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One evening as a freshman at the university, I espied my English teacher, Dr. Tom Waller, enjoying a Budweiser with his hamburger steak at Poss’ Drive-In, the popular Atlanta Highway joint. My social values had been formed by the Methodist Church, and I was taken aback to see this other side of Dr. Waller: drinking—in public. The revelation that Dr. Waller apparently enjoyed a life of his own outside the classroom was difficult for me to grasp.

English professors sometimes get a bad rap, maybe because some of them do get a bit pushy with their book learning. But the best ones attain a kind of zen balance between knowing and teaching; they instruct through their presence, through their love of life, because their subject is all of life, as refracted through literature. Let me try that again. The best ones aren’t teaching books, they’re teaching life, and of course it helps if they know their subject.

Another of our English professor friends died last week.

George Marshall had been retired a long time, and he was 90 years old and still had his wit about him. He, too, had a life outside the classroom (and he George Marshall was masterful inside it, from all reports). had a life within George Marshall knew about living, because he plunged into the classroom it as a young boy and didn’t stop and outside it. relishing the activity and people around him until his own full life came to an end. He had a sunny, gregarious nature; he loved to be where people were together, doing things. At the same time he had the discipline to do his academic work, to earn his doctorate and pursue scholarship along with his teaching. He also involved himself in his community, becoming a stalwart in efforts to preserve our built heritage and to help us understand who we are and whence we came. Moreover, he was active within academia, working for the basic support of those who do the work, helping to secure for his colleagues the retirement benefits that are as important as the salary.

George Marshall had a life within the classroom and outside it, with a two-way flow between his studies and his many other interests; his experience informed his teaching, and his learning provided the examination that made life worth living.

He had humor, presence and substance; he was immersed in life, even when physical debility slowed him down. He participated enthusiastically as his amanuensis, his wife Charlotte Thomas Marshall, grew in stature to become a meticulous and eminently readable local historian while he supported her with his superb editing and proofreading skills.

Fortunately, George Marshall left us a couple of autobiographical volumes that help us understand who he was and how he got that way. In these books he also shows us how to wield the written word like a surveying instrument, laying down precise lines in order for us to get the picture. The Sunshine of My Happy Youth tells us about his boyhood enthusiasms, and My World War II is a collection of letters he wrote home from the combat zone in Europe, demonstrating that even right out of college, he was a clear-eyed observer and lively storyteller. These books are no doubt available in both the UGA and the ACC libraries, and they make accessible to us the experiences of a fellow Georgian who “saw life clearly and saw it whole.” What is not in the libraries is a monograph George wrote about the three years he was a tuberculosis patient after the war, when his life was put on hold, his engagement dissolved, his career evaporated and his life was circumscribed to a bed in a TB ward, from which he was not expected to emerge. He did get out, with the redoubled zest for life that helped make him the marvelous man we mourn.

Sadly, at just about the same time we learned of George’s death came word that we had also lost Mary Anne Hodgson, another of our Athenians committed to preserving and illuminating the shards of our history that help us piece together the coherence of our community. Mary Anne was intelligent, charming and beautiful, and she was a heroine to her family and a credit to her town.

George Marshall and Mary Anne Hodgson are now a part of the history they so greatly valued. Their lives remind us that our own are also enhanced when we embrace knowledge, friendship, family and community.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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Don’t Call It a Comeback: We haven’t heard the last of state Rep. Doug McKillip, R-Athens.

Fresh off a 63-vote loss to fellow Republican Regina Quick, he may be eyeing a return to office somewhere down the road—and not necessarily in Athens. Flagpole caught up with him last week for what appears to be his first interview since the day after the July 31 election.

The three-term lawmaker, a lifelong Athenian, recently put his Five Points house on the market. While his social life in the liberal neighborhood is probably not what it once was during his days as a Democrat, McKillip says he might stick around and run in Athens again someday, if an opportunity presents itself. Or, he might pack up and move if a seat opens up somewhere else.

“I guess it’s fair to say I’m open to everything,” he says. “At 42, I’m not done with public service. I think I still have a lot to offer… I would definitely look at folks around who aren’t running or who are running for something else.”

next year or so, he says. He harbors no ill will about the nasty tone of his race against Quick or his slim margin of defeat. “It’s a full contact sport,” he says. “We did what we wanted to do.”

And, yes, he still says the political flip-flop that spun more heads than Magic Mountain was sincere. “I’m a Republican,” he says.

“I feel at home here. That’s not going to change.”

Expect More of This: Land planner Jon Williams asked the Athens-Clarke Planning Commission last week to let him tweak the plans for a small, long-dormant subdivision off Cleveland Road. “We all know what’s going on a half-mile down the road,” Williams said. “It could be an opportunity for some workforce housing.”

And so it begins. The new Caterpillar plant in Bogart, slated to open late next year, is going to lead to sprawling new development of all types if we’re not careful. The planning commission rightfully recommended approving Williams’ request on Thursday, but others won’t be such easy calls.

A developer withdrew two rezoning applications last week for a drive-through restaurant and a convenience store near a residential neighborhood across Highway 78 from Caterpillar. Those commercial developments were slated for residential lots that homeowners in a partiallyabandoned subdivision had expected to host a swimming pool and other amenities. The Athens-Clarke Commission held strong last Tuesday, but they’ll be sorely tempted to approve similar requests that encroach on neighborhoods, lest they be labeled anti-business.

Sculpt Local: Oh, and the commission also unanimously approved a $150,000 sculpture for the Classic Center atrium that’s scheduled to open by March, hopefully signaling the end of the wailing and gnashing of teeth over public art during You won’t have Rep. Doug McKillip to kick around anymore. discussions about the new jail last year.

Or maybe you will.

Public art, especially in public places like the Classic Center, is a worthwhile This is total speculation, but state Sen. expense that makes our city more attracBill Cowsert, R-Athens, is an oft-mentioned tive and creates jobs, as an Athens Area Arts candidate for higher office. U.S. Sen. Saxby Council study set to be released today will Chambliss is sure to draw tea party opposino doubt reveal. It would have been nice, tion in 2014, which could open up another though, if the Cultural Affairs Commission seat. Almost every statewide post is up for turned to one of the many talented local grabs in two years, so if any incumbents step artists here in Athens, rather than hire somedown, the ensuing musical chairs will leave body from the faraway land of Missouri. even more open seats. Maybe Paul Broun gets caught with a hooker. Who knows?

A Public Service Announcement: This is McKillip’s connections in Atlanta, his extremely last-minute, but it should be of fundraising ability and the likelihood of Quick interest to the legions of local policy wonks, running afoul of both the GOP leadership and both amateur and professional. The think tank her Democratic supporters mean he’d stand Georgia Forward is holding its annual confera good chance of winning his seat back, if ence today and Thursday at the Classic Center, he chose to go that route. After all, the circovering topics like transportation, health cumstances of this year’s primary aren’t likely care, poverty and economic development. to repeat themselves. About 1,500 people in An agenda is at georgiaforward.org. Walk-up the district who’d never voted in a Republican tickets are $175 or $125 for nonprofits. If primary before—most of them likely crossover that’s too rich for your blood, I’ll be posting Democrats angered by McKillip’s party switch dispatches to Flagpole.com. and abortion bill—picked up GOP ballots.

In addition, the Athens-Clarke Water “I’m going to take a stab at it—pretty few Conservation Office is looking for volunteers voted for me,” he says. “But that’s OK. That’s to help clean up Athens waterways during the politics.” annual Rivers Alive event on Oct. 6. For more He says he’s in no rush to make up his information, visit www.handsonnortheastgeormind and is focused right now on an upcomgia.org or call 706-613-3615. ing family vacation to Disney World. He’ll make a decision on his political future in the Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

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After many years of watching Georgia’s politicians, I’ve concluded that our voters surely do like scoundrels—if they didn’t, they wouldn’t keep electing so many of them to public office. This tradition was exemplified by Eugene Talmadge, who once told a campaign audience, “Sure I stole, but I stole for you!”

Talmadge won nearly every time he ran for governor in the 1930s and 1940s.

This history of overlooking personal behavior and voting for someone anyway lives on today. Consider the example of a couple of politicians from North Georgia, U.S. Rep. Tom Graves of Ranger and state Sen. Chip Rogers of Woodstock. Graves and Rogers borrowed $2.25 million in 2009 from Bartow County Bank to purchase and renovate a dilapidated motel in Calhoun that was known by the nickname the “Methamphetamine Six.” That project did not go well, and by 2010 Bartow County Bank was suing both of them for defaulting on the loan.

The bank lawsuit also alleged that Graves transferred his home and other property into a revocable living trust “with the intent to defraud Lender in the collection of the obligations owed.”

In 2011, the bank collapsed and was sold off by regulators. The bank chairman told a reporter that the money it lent to Graves and Rogers “was one of the larger loans, and it contributed significantly (to the bank’s failure).”

This bank loan and resulting lawsuit were extensively reported by the media but evidently didn’t cause a bit of concern among voters. Graves won a special election for Congress in 2010 and had no opposition in the Republican primary when he ran this year.

Rogers easily defeated his primary opponent on July 31 and has no Democratic opposition for a fifth Senate term.

Sen. Cecil Staton (R-Macon) heads a company called Georgia Eagle Media that owes a substantial sum to a unit of state government. Georgia Southern University officials

have been trying for more than a year to get Georgia Eagle Media to pay $53,000 it owes from the radio broadcasts of GSU football games. Staton’s company has not paid up, and the matter has been turned over to a collection agency. Because of a Board of Regents policy, Georgia Southern is prevented from suing for the money and could end up having to write off the debt as non-collectible.

Staton had a tougher time in his Republican primary, but the district’s voters still picked him over Spencer Price by a 203vote margin. With no general election opposition, Staton has won another Senate term.

We have written before about Sen. Don Balfour (R-Snellville), who was recently fined $5,000 by the Senate Ethics Committee for submitting more than a dozen false expense claims with the state, covering days on which he was away being entertained by lobbyists. Balfour easily disposed of two opponents in his Republican primary and voters are expected to reelect him over a Democratic opponent in November.

Then there’s the case of Johnnie Caldwell of Thomaston, who was once a Superior Court judge. Caldwell resigned his judgeship abruptly in April 2010 over allegations he made sexually inappropriate remarks to a female attorney. Caldwell also signed a note promising to “never seek or accept judicial office again.”

Conduct that might force you from the bench, of course, doesn’t disqualify you from serving in the Legislature. Caldwell ran for an open legislative seat this summer, and nearly 52 percent of the district’s voters chose him in the GOP primary. With no opponent in the general election, Caldwell will take the oath of office in January to become a member of the Georgia House of Representatives.

I’m sure he’ll feel right at home.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

city pages UGA moves closer to partner benefits The University of Georgia is close to approving benefits for the partners of gay, lesbian and otherwise unmarried employees, which faculty members say will help recruit and retain highly-qualified employees.

The University Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive committee will take up a proposal Thursday to extend benefits like health, dental and life insurance to the domestic partners of UGA employees.

The policy would take effect no later than Jan. 1, 2014.

UGA canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spend tax money on domestic partner benefits, since Georgia doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize gay marriages, but the Faculty Council plans to use discretionary funds to pay for benefits.

Five colleges and universities in Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Georgia State University, Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State University, Georgia Perimeter College and Georgia Regents Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;already allow employees to sign up their domestic partners for at least some insurance programs. So do 18 of 24 UGA peer institutions, mostly major public research universities like the University of Texas. And UGA has offered â&#x20AC;&#x153;softâ&#x20AC;? benefits like Ramsey Center access since 2005.

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

Planners skeptical of downtown hotel Athens-Clarke planning commissioners are not fans of a new eight-story downtown hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed design.

Developers of the Hyatt Placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;slated for the corner of Thomas Street and what used to be Hancock Avenue, in front of the Classic Center expansionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are asking permission to use more stucco than downtown design

guidelines allow. Architect John Wyle told the planning commission last Thursday that Hyatt wants stucco because brick is too expensive for a small-market hotel. He said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open to tweaking the design.

Planning commissioners, though, said they want to see more brick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My concern is, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got three great floors and then sort of an Exit 52 motel on top of it,â&#x20AC;? Jeff Scarbrough said.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll vote on final approval Sept. 20.

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

Election is a tossup, political experts say Politicians and political groups will spend so much money on advertising this year that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to backfire and irritate the very voters the campaigns are trying to reach, according to political experts who spoke Friday at the University of Georgia.

President Barack Obama, Republican nominee Mitt Romney and outside groups like super PACs will spend $5.5 billion on the campaigns, said Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition leader who formed the Faith and Freedom Coalition, since his disgrace in the Jack Abramoff casino scandal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quite frankly, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what this tsunami of money is going to do,â&#x20AC;? said Cynthia Tucker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist and editor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen this before.â&#x20AC;?

Whatever all that money does, it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it to very many people. Almost everyone has already made up his mind, panelists said. Only 6 percent of voters are undecided, and another 6 percent might be persuaded to change their minds â&#x20AC;&#x153;if something extraordinary happens,â&#x20AC;?

Democratic consultant and commentator Jamal Simmons said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really talking about a very small number of people in a small number of states,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The deluge of ads probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the desired effect as voters in battleground states

the ads are aimed at grow sick of them, Reed said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to tune out these attack ads because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re mutually-assured destruction,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to turn off the television.â&#x20AC;?

The recent conventions wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move the needle much, either, because most viewers were already fans of one candidate or the other, Tucker said. As Romney and Obama court the tiny pool of undecided voters, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also working to boost turnout among their most avid supporters. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the conventions were all about, said Tucker.

Obama leads among women, but Romney has closed 2008 GOP nominee John McCainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gap, in spite of Democratic efforts to paint Republicans as extremists, Republican speechwriter Mary Kate Carey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fooledâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make that much difference in this election,â&#x20AC;? Tucker said of Senate

candidate Todd Akinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent comments on rape. Instead, women care most about their pocketbooks, she said. To win, Romney needs at least 44 percent of female voters, which heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close to getting, but the negative tone of both campaigns disgusts women, Reed said.

Thirty-nine percent of white voters support Obama, compared to 43 percent in 2008, which will make it hard for him to win Virginia, North Carolina and Florida again unless more minority voters turn out, Reed said. Conversely, polls show that Romney has virtually no support among African-Americans, Simmons said. But black turnout could decline this year due to new voter ID laws, he said.

The panel discussion was part of the UGA School of Public and International Affairsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 10th anniversary celebration.

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

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May 30, 2012, I published an article in Flagpole about the notorious unsolved murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer. As I explained, this woman, a mistress of President John F. Kennedy and the ex-wife of Cord Meyer, a high-ranking CIA officer responsible for covert actions, was the victim of an execution-style shooting in broad daylight while walking on the towpath near the Chesapeake and Ohio canal in a public park in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 12, 1964, two weeks after the release of the Warren Report. A hapless, diminutive, black day laborer of limited intelligence, Ray Crump, was tried for the murder but acquitted by a jury which quite properly determined that the evidence of Crumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guilt was flimsy.

The murder, I pointed out, â&#x20AC;&#x153;was not a robbery or rape attempt gone bad but a well executed, professional hit by a trained assassin.â&#x20AC;? The most plausible explanation for the killing, I said, was that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Meyer knew that the CIA had something to do with JFKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assassination, that she saw the CIA involvement was being covered up, that she was appalled at the sorry investigation by the Warren Commission and shocked by the superficiality of the Warren Report, and that she planned to go public with what she knew.â&#x20AC;? The actual killer, I suggested, was probably a CIA contract assassin, and may very well have been the unidentified black man police briefly spotted hiding in the woods near the towpath a few minutes after the murder, but who eluded capture. (That black man could not have been Crump, because Crump had already been detained by other police in another part of the park.)

Since that article appeared, I have been contacted by a retired District of Columbia high school teacher, 78-year-old Harold Liberman, who says that he was nearby when Meyer was slain, that he briefly spoke with her just before she was murdered, and that with his own eyes he saw the murderer right after the killing (although he did not witness the murder itself). Mr. Liberman is now retired and lives not far from Athens. (In my May 30 article, I noted that the night of Meyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s murder and again the following morning, James J. Angleton, the legendary CIA official in charge of counterintelligence, surreptitiously entered Meyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home and took away various documents, including her diary, that were never seen again. Over a decade after Mary Meyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s murder, through an amazing coincidence, Mr. Liberman, who supplemented his teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s income by beekeeping, kept bees for Angleton and on many occasions visited Angletonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Virginia residence. At the time, Mr. Liberman knew that Angleton held a high position in government but did not know that Angleton was with the CIA. And, of course, he certainly knew nothing about Angletonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clandestine entries into Mary Meyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home back in 1964.)

Mr. Libermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of the events of Oct. 12, 1964 has never been published or presented to the public before. I have talked with and questioned Mr. Liberman on several occasions.

He is a credible person, and I have found no valid reasons for disbelieving his story, which I do not think he has made up.

Nothing he has told me has turned out to be false. Everything he has said to me about the murder is consistent with the known facts, and, in my judgment, his account is based entirely upon his personal knowledge. He has also explained to my satisfaction why he did not publicly reveal his story earlier. If Mr. Liberman is telling the truthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I believe he isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then he saw the assassin, and the assassin must have been the black man police caught a glimpse of in the woods but was never seen again.

