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Vote Now for Athens Favorites OK, folks, it’s time to vote for your favorite Athens restaurants, stores, bars, services, etc. You can do it online at www. flagpole.com. Just click on the colorful “bug” and get started.

This is your chance to recognize the places that make up your Athens, and believe me, they appreciate it. It means a lot to a business to be publicly recognized for what they do, and “favorite” plaques are always prominently displayed at the recognized businesses.

This is a serious endeavor, but it’s a lot of fun, too, to be reminded of the places you like and to get the opportunity to give them a pat on the back, a leg up, a salute. Flagpole’s Athens Favorites 2013 is your opportunity to give a shout out to the places that make Athens Athens, and all you need to enter is your own opinions, your own tastes, your own favorites. It takes a little time, because the list is long, and there are a lot of categories. But it’s easy, and you’ll find it enjoyable to recall all the places that have given you so much pleasure during the year. Make your choices count! Vote now. Help award the plaques to your own favorites. Deadline: Feb. 6.

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Hear the Ol’ Bloviator Flagpole readers know Jim Cobb as the author of the occasional column and blog, “Cobbloviate,” his humorously, selfdeprecatingly titled venue for rants, generally about politics and usually having to do with issues pertinent to the South.

Those who make it to the end of “Cobbloviate” have also no doubt noticed in the identifying tag line that Cobb is “The B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor in the History of the South at UGA.” That’s not an empty title.

It’s an endowed chair named in honor of the historian and community activist who fought, financed and charmed on behalf of preserving Athens when all of it was in danger of being torn down for “progress.”

Cobb, who is not one of “those” Cobbs, is in many ways the antithesis of Spalding, who was one of “those” Spaldings. Cobb Jim Cobb grew up on a one-tractor dirt farm in Hart County, GA, finished the public schools there and then came over here to the university and didn’t leave until he had earned his doctorate. Since then, he has distinguished himself with his publications and his teaching at prominent institutions around the South, including the University of Mississippi and the University of Tennessee, before coming back to his alma mater.

Now, you have the opportunity to hear Cobb speak, as the leadoff hitter in the prestigious new Global Georgia Initiative, a series of lectures organized by UGA’s Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (where former Flagpole News Editor Dave Marr is now in charge of public relations). “Its goal is to present global problems in a local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions—including the economy, society and the environment—with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene.”

Cobb is a great choice to start this series, because he is serious as grits about the history of the South and has devoted his life to unremitting hard, lonely, illuminating work, yet he doesn’t take himself too seriously. In other words, though he is the consummate scholar, he is not a pedant, so you should not be scared by his title: “Demystifying Dixie: Southern History and Culture in Global Perspective.” If you show up for this free inaugural lecture, you are guaranteed to learn something about the South and the world and enjoy doing it, with refreshments afterward.

The fun takes place in the Chapel on campus at 4 p.m. this Tuesday, Jan. 29. Flagpole is a sponsor, and I get to introduce Cobb.

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Classic Center Art: My (admittedly unschooled) opinion stale beer, trash-bag leakage and vomit marinate in the heat. of public art is that it’s usually either bland or tacky. The Short of hiring a crop duster to spray Febreze over a 20-block Athena statues downtown and the guitars on the parking deck area, there’s not much she can do. are a bit too obvious for my taste, and don’t get me started It’s one of several issues where the ADDA board and on those painted bulldogs. The cows in Chicago, the shrimp Lookofsky have butted heads, leading to the mutual decision in Fernandina Beach, FL—pretty much all fiberglass animals last month not to renew her contract when it expires in June. should be banned, IMHO. A recent ACC audit—available in the online version of City So, I was fully prepared to dislike “Nest,” the new public Dope—absolves her of responsibility, putting the blame on art installation in the Classic Center, and doubted that the business owners for not cleaning the sidewalks and the county artist, Maureen Kelly of St. Louis, MO, would have anything commission for not fully funding the Solid Waste Department. non-generic to say about Athens, GA. But not only does Kelly’s Two full-time and two part-time litter technicians clean up work, to use technical terms, look pretty cool, it does comment downtown from 5 a.m.–2 p.m. seven days a week. They pick on the history and culture of our city. up litter, empty trash cans, remove grease clogs and pressureBefore submitting a proposal for the Classic Center expanwash sidewalks. Even as the number of bars, restaurants and sion, Kelly had only visited Athens once, for a wedding, but sidewalks has grown by half over the past 10 years, the level of she immediately picked up on how tightly knit we are. “The service has stayed the same. people were so nice and so warm,” she says. “It’s a fabulous community. That really comes across.”

The design Kelly came up with involves curved fabric-like stainless steel panels arranged in a nest shape meant to invoke a sense of community and remind viewers that Athens was once a textile capitol. Inside the nest is a ladder of red poles, an unintentional reference to the Classic Center’s origins as a 19th-century firehall. (Kelly, unaware of that history, chose red to add color to the beige-and-white room, along with a dash of sex appeal.) The whole thing will be lit up by the sun in the morning and LED lights in the evening, reflecting off the stainless steel and drawing people in from Foundry Street, fulfilling one of the atrium architects’ main goals: creating a front of the massive building on its now-desolate side facing the North Oconee River. It doesn’t get in the way of the view, either.

“I wanted to see something floating over the hills, but never blocking them,” Kelly says.

The SPLOST-funded installation cost $150,000 out of a total $24 million budget for the whole expansion. Kelly took a $15,600 fee for herself; the rest went toward materials and paying her team of construction workers, Pro tip: Birds can fly. They don’t need ladders to get to their nests. electricians, welders and lighting designers. Her background is in architecture, and she’s as much a foreman on a job site as an “This level of service appears to be inadequate given the artist (expertise, by the way, that someone local may or may high volume of usage during the evening and night hours, not possess). The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, which changes in the mix of businesses downtown and the increase selects public art, also hired a local artist, Jamie Calkin, to in the number of authorized sidewalk cafes,” ACC Auditor John paint a mural.

Wolfe writes in his report.

Check out more photos in City Dope online. The public will Wolfe and his staff observed “multiple violations of ACC’s get its first in-person glimpse of the new atrium, art installalitter ordinance including discarded cigarette butts, broken tion and expanded exhibit hall from 2-6 p.m. Feb. 16. There glass in public planters, other refuse on sidewalks and streets, will be circus performers and jazz bands, too. Feel free to bring and the use of glass in the sidewalk cafes. In addition, a picnic, PR and marketing director Angie Estes says. It’s free, instances of what appeared to be leakage from trash bags and but a ticket is required because space is limited. They’re availother refuse containers onto the sidewalks and streets were able at the Classic Center and UGA Performing Arts Center box noted.” offices starting Jan. 28.

Solid Waste has asked for money to deal with those probNext up are requests for qualifications for art at the lems in the past, but the commission has never funded those Athens-Clarke County Library and the new Rocksprings Park requests. Wolfe recommends “additional resources for downpool. After the jail art controversy last year almost derailed town cleaning operations,” as well as laws to clarify that Athens’ nascent public art program entirely, let’s hope they’re business owners are responsible for cleaning the areas outside successful. their doors and require them to provide a place to dispose of cigarette butts.

Eau de Downtown: Athens Downtown Development Authority Wolfe’s audit also addresses downtown parking, another board members have been pushing Executive Director Kathryn vexing issue. Although total parking revenue rose from $1.8 Lookofsky to find a solution for downtown’s, shall we say, million to $2.4 million between 2011 and 2012, he notes that odoriferous emanations, especially in the summertime, when net revenue dropped from $1.1 million to $431,000 due to the

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new West Washington Street deck’s debt service and operating costs. The increase in total revenue he attributes to raising the cost of parking and expanding the hours when ACC charges to park. Meanwhile, revenue from the College Avenue deck is flat, even though fees are higher.

In other words, more people aren’t parking downtown, they’re just parking in the Washington Street deck instead of the College Avenue deck. Why did we build that new deck again? Oh, well, at least we got a Waffle House out of the deal.

On top of that, three different branches of government— ACC, the ADDA and the Classic Center—run the four downtown decks, so ACC is essentially competing against itself. The solutions, according to Wolfe, are to adjust rates based on demand and consider putting all parking under ACC control.

Buena Vista: After postponing it once in November, AthensClarke commissioners have decided to put off a vote on the Buena Vista Heights historic district for yet another month.

Commissioner Kelly Girtz proposed reducing the size of the district from 76 to about 50 homes, removing some property owners who oppose the designation as well as some midcentury houses that aren’t part of the original neighborhood, built as a streetcar suburb in the 1890s. He said he plans to continue tweaking the borders in the coming weeks. With a Feb. 5 vote looming, several commissioners said they’re not comfortable adjusting the lines on the fly.

A moratorium on demolitions in Buena Vista, also approved in November, expires at the end of the month, but individual commissioners can put holds on demolition permits for 90 days. “Let’s not put this off [so] long that something will happen we’ll feel sorry for,” Commissioner George Maxwell said.

Black History: A less controversial item on the commission’s agenda last week is naming the ACC Police Department’s Baxter Street substation for Donald Moon and Archibald Killian. It’s been 50 years since what was then the Athens Police Department hired Moon and Killian, the city’s first two black officers. “They were the finest, at that time, that the police department had,” Maxwell, Athens’ third black officer, said last Thursday. Moon was killed in the line of duty, but Killian, now a reverend and radio host, is still kicking.

Park and Ride: Eastside residents can say goodbye to the hassle of trying to find parking downtown.

A free park-and-ride lot on Oconee Street—AKA that big mudhole you’ve surely noticed inside the Loop cloverleaf—opens at 11 a.m.

Thursday. For $1.60, commuters can hop on a new shuttle that will run from the lot to Park Hall, the Arch and back every 20 minutes from roughly 7–9 a.m. and 3:30–5:30 p.m. on weekdays.

Hourly buses will serve the lot during non-peak hours. If ACC ever finishes a long-awaited rails-to-trails project, suburbanites will be able to drive halfway to downtown and bike the rest of the way, too.

Downtown Traffic: And when Selig Enterprises builds its mammoth mixed-use development off Oconee Street, we’ll need all the help we can get. It will generate 5,833 car trips a day, according to documents the company filed last week with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, a state planning agency that advises local governments on major developments.

A full traffic study hasn’t been done, but Selig will submit one to ACC as part of a variance application in the next few weeks, county planner Gavin Hassemer says. The regional commission recommendation should come around the same time, setting up the ACC Planning Commission to hear Selig’s request at its Mar. 7 meeting.

See the In the Loop blog at Flagpole.com to read the documents.

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Although the fight was conducted out of public view, Cagle stewed for two years as the clique headed by President Pro Tem Tommie Williams (R-Lyons) and Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) controlled the upper chamber.

The turmoil in the Senate made it harder to conduct legislative business, a development that was noticed by the people across the rotunda. House Speaker David Ralston derided the attempt by Williams and Rogers to run the Senate, saying: “The experiment has failed.”

In politics, as in life, things have a way of turning around.

Cagle did a lot of work behind the scenes and was in position to benefit from a recent change in the Senate leadership.

Williams first decided not to seek another term as the president pro tem, opening up an opportunity for lawmakers loyal to Cagle. Rogers then resigned from the Senate to accept a $150,000-a-year job arranged by Gov. Nathan Deal with Georgia Public Broadcasting.

When Republican senators caucused in November, they elected a new leadership team: President Pro Tem David Shafer (R-Duluth), Majority Leader Ronnie Chance (R-Tyrone) and Caucus Chairman Butch Miller (R-Gainesville). The new leaders, who are much friendlier towards Cagle, had new rules written that restore many of the lieutenant governor’s former powers.

There were a couple of telling incidents during the opening days of the 2013 General Assembly session that demonstrated Cagle was once again in the driver’s seat. On the session’s first day, Sen. Mike Crane (R-Newnan)

complained bitterly about the new rules restoring Cagle’s authority and accused senators of violating their oaths of office by adopting them.

“Don’t give one person absolute power, even if you think he’s a good person,” Crane said, holding up a roll of yellow crime scene tape to make his point. The Senate then voted 42-12 to restore Cagle’s powers.

Crane got his punishment a few hours later when the new committee assignments were posted. Last year, he was a member of committees such as education, finance and banking. This year, he has been banished to the lonely outposts of the state and local government operations, state institutions and property and special judiciary committees.

Later in the week, the Senate considered Deal’s proposal to renew a Medicaid provider fee—also known as a bed tax—that is imposed upon the state’s hospitals. This fee is important to Georgia’s healthcare community, because it will bring in more than $400 million in federal matching funds for Medicaid.

When the fee was first proposed in 2010, it triggered furious debate in the Senate. While the bed tax was eventually approved, the hostility generated by that vote was part of the reason why Cagle was later stripped of his powers.

On top of that, Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist based in Washington, D.C., demanded that Republican senators vote against this Medicaid fee renewal because he classified it as a tax increase.

There was some grumbling and complaining during three hours of Senate debate, but the bill renewing the provider fee passed by an overwhelming 46-9 majority.

It was a good first week for the lieutenant governor. Getting revenge on your enemies will do that for a person.

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ittle-known fact: Daily Groceries Co-op isn’t really a co-op. Yes, it’s owned by its members and staffed by volunteers.

But that’s technically a buying club, an outdated 1970s model, store manager Andrea Malloy says. Co-ops nationwide that are growing and successful have switched to selling shares and hiring paid employees, and Daily is following suit.

Don’t worry, it’s not turning to the capitalist dark side. Malloy and board chairwoman Delene Porter believe the changes will bring down prices and allow the Prince Avenue holein-the-wall to expand to become a true downtown grocery—one that’s beholden to local citizens, not far-off corporate executives.

somewhere else,” Malloy says. “The community has no say.” For the co-op, filling that niche would be impossible under the current funding model.

Daily’s board hired Malloy a year ago, in part to implement the patronage model, Porter says. The store was doing OK with $1 million in sales last year, but it’s been up and down, and it’s a constant struggle to train and manage dozens of volunteers, Malloy says. At 1,000 square feet of retail space, the store can’t stock a wide variety of items, and popular ones are constantly running out, she adds.

When the changes fully kick in next month, customers will notice a difference. Getting rid of the discounts will drive down the price

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Board chairwoman Delene Porter (left) and manager Andrea Malloy review membership rolls at Daily Groceries Co-op. The store is now selling shares to raise money for expansion.

For more than a decade, Daily sold annual memberships for $50 or $100 that came with a 5 percent or 10 percent discount. Volunteers who stocked shelves and manned cash registers got a 20 percent discount. Starting Feb. 1, those memberships and discounts go away.

Instead, Daily is selling $100 shares and $20 annual “interests” that turn into shares when investors buy $100 worth.

What do shareholders get for their $100?

In the short run, for themselves, not much. A vote at meetings, mainly, some specials and, down the road, possibly a dividend based on how much shareholders spend at the store.

“The notion of a cooperative, it’s not what you get back, it’s what the community gets back,” Porter says.

The community, if the plan works, will get a locally owned grocery store near downtown that employs local workers, supports local farmers and sells locally grown food at a reasonable price. “Athens is ripe to have a really strong, independent grocery store,” Porter says. “We are downtown. But if we’re always struggling, we can’t meet all the needs the community has.”

The alternative is a chain grocery coming downtown, something many Athens residents opposed when Walmart was considering opening a store off Oconee Street last year. A corporate entity would decide where to locate, which vendors to use, what to sell and how much to invest. “Those decisions are all made

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of food for everyone, so the three-quarters of Daily shoppers who aren’t members or volunteers will pay less. “We can never compete with Kroger on affordability, but we might not—I don’t know how to say this—freak people out as much as we do now,” Malloy says.

Eventually, when enough money is raised, the co-op could move to a larger space (ideally, about 4,000 square feet), open a satellite store or sell food out of a truck. It could staff up from 21 mostly part-time employees to 100 making a living wage. If Daily hits $2 million in annual sales—something that would only be possible with more square footage—it can join the National Cooperative Grocers Association and buy wholesale products cheaper.

Right now, there are no concrete plans, though, Malloy and Porter say. “The sky’s the limit,” Malloy says. Hiring a consultant to do a feasibility study on expanding is the next step. “Those are pricey, but they’re one of the keys to failure if you don’t do one,” she adds.

Malloy and Porter acknowledge that their plans aren’t popular with everyone. Some members want to keep the co-op the way it is. “People are feeling criticized by our positive changes,” Malloy says. “I feel like it’s the opposite. Being so awesome is the reason we were able to do this.”

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Shootout at Club Early in the morning on Sunday, Jan. 20, police responded to a call from an off-duty sheriff’s deputy about shots fired at Club Platinum on Commerce Road. They found seven spent cartridges from two weapons and a trail of blood in the parking lot. A fight in the club had apparently spilled outside.

A Franklin Street man was treated for superficial wounds at Athens Regional Medical Center.

Bacon Thief Sentenced A woman who tried to steal bacon, cheese, chicken wings and vegetable oil from the Lexington Road Piggly Wiggly in May, then pepper-sprayed employees, was sentenced to five years in prison and five years of probation last week, the Athens Banner-Herald reported.

Lonneshia Shafaye Appling, 27, reached a plea agreement on charges of shoplifting, battery and obstruction related to the Piggly Wiggly incident and another one when she tried to steal six bottles of body wash from a drug store. The 340pound Appling was also arrested on shoplifting charges last January after she took off all her clothes at a Madison County grocery store and told employees she had AIDS, according to authorities.

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The three men kicked in the door.

One had a gun and demanded the resident’s cell phone. They also took a video game console. Two of the robbers left, and the two residents drove the third suspect to the corner of Broad Street and Milledge Avenue, where they dropped him off and called police.

The suspects are black males. One is about six feet tall and 190 pounds, had a scruffy beard and wore a gray toboggan and a green jacket.

Another is about six feet tall, skinny and wore a camouflage hat, a white sweatshirt and a red and black puffy vest. The other is about five-foot-six and wore a black and yellow cap.

Bad Samaritan A Norwood Circle woman’s car was towed as a result of a traffic stop Jan. 16. Her son was supposed to remove her property from the car, but she realized he hadn’t taken a bag containing $1,800. When she went to Chase Street to get the bag, it was missing.

