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DISTRICT ATTORNEY DAVID COOKE has a message for gang members in Macon...

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by brad evans bradevans11@gmail.com

What are the chances that while putting together an issue focused on gang related crime, both of my cars would be stolen from my driveway? I actually had to cancel a photo shoot with the sheriff because I had no way to get there on Monday. We had just taken a photo of the District Attorney a few days before and he called the morning we reported the theft to see if we needed anything. While it felt good to know a couple of people that could help, I started sweeping bad neighborhoods that day, looking for my cars. When my phone was stolen at last year's Bragg Jam, I tracked it to the Bucket of Blood in Pleasant Hill and took it from the hands of the guy who stole it. Years before, when my Cherry Street loft was broken into and a camera was stolen, I found the guy who did it and drug his ass to the police station myself. If I could find my cars, then I was going to demand to be deputized. I’ve never been to some parts of Macon that I have been too in the last few days looking for my cars. I’ve seen dozens of burned out houses with for rent signs on them, entire apartment complexes and duplexes boarded up with people living in them. I certainly wasn’t ignorant of the poverty that we have in Macon, but I’d never seen it quite like this. While our article this week focuses on the things we are doing to arrest criminals involved in gang activity, and I don’t consider poverty an excuse for that, I do feel that without dealing with it, we aren’t going to fix a whole lot.

On Monday night, after the thieves parked one of our cars blocking someone’s driveway, the Macon Police Department found it off of Key Street. With a few thousand in damage, I felt like I got off pretty easy. Two days later, while I was riding around the Chambers Road area looking for my other car, someone tried to rob me, unsuccessfully. Just a few minutes later, my friend, Andrew Collier, was riding around looking for the car and found it, parked in a cut-through between Coates Street and a burned out apartment house. I got there right behind the police and though the car didn’t have a key inside, it wasn’t damaged. All our car seats, a new baby monitor we’d bought as a gift for a friend, a few bucks in change, and some Pumas were gone.

They left the Kris Kristofferson CD’s I’d forgotten were in there. I’m assuming the fingerprints are running through the system now, though I’ll be surprised if I hear about anyone getting arrested for the theft.

When my dad was young, he had some trouble with folks stealing things around his home and his shop. He and some friends trapped a live bobcat, put it in the nicest steamer trunk they could find, and left it outside one night, while they watched it from the woods. It didn’t take long for a car to slow down and pull in. They watched as two men got out, quickly grab the trunk and put it in the backseat of the car.

Obviously eager to see inside, they weren’t out of the driveway when they opened it, and the bobcat came out of the trunk and into their face. The car sped up, jumped a ditch and crashed 50 yards away in a cotton field, within spitting distance of where my dad and his friends had been hiding. The bobcat quickly became the least of their worries. Things were simpler then, I guess.

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That’s how Macon POPs co-founder Steve Moretti describes Clint Eastwood on set, director of the upcoming film “Jersey Boys.” The film, about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons rise to fame, is based on the Broadway musical and premieres Friday, June 20 in movie theatres nationwide. Moretti can be seen playing drums and counting down in a couple of scenes.

“I got a call from a contractor I work with in LA to see if I would be interested. At first, I wasn't clear it was for the movie. I initially thought it was for a live performance in a theater, like the broadway production. The wonderful thing is we were actually playing live in our scenes,” says Moretti. After 18 hours on set, Moretti says the experience was intense, but really exciting and fun.

Last year, Moretti, a multi Grammy®-nominated and two-time Telly Award winning drummer and percussionist, teamed up with Matt Catingub; a renowned symphony conductor and saxophonist to create a new cultural music experience in Middle Georgia, Macon Pops. The concert series brings world-class musicians to the Macon City Auditorium, paired with our symphony in a casual, not-so-stuffy atmosphere. And admission is just

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Macon Pops will kick off with Dancing Through the Decades, Part II on September 6 at the Macon City Auditorium and will feature popular music from each decade from the 40’s until now, including one of the songs Moretti performs in the film.

November 1, Classically Jazzed, speaks for itself and will debut a concerto, Three Shades of Blue, a special composition Matt Catingub wrote for Amy and Steve Moretti. This fascinating show will fuse classical, jazz, and pop together into upbeat arrangements that people will want to dance to.

February 28th’s show, Celebrating The Music of Macon, will celebrate artists from Middle GA. This will be a fantastic evening for all music lovers and proud Maconites as the Pops Orchestra performs music from artists from and with ties to Macon, along with some very special guest performers, including Flocco Torres, the Redding Brothers, and a couple of BIG surprises.

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Guests can take a culinary journey around the world, as well as view one-of-a-kind pieces of art from the Tubman’s permanent and changing exhibits. Cost for the event will be $25 and includes a tour of the museum, food, entertainment, a signature International Taste of Soul drink, door prizes, discount in the gift shop, as well as opportunities to learn more about the Tubman African American Museum.

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Booming China

My first trip to mainland China brought several surprises. I expected to see a great deal of poverty but found instead the ostentation of new wealth. I should have kept count of the Bentley’s, Rolls Royces, and large Mercedes Benzes I saw in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.

I had assumed that I would witness an oppressed people who are afraid of saying or doing anything that might bring down the wrath of their Communist government, yet instead I saw blue-haired pierced youths in torn jeans, flamboyantly-attired and bejeweled young guys, and women walking hand-in-hand (admittedly the latter doesn’t necessarily mean what it might here). Although we were warned to refrain from discussing “the three T’s” – Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen Square – at no point did we feel any sort of restriction on our movements or our conversation.

The son of an American colleague has lived there for four years playing in a Chinese rock band. He is fluent in Chinese and told me he goes weeks without speaking or hearing a word in English.

Other than very expensive real estate prices, he finds Beijing extremely affordable and safe. He rode his bicycle to our hotel each day and left it, untethered, outside the front door where he would find it untouched in the evening. Five of us dined in a tiny back-alley restaurant one night where a leg of goat was brought to our table to be turned on the spit (we took turns cutting the meat from it). We had so much food brought to us that I felt guilty leaving much of it on our plates. We drank two weak beers each since unbottled water is unsafe to drink (and even then there are tales of local tap water being used to refill the supposedly-safe bottles).

The total bill for the five of us? $50. And it is considered rude to tip in China except in western-style mega hotels with names easily recognized by Americans.

