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A Tale of Two Cities I never thought I would have to go over to Greenville, South-damn-Carolina to see the future, but I’m glad I went, thanks to the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation bus trip on Saturday, May 24. Greenville has brought its downtown in the last 30-plus years from abandoned to vibrant, and of course it didn’t happen by accident.

Greenville is not Athens, in spite of some similarities.

Greenville is a lot larger than Athens, although it does not have a dominant university. Greenville is a moneyed town, with old fortunes and foundations left over from its cotton-mill days and newer corporate wealth represented by the influx of international companies like Michelin and BMW, along with a lower percentage of indigenous poor.

Nevertheless, the Greenville story is exciting to anybody interested in cities and how they make people want to live, shop and visit in them. (See Kristen Morales’ story on p. 7.)

Back in the 1970’s, Greenville, like Athens, was tearing down its old buildings and concentrating on “progress.� (“Advancing Athens,� y’all.) Then they wised up, as we did, and started figuring out how to use what they already had, after their anchor stores, like ours, had moved to the mall.

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Greenville, SC Mayor Knox White loves architecture and planning.

The smartest thing they did was elect Knox White mayor 18 years ago—without term limits. White is a lawyer from an old Greenville family. He’s a Republican, too, but what you’d call a chamber of commerce Republican rather than the tea party variety. And he has flat-out got the vision thing. Even when he was on the city council before becoming mayor, White caught on to the essentials of revitalizing his hometown. And he learned how the city could partner with developers who had the ability and the resources to bring back discarded landmark buildings, build new ones and mix it all with enough residential to create a demand for shops, restaurants and, yes, even a Publix grocery store, which turned out to be the highestgrossing Publix in Greenville County.

But the falls! The very epicenter of Greenville history, right in the middle of town on the Reedy River, had been obliterated by a four-lane highway bridge for a whole generation. White kept pushing and finagling and fighting until he was able to get that bridge torn down and replaced by a soaring pedestrian bridge, and suddenly Greenville could see what an incredible gem of a tourist and local attraction had been hidden from them. And then White and his crew turned around and convinced everybody to build a minor league ballpark, with condos wrapped around it, right downtown on, you guessed it, an abandoned lumber yard. Yeah. Don’t even think about it.

But that is Greenville, and we are Athens. They figured out their strengths and capitalized on them. We’ve got to do the same thing over here. (The mayor’s son, a music fan, asks him why Greenville can’t be more like Athens.) And then we’ve got to get together and agree on a plan and make it work.

The lessons of Greenville are that vision, planning, persistence and bold leadership will pay off. Those qualities are not site-specific. They can work here in Athens. We’ve just got to figure out how.

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city dope Resuscitating Athens Regional As the rest of Athens was waiting to see practices and clinics) met in executive session who’d be our next mayor, more than 200 docfor several hours Tuesday, May 27 to discuss tors, enraged over the botched implementapersonnel matters, opening the meeting only tion of a new and costly electronic medical briefly for Moore to outline protocols he has records system and what they saw as arroput in place to manage the problems with the gance and incompetence at the highest levels, electronic records system until Cerner reprewere meeting to call for the head of Athens sentatives can return for more training. He Regional Medical Center and Athens Regional also said he intends to reorganize the adminHealth System CEO Jamey Thaw. istration to improve communication among Thaw, hired to replace the retired Jack Drew departments. in 2011, resigned on Thursday, May 22. A week That’s all well and good, but obscuring any after that, Chief Information Officer Gretchen outside oversight is Athens Regional’s sheer Tegethoff followed Thaw out the door. size and complex organization. From its roots Flagpole spoke to multiple inside sources, as a small county hospital, it has grown into and they all said the same thing: Thaw and a bewildering corporate behemoth made up of Tegethoff rushed the implementation of the no fewer than eight nonprofit organizations electronic records system, Cerner Millennium, with $536 million in revenue in 2012, accordand did not adequately train the staff to use ing to the most recent publicly available tax it. Anyone who raised an issue was silenced, returns. The sprawling structure is governed by executives rarely comfive boards of direcmunicated with the separate but “The message was, whatever tors, rank-and-file, and they often sharing some of created a culture of the same members. we need to do to move fear among the hospiBoard members are a forward, we’re going to do it.” mixture of doctors and tal’s 3,000 employees.

To hear these sources community leaders, tell it, they’d made VA and healthcare.gov look selected by the Athens-Clarke County Mayor like paragons of virtue. and Commission from two hospital nominees, While everyone agreed that the front-line and it’s a wonder how they could ever keep care providers are doing their best, according track of what’s going on under their noses. to employees and doctors affiliated with the Complicating matters, the Athens Bannerhospital, the lack of training has put patients Herald, which once regularly offered hardin danger of missed orders, like not receivnosed coverage of local institutions like ing the right medication at the right time.

ARMC and St. Mary’s, hasn’t turned a critical Frustrated medical personnel felt that it was eye on them in years. (And the hospitals get only a matter of time before someone fell scant coverage from other media, including through the cracks.

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By the morning of Friday, May 23, Chief Former commissioner (now congressman) Medical Officer James Moore had come back John Barrow fought to open the board selecearly from vacation and had taken the reins. tion process in 1999. He wanted hospital He set to work meeting with department authority members to be appointed the same heads, Cerner representatives and community way as other ACC boards and authorities—by leaders over the Memorial Day weekend. “The the mayor and commission advertising for, message was, whatever we need to do to move interviewing and selecting applicants. “[T]he forward, we’re going to do it,” he said at a existing process of selecting members gives board of trustees meeting last week. the appearance of a self-perpetuating private The boards of the hospital and the overall club,” the ABH said in an editorial at the time. health system (which also includes physicians’ The issue went all the way to the Georgia

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New Auditor: Maybe investigating ARMC is a job for Steve Martin, Mayor Nancy Denson’s hand-picked choice to fill the long-vacant position of Athens-Clarke County auditor.

There is something of a precedent: Like ARMC, the Athens Downtown Development Authority is a quasi-public agency that’s not a part of, though is legally related to, the local government, although unlike the ADDA, ARMC receives no county funds.

Incidentally, it was political dissatisfaction with that 2012 ADDA audit that led the mayor and commission to oust John Wolfe last June.

The position has been vacant ever since.

After a year, Denson has named Steve Martin the sole finalist for the position, subject to confirmation by the commission Thursday, June 19. Martin worked for the City of Athens and Athens-Clarke County for more than 30 years, retiring as director of the Central Services Department in 2006, then serving stints as a volunteer on the planning and greenway commissions.

“He’s qualified, and he can hit the ground running,” Denson said. “…He knows the government. He knows all the players.”

That’s all true—Martin is qualified. But is

someone else out there more qualified? We’ll never know, because whatever interview and nomination process that has taken place took place behind closed doors. The position was never even advertised. “It doesn’t have to be,” Denson said. “It’s the mayor’s appointment…

Because I had a good candidate, I didn’t see the point.”

Assuming he’s confirmed, Martin will serve a one-year term and will be eligible for a two-year contract should he apply for reappointment next year. The commission’s Audit Committee is likely to make the Leisure Services Department his first assignment.

Comings and Goings: Robert Hiss, a former Pulaski County, VA, administrator, took over effective Monday, June 2, for Richard White as ACC assistant manager. White took a job as town manager in Elon, NC. ACC Human Resources Director Harry Owens is retiring effective Aug. 22,, and assistant director Jan Hansford is filling in on an interim basis.

At the Clarke County School District, Sherri Freeman is the new associate superintendent of human resources and student services. She held a similar post in Barrow County. Freeman replaces Robert Bierly, who left under mysterious circumstances in 2012.

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In the days after the May 20 primary elections, candidates who advanced to the runoffs made the usual scramble to secure endorsements from opponents who didn’t make it out of the primary.

The most widely publicized of these postprimary developments was Karen Handel’s decision to endorse Rep. Jack Kingston in his Senate Republican runoff campaign against businessman David Perdue. Handel appeared at an Atlanta news conference and made a short speech declaring that Kingston was really a great guy, probably the greatest thing since sliced bread. “What I’ve seen in Jack is a man of integrity who is devoted to his family,” Handel said. “A man who is fiercely dedicated to the conservative principles that are the foundation of the Republican Party.”

Kingston’s campaign is hoping that Handel, who had significant support among tea party activists, will be able to deliver those votes to him in the runoff fight with Perdue. But will her endorsement actually bring supporters back to the polls on July 22 to vote for Kingston? It could be that Handel’s words won’t be all that helpful.

If you look at voter turnout figures in recent election cycles, it’s clear that a large percentage of primary voters don’t bother to return for the runoff. The number of ballots cast in a primary election usually declines by 40 percent or more in the runoff—sometimes by more than 60 percent. In 2006, voter turnout for the Republican primary declined by 59.1 percent in the runoff. The decline was 52.8 percent in the Democratic primary and runoff. In 2002, Republican primary turnout declined by 65.1 percent in the runoff. The decline in Democratic voter turnout after the primary election was 64 percent.

It’s human nature. Voters whose candidate was eliminated in the primary have less incentive to turn out for a runoff than those who voted for a successful candidate.

There is also the issue of how credible an endorsement can be when the candidate was so harshly critical of the person she is endorsing. From the moment Handel announced she was running until the ballots were counted 11 months later, she said repeatedly that Kingston, Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun were unfit to be senator because they had failed to accomplish anything as House members.

“When Jack Kingston was elected to Congress, the debt was $4 trillion,” Handel said at one point. “Today, our debt is $17 trillion and climbing. In fact, in 2003, Jack Kingston and Phil Gingrey both voted to raise the debt ceiling by nearly $1 trillion. In 2004, they both voted again to raise the debt ceiling by nearly another trillion dollars.

“Even though they are nice people, results matter. Do you like where we are in this country, are you happy with the way Washington is functioning? Well, the surest way to get more of the same is to keep electing the same people.”

She also said: “We have three members of Congress who are running, and together they have 42 years in Washington. That’s a lot of Washington, too much. Everything that they talk about tonight, they have had every opportunity to do. And they haven’t—look at the results.”

These weren’t random comments that Handel made in the heat of the moment and later regretted. They were deliberate criticisms of Kingston she repeated on numerous occasions throughout the campaign. If Kingston is really as bad as Handel said for so long, then it’s difficult to take her seriously when she now says that he’s really a man of integrity who deserves everyone’s vote. Do you believe what she said a month ago, or do you believe what she is saying now? That’s the eternal question of politics.

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once wrote a book about the Mississippi gnawing self-doubt for succeeding generations Delta called The Most Southern Place destined to remain forever in their debt. on Earth. Were I to undertake a compaThose buried here secured their hallowed rable tome about the most “American” place place in history by giving their all in an on earth, believe it or not, the focal point epochal encounter that effectively secured would not only lie outside the United States, victory in what seemed an indisputably righbut, of all places, in France, specifically, the teous crusade against a correspondingly monNormandy American Cemetery at Collevillestrous evil. In contrast, Vietnam veterans of sur-Mer, where lie the remains of 9,387 of the my generation, who no less heroically risked U.S. troops who died during the June 1944 or sacrificed their lives have been caught Allied invasion. More than any other historical in a historical backlash against a conflict site or monument that I have ever visited—in that, unlike World War II, did not unify us in fact, more than all of them put together—this defense of our longstanding ideals but instead place engulfs me in a wave of teary, tingly divided the nation and called those ideals into emotions. Set atop a bluff overlooking the question. In what seems an era largely lacking English Channel and Omaha Beach against in courage and commitment, some of today’s a stunning backdrop of lush, unimaginably visitors to the Normandy American Cemetery green grass and perpetually wind-bent trees, are likely to leave inspired but also perhaps even with the surf pounding rhythmically just saddened by a sense that those interred there below, the iconic, seemingly endless rows died in defense of a nation far worthier of of perfectly aligned white crosses convey a their sacrifices than the one we live in today. palpable sense of peace and order that belies In reality, of course, this perception the chaos and wholesale slaughter that raged requires some degree of selective historical down on the beach 70 years ago. There is amnesia. For example, despite serving in a some irony in the fact that the Normandy bloody struggle to defend democracy against American Cemetery provides entree and closure to the epic 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, whose opening scenes reflect an unprecedented cinematic effort to depict the D-Day landing as the nightmare of bloody, headless, legless, disemboweled carnage and confusion that it actually was.

In truth, this placid and pristine setting seems far better suited to serve as the final resting place of characters slain in earlier, less graphic World War Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial II movies like The Longest Day who died neatly and, so it would seem, painlessly, shot down as they stood just a racist, totalitarian onslaught, African inches from an apparently bulletproof John American soldiers in World War II found Wayne or Robert Mitchum. After all, in the themselves fighting not just the Germans and popular mind at least, this was a war in which the Japanese but the hostility of white civilmen died bravely and stoically, repeating the ians living in the vicinity of their stateside Lord’s Prayer or receiving the last rites or postings and, worse yet, the resentment and saying the Kaddish, not one where agonized distrust manifested within the ranks by their screaming or crying was punctuated by horown white comrades and commanders. D-Day rible blasphemies alternating with piteous, operations reflected these racial realities quite little-boy pleas for “Mama.” clearly, as only a single battalion of black There is no record of the final minutes troops actually landed on Omaha Beach on of Technical Specialist Five Joseph G. Hardy, June 6, 1944. Soldiers of the 320th Barrage the only World War II soldier who entered Balloon Battalion came in on the third wave the service in Clarke County to be memorialto set up anti-aircraft barrage balloons aimed ized at the cemetery. In reality, Hardy, who at preventing German pilots from strafing the actually hailed from the tiny hamlet of Good beach. Three members of the 320th are buried Hope (pop. 219) in nearby Walton County, here, including Cpl. Brooks Stith from Virginia never even set foot on the sands of Normandy, and Pfc. James McLean from North Carolina. because he was among the 39 members of Had the two survived, both would have Battery B of the 4th Infantry Division’s 29th returned to essentially the same segregated, Field Artillery Battalion who were killed discriminatory and disfranchised existence when their landing craft struck a mine on its they had left behind, although black soldiers approach to Utah Beach on June 6. Like most who came back from the war would go on to of his fallen battery mates, Hardy’s body was play a pivotal role in laying the groundwork never recovered, and thus his name is among for yet another all-out offensive that ultithe 1,557 inscribed on the “The Walls of The mately toppled Jim Crow. Those who stand Missing,” which encircle a beautifully mainin awe of this fearless band of postwar civil tained garden. rights crusaders might well harbor certain senIt is frankly difficult for me grasp how so timents common to American visitors to the vast an abstraction as national allegiance or Normandy Cemetery, including the fictional patriotic duty could motivate thousands of Pvt. James Francis Ryan, who, kneeling at the such men to come thousands of miles away end of the film amid the graves of the comfrom home to step off landing crafts and wade rades who gave their lives to save his, woninto an unrelenting volley of lethal lead. In ders aloud whether “in your eyes I’ve earned anointing this place with their blood and sacwhat all of you have done for me.” rifice, they made it both an enduring shrine to American national identity and a source of James C. Cobb

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The footbridge over the Reedy River gives visitors an unobstructed view of the downtown waterfalls.

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he Saturday farmers market takes up three blocks • The city pushed for a baseball stadium downtown and Boyanoski noted, the art is set at eye level, allowing visitors along Main Street. There are two free trolleys that insisted that it be mixed-use, with condos wrapped around the to interact it with better than if it were on a pedestal. shuttle people from one end of town to the other. An stadium, guaranteeing year-round use.

Both White and Boyanoski noted the active role the city amphitheater sits in the hill beside the river, which • There are no parking meters. Parking on the street is free, takes in managing its downtown. A city department, partly winds past the downtown’s new and historic buildings. No, this and parking in the city’s garages is inexpensive—one garage is funded by a federal Main Street USA grant, actively plans isn’t some mythical land imagined by Athens downtown masfree on weekends and on special occasions, and the city makes events and acts as an assistant to outside groups that want ter planner Jack Crowley—it’s just up the road, and it’s real. sure the garages are kept clean and are well lit. “Every time to host events there. The city’s public works and parks departWelcome to Greenville, SC. we make them free, people learn about the parking garages,” ments take great pride in keeping the area neat, clean and About 50 Athens citizens got the chance to see it firsthand White said. safe. “The organizations themselves are very focused on manthe Saturday before Memorial Day as part of a trip sponsored • Free, clean public restrooms throughout the city. aging downtown,” White said. by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation. Participants The city even had an active role in redevelopment, interested in city planning, walkability, historic presevaluating which buildings were off the tax rolls and ervation and just how a city pulled off a major turnmarketing them to developers. Today, the main city around of a blighted downtown got to walk around government complex is located in a defunct mall less downtown, take a tour led by a local expert and ask than a mile from downtown; city-owned lots are now Greenville’s mayor questions. condos, increasing the population density. Even parkThe city’s downtown renaissance was one part leading garages incorporate ground-floor commercial along ership with a vision, one part solid planning and one with residences around the outside of the upper floors. part creative financing. We’ll get to the financing in a So, Greenville had a plan, and it had a vision. But minute. But first, Knox White, who was elected mayor how was it put into motion? Here’s where the financing in 1995, noted a few ways Greenville turned around its came into play. Greenville took advantage of special ailing downtown. By the 1990s, the city suffered from tax districts, known as Tax Increment Financing (Tax a lack of hotels, retail and downtown residents, plus Allocation Districts in Georgia), which allowed the city there was a feeling that the city was dirty, thanks to to create a special tax district in the downtown area. general blight and a river polluted for decades by texWhen property values or new development increased tile mills. Ten years ago, an effort began to remove a the tax revenue, the extra money went into a fund to four-lane bridge built on top of waterfalls in the Reedy pay for downtown improvements. Jack Crowley has proRiver, where the city began. An entire generation had posed a TAD for the eastern part of downtown Athens, grown up forgetting there was a waterfall in downtown but Athens-Clarke County officials have yet to act.

