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News & FeaturesCity Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Athens News and ViewsThe Dope on university budget cuts, parking, water and charity auctions.

Solid Waste Wanting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8ACC Recycling Slowly Forges AheadDespite delays, the ACC Solid Waste Department is moving forward with single stream recycling.

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tHis weeK’s issue:

Less Is MoreAt first I was completely horrified like everybody else at

the proposed cuts to the University System of Georgia and the University of Georgia itself. My knee jerked, and I was off on a tirade against the anti-intellectual Republicans who control our state government. “How can they do this to us?” I ranted. “They’ll kill the university; they’ll kill Athens.” Finally, in the midst of my frothing I began to understand where they are coming from, and I felt better. In fact, once I could see their overall plan, I could fathom just how brilliant it is.

The main thing to remember is that this is not just about the University of Georgia; it’s not even just about the uni-versity system. This is about the whole State of Georgia, but it’s not just about the State of Georgia as it is now, with all its revenue shortfalls and budget balancing. This is about the State of Georgia as it is going to be. This is about the future, and once you grasp this, your eyes will open to a broad vista, revealing what Georgia will be henceforth.

Remember when we were all criticizing our Republican lead-ers for their failure to alleviate our traffic gridlock—especially in Atlanta—by building more roads? Remember when we lamented their failure to understand the renewed importance of railroads to our economy? Remember when we criticized

them for their shortsightedness in allowing Atlanta to run out of water? Remember when we thought they were robbing our schoolchildren of a decent educa-tion? Remember when we thought them callous toward trauma care and kids’ health? Remember, even,

when we protested their tantrums over gay marriage and their dedication to arming every citizen with a concealed weapon? Remember how we hooted at their promotion of the idea that Georgia should secede from the union or at least nullify all acts of the federal government as they apply to our state?

What the governor and his Republican legislature could see that we couldn’t see at that time is that very soon the traffic congestion in Atlanta will begin to die out naturally, without our spending any money on road-building. The same with the water problem and with rail. Atlanta is not going to grow any-more: it is going to shrink. Atlanta will subside back toward where it was in the mid-’50s—a slower, friendlier town that doesn’t have all the expensive needs of a growing city, like, say, Charlotte, in a state with a legislature that understands investing for growth. A shrinking city needs a lot less govern-ment and investment in infrastructure: the same goes for a state. In other words, our Republican leaders knew that their withholding support for essential services would force people out of Atlanta and out of Georgia, not to mention Athens.

Can’t you see how brilliantly forward-thinking they are? As Atlanta shrinks, so shrinks Georgia, lessening the need for more jobs, highways, water, infrastructure, etc., all over the state.

Now you can understand why these cuts to the state’s uni-versities make perfect sense and are part of a whole—a unified plan for our state and its future.

Because there will be fewer people in Atlanta and in Georgia, there will be fewer students in the universities. That means that they’re right in downsizing the faculty. And as the faculty downsizes, and as fewer people get college educations, of course we won’t need an intellectually challenging radio station, nor will there be all that many people who think they need to go out to a state-supported “botanical garden” when they want to see a tree.

The University of Georgia will be the perfect fit for the new Georgia. We won’t need the research on esoteric subjects or the literary journal or the book publishing or any of those essentials of a nationally competitive university. To tell the truth, this will probably be as good a time as any to face the fact that things like English and art and philosophy are actu-ally irrelevant to the requirements of Georgians, who just want a good basic education.

Thanks to the vision of our Republican leaders, Georgia will no longer need to have much to do with the rest of the country or with other countries. We’ll do very well here in our own local universe, where less is more, and this is the best of all possible worlds.

Pete McCommons [email protected]

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THREATS & PROMISES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13RECORD REVIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14DANIELSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15UPSTART ROUNDUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15SATANIZED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17THE CALENDAR! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18BULLETIN BOARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25COMICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26REALITY CHECK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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Us Against Us: The culture wars came to roost in our “oasis” last week, and they may stick around for a while. Amid the shock and awe that registered with our university-dependent populace at the news of the pending evis-ceration of higher education in Georgia, it was easy to forget that the banners reading “Massive Job Losses,” “Popular Programs Eliminated” and “Tenure in Jeopardy” had been raised on our side. But if the appropri-ately frightening document entitled “Impact of $300M additional cuts,” released by the Board of Regents last week to paint a stark picture of what the cuts demanded by state legislators might look like, was intended to shame the pols into reconsidering their meth-ods for dealing with their billion-dollar-plus budget shortfall (no doubt an effect of the “Obama Recession”—so named by right-wing haters before the prez even sat down in the Oval Office), then its success was decidedly mixed.

When mouthpieces for the Georgia Republican delegation—the gang of know-nothing white dudes holing up in Atlanta and holding all the cards—derided the cuts proposed by the University System as “scare tactics,” they were talking about the potential loss of 4H Clubs, County Extension Offices, and other programs on the “something-from-everyone” hit list that are highly valued by the reac-tionary jes’ folks who are the only constituents they think they have to answer to. But make no mistake: in a state that went 60 percent for a ticket that featured Sarah Palin in 2008 and has gotten more blindly conservative since, it’s pretty safe to characterize stuff like university presses, competi-tive salaries for top professors and even higher education itself as belonging to the province of fluttering, sniffy “elites.” Unfortunately for us—including the 25 percent of UGA custodial staff who stand to lose their jobs—that province also goes by the name of “Athens,” and unless the people in this state who would be affected by the collapse of its public education system (that is, all of them) wake up to that reality and start yelling about it to their elected repre-sentatives—or voting them out—things are going to start looking pretty different around here.

Wait, There’s Other News?: In other news, buried at the tail end, as it were, of the ACC mayor and commission’s feral cat-dominated Mar. 2 voting session was a request from Mayor Heidi Davison that county staff look into the possibility of installing parking meters on Hickory Street, the currently yellow-curbed road on the eastern edge of downtown that connects Broad to Willow by way of the Multimodal Transportation Center. While the mayor tells the Dope that her main interest

in such a plan would be to help set the table for future expansion of commercial downtown to the river, she concedes that one significant short-term effect it might have would be to address the still-unresolved parking situa-tion at Jittery Joe’s Tasting Room, located directly across East Broad from Hickory. Stay tuned!

On the Water: Registration has begun for the Georgia River Network’s 82-mile Paddle Georgia 2010, a week-long canoe and kayak trip on the Broad and Savannah Rivers for a hefty flock of paddlers who will shove off June 19 near Franklin Springs and stay wet until June 25 when they come to port in Augusta. Okay, nighttime accommodations on dry land will be provided, but you get the picture. It’s a fun and healthy midsummer adventure, and a great way to raise funds for river protection in Georgia. Go to www.garivers.org for more info.

Speaking of rivers, state water advocates last week were looking towards a House bill that should have been dropped in the legis-lative hopper Monday, Mar. 8 (smack in the middle of the old weekly-paper lag between press time and street date), which would seek to establish criteria for interbasin water transfers while setting guidelines for more

open public notification of said IBTs. It’s a bi-partisan bill with dozens of sponsors from across the state, including our Representative Doug McKillip. Here’s a hunch: up-to-date info is likely to be available at erstwhile Dope Ben Emanuel’s blog, www.gawaterwire.com.

Giving Is Good: The 12th Annual Empty Bowl Luncheon and Silent Auction to benefit the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia is Mar. 17 at the Classic Center. Tickets are $20 and include soup and a sandwich—plus, you get a free handmade bowl! Get more info at www.food-banknega.org. The following week, All God’s Children will host its Third Annual Auction for Adoption Mar. 26 at Buffalo’s Southwest Cafe. All God’s Children is an Oconee County adoption agency that helps “hard to place” children find permanent homes. Tickets are $20; call All God’s Children at (706) 316-2421 for more info.

Dave Marr [email protected]

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thIs Is BAd, reAL BAd The effect of the current budget crisis is

nothing less than catastrophic. Since this “great recession” started, tax revenues have plummeted, state government has been working leaner and meaner every month and Georgia has all but exhausted its rainy day fund, which was recently as much as $1 bil-lion. All departments have been furloughing employees, eliminating non-essential travel and other expenses, all while continuing to provide services to an ever-growing number of Georgians. As I write this article, revenues are still in a free-fall. The state spends 55 percent of its budget on education, with another 30 percent spent on health and human services and public safety. In all fairness, education, health care and public safety are the General Assembly’s top priorities. Nevertheless, the proposed cuts to these basic governmental services are becoming draconian. The rev-enue level in the state will not support these government functions, and we must begin to consider modest tax increases to make up the difference. By way of example, I serve on the Higher Education subcommittee of Appropriations. If no additional revenue is generated, we have to cut the budget for the University System of Georgia (the Board of Regents) by an additional $300+ mil-lion for fiscal year 2011. This is in addition to substantial cuts that were made in the supple-mental budget for fiscal year 2010. Just to keep this in perspective, we are being asked to cut an amount of money from the Board of Regents’ appropriation that would be equal to eliminating 23 of the 35 universities in the state. Not cutting their budget some—elim-inating them! We are already falling behind on higher education salaries, with many of our University of Georgia professors being recruited to schools in states that are willing to make the smart academic investment. Cuts of this magnitude cannot be accomplished by eliminating inefficiencies in the system, by furloughing teachers or by making fewer photocopies. In order to save education in Georgia, and to make the kind of investment in education that is necessary to be a leader in the Southeast, I believe we will have to supplement our education budget with modest tax increases. I have been a proponent—for years—of adding an additional dollar per pack of cigarettes, of adding an extra 1 percent to the income tax for households making over $400,000 per year, of eliminating the special-interest tax exemptions, and of modernizing our tax code to reflect today’s income and expense levels. I believe with modest changes to our tax structure, which will result in increased revenue of between $1 billion and $2 billion, we can significantly lessen the effects of the budget crisis on education. As bad as things feel now, remember that the $1 billion shortfall that we face for fiscal year 2011 will be a $2.6 billion shortfall for 2012 (no more stimulus dollars). Also, the prob-lems that I have detailed for education can likewise be set forth for transportation, the failing water system infrastructure in the state (including the court ordered termination of

the use of Lake Lanier as a drinking water res-ervoir), and a—shall we say—distressed men-tal health system. Georgia is at the crossroads of politics and leadership, and its success will, I believe, be determined by what we do in the next few months.

Doug McKillip State Representative, District 115

Athens

$UndAY $ALesIt seems our governor and state legislature

are in desperate need of tax revenue, with the proposed cuts to the state education budget. Rather than pushing the burden of Georgia’s debt onto students and educators who are already suffering from reductions in core services and increased workloads, why not legalize Sunday package sales of alcohol? That would almost certainly raise tax revenue to cover the states deficit, without adding an increased burden on those of us who are already struggling to get by (see also: liv-ing wage) that the one-percent food tax

that some advocacy groups are proposing would do.

Sonny and his lackeys are defending the millions allocated to the horse park and their other pet projects by saying that they will bring in large agricultural conventions. But

what about the events held by the 4-H, the State Botanical Garden, the functions of Skidaway and the other research stations, and the other programs and institutions that will fall victim to the ham-fisted budget cuts?

Do those not also bring money into the state and support Georgia agriculture and industry? How can one claim to “support Georgia agriculture” while eliminating the 4-H and the services provided to farmers by the county extensions? What about the brain drain that will happen when out-of-work educators and researchers seek work in other states? I’d like to hear what our legislators have to say about these issues, and why a horse park takes priority over them.

Eric RoseAthens

thAnKs, BrAndY tILLerWhat are the homeless and jobless going

to do without Brandy Tiller? In the past three years this wonderful woman has been a pil-lar to the homeless community. We don’t know what happened, but the board from the Athens Homeless Shelter dismissed her on Feb. 15. When we found out about this miscarriage of justice, we started a petition to let the board know how the homeless community felt about this. She is the only person at JobTREC who cared about us and tried to help us any way she could. We miss you and need you. We hope the board will read this and see the need of the homeless and jobless for a great person like you. We wish to believe that JobTREC would help us.

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The UGA Main Library could have its operating hours cut by 30 percent if proposed cost-saving measures are enacted.


When Chancellor Erroll Davis was told to make further budget cuts at the University System, he put up several ideas for consider-ation. You could raise tuition, charge students an “emergency fee,” shorten semesters, lay off some employees or discontinue popular programs such as 4-H and county extension offices, Davis said. The one thing Davis indi-cated he will not do is trim the salaries of the University System’s highest-paid employees. “That’s certainly something we’re not going to recommend or even contemplate,” he told lawmakers.

A lot of lawmakers are asking, why not? Gov. Sonny Perdue was paid $139,339 dur-

ing the last fiscal year. I sometimes disagree with Perdue about the decisions he makes or the actions he takes, but you can’t deny that the governor holds the most important job in state government. If Perdue said tomorrow the governor’s salary should be doubled, I would not argue with him.

Now look at the salaries paid to college presidents and administrators.

University of Georgia President Michael Adams’ salary was $607,417 in the last fiscal year. Arnett Mace, the former provost who is now a “special assistant” to Adams, was paid $338,100. Jere Morehead, the current provost, was paid $219,364, while student affairs head Rodney Bennett was paid $223,694. Adams’ chief of staff, Meg Amstutz, was paid $137,000—which means that she made almost as much as the governor of the state.

Daniel Papp, the president of Kennesaw State University, was paid $266,956 last year. One of his staffers was paid $152,534—an assistant to a college president made more than the governor.

Daniel Kaufman, the president of newly established Georgia Gwinnett College, was paid $216,566. One of Kaufman’s staffers makes $153,350 a year. Again: an assistant to

a college president made a higher salary than the governor.

These people have impressive credentials and important responsibilities. I don’t doubt that they work hard for their salaries. On the other hand, I doubt any of them work harder than a teacher struggling to educate middle school students in a cash-poor school sys-tem. I doubt that they have to cope with the physical dangers faced by state troopers who patrol our highways. I doubt that their jobs are as stressful as the corrections officer who makes sure convicted killers don’t escape from prison.

Teachers, state troopers and prison guards have all had to take furloughs and salary

cuts this year. Why shouldn’t college presidents and administrators? Davis

contends that if highly paid offi-cials actually had to cut their salaries, the state would see its “best and brightest leave us” as other states raid Georgia for its academic talent. Every state government and university sys-

tem is facing a deep budget crisis right now because of the recession.

Other states, like Georgia, are strug-gling to provide even basic services like

K-12 education, public safety and healthcare. You are not going to see other states

raid the University System’s talent. Just like Georgia, they don’t have the money.

“We cannot allow our students and pro-grams to bear the brunt of these impending cuts,” said Sen. Seth Harp (R-Midland). “True leaders are the first to make sacrifices for the betterment of others. I am calling on the leaders of our state’s greatest universities to share in the sacrifice.”

Cutting the salaries of college administra-tors will not solve all of the state’s budget problems, but it’s a start, and it would show that everyone is sharing the burden as we struggle to get through these hard times.

Tom Crawford [email protected]

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Law School GroupHolds Auction to BenefitPublic Interest Work

On Friday, Feb. 26 at the Melting Point, the Equal Justice Foundation of the UGA Law School held its 25th annual auction, raising approximately $30,000 to benefit public inter-est work in the legal sector. Law students who decide to pursue careers in public interest positions, such as working for prosecutors and public defenders, in government agencies, and doing legal work for nonprofit organizations, incur the high fees of a legal education with-out the promise of high salaries.

The EJF works to provide money so that “more students can use their law degrees for the public good.” A key-note speech by former Georgia U.S. Senator Max Cleland, co-sponsored by Working in the Public Interest, opened the evening. Working in the Public Interest is an organization focusing on correcting social injustice by bringing those involved in public interest work to speak in the Athens com-munity. Law student and EJF President Russell Edwards says his favorite moment of the night was presenting Cleland with a vintage Pucci tie purchased from the local boutique Agora: “Max had an unforgettable smile on his face.”

The auction included silent bidding on packages, gift certificates, artwork and other items donated by local stores and artists. Lori Epps, a third-year law student, donated a set of earrings and a necklace which sold for $90.

“It’s a great way for local artists and busi-nesses to get their names out there, so I would always encourage local artists to donate a piece of their work,” says Epps, who donated to the auction for the first time.

Other items in the silent auction included a two-night stay at the Jekyll Island Club, which was purchased by one of the law school faculty members. In addition, students were invited to bid on packages donated by law school professors. Professor Fazal Khan’s dona-tion was “Pingpongpocalypse for seven to eight students.” The students will go to Khan’s house this spring to challenge the professor in a ping pong tournament. Other packages offered this year included an evening of kara-oke with Professors Hillel Levin and Jason

Solomon and various dinners and drinks at faculty members’ houses.

The auctioneers included Edwards and Khan, as well as Professors Lori Ringhand, Dan Coenan, Tom Eaton and Associate Dean Paul Kurtz.

Despite the poor economy, students were not dissuaded from shelling out big bucks for professor-donated packages. One student paid $1000 for a group of 10 to join six professors for a wine tasting. Dean Kurtz noted that this year’s venue had “plenty of room and rela-tively easy access to alcohol, which certainly helps boost the bidding.”

The auction, says third year law student Stephanie Ruiter, is a “good chance to know your professors outside of the classroom con-text” for law students, and an even better way to raise money for a great cause.

Katherine Shell

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What’s Happening?: That giant hole being opened up on Hull Street isn’t a grave being dug for the local construction industry; it’s actually a sign that things are still alive and kicking around here. That hole will actually be the underground vault for the UGA Special Collections Library. This new library may be one of the few high-profile new construc-tion projects around town, but work is still being done here, with renovations aplenty. The list of campus buildings undergoing major renovations is pretty impressive, from his-toric structures like New College and the Fine Arts building to dated modernist buildings like Journalism and the Coliseum. Expansion seems to be another theme, with projects at the Butts-Mehre complex and the Georgia Museum of Art really starting to take shape.

k More UGA Builds: One under-the-radar project is a new home for the Ceramics Department on River Road, in a 15,000 square foot building with an industrial look not too far from the new Lamar Dodd School of Art. This will consolidate that department, which is currently on the far end of campus, and the rest of the art school, and perhaps free up the old Lamar Dodd building on Jackson Street for its turn on the renovation bandwagon. This project should be a quick one, with the ceram-ics building opening in the fall. I do have one question, though: With River Road already dominated by so many looming revivalist fraternity mansions, why not give the ceramics department a Grecian temple just like everyone else, for con-sistency’s sake?

Speaking of denuded hills above the river, construction of a new bridge and a new building at Horseshoe Bend have left College Station Road looking a little less green lately. The bridge will con-nect over to the sewage treatment plant on Bailey Street behind Barnett Shoals Road. While the new plant will take care of the “poop on the loop” odor issues, those missing trees won’t be back for a generation, and we may have just traded olfactory pollution for the visual sort. Especially of note, some of the crape myrtles that were planted in the College Station median for the ‘96 Olympics were wiped out. Another impressive stand was wiped out as part of Special Collections Library site preparations; it’s a shame we can’t be more careful with our resources, since trees take a long time to grow.

Infill Action: One project that recently caught my eye was on Baxter Street, at the site of the former China Boat. Although some elements of the original structure were kept, this “renovation” features an interesting curv-ing facade facing Baxter, designed by E and E Architecture. I’m looking forward to seeing this one finished and adding to the grow-ing collection of interesting commercial infill along Baxter Street.

Another project that’s gotten quite a bit of flak is a proposal for a RaceTrac gas station on West Broad Street, at Colima Avenue. The proposed highway-style 18-pump station isn’t compatible with the single-family neighbor-hood, and the developer’s zoning request was withdrawn at the last ACC Commission voting session when it was made clear that it had no chance for approval (the developer now has the option to re-submit a new design for the project). Gas stations don’t have to be

overbearing eyesores, though, and if designed well enough, the Broad Street station could actually be an attractive improvement to the neighborhood. Consider the Texaco sta-tion adjacent to J’s Bottle Shop on Prince, with its convenience store oriented toward the street and pumps off to the side. A little creativity in the design, as opposed to the strategy for maximum visibility, might go a long way.

There has even been some infill scattered around town in the last few months in spite of the economic slowdown, most notably a complex of new neo-Craftsman houses on MLK near North Avenue. But with talk of UGA cutting enrollment due to state budget crisis, even the infill student housing market may go away.

Abuse of Resources: As a final note, it’s inter-esting to watch our local bureaucracies go after Athens’ character so whole-heartedly. The planning department still seems willing to shut down Jittery Joe’s Tasting Room on East Broad, potentially forcing one of the coolest local (and locally minded) businesses around town to move over a parking lot technicality. Ironically, the effect that Jittery Joe’s has had on cycling around town ought to more than make up for any negative effects this parking lot will have.

Likewise, the services that Nuçi’s Space provides are certainly worth more to the com-munity than the tax revenue their property would provide. And UGA recently went to war over scooters, potentially eliminating a posi-tive local phenomenon (as a follow-up to my recent column on the subject I spoke with Leon Ward of ReCycle Scooters, who told me that the way Athens has embraced scooter use—especially those with 50cc and smaller engines—may be unique among towns our size in this country).

Each of these three cases represents an overcompensated reactionary response to a perceived fear that it will “open the flood-gates” to things that are detrimental to our community. Really though, aren’t the bureau-cratic overreactions doing more damage?

Kevan Williams [email protected]

If the colonization of South America had been only about “educat-ing” the natives by imposing a new language and religion on

them, Ecuador would stand today as a shining Spanish success story. With the exception of a small (but very diverse) minority of indigenous people, everybody speaks Spanish and almost everybody seems to be Roman Catholic—the insides of nearly all the buses are decked out with stickers of Jesus, angelic cherubs and the Virgin Mary. As one could guess, this is not an easy place to be openly homosexual. Pablo, a gay Quito resident whom I stayed with for four days, told me that the vast majority of gay men in Ecuador are still in the closet and often, also have girlfriends. “They go out with their girlfriends at eight, have some coffee, then meet their boyfriends at 11,” he said. And because young Ecuadorians usually live with their families until they get married, it’s even more difficult to come out of the closet, given the fear of being tossed out in the street. Pablo told me of a gay friend who lost an arm after being run over by a car—a car piloted by his father, who had seen him kissing another man. Pablo also recounted how his in-the-closet gay friends still living at home would dress in something conserva-tive before going out, then change into their raunchier attire when they got to a (usually unmarked) club. Pablo just shook his head when we returned to the subject of the vindic-tive Catholic. “Their minds are so closed,” he said with a sigh.

The couple I’m staying with here in Guayaquil seems even more religious than the norm—four times a week they have some sort of meeting related to their church, and reli-gious stickers and clippings crowd the outside of the kitchen refrigerator and the cabinets. Gloria’s sister, Fatima, lives just down the road and has this sticker on her living room win-dow: “ESTE HOGAR ES CATOLICO: No aceptamos propaganda protestante o de otras sectas.” My host family, and their extended families, are also politically conservative (with the unsur-prising exception of their 21-year-old son), and I’ve now had the privilege of listening to pro- and anti- welfare arguments in two languages. Most of the people I’ve encoun-tered in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, are opposed to the policies of the current presi-dent, Rafael Correa, a leftist who has aligned himself with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. In the presidential election of April last year, Correa won in every province but this one. Now, the population of Guayaquil feels as if they’re being punished by Correa for the sin of rejecting him: they say that the city does not get its fair share of the country’s income,

that they’re left without power for longer than other areas of the country and that govern-ment takeover of the utilities has made them worse. A couple weeks ago I went to a giant anti-Correa rally in Guayaquil, which an esti-mated 300,000 people attended, clogging the main avenue of the city. The rally seemed like a cry for Guayaquil’s independence; a push for secession—I don’t think I saw one Ecuadorian flag, but I did see thousands upon thousands of sky blue/white Guayaquileño flags. The crowd was in a nationalistic trance, chant-ing Guayaquileño anthems and carrying the mayor of the city, Jaime Nebot, also Correa’s most prominent opponent, on their shoulders all the way up the avenue to a podium to speak. “May he [Correa] stay in Cuba or go to Venezuela!” shouted Nebot, to the roaring approval of the crowd.

