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Whine Line ......................................................................4 Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down ...........................................4 This Modern World .........................................................4 Words ...............................................................................6 Suburban Torture ............................................................7 Austin Rhodes .................................................................8 Insider ............................................................................10

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The Nation Is Watching the Augusta Commission ....12 Gold Dome: Complete Coverage of the Georgia 2003 Legislative Session ......................................................14

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EDITOR & PUBLISHER David Vantrease ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Rhonda Jones STAFF WRITERS Stacey Eidson, Brian Neill ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Joe White ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Kriste Lindler, Jennifer H. Mar tin PRODUCTION MANAGER Joe Smith GR APHIC ARTISTS Stephanie Carroll, Natalie Holle ASSISTANT TO THE PUBLISHER Meli Gurley RECEPTIONIST/CLASSIFIED COORDINATOR Sharon King ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ASSISTANT Lisa Jordan CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Meli Gurley SENIOR MUSIC CONTRIBUTOR Ed Turner CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chuck Shepherd, Rob Brezsny, Austin Rhodes, Amy Alkon, Rachel Deahl CARTOONISTS Tom Tomorrow, Julie Larson

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et me tell you how bad music really sucks in Augusta! Except for Keith Gregory and the band Black-Eyed Susan, it sucks really bad. Even open mic manages to be a harsh ego-driven trip for the usual hosts.

Why is it when a man beats his wife the police won’t arrest him and press charges? It is left up to the woman to file charges. The majority of the time the women drop the charges for fear of more abuse. But if the same man assaulted a stranger, neighbor, or co-worker the police would arrest him and charges would be filed. When are we going to change the laws?

Ah, April in Augusta. I can’t wait to see Willie, Marion, Lee and Jesse holding hands with Martha at the entrance to Magnolia Lane singing “We Shall Overcome.”

Did anyone notice in the State of the Union speech that the Dems only stood up when the “pit yorkie” Daschle stood up. And they call Republicans robots.

Austin Rhodes said he is one of the smartest people he knows. He really needs to get out more.

Everyone whines about having a new or better government but obviously nothing has changed. The city still looks the same! Trashy! Yes it is an old city! But do we really need to keep abandoned buildings around downtown? Everybody in Augusta who wants a city that looks better, needs to stand up and demand!

Every time I drive down Broad Street, there is an abandoned building every other business that I pass by. We have crack dealers, prostitutes, and whatever else that may be roaming around the streets at night. So let us all demand that the residing government of Augusta (The Garden City) which should be named the

trash city, should basically clean up the property!

It’s not my fault you’ve decided that you and the mouths you feed aren’t worth the time and effort it takes to get a better job.

That being said, telemarketers of America, I don’t feel that I have to endure your phone calls at all hours of the day selling me all sorts of useless crap or rip-off schemes that I don’t want and won’t use.

So, Roe has just celebrated its 30th year.

Before there was Roe, thousands of women died and tens of thousands were mutilated. Now 30 years after Roe, an estimated 40 million babies have been aborted, excluding the thousands that died with their mothers in the pre-Roe days. I wonder, the more liberated we women get, if Roe will become 100 million abortions strong by its 50th anniversary? Wait. That is not politically correct. I mean 100 million choices strong.

I tried at four, count ‘em, four random times to give Austin’s show a chance. He pontificated pointlessly about the Atkins diet and argued with a caller who had valid scientific information because, I guess, he’s against that “book learnin’.” I deleted Comcast 66 and 69 from my TV so I don’t have to see his greasy, glistening forehead. Next time he goes back to Alpharetta he should just stay there!

To the person who wrote about disc golfers being dorks: My what a bitter child you must be. If you had read the whole story, you would have found out that it was about a charity event that was coming up, not just about disc golf. At that event we raised $1,700 and 400 pounds of food for the Golden Harvest Food Bank. You must be bitter because your mom slid The Spirit under your bedroom door and asked, “Why can’t you go try something like

Thumbs Up The state’s top judge, Chief Justice Norman Fletcher, told The Atlanta-Journal Constitution this week that his top priority this year is to reform the state’s under-

funded indigent defense system. He told the newspaper it was time for the General Assembly to stop ignoring the problem and take action.

Thumbs Down The CSRA knows how to make a great impression around the state. Just in the last week, Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker announced that the state is investigating former state Rep. Robin Williams’ involvement in two state medical facilities; the Georgia Ethics Commission finally closed two long-running investigations of our own former state Sen. Charles

Walker; and Baker is also launching an investigation of the Georgia Department of Education’s finances under former state Schools Superintendent Linda Schrenko, who resides in Columbia County. At least there’s one thing area voters can be proud of — all of these local politicians have the word “former” before their names.

disc golf instead of staying on the Internet all day and night?” Your Web site must be www.losermommysboy.com

would be a hoot if Joe Millionaire were to discover that one or more of the contestants were male: He would probably be overjoyed.

Why is it that merchants will go out of their way to attract new customers but won’t do anything to retain the customers they already have? This brings to mind the long-distance carrier wars of the last decade. If you switched from company to company, you got incentives. But if you stayed with the same company, you got nothing — except treated like crap!

The libraries here in Richmond County are very inadequate. The main branch, for a city this size, is puny and has a paltry selection of books and their public Internet terminals are plagued with software glitches. The branches are even worse.

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So you think disc golfers are “dorks”? At least they take time out from their schedules to give back to the community, unlike

you gentry country club scum who cannot see past the little cave in which you live and are not intelligent or creative enough to come up with something better than “dork.” At what age did you stop thinking? It must have been an early one.

To the person who was praising the “Roe at 30” commentary, Unlike some pro-lifers, I can accept an abortion after a rape.

But, to say that the death of an unborn baby is acceptable after a mistake is reprehensible. Pregnancy is 100 percent avoidable, and if we choose to have sex then we’d better be ready to deal with the consequences if a mistake happens.

Most abortions are not the result of rape; they are the result of consensual sex that results in someone taking the easy way out, instead of the responsible path.

Risks have consequences! Be safe!

Come on, Spirit. You don’t think readers can see through all your recent attacks on the daily paper? You don’t even have the guts to call Billy Morris for his side of the story, but since every Spirit story about The Chronicle has read like an oped piece, objectivity doesn’t seem to be important. Oh wait, you’re beating up on your main competition in Augusta newspapers, aren’t you? That explains why your latest scare piece about a “Mediaopoly” read like Saddam Hussein writing a “story” about the U.S. Army. You guys are losing it when the best you can do is a hack job on the competition.

Usually I don’t take much notice of the ignorant ramblings of Austin Rhodes.

That is until I just read this quote: “But in a very short period of time, the only nay-sayers on the subject of Iraq are going to be meeting in Cynthia McKinney’s living room.” I guess the huge and unprecedented pre-war protests in October and this past month have meant nothing. And that is only the beginning, with larger demonstrations around the world this month. Yes, the White House will pretend to ignore them, and the right-wing spinners will declare them “anti-American,” but make no mistake that this is the voice of the people and the people will be heard in spite of the White House or smoothbrained bigots like Austin Rhodes.

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just lucky it didn’t happen here.

While you sat on the couch watching “American Idol,” the “dorks” at Lake Olmstead Disc Golf Course donated $1,700 and 400 pounds of food to Golden Harvest Food Bank. Don’t judge something before you’ve tried it for yourself, dork.

I wasn’t clear on the rules of disc golf from your article. Do you smoke all your pot beforehand or do you smoke it along the way?

To the idiot who identified three groups that would be devastated if Fort Gordon were to close and stated that civil service folks were lazy slackers and the jobs were created for military retirees. I’ve been in towns where there was a large base closure, and closure is a key word.

Most of those towns were the mere shell of themselves after the closure.

Residential property values will plummet; small businesses will either go out of business or have to relocate. Augusta does not have a large industrial complex to support this city if Fort Gordon goes away. Oh and who knows? Maybe hard workers like yourself will be out of work. Think about it.

One reason people died in that North Carolina plant explosion is (elected officials like) Charlie Norwood have done everything they can to undermine OSHA (Occupational Safety and Hazards Administration), which is supposed to help make workplaces safe. Ol’ Charlie’s

To the person complementing Mary Beth Pierucci for her opinion on pro choice: You should change the wording of your movement. It should not be pro choice, because you do not support both choices; you only support the murder of a child for the convenience of the mother.

Instead it should be called pro death. It amazes me how women can see the wrong in other things, yet not see that abortion is murder. Keep killing babies and calling them fetuses, whatever clears your conscience.

I don’t know who Laurie Ott has for a hairdresser, but she has really ruined her hair.

It looks like Augusta’s Community Mental Health Center can still operate while Executive Director Mike Brockman and Administrator Jim Points are on paid leave pending the outcome of its inquiry. Why not just eliminate these two positions and return their annual salaries (Brockman $152,542 and Points $126,542) to patient care? The health center certainly couldn’t operate any worse than it already has.

Words “The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors.”

— President Bush speaking to the nation hours after Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry on Feb. 2. All seven astronauts on board were killed.

“It is a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing in Iraq. Why does the United States behave so arrogantly?”

Sometimes relationships with spouses, children and friends are affected by pain.

Short tempers, emotional withdrawal and just plain old grouchiness are side effects of untreated pain.

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“The pre-show with Celine Dion made my skin crawl. Ugh. It was so creepy. I guess I have this fantasy that at some big, corporate sporting event they’ll have a reading of the Bill of Rights instead of Celine Dion butchering a song while zombified backing singers smile like poster children for Xanax.”

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— Moby, referring to the hokey Super Bowl festivies in a recent installment of Jeannette Walls’ the “Scoop” column, which appears on MSNBC.Com.

I don’t understand why there is so much hoopla over radio. Everyone I know burns his or her own CDs. I nearly fell off my chair when I read that the mental health administrator, Jim Points, get over $125 thousand a year.

For this position are there any special qualifications required or is it adequate just to be a friend of failed politician Robin Williams? Those ethics in government laws are long overdue, Governor Perdue!

Each day of the workweek I travel across the Fifth Street bridge at least two to three times a day. Can someone please explain to me why that, at any given daylight hour, there is a homeless person, or otherwise “bum,” walking to or from Augusta to North Augusta across this bridge? Are they giving something away I’m missing out on? Next time you cross the Savannah during the workweek via the Fifth Street bridge, look and see for yourself. Weird!

Getting published in the Whine Line is not a cowardly thing, nor is it “not doing anything.” One way to get a problem solved is to get the right people angry about it. It works!

Clear Channel Communications in Augusta only cares about revenue. They don’t care if locals have a job or not. I

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If our county commission chairman continues listening to Bob Beckum, he’ll be out pretty quick.

The reason trial lawyers have less expensive liability insurance than doctors, is because there are six times more doctors than lawyers.

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very interesting, and very confusing, criminal case has been playing out this week in the local press.

The story has been the talk of the town in Augusta, and has now made the papers in Atlanta.

Tuesday, The Augusta Chronicle reported that state Senator Don Cheeks had “intervened” on behalf of a convicted child molester, working to keep his name off the state’s registered sex offender list. Bobby Brassell faced charges after he was accused by former family members of performing indecent acts on his 3-year-old step-grandchild.

Brassell is a carpenter who has worked for Cheeks extensively through the years. In fact, he helped build a house for Cheeks’ daughter.

Brassell has maintained his innocence from day one. He claims the sex charges were drummed up by former family members upset over a number of internal issues ranging from finances to divorce. Cheeks believes him, as he told my radio audience Tuesday afternoon. “I believe in my heart that Bobby Brassell did not do what he is accused of, and that he was set up by angry people who wanted to hurt him,” Cheeks declared.

The case against Brassell had a whole lot of problems. First and foremost, the alleged victim, a 3-year-old child, had no recollection of the molestation when questioned by authorities mere days after his mother said he described the episode in startling detail. In a 45-minute videotaped interview, the kid has no clue what the adults are talking about when they question him. The interview was conducted by trained professionals with the Child Advocacy Center, and it is no exaggeration to say prosecutors were totally empty-handed when it came to admissible evidence concerning this child.

It is very likely all the sex charges against Brassell would have been dropped, had it not been for the emergence of another family member, who claimed a similar attack by Brassell a decade ago. Unfortunately for prosecutors, he was from the same branch of the former family with a number of axes to grind against the accused.

The he said/she said statements in the case file read like a trailer park edition of Peyton Place.

Everyone involved directly in the case, from the accused, to his accusers, and unfortunately even the tiny alleged victim, have enough “issues” to keep Jerry Springer talking for a week.

Brassell hired one of the best criminal defense teams in town, and prosecutors knew they faced huge credibility issues with the evidence and witnesses in the case. Not helping matters was the fact that Brassell willingly took, and did well on, three polygraph tests, while his adult accusers reportedly refused to sit for the test.

But Brassell was afraid of the worst. He was also charged with marijuana violations, which he willfully admitted, so his credibility with any potential jury was going to be in question. The prosecutors knew of his trepidation, and a plea to reduced charges was negotiated.

While most of us (specifically, me) would never enter such a plea, his attorney assured him it was the best way out of a potentially horrible

situation. Had he been convicted on the original charges, he faced 80 years in prison. With the plea agreement, he would end up with only intense probation. Brassell said he was assured by his attorney that the plea meant his name wasn’t going to be included on the state’s registered sex offender list.

As the sentencing took place, it appeared his attorney may have been wrong. Why she didn’t step into the fray and take up his cause, Brassell doesn’t know. He did note to me that his customer service seemed to stop as his money ran out. Gotta love lawyers.

In the meantime, he turned to his friend of many years, Senator Cheeks, to inquire why the terms of the sentence his attorney had apparently secured were not being carried out.

As of this moment, there appears to be a material difference of legal opinion as to whether a conviction on the charge to which Brassell pleaded carries a mandatory listing on the sex offenders list. A spokeswoman for the state Attorney General’s Office says yes; local District Attorney Danny Craig reads the law differently. All Cheeks was attempting to do when he called attention to the case was to get the letter of the law enforced. Right this minute, we have two different opinions on what that letter of law actually means.

Senator Cheeks never asked for any special favors for Brassell, nor did he demand unreasonable action or attention. Cheeks said he did what he did because it was right, and that he would do it again in a heartbeat. I have to say I admire his courage, but I curse his naiveté.

Cheeks would have been far better served to pay an attorney to push the case for his friend, and keep his name out of it completely. Politicians never, ever do the right thing when they involve themselves in a criminal case. In the best of circumstances they look like they are throwing their weight around, and in the worst cases, they look like criminals themselves. But the state senator, true to lifelong form, doesn’t give a rat’s rear end what people may think. He knows what he knows and damn the torpedoes.

I wonder how many column inches this thing is gonna get in Charles Walker’s newspaper? I am betting on the heavy side in the office pool.

I spoke with Bobby Brassell Wednesday morning, and I can understand why Don Cheeks believes he was set up. Through his tears he told me that Tuesday night, as he saw his name dragged through the mud on the 11 o’ clock news, he seriously considered ending his own life.

I don’t know for sure if Brassell is innocent, but I do know that Senator Cheeks is betting a formidable political career that he is.

Was Don Cheeks being brave, or was he being stupid, to aid a man he believes was wronged?

Likely, both. But I have to say, if I were ever wrongly accused of a heinous crime, I know who I would want by my side. I wonder how many of my friends would be so bold.

— The views expressed in this column are the views of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher. The archived Austin Rhodes columns can now be seen at www.wgac.com.

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he daily newspaper has no shame. A case in point is the recent debate over the location of the Augusta Fire Department administrative offices. Read on.

Augusta Commissioners Willie Mays, Lee Beard and Marion Williams are leading the charge for the city to live up to its agreement to lease space on Laney-Walker Boulevard to temporarily house the offices of fire administration. Due to delays in the ANIC/Laney-Walker construction, several other commissioners want to reconsider the deal. They want the offices to remain at the Augusta Riverfront Center until the permanent location of the fire administration building on Highland Avenue is completed.

The Augusta Chronicle has weighed in on the issue suggesting that the city should maintain offices in the Riverfront Center in order to save money. In an editorial, “Don’t Waste $100,000,” the newspaper suggests the commissioners who don’t want to go along with the money-saving idea are kooks and moving to LaneyWalker is a financially bad idea.

What the editorial forgets to mention is that the fire administration offices are currently located in a building developed by a Billy Morris-controlled group and the city pays $20,000 a month for the space. The paper also forgot to report that, when the Riverfront Center was built, the rent they charged was considerably higher than the fire department could have paid for other available office space. How much city money could have been saved? Where was the fiscally conservative editorial at that time? It didn’t exist. The theme of those days was economic development on the river.

The point of the African-American commissioners regarding the Laney-Walker location of the fire administrative offices is exactly the same—-economic development; except, this time in the Laney-Walker area.

Yet, The Chronicle adamantly opposes that logic this time around, citing that, “If a majority votes to ignore the recommendation of their own public safety committee and pours that money down the drain, then

The Augusta Chronicle Publisher Billy Morris taxpayers should remember the profligacy the next time the commission comes around with its tin cup seeking higher taxes to deal with revenue shortfalls.”

How many times have Morris and his cronies showed up at the commission with their own tin cup, begging taxpayer money for their pet projects? Plenty.

Financially, moving directly from the current location to the Highland Avenue address makes sense. But when the white guys get all the money for the river and the black community is fed the gruel of cost-savings when it comes to the minority neighborhood, it just doesn’t pass the smell test.

The Chronicle’s role in this fiscal doubletalk is legend. Griping about taxes, government spending, social programs, forgiven government loans, welfare queens, and the like, has been the basis of thousands of their editorials. But when spending government money benefits Morris and his various enterprises, the fiscal conservatism of the editorial page goes on vacation.

This kind of “what’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander” politics is part of the reason Augusta is so racially divided today. And the editorial page of The Augusta Chronicle must accept much of the responsibility for that.

A Hero’s Welcome? They Must Be Kidding During her tenure as head of Georgia Department of Education, former state Superintendent of Schools Linda Schrenko was perhaps the most unprepared, ill-tempered, and ineffective person on the job in recent memory. Her nasty disposition and temper tantrums are legend among state employees, politicians, fellow Republicans, campaign workers, the press and people who call themselves her friend. But, she is from Columbia County.

Maybe the fact that she is a hometowner is the reason the folks in charge of the opinion page at The Columbia NewsTimes recently published such a glorifying kiss-up piece about Schrenko’s years in Atlanta and her subsequent journey back home to Columbia County.

The editorial entitled, “Welcome Home, Linda Schrenko,” while mentioning that there were “some stumbles ... as her second term closed,” didn’t elaborate on the nature or magnitude of those “stumbles.”

The article overlooked the fact that she placed the Department of Education second to her own ego as she fought former Governor Roy Barnes. It became a battle of the “good ol’ boys” versus Schrenko,

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not necessarily a battle of a state school superintendent on behalf of the people or students of Georgia.

During the campaign for the 2000 legislative session and her own campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2002, she spent so much time away from her job that critics and supporters questioned her ability to adequately perform her superintendent duties. In the process of the campaign for governor she alienated much of her Republican support and failed to make a runoff election, giving now Governor Sonny Perdue a surprising primary victory. After the election, Schrenko was mostly absent from her job.

During her term in office Schrenko doled out state contracts to questionable companies, many of whom reportedly have not actually performed the work or provided the services for which the money was intended. A state audit reported that Schrenko possibly violated federal and state rules, regulations, and laws. As a result of the audit, state Attorney General Thurbert Baker has launched an investigation into the Georgia Department of Education under Schrenko.

So, are congratulations in order for Linda Schrenko? OK, she was the first female elected statewide. Kudos. She has drive and ambition. Fantastic. She is tough-minded and has achieved a certain level of success. High fives to Linda.

But the bottom line is that she was in way over her head from the very beginning and it showed all along the way. In the end, few people from our hometown will look to Schrenko as a stellar leader who represented us well.

Perhaps more congratulations will be in order if Schrenko can avoid further taint from the potentially looming scandal and if her daily attire isn’t an orange jump suit No doubt, The Columbia News-Times will be there to cheer her on.

—The views expressed in this column are the views of The Insider and do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher.

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wo weeks ago, there was one out-of-town reporter sitting in the Augusta Commission’s chambers waiting to see what our city leaders would decide about the proposed changes to the city’s protest ordinance.

This week there were four.

The Augusta Commission officially has the national media’s attention.

So, brace yourselves folks. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

The most recent installment of this Augusta saga has, for the second time in two weeks, left reporters a story with no ending.

The question is: Should the city change its protest ordinance in preparation for the potential demonstrations this April against the Augusta National’s all-male membership?

Now, the city doesn’t want to admit to the outside world that it’s considering changing its ordinance because groups such as the National Council of Women’s Organizations and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition have promised that they’ll be in Augusta to protest during Masters Week.

But even most commissioners are having a hard time denying the connection.

In fact, the majority of the commissioners simply do not want to take the heat for making any changes to the city ordinance that could be construed as limiting the public’s right to free speech.

Even though that’s more public perception than reality.

Last month, County Attorney Jim Wall advised the commission that the city

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needs to change its existing protest ordinance because its current wording lacks specifics needed to legally justify a denial of a protest permit by Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength.

Also, the current ordinance does not provide an applicant, who is denied a protest permit, a speedy appeal of the sheriff’s decision.

Wall’s proposed amendments to the ordinance would provide a 20-day permit application process. Under this new ordinance, the city would have to go before a judge and prove why the applicant was legitimately denied by the sheriff the right to protest.

If the city does not change the ordinance, Wall warned the commission that Augusta could quickly find itself in court facing a lawsuit.

“Understand, whether there is a demonstration in April during the Masters Tournament or not, this problem is not going to go away in April with our ordinance,” Wall said. “We need to fix our ordinance.

“And I would ask that you address it before we wind up in court and have the court say that we don’t have an ordinance governing demonstrations.”

But Augusta Commissioner Marion Williams rejected Walls’ explanation, claiming that there shouldn’t be any reason for the city to deny a person’s right to protest. Williams also said he found it very suspicious that the city was so insistent on passing this ordinance prior to Masters Week.

“It looks like we’ve got something to hide,” Williams said.

It was clearly time for Wall to draw the commission a picture as to what could potentially happen during Masters Week.

“Take the scenario where, whether it be during Masters or whether it be any

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other event, (protesters) don’t apply for a permit,” Wall said. “And they just show up with a crowd, anything greater than five, and start protesting. And then we put them in jail.”

As soon as the protesters are thrown in

Apparently if we want to go ahead and have a potential situation come to Augusta, Georgia ... we can do that with worldwide prestige and worldwide news coverage. I was just trying to offer a common-sense solution.

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jail, their lawyers would immediately file suit against the city, Wall said.

“The protesters go to jail and then we are sued for a violation of civil rights because our demonstration ordinance is unconstitutional,” Wall said. “And, under federal law, they would be entitled to claim attorneys’ fees.”

But the city would most likely face much heftier fines, Wall said.

“In the event the court determines our ordinance is unconstitutional ... then the court, very likely, almost assuredly, would award them damages as well as attorneys’ fees,” Wall said. “But certainly attorneys’ fees.”

Wall told the commission that the newly proposed ordinance was written to avoid such a legal attack.

“This ordinance is designed to protect the taxpayers from that potential liability,” Wall said.

While Augusta Commissioner Tommy Boyles said he felt the changes in the ordinance were needed, he first asked that Mayor Bob Young, the sheriff, and Williams, as chairman of the public safety committee, meet with representatives from the National Council of Women’s Organizations and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and talk about their planned protest prior to Masters Week.

Several commissioners supported Boyles’ proposal, but both the mayor and Augusta Commissioner Bill Kuhlke thought the idea was out of the question.

“I think it’s absurd for us to initiate a meeting with anybody coming to this community,” Kuhlke said. “I think that responsibility falls on their shoulders to come and meet with us.”

Young said he didn’t feel it would be appropriate for the mayor to play a role in settling the dispute.

