Metro Spirit 10.16.2003

METRO SPIRIT Oct. 16-22 Vol. 15 No. 11

Augusta’s Independent Voice

TV? Isn’t It Just

By Brian Neill

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Committed to Exceptional Care

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MCG Health System Welcomes…

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Gina L. Adrales, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery Dr. Adrales is a fellowship trained laparoscopic surgeon specializing in minimally invasive approaches to gastrointestinal disease such as reflux, hernia repair, intestinal resection and solid organ surgery.

Jennifer C. Iyer, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Achih H. Chen, MD, Assistant Professor, Director of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology Dr. Chen is a Beverly Hills-trained cosmetic facial plastic surgeon who specializes in endoscopic browlifts, natural-appearing facelifts and minimally invasive cosmetic procedures such as Botox and Collagen injections.

Daksha B. Chudgar, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Dr. Chudgar specializes in infertility treatment, research and evaluation of clinical genetic diseases, and the effect of stress on reproduction.

Stil E. Kountakis, MD, Vice Chairman, Professor, and Director of Rhinology/Sinus Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology

James B. Mayfield, MD, Director of Perioperative Services and Vice-Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Dr. Kountakis specializes in diseases of the nose, and offers endoscopically-guided diagnosis of sinus problems. He performs state of the art minimally invasive sinus surgery which includes the use of computer-image guidance and precision powered instrumentation.

Dr. Mayfield has particular interest in regional anesthesia for ambulatory surgery, intraoperative consciousness monitoring and operating room management.

Saima M. Samdani, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

Steve J. Schwab, MD, Chairman and Regents' Professor, Department of Medicine

Kathleen S. Stern, MD, Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Ophthalmology

Dr. Samdani specializes in the treatment of arthritis, back, neck and joint pain.

She also performs joint and soft tissue injections for pain relief known as trigger point injections.

Dr. Schwab's clinical interests are chronic kidney failure, dialysis and acute renal failure.

Dr. Stern's interests include pediatric ophthalmology and neuro-ophthalmology.

Dr. Iyer is fellowship trained in clinical neurophysiology. She has special interest in neuromuscular disorders including ALS, Myasthenia Gravis and neuropathies.

Sean L. Francis, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief Urogynecology and Pelvic Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Dr. Francis provides specialized care to female patients with urinary tract incontinence and pelvic prolapse. Dr. Francis’ special interest areas include laparoscopic and vaginal surgery.

John C. Morgan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor,Department of Neurology Dr. Morgan is a movement disorders neurologist specializing in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, essential tremor syndrome, Huntington's disease, dystonia and other movement disorders.

Verle D. Valentine, MD, Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery Dr. Valentine is a primary care sports medicine physician. He specializes in conditions of the musculoskeletal system and medical conditions of athletes.

MCG is committed to being on the forefront of medical research and treatment. As the region’s only academic medical center, we attract top physicians and medical professionals from across the country and around the world. We are proud to introduce these newest additions to our medical staff.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 721-CARE (2273) or visit our website at MCGHealth.org.

The physicians of MCG Health System are community physicians and faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the Physicians Practice Group, not employees of MCG Health Inc.

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Contents Metro Spirit

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Isn’t It Just TV? By Brian Neill ....................21

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Cover Design: Natalie Holle Cover Photo: Michel Dupagne

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FEATURES

The Return of Moses By Stacey Eidson ...............................................................17

Now gently exhale.

Opinion Whine Line ......................................................................6 Words ...............................................................................6 This Modern World .........................................................6 Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down ............................................8 Suburban Torture ...........................................................8 Insider ...........................................................................10

Metro Beat

Commission Tough on Telfair Site ..............................12

Arts Art Is Everywhere in Augusta .....................................37 Prince Charming To Seek Bride at Glass Slipper Ball .................................................................................40 Hot Damn, It’s Hotlanta! ..............................................42

Food

Restaurant Patrons Beware? Local Restaurateurs Says Bourdain’s Book Not Quite on the Mark ...........25 Barberitos .....................................................................27

Events

Art Is Everywhere in Augusta........37

8 Days a Week .............................................................30

Cinema

Movie Listings .............................................................43 Preview: “Runaway Jury” ...........................................46 Review: “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” ........................48 Movie Clock ..................................................................50

Music

The Sixth Hour and More Entertain at Bloodfest X .....28 Life on the Road Brings Welcome Challenges to Col. Bruce Hampton .......................................................51 Music by Turner ..............................................................52 Music Minis ....................................................................54 Night Life .........................................................................55

Stuff

News of the Weird ........................................................58 Brezsny's Free Will Astrology ......................................59 New York Times Crossword Puzzle ............................59 Amy Alkon: The Advice Goddess ................................60 Date Maker ...................................................................61 Classifieds .....................................................................63

EDITOR & PUBLISHER David Vantrease ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Rhonda Jones STAFF WRITERS Stacey Eidson, Brian Neill ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Joe White ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Kriste Lindler PRODUCTION MANAGER Joe Smith GR APHIC ARTISTS Stephanie Bell, Natalie Holle, Erin Lummen ASSISTANT TO THE PUBLISHER Meli Gurley ACCOUNTING MANAGER/CLASSIFIEDS Sharon King ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ASSISTANT Lisa Jordan CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Meli Gurley SENIOR MUSIC CONTRIBUTOR Ed Turner CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chuck Shepherd, Rob Brezsny, Amy Alkon, Rachel Deahl CARTOONISTS Tom Tomorrow, Julie Larson

METRO SPIRIT is a free newspaper published weekly on Thursday, 52 weeks of the year. Editorial coverage includes ar ts, local issues, news, enter tainment, people, places and events. In our paper appear views from across the political and social spectrum. The views do not necessarily represent the views of the publishers. Visit us at www.metrospirit.com. Copyright © Metro Spirit, Inc. Reproduction or use without permission is prohibited. Phone: (706) 738-1142 Fax: (706) 733-6663 E-mail: spirit@metrospirit.com Letters to the Editor: P.O. Box 3809, Augusta, Ga. 30914-3809

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agle102 sponsoring Family Fun Day Out on Fort Gordon on Thursday, Oct. 2, was one of the nicest things ever done. I am a single parent of two and have never been able to buy tickets to more than two or three fair rides because they are so expensive. My kids had a ball and so did so many other families. A big, humongous thanks to the Eagle and please don’t hesitate to do it again.

In regard to the whiner who believes the RCBOE has their priorities “screwed up”...

Have you listened to the people responsible for our children’s education speak? When they open their mouths, all you can hear is ignorance. Most of the time the subject and the verb “doesn’t” even know each other, never mind agree. I hear this ignorance from EdD on down. While viewing a newscast in Charleston, S.C., this week, I heard a quote from a teacher and it sounded as though she had missed a few English grammar classes herself. Dumbing down.

To the whiner who wants Ted Kennedy to be charged with a hate crime and called him a traitor because he spoke out against Bush — that’s pathetic. First of all, where in his statement did Sen. Kennedy say he hated Bush? It’s hate because Sen. Edward Kennedy is using his constitutional right to air his grievances a right we all have? I wonder if you were so quick to jump to the defense of President Clinton? No, I don’t think so. It’s pretty bad when someone can’t voice his or her opinion, right or wrong, in a country that crows about “Free Speech” To the whiner who thinks Ted Kennedy is a traitor because he calls George “bush-league” a fraud — get a life. Bush is a fraud and a liar and a dunce. Ted Kennedy will never be mistaken for a saint, and George “Bush-league” will never be mistaken for having a brain.

To all aspiring would be models I offer some good professional advice. (Be careful) giving money to a model search coming to town making promises.

To the parents protesting the school uniform policy: Are you even thinking past your nose? Apparently not! OK ... I will “try” to agree that the school uniform is a “violation” of my “personal freedom of choice.” I will also concede that it is a “cost” that I may not be able to afford.

These are valid points, though in the big picture, they amount to a hill of beans!

All of this distracts from the prime reason children are there — to learn.

Unfortunately, rules have to be set. Ask any teacher and they will agree that a uniform policy is beneficial. I am sure that most, if not all, of the board members are parents and have weighed the pros and cons. These parents need to do this too. Wake up people!

Given the historical performance of the Braves versus the Yankees, Cubs and other Northern teams, you would think Ted Turner would change their name to the Confederates!

I forgot there was an election until I picked up your Spirit. What a boring and unimpressive choice for the Augusta Commission. I don’t think I’ll bother to vote this year.

Yuk! Mold in Regency Mall. Now, many readers probably didn’t stop to think just what that unhealthy environment can mean to taxpayers who may have to pay to have it fixed. Regency Mall has been an albatross around the necks of Augustans for decades and it looks as if it will continue. Like the song says, tear it all down and put in a parking lot. I forgot — that’s about all it’s good for anyway.

Words “Immediately following this broadcast, I am checking myself into a treatment center for the next 30 days to once and for all break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me.”

— Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, admitting to his addiction to painkillers, a topic he had earlier tried to sidestep and spin, but found he could not. However, the majority of the types of people who listen to his show will no doubt feel sorry for him. And he definitely won’t end up in the type of controversial and often abusive drug treatment facilities his recent golfing buddy, former President George H. W. Bush, espoused during his time in office. A country club setting will probably be more like it. The beautiful thing in all of this, however, is that Limbaugh might have been high on Oxycontin while golfing with Bush.

To the jerk who insinuated that Tim Shelnut has done nothing: For a selfmade man who has given thousands of jobs to people across the country, not to mention building an economic base (tax revenue) for our community, your perceptions of this man are very strange indeed. Word of advice: re-assess your failure as a man, then seek help at a local hospital.

As a downtown resident, I would like to propose that Curtis Baptist Church funnel some of the tithing into a parking lot.

This business of illegally consuming lanes of traffic without any lights, cones or markers is a hazard, especially at night, and needs to result in some towing, or at least some hefty fines. Take some public transportation! Or hike it! I hear Jesus was a bit of a walker ...

This is to the lady who moved out a few houses down leaving behind one dog and three cats to starve to death or for someone else to deal with. None of the animals are fixed, of course! So I guess I either call the pound to come and get them, where they will probably be put to death, or I can just ignore the whole thing and hope they don’t make more unwanted animals. Thanks, lady. I wish people in this area would wake up.

Why does the city insist on putting up the downtown X-mas lights ... in freaking September? I mean, are they that busy in, say, oh, I don’t know, November?

Doubtful … jeesh.

Your Insider says Commissioner Steve Shepard has the support of commissioners to take over for Jim Wall, the current

county attorney. Since when can these guys agree on anything?

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“First Friday was so nice.” Ha! Yeah, right. There are blue-light specials every other block. Is this Augusta’s big secret “gangsta scene” or what?

This is in praise of the Tennessee Songwriter’s Series at The Morris. While I will unfortunately miss the last two sets of the series, the first two were a true credit to the city’s entertainment and artistic scene.

The shows were set up and executed stylishly and both songwriters, Jennifer Daniels (a wonderful surprise) and Steven Jackson (who I’ve heard before and was delighted to hear again), made the series a success before it was halfway over. The Morris Museum needs to please bring more cultural things like this to the area, and more people should really check out the ones they already do offer.

A study here — a study there, consultants, architects and who knows who else are being paid horrendous amounts by Augusta/Richmond County commissioners for their input. And what becomes of all that money spent, or should I say wasted? Nothing, except fewer dollars in the city coffer. It does not matter what part of the government is involved; none of the people running it have any common sense — how sad! If we were to combine all the money that has been wasted up to now, I believe we would have a tidy sum that could be used in a constructive manner toward the various projects that are on the agenda. Taxpayers can only watch and cringe — vote — but for whom? What guarantee do we have that things will improve? They haven’t so far and that means quite a few years.

Good dining guide. The best one I’ve seen around here. I will definitely use it as a guide to eating out over the next few months. Good job Metro Spirit. Keep it up. Your paper is becoming more popular with each passing year.

I think it’s great that MCG is one of the 100 Top Hospitals recognized by Solucient. I just hope the administrators recognize that it’s the day-to-day employees who actually earned this honor for them by being on the front lines of patient care.

To the pizza driver telling the folks to tip — I totally agree! I used to deliver pizzas from a non-chain restaurant known for gourmet pizzas. I delivered to such places as Westlake, and as far as the Savannah Rapids Pavilion, so you know there are some rich folks out there.

Anyways, the cheapest people were in the biggest houses. I actually struggled to carry 15 large pizzas to a large party and was given a check with no tip included (and I am a small woman).

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Take care of yourself. Let University help.

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Portraits of Life

“HealthTalk” on WGAC-580 AM Tune in on Monday, Oct. 27, at 8:30 a.m. to hear Kellie Lane, M.D., a board-certified cardiologist on University’s medical staff, discuss Women’s HeartAdvantage.

Comcast Survivor Luncheon Oct. 28 Noon Julian Smith Casino Featuring Judy Kneece, R.N., O.C.N. from EduCare FREE luncheon open to all area breast cancer survivors Sponsored by

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diagnosed with breast cancer following her annual mammogram. Like her mother, Frances did not fear cancer, but faced it with a positive attitude.

Following a lumpectomy, Frances had radiation, which was the recommended protocol for her type of breast cancer.

Just two months after Frances’ diagnosis, her younger sister, Joan Piercy, a State Farm Twelve years ago at age 74, Insurance agent, noticed a Jane Laney’s annual mammogram brought news that change in the appearance of her breast, even though a no one wants to hear. She had mammogram earlier in the year breast cancer, but she took it in stride and continued to live each was negative. With her family history, she immediately sought day to its fullest following a radical mastectomy. In fact, her medical attention and learned that she also had breast cancer. attitude was one of gratitude as Like her mother and sister before she began counting all of the her, she kept a positive attitude people she knew who had while electing to have a double survived cancer, including her husband, Levings, now a 31-year mastectomy with reconstructive surgery. cancer survivor.

These remarkable women all Eleven years later in agree that their “glass half full” September 2002, Mrs. Laney’s oldest daughter, Frances Altizer, philosophy made all the difference in their recovery. director of Volunteers at University Hospital, was In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, we salute the many cancer survivors in our area.

“Portraits of Life” pays tribute to these women and their stories of encouragement and strength after a breast cancer diagnosis. Here’s one family’s story:

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Visit the Portraits of Life display in the Augusta Mall to see more amazing biographies and photographs of local breast cancer survivors. The display will be up throughout October, on the mall’s lower level, outside of Rich’s-Macy’s Home Center.

For more information on hereditary breast cancer or a risk assessment, call University’s Breast Health Center at 706/774-4141.

Your resource for healthy living.

EDUCATION Breast-feeding Oct. 16 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Babies R Us Registration required. Call 706/774-2825.

D. Scott Burns, M.D. Augusta GYN, P.C. 1348 Walton Way 706/722-1381

Dr. Burns is a new member of University Hospital’s medical staff, now practicing at Augusta GYN, P.C. He is an Ob/GYN, and recently completed his residency at the Medical College of Georgia.

He’s also engaged in research on reproductive endocrinology and neurology. You can reach Dr. Burns at 706/722-1381.

Mark Your Calendars!

Annual Holiday Celebration and Tree of Love Kick Off Friday, Nov. 21 Refreshments & entertainment: 6:30 p.m.

Program & tree lighting: 7 p.m.

University Hospital’s front lawn For more information, call 706/736-0847.

Food, Fit and Fun An after-school group nutrition program for ages 12-17 Holly Ford, program manager Mondays, Oct. 20, 27 3:45-6 p.m.

Weight Management and Nutrition Center To learn more about this program, call 706/774-2956.

Introduction to Infant CPR Oct. 27 6:30-8:30 p.m.

University Women’s Center $5 For more information, call 706/774-2825.

HEALTH SCREENINGS Mobile Mammography Screenings Oct. 17 First Baptist Church, North Augusta Oct. 20 Outside Rich’s-Macy’s, Augusta Mall 8 a.m.- 4 p.m.

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Appointments required. Call 706/774-8900.

FREE and open to the public For more information, call ASK-ANURSE at 706-737-8423.

Mobile Mammography for Seniors Oct. 22 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

University Seniors Club, Daniel Village Shopping Center Appointments required. For more information, call 706/774-4145.

SUPPORT GROUPS Prostate Cancer Oct. 16 7-8:30 p.m.

University Seniors Club, Daniel Village Shopping Center Reservations required. For more information, call Robert H. Graves at 706/364-6684.

SPECIAL EVENTS University Hospital’s Sleep Lab Open House Oct. 16 Program and tours: Noon-1:30 p.m.

Additional tours: 5-7 p.m.

University Parkway, Evans Campus Reservations required. Call 706/736-0847 or 800/413-6652.

Seeds for Life Support for HIV/AIDS patients, families and friends Oct. 22, 29 1 p.m.

For location and more information, call 706/774-5802.

Miracle Mile Walk To benefit University’s Breast Health Center Oct. 25 Registration: 8 a.m.

Walk: 9 a.m.

Augusta Commons For more information, call the Foundation at 706/729-5650.

Parkinson’s Disease Oct. 28 5 p.m.

St. John Towers 724 Greene St. For more information, call 706/863-6355.

Diabetes Expo Nov. 8 12:30-5 p.m.

Warren Baptist Church 3203 Washington Road

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Thumbs Up Police in Dekalb County over the weekend got tough on Georgia’s midnight curfew for teenagers, making a series of arrests at hotels where groups of teens were partying, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Roughly 20 teens got tickets with fines of $100 and up.

Many of the teens had been to a homecoming party and were congregating in a room that had bottles of vodka and beer, some suspected marijuana and an assortment of condoms.

It’s midnight. Do you know where your teenager is?

Thumbs Down Two dog attacks reported in Aiken over the weekend illustrate the need for more restrictions on dogs determined to pose a danger with their size or aggressive nature. According to The Augusta Chronicle, two men allowed their Rottweiler to attack another man with whom they were having an altercation on Oct. 12. The same day, a woman in Beech Island was mauled by a pit bull she had found, according to the article.

Pit bull pups are being sold from crude pens in backyards and garages. And it

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I must say that the local politicians don’t have a clue about the future of this city.

Here we are still thinking Regency Mall makes sense as a building. Are these guys crazy? Tear it down and do something with the land and space. The building is over, folks. Over. Don’t you get it? Puleeeeze!

The HR director of Augusta best watch her step or prepare to dust off her résumé. After all, she hasn’t been recommended for termination by a grand jury, hasn’t personally profited at taxpayers’ expense, treats all people impartially and with respect, plays by the rules, lives and works according to a professional and

seems the customers for these animals are most often young toughs who like to walk them around their neighborhoods to be “bad.” Same with Rottweilers.

There should be some way for animal control agencies to put in place a licensing fee for such animals that would take them out of the hands of irresponsible owners. Also, there should be countymandated discipline and handling classes as a prerequisite to owning such dogs. And the backyard pit bull factories should be closed down.

ethical standard. All grounds for being shown the door or outright dismissal in Augusta. Just ask Ken Kraemer, Bonnie Bragdon and Dave Dlugolenski. Anyone unwilling to toady to the “leadership” in Augusta or who conducts themselves like a ... ugh ... “servant to the taxpayers” is bound to step on the wrong toes. Brenda, you messed up girl!

Spirit! I’m shocked! How could you overlook “Mimmo’s Taste of Italy” in your “Metro Eats” issue? Are your taste buds dead?

— 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@metrospirit.com.

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Sorry, they were out of plaques ...

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How About a

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2003 Advanced Services Employee of the Year Mike Curtis received a brand new Nissan Frontier.

At the end of the lease, it’s all his! We thank Mike for his great attitude and hard work. In addition to the truck, Mike receives: $500 Cash $200 Wal-mart Gift Card 4 Day/3 Night Family Vacation 2 Extra Paid Vacation Days Family Photo Package from Fitz-Symms Custom Mat & Framing from The Frame Shoppe

Why was Mike voted Advanced Services Employee of the Year?

Here’s what some of his co-workers have to say: • • • • • • •

Always has a good attitude Cares about doing a good job every day Smiles at every turn Fun to work with Always does what is expected Is careful doing his work to do it right Fits under low houses

Congratulations also to Mike and his wife Michelle on the birth of their baby boy Grayson James!

Past Employees of the Year 2001 Darlene Tarvin 2002 Marion Johnson

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Opinion: Insider

Observations From The Marble Palace

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s 2003 winds down, it is apparent to even the casual observer that the city of Augusta is, still, as it has been for a time now, in need of quality leadership and effective management. As taxpayers witness the buffoonery on the Augusta commission and the missteps

by City Administrator George Kolb and company, the confidence level among those paying attention is falling rapidly.

If not for the fact that the people in charge impact dramatically on the daily lives of Augusta residents the drama called Augusta government could simply pass for bad theater. Unfortunately, the price of admission to this farce is ever-increasing.

Forget about the sorry state of the civic center and the airport, even though those areas of government are in dire need of a casting call. For the moment let’s focus on the marble palace, that esteemed granite monument to power, bureaucracy, and inefficiency. It is there where the drama is currently at a fevered pitch.

The frustration of watching and listening to the Augusta Commission conduct the people’s business is mind-boggling and butt-numbing. There is constant public bickering, delays in decision-making, decision reversals, and pettiness. While each commissioner must share some of the responsibility for the quagmire, Commissioner Marion Williams gets the award for the worst of show. His lack of understanding of many basic issues frustrates everyone. While he lacks the background or brains to deal with the complex issues that face the commission, he maintains an arrogant, demeaning approach to department heads, the city administrator, the city attorney, and

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anyone else with whom he gets attitude. It is disgusting and uncalled for.

His grandiose view of himself stands in sharp contrast to the public’s view of him. Even his supporters carp that he won’t listen to anybody about anything.

