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Contents The Metropolitan Spirit

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Bob's Tax Plan By Brian Neill ......................................................................13 Au Naturel By Lisa Jordan...........................................................................18 Opinion Whine Line ......................................................................4 Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down ..........................................4 Words ..............................................................................4 This Modern World ........................................................4 Suburban Torture ...........................................................6 Austin Rhodes ................................................................8 Insider ...........................................................................10

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

THE METROPOLITAN SPIRIT is a free newspaper published weekly on Thursday, 52 weeks of the year. Editorial coverage includes ar ts, local issues, news, enter tainment, people, places and events. In our paper appear views from across the political and social spectrum. The views do not necessarily represent the views of the publishers. Visit us at www.metspirit.com. Copyright © The Metropolitan Spirit Inc. Reproduction or use without permission is prohibited.

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Thumbs Up Former State Sen. Charles Walker’s campaign contributions leading up to the general election: In excess of $870,000. Twelfth District Congressional candidate Charles “Champ” Walker Jr.’s campaign contributions leading up to the general election: In excess of $880,000. The photos of Sen. Walker’s expressions of stunned disbelief in The Augusta Chronicle after he, his son and former Gov. Roy Barnes lost: Priceless.

Thumbs Down It’s a sad world when a private citizen in Augusta can’t publicly support a candidate without having idiots call his place of work and make mindless threats. On Oct. 25, Rev. Clarence Moore, pastor of the Good Shepherd Baptist Church, reportedly told police that his wife had received a phone call saying, “I’m gonna kill your husband.” A few weeks ago, Moore publicly announced that he was supporting Randy Hall, the Republican candidate for Senate District 22, over the longtime incumbent, state Sen. Charles Walker. There has been no link between Walker’s camp and the alleged threat.

But is this where politics in Augusta is headed? Let’s pray not.

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iken County shares the same curse as Richmond County. Over there, they have Champ Walker, son of a man who has used the political system to enrich himself and apparently has plotted out the same path for Junior. Here in Aiken County, we have Gallman the president of the state NAACP, who is bragging about costing the state a plant that could have employed more than 5,000 workers in his campaign against the Confederate flag. I would like to suggest a straight-up trade, James for Champ. Our local paper, unlike The Metropolitan Spirit, doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to take on Gallman.

I support First Friday as an artistic event; always have and always will. Let’s hope others like me will come out and show the morons that they cannot take away all the positives that are happening in downtown Augusta!

Why does the Baptist church on the corner of 13th and Broad Street think it’s OK to park in the center of the street? I am new to the area and almost rear-ended somebody who stopped and parked in the middle of the road. If this is legal parking on Sunday morning how come there are no signs to indicate this? No wonder Augusta will always remain a small town!

What is with all these people sick of Austin Rhodes? He is an instigator, who loves playing devil’s advocate. Regardless, if he is a racist, ignorant people like him make me laugh. So, what’s your excuse for listening?

If Augusta gets off its pretty little feet and becomes another North Augusta, perhaps even better, then Austin Rhodes would be ignored and will only air to his unbeloved Hephzibah. All idiots like you should follow because there is no law that says, “Listen to him for three hours or else!”

A big thank you to the Democratic controlled state legislature. Joey Brush’s district

W O R D S “I can’t respect him. I may call him.

I simply can’t respect him. He's vicious.

This man taught me a lesson, a serious lesson, that voters are often fooled and can be fooled.”

— Twelfth District Congressional Candidate Charles “Champ” Walker Jr., as quoted in The Augusta Chronicle after being asked if he would call Max Burns, the victor in the race, to congratulate him.

used to be mostly Columbia County. He could voice our concerns at the state level.

Now the 24th District goes halfway across the state — bits and pieces of 12 different counties. This is absolutely ridiculous. How is he suppose to represent Columbia County, Butts, Lincoln, Warren, Jones, Glascock, Wilkerson, Wilkes, Washington, Monroe, McDuffie and Spalding? Vote out Barnes and his buddies and let’s get this thing fixed.

have risen “dramatically.” I take it they did well on the math portion this time.

It’s important that we have Republicans at every single level of government. Democrats are typically corrupt, less educated, soft on crime, and generally “shady” characters.

Is anyone surprised that almost every one of the recently disclosed contributors to the Charles Walker Sr. campaign is a recipient of state funds?

Well, there goes First Friday. The organizers who changed First Friday from an incredible event back to the same old tired snooze event for Augusta hill people and yuppies should be very proud of themselves.

To the whiner complaining about the new electronic voting system: In his/her other whine he/she stated that the system was designed to make voting simple. Correction: The system is designed to make voting fair.

You see, now 20 percent of the ballots won’t get tossed out because of hanging chads.

You remember hanging chads don’t you?

This individual goes on to say that we need to make it harder for people and the illiterate

Did y’all see this newsletter that the Richmond County Board of Education sent out this week? The headline on the front page trumpets the fact that their SAT scores

If I wanted to hear the Dave Matthews Band, I would put in a CD. I would not spend any amount of money to go see a cover band play their songs. How lame can you get?

I’ve seen the Dave Matthews cover band and they are boring. These guys think they are rock stars and they’re playing someone else’s music. Please get a life guys!

In response to the whine of the inconsiderate neighbors with the barking dogs: I live in Columbia County and have just had success with reporting our nuisance dog to Columbia County Animal Control. They are listed in the phone book. If you live in Columbia County, wait a couple of days.

Perhaps we are neighbors and share the same animal. Good luck I can sympathize.

The Augusta Chronicle should be called The Republican Augusta Chronicle. They do everything they can to help a Republican candidate no matter how bad a candidate he is.

They occasionally endorse a Democrat that they know is going to win anyway, to make people think they are not prejudiced. Use your intelligence and ignore The Augusta Chronicle. continued on page 6

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When I received my Augusta Chronicle Saturday morning, I was shocked to see no mention of Senator Wellstone’s death on the front page. This could be the deciding factor and the balance of power in the Senate.

Practically all major newspapers carried the story on the front page. TV stations had almost continuous coverage. Whoever decided not to put this on the front page should be ashamed.

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So, at the first sign of lack of well-thoughtout plans to deal with large crowds downtown, the sheriff and the downtown cretins want to call the whole thing off. Just look at the people in charge of the event and the same old tired names that crop up when talking about First Friday and you will see that nobody involved knows how to handle a big-time affair. So, rather than learning from larger cities who deal with crowds constantly, we rely on people who have no clue or experience. That’s Augusta.

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Regarding the SC NEA advertisement on education, I have a suggestion: Let’s pay teachers and administrators in line with the performance of their students. So when a state is ranked 50th in the nation, we set their pay to be 50th in the nation.

Wait...that is pay for performance, pretty much what every person in real life has to survive under.

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Where do I apply to get a $60,000 job that I don’t even have to show up at? No degree?

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Anyone who watched the Wellstone “memorial” riot should compare the final treatment of Sen. Wellstone to the treatment of Boxer in “Animal Farm.” There was no attempt to honor the death of either servant, but rather the leaders of both groups looked to see what profit they could gain from the corpse.

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should be disenfranchised. Gee, just because a person has a hard time reading or appears to be illiterate means he can’t make a decision on who will represent him in government. There’s another name for that kind of logic. It’s called slavery. Oh that’s right. I forgot where I was.

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Enough of the whines for or against the campaigning politicians. One, everyone has a right to his/her opinion, but in truth no one else wants to here it. So stop already with the whines about the political candidates (or when this whine is printed, the winners and the losers).

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Sorry Austin. Your smug attempt at intellectualism failed. The Latin phrase ad infinitum does not translate into “a bunch,” but translates into “forever.” Perhaps Austin should stick to a language he knows, whatever that language may be.

I just left the IHOP, laughing so hard at this week’s Spirit, the waitresses almost had to give me the Heimlich Maneuver. Hats off Spirit. You hit the nail on the head. Your pros and cons article on the mayoral candidates was dead on. OK Augusta, we have a chance or we have a choice: a TV anchorman, a convicted felon, a once-bankrupt gardener, a weenie, and a businesswoman.

Augusta, if you don’t do the right thing, by the time this is printed and the election is over, you will be able to buy my house real cheap!

Does anybody know who authorized a $60,000-a-year job for Champ Walker, the big junior college grad? I need to interview with this guy.

So, downtown merchants are in a fix now.

The artists are pleased with the First Friday crowd while the restaurants and other businesses will suffer. Let me ask: Do more people go downtown to shop at the lame galleries or to eat, drink, and be merry? Do the math and you will see that, if First Friday continues to be as dead and boring as it was this weekend, restaurants will start going out of business and new businesses will not open at the pace we have seen over the past couple of years. After that, the galleries can relocate too. Downtown will die a slow, painful death.

What brilliant programmer at WAGT (NBC Augusta affiliate) is pulling regular primetime programs and playing tired reruns of “Third Rock from the Sun”? I’ve seen Primetime, “Frasier,” “Scrubs,” “Law and Order” all pre-empted to show that stupid show. What is this? Are they censoring programs they find objectionable? Are they cutting their costs because they can’t afford to pay the prime-time program fees? Whatever it is, I am tired of this crap. Do I need to get satellite TV so I can watch the NBC shows I want from a larger-market station? There is enough small-town crap in Augusta. Does the NBC affiliate need to act the same way?

Not so fast, Puppy Dawgs. The mighty Gators have a few teeth left. I know it’s getting old, but you keep coming back for more. Florida 20, U (nderachieving) GA 13.

What brilliant programmer at WAGT (NBC Augusta affiliate) is pulling regular primetime programs and playing tired reruns of “Third Rock from the Sun”? I’ve seen Primetime, “Frasier,” “Scrubs,” “Law and Order” all pre-empted to show that stupid show. What is this? Are they censoring programs they find objectionable? Are they cutting their costs because they can’t afford to pay the prime-time program fees? Whatever it is, I am tired of this crap. Do I need to get satellite TV so I can watch the NBC shows I want from a larger-market station? There is enough small-town crap in Augusta. Does the NBC affiliate need to act the same way?

Whew! Aren’t you glad that the election is finally over? I’ve never been so sick of politicians and all their ads — since four years ago. Now we’ll see which ones clean up all of these roadside signs now that it’s done.

In case you were wondering, as I was, what happened to “Scrubs,” “Fraiser” and now “Date Line” being replaced by “Third Rock from the Sun”: After speaking to WAGT, I’ve figured it out. Though they attempt to fight regulations that require a certain amount of time be allotted for political advertising, these regulations have not increased over previous years. What has increased is demand for air time. The other stations have managed but WAGT apparently chose to replace advertised shows with a syndicated one that has more commercial time; i.e., they sold out and we get more of those “enjoyable” political ads. Thanks a lot, WAGT.

I agree with the person who said to keep all the foreigners out. Yes, we were foreigners hundreds of years ago when our forefathers came here.

Haven’t you ever of “The inn is full; no vacancy”? It would save us taxpayers millions. They get tax breaks that we don’t. Think about it.

Hey, I just wanted to commend the Sheriff’s Department and the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department and everybody else involved in First Friday, it’s nice to know they care and are looking out for us. I thought the helicopter with the spotlight was a nice touch.

After seeing what kind of unmitigated disaster the Augusta Lynx are this year, I guess they wish they had kept Jeff Lambert.

The United Way is a wonderful charitable organization, but I take issue with the current ad that displays a young lady with a baby, who is basically saying she is poor, but has a very wide gold chain around her neck.

Harley Drew, stop telling Mary Liz “good morning lady” seven or eight times a morning. Be more creative!

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overnor Roy Barnes spent $19 million to lose to Sonny Perdue by 120,000 votes. The last time such an expensive effort unexpectedly went down the toilet, Leo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet made a movie about it.

Just damn.

Pundits from Brasstown Bald to Brunswick are offering spin upon spin to explain what happened, how it happened, why it happened, and the license plate number of the GOP truck that squished Democrat powerhouses from Augusta to Bremen.

I come not to praise those pundits, but to bury them.

It is all well and good to dance jigs and perform oratorical autopsies on the body politic as it continues to cool post mortem, but the time is night. Let’s get busy.

The GOP has been given the keys to the car for the first time in modern history; let us hope there is a plan and a road map in place to get to the land of real change.

From Atlanta to Washington, D.C., conservatives are sitting at the head of the table, and unlike any generation before us, the folks who put them there are going to be watching every move they make morning, noon and night. Between the Internet and talk radio, the daily exploits of the new bosses are going to be anticipated and reviewed like new episodes of “The Sopranos,” and rightfully so. The Republicans are the party of the achiever: Let’s see how much they achieve.

Of immediate interest is correcting the mistakes of the Barnes education reform debacle. The first thing that has to happen is a relaxation of class size requirements to allow county administrators to put teachers’ aides back in every elementary and middle school class on a full-time basis. There is no teacher anywhere in Georgia that will tell you an additional half-dozen kids in their class matters a hill of beans if they have a full-time aide. It is the biggest quality-of-life issue Georgia teachers have ever had, and Barnes was totally lost on it. Fix it, Governor Perdue, and fix it quick.

Next, redesign that idiotic rag of a state flag we had crammed down our throats. Develop a flag commission; pick five designs; and then hold a non-binding referendum so Georgia voters can pick which design they want the legislature to approve. Do it, Governor Perdue, and do it quick.

In the transition period, assemble the most respected business and law enforcement leaders in the state to draft state ethics reform legislation that can be approved the first day the Assembly convenes. Among the new rules, a complete ban on any non-bid business an elected state official can do with any agency the state funds. Construct the bill, Governor Perdue, and construct it now.

Next, judicial reform for Georgia’s prosecutors. Give them the tools to better protect us all. Give the state equal jury strikes.

Eliminate the 12-person jury; go to nine, and allow eight votes to convict. Immediately move to designate sheriff, marshal, coroner, district attorney, and solicitor positions as nonpartisan. Politics shouldn’t have a place in law enforcement. A Republican effort this direction will improve morale in every jurisdiction in the state, and show the people that law enforcement is a priority. Reform the system, Governor Perdue, and reform it now.

The people who put the GOP over the top expect results. They will turn on their fairhaired boys and girls “toot-sweet” if real change isn’t evident, and that is the way it should be.

In the past, Georgia voters sat still like a mousy abused wife, hoping her drunken husband would come home in a good mood.

They endured endless torment for no other purpose than the aggrandizement of a few individuals and a perpetuation of a political system filled with corruption and good ol’ boy attitudes.

There is a new day in Georgia. The celebration is over. Get to work.

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

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olitical newcomer Randy Hall shocked Augusta and the entire state with his upset victory over Georgia’s Senate Majority Leader, state Sen. Charles Walker. Hall’s uphill battle and ultimate victory paves the way for a new day in Augusta politics.

Give Senator-Elect Hall a day to bask in victory; then he will get to work. This opportunity must not be squandered.

Hall won a narrow victory (50.4 percent to 49.6 percent) on Tuesday. While he deserves personal credit for the win, the support of the African-American ministers who stood beside him to challenge Walker cannot be underestimated. It is incumbent upon Hall to maintain the confidence of the black voters who supported him and to gain the confidence and trust of the large group of African-Americans who did not.

His task will not be an easy one.

Hall’s election is a starting point for potential change in the way the white and black communities view each other and work together.

Hall must lead Randy Hall in facilitating a new communication between white and black Augustans. His district is divided equally among both races and he will be responsible for serving the needs of the entire district.

Perhaps Hall’s first serious test will involve legislation to change the structure of local government. State Rep. Sue Burmeister introduced a bill last year to do just that and has vowed to bring it up again during the 2003 legislative session. In general, the white community supported the change while the African-American community was against it. Reverend K.B. Martin, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, led the fight against the Burmeister legislation. He is also one of the AfricanAmerican ministers who strongly supported Hall.

Conservative white voters, members of the Augusta legislative delegation, and Augusta commissioners who yearn for change in the way local government operates must appreciate the position of the black community and Hall’s delicate situation. They should work with Hall and African-Americans to forge a compromise on change. Any effort to force a bill down the throat of the black community is a losing proposition that will hurt Hall, the elected officials who propose it, and the entire Augusta community.

Boss Walker is gone for now. If this opportunity for new leadership is not squandered, Augusta may be rid of him for good.

Is There a Republican Senate in Georgia’s Future?

The election of Republican (GOP) Governor Sonny Perdue has altered the political landscape of the state in ways that will become abundantly clear as Don Cheeks we move into 2003. One possible change that has tongues wagging centers on a handful of Democratic state senators who may consider switching to the Republican Party, giving the GOP control of the state senate.

According to political insiders, the defection of three state senators from the Democratic Party to the GOP will throw the balance of power to Republicans.

These same insiders report that at least four senators may consider the move.

Democrat state Senators Dan Lee, Jack Hill, and Pat Blitch are targeted for change.

These same insiders report Augusta’s state Sen. Don Cheeks is another possibility.

Reliable sources report that Cheeks is considering a move. Cheeks supported Perdue in his successful effort to unseat Governor Roy Barnes and sided with Senator-Elect Randy Hall against state Sen. Charles Walker. He is a close friend of 9th District Republican U.S. Congressman Charlie Norwood. He has been a likely candidate for switching parties for years but has remained a Democrat because the Dems have held power. With a Republican governor safely in place for the next four years, Cheeks could join other senators and become a big Republican player.

You can bet that Cheeks will not move without getting something in return. At this point he could probably get anything he desires. Sources report that he wants to make sure Augusta gets the Cancer Center proposed by the Barnes administration. If he gets assurances from Perdue and key legislators regarding the center, he may become a Republican. Stay tuned.

The Lust for Power Cost Democrats District 12 During the special session of the Georgia General Assembly this past summer the lines for the new 12th U.S. Congressional District were drawn by Sen. Charles Walker Democrats

controlling the state House and Senate.

The district was created specifically to ensure a Democratic victory. Almost. The fact that Republican Max Burns beat Democrat Charles Walker Jr. is the result of the most blatant display of selfishness and power mongering in recent memory. The blame for the loss of this seat by Democrats at the hands of a conservative Republican can be lain at the feet of state Sen. Charles Walker, father of Walker Jr. The senior Walker was omnipresent during the decision-making process surrounding redistricting, with the prospect of his son going to Washington, D.C., serving as a primary motivation for the design of the 12th District. Walker even made sure that local Democrat David Bell, who ran for congress against Charles Norwood in 1998, was carved out of the district by only a few houses. (While a U.S. congressional candidate is not required to live in the district in which he or she runs, it makes little sense to run from outside the district.) Walker was taking no chances on a Bell campaign.

During the primary election season the senior Walker was busy using his influence to raise money for his son, depriving more worthy Democratic candidates of the financial support they needed. It must be difficult to say no to a senator who influences so much state legislation and controls bills and budgets as they make their way through the state Senate. One look at the financial disclosures of father and son indicates it is difficult, indeed.

Walker Jr. limped through the Democratic primary, losing his hometown along the way, and finally won a runoff election against state Rep. Ben Allen, a much more qualified candidate. Then, the “Champ” campaign fell apart. The candidate was exposed as an inarticulate, sloganeering empty suit totally unqualified to serve as a U.S. congressman.

The “Champ” turned out to be a “Chump.”

Democrats paid for their willingness to cower to Walker. They gave a new representative in Congress to Republicans. A qualified Democrat could have easily won the seat.

This case represents some of the worst aspects of politics: A powerful state politician manipulating the system in order for his unqualified son to run for a national office; a lust for power and raw greed designed to build a political dynasty at the expense of the people and cities represented in the new congressional district. It was disgusting.

The race is over and Democrats will certainly challenge Burns in 2004. There is a good chance they can beat him. He will have a Republican voting record to defend in a predominantly Democratic district. He will be at his most vulnerable, a first-term incumbent not yet entrenched. In 2004 the Democrats may have a better opportunity because they won’t have to contend with the Walkers. They both lost.

—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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BY STACEY EIDSON

“I have a problem with new houses on one street and the same old houses behind them. Because I wouldn’t buy a new house with the same old shoddy ones right behind me.”

– Augusta Commissioner Bobby Hankerson

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edeveloping the city’s downtown neighborhoods has become a never-ending project for many Augustans.

Several local organizations throughout the community, including Augusta Neighborhood Improvement Corp., 30901 Development Corp., Antioch Ministries and Laney-Walker Development Corp., are determined to provide residents with quality, affordable housing in the downtown area.

But there’s only so much each organization can do.

“What I see is, we have all these folks working,” said Mike Syphoe, a community planner for Trinity Plus One Consultants of Stone Mountain, Ga. “And don’t get me wrong. Everything that’s been done today is a positive signal, but I feel like it needs to be a little bit more coordinated.”

Syphoe, under the leadership of an Atlanta urban design firm called EDAW, has teamed up with Augusta’s Housing and Neighborhood Development department to help the city organize its downtown revitalization effort.

“All of these organizations are building houses,” said Syphoe, during an Oct. 31 meeting of the Augusta Commission. “But if you look at the other side of that, a lot of the new houses that are being built are still empty. That says to me, that there is an income barrier.

“The ultimate goal should be to create a neighborhood which is economically sustainable. A mixed-income neighborhood. A neighborhood which has a variety of people living there.”

