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Canal Controversy Blind Willie Blues Festival Lowell Greenbaum Slams Republicans

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Town for Sale?

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Hottie Hunt

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Controversy at the Canal By Rhonda Jones ..............................................................14 D-Power: Dems Plan To Take It to the Republicans in 2004 By Brian Neill .................16

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Opinion Whine Line ......................................................................6 Words ...............................................................................6 This Modern World .........................................................6 Suburban Torture ............................................................7 Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down ............................................8 Austin Rhodes ...............................................................11 Insider ............................................................................12

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It’s Time for Blind Willie ...............................................23 Beautiful Nudes and Belly Bowls ...............................31 Augusta Author To Appear on Peach State Public Radio’s “Cover to Cover” .............................................32

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Music and Memories at the Imperial Theatre May 22 ..........................................................................39 Stillwater Tap Room Offers Up Something New .......40 Music By Turner ............................................................41 Music Minis ...................................................................42 Night Life .......................................................................43

Stuff News of the Weird ........................................................45 Brezsny's Free Will Astrology ......................................46 New York Times Crossword Puzzle ............................46 Amy Alkon: The Advice Goddess ................................47 Classifieds .....................................................................48 Date Maker ...................................................................50 Automotive Classifieds ................................................51

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his is to the guy that said, “Hell is working with your ex-girlfriend.” I use the advice from a co-worker when I think about dating a woman I work with. “Don’t keep your honey where you make your money.” This will save you a lot of heartache.

When I was a kid we went roller-skating. It was a place to socialize and have some good, clean fun. This past Friday night my wife and I took our 8-year-old daughter roller-skating for her birthday. Right from the start I noticed things were vastly different. Girls her age and not much older were wearing low-rise jeans with thongs showing half their butt on purpose and low-cut V-neck shirts trying desperately show what little cleavage they had managed to obtain through training bras and the like. The language I heard from the mouths of babes was absolutely sickening. Everywhere we went I repeatedly heard young girls hurling profanities while young boys responded by calling them rude names and cursing them.

These kids are 8-14 years old! I think the parents of these children would be absolutely embarrassed and horrified to see firsthand what’s going on after they drop off their kids.

And a lot of parents do just that, drop them off. I counted a total of five parents that were there with their kids. The rest, I assume, were to be picked up later.

I just finished watching the first installment of the “Probation Prison” story on WRDW. Apparently a for-profit private company is handling fines for those convicted of misdemeanors in Richmond County. They charge a $39/month fee to manage the case, and those who can’t pay go to jail (i.e., the poor go to jail, and the rich go home). This is disgusting, and a typical sign of the “privatization” so loved by the Republican fascists who are running the U.S. Marion Williams has won the “Ringy-Dingy Award.” This honorary achievement was bestowed on Mr. Williams by directory assistance operators nationwide. Lilly Tomlin’s alias, Ernestine the telephone operator, gave

him the award during a “cell phone conference call” last week. Mr. “Busy-Signal” Williams wanted it noted that he is the first firefighter/commissioner to achieve this coveted honor. Prizes included the naming of a cell tower in his honor, two carrying cases for both cell phones, one roll of quarters in case batteries fail, and one carrier pigeon, cage included. When asked to comment about his award, Mr. Williams asked, “Can you hear me now?”

In response to the whiner who wrote about the neighbor’s grass being enviously green and who rakes religiously each week, and then throws all the filth behind the fence into the neighbor’s yard: Are you talking about me?

Right now it’s hazing. Next it’ll be Russian roulette. If we’re lucky, eventually the “incrowd” thing to do will be cult-style mass suicide. It’s pretty funny watching stupid people deliberately trying to erase themselves from the gene pool.

Sheriff Ronnie Strength has a large group of employees that are furnished with their own vehicles just for driving to and from their offices and lunch. Come on commissioners.

Look into this waste and cut these vehicles out of his budget.

Lay off the CSRA. We can’t help it if you wasted your time for years in college and can’t get a job. By the way, we are highly impressed that you learned Roman history.

You can teach the losers you are stuffing newspapers with. I’m sure they will be equally impressed!

Representative Charlie Norwood is pretty quiet since his last adventure destroying Columbia County’s former Republican chairman. Is he looking for new targets of opportunity or is he getting his arm stretched so he can do better at patting himself on the back?

Why is he not vocally supporting President Bush’s plan to stimulate the economy by a tax reduction? But Norwood never has known what is important!

Words “Are we going to have a different flag every year? There’s still no final resolution of this issue until the people vote next year, so I see no reason for us to change the flag we have right now.”

— Dekalb County Superior Court Judge Clarence Seeliger, as quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding his refusal to take down in his courtroom the bluefield flag ushered in by former Gov. Roy Barnes. The judge told the paper it was foolish to take the flag down when a referendum is still on the horizon to decide if the newest flag, run up the pole by current Gov. Sonny Perdue, stays. Besides, the judge told the paper, “I think the [Barnes] flag was kind of pretty.”

The FBI (Federal Book Inquisitor) agent who visited our chief librarian would do well to remember who pays the former’s salary as well as the fact that Joe McCarthy, Adolph Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover are all long dead.

And our chief librarian would do well to “snitch out” that agent.

OK gang, the tax clock in Columbia County is ticking. Steve Brown and Ron Cross are working on a way to take over the collection of funds for fire protection. Now this does not mean they intend to take over fire protection, just the money. So take one last, loving look at those low subscription rates. Your taxes will go up quicker than you think.

The Richmond County Commission has voted not to open the street in front of the drug and crime-ridden Richmond Summit. Progress is key to a healthy downtown. When are our government officials going to take a serious

look and come up with real solutions?

Well ... it’s true that the Dixie Chicks were only exercising their right to free speech, but when someone like them offends a person or persons to whom they owe their living, it’s doubly stupid on their part. Madonna backed off, which is something she’s never done during her career, so that should tell you something. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!

To Warden Leverett of the Richmond County Correctional Institution for his imaginative proposals for use of inmates: Better for the inmates themselves and us taxpayers that the former perform productive tasks than that they pass their time idly behind razor-wired fences.

To the lady complaining about the city not doing the recycling for her: The old folks at the Peabody apartments, they recycled over

900 lbs. of paper in February, over 1,000 lbs. of paper in March, over 1,500 lbs. of paper in April. They don’t need the city. They do it by themselves. Why don’t other folks do something about recycling in your neighborhood?

You get to meet your neighbors; you make a little money; you help the earth and you even get some exercise.

I have a problem with lawn keepers and yard service people who drive around with all their equipment on their trailers. No. 1, three quarters of the trailers pulling this equipment are not adequate and things are not secured.

There are no lights on them; you don’t know if they are stopping or turning; their equipment is falling off. I saw a lawnmower fall off of one the other day, a push mower. They have things sticking out the sides where it will scratch up cars if they get too close. I saw one guy knock over a mailbox with a trailer. Also, they think it’s OK to blow all the leaves and trash out of the people’s yards into the road.

Austin Rhodes says that he doesn’t want 13to 14-year-old girls hanging out with 16- to 18-year-old boys. You’d better close down all the high schools then!

To the person who said that everyone who is boycotting the Dixie Chicks is stupid: Well guess what they are exercising? Their rights of free speech. So they can do whatever they want.

I just read the whine about the limited play list on the oldies station. Harley is not the one to blame for that. The large company who owns most of the stations across the country now control what gets played. Do you remember when Harley and other stations got the freedom to play what they wanted?

My whine is for all you gullible Republicans.

If President Bush told you manure was apple pie, you would ask for another slice.

This is to the whiner who said we went to war for oil. You simple-minded nut. I’ll bet you wouldn’t say that if you had had someone in the Twin Towers when they blew them up. And they were standing there screaming until they died. I don’t know where you people come from. You sound so stupid.

To the person whining about Senator Joey Brush: Why don’t you come to the monthly breakfast meetings? That would be the best time to tell us what the problems are and we would be more willing to listen to them. And who knows? We may be able to fix the problems better if we know what they are. These meetings are every second and fourth Saturday, at 9 a.m. at Piccadilly on Washington Road.

I usually get a good laugh out of “This Modern World” but found “The Liberation of Iraq” (May 8-14) offensive in that caption 4 states, “That Kid With No Arms.” The film clip of this child has been shown many times recently and the newsperson makes a point to advise us that the child lost his limbs in 1999, that it is not a recent photo. And we all know continued on page 8

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The tragedy that happened to this young boy had nothing to do with “The Liberation of Iraq.” I wonder if Mr. Tomorrow wasn’t aware of this and published it regardless of the facts. Just more of his left-wing, ultra-liberal propaganda.

What’s happening with Billy Morris’ horse barn and civic center project? One can bet the wheels are turning behind closed doors to win political support. Perhaps it’s time for The Augusta Chronicle to conduct one of its famous polls to show how “favorable” the idea is. And maybe The Chronicle can get its Columbia County partner, Commissioner Chairman Ron Cross, to help count the votes.

For my whine I think I’ll plagiarize the opening of ESPN’s show “Around the Horn.” After having lived in Augusta for 20 years, these three things I know are true: Augusta has the worst drivers in the United States. Augusta is a city with nothing to do, and if you’re 30 or older, Augusta has absolutely no decent single woman. Now let’s go around the horn.

Thumbs Up To Aiken teacher Jason Fulmer, for being named South Carolina Teacher of the Year.

The 26-year-old, according to a story in The Augusta Chronicle, infuses energy and

playfulness into his third-grade classes at Redcliffe Elementary, which parents say encourages their children to learn.

Thumbs Down Perhaps we can start burying the poor in city officials’ yards. After all, they haven’t seemed too concerned with coming up with grave space for the indigent. In fact, the last available plot for such burials was filled on May 7, according to a story in The Augusta Chronicle. Richmond County Coroner Leroy Sims has been trying to get the city to act on obtaining more land for grave spaces for some time now. He told

The Spirit for an article that ran last year about the dwindling grave spaces, that city officials weren’t heeding his pleas. At the time, those same city officials declined repeated requests by The Spirit for interviews about the matter.

It seems they’re still sitting on their hands or avoiding the issue.

We hope they have big yards.

Do people know what the yellow strip on the curb in front of the grocery stores means? Obviously not, so I will tell you. It means “No Parking” and that even means to just run in and out of a store to pick up something small.

- Call our Whine Line at 510-2051 and leave your comments. We won’t use your name. Fax your whines by dialing (706) 733-6663 or e-mail your whines to whine@metspirit.com.

I agree we don’t have a talk radio station.

It’s mostly commercial radio!

To those people who are too lazy, cheap or ignorant to have their pets spayed or neutered and vaccinated against rabies: You don’t deserve to have any pets. You should be ashamed. Pets are not throwaway items.

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That waiter is so hot, you’re tempted to tell him to hold the salsa. Hold the whole meal for that matter. He’s enough of a dish on his own.

Your guy friend says, “He’s OK, I guess,” then proceeds to tell you about the subject of his amorous fantasies.

“She’s a nurse, from MCG,” he says.

“She and a bunch of other nurses always come to eat at my favorite restaurant. She’s got these eyes, these amazing eyes. I keep trying to get up the courage to talk to her, but she’s so ... well ... hot!”

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Hottie Hunt You utter the words, “Can I get the chicken fajitas?” But it isn’t enough.

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Conversations like this unfold every day in the CSRA. Particularly when guys and girls get in their groups, the topic of which members of the opposite sex are hot, always seems to come up. Now, we want you to tell us who’s hot. Whether it’s a sexy stable boy from Aiken, a luscious grocery store clerk in Augusta, or a tractor-driving hunk from Columbia County. Maybe it’s that cute clerk in Borders that helped you find that CD, the woman at the downtown eatery who serves you coffee each morning, or that fine hottie who’s always two treadmills down from you at the gym. We want your nominations for the dangerously cute and amazingly hunky as we embark on “The Hottie Hunt.”

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ugusta doesn’t realize it’s a riverfront city. When you are walking around downtown, instead of seeing the river and feeling like you are on a river, you are looking at a pile of dirt. When I moved here in 1973 most Augustans knew little about the river and couldn’t tell me how to get there. The levee was constructed over 70 years ago and it’s purpose was flood control.

Augusta had flooded regularly since its founding. In the mid 1800s an engineer hired for the Augusta Canal project suggested the only way to control flooding was to build either a levee or a series of upstream dams. Since that time the series of dams has been built and flooding no longer occurs. Upstream from Augusta we have the canal diversion dam, the power dam, the Clarks Hill Dam, the Richard B. Russell Dam and the Hartwell Dam. Devastating floods are surely a thing of the past. In the 30 years I have lived here the Savannah River at its worst has risen only a few feet, not even enough to threaten the lower reaches of Riverwalk.

However the levee remains, blocking us off from the river and preventing the type of economic development that would occur if we could get close to a truly beautiful resource, the Savannah River. I could envisage a row of restaurants, cafes and shops facing a broad expanse going to the river, with parks, benches, and trees, connected to the Augusta Common. This could extend from 13th Street to 5th Street. So my suggestion is, take the levee down, from 13th Street to Fifth Street.

But you say, “What if a flood occurred?”

To that I say: Look across the river. North Augusta is building on their riverbank.

But you say, “The Corps of Engineers wouldn’t let us do it.” I guess the Corps is our master, and we have to follow its orders. Others have fought them successfully, including Augusta when we breached the levee at Eighth Street.

Another thing we should do is to move the Farmer’s Market from its current location to downtown. One site would be next to St. Paul’s Church. Another could be along the Augusta Common. Another could be the center of Broad Street between 13th and 15th. In the current location the Farmer’s Market is unattractive, unused, unseen and economically unfortunate. It’s not downtown, but instead in an industrial area behind a chain-link fence. No wonder farmers don’t bring their produce there and you don’t shop there. Farmer’s Markets are economic engines that create jobs and business activity in other cities. Why not ours? Let’s move it.

My third proposal involves light passenger rail. Wouldn’t you like to take a highspeed train to Atlanta or Columbia? We have the tracks; some of the best in the state are between Augusta and Atlanta.

Money would have to be spent to upgrade

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the tracks to allow 125 mph or even more.

Wouldn’t it be nice to sit down and read the paper and arrive in Atlanta at a nice station, connect to MARTA and go to the airport or anywhere else you want without the boring car ride and traffic jams? Using rail, people could live in Augusta and work elsewhere. We need to make plans for a train station and urge our local delegation to lobby for light passenger rail.

There has been a statewide proposal for light rail but the political will to carry it out is lacking. Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River and is perfect for passenger rail.

Another thing we should do is follow the lead of other cities and bury the overhead power lines and outlaw billboards downtown. If you look at our 15th Street treasure, the Butt Bridge, an architectural masterpiece, it is completely covered up by a whole mess of power lines.

Reynolds Street looks really nice now that the overhead power lines have been buried. We need to do it everywhere.

What don’t we need to do? Of course we don’t need racial bickering by the commissioners. But we probably also don’t need a new courthouse. We could use a few more roads. Did you ever notice that you can’t drive to Macon, or Savannah, or Greenville? Where are our roads? We have one road — I-20.

Haven’t we had representatives and senators representing us in Atlanta for lo these many years who have been voting for new roads all over Atlanta? Why not here?

Well, that’s all I’ve got to say. I love Augusta. We have a lot of potential.

That’s just it, potential. Let’s make it real.

But in case I’m wrong about all this — never mind.

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

Opinion: Austin Rhodes

Dems Have No Idea How To Be Graceful in Defeat

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he rest of the country is starting to see what Augusta city residents have been living with since consolidation. When leftwingers are not in control of a governing body, they will do their damnedest to muck up the works for the rest of us. All over the country we are seeing examples of minority groups (political parties, not race) throwing parliamentary fits whenever it is clear they are going to be on the short end of the stick.

Certain Augusta city commissioners are legendary for throwing the process to the dogs when they abstain from votes, allowing a minority number of members to stop progress and control an issue.

Earlier this week Texas rangers were ordered to hunt down and drag in Lone Star Democratic state legislators who were hiding out to prevent the state government from having a quorum. When it was discovered many of them were hiding out in Oklahoma, Republican Governor Rick Perry told the Associated Press, “We might as well shut this building down and let it become a museum because the work of the people is through.’’

The legislators left the state because Texas law permits their arrest if they stay away from the capital to specifically hold up the legislative process. Wouldn’t it be grand if we had the same laws in place for the Marble Palace? There is no guarantee we could get anything done, but the picture of Lee Beard, Marion Williams and Willie Mays hiding out at the Kozy Kort motel on the Aiken-Augusta Highway is pretty funny.

The Texas Dems are attempting to thwart congressional redistricting, which is not going to go in their favor. For the first time in many years the GOP controls the state government in Texas and it is clear many of the conferees don’t know how to act. Georgia is having many of the same problems.

But the granddaddy minority political weenie fit of them all is being thrown in the U.S. Senate right now where the Democrats are refusing to allow an up-anddown vote on two federal court appointees.

The specific debate over the pair is immaterial. They have both been certified as profoundly qualified by the American Bar Association, so their fate should be a matter of a single pass-or-fail vote.

The Dems in the Senate are showing themselves as asses (pun intended) by filibustering the votes, and the GOP’s majority (even with a few sensible Dems like Zell Miller with them) do not have the 60 members it takes to vote the process to an end.

So what should happen? Easy. Take a lesson from that master politician Bill Clinton and bring the whole government to a stand-still. The GOP and president (and for that matter the Texas governor and his group, and Augusta Mayor Bob Young and

his group) have enough players in place to bring every aspect of government to a screeching halt. Do it. Clinton did it and he got what he wanted, and he also got reelected.

President Bush (and the Texas governor, and Mayor Young, and every other politician in a similar fix) should hold a press conference and say, “The will of the majority of the elected officials of this country (or state or city) is being held up by the minority. That is not the way this country is supposed to work; it is not the way the process was intended. As your president (or governor, or mayor) I have the power to stop everything through my veto, and the majority party has the votes to bottleneck anything and everything from going forward in this country (or state or city).

Come to the table, vote, and we will accept the decision your body as a whole gives us.

That is the way we were designed to operate, and by God, that is how we will operate, or I am going to show you what screwing up the process really is.”

That is what should happen.

It is time President Bush (and others in his situation) use the same initiative and power he used against Saddam Hussein.

First, give the opposition the option of peaceful settlement. Then, if they refuse to cooperate, obliterate them and their ability to function.

Bill Clinton certainly treated Republicans that way when he was in control, and compared to Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, Clinton was a political Ghandi.

Until the conservatives in Washington (and Texas and Augusta) develop the chutzpah to do just that, they will continue to be yanked around like a 50-pound child holding the leash of a 100-pound dog.

