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arlier this week, Macon got some exciting news. The first round of The Knight Neighborhood Challenge Grants, totaling over $450,000 to over 21 different projects were announced through the College Hill Corridor.

In the coming months, here are just a few of the things you’ll see happening in this town. This is big news, and it’s going to change things here, immediately. You’ll see an arts component added to the already successful Second Sunday Brunch. Dr. Heather Cutway will be teaching those within the corridor how to compost and she’ll be helping with tree coverage along the corridor by planting trees, some of which may be grown in a new Tree Nursery that could be located in a currently vacant lot. The Macon Film and

Video Festival will be doing filmmaker workshops at Mercer, the community garden at Beale’s Hill will be expanded, Historic Macon will host a green field day to teach people about energy efficiency. The Museum of Arts and Sciences will be hosting a spring camp at Tatnall Square Park and the Pan African Festival will be moving there as well.

Existing tree ordinances will be strengthened, living history maps will be created, a trail of Mercer Bears much like the Athens Bulldogs will begin to pop up along the corridor, and new building codes and zoning guidelines will be created to make the area more developer friendly. On top of the brand new Big House Museum opening, and Fly south Fest kicking off in a week, that’s a lot to be lot to be thankful for this year.

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local profile Habitat for Humanity + the blotter,Watercooler & City Scene

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city picks Holiday Celebrations galore + full calendar of events for the next 2 weeks

music 11 Qs for who Rolling Stone claims is the “greatest guitarist of our generation” Derek Trucks

band spotlight Coyote Bones 13 + Live Take, the Charts, New Releases the grid Live music, drink specials & more 14 bandography live music reviews 15

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The Scene, Shopping Local, Dear Mr Macon Out, Oddballs, Crossword

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contributors

Columnist Karen Rogers: For over fifteen years Karen Jones has been a military spouse and a stay-at-home mother of two. Last year, she began writing after a suggestion from a professor at Macon State College.This has evolved into a “second career” and love outside of her domestic dalliances.

Columnist Bill Knowles is a lifelong Conservative who has lived in the Macon area for over 20 years. He got his first taste of the political process when at age 9 he proudly handed out buttons for then President Richard Nixon and has been hooked ever since. Bill has held campaign positions for various local, state and national candidates, including President Ronald Reagan, Steve Forbes, Senator Fred Thompson and most recently Senator John McCain. He is currently a member of the Bibb County Republican Party’s Executive Committee and the Georgia GOP’s State Committee. He and his wife Bridget have one son,Teddy.

Columnist Debra McCorkle began writing liberal commentary when she turned forty, the same year that George W. Bush was first elected president. She has spent the last decade in respectful disagreement with various aspects of the government as well as pondering the rapidly shifting social climate. McCorkle has written for The 11th Hour for the past six years. Her work has also appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Hip Mama, and on Georgia Public Radio. The south Georgia native has owned a shop for twenty years and is the proud mother of two daughters.

Freelance writer Jenny Murr has lived in Middle Georgia for 30 years.A recent college graduate, Jenny loves to write, read and make graphic art. She currently freelances for several online publications and is diligently working on her first novel.

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community

2nd Annual Light More Homes Christmas Celebration

In support of the Macon area Habitat for Humanity, Chik-fil-A will once again host an extravagent light display to help provide awareness for the need of affordable homes for needy, low income middle Georgians.

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ranes, Christmas lights and volunteers filled the parking lot of the Tom Hill Sr. Blvd. Chick-fil-A on Nov. 15—all a part of the second annual Light More Homes Celebration which benefits Macon Habitat for Humanity. The spectacular synchronized light display begins on Nov. 27 and will continue through Dec. 31, during normal evening operating hours.

It is expected to take over 1000 hours for 35 volunteers to complete the 35,000 light display, which will tower over 100 feet over I-75. Volunteers began to arrive at 9 a.m. and will stay until the job is finished around 2 a.m.

“Light More Homes” was birthed from the desire of Chuck Hammock, senior partner at AH&P and Macon Habitat Board member, to bring smiles to kids and adults at Christmas. Using animated Christmas lights synchronized to music, Hammock reminds people of “The Light of the World.”

The display began as a small residential drive-by yard display that was heard in cars via the FM radio. Later, it was moved indoors and paired with the Live Out Loud children’s choir singing to the music and lights. In 2008, the display evolved into a 35,000 light display enjoyed by thousands at its current home at the Chick-fil-A on Tom Hill Sr. Blvd., owned and operated by David Clark.

Clark hailed last year’s efforts as very successful—generating sponsor and customer donations of $7,000 after expenses. Proceeds were applied to the January 2009 Mercer University Home Build in Lynmore Estates.

It is hoped that this year’s display will be even more successful since patrons of other Chick-fil-A restaurants will also have a chance to join the effort by making donations. According to Harold Tessendorf, Executive Director of Macon Area Habitat for Humanity, donations of $16,000 are needed to complete the current project in Lynmore Estates.

Recipient families and their friends and family are

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required to log 400 hours in order to receive a Habitat home. Future Habitat Homeowner Christine Hooker and her sons helped raise the Christmas light arches. Hooker expects her family to move into a refurbished home in Lynmore Estates in February. “Last year I saw the light display here and this year I am so excited to be a part of putting them up.”,” Hooker said. “The young people who volunteered have really touched me with their desire to help families like mine.”

Students from Mercer’s Engineers without Borders seized the opportunity to help with the light display for the second year. It’s not the first time EWB has taken part, but it is the first time for club member Rachel Dorminy—who even brought her sister Sarah along. A student of MacIntosh County, Sarah looked forward to helping out during her visit. “It helps to build my resume,” she said.

Seniors from First Presbyterian Day School also stepped up to help out. Elizabeth Clark, also an employee of Chick-fil-A, explained that her efforts will be applied to the 15 hours required to be part of the National Honor Society. Students from Berry College and Emory were also among the many volunteers.

Tessendorf expresses his appreciation to Raffield Tire Masters for anchoring Habitat’s special event once again as the 2009 Presenting Sponsor. Other corporate sponsors of the event include AH&P Engineering Firm and Chick-fil-A. The event has garnered the support of many local businesses including On The Spot Advertising, Cherokee Brick, and DECA to name a few. For more information on how individuals, churches, groups or companies can support this project or in 2010, go to www.maconhabitat.org or contact Jim Mercer, Development Director at jmercer@maconhabitat.org .

- Jenny Murr

THE BLOTTER

the 411 on Bibb County Crime

Three arrested for marijuana trafficking

On Nov. 11, Bibb County Drug Investigators intercepted and seized packages containing marijuana.

Approximately 80 pounds of marijuana was shipped through UPS from Phoenix, Arizona, to different addresses and names in the middle Georgia area, but was seized by Investigators before the deliveries could be made.The approximate street value of the marijuana is from $100,000.00 to $150,000.00. Arrests made in connection with this crime are: 1) Thaddeus Lavette Bonds, age 28 from Macon, charged with Criminal Attempt to Traffick Marijuana and Probation Violation Superior Court.

2) Donnie Williams Brown, age 30 from Macon, charged with Criminal Attempt to Traffick Marijuana.

3) Howard Eric Sanders, age 37 from Warner Robins, charged with Marijuana Trafficking and he had a Hold in Houston County.

Anyone with information in regards to this case is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478746-9441 or the Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

Construction materials stolen Seventy-two thousand feet of copper cable and three red 8’ fiberglass ladders were stolen from a construction

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site at 4630 Sheraton Dr. between the afternoon of Nov. 16 and the early morning of Nov. 17. A cutting torch was used to gain entry to the trailer where the wire was stored. Anyone with information on this case can contact Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.

Citizens warned to watch out for scam artist

A man claiming to be an Army Veteran in the area for cancer treatment and interested in purchasing a home raised the suspicion of a local realtor when he asked to borrow money to get to the VA hospital in Dublin. Kenneth L. Hubbard, a dark-haired white male about 5’10” tall and weighing 140 pounds with bandages on his wrists, expressed interest in purchasing a home listed at $450,000. He stated he would pay cash for the home, he stated that his bank card had been put on hold due to identity theft and that he needed to borrow money to get to the VA hospital in Dublin. He is reported to have also asked to borrow money from the neighbors.

Hubbard acted very brash and would get angry when anyone questioned his authenticity.Witnesses state that he was seen taking pills labeled as Oxycodone.There are no known warrants on this individual but police state that his behavior indicates that he may be unstable and that this may be a scam that he repeats.

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TIM BAGWELL, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church Tim@centenarychurch.org

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urfer Todd Endris was glad they showed up. Todd was surfing at Marina State Park at Monterey, California. As he paddled his surf board to catch a wave, a giant shark (estimated to be 12–15 feet long) hit him without warning. The shark bit him three times and took a chunk out of the surfboard. That is when his rescuers arrived.

Does it surprise you that Todd’s rescuers were dolphins? It certainly surprises me. A pod of dolphins formed a protective circle around him, thwarting the desire of the giant shark to satisfy his hunger pangs by making Todd his lunch. The dolphins sheltered Todd, allowing him to make it to the beach where he received first aid and life support. He lived to tell his tale.

No one knows why dolphins protect humans, but stories of the marine mammals rescuing humans go back to ancient Greece, according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. When I googled “dolphins and sharks” I found several stories of people being saved.

Years back I saved a scrap of paper with Jacques Cousteau’s description of the birth of a dolphin: “When a dolphin mother gives birth, her baby is expelled under water. The first act following the birth is critical: to lift the freshly-born youngster up to the surface for its first breath. So powerful is this motherly instinct that other struggling animals have been pushed to the surface instinctively by female dolphins. How marvelous and beautiful! The instinct to protect the next generation drives some automatic motor response in the dolphin and in many other species. Surely this blessed miracle of caring for others is the greatest treasure on earth.”

That, my friends, is the task of the church. We lift people up so that they can breathe. We do not ask if they deserve it or have earned it.

Because we have received grace, we respond instinctively by offering grace. We form pods around people and seek to protect them from what is attacking them. Even when they, themselves, are causing the danger which they are facing, we still form pods and offer God’s grace. I argue that this is what the church was intended to do and be from the very beginning.

MACON: A Division I College Basketball Town

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ack in the 1980s, I spent seven of the coldest winters of my life in Syracuse, NY. I remember waking up my first Christmas morning there to a thermometer reading minus twenty-five degrees and a wind chill of minus fifty. Syracuse averaged one hundred twenty inches of snow each season, and the same lawn service that cut my grass during the summer also ploughed the snow from my driveway in the winter. So as you might well imagine, we tended to spend the winter months (which began in earnest in November) hibernating indoors.

The one thing that did bring the community out in droves during those frigid months was Syracuse University basketball. ‘Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night’ discouraged some twenty-five to thirty thousand fans like me from making pilgrimage to the Carrier Dome to support the Orangemen, and throughout the season, the entire City of Syracuse was gripped with basketball fever.

I regard Mercer University men and women’s basketball program as to be one of Macon and Middle Georgia’s best kept secrets. Like that in Syracuse, this, too, is NCAA Division I basketball, and there is no level in collegiate athletics any higher or better than this.

I am a Bears basketball season ticket holder, and I now spend many of these much milder Georgia winter nights in my seat in the third row right behind the Bears bench at Mercer’s University Center Arena. The Mercer Bears of the Atlantic Sun Conference have demonstrated that they can and do play with the best. Under Coach Bob Hoffman’s commanding presence and leadership on the sidelines, the Mercer men defeated Alabama and Auburn of the SEC on the road last season, and came ever so close to knocking off Georgia Tech of the ACC at its homecoming game. I traveled with the team this season to the World Vision Invitational Tournament in Providence, Rhode Island, where I witnessed a rather remarkable second half comeback by the Bears that came up two points short at the buzzer, giving the Providence Friars of the Big East the win on their own home court.

I find it rather remarkable that James Florence, who is poised to become Mercer’s leading scorer of all-time this year, has the highest career scoring average (19.7) among all current NCAA players, and that our Mercer University guard is also is one of ESPN’s “10 Players to Keep an Eye On.” Of similar note, Mercer forward, Daniel Emerson was ranked 14th in the nation last season (343) in rebounding. And of particular local note and interest, freshman guard David O’Shaughnesssey is a homegrown Stratford Academy graduate.