Since last spring, Sian Llewellyn, EDAW’s project manager, and Trinity Plus One Consultants have been meeting with

local residents and community leaders to discuss which downtown neighborhoods need the most help. Those neighborhoods will be grouped together in order to develop a 5- to 15-year redevelopment plan.

EDAW has tentatively marked off a target area that encompasses 10 downtown sections including the Bethlehem, East Augusta, Turpin Hill, May Park, Olde Town and Laney-Walker neighborhoods.

“There are two federal historic districts in the area, Laney-Walker and Bethlehem,” Llewellyn said. “That makes it sometimes tricky to do some redevelopment, but there are ways to get around that.”

Augusta Commissioner Willie Mays said he hoped Llewellyn’s group had some advice on how to get around the historic preservation guidelines because he thinks the historic districts have severely hindered the growth in the downtown area.

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“A few decades ago, there were people in that area that were made political promises in thinking that, if the historic designation was made, that the cavalry would soon be coming to help the area,” Mays said.

“Well, hell, the cavalry turned around and they ain’t even seen a mule, much less a cavalry or a horse in those areas.”

Llewellyn also said, while the target area has a number of economic engines like the Medical College of Georgia, University Hospital and Paine College, it also has a great deal of economic hardship.

“There are three public housing communities in the area: M.M. Scott, Gilbert Manor, Cherry (Tree Crossing),” Llewellyn said. “One of the requirements for the HUD (Housing and Urban Development) Neighborhood Revitalization program is at least 51 percent of the residents within the continued on page 12

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continued from page 11 study area have to have low to moderate income. We greatly exceed that, unfortunately, in this area.”

Of the six census tracts that make up this target area, all have at least 60 percent or more of its residents classified as earning low to moderate incomes. In most cases between 80 to 90 percent of the residents in the tracts qualify.

“This neighborhood is very poor,” Llewellyn said.

Syphoe told the commission that Augusta needs to strengthen the area’s economic base by bringing employees of the city’s medical institutions downtown to live.

“We are trying to set the stage so we stabilize the area by having all those professors, scientists, and all of those folks that would be associated with (medical) labs living in the Laney-Walker area,” Syphoe said. “They would be living where Gilbert Manor is located, for example.”

Some commissioners chuckled at Syphoe’s suggestion, but he told them he was serious.

“I’m telling you, if I have a (medical) lab at MCG, I know that these technicians are on call about 20 hours a day,” Syphoe said. “I know for a fact, if it’s a research opportunity, that guy is not far from that lab.”

Augusta Commissioner Bobby Hankerson joked that Syphoe had lived in Atlanta too long.

“That might work in Atlanta, but it doesn’t take an hour and a half to drive downtown in Augusta, Georgia,” Syphoe said.

“We don’t have that problem here. We have to be real about that.

“So, when you are talking about that mixed-income neighborhood downtown, in Augusta, Georgia, that’s not realistic to me.”

Hankerson also said one of the main problems he sees with Augusta’s current downtown redevelopment is that the new houses are only being built in small pockets.

“I have a problem with new houses on one street and the same old houses behind them,” Hankerson said. “Because I wouldn’t buy a new house with the same old shoddy ones right behind me. The area needs to be completely redeveloped.”

That’s why the entire downtown needs to work together in a coordinated effort, Syphoe said.

“We need to step back and take a look at what everybody is doing,” Syphoe said.

“Robert Cooks (of ANIC) has five houses right next to each other that look just alike.

That is not a marketing opportunity to bring additional folks in.”

Augusta needs to build neighborhoods, not just homes, he said.

Mays said he felt the group was headed in the right direction, but was afraid the political atmosphere in Augusta might hinder EDAW’s plans. In order to avert any negative publicity, Mays suggested EDAW take an unbiased approach in selling its plan to the community.

“That way you won’t get classified as a crook, a thief, a gang member, or anything else that you may read about in an editorial or hear from some idiot that may be on the radio for three hours a day with a talk show saying that there’s something crooked going on in city government,” Mays said. “Because that’s the political fight that many of my colleagues get put in these days.”

BOB’S

TA X PLAN

BY BRIAN NEILL

A

mid all the chatter leading up to the mayoral general election was an idea incumbent candidate Bob Young floated for substituting a 1-cent sales tax for existing county property taxes.

Young, himself, said he was surprised more media attention, good or bad, wasn’t devoted to the idea.

After all, Young thought, what sounds better to a property owner than the notion he will no longer have to pay a tax directly linked to the value of his home or business, as determined by everincreasing assessments?

Young said his plan would also apply to property taxes on vehicles.

“Property tax: personal and real,” Young said.

“That’s property tax.”

But would it work?

That’s a question Young, who now faces a runoff with Ed McIntyre, posed to the county’s finance director, David Persaud, before announcing his proposal to the voting public.

“What the mayor wanted to do is to look at whether he could do away with the countywide taxes and (substitute) it with a 1-cent sales tax,” Persaud said. “And the answer is, yes. Because the millage is going to generate $27.4 million and the sales tax is going to generate $32

million.”

Persaud, however, cautioned that the analysis showed only that the plan would work in terms of generating adequate revenue.

He said that doesn’t mean it would be without faults.

For instance, Persaud said, some property owners might be dismayed to learn they could no longer write off their

property taxes at the end of the year as they can now.

Persaud also noted that raising the sales tax a penny would bring AugustaRichmond County, which currently has a 7-percent sales tax, to the threshold of Manhattan’s sales tax rate of 8.25 percent.

“That’s getting pretty steep,” Persaud said. “That’s getting into the area of New

“YOU KNOW, YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO SAY SALES TAXES ARE REGRESSIVE, BECAUSE THE POOR PAY THE MOST.

BUT THEN, THE POOR

ARE SOME OF THE GREATEST CONSUMERS OF PUBLIC SERVICES AND WE PUT THE MOST SUBSIDIES INTO THOSE ACTIVITIES THAT SUPPORT LOW-INCOME PEOPLE.

BUT TO ME, IT’S THE FAIREST TAX, BECAUSE EVERYBODY PAYS IT AND PEOPLE WHO TRADE IN THIS COMMUNITY PAY IT, EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY NOT LIVE HERE.”

— Mayor Bob Young

York City.”

Persaud said the plan would also likely need support from the legislative delegation. He ought to know, as a similar idea was looked into in Savannah’s Chatham County, where Persaud worked as finance director prior to coming to Augusta earlier this year.

“When I was in Chatham County we looked at the option, like they’re doing here, but we were not getting any legislative support,” Persaud said. “There was no support for the concept.”

As a result, the plan quickly died.

Persaud also emphasized that the sales tax plan was merely something Young asked him to examine, rather than an idea of his own.

“It was his idea and I tried to quantify it for him,” Persaud said. “It was just an issue that was raised and he asked for my input and I talked to him about it.”

Critics of proposals to substitute sales taxes for property taxes also have raised the issue that a sales tax is regressive, because it places a greater burden on low-income individuals.

Young, however, disputes that claim, citing the numerous subsidies lowincome and underprivileged citizens receive from the tax-paying public.

“You know, you’re going to have people who say sales taxes are regressive, because the poor pay the most,” Young said. “But then, the poor are some of the greatest consumers of public services and we put the most subsidies into those activities that support low-income continued on page 14

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continued from page 13 people. But to me, it’s the fairest tax, because everybody pays it and people who trade in this community pay it, even though they may not live here.

“I think if there’s a regressive tax, I think it’s the property tax.”

Young has already gained one ally in the sales tax plan in state Sen. Don Cheeks (D-Dist. 23).

Cheeks said he first learned of Young’s proposal after receiving a letter from him outlining the idea.

“Me, personally, I love it,” Cheeks said.

“I don’t know what the other people think. Bob and myself, we only had one conversation. He sent me one letter and I sent a letter back to him and told him I like it. I don’t know if everybody else would like it, but if you’re a property owner, you’d love it.”

Cheeks said any such plan would require support from the legislative delegation and have to be placed on the ballot as a referendum.

He said he also has heard the argument that a sales tax is a regressive tax, but believes critics have not taken into account people’s spending habits.

“I don’t deny that; low-income and poor people, it targets them,” Cheeks said. “But it can only target them on what they spend. And the people that spend more, which is people that make more, they pay more.”

In all honesty, Young said, eliminating property taxes would actually result in roughly a 30-percent reduction in property owners’ bills. That’s because the amount of property taxes levied and set by the Richmond County Board of Education comprise about 70 percent of a property owner’s tax bill.

Still, Young said, he thinks a 30-percent reduction is enough to lure businesses and residents to the area.

“And so you would have, essentially, no property tax,” Young said. “Now you would still have school taxes and what not, but as far as the city commission is concerned, for operating the city government on a day-to-day basis, there wouldn’t be any property tax. And in addition to what it does for property owners, taking that burden off them, I think it’s a great incentive to attract new

business and industry to this community.

“Then when they said, ‘What’s your property tax?’ (We’d say), ‘Well, we don’t have any property tax.’ “ The plan would also teach the Augusta Commission to be more frugal with the city’s budget, Young said.

“What I like about this (sales tax plan) is, if you said that we’re going to base the budget on what the sales tax brings in, then that’s all you’ve got to spend,” Young said. “You can’t raise the sales tax, so you’re going to have to do some smart budgeting and you may, if sales tax is stagnant or even declines, then you’re going to be forced to make cuts, which I think brings a pretty good discipline to the budget process.

“Now there’s a downside to everything, too. What if there’s some calamity or a catastrophe here that we’d need more than the sales tax brings in? Well maybe you need an emergency-something that could trigger the option of having a property tax to address some emergency situation. You have to look at all of these contingencies.”

Commissioners voted just last month to approve a property tax increase that added about $55 to the tax bill of the owner of a $100,000 home.

Another increase is already being proposed for the next budget year. Young said he will “absolutely” oppose the increase.

One potential stumbling block to Young’s plan, assuming he’s re-elected and voters like it, is how the Augusta Commission would react to his proposal to present the idea to the legislative delegation.

Some political watchers have suggested that Young may have burned bridges with certain commissioners by singling them out as being divisive in his campaign commercials.

But Young said he doesn’t necessarily need the commission’s support in pitching the idea to legislators.

“Well, I think as a citizen of this community, I can engage the delegation in any conversation I’d like to,” Young said. “Any citizen has the right to do that.

I hope we all talk about it.”

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THE MICHAEL BRYANT CASE

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n November of 2000, investigators found themselves holding a puzzle with few pieces that fit.

They did, however, know one thing for sure: Edith Ann Haynes didn’t die in a fire.

The hyoid bone in her neck was broken, indicating she’d been strangled. She had no traces of carbon monoxide in her blood, as would have been the case with a person who had succumbed to smoke inhalation. There was no soot found in her lungs.

Why the 57-year-old woman, who suffered from debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome, was killed was not immediately clear, nor was the manner by which her killer was able to set fire to her trailer off Windsor Springs Road without being engulfed by the quickly spreading flames, himself.

Those questions, coupled with the fact there were no witnesses, plagued Sgt. Scott Peebles of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Department, as he tried to assemble the jigsaw pieces.

“There was never any evidence that was just in and of itself, so complete that it made the case for you,” Peebles recalled, shortly

after a jury convicted Michael W. Bryant Jr. of murder on Oct. 28. “It was just a little grain of salt here and a grain of salt here.

And there came a point in the investigation where I just kind of sat back and looked at it and I realized, this case is never going to get any stronger than it is today ... And at that point, was when I decided to take the case to (Richmond County District Attorney) Danny (Craig).”

Prosecutors argued at trial that Bryant had agreed to purchase a house from Haynes, with whom he had worked at the Kendall Company, a manufacturer of bandages and medical dressings with a plant in Augusta.

However, the prosecution maintained Bryant had no means to purchase the home and when Haynes complained that she was still due the $25,000 balance, he killed her.

After strangling Haynes, Bryant erected a crude, delayed-ignition device in her trailer consisting of a candle, a fuse and gasoline. The fire wouldn’t start for hours, giving Bryant time to lay down an alibi, taking his then-wife to dinner and a 7 p.m. showing of the movie “Charlie’s Angels,” prosecutors said.

“He kept his receipt from dinner. They went to the Hibachi Grill and finished their dinner just 15 or 20 minutes before the movie began at 7 o’clock,” Craig said after the trial’s conclusion. “Kept the Hibachi receipt, kept the theater receipts. In a search of his house that occurred a year later, not a single other movie receipt or dinner receipt were found, but he certainly had these for this particular reason.”

OPPORTUNITY, MOTIVE AND MEANS Craig said this case was particularly difficult to assemble because it centered around circumstantial evidence.

The prosecutor compared the case with that involving former local attorney Bill Lumpkin, who was found guilty in 1996 of beating a real estate agent to death with an 8-pound sandbag. That case also hinged on circumstantial evidence, financial documents and a debt owed on a home.

In this case, Craig and co-prosecutor Patricia Johnson had to show the convergence of three factors in order to continued on page 16

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“And then what we have to do, is we have to eliminate every possible suspect in the whole world, but for one person, because we’re dealing with circumstantial evidence and the law requires that,” Craig said. “So what we try to do is triangulate the evidence — that is, we try to establish to the satisfaction of the jury that there is only one person who, at this moment in time, has a convergence of motive, means and opportunity.”

Fortunately for them, Bryant left a considerable paper trail behind.

First, there was the deed to Haynes’ home which Bryant recorded in his name, unbeknownst to her.

Investigators said Haynes was selling the home in order to simplify her life, owing to the carpal tunnel syndrome she developed that required surgery and left her unable to lift even a pot or pan.

Peebles, one of three supervisors in the violent crimes division of the sheriff’s department and an 11-year veteran of the force, said Haynes had come to rely on her neighbors in the trailer park to help her with cooking and household chores.

“And she was trying to definitely minimize her lifestyle because she knew she was getting to the point that she was no longer going to be able to work,” Peebles said. So this was the whole reason that she was selling the house and moving into the mobile home, was that she was trying to lower her monthly expenses because her monthly income was not going to be what it had been.

She was basically trying to find a place where she could settle down and retire.”

Then, there was a $25,000 check Bryant gave to Haynes to hold, and a contract he signed promising to purchase the home from her. He also took out an insurance policy on the home less than a week before he killed her, prosecutors said.

The jury, which deliberated for a little more than two hours before returning guilty verdicts on malice murder, burglary and arson charges, agreed with the prosecution that Haynes’ pressuring of Bryant to make good on the contract gave him reason to kill her.

Even more convincing was the fact presented by the prosecution that Bryant had taken a vacation day from work the same day Haynes said she planned to cash his check.

Jurors also learned that Bryant’s past included a mysterious house-burning and a

Sgt. Scott Peebles of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Department dubious $49,000 insurance claim involving a burglary of his Columbia County home, even though he had declared bankruptcy the year before and said his net worth was less than $3,000.

“Then he files an amended 1996 income tax return and said that all of the stuff that was taken in this burglary he had acquired prior to the 1995 bankruptcy proceeding,” Peebles recalled. “I think that was probably one of the key pieces of evidence that probably led his attorney not to put him on the stand. Because in those bankruptcy proceedings, he swore under oath that he did not have any assets. So it couldn’t both be right; either it was the insurance fraud, or he lied in those bankruptcy proceedings.

But one of the two occurred.”

Bryant’s attorney, Maureen Floyd, did not return a call to The Spirit.

One aspect of the case that did not make it to trial was the fact that Bryant had initially agreed to take a polygraph test for investigators, but then changed his mind.

A search by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation of the hard-drive in a laptop seized at the home of Bryant’s girlfriend revealed that he perused several Internet sites devoted to beating polygraphs the day before he was scheduled to take the test.

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Patricia Johnson, co-prosecutor for the Michael Bryant case, displaying evidence from the case.

THE SATANIC LINK Another aspect of the case that didn’t make it to trial was Bryant’s apparent fascination with Satanism and the occult.

When investigators searched his Columbia County home, they found a salt circle drawn in the attic with a bell and a dagger lying in the center — all devices used in pagan rituals. There also was a pentagram drawn on a piece of cardboard that had had candles burned on it.

Investigators also found a number of burned Polaroid snapshots and a driver’s license belonging to one of Bryant’s exwives. The eyes in the license photograph had been poked out and some type of substance had been burned on top of it, indicative of some sort of cursing ritual, investigators said.

Peebles had interviewed one of Bryant’s ex-wives who said that he was obsessed with Satanism and books by Anton LaVey, author of “The Satanic Bible.”

At first, Peebles said, he thought he was merely dealing with a former spouse with a grudge as the ex-wife went on to detail at great length Bryant’s fascination with Satanism.

But after he and investigators searched Bryant’s home, things clicked.

“And it wasn’t that I didn’t believe her, but it seemed at that time that I was talking to her that it was a little over the top, and it seemed almost as though I was dealing with a scorned woman, and that was the initial thought that came up,” Peebles said. “And then I remember doing that search warrant and walking up into that attic and thinking, ‘Oh, my God. Everything that woman had told me was true.’ And at that point it just kind of resurrected everything she had told us.

And we were able to prove nearly everything she said.”

Craig said that investigators also learned that Bryant had been verbally reprimanded by a supervisor at work for supposedly “witnessing” to co-workers about Satanism.

While the court felt there was an insufficient link between Bryant’s dark fascination and Haynes’ murder, there was an aspect of it the prosecution was able to introduce: Candles.

“Being that he was in possession of these candles and showed a propensity to use candles in a rather irresponsible and rather cavalier way, and because our theory of the case was this fire was caused by a delayed ignition device, they were relevant and material evidence,” Craig said. “So the jury did get to see the pentagram, where the candles were, and they could draw whatever conclusions they could or might make from that.”

Bryant currently awaits sentencing and potentially faces a maximum of life for the malice murder charge and 20 years each for the arson and burglary charges.

Craig said the guilty verdicts were a testament to the experience level of his staff, particularly Johnson.

“That shows the level of skill that we enjoy here in the district attorney’s office,” Craig said. “If I didn’t have assistant district attorneys with the ability and the dedication to sit down with voluminous files — in this case, paper — and to assemble them in such a way that the paper brings to life the concepts of motive, means and opportunity, then this community would have killers running free, just like Michael Bryant.”

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By Lisa Jordan

hat you’d typically call a party, The Augusta Naturists would call a “textile party.”

“The textile parties are usually more risque than the nude ones,” laughs Scott, president of The Augusta Naturists. Like the six other members who met with The Spirit one Monday evening at a local restaurant, Scott prefers to use a pseudonym for the purposes of this article.

“Most of the people in (nudist) clubs are professionals of some sort,” explains member James, adding that some of the nudists he and his wife, Susan, have known during their time as naturists are anything from doctors to teachers in their other lives.

“It’s the great equalizer,” says Scott’s wife, Cathy. “You can’t tell what people do (for a living).”

It only makes sense that professionals would rank among the 27,000 members The Naturist Society (TNS) counts worldwide. The American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR), which is the group that The Augusta Naturists are affiliated with, has 50,000 members in the U.S. and Canada. Both groups are memberbased organizations that promote nude recreation as a viable lifestyle.

Despite any misgivings you may initially have about nudism, you’ll find that the members of The Augusta Naturists are surprisingly normal.

They’re the people you see every day; they just happen to enjoy typical recreational activities in the buff.

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“We get a lot of guys calling, expecting a swinging-type atmosphere. They’re really disappointed.”

— “Scott,” a naturalist

“Nudity is a lifestyle. You’ve got to enjoy being nude,” says Susan. She and James enjoyed being nude at home for years before deciding to take the next step to enjoy it in a social setting. “It’s just everyday life.”

While there are some singles in The Augusta Naturists (TAN, for short), the overwhelming majority of TAN’s membership are middle-aged couples.

Though many might think males push their wives into the nudist lifestyle, members of The Augusta Naturalists say it just isn't so.

“You’re not going to talk a woman into (nudism),” says James, his laughter counter-balancing the seriousness with which he speaks. “It’s not something you talk somebody into.”

Another thing naturists don’t do at a get-together – and it’s a point The Augusta Naturists make clearly and often – is engage in sexual activity. “We get a lot of guys calling, expecting a swinging-type atmosphere,” says Scott.

“They’re really disappointed. We have men interested but their wives aren’t.”

Though Scott says they will accept half of a couple, The Augusta Naturists provides permission slips that must be signed by the non-attending significant other prior to an event. “You can’t do our group on the sly.”

To join, members have to go through a screening process. Currently, The Augusta Naturists have approximately 20 members, with two couples in negotiations to join the group. Interested parties usually make initial contact with

19 Scott through TAN’s Web site, http://hometown.aol.com/nudlikeme2/au gusta_naturists.htm. “Then we meet, have a beer and talk about it,” says Scott. “We talk about the rules of etiquette so they understand what they’re getting into.”

The rules of etiquette cover everything from appropriate places to smoke to designating that inappropriate and unwanted sexual behavior is prohibited at an Augusta Naturists event. “That’s the quickest way to get yourself kicked out,” says James. “We have very strict rules.

No bad language. No intoxication. We try to make it so you don’t have to apologize for anything.”

Another rule of etiquette is the nocamera rule. “At our get-togethers, you cannot bring a camera or a video camera,” James says. “We have professional people in the group. They just can’t afford that.”

There’s also a gender balance. The Augusta Naturists by-laws state that the ratio of males to females in the club must not exceed a difference of 20 percent. If accepting a new member would upset that balance, the prospective member is placed on a waiting list.

