ITS A MIX & MATCH SUNDAYS...........

Monthly Bicycle Ride every first Sunday @ 3pm. Meeting at main entrance to Piedmont Park; across from Skate Escape Bike Shop - Midtown. COME JOIN US FOR SOME FREE FUN & FELLOWSHIP. Sponsored by SkateBoyz Atl - "ALTERNATIVE SELECT EVENTS"

Bike Rentals
Starter Bikes is a collaborative, volunteer-run program at Georgia Tech where you may purchase a used bike with the option to return for cash, for the equivalent of a bike rental. Visit www.atlantabike.org/starterbikes to learn more.
Local bike shops with rental options include:
• Atlanta BeltLine Bicycle: bike shop on the Eastside BeltLine trail, sells, rents and repairs bikes.
• Skate Escape: bike shop near Piedmont Park, bikes are mostly cruisers/single speeds.
• Silver Comet Depot: adjacent to the Silver Comet multiuse trail
• Atlanta Cycling: bike shop, rents bikes including nice road bikes
• Smyrna Bicycles: bike shop, rents road bikes and hybrids
• Roswell Bicycles: bike shop, rents road bikes and hybrids
Also consider taking a tour with Bicycle Tours of Atlanta: guided tours by bike with bikes (hybrids) provided.

Georgia laws related to bicycles
Recent changes to Georgia law include HB 101 (the "Better Biking") bill including a minimum 3 feet safe passing distance for cars overtaking cyclists.
HB 101 was signed by Governor Deal on May 11, 2011. Click here for more about the bill & to see the changes it entails.
The most significant updates are:
40-6-55.
Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter relating to operating a vehicle on a roadway, where a bicycle lane is provided on the roadway, the operator of a motor vehicle shall yield to a person operating a bicycle in a bicycle lane.
40-6-56.
(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'safe distance' means not less than three feet.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, when feasible, the operator of a motor vehicle, when overtaking and passing a bicycle that is proceeding in the same direction on the roadway, shall leave a safe distance between such vehicle and the bicycle and shall maintain such clearance until safely past the overtaken bicycle.
40-6-291
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Code Section 40-6-50, any person operating a bicycle may ride upon a paved shoulder; provided, however, that such person shall not be required to ride upon a paved shoulder.
(c) Any person operating a bicycle may signal a right turn with his or her right arm and hand extended horizontally or with his or her left hand and arm extended upward.
40-6-294.
(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'hazards to safe cycling' includes, but shall not be limited to, surface debris, rough pavement, drain grates which are parallel to the side of the roadway, parked or stopped vehicles, potentially opening car doors, or any other objects which threaten the safety of a person operating a bicycle.
(f) Any person operating a bicycle in a bicycle lane shall ride in the same direction as traffic on the roadway.
40-6-296
Any bicycle equipped with a red reflector on the rear that is approved by the Department of Public Safety shall not be required to have a light on the rear of the bicycle.
Also, sections (a) and (b) of 40-6-297 have been deleted, meaning that retailers can lawfully sell pedals that are not equipped with reflectors, e.g. clipless pedals.
The full text of HB 101 is available here
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Cycling on sidewalks
During the 2009 session, Georgia legislators passed Senate Bill 196 to amend Title 40 (motor vehicles and traffic). The amendment allows local governments to let kids 12 and under bike on sidewalks, and states that no others can operate vehicles on sidewalks. Other aspects of the bill increase the fines and jail time for motorists who seriously injure cyclists or pedestrians.
(40-6-144) "Except as provided by resolution or ordinance of a local government for sidewalks within the jurisdiction of such local government authorizing the operation of bicycles on sidewalks by persons 12 years of age or younger, no person shall drive any vehicle upon a sidewalk or sidewalk area except upon a permanent or duly authorized driveway."
Click here for a comprehensive analysis of this change.
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Georgia Bikes! maintains the full list of laws related to cycling.

ITS A RUN DON'T WALK SATURDAYS......

Please join Charlotte Pride this May as we bring back Canine Couture, the most fabulous doggie fashion show you've ever seen!

Does your dog have what it takes to take the crown of Best in Show? Does your dog have the swag to walk the runway? If you say yes, then join us for this year's Canine Couture.

Saturday, May 31, 2-5 p.m.
Triple C Brewing Company
2900 Griffith St., Charlotte, N.C.

All proceeds benefit Charlotte Pride.

For just $5.00 a person you can enjoy a fun afternoon with your friends and pet's as we raise money for Pride. Triple C will be selling their craft beers while food trucks outside will be slinging some grub.

For entry forms and other information, visit http://charlottepride.org/canine/

Enter your pet into the contest for $15 and you can choose which category your baby will dominate.