Robberies • A custodian reported that two men were rummaging through offices at the YWCO on Research Drive at 2:40 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 15. Nothing was taken. Brandon Martin, 19, and a 16-year-old whose name was not released were arrested two days later and charged with that burglary, as well as an earlier one at Cedar Shoals High School..

• A-OK on College Avenue was burglarized between 9 a.m.

Jan. 13 and 8:15 a.m. Jan. 14. Food items valued at $1 were stolen.

• Video surveillance footage showed that between 3:54–4 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, a man unlocked The Volstead, a Clayton Street bar, went inside, used a hidden key to open the office and took $1,000 in cash, locking the door again on his way out.

• Video games were popular among thieves last week: They were stolen from residences on West Broad Street, Crows Nest Court, Riverbend Parkway, Boulder Trace, Highland Park Drive and on the eastside.

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1959 a revolution led by Fidel Castro overthrew not necessarily be allies, but they no longer are considered no less a totalitarian act than similar Cuban restraints on Cuba’s right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista. enemies. Twenty-five years after the Soviets withdrew their travel imposed on its citizens that the U.S. self-righteously Batista, the autocratic leader of Cuba from the military presence and economic subsidies, Cuba now seems the denounces. As the world overwhelmingly has voted annually 1930s and 40s, again had taken power in 1952 through a preleast likely of perceived foes in a radically different world. Yet at the United Nations for more than 20 years, the U.S. needs, emptive military coup during a losing bid to be democratically the U.S. government continues to act irrationally and stubfor its own sake, to rid itself of the failed embargo that has elected president. While dictator, he revoked most political bornly hostile toward its small, insular, close-by neighbor. become a shameful embarrassment to our nation in the eyes of liberties and aligned himself with United States interests that After surviving U.S.-initiated assassination attempts, a the world. It’s time for us to stop being Cuba’s bad neighbor. had been engaged in exploiting Cuba’s resources since the 60-year-long trade embargo and political isolation, Fidel, old Spanish American War ended in 1898. These interests included and ill, retired to his farm outside Havana in 2008. But his domination of Cuba’s commerce and agriculture by U.S. corpobrother Raul and the Cuban Communist Party still rule, havrations and the American mafia’s control of gambling, prostituing outlasted 11 U.S. administrations, including President tion and illicit drug dealing in Cuba’s capital, Havana. Under Barack Obama’s first term. This is not to say that the Cuban This is where three retired senior citizens—Ken, a former Batista, the rich and connected got richer, and the poor stayed people have fared so well. Communism’s economic model usuUGA professor; Bill, an Alabama district judge; and me, a secupoor or became poorer. rities lawyer reveling in no longer having to When Fidel took over, he steered Cuba toward toil as one—step into this story. Having wished a central-planning, socialist economic model, for years to experience Cuba’s famed fishing ultimately suspended most political liberties, (Ernest Hemingway wrote Old Man and the Sea eliminated private ownership of real estate, in Havana) and to SCUBA dive on Cuba’s almost nationalized Cuba’s businesses and agricultural virgin coral reefs, we found our hopes didn’t fit production, got rid of organized crime and shut into any of the restrictive itineraries of the few down gambling casinos, prostitution and drug cultural or religious groups allowed by the U.S. trafficking. Under Fidel’s communista regime, State Department to conduct visits to Cuba. the rich became dramatically poorer, and the Being too old and ornery to put up with such poor, while they mostly remained poor, were injustice, we decided to create our own itinergiven universal health care and nominal job ary, as unfettered tourists. After engaging the security. help of a Canadian travel agency, we found the The United States government, through 11 effort was not as hard as we thought it might different presidents, has been in a fit of pique be, and we had an adventure of a lifetime. over the actions of its small island neighbor Our journey begins in early December on a ever since.

Cubana Airlines flight from Cancun, Mexico to In 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower Havana’s Jose Marti Airport. After three colorful imposed restrictions on trade with Cuba, then and easy days in Havana, we conclude our visit, directed the Central Intelligence Agency to somewhat ironically, at a spartan but pleasant develop a secret plan to get rid of the Castro Soviet-era beach resort flying the American stars regime. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and stripes in our honor—on the Bay of Pigs. authorized the CIA to proceed with the plan to Since Cuba is deemed by the United States invade Cuba, using hastily trained Cuban exiles government to be an “enemy” requiring ecobent on Castro’s overthrow. This poorly executed The author with a Cuban friend. nomic sanctions under the Trading with the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern Enemy Act of 1917, no American airline is shore was easily thwarted by Fidel’s forces armed with advance ally assures everyone except the ruling bureaucracy will be allowed to provide regularly scheduled flights to our small knowledge of details of the invasion. relatively poor. However, it could be argued that the ordinary neighbor lying just off the tip of Florida.

Fidel then responded by cozying up more with a ready and citizenry of Cuba are much better off than under Batista.

From sheer economic necessity, if for no other reason, willing Soviet Union. In early 1962, Kennedy broadened the Cuba’s free universal health care grades better in several catCuba’s communist government has encouraged tourism for trade restrictions into a complete embargo (after having his egories than U.S. health care, according to the World Health more than a decade. Tourists from all corners of the globe staff acquire 1,200 of his favorite brand of Cuban cigars) and Organization. While not necessarily a tangible measure of except the United States enjoy Cuba. Americans who are not instituted a ban on travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens. Later that success, the Cuban people take pride in year, Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev faced their perseverance in the face of persisoff over atomic bomb-tipped missiles the Soviets installed in tent bullying by their giant neighbor 90 Cuba. Nuclear holocaust was avoided when Khrushchev agreed miles to the north. to remove the missiles. Kennedy secretly promised never to America’s failed Cuba embargo still invade Cuba and to remove U.S. nuclear-tipped missiles facing includes a general prohibition of travel the Soviet Union in Turkey. Kennedy was assassinated just over

by U.S. citizens to the island. Travel a year later. Although there was never any proof that Cuba or restrictions to Cuba have been loosened the Soviet Union had anything to do with Kennedy’s death, for or tightened over the years, dependyears afterward the CIA pursued multiple unsuccessful plots ing on political winds and whims. The to assassinate Fidel, even once resorting to a failed exploding Obama Administration recently looscigar scheme. ened the embargo policy by allowing In 1980, President Jimmy Carter lifted the travel ban.

Americans of Cuban decent to go to Cuba Within a year, 100,000 Cubans had fled to America with to visit relatives. But most Americans Castro’s blessings, Fidel having emptied Cuba’s jails and mental who want to go to Cuba remain asylums of some 20,000 persons, most of whom ended up in restricted to traveling with a State south Florida. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan re-imposed Department-licensed group for specified the travel ban and ordered a more severe U.S. trade embargo. cultural or religious purposes. Visiting During the 1990s, President Bill Clinton signed the HelmsCuba merely as a tourist is still deemed Burton Act, which codified the U.S. trade embargo and sought by our government to be a violation of to enforce it against other nations. Clinton wisely suspended the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917. portions of the Act that had succeeded only in pissing off most Cuba is the only nation against which of the rest of the world that traded with Cuba. In 2003 and this World War I vintage legislation is The trade embargo means most cars in Cuba are more than 50 years old.

2004, President George W. Bush, seemingly with an eye on now directed. Constraints under the act Electoral College politics—Republican-leaning Cuban expatriaimed at bellicose North Korea were ates had by then achieved a strong political voice in South lifted in 2008. But in 2011 Obama, perhaps with a view toward of Cuban descent with family in Cuba are not allowed—not by Florida)—rebuffed bipartisan initiatives in Congress to lift the Electoral College politics himself, issued an executive order Cuba, but by our own federal government—to visit Cuba as embargo and travel restrictions, thereby becoming the modern extending the Act’s application to Cuba for two more years. tourists. Presumably, independent travel to Cuba by Americans era’s most zealous enforcer of the embargo.

Cuba enjoys normal diplomatic and trade relations with just for the fun of it continues to be viewed by our politicians Today, the Cold War is mostly a fading memory. Old foes virtually every nation on Earth except the United States. But as a serious threat to their political security. such as China and Russia, and even hot war antagonist America can’t get over its inability to control Cuba’s destiny.

A friendly and responsive Canadian travel agency handled Vietnam, are important trading partners of the U.S. They may Our government keeping a travel leash on it own citizens is all the details. Our only responsibilities were to arrange our

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own travel from Athens to Cancun, Mexico, bring U.S. passports and incidental spending money (in Canadian currency or Euros; U.S. dollars are problematic), and sign up for Cuban government medical insurance. The U.S. embargo renders American credit cards, cell phones and insurance useless in Cuba.

Cubana Airlines has one daily roundtrip flight between Cancun and Havana. You miss that flight, and you might as well return home. So, we arrived at the Cancun International Airport, tickets and visas in hand, three hours before scheduled departure.

Our Canadian friends advised patience and tolerance in dealing with the Cuban entry process. “Cuban officials are not known for their easy manner. Expect rudeness,” we were warned. To our happy surprise, the opposite proves to be true. Even the persistent drug-sniffing dogs we encounter both before departure and after arrival are friendly enough to be adoption candidates. Discovering that our short flight to Havana would be on a modern Airbus 300 rather than on one of Cubana’s older Russian Iluyshins or Tupelevs gives our spirits a further boost.

We seem to be the only Americans among the 150 European, Canadian, Chinese and Latin American passengers on Cubana’s flight 153. After a smooth 45-minute flight, we wait in line to clear Cuban immigration, have our pictures taken (a requirement for all visitors to the island) and have our papers checked by an attractive, friendly female clerk who smiles and says “Welcome to Cuba” in perfect English.

Our 25-minute taxi ride brings us into Havana just as daylight gives way to a lush evening that introduces us to invigorating sounds of Cuba on a Friday night. Salsa music from automobile radios (ours quashed by Batista not long and others) inspires young before Fidel landed with his couples gathered in groups, revolutionaries. smiles reflecting thoughts conOn separate days we engage jured by the songs. Vehicles different drivers and their on the roadway confirm the well-kept 1950s convertibles lore of the travel books. 1950s to acquaint us with the city Chevys, Fords, Plymouths and beyond walking distance. We Buicks are everywhere, along visit Plaza de la Revolucion, with an eclectic assortment the huge memorial square of motorcycles, bicycles, small measuring several city blocks. autos imported from China and Fidel, before his retirement, a few heavy trucks left over held mass rallies at this site from the Soviets. As we enter holding thousands spellbound the narrow streets of “Old” with his revolutionary rhetoric.

Havana, handcrafted, threeWe find the plaza empty each wheel, human-powered “taxis” time we visit. Across from the without lights or reflectors plaza is the Ministry of Interior pedal passengers alongside building brandishing the iconic and in between the autos and silhouette of Che Guevara. trucks.

The condition and appearWe arrive at our hotel, the ance of the Havana waterfront Parque Central, located as its reminds one of South Beach name implies across from a in Miami in the 1970s, just memorial park in the center of before the then-rundown art Old Havana. The pre-revolution deco district was restored and Ken and Grady in front of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior building, hotel, recently renovated and transformed into luxury hotels, featuring the silhouette of Che Guevara. now managed by a Spanish nightclubs and expensive company, caters to foreign residencies. Havana’s historic tourists. The elegance and luxury of our accommodations waterfront buildings are now either vacant or occupied as amaze us. The hotel stands in stark contrast to the varying run-down tenements. The crumbling structures are poignant stages of genteel decay shown on most of the once beautiful reminders of some of the grandeur, as well as the stark ecostructures in this historic district. nomic disparities, from colonial and post-colonial, pre-revoluSince Castro opened Cuba to tourism in the 1990s, partially tion eras. to counter the economic shock resulting from the loss of subMarlene, our contact in Havana arranged by the travel sidies from the collapsed Soviet Union, the tourist industry has agency, meets us at our hotel to take us to an exceptional attracted many of Cuba’s best educated and talented. A bardinner at one of Havana’s private restaurants now allowed by tender earning generous tips in an upscale hotel for foreigners Raul Castro. A native Cuban, Marlene speaks fluent English and can often earn more than a medical doctor in Cuba’s national Russian. She earned her degree in Nuclear Physics at Moscow health service.

University just prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The For three easy days, we enjoy rooftop buffet breakfasts, withdrawal of aid to Cuba by the Soviets put an end to her walking the narrow streets and byways of Old Havana, drinking hopes of a career in developing nuclear power plants in Cuba.

Cristal beer and Cuba Libres, rum and real Coca-Cola (the kind An attractive, intelligent and gracious host, she is well suited made in Mexico with cane sugar) at places like the La Floridita, for the tourist industry. billed as Ernest Hemingway’s favorite Havana bar, enjoying the

By Tuesday, we are off to the Zapata Peninsula and our many local entrepreneurial personalities seeking to sell someresort at Playa Largo on the infamous Bay of Pigs. Our driver, thing, entertain or serve as guides. gregarious Conrado, born just before the revolution, fills the The Museum of the Revolution, just a few blocks from our three-hour trip with stories of his and Cuba’s life under the hotel, is housed in Batista’s old palace. To our surprise, except Castro regime. He is filled with hope for change now that Raul for a few elderly women selling handmade souvenirs, we are has taken the reins of government from his brother. “Fidel outthe only people wandering around the museum’s mostly empty lived his shelf life,” he says. halls. Faded photographs and newspaper accounts of the revoThe four-lane highway stretches for miles through sugar lution adorn the walls, along with real bullet holes left unrecane fields, small farms and forests. Small farmers are now paired after an attack on the palace during a student rebellion allowed to sell their produce and keep the money, Conrado tells

Havana, Cuba. us. This has resulted in increased food production and better morale for the farmers. He grew up in the countryside, and is among the “wajeeros” (pronounced “waheros”), as he calls the rural population. The name, now somewhat synonymous with “hillbilly,” comes from the Spanish-American War. Teddy Roosevelt, after his successful charge against the Spanish on San Juan Hill, gathered the Cuban peasants around to thank them for their help in defeating the Spanish. “You are all war heroes!” he declared. No one could speak English, but they thought, if the American says we are wajeeros, we must be.

So, according to Conrado, many rural Cubans to this day are referred to as wajeeros.

Stretches of the median of the highway are intermittently paved for a mile or so, but barriers have been placed on the paved portions of the median. Conrado tells us that Fidel paved the medians after the Bay of Pigs invasion, to allow Cuban Air Force planes easy landing and takeoffs when needed for defense of the countryside. Instead, the medians often were used by light aircraft flying in at night from south Florida to pick up relatives seeking to escape to the U.S. Barriers were placed to prevent further easy landings or takeoffs.

We turn right on a two-lane highway that cuts for 25 miles through the Zapata Peninsula. Zapata encompasses a huge protected wildlife area of rivers and swampland not unlike Florida’s everglades. The Bay of Pigs is a major feature of the Zapata shoreline. More romantic sounding in Spanish, the Bahia de Cochinos is known for its sandy beaches, beautiful coral reefs just offshore and excellent fishing—and for being the unlikely site of the failed invasion. Ken and I are there to scuba dive over the coral reefs and Bill, an expert at fly fishing, hopes to hook bonefish and tarpon.

After an educational stop at the Museum of the Bay of Pigs Invasion at Playa Giron, the beach village where most of the invaders were killed or captured before they could become a threat to Castro’s revolution, we check in at Playa Larga, just a few miles away. Each of us is heartily welcomed by the staff and assigned individual cottages, basic concrete block structures with minimal amenities built during the Soviet era. But there is air conditioning, plus palm trees and balmy breezes.

The resort has a pleasant restaurant, two bars and a lovely beach. We enjoy Cristal beers and sandwich cubanas while Conrado details our fishing and diving schedules for the next two days.

The following morning, on the way to breakfast we see, to our astonishment, the Stars and Stripes billowing alongside the Cuban national flag on flagpoles at the hotel entrance. “The American flag is raised in your honor for being guests of Playa Larga and of Cuba,” Conrado explains. We are indeed honored.

Our Cuban adventure is everything we had hoped it would be.

Grady Thrasher Thrasher is a writer living in Oconee County. Visit Flagpole.com to watch a video of his trip.

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art notes The Extraordinary and the Delightfully Mundane Dream Big: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wish,â&#x20AC;? the latest exhibit curated by Didi Dunphy at the Gallery@Hotel Indigo and on display through March, includes the works of nine Athens-based and UGA-schooled professional artists aspiring to add a bit of glitter and gold to an otherwise dreary winter landscape.

Seeking to portray â&#x20AC;&#x153;the delightfully mundane in a scale of massive proportions,â&#x20AC;? the macro oil paintings of Margaret Morrison show tantalizing close-ups of realistic gummy worms and old-fashioned candies in bold stripes of red, yellow, blue and green. Claire Joyceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Latching,â&#x20AC;? a dazzling image of baby bottles lined up on a windowsill created with glitter, similarly attempts to present a seemingly ordinary human experience as significant and gleaming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ruby Reds,â&#x20AC;? a large-scale photograph of a pair of worn out sparkly red shoes by Jason Thrasher, makes an obvious allusion to Dorothyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruby slippers in the Wizard of Oz. The inclusion of Thrasherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other two photographs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;40 Watt Lightsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Georgia Theatre Curtains,â&#x20AC;? reinforce how central aspiring musicians are to Athens culture, while the cartoon and basketball player oil paintings on portrait linens by Joshua Bienko may reference childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreams of becoming professional athletes.

The collection of jewelry designed by Mary Hallam Pearseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;three brooches, a ring and a necklace made from silver, precious gems and digital prints on aluminumâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are both visually striking and playful. Combining inspiration drawn from 18thâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;19th century â&#x20AC;&#x153;loverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyesâ&#x20AC;? and portrait jewelry with classic childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dexterity games, each piece resembles a daguerreotype with little impressions that free-moving pearls can be rolled into.

Jennifer Crenshawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Metallic Bloom,â&#x20AC;? a hand-woven cluster of geometric flowers resembling gold lace, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ice Cream Cone,â&#x20AC;? a photograph of a delicate hand-constructed paper wig

by Nikki Nye and Amy Flurry of the Paper Cut Project, both suggest the desire to step away from mass-production and return to hands-on methods of creating art. Thom Houserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Murano 37:7-8 Reawakeningâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Murano 37:1 Resurgence,â&#x20AC;? large, moderately digitized close-ups of colorful broken glass in a landfill near Murano Glassworks on the Venetian island of Murano, raise issues surrounding recycling and the yearning to preserve the planet.

