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LOST & FOUNDRY The more things change, the more they remain the same. CHAMBER OF HORRORS Our Athens-Area Chamber of Commerce seems determined to prove that it just doesn't get it when it comes to all the fuss about good urban design and bad suburban visual pollution. At the same time that it is lobbying the ACC Commission on behalf of weakening the land use plan, the Chamber is ready to start its own new building, incorporating on Hancock Avenue downtown all the worst features of mall sprawl. The r.ew Chamber building, alongside another new one by insurance agent Ricky Chastain, will apparently ignore the opportunity to create a downtown cityscape and instead junk up the east end of downtown with parking-heavy, detached buildings, com plete with a Carmike-like eight-foot concrete retaining wall on Dougherty Street. With boosters like the Chamber, who needs Oconee County to show us just how grim "progress" can be? SHOCKED, SHOCKED The University of Georgia is reeling from the revelation that Greek fraternities and sororities discriminate on the basis of race (in addition to every other basis known to man and woman). Surely there must be some mistake. Surely the university administration is correct in apparently assuming that behind all those lily-white groups out on the lawn there's a whole bunch of black sisters you just never see. Once this shock is absorbed, maybe it will be time to take another look at why there are so few African- American students at the university anyway. DONT FORGET The Moore's Ford Memorial Committee uses a horrible 1940s lynching to remind us that the fight against racial prejudice and violence never ends. So, remembei the Committee's Jazz & Blues Sampler at the Morton Theatre Saturday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m., featuring Steve Dancz with the UGA Jazz Band and the great bluesman Neal Pattman. The $10 ticket funds the Committee's college scholarship pro gram. THANKS Thanks to the P&M Army Surplus Store in Normaltown for the loan of the gas masks used in this issue's cover picture, and thanks to (l-r) Sally Nelson, Brian, and Kim Silman for wearing them. Pete McCommons (editor@flagpole.com) Eddie Arrives In Portland PATRICK DEAN ATHENS, GEORGIA SEPTEMBER, 20(H) |1 QoT [NTO FbRTLANP ( \o\NS (T60lNG,?Hov> ARoump l('3o THAT n(6HT]1 W/\$ Yo<jK HEY! Co ME 1 ON ((sjf Eli AlRI6HTSofcr-'f It'S So LATE. W>WA60(71 rriyi., H , Y > WwfeflMtoVP. 1 ukHEY 6 - THAtJKSfbB.LgTTiMf} * EQtASI "<T^ Him? vjelcomz sack] To OtJ. w\ 'VeaHvI was Tust tetiu K'cVwm, ejo „ x Hap hjt Tom IH& MIWA "THAT I'M SORRY X Imf «/aaiL£2CHBE&lCWOt.TXSOUEOE Got Sandwich So LATE. M 1 IWnPa 1.14 Stuff 0{MN - AND LETS Btf. x <« i ^ jji \ & > 1 \ Tt-'T ’J) \ % S’ Mk MAGAZINE Street Address: 112 S. Foundry St., Athens, GA 30601 • Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1027, Athens, GA 30603 • E-Mail: mail@flagpole.com Tel: 706-549-9523 • Ads: 706-549-0301 • Fax: 706-548-8981 • Voice Mail: 706-549-2360 • Website: www.flagpole.com EDITOR & PUBLISHER Pete McCommons ADVERTISING DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Alicio Nickles PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Lorry Tenner OFFICE MANAGER & COPY EDITOR Margaret Moore LOCAL SALES MANAGER Corolyne Mathers ADVERTISING SALES Moggie Anderson, D.J. Hommond SPECIAL AGENT Cindy Jerrell MUSIC & MOVIE EDITOR Bollard Lesemom. NEWS EDITOR Brod Aaron CLASSIFIEDS & ASSISTANT OFFICE MANAGER Geoffrey Corr OUT THERE! Morgoret Moore, Geoffrey Corr SPECIAL SCRIBE William Often Coriion CARTOONIST Patrick Denn WRITERS Brod Aaron, Geoff Con, Emerson Domerori Frank Homnck, Paul Killebrew, Down Maynor, Chris Moms, Trovis Nichols, Jennifer Schultz, Mott Thompson, Jim Winders CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Morgoret Moore CIRCULATION Charles Greenleof, Julio Lester, Alex Mocouley WEBFOOL Ron Bolthozor ADVERTISING ASSISTANT Cameron Swortz ADVERTISING INTERNS Andreo Dovis, Mekell Mikell EDITORIAL INTERNS Brcndon Butler PRODUCTION INTERN Spencer Sloon COVER PHOTO Pete McCommons NEWS, ETC. LETTERS 4 PUBLISHER'S NOTES 5 CITY PAGES 6 TOUR DE SPRAWL 9 SMOG 10 LISTINCS MUSIC & CULTURE ART REVIEW 19 FUZZY SPROUTS 23 SR71 25 RICHIE HAVENS 27 SP0T1ISW00DE 29 MOVIE DOPE 12 BUSINESS 30 OUT THERE! 14 BAND SPEAK 31 RECORD REVIEWS 32 ABC 20 CLASSIFIEDS 34 CONNECTIONS 36 LIVE REVIEWS 33 VOLUME 14 ISSUE NUMBER 37 Flagpole, Inc. publishes Flagpole Magazine weekly and distnbutes 18,000 copies free at over 250 locations around Athens, GA. Subscriptions cost $55 a year. $35 for six months. i U VERIFIED A m AUDIT CIRCULATION SEPTEMBER 13, JIM SMITH REPUBLICAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY Equal Justice For All VENDORS, PARADE PARTICIPANTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT ACTS ARE BEING SOUGHT FOR THE EAST ATHENS COMMUNITY CELEBRATION & FALL FESTIVAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21,2000 9 A.M.-6 P.M. FESTIVAL LOCATION: NELLIE B AVENUE & VINE STREET / EAST ATHENS COMMUNITY CENTER This year's festival will feature the celebrations of the East Athens Triangle Plaza (formerly the “Block Iron Triangle*') and East Athens Community Center's 25 th Anniversary. Come and celebrate a whole day of fun for the entire family! All vendor booths are S50 — $65 if electricity is needed. Food vendors will be responsible for obtaining all necessary health licenses from the Health Department. Vendor Applications are due by October 6 at 5:00 p.m. For applications/information, call Marie Glenn at the East Athens Development Corporation (706) 208-0048. 2 000 FLAGPOLE B