As a non-landed club – a club that doesn’t have a resort of its own – The Augusta Naturists hold events at the homes of members. They also take the occasional field trip. One recent excursion took the group to Apollo Beach, a nude-tolerant beach in Florida.

Planned for next year is a nude cruise.

Between private in-home parties and trips, the Augusta Naturists usually hold at least one event per month.

Jane, another member of The Augusta Naturists who met with The Spirit, says that one of the preeminent things that ties the group together is their love of the outdoors.

“Naturists are more in tune with nature,” she says. “Everybody here enjoys outdoor activities. We’re not sun worshippers.”

And that connection with nature is liberating, according to Susan. It’s a sentiment she seems to take to heart.

“We’re always taught that you’re not supposed to see this,” she says. “It has nothing to do with whether your body is

gorgeous. You can be yourself and not worry.”

“People are nicer naked,” interjects Cathy.

“All we’ve been taught,” says Susan, “is that you’ve always got to be proper, always wear the right clothes. Here, I can be like I want to be.”

Even this group of seven delegates represents a variation of body type, age range and weight, a point James is quick to make. “You can be fat, skinny, white, black, have a mastectomy or a scar from a c-section,” he says. “It doesn’t matter.

And you’ll find all of that.”

You may also be able to find families.

“Most of our members are beyond kids,” says Scott. Though many of The Augusta Naturists have children that are grown, younger children of members are welcome to attend events. “Most don’t bring kids,” he says. “At pool parties, kids are invited. At three, four, five years old, they’re all for it.”

Scott and Cathy’s children were brought up in the lifestyle, and Scott says being open to nudism was not at all detrimental to their well-being. “They were introduced early, and they’re still welcome,” he says. “We never worried about them at all.”

But, The Augusta Naturists say, misconceptions about family involvement in nude recreation and about nudism as hypersexualized make their lifestyle choice something they’re forced to keep separate from their daily lives.

“By and large, we don’t tell anybody,” says Cathy. “They get the wrong picture.

They’re not going to understand.”

And, adds member Kim, “They think you’re an exhibitionist.”

“We’re not out to offend anybody who doesn’t feel the way we do,” Susan says. She also maintains that being unclothed doesn’t affect behavior. “If you’re modest clothed, you’ll be modest nude. If you’re wild clothed, you’ll be wild nude.”

All in all, the club members agree, nudism isn’t as sensationalized as many would have you believe. As James, with a smile, puts it: “We’re just a bunch of real nice boring people.”

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sk almost anyone who has been involved in local theatre for any appreciable amount of time about Matt Stovall, and you are likely to trigger a long pause while they shuffle through a snapshot box of memories in their heads.

Storyland Theatre Director Barbara Feldman shuffled through memories and actual photographs as she talked. “We were engaged in ‘The Sound of Music’ and we were trolls together in ‘The Hobbit.’ We’ve been in all kinds of shows,” she said. The next moment, she grew excited and chastised herself for forgetting the roles that they are probably best known for – in a local commercial. “We were Ma and Pa in Carpet

Country. We did it ... it must have been seven years or something.”

She calls him a dear friend, and laughs when she thinks of some of the things he has done. “He was the Emperor in ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ when we did it for Storyland. Matt got up in his underwear. He stood in his royal underwear and walked through the theatre at the Performing Arts Center like he was in velvet. He was the only person I could imagine doing that.”

“You almost feel like anything you say about him is inadequate,” said Debi Ballas of Augusta Players. “I have never met anyone who knew him and didn’t like him.”

“He encompasses all that is theatre,” said

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Players Artistic Director Richard Justice.

“Not only does he encompass theatre, but he encompasses humanity. He is just a beautiful person.”

Though the question brought smiles to the faces of those who were asked, it also brought a certain sadness. Matt Stovall, one of the most beloved figures in Augusta theatre history, was hospitalized in September for hairy cell leukemia. Testing also revealed a rare blood disorder called mucormycosis. It is uncertain when he will be able to return to the stage and the theatre family he has helped nurture over the many decades he has been strutting the stages of Augusta.

He will turn 54 Dec. 9. The son of an actor,

Matt got it honest, as they say. He grew up in love with performing.

“Well his father (Jim ‘Papa’ Stovall) was one of the founding members of Augusta Players,” Justice explained. “He started in the youth theatre.”

Now he directs the youth wing.

“We couldn’t think of anybody better,” Ballas said, “to lead the youth. To nurture their creativity.”

There’s that word again – nurture. Matt has given a hand-up to many young people, including someone whose name is a household word in Augusta.

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Stovall was in my career, he wouldn’t be nearly as popular as he is now,” local talk radio host Austin Rhodes said with a fond laugh. “I can honestly say I would not be in broadcasting today if not for Matt Stovall.”

Rhodes first met Matt in the early ‘70s as a very young child when he was involved in Augusta Players’ youth wing. Years later, it was Matt who offered to help a teenage Rhodes learn the business of broadcasting, and who later gave him his first broadcasting job at country music station WMTZ. Since Matt’s hospitalization, Rhodes has filled in for him on Wednesday nights running the trivia game at the Cotton Patch.

Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre Director Steve Walpert has known him for about 30 years.

“Matt has always been an enthusiastic and vital part of the Augusta theatre community.

He has an energy and personality that makes you want him to be part of your group. I just cant say enough good words about Matt.”

In September, he said, Matt was playing the role of the sleazy Hollywood producer in “Plaza Suite.” “Whether the role is an offbeat kind of a role or a traditional role, Matt always handles it with a great skill,” Walpart said. “He’s always prepared, always ready to work. And we look forward to his return to our stage,” Walpert added emphatically.

“That’s probably the way I’d like to be remembered,” Matt himself said from his hospital room on Nov. 1. “As an all-round good guy and entertainer.”

He spoke with us very candidly about his illness.

“We had a three-week run,” he said of “Plaza Suite.” I did the first week and the second week ... it was the Thursday before we were to open the second Friday. That’s

when I came down with this.”

It was severe pain under his right arm that drove Matt to the doctor. “I just couldn’t move it,” he said. “So I went to a doctor friend and told him I didn’t have any insurance. I didn’t have any way to pay him, could he help me as a friend and just look at me and he did. And he called in a specialist who met me in his office that day and said we’re going to the hospital now.

“That was back on Thursday, Sept. 19.”

Since then, he’s been undergoing an obstacle course of tests from CAT scans to bone marrow biopsies, and an entire week of chemotherapy.

“And that seemed to work,” he said, “and things were moving in the right direction, but then these other complications came about, with a hematoma in the left thigh which had to be drained. There were lesions on both legs that led to the discovery of this rare blood disorder after it went through pathology.”

He was on some powerful medication and said he felt pretty good that day, but was uncertain what the night would bring.

“Last night was uncontrollable chills and rigors. They’ve got to try a lot of different things to counteract whatever could possibly happen tonight.”

But there are other things that he’d rather talk about, like the things he has fun doing.

“I’ve been a past president of the Augusta Players, a charter member of the board of directors for Storyland, performing out at Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre for years, going back to probably the ‘60s or ‘70s. I’ve directed shows for Augusta State University, shows like ‘Brigadoon,’ ‘Oklahoma,’ ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.’”

When asked to choose between acting and directing, he answered without hesitation.

“Acting. I love to lose myself into someone else.” Favorite roles? “King Arthur in ‘Camelot’ would be one. Tom Destry in ‘Destry Rides Again.’ The last thing I did, I was having a ball in ‘Plaza Suite’ (Fort Gordon).”

Storyland’s Barbara Feldman says he makes one heck of a Mr. Moroso, the bad guy of Fairyland who seeks to force young people to slave away in his factory. The kids love him, she said.

And the sentiment is returned.

“I love doing the shows for the kids. It is so much fun to get their reactions,” Matt said.

Jacob Marley is another of his favorites.

“That was fun, ‘Christmas Carol,’” he said.

“And I was hoping to do it again this year, but won’t make it.”

But if it’s at all possible, he said, he’ll be right there in the audience cheering on his friends.

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Stamic Quartet Plays at ASU Nov. 15

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rague’s Stamic Quartet is coming to town on Nov. 15 under the auspices of the Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society to perform selections from Franz Joseph Haydn, Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak. You may know the Haydn piece, Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No. 5, as the “Lark” quartet. The Smetana piece is Quartet No. 2 in d minor, and the Dvorak piece is Quintet for Piano and Strings in A major, Op. 81.

The Metropolitan Spirit was fortunate enough to speak with one of the four, second violinist Josef Kekula, about the group’s travels to America over the years.

We asked if this was their first time.

“No. No, I think it’s about our fifth trip to America. Last time we were here ... two years ago.”

They started coming, he said, in the ‘90s.

Kekula is one of those musicians who had a natural affinity for his instrument.

So much so that he can’t remember why he picked it up in the first place.

“I don’t know because ever since I can remember I’ve had something to do with the violin. I started playing as a small child. It was natural for me.”

He plays a Czech violin that was made in 1884, he said. It’s his favorite, though he has others.

Of course, you have to ask a musician what his favorite pieces are. Kekula said he likes the music from back home the best.

“Of course, we prefer to play Czech music. Dvorak is nearest to our hearts. I always love what I’m playing. There is such a big range of composers that you can have a fairly wide choice of the music with which you fall in love.”

The group formed in 1985, he said, shortly after they graduated with their music degrees in hand, but they are nowhere near through with learning their art.

“Yes, we are always learning new things, new pieces,” he said. “String quartet repertoire is very large, very wide.”

Asked about how the classical music audiences vary from country to country, he said they are basically the same. “I don’t think there would be a big difference. Of course some audiences are more ... I don’t want to say noisy, but they need to show you that they like the music a lot.”

Solo pianist Dorian Ho will be joining them.

You can see Kekula and the others – violist Jan Peruska, first violinist Vitezslav Cernoch and violoncellist Vladimir Leixner – at the Grover C. Maxwell

Performing Arts Theatre on the campus of Augusta State University on Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the door. For information call 736-9098.

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Austin Powers in Goldmember (PG-13) — No golden member, just a tin fig leaf. Mike Myers still has his crack timing and suppor ting cast (Seth Green a standout, plus Michael Caine agog with fun as Powers' dad), but the silly plot is nothing, and too many gags are just stupid frat-boy stuf f with a lacing of gay schtick. Beyonce Knowles brings a zip of sassy freshness as Fox xy Cleopatra, yet the movie is both smug and lazy, and the gaudy, pushy "style" steamrolls the humor into flatness. With numerous celebrity cameos, none very funny (the least: Steven Spielberg).

Running time: 1 hr., 33 mins. (Elliot t) ★1/2 Auto Focus (R) — In Paul Schrader's movie, Greg Kinnear brings just enough depth to Bob Crane that we feel tiny spins of pathos. Crane goes from chirping radio DJ to joke star of "Hogan's Heroes" and then, falling into a "swinger " lifestyle that helps to wreck his fading public image, becomes a piece of scrap. It's a TV-scaled Rat Pack world, and as Mr. Rat there is John Carpenter (Willem Defoe), a par ty animal and exper t in new "hi-fi" and video gadgets. In the lowest moment (of many), the satyr narcissists watch a video of themselves humping with pickups. Reflexively, they fall into a synch rhy thm of lonely masturbation. Not two as one. Two as nothing. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Ron Leibman, Kur t Fuller, Maria Bello. Running time: 1 hr., 47 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★ Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (R) — Bold and determined spy Sever (Lucy Liu) is in a race against sworn enemy and ex-FBI agent Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas) to obtain the latest assassination device. But af ter things get hairy, Ecks and Sever find that trusting each other may be the best solution. Cast: Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Talisa Soto.

Barbershop (PG-13) — In this day in the wacky

life of a Chicago salon, the rapper/actor Ice Cube drops his rough, gruf f image to play Calvin, the current owner of the barbershop. The shop was passed down to him from his dad and has been a mainstay of the community for years. Calvin couldn't care less, because he has a pregnant wife and wants to make money fast. In a moment of stupidity, he sells the place to the neighborhood loan shark. Af ter spending a day talking with customers and fellow barbers, he realizes the impor tance of the shop. He then has to buy back the shop at double the price. Meanwhile at the barbershop itself, tensions begin to rise. Cast: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Troy Garity, Michael Ealy and Cedric the Enter tainer.

Running time: 1 hr., 42 mins. (McCormick) ★★★ Brown Sugar (PG-13) — "Brown Sugar " is a romantic comedy focusing on two childhood friends who have both found success in the world of hip-hop: one is an A&R executive at a record label and the other is the editor of a glossy music mag. Even though they’re both involved with others, the two find that they may have already found love – years ago with each other. Cast: Sanaa Latham, Taye Diggs, Queen Latifah, Mos Def. 8 Mile (R) — Rapper Eminem stars in a fictional story loosely based on his life as director Cur tis Hanson examines the connection between anger and music in "8 Mile." Eminem plays Jimmy, a young and white Detroit rapper who looks for success and takes out his anger towards his distant mother in the songs that he writes. Cast: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brit tany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer.

Femme Fatale (R) — ”Femme Fatale" is a filmnoir thriller about a young woman, played by Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, who is trying to clean up her act; but her past life as a con-ar tist catches up with her. Cast:

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Ghost Ship (R) — A salvage crew on a mission discovers an abandoned passenger ship, missing since 1953, floating on a lone stretch of the Bering Sea. When the crew decides to tow the passenger ship back, strange things begin to happen. Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Juliana Margulies, Desmond Harrington.

I Spy (PG-13) — Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson have a cute par tnership in "I Spy," but the movie around them is so of ten nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good. Murphy is Kelly, the world middleweight boxing champ and Wilson is Alex, junior agent and wannabe Bond. They are recruited by President Bush for a super mission to Budapest, involving a nuclear stealth plane and a crazed Asian leader being armed by a sociopath (Malcolm McDowell). The plot junk weighs rather heavily on this air-zoned comedy, given the current world situation.

Probably the core template for the teaming is the old Hope-Crosby vehicles. Cast: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole. Running time: 1 hr., 40 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Jackass: The Movie (R) — Nothing more than a big-screen version of the hit MTV series, "Jackass: The Movie" features Johnny Knox ville and pals performing hilarious and dangerous stunts and playing practical jokes on unsuspecting crowds. Don’t try this at home. Cast: Johnny Knox ville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve O. Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (G) — The animated group of vegetables that stars in the "Veggie Tales" car toons comes to the big screen in "Jonah." A van of singing veggies breaks down in front of a strange seafood joint inhabited by a lazy bunch of pirates who proceed to spin the tale of Jonah and the whale for the impressionable young vegetables. Cast: Phil Vischer, Kristin Blegen, Mike Nawrocki, Lisa Vischer. Running time: 1 hr., 23 mins.

Like Mike (PG) — The rapper Lil Bow Wow plays 14-year-old Calvin Cambridge, one of the older residents in an L.A. orphanage. Calvin has two wishes — to find parents who love him and to play in the NBA like his idol, Michael Jordan. Then one day, Calvin's only adult ally, Sister Theresa (Anne Meara), discovers an old pair of sneakers that once belonged to Michael Jordan. Calvin tries them on, and they are a per fect fit.

The nex t day, Calvin's dreams begin to materialize. He meets one of his idols, basketball superstar Tracey Reynolds (Morris Chestnut), during a half time contest at a Los Angeles Knights game. Calvin makes a wish to be "like Mike" and suddenly displays moves reminiscent of Jordan. He is quickly signed by the Knights, and both he and new teammate Tracey go on a journey of self-discovery. Cast: Lil Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Brenda Song, Crispin Glover, Anne Meara and Eugene Levy. Running time: 1 hr., 30 mins.

(McCormick) ★★★ Lilo & Stitch (PG) — A cute Disney 'toon made in Florida but set in Hawaii, where darling Lilo turns a

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space crit ter into a pet. The animation is not computerized and has lovely watercolor ef fects, though the plot, voicework, Elvis tunes and product plugs are generically New Disney, not of Walt caliber. 1 hr., 20 mins. (Elliot t) ★★1/2 The Master of Disguise (PG) — Dana Carvey plays Pistachio Disguisey, which all by itself gives you the comedic essence. He's a perky waiter in an Italian restaurant in New York. Pistachio is heir to a family talent for magical transformation, possessors of "energico," who can morph into almost any thing. Pistachio's parents are abducted by a rich villain, envious of energico, played with almost obscene lack of comic appeal

by Brent Spiner. Carvey is cute, but he doesn't seem to have a shaped and role-shaping personality. He seems locked into skit rhy thm. Cast: Dana Carvey, Brent Spiner, Jennifer Esposito, James Brolin, Harold Gould, Edie McClurg. Running time: 1 hr., 33 mins. (Elliot t) ★ Men in Black 2 (PG-13) — Will Smith (very post-"Ali") and Tommy Lee Jones (looking aged and bored) return as the alien-busting men in black, in a movie stuf fed with crit ters and special ef fects, like a vast expansion of a Mad magazine parody. Rosario Dawson is a decal of innocence; Lara Flynn Boyle a creepy space witch; the pug dog gets more lines; the fun is rather oppressive even at 82 minutes. Cast: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Rosario Dawson, Lara Flynn Boyle. Running time: 1 hr., 22 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Minority Report (PG-13) — "Minority Repor t" is a sci-fi thriller set in one of those futures (2054) most of us hope never to endure. At the front edge is John Ander ton (Tom Cruise), head of Pre-Crime. He works in a tech hive called the Temple, where three clairvoyants float in a tank like nearly comatose dolphins, feeding their vision of impending murders to a big computer screen. Ander ton assembles the clues, then leads the police team to arrest the presumptively guilty. Once Ander ton is himself accused of being a future killer, he abducts one of the "pre-cog" floaters (Samantha Mor ton). "Minority Repor t" has a kind of ugly beauty and, in its central storm of murk and rush, the suction of a compelling nightmare. Cast: Tom Cruise, Samantha Mor ton, Lois Smith, Peter Stormare, Ma x Von Sydow, Tim Blake Nelson. Running time: 2 hrs., 15 mins. (Elliot t) ★★ Mr. Deeds (PG-13) — is an update or takeof f on the 1936 Frank Capra hit "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." In that, Gary Cooper is a gentle, gallant rube who inherits a for tune, confounds the city slickers and radiates fuzzy ideals, while Depression audiences again got to ogle the idle (but frisky) rich. Now Adam Sandler is Longfellow Deeds, who inherits $40 billion from a genial old flake (Harve Presnell). Peter Gallagher is a fairly standard corporate wheeler as the sharpie running the vast estate. But as star repor ter Babe, Winona Ryder is game and slyly charming. The real ace is John Tur turro as Deed's new manservant, Emilio. It's a fond update and funny comedy, even making good use of John McEnroe (still cocky) and the Rev. Al Sharpton (dit to). Cast: Adam Sandler, John Tur turro, Winona

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Ryder, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Erick Avari, Harve Presnell. Running time: 1 hr., 31 mins. (Elliot t) ★★★

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG) — Unmarried Toula Por tokalos is a 30-year-old waitress in her parents’ Greek restaurant, Dancing Zorba’s.

Vowing to change, she gets a makeover and takes a job in her aunt’s travel agency, where, newly confident, she meets handsome Ian Miller — a high-school teacher who is definitely not Greek. The tale is familiar: strong and fiercely commit ted to their ethnic roots family but ts heads with the outsider wanting to marry into the group. But “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” of fers enough in the way of wit to stifle the sitcom feel a film like this might otherwise have. Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbet t, Louis Mandylor, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone. Running time: 1 hr., 35 mins.

Paid in Full (R) — "Paid in Full" is the story of a young man in Harlem, growing up amidst the illegal drug scene of the 1980s. He builds an ex tensive illegal drug empire, but has a change of hear t when he begins to think about his actions in terms of morality and conscience. Cast: Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer, Kevin Carroll.

Punch-Drunk Love (R) — The movie opens with a pointless auto smashup that could represent the whole film. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) barely reacts to the dawn crash near his warehouse lot, but shows mild interest in a harmonium, mysteriously dropped of f on the driveway. He is everywhere seen as cute but weird. He at tends a par ty and impulsively smashes three plate-glass panels. He goes to a restaurant men's room and wrecks it. Barry finds love.

Lena (Emily Watson) arrives, an English businesswoman who is perplexed but smit ten (why?). The story is a flighty ef for t that never took wing for me.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson clearly thinks that Sandler has a sustaining magic, as if the spirits of Harry Langdon, Jerry Lewis and Jacques Tati were flowering from his weird, jerky "niceness." Cast: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Luis Guzman, Philip Seymour Hof fman. Running time: 1 hr., 29 mins. (Elliot t) ★ Red Dragon (R) — Ed Nor ton plays Graham. He hates his work, especially af ter he and Hannibal Lecter nearly kill each other. But he's pulled back by earnest Detective Crawford (Harvey Keitel) to solve the case of Dolarhyde, a nerdy lunatic whose back is a slab of tat tooed muscle, whose mind is a nightmare. He kills and mutilates families in a grotesque private ritual.

Much of the movie is Graham and Craw ford comparing notes, noshing through the case. Lecter drops in for preening and condescending. Ted Tally's script fills the gore quota, pops lurid surprises and peddles a kind of family-values porn. The story savors its psychos as princes of evil, warped vir tuosos of the dark side.

