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Last week’s episode chronicled the arrest and brief incarceration of the 33 students who sat-in at President Fred C. Davison’s waiting room in Old College at the University of Georgia, on May 3, 1972. The group was finally reduced to eight as the result of bullying and intimidation by the judge and the university administration, in my biased opinion. Among the seven (plus me as a faculty supporter) who refused to accept the plea bargain of a light fine and a year’s probation and faced the threat of jail time if we didn’t, were student leaders and leaders of the sit-in group and others who just refused to give in and admit that it was a crime for them to be in the president’s office. They were: Chuck Searcy, Steve Patrick, David Alonso, Tony Alonso (no relation), Steve Letzsch, Mike Walker and Scott McLarty. Most of them were student leaders; a few just got in on it for the fun and got stubborn when the university tried to bluff them out. All in all, they were a great bunch of fellow misdemeanants. Pressured to decide overnight whether to accept the plea, the eight of us fired the “movement� lawyers whom we felt had represented us poorly and gained time to hire our own lawyer and fight the charge of criminal trespass, with its potential penalty of a $1,000 fine and a year in jail. This was not a case that most local lawyers would touch, but one of our number led us to Alan Alexander, sort of a maverick in his own right, though not politically. Alan enjoyed the notoriety of the situation, and his young law clerk, Jim Warnes, was intrigued and amused by this scruffy batch of new clients. After the law’s usual delays and a spate of new business for local barbershops and haberPerhaps even dashers, The Athens Eight got their day in court—in this case, State unsuccessful Court, presided over by Judge Grady protests serve as Pittard, with Ken Stula as solicitor (prosecutor). benchmarks. Stula laid out the case: the presence of the students was disruptive, they refused to leave when asked to do so and when they were told that President Davison wouldn’t be there that day; the secretaries couldn’t get any work done, etc. In our defense, Alan just put each of us, one after the other, on the stand to tell, who we were and why we did what we did. The clean-cut young men in suits proceeded to lay out for the jurors in the most high-minded terms what they were trying to accomplish on campus and why it was so important that they were willing to risk their college careers and their reputations in behalf of their ideals. Enough of the jurors (most) were impressed with our testimony that the jury couldn’t find against us and ended without being able to reach a verdict, which we took as a clear victory for us, that we hadn’t been convicted. We had made our point, and we had fought the university to a draw. Surely they wouldn’t come back and try us again. But they did. In Round Two, the university came in determined to win, and Stula bore down. We went with our tried-and-true defense of young men in suits with earnest statements. This time, though, our testimony sounded more self-serving than idealistic, and the university wasn’t messing around; they knew what to expect from us and how to counteract our righteousness. Even so, the jury deliberated 10 hours and came back to be re-charged, at which point Judge Pittard basically told them that if we were there, we were guilty. And so, we were, and sentenced to fines of $500 each and a year on probation. The Davison administration went on to consolidate its power over faculty and students, while transforming UGA from the collegial model of broad participation in university governance to the more corporate, top-down structure we have today. It was the last of the big-time college sit-ins, and it probably went for nought, but it changed my life and some others and made lasting friendships. Even Ken Stula proved to be a likable guy once he no longer felt professionally compelled to compare me to Lee Harvey Oswald. Perhaps even unsuccessful protests serve as benchmarks to help us assess where we are today, where we’ve come from, where we need to go, maybe even back to the president’s office. Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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letters BROAD STREET’S DANGEROUS For years, I have been concerned about what I view as a very risky situation on West Broad Street. Crossing Broad, even at the official crosswalks, has always been scary, and crossing in the middle of the street is truly life-threatening. Even so, I have seen lots of people do it through the years, and there have been accidents, including a death or two. More recently, with the addition of the Steak ‘N Shake pedestrian traffic, which includes customers who park across the street and employees who apparently HAVE to park across the street, I see people risking their lives all the time. Just last week, I saw an African-American mother with three children, followed closely by a Steak ‘N Shake employee. They made it across safely, but it sure didn’t seem safe as they stood in the middle of four lanes of high-speed traffic and finally darted across just ahead of oncoming vehicles. I am convinced that it’s just a matter of time until someone is run over, and it probably will happen pretty soon given the volume of crossings. My question to Athens-Clarke commissioners is: What can we do about it in terms of prevention? I, personally, would love to see a pedestrian crosswalk over Broad. ACC traffic engineer Steve Decker claims that crosswalks cost “millions” but my brother in law, a civil engineer who has built several of them, tells me that the cost should be a few hundred thousand dollars. In any event, how much is a life or lives, worth? I’m sure that we could get a lot of neighborhood support from both sides

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CONTACT US AT P.O. BOX 1027, ATHENS, GA 30603 OR EMAIL US AT LETTERS@FLAGPOLE.COM of Broad. in those gulches below Dearing Street over toward Reese Street and the Ramada Inn, I I know that an overpass or even a traffic used to wonder if any of those old trees were light would be expensive, but fixing up an indigent patient after a bad accident is also not specimens from the botanical garden, long pretty expensive. There may be a way to raise forgotten. I used to discuss this possibility funds outside of government, given all of the with Phinizy Spalding and with Susan Frances Barrow Tate. Phinizy Spalding and William new medical businesses popping up on Broad. Athens Regional Medical Center, for one, might McFeely—who lived directly above the area— speculated that some of those trees might actually save money by investing in a safer have been connected crossing, given that any poor, uninsured to the botanical garden. UGA sold off person who gets BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: the garden, if I am injured there will I Wish Morgan Freeman remembering corbecome their nonrectly, in order to pay paying customer. Narrated My Life. for the iron fence Plus, pedestrians always get short around Old Campus. Thanks, Melia. Send your sticker-sightings to letters@flagpole.com. It would be a cool shrift in highway project for a graduate spending. The cost student in forestry or of an overpass or any historic preservation class. other solution is negligible compared to what H. Gelfand we spend annually on automobile transit. Emuel Aldridge James Madison University Athens

THE ORIGINAL BOT GARDEN? I was just reading Stella Smith’s story on businesses on West Broad between Milledge and downtown. Something that always struck me as odd about that area, particularly as a historian-in-training at the University of Georgia, was that there was never any effort to recognize or reclaim any of that area as the original UGA botanical garden. When I used to stare at all of those kudzu-covered trees

LANDFILL EXPANSION UNFAIR To move forward in obtaining a 1993 landfill expansion permit, Athens-Clarke County, along with neighboring Oglethorpe County, entered into a written agreement with citizens living and worshipping near the dump that there would NEVER be another expansion. The signatures of the two highest elected officials from both counties sealed the deal. Fast forward 20 years later: The Georgia Environmental Protection Division granted a

permit last month to ACC for another expansion. That is a broken treaty, breach of contract, reneging on a promise—whatever you want to call it, the collective garbage dumping will carry on in a hazardous place where impacted people have been waiting patiently for two decades for it to properly close. ACC makes no apologies for the current permit. Putting their legal front man out to justify this travesty by claiming “a past commission cannot bind a future commission,” this is a lame excuse for abuse and continuing oppression. Oglethorpe County officials claim their hands were tied to the bullying that was done when ACC took heritage land for the expansion, which will be entirely in Oglethorpe County. Can the government renege on its promises and expect obedience from those it governs? The majority of garbage that is generated from all of us who live in these two counties goes out the door and becomes someone else’s problem—those living day in and out with the dump operations. When both governments made their promise to citizens, they were well aware of the true health risks residents faced from past and ongoing toxic exposures associated with landfill operations. Neither government disclosed it, but time has. Diseases, poor quality of life, lack of enjoyment of property, and death have manifested themselves as proof that this community was and continues to be expendable. The cleanup has been the bare minimum and certainly not what was promised. Jill Jennings-McElheney Winterville

city dope The Battle of Buena Vista The Athens-Clarke Commission may have approved a historic district in Buena Vista last week, but the extremely divisive year-long campaigns for and against preserving the neighborhood will march on for another week. “It was really mean-spirited all the way around, wasn’t it?� said Commissioner Mike Hamby. Yes it was, Mike. As reported on Flagpole.com last Thursday, Mayor Nancy Denson said she is “keeping [her] options open.� She could veto the district—in which case commissioners could almost certainly find one more vote to override it—sign it or, most likely, let it take effect without her signature. She has until next Tuesday to decide. In doing so, Denson is siding with the realtors, developers and rental property owners who spoke against the historic district at the Mar. 5 commission meeting. Their arguments: That Buena Vista isn’t really historic because the houses are just your average 1890s cottages, not grand mansions like the Taylor-Grady House. That new housing is needed for the middle class (as if families that made the local median income of $41,000 lived in $300,000 homes). That most neighborhood residents oppose the district, and a small number are trying to impose their will on the majority. BLAKE AUED

On Easy Street: Is this the future of intown Athens? We don’t really know for sure how widespread support for a historic district is among Buena Vista homeowners. Both supporters and opponents conducted their own surveys with, as one would expect, wildly varying results. Some claimed never to have received a survey. The entire process was sort of botched from the beginning, in large part due to budget cuts in the Athens-Clarke County Planning Department that forced residents to hire their own historic preservation consultants. “I did not feel comfortable at all, nor did my colleagues who support historic preservation feel comfortable with the designation report we received,� Commissioner Kathy Hoard said. As a result, Hoard said she will push for changes to the designation process, such as requiring public hearings in neighborhoods and mailing out literature so everyone gets the same information at the same time. Misinformation was really at the heart of all the animosity. Hoard recalled hearing from an elderly resident who opposed the district because someone had told her ACC would send inspectors to her house to tell her what color to paint it. “He or she was misinformed or knowingly gave wrong information to frighten this woman,� Hoard said. Another trope repeated by historic district opponents is that designation would outlaw modern-looking, environmentally efficient houses like the beloved Lori Bork-Newcomer homes on Pulaski Street. Sharon Bradley, a member of the ACC Historic Preservation Commission, refuted that claim. The HPC has, in fact, approved modern structures in historic districts, including a building next to University Tower downtown. “We approve expansions, additions, new construction in historic districts every single day,� Bradley told the commission. Tom Ellis’ DuBose Avenue addition (detailed in Athens Rising on p. 7) illustrates why intown development needs to be closely regulated.

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The real issue, as usual, is money. Of course, realtors and builders want as few restrictions as possible on development in Buena Vista, one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city. Don’t blame them for wanting to make a living. But at the same time as they fought a historic district, they were marketing Buena Vista properties as being in a “historic district� (though without the protection a real one offers, it won’t be for long). Both sides argued at times that historic designation would both raise and lower property values, depending on whether it suited their cause. The truth is historic districts increase property values (there’s also an associated assessment freeze) but not as much as replacing an 800 square-foot house with a 2,500 square-foot one would. Denson is technically correct when she said that “affordability is irrelevant to historic preservation.� But supporters saw a historic district as the best way to halt their traditionally working-class neighborhood’s gentrification. “It’s not right for these houses to be destroyed or radically altered to cater only to those who can afford a large house,� resident Deborah Stanley told the commission. However, Jared York (yes, the builder who cut down the big oak on Talmadge Drive) did make a good point when he gave commissioners a little lesson about supply and demand. A lot of people—many of them with money—want to live intown, and the market is responding to that. In order to grow, Athens needs higher density in its urban neighborhoods, and we’ve never been able to come to grips with it. Exhibit A is the failure of TDRs. It was easy to find places where we want less density, like the rural “green belt� on the outskirts of the county, but impossible to find anyplace intown where people might accept more density. If we’re going to resolve any of the issues the Buena Vista Historic District raised, we need to resolve that contradiction. Yay Bipartisanship!: A bill that would let ACC lift a state law barring retail beer and wine sales within 100 yards of a college campus—thus paving the way for a grocery store in the development proposed for the SunTrust property downtown—cleared the state House overwhelmingly last week. Reps. Chuck Williams (R-Athens), Spencer Frye (D-Athens) and Regina Quick (R-Athens) all cosponsored House Bill 517. How refreshing it was to see our local delegation working together for a change—something that seemed impossible before Quick and Frye. Bottleworks’ New Owners: The Atlanta-based Parkside Partners’ purchased the struggling and foreclosed-on Bottleworks development on Prince Avenue. The firm, which specializes in adaptive reuse, doesn’t plan any major exterior changes, but is making interior and signage improvements to lure new businesses. “We’re hoping to find the types of tenants neighbors want to walk to,� principle Kyle Jenks says. ACC Wins Stormwater Case: The unpopular stormwater utility fee, AKA the “rain tax,� is here to stay. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously Mar. 4 that the fee is a fee, not an unconstitutional tax, as Quick and David Ellison, the lawyers for Homewood Hills shopping center owner Howard Scott, had claimed in a lawsuit. They countersued after ACC sued to collect more than $72,000 that Scott owed the county; he hadn’t paid the quarterly fee since its inception in 2005. ACC’s victory is actually good for property owners. Stormwater infrastructure improvements are federally mandated, and paying for them with a fee, rather than property taxes, means tax-exempt institutions like the University of Georgia must pay their fair share. Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

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Let’s stipulate a few facts, as lawyers like to say in court. Schrenko was correct that Georgia politics, during the time that Democrats ran state government, experienced its share of cronyism and corruption. We’ve seen similar incidents of corruption and influence peddling among Republicans. In this case, however, the person yelling about all that Democratic corruption was herself stealing large amounts of taxpayer dollars. As federal prosecutors later described it, Schrenko personally ordered the state Department of Education to issue checks in amounts totaling more than $500,000 to various companies that supposedly would provide computer services to the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf, the Georgia School for the Deaf, and the Governor’s Honors Program. Those services were never provided, and a large part of the fraudulent proceeds were secretly funneled into Schrenko’s campaign for governor. She also took $9,300 of the federal funds intended to help disabled school children and used the money to pay for a face lift. Schrenko never did win that race for governor. Sonny Perdue whipped her in the 2002 Republican primary, and her term as school superintendent ended a few months later. She was indicted on federal charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and theft of public funds in 2004. Schrenko went on trial in 2006, but halfway through the case she pleaded guilty to her role in the embezzlement. As he sentenced her to eight years in prison, U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Cooper observed: “You’re the reason the public confidence in the political process continues to erode.� Schrenko has nearly completed that eight-year sentence and will be making her return to civilian life later this year. Her downfall should be a useful reminder to us all about the hypocrisy of politicians. Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

athens rising Five Points Ranch Is Worth Saving Athens has plenty of architectural landmarks, but it always seems like some of them are on the chopping block. For as long as I’ve lived here, there has always been controversy over whether or not the steeple at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, where R.E.M. played its first show, should stay or fall into further neglect. (I think we’ve silently opted for the latter.) The Murmur Trestle is in danger through demolition-by-neglect, and the Jittery Joe’s Roasting Co. building is in danger from new development. The newest item on the Athens’ Most Endangered List: 232 University Dr. This high-style ranch house on the corner of University and Pinecrest is in danger of being demolished.

