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JUDGE’S RULING WILL VASTLY IMPROVE PROBATION SERVICES IN RICHMOND COUNTY

A ruling by Superior Court Judge Daniel Craig this week will help protect citizens’ constitutional rights both in and outside the courtroom and drastically improve the way private probation is handled in this area.

The ruling came as a result of 13 civil cases filed in both Richmond and Columbia counties alleging that the private probation company, Sentinel Offender Services, had violated their constitutional rights.

According to the written ruling issued Monday, Craig stated that the courts cannot “lawfully extend the length of a misdemeanor sentence, supervised by private probation service, beyond its original term.” In addition, Sentinel cannot collect probation fees after the original term of probation sentence has expired.

As a result of this ruling, Sentinel has been ordered to repay money it charged probationers through fees after their original probation sentence ended.

The judge also ruled that it is unlawful to use electronic monitoring on people convicted of misdemeanors and, therefore, Sentinel will also have to refund those fees it charged defendants.

“The plaintiffs are entitled to recover from Sentinel any probation supervised fees collected after the statutorily authorized period of probation supervision and any money paid to Sentinel for electronic monitoring,” Craig wrote.

Literally, thousands and thousands of people on probation, or those who were formerly on probation, will benefit from Craig’s ruling.

Even though Craig did not rule that private probation is unconstitutional in misdemeanor cases (as Augusta attorney Jack Long had argued while representing his clients in the 13 lawsuits), the judge did state the private probation company’s practices in Richmond County was denying people their rights of due process. “(T)his Court does not suggest that the practice of Sentinel, to secure warrants and orders to show cause and not to pursue timely arrests of probation violators is consistent with the concept of constitutional due process,” Craig wrote in his September 16 ruling. “Without exception, the effect of the practice is long-‐delayed arrest and incarceration Amy Christian | Arts Editor/Production Director amy@themetrospirit.com

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of the probationer. In some cases, the arrests are made in other counties or states and the probationer must await transport to Richmond County.

“The practice offends basic notions of due process by depriving the probationer the opportunity to defend the alleged violations of probation in a timely manner when evidence may be more readily available, and subjecting the probationer to detention many years after the original sentence has expired.”

This ruling is a long time coming.

More than three years ago, attorney Jack Long began his fight to improve probation practices in this area after hearing about a case involving a man named Hills McGee. In 2010, an attorney from the public defender’s office approached Long about a case she handled involving a defendant who she thought had been unlawfully incarcerated.

She told Long about McGee, a man who was originally charged with public drunkenness and obstruction of a law enforcement officer back in October 2008.

After spending the night in jail after his arrest, McGee appeared in state court to face the charges. Although McGee was indigent, he signed a form that waived his rights to an attorney and entered a guilty plea.

McGee was sentenced to 12 months on each count to run consecutively and was ordered to pay a fine of $270 and a monthly probation supervision fee of $30 per month plus a $9 monthly fee for

the state’s Crime Victims Compensation Program.

Although McGee completed 41 hours of community service in lieu of the $270 fine, because he was indigent, his probation was revoked because he couldn’t pay the $186 in fees that he owed Sentinel.

As a result, McGee was thrown into jail.

“When I found out about this case, I went out to the Phinizy Road Jail and saw Mr. McGee,” Long told the Metro Spirit back in 2010. “It took me about 15 seconds to understand what was going on. This man is schizophrenic and bipolar. He is not a danger to anyone. And this case is just a very good example of why you don’t need a private company making any decisions for somebody to be in jail.”

McGee was scheduled to serve two months behind bars, but Superior Court Judge Michael Annis agreed with Long that McGee’s jail sentence was unlawful.

“This court cannot find any evidence sufficient to show that (McGee), either at sentencing or at the probation revocation hearing, ever knowingly and intelligently waived his right to counsel,” Annis wrote in his 2010 order.

Annis also wrote that it is “impossible to expect” that an individual such as McGee would have the ability to pay the $186 to Sentinel. McGee’s only income was a monthly disability check totaling about $240, Long said.

When Long began researching the private probation company, he originally estimated that Sentinel grossed between

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$2.5 million to $3 million a year collecting probation fees and charging for electronic monitoring.

“Anytime any part of the judiciary has an economic interest in the outcome of the case, the court says it’s unconstitutional,” Long insisted in 2010. “Sentinel is making a lot of money off folks in Augusta. We used to have a county probation office and I personally think the county could run it a lot more efficiently.”

With a guilty plea, collateral consequences for a defendant can include the loss of employment opportunities, the revocation of driving privileges, a change in legal immigration status, the loss of one’s right to vote or the inability to receive government benefits.

But a guilty plea can also result in a surprisingly hefty probation fine.

In some cases, a defendant cannot immediately pay the fine issued by the court and therefore must enter into a payment plan with Sentinel.

“Sentinel pays their people with a bonus system,” Long insisted back in 2010. “They make a profit on all the services they sell and they have an economic interest to have warrants like Mr. McGee’s arrest. I know it.”

Richmond County’s courts have been accused of being run like a loan company in the past.

Specifically, Richmond County State Court was frequently warned in the early 2000s about having defendants sign forms they don’t fully understand.

Back when Long was the chairman of the Augusta Judicial Circuit Tripartite Indigent Defense Committee in 2003, he was sent a letter outlining a number of such concerns about the state court’s procedures by Stephen Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta.

Bright, senior counsel for the nonprofit group dedicated to defending the rights of people in the criminal justice system since 1976, insisted that Richmond County defendants were often ill informed of their legal rights in state court, particularly when it came to the “waiver of rights forms.”

“It is doubtful that many defendants even read the forms in their entirety,” Bright said in 2003. “The truth of the matter is, I think many people that come into the courts don’t have the sophistication and understanding to

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know what those forms mean, so they are really totally meaningless.”

In the case of McGee, there was an announcement made as he left jail after initially being arrested for public drunkenness in October 2008 that, in order to obtain a public defender, he would have to pay a $50 application fee.

“I am asking, is it constitutional to come in and tell people that there is a $50 application fee for a court-‐appointed attorney when the Constitution says, if you are indigent and a judge has the power to put you in jail, you are entitled to have a lawyer at no charge,” Long asked the Spirit. “It disturbs me that people are being treated that way.”

On March 18, 1963, in the landmark case of Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court established the right to a lawyer for any poor criminal defendant charged in felony cases,

stating, “lawyers in criminal cases are necessities, not luxuries.”

Almost 40 years later, in May 2002, the Supreme Court in the case, Alabama v.

Shelton, expanded that right to counsel to indigent defendants charged with misdemeanor crimes that could result in the defendant’s incarceration.

For Long, these cases have been about one basic principle: It’s wrong to lock someone up because he or she is poor.

Nor can you use jail as a means of collecting debt.

It’s as simple as that.

Hats off to Long for being so tenacious with these lawsuits. And kudos to Judge Craig for making a ruling that will vastly improve the rights of people facing probation.

What’s in a name?

Why do people living in Augusta get worked into a frothing frenzy over the strangest things? The renaming of Augusta State to GRU consumed most of the area for almost a year. Don’t hear about it anymore. And now it’s the “slum” designation.

Please don’t let reason or common sense enter the argument. As the Metro Spirit reported last week, cities across Georgia are willingly declaring portions of their communities as slums in order to apply for tax credits. Sandy Springs, Marietta, Union City, Roswell, East Point and Norcross have all declared themselves slums. Why? Because the term was used when the program was adopted. In 1955.

Also, the cities mentioned above are prosperous, thriving metropolitan areas that have better things to worry about than a word. The big picture is no one knows or cares whether you have applied for and received the tax-‐exempt bonds. The argument is almost embarrassing in its naiveté.

Augusta, don’t let common sense and facts get in the way of self-‐righteous indignation.

Letter From the Publisher

In 2005, Greater Augusta Arts Council Executive Director Brenda Durant invited me to create a new experiential feature for the Arts in the Heart of Augusta Festival. The idea was Art45. Invited artists were stationed side by side in front of their own large canvas, with the twist being they would be asked to paint around the clock (45 hours straight) until the end of the festival.

It turned out to be pretty cool and the patrons seemed to enjoy watching live art happening among the vendors and performing arts stages. After a few years I left the Metro and joined the staff at Beasley Broadcasting, which was the end of Art45.

A few of the original artists set up shop in front of the old Spirit office and morphed the project into their own. Brenda again asked me to try and create a new event for the festival. The problem is I don’t really like doing things I’ve seen done before, so it took a long time to come up with Found Downtown, which we will begin at the 33rd Annual Arts in the Heart of Augusta Festival this weekend, September 20-‐22. Hopefully this will be a project that will continue each year until complete, with or without me.

We are bringing together local folks with the purpose of creating the skyline of downtown Augusta, a proportional, block-‐by-‐block view of Broad Street made mostly from found materials. The buildings will be line drawn and cut out of plywood, and each person gets a building to create in any media form they wish. We’ll begin with the block we are going to be set up on, at the JB White’s Building in front of the former Sundries.

The goal is to, at some point (maybe at the 40th Annual Arts in the Heart of Augusta Festival a few years down the road), we’ll be able to display both sides of the street from 13th to Fifth streets. Come visit us this weekend as we begin the process of finding downtown.

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Sincerely, Joe White

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Back Pew Hero Worship: Three Things I Learned About Perfection from Mayweather vs. Canelo When Floyd Mayweather routed Saul “Canelo” Alvarez a couple of nights ago in a majority decision victory — the less said about judge CJ Ross’ hilariously unjustifiable 114-‐114 scorecard, the better — it wasn’t necessarily the result that had everyone talking. Most boxing insiders, talking heads, and armchair pundits predicted a clear Mayweather victory, but most of the analyses in the days leading up to the fight were dotted with bullet points like Alvarez’ youth, size and strength advantage, Mayweather’s uncharacteristically quick turnaround — he beat Victor Guerro just this past May — and his dogged use of the Philly shell defense, defined by shoulder rolls and distance command, typically a younger man’s M.O. No, what set mouths agape this time around was the unexpectedly breezy affair this turned out to be for “Money.”

One radio host likened it to a “midnight snack” for Mayweather, and it’s not hard to see why upon re-‐watching. It was, in short, another singular performance in what has proven a singular career in boxing history (accusations of Pacquiao-‐ ducking notwithstanding). Here, then, are three takeaways regarding perfection from the “fight:” 1. It is Achievable

Mind you, I’m not speaking in mathematical absolutes. To do so would be an impossibility, and would require more hyperbole than even I’m willing to dish out. The laws of our universe are comfortingly predictable — the outcome of this fight, natch — but the framework that makes such laws a reality is infinitely complex, and thus perilously fragile.

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monster, albeit flukey, right hands that Shane Moseley landed on Floyd in their fight a couple of years back, the rare split or close decisions over Oscar de la Hoya and Jose Luis Castillo, the early-‐rounds trouble encountered with the likes of Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto; hell, I certainly have, and they’re all valid and worthy of discussion, if for no other reason than to enjoy the always intoxicating sensation of the “almost.” But their true purpose, much like how the pre-‐fight buildup for every Mayweather bout is characterized by the fresh dangers a new opponent poses, is to underscore the relative perfection of the man by highlighting his closest near-‐failures.

Legacies, when they are kinetic, are defined by the perceived danger, the possibility of their tarnishing.

With a true fall, ironically, that legacy becomes cemented; see Anderson Silva, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. So powerful, so nascent is our susceptibility and desire to witness the toppling of a giant, that even Foreman fell victim, predicting that “Canelo” would KO Floyd in the later rounds. Foreman, perhaps, should know better, but it is so very human that he does not.

2. Eyes Fixed on the Horizon

Many fighters have built Hall of Fame careers on doing one or two things really freaking well: Joe Frazier’s bully-‐bob-‐and-‐weave combined with a left hook that would fell a god; Chuck Liddell’s otherworldly takedown defense and seemingly unstoppable overhand right; Mirko Filopovich’s left high kick.

Opponents ranging from scrubs to former and future champions have all fallen victim to such techniques. But once

that fighter encounters a foe who can neutralize their most feared weapon, they are done for: George Foreman responded to Frazier’s fearless charges with a blunt force trauma still as yet unmatched; Quinton Jackson cracked Liddell’s chin with a well-‐timed counter, and many fighters thereafter found it an easy mark; when Mirko got taken down, controlled, and himself Mirko’d at the hands of Gabriel Gonzaga, he turned into a gun-‐ shy shell of his former self, and future opponents took advantage.

Mayweather has avoided such pitfalls by constantly evolving. Yes, the primary tenets of his success still rest primarily on his preternatural defensive skills, ability to gauge distance and speed. But he has become more and more difficult to prepare for from an offensive standpoint.

A few years ago, he was a frustratingly, though still incredibly gifted, jab-‐heavy fighter, content to sit back and peck away at his opponents until they began to unravel. The other night, he beat Alvarez almost exclusively with lead right hands and uppercuts.

