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Faster Circuits Long Time in the Making, New Album Worth the Wait p.14

Vote Favorites! It’s Time To Let Us Know What You Like About Athens p. 25

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Think Globally: Fight Kudzu Harry and Jane Willson made a fortune in the pecan business in south Georgia and used part of it to supplement UGA’s support of the Willson Center for the Humanities and the Arts. The Center takes a broad approach to its purview: “The humanities encompass philosophical, historical, social, ethical, legal, aesthetic, religious, linguistic and ideological investigations of our world. Humanistic research includes many kinds of scholarship, such as history, criticism, theory, interpretation, and translation. The arts may be understood as the expression of human experience in various modes, such as literature, theater, music, dance, film, painting, printmaking, sculpture and design.â€? Imagine such an institution woven into the fabric of a major university, and you can see that the Willson Center is a happening place, able to reach across disciplines and enrich the academic environment from within while stimulating it with influxes of energy from without. One of the Center’s programs that brings in voices from beyond the campus is its Global Georgia Initiative, featuring speakers from various disciplines demonstrating the interconnectedness between our campus and state and the wider world. I may as well go on and admit that I’m one of those Global Georgia speakers and that I’ll be pontificating on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 4 p.m. in the UGA Chapel on the topic, “Death, Kudzu and the Unexamined Life: the Stuff of Journalism.â€? Professor James C. Cobb is introducing me, and he’s familiar to Flagpole readers, if not for his international reach as an eminent scholar of the American South, then for the broadDr. Nicholas Allen, Director of UGA’s Willson sides contained in his Center for the Humanities and the Arts, has occasional column, taken the scary step of inviting a look at “Cobbloviate,â€? which local journalism through a global lens. we’re privileged to publish. To complete the backscratching here, let’s throw in that the Willson Center’s public relations specialist is no other than local troubadour Dave Marr, who used to be Flagpole’s city editor. The Willson Center Director, the truly global Dr. Nicholas Allen, is scratching his head, wondering what’s going on, especially since the first time he heard of me, I was introducing Jim Cobb at one of last year’s Global Georgia talks. Come on over to the Chapel next week and see whether all these good-old-boy connections are too much for globalization. Meanwhile, though, you get to hear some real heavyweights, beginning Thursday, Jan. 30 at 4 p.m. in the Chapel with composer, conductor and educator Tania LeĂłn, Distinguished Professor at City University of New York. Her talk, presented in partnership with the Music Business Program of the Terry College of Business, is entitled “Border Crossings: Cultural Thresholds in the Syncretic Evolution of Music.â€? Keep your eye on this whole Global Georgia Initiative. On Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. at CinĂŠ, you can hear poet, playwright, editor, theater and film writer/director/producer Nathalie Handal, introduced by UGA English professor Ed Pavlić. On Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. in the Chapel, author, historian, educator Paul Pressly discusses “Colonial Georgia: Caribbean Influences and the British Atlantic World,â€? introduced by Lisa Bayer, Director of the UGA Press; and on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. at CinĂŠ, author and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo screens her film UFO in Her Eyes, with discussion afterward with Associate Professor of Theater and Film Studies Antie Ascheid and Associate Professor of English Andrew Zawacki. The next day, Feb. 28 at 4 p.m. in Room 148 of the Miller Learning Center, Xiaolu Guo lectures on “Beyond Chinamerica.â€? So, there’s a lot coming up fast. Keep your eyes on the Flagpole calendar for reminders of these important events that will more than make up for the director’s lapse in attention that landed him in the kudzu. Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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city dope The Election Is May 20 Not many people are aware of it, but local elections have been moved up to May 20. Consider yourself warned. The legislature passed and Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill last week changing the date because a federal judge, former Athenian Steve Jones, ruled last year that there was not enough time in between the primaries and runoffs for overseas military personnel to return their ballots. So the primaries, as well as local elections, will be May 20 rather than July. Until 2006, Athens-Clarke County mayor and commission races were partisan, so they were essentially decided in the Democratic primary. Then, voters decided to make those positions nonpartisan, so the 2006, 2008 and 2010 elections were held in November. But, to avoid costly judicial runoffs that hardly anyone voted in, the legislature passed a law moving nonpartisan races from November to July in conjunction with partisan primaries. (Runoffs are rare in general elections but common in primaries, when more than two candidates are often running.) That law took effect in 2012, and voter turnout dropped off bigtime in the two commission races that year. Commissioners asked our legislative delegation to move local elections back to November, when turnout is higher, but they met with resistance from Republicans in the Augusta delegation, who believe it is easier to elect Republican candidates to the AugustaRichmond County Commission in July than in November because Democrats are less likely to vote in primaries. That’s why the ACC mayor and commission elections will be May 20. UGA Funding: University of Georgia President Jere Morehead’s first State of the University speech was full of small-bore initiatives, but maybe that’s exactly what the university needs after 14 years of Michael Adams’ grand schemes. Morehead announced several initiatives Thursday, Jan. 23 that he said will help keep UGA affordable for students, as well as hiring

new faculty. “We must never forget that our tuition and fees constitute a lot of money to students and families striving to realize the dream of achieving a UGA education,” he said. “Keeping that dream available for as many as possible should be a priority for all of us.” Kiplinger’s already ranks UGA as the tenthbest value in higher education, but Morehead said the university can do better. Housing and dining-plan rates will be frozen at this year’s levels for the 20142015 school year, Morehead said during his State of the University speech at the Chapel. Both University Housing and Food Services are entirely self-funding, receiving no state, tuition or fee support, but effective management enabled the one-year freeze, he said. Morehead also announced new financial support from the UGA Athletic Association: $1 million to start an endowment for the Presidential Leadership Scholars and another $1 million for need-based aid. “We plan to make scholarship and need-based aid focal points in our upcoming [$1 billion fundraising] campaign for the University of Georgia, and I will strongly encourage our alumni and friends to support these kinds of initiatives,” he said. The athletic association, which now funds 21 professorships, has also agreed to fund four more this spring, Morehead said. And the capital campaign will raise money for more endowed chairs, he said. He also touted a $2.2 million initiative announced in November that led to the hiring of 16 interdisciplinary professors. Morehead said his “top legislative priority” is raises for faculty and staff. Gov. Nathan Deal included $10 million for merit-based raises in his proposed budget—the equivalent of 1 percent for all of the university system’s employees, though they won’t be distributed equally. “Higher education, like all high-skill occupations in this global economy, is a very competitive field, and we are falling behind and losing some excellent faculty and staff,” Morehead said. “We cannot allow this to continue without jeopardizing our competitive

“Jere, I know it’s late, but here’s your Christmas present.” From left, UGA College of Agriculture Dean Scott Angle, UGA President Jere Morehead, U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, state Rep. Terry England (R-Auburn), Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black and Oconee County Commission Chairman Melvin Davis. position in higher education, something the governor understands and that we deeply appreciate.” Campbell Center: UGA held a dedication ceremony Tuesday, Jan. 21 to mark the J. Phil Campbell Research and Education Center’s transfer from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the university, and it was as noteworthy for who wasn’t there as who was. The 76-year-old, 1,055-acre agricultural research station in Oconee County was nearly shut down due to federal budget cuts, but U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Savannah) stepped in to allow UGA to take it over. All of the speakers thanked Kingston profusely for his efforts. Athens’ congressman and one of his opponents in the Senate race, Paul Broun, did nothing to save the Campbell Center and did not attend the ceremony, though he did send a staffer. Kingston may have won himself a few more votes in the Athens area. Campus Carry: Broun’s campaign is giving away an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle (see the In the Loop blog at flagpole.com for more on that), but if you win, don’t take your prize to UGA. A proposal to allow guns on college campuses has been shot down. The bill—which also would have allowed guns in churches and bars—jammed last year when gun rights advocates pushed for it but higher education officials and law enforcement opposed it.

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A compromise version floated earlier this week would have allowed college presidents to decide whether licensed students could carry their guns to class, but lawyers informed legislators today that they can’t delegate their power to say what is a crime, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. “It’s unconstitutional for us to give college presidents the right to decide,” said state Rep. Alan Powell (R-Hartwell). Lawmakers told the AJC and The Associated Press that the bill will now aim at allowing school districts to arm employees and denying concealed-carry permits to people who were found not guilty of crimes by reason of insanity. Watkinsville Plan: Architect (and not mopey British singer) Robert Smith presented his plan to spur New Urban-style development in his hometown of Watkinsville to a packed house Wednesday, Jan. 22. The plan, which started as his master’s thesis at Notre Dame, revolves around a civic green in between the historic county courthouse and a new City Hall Smith is proposing near Rocket Field, and could be funded with $25 million Oconee County commissioners are considering spending on a new courthouse if voters approve a new SPLOST. The pitch went over well. “I love it,” said Derek Chitwood, who lives in a loft and owns a business in downtown Watkinsville. “There’s a lot of people who would enjoy that.”

Flowers for Link: Have you ever wanted one of Lou Kregel’s flower murals? All you have to do to get one is write a check to District 3 ACC Commission candidate Melissa Link. Kregel is offering to paint the flower pictured here anywhere in Athens, with the property owner’s permission, for the first 20 people who donate $100 to Link’s campaign. Her website is melissalinkathens.com. It’s your last chance; Kregel said the flowers she’s painting for Link, though not chrysanthemums, will wrap up her project of painting chrysanthemums on buildings all over town. Kregel said she is supporting Link in part because of her work on behalf of public art— Link serves on the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, which recommends public art projects to the ACC Commission—and because of her knowledge of local issues. “She reads the fine print that only an info-nerd like her could possibly endure, let alone enjoy,” Kregel said. Link is vying with Rachel Watkins and Herb Gilmore in the District 3 race to replace the retiring Commissioner George Maxwell.

DABA questioning whether the ADDA should continue its business relationship with DABA. (The ADDA sells gift certificates redeemable at downtown retailers and restaurants on behalf of DABA.) DABA President (and ACC Commissioner) Jared Bailey said the incorporation issue has been rectified, but he informed Overend Friday, Jan. 24 that DABA would be issuing a request for proposals to continue the gift certificate program and will select a contractor by Mar. 1. The Athens Area Chamber of Commerce is expected to respond to the RFP, Bailey said, and if it were chosen, customers wouldn’t notice any difference because they’d still be buying gift certificates at the same location. The chamber is housed in the same West Hancock Avenue building as the ADDA. But feathers may be ruffled. Chase Honored: Chase Street Elementary School has been named a National Title 1 Distinguished School for academic achievement and improvement in academics—one of

AthFest Educates, a 501(c)(3) non-profit music and arts education organization in Athens, Georgia, is seeking an

Executive Director Founded in 1997 to execute an annual music and arts festival showcasing the talent of the Athens area, the organization has expanded to include multiple programs and events, as well as funding opportunities to support music and arts education in the public schools and the broader community. In addition to the festival, Athfest Educates plans the annual AthHalf Half Marathon, and in-school performances across Athens-Clarke County. As it enters the 18th year, Athfest Educates finds itself at a critical juncture, and is seeking visionary leadership to support its ongoing evolution. The new Executive Director will be expected to build upon the organization’s legacy, and assist the Board in shaping its future. The ideal candidate will be an exceptional individual, with the skills and abilities necessary to cultivate financial, cultural, and community resources, to lead the development of the longterm vision and strategy for the organization, and to guide the organization during a period of significant growth.

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Pete is too cheap to run City Dope in color, but this flower is orange and purple. Lyndon House: Speaking of paintings, rumors are circulating that the ACC Leisure Services Department plans to take the “arts” out of the Lyndon House Arts Center, making it a “community center” for meetings, weddings and other events instead. Arts advocates called a meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28 at Ciné to discuss how to respond. Leisure Services Director Pam Reidy denied that she is considering changing the mission of the arts center. The plan, she said, is merely to move the department’s facilities supervisor (currently Claire Benson) into the building “so she is more accessible to staff, more accessible to the public.” Benson’s current office at the Ware-Lyndon House would be converted into a bedroom and included in tours of the historic house museum. “That’s all,” Reidy said. However, ACC commissioners have said they’d like to see the Lyndon House rented out more often to raise money for Leisure Services. Stay tuned. Downtown Drama: Could be brewing between the Athens Downtown Development Authority and the Downtown Athens Business Association. It started Dec. 30, when ADDA Chairman Bill Overend discovered that DABA had let its incorporation lapse and wrote a letter to

only 59 in the nation. Standardized test scores have improved dramatically over the past five years. For example, fifth-graders scored 24 percent on the CRCT in 2008 and 100 percent in 2013. Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade test scores in reading, language arts and math were all above 90 percent last year. The Title 1 program provides federal funding for educating economically disadvantaged students. Chase Street will receive $20,000 for being recognized as a National Title 1 Distinguished School. ABH Paywall: The Athens Banner-Herald’s redesign and paywall rollout has flopped like an errant paper tossed into the bushes. The Monday, Jan. 20 edition had no—zero—news articles, instead containing virtually nothing but obits, classifieds, school lunch menus and calendar listings that you can get for free in Flagpole. It’s like Patch, except it costs 75 cents. (Full disclosure: Kristen Morales, who wrote the terrific profile of Fenwick Broyard on p. 8, did the print redesign, and it looks great, but there’s nothing in it worth paying for.) The next day, almost two full pages of the slim Tuesday issue were given over to mugshots. Call it the Banner & Busted.

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Nobody at the Capitol was talking about the legalization of marijuana this time last year, but suddenly it’s become a leading topic of discussion in the General Assembly. Legislation is pending in the Senate and will soon be introduced in the House that would either create a study committee or authorize the use of marijuana derivatives for specific medical purposes, such as treating seizure disorders in children. Recent polls have shown that a majority of Georgians would support legalizing the restricted medical use of marijuana. One of the most powerful figures in the Legislature, House Speaker David Ralston, says he is not opposed to at least considering the idea. Interestingly, the push for legalization of the long-prohibited substance is not coming from liberal lawmakers on the Democratic side. When House and Senate Democrats held news conferences to unveil their agendas for the session, they made no mention of marijuana. The impetus on the issue comes from two conservative Republicans. Sen. Josh McKoon (R-Columbus) has introduced a resolution that would create a study committee to see if state law should be amended to okay the medical uses of marijuana. Rep. Allen Peake (R-Macon), a member of the House Republican leadership, plans to introduce a bill soon that would allow doctors to prescribe cannabis oil, a marijuana derivative, to treat seizure disorders in children. “It wasn’t on my radar three weeks ago,” Peake said, during an interview in his Capitol office. “I am an unlikely champion of this cause. I’ve never smoked marijuana; I’ve never done drugs.” Both legislators say they were influenced by a documentary on medical marijuana called “Weed” that CNN originally aired last August. The program featured the cable news outlet’s chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta. Gupta apologized for his past opposition

to legalization, after doing some research and discovering that the substance had proved to be medically effective in many instances. “It doesn’t have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications,” Gupta said. “I came away from that program thinking, this is what I need to know as a person who votes on public policy,” McKoon says. “I felt we needed to get more information on this.” Gupta’s documentary highlighted the use of marijuana derivatives to treat young children afflicted with severe seizure disorders. Peake recently visited a child who suffers from that malady and had been hospitalized at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta: four-year-old Haleigh Cox. “She is the same age as my granddaughter and looks just like her,” Peake recounts. “This thing grabbed me: this little girl grabbed me. At that moment, I knew I had to use everything I had as a legislator to bring some help to these families.” “I don’t see the political will to do anything more than make changes to the existing law on medical marijuana,” McKoon says. “We’re not going to have some six-yearold smoking a joint,” says Peake. “I will fight vigorously against any recreational use of marijuana.” Advocates of marijuana legalization point to the fiscal benefits that the state would realize. Local governments would not have to spend tax funds on the arrest and prosecution of pot smokers. If legalized, marijuana could also become a substance that state and local governments could tax. Those particular arguments aren’t on the table right now, however. “This issue comes down to providing compassion and hope for our children and families,” Peake insists. Tom Crawford

