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May 13-19 Vol. 15 No. 41

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Opening Doors: 50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

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OPINION 6 Whine Line 6 This Modern World 6 Words 8 Thumbs Up/Down 10 Insider

41 Helen Who? This “Troy� Is All About Pitt’s Achilles 42 Reel Time

BITE 28 Partridge Inn Hosts Second Annual Visiting Chef Series 29 In the Mix ARTS 30 Folk Art, “Fosseâ€? and More EVENTS 33 Calendar CINEMA 38 Flix 40 Olsen Twins Comment on Being ‌ Well, Olsen Twins

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MUSIC 43 Diversity Is the Key to Success of Garden City Music Festival 46 For Thackery, Resilience Is a Virtue 47 CD Reviews 49 Sightings 50 Music Minis 50 Music by Turner 51 After Dark STUFF 54 News of the Weird 55 Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology 55 New York Times Crossword Puzzle 56 Amy Alkon: Advice Goddess 57 Datemaker 59 Classifieds

EDITOR & PUBLISHER David Vantrease ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Rhonda Jones STAFF WRITERS Stacey Eidson, Brian Neill ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Joe White

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GRAPHIC ARTISTS Ange Hagler, Natalie Holle, Shawn Sutherland ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ASSISTANT Andy Stokes

30 SENIOR MUSIC CONTRIBUTOR Ed Turner CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Amy Alkon, Rob Brezsny, Rachel Deahl, David Elliott, Amy Fennell Christian CARTOONISTS Tom Tomorrow

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o the person who whined in the last issue about Danny Craig, asking how, if he’s Catholic, can he still push for a death penalty and go to church every Sunday. If this person knew anything about Catholics or Craig, he or she would know that Catholics are not against the death penalty. Some may be, but there’s no church law on it. Thus, Craig can go to church anytime, without violating his religion.

For the few supporters of Jim Whitehead for senate who kept saying that Joey Brush had not done anything while he was a senator in Atlanta, I would like to remind you that the senate and the governor’s office were controlled by the Democratic Party. Joey Brush was one of the main leaders in the state working to get control of the senate and the governor’s office by the Republican Party. All of his hard work is paying off because he is now the chairman of the education committee and is a ranking senator in the Republican Party. The senate majority leader and the governor want Joey in Atlanta continuing to do the hard work he is respected for. Jim Whitehead would go up there and not be able to get a nickel for the citizens of Columbia County because he would be a freshman senator.

If the person who whined against a new civic center for Richmond County, and any others of like mindset are goofy enough to vote against this (an item that should be a great value and improvement for the county), they should be aware that a large number of Columbia County people would like to see such an arena go to Columbia County instead. That way, the arena wouldn’t have to contend with the brainless likes of Marion Williams and his stooges on the Coliseum Authority. If that vote does not pass, then this will probably be the next step and Richmond County will be the loser then.

Re: “Judge Kernaghan’s Backyard Bout.”

Man! Talk about a good reason to go

postal! To think that the EPD is behind this plan to destroy a little bit of paradise. If it’s possible to run highway tunnels under rivers, etc., why not a sewer line under Lake Olmstead? The EPD should even help fund the project in the name of natural preservation.

Individuals or organizations employing illegal aliens at less than the legal minimum wage labor rate should be arrested for felony theft by taking.

I live off Central Avenue. About two weeks ago, this company put fliers in everybody’s mailboxes saying that we couldn’t park on the street for a day because of construction work being done.

They came and ripped up all of the pretty decent pavement on my road, putting a big huge pothole right behind my driveway, and that was two and a half weeks ago. They just disappeared, and I’d like to know when the city is planning on fixing what they tore up. There was nothing wrong with the road to begin with, and why fix something that’s not broken?

My whine is that the city shouldn’t run over people who pay property taxes. It is a shame that they want to do this to Judge Kernaghan’s property. If his house is two bedrooms and one bath, the only good thing about his property is his view of the lake, and that is ridiculous they would do something like that to him. He ought to sue them if they insist on doing that. Just because that is the way it affects the least amount of citizens doesn’t make it right.

It’s going to ruin his property value. His house will never be worth what it is now, and the city is acting like a big bully just planning on doing it anyway.

So Bobby Hankerson said George Kolb couldn’t succeed in Augusta because he couldn’t understand Augusta politics.

What does that mean, exactly? Is Augusta politics so complicated that even a highly qualified, experienced manager couldn’t figure out how to get

Words “Don Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had. People ought to get off his case and let him do his job.”

— Vice President Dick Cheney, in a statement making the media rounds, regarding his support of Rumsfeld despite the horrific photographs and verbal accounts of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers.

Hear that America? Get off his case and go back to pining about the loss of “Friends.” This democracy stuff doesn’t concern you.

things done, and the equally qualified, experienced manager before him?

Frankly, it tells me all I need to know about the board.

Maybe I’m not the most attractive person in Augusta, but who are you to tell me I shouldn’t drive a convertible because I don’t fit your definition of attractive?

Who made you the arbiter of good looks?

And no, I don’t play disc golf.

The W. in President Bush’s name must stand for “wimp.” It made me sick to hear him offer an apology for alleged prisoner abuses. Where’s our apology from the Arab world for the atrocities done to Americans? I’m ashamed that I voted for Bush, but I won’t make that mistake again!

Further proof that there is a God: “Friends” has finally ended.

I want to thank George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh and Austin Rhodes for helping me appreciate the value of the mute button whenever any one of their voices comes on the radio or their faces come on the television. Thanks guys!

Listening to Jeff Annis on the radio, it seems obvious to me and a lot of others I know that he could and should host a radio talk show on local politics and the like. He is just great: Smart, funny and humble. How ‘bout it, Jeff?

Enough with the whines about dogs!

If the Augusta commission is looking at budget cuts that include possible layoffs, how can they justify sending the director of public works to attend classes at Harvard courtesy of the taxpayers?

Enough with the dogs already!

Every female in uniform should send a thank you note to the female soldier pictured abusing Iraqi prisoners. It will now be no special treatment for females in uniform who are captured. Given those pictures, we should expect none. So don’t be outraged when it happens.

Now that Saddam has been out of the picture for some time, I have been speculating as to when and where he’ll re-surface. I think that he’ll re-emerge on a special episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit!” That episode will be entitled “Saddam: Scared Straight!”

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But those quoted in a story about the project said the paper had improved with the departure of Phil Kent, former editor of editorials, and the infusion of new editorial blood, first in former editorial page editor Suzanne Downing, and in her successor, Michael Ryan.

Though the project still had a selfserving tinge to it (Billy Morris’ column on the subject carried the heartfelt sincerity of an annual corporate report), at least it’s a step in the right direction.

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Gwinnett police did a great job rounding up eight suspects — six of them illegal immigrants — in a series of violent home invasions in the metro Atlanta area.

Trouble is, authorities inadvertently let one go.

Sixteen-year-old Hugo Delfino made an appearance in juvenile court on May 5 on an unrelated runaway charge under a different name, Hugo

continued from page 6 It’ll be great to watch as he suffers every indignity known, as well as never before known to man. All at the hands of native New Yorkers! Now that’d be justice!

I would like to know where to pick up my “I Survived the Garden City Music Festival Port-O-Lets” T-shirt.

Hey Rumsfeld! War’s hell! Whack Iraq! If only the world had the luxury of fair reporting. If the truth were known, American POWs are suffering much more! Why else would our troops be seeking retribution on Iraqi POWs? Bring our troops home! If a third return to Iraq becomes necessary, use missiles, not troops!

Typical Augusta: Have a club crawl which brings a ton of new faces to your bar and be sure to only have one bartender, so all your new customers have to wait 25 minutes for a beer.

I am disgusted by news of the broad pattern, not individual acts, of the deliberate system of abuse, brutality and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners, 7090% of whom were arrested by mistake.

Could you please print the list of streets in Commissioner Marion Williams’ district? I’d like to take a Sunday afternoon drive and take a look

Hernandez, the Atlanta JournalConstitution reported. After the hearing, Delfino was released to his parents by officials who didn’t realize he was also wanted for armed robbery charges stemming from the home invasions, the newspaper reported.

Gwinnett District Attorney Danny Porter told the paper, “It is a crack in the system. He just slipped between the cracks.”

Hopefully, he doesn’t slip on down this way.

at the idiots who keep sending him back to office.

People are talking about how Rumsfeld should resign, and maybe that is true, but I don’t think the soldiers should receive all the punishment. What about the officers?

Being a soldier’s wife years ago, it always happened that the officer doesn’t get punished. Now, come on! They need to do something.

You are all idiots.

Doing QuickBooks on a place like Diamond Lakes will never tell you what it is worth to a kid or a mom. As commissioners compute the ongoing long-term costs of running popular recreation projects, they had better begin thinking out of the box. Maybe it is too expensive for a recreation department to run by itself. If the city can’t afford to fully staff the recreation department, why not supplement with some volunteers? Yes, the reality of the ongoing exodus to Columbia County means zero to negative growth in our tax base, but, hey, my kids still need a safe place to play.

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t the Saturday meeting of Richmond County Republicans, the party doled out a few hundred bucks to each Republican candidate in an effort to advance their campaigns against Democratic challengers.

The symbolic and welcomed financial gift resulted in state Sen. Don Cheeks saying how touched he has been at the support his new-found Republican Party has given him since he bolted the Democratic Party two years ago. He took a swipe at his old Democratic friends in the process. In November, Cheeks will face the winner of the District 22 July Democratic primary, either former state Sen. Charles Walker or local attorney Ed Tarver.

The newest member of the Republican Party, District Attorney Danny Craig, was on hand for the festivities and vowed his support of Republican candidates in the election. Craig switched parties in April when he qualified for the 2004 election. Craig was reportedly miffed over a report last week in The Insider that he had verbally told a wellknown Democrat or two that he is supportive of former Augusta Commissioner J.B. Powell, a Democrat, over Republican state Sen. Randy Hall in the District 23 race. According to Republicans, Craig indicated the report was erroneous. Was it?

Richmond County Solicitor Sheryl Jolly, who is running for Superior Court judge was on hand at the meeting. A long-time Democrat, Jolly is demonstrating a Sheryl Jolly willingness to reach out to Republicans in her non-partisan judicial race. State Sen. Randy Hall, a fellow attorney and staunch Republican, introduced Jolly at the meeting and said some positive things about her. While his remarks were not an official endorsement, the message that Republicans should take a serious look at Jolly’s race was a supportive gesture. Jolly almost didn’t get to speak at the meeting. Sources in attendance reported that Richmond County Republican Chairman Dave Barbee attempted to by-pass Jolly, but political gadfly Davida Johnson forced the issue and Jolly was allowed to speak. Barbee’s heartburn ensued.

A move is reportedly underway to get collective support of Richmond, Columbia and Burke County Republican Party chairmen to endorse

local attorney Sherry Barnes against Jolly, but there has not yet been an official determination if Barnes is really a Republican. Time will tell. The judge’s race is Dave Barbee non-partisan, as you can see. Right.

From The Marble Palace A few weeks ago, Augusta finance department employee Tammy Strange left her job to take a position at the Augusta Regional Airport at Bush Field. A small controversy surrounded her exit when it became apparent that Airport Director Buster Boshears wanted Strange for the job and was not interested in anyone else. There was limited advertising for the job, which upset some potential applicants. Also, a requested pay increase for the position raised eyebrows among commissioners, who were curious why a pay raise was under discussion even though Strange had already accepted the job for lower pay. In the end, Strange took the job at the lower pay scale and, according to airport sources, she is happy about her new gig. But there’s more.

Reportedly, Augusta Finance Director David Persaud was not happy about the move and reported to commissioners and Strange that she did not follow procedure when she left the department.

Apparently, Strange didn’t like some of the things Persaud had to say about the situation. The result, according to very reliable sources at the marble palace and well-placed sources close to the commission, is that Strange considered filing an EEOC complaint against Persaud and the city.

Whether Strange has sought legal counsel at this point has not been confirmed, but city officials are concerned enough about it to spend time discussing how to handle the situation internally in order to avoid potential legal conflict. One suggestion advanced by people close to the situation is to pay Strange the higher pay scale if she will forget about the complaint. Whether this issue becomes a real problem remains to be seen.

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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Story and Photos By Brian Neill Zack Day delivers a powerful kick to a padded "shield" held by Mark Greubel

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e live in times of tough talk. An age in which “badness” is a fashion style and a good political shouting match or police takedown is prime-time entertainment. A time when accidentally cutting someone off in traffic, or even intentionally beating someone to a parking spot, can get you shot.

In keeping with the Hemi-powered, bad-ass theme of the day, we went in search of Augustans who fit the bill of being bad to the bone, hardcore tough.

What we found were some very nice people dedicated to their particular discipline, whether it be fighting, weightlifting or a combination of the two.

Nice they are, but effectively bad when they need to be.

As you read these profiles, just remember: You never know who you might be flipping off in traffic or staring down at the nightclub. They just might be badder than you.

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ZACK “ZACK ATTACK” DAY A tad on the short side and weighing just 167 pounds, Zack “Zack Attack” Day is the sort of guy

some boozed-up bully at a bar might think he could push around.

That would be his first mistake.

Then, as Day crouched down and assumed a fighting stance, his would-be attacker might think it was just a bluff.

That would be his second, and most painful, mistake.

Even Day acknowledges that anyone who saw him at his job at a local mortgage lending firm, dressed in his office attire, might view him as the typical office geek.

“If you saw me on the street you’d never know I was a fighter,” Day said, inside a large room in Von Hardin’s Powerhouse Gym West, where he teaches a fighting arts class three times a week. “I mean, I’m a mortgage banker and I wear a golf shirt or a suit-and-tie-type thing.”

But Day, 40, is ranked third in the world for the middleweight class (159.1 lbs.–165 lbs.) in the Muay Thai style of kickboxing. Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, Muay Thai is referred to as the “science of eight limbs” because it incorporates strikes from hands, feet, knees and elbows.

Day’s also a four-time U.S. Amateur

kickboxing champion and was invited to fight in an undercard bout at the esteemed “Battle of the Bellagio” pay-per-view match in August of last year at the famed hotel in Las Vegas.

Despite what published accounts called a hard-fought match on the part of Day, he lost the five-round fight to Brian Schwartz.

Day also fought and won a Toughman Competition in Augusta in 1999 and wound up a finalist in the Toughman Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament.

If that’s not enough, he also holds multiple-degreed black belts in karate, kickboxing, jujitsu and tae kwon do.

Suffice it to say, chances are he can kick your butt.

But despite his macho prowess, Day’s personality exudes more REM than Jean-Claude Van Damme.

He has an affable, Southern charm and a good sense of humor.

Once he’s in the ring, however, all bets are off.

“My deal is toughness, because I’m not as flexible as some guys are. I’m an older guy; I’ve had two knee surgeries and that kind of thing,”

Day said. “But you can’t hurt me, because I’m just one of those tough guys. I’ve got what they call a ‘granite chin.’ The last fight I got into, which was in Las Vegas, the guy (Schwartz) broke his hand in two places on my head. He kept hitting me, but he didn’t hurt me.”

Mark Greubel, Day’s training partner and a national champion himself, can attest to that toughness.

“Zack has to be, hands down, pound for pound, the toughest guy I know,” Greubel, 26, said. “He’s the type of guy, you better have a two-by-four or a baseball bat for him to go down, because he will not go down. He’s relentless. He’s that tough. And I think that’s kind of his forte, as far as his fighting style.”

Day doesn’t go looking for fights in public, but says he’s faced a few confrontations, typically from much bigger guys out to prove something.

“If it ever has gotten serious with me or, say, a friend I’ve been out with either at a club or even at, say, a Target or a Wal-Mart — somebody bumps into somebody and starts looking at each other or something — if continued on page 13

Seth Giddens (left) and Eugene "Gino" Brantley continued from page 12 it ever turns into an actual confrontation,” Day said, “I’ll tend to kind of square up a little bit like a boxer or kickboxer and assume a stance and drop down a little, and somehow the other guy just always picks up on it that I’m not bluffing. I’m ready to engage. And somehow they always back off, even as little as I am.”

Of course, not everyone is so easily convinced, Day said, adding that he’s had to take things a step further in the past.

In that case, Day said, he’ll give “two or three little swift kicks to the leg, and then a punch, not even neces-

sarily to the head, but maybe just punch them in the chest — bam, bam, bam, bam — and then a kick to the leg, and I’ll say, ‘I could have done that anywhere I wanted to.’“ “And I’ve done that in a club-type scene or on the outside, walking to a car,” he added. “I didn’t hurt ‘em, I didn’t make ‘em bleed. I just let them know how quickly it could happen. And I could have not stopped.”

Day is looking for disciples for his newly formed fighting class.

For information, call Von Hardin’s Powerhouse Gym West at (706) 868-0188.

SETH GIDDENS and EUGENE “GINO” BRANTLEY In the line of work Eugene “Gino” Brantley and Seth Giddens are in, they consider working out to be more than a way to stay in shape and be healthy.

For them, it might also be the difference between life and death.

Many decent, hard-working people live in the area’s public housing complexes.

But public housing neighborhoods can also be hubs of criminal activity and recruiting grounds for gangs.

And it’s here that Brantley and Giddens, deputies with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Department’s Housing Authority Unit, go to work each day.

“Especially with myself and Gino, in housing, we have people run from us all the time and people who want to fight all the time,” said 27-year-old Giddens. “It helps us to be in shape.”

“I guess the demands of the job, you know, you might have a foot pursuit or a large crowd or a fight or something and you might be the first one on the scene,” said Brantley, 34.

“So it pays and it helps to be in shape and be able to handle yourself out there until backup can arrive. The better you are in shape, the more you can, if it comes down to it, save your life or save someone else’s life.”

To say that Brantley and Giddens are merely in shape would be an understatement.

Giddens is 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 256 pounds and bench presses 450 pounds.

