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What will it bring? We can only guess, though some things we already know: more student apartments downtown, the Selig development bringing more (probably chain) shops, stores and restaurants adjacent to downtown, the new, improved Classic Center and the beginning of its next-door new hotel, further cuts to the University of Georgia and to our public schools.

Will we get a new privately owned charter school pulling our scant tax money away from our public schools, or will the private schools we already have turn themselves into charter schools in order to get the support of our tax dollars?

We can assume that we’ll get a new master plan for downtown, but will it be implemented? Will it make any difference to downtown, where the massive developments are already dictating the shape of downtown for decades to come?

Will Caterpillar create living-wage job-growth with spinoff industries, or will growth be through more low-wage jobs such as the custodial and graduate assistant positions at the university that hold down local wages rather than raising them?

Will Congressman Paul Broun run for the U.S. Senate? Who will take his place as our 10th District congressman? Will our new representative be even further to the right than Dr. “Straight from the Pit of Hell” Broun? Will we talk about the good old days when Congressman Broun represented us? Will State Senator Bill Cowsert, Will we talk about the thwarted in his reach for power in Atlanta, turn good old days when his eyes toward the 10th Congressional District?

Congressman Broun Will the Republican represented us?

Georgia legislature find new ways to redraw district lines here so as to split up our Democratic vote even further, or will their fiasco in trying to draw a safe district for Rep. McKillip convince them that they have sliced and diced us to the point where it’s counterproductive? Will local Democrats fight back and use their strength in District 119 to go after Rep. Chuck Williams’ seat, or will new Rep. Regina Quick succeed in returning Rep. Williams’ district to the safety of Oconee County?

Will the Republican legislature finally back off on trying to get guns “carried” into every public place, including schools?

Will the Athens-Clarke County government figure out anything to enhance the Atlanta Highway corridor’s ability to do business, or will what’s left there be sucked into the vortex of the constantly expanding Epps Bridge nexus in Oconee County?

Will Five Points get the kind of parking relief that downtown merchants demanded? A parking lot? A parking deck?

Where would you put it?

Will anybody park and ride at the park and ride lot at the intersection of Lexington Road and Loop 10, or will that expanse of concrete become a monument to then-Congressman Max Burns’ unwanted largesse? Will Burns’ successor, John Barrow, get redistricted yet again by the Wile E. Coyote Republicans in the Georgia legislature, who just cannot tolerate the fact that this Road Runner is the last white Democratic congressman from the Old South?

Will construction finally begin on the start of what is now the Firefly rail-trail path that could traverse the level ground between here and Winterville and on to Union Point? Is there any hope in hell that the trail will include the famous old railroad trestle in Dudley Park, or will walkers and skaters and bikers have to climb that steep hill to get around the trestle?

Will anything be done about raising wages for the working poor here in Athens? Can the Athens-Clarke County government, the Chamber, the University of Georgia, federal and state government offices and area manufacturers and businesses get together and agree that the solution to Athens’ poverty lies in higher wages, and that better wages, in reducing poverty, will lift us all? Is that so crazy? (Okay, I know that state law prohibits local government from doing anything about a “living wage,” and I know that doing something about poverty here might necessitate a tax hike, but can’t we see how much that would help us all?)

Well, I’ve stopped preaching and gone to meddling. Suffice it to say, as the Bible puts it, “Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” I guess you can say the same for a year.

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So, what was in the bag, you ask?

Mayor Nancy Denson must have been a bad girl this year, because Santa didn’t bring her a Walmart. But Russell Edwards woke up Christmas morning to find a 35,000 squarefoot box under the tree.

Downtown Athens got a master plan, although a river district was just a bit too expensive for its parents to afford this year, what with the economy and all. Classic Center Executive Director Paul Cramer got Hancock Avenue, and if he’s really good, next year Santa will give him the News Building.

State Rep. Doug McKillip got a shiny new Republican district to run in, but then Santa went and gave his seat to Regina Quick.

Commissioner Alice Kinman got a complete streets policy.

Commissioner Jared Bailey is seriously on Santa’s shit list, because he got a Cobbham frat house and the Buena Vista Heights historic district debacles. Commissioner Doug Lowry donned a fake beard and slid down Manager Alan Reddish’s chimney to deliver a stocking full of coal.

St. Nick brought University of Georgia employees a big, 80-yearold pool. Oh, wait, that was regifted.

Congressman Paul Broun got nothing, because Santa Claus doesn’t exist—he isn’t mentioned in either the Bible or the Constitution.

with the tennis center not opening on the day we thought it would, there’s a little bit of a lag time,” she says.

Leisure Services is interviewing candidates now, but there won’t be any program for the next two to three months. (Tennis for Life’s Stacy Venker turned down the job, according to Reidy.) The Clarke-Oconee Tennis Association recently recognized Venker and Tennis for Life for their 25 years of service to the community.

“Most tennis players were surprised by the ACC decision, and many were not pleased,” COTA President Robin Stevens says. “However, COTA will continue to support Athens public tennis programming in whatever business model ACC puts forth.”

Redistricting Reminder: As of Jan. 1, there’s about a 50-50 chance that you’ll have a new Athens-Clarke commissioner. State legislators drastically redrew the district map last spring, and those changes are now taking effect. Many Cobbham residents, for example,

These Are My Guns: The shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut drew sympathetic statements from nearly every politician in the land. “Shocked by the news of the shooting in #Newtown.”

U.S. Rep. John Barrow (D-Augusta) tweeted. “My thoughts & prayers are w/the families & victims of this tragedy.” File that under: Things you should have thought about before Rudolph’s got some some fly antlers. you bragged, “These are my guns now, and ain’t nobody gonna take ‘em away,” in a campaign ad. are moving from Jared Bailey’s district to Broun, a Second Amendment absolutist, George Maxwell’s, and many Eastside residents had this to say: Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. will now be represented by Harry Sims, rather than Andy Herod. Kelly Girtz and Mike Hamby You Can’t Be Serious!: Cue John McEnroe now have single-member districts, instead of throwing a racket. The Athens-Clarke Leisure representing half the county each. Girtz’s runs Services Department is ending its relationship northeast from Pulaski Heights, taking over a with the trainers at Tennis for Life and, as chunk of Sims’ former district, while Hamby’s with just about everything Leisure Servicesincludes much of what is now Kathy Hoard’s related, there is some grumbling going on territory from Five Points to the west. about it.

Click on City Dope at Flagpole.com for a Director Pam Reidy says she crunched the link to the maps. numbers, and it would cost less money to hire an in-house tennis teacher, rather than conWalmart Watch: Time to rename this segment, tinuing to contract with Tennis for Life. “We’ll I guess. Sights on Selig? Eye on Applebee’s? still be able to offer the service and make it The Anthropologie Observer? While you’re more profitable for the department,” she says. mulling it over, take a gander at www.seligathConstruction at the new tennis center at ens.com, in case our Russian novel of a story Southeast Clarke Park is running behind sched- last week didn’t sate your appetite for inforule, and it’s now opening in June, Reidy says. mation about Selig Enterprises’ new Oconee Once it’s done, Leisure Services will briefly Street development plan. close the courts at Bishop Park to refurbish them. “We had expected it to be seamless, but Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

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The ADDA board will discuss hiring a new executive director at its January meeting, Cascio said. “We’re pretty sure it’s going to be a lengthy process,” she said. “We have sixand-a-half months to get it done.”

Kathryn Lookofsky will be out in June after seven years as executive director of the Athens Downtown Development Authority.

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com During an ADDA board meeting last week, Lookofsky opted to leave at the end of her contract, which expires June 30, according to Chairwoman Erica Cascio. “The outcome was, she isn’t going to seek to extend her contract,” said Cascio, the owner of Square One Fish Co. After questions were raised about the Cascio nor Lookofsky would say why she is bidding process for a $47 million contract leaving. “I truly love Downtown Athens and to renovate and expand the Clarke County the Athens community,” Lookofsky said. “I am Jail, Athens-Clarke officials are rebidding the very happy to have had a chance to serve this project. great community and am very excited about The ACC Commission voted to reject all the future of Downtown Athens. I currently bids earlier this month after an executive with have no plans, but I would love to stay in the the second-lowest bidder, Hunt Construction area.”

Group, said the low bidder, McKnight Other board members either didn’t respond Construction, wasn’t qualified to build the jail. to requests for comment or referred questions Another firm also complained when county to Cascio, who said she couldn’t discuss most officials declared it unqualified and wouldn’t of what happened during the approximately allow it to bid, according to documents two-hour meeting. All but a few minutes were Flagpole obtained through an open records closed to the public, as Georgia law allows for request. personnel discussions. “The rest of it was all “It is my opinion your County is barring us privileged, personnel,” Cascio said. “I can’t from bidding the [project] and the county is discuss it.” limiting the competition to a few firms,” Bob The vote to accept Lookofsky’s resignation Legg wrote to ACC officials in October. was unanimous. Following the meeting, ADDA Seven firms were deemed qualified and bid parking director Laura Miller also submitted on the contract. Although McKnight didn’t her resignation. Lookofsky was scheduled for meet all of the criteria—mostly related to a performance review Dec. 11, but the board experience building jails and projects of a postponed it until Dec. 18 because two memsimilar scope as the Clarke bers had to go to another Jail—officials meeting, leaving the group “She’s smart, she’s sassy, County used their discretion to without a quorum.

An entirely different she gets stuff done, and determine that the company could do the work, ADDA board—all seven according to Manager Alan members have since turned most importantly, she Reddish. “The purpose over—hired Lookofsky cares about Athens.” of pre-qualification is to away from a similar posiidentify as many contraction in Jonesboro in 2006 tors as possible who you think can do the job, to replace Art Jackson. At the time, board because you’re trying to enhance competimembers praised her enthusiasm and people tion,” he said. skills. Since then, she has relentlessly chamThe scope of the projects McKnight has pioned a downtown master plan, downtown done come nowhere near Hunt’s, when judged merchants and downtown activities like the by the companies’ bid documents. Hunt Athens Farmers Market. Development downexpanded the massive, 5,000-bed jail in town is booming, with the new Washington Maricopa County, AZ, a $515 million project, Street parking deck opening and several major and built the Miami Marlins’ $400 million projects planned. new stadium. McKnight’s largest project was “She’s awesome,” said Jane Scott, a former the $34 million Webster Detention Center ADDA board member who owns Native America in Augusta, and the company’s experience Gallery. “She’s smart, she’s sassy, she gets with LEED certification is not as extensive as stuff done, and most importantly, she cares Hunt’s. about Athens. She loves Athens. It’s hard to However, once the bids came in, under find people with that kind of passion.

“I have a problem with anything, I call her, state law ACC had no choice but to accept the “lowest responsive and responsible bid,” she gets results,” Scott said. “She understands Reddish said, even though Hunt’s bid was how downtown works. If she leaves, it’s a within $2,000 of McKnight’s when two minor huge loss for Athens.” add-ons to the project are taken into account.

But keeping diverse constituents like But only the base bid matters, Reddish said. retailers and bar owners or college students “You can’t shop it that way,” he said. “Hunt and older visitors happy is no easy task. And could have been taking a loss on their alterdowntown has continued to struggle with nates and put that in the base bid. We don’t familiar problems, notably cleanliness and know that.” parking. Some board members have accused ACC officials handled the first bidding proLookofsky of not being active enough in cess properly, Reddish said, but opted to rebid addressing those problems. Commissioner to avoid a potential lawsuit. The new request Mike Hamby, in particular, has been pushing for qualifications includes clearer language Lookofsky to come up with solutions. about the criteria to qualify to bid, he said.

Lookofsky also disagreed with some of The commission is scheduled to award the the board’s recent decisions, such as moving contract at its April voting meeting. the ADDA’s office from the Fred Building on College Avenue to the Athens Area Chamber of Blake Aued news@flagpole.com Commerce.

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the calendar flipped over to 2012, Athens residents slash budgets for K-12 and higher education. The cuts forced had just learned that Atlanta’s Selig Enterprises was the Board of Regents to raise tuition, making college less planning a massive mixed-use development on the affordable and leaving fewer dollars in students’ pockets southeast edge of downtown anchored by a 94,000 square-foot that they could spend in local businesses. The Clarke County Walmart, the low-price leader with a reputation for mistreating School District faced a $14 million budget shortfall mostly employees and putting mom-andpop shops out of business.

Downtown business owners and community activists rallied to the cause, protesting both the presence of a big box downtown and the flawed design Selig was attempting to foist on the city. On the other side, Mayor Nancy Denson, the Chamber of Commerce and African-American leaders aligned, arguing that the development would bring needed jobs, tax revenue and affordable groceries to downtown and East Athens across the river.

The debate grew heated, to say the least. People for a Better Athens held rallies, Protect Downtown Athens released a Patterson Hood-penned protest song, and Occupy Athens got themselves kicked out of an Athens-Clarke Commission meeting and then off the City Hall The Mayor and Commission donned Caterpillar caps in February when the company announced it would property where they were campbuild a plant in Bogart. ing. Meanwhile, silence from Selig. The company was meeting quietly with small groups of due to declining state funding; the Board of Education and influential people but declined to hold public meetings or forSuperintendent Phil Lanoue responded by eliminating 48 mally file any plans. paraprofessionals, in addition to several teachers and other What started out as a contentious year improved in employees.

February. As the masses rattled their sabers over the Selig Lawmakers also took it upon themselves to redraw the proposal and the Walmart issue, unbeknownst to them, the Athens-Clarke Commission district map over the objections of Illinois-based construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar commissioners themselves, a citizen committee appointed to was eyeing the 900-acre Orkin tract on the Clarke-Oconee draw the post-Census lines and dozens of voters who came to county line. The company announced in February that it would public hearings. The new map, designed to elect a Republican, build a plant there that, when completed, would employ 1,400 failed. (The progressive Jerry NeSmith would win in District 6 people—the largest economic development project in Athens months later.) But it did fulfill newly minted Republican Rep. history.

