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Contents P.7

Dealbreaker

State investigation, sweeping reforms are necessary in the wake of the governor’s persistent ethics woes. By Max Blau

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A cleaner Proctor Creek

longtime dumping ground for tires, trash meets match in citizen volunteers. By MaggIe lee

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Go north, MARTA

Transit system could expand farther into North Fulton. By JohN Ruch

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Be present

New atlanta contemporary art center exhibit explores spatial awareness. By MuRIel Vega

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Proud Heritage

heritage arts and Soul Festival looks to bring new life to black arts fests. By gaVIN godFRey

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Marian Mereba soars

Pop/soul songstress dreams big with Radio Flyer. By chRISTINa lee

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Dinner party

Fanoos Persian cuisine in Sandy Springs is a deliciously festive affair. By SucheTa Rawal

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Georgia’s deadly prisons

a legal rights advocacy group wants reform, a congressman wants an investigation, and a dead inmate’s family wants answers. By ThoMaS wheaTley

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Dealbreaker

State probe, sweeping reforms are needed in the wake of the governor’s persistent ethics woes

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UNDER PRESSURE: Gov. Nathan Deal has caught lots of flak following new allegations about his staff’s alleged threats against the state’s top ethics official.

By Max Blau

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ov. Nathan Deal has never been found guilty of an ethics violation as governor. Yet he has developed a reputation as a politician tainted by scandal — take your pick from the controversial sale of his salvage yard, his possible misuse of gubernatorial campaign funds, or the alleged removal of ethics officials who tried to investigate that same campaign. Somehow he’s managed to dodge each complaint since taking office in 2011. In July 2012, the governor avoided more than $70,000 in fines related to his use of state campaign cash to fight federal ethics charges, pay an airfare company he partially owned, and to hire his daughter-in-law, Denise Deal, to raise funds. Deal’s technically spotless record seemed as if it would remain intact, especially given the state’s underfunded, spineless ethics commission mostly filled with his handpicked political appointees. But last week, an incriminating two-year-old memo unexpectedly emerged and placed his reputation — and his chances for re-election — in jeopardy yet again. Given the resurgence of his alleged ethics violations, a statewide investigation must be launched. That inquiry should be followed by sweeping ethics reforms. Georgians need an ethics agency that answers solely to taxpayers. The public needs to be able to trust that ethics officials are actually holding politicians accountable.

In recent months state officials doled out an estimated $3 million of taxpayers’ money to four ethics commission whistleblowers who claimed they were forced out of their staff positions because of attempts to look into Deal’s 2010 campaign. Although the court proceedings suggested impropriety, Deal walked away unscathed. Then the memo from Holly LaBerge, Georgia’s top ethics official, surfaced. In it, she accuses two Deal staff members of threatening and pressuring her to make the ethics complaints surrounding Deal’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign disappear. Some ethics commission staffers wanted to pursue a full hearing against the governor. But LaBerge decided to settle the complaints after, as she claims, Deal Chief Counsel Ryan Teague told her “[i]t was not in the agency’s best interest” to let Deal’s ethics complaints go to a public hearing. The governor was cleared of all charges one week later. He agreed to pay $3,350 in administrative fees. LaBerge’s annual salary rose $15,000 between 2011 and 2013, a period during which the commission faced major funding and staff cuts. LaBerge’s allegations grabbed national headlines, left Deal’s office scrambling in response, and breathed life into Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jason Carter’s campaign. The memo also highlighted many of the problems that exist within the state ethics commission. In Deal’s defense, spokesman Brian Robinson said the staffers’ communication was needed to resolve a “scheduling problem” with an economic development trip

to Switzerland. The governor insisted that his staffers’ contact with LaBerge did not impact the ruling. “There was no communication from me and my staff to the commission members,” Deal said in an interview with WSB Radio. The explanation from Deal’s camp hasn’t helped his cause. And it has served as a reminder that we need a formal investigation into the matter. LaBerge’s memo could end up being nothing more than empty allegations or a simple miscommunication with the governor’s office. At worst, it could be that Deal’s staff members tried to quash a serious investigation into his campaign. No, scratch that. At worst, the governor would have orchestrated the entire cover-up. Deal hasn’t been proven guilty in a court of law. And there isn’t a smoking gun. But there’s certainly enough evidence to warrant a state inquiry. The memo has prompted calls for an investigation, most predictably from Carter, who blasted the governor’s office for its “pattern of intimidation and interference,” as well as government watchdog group Common Cause Georgia. Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens so far has declined to launch a state investigation, saying it would be counterproductive to similar probes headed by the Georgia Department of Audits and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that are currently in progress. The fact that Deal stands behind the ruling of an ethics commission he intends to fix is particularly absurd. Back in April, he unveiled a series of reforms to bolster what he referred to as a “broken” ethics commission. It’s the same agency that Randy Evans, Deal’s personal attorney, said worked with “the highest possible standard imaginable” when it dismissed ethics charges in 2012. Deal’s blatant election-year proposal introduced some positive changes, but didn’t go far enough. His plan included expanding the commission from five to 12 members; giving the same number of appointments to the executive, judicial, and legislative branches; and requiring commission members to recuse themselves if the government that appointed them is being investigated. In the process, he failed to make the most important change: the establishment of an independent commission. That independence is the main reform needed to hold state lawmakers to a higher standard. Those changes must happen immediately to restore any semblance of public trust in our state government. We can’t afford to wait any longer. C [email protected]

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EEK CREEK: Northwest Atlanta waterway that snakes from Chattahoochee River to Vine City needs help.

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hose tires weren’t here last time,” says Shaheed DuBois, frowning down from a bridge at new refuse on a bank of Proctor Creek in northwest Atlanta. The normally upbeat Vine City resident and Proctor Creek Steward’s dismay quickly fades as he slips on latex gloves and takes his weekly sample of the creek water to test for bacteria and sediment pollution. DuBois volunteers about an hour and a half a week for this collection job, carrying the samples to a lab run by the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. The environmental nonprofit will incubate the sample to test for bacteria levels. Long a dumping ground for tires, trash and sewage, Proctor Creek is a lot cleaner than a generation ago, but it still needs help. The feds are looking to make it an urban success story. And the good news is that there will soon be more citizen-scientists like DuBois, as well as other kinds of stewards working on the west side waterway, thanks to a new Environmental Protection Agency grant. The funding could also help boost a key waterway that snakes from the Chattahoochee River to Vine City and that’s envisioned to link Atlanta to its often overlooked waterfront. The $179,000 funding award will be split evenly among three organizations: the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, the Center for Watershed

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Protection, and Environmental Community Action. According to Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Sally Bethea it will allow the group to more than double its work for the next two years. The grant “provides an opportunity to build capacity,” says Darryl Haddock, the environmental education director at the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance. The two-employee nonprofit stewards Proctor, Sandy, and Utoy creeks and partners with the Riverkeeper in running workshops, monitoring water, and recruiting and training volunteers. On a recent Thursday upstream from DuBois’ spot, Haddock showed a visiting class of summer camp children how to test water pH. The waterway is a lot cleaner than it was 16 years ago, when the city settled a lawsuit filed in 1995 by the Riverkeeper over the 60 to 80 annual sewage overflows into the creek. The settlement resulted in Atlanta spending $112 million to overhaul the city’s antiquated sewer system to prevent pollution in the creek. The city has since separated sewage pipes from rainwater runoff lines, reducing E. coli by some 90 percent. Crews have also pulled some 132 tons of debris and garbage from the creek. Monitoring the creek at as many points as possible helps track down any public or private lines that are still dripping gunk into the creek — which, unfortunately, still happens. Besides the environmental science topic of water pollution, there are public health and environmental justice issues Haddock said the

creek raises. “How does flooding, storm water, E. coli — how does that contribute to health concerns?” he asks. Haddock said his watershed’s communities are much less organized than in some more affluent places. “You don’t have the cohesion that you need” for political action, he says. The watershed underneath some of Atlanta’s poorest neighborhoods was named in 2013 to a federal program, Urban Waters Federal Partnership, meant to clean up the country’s ickiest city waters. The announcement came at the same time that the city gave Atlantans a peek at the Emerald Corridor, a proposed public-private partnership that envisions building a greenway along a renewed Proctor Creek. The long-term project would also try to offer an amenity to and help revitalize northwest Atlanta neighborhoods along the waterway. The Urban Waters Federal Partnership aims to help city dwellers access, improve, and benefit from their creeks, lakes, and other waters. Its grants focus on projects that knit neighbors into learning about water quality and righting their own waterways. Environmental Community Action, one of the other grant winners, will focus on stemming pollution from the high ground on which the Atlanta University Center sits. The other, the Center for Watershed Protection, will work on an official plan to incentivize pollution reduction on the creek. DuBois was upbeat about the consistent data collection already under way. “That’s the exciting thing right now, science helping the community … so it’s not anecdotal.” And in addition, the creek is starting to spur that community cohesion and political prowess. DuBois, who was inspired to start volunteering after seeing how hikers and nature lovers preserved pristine landscapes on the Appalachian Trail, was one of the signers of a letter to the EPA complaining of a huge illegal tire dump at the creek on land belonging to the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management and other public agencies. The EPA forwarded the letter to DWM, which cleaned it up this year, carting off and recycling more than 5,000 tires from the creek bank. Hundreds of people attended a recent clean-up along the creek banks, co-organized by WAWA. Neighborhood “people are not the audience,” Haddock says, adding, “Now they understand you have to come out. … [It’s] people as participants.” C [email protected]

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layton County isn’t the only part of metro Atlanta considering expanding MARTA’s footprint. Momentum is building for rail expansion in North Fulton from Sandy Springs to Alpharetta along Georgia 400. MARTA wrapped up a series of preliminary meetings about the plan on July 17 at the Perimeter Center Hampton Inn, a location highlighting the clogged-artery traffic nightmare that is the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange. At least 70 residents attended, and many appeared to favor the expansion — as long as it happens on the west side of Ga. 400 through Sandy Springs. The east side of the highway has more single-family homes and adjacent schools; the west side includes more apartment complexes and commercial strips. The 12-mile extension could feature up to six stations. The current Red Line terminating in Sandy Springs is heavy rail. But the extension could also be light rail or bus rapid transit. The current planning phase wants public input on the desired mode. The expansion is a long way from reality — six to 12 years away in the absolute best-case scenario, including federal funding falling into place. In the nearly 15 years since the area’s Red Line stations were built, a previous extension plan foundered on opposition and an economic study that found potential ridership too low to support it. But times have changed, and so has North Fulton. MARTA Planner Mark Eatman cited “changing demographics” — a booming, mixed-income population — and “just phenomenal growth up here that really needs transit solutions.” MARTA almost tanked this expansion late last year by issuing a draft plan featuring an east-side line. The backlash against that route had them backpedal to say anything’s on the table, though it’s unlikely the line can run down the middle of 400 as it does in Buckhead thanks to GDOT road expansion plans. But planners say the line might even run on the west side for part of the way, then cross the road to the east. MARTA touted a recent scientific survey from Kennesaw State University’s Burruss Institute showing that more than 75 percent of North Fulton residents and employees support MARTA expansion there. The Sandy Springs City Council supports the concept so long as it hugs the west side of the highway. Elected officials and some residents have reservations, however, about a possible Northridge area station that sparks traffic concerns. David Centofanti, president of the Northridge Forest Community Association, says his group is showing similar support for a west-side expansion. “I’ve talked to only two or three people who absolutely don’t want it anywhere,” he says. State Sen. Fran Millar, R-Dunwoody, the vice-chair of

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Meanwhile, as the idea of MARTA expansion gains momentum around the metro area, some of those lower-income communities might end up competing with North Fulton for expansion funds. Clayton County in November is poised to vote on joining MARTA and starting bus and eventually rail service. Depending on the many twists and turns of funding and planning, consultants and planners say, Clayton or some other project could end up in the running, too. MARTA continues to accept public comments on Connect 400 at connect400@ itsmarta.com. C

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MARTOC, the Gold Dome committee that oversees MARTA, expressed some reservations. He predicted that bus rapid transit will be the eventual choice, because it’s cheaper to build at an estimated $473 million versus $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion for rail options. Millar and a small group of residents criticized the process and the survey. He said he thinks the survey avoided talking to people in the Sandy Springs and Dunwoody areas who might oppose the line. A few of those residents also told CL that they’re concerned today’s well-off residents won’t use MARTA, so it will essentially just enable an invasion of lower-class men and women.

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cafe — until security guards escorted him out. A short time later, the manager found two cafe uniform shirts all cut up, a Coke Zero syrup bag punctured and leaking, and about $230 cash missing from a deposit bag.