He competed in the Georgia Bodybuilding Championships two years ago in the Open Division, placing sixth in the heavyweight class.

A year before that, he placed third in the competition’s Junior Division.

Brantley, who often gets called “The Rock” in the neighborhoods he polices, owing to his likeness to the wrestler turned Hollywood actor, is 6’ 2”, weighs 250 pounds and benches 550 pounds.

A couple of years ago, Brantley, who considers himself a powerlifter, won a local bench press contest with a lift of 535 pounds.

Both acknowledge that their size is often enough to discourage physical confrontations.

But not always.

“You’ve got subjects that are on probation that if they get caught again, they’re going to prison for life,” Giddens said. “So they will fight you.

It don’t matter if you’re 250 or 350.

They’re fighting for their life, so we’ve got to fight for ours.”

“Most of the time our size probably deters a lot of what most cops would possibly have to go through,” Brantley added. “But there are a few that, when they’re liquored up or on alcohol, or you encounter people who sometimes continued on page 14

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continued from page 13 might be on heroin or something like that, size don’t matter. It doesn’t matter who you are, they don’t respect nobody. So when you come across those people, you have to handle them the best you can.”

Giddens said it was only about a week ago that he encountered a man in the Cherry Tree Crossing subdivision off 15th Street carrying a baseball bat in one hand and a loaded .38 in the other.

The man dropped the bat, but held onto the gun and started running, Giddens said.

After a short foot chase, during which the suspect pitched the gun, Giddens was able to tackle the man and take him into custody, he said.

“Us working out and us being physically fit, I mean it gives us more confidence,” Giddens said. “I mean, if we’ve got to hop out of the car and get in a foot pursuit, nine times out of 10 he (Brantley) won’t lose them; I won’t lose them. Whereas, if I wasn’t (in shape) I might get out of the car and watch them run and just tell them (other officers), ‘I had one run, and he went that way.’

“We kind of take it personal when they run from us.”

Terrie Hicks performs triceps push-downs inside the Wheeler Road Y

TERRIE “T-REX” HICKS You know those perfectly shaped, well-defined biceps with the protruding veins that most

bodybuilders and anyone with a weight bench tends to strive for?

Well Terrie “T-Rex” Hicks has got them in spades.

And the thing that would further crush people’s egos is knowing the fact that Hicks isn’t even a bodybuilder. She’s a kickboxer.

Hicks, a 38-year-old physical therapist, entered Augusta Martial Arts Academy, run by local Assistant District Attorney Michael Carlson, about five years ago.

Since then, she’s fought in 13 kickboxing competitions and last year won the super welterweight title at the International Kickboxing Federation’s USA National Amateur Championships in Iowa.

The majority of competitions Hicks has entered have been three-round fights.

That may not sound like a lot to the layperson, but Hicks said that the training for even that short length of fight is phenomenal.

“We will spar five to 10 rounds, running the (Jessye Norman) Amphitheater (steps), sprinting, lifting, hitting heavy bags, jumping rope,” Hicks said, inside the Wheeler Road Y, where she works out. “So the training for that is almost ten-fold what the time length of the bout is.”

Hicks said most of her current sparring partners are men, citing a shortage of female kickboxers in the area. continued on page 16

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My Problem Is Your Opportunity Because of the mild spring weather, I have 42 overstocked Premier and Deluxe air conditioners that I must move out of inventory. And here is my problem. Most people only replace their old, inefficient air conditioner after it breaks down! But, due to the mild weather people are not running their air conditioners so none are breaking down. So I had to create a program so financially advantageous… that homeowners with old air conditioners would come out ahead by replacing both the heating and air system before they broke down!

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continued from page 14 However, that often provides her with an ego boost.

“Everybody I spar with now are guys,” Hicks said. “So I’ve caused a few bloody noses on guys and a few black eyes on guys, which you know, I can brag about.”

Hicks says she strives to keep in shape and has a hard time taking a day off, even when her training schedule calls for it.

“It’s pretty obsessive. I mean, I work out here every morning, five days a week. I kickbox usually three to five days a week at night,” Hicks said. “So you’re talking about two workouts a day, so it’s pretty much a lifestyle and not a lot of time for anything else. But if you’re going to be good at it, you have to make a commitment to it.”

Despite her reputation as a fighter, Hicks said she’s never had to prove herself in the streets.

“For a guy, probably (that happens).

For a girl, no,” Hicks said. “If I ever take my shirt off and they see my arms, it’s like, ‘Ahhh.’ So it doesn’t happen often.

“In high school, I took up for a friend of mine who was a lot smaller and puny and she got picked on. And I had an encounter one time, a fist fight, and that was the end of that. “(Since then), it’s just been, words have been enough to take care of it.”

DARIAN GILCHRIST When he's not battling blazes with the Augusta-Richmond County Fire Department's Engine Co. No. 16, chances are, Darian Gilchrist is doing one of two things: Eating, or working out.

The 35-year-old has lifted weights for more than two decades and competed in roughly 15 amateur bodybuilding contests, with an eye on turning pro.

His most recent show was the Junior U.S.A. Bodybuilding Championships in Philadelphia in April of 2002, where he competed against 150 national bodybuilders.

Gilchrist took ninth in the light heavyweight class, wearing 198 pounds of ripped muscle on his 5' 10" frame.

"To me, that's the best I've done," Gilchrist said, inside the Power South Gym off Mike Padgett Highway. "I've won at the state level, which means I won the Georgia State Bodybuilding (Championship), but this one, I competed against everybody from all over the United States — all 50 states."

At the state level, Gilchrist won the light-heavyweight and overall categories at the Georgia State Bodybuilding Championship competition in 2001.

A knee injury Gilchrist suffered on the job has temporarily set him back, but he's on the mend and ready to start training heavily again.

Darian Gilchrist, with photo from his Georgia Bodybuilding Championship win "I've been going through physical therapy and rehab for it," Gilchrist said.

"I'm actually getting back to where I can do a little weight on the leg."

Gilchrist's trainer, Sgt. Randall Kea of the fire department, who also owns Power South Gym, is encouraging him to focus on reentering competition next year.

Though bodybuilders don't typically focus on single-rep sets —that being the stuff of powerlifter training — Gilchrist has moved some formidable weight in his years of working out.

He boasts a max bench press of 510 pounds and also managed a 685pound squat.

Now for the eating part.

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Get a load of this typical, daily "diet" Gilchrist follows, beginning 16 weeks from the time of a contest: A dozen egg whites; two packages of either instant grits or oatmeal; 10 chicken breasts; two and a half pounds of fresh green beans; four cups of brown rice; two sweet potatoes; two gallons of water; and six protein shakes.

Needless to say, Gilchrist has to bargain shop to round out a grocery list like that.

"I go to Bi-Lo when chicken breast's on sale for 89 cents (a pound), and I buy about a hundred dollars worth at a time," Gilchrist said. "It don't last long; I cook 10 a day."

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Young children ot a city bus stop in Savannah.

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way of life at that time and we knew it was going to be a difficult road ahead.

“But the mandate of Brown was clear.

Things had to change.”

While the Supreme Court clearly ruled state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment, many cities across this country, including Augusta, resisted implementing integration.

“The school system had done absolutely nothing to prepare itself, nor the community,” Ruffin said in his office in Atlanta. “So, we knew we were moving into an area that required caution, common sense and, most of all, determination.”

Dr. James Carter III, a local historian and former director of minority affairs at the Medical College of Georgia, remembers when the Supreme Court announced its verdict.

“When Brown came down, I was in the 11th grade at Lucy Laney High School and it was all over the news the next morning,” Carter said. “We used to watch the old ‘Today’ show every morning and I can remember all they were talking about was

the Brown decision and what an impact it was going to have on the country.”

Like many black students in Augusta, Carter said he was not celebrating the possibility of having to attend a historically white high school.

“We feared that we would not be allowed to finish at Laney and that we would be shipped off to Richmond Academy,” Carter said. “I wanted to finish at Laney. I wanted my class ring from Laney. But little did I know, it would take 11 years after Brown before the first black student would attend Richmond Academy.

“From 1954 to 1965, the Richmond County Board of Education fiercely fought against complying with Brown. In fact, Augusta simply ignored it.”

Richmond County’s defiance was largely supported across the state.

In the 1950s, many extreme segregationists were in power throughout Georgia and a majority of school boards deeply resented the Supreme Court’s ruling.

According to Donald L. Grant’s book, “The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia,” several politicians

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throughout Georgia nicknamed May 17, 1954 as “Black Monday.”

In fact, shortly after the Brown decision, then-Gov. Herman Talmadge, a one-time staunch segregationist, reportedly predicted “blood will run in Atlanta’s streets.” A few months later, state lawmakers voted to make it a felony to teach a mixed-race class or use tax money for integrated schools.

By 1955, the Supreme Court specifically instructed states to begin desegregating schools at “all deliberate speed.” The Georgia Legislature responded by calling for the impeachment of the Supreme Court justices.

At the same time, several Augustans were also letting it be known that they did not support desegregation.

“Six weeks after the Brown decision, six people in Augusta asked the superior court for a charter for their new organization, the National Association for the Preservation of the White Race,” Grant wrote. “(Also) White Citizens’ Council and similar groups like the Georgia States’ Rights Council were organized to nullify the Brown continued on page 20

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ifty years ago this week, Americans learned the world is not strictly black and white — sometimes it’s Brown.

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, that school segregation was unconstitutional because “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

This decision overturned the court’s previous “equal, but separate” ruling in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, and desegregation across the nation was ordered to begin.

In 1954, 17 states and the District of Columbia had segregated public school systems. Georgia was one of those states, and, like many areas in the Deep South, change did not come easily.

“There is that opening line, ‘It was the best of times. It was the worst of times,’” said Georgia Court of Appeals Judge and former civil rights attorney John H. Ruffin Jr., quoting from Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.” “I think that best describes how it was back then. Segregation was a

“We didn’t expect the board to comply,” Ruffin said. “We knew we would have to take legal action. So, we had to find some plaintiffs for a lawsuit against the board.

“We didn’t need persons who were timid.

We needed persons who would be able to withstand the pressure.”

“Segregation was a way of life at that time and we knew it was going to be a difficult road ahead. But the mandate of Brown was clear. Things had to change.”

The Fight for Education

Photo by Brian Neill

continued from page 19 decision. Roy V. Harris, publisher of the Augusta Courier and four-time speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, helped organize the first statewide meeting of the council in Augusta in December 1954.

“While the council was nicknamed ‘the white-collar Klan,’ with some justification, the middle-class segregationists in councils shied away from Klan terrorism.”

As resistance to the Brown decision mounted, Carter said, black schools in Richmond County were continuing to suffer from poor funding and ill-equipped facilities.

“There were obvious imbalances in the way the school system worked,” Carter said. “For example, Lucy Laney had a biology laboratory and a chemistry laboratory that had nothing but desks in them.

“I know because my mother was a chemistry teacher. And she had to go to the local pharmacist to get them to donate chemicals for her classes’ experimentations. Then, the parents raised money to buy the equipment like test tubes and Bunsen burners.”

In comparison, Richmond Academy’s biology lab was fully equipped, Carter said.

As the years passed and Richmond County continued to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling, members of the black community realized action needed to be taken to force Augusta schools to comply, Ruffin recalled.

“The Supreme Court left integration of the schools up to the discretion of the local

— Georgia Court of Appeals Judge John H. Ruffin Jr.

boards without any timetable,” Ruffin said.

“It was completely open-ended. And as a result of the open-endedness, it allowed those persons who were opposed to desegregation to galvanize their efforts.”

Finally, by the early 1960s, Ruffin said,

Augusta’s chapter of the NAACP, headed by the late Rev. C.S. Hamilton of Tabernacle Baptist Church, went before the Richmond County Board of Education and requested it abide by the Supreme Court’s order.

In 1964, Willie and Gladys Acree knew the difficulties of living in a segregated society.

The couple worked tirelessly each day to raise their five children in a modest home on Branch Street near the Turpin Hill neighborhood.

“It was always my husband’s prayer that God would let his children get an education because he did not get one,” said Gladys Acree, sitting in her living room surrounded by family photos. “And I knew my children couldn’t have gotten by with what I got by on because I only went through high school. And high school, at that time, only went through the 11th grade.

“So, we both wanted something better for our children.”

However, the Acrees differed on what kind of education they wanted for their children.

Willie Acree Sr. was determined that his children should receive instruction in an integrated school, where he believed they would have a better opportunity to learn.

Gladys Acree was convinced that her children should stay in a segregated system, but force the Richmond County continued on page 22

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find me in jail more often than not because the drivers would always call the police.”

Robert Acree, then a senior at Lucy Laney High School and vice president of Augusta’s NAACP youth chapter, also ran into some trouble with local citizens when he attempted to eat at H.L. Green’s lunch counter downtown.

“I was beaten by many citizens of Augusta who would drag us from lunch counters and take us outside,” Robert Acree said. “But we had no fear back then because we were there for a greater calling.”

Acree v. Board of Education of Richmond County In 1964, Ruffin approached the Acree family about allowing him to add Robert Acree’s name to a lawsuit he was filing against the Richmond County Board of Education to force the school system to comply with Brown v. Board of Education.

“My dad agreed because he and my mom always kept our family enlightened to the fact that Augusta could be a better place without segregation,” Robert Acree said.

Ruffin said he filed the discrimination lawsuit against the school board to force Richmond County to integrate schools, not because he thought black teachers were providing students with a poor education, but because the black schools were terribly underfunded.

“From 1954 to 1965, the Richmond County Board of Education fiercely fought against complying with Brown. In fact, Augusta simply ignored it.”

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continued from page 20 Board of Education to better fund Augusta’s black schools.

“In the black schools, we didn’t have any white students but our children learned quite a bit because the teachers cared about our kids,” Gladys Acree said. “It wasn’t about race, it was about learning.”

Gladys Acree was concerned that if the students were integrated, racial tension within the schools would interfere with her children’s education. Because, as a child growing up in rural Georgia, she remembered how insensitive some of the white students could be to the black children.

“I had to walk to school — six miles in the morning and six miles in the afternoon,” Gladys Acree said. “And the white children would have buses to ride and each day, as they would pass by, they’d throw spit balls at us.

It was rough.

“Back then, we didn’t worry about it. We were used to it. But I didn’t want to see that kind of thing happen to my children.”

But Gladys Acree’s second oldest son, Robert, was already challenging Augusta’s segregation laws.

“We lived in Turpin Hill and, because we had one car and my dad drove it to work, we utilized public transportation a lot,” said Robert Acree by phone from his office in Charlotte, N.C. where he is now a housing consultant. “Well, I spent more time moving from the back of the bus to the front of the bus because I refused to sit in the back of the bus. So, my parents would

— Dr. James Carter III, a local historian

“We didn’t take the position that black students couldn’t learn without white students. We knew black students could learn,” Ruffin said. “What was happening was, the money the board of education was spending was going to the white schools

and not being properly divided between all the schools in Richmond County, both black and white.

“So, we filed the lawsuit because we thought that the better education would be were the money was.”

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Your Body Mass Index (BMI). This is a reliable indicator of your total body fat, which can contribute to heart disease. Your BMI is based on your height in inches and weight in pounds.

Where you carry excess fat. The risk for heart disease increases with a waist of more than 40 inches for men and more than 35 inches for women.

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While the segregated system was clearly unfair, Robert Acree said the black community was definitely blessed with quality teachers.

“Basically, black schools took the brunt of whatever the white schools didn’t want.

We got their leftovers, in terms of supplies,” Robert Acree said. “But the good part about the situation was we had the most dedicated teachers back then.

“Those teachers knew that segregation existed and they knew that the system was unfair, but desegregation was not a goal for them. Shaping the minds of black children was their primary goal.”

The 1964 lawsuit, Acree v. Board of Education of Richmond County, resulted in a 1972 desegregation order by the U.S. District Court for the board to integrate schools through a number of conditions such as providing a racially balanced, certified staff and equal educational opportunities throughout the school system.

Ruffin said the school board’s initial response to the order actually hurt local black students’ opportunity for a quality education.

“What happened was, the good black teachers, for the most part, were taken out of the black schools and sent to white schools,” Ruffin said. “But the most inexperienced white teachers were sent to the black schools. And the best white teachers stayed at the white schools.

“That was a very horrific burden for black kids to bear. And as I look back upon Acree, that was almost unforgivable.”

It also became common practice that white teachers were told their positions in black schools were only temporary.

“Some white teachers were sent into the black schools with the understanding that, ‘If you agreed to stay here a year, we’ll transfer you,’” Ruffin said. “It created a lot of turmoil in the system.”

The 1972 order eventually resulted in massive busing requirements in order to ensure that schools were properly integrated.

“I never asked the board for the students to be bused,” Ruffin said. “However, I never opposed it either because busing has been a part of education for years and, therefore, busing is not intrinsically bad.”

During the course of the lawsuit, Ruffin said, some members of the white community were very vocal in their objection to the suit.

“I received a lot of threats, many of which were not communicated directly to me,” Ruffin said. “My secretary took most of the calls and she shielded me from them.

“But I don’t think you can work for civil rights and be afraid. To me, the mandate of Brown was clear and my responsibility was to make sure that it was followed in Augusta. My only fear was, I thought if I didn’t do it, it might not get done.”

While Ruffin acknowledges that he is discouraged that Richmond County still hasn’t met all the obligations of the 1972 court order and many of the schools in the inner city today are as segregated now as they were 30 years ago, he believes there was a great benefit to Acree v. Board of Education of Richmond County. continued on page 24

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“In the black schools, we didn’t have any white students but our children learned quite a bit because the teachers cared about our kids.

It wasn’t about race, it was about learning.”

Wright was asked to go to Savannah to establish a school called the Georgia State Training School for Colored Youth, now known as Savannah State University.