But as noted before, Guayaquil is more of an exception—I also was in Quito just in time for the anti-Correa rally

there, and the attendance was, at best, a mea-ger 10,000 people. As is Hugo Chavez with the poor of Venezuela, and Evo Morales with the poor of Bolivia, Correa is very popular with the poor of Ecuador. As in most of the countries of the world, the poor are the majority here. Although I’ve landed in a pretty comfort-able setting here in Guayaquil, life is usually hard for the average Ecuadorian. The streets, as well as the buses that traverse them, are flooded with salesmen of every type, hustling day and night trying to sell everything you could possibly imagine. (Selling cigarettes individually is quite common here.) It’s impossible to ride a bus in Ecuador without having a handful of salesmen come down the isle at regular intervals, sometimes in a line all shouting at once, holding up ice cream cones or plastic bags filled with coconut milk or cookies or ears of corn or empanadas or bottles of water, hoping to sell before they have to hop off and start over again. For the vendedores with a more expensive product, like a CD or book, a more elaborate pitch is needed. On the bus from Loja to Guayaquil, one adept speaker began his lecture with talk of Socrates and the importance of education to young people. He was wearing a polo shirt from some community college, so I thought he was a recruiter. But as his lecture wound down and our bus wound around the mountains, it turned out that he was selling a booklet of “all-natural” cures to common physical ail-ments. He made more than a few sales.

To be continued…

Jeff Gore

The old home of the Lamar Dodd School of Art awaits its turn on the campus renovations carousel.

Another Letter from Ecuador

Part One of the Second Missive

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As Larry Munson might say, “Alright, get the picture.” It’s 3:30 p.m. on Mar. 2, 2010, and the University of Georgia has been closed since 2 p.m. on account of the snow, but there are still a number of faculty types around ye olde history department, seeing students and working in their offices. There’s a 5 p.m. final defense scheduled for a first-rate dis-sertation. It involves four faculty members who have read and critiqued this dissertation, some more than once, even though they will receive not a cent of additional monetary compensation for what is effectively a wholly voluntary expenditure of time and energy on their part. (This by a group that has not only had no raises in two years but will also have absorbed at least a 3 percent cut in their pay due to state-mandated furlough days by the end of the academic year.) In addition to time not spent with their families, the hours of off-the-books consulting with graduate students and reading their work outside class also cuts into the research and publication efforts they are expected to maintain in order to advance in salary and rank at an institution like the University of Georgia.

Is this group of faculty unusual? Hardly, but don’t bother telling that to the swinish louts in the legislature who have been roused into a frenzy by the prospect of anointing their porcine snouts with some still-warm left-wing professor blood and can’t wait to proceed with a thoroughly orgiastic disembowelment of higher education in Georgia. By that I mean they want to rip an additional $300 million out of the University System budget. Here at UGA, that means $60 million more on top of the $100 million that has already been hacked away over the last two years.

Remarkably, we’ve been able to maintain an admittedly tenuous verticality up to now, but if these cuts or anything like them stick, we’re going horizontal, Honey Child, and we’ll be that way for a long time. Forget the national rankings; our new concern will be accreditation. Although few may realize it as of yet, this is a truly critical point not only for the future of this institution but for the future of the state it was created to serve. We’re going to find out in the next few weeks whether over two generations’ worth of pomp-ous assertions that our state’s accomplish-ments and vision set us apart from our Deep South neighbors were anything more than self-serving verbal flatulence.

As they should, if they’re going to happen, these cuts are going to hurt a lot of people, many well beyond those who currently fill the 1,400-plus positions here at UGA that are said to be on the line or the 1,500 or so students who will be denied admission (either as fresh-men or transfers) next year. In addition to its traditional instructional mission, the University of Georgia’s storied land-grant tradition will suddenly sink beneath the kudzu if all the 4-H Clubs and half the County Extension offices are shut down.

Then there are the many other things that, by God, make a good healthy public university a state’s greatest asset. One of the most prestigious university presses in the country will be utterly destroyed, and The Georgia Review, one of the nation’s finest liter-ary journals, will be crippled in its day-to-day operations. Ditto our terrific Performing Arts Center and the Georgia Museum of Art, and they’ll even have to close the damn State Botanical Garden, for God’s sake!

In relative terms, the University of Georgia may well have weathered the Great Depression better than it stands to fare at the hands of the mouth-breathing Philistines now massed at our gates. There is much breast-beating over in Hotlanta about the virtues of making higher education leaner and more efficient (like a business, ahem!), but the fat was gone long ago. Make no mistake, the next excision—although we should think backhoe, not scalpel—will be pure muscle mass and vital organs.

All the legislative hand-wringing over a revenue shortfall would seem a mite more convincing if it came from a body that isn’t exposed annually as a haven for tax cheats in its own right. The real problem, though, is that the tax structure for the State of Georgia is inadequate even in relatively good times and utterly pathetic in the face of what we’re seeing now. Loath to raise levies even a teensy bit, many of the Republicans in the legislature currently insist, probably correctly, that their main man Sonny Perdue’s revenue

projections for next year are too high. This is no surprise. In fact it’s SOP in Georgia to inflate revenue predictions in order to spare the “Guvnuh” the awkwardness of having to suggest a tax increase. In this case, his Sonnyness has actually gone so far as to float proposals like a hike in cigarette taxes and a hospital use tax, but our dimwitted, tight-fisted solons ain’t having none of it. Word from the office of our esteemed lt. guvnuh’s office is that the best way to get the state’s economy “humming again” is to reject tax increases and pass “a balanced budget that creates the right environment for business to grow.” Ah, there it is, the old “favorable business climate” ploy that says increased (or

even continued) support for education is actu-ally bad for the state’s economic development because it probably means higher taxes.

Never you mind that this argument isn’t much help in explaining why the two fastest growing hotspots for high-tech industry in the whole country, North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle and the Austin, TX, metro area, are also home to three of the South’s finest universities. Like many low-tax, practically no-union Southern states, ours typically fares pretty well in annual business climate rankings, particularly on certain tax issues. A recent survey showed Georgia with

the nation’s eighth most favorable corporate tax climate. And why not? At a mere 5.6 per-cent of total state revenue collections, our reliance on corporate income tax as a source of funds is barely three-fourths as heavy as the average state’s. On the other hand, at 34.4 percent, our dependence on the intensely regressive and notoriously unstable sales tax for revenue is nearly 10 percent above the national norm.

As a historian, I concluded some time back that most bad people make it into public office not because they are so slick at fool-ing the people, but because so many of those people simply want to be fooled in the first place. For example, they truly want to hear

that any direct and tangible ben-efit they receive is entirely legit while everything the state offers to anyone else is totally bogus. Hence, in a manner of speaking, more often than not, voters get just about the kind of government they deserve.

On the other hand, having spent so much of my career at uni-versities operating on something just a butterbean or two better than a starvation diet, I believe that these schools have consis-tently given the people of their states far richer opportunities for higher learning than they have had any real reason to expect. If Georgians wish to cheer or even simply stand quietly by while a scurrilous band of their lawmak-ers panders to the Teabaggers by destroying higher education in this state, they’re finally going to get precisely the public universi-ties they deserve.

I’d like to think the vaunted affection that the people of Georgia are supposed to hold for their state university will ultimately prove to be its sal-vation (and maybe ultimately theirs as well), but I have to say I’d feel a lot more confident

if the Doomsday scenario that UGA officials have presented to the galoots in Atlanta included a provision that cutting courses like “Fundamentals of Hopscotch” and “Philosophy of Badminton” would quickly pose a grave threat to the football program. How long do you reckon our “financial exigency” would last after that?

James C. Cobb

Jim Cobb is Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at UGA. See the proposed cuts to UGA and the university system online at www.flagpole.com.

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“Does the whole place smell like this?” A Gainesville State environmental science student asks out of the corner of his mouth as he enters the 15-year-old

Athens-Clarke County Recovered Materials Processing Facility. The stench, somewhere between industrial paint and stale beer, has some students covering their noses with their shirts.

“That’s probably just a new load of trash,” says Suki Janssen, waste reduction administrator for the county’s Solid Waste Department.

Recycling Education Specialist Kristine Kobylus, hard hat and protective goggles in hand, stands ready to lead the group of 30 students on a tour of the facility. Through the wall behind her, amid the reverb of steel beams and clanking con-veyor belts, workers slog through mountains of shredded paper, broken down cardboard, sticky beer bottles and crushed plastic milk jugs.

“How many of you are recyclers?” About 75 percent raise their hands. The response can be 25 percent for this age group, Janssen says, but over the past two years there’s been a defi-nite increase.

Landfills, by their nature, fill up. Waste has a habit of not disappearing. So, finding ways to ease the burden on the land-fill, which is nearing its current capacity, is a major priority for the ACC Solid Waste Department. In a “good faith effort” to set “stepped, aggressive goals,” the department and the Athens-Clarke County government set a 25 percent waste reduction tar-get below 2006 levels by the end of this fiscal year (June 30).

“We weren’t that far from 25 percent when the county set the goal,” says Solid Waste Director Jim Corley. Between FY06 and FY09, the diversion rate increased 14 percent. ACC com-missioners, staff and citizens committees have exchanged reduction tactics for over two years, but since waste reduction strategy remains officially unclear, the target has been pushed back another year. Commissioner and Solid Waste Task Force co-Chair Kelly Girtz says there are “many moving parts” to the issue and readjusting timelines isn’t uncommon.

Now, feeling a time crunch on some options, the Solid Waste Department is forging ahead on projects even though the task force hasn’t concluded its work—a move that won’t impact Task Force recommendations, according to Girtz and Doug Lowry, his fellow commissioner and committee co-chair.

The Solid Waste Task Force, a citizens, industry and business committee formed to examine short-term, ordinance-driven waste reduction options, met throughout 2009 to establish best practices for reducing waste in Athens. After a fall presen-tation of SWTF recommendations, which included single stream recycling, a Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM) and tackling recycling in multi-family dwellings, Mayor Heidi Davison and Manager Alan Reddish asked that staff deliver cost estimates for further committee review. The task force will meet one last time on Mar. 17 before presenting final recom-mendations to the mayor and commission, says Lowry.

Single Stream: Many private haulers operating in the Clarke County area truck recyclables over to Gwinnett County’s single stream plant, Janssen says. The exodus takes revenue out of the county—ACC makes money on reselling recycled materi-als—and skews baseline figures.

“We will switch back [to Athens] if they go single stream,” says Jennifer Bond, owner of Bogart hauler Curbside Services, Inc. Bond, who serves on the SWTF, says her company chose Gwinnett “purely because it was single stream” for cost saving reasons.

Single stream makes recycling easier on citizens and carries a potential 20 to 30 percent waste reduction impact, Janssen says. Once the change has been made, the county will be able to use the rear-loading trash trucks as back-ups for their exist-ing recycling fleet, another cost saving.

The MRPF operates under a private-public partnership with FCR, Inc., which owns the building, staffs the plant and finds end markets for the processed recyclables. ACC fills the plant with glass, plastic and paper and earns 80 percent of the profit.

Converting the RMPF to single stream carries a $1 million price tag, and with FCR contract negotiation deadlines loom-ing, the Solid Waste department is already moving to find funding pending final approval by the mayor and commission. Corley says he thinks the idea has wide support.

“We didn’t feel that was too much of a leap,” he says. Janssen says FCR isn’t interested in paying for the retrofit, and the department has applied for a $1.5 million Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) to help pay for the mod-ifications. They money may not come from the grant, but Girtz says he’s confident the support and funding will appear.

CHaRM: The Solid Waste Department wants to convert its former offices on College Avenue into a Center for Hard to Recycle Materials. Corley and Janssen pitched the idea to the SPLOST committee and tacked it onto their EECBG application.

With a relatively cheap price tag (under $200,000), fund-ing shouldn’t be hard to find, Girtz believes. While it won’t have a huge impact on waste reduction, the CHaRM will divert

environmentally harmful materials that often end up in the landfill and will hopefully end myths that certain items aren’t actually recycled when dropped off at the landfill, Janssen says: “There’s a sense that we aren’t going to do the right thing.”

Apartments: Dustin Rinehart, community manager at The Reserve student apartments, walked into his office one morn-ing to find a petition of 200 signatures sitting on his desk. Each name demanded recycling options for the complex, so Rinehart immediately called Janssen to see what choices he had. After weighing space and location concerns, the depart-ment dropped off two eight-yard bins. Rinehart says that The Reserve’s 612 residents have “a lot of potential for recycling,” and that tenant response has been phenomenal.

“Every week, we get multiple calls from tenants wanting recycling services,” Janssen says. But that’s up to property managers to decide—at least for now. Requiring recycling infrastructure at all multi-family dwellings would be a boon for the county’s waste reduction efforts. The Solid Waste Task Force calls multi-family dwellings a “challenging, but very significant area for waste reduction.”

Currently, ACC bids alongside private haulers to service multi-family dwellings, Corley said. Whenever the property managers want recycling services, the county is very competi-tive. It’s just a matter of managers wanting it, he said.

“When it’s straight trash, we don’t compete.” The county can’t require private businesses to use its waste services, but it could demand on-site recycling infrastructure. Janssen and Corley say they hope the mayor and commission pass an ordinance requiring on-site recycling for apartments. Corley says Solid Waste is working with the Planning Department to develop zoning practices for new and old complexes.

What’s Next? “We are great; private haulers are sketchy,” Corley says. Many companies do a great job tracking pick-ups and keeping clean books, while others aren’t that transpar-ent—and waste reduction is necessary for the whole county, not just the urban service district. “We’re not reaching [the reduction goal] as a community,” he insists. He’d like to see clearer audits of private haulers: where and what are they dumping and recycling. The numbers need to be “as accurate as possible,” he says.

Solid Waste now has a permit to compost at the landfill, and biosolid (treated fecal matter) and mulch compost will officially be decomposing on a concrete slab by the summer, Janssen says. Food scrap composting, both institutional and residential, is a ways off.

As far as the 25 percent reduction is concerned, Janssen says a single stream conversion would single handedly push the county past that goal. But Corley and Girtz want more.

“The goal should be stricter,” Corley says. “25 percent is not much.” He’d like to see a federal law “with teeth to it.”

“I’m a little frustrated that there have been these little steps in the process,” Girtz says. “I want a comprehensive approach, but if a comprehensive approach begins with a few specific items, I’m okay with that. I just don’t want it to stop there.”

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Here’s how this column works. I pick a book to review, usually something off the beaten track that I think at least some of you will find as interesting as I did. I write what I think about the book, in a tone that fluctu-ates somewhere between the “maudlin” and “snarky” wavelengths on the spectrum, with some personal observations thrown in to make me sound hip and current and wiser than I actually am. I use the occasional swear word, just because I can (fuck—I just got paid for that). In exchange, I do my part to contribute to the “arts” content of this paper and thereby help disguise its true purpose as a propaganda arm for the left-wing conspiracy to turn us all into godless, gay, tax-hiking vegetarians on bicycles. Me, Jyl and Tofu Baby, holding the line.

When choosing books to review I stay away from the bestseller list, because I’d rather direct my energies toward good books that don’t get as much exposure. I’m happy for those bestselling authors’ continued suc-cesses, because they pay the freight for pub-lishers to put out good, less profitable books, but it doesn’t mean I have to read them.

I’m not sure what to do, however, about the relatives of bestselling authors. I want to talk about Horns (HarperCollins, 2010), the second novel from horror writer Joe Hill, about whom it is a very poorly kept secret that he’s the son of Stephen King, but is the one degree of separation enough distance to keep the column pure? Meh. If Hill can pretend he’s not Joe King, then so can I. I’ve done so much lying for this newspaper already, one more won’t matter.

Hill’s novel hits the ground running from the first page, as his protagonist, small-town boy Ig Perrish, wakes up one hungover morn-ing to find a pair of horns growing from his temples for no explainable reason. In the course of that morning, he is horrified to discover that the horns carry with them some special mojo, as everyone who comes into close proximity to them begins to spontane-ously utter their most wicked and shameful

inner thoughts and bad impulses—to gorge themselves or hurt people, to steal or rape or murder. Moreover, the slightest physical con-tact with them opens their mental floodgates to reveal to Ig every secret sin they’ve ever committed. Suddenly Ig finds himself sur-rounded by a world of dark ooze beneath the placid veneer of his friends and neighbors.

The worst of it is just how much of the town’s harbored hatred is directed at him. A year ago, Ig was the lone suspect in the brutal rape and murder of his girlfriend, a crime that failed to yield enough evidence to indict him but also not enough to clear his name. Now Ig is finding out just how far his infamy stretches throughout the town, not only among strang-ers but within the minds of the people closest to him. Nobody believes in his innocence, not

even his own family. And in one contact, Ig discovers the identity of the real killer, someone so close to him and yet so far beyond reproach that the murderer might as well be a million miles away. Even without the horns, who would believe him? With the horns, however, come an array of other spooky pow-ers, and Ig begins to realize that a devil can take a devil’s revenge.

It’s hard not to compare Hill’s novel to that other horror novelist we won’t mention here. Both work the same stomping grounds, the alternately picturesque and gone-to-seed small towns of New England, and the similar themes of subter-ranean lurking evil and the bloody wars for humanity’s soul that happen just under the radar. But Hill comes out favorably in the comparison, his writing lyrical or blunt and brutal when it needs to be. As he moves back and forth between the present

and past events that lead up to the current predicament, and from Ig to the mind of his adversary, Hill proves himself deft at charac-terization for the most part. As Ig learns the deep and icky secrets of the people around him, Hill sometimes goes too readily for the easy get—Pervy Priest and Sadist Cop are becoming as cliched as Drunken Irishman and Hooker with a Heart of Gold—but he has a real feel for the inner lives of small-town kids and their beleaguered parents. And that’s the secret of good horror and of good fiction in general: it’s always less about the tragic things that happen than it is about those things happening to people we know.

Beyond the vengeance and the eeriness and the blood (and there is plenty of that), Horns is imbued with a deep, underlying sad-ness. Hill may give Ig Perrish his demonic aspect and his opportunity for revenge, but nothing can undo the damage that has been done to his life. Ig starts out alone and despised, and while he may get his due, doing so will cost him the few remaining shreds of his humanity. It’s the classic devil’s bargain, something about which Joe Hill seems to know a thing or two.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG) See Movie Pick.ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL (PG) More Alvin, Simon and Theodore as the Chipmunks go back to school and face off against the lovely Chipettes—Brittany, Eleanor and Jeannette. The famous voices of Justin Long, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate and Amy Poehler are sped up until they are indistinguishable, which is more than you can say for Jason Lee, Zachary Levi (“Chuck”) and David Cross. AVATAR (PG-13) On a remote planet, a paraplegic marine, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is promised the use of his legs if he helps the Corporation relocate a race of blue warriors, the Na’vi, whose home is located atop the planet’s richest supply of unobtanium. Jake takes control of a Na’vi/ human hybrid, infiltrating the aliens to learn their ways, but falls in love with them, particularly the chief’s daughter, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), instead. Now Sully must lead the Na’vi against the space marines led by General Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), a scarred hulk of a military man.BROOKLYN’S FINEST (R) How many cop clichés does it take to complete this paint-by-numbers crime drama from Training Day director Antoine Fuqua? One cop, Eddie (Richard Gere), is days away from a Connecticut retirement he wishes to share with his favorite hooker; a narcotics officer, Sal (Ethan Hawke), plots to steal drug money to move his still-expanding family out of their mold-infested house; and an undercover officer going by the name Tango (Don Cheadle) has infil-trated a local drug outfit led by the guy who saved his life in prison (Wesley Snipes). Yet a compelling drama emerges out of this clichéd haze. After the stultifying first 90 minutes, I was surprisingly sucked in by the climactic final 40, thanks to the compelling leads and Fuqua’s tight pacing and smart parallel editing.

COP OUT (R) The Master of Smutty Fun, writer-director Kevin Smith, has assembled a buddy cop movie that would have been a minor hit in the late ‘80s and spawned an unnecessary sequel that would have gone virtually ignored. Having released Cop Out, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as partners on the trail of a stolen base-ball card, in 2010, the action comedy plays the genre too straight to be funny and too silly to be taken seriously. Lacking an intelligent, exciting or funny script, Cop Out merely serves to remind us all why the buddy cop movie no longer rules the action roost. THE CRAZIES (R) This remake of George A. Romero’s quasi-remake of/prequel to his own Night of the Living Dead stars Timothy Olyphant (see him soon on FX’s new show, “Justified”) as a local lawman who must save his tiny Iowa town after a contaminated water supply turns everybody loony. Costar Radha Mitchell has become quite the genre vet; The Crazies is her fourth scary movie (Pitch Black, Silent Hill and Rogue). Parts of this flick were filmed in Cordele, Fort Valley, Macon, Montezuma and Perry, GA.CRAZY HEART (R) A sweet, slow-cooked character study, Crazy Heart sings a familiar Country & Western song—divorce, alcoholism, pickup trucks—that is not quite as memorable as its troubled, charming main charac-ter and Jeff Bridges’ performance. DEAR JOHN (PG-13) More Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) and more Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat) could mean sac-charine overload with this tearjerker about a soldier, John Tyree (Channing Tatum), who falls in love with a gal, Savannah Lynn Curtis (the Amanda Seyfried), while home on leave. But the terrorist attacks of 9/11 cause him to reenlist, an act that puts long-distance strain on their relationship. Thank goodness for Richard Jenkins, whose reassuring presence as John’s distant dad just might be enough to make this drivel tolerable.