In the hope that publication of Mr. Libermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s written statement of what he saw and heard on the day Mary Meyer was gunned down will assist in the continuing search for the truth about her mysterious murder, I am setting it forth below in its entirety.

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus, UGA School of Law

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My Encounter with Mary Meyer

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onday, October 12, 1964 was a bad day. I was a Washingtonian but at that time was residing in Kansas, studying for a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree at the University of Kansas. I flew on my first jet from Kansas City to D.C. From Dulles airport I went to Georgetown, where a dear friend told me she did not want to see me or talk to me again. I was upset, because this was a fine woman giving me a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear Johnâ&#x20AC;? message, but was relieved because I was not ready for a serious relationship.

When I left her apartment, I needed to clear my head, and I took a short walk through Georgetown to one of my favorite places, the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. It was a nice day, and the fresh air and sunshine helped restore some sanity.

It was around noon. I crossed over M Street, the main drag in Georgetown, and reached a footbridge that would cross over the canal and take me to the footpath alongside the canal. As I started to cross the footbridge, I noticed a very attractive lady standing at the far end of the footbridge. As I approached her, it was very clear to me that she was frightened. I had enough good sense to ask her if she was all right. She said yes, and I continued walking across the bridge. As I stepped off the bridge I looked up at her, and I asked again if I could be of any help. She carried a black notebook in her arms held tightly across her chest. She looked at me and asked if I was the person she was supposed to give the notebook to. I shook my head no and tried to be polite as I told her I did not know what she was talking about.

When I left her standing on the bridge, she still had the look of a very frightened woman who had just cast her eyes on the devil. She came down off the bridge and began to walk on the towpath away from D.C. I watched her as she walked away from me. She had the look of someone with class and education. My observation was that of a neighborhood kid from 4th and Farragut Street [in D.C.] who was lacking experience in almost every aspect of life.

Did I want to get involved in this situation? In spite of many doubts I began to follow her from a distance. Her rendezvous ahead seemed to cause her to quicken her steps, and she pulled away from me. I had already had my crisis for the day, and my foreboding about this lady caused me to hesitate.

While I was thinking, I heard a gunshot. One or two shots. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure because the noise scared the hell out of me. If I continued walking on the towpath, I believed I was going to get myself into a dangerous situation. I turned around and walked quickly toward the footbridge. After a number of steps, I stopped and cautiously turned around and walked toward the action. I had heard the gunshots and a scream, but where was the body? I learned later that the poor woman was dragged to the canalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge, out of my sight.

I never did see her, but I did see the man who I now believe was the assassin. As I walked on the towpath, I saw a man in the bushes walking away from the towpath down to the street and railroad tracks next to the Potomac River. He did not see me. He was not on the towpath. He seemed dressed up for the occasion. He wore a tan suit and carried a briefcase.

He was, I would guess, in his mid-30s and was a light-skinned black man. With some effort, he was stuffing the black notebook into his briefcase as he walked. Calmly and unhurriedly, he then continued walking through a thicket down toward the Potomac River.

So ended the life of Mary Meyer, President John F. Kennedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lover. By the next day, I was back in Kansas, working on my masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree. I did not read accounts of the killing in the newspapers or on television. Years later, I learned a lot about this case, reading several books that were written about it.

A man was arrested and put on trial for the killing but was acquitted. The killer got away and was never identified.

Harold Liberman

athens rising Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up in New Development One of my favorite things to do in Athens is to walkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;walk around town, venture through the historic neighborhoods and admire the plethora of beautiful houses.

Though I cannot choose a singular favorite, one of my favorite neighborhoods is Pulaski Heights. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always loved that neighborhood because of its uniqueness, and its proximity to downtown doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a beautiful mixture of historic Southern vernacular homes and contemporary residential architecture.

Pulaski Heightsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just east of the Boulevard Historic Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is, like Boulevard, made up of predominately Southern vernacular mill houses: unpretentious, well-built, fantastically adorned, quirkily-colored and emblematic of Athenian style. However, Pulaski Heights has always embraced architectural progression more than the rest of the Boulevard districtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and more than the rest of Athens, for that matter. One house is bright purple, while another tastefully uses cinderblocks (if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible). But those crazylooking new avant-garde housesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;do they fit in with their neighborhoods? How does one properly blend new architecture with old?

accommodate the topography; it is a twostory house in the back, but the front of the house is one story to fit in with the surrounding houses. Because of the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s topography, it has a low-slung roof over the front porch and a front-facing gable. It is primarily made of wood, though it also utilizes stucco and brick as a means of incorporating the existing garden wall. The basic elements of the house fit in with the neighborhood; they are just broken down, torn apart and abstracted to create something new and visually stimulating. Newcomerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designs have been so well received that she won an Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation award in 2011.

Other neighborhoods have not been as receptive to new designs in the neighborhoods. A few years ago, Bork Architectural Design donated a pair of blueprints to the Athens Land Trustâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a nonprofit that promotes affordable housing and land conservationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; causing quite the stir on Tara Way in the Forest Heights neighborhood. For a mostly 1950s brick ranch neighborhood with a few Craftsman infill homes, Newcomer designed a ranch-inspired contemporary residence. The

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Another traditional neighborhood with a contemporary house is located off Duncan Springs Road in the Glenwood area of Five Points. Five Points is generally known for its early-to-mid-20th-century brick houses.

However, the contemporary â&#x20AC;&#x153;tree houseâ&#x20AC;? is designed with its parcel of land in mind, rather than surrounding architecture. It is an environmentally conscious house built largely from reclaimed wood and recycled materials. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raised on pilings to fit in with the natural vegetation of the lot and keep the Middle Oconee River from flooding it.

Though the more avant-garde approach to house design might not be for everyone, there are lessons to be learned from many of these houses, such as site sensitivity, sustainability and creativity. Fortunately for the future of residential architecture, not everyone wants to live in a generic Craftsman-style bungalow.

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That said, the four new residences in Pulaski Heights are creative and still similar enough in appearance to fit in with the neighborhood.

The first contemporary house on Pulaski Street was designed by Lori Bork Newcomer, founder of Bork Architectural Design. She also designed another contemporary house around the corner on Pulaski Heights, as well as a modern addition to a circa-1935 cottage.

Newcomerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designs take into account regional design, site, climate, historical context and local materials available. The houses are created to fit into the space and place they occupy. Newcomerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s houses, while contemporary and unique, relate to the historic houses in the district. Pulaski Heights houses are generally wooden, one-story, front-gabled cottages, all elements found in her designs.

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ldo Mendoza was born in Mexico, but his home has requirement that legal immigrants carry documentation at all presented a driver’s license, they would have their lawful presbeen Athens since he was a little boy. Thanks to the times, the right of a police officer to make an arrest without a ence verified,” says Catmur. With the DACA program, undocuObama Administration, he and 60,000 other undocuwarrant, and a ban on illegal immigrants seeking employment. mented students would be eligible to apply to the forbidden mented Georgians won’t have to leave it behind.

Last month, a federal appeals court blocked much of Georgia’s five colleges and universities in Georgia.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced in law, including a ban on transporting or harboring illegal immiCatmur recognizes the possibility that the “Georgia state June that it won’t deport an estimated 1.76 million illegal grants, but upheld a provision allowing law enforcement to legislature is going to say ‘We’re not comfortable with this,’” immigrants who are under age 31, came to the U.S. before they check immigration documents when they stop suspects. In a though. “The reason the board (of regents) set this policy is turned 16, have lived here at least five years, stay away from similar case, the court found that Alabama’s requirement that to make sure that [at] the selective schools in Georgia, the crime and are in school, have graduated or are in the military. newly enrolled K-12 students provide documentation was in seats went to students who were legally in the country,” she The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program took effect violation of the Equal Protection Clause and could interfere says. The legislature could pass a law that challenges the new Aug. 15. with children’s constitutional right to education. found right to education of Georgia’s undocumented youth, or “I am undocumented. I’ve been here illegally under the In all three cases, however, the courts have upheld the the regents could modify their policy to explicitly exclude sturadar for 12 years—I came here when I was like four and a controversial “show me your papers” provisions of these antidents approved for deferred action from applying to selective half,”says Mendoza, a member of the Georgia Undocumented immigrant laws. Human rights organizations like the ACLU and schools.

Youth Alliance and one of the founders of Ambition for Equal Rights, a student organization at Cedar Shoals High School, where he is a senior, “When I found out about [DACA], I was happy, excited, because this could be a good On Aug. 24, a bus full of undocumented opportunity for other students in the same immigrants arrived in front of the Atlanta situation.”

Detention Center. The mothers, fathers, children Mendoza, who says he doesn’t even rememand students on the “UndocuBus” were not there ber Mexico, plans to apply for deferred action to be deported, but instead stopping by on their status. But it’s not the same as citizenship, a journey from Arizona to the Democratic National green card or, as critics have called it, amnesty.

Convention in Charlotte, NC. The riders believe The policy’s purpose is “to say childhood arrivthat actions by undocumented students, like als, who are not considered a threat, are not “coming out” about their status, have prompted going to be deported,” says Robin Catmur, direcchange such as DACA, and they are looking to tor of UGA’s International Student, Scholar and mobilize all undocumented immigrants to “chalImmigration Services. Basically, “it means their lenge the champions of hate.”

Yovanny Diaz, a 21-year-old GUYA member file sits on a shelf for two years.” from Roswell and a student at Athens’ Freedom If an eligible undocumented person is given deferred action status, they can renew it indefiUniversity, which currently offers free, collegelevel courses to anyone regardless of immigranitely every two years when it expires. But there tion status, joined the riders a week before their are no guarantees. “The difficulty with these visit to the prison. He “thought it was necessorts of temporary protections is they are temsary” to ride the bus “because there are a lot of porary and can be taken away,” Catmur says. people that are suffering from unjust laws and “So, it’s as if you were living your life based on people need to act. If not me, then who?” what’s going to happen next. It’s a difficult way Diaz and GUYA continue to fight for the right Cedar Shoals High School student Aldo Mendoza joined activists from across the country to call attention to to live.” to higher education. Not only does Georgia limit unjust anti-immigrant laws and policies. undocumented student’s access to college, but a 2007 state law explicitly prohibits undocumented immigrants the Southern Poverty Law Center say those laws encourage from receiving in-state tuition if they live in Georgia. “I think racial profiling. But opponents of the “show me your papers” Undocumented immigrants who are eligible for DACA have sections of the laws remain optimistic because they haven’t yet I’ve learned more [attending Freedom University] than I did in high school, because I actually want the education,” Diaz says. spent most of their lives living with uncertainty. Fear and inse- made the argument in court that these laws will promote racial “In high school, I thought I wouldn’t be able to go to college, curity plague the entire undocumented community, especially profiling. “The court explicitly left the door open to further in recent years, when a slew of anti-immigrant legislation took and I kind of went into zombie mode, but now I’m more motichallenges against the ‘show me your papers’ provision, which effect in states across the country. vated than I’ve ever been.” we will continue to fight in order to protect people’s constituDiaz is eligible for DACA and plans to apply, but he had Georgia has taken some of the most extreme actions tional rights,” says Omar Jadwat, senior staff attorney with the reservations when Sec. of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to combat illegal immigration, along with Alabama, South ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Carolina and, most notably, Arizona. Last May, Governor Deal first announced the program. “I had doubts because I saw it signed House Bill 87, Georgia’s Arizona copycat legislation, as a political move,” he says. “But [DACA] has given me the into law. Federal courts have ruled against several key proviliberty to come out more [about being undocumented] and to sions of these bills while upholding others. not be so afraid. We should be a little afraid, but there is also Just before HB 87 went into effect, a U.S. District Court courage—courage is doing what you’re afraid of.”

DACA also means that young illegal immigrants might once judge placed an injunction on the law’s most controversial When they arrived at the DNC two weeks later, 10 again have the opportunity to attend UGA. A university system measures, saying their intent was to create “a climate of hosUndocuBus riders, including Diaz, were arrested for blocking an policy started last October forbids anyone who is not “lawfully tility, fear, mistrust and insecurity.” intersection and refusing to move. The group was there to ask present” in Georgia from applying to colleges and universities “The biggest fear is losing our families or being deported with selective enrollment—including the University of Georgia, the president for meaningful immigration reform and to call on and leaving our families behind,” Mendoza says. “Many adults Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, Georgia Health Sciences his administration—an administration that has deported more that have citizen children can lose their kids. Many kids feel than 1 million people—to be on the “right side of history.”

University and Georgia College & State University—where they like their parents are not coming home, which is a very big Because of the demonstrators’ immigration status, they faced might take the place of a citizen or legal immigrant. fear… We always have to watch out. We have to be extra the threat of deportation under the federal 287(g) program Public universities accept several different forms of careful.” that trains local police to enforce federal immigration laws. documentation as proof of lawful presence, including a valid Supporters of immigration laws like Georgia’s say they’re But due to the efforts of supporters who quickly launched a Georgia driver’s license issued after Jan. 1, 2008. After U.S. merely doing a job the federal government refuses to do. calling campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, all Citizenship and Immigration Services opened the application “The [federal] government has, clearly in the last decades 10 riders were released the following morning. process for the deferred action program, Georgia’s Attorney anyway, been at great odds with state government about how Just hours after the protesters were released, an activist General, Sam Olens confirmed that anyone with deferred to enforce and control immigration,” Catmur says. “It is a fedfor the DREAM Act—a step up from deferred action that would action under the Obama administration policy could apply for eral responsibility—it’s not a state-level responsibility—but provide a path to citizenship—became the first undocumented a Georgia driver’s license. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, in contrast, because the government has failed for decades to pass immiimmigrant to address a national political convention. Diaz has ordered her state’s agencies to deny driver’s licenses and gration reform, states are taking it on.” As a result, federal attributes DACA to the work of the DREAMers and other activother public benefits to young undocumented immigrants who immigration laws and directives are being implemented differists. “We know that an organized community is a strong comobtain deferred action status. This is likely to include higher ently according to individual state guidelines. munity,” says Diaz. “Movements, actions—that is how things educational benefits like in-state tuition and even the ability Lawsuits against state illegal-immigration laws are snaking change.” to apply for college. their way through the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court struck However, here in Georgia, “one might be able to assume down three provisions of Arizona’s law in June, including the Melissa Hovanes that if such a student applied to [a selective college] and

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grub notes Hamming It Up No Frills: Most people still have no idea that The Camp (2467 Jefferson Rd.) exists, but the Southern cooking restaurant has taken over the digs of the former DePalmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Homewood Hills shopping center. Even if you know the general locale, you may have difficulty locating it. Just look for the HoneyGlazed Ham sign, which is far more prominent than the one with the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name.

Once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re inside, you may feel that The Camp is some sort of pop-up eatery, ready to pack up tables and chairs at a momentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s notice, and the furnishings are indeed spartan at best. Folding chairs and mismatched tables combine with the steam-table ordering system, the Styrofoam plates and the selfobtained plastic utensils to create the suggestion of a nomadic lifestyle.

Carl Campbell runs the place and cooked for years at Charlie Williams Pinecrest Lodge on Whitehall Road. The name of this restaurant comes from that one, and the iconic waterwheel adorns the menus. Even the ham is apparently linked. I never ate at the original Charlie Williams, so I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say how the food compares, but I do know Campbell is proud of its healthful leanings. Signs proclaim the lack of oil in the food. Whether this asceticism pays off is another question.

Some of the items on the menu are tasty.

The smoked chicken, for example, is juicy and good, sprinkled with some paprika more ornamental than crucial to its flavor. Listen to the guy behind the counter and get a biscuit

rather than cornbread. Big and flat, not fluffy, but not dense, with a thin layer of crisp on their exterior, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a highlight. The macaroni and cheese certainly doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t taste less bad for you than usual. The collard greens need vinegar or hot sauce, which is what happens when you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cook them with pork.

The Camp is great if you want to eat in a hurry, or if you need to order a ham and get lunch at the same time, but much of it serves as an argument for the kind of food that does clog your arteries. Currently, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., with Sunday brunch coming up soon. The restaurant serves no alcohol, but does take-out and takes credit cards.

The Camp case houses treats including Kool-Aid cookies, thick sugar cookies frosted with tangy, brightly colored icing. The coffee is roasted nearby, in Bethlehem, GA. Most everyone who stops by in the morning orders a biscuit, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably the best option, but a plate of pork tenderloin, eggs over-easy and grits had things to recommend it. The eggs and the grits were light on salt, but the choice of smoked Gouda for a cheese on the latter was a nice one.

At lunch, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a daily hot entree, which includes a couple of Southern-style vegetables. The hamburger steak was nothing to be ashamed of, and the green beans that accompanied it were genuinely tasty. The burgers are likewise, even if the menu overpromises a little. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grilled to your likingâ&#x20AC;? seems to mean

Frills: In comparison to The Camp, the newish From Scratch Cafe (135 Cherokee Rd., Winterville), in the former Cafe Marigold, is a veritable tearoom. The space is as cute as it ever was, bathed in golden sun, and with (admittedly fake) flowers on the tables. All the more amusing, then, that its customer base should turn out to be mostly burly dudes who drive big trucks. Rather than browsing the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, which is fulsome in its self-praise, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better just to arrive and be pleasantly surprised by its offerings, which are nothing fancy but, on the whole, well executed.