Doug McKillip’s campaign promise. While they were at it, the legislature fussed with our congressional and state House districts, splitting Clarke County yet again to ensure McKillip’s re-election by giving him more Republican voters, leaving liberal Athens with just one Democrat in its five-member delegation.

At the same time, McKillip was pushing through one of the country’s strictest antiabortion bills, establishing his bona fides among social conservatives. The law bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, rather than the accepted standard of 26 weeks—the point when a fetus can generally survive outside the womb—set by the Supreme Court. The legislature passed and Gov. Nathan Deal signed the law over the objections of many doctors, who said it would compromise their ability to choose the best course of action for their patients and who took issue with McKillip’s assertion that a 20-week-old fetus can feel pain.

Nevertheless, voters rejected McKillip.

Spencer Frye went from rocker (circa 2005) to representative in 2012.

Bolstered by about 1,500 Democrats who crossed over to vote in the July GOP primary, Regina The failed idea for an entertainment district and research Quick ousted McKillip by just 63 votes. The same election saw park on the banks of the North Oconee River, as well as the Spencer Frye, running on a platform of fresh leadership, oust bad economy, the Selig proposal and the Caterpillar coup, put longtime state Rep. Keith Heard, R-Athens, who was dogged by the spotlight on economic development like never before. A rumors that he didn’t really live in town. NeSmith and Allison task force appointed by Mayor Nancy Denson began to meet Wright won their commission races on the westside and in to come up with recommendations for bringing jobs to the Five Points, respectively, and stealth conservative Carl Parks community. won Wright’s open seat on the school board unopposed. Voters In Atlanta, state legislators seemed to be doing everyin most of the state rejected proposals for regional 1 percent thing they could to screw over Athens. They continued to sales taxes to pay for transportation infrastructure.

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UGA aimed a wrecking ball at Legion Pool this year but pulled back when the community erupted in protest.

McKillip’s intransigence aside, the story of the summer was Legion Pool. The University of Georgia announced a plan in July to demolish the beloved 80-year-old pool and replace it with a $2.6 million pool at Lake Herrick that would have been just half the size. UGA faculty and staff fought back. President Michael Adams eventually buckled under the pressure and withdrew the plan.

Meanwhile, the search was on for Adams’ replacement. He’d announced over the summer that he’d be retiring next June, and a Board of Regents committee started vetting replacements. They’ve narrowed the list from 60 down to nine but won’t reveal any names until they winnow it to a single finalist.

Adams’ last days mostly have been spent dealing with budget cuts.

Deal asked state agencies for another 2 percent in September—bringing total cuts to 26 percent since 2008—and in response, the university eliminated another 130 positions, mostly in the College of Agriculture.

Election time rolled around again. Fresh off Rep. Doug McKillip his own re-election in the primary, U.S. Rep. Paul Broun made national headlines (again) when a speech at a Hartwell Baptist church popped up on YouTube. Broun said he believes the Bible tells him that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of Hell.”

Chagrined that no Democrat had challenged him, a write-in campaign arose for British naturalist Charles Darwin. The father of evolution won more than 5,000 votes districtwide.

Frye easily fended off libertarian Republican Carter Kessler, and voters statewide overwhelmingly approved an amendment making it easier for the state to approve charter schools, even though public school officials and parents in Athens expressed grave misgivings.

Development dominated the last few months of the year.

Cobbham and Reese/Hancock residents fought a frat house on North Milledge Avenue, Buena U.S. Rep. Paul Broun Vista residents and property owners bickered among themselves over a historic district, and developers announced a number of major projects downtown. The Classic Center expansion is nearing completion, and construction is set to start soon on a hotel next door and mixed-use developments on the former Athens Hardware property at Thomas Street and North Avenue and on the SunTrust property at Broad and Hull streets. Down Oconee Street, a new park-and-ride lot and a student apartment complex on Carr’s Hill rose up. All the new development came at the same time the downtown master plan process was finally—finally!—getting underway.

The year ended just like it began—with Selig’s proposal for Armstrong & Dobbs, released Dec. 12. The new plans included a smaller big box, no Walmart and a better connection to the Greenway. Opposition faded, but some still criticized the scale and architecture. Whether it goes through or not, downtown Athens will be a very different place in 2014.

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

• indicates new review ALEX CROSS (PG-13) I’ve never read one of James Patterson’s bestsellers featuring police detective/forensic psychologist Alex Cross, but I did see Kiss the Girls, which I recall enjoying.

Alex Cross is no Kiss the Girls. In Detective Dr. Cross’ third cinematic case, Tyler Perry takes over for the much more capable Morgan Freeman, who portrayed Cross in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Perry’s Cross must hunt down Picasso (a muscular skeleton that once was Jack from “Lost”), a professional assassincum-serial killer whose first murder is a mass one.

ANNA KARENINA (R) Joe Wright reunites with his Pride & Prejudice and Atonement star Keira Knightley for what could be another Oscar heavyweight.

Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead) adapted Leo Tolstoy’s acclaimed novel about the titular aristocrat (Knightley) who embarks on an affair with young Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kick-Ass). The strong cast includes Jude Law as Anna’s husband, the excellent Kelly Macdonald (“Boardwalk Empire,” Brave), Matthew Macfadyen (Wright’s Mr. Darcy), Olivia Williams and Emily Watson. (Ciné) BRAVE (PG) A good, not great, Pixar film, Brave strays into traditional Disney territory after a tremendously magical first act. Headstrong Scottish Princess Merida (wonderfully voiced

by Kelly Macdonald) wants to choose her own destiny. She does not want to marry the first-born of the clans allied with her father (v. Billy Connolly), but her mother, Queen Elinor (v. Emma Thompson), will hear none of her complaints.

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: WORLDS AWAY (NR) Never been to a Cirque du Soleil show? Now you don’t have to, as producer James Cameron (his last film, Avatar, was kind of a big deal) and director Andrew Adamson (Shrek, Shrek 2, two of the three The Chronicles of Narnia films, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian) bring the show to a theater near you. Did I mention it’s in 3D? CLOUD ATLAS (R) For the ambitious Cloud Atlas, the Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) have masterfully adapted David Mitchell’s award winning novel, intermingling six disparate stories, spanning from 1849 to 106 Winters After the Fall. Each anecdote stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry,

Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant and more in varying layers of makeup.

While none of the stories warrants their own full-length feature, the six interconnected narratives are interwoven so skillfully and at such a swift pace that no one has enough time to overstay its welcome. The lush, imaginative film’s most serious flaw is its repertory, several of whom seem out-of-place (Oscar winners Hanks and Berry, most notably) in the film’s fantastical future bookend.

DJANGO UNCHAINED (NR) I needed only hear “The New Film by Quentin Tarantino” to be all in for Django Unchained. A former slave, Django (Jamie Foxx), becomes a bounty hunter under the tutelage of former dentist, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). The two gunmen are after some bad dudes as well as the Mississippi plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who owns Django’s wife (Kerry Washington). With Samuel L. Jackson, Walton “Boyd Crowder” Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks and Don Johnson as Big Daddy.

END OF WATCH (R) Writer-director David Ayer has had enough practice at the tough cop thriller; he wrote Training Day, Dark Blue and S.W.A.T. before directing Harsh Times (which he also wrote) and Street Kings. It was about time he got one perfect, and End of Watch may be as close as he ever gets. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña vividly play Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala, two hotshot cops partnered on the violent streets of South Central Los Angeles. The partners’ genuine love for each other drives this film from open to close and makes the otherwise rote gangs and gunplay narrative so much more affecting.

FLIGHT(R) Robert Zemeckis returns to live action movies for adults (since 2000’s Cast Away) with this Denzel Washington-starring, after-work special about alcoholism dressed up as an airplane crash drama. Captain Whip Whitaker (Washington) may be a great pilot, but he’s not such a great guy. Yet while hungover, still drunk and high on coke, Whitaker saves most of the 102 souls on flight 227 after a mechanical failure requires him to pull off an unconventional crash landing. (Ciné) • THE GUILT TRIP (PG-13) Certainly not as laughless as its trailers suggest, The Guilt Trip mines some genuine

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comic chemistry between its leads, Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand, as Andy Brewster, a son traveling across the country with his mother, Joyce.

The many car-bound scenes featuring just the two stars generate the movie’s biggest laughs. Unfortunately, Andy and Joyce make some excruciating pit stops that fall back on the sitcomishly simple gags like a Texan eating contest (which, for what little it’s worth, does involve Barbra as opposed to Rogen).

That the producers cast Adam Scott and Ari Graynor in such tiny roles is unforgivable. Though not nearly as bad as it could be, sons and daughters would be better off steering their mothers toward one of the several better cinematic products out this holiday season.

HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG-13) Adam Sandler’s made plenty of pictures worse than this Kevin James vehicle about outlandish ways to save education. James’ Scott Voss is a high school biology teacher who turns to

dwarves and rousing action sequences.

Bilbo’s first meeting with Gollum is so well-crafted and performed by WETA’s effects wizards and motion-capture genius Andy Serkis, who is still being shunned by awards groups lacking vision. This return journey to Middleearth is an adventure worth taking over the holiday season.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Unlike the superior ParaNorman, which was a genuinely, safely frightening family horror flick, Hotel Transylvania is an amusing, run-of-the-mill animated family movie where the main characters are harmless monsters.

JACK REACHER (PG-13) Tom Cruise brings Lee Child’s popular character, Jack Reacher, to the big screen with hopes of a new franchise to replace (supplement) Mission: Impossible.

Reacher, a former U.S. Army MP, lives the life of a drifter, traveling from town to town, helping those in need; the movie is based on Child’s ninth Reacher novel, One Shot. Director

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MMA to fund the extracurriculars at his struggling school. An appealing supporting cast includes Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Greg Germann and real life MMA fighter Bas Rutten (after an appearance in Paul Blart: Mall Cop and voice work in Zookeeper, he’s becoming a James regular) to assist the extremely likable James in an odd, family-friendly mash-up of educational messages and inspirational sports, where the sports are extremely vicious.

It doesn’t NOT work, but more refined audiences will cringe at the movie’s genial attitude toward violence.

• HITCHCOCK (PG-13) Hitchcock is one of those biopics that has a leading performance (in this case, two leading performances) that are much bigger and better than the whole. Though Anthony Hopkins’ Hitch can sound a bit Lecter-ish at times, Sir Tony mostly makes you forget you’re not watching the real, corpulent auteur in action. One wishes the film would simply recount the tumultuous making of Psycho, a film that has become one of the cinematic master’s most significant works, rather than subjectively poke around so much in Hitch’s decidedly unique psyche. Dreams of real-life monster Ed Gein (Michael Wincott) dance in the director’s head as he and his devoted wife, Alma Reveille (Golden Globe nominee Helen Mirren), deal with their singular marital issues. (Ciné) THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG-13) While this first film lacks the epicness of Jackson’s previous series entries, it makes up for it with its comically entertaining

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With Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo and Werner Herzog (?!).

LES MISERABLES (PG-13) Tom Hooper follows up his Oscar-winning The King’s Speech with this big screen adaptation of the blockbuster musical based on Victor Hugo’s epic novel. In 19th-century France, paroled prisoner Jean Valjean (Golden Globe nominee Hugh Jackman) seeks redemption, while being hunted by the determined Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe). The cast includes Amanda Seyfried as Cosette and Golden Globe nominee Anne Hathaway as Fantine.

LIFE OF PI (PG) Do not let the underwhelming previews deprive you of one of the year’s most moving, most artistic films of the year. The opening anecdote relating the origin of Pi’s name conjures up the modern fairy tale magic of past crowd-pleasers Amelie and Hugo.

Newcomer Suraj Sharma, stranded for lengthy sequences with nothing but a tiger for a costar, and the ever-excellent Irrfan Khan (most recently seen in The Amazing Spider-Man) deliver delicate performances. Lee smartly utilizes 3D technology to add depth to the storytelling and awe to the viewing experience; Life of Pi will probably be the only award winning film of 2012 I recommend seeing in 3D. LINCOLN (PG-13) Historical biopics do not come much more perfect than Steven Spielberg’s take on our 16th president’s struggle to end slavery by way of the 13th Amendment. Rather

than tell Abraham Lincoln’s life story, screenwriter Tony Kushner (the Oscar nominee for Munich also wrote the excellent “Angels in America”) chose the ideal, earth-shattering month upon which to focus. He populates Spielberg’s 19th-century hallways with living, breathing figures of American history like William Seward (David Strathairn), Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), Alexander Stephens (Jackie Earle Haley), Edwin Stanton (Bruce McGill) and Ulysses S. Grant (Jared Harris), but the film will be remembered and lauded as another platform from which Daniel Day-Lewis can solidify his claim to the title of greatest living actor.

LOOPER (R) Whoa! Ever since Brick, I have waited for Rian Johnson to make good on that coolly stylish teen-noir’s immense promise. Johnson might still have better films to come, but this tricksy, time travel, sci-fi noir ensures Brick’s promise has been fulfilled. In a future where time travel is an illegal reality, hitmen called loopers wait in the past for gangsters to send them their targets. Armed with a blunderbuss, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) awaits his marks, knowing one day he will have to “close the loop,” meaning kill his older self.

MONSTERS, INC. (G) Disney is re-releasing Monsters, Inc. in 3D to remind audiences of Sulley and Mike before June’s prequel, Monsters University. The cute story involves top scarer Sulley (v. John Goodman) and his pal, Mike (v. Billy Crystal), whose lives are turned upside down when a child ventures into Monstropolis.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (R) While the quality of Paranormal Activity 4 is little changed from its three predecessors (they are all above-average examples of how to shoot found footage flicks), the tense atmosphere, where the scares collectively imagined and anticipated by the audience are so much more terrifying than anything delivered by the film, is utterly absent. l PARENTAL GUIDANCE (PG) Billy Crystal and Bette Midler star as old-school grandparents forced to care for their decidedly 21st-century grandchildren. Director Andy Fickman’s filmography is more weak (The Game Plan, Race to Witch Mountain) than bad (You Again); I did enjoy his Amanda Bynes cross-dressing comedy, She’s the Man. Splash Academy Award nominees Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are credited with the rewrite. With Marisa Tomei, Bailee Madison (the young Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark star is a boon) and Tom Everett Scott.