Greenville, and White said he felt that it could be the Improvements could be cobblestone streets or barcenterpiece of the city’s yet-to-be-polished crown jewriers to protect roadside plantings. Falls Park, in the els. “Politically it was very hard—I waited until I was meantime, was funded by hotel and beverage taxes— re-elected,” he said, laughing. “But by the time we got the equivalent of our hotel-motel tax. “The park cost the city council to vote to remove the bridge, we had $13 million,” White said. “Within two years of openabout 50 percent of the public on our side.” ing, we had more than $150 million in private investToday, the bridge is gone, replaced with Falls Park, ment. So the return on the investment was beyond our a natural area with miles of bike trails, an amphitheexpectations.” ater and a foot bridge that highlights the falls once Today, that hotel and beverage tax is paying even obscured by the automobile bridge. On a Saturday more, as it’s difficult to get a room on a Tuesday night, A wider sidewalk not only allows for more outdoor dining but also offers people more perafternoon, the park and bridge were filled with visiand four new hotels are in the works. sonal space and makes them feel safer. A railing between the traffic and the sidewalk tors of all ages, some headed out to see the falls while The plan, which began decades ago, continues to be protects plantings and further gives pedestrians a sense of security. Easy-to-read maps others played in the grassy areas nearby or sat at an a part of the city’s future—even as residents celebrate help guide people through downtown. And note the absence of parking meters, which helps adjacent café. its renaissance. “We always have a plan. We set goals The diversity of visitors is evident along Greenville’s encourage people to find parking spaces downtown, knowing they will be free. for what we want to accomplish,” White said, noting Main Street as well. John Boyanoski, a Greenville there are always items on their list of needs. “We’ve newspaper reporter, historian and author of the recent book • Public art has been chosen by the people, and it’s on a created a walkable downtown. Retail is on fire… but we do put Reimagining Greenville: Building the Best Downtown in America, human scale. While there is no active fund to purchase art, the emphasis on walkability. There’s lots of public art [and] led the group on a bus tour of the city and pointed out ways White said the city will allow any public art that has suphistoric preservation. The result of all this is a phenomenon— the city’s leadership took an active role in the design, mix of port from the community. For example, follow the hidden everyone comes downtown.” businesses, parking and public art for downtown and attracting bronze mice along Main Street, which was a public art project residential—the key to it all. For example: proposed by a student and funded through donations. Also, Kristen Morales

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They Have What Athens Wants—How’d They Do It?

From left, Mattie, Murray, Lauren, Walt, Lil Bit, Lyle, Tiffany and Daddy recently left Athens after filming season 2 of “Party Down South” here.

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he producers of television series ”Jersey Shore” have a Southern-fried version of that hot mess called “Party Down South” on CMT, just with poorer and less attractive people with weird accents, and everyone in town pretty much knows that they filmed season 2 here in Athens.

The PDS crew was here for a month, presumably doing something similar to what happened in season 1: filming eight rednecks giving themselves alcohol poisoning. I did what any good reporter does and researched the show, but the initial findings were so depressing that I couldn’t watch more than three-and-a-half episodes before wondering if I was being punished for something. Seriously, was my editor mad at me?

The cast consists of Lil Bit, Daddy, Lauren, Mattie, Lyle, Tiffany, Murray and Walt. I actually found their personalities to be remarkably distinct, but, still, they were tired Southern tropes. Lil Bit is every bit of a tiny ex-cheerleader and Biblebeater. Daddy is a tanned, visor-wearing and overly flirtatious meathead. Lauren is the resident big-haired greenhorn—the youngest at 21 years old (as of season 1). Mattie is a leggy Louisiana self-described “coonass,” who won’t hesitate to put her hands on a bitch. Lyle comes across as deeply Southern and steeped in Louisiana tradition, the type of guy who still knows how to dress down a deer. Tiffany is an outspoken girl with a deep Louisiana accent, and she refers to female genitalia as “dat monkey.” Murray is from Mississippi (my home state) and reminds me of my favorite big ol’ country boys, the type who will leave fresh venison for you at your parents’ house when you’re out of town. Walt’s signature look is a dip in his mouth and a worn-out hat, and he’s not afraid to show off the farmer’s tan on his thick arms.

The episodes I watched consisted of a shocking amount of drinking and an even-more-shocking amount of overblown conflicts and resolutions, with Lyle boning two of his female roommates and one of the girls breaking up with her totally scary boyfriend during a remarkably short but tearful phone call. They got into fights, said the Pledge of Allegiance in French and embarrassed themselves at local restaurants, so I figured they’d do similar stuff while here in Athens.

I watched as much as I could of that show while wondering what I had done to deserve this, and then I put on my shoes and hopped on my bike. I’d never been so bummed to go out before in this town, but I had a job to do.

The townies of Athens ultimately seemed unimpressed with PDS and all that it brought to town. “Why would you write about the decline of Western civilization?” asked a buddy of mine who works at various places downtown but can’t be named. He’d seen them around town filming and had what he described as an unremarkable experience in their presence.

He’d mainly gone to Max that day to watch the Braves game, but he was made to sign a waiver and not “post spoilers” on the Internet, whatever the hell that means. Does anything that interesting actually happen on that show?

A female local who also signed a waiver there that night described it as a “really dead Monday night” and apparently a

guy “with weird spiky hair wearing a visor, and he had really bad tattoos” (that’s Daddy!) brought a goddamned beer bong to Max. But he didn’t, er, bong any beers. (Is that what’s it’s called? I’m in my 30s.) He mostly just played foosball with Lil Bit while being filmed by what my lady friend described as the sweetest and saddest interns they’d ever met. Since the cast are all uniquely Southern stereotypes, perhaps the crew are as well, because all the people I spoke to described them as grad students in their early 20s who were primarily interns for the PDS production company. They sat on the patio at Max taking turns looking sad while eating sandwiches alone, and they were polite and talkative to the locals while the cast used funnels in public and touched each other in gross ways.

“I’ve been watching reality television for years, but I never knew how it worked,” my anonymous lady friend said. “It’s mostly just terrible and depressing.” She described the cast as horribly average-looking, not hot at all, the girls all orangetanned and the men with loud voices and trashy tattoos, and they were boring to boot. They were just sitting at the bar and buying round after round of shots, not speaking to anyone, and she was honestly curious to know if they came away with any usable footage at all.

“Those kids just were not interesting.

Following townies around for a week would be way more interesting.”

My townie friends said the bar staff were annoyed by the camera behind the bar all night, and it was just too dead in there for any of it to be interesting. Daddy and Lil Bit were flirting over the foosball while their grad student minions filmed them and hated themselves nearby, and eventually they all headed to Boar’s Head, one of very few bars in town that allowed them to film inside. My source said there was a collective sigh of relief once the PDS crowd left, and she hoped they’d been really bored and that they would stay away, and that our townie spaces would remain sacred.

In the end, I was only able to confirm that four bars in town consented to letting the show film there—fitting, considering the generally unimpressed reception “Party Down South” received from the locals. I was surprised that I’d completely missed the fact that a nationally televised reality show was filming in town, but once I watched it, I understood perfectly.

“Those kids just were not interesting,” said my lady friend, echoing my own thoughts. “Following townies around for a week would be way more interesting than an entire season of that shit. We’re actually good-looking, and we do crazy shit constantly.”

Since I had watched a little of last season, I knew what kind of crap the cast liked to get up to, and apparently they didn’t disappoint certain Athens businesses. They brunched at

Heirloom, a small and cozy spot on Boulevard that specializes in locally-sourced and organic food, only for Daddy to beerbong a mimosa at the table. They also managed to piss off more than one restaurateur by ordering upwards of 18 orders at a time, only to complain about delivery times and availability.

Apparently the cast are given an allowance for things like alcohol and food. This seems true, judging by a comment from Tiffany in episode 4 where Lauren loses their food money, and she comments that they might have to spend their own money on Lyle’s birthday cake—but they also worked at Crazy Sisters Marina in Murrell’s Inlet, SC, where they filmed last season.

I didn’t find out if they were working anywhere locally, and maybe that’s for the best, seeing as how cast members got into fistfights in their employer’s parking lot not even halfway through the season. Their behavior led to Pensacola, FL, refusing to host the second season, and a petition drive in Ocean Springs, MS, is underway to keep PDS out for season 3.

But Athens is still standing. I spoke to plenty of people who’d been present at filming, but most of them had very little to say, like my male friend who could only shrug and laugh at me when I told him I was writing this article. It wasn’t the confidentiality clause, but the fact that Party Down South is just not that interesting. I don’t know much about Murrell’s Inlet, but Athens has a large and visible townie community, singles between the ages of 23–40 who love this town. We have a vibrant culture, treasure and support our local businesses and protect them from things that might bring a horde of of funnel-toting bleach-blonds busting through our doors.

Stories of the cast were rather sparse, but it seems the technical crew made a good impression on our town. They frequented many of our local establishments and endeared themselves to the employees. Apparently, they were fans of Porterhouse Grill, a place that had actually refused to let them film there, but crew members ate there regularly and were known to be fine tippers and gracious guests. Pretty much the same can be said for Little Kings, where a friend of mine watched crew members roll around on the ground with her Labrador mix. One of the cameramen special-ordered a book from Avid Bookshop instead of going to a corporate spot or buying online. The production company also hired people locally to work on the show. “They were such sweet kids,” said my lady friend. “We apologized to them so much.”

The cast is gone, but last week I heard that the crew was still in town fixing up damage done to the house that the cast had lived in, and no one in town is bitter about having the crew members around for a few extra weeks. They seem to have made the best of it, and, unlike the cast, they acquitted themselves well in the process. It will be interesting to see, though, if the crew is good enough to produce an entire season of footage out of a bunch of boring Southern stereotypes in our town.

Rashaun Ellis “Party Down South” airs at 10 p.m. on Thursdays starting June 5.

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the athens diet Jan Kozak Eats Slow and Sustainable In The Athens Diet, we ask local luminaries to record everything they eat and drink for one week.

Monday I’m up early, and put together the same scramble that started me off right yesterday, this time paired with a brownrice tortilla crisped up in the toaster oven. I head over to 1000 Faces, thinking of the progress we need to make on our cold brew bottling concept, and have my first espresso of the day within five minutes of walking in the door. Caffeine, baby!

I try to stay focused and work through my to-do list (and more espressos) as the day rambles on to 1:30 p.m., at which point I demolish a protein bar and head to a meeting.

Porter McLeod

As the manager of the Athens Farmers Market and the coowner of 1000 Faces Coffee, Czech-born local transplant Jan Kozak knows a thing or two about sustainable, locally produced food. In addition to his day jobs, he serves on the board of Wholesome Wave Georgia, an organization committed to local food access, and he volunteers at Cedar Grove Farm when time allows. He’s also no stranger to working around dietary restrictions. “I don’t tolerate gluten and dairy well, as I have IBS, and I’m a vegetarian,” he says. “So, there’s that.”

Explains Kozak, “To me, food is the epicenter of all things.

Food is health. Food is community. Food is opportunity. And thus, food is life… Since food is health, and farmers grow food, suffice it to say that farmers are stewards of good health… And how lucky are we that we have such a lively, hard-working, thriving community of these farmers and food producers in Athens and the surrounding counties?

“What’s sad,” he continues, “is that in America, good, healthy food from local farmers is essentially a privilege… You need to understand how different my life would be without access to exactly what foods I want, when I want them. That’s simply not a reality for many of my fellow community members, and many Americans in general. So, respect good food, pay good money for it and when you’re lucky enough to have it, don’t take it for granted.”

kitchen garden. This year, I’m focusing on kale, chard, arugula and tomatoes. Every year, the dirt in my garden improves, and it becomes clear to me why good food farmers are stewards of the health of their dirt.

I go inside with a head full of pollen and, before dinner, get in a workout involving the bike trainer and 100 push-ups.

Dinner is a brown-rice tortilla wrap with V’egg Salad from Daily, BBQ tempeh, an avocado and arugula from my bestest farmer friends Dylan and Caitlyn of Cedar Grove Farm. This farm means a lot to me, personally and professionally, and is in many ways responsible for my place in Athens. After dinner, Melissa and I have some good friends over for hipster cocktails and a movie.

Saturday I jump out of bed and head on out to the market, grabbing a few handfuls of granola that my smart/awesome/sexy wife Melissa makes every week. It’s a simple, versatile granola with oats, flax seeds, coconut oil and honey, influenced heavily by Backyard Bread’s Backyard Bark. Market day doesn’t leave lots of down time, so eating on the go is a must.

Once the market opens and the token booth is staffed by an intern or volunteer, I get a pour-over from 1000 Faces and more granola from Backyard Bread. I’m not a big fan of cold sweets for breakfast, but until we can effect policy change, hot breakfast foods at the market are few and far between. Towards the end of the market, I down a Green Zinger from Journey Juice and make sure to buy a boatload of produce for the next few days of meals.

On the way home, I drop by 1000 Faces HQ and make myself an espresso so I don’t keel over while I do bookkeeping and reporting. I get home at 2 p.m. and make a four-egg scramble with swiss chard and vegan cheese (my intestines hate dairy), which I down like a happy swine. After finally wrapping up my work, I get into some new music and, at 6:30 p.m., get hungry enough to think of food again. I blend up a green smoothie with bananas from Daily Groceries, peanut butter, organic whey protein, spirulina powder, coconut water and flax meal. My smoothies have about 800 calories and are super filling.

After smoothie time, I accidentally fall asleep on the couch (I hate naps), wake up cranky, ride my bike trainer for 30 minutes to get rid of the cranky and down a few spoonfuls of peanut butter. Off to bed after an episode or two of “The Wire.”

Sunday The day after market always starts a bit late. I tumble out of bed at 10 a.m. and make what will become a breakfast staple for the week: black 1000 Faces coffee, a four-egg scramble with whatever’s in season, vegetable-wise (chard this time), and vegan cheese, all topped with gomasio, a sesame and smoked sea salt condiment made by my farmer friends Steve and Mandy of 3 Porch Farm. I like buying food from sexy farmers. I pair it all with some gluten-free toast.

I spend the early part of the day working on market layouts and logistics for the Good Food Good Beer Block Party, which is coming up the following Saturday. At about 4 p.m., I hit the blender for another green smoothie. Same as yesterday, but this time with frozen blueberries from Rhonda’s Blueberries, left over from a recipe-curating session for a new project.

After the smoothie, I head out into a beautiful spring afternoon and get some yard work done, including mowing and edging the yard and hooking up a drip irrigation system in my

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Afterwards, I run over to Daily for kombucha, sweet-potato chips and some Spicy Black Bean Sensation. I’ve been into sweet potatoes lately, as they are purported to help glucose levels, which for me is a biggie, because I tend to get low blood sugar.

The big lunch keeps me satiated until I leave the roastery for Classic City CrossFit. I get home at 7 p.m. and make an organic whey protein and coconut water concoction that helps replenish lost resources and allows for better recovery. After today’s workout, I need it. Sometimes it’s impossible to reconcile the desire to eat whole foods from entirely local sources and the need for more calories of a certain type. Being a vegetarian adds another wrinkle. And so I do whatever I can to ensure the quality of my dietary “additives.”

At 9 p.m., I make a dinner similar to the previous day’s: a brown rice tortilla wrap with V’egg Salad, BBQ tempeh, an avocado and arugula, sprinkled with more of that lovely gomasio.

Tuesday Earth Day begins. Breakfast is the same damn fouregg scramble. Maybe I’ll get tired of it; maybe I won’t. After eating, I head over to a physical therapist that’s helping me with recurring muscle cramps that really affect my quality of life. I get dry-needled and spend 30 minutes with my legs in compression sleeves. After that, I head over to the Tate Center, where the Athens Farmers Market is tabling with many other environmentally conscious organizations. Trying to reach students is a constant priority.

I return home for lunch and make a quick salad of arugula, tempeh, cashews, pumpkin seeds, avocado and vinaigrette dressing. Tuesday is cleaning day at the Kozak household, so I do my part, after which I head over to 1000 Faces. An impromptu latte art throwdown keeps me nimble and helps dial in my barista skills.

At about 6 p.m., I head over to CrossFit and kick some push press and rower butt. Heading home, I munch on a protein bar, and when I get home, I make my usual whey and coconut water recovery shake. Dinner is hot tonight, consisting of fried brown rice, tons of Cedar Grove Farm kale and garlic.

Wednesday Wednesdays during market season are hectic. The day begins with our friend the four-egg scramble, after which I head to 1000 Faces. I try to transition to market by 1 p.m., but I don’t leave the roastery until 2 p.m., run over to Bishop Park to fetch market gear and then home for a brief lunch of our other friend, the green smoothie. I get to market by 3 p.m., set up and enjoy a Journey Juice. Market ends and I run back to Bishop Park and unload, head home after a stop at the liquor store for fancy bourbon and make a huge salad with lettuce mix from Cedar Grove Farm, cashews, pumpkin seeds and a mustard dressing. I have some tortilla chips on the side. Most dinners, I should mention, end with two squares of dark chocolate, you know, for good health and stuff.

As a nightcap, I make a ginger ale and bourbon with a splash of lime. Is it wrong that I make it large, like 12 ounces?

It’s mostly bourbon.

Thursday I wake with a bourbon blur (blourbon?) and make a FIVE-egg scramble. What a change! The eggs are small, I rationalize. Small but awesome, since they’re from a new market farmer called Pastures of Rose Creek. Will Powers, the proprietor, grows a fine egg with a deep orange yolk, and is Brad Pitt-handsome to boot. You ladies take notice.

After emailing the market layout to our vendor list, I head over to 1000 Faces and down two espressos back to back. We typically pull “ristretto” shots, dosing 20–22 grams of coffee in the portafilter basket and yielding a 30–35gram shot. Today the coffee in the hopper is a newbie from Rwanda called Dukunde Musasa, and the espresso it produces is rich and heavy, with a caramel soufflé finish.

