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Kids Eat Free

Children Eat at No Cost in Lots of Places Around Town p. 2

Charter District?

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Mondays: Barberitos (1739 S. Lumpkin and 1880 Epps Bridge Road): Kids eat free with

Kids eat free on Mondays at Your Pie with the purchase of an adult meal. the purchase of an adult entree after 4 p.m.

Fatz Cafe (4115 Lexington Road): Kids eat free all day; anything off the kids’ menu is free with the purchase of an adult meal. Pulaski Heights BBQ (675 Pulaski St.): Each adult who purchases a regular menu item can have

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Mirko (1040 Gaines School Road and 1075 Baxter St.): Get a free kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meal with the purchase of an adult meal after 5 p.m. Also note that Mondays are free pasta night, where you just pay for your sauce. Dominickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (see above).

Wednesdays: Barberitos (259 E. Clayton St.): Kids eat free with the purchase of an adult entrĂŠe on Wednesdays. Foxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza Den (2971 U.S. 78, Watkinsville): Get one free kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meal with the purchase of an adult meal.

Dominickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (see above).

Thursdays: Earthfare (1689 S. Lumpkin St.): Family Dinner night is 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. when up to six kids eat free with an adult purchase of at least $5. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southwest Grill (1320 Baxter St.): Get a free kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menu item with the purchase of an adult item, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m.

Sunday: Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cafe (196 Alps Road): Kids eat free all day with the purchase of an adult entrĂŠe. Dickeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barbecue Pit (810 Hawthorne Ave.): Kids eat free with any adult purchase, all day. Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (1860 Barnett Shoals Road): Buy any regular entrĂŠe and get an item off the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menu free, all day.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a big fan of taking kids out to eat.

Not only because it takes the pressure off the adult who needs to make dinner (usually me), but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a great chance to practice some life skills.

For example, show how the table is set, or how you would set it, once the silverware is unrolled from the napkin. Maybe there are items on the menu they can read themselves.

They can also practice being all grown up by ordering for themselves. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sometimes even a chance to break out of the mold and try something new; although if you have a favorite place, like we do, the kids learn real quick what menu staple they always want to order.

(That said, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m never going to complain that my daughter prefers a cup of tofu cubes.)

But still, dining out is priceyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a recent Gallup poll found Americans spend $151 each week on food and, while our grocery items are generally cheaper than what our grandparents paid 50 years ago, we seem to be making up for that in eating out. Which is why, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not planning to cook at home, you might as well head to a place that has a deal for the kids. I mean, $5 off a bill is $5, right?

Below, find a list of restaurants that have free meal nights for kids. Note that there are others with discounted kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menus on special daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for example, Sakura has a $5.99 kids lunch on Sundays, and Brettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has $2 kids meals Mondays and Tuesdaysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking purely free, just for simplicityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake. Do you have a favorite that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the list?

one child eat free. Kids order off the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menu, with 6-7 items on it.

Your Pie (various locations): Kids eat free with a paying adult. The kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pizza also comes with a small drink and a cup of gelato.

Dominickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (1430 Capital Ave., Watkinsville): Monday through Wednesday, all day, buy one entrĂŠe and get an item from the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meal free.

(a meat and a veggie item). Valid for dinner only.

Keba Spitfire Grill (1860 Barnett Shoals Road and 1850 Epps Bridge Parkway): For dine-in only, get a free kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; combo with the purchase of any regular-sized adult combo.

Also, stop by any location of IHOP for dinner any night of the week and your kids will eat free (4-10 p.m.).

I offer up this list with one request: Tip your server well. Not only are they dealing with a slightly smaller bill, but they have to put up with your kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be honest here, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not always angels.

Eventually, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get better. And then they can pay their own way.

Kristen Morales

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Congratulations and Hurrah!

Congratulations and Good Luck Well, here we are again in that blind spot that develops every election because Flagpole is printed Tuesday afternoon long before the polls close. You will, of course, have read the results at flagpole.com as soon as they came in, so you already know who won. I do not yet have that knowledge as I sit here typing this at home on Sunday afternoon, already long past my deadline.

So, congratulations and best wishes to the winner in the District 3 Athens-Clarke County Commission race: Rachel Watkins or Melissa Link. You both ran good races and worked hard, and it is too bad that our Charter does not allow you both to represent the district. (Back in the old Athens City Council days, we had five wards, and each ward had two representatives on the Council.)

The winner will have a hard job, for you now represent a diverse district filled with constituents who will want to tell you about their drainage problems every time you run out for a loaf of bread and need to get back home in time to cut the grass before it rains again. And of course, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have meetings, meetings, meetings and homework in connection with all of them. Unfortunately, you will be joining a commission that is smothered by a mayor who will not let it consider anything much that deals with the real problems that confront our community. Athens is strangling and falling backwards, and many on the commission are content with that situation. Having promised the voters that you want to help solve our pressing problems, you will find it very frustrating to be working among people who are accustomed to short meetings that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get much done. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping you can make a difference and can help energize this government. Congratulations, and good luck.

California Author Here First time novelist Edan Lepucki will pop by Avid Bookshop to celebrate her recently released tale of a post-apocalyptic near-future, California. Lepucki recently scored some great press on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Colbert Report.â&#x20AC;? Stephen Colbert urged his viewers to pre-order copies of her novel through his website and Powell Books as a way to stick it to cybergiant Amazon. Lepucki and Colbert are both authors with Hachette Books. While discussing California in an interview with another author, Colbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to hearing that Los Angeles is lost in the novel was, â&#x20AC;&#x153;So thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a happy ending.â&#x20AC;?

California is the (love) story of a young couple coping with the aftermath of the end of society as we know it.

After leaving the crumbling Edan Lepucki city of LA for life in a shack in the wilderness, an unplanned pregnancy causes the pair to seek the protection of a nearby settlement. This guarded and paranoid community with dark secrets poses other dangers to the couple, leaving the reader to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love.

Meet Edan Lepucki at Avid Bookshop this Sunday, July 27 from 7:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. Free. [Barbette Houser] Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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city dope Bricks and Mortar county line to the new mall off the Oconee Connector. And the exodus has nothing to do with ACC’s perceived “business unfriendliness,” as we hear so often. Taxes—higher in Clarke than unincorporated Oconee but lower than many cities—are “one of many considerations,” Moore said. Stores “are going to go where the rooftops go,” he said. “They’re going to go where the demographics make sense.”

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The unemployment rate in Athens is 5.2 percent, down from 8.5 percent three years ago and almost two points lower than Georgia’s. Why is that?

“The construction industry is coming back,” according to Ryan Moore, director of the Athens-Clarke County Economic Development Department, who cited downtown construction projects like The Standard and Georgia Heights—in the old SunTrust parking lot—as well as the new Bolton Dining Hall at Lumpkin and Baxter streets and the veterinary hospital being built out on College Station Road.

(Speaking of The Standard, crews are working around the clock to finish the massive luxury student apartment complex at the corner of Thomas Street and North Avenue. “We’re still on pace to move residents in Aug. 1,” Landmark Properties CEO Wes Rogers said. “The retail space won’t be completed until well after the students move in, but that’s always been the plan and won’t impact residents moving in.”)

The hundreds of millions of dollars spent on such projects circulates throughout the local economy. “When you go into restaurants for lunch, you see construction boots again,” added Moore’s counterpart in Oconee County, Rusty Haygood.

Moore and Haygood spoke to the Athens GOP Monday, July 14 and painted a rosy picture of the area’s economy. (Take it with a grain of salt—economic development professionals are paid to be chipper.)

While it’s a bit alarming to hear that a construction boom is responsible for Athens’ economic uptick, given the events of 2007–2008, Moore is quick to note that the city has a diverse economy. Not everyone is probably aware of this, since our industrial areas are tucked away off Chase Street and Olympic Drive outside the Loop—not to mention Caterpillar off Hwy. 78—but manufacturing employs 6,000 people, 10 percent of the local workforce, and pays 40 percent higher-than-average wages. And the Loop itself is responsible for a lot of that, according to Moore. Once the new interchange at Peter Street and Olympic Drive is finished, Athens will be the smallest city in the country with a ring road, he said.

Athens is already home to Merial, Noramco, Ethicon and other medical-industry manufacturers, with Baxter Pharmaceuticals about to hire 1,500 people down the road in Covington. Haygood hyped the 316 corridor as a future hub for bioscience with the potential to become another Research Triangle (although it won’t happen overnight; North Carolina has a 40-year head start). “We have a project opening up in not too long in the life sciences vein,” he said. “Hopefully, you’ll hear more about that as time goes on.”

The development duo also addressed the pervasive fears/ gloating about Atlanta Highway retailers fleeing across the

The crane, Atlanta’s most common native bird, has migrated to Athens.

As for what will happen on Atlanta Highway, “real estate has a life-cycle,” Moore said. “We’re finding there’s a transition happening.” But Georgia Square Mall is more than 90 percent full, and owner CBL & Associates Properties obviously thinks it’s a good investment, or they wouldn’t have bought it last year, he said.

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Ain’t No Party Like a Nonpartisan Party: Is Denson about to pull a McKillip? She received not one, but two rounds of applause from the room full of Republicans—one when her presence was announced, and another when Haygood was discussing Caterpillar. “There’s a lady here in blue who deserves a big pat of the back for that,” Haygood said.

“You know I’m a Democrat,” Denson said after the clapping died down.

“You used to be a Democrat. Let’s leave it at that,” replied state Sen. Frank Ginn (R-Danielsville), who endorsed her.

“I’m a nonpartisan mayor,” Denson said.

“Essential” Air Service: Athens is likely to lose commercial air service at the end of September, after the Federal Aviation Administration cancels a $1.6 million annual subsidy.

The current recipient is SeaPort Airlines, which operates daily flights between Athens-Ben Epps Airport and Nashville under the Essential Air Service program, created in 1978 to stop airlines from abandoning smaller, less profitable airports after deregulation. It’s just the most recent of several airlines that have tried and failed to turn a profit flying out of Athens.

Airports must see a minimum of 10 commercial passengers per day to qualify for the subsidy; Athens averages only six.

In addition, subsidies for airports within 210 miles of a hub (such as Hartsfield-Jackson) can’t exceed a subsidy of $200 per passenger, the U.S. Department of Transportation recently informed ACC. SeaPort will fly you to Nashville for $59. Taxpayers, on the other hand, pay an average of $743 to fly you to Nashville.

Even though the ticket price only covers a small fraction of the actual cost of the flight, it’s still a service that only about 2,000 passengers took advantage of in 2013. And it’s not just SeaPort—previous airlines that flew to Charlotte and Atlanta also struggled, even with the subsidy.

Sorry, anyone who flies SeaPort. For $743, we could rent a limo to take you to Nashville.

The vast majority of Ben Epps’ traffic is general-aviation and charter flights, which losing the subsidy will not affect.

The airport handles more than 100 general-aviation and charter flights per day, and that is expected to increase after the completion of a runway extension that allows 737s to take off fully fueled.

As the county airport authority works to recruit a new airline that won’t be dependent on subsidies, ACC officials intend to continue moving forward with a new $4.7 million commercial terminal funded by SPLOST 2005. A commission vote on a project concept is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 5.

The new commercial terminal could help handle increasing charter-jet traffic, Airport Authority Chairman Bob Wigglesworth wrote in a letter to the mayor and commission.

In addition, airport officials believe that a new generation of efficient regional jets, record airline profits, limited gate space at Hartsfield-Jackson and other factors mean that Athens has a “unique window of opportunity” to draw a regional carrier, Wigglesworth wrote.

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Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson will receive $773,646 in total compensation this fiscal year after getting a recent salary increase of $16,980. Georgia Regents University President Ricardo Aziz will be paid $675,379 after receiving a $25,379 bump in pay. Georgia State President Mark Becker will be paid $570,604, thanks to a $20,604 salary increase. University of Georgia President Jere Morehead will be paid $567,380, which includes a $17,380 pay hike. University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby, who got a $21,250 pay raise this year, will receive a total compensation of $518,250.

Then there is Michael Adams, who stepped down last summer after 16 years as the University of Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president. Normally, a state employee who retires would have to be content with drawing a pension.

Not Adams. The Board of Regents agreed to pay him $2.7 million over the five-year period after he resigned.

Compare those numbers to the salary paid the governor of Georgia: $139,339 a year.

Whether you like or dislike the governor, there is no argument that he holds the most important job in state government. He administers a yearly budget that totals about $42 billion in state and federal funds, and he decides how the state will provide vital services to its residents.

The top officials in the University System are eminently qualified people, but should they be getting paid four and five times what the governor makes when they hold jobs that are demonstrably less important than his?

Virginia Carson, of South Georgia State College, the lowest-paid fulltime president in the University System, makes 39 percent more than the governor. The promising high school graduate who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to attend one of our colleges might well ask why?

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Unfortunately for Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future, there will be fewer students attending our public colleges and universities than there were a couple of years ago. After growing to 318,000 students in 2011, the combined enrollment at public colleges declined to 314,000 in 2012 and then to 309,000 in 2013.

Enrollment numbers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dropping because the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colleges do a bad job of educating their students.

Enrollment is declining because potential students are being priced out of higher education by endless tuition increases. A recent study by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association found that tuition and fees in Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public colleges increased by 93 percent during the period from 2008 to 2013â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the only state that increased tuition more is New Mexico.

Part of the problem is that the legislature slashed funding to the University System over the past decade. The Board of Regents was compelled to make up for the funding cuts by raising tuition.

Another part of the problem, however, is that the University System refuses to reduce the money it spends on its top officials. The rank-and-file employees who worked for government agencies and school systems often were furloughed or laid off during the economic downturn of 2008-13, and those who could hang on to their jobs didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a pay increase for years. Those cutbacks didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t apply to the people at the highest levels of the University System.

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next fall, Clarke County schools could be operating as a charter districtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;meaning more community involvement, flexibility and autonomy.

Superintendent Phil Lanoue recommended the move to the county board of education in June, and the current plan is to fast-track an application to the Georgia Department of Education by October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very innovative in our work and made tremendous gains, and we want to ensure we get to the next level,â&#x20AC;? Lanoue says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the board is really receptive of this idea, and now the devil is in the details.â&#x20AC;?

More Local Control The key features of a charter system are governance changes and accountability plans. It moves decision-making from the county board level to a governing body at the school level. Schools gain flexibility in areas such as teacher certification, class size, pay, course requirements and seat times in exchange for specific, rigorous goals to make student performance better.

Thanks to Clarke Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategic plan and well-defined goals, the district is â&#x20AC;&#x153;75 percent of the way thereâ&#x20AC;? with its application, says Lou Erste, director of the Georgia Department of Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Charter Schools Division. Erste and Lanoue recently discussed the application process and next steps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m extremely impressed with what the local board has supported in terms of programming, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy to see them get to this stage,â&#x20AC;? Erste says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pretty much as close to a charter system as they could get. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re one of the closest to implement.â&#x20AC;?

By June 2015, all 180 school systems in the state must decide whether they will become a charter system, IE2 or status quo. The charter choice offers the most flexibility at the school level and freedom from state and federal requirements, but it requires the most accountability and above-average performance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Investing in Educational Excellenceâ&#x20AC;? districts (nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;IE2â&#x20AC;?) create a strategic plan similar to that of a charter but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use governing boards at the school level or receive as much flexibility. Status quo, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;traditional,â&#x20AC;? districts opt out of increased flexibility and must follow all state and federal education requirements. Charter and IE2 programs can draw additional state funding, which could mean $80â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$90 per student in Clarke County, or close to $1 million.