Floyd Mayweather is so good, he finds a style that works perfectly for him, then abandons it to find another. He has done this at least twice, and if he continues at this pace, it’s very likely he’ll defeat Danny Garcia using the hand jive.

3. You Don’t Want It

Floyd Mayweather is one of the few people who discovered what he was meant to do on this earth, and early enough so that he could continue doing it at the highest levels. He was a 1996 Olympian and, though he was robbed of a gold medal, emerged from those games as the hottest boxing prospect in decades.

He won his first world title just two years after turning pro, and has proceeded to make everyone who dares stand across the ring from him look even sillier than we expect. He is what griffins dream of being.

And yet, he is also a rather tragic figure (as tragic as you can be when you make $42 million per fight, but whatever). To be that good at something, you have to be a special, single-‐minded kind of crazy; for proof positive, read accounts of Gene Kelly’s treatment of Debbie Reynolds in “Singin’ in the Rain,” or any of the horror stories associated with Stanley Kubrick on his productions (most notably “The Shining”). The line between the “real” Mayweather and the manufactured, thug-‐on-‐a-‐throne “Money” persona has infinitesimally, though increasingly, blurred in recent years, culminating in a three-‐month stint in jail for domestic violence. He is caught in the middle, straining against two skins.

For someone like Mayweather, there is no room, no time to be a renaissance man. He has perfected his gift of gab, but only in service to his legacy; he has dabbled in music, but only to such a sophomoric degree that it must be self-‐ aware. Nobody, not now and not for years to come, will ever come close to attaining such bafflingly, unsettling flawlessness. We should, in a way, be grateful: he leaves more life for us to live.

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The State Line Is Apparently a Bad Guy’s Best Friend

I guess it is easier, and certainly more fun, for high-‐ranking law enforcement types to bitch about the media instead of going after bureaucratic BS that puts innocent kids in harm’s way.

At least that is how it seems to me.

Last week’s bizarre revelation that a Richmond County school custodian came under heavy scrutiny over allegations of improperly touching a female student, only after it was discovered that a similar allegation had been made by another student at another Richmond County school last year, was bad enough.

As if the Devil himself was playing a game of “Can You Top This,” we discovered that the custodian in question, Reginald Price, was charged in Aiken County for reportedly touching yet another female student not quite two years ago.

When I broke this story Monday on the radio, I was told by a high-‐ranking Richmond County school official that they were convinced someone within their in-‐house Public Safety Department dropped the ball while vetting Price through a routine criminal background check for his first system position at Murphey Middle School in January of 2012. (According to my sources, Price was moved to another system school this year for reasons that had nothing to do these accusations of misconduct.)

What particularly concerned them was that Price was accused by student No. 2 about a month after the Aiken Middle School girl we now can call student No. 1 made similar complaints about him (December of 2011).

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was apparently the key to unlocking the whole, sordid mess. Give credit to the more aggressive investigative techniques of new Chief Alfonzo Williams. The Murphey case was investigated under former Public Safety Chief, and current Richmond County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Pat Clayton, and was not given much credence. Williams has theorized that an inexperienced officer handled that matter, and that it was never prosecuted.

For reasons that have yet to be publicly explained, the Aiken Middle case was never prosecuted either, as the Augusta Chronicle’s Travis Highfield reported Tuesday night: “Sgt. Jake Mahoney, of the Aiken Department of Public Safety, said Tuesday that records show Reginald L. Price, 44, was arrested Dec. 9, 2011, by public safety officers on a charge of assault and battery in the third degree.

“Mahoney said a female student at Aiken Middle School, whose age has not been made public, alleged that Price touched her on her buttocks. The case, however, was never prosecuted. “‘It could’ve been a lack if evidence,’ Mahoney said. ‘It could’ve been that the witnesses weren’t cooperating. It’s just hard to tell why (the case was dropped).’”

Williams did not know about the Aiken Middle charge until he reopened the Murphey case. Apparently, no one at the RCBOE had a clue Price had been arrested and charged until this week.

How did this happen? RC Chief Deputy Clayton posted this on The Austin Rhodes Show Facebook page: “The only queries that we are allowed by law to conduct on the Georgia

Criminal Information Center (GCIC) for employment are in-‐state queries. That means that we do not receive a South Carolina arrest as in this case.

“Secondly, Austin talks about ‘jail diversion.’ I believe that he meant pre-‐ trial diversion which is not a conviction.

(NOTE: Price was in fact arrested and charged, and that should show up in a criminal background check.)

“Thirdly, I believe that if he checks with the BOE, he will find that this person was fingerprinted which would have disclosed this arrest, but again this is a HR determination. Again, this is not a conviction and I believe that most attorney’s would advise employment can not be denied solely on this basis.

If fingerprints were done as I suspect, there would be a clear paper trail.

Austin could certainly ask if fingerprints were submitted when he was hired permanently. Either way, I stand by my fellow employee who I believed followed Board established protocol.”

The lady who conducted the criminal background check must be a favorite; she left the BOE to go work with Clayton and Roundtree at the Sheriff’s Department.

Clayton’s legal opinions aside (you most certainly can keep a suspected child molester away from a job in the midst of public school students!), I was astonished to see that Georgia’s super criminal history database apparently stops at the state line. What moron thought up this rule, and why don’t white-‐collar cops like Clayton stand on top of police cars screaming for such silly rules to be fixed?

Ironically, according to one of our local judges familiar with the system, if you are hiring a police officer, you

are able to search worldwide for arrest and conviction information without boundaries, but, if you are just hiring a simple school employee, your quest for truth and security ends at the Savannah River.

What hideous and indefensible garbage! Hideous and indefensible garbage, I might add, that will stay in place as long as people who know about the problem (like Clayton) stay quiet about it.

Of course any marginally bright desk jockey (you know, like me) might have figured out ways around the idiocy of the “state line limit” and used a super cool and modern investigation tool to vet applicants, up until most recently, only thought to exist in James Bond movies or aboard the Starship Enterprise.

I Googled him.

Look at that, there it is. Aiken County case I-‐093749. Reginald Lavern Price, assault and battery in the third degree, December 6, 2011. Just damn.

With those few keystrokes came enough information to ask enough questions that would have likely kept Price out of the Richmond County school system, and at least two young girls out of harm’s way.

Thank you God for Google, my MacBook Air and a tiny little thing called intellectual curiosity.

AUSTIN RHODES

The views expressed are the opinions of Austin Rhodes and do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher.

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Metro Courier Publisher Barbara Gordon in front of the office that has served as her newspaper’s headquarters for three decades.

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hile the late James Brown may forever hold the title of the hardest working man in show business, Barbara Gordon is, by far, the hardest working woman in Augusta. Maybe even the CSRA. As publisher of The Metro Courier for past 30 years, Gordon has dedicated her life to informing, inspiring and serving Augusta’s black community with a no-‐ nonsense attitude.

She is a woman who is not afraid to speak her mind.

“It is my belief that we are so endeared in this community because we make a difference and speak the truth,” Gordon said, proudly walking through her newspaper’s office located in a small, blue house off Walton Way directly across from May Park. “The original slogan of the black press was, ‘For too many years, others have pled our cause. Now, we wish to plead our own.’ And I live by that.”

For the past three decades, Gordon has made it her mission to call out local politicians who don’t keep their promises and betray the needs of their constituents.

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black leadership to do is do their part,” she said, adding that she has been extremely disappointed with many of the local leaders lately. “I’m not pleased at all. And these comments will not go over well with them, but guess what? I don’t care. I’m not here to win a popularity contest. I’m here to serve.”

Whether it is Augusta’s lack of oversight regarding millions of federal dollars spent by the city’s Housing and Community Development Department each year or the Augusta Commission’s recent discussion over designating almost 600 acres of the downtown area as a “slum,” Gordon says she sometimes can’t believe the mindset of some of the local leaders.

“It just surprises me that our leadership,

STACEY EIDSON black and white, do things that seem to be so counterproductive,” Gordon said, shaking her head. “Like this slum designation. Are they crazy? Do they not know that is going to come back and haunt them?”

While some small newspapers across the country would prefer to print safe feature stories rather than risk offending people will controversial editorials and hard-‐hitting news, Gordon insists readers won’t find a lot of “fluff” in the Courier.

“When I am in a controversial situation, the only thing that I can say to people is, ‘God hasn’t given me a spirit of fear,’” Gordon said. “And he hasn’t. He has given me a spirit of serving, doing and making a difference.”

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act the complete opposite in public, Gordon said.

“You have these mayor’s prayer breakfasts and then you go right back to a commission meeting and everything is still down racial lines,” Gordon said. “Skip the breakfasts, as far as I’m concerned, and deal with the issues. I don’t want you to pray with me on Monday and then vote for something that really hurts my community on Tuesday. That doesn’t sit well with me.”

When Gordon first decided to open the Courier back in 1983, she already had a driving passion for journalism thanks to one of her professors at Paine College, Dr. Mallory Millender.

“I had one course of journalism at Paine and I fell in love. The spirit and the fire that I have in me was planted by Mallory Millender,” Gordon said, adding that, at the time, Millender was also the publisher of his own newspaper, the Augusta News-‐ Review. “I don’t think I could say enough about Mallory and the course that he set me on. People really do need mentors, especially young folks. When Mallory gave me the opportunity, it opened a whole different world for me.”

Once Gordon graduated from Paine College, Millender decided to offer her a position as a reporter at the Augusta News-‐Review. Gordon quickly moved her way up to advertising manager and then general manager while working for Millender.

She had an incredible work ethic and an unstoppable drive to serve the community, Millender said.

“There was a time when I was in an auto accident and I was hospitalized for three weeks,” Millender said. “Barbara literally ran my newspaper for me until I could get back on my feet.”

When Gordon began thinking about launching her own paper, she originally planned to serve only Burke, Jenkins and Jefferson counties.

“Those are predominately black counties,” Gordon said. “I never had any intentions of coming into the metro Augusta market.”

But, shortly after Gordon started her newspaper, the Augusta News-‐Review was forced to close its doors, so that’s when Gordon decided to introduce The Metro Courier to Augusta.

“During the earlier years, it was really difficult because advertisers wait three years to see if you fail,” Gordon said.

“They don’t wait to see if you succeed, they wait to see if you fail before they commit themselves to you.”

The amount of time and labor involved in producing each issue was also draining, Gordon said.

“It was very hard back then because we were cutting and pasting,” she said.

“We were working until 3 or 4 o’clock

in the morning to make sure we got our paper out.”

But Gordon never gave up because she knew the paper played a vital role in the community.

“People have leaned on Barbara’s newspaper for a sense of the truth,” Millender said, adding that Gordon and the Courier never have any hidden agendas. “I think people trust Barbara. I think they trust her editorial endorsements. I think that she is one of the real galvanizing forces in Augusta, certainly in the black community.

“She can bring the community together by herself. And she often does through her newspaper in terms of rallying the community. She has the courage and charisma to do that. There are not many

Now that Gordon, 63, has a dependable staff in place, she insists that it is time for her to begin taking a “step back” from the newspaper and allow the “younger folks” to take over.

“I want some more personal time to grow in my faith,” Gordon said, adding that her church, Greater Young Zion Baptist Church, and its Pastor William Bruce Blount, have taught her a lot about herself over the years. “I don’t have to fight so hard anymore. My approach to fights are different now. I don’t have to kick butts and take names.”

Gordon has also written her first all-‐ female production called, “An Evening of Signifying Sistas” that she hopes to produce next year at the Kroc Center.

Photo courtesy Ben Walker

After 30 years, Gordon says she has earned the right to speak her mind “One of my minister friends, the Rev. Gilbert Howard, stopped by one time when I was going through a difficult time and told me, ‘Barbara, you don’t understand. This paper is your ministry,’” Gordon said. “When God wants us to serve, he puts us in the positions he wants us to serve in. And I think this is one that he picked out for me, ideally, given my personality and my fortitude.”

Therefore, Gordon does not shy away from the fact that she believes many of the problems facing Augusta are due to its racial divide.

“People will say, ‘You make everything racial. Why?’ The answer is: Because it is,” Gordon said. “It is an unfortunate situation, but it is a real situation. And it really irritates me when you have folks, black and white, who want to skirt around that. No, no, no. You don’t solve the problem unless you deal with the core of the problem.”

There are times when being politically correct will only hurt the community in the long run, Gordon said.

“I look at the black leadership in our community and I don’t like wishy-‐washy people,” she said. “Our parents brought us a long way to get us to where we can speak up and speak out.

“Now, we are getting the caliber of leadership — and it is not all of them, but it is the majority — who want to be politically correct. Sometimes an issue is unconditional and non-‐negotiable.”

There is one leader in the black community that Gordon says she has been extremely impressed with over the past few years.

“Augusta Commissioner Bill Lockett is a Godsend,” she said. “Commissioner Lockett is no joke. We recently gave him our Spirit of the Community Award.

