnett Shoals Rd.) A percentage of all frozen yogurt sales will help support Nuçi’s Space. 11 a.m.–11 p.m. www.nuci.org EVENTS: Camp Amped Grand Finale (Nuçi’s Space) Participants of Camp Amped Session 2 show off the culmination of their hard work by performing the songs they’ve learned over the past two weeks. 7–9 p.m.

FREE! www.nuci.org EVENTS: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) Presented by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society. Live music

by Kenney-Blackmon String Band. Vicki Herndon is calling.

Free 30-minute lesson beginning at 7:30 p.m. No experience or partner needed. 7:30–11 p.m. FREE! (under 18), $7 (adults). www.contradanceathens.com EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse) Fresh produce, meats and other farm products. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeecountyobservations. blogspot.com FILM: Carving Up Oconee: A Rural County Fights for Its Future (Oconee County Library) A documentary about Bishop and Farmington communities in Oconee County working together to save

their farmland surroundings from big developers. Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Celestea Sharp. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 FILM: Darius Goes West (CinĂŠ) Multi-award-winning documentary about Darius Weems, a young adult afflicted with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy who embarked on a 7,000 mile road trip across the U.S. to promote awareness of the disease and raise money for a cure. 7:30 p.m. $5. www.athenscine.com FILM: Junebug (Georgia Museum of Art) A comedy about an artist who marries a small-town, Southern man and has to learn the ways of Southern family dynamics. In conjunction with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;John Baederâ&#x20AC;? exhibit. 7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.com KIDSTUFF: Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Author Visit (Avid Bookshop) Kacy Allen Tedder, author of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book Fly, Sally, Fly! A True Story of Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flight to Freedom, reads aloud and signs copies. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com KIDSTUFF: Family Day: Fun with Folk Art (Georgia Museum of Art) Take a look at the exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;Southern Folk Art from the Permanent Collection,â&#x20AC;? then head to the Michael and Mary Erlanger Studio Classroom to make works of art using cardboard, paint and collage materials. 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.com KIDSTUFF: Saturday at the Rock (Rock Eagle 4H Center) Navigate Rock Eagle Lake by canoe. 9:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:30 a.m. $5. 706-484-2862, www. rockeagle4h.org KIDSTUFF: Nature Trading Post (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Trade one or two objects found in nature for points or other nature objects in the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection. 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 LECTURES AND LIT: Community Snapshot: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Sportsâ&#x20AC;? (Boys & Girls Club) Baby boomers talk about their lifelong involvement in

sports and volunteerism. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650, www.boomersinathens.com OUTDOORS: Family Time Paddles (Sandy Creek Park) Families are invited to paddle around Lake Chapman. Participants may rent or bring their own canoes and kayaks. Pre-registration required.

9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 a.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12. 706-613-3631 OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. Call to register. 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 OUTDOORS: Shape Up in the Park (Southeast Clarke Park) Halfday of outdoor fitness and wellness classes, including tai chi, yoga, Pilates, Zumba and more. Bring water and yoga mat. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3871 PERFORMANCE: Mid-Summer Dance Party (Go Bar) Live drumming and performances by a dozen bellydancers. 8 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7. www. floorspaceathens.com/wp/events/ midsummerdanc

Sunday 22 EVENTS: Summer â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Wasteâ&#x20AC;?

Block Party (West Broad Market Garden) A potluck and casserole contest cohosted by the Athens Land Trust. Bring a casserole or side dish and your own plate and utensils, then chow down on BBQ, watch demos on canning, and listen to music. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. www.localplace.org GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m. FREE! www. thecapitalroom.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Amici) First place receives $50 and second place receives $25. 9 p.m. www. amici-cafe.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 23 CLASSES: Yoga Classes (Oconee County Library) Certified instructor Celia Brooks teaches Integral Hatha Yoga. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat or beach towel. 5:55 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 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 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706543-8997 KIDSTUFF: Movie on the Lawn: Super 8 (Oconee County Library) Celebrate the hot summer with popcorn, soda and a giant viewing of the exciting sci-fi adventure, Super 8, rated PG-13. Bring a blanket to sit on or borrow one from the library.

Ages 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture language skills.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 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 THEATRE: Chekhov at CinĂŠ (CinĂŠ) The Town and Gown Players present a staged live reading of Anton Chekhovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Reluctant Tragic Hero, The Festivities and Swan Song. Readings by Bryn Adamson,

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The Georgia Guidestones Movie screening CinĂŠ Mike Reser: legend chaser, independent documentarian, ESOL teacher. The mild-mannered South Carolinian doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of himself as a filmmaker, yet when speaking with Flagpole, he has just finished showing his first feature film, The Georgia Guidestones Movie, in Portland, for its second ever screening. He mildly reports that reactions are positive. And why wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they be? The charm of the Guidestones is as inexplicable as their existence.