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2016: OBAMA’S AMERICA (PG) Call me critically conflicted about 2016: Obama’s America. The unabashed polemic from conservative author Dinesh D’Souza is an antiObama sermon preached perfectly to the Fox News congregation. An anti-Obama screed based on an anticolonialist reading of the president grates much less than the typical baseless cries of “Socialist!” D’Souza does not seem to place much faith in the system of checks and balances instilled by the founding fathers (whom he rightfully reveres) in our Constitution.

Convincing a like-minded audience that Obama needs to go is easy; I want to see D’Souza try and convince anyone that Mitt Romney is a solution.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG-13) 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 web-head’s world, as their superblockbuster excels once it gets the mythology-revising out of the way and allows new Spidey Andrew Garfield, who nails the wall-crawler’s smartalecky, costumed persona, to use those powers to patrol the streets of NYC. ARBITRAGE (R) Richard Gere’s hedge fund mogul turns to an unlikely source after messing up big time in an attempt to sell his company. Nicholas Jarecki, brother of Andrew (Capturing the Friedmans) and Eugene (Why We Fight), makes his fictional feature directing debut. With Tim Roth, Susan Sarandon, William Friedkin (?), Laetitia Casta and the awesome Chris Eigeman (a Wilt Stillman fave).

THE AVENGERS (PG-13) The various Avengers—Robert Downey, Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Evans’ Captain America, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, another new Hulk. This time Mark Ruffalo gets to unleash the beast BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (PG-13) Six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) lives in the Bathtub, a tiny community beyond the levee with her daddy, Wink (Dwight Henry). As Wink grows weaker from illness, the only world Hushpuppy has ever known starts to crumble. Benh Zeitlan, who also co-wrote the pulsing, string-heavy score, captures the ruthlessness of rural poverty without the assumed pandering. Go see this film now. (Ciné) THE BOURNE LEGACY (PG-13) Tony Gilroy has been scripting exceptional Bourne films for a decade now. His first time directing one plays exactly like his previous two directing efforts (Michael Clayton and Duplicity); well-crafted but unexciting. Matt Damon’s unseen Jason Bourne is on the run, but another enhanced secret

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agent, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner, who’s an adequate replacement for Damon), is in the crosshairs of some nasty government spooks, led sociopathically by Edward Norton. Cross and pretty scientist, Marta Shearing (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz), travels across the globe to find the means to permanently enhance the superspy’s mental abilities.

BRAVE (PG) 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), hears no complaints.

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (R) Horror movies do not come much more perfect than The Cabin in the Woods, written by geek god Joss Whedon and one of his strongest protégés, Drew Goddard. Five college friends (including Chris “Thor” Hemsworth) take a weekend trip to the woods that ends in a bloodbath, etc. (UGA Tate Theater) THE CAMPAIGN (R) Will Ferrell’s helmet-haired Democratic incumbent Cam Brady, loosely based on John Edwards, peddles to the “America, Jesus and freedom” crowd as he takes on Galifianakis’s oddball Republican challenger, Marty Huggins (His pants!

His sweaters! His run!). As the Motch Brothers, Dan Ackroyd and John Lithgow are a not even thinly veiled shot at the Koch Bros.

• CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER (R) Titular married BFFs (played by Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg) attempt to maintain their friendship as they get a divorce. That good faith effort is stunted once Jesse settles down with his pregnant new girlfriend and Celeste self-destructs. This dark romcom benefits from the tight-knit support of young Hollywood, well represented by Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen (very underrated), cowriter Eric McCormack, Elijah Wood and Chris Messina.

• THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY (PG-13) How did this flick attract Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver and get released on over 1000 screens? The Cold Light of Day lacks even a mote of self-awareness, ending as if it might be the beginning of some new action franchise. (I’ve only seen the trailer, but Jack Reacher this is not.) Soon-to-be Superman Henry Cavill runs and guns through this Taken wannabe about a young American businessman playing spy games with the CIA and Mossad in the mean streets of an eternally sunny Madrid.

COSMOPOLIS (R) (Ciné) [See Movie Pick.]

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG-13) Having taken the fall for the murder of Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, Batman is no longer welcome in Gotham City, which is all right with shut-in Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), the eccentric billionaire who continues to mourn the death of his love, Rachel.

(Interestingly, The Joker is never mentioned.) But a new evil, the muscleand-respirator-clad Bane (Tom Hardy, finally doing the great Bat-breaker justice), has risen, requiring Batman to return to action. Meanwhile, a pretty cat burglar named Selina Kyle (Anne

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Hathaway, is making audiences forget both Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry).

THE EXPENDABLES 2 (R) The nominal plot involves a mission of vengeance after JCVD’s Eurotrash villain, Vilain (yep, that’s how it’s spelled), kills the youngest, prettiest, newest Expendable. For no narrative reason, fellow mercs Trench (Ah-nuld, who still has that unfathomable screen appeal) and Booker (Norris) show up along the way to assist the Expendables when they’re in trouble.

FINDING NEMO (G) 2003. Clownfish Marlin (v. Albert Brooks) goes searching for his son, Nemo (v. Alexander Gould), who is lost in the big, scary ocean. Fortunately, Marlin has pal Dory (v. Ellen Degeneres), a blue tang fish, to help him out.

THE GRADUATE (PG) 1967. While having an affair with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), the wife of his father’s business partner, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) falls in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Elaine (Katharine Ross). Adapted by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham from

Streep) and her husband, Arnold (master griper Tommy Lee Jones), have what appears to be a loving marriage, yet the heat has been lost. Kay wants a change and believes she’s found the means in Dr. Bernard Feld’s (a lightly used Steve Carell) intensive couples counseling.

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 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).

KILLER JOE (NC-17) Academy Award winner William Friedkin and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts must have enjoyed their collaboration on Bug because they’re back together for this black comic crime thriller. A young

Top Model: Retribution Charles Webb’s novel and directed by Mike Nichols, The Graduate is filled with timeless quotes, while Simon and Garfunkel’s famed soundtrack flawlessly harmonizes with Ben’s plight.

(Ciné) HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (R) 2001. The operation to turn James Cameron Mitchell’s tour de force Off-Broadway hit into a satisfying film journey through the dark side of rock and roll, the theft of intellectual property, and transexuality was successful. Mitchell stars as Hedwig, a hardcore rocker from Germany whose sex change was botched, hence the angry inch. Her life is further devoured by lover, Tommy Gnosis (Michael Pitt), whose superstardom is founded upon her creative output. Stephen Trask’s music and lyrics rock with pitch-perfect bombast. (UGA Tate Theater) HIT & RUN (R) Funnyman Dax Shepard’s Charlie Bronson is in witness protection after diming on his bank-robbing buddies (Bradley Cooper in a bad dreadlock wig and a suited-up Ryan Hansen). When his new identity is compromised, Charlie and his new girlfriend, Annie (Kristen Bell), go on the run. The laughs are predictable, but the stunt driving is pretty remarkable.

HOPE SPRINGS (PG-13) If you want a mature, intimate romantic dramedy about an ailing, aging marriage, warmly and realistically portrayed by two consummate professionals, you will find no other film this season that comes close to Hope Springs. Kay (Meryl

man decides to put a hit out on his evil mom so he can collect the money he needs to pay off a life-endangering debt. As if a new Friedkin film weren’t enticing enough, the cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon and Thomas Haden Church. (Ciné) LAWLESS (R) Despite what works in John Hillcoat’s follow-up to The Road, the main characters of Lawless—a family of bootlegging brothers played

by Tom Hardy, Shia LeBeouf and Jason Clarke—don’t quite welcome viewing visitors to Franklin County, VA, “the Wettest County in the World.” Facing off against a perfumed dandy of a sheriff, Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce).

LIBERAL ARTS (NR) “How I Met Your Mother”’s Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, directs (and writes) his follow-up to Happythankyoumoreplease. He also stars as 30-something Jesse, who returns to his alma mater for a professor’s retirement party and meets an undergrad, Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), with whom he develops an immediate attraction. I’m hoping this Sundance selection will get a bigger release than Radnor’s first film, as I’d actually like to see it. With Zac Efron, Richard Jenkins and Alison Janney.

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (PG) 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) 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.

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

According to the jam-packed logline, an investment banker is relocated to Madea’s house. Just the idea of Eugene Levy interacting with Perry’s Madea is entertaining.

THE MASTER (R) Paul Thomas Anderson tackles the creation of the Church of Scientology in this buzzed about drama. A WWII veteran, Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), returns home and joins The Cause led by the charismatic Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman). The cast includes Amy Adams and rising star Jesse Plemons of both “Friday Night Lights” and “Breaking Bad.” MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG-13) Wes Anderson provides 2012 with a twee coming of age tale about Sam and Suzy (wonderful newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), two tweens who learn about love after running away from their tiny island home. Any moviegoers not already enchanted

by Anderson’s previous whimsies will not be won over by his newest, extremely eccentric romance. Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand and Harvey Keitel are among the adults that inhabit Anderson’s isolated, stagy island.

I don’t recall enjoying a live action Anderson fancy as much since 2001’s The Royal Tenenbaums. (Ciné) THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (PG) After a freak storm, the Greens have a new arrival, 10-yearold, leaf-legged Timothy (CJ Adams).

Desiring to right all the wrongs of their own childhoods, Cindy and Jim attempt to give Timothy the perfect adolescence. The Odd Life of Timothy Green might appeal more to kindhearted, older kids, thanks to Adams’ cute but not cutesy Timothy, despite its being an above average parenting fable. It’s a good thing they have David Morse, Dianne Wiest, Common, Ron Livingstone, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Rosemarie DeWitt and the always excellent M. Emmet Walsh to rely upon.

THE OOGIELOVES AND THE BIG BALLOON ADVENTURE (G) An “interactive” children’s movie starring multicolored puppets searching for a balloon in time for their friend’s birthday party. Toni Braxton appears, and there is a character named J. Edgar.

PARANORMAN (PG) This marvelous, family horror flick is the writing-directing debut of Corpse Bride/Coraline storyboard artist Chris Butler. I was smitten from its Grindhouse opening well through the closing credits scored to The White Stripes’ “Little Ghost.”

This tale of a sweet, 11-year-old, oddball named Norman (v. Cody SmitMcPhee, The Road) is a perfect first scary movie for the son or daughter of a diehard horror fan.

• THE POSSESSION (PG-13) Jeffrey Dean Morgan (looking particularly Javier Bardem-ish) is the basketball coach father of a young girl (played

by Natalie Calis with more depth than the usual horror movie moppet in danger) that starts exhibiting strange behavior after picking up an antique box at a yard sale. The box, a Dibbuk

(demon) box of Hebrew lore, leads to more Judaic horror a la The Unborn (Catholicism being so five minutes ago as the go-to faith for the horror genre).

Director Ole Bornedal knows how to adequately craft a small horror flick.

PREMIUM RUSH (PG-13) Like the fixed gear, steel frame cycle pedaled by bike courier protagonist Wilee (another winning turn by Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Premium Rush has one speed—very fast—and no brakes. After being given a plain looking envelope, Wilee is chased and tormented by Detective Bobby Monday (Michael Shannon, giving his umpteenth, masterfully nutty performance), who is in deep with both the Chinese and the generically Eastern European underworlds. Don’t be turned off by Premium Rush’s biker subculture. It’s a simple, ultra fast-paced, superbly tense thriller and one of the year’s best at what it does. l RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (R) I hope the Resident Evil videogame series continues to thrive (RE6 is on the way); I wish the movie franchise, on its fifth installment, would quietly disappear. Paul W.S. Anderson and spouse Milla Jovovich keep fighting the evil Umbrella Corporation and its zombie-making virus. Game faves like Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) and Leon Kennedy (Johann Urb) appear, as does the game franchise’s most intriguing character, sunglassed Umbrella operative Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts).

SPARKLE (PG-13) This good oldfashioned movie musical retells a very familiar tale (that’s honestly not too far removed from Dreamgirls) but does so with toe-tapping music and solid performances from “American Idol” champ Jordin Sparks and Derek Luke (among others). Three sisters—Sparkle (Sparks), Sister (Carmen Ejogo) and Dee (Tika Sumpter)—from Detroit find success as a musical act, but drugs and abusive relationships (does Mike Epps even know what nuance means?) tear them apart, pretty much like their holier than thou mother (Whitney Houston, in her final performance.

STOLEN (R) Make fun of Nicolas Cage all you want, but he works more than many a better performer in Hollywood.

Will Montgomery is a former thief whose past comes back to haunt him as he frantically pursues his kidnapped daughter, who is locked in the trunk of a taxi. Cage is reteaming with his Con Air director Simon West.

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.

• THE WORDS (PG-13) The kindest words I can offer The Words are that I expected much worse. (Don’t mistake that kindly cut for a recommendation.)

Author Clayton Hammond (Dennis Quaid) reads his latest work (if the VO is any indication, Hammond is a terrible novelist), the story of young author Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper), who becomes an overnight literary sensation by stealing the lost novel of an old man (Jeremy Irons). Also, a lit groupie played by Olivia Wilde wants to sleep with Hammond. I get how the Russian nesting egg script would appeal to such a high profile cast, including Zoe Saldana, Ben Barnes, J.K. Simmons, Michael McKean, and more; as a novel, this gooey tale would sail up the charts under the standard of Oprah herself.

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movie pick Destination: Oblivion COSMOPOLIS (R) This is more like it. Earlier themes. The Fly, Naked Lunch and Crash were this year, David Cronenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Dangerous all based on well-known secondary sources, Method, based on Christopher Hamptonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s but they felt completely his own. Cosmopolis, play about Freud and Jung, was released and, predominantly set within the claustrophobic though it featured strong performances, the confines of a limo, is another of Cronenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall result was stiff. Cosmopolis, based relentlessly unflinching examinations of aberon Don DeLilloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel, finds Cronenberg at rant visionaries moving through a world where his fiercest, working with complex themes madness and rationalism are entwined and about the twin viruses of information and psychopathy is just the next evolutionary leap. global capitalism. The plot is simple enough: ion to working with metaphors of transformaa 28-year-old tycoon, Eric Packer (Robert tive violence and biomechanical deviancy, Pattinson), wants a Cronenberg is ultihaircut and is chaufmately a satirical morfeured through the city alist in the tradition of in his white stretch William S. Burroughs. limousine to the barHe examines humanbershop. The president ity with clear eyes and is in town, however, embraces the paradoxes and the streets are of modern existence, clogged with comunwavering particumuters, anarchist/ larly when observing anti-capitalist protesugliness. Pattinson is tors and other fat cats Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon a revelation: reptilin their limos. At first, ian at first, then more Eric is oblivious and uncaring of the world recognizably human near the end, though still beyond his tinted windows. All he sees are repulsive and clueless. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tourist in his the patterns in the financial markets, using own life. Samantha Morton entrances with her the info to leverage himself against the world. own magnetic otherworldliness as Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allHeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a ruthless genius at maintaining his king- seeing mentor and Paul Giamatti grounds the dom, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blind to the doomsday about to movie with his lumpy vulnerability. Cronenberg befall. As his fortune vanishes, he meets with may be close to 70 years old, but this film is various associates in his limo and begins makcharged with the energy and bravery of a seriing sense of his personal apocalypse. ous artist half his age.

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cover image.) Tim Gartrell of Jasper, who worked primarily in Blame the Blushing on the Booze: There are many motives in steel until suffering a stroke, now creates vibrant and imprescreating erotic art, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to provoke arousal, explore sexuality or confront cultural taboos, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Tell Mommy,â&#x20AC;? sively detailed paintings of animals and nature.

Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fourth annual erotic art group show curated by Keith P. The exhibit will include nationally recognized, Florida-based Rein, provides a solid cross-section of some of the genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most photojournalist Bud Lee as a special guest artist. Throughout popular forms. Ranging from traditional tattoo flash, pinups his accomplished career, Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photos have been published by and cartoons to multimedia light box installations and a fabric Rolling Stone, Vogue, Esquire, Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bazaar, The New York construction, a multitude of Times Magazine and Columbia interpretations on erotic art are Records, and often featured reflected from the dozen-plus portraits of cultural icons participating artists. such as Andy Warhol, Clint While some works lie on Eastwood, Mick Jagger, The the racier side, such as Jeremy Lone Ranger Clayton Moore, Hughesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; extremely suggestive Italian filmmaker Federico tease of a piece, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fauxllatio,â&#x20AC;?

Fellini and French New Wave others focus on emphasizfounder Francois Truffaut. ing the simple beauty of the Widely considered a scenefemale form like Kelli Guinnmaker in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s by helping Olssonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s black-and-white to develop the arts community photographs of nude women of Tampa, FL, Lee established alone in nature. Terp Vairinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Artist Filmmaker in the gorgeous illustrations, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bees Schools program through a (Fructose),â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Birds (Serotonin)â&#x20AC;?