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Nor ton, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, Harvey Keitel. Running time: 2 hrs., 4 mins. (Elliot t) ★ The Ring (PG-13) — begins with the telling of an urban-legend-like tale that, for a while, seems likely to consign this movie to the slasher/horror bin: A weird videotape is circulating. As soon as you're through watching it, the telephone rings. A voice on the phone informs you that you have seven days to live. Seven

days later, you die. The film boasts first-rate per formances, a gorgeous look, an engaging plot and a jangly, thrumming sense of dread. The ef fectiveness of such a movie depends entirely on the beholder. Save for a long, uneasy feeling of foreboding and one solid jolt, I didn't find it all that scary. Two young women exiting the theater in front of me, however, declared that the thing had terrified them, and I'm willing to take their word for it. Cast: Naomi Wat ts, Mar tin Henderson, David Dor fman, Brian Cox. Running time: 1 hr., 55 mins. (Salm) ★★1/2 Road to Perdition (R) — Tom Hanks plays Michael Sullivan, an Irish-American hoodlum and family man in grim 1931, in the Quad Cities on the IllinoisIowa border. He's an enforcer and ar t ful killer, almost an adoptive son of bootleg mob boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), a patriarch stricken by inner rot.

Sullivan feels rot ted, too, but is an iron survivor. The movie has a solemn, dirgelike (but not dull) conviction of fated purpose. Tragedy must come, violently. It would be criminal here to spell out the exact cost to Sullivan, which spins him free of the Rooney gang, along with his now aware and endangered son Mike Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin). On the long roads and humble towns, they enact an almost archaic Greek vengeance upon the Rooneys. There is father-son bonding (and humor), yet we never forget that every thing is at stake. This story is so mor tal. Cast: Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ciaran Hinds, Liam Aiken, Stanley Tucci, Jude Law. Running time: 2 hrs.

(Elliot t) ★★★★ The Santa Clause 2 (G) — Tim Allen discovers af ter eight years of being Santa that there's another small detail in his contract: In order for him to continue being the Jolly Old Elf, he's got to take a wife. But first he has to deal with his son, Charlie (Eric Lloyd), who's landed himself on the naughty list. Charlie's principal (Elizabeth Mitchell) wants him gone pronto and is a bit blue because the holidays don't mean as much to her as they once did. With 28 days to go before the contract expires, Santa's got a lot of work to do. One of his trusty elves comes up with a machine that can duplicate Santa while he's out in the real world hunting for a wife. Allen is remarkable playing Santa as funny, wise and sympathetic, all at the same time. 1 hr, 42 mins. (McCormick) ★★★ Serving Sara (PG-13) — Should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it. It isn't just bad TV, but a dismal reduction of bad TV. It stars Mat thew Perry, of TV's "Friends," as a fiercely dedicated process server named Joe. And Elizabeth Hurley, mostly of the tabloids, but also a past "fox" for Austin Powers, plays Sara. Joe seeks to serve divorce papers from her rich jerk of a husband. There's another process server, Tony (Vincent Pastore). There is the self-anointed Cedric the Enter tainer as Ray, boss of the process of fice doing fat soul-bro schtick. There is no style. Zero. Almost nothing is timed well or delivers the goods. Cast: Elizabeth Hurley, Mat thew Perry, Bruce Campbell, Vincent Pastore, Amy Adams.

Running time: 1 hr., 45 mins. (Elliot t) 0 Spider-Man (PG-13) — Sweetly dorky Peter

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The fan is Madison (Erika Christensen), who cares naught for swimming but develops a sudden, compulsive fixation on Ben. Soon af ter joining the student body, she joins his, in the very pool of his dreams.

Already warped — she has a past jock lover parked in a coma — she becomes the nemesis who cannot abide rejection. The clima x is an absurd, “let's-wrap” rush of entrapment, and if you really believe it, please don't go into police work. Cast: Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby, Dan Hedaya, Kate Bur ton.

Running time: 1 hr., 42 mins. (Elliot t) ★1/2 Time Changer (PG) — 1890s Bible professor Russell Carlisle is presenting his manuscript, “The Changing Times.” One of his colleagues, Dr. Norris Anderson, takes issue with something writ ten in

Carlisle’s book. He believes what Carlisle has to say will af fect future generations. With a secret time machine, Anderson projects Carlisle 100 years into the future to view the impact his words will have. Cast: D. David Morin, Gavin McLeod, Hal Linden, Jennifer O’Neill. Running time: 1 hr., 35 mins.

The Truth About Charlie (PG-13) — A flatout mistake, a remake of the delight ful "Charade" (1963), a blithe Parisian mystery with a comical spirit that gave Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant their one terrific time together. Now stolid, boyish Mark Wahlberg and wispily cute but bewildered Thandie New ton work through the hectic, grimly reductive plot, which ends with many characters standing in the rain as flashbacks fill in the blanks. Jonathan Demme

directed at the trail end of his diminishing talent, and nearly all the charm, romantic flair and supple tension of the old film is gone. Indeed, the old film is much younger. 1 hr., 50 mins. (Elliot t) ★ Tuck Everlasting (PG) — Winnie (Alexis Bledel) is a sheltered rich girl who longs for life away from her strict parents (Amy Irving and Victor Garber). The Fosters live in a two-story home surrounded by a wrought-iron gate to keep strangers out. There's a family living not too far away — the Tucks, who also shun outsiders. The two worlds collide when Jesse and Winnie happen upon each other. The nex t thing you know, she's breaking bread at the Tuck home.

Winnie's distraught family thinks she's been kidnapped.

A mysterious man (Ben Kingsley) arrives, tracking the Tuck family, and says he can help find Winnie for a price. At the Tuck home, Winnie is let in on the family's secret: immor tality. Jesse wants Winnie to drink from the spring that made them immor tal. But will love prevail, or will Winnie walk away and lead a normal life?

Cast: Alexis Bledel, William Hur t, Sissy Spacek, Jonathan Jackson, Amy Irving, Victor Garber, Ben Kingsley and Elisabeth Shue (narrator). Running time: 1 hr., 20 mins. (McCormick) ★★★ The Tuxedo (PG-13) — Jackie Chan plays Jimmy Tong, a cabby who lands a job as chauf feur for Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs), a wealthy industrialist.

Devlin is every thing Jimmy wants to be — handsome, smar t, rich, cultured and impeccably dressed. One of Devlin's prized possessions is an Armani tuxedo that seems to be a hit with the ladies and a definite confidence-booster. But Jimmy discovers there's more to Devlin than meets the eye af ter the boss is injured by a bomb while on assignment. Before he loses consciousness, Devlin asks Jimmy to wear the suit, a prototype created by a government agency that gives its wearer abilities far beyond mor tal men. Af ter Jimmy tests out the tux, he's thrust into the spy game. Cast: Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewit t, Jason Isaacs, Ritchie Coster, Debi Mazar and Peter Stormare.

Running time: 1 hr., 30 mins. (McCormick) ★★ —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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Cinema: Review

“Femme Fatale” Is Nothing More Than Substandard Mimicry By Rachel Deahl

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t’s fitting that model Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is headlining Brian De Palma’s latest effort, since an actress of any substance, or even a real actress for that matter, would seem out of place in both the role and the film. Reminding audiences just how overrated he is as a director (that De Palma has a reputation for being an auteur is one of the prevailing absurdities of Hollywood), the man billed in trailers as the “master of the erotic thriller” delivers a shameful mess of a film, as laughably sexy as it is mind-numbingly boring.

More recycler than innovator, De Palma has established himself as something of a knock-off artist through misguided attempts to pay homage to his favorite directors in his features. Most often the idol worship falls to Hitchcock, who De Palma ceaselessly, and unsuccessfully, imitates in his films. Here, the imitator is in full force, trying desperately, with every passing frame, to align himself with the Master of Suspense.

But, a Bernard Herrman-esque score and a stylishly clad blonde do not a Hitchcock film make.

Employing a staccato score, which unfortunately plays over nearly every scene in the first third of the film, the director would apparently like the viewer to think Janet Lee is being slashed to death at every interval. Of course, no such excitement is occurring. Here, Antonio Banderas’ kind-hearted paparazzo is traipsing around, flashing photos of the beautiful, but camera-shy, wife of an American ambassador to Paris who has recently set up camp in the City of Lights. Romijn-Stamos, done up in a white suit with a matching headscarf (if you squint and plug your ears, you can

pretend you’re watching Grace Kelly or Kim Novak), is the mysterious wife with a shady past. But finally, keeping track of this titular bad girl, and her many bitchy trespasses and evil deeds, is just as fruitless and difficult as staying on top of Romijn-Stamos’ vanishing accents – she plays an American posing as a Frenchman who speaks English with a thick French accent. (To be fair, even a talented actress might have trouble speaking in so many tongues.)

Luckily, De Palma nixes the obtrusive staccato soundtrack before the final reel but, unfortunately, does so in the process of taking his film down the path to softcore porn. When, halfway through this abysmal affair, we find Antonio Banderas nailing Romijn-Stamos on a pool table in the basement of a seedy Paris bar, the irksome thought that this same scene is playing somewhere on the Spice channel is unavoidable. Sadly, as bad as he is at imitating other, better directors, De Palma is even worse when left to his own devices.

Adding insult to injury, the director overloads his film with flashy camera work; perhaps the aim was to keep viewers from focusing on the empty storyline and transparent characters. Whatever the goal, the effect is wearisome as De Palma seemingly insists on shooting every frame with either an extreme overhead, lingering close-up or split screen shot.

One of the most frustrating directors to watch, De Palma’s obnoxious insistence on recalling the work of other filmmakers instead of delivering his own fresh take is writ large in “Femme Fatale,” but even the substandard mimicry can’t shield this bomb from revealing its true colors.

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MOVIE CLOCK REGAL AUGUSTA EXCHANGE 20 Movies Good 11/8 - 11/14 8 Mile (R) Fri-Sat: 12:05, 12:50, 1:45, 2:40, 3:55, 4:35, 5:15, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45, 12:25; Sun-Thur: 12:05, 12:50, 1:45, 2:40, 3:55, 4:35, 5:15, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Femme Fatale (R) Fri-Sat: 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:25, 11:55; Sun-Thur: 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:25 Auto Focus (R) 4:55, 10:20 I Spy (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:20, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15, 12:10, 12:35; Sun-Thur: 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:20, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15 The Santa Clause 2 (G) Fri-Sat: 12:00, 12:30, 2:30, 3:00, 4:45, 5:20, 7:05, 7:30, 9:20, 9:50, 11:40, 12:20; Sun-Thur: 12:00, 12:30, 2:30, 3:00, 4:45, 5:20, 7:05, 7:30, 9:20, 9:50 The Truth About Charlie (PG-13) 2:15, 7:00 Paid in Full (R) Fri-Sat: 4:50, 10:15, 12:35; Sun-Thur: 4:50, 10:15 Ghost Ship (R) Fri-Sat: 12:50, 2:55, 5:05, 8:00, 10:30, 12:45; Sun-Thur: 12:50, 2:55, 5:05, 8:00, 10:30 Punch-Drunk Love (R) Fri-Sat: 12:55, 4:15, 6:55, 9:15, 11:55; Sun-Thur: 12:55, 4:15, 6:55, 9:15 Jackass: The Movie (R) Fri-Sat: 12:45, 3:05, 5:10, 8:05, 10:35, 12:45; Sun-Thur: 12:45, 3:05, 5:10, 8:05, 10:35 Tuck Everlasting (PG) Fri-Sat: 1:20, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10, 11:30; Sun-Thur: 1:20, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 The Ring (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10, 12:40; Sun-Thur: 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Brown Sugar (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 1:05, 3:45, 6:55, 9:50, 12:30; Sun-Thur: 1:05, 3:45, 6:55, 9:50 Red Dragon (R) 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 10:05 Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (G) 12:40, 2:45, 4:55 Sweet Home Alabama (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 1:10, 3:50, 7:05, 9:35, 12:15; Sun-Thur: 1:10, 3:50, 7:05, 9:35 The Barbershop (PG-13) Fri-Sat: 7:15, 9:40, 12:10; Sun-Thur: 7:15, 9:40 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG) Fri-Sat: 1:15, 4:10, 7:35, 9:55, 12:15; Sun-Thur: 1:15, 4:10, 7:35, 9:55 Time Changer (PG) 12:10, 2:25, 7:55

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MASTERS 7 CINEMAS Movies Good 11/8 - 11/14 8 Mile (R) Fri: 5:15, 7:45, 10:00; Sat-Sun: 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00; Mon: 2:35, 5:15, 7:45; Tues-Thur: 5:15, 7:45 I Spy (PG-13) Fri: 5:20, 8:10, 10:10; SatSun: 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 8:10, 10:10; Mon: 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 8:10; Tues-Thur: 5:20, 8:10 Santa Clause 2 (G) Fri: 5:00, 7:30, 9:30; Sat-Sun: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:30, 9:30; Mon: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:30; Tues-Thur: 5:00, 7:30 Jackass: The Movie (R) Fri: 5:30, 8:00, 9:50; Sat-Sun: 1:10, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 9:50; Mon: 1:10, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00; Tues-Thur: 5:30, 8:00 The Ring (PG-13) Fri: 5:05, 7:50, 10:05; Sat-Sun: 2:45, 5:05, 7:50, 10:05; Mon: 2:45, 5:05, 7:50; Tues-Thur: 5:05, 7:50 Brown Sugar (PG-13) Fri: 5:10, 7:35, 9:45; Sat-Sun: 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 9:45; Mon: 2:30, 5:10, 7:35; Tues-Thur: 5:10, 7:35 Sweet Home Alabama (PG-13) Fri: 5:25, 7:40, 9:55; Sat-Sun: 2:40, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55; Mon: 2:40, 5:25, 7:40; Tues-Thur: 5:25, 7:40 REGAL 12 CINEMAS Movies Good 11/8 - 11/14 Serving Sara (PG-13) 2:25, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (R) 2:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:05 Men in Black 2 (PG-13) 2:35, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Swimfan (PG-13) 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Master of Disguise (PG) 2:00, 4:35, 7:00, 9:30 Road to Perdition (R) 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 Austin Powers in Goldmember (PG-13) 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 9:40 Lilo and Stitch (PG) 2:15, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Spider-Man (PG-13) 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 Minority Report (PG-13) 2:10, 4:55, 7:50 Like Mike (PG) 2:45, 4:55, 7:25, 9:30 Mr. Deeds (PG-13) 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50

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Cinema: Review

Kinnear Shines in a Dark Role

By David Elliott

“P

aul Schrader shudders at the idea that he has made a morality tale,” says Greg Kinnear, star of director Schrader’s “Auto Focus.” “But I think he is out of luck, because you can’t watch the film and not get this sense of a moral downfall.

“You know, our culture deals with a lot of sex, prime time and across the board, and most of it is done with a wink and a smile. Our movie starts that way and then grows a lot more grotesque.”

For Kinnear, 39, talking by phone in a voice even more articulate than his character Bob Crane’s, playing the murdered (1978) ex-star of “Hogan’s Heroes,” a covert sex and porn addict, is an almost grotesque stretch. We start by liking Crane as a cute show-biz hustler, but he becomes an escalating embarrassment.

“I don’t think truthfully this role is a payoff on what I’ve done before,” says Kinnear, chuckling.

His persona has been the nice fella nearly everyone enjoyed in “Sabrina,” “Dear God,” “A Smile Like Yours” and his Oscarnominated guy in “As Good As It Gets.”

Now he is Bob Crane, a smiler in a flyboy jacket as Hogan, then a grubby failure mired in private peep shows.

“My films haven’t logically led to this. I knew there were risks built into doing it, but reading the script, I became consumed by the guy, by all his contradictions. I could not not take the bait. Especially with a director like Paul Schrader, who knows how to walk an edge.”

The movie has brisk fun with the TV sitcom stupidities, but Kinnear feels that “was very secondary in interest to me and Schrader. This is not a nostalgic Hogan movie. It was Crane, the issues of living a double life and his sexual addiction, that made us want to film this.”

Was Crane, who began by hiding “stag” magazines from his wife, then became a satyr at sex clubs and swinger parties he could tape — his enabler being the smarmy pioneer in home video systems John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe) — simply too hormonal? Kinnear peels open some nuances: “A thin margin of people think that maybe Bob was John’s enabler, due to his celebrity. It was a weird co-dependency, and who was pushing or pulling is fun to argue. ... I think Bob did like women.

Nobody does this endless string of conquests without getting some joy from it, but at what point did it become joyless?

“Almost more interesting than his relationships is his need to document them, and as Mr. Schrader showed me, there is plenty of documentation! But, with the old cameras Crane used, it’s sort of like the Discovery Channel where you see fuzzy underwater shots of animals copulating.”

Was it tough playing a man so ungifted in self-analysis?

“Whether he was incapable of introspection or just chose to avoid it, well, there

was not a huge deal of soul-searching. And he was living in a culture where Jerry Springer was not yet visible. It was all kept under wraps. The medical term for Bob back then was ‘creep,’ not ‘addict.’ But he was a Catholic and he did struggle with his condition.”

With quicksand suction, the film shows how Crane’s stardom as Hogan became a hex, a fluke without a sequel that left him bereft of any role except his secret games.

Kinnear chuckles quietly at the oddness of Crane’s life and asks, “Maybe he didn’t want to play the smiling All-American entertainer anymore? All this is speculative, but you can trace a rise in deviant activity after the show was canceled. Of course, like any addiction, it had to heighten itself, incrementally.”

The movie suggests, but hedges, illustrating that Carpenter, in a rage, killed Crane.

“Carpenter was acquitted on the available evidence,” says Kinnear, “and, on that basis, I probably would have voted acquittal myself. But Robert Graysmith, who wrote the main book (‘The Murder of Bob Crane’) believes Carpenter killed Bob. Obviously, we can’t show John doing the murder.”

Crane started as a radio and TV yapper before lucking into his Hogan run, and hoped to become another Jack Lemmon or Johnny Carson. Kinnear, a former TV reporter and host of “Talk Soup” for three years, recognizes the parallels and thinks that, like Crane, he would not have had the success of someone like Conan O’Brien.

“You know,” he says, as if relieved, “I watched Conan on the Emmys and he was awesome. Me, I was just good at faking it. I’m not sure how passionate I was about that line of work. Acting is not a more noble or difficult line — in some ways it’s easier — but, for my satisfaction, it’s greater.”

Next comes a cloning thriller with Robert De Niro, “Godsend,” and, “I’m a nice guy in it!” It’s unlikely that the ick of Crane will stick, or that, like sad, horny Bob, he will try to beg a slot on “Hollywood Squares.”

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Arts

Auditions

AUGUSTA CONCERT BAND rehearses Monday evenings and is looking to fill vacancies on most band instruments. Interested par ties should contact Ben Easter, (803) 202-0091 or e-mail bandforaugusta@aol.com.

SWEET ADELINES PEACH STATE CHORUS OPEN REHEARSAL for singers each Thursday at 7 p.m. No rehearsal Nov. 7. Held at 600 Mar tintown Road in Nor th Augusta. Contact Mildred Blain at 736-7740 or Mary Norman at (803) 279-6499.

Education

GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART APPLICATIONS FOR TUITION ASSISTANCE are being accepted now through Dec. 20. Scholarships are available for the Winter Quar ter, Jan. 7-March 6. To request an application form, call 722-5495 or e-mail ghia@ghia.org.

ADULT CRAFT WORKSHOP: “HOLIDAY WREATHS” Nov. 12, 10:30 a.m. at the Maxwell Branch Library. There is a $2 fee and registration is required. Call 793-2020.

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

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

QUILT SHOW through Dec. 1 at the Aiken County Historical Museum in Aiken. Call (803) 642-2010.

JOHN BRECHT displays works at the Etherredge Center Lower Gallery through Dec. 20. (803) 641-3305.

“REAL GARDENS/VIRTUAL FRIENDS: AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY THE ARTISTS OF THE PAINT-L” will be on display through Nov. 14 at the Annet te Bush Studio, Suite 701 in the Lamar Building. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday or by appointment. For information, call 722-1745.

CHICAGO ARTIST RICHARD HUNT exhibits at the Mary Pauline Gallery through Nov. 23. Ar tist reception Nov. 15, 5-8 p.m. For more information, call the Mary Pauline Gallery at 724-9542.

AT THE AIKEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS through Nov. 8: Elizabeth Moretz exhibits in the Westinghouse Group Gallery, Mary Why te exhibits in the Wyat t Gallery and George Kierspe exhibits in the Founders Gallery. Call (803) 641-9094.

AT THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART: “Walker-Mackenzie Studio First Anniversary Exhibit: Student Accomplishments Throughout the Year” is in the First-Floor Gallery at Ware’s Folly through Dec. 19; “If Walls Could Talk” is in the Third-Floor Gallery at Ware’s Folly through Dec. 19. “Ger trude Herber t Youth and Adult Student Exhibit” runs through Dec. 19. Call 722-5495 for more information.

Exhibitions

DANIEL HAYES exhibits at Barnes & Noble Booksellers throughout November. For a preview of Hayes works, visit www.hayesar t.com. For more info, call Barnes & Noble, 860-2310.

JEFF THOMAS exhibits at the Bee’s Knees during the month of November. Call 828-3600.

