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Augusta Players Win Big at Georgia Theatre Conference ...................................................................25 Some Art Is Worth the Trip ..........................................34 Olivia Show Sold Out ... Billy Dee and Tichina Still Available ........................................................................35 “Sleeping Beauty” Is All About the Details ................36

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he blurred pictures are horrible.

What are you going to do next then — blur the words so we can’t read them either?

Why are we just now hearing from those ostriches in the county commission and board of education about gang problems?

This problem has been going on and getting bigger for years. Ask any B.O.E. police officer and he can tell you every gang and gang banger in his school. But until it hits the news, all you hear from community leaders is “we have no gangs.”

If you had jumped on the problem when it reared its ugly head years ago, we would not have this problem.

Anyone who thinks long fingernails are attractive is flat wrong. Not only are they creepy, but how could they be sanitary?

Especially on food service workers. I’ve seen someone try and work a cash register where they can never actually touch the keys because of their claws. I personally mark restaurants off my list when I observe these “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” Kung Fu fingernails anywhere around my food.

There’s got to be health standards being violated here.

I would like to know what the Spanish paper in Augusta is doing for the Hispanic community, because apparently they’re making all of their money from the advertisement, and they didn’t do anything to help out with the Hispanic Fest. What exactly are they doing with the money that’s coming in? And if they call the paper Augusta’s first Spanish newspaper, they’re not supporting the Hispanic community. What exactly are they doing to help out?

Re: “Judicial Site Debate Continues!” After spending $96,530 for a “site, review,” what’s to debate? Marion Williams’ suggestion would eliminate “predominately

vacant, rundown buildings,” as well as provide the “judicial site!” That’s a “no brainer!”

I just saw the finance director is leaving the airport. Does Augusta keep count? That is two directors; two interim directors; two finance directors; and four (count them, four) marketing directors in less than four, years.

Plus an aviation commissioner is married to the airport fire chief. Isn’t that a conflict of interest? Come on Augusta, wake up and smell the sewage plant at the airport.

The Justice Department is taking time out from the war on terror to arrest and convict Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong fame for selling water bongs on the Internet.

Water bongs are no threat to American security as marijuana is completely harmless. I smoked pot for 12 straight years, and I don’t have any brain damage.

With the rapid turnover in the AugustaRichmond County Traffic Signal Division, they need to hire someone full-time as “Traffic Signal Interviewer” to keep a constant flow of disposable people working.

This is in response to two whines I read on Oct. 11 in regards to school uniforms. First off, it’s true, the school board needs to concentrate more on what the children are learning. However, this can be better achieved without the distractions of designer clothing. Letting parents dress their kids the way they want to would not be a problem if all parents gave a damn about what their kids were wearing to school. If they did, there would not be so many short skirts and underwear showing (from pants hanging) in the school. And to the whiner who says that the school board should contact retailers so that they can provide the required uniforms — if you weren’t so lazy and actually checked more than three stores, you’d know that there are

Words “What we’ve got in Augusta is a total disaster.”

— Former Augusta Mayor Larry Sconyers, during a candid conversation with officials from the city of Albany and Dougherty County at a government consolidation workshop hosted earlier this week by Augusta-Richmond County. Sconyers said it was imperative for a newly consolidated Albany-Dougherty County government to give its mayor veto power in order for him or her to play a significant role in the political process. Failure to give the mayor power here has produced a political quagmire, Sconyers said. Take heed, Albany and Dougherty County. A total disaster.

plenty of suppliers of school uniforms in Augusta.

but, hey, then you’ll see some strong laws passed!

Augusta, Georgia is full of bleeding heart, bed-wetting Northern liberals. You Northerners must have graduated from Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan schools and came South. Tell me something — I don’t go to Ohio for vacation. Why do ya’ll come down here?

To all you morons who actually think the Best of Augusta stands for something.

Hello people, open your eyes. Why is it that it is only companies or businesses that advertise with the “Augusta Magazine” or the Chronicle. Over 90 percent of the people who receive an award get best of something. Wake up. Just like everything in this Mickey Mouse backwards town, it’s a joke.

Just wanted to say thank you for your recent article “With This Ring” regarding gay couples. It is wonderful to see the gay community portrayed in a positive light instead of just as perverts and freaks.

You know, in light of recent events, anything that invokes a memory of France disgusts me!

As the “Westward Exodus from Augusta” continues, I’m certain that a location for that new judicial center will be easily found. The judges may be mugged leaving the center,

Well, well, well ... the truth finally comes out that Rush Limbaugh is nothing but a big fat drug addict.

I wonder how you ditto heads feel about your icon Rush Limbaugh now, knowing you’ve been believing and hanging on every word of a man stoned out of his mind. I guess you don’t believe him now when he says that drug abusers should be sent up. If this were a liberal talk show host continued on page 8

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Thumbs Down Max Burns should not be bearing the brunt of critical attacks for anti-Semitic remarks one of his supporters made.

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Richmond County Sheriff’s deputies have not received a cost of living raise the past couple of years and insurance costs are going up in 2004. This means we are actually making less money. We put our lives on the line everyday to protect the citizens of Richmond County (including commissioners), yet the county commission feels that we do not deserve at least a cost of living raise. The county can do without the commissioners, but it can not do without cops.

Once again Augusta’s “independent” voice has proven itself to be nothing more than a sock puppet for the left. Your outright glee at the personal troubles of Rush Limbaugh is hypocritical. This rag espouses compassion for every fringe group from prisoners to illegal immigrants to drug addicts, until it’s someone with whom you disagree.

Congratulations, Metro Spirit! You just proved correct everything Rush has ever said about liberals!

Wow! What a beautiful Indian summer weekend we all just had! Cool mornings, sunny October blue skies . . . I cranked up my stereo, threw open the doors and windows and cleaned the house. Then I went outside and re-potted houseplants with my cat and I rode my bike around Summerville.

Later on, I went to visit a friend and I drove by the cinema-plex and saw that its parking lot was full. I really felt sorry for all those empty people inside who just couldn’t come up with anything better to do with themselves on such a nice day than pay eight bucks to sit inside in the dark.

How could the Insider leave out the names of Andy Cheek and Willie Mays while pointing out the main culprits in Sorry Government, Inc.? Cheek is always micromanaging and then he goes on his favorite Austin Rhodes show and tells everybody that micromanaging is a thing of the past.

The real idiots in this scenario are the “South Augusta Mafia” who screwed up the 8th District candidates and left Cheek unchallenged in the 6th.

You know I read a recent whine stating that the whiner was planning to protest by abstaining from voting! That’s very intelligent! I was eligible for the draft for three years before I got the right to vote! I’ve exercised that right faithfully! My point is if you don’t vote, don’t whine or otherwise complain!

I want to thank the Metro Spirit for keeping the line of public communication open. Unlike the Augusta Comical who has cut off the Rant ‘n’ Rave line ... The cowards!

This is to the whiner who thinks Ted Kennedy is such a fine fellow. He not only murdered that girl, but everybody in his family has been caught or accused of some kind of crime. Standing up for Clinton … the Clintons and the Kennedys are just alike — neither one of those people were good for the United States of America.

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he District 2 Augusta Commission race is turning into a real contest according to insiders observing the candidates.

Sitting commissioner Marion Williams is being challenged by former commissioner Freddie Handy and political newcomer Charlie Hannah. Williams is fighting for his political life as the contest enters its final days prior to the Nov. 4 election.

Reliable sources report that Handy is working harder than ever to regain his seat and is determined to work tirelessly until election day. People who know him report that Handy has the “fire in his belly” like they haven’t seen in a long time. Whether it is enough to unseat Williams is anybody’s guess.

There is a high probability the race will result in a runoff between Handy and Williams, with Hannah finishing third. To win outright, a candidate must receive 45 percent of the vote. Otherwise, the top two vote-getters square off in a runoff election.

Williams defeated Handy by less than 200 votes in a runoff four years ago.

It will be important to see which candidate gets the most votes in the general election, if no one receives the required 45 percent. With three candidates vying for office, the person who gets the most votes the first time around is vulnerable in a runoff, especially if that person is the incumbent. All votes cast for Handy and Hannah will, naturally, be anti-Williams votes. Many, if not most, of those anti-Williams votes will go to the challenger who faces off with Williams in the runoff. Plus, it is easier to get the discontented anti-incumbent voters to return to the polls in a runoff. More later.

Southside Race Gets Interesting Political observers are impressed with the campaign work ethic of Robert Buchwitz in his bid to become the Augusta commissioner from District 8. Insiders report that Buchwitz is walking neighborhoods and working every possible grassroots angle to diminish the perceived front-runner status that belongs to southside businessman Jimmy Smith. As reported previously in The Insider, Smith stated many times that he would not enter the race and indicated that he would support Buchwitz. At the 11th hour Smith was convinced to run by his friends and assorted politicos. Many people are upset with Smith over his decision.

There is no doubt that Smith can, and likely will, outgun Buchwitz in the fundraising department but the question remains whether Smith will work the trenches in this election. With less than two weeks remaining it will be interesting to see if Buchwitz can make a good showing. Some

insiders suggest he will do much better than originally expected while Smith supporters say they see a dominant Smith victory.

Meanwhile, a sign war appears Marion Williams in progress between Buchwitz and another candidate in the race, Dusty Rhodes. The battle over sign turf is fought in every election but this battle appears to have taken on new meaning in Freddie Handy this year’s District 8 race.

Supporters of Buchwitz and Rhodes are fighting for every square inch of sign real estate. Some signs of one candidate have gone missing only to be replaced in the same location by another candidate’s signs.

In other instances, competitive signs have been placed in front of existing signs of another candidate. Can’t we all just get along? Sign wars are dumb.

Kudos to Civic Center The beleaguered civic center doesn’t get much good press and usually the bad press it receives is well deserved. However, new civic center manager Larry Rogers does deserve credit for spearheading a cleanup campaign that has the building looking more like a place that actually welcomes the public.

Visitors to hockey games and other events are finding fresh paint, clean floors, tidy and usable bathrooms, and an overall cleaner and less trashy look. Hats off to Rogers on that score. Rogers is a crusty old dude who often lacks tact and occasionally lets his mouth get ahead of his brain but, in this instance, he should be applauded.

While we’re at it, notice that the Metro Spirit editorial board has given a Thumbs Up to the return of Paul Gamsby as general manager of the Augusta Lynx. Gamsby is a pro whose presence will bring the hockey team up a notch or two.

So, finally, there is something good to say about the civic center. We take this opportunity while it exists. Lately, kudos for the civic center have been few and far between.

—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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ast month, the Augusta Commission decided to change the atmosphere of First Friday by approving an ordinance regulating the consumption of alcohol on public streets.

The new ordinance meant no one would be allowed to carry an open container of beer, wine or liquor while walking along Broad Street on First Friday.

This month, it appears some Augusta commissioners now want to extend the hours of Augusta’s downtown street festival.

Currently, Main Street Augusta, the downtown group organizing and monitoring First Friday, is asking that all street vendors disperse from Broad Street by 10 p.m.

“I’ve talked to several people who want us to consider letting the vendors stay on the street until at least 12 o’clock,” Augusta Commissioner Marion Williams said. “First Friday is a great event, but after 10 o’clock, you can walk up and down the sidewalk on Broad Street and have nothing to do. It’s dead.”

According to Williams, a number of vendors have insisted that they could make much more money if they were allowed to continue selling their items after 10 p.m.

“I think if the vendor is making money, why should we tell them to leave and go home?” Williams asked. “I mean, we ought not demand that they stay, but we ought not demand that they leave either.”

Augusta Mayor Bob Young insisted that First Friday’s regulations do not state that all vendors must vacate the area by 10 p.m.

“If I could interrupt you for just one second Marion, you said that the vendors have to leave by 10 o’clock,” Young said. “I don’t see that in the guidelines at all. The guidelines just say that Main Street will be responsible or liable until 10 o’clock. It doesn’t say that anybody has got to close their activity down.”

Williams said that’s not what Chris Naylor, executive director of Main Street Augusta, has been telling vendors on the street.

“Well, Mr. Mayor, that’s one of the things that have been put out there, that you have to be off the streets by 10 p.m.,” Williams said. “And I can get some vendors to come in here and tell you what they’ve been told. So, we’ve got a lot of different information out there.”

By Stacey Eidson

“If Main Street is charging $25 each First Friday to set up, that’s $300 a year if you go down there each month. ... Just get a peddler’s license.”

– Augusta Mayor Bob Young

Someone, either the city or Main Street Augusta, should clear up the confusion, Williams said.

City Attorney Jim Wall explained that since Main Street Augusta has agreed to accept all liability for First Friday between the hours of 5 and 10 p.m., it should be allowed to decide the event’s hours.

“The ultimate responsibility for the event, in my opinion, rests with Main Street,” Wall said.

The Augusta Commission requested that Naylor ask the city’s downtown advisory panel, which is made up of a group of local business owners and downtown residents, whether it would support extending the event hours past 10 p.m.

But the mayor had what he thought was a better idea. He suggested that vendors who are unhappy with having to

pay Main Street Augusta’s $25 fee to set up on Broad Street during First Friday and then hearing that they have to go home at 10 p.m., look into buying a peddler’s license.

“If Main Street is charging $25 each First Friday to set up, that’s $300 a year if you go down there each month,” Young said. “Now, if you went to the city and applied for a peddler’s license, that might cost you $100 and you can be there all 365 days a year.

“That would be cheaper for someone that wanted to sell on the street than pay Main Street’s fee every month. Just get a peddler’s license.”

Williams said the mayor’s suggestion could solve everyone’s problem.

“Any businessperson can apply for a peddler’s license, open up shop downtown and stay as long as you want just as long as you meet the guidelines of the

city,” Williams said. “And Main Street or Broad Street or no other street can say anything about it as long as they are within the law.”

Wall agreed that with a peddler’s license, the city cannot prevent someone from selling their merchandise 24 hours a day; however, he warned against the mayor and commission encouraging the public to apply for the license in order to forgo Main Street Augusta’s regulations.

“You’ve got Main Street that is trying to regulate the event, that is trying to pay for the extra law enforcement and host the event, so I think it is reasonable for them to charge $25 and have control over where their merchants are going to set up,” Wall said. “If you are going to open it up where anybody can go out and buy a peddler’s license and try to take priority over where First Friday is trying to set it up, you’ve got two conflicting situations, and I think it is going to make First Friday more difficult to operate.”

Wall said that the city currently has only one individual who has a legal peddler’s license downtown.

“We have one street vendor who has a hot dog stand, and if he wants to sell hot dogs down there at 2 o’clock in the morning, he can do it, and nothing can prohibit him from doing it,” Wall said.

“But that’s sort of an isolated situation.

“If you start having 20 vendors down there with people buying vendors’ licenses and coming in and not having to respond to First Friday’s rules about where they can set up and not having to check with First Friday about where they can set up, you’re making it difficult for First Friday.”

And it would be only a matter of time before the sponsors of First Friday would quit supporting the event because they would have no control over it, Wall said.

“At some point, I’m afraid that you’re going to have the local merchants and Main Street who sponsor the event kind of throw up their hands and say, ‘If y’all want to run it, run it and we’ll let y’all handle it.’ And I don’t know if y’all want that,” Wall said. “We are getting volunteer work out of a lot of merchants and everyone down there. And I think their requirements are reasonable.

“Main Street is allowed to host First Friday down there. It’s their function.

It’s their event. They’re responsible for it. So, I think they should make the rules and enforce the rules.”

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Augusta’s “Witch-hunt” The Appeal Hearing of Brenda Byrd-Pelaez

By Stacey Eidson

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s director of Augusta’s human resources department, Brenda Byrd-Pelaez frequently hears complaints and grievances from city employees who believe they have been mistreated, used or even betrayed by the local government.

Prior to this month, Byrd-Pelaez sympathized with such employees and could only imagine what they were going through.

Now, she knows all too well.

In September, Deputy Administrator Walter Hornsby wrote a letter to City Administrator George Kolb recommending Byrd-Pelaez be suspended for five days without pay.

In the Sept. 18 letter, Hornsby explained the suspension was a result of Byrd-Pelaez’s handling of an employee in the human resources department who failed to record the proper starting dates for health insurance and retirement benefits for new employees hired in the month of July.

Because incorrect dates were entered into the city’s computer system, none of the necessary benefit deductions were taken out of 24 new employees’ paychecks.

This mistake resulted in a total loss for the city of $2,100. These employees are now being asked to reimburse the city the money it provided them in error.

Hornsby stated in his Sept. 18 letter that, when he asked Byrd-Pelaez about the mistake, she did not adequately address his concerns.