Note to Augusta Chronicle Staff: You guys may want to listen in every now and then to AM 580, 3 to 6 p.m., weekdays. Last Saturday, you ran a great article on the fact that former state Senator Charles Walker was being investigated by a federal grand jury, and that the story was being reported by an Atlanta TV station.

Had you been listening to the aforementioned radio station, oh, four or five months ago, you would have heard the same story.

I believe we have run that information in this column a few times as well.

That’s OK. I know you have a lot to keep up with over there. Normally you do a pretty good job, but that stuff about Walker seems to take its time making your paper.

We promise to help you out on that guy whenever we get the chance.

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

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If Allgood leaves prior to the end of his term, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue will appoint a replacement. Allgood is the son of former Democrat political powerhouse Tom Allgood, now deceased. The thought of a Republican governor naming the replacement for his son would not have pleased the senior Allgood who was one of the most powerful Democrats in the state. If Allgood stays on until the end of his term, the new judge will be elected by the people.

Politicos within the local Democratic Party harshly criticized Augusta state Rep. Sue Burmeister during the 2003 legislative session after she voiced her opposition to a bill that Rep. Sue Burmeister will honor longtime Augusta legislator Jack Connell by changing the name of Riverwatch Parkway to Jack Connell Parkway.

Even some Republican friends of Connell thought Burmeister was out Jack Connell of line for opposing the move. Burmeister complained that changing the name would needlessly cost taxpayers several thousand dollars in new signage, not to mention that many people are vehemently opposed to naming public roads and highways after living people.

Those who criticized Burmeister may have forgotten another reason she opposed the name change. Connell and other Democrats in the local delegation were instrumental in the redistricting process that obliterated the district Burmeister won from their old Republican pal, former state Rep. Robin Williams. Democrats who controlled everything in state government at the time Burmeister first went to the legisla-

ture treated her like a pariah during her first two years. Nonetheless, she persevered and ultimately out-foxed them by announcing she would move into Connell’s district and run against him.

Then she proposed changes in local government that resonated among a large group of voters and placed Connell on the defensive. Connell ultimately retired rather than face Burmeister, who handily defeated Connell’s hand-picked successor, David Bell, in the 2002 election.

Why shouldn’t Burmeister oppose the bill? She doesn’t owe Connell anything except a little payback. The bill passed anyway.

As Georgia Republicans (GOP) head for their state convention in Macon this weekend, staunch conservatives in the party are fed up with their governor, Sonny Perdue, and are itching to deliver their message of discontent. Gov. Sonny Perdue Party insiders who helped elect Perdue indicate that the governor has been allowed his one mistakeladen legislative session. The free ride is over. Basically, fiscal conservatives don’t understand why every idea advanced by Perdue involves revenue enhancements (taxes) rather than government cuts.

Citing that government spending doubled from 1990 to 2000, these party stalwarts want a leader who agrees with them that bloated government, financed by myriad taxes and fees, is wrong. They want the governor to change his ways and they want it now. Perdue must listen. He’s already lost the flaggers. If those Republican conservatives who could care less about the flag but focus primarily on smaller government and less taxes decide to abandon Perdue, he could face an opposition candidate from his own party in the 2006 primary election. While dumping a sitting governor may sound preposterous for a political party that hasn’t elected a Georgia governor in over a century, hardcore Republicans are idealogues of the first order. If Perdue continues to abandon the conservative ideals of the GOP he may find himself fighting his own party for a chance at a second term.

Don’t forget that Perdue was a Democrat before switching to the Republican Party a few short years ago.

Some conservative Republicans are asking themselves: “Is he really one of us?”

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CONTROVERSY AT THE CANAL Photos: Brian Neill

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he Augusta-Richmond County Canal Authority doesn’t usually find itself embroiled in a controversy, but since putting down recycled asphalt on part of the Augusta Canal towpath – a spot beloved to joggers, walkers, lovers, and families alike – the red clay has been hitting the fan, along with the sand and the gravel and other potential pothole-filling materials.

The word “paving” has even been used, and that hasn’t set well with some area citizens who enjoy the semi-wild state of the area.

Engineer Rick Toole insists that the resurfacing cannot be considered paving, because it is made of loose material, but that hasn’t been much comfort to those who don’t want to see asphalt on the towpath in any way, shape or form.

People like Andrew Swift, who runs there regularly.

Swift compared resurfacing the path with asphalt to painting a historic structure.

“Aesthetically … I find it really ugly,” he said.

Other complaints voiced by the seven members of the community attending the May 9 Canal Authority meeting included the gravelly sound the material makes when they ride their bicycles over it, the smell, and asphalt’s propensity for absorbing the heat.

Andy Jordan, of Andy Jordan’s Bicycle Center attended the meeting, and was concerned about the heat. He suggested some alternative materials, such as porous concrete or crushed sea shells, for resurfacing the path.

“I told (Canal Authority Executive Director) Dayton Sherrouse Sunday I thought the asphalt was good. After I rode it I realized I’m getting hotter.”

Toole, who jogs on the towpath himself, agreed that the asphalt smells like ... well, like

asphalt, but maintained that is not a permanent condition. If they could have stockpiled it for six months, he said, the odor would have already dissipated.

So far, the stretch that has been paved is the bit from the South Carolina/Savannah Rapids Pavilion side, to the spot halfway to the interstate, i.e., the headgates to the fish camp.

“They seem hellbent to have some other surface besides sand,” Swift said. He really likes the look of the towpath as it is now.

“It’s a wonderful illusion to drive three miles from my home and feel like I’m outside,” he said. “That’s also one of the few places during deer season when you can go out into the woods and not worry about being shot.”

If you’ve never been to the Augusta Canal towpath, it is essentially a dirt road between the canal and the river, banked on either side by trees. Some stretches offer leaf-carpeted

woody areas, and there’s a deliciously scary bog, and a green and rolling riverside park.

The road itself is a hard-packed clay strip of earth, tan in color. It’s not the gooey, sticky deep red Georgia clay, but the sandy stuff with mere hints of red.

And that’s the way some people want to keep it.

“That was the problem. That’s what we started to do,” said Canal Authority Chair Turner Simkins. But the soft, new dirt can’t integrate with the packed road, and so, instead of the entire surface giving when traffic impacts it, the traffic simply displaces the new material, and re-exposes the potholes.

“That’s what we tried to do; that’s my point,” Simkins said. The asphalt, he said, was “plan C or D.” “Yeah, unfortunately, it’s almost a no-win situation because you’ve got strong views either side,” Sherrouse told The Spirit the

“IT’S JUST THE PROBLEM OF TRYING TO MAKE THE TRAIL USABLE FOR EVERYONE AT ALL TIMES OF THE YEAR AND WE’VE GOT DIFFERENT OPINIONS ABOUT WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO MAKE IT THAT WAY.” — CANAL AUTHORITY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DAYTON SHERROUSE

following day.

He said that, though the asphalt controversy is only a month old, the project itself dates back to 1997, when the city won a state grant for upkeep of the canal.

“The design called for basically putting a sand clay base on the existing towpath so water wouldn’t collect.” After that, he said, Augusta experienced a rainy season.

“As soon as it rained on it, it became a mudbog.”

There was standing water in some places, he said. “So we had the contractors do several other test strips – screenings (fine crushed stone), small stones, round pebbles mixed in with sand clay. We waited until after it rained and tested that. The problem is, the towpath has a lot of stone mixed in with it. As soon as it rained, it was boggy and wet and nasty.

“So the contractor suggested, then, using some recycled asphalt. So we did a section of that and it works great in terms of there’s no mess; there’s no bogging. It dries up very quickly.

“The biggest drawback of it is the color of it,” he said. “And so I started getting some calls about that basically a month ago and so we’ve had the contractor stop.”

At the meeting the Authority had appointed a subcommittee to explore options, consisting of Sherrouse, Simkins, Toole, and Authority members Jeanie Allen, Tom Robinson and Bob Woodhurst. They decided not to recommend extending the asphalt any further, and to grade the road and fill in the potholes with “natural materials.”

“It’s just the problem of trying to make the trail usable for everyone at all times of the year and we’ve got different opinions about what needs to be done to make it that way,” Sherrouse said. “Some people are perfectly content to have it muddy after a rain and some aren’t.”

That’s not an option, though, according to Toole. “The potholes will continue to grow.

The problem is, as they grow, though, everybody’s going to have a problem,” Toole said.

The decision what to do about the potholes and how to maintain the area, Sherrouse said, ultimately lies with the Augusta-Richmond County Commission.

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Dems Plan to Take it to the Republicans in 2004

BY BRIAN NEILL

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f one ever needed proof that Democrats were a resilient bunch — other than the obvious specimen of Ted Kennedy, that is — he’d only need to spend a few moments with Lowell Greenbaum.

Greenbaum, chair of the Richmond County Democratic Party, saw his ranks decimated during the last election. It was a GOP coup most notably underscored by the installment of the state’s first Republican governor in more than 100 years and Republican Max Burns’ winning of the 12th Congressional district, which happens to be roughly 60 percent Democrat.

State Sen. Don Cheeks, one of the few local Democrats who did win, switched to a Republican nearly before the first dew set on his campaign signs.

The swift, “mission accomplished” victory in Iraq has sent the approval ratings for President George W. Bush, “uhs,” “ums” and all, through the roof.

And as some see it, any criticism or questioning the Dems lob at the current

administration is swatted aside with “Star Wars” precision by any number of increasingly consolidated and corporatized media outlets and talk show hosts, not to mention the ubiquitous waving of American flags.

What’s a poor Democrat to do?

If you’re Greenbaum, present the facts and fight like hell.

The way Greenbaum sees it, the chinks are already showing in the Republicans’ armor.

“We’re very concerned about President Bush and the Bush administration,” Greenbaum said, inside his party headquarters on Broad Street. “This is an administration that has, of course, squandered a trillion-dollar budget and we’re now in deficit. His tax cut has caused the states to be in bankruptcy.

And what does that mean? It means the states have to cut Medicaid, they have to look for funds for education because they’re not there. The jobless rate is at 8.5 million in the country — 6 percent.

In Georgia, we’ve lost in the last two years over 200,000 jobs and the

“What are most people worried about in the next election? They hope there will be an election. I mean, it’s down to that. They are very concerned that something, an emergency, will come up, and there won’t be a real, fair election again — that the precedent has been set.”

— Lowell Greenbaum situation in Augusta is very poor.”

Greenbaum said Democrats will be zeroing in on those economic deficiencies, among other things, as they strategize for the 2004 presidential election.

That is, if there is an election, as Greenbaum says some in his party have questioned.

“Remember, in our opinion, he was never elected president; he was appointed president,” Greenbaum said of Bush. “And I believe, in 20 years from now, when historians look back on the Bush presidency, they will consider this a (flawed election). That between the Supreme Court and the Bush people,

he was made president. And he destroyed the usual democratic process.

“What are most people worried about in the next election? They hope there will be an election. I mean, it’s down to that. They are very concerned that something, an emergency, will come up, and there won’t be a real, fair election again — that the precedent has been set.”

Greenbaum said he and fellow Democrats also think the case for the recent war with Iraq was built on a false premise, using “so-called” intelligence data that showed a link between Iraq’s leaders and al-Qaeda, as well as the presence of weapons of mass destruction.

Greenbaum said the nation is still waiting on the proof.

“Finding a trailer with a chemical or biological poison is not a huge weapons of mass destruction (discovery),” Greenbaum said.

“And so he used this to foment a fear to the American public, which he then moved into a war with Iraq, which he called the enemy. I don’t think the Iraqi people were our enemy.

“Saddam Hussein is an enemy, and certainly getting rid of a dictator is great. And we supported the troops once they were there, don’t misunderstand me, despite the fact that some people called me and said I was unpatriotic. That was not true.

“The major reason that is very obvious that we are in Iraq today is, they produce or have the wherewithal to have 50 percent of the oil reserves in the world.”

Greenbaum said that many Democrats also feel Bush’s cabinet leaves much to be desired in terms of respect for citizens’ rights and humanitarian causes.

“Mr. (U.S. Attorney General John) Ashcroft is a person who has no respect for civil liberties,” Greenbaum said. “We have 600 people in prison in Guantanamo that have not been able to see a lawyer and who have probably undergone, not torture as we consider it, but the kind of torture where there’s sleeplessness, sleep is not allowed — things that don’t appear on the body, but are psychological torture.

“So the whole demeanor of this non-humanitarian philosophy has many, many of us extremely concerned. Mr. (Secretary of Defense Donald) Rumsfeld behaves like a dictator and, certainly, we still disagree with the preemptive strike policy of the president.

So overall, what we see is a miserable economy in the country, a miserable economy in the state; the joblessness is increasing, and people are saying now that we may have a deflation which will resemble the Great Depression of the ‘30s.”

“We can’t be happy with Mr. Bush,” Greenbaum added. “I was particularly unhappy with his photo-op of getting into a pilot’s uniform and flying onto a carrier.

That’s not the role of a president. He’s not a warrior. We don’t want a warrior there. We want a person who can help the public. So we can’t see eye-to-eye on very much.

“And I think he made a mistake, because this (the aircraft carrier landing) will bring out his National Guard service, which is under question by many people.”

Greenbaum was born in Brooklyn, where he attended the High School of Music and Art. After that, Greenbaum attended New York’s City College and later earned his doctorate in physiology and pharmacology from Tufts University in Massachusetts.

He came to Augusta in 1979 to chair the Medical College of Georgia’s pharmacology department after a 16-year tenure as professor of pharmacology at Columbia University.

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continued from page 17 politics through his involvement in academics, adding that the two are often intertwined.

He’s been chairman of the local Democratic Party since 2000, but has been involved in local politics for much longer than that.

Greenbaum said one of the highlights of his local political involvement was when he gave a pontoon-boat ride to a very special passenger.

That passenger was former President William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton, whom Greenbaum ferried up the Savannah River to the Jessye Norman Ampitheatre for a campaign rally in 1992.

“When he walked on that boat, my wife and I felt a tremendous presence,” Greenbaum recalled. “And I told him when he left — and he was very gracious in his thanks to us — I told him he would be the next president of the United States.

“Five years later when I met him, I asked him if he remembered the trip up the river in Augusta, and he said to me, ‘Absolutely. It was a wonderful trip. That rally won me Georgia and I will never forget it.’”

Although Greenbaum said he can understand why many Americans feel animosity toward Clinton for his indiscretions while in office, he thinks the 42nd president is still worthy of admiration.

“You can’t excuse what he did as a person, but he was a tremendous president,” Greenbaum said. “We had peace, we had a wonderful economy, and I suspect if he ran again today against Mr. Bush, he’d beat him.”

The question of who can beat Bush is an important one for Democrats, particularly when the media has portrayed many of the nine candidates who have thus far announced their intentions to run, as lacking the charisma or the necessary clout to win the presidency.

While Greenbaum said he thought it would be inappropriate at this time to name who he plans to back, he does think there is much promise in the current field of candidates, all of whom recently attended a televised debate in Columbia.

Obviously, some of the nine candidates stand out more because of their experience and connections, Greenbaum said.

“I would suspect that, out front, you have Senator (Joe) Lieberman and (U.S. Representative) Richard Gephardt, because they know how to raise money and they’ve met a lot of people who would be involved in their path to be president,” Greenbaum said. “I met with Senator (John) Kerry. He has charisma, but we have yet to see how he comes out.”

“I think that, yes, there are some candidates that you won’t expect to make it,” Greenbaum added. “Although, again, I met with (former U.S. Senator) Carol Moseley Braun. I was very impressed with Ms. Braun. I would love to have her down here. She is a very impressive woman. So, I think it’s a good group.”

There are also those rumors of other potential candidates who may throw their names in the hat late in the game.

“Hillary (Clinton) is a rumor,” Greenbaum said. “I think it’s far-fetched. I don’t think she’s going to.”

In addition to putting one of their own in the White House, Greenbaum acknowledges that Democrats have plenty of work to do here at home.

Much of their attention is currently focused on the recently formed 12th Congressional District, which was to have been a sure win for Democrats last year, but went to

“You can’t excuse what he (former President William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton) did as a person, but he was a tremendous president. We had peace; we had a wonderful economy, and I suspect if he ran again today against Mr. Bush, he’d beat him.”

— Lowell Greenbaum

Republican Max Burns, a business professor and former Screven County commissioner, instead of Democratic contender, Charles “Champ” Walker Jr. Looking back, Greenbaum concedes that his camp was not prepared for the lambasting and scrutiny Champ Walker was to receive merely for being the son of controversial politician and former state Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker, another Democrat who fell by the wayside in the last election.

“Champ is a very bright young man. I’ve met with him many times,” Greenbaum said. “But what we didn’t realize at the time was, that he had to prepare himself for the fight, or the attack. What we are doing now in the 12th District is, we are interviewing our candidates very closely. Our bylaws do not allow us to support a candidate during the primary. We cannot. But we certainly can talk to individuals. They have to be able to raise money; they have to have a background that is clear and unattackable; and they have to have a program for the 12th Congressional voters.”

Greenbaum said the search for a candidate for the 12th Congressional District is a concerted effort between the three main cities that comprise it — Augusta, Athens and Savannah.

He said the Democratic parties of those cities are trying to encourage potential candidates to commit to running by June, in order to allow them plenty of time to raise money before next year’s election.

So far, Greenbaum said, two candidates, both of Athens, have announced their intentions to run for the 12th District — John Barrow, an Athens-Clarke County commissioner, and Doug Haines, a former state senator.

The Insider in the last edition of The Spirit also mentioned talk of former Augusta Mayor Charles DeVaney as a possible candidate for the Congressional seat.

Greenbaum said there has been some local interest in the seat, but he would not name for the record any potential candidates.

He said he feels certain that Champ Walker will not run again.

Greenbaum said he hopes that, this time around, the Democratic candidate for the 12th District gets more support from state party officials.

Greenbaum said the state Democratic Party erred by not bringing outside party notables into town to support Champ Walker.

“I think the state Democratic Party under Mr. Barnes took the Democratic voters for granted in the state,” Greenbaum said. “How do I

know that? One of the things that I realized, early on, was that Max Burns, running for Congress, was getting the attention of Mr. Bush, Mr. (Vice President Dick) Cheney, Mr. (House Speaker Dennis) Hastert, and they came to Augusta. We requested a similar group to come and help Champ Walker. The state party refused, and they refused because they felt that they were strong enough, internally, to do the job. They didn’t need outsiders. Now, that concept is wrong.