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ot having kids, Barrow Elementary School only factors into my mind in regards to remembering to BYOB to nearby Cali N Tito’s—at least until I learned that the historic school building had just been renovated, and Principal Ellen Sabatini offered me a tour. Built in 1923 and added onto shortly after, Barrow is one of the longest-standing schools in Athens-Clarke County. (Chase Street Elementary is the oldest, dating to 1922.). The 50,000-square-foot original building was renovated and an 84,000-square-foot addition built for $14.4 million during the 2012-2013 school year. The original 1923 building is the rotunda in the center and the two wings radiating from it. At the time, the front of the building faced Rutherford—it now faces Pinecrest—and the entrance was a triple-arched arcade with a few steps leading up to it. In 1925, the back of the wings were added, though in the current orientation, that addition is on the front of the school. It almost doubled the number of classrooms. Over the years, the school was expanded repeatedly, including large additions in the 1950s and early 2000s. Those later additions were made to solve the problem of an overflowing school and were not necessarily made with historic integrity and preservation in mind. The later additions were demolished during the most recent renovation. All but the 1923 and 1925 portions of the building were removed, and since the 1925 addition blended rather seamlessly with the original building, it is generally considered to be original as well. During the renovation to the historic rotunda, school officials discovered the beautiful truss work and several oculi (round windows) that had been covered up for years. The rotunda is now a beautiful focal point with the trusses and oculi left uncovered, visually reminding students, faculty and guests that the school is indeed historic. Radiating from two sides of the rotunda are the original wings of the school, which house pre-K through first grade classrooms. The original ceilings, floors and windows, like the rotunda, had been covered up for years, so it was a quite a surprise when the original maple floors and board ceiling were found to be in great shape. It turned out that the carpet and drop tile ceiling had preserved them. In addition, the original windows on the interior of the halls were discovered, too. The windows, found at the top of the walls, would have been propped open for air flow and used to help cool the classrooms before air conditioning. Since propping open windows is no

longer necessary to cool off a hot and humid classroom, the windows were replaced with single-pane, nonmoving windows, and while they are not used for temperature control they do allow more light into the classrooms. Windows on the exterior of the building were replaced with historically accurate multipaned double hung sash windows. The original plaster walls were covered; while they’re no longer visible, there is now space in between for modern wiring. At the school’s original entrance, the triple-arched arcade and steps had been covered up by the 1950s addition when the front entrance was enclosed. Like the other historic pieces of the building, the arcade was in good condition. Painted white, it physically and visually leads one into the new section of the building. The new sections of the school radiate from the rotunda just like the original school did. The new entrance to the school is nestled between the original wings; it is clearly a new addition, but a tasteful one. The 2012–13 additions replaced the previous additions over the years and still added enough space for nearly 450 students, containing second through fifth grades, the library, cafeteria, gym, a conference room, media center and several non-traditional learning spaces. The school colors of turquoise and lime green are abundant throughout the school and are bright and lively. The library is fronted with glass walls and is bright and airy. The bookcases are only about elbow height but full of all the classics. They are also moveable, allowing for the library to grow and be rearranged as needed while making it easier to gather large groups of students for learning activities. Bright orange stools have convex rubber bottoms that give them bounce, allowing students to expend pent-up energy while reading. Other features also make learning fun and interactive. The floor of the rotunda has a beautiful compass stained in different colors to teach students directions. There is also a large tile map of Georgia in one hallway that illustrates the state’s rivers. Another tile map shows Athens-Clarke County, and just down the hall is a cross section of a gigantic oak inlaid into the floor. All this is because, in 2011, parents and preservationists came together to save the building when the Clarke County School District was considering demolishing it. As a result, Barrow Elementary received the AthensClarke Heritage Foundation’s President’s Award last summer. Stella Smith

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Winding Path Led Fenwick Broyard to Athens

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erhaps it’s serendipity. Perhaps it’s hard work mixed with luck. Perhaps it’s what happens when you live in places like Athens or New Orleans that are really small towns disguised as larger cities. As Fenwick Broyard sat on a recent Saturday morning at a local coffee shop, it happened again. Broyard, who started work last year as the executive director of Community Connection, wasn’t talking about the MLK Day of Service coming up in two days or the nonprofit’s big annual fundraiser, A Taste of Athens, in a few weeks. He had just described his plan to implement GIS mapping software at the agency. The idea is to overlap the locations of the calls coming in to the 211 help line with the locations of service agencies in Community Connection’s coverage area. The result is a visual solution to provide services in areas that need them most. The project is in its infancy, with Community Connection just starting the process of working out financing and programming. A man leaned over from a neighboring table, introducing himself as a professor at the University of Georgia. He teaches a graduate class that is learning GIS mapping, and the students are looking for a project to tackle. Another serendipitous connection made. The GIS idea is just one of several projects Broyard plans to take on now that he’s getting the feel for his new position. He also happened to come to Community Connection in its 30th year and says he’s reinforcing the organization’s roots of connecting social service agencies to those who need them—and finding gaps that need to be filled. “My intent was to get back to the core of why it was founded,” says Broyard, who has taken time in his seven months at Community Connection to talk to local leaders who have held the position in the past. “Reconnecting to that vision has been my vision; we’re at that point now where we say, ‘Let’s pull back and see where we are.’”

Finding His Way Broyard has been in Athens for three years. Since arriving, he’s crossed work on his master’s degree at UGA with

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volunteerism and work on new community-driven projects. As a student, he worked with the Athens Land Trust and the Clarke County School District to start the West Broad Market Garden, a community garden and farmer’s market at an abandoned school. He also started a work-study program at Classic City High School that teaches teens about running a business and pays them for their work in the garden. Before he was breaking ground on an urban garden, Broyard was learning how to manage one in North Carolina. And before landing on a farm, he was working at a homeless drop-in center and studying for his master’s in public health in New Orleans. And before that, he was studying for his PhD in geophysics at Columbia University, thanks to a Packard Foundation fellowship. Oh, and he’s also an accomplished slam poet with a selfpublished book. Broyard’s journey began in his hometown of New Orleans when a high school teacher inspired him to study physics in college. Everything was going according to plan until his senior year, when he had a chance to take more esoteric social sciences classes. He realized a seed—planted years ago by his mother, a nurse at a school health clinic—was sprouting within him. “But it was too late,” says Broyard, who ended up attending Columbia as a Packard Foundation fellow, which paid for a doctorate program in the sciences. Serendipitously, his roommate, a political science graduate from Amherst College, arrived with a library of books that called to Broyard. “I did just enough to keep my fellowship, but studied his library,” he says. When a close friend from high school died, Broyard realized he was setting himself up for a life that wasn’t what he wanted. “Every man dies, but not every man truly lives,” Broyard says, recalling a quote that inspired him at that time. “So that emboldened me to pull out of the [fellowship] program.” It took many years for his family to stop chiding him about that decision, but he’s never looked back. He returned to New Orleans to teach middle-school math, but not long after leaving the city, the Sept. 11 attacks again had him soulsearching. “So in the wake of social justice and international diplomacy, I found myself with a lot to say and not enough places to say it.”

Which is when he discovered spoken-word poetry. He’s more comfortable simply smiling and shaking his head about that time in his life, but it left a mark nonetheless. For a year, he worked odd jobs and toured around the Southeast, selling his book while his singer-songwriter girlfriend sold her CDs. When they returned, his mother asked him to lend his youthful New Orleans voice to a meeting with social workers. “A woman at the meeting invited me to come help her. She brought me on to do street-level outreach,” he says. “Performing eradicated any fear I had of talking to people. I really enjoyed that work, but the problem is, you can’t make a living doing outreach.” His boss encouraged him to apply for a master’s in public health program at nearby Tulane University. He set up a meeting with the dean and was accepted on the spot—he just had to fill out an application. On the day of his orientation, Hurricane Katrina struck. “We woke up and saw Katrina on TV, and the mayor of New Orleans was basically crying, telling people to leave,” he says. He and his fiancée decided to go temporarily to Atlanta, where Broyard’s family now lives. They intended to return. “On my birthday, the levees broke,” he says. “We knew we didn’t have a home to go back to.” After spending his “Katrina semester” at Emory University, Broyard made his way back to Tulane and eventually completed his master’s—only to discover that all the jobs he wanted required a master’s in social work.

Landing in Athens With his family now in Atlanta, “UGA made the most sense for me,” he says. “Very few programs offer financial support toward a master’s degree [and] I was awarded an assistantship.” One of Broyard’s professors at UGA, Tom Holland, says he continues to be impressed by Broyard’s abilities and leadership. “He was one of the most capable, quickest students I’ve ever had. A real natural leader,” says Holland, professor emeritus in the Institute for Nonprofit Organizations. “I found him a delight as a student. He was more mature than most of my

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students, so I had very enjoyable conversations with him. And after a couple of months I invited him to go along with me to a couple of consulting jobs, and he just took to it like a fish to water.” While he was awaiting his acceptance letter from UGA, Broyard’s path took one more turn—this time to a farm in North Carolina. Inspired by a job opening for a community garden coordinator at the Athens Land Trust, Broyard and his young family—his daughter was born in 2011—went to learn more about farming methods. “We went to North Carolina, I got my acceptance letter from UGA and I decided I really enjoyed growing food and getting it to young people,” he says. “I wanted to establish a farm training program for at-risk youth.” Within months of arriving at UGA, Broyard had made a connection with the Athens Land Trust, which eventually offered him a paid internship to revamp the organization’s community garden network. He then worked out an agreement with the school district to begin farming land at the old West Broad School site. As graduation drew nearer, Broyard learned that Community Connection’s previous director, Julie Meehan, was leaving to pursue her own master’s degree. Holland, who was president of the agency’s board, encouraged Broyard to apply for the position. And he did, with Meehan’s blessing.

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Former Athens-Clarke County Mayor Gwen O’Looney, who started Community Connection 30 years ago, met Broyard when he was a UGA student; they were both volunteering at Classic City High School. She says she’s excited to learn of his plans to focus on Community Connection’s core services—the 211 help line, nonprofit development and volunteer coordination through HandsOn Northeast Georgia—and he brings a new outlook to the agency. “I’m delighted about bringing a stronger focus on consumer advocacy and followup,” O’Looney says. “I think he’s seeing a higher level of accountability, and that means a higher level of service.”

“He’s smart, and he’s got a good vision for where Community Connection is and where it can go.” Tim Johnson, executive director of Family Connection/ Communities in Schools, served in the same position at Community Connection for 11 years. Johnson’s organization— along with Project Safe, the Athens Area Homeless Shelter and The Ark, to name a few—came from the nonprofit development arm of Community Connection, which seeks to fill gaps in social services. “I can’t imagine anybody better for the position,” Johnson says. “He’s smart, and he’s got a good vision for where Community Connection is and where it can go. He has a good understanding of the community, and he’s been here long enough, but brings a fresh perspective.” Along with the GIS mapping project, Broyard is working to expand the network of volunteers through a high school program and one with companies. The high school program trains rising seniors and places them with a nonprofit; it’s the students’ job to help promote that organization and do fundraising, with the end result not only helping their resumes but also getting them involved in their community. Broyard is meeting with business owners who want their companies to become more involved, picking a project or cause and donating employees’ time on a workday to the effort. Broyard contends that while there’s plenty to do Athens is equipped to handle it—no matter how much serendipity may be involved. “We’ve got the skills and the resources,” he says. “It’s our job to make sure the resources get to who needs them.” But O’Looney disagrees that serendipity has anything to do with the path that brought Broyard to Athens.”It’s not serendipity,” she says. “It’s knowing that’s your passion—keeping it in focus and in front of you. The resources are all around you, it’s just broadening your reach.” Kristen Morales

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rva Weinstein started pet sitting in Athens almost 15 has a greater potential for a disturbance, she says, than a resiyears ago, and last February, she took up the fight to dent simply having multiple dogs. make it legal. “I was asking [Weinstein], what’s the difference between Two days after giving her address to a potential customer someone having three dogs of their own and having a dog and via Dog Vacay, a California-based corporation Weinstein worked boarding two?â€? Denson says. “The difference is those dogs that for, the Georgia Department of Agriculture knocked on her live at some place all the time are used to the noises‌ and door with a stop order. “She said if I continued to take care of they’re much less likely to be barking and disturbances of the people’s dogs, I would get charged with a felony or I could get neighbors than when you bring unknown, strange dogs into put in jail,â€? Weinstein says. contact with each other.â€? Two days later, a code enforcer from the Athens planning Weinstein says she believed adding constraints to the department stopped by to make sure Weinstein was complying home occupation ordinance could have helped manage these and no longer taking in dogs. “I know that I didn’t have all the potential problems. “The discussion between the planning proper licenses, and I accept that. But I want them to change commissioners just kind of blew my mind,â€? she says. “It was it to make it so that people can do it,â€? she says. “There are so like, ‘Well, what if they don’t have a fence?’ and I was like, many people that are unemployed and that need a job.â€? ‘Say that’s part of the rules.’‌ It’s like things that seemed so Weinstein first spoke with Mayor Nancy Denson to work out simple to put into wording.â€? the problem. “[Denson] said she felt like she had to tell me in The discussion of pet sitting continued in the September person, that she couldn’t call me and talk to me and tell me and October planning commission meetings, but became a this, but that there was just no way they could allow somebody sticking point for passing the revised ordinance. In September, to take care of dogs in their home because of the neighbors the planning commission moved to send the changes to and the noise,â€? Weinstein says. the Mayor and Commission for approval without pet sitting After that, she spoke to her commissioner, Jared Bailey, included. The commission passed that version of the ordinance to get in-home pet sitting included in Athens-Clarke County’s Oct. 1. home occupation ordinance. “We discussed the way that the “They [the planning commission] wanted to have more discurrent home occupation law reads, and what its limitations cussion,â€? Cowick says. “They actually went ahead and passed are, and we asked questions about the possibility of getting it the rest of it, and then wanted to think more of the pet-sitchanged,â€? Bailey says. “Armed with that information, I made a ting, or kennel type, business. So they actually had a separate request of the mayor that it be assigned to the planning comdiscussion on that item.â€? mission to review‌ to consider Jeff Scarbrough, a member of including pet-sitting as a home the planning commission, originally “There are so many people that are occupation.â€? supported the idea of allowing an unemployed and that need a job.â€? The possibility of permitting in-home pet-sitting business. He pet sitting as a home business said he didn’t see much support first came up at the August planning commission meeting. The for it, except for Weinstein speaking at planning commission planning commission took into account what would be noticed meetings. by neighbors and drivers passing by an in-home business. “My feeling was that I had hoped that a compromise could “The main thing about home occupations is that folks be reached, because I would hate to deny anybody a reasonoutside the house‌ don’t realize there’s a business going able chance to make a living,â€? Scarbrough says. “But in the on inside,â€? ACC senior planner Rick Cowick says. “So you can course of discussion, there was the discussion of the pros and have it in your house as long as it remains a house in appearcons and then there didn’t seem to be a whole lot of push for ance and there’s no noise or odors, anything to affect the including it.â€? neighbors.â€? At the November planning commission meeting, Scarbrough Neighbors, community members and former clients wrote suggested dropping the topic of pet sitting. “My understanding to the planning commission supporting Weinstein’s pet-sitting was they were going to consider the issue of pet sitting and business, including Holly Payne, a Realtor in Athens. “I think it get back to us,â€? Bailey says. “But it was never considered when would be a great addition to the bylaws to allow in-home pet the planning commission met the next time. The chair refused sitting services‌ Adding this business has no downsides, only to hear it.â€? benefits,â€? Payne wrote. Denson says it was better that pet sitting was not included Concerns voiced by planning commission members included in the revised ordinance. “I personally think it’s better that it animals being too noisy and disturbing neighbors, pet sitters was not passed,â€? she says. “I sympathize with Ms. Weinstein keeping too many animals at a time and difficulties in monitor- because she is a very nice and very responsible person, but ing pet sitting businesses, according to the meetings’ minutes. the problem is, when you pass an ordinance it covers an entire Denson says establishing parameters and enforcement vehicles county.â€? also complicated the process of allowing in-home pet-sitting businesses. Bringing new dogs into a residential environment Erica Techo