Not Charter Schools â&#x20AC;&#x153;The terms â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;charter systemsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;charter schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; can be confusing. I wish they were called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;strategic systems,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says state Rep. Brooks Coleman (R-Duluth), chairman of the House Education Committee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for schools to have as much flexibility as possible as long as they do well. They need to have as little government control as possible, and we need to stay out of their way.â&#x20AC;?

The terms â&#x20AC;&#x153;charter schoolâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;charter districtâ&#x20AC;? are often seen as interchangeable, Coleman says, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually different. In this sense, â&#x20AC;&#x153;charterâ&#x20AC;? simply means the document set up between the county district and state board of education that outlines how student achievement will be improved.

Essentially, the schools are held accountable for upholding the terms of their contract.

The schools in charter districts are still public schools, receive public funding, cannot charge tuition, must have open enrollment, must be secular and must serve all student populations, including those with disabilities and English language learners. Charter schools arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t magnet schools or private schools. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require admissions criteria and still must participate in statewide testing and federal health laws.

In Barrow County, officials held open forums for parents and community members to ask questions and created videos for the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website that explained the charter district status.

To Creel, the biggest advantage is the governance structure and creating a â&#x20AC;&#x153;partnership with the communityâ&#x20AC;? at the school level. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will never forget the time when we called the first principal we hired under charter district status. The students were the ones to call and welcome him,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students were part of the interview process and had a direct impact on the choice. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just one example of breaking down barriers.â&#x20AC;?

This governance componentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;making individual schools more autonomousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is likely the biggest change and challenge for Clarke Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s application, Lanoue says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the more complicated piece to ensure we have autonomy at the school level but great connections to the strategic plan at the district level,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So far, the potential of this outweighs what I see as pitfalls, and after talking with Lou Erstes, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m feeling this could really strengthen us as a district.â&#x20AC;?

During the next steps this summer, Clarke County Schools will work with state consultants in Ersteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department to complete the application. Sherrie Gibney-Sherman, a retired associate superintendent who helped Madison County develop its charter system application, will be part of the team.

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Clarke County School Superintendent Phil Lanoue says becoming a charter district will bring more flexibility and funding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done ourselves a disservice with the language we use, because people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what it means, and it can be a roadblock,â&#x20AC;? says Wanda Creel, superintendent of Gainesville City Schools, one of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first charter districts. Before Gainesville, Creel served as superintendent of Barrow County Schools when it applied for charter district status. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Change is difficult, and one of the greatest challenges is finding ways to communicate what being a charter district means to each stakeholder group,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can never communicate it enough.â&#x20AC;?

Technology will be a core feature of the application, Lanoue adds. The district will continue to emphasize â&#x20AC;&#x153;personalized learning systemsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;digital learning environmentsâ&#x20AC;? in the classroom. This fall, students in third through eighth grades will be issued laptops for homework and classwork. The district is also piloting tools that allow teachers to create webpages, personalize content for students and deepen understanding through virtual case studies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our smartphones do more than a computer did five years ago,â&#x20AC;? Coleman says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re encouraging schools to use the technology they have in as many ways as they can.â&#x20AC;?

Colemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House Education Committee traveled the state last year, holding eight public hearings and meeting with more than 1,800 teachers and administrators to talk about school needs and achievement. Technology came up again and again, he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vital that we see all districts use technology, but we found some donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the bandwidth for it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critical that we provide that bandwidth as a state and help students to read, write and learn in a new way.â&#x20AC;?

Another key feature of the application will be the emphasis on neighborhoods, Lanoue says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our neighborhood schools are really important, and this could be a way for neighborhoods to highlight and bring out their uniqueness as the schools meet their target goals,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see the potential of neighborhoods to take control and govern in their communities, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited about looking in that direction.â&#x20AC;?

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Still Rolling Ten Years Later, Darius Goes West Continues to Inspire

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en years ago, a group of good ol’ Athens boys set out west in a long-shot effort to have a friend’s wheelchair overhauled by the once popular MTV show “Pimp My Ride.” Sadly, it didn’t happen. However, the teenagers started a fundraiser to support their trip and, wisely assuming that people would not be enthusiastic about funding a simple crosscountry joy ride, decided to document the whole trip—despite the fact that none of them had any experience with film.

That wheelchair belonged to Darius Weems. Twenty-eight film festival awards later, the movie Darius Goes West has inspired thousands of viewers and raised awareness about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which Darius suffers from and which killed his older brother, Mario. Darius had never left home before, and he perhaps didn’t have much longer to live, making the film especially poignant.

Students in Maine greet Darius Weems.

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Nowadays, Barbara Smalley—the mother of Logan Smalley, the documentary’s director, who met Weems while a counselor at a camp for children with disabilities—is responsible for coordinating the anniversary’s events and Darius’ appearances. Back then, though, Barbara had her doubts the movie would even be finished, as she describes how Logan taught himself the editing program Final Cut Pro and suffered through several computer crashes (all while he was also still a student). He did finish it, and it debuted in 2007 at the Morton Theater to a packed house.

“I think people thought it would be a cute movie made by hometown boys, and they were blown away by the story,” she says. “At the end of the day, what connects people to the story is that it’s a story of friendship.”

In the 10 years since the debut, Darius and the crew have been busy raising over $1 million for research.

(Think about that the next time you donate to a Kickstarter.) Darius visits Darius Weems schools across the country to talk to kids about following their dreams and to teach them how to “live like they’re living.” He’s also broken into the music world, having put out a rap album, which he often samples during his appearances and Skype sessions.

Occasionally, Darius, now 24, has the chance to meet other kids with DMD and, according to Smalley, his demeanor totally changes around them. “He’s so kind to them,” she says. “But he never treats them with pity, of course. It’s like

a secret language… Darius Goes West has always been about ‘Let’s live life to the fullest, and let’s have some fun.’” Also, around Darius’s 20th birthday, MTV publicly apologized on CNN, donated $10,000 to DMD research and showed the film on two of its channels.

Since former Athens-Clarke County Mayor Heidi Davison officially declared July 22 Darius Goes West Day in 2004, the anniversary of the original trip has been celebrated here in Athens.

This year, though, the crew has gone all out in planning a truly memorable celebration, one which includes something for everyone.

There’s a Texas hold-em tournament called “Dealing for Darius/Casino with a Cure” at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24 at The Rail. The $20 donation gets you a stack of chips that you’ll probably lose in the first 10 minutes, so why not go ahead and plan to play twice?

The always well attended Family Carnival will take place from 6:30–8 p.m. on Friday, July 25 in the parking lot of The Body Shop and includes camel rides, caricatures, games, a DJ and barbecue.

A $5 donation gets you 20 tickets which can be used on anything at the carnival except food.

The “DGW Second Annual ‘Run, Stroll, and Roll’ 5k”starts at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, July 26 at Sandy Creek Park and allows participants to go through the race in a wheelchair. The price is $30 to register, and if you win, you’ll be taking home a unique work of art by Tina McCullough.

The final event of the week, “A Decade of DGW + Dinner with Darius & Crew,” includes dinner (provided by Harry’s BBQ) and a movie, both on Saturday, July 26 at Ciné, starting at 6 p.m. If you haven’t seen the film (tsk, tsk), this is a great opportunity to do so

WTF Is ISIS? The 411 on the Terrorists Taking Over Iraq We were told in 2003 that there were terrorists in Iraq.

There weren’t. Now there are. We were told a lot of things by the Bush-Cheney folks. A lot was kept from us. It’s no surprise, then, that nobody knows what the hell is going on in Iraq.

Who is ISIS?

That’s the old name, actually. The group is the Puff Daddy of jihadist armies, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), aka the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), aka the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, is now just Islamic State.

This suggests that its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is already looking to expand the nascent caliphate beyond the territory it now controls.

What’s their deal?

The Islamic State is a Sunni Muslim group currently fighting to establish a hardline Sunni territory—an Islamic caliphate under Sharia law—in northern and western Iraq and across the border in eastern Syria, all of which is largely Sunni territory surrounded by Shia-dominated regions. The Islamic State immediately institutes Sharia law (strict Quranic rules, like what the Taliban mandates). Women are ordered to be covered, alcohol and cigarettes are forbidden and prayer is forced at gunpoint. They’re armed party poopers.

Are they dangerous?

Dudes are so vicious that al Qaeda has even distanced itself from their tactics. Even al Qaeda is like, “Y’all are getting carried away. Tone it down a bit, show some restraint.” Whoa.

It appears that al-Baghdadi, their 43-year-old leader, is in a battle for supremacy with al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, 64, and there’s something of a generational rift in the jihadist crowd. Islamic State is like Marlo from “The Wire”—an even more brutal leader pushing aside an already violent regime— and their freewheeling violence announces the willingness of this new generation of Sunni jihadists to disregard the codes and rules of engagement adhered to by al Qaeda.

In fact, Islamic State and al Qaeda affiliates have been in a bloody fight for dominance in the Syrian rebellion since that country fell into civil war. Islamic State appears to be emerging as the principal post-al Qaeda paramilitary player in the region, and their early victories in Iraq have made them the wealthiest terrorist franchise ever after the group straightjacked the entire Central Bank of Mosul. The group might be able to generate revenue, as well, with the acquisition of Syrian and Iraqi oil fields and refining capacity in Iraq. They also have hella American tanks and weapons after they totally routed the Iraqi military in northern Iraq. In other words, their aim to create an actual state is off to a good start.

So, yes, they’re dangerous.

In the end, probably not—or not beyond the havoc they’ve already wreaked. The governments of Syria, Iraq and Iran are all Shiite, and the combined power of those militaries could smash the incipient state vying for a territory that threatens Shiite hegemony. The group is completely surrounded by enemies: Turks in the north, Kurds just next door, Shiite governments all around and Israel on the other side of Syria.

The Islamic State is, however, funded by Sunni oil money from Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar. There is no love lost between the Sunni Saudis and the Shiite countries, especially Iran. Iraq’s current government is seen as much too friendly with Tehran, and some of the wealthy Sunnis in the Gulf are eager to supply an anti-Shia force.

and hang out with Darius and the crew afterwards for $20.

You could participate in all these events for less than $100, or you could attend just one. Either way, your donation will benefit Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research and continue to bolster the awareness that small group of boys, especially Darius, inspired 10 years ago.

Stephanie Talmadge

Will they attack the U.S.?

Seems doubtful. The group’s primary aim is to build an Islamic caliphate stretching from Spain and Morocco in the west to India and Pakistan in the east. Al-Baghdadi is the first Muslim leader to claim the title of “caliph” (leader of a potential caliphate) in nearly a century. His goals appear to be more regional than U.S.-oriented.

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movie dope drew’s reviews THE PURGE: ANARCHY (R) The second Purge steps out from the

 luxury security system of the original and goes into the dangerous

streets on the one night when laws are encouraged to be broken and help is not on the way. Our group of protagonists—separating couple (Zach Gilford of “Friday Night Lights” and Kiele Sanchez), mom and daughter (Carmen Ejogo and Zoe Soul), and vengeful dad (Frank Grillo)—wind up on the streets for different reasons but must come together to survive, mostly thanks to Grillo’s Punisher proxy. DeMonaco’s political points, delivered by Michael K. William’s fiery revolutionary rhetoric, might get ham-fisted, but the idea behind the Purge franchise certainly retains a lot of power. It is a grand, exploitative example of a “What if…?” flick. What if we had a Purge?

Would I survive? Would I participate? What amounts to Manhunt: The Movie is alarmingly pessimistic about humanity and cynical about the government.

DeMonaco also veers into well-trodden territory as he tries to wrap it up (both Hostel and The Most Dangerous Game came to mind). Purge-era America begs for further exploration despite the flaws in its depiction.

SEX TAPE (R) While trying to reignite their sex life, a married couple, Jay and Annie (Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz), make a sex tape that inadvertently gets synced to the multitude of old iPads Jay had repurposed as gifts. Even the mailman got one, so they repeatedly tell us. It’s a pretty contrived setup, even for today’s high-concept comedy. While the movie is not obnoxious, it is virtually laughless. One sequence in which Segel’s Jay is chased by a dog, and Annie does coke with her potential boss (Rob Lowe), goes on interminably long. That this script was written by Segel and Nicholas Stoller, who gave us Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is surprising; the trio of Segel, Diaz and director Jake Kasdan had much more comic success with Bad Teacher. The few laughs that do land come from the best friends played by Rob Corddry and Ellie Kemper, but they’re not enough, especially once we hit the YouPorn segment. Not since Don Jon has a pornographic website played such a key role in a major release. Don’t bother watching this Sex Tape.

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also playing AMERICA (PG-13) A movie so singularly titled should probably be a little more focused. But what starts as a weakly tolerable, disingenuously patriotic documentary eventually shows its true, intolerant colors when co-writer-co-director-star-felon Dinesh D’Souza renews his anti-Obama screed, last seen on screen in 2012’s 2016: Obama’s America. Attempting to debunk the liberal American-shame movement led by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn (it’s partially framed as a belated answer to his People’s History of the United States) and Michael Moore, D’Souza espouses the greatness of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Madam C. J. Walker and more in poorly dramatized reenactments.

BEGIN AGAIN (R) See Movie Pick.

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) First Godzilla, then Edge of Tomorrow and Snowpiercer: summer 2014 has been especially generous for sci-fi fans. Now Dawn of the Planet of the Apes arrives to live up to and exceed our expectations about how good a movie about damn, dirty apes can be. (And we can still anticipate Guardians of the Galaxy and Lucy.) In the eighth installment of the venerable franchise, apes have yet to completely take over the planet. A band of humans survived the Simian Flu and struggle to rebuild in San Francisco. Meanwhile, Caesar (motion-capture king Andy Serkis, giving another Oscar-worthy performance) has created a community in the forests outside the city. Soon man and beast will clash, thanks to the machinations of evil ape Koba (Toby Kebbell). I never thought I’d fully back a PotA flick without humans shuffling around behind stuffy masks, but with the digital FX in Dawn I don’t miss them at all. The work done on the apes is truly wondrous to watch. Kudos to

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director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and his entire technical staff. I cannot wait for what I can only assume will be War for the Planet of the Apes.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL (R) To date, Scott Derrickson’s weakest feature is his stolid remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Deliver Us from Evil is more fun than Derrickson’s sci-fi dud, but it’s no Sinister or Exorcism of Emily Rose. Based on… excuse me… inspired by the true accounts of New York police sergeant Ralph Sarchie (convincingly portrayed onscreen by Eric Bana), the film struggles to decide if it is a demonic possession flick, a cop thriller with delusions of Se7en or a haunted house chiller. Ultimately, it decides to be The Exorcist, climaxing with Sarchie and his partner priest, Mendoza (Edgar Ramirez), performing an exorcism right there in the police station. But lots of screen time is spent on the dedicated cop dealing with family abandonment issues. And who wouldn’t, with Olivia Munn as the wife Sarchie leaves waiting at home?r.

EARTH TO ECHO (PG) Found footage is not the cinematic dead end many believe it to be, but the gambit needs a narrative purpose to be used.

The trailers for Earth to Echo, an E.T.looking wannabe that brings to mind 1988’s Mac and Me, betray no such narrative need for the found footage frame. A group of kids could help this alien named Echo return home without filming every second of it. The familyfriendly sci-fi flick is the first feature from director Dave Green.

EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG-13) Exo-suited Tom Cruise continuously kills the same generic aliens over and over in this charmingly funny, engagingly smart, sci-fi take on Groundhog Day. The untrained Cage dies but somehow wakes up to repeat the day.

Fortunately, war hero Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) knows what’s going on and gives Cage some pointers.

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FINDING VIVIAN MAIER 2013.