Many of Citronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earliest urban realist works focused on the role of women in society, often in a satirical manner. Two lithographs from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;30sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beauty Culture?â&#x20AC;? a scene of women lounging around a salon called Scalpers getting perms and manicures, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Demonstration,â&#x20AC;? a depiction of middle-aged women hovering around a young department store saleswoman demonstrating a cosmeticâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;criticize the shallowness of vanity and the trivial pursuit of achieving modern ideals of feminine beauty.

A Life-long Feminist: New York-based painter and printmaker Minna Citron had a lengthy and distinguished career as a social realist-turned-abstractionist at the forefront of significant artistic movements including the Fourteenth Street School and the first generation of Abstract Expressionists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstractionâ&#x20AC;? is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art through Mar. 3.

Over time, Citronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy for humorously confronting frivolous norms in society was redirected into producing strong statements about social inequities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Need Women Age Limit 75,â&#x20AC;? for example, documents the hardship of elderly women seeking labor opportunities in a competitive and ageist job market. Aiming to record and promote women in path-breaking social roles, Citron created works such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the Well-

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Dressed Woman Wears to the Opera,â&#x20AC;? a 1943 charcoal drawing of two WWII-era women in Navy uniforms, which was part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;New York in Wartimeâ&#x20AC;? series that marked the end of her early career in social realism.

As social and cultural movements slowly progressed, Citronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style drastically evolved into abstraction, focusing on textured surfaces in printmaking, found-object assemblages and geometric compositions. Stressing the idea of â&#x20AC;&#x153;chanceâ&#x20AC;? as a philosophical element to her creative process, Citron incorporated randomly found materials like scraps of paper, paint can lids and yarn into her works to add three-dimensionality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Arraignee,â&#x20AC;? an intaglio print from 1963, began with a frayed piece of rope Citron found while walking near her home.

After running it through the press, the converging black lines against a magenta background suggested a long spider web, from which its title was derived.

Public Personas: I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but wonder how Minna Citron would feel viewing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sorority Girl Projectâ&#x20AC;? by post-MFA Photography Faculty Fellow Kelly Kristin Jones, currently on display at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art in Gallery 101 through Thursday, Feb. 7. The series of a dozen 30 X 40-inch color prints, a play on formal portraiture, presents straightforward images of nicely dressed UGA sorority girls within the neutral setting of their houses. Documenting Greek culture with the intent of either perpetuating or challenging its common stereotypes would have been an obvious, albeit interesting, approach for a community with such a strong Panhellenic presence. Instead, Jones explores something much more complicated through her body of work: the mythology of perfectionism and the façade of self-curation. Rather than capturing candid shots that may have revealed girls at moments of vulnerability or unexpected exhibitions of individuality, the subjects are considerably posed and rigid, aware that their presentation in front of the camera lens will be shared with the general public. The inclusion of a film loop of a girl applying makeup is a particularly important aspect of the exhibit, in that it stresses the effort undertaken to maintain the best appearance possible. While the exhibit does not answer the mysteries of who the girls are behind their Greek guises, it does suggest the unsettling lengths to which many of them go in order to safely guard their images and reputations.

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the reader The Minor Fall, The Major Lift Alan Light, former editor-in-chief of Spin and Vibe, tracks the history of the song in his new book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hallelujahâ&#x20AC;? (Simon & Schuster, 2012) and the result is fascinating. Beginning with a microscopic dissection of the songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elements, its juxtapositions between Old Testament imagery and modern sexuality, its shrewd dip into music theory (the lines â&#x20AC;&#x153;the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major liftâ&#x20AC;? are placed precisely on a fourth, a fifth, a minor fall and a major lift, respectively), its meditations on searching for the sacred in the profane and failing and its playfulness, a point often lost in consideration of the piece, Light then follows the song like one follows a paper boat from a gutter stream all the way to the vast ocean. He asks countless artists to give their take on the song and receives many answers.

And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the parallel story of how Jeff Buckley, long-lost son of the folk artist Tim Buckley, heard John Caleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cover of the song and developed an obsession with it, incorporating it nightly into his apprenticeship in Village clubs and building his reputation on his quietly powerful delivery and making the song his own. By the time it was included on the Grace album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hallelujahâ&#x20AC;? was mistaken by many for a Buckley composition, while for others it became an introduction to Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music and the start of a fandom that has since grown far beyond anything Cohen had achieved on his own.

Light goes on to note the songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appearance in the movie Shrek (Cale in the movie, Rufus Wainwright on the soundtrack album), its use as an anthem behind widely disseminated montage footage of the events of 9/11, and then its ubiquity in TV shows like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scrubs,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The West Wingâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;House,â&#x20AC;? among many others, and its now-regular place as a reliable show-stopping number for international artists and their would-bes on Simon Cowell talent shows. Whatever Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original intent for the song may have been, he created a malleable masterpiece, a Rosetta Stone of a song that fits so many different interpretations that it is no longer his but now belongs to everyone.

The notion of building an entire book around a single piece of music is hardly newâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Greil Marcus made a cottage industry out of itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but Lightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book is a poignant reminder of how a song, the right song, can evolve from a piece of disposable pop in a sea of musical flotsam into a genuine cultural artifact. Light demonstrates how a single piece of art can pass into the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possession. He shows us why this song in particular shuts people up at karaoke, because it shuts people up everywhere, in the best possible way.

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Three amazing things. First, in my 30-plus years of concert-going Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen a helluva lot of concerts by performers known for their live shows. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen U2, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, The Who, The Kinks, The Stones, Springsteenâ&#x20AC;Ś at this point, the only act that could get me into an arena would be a Beatles show with the original lineup and Jesus on keys. The best show Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been to, however, was Leonard Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gig at the Fox a couple of years ago. In terms of musicality, showmanship, beauty and sheer endurance (three hours without flagging), the then-75year-old Cohen and his band put on a show that was nothing less than transcendent.

Cohen has just announced new tour dates, and if he comes back this way, go. Find the money and just go.

The second amazing thing is about Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s near-ubiquitous anthem to love, sex and faith, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hallelujahâ&#x20AC;?: It will shut people up at karaoke. At Dr. Fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thursday night gig at Go Bar my wife will occasionally get up and do â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hallelujahâ&#x20AC;? and the usual incessant and often damnably rude audience chatter will cease, as if God pushed the â&#x20AC;&#x153;muteâ&#x20AC;? button on His Universal Remote, the moment the opening bars kick in.

And then people will sing along, often in harmony, softly and reverently at first and then building until the entire barâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hipsters and tourists, straights and freaksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a veritable â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hallelujahâ&#x20AC;? chorus.

The third amazing thing is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hallelujahâ&#x20AC;? has become such a pervasive song in the musical firmamentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; countless covers, performances on glory-notes competition TV shows the world over, and for 20 years the go-to song to accompany any filmic montage on the theme of â&#x20AC;&#x153;melancholyâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and yet it originally tracked on an album that was shelved by Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s label, Various Positions, recorded in 1984. The song has been used so often (incredibly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen it in a book of wedding songs) that even Cohen, who collects the royalty checks on it, has mused publicly that people should perhaps stop performing it, and yet its success was purely by accident and sheer dumb luck.

It is a fact that, despite Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undeniable power as a songwriter, the downbeat sensibility of his songs and his limited range as a singer kept him at a distance from the mainstream success enjoyed by peers like Bob Dylan. For a long time, Cohen was a cult figure for musical pilgrims willing to forge into the hinterlands. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a fact that while certain of Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Suzanne,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;So Long, Marianne,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who by Fire?â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;can only be done justice by Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark smokerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gravel, others have been covered by other artists and vastly improved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hallelujahâ&#x20AC;? is one of the latter sort and is far better known as a track on the late wunderkind Jeff Buckleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sole album Grace than as a Cohen composition.

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We'll Miss You, Craig

Athens Remembers Craig Lieske In

could continue playing. After the show, he could have easily chewed us out and banned our early-20s-naive-moronic asses from the club. Instead, I remember him coming straight up to me as soon as we finished playing and saying, “You guys are idiots,” with a huge smile. At the time, the gravity of how rad that moment was was lost on me. R.I.P. to a truly wonderful human.

DJ Hammond Lately I’ve been thinking of the idea that we’re all external hard drives for each other.

When one pathway is a bit hazy, call on a friend to set things clear. Craig Lieske was a fellow wanderer, wonderer, and a very reliable arbiter of Athenian pursuits, and of the wider world (which he traveled so you wouldn’t have to): someone I looked to as a measure of our progress, personally and communally… I played music with him in many configurations, from a big band to an intimate one-on-one.

We laughed about art and tried to laugh about

guitar, shredding, making a beautiful ruckus, laughing out loud. I am thankful to Sloan [Simpson] for recording so many of his shows and so much of his laughter… it’s all in there.

In the corners. Such magic stuff.

Heather McIntosh

think of him as the angel in the movie It’s A Wonderful Life. That’s how I remember him, and I miss him badly. I loved Craig and hope to see him again someday. Thank God for Craig Lieske.

Chip Shirley

There is a hole in Athens’ heart that could only be filled by Craig. That “throw his back” laugh will forever make me smile, and his genuine presence will never be forgotten. Here’s to you, Craig. We love you.

Chance Bracewell

A few years ago, I was smack in the middle of a very long tour, and was feeling very homesick on a day off in Boise. I rounded a corner on a stroll downtown, and very nearly ran smack into one Mr. Craig Lieske. (DBT had a day off, too.) Anyway, I can count the times that I’ve ever been that glad to see someone.

It was as if the spirit of Athens appeared to me when I needed it most. I’ll miss you so much, buddy. Hope to run into you unexpectedly again someday.

Dottie Alexander

I always appreciated his blunt honesty, hilarious wit and love for a very wide range of music. I could mention some Brahms thing and he would be aware of it, or that I thought I might have detected a tape edit somewhere on Monk’s Brilliant Corners album, and his eyes would light up suddenly as he would respond: “Really? You think that’s edited?” Bereft of cynicism, full of curiosity. I also enjoyed

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the few days since Craig Lieske passed, reportedly from an aneuryism, on Friday, Jan. 19, some of the most telling things said have been from those who knew him the least. Nearly invariably, these oral tributes have been along the lines of “I didn’t know him that well, but I was always impressed by his knowledge/generosity/ friendliness.” The point of mentioning this, of course, is that if our Craig was so unassumingly able to touch those who barely knew him, how much more was his presence felt among those who were closest to him?

I first met Craig in the mid-1990s. He’d moved to Athens in 1984 and graduated from Clarke Central High School. Our first conversations were about—what else?—Athens music history. A couple of years later he founded Garbage Island, and that’s when I really got to know him. (Hell, the band rehearsed in my living room.) I never got to perform with him, though, until we were serendipitously paired up to perform at one of the 40 Watt’s “Face/Off” events in September of 2008. By this time, Craig had known heavy, life-altering loss, and had battled his own demons for a long while. But he was about to enter one of his brightest periods.

By all accounts, Craig was at his best the past few years.

His road gig with the Drive-By Truckers was a way for him to work to the best of his ability in an area where he could truly excel, and also to be with close friends every day. He was in a wonderfully loving relationship with his girlfriend, Melinda Cook, and those of us who had known him for a long time had never seen him happier or more content. He was, it seemed, at peace.

There is no set of words that can sum up Craig’s life. No list of achievements to neatly tie up loose ends; no list of friends by which to measure his worth. We each have our own story that we wrote with him, and as we pay tribute this week, let’s listen to each other. Let’s hear each other’s tales, laugh and cry and hug and, above all, listen.

Let’s remember how significantly a person can be touched by even the tiniest of our kindnesses. And then, let’s be kind. Let’s all be more like Craig.

Gordon Lamb I specifically remember one of our first shows at the 40 Watt, where the France had the bright idea of erecting a curtain to hang in front of the stage to hide us from the crowd. We made this gigantic monstrosity out of PVC pipe and bedsheets, and it could not have been more annoying. To add to the obnoxious factor, we didn’t tell the club or sound guys we were doing it until 10 minutes before we went on. Without protest, Craig helped us put it up. Then, as this thing came crashing down in the middle of the first song, taking out microphones and completely covering everything, Craig came running out on stage and pulled it apart around us so we

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politics. Craig endured the painful death of his wife Janet. He found love anew with Melinda; our hearts break for her. He invited me to take a load off at Avid, any time. “Seriously,” he said, “come over during your break. We’ll discuss things.” I did, but not often enough. I love you, Craig.

Killick Hinds Craig Lieske was, and is, an awesome dude. We haunted the same bars for years, and it was an honor to get to know him. He had a toughness and tolerance for the long hours and late nights of that scene that I could never, ever match, and he always had a kind word for me. I feel like the west end of Washington Street might up and blow away without him there to hold it down.

Andy Rusk When I found out, I immediately wanted to listen to him play. Thinking about him rocking around in his chair, hovering over his

watching him shred at the Georgia Theatre on his guitar in a duet with an equally fine drummer whose name unfortunately escapes me. I always think of him when I hear tracks from Interstellar Space because of that, and I sincerely hope he is out there in Heaven right now, grooving on Saturn, Jupiter, Joy and Peace.

Brent Cash When I was still ‘on the scene’ in Athens, I was lucky enough to have many wonderful chance encounters and conversations with Craig. It always seemed to me that his goal in our talks was to encourage me and make me feel good about myself. He always focused our talks on me and not himself, even when I really had nothing much to say and he was the one who had the truly interesting life, with all of his musical projects, etc. At the end of the evening, when I went home and laid my head on the pillow, it was his kind words and infectious smile that I would remember. I came to

Craig and I graduated from Clarke Central together, and it was many years later at Flicker that we recognized each other. He always spoke to me, asking me how I was—genuinely friendly. A few weeks ago, we stood outside Low Yo Yo and I shared some sad news about my life. He was very empathetic, and told me about a similar loss he’d experienced.

That moment has stayed with me since. A hardworking, kind man who took time to be truly present with whomever he was talking to.

Peace to your family, Craig.

Amy West When I moved to Athens in the mid-’90s, Craig Lieske was one of the first people I played music with. I was bowled over by his intuitive musicianship, unique guitar sound and the effortlessness of his improvisational playing. His approach to guitar was much like his personality: humble but self-assured, self-contained but welcoming to collaboration, grounded but capable of soaring to great heights… When I came back to town in 2007, I was happy to see him standing on that familiar patch of concrete between Flicker and the 40 Watt—it was as if our conversation had never paused.

Craig was always enthusiastic about his projects… He spoke of each new project with the same infectious energy and creativity.

Notably, he always followed up by asking what was new or on the horizon with me, and that same enthusiasm and sense of support was there as I spoke. I’ll miss so much about him: his humor and dry wit, his playing and his generous spirit. I am truly grateful and privileged to have had a friend and musical collaborator like Craig for this all-too-brief time.

John Barner Wasn’t the manager of the big rock club supposed to be a jerk? Wasn’t the local John Zorn freak supposed to be a snob? Wasn’t the improv maestro supposed to be alienating?

Craig Lieske drove, like a bull, in direct opposition to all of these stereotypes. As manager of the 40 Watt for many years, he lorded over his minions as a benevolent dictator, quick

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with a rib-jabbing joke and even quicker with an explosive cackle. If he saw one of his employees in a standoff, he was immediately standing shoulder-to-shoulder in support of whoever was wearing the 40 Watt t-shirt: I have literally seen this so many times. His obsessions with music and literature drove him to bring more people into his circle with endless recommendationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a big and important deal for the countless J.V. weirdos who entered his sphere of influence. His musical taste ran towards the wild, but his work actually had a generosity of sonic spirit; even when it was abrasive, it was absorbing. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because Craig Lieske was, at his core, a kind and bighearted man. He was an outsized dude and a beautiful person. Thank you, Craig, for teaching us to defy expectations.

Jeff Tobias The first time I met Craig, he threw me out of the 40 Watt Club during a DBT soundcheck for taking a few too many pictures. We have been best friends ever since. Gonna miss you, brother.

Michael Doherty Craig stopped by one day. He brought several boxes of cassettes. He was trying to reduce the stockpile he had collected, and I was a beneficiary. I was honored heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think of me. Listening to those cassettes was pretty much like having a conversation with Craig: a Pogues album, followed by Marc Ribot and then side one of a Bulgarian folk album. My son Jay and I would laugh at the combinations. But the music was great. We used to listen to Miles, Coltrane, Frisell. I loaned him

an Adrian Legg CD. He brought it back, pissed.

He said it discouraged him from learning to play guitar. I had never seen him pissed. I promptly traded the CD. If Lieske rejected it, it had to be evil.

I took Jay to his first show in a bar to see Craig play with one of his side projects. Jay was 15 years old, and after the show he had a new hero. The freedom and honesty of the performance really drew him to Craig. Craig was always wonderful with Jay. Alwaysâ&#x20AC;Ś Craig and I were also baseball fans. We hated the DH and the American League. We played Strat-OMatic together a few times (I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe he stayed still long enough for a complete game.) We plotted to start a baseball band, and agreed to name it Slugnutty. I wrote all kinds of lyrics, but it never made it off the ground. (He was uncomfortable with the whole verse/chorus thing.) I accepted that in Craig.

It would not have been Craig [otherwise].

When I went through my Christian phase, I sat down to have coffee with Craig and to evangelize him. He summed things up pretty good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flanery, are you telling me Coltrane wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spiritual?â&#x20AC;? I had to swallow my selfrighteousness. He put life in a proper frame for me. This transition heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s making also puts life in that proper frame. I truly believe heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the next dimensionâ&#x20AC;Ś I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll miss him, because its like heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the music.

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

• indicates new review ARGO (R) Ben Affleck’s career revival continues with his best directing effort yet, despite his snub by the Academy.

Revealing the once classified story of how the CIA rescued six American hostages in the midst of the Iranian Revolution, Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Argo is both an intriguing modern history lesson, a compelling, old-fashioned Hollywood thriller and a strong contender for Best Picture. (Ciné) • BROKEN CITY (R) Is anyone else feeling like if you’ve seen one politicalcrime thriller, you’ve seen them all?