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I,FRANKENSTEIN (PG-13) Do not feed I, Frankenstein. It breaks the

If a movie was ever tailor-made for Nicolas Cage’s brand of ham, I, Frank is it. Frankenstein’s Monster, hereafter named Adam (Aaron Eckhart), thanks to an angelic gargoyle played by Miranda Otto, finds himself embroiled in the heretofore unknown, centuries-ancient struggle between Demon and Gargoyle. Pirates of the Caribbean writer Stuart Beattie makes an entertaining hash of Underworld scribe Kevin Grevioux’s graphic novel that turns Mary Shelley’s rumination about man playing god into a “kickass” version of the videogame, Devil May Cry, which totally deserves a filmed adaptation after this flick. Had early ‘90s Christopher Lambert been the star, I’d have devoured this movie on VHS, after missing out on what would have been an all-too-brief theatrical run. Cast Cage, and this thankfully swiftly paced horror-actioner might have ventured into neo-camp classic territory. Bill Nighy practically models selfcontrol as a Demon Prince just screaming for amped up camp. Why should Bill break a sweat when no one else is? At least I, Frank kept me awake; that’s more than I can say for any of the four Underworlds.

also playing AMERICAN HUSTLE (R) Since 2004’s disappointing I Heart Huckabees, from which his on-set meltdown went viral, David O. Russell has been on fire. In this fictional account of the real life ABSCAM investigation that sent several members of federal, state and local government to prison, Conman Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) and his not exactly British girlfriend, Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), are forced by an unstable FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), into conning the mayor of Camden, New Jersey, Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner), and some of the scariest mobsters still living. Torn between his love and his beautiful, crazy, young wife (Jennifer Lawrence) and son, Irving has to come up with his master plan to escape jail and death. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (R) What a miserable two hours! Find the most dysfunctional family you know, and visit them during a time of mourning. That experience is guaranteed to be less grueling than the time spent with Oklahoma’s Westons. Matriarch Violet (Meryl Streep) has cancer and is cancerous. Her husband, Beverly (Sam Shepard), disappears, bringing her three unhappy daughters—Barb (Julia Roberts), Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) and Karen (Juliette Lewis)—back home. Secrets are outed. Some shock (I won’t spoil the big ones); most do not. Playwright Tracy Letts (Bug, Killer Joe) adapts his play for the screen, but it’s still mostly a series of shouted monologues less than impressively handled by TV vet John Wells. The movie is so stagy, one expects an intermission. COMPUTER CHESS Excitedly, Ciné is one of 20 theaters nationwide to receive a Coolidge Corner Theatre and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “Science on Screen” grant to pair films with expert presentations on science and technology. Game Theory expert Gregory A. Trandel will discuss “The Humanity of Strategy” as a companion to Andrew Bujalski’s period comedy about the 1980s chess tournament that pitted man versus machine. If only this Chess also sported songs from ABBA’s Benny and Bjorn! Nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, including the John Cassavetes Award. (Ciné) DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (R) Matthew McConaughey is more

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than all right, all right, all right in his Oscar-nominated turn as Ron Woodroof, a walking, talking Texas cliché who suffers from AIDS. In the late ‘80s, the oversexed electriciancum-bullrider gamed the system for years to lengthen his life and provide needed, unapproved medications to the subscribers of his Dallas Buyers Club. Dallas Buyers Club has the right mix of pathos, humor and character growth to please a rather broad swath of filmgoers from the heartland to the coastline, which assists the awards success of director Jean-Marc Vallee’s bittersweet biopic. But let’s face it; McConaughey’s renaissance is fueling DBC’s buzz. Has McConaughey overtaken Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as the foremost pretty boy romantic lead remade as a serious leading man? DEVIL’S DUE (R) The trailer promised a found footage update of the Rosemary’s Baby scenario—a woman is mysteriously impregnated with the antichrist—but unsurprisingly, that movie did not need to be made. A newly married couple, Zach (Zach Gilford) and Samantha (Allison Miller), loses a night on their honeymoon in Santo Domingo. Suddenly, Sam is pregnant, and she has worse problems than morning sickness. This horrific pregnancy proceeds exactly as expected. Devil’s Due has several problems, and lack of terror tops the list. Filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (half of V/H/S’s Radio Silence) switch filming methods too many times to keep the found footage gimmick alive. FROZEN (PG) A young princess, Anna (v. Kristen Bell), must venture into the frozen wilds to save her sister, recently crowned Queen Elsa (v. Idina Menzel), who has lost control over her icy powers. The narrative, adapted from Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen,” is as Disney formulaic as they come, and the animation shines without standing out. Nonetheless, little kids will love Frozen, and parents who grew up on Disney classics will not feel left out in the cold. HER (R) The first film written by Spike Jonze alone, Her stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, who writes personal letters for strangers and is struggling through a divorce. Then he meets his new Operating System and falls in love…with the OS. Samantha is voiced by Scarlett Johannson, so the concept isn’t THAT outlandish. While

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Phoenix and ScarJo incredibly do their thing, Jonze and his behind the scenes folk drip visual magic into audience eyes with their retro-future design. You get told so many times how awesome an award-worthy festival winner is before getting the opportunity to see it, that, frankly, many times the hype trumps the film. Her is the exception. It is unreservedly wonderful. THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG-13) Peter Jackson’s first return to Middle-Earth, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, did not disappoint, even if it failed to excite like The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The second Hobbit feature still feels hobbled by a feeling of déjà vu. Armies of orcs marching to war or battles against giant killer spiders are nothing new. But when Jackson takes us to new locales like Lake Town at the foot of the Lonely Mountain, where mammoth dragon Smaug (v. Benedict Cumberbatch) resides, the epic fantasy film reaches toward those heights of its predecessor.

as Victor Cherevin. This new(re)born franchise needs more giant action setpieces to compete with Bond, but the setup is strong. (No one will probably notice if they quietly change lead actresses down the road.) LABOR DAY (PG-13) This romantic drama looks more Nicholas Sparks than Jason Reitman. Kate Winslet was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as a reclusive divorced mother who, along with her son Henry (Gattlin Griffith), gets entangled with an escaped convict, Henry (Josh Brolin). Naturally, Henry’s story is more complicated than the law will allow. Shockingly, Labor Day is based on a novel by Joyce Maynard, not the aforementioned Sparks. With Tobey Maguire as the older Henry. THE LEGEND OF HERCULES (PG-13) The style of Zack Snyder’s 300 has lived on in Tarsem’s Immortals and The Clash of the Titans remake. Now comes a new Hercules flick starring Kellan Lutz, better known as Twilight’s

You mean I have to PAY to read the blotter!? INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (R) So the Coen Brothers deliver one of their most rewarding films yet, even if it does feature yet another self-destructive protagonist. Yet folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is a charmer as he hops from couch to couch during the cold New York winter of 1961; Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake are the two most recognizable providers of said couches. What a witty way the Coens use space in these tiny New York hallways, and music, obviously, plays the biggest role in a Coen film since O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with whom this film shares music guru T-Bone Burnett. It has a bit of a head scratching conclusion, but everything preceding it bittersweetly tickles the heart and the quirky bone, much like we’ve come to expect from the Brothers Coen. (Ciné) INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (PG) See Movie Pick. JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG-13) Scripters Adam Cozad and David Koepp (many a blockbuster including Mission: Impossible and Jurassic Park) start their retconning in 2001, with 9/11 pushing Ryan (Chris Pine) from doctoral student at the London School of Economics to marine injured in Afghanistan. His rehab introduces the heroic soldier to future wife, Cathy Muller (Keira Knightley, sporting an uncomfortable American non-accent), and CIA mentor, William Harper (Kevin Costner, as stalwart as ever). The action moves to Russia where director Kenneth Branagh gives a great audition for future Bond villainy

Emmett Cullen. (Incidentally, it’s the first of two Herc-flicks being released in 2014; the second one stars the Rock under the direction of Brett Ratner.) Renny Harlin, former ‘80s action darling and former Mr. Geena Davis, can still earn a gig. LEGENDS OF THE KNIGHT A shared love of Batman unites the fans, writers and filmmakers of Legends of the Knight, as they explore their own tales of everyday heroism. This doc was funded by over 1,100 Bat-fans from around the world. Filmmaker Brett Culp will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A. Ciné’s screening of Culp’s documentary will benefit Action Ministries, Inc., a nonprofit seeking to provide Georgians with the tools to escape poverty. Don your cape and cowl and join the cause. (Ciné) LONE SURVIVOR (R) The spoilerishly titled Lone Survivor does not hide from what it is, which amounts to injury porn in the second act (the characters’ two falls are brutal). While on Operation Red Wings, four Navy SEALs—team leader Mike Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Axe (Ben Foster), Danny (Emile Hirsch) and Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg), upon whose book this film is based—battle an army of Taliban fighters. Peter Berg shoots action with a visceral viciousness, taking some visual cues from first person shooters like Call of Duty. Lone Survivor will please the action-heads out there, but it takes the home movies before the end credits to remind audiences these soldiers were actual husbands and fathers.

NEBRASKA (R) Alexander Payne’s newest film, a sadly sweet comedy about aging and parenting one’s parent, lacks The Descendants’ cool (i.e. George Clooney), but its lack of cool is more than made up for by sparse stylishness, Bruce Dern and June Squib. Aged, confused Woodrow Grant (Dern) is convinced he’s won a million dollars via sweepstakes. His suffering wife (the unforgettable Squibb) and eldest son (Bob Odenkirk) refuse to play along, but second son David (former “Saturday Night Live” player Will Forte), agrees to drive his dad from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska. In Woody’s dying, small Nebraska hometown, the family encounters jealousy from extended family and old friends. Hollywood bigshots walk a fine line when poking fun at the heartland and small town folk. Superior smugness is an easy trap, which Payne and first-time feature writer Bob Nelson deftly avoid to teach us that you can go home again; maybe you just shouldn’t. (Ciné) THE NUT JOB (PG) The latest animated feature pits a curmudgeonly squirrel named (a bit on the nose) Surly (v. Will Arnett) against the city. When he finds Maury’s Nut Store, he may just have found the way to alleviate his and the rest of his park community’s winter worries. Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson and Katherine Heigl are the next three biggest names in the voice cast. Will this movie capture its family audience without a big name like Disney or DreamWorks behind it? PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (R) Don’t give up on the Paranormal Activity franchise just yet. Deviating from the central gimmick of stationary cameras as part of a home surveillance setup, PA: TMO has recent high school graduate, Jesse (Andrew Jacobs), and his pals, Hector (Jorge Diaz) and Marisol (Gabriel Walsh). Christopher “Son of Michael” Landon has written Paranormal Activity 2, 3 and 4; he peppers his first stab at directing a PA with lots of little Easter eggs referencing its predecessors. RIDE ALONG (PG-13) Buddy cop action comedies can do worse than star Kevin Hart; alternately, they can do better than Ice Cube. In Ride Along, Ben Barber (Hart), a security guard with aspirations to be a cop, spends a day with his girlfriend’s super cop brother, James Payton (Cube), in hopes of impressing him and earning his blessing. First Payton punks Ben; then

they run into the big gun of ATL crime, scary gang leader Omar (Laurence Fishburne). The basic blueprint of this movie was written by Shane Black in the late ‘80s, and Lethal Weapon will always be better than its jokier progeny. If you cannot see the plot “twist” coming, you have not watched enough buddy cop flicks. THE ROOM (R) The Room, from baffling “auteur” Tommy Wiseau, might be the Mona Lisa of bad movies; its greatness lies in its mysterious smile, which a laughing Wiseau trots out at the oddest moments. Johnny (writer-producer-director-star-charlatan Wiseau) is engaged to “beautiful” blonde Lisa (Juliette Danielle), who embarks on an affair with Johnny’s “best friend,” Mark (Greg Sestero), for no apparent reason. The Room will leave you with so many questions that don’t need answering. SAVING MR. BANKS (PG-13) P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) meets with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) himself during the filming of her classic Mary Poppins. Apparently, the whole story was about her difficult Australian childhood and her own dad, who served as the inspiration for Mr. Banks THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (R) What is awkward is attempting to enjoy the trailer for this dude-centric romcom. It’s embarrassingly laughless and pitiful despite two brightly rising stars in Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now) and Michael B. Jordan (“Friday Night Lights”). Teller and Jordan are joined by Zac Efron as three buddies trying to figure out if it’s time to settle down yet. Ugh. This film is writer-director Tom Gormican’s feature debut. With the forever awkwardly named Imogen Poots. 12 YEARS A SLAVE (R) The very real, very powerful 12 Years a Slave recounts the devastatingly true account of Solomon Northup (Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery. Solomon’s woeful tale occurred to many other free blacks; his is just one of the few that ended happily. Despite its massively discomfiting subject, 12 Years a Slave is never anything less than compellingly watchable. The Academy Award nominated turns from Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o certainly stand out, though the star is, ultimately, this supremely wellconstructed film, a work that stands above nearly all its competitors. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (R) Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jordan Belfort, who ruled the Bulls and the Bears before the age of 30. Hopped up on Quaaludes and cocaine, Belfort and his crew at Stratton Oakmont peddled penny stocks and defrauded investors so badly, he ended up in prison for 22 months. DiCaprio will be an Oscar frontrunner if voters can get beyond the vileness of Belfort enough to celebrate the actor’s most physical performance.