After a couple hours work, I drive to Cedar Grove for my Thursday volunteer session. I relish the few hours I spend out there, hoeing and planting and playing in the dirt. My on-farm lunch doesn’t do the setting justice: two bananas and probably half a jar of peanut butter. Leaving the farm around 5 p.m., I stop at Daily to pick up a protein bar snack and a coconut water.

Back at home, I dig into another salad of arugula, cashews, pumpkin seeds, vegan nacho cheese from Rabbit Food—a new vendor at the market—and tortilla chips alongside.

Friday The four-egg scramble (this time with arugula!) begins the day. I head over to 1000 Faces, pull a shot of espresso, do some work then head over to Epting Events to pick up tables for tomorrow’s block party at Creature Comforts. With the help of friends and colleagues, we get them to the brewery, unload and discuss final details for the event. On the way back to 1000 Faces, I stop at Daily for a V’egg Salad sammie on GF bread and those great sweet-potato chips.

I dig back into work at the roastery, making great progress on some lagging to-dos and round out the afternoon with another espresso. I leave around 6 p.m., run some last-minute errands in prep for the event, and make it home around 7 p.m.

Melissa and I get into a workout on the alley behind our house, and then head in for the night.

I do my post-workout recovery thing with the whey and the coconut water, and then dinner is served about an hour later, consisting of an entire bunch of sauteed kale topped with gomasio and that great vegan nacho cheese, crispy BBQ tempeh, pumpkin seeds and a few tortilla chips. I try to get to bed early because of the big day tomorrow, but don’t end up laying down till 11:30 p.m. The next day brings market and block party back to back, and it’s sure to be a bear.

Jan Kozak To learn more about the Athens Farmers Market, visit athensfarmersmarket.net. For 1000 Faces, click over to 1000facescoffee.com.

grub notes Fire and Fusion $8.95 to $13.95, which means a meal isn’t exactly inexpensive, especially if you order a $2.25 soda. The house salad scatters pistachios and big, tasty croutons among its spring mix and goat cheese and is at least as good an option as the pizza.

BATTEN DOWN: Taqueria Tsunami, the Atlanta-based small chain of Latin-Asian casual fusion restaurants, is taking great advantage of being the only place to eat or drink in the new Epps Bridge Centre, which is gigantic and pedestrian-unfriendly. Located within hailing distance of the movie theater, it seems to be slammed with customers most of the time.

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XXX: Like many franchises, Brixx Wood Fired Pizza (135 W. Washington St. 706-395-1660), which opened an Athens location in the West Washington Street deck downtown, is branded within an inch of its life. Its pizza boxes alone contain the name of the restaurant at least three times, should you forget while shifting your gaze three inches.

The garlic-parmesan breadsticks are much blander than one would expect; the honey mustard sauce that accompanies them has a bit of a kick, but the marinara is too mild and too sweet. In general, your best advice is the opposite of the case in most fine pizza restaurants: Pile on the toppings.

The more minimal offerings (margherita, with tomatoes and basil; plain mozzarella for the kids; artichokes, roasted red peppers and sun-dried tomatoes) tend to be under-flavored.

The barbecue chicken, on the other hand, which features a sweetish sauce, smoked Gouda, red onion and cilantro, may not be exactly refined, but it does taste like something. The spicy shrimp doesn’t taste as much of sriracha as one would hope, but accents of goat Brixx cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, basil and red peppers make it fairly interesting.

There are many, many more choices, including a pizza made with pimento cheese, a wild mushroom, a Caribbean jerk chicken and a variety of other food trends. They range from

require an immediate trip to the dentist. Brixx is open for lunch, dinner and late-night eats/ drinks every day, does takeout, takes credit cards and has a patio and a nice garage door that lets in fresh air.

Wood Fired Pizza There are also sandwiches, pastas, a s’mores pizza I was not brave enough to try, 24 beers on tap (some craft), some house sodas and lemonades that can be made alcoholic and cocktails that look like they would

The problem with fusion is that it frequently screws up multiple culinary traditions instead of just one, and that can definitely be the case here. The weirdly named “empanada bites,” which are, in fact, much larger than

most regular empanadas, are a decent exception, filled with Vietnamese-accented pork and served with a spicy ranch dip and salsa verde. The Asian nachos don’t work nearly as well. The idea (fried wonton strips instead of chips) isn’t bad, but the toppings are oddly mounded, meaning many naked bites. The queso is very thinly applied, and the jalapenos are present only in big chunks instead of adding heat throughout. The latter complaint applies equally to the jalapeno cheese tater tots available as a side.

Skip the “bowl” section (the “South of the Border bowl” is a sad, under-spiced affair no better than a TV dinner) and opt for the tacos, which are better priced ($3.50–$4 each, still a big jump over Taqueria del Sol, for example) and better executed.

The Gringo Taco, which is straight-up Mexican (ground beef, queso, lettuce, pico de gallo) is better than the awkward marriages of the Pacific Rim taco (grilled chili-crusted mahi mahi, pico de gallo, hoisin lime aioli) and the Asada Zing taco (bulgogi, shiitakes, soy-sesame vinaigrette), which aim for nothing beyond mild heat and sweetness. The Baja taco (fried fish, Asian slaw, spicy mayo) is better but can’t hold a candle to TDS’s perfect rendition. The quesadillas are a decent option, perhaps better at mingling flavors than the tacos, but $8.50 is a bit steep.

Why eat here? You may be less disillusioned about fusion, or you may be in the area and desperate for sustenance. Taqueria Tsunami is open for lunch and dinner every day, has beer and wine plus a patio, takes credit cards and gives you a fortune cookie at the end of the meal.

Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com

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movie dope drew’s review MALEFICENT (PG) Maleficent is clearly birthed from the Alice in

 Wonderland strain of family fantasy, and despite being more success-

ful than either of 2012’s dueling Snow White retellings, overdoses on style while lacking the original cartoon’s charm. Actually, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) was a super nice overgrown fairy until an evil human broke her heart and stole her wings. When that evil human grows up to be King Stefan (Sharlto Copley, as weird as ever), Maleficent curses his infant daughter, Aurora, to the sleep of death on her 16th birthday. But being truly nice, Maleficent moons over Aurora (Elle Fanning) as she grows into a beatific imbecile. No one benefits from this ultimately unrewarding retconning of Disney’s classic Sleeping Beauty, least of all the titular evil fairy. Here, the powerfully wicked Maleficent is relegated to a petty trickster in snakeskin head wraps. Sometimes a villain’s just a villain, a baddie just a baddie. (But Disney being Disney, prepare for a whole new line of Disney villain movies. I can’t wait until Cruella, where we find Ms. de Vil was attacked by a rabid dog as a youngster, thereby justifying her plan to make a coat out of 101 Dalmatian pups.)

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (R) Seth MacFarlane heads out west for his sophomore feature comedy, and the results are predictable. MacFarlane is nothing if not unsurprising. Here’s a musical number. There’s a reference to another movie you’ll recognize. Next up, drugs!

For about the length of two “Family Guy” episodes, AMWTDITW entertains.

Cowardly sheep farmer, Albert, loses his pretty fiancée, Louise (Amanda Seyfriend), only to befriend and court mysterious newcomer, Anna (Charlize Theron, who is starting to resemble a better-looking Nicole Kidman). Anna is unhappily married to the most dangerous gunman in the West, Clinch (Liam Neeson, who will do anything for a paycheck now), and despite being a sharpshooter herself, needs a man to save her. As the prostitute girlfriend of Albert’s pal, Edward (Giovanni Ribisi), Sarah Silverman might get the most laughs per line delivered. Sadly, Neil Patrick Harris is wasted as a Wild West Barney Stinson. AMWTDITW is far from laughless, but the anachronistic non sequiturs consistently score more than the comic setpieces. Blown up on the big screen, MacFarlane’s weirdly smooth face (he appears to be wearing more makeup than any of his female costars) also distracts. At two hours, the percentage of laughs to groans dwindles to sub-Mendoza Line territory.

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG-13) Director Bryan Singer returns after a two-film hiatus for a successful X-venture combining the best of the first two X-Men (a heavy dose of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine) with Matthew Vaughn’s valedictory First Class. Wolverine takes center stage as his psyche is sent back to the 1970s (cue the fashion, the automobiles, the Nixon) to convince a young, feuding Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) to work together to stop the end of the human and mutantkind. If you’re a fan of any X-Men outside of Wolvie, Prof X, Magneto, Beast (Marcus Hoult) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), you’re out of luck. Quicksilver does get introduced (he’s also slated to appear in Avengers 2) with the film’s pièce de résistance, a slow-motion sequence set to Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle.” Quirky “American Horror Story” alum Evan Peters provides the perfect jittery teen version of the speedy mutant. Like previous Singer X-Men, the film gets a little logy in the middle, but somehow the wonky time-traveling narrative keeps traveling forward with little confusion. It only took five movies, but I am ready to give in to the Mystique agenda being pushed since the first X-movie in 2000.

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who, after meeting on a bad blind date, fall for each other on an African safari with their kids. Sandler invited his Wedding Singer, Waterboy, and Click pal and director Frank Coraci for the sure-to-be critically reviled, financially successful family flick. The supporting cast is fairly expected (Kevin Nealon, Allen Covert, Shaq, Dan Patrick, etc.), but Terry Crews, Wendi McClendonCovey and Joel McHale are reliably funny.

CHEF (R) When prominent, workaholic chef Carl Casper (writer/director/ producer John Favreau) is fired from his job managing at a prestigious Los Angeles restaurant, he returns to his hometown of Miami. With the help of his son, ex-wife (Sophia Vergara) and a friend, he fixes up El Jefe, a food truck slinging Cubanos, and sets out driving the truck back across the country towards L.A. With Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Downey, Jr., Amy Sedaris, John Leguizamo and Bobby Cannavale. (Ciné) n EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG-13) Tom Cruise’s new sci-fi action tentpole would be better titled Live. Die. Repeat.

(That phrase serves as the oft-repeated

unidentified terrestrial organisms), one of which bears more than a passing resemblance to series fave Mothra.

The monster design and FX is superb, even if the two-hour film takes its sweet time putting it to full use. Edwards clings too long to his “less is more” Monsters aesthetic. The marginal cost of the teasing outweighs its marginal benefit in the third act. Even with a cast that includes Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and David Strathairn, the humans do not matter. It’s Godzilla that audiences are paying to see. Fortunately, the film ends at its strongest, a knockdown dragout between the monsters that does not disappoint.

THE IMMIGRANT (R) Polish sisters Ewa and Magda Cybulska (Marion Cotillard and Angela Sarafyan) sail to New York in search of the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill and quickly quarantine her. Released onto the mean streets of Manhattan, Ewa quickly falls prey to charming yet wicked Bruno (Joaquin Phoenix), who forces her into prostitution. Fortunately,

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also playing THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG-13) Despite abundant reasons for applause, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 sabotages itself with the most dreadfully deadening second act unleashed in a major superhero movie. Andrew Garfield returns as Peter Parker/SpiderMan and has much more control of the role in his second appearance. He channels the comic’s wisecracking webslinger, especially in the smart, campy opening fight with a very Russian criminal inexplicably played by Paul Giamatti. In his second attempt, director Marc Webb supplies the franchise’s best action setpieces; both of Spidey’s fights with Jamie Foxx’s blueheaded Electro are kinetically exciting, if a bit too computer animated. But the fightless sequence after Spider-Man first defeats Electro, during which Peter reunites with old pal Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) and searches for the answer to his OsCorp scientist father’s (Campbell Scott) disappearance,

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absolutely kills the movie’s silly momentum, despite Martin Csokas’ German mad Dr. Kafka. Bookending the boring are two great acts. The first could be the most charmingly innocent cinematic superhero action since Superman ’78, even if it is more Lester than Donner; the action-packed finale jams three supervillains into what can’t be more than 20 minutes. Make sure you wake up for it.

BELLE (PG) In this historical drama, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu MbathaRaw) the illegitimate multiracial daughter of a Royal Navy officer, is raised by her great-uncle, William Murray (Tom Wilkinson), first Earl of Masfield and Lord Chief Justice. Director Amma Asante, who previously helmed A Way of Life, won the SIGNIS Award from the Miami Film Festival and the Directors to Watch Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival. With Miranda Richardson, Matthew Goode and Emily Watson. (Ciné) BLENDED (PG-13) Ten years after 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite as single parents

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Remember that scene in Flash Dance ? tagline.) That title’s way more evocative than the generic Edge of Tomorrow.

Cruise stars as a future soldier who keeps dying and waking up with more skills. Emily Blunt is somehow, prettily connected. Doug Liman is trying to remind audiences he directed The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, not Jumper, the flick that seemed to stall his upward trajectory.

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG-13) John Green’s teen tearjerker about love in the time of cancer gets adapted for the big screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, whose work on (500) Days of Summer and The Spectacular Now buy them a pass for The Pink Panther 2. Current YA It Girl Shailene Woodley hopes to continue her winning streak as Hazel Grace, the witty cancer survivor who falls in love with Gus, who sports a prosthetic leg due to his bout with the deadly disease.

GODZILLA (PG-13) 2014. The King of Monsters has recovered from his 1998 trip stateside with this extremely satisfying entry in Toho’s long-running kaiju franchise. The filmmakers—Monsters director Gareth Edwards, screenwriter Max Borenstein and Dave Callaham —make several smart decisions with their Hollywood reboot of Godzilla.

They go ahead and start with goodZilla. The giant radioactive lizard is a much more intriguing character when it’s a force for neutral good. Big G must do battle with two MUTOs (massive

Bruno’s cousin, debonair magician Orlando (Jeremy Renner), sweeps Ewa off her feet and offers her only chance to escape. (Ciné) THE LEGO MOVIE (PG) The LEGO Movie remains the year’s best wide release. The intricate, interconnected universes built by writing-directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street) has an agedefying Muppets-like appeal. When generic construction mini-figure Emmet (v. Chris Pratt, who is so devilishly appealing) gets up in the morning, he follows the day’s instructions as handed down by president/overlord Business (v. Will Ferrell). Soon, Emmet gets involved with a Matrix-ian rebel group that includes Batman (v. Will Arnett). The LEGO Movie uses its licenses (D.C., Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings) smartly as it argues for the salvation of creativity. This film reconstructs the best childhood movie memories from the building blocks that defined young and not-yet-so-old generations.

LOCKE (R) Tom Hardy stars as Ivan Locke, a construction foreman whose life is complicated by a series of phone calls he receives while driving from Birmingham to London. Hardy is joined by a voice cast that includes Tom Holland (The Impossible), Olivia Colman (The Iron Lady’s Carol Thatcher), Andrew Scott (“Sherlock”’s

Moriarty), Ruth Wilson (“Luther”’s Alice Morgan) and Ben Daniels (“House of Cards”’ Adam Galloway). Oscarnominated writer Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things) is still trying to make his mark as a director. (Ciné) MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) Kudos to director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) and excellent screenwriter Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor and Win Win) for taking what could have been another sappy, inspirational Disney sports movie and turning out a mostly satisfying retelling of the true recruitment of Major League Baseball’s first Indian players.

Struggling sports agent J.B. Bernstein (Jon Hamm) needs a big hit to stay in the game. His unconventional idea leads him to India looking for a baseball pitcher amongst cricket bowlers.

But bringing young Rinku (Life of Pi’s Suraj Sharma) and Dinesh (Madhur Mittal, Slumdog Millionaire) back to the States is only the first half of the game. Now confirmed bachelor J.B. must father his alternative family to victory. Luckily, a pretty young doctor, Brenda (Lake Bell), lives out back to provide advice and romance. Despite its major flaw, predictability, Million Dollar Arm succeeds. Hamm could not be more roguishly charming, and Bell is an underrated comedienne and actress. Sharma, Mittal and Pitobash, who plays the most comic of the Indian characters, never resort to mere stereotype. It does drag in its Murphy’s Lawsponsored middle innings, but credit the cast and crew with a win.

MOMS’ NIGHT OUT (PG) Allyson (Sarah Drew, “Grey’s Anatomy”) and her girlfriends (including Patricia Heaton from “Everybody Loves Raymond”) want a night out without the kids. Can their husbands (including Sean Astin) handle the kids for one measly evening? According to the trailer for this family friendly, kind of faith-based movie, the men cannot.

Country star Trace Adkins shows up as a bike-riding tattoo artist. Birmingham, AL, natives Jon and Andrew Erwin direct their highest profile picture yet.

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (PG) Mr. Peabody and Sherman get much better feature film treatment than their cartoon pals Rocky and Bullwinkle.

The super smart canine, Mr. Peabody (v. Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”), and his adopted son, Sherman (v. Max Charles, young Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man), travel back in time via Peabody’s WABAC machine.

The duo meet Marie Antoinette, King Tut, Leonardo da Vinci (v. Stanley Tucci), Mona Lisa (v. Lake Bell) and other historical luminaries as they try to right the wrongs perpetrated against the space-time continuum. Burrell keeps Peabody as punny as ever, and kids will relate to Sherman’s childish, lesson-teaching mistakes. The historical gags are a hit, though the dramatic narrative is structured too familiarly.

And who is the target demo, kids who have never heard of these classic cartoons or the adults bound to be at least a little disappointed by the newfangled incarnations of their childhood faves? Trying to please both might not fully please either. Nonetheless, 2014 will see worse kids movies than Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

MUPPETS MOST WANTED (PG) Somewhere between the plots of The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppets Take Manhattan lies Muppets Most Wanted. After the success of their reunion, the Muppets embark on a world tour on the advice of their new manager, Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais, as impish as ever). But when the World’s Most Dangerous Frog, Constantine, replaces Kermit, the world tour becomes a globe-hopping heist to steal the crown jewels. It being a Muppets movie, expect oddball movie callbacks and celebrities to pop up in the most random of cameos. The three human leads—Gervais, Tina Fey and Ty Burrell—are great foils for the Muppets. Bret McKenzie, one half of Flight of the Conchords, supplies a couple of show-stopping numbers (particularly, Fey’s showcase, “The Big House”), but just a few years later, I cannot remember anything he wrote for 2011’s The Muppets. Come to think of it, as immediately engaging as the family friendly movie is, it mostly pointed out just how unmemorable its 2011 predecessor ultimately was.

