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Old Theaters, Old Trucks Caps off to the investors who are buying the Georgia Theatre. (See story on p. 13.) From the little we know about them, they sound like people who love this great place, appreciate it for what it is and have the means to assure its continuation as an iconic music venue. But what’s with the anonymity? Taking over a place that was saved by an outpouring of public support but remaining unknown to the public just doesn’t feel right. Maybe as time goes along, we’ll understand this part of the deal more, but right now, the Theatre belonging to anonymous owners in Athens and Atlanta feels weird. There are no doubt many reasons for anonymity—modesty, not wanting to be bugged for tickets, day jobs where owning a rock-and-roll palace wouldn’t play well—but there are a lot of creepy connotations, too, and it just seems like this venue, which belongs to the public, demands transparency in its ownership.

News from Harold Williams Harold and Paula are in the Camden Brookwood Apartments, Apt. 2110, 147 26th St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, near Shepherd Center, and he’ll begin another round of physical and occupational therapy. “I’m hanging in here and taking it one day at a time,� Harold says. Don’t you know he is! Keep those cards and letters coming. They mean a lot.

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BandSwap: The Athens-Clarke County Commission was set to vote on this Tuesday, Aug. 4, but they had an interesting conversation about a “band swap” with Fort Collins, CO, at their agenda-setting meeting last month. BandSwap is a Fort Collins program that invites bands from other cities—including Portland, OR, Lafayette, LA and Charleston, SC—to play shows with Fort Collins bands in their hometowns, then travel to Colorado for a festival in October. The Athens Downtown Development Authority has proposed spending $5,000 in CEP funds (a $60,000 pot the ADDA uses to assist downtown events like the Twilight Criterium and Hot Corner Festival) to participate in BandSwap. Commissioner Jared Bailey, who has years of experience in the live music business as the founder of AthFest and former owner of the 40 Watt, said that BandSwap will benefit Fort Collins far more than Athens. “It seems we’re being sold a bill of goods, and that’s my opinion of the event,” Bailey said. “That’s why when they called me, I declined to participate. They’re showing a lot of initiative, but I just question the value of this particular event. “I just don’t think we need to be paying another city $5,000 so they can bring their bands here to promote them. Our bands—Athens, GA bands—don’t have a problem getting booked in Fort Collins or anywhere because of our reputation. A Fort Collins band probably would never get a gig here in Athens, just because it’s very competitive.” Commissioner Mike Hamby, who’s on the ADDA board, defended the expense, saying that ACC needs to build relationships with other progressive communities like Fort Collins. So did Commissioner Kelly Girtz, who applauded the ADDA for funding new events. “It’s about bringing folks here who otherwise might not come, and certainly about giving some Athens bands an opportunity to get out to places they might not get otherwise,” Girtz said.

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Actually, it was Saturday, which is usually my fun day, my with the federal government footing the entire bill for three I-don’t-have-to-run day, but I went over to East Friendship years and paying 90 percent afterwards. In some communities, Baptist Church to cover this, anyway. it’s easier to get a gun than a slice of fresh bread, Johnson The Moral Monday movement sprang up in North Carolina a said. few years ago when Republicans took over the state govern“Here the federal government is offering free money for ment and thousands of people protested cuts to public schools health care for 650,000 Georgians, and the state won’t accept and other conservative legislation. It migrated to Georgia earit,” John Slaughter said. “There’s something morally outralier this year. In March, 38 people were arrested at the capitol geous about that.” while protesting Stand Your Ground and the “guns everywhere” bill. (Incidentally, Athens state Sen. Frank Ginn was quoted in Pulaski Greenway: Athens-Clarke County officials held a the New York Times calling them “fecal matter.”) ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, Aug. 1 for the new Pulaski Georgia’s Moral Monday organizers—including Occupy Creek Greenway. Atlanta veteran Tim Franzen and Francys Johnson, a Statesboro lawyer and Southeast Region director for the NAACP—are barnstorming the state trying to drum up bodies for what they’re billing as a massive protest at Woodruff Park in Atlanta on Aug. 23. They stopped in Athens Saturday afternoon to speak to a crowd of about 30, including Athens-Clarke County Commissioner-elect Melissa Link and Tim Denson of Athens For Everyone. “Nowhere do we see that intense poverty and struggle more than in Clarke County,” Franzen said. Johnson, a University of Georgia graduate, spoke about the contradiction between a wealthy university and a community with an alarmingly high poverty rate. “I’ve never seen a starker contrast than in Athens-Clarke County,” he said. Franzen and Johnson brought with them three Odds and Ends: Athens-Clarke County Finance Director protesters who had gotten themselves arrested at the John Culpepper, who for years has done an outstandGold Dome. Peggy Marx said she turned political when ing job of putting together the budget in good times Rush Limbaugh slut-shamed Sandra Fluke, the then-law and bad, is retiring. ACC officials are working on a plan student who wasn’t allowed to testify before Congress Moral Monday protesters (from left) Joe Beasley, John Slaughter, Peggy Marx and Tim Franzen. to provide free parking for commission meetings that about birth control in 2012. “I got mad,” Marx said. could be voted on in September. Half-Moon Outfitters “I got really mad. Rush got me out of my chair, and I have not The concrete path—funded by $984,308 from SPLOST is moving from Five Points to the old New Way Cleaners buildsat back down since.” 2005—connects the Athens Community Council on Aging, on ing on Prince Avenue in June. UGA graduate and Boston Joe Beasley of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, a civil rights Hoyt Street off College Avenue, and Pulaski Street near the resident Megan Ramey has launched Bikabout.com, a website group, had harsh words for Gov. Nathan Deal, calling him “one Leathers Building. It includes a bridge over Moore’s Branch, that features curated maps of bike routes and attractions to of the biggest crooks we’ve ever had in this state. He’s meaner which, Leisure Services officials recently discovered, is the help travelers navigate 10 cities, including Athens. Yet another than Eugene Talmadge,” the segregationist governor, Beasley actual name of the creek that runs parallel to Pulaski Street, downtown student apartment building has been proposed, said. Johnson made an outright plea for audience members to not Pulaski Creek, which it’s popularly known by. this one at the old Advantage Behavioral Health Systems buildget Democrats Jason Carter and Michelle Nunn elected goverEventually, whenever funds become available, ACC plans to ing on Dougherty Street. The planning commission will connor and senator, asking them to distribute absentee ballots to extend the new greenway north to Cleveland Avenue, where sider it at its Thursday, Aug. 7 meeting. Atlanta-based Thrive people in pre-trial detention at the Clarke County Jail. He said it would tie in with the new CHARM recycling center and the Senior Living has broken ground on The Village at Athens, a his goal is to help 125,000 people register to vote. North Oconee River Greenway. 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capitol impact oconee observations What Color Is Georgia? The conventional wisdom about Georgia politics has been that the state’s changing demographics will eventually bring about a change in its political orientation. The state’s population is becoming less white as the percentages of black, Latino and Asian residents increase. In theory, the growing diversity means Georgia could become less Republican in its voting patterns and might evolve from a red state to a purple state or even a blue Democratic state. These demographic trends are a major reason why Democrats are enthusiastic about the candidacies of Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter in this year’s races for the U.S. Senate and governor, respectively. Nunn and Carter have an outside shot at winning this year, Democrats believe, but even if they lose, the state could still be winnable for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race or more hospitable to a Democrat running statewide in 2018. It’s a theory popular with many political pundits, but Sean Trende is one analyst who disagrees with that thinking. He projects that Georgia probably won’t change its Republican preference for quite some time. Trende recently analyzed population data in Georgia, Arizona and Texas, trying to project when those red states might become more purple. Trende calculated that none of them will flip to the Democratic column anytime soon, even with their growing Latino populations. He predicted that Georgia won’t turn Democratic until 2028 or 2048. “The idea that these three states are on the cusp of competitiveness has been around for over a decade now, yet the states have remained essentially unchanged,” Trende says. “That’s not to say that this decade won’t be the one where we finally see Democrats break through in one or more of these states. It’s simply to say that these projections have been around for quite some time, and for whatever reason, have yet to bear fruit.”

He could be correct in that projection. Georgia’s percentage of white voters has certainly declined from 72 percent to less than 60 percent over the past 12 years. During that same period, however, the state’s political power has become more tightly controlled by conservative white Republicans. Georgia’s Republican voters have also weeded out much of the diversity among their own party’s candidates for top offices. There was a time when Republican voters nominated women (Linda Schrenko, Kathy Cox and Karen Handel) for statewide offices. In 2010 and 2014, every Republican nominated for a statewide office was a middle-aged white male. In this year’s Republican primary for state school superintendent, the candidates included two blacks and four women. The candidates who advanced to the runoff, however, were white males: Richard Woods and Mike Buck. Karen Handel ran for the GOP nomination to the U.S. Senate but didn’t make it to the runoff. In the U.S. House races, the Republican contenders included strong female candidates like Tricia Pridemore and Donna Sheldon, but they also lost out in their primaries to white males. At the legislative level, the only black Republican serving in the General Assembly, Rep. Willie Talton of Warner Robins, was ousted by GOP primary voters who chose a white candidate in that district instead. Growing diversity hasn’t changed the reality of state politics. As the percentage of white voters shrinks, those white voters are more determined than ever to turn out and elect conservative white candidates. Political partisans can argue whether Georgia will turn out to be a red state, a purple state or a blue state. Given the current voting patterns, it looks like it will continue to be a white state for the time being.

A Vote on Mixed Drinks? The BOC was being asked to consider projAllowing restaurants to sell mixed drinks is ect framework agreements with the state that expected to be a contentious issue for Oconee would set the timetables for widening of the County voters in November, but only nine roadway from Mars Hill Road to Hog Mountain people spoke at an Oconee County Board of Road and for construction of an extension Commissioners meeting July 29, with three of of Daniells Bridge Road that would connect, them expressing opposition to the proposal to put the issue before voters. The remainder said via a flyover of the Loop, with Jennings Mill they wanted citizens to have a chance to vote, Parkway at Home Depot. Bob Isaac and James Morris, both members though most did not take a position on what of the county’s Citizen Advisory Committee on citizens should do once they go to the polls. Land Use and Transportation Planning, said County Attorney Daniel Haygood initithe projects had not been properly vetted and ated the discussion of the liquor-by-the-drink referendum, indicating that he expected to draft an ordinance similar to the existing beer and wine ordinance should the commission vote to go forward with the referendum. Haygood said he expected the county to restrict where liquor could be sold to areas along major highways already approved for beer and wine sale. One issue the county would have to consider, he said, was what ratio of alcohol to food sales would be appropriate. At present, 75 percent of the resHarmless way to wind down, economic development generator or work taurant’s revenue must come of the devil? You be the judge—if you live in Oconee County, that is. from food, but Haygood said the county might want to recalculate that the BOC should refuse to take action on that ratio, given that liquor is more costly the agreements. Rick Waller, chairman of the than beer and wine. county’s Industrial Development Authority Joey Wilson, chairman of the Economic and a resident of Birchmore Hills subdivision, Education Committee of the Oconee County also said more public scrutiny of the plans is Chamber of Commerce, said he was certain needed before action is taken. I told the BOC that some people in the community want the

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Daniells Bridge Road Extension issue on the ballot so they can vote it down, as voters have three times in the past. Others want the issue to pass, Wilson said. Reflecting the position of the chamber, Wilson said the BOC should put the issue on the ballot. In the end, the issue was simply put off until the board meets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 5. Chairman Melvin Davis said he will ask for the board to vote then on whether it wants to put the issue on the ballot for the Nov. 4 election.

Daniells Bridge Road At the same meeting, two projects involving Daniells Bridge Road produced opposition from residents of subdivisions along that roadway.

that the road extension would put additional traffic on Daniells Bridge Road that it could not accommodate without a major re-engineering of the roadway. County Clerk Jane Greathouse had anticipated that the two agreements, as well as one for construction and widening of Jimmy Daniell Road, would be tentatively approved and had them listed on the draft consent agenda for the Aug. 5 meeting. Instead, Davis, who has been pushing the three projects in negotiations with the state, agreed to put them on the Aug. 5 agenda for further discussion. Lee Becker Becker blogs at oconeecountyobservations.blogspot. com and at flagpole.com.