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movie pick one of us INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (PG) Adams), detect that many of their loved ones There’s a common belief that movie remakes and friends are no longer human. The idea is are always inferior to the originals. It’s not ludicrous and paranoid, but more and more true. There are numerous examples where the evidence piles up to support it. The residents replica gently nudges the first-born aside. of the Bay Area have slipped into a nightmare, John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941), where alien beings can replicate themselves in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and the their guise and walk among them undetected. Coen brothers’ True Grit (2010) are all arguKaufman’s movie is significantly more terably better than their anterifying, disturbing and hallucedents. Director Phillip cinatory than its solid source. Kaufman’s Invasion of the It’s a trip and also delivers a Body Snatchers (1978) is a finely acidic streak of humor remake of Don Siegel’s clasinto the otherwise tense mix. sic science-fiction/horror It’s moody, character-driven classic of the same name and reverent of the original from 1956 and based on Jack movie without being stuffy Finney’s 1955 seminal novel. and dramatically inert. If If ever there was a movie to anything, this feels less like dispel the whole anti-remake a remake and more like a argument, this is the one to continuation of the original, accomplish it. Donald Sutherland a look at how the spread of Siegel’s tense, dramatibody-snatching would concally lean and politically loaded version gets tinue in the age of corroded Aquarius. As with the job done. The movie has traditionally been Steven Spielberg’s classic blockbuster Jaws viewed (at least by critics) as a fantasy-fueled (1975), it’s difficult to believe that Invasion examination of McCarthy-era anti-communism. of the Body Snatchers was rated PG. Kaufman’s version heightens the paranoia Invasion of the Body Snatchers will play one to a sickly degree, ridding the storyline of a time only at Ciné, Saturday, Feb. 1 at 10 p.m., charged political reading and instead infusas part of their Science on Screen film series. ing it with a darkly satirical evisceration of The screening will be hosted by Professor John late-1970s New Age pop psychology, set in J. Mauer, of the UGA College of Veterinary that symbolic American cesspool of liberalism Medicine, who will speak on “Parasites and and decadence: San Francisco. A city health Mind Control.” inspector, Matthew (Donald Sutherland), and his co-worker/friend Elizabeth (Brooke Derek Hill

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tanding large among the vast list of albums released by Athens bands in 2013 was a record that hardly anyone had any idea was even being made. Built slowly by the collaborative hands of bandleader Derek Almstead and a carefully selected group of players—including former Athenian (and Flagpole contributor) Jeff Tobias, Carlton Owens, Emily Growden and the late Craig Lieske—Tunes of Glory, the debut album by Faster Circuits, was a mysterious psych-pop gem that took even the most ardent local music fans by surprise. Although the album was constructed carefully during a years-long session of fits and starts, Almstead never meant for Faster Circuits to be a studio project. “[I’d always envisioned it as] a band… I wanted to play with some people that were outside the normal group of folks I always played with, which is all the Elephant 6 people,” he says. “I love [them], but I’d already played in a ton of bands like that. I work at the 40 Watt, and Jeff Tobias was working with me, and we talked about music all the time. I just liked him… He was kinda wanting to play guitar and was coming at it with a plan. “The theory at the time was, it would be counterbalanced with Craig,” he continues. “I wanted Craig, because he could play crazy, wild stuff… I had this dream of him being, like, this caged animal that occasionally I’d let loose and he’d just like shred all over things—but then the rest of the time [he’d] be reined in, so it wouldn’t always be chaotic.” The actual crafting of the album took a long time—some songs had languished for as long as six years—but it’s clear Almstead knew what he wanted from the start, down to reimagining the instruments used. “I’d seen Chris [Herron] do some really cool things with thumb pianos at a couple of improv things at the Watt over the years, and I really wanted to have some sort of distinctive keyboard element that was not just like regular rock and roll or pop keyboard-style stuff,” Almstead says. “I had this idea

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of making it more like a percussion instrument, but doing it in this kinda space-age way. So, I made him this special version of a piano that’s arranged more like an African thumb piano.” Both Almstead and Growden point toward Lieske’s untimely passing in January 2013 as a key impetus in bringing Tunes of Glory to fruition. “It seemed to me that [Derek] was spurred to finish it when Craig died,” says Growden. Almstead concurs. “That’s true… Chris knew that I’d had Craig do a couple of overdubs [on the record]. When he was putting together a compilation for his memorial service, he asked me if I would be cool with putting those things on it, and I was like, ‘OK, of course.’” The task of going back and working on these songs, and becoming artistically and emotionally involved with them again after they’d lain dormant for about a year and a half, reminded Almstead why he’d been doing it in the first place: to get the music out of his head and down on tape. He put his head down, working every day for two months until the album was finished. Up until the time of its release, though, Almstead barely spoke a word about it. “Maybe I felt a little embarrassed that it’d taken so long,” he says. “I didn’t want to promise [anything]… because if I had told you, and six years later you’re like, ‘What’s up with this record?’” When it finally did emerge, the reception was overwhelmingly positive. Almstead makes clear he wished for a different experience and sound than he has had over his almost 20-year association with the Elephant 6 Collective, during which time he’s been a part of bands like Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control and of Montreal. Yet it was his old friend and bandmate John Fernandes who jumped at the chance to release the record on his Cloud Recordings label. “I sent copies of it to a bunch of my friends, and John [said], ‘Man, I really like it, I can put it out. I’ll just put it out

digitally,’ and I was like, ‘Perfect’,” Almstead says, then adds, jokingly, “Because I’d feel terrible asking [him] to pay to put out the debut album of a 38-year-old man who’s well past his prime.” The live version of Faster Circuits includes Herron, Growden and of course Almstead, along with A.J. Griffin. While Tunes of Glory is certainly a great achievement (and a choice example of not letting a long-term idea die on the vine), it’s the live lineup that has solidified the group’s place in the current crop of Athens music projects. It’s this configuration that’s given new life to the wonderfully expansive yet tightly wound and deliberate pop-psych compositions from the album—and the one that will usher in the next phase of the project. “I’ve been working on the next record this winter,” Almstead says. “Not as much as I’d hoped, but pretty consistently. A lot of it was stuff that I was already working on, and some of it is brand new material.” Also, he adds, “I’d like to go on tour.” With the swell of enthusiasm surrounding Tunes of Glory at his back (it came in at No. 4 on Flagpole’s year-end best albums list), a crack lineup at his side and headphones plugged diligently into his console, Almstead is in the catbird seat. All that’s left is to hope the next record doesn’t take another six years. Gordon Lamb

WHO: Faster Circuits, Motherfucker, Hot Fudge WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Friday, Jan. 31, 10 p.m. HOW MUCH: $5 (21+), $7 (18–20)

Can You hEAR Me Now?

Free Hearing Screenings Saturday

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happens every night. A music fan heads out to a show. On her way to the stage, she visits the bartender to grab a PBR and say hello. As she reaches to drop a dollar in the tip jar, she notices a container of brightorange foam earplugs, provided by local nonprofit We’re hEAR for You, sitting next to it. Her hand lingers for a moment as she considers grabbing a pair, but then she turns away. She doesn’t want to compromise how well she’ll hear the show. Hours later, as the band loads out, she notices her ears are ringing, and she doesn’t think much of it. “Your ears can’t send out pain signals. If they did, you would leave the concert,” says Dr. Holly Kaplan of the University of Georgia Communication Sciences and Disorders Program (CMSD) and the Speech and Hearing Clinic. “What they do is ring, and that means you have done damage to the fibers in your ear that help you hear.” To help Athenians understand the effects of unprotected rockin’, Kaplan and UGA’s Speech and Hearing Clinic have teamed up with We’re hEAR for You to host their first annual Free Hearing Screening Day, Feb. 1 from 12–3 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space. Masters students from the CMSD program will spend the afternoon administering 15-minute, non-invasive tests, including an otoscopic exam—in which they’ll use a cone-shaped device to peer into ears to check for obstructions—and a pure tone screening, which tests a person’s ability to hear adequately enough to understand speech. “We wanted to make it at a time of day when people from the music community would be free to come,” says Katie Carmody, vice president of We’re hEAR for You, who co-founded the organization in 2009 with her friend Caroline DeCelles. Carmody, who also serves as the Georgia Theatre’s head of marketing and hospitality, has been on a crusade in recent years to protect music fans from hearing loss. She and

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DeCelles, a speech-language pathologist, decided to launch the nonprofit in 2009 after DeCelles suffered a ruptured eardrum. Feeling particularly sensitive to loud noise at the time, DeCelles discovered that procuring earplugs at local venues was not always easy. We’re hEAR for You started with a simple goal: providing free earplugs to venues, and using volunteers to help keep them stocked.

Since then, the organization has grown fast, partnering with bands like Phish, Widespread Panic, Pretty Lights and, recently, Drive-By Truckers to make earplugs available to fans on the bands’ tour circuits. They also work with festivals like AthFest and Atlanta’s Shaky Knees, providing ‘plugs and setting up information booths where they can talk to festival-goers about preserving their long-term hearing health.

“It’s kind of a no-brainer,” Carmody says of these partnerships. There is a persistent aura of squareness surrounding earplugs. But with the endorsement of the very artists fans are there to see, the stigma of being uncool for wearing them is lessened. Carmody also says educating fans about the risk of hearing loss has been pivotal. The amount of earplugs distributed by We’re hEAR for You has doubled every year and shows no sign of stopping. As it goes with most nonprofits, the biggest challenge is funding. Until very recently, We’re hEAR for You was funded exclusively by private donations. It’s had help from heavy hitters like Phish, whose Water Wheel Foundation raised $4,000 for the group. But with demand growing fast, Carmody has had to look around for other sources of funding. The group recently won a grant that will help, and Howard Leight by Honeywell donated a whopping 50,000 earplugs in December. These swells of support keep Carmody motivated to grow the organization; it already operates in Atlanta and Nashville, and she has dreams of opening chapters in other cities, with Denver, where DeCelles now lives, already in the works. Carmody sees the upcoming Free Hearing Screening Day as a call to action, but it’s also a testament to the hard work of her organization and the Speech and Hearing Clinic toward raising awareness of this cheap, easy and essential preventative healthcare measure. With this weekend’s event, We’re hEAR for You moves a step closer to its vision of not only providing hearing protection, but helping people understand how hearing works so they can make healthy choices. You can sign up for an appointment by calling Nuçi’s Space at 706-227-1515. As Carmody says, it’s a no-brainer.

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just got to me, when I was 13, like nothing had before and not much [has] since,” says Robyn Hitchcock. “It had a unique atmosphere, like entering a haunted house or a room with strange light. It made me feel deeply sad, but it also made me laugh. It helped me become a cynic, and a romantic too.” In these brief but awed words, Hitchcock, the quintessentially British singer-songwriter who helped to define the guitar-pop form, is going about the business of defining himself. The ecstatic waxing above is in regards to one particular masterwork of songcraft, the song that made him want to write songs of his own. “I started singing it myself about 40 years ago, and over the last 20 or so I feel like I’ve made it my own,” he says. “But ‘Visions of Johanna’ has also colonized me.” And so, after Bob Dylan did Hitchcock the favor of spinning him on his head, thus began decades of steady and solid songwriting that continues to this day—first as a straight folk singer in his native Cambridge in 1974; soon after in his perennial punk act The Soft Boys; then as a proper bandleader with Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians; and with myriad collaborations since. Hitchcock’s songs share the dual qualities of pop impatience and abstract allure, the same haunted-house invitation their creator discovered in Dylan so many years ago. For newcomers, there are over two dozen records from which one could choose to begin an exploratory itinerary into Hitchcock’s work. (The aurally widescreen, lyrically self-aware I Often Dream of Trains might be a good place to start.) For longtime fans, Hitchcock’s return to Athens is a celebratory occasion. Hitchcock has been a close ally of R.E.M. since the 1980s, and he counts Peter Buck as one of his most valued collaborators. In 2006, Hitchcock and Buck officially joined forces as the Venus 3, along with Scott McCaughey (Fresh Young Fellows, The Baseball Project) and Bill Rieflin (Ministry). As such, Hitchcock performances in Athens have become a well-loved tradition. “In late 1990, R.E.M. had just written ‘Losing My Religion’ and came down to the old 40 Watt as an acoustic trio, minus Bill Berry, to play it one night after I had done a set,” Hitchcock recalls when pressed for a particular Athens memory. “I remember standing at the side of the stage and thinking, ‘Oh no, they’ve lost it. This is terrible.’ It was a stream of

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minor chords without the drums and mandolin part. It just didn’t grab me at all. I’d been grooving to their uptempo work on Document and Green. “[Naturally], ‘Losing My Religion’ turned out to be the song that tipped them into global mega-dom. I’m fond of it now. This illustrates more than anything what kind of commercial ear I have. Even my best-known songs are the ones I like the least.” It’s true: Hitchcock has made the transition from young, would-be punk to silver-haired auteur while maintaining a cult-level fan base, never reaching the kind of star power that would attract fair-weather fans. Like his hero, the aforementioned American folk legend, or his more commonly acknowledged influence, Syd Barrett, hit-making is not his concern now, if it ever was to begin with. His songwriting continues unabated, an unbreakable habit. “I’ve trained myself to write songs, so I often set my thoughts to music when I’m breathing around the place,” he says. “The flow hasn’t stopped for some time, but the quality varies. Best not to worry about it—it’s not something to be too aware of. I like to think there’s a great song out there waiting for me to write it, that hasn’t already been written by Bob Dylan.” This nonstop flow of words set to tune has created a world all its own. A particularly lucid illustration of this private planet can be found in Jonathan Demme’s 1998 film Storefront Hitchcock. Free of the performanceart mania of Demme’s most famous concert film, Stop Making Sense, the movie is exactly as advertised: Hitchcock performing for a small audience in a New York storefront window. The songwriter is visible on all sides, gripping the attention and affection of some and ignored by those unaware of the explosive talent behind the glass. In this intimate setting, tired stage tropes disappear. Hitchcock’s fireworks are in his pathos and pith, and for those smart enough to inquire within, it’s more than worth the price of admission. Jeff Tobias

WHO: Robyn Hitchcock, Thayer Sarrano WHERE: Melting Point WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m. HOW MUCH: $15 (adv.), $20 (door)

threats & promises Music News And Gossip k Heart to Heart: The new record by Emergent Heart comes out Tuesday, Feb. 4. It’s titled The Sheffield EP and is the third release for the group, whose focus and purpose are to raise money for suicide prevention. Spearheaded by longtime Athens musician Luke Johnson, who recently relocated to the Leesburg, VA area, the collaborative project has had a constant local buoy in engineer and player Suny Lyons. Other players on this particular release—some local and some from the northern Virginia area—include Mary Simmons, Matt Killion, Aaron Estes, Matt Wooley and Ryan Monahan. As with other Emergent Heart releases, this one will come out on Athens label Mazarine Records. Since this is a completely collaborative endeavor, the songwriting varies in style, but everything is very well-recorded and played. The track from the EP that’s grabbed me most is “Lost Dreams Fade,” which has a dark electronic backbeat and layers of New Order-ish moodiness. Your mileage will vary, of course, but check out more via emergentheart.com.

Do You Remember: The Art Rocks Athens Foundation will host its first big event Friday, Jan. 31 at the 40 Watt Club. Featured acts are The B-53’s (Athens’ own B-52’s tribute band); a Big Star tribute band, cleverly named Piggly Wiggly; DJ Kurt Wood; the Athens Showgirl Cabaret; and to-beannounced special guests. The purpose of the concert is to promote the upcoming series of Art Rocks Athens events coming this summer. Those will include exhibitions of art and film, as well as music and dance performances, illuminating the history of art and Luke Johnson music in Athens from 1975–1985. See artrocksathens.com for more info. Give a Care: A very special event is happening Friday, Jan. 31 at Hendershot’s Coffee Bar. It’s the annual Love Notes for Lukas benefit, which is coordinated by Lukas’ Fund, whose mission is “to help meet the physical needs of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the emotional and educational needs of their parents.” The fund and benefit are named after Lukas Willem Bierema Ebell, who was born at Athens Regional Medical Center in November 2002 and passed away a little over a month later. The open mic-style event is from 5–7 p.m. and open to all performers between kindergarten and 12th grade, who may perform whatever they like, including original music. The call has also been put out for local musicians interested in judging the event or playing some songs with the kids. If you’re into either of these things, drop a line to coordinator Jennifer Fleece via jenfleece11@gmail.com, or call 706-247-4135. For more information on Lukas’ Fund, see lukasfund.org. Everything Louder than Everything Else: As reported last week, Athens math-rock agitators Cinemechanica are headed back into the studio to record a new full-length album. Here are some deets: The band will enter Louisville,

KY’s La La Land Studio with owner and engineer Kevin Ratterman (Maserati, My Morning Jacket) this week for a two-week recording session and presumable bro-down. The band reports that it’s got no title for the new album, nor any idea of a release date beyond the vague goal of “late spring.” It’s been eight years since Cinemechanica’s last album, The Martial Arts. I’d lead you toward the band’s website for more information, but I swear to God that if you look there all you’ll see is a message in plain text that says “Recording of the new record begins 1/27/14,” and I literally just told you all that. So go look at facebook.com/cinemechanica instead. If you wanna know more about where the group will be gettin’ down to business and making the magic happen, see facebook.com/ lalalandaplace. Eight Arms to Hold You: The tenderly melodic Four Eyes will release its new album Our Insides Friday, Jan. 31 at Flicker Theatre & Bar. (See Calendar Pick on p. 18). Known primarily as the songwriting outlet for founder Erin Lovett, Four Eyes works really well when expanded to its full-band configuration, which

includes Lucas Jensen, Lauren Gregg and Ryan Gray Moore (of Brothers). The audience this night will also be treated to sets by Steven Trimmer (Glasscrafts), Sea of Dogs and Jensen’s long-running but often dormant project Big Gray. If you missed the EP Lovett released under the Four Eyes moniker this past Christmas, it’d be a good idea to give it a listen as soon as you read this. Head to foureyesathens.bandcamp.com to get your ears back in favor. For all other information, see facebook.com/FourEyesAthens. Bow Wow Wow: Local publicist Michelle Roche sends word that she is organizing a series of “Doggy Happy Hour” concerts at New Earth Athens on the first Wednesday of each month from 6–8 p.m. The first one will take place Wednesday, Feb. 4 and feature music from Ken Will Morton. Attendees are encouraged to bring their furry friends and take advantage of drink specials. These events will run you $5 at the door (or $10 per family), and all proceeds will go to Angels Among Us Pet Rescue and the Athens Area Humane Society’s Spay & Neuter Center. Roche is looking for bands interested in playing; anyone who wishes to donate their time can contact michelle@ michelleroche.com. [Gabe Vodicka] Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

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1, a full slate of scholars will speak on original research like “Scarf and Dress Designs by Frankie Welch: Highlighting Georgia Through Her Americana,� “The Materiality of the Gullah Geechee Culture� and “Shalom, Y’all!: The Material Culture of Savannah’s Early Jewish Home.� The symposium is one of the largest of its kind on the east coast. For a list of full lectures and to register, visit georgiamuseum. org.

