these are just SOME of the locations where you can find us!

1102 Bar and Grill
3 Monkeys Gifts
Aiken Center for the Arts
Anything Goes Gifts
Appleby Library
Aromas
Augusta Library Greene Street
Augusta Museum of  History
Beamies
Bliss Salon
Boll Weevil
Casella Eye Center
Columbia County Library
Courtyard by Marriot
Curiosity Shop
Durden Barber Shop
Earth Fare
Eighth Street Tobacco
Ela
Elizabeth's
All About Hair
Fat Man's Cafe
Firestone Tire Center
French Market Grille
Goodwill/Good Books
Halo Spa & Salon
Hill Drug
Inner Bean Café
International Uniform
Kit 'n' Caboodle
Lofty Ideas
Manuels Bread Cafe
Mellow Mushroom
Metro Pub & Coffee House
Mi Rancho's
Ming Yat Restaurant
Modish Salon & Spa
My Friends Place
North Augusta Arts & Heritage Center
Nacho Mamas
Nandinas
New Life Natural Foods
New Moon Aiken
New Moon Café Augusta
North Augusta Library
OddFellows
Art Gallery
Peach Mac
Pizza Joint
Polka Dot Pig
PUBLIX: Aiken
PUBLIX: Evans
PUBLIX: Furys Ferry
PUBLIX: North Augusta
PUBLIX: Washington Road
Ready to Wear Again
Re-Fresh
River View
Rock Bottom Aiken & Augusta
Sanford Bruker Banks Insurance
Signature Hair Salon
Sports Bar
Stella Salon
Stillwater
Summerville Rags
Sunrise Grill Sunshine Bakery
Tea Garden Gifts
Tea Room with Duchess
TGIF Friday's
The Book Tavern
The Country Club
The Loft
The Snocap
White Crane 
Wildwings
Yams Child Hair
Zimmerman Gallery


BE SURE TO LOOK FOR THESE ALSO!!!

LOCAL: AUGUSTA LOCALLY GROWN

This Market Connects Farm to Table 
& Promotes Sustainable Living

“A place like Augusta 
Locally Grown belongs 
to the community. 
People are committed to 
the idea that a community can feed itself.” 
- KIM HINES, OWNER


Read the entire article at: www.vergelive.com
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MUSIC: THE AUGUSTA OPERA REDUX

After a Two Year Hiatus, 
the Opera Returns with a Passion



The story unfolds in a convent in Siena, Italy during the latter part of the 17th century.  Enter three nuns with three golden nights and three sinful desires. Add a poison drink, a suicide, a visit from the Virgin Mary and a miraculous reunion with a dead son.


Sounds like premium prime time TV fare or a box office bestseller, right?  Sultry, seductive and downright yummy.  But, get this … it’s the opera!

WHAT The Passion of Puccini

WHERE Sacred Heart Cultural Center | 1301 Greene Street, Augusta

WHEN Friday, February 25 and Saturday, February 26 at 8 pm | Sunday, February 27 at 3 pm

TICKETS $20 to $35

BUY THEAUGUSTAOPERA.COM

MORE | 706.364.9114

Lokal Loudness Choice Awards Turn 18

I recently mentioned to a friend that this year – 2011 – will be the 18th time Lokal Loudness Choice awards have been presented to recognize Augusta’s favorite local musicians. I almost spit out my coffee when he said that the awards were “finally going to be old enough to vote.”


Yeah, it is hard for me to believe that we have been handing these awards out for such a long time and even harder for me to think that next year Lokal Loudness will celebrate her 20th birthday. When I look at it that way, Lokal Loudness has been a part of me for just a little less than half my life. WOW!


Each year, I find myself enjoying the Choice Awards party a little bit more than the previous year. People tell me that they can imagine the reason(s) why; but, oddly enough, they’re usually wrong. Or, shall I say, they may know SOME of the lesser reasons but not the main one. It is pretty cool to be involved with an event that so many people dig but, quite honestly, I simply enjoy seeing so many people that I have seen and spent time with around town just relaxing and enjoying each other’s company – all the while showing respect and support for each other. I’m not just blowing smoke when I say how special the music community we have here in Augusta is. We may not all agree on some things but, at the end of the day, there exists this love and respect that is rarely found among such a wide rage of artists in other cities. I can’t help but to dig it.


Like previous years, the list of nominees for the 2011 awards is an interesting read.  Some names are surprising, some not so surprising and, like always, the list always leads to debate about which artists were nominated and which artists were NOT nominated.  But, after all the discussion and debate, the awards show arrives and all talk is put aside for a great evening of music and fun.  


To find out more about Lokal Loudness Choice Awards, and to preview this year’s list of nominees: LOKALLOUDNESS.COM.


by John “Stoney” Cannon
Stoney created and continues Lokal Loudness and 
its annual awards celebration.

WHAT: The Lokal Loudness Choice Awards

WHERE: The Playground Bar at 978 Broad Street in downtown Augusta

WHEN: Friday, February 18 @ 8 pm

FEATURING: Brandy Douglas, Dee Hemingway, False Flag, G-City Rockers, John Berret’s LaRoxes, The Radar Cinema

MORE: LOKALLOUDNESS.COM

Ringling Brothers 140th Edition - Barnums Funundrum

our eyes are smiling...

Wednesday, February 23 
7:30 pm
Fat Man’s Mill Cafe
$12 to $15


Traditional Irish musician Cathie Ryan bridges two worlds in her art: the United States and Ireland. She overlays Irish jig music with Motown rhythms. She writes songs that view America through the lens of her Irish heritage. According to America’s former Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, Cathie sings “songs of place, songs of memory, poignant songs of the heart.” 


Cathie’s parents were first generation Irish immigrants who presented their children Irish music as a joyous “soundtrack” ...


for more please go to:  www.vergelive.com
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The Secret in Their Eyes

Monday, February 21
ASU University Hall, Room 170 | 7 pm | Free

February 21st brings an Argentinean drama awarded the prize for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Oscars. EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS (The Secret in Their Eyes) finds a retired legal counselor (Ricardo Darin) recounting the events of a decades-old unresolved murder case while writing a novel based on the grizzly event. Reliving moments that resulted in an unfair lack of consequence for the killer also prompt him to deal with feelings of regret about an unrequited love for his superior. The film nearly swept Argentina’s version of the Academy Awards, earning top honors for acting, directing, writing, and 2009’s Best Film. It also won in two categories, including Best Spanish Language Foreign Film, at Spain’s Goya Awards. Juan Jose Campanella (Son of the Bride) directed this highly-acclaimed foreign drama.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Free Monday night entertainment is still available and open to the public through March, courtesy of the ASU Spring Film Series. Unique cultural experiences await viewers of the series’ February 21st and 28th screenings.