While Williams is not the only reason the commission appears dysfunctional, he has become a symbol of the low standards to which we hold those elected to city government.

City Administrator George Kolb still remains a question mark. Kolb is a bureaucrat to the core who has a slick enough presence but often doesn’t appear to have a clue about the details when asked for input during commission meetings. He also gets away with cat-napping during the meetings while former Mayor Larry Sconyers got busted every time he closed his eyes.

Ok, Sconyers slept a lot during meet-

ings but Kolb snoozes like a baby.

How come he never gets called on it?

Commission and staff complaints that Kolb doesn’t communicate effectively were illustrated this week when the release of the city budget was delayed because either (A) Kolb didn’t communicate to Clerk of Commission Lena Bonner or (B) Ms. Bonner didn’t notify commissioners. The Insider has no idea exactly what happened, but most bets are that Kolb goofed up in this he said-she said tale.

Kolb must also take responsibility for lousy communication about the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST). He took the lead on the issue way back in November 2002, way before anyone was prepared to answer the natural questions that would follow.

His premature statements about how Columbia County and South Carolina

would pitch in money to help build a new sports arena/civic center and equestrian facility created a firestorm of protests from officials in those two jurisdictions who hadn’t been informed of Kolb’s expectations or his plan to publicize their involvement. Kolb’s comments in The Augusta Chronicle in November 2002 tarnished the sales tax issue from the start. It reinforced the view that Kolb’s answer to any problem is to throw money at it and positioned him in some people’s minds as a mouthpiece for Chronicle Publisher Billy Morris who is pushing the equestrian facility. While Kolb’s up-front salesmanship of SPLOST could be viewed as leadership, more people saw it as misguided, i.e.,...shoot, ready, aim.

Kolb lacks focus; the commission is dysfunctional; the tax assessor’s office appears in shambles; Augusta’s human resources director was just suspended for five days and is appealing the decision; the budget presentation was delayed due to lack of attention to details; Public Works is a mess; morale is low among city employees; the upcoming budget will be tougher than ever; and City Attorney Jim Wall is leaving at the end of the year. If Wall is replaced by current commissioner Steve Shepard, the commission will lose its best member. Meanwhile, a lackluster election is set for November and city fathers want to get SPLOST passed as early in 2004 as possible.

Nothing to worry about. It’s just bidness as usual in Augusta government.

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

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The region’s best health care system is also one of the nation’s best.

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MCG is the only hospital in the region named to the 100 Top Hospitals®

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his week Augusta commissioners set out to resolve any confusion or misunderstandings regarding the city’s preferred site for the proposed 300,000square-foot judicial center.

They failed miserably.

By the end of the commission’s joint committee meeting on Oct. 13 to discuss the approved site along Telfair Street between Ninth and 10th streets, commissioners had resolved very little.

In fact, even more questions arose concerning both the location of the courthouse and its projected $74 million budget.

The entire debate over the approved location of the judicial center began last week when Augusta Commissioner Marion Williams stated that when the commission selected the primary location for the judicial center in August, then referred to as the “Telfair” site, he in no way intended for the courthouse to be built on Telfair Street.

“It’s been said many times that we are looking at Telfair Street to build this facility. That’s not true,” Williams told the commission. “The site I suggested was from Walker Street to Fenwick (Street), and from Ninth Street to 11th.”

The reason Williams objected to building on Telfair Street was because, if the commission approved using property along that street, the city would potentially have to relocate businesses such as C & C Automotive and a Gold Cross ambulance service station in that area.

Instead, Williams proposed the courthouse be built between Walker and Fenwick streets because that area consists of predominately vacant, rundown buildings.

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proposed,” Williams said on Oct. 7.

“Telfair Street never came out of my mouth.”

On Oct. 13, the Augusta Commission’s finance and engineering services committees decided to do just that.

Augusta Commissioner Bill Kuhlke, who is also the chairman of the city’s judicial center advisory committee on the project, told his colleagues that, according to the minutes of the Aug. 19 meeting, the commission formally voted that the primary location for the judicial site be the “Telfair Street” site and that the current municipal building on Greene Street would be the approved secondary site.

A secondary site was chosen for the project as a back-up plan if the Telfair Street site was deemed environmentally unsuitable for the judicial center.

Kuhlke explained that the motion passed 7-2-1 with commissioners Bobby Hankerson and Andy Cheek voting against the motion and Commissioner Richard Colclough abstaining.

The presentations made by Turner and Associates, the architects for the project, also included maps and diagrams showing Telfair Street as part of the proposed plan.

“Clearly, Telfair Street was on the map,” Kuhlke said.

In fact, during a special called meeting on July 24 with the Augusta Commission and several members of the local judicial system, Williams himself used the word “Telfair” Street to describe the proposed location.

According to the minutes of the July 24 meeting, Williams asked Kuhlke if he had shown the architect the location he proposed for the judicial site. continued on page 14

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continued from page 12 “Marion, we did – we went to Atlanta last week to sort of preview what was going to be presented today and (City Attorney) Jim Wall and I showed the site that you had shown to us,” Kuhlke replied.

This was the first time the Telfair site had been mentioned in a public meeting, so Williams introduced his idea to the members of the judicial system that were present.

“It’s from Walker over to Fenwick, and from Telfair over to Ninth Street,” Williams said on July 24. “There’s nothing in that area.”

So, “Telfair” actually did come out of Williams’ mouth when he initially proposed the area, but according to Williams, he simply referred to the site with the generic “Telfair” description because that was what other commissioners were using.

“They (the commissioners) were saying ‘Telfair Street site,’ and I was so excited about proposing this location and other people liking it that I may have referred to it that way too,” Williams said on Oct. 13. “But I did not intend for the property on Telfair Street to be used.

“I mean, why would we consider moving C & C if we don’t have to go that way? The block that I proposed is made up of abandoned properties that have been sitting there for years with beer cans all over it. Why can’t we just use that?”

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“I don’t think what we passed thus far is anything that we need to go back on at this point,” Bridges said. “I think it is still a general enough area that we can keep moving on with it, but can these guys (the architects) come back and we sit down with them and see what’s really intended?”

Hankerson said he didn’t understand why the commission would have to get an explanation from the architects.

“Wouldn’t they put it where we want them to put it?” Hankerson asked. “The architects will put it anywhere we want them to just as long as we don’t run into any environmental issues.”

Augusta Commissioner Willie Mays told Hankerson not to be so sure.

“These architects are very professional people,” Mays said. “But I had a problem with the attitude of this thing from where it jumped off at. It started off that it (the judicial center) was going to be on the river (on Reynolds Street). It was going to be there and wasn’t nobody going to move it.”

Mays said from the very beginning he felt that the architects completely discounted other locations such as Regency Mall, May Park and the current Greene Street location.

“Every other site that came up they were negative about it,” Mays said.

“And I’ve got a problem when I’m paying somebody and I got to vote for it and then I get somebody who is going to tell me where something is going to be. ... That was an attitude adjustment that had to be done.”

Both committees agreed the best thing

the commissioners could do is get Kuhlke to call the architects in Atlanta, explain to them the commission’s concerns and find out exactly where the architects suggest the judicial center be built on the proposed site.

Cheek also suggested the commission put a $50 million cap on the project’s budget to keep it from costing as much as a “trip to the moon.”

By this time, Kuhlke couldn’t help but comment on the commission’s remarks.

“Quite frankly in two months I don’t have to worry about this,” Kuhlke said, referring to the end of his commission’s term limit. “But I want y’all to know that last week we approved amendments to the contract with the architect.

We approved new work authorizations and if you didn’t read your back-up, I can’t help you, but we approved a budget of $74 million for the judicial center.”

Cheek was clearly shocked.

“Now, if we are going to change everything on here, we might as well quit,” Kuhlke continued. “When this PowerPoint presentation was made (in August), the budget was $74 million.

We are still at $74 million. If the commission is not going to approve what they are saying it’s going to cost, we can’t build it.

“All I’m saying is, I understand the confusion with the site location, but it’s kind of tough when you are working on this thing and we approved something at one meeting and now we are talking about not approving it as we go down the road. Hell, I’m wasting my time and y’all are too.”

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The Return of Moses

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“I don’t think anyone can say that we are better off today than we were four years ago when I was in office.”

– former Augusta Commissioner Moses Todd

W

hile Augusta’s Moses Todd is no Biblical prophet and has never parted the Red Sea, he is a man whose opinion many in this town have come to admire and trust.

During his six years as an Augusta commissioner, Todd was never afraid to publicly expose political corruption and dishonesty within the local government.

“I think there is a big difference in being lied to and being misinformed,” Todd would frequently say about his colleagues during his 1998 campaign for mayor of Augusta. “I think many county officials know the truth and I think they refuse to tell it.”

For Todd, it was all about telling the public the truth – no matter how long it took.

Former Augusta Mayor Larry Sconyers often complained that the Augusta Commission’s meetings lasted three times

longer than necessary, due mainly to Todd’s lengthy comments and inquiries.

But for the past five years, Augusta has been without Todd’s prodding questions and endless commentary.

After resigning from his District 4 commission seat and receiving only 7.4 percent of the vote in the 1998 mayoral election, Todd – the man once known for leading the fight to put drug dealers in his Barton Chapel neighborhood behind bars – left his home in Augusta.

For those accustomed to hearing Todd’s no-holds-barred political views on Augusta, his sudden departure left a huge hole in the local government that has yet to be filled.

It wasn’t until after the tragedies of Sept.

11 that many in Augusta learned Todd’s whereabouts.

“On the morning of Sept. 11, I was at the Tosco Oil refinery which is the old Exxon refinery in Linden, New Jersey,” Todd

said, sitting in the offices of the Metro Spirit. “We were up at an elevation of 245 feet and I noticed there was some smoke coming from the World Trade Center.”

Todd, a professional pipe-fitter, said he immediately knew something was wrong.

“The first thing I thought was that the World Trade Center had been bombed again,” Todd said. “But soon after, I learned that the two planes had hit the towers and I knew it was terrorism. Then, I heard that the Pentagon had been hit and there was no doubt in my mind what was going on.”

Todd said he and his co-workers quickly exited the job because they were told there were other commercial planes that were missing and the New Jersey oil refinery that they were working on was within those planes’ flight paths.

“So, I left the job immediately and went back to my New Jersey apartment and watched everything unravel on the television set,” Todd said. “It was a feeling I can’t describe.”

The only other experience that closely compares to that day, Todd said, was when the United States issued a worldwide armed forces alert in October 1972 when he was serving in the Vietnam War. “Air raids started going off everywhere,” Todd said. “And we were manning the perimeters in a war zone. That was something comparable to Sept. 11 for me.

But on Sept. 11, I had no weapons and no way to fight back. I felt helpless and totally ticked off.”

So, Todd called home.

And the following day, The Augusta Chronicle featured his experience on the oil refinery in a story about locals with ties to the Sept. 11 tragedy.

That was the first time many Augustans had heard from Todd since he’d left Augusta. Now, more than two years after

Sept. 2001, Todd has again resurfaced, but this time he’s back in Augusta to help a friend.

On Oct. 9, Todd flew into Augusta from a job he’s currently working on in Philadelphia to be the keynote speaker for former Augusta Commissioner Freddie Handy’s campaign fundraiser.

Handy, who served as a commissioner with Todd following Augusta’s consolidation in 1995, is running to reclaim his District 2 seat from Augusta Commissioner Marion Williams, who defeated Handy in the 2000 local election.

“I’m back here in Augusta trying to get support for former Commissioner Handy,” Todd said. “But before I tell you why, I want to give full disclosure to the public.

Freddie Handy is a personal and political friend of mine.”

Since accepting pipe-fitter jobs all across the country in states like Michigan, Alaska, Texas and Wisconsin, Todd has not only gained muscle, but he’s also lost some of his once extremely thick Southern accent.

However, it was clear he hadn’t lost his strong desire to be honest with the public.

“Even though Commissioner Handy is a friend of mine, I can tell you, if he brought one thing to the table in as far as the government that I served on, it was a willingness to work with everybody,” Todd said. “Now, I’m not here to talk down Rev. Williams. I think he is a decent enough individual, personally. But I’m here to talk up Freddie Handy and the methodology of working with people.”

And currently, Todd said, the Augusta commissioners are allowing their differences to derail the government.

“If you look at any playground, the children play together,” Todd said. “Only a very selfish child may take his toys and play with them and not want to share with continued on page 18

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continued from page 17 anyone else. In my opinion, you have a much better environment when folks play together and not get individualized.

“And I think the problem with the commission is we have so many individuals that don’t have the people skills to give them the ability to work well with others, to debate, to compromise and to move government forward.”

Todd believes some commissioners are acting negligently by refusing to ever compromise with other commissioners.

“You can have a lively debate and articulate your position, but sometimes you may need to support the issue for the good of the community even though you argued against it,” he said.

But Todd said many of the current commissioners who have been elected since he left Augusta in 1998 don’t seem to want an efficient government.

“I don’t think anyone can say that we are better off today than we were four years ago when I was in office,” Todd said, adding that he has tried to keep up with local political events via the Internet. “I must say, I’m saddened to report that I’m disappointed in what I’ve seen occur over the past few years. Very disappointed.”

Particularly when it comes to the racial tensions that appear to play a major role on the commission, Todd said.

“I think what disappoints me more than any other issue is the bickering and the racial divide on a commission that has stalemated this government,” Todd said.

“When we crafted the consolidated government, those folks responsible for writing the bill didn’t want bickering because that was a big problem between the old city and the old county.”

Therefore, the architects of the consolidated government tried to remove topics of contention, Todd said.

“They thought they would take out the political bickering by doing away with the parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, and holding nonpartisan elections,” Todd said. “That should have ended that tug of war. And for the racial side of it, they thought that they would at least mitigate that by having minority parity.”

“But we still have all this bickering,” Todd added. “And instead of it being political or because of differences in philosophy, it seems to me it’s racial and that we can ill-afford to have. If we are going to be a progressive community, we’ve got to move on.”

Race or geographical differences

shouldn’t play into commissioners making decisions for all of Augusta, Todd said.

“Back when I served, there were individuals who were broad-minded enough to work together, like commissioners Jerry Brigham, Freddie Lee Handy and Bill Kuhlke,” Todd said. “But today it appears the decisions are already made before the commission meetings even start. And it’s always been my belief that if a decision is already made going into a meeting, regardless of whether it was made at the Augusta Country Club or in Augusta’s inner city, there is no room for wiggling and you can easily paint yourself into a corner.”

When asked how Augusta would be different today if he had been elected mayor in 1998, Todd said, it’s difficult to say with the current climate on the commission.

“I think if I was the mayor of AugustaRichmond County I would be frustrated as hell by now,” Todd said, laughing. “The mayor’s role on major issues in this community is to work in the best interest of Augusta-Richmond County. The entire community. Now, apparently, Mayor (Bob) Young has been somewhat ineffective there.

“Now, he’s been a good PR man because he’s very articulate and he’s got good communication skills, but where I see a problem is his inability to forge a coalition of commissioners who are willing to work with him on major issues to move Augusta forward.”

That inability, compounded with the negative reports released by the special grand jury, has caused many citizens to lose faith in the local government, Todd said.

“I pretty much knew when I first took office that the government had done a lot of things unethical, but not necessarily illegal,” Todd said, referring to the grand jury’s findings. “But if I was mayor today, I think Augusta would be different in that the citizens would certainly know what was going on downtown. I would work hard to make things more ethical and if I couldn’t get the commission to work with me, then certainly I would expose everything that was happening and the reasons that they were happening.

“And I would call on the voting public to support me and help me put the pressure on them.”

What many politicians will never understand, Todd said, is that that the public is your friend and voters aren’t shy about

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“Now that I’m back in town, I have to admit, I’m not impressed,” Todd said. “I like the fact that there is a Continental flight from Newark to Augusta. That’s good. And I understand we have a new GBI crime center in Augusta. That’s good too, but I would be more impressed if we had grown in population let’s say 10 percent, since I left, or our new jobs had grown 10 percent.

“I would be impressed if we had cut taxes 10 percent or I would be impressed if we had improved services 10 percent without any additional revenue demands, but none of that has happened. So, I guess I’m not impressed.”

Todd said it’s discouraging to see the commission still debating topics like where to build the judicial site, a discussion he had as a commissioner five years ago.

He also was shocked to hear that Commissioner Steve Shepard, one of the more popular commissioners, has decided to seek the job of outgoing city attorney Jim Wall, which if approved, would force him to resign from his District 3 commis-

sion seat.

“I would hope that Commissioner Shepard is not really serious about it,” Todd said. “Because everyone that I’ve talked to basically tells me the same thing: He’s a good commissioner and I think this would be a negative for him. So, I would advise him as a friend and as his former colleague to rethink it.”

However, when it comes to Todd’s own political future in Augusta, those answers aren’t quite as clear.

“Certainly when you hear the government is not working, it makes you wish you were here to jump-start it,” Todd said.

“And I miss the citizens in AugustaRichmond County because they are the greatest citizens in the world, but the private sector is too good to me right now to come back.

“So, my answer to all of my friends and supporters here that want to know when I’m coming back is, I will come back when we do the topping-out party on the World Trade Center. But until then, I would hope that on election day on Nov. 4, that the citizens in Augusta-Richmond County take back their government and they put individuals in office that will make this government work.”

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F

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For him, the best buy at Best Buy was going to be the 36-inch, HighDefinition Television-ready, flat-tube Sony Wega for $1,708.99.

“I mean, that used to be about $2,500 or so,” said Rodriguez, of Augusta. “I’d have that just to play video games. You know, I might hook up a DVD player to it or whatever.”

But, around the other side of a dividing wall inside the store were the big boys: HDTV-ready projection TVs. Flat screen, liquid crystal display TVs. And the mother of all so-real-and-three-dimensional-you’d-think-youcould-step-into-the-scene TVs, the plasma screens.

As far as Rodriguez was concerned, that area was off-limits.

“If you go over like $3,000, that’s crazy; that’s ridiculous,” Rodriguez said. “That’s what I’d get if I hit the lottery. That’s why I say, ‘Do you want a motorcycle, or do you want a TV?’” As logical as that rationale sounds, it seems more and more people are choosing the latter, and a couple of grand is just the stepping-off point at which the pursuit of the perfect picture begins.

The most expensive TV inside Best Buy that day?

A 50-inch, wide-screen, high-definition, plasma Pioneer for a cool 10 grand (OK, $9,999.99) before the $1,000 rebate.

Add to such prices a litany of acronyms, numbers and phrases that would confuse even the most astute technophile, and one might ask, when did buying a TV set get so complicated?

Much of the boob-tube technology growing by leaps and bounds owes itself to the push toward digital TV. By 2006, the Federal Communications Commission expects all television broadcasters to give up their analog signals and switch to more efficient digital signal, or DTV, transmissions.

Although scholars and experts think the FCC’s deadline is unrealistic, sooner or later, those old diehards with the rabbit ears still perched atop their sets

will either have to give in to the digital age, or do without TV. Another thing that has helped along this wave of bigger, clearer TV sets is the technological carrot of High-Definition Television, or HDTV — television so sharp and full of depth it takes on a three-dimensional appearance.

But before delving into this condensed primer on HDTV and recent advancements in TV sets, there are a few important points to cover.

For starters, all HDTV sets are DTV sets, but not all DTV sets are HDTV sets.

The main thing setting the two apart is the number of resolution lines on the screen.

In order for a TV to be truly classified as HDTV, it must have either 1,080 interlaced, horizontal lines

(written as 1080i) or 720 progressive-scanned, horizontal lines (or 720p) of resolution display.

Interlaced and progressive refer to the methods by which lines are displayed on the screen. Basically, an interlaced scan TV delivers a picture by scanning the resolution lines in two phases — half in one sweep and the other half in a second — so that one complete frame is shown 30 times per second.

With progressive scan sets, the whole image is scanned 60 times a second.

The main advantage most experts ascribe to a progressive scan set is that it tends to show fewer visual “artifacts,” or blurred trails during movement.

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Well read on.

The type of set is not the only thing that determines if you will receive true HDTV content. The signal it is receiving — whether it be cable, an over-the-air transmission, or satellite — must also be either 1080i or 720p. In other words, if a broadcaster is sending out a 480p signal, even though you have a high-definition set, you will not receive a true HDTV image.

That doesn’t, however, mean that a 480p set receiving a 480p signal doesn’t give a far superior picture to analog sets and signals.

Most experts agree that digital signals provide clearer pictures with virtually no signal disruption, regardless of whether they are high-definition.

The More Information, the Better What you’ve read so far is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of knowledge the typical consumer must have before heading out to shop for a set.

Considering the overwhelming abundance of information on the Web (a search for “HDTV” on Google returned about 4.7 million results), it’s no wonder there’s some confusion over the topic.

“One of the problems for the consumer has been to try and understand what exactly are these products and services that are being offered and how do you put together a system that will produce the types of results you’re looking for when you lay out that kind of dough,” said Indiana University political science Professor Jeffrey Hart, whose book, “Technology, Television and Competition,” is due out from Cambridge University Press by year’s end.

“I think consumers should be told to be cautious about the claims that they hear at the TV store — that when they’re being sold an HDTV set, that it really is an HDTV set and it has all that is necessary.”

For instance, Hart said, many people don’t realize that most HDTV sets require that a special digital decoder be purchased in order to receive a signal. These decoders or tuners, as they are sometimes called, usually cost about $400. They can also sometimes be rented or purchased from satellite or cable companies. Some HDTVready sets have decoders built in.

Locally, Comcast, which offers an HDTV signal, rents its digital, set-top decoder boxes for $5 a month, a company representative said.