You probably have not heard of Vivian Maier; I had not. But Maier, a nanny, earned posthumous acclaim as one of the 20th Century’s greatest shutterbugs after the discovery of 100,000 of her negatives. Directors John Maloof and Charlie Siskel recreate Maier’s mysterious life from photos, films and interviews in this award-winning doc. Dr. Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Art History at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, will introduce the film at its one-night screening on Wednesday, July 23. (Ciné) THE FLUFFY MOVIE (PG-13) Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias brings his stand-up comedy to the big screen in this concert film. If you saw A Haunted House 2, you’re familiar with Iglesias, who starred as Marlon Wayans’s neighbor; he also played a strip club DJ and drug dealer in Magic Mike (you’re forgiven for not remembering).

For what it’s worth, director Manny Rodriguez won a Latin Grammy Award for Ricky Martin’s MTV Unplugged special. With Jeremy Ray Valdez and Juliocesar Chavez.

hopefully new dragons. Writer-director Dean DeBlois fantastically ups the ante from the first film.

JERSEY BOYS (R) Naturally, Jersey Boys is about the music. When four young men, including angel-voiced Frankie Valli (Tony winner John Lloyd Young) from the wrong side of the Jersey turnpike come together, the result is the melodic harmonies of the Four Seasons. The struggles that precede and are caused by the fame come with the musical biopic territory.

LUCY (R) The trailers for Luc Besson’s latest action sci-fi flick actually excite.

Scarlett Johansson stars as Lucy, a drug mule who has the secrets of her brain unlocked by a mysterious drug that has leaked into her system. As she reaches 100 percent consciousness, she becomes superhuman, learning Chinese in minutes and how to move objects with her mind. Morgan Freeman shows up to explain everything. One can hope for a new Besson heroine to join The Fifth Element’s Leeloo and La Femme Nikita.

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG-13) Woody Allen returns with another light romantic comedy set

Oy vey, this sword is heavy! m HERCULES (PG-13) The year’s second movie about the ripped Greek demigod (have you already forgotten The Legend of Hercules starring Twilight’s Kellan Lutz?

Everyone else has) stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, John Hurt and Ian McShane—they’re all pluses—and is directed by Brett Ratner (2011’s Tower Heist). Following his 12 labors, Hercules must aid the King of Thrace and his daughter. Methinks this is going to be more Conan than Hercules.

With Joseph Fiennes and Rufus Sewell.

HIS GIRL FRIDAY 1940. Cary Grant plays Walter Burns, the headstrong editor of The Morning Post who discovers that his former ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildegard (Rosalind Russell), is to be remarried. Now Walter must do everything within his power to stop Hildy from leaving for good. His Girl Friday gives social commentary on male-dominated work environments and the choice women often face between marriage and a professional career. Fast-paced and full of witty dialogue, this screwball comedy provides a classic battle of the sexes within a love story. (Ciné) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) How to Train Your Dragon 2 aspires to make a wonderful family film and turn it into an epic. Hiccup (v. Jay Baruchel) and his dragon, Toothless, spend their days flying across the world, discovering new locations and

in Europe. This time, the backdrop is the 1920s French Riviera, where Allen’s latest muse, Emma Stone, stars as a medium whose veracity is challenged and whose skill challenges British magician Stanley (Colin Firth), known on stage as Wei Ling Soo. The cast, including Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Hamish Linklater (HBO’s “The Newsroom”), Simon McBurney (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Eileen Atkins, is not as impressive as usual.

MALEFICENT (PG) Maleficent is clearly birthed from the Alice in Wonderland strain of family fantasy, and despite being more successful than either of 2012’s dueling Snow White retellings, overdoses on style while lacking the original cartoon’s charm.

No one benefits from this ultimately unrewarding retconning of Disney’s classic Sleeping Beauty, least of all the titular evil fairy (Angelina Jolie). Here, the powerfully wicked Maleficent is relegated to a petty trickster in snakeskin head wraps.

A MOST WANTED MAN (R) It’s always nice, if not quite successful, when someone attempts to adapt John le Carre to the big screen. In A Most Wanted Man, director Anton Corbijn (The American, which was not as good as his debut, Control) and screenwriter Andrew Bovell (Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness) are in charge of one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final performances,

as he plays a German intelligence agent planning what to do with an illegal Chechen Muslim immigrant. With Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright and Daniel Bruhl.

PERSECUTED (PG-13) Are you sure this isn’t a TV movie? Evangelist John Luther (James Remar, not Idris Elba, reprising the similarly named tortured British detective) finds himself framed for murder and having to go all “Fugitive” after failing to back a devious senator’s (played by the typecast Bruce Davison) religious reform bill.

This film’s anti-Christian conspiracy nonsense will more than likely find its audience in congregation halls rather than theaters. Persecuted has rather backwardly been adapted into a novel.

PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (PG) This Planes sequel sounds like its best years are ahead on DVD. Dusty Crophopper (v. Dane Cook), now a world-renowned racer, experiences an engine injury and changes his focus to aerial firefighting. Dusty joins the Smokejumpers, a team of all-terrain vehicles led by the veteran chopper, Blade Ranger (v. Ed Harris). Other vocal talents include Julie Bowen, Wes Studi, Dale Dye, Regina King, Corri English, Bryan Callen, Danny Pardo and Matt Jones. Remember this is just Disney, not Pixar.

SNOWPIERCER (R) If you’ve seen any of Bong Joon Ho’s excellent features, you should not be surprised at the raves his latest—a sci-fi epic, no less—has been getting. Released in the heat of summer, competing with Hollywood’s biggest, loudest blockbusters, Snowpiercer stands out as that scarce genre film one expects people to cite as a must-see in years to come. A botched attempt to stop global warming kills off all life on Earth except for the last remnants of humanity aboard a globetrotting super train.

But people are people, so they remain stratified by class, leading to a revolution led by gruff Curtis (Chris Evans), his second, Edgar (Jamie Bell), and his mentor, Gilliam (John Hurt). Seeking to reach the eternal engine, manned by the legendary Wilford (Ed Harris), Chris and his army journey through the increasingly lively, inventive cars, battling Wilford’s emissary, Mason (Tilda Swinton, a caricaturish standout in bad teeth and glasses), and soldiers.

Be prepared for Bong’s momentary whimsies and abrupt tonal shifts from serious to silly; it’ll be familiar stuff for anyone who’s seen his, The Host..

THE STORY OF OCAF Ciné and the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation present a free screening of the 30-minute documentary, The Story of OCAF 1994-2014, about a unique, nationallyknown art center located right over in Watkinsville. The community, called “The Artland of Georgia,” was created through the hard work of volunteers and paid for by independent donations, not tax money. Anyone is welcome.

For more info about OCAF, visit ocaf. com or better yet, go see the doc at Ciné. (Ciné) TAMMY (R) Melissa McCarthy headlines her hubby Ben Falcone’s directorial debut; the duo collaborated on the script. McCarthy’s Tammy hits the road with her grandmother, Pearl (Susan Sarandon), after losing her job and discovering that her husband, Greg (Nat Faxon), is a cheater. Tammy’s trailer looks more like Identity Theft 2; its description sounds much more charming. The cast includes fan favorites like Kathy Bates, Allison Janney, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Duplass, Gary Cole, Toni Collette and Sandra Oh. THINK LIKE A MAN TOO (PG-13) Everyone returns to mine more gold from the sequel to the hit romantic comedy based on Steve Harvey’s bestseller, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. The gang reconvenes in Las Vegas for the wedding of Candace and Michael (Regina Hall and Terence Jenkins). What happens in Vegas shakes up everyone’s lives. Director Tim Story, original writers David A. Newman and Keith Merryman, and original cast members Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Taraji P. Henson, Romany Malco, Gary Owen, Gabrielle Union and Kevin Hart are all back.

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG-13) Michael Bay’s fourth Transformers movie is too long, but it’s less abrasive and offensive than its two immediate predecessors.

A more appealing band of humans, led

by Mark Wahlberg, certainly helps, as do the Dinobots that finally appear in the last 30 of the movie’s 165 minutes.

Evil government, represented by Kelsey Grammer, and evil corporations, represented by Stanley Tucci, are working together with a bad Transformer named Lockdown.

22 JUMP STREET (R) 22 Jump Street steps right into the criticisms of other high profile R-rated comedy sequels like The Hangover Part II. Hot off the success of The LEGO Movie (still 2014’s best wide release), writing and directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, constantly and selfreferentially acknowledge that Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) just need to do the exact same thing again. Moving from high school to college, the undercover team must find the supplier of a dangerous new drug called WHYPHY. Drew Wheeler

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Onceâ&#x20AC;Ś Again BEGIN AGAIN (R) Writer-director John Carney, who directed the 2006 indie breakout hit Once, has a strong tendency toward the musical-driven narrative. Once was thoroughly mired in naturalistic cinema, but it also subtly strained toward the dramatically obvious, slathering us into the realm of the unreal. In other words, it was a full-blown musical. Just because it projected the illusion of realism, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it effectively real. Nevertheless, Once was a major indie movie box office success and a critical darling.

Begin Again, starring Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley, continues Carneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in musicians and how songs drive their inner emotional impulses. Ruffalo plays a burned-out, middle-aged music label A & R executive who spends his wakKeira Knightley ing hours boozing it up and attempting to run away from his familial responsibilities to his estranged wife, Miriam (Catherine Keener), and his teenaged daughter, Violet (Hailee Steinfeld). One night Dan (Ruffalo) drunkenly encounters 20-something Gretta (Knightley) performing at a small club.

Gretta has come to big, bad New York City with her boyfriend, Dave (Adam Levine), and has felt unmoored since Dave hit it big in the biz and indulged in excess more than in her.

Despite his own problems, Dan believes in Gretta and works to make her career skyrocket.

Once, despite its smoke-and-mirrors sincerity, did manage to convey a sense of real emotion from its otherwise clichĂŠd and labored narrative. The duo of Glen Hansard and MarkĂŠta IrglovĂĄ made for a somewhat compelling movie coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;downplayed and temperately identifiable. Although their relationship was clearly platonic, the romantic attraction between the two was ever-present. Begin Again ups that theme here, yet Carney and his actors somehow manage not to sink into creepy territory. Dan and Gretta are attracted to one another, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimately about the music, folks.

Begin Again has its significant moments, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappointing, because Carneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic sensibilities come off as squarely middle-brow. From its performances to its songs to its shot selections to its overall â&#x20AC;&#x153;message,â&#x20AC;? Begin Again feels lazy and safe. Most all of the performances, including musician/celebrity Levineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, are solid.

But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly the problem. The whole endeavor feelsâ&#x20AC;Ś well, fine. Uninspired. For a movie about the hunger for creativity and how we need that inspiration to prosper imaginatively, Begin Again is dead air. If Kenny Loggins were a movie, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be mimicking Carneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s song.

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Athens Resident Plans Flaming Party Dome

Cory Glenn inside a dome prototype at the Athens Burn Consortium’s one-year anniversary event last fall.

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As mentioned in his Kickstarter, fire is expensive. One 20-pound propane tank could keep the 12-foot dome running for two nights, but the increase in size and more effects— such as a “poofer,” a propane cannon that shoots flames out the top of the dome— significantly adds to the cost. “It’s negligible in that small size, but when you get up to the bigger size, the one I have right now costs $50 a night to run,” says Glenn. “The whole setup, when I’m done, will burn about 500 pounds of propane a night.”

The “big setup”—the 50-foot dome, plus the five 20-foot domes—will house about 500 people and will take two flatbed trucks, a boom crane and a team of five people two days to set up. The big dome will have a “fire plate in it the size of a living room” and will also be equipped with 11 fire ports along the top, which will be electronically wired for controlled displays of “chases and spirals,” Glenn says.

A lot of the funds will be going towards making sure this project is safe for interaction and adheres to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) codes, a professional resource for firemen, which Glenn says a lot of fire marshals use. However, he says, “No matter what we do, no matter how many fire extinguishers we have and how many engineers we have sign off on it… I foresee at least one or two instances [where] the fire marshal says ‘There’s no way in hell I let you put 500 people in this thing.’”

Glenn says that he’s trying to promote Incendia as something that’s “safer than palm tree heaters outside of bars, [because] you can’t touch the flame.

“This is a really safe concept,” he says.

“We’re trying to pitch it as being safer than those palm tree heaters you see outside of bars because all the fire is out of reach. Those things, people burn themselves on them all the time. I’ve seen drunks scald the shit out of their hands trying to light a cigarette on it all the time.”

Glenn says they’ll be purchasing “as much as $3 million in liability insurance” for the mobile installation. Ultimately, he hopes to have the final project finished by this fall for Alchemy, another regional burn in Georgia.

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ave you ever wondered what it would be like to party inside the Thunderdome from Mad Max? How about a Thunderdome that shoots fire out of the top while you safely dance the night away beneath the glow?

That is exactly what Athens resident Cory Glenn wants to do with his new project he’s calling “Incendia”—a mobile fire installation consisting of 50-foot aluminum dome surrounded by five 20-foot domes that is capable of hosting up to 500 people “for concerts, festivals, wedding and corporate receptions and private soirees,” according to a Kickstarter account the New Earth Music Hall bartender started with a goal of raising $10,000 for the project.

Last year, at the Athens Burn Consortium’s one-year anniversary, Glenn unveiled an initial prototype—a smaller, fully covered 12-foot dome. “This is my third largescale interactive installation,” says Glenn, who added that his first two included the effigy at another burn, Alchemy, in 2012 and the “Square Grouper”—a 20-by-20 floating “party barge” with a satellite dish rigged to be a floating fire pit in the middle of it.

Glenn’s third interactive flame installation, Incendia, has been a work in progress since early 2013. “The eureka moment came when I was fooling around with these little pedestals… with a propane tank inside,” he says.

On top of the pedestals sat a bowl setting and Glenn says that one day he held the whole contraption at the bottom by the hose and flipped it on its end. “It kind of cupped the flame and held it in there and wafted around,” he says.

Glenn made his first prototype and took it to Flame Festival, an event dedicated to learning the art of fire spinning. “It was pretty pitiful,” he says. “I didn’t have the right fittings, and it malfunctioned after a while. But it was really cool for a second there.”

The next time he set it up, he made the appropriate adjustments and continued adding more complex elements, like a cover and faux roof to allow for exhaust to escape. This was his 12-foot dome that was a “big hit” at another regional burn, known as Transformus.

Now, he’s made a 20-foot dome—one of the pieces to his Incendia project—and the prototype sits in his backyard.

Every summer, the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art dedicates its walls to “Emerges,” an annual exhibition now in its seventh year, that was specifically created to showcase local, up-and-coming artists.

Co-curated between ATHICA director Tatiana Veneruso and multimedia artist Ted Kuhn, a 2012 BFA graduate and organizer of the bizarrely intriguing installation-based “Bulldog Inn Art Show,” “Emerges VII” presents the works of six artists who are finding their voice, refining their style and experimenting with new media.

Though Athens has dozens of restaurants, coffee shops, salons and other random spaces in which artwork is regularly exhibited, it’s still a small town with few galleries, making it all the more difficult for new artists to compete with professional and international names. Understandably, “Emerges” can be an important step for Athenians looking to establish themselves locally and expand to walls beyond their town.

“We like to stay relevant on a national and international scale, which is obviously really important for a contemporary gallery, but we also strive to be relatable to our community and support people here,” says Veneruso.

Through the asymmetry and bright colors of his unusual canvases, Jason Matherly attempts to move the viewer’s eye to the outer edges of his works, which are dotted with patches of bright brushstrokes, challenging the way traditional paintings are typically viewed head-on. “The curves and irregular contours of the shaped canvases serve largely to compete with the straight markings, hopefully creating varying degrees of tension,” he says.