FULL HOUSE Sacred Spaces: In addition to “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy,â€? a large show of censored 1940s art that opened this past week, and “It’s Not Polite to Stare,â€? a voyeurism-themed video art show, the Georgia Museum of Art has four other new exhibitions lined up for this season. “The Silent Cities of Peru: Archaeological Photographs by Fernando La Rosaâ€? presents large black-and-white portraits of massive stones and vistas at ancient sites like Machu Picchu, Sechin and ChavĂ­n HuĂĄntar. La Rosa, who splits his time between Macon, where he directs a photography program at Wesleyan College, and Lima, Peru, has developed a personal relationship with the sites over the years, allowing him access to places no longer available to casual visitors. Most remarkably, his special access has helped him capture the morning sun as it arrives through temple windows, an integral part of the builders’ design. In a related Gallery Talk on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 5:30 p.m., Chad Howe, associate professor of Hispanic linguistics at UGA, will present “Life and Language in the Andes.â€? The exhibition will be on display through Sunday, Mar. 30. Backroad Beauties: The museum’s other new photography exhibition, “John Greenman Photographs,â€? presents two series: crisp, black-and-white scenes of Georgia’s backroads taken through a car window and colorful snapshots from around the world. Greenman,

Symposium on Thursday, Jan. 30 from 7:30–9 p.m. and a special tour of the exhibition led by Verbrugge on Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 2–3 p.m. The exhibit will be open through Sunday, Apr. 27.

Put Your Hands Together: Congratulations to Tatiana Veneruso, who has officially been selected to take over as director of the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA). Veneruso, who earned a BFA in illustration Weaving Wonders: Organized by GMOA’s curator and sculpture from the Savannah College of of decorative arts Dale Couch and UGA profesArt and Design in 2004, has been a patron of sor emeritus of finance ATHICA since moving to James Verbrugge, “Rugs Athens over seven years of the Caucasus� ago. After contributincludes rugs created in ing artwork to several the Caucasus—a region fundraising exhibits that today includes and curating “OCCUPY: Armenia, Azerbaijan This is What Democracy and Georgia—dated Looks Like,� she joined between 1805 and the ATHICA’s board of early 20th century. directors at the end of With lush colors and 2012. Following terms intricate designs, the as secretary and vice variety of rugs demonpresident, Veneruso strates the distinctive became the interim galstyles unique to each lery manager after Hope origin. Hypnotizing, Hilton stepped down geometric patterns to accept a position scattered with religious at Hable Construction symbols and frolicking this past October. Her animals reflect the surexperience in commerroundings, daily lives cial design, marketing and religion of their and advertising—in creators. Between the addition to installdozen rugs, viewers ing, fundraising and “Rugs of the Caucasus� can contemplate the promoting shows such evolution of design, as the very successful indigenous use and wear patterns in contrast “ATHICARDS�—has prepared Veneruso to bring to those of Western importation. Correlated even more interesting and thought-provoking events include an opening reception held exhibitions to Athens. in conjunction with the Henry D. Green Jessica Smith

who currently serves as the Carolyn McKenzie and Don E. Carter Professor of Journalism at UGA, utilizes high-tech digital technologies to create impressively detailed and unmanipulated images. Leaving nothing to chance, each deliberately executed photograph strives to capture the landscape exactly as it is perceived by the eye. On Wednesday, Jan. 29 from 2–3 p.m., Greenman will lead a tour of his work. During “Family Day: Fun in the Sun Prints� on Saturday, Mar. 22 from 10 a.m.–12 p.m., children can create cyanotypes using materials from nature while students from the UGA Community Music School’s Suzuki program perform. The exhibit will be on display through Sunday, Mar. 30. Decorative Discussions: The seventh biennial Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts—held Thursday, Jan. 30–Saturday, Feb. 1 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education—explores the relationships between Georgia’s decorative arts to outside regions through this year’s theme, “Connections: Georgia in the World.� Ronald L. Hurst of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will deliver the keynote address, “Southern Furniture Studies: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going,� on Thursday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. Following his lecture, an opening reception will be held at the Georgia Museum of Art from 7:30–9 p.m. for “Selections in the Decorative Arts,� an exhibition on view through Sunday, June 29. On Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb.

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Classic Center ¡ Various times ¡ $20 (Amuse Bouche), $30 (Grand Tasting or Sunday Brunch) Athens Wine Weekend begins Friday evening with a “A Little Surpriseâ€? Amuse-Bouche from 5:30–7:30 p.m. in the Classic Center Atrium. Individual chefs will prepare their hors d’oeuvrestyle specialties, which patrons can enjoy with wine pairings. The main event takes place on Saturday in the Grand Hall from 1–5 p.m. The grand tasting and seminars allow guests to sample hundreds of wines from around the world while surveying national and international wine gurus. In addition, attendees can bid on special items in a silent auction. The six-course gourmet dinner held later that evening has already sold out, but there’s a Sunday brunch and sparkling wine seminar in the Classic Center Atrium the next morning. From 11 a.m.–1 p.m., attendees can enjoy an array of food and wine from Habersham Winery. All Athens Wine Weekend events support The Classic Center Cultural Foundation, an outfit that promotes visual and performing arts and provides scholarships to local students who excel in the arts. This is the perfect weekend for wine connoisseurs and art patrons. Visit athenswineweekend.com for more information and tickets to each event. [Sarah Temple Stevenson] MUSIC | Saturday, Feb. 1

Madeline

Flicker Theatre & Bar ¡ 9 p.m. ¡ $5 For his 40th birthday, This Will Be Our Summer Records owner Len Neighbors will celebrate at Flicker, where he has invited beloved native Athenian Madeline Adams

to perform a set of her heartfelt tunes. The show will be recorded by local engineer Jason NeSmith and released as Live at Flicker, a companion piece to Adams’ forthcoming, as-yet-untitled 2014 full-length. That album, the follow-up to 2011’s Black Velvet, is hotly anticipated around the Flagpole music office and elsewhere; if the sweetly abrasive songs the obviously matured songwriter premiered at her recent holiday show at Go Bar are any indication, it’ll be the full-blown folk-pop stunner we’ve been waiting for from Adams for years. [Gabe Vodicka] MUSIC | Monday, Feb. 3

Timmy & the Tumblers, Gross Ghost, The VG Minus, Schooner

Caledonia Lounge ¡ 9:30 p.m. ¡ $5 (21+), $7 (18–20) The Research Triangle’s indie-rock scene has been one of the country’s most fertile since the days of Merge’s dominance, and two of its hottest current exports will peddle their wares Monday at Caledonia. With its recently released LP, Public Housing, Carrboro, NC buzz band Gross Ghost proves that it has grown by leaps and bounds since its 2012 debut. Having expanded from a duo to a four-piece, the group offers up a tightly knit collection of fuzz-rock earworms that draw from ‘60s pop and rock and also provide a solid alternative to the oft-flaccid revivalism offered up by likeminded compatriots like Girls. Four Eyes Fellow Carolinian outfit Schooner hit similar creative paydirt with its 2013 effort, Neighborhood Veins, a warm and psych-addled pop record. [Gabe Vodicka] THEATER | Tuesday, Feb. 4– Sunday, Feb. 9

Bray’s Plays

Seney-Stovall Chapel ¡ 8 p.m. (nightly) & 2:30 p.m. (Feb. 9) ¡ $7 (w/ student ID), $12 In Bray’s Plays, University Theatre presents a series of eight short original works by award-winning, Off-Off-Broadway playwright John Patrick Bray. A lecturer in UGA’s Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Bray is also the moderator of the Athens Playwrights’ Workshop and director of Rose of Athens Theatre’s play reading series, No Shame Athens. Full of wry humor, the selections include Watery Grave, which invokes the infamous bathroom of iconic punk club CBGB, and Tech Support of the Darned, which eavesdrops on the water cooler talk of employees in the government’s secret Department of Extraterrestrial Findings. Other selections include Coffee On, Cookies, Eleanor’s Passing, Green Sound, On Top and Southern Werewolf. Each play will be directed by a different faculty member or graduate student, allowing the audience to see eight fresh approaches to Bray’s work. [Jessica Smith]

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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 28 CLASSES: Digital Camera Basics (ACC Library) Learn the basics of getting started with a digital camera. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org CLASSES: A Course in Miracles (Body, Mind & Spirit) Learn the inner workings of a miracle. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-3516024 CLASSES: Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) This class will help you get started with your family research. This is a pre-beginning genealogy class. Preregistration required. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org COMEDY: Second City Company: “Happily Ever Laughter” (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The sketch comedy and improv theatre troupe returns for a night of social and political satire. Jan. 27–29, 8 p.m. $40. www.pac.uga.edu EVENTS: Old Pal Wine Tasting (The Old Pal) This wine tasting features 2011 Gen5 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2011 Sans Leige Groundwork Grenache, 2012 Zolo Malbec and 2011 Tapiz Alta Cabernet Sauvignon. All wines will be available for purchase at Five Points Bottle Shop. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.theoldpal.com EVENTS: Lagunitas Beer Dinner (The World Famous) Sample Lagunitas beers paired with Chef Jarad Blanton’s magical pairings. Reservations available. 6 p.m. $30. www.theworldfamousathens.com FILM: The Peabody Decades: Green Eyes (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Lloyd Dubeck returns from Vietnam with great hopes for the future, but he encounters bitter frustration, and his hopes never materialize. Disillusioned and suffering from feelings of guilt, he returns to Saigon, where he searches among thousands of war orphans for the child he fathered but left behind. 7 p.m. FREE! mlmiller@uga.edu GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways. Every Tuesday. 8–10 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 Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. & Thursdays, 8 p.m. 706-354-1515 GAMES: Movie Quotes Trivia (Max) With host Cora Jane every Tuesday. Everyone’s a winner. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289

KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Reading aloud to a dog creates a relaxed, nonjudgmental environment that helps kids develop their reading skills and builds confidence. Register for a 15-minutes session. Grades K-5. 3:15–4:15 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Story Time (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs, movement and crafts for ages 2–5. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. FREE! 706-7693950 LECTURES & LIT: Nature-Writing Group (Athens Land Trust) The nature writing group will discuss Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, which is about the power of community gardens to build communities and nurture despairing people. The group is led by local writer and producer Pat Priest. Newcomers welcome. 5:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. patricia.priest@yahoo.com MEETINGS: Arts Advocacy Meeting (Ciné Barcafé) Discuss the future of the Lyndon House Arts Center. Rumors have been circulating that the ACC government wishes to turn it into a general facility center. 5:30 p.m. FREE! melissalinkathens@ gmail.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Concert (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) This performance features some of the most talented students from Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. $5 (w/ student ID), $10. 706-542-4400. www.pac.uga.edu

Wednesday 29 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Get a tour of “John Greenman Photographs” led by the photographer himself. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Salsa Dance Classes (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes with SALSAthens. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Every Wednesday. 6:30-7:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30 p.m. (beginners). $10 (incl. drink). www. facebook.com/salsaathens CLASSES: Adult Tumbling (Bishop Park, Athens Clarke Gymnastics Academy) Adult tumbling is for anyone 15 years or older. Every Wednesday through Apr. 23. 7–8:25 p.m. $10. 706-613-3589 COMEDY: The Hen Party Comedy Show (The Melting Point) This female comedy revue features Leanne Morgan, Karen Mills and Mia Jackson. 6 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $12 (adv.), $15. www.meltingpointathens.com COMEDY: Second City Company: “Happily Ever Laughter” (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) See Tuesday

listing for full description Jan. 27–29, 8 p.m. $40. www.pac.uga. edu GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Win house cash prizes with host Todd Kelly. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia with a DJ (Your Pie, Eastside location) Open your pie hole for a chance to win cash prizes. 7 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Dirty Nerds Trivia (Crow’s Nest) Trivia every Wednesday with host Todd Kelly. 10 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/dirtybirdsath 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: Snow Story Time (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Chilly tales and fun crafts for toddlers and preschoolers. Caregivers are requested to attend. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Books & Brushes (Oconee County Library) Create a literary-themed masterpiece with studio artist Christian Brandon. Sign up at the front desk by Jan. 27. For ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Owl Be Your Homework Helper (ACC Library) Fourth through sixth graders can be tutored by seventh graders in math, science, social studies and language arts. Wednesdays through November. 4–5 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Story Time (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs, movement and crafts for ages 2–5. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. FREE! 706-7693950 LECTURES & LIT: Panel Discussion (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) “Nuclear Anxiety and Civil Defense in Popular Culture” focuses on the cultural impact of the atomic bomb addressing how films, fashion and comics of the time period were inspired and shaped by both the technology and anxiety of the nuclear age. Part of the traveling exhibition “Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb.” 5:30 p.m. FREE! jlevinso@ uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Book Discussion (Chops and Hops) Join the Oconee Democrats for a discussion on the award-winning biography The Black Count: Glory,

Works by Lauren Pumphrey are currently on display at Highwire Lounge. A closing reception will be held Wednesday, Feb. 5 from 6–8 p.m. Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. Newcomers of any political affiliation welcome. 6:30 p.m. FREE! patricia.priest@ yahoo.com

Thursday 30 ART: Opening Reception (Georgia Museum of Art) Following the keynote speech of the Henry D. Green Symposium on Decorative Arts, tour the museum’s newest exhibitions, “Selections in the Decorative Arts” and “Rugs of the Caucasus.” See Art Notes on p. 17. 7:30–9 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: 7th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts Keynote Lecture (Georgia Center for Continuing Education) Ronald L. Hurst of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation will deliver a keynote address, “Southern Furniture Studies: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going.” See Art Notes on p. 17. 6 p.m. www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Lamp Repair 101 (House Electric) Familiarize yourself with hand tools and materials used in lamp repair. Course will cover basic wiring of different types of lamps. Feel free to bring a lamp to repair. Pre-register. 7–9 p.m. $20–30. 706-543-5280 CLASSES: Scottish Country Dance Classes (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Easy-to-learn Scottish country dancing. Wear comfortable clothing and shoes. 7–9 p.m. $36/semester, $3/class. deborahmillier@yahoo.com