“They (consumers) need to find out exactly what the whole package will cost them,” Hart said. “And maybe they’ll be happy with this 480 progressive (scan) digital TV, but they need to know to watch out for (misleading statements). And the industry is very aware of that and they’re trying to deal with it, but it’s always a difficult thing because there’s so many millions of people involved in it (purchasing TVs).”

Unfortunately, Hart said, people who currently use their televisions the most may be the least prepared when entering the marketplace to look for a new set.

“Basically, folks who only watch TV and don’t do the other kinds of stuff that people do nowadays to keep themselves informed as consumers are going to have problems,” Hart said. “They can be ripped off easily.

“You have to just ask a lot of questions.”

Michel Dupagne agrees.

Dupagne, an associate professor of broadcasting and broadcast journalism at the University of Miami, co-authored HighDefinition Television: A Global Perspective

(Iowa State University Press, 1997).

He encourages consumers to look around a lot before they buy.

Dupagne wasn’t above taking his own advice when he recently purchased his Samsung, 46-inch plasma television.

“I mean, I’ve been trying to follow this (technology) since I was a graduate student and now I’m tenured faculty so, it’s been since 1987, and there are some aspects about it over which I’m thoroughly confused,” Dupagne said. “So you can imagine how confused a regular consumer can be.

“Given all my background, I spent a lot of time checking different Best Buys, Sears, really checking all the features, downloading the manuals. I had the manual before I got the actual set, looking at individual features, because that can be really tricky. There are some connectors that really need to be on a DTV set for the future and first-generation DTV sets do not have those connectors.”

At the very minimum, Dupagne recommends a newly purchased DTV set have three connectors: one for a cable coaxial or jack, one for an RCA connector and a third for Digital Visual Interface/High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (DVI-HDCP) devices.

Having those three connectors, Dupagne said, will provide obsolescence insurance against new technology looming on the horizon.

Dupagne decided not to opt for an HDTV set, though he said he’s content with his recent purchase, which he jokes was made more for his wife than him.

He settled on the plasma screen because it offered a high-quality picture for a relatively low price. Dupagne paid about $3,000 for the set, he said.

Dupagne said the same type of set, HDTVready, would have run him twice that price, not factoring in the added costs associated with HDTV. “Cable operators now have HD(TV) settop boxes, but again, you have to rent them,” Dupagne said. “It’s costly. And you have, of course, to pay for the programming. So, cost-wise, it can be a very expensive proposition even if you decide to buy a relatively cheap DTV set — relative in the sense that prices have declined by over 50 percent since 1998, which is not bad.”

Is It Worth It? Sill, some have questioned this new world in which a television set for $3,000 can be considered a bargain and even professors well-versed on the subject have to doublecheck their reference manuals before heading out to shop.

“It used to be, people would just come in and buy a TV,” said Jonathon Waid, a salesperson in the local Best Buy’s television department. “Now, I turn right around and ask them, ‘You want plasma? Flat-screen?

A bubble tube?’ It’s getting crazy. They (manufacturers) just keep updating themselves.”

Meanwhile, the soon-to-be passe, cathode ray tube analog sets are going for bargainbasement prices.

A recent circular for Circuit City advertised a 27-inch, flat-screen, Sony stereo TV for $449.

Couldn’t one be satisfied with such a set?

That depends on whom you ask.

John Ray, general manager of local station WRDW-TV News12, said executives there were so convinced that viewers would demand higher quality from their TVs that

“Basically, folks who only watch TV and don’t do the other kinds of stuff that people do nowadays to keep themselves informed as consumers, are going to have problems.

They can be ripped off easily.”

— Jeffrey Hart, author of the soon-to-bereleased book, “Technology, Television and Competition,” through Cambridge University Press.

they decided to literally rip the station apart to be able to provide it.

News12 was the first station in Augusta to begin offering HDTV, 1080i, broadcasts.

Other local stations have begun transmitting digital signals, though not all of them in high-definition, Ray said.

“We made the decision in conjunction with CBS’ decision to air the Masters in HDTV in the year 2000,” Ray said. “I think it was the first sporting event that had been produced in HDTV and we just felt, if CBS was going to air the Masters in high definition, then we needed to show that to our viewers and make the conversion. I mean, it was just a matter of time before we had to go and make it anyhow.”

Ray said the upgrade work to enable the transmission of both digital and HDTV signals cost the station about $4.5 million.

“Everything was new. We had to completely upgrade our tower to be able to handle a second antenna, because we’re actually broadcasting over two different channels — channel 31, which is our digital channel, and then our regular channel 12,” Ray said. “So we had to add a transmitter and then we basically, and it was quite a feat, we ripped the television station apart — our master control facilities, our technical core — and that was rebuilt from the ground up. So, everything that was involved in broadcasting a picture was new, as of 2000.”

But Ray said it didn’t take long for station

staff to see it all was worth it.

“When we first showed it for the Masters it was incredible,” Ray said. “The problem with regular television, when you’re watching a golf tournament ... there are some dramatic elevation changes at Augusta National, which you cannot see in a regular, two-dimensional broadcast. But with HDTV, you can really start getting a sense of the elevation changes, how the greens roll, and the elevations on the greens.

And it was very dramatic. Plus, I mean, you can see a logo on a golf ball.”

Hart, of Indiana University, said that people who experience true HDTV viewing will typically never again settle for anything less.

“People who get real, high-definition images on their TV set, whether it’s canned or over the air, they really love it,” Hart said.

“And it’s kind of a knock-out experience and you will not want anything else, if you can afford it.”

Smarting Up a Dumb Medium Hart thinks the question of who can afford it will become more pressing in the near future when the FCC decides it’s time to shut off analog signals.

Whether that happens in 2006, or much later, Hart thinks a public interest debate will arise with regard to the move.

After all, despite the often-debatable content on TV nowadays, the medium is continued on page 24

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still an important information source for many, whether it be local news, weather bulletins or information on a local political candidate.

“Increasingly, you will find that the poorest people will not be able to afford the cable service, or the satellite, or the fancy new set,” Hart said. “And so, politically, it’s going to be very difficult to shut off their over-the-air, NTSC (National Television Standards Committee, otherwise known as analog) service. It’ll happen. It may not happen in 2006, but it will happen. Now there might be some type of market solution to that, where somebody understands that and finds an opportunity to sell over-the-air TV services to those people, but I don’t know.”

Dupagne thinks the FCC’s move toward digital signals — motivated by the desire for efficiency, not to mention the added revenue the auctioning off of analog bandwidths for other uses will bring the governmental agency — may be delayed long enough for DTV and HDTV sets to become more affordable.

Then again, the consumer market may be the real determining factor in the FCC’s decision, Dupagne suggests.

Even though groups like the Consumer Electronics Association project sales of 10 million DTV sets annually by 2006, Dupagne said it would take some time for all of the estimated 100 million-plus TV households to be equipped to receive DTV signals.

“Personally, I don’t think it will happen.

The schedule of conversion is just too tight,” Dupagne said. “You have about 5

million to 6 million of DTV sets in circulation. Right now we have about 6 or 7 percent of television homes that have a DTV set. That doesn’t mean that they have a decoder, by the way. Very few have a decoder.”

In other words, don’t necessarily consider junking your analog set just yet.

Potentially making DTV sets an even harder sell, Dupagne said, is research that suggests the typical viewer isn’t all that dissatisfied with his or her analog set.

“Actually there are several surveys, including some research I did in another country, that suggest that most people are happy with the quality of the image on their television sets,” Dupagne said. “And that may be a little bit of a problem, especially if the price of the DTV set is steep.”

Hart, for one, already has his mind made up.

Ironically, after devoting so much time to researching and writing a book on these high-tech televisions, Hart said he’s not buying one anytime soon.

“I might buy one of those LCD (liquid crystal display) ones eventually when they get bigger and cheaper, but I don’t know. I don’t watch TV that much,” Hart said. “I always have a certain amount of techno-lust when I go into these stores ... but TV is kind of low down on my priority list.

“That’s not true for most consumers. I mean, people just watch a ton of TV, let’s face it, and we’ve become a less literate society. One of the ironies of all of this is, here you’re promoting more people watching this dumb material. Unless they make it more intelligent, I’m just not going to watch it.”

“It used to be people would just come in and buy a TV. Now, I turn right around and ask them, ‘You want plasma? Flat-screen?

A bubble tube?’ It’s getting crazy. They (manufacturers) just keep updating themselves.”

— Jonathon Waid, a salesperson in the local Best Buy’s television department.

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bout three years ago, an arrogant, young chef from New York City wrote “Kitchen Confidential,” a book that was part memoir, part expose. In it, Anthony Bourdain horrified the restaurant-going public with tales of stomach-churning practices, from sexual escapades in kitchen storage areas to unsafe foodhandling practices.

Bourdain seems to want us to believe that these assertions are true throughout the industry. But are they? Not according to Craig Calvert, chef/owner of Calvert’s; Donn Du Teau, chef/owner of Le Café Du Teau; and Ulrich Zimmerman, chef/president of UB’s German Cuisine.

Bourdain’s Warning: Chances are, the kitchen staff is made up of drug users and misfits who are incapable of any other type of work.

Calvert: That’s absolutely not correct. I mean we’ve had guys that have come through, that have worked with me, that now own restaurants. They came through because they like it; they like the business.

Du Teau: Well, as long as I’ve been in this business, I’ve seen problems with people who are drug abusers. I don’t fall into that category, of course. However, the bottom line is that they have to have a certain capability to perform their duties. No doubt that on certain days, they’re not at their peak performance.

Bourdain’s Warning: Never order fish on Monday because, by then, it’s four or five days old and the restaurant is trying to get rid of food that’s past its prime before using fresh fish from a new shipment.

Calvert: We order every day. We get fresh fish on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and sometimes on Saturday. I don’t know how others work, but if I don’t like it, I just get rid of it.

Du Teau: He’s making a generalization that’s not really true. The fact of the matter is that it comes down to who’s handling the product and how it’s stored. I pack all of my seafood on ice and if I ever have any doubt, I cook it and eat it myself. If I’m not happy with the product, I’m not going to serve it to my customers.

Bourdain’s Warning: Never order mussels in a restaurant because they are rarely handled or stored properly and are not picked through before serving to remove the bad ones.

Calvert: I tell you what. I don’t serve mussels for that reason. I don’t know what others do, but I don’t like to serve mussels.

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that it should be prepared, but you have to be flexible. A normal chef knows that.

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Bourdain’s Warning: Kitchen workers cut themselves a lot, and probably don’t clean up after themselves properly.

Calvert: I hardly ever see that here. I mean, I can’t remember the last time somebody nicked themselves. That would be really careless.

Du Teau: Maybe he’s hiring drunk people off the street. I don’t know. The truth is, if you keep your knives sharp and know how to use them, you’re not going to cut yourself very often.

Zimmerman: If someone cuts himself in a kitchen he cleans up everything. If it’s not too bad, he has to put alcohol on it and a glove so that nothing gets into the food. Of course, the area where he works should be cleaned with bleach. If it’s too bad, he has to leave and go to the doctor.

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Donn Du Teau, chef/owner of Le Café Du Teau Du Teau: There again, I think it depends on the restaurant and the chef. It all goes back to the condition of the product when it arrives and how it’s handled. If you serve a bad product, all you’re going to do is ruin your business.

Zimmerman: It doesn’t matter if it’s mussels or seafood. A restaurant has to keep it as cold as they can and wash them very well before preparing.

Calvert: We dump ours and all the waiters know that. Even if (the customers) don’t touch it, it goes straight in the trash. I can’t talk for anyone else, I just know that we throw it away.

Zimmerman: If the chef doesn’t have control over his kitchen, it’s probably going to happen. If he has control, he’s going to tell the staff not to do that. I know things like that happen.

Bourdain’s Warning: Hollandaise sauce is a no-no for several reasons. First of all, it’s prepared in large quantities and must be maintained at a temperature that is neither too hot nor too cold, the same temperature that is a breeding ground for bacteria. Secondly, it’s made from leftover table butter, which has been heated, clarified and strained to remove breadcrumbs and cigarette ashes.

Calvert: We use fresh butter. We make it at five o’clock and we throw out whatever. I can’t imagine that. We make it fresh, and we make it fresh again later in the evening. We make small quantities, serve it up, and it takes me five minutes, maximum, to make a hollandaise.

Du Teau: That’s outlandish. I use eggemulsified sauces and I don’t fly with that one at all. I use vinegar and cayenne pepper in my hollandaise, and garlic – which is an antiseptic in its own right – and limes in my Caesar salad dressing.

Salmonella ain’t going to exist in it.

Zimmerman: Geez … what restaurant did he work in?

Bourdain’s Warning: Don’t order steaks well done or fish cooked-through or you’ll get the worst piece of meat in the kitchen. “Saving for well done” is a popular way for restaurants to make use of a bad cut of meat on someone who obviously doesn’t appreciate food, rather than having to throw it out.

Calvert: We use all the same grade tenderloin for all steaks, and we stay on top of the fish. And there aren’t that many people, honestly, who order fish cooked through. And the tenderloin … it’s all the same product.

Du Teau: You’re more likely to get a center-cut steak if you order it medium rare or rare. There’s not doubt about it.

Like a New York Strip has a nerve ending that runs through it. The first and second cut, yeah, someone might be able to use on a well-done. And if someone orders it medium well or well, they’re not going to notice because the high temperature is going to break that nerve ending down.

Zimmerman: Good chefs should understand that some customers, like pregnant women, shouldn’t eat fish medium rare or rare. It may hurt the chef’s feelings because he has to prepare food in a way

Bourdain’s Warning: The bread served to restaurant patrons is often recycled from other tables.

Bourdain’s Warning: Most commercially available chickens are “loaded with salmonella” and, when handled in a restaurant situation, there is a strong likelihood of cross-contamination.

Calvert: We school everybody that, when raw products are handled on a cutting board, they’re immediately soaked in bleach so there won’t be any cross-contamination.

Du Teau: Probably the most dangerous thing we deal with is chicken and, there again, it depends on who’s working with the product. I can see a problem with that if you have people in the kitchen who don’t know what they’re doing.

Zimmerman: You just have to fix it the right way and store it the right way. If

something is not fresh and not handled the right way, people can get sick. That’s normal. But it shouldn’t happen in a good restaurant.

Bourdain’s Warning: It doesn’t matter what the menu description says, butter is the first and last ingredient in the pan.

Calvert: If (the customers) don’t want butter, they’re not going to get it. We’ve got a number of customers who don’t want butter on vegetables or fish and what we do is prepare it in a Teflon pan.

Du Teau: Not necessarily. I use a lot of olive oil, which is not to say that I don’t finish a dish off with butter, but that’s not necessarily true all the time. Some chefs are using more broths, for instance.

THE VERDICT

Now that they’ve heard the warnings, what do our chefs think about Bourdain and his “rules”? Some, like Calvert, think the contents of the book were a sensationalistic ploy to sell more copies. “He’s interesting. I just think he wanted to make it sensational so it would sell books.”

Others see him as misguided. “I can see where’s he’s coming from with it, but these are not universal truths and he can’t say that they are,” Du Teau said.

Zimmerman’s opinion, however, was a little harsher.

“In my opinion, he shouldn’t be in a restaurant,” Zimmerman said. “He shouldn’t be allowed to work in a restaurant. He could be right – there could be some restaurants like that, but they should be shut down. Nobody deserves a dirty kitchen and dirty food. Nobody.”

Ulrich Zimmerman, chef/president of UB’s German Cuisine

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ust in time for Halloween, appropriately enough, comes Bloodfest X. Exactly one week before All Hallows Eve, on Oct. 24, new venue The Plus Eight opens its doors at 6 p.m. with a lineup sure to please even the toughest music critic.

We asked The Sixth Hour’s Chuck Merritt about the other bands his act will share the stage with during Bloodfest X. “There are a lot of great groups from here and we can’t have them all, but we have a pretty good selection,” he said. “Cycle, these guys have been around for years and they have their own sound. They’re just awesome, and I’m familiar with their music, because they’ve been heavy hitters. It’s the same thing with Thicker Than Blood. They used to be Reprisal and they were good then, and they’re better now. They’ve been at it for years, and it must take time for people to get so good, time and work. Of course, Solemn has been just another group of hometown heroes. I’m familiar with just about all of these guys. Estrela is more of a newer band, kind of like The Sixth Hour.

And, of course, there’s a special guest that I can’t say anything about, because I don’t want to give all of our secrets away.”

In addition to those groups, Merritt said, Bloodfest X includes a performance by newcomers 88 Miles Per Hour.

Though The Sixth Hour hasn’t been together as long as bands like some of its Bloodfest X colleagues, Merritt said that, so far, The Sixth Hour is enjoying hometown success.

“Thicker Than Blood and Cycle and especially Solemn, these bands have all been around in Augusta performing for years and years and years. The Sixth Hour, compared to them, is just up-and-coming,” said Merritt.

“We’re up-and-coming, so it’s cool to be added to this thing with the veterans.”

The Sixth Hour was born when members of Augusta favorites SPYT and Youth at Risk combined to form a local supergroup of sorts.

“We started out, and it was sort of, let’s see how this is going to work out, and it was some guys from SPYT and myself and Ryan from Youth at Risk,” Merritt said. “Ryan plays the bass and then there’s Adam Tolar on the drums, from SPYT. They had played with Matt Lawhorne and Nick Laws before.”

On top of that five-man lineup is the band’s secret weapon. A second, female vocalist,

The Sixth Hour Lindsay Kircher. It’s a departure from the norm that makes The Sixth Hour’s sound unique – and appealing to a wider audience.

“Just adding her voice on top of it, this music, is something this town needs more of, some female singers that make great music,” Merritt said. “We’ve got a few that come through. They’re great, but they’re not in this vein. And (Kircher’s) got some fresh new talent to bring to the forefront. It’s just fantastic. … Though we’ve all been in old bands before, she’s bringing something new to the table.”

With the following The Sixth Hour is gaining throughout Augusta and beyond, it should come as no surprise that the band is packing venues like Crossroads with responsive fans.

“We have been able to, with hard work, maintain good crowds at our show and maintain our success of keeping people’s interest

and making new material,” Merritt said.

“Maybe a little bit of that new has worked itself out. We have been doing some shows in Augusta and we’ve been playing out of town as well. Things have been coming together really fantastic for us.

“That’s a great thing about Augusta music as well – it really seems like, just from back when I started with Youth at Risk, there’s so many more bands and more people that support (local music). Things have just exponentially grown. It’s getting bigger and better.”

Merritt urges fans – and potential fans – to head out to Bloodfest X and support local musicians.

“It’s great to be part of a show that’s been so awesome,” he said. “It’s a privilege, and we’re looking forward to making something fantastic happen, having a great show, and bringing

the house down. We just want everybody who would to come see, come out there and be with us and see a great concert and support some local music – hometown heroes and the new blood.”

You’ll find Cycle, Thicker Than Blood, Estrela, 88 Miles Per Hour, Solemn and The Sixth Hour, as well as that elusive mystery guest, at The Plus Eight, located on the corner of Eighth and Ellis streets in downtown Augusta. If you can find your way to the Hangnail Gallery and the Capri Cinema, you’ll be able to spot The Plus Eight – it’s just across the street. Admission is $6.

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Auditions

“THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER” will be presented by the Augusta Players Children’s Wing the first weekend in December. Auditions will be held Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-noon, and Oct. 20, 6 p.m., at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 3045 Deans Bridge Road. Roles available for children ages 6-18; audition material will be provided.

Call 826-4707 for information.

SWEET ADELINES HARMONY RIVER CHORUS 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.

Education

FIGURE PAINTING WORKSHOP led by Virginia Derryberry Oct. 25 at the Morris Museum of Ar t.

724-7501.

EMBROIDERY DEMO AND WORKSHOP Oct. 22, 6-7:30 p.m., at the Friedman Branch Librar y.

Registration required. 736-6244.

ISRAELI DANCE WORKSHOP at the Augusta Jewish Community Center Sunday af ternoons, 4-5 p.m. Open to teens and adults; no experience or par tners are necessary. Cost is $2 per session, with the first session free. For information or to schedule a pre-class beginner/refresher session, contact Jackie Cohen, 738-9016.

ART CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS are of fered yearround 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 of fers educational tours; for information, contact the education director at the above telephone number.

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

Call 731-0008 for details.

Exhibitions

PIECEFUL HEARTS QUILT SHOW Oct. 17-18 at the Nor th Augusta Activities Center. Admission is $4 for adults and free for children under 3. For information, contact Shawn Furgurson at 228-4944.

WORKS BY DICK DUNLAP will be on display at the Dunlap Studio and Gallery throughout October. 722-7333.

DIANA BIDULESCU exhibits at Le Café du Teau through October. Call 733-3505.

THE P.E.A.C.E. SHOW will be on display at the Metro

Cof feehouse through October. For information, visit www.billysworld.net or call (803) 663-9397.

JANICE WILIAMS WHITING AND BARRY MERRITT exhibit at the Mary Pauline Gallery Oct. 17-Nov. 26.

Cock tail reception 5-9 p.m. Oct. 17. 724-9542.

“PRESIDENT TAFT’S AUGUSTA CONNECTION” will be on exhibit at ASU’s Reese Library through Oct. 27. Call 737-1444 for details.

POLISH ART SYMPOSIUM Oct. 18, 8 p.m. at USCAiken’s Etherredge Center. Call (803) 641-3305 for additional information.

“THE RED CROSS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE” will be at the Aiken County Historical Museum through Oct. 31. For more information, call (803) 642-2015.

WORKS BY PRISCILLA HOLLINGSWORTH will be on exhibit at MCG’s Rober t B. Greenblat t Library through Dec. 2. For more information, e-mail Lisa Westrick at lwestrick@mcg.edu.

PORTR AITS BY KATRINA HINTZE will be on display at the Gibbs Library during October. 863-1946.