Matherly was a cofounder of the Cunny Isle Bemusement Park, a collaborative studio that operated from 20102013 on Barrow Street Jason Sokolic as an artist workspace that also hosted free monthly events centered around performance art, poetry, visual art, music and critique.

“One of the basic ideas was to counteract the stodginess we’d so often encountered at other events. Instead of being quiet and polite, we drank, we yelled, we laughed, we threw things—neither the performers nor the audience were guaranteed too much safety,” he says. “It was a place to get dirty, to get and give unmitigated responses to work, and it was tons of fun.”

Spanning the wall near the gallery’s entrance, Christopher Nelms’ installation is a giant collage of paintings, handwritten poems and notes, sketches, pages of books and more, all haphazardly arranged with red duct tape and pushpins. Nelms, who was also a key participant in Cunny Isle, demonstrates versatility and ease with experimentation through the variety of his collage’s pieces.

Jason Sokolic, currently a fine-art undergraduate at UGA, presents a Dalî-esque “dining room of the deranged and disoriented,” complete with melted, warped chairs, a staircase, ceiling fan and plates of spaghetti.

“I wanted to demonstrate the physical qualities of one of my favorite synthetic materials: flexible polyurethane foam—the stuff stress balls are made of,” he says. “With the material as the variable, we can really see how it acts in comparison to more familiar ones.”

When 2012 UGA BFA in painting and drawing Addison Adams created his installation for “Emerges,” he assembled a group of found or altered objects like textiles, pillows, traffic cones and a life vest into a corner, intuitively responding to the materials themselves as he went along.

“Athens is a really inspiring and wonderful town for emerging artists. The only challenges I’ve run into are finding spaces to show work regularly—other than restaurants and bars— and getting any sort of financial support to have the means, time, space, materials, to continue being productive. You can make it work, though,” he says.

Adams, who recently did an outdoor light, sculpture and video installation and performance with his band Salsa Chest at The Goat Farm Sound and Vision Film Festival in Atlanta, will continue experimenting when he attends a three-month residency program for film in Wilmington, NC, this fall.

Jordana Dale, who recently received her BFA in photography from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, presents a series of 16 portraits showing young couples sharing tender moments and also a handful of contemplative singles alone in their bedrooms.

Though the snapshots seem candid, at times even bordering on voyeuristic from their level of intimacy and vulnerability, Dale uses models to create narratives from her own experiences. The muted palette and minimalism of the scenes mirror the difficulty of recollection, evoking a wistful nostalgia for delicate memories.

Though Gabriel Cymerman-Bird considers himself to be more of a craftsman than an artist, he has been creating LED light sculptures for the past few years and participated in ATHICA’s “CONTENT” show last year among 70 artists from around the world. He contributes two larger pieces for “Emerges,” one with a collection of multicolored orbs and one that uses mirrors and lights to create an optical illusion.

“Whether in Athens or anywhere else, being an artist is the hardest job anyone can try to have from a financial standpoint. There’s a lot of competition, and the market definitely has more sellers than buyers,” says Veneruso.

“From a creative standpoint, it’s hard not to become lost in the masses. But you have to stay true to yourself and not worry about the market.”

Special events for “Emerges VII” include “Surfacing: The Art of Body Painting,” organized by Melissa Biel, on Saturday, Aug. 2 from 7–9 p.m.; a children’s workshop on Sunday, Aug. 17 from 2:30–4:30 p.m.; and a closing reception on Sunday, Aug. 24 from 4–6 p.m.

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Zoe Jet Ellis

Acrimony on the Airwaves

WUOG GM Dismissed From Station

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keeme Martin, the general manager at WUOG 90.5 FM, the student-run University of Georgia radio station, was permanently dismissed last week for “violations of the station’s constitution, including a series of events that the board felt misrepresented WUOG as a whole,” according to a press release.

Staff Advisor Donielle Bell sent Flagpole a copy of the dismissal letter, which outlines the violations in question. According to the letter, Martin falsely claimed he was a UGA student, which in fact he was not for much of his tenure on the executive board. All WUOG staffers must “be enrolled as a student in good academic standing with the university,” per the organization’s constitution.

Additionally, the letter states, he exaggerated his role at the station in an attempt to land a prominent headliner for WorleyFest, an ambitious, WUOG-presented arts and music festival spearheaded by Martin and planned for this fall.

“Akeeme misrepresented WUOG in a negative fashion and misrepresented himself as the decision authority for obtaining a performer,” the letter reads. “Further, his communication was unprofessional and damaging to WUOG’s reputation with our community partners.

“After being told not to contact anyone on behalf of WUOG, to cease activity and planning of WorleyFest, and officially resigning from his position on Thursday, June 19, 2014, Akeeme was insubordinate by continuing to work on behalf of WorleyFest,” the letter continues.

An attempt to overturn the ruling via an appeals process was unsuccessful. According to the station’s constitution, a dismissal is followed by a grievance period, during which the staffer may “fully discuss the situation, develop the facts, state their contentions, clear up any possible misunderstandings and attempt to formally resolve the dispute.”

A dismissal can only be overturned by a majority vote from the entire, student-run grievance committee. According to a source on the committee, Martin’s non-student status was the chief factor that led to his ouster.

“Permanent dismissal means that Akeeme Martin will NOT be able to obtain a position at 90.5 FM at any time in the future, including any positions on the WUOG alumni board,” reads the letter.

Martin became WUOG’s general manager in 2013 after nearly 10 years at the station and three on its executive board. He was instrumental in bringing hip hop and R&B to local airwaves, as the host of the popular “Halftime Hip Hop Show,” which often featured in-studio performances from local and regional artists.

But his tenure on the WUOG board coincided with tough times for the 41-year-old station, which has been plagued by staff shortages, scheduling inconsistencies and technical problems over the last several years; it has become common to tune to the station at any given point during the week only to hear static or dead air.

Reached for comment, Martin gave the following statement: “A 10-year career has come to a close. If I wanted one thing for people to remember when it comes to my ‘legacy’ there, it would be that any and everything that I have ever done has been for the love of [WUOG] and, more importantly, each and every person that I may have impacted during my time there. WUOG will always be in my heart, and no one can ever take that away from me.”

Former Publications Director Lawson Chambers, who will serve as general manager for the remainder of 2014, writes in an email, “I’m very excited to serve WUOG—not as a leader, but as a representative. The station has always operated with open communication and transparency, which is important in ensuring that everyone feels like they’re a part of it.

“The WUOG executive board and I are already continuing our work to improve the station and provide outstanding alternative programming to the community,” he continues. “I look forward to what we will accomplish this year.”

The shakeup at WUOG follows the drama at another bastion of college radio 70 miles west. WRAS 88.5, the student-run station at Georgia State University in Atlanta, recently entered into a controversial partnership with Georgia Public Broadcasting. The deal, which emerged from what many saw as backroom discussions between GPB and GSU from which student staffers were deliberately omitted, led to GPB taking control of WRAS’ airwaves during the prime hours of 5 a.m.–7 p.m.

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Consistent Chaos

A Sunny Day in Glasgow’s Harsh, Beautiful Sound

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ea When Absent, the new record from dream-pop innovators A Sunny Day in Glasgow, is perhaps the best and most disorienting release of their career thus far.

The group prods and pulls its music every which way, exposing its bare elements and then distorting them into something nearly unrecognizable. On July 23, the band brings its harsh and beautiful sound to Athens for a show at the Caledonia Lounge.

It’s been four years since the last Sunny Day record, and despite the band’s reputation for constantly rotating new members in and out (guitarist Ben Daniels is all that remains of the original incarnation), the cast from 2010’s Autumn, Again returns for Sea When Absent, marking the first time the group’s lineup has remained consistent between two consecutive albums in its entire seven-year run.

Not that you would know it from listening to the albums back to back. None of the stripped-down, quiet, electronic music of the band’s past shows up on the new record.

Instead, there is a constant, ear-piercing haze throughout Sea When Absent; even the simplest, most cutesy melody sounds like it’s pouring out of the mouth of God. The road to releasing the album was not easy. Though it was funded through Kickstarter in early 2012, it would still be a full two years before the record was completed and released. Lead vocalist Annie Fredrickson—serving as a sort of mouthpiece and translator for the band, as all six members responded to Flagpole’s interview questions at once—says, “Getting everyone their Kickstarter rewards was one of the hardest parts about making this album.”

It sounds like a joke, but in addition to limited-edition pressings of rare, past material, the list of prizes for donors included personalized mixtapes, a Weird Al-style parody of the song of one’s choice performed by the band, various instrument lessons, a one-hour discussion about conspiracy theories via Skype, a karaoke night out and much more.

The recording process was also unusual.

Since all six members live in different parts of the world, they were rarely all in the same place at once.

“Recording was mostly done at Uniform Studios in Philly, with everyone making pilgrimages out here to get their parts done whenever they could,” says Fredrickson.

As a result, Sea When Absent has so many different moving parts and noises that it’s often hard to tell whether you’re hearing carefully planned-out pieces or complete chaos.

Songs like closer “Golden Waves” almost sound like two or three tracks playing at once. (“Maybe you should check to see if you have more than one iTunes window open, just in case,” jokes a band member.)

On the subject of switching from the splintered recording sessions to the whole band playing on stage each night, Fredrickson adds, “The transition has gone smoothly… so far.”

But the question of what the group thinks the new album sounds like ignites a firestorm of responses, each member trying to get his or her opinion heard over the fuzzy Idaho cell phone reception.

“We wanted people to hear the lyrics this time around. We didn’t want this to be a guitar record,” says one voice before being immediately interrupted by another: “Wait, this is totally a guitar record. What are you talking about? You’re an idiot.” It’s not long before everyone is trying to get a say in. “Did you get that?” asks Fredrickson over wild laughter.

In a way, the experience of speaking with the band is a reflection of its new album itself, which is fast-moving, with sounds and perspectives coming from every direction.

There is a distorted sense of reality and an overwhelming sense of fun. Most of all, it’s really loud.

The future looks bright for A Sunny Day in Glasgow. The band’s increased critical profile has upped attendance to its shows and appreciation of its work in general, and from a younger, more vocal fan base. But the group’s members won’t let it get to their heads anytime soon. “We appreciate all the nice things people have said about the album,” says Fredrickson, “but it hasn’t made tour life in the van any different.”

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Nurtures Young Musicians

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ot every summer camp is all about horseback riding and popsicle-stick art projects. Thanks to Girls Rock Athens, the young women of Athens can spend their summer days beginning their music careers.

Girls Rock Athens is part of the Girls Rock Camp Alliance, which began in Portland, OR in 2007. The Alliance is a coalition of nonprofit organizations that makes it possible for camps to take place in the U.S. and overseas by providing accredited member organizations with the network and resources they need to make an impact on young female musicians.

The first Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls took place in Portland in 2001. The movement came to Athens after UGA student Calley Payne volunteered at an affiliated camp in Atlanta.

Knowing the Athens community would embrace any program that encouraged creativity and self-expression, Payne founded and ran the first Girls Rock Athens camp in 2009.

The Girls Rock Athens camp introduces girls ranging from age 9–15 to the aspects of professional music, and it also gives them the chance to meet positive female role models from the local music scene.

Erica Strout was a part of Girls Rock Athens from the beginning. The first year, Strout performed with her band, Incendiaries. She was amazed by the energy at the camp and felt a connection to the cause it represented. She returned the next year to work as a band coach.

“I found it a really rewarding place to be,” says Strout. “The next year, I took on the role of artistic director, then became program director.”

Strout herself played music from a young age. By requirement, she learned piano at 7. In 5th grade, she started to play saxophone in her school’s band. She experimented with different instruments, played drums in her high school drum line and then turned to guitar out of boredom.

But without an opportunity to meet peers who loved music, like the campers at Girls Rock Athens, playing rock and roll was an isolating experience.

“I do feel like there was a lack of support,” Strout says of her early years as a musician. “A good part of that was that nobody else really seemed interested…

I feel like that would have opened up my world a lot [sooner] than my world opened up.”

During her six years of involvement, Strout has witnessed the camp grow from 12 campers to more than 30 this year.

On their applications, girls identify themselves as drummers, bass players, guitar players or singers. At the beginning of the weeklong camp, they divide themselves into bands. Coaches spend the rest of the week developing the groups, giving individual instruction and dispensing general tips on how to make it as a musician.

The girls spend much of their time each day in workshops learning the basics of making and performing music. They

attend and learn from expert volunteers about songwriting, the history of women in rock and roll, stage presence, self-publication, DIY merchandise making and even self-defense. Each day, a local band or performer plays for the campers, which serves to inspire the young music lovers.

When they’re not in workshops, campers receive lessons on their chosen instruments and practice working as a team within their bands. They spend two hours of each afternoon in band practice, writing songs together and practicing what they will perform at the end of the week.

No prior musical experience is required to be a Girls Rock Athens participant. Although girls have the opportunity to learn about being a musician and mastering their instrument, the camp is primarily intended to have an impact on their selfesteem and confidence.

“We want the girls to learn as much as they can when they’re [at camp], but we are more of a female youth empowerment organization,” says Strout.

The first “core value” of Girls Rock Alliance and the affiliated camps is “the power of music as a means to create personal and social change.” At its heart, the program is meant to increase opportunities for women of all ages and to provide a healthy outlet for combatting gender discrimination and inequity of all kinds.

To make sure the organization is as inclusive as its mission statement indicates, scholarships are available to campers who could not afford to participate otherwise. Equipment is also provided for, so that no one is limited by what they do or do not have at home.

By enabling young girls to perform at their individual best and as collaborating members of bands, the campers practice working with the organization’s values of integrity, honesty and respect.

For Strout, the end result is moving. “The first year I was a band coach, there was a girl who was there as a singer but didn’t have a lot of vocal control. So, we talked her into doing this Patti Smith thing, and she did so well. My heart bursts every time we go to the show.”

The hard work and learning from July 28–Aug. 1 culminates in a performance that is open to the public. This year, the campers will perform at the 40 Watt Club on Saturday, Aug. 2.

Jodi Murphy

WHAT: Girls Rock Athens Finale WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 2 HOW MUCH: FREE!

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Regularly scheduled programming below: 14,000 Seconds Over East Campus Road: This season’s edition of the Georgia Museum of Art’s “Museum Mix” program will feature Michael Lachowski spinning records from the bands that inspired Pylon. Lachowski was, of course, that group’s bassist—not to mention one of the premier DJs in town back when that craft was still a pretty underground art in our guitar-loving burg—and now works in public relations for the museum. This event is coordinated in tandem with “Shapes That Talk to Me: The Athens Scene, 1975–85,”

Finding Vivian Maier

currently on display at the museum, and presented by Art Rocks Athens. Attendees can expect to hear cuts from artists such as Kraftwerk, Pere Ubu, Cabaret Voltaire and more. Save the date of Thursday, July 24 and remember it’s free, open to the public and runs 8 p.m.–midnight.

Ciné · 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. · $7.50–9.75 During her lifetime, Vivian Maier was a prickly recluse who worked as a nanny.

With a Rolleiflex camera almost always strapped around her neck, however, she pursued a private passion for photography on the streets of Chicago, quietly building a stunning archive of over 100,000 negatives. She was not discovered as an artist until two years before her death, when defaulted payments on a storage space led to boxes of her negatives being auctioned off to collector John Maloof.

Finding Vivian Maier, directed by Maloof and Charlie Siskel, attempts to unveil the mystery surrounding Maier’s personal life and body of work through never before seen photographs and interviews with the people who thought they knew her. Dr. Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Art History at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, will give an introduction. [Jessica Smith]

Wot’s… Uh, the Deel?: Jacob “Jay-Cub Lake” Deel reports that he’ll be playing a full-band show with his project Cottonmouth Wednesday, July 30 at Go Bar to celebrate Parks Miller’s (Muuy Biien, Dip) birthday. But why do you care, right? Deel has steadily been crafting this thing for, well, a really long time.