But all this prosperity has come at a great cost to the environment. Groups of ten beautiful skyscrapers each filled with 40 floors of expensive apartments rise everywhere next to coal-fired power plants spewing untreated pollution into the air. In eight days, we never had a single sighting of a bright sun, although a couple of times we could barely make it out in the sky masked by heavy smog.

Even driving to see the Great Wall (and traffic is always horrific), when we reached the top, we found visibility to be only a couple of hundred yards even though we were there at mid-afternoon.

We had hoped the air would be better when we arrived in Shanghai (a city of 25 million) because of its port location, but it actually was worse. Many Chinese wear surgical masks when they are outside but it’s difficult to believe the pollutants are fully kept from their lungs. If today’s China owns most of our American debt,

then tomorrow’s China will be faced with huge medical bills that will probably exceed the financial resources they’ve acquired so quickly. I can only assume somebody is investing heavily in lung transplant research.

We were particularly amused by “Chinglish” – the English translation of Chinese. The word used for “organic” is “simple,” resulting in a breakfast item that was labeled as “boiled stupid eggs” since someone had decided that “stupid” was an acceptable synonym for “simple.” A large sign in one of Shanghai’s beautiful parks listed all the prohibitions including one against “superstitious activities.” It took me a while to realize they meant “seditious.” Upon leaving the huge and modern airport, an official sign warned us, “Please watch luggage in case of missing.”

Incidentally, we received much more courteous treatment by security and airline personnel in China than we did upon connecting in Detroit.

We took a beautiful high-speed train from a sleek and modern terminal in Beijing (yes, even Starbuck’s was there) to Tianjin. With a reserved and assigned seat, we traveled 183 miles per hour with only one stop – all for $9. Beijing’s efficient subway system allowed us to go one stop or all the way from one end of a sprawling city to the other for the same fare of 35 cents. All announcements on the platforms and trains are made first in Chinese then in English.

For all of their advances, the Chinese concede that their expertise has not kept pace with their needs. In a meeting with the head of the nation’s cotton industry, he admitted that they don’t have a system to keep accurate track of all their shipments both in China and around the world. They asked to send ten engineers to Central Georgia Technical College to learn about logistics and inventory control and were delighted to be accommodated. They weren’t even aware that the cotton gin was invented on Georgia’s coast and were surprised to learn you can see cotton growing just by driving down I-75 through the middle of our state. So a bit of that new-found Chinese wealth will make its way to Georgia in exchange for knowledge and training that has taken decades to assemble. Who said the world isn’t shrinking?

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District Attorney David Cooke

feature by BILL KNOWLES

WE’RE COMING FOR YOU!

has a message for gang members in Macon...

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f you’re in a gang, and you’re in Macon-Bibb, Bibb County District Attorney David Cooke has a message for you. “We’re coming.” Cooke suspected even before he took office in January, 2013 that gangs were the number one problem with crime in Macon and since taking office they have been his number one priority. Contrary to what a former Mayor said about Macon, Cooke realized that there was indeed a gang problem and has developed a long term strategy to rid Macon-Bibb of them once and for all.

From the beginning, Cooke brought in Michael Carlson from the Atlanta Metro area as a consultant, who literally wrote the book on how the Georgia evidence codes work, to help guide him and his staff. Carlson has used his techniques to reduce homicides by 40% in DeKalb County and is currently prosecuting cases in Cobb County. With roughly half of all felony crimes in Bibb County being gang motivated, Cooke has a lot of chances to rid the community of gangs, that’s for sure.

Since taking office, Cooke has yet to lose a conviction of a gang related incident.

At the crux of Cooke’s strategy is to prosecute more and more offenders under Georgia statute 16:15:1, commonly known as “The Georgia Street Gang and Terrorism Prevention Law”, which allows Cooke to not only enhance penalties for certain crimes but more importantly allows Cooke to tie anything gang related

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to the criminal in open court and virtually bring out in court anything and everything a gang does. Cooke told me in our interview that when someone is now arrested, the new mantra around town is “Don’t gang me!”; meaning please don’t associate me with a gang and prosecute me under this law. I promise you that you will be hearing more and more in the media about gang members getting life without parole thanks to Cooke and his team invoking 16:15:1 at every opportunity.

One way that Cooke is going after them is to re-indict old cases and adding gang charges on them like he did in getting a conviction on Cedric Sherrod Newton, Jr. for the 2012 slaying of Udondra Hargrove, a former member of the Crips who was trying to get his life straight. Newton was a member of a rival gang called the “Mafia”. Cooke told me that, “Every gang member that is actively engaged in a criminal enterprise should expect to be indicted.” In a separate interview, Cooke was quoted as saying, “I can’t speak for the court, but I think they’re as tired of (gang activity) as the community is.” The courts’ sentiment was very evident at the sentencing of Newton; at least as Judge Howard Simms goes. Simms, the presiding Judge of the Newton case, gave him life-withoutparole plus an additional 20 years. There is no question that Cooke has taken this very personal and each of his prosecutors has been trained chapter and verse in how

to go after the gangs. The Newton case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Neil Halvorson.

DeShala Dixon, another Bibb County ADA, was the main prosecutor in the case of gang member Bernard Bullard, a member of the “East Side Mafia” who was convicted for killing John Johnson III, a rival gang member of the Crips. It took a jury 2 hours to find him guilty of the murder along with possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, another add on thanks to the Gang Act. Once again, Judge Howard Simms gave the maximum sentence of life without parole plus 20 years. This time Simms before sentencing told Bullard that the people of Bibb County are tired of “the shooting and the killing…They’re tired of it and so am I.” Cooke went on to say, “I hope every young person takes note of what the judge had to say.”

Just this past week, Cooke’s efforts paid huge dividends to our community as his office has filed indictments that include several gang related charges in connection to a prostitution ring headed

by Sidney Raymond Sapp, the alleged leader of a local gang called “M.O.E.” or “Money Over Everything.” Cooke also indicted Sapp’s mother Jerryetta, his sisters Justeene and Asialeena, as well as his baby’s mother Jacquelyn Charmain Johnson. Sidney, along with another M.O.E. gang member Navon Christine Johnson are being charged with rape, child molestation, statutory rape, pimping for a person under the age of 18, trafficking of persons for sexual servitude as well as two counts of violation of the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. Everyone else was indicted for keeping a place of prostitution for a person under 18, pandering as well as prostitution.

shooting on Cedar Avenue which killed 16 year old Alyssa Jackson instead. Both murders are the result of a turf war over the Bloomfield area.