Mercer President Bill Underwood is extremely passionate about the university’s athletic program, and to him the gratitude of the entire city is due for successfully negotiating to bring the Atlantic Sun Tournament to Macon this coming March 3-6.

Remember: this is NCAA Division I basketball, so the winner of the tournament will get an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and March Madness.

The path to the NCAA Tournament this season is well within Mercer’s reach given its home court advantage in the A Sun Tournament, but that same path must also be paved with the presence and support in the stands of you and me.

The Mercer Bears are, in fact, the City of Macon’s and all of Middle Georgia’s NCAA Division I basketbal. So take a moment to visit www.mercerbears.com for game schedules and ticket information, and let’s all make a concerted effort to sellout every game. For I believe that in addition to being known for its music and architecture, Macon can become well known as a Division I college basketball town.

- Larry Schlesinger

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On Downsizing

et me be very clear about something – I support “rightsizing” the City’s workforce. With a dwindling population, we can not afford to sustain 1400 employees as our costs rise and our income decreases. But, as I wrote in my first column for 11th Hour, “when the day comes when some of our employees will have to be let go, both the Mayor and Council will share in taking responsibility for that burden.” In that same column, I pointed out that the City Attorney asked Council months ago to clarify one ambiguous provision in the City charter that seems to disagree with another requiring City Council approval for furloughs and job eliminations.

When Council was given that opportunity, we failed to do so by a vote of 9-6 (I voted with the minority). At the time, one Councilmember stated in a committee meeting that she didn’t want the responsibility as any firings would be blamed on the Mayor. Another said that she didn’t need to vote for the measure because the law was already clear that the Mayor cannot eliminate jobs without our approval.

And still another later said, in order to secure his vote, he had been assured that if those firings took place, Council would have 30 days in which we could overturn them. One important point needs to be made about that process, however. At no time did we change one word of the provision requiring our approval. Certainly there was no affirmative vote to give such an unchecked power that no prior Mayor has held. All we failed to do was clear up the ambiguity and now many of those same members who voted against the clarification are crying “foul!”

In an effort to circumvent any necessary approval, the City Attorney then came up with a legal fiction that would allow the Mayor to fire 31 employees and eliminate 36 more positions without approval by terming them “temporary” eliminations.

And, his argument goes, if Council can come up with the funds next summer in the new budget, we are free to re-hire these same employees. Forgetting for a moment that it was Council who came up with the necessary money when his last budget proposed furloughing employees one day per month and taking away all paid holidays, surely such a suggestion gives false hope to these terminated employees and their families. There is nothing temporary about the loss of their jobs.

There was also a curious lack of logic about some of the job eliminations. For example, when the City accepted grant funding to re-start our recycling program, we agreed as a requirement to receive those funds that we would continue the program when the funds are depleted. Yet the Mayor just eliminated the recycling director’s job (only two weeks after appointing her to a city-wide commission).

He also eliminated the job of the only person who knows how to place content (for example, televised meetings of City

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Council and mayoral press conferences) on the City’s cable channel 14. The same week, he asked us to create a new civilian position of a Public Information Officer for the police department. And contrary to the Telegraph’s editorial assertion on November 15th that, “In this plan, no sworn officer or firefighter position was eliminated,” the Mayor actually did away with two district fire chiefs, one fire sergeant, and nine fire privates. Because of our contract with Bibb County, none of those can be taken from County fire services.

Not one department head or senior manager was eliminated in the Mayor’s plan. In fact, the average salary of those positions eliminated last week was $29,278. The annual salary for the highest paid employee who was eliminated is $49,841 (less than half the salary of the City’s top several employees) while the annual salary for the lowest paid employee is $21,216 – well below the federal poverty level for a family of four.

Another component of the announced plan raises additional questions. Three years ago I chaired a Council committee assigned to determine the costs to establish a pay scale for police and fire employees.

The committee included our present police chief as well as our present personnel director. After more than three months’ work and with expert outside advice, we determined that the cost would be $5.5 million annually. Yet the Mayor has just announced that he will be implementing a pay scale for ALL employees – including police and fire - in the next budget cycle. His projected cost is $2 million for everyone. Are we giving false hope to our employees when we assure them they will be getting a pay scale even when we are aware that the promise is hollow? Did anyone even share that former study with the Mayor and his CAO? We do not know since we were completely cut out of the process.

After that ill-timed vote not to make clear the necessity for Council’s approval of job eliminations, the Mayor assured us he would not do so without “consultation” with us. Yet his announcement to Council was only that – a notice that he would be signing an executive order eliminating the jobs. No questions. No advice. No consultation.

And be assured that more job cuts are on the way. This is only the first wave.

Could Council have prevented the job eliminations? No. Could Council have asked insightful questions concerning apparent contradictions and gaps in the process and offered the benefit of collective experience? Of course. No one disputes that these job cuts were difficult for the Mayor to make. But, we, too, were elected to do a job. Just as the President can declare war but must go to Congress, hat in hand, to secure every penny of funds to wage that war, so the Mayor must acknowledge our role in the checks and balances of representative democracy.

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by Josh Maloy and Friends, hot chocolate for the children, and cocktails for the adults.

Friends of the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail (FOOT) is an organization of volunteers and patrons whose support protects and enhances the Trail. The primary goal is to increase awareness of the Trail's educational, recreational, and spiritual opportunities, as well as to foster community support, energy, and ownership through social activities and clean-ups and beautification projects.

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everal community organizations have joined forces in an effort to beautify Downtown Macon. “Clean Up Our Town Day” will include activities such as removal of trash and litter, grass and weeds, large debris. The day also kicks off NewTown’s program to remove graffiti from buildings in the central business district by April.

This project needs 200 volunteers to clean up the designated 20 block area.

This focus area is defined by MLK, Jr. Boulevard, New Street, Plum Street and Riverside Drive. To sign up, please call 478-722-9909 or email Jessica@newtownmacon.com. Volunteers can also sign up the day of the event. Check in at the Poplar Street Parking Deck between 8:45 and 9:00 am that morning. Lunch will be served to all volunteers.

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Sat Nov 28

This day in history: Picasso's "Acrobat and Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million in 1988.

Downtown Rally in the Alley

Bring your game day spirit to downtown Macon for Rally in the Alley, two hours before kickoff of the Georgia vs Georgia Tech football game!

Families may be divided with friendly competition, but everyone is welcome in Mulberry Lane Alley for the Rally in the Alley! Beverages will be available for purchase at the event. The party will move inside to the Cox Capitol Theatre at kickoff, so stay and watch the game on the big screen! This event is free and open to the public.

Sun Nov 29

This day in history: Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups in 1965, which is still the world record.

Cox Capitol Theatre presents Sunday Supper & a Movie. Family-friendly film

plus dinner. 6 p.m. Annie (G) Tickets $5 for adults, $1 for 12 & younger. $1 pizza slices for kids & $1 draft beer for adults. 478.257.6391.

382 Second St.

Wed Dec 2

This day in history: Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City) in 1969.

Cox Capitol Theatre presents Dinner & a Classic: The Fallen Idol

(1955). Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Classic films paired with a nice meal. $17.50 with dinner, $5 for movie only. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. Call or go online for movies & menus.

478.257.6391. 382 Second St.

Thur Dec 3

This day in history: John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar in 1969.

Wesleyan College presents “Sez She.”

Comedy of monologues. Not suitable for children. Grassmann-Porter Studio Theatre. 8 p.m.

Tickets $4-$8. 478.757.5259. 4760 Forsyth Rd. Thru December 5.

Fri Dec 4

This day in history: 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up on this day in 1980.

Party with a Purpose at The Shamrock Please bring a new, unwrapped

toy or gift for our needy children in Middle Georgia. Party starts at 7p.m. with live music by Shane Bridges and Old Star. The gifts will be donated to Toy’s for Tots.

Macon Arts presents “From Sketchbook to

Canvas: Paintings by Nancy Shippen” and “Animals In the Round: Ceramics by Anne Rafferty.” First Friday Opening Reception 5 – 8 p.m. 486 First St.

Theatre Macon presents “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” Classic 40’s comedy about an unintended houseguest. Thru Dec. 12.

Directed by Jim Crisp. Tickets $12 - $18.

478.746.9485. 438 Cherry St.

The Macon State College Chamber Singers will present "Gloria," featuring

the music of Vivaldi and Rutter, at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 4, at Riverside United Methodist Church. Special guests will be Colony IV Brass, soprano Melanie Cross-Buckner and mezzosoprano Michelle DeBruyn. Free and open to the public. Call 471-5773 for more information.

Macon Little Theatre presents "Traditions." Written and directed by Sylvia

Haynie and Laura Voss. This original musical tells the story of a family coming together at the holidays and features the hilarious antics of 20+ people sharing a 3-bedroom house. Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for seniors, $18 for adults.

Call the box office for reservations, 478-471PLAY. 4220 Forsyth Rd. Thru Dec. 13.

Jazz Association of Macon hosts the 25th Annual Holiday JAM. 8pm held at the

Old Macon Library on Mulberry St. right across from the Grand Opera House. Catering by Kudzoo Catering, Door Prizes and more. Tickets $25 in advance and $30 at the door.

478.633.7372. MaconJazz.org.

Cottage Christmas at the Sidney Lanier Cottage 10am - 2pm. Annual Christmas Open

House, with an old fashioned Bake Sale and Christmas Shop. Admission is Free and the public is welcome. The Cottage will be decorated for the holidays and refreshments will be served.

Sat Dec 5

This day in history: Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks on this day in 1955.

Georgia Music Hall of Fame presents First Saturday with Pam Blanchard, for kids ages 4-17 & their adults. Noon – 2 p.m.

Included with regular admission, $3.50 - $8.

478.751.3334. GeorgiaMusic.org. 200 M.L. King, Jr. Blvd.

Holiday Art Sale at the Cabin

Saturday Dec. 5, 10am–5pm, Sunday Dec. 6, 12pm–4pm, 3875 Overlook Ave (corner of Forest Hill & Overlook Ave) Macon. Meg Campbell, Joy Raynor, Jerry Glass, Sue Quaack, Bridget Fox, Charlotte Beeler, Harriet Wallace.

Works in clay, mixed media, water color, stained glass, found objects, plus sculptures, prints, gyotaku, photographs, dog portraits and yard art. Free.

Woodworking 101 Workshop at Gallery 51. Hosted by Don Yoast. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. $300 Includes materials. 478.994.8683. Gallery51.org. 51 W. Adams St., Forsyth.

Sun Dec 6

This day in history: Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special in 1995.

Wesleyan’s Annual Christmas Concert featuring the Concert Choir and Wesleyannes.

Wesleyan College Porter Auditorium. 3 p.m.

Free & open to the public. 4760 Forsyth Rd.

Cox Capitol Theatre presents Sunday Supper & a Movie. Family-friendly film

plus dinner. 6 p.m. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (G) Tickets $5 for adults, $1 for 12 & younger. $1 pizza slices for kids & $1 draft beer for adults. 478.257.6391. 382 Second St.

Sugar Plum Party at The Hay House

Seatings at 1 pm and 3 pm. $15 per person.

Reservations required. Children ages 6 and up can bring their adult companions to one of the most delightful family Christmas events of the season! Enter the front door and listen to a story under the 18-foot Victorian tree in the Living Room. Then walk-through all of the elegantly decorated rooms on three levels, ending in the Old Kitchen where a live Santa will be waiting with cookies and milk. Make a Christmas craft to take home too! Call 478-742-8155.

Mon Dec 7

This day in history: Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" on this day in 1967.

Macon Concert Association presents

Soprano Leah Partridge in concert. Season tickets $80 or limited single tickets at the door, $20.

Burden Parlor, Olive Swann Porter Bldg. at Wesleyan College. 4 p.m. 478.743.6940. 4760 Forsyth Rd.

Wed Dec 9

This day in history: Supreme Court halts Florida vote recount on this day in 2000.

Cox Capitol Theatre presents Dinner & a Classic: Where Eagles Dare

(1955). Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Classic films paired with a nice meal. $17.50 with dinner, $5 for movie only. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. Call or go online for movies & menus.

478.257.6391. 382 Second St.

Thur Dec 10

This day in history: 1,000,000th model T Ford assembled in 1915.