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woman recently decided to show off her boobies on the dance floor at a local gay bar. A cop standing nearby reported that the 21-year-old North Carolina woman “lifted up her small T-shirt that she was wearing and exposed her breasts and took the hands of an unknown male that she was dancing with and placed his hands on her exposed breasts.” The cop walked over and informed the bouncing-bosom dancer that this “kind of misconduct is not acceptable and unlawful. I then asked her to leave the club because she appeared very intoxicated.” The officer walked her to the bar’s front entrance and just when she was almost out the door, the woman allegedly reared back and punched the cop’s wrist. Stunned, the cop handcuffed her. “She suggested that I let her go home because she only hit me because she had been drinking,” the cop noted. Instead, the cop took her straight to jail on a disorderly conduct charge.

Bare-chested brouhaha

A shirtless Miami man went berserk inside the bus terminal in Downtown Atlanta. According to the police report, when cops arrived, the man “had blood pouring down his face” and he was screaming profanities as he wrestled with the terminal’s security guards. Apparently the confrontation started earlier, when the Miami guy strolled

bare-chested through the bus terminal. Guards said they ordered him to put on his shirt or leave immediately — he refused. The Miami guy had a different story: He said he enjoyed several drinks at a nearby Atlanta strip club and simply came into the bus terminal to change his shirt. As cops interviewed him, the Miami man repeatedly insulted random people. The man yelled “ugly” at several female bus passengers walking by and called a security guard “fat.” He threatened to return and fight the guards when he’s released from jail.

Bra breakdown

On Ponce de Leon Avenue, a cop spotted a 25-year-old woman sitting in front a gas station “with her breast exposed.” The cop approached her for a chat. “She stated that she did not know that her breast was hanging out of her shirt,” the cop noted. The cop did not believe her one-boob-went-rogue story. She went to jail for indecent exposure.

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In Midtown, a 23-year-old man was fired from his job at a local cafe. Apparently, he didn’t take it well. According to the cafe manager, the man allegedly poured a large cup of water all over the cash register and claimed that it was just an accident. The man reportedly refused to leave the

In Piedmont Heights, cops responded to an “embellished story” dispute between two guys who have lived together on-and-off for 12 years. The caller said he has epilepsy, and he and his roommate were arguing when he had an epileptic episode and fell into the shower’s glass door. A cop arrived and asked the man if he was hurt. The man said he was not hurt. Just to make sure, the cop looked the man over. “Other than an unhealthy-looking big toe, I did not observe any visible injuries,” the cop noted, adding that the guy rambled and “did not make much sense.” The other roommate “was very cooperative and calm and quick to provide information,” the cop wrote. The roommate said they are good friends, but their relationship had recently deteriorated and just a few hours earlier he had announced that he is moving out at the end of the month. That’s when epileptic man became upset and called police. The cop attempted to have a second conversation with the epileptic man to clarify why he called police, but it got weird fast. The epileptic man call the cop a “skinny bitch,’” the cop noted. “Also he said I ‘needed to eat a sandwich’ and began making ‘Hail Hitler Nazi salute motions.’” Both roommates agreed to leave for the night. No one was arrested.

Cleaned out

A 48-year-old man was asleep in his apartment near Fort McPherson. He woke up to find a strange man was standing over his bed. The 48-year-old man leaped out of bed and grabbed his baseball bat. He tried and failed to catch the stranger, who sprinted out the back door. Apparently, the stranger wasn’t interested in the man’s TV, wallet, or cell phone. The only items stolen were a bottle of Tide, some Off oven cleaner, six rolls of toilet paper, trash bags, and a bottle of Fabuloso. The 48-year-old said his girlfriend recently bought the cleaning items so he could scrub down his apartment before he moved out. Apparently, the thief went to some effort to steal the cleaning supplies. The suspect reportedly removed a window screen, raised a kitchen window, put his arm thru the window, and unlocked the back door. items in the Blotter are taken from actual atlanta

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GETTING BETTER: Greg Germani, shown here in 2006 taking photos for his Atlanta Time Machine website, is recovering from serious injuries.

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fter spending more than one month following up tips and sifting through leads, Atlanta Police on July 17 arrested the man accused of intentionally striking bicyclist Greg Germani in Piedmont Heights. Joseph Alan Lewis, who police allege drove the red Dodge Nitro that struck Germani on June 9, turned himself in early last Thursday morning. As CL went to press, the 19-year-old was being held at Fulton County Jail on criminal attempt to commit murder, aggravated assault, reckless driving, and other charges. APD also arrested Shanelle Woodard, who they say is Lewis’ girlfriend, for tampering with evidence in the case. The bicycling community and supporters of Germani, the creator of the popular Atlanta Time Machine website, helped raise more than $30,000 to build a reward fund. APD Lt. Rod Woody says a tip provided to Crime Stoppers helped lead them to the Nitro on June 23 at an apartment complex located near the crime scene. Over the past few weeks, CL received numerous inquiries about the case’s progress, especially after officers located the Nitro. Woody says two detectives spent 37 days working “nonstop” on the case. The detectives had to collect evidence and follow leads before moving forward, he says.

Woody says that last week APD thought Lewis was in the area and knew that law enforcement authorities were looking for him. The department urged him to head to the nearest precinct and turn himself in to authorities. Germani is currently recovering at a private hospital. According to a Facebook update by his girlfriend, he currently has limited speech abilities. Friends and supporters have organized an Aug. 2 benefit for Germani at the Star Bar. — THOMAS WHEATLEY

Michael Geisler named city’s next chief operating officer

Mayor Kasim Reed has announced that Michael Geisler, Atlanta’s interim chief operating officer for the past five months, will be his permanent pick for the position that arguably keeps City Hall humming along. In his new permanent role, Geisler will be responsible for overseeing the city’s daily operations. He’ll also be tasked with leading some of Reed’s top initiatives such as assembling a $250 million infrastructure bond package; managing the Atlanta Streetcar; launching the city’s 311 system; and figuring out what to do with the Civic Center, Turner Field, and Underground Atlanta.

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Deputy COOs Hans Utz, Tom Weyandt, and Kristin Canavan Wilson will continue to support Geisler in his new position. Back in February, Geisler became the city’s interim COO following the departure of former COO Duriya Farooqui, who accepted a seniorlevel role with international consulting firm Bain and Company. Geisler first came on board with the city a year and a half ago as the Department of Watershed Management’s deputy commissioner and chief financial officer. In that role, he was credited with refinancing more than $500 million of the department’s debt — a move that the city says has saved an estimated $12 million — and improving its credit ratings. Reed says in a statement that Geisler’s “deep understanding of finance, combined with his effective and efficient management” will help him accomplish his second and final term’s goals. The Atlanta City Council will need to approve Geisler’s promotion to make the decision official. If approved, he’ll join Atlanta Airport General Manager Miguel Southwell as the second interim department head to land a permanent role in recent months. Reed still needs to fill top positions with the city’s communications, parks, and economic development departments.

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R.I.P., Harry West

One of metro Atlanta’s most vocal advocates for regionalism died last week at the age of 72. Harry West, the longest-serving executive director of the Atlanta Regional Commission, died at Emory Hospital from a lung infection. West joined the mega planning agency that helps craft long-term plans for the region’s water, transportation, and land-use in the early 1970s after serving as Fulton County manager. Once at ARC, he played a key role in MARTA and development plans and pushing the importance of managing the region’s water resources. He also helped push for protections along the Chattahoochee River, launched an innovative planning process that included citizen participation, and prodded regional leaders to carefully consider the multiple impacts of large projects — a process that ultimately became adopted statewide. “Harry West’s legacy to the Atlanta Regional Commission and to the Atlanta region is immeasurable,” ARC Executive Director Doug Hooker said. “He had a vision, a dedication, and a high set of standards, which will continue to propel metro Atlanta far into the future.” C

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March on

Congressman John Lewis readies the sequel to his bestselling Civil Rights-themed graphic novel

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“The Freedom Rides were a group of young people, and people not so young, who believed,” Lewis says. “The original riders, who left Nashville, Tenn., black and white, were committed to give themselves. They accepted nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living, and some people believed there was a possibility that they could be beaten or even die on that ride. We were ready to give everything we had.” March: Book Two also looks at the March on Washington in August 1963. Lewis, who was the youngest person to speak in front of the 250,000-person audience, shared the stage with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the day he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Despite the event’s importance, Lewis and Aydin felt it would be more appropriate for the sequel to end with the 16th Street Baptist THE SAGA CONTINUES: The cover for March: Book Two Church bombing, which occurred the following month, to portray the realities of the Both co-authors hope that the trilogy’s enduring civil rights struggle success carries over into classrooms. Teachwell beyond King’s most iconic moment. ers have already taught the first graphic novel “[The March] was a high point in orto thousands of students in about 30 differganizing, but not necessarily a high point ent states, Aydin says. Given March: Book in concrete accomplishments,” Aydin says. One’s initial success, Aydin wants to see a “Looking at it in the context of the Birmingcopy placed in every school and library across ham bombing less than three weeks later, the nation. Lewis, who says many people in hopefully it’ll highlight to readers that the other countries know more about the U.S. response, being terrorism, came fast.” AyCivil Rights Movement than Americans do, din and Lewis have already finished March: believes that spreading the book remains of Book Two’s script, following an intense prothe utmost importance in his efforts to help cess that included both in-depth interviews preserve the Civil Rights Movement’s history and academic research. Powell, who lives in for future generations. Bloomington, Ind., is currently inking the “It is my hope and my wish and my prayer graphic novel’s pages. Once he’s finished, that students, young people, non-students, the three collaborators will make their final and people not-so-young have a better underedits before sending the comic book to be standing of what happened and how it happrinted. Upon release, the graphic novel will pened,” Lewis says. “I want them to become be available in softcover ($19.95), hardcover [as] informed as many of the young people in ($29.95), and limited edition signed and other parts of the world.” C numbered hardcover ($49.95). [email protected] Courtesy top shelf produCtions

ongtime Atlanta Congressman John Lewis had high expectations for March: Book One, but he didn’t necessarily think a graphic novel memoir based on his role in the Civil Rights Movement would find a widespread audience. Since August 2013, the comic book’s reception has surprised the 74-year-old representative, his co-author and congressional staffer Andrew Aydin, and illustrator Nate Powell. The 128-page graphic novel, the first book of the March trilogy, debuted atop the New York Times’ graphic books best sellers list, made its Comic-Con debut, and is already nearing a fourth printing. “I’ve been more than gratified and, to some great delight, surprised by the unbelievable response we’ve received from the first book,” Lewis says. And Aydin, who wrote his college dissertation on “Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story,” a 1950s comic book that helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement, also didn’t anticipate that March: Book One “would have reached the height that it did so quickly.” Last week, nearly one year after the first book’s release, March publisher Top Shelf Productions announced details about the trilogy’s second installment, March: Book Two, which is scheduled for release in early 2015. The congressman says the forthcoming graphic novel starts in 1960. Lewis, who at the time was 20 years old, played an important role alongside activists James Lawson, Diane Nash, and C.T. Vivian during the Nashville sit-in campaign that eventually led to the city’s restaurant desegregation. “[The Nashville campaign] is one of those parts of history that isn’t studied quite as much,” Aydin says. “That’s important to us to highlight some of those moments to show the depths of the protests that went on. It ties back into the idea of the Civil Rights Movement conveying a very simple message, yet being a very complex undertaking.” From there, the novel chronicles the young activist’s involvement with the Freedom Rides, his 37-day imprisonment at Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi, and the Birmingham campaign. Looking back, the congressman considers the Freedom Rides to be the “untold story” of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Teen fashion entrepreneurs behind Lucid FC say goodbye BY Gavin GodfreY