“PAINTINGS AND PRINTS: THE WORKS OF TOM CROWTHER” will be on display at the Ar t Factory Gallery, 416 Craw ford Ave., through Nov. 29. The Ar t Factory Gallery is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Call 737-0008.

RECENT LANDSCAPES BY DICK DUNLAP will be on display at The Dunlap Studio and Gallery throughout the month of November. Call 722-7333 for information.

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SHOW Nov. 7-30 in the ASU Fine Ar ts Gallery. Reception Nov. 7 from 5-7 p.m. Call the ASU Fine Ar ts Depar tment at 737-1453.

AT THE MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: “Charleston in my Time: The Paintings of West Fraser” are on display through Jan. 5; “Rituals: Works on Paper by Romare Bearden” will be on display Nov. 15-Jan. 5 in the museum’s Coggins Gallery. For information, call 724-7501.

ROBERT LEE exhibits his work at Borders Books and Music through the end of November. Call Borders at 737-6962.

Dance

PASION FLAMENCA PRESENTS “VIVIR!” Nov. 9, 8 p.m. at the Imperial Theatre. For ticket information, call the Imperial Theatre at 722-8293.

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THE WORK OF HEATHER CRIST will be on display at Cloud Nine Gallery, 1036 Broad Street, through December’s First Friday. Opening is Nov. 7, 7-9 p.m. For more information, call Heather Crist Designs at 951-1661.

WORKS FROM THE NEW HORIZONS ART FESTIVAL will be on display through Nov. 30 at the Euchee Creek Branch Library. Call 556-0594.

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Local author Rick Turnbull speaks about his book, “Gum’s Story,” at the Maxwell Branch Library Nov. 7. Call 793-2020 for details.

SINGLES DANCE each Saturday night from 8-11 p.m. sponsored by the Christian Social Organization for Single Adults. Held at Westside High School. Tickets $5 for members, $7 for non-members, and are available at the door; free dance lessons at 7 p.m. For more information, call 736-8004.

Music

“AN EVENING OF DANCE, JAZZ AND SONG: A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD ROGERS” Nov. 14-15, 7 p.m., at Davidson Fine Ar ts School’s Beverly J. Barnhar t Theater. Admission is $6 adult, $5 senior citizen and children under 5, $4 Davidson Fine Ar ts student. For info, call 823-6924, ex t. 124.

Suites Augusta Riverwalk. Cock tails served at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., concer t at 8 p.m. Tickets are $50 plus sales ta x. For tickets, call 826-4705, fa x 826-4735 or e-mail adriagunter@augustasymphony.org.

“MELODIC TR ADITIONS” CONCERT with the Augusta Symphony and flutist Carol Wincenc, Nov. 9, is par t of the Symphony’s Masterworks Series. Preview at 7 p.m. with concer t at 8 p.m.; held at ASU’s Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Theatre. For tickets, call 826-4705.

THE STAMIC STRING QUARTET per forms at ASU’s Per forming Ar ts Theatre Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. as par t of the Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society 2002-2003 season. For ticket information, call 860-5885.

“BARBERSHOP HARMONIES” will be presented by the Garden City Chorus Nov. 17, 2 p.m., at the Morris Museum of Ar t’s auditorium. Free admission. 724-7501.

USC-AIKEN FACULTY ARTIST RECITAL 7 p.m .Nov. 14. Tom Cremer, euphonium, and Bill House, clarinet, per form in the Etherredge Center. (803) 641-3305.

RHYTHM & BR ASS per forms Nov. 16 at the Etherredge Center as par t of USC-Aiken’s Cultural Series. Tickets are $30-$40 and are available by calling (803) 641-3305.

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY ENSEMBLE CONCERTS: Jazz Ensemble per forms at 8 p.m. Nov. 12; Wind Ensemble per forms at 8 p.m. Nov. 14. Both performances will be held in the Ma xwell Per forming Ar ts Theatre and are free. Call 667-4099 for information.

THE AUGUSTA CHILDREN’S CHORALE per forms at the Medical College of Georgia Children’s Medical Center Nov. 16 and at Brandon Wilde Nov. 19. Call 826-4718.

ENCORE CHAMBER SERIES DINNER CONCERT features the Augusta Symphony String Quar tet and Woodwind Trio and will be held Nov. 16 at the Country

TUESDAY’S MUSIC LIVE CONCERT SERIES: All performances in the concer t series held at noon at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Concer ts are free; optional catered lunch is $7 per person. 2002-2003 Season schedule is as follows: Nov. 19, The Kolevi Family; Dec. 3, The Accidentals; Jan. 7, Jazzamatazz; Jan. 21,

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A Veterans Day service will be held at 1 p.m. Nov. 11 at Heroes’ Overlook at Riverwalk.

Joseph Gramley; Feb. 4, Lindsey McKee and Keith Shafer; Feb. 18, Cowboy Envy; March 4, The Augusta Children’s Chorale; March 18, Kari Gaf fney and Jef f Williams. 722-3463.

COUNTERTENOR DEREK LEE R AGIN will per form at a black-tie gala dinner sponsored by the Eta Theta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Nov. 8, 7:15 p.m.

Held at the Radisson River front Hotel. For information, call Bet ty Bryant at 738-6256.

AUGUSTA CHILDREN’S CHOR ALE JUST DESSERTS CONCERT at Sacred Hear t Cultural Center Nov. 7, 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 each and include desser t. Call the Augusta Children’s Chorale Of fice for more information, 826-4718.

“GOD AND COUNTRY” CONCERT: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO AMERICA’S MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDERS Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. at Stevens Creek Community Church in Mar tinez. The Columbia County Choral Society per forms, as well as The Brass Ensemble of the First Baptist Church of Nor th Augusta.

Tickets are $8 adult, $6 student/senior and are available from members of the Choral Society or at the door. Free admission for first responders: police, fire, military, EMS, Red Cross and other emergency personnel with badge or ID. For info, call 364-5920.

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

Theater

“POWER MONEY SEX” Nov. 16 at Bell Auditorium.

Per formances at 4 and 8 p.m.; Ticket prices are $24.50 floor and $21.50 balcony for 4 p.m. per formance and $27.50 floor and $24.50 balcony for 8 p.m. per formance. Call 722-3521 for tickets.

“THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE” will be performed by Nor th Augusta High School’s Last Act Drama Society Nov. 14-16 at Paul Knox Middle School. Dinner is at 6 p.m. with the play following at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door and prices are as follows: $15 for dinner and the show, $5/adult for show only, $3 for students with ID for show only. Call (803) 644-4180.

“CAMELOT” will be presented by the Aiken Kidney Benefit Nov. 8-10 at USC-Aiken’s Etherredge Center. All money raised from the shows will go towards helping needy kidney patients in Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell counties. Friday and Saturday evening per formances at 8 p.m.; matinee per formances 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $16 for evening per formances and $12 for matinee per formances. (803) 641-3305.

“THE ODD COUPLE: FEMALE VERSION” at the Abbeville Opera House Nov. 8-9 and 15-16. Matinee performance on Nov. 9. Make your reservations by calling the Abbeville Opera House Box Office at (864) 459-2157.

“YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU” comes to For t Gordon Dinner Theatre Nov. 15-16 and 21-23. For more information and reservations, contact Lee at the

box of fice, 793-8552, or visit www.for tgordon.com/theatre.htm#youcant.

“ROCKY HORROR SHOW” Nov. 7-9 at the Bon Air Ballroom. Ticket prices are $20 per person for evening per formances and $12 per person for matinee performances. Call the Augusta Theatre Company box of fice at 481-9040.

MURDER AT THE PARTRIDGE INN: “LAST WILL & TESTAMENT” Nov. 17 at the Par tridge Inn. Dinner buffet served at 7:30 p.m. For tickets, call 737-8888.

Attractions THE BOYHOOD HOME OF WOODROW WILSON: Circa 1859 Presby terian manse occupied by the family of President Woodrow Wilson as a child during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Original and period antiques, restored house, kitchen and carriage house. 419 Seventh Street. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tues.-Sat. Tours available; groups of 10 or more by appointment only.

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

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

Group discount rates available. Closed Mondays; open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; open from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5.50 for adults; $4.50 for students, seniors and military; $3.50 for children (4 to 12); free for children 3 and under. Sundays are two for one with a Super Sunday coupon. Annual garden memberships are available. Call 724-4443 or 1-888874-4443. Also, visit their Web site at www.gghf.org.

FORT DISCOVERY/NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER: Children and adults alike can immerse themselves in the wonders of science through live demonstrations, vir tual realities, Starlab, KidScape and more than 270 hands-on exhibits. General Admission: $8 for adults; $6 for children, seniors and active military. Group rates available. Half-price admission daily af ter 3 p.m.

Operating hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Call 821-0200, 1-800-325-5445 or visit their Web site at www.NationalScienceCenter.org.

REDCLIFFE STATE HISTORIC SITE: 1859 mansion of S.C. Governor James Henry Hammond, held by the family for three generations until 1975. Hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursday-Monday on the grounds. House tours are noon-3 p.m. by appointment. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Admission to the grounds is free. Fee for house tours is $3 for adults and children ages 6 to 17. For more information, call (803) 8271473. 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. 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

AT THE AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY: “Mill Times” will be playing continuously in the History Theatre throughout the month of November; “Keepers of the Faith: A History of Organized Religion in Augusta” will be on display through Nov. 10. For more information, call 722-8454.

“CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ARTISTS: A LOOK AT THE WORK OF WEST FR ASER” with Augusta ar tists Edward Rice and Shishir Chokshi Nov. 21 at the Morris Museum of Ar t. Held 7-9 p.m. Free for members, $3 adults, $2 seniors/students/military. Reservations are required; call 724-7501.

SENIOR LUNCHEON AT THE LUCY CR AFT LANEY MUSEUM OF BLACK HISTORY Nov. 13, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., features concer t by Dr. Rosalyn Floyd. Cost is $6 per person and reservations are required by Nov. 9. To make a reservation, call Kelvin Jackson, 724-3576.

SCIENCE STORE OPEN HOUSE at For t Discovery Nov. 20, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Prizes, refreshments and holiday fun will be available. Call 821-0612.

“REFLECTIONS ON EGYPTOLOGY AND CONTEMPOR ARY AFRICAN EXPERTS ON NILE VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS” will be presented by Dr. Mario Beat ty Nov. 8 as par t of the Lucy Craf t Laney Museum of Black History’s History Lecture Series. Admission is $5 per person. RSVP by contacting Christine MillerBet ts or Carl Prescot t at 724-3576.

p.m., in Alexander Hall at For t Gordon. Free and open to the public. Call the Public Af fairs Of fice at 791-6001.

GERMAN-ITALIAN MEMORIAL CEREMONY Nov. 15, 1 p.m., at For t Gordon to honor German and Italian prisoners of war from World War II. Call 791-6001.

FAMILY DINNER AT PHINIZY SWAMP NATURE PARK Nov. 21, 5:30-7 p.m. Bring a picnic dinner to the Pharmacia Pavilion and enjoy a presentation. Free; reservations are not necessary. For info, call 828-2109.

NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH PROGR AM at For t Gordon Nov. 14 features Thomas Begay, a Navajo code talker from World War II. Held 1:30 p.m. in Alexander Hall. Free and open to the public. For info, call 791-9315.

NOVEMBER FILM FESTIVAL at the Augusta Public Library Auditorium Tuesdays at 6:30. Nov. 12 showing of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” Nov. 19 showing of “Citizen Kane,” Nov. 26 showing of “Monsters, Inc.” Free. Call 821-2604 for information.

FORT GORDON SOLDIERS PARTICIPATE IN VETERANS’ DAY ACTIVITIES: Nov. 9 observance and parade in McCormick, S.C., 11 a.m.; Nov. 11 parade on Broad St., 10 a.m.; Nov. 11 ceremony at the Veterans of All Wars Monument, Four th and Broad, 11 a.m.; Nov. 11

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ceremony at cour thouse in Gibson, Ga., 11 a.m.; Nov. 11 ceremony on cour thouse lawn in Waynesboro, 11 a.m.; Nov. 11 candlelight vigil at Aiken County Veterans Memorial Park, 30 minutes prior to dusk. Call the For t Gordon Public Af fairs Of fice at 791-6001.

M E T R O

“CHRISTMAS MADE IN THE SOUTH” ARTS AND CR AFTS FESTIVAL Nov. 15-17 at the Augusta Civic Center. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5, and children 12 and under get in free. For more information, call 1-800-683-3772.

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VETER ANS DAY SERVICE Nov. 11, 1 p.m., at Heroes’ Overlook and Memory Walkway, 10th Street and Riverwalk. The For t Gordon Signal Corps Band will per form. For info, contact Vicki Greene, 737-1532.

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GEORGIA WAR VETER ANS HOME VETER ANS DAY CEREMONY Nov. 11 at 9 a.m. in the cour tyard of the Georgia War Veterans Home. Guest speaker is Colonel Michael J. Guthrie. Enter tainment by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Band, the Post Ceremonial Detachment Color Guard and the Butler High School Drill Team. The public is welcome to at tend. Call 721-2531.

HISTORIC AUGUSTA 10TH ANNUAL ANTIQUES SHOW AND SALE Nov. 14-17 at the Old Medical College, 598 Telfair Street. Special events include Nov. 15 lecture

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Pasion Flamenca presents “Vivir!” at the Imperial Theatre Nov. 9. For ticket information, call 722-8293.

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

THE 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 NOVEMBER RETIREMENT CEREMONY AT FORT GORDON Nov. 21, 9:30 a.m. in Alexander Hall. Free and open to the public. Call 791-6001 for details.

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TR AVELING VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL EXHIBIT Nov. 15-17 at the Columbia County Exchange Association Fairgrounds. For more information, call Barbara at 860-2476 or Diane at 737-6656.

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WORLD AIDS CAMPAIGN EVENTS: Celebrity Basketball Game Nov. 16, 5 p.m., at the ASU Athletic Complex; “Fight Fear With Facts” forum Nov. 24, 3 p.m., at Paine College’s Chandler Memorial Library; Time of Remembrance Luminaries and Candlelight Walk Dec. 1, 4 p.m. at Riverwalk. For info, call 667-4342.

educational seminars throughout the duration of the M show. Call Historic Augusta, 724-0436, for more info.

E T AUTHOR RICK TURNBULL discusses his book “Gum’s R Story” Nov. 7, 6:30 p.m. at the Ma xwell Branch O

Library. 793-2020.

JUD C. HICKEY CENTER FOR ALZHEIMERS CARE is an adult day center providing activities and care for those with dementia or Alzheimers disease. Open Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Call 738-5039.

S P ADULT TRIP OFFERED BY THE H.O. WEEKS CENTER: I Dec. 1 Pat Boone concer t. Registration deadline is R Nov. 15. (803) 642-7631.

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“ANESTHESIA: ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW BUT WERE AFR AID TO ASK” free health seminar Nov. 14 at the Life Learning Center’s Downtown Division.

Held 2:30 p.m. in Room 2D-114. To enroll, call 7330188, ex t. 7989.

DISTINGUISHED GEORGIAN AWARDS PROGR AM held

N at the Augusta Country Club Nov. 8 at noon. 737-1442.

O V GEORGIA-CAROLINA STATE FAIR through Nov. 10 at 7 the Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds. Scheduled

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DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP meets Dec. 10 at Doctors Hospital Of fice Building III in Classrooms 4 and 5. Pre-registration is not required. Call 651-2468 or visit www.doctors-hospital.net for info.

2 Coasters, The Tams, gospel music, salsa, Classic 0 Rock All-Stars, Flo Car ter, clogging and more. Tickets 0 available through Tix Online. Visit www.tixonline.com 2

or charge by phone at (803) 278-4TIX.

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

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

RICHMOND COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL AND AUGUSTA ANIMAL RESCUE FRIENDS holds pet adoptions at Superpetz of f Bobby Jones Expressway every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Call AARF at 364-4747 or visit www.aar f.net. Adoptions also held at the Richmond County Animal Control Shelter, Tues. through Sun., 1-5 p.m. Call the shelter at 790-6836.

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

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

Out of Town

“ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL” will be presented at The New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta Nov. 14-Dec. 8. $10 preview shows Nov. 8-10; $19.50 for Thursday and Sunday shows, $22.50 for Friday shows and $24.50 for Saturday shows. Various discounts available. Optional British pub-style menu available before shows. Call (404) 874-5299 for tickets.

“THE BENCH” will be per formed by Alliance Theatre Company Nov. 8-Dec. 15 at the Woodruf f Ar ts Center in Atlanta. Tickets are $25-$31. (404) 733-5000.

SPORTSMAN’S FESTIVAL Nov. 9 in Warrenton, Ga. From 9 a.m.-5 p.m., events will include ar ts and craf ts, hunting exhibits, live enter tainment, rides, fun run, cruise-in, turkey shoot and big buck contest and more. Free parking and admission. (706) 465-9604.

“YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU” Nov. 15-24 at the Longstreet Theatre in Columbia, S.C. TuesdaySaturday per formances at 8 p.m.; Sunday per formances at 3 p.m. Tickets are $12 adult, $10 USC faculty and staf f, senior citizen and military, $9 student.

Group tickets for groups of 10 or more available for $7 each. Call (803) 777-2551 for tickets.

GEORGIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS NOVEMBER WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS: “Legal Issues for Photographers” Nov. 10; “How to Star t a 501(c)(3)” Nov. 19; walk-in legal clinic Nov. 26. All events held at various locations in Atlanta. (404) 873-3911.

PIG ON THE RIDGE FESTIVAL Nov. 8-9 in Ridgeway, S.C., features barbecue cookof f, street par ty, live enter tainment and more. For info, call (803) 337-2213 or (803) 337-8880.

AT THE GEORGIA NATIONAL FAIRGROUNDS AND AGRICENTER in Perry, Ga.: Southern Championship Walking Horse Show, Nov. 21-23, (706) 232-3622; POA Horse Show, Nov. 23-24, (478) 962-0695; Lipizzaner Stallions Concer t, Nov. 26-27, (407) 366-0366.

ADOPTION INFORMATION SESSION Nov. 9, 9:30 a.m. at the Independent Adoption Center of fice in Tucker, Ga. For information and reservations, call 1-800-3854016 or (404) 321-6900.

Dick Dunlap’s landscapes will be showcased at The Dunlap Studio and Gallery during November.

“FR AME 312” will be presented by the Alliance Theatre Company in Atlanta through Nov. 10. Call (404) 733-4630.

“MURDER IN THE MAGNOLIAS” will be presented by Class Act Theatre in Mariet ta, Ga., through Nov. 17.

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

“A VIEW FROM THE SOUTH: THE LOUIS AND ANN WRIGHT COLLECTION” through Nov. 17 at the Columbia Museum of Ar t. Call (803) 799-2810 or visit www.columbiamuseum.org.

AT THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART in Atlanta: “The Mystique of Rene Magrit te: Five Surrealist Paintings From the Menil Collection, Houston,” through Dec. 1; “Beyond Surrealism: Selections From the Permanent Collection,” also through Dec. 1. (404) 733-HIGH.

Benefits CARING ROSE WEEK: During the week of Nov. 18, those who choose to donate two canned goods at par ticipating florists will receive one dozen Rio roses for $10. Canned goods will be donated to the Golden Harvest Food Bank. For a list of par ticipants, call the Golden Harvest Food Bank at 736-1199.

AUGUSTA SOUTH ROTARY CLUB YARD SALE Nov. 8, 7 a.m. at the Lowe’s parking lot on Peach Orchard Rd. Proceeds benefit the Augusta Training Shop for the Handicapped. Contact Sandra Gurley at 724-2601.

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL GOLDEN GALA will raise funds for improvements to the hospital’s Emergency Depar tment. Nov. 8 black-tie af fair begins at 7 p.m. at Sacred Hear t Cultural Center. Tickets are $100 per person and include cock tail buf fet, live enter tainment

by Par ty on the Moon and a live auction. 481-7402.

FIRST ANNUAL JUDGE FR ANKLIN PIERCE TR AP SHOOT Nov. 14 at the Pinetuckey Gun Club.

Registration includes two rounds of trap, shells, eye and ear protection and awards reception. $50 early registration if postmarked by Nov. 4; $60 registration the day of the shoot. Shooting from 1-4 p.m. with awards ceremony at 4:30. Proceeds benefit Walton Rehabilitation Hospital and af filiates. Volunteer opportunities also available. 823-8526.

TEDDY BEAR AUCTION, SHOW AND SALE at the H.O. Weeks Center in Aiken honors the 100th anniversary of the teddy bear. Proceeds benefit local charities.

Held Nov. 8-9. Call (803) 642-7631.

HOLIDAY LUGGAGE EXCHANGE benefits local domestic violence shelters. Donations of used luggage will be accepted at the AAA of fice at 3601 Walton Way Ex t. through Dec. 31. For more information, visit www.aaasouth.com or call the Augusta AAA of fice at 738-6611.

2002 FESTIVAL OF TREES through Nov. 10 at the Augusta Mall. Holiday decoration and craf t displays, children’s activities, live enter tainment, celebrity gingerbread house decorating contest and more. All proceeds benefit community projects of the Junior League of Augusta. Volunteer oppor tunities are also available. For more information, call 736-0033.

