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I marvel at people who are filled with music. Where does it come from? I tried to find it early on: piano lessons (and a piano recital playing a piece for six hands with my sisters, Jo and Judy}, the summer spent on the front porch, singing the same song over and over with my ukelele; singing in the church choir and in the boys quartet in high school literary meets with Sonny Thurmond, Wayne Ogletree and Aubrey McElhannon; and much later in the Borderline Quartet, performing in fundraisers for the Morton Theatre with David Burger, Chuck Searcy and Clyde Anglin. I’m still not filled with music, though Flagpole keeps me close to it.

Of course we all know that Athens is full of music and people who work whatever jobs they can find to support themselves while they pursue their first love. Athens is also filled with people who don’t just work day jobs but pursue careers, while still doing music on the side.

This Christmas season has brought, among the many other concerts, the magnificent performance of the Athens Master Chorale, under the longtime direction of Joe Napoli. In the atrium of the Classic Center on a Sunday afternoon, a diverse group of people sang classics and Christmas tunes that filled the beautiful space with a wall of sound created by their voices and some nifty brass accompaniment. It was thrilling to sit in that space and let that sound flow over you, coming just from those people, who have worked so diligently to prepare themselves to let that music out.

(Borderline alumnus David Burger was in the bunch.)

In the next week a standing-roomonly crowd filled the Conservatory at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia for the Christmas Michael Brewer concert of the Classic City Band, which has been around since 1978, belting out all kinds of music at civic occasions such as the Fourth of July: citizen performers, pursuing their careers by day and their music by night.

And then again on this past Saturday and Sunday, outof-town family plans kept me away from the sold-out performances of the always popular Athens Symphony Christmas Concert in the Classic Center Theatre. There, the citizens were at it again, sharing their talents and their practice in their traditional free concerts.

Michael Brewer, to name one, could be the poster child for all these citizens. He conducts the Classic City Band and also plays trombone in the Athens Symphony and with the Athens Master Chorale, where he also arranges music, as he does for the Symphony. He directs the Athens Brass Choir, a community brass ensemble he founded. Michael grew up in Athens and is an applications programmer at UGA, where he earned degrees in music and math. He also contributes his musical skills to local theater, and even showed up as a waiter in Town & Gown’s recent production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, for which he grew a mustache and an Italian accent. Michael’s wife, Terri Tillman, whom he met in Emmanuel Episcopal choir, sings in the Athens Master Chorale. How in the world they find the time, I don’t know, but they, like so many other people here, find it a labor of love.

This season is a reminder of the richness in our town, and of course the music is just one part of the treasure, along with theater, art, crafts and our writers. There’ll be more concerts in the spring, more plays, art openings, pottery sales, book signings, and of course more music in the clubs.

It’s time once again to paraphrase what the great Samuel Johnson said about London: If you’re tired of Athens, you’re tired of life.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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city dope Wake Up, Normaltown University of Georgia students’ appetite implementing it. A committee Mayor Nancy for “luxury” housing that costs more per bedDenson appointed last year to vet the study’s room than most peoples’ mortgages appears recommendations accomplished nothing. to be insatiable. So, with the Health Sciences Denson said nearly a year and a half ago that Campus up and running and almost every she would call a joint meeting of the ACC scrap of land downtown built up six stories commission and the planning commission to high—or about to be—with apartments, it’s continue the discussion; we’re still waiting almost inevitable that the booming student on it. Maybe outspoken commissioner-elect housing industry would set its sights on Melissa Link can force the issue.

Normaltown. And, as usual, we’re completely Whether this particular parcel is developed unprepared for it. as a medical office or apartments, the Health A bit of background: In March 2012, Sciences Campus is going to be driving both William Slaughter filed plans for a 42,000 types of development in the coming years. As square-foot, four-story medical office and a regional health care hub with an aging stock parking deck on the vacant lot where Allen’s of buildings, Athens has a need for more mediand Fox’s used to be, between Normal cal office space. There’s also a huge market Hardware and Marti’s. The plans were filed for student housing, especially of the “luxury” as Athens-Clarke County planners released variety, in urban neighborhoods within walka Prince Avenue corridor study that recoming distance of classrooms and bars. mended, among other things, a cap of 10,000 The Health Sciences Campus has been drivsquare feet on medical offices (the same cap ing up rents and home prices in Normaltown that applies to other types of offices in comfor several years already. The only way to keep mercial-neighborhood zones). the neighborhood affordable for anyone but Four months later, Slaughter quietly sold wealthy students and doctors is to get denser. the lot—a total of four parcels—to The Polo Few people want to halt the growth on Prince Club of Athens, LLC Avenue. We want for $1.4 million. This to continue to see The time to figure out how Polo Club appears businesses thrive. to be the same Polo we want Normaltown to grow Few people want outClub as the Eastside of-scale structures was probably five years ago. looming over everystudent apartment complex (a call to thing else, or to deal them went unreturned). The medical-office with parking decks dumping cars out onto tiny plans remain on the books, and The Polo Club side streets, either. of Athens, LLC does own medical offices on There is nothing anyone can do about Hawthorne Avenue. But the property’s zoning the Polo Club development, whatever form it also allows multifamily residential, as long as takes, because it’s already on the books. There the ground floor is commercial. will be another, though, and another and This all began to unravel last week, when another. The time to figure out how we want Logan Properties, which owns the parcel next Normaltown to grow was probably five years door to the old Allen’s lot, filed for a permit ago, but now is better than never. to tear down a shed on the property. That shed was in the way of a driveway from Yonah Die-In: All over the country, activists have Avenue into the parking deck proposed as part been staging “die-ins” to protest the deaths of the medical office development. of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Meanwhile, the aforementioned corridor Trayvon Martin and other African American study remains in limbo in spite of heavy males at the hands of police. The local propressure from the neighborhood to start gressive group Athens for Everyone got in on

Nap time. the action Saturday at Georgia Square Mall, giving shoppers a little something to think about while they browsed for Christmas gifts.

“We felt like we needed to get outside of the university/downtown area, where we’ve already had actions,” said Tim Denson, one of the organizers. “Such a wide variety of people come to the mall.”

Die-ins involve people lying on the ground motionless for four and a half minutes—one minute for each hour Ferguson, MO police left Brown’s body in the street after shooting him.

About 20 people participated in the Georgia Square Mall die-in while others hung banners over the second-floor railing.

Dozens of curious onlookers—black, white and Latino—gathered, some of them applauding, some taking photos with their phones.

A couple of black teenage girls giggled and rolled their eyes. One white policer officer had a conversation with a young black man, telling him that he didn’t think the protest would make a difference and that not only do black lives matter, but all lives matter. The black man replied that one person can make a difference, and this was a start.

The protest was cut slightly short, however, when the mall manager on duty told Denson that if the protesters did not get up, she

would have police remove them. The protesters left, and the mall manager followed them outside to tell them they couldn’t congregate near the entrance. She also told this reporter that he couldn’t interview anyone on mall property.

“The people who were shopping were awesome,” Denson said. “That was great.

Management was not into it at all. The cops tried to stay neutral.”

Oh, and by the way, for everybody who thinks Georgia Square Mall is dying, it was pretty packed.

Chokeholds, Again: Last week, I wrote about an exchange with Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry in which he wouldn’t tell me whether his deputies are allowed to use chokeholds on suspects. (ACCPD officers are not.) Berry wasn’t particularly pleased with my column, but he did eventually answer my question: “We don’t have a list of specific acts we allow or don’t allow by policy. As I originally replied, our use of force policy tracks the language in Graham v. Conner. We have dispensed with the outdated and unmanageable step-style use of force policy that was in vogue in the ‘90s. We use the ‘objectively reasonable’ standard set forth in Graham v.

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government when it commissioned a mural of one if its logos—a light bulb with the phrase “crave curiosity”—on the Pulaski Street side of its building. “The city very kindly informed Too Many Bars?: At its next meeting, Jan. us afterwards that there is a city ordinance 20, the Athens Downtown Development that states a business may only have one sign Authority will discuss limiting the number per storefront, and because we use this logo of bars downtown. Coming in the wake of as part of our brand, it would be considered a Chronicle of Higher Education article that signage and not art,” says the brewery’s blog. paints Athens as a poster city for student This is a good excuse to pass on news drinking (see James Cobb’s column on flagthat, after discussing and rejecting the idea pole.com for more). Citing the article, Link of legalizing sandwich-board signs on sideaddressed the ADDA last week to ask for “a walks, the commission’s Legislative Review real open discussion of what kind of policy Committee has recommended allowing downand ordinance actions we town businesses to have can take to diversify our Would fewer bars even a second sign flush with a downtown environment.” wall. The change is mainly mean less drinking?

She needn’t have bothmeant to give restaurants ered; limiting the number leeway to post menus of alcohol licenses had already been added to or specials outside their doors, but it would next month’s agenda by Commissioner Mike apply to Creature Comfort’s mural as well.

Hamby, an ADDA board member.

A commission vote could come as soon as In 2011, ACC commissioners studied and February, and if it’s passed, Creature Comforts rejected putting limits on downtown bars. plans to repaint the logo.

Police said the number of bars presented no particular crime problem. At that time, someTransit and Taxes: A “plan B” for desperthing under half of downtown businesses had ately needed transportation funding isn’t due alcohol licenses (98 out of 223, including until the end of the month, but a legislarestaurants); today 122 downtown businesses tive study committee’s co-chairmen, Rep. serve alcohol.

Jay Roberts (R-Ocilla) and Sen. Steve Gooch Ironically, the first presentation at last (R-Dahlonega), dropped a couple of hints at week’s ADDA meeting was by Chris Herron of the Biennial Institute, a gathering of state Creature Comforts brewery, who recounted the lawmakers at UGA. The committee is looking young business’ success story helped with a for a way to raise $1 billion a year, and its loan from ADDA. Responding to the suggestion recommendations will “give some people some of limiting bar licenses, Herron noted only heartburn,” Roberts said. Could a gas tax hike that Creature Comforts urges its customers be in the works? and those who tour (with free samples!) its Georgia has some of the lowest gas taxes Hancock Avenue brewery to drink responsibly. in the country. Now, because cars are getting more fuel efficient and the federal highway trust fund is going broke, the Georgia Department of Transportation can’t afford the billions of dollars’ worth of projects needed to get metro Atlanta moving again, Commissioner Keith Golden said. Once federal cuts, maintenance and debt service are factored in, GDOT will have only $70 million for new projects this year, he said. For comparison, the price tag on a new I-85/400 interchange is $950 million.

Golden tried out a conservative states’ rights argument for increasing transportation funding: “We are much too dependent in Georgia on the federal government and that [federal] gas tax program,” he said.

Gov. Nathan Deal had little to say about the issue at the Biennial or the concurrent business-sponsored Georgia Transportation Summit at the Classic Center. Lt. Gov. Initially at least, the ADDA will simply Casey Cagle, however, came out in favor of research what limits other communities have expanding MARTA, which receives no state placed on alcohol licenses. Changes could be support and is traditionally a whipping boy controversial; and would fewer bars even mean for suburban Republicans. Cagle tied transit to less drinking? [John Huie] economic development, noting that businesses want to locate along commuter rail lines Parking Pay: And while ADDA—which because many of their millennial employees employees 28 people, mostly to administer don’t own cars. and enforce downtown parking—begins its We in Athens, of course, have been clamorparking employees at $8 an hour, it’s trying ing for passenger rail for years, and without to do better. Having discovered that other giving away any details, Roberts implied that parking employees (those employed by UGA, it will be part of the study committee’s report.

Classic Center or ACC government) get more, “We’ll have a comprehensive plan that’ll deal the ADDA’s board voted to raise starting pay, with all the issues facing Georgia,” he told over two years, to more nearly match the me. “I think you’ll be happy.” $10–$11 paid by others. [JH] Check out Capitol Impact to the right for Tom Crawford’s take on this topic. m Art or Ad?: Speaking of Creature Comforts, the company recently ran afoul of the ACC Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

capitol impact A Dead End on Transportation The overall disrepair of Georgia’s roads and bridges has reached the point where the state’s political and business leaders agree that “something must be done.” Anyone who’s been caught in the bumper-to-bumper traffic jams that choke most of the major highways would probably agree with that, so it’s not really a controversial issue.

You’re hearing a lot these days about the seriousness of this problem. What you aren’t hearing are any proposals on how to pay for it. There are credible estimates that Georgia needs to spend an extra $1 billion to $1.5 billion each year to maintain existing roadways and build new ones. Some experts have put the amount at closer to $2 billion.

There’s only one realistic way to generate that kind of revenue: Taxes, in some form or fashion, will have to be increased. The prospect of raising taxes in a conservative, Republican-leaning state like ours has obviously terrified the folks in the Governor’s Mansion and the General Assembly. They aren’t touching that issue with a 10-foot pole.

Lawmakers created a joint study committee that held several hearings around the state to gather ideas on how to increase transportation funding. The legislation creating that committee gave it a Nov. 30 deadline to issue its recommendations. Nov. 30 came and went with no recommendations. That shifted attention to the week of Dec. 8, when the University of Georgia held its Biennial Institute for newly elected legislators. Several business organizations also scheduled a “transportation summit” that was held in Athens at the same time.

Surely, it was thought, some kind of announcement would come out of those meetings on how the state would handle the upgrading of its transportation infrastructure.

Nothing happened at either event. The chairmen of the study committee on transportation funding—Rep. Jay Roberts (R-Ocilla) and

Sen. Steve Gooch (R-Dahlonega)—released no funding proposals. Gov. Nathan Deal said he would wait for the legislature to do something before he would say anything.

Deal’s reluctance to take a leadership position on the most important issue facing this state is puzzling. He said several times in this year’s campaign that it was the last time he would run for office, so he doesn’t have to worry about what disgruntled voters might think. Fixing the state’s transportation mess is the kind of thing that governors who want to leave behind a legacy would normally jump at the chance to do. What does Deal have to lose by taking the lead on this?

Thanks to his reelection victory, Deal has some political capital he can spend on the transportation issue, but it won’t be there long. He has about a year or so to wield some influence before people start their 2018 campaigns for governor and effectively make him a lame duck. Why is he sitting back and waiting for lawmakers to take the initiative?

One reason may be that Deal painted himself into a corner during his reelection campaign, where he bragged about all the great things he had done to bring jobs to Georgia. On the day before the election, for example, Deal held a press conference to boast that his administration had helped create 2,700 new jobs in the prior two weeks alone.

After talking for months about Georgia being the “No. 1 state for business” in the country, it would be difficult for Deal to suddenly turn around and claim that the state is in such bad shape that taxes must be raised to build roads. Anyone who was paying attention to Deal’s campaign would think, “But governor, you said everything was just peachy keen.”

It’s a story we’ve heard many times. Things are so bad they need to be fixed. But how do you convince people to pay for fixing them?

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

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fter 18 years as police chief of the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Jack Lumpkin, who was born and grew up in Athens and previously served as chief in Toccoa and Albany, retired from his position here. He is now the chief of the Savannah-Chatham County Metropolitan Police Department, a jurisdiction that includes 285,000 people. (He could retire here and work there, but he couldn’t retire here and work here. Go figure.)

In this interview, Lumpkin reflects on the integration of the local police force in the 1970s, the current state of race relations in Athens and how, when police focus on the helping the community, we can avoid the furor in Ferguson, MO, that is cropping up all over the country.

Flagpole: You worked your way up from cadet in the police department to chief. What was the department like when you started?

Jack Lumpkin: We were the first integrated unit within the Athens Police Department. Although the first blacks, [A.R.] Killian and [Donald] Moon, joined the department in 1962, they were in separate cars, separate shifts… and the only calls they could answer were in the minority community, and they were not supposed to arrest anyone who was not a minority.

What we called the actual integration of the department was when we got into the cars together. Typically, what occurred was black officers, when they came in, would actually service all of the cars that were there—put gas in them, check the tires, the oil…

FP: At one point, you were assigned to stake out the Dixie Mafia?

JL: When I was working probably ’73, ’74 with the feds.

They can hire local officers cheaper than they can use their own agents. So we worked some with the federal folks when they were working the Dixie Mafia, who were into theft of clothing, hijacking trucks. They would set up their own stores in the Southeast. Working with federal agents, I was fortunate enough to be assigned to armed robbery, anti-burglary/robbery teams. I was not promoted to detective, but I was given plainclothes status, and five of us were assigned to try to prevent robberies, and we actually stopped a couple of armed robberies and got commendations for it—armed robberies in progress, and we did not have to shoot the individuals, thank goodness.

FP: You did have to take out a guy on a roof one night, didn’t you?

JL: That’s legend. They called me “Straight Shooter,” but that’s just legend. At one point, I could hit you in the head at 600 feet, easy, but I’ve never had to use that particular skill.

FP: Did you work at it, or did it just come naturally?

JL: My daddy taught me how to shoot when I was a kid, and there was some natural ability. We were on an NRA pistol team, once, competing in a law enforcement training camp, and they said, “Those country boys can shoot.” And we were good.

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FP: And those police were in your department?

JL: Yes. They were ranking officers. We were in plainclothes, but we got between him and the officers.

FP: Well, maybe you are prepared for Savannah.

