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can’t count the number of emails I’ve gotten this past week, since Bragg Jam. And I don’t know if you realize the relief that comes with knowing that this is the last time I’ll have to talk about it for a few months. I can’t say enough about this wonderful organization.

The people that come together, to put this thing on, just to see their city come alive, for once, are among the best I know. And this years festival, as hard as it is to imagine topped even last year as our biggest year ever. This isn’t an easy festival to put on. We don’t just throw a bunch of bands on a stage and stand there and take your money. Our Arts and Kids fest is put on for free, and had thousands of people strolling the trail Saturday morning, thousands. And when 5:00p.m. came and I saw Councilman Larry

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Schlesinger take the stage to do his best impersonation of Bob Dylan, well all that work just couldn’t have been more worth it. As the night went on our local talent showed their asses some bands that have never been to Macon before blew us away, the next morning, when the few of us still alive started counting money, the smiles and the stories from the night before were overwhelming. Over 5000 people attended Bragg Jam related events this year, with no incidents, after all that James Timely grandstanding about chaos. It just goes to show when you do something good in the community, and people come out to support you, the last thing they want to do is cause trouble. Thank you Macon, for making this the best Bragg Jam ever, I know those boys were smiling.

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Columnist Karen Rogers: For over fifteen years Karen Jones has been a military spouse and a stay-athome 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.

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.

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Meagan Evans, Art Director Recently, I’ve signed back with the movie-thru mail retailer Netflix after a disappointing diversion with Blockbuster’s similar program. After the first few weeks, I became surprised by the quick delivery that my movies arrived, I would have a new movie in my mailbox in two days, it was that quick. How can that be, what makes this machine run so efficiently?

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City to Borrow Money from its Reserves

It’s practically become a rite of summer passage for Macon: borrowing money. At least this time, the green comes from within.The City Council has agreed to a request by Mayor Robert Reichert to use reserve money to pay the bills and city employee salaries through mid-October.

The mayor’s director of external affairs Andrew Blascovich said he expects that the city will need to borrow about a third (roughly $2-million) from its $6-million rainy day fund to make it through early fall.

However, he said, the plan is better than taking out a tax anticipation note, or TAN, from a bank (something the city had to do from 2004 through 2007) because it would have to also pay back interest rates.

“This will get us through while we’re waiting on (a $5.5-million insurance premium check and) property taxes to come in,” he said.

Although the City Council typically has been reluctant to let loose of Macon’s purse strings, members felt if they didn’t go along with the plan, the city could still pay the bills, but just not on time.

“I think that’s important,” said Councilwoman Elaine Lucas, a member of the city’s appropriations committee, which passed the plan along to a full council. “We certainly don’t want to downplay what’s happening and we want to make sure everybody knows the status of city finances.”

Lucas said she initially wasn’t in favor of using the fund and “still has concerns”, but said as long as the administration meets with the committee and presents accurate monthly reports on where the money is going, she’ll be satisfied.

Said City Council President Miriam Paris: “We were pretty pleased that we could borrow money from ourselves instead of an outside entity, and that we have the insurance reimbursement coming back in a timely fashion.

It’s not like we don’t see ourselves paying it back.”

I hope so.Taxpayers will be watching. Because as Paris added: “Right now every dimes counts.”

County Cuts Med Center Funding

Bibb County commissioners cut almost $3-million in funding for The Medical Center of Central Georgia, and the hospital’s CEO said he is disappointed that the local leaders do “not recognize the needs of these patients and the critical role they play in serving them.”

CEO Don Faulk added that the cuts will “negatively impact their well Butler Brown’s landscapes have graced the walls of the White being, physically and financially, (and) the entire county and its economy.” But, House, Chinese dignitaries and country-folk alike he said, the plan is not to shift “these costs to the backs of patients everywhere.” The center usually receives money from the county to combat the costs of treating uninsured residents and indigent patients.This year, the nal gallery in Hawkinsville and, over the last 30 utler Brown is the eldest of three genercounty budgeted $1-million for the center, which is down from last year’s years, it has moved to Centerville, Perry and back ations of painters. His beautiful land$3.9-million. to Hawkinsville. Now, the Butler Brown Gallery scapes have graced the walls of digniLast year, the center cut more than 200 employees, and when asked if it has a new home in Warner Robins courtesy of his taries and country folk alike. Middle would see similar slashes, he said “there have been no decisions made but son Anthony and daughter-in-law Penne.

Georgians of all ages have been enjoying the artthe county, (with) their cuts, are telling us to do that - cut serves, expenses While Butler’s oil paintings, pastels, and sketchwork of Butler Brown for years. In fact, my daughand jobs.” He said he expects to know more within 60 days. es of landscapes are on display, his aren’t the only ter ponied up a year’s worth of allowance to purCounty leaders have suggested that the hospital, which employs about works of art customers will find at the gallery. “My chase a signed print from Butler when he visited 4,700 people and has an annual net revenue of $639-million, dip into its son and grandson are more versatile than me,” her 3rd grade class—the signed print has been reserves to make up for the loss. However, Faulk said the roughly $400-milproudly displayed in my home for the last 16 years. Butler said that they use a variety of mediums that lion in reserves is typically used as an insurance against catastrophic changes and events, as well as, temporary issues. he doesn’t use. “I just like the way oils handle. I Brown’s work has even hung in the White “Using reserves for strained operations is a strategy for can manipulate them because they stay House during President Jimmy Carter’s terms in failure.” He also said he’d like to meet with commissioners wet longer.” Located at 1849 Watson office. Rosalynn Carter purchased two of Butler’s to plead his case. However, it doesn’t appear county leadBlvd., the gallery offers custom frampaintings as a Christmas present for her husband. ers will budge. Bibb County Board of Commissioners Vice ing, art lessons and Butler as their When the media asked Carter what he got for Chairman Joe Allen said hospital representatives can meet artist in residence.

Christmas, he told them about the Butler Brown with the commissioners all they want, but “they’ve got a Art student Frank Tracy enjoyed his paintings he received. That comment catapulted lot more money than the county does.” first art lesson last Saturday and Brown into the limelight.

He said no county employees received raises this year learned a new technique to paint Perhaps the most unusual walls displaying a except for Lake Tobesofkee lifeguards and that the budget grass. “He spent three hours with me, “Butler Brown” are found in Red China. “Paul is already cut to the bone.

Austin, a president of Coca-Cola, bought one of my talking and giving me tips. When the “I know health care is a major issue, but Don Faulk and the medical center are not the only issues on the table,” lesson was over I felt I had a new paintings for his friend—the Ambassador to the Allen said. “We’ve got libraries, the jail and there’s talk friend,” Tracy said. Art classes are U.S. from Red China. It was a painting of a about closing the halls of fame.We can’t even get the grass offered on Tuesdays and Saturdays Persimmon Tree, which is indigenous to China,” cut in Macon and Bibb County, and they want to come talk Join the 11th Hour Butler explained. “Later, he became the Minister of for a fee of $50 that includes three to us?”

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Culture of the People’s Republic of China. Until He even issued a challenge to medical center leaders, comment on articles, that time, Western art wasn’t easily allowed in saying that if they took a pay cut, then he’d introduce a create forums for disHours of operation are Tuesday China but they allowed my painting into the counresolution, asking that county commissioners take a percussion, blog your through Friday 10 – 5 p.m. and try. It became the first piece of Western artwork centage cut that equals the medical center’s cut. news and views, Saturday 10 – 3 p.m. 478-322-2220. allowed into the country in over twenty years.”

“You send the people down here enough and it doesn’t all at...

Brown and his wife, Laverne, opened the origi- Jenny Murr intimidate me,” Allen said. “All it does is make me mad.”

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Georgia Music Hall of Fame Gets Some County Money

Well, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame received some money as a show of faith to the state that local government is willing to support the institution.

Commissioners unanimously agreed to take $20,000 from the hotel/motel tax revenues and apply it to the hall.The money initially was set aside for Lake Tobesofkee, board Vice Chairman Joe Allen said.

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Free Money, and some on Council Still Wanted to Throw it Away

For a group of city leaders complaining about little or no finances, it’s almost ridiculous to turn down the possibility of free money. But that’s what some did when they voted against a $1.5-million housing development grant that would allow the North Carolina-based Landmark Group to build lofts in the old Atlantic Cotton Mills behind the Kroger on Pio Nono.

Then, they came to their senses. And during a second meeting in late July the council finally agreed to let the city apply for the federal money.

Initially, Council members James Timley, Ed Defore, Elaine Lucas, Lonnie Miley and Mike Cranford rejected the proposal.When the council met again, only Timley didn’t vote for it.

The dissenting members said they felt

the grant should be used for Village Green, which is blighted and filled with crime. And maybe it can, since it’s actually a revolving loan.You see, the money goes to the developer and then the developer pays the city back once the project is complete.Then the money is funneled into another project.

This is actually good news for the city and developers, since banks have been pulling back funding for projects, several that were set for downtown.

The second meeting was spearheaded

by City Council President Miriam Paris who fought hard to get its approval.

“I was so disappointed with the actions of the five that voted against it,” said Paris, who called the members “henchmen” at one point.“A lot of people were really misinformed because they thought the grant was applicable to properties that had been damaged from the Mother’s Day storm.The grant is somewhat of a misnomer because it talks about disaster relief, but it was awarded to us because we suffered from the storm. It is somewhat of a compensation for the trouble we suffered. But it wasn’t designed to help property that was damaged and couldn’t help Village Green.” Paris added that she couldn’t “possibly believe that elected leaders would turn down grant money that you don’t have to repay.”

Councilwoman Elaine Lucas said she initially voted against the request because the project didn’t impact low and moderate income residents. However, after speaking to many of her constituents, she said, she changed her mind. The grant, if received, will actually be split in half with the county, but the lofts will be the focus of the grant for now.

Riverside Bank of America customer attacked, suspect still at large On July 14, a black male approached a Bank of America customer and snatched a bag and got into a white vehicle with Georgia tag 866LKD. He was last seen going south on Riverside Drive. The vehicle used in the Robbery Sudden Snatching was recovered on July 15 in the 700 block of Forest Ridge Drive. Anyone who may have seen the vehicle, its occupants, or may have information on the robbery should contact Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-87768CRIME or the Macon Police at 751-7500.

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Smith is in stable condition at a local hospital.

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Body of Macon woman found Macon Police are investigating the death of 23year-old Crystal Morgan, Macon. Her body was found in a wooded area between Pio Nono Ave. and Marigold Ave. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.

Police arrest three burglary suspects for three unrelated cases Macon Police responded to a residential burglary in progress at an apartment at 2350 English Ave. Upon arrival, the officer saw the burglary suspect running from the scene and apprehended the suspect, 47-year-old Jackie Leon Fort. Fort has prior arrests for burglary and was released from Department of Corrections on June 1.

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Sunday Concert Series taking place during the evening hours throughout the summer.

At 6p.m., the music will start flowing from under the Magnolia and Crepe Myrtle trees.

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Bring your blankets, picnic baskets, dogs, family and friends for a great night of free music, just as the sun sets. Once again, Michael’s Mulberry will also have prepackaged sandwiches available for purchase, along with mimosas, bloody mary’s and more.