The Guidestones are the strange residents of Elberton, GA: the self-proclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Granite Capital of the World,â&#x20AC;? located just an hour northeast of Athens. Six huge slabs of granite stand back from the road in an otherwise empty field, arranged in a circle according to astrological measurements. The stones bear inscriptions in 12 languages: instructions for the rebuilding of society should society fall, reputedly commissioned from the Elberton Granite Finishing Company by an anonymous man in 1979.

The legend surrounding the birth of the Guidestones is the culmination of old-school storytelling that Reser depicts by letting Elberton natives give their accounts and opinions. Reser also focuses his coverage on the actual fabrication of the stone slabs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;An important part of the Guidestonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; story is the monument-making process,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;?Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find very often in Guidestones-related [information].â&#x20AC;?

Naturally, questions, skepticism and distrust are part of the story as well, with some of the Southern townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religious residents protesting the display of a non-divine set of commandments. Reser argues that the stones are inextricable from the tourism in Elberton, and so their strange placement endures, delighting and confounding.

The Georgia Guidestones Movie screens at CinĂŠ on Friday night at 7:30 p.m., followed by a reception catered by Big City Bread and a Q&A with Reser. Local musician Kyle Dawkins, who wrote the soundtrack for the movie, will perform live after the discussion. This should be a treat, as Reser calls the music â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best part of the film.â&#x20AC;? [Sydney Slotkin]

LaBau Bryan, Steve Elliott-Gower and Allen Rowell. Directed by Gay McCommons. 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com

Tuesday 24 FILM: Bad Movie Night (CinĂŠ) David the Ninja uses the ancient art of hocus pocus to retrieve a stolen secret formula to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bacteriologicalâ&#x20AC;? weapon in American Commando Ninja. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine. com GAMES: Trivia (Changoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Shaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia 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 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 KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Led by UGA student volunteers from the Department of Language and Literacy Education.

4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Book Signing: Janisse Ray (Avid Bookshop) Janisse Ray, author of The Seed Underground, a chronicle of the current food revolution and the importance of saving our seeds, signs copies of her book. 4:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES AND LIT: Special Collections Library Tour (UGA Russell Library) Explore interactive kiosks with access to oral history interviews, historical film, video and sound recordings. Look for familiar faces from the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political history in Art Rosenbaumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mural, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doors.â&#x20AC;?

Every Tuesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706542-8079 OUTDOORS: Gardening at Night (State Botanical Garden) Water, weed and harvest by the light of the moon.

Discussions on lunar planting, biodynamics and plant lore. 6-8 p.m.

FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu 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

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CLASSES: Genealogy 102: Census Records Online (Oconee County Library) This class covers navigating the genealogy databases Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online. Registration required. 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 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.

4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net 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 (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday evening at 9 p.m. FREE! 706-5461102 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 (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train, y’all! Every Wednesday.

7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert (Oconee County Library) Kim James, Children’s Specialist at the ACC Library, shares stories, music and fun. All ages. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Frankentoys (Oconee County Library) Create new creatures by reassembling dolls, plush animals and old toys. Craft supplies, body parts and snacks provided to help construct new, terrifying monsters. Ages 11–18. 6-8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert (Madison County Library) ACC Library Children’s Specialist Kim James tells stories using music. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration. 3:30–4:30 p.m. $24.

706-613-3515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For children ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-351-6024.

LECTURES AND LIT: Oconee Democrats Book Group (Piccolo’s Italian Steak House) The community book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats will discuss Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451. 7 p.m. FREE! patricia.priest@yahoo.com

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

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.

LIVE MUSIC

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BEACH DAY South Florida band plays surf-inspired jangle-pop. See Calendar Pick on this page.

THE RODNEY KINGS Local trio plays scuzzed-out garage punk.

KOKO BEWARE Local surf-rock outfit will release its debut album next month.

MUUY BIIEN Damaged and propulsive garage-punk.

Tuesday 17 Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT Lo-fi, high-energy garage punk from Baltimore.

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

DAYS OF BEYOND THUNDER Mercer West and friends play lyrical pop songs “for the over-50 set.”

BLUE DIVISION Punk meets violin care of John Fernandes (Olivia Tremor Control).