JL: I’m prepared. Any minority officer who went into a police department had to make up his mind: Either you’re going to be a man, or you’re going to allow things that are illegal or unethical. And I would like to say that we stood our ground. And that was prior to Chief [Everett] Price arriving. He came in 1975, and then the equity issues started to change, and the violence that was associated with the police was toned down.

FP: Later on, of course, while you were in Albany, we had the Edward Wright killing, and partly as a result of that you came back to become chief?

JL: It certainly did not harm my chances of getting the job, because when he was shot and killed, he was naked and

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FP: So, the department wasn’t very welcoming to minority officers?

JL: I had applied for promotion and was given the excuse that I didn’t have enough time, and that happened three times. Mayor [Julius] Bishop had told us in 1970 when we complained about the way the police and the schools had interacted that police departments are closed systems, and if we really want to change the police department, we need to change it from within. Police departments tend to rally around… he gave the analogy to the wagon train, and that they will circle the wagons and stand off all attackers and then go about their business. Change has to come from inside. Some of us joined together to try to make that change, some black and white police officers.

FP: You also once had to take Archibald Killian into protective custody when the Klan threatened to burn down his nightclub?

JL: It was really the police. He was involved in conflict with the shift that was on… they hit him across the face with a shotgun, and we got between them and got him up and took him to the hospital.

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running, unarmed. And process and procedure… I think the officer found himself in the situation where he thought he was going to die, and he shot and killed him. It was a classic mental-health issue, where one person is trying to handle a mental-health issue that he should not have been required to get out on. It’s a classic issue of not having backup in terms of process and structure, where they didn’t have enough folks there to work right, and it put him and ultimately the community in crisis.

FP: In a much smaller way, it was similar to what’s been going on in Missouri [and now in New York], because there were some demonstrations after that.

JL: Yes, but I think the difference is, when the Wright death occurred, it was ’95. We had been unified since 1991. The old city police department, Athens police department, since Everett Price became chief in 1975, we had been making what I call deposits into that trust account with the public. We had been doing things for the public, and we had built a trust there. The old county government had not built trust, had not deposited in those trust accounts, in my opinion.

FP: Why not?

JL: When we unified, the county manager became the manager. The county chief became the chief, and they were of a suburban mindset, if not rural. And we were dealing with urban

issues—social, economic, mental-health issues. The training issues and the competency issues, from my perspective, were significantly different… We cannot perform what I call “risky tasks” all the time, from a safety-net perspective… Qualified humility in my opinion is big, because you can’t do the job perfectly. You can’t be reckless. It’s too complex, because of human error. And Mr. Wright is where the process broke down.

And what I see in Ferguson is that people have not been depositing into that trust account. Whatever happened with Mr. Brown’s death and the officers, it was the aftermath issues, and you didn’t have that here, as I recall. You express your outrage, displeasure, et cetera, and demand change, but not to the point of violence, and do not roll out armored personnel carriers, either.

FP: What about the militarization of police departments? Has that happened here? Do you have a tank hidden back in there?

JL: Someone said that we did had a tank. No. But we do have a vehicle that is very much like what the banks use to move money around.

FP: An armored personnel carrier.

JL: Yes, and it would be used to go up to a house where people are shooting at you. We’ve had it for a couple of years, and folks haven’t seen it, because it’s been used only once in those couple of years… It’s an equipment issue and a mindset.

You have to have certain equipment in a police department of this size—or in Savannah, or Atlanta.

The only thing that we legally have out there that citizens can’t buy— they can’t buy the M-4s because of the recency of that gun, but the M-16 fires at the same rate of fire, and you can buy an M-16. You can buy an AK-47. The challenge is that you don’t want the police to be outgunned if things really turn bad… The point is, it’s a mindset… I think it’s leadership that the focus is on. It’s not the equipment, per se. I think you’ll see the feds pull back, to some degree, in terms of what they’ll offer the states.

FP: You have the reputation as a believer in community-oriented policing.

JL: Yes. I think that’s what we did in the old city, trying to make those deposits in the trust account. The reason police exist, from my perspective, is to help citizens solve their problems… We don’t exist just for a paycheck… In the middle of the night—one o’clock, two o’clock, three o’clock—typically the only governmental services you’ll have is the police, and we help people with their problems. In my view, it builds trust.

FP: But your friend Rev. Killian would say that your department is still stopping black people for minor infractions, for “driving while black” and such harassment.

JL: Rev. Killian has been one of my biggest supporters and one of my biggest disparagers. It depends on how he’s feeling that week. I listen to him all the time in terms of what his perspective is. Somebody told me years ago that whether it’s real or imaginary, it’s real to that person, and if we’re contributing to that perception, we need to look at what we can do to eliminate that contribution… I don’t want to see anyone’s constitutional rights infringed upon. I don’t think what Rev. Killian sometimes says is accurate, about how we make arrests here. Since I came here, for 20-odd years we’ve been requiring officers to wear audio and record their interactions with citizens.

FP: Has that helped?

JL: For instance, unfortunately, we had a death in custody here recently, the first week or so of October. A gentleman died while in our custody for DUI. And we have him on video from the initial encounter, and the car that transported him had

FP: The population of the jail is 85 percent black. Would that seem to indicate that…

JL: I think you have to drill deeper than that. I think you have to look at the socio-economic issues, the educational issues. When we did a snapshot of the jail in the past, it was 85 percent or so, in the 80th percentile who were not high school graduates. If you look back to the years prior to the last two superintendents, you’ll see that we’re arresting less people age 18–22. The crime rate has fallen. Those five years are significantly different from the prior administration of the school district. And that’s who’s out there in the jail.

FP: Will building this bigger jail mean we’re just going to fill it up with more people?

JL: We could fill a 2,000-person jail tomorrow. Of course, some of those at the jail can’t get out. If I went to jail, or my child or grandchild, we can get them out, but some of them cannot make bond.

FP: What’s the solution?

JL: You can’t arrest your way out of crime problems, from my perspective, and I’ve been doing this 44 years. I’ve visited a lot of cities in the world with the International Association of Chiefs of Police—cities from 100,000 to half a million, and I’ve traveled to those places, and we’ve talked, and we’ve strategized and looked for best practices, and you can’t arrest your way out of it. That’s what I was trying to tell the people here as I was leaving: you’ve got to get into youth develop-

FP: Are we making any progress?

JL: I would say the youth development issue is still the key issue. You’re not going to have neighborhood development, community development, workforce development without it.

With youth, you’re competing with all types of ills. Labor laws won’t allow them to work until 15 or so. But they’re standing on the street corner. What are they going to do if they can’t afford to go to the Y or the Boys and Girls Club? So, you have to focus there. Some of the kids that we’re producing, they will not leave Athens, and they don’t understand the world. But those are the kids who were not finishing high school and the ones we were having to arrest.

FP: What about the better prepared minority youth?

JL: Many of us who were successful here in the ‘70s, ’80s and ‘90s, our kids will not come back. They do not feel comfortable with the culture of Athens. They don’t feel that they can compete very well. They competed in school very well, but they don’t think they can compete for jobs. And if you look at Athens, it has a really small middle class for minorities. And the school district will tell you the same thing. They face that in the recruitment of teachers. There’s an old joke around here that we can recruit them, as police officers or teachers, but if we don’t get them married to a local person within two years, they’ll be gone to Gwinnett, DeKalb, Cobb… So, I think you

FP: So, the better prepared kids leave, and the less prepared stay here?

JL: It is very, very difficult to move poor people out of this community. This community has a desire to help the impoverished. We continue to take the impoverished from surrounding counties. But it has changed significantly with the Section 8 housing. The Section 8 housing in this community is problematic. If the young college students of means change to new amenities and apartments, what happens to the apartments that they leave? People have a perception of public housing that it is crime-ridden and really problematic. Your crime rate in Athens public housing is lower than it is county-wide. But the crime rate in those Section 8 complexes is tremendous.

FP: What’s an example of Section 8 housing?

JL: Bethel is an example, and Rolling Ridge and Athens Gardens. It’s a management issue: a leadership, screening, management issue.

FP: What about the reapportionment of our local government, which former Republican representative Doug McKillip pushed through on the pretense that it would increase minority representation in Athens-Clarke County and was supported by local black leaders?

JL: We use that term, “black leaders;” I don’t know who they are. I think the people didn’t come forward. You know, Kenny Dious, he ran for Congress from this district, but he also wanted to eliminate the super districts. But if you recall, back before unification, John Jeffreys was elected countywide here as one of five commissioners.

And traditionally, in the old city council you had 10 councilmen, and typically three were minority, so the representation has changed significantly, and I think it goes toward that notion of what occurs in Athens and why our young people don’t come back. When you combine the two, it becomes more troublesome.

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So, that mindset has to change. In this community, in the brown population—Latino and Hispanic—and the black population, that’s where the poverty is.

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FP: Do you see that reapportionment as an intentional effort to suppress minority voting?

JL: I don’t think the answer is any intent to disenfranchise, but I’m accustomed to dealing with intent on the criminal side, and I don’t see that as intent. I think we’ve got excellent people behind the rail. I just wish some of them had some of the life experiences I’ve had. And they need to remember that the people the police are dealing with, a lot of them don’t write a lot of emails. Many of the workers here don’t write a lot of emails. Our commission and our governmental officials, they’ve got to remember that they have to interact with kids and families that are working and not dealing with people like you and me, who can communicate through email or answer the phone because of my position.

FP: What do you hope for in a successor here?

JL: A person who realizes that he or she is police chief for all citizens and that they are the people’s representative on the police force. A police chief, from my perspective, should first try to keep the cops safe, because if they’re not safe, the citizens can’t be safe—and do it in a constitutional manner: treat people with respect and dignity. But after that, his or her job is being the representative of those citizens within that police department: get those problems solved. You are the chief of poor people, public housing residents, fraternities and sororities, senior citizens and the wealthy—everyone, all the elements of our society, and listen and hear what their needs are from a public safety perspective.

FP: Any final reflections?

JL: It’ll be 18 years when I go off the payroll in January; crime is going to be down here about 50 percent… with still one of the highest poverty rates that you’ll find… but we’re not going to have the issues that Savannah has had the last few years, with the former chief going on trial in federal court for corruption. We’ve got some heavy lifting administratively to do there as well as heavy lifting with criminals to do there. But it can be done.

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The Importance of Land

Nancy Stangle Looks Back on the Athens Land Trust

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he Athens Land Trust is 20 years old this month. If that unit mixed-income apartment community off North Ave. As well doesn’t mean much to you, talk to Nancy Stangle. The as low rents, residents receive services such as employment organization’s co-founder just retired, and she has a programs, homeownership counseling, computer classes and few thoughts on our perceptions of land. financial management seminars. “To me, that’s an example of “We don’t think about the land and the role that it plays how, when we realized what the needs were, we were able to in our lives,� she says. “It’s essentially the basis of our shelter try to address some of those issues,� Stangle says. and our housing, and it’s how we grow food. The value of havIn addition, the organization operates a slew of sustainable ing forests and river corridors that are not developed means agriculture initiatives. Farm to School connects Clarke County that we have clean air, clean water. All those things are really students directly to healthy foods through garden-based important, but we tend not to think about it. We tend to not learning and a partnership with Clarke County School District realize how important it is.�

Nutrition Services that allows locally grown produce to be When Stangle started ALT in 1994 with Skipper StipeMass, served on school grounds. Through the Young Urban Farmers land use was—as it remains—a big topic in Athens, with Program, ALT teaches Classic City High School students entreworries about disappearing farmland, urban sprawl, low homepreneurship skills and gives them job experience working at ownership rates and expensive rentals dominating discussion the West Broad Market Garden. The land trust has programs for about development and growth. From the start, Stangle and farmer outreach, nutrition education and more, as well.

StipeMass were looking to make home ownership a possibility for low-income Athenians. “We wanted to make sure that people who had never had the opportunity to own a home had that opportunity,� Stangle says. “And we evolved along the way to begin addressing other issues that were related to land.�

Basically, the organization restores homes and sells them to buyers with a 99-year renewable ground lease but keeps ownership of the land.

Income-eligible buyers pay monthly mortgage rates that are lower than the area average. They can use the land however they like, but by officially keeping it, ALT keeps the houses affordable. The organization also offers housing counseling and credit assistance, and once a buyer owns a home, it is theirs to pass on or sell back to ALT (for a profit) so it can be resold to another qualified buyer.

Home ownership, Stangle says, is important for many reasons. For one thing, she says, lifetime renters end up paying three times more to stay in their homes than people who are able to buy theirs. And high rates of home ownership in a community tend to coincide with low rates of crime and instability. “People invest in their property, and so the whole Retired Athens Land Trust executive director Nancy Stangle (right) with her successor, neighborhood benefits,� she says.

Home ownership can improve emotional and men- longtime employee Heather Benham. tal well-being, too. “If you’re able to own a home, you have something of value,� Stangle says. “You have assets, In addition to educating Athenians about healthy eating and you have something to pass on to your children. There are and making fresh produce accessible, these programs increase a lot of studies that show when you own a home, your family’s participants’ employability by teaching them job skills related more stable. Your children are able to do better in school. So to health and agriculture. “We have an environmental mission, your whole family benefits through home ownership.� and we also have a community development and social justice The other main focus of the land trust is land conservation. mission,� Stangle says. “Those all need to work together, I Over the years, ALT has worked with Georgia landowners to think, for the good of the community.� obtain conservation easements that preserve natural habitats, And the community has been supportive, Stangle says. wetlands, water sources and farms for agriculture and recre“Some of the things that I feel are really important are the ation. Its website lists 51 pieces of land that are now permainvolvement of people in the community, and the support of nently protected. the public officials and the businesses in town—all that has “To my knowledge, we’re one of the only land trusts in just been really amazing over the years,� she says. the country that does both of those things [conservation and With former director of operations Heather Benham, ALT’s affordable housing],� Stangle says. “It’s looking at things longest-serving staff member, stepping up to take her place, holistically. Everything we do is related to land and how land Stangle isn’t worried about the future. “The land trust is 20 benefits people.� years old,� she says. “It’s well established, it’s got a great staff All of ALT’s homes are energy-efficient and EarthCraft certiand a great board and great community support. I think it’s fied. In addition to being better for the planet, “that means time for a new generation of leadership. I think [Benham] has they’re healthier when people move into them,� Stangle says. the personal and professional qualifications that we need, plus “They have less utility bills. So it’s really good for the family the experience. She’s also been very involved in getting us to that’s living there.� where we are today. So I think it’s a perfect transition.�

With swanky new apartments popping up all over town for And Benham doesn’t plan to change much about an orgaUGA students, rent is climbing everywhere. When a mobile nization with two decades of community successes behind it. home community on North Avenue was sold out from under “I just want to continue the good work that we’ve been doing, residents to make way for student luxury housing a decade ago, and hopefully be able to expand on that work,� she says.

Stangle says, “we realized that there was an issue with rental “We’ve grown a lot over the last few years. I think there’s lots housing as well. People needed to work two jobs, at least, to of opportunity for us to help in this community, and I want us be able to afford an apartment.� to be able to continue doing that.�

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takes more than rosy-red cheeks, twinkling eyes or a This Santa’s day job is cutting hair—his wife chimed in, belly that shakes like a bowl full of jelly to be a Santa “Everybody’s but his”—a couple days a week at a barbershop Claus. But if you had to boil Santa down to one thing, an in Commerce, about 20 miles north of Athens. authentic beard as white as snow is a must.

His travels have taken him to daycare centers, churches and Morgan Edwards, the man who’s underneath the red-andschools in Gainesville, Duluth, Athens and Winder. This year, so white suit for Christmas at The Classic Center, is a seven-year far, he’s done about 3,000 pictures in five days—approximately veteran when it comes to playing Kris Kringle. And the first two or three pictures per kid. thing you’ll notice about him is that he doesn’t have to strap on a fake beard; his is real.

“I played it some several years ago with a fake beard, but then I quit that,” Edwards says. “Kids got to really recognize me too much in the town that I worked [in].”

A day in the life of Santa is a busy one, especially when he’s out of his North Pole workshop. Edwards’ wife, Yvonne, says the official Santa season starts in early November, but with his authentic beard, he gets attention—at the gas pump, at restaurants, at the mall—all year long.

“He has a lot of adults that want to get their picture made with him, too—sit on his knee. And they’re all in awe of his beard,” she says, “A lot of people just stop us on the street and want to know where he’s going to be, and want their picture made with him, with their cellphone, and their kids’ picture.”