EVENTS: Resource Fair for the Visually Impaired (ACC Library) This expo-style event offers attendees a chance to talk to representatives from local organizations that offer resources and products for the visually impaired like Learning Ally, the VISTAS Center, Multiple Choices Center for Independent Living and Visual Enhancements. Feel free to bring a lunch to this Lunchtime Learning event. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 EVENTS: Pre-Symposium Open Houses (Multiple Locations) Kick off the seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts with open houses in some of Athens’ most historic properties. This year’s participating venues include the Church-Waddel-Brumby House, the Taylor Grady House, the T.R.R. Cobb House and the Ware-Lyndon House. 1–4 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org FILM: Fail-Safe (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 271) American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it’s a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted? Part of the traveling exhibition “Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb” series. 7 p.m. FREE! www.rbrl.blogspot.com FILM: Campus Moviefest Finale (UGA Tate Student Center) See this year’s top short films made by teams of UGA students. 8 p.m. www. ugaunion.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light

and compete! Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. & Thursdays, 8 p.m. 706-354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Win prizes with host Todd Kelly. Every Thursday. 7:30–9 p.m. FREE! 706549-2639 GAMES: Sex, Drugs & Rock and Roll Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 10 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 KIDSTUFF: Pajama Story Time (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Come in your pajamas and bring a stuffed animal for stories, songs and snacks. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT: Vox Reading Series (Ciné Barcafé) Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork, a book of augmented-reality poems, and currently an assistant professor in interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also teaches in the MFA program for creative writing and poetics. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT: Members of Regina Rex Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Members of Regina Rex will discuss their curatorial process and exhibition philosophies in connection with their gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn and their new exhibit at Lamar Dodd, “New Threads.” 5:30–7 p.m. FREE! 773965-1689 LECTURES & LIT: Tania León (UGA Chapel) Composer, conductor and educator Tania León gives a lecture as part of the Global Georgia Initiative series. 4 p.m. FREE! www. willson.uga.edu k continued on next page

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ART: 7th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts (Georgia Center for Continuing Education) This two-day symposium features a full slate of scholars presenting original research related to this year’s theme, “Connections: Georgia in the World.â€? See Art Notes on p. 17. Jan. 31, 8 a.m.–7 p.m. & Feb. 1, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! (students), $75–250. www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Opening Reception (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries, Gallery 307) For “Regina Rex: New Threads.â€? 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.art. uga.edu COMEDY: Sharkwing Comedy Show (CinĂŠ BarcafĂŠ) A live show with the Sharkwing Comedy Troupe. 10 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com EVENTS: “A Little Surpriseâ€? Amuse-Bouche (The Classic Center) Featured chefs will kick off Athens Wine Weekend with a sampling of their cooking artistry, all paired with the perfect wine to arouse the pallet. See Calendar Pick on p. 18. 5:30–7 p.m. $20. 706357-4444. www.athenswineweekend. com EVENTS: Love Notes for Lukas This open mic event is for all performers between kindergarten and 12th grade to play original songs or covers. Proceeds benefit Lukas’ Fund, an organization that strives to improve the outcomes and experiences of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. See Threats & Promises on p. 16. 5–7 p.m. 706247-4135, jenfleec11@gmail.com, www.lukasfund.org EVENTS: Bell’s Bowl (Aromas) Sample Bell’s brews like the Roundhouse IPA, cherry stout, Hopslam, sweet potato stout, Two Hearted Ale, Smitten and more. Jan. 31–Feb. 2, 4 p.m.–12 a.m. www. aromascraftworks.com EVENTS: Healing Circle and Meditation (Body, Mind & Spirit) Held every Friday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-351-6024 FILM: Rocky Horror Picture Show (UGA Tate Student Center) The 9 p.m. showings of the film will include live on-stage performances. Jan. 31 & Feb. 1, 3 p.m., 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. $1 (UGA Students), $3. 706542-6369 GAMES: Fantastic Fridays (Bishop Park) Fun obstacle courses in a nonstructured environment. For ages 10 months-4 years old and their guardians. Every Friday. 10–11:30 a.m. $5-7.50. www.athensclarkecounty. com/gymnastics KIDSTUFF: Chinese New Year Celebration (Rocksprings Community Center) Learn about Chinese culture and the New Year’s celebration and complete a craft project denoting your Chinese birth year. Try dragon dancing and enjoy holiday snacks. For ages 6–13. 4 p.m. $1. www.athensclarkecounty. com/rocksprings LECTURES & LIT: Third Act Writers Read (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) David Noah and John English present readings by Bob Ambrose, Sara Baker, Eugene Bianchi, Mark Bromberg, David Oates and other writers. Part of ATHICA’s current exhibit, “The Third Act: Contemplating Aging.â€? 7:30 p.m. www.athica.org PERFORMANCE: Alice in WondAIRland (Canopy Studio) Get topsy-turvy with an aerial take on the wacky characters of Lewis

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Carroll’s classic tale. Jan. 31, 8 p.m. Feb. 1, 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. Feb. 2, 2 p.m. $6 (children), $10 (students), $15. www.canopystudio.org PERFORMANCE: The Classic City Kings (Go Bar) Local drag kings perform gender-bending performances. Followed by DJ Blowpop. 10 p.m. $5. www.theclassiccitykings. com

Saturday 1 ART: 7th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts (Georgia Center for Continuing Education) See Friday listing for full description Jan. 31, 8 a.m.–7 p.m. & Feb. 1, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! (students), $75–250. www.georgiamuseum.org

an otoscopic exam and a pure tone screening. Hosted by the Speech and Hearing Clinic and We’re hEAR for You. See story on p. 15. 12–3 p.m. FREE! 706-227-1515 EVENTS: Naturalist’s Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Take a hike around the property in search of seasonal happenings. Participants are encouraged to bring a camera and binoculars. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 EVENTS: Bluegrass Fundraiser (Princeton United Methodist Church) Sample homecooked BBQ and listen to live music by The Red Oak Southern String Band, Amy Laws and Something About Strings. A silent auction will include cakes, candies and other goodies. 6 p.m. www.princetonumcathens.org EVENTS: Design and Construction of Furniture: The Rabbi’s Table (Lyndon House Arts Center) Athens Area Woodworkers Club presents an

overcome devasting obstacles and embraced their inner superhero because of their love for Batman. Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Brett Culp. Proceeds benefit Action Ministries, Inc. 2 p.m. $5–10. www. athenscine.com FILM: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (CinĂŠ BarcafĂŠ) Philip Kaufman’s remake of the classic psychological science-fiction/horror film follows a health inspector and psychiatrist who discover human beings are being substituted by alien duplicates. John J. Maurer of the UGA College of Veterinary Science will speak about “Parasites and Mind Control.â€? See Movie Pick on p. 13. 10 p.m. www.athenscine.com FILM: Rocky Horror Picture Show (UGA Tate Student Center) See Friday listing for full description Jan. 31 & Feb. 1, 3 p.m., 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. $1 (UGA Students), $3. 706542-6369

Paintings by Leslie Moody are currently on display at Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market through January. COMEDY: Athens Saturday Night Laughs (Chonell’s Home Cooking) Hosted by MX Wallstreet featuring comedians Ice Cream and Sylvia. Includes an after party. 7 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20. lmaocomedyent@gmail. com EVENTS: Contra Dance (Lay Park) No partner or experience necessary. Wear soft sole shoes. Home-baked goods at the break. Live music by Cattywampas and calling by Deena Kushner and Stuart Whipple. 7:15 p.m. (lesson), 7:30–10:30 p.m. (dance). $4-8. www.contradanceathens.com EVENTS: Dealing for Darius (The Rail Athens) Darius Goes West, Inc.’s annual Texas Hold ‘Em tournament brings two Vegas pros to the Classic City, Gavin Smith and Bryan Devonshire. The winner will receive a Vegas casino package, with prizes for second and third place finishers as well. Proceeds benefit muscular dystrophy research. 7 p.m. $50–75 (requested donation). www.dariusgoeswest.org/vegascomestoathens EVENTS: Free Hearing Screening Day (Nuçi’s Space) Students of the UGA Communication Sciences and Disorders Program will administer quick, non-invasive tests including

illustrated talk by Abraham Tesser. The 45-minute lecture covers design issues, construction details and even photography of the piece. 9 a.m. FREE! jhbinga@bellsouth.net EVENTS: Bell’s Bowl (Aromas) See Friday listing for full description Jan. 31–Feb. 2, 4 p.m.–12 a.m. www. aromascraftworks.com EVENTS: 2014 Northeast Georgia Disability Expo & Conference (UGA Tate Student Center) Families and students with learning challenges or disabilities can gather information at exhibits and attend learning sessions. This event is sponsored by the Northeast Georgia Transition Team, an alliance of community and special education partners from 13 local school districts. 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www. negaresa.org EVENTS: Athens Wine Weekend (The Classic Center) Sample hundreds of wines from around the world. Followed by a gourmet dinner. See Calendar Pick on p. 18. 1–5 p.m. $30 (tasting), $150 (dinner). 706-357-4444, www.athenswineweekend.com FILM: Legends of the Knight (CinÊ BarcafÊ) This film weaves together true stories of individuals who have

KIDSTUFF: Nature Trading Post (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Trade one or two objects found in nature for points or other nature objects in the center’s collection. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 PERFORMANCE: UGA Ballroom Dance Performance Group (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) The dance show consists of steps set to popular songs and features Latin-inspired style and smooth couples dancing. 7 p.m. $10–18. 706-283-1049 PERFORMANCE: Alice in WondAIRland (Canopy Studio) See Friday listing for full description Jan. 31, 8 p.m. Feb. 1, 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. Feb. 2, 2 p.m. $6 (children), $10 (students), $15. www.canopystudio.org

Sunday 2 ART: Opening Reception (Athens Academy) “Watercolor in the Lives of 10 Women� includes works by Rosie Coleman, Jacqueline Dorsey, Judith DeJoy, Leigh Ellis, Kie Johnson, Cindy Malota, Zee Nagao, Rosemary Segreti, Karen Sturm and Viviane Van Giesen. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-549-9225

CLASSES: Color is Key: Painting with Lamar (Brick House Studio) Join Lamar Wood to explore painting media and techniques with an emphasis on color and play. Upcoming sessions will explore approaches to portraits and landscapes. Materials included. Held every Sunday, subject to change. 1–4 p.m. $50–100, 706-540-4022, www.lamarwood.com EVENTS: Nuclear Wing Eating Contest (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) The contest will be held during halftime of the Superbowl. The contest winner will receive free wings for a year. First 100 people to arrive on Super Sunday will get a free square. $10 (contest). 706-850-1916 EVENTS: Brunch with Sparkling Wine Seminar (The Classic Center) Enjoy a feast of breads, sweets and meats and learn about sparkling wines. Part of Athens Wine Weekend. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. $30. 706357-4444. www.athenswineweekend. com EVENTS: Bell’s Bowl (Aromas) See Friday listing for full description Jan. 31–Feb. 2, 4 p.m.–12 a.m. www. aromascraftworks.com

No. 1.� A free lecture will be held 45 minutes prior to the performance. 2 p.m. $25–60. www.pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Alice in WondAIRland (Canopy Studio) See Friday listing for full description Jan. 31, 8 p.m. Feb. 1, 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. Feb. 2, 2 p.m. $6 (children), $10 (students), $15. www.canopystudio.org PERFORMANCE: Live at the Library (ACC Library) Dr. David Marcus performs on the oud (lute) and accordian. Philip Mayer will perform on the riqq (Arabic tambourine) and doumbek (drum). 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org

Monday 3 EVENTS: Your Leisure Services in Athens: A Community Discussion (CinÊ BarcafÊ) Come hear a panel of experts discuss and share their perspectives on the leisure activities offered in the Athens community. Hosted by the ACC Federation of Neighborhoods. 7:30–9 p.m. FREE! www.accneighborhoods.org

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: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests every Monday night. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help build skill levels. For ages 10–18. Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650, ext. 329 KIDSTUFF: Teen Advisory Board (Oconee County Library) Teen Advisory Board (TAB) is a group of teens who gather at the beginning of every month to discuss and plan upcoming events. Creativity and leadership traits are necessary. Ages 11–18. Registration required. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950

included in numerous group shows in museums, commercial galleries, university galleries and alternative spaces. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-5421511 ART: Artist Talk (UNG Oconee Campus) An opening reception and artist talk for “Imago Mundi: Paintings by Jeffrey Whittle.� 2:15 p.m. FREE! frywhittle@gmail.com CLASSES: A Course in Miracles (Body, Mind & Spirit) Learn the inner workings of a miracle. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-3516024 COMEDY: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) This comedy show allows locals to watch quality comedy or perform themselves. Email to perform. First and third Tuesday of every month! 9 p.m. $5. calebsynan@yahoo.com, www.flickertheatreandbar.com EVENTS: Open House (Michaels Brothers Building, 320 E. Clayton St.) See the recently restored, historical building. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www. michaelbrothersbuilding.com GAMES: Movie Quotes Trivia (Max) With host Cora Jane every Tuesday. Everyone’s a winner. 9:30

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GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s CafĂŠ) “Brewer’s Inquisition,â€? trivia hosted by Chris Brewer every Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens GAMES: Trivia (Amici) Test your skills. 9 p.m. 706-353-0000 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: Groundhog Day Celebration (Memorial Park, Bear Hollow Zoo) Crafts, stories, refreshments and a special weather forecast by resident groundhog Gus. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/ bearhollow PERFORMANCE: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Guest conductor Roberto Abbado will lead the Grammy-winning ASO in an all-Russian program that includes Mussorgsky’s “Prelude to Khovanshchinaâ€? and Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances.â€? Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg will join the orchestra for a performance of Shostakovich’s “Violin Concerto

EVENTS: AARP Tax Assistance (Oconee County Library) AARP volunteers will assist individuals of all ages with their tax preparation. This free service is provided on a firstcome, first-served basis. 1–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 FILM: Parrot Confidential (Miller Learning Center, Room 101) Parrot owners, rescuers, breeders and conservation biologists explore the difficulties and consequences of keeping and caring for parrots as pets. Part of the annual Animal Voices of Film Festival sponsored by Speak Out for Species. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-224-3796 FILM: Computer Chess (CinĂŠ BarcafĂŠ) Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers, this narrative film follows the eccentric geniuses possessed by the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man at his own game. Hosted by UGA professor Gregory A. Trandel, an expert in Game Theory, who will present “The Humanity of Strategy.â€? 7:30 p.m. www.athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Athens’ toughest trivia. $100 grand

LECTURES & LIT: “Arlington National Cemetery: My Forever Home� (Oconee County Library) Ellouise Schoettler is a storyteller like no other. Come here her oneperson story of Arlington National Cemetery and the connection it has to her family. 7 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 PERFORMANCE: Krasnoyarsk National Dance Company of Siberia (UGA Fine Arts Building) Since it was founded more than 50 years ago, Krasnoyarsk’s Company has performed in more than 60 countries and has earned the reputation as one of the world’s greatest folk dance companies. Performing to folk music, the dancers create a dizzying swirl of color and movement. 8 p.m. $35-45. www.pac.uga.edu

Tuesday 4 ART: Patricia Bellan-Gillen Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151) Bellan-Gillen’s paintings, prints and drawings have been the focus of over 35 exhibitions across the U.S. Her work has been

p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways. Every Tuesday. 8–10 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE!706-354-7289 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) See Tuesday listing for full description Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. & Thursdays, 8 p.m. 706-354-1515 KIDSTUFF: Story Time (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs, movement and crafts for ages 2–5. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. FREE! 706-7693950 PERFORMANCE: Music Therapy Musicale (UGA Robert G. Edge Recital Hall) The UGA Music Therapy Association presents performances by music therapy students

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THE CALENDAR! from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music. uga.edu THEATRE: Bray’s Plays (SeneyStovall Chapel) Watch eight short original works written by local playwright and UGA lecturer John Bray. See Calendar Pick on p. 18. Feb. 4–9, 8 p.m. & Feb. 9, 2:30 p.m. $7 (w/ student ID), $12. www.drama. uga.edu THEATRE: Million Dollar Quartet (The Classic Center) Inspired by the true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun Records in Memphis, this Tony Award-winning production brings that legendary night to life with a tale of broken promises, secrets, betrayal and celebrations featuring timeless hits. 7:30 p.m. $30–43. 706-357-4444

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GAMES: Trivia with a DJ (Your Pie, Eastside location) Open your pie hole for a chance to win cash prizes. 7 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Win house cash prizes with host Todd Kelly. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9:30 p.m. www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub GAMES: Dirty Nerds Trivia (Crow’s Nest) Trivia every Wednesday with host Todd Kelly. 10 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/dirtybirdsath GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know

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it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. Both locations. 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: Story Time (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs, movement and crafts for ages 2–5. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. FREE! 706-7693950 LECTURES & LIT: Book Discussion (ACC Library) Dr. P. Daniel Silk leads a discussion on Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Part of the series “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys.� 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT: Community Forum: “America’s Role in the World� (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 285) Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has become the leading world power, but there are signs that American dominance is eroding as countries like China and India grow and prosper. Weigh the benefits and tradeoffs of three approaches to this issue using a NIF issue guide. Part of the traveling exhibition “Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb� series. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www. rbrl.blogspot.com LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Monthly open poetry reading for poetry and short works. This month’s featured reader is Catherine Zackgraf (a.k.a Catherine the Great). 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THEATRE: Bray’s Plays (SeneyStovall Chapel) See Tuesday listing for full description Feb. 4–9, 8 p.m. & Feb. 9, 2:30 p.m. $7 (w/ student ID), $12. www.drama.uga.edu

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com CICADA RHYTHM Atlanta-based acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie folk, filled with paired vocal harmonies. New Earth Athens Project Safe Benefit. 8 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com CARL LINDBERG Local Latin jazz bassist performs a set of solo tunes. Every Tuesday! Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL Host Fester Hagood presents this week’s showcase of singersongwriter talent, featuring Marlin Brackett, Todd McBride and Daniel Hutchens and Eric Carter.