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.

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.

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com RYAN MOORE Member of local band Brothers plays a set of classical guitar.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub BOWS AND ARROWS Nashville band plays reverb-soaked indie pop.

MOM AND DAD Based in Tennessee, this group plays fuzzed-out soulpunk.

DJ LOZO Spinning punk rock!

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 “show people how eclectic electric music really is.”

EMPTY WELLS Darnell Boys side project.

PRODUCEMAN AND TRIZ Darnell Boys’ Austin Darnell resurrects his hip-hop persona for a special set with DJ Triz.

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

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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 The tiki torch bearers of the R@R movement. Every Wednesday in July!

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 CATANISE MILHAS New project featuring members of Save Grand Canyon.

MINORCAN Asheville folk singer Ryan Anderson performs love songs with rough edges.

COWBOY MALOGNE Acoustic project from Paul Maloney.

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.

Little Kings Shuffle Club Gumball Machine Records July Showcase. 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub THE WARM FUZZIES Weezerinspired quirky local pop-rock outfit.

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

Thursday 19 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $20. www.40watt.com CLUTCH Hard-rock and funk-metal band from Maryland.

PRONG Influential industrial band formed in 1986. To date, the band has released seven studio albums.

LIONIZE Reggae-rock band.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com OUTER SPACES Band led by Cara Beth Satalino with Jacob Morris (bass) and Ben Salie (drums) playing lovely, lyrically driven indie rock.

CHESTER ENDERSBY GWAZDA Indie-pop engineer from Baltimore who has produced albums by Dan Deacon and Future Islands. See story on p. 14.

BAMBOO Duo from Baltimore.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com ADAM KLEIN Local songwriter plays a rustic blend of country, folk and Americana.

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THE CALENDAR!

Beach Day, The Rodney Kings, Koko Beware Caledonia Lounge With an official catalog that basically only consists of a newly released 7-inch single (“Get It Out of Your Head”), you may not be hip to Beach Day just yet. But chances are, you’ll soon be hearing much more about this young south Florida band; its stars are aligning in a way that suggests serious breakout Beach Day potential.

First off, and most importantly, this band is good. And not just on record, either—it’s the real McCoy live, too. Secondly, the cultural timing couldn’t be better for Beach Day’s garage-minded, girlgroup sound. The classic pop purity of the 1950s and ‘60s is white-hot right now, and a whole nü-wop generation has virtually taken over the indie world.

Look at the number of prominent indie-poppers tearing it up out there: Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Best Coast, Tennis, Cults, Seapony… the list goes on. While the abundance of these groups means the field is crowded, it also means a hip, sizable audience is already in place.

And Beach Day just so happens to be flat-out better than most of its contemporaries, thanks largely to the effortless, razor-sharp songwriting of frontwoman Kimmy Drake, whose commanding marquee voice somewhat resembles a punk-rock Ronnie Spector. (For proof of the band’s natural ability, witness its live set list, which seriously plays like an unbroken chain of singles.)

But the key element that may just make these three Sunshine State kids an honestto-God success story is that they were signed recently to tastemaking Brooklyn indie imprint Kanine Records—the very label that broke fellow Floridian phenom Surfer Blood.

Indeed, if there’s any indie group out there that’s ready to pop, it’s Beach Day. Wednesday’s bill, which also includes local jangle-trash groups Koko Beware and The Rodney Kings, is sure to make for a busted beach party to remember. [Bao Le-Huu]

JESSE PAYNE Minimalist chamber folk similar to Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes, from Birmingham, AL. Georgia Theatre On the rooftop! 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com SAM SNIPER Post-alternative, country-fried twang with big, anthemic choruses, joyful harmonies and a strong pop sensibility.

ROADKILL GHOST CHOIR Folkinfluenced rock six-piece from Deland, FL. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club Kickoff Show! 11 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/lkshuffleclub SLOPFEST The weekend-long festival kicks off with a free show. See story and schedule lineup on p. 15.

Max 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 THE WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul featuring three vocalists and charismatic harmonies.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $7. www.meltingpointathens. com PEELANDER-Z Japanese punk band from outer space with a secret Earth

base buried beneath NYC. Like the Power Rangers meets The Ramones.

TIGER! TIGER! Four-piece co-ed rock and roll with a Clash-like edge.

LAZER/WULF This avant-metal instrumental trio mixes in prog, thrash as well as more eclectic influences for a high-energy and highly entertaining live show.

The Office Lounge Blues Night. 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece. This is an open jam and guests are welcome!