According to a 2012 report given by the Macon Police Department to Macon City Council, and according to both David Cooke and Macon-Bibb Sheriff David Davis there are 3 main youth gangs that inhabit Macon called “The Bloods”, “The Crips” and “The Mafia” with over 400 sub-gangs, or “hybrids” as Cooke told me in an interview, with names like “Alley Boys” and the above mentioned “Money Over Everything” gang as well as the “3400 Gang” of Pendleton Homes, a housing project on Houston Ave and “The Fort Hill Bloods”, obviously located in Fort Hill. The gangs leave no area in Macon alone and can be found in Unionville, Village Green and East Macon among every other section of Macon-Bibb. Davis states that there has been a definite shift of activity as the East Macon/Fort Hill area used to be the location of the most gang activity. The 'hot bed' has now moved to the Bloomfield area and that East Macon has 'calmed down' a good bit. (Oh yeah, don’t think that these gangs are contained to only Macon-Bibb, but they bleed into Crawford and Peach Counties as well.)

There is an interesting thread of articles on a website called TheHoodUp.com in which a poster named “Growth and Development” from Macon is refuting the fact that gangs are new to Macon and the South. (He also associates himself as a member of the Gangster Disciples gang.) In a 2010 post, “Growth and Development” gives a very long history of gangs in Macon in which he says that gangs actually started in Macon in the 70’s with the “20/20 Boyz” and the “Pleasant Hill Posse” that came out of

Bernard Bullard Jeddarius Meadows Gang member “East Side Mafia” Gang member “Fuck Life”

Sydney Sapp Gang member “Money Over Everything” or MOE

Gangs reportedly started in Macon in the ‘70s, with the 20/20 Boyz and Pleasant Hill Posse.

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n February 22, in another gang related case, 16 year old Damion Clayton was killed at the Macon Little League field on Anthony Road.

Indicted this week for the murder are gang members Jeddarius Treonta Meadows, Trayvon Xavier Sparks and Roland Watson. Meadows and Watson are reportedly members of the “Fuck Life” gang and Starks is reportedly a Crip. Clayton, the victim, was targeted 3 months before his murder in another

“the racial prejudice of the civil rights movement that had gave a major change to a cite (sic) that had been a haven for rich whites. But by the end of the 70’s whites begin (sic) to leave the city for surrounding subber (suburbs) and blacks started to fill the city on all sides. The only thing wrong with this is as the whites left, so did the jobs, which put 75% of Macon’s black population rite (sic) at or below the poverty line.” G&D continues to tell the history of gangs in Macon and how so much of what we

Sheriff Davis agrees that Cooke’s' policies of trying to get as many crimes classified as gang related certainly is helping and that gangs can be classified as “2 or more people in a criminal enterprise.”

have here migrated down from Chicago during the 80’s.

Later in a post from 2011, G&D goes on to say, “Well I can’t speak for the whole south but in my city (Macon, Georgia) the first Crips showed up in ‘87 and the first GD (Gangster Disciples) set around ‘89 and Bloods and Vice Lords followed, so this shit about gangs being new in the south is very misleading.

There have always been rapper(s) in the south that were from gangs, but it wasn’t something the(y) based their music on.

You would have just have (Sic) to listen to some old south shit and read between the lines.” A little later in the thread, another Macon gang member throws in that he’s never seen a Vice Lord in Macon and that the original poster must be from Fort Hill, which gets the original poster’s response of, “I’m from the Eastside, but to see a Vice Lord you would have to look real hard on the Southside. But if you do see them the first thing gone to your mind is that he’s a Blood cause to be honest (it) is hard to tell the difference between the 2 (sic) sometimes.”

The thread then goes on to question the original poster many times, basically questioning his accuracy, which then prompts a gang history lesson by him: “Truly enough I can’t speak on my whole state but I can speak for me and my area (The 478). The first Crips showed up around ‘86 or ‘87. They were Rolling 20’s from Long Beach (California). The first GD’s on the street showed up in ‘89. I say on the street because King Earl Porter himself state the first GD deck in the Georgia prison system in ‘84. When I came home, and when I say home I mean back to Georgia,

the first Bloods and Vice Lords showed up sometime between late ‘89 and ‘91.

We also have home grown gangs. The biggest one is called the Black Gangster Mafia. It has a few set and those set are the Eastside 20/20 Mafia, The Outlaw Gangster Mafia and the Westside 931 Mafia. So it has been gang in GA. But for some reason when people think of Georgia, people think of Atlanta and that’s it. Georgia is a lot bigger than the A-town and if you need me to prove it I will give you more info, but not on here.” (Several corrections made for easier clarification.)

Apparently this person knows what they are talking about, because I found another site that in fact states that Earl Porter was sent from Chicago to the Deep South around 1987 as he was involved in a murder in Chicago, to get “away from gang violence.” It goes on to state that Georgia is one of the “biggest (Gangster) Disciple houses” in the United States and that Porter, one of the “most important folk members who ever lived” was then (2010) in a Georgia jail, and though Chicago gangs tried to get him to return, the last anyone had heard of him was that he was serving a four year sentence for drug trafficking in Atlanta. Apparently he was one of the early gang pioneers of Macon.

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n my interview with Sheriff Davis, he and I reminisced about times when we used to go down Capitol Avenue, a street near Houston Avenue, during Christmas time because the whole street was decorated. Unfortunately, Davis says that now the "Christmas lights have given way to blue lights," as another neighborhood was lost to the violence of the

gangs. We both remembered when Christmas wasn't complete until you took a ride down Capitol Avenue to see the bright lights. There was even a very kind Santa who used to stand in the middle of the street and give out candy.

Davis agrees with Cooke that Macon is definitely heading in the right direction but still has a great distance to go, and says that Cooke’s' policies of trying to get as many crimes classified as gang related certainly is helping and that gangs can be classified as "2 or more people in a criminal enterprise." I also asked Davis what he thought about how Judge Howard Simms was affecting the gangs. Davis chuckled a little and said, "Simms is lighting em up, isn't he?" Indeed he is as he has had zero toleration for gang members and no patience with them at all.

Both Cooke and Davis also agree that the key to getting the gang situation under control starts at home. Davis says that "Mom and Daddy and the local churches have to do some things. It starts with the family. There are second and third generations of people in gangs now and the mentality as to change. It may take two more generations to get it right."