“In fact, she may have provided me with erroneous information,” Hornsby wrote.

Hornsby went on to write that he did not believe Byrd-Pelaez understood the seriousness of the situation because she only “verbally reprimanded” the employee responsible for the mistake.

“I am concerned with Ms. ByrdPelaez’s failure to properly manage her department, particularly the disciplining of her employees,” Hornsby wrote to

Kolb. “Ms. Byrd-Pelaez has been told on various occasions about problems within her area and it appears that this message has not been understood.”

On Oct. 1, Kolb officially approved Hornsby’s recommendation and notified Byrd-Pelaez of the five-day suspension which was to begin on Oct. 6.

Byrd-Pelaez said she was “genuinely dismayed and bewildered” by the disciplinary action and had no choice but to formally request an appeal hearing before the Augusta Commission on Oct. 21 in hopes of reversing Kolb’s suspension.

And during the Oct. 21 hearing, Byrd-

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“I have received no positive leadership or guidance. I stand before you as my grandmother would say, just bone-tired, but I have a continual resolve to do a good job and fight the good fight.”

Byrd-Pelaez added that her recent suspension has caused her to concentrate on a fight she never thought she would have to enter – a fight for her integrity.

“The perception being perpetuated by the administration is that I have violated policy and procedure,” she said. “The truth will demonstrate that I have not.”

Byrd-Pelaez explained to the commission that the first time she learned about

“My integrity, my veracity, my ability have been unfairly called into question.”

- Brenda Byrd-Pelaez, director of the human resources department Pelaez, who has worked for the city since 1997, didn’t hide her disappointment in the administration’s handling of the situation.

“What has happened to me is a clear demonstration of what can happen to any of our employees in this current environment where there are no clearly defined goals and objectives by which to measure one’s performance,” Byrd-Pelaez told the Augusta Commission. “These past two years (as director of human resources), I’m sad to say, have been the most difficult of my career in public service.

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Hornsby’s concerns regarding the employee benefit deductions was in the form of a memorandum Hornsby sent to her office on Sept. 5.

“This memorandum was received in my office on Friday, midday ... with the request to have all the information back to him on Monday, the eighth of September,” Byrd-Pelaez said.

In this memorandum, Hornsby wrote, “It has been brought to my attention that no deductions were withheld for any of the ‘new hires’ who were hired on July 7, 2003.”

Hornsby submitted a list of questions for Byrd-Pelaez to answer, including: Why did this happen? What explanation was given for this error? Are there other instances of this happening with any other group of new hires? And what financial impact or potential financial impact does this error have on the city and the employees?

By the morning of Sept. 8, Byrd-Pelaez said that Hornsby had received a response from her office regarding his questions.

Specifically, Byrd-Pelaez responded by stating, “The employee who enters new employee benefits read the wrong date on the calendar and entered the wrong date for the deductions to begin.”

Her memorandum to Hornsby stated there were no other instances of this error occurring with new employees and the mistake would result in no financial impact on the city or its employees.

Hornsby told the commission that both of Byrd-Pelaez’s responses to his questions were untrue. He explained that, not only were the dates for the city’s July 7 new hires entered incorrectly, but the July 21 new employees also did not have benefit deductions withheld from their paychecks.

He also stated that, clearly, there was a financial impact on the city because it did not collect the necessary $2,100 from the employees’ paychecks to cover the cost of the benefits.

“So, there was a financial impact on the city, as well as the employees who have to pay the money back,” Hornsby said.

Byrd-Pelaez said the largest amount that any one employee is having to pay back to the city is $40. She also added that when she stated there was only one instance that the deductions were not withheld, she was referring to all the new hires in the month of July.

“There was never an intent to hide any information,” Byrd-Pelaez said. “The continued on page 16

“I know it’s getting close to Halloween, but as you go through this thing, it almost looks like a witch-hunt. And that bothers me.”

- Augusta Commissioner Bill Kuhlke

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“Why am I being subjected to such scrutiny?”

- Brenda Byrd-Pelaez, director of the human resources department continued from page 15 deputy administrator indicated that he felt that I had provided erroneous information to him. As my supervisor, he never asked me to explain the difference in the information I supplied and the information that he believed to be genuine.

“The administration was so egoinvested in advancing its own ideas, defending its position, attacking the contrary opinion, that they did not stop for a moment to listen,” Byrd-Pelaez added.

After Hornsby’s initial request for information about the lack of benefit deductions, Byrd-Pelaez never heard from the deputy administrator until she was notified by Kolb of her suspension.

“I thought that my initial answers I had given were sufficient, but the next thing I know I’m being suspended,” Byrd-Pelaez stated, adding that she was provided only a five-minute meeting with Hornsby and Kolb prior to receiving her suspension.

“I am deeply concerned that, when I am directed to accomplish a task within a short, requisite timeframe and do so, that I am rewarded with a suspension without pay without any attempt to sit down and discuss the situation,” said Byrd-Pelaez.

“And I have never received formal notice of a verbal or written reprimand concerning poor job performance.”

Byrd-Pelaez also said she found it laughable that Hornsby was criticizing her ability to manage the human resources department.

“His justification for questioning my management skills is based on my application of the progressive discipline policy in my department,” Byrd-Pelaez said. “When I arrived in 1997, this government did not have a written progressive discipline policy. I formulated a policy and presented it to this very commission for approval.”

She said she couldn’t count the number of times other department directors have made mistakes and the administration has come to their defense.

“Why am I being subjected to such scrutiny?” Byrd-Pelaez asked.

“Employees that are clearly in violation of the substance-abuse policy get a doover when they appear before the deputy administrator who feels empathy toward them and allows them to keep their jobs although they violated policy.

“Department directors and managers who sexually harass employees either get no punishment or, after a period of time, have their salary reinstated. Yet, here I am empowering my team to work to the best of their ability and realize that mistakes will be made ... and I am being disciplined.”

Byrd-Pelaez concluded by asking the commission to overturn Kolb’s decision to suspend her for five days.

“Admittedly, I am displeased as to how this matter was handled,” Byrd-Pelaez said. “My integrity, my veracity, my ability have been unfairly called into question.”

By the end of Byrd-Pelaez’s comments, the commission asked Kolb to respond to her concerns.

Kolb told the commission that Vanessa Flournoy, the city’s staff attorney, would be presenting the administration’s explanation for the suspension.

And Flournoy didn’t waste any time trying to tear Byrd-Pelaez’s case apart.

“Unlike Ms. Pelaez, we are going to present the facts and not mix them up with other issues,” said Flournoy, adding that, if there was any confusion over the benefit deductions, it was caused by Byrd-Pelaez. “If she felt there was miscommunication, it was on her part.

She failed to give them the information that they needed to adequately review the situation.

“So, she was not punished for making a mistake. She was punished for basically giving erroneous information, to be polite. Maybe some people would call it a lie or maybe it was a cover-up. But it is a serious problem.”

Flournoy said the city had no other choice but to suspend Byrd-Pelaez for a week to ensure that she understood the seriousness of the situation.

“Now, when you discipline a child, you say, ‘Don’t do that,’ and eventually you may slap their hand,” Flournoy said. “If the behavior continues to progress, you spank them. But we all know, when we were kids, there are certain things that you know you’re going to get a butt-whooping if you do it. And that’s this situation. She has a duty. A duty to give (Hornsby) information. And she gave him information, just not accurate information.”

Once both sides had presented their position on the suspension, several commissioners pointed out that the situation appeared to be a problem that could have been solved with simple communication.

“Why is there so much paper when something is so important?” Augusta Commissioner Bobby Hankerson asked, leafing through the number of memorandums and letters sent back and forth between the administration and the human resources department. “It seems like some of this could have been eliminated with one meeting, just sitting down at the table and talking. What happened to the verbal, manto-man, communication in this government?”

Augusta Commissioner Andy Cheek echoed Hankerson’s remarks.

“When this flag went up that there was a problem, how many phone calls or personal visits were made between the deputy administrator and the department head?” Cheek asked.

“None,” Byrd-Pelaez said, looking over at Hornsby.

“None,” Hornsby said.

Augusta Commissioner Bill Kuhlke was amazed that the government could operate in such a matter.

“I’ll say this: It bothers me a little bit that this is such a serious matter and a memo goes out on a Friday and (Hornsby) asks for a response to that memo on Monday morning,” Kuhlke said. “I’m assuming that Ms. Pelaez and her staff worked all weekend to get the information he asked for. And I don’t think that’s the appropriate way to do something.”

Kuhlke also said the administrator couldn’t blame Byrd-Pelaez for not providing additional information to Hornsby if he did not communicate that her initial response was unsatisfactory.

“She’s a good employee. I’ve tried to support the administrator on issues, but frankly, I don’t think there was enough verbal communication here in this regard,” Kuhlke said. “And I must say, I know it’s getting close to Halloween, but as you go through this thing, it almost looks like a witch-hunt. And that bothers me.”

Augusta Commissioner Ulmer Bridges said, while he understood Hornsby’s concerns, the administration clearly did not prove that a five-day suspension was warranted.

“I think the administration has some issues, and I think they are probably legitimate issues in regards to human resources, but I don’t think in this case it was handled in the proper manner and the proper order,” Bridges said. “I think Ms. Pelaez has proven her case.

“There is nothing in her personnel file, no documentation and no communication, so I make the motion that we reimburse Ms. Pelaez for what was taken from her during the suspension and no record of this remain in her personnel file.”

The commission voted 7-1 in favor of overturning the five-day suspension with Mayor Pro Tem Richard Colclough voting against the motion.

Commissioners Lee Beard and Kuhlke left the meeting early and weren’t present for the vote.

“I’m not pleased with any of it. My vote shouldn’t be interpreted as an endorsement for either side,” Augusta Commissioner Steve Shepard said, staring straight at Byrd-Pelaez. “This is one of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to make since I’ve been on this board.”

After the vote, Byrd-Pelaez shook hands with each commissioner and received a hug from Kolb, but her emotions were clearly still very raw.

When asked if she ever thought she would have to go through such a hearing, Byrd-Pelaez fought back tears.

“Have you ever seen that movie, ‘Rudy’?” Byrd-Pelaez asked, referring to the film about a scrawny young man who had to battle against great odds to achieve his dream of playing Notre Dame football. “That’s me.”

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he moment that crystallized Anna Hargis’ decision to undergo “the surgery” didn’t arrive out of frustration she felt after trying on clothes.

It didn’t come after someone’s off-hand, rude remark about her size or an awkward moment trying to find a chair suitable to accommodate her 350-pound-plus body — although she’d encountered both situations enough over the years.

No, the moment Hargis (pictured right) chose to tell her boyfriend of 17 years, Harold Heath, that she was going to have gastric bypass, weight-loss surgery, came, of all times, after a Travel Channel special on white-water rafting.

“And I have always wanted to do that, and I thought, my weight is keeping me from going white-water rafting,” Hargis, 44, recalled, a few weeks before having the procedure. “Number one, I’m too fat, and number two, if I fell out of the boat, nobody could pull me in. And I turned to Harold and I said, ‘I’m having the surgery.’ And he said, ‘What?’ And I said, ‘I’m having it.’’’

Both immediately knew what that meant.

“He said, ‘You’re going to die and I don’t want you to do it. I love you even if you’re fat. You were heavy when I met you.’”

Hargis said, looking back on that day.

“And he says, ‘I love you.’”

Hargis, however, wasn’t backing down.

“What if you die on the operating table?” her boyfriend again asked.

“I die,” Hargis responded, matter-offactly. “It’s better than me having a heart attack somewhere.’’’

Granted, there were risks with the procedure.

For one, there was a chance Hargis could die during the operation from a pulmonary embolism — a blood clot in the lungs.

Dr. James K. Champion, M.D., the Atlanta surgeon who would perform Hargis’ operation, said about one in 1,000 overweight people who undergo major surgery will suffer a pulmonary embolism.

Champion said he’s lost one patient out of about 1,400 to a pulmonary embolism during weight-loss surgery.

Hargis knew there could also be problems with the surgery itself. Some people who have undergone gastric bypasses have had to return for followup operations to repair stomach leaks. In rare instances, those people have died either from infection or complications and/or stress from having to be operated on again.

Hargis, however, had researched the surgery enough to feel that her odds of having a successful operation were still in her favor.

But making it through the surgery would only be the beginning of a decision that would forever change Hargis’ life in many ways.

Her stomach would be reduced to 10 percent of its normal capacity, leaving a “pouch” roughly the size of an egg.

In order to make sure her pouch didn’t fill up too quickly, she’d have to take her meals with a baby spoon and wait five minutes — by the clock — between every bite.

Because her diminished stomach size and shortened route to her colon would decrease nutrient absorption, she’d have to look at meals in a different way, choosing only those foods with the densest protein content and highest nutritional value.

She’d also have to stick to a strict regimen of taking vitamin and calcium supplements every day for the rest of her life.

And because diluting her food with fluids would detract from nutrient absorption, she no longer would be able to drink and eat at the same time.

That meant never again having a glass of wine, or even iced tea, with dinner — something most people take for granted.

Yet, the thought of these seemingly significant life changes was having no impact on Hargis, even several days before her Aug. 27 surgery.

There were overriding factors more important to her, the foremost being her health.

Hargis has a condition called atrial fibrillation that causes her heart to beat rapidly and irregularly, putting her at risk for stroke. The extra weight she was carrying increased that risk.

“I need to lose so much. I need to lose

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half (my weight),” Hargis said prior to her surgery. “I need to lose really 170 to 180 pounds and I think it’s just so overwhelming to think about that much.

You know, I could divide it up into 25pound intervals, but with my health the way it is ... I can’t just cut down to 600 and 700 calories a day. I have to exercise and with atril-fib, I think I’m worried about, am I going to have a stroke or am I going to have a heart attack?”

Then, there were those less vital, but still important, things.

“Buying clothes. I can’t just go to a regular store and buy,” Hargis said. “I

order from Silhouettes and companies that carry larger women’s clothes.”

Hargis said there was a future trip on the horizon with her nieces and nephews to Walt Disney World, but she knew her weight would be an obstacle.

“Well, as heavy as I am, will I be able to ride any rides with them? Probably not,” Hargis said. “So it’s keeping me from doing things I want to do now. I have to think about chairs, like am I going to fit in the chair? Or like flying. I flew a couple of years ago, but it was tight. My sister lives in Connecticut and if I want to fly out for the weekend and see her or fly to New

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York, you know, visit with her, I want to be able to do that.”

Encouraged by the stories of celebrities like Carnie Wilson and “Today” show weatherman Al Roker — both of whom placed gastric bypass surgery on the publicity fast-track — Hargis was about to join the ranks of the estimated 100,000 patients who will have the surgery this year. That’s more than double the number of people who were having it just two years ago.

The day before her surgery, Hargis was thinking about the holidays and looking forward to decorating her Christmas tree.

She was also thinking about the day when she’d fit back into a couple of Christmas sweaters that she had long ago stowed away, along with her hopes of ever again being thinner.

Whether it was nervous energy, or that she truly did want to have things in order for when she got back from the hospital, Hargis was also cleaning her house the day before her operation.

“Right now, I’m getting ready to clean the bathroom,” Hargis said. “I want the house straightened up and cleaned.”

“Of course, in my mind, I’m a little worried, because with surgery there’s always risks,” she added. “But I feel fairly comfortable about it.

“I told Harold, if I should die, I told him where to bury me and all of that. He said, ‘You’re not going to die.’”

Fat Nation In case you haven’t noticed, we’re at war.

Not that one.

This war is being fought on the front lines of fast food restaurants, school lunchrooms and family dinner tables.

It’s a war against fat. And we’re losing it.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than 44 million Americans — 74 percent more than in 1991 — are currently obese.

Fearing insurance claims will soar because of health problems associated with overweight people, states are scrambling to find solutions to the fat epidemic.

A week ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush formed a task force to fight obesity in the state, particularly among schoolchildren.

Also, the Associated Press recently reported that Louisiana’s state government will pay to provide weight-reduction surgery for 40 government employees, to be chosen and treated by the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

The move is part of an experiment that will follow the 40 individuals after their surgeries to see if they do, indeed, suffer fewer health problems and file fewer health insurance claims as a result of their decreased weights.

McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants are revamping their menus in an attempt to offer healthier fare for their customers, who some say have grown obese eating these meals of convenience

“I need to lose really 170 to 180 pounds and I think it’s just so overwhelming to think about that much. You know, I could divide it up into 25-pound intervals, but with my health the way it is ... I can’t just cut down to 600 and 700 calories a day. I have to exercise and with atril-fib, I think I’m worried about, am I going to have a stroke or am I going to have a heart attack?”