Wednesday 29 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES SINGERSONGWRITER SHOWCASE Rock out every Wednesday at this open mic. Contact louisphillippelot@ yahoo.com for booking. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com ZOSO Formed in 1995, this ultimate Led Zeppelin tribute band has played over 2,400 live performances. GIMME HENDRIX This Athens-based cover band pays tribute to the Jimi Hendrix Experience by dressing the part and playing all the hits.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SECRET LOVER Psych-pop band from Worcester, MA. WHITE GOLD Atlanta-based band. GINKO Edgar Lopez’s fuzzy hip hop project. BONG MARLEY SONG SYSTEM “VHS-funk� from a member of Basshunter64. RENE LECONTE Lo-fi pop project featuring Joe Kubler (Sleeping Friends, Bubbly Mommy Gun). Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out every Wednesday! Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 JIVE MOTHER MARY Rollicking Southern rock band from Burlington, NC. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Join drummer Nicholas Wiles with bassist Drew Hart and pianist Steve Key for an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Thursday 30 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot performs folk and country with the help of some friends. HUMBLE CRUMB New local power trio plays eclectic yet groovy partyfriendly rock and roll covers ranging from the ‘60s to present-day. Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com PONTIAK Heavy, psychedelic family band from Virginia, on Thrill Jockey Records. A Harvey Milk guitarist Creston Spiers’ other project is also raucous and depressive, but with more of a classic rock focus. THE HONEY SLIDERS Says the band: “Featuring Jonathan Walker, playing original music from Catopolis inspired by Rocket Gizmos and Gomez The Multi-Colored Snake.� Dirty Birds 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7050 BLESS THE MIC Open mic and karaoke night. Every Thursday! Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock influenced by bands like Guided by Voices. ANTLERED AUNTLORD Fuzzpop guitar/drums project of local producer and songwriter Jesse Stinnard. THE TILLS Asheville, NC-based band formerly known as The Critters. DRAG SOUNDS Greensboro, NC-based rock and roll band. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com GAELIC STORM California-based band that blends indie-folk and world grooves with Celtic tradition. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred� Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com WORD Member of Arizona-based hip hop collective 28 Grams spits a solo set. PO.10.CEE Native American hip hop group based in Taos, NM. JIMI BEATNIK Hip hop MC from Grayson, GA via California. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features bassist Robby Handley and drummer Marlon Patton. The group is packed with music, mischief and mayhem, and offers a sound that serves noise-rock fans and jam band listeners equally. The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com ROBYN HITCHCOCK Known for fronting British art-rock band The Soft Boys, Hitchcock plays intricate, surrealist folk music. See story on p. 16. THAYER SARRANO Local songwriter playing hazy, desolate, Southerninspired rock tunes. New Earth Athens 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.newearthmusichall.com THE MANTRAS A high-energy mix of funk-rock, Middle Eastern, electronica and metal. THE KINKY APHRODISIACS Southern progressive rock trio. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 JERRY ON THE MOON “Architects of Southern fire, funk and soul� from Rome, GA.

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plays tender, intuitive folk tunes. STEVEN TRIMMER The guitarist and driving force behind Glasscrafts, Trimmer’s songwriting falls in line with Athens’ psych-pop history. BIG GRAY The on-again-off-again project of local musician Lucas Jensen. 40 Watt Club Art Rocks Athens Foundation Presents. 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com THE B-53’S Local B-52’s tribute band. PIGGY WIGGLY New local Big Star cover act. DJ KURT WOOD DJing ‘50s and ‘60s soul and garage before, after and in between bands. Georgia Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 JOHN BOYLE Singer-songwriter in the vein of Willie Nelson, John Prine and Bob Dylan. He’ll be joined by fiddler Adam Poulin. Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com PAPER DIAMOND Electronic producer and DJ from Colorado. LOUDPVCK Duo of electronic music DJs/producers Kenny Beats and Ryan Marks. MANIC FOCUS Minnesota-based electronica. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ BLOWPOP Joe Kubler (Bubbly Mommy Gun) spins a set of tunes. Green Room 9 p.m. $3. www.greenroomathens.com ARPETRIO Electronic dance and triphop act from Knoxville, TN. PRISMA Athens-based electro-jam band. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE LION & THE CANARY Soul music duo from Atlanta. EVAN & AVERY Folksy local duo. HAZEL RA Folk act from Arcata, CA.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Love Notes For Lukas. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.herndershotscoffee.com OPEN MIC Musicians 12th grade and younger are invited to play one to two songs to benefit patients in ARMC’s neonatal ICU. Songs can be covers or originals. See Threats & Promises on p. 16. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ REINDEER GAMES Athens DJ mixes trap, hip hop, moombahton, ‘90s hits and indie dance tunes. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SAM HUNT Gospel and R&Binfluenced country singer from Cedartown, GA. ERIC DODD Local singer and songwriter of country and Southern rock songs. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 STEREOTYPE No info available. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE HANDS OF TIME Soul, funk, pop, R&B, Motown and classic oldschool hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s that will get you out on the dance floor.

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The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Newly relocated back to his old stomping grounds of Athens, Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. Pizza Hut 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0888 (Baxter Street location) KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor. The World Famous 11 p.m. FREE! www.theworldfamousathens.com DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Saturday 1 Caledonia Lounge nMo Winter Showcase. 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www.caledonialounge.com THUNDERCHIEF Local act with a West Coast punk sound influenced by classic rock. SUBDIVISIONS Metal band from Georgia. BURY ME BREATHING Progressive metal band from Atlanta. TULPAE Three-piece technical metal band that consists of two guitars and drums. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com MADELINE Bell-voiced songwriter Madeline Adams plays endearing songs of smalltown loves, hopes and other assorted torments and joys. See Calendar Pick on p. 18. 40 Watt Club 8:30 P.M. $5 www.40watt.com UNCLE DAD Local four-piece band with a bluesy, soulful sound. WILEY EYES Local rock band. TAR No info available. SATURN VALLEY Local progressive jam fusion band. LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot and company play a “mind-boggling wall of organic sound with upbeat, traveldriven lyrics.� Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 MONSOON Fronted by Sienna Chandler, this local post-punk band that dabbles in rockabilly and new wave. MUUY BIIEN Local band plays ‘80sstyle punk rock that’s equal parts Minor Threat and The Fall. COTTONMOUTH Local group featuring members of Pretty Bird and Muuy Biien. Expect lots of fuzzy, heavy drums and bass. DJ HOT WAX Max Wang (The Rodney Kings) spins ‘60s pop/soul and punk rock. Green Room 10 p.m. $7. www.greenroomathens. com DEATH ON TWO WHEELS Gritty, hazy rock and roll from Atlanta, paying homage to classic ‘70s rock. THE COATHANGERS Infectious and irreverent all-female punk band from Atlanta. CONCORD AMERICA Slightly outof-control Atlanta-based band that touches on punk and garage.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE GRANFALLOONS Georgians playing sunny Americana with twangy guitars, the occasional accordion and lots of pop melodies. Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. 706-850-8561 LITTLE GOLD Local trio fronted by Christian DeRoeck, formerly of Woods, playing garage rock with pop sensibilities. SHAVED CHRIST Local punk band featuring members of American Cheeseburger, Witches, Dark Meat and Hot New Mexicans. TROPICAL TRASH Punk band from Louisville, KY. SHADE Dissonant, groove-oriented local post-punk band. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com THE SOUL REBELS Jazz/funk band from New Orleans, LA. DIRTY BOURBON RIVER SHOW Vaudevillian rock and roll act from New Orleans, showcasing their “Gypsy Brass Circus Rock.� Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 LEFTY HATHAWAY High-energy, organ-driven blues and rock band. The Office Lounge 8 p.m. 706-546-0840 EMILY JACKSON Self-taught folk singer-songwriter on the rise. Sundown Saloon 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1177 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke! The World Famous 10 p.m. $5. www.theworldfamousathens.com THE LANES Project featuring brothers Kevin and Matt Lane with Richard Mikulka on guitar and Chuck Bradburn on bass playing powerpop in the vein of The Possibilities. THE SHUT-UPS Five-piece new-wave power-pop band from Atlanta and Athens. THE ESKIMOS Long-running local pop-rock band.

Sunday 2 Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com KLEZMER LOCAL 42 A local sevenpiece Klezmer band specializing in Jewish and gypsy music and featuring Dan Horowitz of Five Eight. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10. www.meltingpointathens. com THE WILD FEATHERS Four-piece band formed in Austin, TX that takes elements of rock, country, folk and blues music and reshapes it in a way that is both unique and modern. SAINTS OF VALORY Rock and alternative band from Texas. JAMESTOWN REVIVAL Indie-rock with a Southern slant from Austin, TX. Pizza Hut 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.kevincodymusic.com (Baxter Street location) KARAOKE Choose from over 13,000 songs with host Kevin Cody.

Monday 3 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com TIMMY & THE TUMBLERS Tim Schreiber (Dark Meat, The LickitySplits) howls and spasms and literally tumbles over garage-y rock anthems and retro-inspired pop son GROSS GHOST Up-and-coming indie rock band from North Carolina. See Calendar Pick on p. 18. SCHOONER “Disheveled-pop-indiepsych-soul” band from Durham, NC. THE VG MINUS ‘70s-styled powerpop/punk. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com CANDID COAL PEOPLE Local footstomping dance-folk group. RAE FITZGERALD Americana outfit from Columbia, MO, Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 GYPS Xander Witt (Muuy Biien) plays a set of ambient drone. BONG MARLEY SONG SYSTEM “VHS-funk” from a member of Basshunter64. REAL SECTS No info available. STRICTLY RICKLI Local experimental songwriter and musician Ash Rickli performs alongside his brother, Eli Rickli. TOXIC ASS IMPLANT No info available. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Local singer-songwriters are invited to share a song or two with the audience. This open mic night is held every Monday. The Melting Point 6 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com JIM PERKINS Soulful local singersongwriter. Nowhere Bar 2nd Anniversary Party! 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 BLUES NIGHT WITH BIG C Nobody in Athens sings the blues quite like Big C (frontman for Big C and the Ringers). Expect lots of soulful riffs, covers and originals.

Tuesday 4 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE GRAWKS Local rock and roll band. STARLITE DEVILLES Athens-based rock and alternative country band. MURDER THE MOOD Local alternative rock band. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $13. www.georgiatheatre.com DEAD CONFEDERATE With its moody, dark weaving of Southern rock and grunge, reverb-heavy local group Dead Confederate has ascended in popularity across the nation. GRINGO STAR Atlanta-based indie rock quartet. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 TERROR PIGEON DANCE REVOLT Eccentric, hard-touring pop band from Nashville. MICHAEL PARALLAX “Celebratory electronic spiritual revival tent music” from Orlando, FL.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com KISS YOUR DARLING Playing Celtic and old-time music. The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com MIPSO Fun folk and Americana from Chapel Hill, NC. MARK CUNNINGHAM & THE NATIONALS Local songwriter Cunningham is backed by a group of talented musicians. New Earth Athens Project Safe Benefit. 8 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com CARL LINDBERG See Tuesday’s listing for full description Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL Host Fester Hagood presents a weekly showcase of singersongwriter talent, this time featuring Michael Sessoms and Hill Roberts.

Wednesday 5 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES SINGERSONGWRITER SHOWCASE Rock out every Wednesday at this open mic. Contact louisphillippelot@ yahoo.com to reserve a time to perform. Caledonia Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! (21+), $2 (18-20). www.caledonialounge.com DANA SWIMMER Local band playing a garage rock montage with sweet, soulful undertones. WANDERWILD Project led by local songwriter Matt Martin. FAYE WEBSTER Folk singer-songwriter from Atlanta. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THAYER SARRANO Local songwriter playing hazy, desolate, Southerninspired rock tunes. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $11 (adv.), $13 (door). www.40watt.com MAN MAN Critically acclaimed experimental rock band from Philadelphia. XENIA RUBINOS Latin-pop artist from Brooklyn, NY. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 MANNY AND THE DEEPTHROATS Local experimental sound/video artist Manny Lage explores concepts in performative culture. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS No info available. KUSA 87 Local experimental band featuring members of RITVALS and Magd. GOO MAN BAND Local band featuring members of The Rodney Kings and Sad Dads. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com ISLAND FAR AWAY Local indie-pop band. SOUTH RAIL Americana outfit based in Washington, D.C. RYE Brothers David and Jonathan Fallis, cousin Brian Stewart and Craig Dye form this local rock band. Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out every Wednesday!

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10. www.meltingpointathens. com BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY-RITE BOYS Long-running westernswing/country-boogie band from California. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 JIVE MOTHER MARY See Wednesday’s listing for full description The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke! Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Join drummer Nicholas Wiles with bassist Drew Hart and pianist Steve Key for an evening of original music, improv and standards. Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com BRYAN BIELANSKI The frontman for Charlotte, NC band Angwish pays a set of punky folk tunes.