Your Pie 8–Midnight. FREE! www.yourpie.com (Downtown location) LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country. Every Thursday in July!

Friday 20 106 West 8 p.m. FREE! www.106west.com THE CRASH YEARS Emotional rock band led by keyboardist and vocalist Joel Cox. POCKET DREAMS Light, happy folk music.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com THE ATHENS BAND High-energy teen rockers with classic rock influences, big riffs and anthemic choruses.

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

Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 GRANNY’S GIN Funk-rock band from Augusta.

The Bury 6 p.m. FREE! 706-612-1650.

LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com GRINNIN’ BEAR Rockabilly, Americana, blues and country.

HOLY LIARS Gritty, whiskeypoundin’, law-breakin’ Southern rock band.

THE LEOTARDS With jangly guitars and upbeat, half-shouted vocals, this Atlanta band calls to mind acts like Abe Vigoda and No Age. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com OLD YOU Bluesy rock band from Charleston.

FUNK YOU Progressive funk band from Augusta.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Melissa Colbert-Taylor’s going away show! 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com NEVER Psychedelic, swirling guitars and layers of ambiance pierced by Melissa Colbert-Taylor’s howling, cathartic vocals. Last show (n)ever!

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JIM WILSON’S TAXICAB VERSES New local group/recording project inspired by Jim Wilson’s time spent doing field recordings in Ghana.

GRAPE SODA This local duo (sometimes trio) plays soulful, psychedelic

synth-pop driven by organ and drums.

HELEN SCOTT Special stripped-down acoustic set from Emileigh Ireland and Lindsay Jane Haddad.

and rock music featuring his own unique mixes and mash-ups.

DJ Z-DOG Loveable local DJ spins top 40 hits, old school hip-hop, high energy rock and other favorites.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop! 8 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com WHITE VIOLET Longtime singersongwriter Nate Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solid band features the same sweet, heartfelt indie-pop melodies for which he is known.

KALEN NASH This songwriter known for his work in Southern rock quintet Ponderosa plays his solo material.

DANIEL ROMANO Country music artist celebrates his latest album, Sleep Beneath the Willow.

LILLY HIATT & THE DROPPED PONIES Indie Americana from Nashville, TN. RONNIE FAUSS Singer/songwriter of heartfelt Americana.

Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 AIRSPACE EXPANSION PROJECT Members of Elastic Skyline and Chromazone have joined together to combine funky jazz rhythms and soaring melodic jams.

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

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

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE GROWLERS Playing reverbdrenched gypsy-surf the band has dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;beach goth.â&#x20AC;?

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS This Atlanta/Athens group plays breezy, beachy Americana.

FLORIDA KILOS Sunshine Stateinspired dancy surf-rock.

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

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com KLEZMER LOCAL 42 A local sevenpiece Klezmer band specializing in Jewish and gypsy music and featuring Dan Horowitz of Five Eight.

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.

Kumquat Mae Bakery CafĂŠ 6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-1105 SCOTT LOW Local indie-folkster frontman for Efren plays a solo set.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 7 p.m. $6. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub SLOPFEST The weekend-long festival offers a new band every thirty minutes, beginning at 7 p.m. See story and schedule on p. 15.

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

The Melting Point Totally â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s Party! 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com THE HIGHBALLS A totally awesome set of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s dance hits.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 DUSTIN WILKES A Jefferson native who plays straightforward countryrock, Wilkes appeared on the USA reality series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nashville Star.â&#x20AC;?

Saturday 21 40 Watt Club 4 on the Floor! 10 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock.

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

DJ WINSTON PARKER AKA DJ Graverobbers, Winston spins dance

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net MAD WHISKEY GRIN Masterful local guitarist Frank Williams slides and finger-picks his way through bluesy, American sounds. (8 a.m.)

KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This engaging local songwriter and music therapist performs a unique fusion of acoustic folk and soul. (10 a.m.)

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com LARA POLANGCO Homegrown Revival musician plays a set backed

by Eddie Glikken and John Keane.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 7 p.m. $6. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub SLOPFEST The festival concludes with some raucous performances.

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The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 EMILY JACKSON Self-taught folk singer-songwriter on the rise.

Sunday 22 Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com OSTERTAG DJs Daffy Duck and Tayroxx perform relaxed and vibedout versions of their normal sets.

Ten Pins Tavern 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE BOWLING ALLEY BLUES BAND Featuring locals Paul Scales, Randy Durham, John Straw, Dave Herndon and Scott Sanders playing blues jams.