The band now consists of Deel, Robbie Rapp (Muuy Biien), Josh Evans (Muuy Biien), CJ Brown and Benjamin Taylor. While the band will record a new EP at The Glow Recording

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Mafia on Prozac

Cellar Theatre, Fine Arts Building · 8 p.m. · $10 UGA’s Department of Theatre and Film Studies presents the Classic City Stage Company’s production of Mafia on Prozac, a collaboration between longtime colleagues Ray Paolino, UGA’s director of theatre, and Barry Pearson, provost of Adron Farris

The nature of this column often dictates that I takes sides in matters of taste, talent, etc. Rarely is it appropriate, in this limited forum, to take an actual position on the rightness or wrongness of a situation. However, after the quick dismissal of longtime Athens hip hop impresario Akeeme Martin from his newly appointed position as WUOG 90.5 FM’s general manager (see story on p. 11), there are a few things I want to say.

Because I’m not privy to the information surrounding Martin’s reported lack of student enrollment status at the student-run station, nor his reportedly inappropriate actions on behalf of the presumably in-limbo WorleyFest, I won’t speak to those things.

What I will say is this: During his 10-year tenure at the station, Martin galvanized a regular audience and pretty much singlehandedly created a go-to space on the airwaves for hip hop in Athens. He was the only WUOG staffer who was easy to contact, and was always responsive and enthusiastic to press inquiries. Further, listeners could count on hearing the “Halftime Hip Hop Show,” even when the rest of the broadcast day was staticky or off the air.

Martin put real action behind his well-spoken love for WUOG. If it is so troubling to the WUOG constitution that Martin, the most dedicated of the dedicated, wasn’t always an “enrolled student in good standing,” then it’s time for that conAkeeme Martin stitution to be changed, its charter stripped of the “student-only” designation and for WUOG to make the transformation to being a true community station.

While there have certainly been others in the past decade who gave their all to WUOG, the fact is that Martin gave more. If a student-run station can’t be reliably and thoughtfully programmed, participate healthily in both community outreach and promotional activities and make a meaningful mark outside the campus confines—all of which Martin did—then it’s time to rethink its status as a student-only forum.

Again, I’m not saying Martin’s dismissal was egregious if, indeed, rules were broken.

I’m saying that if the best of WUOG’s talent isn’t coming from the actual student body, then it’s time for a serious overhaul of the station’s constitution, organizational structure and standards of practice.

Martin’s most recent broadcast was uploaded June 19, and can be found, along with others, at mixcloud.com/akeeme-martin.

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Studio with engineer Jesse Mangum in August, there will also be an entirely new full-length, Man-Cub, uploaded on the 22nd of that month. I’ll tip you to its location as soon as that happens. For the uninitiated, or even you old hands, delve into Cottonmouth’s ultrawide weirdo hip hop/noise/squelch canvas at jay-cub.bandcamp.com.

Notes From the Würmhole: There was a phenomenon that happened toward the middleend of the reign of the mighty SST Records.

You’d head to the record store, pick up an album by a band you’d never heard of and buy it, simply because SST was Black Flag’s label, so how bad could it be? Then you’d sit with your mouth agape as you realized you were listening to a demo tape by some band label owner Greg Ginn was friends with, and he really dug their high-pitched guitar skronk and verse-chorus-verse sub-fuzz mid-tempo garagepunk-with-a-little-jazz-thrown-in mix, because it was the 1980s. That’s exactly the same experience I just had with the debut album from The Dry HuMps. Ignoring (permanently) the group’s low-grade name and superfluous capitalization, the facts are that the band is composed of Mateo Sizzler, JB Bradberry, Justin Oxbolt and Holland Tanner. The album landed on iTunes earlier this month, but you can stream pretty much all of it via reverbnation.com/thedryhumps. An official release show will happen Aug. 9 at the Caledonia Lounge, where The Dry HuMps open for The Honey Sliders, who will also be celebrating a new album that night. Happy hunting!

this August. Proceeds from the local shows will help defray costs incurred for the Edinburgh performances. [JS] MUSIC | Wednesday, July 23

Mouser, Milezo, Marmalakes

Flicker Theatre & Bar · 9 p.m. · $3 Wednesday’s rock and roll show at Flicker is brought to you by the letter M and features two noteworthy bands from the marvelous music mecca of Austin, TX. The first, a four-piece called Milezo, released a very good record called Pathways at the tail end of 2013. The album owes much to some of our most beloved local sounds—namely the sunny, lysergic pop of Elephant 6—but also takes cues from windows-down psych-gaze groups like the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

The second, Marmalakes, is a leaner and cleaner folk-rock group with an affinity for diamond-edged song structure and sweet, soaring melodies. On-again locals Mouser fall somewhere in the middle, pop perfection hidden beneath spazzy squall. [Gabe Vodicka] MUSIC | Thursday, July 24

Bobby Bare’s Young Criminals’ Starvation League, Carter King and Thomas Johnson

Green Room · 9 p.m. · $10 He’s the son of legendary country figure Bobby Bare, but don’t let his pedigree fool you: With his group Young Criminals’ Starvation League, Nashville-based singersongwriter Bobby Bare Jr. offers up a skewed take on the rootsy Americana his hometown is known for. Playful but powerful, Bare and his band employ sheets of psychedelic guitar and bursts of bluegrass banjo with equally convincing gusto, as evidenced by the recent Undefeated LP. Show up on time for this one, as Futurebirds’ Carter King and Thomas Johnson are back in town to perform a stripped-down duo set. [GV] MUSIC | Thursday, July 24–Saturday, July 26

SlopFest

From back to front: T. Anthony Marotta, Ray Paolino and Michael Stille the State University of New York Purchase College. Playwright Edward Allan Baker’s dark off-Broadway comedy centers on two aging Mafia hitmen who discuss life, death and the fate of a man tied up in a burlap sack that they’ve been ordered to kill. On anti-depressants and in sexual therapy for impotence, the duo break the mold of stereotypical tough-guy gangsters. With Paolino as a lead actor and Pearson serving as director, the two pooled resources to present the professional-level play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland

Little Kings Shuffle Club · 10 p.m. (Thurs.), 7 p.m.

(Fri. & Sat.) · FREE! (Thursday), $5 (Fri. & Sat.), $7 (wristband) To a certain set of townies, the arrival of AthFest each June is a source of excitement for one reason: It means SlopFest is right around the corner. The three-day rock and punk-oriented fest is a decidedly underground counterpart to its more visible companion but is known for featuring some of the most exciting acts both wellestablished and on the rise. This year’s lineup includes local bands like Little Gold, Motherfucker, Cinemechanica, Shehehe, Deep State and Eureka California, as well as the debut solo outing from MC Louie Larceny (ex-Mad Axes) and performances by regional must-sees Faux Ferocious and cross-country standout The Hugs.

Thursday’s kickoff show is free of charge, and you can attend the rest of the weekend for a song. For the full schedule, see the Calendar. [GV]

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WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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

Tuesday 22 ART: Lunch & Learn: 1-Bit Art and Music (Georgia Museum of Art) UGA faculty and staff are invited to learn about the work of artist, composer and programmer Tristan Perich. Lunch will be provided.

Space is limited. Email to reserve a spot. 12:30 p.m. FREE! cdicindi@ uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: A Course in Miracles (Body, Mind & Spirit) Learn the inner workings of a miracle. Every Tuesday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-351-6024 EVENTS: Run Off Election (Your polling place) Last chance to vote. 7 a.m.–7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3150 EVENTS: Tuesday Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Fresh produce and cooked foods. Offers double dollars for EBT shoppers.

Held every Tuesday. 4–7 p.m. 706613-0122, 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 FILM: Bad Movie Night: Demolition Highway (Ciné Barcafé) Out for low-budgeted revenge, ex-con and pirate shirt devotee Frank Scarvo runs up against fortune telling biker gangs, mullet-sporting henchmen and Joe Estevez, all while attempting to rescue Summer. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/badmovienight GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia with host Caitlin Wilson. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia Night (Transmetropolitan) Westside location. Dirty South nerd trivia with Todd Kelly. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/dirtysouthtrivia 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 LECTURES & LIT: Genealogy on the Internet (ACC Library) A brief introduction to genealogy Internet resources. Registration is free but required. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650, www.athenslibrary.org

Wednesday 23 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, leads an in-

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depth discussion of F. Luis Mora’s painting “Tale of Cinderella.” 2 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Buddhist Teachings (Body, Mind & Spirit) Learn how to apply the teaching of Buddha to end suffering and bring peace to your life. Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-351-6024 CLASSES: QuickBooks Stepby-Step (UGA Small Business Development Center) This course is designed to give small business owners an overview of using QuickBooks for their business needs. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $49. 706542-6791, www.georgiasbdc.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net FILM: Cinébaby (Ciné Barcafé) Ciné presents a new series of afternoon shows for moms, dads and their babies. With soft lighting, lowered sound, stroller parking and a changing table in the screening room, parents and caregivers can watch an adult movie without having to find a babysitter. This week’s films include Finding Vivian Maier (3 p.m.) and Begin Again (3:15 p.m.). $7.50. www.athenscine.com FILM: Finding Vivian Maier (Ciné Barcafé) This documentary explores the life of a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were not discovered until decades later. With an introduction

by Dr. Janice Simon of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. See Calendar Pick on p. 13. 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. $7.50–9.75. www.athenscine.com FILM: The Story of OCAF: 1994– 2014 (Ciné Barcafé) This film tells the story of how volunteers created and continue to sustain an outstanding art center. Refreshments will be served. 7 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com, www.athenscine.com GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-6130892 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 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (Oconee County Library) For children of all ages and their families. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950, www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Shadow Puppet Show (Madison County Library, Danielsville) The show is lively, full of music and fun for all ages. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597, www.athenslibrary.org/madison

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KIDSTUFF: Children’s Book Club (Oconee County Library) Rising 4th–6th graders are invited to the Mad Scientists Book Club to discuss books and conduct fun experiments.

Registration required. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Batman Day (Barnes and Noble Café) Celebrate Batman’s 75th birthday with a special Batman storytime. Come dressed as Batman or your favorite DC Comics character. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706354-1195 KIDSTUFF: Is It Alive? Story Time (Oglethorpe County Library) Challenge your skills of observing, exploring and predicting. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-743-8817, www.athenslibrary.org/oglethorpe KIDSTUFF: Beach Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Sing, dance and read stories about the beach. The program will end with an ageappropriate craft. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597, www.athenslibrary. org/madison SPORTS: Hardcourt Bike Polo (West Campus Parking Deck Basketball Courts) Equipment provided. New players welcome. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athbikepolo THEATRE: Mafia on Prozac (UGA Fine Arts Building) UGA’s department of theatre and film studies presents The Classic City Stage Company’s production of the offBroadway comedy by Edward Allan Baker. Two aging Mafia members discuss life and death as they determine the fate of a man they’ve been ordered to kill. See Calendar Pick on p. 13. July 23–25, 8 p.m. $10. rpaolino@uga.edu

Thursday 24 ART: Paper Covers Rock Gallery Tour & Discussion (Lyndon House Arts Center) Led by Lyndon House Curator of Exhibitions, Nancy Lukasiewicz, “Paper Covers Rock” is an exhibition of graphic and fine arts held in partnership with “Art Rocks Athens.” 6 p.m. FREE! 706-6133623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ parkmonth ART: Gallery Talk (Georgia Museum of Art) Barbara Jones, chief curator of the Westmoreland Collection of American Art, and Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Art History, lead a discussion on the exhibition “Picturing America: Signature Works from the Westmoreland Collection of American Art.” 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Museum Mix (Georgia Museum of Art) Featuring DJ Michael Lachowski, food and drinks, and access to all the galleries until mid-

Watercolor and pen landscapes by Katherine Anne Dunlap are currently on view at The Grit through Sunday, Aug. 3. night. Inspired by Art Rocks Athens’ “Shapes That Talk to Me” installation, Lachowski will play records that were popular while the early Athens music scene was forming. 8 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! www.arts.uga.edu CLASSES: One-On-One Computer Tutorial (ACC Library) Personalized instruction available for various computer topics. 9–9:45 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 354 EVENTS: Adult Spelling Bee (Treppenhaus) Test your spelling skills. Competitors must have a drink in hand on stage and finish it in order to move on to the next round. 9 p.m. (registration), 10 p.m. (competition). 706-355-3060 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 EVENTS: Dealing for Darius (The Rail Athens) A one-night Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament, plus casino games. Winner gets a Casino package. Proceeds benefit Darius Goes West and Duchenne muscular dystrophy research. See story on p. 7. 7 p.m. $40. www.dariusgoeswest.com EVENTS: Meat & Three: Athens Food Scene Then and Now (ACC Library) Local historian Milton Leathers and event master Lee Epting talk about some food and unique restaurants that are now mere memories. Mary Charles Howard of Georgia Food Tours will describe the newer food trends and

local restaurants available today. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org 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: Silly Sock Hop (ACC Library) Wear your silliest socks, dance and play games. Part of the Summer Reading Performance Series. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650, www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Pajama Story Time (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Come in your pajamas and bring a stuffed animal for stories, songs and snacks. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 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 THEATRE: Mafia on Prozac (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Wednesday listing for full description July 23–25, 8 p.m. $10. rpaolino@uga. edu

Friday 25 ART: Open Studio (Studio #4, 160 Tracy St.) Artist Erin McIntosh is hosting an open studio event to preview new abstract paintings.

Enjoy light refreshments. July 25, 3–8 p.m. & July 26, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

FREE! www.erinmcintosh.com EVENTS: Family Carnival (The Body Shop of Athens) Featuring a 27’ Lava Twist slip ‘n slide, petting

zoo, caricature artist, midway games with prizes, barbeque, face painting, a DJ and much more. Proceeds benefit Darius Goes West and Duchenne muscular dystrophy research. See story on p. 7. 6–8:30 p.m. $5. www. dariusgoeswest.org EVENTS: Healing Circle and Meditation (Body, Mind & Spirit) Held every Friday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-351-6024 KIDSTUFF: Drop-in Play (Oconee County Library) Play with ageappropriate toys and meet new friends. Ages 1–3. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Comic Con at Your Library (ACC Library) Celebrate comic and pop culture characters with face painting, photo booths, games and costume contests.

Open to teens in grades 6–12.

Pre-registration required. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org PERFORMANCE: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (UGA Performing Arts Center) America’s premier repertory company of chamber music performs two different concerts. July 25, 8–10 p.m. July 26, 3–5 p.m. $40. www.pac.uga.edu THEATRE: The Pied Piper (Morton Theatre) Athens Creative Theatre’s performance camp presents a musical theater production. A town is overun with rats when a gentleman named Pied Piper arrives, offering to get rid of them. After he disposes of the cheese nibblers, as promised, the town claims to be too poor to pay him, so he kidnaps their children and hides them within a magic mountain in retaliation. 7 p.m. $6. www.mortontheatre.com

THEATRE: Who’s on First (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) Four people find themselves reliving one horrible hour at a party over and over. July 25–26, 7:30 p.m. July 27, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.elberttheatre.org THEATRE: Mafia on Prozac (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Wednesday listing for full description July 23–25, 8 p.m. $10. rpaolino@uga. edu

Saturday 26 ART: Open Studio See Friday listing for full description July 25, 3–8 p.m. & July 26, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.erinmcintosh.com 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 p.m. $30.