The Muppets always entertain, but this adventure isn’t timeless.

NEED FOR SPEED (PG-13) Whether the moviegoing world wanted one or not, Fast & Furious now has a competitor in outlandish car chase franchises. Need for Speed, based on the Electronic Arts series of racing videogames, stars Aaron Paul in his first major headlining gig post-“Breaking Bad,” and it’s fast enough to win the box office race, if nothing else. The way too generously plotted movie takes a while to reach its top speed as small town race car driver Tobey Marshall (Paul) establishes his bonafides.

Once released from prison for a crime for which he was only tangentially responsible, Tobey drives his way into an exclusive underground race called the Deleon, mostly to seek revenge against real bad guy, professional race car driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). But who am I kidding, wasting so much space on a plot synopsis?

What potential viewers of Need for Speed need to know is the cars are fast,

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THE OTHER WOMAN (PG-13) It takes way too long for Kate Upton to pop up in this intermittently funny and shrill female buddy comedy.

Powerful professional woman, Carly Whitten (Cameron Diaz), finds out her wonderful new boyfriend, Mark (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, “Game of Thrones�), is married. Carly and the wronged wife, Kate (Leslie Mann), team up for revenge with Mark’s other other woman, Amber (Upton). Diaz and Mann are showcased, and the results are mixed. As many laughs as Mann generates, she spends equally as much time crying and whining. Diaz continues to age gracefully, though one of the movie’s best gags might be the comedienne’s reaction to being upstaged

by Upton, whose initial bikini-clad appearance doesn’t occur until an hour into the movie. The Other Woman is neither a total disaster nor a riotous female comedy. We’re not achieving Bridesmaids heights here. The comedy does begin to answer the question, how much is too much Leslie Mann?

I’m sad and a little disappointed by The Other Woman’s response.

THE RAILWAY MAN (R) Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Stellan Skarsgard star in a true story of World War II from The Weinstein Company, and it didn’t receive an awards-eligible release.

That’s worrying. During WWII, Eric Lomax (Jeremy Irvine) was a tortured Japanese POW on the “Death Railway.�

Years later, Lomax (now played by Firth) attempts to exorcise his demons by confronting a Japanese officer (Hiroyuki Sanada). Director Jonathan Teplitzky’s film is based on the autobiography written by Lomax. (CinÊ) RIO 2 (G) Blu (v. Jesse Eisenberg), Jewel (v. Anne Hathaway) and the three kids leave the wilds of Rio de Janeiro for the real wilds of the Amazon, where Blu must battle his father-in-law (v.

Andy Garcia). I don’t recall caring that much for the first trip to Rio, though it

could have been worse. The voices of Will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro and Jake T. Austin return, while Garcia and Bruno Mars headline the newcomers.

TRANSCENDENCE (PG-13) A mature science fiction film about the dangers of technology from Dark Knight filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s personal cinematographer isn’t a surefire blockbuster. Johnny Depp stars as Dr. Will Caster, an expert in artificial intelligence, whose mind is uploaded into cyberspace after his death at the hands of anti-technology terrorists. Unfettered by the shackles of humanity, Caster is able to solve pretty much all of mankind’s problems in a couple of days/ weeks/months/years; Transcendence has the same problems with time that plagued The Dark Knight Rises. In his directorial debut, Wally Pfister has shot a film every bit as beautiful as those he shot for Nolan. However, his film is hampered by a terminally slow first act that builds into a tremendously intriguing second act before climaxing in rather generic explosiveness. To be fair, were Transcendence a heady sci-fi novel, it would have read exactly the same: slow, sort of intellectually satisfying and useful for separating the cool geeks from the chaff. Mainstream audiences will find the film distant and coldly uncommunicative, exactly what will make it a future fave of neocyberpunks.

TRON: Legacy (PG) 2010. In the sequel to the 1982 cult classic Tron, tech-savvy 27-year-old Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) goes looking into the disappearance of his father, virtual world designer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), and finds himself pulled into the same cyber universe where his father has been trapped for 20 years.

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NEIGHBORS (R) The smartest move made by the year’s funniest comedy (to date) was to spread the guilt and the sympathy between the family (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) and the frat bros (led by Zac Efron and Dave Franco). When a fraternity moves in next door to new parents, Mac and Kelly Radner, a war breaks out after Mac calls the cops on one of the frat’s first parties. Though both sides trade early victories, no one really wins when these neighbors attempt a game of real estate chicken. Who will move first?

My fear going into the movie was that Efron’s frat president, Teddy, would be so brah-ish he’d lack any sympathy, but the High School Musical alumnus imbues the pretty boy with unexpected likability. He’s simply a nice guy, as is his VP, Pete (Franco). The movie spends equal time with both families, dividing the laughs and the commiseration. Director Nicholas Stoller finally figures out the whole comedy runtime, delivering good, hard R gags.

NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM (NR) See Calendar Pick on p. 16. (Morton Theatre) ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (R) Jim Jarmusch returns for his first film since 2009’s The Limits of Control.

His latest, an offbeat romantic horror movie, stars Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and The Avengers’ Tom Hiddleston as two vampires that have been in love for centuries. The impressive cast also includes Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt and Jeffrey Wright. Broken Flowers did not signal Jarmusch’s ascent into the mainstream as some assumed. Can Hiddleston do what Bill Murray could not?

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record reviews New reviews of local albums are posted regularly at flagpole.com. Below, three releases to check out this month.

The Burning Angels: American Stranger

Independent Release HHHHH The Burning Angels follow up last year’s Beautiful Scars LP with an album of mostly acoustic numbers. American Stranger may seem like a country affair, and indeed, many of the old tropes about small-town living and drinking your sorrows away stand present and accounted for. However, the Angels have stripped these tracks clean of bells and whistles; songs like “Leaving Town,” “Lovingood” and “Good As It Can Get” are sparse, sorrowful tunes, featuring only Mark Cunningham’s grit-rich voice and his guitar.

Extra kudos are due for the gentle slide-guitar work laced throughout (especially on “Smoke & Sin”), which sounds far less twangy than usual and lends some lovely enigma. One wild card stands out, and it’s fabulous: “Waterslide” could be a Dinosaur Jr. B-side, but instead of a wall of distortion we hear some faint, twisted riff swirling like a far-off smoke signal.

Elsewhere, the Angels retreat to safer havens, perhaps last-second attempts to lighten up the mood: “Natchez” and “Nazareth Song” find Cunningham treading the well-beaten trail of the cheery country duet, replete with down-home fiddlin’ and the utterly ordinary Southern-belle singing partner. And the title track, in spite of its intriguing, hazy vibe, also sits cozy in friendly waters, at odds with the mystery and sorrow that makes the middle part of the LP so fascinating. Overall, though, American Stranger provides a pleasant space for one to brood, and should appeal to all the Cowboy Junkies junkies out there. [Lee Adcock]

Deep State: Bein’ Mean EP

Independent Release HHHHH The debut recording from the full-band version of Deep State—a project that began as an outlet for songwriter Taylor Chmura’s lo-fi bedroom explorations—is an irresistible punk-pop gem, a testament both to Chmura’s prowess and to his impeccably assembled backing group’s pedigree, not to mention engineer Jesse Mangum’s meticulous studio arrangement.

It should be noted that Deep State shares members with two other local pop heavyweights, Brothers and Little Gold. Interestingly, those bands’ frontmen, Ryan Moore and Christian DeRoeck, take supporting roles on Bein’ Mean, handling backing guitar and bass duties, respectively. It’s Chmura’s songwriting, his rotten-cotton-candy choruses, that propel things forward.

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Despite the punked-up Britpop vibes and sunny-day melodies, there is a distinct air of grievance throughout Bein’ Mean. “It’s fucked,” Chmura yelps, vaguely and repeatedly, on opener “Deep State” (sidenote: I love eponymously named songs so damn much), a madhouse escapee grinning furiously alongside his band’s workmanlike assault. “I think I feel more safe/ When it’s payday,” the singer snarls on album closer “Payday,” an anthem for the underslept and underpaid, the likes of which we haven’t heard since the salad days of Athens’ DIY punk scene.

There’s not really a bad track on the EP, though the Supergrass-y “Tittyboyz,” with its obnoxious title and greased-up bass line, is the obvious single. It is nearly a perfect pop song, bummed but ready to party through the tears. “What a fool I’ve been,” goes the sing-along refrain, but one gets the sense Deep State is ready to wake up and do it all over again. [Gabe Vodicka]

murk daddy flex: Genesis

Pizza Tomb HHHHH For those craving beats, murk daddy flex has ‘em in spades. Terence Chiyezhan’s latest LP, Genesis, is a kaleidoscopic stew of hip hop beats, global style and multi-genre finesse.

Fans of Luke Vibert or Gil-Scott Heron will no doubt dig the downtempo glide of tracks like “Snake Charmer” and “Crayon.” “Black Mamba” and “California Mountain Snake” shake up rock-and-roll in good Odelay form, but with righteous female samples instead of lazy, whiteboy raps; and the criminally short “ii.

Cloud Nine” blends dub, gospel, jazz and tropical vibes into one unbelievably smooth tonic.

But the all-out showstopper of Genesis, hands down, is “Asimov” and its austere march of light, which borders on saccharine but brushes past with some electronic wizardry. “Hare Krishna, Universal Peace” pushes the Hindu overtones a little too far into stereotypes with the child choir and sitar features, but the percussion that dissolves into crackle lends the track a curious new flavor. “iii.Sea Foam Green,” too, hammers home its arm-swinging soul almost too bluntly, but redeems itself with one sweet diva sample.

Despite all this genre-blending, Genesis is a very cohesive unit, sewn together by brief instrumental interludes and compelling sound bites—including, in the album’s most sublime moment, a triumphant sign-off from Muhammad Ali himself (“Copperhead”). [LA] murk daddy flex plays Flagpole’s AthFest showcase at the 40 Watt Club on Friday, June 20.

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More Than Just a Logo Team Kirk Raises Money, Support in the Fight Against Cancer

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you’ve been in Athens these past few months, chances are one day you peered up from behind your steering wheel and saw the bumper sticker. You know the ones: white ovals with bold black text inside. “OBX” for North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

“NYC” for, well, NYC. But this was one you hadn’t seen before: “TK.” “My friends thought it was some kind of athletic team. I’m slightly embarrassed by the whole thing,” says Kirk Smith, the man who inspired Team Kirk’s beginnings after being diagnosed with stage-three lung cancer the day after Christmas last year.

It’s hard to say exactly what Team Kirk is. It doesn’t have an office, and no one is officially in charge. The group raises money for the Cancer Center of Northeast Georgia by putting on events—like a party at the Jittery Joe’s roaster in April, where organizers offered beer, food and entertainment. At that event, they raised nearly $10,000 for the Cancer Center, which helps patients with basic living expenses, such as rent, utilities and food.

Monday, June 9, they will hold a benefit concert at the Georgia Theatre, featuring music from Rob Nance and the Lost Souls, Jim Avett (the patriarch of the now-famous Avett family) and locals Grassland String Band. The concert starts at 6:45 p.m. and will also benefit the Cancer Center.

Smith is a native Athenian and an active member of the community, an avid runner and playful sort who chose the motto “Live Goofy” for the Livestrong-inspired wristbands Team Kirk has provided for friends and family to wear in solidarity. Strong and compact, with slightly graying, close-cropped hair, he has an air of calm confidence and matterof-fact pragmatism, captured by another of the maxims he has taken to repeating: “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

Smith is no stranger to concise, persuasive language; his father founded The Adsmith, an advertising and design agency located on Milledge Avenue. Smith now runs it, and his wife, Jayne, works for UGA. Being financially stable, when the diagnosis came, Smith and Jayne knew they wanted to do something to address and acknowledge it, but they didn’t want or feel the need to ask for help themselves.

“We didn’t want it to be, ‘Team Kirk with his hand out’,” Smith says.

Being faced with something so big and frightening can be difficult for friends and family, who want to help but don’t know what to do, they say. Though Smith expresses embarrassment about being the center of attention, Jayne points out that having a cause to rally around has been helpful for loved ones.

“We have several friends who have lost

husbands to cancer,” she says. “They said, ‘Help [other people] out by giving them something to do.’ That was helpful to hear right up front. I wouldn’t have thought about that.”

In addition to support from friends and musicians like Jody Daniels of Grassland String Band, who Smith says has been instrumental in planning the group’s events, Team Kirk has also seen support from Terrapin, Mama’s Boy and the Oconee Veterinary Hospital, and other friends have stepped in to help with organization and logistics along the way.

“It’s very significant to have an organization come to you and do it all, and all you have to do is help promote them,” says Kimberly Liebowitz, director of the Cancer Center. “We are so lucky that, in the face of Kirk’s illness, they chose to help other people.” Liebowitz says the Cancer Center gave $160,000 last year to local cancer patients— the money is especially helpful in the hot summer months, when utility bills climb and strain already struggling families.

Smith, Jayne, Daniels and the rest of Team Kirk’s loose coterie aren’t sure what they’ll do after the Georgia Theatre event. For now, they are focused simply on making sure it’s a good time.

“I want to make sure people don’t come to an event wringing their hands,” Smith says. Indeed, all along, Team Kirk has emphasized the celebratory over the somber, which is perhaps part of the reason the initial fundraiser was such a success.

Now, that success is looming in Smith’s mind. “We may have 400 people that come in and pay the $10 suggested donation,” at Monday’s event, he says. “That’s only $4,000.”

Of course, that amount is nothing to sneeze at. Combined with the proceeds of Team Kirk’s first event, it would equal nearly 9 percent of the amount the Cancer Center furnished to cancer patients last year.

And there is still a more personal battle to fight. With the support of friends and family, Smith continues to combat his own disease.

Still, he says, he feels like one of the lucky ones. “Go sit in the lobby of a cancer center,” he says. “It’s pretty powerful stuff. I don’t really know how some people deal with it. It shines a light on those things.”

To learn more about Team Kirk or stay up to date on what the group is up to, visit caringbridge.org/visit/teamkirk.

Rachel Bailey

WHO: Rob Nance and the Lost Souls, Jim Avett, Grassland String Band WHERE: Georgia Theatre WHEN: Monday, June 9, 6 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $10 (suggested donation)

threats & promises Music News And Gossip Hot Black Summer: Athens impresario Beau Tepper reports that things are trucking right along for his new label, Hot Grits. The imprint is releasing the album from New York’s postpunk-y, goth-sludge-y What Moon Things— mixed in Athens by Scott Nicholas at Skirt Space and mastered by Jesse Mangum at The Glow Recording Studio—and will re-release New Madrid’s debut album, Yardboat, on CD and limited vinyl this fall. Both bands are also part of the Left Brain Management stable, which Tepper runs with master of the universe David Barbe. What Moon Things will play Flicker Theatre & Bar Friday, June 6 with Uncle Dad and Dosed. See Calendar Pick on p.

16, and keep up with Hot Grits over at facebook.com/hotgritsrecords.

Pop Bucks: Got a potential song title just taking up extra space in your brain? Wanna make a cool 50 bucks for very little effort?

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Brian Mullis for you. His project By Small Ruin has been moving along steadily, and he has decided to have a “fan appreciation” contest. If your song-name idea is chosen as the best—it doesn’t have to be related to anything; just make up a good title—Mullis will slide you $50 cash and you’ll be credited on the next By Small Ruin album. By Small Ruin released its debut, Year of the Bull, last year. Mullis played every instrument on the 10-song album, and in the process did a fine job of splitting the difference between Bryan Adams and Matthew Sweet. To enter the contest, drop him a line through the “contact” page at bysmallruin.com.

Hope For AnEarlySummer: If you wanna get a jump on celebrating this year’s AthFest, head to the Melting Point on Monday, June 9, where the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society is dedicating its regular occurrence of The Hoot to presenting an “AthFest sampler.” Featured performers include Hope for

Agoldensummer, Lowdive and Athens Tango Project. At the show, you can also purchase AthFest wristbands, pick up AthFest compilations from previous years and grab a sign for your yard. Admission to this show is free, and it all starts at 8 p.m.

Twentieth Century Vintage: The late 1990s were a weird time in Athens. On one hand, there was the requisite aping of all things Elephant 6 in that time-worn way of bandwagon-jumping that seems old pretty much as soon as it starts. On the other hand, a lot of bands seemed to be in a race to out-twee each other as quickly as their snagged cardigan strings could be pulled. To this end, the relatively short-lived Rock and Roll Summer released an album in September 1998. The band, led by Wes Whitener, populated the kind of sincere middle ground between earnestly propagated indie-pop and non-traditional, non-proselytizing Christian witnessing.

The record, The Wedding Album, was as much about Whitener falling in love and meting his future bride as it was—according to the liner notes—about “Christ and his church.”

Before you start thinking, “No way did this happen,” let me assure you that the Athens twee scene was all over these guys at the time. The Wedding Album was re-released online a couple of weeks ago. Check it out over at weswhitener.bandcamp. com.

Pay Now, Buy Later: Everevolving local pop group k i d s is still taking preorders for the white vinyl version of its newest psychedelic gem of an album, titled Take Forever. The cassette version is available now in a limited run of 50, so jump on that if you really need a tape. The LP runs $17 and includes a digital download code.

You can stream two tracks already at k-i-d-s.bandcamp.com, and I think you’ll be impressed by the dirty guitar heft of each. I certainly was.

Pre-orders are supposed to ship on or around June 15.