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Undocumented Students Fight to Attend Georgia Universities N

ew student orientation at the University of Georgia has an extra step that students at the University of Texas, University of Arizona and University of Southern California, as well as most of the of the other top research universities in the country, don’t have to confront. The extra step is a “papers, please” table in front of the door to the Tate Center Grand Hall, where orientation will be held and all the new students will be told how happy UGA is that they chose to become Bulldogs. But most students don’t know that they are required to show a sharply dressed UGA representative their papers because of a 2011 ban on undocumented students. Under the University System Board of Regents’ policy 4.1.6, students who are not lawfully in the United States are barred from enrolling in competitive admission schools—UGA, Georgia Tech and Georgia State in Atlanta, Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville and Georgia Regents University in Augusta. Even valedictorians are banned. “I was recruited in my senior year, because I was an outstanding student, to come to the University of Georgia and spend an entire week meeting professors,” says Eduardo Samaniego. “I sat down in classrooms with a lot of other kids coming from other states, and then a few months later, when I go to my school counselor’s office and tell her I’m ready to apply to the University of Georgia, we go through all the basic stuff, then we came to that point where you need to have a Social Security number to apply to the University of Georgia. At that point, I didn’t know what to do, and she said, ‘I didn’t know you were an illegal immigrant,’ and I told her, ‘What is that?’ What does that mean?’ That’s when I realized what it meant to be undocumented, that I couldn’t pursue my dream like any other of my classmates. “I was the student body president at one of the largest high schools in Cobb County [North Cobb High School]. I was one of the first ones at school every day and one of the last ones to leave, and I graduated with honors, but everything was gone when I walked into my counselor’s office that day. I had decided that UGA was my dream college; I wanted to be there; I wanted to have an education, and Policy 4.1.6 said no.”

Freedom U Samaniego now attends Freedom University, a program started by UGA and Emory University faculty in response to 4.1.6 that offers college-level classes to undocumented students for free. “Growing up, college was such an abstract idea, because I didn’t know anyone that had gone to college, because I’m a first-generation immigrant, and growing up no one in my family went to college,” says Alejandro Galeana Salinas, who graduated from Cedar Shoals High School in May. “There were always the pep talks at school—‘You’ve got to go to college to have a better future’—and this, to me, growing up undocumented in Georgia, when I heard these talks about, ‘You’ve got to go to college’ back then, I didn’t think that applied to

of these laws coming out. I remember talking with my parents about possibly going back to Mexico after HB 87 became law.” House Bill 87 is the Georgia version of the Arizona antiimmigration law that drew national outcry. “It meant if you can’t provide documents, you will get deported immediately, and if you get caught even riding in a car with a U.S. citizen, they get in trouble in addition to you getting deported,” Salinas says. “The law is just so meanspirited and hurtful. Now, you can’t even have a person who is undocumented in your car, and everyone in the car gets in trouble if one of the passengers is undocumented. It’s crazy, and it’s ridiculous that it’s happening here in Georgia. Me and my family were scared, we were scared and fearful.” Salinas compares Dreamers—the nickname for those who support the DREAM Act, a federal bill providing a path to citizenship—to the civil rights activists of the 1960s. “There have always been groups that have been marginalized and fought against,” he says. “There were a lot of people that opposed the Civil Rights Act and are still racist towards African Americans today. It’s absolutely ridiculous. We learn from history that we don’t learn from history… If you’re not even going to try and be empathetic, you also have to look at the facts and don’t buy into the rhetoric that is used—that we are lawbreakers, that we don’t pay taxes. We do pay taxes.” Such rhetoric bothers Salinas. “I read a comment on one of the stories about a past demonstration, and it said, ‘These kids are just trying to use our Georgia taxpayer dollars again,’ and I just think that’s ridiculous,” he says. “Some of those taxpayer dollars are mine and my parents,’ and some of the taxpayer dollars are from the 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. You have to look at the facts. We are not the enemy here. We are not a bunch of lawbreakers. We are also not perfect, but we have to find a common ground and look at what this ban represents. “This ban is not about the few dreamers who want to get access to a great education. The reason that this ban is happening is because there’s a bigger problem of America forgetting its past. The United States would not be the country it is today without immigration. And people want to argue, ‘Why

“I had decided that UGA was my dream college. I wanted to be there. I wanted to have an education, and Policy 4.1.6 said ‘no.’”

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me, because only a few years ago the word for us was ‘illegal,’ and we would call ourselves that, and I was used to seeing my parents just work in the factories. My parents work, work, work just to make ends meet, and that was normal. No one I know had a career—it was just work. “Then I started to go to Freedom U classes, and that changed all of this for me,” Salinas says. “The classes weren’t like the standardized high school classes I was use to, where they try and squeeze in so much material into a single semester… Freedom U was very student-driven, and you had to really think critically. “Then there was our first rally back in 2011; that was where my activism started. I can’t believe how much I’ve changed over the last two years because of Freedom University. At first, my activism was very broad and very emotion-driven with all

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don’t you do it the legal way?’ Well, if you look at history, when it comes to Native Americans, that argument falls flat. And then Ellis Island, where if you had good health and paid a small fee you, could immigrate to the U.S. There is not a simple answer for immigration in the U.S.�

out of ESOL classes, and I got along with everyone. I went to Clark Central‌ and around my junior year, I heard about the ban on undocumented students from my dad. He thought it was a missed opportunity, saying, ‘If only we had brought you here to be born, we would’ve been unaffected by the ban,’ and to be honest, my work permit wouldn’t say ‘no re-entry,’ either, because that also affects me.“ Casas hoped the DACA program would help him attend college. “I applied to the University of North Georgia,â€? he says. Maybe that’s why the U.S.—especially Georgia—has such “When I was applying, I filled out everything, and the only a complicated system. In June 2012, President Barack Obama thing I was skeptical of was the Social Security box, and to announced that undocumented young people who came to the be honest, I didn’t even think UNG would accept me, so I just U.S. as children could apply for Deferred Action for Childhood left that box blank, and I sent in my application, and the next Arrivals (DACA). Once accepted into DACA, an undocumented thing I know, I got an acceptance letter. I was happy but conyouth gains relief from deportation and the opportunity to fused. I didn’t know that they would accept me, and after the apply for a work permit, which includes a Social Security numwhole process, all I could think was, ‘Yes I’m going to get an ber to use for work, taxes and college applications. education.’â€? Still, undocumented students can’t attend the top five Then the reality set in that Casas would have to pay outresearch universities in the state under the regents’ ban, and of-state tuition in a state where he’s lived his whole life. That they have to pay out-of-state tuition to attend any of the meant an $8,778 bill for two semesters of classes, rather than other colleges in Georgia. To be eligible for in-state tuition, a $2,487. legal U.S. resident needs to have lived in Georgia for only one “After I showed my parents the tuition, we got into the year, “and most of the people I know have been here well over same old discussion: ‘Why is this happening to us?’â€? Casas a decade,â€? Salinas says. says. “For example, I’m taking two summer classes that would â€?Not only does this spit in our faces but also gets rid of normally cost around $800, but the out-of-state tuition is potential for the state,â€? he says. “They’re shooting them$1,500 extra, so I have to pay like a good $2,300 for summer selves in the leg by having classes. Due to out-of-state this ban, because there’s a tuition and paying out-oflot of deserving people that pocket, I can only afford to have the grades for it, and take three classes a semester that have the minds for it, during the fall and spring and these student being able each year. [In May] I drove an to attend college with inhour and 45 minutes to the state tuition would benefit University of North Georgia everyone. But because of the Dahlonega campus with my policies in place in Georgia, birth certificate, my Mexican students that have lived most passport, my bills to show of their lives in the state are that I’m paying bills and a having to go to other colform from my taxes to the leges and having to pay more registrar’s office, and they money.â€? copied everything, so I could Salinas applied to two apply for in-state tuition on colleges and got accepted the grounds that I’ve been into Oglethorpe University in going to college in Georgia for Atlanta, a private school. “The over a year with a work pertown is amazing; it looked mit, which is the same criteria fantastic, but I can’t afford it, that other out-of-state stuand I have no type of governdents would apply for in-state ment assistance, so that’s out tuition under. But mine is the of the question, because the [DACA] work permit.â€? tuition is $28,000 a year,â€? It’s hard to come up with Salinas says, “If I didn’t learn that tuition money, Casas all the things I’ve learned in says. “I’m really proud of my the last three years, and I was dad—he worked his way up just continuing the cycle of to starting his own company, working, working, working, and he’s been paying for my for $28,000 I could have my school through this, and I go own little trailer, a nice little out and work summers with Honda Civic and keep on livhim. And every time I go out Alejandro Galeana Salinas speaks in UGA’s Miller Learning Center at a ing a comfortable life, but and work with him, I feel like panel discussion on undocumented students. that $28,000 is what it costs I can’t even last through the just for a year of college. This summer, and he’s been doing really shows you how this ban and how this broken system is this his whole life. It’s a whole different world where he works doing exactly what its intended to do.â€? in Newnan, Georgia, which is a two-hour drive‌ Newnan is Israel Casas, a sophomore engineering major at the a whole different world, because Athens is so diverse, and University of North Georgia, found himself in a similar situNewnan is not. The majority of the people he works with are ation. He was born in Mexico but has lived in the U.S. since white, and they really do look down upon him, and it’s tough he was a baby. Nevertheless, when it came time to choose a to see.â€? college, he was forced to pay more than three times what a Casas’ younger bother was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in native-born Georgia resident would pay because of his immiAthens and is an American citizen, as is his nine-year-old sisgration status. ter. His siblings have gone to the same schools he did and will “My dad came to the U.S. when he was 18 years old to work be able to attend UGA or any of the top five research universiand send money back to my mom, and he would travel back ties in the state, unlike Israel, because of the simple fact that and forth to see his family and my mom. When they were in he was born a few hundred miles away. their early 20s, they decided to make a new life over here, but Salinas’ immigration status is similar. “I’ve been here since my mom was pregnant with me, and they wanted to take my the age of two years old, and I’ve lived in Athens ever since,â€? mom over while she was pregnant, but they decided it was he says. “The reason for that was economic, because there was unsafe, and they were just going to have me in Mexico. That no more work or opportunity for my parents to find work. really changed everything for me. I could’ve been a U.S. citi“I think most people that migrate the way that we did, as zen. I got here when I was one year old. strange as this mentality may seem, most people come to the “My dad already had a job, and I started pre-K. Then we States with the mentality of, ‘Oh, I’m only going to be here for moved to Bogart, GA, where I started at Cleveland Road a few years, then I’m going to go back.’ But for many, many Elementary School. As soon as I got into kindergarten, I people, that just doesn’t happen, because of routine. You start started to learn English, because my parents didn’t know assimilating and putting roots down and, next thing you know, English at all, and I guess I was learning English at the same I’ve been here for almost 16 years. time as my dad. The school had ESOL [English for Speakers of “I have a mixed-status family. 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Eric Uhls, another MBA and law-school graduate, says he’d support a policy similar to Texas or Arizona’s, where a student who graduates from an in-state high school can attend any just have DACA. You don’t think this is going to happen when university in the state. “You’re punishing people for something you come to the U.S., but next thing you know, it happened.” they didn’t have any control over,” Uhls says. “I think it would be a good idea, because it wouldn’t be punishing people that had no choice in the matter in coming here; so at this point, what are their options? They’re punishing them to score political points.” There is a potential solution for people like Casas and Protestors called on Morehead to repudiate Policy 4.1.6. “I Salinas: Under DACA, undocumented youth are legally present think the lawsuit is very important, but I think what is more in the U.S., and being in the U.S. legally is what the Board of important is how these student have mobilized their commuRegents requires. Thirty-nine undocumented young people from nities and the activism that they’re doing there today,” UGA across Georgia, including Salinas, have filed a lawsuit arguand Freedom U professor Pamela Voekel said during the rally. ing that the University System is not following its own tuition “We are not stopping; this fight is ongoing, and the pressure policy. (A judge dismissed the lawsuit in June, but attorney will keep building. UGA doesn’t know this, but this was a huge Charles Kuck is appealing.) defeat for UGA, a moral defeat.” “The day I decided to become a plaintiff in the lawsuit Morehead refused to address the crowd of demonstrators but against the Board of Regents was after a Freedom U class. I issued a press release after meeting with Samaniego and othwas approached by another of the ers from Freedom U: “The University plaintiffs in the case to become community appreciates the variety of one of the plaintiffs,” Salinas says. perspectives shared through dialogue “I said ‘yes,’ because I know it was on a college campus. That is why I right, but… now it’s finally starting had a meeting with representatives of to sink in that this is happening, the Undocumented Student Alliance at and there’s a reason for everything UGA today. As a unit of the University we’ve done over the past three years. System of Georgia, we follow Regents Establishing Freedom U and now policies. As President, I listened to [that] it’s snowballing, I can feel the concerns expressed today and it that we are getting somewhere, will convey those concerns to the somewhere very powerful, and it’s Regents.” no coincidence that this is happenAlthough the administration didn’t ing. The lawsuit against the Board of meet their demands, demonstrators Regents is the result of all the work declared victory. “I think they gave of GUYA [Georgia Undocumented the administration a vision in digniYouth Alliance] and Freedom U and ty—the dignity to come out and fight other organizations.” against this ban and for their right to Undocumented students and attend the University of Georgia, and sympathizers are putting pressure I think the university covered itself on university officials in other ways, in shame,” Voekel says. “I think Jere such as through an Apr. 28 march Morehead should have come out and from the Arch to UGA President Jere addressed the students and say his Morehead’s office that drew several views to the crowd, that he opposes hundred people and led to a conthe ban on moral grounds… The stuIsrael Casas has lived in Georgia for 20 years but still frontation between protestors and dents came out here hoping he would must pay out-of-state tuition at North Georgia University. do the right thing, and he did not do police. “The ban on undocumented the right thing. And I think the messtudents doesn’t make any real sense to me, except if you’re sage that they bring here today is that 50 years after the intejust being cruel,” says William Stith, who graduated from UGA gration of the University of Georgia, we are still a segregated with an MBA last spring. “Why wouldn’t you want to educate university. There are still people who are being singled out; immigrants? I just don’t understand where it comes from; it make no mistake about that. This is about race; this is about makes no logical sense to me. You’re also hurting the economy; keeping people in particular economic conditions, making sure you’re just wasting potential. These people coming out of high that they’re cutting grass and not attending the University of schools could be productive members of society. Like I said, Georgia. I think we should all be outraged.” the only logical explanation for this is cruelty or something racial.” Joshua L. Jones continued from p. 7