Amy Kissane, director of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, says several members of the ACHF have been in touch with the Stiles family, the original owners of the house, in order to learn more about the history of the house and, hopefully, to the identify the architect. Athens-Clarke Commissioner Allison Wright, who represents part of Five Points, is imposing a 30-day moratorium on the demolition in hope that “someone might be willing to come forward and relocate this house.” The plans for the new house seem to be in line with the character of Five Points: a oneand-a-half story cottage with dormers on a similar footprint as the current house. While the new plan seems to fit the neighborhood

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better than other recent additions to Five Points, the loss of the historic ranch currently there still turns my stomach.

Shenanigans in Boulevard Residents in the Boulevard Historic District have been much more vocal in their dislike for the shenanigans at 321 Dubose Ave. Homebuilder and neighborhood resident Tom Ellis caused quite a stir by adding a behemoth addition onto the back of the home. The ACC Historic Preservation Commission allowed the controversial addition last April, going against the Planning Department’s recommendation, to the dismay of many neighbors who were against such a large addition to begin with. It turned out to be even larger than expected. Ellis cites topography as the reason why the addition is nearly five feet taller than the approved plans. Since the addition no longer adheres to the plans approved by the HPC, Ellis had to resubmit modified plans to the HPC in February. Luckily for the Boulevard district and disgruntled neighbors, the modifications were denied. Ellis can appeal to the Mayor and Commission, modify the plans to satisfy the HPC or remove the addition and rebuild it as originally approved by the HPC in April. Demolitions and additions may seem like small potatoes in the larger scheme, but these are the small steps that lead to loss of historic integrity and change the character of the neighborhoods and towns they’re in. Stella Smith

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local artist clipped by an allegedly drunk driver as she rode her bike at night. A high school student hit as she crossed busy Milledge Avenue. A young visitor struck by a man who police say was leaving downtown after a night of drinking. Three recent high-profile incidents illustrate yet again why it may not be as safe to walk or bike in Athens as it should be. It’s hard to know what might have prevented a likely drunk driver from mowing down a pedestrian in mid-February, then ditching his truck and running away, according to police. At 3 a.m. the victim was walking on Oak Street’s shoulder because there is no sidewalk on that side of the road. Pedestrians have beaten a clear path beside the busy four-lane road, but Athens-Clarke County Transportation and Public Works Director David Clark points out that, “if there were a sidewalk there, the car probably would have hit her on the sidewalk.” The victim, 19-year-old Emily Bowman of Woodstock, only came out of a coma last week. After a weeks-long investigation, police arrested William Wilson Heaton, 22, of Cartersville, and accused him of DUI, leaving the scene of an accident and other charges. James Barlament, a researcher at the University of Georgia College of Public Health, sifts state statistics on bike and pedestrian accidents. Clarke County averages more than 55 pedestrian accidents a year, he says. Broad Street, Lumpkin Street, Prince Avenue, Baxter Street and Lexington Road are statistically the most dangerous. While most injuries are not very serious, there were 16 deaths between 2006 and 2010. Drinking is often an issue, and so is night visibility, Barlament says. Most pedestrians die while crossing a street— usually not at a crosswalk—and most die after dark. That’s how Grace Byrne, a Clarke Central High School student, suffered a traumatic brain injury—crossing Milledge Avenue on foot Jan. 11. Police have charged Joseph Potash, 22, with driving illegally in the center

turn lane and driving on a suspended license. “It’s on the list, but we don’t actively fund Meanwhile, Byrne is undergoing rehabilitation those at this time,” Clark says. “It’s on the after weeks in intensive care. state highway system,” so it’s up to the state Three weeks earlier, just before Christmas, to fund it. But the state is unlikely to do so, Stacey-Marie Piotrowski was riding her bike he adds. “In the past, GDOT has not funded along Talmadge Drive when she was hit by a sidewalk-only project. They build sidewalks a car, suffering severe leg and hip injuries when they’re part of a larger road project.” (Matthew Bryan Andrews, 29, faces a DUI Department of Transportation spokeswoman charge). Statistically, for bicyclists, Lumpkin Teri Pope notes that long stretches of U.S. Street is the most dangerous, especially at Highway 78—Lexington Road, Oak, Oconee Baxter street, Barlament says. Athens averages and Broad streets and Atlanta Highway—have about one bike fatality per year. sidewalks already, but the right-of-way is very Overall, 15 people died in motor vehicle narrow on some stretches. The department’s collisions in Athens in 2011 and 10 in 2012; policy is to build sidewalks only as part of 13 of those deaths were related to alcohol, other construction projects and only on roads according to Fred Stephens, assistant chief where the speed limit is 45 miles per hour or of the ACC Police Department. “We believe less; any faster, and it’s a safety hazard to mix that our continued pedestrians and cars, focus on enforcement she says. efforts which include “I was hit by a car two years ago If they chose to, extra patrols, vehicle ACC commissioners 100 yards from here. The driver check points and could spend local was negligent, but it was because sidewalk money on saturation patrols are making a differstate roads, but of Prince’s design.” ence,” Stephens says. they have deferred “Officers are also to a points system attentive to school zones and conduct public devised by Clark to decide where to build service child car seat safety restraint checks.” them. That system gives points for “evidence Jeff Montgomery of ACC’s public information of pedestrian traffic,” proximity to schools office says his office has “talked in the past” and businesses, transit accessibility, and to about doing a pedestrian safety campaign but a lesser extent eight other factors (but not has never undertaken one. Barlament thinks accident history) to whittle down a list of “there probably needs to be a sidewalk” on Oak over 100 sidewalk proposals that have been Street, where Bowman was hit. suggested by citizens and county staffers. In Athens-Clarke county is playing catchup practice, the sidewalk projects chosen have on building sidewalks. Most older, intown often been along suburban roads like Timothy streets were built with sidewalks, but beginand Whit Davis roads. Clark doesn’t know how ning in the early 1960s, many subdivisions did many points Oak Street would get, because it’s not include them. In recent years, ACC (with a state road and hasn’t been evaluated. the support of BikeAthens as well Clark) has The ACC Planning Department recomincreased funding for sidewalks to unprecemended “enhanced pedestrian facilities dented levels—about $4 million over the next including midblock crosswalks”—perhaps with seven years, funded by a 1 percent local sales “refuge islands” for pedestrians in the middle tax voters approved in 2010. But Oak Street, of the street—in the Oak/Oconee street corlike other numbered state and federal highridor study completed last January. No action ways, seems to have fallen through the cracks. has been taken yet on that year-old report,

but Oak/Oconee will likely be the first Athens corridor to “test” the recently passed “complete streets” policy, ACC Senior Planner Bruce Lonnee says. The Complete Streets policy makes official an intent to “accommodate all users” (including pedestrians, the elderly, bicyclists, disabled persons, and transit users) by providing “accessible sidewalks, curb ramps, crosswalks, countdown pedestrian signals, signs, median refuges, curb extensions, pedestrian-scale lighting, bike lanes, shoulders and bus shelters” when designing street changes. The policy’s only specific requirement is that “paved shoulders or a multi-use path” will be added whenever rural roads are repaved, but ACC commissioners have asked the Planning Department to apply the policy to making specific plans for the Oak/Oconee street corridor, Lonnee says. “The Mayor and Commission have asked staff to look at Oak/Oconee street as the first corridor to test the [complete streets] policy,” he says. That could include streetscape changes like trees, sidewalks and bicycle lanes, plus lighting and signage, zoning and other issues suggested in the corridor study. It’s complicated by the fact that any street changes will require the cooperation of GDOT, not just local government. And it won’t happen until perhaps next winter because planners are presently working out a new zoning category for Prince Avenue to limit large developments. Proposals like bike lanes have long been a political hot potato on Prince Avenue, the subject of another recent corridor study. “I was hit by a car two years ago 100 yards from here. The driver was negligent, but it was because of Prince’s design,” BikeAthens board member Hunter Garrison said last week at a neighborhood forum in the old firehall occupied by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation. John Huie

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epresentatives for Hendershot’s Coffee Bar and local pizza restaurant Transmetropolitan have thus far been unable to agree on the terms of a lease renewal for the Hendershot’s space and, barring a last-minute renegotiation, the coffee bar/music venue plans to vacate its current location before a temporary six-month lease is up June 30. The adjacent properties, on Oglethorpe Avenue near the Forest Heights neighborhood, are both owned by the local Tweedell & Van Buren Oil Company, but Transmet controls the Hendershot’s sublease, which is at the end of its term. According to Transmet owner Brian Colantuno, the dispute over a new lease stems from two issues: which business will control the lot’s parking spaces, and an imminent increase in rent price. “The rent was the biggest issue,� Colantuno says, alleging that Transmet’s insistance that Hendershot’s pay what the former considered an appropriate share of the property owner’s overall increase was met with resistance. Colantuno says Transmet even offered to pay half the coffee shop’s increase for the remainder of a yearlong agreement, a proposal to which lawyers representing Hendershot’s initially agreed, but then rejected. Colantuno also says the venue rejected several versions of an agreement because it stipulated parking spaces were to remain available to anyone visiting either business. Instead, Hendershot’s wanted each of the lot’s few spaces to be specially designated for one or the other. As Hendershot’s owner Seth Hendershot explains it, he and his business partners initially approached the property owner to ask about the possibility of being added to the lease—�not really an unreasonable thing,� he says, insisting he wasn’t trying to undermine Colantuno. But the property owner decided to let Transmet retain control of the lease, and when the pizza restaurant got word of Hendershot’s attempt to wrestle away its portion, negotiations soured. Hendershot says his venue, an intimate and low-key place known for hosting residencies

from the likes of Ike Stubblefield and Kenosha Kid, was willing to pay its share of the rent increase, but he admits the negotiating process got away from him when it landed in the hands of his business partners’ lawyers, who took a hard-line approach without Hendershot’s approval. Negotiations ultimately failed, he says, when lawyers representing the coffee bar handed Transmet an “ultimatum� letter demanding that it agree to a specific rent amount. When Hendershot learned of the letter, he rushed to Colantuno and urged him to forget it, saying his venue would pay what Transmet asked. Colantuno agreed to renegotiate, Hendershot says. “We agreed it was stupid, and we should put the gloves back on.� But soon after, Hendershot’s received a letter from Transmet’s lawyers instructing the venue to vacate the location by June 30. Transmet gave no reason for the aboutface, Hendershot says, though he has heard “Wes [Russo, Transmet co-owner] has [another] idea of what he wants to do with the building.� Regardless of their disagreement, both Hendershot and Colantuno agree that the particular location benefits from the presence of both businesses, which in turn benefit from one another. “We don’t want to give up on the community,� says Hendershot, noting that he is in the process of looking for another space. Though it still seems probable that a deal will not be reached, Hendershot says that in the days since an earlier version of this story ran on Flagpole.com last week, he and Colantuno have agreed to sit down together to reassess the situation. And both owners express regret over the way things have been handled. “I love Brian,� Hendershot says. “I’ve got a lot of respect for him, and I don’t want to villainize him.� Colantuno, too, notes that he and Hendershot are friends who have always been supportive of each other’s endeavors. He will miss his neighbor if he leaves, he says. “I live in the neighborhood,� he says. “It’s nice to have a coffee shop there.� Gabe Vodicka