“WARE’S FOLLY: AN ARCHITECTUR AL PERSPECTIVE” will be up in the First-Floor Gallery at Ware’s Folly through Oct. 24. Call 722-5495 for information.

ROBERTO BOCCI exhibits at Augusta State University’s Fine Ar ts Center through Oct. 30. Call 737-1444 for info.

TWO SHOWS BY JIM BODEN, “1+1<>2” and “The Sublimity of Flesh” will be up at the Rabold Gallery in Aiken through Nov. 15. The gallery also hosts ongoing exhibits by 20 dif ferent ar tists. For information, call (803) 641-4405 or e-mail raboldgallery@bellsouth.net.

AT USC-AIKEN’S ETHERREDGE CENTER GALLERIES: the Aiken Ar tist Guild exhibits in the Upper Gallery through Oct. 29; Polish Ar t Poster Exhibit will be in the Lower Gallery through Nov. 2. Call (803) 641-3305 for information.

“A SENSE OF PLACE: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE NEW SOUTH” JURIED FINE ART EXHIBITION in the main gallery at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t through Oct. 24. Call 722-5495 for info.

“A CENTURY OF PROGRESS: 20TH CENTURY PAINTING IN TENNESSEE” will be at the Morris Museum of Ar t through Nov. 9. For more information, call 724-7501.

“THE NATIONAL PASTIME IN BLACK AND WHITE: THE NEGRO BASEBALL LEAGUES, 1867-1955” will be at the Augusta Museum of History through Oct. 19.

Photographs and rare ar tifacts will be on display. Call 722-8454 for more information.

WOMEN ON PAPER GROUP EXHIBITION at the Sacred Hear t Cultural Center Ar t Gallery through Oct. 28. For more information, call 860-3374.

Dance

GEORGIA/CAROLINA CLOGGING CLASSIC Oct. 17-18 at the Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds. Visit

Check out Russell Joel Brown’s “From Mozart to Motown 2!” at the Imperial Theatre Oct. 17. www.tixonline.com or call (803) 278-4TIX for tickets, or call (803) 279-8017 for information.

THE DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE held the first Saturday of every month, 7-9 p.m., at the Unitarian Church of Augusta, honor the religious traditions of the world through song and movement. Call (803) 6430460 for more information.

AUGUSTA CHAPTER OF THE UNITED STATES AMATEUR BALLROOM DANCERS ASSOCIATION holds a dance the first Saturday of each month, from 7:15-11 p.m. Cost is $7 for members and $10 for non-members. Held at the BPOE facility on Elkdom Cour t.

Contact Melvis Lovet t, 733-3890, or Jean Avery, 8634186, for information.

CSRA/AUGUSTA BOGEY-WOOGIE DANCE AND SOCIAL GROUP meets every Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. at A World of Dance Studio. Couples, singles and newcomers are welcome. For information, phone 650-2396.

Music

DAVIDSON FINE ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT CONCERTS Oct. 28 and 30 at the school’s Beverly J. Barnhar t Theater. Tickets are $5 adult, $4 senior citizens and children under 5 and $3 for Davidson students. Call 823-6924, ex t. 107, 111 or 118 for more information.

BEN ELKINS per forms Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., as par t of the Morris Museum of Ar t’s Young Tennessee Singer/Songwriter Series. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors, students and military personnel.

724-7501.

OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN per forms Oct. 30 as par t of the Augusta Symphony’s Pops! at the Bell series at the Bell Auditorium. For more information, contact the Augusta Symphony at 826-4705.

GUITARIST MARINA RUKAVISHNIKOVA per forms Oct. 30, 7 p.m., at USC-Aiken’s Etherredge Center as par t of the university’s Mauldin Series. (803) 641-3305.

DON MACEY QUARTET per forms at the Unitarian Universalist Church 8 p.m. Oct. 18 as par t of the Augusta Jazz Project’s Chamberjazz series. Tickets are $15 general admission and $5 student admission, with group rates also available. For information, call 8230620 or visit www.augustajazz.com.

AIKEN COMMUNITY BAND AND MASTERWORKS CHOR ALE CONCERT Oct. 19, 3 p.m., at USC-Aiken’s Etherredge Center. Call the box of fice at (803) 6413305 for details.

“MUSIC FOR VOICES: THE SACRED AND PROFANE” will be per formed by the Augusta State University Chamber Ensemble 2 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Free. 724-7501.

THE JESS TRIO will per form at the Oct. 17 concer t sponsored by the Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society. Per formance takes place at 8 p.m. at the Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Theatre on the campus of Augusta State University. For ticket information, call 736-9098.

“I CHOOSE LOVE” multi-media event with Shawn Gallaway Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta. Tickets are $10. For tickets and information, contact Sharon Bennet t, 729-0105, Tracy Craig, (803) 613-1455, or Ginger O’Connell, 860-0321.

THE ASPEN ENSEMBLE per forms at USC-Aiken’s Etherredge Center Oct. 17 as par t of the university’s Cultural Series. Concer t begins at 8 p.m.; pre-concer t lecture begins at 7:10 p.m. Visit www.usca.edu or call the Etherredge Center box of fice at (803) 641-3305.

LUAU WITH THE SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS Oct. 16, 7 p.m., at the National Guard Armor y. Tickets are $12 in advance and $18 the day of the show and are available from Tix Online, www.tixonline.com or call (803) 278-4TIX. SOUTHERN SOUL AND SONG CONCERT SERIES TICKETS NOW ON SALE for per formances by: Mountain Hear t, Oct. 24; Rober t Earl Keen, Nov. 4; and The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Nov. 8. All shows are 7:30 p.m. at the Imperial Theatre. Tickets are $15. Proceeds benefit Morris Museum of Ar t public programming and the Imperial Theatre’s capital improvements fund. Call 722-8341 to reserve tickets.

Theater “IF THESE HIPS COULD TALK” will be at the Bell Auditorium Oct. 25. Tickets are $19.50-$26.50 and are available through TicketMaster, online at www.ticketmaster.com or by phone at 828-7700.

“AS YOU LIKE IT” will be per formed by the Ar tists’ Conservatory Theatre of the CSRA at Augusta Golf and Gardens Oct. 25. For more information, call 556-9134 or e-mail act@theatermail.net.

GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ONE-ACT PLAY COMPETITION Oct. 25 in the Beverly J. Barnhar t Theater at Davidson Fine Ar ts School. Free admission.

Call 823-6924, ex t. 135.

“BLITHE SPIRIT” will be presented by the Washington Lit tle Theatre Company Oct. 17-19 and 24-25 at the Playhouse on Nor th Alexander. Cur tain time is 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $10. Reservations may be made by calling 678-9582.

SUPER JAM ALL-STARS CLASSIC COMEDY featuring Bro Man Oct. 17, 9 p.m., at the Bell Auditorium.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the show. Call 724-2400.

“LOVE LETTERS” will be per formed by the Aiken Community Playhouse Oct. 17-18. For more information or tickets, call (803) 648-1438 or visit www.aikencommunityplayhouse.com.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE at Riverwalk’s Eighth Street Plaza continues Oct. 25 from 7-11 p.m. For details, contact Riverwalk Special Events, 821-1754.

HOTLANTA performs at the Oct. 21 installment of Tuesday’s Music Live. All concer ts are at noon at Saint Paul’s Church. For tickets, call the box office at 722-3463.

TICKETS FOR “FROM MOZART TO MOTOWN 2!” AND “A MOZART TO MOTOWN CHRISTMAS” now on sale.

“From Mozar t to Motown 2!” will be staged Oct. 17 at the Imperial Theatre and “A Mozar t to Motown Christmas” will be staged Nov. 29 at the Imperial Theatre. Tickets are $30 general admission or $45 VIP admission per show. To order tickets, call the Imperial Theatre box of fice at 722-8341.

Attractions AUGUSTA CANAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: Housed in Enterprise Mill, the center contains displays and models focusing on the Augusta Canal’s functions and importance to the 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 823-0440.

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

restored house, kitchen and carriage house. 419 Seventh Street. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tues.-Sat. Tours available; groups of 10 or more by appointment only.

Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors, $3 students under 18 and free for ages 5 and under. 722-9828.

AUGUSTA GOLF & 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.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; open from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5.50 for adults; $4.50 for students, seniors and military; $3.50 for children (4-12); free for children 3 and under. Sundays are two for one with a Super Sunday coupon. Annual garden memberships are available. Call 724-4443 or 1-888-874-4443.

Also, visit their Web site at www.gghf.org.

NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER’S FORT DISCOVERY: Children and adults alike can immerse themselves in the wonders of science through live demonstrations, 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 821-0200, 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. Grounds and slave quar ters are open Thursday-Monday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. House tours will be of fered at 1, 2 and 3 p.m.

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

SACRED HEART CULTUR AL CENTER is of fering 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. The center also of fers guided driving tours of downtown Augusta and Summerville every Saturday through Aug. 4 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. and at other times upon request. Cost for tours is $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 12 and under.

Reservations are suggested. Call 724-4067.

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

For more information, call 724-0436.

Museums “CELEBR ATION OF FLIGHT” exhibit opens at For t Discovery’s Knox Gallery Oct. 18 and runs through Jan. 31. Admission to the exhibit is free with paid general admission to For t Discovery. For more information, visit www.NationalScienceCenter.org or call 821-0200.

MASTERWORKS OF SOUTHERN ART TOUR 2 p.m.

Oct. 26 at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Call 724-7501.

“HALLOWEEN HAPPENING” 2-5 p.m. Oct. 25 at For t Discovery. Admission is $4 adults, $3 children and free for members. Visit www.NationalScienceCenter.org or call 821-0200 for information.

“COUNTRY MUSIC: AUGUSTA TO NASHVILLE” will be the topic of the Oct. 17 installment of Ar t at Lunch at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Program begins at noon.

Boxed lunch and lecture is $8.50 for museum members and $10.50 for non-members; you may also bring your own lunch, with lecture admission free for members, $3 for non-member adults and $2 for non-member seniors, students and military.724-7501.

YOUNG AT ART ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP PARTY Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m. at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Call 7247501 for details.

THE MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART sponsors a bus trip to the High Museum of Ar t and Atlanta Opera’s “Aida” Oct. 16. 724-7501.

“IF WALLS COULD TALK” tour program at Ware’s Folly through Nov. 21. For information, call 722-5495.

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

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Admission is free, but a donation of $2 for adults and $1 for children and seniors is encouraged. Call 722-5495 or visit www.ghia.org for more info.

THE AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY hosts permanent exhibition “Augusta’s Story,” an award-winning exhibit encompassing 12,000 years of local history.

For the younger crowd, there’s the Susan L. Still Children’s Discovery Gallery, where kids can learn about history in a hands-on environment. 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 15 p.m. Admission is $4 adult, $3 seniors, $2 kids (618 years of age) and free for children under 6. Free admission on Sundays. Call 722-8454 or visit www.augustamuseum.org for more information.

THE MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART hosts exhibitions and special events year-round. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sundays, noon-5 p.m. Closed on Mondays and major holidays. 1 Tenth Street, Augusta.

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

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. Thursday-Monday. For more information, call 556-3448.

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

Special Events GREATER AUGUSTA STAMP CLUB ANNUAL STAMP SHOW Oct. 25-26 at The Guesthouse International Inn on Washington Road. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Free admission.

For information, contact Bob Finnegan, 791-6695.

AUTHOR VISIT: Patricia Sprinkle will be at the Gibbs Library Oct. 28 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss her experiences as a writer. Call 863-1946 for information.

JACK-O-LANTERN JUBILEE Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in downtown Nor th Augusta. For information, call (803) 441-4300.

SECOND ANNUAL INTERTRIBAL POW WOW AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at Langley Pond Park in Langley, S.C. Indian ar ts and craf ts, food and educational and cultural programs will be available through the weekend. Donations of $3 per person will be accepted at the gate; children 12 and under admit ted free. For more information, contact Wanda Randall, (803) 663-9289 or Robbie O’Shields, (803) 593-2476.

“REGION VS. RESISTANCE IN SOUTHERN LITERATURE” with Lucinda MacKethan 7 p.m. Oct. 23 in the science building at Augusta State University. Call 6674821 or 737-1878 for details.

SWEET POTATO FESTIVAL 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Oct. 18 at Jacksonville Community Park in Langley, S.C. Free admission. Call (803) 593-9260 for information.

GEORGIA/CAROLINA STATE FAIR Oct. 17-26 at the Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the gate for unlimited rides or $5 for admission only. Call Tix Online at (803) 278-4TIX or visit www.tixonline.com.

WOMEN IN BUSINESS SIGNATURE EVENT LUNCHEON Oct. 23 at the Radisson River front Hotel. Keynote speaker Diana Jordan presents “Female, Funny and Fearless.”

For information, contact the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce at 821-1300.

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS Oct. 18, 11 a.m., at Hickman Park. Please keep all animals on a leash or in a carrier. For more information, contact the Humane Society at 736-0186.

RECEPTION FOR THURBERT BAKER Oct. 30, 6-8 p.m., at the Old Government House. Ticket are $50 per person and are available by calling 722-8111.

FAMILY FALL FESTIVAL Oct. 18, 5-10 p.m., at Mistletoe State Park. Admission is $5 per car and activities include hayrides, music, storytelling, night hikes, games and more. Costumes welcome. 541-0321.

NEW HORIZONS ARTS FESTIVAL Oct. 18 at Patriot’s Park. Call 868-3458 for information.

OKTOBERFEST Oct. 17-19 at the Julian Smith Casino.

Free event features a variety of authentic German family at tractions. Contact Ed Weeks, 651-8211, or Mor t Lindner, 863-6471.

“THE VOYAGER ENCOUNTERS” will be at the Dupont Planetarium Oct. 17-18, 7 and 8 p.m. Cost is $4.50 adults, $3.50 senior citizens, $2.50 for K-12 students and $1 for USC-Aiken faculty, staff and students. Call (803) 641-3769 or (803) 641-3654 for information.

OCTOBER FILM SERIES Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m., at Headquar ters Library. Free admission. Oct. 21 screening of “Swimming to Cambodia,” Oct. 28 screening of “Dracula.” 821-2600.

SATURDAY FARMER’S MARKET: Main Street Augusta is seeking farmers and vendors in the CSRA to market homemade and homegrown products in downtown Augusta on Saturday mornings through October 25.

Market is open to the public at the Railroad Depot of f Reynolds Street 8 a.m.-1 p.m. For more information, contact Main Street Augusta, 722-8000.

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

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

RICHMOND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL AND AUGUSTA ANIMAL RESCUE FRIENDS hold pet adoptions at Superpetz of f Bobby Jones Expressway every Sunday from 1-4 p.m. Call AARF at 364-4747 or visit www.aar f.net. Adoptions also held at the Richmond County Animal Control Shelter, Tues.-Sun., 1-5 p.m.

Call the shelter at 790-6836.

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

Out of Town SOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION STATEWIDE BASS FISHING TOURNAMENT Oct. 18 at Clearwater Cove Marina on Lake Wateree in Lugoff, S.C. For more information, call the SCWF at (803) 256-0670.

“THE GLASS MENAGERIE” will be presented by the University of South Carolina Theatre Depar tment Oct. 24Nov. 2. Tuesday-Saturday shows are at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees are at 3 p.m. Tickets are $14 general admission; $12 senior citizens, military and faculty and staff of USC; $10 student and $8 each for groups of 10 or more.

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NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE Oct. 25, 2 p.m., at Panola Mountain State Park in Stockbridge, Ga. (770) 389-7801.

ASHEVILLE URBAN TRAIL ART FESTIVAL Oct. 25-26 at Pack Square in downtown Asheville, N.C. (828) 258-0710.

THE OAK RIDGE BOYS will be at the Newberry Opera House in Newberry, S.C., Oct. 26, 3 and 8 p.m. Call (803) 276-6264 for tickets.

THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA will be at the Newberry Opera House in Newberry, S.C., Oct. 29, 8 p.m. Call (803) 276-6264 for tickets.

“DRACULA” will be performed by the Columbia City Ballet Oct. 30-Nov. 1 at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia, S.C. Call (803) 251-2222 or visit www.CapitolTickets.com for ticket info.

“A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS” will be performed by the Atlanta Ballet Oct. 30-Nov. 2 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. For tickets, call (404) 817-8700.

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combo Dark Harvest and Vault 13 ticket is $20. Call the hotline at (404) 608-2484.

ATLANTA SYMPHONY CELEBRATION OPEN HOUSE with hands-on demonstrations, behind-the-scenes tours, musical performances and more Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. at the Woodruff Arts Center. Event is free and open to all ages. Call (404) 733-5255 for information.

“THE CR AWLASEUM: A LIVE BUG EXHIBIT” will be at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga., through Oct. 31. Exhibit is free with gardens admission. For more information, call 1-800-CALLAWAY.

STONE MOUNTAIN HIGHLAND GAMES Oct. 18-19 in Stone Mountain, Ga. For information, visit www.smhg.org or call (770) 521-0228.

KIDNEY WALK to benefit the National Kidney Foundation of Georgia Oct. 19, 3 p.m., at the Koger Center Chamblee in Atlanta. Call 1-800-633-2339.

LIVE AT FIVE HAPPY HOUR CONCERT SERIES at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon Tuesdays, through Nov. 25. Shows begin at 5 p.m. and end at 7 p.m. $5 admission; free for members. 1-888-GA-ROCKS. “A NIGHT WITH DAME EDNA” comes to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta as part of the Broadway in Atlanta series through Oct. 19. 1-800-278-4447.

GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FALL FESTIVAL through Oct. 19 in Hiawassee, Ga., featuring live music, arts and crafts, children’s entertainment and more. Admission is $7; children under 10 get in free. For more information, visit www.georgia-mountain-fair.com or call (706) 896-4191.

“EDWARD HOPPER AND URBAN REALISM” will be on display at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C., through Jan. 18. (803) 799-2810.

“CROWNS” will be performed by the Alliance Theatre Company on the Alliance Stage in Atlanta through Nov. 9.

For ticket information, visit www.alliancetheatre.org or call (404) 733-4600.

GATLINBURG CRAFTSMEN’S FAIR through Oct. 26, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. daily and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in Gatlinburg, Tenn.

Admission is $5 adults and free for children 12 and under. For more info, call (865) 436-7479 or visit www.craftsmenfair.com.

“MACBETH” will be at the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta through Nov. 2. Ticket prices range from $19.50-$24.50, and optional food and beverage service is available before the show. For more information, visit www.shakespearetavern.com or call (404) 874-5299.

“KING HEDLEY II” will be presented by the Alliance Theatre Company on the Woodruf f Ar ts Center’s Her tz Stage through Nov. 2. Tickets are $25-$31 and are available online at www.alliancetheatre.org or by phone at (404) 733-5000.

“A SALUTE TO 25 YEARS OF THE GEORGIA MUSIC HALL OF FAME AWARDS” runs through Jan. 18, 2004, at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon, Ga. Exhibits, programs and events honoring the 25th anniversary of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame awards.

Call 1-888-GA-ROCKS for info.

GEORGIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL runs through Nov. 2 with per formances of “Much Ado About Nothing,” “The School for Wives,” “The Tale of Cymbeline” and “The Tempest.” Tickets are $23-$32, with special $10 preview shows. Held at the Conant Per forming Ar ts Center on the campus of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Call (404) 264-0020 for information.

AT THE GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART in Athens, Ga.: “Masters of Their Craf t: Highlights From the Smithsonian American Ar t Museum,” through Nov. 13; “Conversion to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray,” through Nov. 30; “Creativity: The Flowering Tornado” by Ginny Ruf fner through Nov. 23. Call (706) 542-4662.

AT THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART in Atlanta through Oct. 26: “Ansel Adams and his Legacy,” “A Mat ter of Time: Edward Hopper From the Whitney Museum of American Ar t.” “The Undiscovered Richard Meier: The Architect as Designer and Ar tist” will be on exhibit through April 4, with a lecture on Nov. 18. Call (404) 733-HIGH or visit www.high.org for information.

Benefits

MEMORY WALK to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association Oct. 18 at Riverwalk. Registration is at 8 a.m.; walk is at 9 a.m. Call 731-9060 or visit www.alzga.org.

AN EVENING WITH CAL THOMAS to benefit the Augusta Care Pregnancy Center Oct. 27 at the Radisson River front Hotel. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m.

For more information, contact Debbie at 724-5531.

“THE SECRET INGREDIENT” CELEBRITY COOKING SHOW to benefit Safe Homes of Augusta Oct. 18, 2 p.m., at the Imperial Theatre. Call 736-2499 for ticket information.

“HOPE FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE” fundraiser for Hope House Nov. 13, 6:30-10:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel. Silent auction, live enter tainment and food will be featured. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at Broad Strokes Ar t Galler y, La Dolce Vita Spa and Salon and Antique Market, or by calling Hope House at 737-9879.

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 790-6836 for information.

SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER BLOOD DRIVES in various locations around the CSRA this month. For detailed information on locations and times to donate, visit www.shepeardblood.org. You may also call Susan Edwards at (803) 643-7996 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.

MIR ACLE MILE WALK Oct. 25, 9 a.m., at Augusta Common. Registration begins at 8 a.m.; registration fee is $10. Proceeds benefit the Universit y Hospital Breast Health Center. Register by calling Ashley Pinson at 729-5650 or online at www.universit yhealth.org.

ART OF CHOCOLATE to benefit Child Enrichment shelter and advocacy center Oct. 25, 7 p.m. at Pullman Hall, 560 Walton Way. Tickets are $50 and are available through Child Enrichment, 737-4631.

THE GLASS SLIPPER BALL annual fundraiser for the Augusta Players will be held Oct. 25 at Sacred Hear t Cultural Center. For more information, call 826-4707.