“We did eventually invite, directly, (Congresswoman and House Minority Leader) Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), who came despite (the state party’s lack of cooperation). We wanted Gephardt to come; he agreed to come. We wanted Lieberman to come. Many of them would have come to help in the 12th District, because it was a Democratic district. Over 60 percent of the people are Democrats in this district, but the state party denied us that ability. Not only did it cost us, in part, the 12th District, but it cost the governor his job and it cost (former U.S. Senator) Max Cleland his job.”

Greenbaum said the local party is also working hard to find candidates to run against Republicans: state Rep. Sue Burmeister, state Sen. Randy Hall, who defeated Charles Walker, and state Sen. Don Cheeks, who switched parties after winning re-election on the Democratic ticket.

To get their message out, Greenbaum said, local Democratic organizers will be holding frequent press conferences and gatherings to familiarize people with the party and its local leadership.

Greenbaum also sees promise in an active Young Democrats of Richmond County, which has been holding meetings recently to familiarize twenty-somethings with local and state leaders.

Although Greenbaum knows some of his views are controversial, particularly in the midst of the fervent patriotism and Republican glad-handing that has circulated since Sept. 11, he said he has vowed to continue speaking out.

Even if it feels like treading water in a rip tide.

“I have no fear speaking out. It’s my responsibility to represent the Democratic Party and its constituents,” Greenbaum said. “And to represent that, you have to state their feelings and you have to state their beliefs. And I have no problem speaking out. I have no problem with people calling me names, unpatriotic or jerky Democrat or anything like that. That doesn’t bother me.”

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“Rocky Ford is not for sale. “We have been into this with Mrs. Newton before. The town people do not like the idea that she says she has Rocky Ford up for sale. ...

She is just using the town as a stepping stone to try and sell her property.”

— Rocky Ford Mayor James Hankinson

Rocky Ford UP FOR T

he small town of Rocky Ford, Ga., with a population of 186 people, has suddenly turned into the state’s latest media darling.

For the past few weeks, television stations and newspapers from Savannah, Augusta, Statesboro and all over Georgia have reported on a curious auction listed on the Web site eBay.com, that claims the downtown district of Rocky Ford can be purchased for a minimum bid of $795,000.

“As incredible as it seems, the entire downtown historic center of a charming Georgia town is for sale!” the eBay listing states. “No other offering of this sort is available anywhere in America.”

Ever since the listing was posted on eBay on May 2, the media has anxiously followed the fate of Rocky Ford, located approximately 10 miles southeast of Millen.

After all, the tale of a tiny town in Georgia on the auction block is an impossible story to pass up.

“The town of Rocky Ford is up for auction, and for the bargain price of $795,000 it can be yours,” The Augusta Chronicle wrote on May 7.

It just seemed like a story too bizarre to be true.

Perhaps it is.

Included in the 3.25-acre Rocky Ford property is a 7,000-square-foot residentialand-office building, a grocery store, a cotton gin, a warehouse facility, the former

Rocky Ford Bank, a 1,000-foot railroad siding, a post office and a cafe.

The auction is scheduled to last until June 1. So far, a week and a half into the bidding process, there hasn’t been anyone to place a bid on the property.

But, while there may be a lack of interest from investors in buying the property, questions surrounding the auction of Rocky Ford haven’t died down.

People in Georgia want to know: Can someone really purchase an entire town?

Who runs the town? Can the person who buys Rocky Ford elect themselves mayor?

Do the people who live there not own their property? Is the town bankrupt?

The only way to get some answers to these questions was to jump on the media bandwagon and head down to Rocky Ford to talk to the property’s owners, Greta Newton and Charley Brunken.

It was an eye-opening visit.

“Welcome to Rocky Ford,” Greta Newton said with enthusiasm, as she stood in her residential loft located on the second floor of the 7,000-square foot brick building.

“This is my labor of love. But it is time to pass the dream on.”

It’s hard to believe Newton, dressed in a flashy, neon-green jacket with rhinestones and matching long skirt, is a native of a small town like Rocky Ford.

But Newton said she is a proud, sixthgeneration Georgian who left her hometown for more than 25 years to pursue

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a career in modeling and country music.

During a stint in Colorado, Newton met her husband, Charley Brunken, a structural engineer, and together they purchased a ranch out West.

While this husband-and-wife team considers the Colorado ranch their primary residence, Newton said that she will always take pride in their mission to bring her hometown of Rocky Ford back to life.

Since 1991, when the couple first purchased the buildings in the town’s historic district, they have worked tirelessly to revitalize the downtown area.

“I really think this should be a tourist stop because everything here is genuine and real,” said Newton, adding that the twostory brick building that the couple calls home while staying in Rocky Ford was a former warehouse that dates back to the 1870s. “And I would suffice to say, this is the only town for sale in Georgia.”

Before Newton could continue, Brunken warned his wife about making such a claim. And the truth about the property slowly began to trickle out.

“We’ve got to be careful with that,” Brunken said. “We had a Realtor here a couple of years back that advertised it as a town for sale. And we got a nasty e-mail from the mayor that said, ‘No, the town is not for sale. Part of the town is for sale.’”

However, Newton said she doesn’t think there is anything wrong in saying that she is selling the entire Rocky Ford

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downtown district.

“I do own nearly the entire downtown historical district, including commercial retail,” Newton said. “I own everything but two stores, and so, if you figure it all together, that’s nearly the whole town, right?”

Newton believes that the mayor and some of the citizens of Rocky Ford are taking the media and eBay Web site a little too seriously.

“The truth of it is, anybody with one eye and half a brain would understand the caption, ‘Own the town,’ or ‘Buy a town,’ is a just a newspaper, television and media phrase,” Newton said. “It’s just a term.

“Obviously, I can’t get everybody in town to sell their houses. Who would want to do that anyway? Anybody with common sense would say, ‘You can own your own town.

Oh, what a cute phrase.’”

However, Rocky Ford Mayor James Hankinson finds Newton’s claim anything but “cute.”

Instead, he said, it is a blatant lie.

“Rocky Ford is not for sale,” Hankinson said. “We have been into this with Mrs. Newton before. The town people do not like the idea that she says she has Rocky Ford up for sale. She only owns a few acres in the middle of town and that’s all that it is.

“She is just using the town as a stepping stone to try and sell her property.”

The last thing Newton said she wanted to do is get into a battle with the citizens of Rocky Ford and stir up a lot of controversy.

“I’m all about peace and passing this property that I love dearly on to the next generation,” Newton said. “I’ve only got 20 days and 10 hours left here in Rocky Ford. I’d like to leave on a pleasant note. It’s painful enough as it is. I just want to leave gracefully.”

Newton said everything that she’s ever done in Rocky Ford has been for the benefit of saving the town’s history.

When Newton returned to Rocky Ford in 1991, the buildings in the historic district were in deplorable condition.

“This building was ugly, dirty, nasty, with trash stacked up to the ceiling and every window was gone,” said Newton, referring to the two-story, residential-and-office building.

“There were rats, snakes and everything in these buildings.”

Newton pointed to old pictures hanging on the wall of the loft that showed the former condition of the warehouse.

“Here is my town in 1991,” Newton said, clearly still angry over the images. “This is what the people in this town did to it. This is a part of your American history and part of your state history. And this is what Rocky Ford looked like before I got here.”

But the snakes and the rats weren’t the ugliest things she found in the historic district, Newton said. She was horrified to find racial slurs and graffiti all over the outside of the boarded-up cafe in downtown Rocky Ford.

“There was a sign that said, ‘I hate niggers’ and a Swastika symbol,” Newton said. “It was like somebody just knocked the breath out of me when I saw the disregard and disrespect

for a part of our heritage and history.”

The cafe with the racial slurs written across it was located right next to the operating post office.

“Everyone in town walked in that post office every day — preachers, politicians, local people and no one did anything,” Newton said. “Here was this big, horrible sign on this beautiful building sitting here and they didn’t give a damn.

“And I’m sorry, it hurt me.”

That’s when Newton said she received a message from God to purchase the buildings and save them from further deterioration, or possibly, the wrecking ball.

Newton and Brunken said they spent the next several years cleaning out the facilities, but only the two-story loft and office building, post office and cafe are furnished. And while the cafe was operating approximately four weeks ago, it now stands vacant due to a deadbeat tenant.

The small bank, which is believed to have been chartered in 1907, is completely empty with only a walk-in vault still intact. And the cotton gin, warehouse and grocery store are also vacant.

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Newton credits her father, who passed away in December 2000, with teaching her to always value her past.

“My father was born and raised on the Newton plantation here in Rocky Ford,” Newton said. “He had a very difficult life, in that he lost his father and his grandfather nine months apart.”

The Newton family lost a large portion of its land because Newton’s grandmother, as was typically the case for a woman in that era, was not allowed to administer the family’s estate.

When he was only about 10 years old, Newton said her father was forced to take over the operations of the plantation.

Newton said her family’s property was “legally stolen” from them and her father spent the rest of his life working unbelievably hard to gain back the land his family had lost.

“Through him, it was instilled in me that the land and history should be cherished,” Newton said. “So, therefore, leaving this place is very emotional for me because when Daddy was 9 years old he used to go down here to the creek with his little buddies and catch fish.

“Then, they would get a little pan and a little grease and they would go downstairs to the fireplace in this very building and fry

those fish. So, it’s very hard to walk away from that.”

However, Newton said, she realizes it’s time to let go.

“I hung on as long as I could,” Newton said.

“But I can’t live here. And I can’t continue to come down twice a year and work like a dog trying to clean everything up.”

Brunken told his wife that he knows selling the property will keep downtown Rocky Ford a vital community.

“It’s all for the best for Rocky Ford,” Brunken said. “We need to let somebody else take it to the next level and improve it. Our goal here really was just to save Rocky Ford.”

Newton agreed, stating it was time to pass the legacy on to someone who will cherish the buildings as much as they have over the years.

“I’m at peace with it now,” Newton said. “In my heart of hearts, I would be so delighted if some Southerner would stand up and say, ‘Yes. I do give a damn.’ But I’m walking away from six generations of my family being here and when I do walk away, I’m free. The only thing I’m going out with is a suitcase and a trunkload of memories.

“So, all I can say at this point in time is, ‘If you love Rocky Ford, come and get it. If you don’t, somebody else will.’”

For more information on the property for sale in Rocky Ford, contact Charley Brunken at (912) 863-4901 or access the Web site at www.rockyfordinternational.com.

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Yes, it’s this weekend – the 10th annual Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival in Thomson, Ga. The festival promises a daylong dose of music and fun on Saturday, May 17. Gates open at noon at the festival site, which is two miles north of I-20 off exit 172, and the festival is going to take place rain or shine, so dress appropriately for the weather. Having said that, remember to leave your coolers, pets, cooking supplies and camping supplies at home. Purchase your tickets in advance for $15 or at the gate for $20. For more information, check out www.blindwillie.com or call (706) 597-1000.

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Auditions “THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG” AUDITIONS at For t Gordon Dinner Theatre May 19-20, 7:30 p.m. Cast includes four men and four women ages 18-45. All par ts require singing and dancing; bring a prepared musical piece in ‘70s pop style or a piece from the show. For more information, call Steve Walper t, 791-4389.

AUGUSTA OPERA auditions for suppor ting roles and new chorus members May 16, 7-9 p.m. in the Choir Room at St. John United Methodist Church. All voice types needed. Be prepared to sing a selection of your choice; accompanist provided. Call 826-4710, ex t. 21 to set up an audition time.

COLOSSAL FILM CRAWL CALL FOR ENTRIES to par ticipate in Columbia’s annual multi-venue film and video festival.

Shor t films from ar tists in the Southeast will be accepted through June 27. All genres and subject mat ter welcome.

Films must be 30 minutes or less. For complete details on how to submit a film, contact Amanda Presley at (803) 7650707, ex t. 122.

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

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

SWEET ADELINES PEACH STATE CHORUS OPEN REHEARSAL open rehearsal for singers each Thursday at 7 p.m. at Church of Christ, 600 Mar tintown Rd. in Nor th Augusta. They are on the lookout for voices in the lower ranges. Contact Mary Norman at (803) 279-6499.

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USC-AIKEN MUSIC CONSERVATORY PROGRAM now open.

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

Exhibitions ART BY RANDY LAMBETH AND DONNA WHALEY will be on display May 19, 5-9 p.m. in the Par tridge Inn Penthouse. Call 737-8888 for information.

“NEW EXPRESSIONS,” an exhibit featuring works by members of Women on Paper, will be up at Ar t on Broad Gallery through May 27. For information, call 722-1028.

THE WALTER O. EVANS COLLECTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART on view at the Morris Museum of Ar t through Aug. 10. Call 724-7501 for details.

“DIFFERENT STROKES” EXHIBITION features works by Kevin Cole and Marjorie Guyon and will be on display at the Mary Pauline Gallery through June 21. Call 724-9542 for details.

PAINTINGS BY LAUREN KERBELIS will be on display at the Gibbs Library throughout May. 863-1946.

ART BY KRISTY POWELL will be on exhibit at the Euchee Creek Library during the month of May. 556-0594.

EXHIBITION BY PAUL GOODNIGHT through June 7 at the Lucy Craf t Laney Museum of Black History. For more information, call 724-3576.

“EYE OF THE STORM: THE CIVIL WAR DRAWINGS OF ROBERT SNEDEN” will be on display at the Augusta Museum of History through July 13. For more information, call 722-8454.

“IRIS IN WATERCOLOR” WORKSHOP May 17, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t. Registration required; call 722-5495.

ART BY STUDENTS OF M. HAUSER, instructor at Aquinas High School, will be on display at the Friedman Branch Library throughout May. 736-6758.

ART CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS are offered year-round at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t. Classes and workshops are open to toddlers through adults and feature instruction in drawing, painting, photography, pot tery, weaving and sculpture. For a newslet ter or detailed information on registering for classes at the Ger trude Herber t, call 722-5495. The Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t also offers Educational Tours; for information, contact the Education Director at the above telephone number.

THE WORK OF TOM NAKASHIMA is on display at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t through June 6. 722-5495.

ART CLASSES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS at the Ar t Factory. The Ar t Factory also has a homeschool program and scholarships are available. Available programs include voice lesson and pantomime workshops, as well as classes in dance, theater, music, visual ar ts and writing. Call 7310008 for details.

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

ASU SENIOR EXIT SHOW is on exhibit at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t through May 16. Tobya Negash, Nicole Nor th and Raymond Sturkey display works. 7225495.

Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre presents “The Housekeeper” May 16-17 and 22-24. To make reservations, call 793-8552.

Augusta, honors the religious traditions of the world through song and movement. Call (803) 643-0460 for more information.

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

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

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

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

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

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PAINTINGS BY JANE NODINE will be on display at USCAiken’s Lower Gallery through May 30. (803) 641-3305.

DOWNTOWN LUNCH DATE May 29, noon-2:30 p.m., at Augusta Common. Bring a lunch or eat lunch catered by the featured restaurant while listening to live music. 821-1754.

“WALKING THE LOG: PAINTINGS BY BESSIE NICKENS” exhibit will be at the Morris Museum of Ar t through May 18.

For more information, call 724-7501.

CSRA ANNUAL GOSPELFEST May 24, 5 p.m., at Riverwalk’s Jessye Norman Amphitheatre. For details, call 724-5850.

Dance THE AUGUSTA INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE CLUB meets Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. No par tners are needed and newcomers are welcome. Line and circle dances are taught.

For location information, call 737-6299.

THE DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE held the first Saturday of every month, 7-9 p.m., at the Unitarian Church of

ALL-AMERICAN MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT with the Augusta Concer t Band May 26, 7 p.m., at the Jessye Norman Amphitheatre on Riverwalk. Free admission. For more information, contact Ben Easter, (803) 202-0091 or bandforaugusta@aol.com.

“THE GREATEST CHORUSES IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART 1” will be per formed at 8 p.m. May 17 by the Augusta Choral Society at Sacred Hear t Cultural Center..

Tickets are $18 adult and $15 seniors and students. For more information, call 826-4713.

“SPIRITUALS IN CONCERT: A MOSES HOGAN CELEBRATION” May 17 at 6 p.m. at St. John United Methodist Church. Tickets are available at the door and are $5 for adults, $3 students and children. For more information, email THREATS3@aol.com.

AIKEN CHORAL SOCIETY ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT May 22, 7:30 p.m., at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Aiken Chamber of Commerce, (803) 641-1111.

“BROADWAY LEGENDS” CONCERT with the McCormick County Community Chorus May 17, 8 p.m., at the Abbeville Opera House in Abbeville, S.C. Tickets are $10 and are available by calling (864) 459-2157.

“LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING: AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES” May 18, 2 p.m. at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Kambankafo West African Dance and Drum Ensemble per forms “Rhythms of Africa.” Free. 724-7501.

“2003 COMMUNITY APPRECIATION CONCERT” with the Augusta Children’s Chorale May 20, 7 p.m., at the First Baptist Church of Augusta. Free. 826-4718.

ASHANTI AND MR. CHEEKS per form at For t Gordon’s Bar ton Field June 27. Advance tickets on sale May 20; call 793-8552 or visit www.for tgordon.com.

DAVIDSON FINE ARTS PIANO RECITAL May 15, 7 p.m., in the Beverly J. Barnhar t Theatre. Tickets are $3 adult, $2 senior citizens and children under 5 and $1 Davidson students. For information, call 823-6924, ex t. 113.

CONSERVATORY CONCERT PROGRAM 2:30 p.m. May 18 at the Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Theatre. Free admission.

Contact Tunisia Williams, 737-1444, or Kathy Schofe, 7371878 for information.

HOPELANDS SUMMER CONCERT SERIES continues May 19 with a per formance by Greg Anderson. All concer ts begin at 7 p.m. on the Windham Per forming Ar ts Stage at Hopeland Gardens in Aiken. In the event of rain, concer ts will be held in Gym 2 at the H.O. Weeks Center. Free admission. Call (803) 642-7631 for information.

MUSIC IN THE PARK at Creighton Living History Park in Nor th Augusta at 7 p.m. May 29, June 12 and 26 and July 10; Candlelight concer t 8 p.m. July 24. (803) 442-7588.

10TH ANNUAL BLIND WILLIE MCTELL BLUES FESTIVAL May 17 in Thomson, Ga., noon-9 p.m. Per formances by Magic Slim and the Teardrops, Sean Costello, Steve James, Del Rey, The Redstick Ramblers, Crosstie Walkers, Neil Pat tman and Mudcat. Tickets are $15 in advance and may be purchased online at www.tixonline.com or by phone at (803) 278-4TIX. THE APPLEBY GARDEN CONCERT SERIES continues May 18, 3 p.m., in the garden behind the Appleby Branch Library.

The Peach State Chorus of Sweet Adelines will per form.

Admission is free. Guests are encouraged to bring chairs or a blanket; a limited number of chairs will be available for rent. In case of inclement weather, concer ts will be held on the porch or inside the library. For info, call 736-6244.