There is no question that Cooke has a passion to rid the area of gangs. In his office, Cooke proudly showed me a complete hierarchy chart of every known gang and gang member in the area, which he has on seven huge posters. As he showed me the posters, Cooke told me with a very determined look, “If they’re in a gang, we know who they are; and we WILL get them.” Cooke’s fervor and intensity isn’t limited to fighting gangs, however. Most people don’t know that our District Attorney is also the reigning Georgia State Champion of lifting kettle-

bells in the long-cycle clean and jerk.

For those of you who are not aware of what this is, a kettlebell is a weight that resembles a bowling ball with a big handle welded to the top of it. For competition the weight is 53 pounds per weight….One per hand…The cycle is lift, let the weights down between your legs in a standing position, lift them to chest level against your body, and jerk them over your head. Cooke’s personal best is 97 times in a row. In the words of one of his closest friends, “The man is a beast!”

Cooke told me that he gets the gang members too late to do anything other than prosecute them to the fullest extent that the law allows him to do and agrees with Sheriff Davis that a great deal of the gang activity could be thwarted with a sounder home environment for the kids when they’re younger and that education at an early age is one of the biggest factors on how that child will turn out.

Cooke said, “The best investment that I can think of to stop gangs long term, is investing in our Pre-K through 3rd grades to make sure that every 3rd grader should be able to read at or above their grade level.”

Author Neal Shusterman wrote in “Red Rider’s Hood”, a twist on the Little Red Riding Hood story, that, “We’re in this big melting pot, but somebody turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights and fear are now a part of our local stew.” With the determination and efforts of leaders like District Attorney Cooke, Sheriff Davis and Judge Simms the “local stew” that has been forced on the citizens of Macon-Bibb won’t be burning anymore but instead will be simmering behind prison bars.

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BY BILL KNOWLES

{ SEEING RED }

Never Give A Sucker An Even Break 1941 gave us December 7th Elliott, both Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, and Macon’s own Otis Redding. 1941 gave us the 56 game hitting streak of Joe DiMaggio and the .406 batting average of Ted Williams. (Williams is the last hitter to reach that elusive mark.) 1941 also gave us a little known movie with a title that has become the mantra of

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Central Georgia Partnership for Individual and Community Development Director Cliffard Whitby, “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.”

nfortunately for the taxpayers of Macon-Bibb, Whitby is doing everything he can to play us and the Bibb County Board of Education as suckers at every chance he can get. In case you missed it, Whitby bought the Ballard-Hudson building from the BOE back in 2009 for $220,000. In turn, Whitby entered into an agreement with the BOE to lease the building back for a total of over $5 million dollars as well as a separate memorandum of understanding that spent another $325,000 per year in tax money for the upkeep of the building. A few weeks ago the BOE voted to cancel the memo of understanding and do the upkeep themselves which has sent Whitby into a furor.

Apparently, he is now trying to get the BOE to purchase the building back at well over $10 million dollars AND get them to throw in another BOE property to boot.

Let me make something very clear at this point: The Ballard-Hudson building and the debacle that has ensued with it have absolutely nothing to do with the Macon Promise Neighborhood initiative. The building was going to be a place where it would be centered out of but beyond that, it has zero to do with it. The Macon Promise is a good initiative that has been tainted by the skullduggery of Whitby and the former Bibb County School Superintendent that allow him to do it, our dear old friend Romain Dallemand. Promise Neighborhoods have been successful in cities across the nation such as Los Angeles, Harlem as well as impoverished counties in Southeastern Kentucky and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. In a statement released on June 5th of the Board of Education to rescind its prior commitment to partner with (the partnership) as it relates to the Macon Promise Neighborhood initiative and the impact it will have on this community.”

Unfortunately this decision will have significant ramifications for this project.”

This is pure and utter nonsense. The only “significant ramifications” that will be seen will be seen in Whitby’s bank account as the initiative and programs for the Macon Promise are being run by The United Way and by Mercer University and have nothing to do with the CGPICD. Further, Whitby and his followers are now crying foul as to how the BOE voted to nix the memo itself. As I understand it, the Board has been discussing cancelling the MOU in many past meetings and a deadline to cancel it was approaching. When the vote was taken, there was a quorum, as seven of the eight members of the board were there. The one who wasn’t was Ella Carter who had been suffering from an illness. The vote was 5-2 in

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favor of cancelling it with Jason Downey, Lester Miller, Thelma Dillard, Sue Sipe and Lynn Farmer voting in favor and Tom Hudson and Wanda West voting against it.

Apparently, there has also been the complaint that the vote was deliberately held when Carter could not be there. First, it would not have made any difference as it would have been 5-3 instead of 5-2.

Second, as I said earlier, a deadline was coming and the vote had to be done at that time or the deadline to cancel the MOU would have passed and we would have been stuck with it. Lastly, if this was so important to get Carter’s vote, why didn’t she just get there and vote then go home and go back to bed?

I mean we all have to work sick once in awhile don’t we? Now let’s get back to the original lease itself and the long term agreement entered into by the board. Again as I understand it, Dallemand entered into the lease himself and then demanded that Ron Collier, the BOE’s Chief Financial Officer, write a check for $1 million dollars to the Whitby group. (Dallemand then retaliated when Collier resisted, as he knew that it was illegal to write the check without board approval.) AFTER the fact, the board was advised by their attorneys at Hall Booth, to approve the lease and the $1 million check.

The lease itself may be ironclad as I have been told, but the way the lease was voted on is not and should be scrutinized much harder as well as the bad advice given by Hall Booth.

Back in 2012, a $4.7 million dollar bond was voted on and given to CGPICD to renovate the Ballard-Hudson building and at last night’s Board of Education meeting, former BOE member Bob Nickels called for an extensive forensic audit of where that money has gone to. I heartily agree.

I never thought I would ever quote American film maker and all around leftist Michael Moore, but he has said at least one very intelligent thing: “There’s a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.” Don’t be misled by the likes of Mr. Whitby and his followers. Demand accountability instead.

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BY KATIE POWERS A North Macon Liberal

Distracted Parenting Last week, Justin Ross Harris of Marietta left his 22-month-old son, Cooper, in his carseat in the back of his car for over seven hours, causing the child’s death. Harris apparently forgot to drop off his son at daycare that morning and only realized he had been trapped in his hot car after driving away from his workplace.