Viva! Argentine Cuisine 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8284 RED STONE RAMBLERS A couple acoustic guitars and a bass, playing front porch folk Americana.

Farm 255 Skate Park of Athens Benefit! 11 p.m. www.farm255.com RITUALS New band featuring members of Muuy Biien.

PISS SHIVERS Surf-inspired punk from Tuscaloosa, AL. DOZEN EGGS New project from Henry Barbe (Justified True Belief).

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com RUBY KENDRICK Local singersongwriter with a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics.

THE WOODEN WINGS Femalefronted alt group from New Orleans, influenced by Fleetwood Mac.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com RADIO MOSCOW California trio plays â&#x20AC;&#x153;super-heavy, lysergic-laced rock.â&#x20AC;?

DIRTY STREETS A blend of protopunk and late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s psych-rock.

UTAH Explosively loud metal and hardcore duo.

ROYAL THUNDER Rifftastic rock band from Atlanta.

Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 MARK CUNNINGHAM & THE NATIONALS Local band plays soulful, heartfelt Americana.

Georgia Theatre Darius Goes West benefit. On the rooftop! 10 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre. com DJ TAYROXX New local DJ drops soul/funk/hip hop and R&B cuts to get your booty bouncinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

ELITE THA SHOWSTOPPA Gravelvoiced rapper Elite tha Showstoppa is one of Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; favorite hip-hop personalities.

DUDDY KEN Also known as Dirt Reynolds, this local rapper has collaborated with Bubba Sparxxx.

BIG DADDY WEEMS Darius Weems of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Darius Goes Westâ&#x20AC;? fame performs several of his new raps.

The Globe 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 BLUE DIVISION Punk meets violin care of John Fernandes (Olivia Tremor Control).

DUDE MAGNETS Noisy chaos.

CLASSY NUDE Lo-fi raw-doggery from Austin, TX. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ CHAMPALE Also known as Will Stephenson, this WUOG DJ brings the booth to the bar.

Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southwest CafĂŠ 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens LINE DANCING Learn to line dance in the Big Back Room!

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ICARUS HIMSELF Electro-tinged Madison, WI group.

OULIPO Raleigh band deals in abstract electronica.

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

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Local songstress Kyshona Armstrong hosts this open mic night.

Tuesday 24 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com I COME TO SHANGHAI â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bong-waveâ&#x20AC;? duo from Oakland, CA. MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL Rachel Evans plays ambient, bliss-inducing drone.

GRANT EVANS Evans uses tape loops and electronics to create whirling soundscapes.

Georgia Theatre Rooftop Dance Party! 11 p.m. $2. www. georgiatheatre.com HANK & CUPCAKES Pop duo from Brooklyn mixing aggressive vocals with catchy electronic beats.

IMMUZIKATION Dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock.

Go Bar 10 p.m. $4. 706-546-5609 KATE AND COREY This couple performs acoustic alt country music.

THE DANIELS BROTHERS Southern rock duo from Atlanta.

JOSHUA FLETCHER AND THE SIX-SHOT ROMANCE This Atlanta act plays heartfelt Americana.

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.

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com RYAN MOORE Member of local band Brothers plays classical guitar.

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com BLUEBILLY GRIT Live bluegrass.

Performing originals and some surprising covers.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TRIZ Local electro mainstay sets up shop all summer every Tuesday.

THE CATANISE/MILHAS EXPERIENCE New project featuring members of Save Grand Canyon.

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

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Georgia Theatre At Sunset on the Roof. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com KINKY WAIKIKI The tiki torch bearers of the R@R movement. 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 Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

The Winery 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0095 LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country.

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CLASSES Beginners Sewing Course (Community) A six-week beginner class that covers how to thread and use sewing machines and make simple projects. Sewing machine required. Wednesdays, July 11–Aug. 18, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $120, 706-316-2067 Bellydance & Bollywood Classes (Floorspace) Basic and advanced bellydance for women of all ages. Thursdays, 5:45 p.m. & 7 p.m. Bollywood class. Sundays, 3 p.m. $12 (drop-in), $60 (6 classes). www.floorspaceathens.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) 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-on-

one 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.mind fuliving.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. Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 706353-6030, www.fitnessatfive.com SALSAthens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes. Every Wednesday, 6:307:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL 125 Buddy Christian Way • 706-613-3540

Open every day except Wednesday 10am-4pm This pup loves everybody! He’s excited to meet you and ready to play. He’s a two year old Poodle mix with a lot of puppy energy.