The Douglass Theatre and Central Georgia Opera Guild presents

The Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” Live in HD. 1 p.m. Tickets $18-$22. 478.742.2000. DouglassTheatre.org.

355 M.L. King, Jr. Blvd.

“The Nutcracker Ballet” presented by

Nutcracker of Middle Georgia at the Grand Opera House. Dec. 9-12 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $20. Dec. 12 & 13 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets $25.

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Sat Dec 12

This day in history: U.S. Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta in 1966.

Holiday Hafla, 6:30 p.m. Bellydance show fea-

turing Lotus Niraja of Baltimore and dancers from around the Southeast. Benefits Toys for Tots. Mount de Sales Academy. 851 Orange Street, Macon.

Admission: adults $10, children $6. For more information, visit www.MaryRaks.com.

Sun Dec 13

This day in history: American forces capture Sadam Hussen outside of Tikrit in 2003.

College Hill presents the Second Sunday Gospel Brunch. FREE, family-friendly outdoor

concert. Washington Park, Noon – 2 p.m.

CollegeHillMacon.com. Magnolia Street.

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Decking the Halls: An Evergreen Christmas at Hay House Thru January 2, 2010.

The Medical Center of Central Georgia is proud to

present Christmas at Hay House 2009. This year's theme of "Decking the Halls" echoes a long-held tradition and one honored by all three families who lived in Hay House. The Johnstons (c.1860s), Feltons (c.1880s), and Hay families (1920-60s) all used natural greenery to decorate the house for the holidays. The words of the familiar Christmas carol about using “boughs of holly” reflect the English tradition. In the American South, holly was supplemented with other indigenous evergreens, among them pine, cedar, magnolia and smilax. Evergreens were used for Christmas decorating at a time of year when flowers were scarce. These greens were gathered the old-fashioned way by going to the woods and searching out just the right boughs, branches, and sprigs to give the house its festive air for this most festive season. Christmas Tours are $10 Adults; $9 Seniors (55+) and Military; $6 Students.

- music

Poetic Peace Open Mic: Y-O on the 1’s and 2’s every Tuesday at 567 Cafe, 567 Cherry St. 8-10 p.m.

Live Music Every Friday Night on the Patio beginning at 7:00pm at Edgar’s Bistro. Please call (478) 471-4250 for music line-up.

Free concerts at the Golden Bough Every Tuesday: Come hear some of Macon’s best musi-

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Mike Kinnebrew Christmas Concert "Put simply: Mike Kinnebrew is good. Very good! As a music critic, I spend countless hours being bombarded by the stereotypical "guy the with a guitar, a song, and a dream of going pro." It's a little tiresome, to be honest. After attending his recent performance at the renowned Eddie's Attic in Atlanta, I can tell you, Mike is something altogether different.

Mike has that intangible talent that is hard, even for a writer, to articulate. On the marketability side, yes, he does have the "look" to make A&R executives stop and stare, but one gets the feeling that he couldn't care less about it. Suffice it to say that, when you're watching him, you know that you're seeing something special. He plays the guitar with effortless intention and sings with the conviction of a man twice his age. More importantly, his songs are pure poetic emotion..."

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Wednesdays

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12/2: The Fallen Idol (1948), 6:30pm

11/29: Annie (1982) $1 pizza, $1 drafts

12/9: Where Eagles Dare (1968) 6:30pm

12/6: How Grinch Stole Xmas $1 pizza, $1 drafts

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City Market On the Green, every Saturday 9-1pm. The market is open to producers, growers, artists and other creative art vendors. Taking place on the block where farmers would bring their goods in horse drawn wagons, Poplar St. Over 20 studio spaces fill the second and third floors above Michael’s on Mulberry. Everything from painting, printmaking and sculpture.

Contemporary Arts Exchange: Mulberry Street

Macon Arts presents “From Sketchbook to Canvas: Paintings by Nancy Shippen” and “Animals In the Round: Ceramics by Anne Rafferty.” FREE. Weekdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 3p.m. 478.743.6940. MaconArts.org. 486 First St.

Tubman Africal American Museum presents Wini McQueen The History of the Dream Project. In 2001 the Tubman Museum commissioned artist Wini McQueen to create textile panels to be installed in the artrium of the new Tubman Museum. The finished commission chronicles the history of the tubman as well as significant people, events and memories from the macon and Middle Georgia community.

BOOKS/MOVIES

Georgia Music Hall of Fame presents, “Johnny Mercer: Too Marvelous for Words.” Celebrate the Savannah native’s 100th birthday with the exhibit that covers his 5-decade career. Tue. – Sun., 9:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. 478.751.3334. GeorgiaMusic.org. 200 M. L. King, Jr. Blvd.

Joycine's Art, Attitude & Accessory Gallery Costume jewelry, art and so much more!

333 Cotton Ave. For schedule and information contact Barbara at 478-743-3144.

Gallery 51, Open -Mon- Fri 8am to 4:30pm and

Sat. 10am-2pm. Fine art, handcrafted jewelery, art glass sculptures, stained glass, woodturned bowls, photography, carved stone. 51 W. Adams St. Forsyth

Middle Georgia Art Association Gallery, 2330 Ingleside Ave. 744-9557. October 2 – November 19 MGAA presents "Moonlighting" at Market City Café. Work by Bibb Board of Education staff, teachers, etc. MiddleGeorgiaArt.org. 502 Cherry St.

Museum of Arts & Sciences presents The Festival of Trees. See dozens of unique decorated trees.

Included with regular Museum admission, $4 - $8.

Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m. 478.477.3232. 4182 Forsyth Rd. November 14 – December 31.

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Author of New Little Richard Bio to Sign Books at Fly South Fest

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ly South Fest debuts in Macon at Luther Williams Field on Dec. 5, which is the 77th birthday of Little Richard Penniman. In honor of the Georgia Peach, David Kirby, author of the brand new biography Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, will sign copies of his book at Fly South Fest inside the Georgia Music Hall of Fame tent from noon until 2 p.m. and again from 6 until 8 p.m. The Macon-Bibb County Convention and Visitors Bureau will provide birthday cake for revelers and fans while supplies last. The Hall of Fame will sell the books and provide two passes to the museum with each purchase.

Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Stay & Play English at Florida State University and lives in Tallahassee. in Macon Among his thirty books is The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems presents Concert Series (Louisiana State University Press, 2007), which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. He has written on music for The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times Book Review, TriQuarterly, The Washington Post, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Georgia Music and others.

Kirby wrote a terrific travel piece on Macon for The Washington Post a couple of years ago and has since made his way back up 75 to Bibb County a few times researching his book. Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, just out through Continuum, is already garnering rave reviews: In Kirby's book, Elvis and Chuck Berry are milquetoasts next to Little Richard: The former Richard Penniman channeled Baudelaire, hard bop and juke-joint hoodoo, and invented rock & roll in two and a half minutes with "Tutti Frutti."

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In the poem "The House of Blue Light"—whose eponym is where Miss Molly does her rockin', dontcha know—Kirby says that when he, à la Whitman, hears America singing, it "sounds like Little Richard." He sticks to his line in this high-spirited, ambulatory meditation on Richard’s America. Ambulatory literally as Kirby pinballs mostly around Macon, Georgia, Richard's hometown, but also New Orleans, where Richard recorded his first big hit, and L.A., home of Specialty Records, which Richard made a major independent label. Ambulatory spiritually, too, because Kirby adopts Greil Marcus' canny conception of Old, Weird America—poor, superstitious, culturally "backward," but always striving—as the homeground of rock 'n' roll (along with the other vernacular American pop musics: gospel, blues, country) to explain Richard's artistic roots….

Kirby packs his prose as fully as he does his verse and likewise runs it on high octane, pedal to the metal. He beats all the professional rock scribes hollow with this light-footed but profound little book.

- Booklist, October 2009 Learn more about Kirby at DavidKirby.com or Friend him on Facebook.

His posts are a gas.

- by Lisa Love

Do We Protest Too Much? theBUZZ

Watercooler gossip and interesting bits of local news

course of American History? The n important milestone for higher education in this city Tuskegee Institute estimates that over 3,000 blacks and 1,000 whites was recently celebrated in the Telegraph. Cathy Miller, a gifted were fatally lynched between 18821968 for violating Jim Crow laws, history major at Macon State local customs about segregating College, wrote a research paper about the lynching of John Glover in housing, facilities, and social relations. While most common in the 1922. Glover was an AfricanSouth, lynching occurred everyAmerican man who was accused of where. The often undocumented murdering 3 people, and rather than nature of vigilante killings like lynchbe arrested, given due process, and ing, the fact that both southern and convicted, he was lynched. The northern populations were involved, lynching was so severe that entirely and the fact that these figures repreinnocent African-American sent only fatal lynching incidents bystanders, who had no idea about Glover’s crimes, were gunned down. means that the Tuskegee estimates are probably extremely conservative.

For this paper, Ms. Miller won a Racially-motivated crimes still occur state-level research award. today. The last trial for a fatal lynchHowever, within 48 hours of the ing occurred as recently as 2001, and article’s publication, more than 154 as recently as 2006 in South Carolina messages had piled up in the online two teenagers were tried for a nonTelegraph opinion forum. While most of these were supportive, some fatal (second degree) lynching. In short, I only wish this were all are deeply disturbing. In the words ancient history. Nor were such vigiof one respondent, “Sounds to me like the lynch mob did him a favor.” lante killings hermetically quick or Still another sneered, “SO this black painless. African-Americans were guy killed 3 people and the next day burned alive, beaten beyond recognition, and occasionally hacked apart. he was found dead…Sounds like justice was served and the taxpayers The more “measured” lynchings that money was saved.” One of the final involved hanging were the ones most frequently documented in photoremarks on the forum was simply graphs photographed – photos shocking: “Lynch em, let them all whose very existence derives from burn in hell, I hate living in a world the sadistic delight some lynch mobs where people can do this [commit took in celebrating the event when violent crime] and hide behind the they knew there would be no justice system.” In Kafkaesque juxtaposition, however, were even more accountability. Some lynching phoassertions that race relations in 1922 tographs were even sold as postcards. are “ANCIENT history” -- that it is If you’ve never heard these just “irresponsible for the Telegraph things, it’s because they are not to attempt to intentionally damage talked about. But the evidence is the progress that has been made in there; it stands as a record of unvarthe last 100 years.” If it’s all truly nished American barbarism, but a over, then why the 13 pages of venrecord that must be remembered for omous vitriol defending a private the same reason that the Holocaust citizen’s “right” to prosecute crime or the victims of 911 should be by lynching other private citizens recalled. We tell these stories in the while at the same time pronouncing fulmination of their gruesome theLarge end ofloads American racism? delivered or loaded to your pickup by the scoop!detail, not because we are personally guilty Lynching is not a joke, and is of the sins of our fathers, but never just. Now, Ms. Miller’s case because these stories are tragic does speak of a black man who was skeletons in our cultural shed. Like arrested for murder.

As she admits, INCLUDING COLOR-ENHANCED to focus on the lynching in her paper it or not, they stand Faasll dissonant Special! counterpoint to all the things we does not excuse the severity of the crime of which Glover was accused. justly celebrate. Such barbaric *North Macon or events are crimesSo against humanity But most lynching did not occur as uth Monro e Co. that must be recalled because in mob-reprisal for any crime whatsoof and mutual resolution sakethe of costremembrance ever. And let’s say for theHalf from home bags we overcome; in utter forgetfulness, argument that they had. The U.S. stores! improvementhuman atrocities repeat. How do we Constitution, then as now, demands learn from the past if we refuse to that one is innocent until proven remember and resolve it? How can guilty; one cannot be proven guilty we remember it if 994-3000 we do not recover untilFREE indicted and provided with due PROJECTS ESTIMATES ON LANDSCAPE (478) it? Ms. Miller’s paper did just that process of law. Exactly how frePROVIDING MATERIALS FOR in THEthe HOMEOWNER & THE LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONAL with laudable acumen, and she quent has BULK lynching occurred

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should be celebrated for her achievements. For if the only history we want to hear is what makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside, then we’ve become the enemy of truth, and we aren’t really interested history, but rather, in comfy bedtime stories with manufactured happy endings. But as Americans, we shouldn’t need manufactured happy endings; we have come a long way. No one questions that. But, we set the bar high in our proclamation that all are created equal in their inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What makes this country great is not complacent contentment with historical amnesia that makes our life livable; what makes us great is that we set the bar high, and we have slowly, sometimes with atrocious failure, often with shockingly rapid success, striven to make ourselves worthy of those ideals. These stories may be an insult to the kind of southern gentility upon which we justly pride ourselves, but that revulsion we feel when we read Cathy’s paper is a healthy thing – it’s what makes us

human and ensures that such atrocities really are consigned to the dustbin of history.