Why? Because it’s hard to stand alone and fight.”

Lockett says the respect is mutual.

“I think Ms. Barbara Gordon over the past 30 years has done an outstanding job in this community,” Lockett said.

“Her paper is a great asset and I don’t know how we could possibly get along without it.”

Gordon also says she respects Augusta Commissioner Marion Williams’ willingness to fight for what he believes in, despite the criticism he often receives from his colleagues.

“We need a Marion Williams,” she said. “They say I’m a radical and racial.

That is not necessarily true. What I am is committed and dedicated to my community. I am always going to do what I know to be right and righteous. That is the kind of leadership we need.”

Not politicians who will say one thing privately and then turn around and

Pictured are Metro Courier staff members Arnica Carmichael and Ken J. Makin with Publisher Barbara Gordon.

people you can say that about.”

These days, Gordon says she is blessed to have a reliable and passionate staff to help her get the paper out each week. But she admits, she wasn’t always so fortunate.

“Personnel has been a nightmare from hell,” Gordon said, laughing. “Everybody who is looking for a job doesn’t want to work. They don’t understand that job equates work.”

For a position at a small newspaper, there is no such thing as working regular hours, she said.

“At a newspaper, there is no real 9-‐to-‐5.

There never will be,” Gordon said. “You have to love this and you have to be dedicated to this.

“If I would have been paid for all the hours that I have put in at the Courier, I would be on Easy Street,” Gordon added, chuckling. “I would be in Morocco living in a plush palace.”

“It is going to feature song, dance and dramatic dialogue,” Gordon said.

“I want my community to see the other side of me.”

She also plans on studying the piano, writing short stories and spending a lot of time fishing on her three-‐acre pond in Burke County.

“I’m tired. I need a break,” she said, laughing. “These young folks are helping me to get my foot out of the door. I still love it. I am going to always love it and I’m going to always be committed to it. However, I am going to step back a little bit.

“But don’t worry, I am going to make sure that these young folks stay committed to the same thing that I’ve been committed to all these years.

“There ain’t going to be no fluff up in here.”

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Augusta’s downtown is not a “slum”... yet The Augusta Commission decided a 594-‐acre area in the downtown district is not a “slum.”

At least not yet.

City Administrator Fred Russell explained to the Augusta Commission this week that it could establish an Urban Redevelopment Area that would allow the city to borrow $26.5 million in tax-‐exempt bonds to renovate the Municipal Building on Greene Street.

But, in order to establish the Urban Redevelopment Area under the Department of Community Affairs and receive the tax-‐exempt bonds, the city would have to accept a proposed “slum” designation according to the Urban Redevelopment Law, which was initially adopted by the Georgia General Assembly in 1955.

Augusta Commissioner Bill Lockett told his colleagues that designating such a large section of the downtown area a “slum” did not sit well with him at all.

“When I first became aware of this, I knew it did not pass the smell test,” Lockett said, adding that he thought the city administrator needed to “go back to the drawing board.”

Several business owners and residents of the downtown area attended Tuesday’s meeting, but only Lincolnton, Ga., resident Al Gray officially requested to speak to the commission regarding the “slum” designation.

Gray is president of Cost Recovery Works, Inc., which according to the organization’s website is a private business that is “committed to providing clients with superior returns by offering proactive project auditing and controls methods geared to reduce project costs.”

Gray told the commissioners during the September 17 meeting that the “slum” designation would be an enormous mistake.

“When words no longer are required to carry their true meaning and evolve in meaning the opposite, all men and women should shudder, for in that immoral state blurs the meaning of right and wrong,” he said. “Flush the word ‘slum’ and let’s banish the

much overused word ‘impossible’ in describing the situation in Augusta.

Let’s do it now. Do it with conviction.

And do it together.”

As the audience applauded Gray’s comments, Augusta Commissioner Donnie Smith explained that he understood the “slum” designation wasn’t popular, but he also stated that the Municipal Building is in dire need of renovation.

“We have an obligation to protect our employees and provide a safe environment for them to work in,” Smith said. “If anybody has been in our IT building for any business, when I go over there, I come out and break out in hives and I can’t breathe for a little while because of the mold. And we’ve asked our employees to work in that environment for a long period of time.

So I will not back down from the fact that we need to do this project to look out for our employees.”

Several of the commissioners asked Gray’s advice on how the city could receive tax-‐exempt bonds without having to create the Urban Redevelopment Area.

Finally, Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver asked Gray to provide the city with some references and background information on his organization. The mayor explained that the city has been approached by people in the past claiming to be “experts” in a particular field and that was not always the case.

Copenhaver was also curious about where Gray resides.

“Are you a Richmond County taxpayer?” Copenhaver asked. “Where is your place of residence?”

Clearly irritated, Gray did not answer the question. Instead, he jokingly replied, “My final resting place will be Westover Cemetery if that matters to you, sir.”

In response, Copenhaver quipped, “You ain’t dead yet.”

The city’s bond consultant, Dianne McNabb, said she understood the public’s concern over the proposed “slum” designation, but she assured the

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commissioners that it was not a label that would haunt the city.

“I’m not sure how anybody coming into the city would ever know that a particular area was designated as a slum,” McNabb said. “It doesn’t appear on the property tax bill... It is not something that appears anywhere.”

Several other cities across Georgia including Sandy Springs, Marietta, Union City, Roswell, East Point and Norcross have all declared themselves slums in order to qualify for tax credits, according to the Department of Community Affairs.

“Certainly, in these other areas, they haven’t been impacted by that designation,” she said.

In fact, McNabb said there might be a way that Augusta could simply reference the Georgia code and not specifically include the word “slum,” when adopting the Urban Redevelopment Area.

Copenhaver said that was exactly what he had been looking into this week.

“I think that is the direction that we are headed,” he said. “I think there is an opportunity to take that word out... I understand why people have heartburn with the word. If there is an opportunity to reference that and not use the word, I think that would go a long way towards helping the situation.”

In order to explore that option more and further discuss the impacts of an Urban Redevelopment Area, the mayor scheduled a work session on September 30 at 1 p.m. in the

commission chambers.

Commissioner Bill Fennoy, who represents District 1, which includes the downtown area, said it would take a lot to convince him to vote for the proposed “slum” designation.

“I received numerous phone calls and e-‐mails and I have talked to the business owners and property owners that will be impacted by this area,” Fennoy said, “and I have yet to run across anybody that supports some of the language that is in this grant application.”

In other actions, the commissioners did not approve a request by Augusta Riverfront LLC to purchase a centralized chiller plant to cool both the Marriott Hotel and the Augusta Convention Center.

In the proposal, Augusta Riverfront would purchase the chiller and pay for the installation of the pipes to connect with the hotel and conference center.

“We will spend the money,” Augusta Riverfront President Paul Simon told commissioners last week. He estimated the total cost would be about $700,000.

Augusta Riverfront would also install separate meters on the chiller, so the hotel would be responsible for its own bill, as would the city.

“This is beneficial to both the city and to us, at no cost to the city,” Simon insisted last week.

But, in the end, there was not enough support on the commission to approve Simon’s request.

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Back in the Saddle — How many of you still have your old Yahoo! email account? If you do, you’re in luck. Yahoo! is on its way back up.

Back in the day, Yahoo! was the hottest property on the Internet. However, like so many others that rode the wave of emerging technology (can you say “Palm” or “Blackberry”), Yahoo! lost its direction over time. Google beat Yahoo! in search; Apple passed Yahoo! with its iTunes media platform; Amazon proved the best in e-‐commerce. Eventually, Yahoo! settled in as a mediocre social portal, albeit one with a significant online following.

Then a miracle happened. Last year, Yahoo! hired Marissa Mayer as president and CEO. Mayer was a long-‐time Google employee — employee No. 20 to be exact — and while at Google, she held key positions in a virtually all of Google’s divisions. The opportunity at Yahoo! was a natural fit.

In her first year at Yahoo!, Mayer has gotten the company steered back in the right direction. Mayer’s more notable accomplishments over the past year include the $1.1 billion purchase of the blogging site Tumblr and directing a focus on delivering mobile applications. Oh, by the way, the Yahoo! Home page was redesigned for the first time in four years.

The effort is beginning to pay off. Last month, ComScore reported that Yahoo! surpassed Google and regained the No. 1 spot as the most visited website.

Yahoo! is still way behind in areas such as e-‐commerce and online media but, hopefully, this is a sign for good things to come.

Terrorists Prefer Gmail — In a speech defending the PRISM spy program (if you remember, that’s the program where the NSA searches your online personal data for terrorist activity), former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden told an audience in Washington, D.C., that, “Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider of terrorists worldwide.”

At face value, the assertion seems shocking, and several questions come to mind. How could terrorists exploit a U.S company like Google? What is Google doing to stop them? And more importantly, what is the government going to do to get

these bad guys?

After letting the knee-‐jerk reaction pass, one more question comes to mind — should we really be surprised that terrorists use the most popular email service in the world? The answer is no, of course not.

The statement is kind of silly when you think about it. It’s like saying we should be concerned that terrorists prefer iPhones (the most popular mobile device), or that terrorists prefer Toyotas (the most popular automobile), or that terrorists prefer soccer (the most popular sport).

While likely true, does it justify creating a secret police state to monitor each of these popular commercial items? Unfortunately, it appears that the current set of elected representatives believes we should.

In that case, here’s another question — if we throw away our freedom, the founding principle of our country, and establish a police state in the name of security, doesn’t that mean the terrorists win?

Home, Sweet Connected Home — Recently, I’ve noticed an increasing number of technology articles on household appliances. The increase was subtle — a review of a robot vacuum here, the release of a new wireless light switch there. Now, people have been talking about household automation for years, and there are gadgets a-‐plenty. But it’s never really taken off in the consumer market.

Has something changed?

Well, I guess I wasn’t the only one to notice. CNET, the popular geek website that provides reviews for all things tech, created a new section focused on the connected home. If you are interested in smart coffee makers, receiving alerts from your dishwasher or checking the status of your latest load of laundry, this is the site for you.

As for me, I think I’m going to start small. If I can program my thermostat from my iPhone, I would consider that a major win. Then I’ll move on to texting my microwave.

I’m off the grid at @gregory_a_baker.

GREGORY A. BAKER, PH.D, is vice president and chief rocket scientist for CMA, which provides technology services to CSRA buisness and nonprofits.

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Augusta, GA – ARTS IN THE HEART OF AUGUSTA FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ROAD CLOSINGS The 33rd Arts in the Heart of Augusta Festival, held the third full weekend of September each year, boasts all kind of fun for people of all ages. There are four stages stacked with local, live entertainment; 110 juried artists and artisans in the Fine Arts and Crafts Market; nineteen cultural associations serving up authentic ethnic foods in the Global Village; a free, hands-on Children’s Area, a Young Artists Market, and the list really goes on.

In order for a Festival of this magnitude, which hosts over 70,000 patrons, to take place, lots of cooperation is involved. Several streets will be closed during the Festival. Once a closing is noted below, that street is closed for the duration of the Festival. Streets reopen once the Police have given an all-clear on Sunday after the Festival is over. Closings are as follows:

Tuesday, 9/17, midnight 8th between Ellis and Broad 9th between Ellis and Broad MarCarten between Jones and Broad Thursday, 9/19 5 PM - Block ingress only into parking wells on Broad from 8th to 10th Thursday, 9/19 midnight: Broad Street from 8th to 10th street - 9th street (north) from Jones to Broad Friday, 9/20 P AM Block 8th Street southbound ½ block before 8th/Broad intersection Block Reynolds/9th to Reynolds/8th – 1 lane eastbound- for Stage and Global Village drop off -

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Note on 8th at Reynolds: no through traffic; access to SunTrust parking deck and Lamar parking only.

Badges are $10 at the gate and are good for the entire weekend. Children ages 10 and under are free! A limited number of advanced badges are on sale for only $5 at SunTrust bank branches, but get yours early because they go fast!

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Cinema Series opens with a Shining double feature

The Georgia Regents University Cinema Series (formerly the Film Series) kicks off this week with a double feature celebrating the work of Stanley Kubrick.

Co-‐chairs of the cinema series, professors Matthew Buzzell and Rick Pukis, have orchestrated more than just a name change for this year’s film screenings.

The biggest changes are the times and location of the films. For the past several years, the movies have been shown on Monday nights in University Hall room 170, which is a lecture hall.

This year, Buzzell said he wanted to do something different.

“I wanted to bring the film series back to the Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre where it was when I was a kid,” Buzzell explained. “My parents would take me to see foreign and classic cinema here on this campus.”

Starting this week, the films will all take place in the Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre, which has just has a brand new projection system and screen installed, Buzzell said, and the films will no longer 14 METROSPIRITAUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

be shown on Monday evenings. The new night will be Thursday.

“I think Thursday is an evening when people can breathe a sigh of relief moving into the weekend,” Buzzell said.