the reader Walking with Coleman As an undergraduate at UGA in the late ‘80s I had the incredible good fortune to have Warren Leamon, a true believer and a formidable writer, as my professor for 20th-century American poetry. He, however, had the bad fortune to have us as students. You see, at the beginning of every discussion of every poem, Dr. Leamon would ask, “Now what do we think this poem is about?� and immediately three hands would shoot up with the same three inevitable mumbled responses: “love,� “death� and “the act of writing poetry.� Every single time, until it drove Dr. Leamon to apoplexy one morning in the middle of the term and he whirled on us. “Why the hell can’t a poem about driving to the hospital be about driving to the goddamn hospital?� We were stunned by a revelation that shouldn’t have been one in the least, that poetry needn’t be overtly about the big issues, the grandiose themes. That poetry is not some code to be broken with the expectation of life-changing wonders. That a poem speaks to us on its own terms and is every bit as valid when it is about the mundane as it is when it deals in the epic. In short, Dr. Leamon de-mythologized the poem, something our teachers should have done long before we ever got to his class and something to which every English teacher everywhere should aspire. Far from the hieroglyphics most readers believe it is and most young, earnest poets would have us believe it is, poetry is the closest literary form we have to telepathy, every word and every space carefully chosen and every line worked and reworked to transmit images in their most exact sensory form and convey thought from cortex to cortex. It is immediate and intimate in a way that no other mode of communication can touch. Without the smokescreen of prose or the intermediaries of drama there is just the poet and you, bound by knowing and understanding. Over the years I have met Coleman Barks exactly three times, the last about two months ago. This seems patently absurd to me considering how long we’ve both lived in Three-Degrees-of-Separationville, GA, and how many of those years I spent in Park Hall, but while I know Barks—poet, teacher, mentor, rock-star translator of Rumi—he doesn’t know me from Adam’s armpit. Nonetheless, I have just walked with him, listened to him, been touched by his mind like a true friend in the pages of his new book of original work, Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009-2011 (The University of Georgia Press, 2013), and I am the better for it. Laughing is the clearest, most intimate way we can be back, in the presence of the dead. (from “We Laugh Together�)

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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week. • indicates new review 21 AND OVER (R) One’s reaction to pejoratively describing 21 and Over as The Hangover Jr. should determine one’s level of interest in this flick. If a viewer disregarded The Hangover Part II for its lack of originality, then said viewer should stay away from 21 and Over. At least the second Hangover still had some jokes to tell. ATHENS JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (NR) The Athens Jewish Film Festival again brings quality Jewish films to Athens in its annual festival. Films scheduled for this year’s diverse five-day lineup include something for everyone. Each film will include an introduction, and a “nosh” to boot. Visit athensjff.org or athenscine.org to see the complete schedule. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. (Ciné) ATHENS REVISITED (NR) The film imagines an interview with Edward Ware and Edward Lyndon, residents at different times in history of what is now the Lyndon House Arts Center. It was the second public building in Athens, after the courthouse. Q&A with writer Terrell Austin to follow. (GMOA) CAESAR MUST DIE (NR) In Palme d’Or winning filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s latest film, inmates in a Roman prison are prepping a production of Julius Caesar. The film bonds documentary with narrative film as the cast consists of actual prisoners. Caesar Must Die won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as five Davids (including Best Film and Best Director). The film was Italy’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but it failed to make the shortlist. (Ciné) THE CALL (R) A 911 operator, Jordan Turner (Halle Berry, in an inexcusable wig), looks to make up for a mistake that led to the death of a young girl at the hands of a serial killer by saving his latest victim (Abigail Breslin). DARIUS GOES WEST (NR) 2007. Fifteen-year-old Clarke Central student Darius Weems, confined to a wheelchair by Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, had never left Athens until some local college students, including director Logan Smalley, took the Clarke Central student on a cross-country trip. Though the ultimate goal was a fly new wheelchair courtesy of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride,” Darius and his companions found so much more on the open road. Part of Volunteer UGA’s Film Festival, the screening will be followed by a discussion. (UGA MLC, Room 150)

• DEAD MAN DOWN (R) Dead Man Down is a strange movie. Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s English language debut feels as if it should be set in a European metropolis instead of New York City. Vengeful Victor (Colin Farrell) seeks to make Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard) pay for the death of Victor’s wife and daughter. While on his mission of revenge, Victor is blackmailed by sweet, scarred Beatrice (Noomi Rapace, Oplev’s Lisbeth Salander) to kill the man whose drunk driving led to her disfigurement. F. Murray Abraham, Armand Assante and Isabelle Huppert show up to make the movie feel even more foreign (an odd achievement considering Abraham and Assante are natural-born U.S. citizens). Dead Man Down offers little in the way of fun, but somehow, the dour, decidedly European crime melodrama succeeds against the odds. 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 in this Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay. Slave Django (Jamie Foxx) is freed by dentist-turned-bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). 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. (Ciné) ECOFOCUS FILM FESTIVAL (NR) UGA hosts a five-day showcase of films about environmental issues, including Switch, a documentary about the big questions of traditional energy sources, and why and how energy sources evolve. Visit www.ecofocusfilmfest.org for full schedule. (UGA MLC, Room 101) ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH (PG) One can pretty much expect the small animation houses to release one of these harmless, uninspired kiddie flicks every month. Did your kid love Monster vs Aliens? Then they’re bound to momentarily enjoy Escape from Planet Earth while you catch a quick nap or check out the Oscar nominee playing next door. FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (PG) 2011. Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki collaborates with his son Goro’s second feature. (His first was

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Tales from Earthsea.) As the 1964 Tokyo Olympics approach, a group of teenagers in Yokohama seek to save their school clubhouse. The voice cast includes Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Christina Hendricks, Chris Noth, Aubre Plaza and Anton Yelchin. Japan’s biggest domestic hit of 2011 won the Best Animation Film prize from the Awards of the Japanese Academy. A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (R) Do audiences find Bruce Willis’ New York Detective John McClane running into trouble for a fifth time, in Russia, with his CIA operative son (Jack Reacher’s Jai Courtney), believable? Does it matter? Maybe. R-rated action is not doing so hot, with Arnold’s The Last Stand and Sly’s Bullet to the Head both underperforming their already low expectations. Respectable but unexciting action director John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix, The Omen and Max Payne) should be better than Live and Let Die Hard’s Len Wiseman.

three films by adding sequences from the series’ appendices, a decision that allows this first film to be paced a bit logily. HOLY MOTORS (NR) Leos Carax directs this intriguing French Surrealist film about a night with Monsieur Oscar, a man who drives throughout Paris, stopping to fulfill appointments where he is expected to be – and becomes – someone different each time. With Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and Edith Scob. (Ciné) IDENTITY THIEF (R) Unfortunately, stars Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman are better than this moreannoying-than-funny odd couple road comedy. nTHE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (PG-13) Aging stage musicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) look to reheat their act after the stunts of a street magician (Jim Carrey) makes the magical duo look stale. Carell seems well cast and the additions of Olivia Wilde and Alan

That salt is way better now that there’s a bird on it. HABEMUS PAPAM (NR) 2011. The fifth annual Cinecitta series, sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages, continues with the newest film by Palme d’Or winner Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room). Habemus Papam, or We Have a Pope, is a crowdpleasing light dramedy about the newly elected pope, Cardinal Melville (Michel Piccoli), who struggles with his newfound papacy so much that the Vatican hires a shrink to help him accept his new role. (UGA MLC, Room 148) HANK AARON: CHASING THE DREAM (NR) 1995. The University of Georgia’s George Foster Peabody Awards and Peabody Awards Collection presents three Peabody Award winning baseball documentaries. This feature documentary follows Atlanta Brave great Hank Aaron as he slugged his way to the top of the record books by besting Babe Ruth’s all time home run record. The 1996 Peabody Award winner was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Writer-director Michael Tollin went on to direct Radio, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. (UGA Russell Library) THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG-13) How comforting it is to return to Middle-earth, especially with Peter Jackson. 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

Arkin bring hope. However, Carrey feels too old for the hip, David Blaine/ Criss Angel–like role. Longtime television director Don Scardino is directing his first feature film since 1999. With James Gandolfini and Jay Mohr. IT’S A GIRL! (NR) For Women’s History Month, the University of Georgia’s Institute for Women’s Studies is sponsoring several screenings of films concerning modern issues facing women across the world. The documentary, It’s a Girl!, from director Evan Grae Davis, examines the disappearance of girls in India, China and other parts of the world. (UGA MLC, Room 148) 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. JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (PG-13) Another reteaming of director Bryan Singer with his Public Access/Usual Suspects/Apt Pupil/Valkryie scripter, Academy Award winner Christopher McQuarrie, should be more exciting, intriguing and lasting than Jack the Giant Slayer. While far from a bad fantasy film, this retooled telling of the classic children’s stories, Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk, does little to fire the imagination once the credits roll.

THE LAST EXORCISM PART II (PG-13) The sequel complicates the mythology more than it explains anything, and the movie does so boringly, lacking almost any scares, after a strong opening sequence. Shameless self-promoter Eli Roth, who serves as a producer, described the movie as really scary on a recent talk show appearance. If he finds this really scary, maybe it’s a good thing he hasn’t directed a horror movie since 2007. LES MISERABLES (PG-13) Les Miserables harks back to the 1960s, when colossal musical adaptations were the rule, not the exception. Parolee Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) attempts to make up for his past crimes by raising Cosette (Amanda Seyfried), the daughter of a fallen young woman named Fantine (Anne Hathaway). Constantly on Valjean’s heels is Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe), who will not give up the chase for this parole violator. Gigantically staged and competently sung. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANK GREENBERG (NR) 1998. The University of Georgia’s George Foster Peabody Awards and Peabody Awards Collection presents three Peabody Award winning baseball documentaries. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg recalls the career of major league baseball’s first major Jewish superstar. (UGA Russell Library) • OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (PG) First and foremost, Sam Raimi’s The Wizard of Oz prequel is no Wizard; it’s not even Return to Oz, the very dark, very underrated 1985 sequel. Disney’s latest family blockbuster reveals the wizard’s own cyclonic entry to Oz. Carnival magician and con man Oscar Diggs (James Franco, whose performance is nothing if not inconsistent) meets three witches—Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams)—who believe him to be the great wizard whose appearance in Oz was prophesied. In the void left by the recently deceased king, Oscar must determine which witches are wicked and which are good. Raimi trots out his usual visual wizardry, and Oz is as successful as his first Spider-Man entry. QUARTET (PG-13) In his directorial debut, Dustin Hoffman fashions a delightful trifle filled with deliciously British performances from Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Michael Gambon and more. Anyone who enjoyed their stay at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel should also enjoy the performances of Quartet. RACE TO NOWHERE (PG-13) Director Vicki Abeles documents the pressures placed on teachers and schoolchildren to perform in America’s achievement culture. Part of Volunteer UGA’s Film Festival, the screening will be followed by a discussion. (UGA MLC, Room 267) REALITY (R) Wow. Aniello Arena, a member of the Volterra Detention Center’s acting troupe, was only allowed to shoot Reality during the day. Arena plays Luciano, a fishmonger that becomes obsessed with becoming a contestant on a reality show. This Palme d’Or nominee won Cannes’ Grand Prize of the Jury. RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (PG) Author William Joyce’s very cool idea is brought to the big screen by firsttime animated feature director Peter

Ramsey and fantastical executive producer Guillermo del Toro. Holiday legends North (aka Santa, who is voiced very Russianly by Alec Baldwin), Bunny (v. Hugh Jackman) and Tooth (v. Isla Fisher) are joined by Jack Frost (v. Chris Pine) as they do battle with the evil Pitch (v. Jude Law). SAFE HAVEN (PG-13) One thing I enjoy about reviewing movies is having a readymade excuse for watching sappy romances like Safe Haven. I’ve been curious as to what the big mystery is since the first trailer; plus, Julianne Hough is really attractive. Unfortunately, the latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation, set in another North Carolina paradise, is one solved mystery away from just being one couple’s two hour how we met story. SIDE EFFECTS (R) Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has intimated that Side Effects is his final film, which is a shame. The Academy Award winning director would be going out at the top of his game, but with a movie that feels more good than great. However, Side Effects, written by Soderbergh’s writing collaborator on The Informant! and Contagion, is hard to talk about without spoiling any of the many entertaining twists. (Ciné) SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (R) David O. Russell’s dram-rom-com and multiple Academy Award nominee does everything but disappoint. Pat (Bradley Cooper) meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who lost it after the death of her husband. Instead of exacerbating each other’s unhealthy flaws, the relationship between these two cracked souls heals both. SNITCH (PG-13) The new actioner from The Rock, né Dwayne Johnson, is a lot more serious than you’d expect a movie from a former stuntman, director Ric Roman Waugh. Snitch is no ‘80s action rehash; the movie’s got too much gravitas for Ah-nuld, even in his prime. All these kind assessments get smashed by the ridiculous 18-wheeler chase with the drug cartel that concludes the picture. Oh, well. The first hour’s better than expected. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN—PART 2 (PG-13) Part 2’s concluding battle merely proves Meyer’s non-monsters aren’t really vampires; they are romantic superheroes. The terrible CGI work—the needlessly computer-generated baby Renesmee vies for the worst special effect of 1992—shows the lack of serious craftsmanship with which this material has been handled. UPSIDE DOWN (PG-13) Adam (Jim Sturgess, who’s been to these romantic, ambitious sci-fi lands before in Cloud Atlas) and Eve (Kirsten Dunst) live on twinned worlds with opposite gravities. Adam’s is a humble world, while Eve’s is one of affluence. Ten years after the teens were separated, Adam seeks to reconnect with his love. Writer-director Juan Solanas’ features sounds intriguing. WARM BODIES (PG-13) Having witnessed many a zombie apocalypse, I can say with complete assuredness that Warm Bodies is not your usual end of the world via the flesh-eating living dead flick. This zomrom stars X-Men: First Class’ Nicholas Hoult as R, who is not your typical zombie. WRECK-IT RALPH (PG) In Disney’s latest, Wreck-It Ralph (v. John C. Reilly), the bad guy from popular arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr., decides he wants to be a good guy. ZERO DARK THIRTY (R) 2012 Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow and her Oscar winning collaborator, screenwriter Mark Boal follow up The Hurt Locker with this controversial, excellently crafted military thriller documenting the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. Drew Wheeler