AN EDUCATION (PG-13) Intelligent and mature for her 16 years, Jenny Miller (Academy Award nominee Mulligan) dreams of little more than escaping her tiny life in a London sub-urb with her bourgeois parents (Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour). With her father pushing her toward Oxford, Jenny spends her days studying classic works of Brit lit and translating Latin in preparation for her A-levels. But then she meets David Goldman (Peter Sarsgaard), an exciting older man with a sports car and a seemingly endless

disposable income. David charms the entire Miller family right up until the impending moment that his dream life proves too good to be true.GREEN ZONE (R) Star Matt Damon reunites with his Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass for a military action film. After discovering some faulty intel-ligence, a U.S. Army officer, Roy Miller (Damon), goes rogue while searching for weapons of mass destruction. The Green Zone is the common name for the international zone in Baghdad, Iraq. Damon is joined by Jason Isaacs, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear and Amy Ryan. Popular scribe Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential) adapted the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

THE LAST STATION (R) This his-torical drama depicts the struggle of Russian author Leo Tolstoy (first-time Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer) to balance fame with his desire to live a life devoid of mate-rial possessions. Director Michael Hoffman’s filmography (including Soapdish and One Fine Day) does not quite excite. The film could be a big winner at the Independent Spirit Awards where it is nominated for five prizes including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Screenplay. With

James McAvoy, Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee Helen Mirren and Paul Giamatti.MOTHER (R) Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho hit it big a couple of years back with the monster movie The Host. He returns with this crime drama about a mother attempting to clear the name of her mentally handicapped son after he is accused of raping and murdering a young woman. With good reviews and the awards it has already nabbed, Mother is one to watch. Granted, you can always catch the inevitable Hollywood remake starring Angelina Jolie or Ashley Judd (in other words, your typical sexy matron). Nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film.OLD DOGS (PG) A spiritual followup to Wild Hogs, Old Dogs shares star John Travolta, director Walt Becker (Van Wilder), and old-man hijinks. Ben (Robin Williams) is a successful busi-nessman who discovers he fathered twins. Naturally, he enlists his bachelor pal (Travolta) when asked to care for the kids for an extended period of time. Costar Seth Green looks to be funny. With Kelly Preston, Lori Loughlin, Matt Dillon and Bernie Mac in his final role.OUR FAMILY WEDDING (PG-13) As the nuptials of Lucia Ramirez (America Ferrera, “Ugly Betty”) and Marcus Boyd (Lance Gross, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”) approach, the young couple must deal with the pressures from their families, especially their feuding fathers, Bradford (Forest Whitaker) and Miguel (Carlos Mencia). Fox Searchlight Pictures’ intent to appeal to a more diverse audience seems to vie for Tyler Perry’s immense fanbase. Director Rick Famuyiwa previously helmed Brown Sugar and The Wood. With Regina King, Taye Diggs and Fred Armisen.PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF (PG) Troubled teen Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) discovers he is a demigod, the son of Greek god Poseidon (Kevin McKidd), and

must recover his Uncle Zeus’ (Sean Bean) master bolt before an Olympian civil war rocks the entire world. Accompanied by protective satyr Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) and Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), the daughter of Athena, Percy crisscrosses the country for silly reasons only a screenwriter would devise. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (G) An updated retelling of The Frog Prince, The Princess and the Frog boasts Disney’s newest addition to their Princess brand, the first African-American Princess, Tiana. After years of pale Pixar imitations, animation needed a hand-drawn refresher, and who better to provide it than the studio that started the genre 72 years ago?l REMEMBER ME (PG-13) This dramatic romance is Robert Pattinson’s cinematic excursion from The Twilight Saga. Two young lovers, Tyler (RPattz) and Ally (Emilie de Ravin, “Lost”), find each other in the wake of personal tragedy. Tyler’s brother just com-mitted suicide, and Ally witnessed her mother’s murder. Director Allen Coulter is a TV vet (lots of HBO and a little FX) who directed the feature Hollywoodland. The seasoned cast includes Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Martha Plimpton and Lena Olin.SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE (R) She’s Out of My League does not have a great deal going for it. No big stars, a rookie feature director, and a screenplay written by the Sex Drive duo sounds like a recipe for a box office loser. But who knows? Kirk Kettner (Jay Baruchel, “Undeclared”) does everything he can to undermine his burgeoning relationship with the perfect woman, Molly (Alice Eve). Judging from the trailer, this comedy could go either way. With Krysten Ritter (“Breaking Bad”), Lindsay Sloane and Debra Jo Rupp (Eric’s mom from “That 70’s Show”).SHUTTER ISLAND (R) In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), are summoned to a remote island in Boston Harbor that houses some of the nation’s most dan-gerous, unstable prisoners, or patients, as head psychiatrist, Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), prefers. A patient, Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), has mys-teriously escaped, and the marshals have been tasked with finding her and returning her, a job at which Teddy excels. However, Teddy soon realizes something is amiss on Shutter Island.A SINGLE MAN (PG-13) A British, middle-aged, English professor living in California, George (Colin Firth) is devastated by the sudden death of his longtime partner, Jim (Matthew Goode), in a car crash. Contemplating suicide to escape a color-faded world of woe, George lumbers through a potential final day. A Single Man never overwhelms with its ocean of sor-row. Bleak humor peeks out from the clouds, like rays of sunlight. Judging from this one film, Tom Ford has tre-mendous potential as a filmmaker.TOOTH FAIRY (PG) The mere pres-ence of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson means Tooth Fairy will not be the worst family flick 2010 will offer (besides, The Spy Next Door is much worse). Johnson’s powerful magnetism will pull both parent and child through this hour and 40 minutes of silly fluff. Johnson stars as a minor league

hockey enforcer, Derek “Tooth Fairy” Thompson, who is sentenced to per-form the duties of his nickname after crushing the dreams of his girlfriend’s daughter. TROUBLED WATER (NR) 2008. The actions of the teenager he once was haunt Jan Thomas (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) as a man struggling to adjust to life outside of prison in the new film from Hawaii, Oslo director Erik Poppe. Winner of two of Norway’s Amanda Awards (Best Editing and Best Score), as well as the Audience Award and Golden Starfish Award from the Hamptons International Film Festival. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (PG-13) All Twilight hating aside, the second cinematic install-ment of the four-part series bests the first film, even with less of Robert Pattinson’s Edward—a loss tempered by the promotion of the mostly shirt-less Taylor Lautner. Twilight true believ-ers will have no trouble loving the follow-up as much, if not more than, its predecessor. Those not inducted into the ever-expanding cult will wonder what all the fuss is about.UP IN THE AIR (R) With its topicality, Up in the Air is definitely the movie of right now. Its tastefully shot exit interviews might hit too close to home for some recently downsized viewers; and pulling for the guy paid six figures to professionally sack people might be too much to swallow. Yet Reitman and his co-scripter Sheldon Turner rarely dwell on the ramifications of Ryan’s dirty job. Most of the people he fires may not be fiscally better off, but they have families—wives, children, a home—to go home to. Up in the Air is one of those rarest of cinematic breeds; flawless is not a term I use frivolously.VALENTINE’S DAY (PG-13) Every young actor and actress in Hollywood looks to be involved with this roman-tic comedy intertwining a bunch of couples’ make-ups and break-ups due to the pressures of Valentine’s Day. The titanic cast includes Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley Maclaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts and Taylor Swift. After Raising Helen and Georgia Rule, director Garry Marshall could use a good flick.THE WHITE RIBBON (R) Michael Haneke’s dual Oscar nominee (Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography) also picked up the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the Golden Globe and the European Film Award for Best Film. In the months prior to World War I, strange events begin occurring in a small German town, and appar-ently, the children have something to do with it. With its monochromatic cinematography and creepy towheaded kids, The White Ribbon exudes Village of the Damned vibes.THE WOLFMAN (R) A man, Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro), attempting to escape his domineering father’s shadow, is drawn back into his orbit after the mysterious, violent death of his brother. Lawrence discovers his father, Sir John Talbot (Anthony Hopkins), is keeping a dark, furry secret that unleashes monthly mayhem upon the small English country village of Blackmoor. After a soporific first act, Lawrence is bitten by the beast and becomes the newest victim of the curse, unleashing a tremendously exciting second act, highlighted by a Victorian-era sanitarium and a moonlit rampage through London’s streets. Give The Wolfman a good half hour to get going; once the moon is full, the beast is satisfyingly unleashed.

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Avatar 3D (PG-13) 1:15, 5:10, 8:30Brooklyn’s Finest (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00Cop Out (R) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40The Crazies (R) 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Crazy Heart (R) 1:00, 3:45, 7:30, 10:05

Dear John (PG-13) 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (PG) 12:45, 3:30, 6:45, 9:20

Shutter Island (R) 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50Tooth Fairy (PG) 12:15, 2:45, 5:15 Valentine’s Day (PG-13) 1:10, 4:05, 7:25, 10:05 The Wolfman (R) 7:45, 10:00

CINÉ (706-353-3343)An Education (PG-13) 9:45 (new times F. 3/12: 7:15)The Last Station (R) 5:15, 7:30 (new times F. 3/12: 5:15)

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Old Dogs (PG) 12:55, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 The Twilight Saga: New Moon (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG) Retelling Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, is a popular cottage industry. Just last winter the SyFy Channel aired a miniseries called “Alice.” Marilyn Manson is supposedly making his directorial debut with Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. A filmed adapta-tion of the videogame American McGee’s Alice has long been rumored. Frank Beddor recently completed his Wonderland-set tril-ogy, The Looking Glass Wars, and Zenescope Entertainment spun off a Return to Wonderland limited series from its horror comic, Grimm Fairy Tales.

Auteur Tim Burton seems like a natural fit to add his artfully twisted spin to this always growing garden of Alices. Shockingly, his might be the least creative, considering the vast amounts of imagination and money lavished upon the film. In Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s young heroine is now an adult. This nearing-20 Alice (Mia Wasikowska, That Evening Sun) seeks to escape an arranged engagement to the odious son of her late father’s business partner by again falling into a hole while chasing a tardy white rabbit (v. Michael Sheen).

But Alice does not recall her first visit to Underland (referred to as Wonderland by her childish self). She is reintroduced to her former friends—Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas of “Little Britain”), the Blue Caterpillar (v. Alan Rickman), the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) and the Chesire Cat (v. Stephen Fry)—a band of rebels who have spent years

searching for the right Alice to overthrow the bigheaded, heartless Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter).

Sounds like a wick-edly awesome time, does it not? Sadly, Burton’s Wonderland suffers from a distinct lack of wonder and magic. I can’t even say the family film looks wonderful, as the FX appear fake and lack

tangibility. What should be a colorful fan-tasy land is dulled and muddily gray, which might be an intended consequence of the Red Queen’s rule or an unintended side effect of conversion from 2D to 3D.

Sadly, this Alice has, like the Hatter astutely announces, lost its muchness. This return trip feels less like Tim Burton’s adven-tures in Wonderland than a Disney approxima-tion of the auteur’s vision.

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An Old Story: The Criterion Collection doesn’t reissue many studio-era Hollywood films; aside from impressive restorations from the catalogs of A-list auteurs like Hitchcock, Lubitsch, Sturges, Fuller and Ford, there’s the odd My Man Godfrey or The Bank Dick rescued from the decomposition of the public domain. The thing all these films have in common, though, is that not one of them is less than indispens-able. When I heard Criterion was releasing Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow, I assumed that I’d been missing something important—probably through my own laziness or ignorance. Turns out I was being a little hard on myself: this is the film’s first release

on home video in this country, and outside of hardcore cinephilic circles it’s been largely for-gotten since its unsuccessful release in 1937.

The reasons for its failure are obvious once you see it: it’s a Depression-era film that deals unflinchingly with the most devastating personal hardships of the Depression, and it’s a love story about two people in their 70s. It’s also a film whose view of the helpless-ness with which children fail their parents in old age is at least as clear-eyed and unsen-timental as in Ozu’s Tokyo Story, which was released 16 years later and is routinely called one of the best films of all time for exactly that reason (if for others as well). Which isn’t to say the film is depressing; it’s sad, but not brutal: everyone has their reasons for behav-ing the way they do, and McCarey’s great achievement is to make those actions seem understandable and the people who commit them seem compromised but human, despite their tragic effects. This is as great a film as I’ve been introduced to in years, but do your-self a favor: don’t take my word for it.

Slight Return: I hope all of you read Ciné executive director Brigitta Hangartner’s letter to the editor in last week’s Flagpole; if not, please go back and do so. It’s Brigitta’s response to—and elaboration on—comments I made in my last column on the state of for-eign film exhibition as it pertains to Ciné and to American film culture in general, and it’s a crucial entry in what I hope will be an avid and ongoing conversation among Athenians on the matter. Brigitta and I want the same thing, which is a community of engaged and demanding filmgoers served by a venue that can provide them the opportunity to see interesting and challenging films. The latter

part—Ciné’s part, with which Brigitta and crew have done a wonderful job—is difficult and risky. The first part—the easy part—is up to you.

Kurz und Schmerzlos: Athens filmmaker and UGA Art X instructor Chris Cogan got word recently that his 16mm experimental film Tunnels, which he’s screened locally a few times in the past year or two, has been selected for the 2010 International Short Film Festival at Oberhausen, Germany Apr. 29–May 4. That’s a pretty big deal: this is the festival that produced the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962, which played a great part

in launching the New German Cinema. It’s a cutting edge festival and a very prestigious one—if you see Chris, you should congratulate him.

Freedom Cinema: Ciné will host the weekend-long Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival Mar. 19–21, and the three films on the program are all winners. Burma VJ is an Academy Award-nominated documentary about courageous videojournalists who risk life or imprisonment by reporting events in the authoritarian Burmese society. The Stoning of Soraya M features the marvelous Shohreh Aghdashloo in the true story of a woman who is horrifyingly persecuted in her Iranian village. Soundtrack for a Revolution is a documentary about the events and people of the Civil Rights movement that takes the more-than-novel tack of featuring contempo-rary performances of the movement’s songs by artists as varied as Wyclef Jean, Richie Havens, John Legend and TV on the Radio. Go to www.athenscine.com for more info.

m Free Cinema: The ACC Library’s iFilms screening Mar. 11 is the Norwegian drama Troubled Water. The Mar. 18 iFilm is the documentary Second Skin. Screenings are Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the ACC library at 2025 Baxter St.… There’s no ICE-Vision screening the week of spring break, but the series returns Mar. 18 with Philippe Garrel’s amazing 2005 film Regular Lovers, starring Garrel’s son Louis and the lovely Clotide Hesme. ICE-Vision screenings are Thursdays at 8 p.m. in Room S150 of UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art.

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Here’s your weekly update of nearly every-thing you need to know concerning Athens music and a few things you don’t. But I like to put them in here, you know, just in case. So, carry on below…

Impressive and New: Late last year three stu-dents from the UGA Music Business Program founded H.E.R. Hip Hop, LLC as a company which plans to service artists in the fields of promotion, booking, licensing, etc. The stu-dents (Stephen Prevost, Rebekah Baldwin and Elizabeth Schenck) are solely focused on hip-hop and seek to reach both local and national artists. So far, their efforts are laud-able, their website is both informative and good looking, and they’ve scheduled their first slam-dunk of a showcase, too. Happening Apr. 9 at New Earth Music Hall, the H.E.R. Hip Hop Showcase will feature Dead Prez, Kidz in the Hall, WrittenHouse, Donnis, Stanza, Fresh and WildKard. The night of music is to be preceded by a panel discussion and mixer. The plan is for this to be an annual event. I applaud their efforts and wish them very well, but must take exception to H.E.R.’s purporting that Athens is a town in which “…the hip-hop genre has no real presence in the community.” That’s just patently untrue. I do, however, encourage you to visit www.herhiphop.com and address any ques-tions to Baldwin via [email protected].

Big Boo: Southern blues ‘n’ rock dude Boo Ray will release his newest record, Bad News Travels Fast, on Thursday, Mar. 11 at the 40 Watt when he shares the bill with Radiolucent and Ken Will Morton. If you hap-pen to miss him that night, he’ll be back at the Watt on Mar. 19 as part of the showcase for the Athens Music Collective. Go give him a listen at www.myspace.com/booraymusic.

So Shines a Good Deed in a Weary World: Harvey Milk will release its newest album, A Small Turn of Human Kindness, May 18 on the Hydra Head label. In other news, the band is currently doing a couple of weeks of touring through the Northeast, Midwest and Canada with Kansas City’s longtime powerhouse Coalesce.

All Together Now: The first major event of the newly formed Athens Music Collective will happen Mar. 19 at the 40 Watt. The collective, a loose association of “professional bands, musicians and artists who have close creative ties to each other,” will host a round-robin performance, featuring The Bros. Marler, Boo Ray, Betsy Franck, The Lefty Hathaway Band, Lionz and more. If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Athens Music Collective, drop a line to [email protected] and include a photo, bio, band lineup, discography and all of your con-tact info. As for the benefits of joining the organization, um, I dunno. Perhaps friendship and camaraderie? I guess ask them.

Party for Your Right to Fight: The annual Athens Human Rights Festival “Battle of the Bands” will happen Apr. 3 at the New Earth Music Hall and, of course, all proceeds will benefit this year’s festival. Two winners will be chosen: one by the judges and one through an audience vote. The prize is a performance slot at the Human Rights Festival. Want to compete? Then drop a line to [email protected] or call 770-725-2652 and ask for Sue Cullen or Nikki Ryon. This year’s Festival will happen May 1 & 2. For more info, see www.athenshumanrightsfest.org.

Listen All You Want; He’ll Make More: The continuously working Ken Will Morton cel-ebrates the release of his latest album, True Grit (Soujourn Records), with two shows this month. First there’s an acoustic show with Michelle Malone on Saturday, Mar. 20 at Decatur venue Eddie’s Attic. The follow-ing night he’ll play a free show with his full band at Jot ‘Em Down BBQ here in town, with a canned food drive for Conscious Alliance. Morton has steadily played and released

records for several years, and you can check him out over at www.myspace.com/kenwillmorton.

Well Worth It: Athens native Andy Carlson, associate professor of music at Denison University, is releasing his newest album with the Andy Carlson Band on Friday, Mar. 19 at the Melting Point. Carlson’s family con-nections to the Athens scene are a mind-boggler (his 92-year-old grandfather, Earl Murphy, was part of Art Rosenbaum’s Art

of Field Recording: Volume 1 and still plays regularly in Athens) and Carlson himself has played with John Berry, Normaltown Flyers and Randall Bramblett among others. The Andy Carlson band plays what Carlson calls “progressive bluegrass” and the new album, Fiddlehead, was recorded with John Keane. You can hear a bit of the band’s other record-ing, Log-A-Rhythm, at www.cdbaby.com/cd/acarlsonband. If you like what you hear (I did), then get yourself to the show, fool!

Double Dose: A listening party for both Drive-By Truckers’ The Big To-Do and The Whigs’ In the Dark will happen Monday, Mar. 15 at Little Kings. The party will start at 8 p.m., and the first record played will be determined by a coin toss. A raffle ticket will be given to each person in attendance, with prizes including band merchandise, signed posters and more. The event is free and open to the public. Learn more at Athensmusic.net.

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PIERCED ARROWSDescending Shadows

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I was absolutely stunned to find out that this group included Dead Moon members Fred and Toody Cole. Dead Moon is one of the high points of punk; these guys know their stuff. So, how in the world did they come out with this?! Sure, there’s a lot of passionate screaming on Descending Shadows, and you can’t doubt the enthusiasm the Mooners share with drummer Kelly Halliburton, but what happened?

“This Is the Day” is a painful intro with half-shouted vocals and com-pletely awful harmonies. It honestly sounds like a walrus’ dying screams while it’s being ripped apart by a tone-deaf coyote. Despite the ear-bleeding intro, the following track “Buried Alive” provides a little glimmer of hope. The raw emotion behind the scorching guitars and tortured vocals are what I’d expected from this punk/metal/grunge group. Things start to look up. But the second “On Our Way,” the third song, comes on, I start desperately looking for any hint of this being an “ironically” bad record.

Now to be fair, there are a few good tunes here. “Paranoia” is a dark and creepy groove, held together by a thumping bass, thrashed drums and a screaming guitar. The tempo switches are particularly brutal and are probably really something to see live. But even the bright bits on this dismal record are painfully average at best. “This Time Around” flirts with good vocals and a slower pace. Though it warbles in places, it’s the best song on the record.

Do yourself a favor and pick up a Dead Moon record instead. I’d go for Echoes of the Past, myself—anything to try and redeem my belief in these guys as musicians. As for Descending Shadows, it needs to go right back to whatever dark place it came from.

Jordan Stepp

THE K-MACKSTobacco and FirearmsIndependent Release

In Flagpole’s review of The K-Macks’ previous full-length release, we lamented the group’s lack of musi-cal focus, but on the new EP, Tobacco and Firearms, The K-Macks finally exhibit an identifiable sound. The chosen genre is an interesting mixture of folk and punk rock, with elements of pop liberally sprinkled throughout to soften the edges. Many of the songs on the EP are reminiscent of bands

like Uncle Tupelo, The Pogues and even The Dubliners. And like these bands, The K-Macks perform their music enthusiastically. Perhaps the group’s biggest strength is the power of its vocals. The members share vocal duties, and their voices complement each other and, more importantly, the up-tempo nature of the music.

But while the songs on Tobacco and Firearms are unified musically, they were not all created equally. Some showcase a grasp of dynamics with sophisticated song structures. In particular, “Threw It All Away” and “Oh Madeline” are gems, with the latter coming across with faint familiarity, like an updated version of an old folk ballad might. The album does lose some focus in its second half, with the sappy-but-ultimately-satisfying “Romantically” departing fairly dra-matically from the timbre of the rest of the album.

All things considered, the progress The K-Macks have made bodes well for such a young band. Where many local bands sound, well, local, The K-Macks’ at times insightful lyrics and musician-ship set them apart.

John Seay

The K-Macks celebrate their CD release at Go Bar on Friday, Mar. 12.

UNTIED STATESInstant Everything, Constant Nothing

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When every review of a band’s work mentions other bands, it’s usually because that band doesn’t have much original going on. It’s like the musical equivalent of saying, “Yeah, he’s a nice guy.” That the one-sheet accompanying Untied States’ latest album was littered with quotes comparing the band to everyone from Sonic Youth to Grizzly Bear to Radiohead gave me pause; my fears were realized as soon as I put the disc on play.

Atlanta four-piece Untied States traffics in a predictably calculated brand of art-damaged post-something or another that feels dated and forced. It’s one thing to have influences; where so many bands disintegrate is in allow-ing these to comprise their vision.

This is not to say that Instant Everything is a “bad” record—the songs are capably performed, and there are even a few “a-ha!” moments scat-tered about, mostly courtesy of vocalist Colin Arnstein, whose voice yields some pleasantly fluid surprises amid an otherwise arid landscape. Sadly, these are few and far between. “I need some substance,” he declares in “Grey Tangerines,” and he’s right.

I don’t mean to be such a wham-burglar. It’s just dispiriting that so much music feels like it needs to be other music to be loved. The one-sheet was right—Untied States does sound like Sonic Youth, it does sound like Grizzly Bear—hell, it even sounds a little like Radiohead. Unfortunately, Untied States doesn’t sound much like

Untied States. But, hey, I bet they’re nice guys.

Gabe Vodicka

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Ambient music, like Buster Bluth’s wallpaper-print shirt, can recede into the background or re-form it, depend-ing on the attention one devotes to lis-tening or looking. Some artists deliver sounds that seem to originate from the corner of the room, not the speakers on the shelf—many of Fennesz’s pieces, for example, conjure skin-crawling, stridulating insects and test listeners’ willingness to let recordings bleed into “real” life.

The Seven Fields of Aphelion, a member of Black Moth Super Rainbow, attempts a gentler art in her debut. She includes seven double-sided panels of her 35mm, multiple-exposure photo-graphs in lieu of a booklet, and the 12 tracks feature their own kind of multiple exposures. A prominent echo applied to sparse, single-note piano playing in “Slow Subtraction” focuses on the dis-sipation and disappearance of sound. “Wildflower Wood,” “Mountain Mary” and “Lake Feet,” which appeared on BMSR’s Falling Through a Field, share Jon Brion’s affinity for wistful and seemingly underwater piano riffs.

The album’s name, Periphery, primes listeners to relocate themselves amid the tops of the clouds and power lines in the album’s photographs. Periphery’s reasoned, mood-shifting music ends on an upswing in “Starlight Aquatic,” which could lead you to wade through the whole thing again. Pair this album with a 47-minute task or make listening to this 47-minute album your single task at least once.

Alex Dimitropoulos

XIU XIUDear God, I Hate Myself

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Few can craft sonic spaces as powerfully singular as those of Xiu Xiu. Equal parts mellifluence and astringency, beauty and terror, the band’s gothic pop turns the unlikeliest of things into lovers. Besides stepping back from the abrasion of the previous album, Women as Lovers, this effort goes one further with less abstruse angles and more defined pop gestures.

None of which is to say that their craftsmanship is any less thoughtful. In fact, Dear God is swimming in textures that captivate and details that surprise and startle, including the use of a Nintendo DS as the primary platform for a third of the songs.

The intricate title track, for example, is a baroque pop song that’s been dropped into the fryer with a video game. Underneath a symphony of flitting sounds and falling items is the sweetly conventional synth-pop melody of “Chocolate Makes You Happy.” That some of the most straightforward moments like the dire, strumming theatricality of “Gray Death” and the curiously traditional banjo-folkisms of “Cumberland Gap” are the best underscores the album’s grounded musical core.

Xiu Xiu are masters of conception and construction. Those willing to submit to their arty conceit will experi-ence some of the most astounding and original art-pop being made today.

Bao Le-Huu

OF LEGENDCleric of Samsara

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Athens-based Of Legend’s new EP, Cleric of Samsara, shows this now veteran act wading through decidedly different, more profound waters. From the promo-sheet, “The concept of samsara in Eastern religion speaks of constant rebirth through the suffering of daily existence.” Having cast aside their previous hardcore belligerence for more experimental, introspective terri-tory, they cite Neurosis, Isis and Jesu, among others, as well known touch-stones for this new “more complex, multi-dimensional” approach.