Categories include:
Best butch
Best wiener, or wiener substitute
Best fem
Best hair
Best dressed
Best tail
Mr./Mrs. Congeniality
Best wagger
Best agnet
Best in Show

Several local Animal Rescue groups will be there with dogs available for adoption. (Agencies coming soon!)

ALSO! Local pet retailers will be there showcasing what they have to offer.

Want to be a vendor at the event? Email Gary Carpenter at gary@charlottepride.org for information and to sign up to be a vendor.

PLEASE NOTE: If your pet is aggressive or not socialized they cannot enter the event. All pet owners will be required to sign a waiver prior to entry.

ITS A MAKE YOUR MARK FRIDAYS......!!!

A wonderfully diverse group of women are coming out to play on the last Friday of each month! So don't miss this month's party! Of course our guy friends are always welcome!

SWANK
9pm - 2:30am
DJ Prism
NO COVER!

The fun starts at 9pm, so come early and have dinner! Be sure to tell the wait staff you are here for SWANK! The past parties have been a huge hit and we're expecting an even better turnout this month!

What can you expect? A great mix of beautiful peeps enjoying the sexy vibes & music videos by Vanessa, aka DJ Prism (DJ starts at 10pm).... hips swaying, lips sipping, flirts playing, wall flowers blossoming, old friends reconnecting, new sparks flying... Come out and mingle!

10th & Piedmont offers uniquely hand crafted cocktails, a vodka bar featuring infused martini's, 'shareable plates', great music, a room full of lovely Ladies and a few of our guy friends too!

A QUICK NOTE ABOUT PARKING for 'SWANK'... There will be free valet at the parking lot behind the venue (lot behind Blake's) and ALSO valet at BLUE MED SPA on 10th St. OR may we suggest downloading the app & using 'LIFT', or 'UBER X' car service.... a sexy way to arrive and a safe option home (or a cab) ;-)

ITS A SHO NUFF THURSDAY......

Click the following link to find out more and register for this event: http://www.womenofcolorweekend.com/women-of-color-weekend-/events/

Join hundreds of women in Provincetown, Massachusetts, May 29-June 1 for the 8th annual Women of Color & Friends Weekend, four amazing days of community and fun!

Dance parties, comedy shows, special dinner at local restaurants, workshops, funshops, meet & greets, a Pool Party, and Sister Soul Sunday Brunch are just some of the fun activities scheduled.

Whether traveling with a pack, alone, or with that someone special, come be part of the Women of Color & Friends Weekend.

ITS AN ICONIC WEDNESDAYS.....

This week WE take FLIGHT with OUR *All Open MEMORIAL Edition* just one day removed from the actual B-Day of OUR transcendent Flight School Band Brother DAVID NORWOOD; so this week WE would like to take time to remember all those who's LOVE & presence will never be forgotten by any of US! WE invite all to come share hearts & memories of LOVED ones who will always be LOVED as WE celebrate them all TOGETHER along with the impact their energy still affects today!!! This week will be navigated via OUR *All Open Format* where each open mic list participant will be allowed to perform a optional second piece before 11pm; Osmith & Shy But Flyy will Host the List along with the assistance of the Flight School Band so expect the usual higher heights of FLIGHT when the LOVE starts flowing freely as soon as WE begin to remember all of US!!!

**Again WE repeat**
The List will be open at 8:30pm & be closed at 10:30pm for this Special event which is sure to reach maximum capacity quickly so PLEASE come ready to FLY early!!!!

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PERFORMANCE GUIDELINES:
A. List signUP opens @8:30pm, performances begin @9:15pm.
B. No PROFANITY!!!!
C. Each list participant is allowed to perform 1 piece within 5 min.
D. Each list participant may play their own instrument or may request the assistance of the Flight School Band in any configuration desired(WE are here to help all of US fly higher!)
E. Have your instrument tuned before you get on stage if you will be playing one during your turn to perform.


***Special Request***
WE ask that ALL in attendance "Respect the Mic" or in other words PLEASE be considerate of others while they are performing by not having overly loud side conversations or cell phone activity that may distract the audience or performer on stage which can easily be conducted outside via a short walk out the rear door where people are not performing & attempting to grow as Artists!
***WE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!***


**Don't forget that WE also practice a "Open Band" policy so feel free to bring your instrument if you would like to jam at some point during the night, all "Open Band" participants will be integrated into the stage Musician rotations after 10:30pm**

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The Industry Cafe is more than just the venue that hosts Flight School Open Mic every week, it is a full kitchen restaurant with a full menu specializing in Eritrean/Ethiopian Cuisine including delicious Vegan/Vegetarian dishes in addition to classic American dishes for those with a more traditional palette.