Also new this year, there will be an additional screening time for most of the films.

“I also wanted to add an extra screening of films when we could,” Buzzell said. “So we’ll be screening films on Thursdays at 11:20 a.m. and 7 p.m.

But not for every film.”

The Cinema Series at GRU will kick off its fall program on September 19 with a double feature showcasing director Stanley Kubrick and his film “The Shining.”

“For our kick off of the series, we’re doing a Stanley Kubrick themed double feature,” Buzzell said. “We’re going to be showing the recent documentary ‘Room 237’ at 11:20 a.m. At 7 p.m. we’re going to show ‘The Shining’ and then at 9:30, we’re going to do an encore screening of ‘Room 237’.”

For those who have never heard of

“Room 237,” it is a documentary about radical and diverse interpretations of the hidden meanings contained within “The Shining,” Buzzell said. He added that viewers in attendance will get to participate in a special opportunity to view both films together. “[Room 237] also is kind-‐of a celebration of all things Stanley Kubrick,” Buzzell said, “So that should be very interesting to see — the unique possibility is to be able to see ‘The Shining’ and then to see this film that discusses a great number of interpretations of it.”

Over the summer Buzzell spent quite a bit of time in New York City screening independent films in order to select what he feels are the best and most relevant films to bring to Augusta, he said. Other films being shown during the fall series are “The Act of Killing,” a documentary in which Indonesian death squad leaders are challenged to reenact their real-‐life mass-‐killings, on October 17. The film was directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and executive produced

by Errol Morris and Werner Herzog.

Director Jem Cohen’s “Museum Hours,” which Buzzell has endorsed as his favorite film of the year, shows November 14. A teleconference question-‐and-‐answer session with Cohen is tentatively scheduled following the 7 p.m. screening.

Admission for students, faculty and staff will remain free, made possible by the Office of Student Life and Engagement.

Admission for the general public is also free and made possible by the support of the Westobou Festival.

The GRU Cinema Series shows films Thursdays, September 19, October 17 and November 14, at the Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre on GRU’s Summerville campus. Films will show at 11:20 a.m. and 7 p.m. For more information, visit gru.edu.

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FACEBOOK IS STUPID… AND ADDICTIVE Let’s talk about something really stupid. I’m embarrassed to devote this many words to it. For some, it means nothing. For others, it’s everything.

Yep, I’m talking about Facebook. See? It’s stupid.

If you’re in to that sort of thing, it’s a great way to keep tabs on folks without them knowing. I also like seeing the pictures of your kids. Some of you hate those “lost tooth” and “first day of school” pictures, but I think they’re great.

I don’t know about you, but the political rants drive me crazy. The passive aggressive posts are over-‐the-‐ top. The relationship status changes are entertaining. I know I speak for everyone in saying “sure, share a couple of pics of your vacation, but please don’t update your every move. No one likes a braggart.” Feel free to call it jealousy or envy. Totally a spade.

It may sound like I’m setting forth rules for use, but I’m not. I’m no expert

on Facebook or any social media outlet.

I don’t want to be, either. I’ve seen the posts and tweets and such with Twitter and Facebook etiquette references. I have a quick question for you people: “Who put you in charge?” Isn’t this supposed to be a fun little side gig?

I’m sure I do my fair share of driving you people crazy, too. I’ve heard there’s a “hide” button on Facebook that lets you control whose business you have to weed through to get to the good stuff.

I haven’t used it, but I know plenty of people who have. If I don’t like you, maybe I’ll just click “unfriend.” Or I just won’t care enough to worry about it.

What started as a way for college students to connect on the Internet has become so much more. Most of the college students have moved to Instagram, Tumblr or Vine, but the rest of us can’t get away. But why?

I’ve often said I’d miss the connections I’ve made with people from long ago. I likely wouldn’t be in touch with Megan

Dodson, Sara Skurky or others from the olden days of Neely Farm. I’d have to look them up in the White Pages and call them. Do people do that anymore?

I’ll be the first to admit it. If I want to find someone, I go to Facebook first.

No offense to those with whom I’ve connected. I’m so glad we have. I just wonder what it’d be like if we hadn’t. I’d wonder about you, for sure. What’d you people do before Facebook? I guess you just guessed.

Twitter is a whole different beast for a different type of user. It’s much easier to be anonymous over there. It’s probably a useful promotional tool. I suppose I haven’t spent enough time over there.

Instagram is fun, simply because, in my experience, it’s relatively free of drama and politics.

Despite the fear of making myself sound old-‐fashioned, I’ll admit we don’t have a choice. Social media is part of us now. For personal use, I try to keep it light and hopefully funny. I’ll post

pictures of my kids. If you get tired of looking at them, I guess I’m sorry.

I don’t monitor (or make public) my friends list, so I won’t know if you decide to leave. I don’t blame you, honestly.

I don’t think I’m all that interesting, so why should you?

So it’s fun, can be annoying and satisfies a nosy mind. Not only that, but Facebook really is a great promotional tool. People will like the stuff their friends like. If someone shares a video, not only do their friends believe it, they share it, too. I love that nonprofits can spread the news about upcoming events, free of charge. Dispensable income doesn’t often make up the largest budget line item.

Speaking of, Arts in the Heart is this weekend (artsintheheart.com). If you buy your ticket in advance, it’s only five bucks. Even if you don’t it’s a steal at $10. Kids are free. Even if you only have a small amount of time, go down to the Global Village and get lunch. You can get Vietnamese Spring Rolls, Indian Samosas, feta fries, Scotch eggs and just about everything in between. You won’t be able to miss the huge selection of crafts and fine art, too. Just get out there.

On your walk back to the car, stop at 965 Broad Street and buy your Westobou tickets (westoboufestival. com). The festival is coming up in about two weeks, and there’s something for everyone. VIP badges are the best value, but there are quite a few single ticket options, too. See? Lots of birds, one stone. All in Augusta. Call it a slum. Call it whatever you want. There are good things happening downtown. People are talking about them on Facebook.

You might be annoyed. We’ll see the best and worst of people. I sometimes wonder about humanity as a whole.

HEY HUMANITY? If it says “share this with all your friends,” it’s fake. Can you check it out first? Gotta run. I’ve got notifications! TTYL and cheers!

JENNYWRIGHT lives in Summerville with her husband, who she calls The Man, and two kids, who she affectionately calls The Boy and The Girl. She enjoys taking photos, cooking and playing tennis.

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North Augusta Manuel's Bread Cafe

Bucksnort’s

The Highlander

manuelsbreadcafe.com 505 Railroad Ave (803) 380-1323

bucksnortscigars.com 215 Edgefield Road (866) 561-85 33

The Highlander Thursday night trivia and $2 mystery beer.

abritishpub.com 133 Georgia Ave (803) 278-2796

Wine World

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Taste

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Downtown Augusta Mellow Mushroom Trivia Tuesday, September 24

Sky City The Politix, DJ Lee, DJ Bizzo Thursday, September 19

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Stillwater Taproom Derelict String Band Thursday, September 19

Sector 7G Veara Friday, September 20

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Sweet Lou’s Crabshack sweetlouscrabshack.com 13th & Broad (706) 922-1699

Frog Hollow Tavern

froghollowtavern.com 1282 Broad St (706) 364-6906

Pizza Joint

thepizzajoint.net 1245 Broad St (706) 774-0037

Mellow Mushroom

mellowmushroom.com 1167 Broad St (706) 828-5578

Sky City

skycityaugusta.com 1157 Broad St (706) 945-1270

Firehouse

1145 Broad St (706) 826-9955

Knuckle Sandwiches 1149 Broad St (706) 828-4700

Farmhaus Burger

Bee’s Knees

farmhausburger.com 1204 Broad St (706) 496-8771

beeskneestapas.com 211 10th St (706) 828-3600

Boar’s Head Pub

Rooster’s Beak

theboarsheadpublichouse.com 1135 Broad St (706) 723-5177

feedyourbeak.com 215 10th St (706) 364-2260

1102

Blue Sky Kitchen

1102 Broad St (706) 364-4075

Metro Coffee House 1054 Broad St (706) 722-6468

The First Round 210 11th St. (706) 364-8278

Whiskey Bar (Kitchen) whiskeybarkitchen.com 1048 Broad St (706) 814-6159

Soy Noodle House

soynoodlehouse.com 1032 Broad St (706) 364-3116

Pauley’s Steakhouse

pauleyssteakhouse.com 1022 Broad St (706) 364-3512

blueskydowntown.com 990 Broad St (706) 821-3988

Soul Bar

soulbar.com 984 Broad St (706) 724-8880

Playground

978 Broad St (706) 724-2232

Nacho Mama’s

nachomamasaugusta.com 976 Broad St (706) 724-0501

Stillwater Taproom 974 Broad St (706) 826-9857

New Moon Cafe

newmoondowntown.com 936 Broad St (706) 823-2008

The Loft

Beamie’s Restaurant

Bar on Broad

The Boll Weevil Cafe

927 Broad St (706) 828-6600 www.baronbroad.com 917 Broad St (706) 955-7954

Club Rehab

913 Broad St (706) 849-2265

Joe’s Underground 144 8th St (706) 724-9457

Imperial Theater

imperialtheatre.com 749 Broad St (706) 722-8341

Tipsey McStumbles 214 7th St (706) 955-8507

Eagle’s Nest

640 Broad St. 706-722-5541

The Sports Center 594 Broad St (706) 724-9307

Luigi’s

www.luigisinc.com 590 Broad St (706) 722-4056

865 Reynolds St (706) 724-6593

thebollweevil.com 10 9th St (706) 722-7772

Cotton Patch

eatdrinkbehappy.com 816 Cotton Ln (706) 724-4511

Mi Rancho

2 8th Street (706) 724-3366

Le Chat Noir

lcnaugusta.com 304 8th St (706) 722-3322

Hildebrandt’s 226 6th St (706) 722-7756

209 Restaurant & Music Lounge 566 Broad St, (706) 722-9692

La Maison on Telfair lamaisontelfair.com 404 Telfair St (706) 722-4805

Sector 7G

sector7gaugusta.com 631 Ellis St (706) 496-5900

Fox's Lair

thefoxslair.com 349 Telfair St (706) 828-5600

The Bell Auditorium

augustaentertainmentcomplex.com 712 Telfair St (706) 724-2400

James Brown Arena

augustaentertainmentcomplex.com 601 7th St (706) 722-3521

Jessye Norman Amphitheater augustaga.org 15 Eighth Street 706-821-1754

Augusta Canal Moonlight Music Cruise augustacanal.com 1450 Greene Street 706-823-0440

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The Hill Evans/martinez

The Indian Queen The place to be on Game Day, when the Crums on Central food truck is usually parked out front.

Club Argos Claire, Diane & Sasha: Together Again Friday, September 20

5 O'Clock Bistro

Crums on Central

Oliviana's

5oclockbistro.com 2111 Kings Way 706-922-9560

crumsoncentral.com 1855 Central Avenue 706-729-6969

399 Highland Ave (706) 723-1242

Bistro 491

French Market Grille

491 Highland Ave (706) 738-6491 bistro491.com

thefrenchmarketgrille.com 425 Highland Ave (706) 737-4865

Surrey Tavern

AUGSBURG HAUS

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4460 Washington Road 706-667-818

BIRD DOG GRILL

The Pi Bar & Grille partridgeinn.com 2110 Walton Way (800) 476-6888

Takosushi takosushi.com 437 Highland Ave Augusta GA

Helga’s

calvertsrestaurant.com 475 Highland Ave (706) 738-4514

2015 Central Ave (706) 736-2880

sheehansirishpub.com 2571 Central Ave (706) 364-1234

Indian Queen

Surreal at Surrey

2502 Wrightsboro Rd (706) 303-8723

surreal-at-surrey.com 469 Highland Ave 706-496-2036

Club Argos 1923 Walton Way (706) 481-8829

West AUgusta French Market Grille West Laissez les bon temps roulez any night of the week!

Allie Katz Bar & Grill 3112 Washington (706) 667-9801

Bar West Augusta

3631 Walton Way Ext. Ste 3 (706) 736-0021

Buffalo Wild Wings

buffalowildwings.com 120 Robert C Daniel Jr Pkwy (706) 736-1778

Cadwalladers Café 106 Davis Rd (706) 860-7444

Carolina Ale House

carolinaalehouse.com 203 Robert C Daniel Jr (762) 333-0019

Chevy’s

chevysniteclub.com 3328 Washington Road 706-250-3261

The Country Club

augustacountry.com 2834-F Washington Rd 706-364-1862

Crazy Turks

crazyturkspizza.com 2910 Washington Rd (706) 922-7299

Cue and Brew

2852 Washington Rd (706) 737-6008

Double Tree

frenchmarketwest.com 368 Furys Ferry Rd (706) 855-5111

Hooters

hooters.com 2834 Washington Rd (706) 736-8454

Limelite Café

1137 Agerton Ln (706) 731-0220

Rack and Grill

Edgars Grille

Rae's Coastal Café

3481 Old Petersburg Rd (706) 855-7534 3208 W Wimbledon Dr (706) 738-1313

Rhineharts

beyondcasual.com 3051 Washington Rd (706) 860-2337

Pizza Joint

Sidetrack Bar and Grill

thepizzajoint.net 4301 Washington Rd (706) 447-4992

sidetrackbarandgrill.com 4027 Washington Rd (706) 863-8951

evanstownecenterpark.com 7016 Evans Town Center Blvd.