A cold, alienating void beckons before a sound bite enters above the subtle electronic hum with a man stating, “Time is a river…” followed by further extrapolation upon wrinkles in time, time travel and gates open-ing to points unknown. Upon fade “Asleep at the Edge” begins as they segue neatly into a slowly unfolding, practically lethargic, dreamy flow with Scott Moseley and the lone-named Buggs’ shimmering guitar interplay atop John Crapps’ drums and John Holloway’s bass. They meander; there is no urgency here as dark-tinged keyboards and subtle noise elements begin to build tension before vocalist Justin Legend’s powerful roar rends the mood asunder.

Equal parts bright and bleak, this structure acts as sonic interpretation of the never-ending samsara cycle; every moment and note possessing pos-sibility of metamorphosis, renewal and rebirth (bright) with Legend’s throat vocalizing the infinite suffering (bleak). The final track, “The Cleric,” really stands out not only due to the noted dissonant edge, but to the collective balance they achieve as every aspect weds perfectly before ultimately fading to reflective silence.

John Mincemoyer

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In 2006, upon the release of the Danielson Famile’s art-rock opus Ships, Daniel Smith stopped being asked to explain his obsession with Jesus.

“That’s when [music writers] just took that out of the equa-tion,” says Smith, the Famile’s Bible-toting, helium-voiced frontman, while taking a break from building a new recording studio in his southern New Jersey backyard. “Now, sometimes people just talk about the music.”

It only took 15 years. In 2001, not even a new, secular label or Steve Albini’s name in the liner notes could convince Pitchfork to give the band’s Fetch the Compass, Kids even a halfway serious review: “The Danielson Famile won’t hurt you! They’re Pentecostal, which means that they like Jesus a lot! Jesus died for your sins… He was crucified and died. Do you think Jesus would want to hurt you? Of course not!”

A year later, another Pitchfork writer gave credit to Secretly Canadian’s re-release of Smith’s 1995 debut A Prayer for Every Hour (put out by secretly Christian Tooth and Nail Records) for “trumping the boredom of status quo American Christianity” …after calling it a great way to kill the mood for sex.

Smith sympathizes; growing up in a house piped with folk music, he thought Christian rock was lame, too. “Once you know what Bob Dylan and The Beatles sound like, it’s hard to convince somebody that’s of the devil,” he says. Except, of course, the Christian bookstore that all but refused to sell him U2’s War when he was a kid. “I told them, ‘I want this new record by U2. Do you have it?’ And they said, ‘Yeah, we have that but you should buy this because it sounds like U2,’” Smith says. “Even at 11 or 12, I knew something was wrong.”

Which is maybe why today the members of the Danielson Famile—most of whom are members of Smith’s actual family and who wear nurses uniforms onstage to signify God’s heal-ing—finally seem so right to mainstream indie rock.

“We were certainly the laughing stock in a lot of circles in the Christian scene but… I think partly the reason the indie scene took to us was because they heard the Christian scene wasn’t going for it,” Smith says. “It was like, ‘Here’s a band with every lyric from the Bible, but the music is so strange to that [Christian] culture, maybe we should check it out.’”

To be fair, the music is strange—notoriously, vexingly strange—to everyone, as are the lyrics; though recent releases are slightly more mellow, Smith’s early records come across like soundtracks to Off-Off Broadway musicals about Christian car-nies struggling with sexual sin. The staccato instrumentation, Beaker-esque sung/spoken vocals and Kum Bah Yah sing-longs about not dating “pottymouths” and God having the whole wide world in His hands, shouldn’t sound good, but do.

In 2006 it apparently sounded too good for a third jackass review. Maybe it was the Sufjan Stevens connection, maybe it was because Deerhoof played on it, but the only reference to the Christian music scene in Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber’s “Best New Music”-rated review of “the spectacular Ships” was the description of the songs as “highly conceptual paeans to God.” Schreiber gave the record a 9.1, obsession with Jesus and all. War only got an 8.9.

Jeremy Henderson

WHO: Danielson, Ben + Vesper, OrtolanWHERE: 40 Watt Club

WHEN: Friday, March 12, 8 p.m.HOW MUCH: $10 (adv.)

UTAH Rock/Metal/Hardcore

Lineup: Wil Smith and Larry Choskey. Influences: Melvins, Floor, Spazz.

If there is one thing local duo Jucifer taught us, it’s that two people can make a hell of a lot of noise. This is the modus operandi of ferociously loud duo Utah, with guitarist Wil Smith playing down-tuned metal riffs through 20x12” and 2x15” speakers powered by four amplifiers, paired with the rapid-fire drumming of Larry Chosky. The vocals are sparse, but the guitars say a lot—growling menacingly in low, snarling, yet surprisingly melodic tones. The pair met in November of ‘08 at a Mantooth Music event at Ciné. Four months later Utah made its live debut at Tasty World, and in the past year has done a good bit of touring up the East Coast, going as far north as Connecticut. Utah is hoping to release its debut seven-inch, tentatively called Here They Come, later this spring. To avoid hearing loss or speaker damage, turn your volume down to a safe level before venturing over to www.myspace.com/utahrock.

Next show: Wednesday, Mar. 10 @ Go Bar

WORN OUT WELCOME Roots Rock/Americana/Rock

Lineup: Andrew Vickery, Joel Mooneyhan, Jeff Chipman and Stephen Ousley. Former members of: Summerland Influences: The Replacements, Whiskeytown, Drive-By Truckers, Gram Parsons, various punk bands.

Over the past year, you may have caught Andrew Vickery playing one of his many duo sets with local songwriter Ken Will Morton, but he’s had other collaborations on the back-burner for some time as well. In fact, he’s been playing “acoustic song-writer-type stuff” on and off with Joel Mooneyhan since about 2003, until Mooneyhan moved up to Kentucky. In 2008 Vickery started jam-ming with drummer Jeff Chipman, and a year later Mooneyhan returned to Athens. So, Vickery brought them both together, and the trio dove into louder, more electric-guitar-driven rock, rounding out the lineup with Stephen Ousley on bass. “[Ousley] has only been with the band since January,” says Vickery, “but he performed flawlessly at the band’s debut show at Caledonia [in January].” Worn Out Welcome is currently working on a full-length record at The Stewdio with Dave Sturgis (Standard 8, Zombie Halo), with plans to release it this summer. Expect some great guest performers to stop in and a lot more live shows on the way. If you’re into The Replacements’ propulsive jangle and Whiskeytown’s alternative twang, you’ll probably dig the tracks available at www.thewornoutwelcome.com.

Next show: Friday, Mar. 12 @ Tasty World Uptown

DAN THE JUGGLER Raw/Experimental/Rock and Roll

Lineup: Ben Garrett, John Fowlkes and John Hunter. Influences: Modest Mouse, Jack White bands, The Strokes, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Primus, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin.

In many ways this trio is a product of the UGA music busi-ness program. The musicians first met volunteering for the program in ‘09 during the Ashford Manor Concert Series and formed a band not long after just for kicks. Bassist John Fowlkes says the group quickly felt it had the potential to really take off, and by Feb. 22 they had booked their first real gig, playing at Tasty World Uptown. The music business pro-gram has adopted Dan the Juggler as something of an experi-mental artist-development project, says the band, with fellow student Allison Fite behind the wheel of the management

team. The trio is currently in the process of recording a home-made demo with pal Dan “The Juggler” Hesketh with some help from the MBUS lab. The resulting tracks should be posted soon to www.myspace.com/DantheJuggler.

Next show: Tuesday, Mar. 23 @ Go Bar

EASTER ISLANDDreamy/Shoegaze/Pop

Lineup: Ethan Payne, Asher Payne, John Cable, Nathan Thompson and Andrew Terrell. Former members of: The Cubs, Union, The Corduroy Road, Economy of Sound. Influences: Pedro the Lion, Sigur Rós, Broken Social Scene, Interpol, The National.

Oh, hello there, springtime. When Punxsutawney Phil pre-dicted six more weeks of winter, clearly, he had not yet picked up a copy of Easter Island’s debut EP. These sweet, delicate pop gems sway gently like fresh linens hung out on a line. Even the more melancholy moments ache for fresh-cut lawns and a soft picnic blanket; it’s the perfect soundtrack for daydream-ing, finding shapes in fluffy clouds and blowing dandelions. The band describes itself as “Pedro the Lion meets Stars with-out a female vocalist,” which seems pretty fair. Look for more lovely tunes on the band’s full-length, which, hopefully, will be recorded soon or visit www.myspace.com/EasterIslandmusic to hear tunes off that EP.

Next show: Friday, Mar. 27 @ Go Bar

GEISTERKATZENPsychedelic/Noise Rock/Drone

Lineup: Adrian Foster, Alex Merck, Ashton Bagley, Kenny Haynes, Sarah Dutcher, William Kennedy and Will Stephenson. Shares a member with: Reptar. Influences: Double Leopards, Lightning Bolt, Yellow Swans, Pink Floyd, Skullflower.

“Technically, Geisterkatzen began with the DIY electronic instrument creations of Kenny Haynes and Alex Merck and their various improvisational drone performances with Sarah Dutcher, Adrian Foster and other local musicians in 2005,” says the band. “After five years of unfocused experimentation, Geisterkatzen finally came together through Alex and Sarah’s WUOG radio show “Crisis” this past fall.” Since then, the cat-loving experimentalists picked up William Kennedy (Reptar) on drums, Will Stephenson on saxophone and Ashton Bagley on guitar, and their sound has moved from ambient drone to chaotic, psychedelic noise rock. The band debuted on WUOG’s “Live in the Lobby,” and the recording of that show is stream-ing at www.wuog.org. Since that first performance, the group has gone on to support bands like A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Liturgy and Surfer Blood, and has presented a live score to the film Häxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages). A CD-R release is in the works, but you can get a preview at www.myspace.com/Geisterkatzen.

Next show: Check website for updates.

Michelle Gilzenrat [email protected]

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Mike Newhouse: Look, I’ve got a confes-sion to make.

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Mike Newhouse: You know, like, in the last year or so, I’ve been talking about going to law school so I can be an ACLU lawyer and be in a position to help people getting fucked over and all that? Anyway… I just realized I don’t wanna do it; you know what I mean? It sounds good and all, but I just have to confront the fact that I don’t like the people I’ve been talk-ing about helping out. You know what I’m say-ing? I don’t think I like people, period. I mean, you guys are OK. I’m just trying to be honest about being a misanthrope.

Tony Olson: So, you’re not gonna go to law school? What do you wanna do then?

Mike Newhouse: …I wanna dance!

The source of the above dialogue is Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater’s nigh cin-ema verite look at teenaged life in 1976.

If angry-young-man Mike Newhouse’s search for visceral kicks happened to lead him to New York City a few years after that film’s depiction of the ennui of Texan youth, he might have ended up joining a no wave band. Misanthropy was the greasy diesel that no wave music ran on: bands like DNA and Mars eschewed skilled musicality because, let’s face it, they collectively asked: What’s the point? And yet this appears to be the exact reason why Philadelphia noise-punk band Satanized went in the opposite direction.

“I don’t think there is one,” says bassist Evan Lipson when asked what the purpose/goal of Satanized might be. “It’s to do exactly what we’d like to be doing and making the music that we want to make. Life has no intrinsic value or meaning; this is the meaning we give to it.” The quartet—Lipson, vocalist Andrew M. Gaspar, guitarist Alex Nagle and drummer Pete Angevine—pour themselves into this unique interpretation of what gives life value. Their take on the violence and drudgery of no wave is filtered through a lens of highly concentrated but markedly crazed musician-ship. The jarring rhythms found on Sickness and Hellth: The Secular Chansons of Satanized

(released on Philly junk label Badmaster Records) are matched by a treble-and-gain approach to every instrument employed, and the result is a sort of Dillinger Escape Plan-meets-Flipper blast of aggression.

Note: aggression, but not necessarily nega-tivity. “Positive misanthropy” is a philosophy the band stands behind, the “de-evolution” to their Devo. “It’s an acknowledgement of the human race being a total letdown, but not making that a precondition for your life to be miserable and to do nothing,” says Lipson. “Rather, [it’s] a realistic worldview to accept and enjoy the dystopia. Stop and smell the neuroses,” he says with a laugh. It’s that kind of sort-of lightheartedness that makes the band truly fun and not the disenchanted bum-mer you might guess. Their MySpace headline reads “sociopathic party band.” Their first show was on June 6, 2006—6/6/6. They don’t take themselves too seriously.

The band will be coming to Athens on a ragtag tour in support of its split with famously naked noise-act AIDS Wolf, also out on Badmaster. Satanized is one of many Philadelphia acts on Badmaster’s extensive roster, which reps the more out-there sounds to be heard emanating from the city of broth-erly love, such as Pony Pants or Hot Guts.

“Philly’s an interesting place because it doesn’t really have an identity, and it’s been that way for years and years,” says Lipson. “Badmaster’s brought some focus and, as of late, some increasingly interesting and forward-thinking bands. But there still isn’t a core identity to associate it with, at least in my mind; but to me, that’s exciting, because it kind of means you can do anything.” Doing anything because anything is worth doing: positive misanthropy distilled.

Jeff Tobias

WHO: Satanized, Cop Dope, Daffodil, UtahWHERE: Go Bar

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(Dancefx) No partner or experience necessary! Advanced lesson at 8 p.m. Beginners’ lesson at 8:30 p.m. Dancing from 9–11 p.m. www.ath-ensswingnight.com

KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

LECTURES & LIT.: African-American Authors Book Club (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) February’s title is Mikasenoja’s Confessions of a Preacher’s Wife. Newcomers wel-come. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

MEETINGS: Athens Area Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) Meet up with other fibercraft enthusiasts the second Tuesday of each month. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623

GAMES: Blind Draw Poker (Fat Daddy’s) Bring your poker face. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241

GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com

GAMES: Poker Tour (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em ev-ery Wednesday. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com

GAMES: Trivia (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) Every Tuesday with drink and food specials! 8:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.doccheys.com

Wednesday 10EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour

(Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog! Every Wednesday. 5–7 p.m. www.athensdowntownhotel.com

PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Local drag troupe. 10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/littlek-ingsshuffleclub


KIDSTUFF: Cupcake Club (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Meet with your fellow cupcake com-patriots and collaborate on the de-sign for a different themed cupcake every Wednesday! 10–11:30 a.m. $1. 706-613-3603, www.accleisure-services.com

KIDSTUFF: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary school-

age homeschoolers gather at the library to read a book together and talk about it. Every Thursday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597

KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A pro-gram of age-appropriate nature ex-ploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For parents and children. Mar. 3–May 12, Wednesdays, $13. 706-613-3515, www.sandycreekna-turecenter.com

KIDSTUFF: Mother Goose Rocks (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Weekly storytime for toddlers and preschoolers. 10 a.m. $2. 706-613-3603

MEETINGS: American Sign Language Study Group (Cups Coffee Café) All skill levels wel-come. Come once or come weekly. Newcomers welcome! 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/aslstudy-group

MEETINGS: Athens Human Rights Festival (Nuçi’s Space) Committee planning meeting. Any volunteers who want to help organize this year’s festival are welcome. Parking is available across the street in the old Dial America lot. 7 p.m. 770-725-2652, www.athenshumanrightsfest.org

MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended cro-chet needles. Newcomers welcome. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597

GAMES: Dart League (Alibi) Meet up with other sharp-shooters. FREE! 706-549-1010

GAMES: Dart Night (Fat Daddy’s) Because you’re a different kind of athlete. FREE! 706-355-3030

GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) Develop coordination, tolerance and grace through beer pong and keno. Every Wednesday with Corey. FREE! 706-549-1010

GAMES: Movie Trivia Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Where movie trivia meets performance art. Hosted by “It Boy” Jeff Tobias and spon-sored by Vision Video. Prizes! Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/flickerbar

GAMES: Poker Tour (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em ev-ery Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com

GAMES: Trivia (Harry’s Pig Shop) Nerd wars at Classic City Trivia’s “most challenging Trivia Night in Athens.” Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9219

GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Five Points) Calling all know-it-alls! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com

GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706-548-1920

GAMES: Trivia Wars (283 Bar) Choose your teammates wisely, and check the Facebook group “Trivia

Wars!” for weekly updates and the online question of the week. 8:30 p.m. (sign up) 9 p.m. (game starts). FREE! 706-208-1283

Thursday 11EVENTS: Live After Five (Hotel

Indigo, Phi Bar and Bistro) Get a headstart on your weekend with FREE! live music from Trey Wright and wine tastings. Thursdays, 6–8 p.m. $15 (wine tastings). 706-546-0430, www.athensdowntownhotel.com

EVENTS: UGA Living Wage Vigil (UGA Arch) Come out and show your support for a living wage! Every Thursday. 5–6 p.m. FREE! www.livingwageaction.org

KIDSTUFF: Children’s Book Award Program (ACC Library, Storyroom) Discuss the nomina-tions for the 2009–2010 Georgia Children’s Book Award. For first through fifth graders. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

KIDSTUFF: Pi Day (Oconee County Library) Mathematical concepts have feelings, too! Don’t forget to celebrate Pi Day a little early this year with pizza pies, dessert pies and quite possibly some math jokes. For kids ages 11 to 18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950

KIDSTUFF: Teen Cartoon Illustrators Club (Lyndon House Arts Center) Work on your favorite style of cartoon with other young art-ists and discuss recent drawings and characters with cartoonist Robert Brown. Pizza and soda included! Every other Thursday. Call for more information. 706-613-3623

MEETINGS: Spanish Group (1000faces Coffee, 585 Barber St.) All-level Spanish conversa-tion group. Informal, welcoming and fun! Every Thursday. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, www.1000facescoffee.com

GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Bring your poker face for a game of Hold ‘Em. Turbo game at 9 p.m. 6 p.m. 706-353-0241

GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Downtown) Calling all know-it-alls! Every Thursday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com

Friday 12EVENTS: Cougar Hunt (Club

Chrome) Ladies 30 and older can enter the contest to win the first place prize of $500! 9 p.m. $7. www.myspace.com/clubchromeathens

EVENTS: Farmers’ Market (Flora Hydroponics, 195 Paradise Blvd.) The Sacred Earth Growers Co-Op sets up a newly established year-round farmers’ market. Organic meat and dairy vendors, produce vendors, local artisans and more help to make this an exciting new addition

to your weekend. 2–6 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2223

EVENTS: OCAF Thrift Sale Preview (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Get a sneak peak before tomorrow’s crowds swarm Rocket Hall. Prices double during preview. Find antiques, furniture, trinkets, tools, toys, electronics, lawn and garden supplies, pottery, clothing and so much more. Benefits the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation. 7–9 p.m. $5. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com

Saturday 13EVENTS: 16th Annual OCAF

Thrift Sale (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Over 10,000 items for sale. Find antiques, furniture, trin-kets, tools, toys, electronics, lawn and garden supplies, pottery, cloth-ing and so much more. Benefits the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation. 8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com

EVENTS: Carlton Art Group Open House (Carlton Art Group, 65 Lexington Rd, Carlton) Stone and wood sculpture, monoprints, Ukrainian eggs, hand-made furni-ture, fused glass, metal sculpture and jewelry are among the many works on display. A portion of the proceeds benefits the cause Georgia for Haiti. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! 706-797-3787

EVENTS: Farmers’ Market (Flora Hydroponics, 195 Paradise Blvd.) The Sacred Earth Growers Co-Op sets up a newly established year-round farmers’ market. See Mar. 12 Events. 2–6 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2223

PERFORMANCE: Effie’s Club Follies (40 Watt Club) This local “slap-strip comedic burlesque” troupe combines the best elements of sketch comedy, musical theatre, drag and striptease. 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com

PERFORMANCE: Improv Asshole (40 Watt Club) The Village Theatre Improv Troupe. 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com

KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Clinic at Lowe’s (Lowe’s, Old Epps Bridge Rd.) Learn how to construct birdfeeders, book ends, bat houses and more! Every second Saturday of the month. 10 a.m.–noon. 706-613-1100

KIDSTUFF: Miss Marigold Pageant (Morton Theatre) Who will be the reigning queen at Winterville’s Marigold Festival in May? Which flower will dominate, casting a dark shade over all other flowers? Find out at this scholarship pageant for elementary through high school stu-dents. 7:30 p.m. $10. 706-613-3771

Sunday 14EVENTS: Carlton Art Group Open

House (Carlton Art Group) See Mar. 13 Events. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! 706-797-3787

EVENTS: “The Life and Legacy of Jeannette Rankin” (ACC Library) “Championing Election Reform,” a panel discussion with Dr. Paul-Henri Gurian and Dr. M.V. Hood, of UGA, and Alison Bracewell-McCullick of the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

EVENTS: Meditation and Kirtan (Vastu School of Yoga, Chase Park Warehouse) Lend your voice to this ancient form of devotional chanting

performed in the traditional “call and response” form with live drumming and harmonium. 5 p.m. FREE! 561-723-6172, [email protected]

THEATRE: Semple Gifts (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) Athens’ Lyric League Singers perform a new musical play about 1920s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. 3 p.m. FREE! www.lyricleague.org

OUTDOORS: Trot for Tots (Athens Regional Medical Center) Put your running shoes on and participate in the 9th annual Tike Hike for the kids or the 5K race through the Historic Cobbham District. Proceeds benefit Nancy Travis House. Tike Hike, 2 p.m. FREE! 5K, 2:30 p.m. $25. www.active.com

GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Allen’s Bar & Grill) Sports-themed rules with diverse categories. 6 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill.com

GAMES: Trippin’ Through the 2000s Pop Culture Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) The name says it all! Test your knowledge of pop culture in the ‘00s every Sunday. 6:30 p.m. (sign in), 7 p.m. (start). 706-354-6655

Monday 15EVENTS: Drive-By Truckers and

The Whigs CD Listening Party (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hear the stellar new releases from two of Athens’ top rock groups! The Truckers’ latest is called The Big To-Do and The Whigs’ newest is In the Dark. 8 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub

EVENTS: Sustainability Film Series (UGA East Campus Village, Rooker Hall) UGA’s Department of

Artwork by Breanna Hale (13 years old) is part of the Youth Art Month show at OCAF through March.

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Deadline for getting listed in the calendar is every FRiDaY at 5 p .m . for the issue that comes out the following Wednesday. Email [email protected].