Brad Evans, publisher of the 11th Hour was able to chat with Isbell a bit about life on the road, his new band and album and what he’s been listening to. Check out the quick interview on page 16.

Reaves Arena Concert Series October 8 - 18, 2009 These concerts usually sell out, and sell out fast. Montgomery Gentry, Oct. 10; Rodney Atkins, Oct 11; Mitchel Musso, Oct. 17; and David Cook, Oct. 18.

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“Behavioral Problems” Tour August 21, Macon City Auditorium You can’t tell enough Waffle House jokes, Ron White knows the South, and knows just where to poke a little fun.

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August’s First Friday will host “Dog Days of Summer” featuring AC Pup, mascot of the Macon Animal Control and Central Georgia CARES. Not only will downtown Macon be alive with music, art exhibits, shopping, food and more, it will also shed some light on the under privileged animals looking for homes .The community is invited to bring their furry friends downtown for this event, but remember to keep them on a leash.

613 Cherry Street tel 330-6217

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• "Sip, Shop and Stroll" opening art reception 5:30-9:00 pm (FREE). Jewelry Design by Allison McGlamry; Pottery by Richard Orteza and Laura Hemingway; Photography by Glenn Hofsiss; and Paintings by Travis Blackwell.

Joycine’s Gallery, 333 Cotton Ave. • Macon Arts Opening reception for midstate artists David Morgan and Michele Treesong from 5 pm to 8 pm • Contemporary Arts Exchange houses over 30 local artists in a modern, loft style atmosphere, buy local art!

• Reception with the Bragg Jam Paint Out entries, wine & appetizers! Second Street Ceramics, a new gallery space at 362 2nd St.

Live Music:

• The 567 Cafe will host the smooth jazz sounds of Sam Gregg in an intimate, listening room atmosphere, 7-10pm, free admission • Billy Joe Shaver, 10 pm; Barkin' Beach Party complete with puppy pools, treats from

Fountain of Juice, Ice Cream, Special Doggy Brew & More!

• Smooth jazz vocalist Toni Redd & Trumpeter Melvin Miller at the Douglass, tickets $20.

Show starts at 8 pm • Live music outside on the patio of Luigi’s Bistro with Josh Campbell & Jared Wright • Platinum Studios musicians, 2nd Street • Wet & Wild Foam Party with Candy O’Hara, outside sho 7:30p.m., no cover all night in the Martini Room • The Tic Toc Room:Tokyo Spa performs; $5 martinis and glasses of wine

Dinner Specials:

• Molly’s Cafe $10.95 Prime Rib Special, open at 5p.m., Cherry Street • Market City Cafe open for dinner every Friday & Saturday, nightly specials

Other Activities

• USA Dance at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. Free dance lessons at 7:30 p.m. Dance 7:30-10 p.m.Tickets $5 at the door.

• Cox Capitol Theatre $1 Night! One dollar admission, pizza slices and select drafts, screening the movie, “Last Action Hero” 7pm.

• First Friday's Dog Days of Summer "Featuring AC Pup" 5-10p.m. Hosted by Newtown Macon. Central Georgia CARES will have a “kissing booth” in front of 567 Cafe from 6:30-8:30pm where AC will offerr kisses for a small donation.

• GA Children’s Musuem Fun Farm, 5:308:30p.m. Farm animal crafts, family board games, food specials and more. 382 Cherry St. • Treasure Vintage, 352 Cotton Avenue First Friday sales

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$11.99

for more great specials visit

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tel 743.4645 • fax 743.4671

401 CHERRY STREET

482 First Street Downtown Macon (478) 477-7800

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Lunch: Mon-Fri 11:30am-3pm 482 First Street Dinner: Mon-Thur 5pm-10pm Downtown Macon Fri-Sat 5pm-10:30pm Sunday 4pm-9:30pm (478) 477-7800

First Friday Fun Farm!

Free Admission 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm Farm Animal Crafts, Food Specials and Family Board Games

382 Cherry Street, Downtown Macon www.georgiachildrensmuseum.com 478-755-9539 AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 19, 2009

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Tournaments start at Rivalry’s on Northside on Saturday, August 8!

Fri August 14

Urban Chrysaliosis Opening Reception at the Tubman Museum

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The term urban chrysaliosis describes a state of perpetual becoming. This exhibition brings together a group of nine artists, diverse in cultural background, style and artistic intent.

Reception: Friday, August 14, 6– 8:00 P.M. Admission: Free for Members, $5 for the General Public. Runs October 17, 2009.

SPECIALS OF THE WEEK! just $4995!

Macon Arts Presents “Taste of Music: Docs who Rock”

Some of Macon’s favorite MDs will serve up their best dishes, their will also be live music and a silent auction, it’s the prescription for a rockin’ fun night! 7-10p.m. at the Blacksmith Shop. For tickets call 743-6940.

Email your event to macon@11thHourOnline.com. Include dates, times, locations with address, cost and a contact number.

Fri August 7

first friday

First Friday Smooth Jazz Series

Featuring Melvin Miller & Toni Redd at the Douglass Theatre, 8:00 PM. Tickets $15 Advance/$20 Door. For tickets call (478) 7422000. For more info visit www.postjazz.com.

Adult Flag Football Registration now thru August 28, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm at the Department of Parks and Rec, Central City Park. $400 per team, Co-ed teams welcome.

For more information call 751-7638.

Sat August 8

2-4-1 Night at the Cox Capitol Theatre

2 for $5 admission, 2 for $2 popcorn and soft drinks, showing “Euro Trip”. Movie starts at 7p.m. 382 Second Street.

Rivalry’s presents Beer Pong Tournament, 9p.m. Satellite Beer Pong,

compete for a free trip to Vegas and free entry into the World Series of Beer Pong (and a chance to win $50,000!) Northside Drive.

Classic Car Show at Captain Jack’s Crab Shack, 4-8p.m. Hot rods to classics,

awards in over 20 categories. Come to show, or come to play. 1229 Russell Pkwy, Warner Robins, 225-1165.

Sun August 9

Jason Isbell at Second Sunday Brunch Whether you came to love him for his work

with the Drive-By Truckers or you stumbled onto his incredible solo work, this is an opportunity you can't miss. Even though he's packing venues all over the country and abroad, you can come see Jason Isbell in Macon, in Washington Park for FREE! 6p.m.

Cox Capitol Theatre presents Sunday Supper: “Madagascar (2005).” Doors open

at 5:30 p.m., movie at 6p.m. Tickets $5, Pizza slices are $1 (children only), Select draft beer $1(adults). 478.257.6391. 382 Second St.

Macon Film Guild at the Douglass Theatre Presents: "Tokyo Sonata" 2:00 PM, 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM. Tickets $5. 355 MLK Blvd. 742-2000.

Wed August 12

Cox Capitol Theatre presents Dinner and a Classic: “The Defiant Ones (1958).”

open at 5:30 p.m., movie at 6p.m. Tickets $5, Pizza slices are $1 (children only), Select draft beer $1(adults). 478.257.6391. 382 Second St.

Wed August 19

Drag Queen Bingo @ The Bird

A special happy hour event from 6:30 - 9p.m. featuring the beautiful and very talented (who saw the backflip into the splits in 4” heels?)

Deonna Sage. Free admission, super prizes and FREE drinks for the gals!

open at 5:30 p.m., movie at 6:30. Tickets $5, or ticket and dinner for $17.50. 478.257.6391.

382 Second St.

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The Drive-by Truckers in concert at the Capitol Theatre Doors open at 8pm,

Macon’s Midnight Rider, Trolley Bar Crawl 8pm until 2:30am, a $5 wristband is

ondering what you can plant this fall? A Fall Gardening Workshop will be held in Macon on Sun. Aug. 16 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.The workshop will help people plan for fall plantings.Topics covered include appropriate fall crops for the Macon area, successive plantings to assure maximum harvests and yields, direct seeding vs. transplanting, sustainable pest and insect control, mold and fungi control, mulching, crop rotation, and more.

The workshop will be led by Kim Kelly, Farm Manager at Davis Farms. “We are fortunate in the Middle Georgia area to be able to grow food year round” Ms Kelly explains. “Cabbage, broccoli, kale, turnips, collard, and a wide variety of salad greens thrive in our fall and winter climate” she says. Light refreshment, seeds and garden solutions will be available for purchase.

Ms Kelly has implemented whole farm planning at Davis Farms, which is a long range plan designed to eliminate weeds and maximize harvests through crop rotations, timed plantings, and the use of cover crops.The farm plan will take several years to implement fully and includes the development of a small fruit orchard and the introduction of olive trees.

For registration information call 478-836-4564 or contact davisfarmscsa@aol.com. A $15.00 materials fee will be charged.

NISSAN ALTIMA

Cox Capitol Theatre presents Dinner and a Classic: “Dr. Zhivago (1965).” Doors

Professional Development Lecture: How to Build Your Business in Today's Economy, 5:30-8 PM Wesleyan College,

Manget Dining Room. Lecturer Dr. Nick De Bonis is a global strategic marketing consultant and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Marketing in the Wesleyan Executive MBA Program. He is the lead author of two successful trade books for the American Marketing Association, including Value-Based Marketing for Bottom-Line Success: 5 Steps to Creating Customer Value. Free and open to the public!

RSVP 478-757-5180 or kkitchens@wesleyancollege.edu

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Cox Capitol Theatre presents Sunday Supper: “Charlotte’s Web (2006).” Doors

show starts at 9 with special guest Tift Merritt.

Tickets $22 in advance, $25 day of show.

General admission. 257.6391. 382 Second St.

Fall Gardening Workshop Scheduled for Sun, Aug. 16

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Sun August 16

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., movie at 6:30.

Tickets $5, or ticket and dinner for $17.50.

478.257.6391. 382 Second St.

Thur August 13

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SUPERCENTER

Sat August 15

Win a free entry into the World Series of Beer Pong, Vegas Baby!

THE NEW

Fri August 21

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your ticket to ride all night long! Two trolleys will run from Wager’s to downtown, a second will stop at MLK an d Cherry and to CJ’s and back. Stop and enjoy a drink at some of Macon’s best bars including The Hummingbird, Envy, BJ’s, the Rookery, the Shamrock, CJ’s and Synergy.

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VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE

Red jeep cherokee

red ext. cab, $6995!

Ron White "Behavioral Problems" Tour at Macon City Auditorium, 8:00 PM

Tickets on sale now! Adults $42.75 Reserved seating. Box Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30am-5:30pm, 478-751-9232.

Sat August 22

Drivin' n' Cryin' in Concert

Their hits - "Fly Me Courageous," "Scarred but Smarter," "Build a Fire," "Honeysuckle Blue," & "Straight to Hell" - brought Southern rock to its peak of concise, passionate eloquence. Doors open at 7, show at 8pm with special guest Hank Vegas. General admission $20 in advance, $25 day of show. 257.6391.

382 Second St.

Sun August 29 1st Annual Bark for Life

Central City Park will be filled with best friends of the two-legged and four-legged variety for the 1st Annual American Cancer Society Bark for Life. This gathering is in celebration of cancer survivorship, and in honor of those who have passed away, all while raising money towards the annual Relay for Life event total. Blessing of the Animals, 9a.m, then a 1-mile walk along the riverwalk. Come out as an individual, or come out as a team, and try to raise money to help eliminate the suffering caused by this disease.