$5 Meal Specials $5 Glasses of Wine $3 Domestic Beers

*No profanity on the Mic!!!!!

$5 TUITION

RIP.....STORME DE LARVERIE

NEW YORK — Storme DeLarverie, a lesbian activist who took part in the New York Stonewall riots in 1969 that si widely credited as the start of the gay rights movement in the United States, has died. She was 93. 

DeLarverie died Saturday at a Brooklyn nursing home, said Lisa Cannistraci, a longtime friend and one of her legal guardians. 

Born in New Orleans in 1920 to a black mother and a white father, DeLarverie “was born into adversity and lived in adversity her whole life,” Cannistraci said. 

In the 1950s, she was part of a traveling drag show called the Jewel Box Revue, where she performed as a male impersonator. In the 1969 riots, she was among those who fought against a police raid at a Greenwich Village bar called the Stonewall. 



Join us this Thursday 5/29 at The Greenwich Village Funeral Home at 199 Bleecker Street from 7-9pm to honor Storme: A Celebration of Life!!! Champagne reception & light fare afterwards from 9- Midnight at Henrietta Hudson.



Poem For Stormé I write this because Martin had his mountaintop And Rosa’s feet were tired and she had had enough. I write this because freedom isn’t only fought for overseas in camouflage gear and combat boots– Sometimes war paint is made by Maybelline and sometimes the king is a woman and gender is nothing but a constructed illusion and there’s more to her than meets the eye; and silky voiced singers wear suits and defy convention even when convention is law. I write this because if I don’t invisibility will be the only way for us to be seen, ’cause sometimes boys dress like girls and girls dress like boys and genders are fluid and cuffs are no longer the only bracelets we are allowed to wear. I write this because in 1969 @ 57 Christopher Street someone had the courage to say “enough is enough”. I write this because blank pages fill history books where stories of bayou country warriors should be. Instead we are taught that we never existed and that gay rights are but a passing trend and that Rosie & Ellen are groundbreakers, when seeds of revolution had already been planted in the West Village decades ago. See, “it ain’t easy being green” is more than just an expression, it’s a call to action, where the only response is resistance, where sometimes you have to fight back and say: ‘enough is enough.” ‘Cause Rosa had her bus and Martin had his mountaintop, and Storme has her Stonewall. They say sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me– except when followed by a club or a fist and Storme had the courage to fight back and say “not tonight.” I write this because when folk strut around in feathers and rainbow gear on hot Sundays in June it’s important to remember that it wasn’t always like this and that “The Lady of the Jewel Box Revue is one of the people we need to thank. I write this because there is a lady who “dressed like a man” who carries two sides of a coin in her wallet refusing to choose either one. I write this because it’s easy to forget when ignorance is our teacher and portraits are never painted– See I write this if for nothing else but to say: THANK YOU

written by Karen Jaime

R.I.P Maya Angelou Dead at 86 [POET] Body Dies!!!

A Women's tongue can either uplift, enlighten, and share Love.....Be a reflection of god even out of your pain....RIP Maya Angelou.......



Be a Blessing my beautiful people......~Kiti~

ITS A LETS GET CONNECTED EVENT....!!!

Click the following link to find out more and register for this event: http://www.womenofcolorweekend.com/women-of-color-weekend-/events/

Join hundreds of women in Provincetown, Massachusetts, May 29-June 1 for the 8th annual Women of Color & Friends Weekend, four amazing days of community and fun!

Dance parties, comedy shows, special dinner at local restaurants, workshops, funshops, meet & greets, a Pool Party, and Sister Soul Sunday Brunch are just some of the fun activities scheduled.

Whether traveling with a pack, alone, or with that someone special, come be part of the Women of Color & Friends Weekend.

ITS A HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY MONDAY......!!!

ITS A NO WORK ON MONDAY....SO GET OUT AND ENJOY YOUR SUNDAY........!!!!

We invite you to tune in to UMB Radio on Sunday, May 25th @9p-11p/EST!! ......Join your host Akila Da Hun (CEO) I'll be interviewing the beautufil & talented Jurni Rayne ....... We look forward :). Thank you so much for your support :) 

TOPIC: "Does your lover/mates body count (sexual partners) matter?"

Also on the nights agenda, a very special segment, which EVERYONE always enjoys: "S.O.E.L SESSIONS" with Syncere Slade(SoeL Coach)

Listen on your phone: (347) 996-3909
Or click the link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/urbanmusicbox/2014/05/26/umbradio-akiladahun-jurni-rayne-syncere-slade

ITS A TAKE A DEEP BREATH THEN JUMP BACK IN SATURDAYS....!!!!