PROMISED LAND (R) Gus Van Sant’s new film, written by “Office” star John Krasinski and Matt Damon (from a story by Dave Eggers), stars Damon as a salesman tasked with purchasing property for a natural gas company.

I’m assuming this is a fictionalized version of the real life “fracking” drama recounted in Josh Fox’s Oscarnominated doc, GasLand. Promised Land is the winner of the National Board of Review Award and the NBR’s Freedom of Expression Award.

RED DAWN (PG-13) This preposterous movie borne of the Cold War fears and tensions of the 1980s need not have been remade. A motley group of teenagers (including Chris “Thor” Hemsworth, Josh “Peeta” Hutcherson and Tom Cruise’s adopted kid,

Connor Cruise) stage an insurgency against communist invaders; the North Koreans, with an assist from the Russians, replace the original’s Soviet/Cuban alliance. The idea that these teens could transform into an elite fighting force so quickly either underestimates North Korean military readiness or overestimates American teenagers’ military prowess.

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (PG) Author William Joyce’s very cool idea is brought to the big screen by firsttime animated feature director Peter Ramsey and fantastical executive producer Guillermo del Toro. Holiday legends North (aka Santa, who is voiced very Russianly by Alec Baldwin), Bunny (v. Hugh Jackman) and Tooth (v.

Isla Fisher) are joined by Jack Frost (v.

Chris Pine) as they do battle with the evil Pitch (v. Jude Law).

SKYFALL (PG-13) Too bad director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and his team of scripters won’t just let Bond be Bond for the entirety of the film. Skyfall almost completely unravels before the opening credits. The pre-credits chase—involving Bond, a female agent, a train and a baddie— concludes with M (Judi Dench) showing no faith in her best agent, a decision that makes little sense in this, or any, Bond-verse. In three films, Bond has gone from a newly licensed Double 0 to a dinosaur; when can Bond just be Bond again?

TAKEN 2 (PG-13) Most movies fail to encapsulate the description “unnecessary sequel” as perfectly as Taken 2.

(I wish it had had some silly subtitle like Taken 2: Takenier, but alas.) As a consequence of the violent methods he employed to retrieve his kidnapped daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), in the first movie, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), must face off against the Albanian dad (played by go-to Eastern European baddie Rade Serbedzija) of one of the sex traffickers he killed during his rescue mission.

THIS IS 40 (R) Judd Apatow spins off his most successful film, Knocked Up, by playing catch-up with popular supporting characters, Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Apatow’s wife, Leslie Mann). This idea is much better than a sequel starring Seth Rogen or Katherine Heigl. The rest of the cast promises so much laughter, it’s not even funny.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN—PART 2 (PG-13) The Twilight Saga has consistently improved as filmmakers have changed and the series has… um… matured?

Bella (Kristen Stewart) is now a vampire; she and her husband, Edward (Robert Pattinson), have a new baby, Renesmee, whose existence threatens the vampire world’s ruling family, the Volturi (led by Michael Sheen).

WEST OF MEMPHIS (R) Another documentary about the West Memphis Three? Yes, please. Amy Berg, an Oscar nominee for Deliver Us from Evil, was handpicked by producer Peter Jackson to helm this look into the utter failure of the Arkansas justice system that placed Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley behind bars for 18 years for the brutal 1993 murder of three eight-year-old boys.

WRECK-IT RALPH (PG) Good luck deciding on the year’s best animated feature from a strong list that includes Brave, Frankenweenie, ParaNorman and now Wreck-It Ralph. In Disney’s latest, Wreck-It Ralph (v. John C. Reilly), the bad guy from popular arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr., decides he wants to be a good guy. Leaving the safety of his own regenerating world, Ralph enters a Halo-ish first-person shooter named Hero’s Duty in search of a medal. Too bad Ralph is better at wrecking things than fixing them.

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Ring It In Flagpole’s New Year’s Eve

Concert Guide N ew Year’s Eve is on a Monday this year.

That’s kinda lame, right? Depends on your work situation. In my case, thanks very much for asking, it’s actually pretty awesome. We Flagpole grunts are getting like, a week and a half off for the holidays, and that shit is A-OK with me. (Shout out to Pete and Alicia, the best overlords a guy could ask for!)

Anyhow, you may have already noticed that we’re basically phoning in the issue you’re reading right now. Holiday cheer—and the psychic allure of our impending time off—has gripped us like a fever. Most of us have been drunk at the office all week (right guys?), and there are at least four spontaneous Christmas carol sing-a-longs every day. As I type this, city editor Blake Aued is barfing up eggnog in a hallway closet. It’s a scene, man.

Where was I? Oh yeah, New Year’s Eve. Even though it’s on a Monday, a day that’s been scientifically proven as the absolute worst of days, there are a bunch of music things going on, as always. You should go check them out, maybe. Or, you know, whatever. Auld lang syne, chumps!

Shonna Tucker

Radiolucent, Shonna Tucker, Dana Swimmer @ 40 Watt Club I’m all about Shonna Tucker’s music these days. The former Drive-By Trucker has got a new band, some new songs and a new lease on life. (I haven’t verified that last one, but it’s probably true.) If you’ve caught any number of her recent sets, you know what I’m saying.

Those other bands are cool, too, but S-Tuck is the draw, y’all. Ring in the new year with some real-deal rock and roll.

Modern Skirts, Kishi Bashi, Yip Deceiver @ Georgia Theatre It’s always fun to see the Skirts, and Yip Deceiver brings the hardcore booty-shakin’ funk like no other, but the real star of this showcase is Mr. K Ishibashi. If you attended the Flagpole Athens Music Awards back in June, you already know that not only is dude one hell of a songwriter, he’s a consummate showman, too. You’re all, “Why do I want to listen to a guy play the violin on the biggest party night of the year?” but trust, fella: you do.

DubConscious @ New Earth Music Hall Athens’ legendary reggae-party-time collective returns with a blowout gig sure to feature the requisite happy hordes of unwashed hippie-sters and a truly random cross-section of the rest of the local population. “We’re so excited to announce the return of DubConscious to all of its tribal and family intentions,” reads a post on the group’s Facebook page. They’re promising tons of special guests, so go satisfy your curiosity, mon!

Muuy Biien, Vincas, The Powder Room, National Anthem @ Caledonia Objectively speaking, the awesomest bill of New Year’s Eve takes place at the ‘Doner.

I mean, look at that lineup, a who’s who of heavy/weird/anti-rock in Athens. If your idea of a swell New Year’s Eve is drinking a ton of cheap beer, beating the hell out of your eardrums and contending with a youuuge crowd in a tiny room, then you are a misanthrope, and this show is for you.

The Dream Scene Band plays Talking Heads, Prince @ Farm 255 This sort of showcase isn’t really anything new or unusual for ye olde Farm—a bunch of over-caffeinated neon-punks playing jittery, loose versions of party-time tunes by their musical heroes—but, when you think about it, it’s kind of the perfect NYE show: all let-go exuberance and drunken, pleasure-zone pop.

Yes, plz.

Kinchafoonee Cowboys, Clay Leverett, Charlie Garrett Band @ Melting Point For those who are less enthused about the idea of avant-pop cover tunes courtesy of a bunch of stinky, shiftless 20-somethings, or folks looking for more of a family-fun time, the Foundry Park Inn’s music venue offers its annual New Year’s throwdown with some sweet, sonorous, country-rock stylings.

The Gold Party, Die Young Stay Pretty, DJ Twin Powers @ Go Bar Dance the night away with DYSP, Athens’ official Blondie cover act. Blondie’s whole catalog is pretty good, but you know what would be the best? If the band just played “Heart of Glass” over and over and over and over and over and over and over and…

DJs @ Everywhere No, “Everywhere” isn’t the name of a hot new club. I just mean there will be DJs literally everywhere downtown. Pick a venue. Any venue. And, for heck’s sake, dance. It’s New Year’s Eve, people.

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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 pie-hole!

Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7424 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.

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8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

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EVENTS: Nature Ramblers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn more about the flora and fauna of the garden while making new friends and enjoying fresh air and inspirational readings. Ramblers are encouraged to bring their own nature writings or favorite poems and essays to share with the group.

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CLASSES: Athens Swing Night (Dancefx) The UGA Swing Dance Club presents a casual evening of social swing dancing. No experience or partner necessary are necessary.

Advanced lesson at 7 p.m., and beginner lesson at 7:30 p.m. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. $3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5. www.athensswingnight. com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: 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.

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Thursday 3 CLASSES: Bellydancing BasicsLearn the basics with Mahsati. 8:15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9:45 p.m. FREE! www.healingartscentre.net EVENTS: Reiki Circle (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m.

Donations accepted. 706-338-6843 EVENTS: Nature Ramblers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn more about the flora and fauna of the garden while making new friends and enjoying fresh air and inspirational readings. Ramblers are encouraged to bring their own nature writings or favorite poems and essays to share with the group.

Every Thursday. 8:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 KIDSTUFF: Teen Studio (Georgia Museum of Art) Teens are invited to participate in an art workshop and gallery tour of the exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jack Davis: Beyond the Bulldogâ&#x20AC;? led by Athens comic book creator and illustrator Robert Brown. Pizza will be served. 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. FREE! 706542-8863, mrackley@uga.edu

Friday 4 MEETINGS: Friends First Friday (State Botanical Garden) The Tree That Owns Itself has been a beloved icon of the Athens community for more than a century. Gather for a made-from-scratch breakfast by Countryside Catering and listen to Debbie Mitchell as she gives a brief history of the tree. Call to make reservation. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10:30 a.m. $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.

706-542-6138 PERFORMANCE: Staff Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Scott Higgins, lead piano technician for the Hugh Hodgson School of Music performs on piano. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu

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Sunday 6 CLASSES: Homebrew Class (Five Points Bottle Shop) Learn how to brew all-grain beer. 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. www.fivepointsbottleshop.com GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 GAMES: Trivia (Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inquisition,â&#x20AC;? trivia hosted

by Chris Brewer every Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m.

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Free tree pickups for residents 65 & up, veterans and people living with disabilities. 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3501 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) Storytime for all ages.

Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 MEETINGS: Achieving Your Dreams in Athens Kick-Off Meeting (Jittery Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee) (Atlanta Hwy.) Get your new yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreams off to the right start by getting inspired, strategizing and finding some resources that can help.

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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 EVENTS: Drop-in Fun (Oconee Co. Library) The last day of winter break features drop-in craft DIY marshmallow shooters. Supplies provided. 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 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 (Willyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

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

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5.

Every Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Barnes & Noble Storytime (Barnes & Noble) Storytime for all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195

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It all starts at 10 p.m. FREE! 706549-0166 EVENTS: New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Party (Manor) DJ RX starts the party as soon as the ball drops on the big screen and $2,013 falls from the ceiling. 11 p.m. www.manorathens. com EVENTS: Salsa New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve (Etienne Brasserie) Bring in the new year Latin-style with a night of salsa dancing. Lesson from 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m.

10 p.m. FREE! (for ladies before 11 p.m.) $5. 706-850-8008 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; toughest trivia. $100 grand prize every week! All ages. 8 p.m.

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KIDSTUFF: Family Dinner Night (Earth Fare CafĂŠ) Kids eat free every Thursday with one $5 adult purchase of prepared foods. Good for up to six kids, ages 12 & under. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $5.

706-227-1717 KIDSTUFF: Library Crew (Oconee Co. Library) The library is seeking volunteers ages 9-12 to assist with craft projects, help take care of the library and have a good time! Call to register. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950

KIDSTUFF: Family Dinner Night (Earth Fare CafĂŠ) Kids eat free every Thursday night with one $5 adult purchase of prepared foods. Offer good for up to six children, ages 12 & under. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $5. 706-2271717

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GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; toughest trivia. $100 grand prize every week! All ages. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-543-8997 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 KIDSTUFF: Teen Advisory Board (Oconee Co. Library) Teen Advisory Board (TAB) is a group of teens who gather at the beginning of every month to discuss and plan upcoming events. If you want to be heard and want to make the library a better place for teens, this is your chance to be involved. Creativity and leadership traits are necessary. Ages 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18. Registration required. 7-8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: Author Reading (Oconee Co. Library) Eddie Whitlock, author of Evil Is Always Human, reads from his novel.

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Tuesday 8 CLASSES: Athens Swing Night (Dancefx) The UGA Swing Dance Club presents a casual evening of social swing dancing. No experience or partner necessary. Advanced lesson at 7 p.m., and beginner lesson at 7:30 p.m. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. $3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5. www. athensswingnight.com EVENTS: Winter Wine Tasting (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) White wines will be paired with appetizers and desserts. 6 p.m. $15.

706-354-7901 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. 706353-0305 MEETINGS: Federation of Neighborhoods Program (Old Fire Hall #2) Senators Bill Cowsert and Frank Ginn along with Representatives Spencer Frye, Regina Quick and Chuck Williams with share goals for the upcoming legislative season. Followed by a Q&A. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.accneighborhoods.org

Wednesday 9 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Madison Bar & Bistro) Drink and food specials for you and your (wellbehaved) dog! Wednesdays. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens.com GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 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 (Willyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com

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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 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

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

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5.

Every Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Barnes & Noble Storytime (Barnes & Noble) Storytime for all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195

LIVE MUSIC Wednesday 26 Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 MADELINE Bell-voiced songwriter Madeline Adams plays endearing

songs of smalltown loves, hopes and other assorted torments and joys.

THEO HILTON Nana Grizol frontman returns to play a solo set.

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

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

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

Tapped 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-6277 KARAOKE Every Wednesday!