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ART 39th Juried Exhibition (Lyndon House Arts Center) Drop off entry forms and up to three works on Jan. 30, 12:30–8:30 p.m. or Jan. 31, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Opening reception on Mar. 9. $25 submission fee. 706613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lyndonhouse Artist Models (Lyndon House Arts Center) Seeking models for fully clothed and paid sessions. Classes meet Thursdays through Feb. 13, 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-613-3623 Call for Artists (Terrapin Beer Co.) Terrapin is seeking artwork inspired by the label of their upcoming Mosaic Single-Hopped Red Ale for a gallery event benefiting ATHICA. Winning artwork will receive $200 and be displayed in Terrapin’s upcoming tasting room. Email submission photos by Feb. 1. Event on Feb. 27. Artwork will be displayed at Old Pal for voting Feb. 25–Mar. 28. mosaic@athica.org Call for Artists (OCAF, Watkinsville) Seeking submissions for the 19th annual Southworks Juried Art Exhibition, held Apr. 11–May 16. Visit website for application and to submit images. Cash prizes. Deadline Feb. 14. $25-35. www.ocaf.com Call for Artists (Artland Loft Gallery at Chops & Hops, Watkinsville) Seeking an artist to display works during February. mychell@chopsandhops.com Call for Artists (Athens, GA) An upcoming festival is seeking outsider artists, junk collectors, street performers, avant-garde musicians and any other sort of creative weirdos around town. Deadline Mar. 1. Email for details. blankbooking@ gmail.com

Call for Artists for Springtacular (660 N. Chase St.) Indie South Fair is seeking artists and makers of all kinds, fine, folk and craft. Two booth sizes are now available. Apply online. Deadline Mar. 10. Market on May 3–4. www.indiesouthfair.com District 3 Flowers (Athens, GA) Lou Kregel’s latest public art project aims to beautify the community while raising awareness and funds for Melissa Link’s campaign for ACC District 3 Commissioner. For the first 20 donors of $100 or more, Kregel will paint a three-foot flower in any public place they choose. www.melissalinkathens.com Human Rights Festival Logo Contest (Athens, GA) The Athens Human Rights Festival is seeking logo submissions for use on t-shirts, the newspaper and the stage backdrop. Logos must say 36th Annual Human Rights Festival, May 3–4 and Athens, GA. Deadline Mar. 7. tshirtjeffh@gmail.com Seeking Vendors for Handmade Valentine’s Day Market (Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation) Indie South Fair seeks artists and vendors for a Valentine’s Day market. Apply online. Deadline Feb. 5. www.indiesouthfair.com Spring Art Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) An array of classes include leathercraft, drawing, painting, photography, jewelry, printmaking, stained glass and more. Registration begins Feb. 1. 706613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lyndonhouse

CLASSES 2014 Athens Small Business Summit (The Classic Center) The summit is an all-day event

that includes breakout sessions, resources, speakers and networking opportunities. Register by Apr. 15. Discounts will be given for early registration. Summit on Apr. 24. $79–129. www.smallbizathens.com Beginning Bridge Classes (Athens Bridge Center) Playing bridge is the ultimate brain workout. Mondays through Feb. 24, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $25 (students), $50. 706-318-9681 Bikram Hot Yoga (Bikram Yoga Athens) Classes in hot yoga are offered seven days a week. Beginners welcome. 706-353-9642, www.bikramathens.com Clay Your Way (OCAF, Watkinsville) Get tips on wheel throwing, hand-building, surface decoration and sculptural techniques. Choose six out of the 11 class dates to attend. Saturdays, Feb. 1–Apr. 19, 2–5 p.m. $215–225 (includes materials). www.ocaf.com Dance Classes (Floorspace) Sulukule Bellydance presents classes in bellydancing, Bollywood dance, burlesque and more. www. floorspaceathens.com Gentle Chair Yoga (Healing Arts Centre) This chair based class provides access to the postures in a way that lets the body to relax into them, allowing muscles to soften and elongate. Every Wednesday, 2–3 p.m. 706-613-1143, www.healingartscentre.net Letterpress & More (Smokey Road Press) “Valentine Printing Workshop.� Jan. 31 or Feb. 7, 6–9 p.m. $85. “Coptic Binding.� Feb. 1–2, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $190. “Cross Structure Binding.� Feb. 8–9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $170. “An Evening of Paper and Pork.� Feb. 18 or Feb. 21, 6–9 p.m. $95. “Longstitch Binding.� Feb. 22–23, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $180. “Introduction to Letterpress

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TIGGS The Zeus House shares a building with AAHS’ Spay and Neuter Center in Watkinsville and houses some of the adult cats and all of the adoptable kittens. And yes, there are kittens even in January, like the cute orange snugglebug above. Athens Area Humane Society also fosters dogs and has photos of them and the available cats on their website. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm, Closed Sundays

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“Imago Mundi: Paintings by Jeffrey Whittle� is currently on display at the University of North Georgia Oconee Campus in Watkinsville through Wednesday, Feb. 12. An artist talk and reception will be held Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 2:15 p.m. Printing.� Thursdays, Jan. 30–Mar. 13 or Mar. 27–May 15, 6–9 p.m. $295. Printmaking Workshops (Double Dutch Press) “Valentines! Stampmaking.� Feb. 1, 2–5 p.m. $35. “Monotype (Paper Relief.� Feb 6 & 13, 6–8 p.m. $75. “Tea Towels: One Color Screenprinting.� Feb. 8, 2–6 p.m. $50. “Custom Stationery: Multicolor Screenprinting.� Feb. 19 & 26, 6–8 p.m. $60. www.doubledutchpress.com Women’s Self Defense Classes (American Blackbelt Academy) Ongoing workshops in Sexual Assault Fundamental Escapes (SAFE). Call to register. 706-549-1671, athensjiujitsu.com Yoga & Meditation (Rubber Soul Yoga) Ongoing classes in Kundalini, Hatha, restorative yoga and guided meditation. www.rubbersoulyoga. com Yoga Classes (Healing Arts Centre) Several types of ongoing classes are offered for all levels, including Hatha, restorative, Vinyasa, Tai Chi and meditation. www.healingartscentre.net Yoga Classes at New Earth (New Earth Athens) Daily yoga for all levels. Qigong classes for all ages are held every Tuesday, 8–10 p.m. $5–15 requested donation. Check website for daily schedule. www. facebook.com/newearthyoga Yoga for Inner Peace (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) This fourweek series is designed to ease anxiety, relieve feelings of depression and cultivate self-acceptance and love. Classes consist of breath work, readings, gentle flow yoga and deep relaxation. Meets on Feb. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 5:30–7 p.m. $100. info@5pointsyoga.com, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com

HELP OUT American Veterans (Athens, GA) Transport vets living with disabilities to local clinics and Augusta hospitals. Weekdays, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., once or twice a month. 706-202-0587 Donate Blood Give the gift of blood! Check website for donor locations. 1-800-RED CROSS, www. redcrossblood.org Free IT (Free IT Athens) Volunteers wanted to refurbish and recycle computers. Free IT Athens provides technology resources to Athens residents and organizations. www. freeitathens.org/volunteer HandsOn Northeast Georgia (Athens, GA) Over 130 local agencies seek help with ongoing projects and special short-term events. Visit the website for a calendar and to register. www.handsonnortheastgeorgia.com Seeking Volunteers & Interns (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Indie South Fair is seeking people to help out with upcoming artist markets. Positions include a street team for fliers, social media, graphic design, writing and photography. Next meeting on Feb. 1, 6 p.m. indiesouthfair@gmail.com

KIDSTUFF Baton (Bishop Park) The Classic City Majorettes offer instruction in dance-twirling, strutting, marching technique and more. For ages 5 & up. Tuesdays, Mar. 4–May 13, 5:45– 7:45 p.m. $65–80. 706-613-3589 Craft Classes (Treehouse Kid and Craft) “Baby Sensory Class� for ages 6–24 months (Wednesdays, 10 a.m. & Saturdays, 11 a.m.), “We

Craft� for ages 2–3 (Thursdays & Saturdays, 10 a.m.), “Craft Club� for ages 3–5 (Thursdays, 4 p.m.), “Craft Club� for ages 6–10 (Wednesdays, 4 p.m.), “Family Crafterdays� for ages 4–8 (Saturdays, 12 p.m.). “Craft Inc.� for ages 9–14 (Fridays, 4:30 p.m.). $10/class. www.treehousekidandcraft.com Day Off School Program: Fit & Fun (East Athens Community Center) Learn ways to be healthy and fit. For ages 6–12. Bring a sack lunch. Registration is required by Feb. 10. Feb. 17, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $15. 706-613-3593 Knitting Classes (Treehouse Kid and Craft) “Do It Together Knitting� for children ages 8–12 and a parent. Feb. 2 & 9, 1–3 p.m. $65. “Do It Together Knitting� for children ages 5–7 and a parent. Feb. 15 & 22, 1:30–3 p.m. $50. “Do It Together Sewing� for ages 8–12. Sundays, Feb. 15–Mar. 9, 1–3 p.m. $90. www. treehousekidandcraft.com

SUPPORT Alanon (540 Prince Ave.) A 12 step recovery program for those affected by someone else’s drinking. Tuesdays, 7:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 478-955-3422 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.org Bi Men’s Support Group (Body, Mind & Spirit) This group helps address specific topics that bisexual men deal with. Mondays, 6 p.m. $10. 706-351-6024 Courage to Quit (Athens Regional Medical Center) A foursession program designed to help

you quit using tobacco products. Participants create a plan to quit and learn tools for getting through withdrawal, avoiding triggers and handling stress. Tuesdays, 6–7 p.m. Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11 & 18. A $30 deposit is refunded if all four classes are attended. www.athenshealth.org Domestic Violence Support Group (Athens, GA) Support, healing and dinner for survivors of domestic violence. Tuesdays, 6–8 p.m., in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays, 6:30–8 p.m., in Madison County. Child care provided. 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771 Project Safe Emotional Abuse Support Group (Athens, GA) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Child

care provided. Call for location. Every Wednesday, 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706613-3357, ext. 771 Reiki (ARMC Loran Smith Center for Cancer Support) Experience the healing energy of Reiki, an ancient form of healing touch used for stress reduction and relaxation. For cancer patients, their families and caregivers. Call for an appointment. Every Wednesday, 6 p.m. & 7 p.m. FREE! 706-475-4900

ON THE STREET CCCF Scholarships (The Classic Center) The Classic Center Cultural Foundation offers arts scholarships to high school students. Deadline Mar. 7. www.classiccenter.com

ART AROUND TOWN AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Whimsical and retroinspired collage prints by John Williams. Through January. • Susan Pelham’s collages are inspired by the Magic Realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and based on ideas from children’s literature, camp songs and poetry. Through February. ARTINI’S ART LOUNGE (296 W. Broad St.) “Clouds of Faces” by Vernon J. Thornsberry. Paintings by Andy Cherewick. Through January. • “Obsessions: Artwork by Alex Lutian.” Opening reception Feb. 6. Through February. ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) “Watercolor in the Lives of 10 Women” includes works by Rosie Coleman, Jacqueline Dorsey, Judith DeJoy, Leigh Ellis, Kie Johnson, Cindy Malota, Zee Nagao, Rosemary Segreti, Karen Sturm and Viviane Van Giesen. Opening reception Feb. 2. Through Apr. 16. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) “The Third Act: Contemplating Aging,” curated by ATHICA Director Emeritus Lizzie Zucker Saltz, focuses on aspects of contemporary aging through the works of nine artists. Through Mar. 2. Closing reception Mar. 2. AURUM STUDIOS (125 E. Clayton St.) “Widening the Horizon” includes expressionistic multimedia woven designs by Suzanne Gernandt and colorful silk paintings inspired by France by René Shoemaker. Reception Feb. 6. Through February. CINÉ BARCAFÉ (234 W. Hancock Ave.) David Noah presents portraits of members of the Word of Mouth poetry community. Through Feb. 4. THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “It’s Like a Rainbow” presents large colorful paintings. • “Assemble” presents collage works. DONDERO’S KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings by June Ball. EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) “Paintings of Meher, India (1894–1969)” and pen and ink drawings by Charles Gard’ner. Through January. FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 14 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics and fine furniture. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) “Archives” features paintings created by Stan Mullins over the last decade. Through January. • Artwork by Panhandle Slim. Through February. GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) In the Gallery, “Wonderland” features works by Sean Abrahams, Nina Barnes, Michele Chidster, Eleanor Davis, Ann Marie Manker, Jiha Moon and Cobra McVey. Through Mar. 23. • In the GlassCube, a site specific installation by Liselott Johnsson called “Hello Polly! This is Your Nine O’Clock Wake Up Call!” Through Mar. 23. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “It’s Not Polite to Stare,” three short pieces of video art themed on voyeurism. Through Mar. 20. • “John Greenman Photographs.” Through Mar. 30. • “The Silent Cities of Peru: Archaeological Photographs by Fernando La Rosa.” Through Mar. 30. • “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy.” Through Apr. 20. • “Selections in the Decorative Arts.” Jan. 30–June 29. • “Rugs of the Caucasus.” Jan. 30–Apr. 27. THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) David Barnes’ work uses recycled imagery. Through Feb. 16. HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Paintings by Leslie Moody. Through January.

Oconee Rivers Greenway Commission (Sandy Creek Nature Center) The ACC Leisure Services Department is currently accepting applications to fill a fiveyear term. Deadline Jan. 31. 706613-3801, www.athensclarkecounty. com/greenway Ripple Effect Film Project (Athens, GA) Filmmakers are invited to create original short films about water conservation. Finalists’ films will be screened during the 2014 EcoFocus Film Festival in March. Deadline Jan. 31. www.rippleeffectfilmproject.org Thrift Sale Drop Off (OCAF, Watkinsville) Donations for OCAF’s annual thrift sale can be dropped off every Saturday, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., until Mar. 7. 706-769-4565, www. ocaf.com

HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Cap Man. Through January. • In “The Space Between Us,” Melody Croft paints oil portraits that incorporate poetry using newspaper and magazine letters. Through February. HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (269 N. Hull St.) Lauren Pumphrey’s artwork aims to express appreciation for fertility and femininity through lush floral and anamorphic figures. Closing reception Feb. 5. LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) In the Orbit Galleries, a “Student Juried Show.” Through Feb. 10. • In Gallery 307, “Regina Rex: New Threads” includes works by 12 members of a Brooklyn artistrun gallery space. Jan. 31–Mar. 3. • In Gallery 101, “Rachel Cox: Some Points.” Jan. 31–Mar. 6. LAST RESORT GRILL (174 Clayton St.) Photography by Forrest Aguar. Through Feb. 2. LOFT GALLERY AT CHOPS & HOPS (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) Underwater photography by Page Perrault. Through January. MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Hwy. 98 W., Danielsville) Mixed media constructions by Ron Moran. Through February. MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Georgia and Beyond: Southern Self-taught Art, Past and Present” highlights vernacular artists. Through Apr. 13. MAMA BIRD’S GRANOLA (909 E. Broad St.) Artwork by Cameron Bliss Ferrelle, Bob Brussack, James Fields, Barbara Bendzunas and Annette Paskiewicz. MINI GALLERY (261 W. Washington St.) “Woodland Getaway” is a woodland-themed show featuring works by Hagar Ben Yishay, Dena Zilber, Missy Kulik, Emily Lyon, Sara Lee Parker, Simon Hunt and others. OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) “Dreams of a Sleepwalker” features mixed media paintings by Robin Fay. Through January. • Photography by Barbara Holder. Through February. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) “The OCAF Story: The First 20 Years.” Through January. • “It’s Who We Are: A Black History Month Exhibit.” Through Feb. 21. REPUBLIC SALON (312 E. Broad St.) The paintings of Cody Murray explore the duality of man. RICHARD B. RUSSELL LIBRARY FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH AND STUDIES (UGA Library) “Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb” includes 75 original objects from the atomic era. Through Mar. 14. SIPS (1390 Prince Ave.) Paintings incorporating found objects by Annette Paskiewicz. STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 Milledge Ave.) Artwork by the Athens Plein Air Artists. Through Mar. 2. TOWN 220 (220 W. Washington St., Madison) “Vessels and Views” is a group show featuring landscape paintings and three-dimensional works. Through Feb. 2. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) “Making the Invisible,” photographs by Jamie deRevere. Through January. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA OCONEE CAMPUS (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy, Watkinsville) “Imago Mundi: Paintings by Jeffrey Whittle.” Artist talk and reception Feb. 4. Currently on display through Feb. 12. VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Pen and ink portraits of musicians by Rita Rogers Marks. Through January. WALKER’S COFFEE AND PUB (128 College Ave.) Oil and acrylic paintings by Brian MacBeth. Through January.

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