University Housing hosts a spring film series focusing on environ-mental awareness and sustain-ability. This week: Black Diamond: Mountaintop Removal & the Fight for Coalfield Justice (2007). 7 p.m. FREE! [email protected]

KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

GAMES: “20 Questions at Transmet” (Transmetropolitan, Downtown) General trivia. Topics include sex, music, movies, science, history and much more. Check the Facebook Group “20 questions at Transmet” for weekly themes and the online question of the week. Every Monday. 8:30–10 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773

GAMES: Game Night (The Pub at Gameday) New games including Wii bowling! 706-353-2831

GAMES: Keno Night (The Office Lounge) Every Monday! 7 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840

GAMES: Pool Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) Sharks and minnows com-pete. 8 p.m. 706-353-0241

GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916

GAMES: Trivia and Karaoke and Pool (Alibi) Handsome Ken has his hands full hosting various bar games to keep you happy. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010

Tuesday 16EVENTS: The Art of: Brew (Terrapin

Beer Co.) Tour the Terrapin Beer Company and learn the art of award-winning beer. Followed by a recep-tion and live music by the Athens A-Train Band. Part of GMOA’s “The Art of” Series. RSVP. 6–8 p.m. $30. 706-542-0830


KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–4 read aloud to an aid dog. Trainer always present. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

LECTURES & LIT.: VOX Reading Series (Ciné Barcafé) An evening of poetry featuring the works of G.C. Waldrep. Presented by the UGA Creative Writing Program. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com

GAMES: Blind Draw Poker (Fat Daddy’s) Bring your poker face. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241

GAMES: Dart Tournament (The Pub at Gameday) You can’t spell dart without the art. Compete against other bar game extraordinaires. 706-353-2831

GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com

GAMES: Poker Tour (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em ev-ery Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com

GAMES: Trivia (Doc Chey’s Noodle House) Every Tuesday with drink and food specials! 8:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.doccheys.com

Wednesday 17EVENTS: APERO Africana Brown

Bag Lecture (UGA Memorial Hall, Room 407) William Kisaalita, a biological and agricultural engineer, speaks on “Guiding Axioms for

Deploying Sustainable Technology-Driven Solutions at the Bottom of the Economic Ladder.” 12:15 p.m. FREE! [email protected]

EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog! Every Wednesday. 5–7 p.m. www.athensdowntownhotel.com

EVENTS: Empty Bowl Luncheon (The Classic Center) Benefit hosted by the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia to raise awareness about hunger. Tickets include soup, a sandwich and a bowl handcrafted by the potters at Good Dirt. Eleven showpiece bowls created by local artists will also be auctioned off during the drop-in lunch. 11:30 a.m. $15. www.foodbanknega.org, www.classiccenter.com

EVENTS: St. Patty’s Day Bash (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Celebrate with traditional corned beef and cabbage, an appearance by the Coors Light Girls and giveaways followed by Sports Trivia at 9:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 706-850-1916

PERFORMANCE: Lowdown Comedy Open-Mic (New Earth Music Hall) Headlined by Atlanta comedian Steve Mills who has performed across the country, shar-ing the stage with acts like Daniel Tosh, Taylor Williamson and Joe DeRosa, to name a few. The open-mic portion give 12 comedians 6 minutes to deliver their best. If you’re interested in performing, email [email protected]. 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmu-sichall.com


KIDSTUFF: Cupcake Club (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Meet with your fellow cupcake com-patriots and collaborate on the de-sign for a different themed cupcake every Wednesday! 10–11:30 a.m. $1. 706-613-3603, www.accleisure-services.com

KIDSTUFF: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary school-age homeschoolers gather at the library to read a book together and talk about it. Every Thursday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597

KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Mar. 3–May 12, Wednesdays, $13. 706-613-3515, www.sandycreeknature-center.com

KIDSTUFF: Mother Goose Rocks (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Weekly storytime for toddlers and preschoolers. 10 a.m. $2. 706-613-3603

KIDSTUFF: St. Patrick’s Day Snake Celebration (Memorial Park) St. Patrick may have driven all the snakes from Ireland, but, today, Bear Hollow’s staff will bring them back to visit! Learn cool facts along with some pervasive myths about your legless friends. 4–5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616

KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: M.C. Escher Tessellation. Escher’s tessellations fit people and animals together like long lost puzzle pieces. Make your own in this two-part workshop. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. Mar. 17 & Mar. 24, 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month, members will read and discuss The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett. Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

MEETINGS: American Sign Language Study Group (Cups Coffee Café) All skill levels welcome. Come once or come weekly. 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/aslstudygroup

MEETINGS: Athens Human Rights Festival (Nuçi’s Space) Committee planning meeting. Any volunteers who want to help organize this year’s festival are welcome. Parking is available across the street in the old Dial America lot. 7 p.m. 770-725-2652, www.athenshumanrightsfest.org

MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) Currently crocheting with double-ended cro-chet needles. Newcomers welcome. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597

GAMES: Dart League (Alibi) Meet up with other sharp-shooters. FREE! 706-549-1010

GAMES: Dart Night (Fat Daddy’s) Because you’re a different kind of athlete. FREE! 706-355-3030

GAMES: Game Night (Alibi) Develop coordination, tolerance and grace through beer pong and keno. Every Wednesday with Corey. FREE! 706-549-1010

GAMES: Movie Trivia Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Where movie trivia meets performance art. Hosted by “It Boy” Jeff Tobias and spon-sored by Vision Video. Prizes! Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/flickerbar

GAMES: Poker Tour (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Texas Hold ‘Em ev-ery Wednesday. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com

GAMES: Trivia (Harry’s Pig Shop) Nerd wars at Classic City Trivia’s “most challenging Trivia Night in Athens.” Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9219

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GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Five Points) Calling all know-it-alls! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com

GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706-548-1920

GAMES: Trivia Wars (283 Bar) Choose your teammates wisely, and check the Facebook group “Trivia Wars!” for weekly updates and the online question of the week. 8:30 p.m. (sign up) 9 p.m. (game starts). FREE! 706-208-1283

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Down the LineEVENTS: BreastFest 2010 3/20

(Terrapin Beer Co.) Fundraiser for breast cancer research and breast health that benefits St. Mary’s Women’s Diagnostic Center. Main event features live music, food, wine and beer, silent auction and raffle. BreastFest Kids activities include face-painting, moon-bounce and dancing. 3–11 p.m. $20 (advance), $25 (door), FREE! (kids). 706-546-5008, www.breastfest.org

EVENTS: Deer Neighbors 3/20 (Sandy Creek Park) Learn about living with suburban deer and how to deal with some of their less-than-neighborly behaviors. Lindsay Thomas, Jr. of Quality Deer Management Associate leads this informative talk. Register by Mar. 19. 2 p.m. $2. 706-613-3631

EVENTS: Open House 3/25 (Frontier) Celebrate the dowtown gift boutique’s change in ownership with complimentary wine and snacks, live music by a local string band and the chance to win prizes in a raffle. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-369-8079

LECTURES & LIT.: Last Monday Book Group 3/29 (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is The Piano Teacher, by Janice Y.K. Lee. Newcomers wel-come. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

LECTURES & LIT.: Brown Bag Lunch 3/30 (ACC Library) Learn about the new rare car exhibit at the High Museum of Art when Julie Marateck presents “The Allure of the Automobile.” Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

LECTURES & LIT.: Oconee Dems Book Group 3/31 (Five Points Deli & More, Epps Bridge) Community-wide book group hosted by the Oconee County Democrats. This month: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder’s non-fiction work about an American doctor seeking to extend health care to remote parts of Haiti. Newcomers from any county and of any political affiliation are welcome. 6 p.m. FREE! [email protected], www.oconeedemocrats.org


Live MusicTuesday 9alibi9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010THE DIVA KARAOKE CONTEST

With the singing cowboy. Includes a booty shaking contest!

Go Bar10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobarGRAPE SODA Lewis brothers Ryan

and Mat team up to create soulful,

spaced-out pop songs buried in lush reverb.

AUSTIN LUCAS Bloomington, IN-based alt-country singer-songwriter.

MATT KURZ ONE One-man rock ma-chine plays drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, by himself, all at the same time. Expect a mix of garage rock stomps and bluesy croons.

Little Kings shuffle club10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlek-

ingsshuffleclubPUNK ROCK NIGHT Every Tuesday

at Little Kings! Featuring a mix of punk rock bands and DJ-led dance parties.

the Melting Point7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens.

comBLUE BILLY GRIT Live bluegrass!

Performing originals and some great covers including The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin and even Alanis Morissette.

Wednesday 10alibi9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010HIP-HOP JAMBOREE A DJ spins

all your favorite hip-hop jams every Wednesday.

caledonia Lounge9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www.

caledonialounge.comCASPER AND THE COOKIES

Increasingly experimental but always rooted in pop sensibilities, this lo-cal act presents a danceable mix of quirky fun driven by keyboard and guitar.

LESBIAN AFTERNOON Soft psych-pop group from Atlanta known for its DIY surrealist music videos.

TIMMY TUMBLE Tim Schreiber howls over pre-recorded beats, liter-ally tumbling across the floor, enrap-tured by his garage-rock lust.

Fat Daddy’s9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241OPEN MIC Every Wednesday.

Flicker theatre & Bar11:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/

flickerbarBLAIR Critically lauded songwriter

who cites Neil Young as a key influ-ence but is often compared to alter-native female rockers like Liz Phair and Jenny Lewis.

FREON FIGHTERS Members of the Futurebirds change things up with this experimental side project.

Go Bar10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobarCOP DOPE New local band featur-

ing members of Dark Meat and Backtalk playing “power-violent ‘80s hardcore.”

DAFFODIL Hard-hitting, noisy rock from this local trio.

SATANIZED This band performs noisy, uncompromising music with a nihilistic, no-wave punk aesthetic. For more info, see our feature story on p. 17.

UTAH Loud, hard-hitting guitar and drum duo influenced by metal and hardcore.

the Office Lounge9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840KARAOKE Wednesdays with Lynn!

terrapin Beer co.5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.comBLOSSOM CREEK BREEZE Mike

Armstrong and Mike Pitts form an acoustic music group with a relaxed and upbeat coastal feel.

Thursday 1140 watt club9 p.m. $6. www.40watt.comBIG JOHN BOURBON Former drum-

mer for local bands Burn Circle and Miazma, Big John has worked in both the rap and rock scenes, and currently performs a mix of Southern rap, rock and alternative.

BOO RAY Soulful Southern rock with a bit of outlaw country twang, solid blues riffs and a lot of heart. Boo Ray’s new live band features seasoned Athenians Daniel Marler, Steve Abercrombie, Nate Hale and Ann Innecken. Tonight he’s celebrat-ing the release Bad News Travels Fast.

KEN WILL MORTON BAND Athens’ own Ken Will Morton is an engaging and prolific songwriter with several full-lengths under his belt. His soul-ful rasp and sharp lyrics encompass both the heart of folk and the rough and tumble vitality of rock. Ken’s got a brand-new record, True Grit, com-ing out next week!

RADIOLUCENT Local band Radiolucent falls somewhere be-tween bluesy Southern rock and the poppier side of alt-country.

alibi9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010OPEN MIC Hosted by Wes of Dixie

Mafia.

caledonia Lounge9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.

caledonialounge.comDEAD DOG Local band delivers

frenetic, spunky lo-fi punk delivered with a pop smile.

HOT NEW MEXICANS Vocalist-guitarist Patrick Jennings, drummer Joe Dakin and bassist Ian McCord create catchy, boozy punk-influenced power pop.

SHELLSHAG With a simple stand up drumkit (Shag) and guitar (Shell), this band blows out pop-hook-inspired raw rock and roll. See Calendar Pick on this page.

THE STREET EATERS Two-piece of fuzz-laden bass and drums with dual male/female vocals and an under-tone of lo-fi East Bay punk.

Farm 25511 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.comFAMILY PORTRAIT DC band with

punchy rhythms and a ‘60s psych-pop vibe.

NUCLEAR SPRING Increasingly cohesive local rock band that has found a happy medium between folk and glam with occasional Kinks-like tendencies.


flickerbarPATRICK CAREY The Ginger

Envelope frontman plays slow-rolling countryish pop marked by breezy, melodic sounds with chim-ing acoustic and electric sounds.

BETHANY DINSICK Chilling lo-fi singer and musician who doubles as a collage artist, mixing acrylic, ink, xerox and embroidery.

TEAADORA NIKOLOVA Boston-based artist performing haunting and somber minimalist folk.

Go Bar11:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/

gobar“DR. FRED’S KARAOKE” Hosted

by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers, every Thursday.

Hotel indigo“Live After Five.” 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.

athensdowntownhotel.comTREY WRIGHT Live jazz music at the

Phi Bar and Bistro.

Little Kings shuffle club“MS Walk Team Rock Lobsters

Benefit.” 9 p.m. $6–10 (minimum donation). www.myspace.com/little-kingsshuffleclub

MATTHEW BARINGER Spinning all night in between sets.

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM Led by main songwriter Will Cullen Hart alongside various former Olivia Tremor Control bandmates, Circulatory System blasts through psychedelic, elliptical pop songs rich with strings, keys and layers of guitar.

WHISTLING SCHOOL FOR BOYS Experimental artist who plays chil-dren’s toys and more. Tonight she’ll be providing visual stimulation with unique projections.


comRICK FOWLER BAND Blues rocker

Rick Fowler returns to the Melting Point with his top-notch band featuring Tim “Drawbar” White, Greg Veale, Dean Quinter and Michael Doke.

the Office Lounge8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840DIVA KARAOKE CONTEST Every

Thursday with The Singing Cowboy!

rye Bar10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/

ryebarathensMATT KABUS This Atlanta-based

singer-songwriter has a sweet pop voice and delivers heartfelt acoustic ballads over guitar.

BRENT PIERCE Local musicians plays alternative folk.

sky city Lounge & Bulldog cafe706-380-7699KARAOKE (468 North Ave.) Join Lady

B every Thursday night for her kara-oke extravaganza.

terrapin Beer co.5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.comTHE DELTA SAINTS Fusion of

Southern rock and bluesy soul.

Friday 1240 watt club8 p.m. $10. www.40watt.comBEN + VESPER Pretty, heartfelt songs

from this New Jersey-based married couple.

DANIELSON Indie-pop gospel group from New Jersey known for squeaky falsetto vocals, innovative musical arrangements. See story on p. 15.

ORTOLAN This group of sisters makes wonderful and entrancing pop music mature beyond their years.

alibi9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010BEAVER DAM CONNECTION

Country and classic rock covers.

caledonia Lounge10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.cale-

donialounge.comJOOKABOX This band’s latest record,

Dead Zone Boys, is part zombie mu-sical and part love story, and its ma-jor themes are white flight and urban blight. Jookabox offers an intriguing, percussive, whirling psych-rock mix that’s avant-garde and accessible.

POMEGRANATES Cincinnati’s indie outfit Pomegranates plays edgy dream-pop led by female vocals.

YAAL HUSH Local hard psych band featuring members of Dark Meat, Chrissakes and Part Bear making noise on guitar, keys and oscillator.

club chrome9 p.m. $7. www.myspace.com/club-

chromeathensTHE BIG DON BAND Don Spurlin’s

band delivers “workingman’s blues from a country perspective” with a catalog of Southern blues covers and originals.

Farm 25511 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.comBEN DAVIS AND THE JETTS After

an era of solo work, Davis joins his Jetts for lush arrangements of shoegazey pop with sharp riffs and textural density.

THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW Darren Keen plays chaotic, one-man band electro, rapping and spazzing out in a flurry of blips and White Denim-style guitar lines.

SIGNALS Jon Gray, Bill Gray and Jacob Cooper of L.A. act The Mae Shi.


flickerbarMAJOR LOVE EVENT Local pop

duo with upbeat piano and vocal arrangements.

KATE MORRISSEY Best known throughout this corridor for her dark velvet voice that stands on its own, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor.

Go Bar10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobarK-MACKS Energetic local country-

friend punk band. EP release show!

Little Kings shuffle club10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/

littlekingsshuffleclubBODHIZAFA Lazer/wülf side project.DAFFODIL Hard-hitting, noisy rock

from this local trio.MOTION TURNS IT ON Progressive

rock trio from Texas.

the Melting Point8:30 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www.

meltingpointathens.comHOLMAN AUTRY BAND Fans of

Southern rock icons like Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers will love Holman Autry Band’s rowdy rock and roll.

THE CALENDAR! Wednesday, Mar. 17 continued from p. 19 Thursday, March 11Shellshag, Dead Dog, Hot New Mexicans, The Street EatersCaledonia Lounge

“We’re hyperactive people, and, quite hon-estly, we just like to do a lot of things at once.” So explains Jen “Shag” Shagaway, the drumming half of Shellshag. Over the past couple of decades, Shag has been in “a million bands” (opening for the likes of Iggy Pop and The Cramps) and run an infamous DIY space and a record label (both called Starcleaners). And while today she speaks quickly and emphatically, showering praise on her cohorts and collaborators, she admits that being entrenched in the music business can have its toll. “I hate the politics of music,” she says. “It can really bum you out… and you end up hating the very thing that you love.”

It was actually that frustration that inspired Shellshag’s formation. At a time when Shag felt most jaded and disconnected, she turned to long-time friend John “Shell” Driver and said, “Fuck it. Let’s just tour.”

“We went to Japan and did a short tour, and met people who helped us remember what it meant to really give a shit about a live show… It lit a fire underneath us.”

It is that raw energy that Shellshag is now most well known for. With Shag standing and thrashing behind her kit, and Shell blasting Sonic Youth-inspired guitar licks, the pair capture punk-rock dynamism in its purest form.

So, how do you take that unbridled chaos and present it on record? According to ShellShag, you don’t. Without the visuals, the live show doesn’t translate on record, says Shell. So, on the new release, Rumors in Disguise, the band took a more deliberate approach, inviting guest musicians, like Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females, to help see their vision through. The result is a moody, edgy record with smart hooks and angular rhythms. Now the challenge is presenting these numbers as a reckless duo. “We’ll just be stripping it way down and just sort of Shellshagging it out,” says Shag. “Even with the two of us, the spirit of the song is still there.” [Michelle Gilzenrat]

Shellshag


New earth Music Hall10 p.m. $7 (21+), $10 (18–20), $2 off

for costumes. www.newearthmusi-chall.com

VILLAINS NIGHT ATHENS A goth/industrial/fetish super villain-themed dance party featuring DJ Redrum and DJ EyeofKaos. There will be costumed go-go dancers, a mini dungeon, themed drinks and a sexi-est villain costume contest!

the Office Lounge9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840DWIGHT WILSON AND CLASSIC

CITY SOUL This cover band performs classic Motown, soul and R&B from the ‘60s & ‘70s. Featuring members of Grains of Sand.

rye Bar10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryeba-

rathensTHE RUNAWAY SUNS Psychedelic

garage band from Brooklyn with airy vocals and summery melodies.

tasty world uptown9 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.comBETSY FRANCK AND THE

BAREKNUCKLE BAND Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

BIG HEART SLIDE Americana folk tunes with tender vocals and simple melodies.

THE SANDWITCHES Dreamy lo-fi from San Francisco.

WORN OUT WELCOME This local group features Andrew Vickery, Joel Mooneyhan, Jeff Chipman and Stephen Ousley playing a rootsy mix of alt-country and rock. See Upstart Roundup on p. 15.

terrapin Beer co.5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.comMOBLEY A glitzy blitz of guitars and

synths with crooning falsetto vocals and dance-rock beats.

wuGa 91.7 FM4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org“ITS FRIDAY!” Short Road Home

and The Green Flag will perform

on the local radio station’s weekly program. University Cable Channel 15 will also broadcast the show.

Saturday 1340 watt club9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.comCARS CAN BE BLUE Quirky and

sometimes naughty local duo that sounds like “Sarah Silverman front-ing Dressy Bessy: bubblegum pop with raunchy, satirical lyrics.”

alibi9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010DJ DANCE PARTY Taking your re-

quests for danceable hits!

allen’s Bar & Grill9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill.

comTRACER BULLET Local band per-

forms originals and some covers in a Southern rock style.

caledonia Lounge10 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.cale-

donialounge.comJ RODDY WALSTON & THE

BUSINESS This Baltimore band comes across like an off-kilter version of The Band in the late ‘60s, combining Southern rock, McCartney pop and scruffy piano blues. One of the most energetic live shows you’ll ever see.

MATT KURZ ONE One-man rock machine Matt Kurz literally plays drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, by himself, all at the same time. Expect a mix of garage-rock stomps and bluesy croons.

THE ARCS Having solidified their place in the Athens music scene, The Arcs now bring years of col-lective rock and roll experience to the table.

club chrome9 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/club-

chromeathensTHE BOBBY COMPTON BAND

Country and Southern rock the way it’s meant to be played.

Farm 25511 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.comADVENTURE Rev up your Excitebike

and get ready for a set of Nintendo-esque electronic jams from this Baltimore band. Adventure was recently signed to Carpark Records (home of Beach House, Dan Deacon and Ecstatic Sunshine).

BLUE LEADER Project of Robby Rackleff, a graduate student from Maryland Institute College of Art, involving clever, hyper-violent speeches, doomy electronic music and mashups of videogame projec-tions.

LESSER GONZALEZ ALVAREZ Sobering and reflective folk tunes from this member of Baltimore’s Wham City collective.

VIDEOHIPPOS Dreamy Baltimore psych-pop duo Kevin O’Meare and Jim Triplett have been playing music together since the late ‘90s and are frequent touring partners of Dan Deacon. See Calendar Pick on this page.

Flicker theatre & Bar9 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/flick-

erbarTHE DAREDEVIL CHRISTOPHER

WRIGHT Upbeat orchestral folk-rock with pleasant vocal harmonies out of Wisconsin. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

EFREN Heartfelt folk-rock influenced by Iron and Wine and M. Ward.

the Globe7:30 p.m. $5. carolineaiken@gmail.

comSPAWNING GROUND

PERFORMANCE Students from the day’s workshop show what they know at 7:30 p.m., followed by a set from this week’s Spawning Ground instructor, Grammy-winning drum-mer Yonrico Scott, at 9:30 p.m.

Go Bar9 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/gobarTHE AWESOMELIES The awesome

duo of Ian Rickert (bass) and Becky Lovell (keys) sing silly, irreverent pop songs. The band’s awesome

debut release is available digitally at www.wedoallthebeststuff.com. Also playing an awesome show at Flicker on Tuesday, Mar. 16.

MONOGOLD Brooklyn-based avant-indie trio with high-octave vocals, subtle harmonies and ethereal orchestrations free from the buzzes and clicks of heavy post-production.

THE STATIONARY SET Sweeping, heartfelt rock band from New York, featuring guitar, piano and drums.

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and a rotating cast of partners: Winston Parker (ATEM), Tom Hedger (owner of Go Bar) and Eddie Russell (of Farm 255) spin top-40/hip-hop mixed with indie, synthpop, new wave and Britpop.

Little Kings shuffle club10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlek-

ingsshuffleclubLOVE TRACTOR Original Love

Tractor member Mike Richmond recruited Bill Holmes (ex-Vigilantes of Love), Ben Holst (ex-Avenues, Velure), Kevin Fleming (Harp Unstrung), Tom Lewis and Darren Stanley (Squat) to round out his new lineup. The album Black Hole features spacey and compelling, prog-influenced guitar epics.

THE VINYL STRANGERS Timelessly charming classic-sounding pop rock reminiscent of early Beatles and Byrds.

the Melting Point8:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. www.melt-

ingpointathens.comJOHNNY DICKINSON Veteran Brit

rocker once voted “The Most Potent Slide Player in the UK.”

ANDY MCKEE Acoustic soloist who was recently featured in Guitar Player Magazine after receiving over 60 million hits on YouTube.

the Office Lounge8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840THE SHORTBUS ALLSTARS Heavy

metal band that has been on the bill with the likes of Orange October, Dead Silent Orchestra and Arazi.


rathens80S PROM DATE Melodic rock band

with progressive guitar arrangments and wailing organ.

tasty world uptown9 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.comALBATROSS Local band jams out

with bluesy funk and classic rock-inspired originals.

ROLLIN HOME This band jams on originals with a Grateful Dead kind of groove and a Southern rock leaning.

terrapin Beer co.5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.comCLAP FOR DAYLIGHT Melodic alter-

native rock from Decatur, GA.

Sunday 14Farm 25511 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.comMANY MANSIONS Spacey, atmo-

spheric ambient performance project of Shane Donnelly.

SEA OF DOGS Songwriter and banjo-picker Emily Armond leads this endearing folk group with disarming honesty, candid lyrics and warm harmonies.

the Globe2:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721ATHENS KEILI BAND This Irish

group is also known as “The Ballybeg Band” and have been per-

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Saturday, March 13Videohippos, Lesser Gonzalez AlvarezFarm 255

Not every job is easy, nor every hard thing a job. Whether you’re a consumer or a pro-ducer, having fun takes hard work in this modern, fast-paced economy. So, if you choose to consume only one band this Saturday night, we at Flagpole cordially suggest you consume Videohippos. The once-duo, now-quartet of Jim Triplett, Kevin O’Meara (original edi-tion), Benny Boeldt and Jared Paolini (expanded cut) throw themselves into their work of creating fun for themselves, their friends and their audiences. How so, you ask? A plus for asking: for every sugary slice of anthemic synth-punk Videohippos create, there is a disarmingly trippy video to go with it, always projected along with the live show. “Our videos, that’s been a pretty collaborative aspect of the band,” says Triplett. “We’ve had complete strangers make videos for us. It’s been kinda fun to get other people’s input and stuff.”

Repping their hometown of Baltimore hard, the band makes collaboration a driving force in its very existence. In addition to participating in the notorious Wham City Round Robin tours, which feature 16 different bands all set up at once and performing in rota-tion, they maintain the practice of big-upping other Maryland weirdoes.