706-650-5005

Retreat Tapas Bar

Takosushi

4446 Washington Rd (706) 250-3717

takosushi.com 1202 Town Park Ln (706) 863-0606

Mai Thai

Rhineharts

Lauras Backyard Tavern 218 S Belair Rd (706) 869-8695

Lady A. Amphitheater

4272 Washington Rd (706) 210-9008

COLUMBIA COUNTY

Amphitheater 7022 Faircloth Dr (706) 868-3349

beyondcasual.com 305 N Belair Rd (706) 868-6850

Mellow Mushroom mellowmushroom.com 4348 Washington Rd (706) 364-6756

Tbonz tbonzofaugusta.com 601 N Belair Rd (706) 814-7083

The Tavern at the Bean beanbaskette.com 4414 Evans to Locks Rd (706) 447-2006

South Augusta

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Road Runner

TGI Fridays

roadrunnercafe.com 2821 Washington Rd (706) 364-3525

www.tgifridays.com 2800 Washington Rd (706) 736-8888

Robbie's Sport Bar

The Snug Steak & Grill

2834 Washington Rd (706) 738-0866

Shannon's

300 Shartom Dr (706) 814-7760

Sheraton

sheratonaugusta.com 1069 Stevens Creek Rd (706) 396-1000

Somewhere in Augusta somewhereinaugusta.com 2820 Washington Rd (706) 739-0002

Tbonz tbonzofaugusta.com 2856 Washington Rd (706) 737-8325

thesnug.net 240 Davis Rd (706) 863-1118

Wild Wing Café

wildwingcafe.com 3035 Washington Rd (706) 364-9453

Coyotes Sundance Jenkins Saturday, September 21

Coyotes

Road Runner Café

Villa Europa

coyotesaugusta.com 2512 Peach Orchard Rd (706) 560-9245

2508 Peach Orchard Rd (706) 790-8177

villaeuropa.com 3044 Deans Bridge Rd (706) 798-6211

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Thursday, September 19 Live Music Joe’s Underground - Tokyo Rosenthal, Manguss Mellow Mushroom (Downtown and Evans) - Live &

Local Polo Tavern - Riley Williams Sky City - The Politix, DJ Lee, DJ Bizzo Stables at Rose Hill Estate - Preston Weston

Craig Campbell

& Sandra Stillwater Taproom - Derelict String Band Wild Wing - Whiskey Run

What’s Tonight?

Chevy’s Nite Club - Karaoke Contest Cocktails Lounge - Karaoke Coyotes - Karaoke Fishbowl Lounge - Karaoke Fox’s Lair - Trivia, Soup and Suds Helga’s Pub & Grille - Trivia The Highlander - Butt Naked Trivia Joe’s Underground - Trivia The Loft - Karaoke MAD Studios - Open Mic Poetry and Spoken

Word w/ Sapientsoul Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke party with Carolina Entertainment Mi Rancho (Evans) - Karaoke The Playground - DJ Rana Shannon’s - Karaoke Surreal at Surrey - College and F&B Night Tavern at the Bean - Ladies Night Villa Europa - Karaoke Wooden Barrel - ’80s Night Karaoke

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Gregory Chevys - Tim Cardiere & Washboard Road Band,

DJ Dougie Country Club - Craig Campbell Doubletree - Jazz Laura’s Backyard Tavern - John Berret’s LaRoxes The Loft - Stereotype, Most Wanted MAD Studios - Cloud Formations, Vilai Harrington PI Bar & Grille - Live Jazz Polo Tavern - Reverse Effect Red Pepper Cafe - The Southern Meltdown Band Sector 7G - Veara Somewhere in Augusta - The Storm Branch Band Stables at Rose Hill Estate - Bluegrass w/

Columbia Bluegrass Company Surrey Tavern - Those Cats Tavern at the Bean - Musicians Hangout w/ Eight Artists Performing Wild Wing - TX Clergy

What’s Tonight?

Armando’s - Karaoke w/ Rockin Rob Club Argos - Friday Night House Party Cocktails Lounge - Grown-Up Fridays with DJ Cork and Bull Pub - Karaoke Coyotes - All Night Dance Party and Bikini Contest Eagle’s Nest - Free Salsa Lessons; Latin Dance Party Fishbowl Lounge - Karaoke Iron Horse Bar & Grill - Karaoke Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke with Ryan Moseley Mi Rancho (Washington Road) - Karaoke with Jeff Barnes Mi Rancho (Clearwater) - Three J’s Karaoke Ms. Carolyn’s - Karaoke 18 METROSPIRITAUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

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Palmetto Tavern - DJ Tim The Playground - DJ Rana Rebeck’s Hideaway - Open Mic Roadrunner Cafe - Karaoke with Steve Chappel Sky City - ‘90s Night Soul Bar - Pop Life Wooden Barrel - Karaoke Contest

Saturday, September 21 Live Music The Acoustic Coffeehouse - Open Acoustic

Jam Session with Eryn Eubanks and the Family Fold Country Club - Jared Ashley Coyotes - Sundance Jenkins MAD Studios - Alan Barrington P.I. Bar and Grill - Smooth/Vocal Jazz Polo Tavern - JAR Sky City - Turf War, Carnivores, Eat Lightning Stillwater Taproom - Donald Merkle and the Blacksmiths Surrey Tavern - Buddhist Prodigies (Phish Tribute) Wild Wing - Smoke & Mirrors

Partridge Inn - Sunday Evening Jazz w/ the Not

Gaddy Jazz Trio Wild Wing - Patterson & Nate The Willcox - Live Jazz

What’s Tonight?

Mi Rancho (Washington Road) - Karaoke, Salsa Dancing Polo Tavern - Bingo Night Shannon’s - Karaoke with Peggy Gardner

Monday, September 23 Live Music Shannon’s - Open Mic Night

What’s Tonight?

Applebee’s (Evans) - Trivia Chevy’s - Monday Night Football Club Argos - Karaoke Joe’s Underground - Poker

Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Trivia The Playground - DJ Rana Robolli’s - Trivia with Mike Thomas Somewhere in Augusta - Poker Wild Wing - Trivia

Tuesday, September 24 Live Music Sector 7G - Take the Fall, Definitely a First Shannon’s - Karaoke Contest The Willcox - Piano jazz

What’s Tonight?

Chevy’s - World Poker Tournament Club Argos - Karaoke Fishbowl Lounge - Dart League Joe’s Underground - Karaoke Limelite Cafe - Bottom’s Up Karaoke Mellow Mushroom (Downtown and Evans) - Trivia

What’s Tonight?

Chevy’s - DJ Dougie Club Argos - Saturday Night Dance Party and Show Cocktails Lounge - Latin Night Fishbowl Lounge - Karaoke Helga’s Pub & Grille - Karaoke The Loft - DJ Richie Rich Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke party with

Carolina Entertainment Mi Rancho (Clearwater) - Karaoke with Danny

Haywood Mi Rancho (Washington Road) - Karaoke Ms. Carolyn’s - Karaoke Robbie’s - Saturday Night Dance Party Soul Bar - DJ Rana Tavern at the Bean - Karaoke Wooden Barrel - Kamikaze Karaoke

Sunday, September 22 Live Music 5 O’Clock Bistro -

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Polo Tavern - Karaoke Shannon’s - Karaoke with Mike Johnson Somewhere In Augusta - Big Prize Trivia Surrey Tavern - Tubeday Tuesday Movie Night

Wednesday, September 25 Live Music MAD Studios - John Richards, Peggy Mercer Wild Wing - Sabo & Dave

What’s Tonight?

Armando’s - Karaoke w/ Rockin Rob Chevy’s - Karaoke Contest Cocktails Lounge - Augusta’s Got Talent Cotton Patch - Trivia and Tunes Hotel Aiken - Karaoke w/ Tom Mitchell

Laura’s Backyard Tavern - Karaoke The Loft - Karaoke Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke Mi Rancho (Washington Road) - Karaoke The Playground - Krazy Karaoke with Big Troy Polo Tavern - Karaoke w/ Tom Mitchell Somewhere in Augusta - The Comedy Zone w/

The Copper Thieves

Stillwater Taproom - Pub Quiz Surrey Tavern - Trivia with Christian and Mickey

Body/Head

Tony Boswell

Upcoming

- Stillwater Taproom September 26 Cranford & Sons

- Sky City September 27 Paleface

- Stillwater Taproom September 27 Radiolucent, Thomas Wynn & the Believers

- Sky City September 28 - Sacred Heart Cultural Center October 2 Johnnyswim

- Old Academy of Richmond County October 3

Rodney Carrington

Super Bob, Blameshift

- Bell Auditorium September 26

- Sky City October 3

Craig Morgan, Country Line, the Daniel Johnson Band

- Evans Towne Center Park September 26

T. Hardy Morris

- Old Academy of Richmond County October 4

The Swanee Quintet

- Bell Auditorium October 6 38 Special

- Evans Towne Center Park October 18 The Grascals, Audie Blaylock, Redline

- Imperial Theatre October 18 The Heavy Pets

- Sky City October 18 The Mason Jars

- Stillwater Taproom October 18 Blair Crimmins and the Hookers

- Stillwater Taproom October 19 Bucktown Kickback

- Stillwater Taproom October 25 Mad Margritt

- Sky City October 25

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Comedian Rodney Carrington performs Thursday, September 26, at 8 p.m. at the Bell Auditorium. The Texas native is also a country singersongwriter who has recorded eight major label albums, which have sold more than two million copies. For mature audiences only. $43.75.

Call 877-428-4849 or visit augustaentertainmentcomplex.com.

Arts

Arts in the Heart is Friday, September 20, from 5-9 p.m.; Saturday, September 21, from 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; and Sunday, September 22, from noon-7 p.m. on Broad Street and at the Augusta Common in downtown Augusta. The event, presented by the Greater Augusta Arts Council, includes a Fine Arts and Crafts Market with more than 100 vendors, a children’s area, the Young Artists Market, the Global Village with a variety of ethnic food, and several stages of entertainment.

Badges, good for the entire weekend, are $5 in advance at Suntrust locations or $10 at the gate.

Kids under 10 get in free. Visit artsintheheart.com.

Exhibitions

John Edry and Tom Swift Art Exhibition will be on view through October 25 at Sacred Heart Cultural Center. Call 706-826-4700 or visit sacredheartaugusta.org.

Photography of Kevin Jiminez will be on display for the month of September at Hire Grounds Café, 3179 Washington Rd. Call 706-650-5760.

GRU Department of Art Faculty Exhibition shows through September 20 at the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art at the Summerville Campus. Artists include Kristin Casaletto, Tom Crowther, Suzette H. Hollins, Alan C. McTaggart, Jennifer Onofrio Fornes, Randy Pace, Raoul Pacheco, Rosanne Stutts, Brian Rust, Joseph M. Tolbert, Chadwick Tolley, Janice Williams and more. Visit gru.edu.

Music

Guitar Class for Beginners I meets Thursdays, September 19-November 21, from 6-7 p.m. at GRU’s Summerville Campus, Fine Arts 24 METROSPIRITAUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

Center, room A-10. Open to those ages 13 and older, the class is $119. Call 706-731-7971 or email consprog@gru.edu.

Guitar Class for Beginners II meets Thursdays, September 19-November 21, from 7-8 p.m. at GRU’s Summerville Campus, Fine Arts Center, room A-10. Open to those ages 13 and older who have taken the Guitar I class, the class is $119. Call 706-731-7971 or email consprog@gru.edu.

Voice Class for Adults meets Thursdays, September 19-November 7, from 7-8 p.m. at GRU’s Summerville Campus, Fine Arts Center, room D-1A. $99. Call 706-731-7971 or email consprog@gru.edu.

Anyone Can Write a Song Workshop, led by songwriter Bill Worthy, meets Thursdays, September 19-October 3, from 7-9 p.m. at the Kroc Center. $65; discount for members. Preregistration required. Call 706-364-KROC or visit krocaugusta.org.

Keith Gregory will play on the Moonlight Music Canal Cruise, 6:30-8 p.m., Friday, September 20. $25 per person; passengers may bring aboard snacks and beverages. Call 706823-0440, ext. 4, or visit augustacanal.com.

The Dixie Echoes Quartet will perform Friday, September 20, at 7 p.m. at Bethesda Baptist Church on Old Louisville Road. Nursery provided. Free. Call 706-556-6818.