“When Richard Wright left, they had a series of people who were assigned to go to Ware, but the school’s support began to dwindle because there were other private schools starting up, too,” Carter said. “For instance, Lucy Laney had started up the Haines Institute. And Charles T. Walker, founder of Tabernacle Baptist Church, had started the Walker Baptist Institute. Paine (College) had also started up a high school.”

With three private black high schools in the area, the board of education decided there was no need to continue to support Ware High School.

On July 10, 1897, the school board, citing the need for more black elementary schools, and claiming that the school system was suffering from a financial hardship, voted to close Ware High and use its funding to support black elementary schools in the area.

“Well, blacks got together and they sued the board of education,” Carter said. “And they went all the way to the Supreme Court.”

The lawyers for Augusta’s black plaintiffs argued that the Plessy v.

Ferguson case of 1896 allowed states to establish racial segregation only if the accommodations and public facilities were equal.

“The local attorneys who defended the board said that blacks had the opportunity to go to school because they had private schools and the tuition wasn’t that expensive,” Carter said. “So therefore, the board said, ‘We don’t have to provide a school for you at all. You’ve got schools.

Go to those.’”

The Supreme Court ruled in the board’s favor and Georgia’s only public black high school was forced to close its doors.

“So, for 40 years, from 1898 to the fall of 1937, there was no public high school in Augusta for black people,” Carter said.

Little did Augusta know that the outcome of the Cumming case would have a much greater impact across the country than simply closing one black high school.

“The Cumming case actually set the stage for Brown almost 50 years later because it dealt with the same issue,” Carter said.

“That’s what makes the Cumming case so important. So, in celebrating Brown, we also celebrate Cumming.”

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continued from page 23 monumental segregation cases, which “We’re still not there, but I have to say I resulted in decades of legalized discrimidon’t regret anything because we forced nation against black students seeking a Richmond County to comply with Brown,” high school education, began in Ruffin said. “In fact, I can say, my son Richmond County. went to Richmond Academy and he never The 1899 case of Cumming v. School had a problem.”

Board of Richmond County first started Robert Acree also believes Augusta when the school board agreed in 1880 to has truly benefited as a result of his establish the first public black high school 1964 lawsuit. He’s only sorry that his in Augusta called Ware High School, father never lived to see Richmond named after Atlanta University president County schools integrated. Willie Acree Edmund Asa Ware.

Sr. died in 1965, one year after the It was the only public high school for lawsuit was filed. blacks in the entire state of Georgia.

“My father would be elated,” Acree said.

“Up until then, Richmond County only “He would be very, very happy to see what had elementary schools for blacks,” Carter has happened in Augusta, knowing that we said. “So a bunch of black people got had a small, minute affect on what was together and started to go to the board going on in the city of Augusta.”

Willie Acree Sr. would also be pleased to meetings in 1878 and petitioned the board hear that after his death, Gladys Acree made sure that all five of his children followed his advice and put education first.

“When my husband died, Frederick, my youngest, was 5 years old,” Gladys Acree said, adding that she took a job doing housework in order to support her family at the time. “I had to raise all the children with the help of God. And with God’s support, all of my children went to college. So, I’m real proud of — Gladys Acree, them.” mother of Robert Acree And the Acree legacy continues.

Traci Murry, Robert Acree’s to create a black high school. niece, was in Augusta preparing for her “The board only did so on the condition upcoming May 17 graduation from Clarke that the blacks provided a building, totally Atlanta University, where she will receive outfitted with everything the school needed. her master’s degree in business administraSo, the board said, ‘Well, we’ll send the tion. teachers, but you get your own building.’”

“I’m very proud of my family,” Murry Even though the board already operated said, sitting in her grandmother’s house.

“That case has changed history in Augusta. and funded two other public high schools — the Academy of Richmond County for But this city still has a long, long way to white, young men, and the Tubman go. The schools are still segregated, School for white, young ladies — the especially in our downtown areas and that black community felt it had no choice but needs to change.” to agree with the board’s conditions.

“My goal is to eventually come back to Black citizens found a building for the Augusta and really take care of my new high school along Reynolds Street, community. Maybe even run for office,” where the current Georgia Golf & Murry added, smiling. “So, my family is Gardens is located. not done yet.”

“So, in 1880, the school started,” Carter said.

“They hired a man named Richard The Past Always Returns Wright, who is from Rome, Georgia to be When Augustans look back at the city’s principal.

Richard Wright had been very history, Carter, the local historian, said it’s well acquainted with Augusta because he no surprise that desegregation was such a and Lucy Laney were classmates at battle in Richmond County.

Atlanta University.”

Unbeknownst to many present-day The school thrived until 1895, when Augustans, one of the nation’s most

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BITE Partridge Inn Hosts Second Annual Visiting Chef Series

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uring the first dinner of the inaugural season of the Best Chefs of the South series last May, only a little over half of the 80 seats were filled. By the last three dinners, the Partridge Inn, which hosted the event, was turning people away.

For this year’s second season, PI Executive Chef Philippe Chin said recently, over a quarter of the seats are already reserved for the entire six-month season. The lesson here, Chin stressed, is to reserve early because while the demand for seats may be growing, he will keep the dinners to a small and intimate 80 people.

“I don’t want a chef to come here and have to work like a dog. I want to keep it special,” Chin said. “I try to pamper the chefs so it’s not work. I want them to have a good time, show them what a great town Augusta is.”

Chin started the series and based it on experiences he’d had when working in other cities, where chefs would often get together and sample each other’s dishes.

When he came to Augusta and discovered there was nothing similar going on, he decided to create it himself. Turns out, he said, both chefs and patrons benefit.

“It’s a great way for me to build up a relationship with my fellow chefs in the region and it’s a great thing for the Partridge Inn to do,” he explained. “It’s a

great event, reasonably priced for the culinary experience and it’s something different for people to do. ... It’s a way for people in Augusta to experience different cuisines.”

You may not have heard the names of many of the chefs featured, but they all have impressive resumes. Hugh Acheson of Athens’ Five and Ten, for example, was recently named one of “Food and Wine” magazine’s 10 best new chefs, and Michael Tuohy of Atlanta’s Woodfire Grill is often credited with bringing California cuisine to Georgia.

Chin said he knows most of the chosen chefs by reputation only, but one — Kelly Yambor of Elizabeth on 37th in Savannah — is an old friend and the only one returning from last year’s season.

And while Chin said that he could easily have picked chefs solely from Atlanta, he chose to showcase those working in smaller towns.

“Restaurants in small towns are often overlooked ... but these are restaurants with great reputations and they’re not in Atlanta,” he said. “They (Atlanta restaurants) get enough exposure. Let’s give the restaurants in the smaller towns some exposure.

“For them (the chefs), it’s a great way of recognizing what they do.”

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What: 2004 Best Chefs of the South series When: Once a month, from May through October (see dates at right) Where: The Partridge Inn Cost: $69 per person, which includes cocktail reception, hors d’oeuvres and a four-course dinner with wine pairings. Tickets for all six dinners are $375.

For more info: Call the Partridge Inn at 737-8888 for reservations or more information.

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PARTRIDGE INN EXECUTIVE CHEF PHILIPPE CHIN, CREATOR OF THE BEST CHEFS OF THE SOUTH SERIES, WHICH WILL BEGIN ITS SECOND SEASON MAY 20.

Chefs’ Schedule May 20 — Dave Snyder, Halyards, St. Simon’s Island June 17 — Chris Bolton, Glen Ella Springs Inn, Clarkesville July 15 — Hugh Acheson, Five & Ten, Athens August 19 — Michael Kramer, McCrady’s, Charleston, S.C. Sept. 16 — Michael Tuohy, Woodfire Grill, Atlanta Oct. 20 — Kelly Yambor, Elizabeth on 37th, Savannah

And the food’s pretty good, too!

Sure, you go to a restaurant for the delectable food and a bar for a cold beverage.

But have you ever excused yourself from the table, walked into an establishment’s bathroom and been wowed by this often-neglected room’s décor? Well, now’s your chance to nominate these luxurious lavatories for an upcoming “Bite” feature.

Simply e-mail your nominee to bite@metrospirit.com or fax it to (706) 733-6663.

Include a brief description and reasons why your nominee merits consideration and we’ll make an unannounced visit to see if you’re right. Who knows? Maybe you’ll see a picture of your nominee in an upcoming issue.

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in the mix Probably one of the most recognizable faces on the metro Augusta bar scene, Leslie Bass has worked at Surrey Tavern for about four years and has lived in the area all her life. Leslie, whose mom used to own a couple of bars in the area, says she was “pretty much brought up in this business” and one day wants to own a bar of her own.

“Somebody’s gotta do it,” she laughs.

She often lies about…

I don’t really lie about anything. I’m pretty much one of the most straight-up honest people there is. If you don’t want my opinion, don’t ask for it.

Favorite day of the week I like Fridays because I don’t work on the weekends, but Tuesdays are great because it’s a big money-making night.

Is there really more to life than money?

Of course, but you need money to have that life. Love don’t pay Georgia Power.

She couldn’t survive on a desert island without…

My family or my brother — someone to go through it with me.

Mustang or Corvette?

Mustang. I just like the way they look better. And a Corvette is just too small. I couldn’t fit my dogs in it.

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ART S Folk Art, “Fosse” and More

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he arrival of information about Who Fest Atlanta, a folk art festival honoring legendary folk artist Howard Finster, brought with it a whole lot of questions. Especially when it directed us to a Web site at www.whohadada.com.

First of all, I just had to know what had happened to Finster Fest, an annual folk art festival also honoring Howard Finster, which has been around for several years. I wondered if the festival had changed its name.

Luckily, event director Karin Lefler came to the rescue with the answers.

“For just this year, this would be Finster Fest. This is the first year of Who Fest, which will be annual.”

In the future, she said, Finster Fest will return, with Who Fest operating as well. Apparently, Atlanta is bursting at the seams with folk artists.

Lefler, who enjoys organizing arts festivals, had been speaking with some of the artists about putting together a festival of some sort, so when the Finster Fest folks told her she had their support, she decided on

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a format. So, in a manner of speaking, this event represents both Finster Fest and Who Fest.

Some of the activities planned for the inaugural Who Fest involve raising funds for Paradise Gardens, Finster’s home and wonderland of art.

Lefler explained.

“Paradise Gardens is an art environment that Howard Finster built and it has a church on it and just … oh it’s just the craziest place. There’s cement walls that run along in there, little pieces of odds and ends molded in the wall, pieces of plastic, little faces from dolls or gnomes. It’s been broken down a bit from what it was like when he was alive. Museums have gotten parts.”

“When he was alive, he had this large angel,” she added. “Five feet long? It was hanging in there.

“It’s really an amazing place and people have come from all over the place to see it and to meet Howard. It’s almost like someone would go take an art journey to go see that. It’s quite a sight. And Howard Finster was definitely one of the most famous folk artists.”

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For instance, there will be a Howard Finster cutout on which some of the artists are going to paint. Then the finished piece will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

“One hundred percent goes to helping Paradise Gardens,” Lefler said.

“There’s a lot of work that needs to be done there.”

In addition, T-shirts will be sold to raise money. And the Chattanooga Bakery Company, for which Finster painted a moonpie image, is going to use the Finster moonpie on their packaging and donate proceeds to Paradise Gardens as well. They are also bringing what Lefler calls the world’s largest moonpie to the festival. It’s four feet in diameter and feeds 500, she said.

“We’re doing a good bit in the spirit of Finster Fest and Howard Finster,” Lefler said.

I asked her what makes a folk artist.

“There’s one common thing that seems to run through the artists that I’ve met. A lot of time the artist has gone through a life-changing experience, whether it be illness or a severe loss in their life.” Since they don’t know what else to do, she said, they just paint.

Lefler finds the art’s accessibility appealing. The artists, she said, are “real” people. “And they’re really nice, happy people,” she said.

They tend to work in recycled wood and metal, she said. “Coke cans actually pop up here and there. It’s mostly recycled materials. You can get a neat little piece of folk art for $20 bucks and then it goes up to $1,000.

It’s definitely art that’s for the people, that’s affordable.”

She said that Who Fest is actually named for the Web site, www.who-

hadada.com, which works as an online meeting place for the artists to support each other.

“I just chose to make the name of the festival something that supports that Web site, because it is a difficult lifestyle, to do art and make a living.”

Those artists have really gotten behind the festival, she said. “All the artists have taken part in promoting this. They’ve made postcards. The show is pulling in collectors and galleries, and that’s all just grassroots artists spreading the word. We’ve had zero advertising budget. It’s worked on a grassroots level and I think that’s just beautiful. And that makes this whole thing really special.

“I did five arts festivals last year,” she said. “I did a folk art festival last year, and it brought in three times the people the others did.”

She said that folk art is actually beginning to show up in the major auction houses in New York City.

“It’s finding a validated place in art,” she said. “But the one thing that’s really nice about folk art is I can afford it.”

Event: Who Fest Atlanta (folk art festival) Times: May 22-23, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Venue: Grounds of The Spruill Gallery at 4681 Ashford-Dunwoody Road, Atlanta. (One mile north of Perimeter Mall.)

Cost: Free For Info: Visit www.whohadada.com or call (770) 993-7660

“FOSSE” SHOWCASES THE WORK OF A LEGEND. Sample Platter of Fosse In 1999, “Fosse,” a collection of highlights from the career of Bob Fosse, won the Tony Award for best musical. In 2004, it’s coming to Augusta.

Fosse, the man, was a dance legend — performing, choreographing and directing one smash hit after another.

His list of awards is astounding: He won the Oscar, Tony and Emmy in one year in 1973. The works that brought him those were the film version of “Cabaret,” the musical “Pippin” and the television special “Liza With a Z.” He took home nine Tonys for his

Broadway pieces: “The Pajama Game,” “Redhead,” “Little Me,” “Sweet Charity,” “Chicago,” “Dancin’,” “Damn Yankees,” “Big Deal,” “New Girl in Town” and “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

He also directed the films “Sweet Charity,” “Lenny,” “All That Jazz” and “Star 80,” and choreographed “My Sister Eileen,” “The Little Prince,” “The Pajama Game” and “Damn Yankees.”

This smorgasbord show will introduce you to rarely seen dance and continued on page 32

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continued from page 31 musical numbers from Fosse’s earliest works, and numbers from films and TV shows that have not been seen onstage.

Though Fosse was celebrated for the depth and breadth of his work (some say he revolutionized the genre), he was also criticized for the naughtier aspects of his choreography — fishnets and tipped hats, pelvic thrusts and backward leans. According to materials provided by the production company, those leans were sensual, sexy and trademark Fosse. His choreography was jazz in motion.

Production: “Fosse” Venue: The Bell Auditorium Time: May 20, 7 p.m.

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THE 521 ALL-STARS: A CHAMPIONSHIP STORY OF BASEBALL AND COMMUNITY will be on display at The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History through June 30.

ENOPION THEATRE COMPANY is looking for volunteers to act, sing, sew, build and more for their new musical, “Creation.” Applications are available at www.imaryproductions.com or by calling (803) 442-9039.

SWEET ADELINES HARMONY RIVER CHORUS OPEN REHEARSAL for singers each Thursday at 7 p.m. at Church of Christ, 600 Martintown Rd. in North Augusta. They are on the lookout for voices in the lower ranges. Contact Stacy Branch at 877-9931.

DIASPRA PRODUCTIONS will begin holding auditions for a Feb. 2005 production of “The Village,” a multi-ethnic gospel stage play. Needed: actors, singers, dancers, stage hands and musicians. Dates: May 15 at Maxwell Branch Library, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.; May 17 at Springfield Baptist Church, 6-8 p.m. Call toll-free 1-877-752-6022.

FORT GORDON DINNER THEATRE needs two men, two women, ages 20-40 for a production of “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.” Auditions are May 24-25, 7 p.m. at the Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre. Bring a prepared musical number. For info, call 791-4389 or e-mail walperts@gordon.army.mil.

Education ISRAELI DANCE WORKSHOP at the Augusta Jewish Community Center Sunday afternoons, 4-5 p.m. Open to teens and adults; no experience or partners are necessary.

Cost is $2 per session, with the first session free. For information or to schedule a pre-class beginner/refresher session, contact Jackie Cohen, 738-9016.

ART CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS are offered year-round at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art. Classes and workshops are open to toddlers through adults and feature instruction in drawing, painting, photography, pottery, weaving and sculpture. For a newsletter or detailed information on registering for classes at the Gertrude Herbert, call 722-5495.

The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art also offers educational tours; for information, contact the education director at the above telephone number.

Exhibitions JANOS ENYEDI: THE AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE — RECONSTRUCTED will be on view at the Morris Museum of Art through May 30. For more information, call 724-7501.

WORKS OF TOM NAKASHIMA AND JANOS ENYEDI will be on display at the Mary Pauline Gallery through May 29. For more information, call 724-9542.

Dance THE AUGUSTA INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE CLUB meets Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. No partners are needed and newcomers are welcome. Call 737-6299 for location and info.

AUGUSTA CHAPTER OF THE UNITED STATES AMATEUR BALLROOM DANCERS ASSOCIATION holds a dance the first Saturday of each month, from 7:15-11 p.m. Cost is $7 for members and $10 for non-members. Held at the BPOE facility on Elkdom Court. Contact Melvis Lovett, 733-3890, or Jean Avery, 863-4186, for information.

Music 11TH ANNUAL BLIND WILLIE MCTELL BLUES FESTIVAL will be held May 22 in Thomson. Gates open at 11 a.m.

Music starts at noon. Festival ends at 9 p.m. Advanced tix $15; day of show $20. For info, visit www.blindwillie.com or call (706) 597-1000.

THE 12 BANDS OF CHRISTMAS is now accepting submissions for the 2004 12 Bands of Christmas benefit and concert. Last year’s event raised $10,000 for MCG’s Children’s Medical Center. If you are an aspiring singer/songwriter or in a band, record a demo of an original or traditional Christmas song that you would like included on this year’s compilation. Artists will be chosen based on performance and song, not the quality of the recording. Submission is free, but CDs will not be returned. Include your name, band name, phone number, e-mail address and song name on the CD. There is no guarantee that your song will be used.