Thursday 27 Barbeque Shack 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-6752 OPEN BLUEGRASS JAM All pickers welcome! Every Thursday!

Barcode 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-5557 DJ LP After spending the summer touring the U.S. with Big Gigantic and Drake, DJ LP has made Athens

his new home. Expect to hear classic anthems and bass-thumping beats.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THE FUZZLERS Ever-evolving local punk band. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Foam-core goof-punk with an interactive live show.â&#x20AC;?

SCUMBAG DAD Punk rock two-piece from Tallahassee.

DAFFODIL This reunited local trio plays hard-hitting, noisy rock.

Go Bar 11 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. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE ODD TRIO One of Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; finest original jazz ensembles, this innovative group often incorporates looped audio into its compositions.

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $7 (adv.) $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com BIG DADDYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAND Dance to your favorite tunes from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s!

The Office Lounge Blues Night. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-5460840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens

Tuesday, January 8

Justin Townes Earle, Cory Chisel Melting Point â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hear my father on the radio/ Singing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Take Me Home Again,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Justin Townes Earle sings on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Am I That Lonely Tonight?â&#x20AC;?, the first track on his most recent album, Nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now. Later in the same song, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes I wish that I could get away/ Sometimes I wish that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just call.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an immediate and effective method of getting the backstory out of the way while also acknowledging its import; that Earle is the son of country music legend Steve Earle is an unavoidable and oft-cited part of his identity, but it ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the whole damn thing.

Of course, in many ways, Justin Townes Earle he is like his father, from the unmistakably gruff vocal delivery to the lyrical ambiguities, which circle unimpeachable truths like so many vultures. But the younger Earleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songwriting also showcases the depth of his own character.

As a singer-songwriter, he stands head and shoulders above most, his lugubrious tendencies balanced by a certain tonal lightness. Stylistically, he is unafraid to explore, learned as he is in the history of folk culture. Nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gonna Changeâ&#x20AC;Ś flirts with boogie, blues and many other points on the roots music spectrum, and sounds remarkably convincing and cohesive while doing so.

More than most musicians, it seems that Earleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal life will never be truly separated from his professional one. There are the oft-reported struggles: He makes no secret of a longtime battle with addiction, and shortly after Nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gonna Changeâ&#x20AC;Ś was released, he was arrested in Indiana for drunkenness and battery.

And, yes, there is the matter of his dad. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just say the references donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end with that opening couplet. But, tricky though that relationship may be, and complicated though Earleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal life may remain, his artistic output is a rich and singular statement of being, the powerful and bittersweet sound of a man searching for his place.

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Friday 28 Barcode 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-5557 DJ LP After spending the summer touring the U.S. with artists such as Mac Miller, Big Gigantic and Drake, DJ LP has made Athens his new home. Expect to hear classic anthems mixed with bass-thumping beats.

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FREE! www.farm255.com TATERZANDRA Local band playing angular, often dissonant but catchy grunge that maintains a distinct sense of melody.

THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed-out local garage-punk trio.

DAFFODIL This reunited local trio plays hard-hitting, noisy rock.

SHARPS Rock band from Atlanta.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com OUTLAWS IN THE ROUND An evening of outlaw country covers, featuring members of Betsy Kingston and the Crowns, Eddie and the Public Speakers, Sweet Knievel, Bear Left, Mama’s Love, Efren, Saint Francis and Evan Barber & The Dead Gamblers.

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

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

Green Room 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2439 KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features bassist Robby Handley and drummer Seth Hendershot.

The group is packed with music, mischief and mayhem, and offers a sound that serves noise-rock fans and jam band listeners equally.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com GREEN FLAG BAND Playing traditional Irish music.

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ BEETBOT Duo spins upbeat hiphop and an exhaustive amount of Michael Jackson.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv.) $8 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com FIVE EIGHT Legendary Athens rock trio that consistently pumps out boisterous rock and roll. Their energetic live show has warmed the stage for such bands as R.E.M., Cheap Trick, The Ramones and more.

LANDMINE New Athens rock act fronted by songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Alison Divine.

KICK THE ROBOT Power-pop trio from Atlanta with infectious energy.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 THE HANDS OF TIME Soul, funk, pop, R&B, Motown and classic oldschool hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s that will get you out on the dance floor.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com TRE POWELL Bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals.

Saturday 29 Barcode 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-5557 DJ LP After spending the summer touring the U.S. with artists such as Mac Miller, Big Gigantic and Drake, DJ LP has made Athens his new home. Expect to hear classic anthems mixed with bass-thumping beats.

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FREE! www.farm255.com k (v) i d s This local band, led by songwriter Jared Collins, plays reverb-washed melodic pop. Featuring backing band Velocirapture.

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

SAD DADS New local band featuring members of Blue Division. The group tells Flagpole it sounds like “shitty Pavement.”

CHRIST, LORD Gypsy-folk act from Atlanta.

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Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com HACKENSAW BOYS Multiinstrument and multi-vocal Americana group from Virginia.

DANNY BARNES Taking traditional banjo music and combining it with electronic loops to create a unique performance.

CORDUROY ROAD Local 5-piece Americana band drawing from oldtime roots music and known for its notoriously lively shows.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com DON CHAMBERS This local favorite’s whiskey-soaked bootstomps capture a certain dusty closing-time chic.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $15 (adv. or w/ UGA ID) $20 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND Longtime Athenian Randall Bramblett presents a simplified slab of Southern music. Either blowing the sax or delivering his gruff ‘n’ grumbly vocals, Bramblett can toss out direct, Southern R&B kickers.

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MICHELLE MALONE Americana singer-songwriter who puts an honest and emotional spin on her music.

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THE CALENDAR! Shawn Johnson, Jay Rodgers, Scotty Nicholson and Adam Poulin.

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com SATIRE SAINTS Power-pop trio with guitar-driven melodies.

Sunday 30 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 31 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $8. www.40watt.com RADIOLUCENT Popular local band falling somewhere between bluesy Southern rock and the poppier side of alt-country.

DANA SWIMMER A montage of garage rock with sweet, soulful undertones.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MUUY BIIEN Local band plays â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80sstyle punk rock thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equal parts Minor Threat and The Fall.

THE POWDER ROOM New scuzzy, noisy, heavy, loud trio featuring ex-members of Manray and Pride Parade.

VINCAS Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and a bit of rockabilly swagger.

NATIONAL ANTHEM High-energy rock band featuring members of Reptar, Marriage and Big C & the Velvet Delta.

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playing dreamy, inventive tunes driven by various percussive instruments and synth.

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Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com MODERN SKIRTS One of Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; favorite pop acts, this foursome went from piano-driven darlings to more experimental electronic-inspired dance pop.

KISHI BASHI Ex-of Montreal violinist creates rhythmic, experimental pop music.

YIP DECEIVER An infectiously fun blend of feel-good pop, R&B grooves and noise-bending electro from right here in Athens. Featuring of Montrealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Davey Pierce.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE GOLD PARTY Local band plays original, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s-inspired electro new wave jams.

DIE YOUNG STAY PRETTY Blondie cover band!

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

Green Room 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2439 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3144 DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Manor 10 p.m. $7 (21+), $15 (18+). www. manorathens.com DJ RX Mixing rock, rap, dubstep and top hits synced to music videos on the big screen.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $39.50 (ticket), $78 (ticket and buffet dinner). www.meltingpointathens.com KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS This Athens institution has been covering classic country for 20 years with twangy originals thrown in the mix.

CHARLIE GARRETT BAND Countrytinged Southern rock.

CLAY LEVERETT Some of Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; finest country music!

Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 SHOWTIME Elite tha Showstoppaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band plays eclectic hip-hop mixed with rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; funky soul.

LOWDIVE Local ska-inflected reggae band.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. 706-546-0840 TANGENTS This country-fried rock group carries Lynyrd Skynyrd licks and Mellancamp melodies.

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VFW 7:30 p.m. $12. 706-543-5940 THE SENSATIONAL SOUNDS OF MOTOWN Six veteran musicians entertaining crowds in the Southeast for nearly 18 years promise an exciting, live-energy show.

The Rialto Room 8 p.m. www.hotelindigoathens.com DIRK HOWELL BAND Party band featuring â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s-style R&B, disco and beach music.

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

Wednesday 2 Boarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday!

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

Tapped 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-6277 KARAOKE Come hit the mic! Every Wednesday evening!

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Local duo featuring guitarist Louis Phillip Pelot and violinist Adam Poulin.

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364@255 Winter Hate Fest Farm 255 Max Wang is seriously bummed out. The drummer for local garage-punks The Rodney Kings is the force behind what he has dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;364@255 Winter Hate Fest,â&#x20AC;? which is, he explains, a purposefully pessimistic counterpart Sad Dads to the 364@255 Summer Love Fest that he organized back in June. (The â&#x20AC;&#x153;364â&#x20AC;? in question is the address of a beloved, but defunct, party pad, located in an infamous, crusty-college-kid subdivision near the tracks.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;[In the summer], it was love all around,â&#x20AC;? he writes in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The weather was hot; school was out; we had the whole year ahead of us. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d preoccupy our minds with all of these fantastic plans and dreams of what we would accomplish and do by yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end. All the bands were friends, mostly, and it was a great time.â&#x20AC;?

Sounds cool. But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meant to be, Wang laments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, the weather is grim, our lives have come undone [with] the seasons, and we realize that the end is nearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the thoughts of all of those plans and machinations have gone unfulfilled. A whole spectrum of failure: our love lives, unemployment, uncertainty of the future and whatever kind of hell that will ultimately bring. Alcoholism.

Addieville is but a ghost town.â&#x20AC;?

Tough stuff. Thankfully, the bands scheduled to perform over the course of these two gloomy, late-December days should provide a welcome burst of raucous energy for your (and, hopefully, Wangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) serotonin-starved brain. On Friday: The Rodney Kings, noiserockers Daffodil, dissonant local standout TaterZandra and Atlanta hardcore group Sharps.

On Saturday: up-and-comers k (v) i d s, Velocirapture and Sad Dads (appropriate, no?), along with another ATL outfit, Christ, Lord. [Gabe Vodicka]

Thursday 3 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com TAXICAB VERSES New local group/ recording project inspired by Jim Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time spent doing field recordings in Ghana.

GARBAGE ISLAND Loud, metallic and edgy, the band dips into krautrock and progressive thought, earning it the â&#x20AC;&#x153;experimentalâ&#x20AC;? tag.

JAY GONZALEZ Solo jams from Drive-By Truckersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; keyboardist.

BRANNEN & LIESKE Local improv wizard Lieske (Garbage Island) and Atlanta-based Brannen (The

Subliminator) embark on a new project, Free Improv for Guitar and Hang.

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

Barcode 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-5557 DJ LP After spending the summer touring the U.S. with artists such as Mac Miller, Big Gigantic and Drake, DJ LP has made Athens his new home. Expect to hear classic anthems mixed with bass-thumping beats.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com HAND SAND HANDS Experimental, psychedelic pop-rock from Jonathan Miller. Every Thursday in January!

GRAPE SODA Soulful, psychedelic synth pop driven by organ.

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MATT NELSON Songwriter Nelson plays a solo set.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OLD SKOOL TRIO Playing original compositions and the music of The Funky Meters, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, and more.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub WADE BOGGS Local punk band featuring Ian McCord and lots of catchy hooks.

ANTLERED AUNTLORD Fuzz-pop guitar/drums duo featuring local songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

INCENDIARIES Ladies of pedigree enforcing angular sensibilities.

The Office Lounge Blues Night. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-5460840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece. This is an open jam!

Friday 4 Barcode 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-5557 DJ LP Expect to hear classic anthems mixed with bass-thumping beats.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CANNERY ROW Country-rock with pop and R&B influences.

YO SOYBEAN Local “party-folk” trio featuring upbeat, sing-along numbers with guests on guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin and more.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com LITTLE GOLD Brooklyn-based trio fronted by Christian DeRoeck, formerly of Woods.

WARREN HIXSON Indie-psych from Richmond, VA. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET A unique show featuring performances by local drag artists.

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

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub THE KING AND THE TOASTER Hosting a ‘90s dance party!

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 ERIK NEIL’S SOUR DIESEL FOUNDATION Local blues-rock featuring Ian Werden (The HEAP) on drums, Clay Hinson (Matt Joiner Band) on bass and Erik Neil on guitar and vocals.

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

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40 Watt Club Back to School Party! 8 p.m. $7. www.40watt.com PRESTON SUMMERVILLE BAND Georgia-based country-rock outfit.

ERIC DODD Local singer and songwriter of Southern rock songs.

BEN WELLS Southern-steeped songwriter from Valdosta.

ANGIE KILL Young singer-songwriter from metro Atlanta.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THE KINKY APHRODISIACS Southern progressive rock trio.

DOUG FUNNY AND THE FRESHTONES Local jam-influenced band.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MANGER Speed thrash metal “with a dash of Satan.”

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

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE LAW BAND Country-rock band from Atlanta.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com PILGRIM Local rock band featuring Paul McHugh on vocals, guitar and keyboards along with Matt Stoessel on guitar, TJ Machado on bass, Thayer Sarrano on keyboards and Brad Morgan on drums.

Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com ERICA SUNSHINE LEE Fast-rising country singer-songwriter from Elberton.

NORMA RAE This local four-piece plays soulful, distinctively Southern Americana.

CLAY PAGE BAND Country music singer Page and his band play country and Southern rock favorites as well as originals.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SCROUNGE LIZARDS Jazz ensemble led by Joe Kubler (Bubbly Mommy Gun).

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

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $24 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com THE SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS Best known for their 1966 hit “Double Shot (of My Baby’s Love),” today the Medallions bill themselves as “the party band of the South.”

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 REVEREND DEBRUHL A rock quartet that revives a bluesy Southern sound with jam-inspired sounds.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-549-0840 HARP UNSTRUNG This local act gives melodic, alternative rock a bluesy, Southern twist.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com DAVE PARSON No information available.