Ashu performs Tuesday, September 24, at the season opener of the Tuesday’s Music Live concert series at Saint Paul’s Church downtown.

The 30-minute concert begins at noon and is free. Lunch, $10 per person by advanced

reservation, follows in the River Room. Call 706722-3463 or visit tuesdaysmusiclive.com.

Daughter” by Mary Williams will be discussed. Call 706-724-6762 of visit ecgrl.org.

Craig Morgan with County Line and the Daniel Johnson Band perform Thursday, September 26, at 5 p.m. at Evans Towne Center Park. Call 706-830-0677 or visit evanstownecenterpark.com.

Maxwell Morning Book Club meets Thursday, September 26, from 10 a.m.-noon at the Maxwell Branch Library. “My Own Country”

by Abraham Verghese will be discussed. Visit maxwellbookclub.wordpress.com.

Sand Hills String Band practices Sundays through December 8 from 2:30-4:50 p.m. at Georgia Regents University’s Summerville Campus at the Fine Arts Center. Open to guitarists, mandolin and fiddle players. $59. Call 706-731-7971 or visit gru.edu.

Adult Spoken Word is Thursday, September 26, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. Call 706-722-6275 or visit ecgrl.org.

Live Country Music is featured Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Club, 1999 Scott Rd. $5. Call 706-790-8040.

The Salvation Army School of the Performing Arts holds classes each Tuesday.

Included is instruction in piano, drums, guitar, voice and brass. Call 706-364-4069 or visit krocaugusta.org.

Live Country Music at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 1999 Scott Road, is every Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $5. Call 706-790-8040.

Literary

It’s Your Book Club meets Thursday, September 19, from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Headquarters Branch Library. IYBC will be Skyping with author A’ndrea J. Wilson about her book “Husband 101.” Call 706-7246762 or visit ecgrl.org.

Talk the Talk Book Club meets Tuesday, September 24, from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Headquarters Branch Library. “The Lost

Writing Romance: The Perfect Affair is Thursday, September 26, from 6:30-9 p.m. at the Headquarters Branch Library. D. Jackson Leigh will speak about the art of writing romance, the journey of being a published author, and the state of LGBT fiction. Free. Call 706-821-2612 or visit ecgrl.org.

Kroc Book Club is the fourth Wednesday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Kroc Center.

Selections come from award lists such as the National Book Award, the Pulitzer, or the Critics Circle Award. Free. For the current book, call 706-364-KROC or visit krocaugusta.org.

Dance

“Cinderella,” a Columbia County Ballet production, shows Friday, September 20, at 7 p.m. at the Imperial Theatre. $12-$28. Call 706722-8341 or visit imperialtheatre.com.

Theater

“Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club” shows Friday-Saturday, September 20-21, at the Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre, with dinner beginning at 7 p.m. and the show starting at 8 p.m. $25-$43. Call 706-79319SEPTEMBER2013

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“Los Valientes,” actor Kevin Melendez’s exploration of Diego Rivera, shows Friday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m. at GRU’s Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre as part of the Lyceum Series. Tickets are $4-$8; GRU students admitted free with JAG card. Call 706-667-4100 or visit gru.edu.

“Les Miserables,” a Le Chat Noir production, shows Friday-Saturday, September 20-21, as well as Thursday-Saturday, September 26-28, at 8 p.m. $35. Call 706-722-3322 or visit lcnaugusta.com.

“Hairspray,” a production of the Aiken Community Playhouse, shows Friday and Saturday, September 20-21, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, September 22, at 3 p.m. at the URS Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $25, adults; $20, seniors; $15, students; $10, children under 12. Call 803-648-1438 or visit aikencommunityplayhouse.com.

“The Jungle Book,” a presentation of the University Theatre Playground Players, shows Monday, September 23, at 7:30 p.m. at USCAiken’s Etherredge Center. $5-$8. Visit web.usca. edu/etherredge-center.

Flix

The Cinema Series at GRU begins Thursday, September 19, at the Maxwell Performing Arts Center on the GRU-Summerville campus. At 11:20 a.m., the series will screen “Room 237,” a 2013 documentary that explores radical and diverse interpretations of Kubrick’s 1980 masterpiece “The Shining.” At 7 p.m., audiences will then have the opportunity to view Kubrick’s “The Shining,” as well as an encore screening of “Room 237” at 9:30 p.m. Free. Visit gru.edu.

“World War Z” will be shown Saturday, September 21, at 3 p.m. at the Aiken Branch Library.

Free. Call 803-642-2020 or visit abbe-lib.org.

Books to the Big Screen: “The Hunger Games” will be shown Tuesday, September 24, at 3:30 p.m. at the Maxwell Branch Library. Free.

Call 706-793-2020 or visit ecgrl.org.

Special Events

Pub Theology Group meets Thursdays beginning September 19 at 6 p.m. at the Cotton Patch in downtown Augusta. All faiths (and even those of no faith) are welcome and encouraged to join in. Just remember to bring your courtesy, patience, humility and a healthy dose of humor.

Call 706-724-2485 or visit saintpauls.org.

Perfectly Aged is Thursday, September 19, at 6:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s River Room, 605 Reynolds Street. The event is a wine-tasting and raffle benefitting the programs and projects of Historic Augusta, Inc. $100; $50 for those 35 and under. Call 706-724-0436 or visit historicaugusta.org.

Salvation Army’s 2013 Doing the Most Good Annual Dinner is Thursday, September 19, at 7 p.m. at the Kroc Center. Terry Bradshaw is the guest speaker. Call 706-550-2796.

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p.m. at Dillard’s in the Augusta Mall. ARC students and faculty will serve as models. $5. Visit arc.rcboe.org.

Children’s Consignment Sale is Friday, September 20, from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday, September 21, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church, 1330 Monte Sano Avenue. Proceeds are used to support local, national and international missions of Trinity Outreach Missions. Call 706-738-8822 or visit trinityonthehill.net.

Pass It On Kidsignment Sale is Friday, September 20, from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday, September 21, from 8 a.m.-noon at the First Baptist Church in Aiken. Call 803-648-5476 or visit fbcaiken.org.

Fish Fry is Saturday, September 21, from 6-8 p.m. at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Club, 1999 Scott Rd. $10 per plate. Call 706-790-8040.

Give Back Night is Monday, September 23, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Chili’s in Evans. Ten percent of all sales will be donated to the St. Jude’s Children’s Cancer Network. Call 706-860-3464.

Day Trip to Columbia, S.C., is Thursday, September 26. Visit the One Eared Cow glass studio for a live glass-blowing demonstration and enjoy tours of two of Columbia’s most famous historic properties, the Robert Mills House and Gardens and the Hampton-Preston Mansion.

Morris Museum members are $40; non-members are $55. Includes bus transportation, admission, tour fees, snacks and wine. Paid reservations are due September 19. Call 706-724-7501 or visit themorris.org.

or visit wineworldsc.com.

visit doctors-hospital.net.

Tire and Electronics Recycling is held the third Saturday of each month from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Pendleton King Park. Up to five scrap tires and electronics can be recycled at no charge. Call 855-got-tires or visit augustasolidwaste.com.

Fresh Start Smoking Cessation is Tuesday, September 24, from 6-7 p.m. at the University Hospital cafeteria. The program is sponsored by the American Cancer Society, with University Hospital instructors to help people give up all forms of tobacco. Four-week sessions are offered each month. Registration is required.

Call 706-774-8094 or visit universityhealth.org.

Health

Mobile Mammography Screenings will be on the following dates and locations, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.: Thursday, September 19, at Fievet Pharmacy in Washington; Friday, September 20, at Lamar Medical Center; Monday, September 23, at Columbia County Flowing Wells; Tuesday, September 24, at Walgreens, Fury’s Ferry Road; Wednesday, September 25, at Jenkins County Hospital and Thursday, September 26, at SRS, Area H. Free through Medicare.

Appointment required. Call 706-774-4149 or visit universityhealth.org.

Georgia Regents University’s Health Care Initiative is Saturday, September 21, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Legacy at Walton Oaks, 602 Fairhope Road. Services include health education, blood pressure checks, blood sugar checks and more. Free. Call 706-724-3576 or visit gru.edu.

Total Joint Replacement Educational Talk is Tuesday, September 24, from 1:303:30 p.m. at Doctors Hospital, South Tower, Classroom 1. This talk prepares patients for joint replacement before, during and after their hospital stay. Bring any questions and concerns you would like addressed. Call 706-651-4343 or

On Being a Girl is Tuesday, September 24, from 6-9 p.m. at Trinity Hospital. This class is designed for girls ages 9 to 12 accompanied by their mother, a female friend or relative.

Discussion is focused on physical and emotional changes of puberty. $10. Call 706-481-7000 or visit trinityofaugusta.com.

Pickles and Ice Cream is Tuesday, September 24, from 7-9:30 p.m. at Doctors Hospital, Medical Office Building One, suite 310.

This class is great for the first-time mom, but recommended for all. Nutrition, exercise, fetal development and body changes are discussed.

Call 706-651-2229 or visit doctors-hospital.net.

Childbirth Preparation begins Wednesday, September 25, from 7-9:30 p.m. at University Hospital. This four-week series of childbirth preparation classes is designed to inform and prepare all expectant parents regardless of birth plans. Class topics include various stages of labor, breathing and relaxation, and how to care yourself and your new baby. Call 706-722-9011 or visit universityhealth.org.

An Evening with Hal Linden, presented by SRP Federal Credit Union, is Thursday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m. at USC-Aiken’s Etherredge Center and shows as part of its Cultural Series.

For more ticket information, visit web.usca.edu/ etherredge-center/cultural-series.dot.

Comedian Rodney Carrington performs Thursday, September 26, at 8 p.m. at the Bell Auditorium. The Texas native is also a country singer-songwriter who has recorded eight major label albums, which have sold more than two million copies. For mature audiences only. $43.75. Call 877-428-4849 or visit augustaentertainmentcomplex.com.

Evans Towne Farmers Market is held on the grounds of the Columbia County Public Library each Thursday through October 24 from 4:30-7 p.m. All meats, eggs, dairy and produce will be from local and sustainable farms. There will also be cooking and fitness demos, as well as education, local artisans with handcrafted goods, live music, local food vendors and weekly events.

Visit evanstownefarmersmarket.com.

Saturday Market at the River is each Saturday through November 23 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at the 8th Street Bulkhead downtown and features vendors, food, drinks, entertainment and a group run that begins at 8 a.m. Visit theaugustamarket.com.

Wine Tastings are the first Friday and third Thursday of each month from 5-8 p.m. at Wine World in North Augusta. $5. Call 803-279-9522 AUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

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1 Day Motor Coach Trip to Harrah's Casino in Cherokee

NC only $49 per person Includes $10 Meal and $10 Slot Play Credits Leaving Evans around 5 AM and returning just after Midnight!

Spend approximately 8 hours at Harrah

Introduction to Infant CPR is Thursday, September 26, from 7-8:30 p.m. at University Hospital. Pre-registration required. Call 706722-9011 or visit universityhealth.org.

Baby 101 is Thursday, September 26, from 7-9:30 p.m. at Doctors Hospital, Medical Office Building One, suite 310. Topics include normal newborn appearance and behavior, bathing, crying, diapering, swaddling and feeding. Call 706-651-2229 or visit doctors-hospital.net.

Stress Management Classes are held at the University Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute at 8:15 a.m., 9:15 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. each Wednesday. Call 706-774-3278 or visit universityhealth.org.

Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease Aquatics Class meets every Monday and Friday at noon at the Wilson Family Y. Members, free; non-members, $5. Preregistration required. Call 706-922-9664 or visit thefamilyy.org.

Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Orientation is held every first and third Monday at 6 p.m. and every second and fourth Tuesday at 2 p.m. at University Hospital’s Heart & Vascular Institute (Classroom 3). The class will explain some of the causes of vascular disease as well as early warning signs. Vascular diagnostic exams as well as advanced metabolic and genetic lab work are offered to develop a personalized plan. Free. Call 706-774-5548 or visit universityhealth.org.

Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation covers topics such as coronary artery disease, heart attack and CHF at the University Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute. Program is held each Wednesday at 8:15 and 9:15 a.m., and 1:45 p.m.

Call 706-774-3278 or visit universityhealth.org.

Support

Moms Connection meets Tuesdays from 1-2 p.m. at Georgia Regents Medical Center, second floor, Terrace Dining Magnolia Room and is a free weekly support group for new mothers.

All new moms and their babies are welcome and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant/Educator/Perinatal Nurse will answer questions and offer resources. Free. Call 706721-9351 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

Eating Disorders Anonymous meets Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at Metropolitan Community Church, 557 Greene St. Call 706-871-1384 or visit edaaugusta.com.