— Anna Hargis, who lost 45 pounds in just under two months after having weight-loss surgery.

loaded with saturated fat and empty calories.

Fast food restaurants also have been the targets of lawsuits, albeit mostly unsuccessful, aligning them with tobacco companies in terms of their efforts to peddle dangerous products.

A report in the July/August edition of the journal, Health Affairs, said U.S. health care expenditures to treat conditions related to overweight and obese individuals may currently be as much as $93

billion, rivaling health care costs for tobacco users.

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It seems that we as a society are willing to shell out the money to lose weight, but the ever-growing number of overweight and obese citizens indicates many of those dollars are spent in vain.

Paul Lowe and his wife, Becky, definitely fall into the category of those who tried to lose weight, but repeatedly failed.

When he was 26, Lowe, owner of Lowe’s Funeral Home in Warrenton, weighed 550 pounds.

He experimented with myriad approaches to shed the extra weight, even once going on the Medifast nutritional shake diet under the supervision of a doctor.

That time he lost more than 80 pounds.

“But then, as soon as it came off, I gained it back, and then some,” Lowe recalled.

In early 1993, the couple was planning to be married. That’s when Lowe started thinking about weight-loss surgery.

“We were married in March of ‘93 and there were a lot of things we wanted to do,” Lowe said. “We wanted to have kids and we wanted to enjoy vacations and that sort of thing, and I just realized with that weight that it was going to be an obstacle and I decided I wanted to do something about it.”

Less than two years after a surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Augusta placed a metal band around the top portion of Lowe’s stomach to limit food intake — a procedure called a vertical banded gastroplasty — he had already lost 343 pounds.

“For once, it was just one thing that worked,” Lowe said. “You know, you hear people say they tried this or they tried that and then (the weight would) come off and they’d gain more back than they (had at first). This is the one thing that really worked.”

For the past seven or eight years, Lowe, now 36, has maintained his weight at about 260 pounds and says he eats basically what he wants, but in smaller

portions. He also tries to avoid fatty and fried foods.

Just this May, Becky Lowe, 34, also decided to have weight-loss surgery.

“The reason I decided to have it was because I was just getting bigger and bigger,” she said. “I started having high blood pressure. My knees started bothering me. My triglycerides, cholesterol, all that started going up.”

Becky Lowe said the fact her father died at the early age of 46, after encountering similar health problems, also helped to make up her mind.

In the past five months, Becky Lowe has lost 87 pounds — dropping from a weight of 264 to 177. That’s just 13 pounds shy of her goal of losing 100 pounds.

Becky Lowe has reason to smile, and she does.

Like Hargis, Becky Lowe opted for a procedure called a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, which involves stapling off an egg-sized stomach pouch, thereby closing it off from the rest of the stomach and the upper part of the small intestine. A small section of the lower small intestine, called the Roux limb, is then attached to the pouch through a narrow opening to allow the passage of food. The bypassed upper section of small intestine just below the remainder of the stomach is then attached to the lower section of intestine leading from the pouch, thus forming a “Y” shape.

Two factors cause patients who have this procedure to lose weight: First, the pouch can only accept small amounts of food.

Second, the food that is taken in passes through a shorter section of the intestines, resulting in fewer nutrients and calories being absorbed by the body during digestion.

Gradually, Becky Lowe has been able to add foods to her menu.

She even occasionally goes to McDonald’s.

“But now, instead of eating a Big Mac combo meal, I went yesterday and took my little girl for lunch and I ate four Chicken McNuggets,” she said. “And it took me 30 minutes to eat those.”

Paul Lowe said that having the procedure has made life for Becky and him much better.

He’s convinced that if he hadn’t had the surgery, he may very well have died by now.

“I think my situation was a matter of life and death,” he said. “It was sort of a haveto situation. It had really gotten out of control.”

Paul Lowe said that even if one’s insurance won’t cover the procedure (it didn’t in his wife’s case), it would be worth doing whatever the individual could do to fund it.

Though the couple didn’t want to discuss what they paid for Becky Lowe’s surgery, the typical gastric bypass runs in the neighborhood of $20,000.

“I’m not sitting here saying go for it, if your insurance will pay for it,” Paul Lowe said. “I’m telling you, go for it if there’s any way possible that you can say, ‘Well, I won’t buy a new car this year. I’ll have this

done and I’ll wait a few years on the new car.’ “ “I think it’s a life-changing experience and I think it’s something that somebody ought to really consider,” he added. “If they’re having trouble with weight and they’re juggling back and forth, I think it’s something they certainly ought to consider and not look at as extreme, because it’s really not. It is extreme because of the surgery, but it’s something I’d do again.

“I’d do it again and wouldn’t think twice about it.”

At the Doctor’s Hargis is sitting in a small room inside the Videoscopic Institute of Atlanta, filling out necessary paperwork for her procedure and watching a video of Dr. Champion explaining the various types of weight-loss procedures he performs.

Champion, accompanied by jazzy background music, explains that a vertical banded gastroplasty, though less involved,

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Hargis is photographed by patient coordinator Kimberly Hayes at Dr. James K. Champion’s office in order to document her weight. Seated is Harold Heath, Hargis’ boyfriend of 17 years.

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cover alcoholics for treatment?’” Hargis said. “They said, ‘Well, yes.’ I said, ‘Does it cover drug-abusers?’ And they said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘But you’re not going to cover fat-aholics, right?’”

Hargis said she thinks it’s foolish that some insurance policies won’t cover the operation, particularly because they’d end up paying much more if an overweight person was hospitalized for a heart attack or stroke.

The oldest of four children, Hargis says she struggled with weight throughout her life.

“I ate to relieve stress. I love food. I love the way it tastes,” Hargis said. “It helped relieve my stress.”

Her father, having had a sister who died of obesity, was particularly hard on Hargis, she recalled.

“As a child, I remember if I had something in my hand he’d knock it out, and say, ‘You don’t need to eat that.’ I think that even made me want to eat more,” Hargis said. “So any time I get upset, I head for the refrigerator.”

Hargis said her sisters seemed to eat as much as she did, but never gained excessive weight.

Several times over the course of successive interviews, Hargis asks if people will laugh at her when they read this article.

Hargis has reason to think that way. After all, she said, people often look down on “fat people” in society and sometimes view weight-loss surgery as an easy way out.

But Hargis says she considers her weight problem to be genetic, and thinks people will eventually come to see obese people as deserving of the same consideration as those who have had problems with drugs or alcohol.

“I think that fat people, we’re perceived as being stupid, lazy,” Hargis said. “I think people think fat people don’t belong in society. That’s not true. I still believe it’s genetics and I think one day they’ll break the genetic code.”

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does carry the risk that the band will slip out of place. Also, weight loss is not as dramatic with the banded method, the doctor says.

Hargis pays closer attention when the video gets to her procedure: We go approximately 2 inches from the top of the stomach and totally staple across the stomach to create a 1-ounce pouch at the top. We leave the lower stomach in. We don’t remove any of the stomach. It’s always there in the event the patient ever changes their mind or needs the stomach reconnected. In addition, the stomach does not dry up. It continues to be active and produces a quart of stomach acid a day in order to digest your food.

Champion later tells Hargis in an examining room that less than a handful of his patients have had the surgery reversed, though it is an option.

“The three I’ve reversed, two of them lost too much weight and one lady just hated the surgery,” Champion said. “She could not adapt her diet and she kept throwing up over and over from overeating. And after a year, we just told her, ‘You need to have this undone. You’re miserable. We’re miserable.’”

Hargis is weighed and photographed with a Polaroid camera. Then the surgery is explained to her in more detail.

Champion tells Hargis the surgery will last only about an hour. Six incisions will be made in her belly, and Champion and an assistant will work in tandem using laparascopic instruments while viewing television screens to help guide them through various stages of the surgery.

Some people who have gastric bypass surgery opt to have a full incision, though the laparascopic method Hargis has chosen has a quicker healing time and has proven just as effective, Champion says.

After Hargis’ questions are answered, then comes what is perhaps the most painful part — the signing of the checks.

In all, Hargis’ operation will cost roughly $20,000. Hargis works for the Medical College of Georgia, but her statesponsored health insurance would not pay for the procedure, which is often the case with many policies.

Still, Hargis has vowed to fight for the procedure to be covered, though she isn’t overly optimistic about the outcome.

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Hargis’ first meal following her surgery was three bites of orange Jell-O, which completely filled her up.

“I just can’t believe three bites of Jell-O fills you up, but it does,” Hargis said from her hospital room. “It feels a lot different — full, immediately.”

In the first few weeks after her surgery, Hargis felt a little weaker than usual, though the soreness began to leave her body and the small incisions on her abdomen rapidly healed.

Almost immediately, Hargis began to lose weight. Much of that weight, nurses told her, would be in the form of water.

The first two weeks, Hargis was allowed to have only blenderized soups, sugar-free yogurt, cottage cheese, grits (if her body could handle them) and a protein supplement.

Less than eight weeks later, Hargis had just finished a set of lat pull-downs on a Cybex machine and was getting ready to hit the treadmill at the McDuffie Regional Wellness Center in Thomson.

Hargis already had lost 45 pounds.

“I have more energy. I feel better,” Hargis said, between exercises. “And somebody said they can tell it in my face.”

Now, Hargis has worked up to eating things like chicken and turkey salad, though still waiting the mandatory five minutes between bites.

She said her meals are about half the size of a deck of cards. Any more than that and she feels sick.

Although Hargis is dealing fine with these changes, Harold, her boyfriend, seems to be having a more difficult time accepting it.

“He tried to get me to eat a cookie the

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Before and after photos of Paul and Becky Lowe, who both had weight-loss surgery.

other morning,” Hargis said. “And I said, ‘Harold, you know I can’t eat a cookie.’ I said, ‘Harold, I’m going to be fine. You don’t have to feed me.’”

“It’s been hard on him. It’s been hard for him to watch me not eat. It really has, because food was such a part of our everyday life.”

Hargis’ mother was in town visiting after she had the surgery. The fact that Hargis’

mother likes to cook made things a little easier on Harold, Hargis said.

One night, Hargis’ mother made chicken and rice with livers for him.

“So it’s been nice with her being there, because he has somebody to eat with,” Hargis said during her mother’s visit. “I don’t sit at the table with them and when they’re eating that’s usually when I have my Popsicle. I’ll sit over at my computer

or at my desk or on the porch and have my Popsicle.”

Hargis said she feels fine and has no regrets about having the surgery.

For a bit of added inspiration at her recent trip to the gym, Hargis brought along a couple of pamphlets advertising — what else? — white-water rafting.

“I’m gonna do it,” Hargis told one of the gym staff. “I’ve been wanting to do it.”

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t’s 5:45, a little more than an hour before guests will begin arriving for the fifth in the Partridge Inn’s Best Chefs of the South series.

Tickets to the four-course meal have long been sold out, but Chef de Cuisine Kelly Yambor, of the venerable Elizabeth on 37th in Savannah, seems unfazed by the fact that she’s serving dinner to a sold-out crowd in a kitchen she’s never cooked in before.

“No matter where you are – the Plaza in New York or our little kitchen in Savannah – you just turn on the stove and get to work,” she later explained.

“It all goes back to basics.”

As she and PI’s executive chef Philippe Chin stride through the ballroom, Yambor looks fresh-faced and calm, a blue bandanna knotted around her blond hair. The only hint of nerves is her response to a question about the state of the kitchen. Surprisingly, she says, there’s not much to do right at that moment.

“I’m really anxious to get things started,” Yambor admitted in a sentiment she echoed more than a couple of times later that night.

And when the young chef says she’s ready, she means it. Prep for the event began the previous day, stopping only for travel and dinner at Chin’s Bambu on Hickman. Yambor and sous chef Jeremy Diehl were at it again Thursday morning, working into the afternoon before taking a much-needed break.

“I think I was so nervous about things being just right that I just wanted to make sure we were ready,” she explained.

Nothing was left to chance, which is probably why, even once the event began, the kitchen, while busy, never turned into a three-ring circus.

Yambor and Diehl worked in one section of the kitchen, preparing a single mussel with a slightly spicy tomato aioli for each guest (meant to whet the appetite for the first course) while discussing strategy for the following courses. Chin, meanwhile, worked in another, preparing hors d’oeuvres for the champagne reception that started off the evening.

So calm was the atmosphere that an interloper in the kitchen (namely me) barely noticed that activity in the ballroom was already underway. And, just

per on a bed of butter beans and field peas – to the tables, Yambor and Diehl were already working on the third course’s crab fried rice, which shared a plate with quail, fried oysters, watermelon balls and a creamy white sauce.

The food, much of which Yambor and Diehl brought with them from Savannah and other nearby areas, was what Elizabeth’s patrons have enjoyed for years – upscale dishes using fresh, local ingredients. “We chose a menu we thought would represent our restaurant most clearly,” Yambor said.

With chefs constantly handing me plates of incredibly good food, I was hard-pressed to find an answer when a server asked which dish I liked best. I finally narrowed it down to the first course – a creamy turnip soup with pear puree and foie gras. Creamy, sweet, smoky and rich, it was out of this world. The dessert – an upscale pecan pie served with burnt sugar ice cream – wasn’t too shabby either.

I didn’t have any problem, however, deciding what the best part of the experience was. Standing off in a corner, balancing a plate and trying to stay out of the way, I was confident that the folks in the ballroom had no idea that all the fun was going on behind the kitchen doors.

Above: Elizabeth on 37th Chef de Cuisine Kelly Yambor, Partridge Inn Executive Chef Philippe Chin and Elizabeth's Sous Chef Jeremy Diehl appear calm and relaxed before the recent Best Chefs of the South sold-out dinner begins.

Left: A list of each course's ingredients, along with their order and how much (down to the ounce) should be plated, is just one way in which chefs ensure that a dish goes to the table exactly the way they envision it.

between us, hanging out in the kitchen is a blast – more fun than seeing the end results as the dishes are brought to the table.

For instance, who would have guessed that three chefs could peacefully coexist in one kitchen, much less fall into such an easy rapport? Chin, as gracious host/class clown, buzzed about the room trading jokes and sto-

ries with everyone. Yambor, on the other hand, was more serious; when she wasn’t cooking, she was pacing around the room. Diehl was everywhere at once – preparing, advising and encouraging.

Yambor said that this dinner was a serious departure from a night at Elizabeth’s, where chefs constantly prepare different dishes for different patrons.

“It’s a different type of cooking than I’m used to,” she explained. “I have to focus on staying ahead.”

For example, as servers whisked the second course – herb-crusted red snap-

Best Chefs of the South “Elizabeth Terry was one of the first chefs to feature local ingredients on her menu – especially in the South,” Partridge Inn Executive Chef Philippe Chin said of his friend and the founder of one of the most well-known restaurants in Georgia. “And that was 20 years ago and chefs were a little nervous about doing that.”

And although Terry has turned the kitchen reins over to Chef de Cuisine Kelly Yambor, Chin said this was the one dinner of the six in the first Best Chefs of the South series he was most looking forward to.

“To me, this is probably my favorite dinner, because it is with an old friend,” he said with a lilting French accent.

The series, Chin’s creation, serves a number of purposes: It’s an educational experience for him and his staff and it helps Augustans discover new restaurants.

And while the last dinner in this first series will be held Nov. 13, Chin said that fans can look forward to another series beginning next spring. “We’re definitely doing it next year and would like to do it every year.”

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theatre productions. Sylvia Haynie, Justice said, is the drama director for the Stratford Academy in Macon, Ga. Ray Horne, he said, is considered the “Godfather” of high school theatre in the state of Georgia.

“He’s probably done it 50 years,” Justice said.

And Eve DeFoe, he said, is on the board of the Camden Players.

He said that they each gave separate critiques of the show, which provided the group an opportunity to hear different, and sometimes conflicting, opinions of the production. In cases where the reviews didn’t jibe, he said, they considered things like whether two of the three judges held the same opinion.

“They gave us some really valuable advice,” he said.

The Augusta Players had to apply for the right to compete at the Georgia Theatre Conference. Of all the applications, only five are chosen. The Players found themselves competing with the Town and Gown Players of Athens, Ga.; The Sumpter Players (their home base was not listed in the program, Justice said); The C.A.S.T. of Douglasville, Douglasville, Ga.; and The New London Theatre of Snellville, Ga. As a result of this win, the Augusta Players will go on to the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Chattanooga, Tenn., from March 3-7. Justice named the states against which they will be competing: Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.