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This is certainly true in the case of to their counterparts in Alabama. According to Carl Gibson in University of Texas where, instead of just teaching the great two recent and remarkably similar incidents that amount to Huffington Post, July 23, 2014, the state of Mississippi has gobs of info they already know, the faculty are apparently textbook examples of the ongoing devaluation of education in been in violation of its own laws since 2008 by failing to prowasting their time and the public’s money in trying to find out the face of a comparably blind but increasingly overpowering vide its legally mandated share of public school funding. It is even more stuff (God knows what) to teach. Instead of reachobsession with industrial development as a “bargain at any currently spending $648 less per pupil than it did in 2008, and ing for his 12-gauge, however, the O.B. ultimately opted for costâ€? panacea for all our ills. a high-minded remonstrance, dispatched Witness the crisis over in Alabama, to the nation’s number-one publishing where their subsidies to new plants over platform. the last two decades have long since run In an otherwise excellent account well into the billions, but it seems they of efforts to oust the president of the are running short of cash just now to University of Texas, the Times writers twice shower on the next corporate candidate refer to recent cuts in legislative approfor a humongous public payout. Not to priations for public higher education as worry, however, Alabama Gov. Robert “declining state subsidies.â€? In the current Bentley has come up with an inspired yet political climate that this story so vividly simple solution for this dilemma; he wants reflects, this is heavily freighted language. to shift funds from education in order to However inadvertently, it reinforces the shore up the stash he draws on in his role popular notion that state funding for an as the state’s official bagman to new cominstitution created by the state to funcpanies. The rationale for this switcheroo tion as a duly constituted obligation of seems clear enough to Bentley: “Who pays the state is instead some sort of volunfor the incentives? It’s not education, but tary dispensation or indulgence. In the they benefit from it totally‌ you ought operative sense of the word, the funding to eat what you kill.â€? (If the guv really received by the University of Texas from practices what he preaches here, he better the State of Texas is no more a “subsidyâ€? pray he never hits a feasting buzzard while than is Gov. Rick Perry’s salary. traveling on Alabama’s excellent highway The O.B. assumed at the outset, cornetwork.) rectly, as it turned out, that his missive Although some Alabama legislators would almost certainly never make it into expressed reservations about a special print, but he also assumed that sending “And I want you to know that we have taken $1.3 billion from our schools and given it to you,â€? or words to that effect. legislative session geared to making the it would at least make him feel a little Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant praises Nissan. governor’s enlightened proposal a reality, better. 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movie dope drew’s reviews GET ON UP (PG-13) James Brown might have had more energy than

 any of his entertainer peers. Perhaps that’s why his biopic, directed

by The Help’s Tate Taylor from a script by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (the summer’s most underrated movie, Edge of Tomorrow), has a little more pop than recent, popular, award-winning biopics Ray and Walk the Line. Disjointedly constructed out of chronological order, the life of James Brown (Chadwick Boseman) unfolds from his poor childhood through his (glossed over) jail time. And in the middle are all the hits that made the Georgia native the Godfather of Soul. After receiving high marks for his Jackie Robinson in 42, Boseman tackles a tougher icon in Brown, whose appearance and voice many filmgoers still recall. Again, Boseman nails his subject. He simply is James Brown. Nelsan Ellis, longtime “True Blood” fave, is long overdue for his high profile role as Brown’s longtime friend, Bobby Byrd. Nonetheless, this musical biopic falters in its third act just like its aforementioned peers. It’s hard to keep the drama compelling when the end is so well known, and ultimately, Get On Up’s James Brown lacks the real man’s complexity. But it sure is entertaining and informative. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG-13) Marvel has been on a role, but who would have thought a practically unknown comic adapted by a cult favorite would be their best flick since Avengers and vie for top dog status? This version of the spacefaring team of superheroes brought to the big screen by Slither filmmaker James Gunn first appeared in 2008. Star-Lord née Peter Quill (the always amiable Chris Pratt) was kidnapped from Earth. His latest heist lands him in jail with one of Thanos’ daughters, Gamora (Zoe Saldana); a genetically engineered raccoon named Rocket (v. Bradley Cooper, who has more zingers than the other actors combined); a talking tree that only repeats, “I am Groot,” in the voice of Vin Diesel; and a vengeful fellow who goes by Drax the Destroyer (the film’s pleasant surprise, WWE’s Dave Bautista). The Guardians must break out and defeat the evil Kree, Ronan (Lee Pace). Don’t shy away from Guardians because you don’t know the characters or because it looks dumb. It’s funnier than The Avengers, and it’s a stellar sci-fi adventure flick. Comparisons to top action-comedies like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Big Trouble in Little China aren’t mere hyperbole.

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Chill, About Alex stars Aubrey Plaza (“Parks and Recreation”), Jane Levy (Evil Dead), Jason “son of John” Ritter (“Parenthood”), Maggie Grace (“Lost”), Max Greenfield (“New Girl”’s scene stealing Schmidt), Max Minghella (son of late Oscar winner Anthony) and Nate Parker (The Great Debaters and Red Tails) as college friends who reunite after one of their own attempts suicide. Writer-director Jesse Zwick makes his feature debut. AND SO IT GOES (PG-13) This Frankensteinian mashup, a pseudosequel to Annie Hall and As Good as It Gets, might as well be titled Old People Movie. It ticks all the stereotypical checkboxes for its target demographic. Too bad it lacks the romantic humanity of James L. Brooks or the fashion sense of Nancy Meyers; director Rob Reiner has lost all touch with his sense of character or comic timing. If not for the average work done by the two graceful leads, Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton, this movie would be an utter disaster. As it stands, it’s merely a minor, forgettable one. BEGIN AGAIN (R) Writer-director John Carney is best known for the luminescent Once, and that familial connection does Begin Again the most harm. Starring Mark Ruffalo as a down-and-out music executive and Keira Knightley as an aspiring singer-songwriter, Begin Again lacks the authenticity, sought by Knightley’s Greta, and attained by Carney’s Once. The movie does improve after its novelistic opening, during which Dan (Ruffalo) and Greta’s current situations are revealed. He is separated from his wife (Catherine Keener), daughter

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(Hailee Steinfeld) and job; she lost her boyfriend, Dave (Adam Levine of Maroon 5 and NBC’s “The Voice”), to fame. Together, they set out to recover their lives by recording an album on the streets of New York City. Not surprisingly, when the music starts flowing, Begin Again gets into a lovely groove. If one is interested in Once without the thrill of discovery, Begin Again is catchy and stays mostly onkey. (Ciné) DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13) 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 (Andy Serkis) 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. 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. HERCULES (PG-13) Immediately forgettable, but not altogether unentertaining, this stripped down take on the Greek demigod—son of Zeus by a mortal—falls somewhere

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between television’s campy “Hercules” and Conan, which it more or less resembles. Explaining away the myth of Hercules (played far less charmingly by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson than one would expect) as the trumped up work of a band of extremely talented mercenaries—each hailing from a different Greek city-state—the action movie focuses on a brief post-12-labor period in which the legendary warrior adventured into Thrace, seeking to save the kingdom of Lord Cotys (John Hurt), from the evil Rhesus (Tobias Santelmann). The less serious one takes this picture, the better it plays; try not to envision Eddie Murphy’s Mama Klump when repeated chants of “Hercules!” swell from the army’s ranks. 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 hopefully new dragons. Writer-director Dean DeBlois fantastically ups the ante from the first film.

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. 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. MARY POPPINS (G) 1964. Ciné’s Summer Classic Movie Series continues with this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious matinee. (I have always wanted to type that and only barely misspelled it the first time, misplacing a mere two letters.) Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke star in the timeless Disney film about the magical nanny for which Andrews won a Best Actress Oscar. Van Dyke also tapped his way to Oscar gold with “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” (Ciné)

I wish we could afford a top sheet. THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) From the trailer, I should have guessed this literary adaptation (Richard C. Morais wrote the novel) was directed by Lasse Hallstrom; I would not have guessed Steven Knight (an Academy Award nominee for Dirty Pretty Things) wrote it. An Indian family (led by Om Puri) clashes with Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), who owns a nearby traditional French restaurant, until the family’s talented young chef, Hassan (Manish Dayal), falls in love with Madame’s cuisine and her sous chef. INTO THE STORM (PG-13) I thought it was too early for a Twister remake, but this found footage thriller about a town threatened by multiple tornadoes is strongly reminiscent of that 1996 Bill Paxton/Helen Hunt hit. Richard Armitage (The Hobbit’s Thorin), Sarah Wayne Callies (“Prison Break” and “The Walking Dead”) and Matt Walsh (very funny on HBO’s “Veep”) are the familiar, adult faces of this disaster flick, whose focus will be on a group of high schoolers, from director Steven Quale (Final Destination 5). LUCY (R) 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% consciousness, she becomes superhuman, learning Chinese in minutes and to move objects with her mind. Morgan

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. (Ciné) ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (R) See Movie Pick. (Ciné) PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (PG) 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). Remember this is just Disney, not Pixar. 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. What amounts to Manhunt: The Movie is alarmingly pessimistic about humanity and cynical about the government. THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH 1955. Ciné’s Summer Classic Movie Series continues with a film best known for the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe in a white dress atop a windy subway grate (you know the one I mean). That the film is written and directed by Hollywood legend Billy Wilder is just icing on the cake. The slim plot concerns a faithful husband (Tom Ewell) who is tempted by a sexpot neighbor (Monroe) while his family is away for the summer. (Ciné) 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. STEP UP ALL IN (PG-13) Time to put your dancing shoes back on for the fifth installment in the biannual Step Up franchise. Can you believe we have had a new Step Up every other year since 2006? Essentially, every year a congressional election is held, we get a new Step Up. This time, the all-stars from previous movies—Ryan Guzman, Briana Evigan, Adam Sevani, Misha Gabriel, Twitch and more—battle for dance dominance in Las Vegas. 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. The cast includes fan favorites like Kathy Bates, Allison Janney, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Duplass, Gary Cole, Toni Collette and Sandra Oh. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG-13) Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return for their first live action movie since their 1993 adventure in ancient Japan; a decent animated update was released in 2007. Produced by Michael Bay and directed by Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans and Battle Los Angeles), TMNT’s newest

adventure stars Megan Fox as intrepid reporter April O’Neil, who stumbles upon the unlikely outcasts, righting the Foot Clan from their sewer hideout. Inexplicably, Johnny Knoxville voices Leonardo. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (R) 1984. Ciné’s Summer Classic Movie Series winds down with its final late show, one of the finest works of comedy the cinema has known since Caddyshack. David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) comprise Tap, a brainless metal band whose flameout of a new album and American tour are captured by documentarian Marty DiBergi (director Rob Reiner). This Is Spinal Tap goes all the way to 11 and beyond. (Ciné) 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 minutes. Evil government, represented by Kelsey Grammer, and evil corporations, represented by Stanley Tucci, are working together with a bad Transformer named Lockdown to hunt down the remaining Autobots. 22 JUMP STREET (R) 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. Stick around; the end credits contain the movie’s funniest gag. WHAT IF (PG-13) Nice guy Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) meets charming Chantry (Zoe Kazan) and feels an instant connection. To his disappointment, Chantry lives with her boyfriend, Ben (Rafe Spall). Can a guy and a girl just be friends? Has this question not been answered already? This romcom appears cute in its trailer, which does overshare a bit about the movie. Adam Driver from HBO’s “Girls” appears as Wallace’s best bud. With Megan Park (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”) and Mackenzie Davis (AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire”). WISH I WAS HERE (R) Zach Braff hit a goldmine with his decade-old writing-directing debut, Garden State. His long-awaited follow up starts behind the 8 ball after the “Scrubs” star questionably funded the film via high profile crowdsourcing. In Wish I Was Here, Braff stars as 35-year-old Aidan Bloom, who faces a(nother) pre-midlife crisis. I guess they occur every ten years for Braff. With Josh Gad, Ashley Greene, Kate Hudson, Joey King, Mandy Patinkin and Donald Faison. Drew Wheeler

