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0 SOWEiTiHINGMfM D D yn STiLL THE BEST FOR LESS 500 DRAFTS NO COVER ^\ZE S FOf * BEST KARA°* E PERF °BM4* C £ 5 in the Pub from 9:00-1:00 Circuit Noise with OJ Kellie (Buckhead’s#1 DJ) ^launM Showtimes 10pm & 11pm Followed by Technicolor Dance with DJ Isaac presents with the Underground Divas (Bad weather moves show inside) WHO SAYS THERE’S NOTHING TO DC ON t ^ -/X i - 1 ! - v wito the Underground Divas \ \ Where the Men are Men and V 'S Some of the Women are Too Showtimes 10pm & Midnight NO COVER! D /a 0, EUECW° WCft the BEST DJ Weatherman and Friends Doors open at 10pm REfi 433 HANCOCK AVENUE * EVENTS LINE: 706-543-1555 WHAT IS FLAGPOLE, ANYWAY? AUGUST 16, 2000 FLAGPOLE B If you just got to Athens or just got around to picking up a Flagpole, you may want to know what this thing is and why it is called "Flagpole" and not The Athens Weekly Dispatch or something more newspaperly. Since you're already looking at it, notice that starting about the middle. Flagpole says a lot about the "Athens music scene." That's because there's a lot of music going on, and we try to cover it, at least to the extent of telling you who's playing where and when in the ABC section and lift out a few highlights every week to whet your appetite. We also include some locally written record reviews and live show reviews, in case you haven't yet heard the album or you missed the show. Flagpole, in fact, got its start 14 years ago as a music maga zine which called itself "The Color Bearer Of The Athens Music Scene." Hence "Flagpole." Nowadays, even though we include a lot more in addition to music, we wouldn't think of changing the name. Speaking of "a lot more," if you'll flip back to the front of Flagpole, you'll see that we've got pages of news and comment, including a lively Letters section where people let fly at all kinds of targets, including Flagpole. In our news and politics, we try to hone in on issues that are important to Athens and the way we live here. These issues can look pretty dull until you realize what an impact they can have on our community and on our own lives. If you'll fiio forward a few pages, you'll find our complete movie listings: what times what films are playing at what theaters. In addition, the Movie Dope tells you a little bit about each one and a lot about the Movie Pick each week. Turn the page, and you're Out There! in our comprehensive calendar listings. We try to make Out There! the place to look if you want to know what's hap pening in Athens and at UGA. Toward the back of Flagpole you'll find our classified ads, which are the place to look if you need to rent or sell a house, find an apartment or a roommate, buy or sell a car or find a bass player. Flagpole is boosting circulation to 20,000 papers available at over 250 locations in Athens-Clarke, the University of Georgia campus and Watkinsville, so they'll be easier than ever to find. That brings up a good question: how can we afford to distribute Flagpole for free? Why don't we charge 50 cents for it like the big guys? The answer is simple: by making it free we can have a larger circulation—much larger, in fact, than the big guys here in Athens-Clarke County. That means more people see our paper, and that means our advertisers get a good result for the money they spend with us for advertising. Advertising is, in fact, the engine that drives newspapers, and even those that charge you 50 cents rely for their main income on their advertising. We forego the 50 cents, put more papers on the streets, get a better result for our advertisers and it all comes out in the wash. Speaking of advertising, as you have turned through Flagpole you have no doubt noticed how much the ads are an integral part of the look of the paper. Our ads are generally handmade to the specifications of our advertisers. The ads are built by artists who design them to fit within the visual format of Flagpole, so that they call attention to cur advertisers and enhance the overall look of the paper. Who does all this, you might ask? We have a small, full-time staff of talented, experienced people who are goc d (and fast) at what they do. We also rely on a large group of freelance writers and photographers for a lot of the weekly stories and pictuies. If you'll look in the staff box on page three, most of the writers listed there are freelancers: stu dents, video store employees, waitstaff, musi cians, lawyers or all of the above. Don't be fooled by the cool, knowing attitude we try to project. Inside Flagpole, we are eager fo; new writers on all subjects, lust give us a call or an email, and we'll put you to woik so fast it will make your CD skip. We even pay. Perhaps you haven't been Dipping through Flagpole at all but have been reading it on our web site, Dagpole.com. If so, you're one of the growing number of people in Athens and elsewhere who are accustomed to reading Flagpole on-line. If you're one of these, you'll notice pretty soon that we’re making some improvements to the web site to make it more infor mative and easier to use. In addition f o Flagpole on-line and off, we publish The Flagpole Guide To Athens every year, and the new 2000- 2001 edition has just hit the streets. The Guide should be your constant companion as you make your way through the Athens year. It's got a detailed restaurant and bar directory that tells you where to go for what you want, and the Guide is chock full of other interesting information about what to do and where to go in the Athens area and on campus. Get one now at most locations where Flagpole is distributed. If you lose it, you can always find another, because we keep the distribution locations stocked with Guides all year long. Thanks for reading Flagpole and the Guide. Let us hear from vou. C PUBLHHEII'i NOTE! by PETE McCOMMONS