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t’s fitting that Chet and Betts DeHart’s favorite film is the French classic The Red Balloon. Director Albert Lamorisse’s simplistic coming of age tale about a young boy (Lamorisse’s real-life son Pascal) being followed through the streets of Paris by, you guessed it, a red balloon, was a revelation when it was released in 1956. The 18-year-old DeHart twins, the prodigious minds behind burgeoning streetwear brand Lucid Footwear and Clothing, take pride in their product, which they say shares visionary traits with Lamormisse’s minimalistic aesthetic. With designs that are low on graphics, the Lucid FC brand is a combination of seemingly mismatched parts: New England prep meets the gritty, big city graffiti artist — or his Southern, dope-boy cousin with French fashion leanings. It sounds messy, but even big fashion names like Esquire seem to find beauty in Lucid FC’s hodgepodge of styles all molded into one. “With its spare designs, prep and outdoor influences, and elegant, restrained logo, Lucid FC reminds us of PLAY Comme des Garçons if it were designed by teenage Eagle Scouts,” wrote the magazine’s Style Editor, Andrew Luecke, in his interview with the twins after Lucid FC made its way into VFiles and a pop-up shop at the Good Company, two of New York City’s most prominent streetwear retailers. Next month, the DeHart twins are moving to NYC to attend the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (LIM) with their partner, Jonah Levine, to improve their business savvy and find a designer. Just like that, one of ATL’s newest and seemingly most promising street-style brands is looking to grow beyond the city walls before it really blows up locally. “The older crowd is really good to us here in Atlanta, but New York is where designers live,” says Betts, the more business-minded of the two. According to the twins, aside from NYC being a fashion capital, it’s also where 85 percent of their sales are generated. Hell, Lucid FC’s biggest media backer has been the N.Y.-based network Mass Appeal, which helped produce the twins going-away party in Atlanta last weekend. At home the DeHarts are hardly recognized as budding style entrepreneurs. Instead they’re sometimes confused for the ATL Twins when they make trips over

to Little Five Points. Their slim, tall frames and boyish good looks have garnered modeling attention both good — M.I.A. reached out for their services in her “Double Trouble” video — and unwanted — a California man offered them $10,000 to appear in his twin-themed porno. The youngest of three children, the DeHarts grew up in Buckhead, but immediately found that their love of Nike, FILA, graffiti, and trips to Walter’s didn’t vibe well with the upper-middle class community where “everyone wore Abercrombie & Fitch.” “We weren’t the typical Buckhead family,” Betts says of the brothers’ childhood. They received “negative comments” and blank stares, and were referred to as “ghetto” because of their love of urban culture. “I guess it helped us become more individual,” Betts continues, saying other kids had parents who all dressed them the same. “I don’t mean to be mean, but it felt like no one in Buckhead was really an individual.” Both Betts and Chet were born with severe learning disabilities and graduated from Ben Franklin Academy, but Chet jokes that they have “been to every school but Westminster and Lovett.” Originally, Lucid FC was called TSB, which stood for the Sole Brothers. The name comes from a popular Web series the twins had on YouTube in middle school on which they’d break down new sneaker releases and offer their take on random style trends. They garnered enough views to have Google send them a $300 check in the mail every month. TSB evolved into Lucid FC in late 2010. At the tender age of 14, the DeHarts went from making custom sneakers — Grateful Dead skulls on Converse for example — to becoming young businessmen who were encouraged by their parents to pursue whatever made them happy. They never, however, asked for their parents’ money in making it happen. Most kids their age were chasing girls or dealing with teen angst. But Chet and Betts were becoming fashion students. “They had a passion for it. They were really curious about it, constantly asking questions,” says Farshad Arshid, owner of both Standard and G-Star boutiques, who considers himself a mentor to Atlanta’s young fashion upstarts. Arshid’s seen young aspiring fashionistos come and go in his 11 years running a streetwear boutique in ATL, but he was immediately drawn to the DeHarts when

AU REVOIR: Chet (left) and Betts DeHart rocking their Lucid FC logo T-shirts.

their mother first brought them to Standard’s Lenox store five years ago. They were 13. In that time, Arshid’s seen the twins and their brand grow, and he says that Lucid FC succeeds at being “fresh” and “unblemished.” He’s not surprised Vogue reached out to the twins to have them offer fashion tips for women; their range warrants such attention. Arshid also commends the twins’ understanding of the business, which he says separates them from competition. While he hates to see local talent head elsewhere, he understands why Lucid FC’s move to NYC was imminent and necessary. “If you want to be a country star, you have to pack up and go to Nashville. If you want to be an actor, you go to Hollywood. … They have a good grasp on [the idea] that in order for us to get where we want to we have to be in the epicenter of fashion, and that’s in New York.” The twins have their mind set on opening a Lucid FC flagship store in Atlanta five

years from now, and they praise peers such as FRESH.i.AM and recent collaborator Dr. Dax for keeping the city on the country’s cultural conscious. The DeHarts applaud FRESH.i.AM’s ability to maintain a fashionbased business in a not-so-fashion-centric market, despite the demand for their line outside of the city. “What they’ve done for the city is very selfless of them,” Chet says. “They could be making more money outside of Atlanta.” It’s the understanding of the long-term, big picture perspective that will keep the Lucid FC name going for years to come, no matter the city, says Arshid. “They’re such driven young men. Usually guys at that age have motivation, but it’s met with a lot of distractions,” he says. “What’s really amazing is seeing them follow through. That’s why I think they’re going to be a pretty powerful brand to deal with over the next few years.” C [email protected]

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New ACAC exhibit explores spatial awareness By Muriel VegA

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s technology grows exponentially, making our lives more connected and digitally disoriented, we forget to pay attention to the details of our everyday surroundings. That’s the concept behind Be Here Now, the site-specific exhibition at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center featuring German-born Sandra Erbacher and local sculptors Mike Black and Andrew Boatright. Each artist takes advantage of the large spaces at the gallery and focuses on situational awareness and invasion. “I feel like there’s a lot of beauty, a lot of potential that’s in front of everybody’s face, but everyone is so busy,” Black says. “It just takes a second to look up and see what’s going on.” Black approaches his installation from a structural standpoint, incorporating fake HVAC ducts with the real versions from the gallery, painting them gray with bright pink insulation peeking from the side. Boatright brought the concept to life in textured sculptures arranged in awkward yet endearing poses. With a focus on perspective and contradictions, Erbacher uses common materials but twists them somehow — a screw inserted into a wall just below eye level, or a bright pink exit sign hidden inside a vent. The artists spoke to Creative Loafing about paying more attention to the environment around us and surprising the viewer.

SPACE INVASION: Andrew Boatright’s “Orobulbous”

of my last show ... similar color, but for this show I experimented with finishing. I used bleach on the surface [of the sculptures], and then I dusted them a bit with spray paint to highlight some of the texture. The spray paint didn’t stick where the bleach was so you get these spots that appear to be diseased flesh.

Tell me about your sculptures. What materials Tell me about incorporating the concept into did you use this time around? your work and the gallery. AB: Most of the sculptures have Mike Black: This is part of a nylon stockings as sort of the skin series that I’ve been working on for Be Here Now that goes over the armatures. As I the past two years called Disregard, Through Aug. 30. stuff the stockings, it creates the gesand it’s all based [on] common Tues.-Wed., 11 a.m.5 p.m.; Thurs., ture that I solidify with the adhesive materials that we come by, all the 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; that I brush onto the surface. It’s time. In this piece I pulled from the Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m.very much about a bodily gesture — HVAC system, and that’s the whole 5 p.m. Atlanta gestures of futility. idea behind the series, going into Contemporary Art different spaces and pulling from Center. 535 Means Sandra, how does perspective play what’s already there. I used this St. 404-688-1970. into your sculptures? space as a jump-off point for my thecontemporary. Sandra Erbacher: I love playing work. ... What I want is to surprise org. with architectural elements of instipeople, have little moments where tutions such as a museum. I flipped you turn a corner and see something the exit sign over and put it in a fake vent. It is a that shouldn’t be there, but it’s there. Hopefully slightly disorienting thing. I wanted to question that little moment, when you turn the corner, afthe position of the viewer so you don’t really fects your day in a positive way. know [whether] the audience is inside or outside. Taking these kinds of institutional elements that Andrew, were some of these pieces from your people don’t notice normally, and playing around past show (TRANSMOGRIFICATION)? They with them — it’s all about composition. C look familiar. Andrew Boatright: They are a continuation [email protected] 14 ❘ JULY 24-JULY 30, 2014 ❘ clatl.com

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MAN OF THE HOUR: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Günther Bachmann in A Most Wanted Man

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he untimely death of Philip Seymour Hoffman inevitably hangs over A Most Wanted Man, one of the actor’s final films and his last leading role. A remarkably perceptive and original performer, Hoffman died in February at the age of 46, with possibly decades of vibrant work ahead of him. The dense, slow-burning espionage plot of A Most Wanted Man can’t really compete with Hoffman’s tragic fate off-screen. In A Most Wanted Man, based on the novel of the same name by John le Carré, Hoffman plays Günther Bachmann, the hard-drinking head of a counterintelligence unit based in Hamburg. A Most Wanted Man’s opening titles identify the German port as the temporary headquarters for Mohammed Atta and his fellow conspirators before Sept. 11. Günther’s team tracks the arrival of Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin), a half-Chechen Muslim with access to a mysterious German bank account. The international intelligence community believes Issa to be an undercover terrorist.

A human rights lawyer (Rachel McAdams) sympathizes with him as a lost, tortured soul, while Günther sees him as a means to infiltrate a possible Al Qaeda front. Directed by Anton Corbijn, A Most Wanted Man displays strengths and limitations often found in le Carré’s fiction. Few writers better capture the world of espionage’s unglamorous complexities and compromised bureaucracies, where expediency invariably trumps honor. Le Carré also has a tendency to keep his characters at arm’s length, and the cast works to flesh out the script’s underwritten relationships. Soft-spoken and melancholy, Günther could be a German equivalent to le Carré’s self-effacing spymaster George Smiley — the antithesis of James Bond — played by Gary Oldman in the new version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Alec Guinness for the BBC. Like those other performers before him, Hoffman can be a subtle, charismatic under-actor, and here he conveys Günther’s quixotic dedication to do the right thing in the face of fatalistic expectations.

Unfortunately, the low-key, drawn-out nature of the storyline means that Hoffman spends much of the film ruminatively smoking while waiting for the latest updates. The final half-hour builds some overdue tension as Günther attempts a complex sting operation, but it feels like an inadequate payoff, particularly given the strength of the cast (which includes Willem Dafoe and Robin Wright). As a swan song for Hoffman, A Most Wanted Man only leaves you wanting more. — Curt Holman

A Most Wanted Man HHIII Directed by Anton Corbijn. Stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams. Rated R. Opens Fri., July 25. At area theaters.

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arly in Mike Cahill’s new sci-fi drama I Origins, molecular biologist Ian Gray (Michael Pitt) poses a question to a friend that becomes the driving force behind his vision quest: “Have you ever felt like you met someone that filled a hole inside you

and when they left you felt painfully vacant?” If you tend to get that feeling every time a film starring acclaimed actress-writer Brit Marling ends, you’re already familiar with the consciousness-raising indie fare she’s created in collaboration with her longtime friends and former Georgetown University classmates, writersdirectors Cahill and Zal Batmanglij. Although Marling did not contribute to this script, it certainly bears the hallmark of her 2011 feature debut with Cahill, Another Earth. But this time the search for identity sends them on a different kind of outward journey. Ian, engrossed in the evolution of the eye, meets a masked woman at a Halloween party at the film’s outset. After an interrupted bathroom hookup, their night ends abruptly, leaving her smoldering greenish-gray eyes burned deep into his subconscious. With that as Ian’s only clue, he sets out to find her. But when they finally reconnect, their blossoming love meets tragedy. And thus begins the film’s real premise. I Origins is inspired in part by Cambridge University professor John Daugman’s 1987 discovery that each human being possesses a unique iris. Cahill’s speculative fiction plot suggests that scientific proof of reincarnation can be found in repeating iris patterns. In other words, the eyes truly could be the windows to the soul, a point the film repeatedly tries to make. But that notion is almost smothered by the love story that weighs down the first third of the film. Ian’s smart, blond lab assistant turned life partner Karen (portrayed by Marling) pushes him toward a new discovery that will ultimately require more faith, and frequent-flier miles, than scientific inquiry. At its core, I Origins attempts to bridge the gulf between evolution and creationism, science and spirituality. It’s the kind of theory you desperately want to believe, but almost requires turning a blind eye to the Hollywood love story upon which it rests. Ultimately, Cahill winds up talking down to his audience. Still, hints of his intelligent design linger; Ian’s doubt caters to the more skeptical viewers, while Karen proves that faith without works is dead. While Pitt is the lead, don’t be surprised if you find yourself wishing Marling had played a bigger role by the time the credits roll. C — rodney CarmiCHael