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sometimes dealing with his de facto Renfield, Ian (Anton Yelchin), who obtains rare guitars and other items for his mysterious, reclusive benefactor. Eve, the more emotionally sturdy of the two, spends her nights with her great friend Marlowe (John Hurt)—the Christopher Marlowe—and talks with her lover via video Skype, patiently waiting out his fixation on morbid self-attention. Eve eventually journeys to Detroit to reunite with her lover, but when Eve’s sister, the manic pixie blood sucker Ava (Mia Wasikowska), unexpectedly shows up, the forces of chaos threaten to engulf them all. Only Lovers Left Alive delves into the heart of the matter, cinematically examining what it means to be vulnerably human although its protagonists are beyond our flesh and blood. Jarmusch’s characteristic deadpan humor is firmly in place, though his insights into what makes couples groove are more penetrating than ever. It’s arguably his finest work to date and an extraordinary variation on the vampire myth. Languorously paced and staunchly anti-plot-driven, Only Lovers Left Alive always feels vibrant, vital and dreamily content to wallow amidst the ruination of modern life: this is cinema as narcotic, and it’s incandescent. Derek Hill

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er’e in the midst of an EDM-crazed zeitgeist, where synthetic sounds dominate airwaves and record grooves. But it’s not for everyone. So when, after wrapping up the tour for their last album, Simple Math, Atlanta rock band Manchester Orchestra found itself without a label, its members decided to make the kind of album they wanted to hear. “I think there isn’t enough guitar music, so maybe we can be the band that rolls that ball down the hill,” says frontman Andy Hull. “There’s lots of bands playing really cool grunge and rock music. It’s just not what’s being focused or highlighted by the main press. There’s still people coming to our shows who are really interested in [rock music]… We’re one of those bands that’s always a little against the wave of what’s supremely popular at the time.” While it’s tough to entertain the idea of rock and roll as outsider art, Hull does have a point: Rock has diminished, at least in the mainstream. Cope—released earlier this year via Concord subsidiary Loma Vista and the band’s own label, Favorite Gentlemen—is Manchester Orchestra’s contribution to the counter-electrosurgency. While not quite as heavy-hitting as the band would perhaps like to believe—Hull has thrown around the word “brutal” in interviews—it is a rough-and-tumble collection of loud, densely arranged rock songs, glazed in acrid adult frustrations. Hull’s lyrics, which at times feel overwrought, also occasionally offer rich imagery coupled with a gut-punch of sentiment, like when he sings on “Top Notch,” the searing opening track, “We all believed in ghosts/ Until you walked into a wall.” Manchester Orchestra’s brand of emo-tinged rock, like that of sonic brethren like Brand New, with whom the group has toured in the past, chooses catharsis over escapism. “This will be, like, the ear-bleedingly loud rock show,” Hull says of the group’s Aug. 6 performance at the Georgia Theatre. “It’s been the most fun album we’ve played live.”

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That fun arises in part from the fact that the band—Hull, guitarist Robert McDowell, keyboardist/percussionist Chris Freeman, bassist Andy Prince and drummer Tim Very—recorded Cope while all “standing in the same room playing,” a departure from their usual methods. In fact, most of the process was a departure—from a former record label, from an established way of working, from a former member (bassist Jonathan Corley left after Simple Math) and from the big, orchestral sound Manchester Orchestra had put

”We’re one of those bands that’s always a little against the wave of what’s supremely popular at the time.” forth on its last album. The band members even got together, bought a house in Atlanta and gutted it to build the studio in which Cope was recorded. All that upheaval surely had something to do with the record’s title. And, from the looks of the band’s “Letterman” appearance in March, Hull and company still connect viscerally with the feelings behind the songs. Amid a near-seizure-inducing light show, Freeman lurked over the edge of his keyboards; head-banging, Prince and McDowell wore halos of flipping hair; and Hull gave a foot-stomping, voice-cracking performance of Cope’s title track—which, while not the strongest track from the record, shows quite well in the live context. The clip is barely over four minutes long, but it gives a good sense of why the group has developed a reputation for leave-it-all-on-the-floor shows, and supports Hull’s argument that this is probably its best record yet to witness live. There are other signs that Manchester Orchestra feels it has something special in Cope. When reached for this interview,

Hull has just left the studio, where he and the rest of the band are retooling Cope’s tracks for a re-imagining of the album, titled Hope. “It’s all really stripped down… versions of the [songs],” says Hull. “Later this year, we’ll do a tour behind it. When we were writing the album, we found that these songs really worked in this kind of pretty, stripped down way, as well. It was always our intention to explore this counterpoint of these songs. “I’ve gone back on some lyrics and rewritten some stuff,” he continues. “I spent a lot of time on the melody and the way the songs flowed and the lyrics. [Cope is] a very fast record. When I listen to it now, after working on a calmer version, some of that stuff gets lost and is over really fast. When we added breadth to the songs, they were able to expand.” As exciting as all this is—having a record he’s proud of, touring behind it and digging deep into songs he enjoys playing—Hull has one big distraction: a new baby girl, who’ll be approaching her onemonthiversary the week of the group’s Athens show. With Hope on the way and a very good excuse to write quiet music now, perhaps we’ll see Manchester Orchestra mellow soon. Still, given the band’s output thus far, we wouldn’t expect any lullabies. Rachel Bailey

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fter weeks of rumors suggesting a deal was in the works, Georgia Theatre owner Wilmot Greene tells Flagpole he has sold the iconic downtown music venue for an undisclosed sum to a group of anonymous investors operating under the name Agon LLC. Greene is also stepping down from his role as the Theatre’s general manager, and the venue’s new owners have chosen Drew Beskin to fill the position. Greene will stay on as for “at least six months” to assist in the transition. Beskin, who recently moved back to Athens from Atlanta, where he had been working as an account executive at a marketing firm, is no stranger to the local music scene, having fronted the Athens-based band The District Attorneys for several years. “This is a dream opportunity for me, to be involved in something I’d want to be involved in 24/7 whether it was my job or not,” Beskin says. “I’m back in Athens, and I’ll probably be here a very long time.” Greene purchased the Theatre with partner Randy Smith in 2004 and spent the next five years renovating the aging building, which at various points since its construction in 1889 has functioned as a movie house, place

Though Greene says he was not actively trying to sell the venue, he admits he has been entertaining offers for some time. When the new owners approached him, he says, it felt right. “These guys intrigued me, and they seemed like nice people,” he says. “Once I found out Drew was on board, I really started getting comfortable with it.” Both Greene and Beskin stress that Agon’s investors—”individual investors, not corporate investors,” says Greene—don’t intend to make any drastic changes. “They’re all huge fans of the Theatre and how it’s grown, the changes that have been made,” Greene says. “I would be shocked if [anyone] notices any difference. It’s going to be a seamless transition. We’ve worked very hard to make sure that’s the case.” “The idea is to not change what makes the Georgia Theatre the Georgia Theatre,” adds Beskin, adding that all of the venue’s 60-plus staff members will remain on board. “We have a great team already in place.” That team includes talent buyer Scott Orvold, who has worked at the Theatre for much of Greene’s tenure as owner and who has

Scott Orvold, Drew Beskin and Wilmot Greene of worship, YMCA and Masonic temple. It has been a music venue since 1978, with the exception of a several-year period in the ‘80s when it served as a movie theater. In 2009, the building was gutted by a massive fire. With financial support from the community as well as from his banker, Greene was able to rebuild. The venue reopened in 2011, complete with a rooftop bar and restaurant, though renovations, totaling nearly $5 million, have continued through this year. Greene says the money and energy he has put into the building over the last 10 years have left him exhausted. “The first five years of my tenure [were spent doing] renovations,” he says. “And then it burned. And then we had to do another complete renovation after that. “I’m pretty beat,” he adds. “It’s a younger man’s game… I would literally close the Theatre down [some nights] just so I could sleep. And that’s not fair to our employees, or the ticket buyers.”

been chiefly responsible for expanding and diversifying its calendar, introducing a popular series of rooftop concerts that have served to fill gaps in the slow summer months. Beskin and Orvold say they plan to continue on that path, adding even more shows to the approximately 200 that populated the venue’s calendar in 2013. Greene, who has had little to do with booking of late (he refers to himself as “the building superintendent”), says he is simply ready to move on. “My job is over, in a lot of ways,” he says. “The building is awesome. The management team we’ve put together, with Scott and Drew at the lead, should be ready to go for years.” Where he’ll go, and what he’ll do when he gets there, is still up in the air. “I’ve got a couple of rollover vacation weeks,” he jokes. “That’s for sure.”

Music News And Gossip First Up: It’s been a good while since I mentioned The Hoot, so now seems like a good time. For the uninitiated, it’s a monthly variety show of folk, bluegrass, old-time and other roots-type music (including R&B and soul) hosted by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society. The next installment happens Monday, Aug. 11 at the Melting Point and will feature the soulful Kelvin Armstrong and the buttered Dylan stylings of Sam Burchfield. The whole night will be hosted by Ansley Stewart, who will also open the show. To learn more about The Hoot and the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society, see facebook.com/ groups/athensfolk and athensfolk.org. Good folks, these are. Support ‘em. Speaking of Which: I guess I could have included this in the paragraph above, but it deserves to stand alone. The lineup for the 30th annual North Georgia Folk Festival was released last week, and fans will be edified to Norman Blake note the exciting news of a rare appearance by the legendary Norman Blake. Although Blake is no stranger to touring, he hasn’t done a lot of it lately, and his return to Athens is a very special one. This year’s festival happens Saturday, Oct. 11 at Sandy Creek Park. The event is a celebration of all folk arts and includes kids’ activities and storytelling, too. Other featured performers include Bonnie Loggins and Mary Lomax, Phil Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, Marion Montgomery and Glyn Denham, Stone Mountain Wobblers, The Folk Society Band, Pat Shields, Emerald Road, BlueBilly Grit and Atlanta Hair of the Dog. Advance tickets are $14 for adults, $7.50 for students and kids under 12 are free. Pick up yours at athensfolk.org.

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One Thing at a Time: Although it’s too late to get your band included in the series, it’s not too late for your ears to enjoy the fruits of Jesse Mangum’s labor. He is, of course, the head dude at The Glow Recording Studio, and the series I’m talking about is MOEKE Records’ “Summer Singles,” in which a song is released each week until the end of summer to form a complete digital compilation. So far, there are songs by Four Eyes, New Wives,

Tongues, Night School, Los Cantares, Chief Scout and Adrienne Hamil. Upcoming bands include Monsoon, Jacob Morris, Gumshoe, Mothers, Deep State and Semicircle. Give it a click over at moekerecords.bandcamp.com and be a pal via facebook.com/moekerecords. Theatre of Pain: Although they don’t really claim to be an Athens band anymore, I still give death-art-rock band Entertainment the benefit of the doubt. No one in town has come close to matching the batcave-ish menace of the group’s debut, Gender, and it came out over six years ago! Anyway, the news today is that that four songs from that album have been incorporated into an experimental ballet titled Penumbra, which is to be performed at the Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia. Word is the show has been in development for several years but will only be performed once on Aug. 9 (“under the Capricorn moon,” say the organizers). So, damn, we’ll all miss it! Entertainment’s sophomore album is titled Horror, and should be released sometime later this year. But as much as I dig this band, I wouldn’t hold my breath—even though that would be a totally death-rock thing to do. Listen at entertainment.bandcamp. com and like ‘em over at facebook.com/ TheOfficialEntertainmentPage. Portraits of Present: New screamo band Under A Sky So Blue released its first demo a couple weeks ago, and fans of 1990s screamo— admittedly an irritating genre splitter of a term that helped no one but sold a truckload of hand-printed rag patches—will dig it the most. It features four tracks of worshipfully faithful chug-’n’-wail, and there’s even a limited-edition CD complete with a brown chipboard cover and a blotchy typewriter font. I wish UASSB had been around when Athens really had an embedded scene for this kind of stuff, but here’s to the outliers, the town criers and young sires. Stream the record via underaskysoblue.bandcamp.com and visit facebook.com/underaskysoblue. Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

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The Unicorns: Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? (independent release, July 29) Reissue of highly fun, highly underrated art-pop LP from 2003. Digital out now, vinyl in October.

Hear tracks from these releases and get local music news on the Homedrone blog at flagpole.com.