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ford taurus

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ROY THOMPSON, JR. Open Monday - Saturday

1090 Riverside Dr. • (478) 254-6400

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Ongoing

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MUSIC MOVIES IN DOWNTOWN

MACON

AT HISTORIC COX CAPITOL THEATRE

Thur. Aug 20 Sat. Aug 22

- 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-

cians and songwriters in an intimate listening room atmosphere. 9p.m. 371 Cotton Avenue, Call Eric for music line-up, 744-2446.

- arts

City Market On the Green, every Saturday 9 until 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, the center park of Poplar St.

Buddhist Book Club Tuesdays 7pm at Golden Bough Vintage Books, 371 Cotton Ave. Macon. For more info call 744-2446.

Over 20 studio spaces fill theStay second& andPlay third in Macon floors above Michael’s on Mulberry.

Everything presents from painting, printmakingConcert and sculpture.

Series Contemporary Arts Exchange: Mulberry Street

Drive-by Truckers

Drivin’ n’ Cryin’

July 7, the Athens, GA southern rockers released the DVD “Live from Austin City Limits”, lead singer Patterson Hood released “Murdering Oscar” and the band joined Booker T on his new album “Potato Hole”

Kevn Kinney is back with his band Drivin’ n Cryin’, with opening act, Hank Vegas. Hear hits like "Fly Me Courageous," "Scarred but Smarter," "Build a Fire," "Honeysuckle Blue," & "Straight to Hell"

Concert at 9pm. $22 advance / $25 at door

Concert at 8pm. $20 advance / $25 at door

movies at the capitol

WED

Dinner & a Classic

Dinner service at 5:30 Movie begins at 6:30 Tickets $17.50

Fridays, Dollar Night

Open house, catch a film for $1, and $1 select drafts

Sunday Supper

Admission just $5, kids enjoy $1 slices, adults $1 drafts

full menu available Thur-Sun

382 Second Street 257-6392

Wednesdays

for a complete schedule of events visit

COXCAPITOLTHEATRE.COM Sundays

“Dinner & a Classic”

6p “Sunday Supper”

$5 admission without dinner

$5 admission without dinner

12: The Defiant Ones (’58) $17.50, 6:30p.m.

19: Doctor Zhivago (1965) $17.50, 6:30p.m.

9: Madagascar (PG) $1 pizza, $1 drafts 16: Charlotte’s Web (PG) $1 pizza, $1 drafts

AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 19, 2009

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FRI, AUG 7

Dollar Night “Last Action Hero” SAT, AUG. 8

2-4-1 Night “Euro Trip”

AUGUST 20

Drive-By Truckers

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.

July 17 – Sept. 29 – Museum of Arts & Sciences presents, “The Pieper Power Collection: Photorealistic Watercolors.” Part of the Wisconsin company’s large private collection. Included in regular admission, $4-$8. 4182 Forsyth Rd.

Beverly Buchanan — Through Sept. 20, Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road. Buchanan’s expressionistic drawings and paintings of rural Southern architecture feature bright patchworks of color. 477-3232. $4-$8.

July 18 – Sept. 30 – 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. Art Classes and workshops begin at the Barbara Barry Creative Studio -Beginners adult drawing, with Peter Nishanian -Painting butterflies, with Peter Nishanian -Soulscapes creative expressions in acrylic,

-Assemblage, with Tim Hedden.

-Custom lampshade workshop -“Weekends for Women” with Barbara Barry and Sherry Cox. 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 Games People Play — Through July 10, Middle Georgia Art Association Gallery, 2330 Ingleside Ave. 744-9557.

ongoing - family

“Sky Over Macon”, Fridays at 8p.m. Mark Smith Planetarium 4182 Forsyth Rd. Weekly, live star talk explore the constellations and far away celestial objectsvisible from Middle Georgia. Admission by donation. 477-3232.

Live music for kids every First Saturday at Georgia Music Hall of Fame Children love Pam Blanchard, the award-winning musician from Athens who performs music “for little kids and their adults.” Every first Saturday from 12 noon until 2 p.m., Program included with museum admission, $3.50 ages 4-17.

Mini-Zoo Tours Daily at 3 p.m. and Saturday at

1 p.m. Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Rd., Macon. Meet furry and feathered friends in the Mini-Zoo habitat. Free with Museum admission.

ongoing - movies

Macon Film Guild: Every second Sunday of the month. Show times are 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Douglass Theatre, 355 M.L.K., Jr. Blvd. For more information visit www.douglasstheatre.org.

Sunday Supper at the Cox Capitol Theatre Doors open at 5pm, movie begins at 6. $12.50 admission includes dinner. $6 child’s plate available. Aug 9: Madagascar, Aug 16: Charlotte’s Web Dinner and a Classic at the Cox Capitol Theatre: Doors open at 5:30 p.m, movie at 6:30p.m. $17.50 includes dinner. Reservations are GREATLY appreciated by calling (478)257-6391, ext. 6. Showing...

Aug 12: The Defiant Ones (‘58), Aug 19: Dr Zhivago (‘65)

museum - gallery hours

The Musuem of Arts & Sciences Monday - Saturday, 10 - 5 p.m., Sunday, 1 - 5 p.m.

Last Friday of Each Month, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Admission - Adults $8, Students 12-17 $5, Children 2-11 $4, Museum Members Free

Georgia Music Hall of Fame 9am-5pm Mon-Sat, 1pm-5pm Sun. 1-888-GA-ROCKS. $8/$3.50.

Georgia Sports Hall of Fame 9am-5pm Mon-Sat, 1pm-5pm Sun. Admission $8, children 4-16 $3.50.

Full calendar of events also online, 11thHourOnline.com

Lyrics of the W eek

They’ll stone you when you try to annex land.

They’ll stone you when you lend a helpin' hand.

They’ll stone you when the homeles s are around.

They’ll stone you when Bragg Jam takes over town.

But we would no t feel so all alon e, City Councils must get stoned.

-Larry Schlesinger (Localizing Dylan’s classic)

music

Band Members include: Scotty Lingelbach - vocals, guitar, piano Gaul Armstrong - drums Jonathan Joe - guitar, dobro, steel, percussion, harmonica Several other macon musicians have helped out as well including; Michael and Shannon from Ghost Train, Charlie Kelly of Robot Folk Junkies, and Willie D of Nomenclature

Influences: Lambchop, John Fahey, Max Richter, Rachel's, Silver Jews, The Apartments, Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker, Townes Van Zandt, Pavement, Pharoah Sanders, Sibylle Baier, Serge Gainsbourg, Stars of the Lid, Neil young, Gastr Del Sol, Vic Chesnutt What do you think of the Middle Georgia Scene?

“Macon has so much to offer when it comes to art and music. It's grown into this huge collective of musicians and artists that support each other and generally enjoy each others' work. It's so eclectic and interesting. The Golden Bough is undoubtedly the center of the music scene. Eric has done so much to lend a hand to those who enjoy diversity and have no choice but to express it.”

What could be better?

“More venues. The Golden Bough will always feel like home to many of us, and Macon has already made big steps in exposing and helping its experimental scene, but more places to play would be ideal.”

Local Spotlight

Get to know the experimental/country/indie band fronted by Scotty Lingelbach

What's next for you...

“We(Mysekf, Gaul, and Jonathan) are planning on recording some new songs with Clark Bush sometime within the coming weeks.

Riverview Ballroom 426 Walnut Street

Sunday Night Live downtown jam

$5 cover 7p-until

Jazz, blues, southern rock, funk, soul and more!

Good food, Network, Drink Specials!

The birthplace of

southern rock

Grant’sLOUNGE www.grantslounge.com

476 Poplar Street Home of the Legendary Wall of Fame

GRANT’S LOUNGE Suite 1200 475-5860 3076 Riverside Dr.

EVERYDAY:

LUNCH AND DINNER SPECIALS

Macon, Ga 31210

Happy Hour ‘til 7pm $1 OFF ALL DRINKS!

presents SPECIALS!

KARAOKE EVERY TUES, WED, THUR, SAT & SUN

MONDAYS:

NEVER A COVER CHARGE

FRIDAYS:

Dance Band Jam & Rehearse 9pm-1am 7-10pm576 Poplar Street Home of the Legendary Wall of Fame

Saturdays: Order Your Brunch Specials

FRI: 7: Midnight Bluez • 14: Project 77 MON: 10: Friends of Freelance Ruckus • 17: Jessica & CJ AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 19, 2009

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LIVE MUSIC

06 thursday

Nikki Lixx & Jay El Azteca,Tom Hill Sr. Blvd.

Lewis & Matt CJ’s Sports Bar, 2910 Riverside

Austin Collins & Rainbird The Hummingbird, 430 Cherry Live Music Tara’s Tavern, 2455 Emery Hwy Hillbilly Delux Whiskey River, 4570 Pio Nono

07 friday

Midnight Bluez Band 20’s Pub & Subs, 3076 Riverside

Roadhouse Backporch Lounge, Riverside Dr. Matt Moncrief Mellow Mushroom,WR

Mighty McFly El Azteca, 169 Tom Hill Sr Blvd Sam Gregg 567 Cafe, 567 Cherry St

Billy Joes Shaver The Hummingbird, 430 Cherry Local 478 Show Rivalry’s, 3986 Northside Dr

Ziggy Junes DJ CJ’s Sports Bar, 2910 Riverside

Hillbilly Delux Whiskey River, 4570 Pio Nono

Gary Pfaff & Heartwells Wild Wing Cafe, 5080 Riverside Gaylon Crader The Shamrock, 342 Rose Ave

**Drag Queen Bingo Every 1st & 3rd Wed @ the Bird

08 saturday

Alec Stanley, Amy Godwin, the Stationary & Cory Watkins 567 Cafe, 567 Cherry Street A2Z Band CJ’s Sports Bar, 2910 Riverside

Vinyl Skins &Truffelina The Hummingbird, 430 Cherry

Live music tba Backporch Lounge, 2400 Riverside Greg Hall Rivalry’s, 3986 Northside Dr

Crankin’ Daddies The Shamrock, 342 Rose Ave

Hillbilly Delux Whiskey River, 4570 Pio Nono

Radio Cult Wild Wing Cafe, 5080 Riverside

09 sunday

Murph & the Murphtones Tara’s Tavern, Emery Hwy

12 wednesday

Ladies Night w/Chris Hicks The Hummingbird, 430 Cherry

13 thursday

Live Acoustic Music Wild Wing Cafe

Ashley & Ross El Azteca, 169 Tom Hill Sr Blvd

Brandi Thornton Whiskey River, 4570 Pio Nono Lewis & Matt CJ’s Sports Bar, 2910 Riverside

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Slice Mellow Mushroom,WR

Project 77 20’s Pub & Subs, 3076 Riverside Deacons of Disaster CJ’s Sports Bar, 2910 Riverside The Loose Skrews El Azteca, 169 Tom Hill Sr Blvd

American Aquarium The Hummingbird, 430 Cherry Grand Trizz Rivalry’s, 3986 Northside Dr