Some Say the End is Near: Athens’ premier— and only—Tool tribute band, Ænemic, is closing up shop because member John Daniels is moving to New Orleans. Daniels has also played for years in The Suex Effect and, more recently, with hardcore upstarts Capital Will. The group’s final show happens at the Caledonia Lounge Saturday, June 7, where it will share the bill with 10 Fingers Strong and Wicked King. We reported a few weeks ago that there was a shakeup in the Capital Will camp, hot on the heels of that group finishing its debut EP, but things seem to have coalesced such that a new lineup is in the works. To check out Ænemic, see facebook. com/AEnemic.

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art notes Coming Together Pottery Roundup: Many of the local potters in Athens and surrounding areas set aside a minimum of two weekends per year to host studio open houses and art sales, once during the holiday artist market flurry in December, and again during the first weekend of June.

Holding the sales simultaneously is naturally in hopes of cross-promotion—if you’re out searching for pottery, you might as well make the rounds—but the tradition also speaks to the camaraderie among ceramic artists and the strength of the local pottery scene.

Carter Gillies’ Pottery Summer Sales kick off on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Offering everything you need for an artisan-infused kitchen, the sale will focus on functional items like mugs, bowls, plates, oil and vinegar cruets, salt and pepper shakers, sugar and creamer sets, flower vases and more. On the following weekend— Saturday, June 14 and Sunday, June 15 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.—Carter will be joined by local potters Geoff Pickett, Juana Gnecco and Jeff

While in Farmington, jump over to 1790 Salem Road for JB & Friends Art Show and Sale. Jeff Bishoff, Keen Zero and other area potters will share new works on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Call 678-863-1847 for details.

Artist Archive: The Athens Area Arts Council recently launched its new website, athensarts. org, which features an artist directory that allows visitors to search through a database of local creators by medium, location, usage, name and genre. The AAAC hopes that the list can be used by private art collectors as well as project managers looking to incorporate artwork into local building projects. The directory doubles as a promotional tool for the city, showcasing the diversity and multitude of artists living in town. To be included on the site, artists must simply become a member of AAAC by paying a membership fee of $15 for students and seniors or $25 for working artists.

Memberships can be purchased online.

Farmington Pottery Bishoff. Carter’s home studio is located at 572 Nantahala Ave. in Athens. Call 706-546-7235 for details, or take a look at his considerably thought-provoking blog, cartergilliespottery. wordpress.com, to follow some interesting discussions on art.

The Wolf Creek Pottery Sale, located at 1500 Tappan Spur Road in Watkinsville, will be held on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. See new works by ceramic artists Jorie Berman, Juana Gnecco, Jen Graff and Nancy Green. Special guest Sara Lee Parker creates hand-printed textiles and paper.

For more information, call 706-410-5200.

Geoff and Lisa Pickett’s June Open House offers a wide selection of pottery ranging from dinnerware, kitchenware and garden pots. Natural, small-batch soaps and botanical skin care products, which are created using herbs straight from the garden, will also be available. The couple’s studio is located at 1171 Freeman Creek Road in Farmington, and the sales are on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8 from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Call 706-769-8100 or visit pickettpottery.com.

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Three Cheers: Professional local artist and experienced curator Didi Dunphy has officially been selected as the new supervisor of the Lyndon House Arts Center, replacing Claire Benson, who retired this past March. Dunphy is currently the curator of two other exhibit spaces downtown, and plans to continue organizing their exhibitions in addition to her work in strengthening the Lyndon House’s programming. At Hotel Indigo, she has curated a series of visually diverse shows, in both the indoor gallery space and the outdoor GlassCube. For over the past year, Dunphy has also curated for the galleries located within The Classic Center’s newly expanded space, lining up shows of large-scale works by regional artists that rotate twice annually. She’ll certainly have her hands full, but after so much public concern over the future of the Lyndon House earlier in the year, fearing that Benson would be replaced with a bureaucrat by ACC Leisure Services, we can let out a sigh of relief knowing that an artist is in charge.

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Morton Theatre ¡ 7 p.m. ¡ FREE! In 1964, three young civil rights activists were investigating arson at a black church in Neshoba County, MS, and suspected a group led by a local sheriff’s deputy. While they were driving to Meridian, a group of KKK members in police cars pulled them over, shot and killed Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (who were white), whipped the African American James Chaney with a chain, then shot and killed him, too. While some of the murderers were convicted in the first sucTHEATER | June 6–8 & June cessful federal prosecution of a Mississippi 12–15 civil rights case, others got off. Edgar Ray Killen didn’t meet justice until 2005, and five other suspects were never prosecuted.

Athens Community Theater ¡ 8 p.m. (Thursdays– UGA professor Jerry Gale has arranged Saturdays), 2 p.m. (Sundays) ¡ $8–15 for the 2008 documentary Neshoba: The Town & Gown Players’ newest proPrice of Freedom to be screened at the duction is Steel Magnolias, the popular Morton Theatre—a local landmark of black comedy-drama history—along following the with a panel disfriendships of cussion among six women livdirector Micki ing in northDickoff, the Rev. west Louisiana Julia Chaney-Moss who, despite (James Chaney’s their underlying sister) and former hardships, find Athens Mayor Doc humor and solace Eldridge. Tickets within the walls are required and Steel Magnolias of Truvy’s Beauty are available Shop. Directed at the Morton

by Cameron Logan, the play was written Theatre box office. [Blake Aued]

by Robert Harling as a tribute to his sister, who died from complications of type 1 COMEDY | Thursday, June 5 diabetes. The show opened off-Broadway in 1987 and on Broadway in 2005, with a movie version appearing in ‘87. T&G’s 40 Watt Club ¡ 8 p.m. ¡ $19 (adv.), $21 (door) all-female cast of characters—delicate as Chelsea Peretti has become an increasmagnolias yet tough as steel—includes ingly familiar face and voice, as a cast Gay Griggs McCommons, Janet Gilling member on the Golden Globe-winning Robertson, Bryn Meredith Adamson, Fox series “Brooklyn Nine-Nineâ€? and the Gillianne Gentzel, Greer Caldwell and Cher host of the podcast “Call Chelsea Perettiâ€?

Ross Schmidt. [Jessica Smith] since 2012. Peretti is also preparing to tape her first hourlong stand-up special.

MUSIC | Monday, June 9 While her 2011 half-hour Comedy Central outing exhibited a playful meanness and was principally observational, the upcoming hour promises to bring both content and style to a wider yet more personal Hi-Lo Lounge ¡ 9 p.m. ¡ $5 level. According to her mother, Peretti has Local trio Shade has made serious “no poker face,â€? an issue she addresses strides since its early, half-baked outings, head-on in her often abrasive act. “Some pumping up the volume and unleashing of my new special is about that,â€? says a beast of a record in Pipe Dream. Rhode Peretti. “How I struggle with social pleasIsland-based five-piece The Ukiah Drag antries‌ I don’t think I’m incredibly difcrafts the sort of nasty, downtuned freakferent on stage than I am in real life‌ I rock you’d expect to hear oozing from think it’s my voice—but maybe amplified. broken speakers in a backwater truck-stop It gives me a place to share some of my bathroom. And let’s talk about Pinecones. fears in a way that hopefully is cathartic The Athens/Atlanta four-piece snuck for audience members who have some of up on the scene in February with Plays those same anxieties, at least in some Cosmic Hits, a riff-heavy recording pulled areas of their lives.â€? [Kevin Craig] from a WUOG “Live in the Lobbyâ€? set and released on local imprint Southern Vision MUSIC | Friday, June 6 via cassette, and is currently in the studio working on a proper debut. The group’s raspy, repetitious rock and roll culls from Lungfish, Wire and The Ex but feels exhilaratingly fresh—maybe because those Flicker Theatre & Bar ¡ 9 p.m. sorts of no-nonsense, guitar-centric bands New Paltz, NY band What Moon Things haven’t been culled from in a while. [GV] is no stranger to Athens, having mixed and

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Tuesday 3 CLASSES: Windows 8.1 Update Class (ACC Library) Learn about the latest Microsoft Windows Operating System. This class will be taught as a presentation, but attendees are invited to bring their own laptops or devices to follow along.

Registration required. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 354 CLASSES: Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement (Thrive) Gentle lessons for the brain and body. Learn to move smarter and easier. 6:30 p.m. $10–14. 706850-2000, www.thrivespace.net EVENTS: Tuesday Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Fresh produce, cooked foods and children’s activities. Offers double dollars for EBT shoppers. Held every Tuesday. 4–7 p.m. 706-613-0122, www.athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (First Christian Church, Watkinsville) Locally grown produce, meats, grains, flowers, soaps, birdhouses, gourds and more. 4–7 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.org GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 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 (Four Brothers Sports Tavern) How much do you really know? 7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3020 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Win house cash prizes with host Todd Kelly. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.choochoorestaurants. com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia with host Caitlin Wilson. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways. Presented by Dirty South Trivia. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0305 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 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.

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Wednesday 4 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection.

2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org CLASSES: Knit 1 Class (Revival Yarns) Get acquainted with the tools and craft of knitting. Learn cast-on stitches and the knit stitch. The class is free with the purchase of materials. RSVP. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-8501354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com CLASSES: Customer Service Training (Holiday Inn) Specialist Rita Suiter will host a hospitality training session. RSVP. 9–11:30 a.m. or 1–3:30 p.m. $20. 706-3574430 EVENTS: Network Athens (Creature Comforts Brewery) Tour and sample beers at the new brewery with other members of Network Athens. 8 p.m. $10. www.networkathens.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Athens City Hall) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Guided Trail Hike (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Take a guided walk on the trails to discover the beauty and variety of the center’s ecosystems. Followed by coffee and a tour of the exhibit hall. 9 a.m.

FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/ sandycreeknaturecenter FILM: Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (Morton Theatre) This event will include a panel discussion to explore issues of safety, race, freedom and social justice. Neshoba is an award-winning documentary about the events and attitudes in Neshoba County, MS, 40 years after the 1964 Mississippi civil rights workers murders. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. 7–10 p.m. FREE! www. neshobafilm.com, www.mortontheatre.com GAMES: Sex, Drugs & Rock and Roll Trivia (Jerzee’s Sports Bar) Hosted by Dirty South Trivia. House cash prizes. 10 p.m. FREE! www. jerzeessportsbar.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 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 (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 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: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. Both locations. 706-548-3442

GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-6130892 KIDSTUFF: Happy Hands Band (Oconee County Library) Happy, Dee Nanny and Ronnie invite kids to dance with wild abandon and sing at the top of their lungs. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Fondue Fun (Oconee County Library) Sample different sweet and salty recipes at a fondue party. Registration required by June 3. For ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Music Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Sing, dance and read stories about music. For ages birth–5 years. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597, www.athenslibrary. com/madison KIDSTUFF: Happy Hands Band (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Dee Nanny and Ronnie invite you to dance with wild abandon and sing at the top of your lungs . 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison KIDSTUFF: Mad Scientists Book Club (Oconee County Library) Explore super cool books through hansd-on experiments and activities.

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by June 2. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Monthly open poetry reading. This month’s featured reader is Christian Trevor Lisa, and the evening will be in celebration of the life of Aralee Strange.

8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athenswordofmouth LECTURES & LIT: Spirituality Discussion (The Coffee Shop of Athens) An open discussion on “What is Spiritual Freedom and How do You Get It?” 7 p.m. FREE! www. eckankar-ga.org LECTURES & LIT: SoundBoard Online Marketing Conference (Georgia Center for Continuing Education) Learn how to integrate your online marketing to build your business or personal brand. 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.networkathens.com PERFORMANCE: Repent At Leisure (Madison County Library, Danielsville) This fun-loving Irish four-piece specializes in traditional instrumental tunes and rowdy pub songs. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597, www.athenslibrary.com/madison

Thursday 5 COMEDY: Chelsea Peretti (40 Watt Club) Stand-up comedienne, actress and writer tours at comedy clubs, theaters and festivals across the country. Peretti has written for “Parks and Recreation,” “Saturday

Andrew Krieger’s “The Artist’s Loft” is featured in “Between Rock and an Art Place,” an Art Rocks Athens exhibition currently on view at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art through Saturday, July 19.

Night Live,” “Portlandia” and “The Sarah Silverman Program.” Yassir Lester opens. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. 8 p.m. $19–21. www.40watt. com COMEDY: Comedy Show (Hi-Lo Lounge) Hosted by Bain Griffith, with jokes from Jonathan McCoy, Tommy Cook, Ben Palmer, Rondell Smith and Thomas Hurley. 10 p.m.

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

8:30–10 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden. uga.edu FILM: The Making of a Social Justice Filmmaker (Ciné Barcafé) This workshop follows a 40-year journey with award-winning director Micki Dickoff through her films about AIDS, the death penalty, race and the justice system. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.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: The Fault in Our Stars Release Party (ACC Library) Make your own The Fault in Our Stars T-shirt to celebrate the release of the movie. There will also be trivia, crafts and snacks. 3–4 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Big Thinkers Science Exploration (ACC Library) Get ready for interactive and engaging science experiments that combine education and entertainment. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Experiment Station (Oconee County Library) Drop in for a fun, self-directed activity. Every

Thursday through July 24. 2:30– 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950, www.athenslibrary.org/oconee MEETINGS: Community Needs Assessment (ACC Library) The Community Assessment looks at social services, affordable housing and shelter, small and microbusiness assistance, public infrastructure and more. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3155 MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (Memorial Park) The last meeting of the 2013-2014 season will include a potluck picnic.

Bring a covered dish item to share and enjoy an evening socializing in the outdoors. 6 p.m. FREE! www. oconeeriversaudubon.org

Friday 6 CLASSES: Farmer Outreach Workshop (Elbert County Library) The Athens Land Trust is hosting a workshop to introduce USDA-NRCS programs with a focus on water conservation, irrigation and well water managment. Guest speakers include Cathy Payne from Broad River Pastures Farm and Katrina White, an Elbert County Natural Resources Conservation Service agent. 3–5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0122, www. athenslandtrust.org CLASSES: Book Clinic (Oconee County Library) Ken Jewell, a representative of the National Library Bindery Company, will be on-hand to give estimates and advice on repairing and re-binding your cookbooks, family Bibles and other treasured books. Registration for 15 minute time slots is required. 2-4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950, www. athenslibrary/oconee KIDSTUFF: ACT & SAT Practice Tests (ACC Library) Take a free ACT or SAT practice test and get

a detailed analysis of your performance. Bring sharpened #2 pencils and a calculator. Pre-registration required. 9:45 a.m.–1:45 p.m. FREE! 1-800-527-8378, www.athenslibrary.org MEETINGS: First Friday Open Knit/Crochet (Revival Yarns) These meetings are meant to build a community among local knitters and crocheters. Bring your current project, get comfy and mingle with fiber friends old and new. 11 a.m.–7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1354, www. revivalyarnsathens.com PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists.

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THE CALENDAR! teas and skincare products made with herbs from their garden. See Art Notes on p. 14. June 7–8, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www.pickettpottery.com ART: Carter Gillies Pottery Summer Sales (Carter Gillies Pottery Studio) See the home studio of local potter Carter Gillies and select from a large collection of mugs, bowls, plates and more. On June 14–15, Gillies will be joined by potters Geoff Pickett, Juana Gnecco and Jeff Bishoff. See Art Notes on p. 14. June 7–8 & June 14–15, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 706-546-7235, cartergillies@hotmail.com ART: Wolf Creek Pottery Sale (Wolf Creek Ceramics) See new works by potters Jorie Berman, Juana Gnecco, Jen Graff, Nancy Green and textile artist Sara Lee Parker. See Art Notes on p. 14. June 6–7, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 706-410-5200 CLASSES: Carnivorous Plants (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn to identify, grow and conserve carnivorous plants. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $50. www.botgarden.uga.edu CLASSES: Bring Your Own Project Class (Revival Yarns) BYOP is for beginner through advanced knitters looking for help starting a new project. A teacher will help get you started or work through a more challenging section. RSVP. 3–5 p.m. $30. 706-850-1354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts.

Live music by Dixieland 5 and Folk Society Band. This week features a Seedling Club educational activity.

8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse, Watkinsville) Locally grown produce, meats, grains, flowers, soaps, birdhouses, gourds and much more.

8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.org EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Featuring fresh produce, meats, honey, eggs, crafts, soaps, baked goods, cooking demos, children’s activities and more.

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There will be food vendors on site.

12–4 p.m. $3–5. 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Meet Local Children’s Author (Avid Bookshop) In celebration of her new books in the Super Duper Royal Deluxe series, Susan Nees will be at Avid Bookshop for a meet and greet. 10:30–11:15 a.m.

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June 12–14, 8 p.m. June 8 & 15, 2 p.m. $8–15. 706-548-3854, www. townandgownplayers.org

Sunday 8 ART: JB & Friends Art Show and Sale (1790 Salem Rd., Farmington) See Saturday listing for full description 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 678-863-1847 ART: Open House Pottery Sale (Farmington Pottery, Farmington) See Saturday listing for full description June 7–8, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www. pickettpottery.com ART: Wolf Creek Pottery Sale (Wolf Creek Ceramics) See Saturday listing for full description June 6–7, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 706-410-5200 ART: Carter Gillies Pottery Summer Sales (Carter Gillies Pottery Studio) See Saturday listing

are invited for stories, trivia, crafts and more. This event promotes literacy through the art of listening and helps to strengthen attention spans. For children ages 6–10. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org MEETINGS: Scleroderma Patient Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) The goal of the group is to provide information and support to patients, their families, friends and caregivers in a warm, positive environment. 7 p.m. FREE! dejuanaford@gmail.com www.scleroderma.org PERFORMANCE: Athens Flute Choir Summer Concert (Covenant Presbyterian Church) Bring a picnic and enjoy the summer concert “Let’s Go to the Movies,� showcasing music from the history of film and television. 6–7 p.m.