706-850-1354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com EVENTS: 2nd Annual Darius Goes West Run, Stroll & Roll 5K Race (Sandy Creek Park) A 5K race for runners, walkers and wheelchair riders. See story on p. 7. 7:30 a.m. $25–30. www.dariusgoeswest.org EVENTS: King of Da Street (Sky City Parking Lot, 468 North Ave.) This car and bike show showcases some of the best cars and bikes in the industry from all over the U.S. Proceeds benefit The Bigger Vision, a local homeless shelter. 2–9 p.m.

FREE! 706-286-0386, kods@bigindastreet.com EVENTS: Mountain Bike Fun Ride (East Athens Community Center) Explore new off-road trails created and maintained by the Southern Off-Road Biking Association. Bring a bike and helmet. 2–5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3580 EVENTS: Mojito Fest (La Puerta del Sol) Celebrate Latin American culture with music, dancing and this classic Latin drink. Taste mojitos from competing bars and restaurants and vote on your favorite.

Professional Samba dancers will perform. Proceeds benefit Casa de Amistad. 6–9 p.m. $25. www.athensamistad.org EVENTS: Cheerio, Meghan (The Tasting Room at Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company) An evening of music, food, beer and coffee in celebration of Meghan McNeeley, a teacher at Clarke Middle School who was recently awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching.

McNeeley will be studying in London for the fall semester. Donations will be accepted to help subsidize her family’s living expenses while overseas. 5–7 p.m. Donations encouraged. 706-227-2161 EVENTS: Caucus Election (ACC Library) The Clarke County Democratic Committee will hold a caucus election to elect delegates to the Democratic Part of Georgia’s State Convention. All registered voters are encouraged to attend. 2 p.m.

FREE! wisenbaker@charter.net EVENTS: A Decade of Darius Goes West + Dinner with Darius & His Crew (Ciné Barcafé) Enjoy a video montage of Darius Goes West highlights from the last decade. Then join Darius and his friends for a Q&A dinner provided by Harry’s BBQ Bistro. Proceeds benefit Duchenne muscular dystrophy research. See story on p. 7. 6 p.m. $10 for movie, $10 for dinner. www. dariusgoeswest.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts.

Live music by Alina Celeste (8 a.m.)

and the Camp Amped & Friends (10 a.m.). This week features a seedling club educational activity for children and a chef demo with Josh Aaron of Savory Spoon. 8 a.m.–12 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Retro Run: Oconee Civitan’s 5K (Oconee Veterans Park) Oconee Civitan presents its fifth annual nighttime, costumed 5K race. 7 p.m. $18. 706-310-1242, www.oconeecivitan.com EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse, Watkinsville) Locally grown produce, meats, grains, flowers, soaps, birdhouses, gourds and more. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.org EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Featuring fresh produce, honey, crafts, soaps, baked goods, cooking demos, children’s activities and more. This week features live music by DJ Dwain Segar of The Segar Jazz Affair at 10:15 a.m., health screenings at 10:30–1:30 p.m., yoga with Ruth Allen at 11 a.m. and a cooking demonstration with chef Mimi Maumus of home. made catering at 11:45 a.m. A Back to School Health Fair includes horseback riding, a bounce house, educational tables, presentations, workshops and more. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www.athenslandtrust.org GAMES: Board Game Demonstration (Tyche’s Games) Try out some new games. 12 p.m.

FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Story Time with Miss Rachel (Avid Bookshop) For all ages. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com KIDSTUFF: Saturday Movies (ACC Library) Family fun movies are shown in the story room. Call for movie title. 10:30 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Hip-Hop Workshop (Dancefx) Learn fun choreography in a supportive environment. For ages 8–12. 12–1:30 p.m. $15. www. dancefx.org KIDSTUFF: Pool Party (East Athens Community Center) For ages 6 & up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. 1–3 p.m. $1. www.athensclarkecounty.com/parkmonth KIDSTUFF: Harry Potter Party (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Complete with cake, popcorn and a screening of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597, www. athenslibrary.org/madison PERFORMANCE: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (UGA Performing Arts Center) See Friday listing for full description July 25, 8–10 p.m. July 26, 3–5 p.m. $40. www.pac.uga.edu THEATRE: Who’s on First (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) See Friday listing for full description July 25–26, 7:30 p.m. July 27, 2 p.m. $8–15. www. elberttheatre.org

Sunday 27 EVENTS: Eat Out for a Cause (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Beef O’Brady’s will donate a portion of the day’s gross sales to the VISTAS Center.

The money raised will help continue work with senior citizens who are blind or visually impaired in the community. 5–9 p.m. 706-850-1916 KIDSTUFF: Fancy Nancy Tea Party (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Come dressed in your finest for tea, snacks and readings of Jane O’Connor’s Fancy Nancy books.

4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT: Stories From Childhood: From a Tiny Acorn (Historic Meeting House) The third installment of this six-week

series features the daughter of the late governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., Jane Kidd, sharing stories from her childhood. Kidd is currently the Special Assistant to the President of Piedmont College. Proceeds benefit Children First. 3–5 p.m. $10 suggested donation. www.childrenfirstinc.org LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Meet author Edan Lepucki in celebration of her first novel, California. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com THEATRE: Who’s on First (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) See Friday listing for full description July 25–26, 7:30 p.m. July 20 & 27, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.elberttheatre.org

Monday 28 COMEDY: Casual Comedy (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Host Dave Weiglein brings this month’s installment of Casual Comedy with

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 KIDSTUFF: Open Playtime (ACC Library) Children ages 1–3 and their caregivers can come play with toys and meet friends. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Movie Mondays: E.T. (Oconee County Library) For ages 11–18. 3–5 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950, www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help build skill

Paintings by Will Eskridge are currently on display at The World Famous through July.

Tanner Inman, Ben Evans, John Michael Bond, Paige Bowman, Luke Fields, Andrew George and Mike Albanese. 8-11 p.m. FREE! www. hendershotscoffee.com 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 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. 9 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3580 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.

FREE! www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash

levels. For ages 10–18. Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650, ext. 329 LECTURES & LIT: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library) This month, Description of Love by Toni Morrison will be discussed.

Newcomers are welcome. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.acclibrary.org MEETINGS: Peachy Green Cleaning Co-op Organizational Meeting (Economic Justice Coalition Office, 1865 W. Broad St.) For people interested in the future of workers’ co-operatives in Georgia.

5:30 p.m. FREE! dowdcc@gmail. com

Tuesday 29 CLASSES: A Course in Miracles (Body, Mind & Spirit) Learn the inner workings of a miracle. Every Tuesday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-351-6024 CLASSES: Native Medicinal Plants (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn about the role that native plant medicines have played in history, the ecological impact

of the growing demand for herbal medicines, and what is being done to move towards the sustainable use of medicinal native herbs. 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $50. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden 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 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: Ordering Microfilm through FamilySearch (ACC Library) The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah possesses the world’s largest genealogical collections. Microfilms can be mailed to you using FamilySearch.org. Learn to take advantage of this resource.

Registration required. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary. org EVENTS: Bikabout’s BBQ Social (Sandy Creek Nature Center, Picnic Site #1) Architects, artists, musicians, designers, chefs, mixologists and whoever else that loves to bike is invited for a ride from Sunshine Cycles to Sandy Creek Nature Center for a discussion on bike routes and dinner. 5:30 p.m. $5. www.bikabout. com EVENTS: Beer Dinner (South Kitchen and Bar) Enjoy a five-course meal prepared by three local chefs, paired with brews from Creature Comforts. RSVP. 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. $45. reservations@southkitchenbar. com FILM: Family Movie Night (Oglethorpe County Library) Bring the whole family to watch Stephen Spielberg’s E.T. Light refreshments will be served. 6 p.m. FREE! 706743-8817, www.athenslibrary.org/ oglethorpe 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: 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: Dirty South Trivia Night (Transmetropolitan) Westside location. Dirty South nerd trivia with Todd Kelly. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.facebook.com/dirtysouthtrivia GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (ACC Library) Join us for Lego art and Lego-based games and activities. No need to bring your own Legos. For 6–12 graders. 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) See Tuesday listing for full description 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT: Nature Writing Group (Athens Land Trust) The nature writing group will discuss Henry David Thoreau and his masterpiece “Walden.” Newcomers welcome. Donations benefit the Athens Land Trust. 5:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. patricia.priest@yahoo.com LECTURES & LIT: Open Book Discussion Club (Oglethorpe Co. Library) Discuss The Passage by Justin Cronin. 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-743-8817, www.athenslibrary.org/oglethorpe

MEETINGS: Town Hall Meeting Georgia Farmers & Valueadded Producers (Jackson EMC Jefferson Office) Athens Land Trust and UGA Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development invite Georgia farmers and value-added producers to discuss the development of a regional center for raw produce processing, fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing. 6–7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslandtrust.org

Wednesday 30 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the collection. 2 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Buddhist Teachings (Body, Mind & Spirit) Learn how to apply the teaching of Buddha to end suffering and bring peace to your life. Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-351-6024 EVENTS: End of Summer Party (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Participants in this year’s Summer Reading Program can pick up prizes and enjoy refreshments. For all ages. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-6130892 GAMES: Trivia with a DJ (Your Pie, Eastside location) Open your pie hole for a chance to win cash prizes.

7 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 KIDSTUFF: Back to School Storytime (Oconee County Library) Children of all ages are invited for a special back to school story. 10 a.m. & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950, www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Pizza Taste Off (Oconee County Library) Taste test pizzas from around the area. For ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950, www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Knit Kids Class (Revival Yarns) Knit Kids is a beginning knitting class for kiddos to learn how to cast-on and knit stitch. RSVP. 6 p.m. $15. 706-850-1354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com KIDSTUFF: Girls’ Night Out (Oconee County Library) Girls ages 11–18 are invited to a special girls night out where friends can test some DIY beauty trends from Pinterest, make their own makeup and more. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950, www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Judi Barrett Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Songs, activities and readings with storyteller Judi. For ages 5 & under and their caregivers.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT: Oconee Democrats Book Group (Chops and Hops) This month’s book is a wide-range of essays called We Learn Nothing by cartoonist and writer Tim Kreider. 7 p.m. FREE! patricia.priest@yahoo.com SPORTS: Hardcourt Bike Polo (West Campus Parking Deck Basketball Courts) Equipment provided. New players welcome. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athbikepolo k continued on next page

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LIVE MUSIC

SAD DADS This sort-of supergroup of unaccomplished townies shares sad and goofy DIY songs influenced

by Pavement, Captain Beefheart and more.

SHADES MARTEL This local writer, former spy and Mercution revolutionary blasts guitar-distorted keyboard sonatas in an attempt at transcending musicianship and traditional songwriting.

Tuesday 22 Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com FLICKEROKE Come sing your heart out with your host Jason. Singing ability not required.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $7 (single), $10 (couple). www. hendershotscoffee.com CAROLINE AIKEN AND CATCH A C.A.B. One of Athens’ most talented and respected performing songwrit-

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com DJ OSMOSE Legendary DJ spins an all-vinyl set of dub, reggae, disco, funk and more.

DePalma’s Italian Cafe 7 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Road location) THE TINY JAZZ ARKESTRA Featuring members of the Athens A-Train Band, POC and original members of Efren playing original and standard jazz tunes. Every Thursday in July!

CARTER KING & THOMAS JOHNSON Members of alt-country hotshots Futurebirds perform a duo set.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com MARY SIGALAS Mary sings classic jazz/blues from the 1920s–’50s with surprise arrangements and unexpected tunes along with velvety originals.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub SLOPFEST Night one of the three-night festival, featuring Monkeygrass Jug Band, Small Beige Girl, Boycycle, The Hugs,

SALSA CHEST Local experimental electronic group.

HIGHLANDER Electro-rock group from Atlanta that describes their sound as “computer love drug deal.”

SHAMPOO Campy, poppy, ‘80sinspired trio from Atlanta.

GARY EDDY Member of The Dandryls plays a solo set.

THE PRETTY BIRD Local a capella/ hip-hop/anti-pop group.

DJ HOT WAX Max Wang (The Rodney Kings) spins ‘60s pop/soul and punk rock.

Ciné Barcafé 9 p.m. www.athenscine.com THE HUMMINBIRD Chicago artist Muyassae Kurdi’s psych project that blends reverb drenched vocals, autoharp, organ, samples and electronics that open up unknown vistas.

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

KUSA 87 Local experimental band creating visual soundscapes through tapes, pedals, vinyl and more.

Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com RUBY THE RABBITFOOT Pop group led by songwriter Ruby Kendrick, a local singer-songwriter with a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics.

HEAVY PETTY Local all-star Tom Petty cover band.

VIGILS New band featuring Matt Nelson, Josh McCauley and Jeremy Wheatley.

LENA GARDENIA Folksy pop group from Milledgeville.

Paula Rowe

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

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com K I D S Led by songwriter Jared Collins, this local band plays reverbwashed garage-pop.

WOVEN IN “Dark surf shoegaze” project from Atlanta.

WILD ABANDON No info available.

THE CUBBIES Shambling surf-pop group. Name based on storage space.

Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL Fester Hagood hosts this weekly series showcasing a series of acoustic solo sets from some of the most talented singer-songwriters in town and across the country.

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE JAZZ Jeremy Raj is bringing together the best that Athens jazz has to offer. A trio of incredibly talented musicians play to a great crowd every weekend.

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Little Kings Shuffle Club 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub SLOPFEST Night two of the threenight festival, featuring Forces, Early Disclaimers, Helen Scott, Good Grief, Seagulls, Eureka California, Deep State, The Fuzzlers, Little Gold, Faux Ferocious, The Rodney Kings and DJ Lozo/DJ Lord Bitter. See Calendar Pick on p. 13.

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

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. www.caledonialounge.com A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW Influential, Philadelphia-based shoegaze band returns with a new album and tour after a four-year hiatus. See story on p. 11.

HAINTS New indie-pop project from Kris Barratt (Spring Tigers).

SCOOTERBABE Local noise-pop group.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $3. www.flickertheatreandbar. com DEEP STATE Members of Little Gold and Brothers play driving, melodic guitar-rock.

MOUSER Exuberant garage-pop that experiments with noise jams.

MILEZO Fuzzy, psychedelic pop group from Austin, TX. See Calendar Pick on p. 13.

MARMALAKES Texas-based folk-pop band.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com HORSE THIEF Oklahoma City-based band with a panoramic yet nuanced sound that flows from intimate to anthemic.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SARAH ALEXANDRIA SMITH Atlanta-based avant-garde artist.

MANNY AND THE DEEPTHROATS Local experimental sound/video artist Manny Lage explores concepts in performative culture.

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

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com CHRIS GUSTIN The Fallbrooke lead guitarist plays a solo set.

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

Kaitlyn Baker plays the Georgia Theatre on Friday, July 25. ers. Her bluesy voice and masterful technique guarantee a hypnotic performance.

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

Max 7 p.m. $5. 706-254-3392 HIP HOP OPEN MIC Show off your skills and network with others in the industry.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke! This week’s edition is a karaoke contest, so bring your A-game!

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

Thursday 24 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot and company play a “mind-boggling wall of organic sound with upbeat, travel-driven lyrics.” The band is celebrating 60-plus weeks of Thursday shows.

HUMBLE CRUMB No info available.

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com NAAN VIOLENCE Sitar and tablas duo from Memphis.

THE CRYPTIDES Local surf-rock band featuring members of The HUMMS and Timmy and the Tumblers.

BLACKNERDNINJA Eugene Willis delivers bookish, explosive rhymes over organic, high-energy beats.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com 82 SPUR Contemporary country cover band that also plays “rock to rap and in between.”

BEN SHIRLEY Acoustic singersongwriter based in Atlanta.

JAKE DECKER Atlanta folk-rock group.