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not flee to their dressing rooms, readying themselves for celebration out on the town. In fact, the performers are not actors at all, not in a traditional sense at least. They are inmates—thieves, murderers, Mafia and Camorra killers—rotting in Rome’s Rebibbia maximum-security prison, and when they step off the stage, they return to their cells with

their pain, loneliness, rage and regrets. Writer/director duo the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, came up with the idea to stage Shakespeare behind prison walls after visiting Rebibbia to attend a reading of Dante’s The Divine Comedy by some of the prisoners. The brothers were deeply moved and impressed by the reading of the cantos, so they devised to orchestrate a theatrical production involving the inmates. They could not have picked a more appropriate play. The themes of Julius Caesar—honor, betrayal, friendship, loyalty, conspiracy, tragedy, murder—resonate with the prisoners, and the illusory line between fiction and reality blurs in riveting ways. We get to know many of the inmates during the audition sequences and hear about their crimes. These men know the brutality of violence firsthand and are no strangers to murder in their hearts. The process of seeing them engage with the material, transforming it through their own experiences and understanding how the play connects with them, is powerfully conveyed. Caesar Must Die is a short work (only 76 minutes) and modest compared to earlier work from the Taviani brothers, but it’s not easily forgotten.

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complement the layered, large-scale images of sumac and thistle by Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer. Whereas the eerie blackand-white landscapes in “Spirit Places” by Michael Marshall, chair of the photography department at UGA, offer hazy impressions of memory and the experience of place, the black-and-white landscapes of “Innerspace” by UGA Associate Professor of Art Michael Oliveri utilize an electron microscope to capture otherworldly scenes of molecular-scale subjects. In addition to the new gallery spaces, there are also over 30 works of art displayed throughout the building, including pieces by Mary Porter, Terry Rowlett, Karekin Goekjan, Jamie Calkin, Don Smith and Greg Benson. Public Art Proposals: The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) has already moved on to planning its next major public art installation, this time at the newly expanded Athens-Clarke County Library. The commission intends to find artwork reflecting the library’s value to the community, and ideas that allow for the involvement of neighborhood middle and high school students are preferred. Proposals, collected until Friday, Apr. 5, must be submitted electronically through its website: www.athensclarkecounty.com. MFA: The Georgia Museum of Art will host the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s “Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition,” Mar. 16–Apr. 22, a show representing the

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an Nettles answers the door to his Buena Vista Heights home and a warm, seasick drone fills the hallway; a loop pedal is yawning a single note. It is tempting to imagine it has been playing forever. A sustaining presence in the local and wider jazz communities for years—as a guitar instructor and with his longtime project Kenosha Kid—Nettles has remained mostly under the radar, a quiet but persuasive force. A few minutes later, he stands in his living room sifting through a pile of handmade charts (“I don’t do well on computers,” he says), notations of songs newly imagined or newly revised. They are tunes he plans to flesh out with a newly assembled group of old friends, a group Nettles has lovingly termed the Horns from Hell. The Horns—trumpeter Jacob Wick, alto saxophonist Peter Van Huffel and tenor/ baritone saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi—will join Kenosha Kid, whose current lineup also includes bassist Robby Handley and drummer Marlon Patton, for a series of recording sessions and an accompanying week of live performances at Hendershot’s starting Monday, Mar. 18. It’s the realization of a dream that has been in the works for several years. “I met Dan at the Banff Center in Alberta, Canada in 2006,” Sinibaldi recalls. “We each had our own room there but shared a bathroom. As you can imagine, thats a quick way to get to know someone.” The two bonded over music and life, and Sinibaldi wound up playing on a couple Kenosha Kid records, including the 2008 album Fahrenheit, a sleeper cell of an album that

cloaked wild jazz experimentation in avantpop clothing. In fact, though Nettles is an adept musical theorist, his compositions often toe the line between brains and accessibility, a result of his various associations. “If you had to pick your jazz career path,” he says, “you would graduate from whatever music school, and then move to New York and start trying to play with as many name brand musicians as you can. I just never did that. I ended up just enjoying playing with my friends.” Nettles’ Horns from Hell collaborators are similarly unbound by genre expectations—in addition to his work with experimental Seattle group Goat, Sinibaldi also performs with a heavy rock band called Uncle Pooch; the Oakland-based Wick is also a visual and performance artist. Berliner Van Huffel is perhaps the most strictly jazz-minded of the group, an improv wizard and free jazz devotee whose soulful, skronked-out playing calls to mind free-sax titans Peter Brötzmann and Albert Ayler. In concept, Nettles places this upcoming project in a decidedly un-jazz perspective. “I keep thinking of the wild ecstasy of a record like Band of Gypsies and a beautiful, arranged record like Pet Sounds and how they could somehow meet in the middle,” he wrote in a recent email. Over a cup of coffee, he elaborates. “Pet Sounds is lush, melodically. The way the recording was done is very fascinating. And [Brian Wilson’s] sense of harmony there is intense. I’ve gone through and learned seven or eight songs on there as solo pieces on the

guitar. He has these voicings that I would get into and be like, ‘How is this working?’” To demonstrate, Nettles picks up a nearby guitar and fingers some chords. “This inversion is an A7, but A7 over a G. Into D, over F-sharp,” he says, strumming. “Little things like that. I’m like, ‘Wow, this is intense.’” Of the reference to Hendrix, he explains: “If you’re gonna play guitar, you have to decide if you live in a world before Jimi Hendrix or after Jimi Hendrix. I think a lot of jazz guitarists end up with a hard choice there.” The end result of Nettles’ collaboration with the Horns from Hell will almost certainly feature an explicit jazz framework. Still, he expresses a desire to distill the “live, stretchy stuff” that is Kenosha Kid’s unabashed forte (for proof, see the dozens of live recordings uploaded to the group’s Bandcamp page) into four- or five-minute bursts of sonic immediacy. “It’s an imaginary sound, right now,” says Nettles. “I have a feeling we’re either going to record 10-minute versions and get in there and choose [our] own adventure, or we’re gonna decide on an arrangement and everyone will have their moments: ‘OK, you’re getting eight bars, so say something important.’” Nettles describes himself as a musical conservative, hard to believe given some of his past work. Still, he possesses a tectonic grasp of structure, and his collaborators attest to his leadership skills. Says Sinibaldi, “He has a vision for what he wants his music to be, and goes out to find the parts necessary to make it happen.”

And Nettles seems to be approaching this current concern with a startlingly clear focus, even for him. His mother passed away recently, he says, and though he doesn’t state it, exactly, it’s clear the project is meant as a tribute to her. He also says he’s looking into hiring a publicist to spread the word about the as-yet-untitled album (or play the “Chutes and Ladders game” of PR, as he describes it) for the first time ever. Adjacent to that is the ever-pressing issue of where Kenosha Kid fits in the musical spectrum, a question Nettles seems to wrestle with. “Are we a jam band? Are we a townie noise-rock band?” he asks rhetorically, before adding, wryly, “I’d much rather be a jam band now, honestly. The audiences are nicer, and people actually pay and give a shit.” But more imperative than figuring out where one fits creatively is staking out a position in one’s personal universe. The rest, Nettles expects, will follow. “[I’ve felt] really energized the past couple years,” he says. “I think I’ve finally been happy with where I fit in in my life, with my family… Every time I trust my gut instinct, it pays off.” Gabe Vodicka

WHO: Kenosha Kid + Horns from Hell WHERE: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar WHEN: Monday, March 18– Saturday, March 23 HOW MUCH: $5–$20

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Unbound and Downtuned

Utah Is Metal & More

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bout a minute into Utah’s new, self-titled record, the band’s pace slackens and the tempo slows to a crawl. The ensuing sound has a menace to it, but also a bluesy, pentatonic warmth. This isn’t exactly sludge; it’s not industrial, either. Guitar riffs creep through heavy, downtuned distortion like sap through an old oak. This tree is gnarled and twisted, but it’s alive. Utah is, undeniably, a metal band. You need look no further than the “Moon Skull” t-shirt and similar paraphernalia for sale on the group’s Bandcamp page. But over the course of its nine tracks, Utah features a much wider range of sound. In choosing too narrow a label, one risks obscuring what is potentially a much broader appeal. This danger isn’t lost on guitarist Wil Smith. “I hate saying we’re metal, ‘cause we’re not really metal. But we’re heavy, so I guess we are metal—it’s like I don’t even know!” he says, laughing. Each of the band’s four members has a heavy music background. Drummer Chris Holcombe and bassist Chris Parry are also members of local doomsayers Guzik—as was Smith, until recently—and lead guitarist John McNeece is similarly battle-hardened. Their tastes are varied, however. “We all love classic rock, we love jazz, we love weird shit. Some of us even love some pop stuff,” Smith explains. “It just kind of all converges.” It’s clear that certain influences predominate. Smith mentions KISS, Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath. With one particular thought, he seems to hit on the crux of Utah’s sound: “We love riffs, man… We love putting riffs together and calling it a song.” Indeed, Utah’s nine tracks are built on a series of memorable guitar lines, a form that proves surprisingly flexible. Certainly, the band has an epic, monolithic mode, evidence of how deeply the four players have absorbed the music of Black Sabbath. But there are moments when Smith and McNeece’s guitar lines expand from straightforward riffs into something more complex. In these moments, their playing has more of a melodic feel, and it’s clear just how unbound the band is by any label. For example, the middle section of album opener “Bisontennial” wouldn’t seem out of place on any of Stephen Malkmus’ past few records. “Ambian” opens with a pair of mellow,

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meandering solos, shades of Neil Young that form a stark contrast to the pounding dirge at the song’s center. On the other hand, the metal tradition provides an integral aspect of the band’s character, and it’s interesting to see how this aspect works on Utah. “Traveler” tells the story of a “time-traveling space cowboy,” by Smith’s description (“All power to the starboard shields,” begins one verse). The narrative, placed over a simple, straightforward riff, is what really propels the song forward. As far as the relationship between lyrics and music, this is not so different from a song like “Breadcrumb Trail,” by the post-rock band Slint, from its iconic album Spiderland. But where that band employed asymmetrical rhythms and angular guitar lines, Utah takes the opposite approach, sticking with conventional time signatures and pentatonic riffs. By the same token, where the story in “Breadcrumb Trail” is odd and dreamlike, “Traveler” tells a raucous epic. The songs reflect the bands’ respective personalities. In Utah’s case, it’s especially fitting that the narrative borrows from sci-fi, a genre akin to metal in its niche appeal. Utah is a study in contrasts. Like any metal group worth its salt, the band has a logo: green lettering, the name spelled out in a properly gothic-looking script. Still, the name doesn’t register as “metal” in the same way as monikers like Liturgy or Megadeth; similar names that come to mind are those of classic rock heavies Kansas and Alabama. Smith has a suitably badass explanation: The state was named for the Ute Indians, he says, “the people of the mountain.” But having established that bona fide, Smith admits to another motive. “I just wanted to keep it simple, man—a simple name that resonated in people’s heads.” Like the music, metal and something more, the name is calibrated to intrigue, a simple contradiction. “It’s Utah, from Athens, Georgia.” Marshall Yarbrough

WHO: Utah, Backwoods Payback WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Tuesday, March 19 HOW MUCH: $5 (21+), $7 (18–20)

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Ken Will Morton was way back in 2003 (Bellhouse’s Evolution o’ tha Lemon), so it was probably high time for another one. The album was tracked mostly in single takes over several sessions totaling less than 40 hours by engineer Reid Howland (The Vinyl Strangers) and then mastered up in Nashville, TN by Blount Floyd. Other Athens folks on the album include Scotty Nicholson, Marcus Thompson, Tim Adams, James Sewell and Sibley Bryan. The album is credited to Julia Barnes, so that’s the name you’ll want to look for when you go hunt it down at athensmusic.net. Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds: Ken Will Morton has a busy April lined up. First, the longtime Athens singer and six-string slinger will enjoy the release of a best-of compilation of his work titled Tell It to the Wind. The 12-track album, to be released by Swedish label Ball & Chain, collects songs from seven different Morton releases. That same month, Morton and his band, The Contenders, will travel to Europe for a nine-date tour of Norway and Sweden. Before then, though, you can catch him Saturday, Mar. 16 at Little Kings Shuffle Club, where he’ll share the bill with Wilmington, NC group Brad Heller & The Fustics and Asheville, NC artist Paul Edelman. For any other information you need concerning this, see kenwillmorton.com.