Brantley Gilbert Whiskey River, 4570 Pio Nono

Mad Margritt Wild Wing Cafe, 5080 Riverside Tim Brooks/Chris Hicks The Shamrock, 342 Rose Ave

15 saturday

Caucasion Invasion CJ’s Sports Bar, 2910 Riverside

Paisley Gordon Band The Hummingbird, 430 Cherry Robert Lee Coleman Rivalry’s, 3986 Northside Dr Steve & Mike Mellow Mushroom,WR

A2Z Band The Shamrock, 342 Rose Ave

Brandi Thornton Whiskey River, 4570 Pio Nono

Running down Romance Wild Wing Cafe, 5080 Riverside

02 sunday

Scott Pallot on the Patio Wild Wing Cafe Soulshine CJ’s Sports Bar, 2910 Riverside

DRINK SPECIALS/ SPECIAL EVENTS MONDAYS

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

50% off pool & Happy Hour prices for service industry BJ’s Billiards $4 Jager Bombs, $5 Pitchers Coaster’s Sports Bar

Happy Hour 4-7p El Azteca

$1.25 Bud til 8p, 35¢ Wings 8-11p The Hole Thang Free Pool Hud’s Bar & Grill $1 Wells all night, The Bird Happy Hour open to close Rivalry’s Sports Bar

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

$2 Coors Light, $1 Coors Draft Wild Wing Cafe

$8 Pitchers, $2 Pints Blue Moon Mellow Mushroom, WR

TUESDAYS

Open Mic, Poetic Peace, 567 Cafe

2-4-1 Wells, dom. bottles & drafts Mellow Mushroom, WR 2-4-1 Jagerbombs, Coaster’s 2-4-1 Margaritas all day at El Azteca Bud Bingo, win prizes!

Friend’s Bar & Grill

Happy Hour all night long The Hole Thang

Live music with B Keith Williams The Shamrock Ladies Night, Tara’s Tavern

2 fer Tuesday: Happy hour 10p-2a, Wild Wing Cafe

WEDNESDAYS

2-4-1 Wells & drafts, 550 Blues

$3.50 Jagerbombs, $10 buckets, $4 Firefly, Wild Wing Cafe

50% off pool & Happy Hour prices for Public Service Professionals BJ’s Billiards 1/2 off select bottles of wine The Downtown Grill

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

Free Pool, Steak Night at 6pm, Tara’s Tavern

Tim Brooks & Chris Hicks, 8:30 Backporch Lounge

Ladies Night, free cover and $2 drinks for gals, Whiskey River $5 Bud Light Pitchers Mellow Mushroom, WR

THURSDAYS

50% off pool & Happy Hour prices for Students, BJ’s Billiards College Night, music with Matt & Lewis, 2-4-1 wells, Jagerbombs CJ’s Sports Bar $1.25 Rolling Rock & PBR The Hole Thang

College Night, 241 Wells w/ID Club Envy Skirts, $2 drinks all night Rivalry’s Late Night Happy Hour El Azteca

Ladies Night, $4 martinis, $2 cosmos, $3 tic tacs, Wild Wing Free Pool, 25¢ Wells Whiskey River

Thirsty Thurs: $3 Bombs Mellow Mushroom, WR

FRIDAYS

Happy Hour prices for poker players, BJ’s Billiards

WDEN Live Remote during Happy Hour 5-7p, El Azteca $1.25 Bud Light til 8pm The Hole Thang

$8 Sweetwater & Yuengling Pitchers Mellow Mushroom, WR

SATURDAYS

Free pool until 7p, BJ’s Billiards $10 Purple Haze Pitchers Mellow Mushroom, WR

SUNDAYS

Nascar, drink specials, 20’s Pub n’ Subs

Nascar, drink specials Friend’s Bar & Grill Bikes & BBQ, Hud’s

Nascar, Poker at 2:30pm Rivalry’s Sports Bar

Acoustic music, $2 drafts Wild Wing Cafe

Thursday, 6

local and regional bands performing over the next two weeks

musiclive

Austin Collins & The Rainbirds @ The Hummingbird

"Those still in mourning over the breakup of altcountry heroes Whiskeytown can take solace in the debut from this Houston-born/Austin-based singer/songwriter.

Friday, 7

Gary Pfaff and the Heartwells @ Wild Wing Café

DANCE PARTY / DJ

Sexy Saturdays, Dress to Impress, Coaster’s Nightclub

DJ Darkshadow on Wednesdays at Club Envy

Dance night coming to CJ’s,Wedn.

Insomnia Promotions Presents... every Friday night at Club Envy DJ dance party & drink specials every Saturday 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 Every Tuesday, Coasters

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

TRIVIA

Every TUES 8:30p, CJ’s Sports Bar Every Wednesday, El Azteca Team Trivia every Mon, Red Eye Every Tuesday Night, Rivalry’s Every Wednesday 9p, 550 Blues

Thursday nights 9p, The Shamrock Tuesday nights with Jason Hawk, cash prizes, Wild Wing Cafe Tuesday nights, Buffalos, 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 Texas Hold ‘Em Tuesdays, Huds

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

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Touring with nothing more than their van, their music, and a vision as big as their sound, Gary & and the band currently tour over 200 dates a year.

On learning from his Dad, Gary recalls: "I remember heading up to Nashville (from Atlanta) with my folks for a family vacation at Opry Land and discovering country music. I'll never forget tagging along with my Dad while he dropped off demo tapes to Ronnie Milsap and The Oakridge Boys. I recently found myself pitching my own songs on the same streets in Nashville.”

Mighty Mcfly @ El Azteca

They are influenced by Queen, Van Halen, Journey, Prince, Sly & the Family Stone, Mothers Finest, Stevie Wonder, George Michael, Michael Jackson, KISS and many more. You will NEVER forget them once you see a Mighty McFly show! Incredible energy is what the show is all about. Over 1500 shows within the past 7 years! Infectious hooks, melodies and great vocals.

Saturday, Aug 8

Vinyl Skins with Truffelina @ The Hummingbird

Truffelina, a local , experimental rock outfit formed out of members from Citizen Insane and Nomenclature has been making some serious noise in the underground scene of Macon.

Playing to packed out rooms at the Golden Bough, and playing some gigs in Milledgeville, we finally get to see them take a big stage in Macon. This is going to be good stuff.

Alec Stanley, Amy Godwin, the Stationary, and Cory Watkins @ 567 Cafe

Early show at 7p.m. featuring some of Macon’s young, local talent that is listening room perfect.

This is Cory Watkin’s CD Release show, a great night of music for just $5.

Radio Cult @ Wild Wing Café

Do you miss the days when it was OK to wear leg warmers and jelly shoes? Well, actually, neither do we! ...but we do miss cheesy $10 videos on MTV, Flock of Seagulls hair styles and music that was FUN! These guys do it all!

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Grand Trizz @ Rivalry’s

Gran Trizz is an Atlanta based alternative soul jazz pop band that has set out to make music that is respectable in a scene where music is losing integrity. Front man Arturo Holmes brings unique song writing composition with his long background of piano and violin experience that brings complex structure to simple sounding tunes. Diverse rhythms, cool bass grooves, Sarah Taylor's sensual harmonies and Ryan Price's spin on classical trumpet training.

Paisley Gordon @ The Bird

Musician & recording artist Paisley Gordon is an heir to a musical dynasty. As member of a family of successful musicians, his music is a reflection of his multi-cultural roots & disciplined training. Pivotal to his training was his time growing up in Augusta, Ga. Paisley became a disciplined performer because of his relationship with James Brown. Mr. Brown was a close family friend & took Paisley under his leadership to mold him into a great performer.

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Billy Joe Shaver’s Texas outlaw-country is back at the Hummingbird, First Friday, August 7

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ive years ago, Billy Joe Shaver’s life was marked by tragedy, death and his own failing health. As he prepares to unleash his first new studio album in three years, The Real Deal (Compadre Records) on September 20, his life has turned around. He’s recently been featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes II with Dan Rather and NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He is scheduled to appear as a featured performer on an upcoming CMT Outlaws special and will perform the national anthem at the August 15 Sirius Satellite Radio at the Glen Nextel Cup NASCAR race in Watkins Glen, New York. Indeed it seems like he’s experienced everything a musician can—except that he has never self-produced an album.So Shaver hunkered down in a Pedernales, Texas

Robert Lee Coleman, former original JB, takes the stage at Rivalry’s on Northside August 15 Robert Lee Coleman was born May 15, 1945 in Macon GA and grew up in & around Macon during a time when the Middle GA area was a hotbed of Blues,R&B,and early Rock ’n Roll. As was often the case during the 1950s, Coleman’s introduction to playing in front of an audience came in the church.But the guitar had a strong hold on Coleman by then. He continued to hone his guitar chops,playing with most of Macon’s prominent musicians of the day: Calvin Arline(Bobby Womack,Cher,Doug Kershaw,Jimmy Nalls Band), Newton Collier(Sam & Dave, others), Eddie Kirkland, Percy Welch, & others.

Brantley Gilbert @ Whiskey River

In the same vein of Zach Brown who’s music has just shot to the top of the Country music charts, this Georgia boy is also making a name for himself. His song “Dirt Road Anthem” has over 2 million downloads on MySpace. He’s performed sold out shows from Chicago to Athens, and tonight probably won’t be any different. Get advance tickets whiskeyriver.tv.

Midnight Bluez @ 20’s Pub

Tony Tyler’s pop plays the skins and sings in this hard edged Southern Rock ensemble that plays a range of covers and solid originals in the spirit of what Macon used to be when Capricorn was lord here.

Tim Brooks and Chris Hicks @ The Shamrock

Former Marshall Tucker guitarist Chris Hicks shreds. And he sings like only those Gods of Southern Rock can, but Tim Brooks, the unassuming picker back on the scene after a five year hiatus, is no slouch himself, sometimes, out-leading even hicks. They’ll play some of your favorites, and some of Chris’s originals, which also may be some of your favorites.

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Caucasian Invasion @ CJ's

From a porch overlooking Spring Creek, to bars and backyards around southwest georgia, comes a band humble in appearance, but showmen by nature. The band came together by many years of knowing each other, experience a show and see just how much they enjoy themselves, and maybe you will too.

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The Movement @ The Bird

Rock, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: Each is definable, recognizable, and at once familiar to people the world over. But never have those three forms of musical expression been so effortlessly blended into one sound that is as indefinable as it is recognizable and familiar. Enter the Philadelphia quartet known as The Movement.

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The mayor sang with City Councilman Larry Schlesinger, “Blowin in the Wind”

Bragg Jam Encore any events are worth placement on a calendar a year in advance: birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and Bragg Jam. Having carved its niche during the heat of the Middle Georgia summer, the last weekend in July has become a time when music and friendship speak in harmony with downtown Macon.

Kicking things off at the VIP/Patron’s Party was the pedal steel drive of the Lee Boys. With anticipation high for this year’s festival, the crowd mingled and danced below the enormous, one of a kind, REM painting by Steve Penley. Saturday was no time to sleep in as the day began bright and early for many families with the Kids Fest along the scenic River Walk.