“Under the existing ordinance, demonstrations in this community have to be approved by the sheriff,” Young said.

“If there are any meetings that are going to be held, the sheriff ought to be having those, not the people on the commission and not the mayor.”

Following the discussion, a motion to adopt the proposed changes to the ordinance failed by a vote of 5-5.

Commissioners Steve Shepard, Ulmer Bridges, Kuhlke, Boyles and the mayor voted in support of the motion.

A second motion to support Boyles’ suggestion of a meeting with the potential protesters also failed with a 4-4-1 vote. Commissioners Lee Beard, Richard Colclough, Willie Mays and Boyles voted in support of the motion.

Commissioner Marion Williams abstained and Commissioner Andy Cheek was absent for both votes.

By asking that the top city leaders meet with the potential protesters, Boyles said he was only trying to follow the advice the mayor provided in his annual State of the City address.

“Mr. Mayor, you talked about bringing harmony to this community and bridging the gaps,” Boyles said. “Apparently if we want to go ahead and have a potential situation come to Augusta, Georgia ... we can do that with worldwide prestige and worldwide news coverage. I was just trying to offer a common-sense solution.”

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Tit for Tat

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ack in GDR’s gambling days, an acquaintance known as The Upatoie Dog used to make this observation as he raked in the chips following an opponent’s risky, losing showdown: “He who starts (expletive deleted) usually eats (expletive deleted).”

Senate Republicans were handed a similar admonition last week, when they announced plans to “share the suffering” of the common folk during tough times by pushing for a 10-percent reduction in legislative pay. While the rank-and-file legislators would have lost a relative pittance (lawmakers receive $16,222 for the 40-day session, along with a $128 per diem), the two fellows at the head of each chamber — the speaker of the House and lieutenant governor, who pull down $92,159 and $83,147, respectively — would take a much bigger hit.

Oddly enough, these two worthies are both Democrats.

In the House, where Dems have been playing hardball a lot longer, the response was immediate: Up the ante and call. Sure, we’ll see your 10 percent, they said, and raise you by extending it to the governor, statewide elected officials and department heads across the board. Share the suffering and all, y’know.

Needless to say, that little ploy got the attention of a wide range of non-combatants who saw the detritus of this legislative (expletive deleted)-storm threatening to splatter a bit further afield than originally intended, and began to raise a, um, stink. Upshot? Don’t hold your breath.

Predatory Lending But the real fertilizer frenzy involved the continuing struggle to “fix” last year’s predatory lending law, which aimed to end practices of some highinterest mortgage lenders that frequently leave poor and uneducated homeowners facing mountains of debt and, ultimately, dispossession.

The law was reopened after two national rating companies, Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, announced their intention to cease underwriting some mortgages if the law weren’t changed.

In a veritable feeding frenzy, scores of lobbyists representing a range of banking and mortgage concerns seized upon the opportunity to gut the measure, while citizen advocacy groups rushed to man the

Committee hearing on his own bill, a more narrowly drawn document that was approved to move to the Senate floor.

Proponents of the old predatory lending bill say the new measure still leaves the door open for some 250 state-charted banks to engage in the practice, and vow to fight to correct the flaws.

“But I have to say, it doesn’t look good for the home team,” said an exasperated Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta), who authored last year’s bill.

AUGUSTA STATE SENATOR DON CHEEKS HAD A BUSY WEEK AT THE GOLD DOME. PREDATORY LENDING, ABORTION ISSUES AND CONTROVERSY AT HOME COMBINED

CHEEKS ONE OF THE BUSIEST STATE SENATORS AT THE CAPITOL.

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shaky barricades. Following a series of absolutely jammed hearings, the House this week unanimously passed its version after narrowly defeating an amendment that critics said would have opened a loophole for banks to “flip” mortgages — that is, to re-sell low-rate loans to other institutions, which then charge a higher rate.

But the bill’s Senate point man, our own Sen. Don Cheeks — who has spent

hours on the phone to both underwriters and in conference with Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor in an effort to tweak the bill to S&P’s specifications without giving away the store — assailed the House measure.

“I haven’t seen the final bill they passed,“ he said Tuesday, “but the version I saw didn’t include the S&P language, and if that’s the case, it will not be sufficient.” Later, a noticeably testy Cheeks presided over the Senate Banking

Sex Offender Registry Question While we’re on the Cheeks Beat, the senator brushed aside recent news reports concerning his successful intervention with county officials to keep the name of a confessed child molester off a registry of sex offenders. Cheeks admitted Tuesday that he’d contacted the county prosecutor to ask why Bobby Clark Brassell Jr. had been ordered to register as a sex offender following his January guilty plea stemming from a 1999 arrest for child molestation and marijuana possession.

But Cheeks defended his actions as an effort to see that justice was done.

“I‘ve known that man and his family for years,” said Cheeks. “He called me in ’99 and asked if I could do something to help him. I asked if he’d take a polygraph test, and he did — he took three, in fact, and passed them all. It’s my understanding that the people accusing him refused to take one …

“Here he was, scared to death, no money to fight it … so the DA agreed to keep his name off the sex-offender registry, and gave him a real heavy penalty on the marijuana charge.” Cheeks “thought it was the right thing to do,” he said.

Woman’s Right To Know Seemingly everywhere this week, Cheeks was not present for a Senate hearing on his “Woman’s Right To Know” bill Monday. And he missed quite a show, as supporters of the measure— which would require that women seeking an abortion be forced to wait 24 hours after reading a load of state-mandated anti-abortion materials to have the procedure performed — squared off with prochoice advocates.

Witnesses in favor of Cheeks’ bill

maintained that such cautionary warnings concerning surgery are required for other elective procedures, including a bit of bizarre testimony by a Macon woman who said there were more safeguards in place for buying a can of tuna than for getting an abortion. Opponents responded by noting that abortion providers are already mandated to provide a wealth of information and bound by tight disclosure requirements. Further, they noted, Georgia Department of Human Resources regulations don’t require waiting periods for any other surgeries including, as noted by an opposition witness, vasectomies, electroshock treatment or lobotomies. They also pointed out that waiting periods had been proved to greatly increase the number of second-term (and higher-risk) abortions.

As the hearing wrapped up, Sen. Connie Stokes (D-Decatur) wondered whether a “fiscal note” — a document drawn up by the legislative staff detailing how much a particular bit of legislation will cost to implement — had been prepared for the bill. (They very rarely are — a fact that used to drive Republicans crazy, before they took the wheel.)

No one knew, since Cheeks wasn’t in attendance. Then, said Stokes, the committee should wait until the bill’s author was present to address their concerns — not too long; say, 24 hours?

That got a big laugh from all but the ’Pubs on the panel, who brusquely declined, called a vote, and passed the bill out of committee on a party-line vote.

House members contacted afterward vowed to kill the bill when it crosses the aisle, along with several other similar measures introduced there.

Charles Walker And finally, one more chip finally lands in the long, jagged Rise and Fall of Charles Walker. Last week, the Douglasville-based State Ethics Commission (motto: “Drive ‘til you’re almost in Alabama, and there we are!”

Maybe this reform-minded Legislature will decide to move its watchdog somewhere closer to the henhouse one of these days) voted to end two long-running investigations into the former Senate majority leader’s handling of campaign funds and connections to Augusta organizations that received state money. The panel ruled that Walker’s payment of an $8,500 fine in 2002 would suffice — a tiny bright spot for the defeated senator.

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eleaguered, but not defeated, Robert Cooks continues to lead the charge of his Augusta Neighborhood Improvement Corporation and says he sees great things on the horizon for the LaneyWalker area the agency is working to revitalize.

Even so, it’s not hard to discern an air of frustration in Cooks’ expressions. In his heavy sighs. In the tone of his voice.

ANIC has recently come under a cloud through a barrage of bad press, much of it derived from former State Sen. Charles Walker’s affiliation with the agency.

An article that ran last spring in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which was subsequently republished in this newspaper, outlined a number of questionable and troubling connections between Walker and ANIC. Among other things, the article said that Walker personally benefitted from public funds allocated to the ANIC agency he helped create and vice-chaired. Walker, the article suggested, also shifted some of the public dollars to his cronies and current and former business associates.

Subsequent articles in the JournalConstitution and The Augusta Chronicle reported that many of those on the ANIC board, as well as Cooks and others closely associated with the agency, contributed to Walker’s election campaign and/or that of his son, Charles Walker Jr., who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress last year.

Walker, the former senator, has denied any of his associations with ANIC were improper.

Despite the controversy swirling around

ANIC since the negative attention focused on former Sen. Walker, Cooks has nothing but fond words for him, adding that most of the bad press boiled down to politics.

“Let me say this: Senator Walker is a great man. He’s on my board of directors; he’s a champion for economic development,” Cooks said. “He’s a great man, and that’s my comment.

“It’s obvious that politics is involved.

That’s neither good or bad, nor am I taking a side or being indifferent. But it’s obviously politics. He’s a political figure.

You know, I try not to get into all that part.”

And as for rumors that the FBI has been investigating ANIC (Cooks acknowledges receiving multiple calls from the media to verify such; the FBI does not confirm investigations in progress), Cooks said that’s simply not true.

“We run an open shop. You want to know something, we’ll tell you,” Cooks said. “But you’ve got to tell us what you

want to know. It’s real simple. We’ve got nothing to hide. We are here to facilitate change in Augusta, Georgia. Housing, economic development, those are our primary goals. Our organization is structured in the fashion to make that kind of stuff happen.”

Even with those goals in mind, however, ANIC’s future seems uncertain, because whatever controversy Walker may have brought to the agency, he also brought something crucial: money.

Now that Walker’s out of the political arena and no longer has the ear of former Governor Roy Barnes, ANIC’s funding sources may be drying up.

Walker was credited with bringing a $30 million economic development package to Augusta, which was to be doled out through ANIC to its housing program, as well as area attractions such as the Golf Hall of Fame.

ANIC is a private, non-profit, 501 (c)(3) corporation that is overseen by a board of

“We’re putting people in homes who never had a shot, you know? That’s the good stuff. We’re reducing crime. We’re making an impact in the community.

People are actually showing pride in being a part of Laney-Walker.”

— Robert Cooks

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Augusta, and therefore ANIC, received the first two $10 million installments of the economic development package.

The third installment, however, isn’t coming in the near future, and may not come at all.

A state budget crunch resulting from a deficit in excess of $600 million promises to put the funding clamp on countless agencies statewide.

Cooks acknowledges ANIC is no exception and concedes that the agency will have to look to other sources for funds.

He said his board is preparing a presentation to give to the local Legislative Delegation in hopes some state funding for ANIC can still be found.

State Sen. Don Cheeks (R-Augusta), who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, already knows the answer.

“There is no money for any funding other than essential spending,” Cheeks said by phone from the state Legislature in Atlanta. “So anything such as that will not be receiving funding, in my opinion, this year.

“We don’t have the money. We’re $620 million overdrawn. We’re not giving teachers raises. We’re not giving state employees raises. We’re talking about raising taxes. There’ll be no grants.”

ANIC was also counting on a revenue stream from a newly constructed, threestory office building in the Laney-Walker neighborhood. That, too, may have hit a snag.

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As an added benefit, ANIC would also lease a portion of the building to the Richmond County Fire Department for its administrative offices, currently housed in the Riverfront Center downtown off Reynolds Street, where ANIC is also now located.

However, construction delays on the new ANIC building and recent fiscal concerns on the parts of some Augusta commissioners, have now drawn the arrangement into question.

Commissioners will address the issue again at an Administrative Services Committee meeting on Feb. 10.

The lease was also the subject of a recent editorial in The Chronicle, which recommended scrapping the plan to move fire administration offices to the Laney-Walker site because, among other reasons, ANIC is continuing to incur thousands of dollars in penalties related to construction delays, which will ultimately cost the city. Instead, the editorial recommended, the fire offices should remain where they are for the time being until construction on another facility off Highland Avenue is completed at the end of this year. (The editorial, by the way, conveniently failed to mention that the Riverfront Center is owned by a development company belonging to Chronicle Publisher William “Billy” Morris, III, perhaps another good reason for the fire offices to stay put.)

In addition to the office building, Cooks said, ANIC is also trying to negotiate the purchase of apartments in the LaneyWalker area in order to refurbish and lease them. That, he said, would accomplish the twofold mission of bettering housing in the area and enabling ANIC to pay the bills.

Still, Cooks knows the hardship a lack of state funding will create for the agency.

“Do we die? I hope not,” Cooks said, when asked if the agency will go under without state funds. “But we’re working hard to structure ANIC so it can survive for 10, 15, 20 years. Which is why, the office building. I mean, it creates cash flow for ANIC. When we go to buy apartments, it creates cash flow for ANIC and still allows us to do what we’re supposed to do.”

ANIC, unarguably, has already done much for the area, building aesthetically pleasing, habitable houses where, before, only ramshackle residences and litterstrewn vacant lots existed.

The agency has already sold about 32 of the homes it has constructed or refurbished to families of moderate to low means.

“We’ll be doing almost 32 structures in less than two and a half years in a market that was supposed to be dead, which is unbelievable. We’ve got folks making as

low as $13,000 a year who purchase homes and we’ve got folks who make $60,000 a year, buying homes,” Cooks said. “And a mixed-income housing approach is what makes vibrant communities.”

“Sixty-five percent of the neighborhood was rental when we started,” Cooks added.

“Another 35 percent of the neighborhood was vacant and dilapidated.”

ANIC provides home-buyers with down payment assistance based on their incomes and up to $2,500 in closing costs.

In some instances, Cooks said, the improvements ANIC has made to certain properties have increased the existing tax base as much as 500 percent.

“We’re putting people in homes who never had a shot, you know? That’s the good stuff,” Cooks said. “We’re reducing crime. We’re making an impact in the community. People are actually showing pride in being a part of Laney-Walker.”

In fact, Cooks suggests, the LaneyWalker area is an economic opportunity that many people are too blind, or perhaps too biased, to see.

“We are our circles. And if our circle says, ‘Nah, you don’t want to go down there,’ even if we’re going to give you a 500-percent return on your investment ... what are you going to do? Your social circle’s going to influence your decision,” Cooks said. “Now, I’m here to tell you we offer the best thing on the market, period — $2,500 in closing costs, appliances included, security system included, down payment assistance based on your income.

You can’t beat it.”

Cooks also points to a series of improvements coming soon to the Laney-Walker area — among them, the re-watering of the area’s portion of the Augusta Canal, millions of dollars in planned improvements to neighborhood schools and even something as simple as the paving and installation of storm drains on LaneyWalker Boulevard, currently in progress.

“The Laney-Walker you see right now is nowhere near what it was two years ago,” Cooks said. “I think we’ve made progress; I think we’ll continue to make progress.”

In the future, it will be up to Cooks and the rest of ANIC to convince legislators that the agency has amply contributed to that progress.

Asked if the stories about Walker’s association with ANIC had tarnished the agency’s reputation, Cooks replied, “I don’t know. That’s for everybody else to tell me.”

“My position is, I’ve got to focus on the positive because there’s always going to be negative detractors no matter what,” Cooks added. “If we’re helping poor people, somebody will say we’re not helping enough people. If we’re helping middleclass folks, we’re not helping enough poor people. If we’re making change, we’re making change too fast or too slow.”

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n a remote section of the local Target parking lot, two players in a growing national debate seemed to have met, well, somewhere in the middle.

On one hand, you had Dave Barbee, the local Republican Party chairman, whose car of choice is a 2003 Ford Expedition — one of the biggest, and, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, baddest in terms of fuel consumption and exhaust emissions.

Yes, Barbee drives one of those dreaded SUVs, maligned by environmentalists and liberals alike, even while their popularity on showroom floors continues to grow.

“I sort of joke about it,” Barbee says.

“I’ve said, ‘The SUV is the preferred car of the GOP.’ I mean, we’re helping the economy; we’re creating jobs — when we buy one, we create jobs. When we buy gasoline, it helps the oil (companies). I mean, God forbid you buy something from somebody who has to make a profit.”

The gargantuan V8 and 5,000-pound-

plus body of Barbee’s Expedition work in unison to gulp down a gallon of gas for every 14 miles traveled in town.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (worst to best) by which the EPA rates vehicles in terms of their air pollution emissions, the Expedition gets a 3.

At the opposite end of the spectrum there is John Corbin, an Evans resident who works as an engineer at the Nevada Test Site and also happens to be a Republican.

His recent car of choice: the Honda Civic Gasoline-Electric Hybrid.

At roughly half the Expedition’s weight — about 2,800 pounds — Corbin’s car is a mere sipper when it comes to fossil fuels, using only a gallon of gas for every 48 miles traveled in the city.

It owes its economy, in part, to a battery-powered, electric engine that assists the gasoline engine. At stops, the electric engine allows the gas engine to turn off completely.

The Civic Hybrid rates a 7 out of 10 in terms of the EPA’s standards for air pollution emissions.

However, Corbin bristles at the notion he’s one of those environmentalists, adding that he has 2001 and 2002 Dodge Ram pickup trucks — his and his wife’s, respectively — sitting in the driveway at home.

“And they get about 17 or 18 miles to the gallon,” Corbin says. “I thought it would be nice to have a car that would kind of offset some of that. Kind of get me in the middle of the road.”

“Oh no, I’m not an environmentalist,” he adds. “Shoot no. I know a few, but they haven’t influenced me one way or another. Well, I bought the trucks. I must not be an environmentalist, because I would have gotten something that runs on ethanol or something.”

With war looming in Iraq and recent debate over drilling for oil on our own soil in Alaska, attention of late has focused on our dependence on fossil fuels.

Nowhere has that attention focused more, than on the SUV. Some legislators were outraged to discover that a recent proposal by President George W. Bush would allow the purchaser of a mammoth SUV like the Hummer, the military vehicle turned status symbol, to write off for tax purposes as much as $75,000 of the vehicle’s cost.

The Hummer, depending on the model, gets 10 to 15 miles per gallon. None of the vehicles in the EPA’s list of “largest” SUVs — among them, the Hummer, the Expedition, the Lincoln Navigator and the GMC Yukon — gets more than 14 mpg in the city.

Activist and columnist Arianna Huffington recently launched a TV ad

campaign that parodies those recent drugs-support-terrorism commercials.

Rather than showing a person buying a bag of pot intercut with images of terrorists, one of Huffington’s ads shows a person filling up his SUV with gas and juxtaposes that image with Middle East soldiers waving automatic rifles in the air.

Conservative radio talkshow host Rush Limbaugh couldn’t help entering the fray, suggesting that owners of smaller cars concerned that oversized SUVs not only consume too much gas, but also pose a highway collision threat, should find the obvious solution: Get bigger cars.

Meanwhile, alternative-fuel-source cars such as Corbin’s — seen by the environmental-minded as our guiding light out of our fuel-dependency dilemma — have been slow to catch on.

For one thing, it was only in the last few years, with the advent of gas-electric hybrids like the Civic Hybrid and Toyota Prius, that the cars didn’t have to periodically be plugged in to recharge.

And for another, people seem leery of change.

Even the notion of technology that would allow for hydrogen fuel cellpowered cars, something President Bush mentioned in his State of the Union address, is at least 20 years away from being in a marketable form.

In their own ways, Barbee and Corbin represent the two extremes unfolding in the ongoing gas divide.

What follows are their reasons for driving what they drive: continued on page 22

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Driver: Dave Barbee.

Vehicle: 2003 Ford Expedition.

Specs: 5.4-liter V8 engine; 17.2 feet long; 7.8 feet wide, including side-view mirrors; 6.5 feet tall; a 28gallon gas tank.

Pride-in-vehicle statement: Barbee says he can fit seven people, along with their luggage, in his Expedition.

The way Dave Barbee sees it, a vehicle can’t be too comfortable or have too much room.

He brags that the vehicle he owned prior to his Expedition, a Ford Excursion, could easily accommodate a full-length couch with the back seats folded down.

In recent years, Barbee has owned a plethora of vehicles that nearly all fall in the two-plus-ton category.

“I progressed up,” Barbee says. “I used to have a Jeep Cherokee, then I went to a (Chevrolet) Tahoe, then I went to a Ford Expedition, you know, the Eddie Bauer Expedition.

Then I traded the Expedition in for the Excursion. Then I went from the Excursion back to the Ford Expedition.”

Barbee has four grandchildren and plays an active role in their lives, often picking them up from school or taking them on trips.

For that reason, he says, an SUV only makes good sense.

“If you’re single and you’re dating, I can understand having a

small car for fuel efficiency,” says Barbee. “And if you’re retired, I understand it. But if you have a large family, what do you do?”

So how did we get along before the advent of the SUV? “Well, the cars were bigger. The cars were huge,” Barbee says. “They were the size of big Cadillacs. Look, my father had an automobile you could put six people in. You could put three in the front seat and three in the back seat. You can’t do it with one of these automobiles today.”

Barbee said he has heard the flap surrounding SUVs, but views it as coming from extreme sources.

“The only people I hear that from, or I’ve heard that about, is when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or some of these liberals up North and that type of thing,” Barbee says. “They think that we need to go back to 1957. If their druthers were there, we’d still be pooping in outhouses.”

In fact, in the circles Barbee travels in, he often gets

Driver: John Corbin.

Vehicle: 2003 Honda Civic Gasoline-Electric Hybrid.

Specs: An in-line, 4-cylinder gas engine capable of 85 horsepower, coupled with a permanent-magnet, electric engine producing 13.4 horsepower at 4,000 rpm; a continuously variable transmission (essentially, an automatic that doesn’t shift in the conventional manner of most transmissions); 14.5 feet long; 5.6 feet wide; 4.7 feet tall; a 13.2-gallon gas tank.

Pride-in-vehicle statement: Corbin said he recently drove from here to the far reaches of the Florida Keys, as well as a few destinations in between, and spent a mere $51 and some change on gas.

John Corbin gets in the driver’s seat of his 2003 Honda Gasoline-Electric Hybrid and turns the key.

Nothing happens.

At least it seems that way.

“There’s no starter,” Corbin says. “It just comes on. That’s one of the first things that’s strange. I’ll show you the rest of the strange stuff. But I done got used to it now.”

It should come as no surprise that a man who works in a place shrouded in secrecy, the Nevada Test Site, doesn’t get spooked easily by new technology.

Even so, Corbin thoroughly researched hybrid cars such as his, before plunking down the $20,000 at Gerald Jones Honda in Augusta and driving it home.

“I keep pretty good track of vehicles and what’s new and what’s coming out,” Corbin says. “I’d always been interested in it (alternative-fuel-source cars). The problem I always had was that you had to plug them in and they had a very limited range as far as miles. That’s out of the question, because I drive too much. I don’t want to go to Key West and stop and plug it in four or five times. So, that was out of the question.”

Corbin’s car never needs recharging and the 144-volt, nickel metal hydride battery pack behind the back seat comes with an 8-year, 80,000-mile limited warranty.

After that, it’s up to the owner to replace it.

If there was a chink in this “green-friendly” car’s armor, that might be it. A replacement battery pack has been estimated at several thousand dollars, although a recent “U.S News & World Report” article stated that Honda would likely have that cost reduced by the time current owners have to think about battery replacement.

Regardless, perhaps the $2,000 tax break Corbin got for purchasing the car will make up for it.

The fact that the gasoline engine in his car literally stops running at a stoplight no longer fazes Corbin.

An LED-type gauge indicates when the electric engine is assisting the gas one, and when the battery pack is charging.

The battery pack recharges through the electric engine, which converts to a generator function when the car decelerates, technology called “regenerative braking.”

On a stretch of Walton Way near Augusta State University,

compliments on his vehicle.

“When I go to my church, at Trinity United Methodist Church, you’d think it’s an SUV convention on Sunday,” Barbee says. “I mean, I don’t really see anybody saying anything about it or anything. There have been comments about how nice it looks, but I’ve never heard anybody say that they’re upset with me because I drive one.”