Learning BEGINNER’S E-MAIL class at the Gibbs Library 9-10 a.m. Oct. 29. Registration required; call 863-1946.

GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING SEMINARS Oct. 21-22 at Augusta State University. Oct. 21 seminar for the public, “Your Journey Through Grief,” is free and runs from 6-8 p.m. in the Washington Hall Meeting Room. Oct. 22 seminar for professionals, “Caring for Today’s Grieving Families,” is $12. Registration is required for both seminars. Call 737-1636 or visit www.ced.aug.edu.

MICHAELMAS ENGLISH HARVEST FAIR weekends, through Oct. 26 at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. 1-800-323-6822.

R AGIN’ CAJUN CASINO NIGHT to benefit the programs and ser vices of St. Joseph Hospital Oct. 23, 710:30 p.m., at Julian Smith Casino. Tickets are $75 per person; make reser vations by calling 481-7402.

“ICONOCLASTS: SIX ATHENS-BASED ARTISTS” will be on display at the Athens Institute for Contemporar y Ar t through Oct. 26. Visit www.athica.org or call (706) 208-1613.

MCCORMICK COUNTY DEMOCR ATIC PARTY FUNDR AISER Oct. 16, 7 p.m., at the barn at Hickor y Knob State Park. Donation is $20 per person. For tickets, contact Jerr y Goldman, (864) 391-2525.

INTERMEDIATE MICROSOFT WORD TR AINING star ting Oct. 30, 6-7:30 p.m. at the Wallace Branch Library.

Registration is required; call 722-6275.

MAIZE QUEST CORNFIELD MAZE through Nov. 9, 9 a.m.-10 p.m., at Washington Farms in Watkinsville, Ga. Tickets are $7 adult and $5 children 4-12 years old, with group discounts available for groups of 20 or more. For information, visit www.CornMaze.com or www.washingtonfarms.net, or call (706) 769-0627.

DOCTORS HOSPITAL FALL BOY SCOUT GOLF CLASSIC Oct. 21, 11 a.m. at the Nor th Augusta Country Club. Proceeds benefit the handicapped and special needs scouting program. Call Neal Scot t or Ted Johnson at 733-5277 for more information.

TICKET TO WORK EDUCATION WORKSHOP 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 17 at Augusta Technical College. Workshop will focus on increasing public awareness about the Ticket To Work program and social security work incentives. Call Jeannie Jackson, 724-6262, to register.

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL to acknowledge victims of domestic violence, celebrate sur vivors and educate the communit y about domestic violence Oct. 21, 6 p.m., at St. Paul’s church. Contact Safe Homes of Augusta for more information at 736-2499.

SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AUGUSTA CHAPTER hosts a session on employing people with disabilities Oct. 29, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., at Holiday Inn West. Cost for non-members is $15; RSVP to Karen Whitman, 220-2915, by Oct. 24.

NETHERWORLD HAUNTED HOUSE nightly through Nov. 2 at the Georgia Antique and Design Center. Doors open at 7 p.m. Netherworld Dark Harvest ticket is $14,

BOOK YOUR CHRISTMAS PARTIES Large Clubhouse • Full Catering Menu • Limited Dates Available

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WESTERN CAROLINA STATE FAIR Oct. 16-25 at the Aiken Jaycees Fairgrounds. Events include beauty pageant, demolition derby, family shows and a rodeo.

Concer ts by Joe Nichols, Oct. 16; The Tams, Oct. 17; and Darryl Worley, Oct. 21 now on sale. Visit www.tixonline.com or call (803) 278-4TIX.

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Live Entertainment, Arts, Crafts, Sweet Potato Pageant, Sweet Potato Pies and much more!

(803) 593-9260

Food and Crafter Space Available!

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JERNIGAN CANCER CENTER MAMMOGR APHY SCREENINGS Oct. 17 at First Baptist Church of Nor th Augusta and Oct. 20 at Rich’s in Augusta Mall.

Appointments are required and will be scheduled between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Call 774-8900.

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

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MOBILE MAMMOGR APHY SCREENINGS at the University Seniors Club in Daniel Village, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Oct. 22. Call 774-4145 to schedule an appointment.

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FORE THE HEALTH OF IT ADAPTIVE GOLF CLINICS held the first Tuesday of every month at First Tee of Augusta. Physical and occupational therapists from Walton Rehabilitation Hospital will guide the course.

Call 823-8691.

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

STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets the last Wednesday of the month, 1-2 p.m., in the outpatient classroom at Walton Rehabilitation Hospital. 823-5213.

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

WALTON REHABILITATION HOSPITAL of fers a number of health programs, including Fibromyalgia Aquatics, water aerobics, wheelchair and equipment clinics, theraputic massage, yoga, Focus on Healing exercise class for breast cancer survivors and more. Call 823-5294 for information.

Celebrate Oktoberfest Oct. 17-19 at Julian Smith Casino.

“THE CHANGING FACE OF CORPOR ATE GOVERNANCE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW” will be presented Oct. 23, noon-4:30 p.m. in the Lamar Room of the Radisson Hotel Augusta. Four hours of continuing professional education credit will be awarded to par ticipants. Cost is $50 per person. Register at (803) 5103119 or rsvp@augustaima.org.

BLACK DATA PROCESSING ASSOCIATES CSR A CHAPTER COMPUTER TR AINING Oct. 18, 1:30-4 p.m., at the Wallace Branch Library. Registration is required.

Call 722-6275.

“REGION VS. RESISTANCE IN THE SOUTH” presentation 7 p.m. Oct. 23 in room W1002 of the Science Building on the ASU campus. Free. Call 737-1444 for details.

“AND THE DEAD SHALL RISE: THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN AND THE LYNCHING OF LEO FR ANK” will be presented by the Center for the Study of Georgia History at 7 p.m. Oct. 16. 737-1444.

PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE SERIES at ASU. Lectures are held at noon in room W1002 of the science building and are free. Oct. 17 lecture is on “Spirituality and Mental Health: The Sacred Self Within,” Oct. 24 lecture is on “Exotic Animal Training Thought Applied Operant Conditioning,” and Oct. 31 lecture is on “Mental Health Parity: What It Is and Why It Makes Sense and Cents.” Call 737-1444.

AUGUSTA-AIKEN HUMAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP Oct. 16 at the Pinnacle Club. Free for Augusta-Aiken

Society for Human Resoure Management members and $35 for non-members. For information, visit www.augusta-aikenshrm.org.

CONFERENCE FOR HUMAN RESOURCES AND SAFETY PROFESSIONALS Oct. 21-22 at the Radisson River front Hotel. Conference is on human resources and corporate safety issues. Early bird registration is $195 per person if paid prior to Oct. 10; late registration is $245. Contact Julie Goley, 731-7099, for details.

AIKEN TECH CONTINUING EDUCATION of fers the following courses: Personal Computers for Seniors, Internet and E-mail for Seniors, health care classes, massage therapy classes, rape aggression defense, contractor programs, holiday floral design and more.

Aiken Tech also of fers Education to Go classes online.

For more information or to register, call (803) 5939231, ex t. 1230.

Health

BASIC MICROSOFT WORD TRAINING Thursdays, Oct. 16Nov. 13. Classes are held 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. Registration is required; call 722-6275.

“IMPROVE INTERNET SEARCH RESULTS” CLASS Oct. 17, 9-10:30 a.m. Held at the Friedman Branch library; registration is required. 736-6758.

USC-AIKEN CONTINUING EDUCATION of fers Italian, Ar t for Beginners, Debt-Free Living, Financial Strategies, Taming the Wild Child, paralegal cer tificate course and more. Travelearn learning vacations for adults and Education to Go online courses also available. For info, phone (803) 641-3563.

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY CONTINUING EDUCATION is now of fering the following classes: QuarkXPress, A Prosperous Retirement, Intermediate Investing, All Things Dutch, origami and more. Also, ASU of fers online courses. For more information, call 737-1636 or visit www.ced.aug.edu.

“FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN AND FIBROMYALGIA: PART II” at University Hospital’s Levi Hill II Auditorium 7-9 p.m. Oct. 24. For more information, contact E. Jordan at 793-4232 or Vickie Howard at 790-7774.

ESSENTIAL TREMOR PATIENT SYMPOSIUM Oct. 25, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the MCG Alumni Center in Banquet Rooms A, B and C. To register, call 721-2798.

FREE LUNCHTIME SERIES ON BREAST HEALTH in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month noon-1 p.m. Thursdays in October. Oct. 16 program on cancer facts for women, Oct. 23 program on eating healthy and Oct. 30 program on how to per form breast selfexams. Programs are presented in the MCG mammography area on the first floor of the MCG Medical Center.

To register, call 721-1467.

HATHA YOGA with Tess Stephens at the St. Joseph Wellness Center in Daniel Village Plaza. Day time classes held from 10 a.m.-noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Evening classes held from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Monday and Wednesday and also 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Tuesday and Thursday. Cost is $60 per month for unlimited classes or $10 per class. For more information, contact Tess at 738-2782.

THE MCG BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets the first Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. and provides education and suppor t for those with breast cancer. For information, call 721-1467.

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 of fered. Call 736-0847 for details.

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.-noon for $55/month. Call 823-6294.

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“PUT YOUR GROOVE ON” CHILDREN’S CONCERT with Mr. Al at the Bell Auditorium Oct. 27, 10 a.m. Tickets are $4 in advance or $5 at the door. For reservations, contact Child Like Consulting, 1-800-487-6725.

MONSTER BASH Oct. 24 at the McBean Activity Center. Call 560-1314 for details.

“NOT TOO SCARY STORIES” for all ages at 6:30 p.m.

Oct. 27. Held at the Friedman Branch Library.

736-6758.

FAMILY TRIP TO EUDOR A FARMS AND PUMPKIN PATCH Oct. 25. All children must be accompanied by an adult; cost is $8 per person, with children under 2 free. The bus leaves the H.O. Weeks Center in Aiken at 2:15 p.m. and returns at approximately 5:30 p.m. Call (803) 642-7631 for information.

SPECIAL HALLOWEEN STORYTIME Oct. 29, 10:30 a.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. Call 722-6275.

“SPOOKY SPLASH” DIVE-IN MOVIE Oct. 24, 7-8:45 p.m. at the Family Y Wheeler Branch indoor pool.

Par ticipants enjoy a family movie while floating and swimming in the heated pool. Bring your own floats. Parents must accompany children 12 years of age and under.

Fees are $3-$7; children under 6 are free. 738-6678.

COMMUNITY HALLOWEEN PARTY at the Smith-Hazel Center in Aiken Oct. 31, 3-7 p.m. Children ages 12 and under may par ticipate; cost is $2 per person. Call (803) 642-7635.

FAMILY Y FALL RECREATIONAL GYMNASTICS PROGR AM Oct. 27-Dec. 19. Classes are available for toddlers through teen-agers. For info, call 738-6678.

HALLOWEEN HOOPLA at the H.O. Weeks Center in Aiken Oct. 31, 5:30-8 p.m. Event is for children, ages 12 and under and their parents. Cost is $3 per child and children under the age of 2 admit ted free. Call (803) 642-7631 for additional information.

“SLEEPING BEAUTY,” a musical, will be per formed by Storyland Theatre Oct. 28-Nov. 1. Oct 28-31 per formances are at 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.; Nov. 1 family matinee is at 3 p.m. Reservations are required for weekday shows, and tickets are $3.50 per student per show or $9 per student for season tickets.

Reservations not required for weekend family matinees, and tickets are $4 per person per show or $10.50 per person for season tickets. Call 736-3455 or fa x 736-3349 for tickets.

“HOWL-OWEEN WOODS ADVENTURE” for children ages 5-17 at Camp Lakeside on Lake Thurmond.

Parents drop of f children at the Family Y’s Wheeler Branch Oct. 30, 5-5:30 p.m., and children are bussed to Camp Lakeside. Activities include haunted hayride, Halloween craf t, marshmallow roast and more.

Children return to the Wheeler Branch at 9 p.m. Open to members and non-members, and the fee is $8 per person. For more information, contact Scot t Rouse, 359-2153.

PHINIZY SWAMP NATURE PARK FAMILY DISCOVERY SERIES Oct. 16, 6-7:30 p.m. Bring a picnic dinner to the park’s Pfizer Pavilion and enjoy a free program. Call 828-2109 for details.

TIME TO SCARE HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL Oct. 23 at the Bernie Ward Community Center. Call 796-5025.

YOUTH BASKETBALL REGISTR ATION Oct. 20-Nov. 10.

Open to children ages 6-18 as of March 1, 2004. Fees are $35-$40 for Nor th Augusta residents, $55-$60 for non-residents and $110 for out-of-state players.

Registration will be held at Riverview Park Activities Center. (803) 441-4311.

SAFE KIDS SAFETY DAY 2-6 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Evans Wal-Mar t. 721-KIDS. SCHOOL’S OUT PROGR AM for children ages 5-12 years old Oct. 17 and 20-22 at the Family Y Wheeler Branch. Early drop-of f and late pick-up times available.

Daily fees are $14 per child pre-registered or $20 per child registering the day of the program. 738-7006.

SIBSHOPS program for siblings of children with health problems. Par ticipants are between the ages of 7-14 and have a sibling with a chronic and/or special need.

Nex t session will be held Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the MCG Children’s Medical Center. Cost is $5; scholarships available. 721-CARE. SAFE KIDS SAFETY DAY Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Lowe’s on Bobby Jones Expressway. 721-KIDS. FREE CAR SEAT EDUCATION CLASS by SAFE KIDS of East Central Georgia Oct. 20, 9-11 a.m. at the MCG

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“PINOCCHIO” will be presented by the Augusta State University Born to Read Literacy Center and Patchwork Players Oct. 21. Shows will be held at ASU’s Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Theatre at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Tickets are $3 per person. Call 733-7043 or visit www.aug.edu/lcenter for more information.

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

FREE CAR SEAT EDUCATION CLASSES for parents and other caregivers the third Monday of every month from 9-11 a.m. at MCG Children’s Medical Center.

Registration is required; those who are Medicaid or Peachcare eligible should indicate status during registration and bring a card or proof of income to class in order to receive a free car seat. 721-KIDS. STORYTIME IN THE GARDENS Tuesdays, 4 p.m., through October in Hopeland Gardens. Local senior citizens will read children’s stories to kids ages 8 and under. All children will receive a free book to take home. Bring snacks and a blanket or chair to sit on. Rain location is the H.O. Weeks Center. Call (803) 642-7631.

“TECHNOLOGY AND TENNIS FOR LIFE” FALL SESSION through MACH Academy will be held through Dec. 18 at May Park Community Center or Fleming Tennis Center. Program includes homework assistance, computer instruction, tennis and fitness instruction, field trips and more. Fee is $50 per month. For information, call 796-5046.

GIRLS INCORPOR ATED OF THE CSR A AFTERSCHOOL PROGR AM runs through May 21, 2004. Open to girls currently enrolled in kindergar ten through high school. In addition to of fering specialized programs, Girls Incorporated of fers van pick-up at select schools, neighborhood drop-of f, homework room and a hot evening meal. For information, call 733-2512.

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

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Celebration

Seniors FREE BONE DENSITY SCREENING Oct. 20, 9:30 a.m.2 p.m. at The Senior Citizens Council. Sign up by contacting Bobbie Olivero, 826-4480.

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GR ANNYCAKES BAKE OFF at The Senior Citizens Council Oct. 17, 3-5 p.m. Tickets are $2 in advance or $3 at the door. Call 826-4480 for information.

HARIETTA REYNOLDS will per form at The Senior Citizens Council as par t of the Music in the A.M. program Oct. 15, 10:30-11 a.m. 826-4480.

WALTON REHABILITATION HOSPITAL of fers Ar thritis Aquatics and People With Ar thritis Can Exercise. Call 823-5294 for information.

SENIOR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE NEW VISITOR CENTER AT PHINIZY SWAMP NATURE PARK to greet visitors, hand out literature and sell merchandise.

Volunteers are asked to commit one Saturday or Sunday per month, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. or 1-5 p.m. Call 8282109 for information.

AIKEN PARKS AND RECREATION of fers 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.

THE ACADEMY FOR LIFELONG LEARNING of fers lectures, courses, field trips, discussion groups and community information seminars on a variety of topics to mature adults. For more information, contact the USCAiken Of fice of Continuing Education at (803) 6413288.

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

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

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Children’s Medical Center. Those who are Medicaid or Peachcare eligible may indicate their status during registration and bring their card or proof of income to class in order to receive a free car seat. Register by calling 721-KIDS.

Augusta-built, full-scale replica of the Wright Flyer Curtiss JN-4D Jenny Exhibits, artifacts and information that chronicles the history of powered flight

Paul S. Simon Discovery Theater ! Special aviation-related presentations daily The Science Store ! New merchandise and "Celebration of Flight" memorabilia And There's So Much More!

One Seventh Street on Riverwalk 706.821.0200 or 800.325.5445

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

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

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SERVICE CORPS OF RETIRED EXECUTIVES (SCORE) provides counseling and mentoring to businesspeople star ting up a new business or expanding an ongoing business. Services are provided free of charge. For more information, call the Augusta of fice at 793-9998.

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

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

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.

The Washington Little Theatre Company presents “Blithe Spirit” Oct. 17-19 and 24-25 at the Playhouse on North Alexander. Call 678-9582 for reservations.

SENIORNET provides adults age 50 and over education for and access to computer technology. Many dif ferent courses are of fered. Contact the USC-Aiken Continuing Education Of fice at (803) 641-3563.

Tournament Center, 2608 Peach Orchard Rd. Contact Tee Meyers, 790-3806 or pythongym@aol.com.

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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, 7-9 p.m. at Richmond Academy. For more information, call Don Zuehlke, 495-2043, or email augustar fc@yahoo.com. You may also visit www.augustarugby.org.

NATIONAL BARREL HORSE ASSOCIATION WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Oct. 29-Nov. 1 at the AugustaRichmond County Civic Center. Ticket are $30 for the entire event or $8 per day; children 6 and under admitted free. Call 722-3521.

WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT UP CLOSE AND UNCENSORED Oct. 27, 7 p.m., at the AugustaRichmond County Civic Center. Tickets are $16-$41 and are available through TicketMaster, www.ticketmaster.com or 828-7700.

SOUTHEASTERN CLASSIC BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIPS Oct. 25 at the Imperial Theatre. Pre-judging held from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; $10 general admission.

Finals held at 7 p.m.; $20-$30 admission. 722-8341.

AUGUSTA LYNX HOME GAMES Oct. 17-18, 23, 25 and Nov. 13, 15-16, 29-30. For tickets, call 724-4423 or visit www.augustalynx.com.

PYTHON POWER LEAGUE U.S.A. DRUG-FREE POWERLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS Oct. 18 at the Mar tial Ar ts

FAMILY Y FALL RECREATIONAL GYMNASTICS PROGR AM Oct. 27-Dec. 19. Classes are available for toddlers through teen-agers. For info, call 738-6678.

Volunteer PRIDE AND PROGRESS AND METRO AUGUSTA CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL ANNUAL FALL CLEAN-UP Oct. 18, 6:30 a.m. Meeting spot is the Southgate Shopping Center on Gordon Highway. For information, contact Jimmy Smith, 798-3890, or Lillian-Katharine Blanos, 261-4390.

PHINIZY SWAMP NATURE PARK VISITOR CENTER is in need of volunteers to greet visitors, hand out literature and sell merchandise. Volunteers must commit to one Saturday or Sunday each month, from either 9 a.m.-1 p.m. or 1-5 p.m. 828-2109.

ROSACEA If you suffer from rosacea and are at least 18 years of age, you may be eligible for a clinical research study. You may qualify if you have red, sometimes swollen skin around forehead, cheeks, and nose, red bumps similar to acne, or tiny blood vessels over the nose and cheeks that appear as a blush at a distance. Participants will be reimbursed, so call today to learn if you may be eligible. Medical insurance is not required for study participation.

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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, from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 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, can commit to at least 3-4 hours per month and would like to help fight hunger in the Augusta area, contact Laurie Roper at 736-1199, ex t. 208.

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 THE FAIRWAYS CHAPTER OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS meet Oct. 21 at St. Joseph Hospital’s Board Room. This month’s topic is service excellence. For information, call Sandi Harrell, 667-6410.

THE AUGUSTA ROSE SOCIETY meets the third Tuesday of each month in the Sister Mary Louise Conference Room at St. Joseph Hospital. The nex t meeting is Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m., and features the annual members only rose show. Entries are limited to society members, although the public is invited to view the displays. 279-5502.

SELF HELP FOR HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE GROUP meets Oct. 20, 5:30 p.m. in Room 100 of the Adult Education Building at First Baptist Church. Program is “Traveling Adventures With a Hearing Loss.” For informaton, contact Dave Welter, dave.welter@comcast.net or 738-2796.

GIBBS LIBRARY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP meets Oct. 20, 7 p.m., to discuss “The Eyre Affair” by Jasper Fforde. Call 863-1946.

AUGUSTA JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY GOVERNMENT ADVOCACY SEMINAR every third Saturday of the month, 10 a.m., at the Friedman Branch Library. Videos, information and Q&A on current government issues and topics will be presented. For more information, contact Tonio, 373-3772.

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. Contact Jean Parker, 650-2956, or Connie Barrow, 547-0178, for more information.

SOCIAL WORK CELEBRATION FOR ALL OLD, NEW AND POTENTIAL NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS MEMBERS Oct. 16, 5-7 p.m., in the outpatient building at Walton Rehabilitation Hospital. Call 7380125 for information.

READ IT! ONE COMMUNITY, ONE BOOK library program with discussion of “Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence” Oct. 16, 7 p.m., at the Gibbs Library. Call the Gibbs Library at 863-1946.