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riends in the Athens community who the front row of Athens rock shows? Or maybe remember Dennis Lindsay and his friend you encountered him drinking coffee at Gyro and caretaker Lenny Gredel will gather Wrap all day or hanging out downtown cussing at Hendershot’s Coffee Bar on Friday, Aug. 15 like a pirate? for Dennis-Palooza, an all-day, noon-to-late, Dennis touched perhaps as many lives celebration of Dennis. Lenny is visiting Athens as Lenny with his hilarious vulgarity, unreand will be at the epicenter of the occastrained outbursts and savage wit. He didn’t sion, which will include Lowdive, The Starlite take shit from anybody, and he didn’t care Devilles, ¡Moyuba!, Carl Lindberg = JANKA plus “who the fuck” you were, he would tell you to Timi Conley and Kite to the Moon, with other “Eat shit!” He once yelled that at me at The bands yet to be announced. Grit—top of his lungs, of course. Dennis was a If you lived in Athens between 1968–2002, rabble rouser, and he was the cause of riotous you may remember—or have heard of—the laughter due to his personality. legendary Lenny and his counterpart, Dennis. Lenny is the central figure in a wonderful circle of friends that revolved around his amazing, profound massage and healing work. He is known and loved for maintaining “The Garden Home,” a house near downtown Athens where all were welcome, and the door was never locked, and where Lenny gave shelter to any who needed help, guidance or just a friend. One of these people was Dennis. In 1977, Dennis wrecked his car while drinking and sustained a massive, debilitating head injury. He barely lived. At that Dennis exhibiting his raucous behavior with Timi Conley. time, Lenny took it upon himself to rally his group of friends to assist with Dennis’ It may be news to many who knew him in life. Eventually—when faced with the reality Athens—since Lenny and Dennis moved to that if no one took responsibility for Dennis, Hawaii in 2002 and maintained limited conhe would end up institutionalized—Lenny tact afterward—that Dennis died of natural assumed his legal guardianship. causes on Nov. 4, 2008. Now, all these years This action resulted in Lenny’s constant later, Lenny is back, and he is eager to join care of Dennis for the next 31 years and a together in celebrating, through an event beautiful, lifelong, yin-yang companionship, that would have thrilled his friend, the life of until Dennis’ passing in their Hawaii home in Dennis Lindsay. 2008. The number of lives Lenny has touched in Timi Conley Athens is practically immeasurable. His positive reverberations have echoed through the population in ways that you have probably WHAT: Dennis-Palooza felt, whether you knew him or not. His care of WHERE: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Dennis: What can be said? Would you do that? WHEN: Friday, Aug. 15 Dennis, head-injury handicap and all, was a HOW MUCH: TBD force all himself. Do you remember this character in a bandana and black leather jacket on


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calendar picks MUSIC | Wednesday, Aug. 6

Cult of Riggonia, Deeze, Gurgle Twins, Jade Poppyfield, Tare, Spirit of the Ocmulgee

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you’ve been thinking about picking up a new skill lately, here’s your chance. Whether it’s wood carving, metal working or 3D printing, this weekend’s Athens Maker Fest will bring together more than 40 interactive booths for you to explore your next obsession. The idea is to bring together artists, technology lovers and crafters to trade ideas and create something new, says Van Burns, coordinator of the Athens Regional Library System grant funding the event. “We want people who are working away in their garages without anyone watching to show each other what they’re doing,” says Burns. “The focus is on different influences and techniques, and the idea of an opensource environment with the free exchange of ideas.” Slated for late Saturday afternoon, Aug. 9, at Lyndon House Arts Center, the event is the first of its kind in Athens and is free to attend. Expect to find booths with folk art, ceramics, robots, cartoons, soap making, watercolor and weaving. Several interactive technology exhibits will allow viewers to immerse themselves in the environment, including Zane Cochran’s Bit Dome, which creates a 360-degree light and music experience. “It’s a good balance of the arts and technology,” Burns says. “There’s the more traditional side, with silk painting and printmaking, and then we’ve got MFA folks from UGA doing on-the-spot portraits on tablets. I’m looking forward to the wide selection.” The festival is funded by the Reflecting, Sharing, Learning program, the product of a National Leadership Grant awarded to the Athens Regional Library System and Lyndon House Arts Center by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. This is the fourth and final year of the grant, with an extension funding Maker Fest and other programs through the end of September. “The program was targeted at the Baby Boomer generation to produce programming for and by them, but we found over the course of the grant that we were attracting both younger and older Athenians,” Burns says. “The White House held a similar makers event a few weeks ago, and we think it’s a growing trend across the country to bring creators together.” To keep interest piqued, Hatch Athens, a local organization of artists, developers

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and creatives, will host workshops at Lyndon House this weekend and next weekend to teach coding and other elements of interactive technology. A beginner’s Arduino coding class this weekend will teach learners how to control an LED ring to make an “Iron Man Arc Reactor” clock, and next weekend’s class will show users how to manipulate information from Xbox Kinect to control software. “Many times, there’s a wide disconnect between disciplines, and when you’re only working in one medium, you don’t know the availability out there,” says Erica Parson, executive director of Hatch Athens. “Combining different disciplines and mindsets helps to manipulate materials and technology in a new way, which is the only way we’re going to advance anything.” Hatch Athens, which hosts monthly “hackathons” for members to collaborate, is working to provide a 24/7 space for creators to get together and use resources to build projects. They’ve already collected wood-working tools, metal-working tools and a variety of tech toys, such as 3D printers, microcontrollers and mini-computers. “Everyone is creative. Everyone is a maker,” Parson says. “Whether you’re building furniture, creating connections or doing sales, you’re making the world a better place when you bring passion to it.” Hatch Athens will host a space at the Maker Fest with information about the group’s developing space and projects the group has produced since January. Parson works with technology, modern furniture and metal, but she’s excited to explore crafts this weekend that she hasn’t tried before, such as felt making. “People are happier when they’re able to do something that fulfills them rather than just work a job and make money,” Parson says. “We want to provide a way to harbor that creativity inside everyone.” Carolyn Crist

WHAT: Athens Maker Fest 2014 WHERE: Lyndon House Arts Center WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 9, 2–6 p.m. HOW MUCH: FREE!

THEATER | Aug. 8–10 & Aug. 14–17

Proof

Go Bar · 10 p.m. · FREE! Athens Community Theater · 8 p.m. (Thursdays– The first of a monthlong Wednesday Sundays), 2 p.m. (Sundays) · $8–15 Go Bar residency for Macon/Athens-based Town & Gown Players present David experimental world-pop group Cult of Auburn’s Play, Proof, directed by Beth Riggonia, Wednesday’s show will funcKozinsky, with Greer Caldwell as Catherine, tion mainly as a chance to check out what’s going on in the former Georgia capital Proof to our south. As it turns out, Macon has become a mini-hotspot of sorts for independent-minded music; along with the surprising success of niche record shop/downtown performance space Fresh Produce, a slew of strange but compelling bands have emerged in middle Georgia, including freejazzy Riggonia pals Gurgle Twins and solo artist Jade Briton Dean is Hal; Greer Caldwell is Catherine. Poppyfield, whose droning, the daughter of Robert (John Olive), a mind-expanding take on pastoral ‘60s folk brilliant but mentally unstable mathematicalls to mind artists like Grouper, Marissa cian. Catherine must come to grips with Nadler and Tiny Vipers. [Gabe Vodicka] her own possible inheritance of insanity and with her estranged sister, Claire MUSIC | Friday, Aug. 8 & (Vanessa Murray). Then Hal (Briton Dean), Saturday, Aug. 9 one of her father’s former students, shows up, complicating Catherine’s life further. All about genius, insanity and mathematics, Proof won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Camp Kiwanis, Danielsville · 6 p.m. (Fri.), 10 a.m. drama and a Tony for best play. UGA math instructor Joseph A. Vandehey conducts a (Sat.) · $10 (wristband), $15 (w/ camping) special talkback following the performance It’s an unpredictable time of year, on Saturday, Aug. 9. [Pete McCommons] weather-wise, and the 2013 event was canceled, but let’s hope the rain gods are MUSIC | Saturday, Aug. 9 kinder for this year’s BRWA benefit show at the Broad River Outpost in Danielsville. Bring the family and a camping tent and dig music from Elf Power, Hot Fudge, The Darnell Boys, Shade, Madeline and more. Melting Point · 9 p.m. · $8 (adv.), $10 (door) In addition, enjoy disc golf, cornhole and After being forced to cancel its planned other weird games, including a “plant performance at this year’s AthFest due identification showdown” and a trivia to illness, new Athens/ Atlanta supergroup Murray Attaway Blasting Cap will make its Classic City debut Saturday at the Melting Point. Featuring Murray Attaway and Jeff Walls— two erstwhile members of Georgia jangle-pop sensation Guadalcanal Diary—as well as members of onetime scene fixtures Hillbilly Frankenstein, The Swimming Pool Q’s and Go Van Gogh, the band’s driving, playful rock and roll sound is a blatant and blissful throwback to those bands’ bygone era. The young Blasting Cap has already been contest where the sole subject is William known to “cover” Guadalcanal songs in Bartram, the 18th Century American its live set, so aging nostalgists, grab yer naturalist who once wrote of what would dancin’ shoes. The Michael Guthrie Band become Clarke County, “This new ceded opens. [GV] country promises plenty and felicity.” The Matt Hardy

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Blasting Cap, Michael Guthrie Band


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Tuesday 5 CLASSES: Intro to Word (Oconee County Library) Learn the basics. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 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: Writing Class (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Athensbased publishers Bilbo Books lead a workshop on writing. Founders Bill Bray and Bowen Craig specialize in “book shepherding,” guiding authors through the laborious steps in the writing and publishing process. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597, www. bilbobooks.com CLASSES: Zinio Workshop (ACC Library) The library now offers free online magazine checkouts through Zinio. Learn how to navigate the website and app, how to view magazines and more. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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) Fresh produce and cooked foods. Offers double dollars for EBT shoppers. Held every Tuesday. 4–7 p.m. 706613-0122, www.athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Orpheus Brewing Launch Party (Trappeze Pub) Sample five brews. 6 p.m. www.facebook.com/trappezepubathens EVENTS: Farmer Outreach Workshop (Oglethorpe County Library) The Athens Land Trust is hosting a workshop to introduce USDA-NRCS programs with a focus on water conservation, irrigation and well water managment. Guest speakers include Jason Wheatley from the NRCS and Linda Helmly from Oglethorpe Fresh Market. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslandtrust.org GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. & Thursdays, 8 p.m. 706-354-1515 GAMES: 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: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Win prizes. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1523 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia with host Caitlin Wilson. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside loca-

tions of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (The Savory Spoon) Compete to win prizes. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-367-5721 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) Children ages 2–5 are invited to join in an interactive storytime. Every Tuesday and Wednesday. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706613-3650 MEETINGS: Public Input Session (Planning Department, 120 W. Dougherty St.) Give feedback on updates to the Oconee Rivers Greenway Network Plan. Review the maps, ask questions to the planning staff and provide comments. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty. com/greenway

Wednesday 6 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Annelies Mondi, deputy director and in-house co-curator of the exhibition, leads a tour of “Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org CLASSES: Crochet 1 Class (Revival Yarns) Get acquainted with the tools and craft of crochet. The class is free with the purchase of materials. RSVP. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com 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: Hip Hop Industry Night & Open Mic (Max) Come network and perform. 8–11 p.m. www. ugalive.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music from Todd Lister and Friends. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9:30 p.m. www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub 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) Grab a cold brew and test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Story Time (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Story time includes stories, finger plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison

KIDSTUFF: Going Fishing Story Time (Oglethorpe Co. Library) Come by to read lots of underwater adventures. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706743-8817 KIDSTUFF: Cow Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Hear a few stories about cows. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706795-5597 LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Monthly open poetry reading. This month’s featured reader is David Noah. 8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/athenswordofmouth SPORTS: Hardcourt Bike Polo (West Campus Parking Deck Basketball Courts) Equipment provided. New players welcome. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athbikepolo

Thursday 7 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 CLASSES: Healthy Living Cookie Series (Mama Bird’s Granola) Chef and wellness coach Sue Knowles of Buttercup Farm leads a class of the benefits of detoxing. Learn how to use almond milk for a variety of drinks including a classic green smoothie and a power fruit smoothie. 6:30 p.m. $25. www. mamabirdssharedkitchen.com COMEDY: Comedy Show (Hi-Lo Lounge) With host Bain Griffith. 10 p.m. www.hiloathens.com EVENTS: Nature Ramblers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn more about the flora and fauna of the garden while enjoying fresh air and inspirational readings. Ramblers are encouraged to bring their own nature writings or favorite poems and essays to share with the group. 8:30–10 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden. uga.edu 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 (Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q) Hosted by Dirty South Trivia. Every Thursday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-8508511

Friday 8 ART: Opening Reception (Sips Espresso Café) “Joie de Vivre” includes impressionist paintings by Lisa Dinh that were inspired by notable women, global events and the role of women in society. All proceeds will help fund research in knowledge gaps in healthcare under UGA’s undergraduate research program, CURO. This event includes

