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STAFF OF LIFE If you haven't sampled Richard Saunders'
home-baked bread at the Athens Farmers Market, give yourself
a treat. Saunders recently built an oven in his backyard and set
about learning how to bake bread in large batches. He tapped
into a national network of DIY bread bakers and spent some
time in New Hampshire and Maine working with experienced
bakers. He also learned a lot about the different kinds of flour,
and what he's doing in his backyard is making serious, nutri
tious, tasty bread.
One bite tells you why bread used to be called the "staff
of life"—soon to be available in the Tuesday market at Little
Kings, too.
WHAT A LIFE! The life of Despy Karlas Ljungdahl will be
celebrated in a memorial service at 7 p.m. Sunday evening,
June 27 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens,
780 Timothy Rd. Friends and former students, through music
and reminiscences, will honor Despy, and there's a reception
afterward. Despy was a star performer as a pianist, a demand
ing and beloved teacher, a wise friend and a shrewd manager
of her own resources. Though her career at the University of
Georgia began when it was a small college where all the faculty
knew each other and lasted through the rapid growth to mega
university, she remained focused on her students—in the class
room and at the piano—and her students remember her fondly.
ROADBLOCK The university has announced plans to recon
figure North Hull Street, i.e., to close a stretch of it where
it passes the new Russell Library. You can still get down to
Baxter, but you'll basically have to drive around the new build
ing, detouring along Florida Avenue to reach Baxter. That
means people won't have to cross the street walking to the
library, and of course they'll be safer in their quest for knowl
edge. For drivers it messes up another shortcut. If you're com
ing up Broad and want to get over to Baxter, you can hang a
right at Hull and shoot straight down to Baxter without having
to go up to Lumpkin and endure all those traffic lights.
In that same area there used to be a grand little shortcut if
you were coming back up Lumpkin toward town and wanted to
go left on Broad Street. White Avenue cut to the left a block
before Broad, and you could dogleg over to Hull, make a left
on Broad and miss the congestion at Lumpkin and Broad. The
Holiday Inn obliterated White Avenue when it expanded years
ago.
Ditto with Orr Street. Anybody remember when you could
miss the Prince Avenue/ Oglethorpe Avenue intersection by
turning left where Ike and Jane is and then back to the right
on Orr Street? One guy got Orr closed because it ran right by
his house; the rest of us lost a handy shortcut.
Athens Regional closed Cobb Street where it intersected
with Prince, interrupting an alternative route paralleling
Prince. It was a good tradeoff for the Cobbham neighborhood
but one more constriction for shortcut seekers and also for
bicyclists and pedestrians, though we can still thread our way
through the hospital parking lot when necessary.
Until the gasoline pumps finally go dry, drivers will seek
out shortcuts, and traffic planners will try to confine us to the
main roads. Maybe we should accelerate that process and start
setting up intown routes that are closed to all but bicycles and
the automobiles of those who live there.
FEAR AND LOATHING The Southern Poverty Law Center is
a civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and big
otry—the one that bankrupted the Klan through lawsuits that
successfully went after the Klan's assets. The Center recently
published a list of five "enablers," who use their official posi
tions to promulgate false justifications for antigovernment
"patriots," such as "the idea that President Obama is a Marxist,
that he and other elites in the government are pushing a
socialist takeover, that the United States plans secret concen
tration camps and so on—before millions of Americans, many
of whom actually believe these completely false allegations."
The five top enablers fingered by the Center are: Michelle
Bachman, Glenn Beck, Andrew Napolitano, Ron Paul and Paul
Broun, Jr. Read it yourself at www.splcenter.org/get-informed.
Click on Meet the Patriots.
And we just thought he was crazy...
tote McCommons editor@flagpole.com
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THIS WEEK’S
NEWS & FEATURES
City Dope 5
Athens News and Views
District 1 blows up, and the mayor and commission hold a secret public meeting on tennis.
35 Days in the Gulf of Mexico, Pt. 1 10
Tough Duty on a Deep Water Oil Rig
A local writer recounts his experiences 20 years ago on a sister ship to the Deepwater Horizon.
ARTS <§s EVENTS
Grub Notes 11
Cold Comfort
Grub Notes is back from maternity leave, as promised.
Movie Pick 13
New York Yuppies
Please Give, an acerbically talky film, charms despite its heavy-duty unhappiness.
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Beyond the Headliners 16
The Best of the Rest: Flagpole’s Top 20 AthFest Live Music Picks
Our music writers offer inside tips on AthFest’s best bets.
Tasty World Closes Its Doors 21
13 Years and Hundreds of Bands Later
Athens is losing another live-music landmark this week when Tasty World hosts its last shows.
CITY DOPE 5
CITY PAGES ’ 6
CAPITOL IMPACT 7
BEHIND THE RAIL 8
ATHENS RISING 9
35 DAYS IN THE GULF 10
GRUB NOTES 11
MOVIE DOPE 12
MOVIE PICK 13
THREATS & PROMISES 14
R.E.M.&W.S.P. AT ATHFEST? 15
ATHFEST PICKS 16
TASTY WORLD 21
THE CALENDAR! 22
BULLETIN BOARD 28
ART AROUND TOWN 29
COMICS 30
REALITY CHECK 31
CLASSIFIEDS 32
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