In getting ready for a day full of Morgan Edwards, aka “Santa Pops,” poses in The Classic Center’s atrium. pictures, wish lists and sore knees, the first thing that comes is beard maintenance. Edwards says this can take anywhere from 30–45 “Somebody says, ‘What if they don’t pay you?’ Then don’t go minutes between blow-drying, conditioning and “white minx” back next year,” he says. “But I do, I go back.” Anyone can tell color treatment. “I use some stuff on my hair to keep it from that Edwards has an inherent love for playing the role. turning yellow,” he says. “Gray hair will oxidize and turn yellow When it’s time for Santa to hear kids’ Christmas lists, “We every once in a while.” generally tell them when they get in your lap—the photograHis beard is nothing short of mesmerizing. When you lay pher will tell them—‘Now y’all think of one thing.’ We haven’t eyes on Edwards, you’re immediately drawn to his beard. When got time to take a whole laundry list,” Edwards says. “Most of Flagpole asks if he ever has problems with kids testing the them do that, that’s all they’ll do is tell you one thing. And legitimacy of his beard, he responds, “I have more trouble with some of them can stand over there and talk to you and tell you women pulling on it than I do kids.” what they want, they get on my knee they can’t tell you nothThe next step is suiting up. Edwards says he has three in ing. They get nervous. and they can’t say a word. They can’t the closet and has revamped the one he’s been using this year. think of anything.”

One of the most unusual requests he says he has received was from a four- or five-year-old boy, who wanted a real chainsaw. When Edwards double-checked with the child to make sure he wanted a real one and not a toy, the child responded, “No sir, I want a real one,” and then gave Santa directions to the local hardware store and told him they cost $250.

“I told him we’ll have to talk to mom and dad,” he says.

Another boy, when asked by Santa, “You been a good little boy?” dropped his head and said, “Yes, sir.

I started yesterday.” Edwards says, “He got everything he wanted for being so honest.”

But it’s not always a winter wonderland. “Some will make you laugh; some will make you cry,” he says. “You have a kid that mom and daddy’s having trouble, and all they want for Christmas is for mom and daddy to get back together.”

Despite having a few sad moments, being Santa is mostly filled with magical moments that will make you smile.

The Christmas at The Classic Center schedule also includes breakfast with Santa, displays of Christmas trees and professional bakers’ gingerbread houses, a holiday market, ice skating and performances of The Nutcracker. For more information and a schedule, visit classiccenterchristmas.com.

Children also can have their pictures taken with Santa at Georgia Square Mall from 10 a.m.–9 p.m. (12 p.m.–6 p.m. Sundays) through Christmas Eve outside of Belk.

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booze.” Ironically, legend has it that Athens was chosen over nearby Watkinsville as the site for the nation’s first state-chartered university because the latter was already home to a prospering tavern likely to corrupt the college lads.

The writers trace Athens’s history as “a big booze town” to the 1980s when, with downtown businesses closing or migrating out to “mall-ville” and only a relatively few bars downtown, UGA officials began trying to cut down on drinking at frat houses, even issuing a ban on keggers. Fearful that downtown would continue hemorrhaging businesses to the ’burbs, and eager to accommodate thirsty young collegians, municipal officials did not limit the number of bars or restaurants that started to pop up, especially after the city’s music scene exploded.

It is hardly news that college students drink a lot and always have, but if you are using this to persuade yourself that there is nothing to be bothered about here, your head is buried not in sand, but concrete. As the writers note, “Average blood-alcohol levels in students stopped by the police have risen steadily—this year one blew a 0.33, more than four times the legal limit. With heavier drinking, the police now make drunk-driving arrests in midmorning, pulling over students on their way to class still intoxicated from the night before.” The OB has no reason to doubt this, based on the number of students This tailgate was featured in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article on he has encountered Athens’ drinking culture. in morning classes who show up smelling recent piece about this problem at a no-lessas if they just crawled out of a vat of Natty storied an institution than “Mr. Jefferson’s Light and proceed immediately to surrender University” in Charlottesville, VA, which was themselves to the clutches of Morpheus in a already under serious federal scrutiny for its head-thrown-back, mouth-wide-open-pose inadequate handling of previous sexual assault that seems de rigueur when sleeping off a charges. RS’s report centered on “Jackie,” world-class bender. a female student who claimed that she had In addition, alumni parents are trying to been brutally gang-raped as a freshman after be kids along with their kids, succumbing to attending a party at the Phi Kappa Psi house some nostalgia-blinded notion that it’s OK to in 2012. For all the questions about the relive their own collegiate years through their details of Jackie’s personal account, the RS children, as if the perils and pressures awaitpiece nonetheless provides credible evidence ing their college-bound offspring are no differof an entrenched social hierarchy whose exclu- ent than they were 30 years ago. siveness not only discourages female students The OB knows better, and if the Moms and from filing claims of sexual assault but aggres- Dads of today’s collegians would drop the sively stigmatizes and marginalizes those who Peter Pan fantasy and face up to reality, their do. kids would, too.

Secretly at least, the OB has also been It’s much easier, though, to wink at fake taken with the notion that, as one student IDs and reports of prodigious alcohol ingesput it, “the most impressive person at UVA is tion, and chuckle about Tara and Trey simply the person who gets straight A’s and goes to being chips off the old champion-chugger all the parties.” But what happens to all the block. This may be a sure-fire way to endear kids bent on establishing their bonafides as yourselves to your kids, but it’s also a no less both budding scholars and big-time drinkers, certain means of putting them at greater risk. when pursuing both goals proves mutually The OB has never been too keen about univerexclusive? sities operating in loco parentis, but by golly, All of the dangerous and potentially disaswhen the parents abdicate their responsibilitrous possibilities that arise when young ties and go plumb loco themselves, a poor people are put in a situation where they are substitute seems better than none. free to choose beers over books are brought home quite literally in a Chronicle of Higher James C. Cobb news@flagpole.com Education story that shows our beloved Classic City virtually Dawg paddling in “a river of A longer version of this column is on flagpole.com.

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Last year, Taste of Athens packed 2000 people into the Classic Center’s massive exhibit hall to taste food prepared by 42 different chefs. Although the annual fundraiser succeeded in raising money for the nonprofit Community Connection, it didn’t do all that it could to serve every person involved.

“You put 2,000 people in a room, it’s going to be an issue, no matter how big the room is,” says Fenwick Broyard, the executive director of Community Connection. “For a restaurant of any size, really, that’s a lot of product to bring and a lot of hustle and bustle to contend with.”

That’s what the folks at Community Connection are trying to change this year.

With a newly chef-centered approach to the event, Rachel Bailey and Fenwick Broyard are doing all they can to see to it that Taste of Athens facilitates the kind of experience that makes each interaction worth savoring.

They want to create an event where the most sought-out chefs in Athens are glad to be a part. “Over time, there had been this sort of gradual attrition, where restaurants started pulling out,” says Broyard. “To me, that just seemed unacceptable.”

help draw visitors to town for the event. This will, in turn, bring more opportunities for Athens businesses to reap the benefits.

As an added layer, sommelier Steven Grubbs and fellow wine guru Stephen James will help prepare wine pairings to enhance the festival experience. Restaurants will be grouped according to the wines that fit their offerings.

And that’s not the only new addition in terms of alcohol. Toast of Athens will premiere as a supplementary experience to the main event. Toast will feature a signature cocktail from eight local bars, competing for the title of Athens’ best cocktail, to be judged by a panel of mixology experts and to be tasted by anyone who buys a ticket either to Toast alone or as a package deal with Taste, happening simultaneously in the same building.

Prices range from $30 for the early-bird Toast tickets to $75 for the Toast/Taste bundle and are available at communityconnection211. org.

“We recognized that Taste of Athens tickets are prohibitively expensive for some people and even some people who work at restaurants that are participating in Taste, so we Bowen Xiao

The Ol’ Bloviator has not gotten so old that he doesn’t recall ranting about the “get-drunkparty-till-you-puke-or-pass out-or-both” culture that dominates the student scene at far too many of our universities these days.

Since a report on the pathological potential of booze-fueled fraternity life ran in The Atlantic a while back, outrageous accounts of massive alcohol abuse linked to deaths, physical injury and especially to sexual assault, have become standard fare in major newspapers and magazines. Despite individual and programmatic efforts by campus administrators to curb it, binge drinking appears to be a regular activity for four in 10 of today’s students. Recent data shows roughly 1,800 college students die each year from some sort of alcohol-related injury, and some 97,000 annually report sexual assaults where alcohol was a contributing factor.

Escalating concerns about alcohol-fueled rapes committed on and around campus took on even greater urgency after Rolling Stone’s

Seabear Oyster Bar’s Patrick Stubbers served hors d’oeuvres at a kickoff event for Taste of Athens last month.

Broyard and Bailey [a Flagpole contributor] began this overhaul by asking past participants, restaurateurs and guests what the experience of the event had been like in years past. From this assessment, they plotted to make next year’s Feb. 22 event different.

Rather than the massive crowds previously in attendance, they’ve scaled ticket sales down to 750 people, moved the event into the smaller Classic Center atrium and cut the number of participating chefs in half, from 42 to 21. They hope the change in size will improve the interactions that people will have with each person who hands them a taste of his or her restaurant, that they might lay the foundation for a lasting impression of what each restaurant has to offer.

“For us, it’s relationship-building,” says Broyard. “Food is the ultimate driver of it.

Unlike anything else, food brings community together on its own, and given that that’s the goal of our organization, it makes sense that our event would do that.”

Bailey and Broyard have also made a commitment to contact media outside Athens to

wanted to figure out how to include them in this event in a way that they felt like they were a part of it,” says Broyard. And Toast will include hors d’oeuvres, a change which has enabled several local restaurants that lack the capacity to feed 750 people the option to partake on a smaller scale. “It always comes back to that question that we’re asking ourselves and each other all the time, which is how can we do the most good for the most people,” says Bailey.

Broyard and Bailey believe that changes to Taste of Athens can have major impacts on the city of Athens as a whole, but they know that they can’t make it happen alone. “We’re asking people to invest in that process, and the return is an economic benefit for all of the community,” says Broyard. “As our event grows, Athens gets better; Athens gets benefits. We’re one of the few nonprofits that can boast that about its annual fundraiser. If we can get people to support us in growing this event, everybody wins.”

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movie reviews EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS (PG-13) Ridley Comparisons with Darren Aronofsky’s his humanity. He feels like a prototypical Scott returns with another sword and sandals controversial Noah are bound to come up, hero, when the biblical Moses should be more. epic, but his take on the popular Bible story and Exodus is the lesser film, as it is more I’m a sucker for Bible stories; I loved annuof Moses is more Kingdom of Heaven than generically palatable. Noah tested convenally viewing The Ten Commandments when Gladiator. Skipping the fun subterfuge of tional biblical beliefs, and that challenge I was younger. For all its flaws, Exodus still Moses’ infancy, Exodus picks up with Egyptian confounds people. Noah has more in comentertainingly tells a good story. Could it general Moses (Christian Bale) and his friendmon with Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of have been more? Certainly. But it’s becoming ship with future pharaoh Ramses (a very Christ. Exodus is like Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten less surprising when Scott fails to hit his epic hairless Joel Edgerton). The film ensures you Commandments on CGI steroids. Bale might be marks. know that Ramses is jealous of Moses’ relationship with THE BABADOOK (NR)This The Babadook Ramses’ royal papa, Seti (Jon acclaimed new horror film from Turturro), but still trusts his New Zealand begins unnervchildhood pal. The early battle ing us at its evocative, bizarre against the Hittites rocks title. What is the Babadook? and rolls, but the film quickly Be assured that it is somegets bogged down in Moses’ thing adequately frightening; discovery of his true heritage it lives up to its terrifying and faith. All the highlights name. Writer-director Jennifer are hit. The burning bush is Kent blasts onto the horror swell, though God’s decision scene—a notoriously tough to appear as a small boy, who genre nut for female filmmakvaguely hints at Jake Lloyd’s ers to crack—with the year’s unpopular Anakin in Star Wars: best horror, a film exciting to Episode I, is questionable. see on a big screen in Athens.

(How about Morgan Freeman or Seriously, The Pyramid was not Alanis Morissette?) The plagues very good; if you saw it, you are intriguingly realized as have no excuse not to see The natural events that follow one Babadook at CinÊ. from another, until darkness Parents beware. It might and the whole firstborn death Fa la la la LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! become difficult to watch, as curse. As expected, computer the titular nightmare haunts effects realize an epic parting of the Red Sea. one of the few actors who can rival Heston for single mother Amelia (Essie Davis), who Even the etching of the Ten Commandments how intensely he can Moses. Unfortunately, has yet to recover from the violent death of gets tossed in. Exodus, cobbled together by he and ultimately the plot lack an epic emoher husband, and her odd son, Sam (Noah five screenwriters, including the Academy tional component, which the film struggles to Wiseman). After discovering a strange popup Award winning Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s recover post-climax. Bale portrays Moses with book on her son’s bookshelf, Amelia begins List), make sure not to leave any events out. a great deal of strength but fails to convey reading The Babadook, unwittingly unleashing some foul evil upon herself and her child.

Sam is not an easy kid to raise. He takes homemade weapons to school, tells strangers uncomfortable tales and throws wicked tantrums. Amelia doesn’t make the best decisions, either, bringing criticism from her sister and scrutiny from New Zealand’s version of child protective services. Is Sam a problem child, a possible little Damien, or is something unseen haunting the small family?

The Babadook is absolutely terrifying for any demographic. Are you childless? Raging, little Samuel will frighten you away from procreation. Are you a parent, especially a single mother? Amelia’s struggles with Sam will tap into some of those deep, dark reserves of parental fear. The Babadook would be far less effective without its stars, Davis and Wiseman. Seriously, Davis gives one of those star-making indie turns that would have tongues wagging were it not in a horror film; even a tremendously well-received horror flick is ghettoized due to genre. One can easily see Naomi Watts in this role, when the inevitable big-budget remake is made. Amelia is not a fully sympathetic character, yet Davis emphasizes the struggling mother’s kernel of earnest desperation, not her failures from grief. And the young Wiseman excels in a role that would challenge a more mature actor. Whether or not the Babadook is real or Sam is crazy, the boy obviously has some issues to work through due to his father’s death and his mother’s poor recovery from that tragedy.

I cannot rave enough about The Babadook.

It’s the rare horror film that people who don’t like horror will find appealing, yet it’s still terrifying enough for genre diehards. West mixes in styles—some imagery is positively GaimanMcKean-esque—and narrative surprises to please everyone. And by please, I mean scare the babadook out of them.

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flagpole’s Businesses Extend Season’s Greetings and Welcome

Art: Retail, Galleries & Markets Athens Art and Frame

1021 Parkway Blvd., 706-549-9299 Custom framing and photo printing services are available at our new location, just off Epps Bridge Pkwy., in front of Kohl’s.

Open 7 days a week—free parking and experienced staff to help with your framing or photo projects. Products and services include: photo printing and enlargements, photo restoration, canvas printing, photo greeting cards, calendars, albums, photo frames, custom framing, shadow boxes, jersey frames, poster frames and more. Save 25% on UGA diploma frames. www.AthensArtandFrame.com.

Beth Cyr

160 Tracy St., www.BethCyr.com Locally handcrafted jewelry in unique, organic, nature inspired designs. One of a kind items including organic vine earrings, meteorite pendants, hammered bangles, and lots of rings—wedding, engagement and everyday rings, made in recycled sterling silver and gold. Located in Mercury AIR Studios.

Hours: by appointment only.

Good Dirt Clay Studio and Gallery

485 Macon Hwy., 706-355-3161 Good Dirt is a spacious, well-equipped facility for people of all ages and abilities to explore clay and other media. Our schedule of winter classes (starting the week of January 11) in pottery and sculpture is at www.gooddirt.net. Gift certificates for classes and workshops available. The Gallery @ Good Dirt will feature Rob Sutherland’s pottery. Gallery open by appointment at 404-697-1491. The last Friday “Try Clay” class of 2014 will be offered Dec. 19.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center

434 South Main St., Madison, 706-342-4743 The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, a nonprofit multidisciplinary history, performance, and visual arts center

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invites you to visit historic Madison during the holiday season. The Cultural Center occupies an elegantly restored 1895 Romanesque Revival building located in the heart of Madison’s National Register Historic District. Come tour the building, enjoy the Center’s permanent collections, see the FARM exhibit (on display through Jan. 4th), ring the original school bell, and visit the museum shop for one-of-a-kind gifts!

OCAF

34 School St., Watkinsville, 706-769-4565 Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) would like to thank all of our volunteers and patrons who have supported us through this Holiday Season at Holiday Market, Artists’ Shoppe and Mingle with Kringle. And for all you last-minute shoppers, there are still a few days left for our Artists’ Shoppe. We’re open Tue.–Sat., 12/20, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Come in and find that perfect gift for everyone on your list! www.ocaf.com

Bars & Clubs Cutters Pub

120 E. Clayton St., 706-353-9800 Bring in the New Year with Cutters Pub. Join us for our blowout NYE Party featuring DJ Rob Martinez! Check us out on Facebook for upcoming events or contact us for your private party needs. Happy Holidays from the Cutters Pub family and thank you for another great year!

The Foundry (formerly the Melting Point)

295 E. Dougherty St., 706-549-7020 From everyone at The Foundry, we wish you all happy holidays! For the holidays we are offering some amazing entertainment options—an evening of jingle bell jazz with Athens A-Train Band 12/19, Randall Bramblett Band’s Christmas concert 12/27 as well as an unbelievable New Years concert with Motown legend Martha Reeves 12/31! If you are looking for a gift for friends & family, we have gift cards so you can give the gift of GREAT entertainment!

