Crawfish for Cancer Page 6 Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association Volume Twenty-seven • Issue Number Five • May, 2018 Neighbor "Without music, life would be a mistake” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Neighborhood Meeting The next neighborhood meeting will The Rock A Teens Are Back! th * * be held on Tuesday, May. 8 , 6:45p at By Lars Gotrich, NPR the Cabbagetown Community Center. We weren't allowed to leave the church shows again, The Rock*A*Teens return with AGENDA grounds without an adult. Sex workers on one Sixth House. Joined by guitarist Justin Hughes, 7:00 Meeting begins corner, drugs on another, and a whole lot of bassist William R. Joiner and drummer Ballard I. Welcome and announcements freaks and outcasts somewhere between. Lesemann, Lopez blows smoke from the screen of past records by dialing down the reverb (just II. Review and approval of April minutes A good forty minute drive away from the com- a bit) to let the characters of his songs flour- III. Atlanta Police Department fort of the suburbs, east Atlanta is where I first ishWith a garage-rock swagger and shake, "Go IV. City of Atlanta – Valencia Hudson saw posters for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tell Everybody" tells the story of Bartholomew, V. Financial Report – discarded needles on the nearby playground Jesus' apostle who brought Christianity to India Saundra Reuppel, Treasurer and punks in shredded leather jackets. In the VI. Committee Reports '90s, unbeknownst to NPU – John Dirga, Chair this sheltered, Sunday school-going boy, an Historic Preservation and Land Use eccentric music scene Committee – Nicole Seekely emerged from the Hospitality Committee – dilapidated, dangerous, Laura Bellinger, Chair but cheap Cabbag- Cabbagetown Reunion Permit Update etown neighborhood. – John Dirga Cat Power's Chan Mar- shall, Smoke, the Opal Transportation Committee – Foxx Quartet, The Jody Shaun Houlihan, Cabbagetown Chair Grind – artists with raw Communication Committee – voices and stranger Katherine Kennedy, Chair stories. It was like Flan- Property Tax/Affordable Housing nery O'Connor started Committee – Kendall Rawls, Chair several different bands. The Rock*A*Teens' Sixth House comes out June 29th. Cabbagetown Initiative – Borne of this desperate and creative scene, and Armenia, and, according to hagiography, Paul Freeman, Acting President The Rock*A*Teens' not-quite-rock haze was was flayed alive and beheaded. Electing new board members thick and mysterious, like a pair of cigarette- smoke-caked velvet lounge drapes smothering "Stake your tent yeah, prepare the meal / Start VII. Old Business the stage, drenched in reverb. Led by guitarist torching all the greenery / Start chewing all the VIII. New Business Christopher Lopez, the band released a handful scenery," Lopez sings with a wild howl in his voice, 8:45 Adjourn of records in the late '90s and early 2000s that mimicking missionary fervor, but also warning that ideals will sometimes get you killed. Final April minutes will be would influence the likes of Okkervil River's Will adopted at the May meeting. Sheff and both A.C. Newman and Dan Bejar – This is the kind of darkly cinematic The Community Center is located to bring The New Pornographers' membership screenwriting that made those old at 177 Estoria Street. full circle, early Rock*A*Teens member and solo Rock*A*Teens records so artist in her own right Kelly Hogan would later weirdly vibrant – death and become Neko Case's go-to backing vocalist. triumph wrapped in an Fool Now, 18 years since its last studio album, and ambivalent apparition. Me Once few since the band started playing sporadic See Page 15 Page 2 • Cabbagetown Neighbor • May 2018 City of Atlanta Service Numbers Missed Trash Pick-ups 404.330.6333 Bureau of Parks Work Order Office 404.817.6813 Illegal Dumping 404.330.6333 Bulk Rubbish 404.330.6333 Potholes 404.546.0311 Cabbagetown Neighbor is a monthly newspaper produced by the Traffic Concerns 404.330.6501 Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association (CNIA), a Zoning Enforcement 404.330.6175 non-profit organization. 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May is going to be Street for music, art, games, Cabbagetown history, and an exciting month around here. I hope camaraderie with neighbors new and old. This is always a great you’re all planning to help pull your day to remember the long history of our special corner of Atlanta. street to victory in the Cabbagetown th Olympics on May 12th! The trash At our next CNIA meeting (on May 8 ), we will hear a bit more talking started early, and if I know about all of these events. We will also be electing neighbors to Cabbagetown, it will end late. They the Cabbagetown Initiative board through CNIA. Of the eleven won’t tell me all of the events, but I’m members on the CI board, five are elected by the neighbors through CNIA. If you would like to learn more or know you’d KATIE hoping for a rigorous juggling-while- hula-hooping contest in the park. like to run, please contact acting board president, Paul BUTLER Freeman at [email protected]. If you would like to To revel in your victory or soothe your vote, join us on May 8th at 7p. As usual, we will have free pizza, defeated spirit, make sure you remember to join us at the an opportunity to raise concerns with the city, and plenty of Joyce Brookshire Amphitheater in Cabbagetown Park on chances for neighborhood involvement. Thursday, May 17th for the third show in this year’s brand-new Cabbagetown Concert Series. So far, the free concerts have Until then, if you want to chat about anything Cabbagetown, brought in dozens of neighbors who have spread blankets email me at [email protected], find me on Facebook in the grass, watched kids and dogs frolic, and listened to or Nextdoor, or catch me with a judging placard at the fantastic music from 7p to 9p. Here’s hoping the weather on Cabbagetown Olympics. I’m super judgy. May 17th is NOT in the 50’s. Bring a few bucks to throw in the hat for the bands please! Forward Warrior! Mark your calendars: our neighborhood public art festival Forward Warrior! is coming up on June 16th! And, I’m sneaking a June plug in here because it will be the For more info and to RSVP, check out Forward Warrior! on FB 45th Cabbagetown Reunion on June 2nd! Please mark this and to help make this awesome event happen, donate: important date on your calendars.