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Who’s pErforming? Don’t ask Speaking of live music, one of FunkJazz Kafé’s most unique factors — which helps set he FunkJazz Kafé Arts & Music the event apart from almost every other festival Festival may have started as a small in town — is that the identities of its headlining gathering of like-minded Atlantans at the Royal Peacock in 1994, but over the performers are kept a secret until showtime. So, when you buy a ticket to the festival, you are, last two decades, the live music-driven, multiat least in part, buying blindly. And, no, there media event, which takes place at the Tabernacle won’t be any hints or clues leaked to the general these days, has grown into a one-of-a-kind, interpublic ahead of the show. Of course, past pernationally recognized happening that’s attended formers who graced FJK’s stages by thousands. FunkJazz Kafé founder have included heavy-hitters such Jason Orr attributes the growth and FunkJazz Kafé as Janelle Monae, Jill Scott, Bilal, longevity of the festival, which show$34.99. 8 p.m. Public Enemy, Talib Kweli, and cases some of the best and brightest Sat., July 26. Eric Roberson, among many othnames in soul, R&B, and hip-hop, The Tabernacle, ers, which means you can rest easy to the fact that it continues to fill a 152 Luckie St. with the knowledge that whoever void. “Since 1994, we have focused 404-659-9022. plays that night will undoubtedly be on groups of music enthusiasts that tabernacleatl.com. worth the price of admission. are seldom represented or spoken to, and this audience has responded Don’t slEEp on thE siDEmEn positively to our efforts to provide a unique While the main stage vocalists are sure to be brand of entertainment,” Orr says while gearing big talents, the band backing them up is usuup to mount FJK’s 20th-anniversary celebration, ally made up of musicians who are just as well which culminates in an evening of performances known and talented. Previous members of the July 26. “This has allowed us to preserve, sushouse band include acclaimed Atlanta-based tain, and innovate on our rich cultural arts and cats such as drummer Lil’ John Roberts and DJ musical heritage from around the world and Kemit, as well as notable expatriate’s such as especially from Atlanta.” straight-up global soul legend Carl McIntosh of Despite FJK’s size and cultural impact, there are still multitudes who — for a variety of reasons the group Loose Ends and many others. — have never made it out to the festival. Anyone this is not thE timE to bE who has been to a FunkJazz Kafé can tell you fashionably latE it’s not your typical music festival. So, to bring FunkJazz Kafé has historically been a wellany and all interested newbies up to speed before attended event, and it’s been known to sell out they check out this year, we’ve compiled a list of in the past. Consequently, parking can be a real insider tips designed to help folks navigate their bitch. Spend too much time at home getting cute, way through the impending shindig. and you’re setting yourself up for a never-ending search to find a parking space and/or a long, slow ExplorE march inside. Just come early and avoid the headHere’s something that new attendees should aches. Still, if you do find yourself waiting in line, definitely absorb about FunkJazz Kafé: It’s keep in mind that there’s a party — complete not just a concert. Yes, at one point during the with costumed stilt walkers, folks waving giant evening, a gaggle of artists will take the stage flags, and more — going on in the street before and belt out songs both new and old, but those you even set foot in the joint. performances are designed to serve as the festival’s climax. Before that big moment takes WEar comfortablE shoEs place, however, don’t sit on your ass or hold If you want to get the full FunkJazz Kafé up the wall. Dispersed throughout the venue experience, you’re gonna be in for a long night are various specialty rooms: a healing suite, a … a long night of, hopefully, shaking your ass. poetry room, a house party room, and so on. And, honestly, there ain’t too many places to sit Plus, food and merchandise vendors are on site, in the Tabernacle. Those six-inch red bottoms and roving performers and DJs are scattered … or even those pointy toed wing tips? You throughout the space as well. Make it your might want to leave them in the closet and slip business to explore the totality of FunkJazz Kafé’s activities before wrapping things up with on some Chuck Taylors instead. C a major dose of live music. [email protected]

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F e aT U r e

Jelly rolled

Creative Music in Hapeville hails a jazz legend

James Camp

JAZZ CASUAL: Jeff Crompton (second from right) leads the Creative Music in Hapeville series.

By Omar Khalid

palpable. During a performance last November, trumpeter Roger Ruzow of 4th Ward AKO headed up a trio featuring bassist Evan Lipson and tlanta’s house show scene has percussionist Bob Stagner of Chattanooga’s Shakthrived for many years. Much of ing Ray Levis. In the audience, a group of earthy the music that drives the city’s DIY young revelers danced wildly to a set of free jazz. scene lies rooted in punk, indie, In May, the Gold Dust Ensemble hypnotized and other strains of underground rock. But just the audience with a set of cerebral 20th-century south of Downtown, Hapeville’s Norton Arts classical works including Karlheinz Center has fostered a wholly differStockhausen’s “Set Sail for the Sun,” ent underground scene that’s rooted Creative Music Frederic Rzewski’s “Le Moutons de in jazz and improvisation. in Hapeville Panarge,” and Steve Reich’s “ClapLast year, Katrina Hutcherson, feat. the music ping Music.” The theme: classical curator at the Norton Arts Center of Jelly Roll music that involves intuition, impro— a house that’s been repurposed to visation, and chance. serve as artist studio spaces — began Morton On Sat., July 26, the evening’s hosting openings. While working on With Scott Hooker, program is based on the music of an exhibition featuring works by artBen Gettys, Bill Pritchard, and New Orleans jazz legend Jelly Roll ists Woody Cornwell and Al Greene, the Edgewood Morton, who is widely considered Hutcherson asked saxophonist Jeff Saxophone Trio. one of first great jazz composers to Crompton of the 4th Ward Afro$7. 8:30 p.m. Sat., combine the music’s improvisatory Klezmer Orchestra and the EdgeJuly 26. Norton nature with a composed structure. wood Saxophone Trio to perform. Arts Center, 781 N. Crompton’s instrumental take on Crompton agreed to play, on the Central Ave. Morton’s numbers has been whittled condition that he be allowed to cudown to a handful of tunes, includrate an ongoing musical series there, ing “Winin’ Boy Blues,” “Jungle Blues,” “King and Creative Music in Hapeville was born. “I Porter Stomp,” and more. “His music deserves have always loved and preferred improv jazz from to be performed regularly, not to just be heard on the highest spectrum to the lowest spectrum, so recordings,” Crompton adds. “We’ll have tunes I was more than happy to collaborate with Jeff,” played much as Jelly would have played them 90 Hutcherson says. years ago, and others that we’re dragging kicking The scene during these bimonthly shows has and screaming into free jazz territory.” C been more subdued than the average punk rock house party, but appreciation for the music is [email protected]

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Marian Mereba soars Pop/soul songstress dreams big with Radio Flyer

Courtesy red Kotton

ROOM TO ROAM: With Radio Flyer, Marian Mereba steps out to find a world that’s vast, vibrant, and more thrilling than she once remembered.

By Christina Lee

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ll Marian Mereba wants to do is dream big. “Profitable prophet, pickpocket the nonbelievers,” she raps on her 2013 EP, Room for Living. She pouts when she sings, as if the words of such nonbelievers still sting. So she tries her best to recover. Over glassy piano notes and understated guitar melodies, Mereba wrestles with self-doubt and schemes her next move. To quote her lyrics from “Rolling Stoner” again, it’s a “self-imposed exile/she got a sack and a vial of liquor” for the self-described homebody. “For a solid year people thought I never left my house,” Mereba joked to online radio talk show Day 1 Radio leading up to the release of her debut full-length, Radio Flyer. “I was on some Emily Dickinson shit.” Fortunately, she steps out to roam freely in Radio Flyer, as if awestruck by how the world seems more vibrant and thrilling than she once thought. Stomps and yelps cheer on the rootsy gospel of “Gimme the Light,” once Mereba shouts out her father’s native Ethiopia. Her delicate voice turns chilly to a reggae backbeat in the first single, “September” (co-produced by rapper ForteBowie and John Key), signaling the end of a heated romance. But Mereba never sounds jaded for long. She and Earthgang MC J.I.D. come across like mischievous Lost Boys in “Eastside Jungle,” an ode to her Atlanta stomping grounds that portrays the city as a mythological realm.

Such wonderment can come across as naïveté, but Mereba makes this sort of escapism feel like bravery. “Living on a Dream” toys with that romantic image of a creative genius, with casual mentions of what she has sacrificed, namely, sufficient gas and grocery money. She sounds more decisive in Radio Flyer’s version of Room for Living’s standout number, “Go to London,” as a bagpipe and horn swell from a distance. The song is about taking a leap of faith, while the airy title track finds Mereba summoning the courage to do just that. “Maybe I should find that old Radio Flyer,” she concedes, her voice coasting to a lovely falsetto. Mereba unleashes her graceful voice and earnest raps with perfect poise, though not often with such vulnerability. While speaking with Day 1 Radio, she confessed that she loved getting swept away by Mariah Carey’s “Honey” video when she was growing up. “I loved music videos like that. They sparked my imagination as a child, and I felt like we don’t have to let that go,” she said. Mereba’s “September” video finds her as a fugitive, and the video reveals the events leading up to her escape in reverse. In the last scene she and DJ Genesis, the Clyde to her Bonnie, are parked outside a convenience store — the scene of the crime. It’s another self-imposed exile, but with more at stake. While Mereba still struggles at times in Radio Flyer with self-doubt, she also sounds poised to conquer the world. HHHHI C [email protected]

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e t h n i C .C i t y

Dinner party

Fanoos Persian Cuisine in Sandy Springs is a deliciously festive affair

James Camp

PARTY FOWL: Grilled Cornish game hen marinated in lemon juice and saffron at Fanoos

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n honor of the Persian Empire’s 2,500th anniversary, a lavish event took place in the historic city of Persepolis in October 1971. Fifty fabric tents were placed around a central water fountain and a grand gala was held in the banquet hall. Figs, nuts, saffron, and lamb were simmered into special delicacies and served to 600 or so guests. The Shah and Shahbanu entertained royals from around the world. Atlantans can travel through time and space to a sort of standing re-creation of the Tent City celebration in Persepolis, Iran, right here in our suburbs. Fanoos Persian Cuisine opened its doors in 2008 and stands prominently amid a row of Middle Eastern restaurants, rug makers, and jewelers on Roswell Road in Sandy Springs. Fanoos, which translates to “lantern” in Farsi, is much more than a restaurant. Over the years it has become a gathering place, a sort of Persian party house, where people from all cultures enjoy good food and international music. Fanoos’ festive vibe starts with the décor. Sheer drapes hung from the ceiling give the space an airy, elegant feel. The tiled walls are adorned with classical paintings in ornate frames. In place of booths, raised platforms covered with vibrant Persian rugs provide floorlevel seating around long, low-level tables. For those who prefer standard seating, there are plenty of wooden tables and chairs available, as well. Diners can watch through glass as a bread maker prepares fresh and crispy lavash (flat-

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bread) with a tandoor oven in one corner of the barberries, orange peels, sliced almonds, and room. The bread comes from the hot oven like pistachios, is a sweet and sour favorite. pizza and arrives with a plate of fresh herbs, Don’t leave without trying the kebabs. walnuts, radishes, feta cheese, and butter. Koobideh ($14), ground beef mixed with onOwner Jalal Khadivi, a charismatic Iranian ions, parsley, and served with lemony sumac, gentleman, is the host of this party. He spends is flattened with a wooden mallet and grilled most of his waking hours organizing weddings on a skewer. Generous hunks of grilled Corand private events, sipping tea with friends, nish hen marinated in lemon juice and saffron and chatting with guests. Regular visitors are are like a spicy, Persian version of Buffalo showered with comforting hugs and cheek-towings. Both grilled fish dishes, tilapia and cheek kisses, occasional toasts, and complisalmon ($14-$18), are basted with an assortmentary desserts. ment of ground onions, saffron, salt, and pepThe menu is sectioned into hot per. The juicy lamb shank ($17) and cold appetizers, kebabs, stews, is marinated for hours, allowing Fanoos Persian and rice dishes. Most of the dishes the meat to fully tenderize. Cuisine are flavors that Khadivi ate growFanoos has a full-service bar 6125 Roswell ing up in Iran. The two regional that serves specialty cocktails Road, Suite 104B, dishes he serves from his homeand a small selection of wine and Sandy Springs. town of Lahijan in northern Iran beer. But the live entertainment 404-256-2099. are mirza ghasemi ($6), a scrumpis what sets Fanoos apart. At fanoospersiancuisine. tious minced eggplant, garlic and dinner time a stage near the back com. tomato dip flavored with turmeric; of the restaurant comes alive. and panearborasta ($8), a pungent Khadivi keeps the lineup interand salty crumbled feta cheese mixed with esting with local jazz artists, Russian-themed scrambled eggs and fresh dill. Another crowd music nights, salsa lessons, belly dancing, and pleaser is kashke bademjon ($6), a creamy paste even stand-up comedy. made with fried eggplants, onions, garlic, and “If I was having a party every day at my kashk (whey yogurt) eaten as a dip with lavash. home, I [wouldn’t] bore my guests with the Vegetarians love the light, paprika and turmeric same music and entertainment,” Khadivi says. spiced red lentil soup ($6), commonly served At Fanoos, Khadivi makes you feel like as a starter in many Middle Eastern countries; you’re part of the celebration. With delicious and ghormeh sabzi ($13-$17), a hearty spinach, food, a festive atmosphere, and live perforkidney bean, and herb stew considered by some mances, Fanoos might be the only public to be the Iranian national dish, can be ordered place in Atlanta to get the complete Persian with beef or with vegetables only. The shirin party experience. C polo ($6), fluffy basmati rice speckled with [email protected]

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QUick BitES

Atlanta restaurant news Cardamom Hill is closing, update on the Luminary, and more

Erika BotfEld

OPEN AND SHUT: Asha Gomez’s new eatery Spice to Table is set to open Aug. 1.