Last week, Justin Ross Harris of Marietta left his 22-month-old son, Cooper, in his carseat in the back of his car for over seven hours, causing the child’s death.

Harris apparently forgot to drop off his son at daycare that morning and only realized he had been trapped in his hot car after driving away from his workplace. According to eyewitnesses who called 911 upon spotting Harris trying to resuscitate his son, it was a gut-wrenching scene. I can’t imagine witnessing anything more horrific. Harris is now in the Cobb County jail after being charged with murder and cruelty to children in the first degree. Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds must now decide whether or not to seek a criminal indictment for murder from the Grand Jury. Of course, as it should be any time a child dies accidentally, there will be a full investigation into the facts surrounding this case.

So far this year 14 children have died as a result of hyperthermia as the result of being left in parked cars. Last year, 43 chil-

dren died in hot cars in the U.S. It’s so easy to say to yourself, “how in the world could a parent forget that their own child was in the car with them? That could never happen to me.” I remember when my children were very young that I would have occasional visions and nightmares of something horrible happening to them that I couldn’t protect them from. Based upon conversations I have had with friends, I think this is a common fear. I even remember times when I went grocery shopping after I had dropped them off at preschool or mothers’ morning out having panicking thoughts that I might have left them in the car. Any parent of a baby or young child can tell you that the disruption in normal sleep patterns is enough to make you more than a little forgetful. The first time I went to a social event after the birth of our second daughter, I told someone who asked how many children we had that we only had one. The point that I am trying to make is that even without the pressure of a full-time job and any other remarkable

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I posted a link to the article about the death of the Harris baby on Facebook and asked friends to comment about the tragedy.

Most of those who commented expressed empathy for Harris.

Only a couple of people stated that there could possibly be malice involved in the death of the Harris baby. As horrible as this tragedy is, I think we all want to believe that there is no way this father could have intentionally left his son in the car for 7 hours while he was at work. As I write this, the autopsy results have not been released to the public. The investigation into little Cooper Harris’s death is ongoing. I cannot even begin to imagine what little Cooper’s mother must be going through. As it stands now, I don’t think we, the public, have enough information to decide whether or not this was a terrible accident or something more sinister.

If you or someone you know has a small child, especially a child who rides in a rear-facing carseat in the back of the car, there are some simple steps you can take to prevent something like this from happening to you. * put something you need once you arrive at your destination in the backseat with your

child - i.e. your briefcase, pocketbook, computer, etc. * keep a stuffed animal in the child’s seat at all times so that when you place them in the seat, you can put the object in the front seat next to you to remind yourself that they are in the carseat * if you take your child to daycare or a babysitter’s, ask them to please call you within 10 minutes of being late to drop off your child * make it a habit to always check your backseat whenever you arrive at your destination * avoid talking on your phone when your child is in the car with you

You might be saying to yourself, “there is no way I could ever forget my child like that.” If you have a busy life, which most of us do, and are highly distracted (cell phones, mind chatter, etc.) it can indeed happen to you. Just ask the assistant principal, pediatrician, nurse, minister, police officer, teacher, soldier, and rocket scientist that it has happened to (just to name a few) in the past ten years. This type of tragedy knows no sociological boundaries. The one trait that all of these tragically linked parents shared at the time of their children’s deaths was that they were not present. They were not out of their mind, to the contrary, they were absorbed by their minds - unconscious.

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The Cox Capitol Theatre has started showing movies again! Between the cheap drinks, great food, and A/C, it's a perfect way to spend a lazy afternoon. This coming Sunday they'll be showing Pulp Fiction at 7pm. If you can take the heat, Parks & Rec's "Sundown Screen Series" is running throughout the Summer and offers another opportunity to see movies for free. On the 27th, they'll be screening The Blind Side at Rosa Jackson Recreation Center and Frozen the weekend after 4th of July. A full schedule of the movies is available on the departments website.

The Summer sun is brutal and these pop-up thunderstorms have only made getting outdoors for the afternoon more complicated, but if you have the chance to float down the river, river season has officially begun! I haven't made it down this year yet, but word is the water is perfect and high enough that you don't spend all day in the sun just to make the trip down. Floating the Ocmulgee is definitely an experience every Middle Georgian should have at least once.

Plus, if you want to make a full day of it, you can get lunch in Juliette and check out some of the shops before putting in.

For those of you opting for A/C, cold drinks, and live music, The Hummingbird is hosting Virginia-based act The Shack Band on Thursday at the 26th. The Shack Band made their debut at the Bird last year to a packed house and I know the venue is looking forward to having them back. If you're a fan of funk/jam music, this is one

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By reviewing music experiences that you, dear reader, may or may not have had the esteemed

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fair city with the ultimate goal of convincing you to support live music in our area. We believe that together, we can improve our city by supporting live music. After all, this is your music

scene Macon. Get dirty. Dig the field. Stay tuned for more articles/reviews/ideas and ways for you to help. By Chris Nylund

Date and Time: 6/9/2014, 6:30-9 pm Venue: 619 College Street, the “McCaw-Massey” house (a private residence not a venue) Lineup: “Literaoke” by Storytellers / Patterson Hood Cost: $25 advance/ $35 door

Prior knowledge of bands: Full disclosure: I know the Drive-By Truckers are popular in these parts. I know that Patterson Hood one of the founding members of the band. I also know that his daddy is David Hood, one of the founding members of the house band at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, which in my mind, is pretty dang awesome by itself. I don’t own any of Patterson’s records, which angers many of my friends (maybe even you, dear reader), who are indeed super “DBT” fans incapable of understanding the pedestrian level of my interest in the band. Frankly, I’m a little confused by it myself. That being said, this performance certainly peaked my interest in his material and that of the Drive-By Truckers, which is exactly what great live music is supposed to do.

Attendees/venue/vibe: On a random Monday night in Macon, GA a group of about a hundred people (some friends, some strangers, some young, some not so young) all huddled together in a living room large enough to accommodate said mass of sweaty humans for a house show. Every house show I’ve ever attended featured punk and/or art bands that more

than likely couldn’t or wouldn’t or shouldn’t play in a venue.