FREE! www.athensflutechoir.com THEATRE: Steel Magnolias (Town and Gown Players) See Friday list-

EVENTS: Produce Stand (Athens Community Council on Aging) This mobile produce stand sells fresh, sustainable and locally-grown fruits and vegetables sourced from the community gardens at ACCA and UGArden. EBT cards accepted. 12–3 p.m. www.accaging.org GAMES: Poker (Four Brothers Sports Tavern) Play to win. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3020 GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes!

Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge! Hosted

by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m.

“Singing in the Rain� by Rosemary Griggs is on view in the group show “Modern Mud� at the Steffen Thomas Museum of Art in Buckhead through Saturday, June 28. for full description June 7–8 & June 14–15, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 706-5467235, cartergillies@hotmail.com CLASSES: Crochet 1 Class (Revival Yarns) Get acquainted with the tools and craft of crochet. The class is free with the purchase of materials.

RSVP. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-8501354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com 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 KIDSTUFF: “ATHICA Mystery Triennial� Kids Art Hunt (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Join the gallery for an interactive art hunt. For ages 5 & up.

2:30–4:30 p.m. www.athica.org KIDSTUFF: Book Jammers (ACC Library) Children and their families

ing for full description June 6–7 & June 12–14, 8 p.m. June 8 & 15, 2 p.m. $8–15. 706-548-3854, www. townandgownplayers.org

Monday 9 EVENTS: Open Middle Eastern Music Circle (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Explore Middle Eastern drum rhythms. All drums and instruments welcome. Every Monday. 7 p.m.

FREE! rajniqamar@gmail.com EVENTS: Community Dog Walks (Memorial Park) This program provide the opportunity to engage with fellow dog lovers while exploring the park’s trails. Dogs must be leashed and well-behaved. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3580

FREE! www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub KIDSTUFF: Movie Monday: Tron Legacy (Oconee County Library) The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world his father designed. Ages 11–18. 3–5 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950, www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Designed to nurture language skills through literature-based materials and activities. Parents assist their children in movements and actions while playing. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

Tuesday 10 CLASSES: iPad Basics (ACC Library) Learn all the basics. Call to register. 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org CLASSES: Attracting Hummingbirds & Butterflies to the Garden (ACC Extension Office) Learn how to transform your yard into the ideal environment for these beautiful pollinators. Open to gardeners of all experience and skill levels. Register by June 9. 6–7 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3640, atedrow@ uga.edu EVENTS: 2nd Tuesday Tasting (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Taste five beers from Mother Earth Brewery paired with snacks by chef Sal Speights. Learn the story of the LEED-certified North Carolina brewery. Reservations required. 6 p.m. $15. 706-354-7901 EVENTS: Tuesday Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) See Tuesday listing for full description 4–7 p.m. 706-613-0122, www.athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (First Christian Church, Watkinsville) Locally grown produce, meats, grains, flowers, soaps, birdhouses, gourds and much more.

4–7 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.org GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 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 GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways. Presented by Dirty South Trivia. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Four Brothers Sports Tavern) How much do you really know? 7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3020 GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 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 (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Win house cash prizes with host Todd Kelly. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.choochoorestaurants. com KIDSTUFF: Little STEM Scientists (Madison County Library, Danielsville) “Fizzy� painting is painting with chemical reactions. For all ages, but kids under six will need an adult for help. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) See Tuesday listing

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CLASSES: Knit 2 Class (Revival Yarns) Review casting on, the knit stitch, the purl stitch, stockinette and garter stitch patterns. RSVP. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. $30. 706-850-1354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Athens City Hall) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Melting Point) Art Rocks Athens curates a special night of stories for adults.

7–10 p.m. www.meltingpointathens. com, www.artrocksathens.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

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

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 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: Entertainment Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-6130892 GAMES: Sex, Drugs & Rock and Roll Trivia (Jerzee’s Sports Bar) Hosted by Dirty South Trivia. House cash prizes. 10 p.m. FREE! www. jerzeessportsbar.com 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: Father’s Day Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Songs, fingerplays, crafts and stories to celebrate dad. For ages 5 & under. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) Watch some anime and manga, listen to J-Pop music, eat Japanese snacks and share fan art. Ages 11–18. 4–6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Big Thinkers Science Exploration (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Join Big Thinkers for interactive and engaging assembly-style science experiments that combine education and entertainment. 2 p.m. FREE! www. big-thinkers.com

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Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com LITTLE BROTHERS Solo folk sounds from Ryan Gray Moore (Brothers).

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THE CALENDAR! Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershots.com 90 ACRE FARM Local Americana band.

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5 www.meltingpointathens.com YOUNG AMERICA Local alt-country band.

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

Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL Host Fester Hagood presents this week’s showcase of singer-songwriter talent, featuring Beauty & the Beard, Scott Rainwater, Doyle Willams and Lamar Williams Jr. and Neil Donnell Ray.

Wednesday 4 Blue Sky 5 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 VINYL WEDNESDAYS Bring your records and spin them at the bar!

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bass, Seth Hendershot on drums and Jason Fuller on keys. Playing original compositions and the music of The Funky Meters, Dr. John, War, Sly and the Family Stone, Billy Preston, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic and more.

Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out every Wednesday!

La Fiesta 5 p.m. FREE! 706-549-5933 LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot and company play a “mind-boggling wall of organic sound with upbeat, traveldriven lyrics.”

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN Hot jazz/ Western swing group from Austin, TX. HOG-EYED MAN Local instrumental duo that plays traditional Appalachian music.

company play a “mind-boggling wall of organic sound with upbeat, travel-driven lyrics.” The band is celebrating 60-plus weeks of Thursday shows.

JULIE HOLMES Local singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist who specializes in acoustic jams.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com OF THE VINE Instrumental post-rock outfit from Atlanta.

PALLOW Local shoegaze group.

BASK With roots in Americana, stoner metal and post-rock, Asheville, NC-based band Bask is turning out their own brand of doom.

LAND CREATURES Sludgecore jams for you.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 6 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com KINKY WAIKIKI Relaxing, steel guitar-driven band following the traditions of Hawaiian music.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featur-

set with the help of some collaborators.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TYLER NAIL Acoustic singer-songwriter from Rural Hall, NC. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 OPEN MIC Join host Wes Irwin for this weekly open mic showcase.

Troubadour Bar & Grill 8 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8188 KARAOKE Sing your heart out, every Thursday!

meets Dylan tenor that fills his songs with a tremendous emotional pressure.”

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 FREE HAND Charlie Key and John Fernandes team up for an improvheavy set of jazz-inspired psych.

ELYSIA EMPIRE Birdie Ann Renee plays experimental, strangely melodic pop songs.

DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

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Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com DEATH ON TWO WHEELS Gritty, hazy rock and roll from Atlanta, paying homage to classic ‘70s rock.

BROTHER HAWK Bluesy, riff-based rock and roll band from Atlanta.

MADRE PADRE Heavy rock band from Macon.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com WHAT MOON THINGS Indie rock band from New Paltz, NY influenced by groups like Modest Mouse. See Calendar Pick on p. 16.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com LANEY JONES Florida-based singersongwriter steeped in blues and bluegrass traditions.

Willy’s Mexicana Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-548-1920 CRAIG GLEASON Georgia-based songwriter plays beachy, folky acoustic tunes every Thursday.

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.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MANMADE MOUNTAINS Local modern-folk crew drawing inspiration from groups like The Avett Brothers.

DANIEL AMADEE Gruff-voiced singer-songwriter from New Orleans.

MOHICAN DAWN New local band fronted by Shayna Hobbs, a songwriter who has drawn comparisons to Feist and Joni Mitchell.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com NEW WIVES Charming Athens indie rockers inspired by groups like Modest Mouse and Cursive.

BLOODY DIAMONDS Gothinfluenced alternative rock band from Nova Scotia.

SUPER HOOLIGAN Local band takes the best elements of indie, grunge and punk and combines them to pump out energetic garage-rock anthems.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 OTHER COLORS Baltimore-based group playing self-described “future folk-rock” and “exploratory pop.”

WING DAM Fuzzed-out psych-pop group from Baltimore.

LAVENDER HOLYFIELD Fun-loving odd-pop curiosities from local space cadets Charlie Key, Greg O’Connell, Jake Merrick and John Fernandes.

Green Room 10 p.m. FREE! www.greenroomathens. com DJ HANN’JOB & DJ KUNG FUSCO Members of Tha Hugs and Shehehe spin soul, punk, garage and disco classics on vinyl.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OLD SKOOL TRIO Funk, blues, and jazz featuring Carl Lindberg on

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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.

JERRY’S BONES Bluesy rock and roll group from Claremont, NC.

Saturday 7 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net THE DIXIELAND 5 Local trad-jazz/ Dixieland band that features a front line of trumpet, clarinet and trombone and a rhythm section of piano and tenor banjo. (8 a.m.)

FOLK SOCIETY BAND Local group playing folk tunes. (10 a.m.)

Blind Pig Tavern Anniversary Party! 4 p.m. FREE! www. blindpigtavern.com (Baldwin Street location) BETSY FRANCK Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

CHRIS MOORE Bluesy local singersongwriter.

THE STARLITE DEVILLES Local, passionate country-rock outfit.

CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS This rock band, led by longtime Athenian LeFever, is back with a new lineup and a new, more rocking sound.

HARP UNSTRUNG This local act gives melodic, alternative rock a bluesy, Southern twist.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com AENEMIC Local Tool cover band formed by former Suex Effect and current Capital Will drummer Jon Daniels. Final show!

10 FINGERS STRONG Hardcore metal that also delves into rapcore in the style of Rage Against the Machine.

WICKED KING The band says it is “a speeding train of rock that will not slow down! Hop on board or get out of the way!”

Elephant Wrecking Ball plays the Georgia Bar on Friday, June 6.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TONY HOLIDAY Blend of traditional blues, roots and Southern rock with a twist.

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.

The Volstead 6 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 TRE POWELL Bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals. He’ll be joined

by Rhythm & Booze.

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ing a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Green Room 9 p.m. $3. www.greenroomathens.com WESLEY COOK Upbeat Athens-based songwriter with a knack for both melody and rhythm.

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.

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 BOOTY BOYZ DJs Immuzikation, Twin Powers and Z-Dog spin dance hits into the night.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com CARL LINDBERG AND FRIENDS Local Latin jazz bassist performs a

DOSED New local band featuring members of Gripe and Shade.

UNCLE DAD Local four-piece indie band with a reverb-heavy rock and roll sound.

CAITLIN MARIE BELL Folky singersongwriter from New York City with a haunting, expressive voice.

LAUREN LIEU Georgia-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter.

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-9884 ELEPHANT WRECKING BALL Jazzy, jammy groove machine from Brooklyn, NY featuring members of Dopapod and the Pretty Lights live band.

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE JAZZ Jeremy Raj is bringing together the best that Athens jazz has to offer.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $11. www.georgiatheatre.com ABBEY ROAD LIVE! Beloved local Beatles tribute band known for its attention to detail and musical proficiency. For tonight’s show, the band is putting together the ultimate bigband psychedelic showcase: the best of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour.

On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com CHRISTOPHER DENNY Singersongwriter with “a fervent Orbison

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $17 (adv.), $20 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com DOUG STONE Marietta-based singersongwriter known for his baritone voice and country ballads.

MIKE DEKLE Local insurance agent and country singer-songwriter whose music has been covered by artists like Kenny Rogers and Ricky Scaggs.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 VOODOO VISIONARY Improv funk/ rock group from Atlanta.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com FUTO Sex-obsessed electro-pop project fronted by songwriter Patrick Brick.

EL HOLLIN This Athens band plays haunting pop music with minimal instrumentation and ethereal female vocals.

BABES MOTEL Four-piece pop group from Atlanta.

JO RB JONES Local experimental acoustic pop songwriter performs with her new live band.

Georgia Theatre 8:30 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com RADIOLUCENT Popular local band falling somewhere between bluesy Southern rock and the poppier side of alt-country.

MAMA’S LOVE Local progressive rock band with a classic sound that hinges on improv.

The Globe 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 PAPA LEGBA New project that plays neo-New Orleans blues, voodoo folk and zydeco, capturing the spirit of the bayou with inspired originals as well old favorites flavored with a Louisiana twist.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ HOT WAX Max Wang (The Rodney Kings) spins ‘60s pop/soul and punk rock.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com NATE CURRIN Folk singer-songwriter from Atlanta.

MOLLY PARDEN Singer-songwriter from Nashville, TN. HANNAH MILLER Nashville-based folk-pop singer-songwriter influenced by artists like Neko Case and Norah Jones.

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE JAZZ Jeremy Raj is bringing together the best that Athens jazz has

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JIM AVETT Singer-songwriter (and Avett family patriarch) sure to give a â&#x20AC;&#x153;warm and relaxed, genuine and endearingâ&#x20AC;? performance.

GRASSLAND STRING BAND New local traditional and progressive bluegrass group.

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Blue Sky 5 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 VINYL WEDNESDAYS Bring your own records and spin them at the bar!

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 TITANS OF FILTH Quirky local indiepop band anchored by the droll vocal delivery of songwriter Sam Grindstaff.

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Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SONS OF SAILORS Jimmy Buffet cover band, featuring members of the Tony Pritchett Band.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 MARCUS KING BAND Bluesy, Greenville, SC-based funk-rock group.

Sunday 8 Hi-Lo Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 TIA MADRE Band fronted by Walker Howle of Dead Confederate fame, featuring Matt Stoessel, Ivey Hughes, Paul McHugh and Bryan Howard.

FUTURE APE TAPES Local group creating psychedelic, experimental music driven by loops, beats, guitars and synths.

EUNUCH AND THE GORILLA â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gossamery noise duoâ&#x20AC;? from Gainesville, FL. THE NITE NITES Gainesville, FL-based drums-and-guitar duo.

ANTLERED AUNTLORD Fuzzpop guitar/drums project of local producer and songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your musical talent at this open mic night every Monday.

Hi-Lo Lounge 9 p.m. $5. 706-850-8561 THE UKIAH DRAG Boston-based punk rock band. See Calendar Pick on p. 16.

SHADE Dissonant, groove-oriented local post-punk band.

PINECONES Atlanta/Athens-based rock band that touches on flailing, melodic grunge and urgent postpunk.

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The Melting Point 8 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com THE HOOT Monthly showcase put on by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hoot is an AthFest Sampler Edition and features Hope for Agoldensummer, Athens Tango Project and Lowdive. Susan Staley opens and hosts.

Georgia Theatre Team Kirk Benefit. 6 p.m. $10. www. georgiatheatre.com ROB NANCE AND THE LOST SOULS North Carolina-based folk-

Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 MUSCLE SHOALS MONDAY Local artists pay tribute to the Alabama hotspot.

NEW WIVES Charming Athens indie rockers inspired by groups like Modest Mouse and Cursive.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 WEI ZHONGLE Highly experimental, woodwind-heavy band from Chicago.

GURGLE TWINS Macon-based experimental group featuring members of Cult of Riggonia.

HORSE LORDS Technically proficient and stylistically experimental postpunk band from Baltimore.

WET GARDEN Erotic guitar and keyboard jams from local electronic psych duo.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com OTTMAR LIEBART & LUNA NEGRA Renowned German songwriter and producer known for his Spanish-style playing.

Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL Host Fester Hagood presents this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s showcase of singersongwriter talent, featuring Julie Holmes, Alex Guthrie and Ellen Meadows.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia Sunflower Concert Series. 7 p.m. $15. www.botgarden.uga.edu SAINT FRANCIS Local rootsrock band led by Scott Baston (Moonshine Still).

RACHEL Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;NEAL Local acoustic singer-songwriter that deftly navigates her varied influences, including indie rock, jazz and Americana.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com GRASSLAND STRING BAND New local traditional and progressive bluegrass group.

THE SHOAL CREEK STRANGLERS Local roots-folk duo featuring members of The Humms.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DOSED New local band featuring members of Gripe and Shade.

WORMS Punk rock group from New England.

THE QUICK WIZARD Local rock duo inspired by The Melvins.

DJ HOT WAX Max Wang (The Rodney Kings) spins â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s pop/soul and punk rock.

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AUDITIONS Proof (Athens Community Theater) On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister and the attentions of her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former student. Auditions consist of cold readings from the script. Bring your conflict calendar. Auditions on June 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10, 7 p.m. Performances run Aug. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;17. kozinsky@gmail.com

CLASSES Aqua Zumba (Bishop Park) Get in shape while dancing in the pool. For adults. Saturdays, May 31â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 2, 10:30 a.m. $5/class. 706-613-3589 Aquatic Aerobics (Memorial Park) Low impact exercise.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. Saturdays, 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 a.m. $5. 706-613-3580 Basic Middle Eastern Dance and Beyond (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Learn the basics of belly dance in a fun, relaxed and supportive atmosphere. Mondays, 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9:15 p.m. $12 drop-in, $40 for the month. Contact rajnigamar@gmail.com Beginnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sewing Course (Community) This six-week course covers how to thread and use a machine and how to make a simple shirt using a pattern. Registration required. Wednesdays, June 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 9, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. $120. 706-3162067, www.shopcommunityathens. com Beyond Memoir Writing Class (OCAF, Watkinsville) Focus on the facts of your life to create

stories, poems and essays which move beyond merely recording family stories. For all writing levels.

June 21 & 28, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 p.m. $125. www.ocaf.com Bikram Hot Yoga (Bikram Yoga Athens) Classes in hot yoga are offered seven days a week.

Beginners welcome. 706-353-9642, www.bikramathens.com Capoeira Classes (UGA Dance Theatre, Room 274) An AfroBrazilian art form combining martial arts, music and dance. Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. FREE! capoeira@uga.edu Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Try Clayâ&#x20AC;? classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wheel every Friday from 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Family Try Clayâ&#x20AC;? classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Classes (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Classes include instruction for using the Internet, email, e-readers and more.