Weekly

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS meets every Sunday night, 7:30 p.m., at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Nor th Augusta. For more information, call 278-5156.

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUP for relatives and friends of drug abusers. No dues or fees. The group meets Mondays at 7 p.m. in Room 430 of the Summerville Building beside St. Joseph’s Hospital. For information, contact Kathy, 650-0947, or Josie, 414-5576.

GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., in Room 420 of the Summerville Professional Building and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., in the basement of Fairview Presby terian Church. 1-800-313-0170.

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

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.

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 Counseling Services.

Call 339-1204 and leave first name and phone number; a confidential reply is assured.

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Arts: Visual

Art Is Everywhere in Augusta

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By Rhonda Jones

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here are quite a few art shows going on around town. No matter your taste, you can usually find a little something to nourish your soul. This week, we have decided to take on the ambitious project of cramming as much visual art as possible into Metro Spirit, to see if anyone goes into culture OD. Now, in order to bring you these images and information, your friendly neighborhood arts editor took it upon herself to go into some very dangerous territory – the minds of artists. It was a harrowing experience, but I made it out alive. Here are the results of my journey.

The P.E.A.C.E. Show, Metro Coffeehouse Leave it to Billy Sanders, or Billy S., as he is known around town, to conceive of having an art show, and then not even putting up any work of his own. But the P.E.A.C.E. show, he said, is not about Billy S. It is about giving other artists a chance to be seen and included – whether those artists are learned masters or tiny children.

It’s hanging at the Metro Coffeehouse right now, and will be up through October. Chances are, you’ve already wandered into the popular hangout, glanced over at the art wall and thought, “Dude!”

That is because the homogenous nature of most other shows that hang at the Metro is simply not present here. There are a few things there that you would expect to see at an art show. In fact there are several – works by Rhian SwainGiboney, USCA art professor Al Beyer, a Jay Jacobs piece. But then there are other pieces there too, pieces by people with whom you may actually come in contact, but who have been creating art without your express knowledge.

There is a painting, for example, by Jody Smith, who has perhaps served you libations at the Modjeska, and a photo of an angel by the Soul Bar’s Coco Rubio and his daughter Maya, who has just turned 5. There is a drawing and a photograph by the Hangnail/ Hellblinki Sextet’s Andrew Benjamin, who has perhaps greeted you at his 8th Street music venue in top hat and white face paint.

There are painted blue jeans by Patrick Eubanks, father of local bluegrass artist Eryn Eubanks.

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And if I successfully delivered my payload after having my arm twisted by Mr. S., there may even be a little something by yours truly.

“I wanted the wall to be not just rectangles and squares,” he said.

Billy S. explained why he felt compelled to put together such a show. Once upon a time, he said, he wasn’t sure art was something he should be doing.

“Al Beyer was one of the first people who told me, you’ve got this going on.

That’s one of the things that make me continue to paint.”

He said the art professor told him, “You have what I try to teach.”

“That made me feel like I had enough of what it takes to do it.” Looking at the wall from across the room at the Metro, he said, “It’s all worthy art.”

“I want them to be shown because I know what a difference it made for me to be shown,” he added. “When we’re included, we just think we’re all right.”

Even now, he said, after he has been selling paintings for years, he is still amazed when someone buys something of his. “The thing they want is something that I did,” he said, beaming like a kid.

But Billy S. does approach his work with a sort of modesty. For one thing, he has not been formally trained. He has done it all “by ear” so to speak, keeping what works, throwing out what doesn’t.

As a result, he finds himself creating whimsical pieces that have a certain childlike charm. In other words, they’re fun. Like the exhibit.

He did have a chuckle, though, over an art show of his in which one of his visitors – presumably an artist – listed in the guest book all the things Billy S. had done “wrong.”

“This is how I paint,” he said. “They’re not mistakes. I may have problems, but they’re not mistakes.”

Oh, by the way, P.E.A.C.E. stands for Poetic Expression And Creative Enlightenment. Go see it. You’ll feel better. If you feel the need to call someone about it, the number is (803) 663-9397.

Roberto Bocci, ASU Roberto Bocci’s art, on the other hand, is evocative, but in a much different way.

Bocci is a photographer who uses long exposures to create the effects in his work. His “Bath Tubs” series is a group continued on page 38

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Top: This piece by Alexis M. Steed is currently on display at the Metro.

Bottom: “Dawn’s Bathroom” by Bocci is on display at ASU.

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This charming drawing by Andrew Benjamin can be found at the Metro. continued from page 37 of poster-sized silver gelatin prints featuring his friends underwater and breathing through tubes. The wall text says that the work was inspired by a bad skiing accident which left his body filled with tubes just so he could survive at that point in his life. But, he said, he didn’t realize that until later.

“Actually when I first started doing the work, I didn’t know it was about that and then later on when I actually shot pictures of a friend of mine, Susan Clarke, she asked me if I’d had a tracheotomy, because I was consistently placing the faucet at the level of the neck.”

He told her that, yes, he had indeed had a tracheotomy.

“I realized there was a projection of myself on my models. The models are breathing through a plastic tube and living because they’re breathing through this plastic tube.”

This writer has seen many examples of art birthed by trauma in the artist’s life, and Bocci’s skiing accident had been an extremely traumatic one for him.

“Because I basically smashed my face and lost half a gallon of blood. And then it occurred to me that basically I was placing my experiences within the series.”

I asked him if art acts as a sort of therapy.

“It does, definitely. Art is a way to neutralize inner monsters and bring them up to the surface.”

One of the pieces, titled “AJ and Erika,” is of a man and a woman embracing in the tub. He spoke of the varying reac-

tions it has earned from viewers.

“For a long time, when I was a painter, I wanted to make a picture of two people embracing each other, and I never did anything like that. And it just came to me later on when I shot that photograph that the two people are embracing each other.”

He said that some people see a couple in a loving embrace, and others see the female figure as a vampire.

“And that’s OK,” he said, “because art is subjective and meaning is also relative.”

I asked him just how important his personal experience is to his art and inspiration.

“My personal experiences are focal to all the works I’ve done. They’re essential, and in a way we go back to that idea of art and therapy. Art often serves the means and purpose of expressing one’s fears and monsters and neutralizing them.”

Another series represented in the ASU show, is called “Time Exposures, Dawn’s Apartment.” The wall text for that series describes the process he used to get the colorful effects that emerged in the photographs over exposure periods of up to eight hours. The process, it says, involves colored lights, and allows him to regard the film as a canvas.

He describes it in such a way, he said, because his background is in painting.

He selectively illuminates objects in total darkness with flashlights, so that only the parts that are illuminated are exposed to the negative, he said.

“So basically, it’s like drawing on the film, but indirectly. And then later on the film is processed with chemicals, and it’s a way for me to use my sensitivity and background as a painter within my work as a photographer.”

And those two series are only a fragment of the work represented. If you go, check out the multimedia interactive exhibit by the door.

Bocci’s exhibit is in the gallery of the Fine Arts Center at Augusta State University. His work will remain up until Oct. 30.

Janice Williams Whiting, Mary Pauline Gallery Another of our artists has an Augusta State University connection, being an art professor there, but she is not currently exhibiting on campus. She is exhibiting, instead, at the Mary Pauline Gallery in downtown Augusta.

The work appearing at the Mary Pauline will be oil and acrylic portraits.

If you are on the Mary Pauline’s mailing list, you may have already seen the postcard advertising the show, which is from a piece of hers titled “The Duke Meets Michael.”

She said that started out as a tiny pencil drawing. Every time she takes students to Florence, Italy, she said, she visits a representation of the Duke of Urbino. “Like clockwork,” she said. “I can draw it from memory.”

She likes his battle-broken nose and missing eye. “He has the best profile in all of art history,” she said. The duke is facing another profiled figure, her colleague, Michael Schwartz.

“I chose Michael because he is an art historian.”

Asked what inspires her to create, she said, “the human figure and architecture, and art historical references.”

Commenting on inspiration, she said, “I do think certain things would speak to me, but I don’t ever have hardcore, preconceived notions. It would be kind of boring just to execute something if you already know what would happen. Even if I start with a very clear notion of what I’m going to do, that doesn’t mean that’s where it’s going to go.”

I asked what, exactly, she tries to instill in her students.

“That hard work is a good place to start and all the talent in the world will just rot if you don’t use it and work with it. I also tell them that they shouldn’t wait for inspiration to strike. If they’re not in the studio when it happens, it won’t do them much good.”

Whiting’s work will appear at the Mary Pauline Gallery on Oct. 17 and remain up until Nov. 26. In addition, a jewelry series by Barry Merritt will be on exhibit, as will selected work by gallery artists.

There will be a cocktail reception on Oct. 17 from 5-9 p.m.

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Arts: Theatre

M E T R O

Prince Charming To Seek Bride at Glass Slipper Ball

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ear ye! Hear ye! The king and queen have grown impatient for grandchildren! And so, they are going to throw a ball in honor of their son, Prince Charming.

He is said to be very handsome and very … well, charming. And, ladies, he is of marrying age now, and will be dancing with all who come, as he searches for his future bride. Rumor has it that he has had plenty of training in the art of dance, but you can sample his skills for yourself should you decide to attend the Glass Slipper Ball presented by the Augusta Players on the evening of Oct. 25.

It is going to be a “grand affair,” according to Augusta Players Executive Director Debi Ballas.

But first, the prince. Or at least actor Armando Leduc, who will portray the fictional royal in this re-enactment of the ball in “Cinderella.”

He said it is his first fairy tale, although he has had many roles with Augusta Players, including the role of Danny in their recent production of “Grease.” He also had a role in last year’s production of “Annie,” and will join the Players for this year’s production as well.

As for the Glass Slipper Ball, he said, Augusta Players will take a traditional approach to the story.

“It’ll follow the fairy tale to a tee,” he said.

Ballas is beside herself with excitement.

And she has plenty to be excited about.

This is not the first time Augusta Players have held the Glass Slipper Ball, but there will be some first-time happenings at this particular event. For one thing, the casting will be a bit different this go ‘round. The king and queen will be portrayed by celebrities: Newscaster Mary Morrison will play the queen and John Patrick of Clear Channel CSRA will play the king. Their future daughterin-law will be portrayed by Emily Hobbs.

Cinderella’s wicked, evil, horrible, dysfunctional stepmother will be in attendance with her two horrid, jealous daughters – but they will be very entertaining.

“There will be musical selections performed from the Rodgers and Hammerstein version of ‘Cinderella,’ so the stepsisters will perform ‘The Stepsisters’ Lament.’ Cinderella and the prince will sing two beautiful duets from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Cinderella.’”

Actors will be portraying characters, but you will be partying with those characters. “The moment guests enter the

Armando Leduc as Prince Charming door, they will be treated as guests of the royal family,” Ballas said. “The herald will announce the arrival of each and every guest, as Lord and Lady or Duke and Duchess.”

It’ll be a hoot.

Ballas is looking forward to seeing the humorous moments play out as well. For one thing, the herald must announce the king and queen as well, and of course, being royals, and having too much of everything, they each have a string of names, each syllable of which must be enunciated with the utmost respect by the poor herald.

But what about other entertainment?

Well, Ballas said, look for Behind the Masque, because they will have surprises for you. There will also be a string quartet and other lovelies. And of course, you can’t have a ball without edibles and drinkables. Philippe Chin, Bamboo on Hickman’s Parisian import, will put his culinary magic to work, crafting hors d’oeuvres and “sweet and savory confections” for your enjoyment.

Here’s what to do if you would like to participate. For one thing, you’ll need tickets. Prices are $50 general admission, $45 for seniors and students and $35 for those 12 and under. Ballas suggests making reservations because the Great Hall at Sacred Heart, where the ball will take place, holds only 350 people. And you can do that by calling (706) 826-4707.

With your ticket, you will not only gain entry to the ball, but you will receive two complimentary beverages.

Again, the date is Oct. 25, which is a Saturday night. Dress is black tie optional or Renaissance costume. Guests will begin arriving at 8 p.m. and will enjoy the entertainment from 8-9 p.m. Then the real fun begins.

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Arts: Music

Hot Damn, It’s Hotlanta!

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n a recent afternoon, a musician named Don Erdman of Hotlanta Dixieland Jazz was kind enough to explain to me just what the heck Dixieland jazz is. He said it was spawned around 1900 in New Orleans, La. (Hotlanta, on the other hand, was spawned in 1990.

Neat, huh?)

"It is the very first kind of jazz, from which all other jazz has evolved," he said. "It uses kind of a marching-band instrumentation."

He said that was mainly because, after the Civil War, the government donated a lot of marching instruments to orphanages and schools.

"They got into the hands of children and musicians," he said.

And the country hasn’t been the same since.

The basic makeup of a Dixieland jazz band, he said, is the coronet, clarinet, trombone, a banjo (or maybe a piano instead), a tuba and drums.

The coronet, he explained for those of us not very familiar with them, is a bit mellower than a trumpet, although the latter horn also makes an appearance.

"You find trumpets used in Dixieland and coronets, but to be real traditional, you would use the coronet."

We asked what Dixieland jazz songs are usually about.

"Mostly Southern themes to begin with, and there’s a lot of parade music. New Orleans uses this music in parades a lot. It’s typical ‘I love you, why don’t you love me’ kind of stuff. It’s a lot about the Southern culture."

Dixieland jazz fascinates people — mainly Northerners — he said, because they wonder what it’s like in the legendary South. They are fascinated by the slower-paced lifestyle, he said.

But the music is anything but slovenly, he said. "The music is upbeat. It’s fun to listen to and it’s very much fun to play.

"It’s probably more popular outside of the South than inside the South," he said.

"Right now you’ll find more Dixieland clubs in St. Louis and Chicago. There are none in Atlanta, for example."

But that doesn’t bother him at all. "Club

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work is long hours and low pay. Generally, I’d just as soon do the corporate thing — parties, et cetera."

He started listening to it in the 1950s, he said, and has been a clarinetist himself since high school. But eventually, as much as he loved Dixieland jazz right off the bat, he had a fling with bebop for a while. But in 1990, he said, he went back to Dixieland.

"It’s where my heart is."

So we asked him where he was from. "I’m from Milwaukee — a wonderful old Southern town," he said, laughing.

And this is a most versatile band. Sort of a one size fits all organization. They come as a trio, a quartet, a quintet and a sextet.

"Well, it’s the trio that’s coming to Augusta — clarinet, banjo, tuba. And I’ll play soprano sax also.

"Hopefully we’ll put a smile on their faces and a tap in their toes and make ‘em feel better. That’s what it’s about."

If you go to a Hotlanta concert you are likely to hear the work of Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Louie Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and a lot more.

Here is a song list: "Mack the Knife," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Royal Garden Blues," "Wolverine Blues" (I don’t think this has anything to do with the X-Man though), "Doctor Jazz," "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?," "Poor Butterfly," "Puttin’ on the Ritz," "Original Dixieland One-Step," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," "Bourbon Street Parade," "Wildman Blues," "Steppin’ Out With My Baby," "Big Butter and Eggman," "All By Myself," "Rosetta," "Struttin’ With Some Barbecue," "Ain’t Misbehavin’" and "Clarinet Marmalade."

Of course, there are a lot more, which can be found at http://hometown.aol.com/donerdman/pages/hdjsongs.html.

If you would like to explore some of Hotlanta’s favorite links, then check out Hotlanta Swings, another Don Erdman project, at http://hometown.aol.com/donerdman/pages/swing/html; The Spontaneous Muse, or the homepage of Greg McLean, who is a trumpeter, composer and all-round musician, at http://www.mindspring.com/~grgmc/;

The Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) Page at http://www.dixiejazz.com/dixie/html looks like a good primer page, with a section titled Dixieland Jazz — What Is It? Which will lead you to articles about the music form like "An Introduction to New Orleans Jazz by Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Ph.D., curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University; "A Dixieland Jazz Overview" by Murray Pfeffer and "Traditional Classic Dixieland Jazz FAQ and Resource List" by Stan Klein.

Hotlanta Dixieland Jazz is coming to town courtesy of the Tuesday Music Live music series. They will perform at St. Paul’s church at 605 Reynolds Street on Oct. 21 at noon.

The programs themselves are free, but if you would like to partake of the catered lunch, then it costs $7 per person. Lunch reservations are necessary and can be made by calling (706) 722-3463. For information, call (706) 724-2485. Lunch will be catered by The Atlanta Bread Company.

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Movie Listings going to marry his nerdy, peppy, fresh-faced, relentlessly horny girlfriend Michelle (Alyson Hannigan). This, of course, requires a bachelor par ty (strippers), a meeting of the in-laws and shopping for the wedding dress (a dance-off at a gay bar), not to mention the catastrophebound event itself. "American Wedding" becomes something of a showcase for Seann William Scot t, who gets to strut his stuff right up to, and then well over the top.

Another saving grace is the presence of Eugene Levy, once again por traying Jim's dad, and Fred Willard, as the father of the bride. All of which might sound like a recommendation, which this most cer tainly is not. But essentially, the thing is harmless. Cast: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scot t, Alyson Hannigan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard. Running time: 1 hr., 35 mins.

(Salm) ★1/2 Bad Boys II (R) — Vulgar, brazen, crass, violent, stupid, juvenile, loud, long and pointless — "Bad Boys II" is all that, plus a thin slice of enter taining. The scene is Miami. Marcus (Mar tin Lawrence) and par tner Mike (Will Smith) are back as narcs pledged to double duty: to collar nasty crooks, and to tickle the audience with cute bonding humor. They kick off this par ty by blowing a major drug bust while messing up a Ku Klux Klan rally at the drop site for smuggled dope. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer gives us not story, but the idea of story as gooey plot pizza; not violence, but the idea of violence as car toonish pulp; not style, but the idea of style as shiny pictures for gaping apes; not comedy, but the idea of comedy as compulsive imbecility; not fun, but the idea of fun as a migraine of lavishly cheap jolts. Cast: Will Smith, Mar tin Lawrence, Gabrielle Union, Joe Pantoliano, Jordi Molla. Running time: 2 hrs., 30 mins. (Elliot t) ★ Bruce Almighty (PG-13) — Jim Carrey is Bruce, the goofy features repor ter on a TV station in Buf falo.

He aspires to become a "serious" anchor, but af ter blowing his cool on the air, loses his job and has a rif t with his sweet, please-marry-me girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston).

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Freeman). The Lord loans his powers to Bruce. Time for some payback, some wild stunts, some sexual dazzling of Aniston, some nudges of satire. Like Mel Brooks as Moses in "History of the World, Par t I," Carrey has climbed the comical Mount Sinai and, like Brooks, he has dropped a tablet on the way down. One of the pieces is "Bruce Almighty." Cast: Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Baker Hall, Catherine Bell.

Running time: 1 hr., 45 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Chaos (NR) — An upper-class French couple, Paul and Hélène, cross paths with a young prostitute when they witness her being at tacked by a group of men close to their car. They take the prostitute, Malika, to the hospital, where Hélène devotes her time to taking care of Malika, now in a coma.

Daddy Day Care (PG) — Looking very 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 facility. There is an absurdly snooty 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) ★★ The Fighting Temptations (PG-13) — Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Darrin, a junior adver tising exec with secrets. He's nearly broke and he lied on his resume to get his job. Then the worst-case scenario happens: His deception is discovered af ter he helps to land a major account for the company. Then he learns that his Aunt Sally has passed away and he's expected to at tend her funeral as her last surviving relative. Darrin learns that he'll gain a huge inheritance if he whips the church choir into shape in time for a gospel contest. This is where "The Fighting Temptations" falls into the pit of stupidity.

What saves the movie from being a total stinker is the music. As for Gooding, he seems to have confused charm and enthusiasm for acting. Cast: Cuba Gooding

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Jr., Beyonce Knowles, Mike Epps, Melba Moore, Angie Stone, the O'Jays, Montell Jordan and Rue McClanahan.

Running time: 1 hr., 28 mins. (McCormick) ★★ Finding Nemo (G) — A father clown fish (Alber t Brooks) tracks young son Nemo through the Pacific to Sydney, Australia, af ter the small fry is caught and sold for a fish tank. Ellen DeGeneres voices adorable Dory, who is very pret ty and helpful as Marlin's search mate.

The humans are alien invaders, big and nearly thoughtless. If "Finding Nemo" is just another of our plex distractions, then it's a giddy bummer, but as a whimsical warning with bite it arrives just in time. Helping to make the seas a lasting realm for real Nemos could be the good, giving backwash of "Finding Nemo." Cast: Alber t Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Austin Pendleton, Vicki Lewis, Geof frey Rush, Barry Humphries. Running time: 1 hr., 41 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★★ Freddy vs. Jason (R) — The two masters of horror find themselves locked in a gory bat tle. An unfor tunate group of teens finds that they’re trapped in the middle of the slasher showdown. Cast: Rober t Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Kelly Rowland, Jason Bateman, Jason Rit ter.

Good Boy! (PG) — Owen Baker, an only child and the brainy son of ninnies, wants a dog — the one he gets is a mut t who proves to be space traveler Canine

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2942 from the "dog star" Sirius. Soon the pooch, renamed Hubble, is talking to Owen and the dogs he walks. They talk back (moving lips and sitcom zings in the voices of Mat t Broderick, Cheech Marin, Brit tany Murphy, Delta Burke, etc.). Owen learns that dogs rule, above all the Sirian leader, the Greater Dane. This is no "Babe" or "Best in Show" for the sub-12 set, but Liam Aiken is an appealingly talented kid actor, the photography is glossy, the body function jokes are tame, and messages about love, home and species bonding peg in neatly. Go fetch. Running time: 1 hr., 28 mins. (Elliot t) ★★1/2 House of the Dead (R) — It’s spring break and a group of college friends are looking for a good time.