Overflowing with crafts, vendors, games, and music, the Kids Fest has become a wonderful way for families to participate all day long in the Bragg Jam celebration. Now celebrating its tenth year, this year’s Concert Crawl boasted a caliber of music like nothing downtown Macon has ever seen before. A diversified line-up of local, regional, and national musicians turned our fair city from the best musical secret wait-

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Whether you started things off with the minimalist blues attack by the Moaners or the local southern take on Dylan from Mayor Reichert and Larry Schlesinger, you couldn’t walk into a venue and go wrong with the songs you heard on that beautiful Saturday night. The Cox Capitol Theatre was a hot bed of grooves as the ten piece soul of Austin’s T Bird and the Breaks took matters into their own hands. For an hour and half, horns, back up singers, and gliding soul took over the packed house before handing things over to the guitar driven rock of Cracker. Again, so many options, and those that took advantage of the free trolley service found themselves either in front of the ‘70s Stonesesque rock of the Deadstring Brothers at Rivalry’s or to the lyrical balladry of Kevn Kinney at the Shamrock. Macon turned out in record numbers to support a cause and found themselves in a safe, lively, downtown environment. Bragg Jam brought smiles and beats to all participants. Go ahead mark out the last - David Higdon weekend of July, 2010.

On the phone with ex-Trucker and singer/songwriter JASON ISBELL You on the road right now?

Nope, at home. Been here this week. Just got off the road. It’s good to be here too.

You’re playing an acoustic set here in Macon, how is that different from your full on rock show? Well, besides the obvious, it’s probably more intimate. It’s a two piece thing.

And we make different selections. We probably dig a little deeper in our catalog to find songs that would fit this kind of set. We may play some of the Truckers outtakes that don’t’ get played live. We also do some strange covers during an acoustic set. We’ve had a lot of success with the energy of these shows, and I’m really enjoying them. The car doesn’t smell near as bad either.

This new record sounds quite a bit different from your past with the Truckers and Sirens of the Ditch. Personally I like it.

I didn’t really have a specific direction. I had most of the songs written. That always kinds of dictates how a record sounds, I guess. It was a combination of the people I worked with

that led to this sound. I’ve wanted to work with Matt (Centromatic) forever. I knew his sound going in, and I knew his mixing style, he’s an audiophile, I mean it’s nuts.

Tell me about the 400 unit? How did you guys get together? I’ve known all of these guys for a long time. I knew Derry DeBorga from Son volt from when we toured with the Truckers. These are all local people, and we’ve all worked together before in one way or another. It’s been a lot of fun.

What are you reading right now, and what are you listening to? I’m reading Edward Jones, All Aunt Hagars Children. Pretty much about African American families in the Washington DC area. About to start on the Franzens, The Corrections. As far as music I’m really liking MGMT, Deer Tick, and believe it or not, The Ting Tings.

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The Mars Volta Octahedron Released: June 23, 2009

OK, if you’ve yet to discover Mars Volta after seven years and five albums, go directly to album numero uno, “De-Loused in the Comatorium” and start there. If you’re a fan, you’ll love the art-rock theme that continues with this new release. It’s an aimless journey of organs, jazz-fusion and straight up guitar-driven ‘70s-era rock. It’s melodrama rich lyrics and eratic tempos don’t make for an easy listen, but its creative energy is addictive.

Drive-By Truckers Live from Austin, TX Released: July, 2009

Their latest release is Live From Austin, TX, a CD/DVD set that documents their 2008 performance on "Austin City Limits".The 13-song tracklist draws heavily from Brighter Than Creation's Dark, but also digs deep into the band's catalog, as far back as their 1998 debut, Gangstabilly. Few bands have been both so prolific and so consistent this decade.While the DVD of the live performance puts more emphasis on the songwriting, the songs on the CD don’t lose any of their characteristic energy.

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appiness as Expressed in Pizza, that’s the motto of Mellow Mushroom, a Pizzeria started in 1974 when three college students decided to open a different type of restaurant- one that reflected their own eccentric philosophies. They purchased an old, beat-up building on Spring Street in Atlanta, near the campus of Georgia Tech, knowing that college kids depend on two types of food more than most, pizza and beer.

Today, over 100 Mellow Mushrooms are spread across 15 Stuffed Portobello App states and share the same DNA of that hole in the wall on Spring Street. And the newest one is right here in Macon, Georgia. We decided to run up and try the place just a few days after it opened, braving what we knew would be a large crowd and a few kinks. We were right about the crowd, but the place is already up and running like a machine.

I started my meal off with a side salad with the homemade Esperenza Dressing. My teammates had the stuffed Portobello appetizer, a mushroom cap with garlic butter, artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes, spinach and feta cheese. A great start to prepare for the meal to come. We were warned by the waitress that each pie is hand tossed and made to order, so you can expect a 15-20 minute wait for your pizza. It wasn’t a big deal, the place is cool, filled with memorabilia, and enough murals and artwork to look at to keep you occupied, even if you come alone.

I had the house Calzone with Spinach, tomatoes, and mushrooms, though I couldn’t resist adding Pepperoni, and it was complete perfection. My pals had the Funky Q Chicken Pizza, topped with BBQ chicken, cheddar cheese, caramelized onions, and bacon. The crust is flavorful and just the right thickness. Even on week one, we experienced some great food, complimented by great personal service, all in a funky fresh atmosphere. This wasn’t my first time at a Shroom. I frequented one when I lived in Savannah and my favorite item back then was the Jerk Chicken grilled hoagie. Topped with grilled mushrooms, green peppers, spicy jerk chicken, spinach and pineapple with pesto mayo, I’ve been dreaming about it ever since. Something to look forward to, but that’s not all. The Mellow Mushroom will also be adding an outdoor stage, yet another place for our local musicians to thrive and play to the Mellow Masses!

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20’s Pub n’ Subs Boasting freshly prepared sandwiches, salads and dinner specials in a well-lit tavern-like setting.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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LUNCH SPOTS

Adriana’s Gelato is Italian for “the best ice cream you’ll ever eat” and Adriana’s is the only place in town where you can find it. Also, 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 • $-$$

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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

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The Drive-By Truckers play the Cox Capitol Theatre on Thursday, August 20

est known as leader of the Drive-By Truckers, songwriter Patterson Hood was born into a musical family, with his father (David Hood) serving as the longtime bassist for studio legends the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Patterson began writing songs at the tender age of eight, and by the time he was 14 he was playing guitar in a local rock band. It was with DBT’s ambitious double-disc set, 2001's Southern Rock Opera, that garnered the Truckers their first dose of nationwide critical acclaim. Southern Rock Opera's success as an independent release helped earn the a band a contract with Lost Highway Records, which soon reissued the album on a wider scale. They will be hitting Macon in support of their newest album, Brighter Than Creations Dark at the Cox Capitol Theatre on Thursday August 20. We caught up with Patterson at his home in Athens. INTERVIEW BY BRAD EVANS Got to tell you, I love the new record. Congrats.

Love Shonna’s songs too. Is writing something you guys have been prodding her to try out, or was it something she’s been wanting to get around to?

She’s always been writing. It’s not a new thing. She was writing long before she joined the band. I first met her, years ago, and she was playing bass and writing with different bands around Muscle Shoals. Her and Jason were playing as a duo and I think they were just friends back then. But she was writing even then. It’s hard to balance three writers in a band. By the time she joined we had three writers that were pretty prolific and pretty intense. We encouraged her to do a song on Blessing and a Curse, but for whatever reason she decided not to.

She’s already written several on the new record, which we are in the process of mixing now.

What are some of the influences for the storytelling on this album? There seems to be a little bit of a personal/political theme.

Sure it does. The Album was made during the waning years of the Bush administration. It came out during the election year. There are definitely some political undertones, and a few songs that are more blatant about it.

Sometimes, the best way to talk about something political is to talk about something personal. There really is no dividing line. I’m more interested personal stories, but even those stories are affected by politics.

The addition of John Neff a couple of years back, who I just loved in the Star Room Boys, was a great move too, I’d always known him as a pedal steel guitar player, I never knew he could shred like that. I know he’s been collaborating with ya’ll for a while, what does he add to the dynamic?

I go on for hours about Neff. Pedal steel is one of the hardest instruments to play. If someone is a good pedal steel player, they are going to be a bad ass on the guitar.

It’s the difference between flying a Cessna and being a fighter pilot. And Neff is just a bad ass on both. He was actually a founding member of DBT. The reason he didn’t stay in is because he was loyal to the Star Room Boys, so we lost him. We respected that, but we weren’t happy about it. And I was a huge Star Room Boys fan too. He still played with me some, and he still played on our records. We were finishing Blessing and a Curse, and he played on “Murdering Oscar”, so I was really eager to get him back in the band. After Jason left, he just stepped up to the front position. It’s worked out well.

I’ve read a lot about your relationship with Cooley. But I’ve never really heard how you met Mike Cooley?

We were roommates; I needed a place to live real fast. I got thrown out of where I was living. And when I moved in with a friend, Mike was his roommate. I saw the day I moved in he played guitar and he saw I had a guitar, so eventually we started Adam’s Housecat. Then when that band broke up, we continued to play together until we formed the Truckers in 96.

You are a big part of Nucci’s space (a resource center for musicians, providing low cost counseling for suicide prevention, and low cost climate controlled practice spaces) there in Athens, Why does being an artist automatically mean you’re tortured?

I wish I knew (Laughs) I think most people turn off the personal emotion thing, and do what they do for a living.

But the nature of an artist is that you utilize that emotion in what you do. Maybe more artistic people are more given to it, or maybe they just have to spend more time with it. A lot of people start writing to deal with pain or depression. I don’t know what came first, the chicken or the egg. But what these guys try to do is amazing, and they are successful, but still it’s only a drop in the bucket to what is all out there. I mean Athens is just one city with 300 bands.

Do you ever wish you could sell more records at WalMart and not have to tour so much? I know that’s gotten better over the years but what do you think about those big box retailers? I think big box retailers are the death, or a big part of the death of the music industry. They spend so much money buying out the artists, and then all the radio is owned by a couple of companies. Bands like us have been less affected by it, because we were never part of that. It’s nice not to have to be in there competing with some Pretty boy band at Wal-mart. The following we have we’ve built slugging it out on the road. One person at the time. I’d of course love to sell more records. But the most important thing is that we can do whatever we want to do, and not have to answer to anybody.

What made you guys put out a vinyl edition of Brighter than Creations Dark? I love vinyl. That’s just all I buy. I didn’t want to release a record that I wouldn’t buy. I don’t buy CD’s. I can’t remember the last CD I bought, and I don’t plan on buying any anytime soon.

The question is what took so long for it to come out.

I know this ain’t recent news, but I’ve got to say the Betty Levette album was just phenomenal. I read somewhere this morning, that you pitched her like 50 songs she turned down. What were some of those songs? There was a Tom Waits song in there, we tried to get her to cut, a Neil Young song on After the Gold Rush, “Don’t let it bring you Down”. She just didn’t like it. She said it was too poetic. (laughs) I did a little better with the Booker record. He took three of our suggestions on that. And he came out with us on some shows, and we still have some shows we’re going to be doing with him. Australia with Booker was a whole bunch of fun.

Anyone else you’re looking at producing anytime in the near future? I‘ve got a list. I’d love to produce a Tom T Hall Record. There are a lot of people on my list.