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HELP OUT BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program (Chase Street Warehouses) BikeAthens needs bicycle repair help. 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

Very beautiful Bluetick Hound is a gentle girl, a bit shy. She’s recently been a mama and is in the process of getting her girlish figure back.

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p.m. (beginners). $8 (incl. $3.50 drink). 706-338-6613 Sangha Yoga Classes (Healing Arts Centre) Several types of ongoing yoga classes are offered for various levels, including therapeutic yoga, beginner and Movement into Stillness yoga. Visit website for details. www.healingartscentre.net Yoga Teacher Training (Athens, Ga) Yoga teacher and RYT200 certification course.

Saturdays, Aug. 11–Dec. 15, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $1450. www.yogaful day.com

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Ben Rouse’s artwork is on display at Flicker Theatre & Bar through July.

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. 1-800RED CROSS, www.redcross.org Foster Dog Parent Program (The Athens Area Humane Society) Foster a dog, taking it from a euthanization center before placing it in a permanent home. All supplies for the dogs are provided. 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.

Media Drive (Oconee County Library) Now accepting donations of gently used books, DVDs and CDs until Sept. 14. Books can be left in the lobby. All proceeds benefit the library.

Peace Place (Athens, Ga) Volunteer training in September to help victims of domestic abuse. Opportunities include babysitting, court escorting, donating goods or financial resources, working in a thrift store and more. Applications online. 706755-1100, sbruckner@peaceplace inc.org, www.peaceplaceinc.org/ volunteer_intern.html

KIDSTUFF ACC Leisure Fall Program Registration (Athens, Ga) Fall youth sports and after-school programs open for registration July 28.

Registration takes place at the site of the program. Visit website for list of programs. July 28, 9 a.m. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts and crafts and allows children to create original artwork. Ages 6–15.

Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30– 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 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. Register. Thursdays in August. 10–10:45 a.m. $12–18.

706-613-3615, www.athensclarke county.com/sandycreeknaturecenter Back to School Bingo (Rocksprings Community Center) Play bingo and win school supplies!

Ages 6–13. Call to register. July 26, 2:30–4 p.m. $2. 706-613-3603 Back to School Bingo (Parkview Community Center) Play bingo and win school supplies!

Ages 6–13. Call to register by July 20. July 24, 2:30–4 p.m. $2.

706-613-3603 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

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Fashion Design Summer Camp (Community) Learn fashion design, illustration, basic sewing skills and how to put on a runway show. For fashion lovers ages 13–17. Lunch provided. July 16-20, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $375. 706-3162067 Half-Pint Summer Art Camp (Pints and Paints) Week-long camps for ages 5-8 and 9-13. Participants will learn basic painting techniques and show off their masterpieces on the last day of the session. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $45 (day), $255 (week). www.pintsand paints.com 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 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 dates, age requirements and costs. $125 (ages 3–5), $165 (ages 6–12). www.tree housekidandcraft.tumblr.com 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 Reading Program (Clarke Central High School) Students and families can sign up for the summer reading program to read books and earn prizes.

ON THE STREET Free Chair Massages (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Sit down for a midweek massage break at The Spa. Call to reserve spot. Every Wednesday in July, 12-2 p.m. 706-425-9700

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.athens humanesociety.org Open Table Tennis (Oconee Veterans Park) Equipment provided.

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

706-769-3965 Primp Your Pit(bull) (The Athens Area Humane Society) Discounted spays to bully-breed dogs in August. Call to make an appointment. $20. 706-769-9155, www.athenshumanesociety.org Tomcat Tuesdays and Puppy Packages (The Athens Area Humane Society) Discounted male cat and puppy neuters. Through July. www.athenshumanesociety.org

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 Tom Phillips, Larry Hamilton, Cheri Wranosky, John Weber 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.

SUPPORT Athens Mothers’ Center Support Group (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Mothers’ support group. Children welcome. Dads welcome on Fridays. Tuesdays and Fridays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! athensga.motherscenter.org Emotional Abuse Support Group (Athens, Ga) Childcare provided. Call for location. Every Wednesday. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771.

Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program.

Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org Survive and Revive (Athens, Ga) Support for survivors of domestic violence. Second and fourth Tuesdays in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays in Madison County.

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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 Andrew Barger and Erin Lovett. Through Aug. 4.

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

by Will L. Through July.

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

SIPS ESPRESSO CAFE (1390 Prince Ave.) Acrylic paintings by Johnny Gordon. Through August.

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. Through July 29.