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Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 BLUES NIGHT WITH BIG C Expect lots of soulful riffs, covers and originals.

Tuesday 8 Green Room 10 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com ROADKILL GHOST CHOIR Folkinfluenced rock six-piece from Deland, FL.

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Green Flag Band SATURDAY, DEC 29TH

Don Chambers

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE HOBOHEMIANS This six-piece, acoustic band performs popular American and European roots music of the 1910s, ‘20s and ‘30s: a potent mix of proto-jazz, blues and folk.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $15 (adv) $20 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The talented and astute son of leftist-country king Steve Earle. See Calendar Pick on p. 14.

CORY CHISEL Wisconsin-based songwriter known for fronting his band, The Wandering Sons.

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

Wednesday 9 Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday!

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

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

ART Call For Artists (ACC Library) The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is seeking artists or art teams for creative public art installation to enhance the retaining wall bordering the library on Baxter Street. The art budget is $15,000.

Visit website to send applications or concept submissions by 5 p.m., Jan. 7, 2013. www.athensculturalaffairs. org/calls-for-artists Deck the Walls Holiday Shop (Lyndon House Arts Center) Over 80 area artists offer wreaths, garlands, ornaments and other seasonal decorations for sale as well as popular gift items. Through Jan. 5, Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5 p.m. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ lyndonhouse MAG Holiday Market (Cottage in Town Park) Unique gifts, artwork and seasonal stocking stuffers made by local artists. Thursday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. & Sunday, 1–5 p.m. Through December. www.madisonartistguild.org

AUDITIONS Chorale Auditions (Athens Master Chorale) Now accepting auditions for alto, tenor and bass voice parts. Contact Joseph Napoli for location, more information and scheduling. 706-546-0023, evenings only.

CLASSES Adult Intermediate Sewing (Treehouse Kid and Craft) For those who know a little about sewing and want to learn more. Learn how to

Garden Geology (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Dan Williams, Forest Manager at the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, teaches about Georgia’s six geologic provinces; how they were formed, how to identify them and how they affect plants, animals and people. Participants will make their own collection of Georgia rocks and receive a copy of Rocks of Georgia, a companion to the sessions. Wednesdays, Jan. 9–Feb. 27, 4-6 p.m. $45. www.botgarden. uga.edu Gentle Hatha Integral Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) All levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9/class. 706-543-0162, mfhealy@bellsouth.net, www.mindfuliving.org 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 Scottish Country Dance Classes(780 Timothy Rd.) Social dancing at its liveliest with jigs, reels and strathspeys. Bring your dancing shoes. Every Thursday, 7–9 p.m. $3. dabmillier@google.com Winter Term (Good Dirt) Winter clay classes of all levels begin Jan. 12. See website for schedule. 706355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Yoga Classes (Healing Arts Centre) Several types of ongoing yoga classes are offered for all levels, including ashtanga, therapeutic, vinyasa yoga, power lunch yoga, pilates and yoga teacher training.

Visit website for details. www.healingartscentre.net Yoga Teacher Training (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Yoga Alliance-registered 200-hour yoga teacher training. Journey more

read patterns and more. Machine required. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Jan. 6–18, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $120. www.treehousekidandcraft. com Adult Knitting (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Learn how to cast on, knit, purl and bind off. Thursdays, Jan. 10—31, 7:30–8:30 p.m. $65. www. treehousekidandcraft.com Arrow Yoga Classes (Arrow) Arrow offers ongoing prenatal yoga classes and mama/baby yoga classes. No pre-registration necessary. Visit website for details. www. ourarrow.com Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday.

6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706351-6024 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 Co. Library) Advanced to beginner computer classes offered by appointment. Call to register. 706769-3950, watkinsville@athenslibrary.org Dance Classes (Dancefx) Ballet, tap, hip-hop, Zumba, contemporary, foxtrot, Western dancing, strip aerobics, ballroom dancing, salsa, pilates and more. Check website for schedule. 706-355-3078, www. dancefx.org Design Basics for Edible Landscaping Series (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Threepart series offers instruction on how to make the most of your edible garden. 5–7 p.m. $50. www.uga. edu/botgarden

ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ADOPTION CENTER 191 Alps Rd. (inside Pet Supplies Plus) 706.353.2287 athenshumanesociety.com Mon.-Fri. 1PM-7PM, Sat. and Sun. 12PM-6PM Closed December 31, 2012 and January 1, 2013

YOU CAN FIND WONDERFUL PETS WHO DESPERATELY NEED HOMES AT THESE LOCATIONS. There are also volunteer opportunities (brushing cats, walking dogs, etc.).

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deeply into your own practice while learning technical skills necessary to become a stellar yoga instructor.

Saturdays, Jan. 5–July 20, 12 p.m. $1,900. www.athensfivepointsyoga. com Yoga Teacher Training (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Yoga Allianceregistered 200-hour yoga teacher training. Journey more deeply into your own practice while learning technical skills necessary to become a stellar yoga instructor. Saturdays, Jan. 5-May 11, 8 a.m.–6 p.m. $1,450. www.yogafulday.com Zumba (Athens Latino Center for Education and Services (ALCES)) Instructed by Maricela Delgado.

Every Monday, 8–9 p.m. and Wednesday, 6–7 p.m. & 7:15–8:15 p.m. $5 (1 class), $8 (for both Wed. 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, $70/session. www.uga. edu/botgarden Zumba(r) with Ingrid (Casa de Amistad) A dance fitness class that incorporates Latin and international music. Mondays & Fridays, 6–7 p.m. $5. zumbathens@gmail.com

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ACC Leisure Program Registration (Athens, GA) Winter and spring programs open for registration. Visit website for list of programs like indoor soccer, gymnastics, dance, basketball and art classes. www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure Acting Workshop (Athens Creative Theatre (ACT)) A six-week workshop that uses theater games

and exercises along with short monologues and age-appropriate scripts. Call to register. Thursdays, Jan. 10–Feb. 14, 4:30–5:30 p.m. (ages 8–11) and 6–7 p.m. (ages 12–18). $83–125. 706-613-3628, www.athensclarkecounty.com/act Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts and crafts and allows children to create original artwork. Ages 6–15.

Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30– 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 Day Off School Program: Abracadabra (Memorial Park) Schoolchildren from the Clarke County School District can spend their day off by learning about magic tricks, camouflage and enchanted crafts and snacks. Bring a sack lunch. Jan. 4, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $15–23. 706-613-3580, www.athensclarkecounty.com/camps Deck the Hollow (Memorial Park) Celebrate the season with a self-guided walk through the holiday lights in the zoo. Activities include live music, animal encounters, a bonfire and photo opportunities in the illuminated zoo. 5:30–7:30 p.m. $3. 706-613-3616, www.athensclarkecounty.com/bearhollow Kids’ Craft Classes (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Mama/Papa & Me craft class for ages 1–3 (Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. & Saturdays, 10 a.m.), Craft Club for ages 6–8 (Wednesdays, 4 p.m.) and 3–5 (Thursdays, 4 p.m.) and Family Crafterdays (Saturdays, 11 a.m.). $10/class, $30/4 classes. 706-8508226, www.treehousekidandcraft. com New Mamas & Babies Group (Arrow) Meet other new parents and their pre-crawling little ones.

Caregivers Jean Anderson and Rebecca Espana host. Thursdays,

10 a.m.–12 p.m. $5, $30 (8 visits). www.ourarrow.com Out Of School Workshop: New Year’s Clay (Good Dirt) Kids can get busy on their days off with three days of playing in the clay.

Call to register. Jan. 2–4, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $55/day. 706-355-3161.

Pajama Party (Memorial Park) Elementary school children can spend the day off from class by telling stories, playing games, making a midnight snack and having a pillow fight. Register by Dec. 20. Jan. 3, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $15–23. 706613-3580 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 Sewing I (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Beginner sewing for ages 8-14.

Learn how machines work and sew a straight line. Bring machine if possible. Sundays, 1–3 p.m., Jan. 6–Jan. 27. $80. www.treehousekidandcraft.com Shared Nanny Sessions (Arrow) Caregiving with a child ratio of 1 to 3. For ages 6 months–4 years. Pre-registration required.

Monday–Thursday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $30–125. ourarrow@gmail.com, www.ourarrow.com Spanish Lessons for Tots (Arrow) Spanish lessons with music, dancing and fun surprises led by Sarah Ehlers. For ages 2.5–4 years old. Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.–12 p.m. $10. ourarrow@gmail.com Yoga Sprouts Family Yoga (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) For children ages 2 & older with an adult. Sundays. 1–1:45 p.m. $60. yogasprouts@gmail.com, www. athensfivepointsyoga.com

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Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.com Domestic Violence Support Group (Athens, GA) Support, healing and dinner for survivors of domestic violence. Tuesdays, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m., in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m., in Madison County. Childcare provided. 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771.

Emotional Abuse Support Group (Athens, GA) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare provided. Call for meeting location. Every Wednesday evening. 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! 706543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771.

Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Sundays, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org

Bring One for the Chipper: Christmas Tree-Cycling (Athens, GA) Bring undecorated Christmas trees to be recycled at one of the seven drop-off locations and receive a free tree seedling in return.

County residents 65 years or older may request a complimentary tree removal. Call or visit the website for tree removal requests and drop-off locations. Drop-off, Jan. 5, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. 706-613-3501, www.keepathensbeautiful.org Evergreen Community Garden Seeks Gardeners (Evergreen Community Garden) Those interested in gardening are welcome to use the land, tools and classes at Evergreen Community Garden. No experience necessary.

Use of all tools and resources is free. 706-877-7928, aggeles@ uga.edu First Person Project Celebrates Stories of Love (UGA Special Collections Library) An oral history series documenting the experiences of everyday Georgians invites participants to record their stories about love.

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

AMICI ITALIAN CAFĂ&#x2030; (233 E. Clayton St.) Atmospheric paintings ranging from introspective melancholy to stark mechanical by Jacob Wenzka.

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.

ARTINIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ART LOUNGE (296 W. Broad St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out West,â&#x20AC;? photography by Nate Cook.

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

CINĂ&#x2030; BARCAFĂ&#x2030; (234 W. Hancock Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;TV Dinners,â&#x20AC;? artwork by Paul Thomas. Through Jan. 15.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Tommy Kay. ETIENNE BRASSERIE (311 E. Broad St.) Photography

by Ian Mcfarlane. Through February.

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 16 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics and fine furniture. Permanent collection artists include Cindy Jerrell, John Cleaveland, Leigh Ellis and more. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bucolanaliaâ&#x20AC;? includes paintings and drawings by featured artist Matt Alston. Through Dec. 30.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Surreal shadowbox collages by Alexei Gural. Through December. â&#x20AC;˘ Paintings by Jeremy Hughes. Through January.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyond the Bulldog: Jack Davis.â&#x20AC;? Through Jan. 6. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection.â&#x20AC;? Through Jan. 6. â&#x20AC;˘ Murals of agriculture scenes by George Beattie. Through Jan. 7. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;De Wain Valentine: Human Scaleâ&#x20AC;? features eight largescale, minimalist and translucent sculptures. Through Jan. 27. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;John Haley: Berkeley School of Abstract Expressionist.â&#x20AC;? Through Mar. 3. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction.â&#x20AC;?

Through Mar. 3. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Bookerâ&#x20AC;? consists of large-scale sculptures created from tires. Through Apr. 30.

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 animals.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wishâ&#x20AC;? features photography by Thom Houser and Jason Thrasher, jewelry by Mary Hallam Pearse, textiles by Jennifer Crenshaw, paintings by Joshua

Call or email to register for a spot.

Recordings take place on Feb. 8, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $10. 706-542-5788, russlib@uga.edu Mandala Journal (Athens, GA) An online, multicultural visual and literary arts journal is now seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art submissions for inclusion. Deadline for all entries is Feb. 14. Visit mandala.uga.edu for more detailed information.

Second Annual Glee Off (Athens, GA) Glee clubs from four high schools in northeast Georgia will compete as part of a fundraiser for Children First, an advocacy group for safe, stable and nurturing living conditions for children. Prevoting is underway on YouTube. The performance with the most â&#x20AC;&#x153;likesâ&#x20AC;? and monetary donations will win the Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice award. Vote until Feb. 1. Performance on Feb. 2. www. childrenfirst-inc.org The Giving Tree (Oconee Co. Library) Library visitors can pick a book from the Giving Tree and the library will put a bookplate in the book to honor a person of the visitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice. Throughout the month of December. Call 706-769-3950 for more information. f

Beinko, Claire Joyce and Margaret Morrison, and a work by the Paper Cut Project duo Nikki Nye and Amy Flurry. Opening reception Jan. 10. Through Mar. 21. â&#x20AC;˘ In the Glass Cube, a new piece by Martijn van Wagtendonk. Through Mar. 21.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Artwork by James Greer.

Through Jan. 5.

HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Drawings, paintings and prints of native Georgia flora by Hope Hilton.

HENDERSHOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE BAR (1560 Oglethorpe Dr.) Artwork by Tobiah Cole.

JUST PHO (1063 Baxter St.) Drawings and paintings

by Michele Chidester.

KRIMSON KAFE (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Works by Charles Dyer.

KUMQUAT MAE (18 Barnett Shoals Rd., Watkinsville) Oil paintings by Dortha Jacobson, who is trained in the New Hope, PA Impressionist style.

LEATHERS BUILDING ART SPACE (675 Pulaski St.) Mixed-media art by Jessica â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cobraâ&#x20AC;? McVey and Trevor Oxley. Through December.

LOFT GALLERY AT CHOPS & HOPS (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goddesses: The Real and the Imagined,â&#x20AC;? colorful paintings by Melody Croft exploring the emotional complexities of race, gender, age and culture.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Discovering History: Decorative Arts and Genealogy from the Ware and Lyndon Family Eras.â&#x20AC;? Through Jan. 12. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arts from Indian Asia: Selections from Local Collections.â&#x20AC;? Through Jan. 26.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (424 S. Main St., Madison) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Consequences of Warâ&#x20AC;? features â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flight,â&#x20AC;? an exhibit of lithographs by 12 mid-century masters. Through Feb. 24.

MAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BOY (197 Oak St.) Ink and watercolor art by Meg Abbott.

MANHATTAN CAFĂ&#x2030; (337 N. Hull St.) A sculpture by Emily Tatum. Through Jan. 1.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Photography by Reid Callaway and Leigh Lofgren. Through December. â&#x20AC;˘ Photography by Richard Fay. Through January.

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.) Paintings

by Anne Wills. Through Feb. 4.

STRAND HAIR STUDIO (1625 S. Lumpkin St.) Unique paintings, assemblages and collages by Charley Seagraves and blown glass by Sy Dowling.

TOWN 220 (220 W. Washington St., Madison) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Observationsâ&#x20AC;? includes encaustic paintings by Mary Leslie. Through Jan. 26.

VISIONARY GROWTH GALLERY (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brainedâ&#x20AC;? features works by Grover Hogan, Tim Gartrell, Michael McAleer, Haru Park, John Crowe and special guest artist Bud Lee. Through December.

WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) China plates featuring collages by Jasey Jones.

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2BRs & studios Dwntn. across from campus and 4BR at Urban Lofts for Fall semester. 2BR avail. immediately. (404) 5575203, www.downtown athensrentals.weebly. com.

2BR/1BA condo. Campus close. Security gate, pool, fitness center. Excellent condition. $600/mo. (706) 206-2347.

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Brick duplex, 2BR/1BA, very clean. Just 2 mi. to campus on nor th side Athens. 2 units avail. Pets OK. $500/mo. + dep. Call Sharon, (706) 351-3074.

Houses for Rent 3BR/1.5BA. Brick.

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HWflrs. Located off Winterville Rd., just past Beaverdam Rd. $600/mo.

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3BR/3BA newer houses, Dwntn. Walk everywhere!

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3BR/2BA, 2077 S. Lumpkin, $1200/mo.

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

3BR/2BA house Dwntn.

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3BR/1.5BA. 2 story brick house. Large fenced in backyard. HWflrs. W/D & fridge furnished. Central/ gas heat. Eastside. 1048 College Station Rd. $700/ mo. (706) 338-5384.

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4BR/4BA newer houses, Dwntn. Walk everywhere!

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Cedar Creek: 4BR/2BA, partially fenced yd., $950/ mo. 5 Pts.: Off Baxter St., 4BR/2BA, $1000/ mo. Eastside: 5BR/2BA, large lot, $1000/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700, (706) 5401529.

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Near ARMC. 147 & 149 Hart Ave. $118,500. (706) 202-9805.

Parking & Storage Parking places for rent across from UGA. $30/mo.

(706) 354-4261.

Roommates 1 roommate needed to share awesome, retro house. 1 mi. from Milledge on busline. Private BR/ BA. $400/mo. includes all; Internet, W/D, etc. Lee, (404) 246-2313.

Re-listed! Roommate needed immediately for house off Pulaski St. Screened porch, W/D. Only a 10 min. walk from Dwntn. Only $250/mo.

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For Sale Furniture King sized bed frame and dresser for sale. Cherry wood, good condition, never been used. $800.

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Miscellaneous Archipelago Antiques.

23 years of fine antiques, art & retro. Underneath Homeplace. At 1676 S. Lumpkin St. (706) 3544297.

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

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

Music Equipment Alesis DM5 electronic drums, $425. Pearl piccolo snare drum, $100.

Peavey EX electric hollow body guitar (ES335 copy), $200. 1960s Silvertone A c o u s t i c , re s t o re d w / hardshell case, $425.

Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray Bass w/ gig bag, $650. Fender precision bass, deluxe (extra p i c k - u p ) w / h a rd s h e l l case, $475. Ampeg SVT-4 bass amp, $625. Ampeg bass cabinet 4-8’s, 1-15 classic series, $400.

P e a v e y re n o w n ( s o l o series) guitar amp, $180.

Ibanez (left handed) acoustic, $80. Korean Fender Strat (cream), $250. Johnson wedge monitor, $100. Peavey IPR 1600 power amp & Behringer mixer, $360.

Pair of Peavey SP2G’s, $600. Call (706) 296-4034 & ask for Andrew.

Acoustic Walden D710CE. 6 String Dreadnought.

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Blackballed saac Blunt has a far away look on his face, which means he is thinking. The Blunts don’t think a whole lot, so that look’s one you learn to catch right quick. It’s a cold day, with some spitting snow in the air, and Mo-Mo has already whittled a fair-sized stick down to nearly nothing.

“Once a man has a goiter, he’s marked,” says Isaac. Warden Merrill nods and scoots his rocker across the concrete floor closer to the pot-bellied stove. We all know about the Blunts and their goiters. Back before the war, they kept to themselves out past Deerskin, and they all looked like turkey gobblers and were mighty proud of it, too. Their daddy raised them up that way, which says a lot.

“I got a birth mark in a private area,” says Jim Folsom Smith. The others make strange faces, but I don’t, even though I’m the only woman there. We’re all of an age, and time renders sex out of a person if they live long enough.

That’s nowhere in the Bible, but it seems a fact to me. I’m smoking some rum-flavored tobacco in my pipe. Prince Albert has been giving me heartburn lately.

“We don’t need to know no more than that,” says Mo-Mo. His real name is Morris, but he’s been called Mo-Mo since he was a baby. Names have a tendency, I’ve found, to stick around even when they’re not wanted.

“Got me a lot of dates in the old days,” says Jim Folsom.

“Mostly it was just curiosity, I expect. Word gets around.

Blessings are where you find ‘em.”

Word had always gotten around about the Blunts and their goiters. On Saturday, the old man would bring the whole brood of them to town, and they could have been the poster family for pellagra and what have you. But he had trained them in pride. Which is where Isaac picks up the story.

“My daddy didn’t have no more idea than nothing where the goiters come from, since he didn’t allow none of us to see the doctor on account of his sweet pea,” says Isaac.

“Hee-hoo,” says Sam Robins. “They’s a lady present, Isaac.”

“For heaven’s sake, Sam,” I admonish. They all knew what I was. I’d stayed married to my husband, Watson, for many a year, but we did not indulge in what you might call boy-girl interactions. Watson lingered for two days after the tractor rolled over on him, but he wasn’t in pain. Blessings are where you find them.

“No, no, his sweet pea ain’t what you think it is,” says Isaac.

“It was what he called his little finger on his left hand. See, it had this, well, risen on the end of it, always had been there.

And they took him to the doctor in town when he was a teen boy, I reckon, and the doctor cut his sweet pea clean off.

Put daddy to sleep, and when he woke up, his sweet pea was gone.”

“Well, I’m glad it weren’t the othern,” says Jim Folsom.

Leon Pomartry comes over and stokes up the stove with an iron rod and warms up our coffee. We all started smoking before we knew it killed you. The only who quit was Ardell Moon, who had to, since he died.

“Anyway, on account of his sweet pea, daddy didn’t let us see the doctor,” says Isaac Blunt. “Anytime one of us got sick, he would physick us hisself with alum and cold toxins, and what have you. It never hurt none of us too bad. But back to the goiters. We knowed we was different, always did. At school, they used to call Lucy Mae “Gobbler,” and she thought they was praising her. She thought they was jealous. Same with Janie Patricia and Starlene Cynthia.”

“Starlene,” says Mo-Mo. “There’s a sad story.”

“Ah ha,” says Warden Merrill. He usually says that for no special reason. I guess it sounded warden-like back when he was the warden, which was more than 20 years ago. I knew what Mo-Mo meant about Starlene. She had married early and died in childbirth with a baby which measured 29-inches long and weighed 19-and-a-half pounds. The baby lived, but he didn’t amount to anything.

“So, everybody started teasing us, calling us the Gobbler Family,” says Isaac Blunt. “And a thing like that can hurt! It can. And see, we all liked them goiters, was proud as if we’d been borned with gold crowns on our heads.”

“I heard of a baby born with 12 fingers over in Monroe,” adds Sam Robins helpfully. Sam doesn’t talk a lot and is sort of an honorary member of the Tuesday Morning Coffee Group here at Pomatry’s Store on Highway 15 outside Branton. He moved here from somewhere up north, Minnesota or Kentucky, but we don’t hold it against him.

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“Unh huh,” says Isaac. “Well, this were different, Sam. When Mama told us about God’s chose people? We thought that was us, because we all looked different, and we was different. Daddy always said, when we went to town, to hold your head high, you’re carrying my name.”

“And a goiter,” says Mo-Mo. “Yes, and that was a reason for us to be prideful. See, we felt sorry for all them girls with skinny necks.”

Just then, we heard a shrieking of brakes then a bright metallic crash followed by a kind of lingering whang out front of the store. I was to the door first, me being somewhat more spry than the others, especially Mo-Mo who walks with a cane which is topped by a dragon’s head. He calls the cane Bessie after his late wife. We all knew Bessie, and everybody thinks he has a point. The spitting snow has eased off, and there’s low scudding clouds and the dampness of rain upon the air. Two cars have collided on Highway 15.

“Call the ambylance,” says Jim Folsom Smith.

“Call the po-lice,” says Warden Merrill “Call a preacher,” says Sam Robins.

“I ain’t through,” says Isaac Blunt.

and black fingernail polish, and has hair dyed black. Mo-Mo seems to think she’s the anti-Christ or something. Warden Merrill, keeps fiddling with his hair. Men are pathetic creatures, all in all. A man of 75 years will without fail think he’s attractive to a woman of 20. You cannot train a man up to the truth, and I stopped trying years ago.

The other victim interests me more. He’s a traveling insurance salesman named Hobart Meadwell. He is a failure. You can read failure like it was Braille, especially in a man. A man gives off failure. Hobart Meadwell gives off failure. He is a dumpy little man about 40, I’d say, dressed all in brown.

He has an eager sourness about him that is off-putting to me, though none of the others notice it.

They pull a chair up to the stove, and one of the Pomartry boys, Harold or Steve (I’m not sure of them because my eyesight is going) stokes the fire and brings them coffee.

“My daddy’s gone kill me,” says Shaye. “You know I’ll get blamed. The cops always blame the woman.”

“Have you ever served time for a criminal offense?” asks Warden Merrill. Hobart snuffles out a disdainful little laugh.

“I think that’s what I’m doing right now,” says Shaye flatly.

“Whoa-ho,” says Mo-Mo, and he begins to giggle. A giggling old man can be cute, but in Mo-Mo’s case, it don’t apply.

“Hon, he didn’t mean anything,” I say. “He was the warden here for years, and he always tries to find connections with strangers.”

“See, we felt sorry for all them girls with skinny necks.”

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“I served time,” says Hobart. We all look at him. Isaac Blunt rubs his throat and looks sad, and I know he wants to resume his story and hope he has the sense not to. If so, it would be unlike any of the Blunts that every lived around here.

“You got any sugar?” Shaye calls to the Pomartry boy. He comes over and hands here the sugar dispenser, and she pours about half a pound in her cup.

“That will give you the sugar diabetes,” says Sam Robins. “I got the sugar diabetes.”

“What’d you do time for, son?” asks Warden Merrill, warming up to Hobart.

“Forgery,” he says.

“That’s not so bad,” says Warden Merrill.

“And arson and possession of an illegal firearm, and illegal drugs, and theft, and resisting arrest,” says Hobart.

“Why me?” asks Shaye of the heavens or perhaps just of the rafters.

“That’s not so good,” says Warden Merrill.

“It was an accident. I had a little anxiety problem, so I went to my ex-wife’s house and took her Xanax and took back the gun I’d give her for our wedding anniversary? Then I tripped over her Christmas tree and it falls down and lights the carpet? I’m having an anxiety attack? You can’t think straight?

So, I run out, and her house burns down, and they caught me later, and I didn’t want to be caught. That’s the whole entire story. Do you all have insurance?”

“I have some Xanax,” says Shaye. “I’m going to take one now. Any of you want one?” We all decline, even Hobart, who says his days of anxiety have long since passed because he has found Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Shaye takes her pill and settles back.

“Where’d you do your time?” asks Warden Merrill. “Do you know Warden Hightower down in Dooly County? Finest man I ever met.”

“That’s right, just hold you head high, because you’re carrying my name, that’s what my daddy said,” continues Isaac Blunt, as if nothing had intervened. Shaye looks him up and down with something amounting to disbelief. Isaac is about five-nothing and weighs around four pounds, so it’s easy to stare at the man. “Poor Isaac” is what he’s been called all his life.

“I was in Floyd County,” says Hobart. “Good food up that way.

Young lady, are you a student at the university?”

“Yeah,” says Shaye. “I can’t believe you burned down your ex-wife’s house.”

“I bet you don’t know the value of renter’s insurance, do you?” he asks hopefully.

“My grandpaw did time for moonshining,” says Mo-Mo. He seems fiercely proud of the fact and awaits condemnation with a chin-lifted eagerness. He seems disappointed when nobody rises to the bait.

“I got a birth mark in a private area,” says Jim Folsom Smith. Shaye looks like she’s going to be sick. She’s a handsome lass, I’ll give her that, with light blue eyes and a label pin which has two Greek letters.

“We don’t need to know no more of that,” says Mo-Mo. Isaac turns to Shaye and all but takes her hand in his.

“Once a man has a goiter, he’s marked,” he says earnestly.

Shaye touches her tiny wrist with her dainty fingers to take her pulse. She counts in her head, but you can see it happening. She shrugs. It must not be too high.

“I’ll be better in half an hour,” she says.

“So, let’s us go back to where I was,” says Isaac. “Like I said, on account of his sweet pea, Daddy didn’t let us see the doctor. He’d wiggle the stump of his sweet pea and say, ‘Chilren, a doctor done that to my sweet pea, and I ain’t letting one cut nothin’ off of you.’”