I can think of tons of people I’d love to work with. I just have to find the time.

I know you’re familiar with Macon’s place in the history of music. We’re on the verge of losing the Georgia Music Hall of Fame because of state cuts. Do you think it should be located here, just because Macon was the center of what happened in Georgia, or would it be better suited in a bigger market?

I think it should be in Macon. Macon has been the epicenter. Granted there hasn’t been a big scene there in some time. Sure I’d love for it to be here in Athens, and I can see why some would say Atlanta would be better.

I have a parallel in my world, at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame which is also having economic problems. There is a lot of talk about it being in Birmingham where people could see it, but Muscle Shoals is where it all happened, and that does mean something, but the town has to take advantage of that nostalgia. I’ve been to the GMHF and I love it. That’s definitely one part of our history that doesn’t have a lot of negative connotations, Music.

What’s on your reading/listening list these days?

I’m obsessed with Dylan’s new record. I love Old Man Dylan. Iron and Wine. Black Mountain. M Ward, I saw him at the 40 watt last week and loved it. I’m reading a book by Andrew Mueller, Start from Here. He’s written about us some. He’s spent a number of years traveling through war zones, past and present, and he’s written a book about it. Some of those places just continue to be horrific and some got better. He studies why that is. He wrote it as kind of a dark comedy, it’s hilarious in a way that will make you cringe.

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hen Chris Horne asked me to begin writing this column, I was not sure exactly what would happen. Twenty columns later, and a lot of great mail from people I’ve hacked off, it is time for me to go.

Life is an odd thing. Back in 2000, I graduated from law school knowing I did not want to be a lawyer, but went into practicing law. I actually liked a good bit of it, but by and large I did not like it. The only way out I could come up with was constant and continual prayer. Just about every day I prayed that God would get me transitioned into politics in some way.

2002 rolled around and I helped a friend of mine run for Congress. It was unsuccessful, which we all knew it would be, but it was lots of fun. In 2004, I ran a number of races, including a congressional race in California. I spent time flying back and forth to San Francisco and wearing myself out. I knew I was headed in the right direction — that God was doing something in response to my constant prayers. The law firm was happy for me to be bringing in clients.

At the same time, some friends of mine started RedState.com. After a couple of weeks of writing with them, they asked me to help run the place. October rolled around and MSNBC called. They wanted me to fly up to New York and blog the remaining days of the election for them. A friend of mine, who should probably remain nameless lest it ruin his career, came in my office, closed the door, and asked a simple question [warning to the young, move to the next paragraph now and avoid the remaining sentences herein]. He asked, “Do you know what the definition of a dumb ass is?” I did not. “You,” he said, “if you are here this time next year.”

I mentioned this to him a while back and he had no memory of the conversation. It is still at the forefront of my mind. It was the kick in the butt I needed to get moving. Slightly less than one year from that day, I began commuting to Washington, D.C. from Macon to work. Three days a week, I lived in Washington. Four days a week I was in Macon. Making it all the more difficult, my wife had just had our first child.

I stuck with the job, but it was clear it was not going to last. In January of 2006, RedState started selling ads. They sold very well. It quickly became apparent we needed a full time person in

charge of the site — until then it had been a volunteer effort. On July 1, 2006, I took over full time operations at RedState, which I could do from home.

The drudgery of traveling back and forth to Washington was a personal nightmare. I was filled with guilt for leaving my wife and child home alone so much. But it was undeniably a blessing too. But for that job, I would have never made lasting friendships that help me to this day.

Fast forward to now. I write three columns a week in addition to RedState. I fly to New York once or twice a month to be on Sean Hannity’s show. Not a week goes by that I’m not on radio or television somewhere. I reach several million people a week through print, radio, television, and the internet. I’ve dined with Vice President Cheney. I count Rush Limbaugh as a personal friend.

Had you asked me just six months ago what I would be doing now, I could not have told you. If you ask me about six months from now, I have no clue.

Having prayed hard for a change in career nine years ago, now I just go where the Lord leads.

And so I am again. I do not know exactly where I will wind up, but things are in play that require me to scale back some commitments. This, unfortunately, must be one of them. My life is a testament to the power of prayer. But for God’s own guidance, I’d certainly still be miserable practicing law somewhere.

It has not been easy. There have been missteps along the way. I am constantly reminded, usually through doing something stupid, that I am now in a position where saying and doing something stupid has greater ramifications than just for me. My friend Donald Rumsfeld gave a talk this weekend and said, “Dogs don’t bark at parked cars. If no one is barking at you, you might be parked.”

A lot of people bark at me these days. Some of it deserved. Some of it not. I appreciate it all. I appreciate the feedback so many of you have given me. Hopefully I’ll be able to drop in from time to time, but in the meantime stay tuned.

The 11th Hour is looking for a new conservative commentator on local politics and national news. Interested writers, please email meg@11thHourOnline.com

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grew up in the sixties and seventies.

Love Story star Ali MacGraw was my aesthetic ideal, with her perfectly tanned dark skin. Back then, Seventeen and Ingenue magazines were filled with dark beauties such as Katharine Ross and a host of blonde Maybelline models with their California tans. My good friend Laurie had the best tan at Bartlett Junior High. We all marveled at the deep bronze Tybee Island tan which she sported until September, when it slowly faded to her winter shade of light olive. Sadly, I have the sort of skin which ranges from buttermilk biscuit white to flushed salmon pink. No matter how much Coppertone, iodine and baby oil I rubbed on my pale body, I could never approach the even brownness of my tanning idols. I quit worrying about a tan by my late teens, and resigned myself to a life of pasty paleness.

In 1978, German scientist Friedrich Wolff brought his patented tanning beds to America, and the playing field was somewhat leveled for the tanning challenged.

Even the palest customer could slowly build up her tan throughout the year to achieve her personal tawny best. By the eighties, tanning salons had sprung up across the entrepreneurial landscape. It is still common to see an independent convenience store or a movie rental shop to feature a tanning bed or two in the back room, particularly in rural areas.

Over the years, tanning beds have been recommended for acne and psoriasis (improvements are minimal), seasonalaffected disorder (largely disproven), and often to assist in the important 'base tan' which allegedly limits skin damage (doubtful). Down here in south Georgia the orange-y hue often sported by hardcore tanners is more about a modern aesthetic the mainstay of pool moms, pageant hopefuls and sorority girls. My daughter can name girls – underage, mind you - who defy the monthly limitations of tanning salon visits by joining multiple salons so that they can overtan with reckless abandon. Statesboro itself harbors a dangerous culture of women who engage in tanning bed addictions – some media outlets call the phenomenon tanorexia.

Fortunately, the World Health Organization has spoken out against tanning beds. WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer announced on July 28th that it had “moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category, deeming them as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas”.

Additionally, the international journal Lancet Oncology concluded that the risk of skin cancer – melanoma in particular -

increases by 75% when people begin visiting tanning beds before age 30.

Meanwhile, here in the U.S., nearly 70% of tanning salon visitors are girls and women between the ages of 16 and 29. Currently, melanoma is the main cause of death for women between 19 and 50 in the U.S. (Medical News Today).

It would seem to be a no-brainer for the government to regulate tanning salons and to set age limitations for their customers. I had assumed that local businesses would be self-regulating, but a few phone calls to area salons were sobering. During the first call regarding age limits on tanning, I learned that this particular local business often catered to the prepubescent pageant set. The woman on the other line cheerfully informed me that “seven year olds come in before a pageant” with their parent's permission. A call to a second salon was similar, with the employee responding to my inquiry this way: “There's really no age limit as long as you've got a parent”.

Am I the only one who thinks that allowing children to use tanning beds is crazy? What sort of message is the parent sending to her child by signing off on known carcinogenic radiation machine without a single tangible health benefit? To encourage a teenage girl to regard vanity over health is a curious priority for a mother or father.

If tanning beds are indeed as dangerous as the World Health Organization suggests, then Congress should consider limiting access just as the government regulates tobacco use. Set the minimum age for tanning salon memberships to eighteen years old. Add a significant surcharge to the purchase and use of tanning beds in the United States and put the tax proceeds into a fund for children's health.

Every year, my nurse practitioner subjects me to mole check, looking for possible skin cancer. Although I retired from the tanning life thirty years ago, northern European skin types like me who live in southern climates are at greater risk for melanomas – the deadliest form of skin cancer. These days, I notice that my untanned skin has less wrinkles than my peers who spent their summers poolside. I sill worry that my few bad sunburns during my teens will predispose me to cancer. But this current generation of young people, who grew up with both a compromised ozone layer and access to tanning salons on almost every corner, will have much more to worry about as their skin ages. After all, tanned skin is damaged skin. It is not a healthy glow; in fact, it might very well be the harbinger of one's early demise.

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hen I was in college at the University of Georgia, Patterson Hood use to hang around the sound booth at Tasty World where my girlfriend managed the bar and I often bartended. This was before the Drive by Truckers staked their claim in the pantheon of southern music and Patterson became one of the most respected subculture icons of recent American rock and roll history. He was the sound man a block away from our stage at “The Hi-Hat” and played sparingly with a rootsy, local musical mainstay, the Possibilities. I think theTruckers had a couple of records out. It was the end of the nineties and Athens was full of ragged, skinny rock star wannabes struggling to keep the jade and disillusioning irony of alt rock alive and unwell. We were all in a sense upholding the values of the talented poor and economically depraved. But Patterson was matured beyond the young pretensions of a town drunk on the seminal fluid of college rock and appeared to be trying to come to terms with being an intellectual and an artist in the south. Great writers write about what they know. I believe he saw the world as a much bigger place than a lot of the younger kids were ready to imagine, a more complicated, nuanced world riddled with duality and devoid of commitment outside of that which the human heart chooses, and because of that fact, the American south, a love by choice and such a small part of the universe, was that much more special.

Patterson was tall and masculine, hairy, a bit older than the average college kid in town, and seemed to be going about his business another way. He spoke oddly and unassumingly from the front of his mouth and his eyes wandered the room when I talked to him as if something else was always happening. There was a lot of tenderness and care in each thought though I wasn’t anything more than an acquaintance, a bartender, and I didn’t know or understand what his band was all about. The Drive by Truckers, at the time, seemed to be more closely associated with the redneck camp of Atlanta and “The Redneck Underground” at the time, where trucker hats and cheap beer served dual functions as necessity and accessory. I recall The Onion printing an article that the south had delayed rising again for at least one more year. Were the Truckers sentimentalists? The “southern rock hasn’t died” thing seemed nostalgic at best, at worst an embarrassing experiment. I remember the Truckers billing at Bubbapalooza, a festival that in part celebrated the cheapness of a specific southern experience while ignoring the moral shame of the seventies in southern popular culture, seemed to make their meaning plain to me.

But I was wrong. Only few years later, Rolling Stone declared the Drive by Truckers as the best band in America.

I was a huge Star Room Boys fan in the late nineties. The group was an early sixties, AM radio sounding country band with John Neff on pedal steel and the wonderful crooning of the talented Dave Marr. I was aware that bands in town were stylizing and playing with

form, but I hadn’t noticed the Truckers to be a part of this postmodernism exhibit in Athens.