If selected as one of the 12 Bands of Christmas, you will receive recording and production time with producer Ruskin Yeargain for the song that you submitted. You will also be a featured act in December at the Imperial Theatre concert. All costs of this, including any licensing fees, will be paid by Bordertown Music. This is a non-profit fundraiser. Mail your CDs to 12 Bands of Christmas, Attention: Joe Stevenson, 3208 A Mike Padgett Hwy., Augusta, GA 30906. E-mail MP3s to jstevenson@bellsouth.net. Deadline is June 1.

MUSIC AND ART IN THE PARK series begins May 13 with the North Augusta High School Chorus. Presented by the North Augusta Cultural Arts Council. The series features eight live music performances and displays of artwork by local artists. Concerts start at 7 p.m. and take place at the Creighton Living History Park at the corner of West Avenue and Spring Grove in downtown North Augusta. Free. Bring a picnic and blanket or chairs. Call 278-0938 or e-mail wbutler26@comcast.net.

THE GEORGIA RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL RUNS THROUGH JUNE 6 IN ATLANTA. COLUMBIA COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY presents “Favorite Jewels: Hymns, Anthems and Spirituals” May 14 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Evans. Tickets are $6 for seniors and students and $8 general admission. For info, call (706) 6508901 or visit www.ccchoralsociety.org.

HOPELANDS SUMMER CONCERT SERIES continues May 17 with the Savannah River Winds and May 23 with pianist John Vaughn. Concerts take place at Hopeland Gardens in Aiken at 7 p.m. Concerts will be held every week from May to August on the Roland H. Windham Performing Arts Stage. Performances will include a variety of music styles, as well as dance and vocal concerts. Please bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on.

Food is welcome but alcohol is prohibited. In case of inclement weather, please call 643-4661 for info.

A SPRING CONCERT will be given by The Augusta Collegium Musicum, directed by William Toole, at Reid Memorial Church on the corner of Walton Way and Johns Road, on May 23 at 4 p.m. featuring the Byrd “Mass for Four Voices,” four motets by Aaron Copland, and traditional spirituals. No admission, though donations are accepted. For info, call 733-5619.

Theatre “FOSSE,” the Tony Award-winning smash musical highlighting the work of legendary dancer, choreographer and director Bob Fosse, will be at the Bell Auditorium May 20. Call (706) 722-3521 or visit info@arcc.com for more info.

“HANSEL AND GRETEL” to be presented by the ASU Born to Read Literacy Center and Patchwork Players May 17 at 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. at the Maxwell Performing Arts Center. Call (706) 733-7043.

NEIL SIMON’S “BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS” will be presented by Aiken Community Playhouse May 14-29 at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Aiken. Tickets are $15 general admission, $13 for seniors 60 and over, $10 for

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EVERETT SUMMERALL will present an organ recital on May 16 at Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church on Walton Way. This is the final recital in the Inaugural Year Series for the Schantz pipe organ installed in March 2003. For info, call (803) 648-7662.

THE AIKEN CHORAL SOCIETY will present their annual spring concert at 4 p.m. May 23 at St. Mary Help of Christians Church in Aiken. Free of charge. For info, call Patricia Carter Hall at 649-9193.

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ART CLASSES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS at the Art Factory. The Art Factory also has a homeschool program and scholarships are available. Programs include painting, pottery, pilates, hip-hop, modern dance and more. Classes are held at the Art Factory, 418 Crawford Ave., or at the Augusta Jewish Community Center. Call 731-0008 for details.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY’S 27th annual awards exhibition is on display at the Aiken Center for the Arts at 122 Laurens Street in Aiken through June 26.

Eighty paintings have been selected for the exhibition and $10,000 in artist awards were presented to the top 30 artists. For info, call (678) 721-2506.

students and $6 for children 12 and under. For info, call (803) 648-1438 or e-mail info@aikencommunityplayhouse.com.

AUGUSTA OPERA presents “Rigoletto” at the Imperial Theater. Showtimes are at 8p.m. May 13 and 15, 3 p.m.

May 16. Call (706)826-4710.

Attractions MOTORIZED TOURS OF HISTORIC AIKEN every Saturday, 10-11:30 a.m. Tours leave from the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. Reservations are required, and patrons must be age 2 and older. (803) 642-7631.

AUGUSTA CANAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: Housed in Enterprise Mill, the center contains displays and models focusing on the Augusta Canal’s functions and importance to the textile industry. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sun., 1-6 p.m. Admission is $5 adult, $4 seniors and military and $3 children ages 6-18. Children under 6 admitted free. Guided boat tours of the Augusta Canal depart from the docks at Enterprise Mill at 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Saturdays and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Tour tickets are $6 adults, $5 seniors and $4 students and children. For tour information, call 823-7089. For other info, visit www.augustacanal.com or call 823-0440.

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 5 and under. 722-9828.

AUGUSTA GOLF & BOTANICAL 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. Free admission Armed Forces Day, May 15 from 9 a.m.–7 p.m. for all military ID card holders and Veteran’s Organization members and their families.

Closed Mondays; open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; open from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5.50 for adults; $4.50 for students, seniors and military; $3.50 for children (4-12); 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, virtual 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. Operating hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Call 821-0200, 1-800-3255445 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. Grounds and slave quarters are open Thursday-Monday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. House tours will be offered at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Admission to the grounds is free. Fee for house tours is $3 for adults and children ages 6-17. 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.

AUGUSTA VISITORS INFORMATION CENTER open Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Located inside the Augusta Museum of History. Call 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.

PHINIZY SWAMP NATURE PARK: See egrets, blue herons, river otters and elusive alligators in their natural setting, just minutes from downtown Augusta. The park has observation decks, boardwalks and several nature trails suitable for hiking.

Open Monday-Friday, noon-dusk, and Saturday and Sunday, dawn to dusk. For more information, call the Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy Office at 828-2109.

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THE AUGUSTA FARMERS MARKET ON BROAD is held every Saturday from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. until Sept. 25. Located beside Health Central on Macartan Street from 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Accepting applications from vendors. Call (706) 722-7245.

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THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART in Ware’s Folly exhibits works by local and regional artists. Art classes, workshops and other educational programming for children, youth and adults are held in the Walker-Mackenzie Studio. Open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday by appointment only. Admission is free, but a donation of $2 for adults and $1 for children and seniors is encouraged. Call 722-5495 or visit www.ghia.org 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. On May 16, there will be a Family Fun Day from 1-5 p.m. featuring the art of folding and flying paper airplanes.

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. New permanent exhibition, “Into the Interior: A History of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company” also available. 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.

AUGUSTA AND THE AVIATION MOVEMENT is a lecture to be given by Dr. Edward J. Cashin as part of the Augusta Museum of History’s Brown Bag History Series May 19 at noon. Call (706) 722-8454 for reservations by May 18.

THE MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART hosts exhibitions and special events year-round. May 16 brings “Meet Vincent van Gogh,” in which Randy Taylor, an Atlanta-based actor, artist and educator, brings Van Gogh to life in this original oneman production at 2 p.m. in the auditorium. Art at Lunch takes place May 21, and Women on Paper will demonstrate painting techniques in the museum lobby on May 23. Closed on Mondays and major holidays. 1 Tenth Street, Augusta.

Call 724-7501 or visit www.themorris.org for details.

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 Craft Laney Museum of Black History, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call the museum at 724-3576 for more information.

Special Events

the actual wedding of Tessa Boyle of Aiken and Clayton Abbey of Augusta in a 1924 vintage ceremony at Granville at 1 p.m. in front of a painting of the old Sand Bar Ferry Bridge by artist Cole Phail. The wedding will recreate a mock wedding that took place July 8, 1924 on the old Sand Bar Ferry Bridge during the bridge’s opening ceremonies, which symbolized the joining of the two states by the new bridge. Following the wedding there will be a re-creation of the last duel that took place at the Sand Bar Ferry dueling grounds on Dec. 16, 1875. For info, visit www.beech-islandhistory.org, e-mail bdbartley@bellsouth.net or call (803) 827-0184.

GUEST SPEAKER DR. MADHAVI MARTIN, a research scientist from India who is working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee will discuss “Freedom for All: A Nation We Call Our Own.” Program will take place at 1:30 p.m., May 17, in Alexander Hall on Chamberlain Avenue, and is part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Command Program. Free and open to the public. Call (706) 791-6001 or 791-5139.

AUGUSTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER presents an Israel Experience on May 16, and welcomes all to come learn about Israel. Admission is free, as are The Jewish Heritage Room, children’s activities, storytelling, dancing, music, face-painting and more. Items on sale include art, food, gift shop items and food such as falafel and Israeli snacks and candy. There will be storytelling at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.; dancing at 2 and 3 p.m.; the Jewish Heritage Room, information tables, children’s activities, music and food will be available from 1-4 p.m. Call (706) 228-3636.

Out of Town GEORGIA RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL runs through June 6 from 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. For info, visit www.georgiarenaissancefestival.com.

AT THE GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART in Athens, Ga.: “Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock” through May 16. Visit www.uga.edu/gamuseum or call (706) 542-4662 for info.

AT THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART in Atlanta: “Glories of Ancient Egypt” through Sept. 19 and “African Gold From the Glassell Collection” through Sept. 19. Call (404) 733-HIGH or visit www.high.org for information.

AUGUSTA SHOWCASE, an economic development campaign to market the area to potential business residents, will soon be underway. The Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce is giving presentations on the effort. Contact Tammy Stout, 722-8326, ext. 2, to schedule a speaker for your club or civic group.

ALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY presents “A Death in the House Next Door to Kathleen Turner’s House on Long Island” through May 30. Call the season ticket office at (404) 7334600, the box office at (404) 733-5000 or visit www.alliancetheatre.org.

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.petfinder.com.

THE ATLANTA JAZZ FESTIVAL takes place through May 31 in venues throughout Atlanta. Free. Visit www.atlantafestivals.com.

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

NEW FDR MUSEUM IN WARM SPRINGS, GA. at the Little White House site. For info, call (706) 655-5870 or visit www.fdr-whitehouse.org.

RICHMOND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL AND AUGUSTA ANIMAL RESCUE FRIENDS hold pet adoptions at Superpetz off Bobby Jones Expressway every Sunday from 1-4 p.m.

Call AARF at 364-4747 or visit www.aarf.net. Adoptions also held at the Richmond County Animal Control Shelter, Tues.Sun., 1-5 p.m. Call the shelter at 790-6836.

THE FIRST EVER WHO FEST ATLANTA features over 85 folk artists from near and far and the world’s largest moon pie. This folk art festival, honoring the late folk artist Howard Fenster, will be held May 22-23 outdoors at the Spruill Gallery. Visit www.whohadada.com or call (770) 993-7660.

THE CSRA HUMANE SOCIETY holds pet adoptions every Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and every Wednesday evening from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Pet Center located behind the GreenJackets Stadium on Milledge Rd. 261-PETS. MOLLY’S MILITIA, a pet adoption agency, meets each Saturday at Superpetz in Aiken from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., PetsMart in Aiken from 3-6:30 p.m., and PetsMart in Augusta from 4:30-7:30 p.m. For more information, call (803) 279-7003.

DOWNTOWN LUNCH DATE each Wednesday through June 30 from noon-1:30 p.m. at the Augusta Common. Will feature lunch from a local restaurant and musical entertainment. For more information, call 821-1754.

BE A TOURIST IN YOUR OWN HOMETOWN is an annual Augusta Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau event.

Participating area attractions are extending their hours, offering free admission periods and having other special events. Badges can be picked up for free at the Augusta Visitor Information Center inside the Augusta Museum of History Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and on Sunday from 1-5 p.m. Badges make hometown tourists eligible for special discounts. Dates are May 10-16. For info, call the Augusta Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau at (800) 726-0243 or (706) 823-6600.

A TASTE OF DOWNTOWN AIKEN takes place May 20, 4:308 p.m. It is a self-guided walking tour of Aiken venues, with tickets listing the participating businesses. Event-goers may begin and end their tour at any stop. Your ticket will be a Tshirt, which you must wear or carry with you. Venues will be listed on the shirt so that volunteers can mark off each tour location in the space provided. Cost is $15 in advance and $20 the day of the event. For info, call (803) 649-2221.

BEECH ISLAND HERITAGE DAY is Saturday, May 22, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Granville Plantation on Beech Island.

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SHAKE AT THE LAKE is a Georgia Shakespeare Festival event featuring a performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” free in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, May 12-16. Visit www.gashakespeare.org or call (404) 264-0020.

THE NEW AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE TAVERN presents “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” May 15June 27 with a $10 preview May 14. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays with additional performances at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 16 and 23, and Saturday, June 26 at 2 p.m. Call (404) 874-5299.

CELEBRATE MICKY: 75 InspEARations Statue Tour comes to Underground Atlanta May 22-July 20, featuring 15, 700-pound, 6-foot-tall statues. For info, call (404) 577-8686.

Benefits AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL is in need of dog and cat food, cat litter 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 790-6836 for information.

SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER BLOOD DRIVES in various locations around the CSRA this month. 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.

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES take place 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) 6425180 or the Augusta Blood Center at 868-8800.

ACACIA MASONIC LODGE will be holding a scholarship charity golf tournament at North Augusta Country Club Friday, May 21 with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. The format will be captain’s choice. You may make up your own team of four or enter individually. The price is $45 per person and includes soft drinks on the course, lunch, greens fees and cart. Separate prizes for men and women. No cash prizes.

For info, call (803) 819-0704 or (803) 278-0773.

Learning USC-AIKEN CONTINUING EDUCATION offers Paralegal Certificate Course, Taming the Wild Child, Conversational French, Italian, Spanish for the Beginner, Sign Language, DebtFree Living and more. “Travelearn” learning vacations for adults and Education to Go online courses also available. For info, phone (803) 641-3563.

AIKEN TECH CONTINUING EDUCATION offers Education to Go classes online, as well as computer classes, massage therapy, medical coding and billing, motorcycle safety, driver education and more. For more information or to register, call (803) 5939231, ext. 1230.

GED classes are offered by the Community Resource Center.

Tuition is free. Call 722-4999 for more information.

SERVICE CORPS OF RETIRED EXECUTIVES (SCORE) provides counseling and mentoring to business people either starting or continuing their business. Counseling is free and administered by retired executives. For more information, call 793-9998.

FREE TUTORING at ASU’s Born to Read Literacy Center for all ages. Call 733-7043.

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY CONTINUING EDUCATION is now offering courses in the following areas: History, personal enrichment, dance, exercise, youth, test prep, SAT prep, music, real estate, medical coding, investing, computer basics and more. There are also many online courses. For info, call 7371636 or visit www.ced.aug.edu.

MISTLETOE STATE PARK OFFERS a May 15 dulcimer workshop May 22 guided bird walk May 22 course in living off the land: cleaning and preparing fish and a May 29 decorating with nature workshop.

FREE TUTORING offered at Augusta State University’s Born To Read Literacy Center, Monday-Friday from 4-8 p.m. Closed on Wednesdays. Call 733-7043 for info.

Health ANGELS HAVE WHEELS: Medicare recipients suffering from conditions such as arthritis, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disorders who have difficulty walking or propelling a standard wheelchair may be eligible to receive an electric wheelchair. For information on eligibility, call Gregory at 1-800-8102877.

CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT GROUP meets the first Thursday of every month, 10:30-11:30 a.m. at Walton Rehabilitation Hospital. 823-5294.

WALTON REHABILITATION HOSPITAL offers a number of health programs, including fibromyalgia aquatics, water aerobics, wheelchair and equipment clinics, therapeutic massage, yoga, acupuncture, children’s medical services clinic, special needs safety seat loaner program, exercise class for breast cancer survivors and more. Call 823-5294 for information.

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

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. Support groups and health screenings are also offered. Call 736-0847 for details.

RAPE CRISIS AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES offers group counseling for victims of rape, date rape and childhood sexual abuse regardless of when the assault occurred and whether or not it was reported. Free. Call (706) 724-5200.

FOODBORNE ILLNESS CLASS held May 11 and 13 at MCG. Call 721-5437 for info.

SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER is seeking donors to prevent a blood supply shortage. To donate, call 737-4551, 854-1880 or (803) 643-7996.

FREE BLOOD PRESSURE CHECKS and HIV testing at RHEMA Connections, Inc. at 1829 Wrightsboro Road, Monday and Thursday evenings 5-8 p.m. Call (706) 364-6135.

MELANOMA AND OTHER SKIN CANCERS presented by dermatologist Avis Yount, M.D., May 20 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in University Hospital Dining Rooms 1-3. Call (706) 828-2522 or toll-free at (866) 869-2522.

THE CSRA PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH will hold a Covering the Uninsured Awareness Walk on May 15 from 9-11 a.m. at Lake Olmstead. Features a walk around Lake Olmstead beginning at 9 a.m. and a short program at

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AUGUSTA OPERA PRESENTS “RIGOLETTO” AT THE IMPERIAL THEATRE MAY 13, 15 AND 16.

10:15 a.m. on ways the government and the public can work together to move from awareness to action to developing solutions for this need. To reserve your place in the walk, call (706) 826-2292.

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arts and crafts, tennis and excursions. For more information, call (803) 642-7631.

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.

AIKEN COUNTY PONY CLUB meets weekly. Open to children of all ages who participate or are interested in equestrian sports. For more information, contact Lisa Smith at (803) 649-3399.

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

GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE CSRA AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM runs through May 21. Open to girls currently enrolled in kindergarten through high school. In addition to offering specialized programs, Girls Incorporated offers van pick-up at select schools, neighborhood drop-off, homework room and a hot evening meal. For information, call 7332512.

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.