“We’re actually releasing a split with Sewn Leather, who we’ve toured with before, and each song is a collaboration with a different band. One with DJ Dog Dick, one with Teeth Mountain, one with Ed Schrader and other friends of ours or people we know or have played shows with and become friends with later,” says Triplett. “For one, it makes it fun, you know? When you get to work with new people and other musicians or art-ists where you respect what they do, and you can find a way to work together and make something totally different; it keeps things interesting.” [Jeff Tobias]

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forming on Sundays at The Globe. This will be an all-afternoon celebra-tion in advance for St. Patrick’s Day.

square One Fish co.Noon-3 p.m. FREE! www.squareon-

efishco.comSUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Rotating

local jazz artists play Sunday after-noons on the patio.

Monday 15Flicker theatre & Bar9–12 p.m. www.myspace.com/flick-

erbarKENOSHA KID Centered around the

instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s music borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a seamless product glistening with in-spiration. If you like jazz, you might like this; if you hate jazz, you still might like this.

Go Bar10 p.m. $5-7 (suggested donation).

www.myspace.com/gobarAA Spastic Brooklyn band utilizing

synths, electronics and a ton of drums.

SCREENS Members of The Fugue, The Apes and Medications.

TRUNK DRUIDS Will Donaldson, Adam Bewley and John Richardson play effects-laden, dreamy noise rock.

New earth Music Hall9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall.

comOPEN DJ NIGHT TRYOUTS A

weekly event every Monday. Bring your computer or turntables to tryout or just come down to enjoy live tunes from local DJs.

tasty world uptown9 p.m. www.tastyworlduptown.comBALANCE AND COMPOSURE

Hard indie rock reminiscent of early 2000s post-hardcore such as Crime in Stereo and Brand New.

MAKEOUT PARTY Melodic indie rock with an emo feel. This New Jersey act has been compared to bands like the Get Up Kids and early Jimmy Eat World.

SPRING TIGERS Taking cues from bands like XTC and Blur, local band Spring Tigers offers up angular pop rock. Their self-titled debut EP is out now!

VENICE IS SINKING With boy/girl vocals, a cinematic jangle and a sweeping, emotional punch courtesy of a viola, Venice Is Sinking’s piano-based torch songs burn bright.

Tuesday 16alibi9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010THE DIVA KARAOKE CONTEST

With the singing cowboy. Includes a booty shaking contest!

caledonia Lounge9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www.

caledonialounge.comTHE BRIGHTSIDE SUICIDES

Earnest indie rock throwing in the occasional violin or mandolin line.

CANDY MALDONADO New local band whose debut EP, Me to Your Right, Like Meteorite, features airy, mostly instrumental numbers punc-tuated by unpredictable rhythms and jangly guitars.

DUSTY LIGHTSWITCH Described as “one of the most exciting and satis-fying live bands in town” by our own Gordon Lamb, this revolving cast of

local eccentrics delivers rock and roll with epic possibilites.


flickerbarTHE AWESOMELIES The awesome

duo of Ian Rickert (bass) and Becky Lovell (keys) sing silly, irreverent pop songs. The band’s awesome debut release is available digitally at www.wedoallthebeststuff.com.

SEA CUBS Side project of Blake and Sara of Athens’ own Gemini Cricket!

Little Kings shuffle clubPunk Rock Night. 10 p.m. www.mys-

pace.com/littlekingsshuffleclubGREY MILK New to Athens, this edgy

folk rock outfit recently relocated to the Classic City from New England.

JESSIE MARSTON Singer/guitarist from local rock band Romanenko.

THE RON JONSONS Progressive rock band that incorporates unique Latin and jazz influences.

WORST CASE ONTARIO This NYC band plays loud, swoon-ing rock in the vein of Dinosaur Jr., Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine.


comBUTTERMILK REVIVAL Traditional

bluegrass tribute, including songs by the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and many others.

New earth Music Hall10 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.comP.O.S.I.T.I.V.E. “Putting Our Selves

In The Immediate Vibration Earth” is New Earth’s organization designed to put on shows to benefit our local and global community with fundrais-ing and awareness.


rathensJEFF JONES This musician uses

looping and percussion to emulate a full band as he covers acts like Phish, String Cheese Incident and ‘90s alternative acts.

terrapin Beer co.“The Art of: Brew.” 6–8 p.m. $30. 706-

542-0830ATHENS A-TRAIN BAND Female vo-

cals backed by a five-piece jazz band tackling swing, Latin, boogie and traditional standards. Part of GMOA’s “The Art of” Series. See our Events listing for more information.

wuOG 90.5FM8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org“LIVE IN THE LOBBY” The Winter

Sounds will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air or drop by the station to watch!

Wednesday 1740 watt club8 p.m. www.40watt.comUGA LAW REVUE TALENT SHOW

Watch enterprising law students demonstrate their talents in areas. From singing, dancing and acting, for at least one night these students will drop the books and pick up the microphone, all for your entertain-ment… and if you’re not entertained, well, so sue them!

alibi9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010HIP-HOP JAMBOREE A DJ spins

all your favorite hip-hop jams every Wednesday.

caledonia Lounge10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www.

caledonialounge.comTHIEVES & PASTORS Newly

formed, local indie shoegaze band with post-rock guitar and soaring vocals.

TODAY THE MOON, TOMORROW THE SUN Endearing electro-rock from Atlanta featuring sweet and strong female vocals backed by fierce guitar for a sound that’s equal parts Metric and Muse.

WEDGE Local, dramatic, electronic alt-pop akin to Mum, Sigur Ros, Bjork and other subtle, Icelandic things.

THE WINTER SOUNDS Local band that infuses elements of new wave, punk and synth-pop sounds into its carefully crafted and lyrically inspir-ing songs.

Flicker theatre & Bar11:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/

flickerbarSONGWRITER SHOWCASE Hosted

by Will Chamberlain of A PostWar Drama.

the Globe8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721THE DONNER PARTY All-Globe-

employee band covering The Pogues and a smattering of other traditional Irish songs. This is their second an-nual St. Patrick’s Day performance.

Lansdowne road irish Pub10 p.m. www.lansdowneroadpub.comHARP UNSTRUNG Alternative rock

with a funky, jam-band twist. Lush harmony vocals and guitar-driven songs that will invite you to the dance floor.

Little Kings shuffle club7–9 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlek-

ingsshuffleclubREPENT AT LEISURE Traditional

Celtic tunes in honor of St. Patrick’s Day!

10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlek-ingsshuffleclub

DJ MAHOGANY AND THE KING Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves as DJ Mahogany dips into his bag of goodies from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Tag-teaming tonight with DJ Brian King.

the Melting Point“St. Patrick’s Day Celebration.” 7:30

p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www.melt-ingpointathens.com

GREEN FLAG Enjoy the Celtic sounds of Green Flag, featuring Julia McDermott on the hammered dulcimer, retired UGA professor Carl Rapp on the fiddle, Ken Ross on accordion and Antoon Speters on guitar and mandolin.

SHORT ROAD HOME Athens-based Celtic music ensemble inspired by the music of Ireland, Scotland, Canada and Appalachia.

No where Bar10 p.m. 706-546-4742THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH

Athens-based instrumental jam band with some tropical leanings.

the Office Lounge9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840KARAOKE Every Wednesday with

Lynn!


rathensDOPAPOD Over the past few years,

this band has grown from an organ-and-drum duo to a five-piece funk-jam sensation.

NEMO Young up-and-comers play originals and covers.

walker’s coffee & PubCall for time. 706-543-1433KARAOKE One special night of ka-

raoke fun!


Down the Line3/18 “Dr. Fred’s Karaoke” (Go Bar)3/18 Karaoke (Sky City Lounge &

Bulldog Cafe)3/18 Diva Karaoke Contest (The

Office Lounge)3/18 Karaoke for Kids

(Transmetropolitan)3/18 Dr. Squid / Leaving Araby /

Moreland / The Warm Fuzzies (40 Watt Club)

3/18 Giant Lion / Nuclear Spring (Caledonia Lounge)

3/18 Odd Trio (Farm 255)3/18 Caroline Aiken / Mark

Cunningham / Efren / Shauna Greeson / Michael Jones (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

3/18 Timi Conley (Hotel Indigo)3/18 Kaitlin Jones and the County

Fair (Little Kings Shuffle Club)3/18 Epcot / Mimosa / Nasty Nasty

(New Earth Music Hall)3/18 Adam Payne Band (No Where

Bar)3/18 Patrick Atwater (Rye Bar)3/18 Kyshona Armstrong (Terrapin

Beer Co.)3/18 The Georgia Satellites (The

Melting Point)3/18 “Live in the Lobby” (WUOG

90.5FM)3/19 Athens Music Collective

Showcase (40 Watt Club)3/19 Mon2 / DJ Other Voices,

Other Rooms / Redklay / Trav Williams (Caledonia Lounge)

3/19 Conscious Alliance Benefit (Farm 255)

3/19 Famous & Nameless Darnell / Gabe Vodicka & Keven Gilbert / Roy Coughlin & Dan Nettles (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

3/19 Incendaries / The Jack Burton / Srangipani Mayo (Little Kings Shuffle Club)

3/19 Efren / Larry Keel (New Earth Music Hall)

3/19 Sumilan (Rye Bar)3/19 Defaux / Greedy White

Citizen / Sounds of Silence (Tasty World Uptown)

3/19 Suex Effect (Terrapin Beer Co.)3/19 Andy Carlson Band (The

Melting Point)3/20 Eureka California / Grape

Soda / Titans of Filth / Werewolves (40 Watt Club)

3/20 The Burning Angels (Allen’s Bar & Grill)

3/20 Get Sad / Untied States / Vincas / Wizard Smoke (Caledonia Lounge)

3/20 Hola Halo / Mr.Falcon (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

3/20 Jazzchronic / Uri (Little Kings Shuffle Club)

3/20 Collective Efforts / Dillon / DJ Rich Rock (New Earth Music Hall)

3/20 Athens / Second Suns / Tealvox (Nuçi’s Space)

3/20 Doc Brown & the DeLoreans (Rye Bar)

3/20 ICE (Tasty World Uptown)3/20 16 Tons / 90 Acre Farm /

Betsy Franck and the Bare Knuckle Band / John Keane and Nathan Sheppard / Mellow Down Easy / The Sara O’Brien Band (Terrapin Beer Co.)

3/21 DJ Kurt Wood / DJ Mahogany / Thee Vicars (Ben’s Bikes)

3/21 The Georgia Guitar Quartet / Maps and Transit / The Odd Trio (Canopy Studio)

3/21 Ken Wil Morton (Jot ‘Em Down Country Store & BBQ)

3/21 Sunday Jazz Brunch (Square One Fish Co.)

3/22 Open DJ Night Tryouts (New Earth Music Hall)

3/22 Cars Can be Blue / Los Meesfits / Red Pony Clock (Caledonia Lounge)

3/22 Kenosha Kid (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

3/23 Lord Jeff Truman Peyote (Farm 255)

3/23 Lera Lynn / News on the March (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

3/23 8 Inch Betsey / Athens Boys Choir / Punk Rock Night (Little Kings Shuffle Club)

3/23 Trolls (No Where Bar)3/23 Jordan Youngquist (Rye Bar)3/23 Kyle Andrews / Fire Zuave /

Heypenny / Jupiter One (Tasty World Uptown)

3/23 The Silverbird Duo (The Melting Point)

3/23 “Live in the Lobby” (WUOG 90.5FM)

3/24 Hip-Hop Jamboree (Alibi)3/24 Spoken Word and Open Mic

(Flicker Theatre & Bar)3/24 Chinese Stars / Fang Island

(Caledonia Lounge)3/24 Holly Belle / Emily White

(Little Kings Shuffle Club)3/24 Funklefinger (Rye Bar)3/24 Second Wives (Tasty World

Uptown)3/24 Lost City (Terrapin Beer Co.)3/25 Chrissakes / My Disco / The

Phantom Family Halo / Young Widows (40 Watt Club)

3/25 Powerload (Caledonia Lounge)3/25 Beach Fossils / The Beets

(Farm 255)3/25 The Lokshen Klugel Klezmer

Band (Flicker Theatre & Bar)3/25 DJ Drizno / EOTO / DJ Logic

(New Earth Music Hall)3/25 Sumilan (Rye Bar)3/25 Come What May / Eddie &

the Public Speakers / Junior Astronomers / Ocean Is Theory (Tasty World Uptown)

3/25 Dave Howard (Terrapin Beer Co.)

3/25 Jason Isbell and 400 Unit / Abby Owens (The Melting Point)


3/26 Colossus / Part Bear / Pride Parade (Caledonia Lounge)

3/26 Haiti Benefit (Farm 255)3/26 Black Balloon / Patrick Carey

/ Simon Joyner (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

3/26 Capsule Corps / Mantras (Tasty World Uptown)

3/26 74 Matadors (Terrapin Beer Co.)3/26 The Rattlers (The Melting

Point)

THE CALENDAR! Sunday, Mar. 14 continued from p. 21 Saturday, March 13The Daredevil Christopher Wright,EfrenFlicker Theatre & Bar

Head up to Wisconsin, right about where the Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers meet, and you’ll find the comfy little college town of Eau Claire. It’s about the same size as Athens, and the process of assembling In Deference to a Broken Back, the debut full-length from Eau Claire band The Daredevil Christopher Wright, should seem familiar to those who’ve kicked a can or two around a college town: there’s some stuff going on, but not all that much; there’s a dedicated group of kids from the music school with time to kill and cre-ativity aplenty, and they’re all just a phone call away if you want to make an album.

Jason Sunde (bass), Jon Sunde (guitar) and Jesse Edgington (drums and percussion) all contribute vocals to the folk-rock band, and In Deference to a Broken Back is the the trio’s coming out party, released via Amble Down Records on the heels of two earlier EPs. Taking as inspiration a back injury Jason suffered a few years back, the album swings though 11 songs healthy with lyrical imagery and storytelling weight—real life trans-lated into realer song.

In Deference to a Broken Back flirts with the vaudevillian Americana suggested by the band’s name, but all in all, it’s a straight-out, thrilling folk-rocker laced with varied instrumentation, balls-out guitar heroics and honeyed vocal harmonies. Recommended for those who dig on groups along the lines of Fleet Foxes or Dr. Dog. Point of interest: neighbor, pal and main Bon Iver guy Justin Vernon mixed nine of the 11 tunes on the album.

Reports are the band likes to engage its audience in its performances to a certain degree, encouraging some communal percussion and call-and-response singalongs; show on up around 9 p.m. at Flicker to get the truth for yourself. [Chris Hassiotis]


3/27 DJ Mahogany (Farm 255)3/27 The Dictatortots (40 Watt Club)3/27 The Border Lions (Allen’s Bar

& Grill)3/27 Aaron Berg & the Heavy

Love / Mother Jackson / Thayer Sarrano (Caledonia Lounge)

3/27 Burning Angels / Betsy Franck (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

3/27 The Fact / Reeks of Failure / So It Goes (Little Kings Shuffle Club)

3/27 Break Science / Pnuma Trio (New Earth Music Hall)

3/27 Rye / Venice Is Sinking (Nuçi’s Space)

3/27 The Breakdown (Oconee Veterans Memorial)

3/27 The Issues (Rye Bar)3/27 Jompson Brothers / SolShakr

/ Teddy and the Bears (Tasty World Uptown)

3/27 The Summertime Whiskey Band (Terrapin Beer Co.)

3/27 Dirty Dozen Brass Band (The Melting Point)

3/27 706 / Athens / Carla LeFever / Chris Huper’s Jam Club / Lauren Allen and Company / Marisa Mustard / The DeSimone Band / The Flamethrowers (The Office Lounge)

3/28 Live! at the Library (ACC Library)

3/28 Quiet Hooves / Sisters / So Cow (Farm 255)

3/28 Kenosha Kid (Full Moon Studio)

3/28 Efren / Jason and the Punknecks (Kingpins Bowl & Brew)

3/30 Satellite District / Suburban Soul / Sunset Soundtrack (Caledonia Lounge)

3/30 Borderhop Trio (The Melting Point)


3/31 Eureka California / Romanenko (Caledonia Lounge)

3/31 Brave New Citizen (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

3/31 Mike Speenberg (New Earth Music Hall)

3/31 Giant Lion / Sun Hotel (Rye Bar)

3/31 DancFX Athens (Tasty World Uptown)

3/31 Blossom Creek Breeze (Terrapin Beer Co.)

3/31 Betsy Franck and the Bareknuckle Band (The Melting Point)

4/1 Lefty Williams (Hotel Indigo)4/1 The Figures & Sam Satterfield

(Rye Bar)4/1 Sumilan (Terrapin Beer Co.)4/1 Zach Deputy (The Melting Point)4/1 “Live in the Lobby” (WUOG

90.5FM)4/2 Corduroy Road / Josh Roberts

and the Hinges (40 Watt Club)4/2 Elvis! (Buffalo’s Southwest Café)4/2 Gift Horse / Nate Nelson

(Caledonia Lounge)4/2 Free Lunch (Rye Bar)4/2 Border Lions (Terrapin Beer Co.)4/2 R.E.M. 30 (The Melting Point)4/3 Perpetual Groove (40 Watt

Club)4/3 Casper and the Cookies /

Katie Grace Helow / Minorcan / Nutria (Caledonia Lounge)

4/3 Height / Nuclear Power Pants (Farm 255)

4/3 Athens Human Rights Festival Battle of the Bands (New Earth Music Hall)

4/3 Doomed Youth / Living Decay / Savagist (Nuçi’s Space)

4/3 SursieVision (Tasty World Uptown)

4/3 Buttermilk Revival (Terrapin Beer Co.)

4/3 Banks and Shane (The Melting Point)

4/4 Psychedelic Horseshit (Farm 255)

4/5 Arctic Monkeys / Sleepy Sun (40 Watt Club)

4/5 Beat the Drum / Arvin Scott (The Melting Point)

4/7 Josh Gurley / Justin Kennedy (Tasty World Uptown)

4/7 Lost City (Terrapin Beer Co.)4/8 Band of Skulls / The Whigs (40

Watt Club)4/8 The Burning Angels / Lionz

(Caledonia Lounge)4/8 Caroline Aiken (Hotel Indigo)4/8 Ana Sia (New Earth Music Hall)4/8 Jazzchronic (No Where Bar)4/8 Drew Dixon / Still Time (Rye

Bar)4/9 50:50 Shot / Dead Like

Lincoln / Groove Stain / Taj Motel Trio (Caledonia Lounge)

4/9 Dead Prez / H.E.R. HIp-Hop Showcase / Kidz in the Hall (New Earth Music Hall)

4/9 Rollin Home (Rye Bar)4/9 The Ragbirds (Terrapin Beer Co.)4/9 Kinchafoonee Cowboys (The

Melting Point)4/10 Black Lips / Box Elders / Gay

Africa (40 Watt Club)4/10 Consult the Bones / Karbomb

/ The Jack Burton / Wavepool (Caledonia Lounge)

4/10 George McConnell & the Nonchalants (No Where Bar)

4/10 3 Foot Swagger / Catawba / Trees Leave (Nuçi’s Space)

4/10 Rhyme or Treason (Rye Bar)4/10 Save Grand Canyon (Tasty

World Uptown)4/10 Rolling Nowhere (Terrapin

Beer Co.)4/14 Prometheus / Shpongle (New

Earth Music Hall)4/14 Sol Driven Train (Rye Bar)4/15 District Attorneys / Unholy

Tongues (Caledonia Lounge)4/15 Samantha Murphy (Hotel

Indigo)4/15 Big C & the Ringers (No

Where Bar)4/16 The Less / The Orkids / Today

the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun (40 Watt Club)

4/16 September Hase (Terrapin Beer Co.)

4/17 The Protomen (Caledonia Lounge)

4/17 Mantras / The Hypsys / The Incredible Sandwich (Tasty World Uptown)

4/20 A Rocket to the Moon / Fun / Motion City Soundtrack / Sing It Loud (40 Watt Club)

4/21 Zoso (The Melting Point)4/23 Sweet Knievel / Taste (Rye

Bar)4/23 Sensational Sounds of

Motown (The Melting Point)4/24 Bryan Blaylock / Pierce

Faxon (Rye Bar)4/24 Argus (Tasty World Uptown)4/28 Joshua James / Matthew

Perryman Jones (The Melting Point)

4/29 Loudon Wainright III (The Melting Point)


in the AtL3/10 The Terror Pigeon Dance

Revolt (529)3/11 Cymbals Eat Guitars (The

EARL)3/11 Otep (The Masquerade)3/12 moe. (The Tabernacle)3/12 The Chariot (The Masquerade)3/13 moe. (The Tabernacle)3/13 Portugal. The Man. (The

EARL)3/15 Air (Center Stage)3/17 John Mayer (Philips Arena)3/22 You Say Party We Say Die!

(The EARL)3/24 The xx (Variety Playhouse)


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ARTCALL FOR ART (ATHICA) Now

seeking artists to participate in the “Deluge” exhibit. Deadline for sub-mission is Mar. 16. www.athica.org/callforentries.php

CALL FOR ARTISTS (Call for loca-tion) Seeking artists/musicians/citizens to participate in Phoenix Rising, a commemorative art quilt celebrating the Georgia Theatre, to be auctioned off on behalf of the the-atre. No sewing required. Deadline extended to Apr. 30. 706-540-2712, www.MamaInTheMoon.blogspot.com

CALL FOR ARTISTS Seeking submissions of digital video, film, performance and sound art of six minutes or less for “6X6,” a media arts event taking place at 7 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month from March to August in the Ciné Lab. New theme and curator every month. See http://hexadic.blogspot.com for more info.

CALL FOR ARTISTS (Hoschton, GA) Now accepting entries for the Hoschton Arts and Folk Life Festival, a two-day celebration of history and the arts featuring live demonstra-tions, fine art and historical exhibits. 404-202-3044

CALL FOR ARTISTS Register for a space at the small, laid-back artists’ market alongside the AUX Experimental Arts & Music Festival on Apr. 10. Space is limited. Reserve your spot now. $18/vendor, [email protected]

CALL FOR ARTISTS (ATHICA) Now seeking local artists with significant bodies of work for annual summer exhibit, “Emerges.” Go online for submission guidelines. Deadline: May 3. www.athica.org/callforen-tries.php

CALL FOR ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa is currently ac-cepting applications for vendor spaces and submissions for performers for the event in May. Deadline: Apr. 1. www.athensindie-craftstravaganzaa.com

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Athens Academy) Now accepting entries of postcard-sized artwork for inclusion in a “mail art show” which will be up through March. Both sides of the card will be on display as part of a permanent exhibit at the school. For more information, contact [email protected]. Mail entries to Lawrence Stueck, Athens Academy, P.O. Box 6548, Athens, GA 30604

CLASSES12 WEEKS TO TOTAL WELLNESS

(St. Mary’s Wellness Center) A new health and wellness program with a focus on nutrition. Thursdays, 3–4 p.m. $100/program, $10/class. 706-389-3355

“THE ABCS OF WRITING FOR YOUNG READERS” (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Award-winning children’s author Gail Langer Karwoski instructs a three-part writing workshop. Apr. 17 & 18, $110 (two sessions), $160 (three sessions). 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com

ARGENTINE TANGO ESSENTIALS (Athens Elks Lodge, 3155 Atlanta Hwy.) Workshop taught by Clint Rauscher of Atlanta’s Tango Evolution. No experience or partner necessary. Mar. 23, 6–9:30 p.m. $5. 706-613-8178, [email protected]

ART CLASSES (Lyndon House Arts Center) Sign up for spring art class-es! For adults, teens and children.