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 John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com BOBBY BARE JR.’S YOUNG CRIMINALS STARVATION LEAGUE Nashville-based artist and the son of country musician Bobby Bare leads his soulful rock band.

See Calendar Pick on p. 13.

Louie Larceny and Shehehe.

Plus, magic courtesy of Jeff Morris. See Calendar Pick on p. 13.

Nowhere Bar SKYFest. 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE ENDS Funky rock band from Burlington, NC. JIVE MOTHER MARY Rollicking Southern rock band from Burlington, NC. The Office Lounge 8 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.

He hosts an “all-star jam” every Thursday.

The Old Pal 11:30 p.m. FREE! www.theoldpal.com DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta faves.

Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 KARAOKE Every Thursday!

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

Friday 25 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. Donations. www.caledonialounge.com DOT.S Atlanta-based electronic trio.

GINKO Edgar Lopez’s fuzzy, beatdriven experimental hip hop project.

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

Cutters Pub 10 p.m. 706-353-9800 MOB KNARLY Local DJ spins a set of party tunes.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com THE DICTATORTOTS These longtime Athenian chaos-cultivators stomp about and trash the night with postgrunge grooves.

THE HEAP Funky indie-soul band based here in Athens with a killer horn section and fronted by Bryan Howard’s low, bass growl.

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 JOHN BOYLE Singer-songwriter in the vein of Willie Nelson, John Prine and Bob Dylan. He’ll be joined by Adam Poulin.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $12. www.georgiatheatre.com KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS Intensely patriotic country band from Albany, GA. KAITLYN BAKER Up-and-coming country artist raised in West Virginia coal-mining culture.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 BAD NUDES Cute and intense psychsynth pop from local fashionista Ben Taylor.

New Earth Athens 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com THE HORNITZ Using human beatbox, horns, keyboards and modern livelooping equipment, this Bostonbased band forms large walls of sound and high-energy dance parties.

Nowhere Bar SKYFest. 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 SWEET KNIEVEL This four-piece jam band plays a variety of musical styles ranging from melodic psychedelic rock to funk and beyond.

TIMI CONLEY EXTRA WIDE New duo led by the former Fuzzy Sprouts frontman.

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.

8:30 p.m. 706-549-0840 THE HANDS OF TIME Soul, funk, pop, R&B, Motown and classic oldschool hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s that will get you out on the dance floor.

VFW 8 p.m. 706-543-5940 BORDERLINE No info available.

Saturday 26 Barcode 11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-5557 DJ JAMIE GALLIANO DJ Jamie keeps the energy alive with the best mix of current, old school and booty jams.

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net ALINA CELESTE Folk-inspired children’s music. (8 a.m.)

CAMP AMPED BAND Tunes from Nuçi’s Space’s group of future rock stars. (10 a.m.)

Bootleggers Country & Western Bar 9 p.m. www.bootleggersathens.com CARLA LE FEVER AND THRILL OF THE CHASE Performing rock covers and originals.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com $MALL-C One man band specializing in hip-hop drum beats.

THE SWANK A local blend of rock and hip hop.

VERSATYLE THA WILDCHYLD The local MC and leader of the Wild Wolf Pack performs.

ELITE THA SHOWSTOPPA The head of local hip-hop/funk group Showtime performs.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THE HONEY SLIDERS Original, Detroit-influenced rock from Catropolis. Album release show!

THE PLAGUE Original, ballsy rock harkening back to The Stooges, Sonic Youth and The MC5.

40 Watt Club 4 on the Floor. 10 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com BROTHERS Local band plays swirling, folky tunes that are rich with strings and haunting vocals.

der pads! Athens music vets The Highballs will perform a totally awesome set of ‘80s dance hits.

DJ MARK BELL ‘80s dance party courtesty of Mark Bell will commence on the rooftop immediately following The Highballs.

Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com DON CHAMBERS This local favorite’s whiskey-soaked bootstomps capture a certain dusty closing-time chic, though he has recently opted for a more minimal, pastoral sound.

DAVE MARR The former Star Room Boys singer plays a set of solo material in his deep and resonant country twang.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com HEIDI HENSLEY AND FRIENDS Local folk-rock singer performs with a group of collaborators.

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE JAZZ Jeremy Raj is bringing together the best that Athens jazz has to offer. A trio of incredibly talented musicians play to a great crowd every weekend.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub SLOPFEST Night three of the three-night festival, featuring Nate and the Nightmares, The Trespasser, Double Ferrari, Monsoon, Maximum Busy Muscle, Muuy Biien, Motherfucker, Vincas, The

West Broad Market Garden 10:15 a.m. FREE! www.athenslandtrust. org DJ DWAIN SEGAR Come experience the fresh summer flavors, bring a blanket and relax in the garden to DJ Segar’s smooth jazz collection.

Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL See Tuesday’s listing for full description

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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!

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE WYDELLES Local band playing country and melodramatic popular songs.

MATT HUDGINS Local songwriter plays “songs about drinking, jail, love and death, all done in the popular ‘country and western’ musical style.”

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 GOPEN MIC NIGHT Show off your skills. Organizers welcome “singers, writers, films, jokers, weirdoes, players, magic, noodlers, doodlers, idea guys, fake TED talkers” and more.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night every Monday.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 PICKIN’ WITH ADAM POULIN & HOLLY BELLE The local fiddler and singer-songwriter lead a jam session with the help of various guests.

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Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com LILY WILLIAMSON Acoustic singersongwriter, also known as Lily Rose.

SOUTHERN BRED COMPANY Local funk-inspired rock and roll band.

ANDREW EVANS Former member of The Spacelings performs.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com POWERKOMPANY Local pop duo featuring the crisp, soaring vocals of Marie Davon, playing folk songs enhanced with slickly produced electronic instrumentation courtesy of Andrew Heaton.

HUDSON K Electro/synth-rock duo from Tennessee.

GILLIAN Co-ed alt-pop outfit from New York City.

Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 KARAOKE WITH THE KING See Wednesday’s listing for full description

PROGRAMS Local high-school duo has expanded into a full-blown grown-up dance-pop project.

SEMICIRCLE Ongoing folk-rock project from Reptar’s Andrew McFarland.

GRAND VAPIDS Formerly known as Androcles and the Lion, this local alt-folk band has a lush, rolling, slowcore-inspired sound.

Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 JOE CAT Local troubadour whose influences range from Steve Earle and Townes Van Zant to Johnny Cash.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com THE HIGHBALLS Put on your bangle bracelets and tuck in those shoul-

Powder Room, Bambara, Cinemechanica and DJ Z-Dog. See Calendar Pick on p. 13.

Nowhere Bar SKYFest. 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 BETSY FRANCK BAND Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

LEFTY HATHAWAY BAND Highenergy, organ-driven blues and rock.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 OVERNIGHT SENSATION Watch as members from XXX Hardrive and the Lefty Williams Band take your favorite songs from the ‘60s,’70s,’80s and ‘90s and see just how far over the cliff they can be thrown.

Tuesday 29 Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com FLICKEROKE Come sing your heart out with your host Jason. Singing ability not required.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com QUINCY MUMFORD AND THE REASON WHY New Jersey-based ‘70s-style funk-rock band.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ HOT WAX See Tuesday’s listing for full description

Blake & Merritt!

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.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 PONCILLI PUPPETS Surreal puppet troupe from Puerto Rico.

GORGEOUS Dark pop group from Chattanooga, TN. COTTONMOUTH Local group featuring members of Pretty Bird and Muuy Biien. Expect lots of fuzzy, heavy drums and bass.

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

DEL VENICCI An amalgamation of art, sex, pop, glam, haze and the mutual Italian heritage shared by members Grace Bellury (Lille) and Ross Politi (Carnivores).

MANNY AND THE DEEPTHROATS Local experimental sound/video artist Manny Lage explores concepts in performative culture.

The Highballs play the Georgia Theatre on Saturday, July 26.

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Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 ADAM CLIFTON BAND No info available.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE See Wednesday’s listing for full description 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.

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bulletin board DO SOMETHING; GET INVOLVED! Deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board is every THURSDAY at 5 p.m. for the print issue that comes out the following Wednesday. Online listings are updated daily. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

ART 5th Annual Moonlight Gypsy Market (Athens, GA) Seeking outsider, weirdo, macabre, erotic and abstract artists, crafters, junk vendors and performers. Deadline Aug. 1. Market on Sept. 13. Email samples and contact info to moonlightgypsymarket@gmail.com Call for Artists Indie South Fair is seeking artists and vendors for the 2nd Annual Back to Cool event on Aug. 23, 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. Vintage, handmade items and performers welcome. Apply online. 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; booths are $65, and 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x4â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tables are $40. www.indiesouthfair.com Lickskillet Artists Market (Lyndon House Arts Center) Currently accepting local artist vendor applications for a market on Oct. 25, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. $20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;30/booth. lhartsfoundation@gmail.com, www. lyndonhouseartsfoundation.com

AUDITIONS DanceFx Company Auditions (Dancefx) Auditioning dancers for Training, Apprentice, Concert Dance Company and Sweet Dreams. Come prepared to learn choreography and demonstrate across-the-floor technique. Aug. 19, 8:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10:30 p.m.

FREE! www.dancefx.org

CLASSES â&#x20AC;&#x153;So You Want to be a Columnistâ&#x20AC;? Class (OCAF, Watkinsville) This course will walk, talk and write you through the basics of writing columns, opinion pieces and blogs. Tuesdays, Aug. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept.

2, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. www.ocaf.com

Aikido (Aikido Center of Athens) Learn effective, nonviolent selfdefense. Aug. 9, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. & 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Aug. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 25, 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $195.

Scholarships available. 706-3081112, www.aikidocenterofathens. com Aqua Zumba (Bishop Park) Get in shape while dancing in the pool. For adults. Saturdays through Aug. 2, 10:30 a.m. $5/class. 706-613-3589 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 Cameron Hampton Workshop Series (OCAF, Watkinsville) In drawing workshops, students learn how to use traditional drawing materials. In multi-media paint workshops and pastel workshops, students learn creative ways to approach subject matter and capture light. In mixed media sculpture workshops, students use materials like plaster, paper, Spanish moss and grass to make animal sculptures. 706-769-4565, info@ ocaf.com, www.ocaf.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

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 Matters (Athens Land Trust) This program features sixweek cooking programs for local adults and teens involved in Athens Land Trustâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Youth Urban Farmers program. Participants will prepare a meal during each class, eat the meal and go home with ingredients to prepare the meal at home. FREE! 706-613-0122, www.cookingmatters.org Dance Classes (Dancefx) Classes offered in creative movement, ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, breakdance, acrobatics, cheer dance and more.

Register online. 706-355-3078, www.dancefx.org Floor Barre and Stretch (Dancefx) Strengthen your muscles and enhance your flexibility every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 12 p.m. $7 per class. www. dancefx.org GED Classes (Action Ministries) Open enrollment. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:30 a.m. Orientation sessions on Mondays, 1:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. FREE! 706353-6647, ssmothers@actionministries.net, www.actionministries.net Introduction to Lightroom (Georgia Center for Continuing Education) Learn how to manage your photo library and produce excellent images for printing and display using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Mondays and Thursdays, July 28â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 7, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. $159. www.georgiacenter.uga.edu Karate and Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga) Practice Yoshukai karate along with meditation in a low-stress environment. Class involves 45 minutes

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Jeffrey Whittle is one of 70 Athens and Atlanta based artists included in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tiny Universe,â&#x20AC;? an exhibition of small works currently on view at Gallery@Hotel Indigo through Friday, Sept. 19. of yoga as a warm-up, followed by 45 minutes of karate. Mondays and Wednesdays, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1:30 p.m. Fridays, 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:30 a.m. Donations encouraged. www.athensy.com Mac Workshops (PeachMac) Frequent introductionary courses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intro to iPhoto.â&#x20AC;? July 26. Check website for dates. FREE! www.peachmac.com/workshops Printmaking Workshops (Double Dutch Press) 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;Totes! One Color Screenprinting.â&#x20AC;?

Aug. 23, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. $50. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paper Relief Monotype.â&#x20AC;? Aug. 28, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $35.

Check website for full descriptions and to register. www.doubledutchpress.com Salsa Dance Classes (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cubanstyle salsa dance classes with SALSAthens. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Every Wednesday, 6:30-7:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30 p.m. (beginners). $10 (incl. drink). www. facebook.com/salsaathens Techniques in Watercolor (OCAF, Watkinsville) Beginning and intermediate students will learn about color theory, color mixing, values studies, glazing, negative painting, pouring and blending.

Sept. 10, 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 a.m. or 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $180â&#x20AC;&#x201C;190. 706-769-4565, www. ocaf.com Yoga Tuesdays (M.R.S. Physical Therapy and Wellness Center, Winterville) Join a certified and experienced yoga instructor who will walk you through basic poses and techniques. Tuesdays, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. $50 (includes five classes).

706-742-0082, bstephensonmrspt@ gmail.com Zumba in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A dynamic fitness program infused with Latin rhythms. Every Wednesday, 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6:30 p.m. $70/10 classes. www.botgarden.uga.edu

HELP OUT Donate Blood Give the gift of blood! Check website for donor locations. 1-800-RED CROSS, www. redcrossblood.org Fall Book Sale (Oconee County Library) Oconee County Library is now accepting books, CDs and DVDs for a Fall Book Sale. Not accepting magazines, textbooks or encyclopedias. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the library. 706769-3950 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 Lickskillet Artist Market & Festival (Lyndon House Arts Center) Volunteers are needed for assistance with set-up and clean up of Lickskillet Artist Market & Festival on Oct. 25. Email or visit website to register. allisonlewis@att.net, handsonnortheastgeorgia.com Litter Index Survey The Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful Litter Index is a simple survey for citizens to provide input on the litter they see in their community. Print a copy of the suvey from the website.

Surveys accepted until July 31. www.keepathensbeautiful.org School Supplies Needed Over 300 book bags filled with school supplies are needed for students who are homeless, disabled, living in domestic violence houses or living in impoverish conditions.

Seeking notebook paper, pencils, glue sticks, scissors, spiral notebooks, binders, calculators, etc. The deadline for donations is July 30.

706-424-5222, sbg2_virtuosity@ ymail.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.

Through 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) ACC 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 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 Summer Camps (Treehouse Kid and Craft) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Craft Inc. Business Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sewing Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Photography & Photo Styling Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fairy Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outer Space Camp,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stop Motion Animation Campâ&#x20AC;? and more. Check website for descriptions and dates. www. treehousekidandcraft.com Summer Clay Camps (Good Dirt) Each week throughout the summer features a different topic like sculpture and the potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wheel. For ages 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 and 11 & up. Weekly, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. www.gooddirt.net Summer Explorers (Sandy Creek Nature Center) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Water Worldâ&#x20AC;? includes collecting pond samples, hiking by a creek and experimenting with water. For ages 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6. July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;25, 9:30 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12:30 p.m. $20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;30/session. 706-613-3615

Summer Tutoring (Classic City Tutoring) Morning and afternoon sessions for reviewing skills from the previous year and previewing skills for the next. Certified teachers.

Through Aug. 8. 678-661-0600, cory@classiccitytutoring.com Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Waldo in the ATH? (Athens, GA) Through the month of July, Waldo will be hidden among 25 local businesses. Check website for list of participating places. www. avidbookshop.com Wild Rumpus Art Show (Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar) Artists ages 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 are invited to submit a painting or picture for the Wild Rumpus Art Show, which will be on display at Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s through October. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;HalloWitch,â&#x20AC;? so artwork should include a little witch in some form. wildrumpus13@gmail.com

SUPPORT Alanon 12 Step (Little White House) For family and friends of alcoholics and drug addicts.