Call to register. Tuesdays, 2:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3:30 p.m. or 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 Conference for Women (Holiday Inn Express) Join other professional women for 10 practical, idea-packed sessions. Aug. 6, 8 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $149. www.skillpath. com Cooking with Kids Series (Mama Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Granola) Mina Kim gives tips on cooking with kids.

Ages 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12: July 8 & 10, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m.

Ages 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8: July 15 & 17, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m.

Ages 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5: July 22 & 24, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12. www.mamabirdsshared kitchen.com Intermediate Sewing Class (Community) This six-week class teaches students how to make cus-

tom pattern adjustments to accomodate individual body measurements.

Analyze fabric types and learn to make design decisions based on the fabrics you incorporate. Basic sewing machine skills required. Bring your own machine. Tuesdays, June 17â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. $120.

706-316-2067, www.shop communityathens.com Mac Workshops (PeachMac) Frequent introductionary courses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intro to Mac.â&#x20AC;? May 28, June 7, 14, 18, 28. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intro to iPad.â&#x20AC;? May 31, June 11, 16, 21, 25, 30. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intro to iPhoto.â&#x20AC;?

June 9, 23. See website for schedule. FREE! 706-208-9990, www. peachmac.com/workshops Printmaking Workshops (Double Dutch Press) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stampmaking.â&#x20AC;? June 4, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. or July 12, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $35. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Totes! One Color Screenprinting.â&#x20AC;?

June 7 or Aug. 23, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. $50. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Custom Stationery: One Color Screenprinting.â&#x20AC;? June 28, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. $45. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Linocut, One Color.â&#x20AC;? July 2 & July 9, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $65. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Multicolor Reductive Woodcut.â&#x20AC;? July 23, 30 & Aug. 6, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $85. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tea Towels!

One Color Screenprinting.â&#x20AC;? July 26, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. $50. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stampmaking: Two Color Stamps.â&#x20AC;? Aug. 9, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. $40. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Multicolor Screenprint.â&#x20AC;? Aug. 13, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. & Aug. 20, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paper Relief Monotype.â&#x20AC;? Aug. 28, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $35. www.doubledutch press.com Quilting (Sewcial Studio) Quilting classes for beginner to advanced students cover both traditional and modern projects. 706-247-6143, www.sewcialstudio.com Traditional Karate Training (Athens Yoshukai Karate) Learn traditional Okinawan hard style karate in a positive atmosphere. See website for schedule of free classes. www.athensy.com

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by Cindy Jerrell

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Handsome and quiet the perfect lap kitty.

Lilly is very attentive and wants to be part of what you are doing. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an adorable Tabby mix with huge green eyes. Wants to be an only cat.

This sweet Tortoiseshell was so affectionate, I could barely keep space between us to photograph her. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soft and cuddly and ready to have fun. Fine with other animals and kids.

5/22 to 5/28

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ACC ANIMAL CONTROL 12 Dogs Received, 12 Adopted, 1 Reclaimed, 3 to Rescue Groups 29 Cats Received, 0 Adopted, 0 Reclaimed, 3 to Rescue Groups

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Stained glass by Wendy Ortel is included in the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Exhibit,â&#x20AC;? currently on display through Friday, July 11.

Wheel Throwing for Beginners (OCAF, Watkinsville) This six-week class in wheel throwing covers cups, bowls, saucers and other utilitarian forms. Thursdays, July 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 14, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. $140150. www.ocaf.com Yoga & Meditation (Rubber Soul Yoga) Ongoing classes in Kundalini, Hatha and restorative yoga as well as guided meditation. Check website for schedule. Donation based. calclements@gmail.com, www.rubber soulyoga.com

HELP OUT Donate Blood Give the gift of blood! Check website for donor locations. 1-800-RED CROSS, www.redcrossblood.org HandsOn Northeast Georgia (Athens, GA) HandsOn NEGA is a project of Community Connection of Northeast Georgia that assists volunteers in finding flexible service opportunities at various organizations. 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 Smart Lunch, Smart Kid (Milledge Avenue Baptist Church) Volunteers are needed to help provide and deliver sack lunches and educational enrichment activities to children ages 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 who are eligible for free or reduced priced lunch. Summer meals begin May 27 and end Aug. 8. 478-494-7717, dhooks@actionministiries.net, www.actionministries.net

KIDSTUFF â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spark a Reactionâ&#x20AC;? Photo Contest (Oconee County Library) Submit a photo on Instagram that best represents the phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spark

a Reaction.â&#x20AC;? Tag @oclteens and hashtag #oclsparkareaction. Contest runs through July 31. All photos will be uploaded to Facebook for public voting. www.athenslibrary. org/oconee ACC Summer Camps (Various Locations) Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services offers camps in theater performance, gymnastics, tennis, British soccer, cheerleading, skating, art and more. Visit website for dates and details. 706-613-3589, www.athensclarkecounty.com/camps Free Lunch (Multiple Locations) Free lunch is available for children during summer at H.B. Stroud Elementary School, Whitehead Road Elementary School and Barnett Shoals Elementary School. Through July 25, 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. FREE! (kids), $3 (adults). jimenezan@ clarke.k12.ga.us Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For preschool children and their parents.

Alternating Wednesdays, June 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 27, 3:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:30 p.m. $24â&#x20AC;&#x201C;36.

706-613-3615, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter New Moon Summer Adventure Camp (Athens, GA) Now accepting registration for a summer camp that travels to different locations daily. Activities include hiking, swimming and boating as well as trips to museums, zoos and farms. Fee includes all activities and travel expenses. For ages 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.

Weeks of June 16 & 23 and July 14 & 21. $175/wk. 706-310-0013 Print Camp (Double Dutch Press) This introduction to different types of printmaking (monotype, linoleum block prints, paper relief and screenprinting) culminates in a handbound book of prints. For ages 11 & up.

June 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 or July 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m. $225. www.doubledutchpress. com

Relate and Create Workshops for Teens (OCAF, Watkinsville) Week-long camps for ages 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18. Drawing workshop: July 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11. Sculpture workshop: July 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18. Painting workshop: July 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;25. $150â&#x20AC;&#x201C;160/ camp. www.ocaf.com Summer Art Camp (MAGallery) The Madison Artists Guild hosts a summer art camp for children ages 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12. June 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m.

770-367-1203 Summer Camps (Treehouse Kid and Craft) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Craft Inc. Business Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Seuss 3D Building Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drawing, Printing and Zine Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eric Carle Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fairy Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outer Space Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Project Runway Fashion Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stop Motion Animation Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sewing I Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Super Hero Campâ&#x20AC;? and more. Check website for full descriptions and dates. www. treehousekidandcraft.com Summer Explorers (Sandy Creek Nature Center) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Monsters of the Natural Worldâ&#x20AC;? teaches about scary looking creatures that serve important roles in nature. June 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moving with Natureâ&#x20AC;? explores how animals move, seeds get dispersed and why the sun and stars move in the sky. June 25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Animalpaloozaâ&#x20AC;? celebrates animals of all shapes and sizes. July 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Water Worldâ&#x20AC;? includes hiking by a creek and experimenting with water.

July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;25. For ages 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6. Parents may register for as many sessions as space allows. All sessions held 9:30 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12:30 p.m. $20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;30/session.

706-613-3615 Summer Theater Camps (Athens Little Playhouse) Camps focusing on improvisation, games and problem solving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother Goose Campâ&#x20AC;? runs June 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Comedy Campâ&#x20AC;? runs June 16â&#x20AC;&#x201C;20. Visit website for registration form. www.athenslittle playhouse.net

Swim School (Bishop Park & Lay Park) Swim school is for ages 3 & up. Multiple sessions available. $33â&#x20AC;&#x201C;50. Check website for dates. accaquatics@athensclarkecounty. com, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ aquatics Youth Police Academy (ACCPD Headquarters) Students ages 13-17 will learn about the important functions of law enforcement and the criminal justice system as a whole.

Applications must be delivered by June 18 at 5 p.m. Academy runs June 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. www. athensclarkecounty.com/police

SUPPORT Alanon 12 Step (Little White House) For family and friends of alcoholics and drug addicts. Meets every Tuesday 7:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. www.ga-al-anon.org Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.org Baby Blues Support Group (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) This group is for moms who are experiencing baby blues, postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety.

Held the second Thursday of each month. leighellen@growththerapy. net, www.reblossomathens.com Domestic Violence Support Group (Athens, GA) Support and dinner for survivors of domestic violence. Tuesdays, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m., in Clarke County. First and third Mondays, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m., in Madison County.

Child care provided. 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771 Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Meets Sundays, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org GRASP (Call for Location) Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing is a support group for those who have lost a friend or loved one to drugs or alcohol. 706-248-7715, www.grasphelp.org Life After Diagnosis (Oasis Counseling Center) An ongoing support group aimed at helping those with chronic or life-threatening diseases. Tuesdays, 4:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. $15/session. 706-543-3522, www. oasiscounselingcenter.com National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (Central Presbyterian Church) Family and consumer support groups are held

ART AROUND TOWN A. LAFERA SALON (2440 W. Broad St.) Contemporary landscapes by Keith Karnok. Through June.

AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Illustrative Study of Feeling Bad and Feeling Betterâ&#x20AC;? by Brianna Rawley. Through June.

ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings

by Mary Porter, Greg Benson, Dortha Jacobson and others. Art quilts by Elizabeth Barton and handmade jewelry by various artists.

ART ON THE SIDE GALLERY AND GIFTS (17 N. Main St., Watkinsville) A gallery featuring works by various artists in media including ceramics, paintings and fused glass.

ARTINIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ART LOUNGE (296 W. Broad St.) Curated by AthensHasArt!, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Eclectic Works of Aaron Fuâ&#x20AC;? includes embroidery, ink drawings and biological illustrations. Through June 20.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) The 2nd annual ATHICA Mystery Triennial contains 100 5â&#x20AC;?x7â&#x20AC;? works hung anonymously. The identity of each artist is revealed only when the piece is purchased. Through June 15.

BIG CITY BREAD (393 N. Finley St.) Photography by James Calemine.

Through June.

THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Terrain: Painting the Southâ&#x20AC;? features landscape paintings by June Ball, Andy Cherewick, Robert Clements and Philip Juras. Through Sept. 15. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Homeâ&#x20AC;? features works by Melissa Harshman, Mary Porter and Jeffrey Whittle. Through Sept. 15.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Mixed media works by Greg Harmon.

ELLISON, WALTON & BYRNE (2142 W. Broad St.) Artwork by Bill Pierson.

Through July 11.

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 14 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics and fine furniture. Permanent collection artists include Larry Hamilton, Cheri Wranosky, Chris Hubbard and more. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paintings, Sculpture & Objects of Artâ&#x20AC;? includes works by Michael Pierce. Through June.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Conspiracyâ&#x20AC;? includes collages by Kenneth Aguar and paintings by Manda McKay. Through June. Reception June 13.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living Roomâ&#x20AC;? includes works that consider the home environment by Benjamin Britton, Patrick Brien, Andy Cherewick, Rachel Cox, Brock Gordon, Emily Hadland, Carol John and Erin McIntosh. Through June 15.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) Strata #4 by Quayola is an immersive video installation that reworks classical masterworks into contemporary abstractions. Through June 20. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Selections in the Decorative Arts.â&#x20AC;? Through June 29. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lithographs of Carroll Cloar.â&#x20AC;? Through Aug. 10. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise.â&#x20AC;? Through Aug. 31. â&#x20AC;˘ Tristan Perichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Machine Drawingâ&#x20AC;? will create itself over the course of six months. Through Sept. 21. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shapes That Talk to Me: The Athens Scene, 1975â&#x20AC;&#x201C;85.â&#x20AC;? Through Oct. 19 â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Terra Verte.â&#x20AC;? Through May 31, 2015.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Paintings by Brian McBeth. Through June 21.

HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Works by the Athens Plein Aire Artists. Through June.

HENDERSHOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Third Folksome Artâ&#x20AC;?

by Teh Reaver. Through June.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Photography by Emily Cheney.

Through June 9.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EASTSIDE (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Paintings by Pamela Rodgers Smith.

every Monday at 7 p.m. FREE! athensnami@yahoo.com 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, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m.

FREE! 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771 Reiki (Athens Regional Medical Center, 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.

Individual sessions held every Wednesday, 6 p.m. & 7 p.m. FREE! 706-475-4900 Stress Management Support Group (Oasis Counseling Center) Learn to recognize when you are under stress, rate your level of stress, identify stressors and reduce overall stress through a variety of techniques. Thursdays, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m.

706-543-3522, www.oasis counselingcenter.com Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Empowerment Group (Oasis Counseling Center) A small therapeutic group for women to work on vulnerability, setting

boundaries, assertiveness, self-care and more. Eight-week sessions. $15/session. 706-543-3522, www. oasiscounselingcenter.com

ON THE STREET ACC Pool Season (Multiple Locations) Public pools are located at Bishop Park, East Athens Community Center, Lay Park, Memorial Park and Rocksprings Park. Pools are open Tuesdaysâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fridays and Sundays from 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5:30 p.m. Bishop Park is open on weekends only. $1 admission. $20 pool pass. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ aquatics Dog Obedience Training (Southeast Clarke Park) Puppies and dogs of all ages will learn basic skills such as stay, sit, heel, come when called, walk nicely on a leash and more. Mondays through July 1, 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. or Saturdays, June 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 12, 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $100â&#x20AC;&#x201C;120. 706-6133871 Wise Woman Circle (Womanspace) Juneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grace.â&#x20AC;? Circles are held the first Friday of the month. June 6, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. $10. www.holdingwomanspace. com f

JUST PHO (1063 Baxter St.) Painted silks by Margaret Agner.

KRIMSON KAFE (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Landscapes by Michael Porfiri.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Between Rock and an Art Place: Art Rocks Athens Fine Arts Exhibition.â&#x20AC;? Through July 19.

LAST RESORT GRILL (174 Clayton St.) Paintings by Heidi Hensley.

Through June.

LEATHERS BUILDING (675 Pulaski St.) Works by Andy Cherewick.

Through summer.

LOFT GALLERY AT CHOPS & HOPS (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Hail the Coming of Another Springâ&#x20AC;? includes paintings, collages and assemblages by Charley Seagraves. Through mid-June. â&#x20AC;˘ Quilts by Dyna Cross.

Through July.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paper Covers Rock,â&#x20AC;? held in partnership with Art Rocks Athens, is an exhibition of graphic and fine arts like posters, flyers and album covers. Through July 26.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three Pathsâ&#x20AC;? exhibits works by Don Cooper that were influenced by his studies, observations and experimentations while traveling through Asia.

Through Aug. 17.

MAMA BIRDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRANOLA (909 E. Broad St.) Artwork by Cameron Bliss Ferrelle, Bob Brussack, Caoimhe Nace, James Fields, Barbara Bendzunas and Annette Paskiewicz.

MAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BOY (197 Oak St.) Mixed media by Max Beeching. Through June.

MINI GALLERY (261 W. Washington St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Follow the White Rabbitâ&#x20AC;? features bunny-inspired works by 13 artists. Through June 5.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Annual Membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Exhibitâ&#x20AC;? features works by the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members. Through June 11. â&#x20AC;˘ Audrone Kirschner explores invasive species in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outward Bound.â&#x20AC;? Through June 11.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Photography

by Theodore Lawrence. Through June.

REPUBLIC SALON (312 E. Broad St.) The paintings of Cody Murray explore the duality of man.

RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Choosing to Participateâ&#x20AC;? contains 11 posters presenting the experiences of individuals and communities. Through Aug. 30. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;ARTifacts Rock Athens: Relics from the Athens Music Scene, 1975â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1985).â&#x20AC;? Through December.

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

THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) Paintings, pastels and monotypes by Margaret Agner. Through June 26.

TECH STOP COMPUTERS (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Abstract and highlytextured paintings by Frances Jemini. Through July.

TECH STOP COMPUTERS (3690 Atlanta Hwy.) Abstract acrylic paintings and works made from reused and found materials by Frances Jemini.

Through July.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waterâ&#x20AC;? features paintings of lakes, oceans and clouds by Elizabeth Bishop Martin. Juneâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;July.

VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Rita Rogers Marks and Amanda Stevens.

WALKERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE AND PUB (128 College Ave.) Artwork by Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employees.

WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Vintage art curated by Dynamite Clothing. Through June.

THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Whimsical character illustrations by Leslie Dallion. Through June 13. â&#x20AC;˘ Large paintings by Michelle Fontaine. Through June 13.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent 1BR/1BA. All elec. Nice apt. Water provided. On bus line. Single pref.

Avail now! $450/mo. (706) 3387262.

Baldwin Village across the street from UGA. Now pre-leasing for Fall 2014.1BR, $520/mo. 2BR/2BA, $950/mo. 475 Baldwin St. 30605.

Manager Keith, (706) 354-4261.

2BR apts. Completely remodeled.

W/D included, air. Dwntn. & bus route. $500/mo. No dep. required.

Call Louis, (706) 338-3126.

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

Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $525/mo. 3BR/2BA & FP, $700/ mo. 2BR/2BA condo, Westside, 1200 sf., $600/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700 or cell, (706) 540-1529.

2BRs Dwntn. across from campus avail. for Fall semester.

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4BR, private BAs for each BR. 1 block from Brumby. Walk to class.

W/D, DW, spacious screened porch w/ swing. 194B Talmage St. (Off Bloomfield). $450 per BR, $1800/mo. Avail 8/1. Call (706) 714-1100.

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S. Milledge duplex. Venita Dr. 4 B R / 2 B A , W / D , D W, f e n c e d back yd.! Close to everything yet private. $999/mo., negotiable.

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Steps to UGA, avail. now. Spacious 2BR/1BA apt. Great, quiet location on S. Milledge. CHAC, DW, W/D, HWflrs. $725/mo. (706) 202-9905.