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

FIRST SATURDAY STORYTELLING at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum. In addition, there is a tour of the museum. Held 10 a.m.-noon the first Saturday of the month. Call 724-3576.

AZTEC DANCE OF MEXICO is part of the Morris Museum’s Children’s Performance Series. After learning about the dances, costumes and musical instruments of the Aztec culture, children participate in an Aztec friendship dance inspired by the powwow two-step dance from the North American Indians. Call (706) 724-7501.

WEE CAN SKI PROGRAM for children with special needs.

Presented by the Medical College of Georgia. for info, call (706) 721-1188.

Seniors UNIVERSITY SENIORS CLUB has moved to a new location at 4106 Columbia Rd. University Seniors Club offers health screenings, support groups, health education classes and social activities. For more information, call 868-3231 or 1800-413-6652.

SENIOR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for new docent training program at the historic home of Nicholas Ware. Learn the fascinating history of Ware’s Folly and the families who lived there. All interested should call 722-5495.

THE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL offers many life enrichment programs for senior citizens such as warm-up/resistance exercises and low-impact dance aerobics Monday, Wednesday and Friday; quilting classes Monday and Friday; line dancing Monday and Wednesday; Spanish Monday and Thursday and more. Call (706) 826-4480.

Sports THE AUGUSTA VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION is looking for new members. For more information, visit www.augustavolleyball.com.

THE AUGUSTA RUGBY CLUB is always looking for new members. Teams are available for women and men. No experience necessary. Practice is Tuesday and Thursday nights, 7-9 p.m. at Richmond Academy. For more information, call Don Zuehlke, 495-2043, or e-mail augustarfc@yahoo.com. You may also visit www.augustarugby.org.

AUGUSTA FLYERS TRACK CLUB invites area youth ages 7-18 to join the team. Registration is through May 15.

For more information, contact George Taylor at 738-3737.

12TH ANNUAL SPRING CHALLENGE 10-KILOMETER RUN to be held by the Signal Corps Regimental Association on post, May 15 at 8 a.m. At 7:30 a.m. on that day there will be a 1-mile fun run/walk for children.

The event is open to the public. For registration info, call 791-4063.

WALTON REHABILITATION HOSPITAL offers Arthritis Aquatics and People With Arthritis Can Exercise. Call 823-5294 for information.

Volunteer PHINIZY SWAMP NATURE PARK VISITOR CENTER is in need of volunteers to greet visitors, hand out literature and sell merchandise. Volunteers must commit

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY

May 16, 2004

4:00pm All choirs of Holy Trinity present a concert of sacred choral music.

Free Admission “Georgia's Oldest Catholic Church” is located at the corner of 8th and Telfair St. in historic Downtown Augusta

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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,

FORTE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION is in need of local host families for high school international exchange students for the 2004-2005 school year. For more information, contact Tracy Klemens, (678) 358-5890.

Monday - Thursday 11 am - 3 pm • 5 pm - 10 pm • Friday - Saturday 11 am - 3 pm • 5 am - 10:30 pm

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HOME-BASED CARE available for low- to mid-income families seeking alternatives to nursing home placement. To participate, individuals must be aged 60 or up or must have disability status as defined by Social Security Administration guidelines. Applicants must also meet program income guidelines. For more information, contact the CSRA Area Agency on Aging at 210-2018 or 1-888-922-4464.

SENIOR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for the new visitor center at Phinizy Swamp Nature Center to greet visitors, hand out literature and sell merchandise. Volunteers are asked to commit one Saturday or Sunday per month, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. or 15 p.m. Call 828-2109 for information.

Evans Towne Centre - (706) 210-9008

to one Saturday or Sunday each month, from either 9 a.m.-1 p.m. or 1-5 p.m. 828-2109.

Road Community Center. For info, visit www.ckca.homestead.com or call (706) 860-5432.

SOUTHERNCARE HOSPICE SERVICE is currently seeking volunteers to perform a variety of tasks, including relieving caregivers, reading to patients and running errands. Training is included. For additional information, contact Lisa Simpson, (803) 463-9888 or 869-0205.

THE CSRA LINUX USERS GROUP meets 6 p.m. every fourth Tuesday at Border’s Books and Music in the Target shopping center. E-mail augustalinux@comcast.net or call (706) 790-8439.

AUGUSTA GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY meets every third Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Georgia Military College Building on Davis Rd. For more information, call 547-0178.

CSRA HUMANE SOCIETY NEW VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION PROGRAM the first and third Saturday of every month at the Pet Center, 425 Wood St. Orientation starts at 11 a.m.

Volunteers under 18 years of age must have a parent or guardian present during orientation and while volunteering.

Call 261-PETS for information.

JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY OF AUGUSTA civic advocacy meeting every third Saturday from 10 a.m.-12 noon at Friedman Branch Library. For more information, contact Tonio at 373-3772.

THE KITTY ORTIZ DE LEON FOUNDATION needs volunteers to help promote organ donor awareness. For more information, contact Cassandra Reed or Espy De Leon at 394-0838 or kodfoundation@aol.com.

MAY SIERRA CLUB MEETING features a program on recreational opportunities at the lake by U.S. Army Corps Ranger Jill Davis. Presented in conjunction with the Sierra Club meeting at the Unitarian Church on Walton Way Extension in Augusta May 18, 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Call 650-8314 or 737-1539.

GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK needs volunteers during the day, from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, to help sort donated products and assist in their agency shopping area.

Help is needed year-round. If you are able to lift 25 pounds, can commit to at least 3-4 hours per month and would like to help fight hunger in the Augusta area, contact Laurie Roper at 736-1199, ext. 208.

PASSIONATE ART COLLECTORS OF AUGUSTA holds their bi-monthly meeting on May 20 at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum, 7 p.m. This month’s guest speaker will be Robert W. Bazemore, artist and chief preparator of the Morris Museum of Art. The topic will be The Art of Hanging Art. For info, call 724-3576.

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.

Weekly OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS meets every Sunday night, 7:30 p.m., at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in North Augusta. For more information, call 278-5156.

RICHMOND COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES is seeking dependable foster parents to provide temporary housing, care and support for Georgia’s children. For more information, contact L. Lewis at 721-3718.

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUP for relatives and friends of drug abusers. No dues or fees. The group meets Mondays at 7 p.m. Call for location. For information, contact Josie, 414-5576, or Lionel, 860-0302.

MENTORS AND VOLUNTEERS needed to provide support for MACH Academy at the May Park Community Center and the Fleming Tennis Center. Education, tutoring and technology sessions held Monday-Thursday, 3-6 p.m. at each location. Tennis instruction and fitness activities held MondayThursday, 6-7 p.m. at May Park and Monday-Tuesday, 6-8 p.m., Friday, 6-8 p.m. and Saturday, 2-5 p.m. at the Fleming Center. 796-5046.

GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS meets Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., in the basement of Fairview Presbyterian Church. Call 1-800-313-0170.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: For more information and a meeting schedule, call 860-8331.

AUGUSTA/CSRA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY needs volunteers at ReStore, Walton Way and Tenth Street, to assist with receiving donations of new and used building and home improvement materials and warehousing them for sale to the public. The store is open Thursday-Saturday year-round.

If you can commit eight or more hours per month, contact Steve Buck, 364-7637.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: If you want to stop using any drugs, there is a way out. Help is available at no cost. Call the Narcotics Anonymous help line for information and meeting schedules at 855-2419.

UNITED HOSPICE OF AUGUSTA is in need of volunteers to support terminally ill patients. Scheduling and training times are flexible. Call Donna Harrell at 650-1522 for information.

THE ARTISTS’ CONSERVATORY THEATRE OF THE CSRA is looking for volunteer board members, actors and production crew. Call 556-9134 or e-mail act@theatermail.net.

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM VOLUNTEER TRAINING: The CASA program is looking for volunteers 21 years of age and older to advocate for abused and neglected children in the juvenile court system. Volunteers need no experience and will be provided with specialized training. Call 737-4631.

Meetings THE METRO AUGUSTA FRISBEE DOG CLUB to begin meeting the last Sunday of the month. Call (706) 210-8577. Dogs and owners welcome.

AUGUSTA SKI AND OUTING CLUB meets the first Tuesday of each month. Call (803) 279-6186.

AUGUSTA NEWCOMERS CLUB holds a coffee meeting the first Tuesday of every month. Call (706) 650-1400.

THE AUGUSTA CAVEMASTERS is the regional club for persons interested in cave exploration and conservation. They

AUGUSTA GOLF AND BOTANICAL GARDENS OF THE GEORGIA GOLF HALL OF FAME OFFERS FREE ADMISSION TO ALL MILITARY ID CARD HOLDERS AND VETERANS’ ORGANIZATION MEMBERS, MAY 15. meet the first Thursday of every month at the Warren Road Community Center on Warren Road. Call (803) 278-2751.

MEDITATION & BUDDHISM meetings through June at the UU Church of Augusta, Walton Way Extension, Tuesdays from 7-8:30 p.m. (No class 6/1.) Call (803) 256-0150 or visit www.MeditationInSouthCarolina.org.

WOMEN ON WHEELS, the Georgia-Lina Chapter, meets the second Tuesday of each month. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m., with the meeting beginning at 7:30. Women on Wheels is a women’s motorcycle club which meets for recreation, education, support, recognition and to promote a positive image of motorcycling. Location changes monthly. For info, call (706) 855-7375.

THE DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE held the first Saturday of every month, 7-9 p.m., at the Unitarian Church of Augusta, honor the religious traditions of the world through song and movement. Call (803) 643-0460 for more information.

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“ROOTS OF GARDENING” SERIES presented by Georgia Golf Hall of Fame’s Botanical Gardens. The ABC’s of Planting is from 6:307:30 p.m. May 20, June 17, July 15, Aug. 19, Sept. 16 and Oct. 21. For info, call (706) 724-4443.

AUGUSTA BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP meets the second Thursday of every month, 6 p.m., at Walton West TLC. Brain injury survivors and their family members and caregivers are invited to attend. 737-9300.

WALTON REHABILITATION HOSPITAL AMPUTEE CLINIC for new and experienced prosthetic users meets the third Thursday of each month, 1-3 p.m. 722-1244.

STORYTIME IN THE GARDENS will take place Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in May in Hopeland Gardens. For more information, call (803) 642-7631.

THE CANOE & KAYAK CLUB OF AUGUSTA meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Warren

SEXAHOLICS ANONYMOUS, a 12-step program of recovery from addiction to obsessive/compulsive sexual thoughts and behaviors, meets Wednesdays at 8 p.m. at Christ Church Unity, 2301 Central Ave. Call 339-1204 and leave first name and phone number; a confidential reply is assured.

AUGUSTA TOASTMASTERS CLUB #326 meets each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Advent Lutheran Church in Martinez. Learn communication and leadership skills.

For more information, call 868-8431.

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roots-deep Calvin Jr.’s Barbershop on Chicago’s South Side. Again, more talk rises than hair falls, though the scissors team from the 2002 hit have a new worry, a slick rival across the way. The best laughs come from Cedric the Entertainer as Eddie, with a broad beam and a ‘do to match. Eddie isn’t quite so rife with the riffs that won the first movie a little notoriety, but gets into a fine lip-off with the big beautician from down the street (Queen Latifah, offering an appetizer of her upcoming “Beauty Shop”). As long as it is simply being a barbershop, the gab has a razor-cut charm. Running time: 1 hr., 40 mins. (Elliott) !!1/2 stars.

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (PG) — Rowdy Herrington’s movie

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fiancée Helen (Bianca Lawson) at their engagement party, his life reaches an emotional low. He quits his job and begins writing a letter to Helen to explain his feelings. The letter snowballs into a book, which is quickly published and becomes a runaway bestseller. When Quincy’s friend Evan (Morris Chestnutt) decides to end things with his girlfriend Nicky (Gabrielle Union), he persuades his friend, the expert to do the deed. The plot twist is that, in the process of delivering the message to Nicky, whom he has never met, Quincy somehow remains anonymous as to his connection to Evan and ends up falling for her.

The Butterfly Effect (R) — As Evan Treborn, Ashton Kutcher is a floppy fishie with a hook in his mouth, and that hook is the script. Seems that Evan’s dad is a deranged psycho with a “most unusual” brain disorder who, during the boy’s visit to the ward, tries to throttle and kill him. As Evan grows up, there are other lurid milestones. Evan has a breakthrough: Reading his old diaries, the pages quiver and this lets him mentally travel back to a past he can now change. In the middle, gulping like a caught bass, is Kutcher, aching with sincerity and technique you could call inadequate except that no technique would be adequate. The poor guy is caught, stuffed and mounted. Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, Kevin Schmidt, Eric Stoltz, William Lee

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Frankie Muniz, who is 18, playing 16 and at moments looks ripe to be 40, is agent Banks, a CIA operative on a covert mission to Britain. Kevin Allen directed like a giddy tourist, and the menu of Saturday daytime entertainment is served a bit more sharply than by the last “Spy Kids” romp. Cast: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Keith David. Running time: 1 hr., 24 mins. (Elliott) !!

further enshrines golfing legend Bobby Jones. An exalted amateur, he retired at 28 after winning 13 majors, including the only one-year “grand slam” (1930). He is played by two cute kids and then, grown, looks on the sad side of 30 in the gaunt visage of James Caviezel.

There are some lovely courses, swell putts, drives where the camera flies with the ball, but the story is 18 holes of crisis: runner-up crisis, temper crisis, pressure crisis, varicose veins crisis, marital crisis ... “Fore!” haunted by “Bore!,” the film seldom gives much sense of the game’s pleasures or even the acute seductiveness of its agonies. Cast: James Caviezel, Jeremy Northam, Malcolm McDowell, Claire Forlani, Aidan Quinn. 1 hr., 52 mins. (Elliott) !!

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Cheaper by the Dozen (PG) — To make an old (1950) Clifton Webb comedy without Clifton Webb is a serious loss, but getting Steve Martin — a vanilla-shaked version of Webb’s snappish fussiness — is not a bad idea for “Cheaper By the Dozen.” He’s engaging as Tom Baker, football coach and father of 12 kids. Bonnie Hunt plays the wife and mom, Kate, looking awfully good despite the wear. The Bakers have a great life in a small town where Tom coaches, but he’s hired to go to a bigger team outside Chicago, and the only story is the stress on the family from their move. The film is simple and obvious and plastic, but diverting.

Designed to be fluff, it’s fluffy all the time. Cast: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo, Hilary Duff, Richard Jenkins. Running time: 1 hr., 34 mins. (Elliott) !!

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (PG) — Another Disney dinky, turning the dreams of girls into piffle. Lindsay Lohan pitches her pretty charm like mad as “drama queen” Lola, who leaves New York for New Jersey (looks like a section of Burbank), wins a worshipful friend, dazzles a boy, squelches a snarky rival and stars in a rock version of “Pygmalion” full of “American Idol” razzle. Wasted rather depressingly are Carol Kane, Glenne Headly and other talents, treated as confetti at Lohan’s feet. Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Carol Kane, Glenne Headly. Running time: 1 hr., 34 mins. (Elliott) !

Dawn of the Dead (R) — Thanks to a plague, the United States is taken over by zombies. It pretty much follows the rules found in the “Zombie

Codebook”: If killed by a zombie, one must return as one. Once turned into a zombie, one must seek fresh blood. One must also go to the mall. (To the mall?) The good guys, for some reason, think that the mall is a pretty neat place to be too. Needless to say, forces collide, with the good guys deciding to make a run for it to a (supposedly) safe island. But first, they have to get through a sea of the undead. Based upon the 1979 movie “Dawn of the Dead.” Cast: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Barry, Linday Booth, Ty Burrell, Jayne Eastwood, Michael Kellym, Jake Weber, Kevin Zegers, Tom Savini.

Ella Enchanted (PG) — Is Anne Hathaway the prettiest girl in movies? No, Hathaway (she’s 21) is the prettiest woman in movies. Her beauty and charming personality give some light weight to “Ella,” in which Ella is really Cinderella. Ella is under a spell that makers her obey all orders — will someone please order Hathaway to stay pretty in better movies?

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Minie Driver, Vivica A. Fox, Eric Idle and Joanna Lumley.

Running time: 1 hr., 34 mins. (Elliott) !!

Envy (PG-13) — Tim and Nick are best friends, neighbors and co-workers. When one of Nick’s get-rich-quick schemes succeeds, Tim, who had initially dismissed Nick’s idea, has to cope with Nick’s overnight success and his own jealousy. Cast: Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Stephanie Adams, Rachel Weisz, Amy Poehler.

The Girl Next Door (R) — This comedy begins implausibly. Matthew (Emile Hirsch) is the shy, smart president of his senior class, even though only some other nerds seem to like him. It gets more

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The Haunted Mansion (PG) — Another movie based on a ride at Disneyland, again featuring cheesy, story-altering references to the rides, as well as plots about ghosts and curses. Eddie Murphy is a workaholic real estate agent and a smooth-talking sleazebag. A promising real-estate deal turns out to be more than he bargains for, and his eagerness to scope out a house on the way to a family vacation leaves his entire family stranded at a creepy, cobweb-ridden Louisiana mansion with a curse. The result is a movie that, while consistently amusing, plays like a hackneyed effort to stretch a few minutes of ride into a coherent, hour-and-a-half story. Cast: Eddie Murphy. Running time: 1 hr., 39 mins. (Fu) !!

Johnson Family Vacation (PG-13) — Comedy is long, laughter is short.

Scarcely directed, the movie is vacant of style and aggressively lame. You might pine for the old National Lampoon road comedies. Why do a black version of those formula pictures that is softer, cornier, more vanilla at the core? Coming so soon after the dismal (but more amusing) “Never Die Alone,” this marks a bad season for black cinema. But “Johnson Family Vacation” has nothing to do with cinema, and nothing of value to do with black. Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Bow Wow, Vanessa Williams, Shannon Elizabeth, Solange Knowles.