Justice said that the Players had competed before, but that that was before his and Ballas’ tenure. “We really didn’t know what to expect,” he said, lauding the three adjudicators for helping them prepare for the next level of competition.

But that isn’t until spring. Ballas and Justice would like to have their players perform the piece again before presenting it to the regional judges, so they hope to set up a local performance before then.

“I just want the community to realize how lucky we are as a community to have the theatre and the arts in general,” Justice said. “We are a community rich in the arts. There are many communities that don’t have the opportunity to see pieces like this, other than traveling shows.”

“I’m really, really proud of what we’ve

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Over the weekend of Oct. 17, the Augusta Players went off to the Georgia Theatre Conference in Athens and came back with four “Best Of” awards out of six categories. And apparently, the only reason they didn’t win the other two categories as well is because they didn’t qualify due to the lack of men in their cast of three.

As a result, they could not compete in the categories for actors and supporting actors, but they did take home Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Play and Best Director.

The play was “Agnes of God” — the story of a debate that arises from the birth and subsequent death of a baby born to a young convent nun. There is an inquiry as to whether she killed the child and who the father is, but Agnes doesn’t remember a thing. It is even suggested that it was a virgin birth. In 1985, Anne Bancroft, Jane Fonda and Meg Tilly starred in a movie based on the play.

In the Augusta Players’ production, the psychologist Dr. Livingston is portrayed

by Avery Villines; the Mother Superior is portrayed by Sharon Brooks; and Agnes herself is played by Emily Hobbs.

And all three of them individually took home awards — sort of. I say sort of because Brooks and Hobbs tied for Best Supporting Actress. Villines won Best Actress.

Augusta Players Executive Director Debi Ballas filled us in on a few of the competition rules.

“Your piece can’t be longer than 60 minutes. It needs to be one act. You have 10 minutes to set up, 10 minutes to break down.”

Which created some work for Artistic Director Richard Justice, as “Agnes …” is a two-hour, two-act play.

“I had to do some major cutting,” he said. The trick, he added, was keeping the story intact while knowing which character development points he could sacrifice.

“But in our critique,” he said, “we were complimented very highly on the cutting, that it was very fluid and there were no parts that they didn’t follow because of the cutting.”

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Richard Justice and Debi Ballas pose for the paparazzi moments before accepting recognition from Augusta Mayor Bob Young at the Oct. 21 Commission meeting. done,” he added. “It was a good, eyeopening experience to go and see what is going on in our state and I’m really looking forward to seeing what is going on the Southeast in community theatre.”

It was heartening, he said, to look at some of the information on display in Athens about the state of community theatre nationwide, and all of the thousands of people who are involved. “It was just astounding,” he said. “It just really validates what we do. It’s very uplifting to be in that environment.”

Ballas is very enthusiastic about the whole experience. “I’m elated; I really am. But mostly I’m proud. This is the first time we’ve competed,” she said about herself and Justice.

The Georgia Theatre Conference is an annual convention featuring workshops and one-act play festivals in the various divisions of theatre: community, secondary school and youth divisions. This year’s convention was hosted by the University of Georgia at Athens.

According to information posted at www.georgiatheatreconference.com, the Georgia Theatre Conference is affiliated with the American Association of Community Theatres (AACT); the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), the conference that the Augusta Players are now looking forward to; Georgia Citizens for the Arts and the Georgia Association for Theatre Education (GATE).

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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

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-Irina Dunn

Coming November 6

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Arts

Auditions

WET PAINT PARTY AND EXHIBIT CALL FOR ARTISTS to show and sell a recent work at the Greater Augusta Ar ts Council’s Wet Paint Par ty and Exhibit Nov. 13 at the Marbury Center. Only one piece of ar twork may be submit ted per ar tist; asking price must be set at no more than $350. All ar tists are required to join the Greater Augusta Ar ts Council at the ar tist/teacher rate of $25, which also includes admission for two to the event. For more information, call the Greater Augusta Ar ts Council at 826-4702.

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

SWEET ADELINES HARMONY RIVER CHORUS OPEN REHEARSAL for singers each Thursday at 7 p.m. at Church of Christ, 600 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.

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

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

ART CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS are 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, pottery, 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

CER AMICS BY ERIC CARLIN will be on display at the Gibbs Library throughout November. 863-1946.

MAGGIE DAVID AND MELISSA MESSINA exhibit at the Augusta State University Fine Ar ts Center Nov. 6-Dec. 3.

Opening reception Nov. 6, 5-7 p.m. Call 737-1444.

“OF ART AND ARTISTS: RECENT WORKS FROM THE FINE ART FACULTY OF ASU” will be at the Ger trude

PAINTINGS BY LINDA BAACK will be at the Euchee Creek Library during November. Call 556-0594.

AT THE ETHERREDGE CENTER Nov. 3-Dec. 19: Billy S. exhibits in the Upper Gallery, Ar thur Lien exhibits in the Lower Gallery. (803) 641-3305.

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 through 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.

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 different artists. 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.

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

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Herber t Institute of Ar t Nov. 4-25. Opening reception Nov. 7, 6-8 p.m. at Ware’s Folly. Call 722-5495 for 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.

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See Three Days Grace perform at the Georgia-Carolina State Fair Oct. 23.

Dance

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

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, 863-4186, for information.

CSR A/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

THREE DAYS GR ACE per forms at the Georgia-Carolina State Fair Oct. 23. Show is free with paid fair admission.

For information, call Tix Online at (803) 278-4TIX. VOICES OF FAITH GOSPEL CHOIR CONCERT AND WORKSHOP Oct. 29-Nov. 1 at For t Gordon. Nov. 1 concer t star ts at 6 p.m. in Alexander Hall. Oct. 29-30 workshops held at 6 p.m. at the Signal Theatre and Nov. 1 workshop is held at 9 a.m. at the Signal Theatre.

Admission is free. Call 791-2837 or 855-5791 for info.

SOUTHERN BLUEGRASS per forms Nov. 1, 7 p.m., at the Fillmore Coffeehouse at Christ Church Unity. Tickets are $6 at the door. Children able to sit through the concer t are welcome. For information, contact Jill Shealy, 722-0761.

SHERRIE MARICLE AND DIVA per form a jazz concer t Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m. at the ASU Per forming Ar ts Theatre as par t of the university’s Lyceum Series. Free admission for ASU students, faculty and staf f; general admission is $8 and special admission for senior citizens or other area students is $5. Tickets may be purchased at the box of fice the night of the per formance or ahead of time at the Of fice of Student Activities, 737-1609.

FACULTY ARTIST RECITAL 7 p.m. Nov. 6 at USCAiken’s Etherredge Center. For more information, call (803) 641-3305.

AUGUSTA CHILDREN’S CHOR ALE DESSERT CONCERT Nov. 6, 7 p.m., at Sacred Hear t Cultural Center. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door. Contact Ann Rober ts at 826-4718 for more information.

“EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM” will be per formed by the Augusta Choral Society and members of the Augusta Symphony Nov. 1, 8 p.m., at Sacred Hear t Cultural Center. Admission is $20 adult, $16 seniors (65 and up) and students. Call 826-4713 for info.

MIDDLE SCHOOL FALL MUSIC FESTIVAL Nov. 1 at Davidson Fine Ar ts School’s Commons and Amphitheater. Free admission. Call 823-6924, ex t. 107, 111 or 118 for info.

PIANO QUARTET CONCERT with ASU and Conservatory faculty members 3 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Theatre. 737-1453.

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.

ELKINS performs Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., as part of the 28 BEN Morris Museum of Art’s Young Tennessee

Singer/Songwriter Series. Admission is $3 for adults and $2

M E for seniors, students and military personnel. 724-7501.

T R OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN per forms Oct. 30 as par t of the O Augusta Symphony’s Pops! at the Bell series at the Bell S P I R I T

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.

O SOUTHERN SOUL AND SONG CONCERT SERIES TICKC ETS NOW ON SALE for per formances by: Mountain T Hear t, Oct. 24; Rober t Earl Keen, Nov. 4; and The

Nashville Bluegrass Band, Nov. 8. All shows are at 7:30

2 p.m. at the Imperial Theatre. Tickets are $15. Proceeds 3

benefit Morris Museum of Ar t public programming and

2 the Imperial Theatre’s capital improvements fund. Call 0 722-8341 to reserve tickets.

0 3 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.

AUGUSTA SYMPHONY STRING QUARTET per forms The Mar tha Cur tis Memorial Concer t at the Nov. 4 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 “A MOZART TO MOTOWN CHRISTMAS” now on sale. Show will be staged Nov. 29 at the Imperial Theatre. Tickets are $30 general admission or $45 VIP admission. To order tickets, call the Imperial Theatre box of fice at 722-8341.

Theater “FAME: THE MUSICAL” will be per formed Nov. 3 at the Bell Auditorium as par t of the Broadway in Augusta theatre series. Tickets are available at the AugustaRichmond County Civic Center or charge by phone at 724-2400.

“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 8236924, ex t. 135.

“BLITHE SPIRIT” will be presented by the Washington Lit tle Theatre Company Oct. 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.

Attractions AUGUSTA CANAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: Housed in Enterprise Mill, the center contains displays and models focusing on the Augusta Canal’s functions and impor tance to the tex tile industry. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sun., 1-6 p.m. Admission is $5 adult, $4 seniors and military and $3 children ages 6-18. Children under 6

admit ted free. For information, visit www.augustacanal.com or call 823-0440.

Discovery. For more information, visit www.NationalScienceCenter.org or call 821-0200.

noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Call Historic Augusta for more information at 724-0436.

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.

MASTERWORKS OF SOUTHERN ART TOUR 2 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Call 724-7501.

SWAMP SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. Nov. 1 at Phinizy Swamp Nature Park. Scenic walk leads patrons past wetlands, swamps and other points of interest at the park. Bring insect repellent, sunscreen, walking shoes, a water bot tle and weather-appropriate outerwear. Cameras and binoculars welcome. Free; donations accepted. 828-2109.

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. 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

“ARTR AGEOUS SUNDAY! CREATE YOUR FAMILY TREE” Nov. 2, 2 p.m., at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Call 7247501 for information.

HOSPITALITY FAM TOUR ON THE AUGUSTA CANAL’S PETERSBURG TOUR BOAT Oct. 28, 11:30 a.m. Boarding begins at 11:20 a.m. Check in at the Augusta Canal Interpretive Center Ticket Desk, 1450 Greene St. Tour is subject to cancellation due to weather conditions. To reserve a place, call 823-7089.

ARTIST’S TALK BY VIRGINIA DERRYBERRY 7 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Call 721-7501 for details.

“CELEBR ATION OF FLIGHT” exhibit at For t Discovery’s Knox Gallery runs through Jan. 31. Admission to the exhibit is free with paid general admission to For t

YOUNG AT ART ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP PARTY Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m. at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Call 724-7501 for details.

“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 the Walker-Mackenzie Studio. Open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday by appointment only. Admission is free, but a donation of $2 for adults and $1 for children and seniors is encouraged. Call 722-5495 or visit www.ghia.org for more info.

THE AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY hosts permanent exhibition “Augusta’s Story,” an award-winning exhibit encompassing 12,000 years of local history. For the younger crowd, there’s the Susan L. Still Children’s Discovery Gallery, where kids can learn about history in a hands-on environment. The museum also shows films in the History Theatre and hosts a variety of programs.

Located at 560 Reynolds Street. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m. Admission is $4 adult, $3 seniors, $2 kids (6-18 years of age) and free for children under 6. Free admission on Sundays. Call 722-8454 or visit www.augustamuseum.org for more information.

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

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

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 CSRA HUMANE SOCIETY PET-A-FAIR Nov. 2 at Julian Smith Casino. The public is invited to at tend and bring pets; all pets must be adequately under control and comfor table around other animals and people. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for registration in the contests, which star t at 1 p.m. For information, call the CSRA Humane Society at 261-PETS. NOVEMBER FREE FILM SERIES at Headquar ters Library Tuesdays throughout November. All films star t at 6:30 p.m. except for the Nov. 4 film, which begins at 6 p.m. Nov. 4 showing of “The Pianist,” Nov. 11 showing of “Ice Storm,” Nov. 18 showing of “Alice’s Restaurant,” Nov. 25 showing of “Finding Nemo.” 821-2600.

HISTORIC AUGUSTA ANTIQUES SHOW AND SALE Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at the Old Medical College, 598 Telfair St. Show hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and

FAMILY FUNFEST Nov. 1 at Savannah Place Park. Live enter tainment and family games and contests. Free. For more information, call 821-2828 days or 834-7013 evenings.

BARREL FULL-O-CHILI COOK-OFF AND COWBOY CHRISTMAS EXPO Nov. 1 on Seventh Street in front of the Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center. For information, contact Noell Inman at 823-3362.

CHILDREN FROM CHINA MEET AND GREET RECEPTION Nov. 2, 2 p.m., for families who have adopted children from China, for families considering adoption from China or families in the process of adoption from China. The complimentary reception will be held at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, 548 Walker St. RSVP is preferred, but not required. For more information, visit www.ccbaaugusta.com or call 722-5993.

DOWNTOWN LUNCH DATE continues with featured restaurants and musicians noon-2:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at Augusta Common. Bring your own lunch or have lunch by the featured restaurant while listening to the sounds of local musicians. Call Riverwalk Special Events, 821-1754, for info.

COLUMBIA COUNTY FAIR will be at the county fairgrounds Nov. 1-7. For more information, visit www.drewexpo.com or call 737-0650.

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.

SECOND ANNUAL INTERTRIBAL POW WOW AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at Langley Pond Park in Langley, S.C. Indian ar ts and crafts, 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 667-4821 or 737-1878 for details.

GEORGIA/CAROLINA STATE FAIR through Oct. 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.

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.

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Fort Discoveryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebration of Flightâ&#x20AC;? exhibit runs through Jan. 31.

WESTERN CAROLINA STATE FAIR through Oct. 25 at the Aiken Jaycees Fairgrounds. Events include beauty pageant, demolition derby, family shows and a rodeo. Visit www.tixonline.com or call (803) 278-4TIX.

Weldon White, Sandra Chastain and Jackie K. Cooper.

Held Nov. 2, 2:30 p.m., at the Old Opera House in Hawkinsville, Ga. Tickets are $8 adults and $4 students; call (478) 783-1884 to reserve seats.

SATURDAY FARMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

THE STEEPLECHASE AT CALLAWAY Nov. 1 at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga. For ticket information, call the Steeplechase office at 324-6252 or visit www.steeplechaseatcallaway.org.

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

ADOPTION INFORMATION SESSION Nov. 1, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Independent Adoption Center in Tucker, Ga. To reserve a place, call (404) 321-6900. â&#x20AC;&#x153;MERLINâ&#x20AC;? will be presented Nov. 1-23 at the 14th Street Playhouse in Atlanta as part of the Alliance Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Family Series. For ticket information, visit www.alliancetheatre.org or call (404) 733-4600.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA will be at the Newberry Opera House in Newberry, S.C., Nov. 3, 8 p.m. Call (803) 276-6264 for tickets.

FOUNDERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DAY with free admission and special events Nov. 6 at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga. Call 1-800-CALLAWAY. â&#x20AC;&#x153;RICHARD IIâ&#x20AC;? will be at The New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta Nov. 6-9 and Dec. 4. Ticket prices range from $19.50-$24.50, and optional food and beverage service is available before the show. For additional information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.shakespearetavern.com or call (404) 874-5299.

HIGH MUSEUM OF ART OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Oct. 26, noon-5 p.m. Free and open to the public. The High Museum of Art is located at 1280 Peachtree St. in Atlanta. For more information, call (404) 733-4444 or visit www.high.org.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE GLASS MENAGERIEâ&#x20AC;? will be presented by the University of South Carolina Theatre Department Oct. 24-Nov. 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. (803) 777-2551.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;FAMEâ&#x20AC;? will be at the Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savannah, Ga. Nov. 5. For tickets, call 1-800-351-7469 or (912) 651-6556.

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

â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE WRITE STUFFâ&#x20AC;? literary event features readings, lectures and book-signings by authors Terry Kay, Jaclyn

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) 2766264 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.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;ICONOCLASTS: SIX ATHENS-BASED ARTISTSâ&#x20AC;? 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.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTSâ&#x20AC;? will be performed by the Atlanta Ballet Oct. 30-Nov. 2 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. For tickets, call (404) 817-8700.

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.

