Flagpole. (Athens, Ga.) 1987-current, November 07, 2007, Image 22

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THE CALENDAR! having Grace Caf6 iICKY FITZPATRICK This area sing er-songwriter plays solo acoustic numbers in the James Taylor vein, working in several country, pop and classic rock covers at the restaurant in Comer. 706-783-4337. FREE! 7:30 p.m. Tasty World Upstairs BAILEY’S BROWN No specific in formation available, but don’t show up expecting American Idol Bailey Brown. PAPA MAU Fronted by the ef fervescent Malcolm Welbourne, seven-piece Austin-based Papa Mali & the Instigators blend bluesy jams with fiery funk, www.tastyworld.net. Admission: $5. 10 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe SABO & THE SCORCHERS Hailing from Augusta, Jayson Sabo (vocals, guitar) Michael Baideme (guitar), Brooks Andrews (bass) and Russell Jarrett (drums) play bluesy, ‘70s- influenced hard rock drawing on the Allmans, the Doors and Stevie Ray. www.wildwingcate.com/athens.html. FREE! 10 p.m. DEEJAYS 8e’s Bar DJ MARK BELL Local deejay Mark Bell focuses on the dancier sounds of 20 years ago. Every Friday and Saturday. 11p.m. Go Bar “LATE NITE DISCO” The house dee- jay spins a cool mix of disco, New Wave and modern dance tunes for a sweaty and energetic crowd. Every Saturday 10 p.m. The Loft Dance Lounge DJ BOBBY C Hits from the '80s, ‘90s and today, all night long. Every Saturday. Mercury Lounge IMMUZIKATION Alfredo Lapuz handles electronics and backing vocals for the local party funk band Velveteen Pink, but he also deejays as Immuzikation, featuring his own grooving remixes www.mercurya- thens.com. FREE! 11p.m. Rumor DJ RX The local deejay plays party tracks. See Nov. 9 DJs. Every Friday and Saturday. FREE! KARAOKE, ETC. Alibi “KARAOKE WITH LYNN & VICKIE” The two karaoke la dies are your energdic hosts for the night. 9 p.m - 1 am Eastwood Pub “KARAOKE WITH THE CHARRED GIRLS” Hosted by Jamie and Jessie Lee. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10p.m. Sunday, November 11 EVENTS' ACC Library “LOOKING AT: JAZZ, AMERICA'S ART FORM" A Viewing and Discussion Program featuring screenings of award-winning docu mentaries, supported by scholar-led continued from page 21 discussions and extensive reading lists. Today: ‘Meet the Author: Jazz-Mystery Writer David Fulmer." 706-613-3650. FREE!3 p.m. Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) ATHICA “ANIMAL INSTINCTS” CLOSING WEEKEND EVENTS Closing Weekend events continue. See Nov. 9 Events for details, www. athica.org, 706-208-1613. FREE! Through Nov. 11. Georgia Piedmont Arts Center FALL GALLERY SHOW Part of 10th annual Harvest of Art Festival, work by 30 area art- - ists. See Nov. 10 Events, www GeorgiaPiedmontArtsCenter. com, 404-202-3044. HARVEST OF ART The 10th an nual Harvest of Art two-day indoor art festival. See Nov. 10 Events. 404-202-3044, www.georgiapied- montartscenter.com. Madison-Morgan Cultural Center HERBERT CREECY Herbert Creecy: Selected Works’ contains over 40 pieces, including paintings on canvas, sculptures and sketchbooks. Many have never been exhibited. Screening ot a documentary about the artist, and an informal talk by friends of Creecy wwwmadison- morgancultural.org, 706-342-4743. FREE! 2 p.m. Oconee County Library KAREN ABBOT Meet Karen Abbott, author of the New York Times Bestseller Sin in the Second City: Madams. Ministers. Playboys and the Battle for America's Soul. 706-769-3950. FREE!3p.m. Oglethorpe County Library OGLETHORPE COUNTY LIBRARY BOOK SALE Annual Friends Book Sale. See Nov. 8 Events. 706-743-8817. Through Nov. 11. Skate-A-Round USA “RINK OF FIRE” The Classic City Rollergirls close out their first season with a match between the Dames of Maim and Hittin' Misses rollerderby teams. Local pop band Kite to the Moon, the latest from Timi Conley, plays between bouts. Afterparty follows at Kingpins Bowl & Brew www.classiccityrollergirls. Tickets: $8 advance, $10 door, $5 (kids 6-12). FREE! (kids under 6). 6p.m. UGA Campus HUNGER & HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS WEEK AT UGA UGA Habitat for Humanity leads an initiative of several UGA organiza tions to educate the community on issues of poverty, specifically in Athens. Events include: 8th Annual . Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk at Stegeman Coliseum Parking Lot, Sunday, Nov. 11. registration at 7:30 a m., race at 9 a m. Register online at www.active.com; UGA Habitat Pancake Dinner with all- you-can-eat pancakes for $5 at Mye's Residential Hall on Sunday, Nov. 11,6-9 p.m, www.uga.edu/ habitat; Sicko screening and launch of Stand Up Magazine at UGA Student Learning Center Room 102 on Monday Nov. 12,6:30-9 p.m. www.standupuga.org.; Providing Housing for People with AIDS: AIDS Walk’s Letter Writing Campaign & AIDS Walk/Run Athens at UGA Tate Plaza and the Arch on Wednesday. Nov. 14,10 a.m.-2 p.m.; America Recycles Day with group activities, live music and games on Myers Quad on Wednesday, Nov. 14,12-4 p.m., www.uga.edu/sea; Israel for Housing Darfur with guest speaker Valerie Blum, Q&A session and reception at Tate Gallery on Nov. 14, 6 p.m.; Broken Bread Poverty Meal at the Presbyterian Student Center on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. www. uga.edu/habitat. All events are open to the public. UGA Student Learning Center THE STATE OF HOPE TOUR The Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition sponsors a nine-city tour featuring performances by indie-folk musi cian Witt Wisebram & other local artists. The State of Hope Tour also features American Friends Service Committee’s “Georgia Eyes Wide Open Exhibit,’ illustrating the human cost of the war with a pair ot boots for each fallen soldier and a visual representation of the Iraqi civilian casualties. The tour concludes at the annual School of the Americas Watch vigil in Columbus. Room 148. FREE! 5-8 p.m. THEATRE Historic Elbert Theatre ARSENIC AND OLD LACE An encore production of the classic dark comedy. See Nov. 8 Theatre. 706-283-1049. Show only: $8-$10: Dinner and show: $25. UGA Fine Arts Theatre URINETOWN University Theatre pres ents Urinetown. See Nov. 8 Theatre. 706-542-2838. Tickets: $12-$15. LIVE MUSIC Borders Books & Music THE BROS. MARLER Twin guitar siblings Daniel and Drew Marler perform new compositions and rock, R&B and blues standards as an acoustic duo, although tonight they've brought in guests John Wayne (guitar) and Adam Funk (drums) for the full-band eflect. Debut full-length Songs for Pluto available now. www.bordersstores com FREE! 3p.m TONY LOW Time Across the Page is the newest release from Carolina singer Tony Low (ex-Cheepskates), and it’s a further exploration of his electrified power pop ballads and rockers. 706-583-8647. FREE! 6p.m. The Classic Center ATHENS SYMPHONY WINTER CONCERT Movements from major symphonies and suites by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Dvorak. 706-357-4444. FREE! Tickets required for entry. Limit four per person. 3p.m. . Fartn 255 BILUE HOLIDAY TRIBUTE Local songlady Leslie Helped performs / an authentic-sounding set of Billie Holiday tunes, with backing from Kevin Hyde on piano and trombone and Chris Enghauser on upright bass, www.farm255.com. FREE! 8p.m. Monday, November 12 EVENTS UGA Campus HUNGER & HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS WEEK AT UGA Various events associated with UGA Habitat for Humanity's Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week. See Nov. 11 Events, www.uga.edu/ habitat. UGA Student Learning Center “DANCING BEARS OF INDIA” Kartick Satyanarayan and Geeta Seshamani of Wildlife SOS, an Indian nonprofit organization, visit UGA to speak about efforts to save India's rapidly-vanishing wildlife including the ’dancing bears’ which are sloth bear cubs stolen from their mothers. Sponsored by UGA's Speak Out for Species. Room 214. www uga.edu/sos. FREE! 7:30p.m. PARK SHIN-YANG Talk by Award winning Korean Actor Park Shin- yang. He appeared in films such as The Big Swindle, Indian Summer, Hi, Dharma! and more. He also acted in popular Korean television series: “Lovers in Paris’ and "War of Money." Room 101. 706-542-7517. FREE! 7 p.m. THEATRE UGA Balcony Theatre MADAME JOHN S LEGACY Reading of Madame John's Legacy, a three-act play by PEN Award- winning-playwright Cheryldee Huddleston (Children of an Idol Moon). The setting is a New Orleans brothel circa 1906. Read by faculty and MFA graduate actors from the Department of Theatre and Film Studies. Discussion afterward. Adult language and situations. 