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Sing Along: Twin powers Athens Provisions and the Birdhouse Collection will present k i d s recording a live eight-song album at the Caledonia Lounge on Saturday, Mar. 30. Although k i d s has always been the brainchild of K. Jared Collins even when he’s worked with others, it seems it has finally become a real band with a regular lineup due to the addition of Winston Barbe, Emmet Cappi, Luc Frolet and Michael Wright. So, basically, all of Velocirapture. A whole bunch of guests are slated to be included in this live event, including Javier Morales (The Dream Scene), all of Pretty Bird, Josh Evans (Muuy Biien) and more. David Barbe will handle the actual task of recording so everyone else can just handle “art.â€? Also on the bill proper that night are Ritvals, Dozen Eggs and the aforementioned Pretty Bird. For the uninitiated, take a taste at thebirdhouse.bandcamp.com. It’s a thing. Come One, Come A Few More: Downtown art house theater CinĂŠ will host an event titled “Songwriters For CinĂŠâ€? to assist the nonprofit facility in its switch to digital projection, an expense that will reportedly cost around $100,000. The show happens Friday, Mar. 29, with a reception at 7 p.m. and music beginning at 8:30. Now, here’s the big news: The songswap-style performance will feature one of the first ever solo performances by R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, as well as Don Chambers, Dave Marr, Hardy Morris and Thayer Sarrano. It’s been suggested that this is the first time any member of R.E.M. has played a proper solo show in Athens, and after racking my brain for a solid minute, I’m pretty sure it is. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door, but I doubt there’ll be any left at the door. Sales begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 12 at athenscine.com. The performance is presented by CinĂŠ and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and the first 30 UGA students that show up that night will be admitted free—so there are only 97 spots available for the normal schlubs. So, hop on it. Basic Bits: Lara Oshon releases her new album I Will Sing: Live at Sangha! at the Melting Point on Wednesday, Mar. 27. Preview Oshon’s soulful 1970s-ish piano-n-vocal tunes at laraoshon.bandcamp.com‌ The new-ish self-titled album from Ritvals (pronounced Rituals) is available for streaming at ritvals.bandcamp. com. It’s a banger, full of well-heeled punk and, if you’ll forgive the term, grunge. Dig it‌ Maserati is basically on tour forever, and in this case, forever will end Apr. 27 in Dresden, Germany and start back up again in May and June. You can catch the band right in the middle of this madness on Monday, Mar. 18 at the Caledonia Lounge‌ The deadline for submitting songs for possible inclusion on the 2013 AthFest compilation CD is Friday, Mar. 15. That’s this Friday. Details and submission forms are at athfest.com/athfest2013cd.

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Deadline for getting listed in the Calendar is every FRIDAY at 5 p.m. for the print issue that comes out the following Wednesday. Online listings are updated daily. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

Tuesday 12 ART: Athens Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) Erika Lewis reports on her trip through central Asia. All amateur and professional fiber artists welcome. Meets every second Tuesday of the month. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-543-4319 CLASSES: Ashtanga Yoga (Healing Arts Centre) (Sangha Yoga Studio) Try a class with instructor Annie Marcum. 5:15–6:45 p.m. FREE! www.healingartscentre.net 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) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your beer and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:309:30 p.m. 706-354-1515 KIDSTUFF: 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 LECTURES & LIT: Special Collections Tour (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Tour the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. 2 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/scl MEETINGS: ADDA Board Meeting (Chamber of Commerce) Meeting of the Athens Downtown Development Authority. 3–5 p.m. FREE! 706353-1421 SPORTS: Recreational Disc Golf Doubles Night (Sandy Creek Park) All skill levels of disc players are welcome. Discs provided. May bring a partner or be paired up. 6–8 p.m. FREE! (w/ $3 admission). www. athensdiscgolf.com

Wednesday 13 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: 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: Spicy Salsa Dancing (Jerzee’s Sports Bar) Learn how to Salsa. Every Wednesday. 9–10 p.m.

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(lesson), 10 p.m.–1 a.m. (dancing). $3, $5 (under 21). dg2003@yahoo. com CLASSES: Stamp Making (Double Dutch Press) Learn image transfer, carving and printing techniques for making stamps. 6–8 p.m. $35. www. doubledutchpress.com CLASSES: Jewelry Class (Athena Jewelers) Learn how to use a jeweler’s saw, solder, set stones and more. Light snacks and drinks provided. 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-5496869, www.athenajewelers.com CLASSES: 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). 6:60–8:30. $8. 706-338-6613 CLASSES: Egyptian-Style Dance (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Learn solo combinations, group choreography and Trial Odyssey Group Improvisation. All levels welcome. 7 p.m. FREE! (first time visitors) $10–12. rajnigamar@ gmail.com EVENTS: Rabbit Box 10 (The Melting Point) This month’s theme: “Saved!” Local community members tell true stories from their lives. This month includes Elizabeth Alder, Matt Shedd, Rebecca McCarthy, Jan Turner, Alex White, Ansley Hayes, Ira Roth and Robert Alan Black. 6 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com FILM: The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) A look at baseball’s first Jewish star in the 1930s, when anti-Semitism was prevalent in the United States and Europe. 7 p.m. FREE! www.grady.uga.edu 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 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. Both locations. 706-548-3442 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (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 (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every

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Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 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: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) All dedicated fans and new fans of anime and manga are invited. Ages 13–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) For all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 KIDSTUFF: 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 MEETINGS: Athens Area Chapter of AARP (Athens Bank and Trust Building) Monthly meeting of the American Association of Retired Persons. Open to the public. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-340-9418 MEETINGS: Buddha Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) A discussion group that supports utilizing Buddha’s teaching to end suffering in all areas of life. Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706351-6024

Thursday 14 CLASSES: Genealogy 101: The Basics (Oconee County Library) Learn how to begin family history research with tips and techniques on how to start. 12:30–2 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 CLASSES: Scottish Country Dance Classes (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Social dancing at its liveliest with jigs, reels and strathspeys. Bring your dancing shoes. Every Thursday, 7–9 p.m. $3. dabmillier@google.com EVENTS: Your Pi(e) Day (Your Pie) Celebrate Pi Day with pizzas going for $3.14 each. All locations. All day. www.yourpie.com EVENTS: Reiki Circle (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday. 7–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-338-6843 EVENTS: Girl Drink Drunk Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Officially sanctioned ladies’ night featuring DJ Thee King Creeper, spinning R&B and soul vinyl from 1957–1972. 10 p.m. www.flickerbarandtheatre.com EVENTS: Celebrity Cake Bake (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Bid on cakes made by local celebrities. Proceeds benefit college scholarships for the winners of the Miss Marigold Scholarship Pageant. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.cityofwinterville.com/ marigold

Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii will perform at the UGA Hodgson Concert Hall on Tuesday, Mar. 19. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your beer and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:309:30 p.m. 706-354-1515 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: Open Playtime (ACC Library) Children ages 1–3 and their caregivers can meet up and play with toys. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706613-3650 MEETINGS: Athens Area Newcomers Club (Central Presbyterian Church) Cathy Padgett of ACC Leisure Services speaks about classes, facilities and programs in Athens. 9:30 a.m. FREE! 706-850-7463

Friday 15 ART: Opening Reception (Over the Moon Creative Possibilities) For “The Chrysalis Project.” Ladies only. 7 p.m. FREE! www.mamainthemoon. blogspot.com EVENTS: Thrift Sale (OCAF) (Watkinsville) Many items! Proceeds benefit OCAF. All prices are double during the first day preview sale. 7–9 p.m. $5. www.ocaf.com EVENTS: Line Dancing Lessons (Bootleggers) Coyote Ugly-style western dance lessons. Every Friday. 8–10 p.m. bootleggersathens.com

KIDSTUFF: St. Paddy’s Leprechaun Program (Rocksprings Community Center) Activities include making green cookies, craft activities and searching for hidden leprechauns throughout the center. For ages 6–12. 4–5:30 p.m. $2. www.athensclarkecounty.com/rocksprings PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show. 10 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 PERFORMANCE: Dynamo Dogs (Madison County Library) Veteran performing dogs demonstrate trick routines and Frisbee dog acrobatics. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597

Saturday 16 CLASSES: Pots to Plots: The Basics of Vegetable Gardening (Oconee County Library) Find resources and learn the basics of planning, designing and caring for a vegetable garden. 1–2 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 COMEDY: HACKS XV (Caledonia Lounge) With comedians Ian Douglas Terry, Chris Charpentier, John-Michael Bond, Brian Emond, Samm Severin, Matt Kurz and Luke Fields. 9 p.m. $5 (21 & up), $7 (18–20). www.caledonialounge.com EVENTS: Recycla-Bull Terrier Egghead Easter Party (Terrapin Beer Co.) Easter egg hunt, doggie costume contest, canine good citizen testing and more. Proceeds

benefit the Recycla-Bull Terrier rescue shelter. 5:30–7:30 p.m. www. terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: Second Annual Athens Area Dog Show (Sandy Creek Park) Pooches parade and perform. Proceeds benefit rescue efforts by Petzone Dog Rescue, Inc., a nonprofit, no-kill dog shelter. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $2. www.petzonedogs.com EVENTS: Thrift Sale(Watkinsville) Many items! Proceeds benefit OCAF. 8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com EVENTS: Ultimate Fighting Championship (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Watch UFC 158 on the big screen. 10 p.m. $7. 706-850-1916 EVENTS: 6th Annual Dawg Trot (Stegeman Coliseum) An official 5K Run and See Georgia Grand Prix Race. Part of “Dawgs on the Move,” an obesity-busting initiative. Dogs not allowed. 8 a.m. $10–25. 706542-8199 EVENTS: Adopt a Pet Day (Oconee Middle School) Come meet lovable pets searching for their forever homes. Held in conjunction with a benefit for Relay for Life. 1–4 p.m. FREE! www.athenscaninerescue.com EVENTS: Miss Marigold Scholarship Pageant (SeneyStovall Chapel) Girls from grades 1-12 compete in a scholarship pageant. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.cityofwinterville.com/marigold EVENTS: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) Presented by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society. Live music by Crosstown Traffic and calling by k continued on p. 22

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JuBee and the Morning After Green Room · 10 p.m. · FREE! The rare rap-rock conflation that actually works, Georgia-based act JuBee and the Morning After takes the wide-open live-band instrumentation of The Roots and expands it further, incorporating rock guitars, psychedelic synths and decisive funk rhythms into its sound, which is both nebulous and airtight. Frontman JuBee is no slouch as an MC, easing his way through each winking verse like it’s no thing. But it’s the chorus where he really tends to stand out. The Morning After (which features the convincing two-man rhythmic core of defunct Athens funk outfit Dope John Paul) provides a strong melodic base for JuBee’s soaring falsetto. In these moments the group sounds a little like a looser, more party-minded version of TV on the Radio. [Gabe Vodicka] MUSIC | Thursday, Mar. 14

John Driskell Hopkins & Balsam Range Melting Point · 8 p.m. · $12 (adv.), $15 (door) He’s best known for playing bass and singing backup with Grammy-winning country-radio mainstays Zac Brown Band, but the multitalented John Driskell Hopkins still has more than a little bit of that old-time spirit in him. He wears it well, too, and his latest pet project, a collaborative album with talented Carolina bluegrass outfit Balsam Range called Daylight, is an unexpected treat, a sure-footed showcase of Hopkins’ songwriting ability and the band’s sneakily inventive instrumentation. The show Thursday is being billed as a celebration of the record’s Little Gold release; expect to witness performances of selections from Daylight as well as various other traditional tunes and originals. Just don’t expect to hear “Chicken Fried.” [G.V.] MUSIC | Saturday, Mar. 16

Little Gold, Grape Soda Farm 255 · 11 p.m. · FREE!