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.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE CR AWLASEUM: A LIVE BUG EXHIBITâ&#x20AC;? 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.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;EDWARD HOPPER AND URBAN REALISMâ&#x20AC;? will be on display at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C., through Jan. 18. (803) 799-2810.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A SALUTE TO 25 YEARS OF THE GEORGIA MUSIC HALL OF FAME AWARDSâ&#x20AC;? 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.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;CROWNSâ&#x20AC;? 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 CRAFTSMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. â&#x20AC;&#x153;MACBETHâ&#x20AC;? 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. â&#x20AC;&#x153;KING HEDLEY IIâ&#x20AC;? will be presented by the Alliance Theatre Company on the Woodruff Arts Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hertz Stage through Nov. 2. Tickets are $25-$31 and are available online at www.alliancetheatre.org or by phone at (404) 733-5000.

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

GEORGIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL runs through Nov. 2 with per formances of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Much Ado About Nothing,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The School for Wives,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Tale of Cymbelineâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Tempest.â&#x20AC;? 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.: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Masters of Their Craf t: Highlights From the Smithsonian American Ar t Museum,â&#x20AC;? through Nov. 13; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conversion to Modernism: The Early Works of Man Ray,â&#x20AC;? through Nov. 30; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creativity: The Flowering Tornadoâ&#x20AC;? by Ginny Ruf fner through Nov. 23. Call (706) 542-4662.

AT THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART in Atlanta through Oct. 26: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ansel Adams and his Legacy,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Mat ter of Time: Edward Hopper From the Whitney Museum of American Ar t.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Undiscovered Richard Meier: The Architect as Designer and Ar tistâ&#x20AC;? will be on exhibit through April 4, with a lecture on Nov. 18. Call (404) 733-HIGH or visit www.high.org for information.

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“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 Gallery, La Dolce Vita Spa and Salon and Antique Market, or by calling Hope House at 737-9879.

SILENT AUCTION Oct. 26, 5:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per person or $20 per family. For more information, call 826-4700.

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.

M E T R SACRED HEART CULTUR AL CENTER HALE HOUSE O FOUNDATION LOW COUNTRY BARBECUE AND S P I R I T

PARKINSON DISEASE WALK-A-THON Nov. 1, 9 a.m., at the Family Y track on Wheeler Road. Registration is from 8-8:45 a.m., and registration fee is $15. For information, O call 855-7690 or 860-5868.

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“IT’S SPOOKY TO BE HUNGRY,” a neighborhood food

2 drive, will be collecting in subdivisions throughout 3 Columbia, Richmond, Aiken, Lincoln, McDuf fie, Warren

and Edgefield counties Oct. 25. For more information on

2 how to get involved, contact Evelyn Browne, 863-5863.

0 0 HARVEST BALL to benefit ASU’s Born To Read Literacy 3

Center and the scholarship fund of the Savannah River Sail and Power Squadron Nov. 1, 7-11 p.m. Tickets are $20 per person. To reserve seats, call 737-8113.

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 University Hospital Breast Health Center. Register by calling Ashley Pinson at 7295650 or online at www.universityhealth.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.

R AGIN’ CAJUN CASINO NIGHT to benefit the programs and services of St. Joseph Hospital Oct. 23, 7-10:30 p.m., at Julian Smith Casino. Tickets are $75 per person; make reservations by calling 481-7402.

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.

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.

Learning INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS FOR ADULTS Mondays, Nov. 3-17, 9:30-11 a.m. at the Ma xwell Branch Library. Registration required; call 793-2020.

POWER POINT WORKSHOP Nov. 1 and 8 at the Wallace Branch Library. Sessions held from 1-3 p.m. 722-6275.

MAKE AND DECOR ATE HOLIDAY GREETING CARDS Nov. 4, 10 a.m.-noon at the Ma xwell Branch Library.

Registration required. Call 793-2020.

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This Saturday is your last chance to catch the downtown Farmer’s Market until next spring.

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.

“THE CHANGING FACE OF CORPORATE 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) 510-3119 or rsvp@augustaima.org.

are free. 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.

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

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

“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.

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.

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.

PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE SERIES at ASU. Lectures are held at noon in room W1002 of the Science Building and

AIKEN TECH CONTINUING EDUCATION offers 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 offers Education to Go classes online. For more information or to register, call (803) 593-9231, ex t. 1230.

Health

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.

GRIEF MINISTRY GROUP meets Sundays, Nov. 2-23, 45:30 p.m., in Room 100 of the Adult Building at First Baptist Church. RSVP at 736-6708.

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.

LYMPHEDEMA EDUCATION FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING BREAST CANCER SURGERY at the Universit y Breast Health Center 5 p.m. Nov. 4. Call 774-4141 for information.

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.

“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.

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

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. 23 program on eating healthy and Oct. 30 program on how to per form breast self-exams. Programs are presented in the MCG mammography area on the first floor of the MCG Medical Center. To register, call 721-1467.

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.

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 8238691.

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

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. Nov. 4 lectures are on “How To Plan for the Financial Future for Your Child With Special Needs” and “How To Receive Suppor t for Children With Special Needs Through Project LINK.” 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 7360847 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.

Kids FAMILY BIKE TOUR OF PHINIZY SWAMP NATURE PARK Nov. 2, 2-4 p.m. An adult should accompany children under 12. Helmets are required. Contribution is $3 for members and $5 for non-members. 828-2109.

FAMILY Y YOUTH BASKETBALL REGISTR ATION for the Family Y’s youth basketball and Iddy Biddy Basketball programs Nov. 3-15 at Wheeler Branch. Fees are $26$55. For more information, call 738-6678 or visit www.thefamilyy.org.

“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.

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

“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 7363349 for tickets.

YOUTH BASKETBALL REGISTR ATION through 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.

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 AFTER-SCHOOL PROGR AM runs through May 21. 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 dropof 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.

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.

Seniors 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 828-2109 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.

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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) 641-3288.

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THE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF GREATER AUGUSTA AND THE CSR A of fers a variet y 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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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.

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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.

• Large private courtyard with fountain accessible from main room

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.

• Centrally located in historic downtown Augusta • On site catering by Roux’s Gourmet Catering • Reception capacity - 300 people

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.

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

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Jim Bennett will conduct landscaping and gardening seminars on a variety of topics during the Parade.

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Tudor Branch DIRECTIONS TO PA R A D E O F H O M E S From I-20: Take the Belair Road exit (coming from the east, turn right; coming from the west, turn left); travel 1.7 miles and turn left onto Columbia Road; travel 2.7 miles to the subdivision entrance on the right. Follow the Parade/parking signs.

From the Appling/Grovetown areas: From I-20 West, take the Grovetown exit; turn left onto Lewiston Road and travel 1.7 miles and turn right on Columbia Road; travel .8 miles to the subdivision entrance on the left.

Follow the Parade/parking signs.

From Washington Road to Columbia Road: At Washington Road/Columbia Road intersection, turn onto Columbia Road and travel 5.2 miles to the subdivision entrance on the right. Follow the Parade/parking signs.

October 24 - 26 & October 30 - November 2

Thursday and Fridays, 12 - 4 pm Saturdays, 10 am - 5 pm Sundays, 12 - 5 pm This year homes and furnishings are available for purchase!

A portion of the proceeds from the Parade will benefit this year’s recipient: The CSRA Alliance Helping Fort Gordon Tickets are $5 at admission tent; 14 and younger are free.

Free admission to Active Military Personnel and their family. Military ID Required.

For more information please call: The Builders Association

706.860.2371

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Major Parade of Homes Sponsors:

Blanchard & Calhoun Real Estate Augusta Mortgage Nextel

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 e-mail augustarfc@yahoo.com.

You may also visit www.augustarugby.org.

Volunteer SWAMP SATURDAY LEADER TR AINING Nov. 1, 9 a.m.noon, for those interested in leading Swamp Saturday groups around Phinizy Swamp Nature Park. RSVP to 828-2109 by Oct. 30.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 starts at 11 a.m.

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

Call 261-PETS for information.

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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

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 EUDORA 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.

“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.

50-minute guided tours depart from Enterprise Mill dock Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 11am-1:30pm

THE TEMPLETON’S HAUNTED GR AVEYARD AND TR AIL Oct. 28-Nov. 1. Located at 4412 Highway 24 East in Louisville, Ga., the haunted graveyard and trail is open 7-10 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and 7-11 p.m.

Friday-Saturday. Admission is $4; children under 2 admit ted free. (478) 625-8951.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

THE CANOE AND RIVER KAYAK CLUB OF AUGUSTA meets the four th Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Warren Road Community Center. New members are always welcome. Call 860-5432 or visit www.ckca.homestead.com for info.

AUGUSTA AREA SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE meets Oct. 26, 3 p.m., at Advent Lutheran Church, 3232 Washington Rd. Call 863-6785 for more information.

THE DETACHMENT OF THE LOCAL MARINE CORPS LEAGUE meets Oct. 25, 5 p.m., at VFW Post No. 3200.

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Tour the Augusta Canal aboard the NEW Petersburg Boat

For information, contact Karenann Amster, 863-6374.

CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA LINUX USERS GROUP meets at 6 p.m. every four th Tuesday at Borders Books and Music to discuss computers, Linux, the Internet and related issues. Call 790-8439 for information.

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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.

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.

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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.

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

Announcements must be received by Monday at noon and will be included as space permits. Send to Events, Metro Spirit, P.O. Box 3809, Augusta, GA 30914 or fax (706) 7336663. You may also e-mail listings to rhonda.jones@metrospirit.com or lisa.jordan@metrospirit.com. Listings cannot be taken over the phone.

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Some Art Is Worth the Trip

By Rhonda Jones

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The work of Edward Hopper is on display at the Columbia Museum of Art through January.

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ven though Augusta is a community rich in artists, it is sometimes interesting to look around and see what neighboring cities have to offer. This week, we are looking at two such exhibits — one all the way in Columbia, S.C. The other is just a hop and a skip over the border into Aiken.

The Aiken exhibit is at Rabold Gallery at 146A Laurens Street SW. The artist is Jim Boden, an assistant art professor at Coker College in Hartsville, S.C. He was kind enough recently to respond to some questions put to him by Metro Spirit concerning his show.

I found it interesting that he had included works from two vastly different styles — black and white, shadowy figures and paintings that I can only describe as textured color fields. So I began by asking him, simply, if it was difficult to work in both styles.

“Is it difficult? No, not really. It comes down to a question as to what visual language is most appropriate for the idea/concept to be expressed. Each body of work necessitates a different approach. While doing each of the two different bodies of work, I had to “learn” the language that each needed to be communicated in. That becomes such an important part of the process, so much of the exploration. That is really the pleasure in doing the work — finding the suitable method to communicate the idea.”

The next question was about those squares of color. Basically, I don’t “get” them, and told Boden that I don’t understand why some artists choose to make “subjectless” images.

“Contrary to your understanding of the color field pieces, there is a subject. Those pieces investigate a subject in a more ethereal mindset than the ‘1+1<>2’ series,” he replied.

“What I was seeking was a way to communicate emotional states of being through color layers or ‘skins.’ The initial concept was to use color to interpret the sensation of touch and intimacy in a relationship. There are those intimate moments when the boundaries

of each individual’s skin becomes absorbed into the other’s physicalness and that erasure of specific boundaries becomes lost in the touches. That was the initial concept. But as the series progressed I found small elements or hints of body parts and shards of vessels (pottery/vase) emerging. This was an indicator to me that the concept was slowly evolving into other realms of thought concerning desire and memory.”

Ah, sex. I should have guessed.

The “1+1<>2” series (the figurative drawings), according to literature released by the gallery, is based on statements that the whole is less than the sum of its parts and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. “Works in the series explore this conflict as it exists in relationships,” the statement states, going on to explain that the series “investigates the politics, dance and gymnastics of relationships,” using time, movement and space. The color field series is titled “Sublimity of Flesh.”

He continued.

“So, there is a ‘subject’ frame within which I am working. The question then becomes, ‘Is it effectively being communicated?’ I do not want the viewer to ‘read’ these pieces in that literal sense, but rather, find themselves being absorbed into the ‘color field.’”

Now for the figures. That’s where I would have guessed sex, or at the very least, wrestling. I asked Boden his feelings toward the technique, and invited him to comment upon the artistic and emotional value in making figures somewhat anonymous.

“At the time these were made, I was very intrigued with exploring the ‘moment’ — both in the actual mark-making and in capturing a ‘moment’ in time. Those moments are not necessarily in a high-resolution freezeframe that might be achieved in photography with a fast shutter speed, but the blur of a moment when the edges may be a bit undefined –— the quick glimpse. I am extremely interested in body language and sometimes

Jim Boden’s black and white figure drawings are on display at the Rabold Gallery in Aiken. flashes and twitches can take place so rapidly that we can only grab hints of the state of mind of individuals. It was in this range of thought that I worked with marks that defined the important elements of the ‘gesture’ and left the rest for the viewer to visually complete the figures.

“As for the question of anonymity, there is a specific element relating to the models in the work but as they become stand-ins for the audience, others can place themselves within the conversation of the works.”

And of course there was the old “sum up the artist in 10 words or less” question, but he thought that might be presumptuous. So I asked another well-worn question: What is the most important thing you try to instill in your students?

“The most important is to acknowledge to themselves that a pursuit of the arts is hard work. Work breeds work and ideas breed ideas. It can be very frustrating at times but that is a necessary element in pushing forward to understanding stronger concepts. It is an exploration of materials, concepts, philosophies. It is not easy.”

Here is what the gallery owner, Doug Rabold, had to say about him.

“I discovered the art of Jim Boden before I opened the gallery. Last February I took a trip to the South Carolina Arts Commission in Columbia to research artists from across the state. I looked through 20 slide carousels containing samples of work by hundreds of artists. Jim Boden was the first artist I selected in that process. I was struck immediately by the power and emotion of Boden’s minimalist and mysterious imagery. As a professor, Jim is fully dedicated to his art students at Coker College in Hartsville, S.C. As an artist, he is fully absorbed in the process of producing his work. While he has lived in the state for four years, he has made no effort to seek exposure.

I truly feel that Jim is an important ‘discovery’ among active South Carolina artists.”

If you would like to check out the figures and color fields for yourself, visit Rabold Gallery before Nov. 15. For info, call the gallery at (803) 641-4405.

Edward Hopper at the Columbia Museum of Art If you don’t mind a drive, you could catch “Edward Hopper and Urban Realism,” which is currently on display at the Columbia Museum of Art until Jan. 18, 2004.

He was a painter of city life.

Evelyn C. Hankins, the Whitney Museum of American Art’s assistant curator of prewar art and special projects, from whence the pieces come, said that the Whitney actually gave Hopper his first exhibit in the 1920s, and has bought a number of his works over the years.

“Hopper is thought of as an artist outside the arc of art history,” she said, explaining that he isn’t associated with any particular school of thought or group of artists, and was, in fact, considered a loner. But she calls him one of the most important figurative artists in American art history.

She said that he imbued his works with a “mysterious narrative.”

“They’re familiar, but you’re looking at them and there’s something kind of … off … about them.”

He does some freaky stuff with light, that I, for one, cannot put my finger on. Maybe that’s precisely the thing that people like about him.

“He’s beloved,” Hankins said. “Here at the Whitney, we keep Hoppers on display all the time.”

Other artists in the exhibit are Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Stuart Davis, Reginald Marsh, Everett Shinn, George Bellows and more.

If you would like to see the pieces they have loaned to the Columbia Museum of Art, you have until Jan. 18. If you have questions, call (803) 343-2208 or (803) 799-2810, or visit www.columbiamuseum.org.

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Arts: Performing

Olivia Show Sold Out ... Billy Dee and Tichina Still Available

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It Will Get Cold Again, Won’t it?

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By Rhonda Jones

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hances are, you’ve seen these stars in plenty of productions. And now you can see some of them in Augusta. Well, except for Olivia, of course, whose fans have already come out in force. More about that momentarily. First, let’s talk about Billy Dee Williams and “Martin’s” Tichina Arnold, who are coming to town with a production of a play called “If These Hips Could Talk.”

“If These Hips Could Talk” is a tell-all story co-written and –produced by Angela BarrowDunlap and Marvie Wright. It delves into the secret experiences of women. According to the promotional statement issued by It Is Done Communications, the play “takes a deeper look into the lives of seemingly functional women who have deep-seated, underlying emotional pain that threatens to rip apart the very fiber of their (lives).”

Tichina Arnold is Simone. You probably know her as Pam on Martin Lawrence’s selftitled sitcom, but she’d already racked up an impressive resume by the time she took that particular role, working as a New York stage actress before breaking into television as Zena on “Ryan’s Hope.” She’s made guest appearances on “The Cosby Show,” “Law & Order,” “Pacific Blue,” “The Jamie Foxx Show” and “Soul Food.” Her screen credits include “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Big Momma’s House.”