Georgia Theatre

215 N. Lumpkin St., 706-850-7670 We’ve got something for everyone on your list! Hoodies & Beanies, Tshirts, Tanks Baby Onesies and more! We also offer gift cards good to purchase concert tickets, food and beverages and Georgia Theatre merchandise! Available in $25 increments atwww.georgiatheatre.com and on the Georgia Theatre rooftop.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar

237 Prince Ave., 706-353-3050 This holiday season Hendershot’s Coffee Bar offers unique gifts for everyone on your list. Great holiday gift ideas like gift certificates, beanies, t-shirts, 12 oz. cans of our 45 blend, 78 blend, or for the naughty our seasonal “Christmas Coal” (ground or whole bean)… just listen.

New Earth Athens

227 W. Dougherty St., 706-543-8283 New Earth Athens would like to thank everyone for 5 amazing years! It has been a pleasure to host countless incredible acts and share many wonderful nights with you. That being said, it is time for change. January 1st marks the end of New Earth Athens. This, however is not the end, on January 13th, our doors will open with a new face, a new feel, and the new moniker: Live Wire, a New Earth Muziq Venue.

Terrapin Beer Co.

265 Newton Bridge Rd., 706-549-3377 Terrapin Beer Co. invites you to enjoy a tour of our cozy, indoor tasting room. With 32 taps featuring special releases, seasonal, and high gravity offerings, our staff will help find a favorite for everyone in your group. While you partake, enjoy live music & browse for the beer lover on your list! We have great stocking stuffers & Terrapin gear for gifts that are uniquely Athens. www.terrapinbeer.com Hoppy Holidays Athens!

Walker’s Coffee and Pub

128 College Ave., 706-543-1433 Stuff your stocking with coffee, t-shirts and gift certificates! Happy Holidays from Walker’s and our sister bars, Allgood, Blue Sky, Treppenhaus, Boar’s Head, and Bar South.

Give your friends and family the best gift of all… Bring them in for a drink! Let us deck your liver with loads of coffee and cocktails this holiday season. Happy Holidays and may all your hangovers be mild. Ring in the New Year with us!

Concerts & Events The Classic Center Theatre

www.classiccenter.com, 706-357-4444 Celebrate the holiday season this year at The Classic Center Dec. 20-21! The festival will be a fun filled wonderland featuring ice skating, pictures with Santa, breakfast with Santa, Santa’s workshop full of kid crafts, three performances of The Nutcracker performed by the State Ballet Theatre of Russia and lots more! The festival benefits the nonprofit Extra Special People. Visit ClassicCenterChristmas.com for hours, pricing and more information.

Sensational Sounds of Motown Randy Schafer

Athens Moose Club, 706-546-0543 Mark your calendars and come join us this NEW YEAR’S EVE for “A Night Under the Stars” starring The Sensational Sounds of Motown featuring Mr. Motown (Athens Premier Classic Motown, R & B, and Soul Dance Band). Ring in the New Year with lots of fun, dancing, hors d’oeuvres, a champagne toast,

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and a deluxe breakfast buffet! Wednesday December 31, 2014 @ Athens Moose Club Ballroom, 7:30pm. $40/person.

Health & Beauty Emporium: An Aveda Concept Salon

187 N. Lumpkin St., 706-546-7598 We’ve been beautifying downtown Athens for over 30 years!

Stop by and relax while you experience our holiday gift bar.

You will find the perfect gifts for everyone on your list; featuring Aveda’s full line of products including, holiday gift sets, candles, gift certificates, free gift wrap and more. Treat the ones you love to the experience and aromatherapy of Aveda.

It’s sure to be a gift they will not forget!

Fringe Salon

8725 Hwy. 29 South, Hull, GA, 706-548-2005 Let Fringe put the sparkle under your tree and the age-defying glow on your cheeks with Nerium® Skin Care, only available at Fringe, and a Mirabella bag with lip gloss and powder for $30. A $55 value. All retail 15% off through Christmas. Open December 22nd and 23rd and New Years Eve til 3.

Lock Nest Hair Studio

706-546-7288 Wow! What a fast year 2014 has been! Miss Downtown but love working out of my New Location. I still offer styles for the whole family. I retail Biolage and American Crew. I look forward to the New Year, and wish everyone Happiness and Health. Call for an appointment. Happy Holiday & New Year! -Jackie

Republic Salon

312 E. Broad St. (third floor), 706-208-5222 The perfect present. A gift certificate to the hottest, most luxurious and unique salon in town. Award-winning Republic Salon provides top-quality hair styling, the only color bar around and pampered service, all within a luxurious New York loft environment. A most unforgettable gift of a most

indulgent experience. Check us out. We occupy the entire third floor above Magnolias (entrance on Jackson Street). Visit us at www.republicsalon.com.

Recreation Ciné

234 W. Hancock Ave., 706-353-3343 Athens’ only non-profit art house cinema presents a full range of motion pictures and artistic events that inspire, educate and build community. Ciné also features a full bar with refreshing cocktails and tasty treats, a visual art exhibit gallery, and the versatile CinéLab space—great for events, private parties, live performances and more! Give the gift of Ciné this holiday season with a gift card or annual membership for the film fan on your list! www.athenscine.com

Restaurants

experience that George himself would be proud of.

Grindhouse Killer Burgers

1553 S. Lumpkin St., 706-612-9327 Burger lovers have a new mecca in Five Points’ Grindhouse Killer Burgers, voted “Best Burger” and “Best Veggie Burger”

by Creative Loafing and runner up “Favorite Burger” in the Flagpole. With a family friendly menu, 20 beers on tap, and a heated rooftop patio bar, Grindhouse is the “go-to” spot for anyone craving a burger, fries, chili, or milkshake. And from now thru December 31, Grindhouse is running a BUY ONE GET ONE FREE BURGERS Holiday Special.

Gyro Wrap

175 E. Broad St., 706-543-9071 Serving great pita and tortilla wraps (meat and veggie) Gyro Wrap has been a favorite of locals, students, and tourists since 1979. The unique casual atmosphere, great service, delicious food, and locally brewed beer will make for a dining experience like no other. Shop downtown for one of a kind holiday gifts and have a great meal at the Gyro Wrap. Takeout available.

Amici Italian Cafe

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Charlie Noble’s

Pulaski Heights BBQ

233 E. Clayton St., 706-353-0000 We like to say we specialize in pizza, wings, and friends and while we are proud of our pizza and wings, it’s the friends part that makes us unique. We wanted to take a moment during this holiday season to thank all our customers who are our friends in so many different ways. Amici is a special place because of you. Thank you for being a friend and Happy Holidays!

1040 Gaines School Rd., 706-850-3743 Charlie Noble’s was one of three restaurants George Davis opened in the 1980’s. After Bissett’s closed I took everything I learned from George and opened George’s Lowcountry Table.

In 2014 I opened Charlie Noble’s to continue the tribute to George by naming the new restaurant after one of his. It was named to continue his legacy as one of the original restaurateurs in Athens. Our goal is to bring you a restaurant

815 N. Chase St., 706-354-7901 Heirloom Cafe would like to thank you for all the support over the last year. Happy Holidays to our loyal customers, vendors, farmers, employees, and friends. Join us on New Year’s Eve to say goodbye to a great year and for brunch on New Year’s Day to welcome in the year to come. www.heirloomathens.com

675 Pulaski St., Ste. 100, 706-583-9600 Need food for a party? PHBBQ offers pick up, delivery, and full service catering, as well as rental of our semi-private mezzanine for parties up to 20 or the entire restaurant for larger groups. Need a holiday ham or turkey? Give us a call to order one now. Need a delicious gift? How about some of our smoked pecans, pimiento cheese, or PHBBQ sauces? k continued on next page

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holiday shopping at our great retail shops and services including Lululemon, Suska, Black Petticoat, Olive Basket, Revival Yarns, Cullen & Co, All Body Studio and Express Nails. Refresh yourself afterwards at one of our popular dining spots—Hendershot’s, Seabear Oyster Bar, Siri Thai, Taziki’s and Viva. For more information, contact Sloane Nichols, at 706-202-4223.

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Square One Fish Co.

414 N. Thomas St., 706-353-8862 Are you looking for the perfect gift? Square One gift certificates always fit. And if you purchase $100 or more- in any denomination- you earn 10% back in gift certificates. Dinner on Christmas Eve from 4 p.m.–8 p.m., with happy hour specials at the bar until 7 p.m. Cheers! Closed Christmas day and reopening December 26 at 4 p.m. Need a spot for dinner on NYE? Serving regular menu plus offering dinner for two with bubbly or wine, salads and surf n turf for two $70 per couple.

Reservations suggested.

Five Points Bottle Shop

1655 S. Lumpkin St., 706-543-6989 3685 Atlanta Hwy., 706-316-2337 This holiday season Five Points Bottle is stocking the shelves so you can stuff your stocking! Beer and liquor gift sets make wonderful presents. Our three or six bottle wine club memberships are a great gift for the wine connoisseur. With everything from hand crafted beer, spirits & tobacco pipes we have something for everyone on your list. Did we mention everyone’s favorite stocking stuffer? Five Points Bottle Gift Certificates! Remember, No Fake IDs, No Crybabies!

Viva Argentine

247 Prince Ave., 706-850-8284 This holiday season for a delicious meal that has a little something out of the ordinary, stop by Viva! Argentine Cuisine.

Viva! features a number of authentic Argentine dishes, a number of vegetarian and vegan dishes, as well as many gluten free options. With a focus on friends and family and a commitment to benefiting the community, Viva! is the perfect atmosphere for a relaxing meal this holiday season, and always!

Frontier

193 E. Clayton St., 706-369-8079 When you walk into Frontier, a locally owned gift shop downtown, every sense is heightened. Customers exclaim how good it smells and the array of merchandise appeals to the eye.

Experience their unique finds for bath, home and garden with an emphasis on local products like Cap Man art, Bee Natural Honeypots and Whirly Wrap bracelets. They have complimen-

Retail Ansonborough of Athens

Masada Leather & Outdoor

238 E. Clayton St., 706-546-5014 In February 1975, a small leather shop was founded in downtown Athens with the idea of creating quality, handcrafted leather work at a reasonable price. Now, over three decades later, MASADA has built a reputation as the state’s leader in fine leather accessories, comfort and hiking footwear, and outdoor apparel. We sincerely hope that you’ll visit our unique shop while you’re here and enjoy the rustic charm and Old-World atmosphere of an Athens landmark.

Modern Age

1086 Baxter St., 706-549-6360 Since 1992, Modern Age has been Athens’ most unique gift shop, as well as the one stop shop for all tobacco needs. Our Humidor stocks over 30 different labels, kept fresh for cigar enthusiasts! We also carry a wide range of incense, hookahs & hookah accessories, Zippo lighters, electronic cigarettes & accessories, vaporizers, and adult gifts. Our second store, The Smoker’s Den in downtown, is Athens’ first Hookah Lounge. See us for all of your smoking needs!

Musician’s Warehouse Showcase

150 Crane Dr., 706-548-7233 Music is the gift that lasts a lifetime. This Christmas come visit your largest local music store for all of the musicians on

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1040 Gaines School Rd., 706-380-­1100 The Shops at Ansonborough have everything you need to make your holidays perfect. Give someone special a gift certificate from Edible Arrangements or Dragon Star Hobbies, take a break from the hustle and bustle with a delicious meal at Charlie Noble’s, Siri Thai Cuisine or Johnny’s Pizza, and give yourself some holiday sparkle with a treatment from Revive Salon and Spa or Tan­U Tanning Salon. What are you waiting for? Head over to Ansonborough today!

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The Athens Farmers Market

Bishop Park, www.athensfarmersmarket.net The Athens Farmers Market is an organization of local farmers, food producers, craftspeople and volunteers working to make local naturally grown food, crafts and art readily available to the Athens community. The LAST market of 2014 is on Dec. 20 from 9 a.m. to noon is dedicated to the holidays.

Locally handcrafted goods for sale include hand bags, ceramics, stationary, handmade paper goods, jewelry, hand carved wood art, soaps, candles, lotions, knitted hats and scarves, metal art, photography, and more.

Aurum Studios

125 E. Clayton St., 706-546-8826 Celebrating its 39th Anniversary, Aurum has a fabulous selection of platinum, gold and silver jewelry, diamonds, pearls, stunning color and cool beads. Original designs, custom work and repairs are available from six in-house goldsmiths. The Aurum gallery of American crafts features pottery, glass, wood and paintings by talented regional artists—even Christmas ornaments! Let Aurum’s friendly staff help you find all the gifts you need. Layaway, all charge cards and free gift wrapping.

Bottleworks

Prince Ave., www.bottleworks.net Come visit Bottleworks—one of downtown Athens’ coolest restaurant, retail and entertainment venues. Perfect for your

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706-613-3800 The ACC Leisure Services Department has the perfect gift for this holiday season. Santa buys local art and you can, too, at the Lyndon House Arts Center Gallery Shop. Check out Sandy Creek Nature Center’s Frog Pond Shop for something a little more outdoorsy. Where can you find the most unique gift in town—at Bear Hollow Zoo through the “Adopt an Animal” a special sponsorship program. Learn more at athensclarkecounty.com/leisure

tary gift wrapping and hot cider all month long. Come see what’s in-store for you and everyone on your list this holiday season!

Junkman’s Daughter’s Brother

166 W. Clayton St., 706-543-4454 ‘Twas the day before Xmas/ the shoppers were manic/ Junkman’s has re-opened, no need to panic/ We have Dr. Who and Star Wars/ purses and jammies/ Batman and Robin, tin signs and candy/ deer heads and earrings, cat butts and cute socks/ Beatles and windchimes, posters and teapots/ Everything you would need for your special elf/ We make it so easy, there’s time to shop for yourself.

The Loft Art Supply

1035 Baxter St., 706-548-5334 Who doesn’t love art supplies? We are a store staffed by artists so we can help you select just the right material for the artist on your list and of course we have lots of raw material for making that hand made decoration or card. Still not sure what to buy that creative friend or family member? No worry, we have gift certificates! Special holiday pricing on easels and gift sets. The Loft—where artists have served artists for over 36 years. We discount our prices, not our service. Merry Christmas! www.loftartsupply.com

your list. Musician’s Warehouse has what you’re looking for!

With the largest selection and best prices around we can satisfy all your musical needs for any size budget. Gift Certificates available. Behind the RaceTrac next to Toys-R-Us. Open every day until Christmas. Support the store that supports you and your music!

R. Wood Studio Ceramics

450 Georgia Dr., 706-613-8525 Shop local and give handmade pottery this year. R. Wood studio has been handcrafting pottery for over 20 years. We are located in a rustic warehouse, just east of downtown. We have dinnerware in 18 gorgeous colors to make any meal more memorable. Shop our famous “seconds” room, or find the perfect gift in our one-of-a-kind section, filled with hundreds of handmade pieces. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun 12-5 p.m. www.rwoodstudio.com

Southern Waterbeds & Futons

3775 Atlanta Hwy., 706-543-4323 Georgia’s oldest waterbed store features the state’s largest selection of waterbeds, waterbed sheets, parts and supplies.

Our futon gallery is filled with futon frames, futon mattresses and futon covers. We also specialize in UGA fan rooms, home décor and gifts. Bean Bags from $55. Super Single Waterbeds from $499. Futons from $199. Kids lofts, too. The same local

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owner since 1975 appreciates your business. Across from Georgia Square Mall. Mon-Sat 10 ‘til 7. Closed Sunday. www. southernwaterbeds.com

Suska

Midnight Iguana Tattoo

297 Prince Ave., 706-548-2258 Welcome to Suska, a European inspired boutique that carries a well edited collection of sustainable, consigned fashion items and gifts, now located in town at the Bottleworks! We would like to thank both our customers and consignors for supporting us for more than 6 years in business. Gift cards are available and make great presents! Let us prove to you just how fabulous consignment shopping can be!

800 Oglethorpe Ave., 706-549-0190 Athens Georgia’s first professional tattoo studio est.1989.

Our award winning tattoo artist & body-piercing staff prides itself on amazing art, hospital sterility & impeccable customer service. You, or your art will NEVER be disrespected at Midnight

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Project Safe, Inc.

www.project-safe.org, 706-549-0922 The holidays are all about giving, and at a time when every penny counts, it’s important to remember that even small donations make a big difference. At Project Safe’s emergency shelter, items like toilet paper, cleaning supplies, trash bags and women’s pajamas are always needed. Donations can be brought to the Project Safe Thrift Store, located in the Hawthorne Avenue Bell’s Shopping center, Mon.–Sat. 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

SBSA

2026 S. Milledge Ave. D-3, 706-433-2022 If you can touch-type 65 wpm and have excellent English grammar/comprehension skills, you can get paid to type! We’re a financial transcription company offering part-time positions with competitive production-based pay. Members get to create their own schedule and our office is located close to campus!

Visit our website to apply and set up an in-office assessment: www.sbsath.com. Happy Holidays!

Randy Schafer

485 E. Clayton St., 706-850-4885 Following in the tradition of an Athens icon, long­time manager of Junkman’s brings you TINFISH GIFTS, downtown’s new source for Bohemian clothing for women and men, funky accessories, amazing 3D wall hangings, movie and rock posters, clever coffee mugs, puzzles, tie­-dyed t-shirts, retro candies, incense and so much more. We have an awesome collection of Buddhist prayer flags, malas, and singing bowls. Hilarious Christmas cards and great Stocking Stuffers, too! Open Christmas Eve!