Additionally, house shows are usually held in a house or apartment that is shoddy at best for the obvious reason that the event will attract strangers and it could get rowdy. In short, the “host” house for the evening met none of the aforementioned criteria. In a city chock-full of beautiful homes with amazing (and mostly true) stories, this house stands up impressively well: the man that invented what became known as Crisco built the house in 1901, the man that inspired the character Big Daddy Pollitt from the Tennessee Williams classic “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” owned the house at one point, and Tennessee Williams was a guest of the house on numerous occasions and it’s likely (or at least plausible) that he drafted some of his famous work in that very home. Needless to say, this house show was not the malt liquor-infused mosh-pit frenzy of noise and mayhem that I fondly recall from my youth, but in many ways, it was better.

Thoughts: The evening began with “Literaoke” by Storytellers. The basic idea is this: a person tells a story that relates in some way to a specific song as the song plays in the background. If you’re even mildly interested in this idea or enjoy telling or listening to a great story, I strongly suggest attending their event on the last Tuesday of the month at Roasted Café & Lounge.

Patterson’s songs and stories around them are all distinctly southern in all the right ways, great stories of peculiar southern blue laws and the social groups created by them (“12:01”), lovable fuck-ups (“Better than the Truth), trickle-down economics through the eyes of a

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Closing remarks: During one of the storytelling breaks between songs, Patterson mentioned one of the points of discussion from the final “Art Matters” symposium: how a town builds a scene and a scene is lost. I say this town has had some experience “losing a scene,” but events like this one will certainly help us build on what we have and create something that we can all consistently support and be proud of. Cheers to Patterson and Storytellers for making it a great night and to Music Ambassadors: Macon for putting the whole thing together. Rumor has it there are a few more Music Ambassadors: Macon shows in the works. Let’s help them and others keep up the good work. After all, this is your music scene Macon. Get dirty. Dig the field.

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southern farmer (“Sinkhole”), closing out the night with a song (whose name escapes me) that tells the story of a gang of southern boys touring the Midwest and the Northeast in a Mazda Protégé in the dead of winter. While the songs are undoubtedly southern in context, the experiences and ideas the songs explore are largely universal.

One of the most amazing things about the evening had more to do with the experience as a whole--very few concertgoers were “documenting” their experience with their smart phone. We were all experiencing it as it happened. I’ve missed that.

Watching, enjoying, and experiencing music with friends and strangers alike without the need to immediately post about it on social media.

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GETTING FRESH with

William Dantzler

by Angel Collins

The first time I met William Dantzler, also known as Willie D., was at the Golden Bough Bookstore. He ambled about the place, the look of determined concentration as he watched whatever band, I don’t recall now, and was friendly towards me immediately. Over the years, I’ve watched him perform, host concerts, and finally start a record store. If you’ve ever talked to him, you’ll find him enlightened, but the depth of what he wants to do gets to the heart of what it means to love Macon and to want to make it better.

Dantzler was born in Macon and went the public school route all the way: Rosa Taylor, Miller, and Central.

His mom, Brooks Dantzler (Mama D), has always run the Creative Alternative Art School and his dad was selfemployed. He went to Georgia Southern for a few years but returned to Macon when his dad died. When he moved back, he played with Nomenclature and ended up sticking with music. “I started playing trombone in 5th grade, switched to tuba in middle school, played through high school, played bass when I was 13, ended up starting bands with friends in high school, playing in the basement, making tapes, and recording on the computer. I’m going to find myself playing music one way or another,” said Dantzler. “I’ve definitely had more opportunity to be a music student. I was accepted, but chose not to go join the American Boys Choir in New Jersey. I opted out of that because middle school at an all boys school didn’t sound fun. I’ve considered going and studying music, but I’ve never been too keen on studying theory. I’ve been more interested in deconstructing music through punk rock and psychedelic rock.”

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11 Things You Don’t Know About William (As told to us by his friends) - William Dantzler is an onion. smells like an onion, quacks like an onion, and has many layers.

- Is an Eagle Scout - dresses funny - Is a member of a watermelon Cult (of Riggonia) - His feet are too big for his face. - He secretly listens to Barry Manilow. - Is cruising the chags to streeg in the gnomesphere. - Has 9 toes - Uses pictures of chicken nuggets to make sad girls feel better. - Thinks my belly button is cool - Likes peas in his nose Since music has played an important part in his life for so long, he thought a record store was a no brainer.

“We were already doing the shows (small musical events in loft spaces and bookstores) and really when I started my business, my main thought was, ‘If I’m going to start a business, I’d better be doing something that I enjoy. If I’m going to be selling something, I’d better sell stuff I would want myself.’ I had a bunch of records, Clark [Bush] had a bunch of records, I got some donations and bought a bunch of stuff,” said Dantzler. “I really want the company to grow into a community organization, but starting a small retail space was the easier way to get that going. It is something I have somewhat of an understanding of and I wouldn’t be out of my element.”

I was very happy to see Fresh Produce Records on the recipient list of Knights Art grant awardees. I know they’ve been trying to have the means to pay traveling shows while still offering a free concert for many downtown who can’t afford to pay a lot of money for the music they like. “Recently, after we opened up, Nicole Chipi from the Knight Foundation got in touch with me because

she heard we had a record store in Macon. She got the understanding that we were doing DIY shows. She had done a similar project with Sweat Records in Miami. She kind of already had in mind what she was wanting to do for us after working on that project and got in touch and was like “hey, we want to help you do what you’re already doing. Here’s the application, fill it out, we’ll go from there.’ I spoke with her and Beverly Blake, who has been really supportive, and I feel lucky that they found us doing what we’re doing. I know they’re happy to help and I want to show them some exceptional results from the money they’ve given us. I’m grateful. I think it’ll do good things for the town. I just thought it was really cool how they found us. I’d been considering doing grants but like anything I’m just cautious. But them finding me and being like ‘Hey dude, we can do this’ just made everything really smooth.”

When I asked him about his future goals, he brought up the things that would happen based on the grant and well as future ideas for the store. “Our immediate future plans are to use the grant money to get a new pa and start marketing the store a little more and marketing the specific shows we’re going to be booking with Knight Foundation money. A majority of the grant will go to hiring bands that maybe have a higher guarantee and paying our smaller bands a decent wage for what they are doing.

We’ll book more shows, book better shows, some bigger acts that wouldn’t normally be coming to town and we’ll be doing that with the help of a new PA system,” said Dantzler “The store would also eventually be, you know… I hesitate to use the phrase health food, but a healthy eating spot where people can get locally produced things and products, healthy snacks, because really, I want that. I’m going to really pursue the community garden thing, hope to do that within a year. I want to start with produce and healthy snacks.” Hence the name of the store.