Hearing rumors about a rave on a remote island not far from Seat tle, the group sets out for the par ty, but miss the boat by a few minutes. They commission a tough boat captain to char ter a ride to the island, but when they get there, there’s no rave, just a deser ted island, a few surviving ravers and a pack of bloodthirsty zombies.

Cast: Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ellie Cornell, William Sanderson.

Intolerable Cruelty (PG-13) — The cruel par t of the new Coen Bros. comedy is that Catherine Zeta-Jones barely acts. She's like a pasted-on at traction. We keep expecting something to ignite between her and George Clooney, something sexy and wild and delight fully cruel.

She is a gold digger named Marilyn; he is L.A.'s mostly smoothly predatory divorce lawyer, Miles. Miles and Marilyn are barracudas swimming in white wine, but the movie lacks teeth. When Marilyn and Miles both reveal they are bored with their lavish gains, it exposes a core of ennui in the movie, and this shrivels what should be the funny friction of two cynics who can't help falling in love. Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geof frey Rush, Cedric the Enter tainer, Billy Bob Thornton, Edward Herrmann. Running time: 1 hr., 50 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Jeepers Creepers 2 (R) — In the sequel to 2001’s “Jeepers Creepers,” a busload of high school basketball players, cheerleaders and coaches headed home from the state championships run into a terrifying, flesh-eating creature on a desolate back road. Cast: Jonathan Breck, Ray Wise, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Billy Aaron Brown, Lena Caldwell.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 (R) — Uma Thurman plays the bride who seeks revenge upon her former par tners, the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad masterminded by her past lover, Bill (David Carradine). The bride is the former Black Mamba, whack specialist. The squad broke into her wedding near El Paso, leaving nine corpses and her for dead.

She wakes from a coma. Black Mamba goes to Japan by way of Okinawa. Waiting in Tokyo is yakuza queen ORen Ishii (Lucy Liu), a squad member. This is entirely about having fun, and only a gut response will do.

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“Out of Time”

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Disposing of human beings as stylized sushi, Quentin Tarantino is a master of revels, a pulp fiction Prospero.

At this level, he doesn't need depth to be terrific. Cast: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Darryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox, Sonny Chiba, Michael Parks, Julie Dreyfus. Running time: 1 hr., 39 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★★

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (PG13) — Sean Connery's Allan Quatermain is a former

adventurer suf fering from disillusionment and a broken hear t. A mysterious Brit who calls himself "M" finds the physically fit Quatermain in Africa with predictions of impending doom and a request by Queen Victoria to help save the world. An opium-wracked Quatermain is tracked down by the Dracula-inspired character Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), who is introduced a lit tle later in the film, as are Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man. One might forgive some of the clunky editing and pasted-together plotlines. Less forgivable is the contrived, bring-on-the-sequel ending. Unforgivable and completely baf fling is the dimming of Connery's starpower. Cast: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Stuar t Townsend and Shane West. Running time: 1 hr., 41 mins. (Wood) ★★

Lost in Translation (R) — “Lost in Translation”

follows two guests at a Tokyo hotel whose lives intertwine following a chance encounter at the hotel bar. The guests are Bob, a middle-aged actor in Tokyo to film whiskey commercials, and Charlot te, the young wife of a mostly absent photographer. Unable to sleep one night, the two head down to the bar for a drink, where they meet and forge a friendship based on their mutual loneliness and boredom. Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlet t Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi, Yutaka Tadokoro. Rnning time: 1 hr., 42 mins.

My Boss’s Daughter (PG-13) — When a young man’s tough boss asks him to housesit, it seems to be the per fect oppor tunity for the young man to hook up with the boss’s beautiful daughter, on whom he’s had a longtime crush. But he can’t seem to get her alone, as a strange cast of characters revolve in and out of the house on various personal missions. Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Carmen Electra, Andy Richter, Molly Shannon.

Mystic River (R) — Jimmy (Sean Penn), Dave (Tim Robbins) and Sean (Kevin Bacon) are childhood friends from a rough Boston neighborhood. Af ter growing up

and going their separate ways, the three are brought together 25 years later in the face of a tragic event: the murder of Jimmy’s teen-age daughter. Sean, now a cop, and his par tner are assigned to the case, but must stay one step ahead of Jimmy’s enraged hunt for the killer.

Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurence Fishburne, Laura Linney.

Out of Time (PG-13) — John Billingsley stars as Chae, a drunken wiseguy and pathologist who trades corkers with Police Chief Mat t Whitlock (Denzel Washington), who sloshes through his latest case. The chief is suddenly the big suspect in a double murder caused by arson, af ter his incriminating, illicit af fair with past girlfriend Anne (Sanaa Lathan). Whitlock hustles through a hot day covering up the clues that point to him, while the main detective sleuthing his trail is his vampy, almost ex-wife, Alex (Eva Mendes). Dynamic, but obsessively remote from reality, "Out of Time" is like a drive-in movie for a car junkyard. Cast: Denzel Washington, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain, Eva Mendes. Running time: 1 hr., 54 mins. (Elliot t) ★1/2 Radio (PG) — James Rober t Kennedy is a mentally challenged young man who goes by the nickname Radio.

The high school football coach decides to mentor Radio, to the chagrin of the community. Slowly, the town warms up to Radio. Their decades-long friendship was depicted in a 1996 Sports Illustrated ar ticle by Gary Smith. Cast: Cuba Gooding, Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard, Debra Winger.

Runaway Jury (PG-13) — In a high-profile trial against a gun manufacturer, a jury member joins forces with a beautiful woman intent on manipulating the trial.

Millions of dollars hang in the balance. Cast: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hof fman, Rachel Weisz.

The Rundown (PG-13) — The Rock stars as Beck, a sor t of bounty hunter. He goes to South America to bag the fugitive son of an L.A. thug. The grown kid is Travis (Seann William Scot t). Travis is the wiseof f in an Amazonian town, a hellhole, slave pit and diamond mine ruled by Hatcher (Christopher Walken). Rosario Dawson, her flesh like a sweat mirage, is Mariana, "barmaid by day, rebel leader by night." Sor t of an Indiana Jones jungle par ty for wrestling fans, "The Rundown" does have the Rock, who radiates benign composure — pure nice guy until pushed too far. Briefly we hear the late Johnny Cash: "Don't take your gun to town." Of course, every

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gun does come to town. Cast: The Rock, Seann William Scot t, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken. Running time: 1 hr., 36 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ The School of Rock (PG-13) — Jack Black, having learned a few things about rocking from singing and playing guitar in his band, Tenacious D, is a wannabe rock star named Dewey Finn who stumbles into a substitute teaching job. In between his outbursts of hair-metal singing and energetic dancing, he teaches his class of private school fif th graders the impor tance of self-confidence and "sticking it to the man," while he, in turn, learns what it means to be a team player. At times, the film comes close to comedic mediocrity but, like its characters, is saved by rock 'n' roll. Cast: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman. Running time: 1 hr., 48 mins. (Fu) ★★★ Seabiscuit (PG-13) — Charles Howard, acted by Jef f Bridges, is a brawny, self-made man whose success as an auto biz wiz led to personal tragedy, then a healing fancy for horses. Mostly, for Seabiscuit. Two other men also are saviors of Seabiscuit, in turn saved by him.

Chris Cooper is trainer Tom Smith, a folksy genius of horse sense; and the scrappy jockey, Johnny "Red"

Pollard, a Depression castaway stuck with dud horses and even bare-knuckle boxing, is acted by scrawny but muscular Tobey Maguire. The film piles on glossy contex t, but it finds its legs once the beloved horse turns into a come-from-behind challenger, egged on by the media. As a scrappy fable, this corn pops well, emotionally. Cast: Jef f Bridges, Tobey Maguire, Chris Cooper, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Banks. Running time: 2 hrs., 10 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★ S.W.A.T. (PG-13) — Samuel L. Jackson is Lt. Dan Harrelson, called Hondo, who is can-do to a fanatical degree. He's the only actor of sizable presence. Time for plot! Bring on one-dude fashion layout Olivier Mar tinez as Alex, a French psycho who has killed 24 and bags No. 25 by slit ting the throat of his uncle with a knife "given me by my father." He is called "the frog." Arrested, the swinish Alex of fers $100 million to anyone who can free him. Within hours, L.A. is crawling with crazies armed with bazookas and other big-time weapons, ready to blow Alex free, demolish subways, escor t him through sewers (yes, one has computerized bats) and land a jet plane on a street bridge. Of course, only Hondo's squad can block this evil and perhaps Francophile scheme.

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Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Olivier Mar tinez, Josh Charles, Larry Poindex ter. Running time: 1 hr., 57 mins. (Elliot t) ★ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (R) — It’s a remake of the original film and based loosely on true events that inspired that film and “The Silence of the Lambs.” A group of friends becomes isolated in the midst of a clan of cannibals. Cast: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Eric Balfour, Erica Leerhsen.

Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (PG-13) —

Angelina Jolie recycles as Lara Crof t, tracking down a golden ball that leads to a magical chest that is Pandora's my thic box. Chief villain Ciaran Hinds is a bulging suit who wants to release hellish plagues on the world. The high point goes nowhere but down, a long, gliding jump of f a Hong Kong skyscraper. Many exotic places are visited, each one posing like a theme park. But then the wowzer payof f: a hokey cave with acid pools, and ugly tree monsters fiercely auditioning for "Lord of the Rings: The Final Nonsense." Cast: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds, Djimon Hounsou. Running time: 1 hr., 56 mins. (Elliot t) ★ Under the Tuscan Sun (PG-13) — is based on

Frances Mayes' book, a hit memoir of the Bay Area professor's seasonal life in Tuscany, refurbishing an old villa.

Diane Lane plays Frances, always lovely and loveable even when in the grim throes of divorce. She makes a new life in Italy, empowered for the adventure by a lesbian friend (Sandra Oh) in San Francisco. In the book, Frances deepens gradually as the old house is remade, and the estate, food, wine and people saturate her spirit.

But it's a dif ficult book to film. "Under the Tuscan Sun" suf fers the sunburn of radioactive pret tiness. This is la dolce vapid. Cast: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Raoul Bova, Lindsay Duncan, Vincent Riot ta. Running time: 1 hr., 52 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Underworld (R) — For centuries, a bat tle has been raging between vampires, sophisticated city dwellers, and Lycans, werewolf street thugs. “Underworld” is a Gothic twist on “Romeo and Juliet,” chronicling the pit falls of young love between a vampire (Kate Beckinsale) and a Lycan (Scot t Speedman). Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Danny McBride, Scot t Speedman, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen.

—Capsules compiled from movie reviews written by David Elliott, film critic for The San Diego Union-Tribune and other staff writers.

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They were Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, respectively.

The two Academy Award-winners have been friends for nearly 50 years, having started out together in the ‘50s at the Pasadena Playhouse. According to the “Runaway Jury” Web site, when Hoffman finally moved to New York, he slept in the kitchen of the small apartment Hackman shared with the thenMrs. Hackman. He slept next to the bathtub.

Neither of them could have foreseen the leading roles they later won, because neither had that pretty-boy, leading-man look. But they were good. Real good. And that got them jobs.

And the rest is history: Film after film.

Academy Awards for both men. Fame. Fortune.

Sources say, however, that this is the first time they have actually worked together in a film.

Hoffman is quoted on the site as saying that not much has really changed since their first acting classes 46 years ago. “We arrived on the set as frightened as when we arrived to do our first scene back then,” he said.

He also called both of their characters archetypes and said that they are actually very similar men, though they operate by two different philosophies of life: Fitch will stop at nothing to get his way; Rohr tries to be an honest man.

But what, exactly, is at stake here? The jury, in a high-profile civil lawsuit involving murder.

The Story “Everybody has a secret they don’t want us to find.”

That’s one of Hackman’s lines as Rankin Fitch, a jury consultant who will stop at nothing to sway the 12 women and men who will decide the fate of his client. He, not the defendant’s lawyer, is the brains behind the defense, and seeks to win the case before it even gets off the ground. The plan? Have the “right” jury put in place, who will vote in favor of the corporation being taken to civil

court by a young widow who blames them for her husband’s murder.

Hoffman’s Wendall Rohr is the honest lawyer who refuses to give up his morals and seeks to fight the good fight for a cause he believes in. It would seem, on the surface, that the two men are the ones fighting for control of the jury. But they haven’t taken into account juror Nick Easter (John Cusack) and the mysterious “Marlee” (Rachel Weisz).

“Runaway Jury” is the work of John Grisham, who gave us “The Firm” and “The Pelican Brief.” With all that star power, it can’t help but be a thrilling ride.

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John Cusack is no newcomer to this sort of dramatic role, having already portrayed a con artist in “The Grifters” by Stephen Frears.

Other titles to his credit include “Eight Men Out,” “Say Anything” and “The Sure Thing,” as well as cameos in “The Player” by Robert Altman and “Bob Roberts” by Tim Robbins.

More recently, he has starred in “Identity” and “Max,” in which he plays gallery owner Max Rothman who, in 1918, encouraged an aspiring artist to paint. (The artist in question, however, never quite got the hang of it in the way he’d wanted, and so turned his attentions to conquering the world instead, wreaking havoc and mayhem on the civilized world and causing the deaths of, oh, about 6 million people.)

Hackman and Hoffman, between the two of them, have been in everything. Hackman’s titles include “The French Connection,” “Unforgiven,” “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Mississippi Burning.” Hoffman we know from his work in “The Graduate,” “Rain Man,” “Tootsie,” and a million others. And, of course, he’s one of the Big Three (including Pacino and DeNiro).

Rachel Weisz starred in “Confidence” with Hoffman, and also starred in “About a Boy,” with Hugh Grant. She also worked with Brendan Fraser in “The Mummy Returns,” and with Joseph Fiennes and Jude Law in “Enemy at the Gates.”

If you want more, check out the official movie site at www.runawayjurymovie.com/.

The film opens in theatres Oct. 17. For info on movie times, check out the Metro Spirit Movie Clock on page 50.

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Leatherface Still Evokes Fear in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

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mbedded in our pop culture psyche and cinematic landscape, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" has left an impression since its release in 1974. Made for a paltry sum (its estimated budget was $150,000), the chilling story about a deformed psychopath who hunts down his victims with a chainsaw is still much imitated and adored. Viewers need look no further than "The Blair Witch Project" or the recent "Jeepers Creepers" (and its sequel) to see this. And, although the story’s high on gore and low on almost everything else, Leatherface still inspires a hell of a lot more fear than Freddy or Jason.

In New Line’s effective update on the original film, the immediate goal – to make stomachs churn – is achieved.

Images of rancid meat, corpses and dislodged body parts dominate the new "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." The story is that a van full of college kids, en route to a concert, is systematically tortured and killed when they become trapped in a desolate Texas town inhabited by a spooky family with a chainsaw-wielding son. The kids are routinely mauled after committing the trio of horror movie sins (namely partaking in sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll) in the first few minutes. The group smokes a joint, while two of them make out in the backseat, as Lynyrd Skynyrd blasts from their radio.

When they pick up a dazed and bloodied hitchhiker on the side of the road, she mumbles something about them going

the wrong way and then pulls a gun from her crotch and shoots herself in the head.

As the kids scramble to find the police, all routes seem to lead them into danger.

Seeking help from the demented sheriff (R. Lee Ermey), a smarmy gas station attendant and a wheelchair-bound homeowner only sends them directly into the hands of the star of the show, Leatherface.

In one telling scene in the film Jessica Biel (who plays one of the teens) unknowingly hears Leatherface dicing up her boyfriend while she attempts to help the monster’s legless relative re-attach his colostomy bag. More disgusting than it is thrilling, the finest moments in the film come when it gives over to the whine of that chainsaw.

When the characters are pulled away from the dank dungeon that serves as Leatherface’s lair – where he slaughters his victims and removes their faces so he can don the skin as a mask – the more enjoyable aspects of the chase come alive. While the ghoul lumbers after the kids, chainsaw in hand, the real fun starts. The abandoned slaughterhouse, complete with squealing pigs and active meat freezer, serves as a particularly appropriate site for a showdown.

To be endured more than enjoyed, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is still little more than an exercise in wooing teenage boys with the promise of blood and guts.

For those outside the target audience, a success in this arena is probably better acknowledged than witnessed.

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Life on the Road Brings Welcome Challenges to Col. Bruce Hampton

By Lisa Jordan

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recent Tuesday morning telephone call found Col. Bruce Hampton enjoying one of his rare days at home between tour dates. A veteran of the road over the past 30-plus years, Hampton is now playing and touring with his band The Codetalkers, who will make a stop in Augusta Oct. 25.

“We’ve been on about a month tour and we just got home,” Hampton says. “We live on the Alabama-Florida line, and it sure is good to be home. The South is the only place to live. It really is.”

And Hampton would know – his travels have taken him throughout the country, up and down coasts, through towns large and small and roads well-traveled, as well as those less traversed. It’s a wonder, Hampton says, that he still has his sanity.

“It makes you completely crazy,” he acknowledges with a deep, jolly laugh.

“I’ve traveled about 80-120 thousand miles a year. I savor every second I’m at home, and I never have more than two or three days off. You sleep in a different place every night. It’s hard work, but that’s the name of the game. You’ve got to travel in this business.”

While there’s no doubt the adventures of the road keep Hampton’s interest, the challenges of creating new works also hold his attention.

“I don’t know if I keep my fans interested, but I keep myself interested,” he says – again with a laugh. “Every day is just a new day, and I try to change every day and let go of who I think I am.

There’s probably 10 songs that I’ve done for 40 years. I never find it dull to play music; it’s always exciting and mysterious. Music is never boring. There’s always mystery and there’s always childlike imagination. I never know what’s going to happen. Mistakes keep me going. There are no wrong notes.”

Over the years, Hampton’s name has been connected with many popular acts – Widespread Panic, Derek Trucks and Phish’s Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio, to name just a few. There’s an admiration that flows both ways, from the newcomers to the veteran and back. It offers, Hampton says, yet another dimen-

“Every day is just a new day, and I try to change every day and let go of who I think I am.”

— Col. Bruce Hampton sion to the challenge of creating music.

“I’m very lucky and I’m very blessed in doing such,” he says. “I’ve gotten to work with the greats in the world forever, and it’s always inspirational. I’ve got, in the new bunch of people I work with, the Phish guys and John Medeski and Widespread, the younger people – they’re 40 years old, so you know I’m old – it’s always a challenge.”

The music of The Codetalkers affords

Hampton and company the freedom to experiment with a sound that refuses to be boxed in by the notion of genre.

“The Codetalkers are more tune-oriented. It’s always been pretty much the same. We try to do blues, jazz, folk, bluegrass, all at the same time. I like it all; I like every form of music,” says Hampton. “We usually take a form and then explore it. There’s a ton of freedom, but with that freedom comes extreme dis-

cipline. It’s never what you play – it’s always what you don’t play.

“If you’re in our group, you’ve got to play swing, you’ve got to play Latin and blues and jazz and bluegrass. You’ve got to have the time feel of all those elements, or it just doesn’t work.”

On Saturday, Oct. 25, The Codetalkers will be at The Blind Pig, 1251 Broad St. For more information, call The Blind Pig at 722-7335.

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n the pre-cable dark ages of the early ‘70s, Augusta had only three television stations.

Channels 6, 12, and (if you had a special antenna) 26 aired typical major network fare but ceased broadcasting each day a little after midnight. That’s right, boys and girls — no TV late at night unless the Wrens-based GPTV station channel 20 offered special programming that might last all the way to the bewitching hour of (gasp!) 1 a.m.

Occasionally, these public television affiliates would show something a bit more youth-oriented than some boring British history series, which is how I happened to first discover an amazing PINK FLOYD project “Live at Pompeii.”

The band traveled to northern Italy in 1971 to perform in the doomed city’s amphitheater and recorded the proceedings. The Floyd were only one year away from recording “Dark Side of the Moon,” making the “Pompeii” project even more historically important. The 91-minute directors cut, set for DVD release next week in 5.1 surround and regular stereo, is an important link in the history of one of the most popular and successful rock bands ever. Check it out but be advised: “Be careful with that ax, Eugene.”

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ELTON JOHN and BERNIE TAUPIN are working on a musical interpretation of the Anne Rice book “The Vampire Lestat.” John is no stranger to the genre, as his fine work on “The Lion King” and “Aida” attests. Look for the results sometime next year. John’s next project is yet again another DVD — a new 5.1 surround sound version of arguably his best album ever, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” which is due next month.

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Ages Beyond Myst.” The popular series has long been a fave of Gabriel’s. The ex-Genesis frontman has two other ongoing projects as well — A two-CD hits compilation spotlighting the best of his solo years and some very interesting in-concert offerings. Gabriel has entered into an agreement with themusic.com, a site that offers every single show from his spring tour from earlier this year.

Yes, the June 16 Atlanta show is yours for the buying. Don’t you wish you could own audio copies of some of the shows you’ve attended over the years?

KISS and AEROSMITH added a couple of dozen dates to their very successful 2003 tour. Catch both bands but you’ll have to travel a bit — November 22 at the Coliseum in Greensboro, NC and Dec. 5 at Jacksonville’s Memorial Arena. The tour has done jam-up business all summer and truly is a lot of lip (Aerosmith) and tongue (Kiss) for the buck.

Turner’s Quick Notes HOOBASTANK and OZOMATLI invade Atlanta’s Tabernacle Oct. 17 ... DAVID LEE ROTH dropped his lawsuit against his former bandmates in VAN HALEN. Word is that they probably settled out of court ... THE GRATEFUL DEAD’s closing show at San Francisco’s famed Winterland is due for release next month ... Turn Up the Funk: JAMES BROWN and MACEO PARKER’s white-hot “The Greatest Soul On Earth” has just been reissued ... exAfghan Whigs leader GREG DULLI has a new project out this week under the name THE TWILIGHT SINGERS. Turner’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Jeopardy A. These funk and soul pioneers began their careers in the early ‘60s while cutting and styling hair in their native Detroit.