Former Woods member Christian DeRoeck arrived in Athens just over a year ago, but his band Little Gold has only been gigging seriously around town for the last four months or so. Don’t let that fool you into thinking he hasn’t been busy in the meantime: assembling a solid line-up in John McLean, Chase Merritt and Taylor Chmura; running his label, Loud Baby Sounds; and establishing his home studio, Cookie Road, as a venue. Little Gold is now in full force, playing great bar-room rock and roll replete with themes of wicked thoughts and bad habits. Delivered in

DeRoeck’s melodious twang and accompanied by boisterous harmonies, it’s the perfect soundtrack to a debauched night downtown. Grab a beer and join the party. [Rachel Bailey] EVENT | Saturday, Mar. 16– Wednesday, Mar. 20

Athens Jewish Film Festival GMOA, Ciné · $35 (festival pass) or individual

tickets available The fifth annual Athens Jewish Film Festival will kick off with a Main Event Gala Dinner and film at The Georgia Museum of Art on Saturday, Mar. 16 at 7 p.m. Gala tickets are $60 per person and include a catered dinner by Trump’s, cocktails and seating for the opening film, Hava Nagila, at 8:45 p.m. In the following four days, 11 full-length international documentaries, dramas, comedies and animated films, plus various shorts, will be shown at Ciné. The screenings include film discussions and complimentary food catered by local restaurants. The closing event will take place at Ciné at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Mar. 20, and will feature a viewing of the shorts finalists, an awards ceremony and the final full-length feature film, Welcome to Kutcher’s: The Last Catskills Resort, followed by a light reception. Visit athensjff.org or athenscine.org to see the complete schedule. [Christina Cotter]

First Annual 5k Run/Walk Friday, March 22 at Midnight Begins at St. Joseph Catholic Church and runs through the beautiful Boulevard district of Athens!

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REGISTRATION $20 pre-registration through March 13 $25 registration fee after March 13 - Race Day Online registration at active.com Race-day registration opens at 10:30pm [T-shirts guaranteed to runners who register by March 13]

FOR MORE INFO: Lindsay Brannen 706-461-2700, lindsaydrue@hotmail.com Carole Black classicraceservices@gmail.com Proceeds benefit Lay Park Community Center

PERFORMANCE | Tuesday, Mar. 19

Nobuyuki Tsujii UGA Hodgson Concert Hall · 8 p.m. · $20–$34 Japanese pianist and composer Nobuyuki Tsujii will perform a program of classical works by DeBussy and Chopin. Blind since birth, 25-year-old Tsujii has had an illustrious career, having won the Gold Metal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at age 21 and made his debut at Carnegie Hall at age 23. This rising star has garnered extensive international accolades, and his performance this night is sure to be memorable. Van Cliburn himself has famously dubbed him “absolutely miraculous.” There will be a pre-concert lecture 45 minutes before the performance. Tickets can be purchased by calling 706-542-4400 or by visiting pac. uga.edu. [C.C]

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THE CALENDAR! Rob Harper. Free 30-minute lesson beginning at 7:30 p.m. No experience or partner needed. 8–11 p.m. FREE! (under 18), $7 (adults). www. athensfolk.org EVENTS: Memorial Celebration (Georgia Bar) Honoring former UGA Vet School staffers John Jack Herndon and Gregg Marcus. Live music and a raffle. Proceeds benefit Athens Pets. 7 p.m.–1 a.m. $5. www. athenspets.net FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival Opening Night (Georgia Museum of Art) A gala dinner and cocktails followed by a showing of Hava Nagila. Visit website for full festival schedule. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 7 p.m. $35 (full festival pass). www.athensjff.org GAMES: Pathfinder Society Event (Tyche’s Games) Explorers’ RPG. Bring your imagination. 12 p.m. FREE! 706-345-4500 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) For all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 KIDSTUFF: Saturday at the Rock (Rock Eagle 4H Center) Learn about snakes, turtles and more. Register. 9:30-11:30 a.m. $5. 706-484-2862, www.rockeagle4h.org OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. Call to register. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615

Sunday 17 CLASSES: St. Patrick’s Celebration Dance Lesson (Buffalo’s Café) Learn the Irish Jig with instructor Oonagh Benson from the Drake School of Irish Dance. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 CLASSES: Stoneware Clay for Homesteaders (Good Dirt) Clay projects that are useful for the home, including utensil crocks, bowls, pots and a butter churn. 2-5 p.m. $50–55. www.gooddirt.net FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) Circus Kids (12:30 p.m.), David: The Movie (2:15 p.m.), complimentary snack (3:45 p.m.), a.k.a Doc Pomus (4:30 p.m.) and Simon Konianski (8 p.m.) Visit website for full festival schedule. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 12:30–9:30 p.m. www.athensjff.org GAMES: Trivia (Amici) Test your skills. 9 p.m. 706-353-0000 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (Broad Street location) What do you really know? 6 p.m. 706-548-3442 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 KIDSTUFF: Book It with Baseball (Madison County Library) Kids design their own custom baseball stadiums. For ages 7 & up. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Saint Patrick’s Snake Day (Memorial Park) (Bear Hollow) Snake presentations, crafts and games. 1:30–4 p.m. FREE! 706616-3616

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ficked girls, women who are caught in dowry-related violence, mothers fighting for their daughters and mothers who would kill for a son. Part of the Women’s History Month Film Festival. 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.iws.uga.edu FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) In Heaven Underground (4 p.m.), Remembrance (6 p.m.), complimentary snack (7:45 p.m.) and The Rabbi’s Cat (8:30 p.m.). Visit website for full festival schedule. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 4-10 p.m. www.athensjff.org GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Athens’ toughest trivia. $100 grand prize every week! All ages. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Show off your extensive music knowledge. Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Stories before bedtime; pajamas encouraged. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT: Race, Class, Place and Outcome Speaker Series (Miller Learning Center) (Room 250) David Williams of the Harvard Public School of Public Health talks about “Race, Place and Health: Tackling the Fundamental Causes of Disparities.” 1:30–3 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6100 PERFORMANCE: Viola Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Hugh Hodgson School of Music viola professor Maggie Snyder gives a recital. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Nobuyuki Tsujii (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Japanese pianist, blind since birth, plays selections by Debussy and Chopin. Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 p.m. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 8 p.m. $20–34. www.pac.uga.edu

Tuesday 19 ART: Life Drawing Open Studio (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries) See Wednesday listing for full description 5:30–8:30 p.m. $8. www.art.uga.edu FILM: The Misadventures of the Dunderheads (Madison Morgan Cultural Center) Screening of director D.G. Brock’s movie about an old Montana mountain family. Discussion with the director to follow. Part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. 7 p.m. $5–7. www. mmcc-arts.org FILM: Habeus Papam (We Have a Pope) (Miller Learning Center) (Room 148) A story centered on the newly elected Pope and his doubts. Part of the fifth annual Cinecittà Film Series. 7 p.m. FREE! pizzuti@ uga.edu FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) My Australia (4 p.m.), The Flat (6:15 p.m.), complimentary snack (8 p.m.) and Free Men (8:30 p.m.). View website for full festival schedule. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 4-10 p.m. www.athensjff.org FILM: Habemus Papam (Miller Learning Center) (Room 148) A dramedy about a newly elected Pope who begins therapy after he is reluctant to fulfill his new role. Part of the fifth annual Cinecitta Series. 7 p.m. FREE! www.rom.uga.edu

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FILM: Darius Goes West (Miller Learning Center) (Room 150) A documentary following the 7,000 mile cross-country roadtrip of Darius Weems, a local musician living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Part of Volunteer UGA’s three-day film festival. Discussion to follow the film. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.dariusgoeswest.org 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) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your beer and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:309:30 p.m. 706-354-1515 KIDSTUFF: 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

a presentation about how Social Security fits into retirement income plans. 12–2:30 p.m. FREE! 706583-8834 LECTURES & LIT: Gun Control Debate (UGA Tate Student Center) With Richard Feldman of the Independent Firearms Association and Kathryn Grant from Gun Free Kids. 7:30 p.m. FREE! union@uga. edu MEETINGS: Get Exposed! (Highwire Lounge) Film Athens’ quarterly networking event for local film industry professionals and supporters of local film to meet and discuss current projects and opportunities. 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! www. filmathens.net MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) Anita Westlake, long-time member of the Georgia Mineral Society, gives a presentation on “Geo Hazards.” 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8082 PERFORMANCE: Master’s Recital (UGA Robert G. Edge Recital Hall) Brooke Rutledge performs on clarinet. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.music. uga.edu

CLASSES: 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 EVENTS: Terrapin Beer Dinner (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Courses paired with different Terrapin beers. 5–10 p.m. $45. www. heirloomathens.com FILM: Switch (Miller Learning Center) (Room 101) A documentary that moves past the politics to deliver the straights facts on energy. Part of the EcoFocus Film Festival. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.ecofofocusfilmfest.org FILM: Movie Night (Oconee County Library) Celebrate extraterrestrial day by watching The Mothman Prophecies about a reporter drawn to a small town to investigate strange occurrences. Ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 FILM: Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Filmmaker Mike Tollin’s 1995 documentary focuses on Hank Aaron’

The Athens Jewish Film Festival runs Saturday, Mar. 16–Wednesday, Mar. 20 at the GMOA and Ciné. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. LECTURES & LIT: Special Collections Tour (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Tour the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library. 2 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/scl LECTURES & LIT: Book Signing (Ciné Barcafé) The Lee Brothers will be sign their new cookbook, The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen. The $75 admission includes a copy of the book ($115 for couples who only want one copy), sold by Avid, but also entitles you to music, performances by Canopy and snacks from the cookbook’s pages, prepared by The National. Reservations required. 6 p.m. $75/person, $115/couple. 706-549-3450, reservations@thenationalrestaurant.com LECTURES & LIT: Visiting Artist Lecture (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries) (Room S151) Speaker Bernie Lubell, an artist who makes interactive wood machines that aspire to visually construct the process of thought. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Gale Anne Hurd (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Hurd, executive producer of “The Walking Dead,” is interviewed by journalism professor Nate Kohn. 12:30 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/russell LECTURES & LIT: “Social Security: Your Questions Answered” (Oglethorpe Co. Library) Edward Jones financial advisor Jess Jensen-Ryan hosts

SPORTS: Recreational Disc Golf Doubles Night (Sandy Creek Park) All skill levels of disc players are welcome. Discs provided. May bring a partner or be paired up. 6–8 p.m. FREE! (w/ $3 admission). www. athensdiscgolf.com

Wednesday 20 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, leads an indepth discussion of Joan Mitchell’s abstract painting “Close.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.com ART: GMOA & Willson Center Annual Lecture (Georgia Museum of Art) Peter Murray, founder of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, speaks on “Museums without Walls: Art in the Landscape,” an examination of European, Japanense and North American sculpture parks. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.willson.uga.edu CLASSES: 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). 6:60–8:30. $8. 706-338-6613 CLASSES: Jewelry Class (Athena Jewelers) Learn how to use a jeweler’s saw, solder, set stones and more. Light snacks and drinks provided. 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-5496869, www.athenajewelers.com CLASSES: Stationery (Double Dutch Press) Learn the basics of making your own screenprinted cards. 6–8 p.m. $50. www.doubledutchpress. com

grace, dignity and focus as he faced hate mail and death threats while closing in on Babe Ruth’s homerun record in 1974. 7 p.m. FREE! www. grady.uga.edu FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival Awards and Closing Ceremony (Ciné Barcafé) Announcement of winning short films and awards ceremony (5 p.m.), Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort (6 p.m.) and a light reception (7:30 p.m.). Visit website for full festival schedule. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 5–8 p.m. www.athensjff.org GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub

GAMES: Crows Nest Trivia (Dirty Birds) Every Wednesday in the Crows Nest. 8 p.m. FREE! 706546-7050 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. Both locations. 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: 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 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: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) For all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 LECTURES & LIT: Brent Shaw (Miller Learning Center) (Room 102) Dr. Brent Shaw of Princeton University discusses the attempts to end child sacrifice in Africa. 5-6 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT: Celebrating UGA Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Miller Learning Center) (Room 250) Panel discussion featuring UGA women in the STEM fields. Reception to follow. Part of Women’s History Month. 2:30–3:30 p.m. FREE! www.iws. uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Talking About Books (ACC Library) This month’s title is Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 LECTURES & LIT: Origin of Life (UGA Chapel) Mark Farmer explores the transition from complex biochemistry to simple cells and offers explanations as to how the first freeliving life forms emerged to eventually give rise to complex organisms. 7 p.m. FREE! www.originslectures. uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Law Lecture (UGA School of Law) U.S. Court of Appeals judge Edith Hollan speaks about “Why the Constitution Matters and Why Women Should Care.” Reception to follow. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.law.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: DMA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) DMA candidate Corey Flowers gives a guitar recital. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 12 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com ADAM GARZA Local singersongwriter. JOSH PERKINS Local folk-rocker. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE AVIATORS Hard rock with a hint of funk and a lot of power. EN LIMBO Local rap-rock group. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com SONGWRITERS SERIES Local singer-songwriters open their hearts. The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com GRASSVILLE Four-piece bluegrass band.

Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Road location) LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot performs folk and country, solo or with the help of some friends. 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. DANNY HUTCHENS Bloodkin guitarist plays a solo set of wrenching soul-folk and rock. RICK FOWLER Original guitar-driven blues-rock. REDNECK GREECE Swinging hillbilly honky-tonk straight from the Appalachian Mountains of North Georgia. The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday! Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 KARAOKE Every Tuesday and Thursday!