HOT SOUTHERN NIGHT with Mark Wills, Blake Shelton and Rebecca Lynn Howard May 17, 8 p.m., at Lake Olmstead Stadium. Proceeds benefit the Augusta Red Cross. Tickets are $18 in advance or $23 the day of the show and are available through Tix Online, (803) 278-4TIX or www.tixonline.com.

COMMUNITY HEALING MEDITATION DRUMMING CIRCLE hosted every third Monday of the month by IDRUM2U, the Not Gaddy Drumming Studio. Held 7-9 p.m. at the G.L. Jackson Conference Center, 1714 Nor th Leg Cour t. Fee is $5 or a donation of canned goods for the Golden Harvest Food Bank. All are welcome and drums will be available to rent. For info, phone the Not Gaddy Drumming Studio, 2283200.

Theater SENIOR SHOWCASE May 27, 7 p.m., in the Beverly J. Barnhar t Theatre at Davidson Fine Ar ts School. Tickets are $5 adult, $4 senior citizens and children under 5, $3 for DFA students. For information, call 823-6924, ex t. 124.

JOKER’S WILD COMEDY TOUR comes to the AugustaRichmond County Civic Center May 30, 8 p.m. Tickets are $35.50. Call 722-3521.

“INTO THE WOODS” May 23-24, 30-31, June 1 and 6-7 at the Washington Center for the Per forming Ar ts in Aiken.

Friday and Saturday per formances are at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees are at 3 p.m. For information and reservations, contact the Aiken Community Playhouse at (803) 648-1438.

“THE HOUSEKEEPER” will be at For t Gordon Dinner Theatre May 16-17 and 22-24. Dinner is at 7 p.m., with show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 civilians; $28 seniors, retirees, DA civilians and active duty E8 and above; $17 active duty E7 and below; and $10 show only. For reservations, call 7938552.

Attractions AUGUSTA CANAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: Housed in Enterprise Mill, the center contains displays and models focusing on the Augusta Canal’s functions and impor tance to the tex tile 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 admit ted free.

For information, visit www.augustacanal.com or call 8230440.

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

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

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

Available for rent for a variety of functions. Group discount rates available. Closed Mondays; open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tues.-Sat.; open from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. New spring and summer hours begin March 21: open Tues.-Sat. 9 a.m.9 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Admission is $5.50 for adults; $4.50 for students, seniors and military; $3.50 for children (4 to 12); free for children 3 and under. Sundays are two for one with a Super Sunday coupon. Annual garden memberships are available. Call 724-4443 or 1-888-8744443. Also, visit their Web site at www.gghf.org.

NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER’S FORT DISCOVERY: Children and adults alike can immerse themselves in the wonders of science through live demonstrations, vir tual realities, Starlab, KidScape and more than 250 hands-on exhibits.

General Admission: $8 for adults; $6 for children, seniors

and active military. Group rates available. Operating hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Call 8210200, 1-800-325-5445 or visit their Web site at www.NationalScienceCenter.org.

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

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

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

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

724-4067.

THE EZEKIEL HARRIS HOUSE: Deemed “the finest 18th century house surviving in Georgia” by the “Smithsonian Guide to Historic America.” Open Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. General admission is $2; senior admission is $1 and children get in for 50 cents. For more information, call 724-0436.

Museums “STORYTELLING IN SOUTHERN ART” theme tour at the Morris Museum of Ar t May 25, 2 p.m. Free. 724-7501.

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

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INTERNATIONAL MUSUEM DAY on May 18 will be celebrated at the Augusta Museum of History and For t Discovery.

For more information on International Museum Day activities, call the Museum of History at 722-8454 or For t Discovery at 821-0200.

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

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“CONVERSATIONS: LOOKING AT AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART” May 22 at the Morris Museum of Ar t, 7-9 p.m.

Conversation about the Walter O. Evans Collection of African-American Ar t and reception. Free for members or $3 for non-member adults and $2 for non-member seniors, students or military. Reservations required; 724-7501.

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

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“RETURN OF THE DINOSAURS” exhibit at For t Discovery May 24-Sept. 21. A group of animatronic dinosaurs will be on display in the Knox Gallery. Admission to the exhibit is free with paid general admission to For t Discovery. For information, call 821-0200 or 1-800-325-5445.

“ONE MAN, TWO SHIPS: LESSONS IN HISTORY AND COURAGE” is a new pemanent exhibition at the Augusta Museum of History. Now open, the exhibit showcases the USS Augusta and Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Dyess. “Twice a Hero: The Jimmie Dyess Story” plays continuously through May 31 in the museum’s History Theatre and is free with admission. Call the museum at 722-8454 for more information.

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

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

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Special Events NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL DAY May 15, 11 a.m., at Heroes’ Overlook on Riverwalk. 842-5543.

TEACHER APPRECIATION BANQUET May 15, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Nor th Augusta Country Club. For more information, contact the Nor th Augusta Chamber of Commerce at (803) 279-2323.

GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK MANNA TRUCK DISTRIBUTION for those in need of fresh produce May 17, 9 a.m., at Gospel Water Branch Baptist Church, 703 Fury’s Ferry Rd. Free food to help persons or families in need will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. Call 736-1199.

MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY in the cour tyard of the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home May 26, 9 a.m. For t Gordon’s U.S. Army Signal Corps Band will per form. Open to the public. For information, contact Charles Esposito, 7212531.

BOOK SIGNING May 17, 1-3 p.m. at Borders Books and Music. M. Ellis Edwards signs copies of his book “White Columns ... Dark Secrets.” Call 737-6962 for information.

WOMEN IN BUSINESS ANNUAL TABLE TOP EVENT May 20, 11:30 a.m. at Pullman Hall. Tickets are $12 if purchased

by May 16 or $15 at the door. Call the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce for more information at 821-1300.

BEHIND-THE-SCENES TOUR OF THE IMPERIAL THEATRE May 15, 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information, conact Greg Goodwin, 722-8293.

SAFETY STAND-UP DAY at For t Gordon’s Bar ton Field May 22, 9 a.m. Military and off-post organizations will be on hand to give information on a variety of safety issues; exhibits will also be on display. Free and open to the public.

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PORTER FLEMING WRITING COMPETITION is currently accepting submissions in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and playwriting. Writers residing in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and Nor th Carolina may par ticipate. $10 fee must accompany each entry. Deadline for submissions is June 16. For information, contact Melanie Borger at the Greater Augusta Ar ts Council, 826-4702, ex t.

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

Out of Town SPOLETO FESTIVAL U.S.A. showcases world-class theatre, music, dance and visual ar t in Charleston, S.C., May 23June 8. For venue and ticket information, visit www.spoletousa.org or call (843) 579-3100.

CARIBBEAN WRITERS SERIES book discussion and signing with Alan Cambeira. Cambeira will read and discuss “Azucar: The Story of Sugar” May 22, 6 p.m., at the Authors’ and Writers’ Lounge on the Third Floor of the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History in Atlanta. Call (404) 730-4001, ex t.

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JEKYLL ISLAND MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL includes per formances of “Schoolhouse Rock Live,” “State Fair” and “Hello, Dolly!” in rotating reper tory at the Jekyll Island Amphitheatre in Jekyll Island, Ga., May 30-July 27. For information, call (912) 635-4060 or (229) 333-2150.

ON THE BRICKS concer t series star ts May 30 and continues Fridays through Aug. 22 at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. May 30 concer t features Shaggy, Arrested Development, Jason Mraz and Jennifer Love Hewit t. Tickets are $3 per show or $25 for 12. Kids 5 and under get in free.

Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Purchase tickets by phone at 1800-594-TIX X or online at www.onthebricks.com.

“TWELFTH NIGHT” will be at The New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta May 16-June 29.

Per formances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for May 1618 preview shows and students; $19.50 Thursdays and Sundays, $22.50 Fridays and $24.50 Saturdays. Group discounts available for par ties of 10 or more. Tavern opens one hour and 15 minutes before the show for optional British pub-style meal. For tickets, call (404) 874-5299 or visit www.shakespearetavern.com.

RIVERBANKS ZOO AND GARDEN CONCERT SERIES begins May 16 with a 7:30 p.m. per formance by Ar t Gar funkel.

Riverbanks is located in Columbia, S.C. Advance tickets are $42 and are available online at www.ticketweb.com or by phone at 1-866-468-7630.

MAYFEST May 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at May Park. Live performances and more will be featured. Free. 279-2330.

WILDFLOWER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS May 17-18 at Historic Square in Dahlonega, Ga. Free admission and parking. For more information, call (706) 864-3711 or 1-800231-5543.

“BE A TOURIST IN YOUR OWN HOMETOWN” WEEK through May 18 at par ticipating at tractions in Augusta. Pick up a “Be a Tourist” badge at the Cot ton Exchange Welcome Center and receive discounted general admission to par ticipating venues. Call 823-6600 for more information.

AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION “TOUR DE CURE” annual cycling event to raise money for diabetes research May 18 at For t Yargo State Park in Winder, Ga. To register, or for more information, call 1-888-DIABETES or visit www.diabetes.org/tour.

CSRA AREA AGENCY ON AGING ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY AND VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION LUNCHEON May 30, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Warren A. Candler Building at Paine College. RSVP by May 16 to Jenet te Cummings, 210-2013.

“BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL” at the Woodruff Ar ts Center in Atlanta May 22-June 1. Tickets are $20-$27 for adults and $10 for those 25 years of age and younger. (404) 733-5000.

ASIAN PACIFIC HERITAGE MONTH PROGRAM May 15, 1:30 p.m. in Alexander Hall at For t Gordon. Theme for the program is “Salute to Liber ty” and Evelyn Dacalos Gay will speak. Call 791-6001 for more information.

AUGUSTA COIN CLUB SPRING COIN SHOW May 17-18 at the Guest House Inn. Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking free. Open to the public. For more information, contact David Chism, 5414143 or chism79@comcast.net.

MAY FILM SERIES Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. at Headquar ters Library: May 20 showing of “Day for Night,” May 27 showing of “Local Hero.” Free admission. 821-2600.

PEACE VIGIL every Saturday until U.S. troops come home, noon-2 p.m. at the corner of Wrightsboro and Walton Way Ex t., near the Army Reserve Office. For more information, contact Denice Traina, 736-4738.

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

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Shelter, Tues. through Sun., 1-5 p.m. Call the shelter at 7906836.

HOWARD FINSTER FEST May 17-18 at Paradise Gardens in Summerville, Ga. Folk ar t show and sale, live music, interactive creativity demonstrations and more. Cost is $3 per person; proceeds benefit the Paradise Gardens Park Fund. For information, call (270) 424-9987 or visit www.finster.com.

MOUNTAIN LAUREL FESTIVAL May 16-17 in Clarkesville, Ga. Parade, ar ts and craf ts, family activities, live music, hot air balloon rides and more. (706) 754-5000.

“PACIFIC OVERTURES” will be at the Woodruff Ar ts Center in Atlanta through June 1. Tickets are $17-$46; a limited number of $10 tickets are available to those under 25 years of age. Call the Alliance Theatre Company for tickets at (404) 733-4690.

ATLANTA JAZZ FESTIVAL through May 26 in Atlanta. For per formance schedules or more information on concer ts and events, visit www.atlantafestivals.com or call (404) 817-6851.

“THE LARAMIE PROJECT” will be staged at the Woodruff Ar ts Center in Atlanta through May 18. For tickets, call (404) 733-5000 or visit www.alliancetheatre.org.

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

GEORGIA RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL weekends through June 8, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. in Fairburn, Ga. At tractions include games, rides, live enter tainment, joust, birds of prey exhibit and more. Tickets available online at www.georgiarenaissancefestival.com or by phone at (770) 964-8575.

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

Adoptions also held at the Richmond County Animal Control

“THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE” will be at the Class Act Theatre in Mariet ta, Ga., May 16 through June 8.

Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15 adult, $13 seniors and $12 children. For reservations, call (770) 579-3156.

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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY RICHMOND-COLUMBIA RELAY FOR LIFE May 16-17 at the Family Y on Wheeler Road. For more information, contact the American Cancer Society at 731-9900.

HARDEEVILLE (S.C.) MOTOR SPEEDWAY 2003 RACING SCHEDULE is May 24, June 7 and 21, July 12 and 26 and Aug. 9, 16 and 30. For information, call (843) 784-RACE.

ANNUAL AUCTION TO BENEFIT THE HEPHZIBAH LIONS CLUB May 17, 10 a.m. For more information, call 592-2982.

M E Weaving Room: The History of Weaving at Berry College” T May 17-July 6. For more information, visit R www.uga.edu/gamuseum or call (706) 542-4662.

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“CLEMENT GREENBERG: A CRITIC’S COLLECTION” is on display at the Columbia Museum of Ar t in Columbia, S.C., through June 17. (803) 799-2810.

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Photographers of the South” and “Faces and Places: Picturing the Self in Self-Taught Ar t.” Call (404) 577-6940.

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

Benefits “UNCLE HAM WANTS YOU TO KISS A PIG” grand finale event to raise money for the CSRA chapter of the American Diabetes Association. Held 6-10 p.m. May 23 at the Marbury Center. Tickets are $25 and include hors d’oeuvres, music, silent auction and viewing of the candidate who wins the chance to kiss a pig. Call 828-0420.

FIRST ANNUAL CHARITY RUN FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF AUGUSTA five-stop observation poker ride May 31. First bikes leave Augusta Harley-Davidson at 9 a.m.; last bikes leave at 11 a.m. All riders welcome. Registration fee is $10 per bike. Call Cheryl, 651-0444, or Vikki, 724-5901.

MEMORIAL DAY RIDE FOR HOSPITALIZED VETERANS May 25. Motorcycle and antique car ride begins at 2 p.m. at the Augusta VA Medical Center, 1 Freedom Way. Entry fee is at least one gif t for a hospitalized veteran; suggested gif ts include stationary, stamps, phone cards, books, playing cards, slippers, pajamas, robes, personal care items and any other gif ts that may be useful. For more info, contact Larry, (803) 442-3877, or Rod, 667-6622.

PARKINSON’S AWARENESS AUCTION May 27, 5:30 p.m., at St. John Towers Dining Room. All proceeds fund Parkinson’s research. Hosted by CSRA Parkinson’s Suppor t Group. Call 860-5868 or 863-6355 for information.

ROCK, ROLL, REMEMBER: BENEFIT CONCERT TO SUPPORT THE JENNY CLARK SCHOLARSHIP FUND May 22, 6 p.m., at the Imperial Theatre. The Aphrodisiacs, Daze of Haze, Blender, The Big Mighty and Redbelly will per form.

All-ages show. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the Imperial Theatre Box Office star ting at 5 p.m. May 22, or in advance at Last Call. Post-concer t gathering at Last Call features special appearances by other local musicians. For more information, contact Tom Clark, 860-9457.

CELEBRITY SOFTBALL CHALLENGE to benefit the CSRA Humane Society May 18 features members of local television, radio, print and cable media. Games star t at 1 p.m. and tickets are $5. Held at Lake Olmstead Stadium. For more information, call Raynet te Mayer at 261-PETS or Angela

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“CELBRATING THE GARDEN” annual fundraising event for the Ar t Factory May 16. Music, dining and cock tails will be featured, as well as a silent auction of garden ar tworks created by local ar tists. For information, call the Ar t Factory at 731-0008.

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

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

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

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

Learning INTERMEDIATE EXCEL class Wednesdays, star ting May 28, at the Wallace Branch Library from 11 a.m.-noon. 7226275.

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY LITERACY CENTER hosts a workshop for teachers of infants, toddlers, preschool and school-age children featuring hands-on classroom activities.

Held May 31, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at Washington Hall Towers on the ASU campus. Cost is $24 per person. RSVP to 7337043.

GRANT WRITING INTERMEDIATE LEVEL WORKSHOP May 30, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at Augusta Technical College. Cost is $100 and includes course materials, cer tificate, breakfast and lunch. Call 210-2547 for more information.

BASIC MICROSOFT WORD classes May 20-June 17, Tuesdays, or May 22-June 19, Thursdays. Held at the Wallace Branch Library; call 722-6275 to register.

“USING THE 1930 CENSUS” introduction to looking up family names and information for genealogy research May 20, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Gibbs Library. Call 863-1946 to register.

SMALL BUSINESS WORKSHOPS at the University of Georgia Business Outreach Services Small Business Development Network in Augusta: Quickbooks : An Introduction May 20; Self-Employment and Franchising: The Best of Both Worlds May 27. All workshops are $35 and are held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. 737-1790.

FITNESS INSTRUCTOR WORKSHOPS May 17-18, 8 a.m. at the Health & Wellness Center at For t Gordon. Open to poten-

Blake Shelton (pictured), along with Mark Wills and Rebecca Lynn Howard, performs at Hot Southern Night to benefit the Augusta Red Cross May 17 at Lake Olmstead Stadium. Call (803) 278-4TIX for tickets. tial and current fitness instructors. Call 1-800-AEROBIC to register.

USC-AIKEN CONTINUING EDUCATION offers the following courses: Golfing for Fun, Creative Writing and more. USCAiken also offers Education to Go classes online. Call the Office of Continuing Education at (803) 641-3288.

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY CONTINUING EDUCATION is now offering the following classes: Garden Design, Intermediate Photography, Acting Workshop, Beginning Shag, Intro to Mountain Biking and Trails, Intermediate Line Dance, Drivers Education and more. Also, ASU offers online courses. For more information, call 737-1636 or visit www.ced.aug.edu.

AIKEN TECH CONTINUING EDUCATION offers the following courses: PCs, Microsof t Word, Microsof t Office, Massage, Health Care Career Courses, Spanish, Rape Aggression Defense, Defensive Driving and more. Aiken Tech also offers Education to Go classes online. For more information or to register, call (803) 593-9231, ex t. 1230.

Health WOMEN’S HEALTH AND ANTI-AGING SEMINAR May 20, 7 p.m., at the Holiday Inn Augusta. For reservations, call 8549977.

AIDS CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL May 18, 7 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta. For information or to volunteer, contact David Keesee at 414-6515.

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

PROJECT LINK COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES is held the first Tuesday of every month and is sponsored by the MCG

Children’s Medical Center. Project Link provides educational resources and guidance for families who have children with developmental delays, disabilities and other specialized health concerns. Free and open to the public; takes place from 6:30-8 p.m. in the main conference room at the Children’s Medical Center. Call 721-6838 for information.

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

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

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

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

HATHA YOGA CLASSES at the St. Joseph Home Health Care Center in Daniel Village Plaza. Held 10 a.m. to noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. $10 per class or $60 a month for unlimited classes. Mats are provided, but bring a towel and a water bot tle.