Running time: 1 hr., 35 mins. (Elliott) !

Laws of Attraction (PG-13) — Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan are battling but loving divorce attorneys in New York. They meet cute, and treat the law as a form of repartee. They first get into bed together by getting drunk on Cuban booze, then rebound into scratchy bickering as if sex had barely registered. Of course, they are falling in love, and you can find the sporty delays, as the plot bobs and weaves, cleverly amusing or compulsively strained. What dampens the breeziness is the slightly mothballed feeling that this has all been done, before and better. Cast: Julianne Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Parker Posey, Frances Fisher, Michael Sheen. Running time: 1 hr., 45 mins. (Elliott) !!1/2

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Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tim Meadows, Tina Fey, Lizzy Caplan. Running time: 1 hr., 35 mins.

(Elliott) !!1/2 My Baby’s Daddy (PG-13) — A trio of partying bachelors from the ‘hood must curb their wild ways when they discover all three of their girlfriends are pregnant at the same time. Cast: Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Method Man, Bai Ling, Paula Jai Parker.

New York Minute (PG) — The Olsen twins finally break big in this, their first nonstraight-to-video movie. Billed as a “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” for teenie-boppers, the plot centers around the plans of Roxy and Jane, two enterprising young girls, to escape their parents and spend a day around Manhattan. Predictably, the title of the movie is also about the same amount of time any self-respecting moviegoer would spend watching this shameless vehicle to promote the impending milestone of the Olsen twins’ 18th birthdays. Eugene Levy co-stars in a thinlyveiled attempt to pay his rent this month. Cast: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy.

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are back for another adventure. This time, they’re on the trail of an anonymous masked villain who’s wreaking havoc on Coolsville with a machine that spits out monsters. All signs point to Old Man Wickles... Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Peter Boyle, Alicia Silverstone, Seth Green, Matthew Lillard.

Secret Window (R) — Writer Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp), traumatized by divorce from Amy (Maria Bello), who's taken up with her plot device of a lover (Timothy Hutton), is ready to become jellied putty for a grim rustic who trails Southern Gothic literary vines. John Shooter (John Turturro) shows up claiming that Rainey plagiarized a story of his, ruined the ending and deserves cruel payment. How, really, do you go wrong with actors like Turturro, Depp, Bello, Hutton and (as a private eye) Charles S. Dutton? By using them as spits for King's brand of corn, roasted and then shoved down the gullets of the gullible. Cast: Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro, Len Cariou, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton. (Elliott) !!

Taking Lives (R) — As Illeana, FBI detective and specialist in serial killers, Angelina Jolie is eager to help with a nasty case in Montreal. The Canadian cops are nearly helpless. It's up to the bold American nut-chaser to corner the killer, a chopper and

smasher so serial he murders men in advancing periods of age and steals their identities for a while. The story stupifies itself with a brutal fight, then a car chase and explosion; Ethan Hawke being sewn up with stitches, shown in close-up; hot sex (lots of Jolie). Director D.J. Caruso, whose "The Salton Sea" was a sometimes fascinating mess, is a clunk-along with plot thrills. Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez, Tcheky Karyo, Gena Rowlands. Running time: 1 hr., 40 mins. (Elliott) !

13 Going on 30 (PG-13) — Shana Dowdeswell plays Jenna Rink, hitting 13, bright and shy, eager to run with the sarcastic fox pack at school.

On Jenna's birthday, they inflict a wretched trick on her and the pudgy boy who yearns to date her. After a sprinkle of magic dust, she is suddenly about 30 in New York City, a rising novice editor at chick-chic Poise. And Jenna is now Jennifer Garner. The cute and pudgy boy is now Mark Ruffalo, still cute, less pudgy, treating his talent like a warm puppy. Weirdly, her new chum is her main rival at the magazine, the former queen of the fox pack now become Judy Greer. Enjoy the actors, lightly, but suspend all thought. Cast: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Kathy Baker, Judy Greer, Phil Reeves. Running time: 1 hr., 32 mins. (Elliott) !!

Troy (R) – Orlando Bloom is Paris, Prince of Troy, who falls in love with Helen, Queen of Troy (Diane Kruger). However, Helen is wed to King Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson,) whose brother, the power-hungry Agamemnon, uses Helen and Troy’s infidelity to expand his empire by invading Troy. Brad Pitt is Achilles, the powerful warrior ally to Agamemnon who represents a worthy adversary to Priam, (Peter O’Toole) King of Troy’s defending army.

Twisted (R) — Ashley Judd plays tough San Francisco cop Jessica Shepard, recently promoted to homicide detective. Jessica picks up men in bars, then has fast, rough sex that has an aura of foreplay for murder. Sure enough, a series of her studs turn up dead.

And Jessica, who is prone to drinking red wine in quantity, yanking her trigger temper and then "hearing voices," becomes a key suspect in her first murder case.

Just as the male victims seem to have "disposable" stenciled on their foreheads, to go with the cigarette burns on their hands, so does the film appear to carry the label Video Bin: Recycle Fast. Cast: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong. Running time: 1 hr., 37 mins. (Elliott) !!

Van Helsing (PG-13) — Hugh Jackman is Gabriel Van Helsing, the world’s greatest and most successful monster hunter. He’s sent to Transylvania to help Anna Valerious (Beckinsale) battle a dream-team monster army. Upon his speedy arrival, he finds that Count Dracula has recruited every monster from history, leaving none for a possible sequel. Cast: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Will Kempe.

You Got Served (PG-13) — Elgin and David are best friends who are serious about their hobby: urban street dancing. When another town’s top group challenges them to a dancing competition, the boys must create new, cutting-edge moves to stay in the game. Cast: Marques Houston, Omari Grandberry, Jennifer Freeman, Jarrell Houston, Dreux Frederic.

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lasts 200 minutes, and some of those are long minutes.

The last 20 can feel like an hour, for clearly creator Peter Jackson didn’t wish to let his saga go. Bernard Hill, Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom are impressive fighters, and Cate Blanchett makes a gorgeous Galadriel. This is posing, not acting. Sir Ian McKellen acts very well as noble Gandalf, but lines about heart, courage and fate make him Lord Fortune Cookie. “Lord” is all epic, all the time. Jackson loves battles, which means hurling dense masses of mostly computerized fighters at one another. If the climax battle this time is more overpowering than the Helm’s Deep boggler in “Two Towers,” does it truly deepen the story? Maybe it is just more spectacle, as climaxes are stacked high and then the epic winds down with Elijah Woods as Frodo (now mildly matured) exiting sweetly, his destiny done. Cast: Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, Viggo Mortensen, Ian Holm, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin.

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The Last Samurai (R) — Tom Cruise stars as Nathan Algren, a heroic Civil War veteran and then embittered cavalry man, reduced to heavy drinking and shilling for a gun company. Algren goes to Japan, paid to train the new imperial army in modern ways and weapons. But he finds himself drawn to the insurgent cause and almost idyllic life in the hills of samurai leader Katsumoto (Watanabe), who fights for the old ways and hopes to win over the adolescent emperor from greedy modernists. Having come to teach, Algren stays to learn.

He is captured after impressing Katsumoto with his fighting spirit; the “barbarian” has a tiger within. “The Last Samurai” bides its time, has a predictable plot, but gives pleasure of a sustained kind. Cast: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn, Timothy Spall, Koyuki. Running time: 2 hrs., 24 mins. (Elliott) !!!

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implausible, as Matt voyeurizes the fabulous new blond neighbor, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert), who then forces him to strip for her outdoors, and they begin to forge a sexy mutual regard. In rapid plot time, Matt and his conerds (amusing Chris Marquette and Paul Dano) are concocting a porn film to pay his way to Georgetown U., one that will slyly subvert the senior prom.What, really, is this thing? One of the tawdriest silly jokers of the year, or one of the few mainstream comedies to have a pinch of audacity. In fact it is both, mixed implausibly but somewhat entertainingly. Cast: Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Nicholas Downs, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette. Running time: 1 hr., 34 mins.

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Godsend (PG-13) — Paul Duncan (Greg Kinnear) and wife Jessie (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) have a perfect son, who at 8 has a perfect birthday party. But Adam is then killed in an accident. Scarcely is the boy dead than Dr. Richard Wells (Robert De Niro) arrives, making a unique offer — he can clone Adam from one cell, at his richly endowed yet weirdly secretive Godsend Institute. But no sooner has Jessie given birth to new Adam than she babbles, “Something’s wrong.”

Somehow bad Zach, a sociopath, got spliced into Adam’s DNA. “Godsend” is one of the collapsing duds that should cause not only critics to despair — not about bad movies, but that the makers believe any audience deserves this. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Robert De Niro, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Cameron Bright. Running time: 1 hr., 40 mins. (Elliott) !

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ary-Kate and Ashley Olsen grew up before our eyes, yet we never saw it coming. Who could have guessed that the adorable little twins who starred for nearly a decade on the goofy TV sitcom “Full House” would evolve into a colossal powerhouse of the kiddie entertainment world?

By their last count, the Olsens have their names on products in 47 categories. And the young ladies, who famously turn 18 this June 13, personally oversee many aspects of their billion-dollar empire.

Mary-Kate and Ashley also have not stopped acting since the cancellation of “Full House” in 1995. They starred in numerous straight-tovideo features, which were routinely snapped up by their legions of fans. Now they hope to translate that small-screen success to the big screen with “New York Minute,” their first theatrical film since becoming teenagers.

“New York Minute” is a comic romp through the Big Apple, with the Olsens playing sisters with clashing personalities who get caught up in a madcap misadventure. The twin tycoons are also looking forward to the start of their freshman year at New York University.

Q: How similar are your characters in “New York Minute” to your true personalities?

Mary-Kate: Those characters are very extreme. Ashley and I are very different from each other, but we’re also very similar, and I think what we have eventually come to understand is, we respect each other. Even if we don’t understand, we respect that difference.

Q: You executive-produced many of your videos, and you also served as producers on “New York Minute.” Do people underestimate you as movie producers?

Ashley: Probably. At first, I’m sure for the writers of “New York Minute” or the director, Dennie Gordon, they might have been unsure.

But we know what we want and we’re not messing around.

Mary-Kate: Through the whole process, Ashley and I felt very strongly on a few issues. We would have to fight and they’d have to trust us, and it’s a good thing it worked out. We learned from each other; we listened to them. To take a little, you have to give a little.

Q: Do you ever get used to watching yourselves on-screen?

Mary-Kate: We’re so critical — Ashley: I can barely watch myself. I do it, but I’m so critical that I’d want to do every scene again and again.

Q: Which one of you enjoys acting more?

Ashley: I think we enjoy everything that we do equally.

Mary-Kate: If we didn’t enjoy it, we wouldn’t be doing it.

Q: You already have thriving careers and you have also learned about running a business. So why did you choose to go to college?

Mary-Kate: We had a head start on the business end. We’ve been in school our entire

lives and school has been our No. 1 priority, but we want to go to college and take a psychology class or a culinary class, to learn about things other than business. I don’t think we’re going to school to figure out a major. I think Ashley and I know what we want to do.

Q: And what do you want to do?

Mary-Kate: Still have the company, still act and who knows? We’ll discover and explore in school.

Ashley: I think we’re doing things right now that are making us happy. Growing up, we have been doing things based on how we are as people and what we’ve gone through as teenagers.

We’ve just played ourselves, and played characters we’re comfortable playing. I can’t really comment on the future. I don’t know.

Q: Are you aware of the Internet Web sites that are running countdowns until you turn 18? What is your reaction to that kind of interest?

Mary-Kate: We’re comfortable making fun of ourselves and poking fun at the countdown.

That was the cool part of doing this movie for a broad audience. Some people think it’s sexy; some people think it’s funny. We’re not here to be sexy; we’re here to be who we are. And as people grow up, they change and find their own identity.

Q: What is it like living your whole life always being recognized in public?

Ashley: I guess what you’re asking is something we can’t really comment on. We’ve been in this situation for our entire lives. This is our reality; this is normal for us. For each person there are experiences that are normal for them and abnormal for anyone else. For us, this is normal and I think we’ve done an amazing job of balancing our school life with our personal life and our work life.

Q: How do you find that balance in your life?

Ashley: We do schoolwork, do a movie, and go home at night. It’s what we know as our routine. Surrounding yourselves with good people and being happy inside, that creates a balance for us.

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n “The Iliad,” the hauntingly beautiful Helen is the spark that ignites the 10-year battle between the Trojans and the Greeks. As Christopher Marlowe later wrote, hers “was the face that launched a thousand ships.” In Wolfgang Petersen’s rendering of Homer’s tale, Helen of Troy takes a backseat to Brad Pitt’s Achilles. For his first major role since 2001’s “Oceans Eleven,” Pitt is put on display as a Hollywood icon and sex symbol, who will, presumably, launch a lot more than a thousand ticket sales.

As the indomitable and fiery warrior for the Greek army, Pitt sprints around in leathery armor and a short skirt slicing men’s heads off at will. In between his rages, both on the battlefield and with the power-hungry king of the Greek forces, Agamemnon (Brian Cox), Pitt is allowed to display his softer side, romancing the captured Trojan royal, Briseis (Rose Byrne).

But whether loving or fighting, Pitt is the overarching subject of Petersen’s gaze. His is the stirring introduction in the film — he’s pulled from a long night of partying and, presumably, lovemaking to do battle for the Greeks.

And it’s his name which closes the movie. As sexy as Pitt is — looking particularly good here with his tanned body toned and perfectly tuned for either of the two activities he engages in — the effect of watching of a film more enamored with one of its actors than anything else becomes tiresome.

In most ways, “Troy” is less rewarding than the last film that took this route, “Legends of the Fall.”

A snapshot of the lengthy war between the Trojans and Greeks, “Troy” is most interesting for its veiled references to the current skirmish in the global spotlight: The war

in Iraq. Although much of the dialog that happens in between the fighting seems convoluted and forced, the themes are nonetheless apropos.

Odysseus (Sean Bean) summarizes it most poignantly when he says, “War is young men dying and old men talking.” The sentiment is a rather bitter but pointed comment about our own battle waging in the Middle East.

Of course, like Odysseus’ poetic summarization, much of the back and forth chatter about war and politics is just that: Back and forth. Achilles and Hector (Eric Bana), the two premiere soldiers on opposing sides of the fight, are constantly coming to terms with the difficulty of being in the trenches.

For Achilles, fighting is about destiny and the possibility for immortality.

Drawn to battle so that his name might enter the history books, Achilles looks at his calling with an insolent and nihilistic attitude: He recognizes his gift is killing but sees no real good use in it.

Furthermore, he despises being the puppet of a fiendish king. Hector, on the other hand, fights for his country and his people. As played by Bana, he is the more interesting hero of the two, and the more human. More than a blind patriot, and generally less angry, Hector is a man compelled to fight who would rather stay home.

Despite its stellar cast, which also includes Peter O’Toole, Orlando Bloom and Brendan Gleeson, “Troy” is mired in repetition. Just as the fighting trades off between camps, so do the lines about the meaning of war.

Less rousing and invigorating than the last good Roman epic we had, “Gladiator,” “Troy” leaves you wishing the Greeks had just stayed home.

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emotional interplay of Henry Jayson’s violin and Piazza’s Ryan Adams-like wail, or the core strength of Piazza’s songwriting skills.

To say that Shaun Piazza Band is both a front-running candidate for Augusta’s flagship band and destined for greater levels of appreciation is justified after their performance at the festival, as well as the subsequent midnight Soul Bar show.

Though the five-piece Redbelly was clearly cramped on the far smaller stage, the boys still held form while running through a 15minute “short” version of “Jackelope.” Two more originals (“Yellow Bird” and “Woe Is You”) followed, also abridged, so as to leave room for a slightly rushed version of the surf guitar-inspired “Man of the Hour,” probably the closest thing Redbelly has to a pop song.

Wayne C and the Pat Blanchard Band filled the following hour, with the socially conscious rapper Wayne C leading off, joined onstage by an entourage that included a live drummer, bassist and several backing vocalists. Wayne C came on with an incredible energy that somehow didn’t interrupt the flow of his street-smart lyrics. Perhaps Wayne C would benefit from playing more live shows, as many in the crowd seemed to be experiencing his music for the first time.

Pat Blanchard, who recently took up bass duties upon the addition of guitarist Adam Hatfield, is now fronting a roots rock supergroup of sorts, with Keith Jenkins also handling guitar and drummer Jamie Jones supplying a strong supporting groove. On stage, guitar solos were plentiful, articulate and tasteful, whether peppering an old original (“Ain’t Got Time”), or a classic soul cover (Marvin Gaye’s “Baby Don’t You Do It”).

This is easily the strongest incarnation of the Pat Blanchard Band yet.

As the evening crept in, temperatures fell from unbearable to tolerable levels, and set times were extended from 30 minutes to an hour. By the time Atlanta funk instrumentalists Cadillac Jones’ set began, dancing was the preferred mode of musical enjoyment.

One can’t help but wonder, though, if the disco/soul that Cadillac Jones pumped out could have made a man with lead shoes dance. Taking the stage in their matching trademark orange Adidas jumpsuits and consisting of a rhythm section (bass and drums), a guitarist, keyboards, turntables and two saxophonists, Cadillac Jones’ grooves were no doubt falling mostly on virgin ears. But their vocal-less approach to breeding retrofunk was a worthy substitute for those wishing to hear Augusta’s own Godfather of Soul, and Cadillac Jones rightfully received a warm reception.

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With a layout that perfectly utilized the green space in the Augusta Common (two stages faced inward from opposite ends of the area), acts were allowed to set up on one stage as another was performing on the opposing stage. All of the musicians used this system well — there was rarely a stop in the music, and this added to a superb overall flow. With the addition of local food and arts-and-crafts vendors lining the sides of the green space, the festival atmosphere was complete.

The tribal polyrhythms of Not Gaddy’s Drum Circle, beginning at noon, acted as an appropriate opening ceremony to the festival.