If anything, Barbee sees his Expedition as being more fuel efficient than cars like Corbin’s, particularly when it comes to road trips.

“The issue, I think, is, what is more efficient? If I go on a trip and I take my SUV, and I take my four grandchildren and the adults and I’m in one vehicle, it’s going to be more efficient than taking two or three cars, loaded,” Barbee says.

“It (using more cars) adds to the congestion on the highways.

“Now, what do we want? I want them to explain to me where the economy is by having more automobiles and smaller automobiles. Look at Atlanta. They can’t hardly move.”

Barbee also dismisses the notion that he could park his SUV until he needs it for a trip and get around town in a compact car.

He says he could take that argument to even further extremes.

“Well, if you’re going to look at it that way, why don’t the people that have the small cars, why don’t they ride on motorcycles? That would save us even more,” Barbee says. “Or, even better, we can change our communities. Instead of driving up in the Hill area (for example), why don’t we go ahead and put in golf cart tracks and we all drive our electric golf cart from my home up to Bi-Lo and we do our grocery shopping?

“I mean, come on. Where does the absurdity stop?”

Corbin steps on the gas (um, gas-electricity). The Hybrid responds to the challenge, its engine sounding much like any other compact car on the market today being asked to harness a few more horses.

With the gas and electric engines combined, the Civic Hybrid is capable of 98 horsepower. It won’t set any quartermile records, but it could certainly hold its own navigating a tricky traffic situation or getting Corbin onto the interstate.

Improved gas mileage had as much as anything to do with Corbin purchasing his Civic Hybrid.

“I felt like, since we’re probably pretty much on the road to a war with Iraq and the gas prices have already reflected that pretty much, I probably needed something as an alternative,” Corbin said. “I just wanted something that in case gas prices go up a couple of dollars a gallon, I wouldn’t have any trouble making it.”

Corbin says his wife, who drives a 2002 Dodge Ram pickup, also enjoys the better fuel economy.

“She loves going past the gas station,” Corbin says. “Usually, with that truck, you don’t go past many gas stations.”

The only real gripe Corbin has with the Civic Hybrid is the comfort factor on long trips.

He acknowledges that a recent trip to Key West, which cost him only a little more than $50 in gas, would have likely been more comfortable in an SUV, or even his pickup.

Corbin lives on 48 acres and will hold onto his pickup truck for hauling hay for the horses and other chores, such as the ton of gravel he planned to pick up this particular afternoon.

Still, Corbin thinks that more Americans ought to consider purchasing alternative-fuel-source cars, recalling the bind the country found itself in during the gas crisis of the early 1970s, when huge, gas-guzzling cars of the day lined up for their rations.

Corbin thinks the auto industry would work harder to produce more fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly cars if the public demanded it.

“You know, supply and demand,” Corbin says. “If the demand’s there then they’re going to supply them. I think the American car manufacturers are going to have to do this.”

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• “We better skip the movie tonight. I think the Viagra is starting to kick in.”

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• Clean and vacuum your car. To demonstrate a fresh commitment to the relationship, peel off your beloved “Honk if You’re Horny” bumper sticker.

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Let me know how that works out for you, Chief. For those of you who hope to have sex again in this lifetime, present the gift when you arrive.

• Remember, flowers are not a gift. They’re a garnish. Gift parsley, if you will. A Valentine’s Day gift should be thoughtful, personal and see-through.

How to Prepare for the Date • Marinate yourself in cologne. In case you get separated in a crowd she’ll be able to track you by your scent. This will make her feel safe. Choose appropriate attire. This is a special night, so no T-shirts, unless they convey a romantic slogan or are the faux tuxedo kind, which are always appropriate.

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• Give her lingerie. Even if she asks for jewelry, she secretly craves lingerie. And steer clear of elegant or understated because she can buy that for herself. Spring something clingy on her, bold but with an underlying note of skankiness. Nothing makes a woman feel sexier than when her significant other urges her to don an outfit that would make Christina Aguilera weep with shame.

Where To Fill Your Pie-Hole Your first thought will be to select a classy or romantic restaurant. Wrong! Those joints

• Your date eats free if she signs up for the topless Jell-O wrestling contest. Especially if she has to Jell-O wrestle a clown. (Note to guys: I know, I know! Topless women Jell-O wrestling clowns is such a great concept for a restaurant I can’t believe nobody thought of it already.)

How To Make With the Blah Blah Blah During moments you aren’t shoveling in the grub you’ll be expected to talk. Guide the discussion through safe channels. Steer clear of controversy. Here are a few icebreakers to avoid: • “I was on television last week. Did you see “Cops”? You may not recognize me because now I’m wearing a shirt.”

• “If this relationship works out, I’ll save a fortune on hookers.”

• “I think it’s great that you’re so nonchalant about your weight.”

How To Stay Awake During a Chick Flick I have no idea. Seriously. Maybe you can turn it into a drinking game. Every time one of the characters is diagnosed with an incurable disease, do a shot. You might pass out but at least you won’t doze off.

How To Get Her in the Mood for Love • Smear whipped cream all over your body and playfully suggest she lick it off. Do not try this if your lover is lactose intolerant. If you’re out of whipped cream, substitute deviled ham.

• Spice things up by blindfolding your lover.

This will heighten her pleasure and allow you to watch SportsCenter with the sound muted.

• Offer to paint her toenails. If they’re already painted, offer to clean her cat’s litter box.

• Sensual role-playing can help create a whole new sexual dynamic. But keep the characters general. Suggesting she pretend to be a hospital nurse is one thing; suggesting she pretend to be her jaw-droppingly beautiful roommate is quite another.

Because Love Is a Whatchamacallit, a Many Splendored Thing Every woman dreams of an unforgettable Valentine’s Day. Follow this helpful guide and I guarantee you will help her achieve that dream. You’ll have a date she will never, ever forget. Even with therapy and medication.

Her friends won’t forget either, once she phones them with the details. And neither will strangers on the Internet as e-mail descriptions of your mad dating skills are furiously forwarded around the globe. You’ll be famous. The guy who couldn’t be tamed by common sense. Rebel without a clue.

And it will make it way easier for the rest of us palookas to look romantic by comparison.

So thanks. Way to take one for the team.

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ichael Hayward-Jones wears his hyphenated name like a badge.

“It’s professional and it’s pretentious and it’s mine.”

In spite of his unapologetic tone, however, Hayward-Jones does not come off as arrogant, though you could get the idea that he likes the spotlight. If he is as entertaining on the stage as he is on the telephone, “Les Misérables” audiences are going home very happy.

Hayward-Jones is the bad guy. Well, one of them anyway.

“I play the role of Monsieur Thénardier, who is an innkeeper, for want of a better name,” he said. “One of the best reptilian crooks in 19th century France.”

We asked if it’s true that villains are much more fun to play than the good guys.

“They’re a lot more interesting,” HaywardJones said. He added that he’s played plenty of good guys, but that it was nice to play someone like Thénardier.

“He’s just so reprehensibly vile. There are villains and there are villains and this fellow is ... I think of all the bad characters in the show, he’s probably the worst because he doesn’t seem to know any better.”

There are plenty of wonderful villains, he said, but added that the actors themselves were pretty good guys and girls.

“This is one of the finest companies that I’ve ever toured with,” he said. “The level of talent is astonishing, and they’re nice people.”

And that helps, he said, when you’re living on the road.

We asked if the dreaded “diva” personality were a myth, then.

“No, it’s definitely not a myth. It’s definitely a reality,” he said. “I, on the other hand, feel that there’s a list of other people who have just as much talent and pizzazz as you do. So behave yourself.

“We really don’t have time for that, and people of that nature tend to do themselves out of jobs after a while.”

The Lights, the Glamour, the Acting Life Hayward-Jones has been on the stage for 30 years. He’s been in “The Sound of Music” with Richard Chamberlain, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Evita.”

“Tons of stuff,” he said. He’s been with this, his 10th national tour, for five months. The

counts to select performances. To order group tickets call (706) 541-1987. Ticket prices are subject to a $1 facility fee and service charges. For more information, visit the official “Les Misérables” Web site at www.lesmis.com.

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Michael Hayward-Jones as Monsieur Thénardier. tour itself is 15 years old.

“It really is a transcendent piece of theatre.

It really does take people out of the ordinary and put them in the extraordinary for three hours. ... It reaches the depths of human despair and the heights of human joy. The show has absolutely everything.”

Asked if acting were his job or his passion, Hayward-Jones replied, “Yes.” “I mean, people who say theatre is my life – no, the theatre’s your job. You need to get a life.”

When asked if he would like to say something to those who had not yet seen “Les Misérables,” he said, “Do yourself a favor

and join the ranks.”

“I promise you,” he added, “we’ll take you to a world of 19th century France.”

“Les Misérables” will run from Feb. 11-16 at the Bell Auditorium. Curtain times are 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $20-$50, and are now on sale online at ticketmaster.com, the Civic Center Box Office and all TicketMaster outlets, including Publix Supermarkets. To charge tickets by phone, call (706) 828-7700 (local) or (404) 249-6400 (outside Augusta).

Groups of 20 or more receive special dis-

Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre: A Valentine’s Murder Mystery Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre Director Steve Walpert knew what he wanted for his Valentine’s production, and so he entered it into a search engine on the Internet: hilarious comedy thriller.

He wound up with the Canadian play “When the Reaper Calls,” by Peter Colley.

It’s a non-traditional murder mystery, rife with thrills and laughs, Walpert said.

Asked if he had ever directed this play before, Walpert replied, “No, this is the first time. I’m not even sure if it’s been produced in the United States before. I think it’s the most popular play produced in Canada.”

Of course, Walpert is always looking for his next production, and so he reads tons of plays.

“There’s no substitute for reading plays, but the Internet is a valuable tool. I know I read at least 50 plays a year. Maybe more. ” He says that’s the way to stay on the cutting edge. And reading a play without having seen it onstage is a way to allow himself to develop his own production ideas, instead of letting other productions influence his own creativity.

“Many times it’s much better to just start out with a concept from scratch,” he said.

And he can tell before he puts down the script whether he wants to produce it. “I can usually tell about halfway through the play,” he said.

“I’m a pretty tough audience. If a play makes me laugh out loud while I’m reading it, chances are, it’ll end up on our stage.

“This play is very humorous,” he said, adding there is a police officer who is a cross between Max of “Get Smart” and Barney Fife of “The Andy Griffith Show.”

The author, Peter Colley, had a few words to say about the play, and about the Fort Gordon production specifically. “I’m particularly happy that it’s being done at a military base, as I’m a military kid myself. My father was a career RAF (Royal Air Force) flyer, so I was continued on page 28

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He sent us the playwright’s notes from the front of the script, in which he discusses his motivation for writing the play. This is a fragment: “The two madcap academics in this play have wildly divergent opinions about the future, and especially about the likelihood of life beyond the grave. I wanted their arguments to be a reflection of the hopes and fears that we all grapple with. ... Despite their high-falutin’ chatter, the professors’ emotions are still locked into their Dark Ages roots, just as capable of fear, rage, lust, jealousy and revenge as their barbarian ancestors. Yes, we’ve come a long way ... As architects, builders, scientists ... But our hearts still live in the dark and dangerous caves of our past.”

In the mood for love yet?

Colley assured me, however, that it’s not as dark as all that. “Of course, it is a comedy, so all this is done in a very light-hearted, fun way. But all good comedies have a drama at their core. On the surface it seems like a comic romp with lust, guns, seduction, ghosts and dead bodies, but hopefully there’s a little more to it than just that.”

“When the Reaper Calls” opens Valentine’s Day (that’s Feb. 14, by the way) and runs Feb. 15, 21, 22, 27, 28 and March 1. There will be a Valentine’s Day special: For the same price as a regular ticket, get a rose, candy and other goodies for your sweetie.

For reservations and info, call Lee at the box office at 793-8552. Ask about military and show-only discounts. Tickets run from $10 to $30. Make reservations online at www.fortgordon.com.

Brand Spankin’ New Plays at ASU Feb. 6-9 If you would like to experience the brandnew work of young playwrights, go to Augusta State University on Feb. 6-9 and experience a night of drama, titled, “Students Caught in the Act.” Their professor and guide into the realm of the playwright, Rick Davis, spoke about how he teaches writing to his students.

“I do all I can to encourage (and protect) youthful enthusiasm and to remind writers that fulfillment lies in the making of the art, not in the selling of it (though selling certainly is a rush). I also tell them what playwright Robert Anderson told me: ‘You can make a killing as a playwright, but you can’t make a living.’”

The question asked of Davis was whether he felt a simultaneous need to protect his students’ youthful enthusiasm and to warn them of the “real world” (if such a place, indeed, exists) lurking outside their writing studies, with all the disappointment and elation of the quest for publication.

“These three playwrights – Lareina Reynolds, Kelly Edwards and Karen Roberson – will get their rush when they sit in the theatre as the lights go down in the house and up on the stage. They’ll get to watch characters they animated speak words they wrote and move through a world they created. Nothing like it.”

Tix are $10 general admission, $5 for students and free with ASU ID. (Remember the good ol’ Augusta College days when everything was “free with ACID”?) Anyway, if you have questions, give ASU a call at (706) 737-1500 or call 667-4716.

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Auditions THE AUGUSTA PLAYERS CHILDREN’S WING will hold auditions for “Charlotte’s Web” Feb. 10 at 1001 Walton Way. Roles available for young actors ages 6-18. Audition material provided. For info, visit www.augustaplayers.com or call 826-4707.

“GUYS AND DOLLS” AUDITIONS held Feb. 15, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. at 1001 Walton Way. Par ts are available for 20 men and 10 women ages 18 and up. Please have a prepared solo from the show; accompanist will be provided.

For more information, call the Augusta Players at 826-4707.

“INTO THE WOODS” AUDITIONS Feb. 6, 7 p.m. at the Bectel Experimental Theater Hall in the Washington Center for the Per forming Ar ts. Roles available for 10 men and 13 women who can sing and dance. Call the Aiken Community Playhouse at (803) 648-1438 for information.

AUGUSTA CONCERT BAND rehearses Monday evenings and is looking to fill vacancies on most band instruments.

Interested par ties should contact Ben Easter, (803) 2020091 or e-mail bandforaugusta@aol.com.

SWEET ADELINES PEACH STATE CHORUS OPEN REHEARSAL for singers each Thursday at 7 p.m. Held at 600 Mar tintown Road in Nor th Augusta. Contact Mildred Blain at 736-7740 or Mary Norman at (803) 279-6499.

Education ART CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS are offered year-round at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t. Classes and workshops are open to toddlers through adults and feature instruction in drawing, painting, photography, pot tery, weaving and sculpture. For a newslet ter or detailed information on registering for classes at the Ger trude Herber t, call 7225495. The Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t also offers Educational Tours; for information, contact the Education Director at the above telephone number.

ART CLASSES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS at the Ar t Factory. Classes in visual ar ts, dance and drama are offered. The Ar t Factory also has a homeschool program and scholarships are available. 731-0008.

CERAMICS CLASSES at the Weeks Center Ceramics House in Aiken. Fees include one class per week and students can choose any class time: Mondays, 9 a.m. to noon or 6-9 p.m.; Tuesdays, 6-9 p.m.; or Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to noon. $30 per month. Call (803) 642-7631 for info.

USC-AIKEN MUSIC CONSERVATORY PROGRAM now open.

Students of all ages and experience levels welcome. Private lessons available for musical instruments and voice; instructors are USC-Aiken faculty and have at least a master’s degree in their per formance area. (803) 641-3288.

Exhibitions

FEBRUARY EXHIBITS AT USC-AIKEN’S ETHERREDGE CENTER feature an exhibit of paintings by Del Holt in the Upper Gallery through Feb. 27 and an exhibit of ceramics by

POTTERY BY ERIC NYGAARD will be on display throughout February at the Euchee Creek Library. Call 556-0594.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM BLAYLOCK is on display at the Gibbs Library during the month of February. 863-1946.

ZIMMERMAN GALLERY GR AND OPENING CELEBR ATION Feb. 7, 5-9 p.m., at the galler y, 1006 Broad St. Works by Lou Ann Zimmerman, Marc Moon, Judi Jacobs, Gina Choma, Nancy Gerbasi, Ruth Herrera, Jef f Birchill, Patrick Meyer, Don Drumm, Ron Simon and Laura Yeung will be on display. The galler y will be open Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, contact Lou Ann Zimmerman, 774-1006.

THE AIKEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS exhibits works by Patricia Viles in the Westinghouse Group Gallery, Marita Rappleye in the Wyat t Development Gallery and Mary Jane Davis and Betsy Wilson-Mahoney in the Founder’s Gallery.

The opening for these exhibitions is Feb. 13, 6-8 p.m., and it’s free and open to the public. For information, visit www.AikenCenter for theAr ts.org or call (803) 641-9094.

FINE ARTS EXHIBITION BY DOROTHY WRIGHT through Feb. 27 at the Lucy Craf t Laney Museum of Black History.

Call 724-3576 for more information.

“RECENT ACQUISITIONS: 2002” features works by John Baeder, Herb Jackson, Philip Morsberger, Tom Nakashima, Margaret Ramsey, Lorenso Scot t, Juanita Rogers, Purvis Young, Eleanor Hancock Pryor and Gilber t Gaul. The exhibit will be on display at the Morris Museum of Ar t through Feb. 23. Call 724-7501 for more information.

“THE DOGGY IN THE WINDOW” animal photography exhibition by Ginny Southwor th will be at the Aiken County Historical Museum now through Feb. 23. There is no admission charge. Call (803) 642-2015.

MARTHA SIMKINS SPECIAL EXHIBITION at the Morris Museum of Ar t through April 20. Call the museum at 7247501 for more information.

AT THE MARY PAULINE GALLERY: Philip Morsberger and Dederick Ward exhibit through Feb. 22. Call the Mary Pauline Gallery for details at 724-9542.

“COLLAGE WORKS: MELINDA MOORE LAMPKIN AND LUCY WEIGLE” features pieces by two local ar tists. The exhibit will be on display at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t through March 14. Call 722-5495 for more information.

THE ARTWORK OF NANCY BANNISTER is on display at the Raging Bull, 828 Broad St., through the end of February. Bannister specializes in landscape and abstract

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Free and open to the public. For info, call (803) 641-3305.

“THIRTY YEARS OF ROCK AND ROLL: PHOTOGRAPHY BY LARRY HULST” showcases images of such influential musicians as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Iggy Pop and more through the eyes of photographer Larry Hulst. The exhibit is at the Augusta Museum of History and runs through March 8. Larry Jon Wilson per forms at the museum Feb. 7 and Jeff Barnes per forms as Elvis on Feb. 12; “Legends” concer t featuring a Beatles tribute band March 8 at the Imperial Theatre. For information, call 722-8454.

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The Augusta Ballet presents “Romeo and Juliet” Feb. 7-8 at the Imperial Theatre and Feb. 14-15 at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Aiken. ar t, as well as interior/ex terior murals. Call 722-0444 for more information.

DANIEL HAYES exhibits at the Cafe Du Teau through Feb. 18, 733-3505; at P.J.’s Coffee and Tea Cafe, 736-6889; and the Pizza Joint, 774-0037.

AT THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART: “Ware’s Folly: An Architectural Perspective” is in the First-Floor Gallery at Ware’s Folly through Feb. 21; “Creative Expression” is in the Ware’s Folly First Floor Gallery through Feb. 21; “Ar tist-in-Residence: Craig-Houghton Elementary School Students Create” on display through Feb. 14. Call 722-5495 for more information.

Dance

VALENTINE DISCO for teens ages 12-18 at the Smith-Hazel Recreation Center in Aiken, Feb. 14, 7-10 p.m. All students must show a valid school I.D. at the door. $3 per person.

Call (803) 642-7635 for information.

CHRISTIAN SINGLES ORGANIZATION SILVER 25TH ANNIVERSARY BALL Feb. 15 at Post No. 63 on Milledge Road. Enter tainment provided by the Funtime Band with Sassy Brass. Dress is formal/semi-formal. Tickets are $12 for members, $15 for non-members. Call 736-8004.

SWEETHEART BALL 2003 at Fort Gordon’s Gordon Club 6:30 p.m. Feb. 14. Tickets are $25 for civilians. Call 791-4140.

“ROMEO AND JULIET,” presented by the Augusta Ballet, will be at the Imperial Theatre at 8 p.m. Feb. 7-8. Tickets

are $12-$36. On Feb. 14-15, the Augusta Ballet per forms “Romeo and Juliet” at the Washington Center for the Per forming Ar ts in Aiken. Tickets are $20-$30. To purchase tickets for any per formance, call 261-0555.

SECOND SATURDAY DANCE at the Ballroom Dance Center, 225 Grand Slam Drive in Evans, held the second Saturday of every month, 7:30-11 p.m. Dress is casual. Tickets are $10 per person. 854-8888.

AUGUSTA CHAPTER OF THE UNITED STATES AMATEUR BALLROOM DANCERS ASSOCIATION holds a dance the first Saturday of each month, from 7:15 to 11 p.m. Cost is $7 for members and $10 for non-members. Held at the BPOE Facility on Elkdom Cour t. Contact Melvis Lovet t, 7333890, or Jean Avery, 863-4186, for information.

BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES March 11-April 22 at the H.O. Weeks Center in Aiken. Cost is $40 per couple and registration is accepted in pairs only. Call (803) 642-7631 for registration information.

SQUARE DANCE CLASSES: Intermediate classes run April 14-June 16. Call (803) 642-7631 for more information.

CSRA/AUGUSTA BOGEY-WOOGIE DANCE AND SOCIAL GROUP holds a monthly dance every third Saturday of the month, star ting at 7:30 p.m. There are also meetings every Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Salsa Ruedo Casino and every Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. Men are especially encouraged to at tend. For information, phone 650-2396 or 736-3878.

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SINGLES DANCE each Saturday night from 8-11 p.m. sponsored by the Christian Social Organization for Single Adults.

Held at Westside High School. Tickets $5 for members, $7 for non-members, and are available at the door. For more information, contact Doris Heath, 736-3376.

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WYCLIFFE GORDON per forms Feb. 14, 7 p.m., at Broadway Baptist Church. For more information, contact Henry Johnson, 790-8185, ex t. 28.

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BASSIST GERALD VEASLEY brings funk and fun to a Valentine’s Day concer t Feb. 14 at the Imperial Theatre. The per formance begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25.50-$28.50 and are available at the Imperial Theatre Box Office or online at www.tixonline.com. For information, call 722-8293.

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THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTR A per forms 8 p.m. Feb. 14 at USC-Aiken’s Etherredge Center as par t of the University’s Cultural Series. Tickets range from $30-$40 per person. For ticket reservations, call (803) 641-3305.

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ERNIE HAASE AND THE SIGNATURE SOUND QUARTET will per form Feb. 9, 6 p.m., at Cur tis Baptist Church. For information, call 722-7348.

DAVIDSON FINE ARTS SCHOOL BAND PRE-FESTIVAL CONCERT 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in Davidson’s Beverly J. Barnhar t Theater. Tickets are $3 adult, $2 for senior citizens and children under 5 and $1 for Davidson students. For information, call 823-6924, ex t. 111.

SEA ISLAND SINGERS per form Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. at the Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Theatre on the Augusta State University campus. The group comes to ASU as par t of the university’s Lyceum Series. 737-1609.

VALENTINE POPS WITH QUINTANGO at the Bell Auditorium Feb. 8, 8 p.m. For tickets and information, contact the Augusta Symphony, 826-4705.

PRE-FESTIVAL CHORUS CONCERT Feb. 11, 7 p.m. at the Beverly J. Barnhar t Theatre at Davidson Fine Ar ts School.

Admission is $3 adult, $2 senior citizens or children under 5 and $1 for Davidson Fine Ar ts students. Call 823-6924, ex t. 107 for details.