“The main thing is just I want people to, you know, rediscover their love of music, whether it’s getting a turntable or looking into new artists, you know, come down and let us help you find some stuff you you can get into.”

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6/21: Boot Hill

6/27: Chris Medley

6/28: The Wall

7/4: Boot Hill

7/5: Tres Hombre

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{Bar & Music} live music, venues, nightclubs, karaoke, drink specials

FRI 6/20

Mystery Road 20’s Pub, Riverside Drive The Skeeterz AP’s Hidden Hideaway Copious Jones Billy’s Clubhouse Brian Davis Crazy Bull

Adam Fears The Hummingbird

Matt Rogers Band Wild Wing Cafe

SAT 6/21

Boothill AP’s Hidden Hideaway The Ride The Crazy Bull

Freelance Ruckus Billy’s Clubhouse

Freddy’s Finest The Hummingbird Scott Brantley Wild Wing Cafe

SUN 6/22

Big Mike & Booty Papas APs Hidden Hideaway, 3-8pm John Stanley Jam Session Backporch Lounge 4-7:30pm

Wartown Wild Wing Cafe

SAT 6/28

Tre Hombre APs Hidden Hideaway Ronnie Hammond Memorial Benefit Backporch Lounge Big Daddy & Co. Billy’s Clubhouse

Gannon Adams The Crazy Bull

Those Cats The Hummingbird Radio Cult Wild Wing Cafe

SUN 6/29

John Stanley Jam Session Backporch Lounge 4-7:30pm

Joey Recker on Piano 20’s Pub, Riverside Drive

THURS 7/03 Big Daddy & Co. The Crazy Bull

Copious Jones The Hummingbird Trey Teem Wild Wing Cafe

FRI 7/04

DRINK SPECIALS/ SPECIAL EVENTS

Boot Hill Band AP’s Hidden Hideaway

Happy hour til 9pm, jam & rehearse 7-10pm, 20’s Pub

Midlife Chrysler 20’s Pub, Riverside Drive Milk Money Billy’s Clubhouse DV8 Crazy Bull

Death on Two Wheels The Hummingbird

SAT 7/05

Tres Hombre AP’s Hidden Hideaway

Old Southern Moonshine Revival The Crazy Bull

Old Man Shoes Billy’s Clubhouse

Lance Daniel Band The Hummingbird Matt Pippin Band Wild Wing Cafe

SUN 7/06

Big Mike & Booty Papas APs Hidden Hideaway, 3-8pm

John Stanley Jam Session Backporch Lounge 4-7:30pm

MONDAYS

$1 Wells, Balloon Pop Karaoke Billy’s Clubhouse

Everyday 4-7pm: $1.50 beers and $6 domestic, Locos $1 Wells all night, The Bird

Happy Hour 4p-7p Beer of the month: $2 PBR & Miller Highlfe Bottles Wild Wing Cafe

25% off all appetizers, Happy Hour 3-6 and 9-Cl Macon Mellow

TUESDAYS

Service Industry Night at The Rookery. $1 PBRs, $2 Wells, Half Price Drafts. For all - Half Price draft beers 10pm - 12am TUES/WED/THUR: All you can eat wings and chicken fingers $9.99, CJ’s Sports Bar Build your own martini night at Dovetail

COLLEGE NIGHT: 3-4-1 Drinks every Tuesday, Mai Tai Specials!

The Hummingbird

Everyday 4-7pm: $1.50 beers and $6 domestic, Locos

THURS 6/26

2fer Wing Night 5p-10p Buy 10 wings get 10 free. Happy Hour 4p-7p Beer of the month: $2 PBR & Highlfe Bottles Wild Wing

The Shack Band Hummingbird

WEDNESDAYS

Josh Carson Wild Wing Cafe

Battle of the Bands The Crazy Bull

FRI 6/27

Joey Recker 20’s Pub, Riverside Drive Jason Hobbs APs Hidden Hideaway Delta Riot Billy’s Clubhouse Cale Dodds The Crazy Bull Radio Bird Hummingbird

$4 You Call It! Darty Tourney 7pm Billy’s Clubhouse

$4 bombs/ $4 Baby Guinness shots, Happy Hour 4p-7p Wild Wing

1/2 price whiskey flights every Wednesday at Dovetail

$1 wells, $2 domestics all night for the ladies The Crazy Bull Half Price draft beers 10pm 12am at The Rookery Ladies Night 7pm-CL: $2 House Wine, $5 Martinis Macon Mellow

Everyday 4-7pm: $1.50 beers and $6 domestic, Locos

2-4-1 Drinks every Wednesday The Hummingbird

2-4-1 Wells, Open Mic Night Billys Clubhouse

Ladies - 2 for 1 Everything, Gentlemen: Tie-One-On 2 for 1 when wearing a tie! Free pool and darts BJs Downtown

THURSDAYS

1/2 price martinis, Poker 7pm Billys Clubhouse

Margarita Thursdays! $8 Bottomless Mugs at The Hummingbird

College Night - $5 Jager bombs, DJ The Crazy Bull

Ladie night featuring 1/2 price bottles of wine - Dovetail

Taco & Rita Night- $2 tacos/$3 margaritas/$6 MEGAritas 5p-close $4 bombs/ $4 Baby Guinness shots, Happy Hour 4p-7p Wild Wing Everyday 4-7pm: $1.50 beers and $6 domestic, Locos

FRIDAYS

Happy Hour 4p-7p Beer of the month: $2 PBR & Miller Highlfe Bottles Wild Wing Cafe $4 select premium liquor Mellow Mushroom

Buy 1/Get 1 wells 8-until, Giveaways! AP’s Hideaway

SATURDAYS

College students get 15% entire bill! Spirit Day at Locos $10 Beer Buckets, 20’s Pub

Game Day Specials: 2 for 1 bombs and $1 domesic drafts Billy’s Clubhouse

SUNDAYS

$10 beer buckets, 20’s Pub

12-3pm:1/2 price Bloody Mary, Mimosa, Mint Julep, Sangria or Mojito Mellow Mushroom

412 Bottomless Mimosas 12:304pm, Happy Hour 4p-7p: $2 PBR & Highlfe Bottles Wild Wing

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SATURDAY 7/05 Old Southern Moonshine Revival @ Crazy Bull With their second full-length album debuting its first few weeks inside iTunes Top 100 Country Albums, Old Southern Moonshine Revival is touring in support and is turning heads everywhere they go. Old Southern Moonshine Revival has shipped music or merchandise to 40 different countries around the world, have 45,000+ online friends/fans/followers, and "The Revival", as they call it, is still growing. "We love our job.