By katE aBnEy

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fter a two-and-a-half-year run, chef Asha Gomez’s flagship Northside Drive restaurant Cardamom Hill will shutter “in next few weeks.” The news comes just one week after Gomez announced her new “Indian patisserie” Spice to Table would open Aug. 1. Located at Studioplex in Old Fourth Ward, the new restaurant will offer a broad range of globally inspired cuisine, including samosa pockets, pork vindaloo sandwiches, and curried chicken. Eli Kirshtein’s new American brasserie, the Luminary, should open any day now at Inman Park’s Krog Street Market. Named for Atlanta’s first newspaper, Kirshtein’s concept offers a raw bar and French bistro fare like mussels and steak frites. California-based Bludso’s BBQ will open its first location in Castleberry Hill on Aug. 6. Assuming the former digs of the Olde Kitchen at 323 Walker St., the eatery will offer Angus beef ribs, whole pork shoulder, and more. The first Atlanta location of Dallas-based Italian concept Princi Italia is coming to the mixed-use development 77 12th St. in Midtown. The upscale pizza and pasta restaurant comes from the team behind nearby Steel Restaurant & Lounge. The space was originally slated for the

planned relocation of Fig Jam Kitchen, which shuttered its Brookwood Hills location in 2013. Bob, the kabob concept that abruptly replaced Bell Street Burritos’ Irwin Street Market location last December, has closed. A subsequent Facebook post from the restaurant indicates that the space will soon welcome a new concept and a new name. Former Mar Coastal executive chef Joey Zelinka has a new pop-up dinner series up his sleeve. Junk Food will debut Wed., July 30, at the Sound Table, his most recent culinary stomping grounds. Every Wednesday through Aug. 20, Junk Food will offer Zelinka’s spin on traditional “crap” food, but using locally sourced and fresh ingredients. Charlotte-based Amelie’s French Bakery has opened its first Atlanta location in Westside. Replacing Acoustix Jazz Lounge at 840 Marietta St., the bakery offers sandwiches, soups, and classic French treats such as petit fours, macarons, and gâteau. Highland Bakery has unveiled its own food truck, which brings treats like BLT sandwiches, muffins, sunny-side-up eggs, fried chicken, and more to a roving clientele around town. Visit the concept’s Facebook page to find out where the truck is headed next. C [email protected]

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frequent run-ins with the law. According to Fulton County Jail records, Bryant had been booked at the Rice Street facility in northwest Atlanta nine times since 2012 for crimes ranging from theft by taking to criminal trespass. Bryant — his family always called him “D,” short for Detravia — is remembered by Jackson as “a happy baby, with a lot of energy — and he kept that energy.” But his great uncle also says he could be quiet. “You couldn’t get many words out of ‘D.’” His brother Travarous Stewart, though, remembers him as outgoing and funny. In June 2010, a Fulton County jury found Bryant guilty on all counts, including murder. Bryant was sentenced to life in Ware State Prison. Not much can be gleaned about his time at the prison because his inmate institutional files “are not subject to disclosure” under Georgia’s Open Records Act. Jackson says Bryant

was able to contact him using a contraband cell phone. He said he had been threatened by other inmates, who demanded money. Bryant was raised by his grandmother Barbara Allen. In April 2013, two Atlanta Police officers visited her and told her to contact Ware State. Jackson says the prison told Allen that Bryant committed suicide. But after seeing his body in the funeral home, the family called a lawyer and requested another autopsy be performed. (A Thornhill Funeral Home employee said the company was advised not to comment to the press by the Bryant family’s lawyer at the time.) The body went to the GBI’s Panthersville facility for another autopsy. Thus began the more than one-year silence about Bryant’s death. Jackson and family members say Robert Toole — the warden at Ware State when Bryant was found dead — stopped taking his calls after the family received the body, as did the Ware County coroner and other prison staff. About a year after Bryant died, the family had yet to receive his

Sources: Bureau of Justice Statistics/SCHR

INFOGRAPHICS BY RACHEL HORTMAN

Source: Georgia Department of Corrections

personal belongings from Ware State. (A DOC spokeswoman says they are part of an investigation.) The GBI said it could not comment on an ongoing investigation — though Jackson says an official did categorize the death as “suspicious.” The family claims to have heard rumors about what might have contributed to Bryant’s death, but with regard to official statements, Bryant’s relatives have been kept in the dark. “We, as a family, we want something done,” Jackson says. “We want to blow this thing out of the water. We want to make it public and known. My nephew may not have been the best person in the world but he was not sentenced to death. And whoever took his life at Ware State Prison took it upon himself to try him without judge and jury — and decided amongst himself to take his life.” On the third flOOr of the Southern Center for Human Rights’ Downtown offices, atop a table near the window, staff attorney Sarah Geraghty has stacks and boxes of mail she receives from prisoners and their loved ones. In the letters, they proclaim their innocence, report unsafe conditions in cellblocks, and describe violence by guards and other prisoners. Around 2010, the violence detailed in some letters grew more graphic, prompting Geraghty to start requesting incident reports from the Georgia Department of Corrections. Over the years, she has read official records detailing guards’ and prisoners’ accounts of violent assaults with makeshift weapons, including two-foot shanks. Last month the SCHR compiled those stories in a 23-page report detailing the rise in Georgia prison violence since 2010. The study reads like a collection of horror stories from third-world prisons, with faulty cell locks, easily available weapons, and cell phones used to manage criminal enterprises and order hits. Before Glen Evans’ transfer to Telfair State Prison in August 2012, his family reportedly warned corrections officials that a specific inmate at the central Georgia facility posed a threat. He was transferred to that person’s cellblock anyway and killed 10 minutes after arriving in the dorm. In February 2014, an inmate at Wilcox State Prison in Abbeville was stabbed with a 19-inch machete and lost three of his fingers. One inmate at Coffee Correctional Facility, a private prison in Nicholls, was restrained and burned with bleach. “I’ve been here a little over 10 years,” Geraghty says. “I’ve not heard of restraint and torture over a period of hours. We’re hearing this more and more. This is new.” SCHR researchers also found that some prisons, such as Baldwin State Prison near Milledgeville, lacked adequate guard supervision. On his first day there in October 2012, one prisoner transferred from another facility was choked until unconscious, stuffed in

They were afraid to talk to me because they knew the body would tell the truth.

a laundry bag, “stabbed, burned, and beaten repeatedly over three hours.” “RAT” was reportedly carved in his forehead with a hot knife. On Sept. 1, 2012, an inmate was pummeled by a group, tied down while scalding water was poured on his groin, and penetrated with a broomstick. “The perpetrators took ransom pictures to send to Robbins’ family, but eventually decided to let him go,” the report reads. In November 2013 one inmate was strapped down in his cell for two days. In each incident, guards were nowhere to be found. Hays State Prison in Trion, Ga., near the Tennessee border, until recently suffered from shoddy locks that contributed to more than 33 “incidents” that SCHR flagged between July 2012 and January 2013. According to SCHR’s report, those incidents included a guard witnessing an inmate stab another with a piece of metal, an inmate reporting being tied up and beaten by other inmates to the point that he required hospitalization, and another prisoner being stabbed 25 times. SCHR filed a civil rights lawsuit in September 2013 on behalf of the family of a Hays State Prison inmate who died. Owens and other DOC officials are named as defendants. Georgia’s documented history of modern prison violence dates back decades to I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, a bestselling 1930s book by Robert Ellis Burns, a World War I veteran who was imprisoned for a petty crime. In the book he describes deplorable conditions at Georgia correctional facilities. During the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Justice probed Georgia’s prison system after several inmates reported being beaten bloody while then-Corrections Commissioner Wayne See Georiga’s Deadly Prisons p.29

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GeorGia Department of CorreCtions (top left)/Jeoff Davis

ANSWERS DELAYED: Congressman Hank Johnson (clockwise from bottom left) is demanding the U.S. Justice Department launch an investigation into the Georgia corrections system’s safety; Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens, who has served since 2009, has overseen responses to prison violence, including some renovations; Sarah Geraghty, a senior attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights, says the nature of violence in prisons has become more serious in recent years; Bryant’s brothers Travarous Stewart (seated, left) and Winfred Sherman, and grandmother Barbara Allen, who raised Bryant, want to know how he died. Georgia’s Deadly Prisons from p.27

Garner, a political chum of then-Gov. Zell Miller, watched (Garner denied doing so at the time, according to the New York Times). The new spike of violence in recent years has surprised some prison observers. Some of this violence can be attributed to gangs, Geraghty says, which “fill an existing security vacuum.” In some Georgia prisons, she says, gangs run some prisoner dorm areas, and even help to make decisions over where some new transferred inmates will sleep. Inmates who are rejected are, in prison parlance, “put on the door” and are told they can’t stay in the dorm area. But in other instances, the fights and assaults simply stem from packing together people who might be prone to violence or living with mental illness in tight quarters for long periods of time. So why should the public care about the well-being of persons convicted for vicious crimes when other pressing issues affect innocent people outside the walls? The state’s foster childcare system is broken. Even with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of thousands of Georgians still lack access to health insurance. Hundreds of thousands of senior citizens living in metro Atlanta don’t have access to public transit, potentially cutting them off from the doctor, the

pharmacy, and their families. One basic reason, Geraghty and others argue, is because the state has a responsibility as an employer to provide its employees with a safe working environment, just like factories should make sure equipment is maintained. “I’ve had a number of employees who apply [for jobs] at the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office who want to get out of the prison setting,” says Baldwin County Sheriff Bill Massee, who served on the Corrections Department board 2004-09 and who oversees his central Georgia county’s jail. “They think it’s a hostile environment, and in certain prisons around the state they question their safety. I’ve had some people to come work with me and they feel a lot safer and more comfortable working in a county jail than they do in a facility operated by the Department of Corrections or a private prison.” Adds Geraghty: “They have a difficult job. They deal with a lot of difficult people day in and day out. And we have a responsibility to people who work in our prison system to make sure that their work environment is as safe as it can be. And the state has not done that.” Ultimately, however, the reasoning is basic and core to the corrections department’s mission — the agency and wardens have a legal responsibility to operate a safe prison and to ensure people convicted of crimes face the

punishment handed down by a jury of their peers. But it appears that after the convicted are held responsible for their actions by the criminal justice system, they become inmates who are locked into a rigid environment where vigilantism is allowed to fester. “The reality is [that the prisoners killed] weren’t issued a death sentence,” Johnson says. “They’re committed to the [protection] and control of the Department of Corrections for a term of imprisonment, they should have a guaranteed exit date, and they should be held in a safe environment until that time comes. They should not leave prison minus an eye. They should not leave in a coffin. That wasn’t part of the sentence.” Prison conditions also play a role in an inmate’s rehabilitation, something Geraghty says has long been “low on the totem pole.” Starting in 2012, Gov. Nathan Deal began an ambitious and widely applauded multiyear program to reform the criminal justice system. Primarily a measure aimed at lowering Georgia’s approximately $1 billion annual prison bill — at least that’s how Deal pitched it to lawmakers — the initiative included alternatives to sentencing, such as drug courts, and programs designed to help inmates re-integrate into society upon release. Yet for all the attention paid to reforming the system, few words have been uttered about

the violence and killings that happen inside the state-owned facilities. “Ninety-five percent of the people [who] go in prison are gonna come out of prison,” Fort says. “And if they’re brutalized while they’re in prison, they’re gonna brutalize us when they come out. It’s in our best interest to make sure that the people we send in are at least treated humanely for that reason, out of self-interest more than anything else.” Spending years in fear for one’s life, Geraghty says, does not help a person rehabilitate. “This is a public safety issue,” she says. “When we permit this level of violence within our state institutions it’s going to come back to haunt us. And that scares me.” GettinG answers about Bryant’s death — be it a suicide, homicide, or accident — has been difficult. State transparency laws grant public officials the authority to withhold central inmate and institution files, which can include even corrections officials’ email reactions to the death of a prisoner such as Bryant, until the investigation closes. And as Fort notes, investigations can go on forever. Family members might be informed on a case’s progress (or lack thereof), but the wait for documents can prove interminable. See Georgia’s Deadly Prisons p.30