Call Tess at 738-2782 for more information.

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

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

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

Kids

STORYLAND THEATRE is now taking reservations for the 2003-2004 season: “Sleeping Beauty” Oct. 28-Nov. 1, “The Cour tship of Senorita Florabella” Feb. 24-29 and “Hansel and Gretel” April 13-17. Season tickets for weekday school per formances are $9 per student; season tickets for weekend family matinees are $10.50 per person. For reservations, call Storyland Theatre at 736-3455 or fa x a request to 736-3349.

STORYTIME IN THE GARDENS every Tuesday, 4 p.m., through May. Senior citizens will read favorite children’s stories to kids 8 and under at Hopeland Gardens in Aiken. Bring a blanket or chair and snacks. Free. Rain location is the H.O. Weeks Center. (803) 642-7631.

FAMILY Y SUMMER CAMPS offer a variety of traditional and special interest camps for children 4-17 years old. For specifics, call 733-1030, 738-6678, 738-6680 or 364-3269.

HOMEWORK STUDY SKILLS FOR STUDENTS Saturdays from 9 a.m.-noon at Shiloh Comprehensive Community Center. Computers are available. Call 738-0089 for info.

SUMMER FREEDOM FUN BASH out-of-school celebration at Augusta Golf and Gardens May 29, 8-11 p.m. $7 ticket covers admission, snacks, beverages, music, enter tainment and more. Call 724-4443 for details.

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

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

YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SKILLS PROGRAM for teens ages 12-19 held the third Saturday of the month at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History. Call 724-3576.

CHILDREN’S STORYTIME May 19, 11 a.m., at Borders Books and Music. “Finding Nemo” is this week’s selection.

Call 737-6962 for information.

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

FOSTER PARENT APPRECIATION LUNCHEON May 15, noon-1:30. Sponsored by the Richmond County Depar tment of Family and Children Services. Call 721-3718.

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

PTA KICKOFF AND EXPO May 31, 9 a.m.-noon at Meadowbrook Elementary. Outgoing and incoming PTA leaders will receive information and tools to prepare for the upcoming PTA year. For more information, visit www.csrapta.org or call 738-6061.

Seniors

SUMMER VACATION READING PROGRAM begins May 16 at all East Central Georgia Regional Libraries. Children who complete 20 books or read for 10 hours over the summer receive a pack of summer time treats. Obtain a reading folder at any of the libraries or call Headquar ters Library at 8212600 for details.

SPECIAL STORYTIME WITH LOCAL AUTHOR DAWN HAWKINS May 21, 10 a.m., at the Ma xwell Branch Library.

793-2020.

BABY FEST May 17, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Good Hope Baptist Church. Free activities for children and health screenings, as well as health information. Contact Lovoria Williams, 7221031.

SUMMER DANCE WORKSHOP for kids ages 4 and up at the Ron Jones Dance Academy May 17-July 25. 869-0089.

“EVERY CHILD AN ARTIST” SUMMER ART CAMP, presented by the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t, is now accepting registration. Weeklong sessions run throughout June and July in locations downtown and in Columbia County. Open to children ages 5-14. Per-session cost is $50 for GHIA members and $65 for non-members; tuition assistance is also available. For information, call 722-5495.

FAMILY FUN DAY May 18 at the Augusta Museum of History features Civil War re-enactors from 2-4 p.m.

Admission is free. Call 722-8454 for details.

KENNY THOMAS BASEBALL CAMP for kids 5-14 years old runs in two sessions at USC-Aiken: June 16-20 and July 2125, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Early drop-off anc late pick-up also available. Cost is $160 per session. Call (803) 642-7761 for details.

“WIND IN THE WILLOWS” will be presented by Augusta State University’s Born To Read Literacy Center and the Patchwork Players May 15 at ASU’s Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Theatre. Shows at 9, 10 and 11 a.m., and tickets are $3 per person. Make reservations by calling 733-7043.

MOVIES FOR ALL AGES 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays throughout May at the Euchee Creek Library. 556-0594.

GIBBS LIBRARY SUMMER STORYTIME REGISTRATION now open. Call 863-1946 for more information or to register your child.

APPLICATIONS FOR FORT DISCOVERY SUMMER CAMPS now available. A variety of camps are available for young scientists of all ages. Download an application at www.NationalScienceCenter.org or contact Lisa Golden at 821-0646.

NEW SPRING DINNER MENU

“TECHNOLOGY AND TENNIS FOR LIFE” camp is now accepting registration for summer sessions June 9-27 and July 7-25. Program activities include computer literacy, leadership skills development, tennis instruction and more.

To register, call 796-5046.

VACATION READING PROGRAM KICK OFF CARNIVALS: At the Appleby Branch Library May 28, 10:30 a.m.-noon, and at the Ma xwell Branch Library May 31, 1-4 p.m.

Refreshments, games and craf ts will be featured at the Appleby Branch Library; 736-6244. Miss Myr tle Beach leads storytime and Ben and Keeter per form a puppet show at the Ma xwell Branch Library; 793-2020.

“SUMMER OF FUN” DAY CAMPS June-August at Riverview Park in Nor th Augusta. Eight themed one-week sessions will be offered and include ar t camp, magic camp, music camp, Spanish camp, inventor’s camp and science camp. Cost is $100 per session. For information, call 667-8806.

Fine Dining meets Southern

SENIOR CITIZENS FUN DAY at Gyles Park in Aiken features games, food, singing, horseshoes, storytelling, poetry reading and more. Held May 29, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Rain location is the Smith Hazel Recreation Center. Free. (803) 642-7635.

THE CARE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT COMPANY, a nonprofit organization, provides transpor tation for seniors who live in the 30906 and 30815 zip code area. For a minimal fee, door-to-door shut tles provide safe, clean and dependable transpor tation 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Appointments must be made 24 hours in advance; call Linda Washington, 7338771, or leave a message for more information.

COMPUTER CLASSES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Shiloh Comprehensive Community Center. For more information, call 738-0089.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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SUMMER SWIM LESSONS offered in two-week sessions May 26-July 31 at the Family Y pools. Classes available for six month olds through adults. Call 738-6678, 733-1030 or 738-6680 for details.

ROBERT SAPP BASEBALL CAMP for boys ages 7-14 comes to Thomson May 26-30. Camp runs from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Sweetwater Park. Fees are $110 with team rates available for five or more players from a spring league team who register together. For info, contact Bob Howard, (706) 5952152, or Rober t Sapp, (770) 287-3309.

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PROCLAMATION TO AUGUSTA BOXER RAY WHITFIELD May 21, 2:30 p.m., in Mayor Bob Young’s office, Room 806 of the Municipal Building. Boxing club suppor ters are encouraged to at tend. Call 821-1831 for more information.

THIRD ANNUAL GOLF CLASSIC May 19 at the River Golf Club. For information, contact Margaret Jewet t, 821-1312.

DISC GOLF HALL OF FAME CLASSIC, May 30-June 1 at Lake Olmstead, is the highest level pro tournament on the Professional Disc Golf Tournament’s 2003 tour. For more information, visit ht tp://www.members.aol.com/hofclassic, e-mail HOFclassic@aol.com, or call Brian Graham, 7368537.

FAMILY Y SUMMER RECREATIONAL GYMNASTICS SESSION May 19-Aug. 1 features classes for toddlers through teens. To register, call 738-6678.

AUGUSTA RUGBY CLUB 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION with match against the Augusta Rugby Old Boys and a possible women’s match 1-4:30 p.m. May 17 at Richmond Academy. Free. Call 951-5970 or visit www.AugustaRugby.org.

AUGUSTA GREENJACKETS HOME GAMES May 21-24 and 27-31. Tickets are $6-$8 for adults; $5 for senior citizens, military personnel and children 4-12; and $1 for children 3 and under. For tickets, visit www.tixonline.com or call 7367889.

INTRODUCTORY AND DROP-IN CLIMBING Fridays, 5:306:30 p.m., at the Virginia Acres Park Climbing Wall in Aiken.

Cost is $5 per session. Call (803) 642-7631 for information.

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

You may also visit www.augustarugby.org.

Volunteer REPUBLICAN PARTY CHALLENGE BLOOD DRIVE May 20, noon-6 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Warren Baptist Church.

Please bring a picture ID or donor card. For more information, visit www.shepeardblood.org or call the Shepeard Community Blood Center at 737-4551.

CSRA HUMANE SOCIETY NEW VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION PROGRAM the third Saturday of every month at the Pet Center, 425 Wood St. Orientation star ts 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.

AUGUSTA RED CROSS SUMMER YOUTH VOLUNTEER PROGRAM offers oppor tunities for youth to volunteer at Doctors Hospital and other human service agencies. Youth must be responsible and demonstrate maturity. For information, contact Lynn Reese at 724-8484 by May 23.

WORLD HERITAGE FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROGRAM is looking for area families, couples and single parents to host highschool-aged foreign exchange students for a semester or a year in the U.S. For more information, visit www.world-heritage.org or contact Beth Folland, (803) 279-2696 or 1-800888-9040.

Words & Music by

Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine Directed by Marcia Harris May 23, 24, 30, 31, June 6& 7 8:00 pm.

Matinee Sunday June 1st at 3 p.m.

The Washington Center For the Performing Arts 124 Newberry St. Aiken, SC

Reservations (803) 648-1438

FORT DISCOVERY STUDENT VOLUNTEER PROGRAM is looking for volunteers, ages 15 and up, to commit 30 hours over the summer. For more information on this oppor tunity, contact Millie Schumacher, 821-0609.

THE KITTY ORTIZ DE LEON FOUNDATION needs volunteers to help promote organ donor awareness. For more information, please contact Cassandra Reed at 481-0105 or kodfoundation@aol.com.

GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK needs volunteers during the day, Monday-Friday, to help sor t donated products and assist in their agency shopping area. Help is needed year-round. If you are able to lift 25 pounds and would like to help fight hunger in the Augusta area, contact Laurie Roper at 7361199, ex t. 208.

Join the Augusta Choral Society as they present “The Greatest Choruses in the History of the World, Part 1” May 17 at Sacred Heart Cultural Center. 826-4713.

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

OLDER AMERICANS ACT SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAM is looking for volunteers to serve meals to needy older residents.

To volunteer, contact the Senior Citizens Council at 826-4480.

For those in need of home-delivered meals, call 210-2018 or toll free at 1-888-922-4464.

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

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

Meetings

Larry Heath with the IRS will speak on Federal Timber Taxes.

For information, contact Jerry Brigham, 650-1700.

GIBBS LIBRARY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP meets May 19, 7 p.m. at the library to discuss “The Sunday Wife” by Cassandra King. 863-1946.

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

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS meets Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

Call 785-0006 for location and information.

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.

CHRIST-BASED RECOVERY MEETING every Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., at the Love & Light Healing Center. Please use the back entrance. For information, contact Kenny Stacy, 373-5585.

SELF-HELP FOR HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE group of Augusta hosts a luncheon May 20, 11:30 a.m. at Events and More on Washington Road. Cost is $12. Call 738-2796 for reservations.

FREE ‘N’ ONE SUPPORT GROUP for those bat tling addiction to drugs and alcohol. Approach is a spiritual one.

Held ever y Thursday night. For information, contact Sarah Barnes, 772-7325.

THE GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY meets the third Friday of every month at the Georgia Military College Building on Davis Road at 7:30 p.m. For information, call Jean Parker, 6502956, or Connie Barrow, 547-0178.

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

THE AUGUSTA SKI AND OUTING CLUB, for those interested in snow skiing, boating, camping and other forms of outdoor recreation, is having a social May 20, 7 p.m., at the Mellow Mushroom. For information, call (803) 279-6186.

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

THE MINDBENDER/DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE holds its last meeting until September May 21, 6 p.m., at First Baptist Church of Augusta, 3500 Walton Way. Held in Room 105 of the Walton Building. Call 733-2236.

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

THE SIERRA CLUB meets May 20, 7:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Church on Walton Way Ex t. Dr. Gwen Wood discusses the Georgia Greenspace Program. Open to the public. Call 8632324 or visit http://georgia.sierraclub.org/srg.

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

THE AUGUSTA ROSE SOCIETY is open to the public and meets the third Tuesday of each month in the Sister Mary Louise Conference Room at St. Joseph Hospital. The nex t meeting is May 20, 7:30 p.m., and covers tips for designing flower arrangements with roses. For info, call (803) 2795502.

SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGMENT AUGUSTA AREA CHAPTER hosts a seminar and luncheon May 28, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn West. Program is on “Best HR Practices in Suppor ting Employees Serving in the Military.” Cost for non-members is $15. RSVP by May 23 to Karen Whitman, 220-2915 or karen.whitman@siteleast.com.

GEORGIA ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS CSRA CHAPTER meets May 15, 8:15 a.m. at Athens Restaurant.

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

RIVERWALK TOASTMASTERS meets Mondays, 7 p.m. in Classroom 3 at University Hospital. Call Gale Kan, 855-7071.

GUIDELINES: Public Service announcements are listed in this section without charge at the discretion of the editor.

Announcements must be received by Monday at noon and will be included as space permits. Send to Events, The Metropolitan Spirit, P.O. Box 3809, Augusta, GA 30914 or fax (706) 733-6663. You may also e-mail listings to rhonda_jones@metspirit.com or lisa_jordan@metspirit.com.

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Arts: Visual

Beautiful Nudes and Belly Bowls

M E T R O S P I R I T

BY RHONDA JONES

T

here’s something about Elizabeth Barnes’ artwork.

Well, her subject matter, for one thing, compels the viewer toward a reaction. Many people first come to her work through her pregnant women’s torsos, the castings she makes of the bellies and breasts of women who are well on their way to becoming mothers – bellies full and ripe with life.

She paints these torsos with trees and flowers and Celtic crosses. Some women prefer to keep theirs unpainted. Each is unique. One absolutely has to wonder how she got into this.

It started, she said, in July of 2000.

“I had offered a face-casting class at an arts center in Aiken,” Barnes said. “A young mom approached me then. She called and asked if I’d do a torso cast.”

The young woman had seen such things on television, Barnes said. “They did it in ancient Egyptian times, I’ve been told. It kind of started in California and is sweeping the nation.”

She returned in October to have her cast made. After that, Barnes made casts of some of her own relatives. Referrals began coming in.

“I’ve done seven or eight this year, 30 or 40 total,” she said.

Asked whether the women come to her with full-blown ideas or whether the ideas happen while she speaks with them, she said it’s a little fact, the entire torso of both. “It varies,” she has been known to said. Some girls know be used as a chip exactly what they want. and dip setting, with “Serenity in the Womb” Like with this girl, we the chips in the belly came up with this together.” and a different dip in each breast.

She showed off a bowl that she’s made for a As for the painted torsos, many women new mother she just can’t get hold of right choose to hang them on the wall of the nursery. now. It stands on feet made to look like “I just did a dogwood design for a girl. The leaves, and has a flower on the underside, baby was born in April around Easter. Her near the navel, and a tree of life inside. grandfather was a preacher and also had an “I do belly bowls, where someone doesn’t April birthday, and he told her the story of the want the torso but they want the bowl,” she dogwood and its relationship to the cross and said.

Christianity.

And the bowls are food-safe, she said. In “I’ve done two Celtic crosses. I did one with

a raku finish.”

Eventually her first mom returned with a second pregnancy, and Barnes made her one with an emerging butterfly.

Her shed contains several works in process.

She put her hand over the belly of one, to show off where the baby’s rear end and head had been pressing against the mother. You can actually feel it as though your hand were pressed against the actual mother’s belly.

“Later, when the baby’s born, Mom can say, ‘That’s where your butt was; this is where you used to kick me all the time.’”

Barnes does other types of work as well.

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sculpture. I’ve done several busts of people.

I’ve done full forms. I’ve got four life-sized women sitting in my backyard.”

She did, too. Well, one of them had gone to pieces and was hanging out in the shed, but the other three were still out by the pond, relaxed, yet animated. There are some funny stories that go along with those as well. Once upon a time, she and her husband lived in Alabama.

One evening, they ordered a pizza. Barnes said the delivery guy totally bypassed the flesh-andblood people to check out the maidens.

“Where’d you get them Indians?” he asked.

Barnes supposes he thought they were Native American because one is wearing a braid.

On another trip, they were on their way to a gallery in North Carolina with one of them and left her in the truck bed during a pit stop.

When they returned, their truck was surrounded by male admirers.

She has some smaller figurines as well, little terra cotta “earth mothers.” One is sitting on a ledge in her dining room, pregnant and kneeling in a serene pose, but Barnes does them in varying poses as well.

“It’s whatever my whim comes up with.”

In her shed, there are also frog and fish figurines, and her “Family Tree,” from which her husband’s face gazes out the front. A daughter’s face peers from the back. Barnes herself is diving into the top, and another daughter would normally be sitting on a branch. “She’s outside in storage.”

She has a few expectant torsos going, and a sculpture of her granddaughter, as well as some other pieces in progress. She calls it “divergent thinking.”

“I work on one piece to a certain point,” she said. “Then you stop and work on another piece. The actual work time might be 40 hours, and I have to have space between that.”

If you would like to check out Barnes’ work, you may visit Phoenix Art Gallery on Broad Street, or the children’s wing at Medical College of Georgia. She has work on the first floor outside the volunteer office, down the hall by the conference center and on the surgical floor. She may be contacted at (803) 819-0968 and jb99cmb@aikenelectric.net.

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ocal book publisher E. Randall Floyd is excited. Including himself, he will have had three authors in a matter of just a few months, on “Cover to Cover,” the popular book talk show that airs on Peach State Public Radio the last Sunday of each month. It is hosted by St. John (pronounced “sin-jin”) Flynn.

If you tune in this month, you can catch Naomi Williams speak about her novel “Two Rivers.”

It is one of those stories that takes you deep into a different South – the one that existed at the turn of the 20th century, with its peculiar customs and ways of life. “The book ‘Two Rivers’ is a coming-of-age saga at the turn of the 20th century,” Floyd said.

“And I think the book is ... somewhat autobiographical as I think many, many books are.

But it has sold, though. The book is selling extremely well. It’s one of our best sellers.”

Floyd recently spoke with The Metropolitan Spirit about the radio show and the attention his author is getting.

“It’s just very, very special. It’s a special honor to have your title featured on the show,” he said. “The fact that we’ve done three this year is most unusual.

“Not every publisher ever has a book on (Flynn’s) program and we’re having three books almost back-to-back on his show,” he added.

Floyd said that he himself made an appearance in February to talk about one of his own earlier books.