SHEPEARD COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER BLOOD DRIVES in various locations around the CSRA this month. The blood center is urging people of all blood types to donate in order to combat a blood supply shor tage. For detailed information on locations and times to donate, visit www.shepeardblood.org. You may also call Susan Edwards at (803) 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 BEGINNING COMPUTER CLASS Nov. 19, 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Appleby Branch Library. 736-6244.

“E-MAIL FOR BEGINNERS” Nov. 20, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Gibbs Library. Call 863-1946 to register.

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY CONTINUING EDUCATION is now of fering the following classes: Adobe Illustrator 10, Intermediate Shag II, Intermediate Investing, Digital Photography for Beginners, Adobe Photoshop 7 and more. Also, ASU of fers online courses. For more information, call 737-1636 or visit www.ced.aug.edu.

AIKEN TECH CONTINUING EDUCATION is now of fering the following courses: Intro to Computers, Windows 2000, Microsof t Excel, Health Care Career courses, Rape Aggression Defense, A Look at Genealogy, Real Estate, Driver Education, Pilot courses and more. Aiken Tech also of fers Education to Go classes online. For more information or to register, call (803) 593-9231, ex t. 1230.

Health “MIND OVER MATTER: HOW THE MIND IMPACTS OUR PHYSICAL WELL-BEING” SYMPOSIUM with Dr. Vernon Barnes. Held Nov. 14, 7 p.m., at University Hospital Auditorium. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 667-8591.

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

Call 823-6294.

FREE HIV/AIDS TESTING every Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Ministry, 922 Greene Street.

Free anonymous testing, pre- and post-test counseling and education.

HATHA YOGA CLASSES at the St. Joseph Home Health Care Center in Daniel Village Plaza. Held 10 a.m. to noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. $10 per class or $60 a month for unlimited classes. Mats are provided, but bring a towel and a water bot tle. Call Tess at 738-2782 for more information.

A FREE WOMEN’S HEALTH CLINIC is held from 6-8 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month at the Salvation Army and Welfare Center, 1383 Greene St. Services include Pap smear, breast exam and the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmit ted diseases. For more info or an appointment, call the St. Vincent dePaul Health Center at 828-3444.

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

Registration is required by calling 774-2825.

Kids TURKEY SHOOTOUT BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Nov. 20, 4 p.m, at the Smith-Hazel Recreation Center in Aiken. Open to kids ages 8-15. Cost is $1 per person. Call (803) 642-7635 for information.

YOUTH AND IDDY BIDDY BASKETBALL REGISTR ATION through Nov. 16 at the Wheeler Branch of the Family Y. Youth basketball open to children in grades 1-9; Iddy Biddy basketball open to children 4-5 years old. For info, call 738-6678.

STORYTIME WITH MIA-TALIA LOWE, 2003 Jr. Teen Miss Augusta Nov. 9, 11 a.m.-noon at the Appleby Branch Library. Call 736-6244.

FIRE SAFETY DEMONSTR ATION Nov. 11, 1 p.m., at the Friedman Branch Library. For info, call 736-6758.

“HANDMADE BOOKS: ACCORDION STYLE” family workshop Nov. 9 at the Ger trude Herber t Institute of Ar t.

Open to children ages 5-11 accompanied by an adult.

Held 10 a.m.-noon. Fee is $7 per family (one child and one adult); $1 ex tra for each additional child. 722-5495.

YOUTH BASKETBALL REGISTR ATION Nov. 11-20. Call May Park, 724-0504; the Fleming Athletic Of fice, 7965047; Eisenhower Park, 821-2800; or Warren Road Community Center, 860-0986.

BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS FOR YOUNG MINDS Nov. 12, 10-11 a.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. 722-6275.

CHILDREN’S LEARNING CENTER at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History open Monday-Friday, 4:30-6:30 p.m., through June. For information, call 7243576.

FALL GYMNASTICS at the Family Y: Session II runs Oct. 28-Dec. 30. Open to toddlers through teens and held once a week at the Wheeler Gymnastics Center. 738-6678.

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

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

SIBSHOPS Nov. 16 and Dec. 14, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the MCG Children’s Medical Center Conference Center. This program is designed for siblings of children with special health and developmental needs.

Par ticipants are bet ween the ages of 7 and 15. Phone 721-6838 for information.

WEEKLY STORY SESSIONS at all branch libraries.

Visit www.ecgrl.public.lib.ga.us for more information.

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

Seniors SENIOR ADULT THANKSGIVING CELEBR ATION 11 a.m. Nov. 15 at Julian Smith Casino. For details, call Augusta Recreation and Parks at 796-5025.

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

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

ARTHRITIS AQUATICS of fered Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Walton Rehabilitation Hospital. Classes meet 9-9:45 a.m., 10-10:45 a.m. or 12:15-1 p.m. $37.50/month. To register, call 733-5959.

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

Sports MARYBETH REGAN MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT Nov. 15 at Forest Hills Golf Club. Shotgun star t at 1 p.m.

Cost to play is $400 per four-member team. For more information, call Annmarie Regan Noegel at 364-0945.

UPCOMING AUGUSTA LYNX HOME GAMES: Nov. 89, 26 and 30. For tickets, call the Lynx ticket of fice

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

Call 733-7533.

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ven with a perplexing soon-to-be war brewing, Newsweek has chosen to give its cover to a man who’s been dead for eight and a half years. While the stench of international conflict taints the air we breathe and the pages we read, the notoriously boring newsmagazine has sprayed Teen Spirit air freshener upon the world. The result will have half of the nation waiting with bated breath for a man’s diary to hit the shelves.

They have also amplified a point that, apparently, was only hinted at before.

Simple and plain, Kurt Cobain was a genius.

In its Oct. 28 issue, Newsweek has published excerpts from “Journals,” an upcoming collection of diaries by Cobain, who was simultaneously the messiah, martyr and Pontius Pilate of ‘90s pop. To say that Cobain expanded the definition of a rock star goes without saying. As Axl Rose was in the process of transforming himself from a menacing thug — a racist, homophobic one, at that — into a misunderstood, tender, yet bombastic man whose muse was Elton John, so Cobain made depression and intro-

spection vogue in a way that no singersongwriter had previously done. A crushing sound with an interesting pop sensibility created the perfect backdrop for Cobain’s lyrics, the portrait of a thoughtful, confused and compelling young man with acute difficulty dealing with the pain — physical, emotional and mental — in his life.

Nearly 10 years after his death, Cobain is not viewed quite like the other members of the 27 club — artists who departed at that age or earlier (Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison and others). Where so many died from their excesses, excess drove Cobain to take his own life. He hated being famous, was cursed by his fascination with the Beatles and their obvious influence on his music.

The adoration of fans — a love it always seemed he didn’t get enough of in his personal life — drove him to put a shotgun to his head. Apparently, there is such a thing as too much love.

But now that he’s only a part of most memories — though many would contend he holds a place in their souls — “Journals” may become his most enduring body of work. If Cobain’s life was a movie,

By Bomani Jones

“Journals” is the director’s cut, the musings and contemplations of a mad genius. More than that, these passages are some of the most interesting reading I’ve come across in years, and I boldly predict they will stand the immeasurable test of time. At root, they are the musings of a confused, picked-on kid with a whole lot to say, even if it didn’t make any sense. Consider this passage (quoted directly from Newsweek’s excerpts, which chose not to correct Cobain’s erratic grammar and idiosyncratic spelling): “I like punk rock. I like girls with weird eyes. I like drugs. (But my body and mind won’t allow me to take them.) I like passion. I like playing my cards wrong. I like vinyl. I like to feel guilty for being a white, American male. I love to sleep. I like to taunt small, barking dogs in parked cars. I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity ...

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.”

“I like punk rock. I like girls with weird eyes. I like drugs. (But my body and mind won’t allow me to take them.) I like passion.

I like playing my cards wrong. I like vinyl.

I like to feel guilty for being a white, American male. I love to sleep. I like to taunt small, barking dogs in parked cars.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance. I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity ... I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.”

- Kurt Cobain Photo Courtesy of the Estate of Kurt Cobain

Scatterbrained yet concise. Impassioned yet ambivalent. Intelligent yet incoherent.

(And incredibly similar to the song “Lithium,” off “Nevermind.”) Such confusion was part of what made Nirvana’s music so interesting, almost the way the lack of clarity in Monet’s work allowed the connoisseur to decide what he was really trying to paint. “A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido.” Yeah? Made absolutely no sense, and that was cool. In a similar way, so is the above passage.

Though it has yet to be seen what the complete version of “Journals” will look like, Newsweek’s excerpts focus on two major points — fame and drug addiction.

Considering that fame was the focus of the suicide note that Courtney Love read at a public memorial service after this death, it was a predictable topic, as was heroin addiction. What could not have been predicted was the detail in which Cobain’s addiction — or lack thereof, as he maintained — was described and the insights into mega-stardom he had to contribute.

After Vanity Fair’s allegations in 1992 that Love used smack while she was pregnant with her and Cobain’s daughter, it was hard to have a discussion about Cobain without talking about the white lady. As was common knowledge to many, Cobain took heroin to deal with incapacitating and undiagnosed stomach pain. While he would go so far as to write that he was “not a junkie,” later passages describe the pain and travails of drug withdrawal, his way of telling whoever he thought might read his words not to shoot up.

While in rehab, Cobain meticulously detailed his history of heroin use, a sad memoir that foreshadowed his demise.

After a prescription mix-up, Cobain writes, “I instantly decided to kill myself or stop the pain. I bought a gun but chose drugs instead.” Though the proximate cause of his heroin use was physical pain, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that there was more emotional pain at the root of his malaise than is made clear in “Journals.”

Most entertaining are his travails with fame and superstardom, something with which Cobain never felt comfortable. His favorite bands were fairly broke and pretty obscure, and he felt as though he had betrayed them, as though his music was intended to be niche-oriented and was tainted by his alliance with David Geffen and their mutual goal of mass distribution.

“If we were going to be ghettoised, I’d rather be in the same slum as bands that are good like Mudhoney, Jesus Lizard, the Melvins and Beat Happening rather than being a tennant of the corporate landlords regime ... I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.”

But that was a deal that Cobain had made with The Man. Though he and bandmates Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl (who seems to be quite comfortable with fame) initially disliked the polishing that the record company gave to “Nevermind,” they went along with it. It was a deal Cobain couldn’t back out of, and as a result, he was unable to find the balance between being a great rock musi-

cian and being a rock star.

“Oh Pleez GAWD I can’t handle the success! The success! And I feel so incredibly guilty! For abandoning my true commrades who were the ones who are devoted who were into us a few years ago.

And in 10 years when NIRVANA becomes as memorable as Kajagoogoo that same very small percent will come to see us at reunion gigs sponsored by Depends diapers, bald fat still trying to RAWK at amusement parks. Saturdays: puppet show, rollercoaster & Nirvana ...”

It never got to that point, and a gander at these diaries makes it clear that it never could have. Cobain writes that he hopes he’ll have died before he becomes Pete Townshend (the most morbid yet falldown funny line in the available excerpts). But the comparison is instructive: Cobain started out with Townshend’s more mature, softer side, but never abandoned the hard-rocking angst with which Townshend began. Where the Who’s critics have accused the band of smoothing out their music as time went on, there was always a tender accessibility to Cobain’s dismay. But Nirvana’s members never quarreled among themselves about it.

Novoselic and Grohl did not violently oppose Cobain’s softer side the way John Entwistle, Keith Moon and Roger Daltrey often did with Townshend.

This was just who Kurt Cobain was, a tortured soul whose pain was more identifiable than he wished it was. The insecurities he wrestled with turned out to be less bizarre than he thought — check the record sales! — a fact that would be cathartic to most. It created a fame that was more than his “enemeic [sic], rodentlike body” could handle. David Geffen didn’t create Cobain’s persona; it was what circumstance, nurture and his body predetermined for him.

Cobain didn’t have to create a character like Townshend’s Tommy. He was his own walking opera. If Newsweek’s snippets are a true indication, the sheet music to that opera will be made available to the public, open for our discussion, contemplation and explication. Debate will erupt over the public’s right to pore over a dead man’s soul as though it were a fossil or an archaeological treasure. (Cobain even mentions in the journals that the kind of thing I’m doing now amounts to “rape.”)

But that discussion is moot now.

“Journals,” better than any biography could hope to be, will make essential reading for anyone looking to understand the 1990s’ most important pop star. It’s more compelling than “The Rose That Grew From Concrete,” the posthumous book of poetry by Cobain’s hip-hop counterpart, Tupac Shakur, since it provides a much more intricate look at a figure so complex he couldn’t even figure himself out.

One thing is easy to see while reading “Journals” — great pain can make for great art, and it has a strange way of shedding light on brilliance. It also makes for short lives.

Bomani Jones is a writer in Southern California.

Reprinted with permission from Salon.

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air loss is a big thing,” says Cy Curnin of The Fixx. “The ‘80s was very much about hairdos.

We’re not a hairdo band, but we still have our hair and a lot of it.”

That may be one of the few things that hasn’t changed for The Fixx. Now, older and wiser, Curnin counters what he describes as a “heavy dose of cynicism” with a wry sense of humor as he talks about the changes The Fixx has seen in the past 20 or so years.

“I think for us, success has become the pleasure of doing what we love,” he says.

“Now we’re in the moment. Now I know why I enjoy playing and I really appreciate being able to support myself doing that. In the ‘80s, there was such a whirr of excitement, always talking about another moment.”

In this moment, Curnin is acutely conscious of how different the recording industry has become. “Recorded music is basically free to anyone who wants it these days,” he says. “It keeps us aware.

If someone’s downloading, they’re interested in us. The live show is the one thing left that nobody can steal.”

Embodying that sentiment, The Fixx routinely takes to the road. The tour that will bring them through Augusta on Nov. 12 makes stops in Hawaii and Alaska first.

“I had to pack a furry bikini for this tour,” jokes Curnin. “We just go where we’re wanted these days. We do a lot in the summers here. It keeps us out of trouble.”

Most of the summer events The Fixx plays are outdoor festivals, but during the winter months, The Fixx takes to clubs.

“We love that, ‘cause that’s where we started off, in the clubs,” Curnin says. “There’s fun in having a huge audience singing along to our songs, but I like the clubs.”

Even though a large part of The Fixx’s current audience is made up of those looking for a nostalgia trip, Curnin says the audience at a Fixx show tends to be quite varied. There are those in their twenties, who were aware of The Fixx as children,

and those in their 40s and 50s. “Then you’ve got those that were in college in the early ‘80s,” says Curnin. “They say the music you listen to in college is the music that stays with you your whole life.

It’s a fairly wide circle. There are some who brainwash their kids into liking The Fixx also. You see Fixx families.”

In any case, Curnin doesn’t mind those seeking a fix from the past. “I think nostalgia is an important part of playing live,” he says. “It gives you a longitude and a latitude of where you are now and where you seem to be going.”

Live, The Fixx mixes up a set of old and new, blending new takes on wellworn favorites with material off their latest albums.

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The Fixx has even got a new album ready to go, though when it will be released is not yet certain. With the state of the music industry these days, Curnin says, recorded material is essentially devalued.

“It takes away the incentive to even go near a studio – why bother?” he asks. “We might as well make records and give them away free anyway. … But we’re waking up to the fact that nobody can steal the show. With what’s going on in corporate America, anyone with a suit and tie might as well be wearing stripey pajamas.”

Neato Torpedo opens up for The Fixx Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Crossroads. Tickets are $12.50 in advance and $15 at the door. For information, phone Crossroads at 724-1177.

ALSO ON NOV. 12 The Kicks 99 Fourth Annual Guitar Pull comes to the Bell Auditorium Nov. 12. Country artists Lone Star, Trace Adkins, Mark Chesnutt, Blake Shelton, Cyndi Thomson and Carolyn Dawn Johnson take the stage, guitars in hand, to raise money for the Kicks 99 “Million Pennies for Kids” campaign.

The Kicks 99 “Million Pennies for Kids” campaign raises money for underprivileged children in the CSRA. The goal is to raise one million pennies – the equivalent of $10,000 – to assist needy children during the holiday season and beyond.

The show is already sold out, but you can still win tickets by listening to Kicks 99. If luck isn’t on your side and you still want to do your part to help children in need, Kicks 99 is collecting pennies through Christmas.

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n Nocturne’s third album, “Paradise Wasted,” singer Lacey Conner goes from sweet to shriek and back again.

“There’s two sides of my personality and two ways to sing to represent that,” she says in a recent telephone interview. Her speaking voice falls somewhere in between that of an upbeat teen-ager and a hoarse temptress.

Conner herself looks like a blend of the two: on the cover of “Paradise Wasted,” she seems innocent enough, but her vinyl and fishnet trappings make you wonder.

“I definitely think that sexuality is a big part of our show and our music,” says Conner. “I don’t think that’s a bad thing. My whole job is to be an entertainer. There’s also people that are like, ‘That girl’s hot’ and that’s all there is to it. That’s not what I’m going for. I want people to enjoy the music on a deeper level than just the sexuality.”

Listen to Nocturne’s music, though, and it’s evident that the band is deconstructing typical notions of sexuality with every word. “I’ve always been a fan of aggressive music,” Conner says. “I noticed there were really no female singers with that ballsy style of singing. None of them really sing more aggressively. I thought that would be really cool to have a female singer do what these males do.”

The music itself is a hybrid mixture of influences and sounds. Though some might call the band goth, Conner feels that label is somewhat limiting. “That used to annoy us because we want to have a very broad audience,” she says. “We want the goth kids; we want the industrial kids; we want the metal kids to like us. We want to appeal to the whole spectrum of the genre. I think that people hear the word goth and they’re immedi-

ately turned off by that. I don’t think that’s a very accurate description of our music.”

A better term, she suggests, is industrial, which is noise-based and has tendencies toward darkness and aggression. But you can’t completely rule out goth. “I definitely think that some of our songs could fall into either category,” says Conner.

Though Conner and Nocturne’s other permanent member, Chris Telkes, share writing duties, Conner admits that writing music is an outlet for her emotions. “When I was a teen-ager, I was your typical pissed off, angry teen-ager,” she says. “As I got older, I realized I wasn’t the type of person I wanted to be. I still feel that aggression is a part of my personality, but it’s something that I choose to have tight control of.

In my music, I don’t have to do that.”

On tour, other musicians join Conner and Telkes to round out the live show. Because Conner and Telkes have a flexible work schedule that allows them to tour upwards of three times per year, they have a rotating list of musicians available to tour with Nocturne.

“We’ve definitely been complimented on our live show,” Conner says. “We try to put as much energy and power and sexuality into it as we possibly can.”

Nocturne has been touring with fellow Underground, Inc. label-mate Bile; both bands will be at the Hangnail Gallery Nov. 10 for the Excoriation Festival. Bile describes their music with the phrase “demonic electronic.” Joining Bile and Nocturne will be Animal Filter, Paint the Sky Red, Store Bought Lies, Cycle, DSS and DJ Triskyl.

It’s an all-day show: Doors open at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $10, and the Excoriation Festival is open to all ages. For info, call the Hangnail Gallery at 722-9899.

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iding on the success of a single song, 3 Doors Down burst onto the national music scene in 2000. The song “Kryptonite,” off a self-produced CD, made 3 Doors Down favorites in their hometown of Escatawpa, Miss. It garnered enough local airplay to gain the group entrance to New York’s famous CBGB’s club, where representatives from Republic Records signed 3 Doors Down to a record deal.

“Kryptonite” made it onto 3 Doors Down’s major-label debut, “The Better Life,” which sold over 6 million copies. “Away From the Sun,” the group’s follow-up album, is set to be released Nov. 12.

3 Doors Down recently previewed the new album for U.S. Navy troops stationed in Italy, and they’re ready to give Augustans a sneak peek at tracks from the new album as well.

Fort Gordon plays host to 3 Doors Down this Saturday night, Nov. 9. The gates at Barton Field open at 6 p.m., with the musical festivities starting at 7 p.m. Local bands 420 Outback and Drop Level are scheduled to open.

You don’t have to be in the military to attend; you just need a ticket. Fort Gordon’s made it easy for 3 Doors Down fans to get tix. They’re available on the Web at www.fortgordon.com.

You can also get tickets at any Papa John’s Pizza in the CSRA, at Fort Gordon Federal Credit Union or at Fort Gordon PX Customer Service. They can be purchased at the gate, as well, for all the procrastinators out there. The best deal is to get them beforehand, though. They’re $22 in advance and $27 at the gate.

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Bhoomer’s Lounge - Open Mic Night with Heavy Dose Cadillac’s - Broken Arrow Band Cafe Du Teau - Buzz Clif ford Club Argos - Karaoke Coliseum - Karaoke with DJ Hawk Coyote’s - The Rhes Reeves Band Crossroads - Mandorico D. Timm’s - Joe Patchen and the Blue Diamond Express Fox’s Lair - Wayne Capps Garden City Bar and Grill - Karaoke with Mad Dog Mike Joe’s Underground - Jason Last Call - Grand Inferno Dueling Pianos Michael’s - Marilyn Adcock Playground - Open Mic Night Red Lion - Mary Prankster Rhy thm and Blues Exchange - Sabo and the Scorchers Shannon’s - Glenn Beasley, DJ Soul Bar - The Big Mighty

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Check out Impulse Ride Saturday at the Soul Bar.