But of course, the big name is Billy Dee Williams, remembered by many as Lando Calrissian of “The Empire Strikes Back” and “The Return of the Jedi.” According to promotional materials, Williams has had an odd, back-and-forth relationship with acting and art. He attended the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design in New York on two major awards – the Guggenheim and the Hallgarten Award.

Eventually he found himself in need of art supply money so, for some reason, he turned to acting and wound up studying with Paul Mann and Sidney Poitier. That went so well, he tossed aside his paints and grabbed a leading role on CBS’ “Eye on New York.” He was 21. He spent some time working on Broadway and some time in Paris before beginning the filmed portion of his career, which, as you know, included the “Star Wars” franchise. He has an insane filmography, which begins in 1959 with “The Last Angry Man” and doesn’t start up again until the early ‘70s, at which point it remains pretty consistent. Here are a few titles: “Lady Sings the Blues” (1972), “Chiefs” (1983), “Oceans of Fire” (1987), “Batman” (1989), “The Jacksons: An American Dream” (1992), “Fear Runs Silent” (1999) and “Undercover Brother” (2002).

Olivia Newton-John Concert Sold Out Performance stories in the Metro Spirit are generally geared toward giving the Augusta audience, which is well-known for buying last-minute tickets, a week to a week and a half to get their tickets or to help those who

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Olivia Newton-John is well-known for her role in “Grease,” where she co-starred with John Travolta, as well as other high-profile cinematic and musical projects. purchased tickets early remember and look forward to the show dates. But Olivia Newton-John is simply too popular. All her tickets are gone. So this blurb goes out to the fans who already have their tickets and butterflies in their stomachs tripping gaily over songs like “Xanadu,” “Let’s Get Physical” and all those tunes from “Grease.”

She’s had quite a career. The musical portion of it began when she started a band back home in Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 15, according to her official Web site at http://olivianewtonjohn.net. In 1963, she began making television appearances and a decade later, she debuted on the U.S. music scene with an album titled “Let Me Be There” with MCA Records.

The rest is pretty much history. If you are one of the lucky few in possession of a ticket to the show, then you probably have one or more of her albums tucked away in your closet: “If You Love Me, Let Me Know,” “Grease,” “Xanadu,” “Physical,” “Two of a Kind” (like “Grease,” it features her mug and John Travolta’s on the cover), “Sordid Lives,” and “Olivia.”

That last one is from last year.

Newton-John is appearing courtesy of Augusta Symphony in a performance titled “An Evening With Olivia Newton-John” on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. at the Bell Auditorium. The performance begins the Symphony’s Pops! At the Bell Series. You never know. The Will Call line may have some abandoned tickets, so there’s still hope.

If you have questions, give the Symphony offices a call at (706) 826-4705 or visit www.augustasymphony.org.

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Arts: Theatre

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ell hath no fury like a fairy snubbed. And that is the dark (yet humorous and charming, if we know Barbara Feldman and Rick Davis) area that Storyland Theatre seeks to explore.

Here’s the basic story, for those of you who either missed, or have forgotten, the Disney movie. Or who somehow missed the squadrillions of other versions of the classic fairy tale that are out there.

Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who went forth and multiplied. The result of that exercise was one tiny Princess Aurora, of whom the royal duo were very proud. And since fairy tale royalty will throw a shindig at the drop of a crown, they decided to have a big party in the infant’s honor.

Now this particular family, for some heretofore unexplained reason, liked to hang out with fairies. And so they invited them, or at least the ones they liked. But one fairy was left off the guest list, maybe because they didn’t like her. However it happened, Maleficent was not the forgiving kind. And so, she decided to get revenge.

Fairy-style.

Maleficent drew on all her diabolical talents to place a really nasty curse on the hapless child. At the age of 16, the kid was to prick her finger and die. Short and simple, as curses go. Maleficent is a busy woman, after all, with Martha Stewartesque projects to complete. Cookies to bake.

Luckily, one of the friendly fairies was able to take the edge off the curse and Aurora only went to sleep. In the original version, she slept 100 years and was awakened by a prince of the future. In the Disney version, she is awakened by the prince to whom she was betrothed as a child, and whom she subsequently met on a walk through the woods.

Now, the Storyland Theatre versions of things tend to be a tad different from traditional versions and Disney versions. That is because they are reworked by local playwright Rick Davis.

We asked if that were the case this time.

Storyland Theatre Director Barbara Feldman responded.

“Yes, Rick wrote the play and lyrics. Susan Reese Frank wrote the music and is musical director,” she said.

Feldman herself has taken on a dual role.

One role is as director. But there is another job she enjoys taking on as well.

“I am (as always) Maleficent, the evil fairy.”

There are two friendly fairies in the production – Flora, played by Carrie Anderson, and Fauna, played by Ashley Poteet. Aurora, the sleeping beauty herself, will be portrayed by Ann O’Neill. Justin Anderson will play the prince. Tony Cooper will play the king and the queen will be played by Cindy Wilkinson.

And there will be some comic relief as well, in the person of Hero, to be played by Austin Rhodes.

I asked her what makes this particular version the Storyland Theatre version.

“What defines this ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is that, in Rick’s way, it is the basic story, but Hero, for instance, adds fun and comedy to the plot.

And the ending is different because we don’t like good people to do bad things, so there is a twist to the ending.”

Storyland Theatre will perform “Sleeping Beauty” at the Grover C. Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre on the Augusta State University campus. Performances are Tuesday through Friday, Oct. 28-31 at 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. There will be a Saturday family matinee on Nov. 1 at 3 p.m.

Don’t forget to make reservations for weekday performances. Tix are $3.50 per student, with season tickets (three shows) for $9.

Teachers and chaperones admitted free.

Family matinee tix (no reservations required) are $4 per person or $10.50 for the season.

Box office opens at 2:15 p.m. For info call (706) 736-3455 or (706) 736-3349. Or you can e-mail them at storyland2@comcast.net.

And they now have a Web site at http://home.comcast.net/~storyland2/menu.htm.

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Movie Listings 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 of f 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) ★ Beyond Borders (R) — “Beyond Borders” follows the romance between a medical student, who finds work in international disaster relief, and a wealthy socialite. The two keep meeting in times of disaster and war but still manage to forge a bond. Cast: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Noan Emmerich.

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). There cometh unto Buf falo the Almighty (Morgan 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) ★★ 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

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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 Fast Runner (R) — Based on an ancient Inuit legend, “The Fast Runner” tells the story of two brothers in a small, nomadic community. The camp’s best hunter, Atanarjuat, known as The Fast Runner, wins the promised wife of his rival, Oki. Oki, vowing to get revenge, plots to kill the brothers. Cast: Natar Ungalaaq, Madeline Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Puloosie Quitalik, Eugene Ipkarnak, Pakkak Innukshuk.

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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 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.

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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 unfortunate 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.

Gigli (R) — This is about the "chemistry" of Jennifer Lopez (J.Lo to millions) and Ben Af fleck (B.Af to fewer), who have been having, to the joy of all tab readers, an S.Rom (sizzling romance). Their new L.Mo (lousy movie) is Mar tin Brest's comedy about a tough guy, Larry Gigli (Af fleck). He is hired by a scumball (Lenny Venito) who substitutes profanity for English to kidnap the retarded teen brother of a federal prosecutor. He and Gigli both learn to love Ricki (Lopez), another "contractor " hired by the scum to watch them.

She is a proudly lesbian killer-tootsie. This is the cinema of at titude pampered beyond lousy teen comedy to some post-Tarantino end zone of stupified "adulthood." Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Af fleck, Justin Bar tha, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino. Running time: 2 hrs. (Elliot t) 0 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 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 Intolerable Cruelty (PG-13) — The cruel par t of the new Coen Bros. comedy is that Catherine ZetaJones 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.

★★★— Worthy.

★★ — Mixed.

★ — Poor.

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 O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), a squad member. This is entirely about having fun, and only a gut response will do. 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 Drey fus. Running time: 1 hr., 39 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★★

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (PG-13) — 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-thesequel ending. Unforgivable and completely baf fling is the dimming of Connery's star-power. Cast: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Stuar t Townsend and Shane West. Running time: 1 hr., 41 mins. (Wood) ★★ Mystic River (R) — Clint Eastwood (directing) and writer Brian Helgeland heap loads of emotional freight on a slow, solemn barge of plot. Its core is a police case (Kevin Bacon and Laurence Fishburne fine as the detectives) about a murder haunted by a past crime. Sean Penn does furious brooding and manly weeping as a dead girl's father, Tim Robbins is a haunted wreck as an abuse victim, Laura Linney and Marcia Gay Harden are sidelined. From its por tentous title to its Boston Irish pride parade, the film aches for greatness and achieves high TV drama; the case wrap-up is rushed and fishy. Running time: 2 hrs., 20

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M mins. (Elliot t) ★★

E Open Range (R) — Once you are saddled for T Kevin Costner's "Open Range," you have to keep ridR ing. It is a wonder ful Western, maybe a great one. At O the core of the story is the friendship of small-scale S P I R I T O C T 2 3 2 0 0 3

cat tleman Boss (Rober t Duvall) and sidekick Charley (Costner). The action builds inevitably, then bites hard.

"Open Range" has the three crucial things that a good Western needs: actors firmly embedded in clear characters with strong motives; the tension of approach to a fated end; the topping gun-down, here a complex death ballet of jumps and jit ters and stunning bursts of firepower (the best, really, since "The Wild Bunch"). 2 hrs., 15 mins. (Eilliot) ★★★★ 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 Spor ts Illustrated ar ticle

by Gary Smith. Cast: Cuba Gooding, Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard, Debra Winger.

Runaway Jury (PG-13) — Based on a John Grisham novel about at tempts to tamper with a jury in a big New Orleans case, brought by the widow of a broker slain in a mass of fice killing. She sues the maker of the weapon, and the firm's primitively gunhappy boss hires ruthless jury appraiser Rankin Finch (Gene Hackman). The widow's lawyer, Wendell Rohr, is played by Dustin Hof fman. The jury's cool mind is Nick Easter (John Cusack), a sly fella with a secret agenda.

His lover Marlee (Rachel Weisz) does the outside work, making Rohr and Finch rival bidders for her jury fixing scheme (for $10 million). The film wallows in cynicism

for nearly two hours. This is a streetcar named default and a bad ride. Cast: John Cusack, Dustin Hof fman, Gene Hackman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Bruce McGill. Running time: 2 hrs., 7 mins. (Elliot t) ★ 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 gun does come to town. Cast: The Rock, Seann William Scot t, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken. Running time: 1 hr., 36 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Scary Movie 3 (PG-13) — The third film in the “Scary Movie” series once again spoofs a series of recent horror hits, fantasy epic films and other pop culture sensations, including “8 Mile,” “The Matrix,” “The Ring,” “The Others” and “Signs.” Cast: David Zucker, Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Regina Hall, Denise Richards.

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 importance 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 chal-

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lenger, 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. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle 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

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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) ★ 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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Four writers pulp-mined a John Grisham novel about attempts to tamper with a jury in a big New Orleans case, brought by the widow of a broker slain in a mass office killing. She sues the maker of the weapon, and the firm’s primitively gun-happy boss hires ruthless jury appraiser Rankin Finch, a rank case as acted with Svengali beard and vulture eyes by Gene Hackman (his credo: “I don’t give a ... I never have”).

The widow’s lawyer is Wendell Rohr, a pintsized Atticus Finch, played with a French Quarter mist of magnolia accent by Dustin Hoffman. When his chief witness fails to appear — we never get any insight into his value — Rohr’s foxy guile is to fall back on an anti-gun argument that makes “Bowling for Columbine” seem like a Socratic dialogue, and to win the jury with a home movie of the murdered man at his son’s birthday party.

The jury’s cool mind is Nick Easter, a sly fella with a secret agenda, played by John Cusack. He’s a master of deceit, but also a ministering angel to other troubled jurors. As he woos and molds them — he gets a blind man elected foreman — his lover Marlee (Rachel Weisz) does the outside work, making Rohr and Finch rival bidders for her jury fixing scheme (for $10 million, no less).

Finch runs an illicit command post of

snoops and hackers, which for drilled skill rivals NASA or the CIA in their best years.

Rohr depends on the nail-eyed Hoffman stare and rips of righteous rage. The plot finds time for a juror trying to kill herself, another being dismissed for secret boozing, Nick’s apartment getting burgled and burned, Marlee fighting an armed thug and the judge (Bruce McGill) taking the jury out to a posh lunch.

There are about five minutes of jury deliberation; the arguments are barely coherent, and jurors Jennifer Beals (ex-star) and Luis Guzman (ace actor) are scarcely used. Nick suddenly morphs into Henry Fonda in “Twelve Angry Men” and another juror (Cliff Curtis), a military vet who loves guns, becomes 12 angry men in one cheap package.

Director Gary Fleder uses a slick speed of attack to spotlight every hole and absurdity.

Fleder, who used Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman to mask the flaws of “Kiss the Girls,” has another crack cast, but he rushes from close-up to close-up, favors jarring transitions, uses cell phones or computer screens for shortcuts and hustle.

Hack work with a Grisham label and New Orleans ambience, the film wallows in cynicism (almost everyone seems dumb or corrupt) for nearly two hours, then resorts to flimsy debate and a Capra verdict. Nick and Marlee, hardly a new Nick and Nora Charles, are finally A-OK because they never liked guns and, at the end, gaze warmly upon children at play.

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Syrupy “Radio” Fails To Explore New Territory

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oosely based on a true story about the unexpected relationship that developed between a revered high school football coach and a mentally challenged teenager, "Radio" is a syrupy and irksome endeavor that, at best, is fairly boring and, at worst, mildly offensive.

Set in a small South Carolina suburb circa the late 1970s, Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as the titular outcast, a lonely and retarded African-American teenager who wanders the streets of his town with a shopping cart full of trinkets in tow.

While lingering by the fence of the high school football field one afternoon, the boy catches the eye of the team’s celebrated coach, Harold Jones (Ed Harris).

When Jones finds his players torturing the boy – they tie him up with medical tape and throw him in the equipment shed – the coach goes out of his way to dole out an appropriate punishment.

Then, unsatisfied he’s done all he can, the coach invites the boy to help out with the team. Radio, who says little during his first meetings with the coach, is given the odd moniker by Jones and his assistant after they notice what a liking he takes to the radio in their office.

Soon Radio becomes something of a team mascot. He begins regularly helping out on and off the field – folding towels, fetching water and imitating the coaches.

As time passes, Radio and Coach Jones grow extremely close. As the coach gets to know Radio’s mother, he learns about

the hardships of their life; she’s overworked and her husband passed away some years ago. The relationship between Coach Jones and Radio soon begins to cause unease – from those with legitimate concerns like the school principal to some narrow-minded parents – all of whom are worried that Radio’s more solidified position in the community will ultimately cause problems.

Mostly focused on the relationship between Radio and Coach Jones, the film explores few other storylines. Although it touches briefly on the unusual fact that Jones is unable to form a meaningful relationship with his teen-age daughter while he so actively fosters one with a stranger, it never explores the reasons behind this. Instead the film is preoccupied with delivering a Christian moral: Here, the meek shall inherit the football team. (The notion is driven even further home with the closing credits, in which the real Radio, now in his late 50s, is seen cavorting on the high school football field in the present day, seemingly frozen in time.)

Aside from its impressive cast, which in addition to Harris includes the rarely seen Debra Winger (in a disappointingly flat and nominal role as Coach Jones’ wife), "Radio" is an extended footnote about the importance of being nice.

Sadly, in typical Hollywood fashion, the pitiable hero who’s supposed to ultimately be the teacher is unintentionally played a bit too much for the clown.