Blood Cancer/BMT Support Group meets the third Wednesday of each month from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Georgia Regents University Cancer Center first floor Community Room. Call 706-721-9134 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

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Overeaters Anonymous meets at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m., Tuesdays and at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1:30 p.m., Saturdays. Call 907-854-1509.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Sunday and Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. at Aiken Regional Medical Centers’ Aurora Pavilion, and includes an open discussion. Call 800-322-8322

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or visit aikenregional.com.

Adult Sexual Assault and Rape Support Group provides group counseling at University Hospital for those who have experienced sexual assault, incest, rape or childhood sexual abuse.

Call 706-724-5200 or visit universityhealth.org.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a support group for those who wish to stop drinking. Call 706-860-8331.

Beyond the Bars is a support group for those with incarcerated loved ones. Call 706-855-8636.

Alcoholics Anonymous open discussion meeting takes place every Sunday and Wednesday, 7:15 p.m. at Aurora Pavilion in Aiken.

Call 806-641-5000 or visit aikenregional.com/ hospital-services/behavioral-health-services.

Burn Support Group meets every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Doctors Hospital’s Lori Rogers Nursing Library, JMS Building. All burn survivors, and their families and friends are welcome. Call Tim Dorn at 706-651-6660 or visit doctorshospital.net.

Families Who Have Lost a Baby Support Group is offered by GRU. Call 706-721-8299 or visit gru.edu.

Gamblers Anonymous is a support group for those who wish to stop gambling. Call 800 313-0170.

Lupus Support Group meets at the Headquarters Branch Library. Call 706-3946484 or 706-821-2600, or visit ecgrl.org.

Narcotics Anonymous meets Fridays and Sundays at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Hospital of Augusta. Visit na.org.

Overeaters Support Group meets locally.

Call 706-785-0006 or visit trinityofaugusta.com.

Parents of Hearing-Impaired Children meets locally. Call 706-481-7396 or visit trinityofaugusta.com.

Reach for Recovery is presented locally by the American Cancer Society. Call 706-731-9900 or visit trinityofaugusta.com.

Recovery Support Group meets 7:30 p.m.

Sundays and Fridays. Call 706-855-2419.

Education

Georgia Master Naturalist Program begins Thursday, September 19, at the Southern Natural Sciences Center at Phinizy Swamp. This 10-week course held on Thursdays from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. is an adult environmental education program of the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service. The program consists of a series of weekly field trips with specific environmental topics. The field trips combine lectures and hands-on learning that serve to connect people with local habitats and help them become engaged environmental stewards. Trips will include an introduction to local habitats such as swamps, lakes, rivers, wetlands, forest, urban landscapes and the current issues affecting them. $275 for SNSA members; $325 for non19SEPTEMBER2013

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Helms College Open House is Thursday, September 19, from 3-7 p.m. at the school and includes information about the culinary program, tours of the campus and meetings will instructors and staff. Call 706-651-9707 or visit helms.edu.

Intro to Word Processing II is Thursday, September 19, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. Call 706-722-6275 or visit ecgrl.org.

Book Sale for Teachers is Saturday, September 21, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Headquarters Branch Library. Hundreds of books for children and adults are available, most for $1 each. Call 706-821-2600 or visit ecgrl.org.

Fall Planting Class is Saturday, September 21, from noon-1 p.m. at Reed Creek Park. Kay Pittman of the Hobby Farmers Association of the CSRA will teach a class on the basics of fall gardening, from planting to harvesting. This class is a great follow-up to the Seed Starting class. A great selection of organic non-GMO seeds will be available for purchase. All varieties are selected specifically for fall gardening in this area. HFA members attend for free, non-members: $5.

Class includes one free packet of seeds. Preregistration is required. Call 706-210-4027 or visit reedcreekpark.com.

“Aristotle’s Magnanimous Man and the Virtue of Pride,” presented by Randy Pyers of St. John’s College, is Tuesday, September 24, at 2:30 p.m. at GRU’s Summerville Campus, Allgood Hall, room E259. It is part of the school’s Philosophy Lecture Series. Visit gru.edu.

Ready for School Coffee is Thursday, September 26, from 9-10 a.m. at Inner Bean Café on Davis Rd. Professional Organizers of Augusta (POA) members will present organizational tips for getting the whole family in gear for the school year. Topics will include study spaces, time management and more. Free. Call 202-423-3581.

Update on the Green: Accounting and Taxation, a seminar presented by the Georgia Association of Accountants and Tax Professionals, meets Friday-Saturday, October 4-5, at the Partridge Inn. Topics will include Navigating the Affordable Care Act, Qualified Pension and Profit Sharing Plans, Trusts, the Nuts and Bolts of 1031 Like Kind Exchange and more. The seminar will begin with registration at noon on Friday and will run until 5 p.m. Saturday, the seminar meetings from 8-11:40 a.m. Preregistration, $150 before September 15, and $180 after, is required. Call 770-439-2000 or email services@gaatp.org.

University Toastmasters Club meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month from 6-7 p.m. at University Hospital, Education Wing, third floor, room 3. Visit 9083.toastmastersclubs.org.

Fort Gordon Toastmasters meets 11:30 a.m. each Wednesday in the Organizational Conference Room (Fish Bowl) on Fort Gordon Army base. Open to the public. Visit fortgordon. toastmastersclubs.org.

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Congregation Children of Israel at 10:30 a.m. every Thursday. Email office@cciaugusta.org or visit cciaugusta.org.

Guided tours of 1797 Ezekiel Harris House offered by appointment only TuesdayFriday, and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Last tours of the day begin at 4 p.m. Adults, $2; children, $1.

Call 706-722-8454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

Historic Trolley Tour of Augusta aboard the Lady Libby boards at the Augusta Museum of History at 1:30 p.m., Saturdays. See historic sites and hear spooky legends, including of the famous Haunted Pillar. $15 tickets, including admission to the museum, can be bought at the Augusta Visitor Center inside the museum.

Reservations required 24 hours in advance. Call 706-724-4067 or visit augustaga.org.

Tours of the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson are held regularly. Adults $5; seniors $4; kids K-12 $3; under 5 years free.

Reservations required for groups of 10 or more.

Call 706-722-9828.

Sports-Outdoors

Avery’s Angels Gastoschisis Foundation Charity Golf Tournament is Sunday, September 20, at 8:30 a.m. at the Bartram Trail Golf Club. The format is 4-Man Best Ball. Dinner is included, as well as free beer and sodas. $60 per person. Call 706-863-8728 or visit georgia@ averysangels.org.

Wesley Spires 5K begins at 8 a.m. on Saturday, September 21, at Riverview Park Activities Center in North Augusta. $20. Register at active.com.

Soul City Sirens Car Wash begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, September 21, at O’Reilly Auto Parts. They’ll also be selling tickets for their next home bout on Sunday, September 29. Visit soulcitysirens.com.

Life Is Ruff Without a Leash 5K, a race to raise donations for animals in need, is Saturday, September 21, at 9:30 a.m. at Milledge Road entrance to the Augusta Canal. $25. Register at active.com.

Cornhole for a Cure is Saturday, September 21, at 11 a.m. at Roadrunner Café on Washington Road. $500 cash prize for the first place team.

Proceeds benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. $60 per team. Call 803-270-6123.

Rotary Hardy Century Bike Ride is Sunday, October 13, at 8:30 a.m. beginning and ending at Harlem High School. 50 and 100K options available and registration includes rest stops with food and energy drinks, an after-ride lunch by Sagg Wagons and a T-shirt. $30. Call 706-8338291 or visit active.com or rotaryccw.org.

Triple 8 Group Run meets at 8th and Reynolds, 8 a.m., every Saturday through October 26. Choose your distance: 3, 6 or 8 miles. Open to everyone. Visit theaugustamarket.com.

Kickball League registration is available for a new adult co-ed league at Riverview Park. Call 941-716-3163 or visit augustakickball.com.

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Wheelchair Tennis Clinic, presented by the Walton Foundation for Independence, meets each Monday at 6 p.m. (weather permitting) at The Club at Rae’s Creek. Free and open to the public.

Call 706-826-5809 or email alsalley@wrh.org.

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Weekly Group Runs include the Monday Metro Run meeting at Metro Coffeehouse at 6 p.m.; Monday Intervals meeting at the Family Y track on Wheeler Road at 7 p.m.; the Tuesday Nacho Mama’s Group Run at 6 p.m.; Wednesday’s Blanchard Woods Group Run at 6 p.m.; Wednesday Stay in Shape Group Run at 6 p.m.; Wednesday’s Post Office Hill Training Run at 7 p.m.; Thursday’s Homer Hustle at 6 p.m.; and Saturday’s Stay in Shape Run at 8 a.m. Visit augustastriders.com.

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Hott Shott Disc Golf is held each Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Killer B Disc Golf in downtown Augusta, and features games and prizes for all ages and skill levels. $2. Call 706-814-7514 or visit killerbdiscgolf.blogspot.com/p/hott-shott.

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Thursday Night Chain Reaction Ride begins at 6 p.m. each Thursday at Patriots Park in Grovetown. For intermediate to fast-paced cyclists, who average 25-32 miles. Participants should bring their own water and helmet. Call 706-855-2024 or visit chainreactionbicycles.net.

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Road Bike Ride meets each Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Andy Jordan’s Bicycle Warehouse downtown for an approximately 25-mile ride at a moderate to fast pace. Front and rear lights, as well as a helmet, are required. Call 706-7246777 or visit andyjordans.com.

The Augusta Fencers Club is open five nights a week from 5:30-9 p.m. and most Saturday mornings from 10 a.m.-noon. Visitors always welcome. Call 706-722-8878.

BlazeSports Swim Team, for all ages of physically challenged swimmers who want to train for competition, meets at the Wilson Family Y. Members, $35 a month; non-members, $50 a month. Preregistration required. Visit thefamilyy.org.

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Insect Investigation is Friday, September 20, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Reed Creek Park.

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Curious George Curiosity Day is Saturday, September 21, at 11 a.m. at Barnes and Noble in the Augusta Mall. Event includes special storytime, activities and more. Free. Call 706737-0012 or visit bn.com.

Outdoor Movie Night is Saturday, September 21, at dusk at Reed Creek Park.

“Antz” will show on the big screen and there will be a pre-movie dance contest. $2 per person.

Call 706-210-4027 or visit reedcreekpark.com.

Banned Books Storytime is Wednesday, September 25, from 10-10:30 a.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. Call 706-722-6275 or visit ecgrl.org.

Hands on Learning: Crocodile Creek Tower Puzzle Build Challenge is Wednesday, September 25, at 10 a.m. at Barnes and Noble in the Augusta Mall. Kids ages 3-7 will have fun at this group activity as they build a four-foot high circus tower puzzle. Pre-registration required.

Call 706-737-0012 or visit bn.com..

The Maize at Steed’s Dairy is open from Saturday, September 21-Saturday, November 17.

Saturday hours are 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday hours are 1-7 p.m. Activities at Steed’s Dairy include a petting zoo, jumping pillow, giant tube slide, rubber duckie races, a preschool play area, a corn kernel pit, hayrides, a pumpkin patch, cow-milking demonstrations and more. $10 per person; $8 for seniors, military and groups; free for ages 2 and under. Visit steedsdairy.com.

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DuPont Planetarium shows for Saturdays in September are “Solar System Adventure Tour” at 7 and 8 p.m. and “Blown Away: Wild World of Weather” at 9 p.m. Weather permitting, the observatory, housing the Bechtel Telescope, will be available for viewing after each show. General admission $4.50; seniors $3.50; 4K-12 $2.50; valid college or military I.D. gets you a 50-percent discount; USCA faculty, staff and students $1.

Kids under 4 not permitted in public viewings.

Reservations encouraged. Call 803-641-3654.

Little Friends Gym, a parent and child class for those ages 6 months-4 years, is held each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Warren Road Community Center. Call 706-860-2833 or visit augustaga.gov.

Story Time is held at the Columbia County Library at 10:15 and 11 a.m. Tuesdays, for kids under 2 years old; at 10:15 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for 2-year-olds; at 11 a.m., Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for preschoolers; and at 4 p.m. Wednesdays for all ages. Call 706-863-1946 or visit ecgrl.org.

Loud Crowd, a supervised after-school program for those ages 4-12, is Monday Friday from 3-6 p.m. at the Warren Road Community Center. Call 706-860-2833 or visit augustaga.gov.

Homeschool PE Time, for elementary school aged kids, meets Monday-Friday, from 9-11 a.m. at the Kroc Center. Members free. Call 706-364-5762 for non member prices. Visit krocaugusta.org.

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Young Children’s Story Time is Tuesdays from 9:15-9:45 a.m.at the Diamond Lakes Branch Library. Songs, finger plays, and story readings best for children ages 2 and younger.

Registration required for groups of 6 or more.

Call 706-772-2432 or visit ecgrl.org.

Preschool Story Time is Tuesdays from 1010:40 a.m. at the Diamond Lakes Branch Library.