None of this is to suggest that we must feel victimized by the sins of our ancestors, or the cruelty unjustly inflicted upon our forefathers and mothers. But we do continue live in the long shadow of a past we refuse to confront, and white Americans still have not fully addressed the enormity of the wreckage wrought by 230 years of slavery, and another century of Jim Crow. Remember, the unfinished Civil Rights Revolution is barely a generation old, and unless an academic exercise can be praised in the local paper without dozens of Maconites feeling some kind of demiurge to defend a 1922 lynch mob against an undergraduate for daring to talk about it, then we’re kidding ourselves, and the protestation that racism is “ANCIENT history” will continue to sound like nonsense on steroids.

- Jeffrey D. Burson Assistant Professor of History Macon State College

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Cherry Blossom Fest gets another grant

The Trustees of the Peyton Anderson Foundation authorized a grant of $250,000 to Macon Georgia’s International Cherry Blossom Festival for the purpose of providing resources to evaluate the current status of the Festival’s programs and operations and for assessing how both can be made more effective for the years ahead. It is meant to provide the Festival an opportunity to re-imagine the future of the organization and act boldly to implement programs that can be a creative resource for Macon’s future.

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27 friday

Randy Wesson & Co. 20’s Pub, 3076 Riverside

Coyote Bones LP Release Show w/ Josh Fletcher 567 Cafe, $5 admission Music tba Backporch Lounge

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$1.50 Dom. Beer, Free Pool Tara’s Tavern

Football, $1.50 Coors Lt Drafts Wild Wing Cafe $1.50 Bud, Miller, $1 PBR Cans Macon Mellow

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35¢ Wings 3p-close, Buffalos $1pints, $3.75 PBR Pitchers Macon Mellow

Comedy Night Rivalry’s on Northside

2-4-1 Margaritas all day at El Azteca

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Cruz Ward Polly’s Upstairs Bar, 8pm tba Wild Wing Cafe

DJ Dance Party CJ’s Sports Bar, 2910 Riverside

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Scott Pallot Wild Wing Cafe Doug Bouglassus Macon Mellow Mushroom

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2 fer Tuesday: 5-10p, $10 domestic buckets Wild Wing Cafe

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1/2 price salads, $1.50 Yuengling, $4 Firefly, Wild Wing Cafe

1/2 price oysters, 241 Drinks til 8 Nowhere Cafe 2-4-1 Jagerbombs during Trivia, Happy Hour 4-7p El Azteca $7 Drink or Drown The Hole Thang

Drag Queen Bingo every 1st & 3rd Wed, free wells for the gals The Hummingbird Open Mic, 10pm, Rivalry’s

$3 Pint Night at Buffalo’s Macon Free Pool, Steak Night at 6pm, Tara’s Tavern

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College game day, CJ’s

Ladies, 1st drink free until 10pm, Live music and DJ Don, $10 Whiskey River

Game Day! drinks specials & 35¢ wings from 10-4pm, Buffalo’s

$2 Dom Bottles, $1 tacos!

El Azteca College gameday

SUNDAYS

Nascar, drink specials, 20’s Pub Nascar, drink specials Friend’s Bar & Grill Football & Nascar on the big screen, Nowhere

$2 drafts Wild Wing Cafe

BANDOGRAPHY

editor’s picks, must-see shows and macon’s nightlife

The 11th Hour Suggests...

Don’t Miss Shows

Friday, Nov 27 DANCE PARTY / DJ NEW TO WEDNESDAYS, 10PM, DJ Dance Party at CJs

Drag Show & Dance Party, Synergy

Insomnia Promotions Presents... every Friday night at Club Envy DJ Don, biggest dance party in Mid GA, Saturdays Whiskey River

KARAOKE

Wed,Thursday & Sat, 8p, Sundays, Tuesdays at 6pm, 20’s Pub

Thursdays with Brad “the Man in the Box” at Rivalry’s and Sundays with Stephen and T.T. NEW Wednesdays with Mitch from 9p-1a at BJ Billiards

Every Wednesday, Macon Shroom Every Thursday, Club Synergy

Every Friday 7:30, Mondays at 5pm, Friends Bar & Grill Every Wednesday, Hud’s Thursday - Saturday at Tara’s Sundays with Brad, 9pm The Backporch Lounge

On the patio every Wednesday, 7-until, Great pitcher specials & jello shots!

Mellow Mushroom, WR

TRIVIA

Every TUES 8:30p, CJ’s Sports Bar Every Wednesday with $2 Vodkas at El Azteca Every Tuesday, Macon Mellow

Team Trivia every Mon, Red Eye

Every Monday with Big Jammin, Happy Hour all night, Rivalry’s Family Trivia every Thursday evening from 8-10pm, Buffalo’s Macon

Thursday nights 9p, The Shamrock Tuesday nights with Jason Hawk, cash prizes, Wild Wing Cafe Thursday nights 7:30, Mellow WR

POKER

Texas Hold ‘Em 7:30,Tuesdays, AP’s Hidden Hideaway Nightly Poker 7:30p, Friends Bar

New Poker tournaments held every Wed,Thur & Sat upstairs at Envy

Sunday Poker League 2:30,Tuesdays at 7pm, Rivalry’s Nightly Poker 7:30p, Friends Bar Nightly Poker 8p, BJ Billiards

Texas Hold ‘Em, The Hole Thang

Texas Hold ‘Em Wedn., Brewskeez

Acoustic Workshop Reunion Show @ Wild Wing Café Shane Bridges is a singer/songwriter that has been on the scene since 1995 when he and friend Josh Carson formed Acoustic Workshop. After heavy touring for 3 years and selling a very impressive amount of cd's independently, Acoustic Workshop made quite a name throughout the southeast. At the end of 1997 Acoustic Workshop would come to an end, which would spark a new beginning for Shane's writing. Still the drums of the Workshop still beat heavy in this town and when the two get together, a crowd never fails for form in front of them.

Friday, Dec 4

Billy Joe shaver @ The Hummingbird Shaver never became a household name, but his songs -- including "Good Christian Soldier," "Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me," and "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" -- became country standards during the '70s and his reputation among musicians and critics didn't diminish during the ensuing decades. The "good Christian raising" and "eighth grade education" -- not to mention being abandoned by his parents shortly after being born, working on his uncles' farms instead of going to high school, and losing part of his fingers during a job at a sawmill -- are all part of his life story and his storytelling.

Come Hear...

Wednesday, Nov 25

St Francis (An early Show) @ The Hummingbird

With the fire and spirit of a down home Georgia gospel church on revival Sunday; Saint Francis shows have been known to transport you to a higher musical plain of existence. You will be baptized in a wave of musical influences on tides that run from blues to bluegrass, rock to reggae, world beats to soulful treats. You can safely say there is something for everyone when it comes to the music these gentlemen are producing. With clean soaring vocals , and a highly developed musicianship; Saint Francis has a clear vision of how to get down to the bare emotion of the inner most soul. This musical message enables the players and listeners to become one. You never know who will show up to join in the fun at a Saint Francis show.

Thursday, Nov 26

September Hase @ The Bird

Barefoot Southern boys and honest rock and roll seem to be a tradition in the history of Georgia music. And it seems that the players of September Hase have stomped their way through all three with their own young guns-in-old souls’ sound.

It’s no surprise they tend to kick their shoes off when they are feeling the heat on stage. Or that their original songs invoke your gut like real music used to. Or that they made Alan Walden, a veteran music publisher and 2003 Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductee, shed real deal tears the first time he heard them. But for the boys in the band, they are just doing what they believe in...what keeps them up at night...what drives them to work harder every day. They just want to be artists. And it’s working.

Friday, Nov 27

The Soul Shakers @ The Bird

Soul Shakers are a four piece Rhythm & Soul Rock & Roll band out of Atlanta. The band consists of the Holliday Brothers; Art Holliday (guitar & vocals), Jacob Holliday (bass guitar), Adam Holliday (piano & organ) and ‘honorary brother’ Eric Pullen (drums), showing off a variety of music and styles ranging from 50’s and 60’s Texas & Chicago Blues, 60’s STAX Soul, blends of Rock & Roll, Surf and HonkyTonk with traces of French, Italian and Spanish styles of Jazz, Pop and Rock pre dating the 60’s.

Coyote Bones LP Release at 567 Cafe With a new line-up including Macon songstress Heather Kemp, Coyote Bones newest LP “Niobrara” is a ten song anthem to folksy harmonies and unique arrangements. Our favorites so far, “Down River” and the melodic humming of Kemp on “Above the Treetops.” Although “Catching a Fish” is a catchy pop song sure to please any fan or genre. We’re looking forward to hearing this band more often.

Big House Foudation’s Youth Jam Benefit at Macon’s Mellow Mushroom Featuring live music by the Lefty

Williams Band, tonight will help raise money for the Big House’s music in education programs.

8p.m. Enjoy the blues by not just a one-armed guitar player, but a great guitar player. Lefty has been playin’ the blues for over two decades and will entertain those here; Piece for Peace!

Acoustic Workshop Reunion Show @ Wild Wing Café See Editor’s Picks, above.

Saturday, Nov 28 The Unmentionables @ Wild Wing Café

From Al Green to Bill Withers, to Tears for Fears, BB King and Beyond, the Unmentionables are a cover band galore. They sing it all, they play it all, and most importantly, they make it all fun. This is a show you’ll want to pull out your dancing shoes for.

Pistoltown @ Bottoms Up

Pistoltown is a pop/punk/rock band from Atlanta. Their non-stop, high-energy, crowd-lifting shows have gained the attention of many people throughout the nation. Their fan-base stretches as far north as Canada all the way down to Florida and Texas. Not only has their music and live performance garnered the attention of fans throughout the country, it has also caught the ear of some record labels. Pistoltown recently finished their debut EP and are hard at work on the full length album. However, before they even had time to think about it, their single " They are beginning to record a new CD which is being produced by Rachel Bolan from Skidrow. They are highly influenced and sound like Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Blink 182, Mest, Fallout Boy, Sugarcult, etc.

Saturday, Dec 5

The Soulphonics & Ruby Velle @ Fly South Fest We know you all wanna see The Derek Trucks Band, but we reccomend getting to the stadium a bit early to hear the music stylings of Ruby Velle and her band who take the main stage at 6p.m. Atlanta's seven-piece Soulphonics are bringing the authentic soul in the same vein as Otis Redding and the Godfather James Brown.

This is the real style of soul back when horn sections, suits and tight transitions packed crowds into venues to dance the night (and their worries) away. Plenty of beer and food vendors to keep you amped for the main event at 8:30!

Monday, Nov 30

Tim Brooks @ 20’s Pub

He has been playing the guitar since he was 12.

He has become one of the many legendary performers hailing from Macon Ga with an incredible, amazing, unique, unrivaled sound, style and flair...TO PUT IT SIMPLY... THERE AINT NOBODY WHO CAN PLAY QUITE LIKE TIM!!! He was fortunate enough to have been able to play with and be influenced by some of the country's most legendary performers in blues, rock~N~roll and southern rock.

Friday, Dec 4

Billy Joe shaver @ The Bird See Editor’s Picks, above.

Big Mike and the Booty Papas @ 20’s Pub Local bluesmen Big Mike and

the Booty Papas have been playing in these parts for decades, a long laundry list of blues standards, done in a fashion only Big Mike can pull off, as well as some great original songs, Big Mike knows how it’s done. Fun to just lay back and listen or get up and dance.