(Anybody else remember 1996’s City Hall?) Diehard fans of Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe or Catherine Zeta-Jones (I guess there’s at least one person who has to watch everything she appears in) will be pleasantly met with a routine political thriller about ex-cop-turnedprivate eye, Billy Taggart (Wahlberg), discovering a deeper, darker scandal (but not too deep or too dark) after being hired by Mayor Nick Hostetler (Crowe) to find out with whom his wife (CZJ) is sleeping. The cast, which includes Barry Pepper and Kyle Chandler, makes the dramatic machinations of Allen Hughes’ first directorial effort sans brother Albert seem a lot more interesting, but so many better films are in theaters right now. Why waste time on an average flick you’ve essentially seen several times before?

CASTLE IN THE SKY (PG) 1986.

The Studio Ghibli Film Series returns, bringing four fresh classics from legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki to the big screen (on fresh 35mm prints!). In Miyazaki’s third feature (and the first to be produced and released by Studio Ghibli), Castle in the Sky, a young boy and girl seek a floating castle while trying to escape air-pirates. The 2003 Disney re-release features the voices of Anna Paquin, James Van Der Beek, Cloris Leachman, Mark Hamill, Mandy Patinkin and Andy Dick! (Ciné) DJANGO UNCHAINED (R) Not many auteurs can take an academic cinematic exercise and turn it into one of the year’s most entertaining spectacles like Quentin Tarantino can. Slave Django (Jamie Foxx) is freed by dentistturned-bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Golden Globe nominee Christoph Waltz, the single greatest gift QT has given American movie audiences).

Together the duo hunts bad guys and seeks Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry

Washington), who belongs to plantation owner Calvin Candie (Golden Globe nominee Leonardo DiCaprio).

For a critically acclaimed award nominee, Django Unchained is an ultraviolent blast.

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.

GANGSTER SQUAD (R) For anybody lamenting about a lack of Dick Tracy meets The Untouchables period mob flicks, Gangster Squad will fill that rather peculiar hole in your life. Former boxer turned mob kingpin Mickey Cohen (an almost out-of-control Sean Penn, who’s under so much makeup he resembles a Dick Tracy villain) is trying to take control of Los Angeles.

Police Chief Parker (Nick Nolte) enlists several officers, led by Sergeant John O’Mara (Josh Brolin), to fight fire with criminal fire. Based on a true story, Gangster Squad feels as if it were ripped from the pages of a pulpy crime magazine like True Detective.

THE GUILT TRIP (PG-13) Certainly not as laughless as its trailers suggest, The Guilt Trip mines some genuine 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.

HANSEL AND GRETEL WITCH HUNTERS (PG-13) After surviving their childhood encounter with a witch, grown up Hansel and Gretel (Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner and Bond Girl Gemma Arterton) now hunt witches internationally. With the Blood Moon on the rise, a new evil threatens that also could hold the key to the siblings’ secretive past.

HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA (NR) Legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog codirected his latest nature documentary with Dmitry

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Vasyukov. In Bakhtia, the heart of the Siberian Taiga, live approximately 300 villagers conducting their lives nearly exactly the same way their ancestors did 100 years ago.

A HAUNTED HOUSE (R) Marlon Wayans can be a pretty funny guy, and we already know from Requiem for a Dream that he can act when he’s trying. Found footage spoof, A Haunted House, occasionally works, mostly because Wayans acts like a normal, albeit egregiously silly guy. Wayans’ Malcolm invites his girlfriend, Kisha (Essence Atkins), to move in with him.

Unfortunately, Kisha brings a ghostly presence with her, eventually becoming possessed.

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 MMA to fund the extracurriculars at his struggling school. The supporting cast includes Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler and real life MMA fighter Bas Rutten.

JACK REACHER (PG-13) The episodic exploits of Lee Child’s popular literary character, a former Military Policeman turned drifter, would make a better television series than movie franchise, but star Tom Cruise and writerdirector Christopher McQuarrie (an Academy Award winner for his Usual Suspects script) pull off the big-screen feat as entertainingly as possible.

JOHN DIES AT THE END (R) Genre fan favorite filmmaker Don Coscarelli (the Phantasm franchise, The Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-Tep) adapts Cracked writer David Wong’s Internet sensation-turned-bestseller. Two slackers, David (Chase Williamson) and John (Rob Mayes), do battle with forces from another dimension, thanks to a strange new street drug.

KNIFE FIGHT (NR) Rob Lowe stars as a political strategist considering taking the high road while taking care of his three clients. “West Wing” fans will be excited about Lowe’s reunion with Richard Schiff. The rest of the cast cast (including “Once Upon a Time”’s Jennifer Morrison, Jamie Chung,

Yeah? Well, you’re all cattle and no hat.

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG-13) How comforting it is to return to Middle-earth, especially with Peter Jackson (he replaced original director Guillermo del Toro, who retained a co-writing credit with Lord of the Rings Oscar winners Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens).

Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is asked by the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellan) to join a company of Dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage). Jackson and his writing cohort have expanded Tolkien’s single novel into three films by adding sequences from the series’ appendices, a decision that allows this first film to be paced a bit logily in getting the company on the road.

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. (The lesson that monsters aren’t dangerous is a terrible, hazardous message to teach children.)

THE IMPOSSIBLE (PG-13) Juan Antonio Bayona, director of the fantastic Spanish horror film, The Orphanage, returns with this re-telling of the story of a vacationing British family caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor play the parents of three sons who are separated from each other in the chaotic aftermath of the water surge.

“Modern Family”’s Julie Bowen, CarrieAnne Moss, Saffron Burrows, Amanda Crew, Eric “Will” McCormack and Garbage’s Shirley Manson) is good, if a bit television heavy.

• THE LAST STAND (R) Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to the big screen as an action lead isn’t among the charismatic muscle man’s top flicks, but this High Noon on steroids is more amusing than most modern action movies. Arnold stars as Sheriff Ray Owens, whose small town stands between a fugitive drug lord and Mexico. Standing with the sheriff are his inexperienced staff of oddballs— the trusty deputy (Luis Guzman, who is always good to lighten the mood), the young female office (Jaimie Alexander), a bad boy trying to make good (Rodrigo Santoro) and the local gun “collector” (Johnny Knoxville).

LES MISERABLES (PG-13) Golden Globe winner for best musical, Les Miserables harks back to the 1960s, when colossal musical adaptations were the rule, not the exception. (Four of the decade’s 10 Best Picture winners were musical adaptations.) Parolee Jean Valjean (Golden Globe winner Hugh Jackman) attempts to make up for his past crimes by raising Cosette (Amanda Seyfried), the daughter of a fallen young woman named Fantine (Golden Globe winner Anne Hathaway).

Constantly on Valjean’s heels is Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe), who will not give up the chase for this parole violator.

LIFE OF PI (PG) The imaginatively conceived and beautifully told work of art created by Brokeback Mountain Oscar winner Ang Lee, who certainly deserves the noms he received for Best Picture and Best Director, reminded me of the many, small joys that add up to make the life of Pi. (Ciné) 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 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 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.

• MAMA (PG-13) As much of a horror movie fan as yours truly is, the ghostly stories often favored by Spanish filmmakers are not my subgenre of choice.

In Mama, produced by Guillermo del Toro and based on a short expanded by writer-director Andrés Muschietti, two young girls are found in a cabin, where they have lived alone for five years.

Unfortunately, when Annabel and Lucas (Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain and Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) get Victoria and Lily home, they discover the two girls were not alone in the woods, and they’ve brought their rather angry “Mama” with them. The buildup is slow and foreboding, but the final act asks far too much of its CGI creature, whose overly digital appearance elicits more giggles than screams.

When coupled with Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Mama sucks a bit more wind out of del Toro’s producing sails; so long as summer’s Pacific Rim doesn’t dim his writing-directing luster, everything should be okay.

MAMA AFRICA (NR) 2011. Mika Kaurismäki directs this documentary about the life of Miriam Makeba, a Grammy-winning African singer and civil rights activist who was the first artist to bring African music into American popular music. She toured with Paul Simon on his “Graceland Tour,” performed with many other American musicians and around the world.

MOVIE 43 (R) Who isn’t in this proudly raunchy comedy? Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Chloe Grace Moretz, Elizabeth Banks (who also directs), Gerard Butler, Kristen Bell, Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Kate Winslet, Josh Duhamel, Halle Berry, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Seann William Scott, Jason Sudeikis, Liev Schreiber, Terrence Howard, Johnny Knoxville and many more star in this interconnected series of short films helmed by twelve directors including the good, James Gunn, and the eh, Brett Ratner.

MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (NR) 1939. Jimmy Stewart stars as the titular Mr. Smith, Jeff, a naïve young scoutmaster overmatched by the veteran senators (like Claude Rains’ Joseph Paine) and corrupt political bosses (like Edward Arnold’s Jim Taylor), when he is appointed to fill the seat of a recently deceased congressman. Fortunately,

Jeff has the help of pretty young assistant, Clarissa Saunders (Jean Arthur).

(UGA Tate Theatre) PARENTAL GUIDANCE (PG) Billy Crystal and Bette Midler star as oldschool 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. l PARKER (R) Taylor Hackford (Ray) directs Jason Statham in a sort of modern day Robin Hood crime thriller—he steals but never from anyone who needs the money—that also features Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis and Nick Nolte. I like the stonily charismatic Brit enough to retain a vague interest, but JLo’s presence bodes ill.

I figure the filmmakers have the hope this movie, based on the books by Donald E. Westlake (written under the pseudonym Richard Stark), is the start of a new Statham franchise.

PHANTOM OF THE MALL: ERIC’S REVENGE (R) 1989. Few images from my days of skulking the video store aisles, studying VHS covers of horror movie classics like The Dead Pit and Frankenhooker, stands out like the melted face framed by a mall backdrop that signified Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge. Thanks to Bad Movie Night, this burned-in memory of my adolescence returns as a shopping center is terrorized by a badly burned teenager. With Pauly Shore, Morgan Fairchild and horror icon Ken Foree.

(Ciné) PITCH PERFECT (PG-13) Infectious is the best word to describe this a cappella college comedy Pitch Perfect.

It’s understandable that many, many people, especially males, are going to see the “Glee”-ful previews or read the synopsis and instantly decide, “I’m out.” That rush to judgment will deprive them of a decidedly anti-“Glee” experience. (UGA Tate Theatre) RACE 2 (NR) The fourth highest grossing Bollywood hit of 2008 (it has a total lifetime worldwide gross of 106 crore!) gets its inevitable (I guess) sequel. Ranvir Singh (Saif Ali Khan) must traverse the Turkish Indian mafia in his quest to avenge the death of his partner-lover Sonia (Bipasha Basu).

The poster for this foreign action crime thriller has a Fast and Furious look to match its plot description. Original directors Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla and Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla return.

RED DAWN (PG-13) This preposterous movie borne of the Cold War fears and tensions of the 1980s need not have been remade. This new Dawn simply lacks the indelible, if absurd, moments from the original, making it hard to imagine future audiences marveling at the new cast as we do the original’s “once was-ers” nearly 30 years later. Red Dawn Redux fails to rouse feelings of patriotism or jingoism and will not be remembered come 2014.

THE ROOM (R) 2003. Tommy Wiseau returns once again as the unpredictable, inexplicable Johnny in this cult classic. Part of Bad Movie Night. (Ciné) • SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (R) Athens has been waiting for the arrival of David O. Russell’s multiple Academy Award nominee, and the dram-romcom does everything but disappoint.

Pat (Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper) has just been released from a state mental hospital after a violent incident involving his estranged wife and another man. Maybe too soon after coming home, Pat meets Tiffany (Academy Award nominee and Golden

Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence), who lost it after the death of her husband.

Instead of exacerbating each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unhealthy flaws, the relationship between these two cracked souls heals both, much to the surprise of everyone, including Patâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents (dual Oscar nominees Robert De Niro and Animal Kingdomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jacki Weaver). Besides I Heart Huckabees (which deserves reevaluation) and Russellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infamous tirade, The Fighter, the filmmaker has one of the strongest filmographies of any of the acclaimed auteurs first discovered in the 1990s. Silver Linings Playbook has an awkward edgeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you keep waiting for Pat and Tiffanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house of cards to collapseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that makes even the smallest successes so much sweeter.

TAKEN 2 (PG-13) Most movies fail to encapsulate the description â&#x20AC;&#x153;unnecessary sequelâ&#x20AC;? 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.

TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D (R) Leatherface returns! A young woman (the gorgeous Alexandra Daddario) heads to Texas for her inheritance and runs into the dangerous Sawyer clan and its chainsaw-wielding, skin-wearing man-child. Original Leatherface Gunnar Hansen and The Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rejectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bill Moseley, who played Chop-Top in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, make return appearances as Sawyers.

THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (NR) 1954. In this classic Best Picture nominee (and winner of two Academy Awards), three American secretaries (Dorothy Maguire, Jean Peters and

Maggie McNamara) make wishes for love after tossing coins into Trevi fountain. The cast includes Clifton Webb, Louis Jourdan and Rossano Brazzi.

The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most lasting contribution has been the Academy Award winning song, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three Coins in a Fountain.â&#x20AC;? The film is showing as part of the Georgia Museum of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Americans in Italy Film Series. (Georgia Museum of Art) ZERO DARK THIRTY (R) Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow follows up The Hurt Locker with this controversial, excellently crafted military thriller documenting the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. Despite everyone (I hope) in the audience knowing how the story ends, Bigelow ratchets up the tension, as near misses and further attacks make the search, conducted by the ferociously single-minded screen proxy Maya (Jessica Chastain), that much more desperate.

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movie pick Best Bad Plans ARGO (R) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1979, and the Iranian Revolution is in full swing. Six Americans are hiding in the Canadian embassy, and CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) devises a way to free them: pose as a movie big shot, get into Iran and smuggle out his â&#x20AC;&#x153;crew.â&#x20AC;? Based on a true story.

it, at least as a director. As an actor, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been a bit of a drip, and really doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t improve much here. He, thankfully, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything wrong, either. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a blank slate.

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John Goodman, Alan Arkin and Ben Affleck Although Argo was released last October, recently it has been generating major awards buzz, especially after winning the Best Motion Picture Drama prize last week at the Golden Globes. Is it the best movie of the year? No. It is, however, one of the most entertaining, well-acted and suspenseful American political thrillers in some years. Big Hollywood commercial movies like Argo donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get made much anymore. Back in the 1970s, though, intelligent thrillers with great suspenseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like Dog Day Afternoon and All the Presidents Men, etc.)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;were easy to find. Blame George Lucas for ruining the party.

Director/star Affleck immediately pays homage to that earlier era by using Saul Bassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; memorable red, white and black Warner Bros. logo from the 1970s. Most people in the audience wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice it, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a secret handshake cluing us in that the filmmakers get it. For the most part, Affleck does get

small moment to shine, particularly Alan Arkin as Hollywood movie producer Lester Siegel, Bryan Cranston as Affleckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CIA supervisor Jack Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell and John Goodman as legendary special effects makeup artist John Chambers.

Scoot McNairy, who was one of the highlights in the recent crime movie Killing Them Softly playing a thief, likewise stands out here as one of the Americans in Tehran.

Slick, efficient and energetic, Argo is a reminder that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a bunch of CGI robots mindlessly stomping each other for two-and-a-half hours or angry men with guns pointing them at other angry men with guns to keep audiences riveted. All you need is a slow-moving line at the airport, a man with a fake passport, a suspicious guard and a ringing telephone. Your heartbeat will be racing in no time.

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David Lowery on 30 Years of Camper Van Beethoven Well, there are good guys and there are bad guys And there are crooks and criminals There are doctors and there are lawyers And there are folks like you and me So, let’s get high while the radio’s on Just relax and sing a song Drive your car up on the lawn Let me play your guitar —Camper Van Beethoven, “Good Guys and Bad Guys”

To

see the whole picture, we have to travel back in time, and many miles away. California’s Inland Empire in the early ‘80s was a hardcore haven—not the sort of place you’d expect a bunch of cagey, cultish pop-rockers to flourish. Camper Van Beethoven is often cited as stylistic forbear of what would come to be known as “indie” or “college rock,” but the terminology is less significant than the attitude.

“It [was] sort of a joke, but sort of not,” says the band’s frontman, David Lowery, perched in front of a computer in the den of the historic Cobbham house he shares with his wife and manager Velena Vego. “Camper Van Beethoven was a very odd band to be in in 1983.”

In person, Lowery exudes a certain jaded awareness, the same brash and cloudy self-satisfaction that is at the heart of his music. His wordy lyricism has often bordered on the banal (see the beloved “Take the Skinheads Bowling”) but has also always seemed weirdly sagittate, aimed at some partially obscured (internal?) target.

“Even at their most lysergic… they were always pretty studently,” wrote Jon Dolan in a 2003 Chicago Reader article.

“When indie rock rolled around, we’d call it ‘snarky,’ but Lowery’s mean spirit seemed to come from a real sense of disappointment; he could poke fun at hippies and punks and

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pseudointellectuals all he wanted, but he was staring in a mirror.”

The band’s quirky, literate rock bore signs of ska and world music but was grounded in a decidedly Californian jangle— think a marginally more polished Pavement, years before that group cheekily debated the merits of having “Two States”—and Camper, in the mid-’80s, churned out ultra-weird, insta-classic records at a steady clip. Consider Telephone Free Landslide Victory, a scrappy pop album that appeared amidst a sea of blistering West Coast punk and whose first song was called “The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon.”

The just-released La Costa Perdida, Camper’s eighth official studio album (its first since 2004), is perhaps the most straight-up record the band has ever made, a 10-track mixture of earnest, melodic love songs (“Come Down the Coast”) and classic CVB cheek (“Peaches in the Summertime”). It is a fine addition to an enviable discography, and Lowery is quick to compliment his cohorts.

“Those guys are really good, quick, fast players,” he says of his bandmates. “What they have up here [pointing to his head], getting it into their hands, that’s the good thing about Jonathan [Segel], Victor [Krummenacher] and Greg [Lisher].”

La Costa Perdida sounds, too, like a band revitalized by the realization of its own influence. Vego recalls that, prior to returning to the stage in 2002 after a decade of inactivity, Lowery fretted that perhaps Camper had been abandoned to time. A string of sold-out shows—and the support of modern indie masters like Modest Mouse—proved otherwise.