He said that he regularly courts the talk show host. “Every time we bring out a new book, we send out a copy. He’s very selective about the books he chooses to read on the air. Publishers all over the country try to entice him.”

He said that this will be a good opportunity for Williams to be heard all over Georgia, and in Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and the Carolinas.

We asked Floyd to speculate about why Flynn chose “Two Rivers.”

“Well, St. John Flynn, as I said, makes the selection of books that are in the news. He has to like the book, and it has to have a Georgia connection.”

The book has to possess a high literary quality as well, he added.

“And then the author is invited to the Atlanta studio at Peach State Public Radio, which is this huge place in downtown Atlanta.”

Williams will get some serious air time, too – an entire hour. That seems like a long time to talk about any subject – unless, of course, you’re an author discussing your book.

“You’d be surprised. It’s a phone-in talk show. When I was on there, time went by so quickly. You get caught up in talking about the book and how you wrote it, and what it’s about.”

Floyd says that Williams enjoys speaking

about the origins of “Two Rivers,” and the years she spent writing it. And she’s an old hat at it now too. She’s been on the “Georgia Gazette,” another show hosted by Flynn.

Williams is a retired school teacher from the Richmond County school system and Augusta Preparatory School. “Here’s the thing – I think every one of her former students has bought a book. They have come from Europe; they have come from Chicago, from all over.

“She was a tough teacher, but they learned.

They left her classes knowing how to write.”

“Naomi is an Augusta institution,” Floyd added. “Everybody knows Naomi. And the whole town has just been so generous to her and to us, with parties and media events and things. She has just been very fortunate to have so many friends.”

So what’s in Williams’ future?

“She has probably done 100 media events since the book came out this past fall,” Floyd said. “Doing book signings and talks and media appearances and so forth. And I told her after this event on ‘Cover to Cover’ I want her to rest and finish that other book.

She’s working on a second book.”

That one is to be titled “Jacob’s Daughter.”

If you would like to get your hands on a copy of “Two Rivers,” check out Borders, Barnes & Noble and Books a Million.

Next month, you can hear another Harbor House author, William Rawlings, author of “The Lazard Legacy,” on “Cover to Cover” as well. The show airs the last Sunday of the month at 8 p.m. For more information on “Cover to Cover,” visit http://www.gpb.org/gpr/covertocover/. If you have questions about Harbor House or any of its authors, call (706) 738-0354 or e-mail harborbook@knology.net.

Cinema Movie Listings Anger Management (PG-13) — Af ter "assaulting" a stewardess on a flight, doofy Dave (Adam Sandler) is ordered by a cour t into anger therapy. That means bonding with Buddy (Jack Nicholson), anger management guru, and time with Buddy's pet circle of hair-trigger loons, including Luis Guzman as a gay par ty beast and John Tur turro as a rage-aholic called Chuck. Buddy and Dave get in each other's hair, play mean pranks on each other, trade frat-level penis jokes, run up to Boston, and return to New York, where both seem to have something going with Dave's girlfriend (Marisa Tomei). "Anger Management" is not bad enough to make you angry, because inevitably the cast cooks up some silly fun. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, John Tur turro, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzman, Woody Harrelson. Running time: 1 hr., 35 mins.

(Elliot t) ★★ Bringing Down the House (PG-13) — Queen Latifah smoothly pockets "Bringing Down the House" as Charlene, a good-hear ted fugitive from the law, turning to a starchy, divorced ta x at torney for refuge and suppor t. Steve Mar tin is the lawyer, Peter. The core idea of this very simple comedy is pure buzz of contrast: Latifah is abundantly, explosively black, while Mar tin may be the whitest man ever to star in movies.

Latifah rides out the nonsense in her queenly, Pearl Bailey style. It's a cookie-cut comedy. The movie delivers its very manufactured goods, but it lacks the guts to be a meaningful comedy. Cast: Steve Mar tin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Jean Smar t, Bet ty White. Running time: 1 hr., 45 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Bulletproof Monk (PG-13) — Pit y poor Chow Yun-Fat. Af ter making a string of forget table movies such as "The Replacement Killers" and "Anna and the King," it appeared he had finally hit his stride with 2000's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." His newest flick, "Bulletproof Monk," unfor tunately, is a major

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step back ward. Chow stars as the "Monk With No Name" and is charged with protecting a scroll of unbelievable power. If the scroll falls into the wrong hands, it could mean the end of the world as we know it. And of course, the scroll is being pursued by Stern – a Nazi who wants to shape the world in his image.

All of this, of course, leads to a final showdown bet ween the Monk and the Nazi. If you have to ask who'll win, then you haven't seen too many of these so-called action films. Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scot t, Jaime King, Karel Roden, Victoria Smur fit. Running time: 1 hr., 44 mins. ★★.

Confidence (R) — Jake Vig (Ed Burns) heads a crack team of scamsters who are also his buddies.

One is killed when a scam goes wrong, money having been taken from someone they did not know was an underling of a deadly, hyper sociopath called the King (Dustin Hof fman). Mostly we get cock y, trim-cut Burns and grif ter chums Brian Van Holt and Paul Giamat ti and corrupt L.A. cops (Luis Guzman, Donal Logue), all pulling a bank scam to pay back the King.

This ship leaks, and it sinks if you have experienced Mamet's "House of Games," Claude Chabrol's "The Swindle," Fabian Bielinsk y's "Nine Queens" or Stephen Frears' "The Grif ters." Those scam par ties could have conned "Confidence" into a whimpering corner. Cast: Ed Burns, Dustin Hof fman, Rachel Weisz, Paul Giamat ti, Andy Garcia, Luis Guzman, Brian Van Holt.

Running time: 1 hr., 38 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Cradle 2 the Grave (R) — DMX stars as thief Tony Fait, who pulls of f a heist involving rare black diamonds. On Fait’s trail is Su (Jet Li), a Taiwanese government agent who has been tracking the path of the diamonds throughout the world. Su’s former par tner Ling, lured by the diamonds and looking to procure them for himself, kidnaps Fait’s young daughter in an at tempt to exchange her for the diamonds. Fait realizes his only chance to get his daughter back is to

team up with Su. Cast: Jet Li, DMX, Anthony Anderson, Gabrielle Union, Mark Dacascos.

Daddy Day Care (PG) — Looking ver y much like the engorged warm-up for a future TV sitcom, "Daddy Day Care" stars Eddie Murphy and Jef f Garlin as cereal company promo men who lose their jobs, then star t a home day-care facilit y. There is an absurdly snoot y villain (Anjelica Huston), owner of a posh day-care school. The kids are central casting darlings. The movie, which has a stern warning against sugar-based cereals, is sugared cereal. Cast: Eddie Murphy, Anjelica Huston, Jef f Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King. Running time: 1 hr., 35 mins.

(Elliot t) ★★ Deliver Us From Eva (R) — Eva, described as the “sister-in-law from hell” by the men in her life, is one big nagging pain in the — well, you get the idea.

The guys, desperate to stop her nagging and shut her up for good, hope that the right man will do the trick.

They pay a smooth studmuf fin, played by LL Cool J, to seduce Eva. The results of the experiment come as a surprise to everyone. Cast: Gabrielle Union, LL Cool J, Essence Atkins, Dar tanyan Edmonds, Meagan Good.

Down With Love (PG-13) — Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor team up as Barbara Novak and Catcher Block, respectively, a pair of opposites that find themselves at tracted to each other. Novak is a feminist and the author of bestselling self-help book “Down With Love,” which encourages women to put career first and men second. Block writes for a hip men’s magazine by day and womanizes by night. He aims to bed Novak and expose her as a hypocrite in hopes of quelling the feminist uprising of the 1960s and bagging the stor y of the year. The fun here in is the details, as this homage to the Doris Day/Rock Hudson films recreates the campiness of that era with authentic sets and costumes. Cast: Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson,

Tony Randall. Running time: 1 hr., 40 mins.

Final Destination 2 (R) — As in the first movie,

a group of teen-agers manages to cheat death. But death, unsatisfied with the teens’ getaway, pursues in a myriad of disturbing ways. Kimberly, driving a group of friends to Florida, has a premonition that helps them avoid being caught in a fatal freeway pileup. Death has other plans. Cast: Ali Lar ter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, T.C. Carson, Jonathan Cherry, James Kirk, Tony Todd.

Head of State (PG-13) — “Head of State” marks the directorial debut of comic Chris Rock, who also co-wrote the screenplay. He stars as an unlikely presidential candidate, a down-on-his-luck government employee about to lose his job. Thrust into presidential candidacy by his par t y when the par t y’s original presidential nominee unexpectedly dies, Rock appeals to the countr y’s par t y vein to tr y and win the election. Bernie Mac stars as his brother and running mate. Cast: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Dylan Baker, Tamala Jones, Robin Givens.

Holes (PG) — Adapted by Louis Sachar from his highly successful novel, "Holes" has a thick shellac of literary fidelity - Sachar trying to tuck his book elements into one of the quirkiest movies Disney has ever released. "Holes" is mostly set in a juvenile detention camp in the deser t. Teen boys are made to dig big holes to find a legendary Old West crime treasure, coveted by the whip-voiced warden (Sigourney Weaver), her yokel henchman called Mr. Sir (Jon Voight) and their prissy assistant (Tim Blake Nelson).

The new boy on the digging detail is Stanley Yelnats.

Director Andrew Davis, so sure with the tensions of "Under Siege" and "The Fugitive," is amiably sweating this assignment. His tone veers of f on fishing expeditions, sly humor and pathos casting their baited lines nex t to teen terror and prat falling hokum. My kids liked

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it somewhat more than I did, which probably sums up the movie about as well as any thing should. Cast: Jon Voight, Sigourney Weaver, Shia LaBeouf, Khleo Thomas, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Winkler, Ear tha Kit t. Running time: 1 hr., 51 mins. ★★1/2 House of 1000 Corpses (R) — Rocker Rob Zombie takes the classic horror route in his film directorial debut. Car trouble forces a group of traveling teens to stop at a gas station/Museum of Monsters and Madmen in the middle of nowhere. But why is a man called Dr. Satan the local hero? Who is stupid enough to ride the museum’s “Murder Ride”?

And just what’s in the secret-recipe fried chicken anyway? Cast: Bill Moseley, Karen Black, Chris Hardwick.

The Hunted (R) — From "The Hunted," you might learn how to escape from a police dragnet in Por tland, Ore., swim down a river, dr y out, eat nothing, forge a deadly knife from scrap steel using a brush fire you've improvised, and then quickly enter the forest for a showdown with Tommy Lee Jones.

But it helps greatly if you are Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro), former militar y killer. He was trained in all the deadly ar ts by L.T. Bonham (Jones). "The Hunted" is "First Blood" shoved into grateful memories of "The Fugitive," with Del Toro less a Rambo than a psycho, and Jones pursuing a guilt y rather than innocent man.

"The Hunted" star ts to seem like something eaten by angr y bears. Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Jenna Boyd. Running time: 1 hr., 34 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Identity (R) — Plot disposables converge at a Nevada motel in this " thriller," victims of bad luck, ripe for grotesque ends: Rebecca DeMornay as a snippy actress, John C. Ginley as a nerd husband, John Hawkes as a motel geek, Amanda Peet as a prostitute, Clea DuVall as a bride who keeps screaming, Jake Busey as a killer psycho, Ray Liot ta as a cop who may be a psycho, John Cusack as ex-cop and possible psycho, Bret t Loehr as a witnessing child who should, by the end, be psychotic. This soggy pulp has rain on the brain even worse than "Basic."

Running time: 1 hr., 27 mins. (Elliot t) 0 It Runs in the Family (PG-13) — Mitchell Gromberg (Kirk Douglas) is a feist y old crust, growling opinions to mask his guilt from past failings. His wife (Diana Douglas) is a suppor tive saint. Son Alex (Michael Douglas) is still at the law firm, but yearns to be in "public ser vice," strays a bit, and feels unappreciated. His nest-hen wife (Bernadet te Peters) is a likable k vetcher, while son Asher (Cameron Douglas) fumbles in college and peddles pot, and kid brother Eli (Ror y Culkin) is sweet, smar t and geek y. The stor y is ripe for a TV show. Sor t of "My Big Bickering Jewish Family." Cast: Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Cameron Douglas, Bernadet te Peters, Ror y Culkin.

Running time: 1 hr., 42 mins. (Elliot t) ★★1/2 Kangaroo Jack (PG) — Two childhood friends, Charlie (Jerr y O'Connell) and Louis (Anthony Anderson), from Brooklyn are forced to deliver a mysterious envelope to Australia af ter one of them accidentally causes the police to raid a mob warehouse. En route to the land down under, Louis peeks in the package and discovers that it contains $50,000. Af ter the guys arrive in the Outback, they accidentally run over a kangaroo. Louis decides to take pictures of the animal and even puts shades and his luck y jacket on the 'roo, which is only stunned and hops away with the jacket containing the money.

Now the guys are forced to chase the animal through the Outback, or they'll have to repay the mob with their lives. The real star of "Kangaroo Jack" is the beautiful Outback. That alone may be wor th the price of admission. Or not. Cast: Jerr y O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken, Dyan Cannon, Mar ton Csokas. Running time: 1 hr., 30 mins. (McCormick) ★ The Lizzie McGuire Movie (PG) — is some-

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thing between taf fy, tapioca and a gold brick smoothly entering the Disney vault. It stars Hilary Duf f, 15, the lit tle Houston gal made a household name by the Disney Channel's "Lizzie McGuire" show. The movie takes Lizzie to Rome, where she soon splits of f from her school tour to be shown the city by dreamboat Paolo (Yani Gellman). He's half of a bubble-gum Europop duo, the female half being gone for reasons that are stupid. Lizzie is her look-alike, and gamely subs for her at appearances, even a concer t at the antique Colosseum. The city looks grand as ever, Lizzie smiles splendidly, Paolo gets a bum exit. His dreamboat sinks, but Rome, being old and wise, does not weep.

Cast: Hilary Duf f, Adam Lamberg, Alex Borstein, Yani Gellman. Running time: 1 hr., 30 mins. (Elliot t) ★★

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (PG13) — Long, violent, death-fixated, dark in tone,

heavy in heroic mood, this is a film for addicts of the series. Lit tle Frodo is marginalized as Viggo Mor tensen leads the defense of a castle from hordes of vicious scumballs, and the t wo grand beards (Ian McKellan, Christopher Lee) contend for Middle Ear th.

There's a lit tle schizo in a wispy loincloth, expressively per formed and voiced, but the almost Stone Age my thology rolls over us like layers of geology. 3 hrs. (Elliot t) ★★ Malibu’s Most Wanted (PG-13) — Brad “Brad” Gluckman ain’t no Eminem. He’s Malibu’s worst rapper, a rich white boy who thinks he has the nuances of the hip-hop lifest yle down pat. Nothing could be fur ther from the truth, and when B-rad’s embarrassing antics creep into his father’s campaign for governor of California, the family decides that some tough love might be in order. Cast: Jamie Kennedy, Blair Underwood, Ryan O’Neal, Taye Diggs.

A Man Apart (R) — Vin Diesel is emotionally strung-out af ter an arrogant car tel bust in Mexico leads to the murder of his wife. He sulks, he stews, he is a man of constant sorrows. He is beaten, shot, almost drowns, nearly has his eyes poked out. But mostly he avenges. Backed up by DEA buddies who are all men apar t, being former gang "homies," he enters into foul nests of narco-scum and turns a money transfer into a rampage of bloody bodies and burning cars. Behind all the meanness is El Diablo, new king of the Mex-to-Cal drug trade, or maybe it's his imprisoned predecessor, Meno (Geno Silva).

Diesel is top dog now on the scummy streets and sewers of the 21st-centur y world nightmare. In cruel times, seamy diversion fits in seamlessly. Cast: Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Steve Eastin, Timothy Olyphant.

Running time: 1 hr., 39 mins. (Elliot t) ★★1/2 The Matrix: Reloaded (R) — Neo, Morpheus and Trinit y return in the sequel to “The Matrix.” the last pocket of humans on Ear th is depending on Neo to fulfill an ancient prophecy and show himself as the one chosen to end the war bet ween humankind and machines. Struggling with his new responsibilit y, Neo chooses to return to The Matrix in hopes that the experience will give him insight and direction as to how he must proceed with his task. Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Nona Gaye.

A Mighty Wind (PG-13) — Christopher Guest's folk-music comedy "A Mighty Wind" is more of "A Gentle Breeze." Building his signature, post-Mad version of England's famously wit ty Ealing Studio team, Guest gets tuneful and amusingly of f-tune hoots from himself, Eugene Levy (co-writer here), Catherine O'Hara, Bob Balaban, Larry Miller, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Jim Piddock (the clipped Brit), Paul Dooley, J.M. Higgins, Ed Begley Jr., under-used Parker Posey, storky Jane Lynch, infallible Michael McKean and amazing Jennifer Coolidge, who does something with her voice and lips that might lead to a pioneering career at the Kabuki Lounge in Las Vegas. There are many cute touches (and nobody does idiotic bad taste bet ter than Willard), but this gentle comedy is too busy

ramblin' and strummin' and whit tlin' its cozy groove to quite take of f as takeof f. Cast: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Parker Posey, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Jennifer Coolidge. Running time: 1 hr., 27 mins. ★★1/2 National Security (PG-13) — Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn play L.A.P.D. rejects on both ends of the spectrum who get paired up as security guards. While on partol, they uncover a smuggling operation, in between bits of slapstick that are obligatory for films of this genre.

Cast: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Eric Roberts.

Old School (R) — Three buddies, men in their twenties, wish to recapture the good ol’ days: college, when raging keggers and hot girls were plentiful. They get their chance when one of them decides it’s a good idea to star t their own off-campus frat house. Cast: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Elisha Cuthber t.

Piglet’s Big Movie (G) — Piglet gets to be the center of at tention in the latest animated movie based on the Winnie-the-Pooh gang. When the rest of the gang begins a honey harvest and won’t let Piglet help because of his small size, Piglet disappears. To find him, the gang uses his scrapbook as a map, and, along the way, discovers that even a small pig can be a big hero. Cast: John Fiedler, Jim Cummings, Peter Cullen.

Shanghai Knights (PG-13) — This is a sequel to 2000's silly hit "Shanghai Noon." The sequel feels longer and has some sag. Jackie Chan is a former imperial guardsman from 19th-centur y Peking, but gone to the Old (then young) West as Chon Wang, a.k.a. John Wayne. He's now a sherif f, and Owen Wilson as scampy ladies' man Roy O'Bannon has decamped to Victorian London, where he is a stubble-cheeked waiter, but still has a harem of loyal females. The Chinese imperial seal with a huge diamond is falling into the sneak y hands of an imperial wannabe in exile, who is allied with a wannabe future king of England. The film ends with the usual Chan bonus, a spree of blooper shots. Cast: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aaron Johnson, Gemma Jones. Running time: 1 hr., 42 mins. (Elliot t) ★★1/2 Tears of the Sun (R) — Antoine Fuqua's film is about a Special Ops team of U.S. soldiers sent from an aircraf t carrier into civil-warring Nigeria to rescue an American ("by marriage") doctor and some missionaries who quickly decide to mar t yr themselves.