Association of Professional Piercers. www.painandwonder.com, www.virtueandadvice.com

Clarke County School District

240 Mitchell Bridge Rd., 706-546-7721 The Clarke County School District is home to the 2015 Georgia Superintendent of the Year, the #1 Career Academy in the State, six International Baccalaureate World Schools, one of the NAMM Top Communities in Music Education and a model technology school district. All students in grades 3–9 are able to take home district-provided devices, and instruction has transformed around personalized—yet collaborative—innovative digital learning environments. We are Proud to be CCSD!

The Spa at Graduate Athens Iguana. We also offer permanent cosmetics, tattoo removal, areola repigmentation, scar revision & educational seminars world wide. UGA Alumni owned & operated. Hours: Tues.–Thurs.

2 p.m.–10 p.m., Fri.–Sat. 2 p.m.–12 a.m.

Pain and Wonder Tattoo

285 W. Washington St., 706-208-9588 This permanent artwork will be the gift that lasts forever.

Highest sterilization standards in the industry. Be pierced using implant-quality jewelry. Gift certificates available.

Artists include Chris Parry, Mike Groves, Kim Deakins and Matty Goldstein. Piercers include Bethra and Randy. Members National Tattoo Association. Piercers are proud members of the

295 E. Dougherty St., 706-425-9700 The weather outside is frightful, but a Signature Facial at Graduate Spa is MOST delightful! Now that you have crossed everyone off your holiday shopping list, its time to pamper yourself with a luxurious Heavenly Hot Stone massage on one of our heated tables, or maybe a Relaxing Spa Pedicure in one of our massaging chairs. Gift Certificates available for all services… Give the gift of Ahhhh, at Graduate Spa.

WUGA

www.wuga.org, 706-542-9842 Wishing you the happiest of holidays and a great year in 2015! WUGA, the Classic 91.7 & 97.9 FM. Your oasis for ideas and the arts. To make a donation, visit www.wuga.org.

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Athens Music in 2014 The Wild, the Wonderful and the WTF Editor’s note: For the first feature in Flagpole’s series of year-end music coverage, we asked writers to reflect on a topic they felt best represented the state of Athens music in 2014. We will continue next week with a collection of Athenians’ favorite musical moments of the year and conclude on Jan. 7 with our Top 10 of 2014 local albums list.

What gets lost in this process, even when it occurs in the context of a small-town music scene, are the nebulous factors that play a greater role in connection. In other words, what I say in the bar affects how my date thinks of me, but it’s not the only thing that does so.

Last month, after posting his latest video, “Cooking with Nate,” Mitchell defended himself from a commenter who labeled it “mean-spirited.” After replying that “turnabout is fair play” and linking to DIP’s track “Nate Mitchell Gets Dipped,” Mitchell added, “The feud is real.”

But is it? This year on my newsfeed, there were women posting about workplace harassment, who were then them-

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selves harassed by commenters. There were my uncle’s pro-Obama posts and my cousin’s anti-Obama posts.

There were disrespectful posts about Ferguson, and posts about how to deal with people posting about Ferguson disrespectfully.

And, finally, there was Nate Mitchell, Athens, GA musician, record-store clerk and DJ, becoming Hate Mitchell, foil to Athens, GA band DIP. Is it real? Does it really matter? In the end, it was just something I saw on Facebook. [Marshall Yarbrough]

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Nothing has robbed me of more hours of productive computer time this year than the “feud” between DIP and Nate Mitchell. The spat began on Facebook earlier this year and DIP has since begun to spill out into real life.

It has spawned YouTube videos from both parties, as well as joke songs and public shaming; it has been by turns hilarious and off-putting, goofy and mean-spirited.

Above all, it has been a fascinating spectacle playing out at the intersection of socialmedia posturing and smalltown rivalry.

To give a full report of the many salvos exchanged over the course of the last eight months would require Old Testament levels of print space, so I’ll have to make do with a brief summary: • In late March, local musician Mitchell posted a snarky remark on the Facebook event page for a “Wrestlemania”themed party at which local band DIP was slated to perform.

• DIP’s Parks Miller responded with a jokey video where he appeared in wrestler persona and called Mitchell out.

• Mitchell then replied with his own jokey video, accepting the challenge and elaborating on his distaste for the band’s music.

• A confrontation ensued at the party itself.

• Since then, Mitchell has made more anti-DIP videos…

• And DIP has responded in kind, with anti-Mitchell Facebook posts and a diss song, sampling tracks from Mitchell’s band, Cars Can Be Blue.

The chief narrative that emerged: • Nate Mitchell really doesn’t like DIP’s music, and is willing to take on the role of the villain in order to air his views online.

• DIP, in turn, is happy to incorporate the feud into its performances and just generally let Mitchell’s antagonism be grist for the DIP positivity mill.

Two key factors are at play here: the small ecosystem of the Athens music scene and the nature of discourse on social media.

Consider this scenario: I’m on a date at a bar. The subject of Arcade Fire comes up, and I go on a rant calling Win Butler a “crypto-Reaganite Bruce Springsteen wannabe.” It’s likely the only person bothered will be my date. Even if I proceed to make a video about it and post it online, chances are Butler won’t notice or care, because he and I are not closely connected enough to make my views worth noting. I would be an anonymous hater and nothing more.

In contrast, DIP had never met Nate Mitchell before seeing his post, but they felt compelled to respond, just as both parties still feel compelled to continue this feud. Even though they may not know each other on a personal level, they live in a community small enough that any criticism is bound to become personal.

And whatever degree of enmity actually exists, it takes on a new dimension when it appears online. Contrary to what Zuckerberg and company want us to believe about how social media is supposed to connect people who share common interests (or views, or politics), what ends up happening is that we’re forced to embody those interests.

hats kept warm, perching on hay bales around small fires. Here and there, a dog or a guitarist wandered by, perhaps grabbing a Terrapin while waiting for the festivities to start. Wildwood Revival was about to get underway.

A mini music festival held on a farm just outside Athens, Wildwood Revival captured the current zeitgeist, with its supper clubs and artist markets. All of it was organized, staffed and hosted by one family and a small group of volunteers and employees interested in, as head organizer Libby Rose puts it, a “cultural revival,” defined by an ethos that embraces vinyl, vintage and literal barn-stomping.

Of the festival’s genesis, says Rose: “We were having our friends out to the farm for potlucks and sitting around by the fire really late at night a lot, eating really good food that was made with love, playing music and asking how to make it bigger and accessible to everyone.”

Being there, among the big belt buckles and laughter and teepees (yes, you could rent and sleep in a teepee), I was struck by a feeling: “This is so Athens.” And yet, it kinda wasn’t. GSB and T. Hardy Morris aside, none of the entertainment at November’s Wildwood was locally based (something Rose says she plans to change with the next event).

Still, Athens has always had a strong connection to Nashville, and Wildwood strengthened that cultural exchange by bringing in acts such as Langhorne Slim, Joshua Black Wilkins and Margo Price—not to mention a number of festivalgoers from out of town.

And what actually makes Wildwood a Very Athens Nate Mitchell Experience are the values it represents; namely, keepin’ it green, making your own fun and celebrating the creative people in our community. At the November event, food was served on plates made from fallen leaves. Beer was served out of reusable mason jars. Filtered water was provided to attendees free of charge.

Wildwood is both bourgeois and defined largely by its aesthetics, a festival for the Instagram era, with its inclusion of upscale vintage boutiques and deliberately styled photo-ops.

And with so many excellent artists just down the road, organizers would be remiss if they didn’t make good on their promise to include more local bands next year.

But neither of those truths should discourage Athens from claiming it as its own. At the end of the night, as the lights went down on the barn’s stage, dozens of folks crowded around a campfire to enjoy more drinks, more music and, above all, each other’s company.

At the literal end of the day, the festival accomplished its ultimate goal, says Rose. “We wanted good, healthy food and good music, and to invite the public into it to create this culture around what we all value in our lives.”

[Rachel Bailey]

2. #BackToTheLand-ing On a chilly November afternoon, in an open-air barn in the fields of Arnoldsville, Grassland String Band was sound-checking. Studded around the barn, a mélange of 20- and 30-somethings in uniforms of cowboy boots, flannel and wide-brimmed

Heavy metal has always been a weird cousin in the Athens music scene. To be sure, every couple of years a band rises to the level where it simply can’t be ignored (see Lazer/Wulf).

But, let’s be honest: Unless there’s something clearly categorizable about a group (doom, black, Southern, sludge, etc.), or the musicians are tied into the scene already, when it comes to metal, Athens often just doesn’t wanna know.

Three years ago, promoter and musician Henry Mitchell started putting together local and regional metal bands under

the banner of his New Metal Order outfit, often stylized as “nMo.” Says Mitchell, “The idea behind nMo is to build a scene with a fanbase that will support the metal bands who want to play in Athens, and to provide the opportunity for newer bands to hit the stage in this great music town.”

Two factors contributed to nMo’s creation. First, Mitchell caught the aforementioned Lazer/Wulf during an AthFest performance at the Morton Theatre some years back and was surprised by the limp reception it received. Second, his own band, 10 Fingers Strong, found it difficult scoring gigs as an unknown group without an inside track.

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Finding that other heavy bands had the same problem, he took the reins. After securing a five-band bill, he approached the Caledonia Lounge, secured a date for his first nMo event and has been at it ever since.

The lion’s share of nMo work falls on Mitchell, but he is often assisted by his brother Richard (who also plays in 10 Fingers Strong) and musicians he helps promote. His method of grouping emerging bands from a marginal local genre under a single promotional banner finally coalesced into drawing substantial crowds in 2014.

“Every genre and promoter has challenges in this town, mostly because there are at least five to 10 shows on any given night,” Mitchell says. “That makes it tough for anybody.”

New Metal Order’s booking criteria are fairly open-ended, but Mitchell admits to admiring effort and hard work over anything else. “I generally try to find bands I think are motivated, the guys who put forth effort, from flyers to two-hour practice sessions everyday,” he says. “[I look for] motivation, period.

Talent helps, but I think the people who work the hardest should be the ones in the spotlight.” [Gordon Lamb]

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One collective in particular, Marching Banana Records, has been building a name for itself, and 2014 may have been its breakout year. The fledgling cooperative functions as a combination of digital label and promotional entity, but when it comes down to it, the group is really just a bunch of friends making music together. “I’ve just always benefited from having a close-knit group of people to safely bounce ideas off of,� says Drew Kirby, who spearheaded Marching Banana and sister organization Freeklife, a house party series featuring performances from Marching Banana bands and others that slowly evolved into a curated mini-festival at several downtown venues.

Kirby’s home, not far from Milledge Avenue, where the majority of the university’s frat population dwells, (Greek Life/ Freeklife: Get it?) has been Banana and Freeklife HQ since the start. It has functioned as living quarters, practice space, merch factory and, most recently, recording studio.

January’s Freekfest 2 at New Earth, where attendance neared 500, Kirby claims, showed his two entities’ influence and potential. “It was just amazing to see our friends play in front of that many people,� says Kirby of the fest, which featured a mix of local and regional talent, including Brothers, Places to Hide and Nurture.

From there, Freeklife took to Twilight, a Georgia Theatre rooftop series and a post-AthFest house show before finishing the year off where it all began: the Freeklife house, with a final party and music by Meth Wax and Padre, among others.

While Freeklife enjoyed much success in 2014, Marching Banana shared an equal amount of small victories: Futo, Meth Wax and New Wives all released well-received albums.

So, how do they top 2014? “We have a pretty solid lineup of releases for 2015,� said Kirby. “There’s a Padre EP being recorded right now [and] a New Wives full-length, along with a bunch of new stuff I won’t really go into.� [Andy Barton]

to recent reports in Billboard. But in a town where it can be tough to convince 50 people to pay five bucks for a three-band bill, is it possible to sustain so many music festivals? “Doing anything music-related in Athens is a double-edged sword,â€? says Gordon Lamb, the Flagpole columnist and Athens Intensified founder who also helmed the now-defunct Athens PopFest. “It’s very challenging to create events that are‌ branded with a specific identity.â€?

The main festivals seem to have overcome that challenge.

AthFest is the esteemed, hyper-local happening. Intensified is carefully curated and stubbornly genre-defying. Americana, as

event, and Americana has benefited in the past from a partnership with the Twilight Criterium, local festivals mostly operate on a hand-to-mouth basis.

Riedl hopes Slingshot can work more closely with AthensClarke County to secure a solid footing. “If you look across the South, governments have made strong efforts to foster events such as ours that will hopefully magnetize culture and have a positive economic impact on the city in the long run.�

And, regarding a perceived crowding of the market, organizers are optimistic. “I think if each festival has its own musical and artistic niche, strengths and offerings—and they don’t Joshua L. Jones

ATHENS MUSIC in 2014

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5. Festivals Expanding While show attendance seemed at least to plateau, if not outright decline, in 2014, Athens hosted several sizable multiday festivals—mainstays AthFest and Athens Americana, as well as the younger Slingshot Festival and Athens Intensified— each of which drew well enough to sustain the event for at least another year, say organizers.

In addition, numerous mini-fests popped up from month to month—label showcases like the Cloud Recordings Festival and DIY spectacles like SlopFest, which operated on a smaller scale than the big four but were no less successful in their missions.

2014 also saw brand new offerings, like the aforementioned Wildwood Revival, as well as fresh installments of long-running niche happenings like the North Georgia Folk Festival and Athens Human Rights Festival.

The expanding list of local fests may reflect a wider trend; nationwide, the business of live music is booming, according

the name suggests, is specific in its stylistic focus. Slingshot, the most ambitious of the bunch, aims to cast Athens in an international light, incorporating tech, art and education angles.

As for financials, Slingshot’s 2014 edition had “a significant economic impact for the city,â€? says co-founder Kai Riedl. Lamb notes that Intensified’s “budget for the second year was double that of the first, and the budget for the most recent year was over five times that of the second‌ Losses have been reduced by over 80 percent, and actual ticket sales increased by over 10-fold.â€?

That’s not to say there’s any dough-raking going on. While AthFest is recognized (and marketed) as Athens’ flagship music

occur within a few weeks of one another—then the whole community is only served by multiple landmark events,â€? says Athens Americana’s Adam Klein. “Logistically,â€? Lamb says, “every event just has to take control of its own situation‌ Athens is well stocked with rooms, stages and knowledgeable staff at every venue. This type of ready-made live music infrastructure is enviable.â€?

Still, for each festival to survive, Lamb reiterates, it must stay true to its focus. “There are many things I’d like to do— film, artists-in-residence—because I enjoy these elements of other festivals I attend, but just because others do them doesn’t mean they make sense for [me]‌ You’ve gotta build your own beast.â€? [Gabe Vodicka]

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Since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all got things to do and such, and because each year around this time we let the public do its own thing on our pages via our Slackpole double issue, this is the final T&P of 2014. So, let this be your notice that I wish you a very happy holiday season and all that type of stuff. Stay safe, stay warm, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see ya again in 2015! Thanks for another great year in Athens music.

Enjoy the Unsilence: The 22-year-old worldwide phenomenon known as Unsilent Night happens this year in Athens Friday, Dec. 19. The hook is this: Participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;i.e., youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;show up with a boombox, cassette player or digital player with speakers, cue up the pre-recorded four movements of composer Phil Klineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unsilent Nightâ&#x20AC;? and parade through town while everyone lets the music play from their individual devices.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really not as complicated, nor as impenetrably artsy, as it might seem. The conviviality of the event, not to mention the impressively soothing and delightfully aligned sound of multiple speakers playing the same music, is a really neat thing.

The gathering begins at Little Kings Shuffle Club at 7:30 p.m., but you may want to arrive earlier, so youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not the one dragging everyone down. Obtain the music and explore the history of this event over at unsilent night.com.

Make it Happen: The first live instance of Athens hip hop faithful Akeeme Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Onyx Echelon 85 Dictator aka the OE85 Movement will happen Saturday, Dec. 20 at the 40 Watt Club. This event is called Legends Vol. 1: The Prelude and aims to present 30 events between now and August 2015, when Martin will turn 30 years old. The overall goal of the OE85 Movement is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to connect and collaborate with various people in different avenuesâ&#x20AC;Ś and to make some really solid and unique events and have everyone involved reach that next level.â&#x20AC;? To this end, this first show features performances by classic Athens hip hop artists Ishues, Duddy Ken, Elite Tha Showstoppa and Tony B, as well as this centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voices like Versatyle Tha Wildchyld, Whisper, Blacknerdninja, Dictator, Backwood Slick and Big Body. It happens at 8 p.m. and will run you a mere $7.

educational professionals. The first camp is scheduled for January 2015. Slingshot has started a fundraising campaign for the project (head to IndieGoGo and search for GIZMO) that ends Jan. 1 but has already raised most of the $1,500 itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seeking. Most of the donors have contributed at the $200 level, which guarantees a slot for their kid in the camp, but you can donate any amount and feel good about yourself. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a crack team of instructors lined up for GIZMO programs, and each of them has at least one foot in the history of the Athens music scene. Lined up are musicians Lucas Jensen, Slingshot founder

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Kai Riedl, David Gerow, Vicky Tavernier, Eric Marty, Karen Sweeney Gerow, Suny Lyons and Keiko Ishibashi. Before those concerned get all wadded up, allow me to acknowledge that the rĂŠsumĂŠs of these individuals are quite broad in both terms of experience and formal education, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only so much room on this page. Check it all out via facebook.com/ AthensSlingshotFestival.