The approval of Lowery’s fellow artists clearly means something to him. He is enthused about the new album, but he’s equally jazzed to discuss the highlight reel. Throughout our conversation, tales of early successes—opening for Minutemen, for Dead Kennedys, for R.E.M.—abound, as do memories of networking in a pre-Internet age.

“One of them, I don’t remember who, wrote a review for Maximumrocknroll, basically making it cool for the punk rock kids to like us,” he recalls. “These are the small things—you’re like, wow, if we hadn’t had that, I don’t know if we would’ve gotten our chance.”

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owery recalls the first comment that appeared under “Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered,” the most-viewed post by far on his Trichordist blog.

“We’re gonna turn you into Lars Ulrich,” the comment read, a reference to the Metallica drummer who took on thenfilesharing giant Napster and quickly became Internet enemy number one.

ICYMI: Last June, White, a young NPR music intern, wrote a blog post about having no connection to physical music and innocently proposed a “universal database,” where “everyone would have convenient access to everything that has ever been recorded.”

Lowery’s unsolicited response was a passionate, pedantic indictment of the system (“the new boss,” as he likes to call it), that murky, quasi-legal miasma of online streaming and sharing that has led to a dramatic decrease in artists’ revenues.

His letter lamented the “fundamental shift in principals [sic] and morality… about who gets to control and exploit the work of an artist.” Controversially, Lowery linked the new boss in no uncertain terms to the recent suicides of two longtime— and debt-burdened—musician friends, Mark Linkous and Vic Chesnutt.

The response was swift, a barrage of online attacks from tech folks and free culture adherents—”Freehadists,” as Lowery not-so-subtly calls them—who took issue with his comments and aimed, not so subtly, to take him down.

Many painted a picture of Lowery as a bitter, vengeful failure. “Why don’t you face it. Most people don’t want to hear

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your music,” replied a particularly animated Bob Lefsetz, the industry contrarian who has made a career out of, well, ranting on the Internet.

One of the most widely shared responses came from DigSin CEO Jay Frank, who concocted a post titled “Is Stealing Music Really the Problem?” that cited Google figures purporting to show “less than 50 people per month in the entire world are even showing intent to steal [Lowery’s] music.” The problem, Frank argued, was not piracy but indie “neophytes” like Lowery, who resist change while major labels adapt and benefit.

Lowery, an early proponent of new technology and filesharing who has long offered up free audio recordings of Camper concerts online, laughs that last charge off and explains that what he is against is a furtive and widespread sort of corporate profit that occurs without artist compensation.

“There’s this nihilistic version of freedom that these companies are peddling, and it supports a commercial entity,” he says. “And you have a lot of people who are basically paid to argue those points by these commercial institutions.”

It was Frank’s statistics that bugged Lowery. In a claim that he acknowledges smacks of “far-fetched, tinfoil hat stuff,” he says the tech CEO’s dismissive response was engineered by Silicon Valley itself. So convinced was he of this, in fact, that he called Frank to verify his hunch.

“I called him and asked him how he got his facts, and he was obviously taken aback… And he goes, ‘Are you sure?’ And I go, ‘Yeah, this doesn’t work, that’s not really right.’ And he says, ‘But I talked to Google that day, and they showed me how to do it.’”

Lowery smiles incredulously. “Why the fuck is Google, a company that made $34 billion in profit last year, worried about a fucking indie rocker like me?” he asks, before adding, righteously, “That’s kind of cool, man.”

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hree decades in music is a long damn time. Let’s take a moment to really dig the fact that Camper Van Beethoven, a 30-year-old band of 50-year-old weirdos, is still going strong. Here, smack-dab in the middle of the future, where fanzines have been replaced by blogs at a thousand-to-one ratio and a fair to good amount of human discourse takes place in the form of animated .gifs, is a band led

by David Lowery. The Cold War is over, but he is still singing and playing guitar, still negotiating, in his own way, the world of good guys and bad guys, of crooks and criminals.

People still get high, but the “radio” of the classic Camper tune quoted above has given way to Spotify, while Lowery’s faux-hippie sentiment has shifted, given way to a serious war waged on an emerging culture that would seek to discredit art by quite literally devaluing it.

Paradoxically, the backlash to Lowery’s blog screed not only engendered an important conversation, but also established its author as one of that conversation’s most influential voices: a simple Google search for “David Lowery” reveals pages and (presumably undoctored, but you never know) pages of passionate debates on piracy, filesharing and the new frontier of music.

Likewise, Vego recounts the phone calls that have arrived in Cobbham from artists with godly names like Waits and Burnett—supporters, even if they remain mostly in the shadows, afraid, perhaps, of being Ulrich’ed.

“I don’t think people realized, when David wrote that letter, it wasn’t against [Emily White] per se, it was just kind of a door to be able to express this,” says Vego. “But, as David pointed out in his letter to her, he was very close to Mark Linkous. He [was] very close to Vic Chesnutt.”

“They’re right there,” Lowery says, gesturing toward a picture window that frames a lush Georgia yard. Across the way sits a house—Chesnutt’s house.

“That was the thing,” Vego continues. “We’ve made our money. Cracker [because of the band’s hit song “Low”]—we get paid. But a lot of our peers do not. And we’re seeing it still, to this day.”

Paid or not, the sudden weight of the creative world—and the impact of the Internet’s ire—is enough to wear on a man, and Lowery half-jokes about allowing himself just one year of martyrdom, of blog warfare, before he passes the torch to some equally fervent, equally like-minded soul. Of that deadline, he notes, “It’s getting close.”

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Friday, the 40 Watt plays host to two shows featuring The Music Tapes, each part of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being billed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Traveling Imaginary.â&#x20AC;? A few days before Christmas, Flagpole spoke with Music Tapes bandleader Julian Koster, who, having just woken up, was drowsily explaining just what, exactly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Traveling Imaginaryâ&#x20AC;? would be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the main thing to know is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be a very different or unusual sort of evening from the minute you walk in the door,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The structure of the evening is very different from when you normally enter a concert. Some of it is best kept secretâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what will make the experience fun.â&#x20AC;?

What we know is this: Koster and his band will set up a big tent inside the 40 Watt. To give a more concrete sense of how different the evening will be, the 40 Watt offers this disclaimer on its website: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to stress that this is a limited-capacity show. This is not an ordinary show, as the band is performing inside a tent in the venue. Tickets sold will only be for inside the tent.â&#x20AC;? Another blurb online promises an evening of â&#x20AC;&#x153;songs, stories, games, movies, magic, amusements and more.â&#x20AC;?

After years of clandestine midnight candle games, and two caroling and lullaby tours that saw the band venturing either out into the world or inside fansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; living rooms, Koster and company now have their own chance to play host. The project offers the band an opportunity to work with a much larger canvas, an opportunity that seems appropriate at this juncture.

Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voice, released last September, is both more ambitious and more cohesive than its predecessor, Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes. On the new record, Kosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eerie, compelling melodies fit more seamlessly within the music, a result of close collaboration with band member Robbie Cucciaro. And if the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whimsical aesthetic provokes a cynical response in some, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth mentioning that Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voice is also a much darker record, emphasizing childhood and dream states, and not only their positive aspects.

Still, as Koster explains, these aspects arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Darkness is a part of it, but I feel the darkness is external. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably more of a response to darkness.â&#x20AC;?

As for â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Traveling Imaginary,â&#x20AC;? the concept has been with Koster for some time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole idea came from something I conceived a very long time ago, when I was living on an island in Maine,â&#x20AC;? he says. Now, set to tour in support of a new record, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We decided to make this thing happen for real, in a form that could travel.â&#x20AC;? Concrete preparations began last summer, backed by a highly successful Kickstarter campaign, where donations exceeded the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal three times over.

Setting it all up, though, has proven to be quite an undertaking. The Kickstarter page makes mention of â&#x20AC;&#x153;historic tentmakers in England,â&#x20AC;? and Koster explains that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the different parts were built independently.â&#x20AC;?

Two unannounced shows last year, in Connecticut and Massachusetts, offered a first glimpse of the project. The impetus for the sneak previews was, in part, practicalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;the tent is too big to set up anyplace we usually rehearse,â&#x20AC;? Koster explainsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but both evenings were successful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have everything, but we hadâ&#x20AC;Ś several large elements of it,â&#x20AC;? Koster says of the preview shows. His account hints at the grand scale of the main event.

The two Athens performances will mark the first official performances of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Traveling Imaginary,â&#x20AC;? and will kick off a month-long tour, with more substantial travel planned for later this year.

The goal of a performance as involved and unconventional as this one, a performance that departs from the typical rock concert script, is, at its root, transportive. It seems The Music Tapesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; intention is to create a cohesive, self-contained experience. But as ambitious as it is, the project is not naĂŻve, nor is the music.

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The band formed after Hunter Morris (Gift Horse) played some demos for Hank Sullivant (Kuroma); Sullivant then became a primary collaborator. The pair is joined by J.J. Bower (Dead Confederate) on drums. These six songs comprise half of Blue Blood’s debut album, which is slated to be released next month. The record is being engineered by Joel Hatstat, mixed by Drew Vandenberg and will be played practically in its entirety when Blue Blood performs at the Caledonia Lounge on Thursday, Feb. 14. The band’s got this energy that only really comes from being in a new project. The songs range from unobvious pop and organ-driven psychedelia to mid-tempo fuzzy rock—not unlike Gift Horse. I dunno, there’s just a lightness to it, a playfulness.

Maybe this impression will change if I ever get to read a lyric sheet. And we all know how

longtime promoter and community enthusiast Montu Miller. The night’s special event is the release of the new album by So-Hi, which features guest appearances and production from the guys in Mad Axes.

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Bain All Around the World: It looks like things are swimming along toward the opening of new downtown venue The World Famous. The spot, located inside the guts of the former Wilson’s Soul Food at 351 N. Hull Street, is imagined as an intimate space with a capacity of less than 100, and even casual observers can abide that the laws of physics would prevent it from being anything more than that. Its first live music event will happen Friday, Feb. 15 and feature longtime Athens artist Madeline, along with The Darnell Boys’ extracurricular project Empty Wells. A list of upcoming concerts includes appearances by Ken Stringfellow, Shannon Wright, Hardy Morris and a reunion show by World Famous owner Bain Mattox’s band Shot From Guns. Follow the steps towards opening day at facebook.com/theworldfamousathens.

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Now Hear This: Hammer Squadron Productions will present a regional hip-hop showcase at Farm 255 on Friday, Jan. 25.

Featured acts include So-Hi (Greenwood, SC), ContraVerse (Atlanta), Last of the Horsemen (Nashville, TN), Athens homeboys Mad Axes, Projekt Lotus (Greenville, SC) and new local artist Chop Bryant. The event is hosted by

over at thebirdhouse.bandcamp.com. In other Birdhouse news, the collective released a new compilation/mixtape titled Patchwork at the turn of the new year. It’s got tracks from Ritvals, The Rodney Kings, Tree Spirit, Muuy Biien, Green Gerry, k (v) i d s and more, and you can find it at the aforementioned URL. New Clear Days: Chris McKay is steadily working on his upcoming solo album. He’s released a new song, titled “The Best of What’s Around,” which is a half-sad/half-whimsical take on using what you’re blessed with.

Having stepped away from his long-running band The Critical Darlings, McKay has had some fun experimenting with different studio techniques, etc. He’s currently gearing up to play his first ever solo acoustic show—the type of gig he’s always turned down in the past. He seems pretty set on giving it a solid try, but with the caveat that if he doesn’t enjoy it, he’s not doing it again. So, McKay fans, this may be your only chance. Mark your calendar—and then, you know, consult it— for Feb. 9 at Flicker Theatre & Bar. You can stream his new song, and one he released a little while ago named “That Excites Me,” at criticaldarlings.bandcamp.com. There’s a new video for “The Best of What’s Around” at youtube.com/user/CriticalDarlings, so click around if you feel the spirit move you.

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Tuesday 22 ART: Life Drawing Open Studio (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries, Room S370) An opportunity to draw or paint the human figure from life. No instruction provided. 5:30–8:30 p.m. $8. www. art.uga.edu ART: Art Lecture: Steven J. Tepper (Georgia Museum of Art) A lecture on arts advocacy, democracy and the role of creativity in the new economy. Cosponsored by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE). 4 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org 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. 7–10 p.m. $3–5. www. athensswingnight.com EVENTS: Winter Wine Dinner (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Four courses and five wines. 5:30–9 p.m. $65. 706-354-7901 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: 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: Pool Tournament (The Office Lounge) Double elimination round. 7:30 p.m. $5. www.facebook. com/officeathens KIDSTUFF: MLK Garden Project (Rocksprings Community Center) Learn the basics of working with wood, measuring, following instructions and building raised beds. For ages 6–13. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/rocksprings PERFORMANCE: Faculty Concert Series (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Damon Denton performs on piano. 8 p.m. $10. www.pac.uga.edu

Wednesday 23 ART: Opening Reception (Highwire Lounge) For Alexandra Parsons’ fashion illustrations. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the museum’s collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Small Business Publicity Workshop (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Amy Flurry leads a class on how to get your business

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5:30–7:30 p.m. $40. www.treehousekidandcraft.com CLASSES: Editing Digital Pictures (Oconee County Library) Learn the basics of photo editing like how to resize, crop, remove red eye, combine photos and more. 3–5 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 FILM: The Greenhorns (UGA Tate Student Center) A documentary film exploring the lives of young farmers across America. Presented by Real Food UGA and Slow Food Greater Athens. 6:30 p.m. $1 (students), $5. www.facebook.com/realfooduga GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. Broad St. location. 706-5483442 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Five Points location) Open your pie-hole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday.

7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Crows Nest Trivia (Dirty Birds) Every Wednesday in the Crows Nest. 8 p.m. FREE! 706546-7050 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

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 LECTURES & LIT: Aaron Burr Lecture (UGA Special Collections Library) In conjunction with the Aaron Burr exhibit, Burr expert and UGA Alumnus Brian Hardison will talk about the life of Aaron Burr. 3 p.m. FREE! lnessel@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Origin of the Universe (UGA Chapel) Loris Magnani describes how Einstein laid the foundations for the Big Bang Theory with his Theory of General Relativity and what ideas were used to understand the expansion of the universe in the 1930s. Part of UGA’s Origins Lecture Series. 7 p.m. FREE! www.originslectures.uga.edu

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LECTURES & LIT: Peter Pan Colloquium (Miller Learning Center, Room 248) Panelists discuss Peter Pan’s cultural reappearances in various forms, the lasting power of J.M. Barrie’s tale and how the changes in adaptations reflected changes in cultural views. 4 p.m.

FREE! davemarr@uga.edu

Thursday 24 CLASSES: Beekeeping Class (J. Phil Campbell Agricultural Research Station) Local beekeeper Will Dix leads a class on the history of beekeeping and honey bee biology.

Sponsored by the Oconee County UGA Extension Service. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3946 CLASSES: Certification for Women-Owned Small Businesses (UGA Small Business Development Center) 8(m) presents a step-by-step certification process for women-owned small businesses.

Breakfast included. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $29. www.georgiasbdc.org 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. 8:30–10 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Reiki Circle (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday night. 7–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-3386843 EVENTS: Book Sale (770 Danielsville Rd.) Over 30,000 books for sale. Proceeds benefit Books For Keeps and Tripp Halstead. Jan. 24 & 28, 4–7 p.m. & Jan 25–26, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. www.booksforkeeps. blogspot.com, www.facebook.com/ TrippHalsteadUpdates EVENTS: Fundraising Breakfast (Holiday Inn) Dr. Carver will share his experience as a mentor to cadets at the U.S. Army Military Academy.

Proceeds benefit the Clarke County Mentor Program. 7:30 a.m. 706549-6800, mentor@athensga.com EVENTS: Backroom Writers (Buffalo’s Café) An evening with Athens area singer songwriters Jeremy Duggins, Bobby Compton and Cody Stalvey. 7 p.m. $3. 706354-6655 FILM: Manos: The Hands of Fate (Beechwood 11 Cinemas) RiffTrax, best known for Mystery Science Theater 3000, presents a re-broadcast of the original episode.

Comedians Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett fire patented wisecracking commentary on this gold standard of bad movies.

7:30 p.m. www.rifftrax.com

The Venice Baroque Orchestra plays the UGA Hodgson Concert Hall on Sunday, Jan. 27.

FILM: Volcano Film Screening (Madison County Library) A screening of Perilous Beauty: the Hidden Danger of Mt. Ranier. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 FILM: Americans in Italy Film Series (Georgia Museum of Art) Three Coins in the Fountain tells the stories of three American secretaries who toss coins into the Trevi fountain, wishing to find love in Italy.

7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 KIDSTUFF: Family Dinner Night (Earth Fare Café) Kids eat free every Thursday with one $5 adult purchase of prepared foods. Good for up to six kids, ages 12 & under. 4–8 p.m. $5.

706-227-1717 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Children can read aloud to trained dogs to improve reading confidence. Trainer always present. Register for a 15-minute session. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Magic Tree House Book Club (Madison County Library) For children at a second to third grade reading level. 4–5 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: CCDC Meeting (Multiple Choices for Independent Living) The Clarke County Democratic Committee (CCDC) will be honoring past Representative Keith Heard. 6 p.m. FREE! www. clarkedemocrats.com PERFORMANCE: Music Faculty Recital Series (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) UGA faculty pianist Anatoly Sheludyakov gives a recital.

8 p.m. FREE! www.pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Ballroom Magic (UGA New Dance Theatre) Annual ballroom dance performance by UGA’s Ballroom Performance Group.

8 p.m. $5–15. www.ugaballroom. com

PERFORMANCE: Jerry Seinfeld (The Classic Center) Professional stand-up comedian best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the sitcom “Seinfeld.” 7 p.m. $60–75. www.classiccenter. com

Friday 25 ART: Opening Reception (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)) For “And I Feel Fine,” an exhibit celebrating artists as optimists. Live music by Killick & John Norris, a performative artist talk by visiting artist David Mazure and Tarot card readings by Autumn Weaver. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athica.org EVENTS: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Go Bar) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists. 10 p.m. 706546-5609 EVENTS: Book Sale (770 Danielsville Rd.) See Thursday listing for full description Jan. 24 & 28, 4–7 p.m. & Jan 25–26, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. www.booksforkeeps. blogspot.com, www.facebook.com/ TrippHalsteadUpdates EVENTS: Bunco for Cancer Support (Athens Regional Medical Center) Heavy hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine, door-prizes and more.