Saturday, Dec 5

Fly South Fest at Luther Williams Field Come to taste local bbq and bison dogs

while listening to some local favorites perform from noon until 5 for just a $5 parking pass. Then you better have your ticket in hand for the concert line-up of the year in historic Luther Williams Field. Laura Reed at 5pm, The Soulphonics at 6pm, Jason Isbell (from Drive-By Truckers fame) at 7:15 and the main event, headliner The Derek Trucks band at 8:30p.m. Touring behind their latest studio release, Almost Free, The Derek Trucks Band is a melting pot of such eclectic styles.

Friday, Dec 11

The Mighty McFly @ EL Azteca

Mighty McFly is one of the best unsigned original bands in the USA. They are overwhelmingly entertaining to watch and also some of the best musicians to be found anywhere. They are influenced by Queen, Van Halen, Journey, Prince, Sly & the Family Stone, among others.

Read more about it...

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MUSIC

highlighting middle georgia’s local talent

Folksy, beautifully melodic, catchy, ten-song debut local sounds

Band Member Names/instruments: Heather Kemp -voice/bells/shakers/ tambo/bones David Matysiak -acoustic/electric guitar/bass/percussion/voice(s) Jordan Noel -drums/rum/voice/bones Sounds like--- a modern take on an old timer's porch performance, circa 1944, with a little relaxation on his mind and a rocking chair under his behind. (and maybe a little whiskey)

Coyote Bones Debut LP, Niobrara, out Nov. 27

Watch their video and listen online at www.coyotebones.com

What got you all playing music together?

Heather: Angsty indie rock and the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail David: Jimi Hendrix and cereal Jordan: I wanted to make album covers and the best way to start doing that is to have a band to design for!

What's your writing process like?

David: Mostly a blind channeling of

what's happening in my life.

Heather: David does the songwriting. Jordan and I just come in after the fact to make noise.

Who are some of your influences?

David: Lately, Abner Jay (Thanks Jordan!), Fleetwood Mac, Brainworlds, and Jimmy Cliff Jordan: Lance Wille (Unholy Trio), Spencer Cobrin (Morrissey), Don Blume (Von Bondies) Heather: Mahalia Jackson, crème brûlée and Kora Macon's music scene.

Likes/dislikes?

David: Love that purple lion downtown.

Jordan: Love all the music history in Macon.

Heather: I like it's existence & that kids under 21 are getting to be a part of things. Dislike: talk.

Coyote Bones LP Release will be at the 567 Cafe on November 27.

2-4-1 Wells till 8pm

DJ Dance Party at 10pm

DRINK OR DROWN!

241 Wells & Jagerbombs Select beer $2, CORNHOLE

College Game Day! MON-THUR: 5P-2A FRI & SAT: 4P-2A SUN: 4P-MIDNIGHT

Open at noon!

Texas Hold’em, 7:30

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Thanksgiving Blow-out Weekend!

Wednesday, Friday & Saturday: Dance Party with DJs Brad & Julie Thursday, Thanksgiving: Open til 2am! After Turkey Bash!

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COLLEGE STUDENTS

Everything on the menu just $5 w/student ID

To advertise in ou r Dec. 10 2-page full color spread on unique, local gift s please call 464-1840.

New Season, New Style, New You!

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Eleventh Hour’s Holiday Gift Guid e Starts here!

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Give in Color

For Rockin’ Stockins!

This holiday season give out of the box.

The gallery features works from local artists at all price ranges — paintings, jewelry, sculpture, photography, and more.

Extended hours in December: Weekdays 11am–6pm and Saturdays 11am–3pm.

Serving Middle GA for 47 years.

See us for all your music needs! *Martin *Fender *Jupiter * Pearl banjos, electric violins, harmonicas and so much more!

317 Cotton Ave. hours: Downtown Macon Mon - Fri 9am-5pm Sat 10am -2pm Tel 746-3232

For the Serious Musician!

*Band instrument rentals, Best deals in town!!!

486 First Street • Macon 478.743.6940 • maconarts.org

Anne Rafferty

Only Alvarez Dealer in Middle Georgia!

For that perfect gift...

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Huge new lection of 311 Hwy. 49, Byron (in Peach Outlets) • se myMusicMasters.com t long & sh•orRENTALS LESSONS • REPAIRS • CONSIGNMENTS irt sleeve T-sh s!

Nov 27 - 28: Georgia music After Thanksgiving Sale! books and Lots of items, Drawings albums on sale on Friday, Nov 27. here too!

Dec 7: 25% all ALL scarves!

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Nov 27 - Dec 19: Every purchase made over $20 will register you to win an Alvarez Electric Guitar!

If we don’t have it, I can get it!

serious For the cian! *Drawing held Dec. 19th, 6pm. Must be present to win! musi 311 Hwy. 49, Byron (in Peach Outlets) • myMusicMasters.com LESSONS • REPAIRS • CONSIGNMENTS • RENTALS

Receive a $500 Walmart or Best Buy gift card with purchase of a new car!

Dec 10 - 12: 15% off Regular Priced Apparel!

Dec 11: Christmas Party, 7-9:30pm!

Huge sale, wine, beer & hors d'oeuvres served!

466 First Street • tel 746-3025 hours: mon-fri 10-6, sat 10-4 www.gingermichelle.com

And give a Music Matters in Georgia Membership!

Museum Hours Tues - Sat: 9am - 5pm

Kevin Williams Sales Professional

Great lease specials too!

Cell (478) 998-9473 • Office 476-1770 4580 Riverside Drive, Macon kevinwnga10@yahoo.com

Come in & buy or lease a car today!

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Open Friday, November 27 at 6am!

Win DJ Hero!

Win A Dell Mini!

Register to win Friday–Sunday, November 27–29.

Register to win one of four computers starting November 30.

Prize drawings weekly!

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Take a magical stroll down enchanted aisles in 125 fabulous stores. Make holiday wishes come true in our whimsical winter wonderland, featuring a grand 35-foot Christmas tree and dazzling décor. The mood is festive and the merchants are friendly.

Santa is jolly and the sound of music is in the air!

Visit shopmaconmall.com for a complete schedule of special events and extended shopping hours.

Flash Dances by Phillips Performing Arts Friday, November 27 10am & 1pm

Santa Photos Monday–Saturday 10am until close Sunday 11am-6pm

Paws and Claus Pet Photos Sundays, December 1, 8 & 15 12noon–6pm

Storytime With Santa Saturdays, December 5, 12 & 19 5pm, Belk Lower Court Free chocolate chip cookies and hot chocolate

3661 Eisenhower Pkwy • 477-7328 www.shopmaconmall.com

s start here!

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Save up to 150 on Macs! $

10% off all iPods. 10% off storewide.

Friday, Nov 27th only! Open 6am-10pm.

Don’t miss this amazing event with amazing prices on our amazing Macs!

You won’t find a greater selection of all things Apple: MacBook, iMac, MacBook Pro, iPod, printers, software and so much more. This is the place to do all your holiday shopping!

Support your community —shop local this Holiday season!

macs • ipods • software • service • business solutions The Shoppes at River Crossing (next to Bonefish Grill) • 478-257-6310 • Macon • Athens • Augusta • peachmac.com *Save $50 on MacBook, 13" MacBook Pro model MB990LL/A, 21.5" iMac model MB950LL/A. Save $100 on all other MacBook Pro and iMac models. Save $150 on Mac Pro. Educational and government sales do not qualify for additional discount. Applies to in-stock items only. 10% off sale does not apply to Mac sales, Apple displays, clearance items, or other specific items at PeachMac's discretion. Free Printer after mail-in rebate and requires purchase of printer cable. All offers while supplies last.

All offers Friday, Nov 27th only. Not responsible for typographical errors. Offers do not apply to previously purchased merchandise.

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Dish the

GRILL ME

Q&A with people in the biz

Thrilla from the Grilla with Pineapple Habenero Salsa

BLD: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner BAR: Alcohol Served $: Entrees under $10 $$: $10-$20 $$$: Above $20

BAR FOOD / AMERICAN

The Rookery There isn’t a place downtown that has been serving us longer.The Rookery offers some of the best comfort food in Macon. Burgers, Nachos, Sandwiches and daily lunch specials that can’t be beat. LD BAR $ 543 Cherry Street, 746-8658

Buffalos Cafe on Zebulon You know this place has great wings, but they also feature a large selection of salads and sandwiches, large screen tvs to watch all your favorite games and a popular trivia night for the whole family. LD • BAR • $ 5990 Zebulon Rd. 20’s Pub Boasting freshly prepared sandwiches, salads and dinner specials in a well-lit tavern-like setting. LD • BAR • $ 3076 Riverside Dr.

5 Guys Burgers & Fries The best burgers in Macon is what our readers say, serving dogs and peanuts too. LD • $ 120 Tom Hill Sr., 474.0445

Wild Wing Cafe Newly opened franchise at the Shoppes at River Crossing, fantastic wings in over 30 flavors, over 20 brews on tap, great salads and one of the few dining options in North Macon that offers live music on the weekends.

LD • BAR $-$$, 477.WILD

CJ’s Bar & Grill You can’t really call this bar food. Is it fried, yes, but it’s fresh and so, so good! Sloppy nachos, great burgers and chicken wraps. LD • BAR • $ 2910 Riverside Drive, 757-3262

Rivalry’s – The only place in town where you can order Atomic Buffalo Turds and wash them down with a giantsized bottle of Monty Python’s Holy Ale. 3986 Northside Dr., Macon 474-0606 LD BAR $ Nu-Way Weiners Open since 1916, this original store with its neon sign is one of America's oldest hot dog stands and they serve secret recipe chili sauce, famous hot dogs, hamburgers, and other sandwiches. BLD • $ 430 Cotton Avenue, 743.1368

SOUTHERN / BBQ

Fresh-Air Bar-B-Que Award winning BBQ known for its tangy tomato and vinegar style pulled pork, ribs and baked beans. Don’t skip out on the Brunswick Stew neither. LD Open 7 days a week • $ 3076 Riverside Dr., 477-7229

Satterfield’s Serving hickory smoked meats, seafood, vegetables, daily specials and salads. L • $ 120 New Street, 742.0352 AP’s Hidden Hideaway Serving home cooking all day long and specialty dinners at night, enjoy their large patio.

Seriously good food. LD BAR • $ 4274 Broadway.

Good to Go There is a slightly different menu available every day, offering the best in the Souths lunchtime favorite, “the Meat & Three”. Full catering services also available. LD $ 1019 Riverside Dr. 743.4663 Sticky Fingers Ribhouse Choose your flavor; Memphis style Wet or Dry, Tennessee Whiskey, Habanero Hot or Carolina Sweet. Served with sweet corn bread muffins! Fresh salads and lunch specials. LD • BAR • $$ 5080 Riverside Drive, Open daily at 11am.

Dawson’s Kitchen You can’t beat southern cooking like this, you can see for yourselves the fresh ingredients in their market next door.

LD • $ 3360 Brookdale, Payne City

MEXICAN

Caliente’s Burrito Shop We’ve all had this style of big burrito by now, but

Name: Brandon Lane Where he works: Wild Wing Cafe What do you recommend? Everything is great here, but I love the Fiesta Chicken Platter!

Favorite restaurant other than where you work: Bonefish Grill What’s your Signature Drink: Bourbon Your guilty pleasure is: Guns.

Caliente’s does them the best. If you can handle it, get the MOAB… if not, there’s always the Thrilla From Tha Grilla, which is just right. LD • $ 6255 Zebulon Road

El Azteca One of Macon’s best patios, serving all your favorite Mexican dishes, voted Macon’s best margarita. LD BAR • $-$$ 169 Tom Hill Sr., 475.9199 Margaritas I hear that camarones a la diabla doesn’t mean ‘shrimp of the devil’ but I don’t care—it’s hot and spicy, and probably is what Satan eats when he’s feeling a hankering for Mexican.