Dave Marr was taking something old hat and breathing new life into it, making it exciting again. Gangstabilly and Pizza Deliverance seemed too campy to be the beginning of anything of real importance. The name Drive

by Truckers didn’t even attempt abstraction.

Who did they think they were? The Highwaymen? So I never even gave them a listen. The Star Room Boys’ Why Do Men and Women Want to Break Each Other Hearts was released during this time along with Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. The members were friends of mine and both of these records were products of Athenians. My friends and I didn’t listen to the radio or watch music television. We were all in bands and we supported each other every night, going to their shows and drinking during their shifts at the bar. Athens in the late nineties was an amazing time and place to live in, a little world where your friends made tacos and pizzas by day then became larger than life at night. Southern Rock Opera, the map-placing masterpiece of 2001, was just a dream. But a dream that one could believe in. Patterson believed and I never saw it coming.

What most impacted me about Patterson’s artistic vision was that it helped me understand being a white man in the south. Pride and guilt expressed to the sound of Crazy Horse with a few other guys sitting in. There is an apology that many southerners have prepared for the world. It’s an explanation to outsiders about how this place isn’t at all what they think it is, and if it is, then it has nothing to do with them.

And then there is the tough, conservative old southerner types with their hands clenched to the stars and bars and a dedication so dear to the past that they’d probably tell you they’d ride a horse to work if somebody else didn’t have a problem with it. And if the past was that good, we probably should all ride horses and shit in the woods. Those rights are, after all, somewhat protected. And then there is that person, much like a Patterson Hood, who is self-aware as an individual and clever as an artist. His take on being born here shrugs the shame and guilt away, embraces the people and the will that has endured unwarranted ridicule and deserved blame, and understands that, either way, this is who I am. I think that much of his brilliance is in the personal concern for his geographical place in the world and the ability to treat it with an objective and educated, yet loving and compassionate hand. It is a painterly stroke that has, finally, made a musical connection from my father’s south to mine.

If you do not know the work of Patterson Hood or the Drive by Truckers, they will be at the Cox Capitol Theatre on Thursday, August 20.

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Using Every Resource I Let me introduce my real-life friend from the ninth grade and FB Best Friend Forever (BFF), Lynn Zeid. How is Lynn my FB BFF, but not my BFF in my everyday, real-time life? Well, because Lynn and I exchange witty banter and clever insults constantly on FB. It is great--always good for a chuckle or even a tearful roar. And, at times, the cyber pat on the back when needed to help move on from an impacting negative incident. However, I have not actually laid eyes on (except her FB carousel of profile pictures) or heard her voice since 1985.

Caution: Lynn (although a self-confessed, “used to be timid” user) is an “openarmed” FBer. That means she will let anybody and everybody on her FB guest list and the more the merrier (500+). Well, one Friday morning I got a “friend request” on my FB home page and the only “mutual friend” my courter had listed was Lynn.

Despite my solid “real-life friends only” credo, I weakened a bit and decided to let the respectable looking, older man from Texas into my club.

An hour or two later I checked my FB wall. Look! My new friend, Tom, had dropped by to welcome me into his cyber world with an odd, little message next to his silver-topped mug, “Thanks for connecting with me.” One side of me was like, “Well, that was proactive of him to come say, ‘hello,’” while the other side of me was thinking (with one eyebrow raised), “This seems phony and canned---go investigate immediately!”

Tom’s page had very little on it--almost blank. But, he is listed as “married”--thank goodness, not on the prowl. Next, I saw the “info” tab and clicked on it.

Instantly Tom’s work history was displayed.

Tom started working in the advertising field in the ‘70s. I guess that makes him close to 60 years old—even safer than being married: old. I surmised that Tom must be on FB to keep his “finger on the pulse” of what is “hot and now” with certain demographics, driven by career interests.

With that in mind, I posted on his wall asking if he had found me for this purpose.

A few minutes later Tom posted on my wall commenting that about half of his guest list was composed of real acquaintances and that the other half was split between virtual people “reaching out” to him and vice versa. After that, I went and glanced at his guest list. I didn’t see any half-naked girls or pictures of phallic-shaped objects. I concluded, “Well enough.”

A couple of hours passed and I get another blind friendship request. This courter is a 50s-looking man who resembled a pudgy Mafioso type from New Jersey with a deeply-lined forehead and wearing averageguy glasses. His name was “Mark Bridges” and was listed as living in Los Angeles. Who was the common friend this time---Tom!?

Too, I decided to scan Mark’s friend list—no obvious red flags. Continuing on the path of my new “FB friending” outlook, I held my

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t’s Friday night, already past 10, and the line to get in is forming. Everybody has got their best face forward--carefully selected images. No ugly faces. Everyone has their best put out there and their words carefully chosen. You can reel-in anything you conveyed before you send it out into the public: start to say it, stop, change your mind, backspace a little, and thrust it out there. It’s cool---no one heard you start out, fumble, and try all over again. Many chances to get the right message published--self-editing at its finest.

A real boon is that any adult can be a member of this club, but not everybody is admitted to every room. You can request a relationship, but not everyone gets on the guest list.

But, beware; you only get out of it what you put into it. If you just sit on your ass and don’t come up with your own witty remarks detailing what you do with yourself, then you might as well not even be there. You literally have no status.

Another option is piggybacking on others’ well-done conversation-starters. At least in that instance you are playing the game nicely with others. And running with scissors is not preferred. If you do, you may get bounced, all with the click of a switch— happens that fast. Deleted.

All in a nightclub’s alcohol-scented, darkened rooms, right? Not even close---try your PC or even your Blackberry. Where else could this nighttime haven and workday guilty pleasure be other than online at FACEBOOK (FB)?

Don’t act like you’re too good to be forced out of desperation to use such social networking tools. I, too, thought I wouldn’t see myself on such a stage. However, I began to see its virtues. Of course, the peer pressure to join the digital lemmings was there, too.

I’ve heard before that maybe some of those old relationships’ doors should’ve probably remained closed, but I disagree.

Finding out what some of your former cohorts are doing in the world and re-establishing those ties is a good thing, especially in these “disconnected times” of “transientness” and suburbs. Or, if nothing else, it will make my next class reunion better instead of the bane of my existence.

When I first began on FB, I admit that I felt too exposed to judgment. See, I went to a high school where the student body was groomed to be a collection of jackasses. For example, the yearbook published a “Most Beautiful/Most Handsome” contest, complete with rankings, that was judged by some staff and students. (Shitheads.)

Having that hardwired instinct looming in the back of my head, I initially decided to only let those who I call “friend” now and others that are bona fide personalities from my past be my “FB friends.” And absolutely no strangers (nunca, never). I held tightly to that theory until one Friday not long ago.

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breath, put my other foot in the water, and clicked on “accept”.

I proceed to post on Mark’s wall, “How did you find me?” I calculated that Mark would be unlikely to respond since it would inadvertently expose himself as the trolling FBer that he seemed to be. But, maybe he would fall for it.

Friday night arrived and I was already in my flannel pjs, face sans make-up, hair pinned up, and a cold beer in my hand.

Heavenly! Looking for some stimulus, I decided to go hit Club FB. No one can see how I look while I chat in my VIP suite.

Besides, I already have my “Klub Karen” profile picture up to represent me in how I should look while fronting on a Friday night.

Alas, I have a new wall post, from my newest FB friend, Mark! And it is terribly flattering and so…insightful. Mark showered me with compliments. For example, he wrote that he could clearly see that I was witty and sexy and that he adored my candor. He practically said that I shook him to his core, for crying out loud. I couldn’t just let it sit and I went over to Mark’s wall and wrote, “Are you for real?”

Bam! Like five seconds later Mark is back on my wall singing my praises. My gut feeling was that Mark was high, but I have no proof. Ding! Ding! As Mark went on and on, our silver-haired friend Tom faded into my VIP room by way of the IM feature in the lower right-hand corner.

A few desperate questions passed, and then it seemed as if last call at the club had elapsed and everybody had clicked-off, a little pissed-off.

I wanted Tom and Mark to know that I definitely knew what they had been up to--scanning girls’ pictures and hoping for some contact with them. After going back to Tom and Mark’s walls, I noticed that they had been whitewashed---nary a trace of last night’s endeavors. And after closer inspection, many of their friends were actually celebrities instead of interactive FBers. This prompted me to compose a “note” and send it out to 25 male and female FB friends: “clicking up chicks" is when weird men 'collect' female FBers just for the headshot on their guest list, chance to be a voyeur, and/or hope to actually meet them in person. Not surprisingly, I soon discovered that Tom and Mark had deleted me.

Time has passed, the dust has settled, and I have not had a FB Friday night like that one since. However, I have continued to let more strangers into my VIP suite, but only after they accept my, “You may come in, but no BS or you’re gone,” disclaimer.

Also, I only allow them in my room if I have seen several numbers of their posts on my real friends’ walls.

Occasionally, I do get random-as-hell friendship requests where there are no

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“mutual friends.” Like now, I have a cheesylooking man from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rotting in my FB inbox. He is wearing a woven satin, fitted vest over a wildly printed blouse and holding up his cell phone in a coy manner, like he is daring me to “connect” with him.

Scratching my head, for UAE-guy and I have no obvious links. Finally, I connected the dots: those FB groups. Oh! My personal Pied Piper, Lynn Zeid, suggested I join the elitist group, “I Say ‘F*CK’ and I’m Still Classy,” and that is where this gem of manhood must have found me.

Damn, I’m still starring in that Afterschool Special back from adolescence. I haven’t learned a thing, but I have since resigned my membership to that “F-word” club. Hopefully, that will keep some of those Cheese Nips at bay.

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Tom Arnold Age: 25

Dear Mr Macon Out, I’ve noticed over the last several years, that your advice is not for the faint of heart. You might be considered a little too “manly” to be of any real value as a love columnist so I figured I’d ask you a simple question. What are your favorite “manly” movies.

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Only fat girls send emails like that dear. But since you asked here goes.

1: Fight Club- David Fincher’s film about men doing things men do, is uber-paranoid, violent, and against anything that ain’t raw.

“Your not the contents of your wallet, you’re not your fuckin khaki’s” just taunts all those dudes in the audience who thought Jude Law was their hero.

2: Jaws-Part of being a man is knowing that life is finite and ultimately pointless, but staring it straight in the eye nonetheless.

Jaws’ slender plot explores this theme to its ultimate conclusion: a shark, nothing more than rows of teeth and a digestive system, tries to eat an entire town 3: Commando- What’s a man movie list without Arnold. With the highest onscreen body count of any film ever made at the time, this curt, 86 minute blood fest has the ultimate plot: revenge.

4: Rocky I-VI- If Raging Bull is art, then Rocky IV is fart. But it’s taken bigger steps for mankind than any moon landing ever could. Punching. Dolph Lundgren as an oiled commie Terminator.

5: Clockwork Orange- You may not realize that the mindless violence in this movie could only be the product of a male imagination until you see Alex murder a defenseless woman with a ceramic penis.

6: Hard Target- I don’t like John Claude Van Damme. I think he’s a puss. And I think he’s French instead of German. But in this movie he does grab a furious snake, punch it unconscious, and then – using his bad ass Ninja teeth – rip off the rattle on the end of its tail and spit it out as if it were a ring pull. Terrible accent though.