Artwork by Christopher Nelms is included in “Emerges VII,” a group show on display at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art through Sunday, Aug. 24. spoken word by Jay Morris, Minh Nguyen, Isaiah Hunter and music by Jayke Hill and Taylor Perry. 5–7 p.m. 706-363-7211 CLASSES: Knit 1 Class (Revival Yarns) Get acquainted with the tools and craft of knitting. Learn cast-on stitches and the knit stitch. The class is free with the purchase of materials. RSVP. 11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-850-1354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com EVENTS: Broad River Watershed Association Concert (Camp Kiwanis, Danielsville) This twoday benefit for the Broad River Watershed Association features music, tubing, disc golf, games with prizes and more. Bands include the Darnell Boys, Madeline, B-53’s, Elf Power, Shade, Hot Fudge, Hernies and Moths. Attendees may camp overnight. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. Aug. 8, 6 p.m.–12 a.m. & Aug. 9, 10 a.m.–12 a.m. $10-15. 706-795-3542, broadriverboyz@ gmail.com KIDSTUFF: MythBusters Party (ACC Library) Teens will test theories and bust open crazy misconceptions using science. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary. org THEATRE: Proof (Town and Gown Players) On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister and the attentions of her father’s former student. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. Aug. 8–9 & Aug. 14–16, 8 p.m. Aug. 10 & 17, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.townandgownplayers.org

Saturday 9 CLASSES: Introduction to Arduino (Lyndon House Arts Center) Hatch Athens presents a workshop on

the Arduino platform. Learn how to make interactive projects that light up, move and make sound. By the end of the class, participants will wire and program a colorful bedside clock. Register online. 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. $20/class or $50/ class and Arduino kit. www.hatchathens.com EVENTS: Broad River Watershed Association Concert (Camp Kiwanis, Danielsville) See Friday listing for full description Aug. 8, 6 p.m.–12 a.m. & Aug. 9, 10 a.m.–12 a.m. $10-15. 706-795-3542, broadriverboyz@gmail.com EVENTS: Really Really Free Market (Reese & Pope Park) Bring what you can; take what you need. No bartering, trading or paying. Second Saturday of every month. 12–2 p.m. FREE! reallyreallyfreemarketathens@gmail.com EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse, Watkinsville) Locally grown produce, meats, grains, flowers, soaps, birdhouses, gourds and much more. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Athens Maker Fest (Lyndon House Arts Center) This interactive afternoon celebrates technology, innovation and creativity through tech-based exhibitions and demonstrations. Forty different types of makers will share what they do. This fest is a partnership between the Reflecting, Sharing, Learning grant and Hatch Athens. See story on p. 16. 2–6 p.m. FREE! www. rslathens.org EVENTS: Athens Area Democrats Breakfast (Brett’s Casual American Restaurant) Nat Kuykendall speaks on Athens preservation. RSVP by Aug. 7. 9 a.m. $12. 706-247-3558, athensareademocrats@gmail.com EVENTS: Journey Through the Stars for Adults (Sandy Creek Nature Center) This month’s theme is “Asteroids, Meteors and Comets,

Oh my.” Pre-register Aug. 8. 3–4 p.m. $3–5. 706-613-3615 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music by Steve Coughlin (8 a.m.) and Betsy Franck (10 a.m.). This Saturday is Tomato Day and will include taste tests, an ugly tomato contest, kids activities and a chef demo with Craig Page. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.org EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Featuring fresh produce, honey, crafts, soaps, baked goods, cooking demos, children’s activities, yoga (11 a.m.) live music and more. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www.athenslandtrust.org KIDSTUFF: OYSP Open House (Oconee Youth School of Performance, Watkinsville) Prospective students can meet the staff and learn about the variety of classes offered including dance, musical theater and acting/drama. Classes begin Sept. 2. 1–3 p.m. FREE! www.oconeeyouth.com KIDSTUFF: Super Duper Story Time (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) Miss Rachel will read books and sing songs to kids in this new monthly story time scheduled for the second Saturday of each month. Children are invited to wear crazy accessories from the shop’s dress up closet. For ages 7 & under. 11:30 a.m. FREE! avid.athens.rachel@ gmail.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: End of the Summer Puppet Show (ACC Library) Celebrate summer’s end with David Stephens as he performs a puppet k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! show for children of all ages. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: The Fault in Our Stars Support Group (Barnes & Noble) Participate in John Green trivia, giveaways and more. Win a prize for the best re-write of the ending and participate in a dramatic reading of your favorite scene. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 KIDSTUFF: Book Lovers Day (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Write a book review and get a prize voucher for one free book from the Friends library shop collection or to redeem at the upcoming booksale. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Critter Tales (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Families are invited to listen to a story about nature. Staff will then bring it to life by visiting a critter or going

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CLASSES: Advanced Beekeeping (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Advance your beekeeping knowledge as you perform a 24-hour Varroa mite count and apply a variety of treatments for mites and other pests. Completion of the Beekeeping for Beginners Series and preregistration is required. 9–11 a.m. $16. 706-5642-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden EVENTS: Stories From Childhood: From a Tiny Acorn (Historic Meeting House) Local realtor Charlie Upchurch III talks about his Athens upbringing. He is the President of Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty, which was founded by his father in 1974. Proceeds benefit Children First. 3–5 p.m. $10 suggested donation. www.childrenfirst-inc.org EVENTS: Full Moon Hike (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Bring family and friends along to enjoy the

community gardens at ACCA and UGArden. EBT cards accepted. 12–3 p.m. www.accaging.org GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge! Hosted by the lively 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 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 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

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Sunday 10 ART: Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) See some highlights from the museum’s permanent collection on a tour led by docents. 3 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org ART: Opening Reception (Jittery Joe’s Coffee, Downtown) For oils on paper and mono prints by Stuart Libby. 3–6 p.m. FREE! 706-6137449

mysterious world of nature at night. Includes a two-mile hike through the wooded trails and in the garden. Pre-registration required. 8–9:30 p.m. $5/person, $15/family. 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden KIDSTUFF: C.O.O.L. Kids (Princeton United Methodist Church) The Children Of Our Lord Kids program is for children from 3 years through 5th grade. Lessons cover various topics from Men and Women of the Bible, Advent, Easter, What is Forgiveness, Why we Worship and much more. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. princetonumcathens.org THEATRE: Proof (Town and Gown Players) See Friday listing for full description Aug. 8–9 & Aug. 14–16, 8 p.m. Aug. 10 & 17, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.townandgownplayers.org

Monday 11 EVENTS: Produce Stand (Athens Community Council on Aging) This mobile produce stand sells fresh, sustainable and locally-grown fruits and vegetables sourced from the

levels. For ages 10–18. Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650, ext. 329

Tuesday 12 CLASSES: Perennial and Winter Annual Gardening Class (ACC Library) Learn how to create and maintain your winter garden and landscape. RSVP by Aug. 11. 6–7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3640, atedrow@uga.edu CLASSES: Concrete Leaf-casting (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Use large leaves to cast concrete forms that can be used for bird baths or creative garden accents. Remember to wear something you don’t mind getting wet or dirty. Pre-registration required. 6–8 p.m. $35. 706-542-6156, 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


Wednesday 13 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, leads an in-depth discussion of selected works from the exhibition “Picturing America: Signature Works from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.� 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Crochet 2 Class (Revival Yarns) Review chain and single crochet and learn the most commonly used stitch, double crochet. You will also be introduced to shell stitch, granny square and slip stitch to work in the round. RSVP. 3 p.m. $30. www.revivalyardsathens.com EVENTS: Rabbit Box: “My Brush with Death� (The Melting Point) Locals share true-life stories for adult ears only. This installment’s storytellers include Kirby Amick, Matthew Epperson, Paul Guillebeau, Amy Moss, Hollis Rosson, Scott Shamp, Shawn Shubert and Lisa Smart. Mary Whitehead will be the MC. 7 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7. www. meltingpointathens.com, www.rabbitbox.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 5 Caledonia Lounge 8:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com SONS OF SANTOS Touring alt-folk band from Austin, TX. WRENN Up-and-coming local pop singer. GRANT COWAN Rising local songwriter. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com FLICKEROKE Come sing your heart out with your host Jason. Singing ability not required. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 JERKAGRAM Brooklyn-based duo featuring Don Caballero-esque punk-jazz noodling combined with space-rock improv trips and a nice dose of metal. MANNY AND THE DEEPTHROATS Local experimental sound/video artist Manny Lage explores concepts in performative culture. SLEEPY COMPANY New experimental project from musician Chase Merritt. SHADES MARTEL This local writer, former spy and Mercution revolutionary blasts guitar-distorted keyboard sonatas in an attempt at transcending musicianship and traditional songwriting.

Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com THE GRAWKS New local rock and roll band. MURDER THE MOOD Local alternative rock band. MODERN MAMMOTH Melodic rock band from Toccoa. Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL This weekly series showcases a series of acoustic solo sets from some of the most talented singersongwriters in town and across the country.

Wednesday 6 Blue Sky 5 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 VINYL WEDNESDAYS Bring your own records and spin them at the bar! Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES SINGERSONGWRITER SHOWCASE Rock out every Wednesday. Contact louisphillippelot@yahoo.com for booking. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com KICK THE ROBOT Power-pop trio from Atlanta with lots of infectious energy. MARRY ME Bluesy rock band from Vancouver, BC. MAMA-FIKI Local jam-influenced fusion band. Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net TODD LISTER AND FRIENDS Folky local singer-songwriter teams up with some friends for a set. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $18.50. www.georgiatheatre. com MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Heavy, radio-friendly indie rock band out of Atlanta. See story on p. 12. THE MOWGLI’S Blend of indiefolk and revivalist rock from Los Angeles. BRICK + MORTAR New Jersey indiepop duo. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 GURGLE TWINS Macon-based experimental group featuring members of Cult of Riggonia. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. DEEZE No info available. JADE POPPYFIELD Experimental drone outfit from Macon. TARE No info available. CULT OF RIGGONIA Experimental soundscapes with tribal, world music beats and ornate instrumentation. SPIRIT OF THE OCMULGEE No info available. 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.

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THE CALENDAR! 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, improvisation and popular standards.

Thursday 7 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, traveldriven lyrics.” The band is celebrating 80 weeks of Thursday shows. JULIE HOLMES Local singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist who specializes in acoustic jams. SONS OF SANTOS Touring rock band from Austin, TX.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OLD SKOOL TRIO Funk, blues, and jazz featuring Carl Lindberg on bass, Seth Hendershot on drums and Jason Fuller on keys. Playing original compositions and the music of The Funky Meters, Dr. John, War, Sly and the Family Stone, Billy Preston, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic and more. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com KINKY WAIKIKI Wonderful and relaxing, steel guitar-driven band following the traditions of Hawaiian music. Now every Thursday in August!

Friday 8 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com SHEHEHE Local band that draws from old-school punk rock and arena rock to create a fist-pumping atmosphere. SEX BBQ East Atlanta “surf-rock space wizards” playing psychedelic yet melodic math-rock inspired tunes. SEAGULLS Punk rock band from Atlanta. THE PLAGUE Original, ballsy rock harkening back to The Stooges, Sonic Youth and The MC5. Camp Kiwanis, Danielsville Broad River Watershed Association Benefit. 6 p.m. $10 (wristband), $15 (with camping). www.brwa.org CAMP KIWANIS TAKEOVER Night one of the two-day music festival

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 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com IKE STUBBLEFIELD & FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE HONEY SLIDERS Original, Detroit-influenced rock from Catropolis. THE DRY HUMPS Local heavy noise trio. UPPERROOM No info available. Camp Kiwanis, Danielsville Broad River Watershed Association Benefit. 4:30 p.m. $10 (wristband), $15 (with camping). www.brwa.org CAMP KIWANIS TAKEOVER Day two of the two-day music festival and riverside hangout, featuring Half Acid, Cult of Riggonia, Moths, Madeline and Shade. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THE SUMMER SONICS Local alternative rock band.

Go Bar 8 p.m. 706-546-5609 PLAINS Glammy, Birmingham, AL-based garage-rock band. PHOENICIANS New Brooklyn/ Atlanta-based psych-rock duo. THE CUBBIES Shambling surf-pop group. MOUSER Exuberant garage-pop that experiments with noise jams. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com AUTUMN ATTICS New rock project from Grant Mitchell of Atlanta.

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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. The Melting Point 9 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com BLASTING CAP Supergroup featuring members of Guadalcanal Diary, The Woggles, Hillbilly Frankenstein, the Swimming Pool Q’s and Method Actors. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. MICHAEL GUTHRIE BAND Local singer-songwriter whose sound is a melding of folk, jazz, pop, blues, flamenco, country and rock.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE ORANGE CONSTANT Fusionoriented jam-rock band from Statesboro, GA.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com MOTHERS Local songwriter Kristine Leschper performs gorgeous, haunting folk tunes. T.S. WOODWARD Local pianist and songwriter playing “post-Ragtime neo-Victorian pop-rock.” PATCH Austin, TX-based “dark-folk” group.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com STEREO REFORM Trio that combines genres to create a wonderous “dance-a-funk-a-rock-a-tronic” sound.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com COLIBRI AND FRIENDS A mix of folk and rock influences.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 DISPLACE Tampa, FL-based “spacefunk Instaprov band.”

Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com STAY THE SEA Local instrumental post-rock band. POSH HAMMER Teenaged rock and roll band from Asheville, NC. FEEDBACK No info available.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com WIEUCA A fuzz-heavy, slightly countrified alt-rock version of the sort of wistful slacker-rock pioneered by Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. BIG MORGAN Local band consisting of former members of Atlanta band Lotus Slide. LOW CREEK KILLERS Jammy “newgrass” band from Augusta.

Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com HOORAY FOR EARTH Synth-rock band from NYC. BUFFALO RODEO Progressive indie rock band from Bowling Green, KY. GROOMS Noise-pop from Brooklyn, NY.

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and riverside hangout, featuring The Hernies, Piper, The Darnell Boys, Elf Power and Hot Fudge. See Calendar Pick on p. 16. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com WE THE PEOPLE Described as a “rocking, funky, get-down dance band.” HERO THE BAND A group of four brothers playing a blend of soul, rock, pop and R&B. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ HOT WAX Max Wang (The Rodney Kings) spins ‘60s pop/soul and punk rock. Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com ANDY BRUH Local DJ Andy Herrington spins and mixes dubstep, EDM and bass music. TROGDOR Local trance DJ. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com DANGFLY Local rock band featuring an all-star lineup, including Adam Payne, Shawn Johnson, Jay Rodgers, Scotty Nicholson and Adam Poulin. CHRIS MOORE Bluesy local singersongwriter.

THE ORANGE CONSTANT Fusionoriented jam-rock band from Statesboro, GA. 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. 706-546-0840 THE GEORGIA HEALERS Athens’ premier blues band for 25 years! VFW 8 p.m. 706-543-5940 COUNTRY RIVER Country band.

Saturday 9 Barcode 11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-5557 SUPASTAR DJ LP Spinning a mash of mainstream flavors, twerk/trap and old-school. Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net STEVE COUGHLIN Local singersongwriter performs a set of acoustic music. (8 a.m.) BETSY FRANCK Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility. (10 a.m.)

CAIRO FIRE Electronic-tinged pop band from Charlotte, NC. SUPER HOOLIGAN Local band plays “energetic garage-rock anthems packed with big hooks and infectious choruses.” Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 THE STARLITE DEVILLES Local, passionate country-rock outfit. Georgia Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-9884 DJ DUST Local DJ that spins a heavy mix of electro and mashes it up with a blend of twerk, trap, Top 40 and old school. Go Bar 7 p.m. 706-546-5609 WET GARDEN Synthesizer explorations combined with erotic incantations. FREE PIZZA Eclectic rock band from Boston, MA. SEQUESTERED CIRCUITRY AESTHETIC New local experimental synth outfit. SLAM DUNK CHAMPS No info available. 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 FEATHER TRADE This local band plays lush, moody post-pop. TWIN POWERS Bouncy DJ Dan Geller spins the newest dance party jams and classic favorites.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR WXAG radio DJ Dwain Segar curates a night of smooth jazz, featuring music from Fusion Triangle and poetry by Hazel Roach.

Monday 11 Georgia Theatre Americana Mondays. On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com THE HIGHER CHOIR Homegrown Southern roots-rock inspired by the likes of The Black Crowes and Drive-By Truckers. LITTLE COUNTRY GIANTS Oldtime folk, country and blues from Rome, GA. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 ANTLERED AUNTLORD Fuzz-pop guitar/drums project of local producer Jesse Stinnard. DRAG SOUNDS Greensboro, NC-based rock and roll band. THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed-out local garage-punk trio. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night every Monday. The Melting Point 8 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com THE HOOT Monthly showcase put on by the Athens Folk Music &


Dance Society. This month’s Hoot features Kelvin Armstrong and Sam Burchfield. Ansley Stewart opens and hosts. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MUSCLE SHOALS MONDAY Local artists pay tribute to the Alabama hotspot.

Tuesday 12 Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com FLICKEROKE Come sing your heart out with your host Jason. Singing ability not required. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE EBON HAWK A collaborative project between local MC Ricky Digits and Pretty Bird’s David Chandler. MATTY ICE No info available. DJ HOT WAX Max Wang (The Rodney Kings) spins ‘60s pop/soul and punk rock. Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com OLD SALT UNION Five-piece “newgrass� band all the way from Illinois.

louisphillippelot@yahoo.com for booking. Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net WHISPER KISS Acoustic project featuring multi-instrumentalist Michael Wegner (Abbey Road LIVE!, Fuzzy Sprouts) and Shelley Olin (DubConscious, Grogus) Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 CULT OF RIGGONIA Experimental soundscapes with tribal, world music beats and ornate instrumentation. QUIET EVENINGS Winterville’s Grant and Rachel Evans blend modern classical, neo-kosmische, electroacoustic, field recordings and sound art that is at times somber and elegiac, while at others soaring and celebratory. WET GARDEN Synthesizer explorations with erotic incantations. FUTURE APE TAPES Local group creating psychedelic, experimental music driven by loops, beats, guitars and synths. Green Room 9 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com THE BOHANNONS Rock and roll straight from Chattanooga, TN.

Down the Line 8/14 LEAVING COUNTRIES / JULIE HOLMES / SONS OF SANTOS (Boar’s Head Lounge) 8/14 THE VIKING PROGRESS / HEAVY LIGHTS / JINX REMOVER (Caledonia Lounge) 8/14 HISTORIC SUNSETS (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 8/14 CRAVID / PLAYGROUND / MOYER (40 Watt Club) 8/14 LINES IN THE SKY / FEATHER TRADE (Georgia Theatre) 8/14 KARAOKE (Go Bar) 8/14 MARCUS KING BAND (Nowhere Bar) 8/15 MUUY BIIEN / PLACES TO HIDE / MONSOON / MOTHERS (Caledonia Lounge) 8/15 THE LUCKY JONES (Madison County Library, Danielsville) 8/15 DARYL HANCE (Nowhere Bar) 8/16 COHOSH RECORDS PRESENTS / The Powder Room / Nurture / Waitress / Of the Vine / Hymnal Moths / Scooterbabe (Caledonia Lounge) 8/16 SCARLET STITCH (Front Porch Book Store) 8/16 THE CASKET GIRLS (Georgia Theatre) 8/16 SHOWTIME (Nowhere Bar) 8/17 DJ MAHOGANY (Hi-Lo Lounge) 8/18 BETSY FRANCK / CLAY LEVERETT (Georgia Theatre)

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ART 5th Annual Moonlight Gypsy Market (Athens, GA) Seeking outsider, macabre, erotic and abstract artists, junk vendors and performers. The deadline has been extended until Aug. 15. Market on Sept. 13. 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.–7 p.m. Vintage, handmade items and performers welcome. Apply online. 10’x10’ booths are $65, and 6’x4’ 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.–5 p.m. $20–30/booth. lhartsfoundation@gmail.com, www. lyndonhouseartsfoundation.com

AUDITIONS Always a Bridesmaid (Arts!Oglethorpe) Rehearsals begin in October. Performances are in November. See audition materials on website. Aug. 23, 12–2 p.m. FREE! www.artsoglethorpe.org DanceFx Company Auditions (Dancefx) Auditioning dancers for Training, Apprentice, Concert Dance Company and Sweet Dreams. Come prepared to learn choreography. Aug. 19, 8:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.dancefx.org

CLASSES “So You Want to be a Columnist� Class (OCAF, Watkinsville) This course will walk,

talk and write you through the basics of writing columns, opinion pieces and blogs. Tuesdays, Aug. 12–Sept. 2, 6–8 p.m. www.ocaf.com Aikido (Aikido Center of Athens) Learn nonviolent self-defense. Aug. 9, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. & 2–4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Aug. 12–Sept. 25, 7–8 p.m. $195. Scholarships available. www.aikidocenterofathens.com Canopy Studio Class Registration (Canopy Studio) Fall classes include beginner trapeze for all ages, fabrics classes and conditioning. See website for complete schedule and to register. The first Fall Session begins Aug. 11 and runs for 9 weeks. info@canopystudio.org, www.canopystudio.org Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay� classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7–9 p.m. “Family Try Clay� classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20. www.gooddirt.net 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 Fall Dance Class Registration (East Athens Educational Dance Center) Now registering in classes for beginners as well as advanced students, adults and children. Bring a copy of the child’s birth certificate, a utility bill for proof of residency, a photo ID and the child’s ACC Leisure Services Scholarship Card if applicable. www. athensclarkecounty.com/dance 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, 9:30– 11:30 a.m. Orientation sessions on Mondays, 1:30–4 p.m. FREE! 706353-6647, ssmothers@actionministries.net, www.actionministries.net Gymnastics Registration (Bishop Park) Proof of residency in the form of a current utility bill along with a birth certificate and/ or school records are required for all participants. Classes are offered for ages 10 months through adults. 706-613-3589 Mac Workshops (PeachMac) Frequent introductionary courses. “Getting to Know Your iPad.� Aug. 9, 23. “Intro to Mac.� Aug. 14, 16, 21. “iPhoto for Mac.� Aug. 14, 30. See website for schedule. FREE! 706208-9990, www.peachmac.com/ workshops Printmaking Workshops (Double Dutch Press) “Stampmaking: Two Color Stamps.� Aug. 9, 2–5 p.m. $40. “Multicolor Screenprint.� Aug. 13, 6–7 p.m. & Aug. 20, 6–8 p.m. “Totes! One Color Screenprinting.� Aug. 23, 2–6 p.m. $50. “Paper Relief Monotype.� Aug. 28, 6–8 p.m. $35. Check website to register. www.doubledutchpress.com Salsa Classes (Dancefx) Learn how to salsa dance. No partner required. Wednesdays, 7:30–9 p.m. $5–10. allison@dancefx.org, www. dancefx.org 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

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Artwork by Matt Blanks is currently on display at Flicker Theatre & Bar through August. Seniors in Motion (East Athens Community Center) Individuals 50 years & up are invited to participate in activities to promote wellbeing and fitness such as walking, stretching and simple exercises. Wednesdays beginning Aug. 6, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. 706-613-3593 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, 9–12 a.m. or 1–4 p.m. $180–190. 706-769-4565, www. ocaf.com Yoga Teacher Training (Yogaful Day) Bill Cottrell of Yogaful Day offers a Yoga Alliance approved RYT200 Yoga Teacher Training program. Aug. 16–December. $1550. www.yogafulday.com Zumba in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A dynamic fitness program infused with Latin rhythms. Every Wednesday, 5:30–6:30 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 GED Tutors Needed (Action Ministries, 465 N. Lumpkin St.) Volunteers are needed to help tutor adult students in reading, math,

science and social studies. Must be very encouraging and committed. 706-201-5118, ssmothers@actionministries.net, www.actionministries. net 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 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 3–18. Through Aug. 8. 478-494-7717, www.actionministries.net

KIDSTUFF Babies & Beasties (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Toddlers ages 18 months–two years and their parents are invited to discover nature with hands-on activities, hikes and crafts. Register by Aug. 6. Thursdays in August, 10–10:45 a.m. $12–18. 706-613-3615. Summer Camps (Treehouse Kid and Craft) “Craft Inc. Business Camp,� “Sewing Camp,� “Photography & Photo Styling Camp,� “Fairy Camp,� “Outer Space

Camp,� “Stop Motion Animation Camp� and more. www.treehousekidandcraft.com Summer Tutoring (Classic City Tutoring) Morning and afternoon sessions are available for students wanting to review skills from the previous year or preview skills for the next. Certified teachers. Through Aug. 8. 678-661-0600, cory@classiccitytutoring.com Wild Rumpus Art Show (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Artists ages 6–18 are invited to submit a painting or picture for the Wild Rumpus Art Show, which will be on display at Hendershot’s during the month of October. This year’s theme is “HalloWitch,� 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, 7:30–8:30 p.m. www.gaal-anon.org Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.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 Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Sundays, 4 p.m. www. emotionsanonymous.org


GRASP (Call for Location) Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing is a support group for those who have lost a friend or loved one to drugs or alcohol. 706-248-7715, www.grasphelp.org 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

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Aug. 18. $400. 706-613-3589, www. athensclarkecounty.com/sports 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. 29–31. $90–120. mechanted757@gmail.com Lifeguard Certification Training (Bishop Park) Must be able to swim 12 laps in the pool without stopping, tread water for two minutes, pass a brick test and complete a written test. For ages 15 & up. Aug. 7, 5–7 p.m. Aug. 8, 5–9 p.m. & Aug. 9–10, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. $200. 706-613-3589, www.athensclarkecounty.com/aquatics Wise Woman Circle (Womanspace) Circles are held the first Friday of the month. 6–7:30 p.m. $10. www.holdingwomanspace. com f