USC-AIKEN FACULTY ARTIST RECITAL Feb. 6, 7 p.m., at the Etherredge Center. Laura Tomlin, violin; Richard Thomas, cello; and Mary Losey, piano, will per form. Call (803) 6413305 for more information.

TUESDAY’S MUSIC LIVE CONCERT SERIES: All per formances in the concer t series held at noon at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Concer ts are free; optional catered lunch is $7 per person. 2002-2003 season schedule is as follows: Feb. 18, Cowboy Envy; March 4, The Augusta Children’s Chorale; March 18, Kari Gaf fney and Jef f Williams. 722-3463.

COMMUNITY HEALING MEDITATION DRUMMING CIRCLE hosted every third Monday of the month by IDRUM2U, the Not Gaddy Drumming Studio. Held 7-9 p.m. at the G.L. Jackson Conference Center, 1714 Nor th Leg Cour t. Fee is $5 or a donation of canned goods for the Golden Harvest Food Bank. All are welcome and drums will be available to rent. For info, phone the Not Gaddy Drumming Studio, 228-3200.

Theater

“STUDENTS CAUGHT IN THE ACT” Feb. 6-9 at ASU’s performing Ar ts Theatre. Show times are Feb. 6-8, 8 p.m., and Feb. 9, 3 p.m. For ticket information, call the Augusta State University of fice of Student Activities at 737-1609.

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the H.O. Weeks Center in Aiken at 1 p.m. Registration is required by Feb. 6. Call (803) 642-7631 for details.

“THE SOUND OF MUSIC” comes to the Abbeville Opera House Feb. 7-8 and 14-15. Matinee per formances held Feb. 8 and 15. Call (864) 459-2157 for ticket information.

“LES MISERABLES” Feb. 11-16 at the Bell Auditorium. Call TicketMaster at 828-7700 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Attractions THE BOYHOOD HOME OF WOODROW WILSON: Circa 1859 Presbyterian manse occupied by the family of President Woodrow Wilson as a child during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Original and period antiques, restored house, kitchen and carriage house. 419 Seventh Street.

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tues.-Sat. Tours available; groups of 10 or more by appointment only. Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors, $3 students under 18 and free for ages five and under. 722-9828.

AUGUSTA GOLF & GARDENS OF THE GEORGIA GOLF HALL OF FAME features beautiful display gardens, as well as bronze sculptures of some of golf’s greatest masters.

Available for rent for a variety of functions. Group discount rates available. Closed Mondays; open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; open from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Admission is $5.50 for adults; $4.50 for students, seniors and military; $3.50 for children (4 to 12); free for children 3 and under. Sundays are two for one with a Super Sunday coupon. Annual garden memberships are available. Call 724-4443 or 1-888-874-4443. Also, visit their Web site at www.gghf.org.

NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER’S FORT DISCOVERY: Children and adults alike can immerse themselves in the wonders of science through live demonstrations, vir tual realities, Starlab, KidScape and more than 250 hands-on exhibits. General Admission: $8 for adults; $6 for children, seniors and active military. Group rates available. Half-price admission daily af ter 3 p.m. Operating hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Call 821-0200, 1-800325-5445 or visit their Web site at www.NationalScienceCenter.org.

REDCLIFFE STATE HISTORIC SITE: 1859 mansion of S.C. Governor James Henry Hammond, held by the family for three generations until 1975. Hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursday-Monday on the grounds. House tours are noon-3 p.m. by appointment. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

Admission to the grounds is free. Fee for house tours is $3 for adults and children ages 6 to 17. For more information, call (803) 827-1473. 181 Redcliffe Road, Beech Island.

SACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER is offering tours of its 100-year-old building. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $1 per person, children free. 826-4700.

HISTORIC COTTON EXCHANGE WELCOME CENTER: Open Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m.

Riverwalk. Free. 724-4067.

THE EZEKIEL HARRIS HOUSE: Deemed “the finest 18th century house surviving in Georgia” by the “Smithsonian Guide to Historic America.” Open Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. General admission is $2; senior admission is $1 and children get in

for 50 cents. For more information, call 724-0436.

Museums “GONE WITH THE WIND” THEMED TOUR of the Morris Museum of Ar t Feb. 16, 2 p.m. Free admission. 724-7501.

“DESIGNED TO A TEA: AN AFTERNOON OF DESIGN WITH SOUTHERN LIFESTYLES AUTHOR SUSAN SULLY” Feb. 13, 2 p.m. Lecture and book signing, with high tea to follow. Reser vations required by Feb. 10. Fee is $8 for members and $10 for non-members. Call 724-7501 to make arrangements.

NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK at For t Discovery Feb. 17-23.

Learn how engineers turn ideas into reality. Call 821-0200.

“AN OPEN MIC NIGHT AT JAVA CAFE” will be held at the Morris Museum of Ar t Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m. The museum’s Teen Advisory Council sponsors the event, which includes live music, a teen ar t show and coffeehouse specialties for teen-agers. 724-7501.

“CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ARTISTS: EUGENIA COMER AND JANANN REYNOLDS LOOK AT THE WORK OF MARTHA SIMKINS” program Feb. 20 at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Wine and cheese reception to follow. The program begins at 7 p.m., and reservations are required. Free for members, $3 for adults and $2 for seniors, students and military personnel. 724-7501.

QUILTING ACTIVITIES AT THE LUCY CRAFT LANEY MUSEUM OF BLACK HISTORY: Quilting Workshop Feb. 8, 1-3 p.m.; Roundtable Discussion on the History of Quilting Feb. 9, 2-3 p.m. Reservations required for the workshop; the roundtable discussion is free and open to the public. For more information, call Kelvin Jackson, 724-3576.

AT THE AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY: February’s film is “The Morehouse Men.” Films play continuously in the History Theatre and are free with admission. For more information, call 722-8454.

THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART in Ware’s Folly exhibits works by local and regional ar tists. Ar t classes, workshops and other educational programming for children, youth and adults are held in the Walker-Mackenzie Studio. Ware’s Folly galleries open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; and Saturday by appointment only. The Walker-Mackenzie Studio gallery is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free, but a donation of $2 for adults and $1 for children and seniors is encouraged. Call 722-5495 for more info.

THE AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY hosts permanent exhibition “Augusta’s Story,” an award-winning exhibit encompassing 12,000 years of local history. For the younger crowd, there’s the Susan L. Still Children’s Discovery Gallery, where kids can learn about history in a hands-on environment. The museum also shows films in the History Theatre and hosts a variety of programs. Located at 560 Reynolds Street. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m. Admission is $4 adult, $3 seniors, $2 kids (6-18 years of age) and free for children under 6. Free admission on Sundays. Call 722-8454 or visit www.augustamuseum.org for more information.

THE MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART hosts exhibitions and special events year-round. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sundays, noon-5 p.m. Closed on Mondays and major holidays. 1 Tenth Street, Augusta. Call 724-7501 or visit www.themorris.org for details.

“A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” will be presented by Augusta Theatre Company Feb. 14-16, 20-22, 27-28 and March 1 at the Bon Air Ballroom. Tickets are $15 adult, $10 seniors, students and matinees. Feb. 14 per formance is $35 and features a romantic dinner buf fet. For tickets, call 481-9040.

“THE LARAMIE PROJECT” Feb. 10-13 and 15 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 16, 3 and 8 p.m. at USC-Aiken’s Etherredge Center. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and $5 for students. There will also be a discussion session with the cast and crew immediately following the Feb. 15 per formance. Call (803) 641-3305 for details.

“WHEN THE REAPER CALLS” Feb. 14-15, 21-22, 27-28 and March 1 at For t Gordon Dinner Theatre. Dinner begins at 7 p.m. and the show star ts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 for the general public, $28 for seniors (65 and up) and civilian personnel, $17 for active duty E7 and below and $10 show only tickets. Valentine’s Day package available for the same cost as a regular full-price ticket. Call 7938552 for reservations.

“A WOMAN’S REVENGE” Feb. 9, 4:30 p.m. at the Bell Auditorium. Tickets are $25.50 for floor seating or $21.50 for balcony seating; there is a $2 discount for groups of 20 or more. Tickets on sale at the Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center Box Office or through TicketMaster, 828-7700 or www.ticketmaster.com.

“MOMMA AND ME” stage show featuring Vickie Lawrence at the Newberry Opera House Feb. 23. Bus trip leaves from

The Augusta Junior Rowing Association’s spring season begins Feb. 10 with an event open to all high school students interested in pursuing the sport. Call 863-2598 for info.

THE MUSEUM OF LAUREL AND HARDY OF HARLEM, GEORGIA features displays of various Laurel and Hardy memorabilia; films also shown. Located at 250 N. Louisville Street in downtown Harlem. Open 1-4 p.m. ThursdayMonday. For more information, call 556-3448.

LUNCH AT NOON LECTURE SERIES held the second Wednesday of every month at the Lucy Craf t Laney Museum of Black History, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call the museum at 724-3576 for more information.

Special Events HAT FASHION SHOW, DEMONSTRATION AND SOCIAL featuring Sissy Brodie, at the Augusta Newcomers Club Feb. 20 meeting. Coffee and tea social begins at 9:45 a.m., with the fashion show at 10:45 and a buffet lunch. Held at The Clubhouse on Washington Road. Contact Linda Guy, 8555898, for information.

“HERBS OF THE SOUTH” LECTURE AND PLANTING SESSION Feb. 8-9, 3:30-4:30 p.m., at the Ezekiel Harris House.

Par ticipants are asked to bring gardening gloves and a small shovel. Free and open to the public. Contact Kim Overstreet, 724-0436, for reservations.

GEORGIA HERITAGE CELEBRATION ACTIVITIES AT THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART Feb. 8, 10 a.m.noon: Architectural Collage, Rib Constructed Basketry, and Drawing at the Easel in the Style of the Late 1800s. Free.

Call 722-5495 for reservations.

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“SWAMP DWELLERS THROUGH HISTORY” program Feb. 8, 1-3 p.m., at Phinizy Swamp Nature Park. Discover facts about the people and animals who have historically called the swamp home, and use natural swamp materials to fashion items used by former swamp dwellers. Reserve your place

by Feb. 7. 828-2109.

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PAINE COLLEGE FOUNDERS’ DAY CONVOCATION Feb. 7, 10:30 a.m., in the college’s Gilber t-Lambuth Memorial Chapel. Lou Rawls will deliver the keynote address. Open to the public. Call 821-8200 for info.

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GEORGIA HERITAGE CELEBRATION Feb. 6-7, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Augusta Golf and Gardens. For more information, call 724-4443 or 724-0436.

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UNVEILING AND DEDICATION OF STATUE bearing the likeness of General James Edward Oglethorpe Feb. 6, 11:30 a.m. at The Augusta Common. Call 724-0436 for information.

ITALIAN-AMERICAN CLUB OF THE CSRA’S 19TH ANNUAL PASTA FESTIVAL Feb. 7 at the Hellenic Center, Greek Or thodox Church. Lunch is available from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and dinner is available from 4:30-8 p.m. Tickets are $6.50 for adults and $3.50 for children under 12. For information, call 863-3308.

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Call 821-8217 for information.

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BOOK SIGNING WITH MYSTERY NOVELIST SALLY WRIGHT Feb. 11, 7 p.m. at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Wright is appearing in suppor t of her new book, “Out of the Ruins.”

Free and open to the public. For more information, call 7228195.

SACRED HEART CULTUR AL CENTER DINNER AT ASTI’S Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Sacred Hear t Cultural Center, recreates the Asti’s restaurant in New York.

Authentic Italian dinner to be served, and members of the Augusta Collegium Musician per form, along with singing waiters. Tickets are $100 per person, and corporate tables are available. Call 826-4700 by Feb. 13 to make reservations.

2003 SCOUT SHOW presents “Skating Through Scouting” Feb. 8 at the Augusta-Richmond Count y Civic Center.

Parade star ts at 2:30 p.m. at Cur tis Baptist Church and ends at the Civic Center. Scout exhibits open from 2:30-5 p.m. at the Civic Center. Call 733-5277 for more information.

FILM SERIES at Headquar ters Library every Tuesday night in February. Films star t at 6:30 p.m. and admission is free.

Feb. 11 showing of “Dr. Strangelove”; Feb. 18 showing of “Felicia’s Journey”; Feb. 25 showing of “Slaughterhouse 5.” 821-2600.

AUTHOR JANISSE RAY will be featured at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Augusta Library Feb. 18, 7 p.m., at Covenant Presbyterian Church. Free and open to the public.

Call Headquar ters Library at 821-2600 for details.

COT CAMPBELL AT THE AIKEN THOROUGHBRED RACING HALL OF FAME Feb. 9. At 3 p.m., Campbell will read selections from his book “Rascals and Racehorses.” A reception will be held from 2-5 p.m. for the opening of a photography and ar t exhibit per taining to Campbell’s Dogwood Stable.

The exhibit runs through Feb. 23. For more information, call (803) 642-7650.

434TH ARMY BAND CEREMONY to honor the band’s change of command. Held at 11 a.m., Feb. 10, in the Victoria Room of the Gordon Club. Open to the public. For more information, call 791-3113.

THE AIKEN BIRD CLUB’S 8TH ANNUAL WINTERFEST BIRD FAIR Feb. 8-9 at the Aiken Jaycee Fairgrounds. Activities include a raffle, prizes and bird displays. Admission is $3; children under 12 get in free. For details, contact Jim Kannenberg, (803) 649-5407; Bill Barnes, 667-0827; or June Roseborough, (803) 648-1336.

“TAKING A KICK OUT OF VIOLENCE: A SELF-DEFENSE SESSION” is sponsored by the Lakeside High School Family Career and Community Leaders of America and the Columbia County Sheriff Depar tment. Held in the Lakeside High School Gym Feb. 11, 3 p.m. Free and open to the public, but space is limited, so contact Sana Hashmi at 6509959 to reserve a place.

PAINE COLLEGE MASKED BALL Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m. at the Radisson River front Hotel. Black-tie event features Parade of Masks, silent auction, celebrit y appearances and live enter tainment. Par ticipants are required to bring a festive mask for entr y. Tickets are available for $60 from the

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Museum of Ar t in Atlanta now through March 16. This exhibition marks the first time since the Orsay opened that pieces in its collection have traveled to the U.S. For more information, visit www.ParisinAtlanta.org, www.high.org, or call (404) 733-HIGH.

Feb. 11 screenings of “Frida” at 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. in Butler Lecture Hall; a different version of the film will be presented at the morning and evening sessions. Ar tist and writer Malaika Favorite presents “Mexican and Caribbean Influences on African-American Ar t” at 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in Butler Lecture Hall. Reception to follow the evening presentation; Favorite’s ar twork will be on display in the Reese Library through March 11. Admission to all Cullum events is free. For more information, visit www.aug.edu/library/cullum2003.

Benefits THE GARDEN CITY BARBERSHOP CHORUS is raising funds with singing Valentines. For $45, a quar tet will visit that special someone with a t wo-song per formance and a rose. To schedule, call (803) 557-4180 (day time) or (803) 279-4198 (evening).

AUGUSTA BALLET LEXUS RAFFLE to celebrate the 40th

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AIKEN WOMEN’S HEART BOARD BENEFIT with “Viva Hear t Vegas” theme Feb. 20-23 at USC-Aiken’s Etherredge Center.

Call (803) 641-3305 for details.

FASHION SHOW EXTRAVAGANZA AND DRAMA PRODUCTION of “Love Never Fails” Feb. 8. Fashion show begins at 6:30 p.m., with the play beginning at 7:30 p.m. Free admission. Call 798-0123 for more information.

EMPTY BOWL LUNCHEON Feb. 9, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Augusta Jewish Communit y Center. Family tickets are $35 and include an all-you-can-eat buf fet and t wo hand-made pot ter y bowls craf ted by local ar tists. Individual tickets are available for $15 and include lunch and one pot ter y bowl. Proceeds benefit the Golden Har vest Food Bank and the Augusta Jewish Communit y Center. Call 736-1199 or 228-3636 for details.

MCDUFFIE FRIENDS OF ANIMALS holds pet adoptions each Saturday, 1-3 p.m. at Superpetz on Bobby Jones Expressway. Call 556-9090 or visit www.pet finder.com.

COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY holds pet adoptions every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. at PetsMar t. For more info, call 860-5020.

RICHMOND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL AND AUGUSTA ANIMAL RESCUE FRIENDS holds pet adoptions at Superpetz of f Bobby Jones Expressway every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Call AARF at 364-4747 or visit www.aar f.net.

Adoptions also held at the Richmond County Animal Control Shelter, Tues. through Sun., 1-5 p.m. Call the shelter at 790-6836.

LOW-COST RABIES VACCINATIONS: Augusta-Richmond County Animal Control holds low-cost rabies vaccination clinics the four th Sunday of every month for privately owned pets. $8 per animal. 1 p.m. at Superpetz. Dogs must be on a leash and cats in a carrier. Puppies and kit tens must be three months old and current for all vaccinations. Schedule subject to change, so please call 790-6836 to verify dates and times.

THE CSRA HUMANE SOCIETY holds pet adoptions every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and every Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Pet Center located behind the GreenJackets Stadium on Milledge Rd. 261-PETS.

Out of Town “FLOWERS/NEW YORK” PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAY STRAUSS will be on display at Steve Wiley Photography in Savannah Feb. 8-March 22. Opening reception to be held Feb. 8, 6-9 p.m. For information, call (912) 234-2777.

ERIC CARLE BOOK SIGNING AND MERMAID THEATRE PERFORMANCE OF “THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR” AND “THE VERY QUIET CRICKET” Feb. 15 at the Richland County Public Library and Richland Nor theast High School in Columbia, S.C. Call (803) 929-3475 for details.

2003 SAVANNAH IRISH FESTIVAL Feb. 14-16 at the Savannah Civic Center. For information, call (912) 231-8499 or visit www.SavannahIrish.org.

“ROMEO AND JULIET” at the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta Feb. 11-March 2. Tues.-Sat. per formances at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday per formances at 6:30 p.m. Ticket prices range from $10-$24.50, depending on the day of the week. Group discounts available. Optional British pub-style menu offered one hour and fif teen minutes before the show.

For reservations, call (404) 874-5299.

Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Reeves will be the keynote speaker for the Greater Augusta Sports Awards Gala, Feb. 11.

“RHINOCEROS” will be presented by the University of South Carolina’s Theatre Depar tment Feb. 7-16 at Drayton Hall in Columbia, S.C. Per formances are Tues.-Sat., 8 p.m. and Sunday, 3 p.m. Tickets are $12 general admission, $10 USC faculty and staff, senior citizens and the military and $9 for students. Group tickets are $7 for par ties of 10 or more.

Purchase tickets by calling (803) 777-2551.

“RODEO” will be per formed Feb. 7-8 by the Columbia City Ballet at the Koger Center for the Ar ts in Columbia, S.C. For tickets, call (803) 251-2222 or visit www.CapitolTickets.com.

“PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY JAM” at noon daily Feb. 10-14 at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon, Ga. Admission to each concer t is one canned good to benefit the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank. 1-888-GA-ROCKS. “SAINT LUCY’S EYES” will be presented by the Alliance Theatre Company through March 9 at the Woodruff Ar ts Center in Atlanta. Tickets are $17-$46; call (404) 733-5000.

“WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: MAURICE SENDAK IN HIS OWN WORDS AND PICTURES” exhibit at the Richland County Public Library in Columbia, S.C., through May 18.

(803) 799-9084.

“ROOM SERVICE” presented by Class Act Theatre in Mariet ta, Ga., through March 3. Tickets are $15 adult, $13 senior and $12 children. Call (770) 579-3156.

“SHAKESPEARE’S R&J” will be presented on the Her tz Stage in Atlanta by the Alliance Theatre Company through March 2. Tickets are $25-$31, with discount rates for groups of 10 or more, and are available by calling (404) 733-5000 or online at www.alliancetheatre.org.

THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART’S FOLK ART AND PHOTOGRAPH GALLERIES host two exhibitions through Aug. 9: “Land of Myth and Memory: Clarence John Laughlin and Photographers of the South” and “Faces and Places: Picturing the Self in Self-Taught Ar t.” Call (404) 577-6940.

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AT THE GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART in Athens, Ga., through March 23: “There Is No Eye: Photographs by John Cohen” and “Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999.” Call (706) 542-4662 for information.

AT THE GEORGIA NATIONAL FAIRGROUNDS AND AGRICENTER in Perry, Ga.: Tickets are now on sale for the Georgia National Rodeo, Feb. 20-22. Call (478) 987-3247 or 1-800-987-3247 for info.

“A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM” through Feb. 9 at the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta. Tuesday-Saturday per formances at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday per formances at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $19.50 Thursdays and Sundays, $22.50 Fridays and $24.50 on Saturdays, with $10 Tuesday and Wednesday night per formances. Student and group discounts available. Optional British pub-style menu served one hour and fif teen minutes prior to show. Call (404) 874-5299 for reservations.

CELEBRITIES CELEBRATING ARTISTS’ ROW silent auction of pieces by local ar tists and celebrities. Proceeds benefit the Ar tists’ Row Scholarship Fund; the scholarship is awarded to a graduating CSRA student who is planning a career in ar t. Held at par ticipating ar tists’ studios in downtown Augusta, 6-9 p.m. Feb. 7. For information, contact Lou Ann Zimmerman, 774-1006, or Kristin Varn, 722-1028.

AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL is in need of dog and cat food, cat lit ter and other pet items, as well as monetary donations to help pay for vaccinations.

Donations accepted during regular business hours, Tues.Sun., 1-5 p.m. at the shelter, 4164 Mack Lane. Call 7906836 for information.

SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER BLOOD DRIVES in various locations around the CSRA this month. The blood center is urging people of all blood types to donate in order to combat a blood supply shor tage. For detailed information on locations and times to donate, visit www.shepeardblood.org. You may also call Susan Edwards at (803) 6437996 for information on Aiken locations and Nancy Szocinski at 737-4551 for information on all other locations.

“TWENTY YEARS AGO” will be presented by NarroWay Productions Winter Dinner Theatre in Myr tle Beach, S.C., Feb. 14-15. Tickets are $24.95 or $23.95 for groups and senior citizens. To make reservations, call (803) 802-2300 or 1-888-437-7473.

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES at the Aiken Red Cross Blood Center on Millbrook Drive and the Augusta Red Cross Blood Center on Pleasant Home Road. The bloodmobile will also stop at various area locations this week. For a complete list, call the Aiken Blood Center at (803) 642-5180 or the Augusta Blood Center at 868-8800.

“FOR THIS WORLD AND BEYOND: AFRICAN ART FROM THE FRED AND RITA RICHMAN COLLECTION” through May 25 at the High Museum of Ar t in Atlanta. Call (404) 733HIGH or visit www.high.org for info.

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TICKETS FOR “VAREK AI,” a production by the Cirque du Soleil, now on sale. Shows are March 6-30 at Cumberland Galleria in Atlanta. Visit www.cirquedusoleil.com for more information.

“DEFINING CRAFT I: COLLECTING FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM” exhibit at the Columbia Museum of Ar t in Columbia, S.C., through Feb. 23. For more information, call the museum at (803) 799-2810 or visit www.columbiamuseum.org.

“PARIS IN THE AGE OF IMPRESSIONISM: MASTERWORKS FROM THE MUSEE D’ORSAY” will be at the High

GENEALOGY WORKSHOP Feb. 8-9, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Par t I is held at the Augusta Genealogical Society Library and Par t II is held at the Reese Library on the ASU campus. Workshop is on how to research family history. Free and open to the public. For information, contact Vicki Greene, 737-1532.

ARCHIVAL WORKSHOP teaches how to preserve old documents and photographs. Held Feb. 8, 10:30-11:30 a.m at Reese Library on the ASU campus. Free and open to the public. Contact Vicki Greene, 737-1532 for information.