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Intolerable Cruelty (PG-13) Fri: 4:10, 7:10, 9:20; Sat-Sun: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:20; MonThur: 4:10, 7:10, 9:20 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (R) Fri: 4:45, 7:35, 9:55; Sat-Sun: 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 9:55; Mon-Thur: 4:45, 7:35, 9:55 Good Boy! (PG) Fri: 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35; SatSun: 12:55, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35; Mon-Thur: 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 The Rundown (PG-13) Fri-Sun: 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:00; Mon-Thur: 4:55, 7:40, 10:00 School of Rock (PG-13) Fri: 4:40, 7:15, 9:45; Sat-Sun: 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45; Mon-Thur: 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Secondhand Lions (PG) Fri-Sun: 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Mon-Thur: 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 MASTERS 7 CINEMAS Movies Good 10/24 - 10/30 Radio (PG) Fri: 5:00, 7:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun: 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45; Mon-Thur: 5:00, 7:30 Scary Movie 3 (PG-13) Fri: 5:15, 7:55, 10:00; Sat-Sun: 2:50, 5:15, 7:55, 10:00; Mon-Thur: 5:15, 7:55 Runaway Jury (PG-13) Fri: 5:05, 7:25, 9:50; Sat-Sun: 2:35, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50; Mon-Thur: 5:05, 7:25 Texas Chainsaw Massacre (R) Fri: 5:10, 8:00, 9:55; Sat-Sun: 3:00, 5:10, 8:00, 9:55; MonThur: 5:10, 8:00 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (R) Fri: 5:20, 7:50, 10:05; SatSun: 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05; Mon-Thur: 5:20, 7:50 Good Boy (PG) Fri: 5:25, 7:40; Sat-Sun: 3:05, 5:25, 7:40; Mon-Thur: 5:25 Out of Time (PG-13) Fri-Sun: 9:35; Mon-Thur: 7:40 School of Rock (PG-13) Fri: 5:30, 7:35, 9:40; Sat-Sun: 2:45, 5:30, 7:35, 9:40; Mon-Thur: 5:30, 7:35 REGAL 12 CINEMAS Movies Good 10/24 - 10/30 Open Range (R) 2:00, 5:05, 7:55 Gigli (R) 2:45, 5:10, 7:40 Jeepers Creepers 2 (R) 2:20, 4:35, 7:15, 9:35 S.W.A.T. (PG-13) 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25 Seabiscuit (PG-13) 2:10, 5:00, 7:45 Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life (PG-13) 1:55, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 Freddy Vs. Jason (R) 2:35, 4:40, 7:30, 9:45 Finding Nemo (G) 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 League of Ex traordinary Gentlemen (PG-13) 2:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 Bad Boys 2 (R) 1:55, 4:55, 7:50 Bruce Almighty (PG-13) 2:30, 4:45, 7:25, 9:40 Daddy Day Care (PG) 2:40, 4:45, 7:35, 9:50 ASU FALL FILM SERIES Movie Good 10/27 The Fast Runner (R) Mon: 7:00

Augusta Common- 11am-3pm The city of Augusta will host a community celbration honoring the “Godfather of Soul”. The festivities will include live entertainment, food vendors, crafters and much more. For more information, call River Walk special Events (706) 821-1754

November 25 Festival of Lights Augusta Common • 5:30 pm Mayor Bob Young officially begins Augusta’s holiday season by lighting the Christmas tree and the city’s holiday decorations. There will be live newscasts, entertainment by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Band, Children’s Christmas Story Hour presented by the CSRA Reading Council and visits with Santa. For more information, call Riverwalk Special Events (706) 821-1754.

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f you’re looking for a casual and fun way to spend your Halloween night, check into the Monster’s Ball at the Imperial Theatre. Instead of tricks, you’ll find a special treat in the performances of headliners Redbelly and guests Buckner and The Aphrodisiacs.

Redbelly’s Hardy Morris recently spoke with Metro Spirit about the Monster’s Ball, the band’s first album and what’s in store next for the band.

“The songs that we’re playing live, it doesn’t always come out the same as on the CD,” Morris said. “We just kind of keep it spontaneous. I wouldn’t say expect the unexpected – we’re not going to come out there and do something just completely off the wall. We’ll do some strange covers.”

And don’t forget that the Halloween holiday is perfect for visual stimuli. In addition to costumes you’ll see out in the audience – and perhaps even onstage – Redbelly promises to deliver a show of multi-media delights.

“At the same time, it’s a show. We’re going to have some craziness going on onstage,” said Morris. “We’ll have a projector that will show some images and short silent films as we play. We try to engage all the senses.”

The laid-back jam-rock Redbelly espouses appeals to a diverse audience, Morris said. Redbelly fans range in age from the college crowd to, well, those who could be the college crowd’s parents. In the anything-goes world of Redbelly, it’s just one more thing that makes the band unique.

“I think it works out well for us because we keep it loose and we do the jam kind of thing, try to cover all the bases,” said Morris. “When it all comes together, it works out great. Every moment, one of us could just take the whole thing in another direction. We have certain set parts of the songs we’ll go through – chorus, verse – but then it’s up to one person to take it in another direction. It’s kind of fun. There’s never any real leader telling everybody what to do.”

Though the Augusta-based band has been together for quite a while, they’ve never released an album – until now. It’s a 10-song collection of Redbelly favorites, long jams that will pull you in with their toe-tapping urgency.

“We just put out our new CD, and it’s our first album,” said Morris. “We recorded it in Augusta in December of last year.”

We asked Morris why, given Redbelly’s solid history, it took so long to release an album.

“Besides monetary reasons, we kind of refocused a lot on the live aspect, and we also went through some changes in the band,” he explained. “I guess more than anything, we were trying to find the right

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place to do it and the right songs. … We went into one studio and recorded a few songs and just weren’t really happy with it and just felt like we weren’t studio ready. It sounded fine, but it just didn’t capture what we wanted to lay down.

(Now) some of the songs have more of a live feel.”

Now that recording is out of the way, there’s more ahead for the members of Redbelly – besides graduation. And that’s life on the road.

“January 1st, a few of us are graduating, so we’re going to be playing full-time,” said Morris. “Athens is awesome, but I think, come the first of the year, we’re going to be based in Atlanta, probably, having a house and traveling from there.”

Before that, though, there’s the Monster’s Ball. On Oct. 31, the Imperial Theatre opens its doors at 8 p.m. for performances by The Aphrodisiacs at 8:30, Buckner at 9:30 and Redbelly at 10:30.

Morris says that, if you enjoy the sounds of any one of these bands, you’ll most likely dig the others on the bill.

It’s an all-ages show, but don’t worry: Those who are 21 years of age and up with valid ID may enjoy a full bar. And come in costume – it gets you a discount on the cover charge. Those in costume get in for $6 and those without costumes pay $11. There will also be a costume contest with prizes. For more info, visit www.soulbar.com or www.redbellyband.com.

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wo polar opposites of Augusta’s entertainment values were represented last week as RICKY SKAGGS and the Broadway production of “Rent” visited our city.

Skaggs had a packed Imperial Theatre in the palm of his mandolin pickin’ hand as he led his band through an amazing night of bluegrass. His virtuosity was matched only by his down-home Mayberry-style personality, resulting in a show that was as funny as it was good. Besides, Skaggs delivered a potent one-two punch with quips about fried chicken and mama, two subjects that never fail to please in these parts.

“Rent,” the long-running Broadway hit, sported a terrific set and cast that did fair justice to the original production. The Bell was approximately 80 percent of capacity and the crowd very appreciative of the high energy show that has you laughing one moment and holding back tears the next. However, oldschool Augusta reared its old ignorant head as at least 100 people left the performance during intermission. Local businesswoman and local arts supporter Deborah Rodriguez couldn’t believe it.

Ms. Rodriguez said the entire row in front of her seat walked out on the show with some mumbling complaints about the AIDS story line. “They should have known what ‘Rent’ was about. It’s a classic story and they were just showing their ignorance.” I also witnessed another round of defections as three senior women left at intermission laughing. I overheard one of them commenting to the others that “I guess it’s nothing like ‘Kiss Me, Kate.’”

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That two-disc DELBERT MCCLINTON live set we told you about last month is out and in the stores. “Live” is a smokin’ set of McClinton faves that include “When Rita Leaves,” “Giving It Up For Your Love” and “Smooth Talk.” You just can’t sit still when Delbert’s on, and he is big time on this new release.

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Turner’s Quick Notes New in-concert DVDs are coming next month from COLDPLAY and U2 ... THE MOODY BLUES have a Christmas set, “December,” due soon ... THE ALLMAN BROS. have their vintage 1970 show “Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival” out this week. Were you there? ... RUSH: “In Rio” makes a belated appearance on CD this week ... Former Stray Cat BRIAN SETZER returns with his orchestra on the newie “Nitro Burnin’ Funny Daddy” ...

Fans of WEKL-FM’s nighttime guru BOOMER can catch the man competing in the Southeast Bodybuilding Classic Oct. 25 at the Imperial.

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t’s been a fruitful four years for bluegrass band Mountain Heart. Since the band’s formation in 1999, they’ve released three albums and won numerous awards, including Emerging Artist of the Year at the 1999 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awards. Add to that an IBMA nomination for Vocal Group of the Year, 2001, two IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year awards for Mountain Heart’s Adam Steffey and a 2002 IBMA award for Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year, and you’ve got one heck of a beginning to the band’s career.

For the five musicians who make up Mountain Heart, though, their time with the band is just the latest stepping stone in a series of personal musical accomplishments.

Guitarist Steve Gulley started out entertaining in Kentucky’s Renfro Valley and gained a wider audience after joining Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Gulley has also worked as a harmony singer on projects with Keith Whitley and Ronnie Bowman. In 2001, he earned a nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America.

Fellow Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver alumnus Jim Van Cleve plays the fiddle and has recorded with Rambler’s Choice and Scott Vestal.

Mountain Heart’s banjo player, Barry Abernathy, also played with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, recording five albums with the band. Abernathy’s career began with the band Silver Creek, and he spent some time in bluegrass outfit IIIrd Tyme Out. In 1997, Abernathy won the Banjo Player of the Year award from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America.

Young bass player Jason Moore has

already spent time as a band member for IBMA Emerging Artist James King.

Moore’s work has appeared on the recordings “Knee Deep in Bluegrass,” “Ain’t God Good” and on fiddle player Michael Cleveland’s solo album.

Mandolin player Adam Steffey has a slew of accolades under his belt. Steffey’s work with Alison Krauss and Union Station earned him multiple Grammys and Country Music Association (CMA) awards, while his time in Mountain Heart has already yielded two IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year awards. He’s played with gospel group The Isaacs and was tapped to join the Dixie Chicks for their performance at the CMA awards in 2001.

Mountain Heart’s albums include a selftitled debut, “The Journey” and “No Other Way.” “The Journey” won Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year at the 2002 IBMA awards.

You’ll have the opportunity to experience Mountain Heart for yourself when the band comes to the Imperial Theatre Oct. 24 for the Southern Soul and Song music series. A joint venture between the Imperial and the Morris Museum of Art, the series brings a total of four performers to the Imperial.

After Mountain Heart, Robert Earl Keen performs Nov. 4 and The Nashville Bluegrass Band performs Nov. 8. Ricky Skaggs, the series opener, highly recommended Mountain Heart when he played at the Imperial.

So check them out. Tickets are only $15, and proceeds benefit public programming at the Morris Museum of Art as well as the Imperial Theatre’s capital improvements fund. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. To reserve tickets, call 722-8341.

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MUSIC MINIS Enrique Iglesias Accused … … not of stalking, but of stealing a song.

Songwriter Henry Lorenzo Haynes says that he had written songs for Iglesias’ producer, Steve Morales, months before the album was released, and that the title track, “Escape,” is, essentially, his. He says it is “Remind Me,” a song that he turned in to Morales, and that he is uncredited for the work. The lawsuit alleges, also, that after meeting with the producer and the singer at the producer’s home and recording studios, where he says he turned in the copy, he was barred from the studio. And about the stalking comment … just check out the lyrics: “You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape my love.” That’s almost as creepy as Sting’s “Every Breath You Take.”

STP’s Scott Weiland Threatened With Lock-Down The former STP lead singer has so far been allowed to stay out of jail while going through a kicking-the-habit program, and he’s done pretty well jumping through hoops. And he’s tested positive only once. Judge Colette Serio told the rocker, who was arrested in May in Los Angeles for felony drug possession, that if

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Three Sixty Releases Album in Style

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he tested positive again, he would find himself in a residential treatment program.

Blink-182 Concerts for $1 It’s called the DollaBill tour and it starts Nov. 6. And, true to the name, it costs one dollar. (Cue Dr. Evil’s pinky.) You can buy them starting Oct. 23 at MTV.com. A couple days after that you can get tickets (if you move fast) at outlets in the lucky cities.

Apparently, they like small clubs and are glad to be able to work a tour like this one. Only thing is, you have to travel to go. Visit www.billboard.com for the tour itinerary.

KISS Guitarist Shot Bruce Kulick, who did a 10-year stint with the fire-wielding band that made mothers cringe in the ‘70s and ‘80s, took two bullets last week outside a nightclub in Hollywood.

Apparently it was a case of an argument in which one of the parties left and came back armed. The guitarist is OK, though. He now plays for Grand Funk Railroad (“Come on, now, do the locomotion…”)

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t’s time for local NeoSoul act Three Sixty to release their longawaited album, “Kosmic Karma.”

And what better way to do it than to do it in style, at a Halloween night masquerade party?

“It just seemed a cool day to happen to do it, and we got together last month and decided that it would be a cool day to release it,” says vocalist Persoff Bonner of the album’s Oct. 31 debut. “We’ve got a pretty good fan base, and I think the CD release party should do pretty well.”

Bonner and his bandmates – Brent Bonner, Nicole Noble, Reggie Gilbert and Rudy Collins – bring years of musical experience to the table, as well as a host of influences.

“Of course, background wise, we all used to play with First Born,” Bonner says. “I guess that’s been seven or eight years. And then we went on from there to play with The Flow and produced a CD, and we’re all from Augusta, just an assortment of music ranging from Sting to up-to-date R&B, hip-hop, and we just kind of incorporate that into what we call Three Sixty and a fusion. The CD should hopefully speak for itself.”

The CD name, “Kosmic Karma,” comes from a Three Sixty philosophy, says Bonner. “‘Kosmic Karma,’ what you put out, you’ll get back,” he explains. “We put out 100 percent onstage. It’s just an energy-filled show.”

As for their work on the album itself, Three Sixty was able to bring together a host of influences and ideas to form what would eventually become “Kosmic Karma.”

“It was fun. It was, again, just a fusion of music, guys having different ideas,

myself doing writing of vocals, coming together from way back and trying to capture that old feel and bring it up to date and give respect to Augusta,” Bonner says. “I think there’s a lot of artists in the industry that don’t realize that James Brown is from Augusta. It’s kind of a tribute to him.”

Three Sixty’s material covers real-life issues, exploring the social implications of human actions. “(The subjects) range from the homeless to child abuse to just an overall view of life,” says Bonner. “Life’s too short.

It’s just time for a change. If you listen to the lyrics and you listen to the music deeply, then I think you’ll be able to connect with it.”

For Bonner, playing with Three Sixty offers another benefit besides an outlet for creative expression; it provides a chance to spend time with family. His brother, Brent, and cousin Nicole Noble are also in the band.

“Our families have stepped out on their own and did their own music. For instance, my dad played in a gospel group. My cousin Nicole, his dad played blues. It’s just a fusion,” says Bonner.

“We all have each other to lean on.”

If you want to attend the Three Sixty “Kosmic Karma” CD release and costume party, drop by the Orange Moon Café Oct. 31. You might want to get there early: The first 25 people at the door in costume are admitted for $5 and receive a complimentary drink and copy of “Kosmic Karma.” All others who appear in costume get in for $7, while all you party poopers who refuse to dress up get in for $10. For more information, call 722-9698.

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ccording to a September BBC report, police in South Korea are investigating some of the 22,000 complaints made already this year by computer gamers that characters and property that they have acquired in such allconsuming games as “EverQuest” and “Ultima Online” have been stolen by hackers and sold to other gamers to make their own playing more successful. Experts say such theft of “intangibles” should be punishable by law, but the value of the stolen property might be inconsequential, except to those players whose entire lives revolve around a game and for whom the acquisition of a character or property might have involved hundreds of hours of playing.

People Different From Us In September in Pinson, Ala., Joseph Logan, 46, was arrested for assault just after watching Alabama’s 34-31 football loss to Arkansas on TV, which Logan took pretty hard. He started ranting, slamming doors and throwing dishes into the sink, and it was at this point that his son, Seth, 20, chose to ask Dad innocently if he would help him buy a car, at which point Dad grabbed a gun, put Seth in a headlock and fired a bullet near Seth’s ear. Said a sheriff’s deputy, “I know we take football serious in the South, but that’s crossing the line.”

U.S. Customs Is on the Job! In August, U.S. Customs confiscated an SUV being used to smuggle Mexican immigrants into the country, but later admitted that their thorough search of it had overlooked a 13-yearold girl hiding inside; she was discovered 42 hours later. And in July, Adrian Rodriguez was imprisoned (but released by an appeals court a month later) because Mexican authorities found 33 pounds of marijuana that U.S. Customs had failed to find in a vehicle it had just sold to him at auction. That was the third time recently that someone had bought a vehicle from U.S. Customs that contained overlooked marijuana and for which the purchaser spent at least some time in prison (in one case, one year) before things were straightened out.