The percussion circle also acted as the perfect preface to the sampler platter of area music that would fill the next 12 hours. At the conclusion of the largely improvised set, pint-sized folkstress Chelsea Logue took the smaller stage, which was better suited to her tiny stature. A handful of honest originals, delivered only by her voice and acoustic guitar, were proof enough of the positive effect that the last few months of her playing out constantly have had on her stage presence.

She’s only 16, and though she doesn’t look a day older, behind a six-string she takes on the sound of an experienced veteran.

The six-piece Three-Sixty took the larger stage immediately after Logue’s set at 1:30, absolutely the hottest part of the day. As a result of the intense heat, most of the festival’s patrons decided to sit instead of dance, but Three-Sixty paid no mind. Held together by a rhythm section possessing extraordinary tightness, they ripped through covers of Outkast’s “Black Ice” and Rick James’ “Mary Jane,” and the well-penned original closer “Change Your Life.”

Thirty-minute sets proved to be a little too confining for The Shaun Piazza Band and especially Redbelly, who filled the 2:30-3:00 and 3:00-3:30 time slots, respectively. The Shaun Piazza Band provided what was arguably the most solid set of the day. This was either due to performance, relying on the

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SHAUN PIAZZA WRENCHES OUT AN HONEST PERFORMANCE DESPITE THE MIDDAY HEAT. continued from page 43 After Stewart and Winfield’s rollicking set of whiskey-fueled ballads and rockers, The Reggae Cowboys took the stage, sporting Jamaican dreadlocks covered by cowboy hats. Just as their name implies, The Reggae Cowboys stuck to a dub-heavy mix of reggae, with an occasional dash of Tex-Mex flavor (they’ve conceived an actual band out of the Western/reggae music mixture that Bob Marley first touched upon in “I Shot the Sheriff”). The group’s playful but deep take on the “Rawhide” theme song charmed the crowd, but at its conclusion, thunder and lightning ominously loomed just across the river, and thoughts of a rainout spread quickly.

But, as Col. Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers appeared on the far stage in matching sport coats, those fears of rain subsided, and the clouds parted around Augusta, as if divinely intervened upon. Or perhaps it was the onetwo punch of Hampton’s “I’ll Play When I’m Ready” lightning-fast fretwork and Augusta native Bobby Lee Rodgers’ equally fast banjo picking and scat singing that cleared the skies.

The four-piece stomped through crowd favorites “Diggin’ Up Bones,” the bossa novainflected “Lima” and the chaotic stop-and-go chanting of “Million Dollars.” There’s nothing more fun than watching a band that’s having fun playing, and it was nothing but ear-to-ear grins on all four band members’ faces anytime they were making noise.

Wycliffe Gordon’s ensemble, comprised of pianist Richard Johnson, upright bassist David Heath, utility percussionist Eric Hargrove and, of course, Gordon on trombone, gathered on the larger stage for the

finale to half a day of music. The quartet quickly broke into “C-Jam Blues,” an old Duke Ellington standard, following it up with the Coltrane classic, “Impressions.” The gorgeously rendered, if not blindingly fast, version of the song featured a dead stop that allowed Gordon to freestyle solo. The evening proved to be an Ellington tribute, as the quartet then played the classics “In a Sentimental Mood” and “ Take the ‘A’ Train,” the latter a vocal version when the band was joined onstage by jazz vocalist London Arrington. With the addition of vocalists (first Arrington and the female vocalist Kim Coffield on “Stormy Monday Blues”), the evening shifted from jazz standards to smooth jazz. All was redeemed, however, when the group launched into their finale, “Pass the Peas,” a fitting tribute to ‘70s-era James Brown (with Hargrove, JB’s current drummer, playing the cover with Gordon.)

In total, the Garden City Music Festival, now in its sixth year, was well put together and conducted. The time of year is scheduled perfectly (no mosquitoes or gnats out yet), and the weather cooperated. Diversity was the key word — not only for the musicians, but for the vendors as well. The post-festival club crawl, ingeniously realized by Coco Rubio, was the perfect punctuation on a great day, and all genres were well represented (the only band missing was Estrela, a no-brainer for representing Augusta’s emerging hardcore movement). Word is, the crawl actually did well enough to possibly become a seasonal event. So with all the preexisting and budding talent emerging in Augusta, a musical renaissance here seems imminent.

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lectric blues guitarist Jimmy Thackery has seen and, in fact, done it all. Having been strapped to a Fender Stratocaster for about 35 years, he’s learned from and taught the best.

Thackery can claim past membership in half a dozen groups, and he’s been involved in twice as many side projects.

He’s been on the road and shared the stage with such legends as Eddie Hinton (legendary guitarist of Muscle Shoals Studio), Stevie Ray Vaughan (whom Thackery remembers as just a local guy from Austin, Texas), and Muddy Waters. His guitar pyrotechnics have become the stuff of legend, earning him a position at the top of the list of blues-rock heavyweights.

Thackery grew up in Washington, D.C., playing with David Raitt (Bonnie Raitt’s brother) in a high school band. It was David who turned Thackery on to Buddy Guy, which he cites as a definite turning point.

Thackery’s moment of realization would come several years later, however, when he saw a Jimi Hendrix concert in Washington.

“Everybody up until Hendrix was just trying to play,” says Thackery. “When I saw

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Jimi, it was very evident very quickly that this was about entertainment. Not only did the guy have chops like no one else’s, but you couldn’t take your eyes off of him.”

Thackery formed the Nighthawks in 1974 with guitarist Bobby Radcliff and harmonica player Mark Wenner. He would be with the group for the next 14 years, recording more than 20 albums and spending 300 nights a year on tour. Once, while touring with Eddie Hinton, Thackery took notice of one of Hinton’s many strange habits: Jogging 10 miles every morning, then sitting in a bathtub full of ice and getting drunk. Thackery eventually burned out, and in 1987, left the Nighthawks and formed the Assassins.

It was just before his stint with the Assassins that Thackery recorded one of his most memorable albums: The acoustic “Sideways in Paradise” was recorded in Jamaica with slide guitarist John Mooney.

“We went to Jamaica with 15 of our craziest friends, we set up tape decks and recorded this album in an ideal, laid-back setting,” says Thackery. “It essentially turned into the lunatics taking over the asylum — we had to hire Jamaican police to keep the owner of the villa out of his

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own place, because he had gone insane.

You couldn’t write this stuff.”

But as Thackery’s formation of the Assassins was birthed out of a need to have an easier touring and recording schedule, it also spawned the idea that Thackery could have as many creative outlets as he wanted, or could handle.

“The Assassins were actually my ‘vacation’ band,” says Thackery. “I wasn’t satisfied with doing 300 nights a year on the road.”

After a four-year spell, the Assassins disbanded. Thackery formed the Drivers, a stripped-down three-piece, in 1992 and began touring extensively, reestablishing himself as a workhorse and confirming his position at the top of the blues guitar hierarchy. With the Drivers, he’s reached a comfortable plateau in his playing.

Even in the wake of massive label mergers, nightclub closings and attempts to commercialize the blues, Thackery remains confident of blues’ buoyancy.

“Blues is where everything else comes from. There’s (not) but three chords in this, and they’ve all been played before. It’s just in how you rearrange them.”

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What we know of Jens Lekman, so far, is this: He’s a 22-year-old Scandinavian songwriter, on his second EP in as many months, and he likes Morrissey — a lot. And, according to the wraparound topic of this EP, Lekman feels a lingering sorrow for the plight of Rocky Dennis, the protagonist in the ‘80s Cher film “Mask.” (To refresh your memory, he was the character with the suffering from “lionitis,” a disease that horribly disfigured his face and prematurely ended his life.)

Not much else is known about Lekman, other than what’s revealed on the album and that he will be releasing one other EP before the stateside release of his album in September. Like Oslo, Norway’s Sondre Lerche, there is a considerable buzz surrounding the potential of this young talent. Also like Lerche, Lekman has fallen in love with the idea of crooning in the grand Rat Pack tradition.

Where Lekman and Lerche differ is that Lekman is taking cues directly from Morrissey, both in vocal studies and in self-loathing. His voice does have a presence, though not quite the arresting vocal presence demanded by Morrissey or fellow baritone Stephin Merritt. Use of Belle and Sebastianesque instrumentation (glockenspiel, flute) on the opener, “Rocky Dennis Farewell Song to the Blind Girl,” but the rest of the EP relies solely on Lekman’s voice and a lucid piano line.

At first glance, it would appear that an entire record, or even a full EP of songs written in tribute to a relatively obscure and overly pitiful movie character could be written off as mere novelty, and this only gives Lekman more of a difficult task in winning over an audience. But this task will be won by a combination of Lekman’s subdued vocals and his ability to sit at a piano and carve out a touching ballad. Expect to hear more of Lekman soon.

It may be all the hype that once surrounded Scottish rockers Idlewild that ended up becoming mostly idle chatter, but the press is a little reluctant to start labeling bands as the saviors of rock lately. Maybe it’s the overload of bands that, alone, might make an impact, but are instead too numerous to even keep up with. A multitude of British bands, and even some American groups, are finding it a curse to be mentioned as rock’s messiah. Take Los Angeles quintet Paloalto: their 2000 eponymous debut was hardly recognized and untouched by alt-rock radio or TV. Nevertheless, it was a shining debut, and it laid the groundwork for even better things to come. Three years later, on the eve of their sophomore release, “Heroes and Villains,” first British and then American press jumped on board as tagging the group “the next Radiohead.” This did nothing but poison the band, as any potential fans held the group by that standard. When they didn’t live up to the overbearing praise, both critics and the populous shunned Paloalto. This isn’t a rare case, either.

The music industry, hungry for a new savior, is marketing lots of acts this way.

Seachange won’t fall victim to this scenario, though. There’s obviously a formula for being mislabeled in this way, and it contains a certain level of ostentation and a lack of credible talent and desire. Seachange’s debut, “Lay of the Land,” is a jagged, angst-ridden, nofrills piece of post-alternative rock, which just as easily could be just plain alternative. The album’s intensity is vaguely reminiscent of British Sea Power’s more Iggy Pop-inspired moments. What’s missing is focus, and the songwriting process, though not necessarily the recording, sounds rushed. Johanna Woodnutt’s sawing violin does well to accompany Adam Grey and Dave Cormack’s twin guitar ferocity, and the band should focus on this aspect when writing songs in the future.

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50 Cent Fans Out of Control The rapper and his peeps (not the brightly colored marshmallow kind, as entertaining as that would have been) pounced from the stage last weekend and took part in a little dis-

turbance of the peace brewing in the audience. That happened sometime after water came flying up out of the crowd, who were not aware that 50 Cent would be on stage that evening.

Apparently, they were not so happy about that development. All this happened at the Hippodrome club in Boston. According to club owner Michael J. Barrasso, 50 Cent actually finished the song before making a quick exit.

Wilco Frontman Kicks the Habit Rumor has it that Jeff Tweedy, CEO of alt-country-gone-alt-minimalism faves Wilco, is fresh out of rehab, where he was fighting a longtime addiction to painkillers.

(A hundred dollars says we’ll hear a Wilco song with that experience in its subtext.) Wilco is now ready to kick off a U.S. and European tour in support of “A Ghost Is Born,” the long-awaited followup to 2001’s “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” slated for June 22 release.

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t’s almost time again for the BLIND WILLIE MCTELL BLUES FESTIVAL in Thomson and this year’s lineup is undoubtedly the strongest ever since the event began 11 years ago.

It’s a full day of blues that this year encompasses Cajun, Western swing and ragtime, along with traditional blues that has made the event one of the “can’t miss” events for music fans in the South.

The festival takes place May 22 at noon with the always tight SHAMELESS DAVE AND THE MIRACLE WHIPS and concludes later in the evening with the incomparable MARCIA BALL. Ms. Ball, who took home “Best Album of the Year” (for the great “Presumed Innocent”) honors in the W.C. HANDY AWARDS last year, is a world-class keyboardist and vocalist who truly puts on quite a show. She’s up for three more Handy Awards this year as well, a glowing testament to her validity as a performer and an artist. Local blues hound GENE ARRINGTON, a veteran of several Ball performances, says “People who’ve never heard or seen Marcia Ball in concert will be lifetime fans after her set.” She’ll perform several tunes from her latest “So Many Rivers” during the show.

Piano wiz PINETOP PERKINS is a 78year vet of the blues, with his big break coming in 1969 when he joined the MUDDY WATERS BAND. Replacing the red-hot OTIS SPANN in the group was a tough row to hoe, but the Mississippi native’s soulful chops made the transition a breeze. Pinetop is one of the last great bluesmen alive today and shouldn’t be missed. He will be backed by festival returnees BOB MARGOLIN AND HIS TRIO, who will perform a set by themselves as well.

Former Nighthawk JIMMY THACKERY is always a crowd pleaser with his raucous interpretations of electric blues. Thackery gigs constantly all over the planet and his power trio will be hotter than the weather.

Other participants this year include ragtime and blues guitarists WOODY MANN and MARY FLOWER and the great Louisiana Cajun country swing group the REDSTICK RAMBLERS. Take exit 172 off of I-20 and follow the signs. It’s a terrific day that the whole family can enjoy. Check out blindwillie.com for more info and be there!

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In the glory days of Southern rock the MARSHALL TUCKER BAND always seemed to be in the shadows of THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND and LYNYRD SKYNYRD. All three bands suffered through tragic losses of band members, but in Tucker’s case, losing founding members the CALDWELL BROTHERS TOMMY (car accident in 1982) and TOY (respiratory infection in 1993) cost the group most of its following. The million-selling “Carolina Dreams” (1977) and “Together Forever” (1978) are reissued this week, each with bonus tracks. There’s new music from the band too, as original singer Doug Gray’s latest version of Tucker has “Beyond the Horizon” in the stores now.

TRAIN joins JET, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, ATARIS and HOOBASTANK in contributing new songs for the upcoming “Spider Man 2” soundtrack. The film and disc will be issued in late June. The first installment of the series struck gold for Nickleback’s CHAD KROEGER, who, along with JOSEY SCOTT, hit the top spot with the No. 1 smash “Hero.” The Train song “Ordinary” will be issued as a single.

Turner’s Quick Notes HEART’s first studio disc in nine years, “Jupiter’s Rising,” drops June 22 with a U.S. tour to follow. REM’s MICHAEL STIPE joins MANDY MOORE (and who wouldn’t?) for a duet of the BRIAN WILSON “Pet Sounds” classic “God Only Knows.” The song will appear in the upcoming flick “Saved.”

We’re not phoolin’— Look for PHISH to issue “Undermind” June 15. TODD RUNDGREN visits Atlanta’s Roxy Theater May 14. JIMMY BUFFETT has a pair of Fenway Park shows set for Sept. 10 and 12. No word yet on whether he’ll dedicate a tune or two to former Red Sox player BILL BUCKNER. Congrats to Paine College faculty member ISAAC HOLMES, the new artistic director for the Columbia County Choral Society. He’s the right man for the job.

Turner’s Rock ’n’ Roll Jeopardy A. The Elvis Presley hit “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” was originally recorded by this “jazz” singer.

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Old Enough To Know Better Glen Campbell was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 75 hours of community service after a guilty plea in an extreme DUI charge, which means he had a BAL of 0.15 or higher. Campbell’s breath tests, according to police, was 0.20 at the time of his arrest. Not only was he driving around in a state of intoxication, but he also ran into someone (or got in their way, as the case may be) after which he fled the scene.

He was an alleged fighting tiger in custody, however, but the officer he allegedly kneed was not hurt. The aggravated assault charge was dropped. The legal limit in Arizona, where Campbell lives and was arrested, is 0.08.

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s Illinois legislators debate solutions to the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance, newspaper reports from several cities have chronicled the local exodus of neurosurgeons and ob-gyn doctors to avoid the state’s oppressive premiums (typically tripling or quadrupling over the last three years), costs that doctors usually must absorb because of healthinsurance contract restrictions. Carbondale brain surgeon Sumeer Lal is moving to South Carolina ($40,000 premium vs. $300,000 in Illinois), and nearly one-fifth of the state’s neurosurgeons are closing this year. These days, said outgoing obstetrician Eileen Murphy of Chicago (who makes $170,000 in salary but pays a $138,000 premium), “if anything goes wrong (in delivery), you can almost guarantee you’re going to be sued.”

Politicians on the High Road In Louisville, Ky., local Republican Party activists John Lowler and Peter Hayes feuded recently over their status at the upcoming state convention, with Lowler alleging that Hayes punched him. Lowler had first accused Hayes of smearing him by suggesting that he had recently had gay sex.

(Lowler acknowledges that he used to be gay but says he is now straight). Hayes said it was Lowler who smeared first by denigrating Hayes’ religion, the Unification Church (headed by Rev. Sun Myung Moon). Hayes told the Louisville CourierJournal in April that Lowler had taunted him by saying, “Moonie, Moonie, Moonie, Moonie, Moonie.” (However, Lowler said he could recall saying only “Moonie, Moonie, Moonie.”)

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Germany’s Leading Economic Indicators In February, officials in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen established the world’s first formal stock-market-type arrangement in which farmers and producers can efficiently buy and sell liquid manure. And the London Evening Standard reported in March that soaring funeral prices in Germany have created markets for cost-saving services, including a thriving business in sending loved ones’ bodies to Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic for disposal (a phenomenon known in the trade as “corpse tourism”).

Questionable Judgments • From a November 2003 article in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, on the fatal transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever from two dogs to their owner: “One man in Mississippi contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever when he killed ticks he had removed from his dog by biting them with his teeth. This may seem unusual,” the veterinarian-authors wrote, “but we have since encountered other persons who claimed to kill ticks by biting them.”

• A 23-year-old man in Hartland, Maine, was hospitalized in March after apparently attempting to commit suicide by crucifying himself.