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INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS FOR ADULTS Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28, 9:30-11 a.m. at the Ma xwell Branch Library. Call 793-2020 to register.

“STAMPING AND SCRAPBOOKING FOR ADULTS” Feb. 10, 10:30 a.m. at the Appleby Branch Library. 736-6244.

“HOW TO GET PEOPLE TO PAY” BUSINESS SEMINAR Feb. 12, is sponsored by Augusta State University. Management consultant Glenn Shepard will speak; workshop is designed for businesses which collect their own accounts receivable.

Tuition is $149. Held 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Par tridge Inn. To register, contact Cindy Edwards, 1-800-538-4595.

BUSINESS PLANNING WORKSHOP Feb. 6, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Room 140 of the Business and Education Building, USC-Aiken. Registration is required; call (803) 641-3646 or e-mail SBDC@usca.edu.

AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY CONTINUING EDUCATION CLASS features “An Introduction to Georgia History” Feb. 11, 5-7 p.m. Call 722-8454 for details.

REGISTRATION FOR WINTER 2003 CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES AT AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY is now underway. For course information or to request a catalog, call 737-1636 or log on to www.ced.aug.edu.

BRIDGE CLASSES at the H.O. Weeks Center in Aiken.

Intermediate class is held March 25-May 20. Cost is $20 per person, plus a $14 materials fee that must be paid at the first class. Call (803) 642-7631 for information.

USC-AIKEN CONTINUING EDUCATION offers the following courses: Conversational French, Spanish for the Beginner Par t 2, Spanish for the Medical Field, Computer Courses, Financial Strategies, Yoga and more. Call the Office of Continuing Education at (803) 641-3288.

fied personal trainer. Held Feb. 13, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph Home Health in Daniel Village. Free and sponsored by the Optimal Wellness Network. For information, contact Gail Pendergrast, 651-9993, or Pat Hall, 667-8734.

“DIABETES: NUTRITION, EXERCISE AND OTHER HELPFUL TIPS” presentation Feb. 11, 6-7:45 p.m. at the Ma xwell Branch Library. For information, call the library at 793-2020.

DIET COUNSELING CLASSES for diabetics and those with high cholesterol at CSRA Par tners in Health, 1220 Augusta West Parkway. Free. Call 860-3001 for class schedule.

“PAIN TREATMENT PART 2: THE MAN APPROACH — MOVEMENT, AROMATHERAPY, NUTRACEUTICALS” free health education class at the Downtown Division of the Life Learning Center, Room 2D-114. Program begins at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 13. To enroll, call 733-0188, ex t. 7989.

PROJECT LINK COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES is held the first Tuesday of every month and is sponsored by the MCG Children’s Medical Center. Project Link provides educational resources and guidance for families who have children with developmental delays, disabilities and other specialized health concerns. Free and open to the public; takes place from 6:30-8 p.m. in the main conference room at the Children’s Medical Center. Call 721-6838 for information.

UNIVERSITY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM COMMUNITY EDUCATION holds workshops, seminars and classes on a variety of topics: weight and nutrition, women’s health, cancer, diabetes, seniors’ health and more. Suppor t groups and health screenings are also offered. Call 736-0847 for details.

PEACHCARE FOR KIDS AND RIGHT FROM THE START MEDICADE of fers free or low-cost health coverage to qualifying families. Coverage includes prenatal care, hospitalization, vaccines, dental and vision care and is available to pregnant women of all ages and to children through age 19. Contact the RSM Project at 729-2086 or 721-5611 for information.

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY CONTINUING EDUCATION is now offering the following classes: Analytical Writing, Digital Photography for Beginners, Tai Chi II, Medical Billing: Basic Reimbursement, Beginning Photography, Intermediate Shag, West African Culture and Dance and more. Also, ASU offers online courses. For more information, call 737-1636 or visit www.ced.aug.edu.

YOGA CLASSES at Walton Rehabilitation Hospital are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-8 a.m. for $45/month or 10:30 a.m. to noon for $55/month. Call 823-6294.

AIKEN TECH CONTINUING EDUCATION will offer the following courses in January: Intro to Computers, Windows 2000 Basic Concepts, Health Care courses, Rape Aggression Defense, Beginning Cake Decorating, Professional Cooking Real Estate courses and more. Aiken Tech also offers Education to Go classes online. For more information or to register, call (803) 593-9231, ex t. 1230.

HATHA YOGA CLASSES at the St. Joseph Home Health Care Center in Daniel Village Plaza. Held 10 a.m. to noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Monday through Thursday. $10 per class or $60 a month for unlimited classes. Mats are provided, but bring a towel and a water bot tle. Call Tess at 738-2782 for more information.

Health

A FREE WOMEN’S HEALTH CLINIC is held from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Salvation Army and Welfare Center, 1383 Greene St. Services include Pap smear, breast exam and the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmit ted diseases.

For more info or an appointment, call the St. Vincent dePaul Health Center at 828-3444.

CPR AND FIRST AID TRAINING COURSES AT THE AUGUSTA RED CROSS: Lifeguard CPR Review Feb. 11, 6-10:30 p.m.; Adult CPR With First Aid Feb. 12-13 or 24-25, 6-9:30 p.m.; Adult, Infant and Child CPR With First Aid Feb. 18-19 or 25-27, 6-10:30 p.m. All classes held at the Augusta Red Cross office, 1322 Ellis St. To register, call 724-8483.

EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR AND PANEL DISCUSSION with Cathy Benedet to, five element acupuncturist; Cindy Foster, mind and body medicine specialist; and Ray Garrison, cer ti-

FREE HIV/AIDS TESTING every Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Ministry, 922 Greene Street. Free anonymous testing, pre- and post-test counseling and education.

W.G. WATSON, M.D., WOMEN’S CENTER CONDUCTS EDUCATION CLASSES at University Hospital. Course topics include Lamaze, breast feeding, parenting and grandparenting. Par tners will learn positive suppor t techniques. There are also programs designed to help older siblings adjust to new family members. Some classes are free, while others require a fee. Registration is required by calling 774-2825.

CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY SEAT CHECKS available Feb. 12 and 15 as par t of National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week. Feb. 12 safety seat check is 2-5 p.m. at Babies-R-Us on Bobby Jones Expressway; Feb. 15 safety seat check is 1-4 p.m. at GM/Pontiac Masters dealership on Washington Road. For information, contact Sylvia Thompson, 821-2350.

STORYTIME AND CRAFTS every Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m., at Zany Brainy. Open to kids 2-4 years old; parental supervision is required for the duration of the event. Call 736-6229 for details.

ATLANTA DOGWOOD FESTIVAL CALL FOR KIDS POSTER CONTEST through Feb. 14. The winning design will be chosen for the annual commemorative kids poster. For entry details, call (404) 329-0501.

“THE ENCHANTED WELL” is presented by Storyland Theatre. School per formances are Feb. 18-21, 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.; family matinee Feb. 22, 3 p.m.

Student ticket prices are $3.50, with free admission for teachers and chaperones; reservations required. Family matinee tickets are $4 per person. Held at ASU’s Per forming Ar ts Theatre. Call 736-3455.

PHINIZY SWAMP NATURE PARK FAMILY DISCOVERY SERIES walk through the park, 5:30-7 p.m. Feb. 20. Bring a picnic dinner to the park’s Pharmacia Pavilion. 828-2109.

FACE TO FACE WITH HISTORY FAMILY ART WORKSHOP, at the Morris Museum of Ar t Feb. 8, is offered as par t of the Georgia Heritage Celebration. Children and adults will paint self-por traits. Held 10 a.m. to noon. Free with regular admission. 724-7501.

BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS FOR YOUNG MINDS at the Wallace Branch Library Feb. 18, 10-11 a.m. Open to children ages 3-5. Call 722-6275.

SPECIAL STORYTIME WITH PUPPETS, STORIES, SONGS AND FINGERPLAYS Feb. 19, 10:30-11:15 a.m. and 3:304:15 p.m. at the Appleby Branch Library. Call 736-6244 for details.

“CREATIVE PUPPETRY!” FAMILY ART WORKSHOP at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t Feb. 15. Children ages 5-11 will learn to make creative characters with a variety of materials; supplies included. Held 10 a.m.-noon. Call 722-5495 or visit www.ghia.org for info.

VALENTINE’S NIGHT DIVE-IN MOVIE EVENT for kids ages 6-12 Feb. 14 at the Family Y’s Wheeler Branch indoor pool.

From 7-9:30 p.m., parents can enjoy a night out while their kids watch a family classic movie while floating or swimming in the heated pool. Fees are $3 for Metro Members, $4 for Branch Members, $5 for Bronze Members and $6 for nonmembers. Call 738-6678 for more details.

“SCHOOL’S OUT” PROGR AM Feb. 17 at the Family Y’s Wheeler Branch. Fees are $14 per child pre-registered or $20 per child registering the day of the program. Call 7387006.

BIG HELP DAY Feb. 8, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Golden Harvest Food Bank’s Faith Food Factory. Kids ages 5-12 will be able to learn about volunteering by sor ting through food donations and other planned tasks. Advance notice is required, so call Laurie Roper, 736-1199, ex t. 208, to reserve a place.

AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY’S FAMILY FUN DAY activities Feb. 8-9 feature historical re-enactors from the colonial, antebellum and Civil War eras, as well as a one-woman dramatization of the life of Emily Tubman. The Emily Tubman program takes place in the History Theatre at 3:30 p.m. on both days. Admission is free. 722-8454.

“THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS” will be presented by ASU’s Born to Read Literacy Center and Patchwork Players Feb. 10, at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. at the Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Center. Tickets are $3 per person. Call 733-7043 for more information or to reserve tickets.

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ACADEMIC HELP AND TUTORING available Saturdays, 2:304:30 p.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. Call 722-6275 to make arrangements.

GIRLS INCORPORATED AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM runs through the end of the 2002-2003 school year. A variety of programs will be offered. Services include van pick-up at select schools, evening drop-off, homework room and hot evening meal. Open to girls in kindergar ten through high school. Af ter-school program offered 2:30-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. For more information, call 733-2512.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SKILLS PROGR AM for teens ages 12-19 held the third Saturday of the month at the Lucy Craf t Laney Museum of Black Histor y. Call 724-3576.

WEEKLY STORY SESSIONS at all branch libraries. Visit www.ecgrl.public.lib.ga.us for more information.

FIRST SATURDAY STORYTELLING at the Lucy Craf t Laney Museum. In addition, there is a tour of the museum.

Held 10 a.m. to noon the first Saturday of the month. Call 724-3576.

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CHILDREN’S LEARNING CENTER at the Lucy Craf t Laney Museum of Black History open Monday-Friday, 4:30-6:30 p.m., through June. For information, call 724-3576.

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Seniors POETRY READINGS at the Senior Citizens Council of Greater Augusta and the CSRA Feb. 18, 20 and 21, 10:30-11 a.m.

Call 826-4480 for more information.

AARP TAX ASSISTANCE is available at the Gibbs Library Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., through April 8. Free; registration is not required. Please bring a copy of your previous year’s ta x return. Call 863-1946 for more information. AARP Ta x Aide is also available at the Senior Citizens Council of Greater Augusta and the CSRA Mondays, noon to 4 p.m. and Fridays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; call 826-4480 for information.

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AIKEN PARKS AND RECREATION offers a multitude of programs for senior adults, including bridge clubs, fitness classes, canasta clubs, line dancing, racquetball, ar ts and craf ts, tai chi, tennis and excursions. For more information, call (803) 642-7631.

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JUD C. HICKEY CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER’S CARE provides families and caregivers of those with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia a break during the day. Activities and care available at the adult day center, and homecare is available as well. For information, call 738-5039.

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THE ACADEMY FOR LIFELONG LEARNING offers lectures, courses, field trips, discussion groups and community information seminars on a variety of topics to mature adults. For more information, contact the USC-Aiken Office of Continuing Education at (803) 641-3288.

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PEOPLE WITH ARTHRITIS CAN EXERCISE (PACE) meets at Walton Rehabilitation Hospital Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2 p.m. Call 823-5294.

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THE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF GREATER AUGUSTA AND THE CSRA offers a variety of classes, including aerobics, quilting, tai chi, Spanish, painting, line dancing, bowling, bridge, computers, yoga and pinochle. For dates and times, phone 826-4480.

ARTHRITIS AQUATICS offered Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Walton Rehabilitation Hospital. Classes meet 99:45 a.m., 10-10:45 a.m. or 12:15-1 p.m. $37.50/month. To register, call 733-5959.

SENIORNET provides adults age 50 and over education for and access to computer technology. Many different courses are offered. Contact the USC-Aiken Continuing Education Office at (803) 641-3563.

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GIRLS’ FAST-PITCH SOFTBALL REGISTRATION through Feb. 10 at Citizens Park II in Aiken. Open to girls ages 7 and older by Jan. 1, 2003; first-time players must bring a bir th cer tificate to registration. League play begins in April. For information, call (803) 642-7761.

FIGHT NIGHT AT CLUB MALIBU featuring seven scheduled bouts. Main event is Jacob Hudson vs. Bruce Smith. Tickets are $12, $25 and $35. Held Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. For tickets, call (803) 270-7547.

DIXIE YOUTH BASEBALL REGISTR ATION at Citizens Park II in Aiken through Feb. 10. Open to children ages 5 and older by Aug. 1, 2003; first-time players must bring a bir th cer tificate to registration. League play begins in April. Call (803) 642-7761.

SPRING SOFTBALL LEAGUES for men and women now forming at Citizens Park in Aiken. Open to adults 18 and older. Organizational meeting Feb. 18 at Citizens Park; fees and rosters due March 18; play begins April 21. Call (803) 642-7761 for information.

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM at the Smith-Hazel Recreation Center in Aiken through May, 2-6 p.m. Open to kids ages 513. Call (803) 642-7635.

WINTER AQUATICS SESSION II at the Family Y’s Wheeler Branch Indoor Aquatics Center runs Feb. 17-March 27.

Classes are offered for all ages and ability levels. Fees vary by type of class. For more details, call 738-6678.

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GREATER AUGUSTA SPORTS AWARDS GALA will be at the Radisson River front Hotel Feb. 11. Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Reeves will be the keynote speaker. Tickets are $60 for individuals and $470 for a table of eight. 722-8326.

THE AUGUSTA JUNIOR ROWING ASSOCIATION begins its spring season Feb. 10, 4 p.m., at The Boathouse.

Prospective rowers are welcome to at tend; enrollment is open to all high school students. Call 863-2598 or visit www.augustarows.com for more information.

THE AUGUSTA RUGBY CLUB is always looking for new members. Teams available for women and men; no experience necessary. Practice is Tuesday and Thursday nights, 79 p.m. at Richmond Academy. For more information, call Don Zuehlke, 495-2043, or e-mail augustar fc@yahoo.com.

You may also visit www.augustarugby.org.

CO-ED VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE begins at the H.O. Weeks Center in Aiken in the spring. Fees and rosters due Feb. 18, with play beginning March 17. Open to adults 18 and older.

Call (803) 643-4663 for more information.

TEN STAR ALL-STAR BASKETBALL CAMP is accepting applications for its summer programs through April.

Boys and girls ages 10-19 are eligible. Call (704) 3730873 for info.

UPCOMING AUGUSTA LYNX HOME GAMES: Feb. 7-8, 12, 14-15, 20, 22-23 and 28 and March 1, 14-15, 19, 21-22, 25, 28 and 30. For tickets, call the Lynx ticket office at 7244423.

TICKETS NOW ON SALE for the Augusta GreenJackets 2003 season. Home games at Lake Olmstead Stadium. Tickets available at www.tixonline.com or by phone at (803) 2784TIX. There is also a TIX outlet inside Harmon Optical in Southgate Plaza.

YOUTH MONTHLY SPARRING the last Thursday of the month, 5:30 p.m., at the Augusta Boxing Club. Call 733-7533.

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Volunteer NATIONAL DONOR DAY largest one-day blood drive in the nation Feb. 14. The American Red Cross bloodmobile will be at the Saturn facility, 1770 Gordon Highway, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

For information, call Angela Hillesland, 731-9000, ex t. 340.

WEEKDAY NEW VOLUNTEER EDUCATOR TRAINING Feb. 10, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Phinizy Swamp Nature Park. The staff will train new volunteer educators to lead weekday school programs. Lunch provided. Registration deadline is Feb. 7.

Call 828-2109.

GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART DOCENT TR AINING PROGR AM: Volunteers will guide”If Walls Could Talk” tour, featuring the history and architecture of Ware’s Folly.

Contact the Education Director at 722-5495 for more information.

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THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT COALITION CAMPAIGN seeks volunteers to prepare basic ta x returns for low/limited income individuals, those with disabilities, non-English speakers and the elderly. Volunteers receive free training and instruction materials from the IRS. Call the Mayor’s Office for Workforce Development at 821-1834.

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GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK needs volunteers during the day, Monday-Friday, to help sor t donated products and assist in their agency shopping area. Help is needed yearround. If you are able to lif t 25 pounds and would like to help fight hunger in the Augusta area, contact Laurie Roper at 736-1199, ex t. 208.

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THOROUGHBRED R ACING HALL OF FAME DOCENTS NEEDED: Duties include opening and closing the Hall of Fame, greeting visitors and providing information about museum exhibits. Call Lisa Hall, (803) 642-7650 for information.

OLDER AMERICANS ACT SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAM is looking for volunteers to serve meals to needy older residents. To volunteer, contact the Senior Citizens Council at 826-4480. For those in need of home-delivered meals, call 210-2018 or toll free at 1-888-922-4464.

AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: New volunteer orientation is scheduled the first Saturday of each month at 1 p.m. at the shelter, 4164 Mack Lane. Schedule subject to change; call 790-6836 to verify dates and times.

THE CSRA HUMANE SOCIETY is looking for animal lovers willing to donate a lit tle of their time. Volunteers are needed every Saturday at the Pet Center located behind GreenJackets Stadium on Milledge Road. Call 261-PETS for more info.

SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER is seeking donors to prevent a blood supply shor tage. To donate call

Celebrate Black History Month “MUSIC COMPOSED BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMPOSERS: A LECTURE RECITAL” will be performed by ASU faculty members Linda Banister and Roslyn Floyd as par t of the Music at the Morris series Feb. 9, 2 p.m. in the Morris Museum of Ar t auditorium. Free admission. Call 724-7501 for information.

“ART MEETS THE WORD: AN EVENING OF POETRY” at the Morris Museum of Ar t’s First Friday celebration, Feb. 7. The museum is open from 5 to 8 p.m.; local poets and Fossill will per form. Gallery spotlight tour, “All Dressed Up and Feelin’ Blue: The Ar t of Langston Hughes and Melinda Moore Lampkin,” is at 6:30 p.m. Ar t Rush! Adult Ar t-Making Workshop held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call 724-7501.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY CONFERENCE through Feb. 7 at Paine College. For more information, call 821-8200.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH ACTIVITIES AT FORT DISCOVERY in February: “African Skies” program in the StarLab Planetarium provides visitors the oppor tunity to see the constellations as interpreted through African legend and lore; “Black Scientists and Inventors” exhibit on the contributions and achievements of African-American scientists and inventors. Call 821-0224 for details.

“FINDING BLACK HISTORY ON THE WEB” program for young adults at the Wallace Branch Library Feb. 11, 6-7:30 p.m. Call 722-6275.

BLACK HISTORY READING AND DR AMATIZATION by poet Beverly Allen Feb. 15, 4-5 p.m., at the Friedman Branch Library. An exhibit by Allen will be on display Feb. 7-28. Call the library at 736-6758 for details.

“PETER’S ADVENTURES” will be presented by Bret Hupp at the Gibbs Library Feb. 25, 4 p.m. For information, call 863-1946.

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Meetings CSRA WRITERS meets Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Booksellers. Writers in need of a suppor t group are encouraged to at tend and are asked to bring six copies of a manuscript to be critiqued. For information, contact Lela Turnbull, 738-4114.

MCG PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP holds its inaugural meeting Feb. 12, 7 p.m., in the Surgery Auditorium on the Four th Floor Sydenstricker Wing. Those interested in joining are asked to contact Lynda Sims, 721-4078.

PARTNERS IN FRIENDSHIP ANNUAL MEETING Feb. 18, 6:30 p.m., at Malia’s restaurant in Aiken. The public is invited and encouraged to at tend to learn about Aiken’s par tnership with Orvieto, Italy and The Shoalhaven, Australia. Tickets are $25 per person and must be reserved by Feb. 14. For information, call (803) 642-6489 or (803) 649-2221.

THE AUGUSTA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY meets Feb. 6 with a program entitled “Papers, Patents and Postcards: Augusta Library’s Special Collections.” Held 7 p.m. at the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library. Free and open to the public.

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THE AUGUSTA CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERER’S GUILD OF AMERICA meets the first Monday night of every month.

Meetings held in the First Alliance Church, 2801 Ingleside Rd., 7:30 p.m. Call Rebecca George, 951-6764 or 860-7631.

FREE ‘N’ ONE SUPPORT GROUP for those bat tling addiction to drugs and alcohol. Approach is a spiritual one. Held every Thursday night. For information, contact Sarah Barnes, 7727325.

TOUGH LOVE SUPPORT GROUP Monday nights, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the South Augusta Resource Center. Learn how to understand addiction and how to exercise tough love with those you care about. Call Sarah Barnes, 772-7325, for info.

“WORKS ON PAPER BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS” will be on display at the Morris Museum of Ar t through March 2. For more information, call the museum at 724-7501.

PREMIER SCREENING OF “UNCHAINED MEMORIES: READINGS FROM THE SLAVE NARR ATIVES,” an HBO documentary. Screening is at the Augusta Museum of History, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m.

Free to the public, but seating is limited. Contact the museum at 722-8454 for details.

SANKOFA AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM-ONWHEELS at Paine College’s Candler Memorial Library Conference Center through Feb. 8. Open 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 821-8324.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH SECOND ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL every Thursday in February at the MCG School of Dentistry. Screenings begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Schedule is as follows: Feb. 13, “The Black Press,” “Blacks & Jews”; Feb. 20, “Richard Wright,” “James Baldwin”; Feb. 27, “W.E.B. Dubois,” “American Civil Rights Movement.” Sponsored by the Student National Dental Association at MCG. For information, call 721-3587 or 627-3054.

“HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH EDUCATION” Historian Program at the Lucy Craf t Laney Museum of Black History Feb. 22, 5 p.m. Held in the museum’s Conference Center. Special guest speaker is Charles W. Walker.

The public is invited, and college students and history professors are encouraged to at tend.

Admission is $5. Please reserve your place by Feb. 18 by calling 724-3576.

“A VOICE OF THEIR OWN: BLACK CLASSICAL MUSIC IN GEORGIA” EXHIBIT through May 26 at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon, Ga. Opening reception with Mat tiwilda Dobbs Feb. 7, 7 p.m. Call 1-888-GA-ROCKS.

THE FIRST STEP DIVORCE RECOVERY WORKSHOP Sundays through Feb. 9, 4-6 p.m. in Room 201 of the Walton Building at First Baptist Church of Augusta. Meetings are free to the public and no pre-registration is required; however, you must call to reserve childcare for children age 5 and under. 731-5355.

WALT DISNEY PIN TRADING GROUP is forming for all those interested in collecting and trading pins from Walt Disney World, Disneyland and other Disney resor ts. For more information, contact Tim Conway, 729-9900.

GEORGIA-CAROLINA TOASTMASTERS meets Wednesdays at noon at the Clubhouse, 2567 Washington Rd. $8 for lunch; visitors welcome. 860-9854.

SEXAHOLICS ANONYMOUS, a 12-step program of recovery from addiction to obsessive/compulsive sexual thoughts and behaviors, meets Wednesdays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 7 p.m. at Augusta Counselling Services. Call 339-1204 and leave first name and phone number; a confidential reply is assured.