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In 2012 SCHR began sending letters to corrections department Commissioner Brian Owens to express concern about the violence in the facilities he oversees. That year, they noted the correlation between an increase in violence and understaffed facilities or overcrowded prisons. In 2013 Geraghty focused on ongoing violence, deaths, and unsafe conditions at Hays State Prison. She wrote that the “Department’s complete lack of reasonable response to this crisis in security is disturbing.” In a June 2014 letter to Owens she highlighted Smith State Prison, where 21 percent of Georgia’s 32 prisoner homicides since 2010 have taken place. Letters also went to Gov. Nathan Deal and state lawmakers. Not once has she heard back, she says. In April 2014 Fort held a legislative hearing about prison violence with statements from Geraghty and the families of killed prisoners. Nearly 100 people packed one of the Gold Dome’s biggest committee rooms. Some of those who spoke clutched portraits of their loved ones. State Sen. Nan Orrock, D-Atlanta, was the only other state lawmaker to attend the hearing. State officials have been less than forthcoming for this story as well. That’s to be expected from the corrections department, one of the state’s most opaque agencies. Geraghty says incident reports once included photos and all witness statements. Now, she says, SCHR gets a “real partial” account of what happened. In 2013 — after DOC demanded approximately $250,000 to produce documents about two inmates’ deaths, faulty locks at one state prison, and security audits — SCHR sued the department. Since resolving the lawsuit, Geraghty says, the SCHR and DOC attorneys have had a “productive relationship.” DOC officials have accepted changes to the state’s transparency laws that permit the agency to keep secret the identities of people who supply drugs used in lethal injections. When Owens gave elected officials a tour of Hays State Prison after improvements were made, a state lawmaker’s request to invite the media was rebuffed. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the reason was that security upgrades remained incomplete. The DOC rejected CL’s open records request for all memos, documents, and emails related to Bryant’s death, citing state provisions that carve out exemptions for the DOC. The GBI did the same. Corrections department spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan declined an interview request for Owens, saying only that he was “unavailable.” She did not acknowledge requests to elaborate but did offer to answer questions. CL also requested access to Ware State Prison. Hogan says the department could provide photos of its exterior and interior but emailed only a lo-res photo of the building’s entrance — the only available image of the multi-million dollar public asset, she says. State lawmakers also dodged any discussion. State Rep. Barbara Sims, R-Augusta, and state Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell, the lawmakers who chair the Gold Dome committees that oversee the corrections department, did not respond to requests for comment for this article. The department, Hogan says, “continue[s] to review, monitor and enforce policies related to the operation of safe and secure facilities throughout our prisons to ensure we carry out our non-negotiable mission of protecting the public, our staff and the inmates.” In March 2013, shortly before Bryant was found dead under undisclosed circumstances, Hogan says the DOC 30 ❘ JULY 24-JULY 30, 2014 ❘ clatl.com

began what’s called a “hardening process” in all close (i.e., maximum) security prisons, including Hays State Prison. The program, according to a fact sheet provided by the department, involved installing features in cells and dorms including tray and handcuff slots and barrel bolts, as well as replacing fixtures and objects that could be used as weapons. Correctional officers also received stab-resistant vests. In August 2013 the department created a tiered system to segregate dangerous inmates in separate facilities. The worst repeat troublemakers would be taken to the Special Management Unit — aka solitary confinement — at the Diagnostic and Classified Prison in Butts County, home to Georgia’s death row. Inmates are able to “transition” from one tier to another based on behavior. Wayne Dasher, a corrections department board member, says that the agency has been responsive to the violence and that the tiered system is being monitored. “Has there been an urgency?” he says. “Absolutely. Safety is the number one thing. Whether it be [for] an inmate or guards or any of the staff.” There will always be prison violence, SCHR acknowledges in its June report. The goal, Fort says, should be “safer prisons.” And the state can take steps to increase inmate safety and increase transparency without putting security concerns at risk. At the end of its report, SCHR offers more than 20 recommendations to state officials. The list includes requesting state auditors to perform a comprehensive probe of the state’s prisons and hiring an “outside, impartial prison security expert” to evaluate the problem, identify causes, and propose solutions. The American Civil Liberties Union has been at the forefront of some other states’ initiatives. More than a decade ago the organization sued Mississippi over crowded and unsafe conditions that contributed to violence in one of its prison’s solitary confinement divisions. The organization’s 2010 settlement resulted in the transfer of inmates and the facility’s closure. That same year the ACLU sued the for-profit Corrections Corporation of America in federal court for “turning a blind eye to the brutality” in one Idaho facility that lawyers said was more dangerous than the state’s other eight prisons combined. The two sides settled one year later, and a judge’s order has helped keep CCA in check. Geraghty says Georgia prisons currently are missing what she calls “good old-fashioned security.” By that she means correction officers actually supervising prisoners inside the living areas, 24 hours a day. “We have heard from so many people in prison that there are large chunks of every day [when] there are no officers present at all,” she says. “And a lot of incident reports that we have reviewed bear that out.” But plans for future prisons, according to corrections department fact sheets, appear to further remove guards from direct inmate supervision. Increasing officer pay might improve safety and help retain guards in prisons. According to a state audit conducted in December 2013, “starting salary and frequency of pay increases were cited [by officers in exit interviews] as the top two worst things about working for [DOC].” Guards at Ware State Prison start at $24,322, according to the online jobs portal, and top out around $42,643. Thanks to an additional $8 million in this fiscal year’s budget, however, correctional See Georgia’s Deadly Prisons p.32

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officers who keep watch on the state’s wards will get a $3,150 pay bump if they stay on the job for a year. These improvements have not been well communicated to the public or advocates. And the violence allegedly continues in the prison system. “The reality is that today, as we speak, right now, we hear about stabbings and beatings all the time,” Geraghty says. “Something is still amiss. Something still isn’t working. The degree of violence we’re seeing does not happen in a well-run system. The volume of contraband that’s coming in to maximumsecurity prisons does not come into a wellrun system.” In May 2014 a dead man requested a new trial. Thomas Wight, Bryant’s public defender during his murder trial, filed a motion in Fulton County Superior Court arguing that his client deserved another chance to plead his case. The legal motion wasn’t a mistake, the Lilburn attorney says. Wight says he knows Bryant is dead. Nonetheless, the attorney has been trying to resolve the case assigned to him by the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council. Doing so requires an official document, such as a death certificate. But he claims that DOC has not been willing to provide one. Wight says he hopes that Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard will be able to compel the department to produce a document so PDSC can mark the case as closed. “I can’t get corrections to confirm the obvious,” Wight says. Once that happens, “the appeal stops. The whole thing is mooted.” Johnson, who first learned about violence in 32 ❘ JULY 24-JULY 30, 2014 ❘ clatl.com

Georgia prisons from a constituent, has asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the Georgia prison system, a move that the congressman says would “certainly be an encouragement to the state to create a better environment or safe environment for its inmates.” “We are a society that operates under a rule of law,” Johnson says. “This is not vigilante justice. If a person is sentenced then that [sentence] is what they should do. It would violate the rules of the law to allow for jungle justice to prevail inside the prisons.” He has yet to hear back from the Justice Department. Earlier this month, more than a year after Bryant’s death, the GBI completed its investigation. The agency says it turned over its findings to Ware County District Attorney Brad Collins. Some time after, Jackson says he received a call from Collins’ office. The family member said he would be allowed to travel to Waycross to review the findings of the case surrounding his niece’s son’s death. He said he would not be allowed to videotape, photograph, or photocopy any materials. That sit-down was supposed to take place the day this story was published. According to Jackson, he and the other members of Bryant’s family face a two-year statute of limitations to file a civil lawsuit, if warranted. Thus, the clock is ticking, depending on what the family discovers. Absent any new information, Jackson says he will continue to push. He wants to convince state lawmakers to hold another hearing. According to SCHR, at least one more inmate has been killed since he first spoke with CL in April. “It’s getting out of hand,” he says. “One death in my opinion … is too much. I’m going to keep this in front of people.” C [email protected]

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Billed as an intimate evening with Art Garfunkel, the non-songwriting half of Simon and Garfunkel will naturally revisit some of the acclaimed high-tenor tunes from his S&G years. But he has 12 solo albums to pull from as well — each sung in the sweet and soaring voice that propelled songs such as “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “The Sound of Silence,” and more to classic status. This appearance also marks Garfunkel’s return to touring after a crippling bout of vocal chord paralysis that temporarily muted that golden voice and kept him sidelined for four years. Garfunkel will also read from his book of poetry, Still Water: Prose Poems, and participate in a Q&A with audience members that’s likely to touch on his extensive walking hobby, which has found him traversing places in Japan and Europe. atlantasymphony.org. — Hal Horowitz When + Where + $: Sat., July 26, 8 p.m. Atlanta Symphony Hall. $39.50-$79.50.

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MUSIC & MOVIES IN THE PARK Enjoy complimentary live music and movies in the park. Music and activities begin at 6 p.m. and the movie begins at sundown. Every other Thursday, 6 p.m. Through Aug. 21. Free. Emory Point, 1727 Clifton Road. 678-686-3106. www.emory-point.com. NATURALS IN THE PARK FESTIVAL Atlanta Naturals hosts the second annual Naturals in the Park Festival to promote natural living, family health, and healthy hair. This year the festival joins the fight to raise awareness and prevention of sex trafficking, so it has partnered with youthSpark, an organization that service exploited, abused, and neglected youth. Sun., July 27, noon-7 p.m. $15. Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, 5616 Memorial Drive, Stone Mountain. 404-663-1715. www.naturalsinthepark.com. REPTICON ATLANTA REPTILE AND EXOTIC ANIMAL SHOW Repticon Atlanta is a reptile event featuring vendors offering reptile pets, supplies, feeders, cages, and merchandise. Participate in free raffles held for enthusiasts, animal seminars, and kid’s activities. Sat., July 26, 10 a.m.; Sun., July 27, 10 a.m. Free-$10. Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway, Lawrenceville. 863-268-4273.

DRAMATECH THEATRE Dearly Departures. Come see a new dance by Blake Beckham, presented by the Lucky Penny. Through evocative movement, original sound, and exquisite design, Dearly Departures explores distance and connectivity, leaving, loss and the mutable nature of staying in touch. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sun., July 27, 5 p.m. Through Aug. 2. $10-$25. 349 Ferst Drive.

ADAM FERRARA Adam is one of the principal hosts of Top Gear and is well known for his work on “Nurse Jackie.” July 25-26, 10 p.m.; July 25-27, 8 p.m.; Sat., July 26, 6 p.m. $25. The Punchline, 280 Hilderbrand Drive. 404-252-5233. www.punchline.com. BEN GLEIB Ben Gleib is a stand-up comedian, actor, and TV host, best known as a round table regular on the hit show “Chelsea Lately” on E!. July 24-26, 8 p.m.; July 25-26, 10:30 p.m.; Sun., July 27, 7:30 p.m. $15-$25. Laughing Skull Lounge, 878 Peachtree St. 877-523-3288. www.laughingskulllounge.com. JEFF ROSS Jeff Ross is an actor, writer, director, producer, and comedian and is the creator and star of “The Burn With Jeff Ross” on Comedy Central as well as a producer and star of that network’s popular celebrity roast franchise. Thurs., July 24, 8-9:30 p.m.; Fri., July 25, 8-9:30 and 10-11:30 p.m.; Sat., July 26, 8-9:30 and 10-11:30 p.m. $25-$35. Atlanta Improv Comedy Club & Dinner Theater, 56 E. Andrews Drive. 678-244-3612. www.theimprovatlanta.com.

Spoken Word DECATUR LIBRARY Flannery O’Connor Portrait Zine Reading. The Georgia Center for the Book presents “Scale Highly Eccentric: A Zine of Flannery O’Connor Portraits.” Writers have each picked a portrait from the zine to write about: Jared Dawson on art by Emily Wallace; Johnny Drago on art by Travis Ekmark; Brooke Hatfield on art by Alvin Diec; Amy Pence on art by Rebecca Bowen; Laura Relyea on art by Yoonhwa Jang; Nicholas Tecosky on art by Elisabeth McNair Tues., July 29, 7:15 p.m. Free. 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. 404-370-8450.

Books PATRICIA THOMPSON Dr. Patricia Thompson is a corporate psychologist and management consultant who works with people and organizations to help them to achieve their professional goals. Join her for a discussion of her new book, The Consummate Leader: a Holistic Guide to Inspiring Growth in Others … and in Yourself. Thurs., July 24, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore, 5531 Roswell Road. 404-255-5207. www.phoenixanddragon.com. VIOLETTE L. MEIER Violette Meier writes thrillers, sci-f/ fantasy, and poetry. Fri., July 25, 7-9 p.m. Kat’s Cafe, 970 Piedmont Ave. 404-347-2263. www.katscafeatlanta.com.

