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To her friends and family, she is known as Charlotte Thomas Marshall - but to the Athens public, she is known simply as "The Cemetery Lady." Such a name may sound macabre to some, but to the elderly woman, life only makes sense in exploring the lives and deaths (as she calls them, "stories") of other people.
Having trouble deciding what songs by a band are truly worth listening to? Try visiting Rank 'Em, a Web site constructed in 2007 by University graduate Adam Wexler and designed purely for the love of the music. "Others have said that we don't have features that others [iTunes, Amazon] do," Wexler said.
This Halloween, the music of several famous rock and funk bands will come back from the dead. The 40 Watt Club is hosting a Halloween show called "Ghouls Gone Wild," featuring The HEAP's tribute to Parliament-Funkadelic; Black Francis, a Pixies cover band; and Gary's Got a Boner, a Replacements cover band.
Operas are often classified as long, boring and hard to follow. However, the Hodgson School of Music is putting on a miniature version of an opera that is accessible to new and old opera viewers alike and features five University music majors. Each opera is beginner-friendly, running about 40 minutes.
So many bands these days equate on-stage energy with relentless thrashing, destroying instruments and spitting on the crowd. For Kenosha Kid, energy comes from the ability to speak without speaking. "Words are so cumbersome," said Dan Nettles, guitarist and frontman of Kenosha Kid.
Ash Reed, bassist for Athens punk rock band Guff, remembers the first time he met Jon Guthrie. A group of his friends had entered the bar where he worked with Guthrie and told Reed, "Jon's one of us." Although Guthrie was much younger than Reed, Reed never questioned Guthrie's place in his world.
DRINKS: Calling all coffee and cider enthusiasts: the Halloween season is here, and so are dozens of seasonal beverages. But Halloween is approaching rapidly, so hurry before it's too late! 2 STORY COFFEEHOUSE Pumpkin Spice Latte A regular latte with a hint of pumpkin spice added to it.
Jeremy Greenspan, the 23-year-old singing half of Canadian duo Junior Boys, talks about the process of making music similar to how a trade craftsman talks shop. "Making electronic music is often sitting in a room by yourself - it's not like a normal band," he said in a telephone interview Saturday.
AND ANOTHER THING... Eoin Colfer Douglas Adams' original five-part "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" inspired countless intellectuals and satirists. But fans of the originals: Don't expect the new book to approach the genius of the original works, and hope the series won't be ruined.
WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS The Sparrow and the Crow Love is marvelously delicate and yet heavy when lost. William Fitzsimmons' latest release "The Sparrow and the Crow" is devoted to the broken-hearted and those who have hurt another. It's a quiet album, with a sound similar to a soft autumn wind gently nudging small leaves across the pavement.
SAW VI The "Saw" franchise has great potential. Tobin Bell plays a villain whose twisted perception of atonement rekindles that of Kevin Spacey's performance in Se7en. The plot twists of the first two pictures were phenomenally original and unpredictable. And that hand-crafted doll with painted red swirly cheeks is a guaranteed nightmarish add to an already terrifying premise.