5:30–8:30 p.m. $25. pbooth@armc. org, www.intheirshoesathens.org FILM: Cinema Roundtable: “La Jetee” (Miller Learning Center, Room 150) Screening and discussion of La Jetee, a 27-minute narrative featurette from 1962 directed by Chris Marker. Panel includes UGA faculty members Andrew Zawacki, associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program, and Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www. willson.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Fantastic Fridays (Bishop Park, Gym) Various obstacle courses and activities for ages 10 months–4 years and their parents.

Call to register. 10–11:30 a.m. $5.

7:30. 706-613-3589

PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists. 10 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 PERFORMANCE: Myth Aerial Dance Performance (Canopy Studio) Canopy Studio Aerial Dance presents an aerial interpretation of classical myths featuring the advanced adult students. This annual performance features trapeze, fabrics and other invented flying apparatuses. Jan. 25, 8 p.m., Jan. 26, 4 & 8 p.m. & Jan. 27, 4 p.m. $6-10. 706-549-8501, www.canopystudio.org PERFORMANCE: Ballroom Magic (UGA New Dance Theatre) See Thursday listing for full description 8 p.m. $5–15. www.ugaballroom. com

Saturday 26 ART: Talking Heads: Enhancing Heart-Mind Communication(Call for location) Local artist Barbara O’dil leads an experimental workshop on creating two masks, one representing the heart and the other the mind, using natural and recycled materials as well as traditional art supplies. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $85. 706-546-5601 CLASSES: Paper Making Demonstration (OCAF) Learn how to recycle newspaper and other paper into paper crafts. Participants will be able to make a recycled paper valentine. 1 or 2 p.m. FREE! www. ocaf.com EVENTS: Sandy Creek Bridge Dedication (Sandy Creek Park) A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the park’s new pedestrian bridge. A seven-mile hike begins at Lakeside Trail. 1 p.m. $2. 706-613-3631 EVENTS: Athens Latin Dance (Etienne Brasserie) Lessons for Salsa, Merengue, Bachata and more.

10 p.m. FREE! (ladies before 11 p.m.) $5. 706-850-8008 EVENTS: Open Log House (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Visit the circa 1800s log house, warm up by a fire and participate in activities from

long ago. 1–4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3615 EVENTS: Book Sale (770 Danielsville Rd.) See Thursday listing for full description Jan. 24 & 28, 4–7 p.m. & Jan 25–26, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. www.booksforkeeps. blogspot.com, www.facebook.com/ TrippHalsteadUpdates 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 LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Meet journalist Susan Puckett, author of Eat Drink Delta, part travel guide and part cookbook. It reveals a region shaped by slavery, civil rights, amazing wealth, abject deprivation, the Civil War and a flood of biblical proportions. 4–5 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: Autism Society of America (Barnett Shoals Elementary School) The Northeast Georgia Chapter of Autism Society of America hosts its first meeting of the year, a meet and greet for families, educators, caregivers and friends. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. FREE! 706-208-0066, autism.negeoriga@ gmail.com OUTDOORS: Full Moon Hike Series (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) See the Garden come alive at night this winter. Each hike will focus on a different topic such as the moon, constellations or nocturnal creatures. Call to make reservation.

7–8:30 p.m. $5. 706-542-6156 PERFORMANCE: Ballroom Magic (UGA New Dance Theatre) See Thursday listing for full description 8 p.m. $5–15. www.ugaballroom. com PERFORMANCE: Myth Aerial Dance Performance (Canopy Studio) See Friday listing for full description Jan. 25, 8 p.m., Jan. 26, 4 & 8 p.m. & Jan. 27, 4 p.m. $6-10.

706-549-8501, www.canopystudio. org

Sunday 27 CLASSES: Glass Fusing (Good Dirt) Learn how to create a fused and slumped glass bowl. 2–4 p.m. $60. www.gooddirt.net GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Café) “Brewer’s Inquisition,” 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! Hosted by Evan Delany. First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com PERFORMANCE: Venice Baroque Orchestra (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Andrea Marcon will conduct the orchestra in a program of concertos by composers including Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Francesco Geminiani and Georg Philipp Telemann. 3 p.m. $20–39. www.pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Myth Aerial Dance Performance (Canopy Studio) See Friday listing for full description Jan. 25, 8 p.m., Jan. 26, 4 & 8 p.m. & Jan. 27, 4 p.m. $6-10.

706-549-8501, www.canopystudio. org

Monday 28 CLASSES: Storytelling Workshop (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Award-winning storyteller Regi Carpenter teaches a workshop.

Email to register. 7-9 p.m. $10-20. marci.white@gmail.com CLASSES: New Homebuyer Workshop (Keller Williams) A workshop focused on credit evaluation, home searching, contracts, financing, agents and move-in. 7 p.m. FREE! donnafee@kw.com EVENTS: Beer Industry Night (Terrapin Beer Co.) Bartenders, distributors, retailers and anyone else that works in the beer industry gets in free and receives a free pint glass. Bring a check stub from work to be admitted. 5:30–7:30 p.m. www. terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: Book Sale (770 Danielsville Rd.) See Thursday listing for full description Jan. 24 & 28, 4–7 p.m. & Jan 25–26, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. www.booksforkeeps. blogspot.com, www.facebook.com/ TrippHalsteadUpdates GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes!

Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Athens’ 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: Toddlerobics (Oconee County Library) Active storytime full of dancing, stretching, jumping and stories for little ones to enjoy books on the move. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: Mason Public Leadership Lecture (UGA Chapel) A student-led event focused on leadership development. Guest speakers are Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia. 10:10–11 a.m. FREE! adavis@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library) Adult book discussion group. This month’s title is Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevski. Newcomers welcome. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650

Tuesday 29 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. 7–10 p.m. $3–5. www. athensswingnight.com FILM: Bad Movie Night (Ciné Barcafé) A masked and badly burned teen haunts the town’s shopping mall, seeking retribution and enjoying frozen yogurt in Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Pool Tournament (The Office Lounge) Double elimination round. 7:30 p.m. $5. www.facebook. com/officeathens 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

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LECTURES & LIT: Nature Writing Group (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A group discussion about the natural world and nature writing.

Bring examples of writing to share.

Newcomers welcome. 4:30–5:30 p.m. $5 requested donation. patricia. priest@yahoo.com LECTURES & LIT: Global Georgia Iniative (UGA Chapel) James C. Cobb, a UGA professor known for his expertise on the history of the American South, kicks off this new lecture series with “De-Mystifying Dixie: Southern History and Culture in Global Perspective.” 4 p.m. FREE! www.willson.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Igudesman and Joo (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo combine humor with classical music and popular culture in a never-ending quest to turn the world’s most esteemed concerts halls into standing-room only comedy clubs.

The duo will perform their show, A Little Nightmare Music. 8 p.m. $39. www.pac.uga.edu

Wednesday 30 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, leads an indepth discussion of George Biddle’s painting “Homage to Raphael Soyer” (1947). 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.com ART: Life Drawing Open Studio (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries) See Tuesday listing for full description 5:30–8:30 p.m. $8. www.art.uga.edu CLASSES: Certificate in Native Plants (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Optional orientation for the Native Plants certification course.

Anne Shenk and Cora Keber will introduce the course and answer questions. 9–10:30 a.m. FREE! www. botgarden.uga.edu GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday. 8 p.m.

Broad St. location. 706-548-3442 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Five Points location) Open your pie-hole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday.

7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Crows Nest Trivia (Dirty Birds) Every Wednesday in the Crows Nest. 8 p.m. FREE! 706546-7050 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

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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KIDSTUFF: Disney Night (Oconee County Library) Play Disney Scene-It and create trivia games.

Mickey Mouse cupcakes provided.

Costumes are welcome. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: Oconee County Democrats Book Club (Tlaloc El Mexicano Restaurant, Watkinsville) A discussion of Bernd Heinrich’s Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival. 7 p.m. FREE! patricia.priest@yahoo.com

Down the Line FILM: Americans in Italy Film Series1/31 Georgia Museum of Art7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Athens Wine Weekend2/2 The Classic Center1–5 p.m. $20–25. (tasting).

6:30–9 p.m. $150. (dinner). www. athenswineweekend.com EVENTS: Sunday Brunch2/3 The Classic Center11 a.m.–1 p.m. $30. www.athenswineweekend.com GAMES: Locos Trivia2/5 Locos Grill & Pub8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill. com THEATRE: The Fantasticks2/5 Seney-Stovall Chapel8:30 p.m. $7–12. www.drama.uga.edu GAMES: Crows Nest Trivia2/6 Dirty Birds8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7050 THEATRE: The Fantasticks2/6 Seney-Stovall Chapel8:30 p.m. $7–12. www.drama.uga.edu EVENTS: GMOA Winter Open House2/7 Georgia Museum of Art6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4662 THEATRE: The Fantasticks2/7 Seney-Stovall Chapel8:30 p.m. $7–12. www.drama.uga.edu

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 22 Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE DIRTY NAMES Four-piece rock band from Maryland.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com CAPTAIN #1 This band spins grand tales of death, love and life through low-key acoustic pop.

BILLY MACK COLLECTOR Quirky folk-punk band from Pennsylvania.

HER FANTASTIC CATS Solo banjo music from Baltimore.

Green Room 6 p.m. FREE! www.greenroomathens. com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features bassist Robby Handley and drummer Marlon Patton. The group offers a sound far from the middle of the road, serving noiserock fans and jam band listeners equally.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com NICKELS AND DIMES Folk-rock duo from Baton Rouge.

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday! 7:30 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com BIG DADDY LOVE This band “brings a natural blend of grass, roots and rock to the emerging North Carolina music scene.”

Nowhere Bar Tuesday Night Confessional. 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-4742 FESTER HAGOOD This local songwriter sings in a soft drawl that accents his plucked country songs.

LEVI LOWREY Storyteller and singersongwriter from Dacula.

UNCLE DAVE GRIFFIN Renowned singer-songwriter from Waycross.

UNCLE DANNY MCADAMS Local guitarist and singer-songwriter.

SEAN CLARK “Swampadelic” singersongwriter.

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

WUOG 90.5 FM Live in the Lobby. 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org WHO.ARE.WE Atlanta-based electropsych project.

Wednesday 23 Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday!

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

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com ZOSO Formed in 1995, this ultimate Led Zeppelin tribute band has played over 2,400 live performances.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 CORTEZ GARZA Local singer-songwriter pushes the envelope with his unique blend of indie/Americana.

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Jonathan Byrd, Adam Klein Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Jonathan Byrd has a way with words. “It took me a long time to be from the South,” he says. The singer-songwriter, a seventhgeneration Carolinian, lived in Germany as a child and joined the Navy as a young adult, traveling around the world and generally avoiding his roots. In fact, it wasn’t until a trip to the U.K. that he became truly interested in Southern music.

“I played terrible, dark Jonathan Byrd math-rock, did drugs, and avoided responsibility if at all possible until I was almost 30,” he says. “I couldn’t keep a band together, so I started playing more acoustic guitar. A girlfriend dragged me to Ireland for a festival, and that opened a window back into the past.”

On his own and as a part-time member of local world-music outfit Dromedary, Byrd has carved out a name for himself by exploring the past through sound, whether a collective (“The Young Slaver”) or a personal (“Father’s Day”) one. His music bears familiar folk instrumentation—acoustic guitar, fiddle, dobro—and is steeped in the rich tradition he once resisted.

“Southern music is my music, and the culture is my culture,” he says now. “The greatest gift of all, as a poet, is the Southern language. An Arab friend told me [about] when he first came to the Carolinas: ‘I thought everyone was singing to me.’”

Folk music, after all, is supposed to be for folks, even if its role in our modern culture is unclear. Byrd, one of its most earnest and talented purveyors, wonders if there even is such a thing anymore.

“In the U.S., we dumped our folk culture when Bob Dylan told us to, essentially. So, maybe we’re remembering. Maybe I’m a part of that. I don’t know. You can’t drive the car and watch the race.” [Gabe Vodicka]

Green Room 7 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com CARL LINDBERG & FRIENDS Beloved local latin-jazz bassist performs a mix of standards and originals.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE HOBOHEMIANS This six-piece, acoustic band utilizes banjo, ukulele, flute, accordion, saxophone, piano, various percussion, drums and bass to perform popular American and European roots music of the 1910s, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;20s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;30s: a potent mix of protojazz, blues and folk.

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com MATT SCHOFIELD BAND Talented and energetic band fronted by the renowned British blues guitarist.

BLONDE BLUES Blues-rock group from Asheville, NC. MATT JOINER BAND Local guitarist draws inspiration from blues and classic rock.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens is back for 2013! Join drummer Nicholas Wiles with bassist Drew Hart and pianist Steve Key for an evening of original music, improv and standards.

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Local group led by guitarist Louis Phillip Pelot.

Thursday 24 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $12. www.40watt.com CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN Fronted by local fixture David Lowery, this highly influential indie rock band is celebrating 30 years in the music biz and the release of a new album, La Costa Perdida. See story on p. 16.

MUUY BIIEN Local band plays â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80sstyle punk rock thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equal parts Minor Threat and The Fall.

Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent! Email amiciopenmic@gmail. com to get a spot.

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

Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ Singer-songwriter night! 7:30 p.m.

706-354-6655 BOBBY COMPTON & FRIENDS The first Redneck Idol, Bobby Compton sings hard-rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; country.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com JEFFERS MORNING Local rock trio plays fun, danceable pop-punk.

ARC & STONES Brooklyn-based altrock band.

OF THE VINE Instrumental post-rock outfit from Atlanta.

THE AFFENDERS Atlanta rock and roll band.

Dirty Birds/ Crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7050 CRAIG WATERS & THE FLOOD Local blues guitarist and songwriter.

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

CULT OF RIGGONIA Experimental soundscapes with tribal, world music beats and ornate instrumentation.

TOM TELEVISION Hip-hop and indie-rock songs over looped instrumentation from Thomas Valadez, Future Ape Tapes co-founder and bassist for Moths and Superfighter.

GRANT EVANS Under monikers like Crippling, as well as his birth name, Evans uses tape loops and electronics to create expansive, rumbling soundscapes.

MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL Rachel Evans plays minimalist, synth-heavy, bliss-inducing drone.

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-9884 ERIK NEIL BAND Local trio playing blues/rock covers and originals.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com DATSIK Canadian dubstep DJ and producer.

BARRON Baltimore-based dubstep phenom.

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The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv. or w/ UGA ID) $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com THE WELFARE LINERS This fivepiece bluegrass unit blends classic tunes with originals while focusing on brother harmonies for that authentic high lonesome sound.

MONKEY GRASS JUG BAND Local roots music crew.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 CONNECTED HOUSE Local rock band with funky edges.

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 and guests are welcome!

WUOG 90.5 FM Live in the Lobby. 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org DREW KOHL Original singer/songwriter who plays bluegrass-inspired folk music.

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Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 LAZY LOCOMOTIVE Local group featuring members of Fuzzbucket, Juice Box and High Strung String Band.

Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ 7:30 p.m. $10 (door), $8 (w/ college ID). www.buffaloscafe.com/athens THE SPLITZ BAND This bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressively wide range encompasses classic Motown, funk, disco and both old-school and contemporary R&B. Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com UTAH Heavy, downtuned local rock band celebrates the release of its new, self-titled album.

GRIM PICKINS AND THE BASTARD CONGREGATION Southern blues-metal with a tinge of darkness.

IN THE LURCH Local three-piece that cranks out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines, citing Primus and Tool as influences.

Dirty Birds/Crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7050 SKY MAGNET Local band featuring members of Stokeswood.

Farm 255 Hammer Squadron Showcase! 11 p.m.

FREE! www.farm255.com MAD AXES Local psych-rap crew describes its music as â&#x20AC;&#x153;pro-life suicide rap.â&#x20AC;?

SO-HI Mad Axes affiliate doing grimy Southern rap with a psychedelic twist.

PROJEKT LOTUS Underground hip-hop from Greenville, SC with a positive, old school vibe.

CHOP BRYANT Up and coming local MC riding high on his versatile new mixtape, The Co-Op 2.

CONTRAVERSE Underground hiphop from Atlanta.

LAST OF THE HORSEMEN â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doomrapâ&#x20AC;? crew bringing it from Nashville, TN.

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com NEW SOUND OF NUMBERS Experimental pop and post-punk project led by Hannah Jones, visual artist and percussionist for Supercluster.

GRAPE SODA This local duo (sometimes trio) plays soulful, psychedelic synthpop driven by organ and drums.

Georgia Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 SCOTT LOW AND THE SOUTHERN BOUILLON New project from the former Efren frontman, featuring Doyle Williams (Rehab), Clint Swords and Mike Strickland.

TY MANNING AND KELLY HOYLE FULLER Bearfoot Hookers and Norma Rae guitarists team up.

The Globe 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE JOLLY BEGGARS Celticinfluenced folk band.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring electro and rock.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $10. www.hendershotscoffee. com JONATHAN BYRD Lauded North Carolina-based songwriter. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

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

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub VESPOLINA Local band fronted by Daniel Aaron that plays rich, evocative, country-tinged rock.

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Manor 10 p.m. FREE! (w/ UGA ID) www.manorathens.com THRE3STYLE U DJ COMPETITION Athens DJs DJ Mays, DJ RX, DJ Sifi and Decepticron compete for $1,000 and an opening DJ spot at Club La Vela.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $22.50 (adv.), $27 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Acclaimed West Virginia-based Western-swing/ boogie group.

SWEETBACK SISTERS Honky-tonk band from Brooklyn.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 THE ENDS Funky rock band from Burlington, NC. The Office Lounge 10 p.m. 706-546-0840 CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS Old-school funk, classic rock and sappy pop. Originals and covers.

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

Saturday 26 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $13 (adv.), $15 (door). www.40watt.com FREELANCE WHALES Sweeping, melodic indie-rock band from Queens, NY. See Calendar Pick on p. 25.