National Endowment for the and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bunnies (Oxytocin),â&#x20AC;? pair Arts grant, the Artist and images of women with animals Writers Group and the annual and chemical compounds, Artists and Writers Ball, a and are reminiscent of Art series of wild costume parNoueveau absinthe campaigns. ties created as a spoof on the The simple pen-and-marker exclusive Gasparilla festivals drawings of seductive girls by with themes like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bad Taste Olga Cisternas are similar in in Outer Spaceâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cowboys their ability to strike a delicate and Indians in Love.â&#x20AC;? He shot balance between provocativetale-telling images of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s ness and vulnerability. sexual revolution, the Manson Joe Havasyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustration â&#x20AC;&#x153;Girl in trouble with Yarn Print Dressâ&#x20AC;? is on Tattoo artist Graham murders and the Civil Rights display at the Engine Room through Sept.

Bradfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s piece, a colossal Movement, one of which, a wood-stained portrait of a horrifying photo of a 12-yearvaliant lady posing with a saw blade and pig head, is hard to old boy wounded in the crossfire between a police officer and overlook, as it spans nearly the entire height of the wall. Joe looter during the Newark urban riots, earned him Life magaHavasy contributes a bit of humor to the room with a vibrant zineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1967 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Photographer of the Yearâ&#x20AC;? award. Although he sufSFW piece portraying a cartoon girl desperately trying to shake fered a debilitating stroke in 2003 that left him partially deaf off the cats climbing all over her, and Dana Jo Cooleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series and blind and paralyzed on one side of his body, Lee continues of colorful acrylic paintings, seemingly abstract and innocent to make art, albeit in new media. The gallery will present a colon first glance, reveal a naughtier side if you stare at them for long enough.

From the freaky, chilling fetish scenes by neo-symbolist John Santerineross to the geeky, slightly unsettling depiction of Princess Leia by Doktorsour, the works collectively appeal to a pretty wide range of fancies.

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Matters of the Mind: Each artist of Visionary Growth Galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) upcoming exhibit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brained,â&#x20AC;? explores the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest boss, the brain, through works that reflect the relationships between neuroscience, physiology, perception and cognition. Perhaps providing the most literal example, Haru Park, a recent UGA graduate whose brains you may recall from the 2011 MFA Sculpture exit show at Lamar Dodd (and the May 26, 2010 Tim Gartrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roosterâ&#x20AC;? is on display at Visionary Growth Gallery through Dec. 31.

Flagpole cover), will display â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother Brain,â&#x20AC;? a larger-than-life creation weighing in at 700 pounds. lection of his recent drawings and paintings demonstrating his Atlanta-based artist and retired medical illustrator from Emory perseverance as a featured part of the exhibit.

University Grover Hogan creates works in which brain imagâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Brainedâ&#x20AC;? opens on Sunday, Sept. 16 and will be on display ery and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder coalesce, and Michael during gallery hours, Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 McAleer of Suwanee, also diagnosed with OCD, presents conp.m., and by appointment through Dec. 31. An opening recepceptual paintings that further address mental health issues. tion with the artists will be held on Sept. 16, from 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m.

The paintings of Athens local John Crowe similarly focus on ideas of physical and psychological imprisonment. (See the Jessica Smith

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip 24), Blue Man Group (Nov. 6 & 7), Itzhak Perlman (Dec. 9), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Nov. 1), Tokyo String Quartet (Feb. 21) and the State Ballet Theatre of Russia performing Cinderella (Jan. 15 & 16).

Catching performances of this caliber on campus is one of the great benefits of living in Athens, so count your blessings and check out pac.uga.edu for more information.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All Going to Be OK: Frustration and hilarity ensued a couple of weeks ago when something went wonky with the Drive By Truckersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; email list. Apparently, all emails sent to the list were received by everyone who had ever subscribed to it. The result? Tons of people received hundreds of emails from people requesting to be unsubscribed, people threatening to visit violence upon the band after â&#x20AC;&#x153;reporting [them] to the authoritiesâ&#x20AC;? and one person joking he would throw himself off

Take the Chance: The Georgia Museum of Art wins my heart this month. On Thursday, Sept.

20, from 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m., it will present three films documenting different aspects of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1966 event 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering. This event, held at New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 69th Regiment Armory, was a historic collaboration between 10 New York-based artists and 30 engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories. It was nothing short of completely groundbreaking and, thankfully, it was preserved on film. The three features to be presented are David Tudorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bandoneon!

(A Combine), Robert Rauschenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Score and John Cageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Variations VII. These films are presented in collaboration with the exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;New York Collection for Stockholm,â&#x20AC;? which itself was curated by E.A.T. organizers from 1971â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1973. GMOAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, Lynn Boland, will host a half-hour discussion before the films start rolling. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this.

For more information, please see georgiamuseum.org, and for deep background check 9evenings.org.

Lookout Mountain. All in all, most folks had a lot of fun with it. But the party poopers in the Truckers organization have stopped all that, deleting the list entirely. And, as if adding an unintentional punchline to the whole affair, they now say that any questions should be directed to info@drivebytruckers.com. All this notwithstanding, DBTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Patterson Hood sent out a sweet apology email with links to recordings of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two most recent Athens shows. Download â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em at southern shelter.com/category/drive-by-truckers.

Now Stream This: Longtime Athens musician and songwriter Steven Trimmer has seen his profile rise to unprecedented heights by virtue of his membership in new-ish favorites Grass Giraffes. This seems to have spurred a new era of creativity for him, too, as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been posting his personal recordings basically nonstop for the past six weeks or so. Credited mostly to Glasscrafts, these tracks are among the most goosebump-inducing, heavy indie-guitar tunes in recent Athens history.

Trimmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a wellspring of songs right now, so go drink deep over at soundcloud. com/steventrimmer/tracks.

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More blast beats, even more dead cop songs, more destructive riffs.â&#x20AC;? Now, ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that something? Keep up to date via facebook.com/ gripecore.

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Dig it at soundcloud.com/impose-magazinestreams/bambara-all-the-same. Meanwhile, Bambara drummer Blaze Bateh has been gettinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; his comedy on with a new YouTube series called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Blaze & Alex Show.â&#x20AC;? Unlike most things on the internet, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually pretty funny. Watch all six episodes at facebook. com/BLAZEANDALEX.

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The resurrection and reconnection of

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Everlasting Rock Chemistry hen Athens first met Ohio-based rock band Guided by Voices in the fall of 1994, the quintet had already been playing its unique blend of power-pop, garage and British Invasion-rock for eight yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mostly in singer Robert Pollardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dayton basement studio. But â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;94 marked the beginning of a new phase for GBV. The bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buzz-generating Bee Thousand had just come out on the hip Matador label that summer. It made a huge splash on college and alternative rock radio, and even caught the attention of â&#x20AC;&#x153;120 Minutes.â&#x20AC;?

At the 40 Watt, Pollard stood at the stagefront, just steps away from a massive beer cooler stationed in front of drummer Kevin Fennellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kit. Guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell flanked Pollard on either side.

Jim Greer (an editor for Spin magazine at the time) was on bass, sitting in for founding member Greg Demos.

During the most rocking moments of the set, Pollard spun his microphone like a spazzy Roger Daltrey and delivered soccer-punt high kicks. The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solid delivery and cool personality made a powerful impression on those hearing and seeing the band for the first time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[T]he reception we got from the fans on that tour was incredible,â&#x20AC;? Sprout remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect that. We knew we had fans, but it was much bigger and crazy than we expected. They loved it and rocked as hard as we didâ&#x20AC;Ś I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember a lot about some of the tours, but for some reason, I can remember that show.â&#x20AC;?

Despite artistic and commercial success, the original GBV lineup dissolved in 1997.

Pollard carried on, enlisting members of Cleveland rock act Cobra Verde to record Mag Earwhig!, a heavier, riffier affair. Pollard and guitarist Doug Gillard led GBV through several more albums and lineup changes throughout the next eight years, before the group officially disbanded in 2004. Most fans assumed that the GBV journey would end there, but in 2010, the classic lineup unexpectedly reconvened. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just came together; one step led to another,â&#x20AC;? Sprout says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just seemed to pick up where we left off. It clicked right away, and we still remembered how to play most of the songs.â&#x20AC;?

In characteristically prolific style, the reunion resulted in two new full-length albums: Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Go Eat the Factory and Class Clown Spots a UFO. Released within six months of each other, both records are 21-song collections of typical GBV pop, rock and mischief. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really look at Factory as a reunion album,â&#x20AC;? Sprout says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just seems like the next album in line, followed by Class Clown. It

seems by the time we finish an album, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already on the next with not much time to reflect.â&#x20AC;?

The saturated guitar tones and roomsimple drum sounds on Class Clown more closely resemble the production qualities of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early albums than Pollardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slicker records of the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s and 2000s. Sprout says there was an intentional no-frills approach in the studio. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d wanted to get back to basics, but sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to use what is available at the time,â&#x20AC;? Sprout says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I took a long time mixing Factory, and I had to overdub some of the drums just because of how badly I had recorded them.â&#x20AC;?

Sprout now resides in the small northern Michigan town of Leland; he says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a challenge to find time to travel to rehearse with the band. He often pitches song ideas and sketches via demos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know when Bob sends me songs he has written, I have to write more songs,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like deadlines. If I have a deadline, I will kind of lock myself in the studio and write for a week or two. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slow at first, and then it all comes together. I think it makes a difference when everyone has a hand in the creation of a song. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the chemistry has changed,â&#x20AC;? he continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was there when we first got together, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still here. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that happens with a lot of bands, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most likely the reason we can still make records.â&#x20AC;?

Indeed, the reunited Guided by Voices is already finishing tracks for the next album, and bandmembers have plenty of travel plans in the works, as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like being on the road now,â&#x20AC;? Sprout says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have cell phones in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s. I still sometimes see a pay phone and get this image of finding change, dialing the number over and over, trying to get connected to homeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; letting home know where you are, numbers where you can be reached. Now, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in touch all the time. Going away doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem as far away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forward to this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trip,â&#x20AC;? he adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t [ever] been to some of the places we are playing on this tour. [And] Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to playing for people who havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen us in a while.â&#x20AC;?

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the founder of Ghostmeat Records, the label responsible for the annual AthFest compilation CD, Russ Hallauer (also a Flagpole alum) has watched the Athens music community ebb and flowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and ebb some moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;over the past two decades or so. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always most impressed with,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;[is] the people that have navigated from being 22 in a rock band to being 42 with a family and [are] still figuring out how to make themselves happy through music.â&#x20AC;?

Local bluegrass outfit The Welfare Liners is composed of five men from different musical backgroundsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;along with Hallauer, the group includes Rob Keller, Adam Poulin, Wayne Wilson and Mark Cunninghamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who share a love for the traditional sounds of artists like Bill Monroe and The Stanley Brothers. For the most part, they are dudes who cut their teeth in harder-edged rock bands, before age and family life intervened. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you can underestimate the fact that at some point in your life, when kids are involved, having the amplifier on all the time isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really an option,â&#x20AC;? says Hallauer.

In fact, The Welfare Liners came together after Keller, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principal songwriter and a longtime bluegrass enthusiast, learned his guitarist friend Hallauer had embraced a new, more delicate instrument. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When [Rob] found out that I started playing mandolin, he came over and gave meâ&#x20AC;Ś like, literally the entire history of bluegrass.

All the sudden, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 800 songs.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna play 60 of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

After enlisting the other members and playing only traditional tunes for a year and a half, the group decided to take a step forward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wrote one songâ&#x20AC;Ś and right after that, the other songs just started flooding out,â&#x20AC;?

Keller says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I announced it onstageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the band didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know it, either. [Russ was] laughing, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cause heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the record label. I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Next spring, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna have a new album!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;Ś And Russ was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We are?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

It took â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til fall, but the album has arrived.

High on a Hilltop is a stellar collection of original numbers, a faithful exercise in oldtime American music. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not paint-bynumbers pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The record traverses disparate stylistic and emotional ground, from the truetale murder mystery â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who Killed T.K.,â&#x20AC;? about the legendary owner of an Athens watering hole, to the upbeat, light-love tune â&#x20AC;&#x153;Easy on the Eyes.â&#x20AC;? As is typical for the genre, heavy themes of death and infidelity abound, often nestled amid deceptively joyful musicality.

Keller says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about telling a story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually, my wife and I are fine, and all that, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m writing all these songs about cheating,â&#x20AC;? he marvels, laughing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are some

cheating songs on there, arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The history of bluegrass gives you a license to tell fictional stories in a way that other genres [donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t],â&#x20AC;? says Hallauer. Keller points to traditional songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knoxville Girl,â&#x20AC;? wherein the tragic title character is beaten to death, her body discarded in a river. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kinda harsh,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kinda fun playing it. It has that contrast of darkness, yet it sounds kinda happy.â&#x20AC;?

The group displays an appreciation for dark irony that only comes with experience.

But it is also a testament to the idea that getting older and wiser doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean slowing down. Aside from working on the album, The Welfare Liners have stayed busy with other endeavorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like their recent cover of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Squidbilliesâ&#x20AC;? theme song, which they recorded at the behest of series creator/ friend-of-a-friend Dave Willis.

Hallauer explains: â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Dave] called up one day and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing this wacky contest, and I need to have some bands cover the song so that I can solicit other bands to enter the contestâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; He called me on a Wednesday and [said], â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be on the air nationally this weekend, so I need it by Thursday.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

In fact, the theme, with its hilariously depressing lyrics (â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dreams are all dead and buried/ Sometimes I wish the sun would just explode/ When God comes and calls me to his kingdom/ Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take all you sons of bitches when I goâ&#x20AC;?) was a perfect fit for The Welfare Liners, and the TV spot was the most major piece of exposure the group has had to date.

Still, bandmembers remain practical. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all got full-time jobs that no one intends to quit, and families,â&#x20AC;? Hallauer says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve sowed those oats in previous bands.

The great thing about this band [is that] itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very simple. I always call it our poker club.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got guy friends who, once a week, they play poker, or golf, or whateverâ&#x20AC;Ś We get together every Thursday and play music.â&#x20AC;?

Their love of craft is honest and evident.

In the basement studio that has also functioned as a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playroom, The Welfare Liners say they might soon begin work on the follow-up to High on a Hilltop, another collection of stories told through song, the rare and unmistakable sound of musicians comfortable in their own skins.

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Will Johnson Is in Your Living Room

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entro-matic’s 2011 record, Candidate Waltz, was a typically electrifying set of rock songs. It was the Denton, TX-based band’s first outing in five years, an uncharacteristic amount of downtime, given the group’s hyper-prolific past. But fans know that frontman Will Johnson rarely stays still for long.

In fact, he was busier than ever during those intermediate days, touring alongside Conor Oberst, Jim James, Mike Mogis and M. Ward as part of Monsters of Folk, collaborating with Magnolia Electric Co. mastermind Jason Molina on a stellar LP (the fittingly titled Molina and Johnson) and working with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar on an interpretive Woody Guthrie tribute album.

Now comes Scorpion. Johnson’s new solo release, like the ones before it, was produced

by Centro-matic drummer Matt Pence. Like the titular animal, the record crawls steadily through barren fields of sound, dangerous despite its stature.

The album’s spartan, magnetic style is the in-the-moment result of some seriously condensed studio sessions. Johnson recalls listening back to the tapes each night. “A lot of the time, it’d be a song that didn’t exist 24 hours ago… All but a couple of songs were written right then and there, during the session[s].

Sometimes it [doesn’t] work. Sometimes it completely destructs,” he says, laughing. “And I accept that possibility all the time.”

Scorpion is quiet but piercing, reminiscent of the most effective acoustic work of Johnson’s erstwhile collaborator Molina. (“Bloodkin Push [Forget the Ones]” particularly recalls the pitch-black Neil Young appropriations on Songs: Ohia’s Didn’t It Rain.) The work is very much a product of its physical and temporal birthplace. “[T]his record is pretty stark and subdued, [with] kind of a solitary feel to it. It was, by no coincidence, recorded in the middle of February,” says Johnson, who says he is endlessly, if subconsciously, influenced by the seasons: “That stuff starts to get into the music.”

Like many artists, Johnson thrives on this duality: summer/winter, loud/soft, electric/ acoustic. In Centro-matic, he is a rock star. On Scorpion, he is a troubadour. Likewise, on the stage of a dark club, he cuts a shadowy and mysterious figure. But in your living room?

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Inspired by his friend, Pedro the Lion founder David Bazan, Johnson and fellow songwriter Anders Parker decided in 2009 to embark on a series of “living room shows,” which are precisely what they sound like: intimate performances, played out not in a crowded late-night bar setting but in a host fan’s well-lit domicile. There is no microphone and no crowd-artist divide.

“I really enjoyed the way it struck down a lot of the barriers that we tend to experience sometimes,” Johnson says. “I really liked the way it kind of harkened back to what I think music was transmitted like in the earliest days of humans, where people went from village to village entertaining each other… I really liked the way it deconstructed things.”

The intimate concerts not only provide a chance for fans and performers to vibe off one another on a bare, base level; they also, Johnson says, force him to reexamine his own work.

“Obviously, the living room show isn’t quite as rich an experience, sonically, as it is having a P.A. and a full band to really traverse these loud and more complex pieces of musical terrain… But it can kind of re-aquaint you or re-teach you material that you’ve been playing in a different way for years.”