One Tough Cookie: Unfortunate news came down the wire a couple of weeks ago when we learned that the drummer for Casper & The Cookies, and all-around good guy to boot, Gregory Sanders, was forced to step out of that position. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently suffering from a completely torn rotator cuff on at least one and possibly both of his shoulders, and will require many months of respite and tons of physical therapy. His smiling face behind the kit will be missed, but we wish him a complete recovery. You can keep up with the Cookie camp, and send your kind thoughts to Gregory, via facebook.com/ casperandthecookies.

See ya next year!

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art notes Little Lords Praying Paws: Lawson Grice’s “Little Lords,” currently on view at The Grit, present surreal scenes of animals and digital creatures coexisting in a colorful world of full moons, rainbow prisms and curious rituals. Many of the digital illustrations juxtapose symbology from centuries-old religions with imagery influenced by new technology, reflecting spirituality’s steadfast roots within a modernized culture.

“This all kind of started with pretty intense sciatic pain,” says Grice. “Spent a good time earlier this year laying on a yoga mat with my legs pushed this way, a belt wrapped behind a foot, and headphones on my ears. It was a lot of brain time…My boyfriend Matt [Blanks, who curates the restaurant’s exhibits] had just finished a show—he was going to work

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In addition to symbols and ideas borrowed from religion, these mythological scenes are full of pop culture references.

“Everything usually started with an event I wanted to illustrate based on some song, long day or ‘Game of Thrones’ episode,” says Grice.

“And yeah, ‘Little Lords’ is what the wildling lady calls the Stark little ones.”

Cohabiting with the collection’s animals are little rocket-shaped, monochromatic creatures that often project rays of light, adding a digital overtone. “I grew up, and I think a loot of us did, with Zelda and Mario. I’d be lying if those images and sparse 8-bit, 2D screen shots didn’t affect the way I see things,” says Grice. “With video games, like

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Though “Little Lords” may be his first solo show, Grice has a remarkably distinct style, thematically blending elements of wonder, spirituality and ritual into richly hued fantasy environments. After attending school to study painting and drawing, he worked predominantly in charcoals and experimented with Photoshop for album art and flyers. Realizing that there was still much to be learned with Adobe, he committed to this exhibit as a way to motivate himself to learn the software.

“I’ve always loved early Christian and Byzantine art,” says Grice. “I knew I wanted to start there. Wanted my work to look like an illustrated book of some lost religion from the Roman Empire, and at the same time the 1960s.”

Though strongly influenced by Christian imagery, Grice—who didn’t attend church growing up but was raised with Methodist principles—became steadily disheartened by watching, reading and experiencing Christian intolerance.

“I think they have kind of lost their way.

So, I figured I’d illustrate my own world. I still borrowed ideas from Christian history—war, crowns, genocide, division—but also borrowed a lot from Native American, Wiccan and other

animation, someone designed every element, composition, color choice and even potential choices. It’s complete control of an experience in someone’s art.”

“Little Lords” will be on view at The Grit through Sunday, Jan. 4.

Athens Arcana: Lawson Grice is also one of 78 regional artists participating in ATHICA’s “Athens Arcana: A Contemporary Tarot,” a collaborative project in which each artist created one card to compile into a full tarot deck. The original artwork of each card is currently on view in the gallery, and a closing reception on Sunday, Dec. 21 from 4–6 p.m. will offer a last-minute opportunity to pick up tarot decks before the holidays.

Holiday Markets: The bulk of this year’s holiday artist markets have passed, but there are still a few opportunities to find locally made crafts. Christmas at the Classic Center’s Handmade Holiday Market, open Saturday, Dec. 20 and Sunday, Dec. 21 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m., will host a handful of exhibitors.

In Watkinsville, the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation’s Artist Shoppe will be open 10 a.m.–4 p.m. through Saturday, Dec. 20. The Lyndon House Arts Center’s market, Deck the Walls, is perhaps your best, last chance with works by 70 regional artists. Deck the Walls is currently open Tuesdays-Saturdays from 12–5 p.m. until Sunday. Jan. 4.

Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com

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It’s a chance to give back and get down at the Georgia Theatre Thursday night, when three groups of 12 local songwriters perform rotating solo and collaborative sets of original tunes and holiday favorites.

Along with Dead Confederate’s T. Hardy Morris, who’s presenting the beer-themed show (call him Sudsy Santa), the list of performers includes local stalwarts Dave Marr, Don Chambers, Betsy Franck and Vaughn Lamb, as well as Thayer Sarrano and members of Futurebirds, Grand Vapids, Blue Blood, The District Attorneys and more. Admission to this shindig is free—as long as you arrive toting one unwrapped toy, which will be given to Toys for Tots. Just make sure it’s not, like, Silly Putty or something lame. [Gabe Vodicka]

Tuesday 16 CLASSES: Crochet 1 Class (Revival Yarns) Get acquainted with the tools and craft of crochet. The class is free with the purchase of materials.

RSVP. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com CLASSES: Computer Class: Introduction to Computers (ACC Library) Register by telephone or in person at the reference desk. 10 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens

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Christmas at the Classic Center

EVENT | Friday, Dec. 19

Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night

EVENT | Dec. 20–21

Little Kings Shuffle Club · 7:30 p.m. · FREE! The concept behind composer Phil Kline’s now 22-year-old holiday tradition is simple: A crowd of boom box-toting participants gathers in a predetermined location; each participant receives a cassette or CD with one of four tracks of a Kline composition, then everyone hits “play” at the same time and sets off on a caroling parade. The Athens edition will meet at Little Kings and march through the streets of downtown. For expediency’s sake, you can download a track directly onto your mp3 player, but for the full effect, bring the biggest, bulkiest boom box possible—it makes a great conversation starter in the bar afterwards.

[Marshall Yarbrough]

EVENTS: Girls Night Out (The Office Lounge) Spend the evening with the world famous Chippendales. 9 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20. 706-546-0840 EVENTS: Open House (The Courtyard in Bottleworks) Suska, Revival Yarns and Olive Basket host an open house. 5–8 p.m. FREE! charleshay428@gmail.com EVENTS: Tuesday Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Fresh produce and cooked foods. Offers double dollars for EBT shoppers.

Held every Tuesday. 4–7 p.m. 706613-0122, www.athenslandtrust.org

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Christmas at the Classic Center

Classic Center · 10 a.m.–5 p.m. · $3 The Classic Center’s second annual holiday festival offers a weekend of activities to celebrate the season. Highlights include iceskating on the new 17,000 square foot indoor rink ($12/session), a neighborhood of gingerbread houses constructed by local bakers and a Handmade Holiday Market, featuring a handful of regional crafters. Santa will be available for portraits throughout the day and will arrive early on Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. for a special breakfast with children.

Proceeds benefit Extra Special People, an organization that empowers children living with developmental disabilities. Visit classiccenterchristmas.com for details. [Jessica Smith]

EVENTS: Tuesday Tour (UGA Special Collections Library) Take a guided tour of the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-524-8079 FILM: Bad Movie Night (Ciné Barcafé) A teen snowboarding champion and his friends spend a weekend in an isolated cabin in the woods, only to be terrorized by a pair of amoral bank robbers on the

PERFORMANCE | Dec. 20–21

The Nutcracker

Classic Center · $15–35 As one of the most widely performed ballets in the world, The Nutcracker’s story of a little girl named Clara, who travels to the Land of Sweets on an enchanted Christmas Eve, is an evergreen, perennial holiday favorite. These performances in the Classic Center Theatre by the State Ballet Theatre of Russia, which feature a company of over 50 professional dancers, present a production that follows the same authentic choreography used by Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet. The score, which includes popular pieces like “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and “Waltz of the Flowers” is one of Tchaikovsky’s most melodic. Performances will be held at 3 p.m.both days, with an additional show at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. [JS]

run from the law in the substandard ‘90s actioner White Fury. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.facebook.com/badmovienight GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General Trivia with host Adrienne Hamil. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8508561 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature

KARAOKE | Monday, Dec. 22 & Monday, Dec. 29

Indie Rock Karaoke

Go Bar · 10 p.m. · FREE! When the college students leave our town for the holidays, the townies come out to play—or, in this case, sing. The concert calendar may slow down this time of year, but it’s also your best bet for happening upon strange local favorites, like the aforementioned Unsilent Night event, or the beloved Indie Rock Karaoke, which returns to Go Bar for two consecutive Monday gigs. Former Athens resident Geoff Carr, who hosted IRK in town each week from 2004–2007, has made its pop-up return a holiday tradition in recent years. Belt your favorites by artists like Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Tom Waits, Beck and Guided by Voices well into the night. [GV]

trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Herschel’s 34 Chicken & Ribs Kitchen) With Garrett Lennox. House cash and food and drink specials.

8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ dirtysouthtrivia GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (The Savory Spoon) Compete to win prizes. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-367-5721 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) An interactive program for ages 2–5. 9:30–10:30 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens

KIDSTUFF: Make a Book Wreath (ACC Library) Make a unique, holiday wreath out of book pages.

All supplies provided. Ages 11–18.

4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Youth Christmas Party (Lay Park) Holiday party with refreshments, activities, crafts and a visit from Santa Claus. Ages 3–10.

6 p.m. FREE! $2 photos with Santa.

706-613-3596 PERFORMANCE: Georgia Children’s Chorus (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Holiday

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Wednesday 17 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Associate curator of European art Laura Valeri leads a tour of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Nightmare Transported into Art: Odilon Redonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;St. Anthony.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? 2 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A special holiday edition hosted by Jeremy Dyson.

9:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Weekly themed games.

House cash and drink prizes. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes while enjoying a brewski! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) See Tuesday listing for full description 9:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10:30 a.m.

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Thursday 18 ART: Drawing in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) Open hours for visitors to sketch in the galleries using graphite or colored pencils. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Third Thursday Art Series (Athens, GA) Seven galleries stay open late the third Thursday of every month. Participating galleries include the Georgia Museum of Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, ATHICA, Lyndon House Arts Center, CinĂŠ, the GlassCube & Gallery @ Hotel Indigo and The Classic Center. See website for a list of open exhibits. 6-9 p.m.

FREE! www.3thurs.org ART: Zentangle (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Kelly Cassidy demonstrates how to relax and have fun while drawing simple, structured patterns. For teens and adults. 6 p.m. FREE! madcolib@yahoo.com CLASSES: December Yoga Series (Leathers Building) With yoga instructor Sarah Dunning. 9:15 a.m. $12 drop in. happydunning@ gmail.com CLASSES: Finishing Techniques Class (Revival Yarns) Learn how to join pieces and sew seams. You will be introduced to different types of seam stitches: mattress stitch, backstitch, kitchener stitch and threeneedle bind off. RSVP. 6 p.m. $15. www.revivalyarnsathens.com

6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens GAMES: Trivia (Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q) Hosted by Dirty South Trivia. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-8511 KIDSTUFF: Baby Music Jam (ACC Library) Children ages 1-3 and their caregivers can play instruments, sing and dance together. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Bring your pajama-clad kids in for a set of stories and a bedtime snack. 7 p.m. FREE! 706795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Book Jammers (ACC Library) Children and their families are invited for stories, trivia, crafts and more. This event promotes literacy through the art of listening and helps to strengthen attention spans. For children ages 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org

Friday 19 CLASSES: Knit 2 (Revival Yarns) Review casting on, the knit stitch, the purl stitch, stockinette and garter stitch patterns. RSVP. 11:30 a.m. $30. www.revivalyarnsathens.com EVENTS: A Festivus for the Rest of Us (Hotel Indigo) Meet, have drinks and celebrate the holiday season. Ask at the front desk for location. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0430

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KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Includes stories, finger-puppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 5 & under. Every Wednesday.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Film & Fondue (Oconee County Library) Watch a film adaptation of Gayle Formanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-selling novel, If I Stay, while enjoying sweet and salty fondue favorites. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Knit Kids Class (Revival Yarns) Knit Kids is a beginning knitting class for kiddos to learn how to cast-on and knit stitch. RSVP. 6 p.m. $15. 706-850-1354, www.revivalyarnsathens.com KIDSTUFF: Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workshop (East Athens Community Center) Activities include bounce houses, bingo, crafts, face painting and more. Grades Kâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;5. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6:30 p.m. $1-2. 706-613-3593, www.athensclarkecounty.com/holidayevents MEETINGS: Tech Happy Hour (Highwire Lounge) Meet local entrepreneurs, tech talent and other fellow Athenians who are making cool stuff at this weekly Four Athens networking happy hour. 6 p.m. FREE! www. fourathens.com/happy-hour

CLASSES: One-On-One Computer Tutorial (ACC Library) Personalized instruction available for various computer topics. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9:45 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 354 COMEDY: Comic Strip (The Globe) Stand-up comedy open mic with headliner Kelly Spillman. Spillman is moving to LA and this is her farewell show. Hosted by Alia Ghosheh.

9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ globeathens EVENTS: Festival of Trees Opening Reception (The Classic Center) Fifty trees decorated by local businesses will be on view Dec. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 as part of Christmas at the Classic Center. Guests can bid throughout the week or at this official bidding ceremony and silent auction. Proceeds benefit Extra Special People. 6:30 p.m. $25. 706769-9333, www.extraspecialpeople. com/festival-of-trees FILM: Movie Afternoon (ACC Library) Watch a movie with the library. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice will have a holiday theme. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens FILM: Stalag 17 (ACC Library) A group of captured U.S. airmen attempt to escape a German prisoner of war camp in late December, 1944.

EVENTS: Unsilent Night (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Participate in a public performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unsilent Night.â&#x20AC;? The 45-minute electronic piece, designed â&#x20AC;&#x153;specifically to be heard outdoors in the month of Decemberâ&#x20AC;? by composer Phil Kline, was debuted in New York City in 1992 and is performed around the world. Meet at Little Kings and bring portable music players for a walk around downtown. See Calendar Pick on p. 22. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. unsilentnight.com GAMES: Friday Night Magic (Tycheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games) Win prizes. 5:30 p.m. www.tychesgames.com

Saturday 20 ART: Bendzunas Glass Annual Winter Open House (Bendzunas Glass) The family-run glassblowing studio hosts extended holiday hours on Saturdays and Sundays with live glassblowing demonstrations until 3 p.m. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE! 706783-5869 ART: Athens Farmers Market: Holiday Market (Bishop Park) In addition to the markets regular

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THE CALENDAR! selection of local produce and prepared treats, a special holiday market will feature locally made wares like jewelry, soap, knitwear, carving, cutting boards, toys and more. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Holiday Spirits Museum Mile Tour (Various Locations) This tour focuses on period holiday traditions spanning the 19th century by exploring four historic houses from the Federal, Greek Revival and Victorian periods. Participating houses include the Church-WaddelBrumby, T.R.R. Cobb, Taylor-Grady and Ware-Lyndon Houses. The tour includes a theater vignette, live music and refreshments. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. 2 p.m. $25.

706-353-1820 EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse, Watkinsville) Locally grown produce, meats, grains, flowers, soaps, birdhouses, gourds and much more.

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EVENTS: Christmas at the Classic Center (The Classic Center) Come see decorated Christmas trees and gingerbread houses, shop at the Handmade Holiday Market, go ice skating in the indoor rink, and take pictures with Santa. See Calendar Pick on p. 22. Dec. 20–21. $3 (general admission), $12 (ice skating). www.classiccenterchristmas.com EVENTS: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) Presented by Athens Folk Music & Dance Society. This month’s dance band will be Free Association and the caller will be Andrea Nettleton. 7:45–8 p.m. (lesson), 8–11 p.m. (dance). FREE! (under 18), $8. www.athensfolk.org GAMES: Pathfinder Society Event (Tyche’s Games) Fantasy RPG. Bring your imagination. 12 p.m. FREE! 706-345-4500 KIDSTUFF: Breakfast with the Grinch (Rocksprings Community Center) Dine with the Grinch, take photos and make a Whoville craft.

Register by Dec. 15. 9:30 a.m. $5–8 (children), $3–5 (adult). 706-613-

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22. Dec. 20, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21, 3 p.m. $15–35. 706-542-4400, www.classiccenter.com

Sunday 21 ART: Bendzunas Glass Annual Winter Open House (Bendzunas Glass) See Saturday listing for full description 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE! 706-783-5869 ART: Closing Reception (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) For “Athens Arcana: A Contemporary Tarot.” 78 regional artists designed a card to create a custom tarot deck. All original artwork is on sale, along with the tarot decks. 4–6 p.m. FREE! $30 (tarot deck). www.athica.org EVENTS: Christmas at the Classic Center (The Classic Center) See Saturday listing for full description

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The State Ballet Theatre of Russia will perform The Nutcracker at the Classic Center on Saturday, Dec. 20 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Dec. 21 at 3 p.m.