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Our Litigious Society • Former Ball State University student Andrew Bourne, 23, and his parents filed a lawsuit in September against the school and the manufacturer of its aluminum football goal posts. Bourne suffered a broken leg and vertebrae when, during a raucous end-zone celebration after a 2001 victory over the University of Toledo, students pulled down the goal posts, hitting Bourne.

• John Clayton III was awarded $1.5 million by a jury in Greensboro, N.C., in September based on injuries he suffered as a passenger in a car whose driver had to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision. The car Clayton was a passenger in was a police car; he was being brought to the station on an outstanding arrest warrant when the officer/driver hit the brakes.

Clayton claimed the sudden stop caused him “back problems.”

• Kevin Presland was awarded about the equivalent of U.S. $150,000 by a judge in Sydney, Australia, in August because the Hunter Area Health Service psychiatric hospital released him too soon in 1995, after which he killed his brother’s fiancée. This was not a lawsuit by the victim’s family against the hospital; this was a direct payout to Presland, whose injury was that he was made to suffer temporary prison conditions after his arrest (he was acquitted because of his psychosis), whereas if he had never been released, he would have experienced only psychiatrichospital conditions.

Recent Highway Truck Spills A trailer full of toilet bowls, which accidentally came unhooked and overturned on Interstate 88 near Colesville, N.Y. (June). A trailer full of compressed paper and sex toys (including whips, plastic breasts and blow-up dolls), which spilled onto the northbound M6 highway near Castle Bromwich, England (June). And two tractor-trailers full of honeybees (80 million on Interstate 95 near Titusville, Fla., in April, and another measured at 500 beehives of “thousands of bees each” on Interstate 435 near Claycomo, Mo., in June).

(Most of the bees were recovered by using smoke to put them temporarily to sleep.)

Compelling Explanations In an August story about the driving record of U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow of South Dakota (who had just killed a motorcyclist in a collision), the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported that Janklow’s defense (that he had to swerve to avoid another vehicle) was the same one he had used for each of three previous collisions (one swerve was for an animal, not a vehicle), and that in none of the four instances was there any corroborating evidence of the other vehicle or animal.

Update News of the Weird reported in December that Inga Kosak had won the first World Extreme Ironing Championship in Munich in September, based on running a course through several stations (e.g., up in trees, in the middle of streams) and ironing a designated garment. An October Wall Street Journal story shows the “sport” as growing in prominence. South African Anton Van De Venter, 27, broke the high-altitude record in August by ironing his national flag at the 20,000-foot summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, while nude, in freezing temperatures (quote: “I came, I saw, I pressed a crease”), and British diver Ian Mitchell sawed through ice in Wisconsin in March and submitted photos of himself in a wet suit “ironing” (with a Black & Decker Quick ‘n’ Easy) a shirt that was braced against the underside of the ice.

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A deep-sea research voyage in June, jointly run by Australia and New Zealand scientists, discovered what The Age newspaper called an 1,800-species “freak show” of bizarre creatures (their condition caused in part by the extreme water pressure, which may be hundreds of times greater than at the surface). Examples include: the fangtooth (teeth, longer than its head, would puncture its brain if not for special tooth sockets); the viperfish (whose head is on a hinge); the coffinfish (with a glowing “sign” on its head to attract prey and the ability to swallow large quantities of water to avoid predators); a squid with one big eye (for offense) and one small one (for defense); and the snotthead, which was not described.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) I confess to have fallen prey to a sin that has become widespread: overusing the term “sacred.”

To my credit, I haven’t sunk to the vulgar depths of New Age hucksters who offer workshops in “sacred e-mail marketing” or “sacred dogwalking.” But still, I want to be more spare in invoking the term so that on those rare occasions when I do, you will be appropriately awed. Like now, for instance. I predict you will soon be roused to reverence by a visitation that fits the description given by Phil Cousineau in his book, “The Art of Pilgrimage” If you aren’t trembling as you approach the sacred, it isn’t the real thing. The sacred, in its various guises as holy ground, art, or knowledge, evokes emotion and commotion.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus William Henry Seward was the U.S. Secretary of State in the 1860s. Though his career included many notable achievements, he is best known for buying Alaska from Russia. His contemporaries thought this was a batty idea — Alaska was regarded as a frozen wasteland — and referred to it as “Seward’s Folly.” Ultimately, his determination to follow his dream in the face of ridicule proved to be an act of brave genius. For 2.5 cents an acre, he added a rich land that now composes one-fifth of the entire United States. I predict that you, Taurus, will soon have a chance to pull off your own version of Seward’s Folly.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Trial and error should be your main strategy these days. It’s your best hope for generating reliable information. As you grope and stumble, keep in mind the following thoughts from philosopher Robert Anton Wilson. “These are the batting averages of the best hitters in baseball history: Ty Cobb: .366; Rogers Hornsby: .358; Joe Jackson: .356. Since an average of .333 means a player did not get a hit two out of every three times he batted, these champions made an out more often than they ACROSS

got a hit. Most professional players do much worse. Moral of the story: Unless you’re a brain champion equal to these baseball champions, you’re probably wrong close to two out of three times.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Even if you’re in love and happy with your partner, this is a perfect moment to ask for even more from your relationship. And if there is room for improvement in the way your love life is unfolding, it’s an even more perfect moment. To launch the intimacy revolution, try this. After taking a bath and while still naked, write down the worst things that have happened to you because of being in love. Burn this document in the flame of a white candle while chanting the words “I am letting go of past disasters.” Then dab cinnamon on your forehead, chest and genitals while murmuring this: “I deserve to be in love with a lover who brings out the best in me — a lover who inspires me to be in love with everything alive.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) We’re all pretty ignorant about how our bodies work. Do you even know where your pancreas and spleen are, let alone what they do? Can you describe what happens to the air you inhale once it enters your lungs? Have you ever taken the trouble to study and experiment in order to discern what diet is best for your unique physiology? Do you know how much sleep you need to be highly alert and psychologically healthy? This is a favorable astrological time to deepen your understanding of your body’s mysteries.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A few years ago a group of smart-alec nerds hosted a jokey International Conference on Mad Science. They called for the submission of papers on topics like “tampering with the life-sustaining forces of the universe,” “exceeding the limitations of the human body via grotesque metamorphoses,” and “ill-advised dabbling with supernatural intelligences.” I hereby protest their slanderous satire.

The eccentric yet often brilliant experiments of the Aquarian tribe suggest that some forms of mad science result in good and beautiful works. And it is a perfect astrological moment for you to prove me right. You’re poised to collaborate ingeniously with the life-sustaining forces of the universe, transcend limitations through graceful metamorphoses and enjoy useful communications with supernatural intelligences.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) The last six weeks have been brought to you by BeerCoffee, the elixir that both relaxes your defenses and pumps up your ambition. You’ve been the perfect poster child for this amazing product — a dramatic example of what happens when a sensitive soul mellows out and gets excited at the same time. The good folks at BeerCoffee thank you for your excellent role modeling, and wish you well during the next phase of your development, when you’ll be exploring the opportunities that have been blasted open by your paradoxical brilliance.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Dear Rob: Your horoscopes tickle me in just the right place — wherever the opposite of my funny bone is. It’s like you’re following me around, but not like a creepy stalker — more like a kindly and slightly frazzled guardian angel, giving me the odd nudge to avoid doing something stupid, suggesting when I should duck, and rousing the part of me that’s ready to give up. Thank you thank you thank you. — Appreciative Libra” Dear Appreciative: Somehow you knew that it’s a perfect time to express your gratitude to those who have helped and inspired you. Saying thanks right now will be a kind of prayer that works better than begging for what you lack. It will have the mysterious effect of attracting to you even more goodies.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You’re on the verge of tapping into a huge reservoir of fresh, starting-over energy. To aid you in capitalizing on this gift, I offer you Ellen Kort’s poem, “Advice to Beginners.” “Begin. Keep on beginning. Nibble on everything. Pull up anchors.

Sit close to the god of night. Lie still in a stream and breathe water. Climb to the top of the highest tree until you come to the branch where the blue heron sleeps. Eat poems for breakfast. Lick the mountain’s bare shoulder. Measure the color of days around your mother’s death. Put your hands over your face and listen to what they tell you.

Swim with the sea turtle into the moon. Drink wild geranium tea. Run naked in the rain.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Modern woman’s premenstrual crankiness is not just a physical syndrome,” writes Clarissa Pinkola Estes in her book “Women Who Run With the Wolves,” “but is equally attributable to her being thwarted in her need to take enough time to revivify and renew herself.” I would add my belief that men get cranky as often as women, and for the same reason: There are no ritually sanctified time-outs built into our crazy-making schedules.

None of us has the slack necessary to avoid periodic meltdowns. This is a crucial point you cannot afford to ignore, Sagittarius. You’re overdue for a sabbatical from your routine.

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'm a 36-year-old man who can't decide whether a life of being single is good or bad. Sometimes, I get lonesome for a good, honest woman ... then, two seconds later, I'm after the onenight bad girls yet again. I'm torn between being a "good guy" who wants a "real" relationship, and being a total dog who's only after sex. My mom and family say I date too young (women 10 years younger), and the wrong type (trashy strippers). I guess there's some small part of me that wants a wife and family, but I can't seem to help myself — I've got a thing for trashy women, and lust that knows no bounds. Is there a way to have it all? Should I listen to my family and try to settle down?

— Part-Time Romantic In your mother's dreams, she's got a son who buys his daughter lifelike plastic dolls instead of trying to date them. In your mother's reality, she's got a son who's a lover, not a father, and she'd better learn to live with it.

Now, maybe this is just a phase, or maybe you'll be sneaking out to nudie bars with your nurse's aide at 90. Whatever it is, don't buy into the idea that you'd be a better man if only you could want a woman who owes her career to climbing the ladder, not hanging upside down while topless from a pole. Simply put, you want what you want — a woman whose "career separates" are two sequined tassels and a tube of body glue. Wanting to want someone who's a little more Ann Taylor coordinates isn't going to change that.

There's actually nothing wrong with being a horn-dog — providing you're a horn-dog with morals. This means living like George Clooney seems to live. If press reports are true, George makes it clear to women he dates that there will be only one Mrs. Clooney in his life, and it's the woman who gave birth to him. He sets a wise example for a guy, such as yourself, who admits to a commitment span of just under two seconds.

Now, it is possible that you could extend your current commitment span — maybe to three seconds; or even five. Even so, the last thing you should do is heed your family's call to land a woman who only refers to you as "daddy" because you're the guy who pays the Toys R Us bill. Tell your family you can't, because you're beyond not ready for a relationship, and because somebody — some poor, unsuspecting husband-hunter — is bound to get hurt.

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button so you can put your wife and wholesome life on hold, then scamper off to a cheap motel to be examined by an underuniformed "mean nurse." This doesn't mean you have to give up your dream of being an occasional family man. You have plenty of family already — why not put them to good use? Think of your relatives' broods as lending libraries, and sign out a kid for a day or a weekend. Bring it back before it borrows your car, needs rehab or asks for a college education.

Until you feel a pressing need to change your trash-collecting ways, not just family pressure to do it, you might steer dinner table discussions toward interests you share; perhaps, just for example, a continuing desire to experience the joy of twins. Okay, okay, so they probably had in mind the kind that come from the womb, not the saline breast implant factory.

Can't you all just agree to disagree?

Five years ago, I ended a two-month affair with a lifelong philanderer. Despite repeatedly asking him not to call, he continues to pursue me and tell me about his other affairs. His wife knows of our past affair, but not his current cheating. I feel angry and sad that she has to have such a disrespectful husband. Should I tell her he's been unfaithful for at least the past five years?

— Yet Another Woman Five years ago, when neighbors complained about strange noises coming from your bedroom, surely you explained them away as your expressions of sadness and anger at the guy's disrespect for his wife. Five years later, it's not that you're trying to turn his wife into a landing pad for your revenge; you just can't help getting all pouty at the thought of her husband catting around. (As if she doesn't know, without your assistance, that she's married to a "lifelong philanderer.") Instead of volunteering to rub her face in it, how about sticking to your own communications needs?

Start with remedial telephone protocol. Lesson one: When some guy calls and starts breathing heavy about his sex life, hang up — immediately — not after you spend 20 minutes catching up for old time's sake.

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Seniors with annual income below $24,000 can save 80% on prescription drugs by calling 706-627-3269 (10/23#8241)

Private Investigator Equipment

Argos welcomes Gay, Gay, Lesbian, Bi, BDSM, Swingers, TVTS & all openminded patrons. patrons.

1932 Walton Walton Way Way (706) 481-8829 ClubArgos@aol.com

www.metrospirit.com

Call 738-1142 to place your Classified ad today!

Help Wanted

Club Argos dance club & the tower of Argos leather bar.

Augusta’s Premier Progressive House Dance & Entertainment Zone with DJ Joe Steel.

Wed- No Cover! Free Free Draft Beer!

Blue Party w/Guest DJ ‘BJ” Trippin Trippin & Rollin Light Show.

Show.

Free Free Glow Sticks ThurThur- Karaoke Dance Party with DJ Joe Steel Fri - Tur Tur nabout - Nights on Broadway Broadway (Men dress dress as women & women dress dress as men) Next Fri - Spectral Erosa’ Erosa’ss Halloween Ball Mon-Fri Happy Hour @6pm with $1 off off everything.

Every Fri & Sat, Garage Party from from 9-10pm with all well & draft drinks only $1

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Apartments West Augusta Apar tments 2 br 1 ba, $475/mth Newly rennovated, walking distance to Westside High School.

706-724-2661 (10/23#8259)

Religion Metropolitan Community Church of Our Redeemer A Christian Church reaching to all: including Gay, Lesbian, and Transgendered Christians.

Meeting at 311 Seventh Street, 11 am and 7 pm each Sunday. 722-6454 MCCAugusta@aol.com www.mccoor.com

FORECLOSURE PREVENTION Behind in your mor tgage payments!

Want to get back on track with your mor tgage!

Less than per fect credit!

Lit tle or no equity in your home!

Considering bankruptcy to solve your situation!

Call 706-796-1857 (10/23#8261)

Stanhopes Gifts

Need that perfect gift for that special someone?

Tired of the traffic and the large crowds?

Then shop with us online at www.stanhopesgifts.com (bold) Choose from hundreds of fine quality items, sure to please any tastes. Order by Dec. 10, 2003 and save 20% on every item in stock.

No computer? No problem! Call us toll free today and order your free full color catalog Toll Free 1-877-324-4387 or Local 706-210-7438 Most major credit cards accepted.

(10/23#8254) Sara’s Services Petsit ting, Typing, Sewing & Alterations.

650-5974 (10/23#8258)

Travel

www.metrospirit.com

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 (10/23#8239)

Seeking Model Artist seeking female nude model for drawing and photo sessions (no pornography). Athletic build preferred. 18 and over please.

Call (706) 951-7702 (10/23#8247)

Services

Poor Water Drainage?

• French Drains • Gutter Drains • Catch Basins • Erosion Control • Waterproofing • Crawl Space

GUARANTEED SOLUTIONS

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

Turn Your “Trash”* Into Cash!

Sell your unwanted items or advertise your garage or yard sale in Metro Spirit Classifieds.

LICENSED • INSURED

706-869-9988

www.sundownconstruction.com

Call 738-1142 We accept VISA or Mastercard. *And remember ... one person’s trash is another man’s treasure.

M E T R O S P I R I T O C T 2 3 2 0 0 3

A mysterious and spectacular event is about to unfold at the historic Modjeska Theatre. Dare if you will to leave reality behind and enter a world of chilling cocktails, musical madness, and mysterious creatures at Boogeyman’s Ball.

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Friday Oct. 31 2003 Partygoers can participate in a

HUGE COSTUME CONTEST

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where insane amounts of

CASH AND PRIZES will be awarded to the SEXIEST, SCARIEST and MOST ORIGINAL CHARACTERS.

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DEVILISH dance music provided by DJ TED FORTENBERRY.

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COCKTAILS(8-10pm) and HORS D’OEUVRES (all night).

Complimentary

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Doors open at 8pm 706.303.9700 • 813 broad

www.modjeskalounge.com

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Augusta’s largest Halloween Extravaganza will be filled with eerie fantasy and ghoulish fun!