“How about the rest of y’all?” asks Hobart. “Do you know the right amount of life insurance is five times your annual salary?”

“None of us got a annual salary,” says Mo-Mo. “I got my pension from the state,” says Warden Merrill, somewhat hurt. “And I get 40 dollars a month from the National Retired Wardens Association. Let me tell you about the day Adel Hixon excaped.”

“Hon, we’ve heard that a right smart amount,” I say.

Warden Merrill looks downcast, but Isaac Blunt picks it up so quick nobody has a chance to react.

“So, when we started growing them goiters, Daddy figured it was a natural thing,” says Isaac. “Sally Ann was the first one growed a goiter, but hers was just this small little one, like a risen. Then Mama and Joe Bobby growed theirs, and then Daddy, and they was all of a size to impress. I was really feeling low, because I hadn’t grown no goiter of my own, you understand.”

“I think I’m going to vomit,” says Shaye. “How long does it take for the sheriff to get here?”

“The sheriff was drunk the day Adel Hixon escaped,” says Warden Merrill. “That’s why I had to do what I did.” He pauses and leans forward confidentially toward Shaye. “I was a hero. You don’t have to say I said that. It’s common knowledge in these parts.”

“You know, I might have me a Xanax,” says Hobart. He slumps back in his gray metal chair and his trousers slide up revealing white work socks. Shaye gets herself a small blossom of giggles. She digs in her purse and comes up with a bottle, uncaps it, hands Hobart a Xanax, which he takes with a sip of coffee.

“Taking a pill with coffee will make your head explode,” says Sam Robins amiably. “Everbody knows that.”

“Sam, hush up with your old tales,” I say.

“I swore these off, but just this onct, it would be a soothing,” says Hobart. “I wished I’d a took one when she did. I bet you’re starting to soothe, aren’t you, honey?”

“Not yet,” says Shaye with a hopeful smile. Lot of hopeful going on around Pomartry’s Store this morning.

“And I’d watch my neck in the mirror every morning and worry about it,” says Isaac. “I’d think, well, maybe that’s a little bit of one growing there. Because a feller has to have something different about him to stand out. If a man wants to make his mark in this world, he cain’t be like everybody else. He’s got to up and take charge of the world afore it takes charge of him.”

“Here it comes,” says Shaye, leaning back and closing her eyes.

“Bless your heart,” says Hobart. He reaches out and taps her hand, and her small fingers curl up as if to catch a passing leaf, just once and then her palm going flat again.

“Then one day, there wasn’t no mistaking it,” says Isaac.

He’d be singing “Camelot” by now if he knew the words. “And for a week straight, it growed and growed until it was the biggest goiter in three counties, and Lord, I was as proud a boy as ever walked the Earth. For a huge goiter is a prideful thing, though a painful one.”

Shaye leaps up and runs around wildly. Me being the only other woman there, I know what she needs, so I take her to the bathroom and come back. They are lighting their pipes, so I light mine. Hobart watches me with some interest.

“Actuarial-wise, pipe smoking ain’t as bad for a man as cigarettes,” says Hobart. “I’m not up on what pipe smoking does to a woman, though.”

Shaye comes back out, and the men all rise, but she seems better and holds up her hand to fend off any queries or help in being reseated.

“Before you go on, there’s something I have to say,” blurts Shaye. She bursts into tears and doubles over. Hobart pats her on the back, but she shrugs his hand away. She sits up and starts to speak then starts to bawl again.

“Let’s get her a headache powder,” says Mo-Mo, which is his solution to everything from cancer to digestive distress.

He leans forward. “A Goody’s, though. Them othern don’t work.”

“I don’t want a headache powder,” says Shaye. “I’m all right now. I just want to say that—” and she all but falls apart crying and howling, and Warden Merrill looks at his watch. He’s missed another chance to tell about the day Adel Hixon escaped, which makes it a bad day for him. She pulls herself back together. “I was blackballed by Epsilon Delta at rush!”

There’s a general lack of sympathy at this point. Nobody but me is quite sure what Shaye is talking about, and I attribute it to the Xanax. A person will say anything when she’s relaxed.

“We could take you at the Moose Lodge,” says Warden Merrill helpfully.

“I didn’t fit in with them because of what they had heard about me,” says Shaye. Her nose is running, and I get the Pomartry boy to fetch a box of Kleenex, which she rips open, throwing the lid on the floor and snatching out four or five in one handful. “The word was around that I was a tramp.”

“You are?” asks Jim Folsom Smith. The man’s smiling like a fool, but men can’t help it. I believe I am correct is saying that’s a scientific fact.

“No, I’m not!” cries Shaye. “It’s a nasty story told about me

by Mary Elizabeth Cuffington, who was a year ahead of me in school and got there before I did and was pledged to Epsilon Delta, and I thought she’d be my big sister, but then I think she’s the one who blackballed me. This isn’t real.” She touches

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“That Jezebel,” says Jim Folsom Smith.

“Anyway, I wanted y’all to know I’m a failure,” says Shaye.

“First I get blackballed and then I have a wreck in East Jesus.

My daddy’s gonna kill me.”

“This here’s Branton,” says Isaac Blunt.

“East Jesus is four miles from here,” says Mo-Mo. Sometimes Mo-Mo has what you might call a wry sense of humor.

“I’m sorry, and then this man starts telling this terrible story about about his—about that thing, and it made me sick,” says Shaye.

“That could be a cancer of the intestinal lining,” says Hobart, smiling. “Have you thought of life insurance, miss?”

“Wait just a galdern minute, the story of my goiter ain’t a terrible thing,” says Isaac Blunt. “All us carried them things until I went into the service when the war started. Something about salt, I disremember. Now they’d come out from the county health department before. They was after us like a pea hen on a bedbug.”

“I’m going to yak,” says Shaye, holding the wad of Kleenex tight against her mouth.

“Janie Patricia and Starlene Cynthia, they didn’t see a thing wrong with it, either, and we didn’t mind being called the Gobbler Family, but daddy was the one fought for us most of all,” says Isaac.

“Your father wanted you to have goiters?” asks Shaye.

“It was because a doctor had cut off his sweet pea, and so daddy had no truck with them doctors,” confides Isaac Blunt.

Shaye leaps up and runs to the bathroom herself this time.

The men all bless her heart. Jim Folsom Smith refreshes his breath with a little spray vial he keeps in his pocket, and then he lights his pipe again.

“I forgot to admit that I was convicted of cruelty to animals, too, but that was an accident,” says Hobart Meadwell.

Mo-Mo has finished whittling his stick down to nothing.

He’s all ears, a smiling man. “See, she had this yappy toy poodle named Bitsy, and when I accidentally kicked over her Christmas tree, and it fell down and lighted the carpet, Bitsy run into the back and wouldn’t come out. You ever seen a marshmallow burnt up? That’s what she looked like. They had pictures in court. I was remorseful over Bitsy.”

“I’d a made you chop cotton for killing a dog,” says Warden Merrill. “I always say let the punishment fit the crime.”

“How does chopping cotton pay for killing a poodle?” I ask.

Shaye comes back out of the restroom, and all the men stand in greeting. Shaye smiles beautifully, and then they sit down.

“That’s just what it will be like when I’m ready to walk down the aisle, and everybody stands up,” says Shaye. The Xanax has obviously kicked in completely, and she is happy again.

“Except them that knows you are a tramp,” says Sam Robins. Not even this comment can ruin her demeanor now, and she brushes it off like a crumb from a lapel.

“This feller admitted to being a killer why you was gone,” says Mo-Mo, nodding toward Hobart.

“I’m sure you had reason,” says Shaye, touching Hobart on the hand.

“I did have reason,” says Hobart.

“You are an understanding girl. I’m glad you run into me, and I had the chance to meet you.”

“I ran into you?” says Shaye. Her face crumbles into a passion. “I ran into you?” Her voice is trembling, on the verge of a cracky shouting. “The heck I ran into you.”

“You did,” says Hobart, whose feelings are hurt now.

Just then, the sheriff pulls up outside, and Shaye and Hobart, by now arguing and using unpleasant words, head for the door and out it, and the others, sensing that fun is about, go with them, leaving only me and Isaac Blunt sitting in our wicker rockers near the pot-bellied stove.

“I remember now,” says Isaac, sorrowful. “They give me iodine in the service and made it go away.” He has a distant misty look of fondness. “It’s hard to lose the best part of yourself. Sometimes when I awake up, I touch my neck and expect to feel it there. At least I never lost my sweet pea.”

“Blessings,” I say, “are where you find them.”

“The word was around that I was a tramp.”

Phil Williams Philip Lee Williams is the author of 17 published books, the latest being a novel, Emerson’s Brother. He is a member of the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame and lives in Oconee County.

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Braving the Broad River It

was Sunday morning, and I was definitely feeling butterflies in my stomach. I couldn’t stop my inner voice repeating that maybe I was lying to myself about being the outdoor type. Maybe my fear of swimming and water activities, part of my whole life, was the right kind of basic and obvious survivor precaution that allowed me to reach almost half of a century alive. Don’t get me wrong, I was delighted with the idea of finally having the opportunity to enjoy our Sunday canoeing on the Broad River that I had heard so much about.

For several months, Mark was brave enough to put me in the first canoe of my life, in his farm pond. I learned the right way to step on the middle line to avoid flipping over and a few basic strokes. Of course, as a disaster management professional, he also taught me how to get back into a flipped canoe or rescue someone else. So, now I was finally going canoeing on a real river with two experienced guys. Mark and his friend, Chris, another disaster responder, had done this river many times and a lot of white water, sea kayaking and extended canoe trips all their lives. That should give me some confidence. Of course, also the fact that Chris was taking his seven-year-old son, Davis, with us. I had to be as brave as he was!

Well, after debating what to wear, changing shoes a couple of times and putting in and out things from the dry bag (sorry, even on these situations my X chromosomes are still there), we strapped the canoe and kayak to the car and drove for only 45 minutes to the river near Danielsville. This is one of the wonderful things about Athens, you can find these great places close enough to make them part of your Sunday activities and still get home for dinner.

After hooking our dry bags and coolers into the boat, we headed downstream. I was sitting in the front of the big blue canoe, ready for paddling, following Mark’s instructions to get us through the rocks and white water. I was hardly talking, afraid that everybody else would notice my emotions, and trying to focus on breathing in and out, and taking some deep breaths.

Have you ever taken this canoe trip? You should try it!

Nothing could have ever prepared me for the most wonderful experience of my life. The sound of the water mixed with the diverse bird sounds we heard everywhere, the sun as it started warming the turtle basking places, the water so clear you could see the fish and the natural landscaping on both sides of the river made for a exceptional experience.

I cannot say we had no challenges through the day.

Imagine this scene: You’re sitting of the front part of the canoe, so you can see the big rocks and rapids before the driver in back can do anything about them and you’re not

even sure what to do yourself. Well, maybe the rocks and rapids were not that big, but for me, my first time canoeing, they looked huge. Then, for some strange reason it feels like the canoe starts moving faster and faster every second while you can listen to him saying something like, “Back paddle fast on the left side.” Have you ever tried to follow paddling instructions quickly in a different language from your native one? Well, let me tell you what happened in my mind every time Mark said something like that: “Back paddle…” My mind changed to the Spanish setting, trying to find the meaning for that, then… Ah!!! It means going hacia atrás (backwards), but, of course, then I realize I already forgot the rest of the sentence. Did he say right or left??? And to be able to ask him, I have to change again to my English setting brain. By the time I was able to figure out the meaning of the instructions that

would let us avoid the rock, or the tree, or any other obstacle, it was too late. Lucky for me, I guess he was prepared for paddling with an inexperienced person and was able to save us every time. Until, of course, we turned over.

At the first small drop off, where you have to go all the way to the left side of the river and then sharply turn about 180 degrees to the right, I saw what, for me, were big rocks and a waterfall that we had to go over. After double checking the technical details with my memories, I found out it was only about a one-foot drop off. My worst nightmare was happening: We got to a point where the canoe got trapped between the rocks. Chris and his son were already out of their kayak, waiting for us to eat lunch; so they had the first-row seats for the “show.”

When the front of the canoe started sinking, it just stayed under water; it started getting inside in the most slow way you can imagine: everything seemed to slowly float out and away.

I had enough time to start thinking that maybe this time we were in trouble, changing to maybe we were getting too much water inside the canoe, all the way to even considering that maybe we were going to flip over and go under the water.

Honestly, I must say that I’m glad it happened in a slow-motion way, because I had enough time to prepare myself, and then I discovered that I could just stand up and walk. I was fine. It was shallow enough to reach out and recover some of our things that were floating on the water. The first scary moment was over.

After a while, we arrived at a beautiful place, with a deeper spot, where we were able to sit on the rocks, enjoy the water and even swim around a little. On those rocks we found about a dozen people, but the rest of the time, there were just a few places where we found a few other paddlers, lovers of the river, just having fun on a warm spring day. The trip took us around six hours, with all our many stops and pauses.

So, at the end of the day, while we were strapping the canoes back on the top of the car, with my clothes wet, my shoes full with sand and tired, I could not stop smiling and thinking this was one of the most wonderful days of my life. I still feel that I am unable to find the right words to express in English how thankful I am that Mark was brave enough to get me into his canoe and paddle down the Broad River with me.

I’m sure having his good friend Chris with him helped a little to make it easier for him. After this day, still with all my fears and butterflies in my stomach, I can hardly wait for the next canoeing day. And you know what? After enjoying it so much, maybe I really can be the outdoor type.

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here are more bright stars in the winter night sky than in the summer. This time of year, you can go outside and look up and see seven of the brightest stars arranged in a wheel or hexagon with one star in the center.

This year, the ring of stars is joined by Jupiter, which easily outshines them all. Go outside after 10 p.m. and look up, and there he is, brilliant white, the Optimus Prime of the planets. Close by and to the right about three finger-widths is golden-orange Aldebaran, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Followerâ&#x20AC;? in Arabic.