LD • BAR • $ 6012 Zebulon Road, Macon 477.2410; 4696 Presidential Parkway, Macon 757.1300; 2400 North Columbia, Milledgeville 453.9547

SEAFOOD

Jim Shaw’s Casual dining with Macon’s best seafood, tuna tidbits, scallops, wild Georgia shrimp. Seperate bar area with smoking. D • BAR $-$$ 3040 Vineville

Fish n’ Pig Spectacular views of Lake Tobesofkee. Patio or inside seating serving both barbecue and seafood. D • BAR $-$$ 6420 Mosely Dixon, 476.8837 Nowhere Bar & Cafe Casual dining featuring fresh oystesr and shrimp specials, along with great burgers and steaks. LD • BAR $-$$ 3780 Northside Drive, 476-0554

PIZZA / ITALIAN

Giuseppi’s Pizza & Pasta Casual, fun atmosphere with everything from soup and salads to hot wings, pizza and their signature sandwich creation, the Weggie. Daily lunch specials. LD • BAR • $ 120 Tom Hill Sr. Blvd, 477.7400 Luigi’s Bistro Casual Italian cuisine in a hip, swanky atmosphere. LD • BAR • $-$$ 401 Cherry Street, 743.4645

Macon Pizza in the Alley Serving NY style pizza, grinders, pasta, salads and wings; hot, fresh and affordable! LD • BAR • $ Mulberry Street Lane, 742-5555 Ingleside Village Pizza A big no-brainer. IVP has the best pizza in town and the best beer selection.

Keep it classy with the white pizza and a Stella Artois or, keep it real with a slice of the ultimate and a 24-oz. High Life.

LD • BAR $ 2396 Ingleside Avenue, & downtown across from Mercer Univ.

LUNCH SPOTS

Adriana’s Gelato is Italian for “the best ice cream ever” and Adriana’s is the only place in town where you can find it.

Quick & delicious cafeteria-style lunch.

LD • BAR $ 359 Third Street

Molly’s Café – It looks like your grandma’s dining room and the menu eats like it too! This is the place for a quick and quaint lunch. 402 Cherry St., Macon 744-9898 LD $

Market City Café – Widely regarded, especially by our readers, as the best place in Macon for lunch, Market City also has the most amazing banana pudding we’ve ever eaten. 502 Cherry St., Macon 257-6612 BL • BAR • $-$$

Mexican Pizza with marinated chicken, black olives & jalepenos

OPEN MON-SAT 11-9

ZEBULON ROAD, In front of Kohl’s

our Sign up fourpon o c il a m e club at

Calientesburritoshop.com

SPECIALTY

Greek Corner Deli Serving delicious lamb gyros, monster greek salads, subs and specialty sandwiches 7 days a week.

One of the few restaurants downtown open on Sundays and the only late night eatery on Saturdays 12:30am til 3am!

LD • $ 587 Cherry Street, 254.3059.

The Downtown Grill Slightly upscale dining serving fresh fish, prime cut Black Angus and features it’s own humidor.

D • BAR • $$-$$$ 562 Mulberry Street, 742.5999

Edgar's Bistro Open Tuesday Saturday. Menu includes lobster bisque, stuffed prawns, veal medallions, duck and much more. Declicious. LD • BAR • $$$$$ 5171 Eisenhower Parkway - Across from Macon State College, 471-4250

The Shamrock Dargan and his crew cook up some of the best homemade meals in Macon, including his legendary Shepard’s Pie. Plus, he’ll surprise you from time to time with some interesting seafood selections. D • BAR $-$$ 342 Rose Avenue, Payne City 750.1555 The Tic Toc Room Contemporary setting with a sophisticated menu, great wine selection. D • BAR • $$-$$$ 401Cherry Street, 743.4645

The Cox Capitol Theatre Well the revolving door in the Kitchen of the Capitol Theatre has finally stopped spinning, and the result is some darn good pizza, Hot Dogs, soft pretzels, and subs. Where else can you have a beer and watch a great movie?? D • $$$ 382 Second Street, 257-6391

BREAKFAST

Jittery Joe’s Coffeehouse Serving gourmet coffees and teas with made to order bagels and biscuits, blueberry and cheese streudel muffins. BL • $ In Mercer Village, by Mercer Univ.

Killian’s Coffeehouse Serving patries, coffees and smoothies for breakfast and lunch. Come as a stranger, leave as a friend. BL • $ 490 Cherry Street, 492-1771.

Macons Only Irish Pub Live Music Friday & Satuday

Tuesday

B.Keith Williams 7:30pm

Thursday Sunday

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The Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House at 2321 Vineville Avenue, Macon will be opening the doors the weekend of December 5 and 6 for the first time. The museum is complete and is ready to receive their first visitors starting at 9 am on Saturday and 11 am on Sunday. Admission is $7 for adults and $3 for children.

The Big House Foundation has raised $2.5 million over the past 5 years which was spent on the acquisition and total renovation of the house, the 300,000 piece collection of memorabilia and the production of the documentary film, Please Call Home – The Big House Years. The Allman Brothers Band Museum will operate on a limited schedule but is expected to be most days during the month of December.

A grand opening is expected in the first quarter of 2010 after which the museum will be open full time. For further information check out the web site at www.thebighousemuseum.org.

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Big House Museum Opening, Fly South Festival and Little Richard’s Birthday Celebration

Gates open at 9am!

DECEMBER 5 IN MACON, GA

Also at Fly South, David Kirby, author of the brand new biography Little Richard: The Birth of Rock n’ Roll, will be available at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame tent to sign copies that will be available for purchase from noon until 2p.m. The Museum will also provide to passes to the Hall with each purchase.

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In celebration of Little Richard’s musical contributions to the creation of rock n’ roll and to commemorate his birth right here in Macon, GA. Fly South Fest will be hosting a Little Richard Lip-Synch Contest ($350 in cash prizes!) from 1:30 - 3p.m. There will be five of Richard‘s hits available to choose from, as well as extra props to make your performance shine. For more information, visit flysouthfest.com.

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Little Richard Penniman turns 77 years old today!

DEC 05 At historic Luther Williams Field

The regional music + BBQ festival qualifies cookers for Memphis in May and takes flight at night with set after set of Southern-rooted live music in the historic baseball stadium!

10am - 5pm

Fly South Fest Schedule:

10am: Festival opens, BBQ judging begins The Fly South Fest is the last chance to get the grill going 11:30am: Square Dancing as a point-qualifier for Noon: Molly Stevens & Shane Bridges Memphis in May. Whether 1pm: Cloggers take the main stage you are among the regional 1:30: Little Richard Lip-Synch Contest competitive cooking teams, 2pm: Mississippi John Doude forming a team for fun or 3pm: Bo Ponder & Friends licking your chops for 4pm: Abby Owens Band People's Choice and soak5pm: BBQ awards ceremony, gates open ing in the sights and smells of inside Luther Williams Field some of the finest food of the South, the BBQ Competition welcomes all during the day for a $5 parking fee Admission $20 in advance/$25 day of in Central City Park, just outside the gates of the 5-5:45pm. Laura Reed 7-8:15pm. historic Luther Williams Field. Soul songstress Laura Reed Jason Isbell is a powerhouse heart and & the 400 voice that transitions along Unit Fly South also hosts the world, R&B, funk, reggae, Simultaneously known "Jamboaree" family-friendly and rock beats. While perhaps best known as the for his southern festivities in the Luther front and center of her songwriting Williams Field parking lot band, Deep Pocket, Reed talents and guitar recently took time off from stylings, Jason Isbell is throughout the day. Along recording and performing bringing the bourbonwith the local live music, to begin a family, and her soaked blues/rock. Expect there will be square dancacoustic appearance at a set list of songs with cuts from the 400 Unit's self titled ing, clogging, "Spider Moun- Fly South will be her return to the stage in over a year. 2009 release as well as tain" climb, pig-kissing photo surprises from Jason's opp's and a Little Richard 6pm-6:45: The Soulphon- extensive catalog of working man's songs.

Impersonator Contest with a ics & Ruby Velle Fronted by the passionate $300 grand prize! and gifted vocal range of 8:30-1130pm: The Derek Ruby Velle, Atlanta's Trucks Band It has been a long time In addition to an assortment seven-piece Soulphonics are bringing the authentic since a young and of food vendors - including soul in the same vein as Otis immensely talented Derek local BBQ, as well as Bison, Redding and the GodfaTrucks last played a Macon ther James Brown. This is the stage. Since that time, he's sweet treats, hotdogs, hot real style of soul back when toured the globe, found beverages and cold beer, horn sections, suits and himself on Rolling Stone's art and gift vendors will be tight transitions packed "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list, started a family selling their wares in the spirit crowds into venues to dance the night (and their with wife Susan Tedeschi of holiday shopping. And worries) away. and just recently turned 30. the football lovers need not Touring behind their latest studio release, Almost Free, fret. We'll have a big screen The Derek Trucks Band is a broadcasting the SEC melting pot of such eclectic championship - who says styles as Latin, jazz, rock and world. And then there is the you can't have it all?

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11 Q’s with Derek Trucks FEATURE

an exclusive interview with Derek Trucks on headlining Fly South Fest

We are all very excited to have you as our headliner for the upcoming Fly South BBQ + Music Festival on Dec. 5th in Macon, GA. How does it feel to see Macon on your schedule and know that you're about to play the Heart of Georgia again?

We've spent a lot of time in Macon over the years. Our good friend, Bill Lucado, over in Gray used to let my band practice and rehearse out at his place, and we've spent a lot of real quality time in that area. So, it's a little bit of homecoming for us especially with the whole Allman Brothers history and the whole extended Allman Brothers family and all of the music that's come out of there. We've got a lot of good friends out there from Bill to Kirk and Kirsten West and the Big House Foundation to everyone at H&H (restaurant). It's going to be great getting back.

The 11th Hour is a proud sponsor of Fly South Fest in Macon, to be held on Dec. 5. Our music writer, David Higdon, was able to talk with Derek Trucks, who’s band will be headlining the first annual festival. Trucks, hailed

by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest guitar player of our generation, was happy to oblige. Enjoy!

(Mattison), our singer, and Bobby Tis, who engineered and helped build the studio, to come down. The original idea was just to go out there and figure out how to get great sounds and just experiment and see what happens. The first day we ended up writing and recording the title track. My brother, Duane, and Bobby Tis played percussion, and Mike and I played all of the other parts.

We listened back to it, and it hit me immediately - this is so effortless.

This is sounding sweet; this is a really enjoyable process just writing and recording.

The track sounded great and felt great.

Susan was getting ready to do her record so I called her band to come down so we could write for her record and what turned out to be my record. We spent four or five days taking the kids to school and going out to the studio and write and record all day.

You mention the Big House Foundation, and When the kids got home, we'd hang out with they are doing so much getting ready for the them, and then put them to bed and go back museum right now. What do you think that out into the studio and get back at it. A week having an Allman Brothers Band museum later, we had twelve tracks done. Then I will mean for not only Macon, but the legacy called my guys, and my band comes down of the Allman Brothers Band themselves to and we did the same process. Oteil have a museum in their honor?

Burbridge and Doyle Bramhall II came I think it's huge! For a town like Macon, it's a down. We kept throwing musicians on the For tickets to Fly South Festival, visit www.flysouthfest.com fire, and it kept burning, you know? Warren great spot. It's a small city, and for a city like that to have produced a band that resonates as far and Haynes came down, and we wrote a few wide as the Allman Brothers do and Otis songs. Before I knew it, we had a record on ences one of the factors that has kept the artistic journey Redding, and just the amount of music that came out of that city; our hands. It wasn't something that we had really planned, but it fresh for you after all of these years? it's pretty amazing. I think that it's important to recognize that. started feeling right.

Yeah, as it has really given us so much to pull from. I've been We did a huge tour through Europe this year and through I had no notion of producing the record myself, but that's just lucky to be with the musicians in this band as they've never Japan, and in almost every city we play in somone will come up been opposed to trying anything if they felt the music was legit. the way it came about. That's what gave me the confidence to and tell me about their plan to go on a southern music pilgrimreally take this time off. I felt we can do this; we've found the Whether they completely understood it or not, or if they weren't age and Macon is always on the map. It's a great thing; you can sound, we've found that thing. Just in the last two days, we had completely from that place, they would spend the time to get be in France or Germany or Japan and people know about Herbie Hancock down here at the house, and we did a track for his inside of it. We would throw some things against the wall, and Macon, GA! It's a great thing. new record. It was just so great, man, having a world class musisome of it would work and some of it didn't, but that is definitecian like that, and having some of our guys down here, and having ly what has kept it fresh.