HUNDRED WATERS Electro-folk outfit from Gainesville, FL. IL ABANICO Brooklyn-based postpunk.

Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 THE BIG BANANA Smooth jam-funk group with jazzy roots.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE DICTATORTOTS These longtime Athenian chaos-cultivators stomp about and trash the night with postgrunge grooves.

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

TO LIGHT A FIRE Indie rock trio from Birmingham, AL. THE DESARIOS Local upbeat rock band with a singer who sounds a bit like Elvis Costello. For fans of Phantom Planet, Rooney or The Cars.

Crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest 9 p.m. $5. 706-546-7050 BABY BABY This charismatic Atlanta band can be described simply as â&#x20AC;&#x153;fun-rock.â&#x20AC;?

BOOMFOX Local rock band formerly known as The Sunlight Alchemists, that describes itself as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Adele meets Stone Temple Pilots.â&#x20AC;?

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE DREAM SCENE Javier Moralesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lo-fi avant-garde pop project.

QUIET HOOVES Hooves covers by members of the pppartners crew.

BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Local experimental pop band that plays idiosyncratic, psychedelic tunes.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Packwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;gather around the micâ&#x20AC;? approach to bluegrass provides sly, hearty original songs and renditions of classic tunes.

SEVEN HANDLE CIRCUS A rowdy, fun and modern interpretation of traditional bluegrass and folk.

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

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com KYSHONA ARMSTRONG Soulful singer-songwriter with a rootsy, bluesy sound.

DREW KOHL Original singer-songwriter who plays bluegrass-inspired folk music.

YOUNG AMERICA Local alt-country band.

Hilltop Grille 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 CHRIS ENGHAUSER TRIO Local â&#x20AC;&#x153;hillbilly swingâ&#x20AC;? outfit featuring Enghauser, Leah Calvert and Jason Kenney.

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Freelance Whales, Hundred Waters, Il Abanico 40 Watt Club Freelance Whales, a dream-pop quintet from Queens, NY, is the latest band to test this writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolve regarding abstaining from water metaphors when describing aquatically named bands.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re useless here! Still, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re often really hard to avoid. So, here goes.

The band, whose music is often compared to that of Sufjan Stevens for its contemplative yet complex arrangements, released its latest record, Diluvia, in October. The albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cover art features a cheerful drawing of a compact little ark floating into the sunset over a submerged city. Many of Freelance Whales the tracks therein have a watery, sonar-like sound, and drummer Jacob Hymanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhythms move slowly and deliberately, as if through kneedeep surf.

The album itself is incredibly cheerful, although it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come with an expectation that the listener rise to the same level of joy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Satisfied with the way the world is turningâ&#x20AC;? will do. Concise, electronic riffs accompany unabashed chorus-singing and M83-style synths, yet the arrangements never feel too heavy.

Indeed, one of the freshest aspects of Freelance Whales is that the music doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t force the listener to feel what the band feels. A pleasantly removed feeling inhabits the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music, a consideration that acknowledges the listenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individuality and also allows objectivity. (Perhaps this is due to frontman Judah Dadoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tendency to write songs based on his dream journals.)

For the listener, specific understanding may not really be in the cards, but an interesting interpretation almost certainly is. [Sydney Slotkin]

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring electro and rock TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller and friends spin late-night glam rock.

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

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 GENERAL PATTON & THE HEADS OF STATE No information available.

The Office Lounge 10 p.m. 706-546-0840 RICK FOWLER BAND Original guitar-driven blues-rock.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com DAVE FORKER The former Sleepy Horses drummer plays acoustic guitar.

Sunday 27 Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com ROB VEAL Indie singer-songwriter.

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com ED ROLAND AND THE SWEET TEA PROJECT Collective Soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frontman sets up shop for a residency at the Melting Point every Sunday from

Jan. 13 to Feb. 17. His new project features â&#x20AC;&#x153;new music and a wonderful collection of guest musicians.â&#x20AC;?

MIKE MANTIONE Solo set from a member of Five Eight.

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 and Scott Sanders playing the blues.

Monday 28 Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Local songstress Kyshona Armstrong hosts every Monday!

CAROUSEL Electropop from Brooklyn.

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

Nowhere Bar Tuesday Night Confessional. 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-4742 FESTER HAGOOD This local songwriter sings in a soft drawl that accents his simple, plucked country songs.

JOHNNY ROQUEMORE Award winning songwriter, guitarist and vocalist plays character-rich folk.

RON KIMBLE Atlanta-based country singer.

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

Nowhere Bar Moody Mama Mondays! 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 HOLLY BELLE Local singer-songwriter sings smoky, acoustic ballads.

WUOG 90.5 FM Live in the Lobby. 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org GLASSCRAFTS Side project featuring Grass Giraffesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Steven Trimmer and Robby Casso.

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Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com MARY SIGALAS Visiting standards from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;20s through the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;50s.

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

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $8 (adv. or w/ UGA ID), $10 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com A SILENT FILM Buzzworthy British alt-rock band.

Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com WILLIE NELSON The Texas singersongwriter is a living legend, playing emotionally honest country music

that crosses genre boundaries and appeals to even the most skeptical among us. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t love Willie, you probably ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got a pulse.

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Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 JORDAN ARMSTRONG Local singer-songwriter.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com GUITAR SUMMIT Round-table style guitar-geekery with hosts Dan Nettles and Allen Owens, featuring short solo sets from each artist with duo performances intermixed.

Part of a three-part series focusing on the beautiful, unexpected and sometimes raunchy life of the guitar.

Tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guests include Kris Deason and Matt Shirley, and is in honor of Craig Lieske.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub THE FACT Local punk band.

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New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com UGLY RADIO REBELLION Performing the music of Frank Zappa.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 BAD TEMPERED RABBIT Local band plays progressive rock that incorporates blues, jazz and sprinkles of improvisation into a raw style that is all its own.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens is back for 2013! Join drummer Nicholas Wiles with bassist Drew Hart and pianist Steve Key for an evening of original music, improv and standards.

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“Drawn from the Garden” Art Competition (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The UGA College of Environmental Design hosts a graphic arts competition to celebrate the Founders Memorial Garden’s 75th anniversary occurring in 2014. Open to registered UGA students and selectively invited high school students. Cash prizes. Drop-off deadline Feb. 1 & 2, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. www.ced.uga.edu Call for Artists (The World Famous) The World Famous is looking to display local works of art. Interested artists working in any media are encouraged to submit. athensmuzik@hotmail.com Call for Artists (Lyndon House Arts Center) Seeking artists for its 38th Juried Exhibition. Entry days are Feb. 7, 12:30–8:30 p.m. & Feb 8, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $25 entry fee for up to three works. 706-613-3623, lhartsfoundation@gmail.com Call for Artists (Amici ) Seeking artists for monthly exhibits.

Email samples to ryan.myers@ amici-cafe.com Call for Artists (OCAF) Seeking submissions for the 18th annual Southworks Juried Art Exhibition.

Visit website for application.

Deadline Feb. 16. $25-35. www.ocaf.com Seeking Artists for Artists’ Market (The Classic Center) Local visual artists are invited to apply to participate in the Artists’ Market at The Grand Opening Community Open House on Saturday, Feb. 16. Applications can be picked up at The Classic Center box office. 22 applicants will be accepted. info@athenscultural affairs.org

ACT Auditions (Memorial Park, Quinn Hall) Athens Creative Theatre holds auditions for its upcoming production of Live Art: Broadway at the Movies. Prepare 16 bars of a Broadway song and bring sheet music. Minimal rehearsals will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6–9 p.m. Show dates are Apr. 12–14.

For ages 8 & older. Call to schedule an appointment. Jan. 22 & 23, 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3628 Big: The Musical (Oconee Youth Playhouse) Auditions will be held for Big: The Musical, and open to kids ages 5 & above. Individual singing auditions will be held for high school students and older, with group auditions for 8th grade and younger. Sign-up in advance.

Auditions held Jan. 27. 706-7692677, www.oypoysp.com Chorale Auditions (Athens Master Chorale) Now accepting auditions for alto, tenor and bass voice parts. Contact Joseph Napoli at 706-546-0023, evenings only.

CLASSES Adult Beginning Sewing (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Learn the basics of using a machine and sewing a straight line with instructor Amanda Kapousouz. Mondays, Feb. 4–25, 7–9:30 p.m. $100. www. treehousekidandcraft.com Adult Knitting (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Learn how to cast on, knit, purl and bind off. Thursdays through Jan. 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 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 every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20. 706355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Classes (Oconee County Library) Advanced to beginner computer classes offered by appointment. Call to register. 706769-3950, watkinsville@athens library.org Dance Classes (Dancefx) Ballet, tap, hip-hop, Zumba, contemporary, foxtrot, salsa, pilates and more.

Check website for schedule.

706-355-3078, www.dancefx.org Garden Geology (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Dan Williams teaches about Georgia’s six geologic provinces. Participants will receive a copy of Rocks of Georgia, a companion to the sessions. Wednesdays through Feb. 27, 4-6 p.m. $45. www.botgarden.uga.edu Gentle Flow Yoga (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Lunchtime flow yoga at a slower pace. Prenatal or beginners welcome. Every Tuesday, 12 p.m. $14. 706-355-3114, info@5pointsyoga.com Gentle Hatha Integral Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) All levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9/class. 706-543-0162, mfhealy@bellsouth.net, www.mind fuliving.org Online Computer Tutorials (ACC Library) Choose from a list of topics for personalized, one-onone instruction. The library also offers online computer classes in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and eBooks. Call for times and to register. 706-613-3650

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“From Savanna to Savannah: African Art from the Collection of Don Kole” is on display at the GMOA through Apr. 14.

Printmaking Workshops (Double Dutch Press) Intro to Woodcut, Intro to Linocut, Valentine’s Workshop, Reductive Woodcut and Multicolor Screenprinting. www.doubledutch press.com SALSAthens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes with SALSAthens. Every Wednesday, 6:30-7:30 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 Silk Painting Weekend Workshop (Margaret Agner Silks) Taught by Margaret Agner of Margaret Agner Silks. Call to register. Jan. 26 & 27, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $110 (incl. materials).

706-353-7719 Spicy Salsa Dancing (Jerzee’s Sports Bar) Learn how to Salsa.

Every Wednesday. 9–10 p.m. (lesson), 10 p.m.–1 a.m. (dancing). $3, $5 (under 21). dg2003@yahoo.com Winter/Spring Classes (OCAF) Offerings include watercolor and still life painting, figure drawing, clay arts, paper making, wire wrap jewelry, bag pipes, freelance writing and self-publishing. Visit website for online registration. www.ocaf.com Yoga Teacher Training (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Yoga Allianceregistered 200-hour yoga teacher training. Every Saturday, through May 11, 8 a.m.–6 p.m. $1,450. www.yogafulday.com Yoga Teacher Training (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Yoga Alliance-registered 200-hour yoga teacher training. Every Saturday through July 20, 12 p.m. $1,900. www.athensfivepointsyoga.com Yoga and Bellydancing Classes (Healing Arts Centre) Several types of ongoing yoga classes are offered for all levels, and yoga teacher training, as well as bellydancing. Visit website for details. www.healingartscentre.net Zumba (Athens Latino Center for Education and Services (ALCES)) 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

HELP OUT Volunteers Needed (Homestead Hospice) Help patients and their families living with terminal illness.

706-548-8444, www.homestead hospice.net/volunteers.html World Book Night (Avid Bookshop) Volunteers needed to hand out books on World Book Night, Jan. 23, to people who may not be regular readers. Sign up online. www.worldbooknight.org

KIDSTUFF Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts and crafts and allows children to create original artwork. Ages 6–15.

Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30– 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 Babies and Beasties (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Toddlers ages 18 months to two years and their parents are invited to discover nature with hands-on activities, hikes and crafts. Register by Feb. 1. Thursdays or Saturdays in February. 10–10:45 a.m. $12–18. 706-613-3615, www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreek naturecenter 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 ages 3–5 (Thursdays, 4 p.m.) and Family Crafterdays (Saturdays, 11 a.m.). $10/class, $30/4 classes. 706-8508226, www.treehousekidandcraft. com Naturalist Assistant Program Training (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Now accepting new teen volunteers for a training session in teaching visitors about animals and nature. Training is on Feb. 2, 1–5 p.m. 706-613-3615 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 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 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.our arrow.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 Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 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

SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.com Chronic Illness Support Group (Oasis Counseling Center) Six-week group meetings for individuals dealing with chronic medical conditions. One-hour intake appointment required. Every Wednesday, 1:30–3 p.m. through Feb. 27. $50 (appointment), $15/ session. 706-543-3522, info@ oasisconselingcenter.com Domestic Violence Support Group (Athens, GA) Tuesdays, 6–8 p.m., in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays, 6:30–8 p.m., in Madison County. Childcare provided. 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771.

Emotional Abuse Support Group (Athens, GA) Childcare provided. Call for location. Every Wednesday. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771.

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

Sundays, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org

ON THE STREET Accepting Applications for Food Tester (UGA Russell Research Center) Now seeking volunteers. Email through January to sensory.lab@ars.usda.gov.

First Person Project Celebrates Stories of Love (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) An oral history series documenting the

experiences of everyday Georgians invites participants to record their stories about love. Call or email to register. 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 seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art submissions. Deadline is Feb. 14. mandala. uga.edu Microcar Auction (Microcar Museum, Madison) Bruce Weiner auctions his collection of 1950s microcars, antique neon signage, vending machines and candy dispensers. Feb. 15 & 16. 519-3524575, www.handlewithfun.com, www.rmauctions.com

ART AROUND TOWN A LA FERA (2440 W. Broad St.) Mixed media with naturalistic scenes by Taylor Bryant. Through January.

AMICI ITALIAN CAFĂ&#x2030; (233 E. Clayton St.) Musician portraits and patterns in oil and acrylics by Lauren Dellaria. Through February.

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. Through Feb. 5.

ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) In the Myers Gallery, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Spirit Show,â&#x20AC;? featuring works by Ana Anest, Barbara Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;dil, Claire Dunphy, Mary Padgelek, Father Anthony Salzman, Wendy Ortel and Scott Pope. In the Bertelsmann Gallery, artwork by Gary Grossman and Stanley Bermudez. Through Feb. 22.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I Feel Fineâ&#x20AC;? includes works by Paul Pfeiffer, Caitlin Foster, Liz Fuller, Maya Hayuk, Zachary Fabri, David Mazure, Suko Presseau and Anthony Wislar that celebrate the artist as an optimist in the wake of worldwide calamity. Opening reception Jan. 25. Through Mar. 10.

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

BROAD STREET COFFEE (1660 W. Broad St.) Silk paintings by Rene Shoemaker. Through February.

CIRCLE GALLERY (285 S. Jackson St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Discrete Aperture: The Work of Nils Folke Anderson.â&#x20AC;? Through Feb. 14.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Leslie Moody. Through Feb. 2.

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 John Cleaveland, Matt Alston and more.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Paintings by Jeremy Hughes. Through January.

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

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) 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 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;From Savanna to Savannah: African Art from the Collection of Don Kole. Through Apr. 14. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americans in Italy.â&#x20AC;? Through Apr. 21. 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.

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. Pre-voting is underway on YouTube. Vote until Feb. 1. Performance on Feb. 2. www.childrenfirst-inc.org Tax Preparation Help(Multiple Locations) Free federal and tax preparation and e-filing offered by AARP Tax-Aide Program through Apr. 13. Bring 2012 tax documents, supporting info and a copy of a 2011 tax return. Monday, 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:30 p.m. at Oconee Co. Library. Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Saturday, 9 am.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. at Epps Bridge Pkwy. Kroger. Tuesday, 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m. at Oglethorpe Library. f

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Sarah Seabolt.

Through Jan. 26.

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 Sarah Cook. Through January.

HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (269 N. Hull St.) Local fashion designer Alexandra Parsons showcases fashion illustrations. Opening reception Jan. 23. Through Feb. 23.

IRIS PLACE (755 Epps Bridge Pkwy.) Photography of beach scenes combined with driftwood by John Weber. Through Feb. 5.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Portrait and landscape photography by Adrina Ray. JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ballet Lifeâ&#x20AC;? features photographs of ballerinas in usual places by Chris Scredon.

JUST PHO (1063 Baxter St.) Drawings and paintings

by Michele Chidester.

KRIMSON KAFE (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Acrylic paintings by Megan Bennett. Through February.

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

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sorority Girl Project,â&#x20AC;? photo portraits by Kelly K. Jones. Through Feb. 7.

LOFT GALLERY AT CHOPS & HOPS (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) Artwork by Jessica â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cobraâ&#x20AC;? McVey. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) 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 Frank Registrato. Through January.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Photography by Richard Fay. Through January.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Material Wondersâ&#x20AC;? showcases works by current UGA graduate students.

Through Feb. 15.

PERK AVENUE (111. W. Jefferson St., Madison) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Point of Origin,â&#x20AC;? works by Katharine Wibell. Through March.

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.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women on Paper,â&#x20AC;? works by Lauren Kerbelis, Gail Smith, Caroline Swanson, Nancy Schultz, Karen Banker, Lillie Morris and Ingrid Hofer. Through March 3.

STRAND HAIR STUDIO (1625 S. Lumpkin St.) Oil paintings by Jerry Barnes. Through Feb. 15.

SURGERY CENTER OF ATHENS (2142 W. Broad St.) Hand-pinted silk wall hangings by Margaret Agner.

Through January.

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

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA OCONEE CAMPUS (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Otros SoĂąadoresâ&#x20AC;? includes works by Stanley Bermudez, Nestor Armando Gil, Groana Melendez and Mabi Ponce. Through Feb. 13.

WALKERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE AND PUB (128 College Ave.) Pastel drawings and watercolors by Ainhoa Bilbao Canup. Through January.

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2BR/2BA on bus line. All appls. + W/D, FP, extra closet space, water/garbage incl. $550/mo. Owner/Agent, (706) 340-2450.

1, 2 & 3BR units avail. all in 5 Pts. area. Rent beginning for 1BR units at $500/mo.

2BR units begin at $700/ mo. Call (706) 546-0300 for additional info or to schedule a time to view.

Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/mo.

Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $525/mo. 3BR/2BA & FP, $700/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700 or cell, (706) 540-1529.