AUGUSTA TOASTMASTERS CLUB #326 meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at Advent Lutheran Church. Call 868-8431.

BUSINESS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL Augusta Chapter meets every Thursday morning from 7 to 8:30 a.m. at the Cour tyards by Mariot t. The group is a business networking group designed to give and receive referrals. All professionals welcome. For more information or to join, call Barbara Crenshaw, 868-3772.

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Gerald Veasley Brings Valentine’s Day Jazz

By Rhonda Jones

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G

erald Veasley is one of the warmest people you could ever hope to have a conversation with. You’d never guess he has had a career working with some of the biggest names in jazz and soul – artists like Grover Washington Jr. and Teddy Pendergrass.

In fact, the cast of musicians with whom he has played, listed on www.geraldveasley.com, is a veritable Who’s Who of jazz, soul and funk: McCoy Tyner; The Dixie Hummingbirds; Odean Pope; Special EFX; Joe McBride; Phil Perry; Chieli Minucci; Dianne Reeves; George Howard; Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire; Kenny Blake; Pamela Williams; Miles Davis and more.

“I’ve been fortunate to play with some of the people I looked up to,” he said, citing the Weather Report, which he called one of the most important jazz fusion bands. He named some of his favorite musicians: Pat Methany, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder and Jill Scott.

“There’s so many who I really enjoy,” he said.

“In fact, when we come down to Augusta, we’ll be using musicians from her band on keyboards.”

Scott is part of the neo-soul scene coming out of Philadelphia, a musical style that figures heavily into his next CD, “Velvet.”

I had to consult www.epinions.com for that one: “The Dumbass’ Guide to Neo-soul.”

And here is what it said: For one thing, the “neo” of neo-soul is misleading, because its components are anything but new. What makes it not R&B is a mixing of poetics, jazz and, in many cases, hip-hop.

The site goes on to recommend a few albums: “Baduizm” by Erykah Badu, “Words & Sounds Vol. 1: Who Is Jill Scott?” by Jill Scott (How’d you guess?), “Instant Vintage”

by Raphael Saadiq, “The Once & The Future”

by Jazzyfatnastees, “First Born Second” by Bilal, “Love in Stereo” by Rahsaan Patterson, “Denials Delusions and Decisions” by Jaguar Wright and “Aijuswanaseing” by Musiq.

“It’s very, very cool, the energy that’s flowing out of that neo-soul scene,” he said. “As a kid I listened to original soul. To kind of hear it come full circle around ... Wow. We have to put our own spin on that music. That’s kind of what the very near future is holding for us.”

You can get the idea that he thinks “Velvet” is much better than the last album, the 2001released “On the Fast Track,” which is a smooth set of tunes. “For some reason, it’s just another level. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we really took our time and created more of a band-type project.”

It’s a good bit more personal, too.

The “Bass-ics” of Creation “I wrote the music straight from my heart,” he said. “Literally, the way I created the melody, I sang into a tape recorder, then transcribed the sound of my voice making these melodies and building songs from that.”

After that, he said, the song would then go to the band for further development.

“To me, it’s an inside-out approach.”

Since this approach has allowed him to write “straight from the heart,” Veasley expects the audience to experience a more immediate connection with the melodies, which he feels are “more soulful and direct.”

That kind of talk perked him up. You could almost hear him sit up straight on the phone.

Turning Up the Heat Veasley said his band is young, hot and energized. And they like to give audiences a broad range of experience.

“We like to kind of have a romantic mood at times, try to have music that can kind of make you kick back and relax. Kind of get you energized too, get your blood rushing, because we feel like every time we perform, it’s a celebration.”

The soft-spoken jazz bassist chuckled when told by a writer that jazz did not make her think of romance.

“Why not?” he asked. “Well, jazz ... I think it’s one of the more romantic art forms.

Certainly something really sensual and seductive. At times the music can be very emotion-

“I like to do a variety of styles and flavors.”

If you think of jazz as purely intellectual, he said, they’ll show you funky. If you think of it as conservative, they’ll take you on a wild ride.

“We take a lot of chances in our music.

There’s a great deal of spontaneity and fun onstage. That’s what I want people to understand more than anything. Come out with us if you’re ready for a great time.”

He said, in short, that this is one show that will make you feel great – and a few other things as well. “If you’re there with a loved one, there will be times when you want to ... I don’t want to be too suggestive,” he said with a laugh.

Veasley said that he loves jazz for its liquid, ever-changing nature. “The one thing that I love about jazz is, it’s never the same twice, which kind of fits my personality.” You can play a song one way on one particular night, he said, and the next night, depending on the moods of the musicians, it can be completely different.

“Jazz musicians are always reaching to say what they have to say a little differently each time. It’s a very expressive kind of art form. Emotionally, I think it’s just awesome in that respect.”

Veasley is involved in more than just his own music career.

He teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, an occupation which he calls a “special part of (his) career.”

“It has enabled me to meet young, great musicians, some of which have become my collaborators.”

“So what I’ve found is that the process of teaching also is a great gift because I find these musicians that inspire me,” he added.

One part of that is a weekend workshop called Bass Bootcamp in Wyomissing, Penn., at the Institute of the Arts from March 21-23, 2003. For information, visit www.geraldveasley.com.

He said that providing inspiration to young musicians is very important to him. “I never would have dreamed I could become a professional musician, and make a living doing something I have such a passion for. It’s daunting to think of making a living that way,” he said. “It takes a lot of belief, but it can be done. I’m proof positive it can be done.”

Gerald Veasley will perform at 8 p.m. on Feb. 14 at Augusta’s very own Imperial Theatre. Tickets are priced at $28.50 (orchestra and mezzanine) and $25.50 (first and second balcony) and are available at the Imperial Theatre Box Office and online at www.tixonline.com. The Imperial theatre is located at 749 Broad Street in Augusta. For information, call (706) 722-8293. Or if you like you can visit the Web site at www.imperialtheatre.com.

“Well, jazz ... I think it’s one of the more romantic art forms. Certainly something really sensual and seductive.”

- Gerald Veasley

“It’s fun for me to talk about,” he said. “It’s a learning experience for me. Every time you make a record, you don’t know what’s going to happen. You have a plan, and at the end of it you want to create something that represents you or your ideas in a certain way. It’s not an easy thing to do. This is the first record I’ve ever done that’s exactly what I imagined. It’s exactly the record I heard in my head.”

And he’s been at it for a while.

According to www.geraldveasley.com, he has been playing bass since the age of 12. He won a four-year academic scholarship from the University of Pennsylvania. In his junior year, he lost his father, and turned to music to get himself through it, and soon delved into classical guitar to round out his knowledge.

“I kind of got started as a professional musician in 1980,” he said. His music career has taken him on tours throughout Europe and Japan. “It’s afforded me the opportunity to meet people, travel and try my hand at various forms of music,” he said, citing Brazilian and African influences, among others.

al. It can be sentimental.”

He said it is a musical form perfect for reminiscing, and has provided the music for the soundtrack of his life. “I know my wife and I actually met at a jazz concert,” he said.

How’s that for romance?

“In instrumental music, words don’t necessarily get in the way,” he said. “Those songs can be a shared language between two people.” He is looking forward to inspiring the couples in the audience that evening, which, incidentally, is going to be Feb. 14.

“Hopefully, that evening, we’ll help them create some new memories and hopefully reconnect with some old ones as well.”

Love Affair With Jazz Veasley said that, once you see him and the band you will never again think of the bass guitar in quite the same way. He uses it as a lead instrument, an adaptation that gives his work a deep, sultry sound.

“They should know that I’m an artist that you can’t really pigeonhole or pin down,” he said.

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As you can see, her paintings electrify those defining moments with a vibrant color scheme. (I’d better stop before I start sounding like an art critic.) Go see the works for yourself. There will be a reception at the museum on Feb. 2 from 3-5 p.m. at 1116 Phillips Street.

Exhibit lasts through Feb. 27. Admission is $3 general admission and $1 per child. Call (706) 724-3576.

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t’s Black History Month again. Time to reflect on the contributions that black leaders have made to the cause of equality and diversity. This is the second year that the Student National Dental Association of the Medical College of Georgia has gotten together to provide a film festival geared toward celebrating these leaders from politics, the press and literature.

The festival is divided into three parts. On Thursday, Feb. 13, the focus will be on “the black experience.” Each day, two short films will be shown. On the 13th, the films will deal with “the black press,” and “blacks and Jews.”

The president of the Student National Dental Association is a third-year dental student named Theron Jones (pictured), who spoke about the first two films.

“They were kind of the spreaders of knowledge,” he said of the black press. “They’ve been around for a while but they really started to have their influence during the Depression and the civil rights movement.”

The purpose of those papers, he said, was simply to provide blacks with information about people in the black community and about issues affecting them.

“The white newspaper simply didn’t carry it,” he said.

As for “the blacks and Jews” film, he added, the two cultures shared many similarities. The film describes how the two groups have worked together in the past and the tensions that have subsequently come between them. The histories of the two groups, in America and abroad, have been very similar, he said.

The Leaders On Feb. 20, the films will explore the lives of two respected authors, including Richard Wright, who has been called one of America’s greatest black writers. He was born the son of a sharecropper in Mississippi, the product of another world.

It was 1908, and the Wright family lived a life of poverty, in a world which would leave its mark on his fiction. He is an author who experimented with genre, amassing a body of work spanning drama, fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

The book of poetry that came out of Wright’s fascination with that particular form, focused on haiku. It’s titled, “Haiku: This Other World,” and was not published until 1998. In 1941, he published one dramatic work, “Native Son (The Biography of a Young American): A Play in Ten

By Rhonda Jones

Scenes,” with Paul Green.

He lived from 1908 to 1960.

The other author of the evening, James Baldwin, was born in 1924 in Harlem and died in St. Paul-de-Vence, France, in 1987.

His was not a happy childhood. His first novel, published in 1953, was “Go Tell It on the Mountain.”

On Feb 27, the last day of the film festival, the first film will focus on W.E.B. Dubois, who lived from 1868 to 1963, and who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

He was a sociologist who devoted his life to the study of black society in America, and published extensively. His books include “The Oxford W.E.B. Dubois Reader,” which is a collection of his works, including some that are drawn from the sociological studies he conducted.

The last film of the festival deals with the American civil rights movement.

Jones feels that the importance of a minority group like the Student National Dental Association providing such a program lies in the necessity for blacks to define their own experiences.

“A lot of times in the black community,

we rely on other folks to tell our story and tell our history,” Jones said. “Since it is Black History Month, the Student National Dental Association, for minority students, should have such a forum and present such information to the public.”

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National Security (PG-13) — Mar tin Lawrence and Steve Zahn play L.A.P.D. rejects on both ends of the spectrum who get paired up as security guards.

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The Recruit (PG-13) — Al Pacino, as CIA recruiter Walter Burke, takes young MIT grad James Clay ton (Colin Farrell) " through the looking glass," for spy training and tough tests at The Farm, the CIA school outside Washington. His insider hook on Clay ton is that he might have the secret the younger man needs to know, about the dead father whom he suspects died on a CIA mission in 1990. The story tangles boyish Clay ton with the recruit Layla (Bridget Moynahan), another go-for-it brain with a similar taste for danger. The story twists and snaps through the set tings with tricky confidence, and the modern device of using computers fits this plot snugly. "The Recruit" manages the commercially savvy trick of being both insolent and patriotic about the CIA. It will probably recruit some fans. Cast: Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Gabriel Macht, Bridget Moynahan. Running time: 1 hr., 45 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★ The Ring (PG-13) — begins with the telling of an urban-legend-like tale that, for a while, seems likely to consign this movie to the slasher/horror bin: A weird videotape is circulating. As soon as you're through watching it, the telephone rings. A voice on the phone informs you that you have seven days to live. Seven days later, you die. The film boasts first-rate per formances, a gorgeous look, an engaging plot and a jangly, thrumming sense of dread. The ef fectiveness of such a movie depends entirely on the beholder. Save for a long, uneasy feeling of foreboding and one solid jolt, I didn't find it all that scary. Two young women exiting

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the theater in front of me, however, declared that the thing had terrified them, and I'm willing to take their word for it. Cast: Naomi Wat ts, Mar tin Henderson, David Dor fman, Brian Cox. Running time: 1 hr., 55 mins. (Salm) ★★1/2 School Daze (R) — This film reaches back into the Spike Lee vault to present issues that are as relevant today as they were in 1987. Lee peeks in on the lives of a set of middle-class African-American youths at a Southern college. The two main men, one a political and social activist, the other a frat boy, occupy both ends of the spectrum. It’s a tool that Lee uses to examine intraracial conflict. Cast: Tisha Campbell, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito.

Shanghai Knights (PG-13) — Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson return as Chon Wang and Roy O’Bannon in this sequel to “Shanghai Noon.” When Wang’s father is murdered by a Chinese rebel, who flees to England, the pair travel to London to get revenge. They meet up with Wang’s sister Liu, who has discovered a conspiracy to murder the royal family. Cast: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Donnie Yen.

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (PG) — A cheer ful theme park of a comedy about

junior spies, with a bigger budget and more inventive fun than the 2001 original (the plot is no advance).

Rober t Rodriguez directed, wrote, helped with the digital ef fects and gizmo touches, including excellent creatures. The many Hispanic rif fs do not land with PC heaviness, and the lively cast includes Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara as the main kids, plus Antonio Banderas, Steve Buscemi, Carla Gugino, Alan Cumming, Bill Pa x ton, Tony Shalhoub, Danny Trejo, Cheech Marin and (still macho at 81) Ricardo Montalban. Running time: 1 hr., 27 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★ Sweet Home Alabama (PG-13) — Only a year and two weeks af ter New York became our most tormented but inspiring city, it is upstaged by a happy hicksville called Pigeon Creek. Why? Because cute "Mel" (Reese Witherspoon) fled poor-folks marriage to Pigeon Creek sweethear t Jake (Josh Lucas). She is now a light of Manhat tan as fashion designer Melanie Carmichael. And she has the love of politically upward dreamboat Andrew (Patrick Dempsey, son of The

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Apple's tough but dishy mayor, Candice Bergen). Andy doesn't know that his betrothed is still married to 'Bama boy Jake, who is hur t, haunted and planning his own rise from mediocrity. Mel returns home for a divorce, puts on her corn-pone accent instantly, and rediscovers the joys of Pigeon Creek. Director Andy Tennant serves this corny material with the skill of a machine punching out Alabama license plates. Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Fred Ward, Mary Kay Place, Candice Bergen. Running time: 1 hr., 40 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ They (PG-13) — A grad student witnesses a horrifying incident, which rekindles her childhood fears of the dark and night terrors. Soon, she finds herself wondering if the images that plagued her as a child were real. Cast: Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Dagmara Dominczyk, Ethan Embry, John Abrahams.

Treasure Planet (PG) — The movie transmutes Rober t Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" into the heavily digitalized animation of a "Star Wars" of fshoot.

Now Jim is a very American and stalwar t 'toon-teen voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levit t, and Silver (Brian Murray) is a huge cyborg with an old-salt pirate face and tech arms wor thy of the Terminator on a hardware rampage. A space movie that has interstellar craf t with lof ty, luminous sails and crusty barnacles on hulls is so absurd that it's charming. In visual fer tility, "Treasure Planet" rivals the top Japanese animations of recent vintage. For the sub-13 crowd (and many beyond it), this is satisfying enter tainment.

Voices: Joseph Gordon-Levit t, Emma Thompson, Michael Wincot t, Brian Murray, Mar tin Shor t, Laurie Metcalf, Roscoe Lee Browne, Patrick McGoohan.

Running time: 1 hr., 35 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★ Two Weeks Notice (PG-13) — Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) is a smar t but stressed at torney whose client, millionaire George Wade (Hugh Grant), is deeply dependent on her. George won’t let her quit until she finds her own replacement – a young lawyer who has her eye on George. George, however, is looking elsewhere: at what just lef t. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Wit t.

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He takes young MIT grad James Clayton (Colin Farrell) “through the looking glass,” for spy training and tough tests at The Farm, the CIA school outside Washington.

“Nothing is what it seems,” says devilbearded Burke, who has a wavering Southern accent and is like a stringy East Coast brother of Waylon Jennings. His insider hook on Clayton is that he might have the secret the younger man needs to know, about the dead father whom he suspects died on a CIA mission in 1990.

The story, directed very capably on the good side of slickness by Roger Donaldson, tangles boyish Clayton (for some maturity, Farrell keeps a three-day growth of beard) with the recruit Layla (Bridget Moynahan), another go-for-it brain with a similar taste for danger.

They spark, and their erotic tension helps humanize the training sessions and the tests, which start to shift into real espionage duty.

Pacino keeps dropping in to preside, pulling wires on the young talent and making them stay very alert. Farrell and Moynahan can stand up to him as actors, just barely. Pacino’s old-duke cockiness fits a wizard of control like Burke, the master spook. His co-stars are more generic, and like composites, Farrell combining needy James Dean eyes with the look of the young Alec Baldwin, while from different angles Moynahan looks like Ashley Judd or Toni Collette.

Main scripter is Roger Towne, brother of the famous screenwriter Robert, though some of the oiled and bolted cleverness may be due to writer Kurt Wimmer, who did such a bright pro job with the “Thomas Crown Affair” remake.

The lines have a contempo zip, as when Clayton snorts that the CIA is “a bunch of fat old white guys who fell asleep when we needed them most,” and we see in the snake eyes of Burke, who “doesn’t sleep,” that the recruit will eat those words.

Director Donaldson, whose work runs from “The Bounty” and “The Getaway” far down to “Cocktail,” has a feel for Washington. As in “No Way Out,” he relishes the big-piled, institutional heft of D.C., this time favoring less marble and more urban grit such as train yards. The story twists and snaps through the settings with tricky confidence, and the modern device of using computers, usually a lazy time-saver tool, fits this plot snugly.

In “No Way Out” Donaldson cooked one of the sexiest scenes of the ‘80s, with Kevin Costner in the back of a car under full assault from Sean Young (her brief stardom flamed from the scene).

Nothing to match it this time. Moynahan has a swell come-on to Farrell in a parking garage, but is fated to fall into shadow behind Pacino, as Young did to villainous honcho Gene Hackman in the 1987 thriller.

“The Recruit” manages the commercially savvy trick of being both insolent and patriotic about the CIA. There’s one “fat old white guy” who seems to live for happy hour, but mostly the Agency seems trim, taut and ready for action. It will probably recruit some fans of this movie.

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REGAL AUGUSTA EXCHANGE 20 Movies Good 2/7 - 2/13 Deliver Us From Eva (R) Fri-Sat: 1:45, 4:20, 7:45, 10:10, 12:30; Sun-Thur: 1:45, 4:20, 7:45, 10:10 Shanghai Knights (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 11:50, 12:40, 2:20, 3:15, 4:50, 7:15, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30, 12:25; Sun-Thur: 11:50, 12:40, 2:20, 3:15, 4:50, 7:15, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 12:00, 1:30, 2:50, 4:05, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:35, 12:20; Sun-Thur: 12:00, 1:30, 2:50, 4:05, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:35 Final Destination 2 (R) Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:05, 5:15, 7:55, 10:20, 12:35; Sun-Thur: 12:30, 3:05, 5:15, 7:55, 10:20 The Recruit (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05, 12:40; Sun-Thur:12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Biker Boyz (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 12:15, 12:45, 2:55, 3:25, 5:30, 7:05, 8:05, 9:45, 10:40, 12:30; SunThur: 12:15, 12:45, 2:55, 3:25, 5:30, 7:05, 8:05, 9:45, 10:40 The Hours (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:25, 12:00; Sun-Thur: 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:25 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (R) 12:10, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Darkness Falls (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 1:15, 3:35, 5:45, 8:15, 10:25, 12:45; Sun-Thur: 1:15, 3:35, 5:45, 8:15, 10:25 National Security (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 12:35, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:30, 11:45; Sun-Thur: 12:35, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:30 Chicago (PG-13) 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Antwone Fisher (PG-13) 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 10:00 Just Married (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55, 12:15; Sun-Thur: 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Kangaroo Jack (PG) Fri-Sat: 12:25, 2:25, 4:35, 6:45, 9:00, 11:10; Sun-Thur: 12:25, 2:25, 4:35, 6:45, 9:00 Catch Me If You Can (PG-13) 4:10, 9:35 Two Weeks Notice (PG-13) 1:10, 7:10 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (PG-13) 1:25, 5:20, 9:05 Drumline (PG-13) 1:35, 4:25, 7:35,10:15 EVANS 12 CINEMAS Movies Good 2/7 - 2/13 How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days (PG-13) Fri-Sun: 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Mon-Thur: 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Shanghai Knights (PG-13) Fri-Sun: 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55; Mon-Thur: 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 Adaptation (R) Fri: 7:00; Sat-Sun: 1:00, 7:00; Mon-Thur: 7:00 The Recruit (PG-13) Fri-Sun: 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30; Mon-Thur: 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 Final Destination 2 (R) Fri: 3:30, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00; Sat-Sun: 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00; Mon-Thur: 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Chicago (PG-13) Fri-Sun: 2:00, 4:20, 7:05, 9:20; Mon-Thur: 4:20, 7:05, 9:20 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (R) 4:00, 9:30 Darkness Falls (PG-13) Fri: 3:35, 5:35, 7:35,

9:35; Sat-Sun: 1:35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35, 9:35; MonThur: 5:35, 7:35, 9:35 About Schmidt (R) Fri: 4:10, 7:10, 9:40; Sat-Sun: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40; Mon-Thur: 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG) Fri: 3:25, 5:25, 7:25, 9:25; Sat-Sun: 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:25, 9:25; Mon-Thur: 5:25, 7:25, 9:25 Just Married (PG-13) Fri: 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45; Sat-Sun: 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45; Mon-Thur: 5:45, 7:45, 9:45 Kangaroo Jack (PG) Fri: 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15; Sat-Sun: 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15; Mon-Thur: 5:15, 7:15, 9:15 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (PG-13) Fri: 4:40, 8:20; Sat-Sun: 1:00, 4:40, 8:20; Mon-Thur: 4:40, 8:20 MASTERS 7 CINEMAS Movies Good 2/7 - 2/13 Deliver Us From Eva (R) Fri: 5:00, 7:30, 9:45; Sat: 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45; Sun: 2:30, 5:00, 7:30; Mon-Thur: 5:00, 7:30 Shanghai Knights (PG-13) Fri: 5:20, 7:50, 10:10; Sat: 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10; Sun: 2:50, 5:20, 7:50; Mon-Thur: 5:20, 7:50 How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days (PG-13) Fri: 5:10, 7:40, 10:00; Sat: 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00; Sun: 2:40, 5:10, 7:40; Mon-Thur: 5:10, 7:40 Biker Boyz (PG-13) Fri: 5:15, 7:45, 9:55; Sat: 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 9:55; Sun: 2:45, 5:15, 7:45; Mon-Thur: 5:15, 7:45 Final Destination 2 (PG-13) Fri: 5:25, 8:00, 10:05; Sat: 2:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:05; Sun: 2:55, 5:25, 8:00; Mon-Thur: 5:25, 8:00 Kangaroo Jack (PG) Fri: 5:05, 7:55, 9:50; Sat: 3:00, 5:05, 7:55, 9:50; Sun: 3:00, 5:05, 7:55; Mon-Thur: 5:05, 7:55 National Security (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 5:30, 10:15; Sun-Thur: 5:30 Antwone Fisher (PG-13) Fri: 7:35; Sat-Sun: 2:35, 7:35; Mon-Thur: 7:35 REGAL 12 CINEMAS Movies Good 2/7 - 2/13 Die Another Day (PG-13) 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Friday After Nex t (R) 2:00, 4:45, 7:00, 9:25 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG) 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 Analyze That (R) 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:00 They (PG-13) 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 9:30 Half Past Dead (PG-13) 2:35, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 8 Mile (R) 2:25, 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 The Ring (PG-13) 2:40, 5:00, 7:25, 9:40 Treasure Planet (PG) 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 9:40 Sweet Home Alabama (PG-13) 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Brown Sugar (PG-13) 2:15, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 Spy Kids 2 (PG) 2:00, 4:25, 7:35, 9:55 ASU SPRING FILM SERIES Movie Good 2/10 Chunhyang (R) Mon: 7:00

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here are just some times you wish you could be in two places at once. This weekend may be one of them. It’s First Friday time again – and there are some new plans thrown into the mix on that front. There’s also an opportunity to rock like you did back in the day, a new club to check out and live reggae and jazz to chill out to. We could ask you what you’re waiting for, but we already know the answer – Friday.