It is strange having grown up here having this legacy and Susan singing, and playing with Herbie in the studio. It all came We are sixteen years into it, and that is a pretty good run having people from all over the world and from cities with together, and we finished the track, and it was so much better than for anything whether it is a band or a marriage. (laughs) Really, such a musical history like say Austin or Memphis to think I could've imagined. It's great to know that comes out of your being in a band, you're married to five other dudes, you're just of Macon when they think of Georgia music rather than say backyard. You know what I mean, it's like "Holy shit! Wow!" not sleeping with them, but you're still right there seeing their Athens or Atlanta. faces every day. It has been an amazing run with those guys.

Exactly. It is like that in Europe, too. Like in certain small For everything to have come together so quickly, you guys We're taking next year off from that band, for just a change of Italian towns where some thinker or painter came out of,and it pace to spend some time at home. It's going to be a great way to really captured a true cohesiveness to the album, and it realis forever on the map. It is a great thing, and I think the place ly has a true feel. It says where it came from; it's on the edge close out the year. That, and we've just mixed a live record that needs to honor that, too. I think the Big House Foundation is of a swamp in North Florida. I think you can sense that coming we're going to release early next year. I think that will be a nice doing a great job in cementing that legacy. out of it. I'm really lucky having my family and my extended way to sum up the sixteen years.

It's funny, we were in France, and there was this magazine family down here, and they are all really easy people to be called Road to Jacksonville, and it's a southern rock magazine. The Derek Trucks Band also released Already Free earlier around. So, everybody that comes into the fold just instantly When they found out I lived in Jacksonville, it just blew their relaxes. There's no pressure; you write and record, and if it this year, and then you had an enormous tour that took you minds. I was like, man you would be so disappointed if you out on the road behind that album. Was taking next year off works it works, and if not, everybody had a good meal and had came here as it's just not worth going. (laughs) I love it here, a good hang. It's a nice set up. It's exciting starting next year something that you have had on your mind all along? but it's a funny thing. When a certain music or thing affects with really nothing on the plate and just seeing what we can Yeah, it has actually been a few years in the making. When I you that strongly, you want to go where it exploded or where come up with. With Susan's voice, her guitar playing, her musistarted building my studio, I was definitely thinking a few years it was born. I think it is great that Macon has the Otis Redding out and thinking when everything lines up and the timing is cal sensibility, and her songwriting, and some of the people that statue and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame; I think it's really we know we'd like to have involved in the project, I've got right, I'd really love to be home for a while. Having the studio important. pretty high hopes for it. right there at home allows for Susan (Tedeschi, Derek’s wife) and I to be right there and make music and be productive and not Little Richard is another great Macon musical figure that Once again, it is going to be quite the night of music with have to be on the road. This year was 280 days that I was out, you can't forget with his impact on music as a whole. It just you guys headlining the Fly South Festival. You know, the and Susan was out for a little more than half of that; with two so happens that Fly South falls on his birthday. There is day portion is going to sponsor a BBQ competition. We were young kids, that's a lot of traveling and running. actually going to be a Little Richard impersonator contest wondering if you've come across some BBQ that has stuck going on that day. (laughs hard) Yeah, he's another one. He in your mind on your travels. Oh definitely love the BBQ; Already Free must take a lot of planning. Was that someaffected people far and wide, and just Georgia music in general that was something that my dad did about three days a week thing that you were able to record as a whole album, or did is amazing. growing up, so I'll definitely be checking that out. There are a you have to record it in quick bursts? few that stick out, man. There's a few spots in Birmingham that I guess it was late 2008, that was the first real break that I had We're talking about all of these various musical styles and are great and a few in North Florida. I always find that the ones taken; I guess it was close to a solid month without gigs. The artists, and within the Derek Trucks Band, I'm sure that that are off the beaten path where the joint sells one kind of original idea was not do a thing...just be home. It was around each one of you has their own favorite artist or style. Your meat, coal slaw, and white bread, like Wonderbread, you know.

December, and after close to a week of not gigging or playing, sound brings together jazz, middle eastern flair, blues, and You don't even order, you just walk in. And, it's served to you we were just finishing up the studio, and the recording console southern rock; is this blending of styles and individual influ- had made it, and it was up and running. So, I called Mike on a paper plate... Yeah, and they're like, "This is it."

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Thankfullness: Politically Speaking

hanksgiving is a holiday which even makes a worried liberal like me take pause and consider that not everything, politically speaking, deserves my lefty derision. I am committing a few random acts of gratefulness in this column.

I might not agree with everything a President says or does, but I am exceedingly thankful for President Obama. It is a daily relief to hear Barack Obama speak with eloquence, clarity and presence of mind. At least there is an intelligent, wellspoken person sitting in the Oval Office in 2009. Whenever I despair the the Commander-in-Chief might be falling short, I recall the previous eight years of warmongering, xenophobia, and wordmangling. These might not be the best of times – but there have been worse.

It might be too little too late, but the U.S. government and much of the world are finally acknowledging the crisis of greenhouse gases and global warming.

The Language Monitor, which tracks word trends in the U.S., has made the term “global warming” its top word of the decade. I read recently that large groups of evangelicals, including Rick Warren and the Salvation Army, have signed the Evangelical Climate Initiative, which advocates for federal legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the upcoming Copenhagen climate meetings.

Congress is really attempting to do something about health care. It's a big, messy political piece of legislation so far, but the Senate is currently working on editing the House of Representative's very rough draft into something workable. When the AARP and the American Medical Association both endorse Congress' health care initiative, this is an official acknowledgement that something is broken and needs some serious fixing.

I am thankful for the cultural shift regarding that both universally reviled and beloved dichotomy of a plant – marijuana. 2009 has brought remarkable changes in favor of medical marijuana.

The American Medical Association recently reversed its position that marijuana has no medical value. The AMA has called for a review of the drug's Schedule 1 status and affirmed the therapeutic benefits of cannabis. Meanwhile, President Obama called off the feds from harassing and arresting medical marijuana patients and caregivers. Currently there are thirteen states which have passed medical marijuana initiatives.

Back in September, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted to protect what is perhaps the world's largest deepwater coral ecosys-

tem. This translates into allowing fishermen off the coast of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida to continue fishing while using gear which minimizes damage to the fragile coral reef.

The implemented changes are the culmination of a ten-year collaboration between scientists, fishermen and conservationists.

Speaking of oceans, I hope that many readers (including myself) can summon the courage to watch the documentary The Cove when it becomes available on DVD before Christmas.

While the film covers a horrifying subject – the treatment of the captive dolphins which don't get sold to aquariums or water shows – I am hopeful that the revealed truths about dolphin treatment will lead to real and permanent change.

Our film industry has so much power to illuminate and inform for good, and the last year yielded a bumper crop of such movies: Food Inc., Capitalism: a Love Story, and Rethink Afghanistan.

It is wonderful to live in a country which allows Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh to spew nonsense on the airwaves; meanwhile, this same USA provides great wits who write for the Daily Show and the Colbert Report as hilarious counterpoints to the aforementioned conservatives. After a long bout of mainstream media and right-wing radio, I head straight for The Onion, Wonkette, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for a little open-minded relief. I envy the ability to make people laugh at the ugliness of the extreme right, of folks with so little historical perspective or basic logic that they often equate fascism with communism, affirm that our forefathers would have attended megachurches, and harbor sexual fantasies about Ayn Rand and Sarah Palin while hugging their semi-automatic rifles beneath their pillows (oops, my left-wing meanness is back, sorry). Freedom of speech requires a large sense of humor, and I am very thankful that our country has ample room for both.

I am thankful for the politicians in South Carolina, many of whom make our own legislators appear brilliant and dignified in comparison. Saxby Chambliss might not impress with his artistic and cultural skills while offering a hand drawn map of our fair state for National Geography Week (nationalgeographic.com) – but at least he's not yelling at the president or running down to Argentina to see his mistress on the taxpayers' dime. It's not easy being a true blue Democrat in a red state like Georgia – but at least we're not the punch line of every comedian's political joke this year.

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hanksgiving is my favorite holiday a Fred Thompson supporter before I because I have so very much to be managed McCain’s campaign locally, so thankful for. Believe it or not, my I felt your pain.) But I ask you: How’s family’s home is adorned with many McCain looking now??

Thanksgiving items year round that never As a Conservative, I’m thankful that get put away. From the cornucopia cenJoe Biden is our Vice-President. Every terpiece on our family dining table to the time “Biden the Buffoon” opens his antique print that once hung in a school mouth, Dan Quayle and Spiro Agnew house called “Pilgrims Going to Church” become footnotes in history. Keep up the

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Hours: 6:30am - 10pm many years surrounded my family with As a Conservative, I’m thankful that items to remind us just how very fortuSenator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut nate we are. It took my saint of a wife a has a brain, even though Senator Arlen fewDaily years toLunch get used to, but my eccenSpecter of Pennsylvania does not.

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Theodore, who by his own admission is As a Conservative, I’m thankful that the greatest fan of Popeye on earth, and the Democrat partytoisthe considering Located in the Vineville North Shopping Center next old Crateour my extended family of in-laws that I party dead. Every time we have been married into just over five years ago. “dead” in the past, we have rebounded (They actually made me feel as part of and kept control of our government for the family almost from the first day that I decades. The Republican Party was was brought home to them.) I’m thankful “dead” after LBJ routed Barry that I live in a country where I’m free to Goldwater in 1964. Four year later, worship my God in anyway that I chose.

Richard Nixon was elected. We were That’s a pretty important thing when “dead” again in 1976. Four years later, you’re a Lutheran in the South, especially Ronald Reagan trounced Jimmy Carter. in Macon where Baptists outnumber us In 1992, we died a horrible “death” as 10,000-1. I am thankful for a steady Bill Clinton beat George the Elder. But career of over fifteen years. I am thankin 1994, the Republicans took back conful for my beautiful home. I’m even trol of Congress and passed the thankful for my fifteen year old Basset Contract with America. Go ahead liberHound named Chester. al press...drive a stake in the collective Beyond my personal life I am also hearts of all Republicans once again. extremely thankful. As anyone knows We just won’t die, will we? But go who has read either my column in the ahead and count us out.

11th Hour or letters in The Telegraph, or As a Conservative, I’m thankful seen me campaigning in the past for a that as I write this, there are 1079 days host of Republican candidates, I am a left of the Obama presidency. Hang on Conservative. Some of you are wonderfellow travelers; we can do that time ing, what in the world a Conservative has standing on our heads. I’m reminded of to be thankful for outside of his God, his a great Steve McQueen movie called family or his Basset Hound. Believe “Papillon”. Picture the guards as the me...there’s plenty!

Democrat party and the Republicans as As a Conservative, I’m thankful for Steve McQueen. The guards do our local Republican elected officials, absolutely everything they can to break State Representative Allen Peake and McQueen’s character, and all he keeps State Senator Cecil Staton. Both are the saying is, “I’m still here you bastards!” epitome of what someone in government Well, Mr. President, we’re still here! should aspire to be - they are both always And we’ll be here dancing on your open to hearing their constituents conpolitical grave in 1080 days. I’m very cerns and helping them in any way that thankful for you President Obama! they can. I’m thankful that I know them You’re paving the way for a Republican both and can consider them both friends. to stay in the White House for decades As a Conservative, I’m thankful that to come.

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n Wednesday, Dec. 2, Dr. Mark Whitacre, the subject of the recent film “The Informant!”, and Dr. David Nowell, president of Hope Unlimited for Children, a child rescue organization in Brazil, will speak to students at Mercer University about failure, forgiveness and second chances. The two will address Mercer’s 10 a.m. university worship service in Newton Chapel.

Whitacre is no stranger to second chances, having survived three years working undercover with the FBI, followed by a nineyear federal prison sentence. “Going to prison Mark Whitacre is best known was rock bottom for me, and hitting rock botpublicly for his whistleblower tom is a very scary thing, but once you’ve hit role in the ADM price fixing rock bottom it’s also kind of freeing,” case. Dr. Whitacre is pictured Whitacre says “I was able to ask forgiveness left with Matt Damon who from my family and from God. I’d say that’s portrays the Doctor in “The when my life really began.”