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With a Name Like the Libertines…

They were bound to be trouble. Actually, only one of them seems to be trouble – Pete Doherty, guitarist and admitted robber. He sacked the home of bandmate Carl Barat and for that got a six-month jail term which has recently been reduced to two months. But guess what? The band, including Barat, are poised to take him back. Who knows?

They’ve had some chart success. Maybe they’re just afraid to alter the lineup.

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Careful What You Post on the Web Princeton grad student. The World Wide Web. Brilliant paper on defeating copy-protection software on new CDs by pressing one single, magical computer key. Software maker SunnComm Technologies Inc. threatens suit. Of course, SunnComm has accused the student, Alex Halderman, of making erroneous assumptions and coming to false conclusions, but say they have lost millions of dollars of its market value since Halderman published the paper. The corporation says Halderman violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by telling the world of certain driver files.

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People Different From Us For a September report, an LA Weekly writer hung out with Benji Breitbart, Doug Marsh and several other “Disneyana enthusiasts,” who spend hours nearly every single day at Disneyland; have almost total recall of the park’s history and culture; rabidly collect memorabilia; and preach with intensity on which aspects of today’s park Walt Disney would not have approved. DE’s usually wear Disney-themed clothes; use the pronoun “we” as if the park was theirs; and are dismissive of the obsessives of “Star Trek.” (“Trekkies are devoted to some stupid pop-culture fad,” said Marsh, but “Disney fans believe in the magic.”)

Why, Breitbart was asked, was Disney such a central force in his life? “I tried to figure that out. I just ended up with no answers.”

Can’t Possibly Be True • According to two maintenance workers on duty in Cleveland’s Carver Park Estates in September, James Black, 49, either boldly or obliviously dragged a dead, bloody body out of his apartment house in broad daylight and laid it on the ground in plain sight of the two men, then calmly went back inside and emerged with a mop, which he used to swab blood from the sidewalk. The incredulous workers immediately called police, who arrested Black and the next day charged him with aggravated murder.

• In June, a judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Bernard Johnson to 12 years in prison for shooting D.C. Police Det. Anthony McGee three times. However, the judge immediately suspended five of the years, and of the remaining seven, five were mandatory for merely carrying a firearm during the crime, leaving the add-on punishment for actually shooting the cop to two years, or eight months per bullet hole.

• The July amateur wrestling match in Tbilisi (former Soviet republic of Georgia), between Dzhambulat Khotokhov (123 pounds, from Russia) and Georgy Bibilauri (112 pounds, from Georgia) ended in a draw, and, afterward, both wrestlers broke training briefly for ice cream and cake to celebrate Bibilauri’s birthday. Bibilauri is now 5 years old; Khotokhov is 4.

Inexplicable • A man fled the motor vehicles office in Leesburg, Va., after a September incident in

which he, silently and calmly, presented a DMV employee with a postcard photograph of a banana being shot by a bullet, and the legend “banana=DMV.” The man then hurried out, and when several employees got to the parking lot in pursuit, there were bananas strewn around the lot but no one in sight. Said the Leesburg police chief, “This (man) is a different (kind).”

• After a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge, FBI agent James Hanson III paid a $105 fine and $12,000 in restitution to the Barbary Coast hotel in Las Vegas for a May incident in which he, for some reason that he has yet to make public, fired two shots from his service weapon at a lobster in a walk-in cooler. It was a latenight incident, with no one in the vicinity, but Hanson was captured on a surveillance tape.

Hanson was in Las Vegas for an accounting seminar.

• In August, around the time that the Ten Commandments monument was moved out of the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery because of a federal judge’s ruling that it was too much of a religious statement for government property, Ms. Blanca Castillo petitioned county commissioners in Fort Worth, Texas, to remove a statue in front of the county’s administrative building because it was insulting of religion. The offending statue, of a sleeping panther, struck Ms. Castillo as too paganistically feline, and therefore “sinister,” and she recommended a statue of something else, such as a steer.

Smooth Reactions Kevin French, 46, pleaded guilty to shooting his neighbor in the head with an air rifle because he mowed his lawn too often (Elmira, N.Y., April). An inmate (unnamed in an internal report by a psychiatric prison) went into a violent rage and took a therapist hostage after fellow prisoners laughed at his drawing of “toilet paper” in a game of Pictionary (Abbotsford, British Columbia, July). Walter Travis, 68, was arrested for shooting a neighbor several times after the neighbor’s dog pooped on his lawn (Indianapolis, August). Danny Ginn, 46, was arrested for commandeering a garbage truck at gunpoint because he was tired of the truck’s driver using Ginn’s driveway to turn around in (Bedford, Ky., August).

Least Competent People A 26-year-old man will be hospitalized “for months” in Illawarra, Australia, following an August accident that authorities speculate might have been inspired by the film “Jackass.” The man was apparently walking across a room with a lighted firecracker between his posterior cheeks when he slipped and fell backward to the floor. The explosion resulted in a fractured pelvis, severe genital burns, hemorrhaging from the buttocks and ruptured urethra, leaving him incontinent and sexually dysfunctional.

Update Extreme body-piercing in Arizona was a subject fit only for the alternative newsweekly New Times Phoenix in 2001, but in August 2003, Tucson’s mainstream press (Arizona Daily Star) followed an 18-year-old man, who was having four modified deep-sea (8-gauge) fishing hooks threaded into his back so that he could be hoisted toward the ceiling and suspended for 20 minutes of what the man said was the worst pain he’d ever felt (for the privilege of which he paid $150). Said the piercing shop’s wrangler, Chris Glunt, “For some it’s like a spiritual thing. I’ve suspended to clear my head. You can focus and concentrate on where you stand in life.”

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convinced me that most Virgos tend to be foxes. In the coming days, however, I advise you to try out the hedgehog perspective. It’ll ensure you don’t miss the forest for the trees.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Where exactly does happiness come from, ask David Meyers and Ed Diener in their article, “The Science of Happiness,” published in “The Futurist” magazine. Do you experience happiness primarily through being a good person or contemplating the meaning of life? From indulging in pleasure or knowing the truth? From preserving comfy illusions or purging yourself of pentup rage and sadness? All the above? Let these questions be the starting point for your own meditations on the subject, Libra. It’s a perfect moment to get very serious about defining what brings you joy and making concrete plans to harvest more of it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) The science newsletter, “Mini-Annals of Improbable Research,” did a poll of its readers on the question, “Does reality exist?” Forty-two percent answered yes, while 31 percent asserted that it most certainly does not.

The remaining 27 percent were undecided. A few of the latter believed that their reality exists but no one else’s does. Two people said, “Yes, reality exists, but you can’t get to it.” According to one respondent, “Reality exists only when it is really necessary.” Remember that line, Scorpio, because it will be quite necessary for your reality to exist in the coming weeks. Here’s another response to the poll that you should make your own: “Reality especially exists right after a thunderstorm.” I predict that your reality will become vivid and deep once your metaphorical tempest ends in a few days.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Fate is conspiring to suck you into an intensive behavioral modification program. The goal: to weed out the wishywashy wishes and leech out the lukewarm longings that are keeping you distracted from your burning desires.

Here’s the paradoxical formula that will be at the heart of this process: If you try to maintain the illusion that you’re not losing yourself, you will in fact lose yourself. But if you surrender and agree to lose yourself, you will break through to a new level of communion with the deepest, most eternal part of yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Nice guys finish last.” So proclaimed the crusty old

Brezsny's Free Will Astrology gradual approach. Psychotherapists and acupuncturists, for example, typically see their clients once a week, theorizing that even deep-seated problems have to be undone slowly and gently. Some mavericks take a more radical approach, however. One acupuncturist I know has her clients come and stay at her clinic for six consecutive days, during which time she administers a fresh treatment every two hours. This is the kind of approach I recommend for you right now, Cancerian. You’re on the verge of curing a certain longstanding imbalance, and intense, concentrated attention is the best way to do it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I shopped at a local supermarket for months before striking up a conversation with Wendy, one of the checkout clerks. “How was your weekend?” I asked her one Monday. “I worked at my two other jobs,” she said. I was surprised, having assumed her career consisted entirely of tallying grocery purchases. “I’m a psychotherapist at a group home for disturbed teens,” she continued, “and I’m trying to finish my PhD dissertation.” I blushed in embarrassment for having misread her so thoroughly. As she processed my order, we had an interesting exchange about adolescent angst and the politics of psychotherapy.

I suggest you make Wendy your inspirational symbol this week, Leo. May she remind you to dig beneath the surface and uncover the deeper truth about everything you think you have figured out.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “The fox knows many things,” said the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, “but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Twentieth-century philosopher Isaiah Berlin used this thought as an organizing principle in discussing types of writers. Hedgehogs like Dante and Plato yearned to explain life’s apparent chaos with a single, all-embracing theory, Berlin believed, whereas foxes like Shakespeare preferred to revel in the world’s messy multiplicity without feeling a need to unify it all in one system. My long experience with astrological types has

ARIES (March 21-April 19) This may sound crazy, but the best way to attract good luck in the coming week is to experiment with doing the opposite of what you usually do. For instance, you could act as if limitations are fantastic opportunities. Instead of indulging your impulses, you can question them — lightheartedly, of course. Rather than leading everyone into interesting temptation with your fiery enthusiasm, you could be a meditative follower who listens well and tries out other people’s daring plans. Any other ideas?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The next couple of weeks will be an excellent time to purge any nagging karma that has been haunting your love life. You’ll be ready to move on to new romantic frontiers once you clear away the residue that has been subtly burdening you. To achieve the proper spirit of rowdy fierceness, I suggest you learn the following country music songs and belt them out now and then: “You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat,” “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I’m Kissing You Goodbye,” “How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?,” “I Wouldn’t Take You to a Dawg Fight, Cause I’m Afraid You’d Win,” “I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well,” and “I Flushed You From The Toilets of my Heart.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) This is your official “too-much-of-a-good-thing” warning. To protect and preserve the sweet progress you’ve enjoyed in recent weeks, make sure that abundance doesn’t tip over into gross excess. How? Refuse to become a slave to your good ideas. Don’t let your triumphs lead to exhaustion. Avoid expressions of generosity that are wasted on the recipients or motivated mostly by the urge to impress people. You can keep all your well-earned rewards, dear Gemini, if you’ll start setting graceful new limits now.

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Nasty guys often don’t even finish because they break the rules by rote. Smart guys and riot grrrls win because they get away with inventing new rules that update the meaning of the ever-evolving game.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Would you consider acquiring a three-foot-long doubleedged sword like the one Beowulf wielded in his famous battle with the monster many centuries ago? A blade resembling King Arthur’s Excalibur would be fine, too, as would one modeled after Glandring, which belonged to the wizard Gandalf in J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.” You won’t need this weapon to defend yourself from physical attack in the coming days, Aquarius; that’s not why I recommend it. Rather, I suggest you use it as a magical prop in a ritual designed to rouse your warrior spirit. Hold it in front of you as you visualize yourself scaring off your inner demons and cutting away the inessential concerns that are bogging you down.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) This may be the time your descendants will tell stories about: the turning point when you outwit an old nemesis and undo an ancient knot, freeing you to finally begin fulfilling your life purpose in earnest. On the other hand, this may be the moment when you shrink back from a challenge similar to one that many generations of your family members have faced. If that’s what happens, your descendants will be lacking an important clue when they encounter their own version of the ancestral puzzle many years from now. Which will it be, Pisces? Answering the call to adventure or refusing it?

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'm a 19-year-old gay male. About a month ago, I "met" a 26-year-old guy on a gay phone chat line. We had four conversations, during which we learned we had all this stuff in common, so we went on a date a couple of weeks ago.

At the end of the evening, I thanked him for a really nice time, but I chose not to go any further because it felt better to wait.

He seemed OK with that, and we gave each other a hug goodnight. Early the next morning, he departed on a two-week vacation. I left him a goodbye message.

While we were apart, it was rough for me, because I fall hard for men sometimes — like this time. He left me so intrigued, I thought of him constantly, despite trying to keep myself preoccupied. A few days ago, he returned from his trip. I'm wondering if it's a wise decision to tell him immediately how I feel about him (for my own wellbeing), or am I better off stifling my swirling emotions?

— On The Verge If your "well-being" hinges on clearing your personal horizon of all potential boyfriends, projectile honesty should do the trick. Just ring the guy up, and start spewing: "Hi, while you were on vacation, an emotional vagrant (that would be me) broke into your life, started an imaginary relationship with you and would now like to discuss — at great length — all the ensuing imaginary issues. Hello? Hello?" (Don't think of that noise you hear as the dial tone; think of it as the sound of inner peace.)

On the off chance that your wellness needs would be better served by enticing the guy to stick around, beating him over the head with your premature undying whatever probably isn't your best bet. This doesn't mean you have to stifle your "swirling emotions"; just lay them on somebody who can put them to good use: "Two weeks apart from you is like four eternities to me ... Granny!" (Unfortunately, such spewguarding measures may have unforeseen complications, such as Granny working up some expectation that you'll visit her at The Home once or twice before she kicks off.)

Keep in mind that you know this guy only marginally better than somebody you stood behind in a grocery store checkout line. So, what's with your inclination to simulate a broken water main upon his return? It's less about who he is than who you are: probably

somebody whose life feels like an unsightly bare spot on the floor; who's panicked into grabbing for the nearest mangy rug and nailing it down for some seemingly permanent coverage. To keep this guy from coming to the same conclusion, keep from spewing anything more than the facts at hand: you had a good time with him once, and you'd like a shot at having a good time with him again.

Finally, quit waving around all that stuff you and he supposedly have in common. Quite frankly, you could probably make the same claim about an 86-year-old toothless Inuit you'd just met. In the long run, what really matters isn't what you and he do have in common but what you don't. (That's the stuff relationships aren't made of.) It's hard enough to spot if you're looking for it, but utterly impossible if you're endlessly screening a mental video loop of "He's the one, he's the one, he's the one!"

Not to worry: That stuff always comes out eventually — usually about a week after you've given up the lease on your obscenely cheap apartment to move in with "the one."

During a month-long career training session, I fell for an engaged woman who flirted madly with me. I refrained from making a move out of respect for her engagement, even though she told me she wasn't making wedding plans until issues with her fiance were resolved.

After training, she invited me to lunch, and confessed that she has feelings for me. I don't want to ruin anyone's life, but I don't want to live with regret either.

— Outside Looking In This woman probably could have given you stronger signals that she wanted you to make a move, such as an hour-long, nude PowerPoint presentation charting all the reasons it makes sense for you to make a pass at her. Keep in mind that she isn't married yet, only engaged. In other words, now's the time to see whether she can become disengaged. If you miss your shot, don't despair. Remember that men, on average, die five to 12 years before their wives. Cross your fingers that this woman is marrying an average man. If you're lucky, he'll drop while she's still got some juice in her — just not quite enough to remember the month when she went from desperately wanting you to desperately wanting to throttle you.

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No Experience necessary - Star t November/December.

14 mon program including 6 mon training Fees apply/scholarships available.

Email: elsemarie@humana.org or call 1 413 441 5126. www.humana.org <ht tp://www.humana.org> (10/16#8225)

Announcements ATTENTION! If you own proper ty or have family buried at Westview Cemetery and are concerned about cemetery maintenance and perpetual care. send your name and address to: Westview Cemetery Association P.O. Box 14547 Augusta, GA 30919 Also we invite you to meet with us each Friday at the Senior Citizens Council Building located at 535 15th Street (nex t to Kroger) in Augusta at 1:00 pm.

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R E A D I N G S

Mrs. Graham, Psychic Reader, Advises on all affairs of life, such as love, marriage, and business. She tells your past, present and future. Mrs. Graham does palm, tarot card, and Chakra balancing. She specializes in relationships and reuniting loved ones.

341 S. Belair Rd.

SPECIAL READINGS WITH CARD

MRS. GRAHAM

www.metrospirit.com Services

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• French Drains • Gutter Drains • Catch Basins • Erosion Control • Waterproofing • Crawl Space

GUARANTEED SOLUTIONS

Open from 9 a.m. til 9 p.m.

Call (706) 733-5851

**Autumn Special** $10.00 Of f 1 Hour Therapeutic Massage by cer tified massage therapist.

Call for an appointment with Linda at 733-2040.

Good through Oct 31, 2003 Regular Price $60.00 (10/16#8239) Full Body Massage!

Therapeutic tension relief, intense or tender touch, rela xing music, aromatherapy, by appointment only - $49.00/hr.

Call Joy - 706-771-9470 or John - 706-868-5598 (10/16#8246)

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706-869-9988

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Wheels

Dead Bodies Wanted

We want your dead junk or scrap car bodies.

We tow away and for some we pay.

706/829-2676

OR

706/798-9060

Yard Sales Kingston Subdivision 3639 Jamaica Drive Saturday, 18 October 8:00 am- 2:00 pm Old and new items some tools (10/16#8256)

Turn Your “Trash”* Into Cash!

Sell your unwanted items or advertise your garage or yard sale in Metro Spirit Classifieds.

Call 738-1142 We accept VISA or Mastercard. *And remember ... one person’s trash is another man’s treasure.

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*Every Tire Includes 30 Day Ride Guarantee | Free

Mounting | Free Lifetime Rotation

*With tire purchase. Balancing and stems extra.

Executive PASSENGER 60,000 Mile Warranty P195/70R14....$42.99 P205/70R15....$58.99

P175/70R13....$41.99

50

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Tires Plus

Touring LP Limited Treadwear Warranty Ask for details

SEMPERIT

4000H

39

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P175/70R13

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99

Standard Alignment

Ask About Our Lifetime Alignment!

• Inspect your vehicle’s steering/suspension • Align vehicle to mfr.’s specifications • Road test vehicle Most vehicles • Parts and shims extra, if required • Shop supply fees in the amount of up to 6% will be added to all services • Expires 11-8-03

$

P185/60HR14

TRANSMISSION FLUSH

69

$

Transmission Service Power Flush and fill up to 11 quarts of transmission fluid.

Most vehicles • Plus environmental disposal fee • Shop supply fees in the amount of up to 6% will be added to all services • Expires 11-8-03

19

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99

BRAKES

99

Install brake pads or shoes • Resurface drums or rotors • Adjust drum brakes on serviced axle • Road test vehicle

• Inspect hose fittings and compressor • Adjust A/C belt • Perform system leak test • Run performance test Most vehicles • Shop supply fees in the amount of up to 6% will be added to all services • Expires 11-8-03

99

Standard Tune Up • Visually inspect ignition wire, distributor cap/rotor, filters and more • Install new spark plugs • Set timing and idle (if applicable • Road test vehicle.

Most 4-cyl. electronic ignition vehicles. 6 & 8 cyl. slightly higher.

Transverse, V-6 engine & A/C interference extra • Shop supply fees in the amount of up to 6% will be added to all services • Expires 11-8-03

Mon - Fri 7-7 - Saturday 7-5 - Sunday 9-4 - No Dealers, please

AUGUSTA CLEARANCE CENTER 2705 Peach Orchard Rd. (Closed Sun) ......706-798-8882 AUGUSTA EXCHANGE 274 Rob’t C. Daniels Pkwy................................706-667-8008 CENTRAL AUGUSTA 617 15th Street (Closed Sun) ...............................706-724-5800 EVANS CROSSING 4359 Washington Rd. ...............................................706-210-8010

TUNE-UP

39

$

P215/75R15

As Low As

Standard Brake Service •

57

99

50,000 MILE WARRANTY

Price is per axle for most vehicles with front disc and rear drum brakes. 4wheel disc systems slightly higher • Grease seals, wheel bearing repack extra, if needed • Parts and shims extra, if required • Shop supply fees in the amount of up to 6% will be added to all services • Expires 11-8-03

Most vehicles • Shop supply fees in the amount of up to 6% will be added to all services • Expires 11-8-03

Keep Your Air Blowing Cool!

• Install new oil filter • Refill of up to 5 qts. Kendall® 10W30 motor oil • Lubricate chassis (if applicable)

P235/75R15

59

99

Your Car’s Most Frequently Needed Service!

8

$

99

As Low As

A/C PERFORMANCE CHECK

99

Sportiva SUV

60,000 MILE WARRANTY

OIL CHANGE & FILTER

$

No Carryouts

75 & 80 Series only

85

99

As Low As

$

40,000 MILE WARRANTY

BRIDGESTONE Dueler H/T

40,000 MILE WARRANTY

ALIGNMENT

80

$

99

P195/70R14 P205/70R15 P195/65R15 P205/65R15 P225/60R16

Luxury Performance

80,000 Mile P e rf o rmance Touring Radial

P205/65R15....$56.99 P225/60R16....$75.99

RADIATOR FLUSH

49

$

99

• Inspect system and pressure test for leaks • Flush and chemically clean system • Refill with correct amount of coolant • Add sealant/lubricant

Most vehicles • Shop supply fees in the amount of up to 6% will be added to all services • Expires 11-8-03

ENGINE DIAGNOSIS

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• Does your car hesitate?

• Have poor acceleration?

• Is your Check Engine light on?

Most vehicles • Shop supply fees in the amount of up to 6% will be added to all services • Expires 11-8-03

We Honor Most National Accounts

HEPHZIBAH 2601 Tobacco Rd. ...............................................................706-790-0977 MARTINEZ 3849 Washington Rd. .............................................................706-860-6303 N. AUGUSTA 404 E. Martintown Rd. (Closed Sun) .................................803-278-4466