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WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK Deadlines for submissions to Out There! are every Wednesday at 5 p.m., one week prior to issue date. Listings are not guaranteed and are subject to space considerations. Email us at outthere@flagpole.com or call 549-9523. PERFORMANCE BR5-49 The Athens Folk Music and Dance Society and WUGA FM present one of the hottest country music bands in the nation, BR5-49. The band blends the classic ‘40s and '50s country sounds of hank Williams, Ray Price and Mel Tillis with its own retro-flavored originals. Georgia Center Mahler Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. Tickets: S13-$14. i 12- 9842. CHAMBER MUSIC The Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet performs as part of the Franklin College Chamber Musk Series. The quartet's distinguished interpretations of standard classical and romantic works have received enthusiastic critical acclaim. U6A Performing Arts Center Hodgson Concert Hall on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. Free! No tickets required. 542-4400. FACULTY RECITAL Vocal concert by Stephanie Tingler, soprano. Sponsored by the School of Music UGA Ramsey Concert Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. REE! 542-3737. GARY MENZIES Award-winning concert pianist and Georgia native Gary Menzies returns to Monroe to perform pieces by Chopin, Gershwin and Beethoven. Carver Middle School Auditorium, 1095 Good Hope Rd., Monroe, on Saturday, Jari. 22 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $15. (770) 266-6780. GRADUATE RECITAL Horn player Anna Stephen per forms. Sponsored by the UGA School of Musk. UGA Edge Recital Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. FREE! 542-3737. JANFEST The UGA Wind Symphony performs as part of the annual JanFest, a four-day musical event with more than 800 regional high school musicians partk- ipating. The performance program features "Celebration Overture," by Paul Creston, "Jupiter" from The Planets by Gustav Holst and much more. UGA Performing Arts Center Hodgson Concert Hall on Friday, Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. FREE! 542-3737. LUTENIST CONCERT Internationally acclaimed lutenist Paul O'Dette performs his unique style of music. His CD The Echoing Air—Songs of Henry Purcell recently won a Grammy Award. UGA Performing Arts Center Ramsey Concert Hall on Saturday, Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets $18, half-price for UGA students. 542- 4400. PARAKEET NELSON Local group playing soulful funky tunes. In tne mu k section. Barnes & Noble on Friday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. REE! 354-1195. SAXOPHONE CONCERT Acclaimed saxophonist Lynn Klock. UGA Performing Arts Center Ramsey Concert Hall on Friday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets $i6, half- price for UGA students. 542-4400. VOCALIST CONCERT Bobby McFerrin, armed only with his four-and-a-half-octave vocal range, his wit and his creative energy is one of the world's most enter taining performance artists. See story on p. 21. UGA Performing Arts Center on Monday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $16-$18, half-price for UGA students. 542- 6396. EVENT! ADOPTION Through an on-going series of adoption videoconferences, Georgia's Dept of Human Resources is linking adoptable children with prospec tive adoptive families throughout the state. Hundreds of children, mostly African-Americans between the ages of 'even and 13, are waiting to be adopted. The next videoconference, featuring children from the middle Georgia area, takes piacs go Jan. 22. If you are interested in finding out more about adopting . older children or participating in the next videocon ference, call (888) 460-2467. COFFEE HOUR Join the university's international stu dents for coffee and refreshments. Hosted this week by the UGA Health Center. UGA Memorial HaU Ballroom on Friday, Jan. 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. REE! 542-5867. COOKIES! The annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale is now underway, with more than 3,000 area Girl Scouts taking orders for those delectable once-a-year goodies. Proceeds from the cookie sale go directly to local troops to fund a variety of activities including field trips, camping and community service projects. Cost $2.75 per box. Call 548-7297 or 1-800-300- 4475 for the phone number of a troop near you. GREENHOUSE TOUR Take of tour of the Garden's greenhouse complex, for a behind-the-scenes peek at the extensive indoor facilities. Botanical Garden on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 9 a.m. REE! Span is limited, pre-registration required. 542-1244. MEET JOHN GRISHAM The UGA BasebaU Program pre sents a dinner with John ■ Grisham, one of the world's best-selling authors. His novels include The Firm, The Runaway Jury, 4 Time To Kill and many others. Mr. Grisham will speak about his writing career and his passion for baseball and introduce the UGA base ball team. The Classic Center on .uesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $25 each, table for 10, $225. Advance only, no tickets available at the door. 357-4444. MLK MARCH Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority sponsors the annual King Remembrance March and Commemorative Service. The theme this year is improving involve ment working in the community to improve the com munity. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Bernice King, Dr. King's daughter is the featured speaker at the chapel service and the African-American Choral Ensemble will perform. March begins at UGA Tate Center on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m., proceeding down to the Chapel on North Campus. Servke at 3 p.m. Sleeping walk One Eye Open Wound Which, tU the to of Survival EL' * ^ & -v* . ! > Women Writers Forum at Barnes and Noble on Thursday, January 20. LITERARY EVENT! BEVERLY CONNOR Spend "Sunday Afternoon at the Library" with mystery writer Beverly Connor. Skeleton Crew, the latest installment in the Lindsay Chamberlain adventure series, finds the ardieolo- gist/he-Trine trying to solve a 440-year-old murder mystery complete with a hurricane, modem-day pirates and sunken treasure. Athens-Garke County Library on Sunday Jan. 23 at 3 p.m. REE! 613-3650: CATHY SMITH BOWERS The award-winning poet will read from he, work. She is the author of two collec tions of poems: The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas and Traveling in Time of Danger end her poetry has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review and many other prestigious literary magazines. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program. UGA Park HaU on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 4:30 p.m. REE! 542-2659. HELEN ELLIS Alabama native Helen EUis will read from and sign copies of her debut novel Eating the Cheshire Cat, a Southern Gothk satire which follows the adven tures of three social climbing teenage girls from Tuscaloosa. The bock has received rave reviews from the likes of Publisher's Weekly and is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Authors pick for Winter 2000. Barnes & Noble on Friday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. REE! 354-1195. LELXA KELLY The author, who hails from Atlanta, wiU read from and sign copie< of her mystery novel False Witness, the newest installment in the Laura Chastain mvste-y series. Barnes & Noble on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 2 p.m. REE! 354-1195. POETRY SLAM Come hear local poets read their stuff or maybe even share your own work. Blue Sky Coffee on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. Suggested donation: $2.50. 546-7797. WRITERS' FORUM The UGA Creative Writing Program and Writers' Bloc present an open forum for and about women writers. Judith Ortiz Cofer, co-editor of Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival. wiU read from and discuss the coUec- tion, which addresses how women writers manage to maintain motivation and overcome the obstacles they encounter. She is joined by Julie Checkoway, director of the Creztive Writing Program and a contributing author. Rebecca Myers and Stephanie Gordon, grad uate students in the program, will also read from tneir works. Bames & Noble on Thursday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. REE! 354-1195. Pontormo's Madonna with Child from the Masterworks from the San Carlos Museum exhibit at the GMOA. lighting the underlying unity of the world's religions. The India Student Association hosts a reception fol lowing the lecture. UGA Tate Center Reception Hall on Thursday, Jan. 20 at 3:30 p.m. REE! 542-0626. SPORTS GYMNASTICS UGA versus Louisiana State University. UGA Stegeman Coliseum on Sunday, Jan. 23 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets: $6 adults, $4 kids. 542-1231. MEN'S BASKETBALL UGA Men versus South Carolina. UGA Stegeman Coliseum on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 2 p.m. And versus Kentucky on Wednesday, Jan. 26 it 8 p.m. Tickets: $10. 542-1231. WOMEN'S TENNIS The Georgia Invitational. UGA Women versus Ga. Southern, Ga. State, Kentucky, Princeton, Miss. State, Brenau, Armstrong Atlantic and Boston College. This annual event features 48 individuals and 16 doubles teams. Matches take place all day at the indoor facility, starting at around 9 a.m., through the weekend. UGA Magill Tennis Complex on Friday, Jan. 21 through Monday, Jan. 24. REt! No rickets required. 542-1170. LECTURE! KID!TUFF BROWN BAG LUNCH "Coming Full Circle,” with Edwin Poulin, who gives a "bird's eye" view on the values and insights of the Native American world. ACC Library on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 12:15 p.m. REE! 613-3650. CINEMA ROUNDTABLE Panel discussion on African Americans and Hollywood in the year 2000. "How Much Has Changed Since Blaxploitation?" {he panel members include Richard Neupert, film studies/drama dept, Freda Scott Giles, drama dept, Robert Pratt history dept, and Kevin Young, English dept Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts. UGA Park HaU Room 265 on Friday, Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. REE! 542-3966. LUNCH AND LEARN "Reaching Your FuU Potential Through Self-Hypnosis." Sponsored by the Counseling and Testing Center. UGA Tate Center Room 144 on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 12 rkx>n. REE! 542-3183. LUNCH IN THEORY "The Queer Kaddishes of Allen Ginsberg and Leonard Bernstein," by David Schiller. UGA Journalism Building Room 408 on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 12:20 p.m. REE! 542-3966. RESUME BUILDING "Using Your Involvement to Get A Job* Students can learn how to turn their extracurricular activities into an impressive resume. Sponsored by the Leadership Resource Team. UGA Tate Center on Thursday, Jan. 20 at 12:30 p.m. REE! 542-6097. ROBERT ARNETT Georgia native and UGA graduate. Robert Arnett winner of three national book awards and author of India Unveiled, presents a lecture and slide presentation on hi: five trips to India, higfi- ACTING CLASSES Athens Creative Theatre offers a variety of acting classes for children in grades 2-12. Classes available for the spring semester, which begins in February, include: Creative Adventure, Creative Dramatics, Middle Theatre and Teen Theatre. 613-3628. BUGGY BUGS Preschoolers and their parents can join the staff of Bear Hollow for stories, rhymes and puppet shows about bugs. Memorial Park Bear HoUow Wildlife Trail Friday, Jan. 21 from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Cost: $1 per person per, pre-registration required. 613-3616. FEED THE ANIMALS Come leam about the zoo's ani mals. Bear MoUow Wildlife Trait Memorial Park, Sunday, Jan. 23 at 1 p.m. REE! 613-3580. MILLENNIUM PROJECT The Athens-Clarke County Library invites children of aU ages to share their visions of the future. Children can write a poem, song or story, write a play or create a picture using mate rials available in the Children's Room. AU contribu tions wiU be bound into a scrapbook and kept in the library's collection. ACC Library through Jan. 31. 613- 3650. NICE TREES Young children and their parents are invited to hear <* reading of Janke May Udry's first children's book, A Tree is Mice. Bames & Noble on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 11 a.m. FREE! 354-1195. STORYTIME Come hear a reading of the local favorite. Bongo is a Happy Dog, by Peter and Sandy Loose- Schrar.tz. Bames & Noble on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at - 11 a.m. 354-1195. JANUARY 19, 2000