Go online for full list of programs. Now registering! 706-613-3623, www.accleisureservices.com

BANKING BASICS (ACC Library) Money Matters coordinator Teri Hanna will tell you what you need to know about choosing a bank and managing your checking account. No registration necessary. Mar. 25, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS AND INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS (Oconee County Library) Learn the basic compo-nents of your computer or master Microsoft Windows XP. Registration required. 706-769-3950, www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/oconee.html

BASICS OF DRAWING (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Sign up for four weeks of drawing classes! Tuesdays, 10 a.m.–noon or Saturdays, 2–4 p.m. $20/session (plus a one-time supply fee of $20). 706-540-2712, [email protected]

BEGINNING & INTERMEDIATE WHEEL THROWING (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Potter Maria Dondero instructs this class for beginning and advanced stu-dents. Through Mar. 24, 6–8 p.m. $140. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com

BEGINNING BELLYDANCE FOR FITNESS (YWCO) Have fun and exercise at the same time. Tuesdays, noon–1 p.m. Wednesdays, 6–7 p.m. 706-354-7880, [email protected]

BEGINNING TO INTERMEDIATE POTTERY (Lyndon House Arts Center) Develop wheelthrowing, glazing and decorating techniques while you make your own unique stoneware! Now registering. 706-613-3623, www.accleisureservices.com

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT (Body, Mind & Spirit Ministries) Offering a wide range of self-improvement and spiri-

tual classes. Full schedule online. 706-351-6024, www.bodymind-andspiritofathens.com

CHEN STYLE TAIJIQUAN (Floorspace) Effortless power. Authentic Chinese martial lineage. Register for ongoing instruction. Sundays and Mondays, 706-614-3342, [email protected]

CLASSICAL PILATES (StudiO) Private instruction and group classes offered daily! Schedule online. 678-596-2956, www.studio-inathens.com

COMPUTER CLASS (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center)Introduction to Computers (two-part class). Call to register. Mar. 10 & Mar. 11, 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

COMPUTER CLASS (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to Excel. Call to register. Mar. 25, 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

COMPUTER CLASSES (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to Word. Call to reg-ister. Mar. 16, 7–8:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

ECSTATIC DANCE (Vastu School of Yoga) The Athens Kirtan Collective hosts an evening of meditation through dance and movement. Fridays, 7–9 p.m. 561-723-6172, [email protected]

ENCAUSTIC PAINTING WITH BEESWAX (Blue Tin Art Studio) Learn how to melt and mix colors, create a variety of surface techniques and incorporate collage and more. Mar. 13, 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. $40 (includes materials). 404-556-6884, www.bluetinstudio.com

GENTLE PILATES/YOGA (Sangha Yoga Studio) A therapeutic mind/body workout to help create bal-ance and wellness. Mondays & Wednesdays, 706-613-1143

GENTLE YOGA (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Ease into your evening with stretching and breath-ing exercises. Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9/class. 706-354-1996

GENTLE YOGA FOR SENIORS (Council on Aging) Regain flexibility, stamina and muscle tone with gentle stretches and breathing techniques. Tuesdays, 8–9:15 a.m. Wednesdays, 3–4:15 p.m. Fridays, 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-548-3910

GETTING STARTED WITH GENEALOGY (ACC Library) Genealogy for beginners. In the Heritage Room. Mar. 18, 2–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

INTRO TO EXCEL (Oconee County Library) Two-part class covering the Microsoft spreadsheet program. Registration required. Mar. 18 & 19, 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950

INTRODUCTION TO LIFE DRAWING (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Instructed classes for artists 18 and up. Call to reserve a space. Sundays, 2–4 p.m. 706-540-2727

LIFE DRAWING OPEN STUDIO (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios) Bring any supplies/equipment that you may require. Ages 18 and up. Call to reserve a space. Thursdays, 6–8:15 p.m. 706-540-2727

LINE DANCING FOR SENIORS (Council on Aging, Harris Room) Keep your health in line and have fun at the same time! Tuesdays, 4–5 p.m. $5/class. 706-549-4850

MEDITATION (Vastu School of Yoga, Chase Park Warehouse) Begin every day with relaxing meditation. 6–7 a.m. FREE! 561-723-6172, [email protected]

MEDITATION CLASSES (Bliss Yoga) Calm your heart, strengthen your thyroid, boost your immune system or overcome addictions, anxiety or depression. 706-310-0015, www.blissyoga.me

MEDITATIVE YOGA (YWCO) Easy meditative yoga for every body. Mondays and Thursdays, noon; Wednesdays, 7 p.m. $7 (non-members). 706-354-7880, www.iriseabove.com

MIND YOUR MUSCLES (Council on Aging) Bring your muscles into focus with a combination of tai chi, yoga and Pilates! Fridays, 3–4 p.m. $5/class. 706-549-4850

PAINTING WITH CHARLES (Lyndon House Arts Center) Bring in your oil or acrylic masterpieces-in-progress to receive easel-side assistance from instructor Charles. Now registering for an 8-week session beginning in March. 706-613-3623, www.acclei-sureservices.com

PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES (Fringe Collective Artistic Studios, 159 N. Jackson St.) Learn the basics of lighting, model interaction and more. 770-361-6080, www.trentchau.com/classes.html

PILATES CLASSES (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Offering high-quality instruction in Pilates and overall health. Mat classes and apparatus classes available! Full schedule and information about pri-vate lessons online. 706-546-1061, www.balancepilatesathens.com

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Jeff Owens’ illustrations and paintings are on display at Red Eye Coffee through March.


POSTPARTUM YOGA (Full Bloom Center) An 8-week class focusing on reconnecting with yourself following the transformation into motherhood. Saturdays, 2–3:15 p.m. $90. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com

PRENATAL YOGA (Full Bloom Center) Get ready for birth and beyond. Thursdays, 5:30 p.m., Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. $14/class or $60/6 classes. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com

PRENATAL YOGA (Sangha Yoga Studio) Instructor Alexa Shea. Tuesdays, noon–1 p.m. Thursdays, 10:30–11:45 a.m. 706-613-1143

PRENATAL YOGA: COUPLES WORKSHOP (Five Points Yoga) Call to register. Mar. 28, 1:45–3:45 p.m. $25/couple (adv.), $30/couple (after Mar. 21). 706-355-3114, [email protected], www.ath-ensfivepointsyoga.com/events

SIVANANDA AND VINYASA (Bliss Yoga, Watkinsville) Now offering classes in Hatha Yoga and Flow Yoga. Monday–Friday, 8:15–10:15 a.m. $10. 706-310-0015, www.blis-syoga.me

SPRING CLAY AND GLASS CLASSES (Good Dirt) Now regis-tering for classes in wheel-thrown pottery, fountain making, glass fusing and slumping. All levels for youth and adults. See complete schedule online. www.gooddirt.net

TAE KWON DO & JODO CLASSES (Live Oak Martial Arts, Chase Street Warehouses) For kids and adults, beginner through advanced. Mondays–Thursdays, 3:30-8:30 p.m. 706-548-0077, www.liveoak-martialarts.com

TAI CHI FOR SENIORS (Council on Aging) Increase strength and balance at your own pace! Every Tuesday. 2–3 p.m. $15/semester. 706-549-4850

TECH TIPS: ITUNES (ACC Library) Learn how to play, sort and organize music and video files on your home computer. Mar. 30, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

TRIBAL BELLYDANCE (Floorspace) Now registering for intermediate and beginners’ classes. Thursdays, $60/6 classes, $12/session. 706-372-1833, [email protected]

WATERCOLOR CLASSES (The Loft Art Supplies) Artist Jackie Slayton-Methe’s next session for both beginners and intermediate students begins Apr. 1. Thursdays, 10 a.m.–noon. $85/6-week session. 706-548-5334, [email protected]

YOGA AND TAI CHI CLASSES (Athens Wellness Cooperative) For beginners through experienced. See full calendar online. $14/drop-in, $60/6 classes, $108/12 classes. www.wellnesscooperative.com

YOGA CLASSES (Five Points Yoga) Classes in Mama-Baby Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Forrest Yoga. Full schedule online. $10–$14/class. 706-355-3114, www.athensfive-pointsyoga.com

YOGA CLASSES (Vastu School of Yoga) Choose from a vast assort-ment of classes including Kids Yoga, Teen Yoga, Yoga for Healthy Backs and Yoga XL for the Larger Body. 561-723-6172, [email protected]

YOGA CLASSES (Bliss Yoga, Watkinsville) Now offering classes and workshops in Kundalini Yoga, Integral Hatha Yoga, Nia Movement and more. See complete schedule online. 706-310-0015, www.blis-syoga.me

YOGA FOR MOMS (Bliss Yoga) Whether you’re prenatal, postnatal or looking to reconnect with your child, Bliss has you covered. Go online for full schedule. 706-310-0015, www.blissyoga.me

YOGA, TAI CHI AND MINDFULNESS CLASSES (Mind Body Institute) Experienced and highly educated instructors offer a wide variety of basic and specialty classes throughout the day. 706-475-7329, www.armc.org/mbi

YOSHUKAI KARATE (AKF Itto Martial Arts) Learn Yoshukai Karate, a tra-ditional hard Okinawan style. www.athensyk.com

ZEN MEDITATION (Email for Location) For both new and expe-rienced meditators. Meets every Monday. 7:15 p.m. FREE! 706-714-1202, [email protected], thezencenter.livingcompassion.org

ZEN SEEING, ZEN DRAWING (Lyndon House Arts Center) Drawing, painting and printmaking with lessons inspired by artist and author Frederick Franck. Instruction by Toni Carlucci. Now registering. 706-613-3623, www.accleisureser-vices.com

ZUMBA (Lay Park) Program fusing Latin rhythms and simple steps. Mondays, 6–7 p.m. $6. 706-613-3596

ZUMBA (Dancefx) This calorie-burn-ing workout combines interval train-ing techniques with Latin rhythms. Your first class is free! Wednesdays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. www.dancefx.org

HELP OUT!BECOME A BOYBUTANTE

SPONSOR The Boybutante AIDS Foundation, Inc., which has helped to fund AIDS Athens for 20 years, is seeking sponsorship for the 21st annual Boybutante Ball this April. Read about their mission and find a sponsorship packet online. www.boybutante.org

BIKE RECYCLING PROGRAM (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicycles for local service agencies. Bike repair skills a plus, but not necessary. Sunday, 2–4:30 p.m. Monday & Wednesday, 6–8:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa is seeking volunteers to assist with an upcom-ing community-oriented arts event. [email protected]

FREE IT ATHENS (Free IT Athens, 594 Oconee St.) Donate your old laptop or desktop to be refurbished and supplied to low-income members of the community. Now accepting computers with Pentium III or better processors. Drop off on Sundays from 1–5 p.m. or Wednesdays from 6–8 p.m. at the Action, Inc. building. 706-621-6157, [email protected]

SCRAP DAY (BikeAthens) The Bike Recycling Program is seeking volun-teers to help deliver scrapped metal and rubber to the ACC Landfill. Email to sign up. Mar. 14, 2–4 p.m. [email protected]

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES (ACC Library) Learn about the vari-ous ways you can give back to your community by volunteering your time at the ACC Library. 706-613-3650, www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/arls/support/index.html

KIDSTUFFFANTASTIC FRIDAYS (Bishop Park)

Obstacle courses and other activities in an unstructured environment. Drop in any time. Ages 10 months–4 years. Fridays, 9 a.m.–noon. $12/day. 706-613-3589

GIRLS’ ROCK CAMP ATHENS (Pigpen Studios) Girls learn an instrument, form a band, write a song and participate in various

empowering workshops. Showcase scheduled for July 31. Ages 9–15. Now registering! July 26–30, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $300 (scholarships available). 706-498-2507, www.girlsrockathens.org

“IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE” SPRING BREAK CAMP (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) A special wilderness camp for the

nature-deprived. Bring your own lunch! For kids ages 6 to 12. Mar. 12, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $11/week. 706-613-3603

SHAKE, RATTLE AND RHYME (ACC Library) Now molding lifetime readers in this program promoting early literacy skills! Space is limited, and registration is required. Through Apr. 8, 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

SPANISH MOMMY AND ME CLASSES (Email for Location) Learn Spanish with your preschooler through songs, stories and games! New session starting soon. [email protected]

SPRING BREAK ART BREAK (Lyndon House Arts Center) Children ages 6-12 will enjoy art activities, including art exploration with a guest artist and the creation of their own artwork. Mar. 11. $50 (materials included), scholarships available. 706-613-3623, www.ac-cleisureservices.com.

SPRING BREAK MINI CAMP (Sandy Creek Nature Center) At “Woodland Wonders” Mini Camp, participants will discover the interconnections of the forest environment. Each day includes activities, crafts, snacks and more. Mar. 10–12, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 706-613-3615, www.accleisureser-vices.com.

SUPPORTDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT

GROUP (Call for location) Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. Children are welcome for sup-per and childcare is provided during group. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Second and fourth Thursday of the month in Clarke County. First and third Thursday of the month in Madison County. 6–8 p.m.

DOUBLE TROUBLE (Clarke County Courthouse, 3rd Floor) Support group for those in the community with a dual diagnosis of mental health and chemical dependency issues. Group is peer chaired Mondays and Thursdays. 5:30 p.m. FREE! [email protected]

EMOTIONAL ABUSE SUPPORT GROUP (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful

words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare is pro-vided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331. Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Informal and supportive 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally.

Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463 or visit www.emotionsanonymous.org

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP (Council on Aging) Open group meeting every third Thursday of each month. 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! Call 706-549-4850 for more info.

MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUP (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the lobby conference room.

Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. 706-783-5706, www.athensmentalhealth.org

NAR ANON FAMILY MEETING (Call for location) Meet every Thursday to learn about drug addiction and to speak with others whose lives are affected by it. Identity is protected, no dues, no fees. 7 p.m. FREE! 770-725-5719

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (Various Locations) 12-step meet-ings for compulsive eating disor-ders. All ages and sizes welcome. Mondays, 5:30 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space. Thursdays, 7 p.m. at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church. FREE! 706-552-3194

PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP (Council on Aging) Meet up every fourth Monday for an open sup-port group for those living with Parkinson’s Disease. 2:30–4 p.m. FREE! 706-549-4850

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (Nuçi’s Space) Open to anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide. Meets the third Wednesday of every month. 5:30 p.m. 706-227-1515, [email protected]

THE WISE WOMAN CIRCLE (Call for location) Ladies, seeking mean-ingful connections and a forum to express your inspired thoughts? Currently exploring body image. Mar. 26, 7–9 p.m. Registration required; donations accepted. 706-424-1860, www.holdingwomans-pace.com

ON THE STREETBASEBALL REGISTRATION The

Athens Area Men’s Baseball League is signing up players and teams for spring. Register by Mar. 20. 706-207-8939, www.aambl.com

FREE! TAX ASSISTANCE (Various Locations) Offered by AARP Tax Aide. For taxpayers with low to mod-erate income, with special attention to those 60+ years old. Call for more locations. Oconee County Library, Mondays, 1–4:30 p.m.; Council on Aging, Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.; Kroger on Epps Bridge Pkwy, Wednesday–Saturday, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. 706-769-3950

FREE! TAX PREPARATION ASSISTANCE (Various Locations) Now scheduling 1-hour appoint-ments for low- to middle-income families at the UGA Visual Arts Building and the Georgia Federal Credit Union. 706-227-5400 ext. 6486, www.gfcuonline.org

PTSD SUPPORT GROUP Local sup-port group now forming for family members of soldiers and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. 770-725-4527

SOFTBALL REGISTRATION (Bishop Park) ACC Department of Leisure Services is accepting registration for its Adult Spring Softball program at Bishop Park. Open to church, civic and commercial groups. Season runs from Mar. 15 through July. All games are played at Bishop Park and Southeast Clarke Park. 706-613-3589, www.accleisureservices.com. $436 per team.

TROT FOR TOTS (Athens Regional Medical Center) Now registering for the 9th annual Tike Hike and a 5K race through the Historic Cobbham District. Proceeds benefit Nancy Travis Hope for Babies. Tike Hike, 2 p.m. FREE! 5K, 2:30 p.m. $25. www.active.com

VOLUNTEER IN PERU Learn Spanish and stay with a host family while working in a school, orphan-age, medical clinic or animal shelter. 404-906-0569, www.venperu.org f

ART AROUND TOWNACC LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St., Top of the Stairs

Gallery) Paintings by Ben Goldman. Through March.ATHENS ACADEMY (Bertelsmann Gallery, 1281

Spartan Lane) A “mail art” exhibit, featuring mailbox-sized artworks by various local artists. Through March. (Myers Gallery, 1281 Spartan Lane) The Studio Group Exhibition features silk painting, metal-work, jewelry, pottery and more from a dozen artists involved with the local collective. Through March.

BIG CITY BREAD CAFE (393 N. Finley St.) Abstract and landscape photography by Brooke Green. Through March.

CINé BARCAFé (234 W. Hancock Ave.) An exhibit fea-turing work by Michael Oliveri. Through Mar. 20.

DOC CHEY’S NOODLE HOUSE (320 E. Clayton St.) Paintings and mixed media by Amanda Trader and Liz Williams. Through April.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) “Constructive Chromosomes,” a collection of photography, ink stampings and light boxes by Will Eskridge. Through Apr. 2. Reception Mar. 25.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Paintings, prints and drawings by Nash Hogan. Through Mar. 21.

HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (254 W. Clayton St.) Mixed me-dia portraits by Christopher DeDe Giddens. Through March.

JITTERY JOE’S EASTSIDE (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Cartoonish monsters spring to life in paintings by Dan Smith. Through April.

JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Paintings by Richard “Ole” Olsen. Through Mar. 15.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) 2010 Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition. Through Apr. 7. Reception Mar. 19. (Gallery 307) “Translucent Fusions,” an exhibit fea-turing transfer collages on wood by Kathy Prescott. Through May 7.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, featuring work by area art-ists in a variety of media. Through May 8.

MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Hwy. 98 W., Danielsville) Paintings by self-taught artist Harold Enter and handmade wooden bowls by Jack Hudson. Through March.

MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) John Wayne, Teddy Roosevelt, Annie Oakley, the Wicked Witch of the West and Superman are among the 23 Andy Warhol silkscreen portraits on display. Through Apr. 2.

MAMA’S BOY (197 Oak St.) Paintings of Athens by Heidi Hensley. Through March.

MERCURY ART WORKS (Hotel Indigo, 500 College Ave.) Vibrantly colorful figurative oil paintings by John Ahee. Through March.

MORTON THEATRE (195 W. Washington St.) “Refusés,” an exhibit featuring works refused from the Lyndon House Arts Center’s 35th Juried Exhibition. Through Apr. 19.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) “Cattywampus,” an exhibit featuring sculpture, book art, prints and drawings by artists from UGA’s Printmaking and Book Arts program, reflects the many interpretations of print-making. Through Mar. 26. “Youth Art Month Exhibit” featuring the work of emerging artists from Oconee County public and private schools.

RED EYE COFFEE (297 Prince Ave.) Badass illustra-tions and paintings on plywood by Jeff Owens. Through March.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA “Bottlebrush Buckeye and Beyond,” an exhibit featur-ing 35 new works on botanical themes by Claire Clements. Through April.

TRANSMETROPOLITAN (145 E. Clayton St.) “Idealized Portraits,” a collection of paintings by Ericka Burke. Through March.

UGA VISUAL ARTS BUILDING (285 S. Jackson St.) “The Art of The Georgia Review” showcases the varied works of visual art published by the journal and in-cludes works by artists James Herbert, Terry Rowlett, Gaela Erwin and more. Through Apr. 29.

VISIONARY GROWTH GALLERY (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) “Our Way the Only Way,” an exhibit featuring new works by UGA sculpture professor Jim Buonaccorsi and painter David Barron. Through Mar. 12.

WHITE TIGER GOURMET FOOD & CHOCOLATES (217 Hiawasee Ave.) “The Chase Street Collective,” featuring over one hundred portraits by Chase Street Elementary School’s emerging artists. Through March.

Melissa Harshman’s artwork is on display at OCAF through Mar. 26.


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I am a grad student. There’s a lovely lady in my program who I have spent a lot of time with. We are studying the same thing and have the same focus and often work on projects together. Over time we have developed a great friendship. Also during this time, while I have been mostly single, she has had the same boy-friend. This guy is actually an alright guy, but he’s kind of a buffoon. I know he really likes her but he’s one of those guys who is a bit too much of a man’s man, never quite saying what she wants to hear, and often leaving her feeling bad about herself or their relationship. I know he has good intentions, and I have always advised her honestly that I thought he was a good guy and that he didn’t mean to hurt her, etc. She always feels better after we talk and often thanks me for walk-ing her through the male perspective.

The problem is I have a big, big crush on her. Surprise, right? I know—so obvious. I know that I would be better for her than this guy, and I think I could probably convince her of the same thing. I know her boyfriend. We get along. He doesn’t consider me a threat at all. Which was true for a long time, but now that our academic careers are winding down and I am starting to realize that I won’t be seeing her anymore, I am starting to get pan-icky. I don’t know what to do. Part of me wants to confess my feelings. (I would wait until after graduation, of course, because I don’t want to screw up our study habits and projects, etc.) Part of me thinks I should just walk away and stay friends. I am afraid that if I don’t say anything I will miss an oppor-tunity to have an amazing woman in my life. But after all this time, I don’t want to betray the boyfriend. It’s not about him, and he has been very cool about our friendship all this time. I don’t want him to feel like I have been angling for her the whole time because, honestly, I haven’t. So, what should I do, Jyl? Do I confess my feelings or back off and leave her with him?

Study Buddy

I think you should hold your horses for the time being, SB. Mental cold showers and whatnot. Wait until school is over, and then if you feel so compelled, you can tell her that you have a crush on her. Maybe say it in a light-hearted, “You’re so awesome; I’m glad we have become friends” way, rather than a huge confession. See how she reacts. If she isn’t on the same page, you probably won’t have ruined the chances of remaining friends. And if (or let’s be honest—when) she breaks up with her cur-rent boyfriend, maybe you will have a chance. That way, you haven’t betrayed the boyfriend, and you remain a standup guy. Painful? Yes. But it’s the right way to go. Without your con-stant reassurance, their relationship will have to survive on its own merits. In the meantime,

don’t hold your breath waiting for her. Keep looking for somebody who isn’t attached, OK?

I’m in a new relationship with this guy, and I really, really like him. But we’ve only been seeing each other for a couple of months. We are both divorced and we have a lot in common. We spend a good amount of time together, but I am not sure that he likes me

as much as I like him. I am afraid to come on too strong. Any advice?

Dating Again

Just keep seeing him and try to play it cool. See where things go, and as it develops, then you can let your feelings be known. Slowly. No matter what you

feel right now, be careful not to let the rush of a new fling (or possibly a new long-term relationship) make you crazy. Professing your love for him too early might scare him off, and it also might be

premature. Let things settle down a bit and then decide where you really stand.

I don’t know how, but I think my gaydar is broken. I have been to a bar where my friend works a couple of times to visit him, and there is a new woman working there who is super hot. We’re both military, we talked guns and other stuff, and the conversation was natural and fun. I was smitten. I have since been back and have gotten various vibes from her, from the same to indifferent. I don’t want to be too direct because if she isn’t gay then I don’t want her to feel uncomfortable and I want to be able to go in there and drink with my friend. (The whole military thing makes it complicated.) He says he doesn’t know whether or not she’s gay. I am usually really good at this, but I am

totally confused about this one. Should I just come out and ask her?

Anonymous

I’m not sure how your military background complicates things, Anonymous, but if you are really worried about it then I would advise you to just wait and see. If she is that easy to talk to, eventu-ally something will probably come up in conversation, whether it is

her boyfriend, her girlfriend, or what-ever. In the meantime, tell your buddy who works with her to keep his ears open, and enjoy your time hanging out there. There’s no law against admiring from afar, even in the military.

Confidential to London Calling: Stop taking her calls. Stop

reading her emails. Just stop. This woman is poison. She knows exactly what she is doing, and you just keep falling for it. You will never find somebody new unless you let this one go completely. I’m not kidding. Block her number, or better yet, change yours. Same with email. Facebook has privacy set-tings. Use them. Ugh.

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1 & 2BR apts. All electric. Lg. backyds., carports, close to 5 Pts. Eastside apts also avail. Pet friendly. Rent ranging from $450–$575/mo. (706) 424-0770.