Informant”, premier held Shortly after Whitacre’s release from September, 2009. prison, Warner Brothers bought the rights to make his story into a major motion picture starring Matt Damon in a dark comedy that relives the most painful and difficult years of Whitacre’s life. Some might consider that to be the bottom of the barrel, but the real Mark Whitacre has taken the proverbial lemon and made lemonade. “At that point I figured if someone wanted to make a movie about my life and the mistakes I’ve made, my only hope was that others would see what happened and learn from it,” he says During the 40-minute chapel program, Nowell and Whitacre will relive Whitacre’s story focusing on the mistakes he made as a young corporate executive, life lessons learned, his encounter with faith in prison and the passions and causes that move him today, one of those being Whitacre’s newfound passion to give street children in Brazil a second chance.

“If a guy like me who made terrible mistakes can have a second chance at life, then I’d say there is not a single kid living on the streets of Brazil who doesn’t deserve it a hundred times more than I do,” Whitacre said.

Nowell’s organization, Hope Unlimited for Children exists to rescue and rehabilitate Brazilian street children at their award-winning residential facility near the city of Campinas, Brazil. It is estimated that between three and five million children in Brazil are currently living on the streets.

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Journalist Karen Jones delves into the idiosyncrasy that comes along with being a military wife. www.JonesToTheGrindstone.com

The Perfect Military Wife, Part 2

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Trait: The competency to raise your family alone, without extended family nearby.

have a running list of “how to tell you’ve met a military mom.” At the top, is the tell-tale sign of finding out that every one her children was born in different states or countries. For example, my daughter was born in Texas and my son was born in Massachusetts. It is not atypical to find a military family’s birthplaces spanning the world---like the first child born in Alaska, the middle one in Italy, and the youngest in Georgia. With globetrotting like that, chances are the extended family of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents are not local. It can happen on occasion, but then the next move fixes that.

A funny joke is told amongst the military men, “You’re either there for the conception or the birth. You decide.” This is meant to soften the blow when the new father cannot be at the birth because of duty. This may not resonate much with women older than my generation since it was once standard that the expectant father stayed in the waiting room during labor and delivery.

But to women in my bracket and younger, having the husband completely absent from this momentous occasion can be heartbreaking and difficult.

Another plot-twister is when the couple already has a young child and a helper needs to be sought out to watch the existing child(ren) when the mom goes into labor. When my second was born, my mother flew in from out-of-state to be the “sitter-on-call.”

Well, sometimes the baby doesn’t show up when it is expected! My mother needed to get back to her home. I had neighbors who offered to watch my toddler if my mom left before the big event. But, they all had little babies of their own and I feared one of those 2:00 a.m. scenes of rushing to the hospital. I also knew I would be in the hospital for up to two days. To make sure I had a sitter for those two days, I ended up asking to be induced---screw the original birth plan of being “natural.”

In life, there are some things that you cannot bring your children to---you have to get a sitter. I get jealous when I am around locals who say that their mom or sibling is going to watch the kids for them.

Being new in town complicates the sitter-search. I get desperate at times. Like in 2005 when I first arrived in a new state, I needed a babysitter quick. I found myself eavesdropping in the grocery store line. The cashier was telling a bagger that she loved kids. I thought, “Bingo!” She was allowed to handle money

for the store; so I knew she had a background check completed on her. I introduced myself and we exchanged numbers. Necessity creates innovation.

More importantly, my jealousy deepens when I hear of invaluable relationships being formed and commonly reinforced between their children and the rest of their family. It is hard to accept that my children do not have that life-enriching benefit. The military mission must come first.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California regulators have adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions, a move that will eventually ban power-hungry sets from the state's store shelves. The action by the California Energy Commission could lead the way in a general reform of standards for an industry increasingly focused on wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets. The 5-0 vote by the California Energy Commission is just the latest effort by the state to secure its place in the forefront of the environmental movement. #1 This week #1Californians This week buy about 11 percent of the 35.4 million TVs sold in CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) - Moldova's army is Black Eyed Peas NCIS on CBS with the U.S. each year, industry group feeding its soldiers onions and garlic to help I Gotta Feelingaccording to industry figures. The 20,600,000 viewers said it was already working with the federal government to promote them ward off swine flu. Defense Ministry chief more efficient TVs through the federal Energy Star program.

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Police said the postal worker, 46, was charged with public SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The case of one of four teens who intoxication Nov. 3 after she was found sitting on the kitchen were cited after rapping their order at a McDonald's in Utah floor of 95-year-old woman's house, eating leftover noodles appears headed for trial. Police in American Fork, about 30 from her refrigerator. Police Lt. Steve Etzel said Tuesday that miles south of Salt Lake City, cited the teens with disorderly the woman apparently entered the home through an unlocked conduct last month after the drive-through rap. The teens front door. He said she was in uniform and had mail and a have said they were imitating a rap from a popular YouTube mail-carrying bag with her.The woman, a 17-year employee video, which begins: "I need a double cheeseburger and hold of the U.S. Postal Service, was taken to the Linn County Jail. the lettuce." Spenser Dauwalder, 18, has said employees at Marion Postmaster Rick Leyendecker said the woman is curthe fast-food restaurant told him and his friends they were rently on unpaid leave. holding up the line and needed to order or leave.

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Turkey that Played Chicken A wild turkey that's taken up residence at a New Jersey tollbooth and spends its days scooting around 18-wheelers won't have to dodge Thanksgiving traffic. State Fish and Wildlife officials netted the bird Wednesday after failed attempts during the weekend. The turkey had been trotting around the busy toll booth since the spring, weaving around traffic at the 14B interchange in Jersey City.

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Dear Mr Macon Out, I'm having trouble retaining my erection when I'm with my wife.

Is it acceptable to think about someone else when doing the deed with your loved one?

Signed, Wondering in Witchita.

Dear Wondering, Everybody does it from time to time. I’m a big proponent of “whatever it takes” to keep it exciting in the bedroom. Most troubles in marriages that don’t come from mullah, come from a cold bed. If you need to think of Mary Jane Rotten Crotch while having sex with your wife, so be it. Just remember, that’s a two way street, so she’s probably

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thinking of that football team she did when she was in college while you’re poking at her anyway.

This probably isn’t something that should be talked about openly. We all have our secrets, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Dear Mr. Macon Out, Riddle me this. If being brutally honest with your wife is what she wants, but she gets mad every time you are, what good is being brutally honest?

Signed, Brutus Dear Brutus Don’t be dumb. Being brutally honest is something you reserve for your friends, not your wife.

Insults are the way men communicate their love, and yes, I know, it comes natural, but use some restraint when dealing with a female. They’re more sensitive, more likely to react to the phrase “God, you look awful” than your best buddy. Does she look fat in that dress? Of course she does, but she doesn’t. Get it? Is that a dead hooker in the trunk of your car? Of course it is, but it isn’t.

Your wife only needs to know the surface of you. That trumped up wild card version of you that she fell in love with. She doesn’t need to know who you really are, unless you enjoy being alone.

Good luck.

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Music We Like

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LADY GAGA The Fame Monster More like watching her avant-garde performance art, just got the album Monday, Nov 23!

DEREK TRUCKS BAND Already Free

This album rocks, see them live Dec. 5 in Macon!

ALBUMS new releases: by David Higdon The Feelies

The Good Earth, Remastered Released September 8, 2009 The Feelies follow up release to Crazy Rhythms suffers in no way from the creative virus that stifles so many bands. Rather this album secures the band as one of the most creative voices and sounds of the early ‘80s. For the listener not familiar with their sound, the same jangling guitar, muddled percussive drives, and ambitious songwriting that could confuse it for a certain Athens band is evident; is it surprising that Peter Buck was a fan and co-producer?

Pearl Jam

Backspacer Released September 22, 2009

Awesome! That one word could sum up this review, but for the record, Pearl Jam’s ninth release is one of the best albums of the year. This is all parts what an album should be – pairing producer ace Brendan O’Brien with the freedom of releasing this via their own label has created their most cohesive album in easily ten years. From the smooth acoustic force that is “Just Breathe” to the unashamed airplay rock of “The Fixer,” PJ has once again shown that they have what it takes on stage as well as in the studio.

ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19):

You will say things without thinking.

You can be arrogant, presumptuous, and your own interests will come first.

An important decision is being made this week and everyone is quite a bit nervous about it.

However, the right decision is being made. It is the one you can afford right now and you and those worried may even profit from it. If you have not yet found a mate, he/she could ask you for a date now. This could be the start of something exciting.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are practical, peace loving, stubborn, and deliberate. Taurus has a natural interest in money, and you like the finer things in life. At this point, everything depends on the other people – what they do, what they decide and how they act. All you can do it react or go with the flow. At least your mate (or best friend) is being sensible and objective so you can depend on them to do the right thing. Someone has a housing problem and would like to stay with you for a while so they can save up some money.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini is versatile, fickle, intelligent, creative, quick, neat, and curious. Gemini learns quickly and has the ability to get a good education. About 50% of whatever you do now depends on other people’s decisions and/or actions. However you seem to be controlling the flow of money so at least you have input into what is going on. Someone close to you has all kinds of errands and appointments this month and needs you to provide transportation. You have some decisions to make and you are making them based on finances.

Last issues puzzle answers

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancer is sentimental, sensitive, and needs to have a sense of security.

Cancer is intensely romantic and has a vivid imagination. Any changes you want to make should be done between now and Christmas day for an excellent chance of success. Money may be a little tight now because of the spending. But, be patient, it will loosen up again after next week. Some decisions need to be made now on ways for you to increase your cash flow and your bank account.

To solve the Sudoku puzzle, each row, column and box must contain the numbers 1 to 9.

GOOD LUCK!

LEO (July 23-August 22): Leo is colorful, self assured, outgoing, impulsive and expansive. It seems to be decision time for you this week and it all has to do with your finances. However, it could also mean a nice profit for you. All this week and next week your intuition is strong and your artistic talents should be put to use. Follow your hunches even if you are a bit nervous. You are trying very hard to see things as they are.

VIRGO (August 23-Sept 22): You can be highly critical, sarcastic, & unforgiving. All this week and next you should follow your intuition where your money is concerned. Inspiration could strike at any moment during this time and you may find a new source of income. Changes made during the next month or so should be very successful. Any work on your house that needs doing will not be even considered until the end of March.

LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22): Libra is artistic, musical, level headed, sympathetic, and generous. You can be gossipy, critical, and bitter. Your money seems to be going out as fast as you can bring it in. You may as well get used to it since it does not stop until Christmas time. Just be sensible and do not go overboard as usual. A decision is made now that favors you even as it makes you somewhat nervous. All this week and next your imagination is inspired and you can create something beautiful.

SCORPIO (October 23-Nov 21): You are very intense, strong willed, determined and secretive. You can be willful and sarcastic, but a deep thinker with a fine mind. Now you really start to be busy as the holidays come near. You are making some important decisions this week regarding your income and after next week your cash flow improves. It seems to be your intention to pay off your bills and free your mind. This is your time to build toward your future to reach your goals. Other people are willing to help you.

SAGITARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Sagittarius is warm and friendly. You like to talk a great deal making it difficult for others to get a word in edgewise. This can be a very tense and nervous time for you as decisions must be made. If undecided, the planets say go for the money.

You need not only the cash flow but to build up your bank account. You are very creative and imaginative now so think up some way to sell something you can make or write.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Capricorn is very often politically minded. Capricorn is also patient, reserved, cautious, faithful and shrewd. You have a bit of a reprieve from business or home problems. At the end of March, it all begins again. Hopefully by then you will have learned your lesson and can cope a bit better. Sometimes you can solve the problems but other times you just have to let go and allow others to solve the problem for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Independence and a feeling of freedom is necessary. Aquarius has a strong will, and is original, inventive, and will always enjoy doing the unexpected. If your luck has not changed for the better already you will need to get out and about to give luck a better chance of finding you.

You have decisions to make this week that will impact your financial state of affairs. Your imagination and intuition need to be put to work while they are at their strongest. Follow your hunches and see where they lead you.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): You are emotional, ultra-sensitive, easy going, and sociable, Worry plagues you. Pisces will see only the good in others... Anything you choose to do between now and Christmas turns out successful so you need to get busy. This is a good time for decorating, shopping or creating things to sell, especially if you stay with practical items for the home. Any decisions you have to make at the end of this week need to be thought out carefully or you could make an error in judgement.

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