EVENTS: WVSJ Christmas Cabaret (VFW) Women Veteran Social Justice host an evening with an ugly sweater contest, DJ and giveaways. Bring your own meal.

Proceeds benefit the WVSJ’s 2015 Women Veterans Conference. 8 p.m. $20–25. 252-394-8397, www. wvsj.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts.

Live music by Amy Andrews (10 a.m.). A Seedling Club educational activity will be held for kids. This is the last market of the year! 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Featuring fresh produce, honey, crafts, soaps, baked goods, cooking demos, children’s activities, yoga (11 a.m.) and live music. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www.athenslandtrust. org EVENTS: Holiday Open House (1000 Faces Coffee) 1000 Faces Coffee hosts an open house where guests and purchase gifts, ask about the coffee or check out a new brewing method. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. www.1000facescoffee.com

3602, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ holidayevents KIDSTUFF: Family Holiday Movie (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Bring the whole family in for a movie, hot chocolate and popcorn. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 KIDSTUFF: Saturday Movies (ACC Library) Family fun movies are shown in the story room. Call for movie title. 10:30 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Movie and a Muffin (Oconee County Library) Children and their families can snack on muffins while watching an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee PERFORMANCE: Handel’s Messiah (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The Knights chamber orchestra from New York City, UGA’s Hodgson Singers and four professional soloists join forces under the direction of Daniel Bara for a rare, complete performance of Handel’s masterpiece.

Dec. 20, 7 p.m. & Dec. 21, 2 p.m. $32–47. www.pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: The State Ballet Theatre of Russia’s The Nutcracker (The Classic Center) A yearly favorite tale of holiday

Dec. 20–21. $3 (general admission), $12 (ice skating). www.classiccenterchristmas.com GAMES: Brewer’s Inquisition (Buffalo’s Café) Trivia hosted by Chris Brewer. Every Sunday. 6:30 p.m. (sign-in), 7 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/buffaloscafeathens KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers read aloud to certified therapy dogs. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Unitarian Universalist Forum (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) John Olive presents “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top: Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.” 10:15 a.m. FREE! www. uuathensga.org PERFORMANCE: Handel’s Messiah (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 20, 7 p.m. & Dec. 21, 2 p.m. $32–47. www.pac.uga. edu PERFORMANCE: The State Ballet Theatre of Russia’s The Nutcracker (The Classic Center) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 20, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! www. highwirelounge.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Win house cash and prizes!

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FREE! 706-850-1916 KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Kids and Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help build skill levels. For ages 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18.

Registration required. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 329 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children are invited for bedtime stories every Monday. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Open Playtime (ACC Library) Children ages 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3 and their caregivers can come play with toys and meet friends. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

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Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ DAFFY DUCK Psychedelic funk bombs from this local DJ. DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Wednesday 17 Blue Sky 5 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 VINYL WEDNESDAYS Bring your own records and spin them!

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TOM VISIONS Post-mystical, electronic, psychedelic folk music from the artist formerly known as Tom(b) Television.

Green Room 9:30 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com WASHED OUT Local synth-pop purveyor Ernest Greene performs a DJ set.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com WORD MUSIC NIGHT Poetry, stories, sketches and music. Hosted by David Oates.

Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out every Wednesday!

New Earth Athens 7 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com OPEN MIC Caroline Aiken hosts this open mic. Contact carolineaiken@ gmail.com to sign up.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 FOUR 14 This group out of Greenville, SC, dabbles in progressive experimental rock, blues, jazz, jam and funk.

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Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 LEISURE SERVICE Michael Pierce of local experimental outfit Wet Garden plays a solo set.

COYOTE CLEAN UP Detroit, MI-based minimalist techno project.

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Dos Palmas Restaurant & Cantina 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7771 TRE POWELL Bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. This is a special Christmas show.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. FREE! (Toy donation required.) www.georgiatheatre.com CLASSIC CITY 12-PACK Three groups of local songwriters perform originals and covers. Featuring Dave Marr, Betsy Franck, Don Chambers, Vaughn Lamb, Tedo Stone, McKendrick Bearden, Drew Beskin, Hunter Morris, T. Hardy Morris, Thomas Johnson, Payton Bradford and Thayer Sarrano. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. www.meltingpointathens.com CARL LINDBERG TRIO The local jazz bassist leads his new trio through an evening of music.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 CBDB Alabama-based â&#x20AC;&#x153;joyfunkâ&#x20AC;? band playing a mix of funk, progressive rock and jam fusion.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Newly relocated back to his old stomping grounds of Athens, Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture.

He hosts an â&#x20AC;&#x153;all-star jamâ&#x20AC;? every Thursday.

Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 KARAOKE Every Thursday!

Friday 19 Barcode 10 p.m. FREE! 706-613-5557 SUPASTAR DJ LP Seasoned party rocker infuses todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hottest jams

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com DAVE MARR The former Star Room Boys singer plays a set of solo material in his deep and resonant country twang.

JASON NESMITH Casper and the Cookies frontman performs a solo set.

OLEKSANDR MAKSYMENKO No info available.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $8. www.40watt.com COLE TAYLOR Rising Nashvillebased country singer.

PATRICK BRITT Local singer-songwriter/country artist.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SAD DADS This sort-of supergroup of unaccomplished townies shares sad and goofy DIY songs influenced

by Pavement, Captain Beefheart and more.

HUNGER ANTHEM Fuzzed-out, lo-fi guitar driven local indie rock band.

DICK MOVE No info available.

DJ HOT WAX Max Wang (The Rodney Kings) spins â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s pop/soul and punk rock.

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 JOHN BOYLE Singer-songwriter in the vein of Willie Nelson, John Prine and Bob Dylan. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be joined by Adam Poulin.

Little Kings Shuffle Club Athens Housing Authority Benefit.

8 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE Featuring live music from Drew Kohl, Paul McHugh, Andy Dixon, Caleb Darnell, Michael Lesousky, Dave Kirsilis, Derick Thompson and Cortez Garza.

Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com KELLY AND TYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ONE-YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY BLOWOUT Featuring music from Percy Sledgehammer, Free Mountain, Dangfly, Beauty and the Beard, Isaac Bramblett, Fester Hagood and Justin Huff.

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com ATHENS A-TRAIN BAND Instrumental group performing traditional jazz standards, swing, latin, ballads, blues and boogie. This is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jingle Bell Jazzâ&#x20AC;? show with a festive twist.

The Globe 10 p.m. 706-353-4721 404 NOT FOUND CCR Headcleaner/ Long Legged Woman member goes coastal on classic acid textures with synths, drum machines and lots of samples.

SHADE Local three-piece skews stoner riffs by sleight-of-hand over oceans of confusion. Frontwoman Phelan LaVelle throttles through dark, unlearned outsider jazz.

YUNG YANG Local DJ does creative live mixing of vogue house, dancehall, juke, bounce and other propulsive club oddities new and old.

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Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by local karaoke fanatic John â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Fredâ&#x20AC;? Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more for your singing pleasure.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com PERIOD SIX Playing a unique blend of jazz standards featuring collective communication and soulful improvisation.

with the classics tunes you grew up on.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS This band, led by longtime Athenian LeFever, plays old-school funk covers and originals and sweet sappy pop covers and originals.

THUNDERCHIEF Local act with a West Coast punk sound influenced by classic rock.

FISTFUL OF STEEL Rage Against the Machine tribute act.

The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Newly relocated back to his old stomping grounds of Athens, Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture.

THE GEORGIA HEALERS Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; premiere blues band for over 25 years!

Deadline for getting listed in The Calendar is THURSDAY, DEC 18 at 5 p.m. for the year-ending, double issue of Dec. 24 & Dec. 31. Online listings are updated daily. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com ASHLEY RAINES AND THE NEW WEST REVUE Kansas City-based Americana outfit.

Transmetropolitan 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-5112 (Oglethorpe Ave. location) TRE POWELL Bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals.

Saturday 20 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net AMY ANDREWS Melancholy folk singer-songwriter.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! www.caledonialounge. com MATT HUDGINS & HIS SHIT-HOT COUNTRY BAND Local band playing â&#x20AC;&#x153;songs about drinking, jail, love and death, all done in the popular â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;country and westernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; musical style.â&#x20AC;?

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40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $7. www.40watt.com CLASSIC CITY LEGENDS VOL. 1 Featuring the return of acclaimed Athens MC Ishues, as well as Versatyle Tha Wildchyld, Elite Tha Showstoppa, Whisper, Tony B, Duddy Ken, Backwood Slick, Dictator and Blacknerdninja.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 FLIGHT MODE USA Kenny Aguar and Leslie Grove lead a trip down new-wave memory lane, with faithful homages to the dark, minimal pioneers of punk and synth-pop. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be performing the classic New Order LP â&#x20AC;&#x153;Movement.â&#x20AC;?

KUSA87 Local experimental band creating visual soundscapes through tapes, pedals, vinyl and more.

DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Green Room 10 p.m. www.greenroomathens.com BLASTING CAP Supergroup featuring members of Guadalcanal Diary, The Woggles, Hillbilly Frankenstein, the Swimming Pool Qâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Method Actors.

NATE & THE NIGHTMARES Garage-rock act fronted by Cars Can Be Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nate Mitchell and featuring members of Free Associates and Mother the Car. Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com HEIDI HENSLEY Local folk-rock singer performs a set of original music.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub BOOTY BOYZ DJs Immuzikation, Twin Powers and Z-Dog spin dance hits into the night.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE HEAP Funky indie-soul band based here in Athens with a killer horn section and fronted by Bryan Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low, bass growl.

The Office Lounge 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. $7. 706-546-0840 THE NORMALTOWN FLYERS The long-running Athens-based band that labels its sound as â&#x20AC;&#x153;pickup truck rock and rollâ&#x20AC;? performs for the Officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas Party.

Sunday 21 Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE SOLSTICE SISTERS Old-time country ballads, traditional folk and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;40s-style swing with sweet, warm harmonies.

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Monday 22 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com ARRAY Teenaged rock and roll group from Atlanta.

FEEDBACK Local teenage rock band of Camp Amped alums playing covers and originals.

STAY THE SEA Local instrumental post-rock band.

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 INDIE ROCK KARAOKE Sing your favorites from Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Pere Ubu, Tom Waits, Beck and many more with host Geoff Carr, aka DJ Do It. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com RICK WILLIAMSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; BLUES OLYMPICS Blues supergroup led by the multitalented Rick Williams.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 WORKINGMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MONDAY Enjoy the music of the Grateful Dead.

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bulletin board DO SOMETHING; GET INVOLVED! HOLIDAY DeadlinE: The deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board will be WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17 at noon for the double issue of Dec. 24 & Dec. 31. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

ART 40th Annual Juried Exhibition (Lyndon House Arts Center) The annual show will be juried by Carter Foster, curator of drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art. All visual art welcome.

Drop off entry forms and up to three works on Jan. 27, 12:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. or Jan. 28, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. Opening reception on Mar. 5. $25 submission fee. 706-613-3623, www.athens clarkecounty.com/lyndonhouse Art Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) Now registering for winter classes including intro to drawing with Mark Helwig, stained glass with Marianne Parr and painting with Charles Warnock. Check website for schedule. Classes begin in January.

706-613-3623, www.athensclarke county.com/lyndonhouse Call for Artists (OCAF, Watkinsville) Seeking submissions for the 20th annual Southworks National Juried Art Exhibition, held Apr. 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 8. Visit website for application and to submit images.

Cash prizes will be awarded to top pieces. Deadline Feb. 13. $25-35. www.ocaf.com Call for Entries: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reciprocal: OCAF Members at UNGâ&#x20AC;? (University of North Georgia) The exhibit is a collaboration between the UNG and OCAF. Entries should be 2D and no larger than 48â&#x20AC;? x 48.â&#x20AC;? OCAF members only. Deadline is Jan. 12 at 12 p.m. Exhibit runs Mar. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 2. 706-769-4565, www.ung.edu/artgalleries/contribute Deck the Walls (Lyndon House Arts Center) A special exhibition features art available for sale by 70 area artists, authors, crafters and musicians. Items include glass ornaments, pottery, sculptural works, embroidery, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books, photography and more.

Tuesdaysâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Saturdays through Jan. 5, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. www.athensclarkecounty. com/lyndonhouse The Art of Eating Ethically (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) The UUFA Ethical Eating Discussion Group is seeking artwork for an exhibit called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of

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AUDITIONS The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Rose of Athens Theatre invites actors ages 9 to adult to audition. Auditions are on Jan. 5, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. Callbacks will be held on Jan. 6. danielle@roseof athens.org

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Saturdays through December, 4 p.m. $7. www.athensfivepointsyoga.com Digital Media Center: Oneon-One Computer Tutorial (ACC Library) Get individual instruction for graphics, audio or video editing projects or learn to convert albums and cassettes to DVDs and CDs. www.athenslibrary.org/athens Garden Geology (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Classroom 2) Learn about the rocks of Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

six geologic provinces and make a collection. Tuesdays, Jan. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 24, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. $80. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Georgia Organics Conference (The Classic Center) The expo will feature food and farm tours, workshops, educational sessions and more. Feb. 19, 8 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6:30 p.m. & Feb. 20, 8:30 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. $80â&#x20AC;&#x201C;200. www. conference.georgiaorganics.org Judo Classes (AKF Athens Martial Arts) Traditional Kudokan Judo classes for adults focus on selfdevelopment and technique over competition. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. www.akfathens.com Karate and Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga) Practice Yoshukai karate along with meditation in a low-stress environment. Class involves 45 minutes of yoga as a warm-up, followed by 45 minutes of karate. Wednesdays, 8:45â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10:30 p.m. Donations encouraged. www.athensy.com Martial Arts Classes (Live Oak Martial Arts, Bogart) Traditional and modern-style Taekwondo, selfdefense, grappling and weapons

classes for all ages. Visit website for full class schedule. www.liveoak martialarts.com Monologues and More (Athens Creative Theatre (ACT)) Adults and teens with cognitive disabilities will use simple monologues and skits to explore different emotional responses and build self-esteem.

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Saturdays, Feb. 7–28, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $140. www.uga.edu/botgarden Traditional Karate Training (Athens Yoshukai Karate) Learn traditional Okinawan hard style karate in a positive atmosphere. Accepting new students. See website for schedule. www.athensy.com

Viniyoga (Urban Santosha) This new Boulevard yoga studio teaches classes in the Viniyoga tradition, known for its adaptation of traditional yoga poses to fit the needs of each individual. Ideal for people living with an injury or chronic condition, or simply seeking a relaxed class. Classes are offered in gentle yoga, emotional stability intermediate yoga and more. $75/six classes.

706-540-9986, www.urbansantosha. com Winter Dance Class Registration (East Athens Educational Dance Center) Now registering in classes for beginners through advanced students of all ages. Classes include ballet, modern dance, tap and more. Instructors are also needed to teach these classes.

706-613-3624, www.athensclarke county.com/dance Yoga Classes (Chase Street Yoga) This studio teaches different types of yoga like gentle yoga, yin yoga and power heated Vinyasa. Check website for daily schedule. 706-3169000, www.chasestreetyoga.com Yoga Teacher Training (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) This 200-hour, Yoga Allianceaccredited teacher training program is grounded in self-study. The yearlong program begins in January. shannon@5pointsyoga.com

ART AROUND TOWN A. LAFERA SALON (2440 W. Broad St.) Contemporary landscapes by Keith Karnok.

AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) “Be Organic” by Brooke Davidson is a series of acrylic, abstract paintings on birch wood panels that explore repetitive layers of paint. Through December.

ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings

by Mary Porter, Greg Benson, Dortha Jacobson and others. Art quilts by Elizabeth Barton and handmade jewelry by various artists.

ART ON THE SIDE GALLERY AND GIFTS (17 N. Main St., Watkinsville) A gallery featuring works by various artists in media including ceramics, paintings and fused glass.

ARTINI’S ART LOUNGE (296 W. Broad St.) AthensHasArt! presents “Night Rhythms,” art by Suzanna Antonez-Edens and Hannah S. Garrard. Currently on view through January.

ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) Sculptures by Duane Paxson.

Through Jan. 23.

ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) “Seldom Seen: American Art Pottery: The Collection of Bill and Dorothy Paul” includes pieces by 100 potters made between the 1920s and 1940s. Through Jan. 18.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) “Athens Arcana: A Contemporary Tarot” features a full tarot deck in which each card was designed by a different regional artist. See each card’s artwork in its original format. Closing reception Dec. 21.

BENDZUNAS GLASS (89 W. South Ave., Comer) The family-run studio has been creating fine art glass for almost 40 years.

CINÉ BARCAFE (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Baffle Medusa” by Jeff T. Owens represents an experimental foray into contemporary manufacturing technologies, relying on a computer-controlled router to translate digital drawings of cartoon, sci-fi, glam rock and arcade imagery into large-scale objects.

THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Nature Revealed” includes works by Barbara Patisal, Janelle Young, Katherine Dunlap, Georgia Rhodes and Charles Warnok. • “Then and Now: Celebrating 40 Years of the Lyndon House Arts Center” includes works by Munroe d’Antignac, John d’Azzo, Terri Jarrette, Leah Mantini and Erik Patten. Through April.

ELLISON, WALTON & BYRNE (2142 W. Broad St.) Paintings by Broderick Flanigan and works by students attending Clarke Central High School.

Through December.

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 14 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics and fine furniture. Permanent collection artists include Phil Goulding, Larry Hamilton, Chris Hubbard, Michael Pierce and more. • “Farmington Skies” features landscape paintings by John Cleaveland.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Mixed media by Eric Simmons. Through December.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Equations” is a collection of works inspired by mathematics, mapping and statistics by Craig Dongoski, Molly Rose Freeman, Moon Jung Jang, Kelly Kristin Jones, Elizabeth Kleen, Eric Mack, Rusty Wallace, Andy Moon Wilson and Cal Clements. Through December.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Boxers and Backbeats: Tomata du Plenty and the West Coast Punk Scene.” Through Jan. 4. • Athens Celebrates Elephant 6 presents “The…of E6.” Through Jan. 4.

• “The Nightmare Transported into Art: Odilon Redon’s ‘St. Anthony.’”

Through Jan. 25. • “Emilio Pucci in America.” Through Feb. 1. • “Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond.” Through

Yoga Teacher Training (Yogaful Day) Bill Cottrell of Yogaful Day offers a Yoga Alliance approved RYT200 Yoga Teacher Training program. Jan. 10–May 9. $1650. www.yogafulday.com Zumba (East Athens Educational Dance Center) Get fit while having fun. Wednesdays, Jan. 21–Mar. 11, 6:30–7:30 p.m. $33–50. www.athens clarkecounty.com/dance Zumba in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A dynamic fitness program infused with Latin rhythms and dancing.

Every Wednesday, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $70/10 classes. www.botgarden. uga.edu

HELP OUT Coats for Kids (150 Crange Dr.) Musician’s Warehouse is collecting coats of all sizes for kids. They offer a gift certificate for every coat donated to their store. www.musicianswarehouseathens.com Disabled American Veterans Network (Athens, GA) Seeking volunteers to drive VA furnished vehicles to transport vets living with disabilities to local clinics and Augusta hospitals. Weekdays, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., once or twice a month.

Call Roger, 706-202-0587

HandsOn Northeast Georgia (Athens, GA) HandsOn NEGA is a project of Community Connection of Northeast Georgia that assists volunteers in finding flexible service opportunities at various organizations. Over 130 local agencies seek help with ongoing projects and special short-term events. Visit the website for a calendar and to register. www.handsonnortheastgeorgia.com Salvation Army (Multiple Locations) Seeking volunteers to ring the bell at kettles collecting donations at 22 retail locations in Clarke, Oconee, Madison and Oglethorpe counties from 10 a.m.–8 p.m., Mondays–Fridays through Dec. 24. 706-543-5350 White Buffalo’s Christmas for Children (Buffalo’s Café) Help bring Christmas to local children in need. Select a “White Buffalo” tag from the Christmas Tree in the atrium, fill your shoebox with gifts and return it under the tree by Dec. 22. 706-354-6655, www.face book.com/buffaloscafeathens

KIDSTUFF Art Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) Now registering for classes like “Art TIme for 4–6 Year Olds,” “Teen Cartoon Illustrator’s Club,”

Mar. 1. • “A Year on the Hill: Work by Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer.”

Through Mar. 8. • In the sculpture garden, “Terra Verte,” created by Scottish artist Patricia Leighton, consists of six cubes full of living vegetation. Through May. • “Stone Levity” is a sculpture by Del Geist installed in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex quad. Through May. GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Athens Celebrates Elephant 6 presents “n [] c t u r n e,” a site-specific installation by Dana Jo Cooley.

Through December.

GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) “Little Lords” by Lawson Grice is a collection of colorful prints incorporating imagery and symbology from Pagan, gay gamer and stoner cultures. Through Jan. 4.

HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Artwork by printmaker Kristine Leschper. Through December.

HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Mixed media art by Cody Murray. Through December.

JITTERY JOE’S DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) Portrait manipulations by Chris Romano. Through January.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) “Full House 2014” is a biennial invitation exhibit open to the 18 guilds and art groups that call the Lyndon House home. Through Jan. 18. • The “Period Decorative Arts Collection (1840–1890) & Athens History Museum” inside the historic Ware-Lyndon House now features a new bedroom exhibit full of decorative pieces.

MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Georgia 98, Danielsville) Artwork by students attending Madison County Middle School. Through December.

• Helen Beatenbough shares her collection of Christmas tree pins and brooches. Through December.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Farm” is an exhibition celebrating the agrarian lifestyle of the rural South through works by Keith Bennett, Angelia Bellebuono, Shannon Candler, Chris Cook and more. Through Jan. 4.

MAMA BIRD’S GRANOLA (909 E. Broad St.) Artwork by Cameron Bliss Ferrelle, James Fields, Barbara Bendzunas, Kayley Head, Leah Lacy, Saint Udio and Lakeshore Pottery.

RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) Art Rocks Athens presents “ARTifacts Rock Athens: Relics from the Athens Music Scene, 1975–1985).” Through December. • “Food, Power and Politics: The Story of School Lunch.” Through May 15.

SEWCIAL STUDIO (160 Tracy St.) Hand-dyed art quilts by Anita Heady. Rust and over-dyed fabric on canvas by Bill Heady.

SIPS (1390 Prince Ave.) Margaret Agner presents prints and drawings, including monotypes, mixed media, nature prints and linoleum cuts. Through December.

THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) “From A to Z: Athens to Zimbabwe” includes paintings by Alice Pruitt and Linda Lemon. Through December.

SUSKA (297 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Suzanna Antonez-Edens. Through December.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) “Folk Flower Card Design,” ink and watercolor pencil artwork by Barbara Leisner. Through January.

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS (UGA Main Library, 320 S. Jackson St.) Oil paintings of Monaco and Spain by Shannon Candler. Through December.

VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Rita Rogers Marks.

THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Paintings by Lydia Hunt. Through December. • Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Michelle Fontaine, Will Eskridge, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more.

“Clay: This Way and That Way” and “Experimental Watercolor.” Classes begin in January. 706-613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ lyndonhouse Beginning ACTing Workshop (Athens Creative Theatre (ACT)) Students will use simple monologues, skits and improvisation to explore the benefits of drama. For ages 8–12. Thursdays, Jan. 15–Feb. 19, 4:30–5:30 p.m. $40–83. 706613-3628, www.athensclarkecounty. com/act Cheerleading Registration (Bishop Park) Practices begin Jan. 18 and will take place on Mondays.

Ages 5–12. 706-613-3589, www. athensclarkecounty.com/sports Craft Classes (Treehouse Kid and Craft) “Art School” for ages 2–4 (Wednesdays, 11:15 a.m.), ages 3–5 (Wednesdays, 4 p.m.) and ages 6–9 (Thursdays, 4 p.m.) incorporates artists, art history and art techniques into each class.

“Baby Sensory Craft” for ages 6–24 months (Wednesdays, 10 a.m. & Saturdays, 11 a.m.), “We Craft” for ages 2–4 (Saturdays, 10 a.m.), “Family Crafterdays” for ages 5–10 (Saturdays, 12 p.m.). Drop-in sessions are $10/class. “Modern & Contemporary Art” for ages 9–14 (Fridays through Dec. 19, 4 p.m. $17). www.treehousekidandcraft.com Fit-nastics (Bishop Park) Fitnastics is an alternative to gymnastics in that it offers students the ability to develop cardio, endurance, upper body, core and lower body strength. For ages 9–13. Mondays, Jan. 5–April 27, 5:30–6:25 p.m. $105 (ACC residents), $158 (nonresidents). 706-613-3589, www. athensclarkecounty.com/gymnastics Give Wildlife a Chance Poster Contest (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The SBG and the Nongame Conservation Section of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources present an art contest. Students in K-5th grade can submit artwork portraying Georgia nongame wildlife and plants. Entries due Apr. 3. Call for guidelines. 706542-6156 Running with Rudolph Holiday Mini Camp (Rocksprings Community Center) Camp activities include holiday games, trivia, crafts and more.

For ages 6–13. Register by Dec. 16. Camp is held Dec. 22–23, 26, 29–31, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $25. 706613-3602, www.athensclarkecounty. com/camps Winter Blast Mini Camp (Lay Park) Camp activities include crafts, baking, games and more. For ages 6–12. Register by Dec. 22. Camp is held Dec. 29–31, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $25–38. 706-613-3596, www.athens clarkecounty.com/camps

SUPPORT Alanon 12 Step (Little White House) For family and friends of alcoholics and drug addicts.

Tuesdays, 7:30–8:30 p.m. www.gaal-anon.org Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.org Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Meets Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org Project Safe (Athens, GA) Meetings for Warriors: Hope & Healing from Domestic Violence Group are held every Tuesday,

6:30–8 p.m. with a dinner on the last Tuesday of each month. Meetings for the Emotional Abuse Support Group are held every Wednesday, 6:30–8 p.m. with a dinner on the last Wednesday of the month.

Childcare provided. 24-hour crisis hotline: 706-543-3331. Teen texting line: 706-765-8019. Business: 706-549-0922. Meeting information: 706-613-3357 ext. 772. www.project-safe.org Reiki (Athens Regional Medical Center, Loran Smith Center for Cancer Support) Experience the healing energy of Reiki, an ancient form of healing touch used for stress reduction and relaxation. For cancer patients, their families and caregivers. Call for an appointment.

Individual sessions held every Wednesday, 6 p.m. & 7 p.m. FREE! 706-475-4900 S-Anon (Cornerstone Church) S-Anon is a support group for family and friends of sexaholics, based on the 12 steps of AA. sunday.afternoons.sanon@gmail.com, www.sanon.org Women’s Empowerment Group (Oasis Counseling Center) A small therapeutic group for women to work on vulnerability, setting boundaries, assertiveness, self-care and more. Eight-week sessions.

Call to reserve a space. $15/session.

706-543-3522, www.oasis counselingcenter.com

ON THE STREET Athens Christmas Bird Count Every year, volunteers across the Americas survey the birds overwintering in their areas. This information is compiled and used by scientists for bird conservation efforts. Athens will participate on Dec. 20. www.oconeeriversaudubon. org Bring One for the Chipper: Christmas Tree Recycling (Multiple Locations) Keep AthensClarke County Beautiful (KACCB) encourages citizens to recycle their undecorated trees and wreaths on Jan. 3, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Participants will receive a free tree seeding and/or flower and vegetable seed packets. Drop-off locations include Cofer’s Home and Garden Showplace, Sandy Creek Nature Center, Chase Street Elementary School, Clarke Middle School, Georgia Square Mall, Winterville Public Works Recycling Center and the Lexington Road Tag Office. 706613-3501 ext. 309, accbintern@ gmail.com Deck the Hollow (Memorial Park, Bear Hollow Zoo) Celebrate the season with a self-guided walk through the holiday lights in the zoo. Activities include live music, animal encounters and photo opportunities in the illuminated zoo.

Thursdays–Sundays through Dec. 21, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $3. 706-6133580, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ holidayevents Fund the Film Lab (Film Athens Film Lab) Film Athens is raising funds to purchase software and equipment for the Film Lab housed inside the Athens Community Career Academy. Visit website for info on how to donate. www.support.film athens.net Ripple Effect Film Project (Athens, GA) Filmmakers of all ages and levels of experience are invited to create original short films about water conservation and water stewardship. Finalists’ films will be screened at the Blue Carpet Premiere in May. Visit website for official rules and entry form. Deadline Jan. 30. www.rippleeffectfilmproject.org f

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1BR/1BA. $450/mo. 12-mo. lease. 1st mo. rent half off w/ current student or military ID. Unit upgraded with new flooring, carpet & paint. All electric w/ water/trash incl. Pets under 30 lb. allowed w/ dep. On bus line. Close to Dwntn./UGA. Quiet community. Avail. Dec. 1. bondhillapartments@gmail. com.

Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/mo. Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $525/mo. 3BR/2BA & FP, $700/mo. 2BR/2BA condo, Westside, 1200 sf., $600/ mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700 or cell, (706) 540-1529.

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Students only.Spacious, furnished BR.Quiet, near campus, kitchen, laundry privileges. Shared BA, priv. entrance, cable, Internet access. No pets. $285/mo. incl. utils. (706) 353-0227.

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Parking & Storage Parking places for rent across from UGA. $30/mo.

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For Sale Businesses Downtown Athens bar for sale. 3000 sq/ft. Turnkey operation. Would also make great restaurant or retail space. Serious inquiries only. $60k OBO. (706) 2544343.

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People you care about, but don’t buy presents for. Once you realize that you’ve already made the decision to keep some people off your gift list, it becomes a little easier to make the same decision with this friend.

If you act fast, Merry, you might be able to escape the exchange this year. If it’s too late now, we’ll put a plan in place so you can break free next Christmas. The key to your freedom (in this situation) is a preemptive strike. You need to bring up the exchange before she does. I’m guessing that each year you wait silently, hoping that she’ll let the holiday pass. But she’s not going to do that. So you have to get out in front of this. If she hasn’t already brought it up, send her an email saying, “I know we usually get together and exchange gifts at this time of year, but I’m scaling back on Christmas and gift exchanges this year. Can we move our annual gettogether to January (or whenever) for lunch (or dinner or a concert)? You always pick out thoughtful items, but I’m trying to cut back on the gifts I give and receive.”

If she presses you on it, I think you should be honest and tell her that you don’t enjoy the gift exchange aspect of getting together. Then, you know what they say: You can’t control what she does, you can only control what you do. She can buy you gifts, but she can’t force you to buy her any. And she can’t stop you from taking yours right to Goodwill.

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I have an annual (Christmas-time) problem with a friend. She wants to exchange Christmas presents, and not just a token or two, but many, many presents, for which she spends way too much. She and I haven’t been close in years, and Christmas is now the only time we see each other, but every December, she contacts me wanting to know when we’re going to do our annual gift exchange. There are also a number of “fun” rules surrounding the gift exchange: One gift is supposed to cost no more than $5; one is supposed to be homemade; one is supposed to be local, etc. One year all the gifts were supposed to be yellow! WTF! The idea behind these “rules” is that we’re forced to be creative, but it just means that I have to buy a bunch of gifts instead of one and I can’t just pick up a box of candy or a nice scarf for her.

This gift exchange bothers me for several reasons: First, she doesn’t ask if I want to do this, just when it will happen, which takes for granted that I’m participating. Second, I dislike the commercial aspect of Christmas and want to minimize my own participation in the festival of consumerism that goes on this time of year (starting, now, around Halloween or even earlier…). Third, although my friend is a thoughtful giver of gifts, I end up with many extra THINGS, and I don’t need more things in my life.

I have told her in years past about my concerns with all this, but she goes merrily (ha) on, exactly as before. Also, she is the There’s a guy at my only friend I exchange gym who doesn’t wipe gifts with, saving the rest down the machines when of my money and energy Please send your questions to he’s done with them. for family gifts.

There are paper towels December is for me, advice@flagpole.com or and spray EVERYWHERE, like for so many others, flagpole.com/getadvice but he just moves on to an almost unbearably the next machine. We’re stressful month, and while often there at the same time, and I’ve had to I can’t quit my job for the Christmas season, I move onto machines after him more than once. would like to shed as many anxiety-producing It grosses me out. Is there a tactful way to obligations as possible. What can I do to say something to him? Reporting him to the change this yearly situation?

Not So Merry at Christmas management seems like overkill, but he does sweat kind of a lot. I go to the gym when it’s convenient for me; I don’t want to change my One of the biggest problems with schedule just to avoid him.

Christmas, as I see it, is that we haven’t moved beyond the model of exchanging My first reply was this: You can try askgifts in great quantities. That’s kind of fun ing him if he’s done with a machine, which when there are small children involved, but might prompt him to wipe it down. Beyond much less satisfying for adults—you know, that, though, your best bet is to wipe it down the people who have to earn the money, buy yourself before you use it. He might see you and wrap the gifts, then store them in their and feel chagrined enough to do it himself, or houses. What I would love to see is a cultural he might not. Either way, you end up with a expectation that gift-giving is for young chilclean machine at a pretty small cost to you. dren, and the development of other traditions But then I thought, “No, Rhonda, you’ve is for adults. been socialized to avoid making other people The capitalist corporate machine doesn’t feel uncomfortable.” Which may or may not want that to happen, though. It wants you to be true or relevant here. Regardless, my alterexchange gifts with everyone you have even nate reply is: Ask him if he’s finished with a a passing acquaintance with, but that would really infringe on your quality of life. So you’re machine. If he says yes, tell him that members are asked to wipe down machines after use. going to have to set the boundaries. I’ve It’s a gym rule, not yours. And you might say said some variation on this before: You can’t something about it being more hygienic. If he exchange gifts with everyone you know. You have already eliminated people from your gift- refuses, you’re back to wiping them down. giving list. People like your co-workers, your Rhonda advice@flagpole.com cousin’s girlfriend, your college roommate, etc.

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