1BR apt. for $475/mo. 2BR apt. starting at $700/mo. 3BR apt starting at $1000/mo. All close to campus! Howard Properties (706) 546-0300.

2BR/1BA & 1BR/1BA apts. Great in–town n’hood. Walk everywhere. Water & garbage paid. $490–$695/mo. Check out boulevard property management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

2BR/2BA on College Station. Huge apartment , FP, deck, lots of closets, DW, W/D, CHAC. Avail. Aug. 1st. Pets OK. $575/mo. (706) 369-2908.

2BR/1BA Apts avail. 125 Honeysuckle Lane off Broad St. across from King Ave. On busline. GRFA welcomed. Water & trash incl. Central location. Lease, deposit, references req’d. $450/mo. (706) 227-6000 or (706) 461-2349.

2BR/2.5BA. 254 & 256 Appleby Mews. Poolside, W/D, DW, porch, lg. BR’s, on Oconee Hill close to Mama’s Boy & the Greenway!Lots of room for little money. $695/mo. (706) 548-9797.

Available Now. Spacious 2BR Dwntn apts. 3 blocks from N. campus. Out of bar scene. Close to everything. Call George (706) 340-0987.

Downtown 1BR/1BA Flat. $465/mo . Water, gas, trash p/u incl., fitness room, on–site laundry. Text “Columns” to 41513. www.joinermanagement.com. Joiner Management (706) 353-6868.

Downtown Apartments. 4BR/2BA. Fully updated. New kitchen. W/D, Deck. Won’t last long, rents fast! Call Stacy at (706) 425-4048.

FTX Apartments. C a m p u s & b u s l i n e within half a block. Near Milledge Ave. 2BR units. Pre–lease for Fall 2010. These units are always 100% leased so act now for low rental rates. Call Stacy at (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

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Now pre–leasing for Fall. Great location, 3BR/2.5BA. Townhouse on Milledge. Pool, sand volleyball, basketball. Incl. W/D, on bus line. Call Paul (678) 462-0824.

We s t s i d e c o n d o s . 2 B R / 2 B A , $ 6 0 0 / m o . Eastside quadraplex 2 B R / 2 B A , $ 5 2 5 / m o . 2 B R / 1 B A , $ 4 9 0 / m o . Eastside duplex 2BR/1BA, FP, $490/mo.3BR/2BA, FP, $650/mo., corner lot. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700 or cell (706) 540-1529.

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A t h e n s E x e c u t i v e Suites. Offices avail. in historic Dwntn bldg. w/ on–site parking. All utils., Internet, & janitorial incl. Single or multiple offices avail. Call Stacy (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

Leathers Building. Retail/Office/Commercial. 1100 sq. ft. Front & rear entrance. $1400/mo. All inclusive. Call Stacy at (706) 425-4048.

Eastside Offices. 1060 Gaines School Rd. For rent: 170 sq. ft. $375/mo. 450 sq. ft. $600/mo. 1200 sq. ft. $1200/mo. (706) 546-1615 or www.athenstown properties.com.

Historic building, Downtown Rutledge. Ar t ist Studio, Retai l /Professional. 920 sq. ft., 12’ ceilings, lots of windows, incl. off ice furniture. Near State Park, 30 min. access to Athens, 55 min. to Atlanta. $92,500. Call Byer Realty, (706) 557-7760, www.byerrealty.com.

Historic Downtown Building. 3200 sq. ft. Ample onsite parking. O f f i c e / C o m m e rc i a l . Contact Stacy (706) 425-4048.

Paint Artist Studio. Historic Boulevard Area A r t i s t Commun i t y 160 Tracy St. For rent: 300 sq. ft. $150/mo. 400 sq. f t . $200/mo. (706) 546-1615 or www.athenstown properties.com.

Retail Suites for lease at Homewood Village. 1K–12,500 sq. ft. avail. For more info call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039 or visit www.sumnerproperties.net.

CONDOS FOR SALEC h i c o p e e C o m m o n s . 2BR/2BA + loft, courtyard & owner’s storage space. $187,500. Call Rose (706) 255-0472. See at www.rosepetalshomes.com.

CONDOS FOR RENT2BR/2.5BA. Very Quite, on Milledge Ave. Next to family housing. 1300 sq. ft. W/D, FP, wireless, cable. UGA busline. Pool, yard, pets. Avail. now/Aug. $850/mo. (706) 461-4351.

2BR/2BA. 200 Cloverhurst Condo. Walking distance to campus. W/D, DW, CHAC, all electric. 1 of the best 5 Pts. locations avail.! $850/mo. (706) 548-9797.

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2BR duplexes starting at $450/mo. Pls. call (706) 549-6070.

2BR/1.5BA. Jolly Lane in Sleepy Hollow Subdivision. Near UGA, Memorial Park & Birchmore Trail. W/D, DW, CHAC, FP. Avail now. $650/mo. Call April (706) 549-5006, go to www.athenscondosales.com.

2BR/1BA Woody Drive. Newly renovated duplexes, beautifully landscaped, quiet dead–in street, perfect for everyone. Timothy school zone & close to every shopping need. 316 & the loop. (706) 548-9797 or boulevard propertymanagement.com.

2BR/1BA. $650 Milledge Court #20. Available Aug 1st. Great 5 Pts. duplex, tile bath, HWflrs., great location! Visit boulevard property management.com. Call today (706) 548-9797.

Spacious 2BR/1BA. Eastside. Sma l l n ’hood. HWf l rs , fireplace, nice fenced yd., W/D conn. , DW. Avai l . now. Ask for special! Email [email protected] or call (706) 255-0316.

Winterville. 2BR/1BA. FP, DW, range, Fridge, Upgrades: kitchen & bath. CHAC, lg. yd. $595/mo, $400/dep. (706) 742-8884.

HOUSES FOR RENT2BR/1BA “A” frame on Freeman Dr. Huge loft , CHAC, total electric. Move–in now, rest of mo. free. $525/mo. No pets. (706) 202-0147.

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$350–$1500/mo. 1BR, 2BR, 3BR, 4BR, & 5BR. Awesome walk & bike to campus & town! Pre–leasing for Fall! Many historical houses w/ lg. rms, high ceilings, big windows, HWflrs, old–world charm, modern amenities. Porches, & yds. Pet friendly. These go fast! Email for list: [email protected].

$ 1 1 5 0 / m o . A f f o rd a b l e 5BR/3BA. 10 yr. young modular house. Walk to UGA/Dwntn. Bands OK. CHAC, W/D, DW. Avail. now, 6/1, or 8/1. Drive by 229 S. Poplar. Email [email protected].

1/2 mi. from Downtown. 1, 2, 3, 4BR houses & apts. located in the historic Blvd. n’hood. Please check out b o u l e v a rd p ro p e r t y management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

1080 Oglethorpe Ave. City busline. Upscale 2-3BR/1BA. Patio, lg. laundry. Great local/condition. Lawn maintenance possible. 1st mo. utils paid. Short term OK. $695–$795/mo. (706) 353-0708.

2BR/2BA on 22 ac., 35 mins from Athens. Trails, creek, fish pond. Artist designed sunny house. CHAC, W/D, free well water. Neighbors organic farm. Pets welcome. Oge l thorpe Co. Ava i l . immediately or 8/1. $700/mo. Call Rose (706) 540-5979.

2BR house. Big fenced yard. 127 Sylvia Circle. Quiet n’hood off Prince Ave. Near Loop, Navy School & Normaltown. CHAC, 1BA, all electric. $700/mo. rent + deposit for April. (706) 255-7631.

3 or 4BR/3BA. 136 Grove St. W/D, DW, HWflrs., lg. covered front porch, big yd. Inside the loop & close to UGA, Mama’s Boy, Waffle House & the Greenway! $1250/mo. Visit boulevard property management.com (706) 548-9797.

3 & 4BRs. 180 O’ Farrell, 3 4 0 B a r b e r, 2 5 3 5 Barnett Shoals, 1331 Dowdy Road check out these great houses online at boulevard property management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

3BR/2.5BA w/ f in ished basement. Townhome off Riverbend. Pool & tennis. W/D incl. Avail. now for discounted short–term lease thru July for only $750/mo. Aaron (706) 207-2957.

3BR/2BA in Statham. Lv. rm. w/ high ceilings & chandelier. Dual Maytag oven, DW. Fenced backyd. $995/mo. Avail. now! Call (706) 614-0448 or (770) 573-1364.

3BR/2BA house. Wolfskin. Oglethorpe Co. CHAC. $700/mo. (706) 743-3111 or (706) 224-1400.

4BR/2BA. CHAC, FP, HWflrs, DW, fridge w/ ice/water in–door, W/D. Lg. porch & yd. Must have ref’s. 116 Whitehead Rd. $998/mo. (706) 714-1100.

4BR/4BA house. $900 special! W/D, sec. sys., 24 hr. maint. service, pets welcome, lawn & pest incl. (706) 552-3500. Go to www.hancockpropertiesinc.com.

Best rentals in Athens! 1–5BR houses , ap ts . , condos. In the heart of UGA/Dwntn/5 Pts. Avail. Aug. Going fast, call today! (706) 369 -2908 fo r more info.

Borders! Print version of the Classifieds. Pictures! Check them out on the Flagpole website. Lowest rates in town! Place your ad today at www.flagpole.com.

Cute cottage in the country. 15 min. to UGA & Athens. 1BR/1BR. All appls. Laundry hookups. $485/mo. Call (706) 788-2988 or (706) 207-3349.

Dwntn Athens h is to r ic renovated. Occupancy Aug. 1st. Busline in front. 3 huge BRs/1 lg. BA. Lg. shower stall. 4 FPs, HWflrs. W/D. DW, stove, fridge, CHAC, din. rm., lv. rm. Long hallway. 1600 sq. ft. Front wrap–around porch. Back screen porch. No pets. $1050/mo. 225 N. Ave. Storage shed, parking spaces. (706) 296-9873. See bulldogrent.com.

Free month rent! College Station 2BR/2BA. All appls + W/D, FP, xtra closet space, water/garbage incl. $575/mo. Owner/Agent (706) 340-2450.

First month free! 2–3BRs in quiet setting, off the beaten path. Sec. sys. incl. W/D, DW, priv. deck. Mention this ad & pay no pet fee! (706) 548-2522, www.dovetailmanagement.com.

Private 2BR/1BA cottage. $650/mo. CHAC, HWflrs., lg. fenced yd. w/ organic gardens, bike to Dwntn. Super responsible single or couple only! Resident cat in need of love. Gardener pref ’d. Pets considered. Email [email protected], (706) 224-8773.

Great homes with hardwood floors! 4930 Mars Hill Rd. Oconee Co. 3BR/2BA, $895/mo. 597 Dearing B St . off Mi l ledge. 4BR/2BA, $1295/mo. 597 Dearing A St. 2BR/1BA, $650/mo. 1264 Hull Rd. 2BR/1BA & sunroom. $625/mo. (706) 546-7946, [email protected]. See virtual tours www.nancyflowers.com.

Northside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/mo. Hospital area 2BR/1BA, carport, fenced–in yard, $700/mo. Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $950/mo. 4BR/2BA w/ lg. yd. $1200/mo. 2 or 3BR/1BA w/ screened front porch, $700/mo. Cedar Creek 4BR/2BA $950/mo. Oconee County 3BR/2BA. Lv. rm. w/ FP, din. rm., double garage, $975/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Newly renovated 4BR/3BA for rent in ARMC area. W/D, DW, CHAC, screen porch, game room, o f f–s t ree t parking. $1200/mo. Call Vicki at (706) 540-7113 to set up a tour.

Preleasing for fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-0066.

HOUSES FOR SALE$139,900. 3BR/2BA totally renovated ear ly 1900s farmhouse. Only 15 min. from Dwntn Athens. Perfect for musicians & artists. Call Chard Rader at Keller Williams Realty (706) 338-7058, (706) 316-2900. See photos at www. chardrader.com.

$134,900. 3BR/3BA nice home on corner lot in Bridge Water subdivision. Very close to Dwntn. Call Chard Rader at Keller Williams Realty (706) 338-7058, (706) 316-2900. See photos at www.chardrader.com.

1998 Mobile home. 2BR2BA (16X70ft). W/ fireplace & garden tub, in Athens. $12K OBO. call Matt (706) 215-1507.

2 2 0 B e n t w o o d . $149,900. 3BR/2BA in

Winterville. Motivated Sellers! Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty, www.ReignSold.com, (706) 543-4000, (706) 372-4166. Call Reign!

370 Cleveland. $97K. Pulaski Heights. 1BR/1BA. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty! (706) 543-4000, (706) 372-4166, visit www.ReignSold.com.

3 7 0 C l e v e l a n d . 1BR/1BA. Convenient

to everything. $97K. Go to www.ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

434 Meigs. 3BR/2BA. 1 Block from Big City

Bread. $249,900. Go to www.ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

461 Waddell “Dearing Oaks Condo Awesome In town Location $284K. Go to www.ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

553 Castalia. 5 Pts. 100 yards from Jittery

Joe’s. $235K. Go to www.ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

708 Aycock. Lexington, Ga. $178,500. 3BR/2BA on 15+ acre Horse Farm. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 543-4000, (706) 372-4166, visit www.ReignSold.com.

A close–in cabin in the woods. 3BR/2BA. Open living, dining, kitchen. $900/mo. NS. Call Rose (706) 255-0472.

P e r f e c t f o r s t u d e n t s ! 4BR/2BA. Fenced yard, near busline, park & shopping. $124,900. Call Rose (706) 255-0472 or see www.rosepetalshomes.com.

S t u d i o 4 0 . Wa l k everywhere 1/1 on busline

adjacent to Intermural Fields $89,900. Go to www.ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

PRE-LEASING1–4BRs. Boulevard, Normaltown, Five Points. Now pre–leasing houses, duplexes, & apartments for Fall! See all avail. at www.ValerioProperties.com or call (706) 546-6900.

2BR/1BA in 5 Pts. Great for Grad Students. Close to campus. W/D, DW, CHAC, Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $700/mo. (706) 396-2908.

3BR/2.5BA. 1 mi. to UGA. $1200/mo. 1 yr. old house. Open floor plan, microwave, DW, W/D conn. Avail. now and pre–leasing for summer 2010. (706) 410-6122.

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A m a z i n g r e n o v a t e d 5BR/3BA. 1/2 mi. from campus. 2 lv. rms. , 2 kitchens, big BRs, huge deck, plenty of parking. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $2100/mo. (706) 369-2908.

F i v e P o i n t s F a l l Rentals. 1, 2, 3, 4 bedroom Houses & Apts. See at www.bondrealestate.org. Herbert Bond Realty, Owner/Broker. (706) 224-8002.

Great 4BR/4BA house. 1/2 mi. from campus.Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. Special! $ 1 5 0 0 / m o . ( 7 0 6 ) 369-2908.

Gigantic 5BR/3BA condo. End of Lumpkin St. 2500 sq. ft. 2 lv. rms, huge laundry rm., din. rm., FP, big deck. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1500/mo. (706) 369-2908.

ROOMMATESRoom avail. immediately for student. Renovated house right behind ARMC. Biking distance to UGA. Fenced yd. Pets OK w/ dep. $300/mo. + 1/3 utils. (404) 713-0655.

ROOMS FOR RENTDashiell Cottages Inc. is looking for good, honest, trustworthy tenants. (706) 850-0491. All amenities, enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy the wildlife observation.

SUB-LEASE$ 1 K / m o . D w n t n a p t . 2BR/2BA split–lvl. penthouse apt. Across Arch on Broad S t . Vau l ted ha rdwood ceiling, gorgeous views of Dwntn/north campus. Avail. immediately, fully furnished optional. (404) 580-6512.

5 Pts. area. 1BR/1BA flat w/ parking. Close to UGA campus/Dwntn. Inclusive UGA & Athens busline. W/D. Move–in ready for Spring. Sign new lease! $575/mo. (954) 243-6217.

WANTING TO RENT2 or 3BR furnished house or apt. needed from mid Aug. to early Nov. 2010. For visiting professor & family. Email [email protected].

FOR SALEBUSINESSES

Downtown clothing store. New & used clothing. Avg. sales over the last 7 years is $358K. 50% + gross margin business. Owner financing avail. $65K. (770) 426-7527.

FURNITURENew 5 piece cherry BR set, $399. Clean Pillowtop mattress set, $170. (706) 612-8004.

Pillowtop Queen Mattress set. Never used. Still in factory plastic. $260. Full size mattress set. Never used. Still in factory plastic. $160. (706) 769-1959. Delivery avail.

Tab les , cha i rs , so fas , antiques, clothes, records & players, retro goods, & more! Cool, affordable furniture every day. Go to Agora! Your favorite everything store! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

MISCELLANEOUSCome to Betty for Louis Vuittons. Just in time for Spring! On the corner of Pulaski & Clayton, next to Agora. Open 1pm–4pm daily. (706) 424-0566.

PETSDumbo rats. Make great pets! Males $5, Females $6. Not feeder rats! Pls. call Todd (706) 540-6734.

TICKETS2010 South by SouthWest (SXSW) Music Business Conference Laminate $600. If you bought this now from SXSW it would cost $700 & $750 for walk–ups. Contact Jared Bai ley, [email protected], (706) 338-9019.

TV AND VIDEOGet Dish. Free Installation. $19.99/mo. HBO & Showtime Free. Over 50 HD channels Free. Lowest prices. No equipment to buy. Call now for full details (877) 242-0974 (AAN CAN).

YARD SALESConsignment Booths available in Athens on Broad St. at competitive rates, beginning April 1st! Email [email protected] for more info.

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Athens School of Music. Instruction in Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Voice, Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument repairs avail. (706) 543-5800.

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Athens Piano School. Premium Piano Lessons Guaran teed . A l l ages & levels welcome from beginners to advanced. Discounts for families & UGA students. Visit www.AthensPianoSchool.com or call (706) 549-0707.

MUSIC SERVICESA Sharp Turn. Athens hot new jazz trio available for private parties, weddings, & any even t seek ing tight, straight–ahead jazz standards. Affordable rates! Contact (706) 461-1794.

Fret Shop. Professional guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

Looking for a fun, classy alternative to the typical wedding band? If you are looking for “YMCA” then Squat is not your band. If you want Duke Ellington, Ray Charles & salsa, then v is i t www.squatme.com/weddings . (706) 548-0457.

Wedding Bands. Quality, p r o f e s s i o n a l b a n d s . Weddings, parties. Rock, Jazz, etc. Cal l Classic C i t y E n t e r t a i n m e n t . (706) 549-1567. www.classiccityentertainment.com. Featuring The Magictones—Athens’ premiere wedding & p a r t y b a n d . w w w.themagictones.com.

MUSICIANS WANTED

Drummist, late 30’s, wants to find 2 stringmen & jam. Trio only. Located between Athens & up. Glen (706) 768-4000.

Jazz musicians wanted for Thursday open jam nights. Contact Dwain at (706) 540-7803.

SERvICESHOME AND

GARDENBackyard Solutions. Get started on your Spring project! Waterfalls, ponds, fences, decks, gazebos, porches, & more! Call Robin for free estimate! (706) 340-4492.

Perenn ia l Lawn & Landscape. Full service maintenance, installation, s a n d i n g / t o p d r e s s i n g , aera t ion , overseed ing, hedge trimming, pine straw, mulch, cleanups. Call (706) 255-6405.

MISC. SERVICESSpanish–English translator avail. for help in legal or medical settings & on the job translations. Experience in legal translations. Call/email Maia at (678) 373-8241, [email protected].

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Lock Nest Hair Studio is seeking a FT licensed stylist. Booth rental or commission. Apply in person. 156 College Ave. (706) 546-7288.

Night Chef needed 35–40 hrs. per week. A m e r i c a n B i s t r o c o o k i n g e x p e r i e n c e necessary. Keen eye for detail, & passion for good food req'd. $10/hr. + paid vacat ion, & hea l th insu rance . R e s u m e s O n l y ! 259 W. Washington St., Dwntn Athens, or emai l hol landshie ld@ hotmail.com.

Sales Reps needed! Looking for confident, self mot ivated, wel l spoken people. Starting out at $8/hr. + commission. Experience necessary. Call Kris (770) 560-5653. Weak people need not apply!

OPPORTUNITIES29 People Wanted. Get paid $$ for pounds & inches. You will lose in 30 days! (800) 207-8915, www.u2can lose.com.

Bar tender t ra inees. No experience necessary. Make up to $40/hr in wages & tips. Meet new people, work in an exciting atmosphere. Call (877) 568-9534 (AAN CAN).

Female models wanted for figure drawing sessions. Visit www.stanmullins.com then call (706) 227-2335.

Free Advice! We’ll help you choose a program or degree to get your career & your life on track. Call Collegebound Network Today! (877) 892-2642 (AAN CAN).

High School diploma! Fast, affordable & accredited. Free brochure. Call now! (800) 532-6546 ext. 97. Go to http://www.continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN).

Local music organization s e e k s v o l u n t e e r s f o r merchand ise booth a t upcoming music events. Friendly & outgoing. Please email [email protected] with interest.

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Third Annual

5K

COURSE: The course is within the Historic Boulevard Neighborhood and begins and ends at Chase Street Elementary School.

ENTRY FEE: $15 prior to Friday, 3/19; $20 after Friday, 3/20; $10 for Treefrog Trot; Family rate: $40

T-SHIRTS: Guaranteed to all pre-registered runners (by 3/19) and available after 3/19 while supplies last.

REGISTRATION: Make checks payable to Chase Street Elementary PTO and return to Classic City Race Services, 2351 College Station Road PMB 498 Athens, GA 30605-3663

DIRECTIONS: Parking at the intersection of N. Chase St. and Dubose Ave. in the Medical Center of Athens lot.

INFORMATION: Call Stacy Smith at 706-424-1310 or Classic City Race Services at 706-769-6593

and 1 Mile Treefrog TrotMarch 27th, 2010Treefrog Trot at 8:30 AM • 5K at 9:00 AM

Walkers and strollers welcome! • Chase Street Elementary School


thursday, march 25

8:00pm To Catch A Thief (1955)

friday, march 26

1:00pm Double Indemnity (1944)

4:00pm Stand By Me (1986)

8:00pm Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)

12:00am The Shining (1980)

saturday, march 27

10:00am Panel Discussion (free & open to the public)

1:00pm All About Eve (1950)

4:00pm Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) with a special live

music accompaniment by Kenosha Kid

8:00pm The Godfather: Part II (1974)

sunday, march 28

2:00pm The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

MARCH 25–28 THE CLASSIC CENTER

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SPECIAL THANKS TO: 20th Century Fox, 40 Watt Club, A Touch of Elegance Limousine, Alex Murawski Illustration, Ashford Manor,

AT&T, Athens Blur Magazine, Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau, Athens First Bank and Trust, Athens Food & Culture Magazine,

Athens-Clarke County, Bel-Jean Copy and Print Center, Blue Sky Custom Apparel, Inc, Charter Communications, Cine, Cinemabilia,

Cinevision, Classic Center, Classic Center Cultural Foundation, Cox Radio Athens, Crisp Design, Drive-By Truckers, Epting Events,

Fairway Outdoor Advertising, Flagpole Magazine, Flowers Inc. Retail, Georgia Film, Music, and Digital Entertainment Office, Georgia

Power, Global Escapes, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Harris Studios, Hotel Indigo, Jason Thrasher

Photography, Jittery Joe’s, Kenosha Kid, Kino International, Lake Oconee News & Eatonton Messenger, Lancaster & McKilip,

Mercury Art Works, Paramount Pictures, Pixar, R.E.M., Retro Cinema & Bookstore, Shiraz, Sliced Bread, Sony Pictures,

Southeastern Color, The Historic Fitzpatrick Hotel, The Peoples Bank, The University of Georgia, Toula’s,

TSAV, UGA Alumni Association, Universal Studios, UPS, Warner Brothers, Young, Foxy and Free

Magazine, Your Pie

Classic Center Cultural Foundation

TICkETS: 800.864.4160 ClassicCenter.com

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