According to an account in the Portland Press Herald, he built a wooden cross, placed it on the floor and nailed one hand to it. According to the

officer, “When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911,” although the officer said he wasn’t sure if the call was for an ambulance or for someone to come help him nail the other hand.

Weird Science News of additional bizarre species was released recently from last year’s deep-sea research voyage by scientists from Australia and New Zealand (and reported in “News of the Weird” in October). The oddest this time was the “deep sea angler fish,” because of its sex life. According to Dr. Mark Norman, curator at Museum Victoria in Australia: “The female is the size of a tennis ball. It has big savage teeth” and “a rod lure off the top of its head with a glowing tip to coax in stupid prey.” The male “looks like a black jellybean with fins.” The mating male bites into the female’s side, drinks her blood and gives her sperm. Their flesh eventually fuses together permanently. Said Norman, “They have found females with up to six males attached.”

Least Competent Criminals A 40-year-old man and his 16-year-old son (carrying a shotgun) were walking home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in March when they decided to rob passing pedestrians of the beer they were carrying. In the ensuing fight, police later said, the beer did not change hands, and the son accidentally shot the father. And according to police in Toledo, Ohio, in March, during the robbery of the Gold Star Market, Joseph Allen Wilson, 18, accidentally shot and killed his 30-year-old accomplice, who was posing as a customer and whom Wilson was “threatening to kill” as part of the clever plan to get the clerk to open the register.

Recurring Themes Rev. Dwayne Long, 45, a Pentecostal preacher in Rose Hill, Va., died the day after being bitten on the finger by a rattlesnake during a serpenthandling sermon on April 11. He had refused treatment because, as a parishioner said later, “(I)t’s the Lord’s will.” (According to Mark 16:17-18 in the New Testament, “(Believers) shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.”)

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A speeding pickup truck went out of control, hit a low wall and became airborne, landing on the roof of Fish Bowl’s Bar and Grill, where firefighters rescued the driver (Jefferson, W.Va.). And after visitor Dave Alsop stopped his car in the West Midland Safari Park to photograph Sharka the rhinoceros mating, Sharka uncoupled and instead passionately mounted Alsop’s small Renault automobile, heavily denting it before Alsop could drive away (Bewdley, England).

And a bill was introduced in the Louisiana legislature to make it illegal for anyone to wear pants that ride below the waistline.

— Chuck Shepherd © United Press Syndicate

Brezsny’s Free Will

current cosmic mandate, which is to climb to a rooftop or mountaintop or tabletop and do a song and dance dedicated to the person you want to be five years from today.

Astr ology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Whirl-Zap-Gush (the Supreme Being formerly known as God) has choreographed a rigorous dance for you to do this week. It has a mix of primal and elegant elements; it’s both meditative and profanely funny. A good title for this mysterious spectacle might be “Holy Ruckus” or “Sacred Uproar.” As always, of course, you have free will: You can refuse to do the dance as Whirl-Zap-Gush has choreographed it, and instead go off and try your own spontaneous improvisations. But for maximum beauty, truth and fulfillment, I suggest you stick with the divinely designed moves.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

It’s time to get a new soundtrack for your life.

Whatever music has served as your mythic theme all this time just doesn’t cut it anymore. You need to sing and listen to songs that resonate with the fresh emotional currents that are flowing through you. As you update this primary source of inspiration, I suggest you turn your attention to others as well. Look for a book that can change your life, a role model to inflame your imagination and a pair of magic underpants.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

I’m falling in love with you all over again, Gemini.

You’ve been turning frustration into fuel, and that has impressed me deeply. I’m fascinated by how you’ve been using your sense of desperation as a good excuse to go crazy in creative and constructive ways. Your inner child and your inner wiseass have been collaborating to pull off unpredictable departures from tradition, and I find that very entertaining. I especially admire the warrior energy you’ve been bringing to your dreams: How you punched a hole in the nightmare, how you told jokes to the monster, how you risked everything to wake up.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

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announced that he intends to give away his music for free, posting it on the Internet for anyone to download. “I’ve been very well remunerated for my talents over the years,” he told BBC, “so I really don’t need the public’s money.” Given the current astrological omens, dear crab, it makes perfect sense for you to regard Michael as your role model in the coming week. I urge you to expand your generosity to the next level as you provide free samples of a resource or skill you’ve been blessed with in abundance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

“Emotional Violence for Dummies” was the alternate title Cintra Wilson gave to the film “Mystic River.” Writing in Salon.com, she said that while Sean Penn is normally a great actor, the role for which he won his Oscar was overwrought.

“I’ve seen more skillfully calibrated grief at Super Bowl parties,” Wilson mused. She speculated that the Academy was “playing catch-up ball,” rewarding him for the better work he has done in previous movies. I’m guessing that you will soon have a similar experience, Leo. Like Penn, who was born in the sign of the lion, you may get more credit or recognition than you seemingly deserve for your current efforts. But it will be welldeserved compensation for the undervalued wonders you pulled off in the past.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

It just ain’t natural for a Virgo to be a spectacular exhibitionist. We astrologers might be forgiven, then, if we’ve wondered how the singer Beyoncé could possibly be a member of your tribe, as she claims to be. Recently, the mystery was solved. In an interview with the “Star,” Beyoncé revealed that a character named Sasha takes over her body onstage. “There’s no way I’d wear a short little dress and dance like that in front of all those people,” she said. I bring this up,Virgo, because I’d like you to consider acquiring your own alternate personality. He or she could help you fulfill your

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

The placebo effect is a well-known but little understood phenomenon in medical science. Studies have shown that up to a third of all sick people feel better after receiving pills with no active ingredients. The reason may lie in the body’s powerful instinct to participate in its own healing. When it believes help is on the way in the form of medication, it joins in by releasing endorphins, the natural opiates that induce relaxation and a sense of wellbeing. These thoughts lead me to my analysis of your astrological omens, Sagittarius: I believe that your current ailments, both physical and psychological, are exactly the kind that are most responsive to placebo cures. So load up! M&Ms are effective, I’ve found, as are Pez candy and the little white pills contained in toy doctors’kits.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

These days, Scorpio, you’re like a jeweler who doesn’t own any jewelry; you’re like a TV repair person who never watches TV. The state you’re in reminds me of an expert gardener watering the tomato plants when it’s raining. You have the aura of a mother without any children or a general whose army is hiding from him. I’m not saying that any of this is a bad thing. It’s actually pretty enigmatic and interesting. And for all I know, there may be some method in your madness. Perhaps you’re daring fate to give you what you don’t know you need.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

What if I told you that you can change the past?

It’s true, Aquarius. You now have power over your memories. It’s a perfect moment to adjust them, correct them and reconfigure them so they will serve you better in the future. You’re also in a good position to declare your independence from old images that have been oppressing you. There’s no need to feel trapped into being who you used to be if that’s not who you are anymore.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Last summer, three exhibitors at the Ohio State Fair tried to fool a panel of judges. The men glued hairpieces on their cows in an effort to hide the animals’ sagging backs. But inspectors discovered the bovine toupees and disqualified the cheaters.

Now if you Pisceans tried something like this in the coming week, you’d probably get away with it — at least according to my analysis of the astrological omens. I don’t recommend it, though. Ironically, you’re far more likely to win competitions or succeed at challenges if you don’t engage in subterfuge. Being honest and ethical will give you an unbeatable power you can’t tap into any other way.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

There’s a book by Mira Kirshenbaum called “Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-By-Step Guide to Helping You Decide Whether to Stay in or Get Out of Your Relationship.” Her aim is to help her readers “move from painful ambivalence to a clear sense of knowing what to do” about their relationships. I’ll be saying a prayer with that theme for you this week, Libra. Whether the relationship in question is with a person or group or job or institution, it’s high time for you to be free of swampy vacillation so you can glide into the future with a decisive, free-spirited vision.

love: “Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.” Here, on the other hand, is what composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart believed: “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” My analysis of the astrological omens leads me to suspect that in the coming weeks your life will be a vivid embodiment of one of those two definitions, Capricorn. Which will win out? The outcome will have nothing to do with blind fate.

It’ll depend entirely on whether you choose to play romantic games or else devote yourself to the highest form of love you can imagine.

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just discovered that my boyfriend of four years has been having an affair for about a year. He refuses to end it, claiming he needs time to make up his mind. Meanwhile, he wants to continue living with me (we moved in together six months ago) and still talks about getting married. What’s wrong with him that he can’t let go and be with one person?

— Unwilling to Share Your boyfriend must really be suffering over this decision: “I just need to have hot sex with this other woman a few dozen more times to figure out what I want.” What a thoughtful fellow.

Even more outrageous than the man who suggests sex is a gateway to mental clarity is the woman who’s straining to believe him.

While there is more than one path to enlightenment, serious seekers like Buddhist monks somehow manage to find those that don’t involve, say, throwing strip-poker kegger parties for Buddhist nuns: “Hey, bodhi-cita, take off your robe and stay awhile!”

Most people believe love has transformative powers, but some take this idea a little too far.

Women, especially, are prone to think of love as a sort of Human Nature Busters diet for men. Supposedly, love is all you need to chase away a guy’s inner alley cat, leaving in its place a snoring house pet that occasionally raises his big, sleeping head to purr, “I only have eyes for you.” Back here in reality, sure, he has eyes for you, and maybe for your sister and your best friend, too — not to mention a few other essential body parts pointed in their direction. This may even include that big, red thumping item under his ribs. Yes, contrary to what loveseat manufacturers would have you believe, it is possible to love more than one person at once.

Nevertheless, many women still cling to the notion that even the most incorrigible player need only experience their particular divine fabulousness, fascinatingness and Hummerstopping beauty, and he’ll mend his wandering ways. But, look at Don Juan, just for starters.

Chances are, he wasn’t hooking up with a boring bunch of barkers. The truth is, the most beautiful and exciting women in the world get cheated on. Whether a man succumbs to the urge depends not on how in love he is and with how stunning a woman, but on his ethics and

his wherewithal to cheat, plus a corresponding sexual short attention span. Oh yeah — before anybody starts trying to lynch me via e-mob, the same applies to the ladies.

It’s understandable that you’re loath to give up everything you and your boyfriend have in common, starting with your mutual desire to meet his every need: He wants to continue living with you. He wants to continue having sex with her. He wants you to just deal. Hmmm, notice anything missing here — such as concern for what you want? Instead of trying to convince yourself that sex can be an intellectual colonic, you might work on persuading yourself that your needs are a priority, and then find a boyfriend who agrees. In a world where human nature means always needing to say “I’m sorry,” self-respect means sometimes needing to say “Get lost.”

Your response to “Reality Check,” the woman whose best friend was trying to cheat on her boyfriend, made my blood boil. You focused your criticism on her, suggesting she was jealous, and advised her to mind her own business. What’s so bad about telling a friend that what they’re doing is wrong?

— Outraged This isn’t like letting somebody know there’s toilet paper stuck to the bottom of their shoe: “Hey, there’s a man who’s not your boyfriend you’re trying to have sex with!” What’s the friend going to say, “Thanks! I hadn’t noticed!”? If simply telling people not to do the wrong thing worked, the cops would never chase bank robbers, they’d just yell at them, “Robbing banks is very bad!” then stand around waiting for them to drop their sacks of money.

Unfortunately, the direct approach is usually the quickest way to put somebody on the defensive. That’s why the roundabout approach I advised — refusing to listen to a word of her exploits — is actually the writer’s best chance of influencing her friend. This answers her written question (how to avoid getting involved); just not what seemed to be the real reason behind her outrage: “How come my friend gets two men, when some of us don’t even have one?!”

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To respond to ads using a LET’S SEE WHAT HAPPENS Intelligent, hard-working SWM, 33, 5’121”, 150lbs, enjoys the beach, dining out, romance, laughter and more. Seeking beautiful, humorous, slender SW/AF, 2533, 100-130lbs, 5’-5’11”, brunette or blonde, for friendship first. !961684 LOVES IS ALL WE NEED Kind-hearted, passionate SWM, 47, 5’11”, 197lbs, athletic build, brown hair, brownhazel eyes, loves sports, mountain hikes, simple, quiet drives. Seeking sweet, special lady to share the things that truly matter. !953669 TAKE A CHANCE SM, 37, brown/brown, likes boating and the outdoors, quiet times. Seeking affectionate, fun, spontaneous lady to share friendship, dating and possible LTR. !950607 READY, SET, GO! SWM, 36, likes the outdoors, hot rods, races. Seeking honest lady, 22-42, friendship first, possible relationship. !952023 OPEN TO MOST SWM, 27, 6’5”, slim build, black/hazel, Capricorn, smoker, into cars, seeks WF, 1834, smoker, for LTR. !949542 LOVE ME DO DWM, 36, brown/brown, Libra, smoker, loves football, action and comedy films.

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SIMILAR INTERESTS? SWM, 25, 6’2”, red/brown, enjoys the outdoors, watching movies, shooting pool and having a good time. Seeking down-toearth, trustworthy, fun-loving SW/HF, 2339, for friendship, maybe more. !930928 LET’S HAVE SOME FUN SWM, 36, 5’7”, 148lbs, enjoys hanging out, having a good time, movies, music, dining out, spontaneity and more. Seeking outgoing, intelligent, confident SWF, 18-41, for friendship, maybe more. !931282 ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL... enlightened, comfortable and deep .Handsome, lean, diverse, compassionate SWM, 47, 6’, seeks attractive, enlightened, feminine SF, 40-50, who enjoys the woods and sea, is simple, yet wild and complex. !936790 GET THE PICTURE? SWM, 19, 5’11”, light brown/crystal, Leo, N/S, full-time student in architectural engineering, loves writing, painting, and photography. Seeking woman, 18-25, N/S, for LTR. !924647

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ROOTED... diverse, attractive SWM, 45, Sagittarius, N/S, fit, enjoys music, travel, literature, seeks emotionally secure, together woman, 40-50, with similar interests. !689363 SEEKING SOULMATE DWPM, young 50s, 6’, 190lbs, brown/blue, N/S, seeks interesting, affectionate, sweet lady. I will make you smile and laugh. I enjoys music, travel, reading, movies. !630459

NEW TO THIS WM, 51, smoker, enjoys going to movies and dining out. Looking or a woman to date.

Maybe it could lead to something more serious. !898909 I’M SMILING SBM, 32, Libra, smoker, 5’11”, 195lbs, medium build, dark complexion, long hair, outgoing, fun, smiles a lot, seeks woman, 23-35, for dating and possible relationship. !890316 BULLSEYE SWM, 39, Pisces, smoker, 150lbs, 5’5”, delivers bread for a living, enjoys movies, shooting pool, darts, Nascar, football, seeks SWF, 30-40, for going out and having fun together. !891923 BE MY LADY SWM, 42, with a love for reading, music and travel, wants to meet and hang out woman who will be his special lady. !886653 WORTH YOUR CALL DWM, 44, semi-retired, computer specialist, musically inclined, seeks intelligent, sensitive woman, to attend jazz and classical concerts, fine dining, museums and cultural events. Friendship first. !876220

SUMMERTIME ROLL SWM, 44, 5’11”, brown/brown, loves sports, being outdoors in the summer time, camping and much more. Seeking a woman who is true to herself and others. !200394 LONELY IN WEST KNOX GWM, 32, 335lbs, brown/blue, very masculine, great personality, enjoys movies, friends, cooking, outdoors. Seeking big, masculine guy, 25-45, disease-free, possible LTR. !118296

WANT TO KNOW MORE? SWM, 45, 6’, dark/blue, with nice smile, animal lover, outgoing, fun and good-hearted, enjoys the outdoors. Seeking SF to share some time with. Friendship first, possible LTR. Call! !867025

JUST BE GOOD TO ME SBM, 49, 6’1”, likes hiking, camping, fishing, going to the movies, baking. Seeking SM, 18-42, friendship and good times first, possibly more. !988854 LOOKING FOR FRIENDSHIP SWM, 45, 6’1”, 210lbs, Sagittarius, N/S, enjoys reading, movies, dining out, conversation. Seeking outgoing, honest GWM, 35-55, N/S, for LTR. !828001 R U THE TEDDY BEAR TYPE? SWM, 55, 5’6”, N/S, enjoys dining out, the outdoors, romance, quiet times, good conversation and more. Seeking outgoing, intelligent, masculine SWM, 18-62, for possible LTR. !964225 SPUR OF THE MOMENT MAN 32 GWM, 220lbs, brown hair/eyes, likes movies, cooking, and good laughter with friends. N/S wants fun, energetic guy, 25-45, enjoys spur-of-the-moment ideas. !982406 YOUNG LOVE SM, 18, seeking cute, down-to-earth SF, 1820, who likes to have a good time, for dating and possible LTR. No games. !890806 LOVABLE NICE GUY SWM, 49, Cancer, smoker, loveable, nice guy, fun to be with, loves watching old movies, antiques, gambling. Seeks SWM, 30-60, smoker, similar interests, for companionship. !533389

GWM 37 SEEKS GBM 30-50 Blue-eyed blond, 5’9”, 150lbs, seeks friendship, possibly more. I enjoy sports, cocktails and just having a good time with real people who aren’t hung up on the “gay scene”. !999207

HOMEBODY SWF, 51, 5’4”, 170lbs, dark/green, loves movies, barbecueing and more. Would like to meet a woman, 40-55, who is smart, honest and caring. !200205 SPIRITUAL CHURCHGOER SBF, 42, Scorpio, N/S, musician, writes poetry, loves historical and political reading.

Seeking BF, 35-55, N/S, mature, open, and comfortable with herself. !927998 LOOKING FOR NEW FRIENDS SWF, 36, 5’7”, 130lbs, slender build, athletic, up for anything. Seeking like-minded lady, 3545, friendship and fun times first. !115422 HONEST AND LOVING SWF, 52, Pisces, loves music, movies and writing. Seeking honest, clean, compatible woman with similar interests who loves life, for sharing a loving, honest relationship. !947922

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