2BR condo. Walking distance to UGA campus. Gated, pool, fitness center. Excellent condition. Avail.

8/1. $650/mo. (706) 206-2347.

Want to live in 5 Pts? Howard Proper ties has the following locations: 5BR/3BA house $2000/mo., 1BR/1BA apt. $500/ mo., 2BR/2BA house $850/mo., 2BR/2BA condo $700-800/mo., 2BR/1BA apt. $550/mo. and 3BR/3BA condo $945â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1125/ mo. Please call (706) 546-0300 for more info and to view these properties.

Spacious, pool side 2BR/2BA condo flat. Close to UGA, on busline. CHAC, DW, W/D, big fridge and patio. 290 Appleby Dr. #165. $698/mo. Avail. now! Call (706) 714-1100.

Wilkerson Street 1 BR available for Fall. Older units in Historic District from $700/mo. Walk Downtown.

(706) 395-1400

Commercial Property Commercial building for sale in downtown Comer, GA. 3 store fronts. Currently leased to a bakery and antique shop. Great for retail, restaurant or office. $118,000.

(706) 207-5564.

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Pre-lease for Fall. Beautiful 2BR/2.5BA condo. Quiet neighborhood w/ lots of green space and river walk. Large LR, kitchen, BRs and BAs. DW, CHAC, W/D hookup. $650-800/mo. Pets ok w/ deposit. Call (706) 202-9905

2BR/1.5BA, $575/mo. in Park East.

New carpet, W/D included, lawn maintenance & pest control incl. $300 dep. Hancock Properties, Inc. (706) 552-3500

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3BR/2BA unit in gated west-side community. Pool, lake, upscale finishes. Recently reduced to $119,900! Contact Pat Hallow at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 424-2182 or (706) 543-4000.

Eastside Offices for Lease. 1060 Gaines School Road 750 sf. $900/mo., 400 sf. $600/mo., 150 sf. $300/mo. (706) 202-2246 or athenstownproperties.com.

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2BR/1BA. Renovated, CHAC, W/D included. No pets. Avail. now. $650/mo. (706) 202-9805.

Half off rent 1st month when you mention this ad! 2BR/2BA & 3BR/2BA duplexes off HWY 441.

Pet friendly! Dep. only $250. Rent from $650-750/mo. (706) 548-2522.

Houses for Rent Beautiful spacious home.

P re - l e a s e f o r f a l l . F i r s t month free! 5BR/3BA house w/ great S. Milledge Ave. location.

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Easy access to UGA & Athens bus routes. Great for football weekends! Large fully-equipped kitchen w/ DW, HWflrs., tile floors.

CHAC, large BRs. W/D included.

Pets ok with deposit. Call (706) 202-9905. $850/mo. 3BR/1BA home off Oglethorpe Ave. Kitchen, dining room, living room, storage, HWflrs., W/D, lg. yd. Avail. 8/1/14. Call Robin, (706) 265-6509, Owner/ Agent. 330 Clover St. 2-4BR houses available August in the best neighborhood in town. $870â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1150/mo.

(706) 548-9797. w w w. boulevardpropertymanagement. com 2BR/1BA House. 285 Savannah Ave. CHAC, W/D. Call (678) 6987613.

3 B R / 1 . 5 B A 1 3 5 G a rd e n C t . $870/mo. Call for appointments ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 8 - 9 7 9 7 o r w w w. boulevardpropertymanagement. com 3BR/3BA Full renovation. Custom cabinets, granite tops, HWflrs., big closets, lg. yd, off-street parking.

Block from baseball field. $1800/ mo. June free! (706) 546-6900 or valerioproperties@gmail.com.

3 or 4BR/3BA house w/ HWflrs. lg. front porch. Big yd. and deck.

W/D, DW, all electric. Dogs okay.

Near Waffle House. $1150/mo.

Boulevard Property Management (706) 548-9797 3BR/2BA in Normaltown. HWflrs., CHAC, quiet street. Grad students prefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Rent negotiable. (706) 3721505.

3BR/2BA University Heights.

CHAC, HWflrs., All appliances, f e n c e d b a c k y d . G re a t f o r professional or grad student. No pets or smoking. Avail. July 15 (910) 409-0769.

255 Hillcrest Ave. 4BR/2BA in Normaltown. $400 per BR/mo. Call (706) 207-9595.

3BR/2BA house in Green Acres.

Wo o d b u r n i n g s t o v e , f e n c e d yd., pets OK. W/D incl. Walk to shopping, busline, close to UGA. $1050/mo. Avail. Aug. 1! $100 off first monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rent. (706) 201-7004.

2BR/1BA. Near UGA, LR, DR, den, HWflrs., all appls., fenced yd., garbage p/u, carport, elec. AC, gas heat, no pets. $550/mo. 117 Johnson Dr. Owner/Agent Stan, (706) 543-5352.

4BR house available Fall. 130 Appleby Drive, near Dwntwn. 2 Master suites. Like new. $1500/ mo. Call Owner/Broker Herbert Bond Realty & Investment (706) 224-8002.

3BR/1.5BA. 460 Whitehead Rd. HWflrs., carpet, CHAC, attic fan, tiled kitchen, garbage disposal, DW, fenced yd., pecan trees. $800/mo. & $800 dep. Call (706) 254-2936.

5BR/1BA house ($1000/mo.)

CHAC, W/D. 12 ft. celings, HWflrs.

Need handyman to work off rent.

353 Oak St. Walk to UGA. (706) 548-4819, (706) 319-1846.

3BR/2BA house $700/mo. & 700 sec. dep. CHAC, huge yd., front porch, and FP. Call (706) 2542936.

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1BD Deluxe next to campus/bus route (only 1 left!)

2BD Standard 11/2 blocks from campus/bus route

Place your ads on our website with just a few clicks of your mouse! classifieds.flagpole.com 5BR/3BA Cottage available for Fall.

Great living area and spacious bedrooms. Large deck. On bus line. $299/mo. per person ($1495/ mo. total) Roommate matching avail. (706) 395-1400.

5 Pts. off Baxter St. 4BR/2BA, $1200/mo. 5 Pts. off Lumpkin. 2 story condo, 2BR/2.5BA, $650/mo.

Call McWaters Realty, (706) 3532700, (706) 540-1529

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3BR/2BA on small lake, lg, deck, dock, 3 mi. from Athens.

W/D, appliances, water incl. 1/2 acre garden. Manufactured home. $795/mo. + $500 dep. Pets OK. (706) 742â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8269

DOWNTOWN OFFICE FOR LEASE Historic building with approximately 2900 sq. ft.

On site parking available

Call Staci @ 706-296-1863

Large 3,000 sf. townhome available for Fall 2014.

3-5BR/4BA, $1200/mo. W/D, trash & pest control included, pet friendly. Roommate matching available. (706) 395-1400 Who loves you, baby? Flagpole does. xoxo. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re online when you are at flagpole.com Sweet, secluded cottage. 1BR, 2 office spaces. Glass porch. FP w/ logs, laundry room, CHAC. Very close to medical school.

Many extras. References, lease & dep. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Avail. now. (706) 340-1073.

Houses for Sale Two houses on Eastside close t o Ve t S c h o o l f o r s a l e ! 1 6 0 Snapfinger (3BR, HWflrs., private back yd.), $155,000.

135 Woodberry (all-brick split level, 3BR, two additional living spaces, party shed), $121,000.

Want best energy efficient house in Athens? See 820 Jefferson River (only 6 years old, berm house, faces due south, super private). Great houses at great deals! Kiss your landlord goodbye. Donna Fee Realty, (706) 296-5717, Keller Williams Realty (706) 216-2900.

Land for Sale 10 acres up to 42 acres Farm lands in Farmington area (Oconee County). $12,900 per acre. Along road frontage. (404) 790-6996.

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Archipelago Antiques 24 years of antique and retro art, furnishings, religiosa and unique, decorative treasures of the past.

1676 S. Lumpkin St. (706) 3544297.

Complete Home Brew Kit. 5 gal. boiler, cooling coils, two fermenters, priming bucket. 48 empty bottles, caps, cappers, b o t t l i n g t u b e , t h e r m o m e t e r, hydrometer, sanitizers, hops, malts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to Brewâ&#x20AC;? book. $175 for all!

Go to A g o r a ! Awesome!

Affordable! The ultimate store!

Specializing in retro everything: antiques, furniture, clothes, bikes, records & players! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College Dwntn. (706) 369-9428.

Yard Sales Moving Sale: furniture, clothing, decor, appliances, books, DVDs, dishware, etc. 430 King Avenue, Saturday, June 7, 8 AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 PM.

Male & Female roommate matching available for fall with rates starting at $275 per person. Private bathroom options as well as on the bus line and close to campus. www. landmarkathens.com (706) 3951400

Athens School of Music.

I n s t r u c t i o n i n g u i t a r, b a s s , drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument re p a i r s a v a i l . Vi s i t w w w.

AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

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Mature student for fully furnished 1BR/1BA, LR, kitchen.

Private drive, entrance. Incl. everything: utils., cable. Quiet, safe, near Dwntn./UGA. No smoking, drinking or pets. (706) 296-6957.

Line/Prep Cooks Needed.

The Georgia Center has several positions available 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;40 hrs./ week. Pay DOE/Minimum 3 years in full service restaurant. Email resumes to robh@uga.edu.

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Dashiell Cottages. Aspiring National Park Service. Wildlife observation, environmental c o n s e r v a t i o n p ro p e r t y. N e a r u n i v e r s i t y. S m a l l b u i l d i n g , AC. All amenities, all private entrances. Move in $75/wk.

(706) 850-0491.

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Join established Athens company calling CEOs & CFOs of major corporations generating sales leads for tech companies. $9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11/ hr. BOS Staffing, www.bosstaff. com, (706) 353-3030

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Parking places for rent across from UGA. $30/mo. (706) 3544261

$350/mo. + 1/2 utils. Separate bathroom. 5-10 min. to campus/ grocery store. Walking distance to bus line. High speed WiFi, W/D. Quiet nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;hood. Avail. July 1.

Pet friendly w/ dep. (704) 8777928

Experienced Grill Cooks needed!

We start at $10.25 per hour, with room for advancement.

M u s t h a v e re s u m e w i t h current references. Full and part time positions available.

Must be clean, organized, and an outgoing personality.

Creativity a plus! CLOCKED! 259 W.Washington St., Athens, GA, Downtown.

Town 220 Restaurant is hiring experienced line cooks. Must be available on weekends and evenings (closed Sunday & Monday). The position is a perfect opportunity to learn and work with a classicly trained Chef. Email your resume to town220@gmail. com

Yard Sale Sat. 6/7 8 AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 PM. 290 Sunset Dr. CDs, DVDs, books, clothes, ent. center, games, clothes rack, and more! No earlybirds!

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

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The Body Composition and Metabolism Lab in the Department of Kinesiology is seeking 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;24 year female students for a research study examining food intake and physical activity.

Overweight female participants are needed for an 8 week exercise training study examining the effect of structured exercise on body composition, food intake, and physical activity. All testing will be performed at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Georgia or University Health Center. Participants will be asked to complete confidential body composition and blood analysis, as well as surveys regarding food intake, and physical activity.

Sensitive questions including body image, depression, and alcohol and drug use will be asked. If you are interested in participating, please contact Michael Fedewa at uga.project.spindawgs@gmail. com.

Looking for individuals to install flagpoles & flags throughout the United States of America. Must have own pickup truck & tools.

Experience is reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. $100/day. Call (800) 426-6235.

www.red-cedar-landscapes. com Landscape construction work at $20 per hour and no mark-ups! Great communication and job planning. stonewalls, patios, plants, machine work, irrigation and much more. Call/text (706) 202-8842

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Earn $40-$180 by participating in UGA research! Are you age 18-60 and eligible to have MRIs? 2. Are you age 18-60 and diagnosed with Schizophrenia? If you meet EITHER of these criteria, please contact the Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at (706) 542-3128 for more information.

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UGAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Georgia Center is hiring banquet ser vers. Multiple shifts avail. starting at 6 a.m.

Free meal w/ each shift. Email resumes to kcona@uga.edu.

Vehicles Motorcycles 2007 Harley Sportster 883. Black with 26,000 miles. 50th Anniv.

Edition. Beautiful bike in great condition. $4500 OBO. Call Michael, (706) 612-0890

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Things are pretty good for me right now. I’ve survived abusive relationships, mental problems and substance abuse issues (my own and other people’s). I am in a good relationship, I have a job that I like and I have a lot of friends and acquaintances. Of course, things are not perfect; I still struggle with depression, anxiety and managing addiction. Lately, my anxiety has been in overdrive, and most of it concerns my friendships. I’m afraid that I spread myself too thin, and I don’t know how I can maintain this pace. Although I enjoy socializing, I also enjoy time by myself at home—I’m quite an introverted person and could easily occupy myself for days at a time without outside interaction.

I stress myself out starting around Tuesday of each week, when I start thinking about the weekend and what social obligations I might have.

I also want to be a good friend, but there are about five people right now who confide in me, and I feel like I’m collapsing under the weight of people’s crises. It’s not uncommon for me to spend an entire lunch hour sorting out emails and chats from people who I think “need” me.

I want to listen and help, because I genuinely care for these people, but I’m not sure what to do. I feel crippled by anxiety, and I don’t want to shut anyone out, but I just need some breathing room. I don’t want to end friendships just because I’m stressing over people’s problems and expectations of me. How should I manage this?

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all you want to do is be home alone. A time will come when you will want to be with other people. But you’re not going to genuinely want that until you’ve given yourself the space and permission to recharge alone. You might find support in a book called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, written by Susan Cain. She talks about how necessary time alone is for introverts and how our society undervalues that time.

The Promise of Money I work for a small organization and have a pleasant relationship with most of my co-workers and boss. We’re not close friends, but we get along at the office pretty well. Last year, during a fundraising drive, our organization received pledges from donors who committed to donate money over a period of time—from two years to five years. Very recently, one of my co-workers discovered a small stack of pledge cards in her office space that had gone unprocessed. These pledge cards had gotten mixed up with other papers and supplies—and to be fair, the fundraising drive was a crazy hectic time for all of us—and she just found them recently. No one even knew they were missing. My co-worker feels terrible and worried about this. She told me this in a confessional moment, but she hasn’t taken any action on it. The drive time was so busy that I understand how this could easily have happened. Her mistake was totally innocent, and I don’t want her to get into trouble over it, but I feel uncomfortable knowing about it. How can I get myself out of this spot without getting her in trouble?

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First, congratulations on overcoming a lot of difficult and painful things in your own life and getting to a good place. With that difficult You’re worried about the outcome history—and even without it—it’s for your co-worker, but now that important to recognize that the you know what happened, you have only person who is going to set some responsibility, too. In figuring boundaries around your life is you. out how to discharge that responProtecting your own time and energy advice@flagpole.com or sibility, keep a couple of things in is not any more selfish or uncaring flagpole.com/getadvice mind: First, you want to give your than putting gas in your car. Your car co-worker the fairest opportunity to won’t run if it’s not fueled. deal with this correctly on her own.

Free time will never appear on its But, second, you do not want to be the only person holding own. We sometimes fall into the trap of thinking, “If I just get this information. (Your co-worker didn’t either, and that’s why through this busy week, I’ll have time to myself again,” but she told you.) Fortunately or unfortunately, it’s not going to be that’s not true. Social commitments and friends will expand to up to you to determine whether she gets “in trouble” over this. fill the time available to them—the time you make available You need to give your co-worker a reasonable but short to them. You will have to consciously put a fence around your amount of time to come clean about this on her own. Talk to time. her privately and tell her she needs to let the boss know immeHere’s how to start building that fence. First, commit to diately. This thing will look one million times better coming keeping your work hours, including your lunch hour, free from from her. If you, or someone else in the office, or a dedicated outside drama for one week. If you need to, tell your friends on Sunday that work has gotten busy, so you won’t be respond- would-be donor brings this to light, it will be much worse.

Encourage her to talk to the boss and explain it was an honest ing to emails or texts during the day. Guard that lunch hour mistake. If she can go to the boss with a plan to remedy it, all jealously. Eat your lunch, read a book, take a walk, whatever. the better. Tell her that you feel some responsibility now that Use it as time to take an actual break, not manage friends or you know the situation. run errands.

After you tell her that, follow up with an email to her that Then, let your friends’ crises hang out for a while. Don’t references your conversation. Say something like, “I really spend the hour after work responding to the days’ missives. think it would be best if you talked to Pete about those misWait 24 hours. All of the texts and emails will feel, and indeed placed pledge cards. Then you two can figure out what to do.” be, dramatically less urgent. Your friends will be OK. In the You need some documentation that you were encouraging her pursuit of being a supportive friend, you have taught your to acknowledge the problem. friends that they can expect a quick response from you. They After three work days have gone by, ask her if she’s had a might not like your slower response time at first, but they will chance to mention it to the boss. If she says she has, great. adapt and find other sources of support. You’re not ending Send her an email saying you’re glad she talked to Pete and got friendships or abandoning anyone; you’re putting what you can the problem sorted out. If she says she hasn’t, don’t press it, into your relationships. but do tell her you really think the boss needs to know about Next, build this fence around your weekend time as well. this. Then, the next time you talk to the boss, mention the You must be able to look forward to your weekends. On situation casually: Hey, Jenna said something to me about lost Monday, the day before the weekend anxiety begins, decide pledge cards. Did she get a chance to mention that to you? how much time you want to spend at home alone. Don’t lowYou don’t know anything more, so don’t try to provide details. ball it. You might want to spend the entire weekend alone, and that’s completely fine. Once you decide on the time, mark it on You’re just saying enough to be able to say you passed it on up. [Note: This did not happen at Flagpole—Pete.] your calendar. Then honor that time as though it were a doctor’s appointment.

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