Still, most significantly, the shows are about community. “It allows me to listen to folks tell stories, and tell a few stories of my own, and not worry about a set-list [or] pacing so much. I like the idea that it does put everybody on neutral turf… I like that it makes it about the music, and that it encourages friendships and connections and conversations that people might not have at a venue.”

Stragglers take note! All tickets for Johnson’s living room show must be purchased in advance. Visit undertowtickets.com to gain entry to this decidedly unique, likely unforgettable performance.

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Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 LECTURES AND LIT: Community Forum (UGA Russell Library) (Room 285) “America’s Role in the World: What Does National Security Mean in the 21st Century?” 5:30-7 p.m. FREE! russlib@uga.edu MEETINGS: ICAN Meeting (Highwire Lounge) ICAN of Athens supports women and their families who are exploring their birth options.

ICAN meets monthly and is open to the public. Call or email to RSVP. 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-2964857, icanofathens@gmail.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Wind Ensemble: European Vacation (Hugh Hodgson Hall) Selections include the world premier of Adam Gorb’s “Repercussions,” as well as Mahler’s “Un Mitternacht,” featuring soprano Stephanie Pierce. Also scheduled are Dvorak’s “Carnival Overture,” Dahl’s “Sinfonietta” and Prokofiev’s “March Op. 99.” 8 p.m. $5–10. www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Faculty Recital: David Zerkel (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) World-renowned UGA tuba professor David Zerkel

is joined by accompanist Anatoly Sheludyakov for an evening of solo music for the tuba. 6–7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.music.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

Wednesday 12 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the museum’s collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Life Drawing Open Studio (Lamar Dodd School of Art) (Room S370) Practice drawing or painting the human figure from life.

No instruction provided. Ages 18 & up. 5:45–8:45 p.m. $7. cementflounder@gmail.com CLASSES: Intro to Email (Madison County Library) Learn all about sending and receiving email. 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 EVENTS: Open Mic Night (Ten Pins Tavern) Hip-hop, spoken word, rock, singer-songwriters, DJs, jugglers, bellydancers, comedy, poetry, ballet.

Hosted by Amy Neese. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 EVENTS: Community HU Song (Lay Park) People of all faiths are invited to sing together with the Eckankar community. 7–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-310-9499, www. eckankar-ga.org EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo) (Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www. indigoathens.com EVENTS: Featured Farm Dinner (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Meal featuring food from Tewksbury Farms. Reservations required. 6 p.m. $40. www.heirloomathens.com EVENTS: Farmers Market (790 Gaines School Rd.) Fresh produce, eggs, grass-fed beef, etc. Every Wednesday and Friday. 4–7 p.m.

706-254-2248 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (City Hall/ College Avenue) An afternoon market featuring local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, etc. Live music. Every Wednesday through the end of October. 4–7 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Rabbit Box 5 (The Globe) Listen as eight Athenians share their true life stories based on the theme “Broken Open.” Stories may not be suitable for children. 7 p.m. $5 (recommended donation). www. facebook.com/rabbitboxstories GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m. www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub

GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (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 (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 KIDSTUFF: Home School Science (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Explore interactive learning stations and go on a guided hike. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $4–6. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Active Shooter Lecture (UGA Tate Center) “Active Shooter: Lessons Learned from the University of Alabama in Huntsville Incident.” 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5845 LECTURES AND LIT: Fountain Talks (Miller Learning Center) (Room 250) The Interfaith Cultural Organization of Athens (IFCO) presents a panel discussion, “Can Science and Religion Benefit from One Another?” 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.interfaithathens.org LECTURES AND LIT: Writing Workshop (Oglethorpe County Library) Betty Cory, author of Crabbing Days of an Islander, presents a workshop on prewriting, revising, editing and publishing.

5–6 p.m. FREE! 706-743-8817 PERFORMANCE: Guest Recital: Roger McVey (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Guest artist Roger McVey performs works for piano.

6–7:30 p.m. www.music.uga.edu

Thursday 13 ART: “90 Carlton: Autumn” (Georgia Museum of Art) Open house for the exhibitions “George Beattie’s Agriculture Murals,” “The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection at the Snite Museum of Art,” “Francisco de Goya’s ‘Disasters

Australian guitarist Joe Robinson plays the Melting Point on Thursday, Sept. 13. of War,’” “The New York Collection for Stockholm,” “The South in Black and White: The Graphic Works of James E. Routh Jr., 1939-1946” and “De Wain Valentine: Human Scale.”

Featuring live music, refreshments, workshops and tours. 6–8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Drum and Dance Workshop (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Learn West African drum and dance from Blibi Gore of Cote d’lvoire. 4:30–5:30 p.m. (drumming), 5:30–6:30 p.m. (dancing). $10/class. 706-318-1520 EVENTS: Athens Volunteer Fair (UGA Tate Center) Local community organizations share information about their programs and needs.

12–6 p.m. FREE! 706-583-0830 EVENTS: Rockin’ the Sustainability Revolution (Stan Mullins Art Studio. 650 Pulaski Street, Athens, GA 30601) A night of live music from Carl Lindberg and Friends, Terrapin beer, including the limited release, Tree Hugger altbier, cocktails and wine. Proceeds benefit Dogwood Alliance and The Southern Energy Network. 9–11 p.m. $10. www.dogwoodalliance.org EVENTS: Reiki Circle (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese hands-on technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday. 7–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-3386843 EVENTS: Groundbreaking Ceremony (Old Winterville High School) A short program with a “shovel turning” for the new City of Winterville Senior Center. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! dterrell@amtathens.com

GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (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 KIDSTUFF: Story Time (Avid Bookshop) Children’s stories.

Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. & Saturdays, 1 p.m. FREE! 706-352-2060 KIDSTUFF: International Chocolate Day (Rocksprings Community Center) A chocolate celebration featuring different kinds of chocolate, chocolate recipes and more. Ages 1–5. Call to register.

10–11:30 a.m. $3. 706-613-3603 KIDSTUFF: Book Jammers (ACC Library) Children and their families are invited for stories, trivia and crafts. This month’s theme is “camp out at the Library.”. Ages 8–11. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Book Tasting Party (Oconee County Library) Try out books before you “bite!” Browse from many books on the menu to try along with snacks. Ages 5-11. 4–5 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 MEETINGS: Athens Area Newcomers Club (Central Presbyterian Church) Terry Kay shares excerpts from his favorite tales. New publications available.

9:30 a.m. FREE! 706-850-7463

MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally Athens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Talk, drink with fellow liberals. First Thursday of every month. 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub OUTDOORS: Circle of Hikers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The garden offers a hike through the garden’s trails as part of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign.

Bring nature writings or favorite poems and essays to share. 8:30–10 a.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/botgarden PERFORMANCE: Second Thursday Scholarship Concert: All Dvorák (Hugh Hodgson Hall) Cello professor David Starkweather joins the UGA Symphony Orchestra in performing the masterworks of Antonín Dvorák. 8–10 p.m. $5–18. www.music.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

Friday 14 EVENTS: Farmers Market (790 Gaines School Rd.) Fresh produce, eggs, grass-fed beef, honey, etc.

Every Wednesday and Friday. 4–7 p.m. 706-254-2248 KIDSTUFF: Fantastic Fridays (Bishop Park) Obstacle courses and other activities in an unstructured environment. For ages 10 months to 4 years and their guardians. 9–10:30 a.m. or 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. $5–15.

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THE CALENDAR! LECTURES AND LIT: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library) This month’s title is The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother, by James McBride. Newcomers welcome. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 PERFORMANCE: Burlesque Beta (Go Bar) What a tease! Open-mic variety show featuring singers, dancers, musicians and comics in the vaudeville tradition. 10 p.m. $3.

706-546-5609 PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists.

10:30 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub

Saturday 15 ART: Pottery Demonstration (OCAF) David Morgan demonstrates wheel throwing and hand building techniques. 1–4 p.m. FREE! www. ocaf.com ART: Dream Board Workshop (Over the Moon Creative Possibilities) Collage fun on the new moon. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $10. 706540-2712 CLASSES: Fire Dancing 101 (Floorspace) Learn the basics of dancing with fire: tools, tricks and safety. Space is limited; email to register. 3–5 p.m. $20. floorspacestudio@gmail.com CLASSES: How to Download Library E-Books (Oconee County Library) Learn how to download eBooks from the library. Participants are welcome to bring laptops, Nooks or Kindles to class. 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 EVENTS: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) Presented by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society. Live music

by Cage-Free String Band.

Doug Singleton calls. Free lesson 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 EVENTS: West Broad Market Garden Produce Stand (West Broad Market Garden, 1573 W. Broad St.) Seasonal and naturally grown produce. Cash paying neighbors of the West Broad Garden get a 30% discount on produce. EBT payments will be accepted in the future.

Tuesdays, 5–8 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

EVENTS: 20th Annual Insectival (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This creepy, crawly and fun family festival includes discovery stations, roach and beetle races, an insect café, puppet shows, prizes and lots of live insects. The 5th annual butterfly release on the lawn of the International Garden begins at 11 a.m. 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. FREE! (under 2), $5, $20 max/family. 706542-6156, botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, etc.

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

This week is a pastry party featuring a demo with 5&10 pastry chef Shjae Rehmel and a tasty treat contest. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Cruise-In Car Show (Downtown Greensboro) Enjoy over 100 classic cars from the ‘40s to

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Featuring live music from Terance Lonon and the Untouchables and food from local restaurants. 4-8 p.m. FREE! 706-453-7674 GAMES: Pathfinder Society RPG (Tyche’s Games) Bring your imagination. 12 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Nature Trading Post (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Trade one or two objects found in nature for points or other nature objects in the center’s collection. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Story Time (Avid Bookshop) Come listen to children’s stories read aloud. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. & Saturdays, 1 p.m. FREE! 706352-2060 KIDSTUFF: Saturday at the Rock (Rock Eagle 4H Center) Meet the raptors at Rock Eagle and learn about local birds of prey.

9:30–11:30 a.m. $5. 706-484-2862, mhammons@uga.edu SPORTS: UGA Football Game (UGA Sanford Stadium) The Dawgs take on the Florida Atlantic University Owls. 7:30 p.m. www. georgiadogs.com THEATRE: Mr. Long Said Nothing (The Elbert Theatre) A young woman deals with her family history through a local statue. A live reading of a play performed for the first time in public. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-2831049, www.elberttheatre.org

Sunday 16 ART: Gallery Talk (OCAF) Michael Pitts leads a tour through the exhibition galleries to cover pottery styles, clays, glazes, firing techniques and general information about “Perspectives.” 1 p.m. FREE! www. ocaf.com ART: Artist Reception (Visionary Growth Gallery) Meet the artists of

“Brained,” an exhibit featuring works

by Grover Hogan, Tim Gartrell, Michael McAleer, Haru Park, John Crowe and Bud Lee. 2–6 p.m. FREE! www.visgrow.com ART: Opening Reception (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) For floral radiographic photography by Dr. Merrill Raikes, a retired radiologist. Floral radiographic photography is X-ray photography of the structure of flowers. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu ART: Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Ballroom Dance Club (UGA Memorial Hall) Ballroom Dance lessons every Sunday! Nonstudents welcome. 6–7 p.m., FREE! (beginner). 7–8 p.m., $3 (advanced). ugadance.com/imnew CLASSES: Glass Fusing Class (Good Dirt) Make a fused glass windchime or suncatcher. For adults and mature teens. Call to register.

2–4 p.m. $50. 706-355-3161, www. gooddirt.net EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Athens, Ga) Kristen Morales leads a historical walking tour of the new Buena Vista National Register District. Make reservations online. 2 p.m. $12–15. www.athensclarkeheritagefoundation.bigcartel.com GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) “Brewer’s Inquisition,” trivia hosted by Chris Brewer every Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3546655, www.buffaloscafe.com/athens GAMES: Legend of the Five Rings (Tyche’s Games) “Hunt for the Dark Naga” tournament. 2 p.m. $1. www. tychesgames.com GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! Hosted by Evan Delany. First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com

GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Amici) Every Sunday. First place receives $50 and second place receives $25.

9 p.m. www.amici-cafe.com GAMES: Shadowfist Tournament (Tyche’s Games) Final brawl format.

12 p.m. $1. www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Pirate Crafts (Madison County Library) Polly wanna crafter?

Take to the high seas with an afternoon of arrrght. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Occupy Athens General Assembly (City Hall/ College Avenue) Occupy Athens meets weekly under the Spirit of Athens statue outside City Hall. All are invited. 8–9:30 p.m. FREE! www. athensoccupier.com

Monday 17 EVENTS: Circus of the Stars (Heritage Park) The Cole Bros. present “the world’s largest circus under the big top.” 4:30 & 7:30 p.m. $16–21. www.gotothecircus.com GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes!

Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge every Monday! Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706543-8997 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to bedtime stories. Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Reboot Camp (Oconee County Library) Learn how to search for books, find a book’s grade level, track down AR books, put books on hold and more. For grades 3-5.

Registration required. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950

Thursday, September 13

Second Thursday Concert Series: All Dvorˇák Hodgson Hall When you think of Athens’ local music scene, images of indie-rock bands in downtown clubs likely come to mind. But a whole other sphere of perforUGA Symphony Orchestra mance exists, peacefully tucked away on UGA’s East Campus. Just as hard-working and no less deserving of a packed-out crowd, these classical musicians spend hours upon hours each week meticulously perfecting their parts, preparing to take the stage beneath the bright lights and play their hearts out.

Under the baton of Mark Cedel, the UGA Symphony Orchestra will kick off this season’s lineup of the Second Thursday Scholarship Series—a monthly program that has showcased student and faculty talent to help fund academic scholarships and assistantships for over 30 years—by performing three of Antonín Dvorˇák’s most popular pieces.

“Symphony No. 8 in G Major” embodies the remarkably dynamic nature of the composer’s works, carrying listeners between cheerful, exuberant bursts of brass, delicate flurries of woodwinds and triumphant swells of strings over a span of four movements.

“Carnival Overture,” a vivacious romp interrupted only by a momentary, haunting melody, mimics the exhilaration and mystique surrounding a fair and best reveals Dvorˇák’s strongest influence: the traditional music of his Bohemian homeland. Born into the modernday Czech Republic in 1841, Dvorˇák is celebrated for incorporating Slavic folk melodies and dance rhythms into his compositions, demonstrating an appreciation of his heritage as well as subtle undertones of nationalism. The remaining selection, the powerful “Cello Concerto,” will feature longtime UGA cello professor David Starkweather.

There’s something to be said for anything that has managed to survive an entire century of shifting cultural trends; these pieces have certainly stood the test of time.

[Jessica Smith]

LECTURES AND LIT: Battle of the Bulge: Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Surprise Christmas Offensive (Oconee County Library) Bill Cosgrove will explain Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan, the geography of the battle area, and the advance of Kampfgruppe Peiper, the notorious SS battle group that was responsible for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Malmedy Massacre.â&#x20AC;? 6 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES AND LIT: Book Signing (CinĂŠ) Julie Cannon will read and sign copies of her new novel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twang,â&#x20AC;? which is about Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music row. Susan Staley will round out the evening with a musical performance. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com

Tuesday 18 ART: Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art) (Room S151) Lola Brooks is a jewelrysmith and Lamar Dodd chair for 2012-2013.

She uses stainless steel to drive the conceptual content of her work. 5:30 p.m. FREE! artinfo@uga.edu CLASSES: Emailing and Receiving Attachments (Madison County Library) Learn how to attach pictures, documents and other items via email and how to view attachments. Sep. 18, 2:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3:30 p.m. or 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. & Sep. 19, 11:30 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 COMEDY: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Voted by Flagpoleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s readers as Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;favorite comedy nightâ&#x20AC;? in 2011 and 2012, this comedy show allows locals to watch quality comedy or perform themselves. Email to perform. First and third Tuesday of every month! 9 p.m. FREE! (performers), $5. calebsynan@yahoo.com, www.flickertheatreandbar.com COMEDY: Weird Kids Comedy Night (New Earth Music Hall) Standup comedy by Walker Smith, Cherith Fuller, Matt Gilbert, Paige Bowman and Ben Lamm, as well as sketches from the Not Ready For Anything Players and improvised monologues. 10 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walk (Athens, Ga) Danny Sniff leads a historical walking tour of the UGA Health Sciences Campus/Navy Supply Corps School. Make reservations online. 7 p.m. $12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. www. athensclarkeheritagefoundation. bigcartel.com EVENTS: Community Forum on Economic Security (UGA Special Collections Library Building) (Room 285) Explore the impact of the latest recession in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Economic Security: How Should We Take Charge of Our Future? 5:30-7 p.m. FREE! russlib@ uga.edu EVENTS: 5th Annual Golf Fore â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Girlsâ&#x20AC;? (The Georgia Club) Four-person scramble golf tournament open to golfers of all levels; featuring contests and prizes.

Proceeds benefit Athens Regional Foundation, the Breast Health Center and Loran Smith Center for Cancer Support. 8 a.m. $95/player. 770725-8101 EVENTS: Circus of the Stars (Heritage Park) The Cole Bros. present â&#x20AC;&#x153;the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest circus under the big top.â&#x20AC;? 4:30 & 7:30 p.m. $16â&#x20AC;&#x201C;21. www.gotothecircus.com EVENTS: West Broad Market Garden Produce Stand (West Broad Market Garden, 1573 W. Broad St.) Seasonal and naturally grown produce. Cash paying neighbors of the West Broad Garden get a 30% discount on produce. EBT payments will be accepted in the future.