Bee’s Knees - Jazz Trois Bhoomer’s Lounge - Heavy Dose Cafe Du Teau - Buzz Clif ford Club Argos - Cabaret Show Coconuts - DJs Doug and Eric Coliseum - Rabion Star Continuum - Da Juggernaut Cotton Patch - Bamboo Coyote’s - The Rhes Reeves Band Crossroads - Golden Harvest Food Drive with Vellotones Karaoke, Eldorado Deluxe D. Timm’s - Joe Patchen and the Blue Diamond Express Fox’s Lair - Rodney and Page Garden City Bar and Grill - Karaoke with Mad

Dog Mike Joe’s Underground - Impulse Ride Last Call - Tony Howard, DJ Richie Rich Luck y Lady’s - The Duke Boys Michael’s - Marilyn Adcock Red Lion - Almost Steve Shannon’s - Glenn Beasley Soul Bar - Entropy Funk Band with Special Guest DJ Surrey Tavern - Playback with Tutu Divine

Sunday, 10th

Cafe Du Teau - Buzz Clif ford and The Last Bohemian Quar tet Cotton Patch - Tim Baker Hangnail Gallery - Excoriation Festival with Bile, Nocturne, Animal Filter, Paint the Sky Red, Store Bought Lies, Cycle, DSS, DJ Triskyl Shannon’s - Tony Howard

Monday, 11th

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News he U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission concluded in May that Costco Wholesale Corp.’s firing of Kimberly M. Cloutier for refusing to stop wearing an eyebrow ring at work constituted religious discrimination in that Cloutier is a member of the Oregonbased Church of Body Modification. The church says piercings and tattoos “are essential to our spiritual salvation.” Based on the EEOC ruling, Cloutier, 27, of West Springfield, Mass., filed a federal lawsuit against Costco for not “accommodating” her religious practice, as required by law.

• Police in Modesto, Calif., arrested Kelli Pratt, 45, in October and charged her with domestic abuse after she, enraged by her husband’s refusal to have sex, allegedly held him down and bit him so viciously and so many times that his severely ripped-open skin was ripe for the bacterial infection that killed him six days later. Kelli suffers from multiple sclerosis and often uses a wheelchair; husband Arthur, 65, had recently been hospitalized for diabetes. Said an arresting officer, “(Kelli) refused to wash up (before we videotaped her), so she basically looks (on the tape) like a vampire with blood all over her face and teeth.”

Parents Shooting Their Kids • A man accidentally killed his 14-yearold son with a crossbow when he mistook the boy for a deer (Adamsville, Ohio, October). A man accidentally shot his adult son with his Father’s Day handgun (which the son had loaded before gift-wrapping) (Coraopolis, Pa., June).

Mothers in Jackson, Wis., and Port Richey, Fla., shot their sons (ages 9 and 10, respectively) with BB rifles in object lessons taken too far (August; September). A man accidentally fired his hunting bow, driving an arrow into the skull of his 11-year-old daughter, but she survived (Muncie, Ind., September). An 8-year-old boy was taken away by child welfare officials in September after his stepfather shamelessly admitted that he had used a stun gun on the boy for being late for school (Sweeny, Texas).

The Litigious Society • Otis Stansbury, 34, of Long Eaton, England, filed a lawsuit in August against door-to-door salesman Jay Sims and his company, Accident Group, whose business is helping customers in personalinjury lawsuits. Sims had just left the Stansbury home (after failing to sign them up) when, according to the lawsuit, he attempted to catch a ball among kids playing in front of the Stansbury home, slipped, and fell on top of 6-year-old Yohan Stansbury, sending the boy to the hospital with head injuries.

• Cherise Mosley, 19, filed a lawsuit against the Aaron Family Planning Clinic in Houston in August, seeking damages for the abortion it performed on her two years earlier when she was a minor. Mosley admits that she produced a false ID card at that time, showing that she was over 18, for the express purpose of receiving the abortion without having her parents notified. Now, Mosley apparently regrets the abortion and claims the clinic should have detected that her ID was false and thus notified her parents, who, Mosley believes, would have talked her out of the abortion.

• Josephine Bailey filed a wrongfuldeath lawsuit in August, two years after her 22-year-old son staggered out of Rick’s Pub in Hurricane, W.Va., after a night of drinking and, according to police, collapsed under an idling 18wheeler across the street, shortly after which he was run over and killed when the driver pulled away without noticing him. Ms. Bailey, who is suing Rick’s owner and the trucking company, had said earlier that she couldn’t believe her son would do such a foolish thing: “He’d never put himself in that kind of predicament.”

Questionable Judgments • In a decision hailed by animal-rights activists, District of Columbia judge Frederick Weisberg in July sentenced John Hardy, 49, to prison for assaults he committed during a domestic altercation, which broke out when Hardy and his wife were scuffling and ended when Hardy’s pit bull became excited, provoking Hardy to fatally stab him.

Weisberg sentenced Hardy to three months for assaulting his wife and 24 months for the attack on the dog.

• Decisions announced one day apart in September: Toronto prosecutors dropped the public nudity charges against seven men who marched naked in a Gay Pride parade, concluding that it would be impossible to convict them, in that they were wearing shoes. And the Washington state Supreme Court dismissed voyeurism charges against two men who had been convicted of shooting “upskirt” photos of women in public, concluding that the state peepingtom statute applies only to victims who have an “expectation of privacy” because they are in secluded places.

People Different From Us • Linda Henning, 48, went on trial for murder in Albuquerque in September, charged as being the dupe and accomplice of cancer-curing, 2,000-year-old guru Diazien Hossencofft in the murder of his wife, the late Girly Chew Hossencofft. Henning was described by longtime friends as exceptionally levelheaded, right up until the day she met the charismatic Hossencofft, after which she became “crazy as a loon,” according to one, in that she believed that reptilian aliens were ready to take over the world, using cryogenic pods. (She wrote that reptilian George W. Bush maintains his human visage through “the use of magnetic fields to create holograms.”)

Hossencofft has since come clean about his frauds, but Henning apparently continues to believe.

— Chuck Shepherd © United Press Syndicate

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

In order to be true to yourself and get what you want in the coming week, you’ll have to be more generous and imaginative than usual. Here are a few activities that could help. 1. Send a letter expressing your admiration to a person whose good works fascinate you. 2. Dream up 20 new names for God, using ice cream flavors and dj names for inspiration. 3. Buy seven used gowns worn by famous actresses to the Academy Awards show, and send them gratis to seven Guatemalan grandmothers. 4. Find someone who is impossible to love and love them defiantly. 5.

Try on the perspective of the poet John Keats, who said: “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Every relationship has its own unique soul. The way you fit together with another person — whether it’s through romantic intimacy, friendship, or collaborative work — should be allowed to find the idiosyncratic identity that best suits the special chemistry between you. It is therefore a sin to compare any of your partnerships to some supposedly ideal model. Fortunately, you’re in an astrological phase when you have a certain genius about togetherness. May I suggest that you devote the next few weeks to helping all of your important bonds find their deeper meaning?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Would you like me to award you the title of “Most Successful Complainer of the Month” for November? If so, you’ll spend the next few days getting organized in your approach to changing what’s wrong. You’ll decide which five of the hundred irritating problems are most deserving of your intelligent attention. You’ll have a long talk with yourself in which you promise to express your criticisms in ways that will not make people defensive. And then you will formulate a step-by-step plan to carefully, gently, compassionately carry out a revolution.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Welcome to “Retool Your Approach to Discipline Week,” Libra. To assist you in jettisoning needlessly narrow ideas about how to cultivate self-control, I present the following epigrams. “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.” Vince Lombardi. “We are what we repeatedly do.” Aristotle. “Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.” - Robert Collier. “The greatest achievements and virtuoso performances of our lives are romanced, not beaten out of us.” - Nick Williams. “If you can figure out how to make discipline really fun, it won’t feel like discipline.” -my accountant Wendy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

An unauthorized Harry Potter book is being sold in China. Penned by an anonymous author, it describes Harry morphing into a furry dwarf after a “soursweet rain.” I’ve also been victimized: A fake version of my column is showing up in an English-language rag in Beijing. Whoever’s writing it is totally cracked; it bears little resemblance to my work. A recent horoscope for us Cancerians, however, did contain a thread I think is right for our tribe. It advises us to capitalize on the actions of our adversaries; to benefit from those who have profited from us; to turn the tables on table-turners.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

It will be a favorable week to change your hair color, bark poetry at your television, take a balloon ride over the south coast of France where the wild horses run, get expelled from Catholic school for spraying a nun with squirtable sour candy, retreat to a chicken coop and write your autobiography, climb a tree with a person whose relationship with you is in transition, teach animals to dance, wear cashmere pajamas, abduct an extraterrestrial, hurl the “Buns of Steel” video into a volcano, scrawl meaningful graffiti where it’ll truly change somebody’s mind, take care of a needy little creature, and fantasize you’re the child of divine parents who abandoned you when you were two days old, but who will soon be coming to reunite with you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

As the Sun, Mercury, and Venus turn the heat up in your astrological House of Pancakes, you have a mandate to curl up and feast on heaps of flapjacks, waffles, blintzes, and crepes. Doughnuts and pastries are also acceptable. However you do it, Leo, you’ll benefit from acquiring more ballast. Why? Because you’ve got to become less top-heavy and more difficult to push over. If you prefer not to accomplish this by adding girth to your gut and butt, find another way. Perhaps you could tie an anchor to your waist or think really deep thoughts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Imagine an alternative universe where the ancient Greek myths had different outcomes. The Bacchae women don’t tear apart the god of ecstasy, but lift him on their shoulders, carry him into a sumptuous bedroom, and pleasure him all night. Oedipus finds out in time that the woman he’s set to marry is actually his mom, and calls a halt to the wedding.

Pandora opens the mysterious box, but what flies out aren’t anger, jealousy, illness and sadness, but joy, wonder, curiosity, receptivity and creativity.

Once you get the hang of radically re-envisioning these old myths, Sagittarius, do the same with the modern one you’re smack in the middle of.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

This week’s counsel is extreme. Don’t read another word, Virgo, unless you feel ready to carry out a task that will require you to be daringly rebellious and brazenly optimistic. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re being asked to revise your attitudes, change your habits, alter your behavior, or do whatever else it may take to arrive at a radical new way of looking at your life: You must be able to sincerely believe that the cosmos or fate or God — whatever you want to call the Vastness — is on your side and wants you to succeed at the thing you enjoy most.

Here’s a big hint about one way to proceed, courtesy of author Paulo Cuelho: “Know what you want and all the universe conspires to help you achieve it.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The cardiologist had bad news and good news for my 72-year-old Capricorn acquaintance George.

One of his coronary arteries is largely blocked, which might eventually necessitate bypass surgery.

On the other hand, an angiogram revealed that his heart is in the process of trying to grow a brand new artery where none had been before. If it’s successful, George won’t need to depend on the old blocked artery any more and can avoid the operation. The cardiologist will check on the progress of this budding miracle in a few months. In the meantime, let’s you and I, Capricorn, marvel at the resourcefulness and intelligence of the human body.

Yours, too, is in the midst of an amazing transformation. It may not be as spectacular as George’s, but it will allow you to experience your life on a deeper level than ever before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

There’s no contradiction between expressing your most outrageous individuality and being in humble service to humanity. Far from opposing each other, these two tasks are synergistic. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that you can’t really do either justice without the other. That’s why I believe that one of your life’s supreme triumphs will come when you’ve mastered the art of being both an idiosyncratic maverick and a reverent devotee of the greatest good.

This is the time and this is the place, Aquarius, to make rapid progress towards that goal.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

When Rodney Dangerfield got his first big career break, he was already 44 years old. He didn’t discover his signature comedic riff - “I don’t get no respect” - until he was in his 50s. Compared to him, Pisces, you’re a precocious early bloomer. But I hate to offer him up as consolation to those of you who fear you’re not fulfilling your ambitions fast enough.

Comparing your own rate of growth to others’ is a dastardly trap that you should vigorously avoid. Try on this thought: You are at the exact level of success where you need to be in order to carry out your life’s unique mission. With that certainty as your ally, your ripening will paradoxically accelerate.

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’m a happily married man. I’ve been with my wife for three years. We have a problem: I look at other women. My wife can’t bear it. I don’t mean to look, but the harder I try to quit, the more I end up doing it. I love my wife with all my heart, and I don’t want to be with anyone else. Nor do I want to hurt her.

Please tell me how I can stop my wandering eyes.

—Gawk Soup There’s a reason Bot ticelli painted “Bir th of Venus,” not “Peasant Girl With Missing Teeth and a Zit So Big and Hair y the Townspeople Mistook It For a Cat.” Of course, it is possible that Italian Vogue had already booked the model with the big furr y zit and Bot ticelli got stuck painting some really gorgeous naked chick rising out of the ocean on a clamshell.

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People have always had a thing for beaut y.

Not just male people. Female people, too.

That’s why your wife probably has nothing against girl-watching — providing she’s the only one in your marriage who gets to do it.

Now, there are some women who never look at other women. Most of those women are reading this column in Braille.

As for the rest of us, like you, we find it a wee bit majorly impossible to walk past a woman wearing a skir t that looks like two or three cock tail napkins taped together without copping a stare. Generally, the stare is followed by some rudimentar y math: How much did her out fit cost, and/or how many hours of Pilates did it take for her to get into it? (“Just close your eyes and think of Neiman Marcus.”) A man’s calculations, on the other hand, can tend toward the algebraic; as in, they of ten contain a lot of X X Xs. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that — despite what you might hear from people who’ve bought into the mistaken notion that a man’s brain is exactly the same as a woman’s (save for that unfor tunate tendency toward male pat tern baldness on its housing).

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clothes, and run away with them; yet, she manages to remain welded to the conclusion that your eyeballs are your first line of flight?

Maybe she’s just insecure, or maybe it isn’t your looking, but how you’re looking, that’s causing the problem. Do you study your wife’s best friend’s but t like it’s game seven of the World Series? When you pass a woman on the sidewalk, do your eyeballs leap out of your head and bounce down the sidewalk af ter her? At restaurants, do you ask the hostess whether you can reach down her cleavage to hunt for your lost car keys? Par t of your job as a man is to avoid get ting noticed checking out women, especially when accompanied by a woman who finds your gawk-a-thons upset ting.

Now, not all women feel this way. Take the marital exper t I inter viewed, also known as my mother, who’s been married to my father for 41 years. She doesn’t feel threatened if my dad glances at another woman; in fact, she likes to be sure he catches sight of all the hot ties, so she tends to point them out before he notices them. “Maybe if I didn’t feel secure about your dad, I’d think dif ferently,” she confessed ... in between reminding me twice that the waitress where they go for dinner on Friday nights is “just darling.”

You can’t stop your eyes from wandering (not unless you pluck them out and store them in a jar, or live out the rest of your life in a dark closet). You do need to stop your eyes from wandering when you’re with your wife, or at least stop them from get ting caught in the act. Dark wraparound sunglasses should be of some assistance.

Set ting up a no spy zone is another helpful option: Say you spend 12 hours a day by yourself. Set aside that time for excessive drooling and staring. (Avoid revealing your plan to your wife unless you’d like leaving the house without a blindfold to become cause for your indictment.) Say you spend the remaining 12 hours with her. Use that time to show her that you’re so in love and obsessed with her that the only thing she has to fear from other women is constant interrogation about what they have to do to find a man like you. Of course, the answer to that is obvious: Go anywhere they’ll find lots of strippers and center folds loitering during the hour you get for your lunch break.

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So if your sweet, caring and kind then we can be friends and maybe more. ☎603104 LOOKING FOR LTR SM, 41, 5’10’’, likes playing basketball, chess, long walks, picnics. Would like to meet a woman who has the same interests. ☎594412

FREE SPIRIT SBM, 24, loves having fun, enjoys tennis, racquetball, waterskiing. Seeking SM, to share a night out on the town, friendship and maybe a lasting relationship. ☎768054

SHOW ME THE TOWN... and what there is to do around here. Me: SWM, 42, N/S, new to the area. You: SWM, under 51, anxious to show me how wonderful Augusta is. ☎719366 LOOKING FOR LOVE GWM, 41, 5’8’, 140lbs, Pisces, enjoys fishing, television, wood working, gardening, arts, crafts. Seeking GWM, 25-45, for friendship first, possible LTR. ☎705204 I KNOW WHERE IT’S AT SBM, 25, practical yet fun, outgoing, Aquarius, smoker, seeks a masculine, alluring, wellrounded BM, 23-45, smoker, with his priorities in order. ☎695448 SEEKING MAN OF COLOR GWM, 31, 5’8”, 164lbs, brown/gray, moustache, goatee, down-to-earth, very open-minded, seeks SB/HM, 23+, for friendship, maybe more. ☎575272 TAKE THAT CHANCE Brown-skinned GBM, 35, 5’11”, 150lbs, who likes quiet evenings, reading, dining out, movies and stimulating conversations. Seeking SB/HM, 30-50, for friendship, possibly more. ☎753854 YOU NEVER KNOW Fun-loving, easygoing GWM, 51, 5’11”, 198lbs, enjoys cooking, movies, fishing, walking.

Seeking interesting GWM, 18-33, who’s full of life, for casual relationship, possibly more. ☎676662 OUTGOING SEEKS SAME SM, 35, who enjoys gardening, working out, sports, fishing, long walks in the park, would like to meet an outgoing man for LTR. ☎594617 YOUNG MAN WANTED GWM, 22, brown/brown, pretty good-looking, in search of cute, down-to-earth GWM for movies, dinners, shopping, roller blading. ☎576230 GIVE LOVE; GET LOVE BACK SM, 35, 6’2’’, 190lbs, black hair, medium build, seeks understanding, achieved man who is escalating himself in life. ☎576303 ARE YOU MR. RIGHT? SWM, 51, 5’8’’, 150lbs, likes dining out, quiet evenings, walks and hugs. Seeking SWM, 2035, slim build, with similar interests. ☎584644 DOCTOR FIX IT GBM, enjoys chess, racquetball, auto mechanic. Seeking WM with similar interests. ☎566315 OUT SPOKEN SWM, 32, 5’11”, 145lbs, enjoys camping, fishing, Nascar. Seeking laid-back WM, 23-35, for LTR. ☎560095 BE MY TEDDYBEAR Athletic SBM, 23, college student, enjoys basketball. Seeking heavyset SWM, 35-48. ☎966035 WARM AND LOVING GWM, 18, 5’8”, 145lbs, blue eyes, outgoing, friendly, loves shopping, arts & crafts, photography. Seeking GM, 18-45, for a committed relationship. ☎966034 AWAITING YOUR CALL Outgoing SWM, 38, likes drinking, playing pool. Seeking fun-loving SWM, 25-45, for good times, future commitment. ☎966032 MAKE IT HAPPEN SBM, 32, 5’11”, adventurous, likable, likes drawing, more. Seeking SAM, 18-35, respectful, fun-loving, for LTR. ☎966031 QUIET TIMES Well-built SWM, 48, enjoys hiking, movies, dining out, beach walks. Seeking SWM, 35-40, for intimate relationship. ☎966030 NICE Outgoing, nice SBM, 31, 5’8”, 153lbs, seeks sexy SBM, 25-39, ☎966022 SPECIAL SOMEONE Open-minded GWM, 38, seeks GWM, 30-50, for LTR. ☎966021 WHAT DO YOU WANT? SWM, 31, 5’8”, 175lbs, masculine, muscular, passionate, dedicated, open, enjoys simple things, time with friends. Seeking SWM, 30-45, for LTR. ☎966019 GET TO KNOW ME SBM, 30, N/S, enjoys having a good time.

Seeking SBM, 20-40. ☎966018 TRY NEW THINGS SWM, 45, outgoing, sociable, open-minded, enjoys fishing, golfing, reading, quiet times.

Seeking SM, 25-45, for friendship, possibly more. ☎966017

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GET TOGETHER GHM, 30, 5’6”, 165lbs, extroverted, enjoys sports, movies, walks, cuddling. Seeking outgoing GWM, 25-35, for friendship. ☎966016 MELODY OF LOVE WM, 40, 6’, 185lbs, enjoys sports, swimming, cycling and movies. Seeking WM, 25-50, to spend time with. ☎966015 FRIENDSHIP Or companionship. BM, 26, 5’8”, father, not into playing games, enjoys quiet walks. Seeking male, 21-35. ☎966014 NEW TO TOWN GWM, 31, 5’8”, 175lbs, brown/brown, masculine, country boy, passionate, dedicated, HIV positive. Seeking GWM, 30-45, for LTR. ☎966013 ARE YOU READY? SWM, 42, 5’7”, 160lbs, blue-eyed, athletic, outgoing, enjoys quiet evenings. Seeking SWM, 21-55, adventurous, for casual times. ☎966012 LIVES THE MOMENT GWM, 51, romantic, adventurous, young-looking, 5’10”, 165lbs, likes quiet evenings, movies.