Tuesdays, 7:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. www.gaal-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, healing and dinner for survivors of domestic violence. Tuesdays, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m., in Clarke County. First and third Mondays, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m., in Madison County. 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.emotionsanonymous.org GRASP (Call for Location) Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing is a support group for those who

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

ALWAYS BAKED GOODIES (723 Baxter St.) Colorful, abstract paintings by Maria Nissan.

AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Pet portrait paintings by Nethie Lockwood.

Through July.

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.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Framed & Dealtâ&#x20AC;? by Brittny Teree Smith features each card of ATHICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s custom deck, ATHICARDS, presented in a unique frame. Through August.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Emerges VII,â&#x20AC;? curated by Tatiana Veneruso and Ted Kuhn, presents the works of Addison Adams, Gabriel Cymerman-Bird, Jordana Dale, Jason Matherly, Christopher Nelms and Jason Sokolic.

CINĂ&#x2030; BARCAFĂ&#x2030; (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Photography by Jeremy Ayers.

Through July 29.

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.) Artwork by Rachel Blair. Through August.

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

Through July.

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 John Cleaveland. Leigh Ellis, Matt Alston and more. â&#x20AC;˘ The â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Members Showâ&#x20AC;? features pottery by Sheila Bradley, mosaics by Marian Smith and paintings by Elizabeth Ogletree. Through August.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Photography by Erin Boydstun. Through July.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tiny Universeâ&#x20AC;? includes small works by 70 Athens and Atlanta artists. Through Sept. 19.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lithographs of Carroll Cloar.â&#x20AC;? Through Aug. 10. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Picturing America: Signature Works from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.â&#x20AC;? Through Aug. 24. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise.â&#x20AC;? Through Aug. 31. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bernd Oppl: Inhabited Interiorsâ&#x20AC;? consists of three short films inspired

by Alfred Hitchcock. Through Sept. 16.â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Prints of Mary Wallace Kirk.â&#x20AC;? Through Oct. 12. â&#x20AC;˘ Art Rocks Athens presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shapes That Talk to Me: The Athens Scene, 1975â&#x20AC;&#x201C;85.â&#x20AC;? Through Oct. 19. â&#x20AC;˘ Tristan Perichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Machine Drawingâ&#x20AC;? will create itself over the course of six months. Through Nov. 18. â&#x20AC;˘ In the sculpture garden, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Terra Verte,â&#x20AC;? created by Scottish artist Patricia Leighton, consists of six cubes full of living vegetation. Through May 31, 2015. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stone Levityâ&#x20AC;? is a sculpture by Del Geist installed in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex quad. Through May 31, 2015.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spacesâ&#x20AC;? presents watercolor and pen landscapes created by Katherine Anne Dunlap. Through Aug. 2.

HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Paintings of animals by Callahan Woodberry and Susie Criswell. Through August.

HENDERSHOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Local scenes in watercolors by Jamie Calkin. Through July.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Colorful abstract prints and paintings by Logan Shirah.

have lost a friend or loved one to drugs or alcohol. 706-248-7715, grasp_athens@yahoo.com, www. grasphelp.org 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 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. Call to reserve a space. $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 Classic City BBQ (The Classic Center) Now accepting vendor booth applications for food vendors, Tailgate Tradeshow exhibitors and chefs for cooking competitions on Aug. 15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;16. The BBQ festival includes contests, a classic car show, outdoor music stage, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities and more. Visit website for details. 706-357-4417, stephanie@ classiccenter.com, www.classiccitybbqfest.com Garden Paradise Massage Sessions (2421 Elder Mill Rd., Watkinsville) Massage sessions with Diane Beeler in the garden and inside a cool house. Email to book a spot. Aug. 29â&#x20AC;&#x201C;31. $90â&#x20AC;&#x201C;120. mechanted757@gmail.com Wise Woman Circle (Womanspace) Circles are held the first Friday of the month. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. $10. www.holdingwomanspace. com f

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) Watercolor scenes of Athens by Jamie Calkin. Sculptures and folk art by Leonard Piha. Through July.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EASTSIDE (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Paintings by Molly Sporston.

JUST PHO (1063 Baxter St.) A painting by Joel Rosenburg, black-and-white prints by Sasha Schilbrack-Cole and watercolors by Phil Jasen. Through July.

KRIMSON KAFE (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Collages by Susan Pelham. Through July.

LAST RESORT GRILL (174 Clayton St.) Paintings by Brent Van Daley.

Through Aug. 3.

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

Through summer.

LOFT GALLERY AT CHOPS & HOPS (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) Paintings by Will Eskridge and 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. Reception July 24. 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, James Fields, Barbara Bendzunas, Kayley Head, Leah Lacy, Saint Udio and Lakeshore Pottery.

MAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BOY (197 Oak St.) Pen and ink drawings and paintings by David Hough. Through July.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Watercolors by Mark Willis. Through July.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outward Boundâ&#x20AC;? by Audrone Kirschner. Through July 25.

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;˘ Art Rocks Athens presents 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.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 Milledge Ave.) Paintings by Judy Bolton Jarrett. Through Aug. 10.

THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) Paintings by Judy Buckley.

Through July.

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. Through July.

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS (UGA Main Library, 320 S. Jackson St.) Oil paintings of Monaco and Spain by Shannon Candler. Through December.

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

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

THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Animal/Domainâ&#x20AC;? presents new paintings by Will Eskridge. Through July. â&#x20AC;˘ Artwork by Matt Blanks.

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1060 Gaines School Road 750 sf. $900/mo., 500 sf. $650/ mo., 150 sf. furnished incl. util. $350/mo. (706) 202-2246 or athenstownproperties.com.

Office, artist studio/gallery or small business space located upstairs in a re-modeled barn. 1/2 mi. from Main St. Watkinsville at 100 Barnett Shoals. 550 sf. 2 rooms, loft, closet, full bathroom. Wood floors, private entrance.

Peaceful and green. $550/ mo. (706) 247-5927.

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Avail. August 1. Ground floor retail space on Hull St. Located in the Historic Cotton Exchange Building across from Last Resort. 925 sq. ft. with lots of store front windows. Ideal opportunity for small local retailers. Contact Scott Talley for information. (706) 340-0424, scott. talley@landmark-properties.com.

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2 car garage, FP, deck. Plenty of storage. $1100/mo. Call (706) 714-7600.

Avail. now! Beautiful 2 B R / 2 . 5 B A c o n d o . 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.

Awesome condo. Avail. Aug. 1. $600/mo. Quiet 1-2BR/1BA. Study, modern kitchen, pool, gym, gated, ground floor corner unit.

Close to UGA. Ideal for single/ couple. Mary (706) 540-2887, wimberlyme@bellsouth.net.

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Condo 2BR/2BA, living room w/ FP, dining room, kitchen w/ stove, refrigerator, DW. W/D incl. Open floor plan, carpet, tile, ceiling fans. Minutes from campus. $660/ mo. 706) 207-3677.

Just reduced! Investorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West-side condo. 2BR/2BA, FP, 1500 sf., great investment, lease 12 mos. at $575/mo. Price in $40s. For more info, call McWaters Realty at (706) 353-2700 or (706) 540-1529.

S. Milledge duplex. Venita Dr. 4BR/2BA, W/D, DW, fenced back yd.! Close to everything yet private. $999/mo., negotiable.

(404) 558-3218, or bagley_w@ bellsouth.net. Electronic flyers avail.

Houses for Rent Pulaski St. 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3BR/1BA. Walk to Dwntn. Very private.

Front & rear porch, lg. rooms, ceiling fans, heart pine flrs.

CHAC. Pets OK w/ pet fee. $900/mo. (706) 248-7741. $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, (770) 265-6509, Owner/Agent. 330 Clover St. $1100/mo. $400 off 1st months Rent! Blocks from UGA & Dwntwn.

5BR/3BA house. HWflr, LR, DR, W/D. 125 Peeks Pt. Call Gaye at (706) 207-7756.

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2BR/1BA House. 285 Savannah Ave. CHAC, W/D. Call (678) 6987613.

2BR/1BA Woodlawn Historic District. Quiet cul-de-sac location.

Off-street parking. Walk to 5 Pts., HWflrs., spacious BRs, W/D included. $800/mo., (706) 5466900 or valerioproperties@gmail. com.

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.

5 Pts. duplex, Memorial Park.

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.

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4BR/2.5BA beautiful plantation house, 3 acres. High ceilings, HWflrs., lg. kitchen & rooms.

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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.

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

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

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

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) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Awesome 4BR/4BA house next to Dwntwn. Huge BRs, private BAs and decks. Stainless appls. DW, W/D, HWflrs. High ceilings and in-house stereo system for your iPod to play on outside speakers or throughout the house. Walk to UGA, work, music venues and grocery. $1000/ mo. Call (404) 229-9215.

Beautiful spacious home.

Avail. now! First month free! 5BR/3BA house w/ great S. Milledge Ave. location. Sits on a huge lot, close to campus and the 5 Pts. area. Easy access to UGA & Athens bus routes. Great for football weekends! Large fullyequipped kitchen w/ DW, HWflrs., tile floors. CHAC, large BRs. W/D included. Pets OK with deposit.

Call (706) 202-9905.

Great 2BR house. 1 block from Bottleworks. CHAC, DW, lg. yard w/ room for garden. Lease, dep. & references. Avail. Aug. 1! $1050/ mo. negotiable (706) 340-1073.

House for Rent: 3BR/2BA, lg. back room, garage, FP, CHAC, stainless kitchen, cement countertops, pets OK. $1025/mo. w/ deposit. 150 Austin Dr. Call (706) 254-8636.

Large 4 and 5BR homes for rent on Milledge Ave, Macon Hwy, and the East Side. From $250-400 per bedroom. Call for a tour (706) 215-6848.

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.

Quiet, private 1BR poolside cottage near Med. school. Screened porch, DW. Share pool, hot tub & sauna.

No pets. $750/mo. utils. & cable incl. (706) 254-4454.

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Land for Sale 10 acres up to 42 acres farmland in Farmington area (Oconee County). Reduced to $11,000 per acre. Long road frontage. (404) 790-6996.

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

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Pre-Leasing Houses/Apartments/Townhomes for rent in the Five Points and surrounding area. 2-3BRs. Rent ranges from $600+/mo. Move-in specials available. Vlow Property Management (706) 247-0620, www.vlowpropertymanagement. com.

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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) 395-1400.

Rooms for Rent Dashiell Cottages, Inc. Aspiring National Park Service, Dept. of the Interior. Wildlife observation, e n v i ro n m e n t a l c o n s e r v a t i o n property. 4 blocks to university, North Oconee River. Private entrance, all amenities. (706) 8500491.

Mature students only. Spacious, f u r n i s h e d B R . Avail. immediately.Quiet, near campus, kitchen, laundr y privileges.

Shared BA, priv. entrance, cable, Internet access. No pets. $300/ mo. incl. utils. (706) 353-0227.

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Room open in 3BR/2BA for $250/ mo. +1/3 utils. Off Gaines School Rd. in East Athens. Yard, back deck, W/D, DW, CHAC, storage space, pets OK. Call/text Nate, (706) 247-1749.

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

1676 S. Lumpkin St. (706) 3544297.

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260 W. Clayton St., (706) 3160130.

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 Vintage & Retro antiques, furniture and collectibles. Moving sale!

Find that long lost treasure. 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goods. 179 Sanders Rd, Hull, GA. 9am-2pm, Saturday, 7/26.

Music Equipment 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.

Instruction 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.

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Jobs Full-time Blind Pig Tavern now hiring servers and line cooks. 485 Baldwin St. Apply in person between 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m.

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Drivers and Experienced Cooks needed at Locos Grill and Pub in Athens at both our locations, 1985 Barnett Shoals Road or 2020 Timothy Road. Applicants for driver must have a clean driving record. Apply in person between 2 & 4 pm or online at www.locosgrill. com/employment. Full-time and part-time positions available.

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Local screen printing company looking for two new hires: Entry level Graphic Designer with Illustrator and Photoshop skills, attention to detail a must; and a Production person. (706) 6130028, jobs@rubysuegraphics.com.

PT Melting Point Server needed.

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Evening and weekend availability necessary. No phone calls; apply online at www.foundryparkinn. com/careers.

Layout ar tist for monument company in Elberton, GA. Must be proficient with Photoshop.

New laser process for granite etching. Exciting opportunity for right, talented individual. Email resume to burningrock1954@ yahoo.com. Full time position.

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I had resigned myself quite happily to my single status until recently, when I met someone through work. He, too, is reasonably accomplished and attractive as well as age-appropriate. We have flirted back and forth a good bit, and I have been pleasantly surprised at how much we have in common. All seemed to be going well, until he mentioned his long-distance girlfriend.

I don’t want to rock the boat by pursuing things with someone who is unavailable to me, but I also think he likes me, too, and I would hate to let this one get away. As much as I would like to be coupled up, I don’t want to be The Other Woman

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Help me, Rhonda; you’re my only hope. Sincerely, Shorts-less This is an emergency situation, Shorts-less. A flattering pair of pants or shorts is a valuable find and cannot be given up for lost. You need to get these back before your roommate puts them through the dryer or spills something on them, so we don’t have time to waste. I don’t know the exact nature of your relationship with your roommate, so I’m going to give you two options; you can decide which stands the best chance of getting the shorts back where they belong safely.

Option I (to be used if your roommate is relatively reasonable and you believe her wearing the shorts is some kind of honest mistake): Say something like, “I think you ended up with my shorts—you know, the jean ones you had on the other day. I was going to wear them tonight; do you mind if I get them back?”

The danger of this option lies in a roommate who took the shorts on purpose. That roommate will claim not to know which shorts you mean or where they are; she might say something like, “Oh I got those shorts from Goodwill last year.” If that happens, then you’ll be forced to take a more insistent stance. And, worse, she’ll be on alert that you’re looking for the shorts. You don’t want either of those things to happen.

Option II (to be used if you think there’s any danger your roommate will dispute knowledge or ownership of the shorts): Normally, I wouldn’t recommend this, but, as I said above, a flattering pair of shorts requires an emergency response. Wait until she’s not home. Go into her room. Retrieve the shorts yourself.

Wash and wear. If she tries to claim they are actually hers, tell her casually that you’re certain they’re yours.

Then find a safe hiding place for them when you’re not wearing them.

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Ugh. The unwanted appearance or mention of a previously invisible girlfriend is always disappointing. Although you know she exists, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with flirting with this guy a little bit. There’s also nothing wrong with getting to know him further with the intent of seeing if you might be interested in each other.

But use this time to really get to know him and see if he’s someone you’re interested in. Your aim is to build a true friendship with him, not seduce him away from his girlfriend.

A friendship will be the best foundation for a romantic relationship, if that is indeed what develops.

While you’re building that friendWas working on my house. Friend ship, though, remember that this is offered use of an expensive tool he a case in which you have to decide owns. Tool malfunctioned while I was on some boundaries before you need using it. I wasn’t misusing it, but it them. Let’s say you keep flirting and did break while I had it, and it will be getting to know each other. Let’s say costly to repair. Friend took tool back it becomes clear that he’s interested and is having it repaired. He hasn’t in you. It sounds like you’re looking advice@flagpole.com or said anything to me about it, but I for a relationship, not a fling. This flagpole.com/getadvice kind of feel uncomfortable about the guy cheating on his girlfriend with whole situation. He hasn’t been cold you will not be a solid foundation for to me, but he hasn’t said not to worry beginning your relationship. It will about it, either. I can’t really afford to pay for the entire repair, be messy. It will allow him to kind of start seeing you while but I’d like some assurance or resolution. This was dragging his feet on making a decision about her. The distance Not Really My Fault will aid and abet him in not making a real decision. And you don’t want that.

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