Come for stories, songs, games, short movies and crafts. Registration required for groups of 6 or more. Best for ages 2-5. Call 706-772-2432 or visit ecgrl.org.

Preschool Story Time is every Tuesday at Headquarters Branch Library at 10 a.m. Toddler Story Time is every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Group registration required. Call 706-821-2600 or visit ecgrl.org.

Preschool Story Time is held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Friedman Branch Library. Groups of six or more must pre-register. Call 706-7366758 or visit ecgrl.org.

Story Time is every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Harlem Branch Library. Call 706-556-9795 or visit ecgrl.org.

Story Time is held every Wednesday from 10-11:15 a.m. at Wallace Branch Library. Preregistration required. Call 706-722-6275 or visit ecgrl.org.

Story Time is held each Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Maxwell Branch Library. Preregistration required for groups. Call 706-7932020 or visit ecgrl.org.

Story Time at the Euchee Creek Branch Library, for all ages, is held each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. and each Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. Call 706-556-0594 or visit ecgrl.org.

Mudpuppies, an arts and crafts program for ages 2-5, is held each Thursday at 10:45 a.m. at the Warren Road Community Center. Call 706860-2833 or visit augustaga.gov.

Creek Freaks, a Georgia Adopt-a-Stream team of middle- and high-school students, meets regularly at Phinizy Swamp Nature Park to monitor the health of Butler Creek. Call 706-7967707 or visit naturalscienceacademy.org.

Fun-Time Fridays, for ages 2-5, is held each Friday at 10:45-11:30 a.m. at the Warren Road Community Center. Call 706-860-2833 or visit augustaga.gov.

Gesher, a teen program for post b’nai mitzvah youngsters (7th-12th grade), meets every other Sunday at Adas Yeshurun Synagogue. Call 706733-9491.

Seniors

Got 30 Minutes? is Thursday, September 19, at 1 p.m. at the Kroc Center. The Area Agency on Aging will conduct 30-minute educational classes providing an overview of services that are available for those who are caregivers, the aging and for those with disabilities in Georgia. Free.

Call 706-364-KROC or visit krocaugusta.org.

Informational Seminar for Senior Housing at Marshall Square Retirement Resort is Sunday, September 22, at 2:30 p.m. at the Columbia County Library. A reception follows the presentation.

Registration required. Call 706-854-1234.

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“Understanding the Book of Revelation: A New Kingdom,” a Bible teaching seminar, is Saturday, September 21, from noon-1 p.m. at the Friedman Branch Library. Participants should bring their Bibles. Visit aspeakerforalloccasions.net.

Celtic Service is Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church in downtown Augusta. This service is inclusive and welcoming of all people.

The Celtic Communion is a candlelight service using sacred music to provide a meditative worship experience. Call 706-724-2485 or visit saintpauls.org.

Elsewhere

Contra Dance is Saturday, September 21, from 7-10:30 p.m. at Arsenal Hill Park Building, 1800 Lincoln Street in Columbia. Corner House will perform, and Marolyn Floyd is the caller. Wear clean, soft-soled, non-marking shoes. $8; $5 with student ID. Call 803-760-5881 or visit contracola.org.

If you would like to see your organization’s events listed in our calendar, please email Amy Christian at amy@themetrospirit.com.

The deadline for each Thursday’s issue is the previous Friday at noon.

Story Time is every Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. for pre-K, and either 11 or 11:30 a.m. for preschoolers at Aiken County Public Library. Call 803-642-2023 or visit abbe-lib.org.

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27 Candy bar featured in a “Seinfeld” episode 28 Bittern’s habitat 29 Country composed of 200+ islands 30 Start of many Brazilian place names 31 Salts 33 “___ any wonder?”

35 Sticky handle?

37 High-‐handed ambassador stationed off the Italian coast?

43 Cast 44 TV show broadcast from Times Square, for short 45 French/Belgian river 46 Turbaned type 47 Musician with the gold-‐selling album “Sugar Lips” 50 Billet-‐doux recipient 54 Four-‐time Best New Age Album Grammy winner 55 Peace treaty between a predator and its prey?

61 Frequently faked luxury brand 62 Palindromic constellation 63 Relation?

64 Contents of some six-‐packs 67 Tom Brady, in the 2002 Super Bowl?

74 More, in Madrid 75 ___ cube (popular 1960s puzzle) 76 ___ Canals 77 Charred 78 Musical piece for a “Star Wars” battle scene?

84 Here, in Honduras 87 As a result 88 Mistakes made by some bad drivers 89 Writer H. H. ___ 91 ___-‐Honey 94 Magazine user?

95 Smuggler-‐chasing org.

98 Advocate for pro-‐am tournaments?

105 Kind of kick 106 Pixar title character 107 Like some excuses 108 Pseudonym preceder 110 Change 112 Short-‐winded 115 Turning point 116 Diminutive Aborigine?

121 Engage in excessive self-‐ reflection?

122 Marathoner’s woe 123 Sections of a natural history museum, maybe 124 Super Soaker brand 125 Not approach directly 126 Himalayans of legend 127 Prefix with god 128 Home of Wind Cave Natl. Park DOWN 1 Nurse 2 Stop getting better 3 Broadcast medium 4 City near Mount Rainier 5 “Mazel ___!”

6 [Pardon] 7 Director Wertmüller 8 “CBS Evening News” anchor before Pelley 9 1969 Peter O’Toole title role 10 Union letters 11 Small 58-‐Down size 12 Ready for a frat party, say 13 “Would you like me to?”

14 “The Dark Knight” and “The Bourne Supremacy,” e.g.

15 Mer contents 16 Newspaper worker 17 “Casablanca” heroine 18 Concerning 24 Skater’s jump 25 Time piece 26 X Games fixture 31 Acad., e.g.

32 Brief remark upon retiring 34 Milk-‐Bone, e.g.

36 Stroked, in a way 38 Arabic for “commander” 39 ___ avis 40 “___ la Douce” 41 Singer Winehouse 42 Actress Carrere 47 Lenovo competitor 48 Having the fewest rules 49 It’ll grab you by the seat of your pants

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72 Short trips 73 Ones with good habits?

78 Seductive singer 79 Frozen dessert brand owned by Mrs. Fields 80 Rule 81 Book of Judges judge 82 Bring down the house?

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IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 20

DRAMA

“The Family” A curiously well-done mob comedy

SAM EIFLING

One day a future generation of forensic cinephiles will exhume Robert De Niro’s career and find that, in fact, every character he ever played had Mob ties. The easy ones are the easy ones: “The Godfather Part II,” “Casino,” “Analyze This.” Trickier will be proving that his cantankerous patriarch in “Meet the Fockers” was actually running numbers for the Gambinis back in the day, or that Frankenstein’s monster hijacked cigarette trucks before he met his end by the lowercase-‐m mob.

Consider “The Family” not only a chalkmark on the simple side of that ledger, but a road map for it. De Niro plays Giovanni, a retired mobster who, along with his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) and two teenaged kids (Dianna Agron and John D’Leo), lives low in France under the protective watch of the FBI. All four of the lead characters conceal, barely, a penchant for violence. The mother may casually torch a grocery store when a cashier sneers at Americans behind her back; the daughter breaks a tennis racket over a French lad’s head when he invites himself to touch the strap of her bra.

But as a former mobster on the run from black-‐hatted assassins, De Niro has perhaps the shortest fuse of all. When he brandishes a baseball bat against a sleazy plumber while recalling an Al Capone quote (“The Untouchables”!) the inward turn seems complete. Even the De Niro characters who are trying to retire from organized crime continue to quote former gangsters De Niro once played.

Like the characters they play, the cast and crew of “The Family” can’t escape their own resumes. Director Luc Besson (“The Fifth Element,” “The Professional”) shares the writing credit with a “Sopranos” screenwriter. Tommy Lee Jones is the family’s FBI contact, another lawman in his long lineage of the same. De Niro manages to be funny and charming and menacing but can’t quite disappear into Giovanni, perhaps because gangster characters are virtually synonymous with his face by now. “Scarface” alumna Pfeiffer, on the other hand, plays her mafiosa housewife with a touching world-‐ weariness that suits the long-‐suffering partner of a marked man.

The two parents, the two kids, form a tight unit that does something relatively rare in film: They love one another deeply and wholly, as the only consistent features of a life on the run, and turn their anger outward from the family.

They eat dinner together at the kitchen table every night. No one talks of the assaults, the arsons, the petty racketeering, even as everyone knows the shady stuff the others are capable of. They lie, but out of love, you see.

There are a couple of memorable lines in “The Family” — an early one, delivered by the father, says that knowing how much money you’re worth is to know exactly when you’ll die — but the cleverness of the writing is in building tone, a far tougher accomplishment than simply unspooling zingers, the usual hallmark of the gangster comedy. Besson creates living, breathing characters, worthy of your emotional investment, while signaling throughout that he’s most interested in dark farce, and isn’t above taking shortcuts to get there. The preposterous sequence via which the New York boss learns the family’s whereabouts, in particular, is an extended wink and nudge. For this to work, the director seems to signal, we need to get the bad guys and the good guys together, even when the good guys are former bad guys who really don’t seem to be such bad guys.

And of course the audience can’t put up a word of protest. We’ve seen this movie before, after all, if rarely in these shades, and only occasionally done so curiously well.

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“Prisoners,” rated R, starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard. Two missing girls, a police detective who can’t make any headway on the case and a desperate father merge into a story that will have many parents wondering what they would do in the same situation.

If, that is, they can bear to watch it. A feel-‐good movie this is not and the subject matter may be a hard sell for audiences, but the cast of this nail-‐biter has gotten great reviews.

MUSIC

“Battle of the Year,” rated PG-‐ 13, starring Chris Brown, Josh Holloway, Josh Peck. Speaking of hard sells, Chris Brown is barely mentioned as part of the cast of this one, about a dance contest.

Wonder why?

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THUMBS UP

Barbara Gordon, founder of the Metro Courier, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, really needs to publish her anti-aging secrets. Hard to believe she’s 63.

WHINELINE@THEMETROSPIRIT.COM

Have something you want to get off your chest? Send your whines to whineline@themetrospirit.com. If you do so by noon on Friday, you might just see it in the next Thursday’s issue. Oh, and whines may be edited for content but will pretty much be printed exactly as you type them.

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Barbara Gordon “stepping back” from the paper? We’ll believe it when we see it!

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and the rest of this country. It’s so eye opening for those intelligent enough to accept it.

Bravo Joe White! Class move with the photos and tribute to your daughter......

I picked up the Spirit Thursday at lunch and was home from work by 3 making plans with my daughter! Thanks man!

What!? No German food at this years Arts In The Heart?!!

Ach Du Lieber, Himmel!!!

How does a city of our size have so much of one musician?

If we Designate Downtown Augusta as a slum, we should Designate the Augusta Commission and Mayor as slum lords.

I just read an article about how the present owners of NFL teams acquired them.

Of the 31 teams (remember, Green Bay is owned by “the people”), 11 were “inherited.” Yea, inheritance - one of the best ways to achieve wealth in the good ole U.S. of A. Even Austin Rhodes fave team - the Pittsburgh Steelers - are inherited.

To the idiot who ranted in the Augusta Chronicle paper on September 13 about being white & being discriminated against because the Richmond County Board of Education has not hired them after applying for over 30 positions. First; RCBOE cannot base your hiring on your skin color & futhermore you have to be academically as well as physically & mentally qualified in which you appear to lack the latter - moron !!!

Augusta intrigue. Dueling cover bands the Beatles and Bruce Springsteen.

Beatles lead singer switches over to Bruce, who is donating proceeds to the charity the Beatles offended and quit last year. White people problems....

I’m sitting hear listening to a news report on people not respecting motorcycle drivers. That may be true, but the cyclists also need to respect the laws of the road and not drive like total a-holes. No, it is not ok for you to drive in between a row of stopped cars to skip to the front of the line. And yes, I will brake check you if you ride my bumper on your bike.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. — Susan B. Anthony Who is that nasily douche they keep getting to do all the radio commercials??

Please stop using him.

What’s with This Country? We Debate Forever what to do with a Perceived Threat! Look! Now it’s Syria! What’s the Debate? Blanket Bomb Syria Out of Existence! Situation Solved! Eliminate ANY PERCEIVED THREAT! We have the Means! You have the “Soon to be Dead Bodies”! Don’t Mess with US! “World Peace OR a World in Pieces! Why Prolong the Inevitable?

What’s wrong with Miss America being of Indian descent?

A lot, according to the interwebs… and a Fox News commentator. Gross. ;V [OL WYVSPÄJ H[OLPZ[ ^OPULY! @V\»K WYVIHIS` NL[ [OL YLZWLJ[ MVY `V\Y ]PL^Z that I’m sure you demand from Christians if you’d quit using this space to call them stupid.

I highly recommend the new ebook “The Un-Civil War” to the citizens of Augusta,

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