Wednesday 13 Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday! Farm 255 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CALEB DARNELL Member of The Darnell Boys and Bellyache sings the blues. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 BAXTER AND THE BASICS Local folk-inspired indie rock band. SPRY OLD MEN Solo project of South Carolina songwriter Logan Galloway. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com WOMEN FOLK Local singer-songwriter Emily Jackson presents this series featuring local female artists. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 GEORGIA REDCLAY Newly formed Southern rock band from Georgia playing originals and covers. Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday with Lynn! Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Join drummer Nicholas Wiles with bassist Drew Hart and pianist Steve Key for an evening of 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 JIM COOK Local veteran performs an acoustic set of Delta blues, classic rock and a wide variety of Americana.

Thursday 14 Barbeque Shack 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-6752 OPEN BLUEGRASS JAM All pickers welcome! Every Thursday!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com CONTROL THE DEVASTATOR Atlanta group that falls in between progressive and death metal. THE HARLOT’S CHAMBER Atlantabased metal band mixing thrash, breakdowns and melodic riffing. ANATOMY OF SHADOWS Elbertonbased metal band influenced by The Faceless. 10 FINGERS STRONG Hardcore metal that also delves into rapcore in the style of Rage Against the Machine. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com HEIGHT WITH FRIENDS Hiphop-influenced rock band from Baltimore. FUTURE APE TAPES Local group creating psychedelic, experimental music driven by loops, beats, guitars and synths. TREE SPIRIT Solo set from a member of Pretty Bird. RICKY DIGITS Local MC. Georgia Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-9884 NICK LASKER No info available. Go Bar 11 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com JAZZ JAM Some of Athens’ most talented jazz musicians have been getting together... The Melting Point 8 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com JOHN DRISKELL HOPKINS & BALSAM RANGE Balsam Range, a five-piece bluegrass act from North Carolina. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. FESTER HAGOOD This local songwriter sings in a soft drawl that accents his simple country songs. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 THE LIONZ OF ZION Check out that name. South Carolina-based reggaerock band. Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 BLUES NIGHT WITH THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Open blues jam every Thursday! Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com MAKAYAN Progressive/jam-rock band from Asheville, NC. Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 KARAOKE Every Tuesday and Thursday!

Friday 15 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com BLIND BY SIGHT Local mainstreamleaning rock band. UNDER AUTUMN Heavy local altrock group. NINE No info available. Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q 8 p.m. FREE! www.butthuttbarbecue. com THE HANDS OF TIME Soul, funk, pop, R&B, Motown and classic old-

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Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+) $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE WESTERN CROONERS Country-western band based in Tokyo, Japan. MIKEY DWYER & THE STARTER KITS Old school-inspired rock out of Athens. TONY TIDWELL Self-described “raw, rural barroom rock ‘n’ roll.� THE WELFARE LINERS This fivepiece bluegrass unit blends classic tunes with originals while focusing on brother harmonies for that authentic high, lonesome sound. Crow’s Nest 9 p.m. 706-546-7050 COMMON PEOPLE BAND Playing ‘70s funk and disco. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com T.S. WOODWARD Psychedelic, piano-centric pop from this local singer-songwriter. KARA KILDARE Kill Kill Buffalo frontwoman plays a solo set. OLD SMOKEY Local band fronted by Jim Willingham, playing spaghetti western-style numbers. THE VIKING PROGRESS Patrick Morales has a lovely, tender voice that sings gentle, indie/folk ballads about love, death and isolation inspired by his time at sea. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com CASPER AND THE COOKIES Local legends playing eccentric and energetic pop-rock. THE GOONS Supergroup featuring members of The Glands, Casper and the Cookies and The Olivia Tremor Control, playing warm pop-rock in the style of Yo La Tengo and Elf Power. MINORCAN Lo-fi folk rock out of Asheville, NC. Georgia Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-9884 THE RAYS FEATURING CARLA LEFEVER This band, led by longtime Athenian LeFever, is back with a new lineup and a new, more rocking sound. Green Room 10 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com SALEM LAKE Alt-rock band from North Carolina. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com ERIN THOMAS Nashville-based singer-songwriter. Highwire Lounge “Friday Night Jazz.� 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com RAND LINES Original compositions of pianist Rand Lines with drummer Ben Williams and bassist Carl Lindberg. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $13 (adv.), $17 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com TOMMY TALTON BAND The classic slide and guitar work and distinctive vocals of Tommy Talton, tackling a wide range of genres including blues, southern rock, Americana, R&B and soul. JIMMY THACKERY Former member of The Nighthawks plays blues inspired by the likes of Muddy Waters.

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Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 VINCENT THE DOG Local bluesrock trio. The Office Lounge 10 p.m. 706-546-0840 CAROLINE AIKEN One of Atlanta’s most talented and respected performing songwriters. Her bluesy voice and masterful technique guarantee a hypnotic and engaging performance. The Pub at Gameday 10 p.m. 706-353-2831 LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot performs folk and country, solo or with the help of some friends. KEN WILL MORTON AND THE CONTENDERS With his gritty, soulful rasp, Morton trudges through Americana’s roots with rock and roll swagger and a folksinger’s heart.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com LITTLE GOLD Athens-based Brooklyn transplant trio fronted by Christian DeRoeck, formerly of Woods, playing upbeat folk-inspired rock. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. GRAPE SODA This local duo (sometimes trio) plays soulful, psychedelic synthpop driven by organ and drums. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com FRANCO FUNICELLO Local guitardriven indie rock band with a ‘90s alternative feel. DOWNSIDE UP Four piece acousticrock band playing music in a style similar to Jason Mraz and Dave Matthews Band. SWAMP No info available. Georgia Bar 9 p.m. $5. 706-546-9884 HIGH MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS Playing Grateful Dead covers as part of a memorial celebration billed

and roll swagger and a folksinger’s heart. PAUL EDELMAN Folk-country singer-songwriter from Asheville, NC. New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com UNLIMITED GRAVITY Glitch-hop producer and MC from Colorado. SATORU Glitchy, synth-heavy producer from Atlanta. CHARLIE P. Atlanta-based dubstep artist. DUAL INITIAL No info available. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 ROOT SPIRITS Local two-piece blues-rock outfit draws from Americana and psychedelia. The Office Lounge Human Rights Fundraiser. 8:30 p.m. $5. 706-546-0840 ROLLIN’ HOME Local Southern rock band. PAUL LOMBARD Long-running local blues singer.

Maserati plays Caledonia Lounge on Monday, Mar. 18. ARLO FINCH Folk singer from Rome, GA. LAWRENCE NEMENZ Levi Lowrey’s drummer performs a set with the help of some friends. Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com ERISA REI Roots-rocking singersongwriter.

Saturday 16 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $10 (adv), $15 (door). www.40watt.com JEFF VAUGHN BAND A fun, rowdy mix of Southern rock and country. 3 & 20 Rockin’ country band that carries a fun, party atmosphere with it. JEREMY SCRUGGS Straight-up rock and roll with pop sensibilities. REGGIE STARRETT Enthusiastic blend of classic rock and country. HANNAH RICHARDSON 11-yearold singer/songwriter from Pennsylvania. Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 SALEM LAKE Alt-rock. Bootleggers Country & Western Bar 8 p.m. www.bootleggersathens.com ASHLIE RAE Rising country singer from Nashville. Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q 8 p.m. FREE! www.butthuttbarbecue. com CODY TURPEN Singer-songwriter from Valdosta.

as “The Life and Times of John Jack Herndon and Gregg Marcus.� There will also be a raffle to benefit AthensPets.net. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 MOTHER THE CAR Local hard rock/ blues band playing fierce and heavy tunes. CARS CAN BE BLUE Sweetly sarcastic lo-fi pop trio of Becky Brooks, Nate Mitchell and bassist Jeremy Dyson. “Our songs are catchier than genital warts,� says the band. UNCLE SKUNKLE Rowdy, Tennesseebased garage-psychobilly band. DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, R&B and a whole lotta faves. Green Room 10 p.m. FREE! www.greenroomathens. com MONKEYGRASS JUG BAND Local roots music crew. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE GREEN FLAG BAND Playing traditional Irish music. BALLY BEG Local band playing traditional Irish jigs. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub THE FUSTICS Folk-rock band from North Carolina fronted by songwriter Brad Heller. KEN WILL MORTON AND THE CONTENDERS With his gritty, soulful rasp, Morton trudges through Americana’s roots with rock

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com SCARLET STITCH Straight-up rock!

Sunday 17 The Globe 7 & 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE DONNER PARTY A Pogues cover band from Globe employees. Special guests include Thayer Sarrano and Rebecca Cash. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com AMERICAN HEARTS Female-fronted pop band from Washington, D.C. The Melting Point 5 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION Featuring traditional dance performances by the DRAKE SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCING, traditional Irish/Celtic music performed by the FIDDLER’S WIFE AND REPENT AT LEISURE (Noel Blackmon, David Blackmon, Dale Wechsler, Seth Hendershot & Matt Williams) followed by a raucous tribute to The Pogues by THE WELFARE LINERS & THE KNOCKOUTS. All-ages show. Special menu. Ten Pins Tavern 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE BOWLING ALLEY BLUES BAND Featuring locals Paul Scales, Randy Durham, John Straw, Dave Herndon and Scott Sanders playing blues jams.

Monday 18 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $8 (21+) $10 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MASERATI Athens natives playing their blend of explosive dynamics, post-rock and psychedelia. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 HURRAH! A BOLT OF LIGHT! Brooklyn-based alt-country band. PARADE GROUNDS Indie-folk group from New York. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5-$20. www.hendershotscoffee.com KENOSHA KID AND THE HORNS FROM HELL Centered around the compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features drummer Seth Hendershot. This weeklong residency features a horn section called the Horns From Hell. See story on p. 17. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub PITY PARTY Brooklyn-based punk band featuring former members of The Measure and The Ergs.

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Tuesday 19 40 Watt Club Foundry Entertainment Presents. 7 p.m. $11 (adv). $13 (door). www.40watt.com TWENTY ONE PILOTS Columbus duo playing “piano-driven schizoid pop and lyrical uplift.� NEW POLITICS Danish band playing a high-energy blend of punk and pop with an electronic dance feel. FIVE KNIVES Anthemic pop-rock out of Nashville. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com UTAH Heavy, downtuned local rock band. See story on p. 18. BACKWOODS PAYBACK Westchester, PA group playing a mix of stoner rock, doom and heavy metal. Crow’s Nest 9 p.m. 706-546-7050 CHLOE SUNSHINE New York-based band with a sunshiney surfer vibe. HART SAWYER AND THE LOVE PROJECT Upbeat folk-pop from this local, female-fronted band.

Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features drummer Seth Hendershot. This weeklong residency features the Horns From Hell. See story on p. 17. The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com MRJORDANMRTONKS Rootsy guitar picking and paired vocal melodies. Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Road location) LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot performs folk and country, solo or with the help of some friends. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 FESTER HAGOOD This local songwriter sings in a soft drawl that accents his simple, plucked country songs. ADAM PAYNE Payne writes songs with a lot of heart, the kind that can either make you tear up or laugh out loud. BRAD DOWNS Mississippi-born, but now Athens-based singersongwriter. JOSH PERKINSLong-running local folk-rocker. The Volstead

VELOCIRAPTURE Loud and brash local rock group that names Velvet Underground among its influences. NORWEGIAN ARMS Philadelphia freak folk, playing earnest, mandolin strummed tunes. Featuring Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick on percussion. RITVALS Junk-rock band featuring members of Muuy Biien. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THE LAST TYCOON Local dark-folk/ Americana outfit. THE ROUGH & TUMBLE Minimalist folk that borders on ambient from Nashville. JESSE PAYNE Ethereal, post-modern folk. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5-$20. www.hendershotscoffee.com KENOSHA KID AND THE HORNS FROM HELL Centered around the compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features drummer Seth Hendershot. This weeklong residency features a horn section called the Horns From Hell. See story on p. 17. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com THE STEEPWATER BAND Chicago band combing a Delta blues sound with a Southern edge of countryinspired melodies.

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New Earth Music Hall 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall.com TECROPOLIS Athens’ longestrunning electronic dance music monthly, with special guests Hyperion and Brock B with support from Angry Digweed vs D:RC and SPNKBNK. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 MISSION SOUTH Soul/rock trio from Washington, DC. 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.

twenty one pilots play 40 Watt Club on Tuesday, Mar. 19. NAPALM DONUT Punk band from Pittsburgh. Max 9 p.m. 706-254-3392 CELESTIAL SHORES Experimental, spacey rock out of Brooklyn, NY. LEVERAGE MODELS Summoning the spirit of Spandau Ballet and Talk Talk, Shannon Fields tries her hand at early ‘80s synth-pop FRIEND ROULETTE Avant-garde and psychedelic chamber pop from New York. LIQUOR SHITS New local country band featuring members of Muuy Biien. DJ DAFFY DUCK Psychedelic funk bombs from this local DJ. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 JAZZ FUNK JAM WITH DREW HART Local musician and Juice Box bassist leads a jam session. The Office Lounge 7:30 p.m. $5. 706-546-0840 DJ LADY LOV Learn the beginner’s Electric Slide, Good Times, Biker’s

MICHAEL BOWMAN Local altcountry/blues singer-songwriter, originally from Harrisonburg, VA. Cutters Pub 9 p.m. 706-353-9800 TAR & ROSIN Bluegrass string band playing old time Appalachian music. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 9:30 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com BOOMFOX Local rock band that describes itself as “Adele meets Stone Temple Pilots.� IMMUZIKATION A dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ BLOWPOP Joe Kubler (Bubbly Mommy Gun) spins a set of tunes. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5-$20. www.hendershotscoffee.com KENOSHA KID AND THE HORNS FROM HELL Centered around the compositions of guitarist Dan

9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday! Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 KARAOKE Every Tuesday and Thursday!