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

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins My best friend of 12 years is getting married next month to a man who is at least emotionally abusive, controlling and, by her own admission, has a bad temper. They have been together less than a year, and they originally hooked up when she was on the rebound from a five-year relationship. She has never introduced me to her fiancé, even though I was recently in the same city for a month. When I was there I wanted to see my friend, but I didn’t have a car, and her fiancé didn’t allow her to come visit me. She still calls me her best friend, yet she doesn’t seem to find it strange that she’s marrying someone I’ve never met and who has never wanted to meet me and who forbids her to visit me.

I’ve never really told her my concerns about her fiancé, but I think she knows a little about how I feel about him. It’s important to her that I attend her wedding, but I don’t want to appear in support of the marriage, and I don’t know if I can be a happy wedding guest. She lives five hours away, and I would have to borrow my boyfriend’s car and leave him without a car. Should I go to the wedding? Should I make an excuse and hope she’ll still be my friend?

Should I tell her the truth about her fiancé and risk losing the friendship completely?

Thanks, Confused Wedding Invitee You need to talk to her right now. Get on the phone, tell her you need to see her ASAP. Tell her it is important and it can’t wait. Don’t tell her what it’s about, because she might not come. Make it seem like you need her advice or for her to help you with something—that way she will be less likely to ignore your request. Meet her somewhere halfway if need be, or just drive straight to her house (a much better reason to borrow your boyfriend’s car than a terrifying wedding) and tell her you’re taking her out for lunch, or coffee, or a drink, or whatever.

Then, sit her down and tell her that she is missing obvious warning signs about this guy.

Be prepared. Have statistics. Have stories.

Do whatever you have to that you know will actually get through to her. At very least, see if you can convince her to postpone this wedding. What could possibly be the hurry if they have been together for less than a year?

You haven’t said anything about how the rest of the people in her life are reacting to this guy. Do you think you’re the only one who sees it? Do you think it might be worth talking to somebody else to help back you up?

You can’t worry about losing the friendship.

This is a person that you refer to as your best friend. If you don’t do something, she will be lost to you anyway. Don’t even worry about the wedding—you probably shouldn’t go to it, regardless. Right now you should focus on trying to stop it instead. Good luck.

I am 22 and I look really young. I mean, I look, like, 12. And I hate it. Every time I go out with my friends, it takes forever for me to get in everywhere because they assume my ID is fake. People at my job don’t take me very seriously because they assume I don’t know

what I’m talking about. Customers always want to talk to somebody else, but I’m the one with the most experience! And the new boyfriend?

He is 26, and every person in his family whom I have met has remarked about how young I look, like he’s being some kind of pedophile or something! I am frustrated and annoyed, and I don’t know what to do. Please help.

Tiny Tina The only thing you can do is be patient, TT. The people checking our ID are just worried about going to jail, and your boyfriend’s family is probably worried about him going to jail.

At work? Just know your shit and explain it very patiently to the customers, as if you were talking to a child. When they ask to speak to somebody else, you can sweetly say, “I’ll be happy to get so and so, but since I have been here longer, I can tell you he/she is going to say exactly the same thing.” People are ignorant, TT, and most of them are not trying to be jerks. There are worse problems to have. Just think of how nice it will be when you’re 40 and you look 32!

I have a problem that I hope you can help me with. My best friend is a woman. We have known each other for 20 years, and she is like a sister to me. We have always been pretty close and helped each other out, given each other advice, etc. So, I am getting married next year and I want her to stand up in the wedding. The problem is I don’t know how to do it. I mean, I can’t exactly ask her to be the best man and then expect her to organize the bachelor party and wear a tux, right? Not that there will be strips clubs and cigars involved, mind you, but still, I don’t see her wanting to hang out with just the guys, and I think putting her on my side in the wedding party would be weird. But then, my lady has all of her friends standing up, and my best friend isn’t friends with them, so I don’t want to force her to participate in the bachelorette and wear matching dresses with a bunch of people she doesn’t know. What should I do? I want to honor our friendship but I am at a loss.

Best Is Not a Man What about asking her to participate in the ceremony by doing a reading or something? Unless she is shy, or nervous about public speaking, in which case, that would be like punishing her for being such a good friend. Have you asked your bride-to- be? In my experience, the bride more often than not has a plan, or at very least an idea of how every aspect of her wedding should go. I think you should check with her first. Barring that, have you thought about actually asking your friend? I mean, you said she has always given you good advice. Maybe she can think of a way that she can participate that would make sense. Or, hell, maybe you will find out that she is really flattered that you asked, but that she doesn’t need to be recognized in that way, and prefers not to participate. Sorry if I’m not much help, but I’ve found that not getting involved in other people’s wedding plans has served me well over the years.