Apts. on great in–town streets. Grady & Boulevard.

Walk everywhere!

Water & garbage paid. $495–$750/mo. Check o u t w w w. b o u l e v a r d propertymanagement. com or call (706) 5489797.

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

2BR/2BA apts. a few blocks from Dwntn. off North Ave. Pet friendly! Dep. only $250.

Rent from $625-675/mo. incl. trash. (706) 548-2522, www.dovetailmanagement. com.

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On the river! 1BR loft, $350/ mo. 2BR, $550/mo. Porches & decks, on 12 acres. Pets allowed. W/D incl. Call (706) 614-3252.

Commercial Property Chase Park Paint Ar tist Studios. Historic Blvd. a r t i s t c o m m u n i t y. 1 6 0 Tracy St. Rent 300 sf., $150 mo. 400 sf., $200/mo.

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E a s t s i d e o ff i c e s , 1 0 6 0 Gaines School Rd. Rent 750 sf. $900/mo., 400 sf. $600/mo. (706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties. com.

For sale/lease.

Commercial/residential.

Huge home on busline, near campus. 2 kitchens, DR, 2LRs, 4-5BR/2BA. Lg. yard, porch. Offstreet parking. $1150/mo. $399,000. David, (706) 247-1398; Wilson, (706) 202-0948.

Prince Ave. near Daily Grocery, 2nd floor, 4 huge offices w/ lobby & kitchen.

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Condos for Rent 2BRs & studios Dwntn. across from campus and 4BR at Urban Lofts for Fall semester. 2BR a v a i l . i m m e d i a t e l y. ( 4 0 4 ) 5 5 7 - 5 2 0 3 , w w w. downtownathensrentals. weebly.com.

Gigantic 5BR/3BA. End of Lumpkin. 2500 sf. 2 LRs, huge laundry rm., DR, FP, big deck. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1600/ mo. (706) 338-9173.

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Just reduced! Investor’s West-side condo. 2BR/2BA, F P, 1 5 0 0 s f . , g r e a t investment, lease 12 mos. at $575/mo. Price in $40s.

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

3BR/3BA house. Cool modern design, 4 porches, 1 mi. from Dwntn., off Barber St. $1300/mo. + dep., pets OK, great neighbors. Call (706) 338-0707. Avail. now! www.facebook. com/HelpUsSublet.

3BR/2BA Victorian home, renovated. 1/2 mi. from campus. Pre-leasing.

W/D, DW, fenced yd., HW. $1700/⁣mo. Huge rms.! Lots of character. Avail. 8/1. Pets OK. (706) 338-9173.

3BR/2BA house Dwntn.

Walk everywhere! W/D incl.

Fenced backyard. Pets OK. Avail 1/1/13. Short or long term lease option. Only $1000/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

Duplexes For Rent

3BR/2BA, 2077 S. Lumpkin, $ 1 2 0 0 / m o . W / D . , D W, sec. sys. & ceiling fans.

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

Brick duplex, 2BR/1BA, very clean. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens. 2 units avail. Pets OK. Grad. students & professionals welcome. $500/mo. + dep.

(706) 254-0478.

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

Walk-in closets, stainless, private BA, porches, deck.

W/D incl., pre-leasing for fall. $1500/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

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

Walk-in closets, stainless, private BA, porches, deck.

W/D incl., pre-leasing for fall. $1900/mo. Aaron, (706) 207-2957.

4BR/2BA Victorian home, renovated. 1/2 mi. from campus. Pre-leasing. New kitchen, W/D, DW, fenced yd., HW. $1650/⁣mo. Huge rms.! Lots of character.

Avail. 8/1. Pets OK. (706) 338-9173.

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5 Pts. 2BR/1BA. Great location. Great for grad student. Walk to campus.

W/D, CHAC, nice patio.

Pets OK. $650-$700/mo.

Avail. 8/1. Call (706) 3389173.

Awesome 3BR/2BA, close to campus. New master BA w/ double sink. HWflrs., fenced backyard. W/D, DW, C HAC. Av ail. 8/1. $1200/mo. (706) 338-9173.

Cedar Creek: 4BR/2BA, partially fenced yd., $950/ m o. 5 P t s . : O ff B ax t er St., 4BR/2BA, $1000/ mo. Eastside: 5BR/2BA, large lot, $1000/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Fall leasing: 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR houses & apts. 5 Pts. & Dwntn. See at www. bondrealestate.org. Owner Broker Herbert Bond Realty & Investment. Lic. #H13552. (706) 224-8002.

For Rent: 3BR/1.5BA h o u s e , c e n t r a l H VA C , HWflrs., carport, W/D incl., large fenced backyard, basement suitable for workshop/band space.

On quiet cul-de-sac located off Oglethorpe.7 min. to Dwntn., 5 min. to Normaltown or Beechwood & 2 min. to YMCA, Bishop Park, or the bypass. Avail.

Mar. 15, $900/mo., $900 sec. dep. Pets OK w/ additional dep. Contact Jared at (706) 338-9019, or director@athfest.com.

Great 4BR/4BA house. 1/2 mi. from campus. Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. Special! $1550/ mo. (706) 338-9173.

Huge 3BR/2BA renovated Victorian house. HW, high ceilings, front porch, back deck, nice yard. Pets OK. W/D, DW, HVAC. Avail.

8/1. $1275/mo. (706) 3389173.

House on Lexington Rd. Located on bus line.

3BR/2BA w/ garage apt. & sm. yd. W/D, DW, CHAC. $595/mo. (706) 549-9456.

Lovely new house.

4BR/3BA. Half mi. to campus. Big rms., HWflrs., DW, W/D, CHAC, pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1750/mo. Call (706) 338-9173.

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Sweet house in Boulevard. Clean, fresh paint, HWflrs., W/D, HVAC, shed. Great location & neighbors. 382 Nacoochee Ave. $900/mo. nacoocheerules@gmail. com

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

(706) 354-4261.

Pre-Leasing Best rentals in Athens! 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5BR houses, apts., condos.

In the heart of UGA/ Dwntn./5 Pts. Avail.

Aug. 1. Going fast, call today! (706) 3389173 for more info.

Roommates Now available: Roommate needed immediately for house off Pulaski St. Screened porch, W/D. Only a 10 min. walk from Dwntn.

Only $250/mo. Calls only: (706) 548-9744.

Rooms for Rent R o o m f o r re n t t o s h a re w/ single adult in 4BR home. W/D, fenced yard. $350 + 1/2 utils. (706) 224-6457, tes_is_paula@ yahoo.com.

Sub-lease 909 Broad St. (Dwntn.) Sublease 2BR/2 full BA Dec.June $1000 (less than 1BR). Available I m m e d i a t e l y ! Call (214) 205-0256.

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Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition.

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Equipment A l e s i s D M 5 e l e c t ro n i c drums, $425. Pearl piccolo snare drum, $100. Peavey EX electric hollow body guitar (ES335 copy), $200.

1960s Silvertone Acoustic, restored w/ hardshell case, $425. Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray Bass w/ gig bag, $650.

Fender precision bass, deluxe (extra pick-up) w/ hardshell case, $475.

Ampeg SVT-4 bass amp, $625. Ampeg bass cabinet 4-8â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1-15 classic series, $400. Peavey renown (solo series) guitar amp, $180. Ibanez (left handed) a c o u s t i c , $ 8 0 . K o re a n Fender Strat (cream), $250. Johnson wedge m o n i t o r, $ 1 0 0 . P e a v e y IPR 1600 power amp & B e h r i n g e r m i x e r, $ 3 6 0 .

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Music Services Fret Shop. Professional guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 5491567.

Estheticians needed for spa in Dwntn. Athens.

Looking for a team player whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driven & business minded. Advantages, complete marketing, training program & suppor t. FT/PT, flexible hours. Send resume to hiresweetsamba@gmail. com, (706) 543-0099. www. sweetsamba.com.

FT or PT hair stylist position at Rocket Salon. Fun, laid back. Must have GA license. Commission. Apply in person or at rocketsalon@ gmail.com.

Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bottle Shop is seeking a full time sales person & cashier. Knowledge of field & experience required.

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Wedding bands. Quality, professional bands.

Weddings, parties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment. com. Featuring The Magictones - Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones. com.

Local property management company looking for manager. Must have 2 yrs. experience in real estate industry. Must be sales & service driven, organized & self-motivated. Please email resume to cgbarks@ bellsouth.net.

Services Cleaning Home cleaning.

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Nuçiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible. Call (706) 227-1515 or come by Nuçiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space, 396 Oconee St.

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The Spa at Foundry Park Inn is currently searching for excellent Master Cosmetologists, Estheticians and Nail Technicians. To apply, visit us at www. foundryparkinn.com/careers.

Nice, Christian lady in her 40s seeking a job as a n a n n y. E x p e r i e n c e d , reasonable rates.

References avail. Safety & well-being, #1 priority.

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Matters Of The Heart And Loins I am in my 40s. I have been seeing this woman for several months now, and things are going very well. We have a great sex life, we have plenty to talk about, and we are each happy with our own space. (She owns a house, and I rent a small apartment.) I dread any conversation that feels like “settling down.”

It’s not her, mind you. I have been married before, to a fabulous woman with whom I had a couple of kids and with whom I maintain a great friendship. But marriage didn’t work for me, and I often find myself running away from women who develop expectations (outside of my daughters, of course) and any sort of rules for me.

So, my girlfriend (hate that word, but I don’t know what else to use, so there it is) and I went away for a weekend to see some old friends of mine and attend a celebration.

She met and liked my friends, and they liked her. Things were easy and comfortable until Sunday morning.

On Saturday night, she had gone back to our hotel at around two in the morning. I told her I was going to stay until everything wound down. The bar would close at 5 a.m., so I knew I wouldn’t be much later than that. Except that I was. I ended up back at my friends’ room doing drugs and dancing, and I didn’t get back to our room until 6:30. I thought the GF was asleep, but apparently I was wrong. At eight in the morning, she was up and banging around the room, making no attempt to let me sleep, even though we weren’t required to check out until noon. I asked her if she was mad, and she said she was. She said she had been worried because I had been out so late. She expected me back just after five, and when she woke up and I wasn’t there at 5:30 she got worried and thought I had been mugged or something.

I reacted with a near immediate shut down, at least internally. I did apologize, but I told her she was being silly and that she couldn’t expect me to be on a schedule because that isn’t how I operate. She responded that she wouldn’t have cared if I had just let her know. She also mentioned that she wished I had told her that I was into the drug thing (which I am not always, mind you). She said that I was a different person on them, blah blah blah, and that again, she didn’t necessarily have an objection to them, but that she wishes I had been more forthcoming.

Again, my reaction is to shrink away. I told her that I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t ready for that conversation yet, that I didn’t know how to say it. I had mentioned that some of my friends did drugs, just so she wouldn’t be completely surprised, but I wasn’t ready to have that conversation with her. She actually said that she didn’t care, but that she would have like to have known ahead of time.

We ended up making up, and she apologized for overreacting and said that a big part of the problem was that she hadn’t gotten any sleep and was cranky. I guess I feel better now, but at the same time, I am wary of what is next. This is a feeling that I often get at this stage of a relationship. The moment I feel like

somebody is trying to control me, I look for an exit. I really like this woman, but now I don’t know what to think. Should I just break it off before it gets any deeper?

Claustrophobic Wow, Claustrophobic. You’re a regular Peter Pan, huh? I don’t know what to tell you about this relationship. On the one hand, you seem to have found a woman with whom you are sexually and intellectually compatible, who shares your love of personal space and tolerates your personal habits (regardless of how infrequent, illegal drug use can be a deal-breaker for many people).

It would seem ideal. In fact, if I were a religious person I might call it a Christmas Miracle. On the other hand, you can’t seem to make even the slightest effort to keep her informed and comfortable. (She neither forbade nor judged your drug use, and she didn’t exactly give you a curfew, she just wanted to know what to expect).

This makes me think that you don’t deserve her, so I kind of want to encourage you to break it off. Instead, I will simply suggest that you re-examine your needs and expectations. Are you mostly happy with this relationship? Do you feel that you would rather have female companionship than not? Can you possibly consider her feelings and treat them with some measure of importance? If not, then you should just tell her that right now and let her decide if she wants to continue to put up with you.

I just moved out of my parents’ house and moved in with my girlfriend. She has an apartment with two roommates. They have been living together for almost two years, and before I moved in, we all got along good. Now I realize that they are real immature, and they gossip and drink too much and stay up all night playing video games and smoking pot. I told my girlfriend that I want us to move out when the lease is up and get our own place, but these are her best friends, and she doesn’t want to. She goes to school, and I have a full-time job and I have to get up early and work hard. I told her I can’t live in a place where people are partying all night, every night.

She wants to stay. I’m afraid if I move out we will break up.

What should I do?

Working Man You obviously can’t stay there. You need to start saving your money and making a plan.

Have a deadline in mind, and tell your girlfriend exactly what you are going to do. Then start looking for a place of your own. Maybe if you include her on the search she will get excited about the possibility. If not, at least you will have your sanity. I wouldn’t worry about breaking up. If you stay where you are and continue to live like that, you’re going to end up breaking up anyway.

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A Little Road Trip Athens doesn’t have a corner on commercial oddities, perplexing aesthetic decisions or individuals with unusual enthusiasms. There’s plenty of strangeness in the rest of the state.

There’s the vaguely named “Things n’ Stuff” near Baxley.

(I have no idea what they’re selling, and apparently neither do they.) There’s the Marietta Chicken, which doubles as an accidental memorial marking the site of the 1929 lynching of Leo Frank. There’s the entire town of Sparta. And, right down the road in Madison, there’s the largest collection of Mivalinos, Voisin Biscooters and Messerschmitts in the whole wide world.

If you don’t know what these things are, you’re not alone.

They sound like the names of beautiful Portuguese women and/ or tropical diseases, but they are actually the brand names of microcars: tiny cars that seat one or two people and, apparently, were wildly popular in Europe in the ‘50s, when “highway” meant two lanes of well maintained blacktop traversed solely by carloads of musical nuns and their plucky charges.

Over 200 of these unusual vehicles are on display at Bruce Weiner’s Microcar Museum just south of Madison on Highway 441, but only on Jan. 25 and 26. After that, the museum closes to prepare for the public auction on Feb. 15 and 16 that will liquidate all of its stock.

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“Excuse me,” I ask him, “What are you doing, looking at all these microcars?”

“Well,” he answers, agreeably, “We’re just lookin’ at ‘em.”

“Uh huh.” We stand in silence for a minute while they look at me expectantly. “And, um, are you from Madison?”

“Yes, we are. We just came on down here to take a look around because we heard it was closing.”

“And what do you think? Would you drive one yourself?”

“I’ve got one,” says the grandfather, Brad Hicks.

“You’ve got a microcar?” I yell, excited.

“Well, it’s a Fiat. It’s a real small car. But I’d trade my motorcycle for one of these cars. Sure I would. But then after I did that I’d have to get another motorcycle.”

I say goodbye and rejoin my friend Julie and our kids.

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The warehouse-sized museum houses various antique kiddie rides, vending machines and the microcars. These cars really are tiny little things, many of them smaller than a toddler.

Yet the placards explaining the origin of each car insist that people—and not just extremely malnourished people—actually drove them. There is a huge variety of cars on display, from glossy hot-rods a wee German hoodlum might have coveted to a more work-a-day French van. They are so small, shiny and perfect that they look almost edible, like hard candy.

What would possess Bruce Weiner, the museum’s proprietor, to get rid of the collection it has taken him 16 years and undisclosed sums of money to acquire? Actually, what would possess him to acquire all these cars in the first place?

According to Mr. Weiner, it’s the thrill of the chase: “Your checkbook alone doesn’t determine whether you can acquire [the cars]. They require persistent negotiating and regular interaction with a fascinating group of enthusiasts, who can at times be reserved and very private. International travel is a prerequisite and, for me, it was one of the best parts—traveling the world, meeting intriguing characters who shared my passion and being exposed to the cities and cultures that gave birth to these delightful cars in the post-war era.

At times, the number of cars built or surviving is miniscule, which makes the final discovery and acquisition all the more gratifying.

“Regarding selling, it’s certainly been a difficult decision, but I’ve been passionate about this hobby for many years, and my collection has been effectively complete for some time now. As I enjoy the hunt for these cars tremendously, and I’ve found, restored and shared all the cars I wanted so badly, this chapter of my collecting passion has come to a close.”

By the time we’ve circled the room, there are at least 50 people in the museum, with more flooding in every second.

What are all these people doing here? There’s a boy scout troop, a clutch of senior citizens, a serious fellow with a

They’re gathered around a shiny chrome box that looks like a cigarette machine. And it is, sort of, except the kind of smokes this machine sells are made out of candy.

“Awww, candy cigarettes! I remember those!” I’m overcome with wistful nostalgia until I notice my six-year-old observing me carefully. “Uh, what a terrible, terrible idea that was.”

I look around at the candy cigarettes and the rodeo horse and the car that goes 70 miles per hour and has as its driver’s seat a wicker lawn chair, and I sigh.

I picture myself in simpler times, driving around in a car the size of a large raccoon, inches from the pavement, confident that no mom late for her kids’ gymnastics meet is about to hurtle, texting, from around the next bend. “The heck with seat belts, kids,” I’d holler, “Just have another candy cigarette!”

I’d have a scarf in my hair and fashionable leather goggles; I’d swim in the pool at my house in Monte Carlo while simultaneously eating a steak wrapped in bacon and drinking a vodka stinger. Life would be dangerously unhealthy, but I’d have no inkling of this, and neither would anyone else. We’d drive our fabulous bubble cars and Messerschmittses out of a war-torn past and into an anything-is-possible kind of future, the sheen of which still clings to these cars 70 years later.

I can see why Mr. Weiner likes these cars, these little candycolored hieroglyphs that symbolized efficiency, freedom and optimism for a generation that lived through the Depression and fought in the kind of war we don’t have anymore: a clearcut, unequivocal one. I hope that the folks who purchase the cars at the upcoming auction understand what it is they are buying and will value these cars as highly as Mr. Weiner does. I might just be there among them in February, waving my candy cigarette over my head, hoping for the highest bid.

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