7: Deerhunter- My number one pick I saved for last. Nick Chevotarevich’s (Christopher Walken) death by his own hand is the searing denouncement to a spellbinding film. Following a harrowing experience while held in captivity by the Vietcong, Michael (Robert DeNiro) and Nick manage to escape, but are separated.

Michael goes back to Vietnam after the war to find Nick whacked out on heroin and a pawn in the underground Russian roulette circuit. The face-off ends in tragedy.

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Southaven Police Chief Tom Long said the 24-year-old suspect approached another woman in her driveway and demanded the car on Thursday. The woman gave up the car without a fight, asking only for time to remove her young children from inside.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Frustrated by your spouse's spending habits? It might be why you married them, according to a working paper titled "Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction" by professors of the Wharton School of Finance and Northwestern University."Surveys of married adults suggest that opposites attract when it comes to emotional reactions towards spending," Wharton's Scott Rick and Deborah Small and Northwestern's Eli Finkel said in the paper. They found that people who generally spend less than they would ideally like to spend, and those who spend more than they would like to tend to marry each other.

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Dear Mexican: Having lived in San Antonio for a number of decades, I’ve learned a smattering of street Spanish.That experience has caused me to cringe when I hear the word cojones used in American movies or television as a referent to testicles when the writer is trying to have the character talk dirty. In San Antonio, a person would use huevos in that context.Which is the correct Spanglish, or is a matter of cojones being used in California and huevos being used in Texas?

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Dear Gabacho: I’ve only heard gabachos use cojones, while Mexicans use huevos (other Latinos, of course, have their own terms for the male fun sack, but we’ll leave the discussion for Maledicta). Both words are linguistically correct, politically incorrect and both derive from Latin (cojones comes from the singular cojón, testicle, from the Latin coleo—sack—while huevo actually means egg and derives from ovum). So, the real question in your inquiry how gabachos came to use cojones more commonly instead of huevos as slang for balls.The answer is Ernest Hemingway, a man who introduced more misinterpreted-as-Mexican overused Spanish terms (mano a mano, macho and maricón, to name the most notorious examples) than any other writer after me. His otherwise-masterful Death in the Afternoon, an account of bullfighting and its practitioners, included a glossary defining cojones and remarked, “A valorous bullfighter is said to be plentifully equipped with these.”

Gabacho writers began introducing cojones into their works to emulate the faux-authenticity of Papa, and their audiences made the word a part of American Spanish, just like gringo and Drinko por Cinco. Eh, what’s a wab to do except steal back more of Aztlán? ¡ASK A MEXICAN BOOK CONTEST! In 25 words or less, tell me your favorite local Mexican restaurant and what makes it so bueno.

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You will say things without thinking.

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

This is a great time to revamp your budget and attempt to straighten out your finances. This is also an excellent time to seek the favors you need. You are getting rid of something old to replace it with something much better. For the next two weeks your actions or your methods bring outstanding results.

This is not the time for an intense relationship.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are practical, peace loving, stubborn, slow and deliberate. Taurus has a natural interest in money, and you like the finer things in life. It is time to reorganize your budget to fit your income and goals. For the next few weeks you need to keep to whatever actions or methods you have been using. Any change now will not be successful. New ideas begin to come to you now but for success you will have to work them out within the next few weeks and then take the action needed.

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. This week could bring about the breaking up of a friendship or a love affair. If so, it is because you need to move on with your life.

Whatever action you take now is the right one for you and turns you toward a successful path. It is time for change. Reorganize your budget, your life style and your friendships. This is a good time to seek favors if needed.

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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. At the end of this week something unexpected happens very suddenly and brings about a lucky chance for you. Widened opportunities present themselves and you can somehow expand yourself or your business if you take the right step at that time. It all may be a little intense and nerve wracking but it will work and be worth the aggravation.

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. You may have to help out a friend or relative who is highly stressed and nervous now. They need to hear a soothing story or to just be reassured. Projects you are working on are completed successfully this week. You could even set some sort of record if you are competing this week. Any kind of intense relationship formed now is out of the question.

VIRGO (August 23-Sept 22): You can be highly critical, sarcastic, & unforgiving Background work or research is finished this week but it takes a few weeks to put it all together in workable order. New ideas for earning money start to float around in your mind now but it will be September before they can be put into action.

A friendship or relationship could break up this week to be replaced by a much better one.

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LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22): Libra is artistic, musical, level headed, sympathetic, perceptive and generous. You can be gossipy, critical, and bitter. This is a week of successfully finishing up your projects or chores. It is a good time now to reorganize your budget or whatever else needs your attention while you are in the mood and have the energy. It is also an ideal time to ask a friend for any favor you need since it has a very good chance of being granted. This will remove your stress.

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. Keep to your tried and true methods for the next few days. After that you can try a different approach. Think “out of the box”! Your budget may need to be overhauled now to conform with your income as your lifestyle may change. You need to use tact this week or you could alienate a very good friend you need, and would rather keep on your side.

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 is a week of change for you. Projects you have been working on are completed successfully and put to work. A breakup of a friendship or love affair is possible but do not jump from the frying pan into the fire. An intense relationship formed now could harm you later.

You must be tactful now so you do not alienate someone close to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Capricorn is very often politically minded. Capricorn is also patient, reserved, cautious, faithful and shrewd. Any papers that need signing should be done now to avoid errors or someone changing their mind. Even so, there could be many more to sign later. A secret friendship or love affair could break up this week. You need to allow an agent or partner to handle your business or home affairs for the next few weeks while you concentrate on new opportunities.

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. A new and intense relationship formed now with someone could hurt you later so be very careful. A revamping of your budget is called for as you pay off a bill that has been bothering you for quite a long time. A friendship could be broken off now only to make room for a new one.

Someone close to you may need a little financial help this week.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): You are emotional, ultra-sensitive, easy going, and sociable. Your nerves are overacting this week so you need to take steps to calm yourself. You have a very vivid imagination (sometimes out of control) which needs to be put to work on something creative. Visit a craft store and get ideas on what you could create to earn some extra money. You need to use tact this week so you do not lose a friend.

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CLASSIFIEDS To advertise in our classifieds section, call 464-1840 or email your ad to macon@11thHourOnline.com. Just $20 for 2 weeks!

FOR RENT Charming one bedroom, 1 bath apartment available in large restored older home on Clisby Pl. Total electric, high ceilings, hardwood floors, large rooms and lots of closet space. Very convenient to downtown Macon, I-75. Please call 741-2578.

Downtown 2 BR Apartment for Rent Located in downtown Macon, near Cox Capitol Theatre. Hardwood floors, new appliances (including dishwasher and disposal), washer/dryer hookups. Water included. Please call 737-5972 or 318-7680 to see.

2 Bedroom/1 Bath Apartment Available behind Mercer Law School. For more information, call Wes at 478-318-7680.

HELP WANTED Band Seeking Bassist: Former members of a regionally established band are seeking a dedicated, hard working, bassist for a new project. Vocal skills are

optional but seriously considered. Must be open minded and have good people skills.

Must also be willing and prepared to play shows out of state and be proficient in the recording studio. Call for audition. Contact Sutton 478-278-2919.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FROM STAN FABRICS AND TEXTILES INDUSTRY LTD!! A position available that needs 100% dedication. Earn as you work. An applicant should contact us with their resumes via Email at: steve.stan_crafts@hotmail.com

PETS 2 Adorable Yorkshire Terriers ( male and female ) for adoption, if you are interested kindly get back to me. You can contact me via email:paulsmth250@gmail.com

FOR SALE COLORS ON CHERRY, a downtown retail business for sale at 419 Cherry Street. Call Kacy at 960-9297 or 745-7474.

For Sale

by Owner

View details at www.HomesByOwner.com/51460

Lg master bath with clawfoot tub, dbl sinks and tile shower

4 Bedrooms - 2.5 Baths - 3 Acres

Beautifully restored home located just 20 minutes from Macon off of I-16. Built in 1850 with original stained glass doors, mantels, lots of historic charm and antique heart-pine floors throughout! New exterior paint in 2007, updated plumbing, electrical and new HVAC. Very large, open kitchen includes all stainless steel appliances. Large, well-maintained yard with pole barn and storage shed at the back of the property.

Priced WAY below the appraisal for quick sale to someone who will love and appreciate this historic, beautiful home.

Jeffersonville

(20 minutes from downtown)

$143,000 Interested parties call (478)320-7861 to schedule a tour

PRICE REDUCED! $15,000 BELOW APPRAISAL! AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 19, 2009 34 11thHourOnline.com

Wed/Thur DJ Dark Shadow Thur COLLEGE NIGHT 2-4-1 wells with ID Fri Insomniac Productions Sat DJ Dance Party, Drink Specials all night long VIP RO

OM!

POKER

Every Wed, Thur & Sat upstairs!

NEW HOURS WED-SAT: 9PM-2AM

Wed & Thur DJ Dark Shadow 420 MLK Jr Blvd

420 MLK Blvd, downtown myspace.com/envyofmacon myspace.com/envyofmacon

a swanky lounge

KITCHEN UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT! MONDAYS

TUESDAYS

• 3 lbs. of Crablegs for just WEDNESDAYS $22.95!

• APA Pool League • LADIES NIGHT

50¢ wells, $1 Jello Shooters for gals, guys buy a bucket of beer, get a free hour of pool

Non-Smoking Restaurant & Game Room Restaurant: Mon - Thurs 4pm - 10p Friday-Sat 4pm - 11pm

Billiards Room & Bar: Mon-Sat 3pm - until...

Telephone 225-1165 1229 Russell Parkway, Warner Robins

• APA Pool League • Karaoke w/Kenny, 9pm

• Prime Rib & Snow Crab Just $13.99!!

• APA Pool League

FRIDAYS

• Blind Draw Dart Tournament • In-house 8-ball tournament, 7p

Coming Soon, Free Practicenight for

Nascar Racing League, forming up drivers now!

• Karaoke w/Kenny, 9pm

It’s a Luau!

THURSDAYS

SATURDAYS

• Restaurant open 4-11p • Billiards Room & Bar 3pm until 2am!

Ladies Night!

Join us from 8/3 - 8/15 with fun drink specials, & a bikini contest on the 15th for the blow-out bash!

(Cash prizes $300!, 9pm)

Wednesdays: 50¢ Wells for the gals, guys get free pool with a bucket of beer!

Electronic Darts

Lunch served DAILY 11-2 PM

Big Luau Party

One meat and two sides with a drink

$

August 3 - 15, with a blow-out bash that final Saturday! Drink specials, bikini contest at 11pm, (Cash prizes up to $300!)

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SUNDAYS YOUR

coming soon

HEADQUARTERS!

Kids Yule Love

Free food,

Poker Tournament

2pm, $125 buy-in

BAR & GRILL

have a drink, sit back, relax & watch the race!

KARAOKE WITH SCOTT, THE CRUISE DIRECTOR

MACON’S BEST!

NIGHTLY POKER TUES-SUN 7:30P

MON & WED 5p FRI & SAT 7p

7405 Industrial Hwy. • MACON • 784-9191