The team leader, Waters (Bruce Willis), tricks the doctor (Monica Bellucci) onto a chopper out, leaving her Nigerian wards behind. But something moral clicks in Waters' hard head and he returns with the doctor to lead the innocents out by foot, hoping to make it to the border while being hunted by a wellequipped regiment of ruthless soldiers. It is the stark fear and danger, and the stunned, desperate civilians, that make "Tears of the Sun" seem timely. Cast: Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Bourke Floyd, Malick Bowens, Tom Skerrit t. Running time: 1 hr., 45 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★ What a Girl Wants (PG) — Amanda Bynes hugs and smooches the camera as Daphne Reynolds.

Daughter of New York sof t-rock singer Libby (Kelly Preston), she is also the daughter of the ver y rich and now political Lord Henr y Dashwood (Colin Fir th), a British cutie and "future prime minister!" Henr y is a bit guilt y about split ting with Libby long before. His Moroccan Bedouin wedding with Libby evidently doesn't impede his coming marriage to the militantly upscaling Glynnis (Anna Chancellor). Her snob daughter (Christina Cole) is eager to hate Daphne with blistering superiorit y. Never intimidated, Daphne dashes to the Dashwood estate in London, where her spunk y American adorableness can wreck wedding plans and a lof t y chandelier, yet also make a par t y "rock." Cast: Amanda Bynes, Colin Fir th, Kelly Preston, Jonathan Pr yce, Eileen Atkins. Running time: 1 hr., 40 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ X2 (PG-13) — At the hub is the dutiful sequel section, laboring to ex tend the fantasy of a human world infiltrated by power ful, feared mutants, which the 2000 film transplanted from its comic-book roots. Then there is the ef fects section, each mutant get ting a chance to show his/her powers. There is the senior section of power ful old men, the creepy wizard Magneto (Ian McKellen) maintaining a duel of elite British accents with the paranormal seer Xavier (Patrick Stewar t). And the "check 'em out" section for new or aspiring stars (Hugh Jackman, Halle Berr y, Anna Paquin, Kelly Hu, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Aaron Stanford). "X2" seems to have been made by and for people who constantly switch bet ween "Star Trek" episodes and James Bond reruns, while hoping for some Hannibal Lecter. Cast: Patrick Stewar t, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berr y, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin. Running time: 2 hrs., 5 mins. (Elliot t) ★1/2 —Capsules compiled from movie reviews writ ten by David Elliot t, film critic for The San Diego Union-Tribune and other staf f writers.

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eanu Reeves had been a critical punching bag for years, thanks to his minimalist acting style and his early breakout performance in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” It was easy to label him a meathead when Reeves turned down a huge paycheck to star in “Speed 2,” choosing instead to play bass in his rock band, Dogstar. But then “Speed 2” tanked and it took little time for Reeves to achieve superstardom as Neo, the computer hacker who saves the world in “The Matrix.”

Along with Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne and franchise newcomer Jada Pinkett Smith, Reeves shot “The Matrix Reloaded” and this November’s “The Matrix Revolutions” in a marathon film shoot that lasted 11 months. In person, the 38-year-old Reeves is humble, reflective and sharper than his critics like to admit.

Q: “The Matrix” was so well received. Did you have any hesitations about returning to try topping it with the two sequels?

A: No. The scripts are so fantastic. We all came to this project, first of all, loving the first one and the experience of making it. We were all excited about performing and creating these characters, making these films and being together again. Hopefully, people will enjoy them as much as we do.

Q: Was there a point when you realized that Neo was going to be such an iconic character?

A: I don’t know. I really feel like it’s always the film that earns that reaction, not me. We, the actors who play the characters, are all just part of this world of “The Matrix” that directors Larry and Andy Wachowski brought to us, with their vision and their sensibilities. It’s a collaborative art form.

Q: You seem pretty calm in person, yet Neo is now quite a warrior. How comfortable are you playing that part of the character?

A: As an actor, you have the role to play, and Neo is just a butt-kicking kind of guy. It’s just a matter of finding that part of one’s self and meeting it with the character and trying to play the role. So it’s pretend, but it’s also coming from a source, from myself.

He’s a fun guy to play.

Q: Where does his style of fighting come from? Did you help embellish it?

A: It’s just “The Matrix” style. I wanted it to feel physical and visceral.

There’s physical effort on his face and physical impacts. But at the same time, it really is not physically happening, so I also wanted to have a certain elegance to it, an aspect of effortlessness. That was what I tried to do, in acting out the choreography that was devised by the directors and the fight choreographer, Yuen WooPing.

Q: Did you deliberately do “The Matrix” movie to change your screen persona?

A: I can’t control, for the most part, who hires me. It has always been my hope as an actor to work in different genres and to play different characters. So, knock on wood, and gratefully, I’ve had the chance to do that.

Q: Do you have a certain level of confidence as an actor that you didn’t have 10 years ago?

A: On good days, heh. No, actually you learn about acting by acting. And I’ve had the good fortune to be able to earn my living as an actor. I’m working with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson right now, and it’s just amazing to see such great artists, great actors. And likewise working with Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving and everyone in “The Matrix.” Those are some of the best actors I’ve ever worked with. So the chance to be working with artists like this and to be working with great directors, it gives me a sense of having been through some things, and done some acting. So I know more about my craft, what works for me, what things I need to do to perform a role, the questions I need to ask, and then the way to realize it.

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aving never quite understood the legions of Jedi wannabes who eagerly anticipate the endless installments of the "Star Wars" films, the arrival of "The Matrix Reloaded" gave me the sensation so many Lucasites must have thrived on all these years — giddy, unbridled anticipation. Of course, with expectation comes the threat of disappointment and, after the Warchowski brothers turned their flashy sci-fi cult hit of 1999 into one of the defining films of its generation, the real question was, how do the brothers top their first effort? The short answer: they don’t. A thrilling — but nonetheless repetitive and flawed — film, "Reloaded" achieves its own brilliance not through a great story or particularly dazzling special effects, but instead by being a deceptive meditation on the most unlikely of subjects: the impossibility of sequeling an already perfect film.

More of a mindtrip than its predecessor, "Reloaded" is hokier and more blatant in its overwrought attempts to define the reason of human existence. Heavy on postulations and meditations about the meaning of life, the Warchowski brothers give their characters free reign to talk endlessly about the specifics of the Matrix and, conversely, the pratfalls and pitfalls of this life. Even more invested in exploring the implications of its plot than the original, "Reloaded" constantly tries to delineate the difference between man and machine, reality and hyper-reality. But for all its philosophizing and psychobabble, "Reloaded" isn’t grounded in the existential platitudes it throws out. Instead, it’s ultimately about the machinery of cinema.

Picking up shortly after the first film left off, Neo and crew are in the throes of intense war with the machines, with the consensus being that the end to the fighting is near. Facing a massive threat from the machines that are rapidly burrowing to Zion (the home civilization for all human beings unplugged from the Matrix), Morpheus elects his crew to enter the Matrix in a last-ditch effort to save the human race.

Getting off to a slow start, "Reloaded" spends too much of its first stages in the dirty reality that is Zion, the alternative to the computer generated deception that is the Matrix. Where "The Matrix" reality was grim realism, reminiscent of Ripley’s ship from "Alien," "Reloaded" creates a kitschy "Star Wars"-like planet that looks as if it could be inhabited by Ewoks and Sand People. Clad in loincloths and writhing to the sounds of tribal music, this anachronistic future world does nothing if not prove to us why so many people remain plugged in to the Matrix. Luckily, the Warchowskis steal their heroes away from this nether region and throw them back into the computer; it’s then that

"Reloaded" really begins. Filled with more homages to the first film’s Asian roots (from Neo’s robe-like attire to Morpheus’ samurai battle), the sequel offers more of the same on a larger scale. The fight scenes are longer and more elaborately staged and the effects are flashier.

Thankfully, the Warchowski brothers deliver their bloated sequel with the ultimate kick; the acknowledgement that they are, like Neo, captives to the machine. At every turn, "Reloaded" questions and explores the complexities of duplication. In one of its more brilliant touches, the archvillain from the first film, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), has cloned himself. Unwilling to fulfill his destiny as an arm of the machinery he’s been programmed to fight for, he has now decided to work for himself – he’s a machine who has a mind of his own. In this fascinating manner, the Warchowskis uncover the repetition that’s at the heart of this entire endeavor. In their film about a computer program (which itself is just a repetition of numbers) that has duped humanity into the threat of demise by offering them a simulated reality, the directors pull off the ultimate deconstruction of an art form which simulates reality by the repetition of images. Of course, in an era when films are being packaged as parts of a whole and directors are shooting films in a series at once, the answer to how you successfully sequel a perfect film may lie at the end of "The Matrix Reloaded."

Imperfect as it is, with its rickety plot structure and complete lack of an ending, the Warchowskis know all too well that their viewers are hopelessly plugged in, thus they don’t close their film with the final frame, but rather with a clip that rolls at the end of the credits with a preview for the next installment in their alternate reality, "The Matrix Revolutions."

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Music and Memories at the Imperial Theatre May 22

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here’s no better concert than a concert for a cause. On May 22, “Rock, Roll, Remember,” the third annual benefit concert to support the Jenny Clark Scholarship Fund, will be at the Imperial Theatre.

The yearly event is the main fundraiser for the scholarship fund, which awards scholarships to deserving Columbia County and Richmond County high school seniors in memory of Jenny Clark, a Lakeside High School graduate who passed away in November of 2000.

“Because Jenny played soccer throughout her whole life almost – she started playing soccer when she was 5; she was the defensive player of the year for the last two years in high school; she was a Georgia all-star – because of that, we have tried to direct the scholarships to soccer players, both male and female,” said her father, Tom Clark.

Last year, the fund was able to award three scholarships to local high school students.

“Jenny had some tremendous qualities about her. She was a team player,” he said. “We look for those leadership traits in the candidates that we select. The coaches, they nominate people based on that criteria. All of the candidates are very worthy candidates.”

In order to continue to offer scholarships, several local bands have participated in past benefit concerts, with standby band Redbelly participating every year.

“A good part of (the idea for the concert) came from the Redbelly band,” Clark said.

“It was a band that Jenny used to go see, and the guys came up with this idea. This will be the third year in a row, and it has grown in popularity. It seems to have every year. We hope with the participation of five bands that this will be our best year.”

High school bands The Aphrodisiacs and Daze of Haze are scheduled to perform, as well as Blender, a band composed of musicians from The Big Mighty and People Who Must; The Big Mighty themselves; and, of course, Redbelly.

Though the concert has, in previous years, been held on Good Friday, a scheduling conflict at the Imperial Theatre forced the postponement of the concert to May 22, a move that Clark believes may work out for the better.

“We postponed it to May 22, which gave

us time for all the colleges to let out,” he said, adding that Redbelly has a dedicated following among the college crowd. That area high schools will be out by then should also help boost attendance.

“A lot of (Jenny’s) friends will be around as well,” said Clark.

In addition to the support generated by friends, local musicians, the Imperial Theatre and local printing companies Claffey Printing and Allegra Printing, a recent event at Lakeside High School showed Clark once again just how many lives Jenny had touched in her short time here.

“Something that happened this year which is very special to us – and this is two-and-a-half years after her death – we did our scholarship presentation at Lakeside,” he said.

“After the presentation of the scholarship, the team decided to give something back to us and they unveiled her jersey in a frame with a plaque and decided to retire her number and also presented us with a check for $500.”

Another special touch at the event was the attendance of some of Clark’s past soccer teammates at the scholarship presentation. Teammates who, Clark said, switched around college classes and finals to make it to the presentation.

“She definitely has had a profound effect on a lot of people,” said Clark. “Her spirit is still very much alive.”

The “Rock, Roll, Remember” benefit concert starts at 6 p.m. May 22 at the Imperial Theatre and is an all-ages show. The box office will open at 5 p.m. for ticket purchases. Tickets, which are $10, may also be purchased in advance at Last Call on Washington Road. Last Call is gracious enough to open up Thursday night at 11:30 p.m., a night the club is normally closed, to host an after-concert gathering with special appearances by other local musicians. For more information, please contact Tom Clark at 860-9457.

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Matt and Barry, already known in Augusta for their two successful downtown restaurants, Nacho Mama’s and the Blue Sky Kitchen, along with business partner Sonya Sessions, are getting ready for Stillwater’s grand opening. It promises to be a watering hole of a slightly different kind.

“It’s sort of like an Irish/traditional Southern bar,” says Barry.

The traditional feeling is evident in the décor, rich wooden benches and paneling and a refurbished tin ceiling. And there are black-and-white photos of Augusta in days gone by that have yet to be mounted on the walls.

“We really want it to be a local, genuine connection with the décor,” explains Barry.

Their plans for Stillwater’s musical offerings also foster a similar sense of connection to forms of music that are traditionally Southern.

“We’re trying to showcase Southern Appalachian music, bluegrass, traditional string types of stuff, acoustic, as well as using local music,” says Barry.

And that mix, the Stillwater owners hope, will make 25-year-olds and 55-year-olds feel equally at home in the Stillwater Tap Room.

“A lot of the young people who listen to Phish, Bela Fleck … they’ve been turned on to bluegrass,” Barry says. “There are a number of huge festivals in the Southeast.

Those are young people that are going to

those things.”

“We’re trying to do something that’s going to transcend generations. It’s not going to be overbearing.”

For those who aren’t necessarily in the market for live music, Stillwater offers billiards, chess and dart boards, and comfy rocking chairs for those who just want to sit and hang out. The tavern’s intimate atmosphere lends itself well to communication.

“The music is the backdrop,” says Barry.

“Conversation is very important.”

The owners are shooting for a First Friday opening. There are still a few finishing touches to add, like the antique lighting, but the Stillwater Tap Room’s overall ambiance is already showing through.

“There’s an old, sort of traditional tavern atmosphere,” Barry says. “The focus is on quality music and quality beverages.” He and Matt cite the number of fine Scotches and draft beers as an example of that commitment to quality.

In addition to working on finishing up the inside, the owners of Stillwater are also working on booking musical acts.

“Along with traditional blues, there’s any number of traditional types of music from the South,” says Barry. “All that falls into what we want to do.” They’re asking that local musicians who fit into that mold contact the Stillwater Tap Room at 8269857 to inquire about booking opportunities. They’re also asking people with Augusta memorabilia, such as old photos or ads, to lend or donate items for decorative purposes; if you have something you’re willing to lend, call the above number for details. The Stillwater Tap Room is located at 974 Broad St., right next door to Nacho Mama’s.

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Some of you (and you know who you are) might remember the buzz way back in 1969 when news hit of rock’s first “supergroup”– CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG. Taking great musicians from well-known but underachieving bands was a good idea back then, and three artists in a similar situation to CSNY are hoping that it still is today.

This new group, comprised of former solo acts MATTHEW SWEET, SHAWN MULLINS and PETE DROGE, has come together to form the THORNS. Their intricate three-part harmonies work extremely well on their debut disc, due in stores next week. As with CSNY, all of them are certainly talented enough on their own, but bringing them together as a trio should prove to be the real deal. You can catch the Thorns on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno May 20. U.S. tour dates will be announced soon.

Rough tapes featuring unreleased Bob Marley tracks have been recently discovered. Son ZIGGY MARLEY wants to add extra backing tracks and even vocals to the tapes,

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Turner’s Rock and Roll Jeopardy: A. These first two singles from CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL were cover versions of songs.

Q. What are “I Put a Spell on You” and “Susie Q.”?

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“Diamonds” is Harper’s fifth album. After the great response Harper received at Atlanta’s Music Midtown Festival a couple of weeks ago, this could very well be the one that catapults this musician to the proverbial next level. He plays in Charleston June 14 at Riley Park before continuing his long international tour, which eventually takes him to Europe this fall. I wouldn’t be too shocked if he happens to grace the stage at next year’s Grammys. Get the stringer, as this one’s a keeper.

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Another Rolling Stones Cancellation Aug. 2 would have been their very first concert in Belgrade, Serbia, but those plans have been cancelled due to the March 12 assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

Serbian authorities declared a state of emergency – because of the slaying, not the concert cancellation – and went after an underworld clan they say arranged the killing. It’s pretty tense over there, and the boys just don’t feel safe going over.

Lou Rawls … Battery?

In a hotel in Albuquerque, N.M., on Jan. 15, entertainer Lou Rawls and his girlfriend Nina Inman had one of those relationship talks that can get out of hand. He wound up shoving her, according to charges. But those charges were tossed out because the judge ruled that the charge was supported by “unreliable and unlawful” hearsay. According to Rawls, he and Inman have moved in together and plan to stay together for the rest of their lives. Aww. Hendrix Bassist Follows Jimi Once upon a time, Noel Redding played bass with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He was 20-23 years old during that time. He died Monday at age 57. At last report, cause of

death had not yet been determined. After the Experience, Redding formed Fat Mattress, and then the Noel Redding Band. There was all kind of history there, including a February threat to sue management company Experience Hendrix, which he said owed him up to $5 million. He’d spent the last 20 years of his life playing at a local pub.

Parts of STP Plus Pieces of G‘n’R Equals Reloaded Take one Stone Temple Pilots singer and three ex-members of Guns ‘n’ Roses. Mix well and you have a band called Reloaded.

Serves thousands, according to STP singer Scott Weiland. Sources say that ex-G‘n’R drummer Matt Sorum was unwilling to confirm his colleague’s claim without first speaking with the rest of the band. Weiland has recorded with the band, however.

Wayne Newton’s Wallaby Wayne Newton’s wallaby, Priscilla, led police, animal control officers and a selfdescribed redneck/cowboy on a two-mile chase through Las Vegas last Thursday. The redneck/cowboy, Harry Sullard, lassoed Priscilla, and she was returned to Newton’s compound unharmed.

COMPILED BY RHONDA JONES & LISA JORDAN Information compiled from online and other music news sources.