Tuesdays, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m.

FILM: Age of Champions (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) An award-winning documentary that follows five competitors at the National Senior Olympics. When one athlete loses a spouse and another is diagnosed with cancer, they dig even deeper to make their Olympic dreams come true. A discussion and reception with the filmmaker will follow the film. 7 p.m. $5-7. www. mmcc-arts.org GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Changoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 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: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 PERFORMANCE: Faculty Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Violinist Benjamin Sung and his wife, pianist Jihye Chang, pair with UGA Clarinet Professor D. Ray McClellan for an evening of collaborative chamber music. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9:30 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10. www. music.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

Wednesday 19 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Life Drawing Open Studio (Lamar Dodd School of Art) (Room S370) Practice drawing or painting the human figure from life.

No instruction provided. Ages 18 & up. 5:45â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:45 p.m. $7. cementflounder@gmail.com CLASSES: Emailing and Receiving Attachments (Madison County Library) Learn how to attach pictures, documents and other items on your computer via email and how to open and view sent attachments. Sep. 18, 2:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3:30 p.m. or 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. & Sep. 19, 11:30 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12:30 p.m. FREE! 706795-5597 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. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Open Mic Night (Ten Pins Tavern) Hip-hop, spoken word, rock, singer-songwriters, DJs, jugglers, bellydancers, comedy, poetry, balletâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if you can do it, we want to see it! Hosted by Amy Neese. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-8090 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo) (Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

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EVENTS: Farmers Market (790 Gaines School Rd.) Fresh produce, eggs, grass-fed beef, honey, homemade cakes and breads, etc. Every Wednesday and Friday. 4–7 p.m.

706-254-2248 FILM: Land (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Will Goss shows his latest film about the story of a farmer who sells his soul to the devil for power over the weather, resulting in a cosmic battle of elemental human desire. 7 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

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

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Pirate Storytime (Madison County Library) Walk the plank into a magical land where pirates sail with mermaids’ tails.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Girls’ Night Out (Oconee County Library) Grab some girlfriends and head over to the library to relax. Watch 13 Going on 30, enjoying indulgent snacks, creating one-of-a-kind jewelry, learning how to chalk hair and creating custom, DIY glitter tattoos. Ages 11-18.

6-8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES AND LIT: Protect Seniors from Fraud Seminar (Athens Community Council on Aging) A seminar to educate families and seniors about how to protect themselves from dishonest scammers who may be targeting seniors with clever cons that could jeopardize not only their life savings but also their independence. 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-2283, janeg@ homeinstead.com LECTURES AND LIT: Writing Workshop (Oglethorpe County Library) Betty Cory, author of Crabbing Days of an Islander, focuses on prewriting, revising, editing and publishing. 5–6 p.m. FREE! 706-743-8817 LECTURES AND LIT: Talking About Books (ACC Library) An adult book discussion group. This month’s title is The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, by Jane Smiley. Newcomers welcome.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 324 MEETINGS: PFLAG Athens Meeting (545 Research Dr., Suite A) PFLAG Athens is a support, education and advocacy group for families, friends and supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. All are welcome to come from 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706756-5428, pflagathga@gmail.com

PERFORMANCE: “Pale Blue Dot” (Hugh Hodgson Hall) The UGA Student Composers Association presents a recital of new works by Hugh Hodgson School of Music composition students. Works feature compositions for a percussion ensemble, clarinet, piano, strings and electronic playback. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.music.uga.edu

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 11 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com VINCAS Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and a bit of rockabilly swagger.

CHEAP TIME Glam-influenced, Nashville-based garage rock band on In the Red Records.

TURF WAR More than just another sound-alike, this Atlanta band takes cues from, but puts its own spin on, the lo-fi garage aesthetic of groups like The Black Lips.

ALL CITY CANNONBALLERS Fronted by local songwriter J.S. Dillard. If you’re into classic rock like CCR, The Faces, T. Rex, the Stones and Tom Petty, you’ll find a lot to like here.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com CHRISTOPHER BELL Experimental New York-based cellist uses loop pedals to “blur Bach into Bill Withers and back.”

Georgia Theatre “Get Up Get Down.” On the rooftop! 11 p.m. $2. www.georgiatheatre.com BLACK TAXI Variously described as dance-punk and “grit-pop,” this group hails from New York City.

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

The Globe 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 OPEN MIC NIGHT Open mic for acoustic musicians. Sign-up starts at 8 p.m. Limited spots are available. Please direct questions to theglobeopenmic@gmail.com. Every Tuesday!

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul featuring three vocalists and charismatic harmonies.

BARLETTAS Local group plays cheeky, ‘60s-influenced rock with harmonies and honky-tonk overtones.

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

Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums. Every Tuesday!

Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.manorathens.com LIVE BAND KARAOKE Live karaoke band covers all your favorite hits, while you sing along. Every Tuesday!

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday Series. 7:30 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com UNCLE LUCIUS Austin-based roots rock with blues and R&B influences.

Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Rd. location) LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local solo folk and country songwriter.

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

WUOG Live in the Lobby! 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed out garage-punk trio.

Wednesday 12 Athens City Hall Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net PETER ALAND Local acoustic folk.

Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday!

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

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com ROBERT EARL KEEN Country-folk guitarist and “musical storyteller” from Texas.

ANDREA DAVIDSON Louisvillebased guitarist plays folk music.

REV. PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND Three-piece country blues band featuring an aggressive washboard player, rusty steel-bodied guitars and five-gallon bucket percussion.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ATHENS UNPLUGGED An evening of back-to-back 30-minute acoustic sets from local songwriters, featureing Tao Easton, Brett Winslett, Geoff Weaver, Tim Schreiber and Colby Carter.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com TRUCKSTOP DARLIN’ Portland, OR band plays a brand of booze-soaked rock it calls “mountain grunge.”

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features Robby Handley (bass) and Marlon Patton (drums).

Jerzees 10 p.m.–1 a.m. $3 (21+), $5. 706850-7320 SPICY SALSA DANCING Salsa and Latin dancing. Every Wednesday.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com GABRIEL KELLEY A Georgia native and former Athenian, Gabriel Kelley now makes Nashville home base for his muscular but tender folk-rock.

MICHAEL MANN Lead vocalist for local Southern rock band Radiolucent plays a solo set.

New Earth Music Hall 8 p.m. $6. www.blog.newearthmusichall.com JANTSEN This “bass-driven all star” has collaborated with dubstep and

glitch-hop heavyweights, appearing on the last two Bassnectar albums.

OMEGA Dubstep producer and Soundcloud superstar.

PSYMBIONIC Glitchy dubstep producer from Austin, TX. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT An Athens tradition for over 10 years! Pianist Steve Key is joined by other talented local musicians for an evening of standards and improvisations.

Ten Pins Tavern 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 OPEN MIC NIGHT Hip-hop, spoken word, rock, singer-songwriters, DJs and more! Hosted by Amy Neese.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com DAN SHEFFIELD Georgia-based roots rock artist with a progressive edge.

The Winery 7–11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0095 LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country.

Thursday 13 40 Watt Club 4 on the Floor! 10 p.m. $3 (21+), $5 (18-20). www.40watt.com DAVID BARBE AND THE QUICK HOOKS Acclaimed local producer and former member of Sugar and Mercyland, David Barbe has played with members of The Glands, Harvey Milk and more to create that special brand of full-throttle rock that ventures from indie psychedelia to twangy blues.

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

NECK This local band, led by songwriter Jared Collins, plays reverbwashed melodic pop. Formerly known as k i d s.

DOZEN EGGS New project from Henry Barbe (Justified True Belief).

Amici 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 OPEN MIC NIGHT Bi-weekly open mic night.

Barbeque Shack 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-6752 OPEN BLUEGRASS JAM All pickers welcome! Every Thursday!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com JK & THE LOST BOYS Atlanta band with a style strongly reflective of acoustic-tinged folk and blues rock bands such as Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews Band and Counting Crows.

STREET, RHYTHM & RHYME Local group jams on funk, reggae, jazz and blues.

ANDREW HUANG Experimental electronic folk pop rap rock from Toronto.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com FURIES Formerly known as Grinnin Bear, the band describes itself as “bipolar post-grunge rock with anxiety issues, a drinking problem and a love for the unexpected.”

DYLAR Indie band from New Hampshire.

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Drivinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cryinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Will Hoge Georgia Theatre Singer-guitarist Kevn Kinney and bassist Tim Nielsen first made a splash as kudzu-rock/ college radio darlings Drivinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cryinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s. The band Drivin nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cryinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; went through a bona fide longhaired hardrock era in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s with guitar-heavy, Southern-fried hits like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fly Me Courageous,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Straight to Hellâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Build a Fire.â&#x20AC;? As the main songwriter, Kinney has maintained his musical flexibility over the years and has welcomed a small rotation of guitarists, drummers and sidemen into the lineup, too.

Last year, Kinney, Nielsen and longtime drummer Dave Johnson welcomed guitarist Sadler Vaden (formerly of Charleston, SC power trio Leslie), into the band. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got a call from Tim one day, asking me for a ride to Asheville,â&#x20AC;? Vaden remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He told me to bring my guitar and amp so I could sit inâ&#x20AC;Ś Afterward, Kevn said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, man, what are you doing the rest of the week? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re heading up to New York.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So, I ended up jumping in the van and going.â&#x20AC;?

Vaden barely had a chance to learn the songs before hitting the road, so he mastered them onstage, during soundchecks and live sets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it worked,â&#x20AC;? he laughs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Luckily, I was a fan of the band, and I already knew a lot of their songs.â&#x20AC;?

These days, the band seems to be operating with a new blast of steam. In June, it released an EP titled Songs from the Laundromat, the first installment in a planned fourpart series. The second disc, a punk-fueled six-song set titled Songs About Cars, Space and The Ramones, is due Sept. 18, and the band has already started tracking a pile of garage-rock songs for the next one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a trip into psychedelia, which is something Kevn has always wanted to do,â&#x20AC;?

Vaden says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This EP series allows him and the group to explore new ideas and make it like a magazine subscription for bands. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cool thing to do between full-length albums.â&#x20AC;? [T. Ballard Lesemann]

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. $8. 706-546-9884 JIMBO MATHUS & THE TRI-STATE COALITION Squirrel Nut Zippers founder Jimbo Mathus reaches deep into his Mississippi roots with this Southern rock band filled with country-fried blues licks.

JUSTIN MCFARLAND Local songwriter sings the blues.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $7. www.georgiatheatre.com YO MAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BIG FAT BOOTY BAND Get ready for a dancefloorshaking funk show mixed with high-energy ska, reggae, hip-hop and Latin soul.

CHRONIC FUNK CIRCUS Featuring members of JazzChronic, Tent City, Eddie and The Public Speakers and Half Dozen Brass Band.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Fredâ&#x20AC;? Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $10. www.hendershotscoffee. com BILL MALLONEE The engine behind seminal Athens outfit Vigilantes of Love, Bill Mallonee takes his love of twangy, soulful pop to nearperfection on his numerous recent releases.

ADAM KLEIN Local songwriter playing a rustic blend of country, folk and Americana.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com JOE ROBINSON Young guitar virtuoso from Australia celebrates his album Let Me Introduce You. WESLEY COOK Upbeat local songwriter with a knack for both melody and rhythm.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com SOMEBODYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DARLING Roots-rock and Americana group hailing from Dallas, TX. SANS ABRI This local band doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily adhere to the strict expectations associated with bluegrass, but infuses its Americana roots with a bit of alternative rock.

RUBY THE RABBITFOOT Formerly Ruby Kendrick, this local singersongwriter has a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 JUBEE & THE MORNING AFTER Smooth, soulful hip-hop featuring MC JuBee and his band of electric rockers from Macon, GA. The Office Lounge Blues Night. 9 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!

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com MIKE ARMSTRONG Country singersongwriter from Flowery Branch.

BEAR LEFT This local high-energy jam band combines rock and funk influences.

COTTER PEN Local trio playing rock, blues and soul.

Blind Pig Tavern 7 p.m. FREE! 706-208-7979 (West Broad St. location) MC BLUEZ Blues trio fronted by Jim Cook and Bill Mitchell with Bill Whitley on percussion. Strong vocals and smoking slide guitar.

Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southwest CafĂŠ 9 p.m. $5. www.buffaloscafe.com/ athens ROLLINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; HOME Originals with a Grateful Dead kind of groove and a Southern rock leaning.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com JEFFERS MORNING Local rock trio plays fun, danceable pop-punk.

ALOUD Indie rock band from Boston touring behind its new imited release 7-inch single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Will Know.â&#x20AC;?

THE BREAKS Local rock band with alternative and jam influences.

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Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com ANDREW KAHRS Kahrsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sultry blues guitar work accompanies powerful vocals for a soulful sound one doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come by often.

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LAZY LOCOMOTIVE New local group featuring members of Fuzzbucket, Juice Box and High Strung String Band.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.40watt. com BETSY KINGSTON & THE CROWNS Local band, led by the guitar and vocal work of Betsy Kingston, balances heavy-hitting blues-rock with soulful country-folk.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com THE VIKING PROGRESS Patrick Morales has a lovely, tender voice that sings gentle, indie/folk ballads about love, death and isolation inspired by his time at sea.

WUOG Live in the Lobby! 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org WEREWOLVES Quirky lo-fi rock with bright, bouncy flourishes, unique instrumentation and emotive lyrics.

FOUR EYES Ukulele strummer Erin Lovett sings folky pop numbers.

SHE/WOLF All-female acoustic pop trio featuring members of Romanenko.

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Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com DRIVINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; N CRYINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Southern rock band fronted by Kevn Kinney known primarily for its 1990s radio hits like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fly Me Courageous.â&#x20AC;?

WILL HOGE This Nashville guitarist and songwriter writes in the anthemic alt-country mode. Expect heart-on-your-sleeve lyrics with a Springsteen-esque delivery.

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40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com THE ORKIDS One-time Athens band returns with their danceable, glossy electro-pop.

SAVE GRAND CANYON Emotional and dynamic, this tenderfoot local band plays what it calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;organic alt-rock.â&#x20AC;?

RAVELLO Nashville based band that strives to make its own brand of modern rock.

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net SOME SWEET DAY Local chamber folk duo with a strong emphasis on narrative lyrics. (8 a.m.)

HAWK PROOF ROOSTER Local folk/Americana act. (10 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $3 (21+), $5 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com TATERZANDRA Local band plays angular, dissonant, catchy grunge.

LIFE IN VACUUM Progressive, quirky prog-punk from Canada.

NATIONS Aggressive, indie rock based in Georgia and Florida.

MUUY BIIEN Local band plays â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s-style punk rock with ambient interludes that are equal parts Minor Threat and The Fall.

Dickeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barbecue Pit 7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7561 KARAOKE With â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Queen of Karaoke,â&#x20AC;? Lynn Carson.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CICADA RHYTHM Local acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie folk.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com ANTHONY APARO Mr. Mustache singer and guitarist plays a solo set.

NEW WIVES Local trio plays indieinfluenced rock.

BOMBADIL Folk-pop band from North Carolina.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com TYCHO San Francisco-based artist Scott Hansen creates ambient electronica. He names Ulrich Schnauss and Boards of Canada as influences.

THE ALBUM LEAF San Diego-based electro/post-rock outfit fronted by Jimmy LaValle.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SLEEPING FRIENDS Garage-pop featuring Joe Kubler (Bubbly Mommy Gun) and friends.

BEAT HAPPENED Beat Happening cover band featuring Joe Kubler (Sleeping Friends, Bubbly Mommy Gun) and Phelan Lavelle (Bird Names, S H A D E).

WALMART THE BAND New band featuring Colby Carter of Mouser.

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub KEN WILL MORTON With his gritty, soulful rasp, Morton trudges through Americanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roots with rock and roll swagger and a folksingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart.

BRAD HELLER & THE FUSTICS Americana/rock band from Wilmington, NC.

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Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 DJ MAHOGANY Local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a lotta unexpected faves.

DJ SEOULO Athens-area DJ mixing your favorite hip-hop, electronica, top 40 and old-school jams.

The Melting Point 4 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com THE HANDS OF TIME Soul, funk, pop, R&B, Motown and classic oldschool hits from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s that will get you out on the floor.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com SUMILAN Technically proficient musicians playing progressive jam rock.

PHFACTOR A fusion of styles from jazz, rock, progressive, funk, jam and sound yet to be classified.

THE GOOD DOCTOR â&#x20AC;&#x153;Down-home funk-rock fusion band delivers a energy packed punch of soul at every show.â&#x20AC;?

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 BLACK PISTOL FIRE Rising bluespunk duo from Austin via Toronto.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 RICK FOWLER BAND Local guitarist Rick Fowler (Lonely White Boys, Ralph Roddenbery, etc.) specializes in acoustic originals and blues. Live music on the patio!

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com MC BLUEZ Blues trio fronted by Jim Cook and Bill Mitchell with

Bill Whitley on percussion. Strong vocals and smoking slide guitar.