So You Wanna Rock The current lineup of local heavy metal outfit El Diablo Niños has been years in the making.

“Eddie and I, he and I have played together on and off probably 20 years, in different bands and also in separate bands,” says guitarist Jim Diablo. “Ted, he’s originally from Wisconsin. He played with several bands in that area and toured the Midwest. Eddie and I have been mostly just East Coast.”

If that time span gives you some sort of idea what El Diablo Niños are all about – and that idea involves straight-up, old-school rock – you’re probably right.

“We all grew up listening to bands like Kiss,” Jim says. “We got into stuff like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, stuff like that.”

“It’s an old style. It’s really not around anymore,” says vocalist and lyric master Eduardo Diablo. “It’s powerful rock ‘n’ roll, with some show thrown in. We grew up going to shows back when you could pay $7 to see Kiss and get your money’s worth.”

In the grand tradition of rock ‘n’ roll showmen like Kiss, he says of El Diablo Niños’ shows, “We’d like for people to see we’re getting into it.

We’d like people to enjoy the music as much as the show.”

Besides the pyrotechnics and billowing fog spilling you’re liable to see,

Turtleneck

“It is a power trio in the strictest sense of the word but very punky and melodic.”

- Brian Allen of Turtleneck the band has some special plans for the stage setup.

“The stage kind of takes on a medieval look,” Jim says. “There’s not

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a lot of places we can play in Augusta and get the full effect. We haven’t played Augusta for a while.”

Though El Diablo Niños have

gained exposure and a following elsewhere around the region, they’ve found their hometown crowd to be a bit tougher to crack.

“We’ve played Savannah, Columbia, Atlanta,” says Eduardo. “We’d like to get some people behind us in Augusta.”

Eduardo, who pens the group’s lyrics, admits that the messages behind most El Diablo Niños songs lean toward fantasy, a trend borrowed from the heavy metal greats of decades gone by.

“With the rap-metal, the focus is on ‘me,’” he says, explaining the difference between the rock outfits El Diablo Niños idolize and those that populate the airwaves today. “We’re kind of escapist. It’s kind of like a fantasy, things that just kind of take you away from what’s going on in the world.”

“We do deal with the dark side of life,” adds Jim. “We do come out with a message.”

And that message?

“Things are rough, but there’s always the opportunity to turn it around,” says Eduardo.

Over the years, the members of El Diablo Niños have seen music acts and trends come and go, but Jim is certain that El Diablo Niños are in it for the long haul.

“We’re still out here doing it. It’s just fun,” he says. “We don’t look to make money. It’s not about making money.

It’s about making music that we enjoy playing. ... We’re just enjoying getting up and having a good show.”

In addition to Jim and Eduardo, there’s Ted, a.k.a. Brand X, on drums and Larenzo Diablo, who joined the band six months ago after they and their original bassist decided to part ways. And the restructuring isn’t through yet; El Diablo Niños is even on the lookout for a second guitarist.

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And there was one last question The Spirit just had to ask – what’s up with the Diablo names?

“It’s kind of a brotherhood,” says Eduardo. “Everybody’s a Diablo, so we just kind of take our first names – we give everybody a Diablo name. You can be Lisa Diablo.”

“We make everybody feel like brothers,” Jim says. “Everybody’s part of the band.”

El Diablo Niños plays a rare Augusta show Friday, Feb. 7, at Club Continuum. Bands Iron Horse and Heavy Dose will be opening. For more information, visit El Diablo Niños’ Web site at www.eldiabloninos.com.

Wrap Yourself up in Turtleneck OK, so we’re a week early on this one, but trust us: It’s information you want to keep in mind.

Maybe you’ve heard of the band Turtleneck by now. Even though their first show was just a few weeks ago, the three members bring years of musical experience in some of Augusta’s most popular bands to the table. In fact, you’re probably already pretty familiar with the members. Brian Allen and Lance McAnly of Neato Torpedo make up the drum and bass portions of the band, respectively. Henry Wynn from Deathstar rounds out Turtleneck’s lineup as guitarist and vocalist.

“It is a power trio in the strictest sense of the word,” Allen says. “But very punky and melodic.”

By the way, we can’t forget to mention that Allen took home the award for favorite drummer at last weekend’s Lokal Loudness Awards, which should give you an indication of what’s to come when Turtleneck plays next.

“We’re very excited about this project and anxious for folks to hear it,” he says.

If you just gotta see them – and we know you do – Turtleneck will be performing Valentine’s Day night at Crossroads with Deviltown. Bring your sweetie and check out something new.

If you’ve already made your plans for Feb. 14, and they don’t involve a punky and melodic power trio, but you’re still bent on checking out Turtleneck live and in person, don’t despair. A March 1 show is planned at the Hard Knocks Lounge.

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Additional Music Happenings Don’t forget the rebirth of First Friday this weekend, with music, art and other entertainment planned for Eighth Street. The Soul Bar, the Metro Coffeehouse and The Bee’s Knees all host art openings. The Chariot Reggae Band will provide live reggae at the Soul Bar. Live jazz will be the order of the night at The Bee’s Knees.

This weekend also marks the grand opening of the Hard Knocks Lounge, and Jemani is scheduled to play Friday and Saturday. Kaman and Lythium open Feb. 7, and 420 Outback opens Feb. 8.

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After all, it was only a “short” two decades between their excellent 2000 Grammy Award-winning LP, “Two Against Nature,” and their previous outing, “Gaucho.”

The Dan’s DONALD FAGEN and WALTER BECKER have been notorious for inviting the best session musicians that money can buy.

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Singles such as “Reeling in the Years,” “Hey Nineteen,” “Pretzel Logic” and “Peg” are heard on most classic rock stations every day.

Steely Dan has surprised almost everyone in the biz with the recent announcement of their upcoming disc “Everything Must Go.” Due in stores in May, it features such hot players as guitarist HUGH MCCRACKEN and JON HERRINGTON, keyboardists TED BAKER and BILL CHARLAP and drummer KEITH CARLOCK. The band has a spring and summer U.S. tour planned in support of the album as well, with dates set to be announced soon.

Road Warrior 2003 Dept.

DAVE MATTHEWS and guitarist TIM REYNOLDS are gearing up for another short

domestic tour beginning in March. Whether with his band or duo work, Matthews likes to stay busy either in the studio or on the road.

Their closest gig to Augusta? The two will perform March 25 at the Belk Arena in Davidson, N.C., and March 29 at Appalachian State University’s Holmes Center in Boone, N.C. Road trip!

PEARL JAM will again market recordings of shows from their upcoming winter tour.

Members of the band’s Ten Club (PearlJam.com) can pre-order the first 15 shows at around $13 a pop. The band created quite a stir when they sold tons of CDs in the same fashion from their 2000 tour. A staggering 14 different concerts actually charted on Billboard’s Album Charts, which obviously led to the decision to repeat the process.

Some of these performances may eventually make it to traditional retail outlets.

Turner’s Quick Notes: ERIC CLAPTON and PINK FLOYD’S DAVID GILMOUR contribute to RINGO STARR’S forthcoming studio set in March … Progressive rocksters KING CRIMSON have a new studio release, “The Power To Believe,” in stores this week … DAWSON HARDY of local faves REDBELLY says that the band is putting the finishing touches on their new album, due soon … Former SMASHING PUMPKINS leader BILLY CORGAN has his new band ZWAN’S first release out now.

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Chevelle appears with Trust Co. Feb. 6 at the 40 Watt Club in Athens.

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Saturday, 8th The Bee’s Knees - Sweet Nuthin’ Saturdays Blind Pig - Shameless Dave and the Miracle Whips Borders - Rod Macker t Cadillac’s - New Day Cafe Du Teau - Buzz Clif ford Capri Cinema - Kill the Author, Monroe Brown, Diesect, Siclid Club Argos - Petite De JonVille Bir thday Celebration, Argos Angels Cabaret with Claire Storm, Sasha, Taylor Collins Coconuts - DJs Doug and Eric Continuum - Divine Starr Cotton Patch - Bamboo Coyote’s - The Rhes Reeves Band Crossroads - Crankshaf t, Beam D. Timm’s - Joe Patchen and the Blue Diamond

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Sunday, 9th Cafe Du Teau - Buzz Clif ford and The Last Bohemian Quar tet Pizza Joint - Rachel and Will The Shack - Karaoke with Buckwheat and Doober Somewhere in Augusta - Jason Sabo Whiskey Junction - Karaoke by Tom

Monday, 10th Coliseum - Q.A.F. Continuum - Monday Madness with Perry Anderson Crossroads - Dance Par ty with DJ Chris Greene Streets - Karaoke Joe’s Underground - Michael Baideme Metro Coffeehouse - Tear in My Beer Classic Country The Shack - DJ Billy

Tuesday, 11th Adams Nightclub - Karaoke with Bill Tolber t The Bee’s Knees - Comin’ ‘Round the Bend

Classic Country and Bluegrass DJ Coliseum - Tournament Tuesday D. Timm’s - Joe Patchen and the Blue Diamond Express Greene Streets - Karaoke Joe’s Underground - John Kolbeck Metro Coffeehouse - Irish Music with Sibin Michael’s - Marilyn Adcock The Shack - DJ Billy

Wednesday, 12th The Bee’s Knees - Blue in Green Coliseum - Wet ‘n’ Wild Wednesday Continuum - Open Mic Night Coyote’s - The Rhes Reeves Band Crossroads - Bat tery D. Timm’s - Joe Patchen and the Blue Diamond Express Greene Streets - Women’s Country and Western National Karaoke Contest Joe’s Underground - John Kolbeck Michael’s - Marilyn Adcock Playground - Karaoke with Dave Long The Shack - DJ Billy Somewhere in Augusta - John Kolbeck Soul Bar - Live Jazz

Upcoming 13th Annual Miss Valentine’s Day Pageant Coliseum - Feb. 14 Jerry Halliday - Club Argos - Feb. 15 Southern Soul Festival - Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center - Feb. 21

Elsewhere Trust Co., Chevelle - 40 Wat t Club, Athens, Ga. - Feb. 6

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Feb. 21 Gary Allan - Cowboys Atlanta, Kennesaw, Ga. Feb. 21 Susan Tedeschi - Roxy Theatre, Atlanta - Feb. 22 Steve Earle - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta - Feb. 22 Karan Casey - Red Light Cafe, Atlanta - Feb. 22 Afrifest with Ras Kimono, Aju, Edi Kriz Okri Masquerade, Atlanta - Feb. 22 Todd Snider - Tasty World, Athens, Ga. - Feb. 22 Pat Green - Georgia Theatre, Athens, Ga. - Feb. 22 CKY, Lennon - Cot ton Club, Atlanta - Feb. 22; Uncle Doctor’s, Columbia, S.C. - Feb. 23 Greenwheel - Cot ton Club, Atlanta - Feb. 24 Engelbert Humperdinck - Gaillard Auditorium, Charleston, S.C. - Feb. 26 Double Drive - Cot ton Club, Atlanta - Feb. 27 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - The Arena at Gwinnet t Center, Duluth, Ga. - Feb. 28 Clutch - Masquerade, Atlanta - Feb. 28 King Crimson - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta March 1 Vince Gill - Ear thlink Live, Atlanta - March 1 Maroon 5 - Cot ton Club, Atlanta - March 1 Tim Easton - Red Light Cafe, Atlanta - March 1 Sum 41 - The Tabernacle, Atlanta - March 2 Bill Gaither and Friends - Charlot te Coliseum, Charlot te, N.C. - March 7 The Smiling Assassins - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta - March 8 Les Nubians - Cot ton Club, Atlanta - March 8 Smiling Assassins - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta March 8; Georgia Theatre, Athens, Ga. - March 11 Grenadier Guards - Fox Theatre, Atlanta March 9 Yanni - Philips Arena, Atlanta - March 11 Stereomud, Saliva, Breaking Benjamin - Roxy Theatre, Atlanta - March 13 Sister Hazel, Indigo Girls, Edwin McCain Ear thlink Live, Atlanta - March 22 Many tickets are available through TicketMaster outlets, by calling 828-7700, or online at w w w.ticketmaster.com. Tickets may also be available through Tix Online by calling 278-4TIX or online at w w w.tixonline.com. Night Life listings are subject to change without notice.

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51-year-old woman (calling herself “Mrs. B”) picketed the Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich, Conn., on Jan. 15 over an alarming crisis: She believes she has for six years been possessed by from one to 19 demons, yet the church (six dioceses in three states) will not assign her an exorcist, which she says is “unpardonable neglect.”

Among her signs: writhing, speaking in tongues, and having her eyes move “without my permission.”

• Following a religious experience, Michael Braithwaite of the mountain village of Putney, Ky., recently converted his Love World shop (selling vibrators and other porn paraphernalia) to Mike’s Place (selling Bibles and other Christian items).

(However, according to a December report in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a 31year-old government lawyer has developed a side business that may bridge both of Braithwaite’s lines: The lawyer manufactures and sells high-quality, silicone sex toys in the shapes of religious icons, such as Moses, Satan and a nun, at prices of $54 to $65 each. One sex shop owner in San Francisco’s freewheeling Castro district said he might stock the “Jackhammer Jesus” model, but that his Buddhist customers would be offended at the Buddha model.)

Readers’ Choice • Edward Blaine, 61, who served 20 years in prison for a 1963 bank robbery, apparently is becoming even less competent with age, as he was arrested in January and charged with robbing the Union Bank & Trust branch in Port Royal, Va. Police said Blaine fled with the stash while $100 bills were falling out of his pockets, and then he realized as he arrived at his getaway car that he had locked the keys inside. He grabbed a log to smash the window but tossed it away in frustration, only to have it hit Emmett Lowe’s truck, thus angering Lowe, who grabbed a gun and chased Blaine for 150 yards. In a struggle, Blaine shot at Lowe but hit himself in the leg, just before Lowe shot Blaine in the same leg.

News of the Weird Advice • If you ever run into these people, here’s what to do: (1) If you’re playing horseshoes with Fred William Leigh, and he says it’s a ringer, it’s a ringer. (The insistent Leigh, 60, was convicted of shooting his disagreeing opponent in the stomach with a .38; Frederick, Md., December.) (2) Don’t demand fresh bacon with your eggs from Steven Deere, 50, when the rest of his family is having leftover pork. (Deere was charged with shooting his stepson with a 9 mm pistol; Pittsburgh, December.) (3) Don’t insult Amanda Hicks’ baby. (The 20-yearold and two girlfriends allegedly punched, kicked, kneed, stripped and burned the man, and raped him with two different objects; Panama City, Fla., December.)

Compelling Explanations • In January, a judge at London’s Old Bailey released 31-time recidivist Mark Patterson, 42, after his 32nd conviction, for burglary, because Patterson claimed that he needed drug rehabilitation so he could fulfill his calling as a poet. (His subsequent ode to the judge, in part: “I’ve now been set free / in a blaze of publicity / so that everyone can see / my great ability.”)

• Ayub Ali Khan, 36, who was held in a Brooklyn, N.Y., jail for 13 months after being detained as suspicious in the aftermath of Sept. 11, told a Washington Post reporter in January, “I feel I am the real victim of (Sept. 11). Just look at how much my family and I suffered.” Khan was deported to Hyderabad, India, after pleading guilty to credit card fraud (using and selling fake credit cards and other bogus documents).

• Richard Hobbs, who solicits tips in public by making balloon sculptures for children, filed a lawsuit against Westchester County, N.Y., for denying him the right to work the crowd at the county’s Playland Amusement Park. In the course of defending the lawsuit, the county discovered that Hobbs had been convicted in 1978 and 1982 of sexual abuse of children. However, Hobbs persisted with the lawsuit, and in December, federal judge John Martin ordered the two parties to settle among themselves the issue of which areas of the park are commercial and which are traditional park space, in that Hobbs apparently has a constitutional right to practice his craft in traditional park spaces.

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• A judge in Monroe County, N.Y., denied Jerold Ponder’s application for a handgun permit, but Ponder is appealing that decision, even though he is currently in jail charged with the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend. Ponder’s best-case-scenario defense is that it was just an accident, occurring while he and the girlfriend were target-shooting with a rifle, and that that incident is not relevant to whether he is safety-conscious enough to carry a pistol.

• According to the prosecutor at the Waterloo, Iowa, theft trial of Bradley Steven Bailey, 21, in December, not only did Bailey steal a day’s bank deposit for the Hardee’s restaurant where he worked and leave town, but after he was arrested and jailed, he wrote a letter to the Hardee’s manager saying he was sorry but that he never did get his final paycheck, and could it please be mailed to him.

Creme de la Weird • Margie Schoendinger of the Houston suburb of Missouri City, Texas, filed a lawsuit in December against George W. Bush for a lengthy series of alleged actions while he was governor, including “watching” her and “having sex” with her and her husband. The rambling and non sequitur-laden complaint, filed in Fort Bend County Court and reported on by the weekly Fort Bend Star, names the Sugar Land (Texas) Police Department as corroborating many of the plaintiff’s allegations (example: that “plaintiff had seven dates, which became seven lovers, had told no lies, committed no crimes, gotten two traffic tickets, and dated George W. Bush as a minor”), but a department spokesman said no one had any idea what Schoendinger was talking about.

— Chuck Shepherd © United Press Syndicate

Brezsny's Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Aries Actress Lara Flynn Boyle was a presenter at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Jan. 19. She wore a pink ballerina outfit, complete with a poofy tutu, that was appropriate for an 8-year-old girl doing a dance recital. Despite her outrageously comical get-up, Boyle never cracked a hint of a playful smile while on camera. Her expression was at best piercing, at worst glowering. There was, in other words, a huge discrepancy between her apparent desire to have fun, as suggested by her costume, and her almost scary intensity. In contrast to Boyle’s inability to synthesize the two sides of her Aries nature, I hope you will find the perfect blend of ferocious concentration and cheerful friskiness in the coming week.

“Use it or lose it” has long been a key dogma in the theory of evolution. Biologists have believed that if a species accidentally develops a certain new characteristic but then fails to incorporate it as a vital feature, it’s gone forever. Recently, however, researchers have begun to question this tenet.

They’ve found evidence that the “walking stick” insects known as phasmids have, over the last 300 million years, lost their wings because of disuse but then re-evolved them. I bring this up in the hope that it will encourage you, Cancerian, to recognize an equally improbable scenario in your own life: The omens say you’re about to get a second chance to capitalize on an advantage you allowed to atrophy in the past.

Many college football bowl games now include their corporate sponsors in their names: the FedEx Orange Bowl and Nokia Sugar Bowl, for instance. Some financially strapped public schools near where I live may soon go the same route, becoming Toyota Heritage High School and Washington Middle School Sponsored by Nike. This is an excellent time for you Tauruses to look for a comparable branding opportunity. Maybe you could get a playground or park bench or bridge named after you. According to the astrological omens, your power to stamp your identity on your environment is at a peak.

Have you ever felt a tension between your drive to be yourself and your longing to be in love? I’m guessing you did last September, when Jupiter and Neptune were opposite each other in the sky. But when the same planetary scenario recurs in the coming days, I suspect you’ll be shown a way to resolve that tension. And in early June, when Jupiter and Neptune take on the same configuration a third and last time, I predict you’ll have a breakthrough in which you dramatically harmonize your drive to express your unique beauty and your urge to blend your life with another’s.

“Dear Dr. Brezsny: I’ve been told by astrologers that I’m a natural money magnet. So why am I still poor?

I pray constantly to the Almighty for financial help, and twice a week I buy lottery tickets. But no luck has come my way! Please tell me whether I will win the lottery. Better yet, give me the magic winning numbers. -Gemini Who’s Crazy for Green.” Dear Crazy: You’ll never win the lottery with your current approach. The only chance you have to generate luck of that magnitude will be if you work your ass off for the next two years to create your dream job.

Perfumes to avoid in the coming week if you’re female: Addict by Christian Dior; Envy by Gucci; Baby Doll by Yves Saint Laurent. Perfumes that will bring luck and intelligence: Sunflowers by Elizabeth Arden; Intuition by Estée Lauder; Vivid

by Liz Claiborne. Colognes to avoid if you’re male: Obsession by Calvin Klein; Mania by Giorgio Armani; Egoiste by Chanel. Colognes that will inspire good fortune and insight: Truth by Calvin Klein; Wings by Giorgio Beverly Hills; Safari by Ralph Lauren; Horizon by Guy Laroche. (P.S. All

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

In ancient Rome, it was compulsory for everyone to learn how to gamble and throw dice from a young age. The ancient Greek legal system made it a criminal offense to remain sober during the yearly festival of Dionysus. In this tradition, I’m issuing the following mandate: By order of cosmic law, you must enjoy sexual pleasure in abundance during the coming week. Two corollaries: Your quest for erotic joy must be free of compulsive behavior. You must use all your Libran ingenuity to carry out your assignment with a spirit of love, fun, and generosity.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

It’s not easy to become yourself. Most people never figure out the trick. That’s usually because they have an unreliable connection with the one source that offers unfailing guidance: the still, small voice within. They’re distracted by the din of mildly interesting but useless information that our culture produces in abundance. You, on the other hand, are always pretty hot on the trail of finding out who you really are. That’s one of the perks of being born a Scorpio. And in the coming weeks, you’ll be able to tune in to your personal homing beacon better than ever. Prepare to receive instructions on how to become yourself twice as fast.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

I suspect that in most professions, from astrology to medicine, from engineering to poetry, the proportions are similar: about 10 percent of the practitioners are really bad, 20 percent are below average, 40 percent are mediocre, 20 percent are good, and 10 percent are masters. You shouldn’t assume that just because a physician has been treating patients for 15 years, he’s going to help you figure out how to guard your health; nor should you hand over your fate to the first astrologer whose ad appeals to you. This principle will be especially important to observe in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Temper your native optimism with a robust dose of discrimination. Don’t just question authority; question every alleged truth, assumption, façade, spin, and official stance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

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the curse a competitor flung at me more than two decades ago when we were both young horoscope columnists. It made me mad, and motivated me to make sure that his hateful remark would never come true. My detractor died in the early 1990s, failing to make good on his vow. I felt no joy in his demise; on the contrary, I’ve always been grateful to him for helping to inspire my tenacity. This week, Capricorn, your assignment is to think of a comparable story in your own life. Who laid a curse on you once upon a time? What have you done to neutralize it, and what spectacular magic can you pull off to escape it forever in the coming days?

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Chances are good you’ll dream of being naked in public sometime soon. This will be a relatively bad omen if it involves shame, but a very good omen if your predominant emotion in the dream is fun-loving pride. In either case, such a dream will signify your readiness — indeed, your urgent need — to reveal more of who you really are in your waking life. P.S. For those of you with an ability to induce lucid dreams, here are two recommended scenarios: Dream of being gleefully naked while delivering a stirring oral report on the flight of eagles to your high school class; dream of being naked and wearing a crown of roses as you do what you do best in front of an equally naked audience.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Warning: The following horoscope contains a scene that may be unsuitable for prim dispositions. Read at your own risk. According to my reading of the cosmic omens, you should take your inspiration from France’s King Louis XIV (1638-1715), who often conducted court business while seated on his toilet, which he regarded as his alternate throne.