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Night Life The Bee’s Knees - Eryn Eubanks and the Fold The Big Easy - Buzz Clif ford, George Sykes Blind Pig - Randy Carver Club Argos - Karaoke Dance Par ty, DJ Joe Coliseum - Karaoke, High-Energy Dance Continuum - Playa*Listic Thursday with DJ Divine Cotton Patch - Michael Farabee Coyote’s - The Rhes Reeves Band Crossroads - Socialburn D. Timm’s - Joe Patchen and the Blue Diamond Express Fox’s Lair - Karaoke Greene Streets - Men’s Pop, Rock, Blues and Soul National Karaoke Contest Joe’s Underground - John Michael’s - Marilyn Adcock Modjeska - SKYNN, DJ Richie Rich Orange Moon - Open Mic Playground - Open Mic Night Soul Bar - Three Six ty Surrey Tavern - Jayson and Michael Time Piecez - DJ Dance Par ty

Friday, 16th Back Roads - DJ The Bee’s Knees - Jazz Sessions, Drum ‘n’ Bass The Big Easy - Air Apparent Blind Pig - Mudcat Borders - Carl Purdy Cafe Du Teau - Bernard Chambers Club Argos - Colt, Giavanni and Guests Male Revue, Argos Angels Coliseum - The Ebony Goddess Luscious Cotton Patch - Quiet Storm Coyote’s - The Rhes Reeves Band Crossroads - Black-Eyed Susan, El Dorado Deluxe D. Timm’s - Joe Patchen and the Blue Diamond Express Durango’s - Magic Hat Fox’s Lair - Dennis Hall Greene Streets - Karaoke Highlander - Ma xwell Lummus Joe’s Underground - Pat Blanchard Last Call - Tony Howard, DJ Richie Rich The Lighthouse - Fabulous Expressions

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They used to be known as Juice – now they’re going by the name Near Earth Object. Catch them this Saturday at Crossroads with Masque.

Amphitheatre, Atlanta - June 15 !!!, Outhud - Echo Lounge, Atlanta - June 15 Scott Miller - Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta - June 15 Peter Gabriel - Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta - June 16 AthFest - Various Venues, Athens, Ga. - June 19-22 Alabama - Philips Arena, Atlanta - June 20 Delbert McClinton - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta June 21 Johnny Mathis - Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta - June 21 Heart - Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta June 22 Aretha Franklin - Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta - June 24 Boston - Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta June 29

Sugar Ray, Matchbox Twenty - Philips Arena, Atlanta - June 29 Camel - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta - July 1 Brenda Lee, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Georgia Mountain Fair, Hiawassee, Ga. - July 5 The Fall - Echo Lounge, Atlanta - July 12 Many tickets are available through TicketMaster outlets, by calling 828-7700, or online at w w w.ticketmaster.com. Tickets may also be available through Tix Online by calling 278-4TIX or online at w w w.tixonline.com. Night Life listings are subject to change without notice.

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ony Alleyne, 50, recently placed his small Leicestershire, England, apartment on the market for the equivalent of U.S. $1.7 million, a price he said was realistic because he has spent nearly 10 years crafting the premises as a finely detailed model of the “Star Trek” starship Enterprise. Included, according to an April report in Australia’s Herald Sun, are a life-size transporter control, a gigantic warp core drive, voice-activated lighting and security, and an infinity mirror.

“If you’re going to do something,” he said, “you have to go all the way.” Alleyne said he started the project as therapy when his wife walked out on him.

• Connecticut’s Supreme Court heard arguments in April on a rather fine point in “Miranda warning” law: whether the police can use a drug suspect’s vomit against him (or at least use the eight bags of heroin that came up with the vomit). Arresting officers apparently asked suspect Vincent Betances if he had just swallowed heroin, and Betances (without a Miranda warning) said that he had, leading officers to summon medical help. Betances now says the officers’ question was unconstitutional “interrogation,” even though without immediate treatment, he could have died.

Democracy in Action • Pro wrestler The Great Sasuke won a seat in Japan’s Iwate Prefectural Assembly, and said he would continue to wear his trademark mask to work (“This is my face,” he said.) (April). And many members of India’s lower house of parliament, opposed to the finance minister’s attempt to raise the price of fertilizer, did the Indian equivalent of a U.S. filibuster by screaming raucously for more than four straight hours on March 15 until the minister withdrew the proposal.

Also in March, India’s prime minister came under vicious attack from members of the opposition Congress party, who played Indian political hardball by accusing him of eating beef.

Questionable Judgments • The school board that governs Lombardy, Ontario, acceded to the request of an offended parent in February and removed the word “gun” from a primary school spelling-test list. Also in February, the head teacher at the Park Road nursery school in West Yorkshire, England, issued instructions that “The Three Little Pigs” and other stories featuring pigs not be used, in order not to offend Muslims.

(The Muslim Council of Britain immediately denounced the decision, and the instructions were rescinded.)

• In December, a judge in Fort Myers, Fla., cleared immigration lawyer Maria Lara Peet, 40, to practice again, excusing her theft of $73,000 from a client the year before, as long as she paid it back. Peet was found to have been mentally ill at the time of the theft but competent to practice law again a year later.

(Several years before that, she had been involuntarily hospitalized for a mental illness.)

The Laws of Irony Are Strictly Enforced • The CIA convened an open panel of scientists in January to discuss potential terrorist uses of life-science research, and the panel concluded that, despite the risks, openness in scientific study was absolutely crucial; in April, the CIA suppressed the panel’s conclusions on openness as classified. And in March, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accepted an award by the Cleveland City Club for his contributions to freedom of speech, which Scalia said he would be glad to accept at the club’s meeting provided no television or radio coverage was allowed.

• Psychiatrist Charles Gould, 69, was scheduled for a disciplinary tribunal after allegedly belting a patient with a frying pan and a wine bottle when the patient said Gould should retire because he was “past his sell-by date” (Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, April).

And Catholic high school theology teacher R. Scott Jones, 44, was fired for passing out joke valentines to students reading, “I hate you, I wish you would die” (Phoenix, March). And Fletcher Vrendenburgh, director of the New York City government’s customer-service office, was fired for posting a Web site essay on how “dumb,” “whining” and “stupid” he thought New Yorkers and city workers are (December).

• What Goes Around, Comes Around: Lisandro Mateo, 16, and Justine HayesHurley, 18, were charged with criminal mischief in Central Islip, N.Y., in March after vandalizing a car. The car belongs to Winston Hill, 20, who both girls thought was their exclusive boyfriend until they began innocently discussing their love lives at school and realized they were both talking about the same man, at which point they decided to touch up Hill’s windshield and paint job with hedge clippers.

People Different From Us • Heredity theory got a boost in March when CNN reported that Mr. Shirl Mitchell, 83, the father of accused Elizabeth Smart abductor Brian Mitchell, blamed himself for the way Brian turned out. Shirl said he showed Brian sexually explicit photos at age 7, which perhaps provoked Brian’s arrest years later for indecently exposing himself to a 3-year-old girl. Shirl also described himself as a voyeur and the author of a two-thick-volume personal theology that is sexually explicit, dealing largely with diet and reproduction (and having nothing to do with Brian’s own tract that authorities found when they arrested him for the abduction).

Recent Alarming Headlines • (1) “Dangerous Chemical Found in Women’s Breasts” (a March San Francisco Chronicle report on heavy tissue concentrations of a flame-retarding pollutant, most likely from inhaling foam insulation). (2) “Grisly Mexico Factory Breeds Man-Eating Flies” (a February Reuters story on the manufacture of sterile male fresh-blood-eating screwworms, which are used only to mate with wild female screwworms so that its population will die out). (3) “Girl Headed for Eye Doctor Ends Up With Teeth Pulled Instead” (a March story on the Web site of KTRK-TV, Houston, about the error by a Texas Medicaid worker who dropped the 5year-old girl off with the wrong doctor).

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CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Whenever I hike up to the ridge near my house, I feel a surge of admiration for a certain oak tree I pass. Unlike its companions, which are pointed skyward, it’s growing sideways out of the hillside.

It’s robust and flourishing, yet in staunch rebellion against its community’s standards. I call it the Aries oak, because it reminds me of what you’re like when you’re at your best: unique and healthy; bucking the status quo but never in a way that damages you; not fiercely and fumingly independent, but casually and blithely so. I suggest you aim to strengthen your alignment with this ideal in the coming weeks.

An Italian law student, Antonella Magnani, was entering the last stages of her pregnancy as her final exams approached. She hoped the two rites of passage would not transpire too close to each other, but fate had other plans. Her labor pains brought her to the hospital at the exact time her test was scheduled. The law school examiners refused a postponement, but agreed to conduct their questioning in the delivery room. I believe this scenario is an apt symbol for the dual challenge you will soon face, Cancerian. In a sense you’ll be giving birth as you take a final exam. (P.S. Magnani had a healthy baby and got a good grade.)

The self-help book “Women Who Love Too Much” deals with a theme that has gotten a lot of play in the past 15 years: If you’re too generous to someone who doesn’t appreciate it and at the expense of your own needs, you make yourself sick. An alternative perspective comes from French philosopher Blaise Pascal, who said, “When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.” He was primarily addressing psychologically healthy saints, but it’s a good ideal for the rest of us to keep in mind. This week, Taurus, your assignment is to explore the middle ground between the extremes represented by those two positions. Experiment and ruminate until you discern what amount of giving is just right for you.

Just in time for zero hour, Leo, I’m happy to add a new term to your vocabulary: kairos. It’s Greek for “time of destiny, critical turning point, propitious moment for decision or action.” Since you’re at that exact phase in your cycle, I thought you’d be ripe to learn the word for it. Here are further subtleties you might be interested in. Kairos refers to a special season that’s charged with significance and in a sense outside of normal time; its opposite is chronos, which refers to the drone of the daily rhythm. When you’re in kairos, you have the power and duty to act like the sovereign of a sacred land.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

To paraphrase one of Amy Gerstler’s poems, this week will taste like cough syrup. Sorry to have to report that, Gemini. But on the other hand, the bitter flavor will be offset by a sweet aftertaste that’s lent to the mix by a secret ingredient I’m not yet at liberty to divulge. And the unpleasantness of the medicine going down will be even more compensated for by the tonic effects that will begin rippling through your life as early as next week.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

I predict you will have a lavish amount of composure this week. It won’t be tainted by arrogance or feelings of superiority, either. And it won’t be fueled by a need to prove anything to anyone. Rather, your poise will flow from your strong new link to your soul’s code — the life blueprint you decided on before you were born. One more thing: While you will be calm, you won’t be passive or laidback. This will be an electrifying variety of relaxation.

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found Libras who live in Texas to be unlike Libras everywhere else. Normal Libras love beautiful things, seek harmony, and see opposing points of view as well as their own. But every Texan Libra I’ve ever met loves beautiful things only if they’re big and loud, seeks harmony only if there’s something in it for him, and acknowledges opposing viewpoints only if it helps him win the arguments he loves to start. Your opinion? -Natural-Born Texan.” Dear Natural-Born: I was born in Texas and have three planets in Libra, so I’m not objective enough to comment. I do know this, though: Many non-Texan Librans will soon exhibit the behavior you described as typical of Lone Star Librans. But I think that’s a good thing: an antidote for Libras’ sometimes excessive politeness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Among his many fine tips for creating poetry, John Hewitt provides one that would be useful for you to apply in your own field of endeavor during the coming week. “Write the worst poem you can possibly write,” he advises. “Use clichés and pretentious words, and beat your reader over the head with your point. Felt good, didn’t it? Now get back to work. The point is, don’t be afraid to write a bad poem. If it takes a hundred bad poems before you can produce a poem you like, fine, get that hundred out of the way.” You’re entering a phase, Sagittarius, when you may have to wade through a heap of junk you don’t care for before you find the gem you really want. (Hewitt’s Web page is at http://www.poewar.com/articles/poetrytips.htm.)

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Novelist H.G. Wells once said, “If we want to have an educated citizenship in a modern technological society, we need to teach them three things: reading, writing and statistical thinking.” In my own list of essential expertise for today’s educated person, I’d include reading and writing but replace statistics with the science of cultivating happiness or the art of carrying on a healthy intimate relationship. I bring this up, Capricorn, because you’re now in a phase when you can learn a lot in a short time about those two skills.

On those rare occasions when journalists deign to report a UFO sighting, they dutifully and dryly describe eyewitness accounts. But their juices start to flow when they offer the derisive dismissals of skeptics they’ve interviewed about the incident. This is typical: “Astronomy professor X said that even trained pilots can be fooled into thinking the planet Venus is a flying saucer.” I wish this approach were applied to other kinds of news. Imagine a CNN anchormen regurgitating the words he heard at a Pentagon news conference, then calling on leftist scholar Noam Chomsky to provide a skeptic’s perspective. This is exactly the approach you should take to every story you hear this week, even those told by friends, family, co-workers, and acquaintances: Make it your burning mission to get alternate points of view.

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Many men believe they’ll never find romantic happiness unless they can hook up with a woman who resembles a supermodel or film star. Tragically, their libidos were imprinted at a tender age by our culture’s narrow definition of what constitutes female beauty. They steer clear of many fine women who don’t fit their absurd ideal. This addiction to a physical type is not confined to hetero dudes, however. Many straight women, for instance, wouldn’t think of dating a bald, short guy no matter how interesting he is. That’s the bad news. The good news is that with sincere effort, anyone can shed the outmoded imprints that prevent them from being turned on by otherwise attractive partners.

You, Aquarius, are in a phase when you have increasing power to do just that.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

You need the soul medicine that only a wild place can provide. Civilized habits are eating away at your instinct for happiness. The insidious taint of omnipresent commercialism is infecting even your purest desires and noblest ambitions. You owe it to your sanity, Pisces, to run away to a power spot that is immune to human manipulation — a sanctuary where nature is so big and free and intense it will dissolve the petty obsessions your ego has gotten twisted up in. What are you waiting for? Leave as soon as possible, and don’t come back until you’re scoured clean.

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“Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you...” shouted Alexander Graham Bell, making telecommunications history and the world’s first needy phone call at the very same time.

Mercifully, it appears that he got cut of f before he could add, “...about having my baby.”

Ringing your long-lost friend and blur ting out, “Do you want to know at the ultrasound whether we’re having a boy or a girl?” probably isn’t in your best interest — especially if you’d like to avoid giving the impression that your idea of a great first date is dinner and a wedding. This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t call at all.

You could call when he’s in the middle of dinner to express your concern that he might be making a tragic error in choice of telephone service provider, or to prevent him from missing out on a “free” vacation in tsetse fly-infested swampland. (He pays only the psychic cost of sit ting through a 12-hour lecture on investment oppor tunities in “Ten Plagues, Inc.” vacation timeshares.) The telephone can also be a great tool for let ting others know they’re appreciated. Some callers do this verbally; others favor a nonverbal approach like heavy breathing. If this seems a lit tle impersonal, not to worry, you’ll get credit when your home phone number reads out on the guy’s Caller ID. Should you favor a gimmick-free approach, you might try a conversation — an exchange in which one person phones another and asks stuf f like “How are you?” and volunteers information about the kind of time they’ve had (or served — depending on the company one keeps). Conversational calls (when made to a guy you barely know) should be spaced to seem casual — one a week or one return call from you for every call from him. The idea is to

leave him wondering a lit tle — and not about whether Tommy Lee Jones will play you in the TV movie: hunting him down with dogs and federal agents, clapping him in irons, and leading him on a chain to the altar.

What’s with the mad rush to become your parents? There’s a right time to think about getting married, and it isn’t while you’re still paying of f the dress you wore to prom. Actually, nobody should be allowed to do any thing permanent in their early twenties — a time rarely referred to by anyone who’s emerged from it as “My Era of Great Wisdom.” Right now, you’d probably find yourself remarkably compatible with vast legions of men. Unfor tunately, that’s most likely because you have no clue as to who you are or what you stand for, and neither do they. If you marry really young, you are likely to end up sharing at least one idea: the opinion that it’s really dumb to get married really young. Now, there’s the per fect topic to express how much you and he have in common — you and the guy who’s your first date af ter the divorce.

Because I’m in college and working full time, I don’t have many opportunities to meet women. I do see women I like on the street, in the mall and around school. How can I strike up a conversation with a woman who’s just passing by?

—What’s My Line?

When you hit on some babe at the mall, you don’t worry that she’ll tie you to her bedpost and make you her slave — you only wish, in your wildest dreams, that she would. Most men are bigger and stronger than most women — with the exception of “women” who sprinkle steroids on their Special K — so you’re just another horny wacko until proven otherwise.

Chances are, you won’t be given the chance.

You’re bet ter of f approaching women in coffeebars or other venues where they see you repeatedly — thus giving them the illusion that they know you. The nex t time you’re inspired to chase a strange woman through the mall, ask about something she’s wearing or carrying, or request advice on a present for your mom (eww, corny! ... but serviceable). For best results, avoid remarks that invite a one-word response, such as “Nice shoes!” (“Thanks!”) or “Nice rack!” (“Cretin!”) or “I’m looking to staf f my backyard dungeon” (“Security!”).

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Other WINDSURFING Mistral Competition with straps, 2 sails, mast & boom, $475 complete, 706-284-6809 (1086/0529) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– WINDSURFING Trailer, lockable, carries 4 boards plus

lots of equipment $350, 706284-6809 (1087/0529) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1982 VW VANAGON Westfalia Camper, sink, stove, refrigerator, CD, sleeps 4, everything rebuilt, #3995, 706-733-7613 (1111/0619) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 TOYOTA NATIONAL motor home, 22 ft, immaculate, generator, new tires, low miles, front/rear air, stored in garage, $16,700, 803-2798356 (1109/0612)

SUVs 1992 FORD BRONCO XL, 69K, 4WD, cold AC, stereo, 302, V8, auto, auto hubs, Wranglers, step bumper, nonsmoker, excellent condition, $6750, 706-731-0493 (1110/06190 –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 NISSAN PATHFINDER, Luxury Edition, auto, 4X4, leather, CD, power everything, 78K, $11,500, 706-868-6344 (1074/0515) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1998 JEEP CHEROKEE Sport, black, 2dr, PS, PB, P W, cruise, auto, AC, 6cyl, 70K, nice and clean, $5800, 706-733-0509 (1100/0612) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 FORD EXPEDITION, green, tan interior, 2WD, leather, 6 CD changer, 3rd seat, rear air, excellent condition, $16,300, 706-284-4592 or 706-854-9194 (1077/0515)

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Vans 1977 VW VAN, 35K original miles, new am/fm/cd, great condition, could be your groovy ride, $3500, 706-5950635 (1096/0605) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 FORD WINDSTAR GL, dark red, gray cloth, auto, stereo, 3.8 V6, AC, tilt, cruise, power windows, 149K, $3600 OBO, 706-860-5001 (1107/0612) –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 CHEVROLET VENTURE LT, excellent condition, 75K, front/rear air, am/fm/cass/cd stereo, 4 captains chairs, all power, $13,000, 706-592-9144 (1108/0612)

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