Wednesday 20 Amici 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 KARAOKE Sing your heart out. Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday! Farm 255 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Local jazz act featuring Jeremy Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor saxophone. 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DANGEROUS PONIES Fuzzy, psychedelic indie pop-rock, nostalgic for the ‘60s, out of Philadelphia.

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ART Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) Accepting applications for the third annual Festifool Artist Market on Apr. 6. Email peterlooseart@gmail.com Call for Artists (Oglethorpe Senior Center) Seeking vendors for an arts and crafts show. Apply by Apr. 12. Show Apr. 20, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $40-60. (706) 743-8848 Call for Public Art Proposals (Athens, GA) The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is seeking proposals from local artists for a public art installation at the newly renovated ACC Library. $25,000 budget. Deadline Apr. 15. www.athensculturalaffairs.org LACSI Call for Artists (Athens, GA) Artists are invited to submit entries to “Reflections of the Latin American Natural Environment,” a national juried exhibition of contemporary art. Email submissions by Mar. 15. Visit website for details. lacsiuga@gmail.com, www.lacsi. uga.edu Seeking Artists and Performers (Athens, GA) Makers and artists of all stripes, as well as demonstrators, circus performers, puppeteers, acrobats, nonprofits and local school art clubs are invited to apply to be a part of the Lovely Spring Day show on May 4. Deadline Mar. 24. $15 (application fee), $80 (booth). indiesouthfair@ gmail.com, www.indiesouthfair.com The Art Rocks Athens Foundation (Athens, GA) Seeking artists who were creating art in, or related to, Athens between 1975–1985 for a major retrospective exhibition at Lamar Dodd May 23–July 31, 2014. The retrospective will explore the relationship between

CLASSES Armitage’s Herbaceous Perennials for the Sun (Georgia Center Hotel, Georgia Center for Continuing Ed) Dr. Alllen Armitage teaches an online course on how to plant, propagate and care for 20 of his favorite perennials and how to identify different varieties within the plant’s genus. Course available to start at student’s convenience. $199–$249. www. georgiacenter.uga.edu/ppd/courses/ horticulturegreen-industry/armitages-herbaceous-perennials-sun 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 Bellydancing (Floorspace) Sulukule Dance and Music presents classes in bellydancing, Bollywood dance, fire dancing, yoga, theatrical “bellyesque,” burlesque and Middle Eastern drumming. See www.floorspaceathens.com for schedule. Buddha Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) A discussion group that supports utilizing Buddha’s teaching to end suffering in all areas of life. Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-351-6024 Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7–9 p.m. “Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www. gooddirt.net

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Computer Classes (ACC Library) The library also offers online computer classes as well as in-library classes and one-onone instruction. Topics include in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, eBooks and more. Call for times and to register. 706-613-3650 Computer Classes (Oconee County Library) Advanced to beginner computer classes offered by appointment and in scheduled classes. Subjects include email for beginners, Windows and more. Call to register. 706-769-3950, watkinsville@athenslibrary.org Dance Classes (Dancefx) Ballet, tap, hip-hop, Zumba, contemporary, foxtrot, Western dancing, strip aerobics and more. Check website for schedule. 706-355-3078, www. dancefx.org Gentle Hatha Integral Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) All levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9/class. 706-543-0162, mfhealy@bellsouth.net, www.mindfuliving.org Healing Fridays (Body, Mind & Spirit) A combination of reiki, chant and other forms of holistic and spiritual healing modalities to assist with healing the body/mind duality. $10 donation. Fridays, 6 p.m. 706351-6024 Hot Yoga (Bikram Yoga Athens) Classes offered seven days a week. Beginners welcome. 706-353-9642, www.bikramathens.com Introduction to Fantasy Illustration (Lyndon House Arts Center) Local artist Mark Helwig teaches a course in illustrating science fiction art and speculative fiction art. Basic drawing skills required. Thursdays, Mar. 12–Apr. 25, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $83–125. www. athensclarkecounty.com/lyndonhouse

visual arts and the birth of the Athens music scene. www.artrocksathens.com

Great-looking Catahoula mix has bluish patches with spots, one blue eye, one brown eye and an all pink nose. Smart, knows basic commands. About 30 pounds and 2 years old.

Friendly adult Jack Russell is a quiet girl and surprisingly calm for a JRT!

Beautiful Shepherd mix has a lush, glossy coat and is very playful. Just a bit shy at first but a young and loving girl.

Frank Duveneck’s etching “Laguna, Venice” is on display at the GMOA through Apr. 21. Needle Felting Workshop for Adults (Lyndon House Arts Center) Learn how to turn wool finer/ roving into three-dimensional soft sculptures like owls, fortune cookies and felted soap. Saturdays, Apr. 13 & 20, 1–3 p.m. $48–62. 706-6133623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ lyndonhouse Prenatal Yoga (Baby Belly Yoga) Prenatal yoga and mom & baby yoga with instructor Krista Jones, as well as labor and birth workshops and doula services. Check website for schedule. www.babybellyyoga.com Printmaking Workshops (Double Dutch Press) Workshops in one color or multicolor screenprint, reductive woodcut, stampmaking, relief printmaking, one color linocut and stationery. Call or check website for dates and prices. 706-546-0994, www.doubledutchpress.com Spring Term (Good Dirt) Winter clay classes of all levels begin Mar. 18. See website for schedule. 706355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Yoga Classes (Thrive) Tai Chi, QiGong and yoga classes, including basic, vinyasa and samaritan yoga. Visit website for class schedule. 706-850-2000, www.thrivespace.net Yoga Classes (Healing Arts Centre) Several types of ongoing classes are offered for all levels. Visit website for details. www.healingartscentre.net Yoga and Fitness Classes (Total Training Yoga Studio) Power yoga, gentle flow, guided deep relaxation and more. www.totaltrainingcenter.com Zumba (Athens Latino Center for Education and Services (ALCES)) Instructed by Maricela Delgado. Every Monday and Tuesday, 7:30– 8:30 p.m. $3. 706-540-0591 Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden) Latin rhythms 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. Fridays, 6–7 p.m. $5. zumbathens@gmail.com

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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

Camp EcoAdventure (Rock Eagle 4H Center) Register for spring break camp for ages 5–11. Campers will explore the natural world with adventures, crafts and games. Includes two snacks per day and a t-shirt. Register by Mar. 22. Apr. 1–5. $50/day, $240/week. 706-4842881, jakemart@uga.edu, www. rockeagle4h.org/ee/community/ EcoAdventure.html 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. 706613-3589 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. www. treehousekidandcraft.com New Mamas & Babies Group (Arrow) Meet other new parents and their pre-crawling little ones. Caregivers Jean Anderson and Rebecca Espana host. Thursdays, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $5, $30 (8 visits). www.ourarrow.com 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.ourarrow.com Spanish Lessons for Tots (Arrow) Spanish lessons with music, dancing and fun surprises led by Sarah Ehlers. For ages 2.5–4 years old. Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.–12 p.m. $10. ourarrow@gmail.com Treehouse Summer Camps (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Space camp, collage & creative writing, natural crafting, woodland fairy themed, sewing, folk art, superherothemed and DIY crafts. Check website for dates, costs and age requirements. www.treehousekidandcraft.com Yoga Sprouts Family Yoga (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) For children ages 2 & older with an adult. Sundays. 1–1:45 p.m. $60. yogasprouts@gmail.com, www. athensfivepointsyoga.com

SUPPORT Alanon 12 Step Recovering Program(Athens & Watkinsville) Those concerned about a loved one’s drinking are invited to daily meetings in different places around Athens. Call for time and location. 478-955-3422, www.ga-al-anon.org 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. Call to reserve spot. Every Wednesday, 1:30–3 p.m. through Apr. 10. $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 open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org Women’s Empowerment Group (Oasis Counseling Center) A small therapeutic group for women to work on vulnerability, setting boundaries, assertiveness, self-care and more. Call to reserve spot. Every Wednesday through Apr. 10, 5:30–7 p.m. $15/session. 706-543-3522

ON THE STREET 5th Annual Antebellum Trail PilgrimageA wide array of heritage events, tours and attractions providing a window into 19th-century Georgia homes and lifestyles. Apr. 18–21. $25. www. atpilgrimage.com 8th Annual Sprockets Music Video Competition (Athens, GA) Film Athens is currently selecting music video submissions. Selected videos will be screened at the Flagpole Music Awards Show

in June. Visit website for entry form. Deadline Apr.15. $25–35. sprockets@filmathens.net, www. filmathens.net AthFest Filmfest Call for Entries (CinÊ BarcafÊ) The AthFest Film Committee is accepting submissions for original short films to be screened as part of a local indie showcase during AthFest. Submit by May 1. Visit: www.athfest. com/music-festival/film Athens Area Men’s Baseball League (Lay Park) Try-outs held for men 18 & up at the end of the month. Season runs mid-March through mid-August. Weekly games. $225. 706-207-8939, peterthorne@charter.net, www. aambl.com

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response: “Friends? I don’t even know you yet. I thought we were just friends.� I’m not really looking for more friends right now. I need a woman that I can date. I said as much. She said she liked me and wanted to see me again, but not romantically. I am stupid, so I agreed. We went out the following week. We had a good time and had plenty to talk about, but I respected what she said she wanted and kept my distance. Now she has started texting me regularly. Her messages are flirty, which is weird, but then she will talk about other guys: her neighbor, guys in her office whom she is attracted to, etc. What the hell am I supposed to make of that? I guess I thought maybe if she got to know me more she might give me a chance, but now I don’t know what to think. What should I do? Matchless

What you can do, Anonymous, is not patronize said local business any longer. And you can tell your friends what happened and tell them not to patronize that business any more either. You can shout from the hilltops, write the guy a letter, and make up t-shirts about how much that place sucks. You were treated poorly by the owner, Anonymous, so not giving money to the business means not giving money to him. If he and his staff are really that rude and they treat enough patrons poorly, they will go out of business. What you can’t do, Anonymous, is write an anonymous letter to an advice column, calling the guy out in said column with no way for anyone to verify your story. Did you seriously think I was going to print that?

What you should have done was followed your instincts. You liked her a little, she wanted to be friends, you aren’t looking for more friends. You should have told her “Thanks, but no thanks.� You didn’t, and that’s fine. Do it now. It is weird that she wants to be your friend even though she knows you want to date her, but then she turns around and starts talking to you about other guys right away. I guess maybe she was just trying to make sure you understood that she meant what she said? It doesn’t matter. You already said you weren’t looking for more friends. She has made it clear that any hope you were holding out that she would come around was pointless. Cut your losses. The more time you spend with a woman who isn’t your friend and doesn’t want to be your girlfriend, the less time you have for your real friends and potential dates.

I am a single guy in my late 40s. I have been single for too long, so recently I went back to an Internet dating site. I met a couple nice women and went on a couple good dates. The first two were great people who I had fun with, but at the end of our respective dates we both decided that there was no “spark.� In both cases, we wished each other good luck and moved on. The third woman I went out with was great. We had a short date the first time over coffee, and after talking nonstop for an hour (that’s all the time we both had at the moment), we agreed that we needed to see each other again. On the second date, we went out for dinner. We talked some more. We definitely have a lot in common. That was great. We lingered over drinks, and then said good night very chastely and said we would talk during the week to set up a third date. I felt like I might finally have found somebody I could get to know. I left her a message two days later, and she didn’t return my call. Three days after that message, I sent her a text, seeing if she wanted to meet up for lunch sometime over the weekend. Nothing. Then she sent me an email and said she thought we should just be friends. My

Confidential to Grownup: You either love her or you don’t. Or maybe you love her but you aren’t willing to do what she needs you to do to make her happy. In any case, you seem to be prolonging the inevitable. If you have any respect for her you will put an end to this socalled relationship. Acting the way you know she wants you to without the feelings to back it up is not “being nice.� It is unnaturally cruel, and the longer you do it the more cruel you are. Don’t pretend like you are staying in this thing for her. She may not know it yet, but she will be a thousand times better off when you get the fuck out of her life. You are not “a good person.� You are an asshole in potential husband’s clothing. Now quit being a bastard and tell her the truth. Otherwise, you’re just cock-blocking the guy she should actually be with, and nobody likes a cock-blocker.

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