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Theater Openings & ReceptiOns A ROSE BETWEEN OUR TEETH, ACT II The Academy’s Thoroughly Modern Senior Ensemble performs a shortened version of their highly regarded show July 26th!. Sat., July 26, 11:30 a.m. Free. Academy Theatre, 599 N. Central Ave., Hapeville. 404-474-8332. OKLAHOMA! The classic love triangle comes to vivid life under the Serenbe sky as audiences are transported back in time to a Western Indian Territory just after the turn of the century. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration, which runs through August 10th, remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Thursdays-Sundays, 8:30-10:30 p.m. Through Aug. 10. $15-$30. Serenbe Playhouse, 9110 Selborne Lane, Chattahoochee Hills. 770-463-1110. www.serenbeplayhouse.com. SOJOURNER WASHING SOCIETY: A MUSICAL IN GOSPEL & BLUES As Atlanta becomes Georgia’s largest city a few years after the Civil War, it is ready to celebrate itself as the New South. But the town boosters find themselves at odds with a group they call “the Washing Amazons,” 3,000 spirited black women who hold the city’s dirty laundry and go after a raise in a tale told in gospel and blues. This staged reading is held in partnership with the NBAF. Thurs., July 24, 7:30 p.m. Free. Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St. 404-733-4650. www.alliancetheatre.org.

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GUYI-GUYI: THE OTHER UGLY DUCKLING Spanish puppet company Periferia Teatro de Títeres performs Guyi-Guyi, about a crocodile accidentally born into a family of ducks. Guyi-Guyi lives happily with his family until one day he meets another crocodile and learns his true identity. Upon learning he is not like the others, our hero goes through various difficulties to become himself. Saturdays, 11 a.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, 1 and 3 p.m.; Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m. and noon. Through Aug. 3. $9.25$16.50. Center for Puppetry Arts, 1404 Spring St. 404.873.3391. www.puppet.org. ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS While named for England’s greatest writer, Georgia Shakespeare celebrates a different kind of British Invasion with One Man, Two Guvnors. English playwright Richard Bean adapted the script based on the classic Italian play Servant of Two Masters. Directed by Drew Fracher, Georgia Shakespeare’s One Man, Two Guvnors bridges the convoluted storyline through some masterstrokes of casting and stage conceptualization. Its approach to live music in particular gives it an authenticity and texture seldom seen in such old-fashioned comedies. Tuesdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Through July 27. $14.02-$28.04. Georgia Shakespeare, 4484 Peachtree Road. 404-504-1473. www.gashakespeare.org. RAVENS & SEAGULLS Ravens & Seagulls, written by Karla Jennings, one of the co-winners of the 2014 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award, focuses on three women who face the final days of their ailing sister’s life. Through exploring the dynamics of sisterhood and familial strife and companionship, Ravens & Seagulls is at once emotionally raw and painfully funny. Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Thurs., July 24, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., July 26, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 9, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Thurs., Aug. 14, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 15, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 17, 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 17. Free. West End Performing Arts Center, 945 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. 866-811-4111. www.EssentialTheatre.com. RIGHT ON In the world premiere of Darren Canady’s Right On, Bella, a black activist-turned-business executive returns to her alma mater where she led protests clad in a dashiki

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For the love oF art Collaboration is the name of the game at the Sandler Hudson Gallery. The Shape of a Pocket: parallel thoughts in contemporary practice, curated by Kelly Kristin Jones, features cooperative pairs of artists — or “pockets” — who present the same theme in their own fashion. The artists take on painting, collage, photography, and more, each representing a different studio, venue, and practice. Stop by the opening reception on Fri., July 25, to chat about the differences in each artist’s approach or just to enjoy the variety. The exhibit features Alex “HENSE” Brewer, Winnie Gier, and Don Cooper, among others. sandlerhudson.com. — Hannah Silvers

and afro. Along for the trip is her Harvard-bound son Kyle, carrying his own demons in his backpack. WednesdaysFridays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 3 p.m. Through Aug. 31. $20 - $30. Horizon Theatre, 1083 Austin Ave. 404-584-7450. www.horizontheatre.com. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Innocent young Brad and Janet seek refuge in a mysterious castle on a rainy night. Inside, they encounter the lab of Dr. Frank ‘N’ Furter and his madcap gaggle of aliens and misfits, who lead the young couple on an intergalactic adventure of sexual discovery and rock-and-roll. Audience Advisory: This production contains strobe lights, haze, adult language, nudity, violence, sex, loud music, aliens, the Time Warp, muscles and a head in a bag. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8-10 p.m.; Saturdays, midnight-2 a.m. Through Aug. 9. $26-$47. Actor’s Express Theatre Company, 887 W. Marietta St. 404607-7469. www.actors-express.com.

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couple married to other mates, whose unique extramarital affair has lasted 24 years. Each year they convene at the same place for 24 hours to catch up on life and love. In 1978, Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn reprised the roles for a rom-com directed by Robert Mulligan. This time the couple will be portrayed by True Colors’ artistic director Kenny Leon and long-time actress Phylicia Rashad, who is currently under Leon’s direction in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Through Aug. 3. $20. Southwest Arts Center, 915 New Hope Road. 404-6133220. www.fultonarts.org LATE: A COWBOY SONG The play is an early work of the award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl about perpetually late Mary, a woman who is desperately searching to find herself. Marrying her childhood sweetheart, Crick, has come with a sense of security yet tons of baggage. They seem to be happy. Enough. Until Mary reunites with her old friend Red, the alluring and magnetic cowboy who just happens to be a woman. Mary is caught in a struggle between societal expectations and experiencing true freedom. Sat., July 26, 2:30-4 p.m.; Sun., July 27, 2:30-4 and 8-9:30 p.m.; Mon., July 28, 8-9:30 p.m.; Tues., July 29, 8-9:30 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 2, 2:30-4 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 3, 6-7:30 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 4, 8-9:30 p.m.; Tues., Aug. 5, 8-9:30 p.m. $20. Actor’s Express Theatre Company, 887 W. Marietta St. 404-607-7469. www.actors-express.com. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ Dorothy, Toto and all of their friends will be in Serenbe until August 2nd. Fridays, Saturdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Through Aug. 2. $15 General Admission, $10 Children. Serenbe Playhouse, 9110 Selborne Lane, Chattahoochee Hills. 770.463.1110. www.serenbeplayhouse.com.

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Openings & ReceptiOns MOVEMENT GALLERY OF ART Art Exhibition - Motley Hue. Silent auction featuring Douglas Stratton, Steve Penley, Daniel Hagerty, and Moneta along with other works by Shepard Fairey and EMEK. Also featured is an original 1977 Salvador Dali “Lincoln in Dalivision” lithograph. 5% of proceeds collected from the evening will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Association, Georgia Chapter (AAGC). Complimentary wine, beverages, and valet parking. Sat., July 26, 6-10 p.m. 678-515-8254. 1441 Dresden Drive. mgoart.com. SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY The Shape of a Pocket: parallel thoughts in contemporary practice. Sandler Hudson Gallery announces its summer exhibition, The Shape of a Pocket: parallel thoughts in contemporary practice, featuring the work of Alex “HENSE” Brewer, Marc Brotherton, Don Cooper, Maggie Ellis, Winnie Gier, Carol Mode, Mario Petrirena, Michael Reese, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Steffen Sornpeo, P. Seth Thompson, and Jane Winfield. Saturdays, noon-5 p.m.; Tuesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Sept. 6. 1000 Marietta St. 404-817-3300. www.sandlerhudson.com. ZUCKERMAN MUSEUM OF ART Opening Reception for Hearsay, Some of Its Parts, and Virginia Dudley and American Modernism. Enjoy music from the Apostles of Bluegrass, monologue performances, and summer

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I m m e r s e yo u r s e l f What is a sensory immersion brunch, you ask? Well, with Shawty Arabia at the helm, it could be a little bit of everything. Known for producing ironic tees, murals, and raves, the design/events/concepts startup run by Negashi Armada (Bluntfang) and Mickey Goodman (@bootymath) is combining all into one on Sun., July 27, for Eyes Wide: Shawty Arabia Sensory Immersion Brunch from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at MINT Gallery. The potpourri will include four large works of visual art (by Armada, Goodman, Zack Fox, and Ryan Parks); three long-form musical compositions (by Sam Wagstaff, Mårøøf Ahmådi, and a surprise guest); and $5 brunch plates by chef Ember, as well as a dessert by chef Daniel Peach of Chai Pani. mintatl.org. — Rodney Carmichael

refreshments in celebration of the Zuckerman Museum of Art’s three newest exhibitions! Opening exhibitions include Hearsay, a series of solo projects addressing historically untold or fictionalized stories within Southern narratives; Some of Its Parts, a visual and sonic experience by Rowland Ricketts and Norbert Herber employing traditional Japanese dyeing techniques in Japan; and Virginia Dudley and American Modernism. Sat., July 26, 5-8 p.m. Free. Opening Reception. Join Kennesaw State University for an evening of art and music in celebration of the three newest exhibitions at Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art. Enjoy music from the Apostles of Bluegrass, and a performance of “General Norman” authored and read by Corrine Wientraub, originally developed for the 2013 KSU Coming Out Monologues. Sat., July 26, 5-8 p.m. Free. 1000 Chastain Road, Kennesaw. 770-499-3223. zuckerman.kennesaw.edu.

Film DR. STRANGELOVE Guests experience a magical preshow experience that includes a sing-along with the Mighty Mo organ and a vintage cartoon. Thurs., July 24, 7:30 p.m. $10-$12. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. 855285-8499. www.foxtheatre.org.

H ow to s u b m i t a l i st i n g Happenings is our best bets section of the week’s events. Timely events take precedence over other listings if we have to cut for space. Ongoing events may be listed for the run of the show or event and need not be submitted weekly. Include date, times, prices, location, and contact info. Listings must be fewer than 45 words. Deadline is noon Wednesday for the following week’s paper. We’ve got tons of information on benefits, clubs, family, volunteers, organizations, and support groups at clatl.com/events. E-mail: [email protected] FAX: 404-420-1402 Mail: Creative Loafing, HAPPENINGS, 115 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 301, Atlanta, GA 30303.

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THURS., JULY 24 Rock/Pop AARON’S AMPHITHEATRE AT LAKEWOOD 2002 Lakewood Way Vans Warped Tour 11 a.m. $48.50 THE EARL 488 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-522-3950 Silver Snakes and Sons of Tonatiuh 9 p.m. $10 THE MAMMAL GALLERY 91 Broad St. 404-771-6912 Bambara, deadCAT, Dark Room 8 p.m. $5 SMITH’S OLDE BAR 1578 Piedmont Ave. 404-875-1522 Sleeze Staxxx, Maya, Vancefite 7 p.m. $8 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE 1099 Euclid Ave. 404-524-7354 Musical Box: Genesis’ “Selling England by the Pound” 8 p.m. $35-$40

529 529 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-228-6769 Knife, Miggs, ERA 9 p.m. $5 THE MAMMAL GALLERY 91 Broad St. 404-771-6912 Quanstar, Evaready Raw, Marcel P. Black, Lyriqs Da Lyriciss, Tea Bag Da Herbalist 8 p.m. $5

Blues/Jazz RED CLAY THEATRE 3116 Main St. 404-478-2749 John Carter Cash, Tim & Myles Thompson 8 p.m. $21.50 STEVE’S LIVE MUSIC 234 Hilderbrand Drive 404-441-9475 Randy Chapman Trio 8 p.m. $7

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Since the early ’90s, Greg Cartwright has made a name for himself as a prolific and incorrigible rock ’n’ roll lifer. For Cartwright, five years is a long time between LPs. For the latest offering from his group Reigning Sound, the red carpet has been unfurled. Shattered will be the soulful garage rock outfit’s eighth proper fulllength, but the first with Merge Records. The album was recorded in Brooklyn’s illustrious Daptone Studios, where countless old souls have tried their hand at reviving the rock ’n’ roll spirit. Cartwright’s abilities in the dual arts of rhythm and blues, however, are time-tested and proven. Fri., July 25. $13-$15. 9 p.m. The Earl, 488 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-522-3950. www.badearl.com. — Jeff Tobias

EDDIE’S ATTIC 515 N. McDonough St. 404-377-4976 von Grey, Edward Harline 8 p.m. $12-$16

Electronic/DJ EDGEWOOD SPEAKEASY AT PIZZERIA VESUVIUS 327 Edgewood Ave. 404-343-4404 DJs Enoch’s Light & Mayor Carcetti 9 p.m. Free THE SOUND TABLE 483 Edgewood Ave. 404-835-2534 New Low with Chris Devoe, Divine Interface, 10th Letter, Isomer Transition 10 p.m. Free THE TABERNACLE 152 Luckie St. 404-659-9022 311, DJ Soulman (July 24-25). 8 p.m. $62.50 TERMINAL WEST 887 W. Marietta St. 404-876-5566 Rustie, HYDRABADD, Clerks 10 p.m. $18-$20