Sunday 16 Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com FERGUS AND GERONIMO Soulinfluenced band from Denton, TX. JAILL Sub Pop-backed indie-psych band from Milwaukee.

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. www.highwirelounge.com KATE MORRISSEY Morrisseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songwriting is literate, and her conversational live shows come with an offbeat sense of humor.

MONAHAN Ryan Monahan backed

by Josh McMichael on bass and Lemuel Hayes on drums. Ryan has a gorgeous, expressive Jeff Buckleyesque voice that soars and sighs with equal grace.

Tapped 10 p.m. 706-850-6277 ROOT SPIRITS Local two-piece blues-rock outfit draws from American roots music and psychedelia.

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.

Monday 17 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THERESA ANDERSSON One-woman band who uses loop pedals to create her multi-instrument sound.

THAYER SARRANO Local singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist with lovely, airy vocals.

BRIAN CONNELL Local singer-songwriter is backed by former members of Little Francis.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop! 8 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com DANGFLY! Local rock band including Americana notables Adam Payne, Shawn Johnson, Jay Rodgers, Scotty Nicholson and Adam Poulin.

The Grotto 6 p.m. FREE! 140 E. Clayton St. THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Every Monday. Jazz played by DJ Segar from WXAG 1470, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Light.â&#x20AC;?

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

Tuesday 18 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $26. www.40watt.com GUIDED BY VOICES Legendary and long-running indie-rock band that emerged from Dayton, OH in 1983.

DĂ&#x2030;TECTIVE Former Guided By Voices bassist James Greer helms this L.A.based pop outfit.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com HENRY CLAY PEOPLE Youthful, energetic, punk-leaning four-piece from California. The new album is called Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives.

DANA SWIMMER Soul-tinged rock and roll project featuring members

Saturday, September 15

The Album Leaf, Tycho Georgia Theatre In the nebulous field of music journalism, there always seems to be one nagging descriptor that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go away. Currently, the adjective plaguing the blogosphere is â&#x20AC;&#x153;dreamy.â&#x20AC;?

Still, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somewhat apt, I guess: Everything these days, it seems, is awash in overlapping layers of sound The Album Leaf and synths, waterlogged with reverb, lazy-hazyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and usually, stubbornly inconsequential.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blame the progenitors. Both Tycho (Scott Hansen) and The Album Leaf (Jimmy LaValle) were dreaming dreamy dreams before todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crop of musical dreamers were even half-asleep. Their music, and that of their contemporaries, continues to provide the blueprint for many a Best New Music choice: Beach House, Washed Out, Youth Lagoon and scores of other indistinct acts with water-themed names.

Not quite chilly enough for the IDM (EDM?) scene and too beat-heavy for indie-pop, Hansen exists on some somnambulistic middle plane. Debuting in 2002 with The Science of Patterns EP, Tychoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music, where bendy Boards of Canada-biting synths mingle with sleepy 4/4 fantasy, is the soft but persistent sound of an all-night rave after most of the flies have dropped.

LaValleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, whether heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flying solo or backed by his band, is more indebted to the instrumental post-rock of bands like Mogwai, though his is a gentler sort of bombast, the type of stuff you might expect to hear soundtracking a gritty indie drama. (Fittingly, The Album Leafâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest release is an excellent, heart-wrenching score for Toreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Distraction, a documentary about children suffering from the pain and shame of disfiguring craniofacial anomalies.)

Epic in scope yet tender in nature, both Tychoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhythmic evocations of daybreak and The Album Leafâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warm, melodic meanderings are rich with the sort of instrumental inner-monologuing that encourages listeners to explore and embrace the intricacy of the subconscious. You know, really dreamy stuff. [Gabe Vodicka]

of The District Attorneys and Lord Baltimore.

JEFFERS MORNING Local rock trio plays fun, danceable pop-punk.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 7 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com GUIDED BY GUIDED BY VOICES Cheekily named GBV cover band featuring local musicians Jeff Fox, Mat Lewis and special guests.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop! 11 p.m. $2. www.georgiatheatre.com PUJOL Twangy, garage rock signed to Jack White’s Third Man Records.

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

The Globe 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 OPEN MIC NIGHT Open mic for acoustic musicians. Sign-up starts at 8 p.m. Limited spots are available.

Direct questions to theglobeopenmic@gmail.com. Every Tuesday!

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 LIL IFFY Magic-obsessed “wandcore” hip-hop group from Orlando. Expect themes of wizardry and the black arts.

THE MAGIC BAND No information available.

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

Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums. Every Tuesday!

Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.manorathens.com LIVE BAND KARAOKE Live karaoke band covers all your favorite hits, while you sing along. Every Tuesday!

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday Series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com THE WELFARE LINERS This fivepiece bluegrass unit blends classic tunes with their own originals for that authentic, high lonesome Southern sound, while focusing on “brother harmonies.” Celebrating the release of the debut album High on a Hilltop.

MRJORDANMRTONKS Collaboration between longtime Athens musicians Tommy Jordan and William Tonks.

Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Rd. location) LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country. Currently working on his debut album!

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

WUOG Live in the Lobby! 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org MR. MUSTACHE Folk-inspired pop with lots of vocal harmonies.

Wednesday 19 Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday!

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com MAPS AND ATLASES Indie rock group from Chicago equally influenced by alternative rock, folk and experimental music.

CORY BRANAN Storytelling songwriter from Nashville.

Farm 255 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Local act featuring Jeremiah Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor saxophone playing cool jazz.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com KINKY AFROS Southern rock band from Acworth.

SOME ARMY North Carolina-based indie-pop band.

VINCENT THE DOG Athens powerrock trio informed by classic rock, blues, funk, jazz, hard rock and progressive rock.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS The sons of Memphis legend Jim Dickinson present a spirited blend of Southern rock and blues with proficient guitar licks.

MISSING CATS John “JoJo” Hermann of Widespread Panic and Sherman Ewing combine the sounds of New Orleans boogie-woogie piano and raw, emotive songwriting.

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BLUE DIVISION New local punk group plays snotty melody, inspired

by Bad Brains and Minor Threat.

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features Robby Handley (bass) and Marlon Patton (drums). The new originals spark like Booker T & the MG’s mixed with 20th Century harmony.

Jerzees 10 p.m.–1 a.m. $3 (21+), $5. 706850-7320 SPICY SALSA DANCING Salsa and Latin dancing. Every Wednesday.

Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-548-7803 (Harris St. location) TODD COWART Singer for local Southern-fried rock act The Hushpuppies Band plays a solo set.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $6. www.meltingpointathens. com INGRAM HILL Three-piece roots rock band from Memphis.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT An Athens tradition for over 10 years! Pianist Steve Key is joined by other talented local musicians for an evening of standards and improvisations.

Ten Pins Tavern 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 OPEN MIC NIGHT Hip-hop, spoken word, rock, singer-songwriters, DJs and more! Hosted by Amy Neese.

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Call for Artists (Over the Moon Creative Possibilities) Over the Moon Creative Possibilities is seeking artists for the fourth annual Penumbra Halloween Art Show. Art accepted until Oct. 12. Exhibit runs Oct. 20-31. 706-540-2712, jennifers childknecht@gmail.com, www. mamainthemoon.blogspot.com Call for Artists (Gainesville State College) The Roy C. Moore Art Gallery seeks artwork dealing with immigration, “La identidad Latina,” and/or “La Raza” for a 2013 exhibition. Works in all media will be considered. Artists with MFA or equivalent experience preferred.

Please email low-resolution images, artist statement and resume to gallery@gsc.edu. Deadline Oct. 30 Call for Artists (Lyndon House Arts Center) Lickskillet Artists Market (Oct. 13, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.) seeks artists in all media. Deadline Sept. 29. $15–25. 706-613-3623, lhartsfoundation@gmail.com.

Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) Applications currently being accepted for the artist market at the gallery’s fall festival, Festiboo, to be held on Oct. 20. Email farmingtongallery@gmail.com for application and information.

Call for Entries (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) All works welcome for a juried exhibition featuring local artists. Submissions due Sept.

20. Finalists will be selected by Jeffery Whittle on Sept. 27. Opening reception Oct. 3. Send jpg submissions with statement to sarah@ heirloomathens.com Logo Contest (Athens, Ga) The Athens Historical Society is seeking entries for a new logo and offering $250 to the winner. Submissions

CLASSES Advanced Yoga Teacher Training (Athens, Ga) Vastu Yoga hosts a 500-hour yoga teacher training. Journey more deeply into your own practice while learning the technical skills necessary to become a stellar yoga instructor. Visit website for location and info. Begins in November. $2,495. www.globalvastuyoga.com.

Altered Book Workshop (Over the Moon Creative Possibilities) Two-part workshop. Instructions will be emailed after registration. Sept.

18 & 25, 7 p.m. $45. 706-540-2712, jenniferschildknecht@gmail.com Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday.

6 p.m. Donations accepted.

706-351-6024 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 Classes (Oconee County Library) Advanced to beginner computer classes offered by appointment. Call to register. 706769-3950, watkinsville@athens library.org Computer Tutorials (ACC Library) Choose from a list of topics for personalized, one-onone instruction. The library also offers online computer classes in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and eBooks. Call for times and to register. 706-613-3650

Dance Classes (Dancefx) Ballet, tap, hip-hop, Zumba, contemporary, foxtrot, Western dancing, strip aerobics, pilates and more. Check website for schedule. 706-355-3078, www.dancefx.org Drawing Workshop (Georgia Museum of Art) Artist and educator Hope Hilton teaches a drawing workshop for adults in conjunction with the exhibition “The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection at the Snite Museum of Art.” Learn basic drawing techniques using materials like carved sticks and ink, graphite and ink washes and #2 pencils. Materials provided. No experience required.

Call to register. Sep. 20, 5:30–8:30 p.m. 706-542-4662 Fall Art Classes and Workshops (OCAF) Instruction in watercolors, portraiture and nature painting, clay arts, book, paper and journal making, bagpipes, freelance writing, writing for business and self-publishing. Call, email or visit website to register. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com, www.ocaf.com Gentle Hatha Integral Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) All levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. $9/class. 706-5430162, mfhealy@bellsouth.net, www.mindfuliving.org Karate (Athens Yoshukai Karate) Traditional Okinawan hard-style karate taught in a positive atmosphere. FREE! www.athensy.com Karate Classes (291 Brickleberry Ridge & Tate Center) Traditional karate training in an Okinawan style.

Friendly, welcoming school for all types. FREE! www.athensy.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

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De Wain Valentine’s sculpture”Grey Ring” is on display at the GMOA through Jan. 27, 2013.

Manga Drawing Class (The Loft Art Supplies) Zack Wood teaches how to draw manga-style comics in this two-part workshop. Ages 11 & up. Sept. 13 & 27, 5–7 p.m. $35 for both sessions and supplies. 706548-5334, www.loftartsupply.com Middle Eastern Drum Circle (Floorspace) All skill levels and ages welcome. Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. $6–$12 donation. www.floorspace athens.com SALSAthens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes. Every Wednesday, 6:307:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30 p.m. (beginners). $8 (incl. $3.50 drink). 706-338-6613 Sangha Yoga Classes (Healing Arts Centre) Several types of ongoing yoga classes are offered for all levels, including therapeutic, hatha, gentle and vinyasa yoga, power lunch yoga and pilates. Visit website for details. www.healingartscentre. net Sangha Yoga Teacher Training (Healing Arts Centre) Rahasya Yogic Arts 200 hour yoga teacher training program. Sept.

14–Feb. 13. Apply online. www. rahasya.org/fr_1yogateachertraining. cfm Tribal Style Bellydance Basics (Floorspace) Bellydance basics every Thursday, 5:45–7 p.m. Tribal style bellydancing every Tuesday, 6–7 p.m. $10–$12. www.floorspaceathens.com Women’s Self-Defense and Personal Safety Course (AKF Athens Martial Arts) This five-week workshop covers social, environmental, psychological and physical aspects of safety, and is instructed by Sarah Peck, a seconddegree black belt in Kyuki-Do. A portion of proceeds will be donated to Project Safe. Wednesdays, 7–8:30 p.m., Sept. 26–Oct. 24. $30. akf.sarah@gmail.com Yoga Teacher Training (Athens, Ga) Yoga teacher and RYT200 certification course.

Saturdays, Aug. 11–Dec. 15, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $1450. www.yoga fulday.com Zumba (Athens Latino Center for Education and Services (ALCES)) Instructed by Maricela Delgado.

Every Wednesday, 6–7 p.m. & 7:15–8:15 p.m. $5 (1 class), $8 (both classes). 706-540-0591 Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves comprise this dynamic fitness program. Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m.

$10/class, $80/session. www.uga. edu/botgarden

KIDSTUFF Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts and crafts and allows children to create original artwork. For ages 6–15. Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6133593 Children’s Costume Swap (Oconee County Library) Bring clean, gently used costumes to the library and trade them for new-toyou costumes and reduce the landfill waste from Halloween. Drop off costumes by Oct. 4 to get your swap ticket. Donations welcome. Swap is on Oct. 6, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Craft Club (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Wednesday (4 p.m.) craft club for ages 6–10, Thursday craft club (4 p.m.) for ages 3–5, Saturday Mama, Papa & Me classes (10 a.m.) for ages 1–3 and Saturday Crafterdays (11 a.m.) for ages 3–6. Sign up per month or call the day of to drop in. www.treehousekidandcraft.com Kids’ Craft Classes (Treehouse Kid and Craft) This month’s theme: “The Woodlands!” Mama/Papa & Me craft class for ages 1–3 (Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. & Saturdays, 10 a.m.), Craft Club for ages 3–5 (Thursdays, 4 p.m.) Craft Club for ages 6–10 (Wednesdays, 4 p.m.) and Family Crafterdays (Saturdays, 11 a.m.). $10/class, $30/4 classes. 706-8508226, www.treehousekidandcraft. tumblr.com Pop-In Playtime (Pump It Up) Children ages 11 & under can bounce around and have a jumping good time. Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30 p.m. $3 (ages 2 & under), $6 (ages 2 & up). 706-613-5676 Seeking Teen Volunteers for Haunted House (Oconee County Library) Teens are invited to assist in the creation of the Willy Wonka Haunted House. Volunteers will watch scary movies while helping with various projects.

Ages 11–17. Oct. 22–25, 5-9 p.m.

706-769-3950, oconeelibrary@ gmail.com Yoga Sprouts Family Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Stretch your imagination while doing yoga.

For ages 2 & older with an adult.

Sundays, 1–1:45 p.m. $14 (per child). www.athensfivepointsyoga. com

HELP OUT 21st Annual Rivers Alive (Dudley Park) Help preserve local rivers and streams by cleaning up trash. Bring a reusable water bottle and gloves, and wear long pants and closed shoes. Lunch and entertainment provided. Oct. 6, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. 706-613-3615, ext. 227, www.handsonnortheastgeorgia.org Adopt-A-Stream Volunteer Training (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Participants will be trained to help monitor the health of a nearby stream. Sept. 22 or Sept. 29, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. 706-613-3615, ext.

231, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ sandycreeknaturecenter Back to School Shoe Drive (Athens Area Humane Society) Give your old paws (a.k.a. shoes) a new life. Donate athletic shoes, sandals, heels, dress shoes, work boots and flats to be recycled and raise money for the dogs, cats and small animals awaiting adoption.

Both Athens and Watkinsville AAHS locations. Through Sept. 30. www.athenshumanesociety.org BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program (Chase Street Warehouses) BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program (BRP) needs bicycle repair help of all degrees.

Bicycles are donated to social service agencies for individuals in need of a safe ride to work and underserved by public transportation. Wednesdays, 6-8:30 p.m. (beginners), Mondays, 6-8:30 p.m. & Sundays, 2-4:30 p.m. bikeathens. com/brp 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. 706-769-3950.

Seeking Volunteers (Athens, Ga) Community Connection and HandsOn Northeast Georgia are seeking volunteers for a new restorative justice community service program designed to reconnect youth and the community by working with juvenile court and municipal court officers and judges of Athens-Clarke County. For more information, visit www.handsonnortheastgeorgia.com

ON THE STREET Avid Bookshop Book Clubs (Avid Bookshop) Avid has book club meetings in October, including the

New and Notable Book Club and the Paperback Fiction Book Club. Email or call for details or to get started on the October book. 706-352-2060, avid.athens.rachel@gmail.com GeorgiaForward Forum (The Georgia Center) GeorgiaForward, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, will host its third annual forum, “Re-visioning Statewide Prosperity.”

Guest speakers will discuss issues central to Georgia’s long-term growth and positioning in a global economy. Visit website to register.

Sept. 12 & 13. www.georgiaforward. org/2012-forum LatinoFest Volunteers (Casa de Amistad) Casa de Amistad is seeking volunteers who are from, or have lived in, Latin American countries to represent the diverse Latino community of Athens at LatinoFest on Oct. 20. Volunteers are asked to prepare a creative display to accu-

rately represent their country using flags, food, pictures, etc. There are also opportunities for performances. athensamistad@gmail.com Spotlight on the Arts: Special Tuesday Tour at 2 (UGA Russell Library) Tour the massive underground storage vault.

Available for first 40 who RSVP to jclevela@uga.edu with subject line: “vault tour.” Wear closed-toe shoes.