We take it very seriously, but it is hard to not have fun playing music for a living" explains lead guitarist Brent Lain. "We enjoy the hard work side of this business. It is gratifying to see our hard work come together into something way bigger than ourselves."

SATURDAY, 6/21 Freddy’s Finest @ The Bird

Freddy's Finest features front man Hurly on bass and vocals, Ian Newberry from Newberry Jam on guitar, Spencer Pope on keys and Will Groth holding down the skins. FF has a unique sound that combines the groove of classic soul with the energy of modern funk with a heavy blues undertone. Freddy's Finest is an original band with a catalog of songs and grooves with a huge range of styles that makes for a very versatile sound.

They also cover a few classics from the likes of the Beatles, Otis Redding, James Brown, etc. If you haven't seen Freddy's Finest live, do yourself a favor and pick a show from their calendar to see what's going on.

THURSDAY, 6/26

The Shack Band @ The Bird The Shack Band played 250 + shows up and down the East Coast and as far west as Chicago, while performing alongside a number of national touring acts, including: moe., Moon Taxi, The Machine, Perpetual Groove, The Pimps of Joytime, The Heavy Pets, Assembly of Dust, Everyone Orchestra and Dangermuffin among others.

FRIDAY, 6/27

Cale Dodds @ Crazy Bull “Nashville hooked me right away,” remembers recording artist Cale Dodds, reflecting on his decision to pursue a career in Music City. “Even though I was balancing touring with school in Georgia, I always felt like Nashville was where I was ultimately going to land. The creative energy and the collaborations that were happening all around me made me hungry for that, whatever ‘that’ was!" Cale is now immersed in his own collaborations,

co-writing with some of Nashville’s most prestigious and prolific Country songwriters and, most recently, recording an EP with producers Kyle Jacobs and Matt McClure (Lee Brice). In addition to laying tracks in Nashville, Cale Dodds is making tracks on the road, opening for the likes of Corey Smith, Billy Currington, and Kellie Pickler. This spring, Cale is headed on a solo tour as one of Wild Wing Café's "Featured Artists of 2014" as well as touring in support of Brett Eldredge.

Cale has partnered with Justin Boots as a "JustinAmerica Country Artist" and with AT&T U-verse for the Country Deep Tour with David Nail.

SATURDAY, 6/28

Gannon Adams @ Crazy Bull Gannon Adams grew up rockin’ with artist like Merle Haggard, Travis Tritt, Mark Chesnutt and Garth Brooks. At the age of five, he would sing their songs to his Grandparents for a quarter. Raised in rural Mansfield, Georgia, Gannon lives the lifestyle all his country music heroes sang about: dirt roads, pickups, campfires and pasture parties. Country music is in his “blood”.

Those Cats @ The Hummingbird Formed in 2010 by original members Zac Tilson, Scott Underwood, and Miles Wiggins; Those Cats has come a long way since their first EP ‘Less Stress, More Groove.’ Adding vocalist Cyril Durant in 2012, the group has evolved from a 4 piece band into a full fledge, seven person ensemble complete with a horn section and multiple vocalists. Each member draws from their own styles and musical knowledge to create a diverse live music experience filled with original tunes and a few timeless covers. The group has released several live recordings over the past three years and their first full length studio album is scheduled to drop in early

2014. Those Cats enjoy collaborating with friends and bands around the Southeast area while aiming to generate a live show that will lift the audience and keep them there!

Radio Cult @ Wild Wing Since 2005, Radio Cult has performed over 800 shows including conventions, casinos, weddings, fraternity parties, corporate events and festivals as well as in bars, concert halls and other music venues from their hometown of Atlanta, GA all the way to Los Angeles, CA and London, UK. The members of Radio Cult LOVE to play in a band and it shows.

When the band has fun, the crowd has fun and with Radio Cult the crowd really has a blast! So what are you waiting for?

Check out Radio Cult today!

THURSDAY, 7/03

Copious Jones @ The Bird Copious Jones is an original rock band from Atlanta, Ga, consisting of 3 friends from music school who joined creative forces with 3 respected veterans from the local jazz/Latin scene.

FRIDAY, 7/04

Death on Two Wheels @ The Bird 4th of July Bash Death On Two Wheels released their sophomore album on November 5th via their label The Ghost Umbrella. The Atlanta based rock n roll band spent the better part of two years writing and recording the album. The self-produced labor of love was recorded primarily at Favorite Gentlemen Studios and the legendary Southern Tracks in their hometown of Atlanta, GA, and mixed by Brad Fisher (Manchester Orchestra, O’Brother).

Amidst recording, the band has continued their constant road assault, performing nationally supporting acts including Jim James, Lucero, and The Whigs.

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FREDDY’S FINEST THUR. JUNE 26

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RADIO BIRDS SAT. JUNE 28

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DJ Dance Party every Thursday night, Backporch Lounge

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Tuesdays at 9pm, Wed/Thursdays 8pm, Saturdays 8p, 20’s Pub

Every Friday and Sunday 9pm - until at AP’s Hidden Hideaway Monday Balloon Pop Karaoke at Billy’s

Wednesday nights from 10pm - 1am at Sticky Fingers Enjoy $2 dom. pints and house shots, $1 jello shots and Happy Hour prices all night!

Fridays and Sundays at CJ’s Sports Bar

Saturday nights at Roasted Cafe & Lounge with the Captain!

Thursdays 8pm, Sundays 8:30pm The Backporch Lounge

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Every Tuesday night, come play with friends, great prizes! 7-9pm 20’s Pub

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Team Trivia Thursdays, CJ’s Sports Bar Every Tuesday at Backporch Lounge

Trivia every Thursday 7pm (compete for $200 cash!) Sticky Fingers Every Wednesday at 7:30 with Jason Hawk at Margaritas Mercer Village location

All-Star Trivia every Monday 7-9pm, 20’s Pub

Wednesdays at Roasted Cafe Tuesday Night Trivia (8pm) with Outspoken Entertainment., Wild Wing Cafe

Mellow Trivia, every Tuesday at 8:30, Mellow Mushroom

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