FRI., JULY 25 Rock/Pop 529 529 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-228-6769 WYMYNS PRYSYN, Civil Union, Vincas, GHB 9 p.m. $5 CENTER STAGE 1374 W. Peachtree St. 404-885-1365 Black Label Society, Wovenwar, Kyng 8 p.m. $28.50-$33 THE DRUNKEN UNICORN 736 Ponce de Leon Ave. O’Brother, Royal Thunder, Big Jesus 9 p.m. $15 THE EARL 488 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-522-3950 Reigning Sound, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause, Douglas’ Street Team 9 p.m. $13-$15 EDDIE’S ATTIC 515 N. McDonough St. 404-377-4976 Mates of State 9:45 p.m. $15-$20 THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Mega Deaf Tour 7 p.m. $13 RED LIGHT CAFÉ 553 Amsterdam Ave. 404-874-7828 Atlanta School of Rock Summer Jam Session 5:30 p.m. Free SMITH’S OLDE BAR 1578 Piedmont Ave. 404-875-1522 Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, Donkey 8 p.m. $20-$25 THE STAR COMMUNITY BAR 437 Moreland Ave. Pls Pls, Heaven, New Animal 9 p.m. $10 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE 1099 Euclid Ave. 404-524-7354 Paula Poundstone 8 p.m. $35-$40

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VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE 2200 Encore Parkway 404-733-5010 The Avett Brothers, Emmylou Harris 8 p.m. $39.50-$52.50 VINYL 1374 W. Peachtree St. 404-885-1365 Mike McCarroll, Courtney Tarpley + more 6:30 p.m. $11

Hip-hop/Soul THE BASEMENT 1245 Glenwood Ave. 404-662-8686 The Boom Bap ft. House Shoes 10 p.m. THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Rapper’s Delight ft. Rico Da Freako + more 8 p.m. $7 MJQ CONCOURSE 736 Ponce de Leon Ave. 404-870-0575 Fantastic Fridays ft. DJs Majestik, Fudge, Lord, and BEATnik Last Friday of every month, 11 p.m. $10

Blues/Jazz ATLANTA SYMPHONY HALL 1280 Peachtree St. 404733-4900 National Black Arts Fes: Wynton Marsalis 8 p.m. $35-$75 BLIND WILLIE’S 828 N. Highland Ave. 404-873-2583 Beverly “Guitar” Watkins 9:30 p.m. $12

Folk/Country AARON’S AMPHITHEATRE AT LAKEWOOD 2002 Lakewood Way Luke Bryan, Lee Brice, Cole Swindell 7 p.m. $40-$77 RED CLAY THEATRE 3116 Main St. 404-478-2749 Angie Aparo and Levi Lowrey 8 p.m. $20-$28 STEVE’S LIVE MUSIC 234 Hilderbrand Drive 404-441-9475 Passerine, Little Country Giants 8 p.m. $10-$12

Electronic/DJ OPERA 1150 Crescent Ave. 404-874-3006 Dzeko & Torres 10 p.m. $15-$40 TERMINAL WEST 887 W. Marietta St. 404-876-5566

Bluetech, Higher Learning, Stratoshpere 10 p.m. $12-$15

SAT., JULY 26 Rock/Pop 529 529 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-228-6769 The Fresh & Onlys, the Shilohs 9 p.m. $10 ATLANTA SYMPHONY HALL 1280 Peachtree St. 404733-4900 ART GARFUNKEL 8 p.m. $39.50-$79.50 CHASTAIN PARK AMPHITHEATER 4469 Stella Drive O.A.R., Phillip Phillips, Saints of Valory 7 p.m. $35.50-$40.50 THE DRUNKEN UNICORN 736 Ponce de Leon Ave. Campaign, Hyperspace, Seagulls 9 p.m. $8 THE EARL 488 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-522-3950 Supersuckers, Bigfoot, Night Terrors 9 p.m. $15 EDDIE’S ATTIC 515 N. McDonough St. 404-377-4976 Susi French Connection 7 & 9:30 p.m. $15-$20 EYEDRUM ART AND MUSIC GALLERY 290 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Jeremy Bible 9 p.m. THE MAMMAL GALLERY 91 Broad St. 404-771-6912 Telekinetic Walrus, Calm White Noise, Scatter Brain 9 p.m. $5 THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Trashanality, Battle No More, Terrible Tooth 7 p.m. $10 RED CLAY THEATRE 3116 Main St. 404-478-2749 Barry Waldrep Band & special guests 8 p.m. $10-$17 SMITH’S OLDE BAR 1578 Piedmont Ave. 404-875-1522 Amsterdam Station, Erica Bryan 6:30 p.m. $8 THE STAR COMMUNITY BAR 437 Moreland Ave. I Want Whisky, City Hotel, Hot House Peaches 9 p.m. $8 THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave 404-577-8178 Us The Duo 8 p.m. $15

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Blues/Jazz BLIND WILLIE’S 828 N. Highland Ave. 404-873-2583 Barrelhouse Bob Page 9:30 p.m. $3

Electronic/DJ APRÈS DIEM 931 Monroe Drive 404-872-3333 DJ Swivel Beats International . EROSOL 467 Edgewood Ave. 678-515-0404 DJ Cristo Disco and DJ Prince Presto 10 p.m. Open Circuit Series 10 p.m.

TUES., JULY 29 Rock/Pop

This San Francisco-based guitar-pop act blends elements of psychedelia, new wave, and garage rock, and has been erratically releasing music in a variety of formats and imprints for more than a decade. The group reaches an artistic high with the recently released House of Spirits. Frontman and founding member Tim Cohen’s heavy-lidded singing drives murky, ominous, and tuneful songs that are driving and dreamy in an Echo & the Bunnymen-meets-the Dream Syndicate kind of way. Occasional glimpses of spaghetti Western guitar twang only heighten the menacing vibe. Sat., July 26. With the Shilohs. $10. 9 p.m. 529, 529 Flat Shoals Blvd. 404-228-6769. www.529atlanta.com. — Hal Horowitz

Soundmenu from p.38 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE 2200 Encore Parkway 404-733-5010 The Avett Brothers, Gov’t Mule 8 p.m. $39.50-$52.50

Hip-hop/Soul THE LOFT 1374 W. Peachtree St. 404-885-1365 THE ARTIST ELJay 7:30 p.m. $20 VINYL 1374 W. Peachtree St. 404-885-1365 Voodoo Visionary, Groove Orient + more 9 p.m. $7-$10

Folk/Country AARON’S AMPHITHEATRE AT LAKEWOOD 2002 Lakewood Way Luke Bryan, Lee Brice, Cole Swindell 7 p.m. $40-$77 SMITH’S OLDE BAR 1578 Piedmont Ave. 404-875-1522 Buck O Five, Matt Thomas, The Skylarks 9 p.m. $8

Electronic/DJ THE IRIS AKA RUSH LOUNGE 2715 Buford Highway 770-240-0ESP ESP101 [Learn to Believe] with Mantis, Stranger Candy and RA 10 p.m. $10

World/Classical APACHE CAFE 64 3rd St. 404-876-5436 Mausiki Scales 8 p.m. $10-$15 CENTER STAGE 1374 W. Peachtree St. 404-885-1365 Jorge Morel Band, Joan Sanchez + more 8 p.m. $25 NORTON ARTS CENTER 781 N. Central Avenue Creative Music In Hapeville: Jelly Roll Morton 8 p.m. $7

SUN., JULY 27 Rock/Pop TERMINAL WEST 887 W. Marietta St.

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404-876-5566 Jerry Garcia Day with David Gans, Ted Norton, Romin Dawson, Deep Blue Sun + more 3 p.m. $25 THE MUSIC ROOM 327 Edgewood Ave. 404-343-4404 Muuy Biien, Good Grief, Eureka California, Hip to Death 7 p.m.

Hip-hop/Soul SMITH’S OLDE BAR 1578 Piedmont Ave. 404-875-1522 Scotty ATL 8 p.m. Free

Folk/Country THE EARL 488 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-522-3950 The Villain Family, The Vivants, Book of Colors 8:30 p.m. $7

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529 529 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-228-6769 Mourning Cloak, Peasant 9 p.m. Free CHASTAIN PARK AMPHITHEATER 4469 Stella Drive 404-733-4949 John Legend 8 p.m. EDDIE’S ATTIC 515 N. McDonough St. 404-377-4976 The Shadowboxers 8 p.m. $12-$16 THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Cope, The Donna Hopkins Band 7:30 p.m. $10 THE MUSIC ROOM 327 Edgewood Ave. 404-343-4404 Death on Two Wheels, Radio Birds, BABY BABY 7 p.m.

As part of their ongoing Boom Bap series, Nashville DJs Rate and Case Bloom continue to bring a steady cast of some of underground hip-hop’s most respected heavy hitters through town. For the series’ Fri., July 25, installment, former cohort of the late great J Dilla, Detroit’s Michael “House Shoes” Buchanan unleashes a set of gritty Midwestern beats and grinding rhythms from his latest album, Let It Go. With Rate, Case Bloom, DJ Jaycee, and Apple Jac. Hosted by Fort Knox. $5. 10 p.m. The Basement. 1245 Glenwood Ave. 404-622-8686. www.basementatl.com. — CHad radford

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The Early November (Acoustic) 8 p.m. $15-$17

THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Mad Decent Block Party 3 p.m. $47 VINYL 1374 W. Peachtree St. 404-885-1365 Simple Cause + more 6:30 p.m. $9-$14 WONDERROOT 982 Memorial Drive 404-254-5955 Soul Food Cypher 6 p.m. Free

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AARON’S AMPHITHEATRE AT LAKEWOOD 2002 Lakewood Way Monumentour: Fall Out Boy, Paramore 7 p.m. $31.25-$80.40 ATLANTA SYMPHONY HALL 1280 Peachtree St. 404-733-4900 YES 8 p.m. $49.50-$125.50 CHASTAIN PARK AMPHITHEATER 4469 Stella Drive 404-733-4949 Sarah McLachlan 8 p.m. THE DRUNKEN UNICORN 736 Ponce de Leon Ave. All Them Witches 9 p.m. $8-$10 THE EARL 488 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-522-3950 Gunpowder Gray and Scarlett 9 p.m. $5-$7 THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Summer Slaughter Tour ft. Morbid Angel, Dying Fetus, The Faceless, The Art is Murder, Goatwhore + more 2 p.m. $27.50 RED CLAY THEATRE 3116 Main St. 404-478-2749 Quincy Mumford and The Reason Why 8 p.m. $10-$15 SMITH’S OLDE BAR 1578 Piedmont Ave. 404-875-1522 The Young & The Elder, Dylan Cornell Band, Soundwave 8 p.m. $5 VINYL 1374 W. Peachtree St. 404-885-1365

529 529 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-228-6769 Moodie Black, Wake 9 p.m. $5 EL BAR AT EL PONCE 939 Ponce de Leon Ave. Jambox ft. DJ Presto and a rotating cast of DJs 10 p.m. Free THE MASQUERADE 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178 Grieves, SonReal, Fearce Vill 8 p.m. $13

Blues/Jazz THE EARL 488 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-522-3950 Low Volts, The Western Sizzlers 8 p.m. $7 EDDIE’S ATTIC 515 N. McDonough St. 404-377-4976 The Electromatics 8:15 p.m. $10-$14 STEVE’S LIVE MUSIC 234 Hilderbrand Drive 404-441-9475 Bonaventure Instrume≠≠≠ntal Quartet 12:30 p.m. $18

Folk/Country EDDIE’S ATTIC 515 N. McDonough St. 404-377-4976 Songs of Water 6 p.m. $10-$14

MON., JULY 28 Rock/Pop 529 529 Flat Shoals Ave. 404-228-6769 Fire Retarded, Slugga, Nurse 9 p.m. Free SMITH’S OLDE BAR 1578 Piedmont Ave. 404-875-1522 What Made Milwaukee Famous + more 8 p.m. $10-$12

Folk/Country THE STAR COMMUNITY BAR 437 Moreland Ave. Slim Chicken’s Honky Tonk Extravaganza 9 p.m. $5

NEED Di r Ec Ti ONS? Bands/performers/venues wishing to be included in Sound Menu’s noted-acts boxes may send recordings, press material and schedules two weeks in advance to Creative Loafing c/o Chad Radford, 115 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite 301, Atlanta, GA 30303, or e-mail information to: [email protected]. To be considered for the listings only, e-mail venue and band schedules by Friday at noon (for the issue that comes out the following Thursday) to [email protected].

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