Nov. 6, 2 p.m.

SUPPORT 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.

Sapph.fire Circle (Aloha Counseling Center) Safe circle for

ART AROUND TOWN A. LAFERA SALON (2440 W. Broad St.) Impressionistic oil paintings of the natural world by Perry McCrackin. Through September.

AMICI ITALIAN CAFÉ (233 E. Clayton St.) Paintings

by Isabel Schneider. Through September.

ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings by Mary Porter, Christine Shockley, Dorthea Jacobson, 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.

ARTINI’S ART LOUNGE (296 W. Broad St.) Artwork

by Teri Levine. Through September.

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

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Ainhoa Bilbao Canup. Through September.

THE ENGINE ROOM (235 W. Washington St.) The fourth annual “Don’t Tell Mommy” group show displays erotic art by over a dozen artists including Keith P. Rein, Tatiana Veneruso, Cindy Pendley, Jeremy Hughes, Joe Havasy, Terp Vairin, Olga Cisternas, Graham Bradford, Kelli Guinn-Olsson and Dana Jo Cooley. Through September.

ETIENNE BRASSERIE (311 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Alan Campbell.

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 16 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics, fine furniture and more. Permanent collection artists include Cindy Jerrell, John Cleaveland, Matt Alston, Peter Loose and more. • “13 Years of Heaven and Hell” features artwork by Chris “CHUB” Hubbard, creator of the “Heaven and Hell Car.” Through September.

FIVE STAR DAY CAFÉ (229 E. Broad St.) Painted portraits of musicians by Lauren Dellaria.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Melissa Humphries. Through September.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.)An exhibition of 41 prints and drawings by Gerald L. Brockhurst. Through Sept. 16. • “The South in Black and White: The Graphic Works of James E. Routh Jr.” Through Oct. 21. • “The New York Collection for Stockholm” features works by 30 artists including Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Through Oct. 28.

• “The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection at the Snite Museum of Art.” Through Nov. 3. • Francisco de Goya’s “Disasters of War.” Through Nov. 3. • Murals of agriculture scenes by George Beattie. Through Jan. 7, 2013. • “Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Booker” consists of large-scale sculptures created from tires. Through Apr. 30, 2013.

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.

GOOD DIRT (510 N. Thomas St.) New pottery by studio owner Rob Sutherland.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Paintings, photography and prints by Mandy Elias. Through Sept. 15. • Acrylic paintings by Bob Davis. Through Oct. 6.

lesbian, bi and trans women to socialize. Please bring a dish or a non-alcoholic beverage to share.

Every fourth Thursday of the month, 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ sapphfire.athens Survive and Revive (Athens, Ga) Support, healing and dinner for survivors of domestic violence. Second and fourth Tuesdays in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays in Madison County. Childcare provided. 6 p.m. (dinner), 6:30–8 p.m. (meeting). 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771.

Tinnitus Support Group (Athens Oconee Audiology) Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the ears or head when no external source is present. Anyone experiencing tin­ nitus, hyperacusis or misophonia may want to attend. Sept. 18, 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-310-7115, www.athensoconeeaudiology.com f

HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Photographs by Page Hall. Through Sept.

15.

JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Artwork by Marisa Mustard.

JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) Bright acrylic paintings on wood by Joe Havasy. • Pottery by Nancy Green, Carter Gillies, Mark Johnson and Lea Purvis.

JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE EASTSIDE (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Convergence Artist Productions presents “Paintings by Frank,” artwork by Frank Registrato.

Through September.

JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE FIVE POINTS (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) Photography and integrated media by Jamie DeRevere and Jill Carnes. Through September.

KRIMSON KAFE (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Watercolor paintings by June F. Johnston. Through September.

KUMQUAT MAE BAKERY CAFE (18 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Artwork by Justin and Jul Sexton. Through September.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) “The Real Fake: Simulation Technology After Photography,” includes works by Claudia Hart, Zeitguised and Gerhard Mantz. Through Sept. 13. • “Inside Outside: 2012 Painting Invitational” features works by Holly Couis and Karen Ann Myers. Through Sept. 13.

LAST RESORT (174 W. Clayton St.) Large, mixed media portraits of political and historical figures by Preston D. Shurley.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Fibers” is a group exhibition including fiber art by 15 artists. Through Oct. 20.

MAMA’S BOY (197 Oak St.) Artwork by Jacob Wenza.

Through September.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Works made from reclaimed wood and other materials by Justin and Jul Sexton of Elephant Ocean. Through September.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) The 10th annual “Perspectives: Georgia Pottery Invitational” showcases works by 50 of the state’s best potters. Through Sept. 19.

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

SIPS ESPRESSO CAFE (1390 Prince Ave.) Acrylic paintings by Johnny Gordon. • Rust art by Bill Heady.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDENS (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) The floral radiographic photography of retired radiologist Dr. Merrill Raikes provides a unique look at the structure of flowers. Opening reception Sept.

16. Through Oct. 21.

STRAND HAIR STUDIO (1625 S. Lumpkin St.) Silk bird scarves by Dana Downs. Through September.

TECH STOP COMPUTERS (3690 Atlanta Hwy.) Abstract expressionist acrylic paintings with bright colors and strong architectural themes by Frances Jemini. Through October.

TOWN 220 (220 W. Washington St., Madison) The Madison Artists Guild presents its XLG show “Uncommon Threads: Four Fiber Artists,” featuring works by Jennifer Crenshaw, Margaret Agner, Tressa Linzy and Elizabeth Barton. Through Oct. 27.

TRANSMETROPOLITAN (145 E. Clayton St.) Artwork by printmaking student Katrina Schoewe.

WHITE TIGER GOURMET (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Rust art by Bill Heady.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I have two kids by my ex-husband. He and I are still friends. My new husband and I are very happy together; he is a good father figure but doesn’t get jealous or weird about my ex. My kids are fairly happy and they’re used to this situation; they live with us and they see their dad when they want and when he has time. We all get along pretty good almost all of the time.

So, I recently found out that my ex and his new girlfriend have a baby. I don’t know her at all, but it seemed like she was always there when I dropped off or picked up my boys. I don’t really care. She is a nice enough person, and my boys like her, and she is good to them. So, now she has a baby, too.

My ex didn’t seem to want me to know, but I needed him to sign something for the boys’ school and I dropped over there without calling, and there they were. I don’t know why he was trying to hide it from me, but whatever. As long as he keeps paying me child support he can do what he wants. I told them congratulations and got him to sign the papers and I left.

Then, about two weeks later, I saw him out at a bar. He was hitting on another woman, making out in public and all, and I am pretty sure they left together! I was out with my friends and having a good time, so I didn’t say anything, and he didn’t even know I was there. I can’t figure out if I should say anything. Should I tell him to stop being gross and take care of his kids and the woman at home with his new baby? Should I tell her so at least she knows what a dog he is? Or should I just keep my mouth shut and hope that my boys don’t turn out like him? I just feel bad, but at the same time he is not my problem anymore.

Wish I Didn’t Know My mom has a saying, WIDK: “Wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up faster.” I have no idea what that means, but I’m pretty sure that it has something to do with the uselessness of wishing for something that will never happen. You wish you didn’t know, and you probably wish that your ex wasn’t such an irresponsible jackass. I’m sure that his new lady wishes he would stay home with her and the new baby that he had enough time to make but can’t be bothered to stick around and deal with.

Bottom line is that his fidelity is not your problem anymore. You can say something to him if you think you can guilt him into being a better person, but saying something to her will jeopardize the good relationship that you currently have with him, so I would advise against it.

I have a really good friend, John. I have known him for several years, and he was one of my first friends when I moved to town. He is engaged to a beautiful woman whom I will call

Jane. Jane is bisexual. She is also incredibly hot. My friend often makes remarks about how hot his fiancée is, and I have often joked back that she was almost hot enough to make me turn bi myself. Then we laugh and have a shot of whiskey and go on to talk about other stuff.

So, last weekend, I was out with both of them and he told her how he always says that and how I always respond, and we all laughed and toasted to hot women, and had a good laugh. Later, I went to the bathroom, and when I came out of the stall Jane was there. She had a look in her eye, and I guess I kind of knew what was coming, but she totally made a move and we made out. It was very hot and heavy, but very brief.

She said she totally wanted to sleep with me but that John would be super jealous because we are such good friends. I was totally shocked, but also totally turned on, and all I could think about was that I wanted more. So, we left the bathroom, and I was confused and a little bit scared, because I thought for sure John would know something was up. He didn’t. And, he proceeded to get super drunk, and then at the end of the night he asked me if I could drive them both home.

I did.

He went straight into the house and passed out on the couch, and Jane and I stayed out on the porch for a little while. She made us more drinks, and we started making out, and eventually we moved into their bedroom and totally went at it. It was amazing and hot, and I don’t think I’m a lesbian or anything, but I definitely am glad I did that. Except that now things are weird. Jane seems to feel really guilty, and she is worried that he will find out. I think that it’s different because a) I am not a guy; and b) they are not married, so I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. The thing is, she totally initiated it and now she is making me feel bad about it. What should I do?

Bi Curious No More What should you do? Well, how about not fucking your friends’ significant others, for starters?! My gods woman, you are selfish.

Do you honestly think that the fact that you aren’t a guy makes this better? Do you really think that it’s about penetration, rather than emotionally betraying a person that you consider a close friend? Man, you suck. I think you should talk to “Jane” and try to convince her that the man deserves to know. Then you can at least beg his forgiveness and allow him the dignity of entering into his married life honestly. If she won’t do it, though, then you’re just going to have to keep your mouth shut and try to find a way to live with yourself. I’m glad I don’t have to. Ugh. Jyl Inov

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If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like me, you probably think the Also, stewed squirrel. Do not ask me to find best things about Waffle House are that you someone to provide stewed squirrel at your can walk there in your pajamas at 3 a.m. when wedding reception. I just wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it. But youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only 15, and they will serve you hash Waffle House is awesome.â&#x20AC;? browns without calling DFACS, and that if Armed with a new perspective, I phone you play â&#x20AC;&#x153;He Stopped Loving Her Todayâ&#x20AC;? on Diane Bell, who organized a wedding shower the jukebox, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guaranteed that most of the recently for a friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son at the Five Points other diners will begin crying softly. Probably Waffle House. With her soft Southern accent very few people, when asked â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best and impeccable phone manners, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clearly thing about Waffle House?â&#x20AC;? would answer, not the type whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d spend Sunday afternoon â&#x20AC;&#x153;They cater!â&#x20AC;? But cater they do. sitting in a plastic chair in the back of a I had to find out with what, and to whom, pickup, drinking cans of Miller Lite and watchWaffle House provides this service. I would ing the neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dogs lick her toddlers. If cheerfully have Waffle House cater my next this refined woman endorses Waffle House hangover, but my wedding? Call me crazy, but for weddings, then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have no choice but to â&#x20AC;&#x153;holy matrimonyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;scattered and smothabandon my snooty prejudices and get in line. eredâ&#x20AC;? just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mix. (If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree, perhaps youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve married the wrong person.)

Zach Buttimer, a district manager for Waffle House, is out to change this perception with an expanded menu that allows for more than just barbecues and tailgate parties.

They have indeed catered some formal events with hearty food your relatives would recognize, like steaks and baked potatoes.

And once they get their portable grill, Zach maintains, the sky is the limit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll send out our team of grill ops,â&#x20AC;? explains Zach, causing me to picture a clutch of burly men dressed in maroon and pink camo, crawling on their bellies towards a smoking grill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are highly trained grillers who also look very presentable. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to cater from a hole in the ground!â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an impressive claim, but, depending on your budget, maybe not the reassurance youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d look for if you were shopZach Buttimer ping for someone to cater your wedding. So, how will Zach make Waffle House synonymous with nuptials? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, those Waffle House folks were so graâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Waffle House is classic Southern food. We cious,â&#x20AC;? she remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all of us took our epitomize the South, and the food here. If balloons down there and just took over one youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having a wedding, people come from half of the restaurant. They brought in extra all over. So, for a Southern wedding, why not cooks to help, and the staff were so kind. It showcase the food that Southerners eat?â&#x20AC;? really was special for Jeff and Katherine [the This answer makes sense, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect couple], because they spent so much time an employee of Waffle House to say this. I there while they were dating. canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just take Zachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s word for it. I decide to â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were all just tickled to death to be call a professionalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;someone who has been there. Both those kids come from good, sucplanning weddings for decades. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear cessful families, and are very traditional. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waffle Houseâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;wedding receptionâ&#x20AC;? and I think Waffle House really represents the gently suggest a chocolate fountain, or someidentities of these two families, what they thing that fits on a cracker. were and are. Close, and down-to-earth. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s But Donna Pahl, owner of Carefree them, and the Waffle House just fits right in.â&#x20AC;?

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So, Zach is right about both the appeal of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody loves Waffle House,â&#x20AC;? she Waffle Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and its role as a touchasserts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plus, brides and grooms are not stone of Southern culture. Sure, local restaudoing traditional weddings any more. They rants may have more carefully crafted dishes, want something out of the box. Waffle House but it appears that Waffle House has a hold has a dependable product that has a kind of on people that transcends mere food. We want funky, retro feel to it. The main thing is pleas- our important events to mean something, and ing all the different guests you have. They for lots of folks, Waffle House means family, want food theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to like, and Waffle and home.

House has enough variety to do that.â&#x20AC;?

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everyday people Tonya Hart, Stay-at-Home Mom Tonya Hart and her beautiful baby girl, Gabriella, were sitting at the corner of College Avenue and Clayton Street when I approached them. In all honesty, Gabriella was so precious, I had to stop and introduce myself. The two of them were just killing time while waiting for Shane, her four-year-old son, to get out of school. Tonya was in surprisingly good spirits, even though she had just received a $681 bill for a 10-minute hospital visit and a dose of Motrin for Gabriella. The doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diagnosis: to buy some saline for her runny nose.

Flagpole: Where do you live around here?

Tonya Hart: I stay on Barber Street.

FP: How long have you lived in Athens?

TH: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived on and off in Athens for a pretty good bit of my life, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m from Commerce.

FP: So, what do you do?

TH: Right now? I am a stay-at-home mom. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a full-time homemaker. I have a daughter whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 13 months and I have a four-year-old son.

FP: Well, how do you like being a stay-at-home mom?

TH: Um, of course, you know, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to be out working and making money and, you know, enjoying life, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cause Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m only 25.

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TH: They go by a certain quota everyday. They try to get to a certain point. And then, you know, Saturdays, sometimes you have to work Saturdays if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the quota. It was pretty cool, though, at first, it just got tiring and old.

FP: Yeah. I mean, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of dangerous, too, right?

TH: Yeah. You have to worry â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cause youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re standing right in front of someone. You know, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one person here, one person here. One cuts the left; one cuts the right. Which, you switch off during the day; you actually switch off two times.

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FP: Do you get the day off when that happens or do theyâ&#x20AC;Ś TH: No, they take you and they drug test you, and then you go back to work. [Laughs] FP: Oh. Wow. But you said working at Kubota was more interesting?

TH: Yeah, it was pretty awesome. You got to see how the tractor was put together.

FP: Do you have family around here?

TH: Yeah, my dad and brother and mom live hereâ&#x20AC;Ś Where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re originally from is just 22 miles away, but Athens is more exciting, more to offer. Commerce is kind of quiet. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing, butâ&#x20AC;Ś

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FP: Did you have jobs outside the home before?

TH: Yeah, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked mainly factory jobs. My last job was over at Pilgrimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pride. I cut wings over there.

FP: What was it like working at Pilgrimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pride?

TH: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very hard work. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very, very hard work and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s veryâ&#x20AC;Ś I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how you would put itâ&#x20AC;Ś If you was to do it for a long time, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d, in the long run, probably regret it.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really hard work. [A woman walks by and says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, cutieâ&#x20AC;? to Gabriella, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting antsy in her stroller.] Say â&#x20AC;&#x153;hola.â&#x20AC;?

[Tonya says this to her daughter in a baby voice and laughs.]

FP: And you worked other factory jobs?

TH: Yeah. Kubotaâ&#x20AC;Ś It is a tractor [manufacturer] that comes from Japan. You know, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tractors, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loaders, they have all sorts of heavy equipment. I inspected 19 different parts of the tractors that run on the assembly line. So, that was pretty awesome.

FP: What kind of parts did you inspect?

TH: Just stuff like the coolant, the fluids, the nuts, the bolts. Just different little pieces. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cause, see, it starts from ground zero, which is just the frame, and then it goes to the endpoint, which is the whole tractor. And I was on, I think, um, I think I was in space 24 or 27.

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FP: Did you like traveling?

TH: I do; I actually went to Mexico with Gabriellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad.

That was kinda awesomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;awesome and crazy at the same timeâ&#x20AC;Ś I went to Celaya, Celaya Guanajuato.

FP: Where is that?

TH: It is about 14, 16 hours into Mexico, once you cross over from Texas into New Laredo.

FP: Ok. Wow. So, there are all these warnings on the news about how dangerous it is and everything. Was that a concern?

TH: No, it was awesome. We had a great timeâ&#x20AC;Ś Her dad is from a little subdivision there, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different ones that surround his. But I had a good time. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to go backâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we may go back.

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