Culture Briefs
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Mr. Blank’s Carnivale of Black Hearts Returns to Athens Monday
If you’ve never seen the film version of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, go rent it and watch it. Right now. I’ll wait. Okay, now that you’re back, that scene where the entire town is galvanized by the approach of the train bringing the dark carnival into their midst?
That’s what you’re feeling right now as Athens’ own phantasmagoria returns to town to barter for your soul. After a year’s hiatus, Mr. Blank’s Carnivale of Black Hearts is back with old favorites and some new blood in a show they’re calling “The Fool’s Revival.”
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Does Superman Speak Spanish? Freedom University on the Colbert Report
In case you missed it, Freedom University, and Athens-based program that educates undocumented immigrants who are barred from attending the University of Georgia and other competitive public colleges, was featured on the Colbert Report Monday night.
Junot Diaz, an MIT creative writing professor, Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Fellow, discussed Freedom University and his views on immigration, tackling such questions as "Was Superman an illegal immigrant?" and "On Krypton, do they speak Spanish?" Here's a clip:
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Terrapin Has a New Beer
Terrapin—traditionally known for its hoppy ales—announced today its malty session beer Tree Hugger will be available year-round starting next month.
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Q&A with Kristen Bach of Treehouse Kid and Craft
Crafts at Treehouse.
Treehouse Kid and Craft recently won Flagpole's Athens Favorites Award for Best Creative Kid and Adult Classes. Owner Kristen Bach and her team of crafty teachers make every day creative with a schedule of monthly craft classes geared to specific age groups. The summer camp schedule is now up and includes week-long themed camps that promise to induce adult jealousy. Space Camp, Where the Wild Things Are and Woodland Fairy are just a few of them. Flagpole spoke with Bach about the evolution of Treehouse's classes and camps.
Flagpole: Tell me about your classes.
Kristen Bach: [We offer] our weekly DIY classes for kids. We have classes for kids of ages 1–3 (alongside a guardian), 3–5, 6–10 and a Family Crafterday class for ages 3–8. We are offering some special workshops coming up too. For kids we have Knitwits, which is intermediate knitting for kids. We have a group of kids who have taken, I think, six sessions of knitting and are just amazing! It has been one of the most joyous classes for me to watch them grow and pick up the craft. We also have a beginning sewing class for kids as well.
FP: How have classes evolved since you began holding them?
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Our NCAA Tournament Final Four Picks
Miami is the trendy pick in the Flagpole office pool.
Pete McCommons laughed maniacally as he handed me his NCAA Tournament brack for our office pool. (Of course, no money is at stake. Why, gambling is illegal! The prizes are a handful of kazoos left over from some Music Tapes show and an unclaimed bottle of sriracha in the fridge.)
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The Flagpole Guide to the NCAA Tournament
If you're like 75 percent of the Flagpole office, somebody is trying to talk you into joining an NCAA Tournament pool, but your only experience with sports is playing cornhole at Little Kings. We're here to help. Here's your Hipster's Guide to Filling Out a Bracket, brought to you by a couple of hipsters with a wee bit of sports knowledge. (Or, at least, a highly developed ability to fake it.)
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Five Points Dance Studio Moving Downtown
Dancefx, a nonprofit dance studio, is moving from Five Points to the Foundry Street warehouses behind the Classic Center.
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The Indie South Fair Is Moving
The Indie South Fair—an art and crafts market formerly in the Caledonia Lounge and Ben's Bikes parking lots—is moving to a new location near the corner of Prince Avenue and Chase Street May 4. From organizer Serra Ferguson:
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