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ART AROUND TOWN A. LAFERA SALON (2440 W. Broad St.) Contemporary landscapes by Keith Karnok. ALWAYS BAKED GOODIES (723 Baxter St.) Colorful, abstract paintings by Maria Nissan. AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Digital and experimental film prints by Emily Stephens. Through August. 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. ARTINI’S ART LOUNGE (296 W. Broad St.) “Framed & Dealt” by Brittny Teree Smith features each card of ATHICA’s custom deck, ATHICARDS, presented in a unique frame. Through August. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) “Emerges VII,” 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. Through Aug. 24. THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Terrain: Painting the South” features landscape paintings by June Ball, Andy Cherewick, Robert Clements and Philip Juras. Through Sept. 15. • “Home” 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.) Paintings and mixed media works by Celia Brooks. Through Sept. 11. FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 14 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics and fine furniture. Permanent collection artists include John Cleaveland. Leigh Ellis, Matt Alston and more. • The “New Members Show” features pottery by Sheila Bradley, mosaics by Marian Smith and paintings by Elizabeth Ogletree. Through August. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Matt Blanks. Through August. GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Tiny Universe” includes small works by 70 Athens and Atlanta artists. Through Sept. 19. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “The Lithographs of Carroll Cloar.” Through Aug. 10. • “Picturing America: Signature Works from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.” Through Aug. 24. • “Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise.” Through Aug. 31. • “Bernd Oppl: Inhabited Interiors” consists of three short films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock. Through Sept. 16.• “The Prints of Mary Wallace Kirk.” Through Oct. 12. • Art Rocks Athens presents “Shapes That Talk to Me: The Athens Scene, 1975– 85.” Through Oct. 19. • Tristan Perich’s “Machine Drawing” will create itself over the course of six months. Through Nov. 18. • In the sculpture garden, “Terra Verte,” created by Scottish artist Patricia Leighton, consists of six cubes full of living vegetation. Through May 31, 2015. • “Stone Levity” is a sculpture by Del Geist installed in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex quad. Through May 31, 2015.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Athens Celebrates Elephant 6 launches with “N [] c t u r n e,” a site-specific installation by Dana Jo Cooley. Through Dec. 31. GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Tatiana Veneruso. HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Paintings of animals by Callahan Woodberry and Susie Criswell. Through August. HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Charley Seagraves. Through August. JITTERY JOE’S ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism. JITTERY JOE’S DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) Artwork by Stuart Libby. Opening reception Aug. 10. On view Aug. 8 through October. LEATHERS BUILDING (675 Pulaski St.) Works by Andy Cherewick. Through summer. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) “Roy G. Biv 8.2,” developed by Nancy Lukasiewicz, is an interactive installation exploring color theory. · “BitDome” by Zane Cochran is an interactive, geodesic dome that incorporates LED lights and music. MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Georgia 98, Danielsville) Broom handle birdhouses by Terry Scoggins. Through August. MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Three Paths” exhibits works by Don Cooper that were influenced by his travels through Asia. Through Aug. 17. MAMA BIRD’S GRANOLA (909 E. Broad St.) Artwork by Cameron Bliss Ferrelle, James Fields, Barbara Bendzunas, Kayley Head, Leah Lacy, Saint Udio and Lakeshore Pottery. MAMA’S BOY (197 Oak St.) Photography and drawings by Drew Jacoby. Through August. MINI GALLERY (261 W. Washington St.) “Wagon Wheel” includes paintings by Sara Parker and photography by Simon Hunt. 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.) “Choosing to Participate” contains 11 posters presenting the experiences of individuals and communities. Through Aug. 30. • Art Rocks Athens presents “ARTifacts Rock Athens: Relics from the Athens Music Scene, 1975–1985).” Through December. SEWCIAL STUDIO (160 Tracy St.) Hand-dyed art quilts by Anita Heady. Rust and over-dyed fabric on canvas by Bill Heady. SIPS (1390 Prince Ave.) “Joie de Vivre” includes impressionist paintings by Lisa Dinh that were inspired by notable women and global events. Opening reception Aug. 8. 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 Mary Ann Edens. Through Sept. 11. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) Oil paintings of landscapes, Athens homes and still life arrangements by Mark Hodges. Through September. 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. THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) “Animal/ Domain” presents new paintings by Will Eskridge. • Artwork by Frances Jemini. Through September.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent 1 BR special! Situated perfectly in-between Milledge Ave., Prince Ave. and Dwntwn. Just $525/mo. Visit www. CobbHillApartments.com or call Rent Athens at (706) 389-1700.

Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/ mo. Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $525/mo. 3BR/2BA & FP, $700/mo. 2BR/2BA condo, Westside, 1200 sf., $600/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700 or cell, (706) 5401529.

1BR/1BA. All elec. Newly renovated. Water provided. On bus line. Pets under 25 lbs. allowed. Avail Aug. 1. $450/mo. Dep. req. 12 mo. lease. (706) 338-7262.

Spacious 2BR/1BA above Trappeze, corner unit. Avail. Aug. 6. Most utils. incl. HWflrs. Call for specials. (706) 395-1400, www.landmarkathens.com.

2BR/1BA. Normaltown & ARMC area. In quiet, safe n’hood. Located off-street. Av a i l . A u g 1 5 t h . C H A C . Recently renovated. No pets, no smoking. $550/mo. + dep. (706) 543-4556.

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

Baldwin Village across the street from UGA. Now preleasing for Fall 2014. 2BR/2BA, $850/mo. 475 Baldwin St. 30605. Manager Keith, (706) 354-4261.

Commercial Property 1 space avail. 800 sf. $400/ mo. - 1 space avail. 680 sf. $700/wk. New bath with shower, HVAC, concrete floors. If interested, call (323) 3040720. Rent your proper ties with Flagpole Classifieds! Low rates! Call today to place an ad (706) 549-0301. Or visit our website classifieds.flagpole. com Eastside Offices for Lease. 1060 Gaines School Road. 750 sf. $900/mo., 500 sf. $650/ mo., 150 sf. furnished incl. utils. $350/mo. (706) 202-2246 or www.athenstownproperties. com. Office, ar tist studio/ gallery or small business space located upstairs in a remodeled 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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2BR/2.5BA luxury townhouse at Woodlake. Beautiful surroundings. Country in the city. 10 min.’s to everywhere. 2 car garage, FP, deck. Plenty of storage. $1100/mo. Call (706) 7147600. Av a i l . n o w ! B e a u t i f u l 2BR/2.5BA condo. Quiet neighborhood w/ lots of green space and river walk. Large LR, kitchen, BRs and BAs. D W, C H A C , W / D h o o k u p . $650-800/mo. Pets OK w/ deposit. Call (706) 202-9905. J u s t r e d u c e d ! I n v e s t o r ’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.

Duplexes For Rent 5 Pts. duplex, Memorial Park. 2BR/1BA. Renovated, CHAC, W/D included. No pets. Avail. now. $650/mo. (706) 202-9805.

Prime Dwntwn. Location! Avail. now! 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) 3400424, scott.talley@landmarkproperties.com.

Half off rent 1st month when you mention this ad! 2BR/2BA & 3BR/2BA duplexes off HWY 441. Pet friendly! Dep. only $250. Rent from $650-750/ mo. (706) 548-2522. 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.

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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 fully-equipped kitchen w/ DW, HWflrs., tile floors. CHAC, large BRs. W/D included. Pets OK with deposit. Call (706) 2029905. $850/mo. 3BR/1BA home off Oglethorpe Ave. Kitchen, dining room, living room, storage, HWflrs., W/D, lg. yd. Avail. now! Call Robin, (770) 265-6509, Owner/Agent. 330 Clover St. 3BR/1.5BA house for rent. Avail. now! (678) 698-7613. 3BR/2.5BA Townhouse. Close to UGA, bus line, 5 Pts. $950/ mo. (706) 207-4875. 3BR/2BA in Normaltown. HWflrs., CHAC, quiet street. Grad students pref’d. Rent negotiable. (706) 372-1505. 4BR/2.5BA beautiful plantation house, 3 acres. High ceilings, HWflrs., lg. kitchen & rooms. Screen porch. Fully fenced. 990 Double Bridges Rd. $1200/ mo. (706) 319-1846, or (706) 548-4819. 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. 5 Pts 4BR. 2BRs, $300/mo. 1BR, $350/mo. 1 BR/BA suite, $450/mo. Walk to campus, park, bus stops. (706) 7146984 or (706) 957-3000. Available 8/10 with a 9- or 10-month lease option. 2BD/1BA, CHAC, W/D. $650/ mo. 452 E. Whitehall Rd. Call Christine, (352) 672-5193. Large 3,000 sf. townhome available for Fall 2014. 3-5BR/4BA, $1000/mo. W/D, trash & pest control included, p e t f r i e n d l y. R o o m m a t e matching available. (706) 3951400.

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Large 4 and 5BR homes for rent on Milledge Ave, Macon Hwy, and the Eastside. From $250-400 per bedroom. Call for a tour. (706) 215-6848. Pulaski St. 2–3BR/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. 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.

Houses for Sale Advertise your special skills! Move-in/move-out help, pet care, child care, yard work, cleaning, etc. Let Athens know how to contact you with Flagpole classifieds! Call (706) 5490301 or visit classifieds. flagpole.com. Family home in 5 Pts. 2613 sf., 0.42 acre wooded lot. CHAC, garage, landscaped w/ sprinkler, wooden decks & concrete patio. 4BR/3BA; Master w/ en-suite jacuzzi tub, lg. shower, & private deck. Lg. windowed lounge, HWflrs. Several recent improvements. Pictures available at http:// tinyurl.com/130valleyroad. $387k.

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. Subscribe today and have your weekly Flagpole sent to you! $40 for 6 months, $70 for a year! Call (706) 549-0301 for more information.

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Other people do have credit card debt, Indebted, but that doesn’t do anything to alleviate your monthly bill. You need to acknowledge that this situation is serious. Five thousand dollars is not a small amount, particularly if you don’t have it. And you don’t want this hanging over your head for the next several years. You want to pay it off, so you can do other things with your money. You also want to get your financial habits in order, so you can avoid incurring this kind of debt in the future. Unattractive as this option is, I think you need to find an additional source of income. You don’t have to work 18 hours a day, but if you make $200 additional dollars a month to put towards this debt, you’ll start to see real progress. The pain of this additional work will also make using the card a less attractive option in Please send your questions to Paralyzed, you’re right in saying that the future. advice@flagpole.com or your affair confuses the issue of how to Secondly, find a place to cut $50 out of your current spending and apply that proceed with your marriage. This affair is flagpole.com/getadvice towards your debt. Again, unpleasant, I bread and circuses keeping you occupied and distracting you from your unhappy know, but addressing this head-on right now is the best way to move forward. situation. You need to recognize that you’re not going to have Dave Ramsey and Suze Orman both have great plans for any peace of mind or quality of life if you continue with things as they are. Ending your flirtation with this other woman paying off debt and building a solid financial foundation. I suggest you get one of their books—for free from the library, will clear the way for you to begin truly sorting out what to do with your primary relationship—the relationship you had of course—and see what they have to say. Good luck. before you met her and the relationship you’ve made the biggest commitment to. I understand feeling guilty about your actions, but I don’t Two of my co-workers are organizing a baby shower for a blame anyone for doing what they have to do to get out of an third woman in our office. I’ve been invited, but I’m not close unhappy relationship. That doesn’t mean you should continue with the honoree, and I’m not really interested in spending an seeing this other woman, but it does mean you should recogafternoon at her shower. One of the hosts of the shower seemed nize why you had this affair: You’re desperately unhappy in to assume I was coming (even though I haven’t RSVP’d yet) your marriage and confronting that head-on is too painful or and asked if I wanted to contribute money for a group gift. Will scary. So have a little compassion for yourself in that regard. it seem rude or unfriendly if I don’t attend? If I don’t go, do I You don’t have to stay married, but you do need to be have to contribute money or buy a gift anyway? Should I just truthful and open with your wife. She needs to know that you deal with it and go? are unhappy, that you have been for some time, and she needs Shower Skipper to hear why. She needs to know that you’re thinking seriously about ending the marriage. These won’t be easy conversations You definitely do not have to attend this shower. My rule to have, but the only route to making things easier and better for attending parties, showers, weddings and any other event, goes directly through this difficult work. really, is to go only if you’re 100 percent excited about going. I suggest making yourself an appointment with a therapist. Leisure time is for doing things you truly enjoy and want to do, Tell him or her what you’ve told me. I also suggest asking your with people you want to be with. RSVP “no” to the shower . wife to go to couples counseling with you. Even if your goal You also don’t have to contribute money for the gift. If you isn’t necessarily to save your marriage, a counselor can help want to contribute and can afford to, go ahead. It’s not necesyou communicate openly about what’s happening in your relasary, though. You’re not obligated to give money just because tionship. Having a third person to witness and facilitate those someone asked you for it. If you want to acknowledge and conconversations can be helpful. gratulate the mother-to-be, you can buy a small gift on your So, to recap: Forgive yourself a little bit, end the affair, iniown, give her a card or just say “congratulations.” tiate the conversation with your wife and continue the conversation with the help of a counselor. I don’t envy you the next Rhonda advice@flagpole.com months or year of your life, but if you can get through this

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