Looking down toward the horizon you can see Betelgeuse, brighter and copperyorange, the center star of the wheel.

Betelgeuse is the shoulder of the constellation Orion, the hunter. Lower and to the right is his mighty foot, the bright bluewhite Rigel. Orion is most recognizable by his belt of three stars between his orange shoulder and bluewhite foot. If the sky is dark, you can see the shield of stars that make the lionskin he holds before him and the dangle of stars below the belt that either represents his sword or else shows that Orion was swinging free, splendidly enjoying his primitive lifestyle in his natural state.

Orionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belt points up toward Aldebaran and down towards the brightest star in the sky, intensely blue-white Sirius, the Dog Star, Canis Major, trotting after his master. Sirius is not only the brightest star in the night sky but also one of the nearest, only 50 trillion

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Several handbreadths to the left is Procyon, bright and white. Procyon means â&#x20AC;&#x153;before the dog,â&#x20AC;? and is so named because it rises before Sirius. Overshone by its more brilliant partner, however, Procyon is only Canis Minor.

Going clockwise around the wheel, to the left and up are the twins Castor and Pollux, a little on the orange side. And farther up by still more handbreadths is Capella, a big and bright yellow fellow, the northernmost of the bunch. A hard right turn takes you back to Jupiter, a jovial witness to your discomfort from the cold and from looking up for so long.

There are other nighttime treats in the sky. Rarely, you can see the secondbrightest star in the sky, Canopus, low in the southern sky when Sirius is at its highest. Canopus is so far south that it barely crosses the horizon, peeking through the trees, a seldom-seen blue-white horizon-hugger. Canopus has given its name to furniture in the pharaohsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; burial chambers; canopic jars held some of their extracted organs.

The Pleiades are a cloud of blue-white stars, a couple of hands west of Aldebaran; they are what the Follower is following. Look at them through binoculars and you will feel exalted to realize that we live in a universe so vast and so strange.

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BOULEVARD! Boulevard!

You broad-shouldered beauty— You’re an avenue with a point-of-view, And you’ve seen it all: The movers and the shakers, Catholics and Quakers, Matchmakers and heartbreakers, All have been here, Now they’re gone with the wind; Yet, they always manage to reappear again.

Boulevard!

You broad-shouldered beauty— You’re an avenue with a point-of-view, And there’s nothing you can do But suffer silently until winter’s foul ways Slowly surrender to spring’s welcome breeze As it sweeps through your tunnel of trees Carrying the sweet aromas of honeysuckle and jasmine Past dogwood blossoms suspended like Swollen snowflakes patiently waiting to fall, Past clusters of lavender wisteria Clinging bravely to elegant garden walls.

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1949, Aldo Leopold wrote in A Sand County Almanac: “…over-abundant deer, when deprived of their natural enemies, have made it impossible for deer food plants to survive or reproduce… The composition of the flora, from wild flowers to forest trees, is gradually impoverished, and the deer in turn are dwarfed by malnutrition.” His words make sense to me as I look around my own neighborhood near Tallassee Road at the edge of Clarke County.

Hungry deer roam my yard, my neighbors’ lots and the woods and fields nearby. The young dogwoods, redbuds and maples I have planted are nibbled to toothpicks in a few days. Sometimes, a tree tries to come back, sprouting new leaves from its remnant. Then chomp! Deer eat it back to the ground again. Eventually, it dies.

A few years ago, I received a “worm tree,” a Catalpa—the host tree for Catalpa Sphinx Moth larvae—from the ACC

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Community Tree Council. It thrives at the end of my driveway and seems to be one of the few native trees that deer ignore. This made me curious. What “deer food plants” are not surviving in my area?

I searched my neighborhood for young, healthy, native understory trees. But I couldn’t find many. Paulownia, chinaberry and other exotics are doing fine and spreading rapidly.

Native tulip trees, pines, persimmons and sweet gums are holding their own and reproducing. It’s the lack of young redbuds and dogwoods that concerns me. After all, many birds and other wildlife need “layers” in the woodlands and not just tall canopy trees. Shrubs and understory trees provide crucial protection and food for many wildlife species.

It turns out that only mature dogwoods and redbuds are found around here. Yet, these older trees aren’t successfully reproducing because of the large population of herbivores overbrowsing all of the young seedlings to death.

A neighbor discovered that her native fringe trees attracted hungry deer, too. Her husband fenced them for protection. Now these beautiful, understory trees are thriving.

When I caged the small dogwoods that I planted, they began thriving, too. At last, one is more than six feet tall.

But I hesitate to remove the fencing, even though the wire is not attractive. Here’s why: There’s more than one way deer can kill a healthy tree.

A few years ago, a buck rubbed his antlers on one of our favorite, large dogwoods. His intense rubbing—to scrape the velvet from his antlers— removed so much bark that he “girdled” the tree. Girdling kills a tree when enough living bark is removed to prevent necessary nutrients from flowing within the tree. It wasn’t long until our beloved dogwood died.

In Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy encourages everyone to protect young native trees with fencing until they are tall enough to survive intense grazing. This simple act gives many of the beautiful natives, in our woods and around our homes, the chance to survive. With nature so out of balance, we need all the ways we can find to nurture our native trees.

Boulevard!

You broad-shouldered beauty— You’re an avenue with a point-of-view, And you’ve heard it all: The salesmen with all their gimmicks, The heretics with all their polemics, And a host of politicians and holy men and academics, All have been here, Now they’re gone with the wind; Yet, they always manage to reappear again.

Boulevard!

You broad-shouldered beauty— You’re an avenue with a point-of-view, And there’s nothing you can do But suffer silently until the dog days of summer Slowly surrender to autumn’s umbrageous surprise As it paints its outrageous feast for the eyes On hickory and ash and oak, A raucous explosion of colors, Of yellows and oranges and reds That all too soon transform your well-worn sidewalks Into multicolored feather beds.

Boulevard!

You broad-shouldered beauty— You’re an avenue with a point-of-view.

Charley Seagraves

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Poetryby Bert O. Richmond TRAIN TO VIENNA

WINTER SOLACE

Sleek red capsule nudging its way Past white birch and spruce tree guards Curling through green fields Tip-toeing across raging streams.

Time rests in the walls of this house, trees, garden, walkways. That old rock wall we labored, all afternoon crowning it with brightly colored Lake Superior stones of thirty years agoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hoarded for such end.

Purring, iron willed in purpose Carrying its human armload Past brown piles of hay like ringlets Dangling from meadows faces.

Safe and warm within its coaches Languages from many nations Laud the beauty of the landscape As the train displays its artwork.

LEGEND OF THE WHITE DEER They said that it appears In time of great crisisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; The death of someone so special The trees weep.

The beauty berry fades to grayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Or when children cry alone That there is no love for them.

Yet the wind sighs That the white one is seen To mark the clarity Of an autumn day The stillness of a full-moon night The wonder of a starlit sky.

Desolate the garden lies in this dark, dank Carolina mountain winter. Iris repose, runners of raspberry arouse no rumor of last summers juiciness.

Brooding thoughts of our son last summer as we dug presage this dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gray visage.

Days like minds adorn and shed somber garb.

Bulbs, tender roots beneath decaying leaves whisper promises of tiny brown kegs hiding beneath green skirts of ginger, of voluptuous shouts of rhododendron.

Born to cold, dark, misty days of winter for bold spring flashiness, they wind the clocks of our lives in a cycle of dark, cold, beauty and joy.

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I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember when I first heard the tinkling of the bell. Perhaps it was where Silently, the grass was high enough to blot out all but the The ghost deer tells its tale brightest of blossoms. Or maybe when the sun Rarity of nature cascaded from a sky so blue it made your ears Diverse, exciting, changing tingle. Tingling like that, you could hardly be certain if In and out of the light it were a bell-tinkle or a blue-sky-warm-sun-ear-tingle.

That brightens I continued to chew slowly on a blade of high meadow And fades away grass while my eyes roamed ravenously over red, yellow, blue and white petals plopped picturesquely about where nature whimsically deposited them a harvest season ago. From whence emanated this tinkling or tingling?

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Engrossed was I in this orgiastic feast of fabulous high mountain meadow grasses, my myriad mental processes procrastinating in alerting me to the distinction between a tinkle and a tingle. In fact, my cerebrum might never have been diverted from its brief basking in Bacchanalian banalities had not I been confronted obliquely but nevertheless most certainly by a pair of quizzical brown eyes surrounded by a very white but definitely hirsute countenance. At about two oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock, for my line of vision, appeared a crystalline white pubescent goatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I kid you notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whose unwavering brown eyes stared at me while the hirsute face continued the task of masticating mountain meadow munchables. It may have been the unswerving stare that arrested my addiction to imbibing high meadow grasses, or perhaps it was the determined tinkle of the bell as the head tossed ominously in my direction.

Ultimately, a truce was struck as he munched and tinkled, while I eavesdropped and ogled the sensate scene surrounding me.

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out of the box Over 100 people crammed into the second floor space at The Globe for a grown-up version of story time on a Wednesday evening in early October 2012. It was my first Rabbit Box event, the sixth overall.

Eight storytellers each had eight minutes to tell true stories from memory, centering on a predetermined theme. One story had me sitting rigid for its duration, blinking back tears, flooded with empathy. Another had me laughing in disbelief. Yet another held me in suspense. Each individual approached the topic from his or her own distinct perspective, conjuring an array of emotions from the diverse gathering of rapt listeners.

The emcee facilitated a certain unity between the storytellers and audience members, creating a feeling that we were all in this together, that we all have experiences worth sharing. I walked home that night feeling fortunate to live in Athens, in a place where such collective exploration of the human condition is celebrated.

Inspired, I committed to being a storyteller the following month.

I had never before released a personal story into the world for consumption by an audience of (mostly) strangers, and as the date for Rabbit Box 7 drew near, I grew more and more terrified. The event was to be moving from the intimate setting of The Globe to the seemingly more intimidating Melting Point. I do quite a bit of public speaking for work, but here there was a stage, and a cover, and I was going to have to be entertaining! Thankfully, Rabbit Box storytellers have the option of working with volunteer “coaches” with writing and performance experience. These wonderful people read my several drafts, met to discuss my story in person and provided much needed guidance and encouragement.

On the night of the November show, I sat in the green room and chatted with other storytellers and Rabbit Box coordinators, trying hard to sip, not gulp, my paper cup of red wine. When we all made our way to the seating area, I snagged a chair close to the stage.

I was seventh in the lineup, and as the sixth storyteller finished, my heart raced; its beat becoming audible in its intensity. I began my story at approximately 8:40 p.m., and my eight minutes flew by in a blur; I’m almost certain I was afforded leeway by the sympathetic timekeeper, a storyteller himself at Rabbit Box 5. When it was over, I found myself embracing a whole mess of people who had been completely unknown to me just weeks, days, hours before. I was abuzz for the rest of the night and into the following day, high on performance adrenaline and warmed by an overwhelming sense of community.

a bluer future for georgia?

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emocrats point to Georgia’s shifting demography and predict a bluer future. This year, the white share of active registered voters dropped to a record 60.2 percent; African-Americans made up 29.4 percent; “other” races made up 10.4 percent. But what good is demography without a plan? Presently, the Democratic Party of Georgia’s electoral strategy is the “5 percent solution”: a plan to increase the amount of white support for Democrats by 5 percent.

Despite the DPG’s quest for a dwindling share of whites, nonprofit groups like the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) and the Asian-American Legal Advocacy Center (AALAC) have increased civic engagement of Georgia’s minorities. These groups offer lessons for how Democrats can earn minority support and turn Georgia blue.

First, Republican-authored anti-immigrant laws and policies make minorities Democratic allies. HB 87 is the pinnacle of Georgia’s anti-immigrant legal framework: it empowers the police, when they suspect someone is not a citizen, to demand “papers, please.” Republicans authored it, unanimously supported it, and Gov. Deal signed it into law. HB 87 also created a new class of felonies for people who give car rides to non-citizens (since struck down by the 11th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals).

The Georgia Board of Regents discriminates against immigrants, too, by banning non-citizen children from Georgia’s public colleges and universities. These children, many of whom came to Georgia as infants, must leave Georgia to get a higher education. GALEO and AALAC fought hard and continue to campaign against these policies. Democrats should fight harder than nonprofits prohibited from engaging in partisan activity. Together, the groups can help end the fear and discrimination that attack underrepresented minorities and stifle Georgia’s advancement.

According to the Census’ latest American Community Survey, an estimated 696,112 Georgians speak Spanish at home and 195,052 speak an Asian language. Democrats should (like GALEO and AALAC) offer press releases, websites and other communication in a variety of languages.

Press releases should be sent to media outlets with minority audiences. The Democrats’ message should dovetail nicely with the president’s push for educational opportunity for non-citizen children. On other issues, an outcry against Republican discrimination will suffice. Casting a vote against, absent communication and prior advocacy for a position, is insufficient. Democrats are in the super-minority in both legislative chambers. They must make their case to the public in various languages that target underrepresented minorities.

Georgia Democrats must organize voter registration drives that target minorities, and not just one or two. Buford Highway, from North Fulton County to Gwinnett, is home to innumerable businesses that Latinos and Asian-Americans own and operate. Buford Highway and Cobb County should be the focus of Democratic voter registration and engagement. Non-metro areas such as Gainesville, Dalton and Athens also have large numbers of unregistered minorities. If they hope to win, Democrats must shift the electorate by registering underrepresented minorities.

Last, Democrats should use the federal voter registration form offered by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Unlike Georgia’s form, it does not require applicants to enclose a photocopy of their identification and is also available in seven different languages. First-generation immigrants, especially, are more comfortable filling out official documents that have instructions in their native tongue.

Democrats will make gains by bringing minorities into the party, not by quietly waiting decades for demography to run its course.

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