I’m not suggesting that you literally imitate the royal custom, Pisces, but I do recommend you carry out an approximate metaphorical equivalent: As you carry on your business and social affairs in the coming week, eliminate waste and toxins.

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’m a 31-year-old virgin (male), and I don’t understand why. I’ve been on dates, but no women seem interested. I can’t blame them: Unemployed economist, glasses, with a digestive disease making me 138 pounds at 5-foot-9, personality of a tree (hobbies: history, horror novels, math, and sports). If the monk life isn’t my goal, what should I do?

—Lonesome Loser

Ever wonder why men’s cologne has names like “Eau Sauvage,” not “Eau What Died in There?” and “Dune,” not “Dumpster”? Just a guess, but it probably has something to do with a desire to see cologne invited of f store shelves and onto credit card statements. That said, how a par ticular cologne actually smells is much less impor tant than you’d think (unless it screams, “We bot tled monkey sweat, topped of f with notes of diesel exhaust and twiceworn gym socks!”). Even then, give it the right name and ad campaign — “Primal for Men: for the Manimal in You” — and you could probably fool people into paying for it. Of course, stores would get a lot of returns when men who bought it hoping to at tract women instead found themselves pursued by stun gun-toting zookeepers.

So, you’re unemployed, skinny, and you have less-than-per fect vision. Oh yeah, then there’s your stump-like charm. Sure, like the rest of us, you could use a lit tle improvement here and there. But, correct me if I’m wrong: People are generally able to pass you in the supermarket without shouting, “Cleanup in aisle five!” You can usually get within inches of a woman without triggering electronic sensors that bark, “Loser! Loser! Back away from the woman!” (like those store-exit antithef t devices that sneer, “Shoplif ting cur! Do those leather pants belong to you?”).

You’re a loser like Janeane Garofalo’s ugly.

See, there’s Ugly and then there’s Janeane Garofalo Ugly, which is being a really beautiful woman who dresses like a plumber and can’t stop blabbing about what a loser hag she is. Yo, Janeane: Take of f those big men’s pants, throw some Revlon in the air, and stand under it ... yeah, we should all be so ugly. Like with Janeane, your problem isn’t that you’re a loser; it’s that you think you’re a loser and you advertise yourself to women that way.

Consider your audience. As chick-magnets go, communicating self-loathing is up there with referring to your head as “Club Med for Fleas”: “Step right up, ladies! Watch fleas sunbathing

on my ears on tiny beach towels — something to do while you’re waiting for men who think more highly of themselves.” And who are these men? Let’s see ... homeless crack addicts with missing teeth, just for star ters. Why do they think more highly of themselves? Simply because they decided they would.

Now, it’s one thing, if you’re a young Brad Pit t, to say, “Mmm, think I’ll roll my golden blond self out of bed and go audition to be a movie star.” But if, like Danny DeVito (whom one director called “the most confident man in Hollywood”), you’re shaped like a beach ball and stand slightly taller than the average cof fee table ... you’ve got ta be in on the big secret: Making it isn’t about having something going on. It’s about believing you have something going on ... just like it says in that self-help classic, “The Lit tle Engine That Could.” It’s really that simple: Present yourself as the guy who gets the girl, as opposed to the skinny, 5-foot-9 tumor that needs excising, and you should actually get the girl ... thus eliminating your predisposition to present yourself as an unwanted grow th loitering at the bot tom of the surgical waiting list.

If a man makes it crystal clear that he doesn’t want you, and your pride is hurt, how do you move on? I’ve carried a torch for four years, for a guy who lies, stands me up, and says sleeping with me “ain’t gonna happen.” Certainly, I’m not the only attractive, smart woman dealing with this.

—Static Cling Love is fleeting. Rejection, on the other hand, has real staying power. In an uncer tain world, it’s comfor ting to know that the guy who didn’t want you yesterday still doesn’t want you today, and isn’t likely to star t wanting you tomorrow.

You don’t want to find love. You just want to keep looking for it, so you can avoid looking at yourself and all your big, hairy issues. Prepare a statement — that you refuse to chase guys who don’t want you — and use it to swat away any thoughts of this guy that try to cross your mind. Accepting that he isn’t at tracted to you doesn’t mean you’re unat tractive; just at tracted to reality. Hunker down alone until you understand the only reason an “at tractive, smar t woman” lugs around a torch for years. Answer: If she is, indeed, smar t, only because the torch happens to match her handbag and shoes.

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COOL WORLD SBM, 22, loves bowling, football, chess. In search of a man who loves the same things. ☎907631 100% LAID-BACK SBM, 35, 5’11”, brown skin, dark brown eyes, Virgo, smoker, bookworm, loves tv. Seeking masculine, spontaneous BM, 30-45, smoker. ☎958192 LET’S JUST CUDDLE Lonely GWM, 33, Aries, smoker, enjoys quiet nights, relaxing, being with somebody. Seeking GWM, 20-30, for possible LTR. ☎887748 I’D LOVE TO MEET! SM, 47, likes dining out, having fun, malls, movies, television. Looking for sincere male for possible relationship. ☎861252 YOU WON’T BE SORRY Real, honest, and sweet GBM, 18, 5’11”, darkskinned, Gemini, N/S, seeks friendly GBM, 1835, not into games. I’m ready for a commitment. ☎831448 NEW TO THIS BiWM, 49, 5’10”, thick, black/blue, Libra, N/S, seeks friendly, fun-loving GWM, 35-65, N/S, for possible LTR. ☎839145 IT’S YOUR CALL GWM, young 46, 5’11”, 200lbs, brown/brown, masculine, outgoing, enjoys travel, dining out, movies, shopping, Nascar. Would like to meet honest, passionate GM, with similar interests, for dating, possible LTR. Serious inquiries only. ☎792384 FREE SPIRIT SBM, 24, loves having fun, enjoys tennis, racquetball, waterskiing. Seeking SM, to share a night out on the town, friendship and maybe a lasting relationship. ☎768054 SHOW ME THE TOWN... and what there is to do around here. Me: SWM, 42, N/S, new to the area. You: SWM, under 51, anxious to show me how wonderful Augusta is. ☎719366 LOOKING FOR LOVE GWM, 41, 5’8’, 140lbs, Pisces, enjoys fishing, television, wood working, gardening, arts, crafts. Seeking GWM, 25-45, for friendship first, possible LTR. ☎705204 I KNOW WHERE IT’S AT SBM, 25, practical yet fun, outgoing, Aquarius, smoker, seeks a masculine, alluring, wellrounded BM, 23-45, smoker, with his priorities in order. ☎695448 OUT SPOKEN SWM, 32, 5’11”, 145lbs, enjoys camping, fishing, Nascar. Seeking laid-back WM, 23-35, for LTR. ☎560095

BUILDING A FUTURE Hard-working, mechanically inclined SBF, 46, loves to build and rebuild. Seeing female who prefers the home life and knows what she wants from life. ☎120569 LOOKING FOR LOVE SBF, 32, 140lbs, 5’8”, down-to-earth, likes clubs, movies, and quiet times. Looking for a female, 30-35, with the same interests. If you’re the one, call me. Aiken, South Carolina. ☎113533 LIKE MALLS & MOVIES? Feminine BiBF, 25, 5’4”, 145lbs, short hair, Sagittarius, smoker, loves movies and tv.

Seeking another feminine woman, 18-30, with whom to hang out and chat. ☎958642 OUTGOING FUN WF, 28...

5’3”, medium build, loves movies, putt-putt golf, and bowling. Seeking WF, 25-40, medium build, for fun and friendship. Hope to hear from you soon. ☎958847 MAN FOR ALL SEASONS GBF, 31, 5’6”, brown/brown, Cancer, smoker, enjoys kids, bowling. Seeking open-minded, passionate, understanding GBF, 23-45, for LTR. ☎941850 NO INTRO NEEDED SWF, 39, 5’7”, 145lbs, homeowner, easygoing, selfless, Taurus, smoker, loves movies and bowling. Seeking WF, 35-49, with comparable interests. ☎935299 I WON’T LET YOU DOWN Single GBF, 32, mother, non-smoker, looking to become acquainted with a laid-back, sensual GBF, who enjoys quiet times, movies.

Interested? ☎910581 CHURCH-GOER SBF, 38, Virgo, N/S, heavy-duty equipment operator, seeks BF, 30-45. Enjoys motorcycle riding, playing bass guitar. ☎799776 FRIENDSHIP SBF, 38, 5’7”, slim, fit, seeks SF, for friendship and fun. Must be outgoing, love to wine and dine, travel, movies and theater. ☎878217 CHOCOLATE SEEKS CREAM SF, 39, new to the area, down-to-earth, loves laughing, sight-seeing. Seeking WF, 30-45, to show me a great time! ☎861222

SOMEONE TO LOVE GBF, 21, with brown complexion, seeks femme GBF, 21-30, with no baggage, and her priorities straight. ☎843696 VERY PRETTY SBF...

28, two children, confident, feminine, seeks female, 20-35, with the same qualities, who is not into head games. ☎785531 A GOOD HEART SF, 39, goes to church, works for a living, likes having fun, going on trips. Seeking a similar female, 37-49. ☎780112 SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP Attractive, feminine SWF, 41, 5’4”, seeks a very open-minded WF, 35-48, for fun and exciting times. ☎775074 RAINBOW SEEKER Seeking my butch. SWF, 41, 5’2”, enjoys movies, walks, reading, quality snuggle time.

Honesty is a must. Seeking SWF, with no drama, 30+. ☎754885 JOIN ME GBF, 32, nurse, part-time student, Capricorn, N/S, enjoys bowling, movies, shopping, traveling. Seeking casual relationship with woman, 25-45. ☎711628 BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN SBF, 58, mature, attractive, young-at-heart, Sagittarius, N/S, seeks woman, 48-62, N/S, who is ready to live again and likes traveling, playing cards, and bowling. ☎691703 I’M LOOKING 4 U Easygoing, loyal SBF, 31, 5’3”, 155lbs, security officer, people person, fun-loving, nice, caring, honest, enjoys bowling, movies, cuddling at home. Seeking trustworthy, outgoing SBF, 26-35, for friendship, maybe LTR. ☎965835 FRIENDSHIP FIRST! Funny, smart, down-to-earth GBF, 5’6”, 125lbs, loves long walks, hand holding. Seeking GF, 21-30, who likes kids and doesn’t play games. ☎965829 ZEST FOR LIFE Articulate, adventurous WF, 32, 5’8”, brown/ brown, enjoys animals, running, movies and dining. Looking for WF, 25-40, for friendship. ☎965827 GIVE ME A RING Cute SBF, 30-something, seeks attractive SF, 25-45, for friendship, maybe more. No games. ☎965825 WASTE NO TIME GBF, 36, enjoys dining out, cooking, dining out.

Seeking attractive, open-minded, fun, nice GF, 25-45, for friendship and possibly more. ☎965823

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Seeking SWF, 20-26, N/S, for possible family. ☎835444 EARLY XMAS GIFT Very romantic SBM, 31, 6’1”, 255lbs, Scorpio, N/S, enjoys church, dining out, cooking.

Seeking stable SBF, 25-35, for friendship first, leading to something long-term. ☎837718 SEEKING CHRISTIAN WOMAN Friendly, committed, independent SBCM, 42, 5’11”, enjoys quiet evenings. Seeking attractive, committed, independent SBCF for friendship, possible LTR. ☎796760 LET’S TALK SM, 28, 6’5”, 320lbs, enjoys sports, reading, movies, dining out, travel. Seeking attractive, intelligent, sensual SF, with similar interests, for dating and more. ☎796390

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Cars 1968 FORD MUSTANG, metallic blue, hard top, 289 hi-performance engine, auto, rebuilt engine, excellent condition, $4700, call Bryan 706-627-2331 (903/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1981 FORD GRANADA, gray, 4dr, 68K, good car, needs tires, $1000 OBO, 803-649-2422 after 3 pm or leave message (889/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1985 CHEVROLET CORVETTE, Z-71 suspension, excellent condition, 85K, power all, targa top, Bose stereo, $10,500 OBO (MSTA), call 803278-2669 (936/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1986 FORD TEMPO, white/blue, one owner, runs well, 5spd, am/fm, cassette, $950 OBO, 706-651-9969 (872/0213) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1986 PONTIAC 6000, auto, runs great, 86K, V6, dependable transportation, $1200 OBO, 706-650-1971 day or night (898/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1987 HONDA ACCORD, needs body work, drums & rotors turned, has new master cylinder, shoes & wheel cylinders, $650, 706-667-0915 (885/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1989 CADILLAC SEVILLE, blue, 4dr, leather, 706-556-6124 (928/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1989 FORD MUSTANG, black, grey interior, auto, mechanically good, 706-738-4555 or 706306-5464 (905/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1989 PONTIAC GRAND Prix, white, 5spd, alloy wheels, runs good, looks good, $1800 OBO, 706-650-0955 (946/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1990 INFINITI Q45, white/tan leather, runs great, power windows & locks, sunroof, AC, excellent condition $5500 cash, OBO, 706-736-3225 (933/0313) 1990 PORSCHE 928,

black/black, 5spd, leather, 135K, 6CD changer, excellent condition, call Ralph 706-6511114 or 706-951-0013 (870/0213) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1991 OLDS CUTLESS Ciera S, light blue, AC, power steering, Am/Fm, cassette, 4dr, $1000, 706-855-1381 (942/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1991 VOLVO 240, maroon, good condition, AC, PS, PB, PW, am/fm, cassette, cruise, $3000, 912-829-4556 (817/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 BMW 525, auto, air, CD, low miles, factory warranty, 37 mpg, must sell, $8500, 706863-7071 (832/0206) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 BMW 525, series sedan, auto, great engine, leather, power sunroof, 155K, only $5790, 706-495-9900 (831/0206) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 CHEVY CAMERO RS, 25th Anniversary Edition, green, gray interior, 305, auto, t-tops, excellent condition, 120K, $6000 firm, 706-339-4531 (811/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 INFINITI G20, runs great, 4dr, CD, leather interior, must sell, $1500 OBO, 706-8236607 (815/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1993 FORD TAURUS, very good condition, new tires and brakes, low mileage 66K, loaded, as is, reduced, for quick sale, $3000, 706-733-9434 or 706-721-8304 (808/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1993 HONDA ACCORD, white, manual, PL & W, AC tape, cruise, $2000 FIRM, 706-8548665 (833/0206) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1993 HONDA ACCORD EX, owner spared no expense, 80K, (15820A) $6,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (913) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1993 MERCURY CAPRI, green, black convertible roof, 145K, new tires & timing belt, frequently maintained, fun car, $2400, 706-294-7529

(950/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1994 CHRYSLER LHS, grapepearl/silver, sporty, loaded, family size car, excellent condition, 117K, 22mpg, list $30,288, ask $4450, 803-279-1584 (907/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1995 BMW 325i, white, 5spd, 72K, excellent condition, premium package, priced to sell (KBB: $12-$15,000) asking $11,800, 706-722-0665 (816/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1995 MERCURY GRAND Marquis LS, 92K, leather, clean, all power, cruise, wire wheels, $5700, 706-730-2697 (948/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1995 MITSUBISHI DIAMANTE, ES, dark green, V6, tan cloth seats, full power, cruise, cassette, 82K, $5300, 706-863-2483 (929/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 DODGE INTREPID ES, leather, CD, roof, only $11,288 wow! Andy Jones Mazda, 803202-0002 (922) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 HONDA ACCORD EX, champagne, V6, leather, auto, all power, CD, alloys, garaged, maintenance records, excellent condition, $9800,OBO, 706733-7297 (902/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 HONDA CIVIC LX, pampered, (15718A) $3,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (916) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 MITSUBISHI GALANT, with spoiler, whole or parts $750, very good motor and transmission, 706-560-0775 (949/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 NISSAN 200SX, green, 5spd, cruise, CD, well taken care of, $3400 OBO, 706-2671295 (814/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 PONTIAC GRAND Prix GTP, white, rear spoiler, tint windows, 3.4L, V6 high output, 4spd auto w/OD, well cared for, 129K, $6500, Jim 706-7213365 days or 706-547-7878

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(887/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 HONDA CIVIC EX, manual, power windows & locks, spoiler, sunroof, CD player and alarm, 64K in great condition, $7500, 706-240-5384/706790-3676 x2736 (896/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 HONDA CIVIC LX, lots of miles left, (14920B) $8,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-7332210 (911) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 NISSAN MAXIMA SE, 5spd, leather, sunroof, Bose CD, alloys, no wrecks, very clean, 64K, $10,250, 706-7242668 days (940/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 VW PASSAT GLX VR6, gun metal grey, black leather, sunroof, heated seats, new

tires, 68K, NADA $11,500, must sell $9500, 706-832-1812 or 706-868-7159 (938/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1998 ACURA INTEGRA GSR, white, excellent condition, all power, many extras, 66K, warranty $15,500 OBO, 706-2849693 (812/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1998 HONDA CIVIC LX, superbly maintained, (6991A) $8,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (914) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1998 MAZDA 626 LX, champagne, sedan, 4dr, auto, 54K, sunroof, loaded, excellent condition, $9000, 706-774-0404 or after 5pm 706-738-5154 (904/0227) 1999 HONDA ACCORD LX,

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family size comfort, (15252A) $12,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (912) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 HONDA CIVIC EX, black, 5spd, euro lights, one owner, excellent condition, low mileage, $10,500 OBO, 706373-6178 after 7pm (909/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 MAZDA PROTEGE, silver, tint windows, new motor, CD, AC, PW, PL, PS, $5500, 706-231-6901 or 706-7290104 (945/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 PONTIAC GRAND AM, bright red, auto, loaded, 87K, cold air, electric seats, etc, 6cyl, clean, $8800 OBO, 706-3649431(899/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 ACURA INTEGRA, silver, 2dr, 5spd, all power, sunroof, cold air intake, low miles, warranty, excellent condition, must sell! $13,000 OBO, 706-2972691 (886/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 BMW 323ci, titanium silver bullet, sports package, 5spd, Xenon, Z-Rated tires w/7yr/100,000 BMW transferable warranty, 43.5K, $23,500, 706-495-2731 (906/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 DODGE NEON, auto, air, stereo/cassette, looks and runs good, 37K, $8500 OBO, 706364-9431 (897/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 FORD MUSTANG LX, white/tan, new tires, oil change, 36K, excellent condition, $11,400 OBO, call 706-7331901 (866/0213) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 FORD MUSTANG LX, loaded, special this week, $11,770 wow! Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (925) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 HONDA ACCORD SE, 4dr, auto ABS, alloys, PW, PL, CD/cassette, security system, 32K, trunk liner & net, $15,600, 706-733-6807 (835/0206) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 HONDA S-2000, convertible, thrill to drive, (7335) $23,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (918) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 HONDA ACCORD EX, showroom condition, (14694B) $18,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (910) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 HONDA CIVIC LX, your kind of car, (7310) $12,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-7332210 (917) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 CHEVY CAMARO Z-28, black on black, 6spd, Monsoon stereo/CD, AC, PS, PB, Goodyear GS-C tires $23,300, 706-560-9971 (944/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 HONDA CIVIC LX, low miles, smells like new (7333) $13,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (915) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 MAZDA PROTEGE S, auto, leather, roof, chrome wheels, save thousands, $15,995, Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (920)

Motorcycles 1985 HONDA SABRE, VF700, V-4 engine, adult-owned, excellent condition, 14K, $1300,

706-373-9068 (830/0206) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 HARLEY DAVIDSON Sportster 1200 Custom, chrome everything, back rest, drag pipes, excellent condition, $9000 OBO, call 803-278-2669 (935/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 HONDA XR650R, enduro off road only, XC, #1 winning bike in desert racing, many power enhancing extras, priced to sell 706-309-9526 after 6 pm (458/0206) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 HONDA SABRE, 1099cc, custom pearl silver paint job w/fadin candy blue flames. 1920 miles, excellent condition, $7600, matching helmet available, 803-279-3410 (818/0227)

Other CESSNA 150 H COMMUTER, 4000 TT, <150 SMOH, for more information call, 803-2782669 leave message, (869/213) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1987 EAGLE SPEED Boat, 60 mph, closed bow, Johnson 140HP outboard, $2500 OBO or trade for 4 wheeler, 803279-2669 (934/0313)

SUVs 1992 FORD BRONCO XLT, Nite, needs transmission work, $4000 OBO, call 706-738-8311 (926/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 FORD EXPLORER XLT, 4X4, new tires, new transmission, $4500, 803-279-9278 (873/0213) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 CHEVY TAHOE, Sport, 4X4, extra nice, 90K, $8900 OBO, 706-737-6100 (927/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 FORD EXPLORER XLT, 4WD, PW, PS, PL, PM, leather 85K, extended warranty, excellent condition, $9500, 706-7336582 (834/0206) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 LANDROVER LSE, loaded, leather, excellent condition, 27K, $16,000, 706-6670599 (901/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 HONDA CRV EX, smooth as silk, (7031A) $10,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-7332210 (919) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1998 CHEVY BLAZER, full size, loaded, leather, 45K, excellent condition, $13,000, 706-667-0599 or 706-7290829 (900/0227) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 LEXUS RX300, black/grey leather, 16K, luxury package, excellent condition, one owner, 2WD, $29,600 OBO, 706-373-6178 after 7pm (908/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 CHEVROLET BLAZER LS, low miles, CD, only $14,988, Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (923) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 FORD EXCURSION Limited Ultimate, black, V8, 7.3L turbo diesel, 4X4, tow, leather, fully equipped, excellent condition, $32,000 neg. 803279-6186 (947/0313)

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Trucks 1984 GMC SEMI, Cummings 350, 7spd, 12 ton hydraulic tilt trailer, runs great, new rubber, $10,000 firm, 706-339-0189 (894/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1990 FORD F-250 XLT, 351, V8, 51K, power windows, steering & locks, extended cab, towing package, $6000 firm, call 706-595-7295 (939/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1991 CHEVROLET S-10, red, 4.3-liter engine, power windows & locks, AC, auto, runs but needs work, $800, 803-6456099 or 803-819-9964 (930/0306) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1994 GMC 1500, pickup, extended cab, excellent condition, it’s a beauty, $6600 OBO, 706-869-8888 (937/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 CHEVY S-10, LS, green, 3dr, V6, auto, CD, 83K, $6500, 803-279-3961 (892/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 FORD RANGER XLT, white, extended cab, V6, am/fm/cassette, adult driven, power mirrors, great condition, $4200, 803-278-0654 (943/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 FORD RANGER, silver, sport bed, 2.3L, 5spd, AC, stereo, alloy wheels, 75K, showroom condition, $5495 OBO, 706-738-3830 (891/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1998 CHEVROLET 1500, 3rd door, just traded, very sharp, only $15,955, Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (921) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 FORD RANGER, 24K, warranty good to 36K, auto, air, disc player, 4cyl, looks new, $9000 OBO, 706-736-8032 (884/220)

Vans 1969 FORD ECONOLINE 100, straight 6, 3spd, $500 OBO, 706-823-9644 (941/0313) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1982 FORD VAN, 12 passenger, well maintained, V8, auto, air, $2500, call Bert, 706-7368185 9a to 2p or Jimmy 706738-0911 after 6p (890/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1990 CHEVY ASTRO, loaded, power everything, very good condition, V6, auto w/overdrive, cold AC, many extras, 110K, $3450, 706-541-0656 (888/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1994 CHEVY ASTRO, 177K, AC replaced 2 yrs ago, excellent condition, $3000, 706-7389662 (871/0213) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 FORD WINDSTAR GL, dark red, auto, 7 passenger, 3.8 V6, AC, tilt, power windows, 146K, $3900 OBO, 706860-5001 (774/0220) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 FORD WINDSTAR SEL, white, grey leather, loaded, CD, factory warranty, 21K, $15,700, 706-294-1040 (951/0313)

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