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Wurlitzer Spinet piano. 1970-1980s, good condition, recently refurbished. Model # 2120, serial #1579812. Bench included. $550. (706) 7427045.

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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.

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Wedding bands. 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.

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Services Cleaning House Cleaning..

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

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

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grub notes It’s a Burritoful Life is the norm for most on-the-go Mex, and the salsa comes in woefully small containers, but the place is well run and satisfying.

In my heart of hearts, I may still prefer Willy’s, due to its excellent Sinaloa tofu, quieter atmosphere and, to be honest, familiarity. It also has a salsa bar, as do Moe’s and Barberitos (except for the Tate Student Center location), and perhaps the best salsa of any fast-casual in town, which is not to say its sauces can live up to the salsa roja at, say, Sr. Sol, which also serves a knife-and-forkrequiring, decidedly unhealthy but amazing and delicious burrito of its own. Both Willy’s and Moe’s house Coca-Cola Freestyle machines, which enable a rainbow of soda choices out of one nozzle and are a big attraction for kids.

The younger set in general is probably best directed to Moe’s, where your progeny can eat for free on Monday nights, but the silly names Fiona Nolan

The opening of Chipotle (165 Alps Rd.) in a brand-new building on the spot of the former Package Warehouse has provoked much excitement in this town, similar to the reaction of Bethel, AK to the news it was getting a Taco Bell, only with a happier ending. If you’ve attempted to navigate its small and tight parking lot only to find yourself pulling an Austin Powers at the end with no throughtraffic, you can attest to its popularity. The chain, previously funded by McDonald’s but no longer, is yet another fast-casual Mexican joint, in the same genre as Moe’s Southwest Grill and Willy’s Mexicana Grill, both of which have locations a short walk away. So, what sets it apart? The answer required some gustatory research and inspired a lot of burrito consumption, resulting in this conclusion: where you get your burrito kind of depends on your priorities.

Chipotle The two main things Chipotle has going for it are simplicity and ethics. There are choices, but the menu isn’t large and the selections after you pick your protein or lack of one are limited: black or pinto beans; mild, medium or hot salsa; chips or no chips; etc. It’s loud in the restaurant, especially at the moment, when it seems to be operating at capacity, so you may have to yell or ask the staff to repeat themselves, but everyone remains in good humor. One of the corporation’s mottos is “Food with Integrity,” meaning that it avoids products from animals raised with antibiotics or hormones and attempts to use organic and/ or local produce when practical. Sure, it’s not Farm 255 and Chipotle has had public squabbles here and there, but for a fast-food restaurant, its decisions are admirable, and the chain’s promotion of its values has undoubtedly influenced others in the field.

Your options are: burrito, burrito bowl, tacos (hard- or soft-shell) or a salad, plus sides of chips, salsa and guacamole. Pricing is straightforward, and the line moves speedily.

Really, unless you’re counting calories, what you want is a burrito. The tacos are fine, but they can’t stand up to the juiciness of their contents. Sometimes even the burritos can’t, and an explosion near the end of the line means doubling down on the tortilla element.

The meat (barbacoa, carnitas, grilled chicken or steak) has good taste and texture and doesn’t feel like it’s been boosted with artificial flavorings. The chips kind of suck, which

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of the menu items, the loud “Welcome to Moe’s” with which you’re greeted on entering and the excess of choice in ingredients such as cucumbers and grilled mushrooms get on my nerves. The steak also tastes a bit much like some Platonic ideal of “steak,” but the chips are a small step up from most.

Barberitos may not actually be healthier than most of its competition, but it’s done a good job promoting itself that way and, like Moe’s, it offers a 10-inch-tortilla-rolled, smaller burrito as a lower-cal option. The locally based chain also offers more menu items than the norm, with fajitas and quesadillas alongside the burritos, tacos and salads.

Finally, there’s The Taco Stand, operating for almost 30 years in Athens. The pleasure of T-Stand is the potential lack of choice: all you have to do is give your order once, specify your preference for sauce and hang out while the folks in the kitchen assemble your food.

There’s considerably less thinking involved, which makes it ideal for pick-up at the end of a nine-hour workday, and the specialty burritos in particular (Baja, Herschel) can hold their ground against any of the big boys’ offerings. The chips may be extra, but they’re also greasier, saltier and, therefore, better than some burrito places in town.

Chipotle does lunch and dinner every day, is working on a liquor license, takes credit cards and has a patio.

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