Seeking SWM, 35-50, sincere, blond preferably, fit. ☎966011 SIMILAR COMPLEX BPM, 37, enjoys going out, movies, shopping, quiet evenings. Seeking GBM, 35-40, who’s real, down-to-earth, knows what they want. ☎966010

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28, two children, confident, feminine, seeks female, 20-35, with the same qualities, who is not into head games. ☎785531 A GOOD HEART SF, 39, goes to church, works for a living, likes having fun, going on trips. Seeking a similar female, 37-49. ☎780112 SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP Attractive, feminine SWF, 41, 5’4”, seeks a very open-minded WF, 35-48, for fun and exciting times. ☎775074 SECURITY GUARD Laid-back female, 41, likes movies, dining out, cooking, quiet evenings. Seeking similar-minded male for companionship. ☎589877 RAINBOW SEEKER Seeking my butch. SWF, 41, 5’2”, enjoys movies, walks, reading, quality snuggle time.

Honesty is a must. Seeking SWF, with no drama, 30+. ☎754885

INTERESTED? SF, 33, 5’7”, long hair, slim, and would like to meet someone outgoing who like to spend time doing different things like movies and going out. ☎715481 JOIN ME GBF, 32, nurse, part-time student, Capricorn, N/S, enjoys bowling, movies, shopping, traveling. Seeking casual relationship with woman, 25-45. ☎711628 TO THINE OWN SELF... be true. SBF, 27, 5’5”, 165lbs, Sagittarius, N/S, has 2 kids, enjoys walks, movies, and quiet times. Seeking an honest woman, 27-35, N/S, for friendship first and foremost. ☎693934 BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN SBF, 58, mature, attractive, young-at-heart, Sagittarius, N/S, seeks woman, 48-62, N/S, who is ready to live again and likes traveling, playing cards, and bowling. ☎691703 IT’S ALL IN YOUR HANDS Nice, available stud wanted. I’m a teacher in Augusta, 40, who would like to start a friendship with another female, and progress into something more. ☎664842 BEAUTIFUL WOMAN SEEKS... beautiful woman. I’m 5’3”, physically fit, 132lbs, would like to meet fit female, 25-40, who would enjoy going to movies. Please be discreet. ☎661884 I’D LOVE YOU TO LOVE ME SBF, 41, no children, loves to read, chat on the internet, and more. Seeking a woman who is a romantic at heart, very good-looking, loves pets, family and God. ☎645876 GET TO KNOW THE REAL ME Dark-skinned young woman, 23, 4’9”, attractive, fun-loving, nice, caring, honest, laid-back.

Seeking GF, 23-29, for casual relationship. ☎635372 I’M LOOKING 4 U Easygoing, loyal SBF, 31, 5’3”, 155lbs, security officer, people person, fun-loving, nice, caring, honest, enjoys bowling, movies, cuddling at home. Seeking trustworthy, outgoing SBF, 26-35, for friendship, maybe LTR. ☎965835 ARE WE POSSIBLE? GBF, 24, seeks GW/HF, 25-35. I’m outgoing, beautiful, intelligent, with a great mind. Hoping to meet a woman with a willingness to enjoy life. ☎566252 SEEKING FRIENDSHIP Tall, slim, attractive SWF, 34, single mom, enjoys travel. Seeking athletic, easygoing, humorous, fun SWF, 26-45, to go out and have good times. ☎572618 FRIENDSHIP FIRST! Funny, smart, down-to-earth GBF, 5’6”, 125lbs, loves long walks, hand holding. Seeking GF, 21-30, who likes kids and doesn’t play games. ☎965829

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ZEST FOR LIFE Articulate, adventurous WF, 32, 5’8”, brown/ brown, enjoys animals, running, movies and dining. Looking for WF, 25-40, for friendship. ☎965827 FRIENDS FIRST SBF, 40, 5’3”, 160lbs, laid-back, outgoing, enjoys reading movies, cuddling and dining out. Seeking SBF, 30-55, for friendship first. ☎965834 LET’S GET TOGETHER SF, 24, 5’4”, 185lbs, dark brown hair, likes singing and family-oriented activities. Seeking SBF, 22-33, for friendship, possibly more. ☎965828 ISO SOMEONE SPECIAL Fun-loving, romantic, sincere SBPF, 25, 5’1”, 170lbs, enjoys shopping, cooking, dining out.

Seeking open-minded, romantic, fun-loving SBF, 21-28. ☎965842 SOMETHING SPECIAL Bi-SWF, 41, attractive, kind of shy, smoker.

Wants to meet a SWF, 30-45, for special times together. ☎965841 YOU DECIDE GBF, 21, 5’7”, 140lbs, enjoys quiet times at home. Seeking fun GBF, 19-28, for conversation and possibly more. ☎965840 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE? Shy, honest GWF, 40, 5’1”, 128lbs, salt & pepper hair, brown eyes, loves outdoor activities, traveling. Seeking GWF, 30-45. ☎965839 UP FOR GOOD TIMES GBF, 20, 5’3”, 130lbs, friendly, outgoing, loves meeting new people, reading, writing. Seeking outgoing, friendly GBF, 19-25. ☎965838 SEARCHING FOR U! SBF, 18, 5’4”, 132lbs, attractive, reserved, likes reading, music, family times. Seeking outgoing, down-to-earth, funny SBF, 18-45, for friendship. ☎965837 ISO YOU SBF, 25, mother, adventurous, N/S, loves art, poetry, animals. Seeking SBF, 25-35, goal-oriented, for a casual relationship. ☎965836 IT COULD BE SWEET Laid-back SBF, 25, 5’4”, medium-built, into chats, pool, various films, music, books.

Seeking caring, understanding SF, N/S. ☎965833 NO ORDINARY LOVE SBF, 27, seeks feminine SF for companionship, dining out, someone who wants something real. No games. ☎965832 BEST IS YET TO COME! GWF, 40, seeks GF, 30+, for casual friendship.

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Cars FORD ESCAPES XLT’S, 2 available, one black and one white, loaded, your choice, $17,499, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (408) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1968 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL, 4dr, w/suicide doors, 80K original, new paint, new vinyl top, original interior, VGC, $5500, OBO, 706-863-4721 or 706-495-1169 (653/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1979 TOYOTA CRESSIDA, runs, new brakes, as is, $350, cash only, 706-738-3065 (727/125) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1981 CADILLAC El Dorado, 2dr, V8, PW, PB, PL, new transmission w/warranty, very clean, $1800, after 5 pm, 706860-6409 (650/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1984 OLDSMOBILE CUSTOM Cruiser, SW, $700 OBO, 706437-1726 (696/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1985 BUICK CENTURY, 4dr, all power, new paint, runs good, needs TLC, $550 OBO, 803259-7286 or 706-790-5090 (743/1212) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1987 SUBARU GL, Station Wagon, power everything, rear wiper, lots of new stuff, runs and looks good, but has head gasket leak, $497 OBO, 803441-8744 (673/1121) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1988 CHEVY CORSICA, blue, 4dr, needs some TLC, runs good but has been sitting for over a year, $500 OBO, 706868-1743 (674/1121) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1989 FORD ESCORT, 4dr, auto, runs good, $750, 706722-0772 (647/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1990 GEO PRIZM, new paint, brakes, tires & timing belt, tuned up, AC very clean, 130K, $1600 OBO, 706-664-9041 (661/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1990 NISSAN 300ZX, red, grey cloth, 5spd, AC, loaded, t-tops, CD, new tires, good condition, $6100, 706-833-0797 (671/1121) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1990 NISSAN SENTRA, $500 OBO, 706-863-9376, ask for Jonathan/Mark/Kathie (667/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1991 MAZDA MX5, convertible, white, hard top, mint con-

dition, 85.5K, $7400 OBO, 706-737-8047 (669/1121) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1991 TOYOTA COROLLA, XC, 140K, new clutch and tires, $2500, 706-481-8989 or 706414-1091 (651/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 GEO STORM, blue, cold AC, 100K, $1300 OBO, 706855-2288, 706-785-0163 (726/125) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 MAZDA PROTEGE, PS/PB, AC, power window locks, sunroof, cruise, CD, great gas mileage, reliable transportation, $1500 OBO, 706-3997145 (701/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1993 BUICK ROADMASTER, Estate wagon, fully loaded, XC, 60K, has Bruno Scooter lift model V550, $6000, 803-2795857 (736/1212) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1994 CADILLAC El Dorado, 92K, new tires, hard pressed to find one any nicer, $8900, won’t last, 706-373-6425 (739/1212) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1994 LEXUS SC 400, gold package, all available options on this near perfect luxury sports coupe, 77K, $17,000, 706-364-7899 (433/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1995 MERCURY GRAND Marquis LS, clean, all power, cruise, wire wheels, $6250, 706-267-1497 or 706-7302697 (705/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 BUICK CENTURY, white/burgundy, 4dr sedan, 6 cyl, non-smoker, 45K, VGC, $4000 OBO, 706-854-9733 (741/1212) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 CHEVROLET CAMARO, 41K, factory purple, 5spd, 6 cyl, AC, FM, cassette, immaculate, one owner, $8500 OBO, 706868-0090 (472/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 CHRYSLER TOWN & Country LX, 36K, loaded, leather, new tires, brakes & transmission, premium sound system w/CD, warranty thru 5/03, XC, $9350, 706-7364053 (742/1212) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 GEO METRO, white, 2dr, hatchback, 85K, am/fm, AC, great student car, $2400, 706650-8550 (643/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 GEO SPRINT, beige, 4dr, sedan, AC, cassette, new tires, great condition, $3500 OBO, 803-442-4592 (670/1121) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 KIA SEPHIA, dark blue,

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4dr, auto, 107K, am/fm, AC, new tires, $2400, 706-6508550 (644/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 LINCOLN TOWN Car, white, leather, loaded, not a Cadillac but close, P3191A, $11,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706-724-0111 (724) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE Spider, red/grey, convertible, 78K, 1 owner, service records available, $8500, must sell, divorce, 706-210-0530 (728/125) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1996 TOYOTA COROLLA, auto, AC, 67K, nice one owner car, $6995, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (403) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 ACURA 3.2TL, premium, loaded, great ride, new tires, remote keyless entry, power locks & windows, AC, climate control system, Bose radio/cassette/CD, remote sunroof, $13,450, 803-279-8326 (738/1212) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 ACURA 2.5TL, premium, all available options on this luxury sedan, 122K, XC, $9800, 706-364-7899 (208/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 CADILLAC SEVILLE SLS, leather, power, looks and style, $14,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706-724-0111 (720) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 FORD CROWN Victoria, loaded, only 24.5K, 6yr/60K warranty to 9/03, NADA price $10,975, my price $9500, 803279-6388 (658/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 MAZDA MX6, auto, V6, leather, loaded, 67K, XC, female

adult driven, take over payments, details, 803-302-8660 (737/1212) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 NISSAN ALTIMA GXE, black, cruise, alarm, keyless entry, 63K, current tune ups, XC, $9995 OBO, 706-8232420 (697/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1998 CADILLAC DEVILLE Sedan DeElegance, frosted tan, fully loaded OnStar, voice activated phone, extended warranty, CD/tape, leather, mint condition, 78K, $18,500, 706-7211896 (751/1212) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 BMW 323ic, convertible, black on black, mint condition, all leather, tan interior with charcoal trim, 21.5K, $29,999, OBO, 706-737-8047 (642/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 LEXUS ES300, Coach edition, 35K, loaded with every option, only one owner, $18,999, Acura of Augusta, 800-851-5158 (683) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL, white, 54K, warranty, 100K, new tires, loaded, CD, moonroof, immaculate, one owner, garage kept, looks new, $17,500, 706-863-9152 (676/1121) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 MAZDA MILLENIA, gold, automatic, leather, sunroof, $15,995, Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (744) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 CHEVROLET LUMINA, red, 37K, great car for the family, power windows, C2152A, $10,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706-724-0111 (723) –––––––––––––––––––––––––––

2000 DODGE NEON, 4dr, auto, AC, 34K, super clean, $6800, 28143B, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (409) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 DODGE STRATUS SE, extra clean car, one owner, $9995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (712) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 FORD ESCORT ZX2, black, 2dr, auto, 43K, loaded, $6999, Acura of Augusta, Ron Sumler, 800-851-5158 (685) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 HONDA ACCORD SE, 4dr, auto, ABS, PW/L, cruise, CD, cassette, trunkliner, cargo net, 31.5K, $16,000, 706-7336807 (700/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 HONDA CIVIC EX, white, 4dr, auto, PL/W, sunroof, CD, low miles, $13,400, 706-2109590 (702/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 HONDA CIVIC EX, silver, 42K, 5spd, 2dr, sunroof, CD, XC, car in Augusta, 610-7635202 (695/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 MAZDA MIATA, green/tan top, leather, factory warranty, $15,995, Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (746) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 MAZDA MIATA, black, 5spd, PW, CD, appearance package, 47K, $13,500, 706951-0805 (672/1121) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 MERCURY MYSTIQUE, automatic, 30K, $9990, Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (748) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 NISSAN MAXIMA, 46K, Japanese Luxury at affordable prices, $16,900, Johnson Motor

Company, 706-724-0111 (725) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 PONTIAC GRAND Am, black, 2dr, coupe, loaded with equipment, 48K, $8999, Acura of Augusta, John Peterson, 800-851-5158 (684) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 CADILLAC DEVILLE, midnight blue, blue interior, heated seats, loaded, 25K, chrome wheels, $28,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706724-0111 (717) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 CHEVY CAVALIER, white, 4dr, auto, AC, brand new radials, $7999, Acura of Augusta, John Bell, 800-8515158 (681) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 CHEVY CAVALIER, hunter green, 4dr, auto, AC, #280878, $9350, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (401) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 CHEVY IMPALA LS, OnStar package, alloys, CD and much more, $14.995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (713) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 CHEVY MONTE Carlo SS, white beauty, gotta see it, $14,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (714) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 FORD ESCORT SE’s, 2 to choose from, auto, full power, like new, $6999, Acura of Augusta, Rogers Gotier, 800851-5158 (686) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 FORD TAURUS SES, alloys, CD, theft deterrent system, $11,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (715)

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1995 HARLEY DAVIDSON FXDS-Conv. red, always garaged, dealer serviced, below KBB at $11,900 asked, 706-863-6374 voice mail (659/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 KAWASAKI VULCAN Drifter, 800cc, perfect condition, under 3300 miles, $5300, must sell, freebies included, call Josh, 706-738-1672 (660/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 HONDA NIGHTHAWK, 250cc, showroom condition, 400 miles, excellent first street bike, $2600 OBO, 803-2783442 (677/1121)

SUVs 1979 FORD BRONCO, needs work, first $500 takes it, 706790-3305 (703/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 CHEVY BLAZER S-10, clean, 104K, $2500, 706-7932993 or 706-730-2697 (668/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 FORD EXPEDITON XLT, green/tan cloth, 5.4L, 3rd seat,

C2342A, $30,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706-724-0111 (722) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 CHEVY BLAZER LS, red, 2dr, 28K, 4.3L, all power, CD, roof rack, tinted windows, factory warranty, $14,500 OBO, Leah 706-564-1432 (663/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 JEEP CHEROKEE Classic, extra clean, new tires, won’t last long, $9979, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (706) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 KIA SPORTAGE, 4dr, auto, all power, AC, CD, one owner, runs great, XC, $11,500, 706-840-0957(698/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 NISSAN FRONTIER, auto, low miles, local trade $6995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (707) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 CADILLAC ESCALADE, white, sunroof, all wheel drive, one owner, sold here new, 19K, Cadillac certified, P3237, $46,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706-724-0111 (716)

Trucks 1963 FORD F-100, straight 6, step side, body in good condition, perfect for restoring, does not run, $500 OBO, 706-5410783 (662/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1989 MAZDA B2000, white, 5spd, AC, bedliner, fiberglass shell, new clutch & tires, 159K, $1500 OBO, 803-725-3581 (740/1212)

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1998 TOYOTA TACOMA SR, black, 4X4, manual transmission, bedliner, CD, radio, 84K, XC, $9200, 706-863-5753 (652/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 DODGE 2500, 4X4, turbo, diesel, quad cab, 30 gal. aux. fuel tank, overload springs, running boards, trailer package, 4500 miles, XC, $19,900 OBO, 706-556-1984 (665/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 FORD F-150 Sport, silver, shortbed, auto, chrome wheels, XLT trim, $10,999, Acura of Augusta, Dwayne Eisenhower, 800-851-5158 (686) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 MAZDA B3000, 4.0L, auto fully equipped for only $10.995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-733-2210 (710) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 FORD F-650, 7 speed, caterpillar diesel engine, flat bed, 9K, $30,950, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (400) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 FORD RANGER XLT, 4cyl, auto, AC, disc player, tinted glass, 22K, factory warranty to 36K or April ‘03, $9250, 706-736-8032 (648/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 CHEVY S-10, AC, P/S, P/B, CD, 14K, 2yrs left on warranty, $11,000, no tax, 706737-6100 (657/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT, black, luxury pick up, 1600 miles, carry the dogs in style, C2378A, $46,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706724-0111 (719)

––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 FORD F-550, Crew Cab, diesel, auto with hydraulic dump, P8832, $33,890, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (402)

Vans 1985 DODGE HI-TOP, 318 engine, 3/4 ton chassis, 131K, $900, 706-863-5967 (664/1114) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1991 FORD AEROSTAR XLT Cargo, 96K, new 134 air, auto, cruise, PS, PB, cage, $2800, 706-738-4270 (626/1107) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1992 MAZDA MPV, burgundy, stereo CD, air, runs good, $2700, 706-854-1278 (656/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1995 CHEVROLET ASTRO Van, V6, 4.3L, 7 passenger, luggage rack, rear air, power seats and mirrors, $7000, 706-7330526 (694/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 HONDA ODYSSEY EX, top of the line EX model, electric doors, dual air, every option, $17,999, Acura of Augusta, 800-851-5158 (682) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 DODGE GRAND Caravan, blue, 39K, V6, auto, $14,995, Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (745) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE, sand, local trade, 44K, leather, for the family that deserves the best, 4079A, $17,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706-724-0111 (721)

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rear air, power everything, hands-free phone, 132K highway miles, XC, $8500 OBO, 706-364-5347(699/1128) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 FORD EXPEDITION XLT, green/tan, rear air, GC, 131K, a steal $9750, 706-294-9500 (654/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1997 JEEP GRAND Cherokee Laredo, grey/brown, 4X4, 6cyl, 4dr, RV ready w/towing package, 92K, XC, $10,500, 706855-7153 (649/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 FORD WINDSTAR, white/gray cloth, fully loaded, $10,999, Acura of Augusta, Bob Lancaster, 800-851-5158 (678) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 GMC SUBURBAN, 40K, 4yr warranty, for more information, 706-592-2673 (655/117) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 JEEP GRAND Cherokee, Limited Edition, leather, power roof, $15,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706733-2210 (711) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 MITSUBISHI MONTERO Sport, 4X2, auto, AC, PW, PL, V6, great vehicle, $12,800, #28129A, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (407) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1999 PONTIAC MONTANA, smooth ride, loaded, blue, great for the family, P3141, $14,900, Johnson Motor Company, 706724-0111 (718) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2000 CADILLAC ESCALADE, silver sand, neutral leather interior, 30K, Cadillac certified, warranty, the luxury SUV of choice,

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––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 INFINITI I-30, rare find, has navigation system, 15K, all optional equipment, $24,995, no sales tax, 706-869-9007 (730/125) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 MERCURY SABLE LS, premium package, alloy wheels, CD and much more, $11,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-7332210 (708) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 OLDSMOBILE ALERO, fully loaded, all power options, fully serviced, $9999, Acura of Augusta, Donald Jackson, 800851-5158 (679) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 PONTIAC GRAND Prix GT, white, 4dr, loaded, all the power options, CD, $11,999, Acura of Augusta, Cardell Burton, 800-851-5158 (680) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2001 VW BEETLE, black beauty, auto, gotta have it, $13,995, Gerald Jones Honda, 706-7332210 (709) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 AUDI A4 Turbo, dark green/tan leather, 4dr, all power, AM/FM, Cass/CD, 8K, $31,850 OBO, 706-863-1941 (729/125) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 FORD ESCORTS’S, 3 to choose from, all power, as low as $8995, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (405) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 FORD TAURUS SES’s, 6 to choose from, as low as $12,995, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (404) –––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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2002 HYUNDAI ELANTRA, 5spd, power package, factory warranty, 11K, $10,990, Andy Jones Mazda, 803-202-0002 (747) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2002 MERCURY GRAND Marquis, 6 to choose from, leather, loaded, low miles, starting at $16,500, Bobby Jones Ford, 706-738-8000 (406)

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$45,900

1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Local Trade, 23K Actual Miles, $6,900 Black, Great Car for the Kids (C2297A)

1994 Fleetwood Brougham Low Miles, Loaded, One Owner $8,900 Last of the Big Rides (C2300A) 2002 Cadillac Escalade EXT Luxury Pick Up - 1K - Black

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1993 Buick LeSabre Green, Leather, 57K Miles (P3168A)

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1999 Pontiac Montana Smooth Ride - Loaded - Blue (P3141) $14,900

2001 Oldsmobile Silhouette Local trade - 44K - Leather (4079A) $17,900

1999 Cadillac Eldorado Spring Edition - Loaded - Sterling

1996 Lincoln Town Car Leather - Loaded (P-3191A)

1999 Honda Accord LX 45K - Black - 4 Door - Local Trade $12,900 (P3171A)

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