706-543-9330. FREE! 7-10 p.m. Various Locations THE LINE IN THE SAND Athens theatre group La CompaRia presents The Line in the Sand: Stories from the US/Mexican Border, dramatic readings written by actors and writ ers from Catholic Relief Services who visited areas on both sides of the Mexico/ Arizona border in 2005 They interviewed citizens from both countries, immigrants and non-im migrants, and turned the interviews into a play. 706-425-3990. UGA Chapel on Nov. 12: St. Gregory 's Church on Nov. 16: Saint Joseph's Church on Nov. 20. All are FREE! All performances: 7p.m. LIVE MUSIC Flicker Theatre & Bar THE PECULIAR PRETZELMAN Gruff-voiced, tent-revival blues, tolk and Gothic American sounds ZOE VERMILLION California gui- tarist-accordionist-singer-kazooist Zoe Vermillion just released her first album, and it features swanky jazz-ish tunes in a retro ‘30s kinda way, like a radio broadcast of Billie or Ella hamming it up in a vaudeville show. Mw.myspace.com/tlickerbar 9:30p.m. Georgia Theatre BROCK BUTLER The frontman of the local group Perpetual Groove presents that band’s energetic jams off albums like All This Everything or Sweet Oblivious Antidote or LiveLoveDie in an intimate acoustic format and ads a number of crowd- friendly covers. 10 pm. DELTA NOVE California five-piece Delta Nove grooves along heavily in funkster mode, but what sets this band apart is its liberal use of world music traditions like funk, Brazilian samba, afro-beat, world, jazz, rock, ska and reggae, www.georgiatheatre. com. Tickets: $7 advance, $10 doors. 11 p.m. Little Kings DOUBLE DYNAMITE Athens Nate Mitchell (Cars Can Be Blue) is be hind the drum kit while Atlantan Matt Kiesner (ex-Thee Crucials) brutalizes a vintage combo organ, kicking out fiery garage rock in a ‘60s vein. FIERCE PERM Fierce Perm—the Olympia, WA trio of Nadia, Steve and Greg—taps into its city’s long tradi tion of excitable, poppy, lady-fronted punk bands. HOT NEW MEXICANS Vocalist- guitarist Patrick Jennings and drum mer Joe Dakin moved to Athens and recruited Carrie Nations' Ian McCord to play bass, creating catchy, punk- influenced, boozy power pop The band’s new vinyl 7" is called Wah... www. my space com/littlekingsshuf- fleclub. 8p.m. Tasty World AKIL An emcee in L.A. hip-hop group Jurassic 5. Akil now lives in Lithia Springs. GA, and spends time spit ting progressive, community-minded rhymes Portland’s DJ Metronome provides accompaniment DEAF JUDGES Collaborative project features Athens' nontraditional hip- hop duo Old White Women, as well as emcees Rorshak and Produce Man, trading verses and spitting provocative, kinetic rhymes; several of the individual contributors also have their own new records out ISHUES N THE MOVEMENT In early 2004, versatile and progressive- minded emcee Ishues released Reality Flow, and he’s followed it up with the new album Civil Unrest. The disc features powerful rhymes with a paranoid political slant, and a hard- edged lyrical style reminiscent ot Talib Kweli. The Movement is Ishues' full backing band. QUANSTAR As a member of Atlanta's First Team crew, Quanstar has been a constant force in the recent crop of progressive ATL rhymers. He released his latest solo album 2: The Alias and Eardrumz Saga about a year ago. TRAVIS WILLIAMS Local emcee and spoken-word artist Travis Williams takes the route of untempered po litical outrage on Reparations: The Rape Tape, a mixtape released back in February and Lean on Me is the new one. Tuesday, November 13 EVENTS ACC Library “LOOKING AT: JAZZ, AMERICA'S ART FORM" A Viewing and Discussion Program. See Nov. 11 Events. Today: ’Latin Jazz and Jazz as International Music." 706-613-3650 FREE! 7p.m. UGA Arch IRAQ WAR PROTEST The Women in Black, an international peace move ment, holds a silent vigil for peace All are welcome 706-546-5237. Tuesdays. 5-6 p m UGA Student Learning Center BUZZ SPECTOR Talk by the artist. This lecture is part ot the Visiting The Pendletons are playing at the Caledonia Lounge on Thursday, November 8. 22 FLAGP0LE.C0M • NOVEMBER 7, 2007 NEWS & FEATURES I CALENDAR I MOVIES I A&E I MUSIC I COMICS & ADVICE I CLASSIFIEDS *